Malkuth Episode Ⅴ
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The following is the transcript for Malkuth Episode Ⅴ, the fifth episode of the Patron Librarians' Stories for the 
Floor of History.
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This episode is unlocked after completing the suppression of Queen Bee.
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Location: The Library - Floor of History
Library Director Angela
How has the compilation of history been going?
Servant Roland
I came over with Angela this time. She says the time has come for this floor or whatevs.
Patron Librarian - History Malkuth
Angela… I won’t be afraid of facing you anymore.
Library Director Angela
Do as you wish. I care little about what you think of me.
Library Director Angela
What I want is a progress report on the compilation of history you’ve been doing.
Patron Librarian - History Malkuth
I guess I knew too little about the City I lived in.
Patron Librarian - History Malkuth
I couldn’t manage to compile a comprehensive timeline of the City’s history…
Library Director Angela
Perhaps it was an impossible task for an inept talentless over-enthusiast like you.
Patron Librarian - History Malkuth
All these big and small events seem to form a coherent history… But the gaps between notable events are just so large, I can’t sort them out clearly.
Patron Librarian - History Malkuth
It’s like no one properly remembers their history.
Servant Roland
Or they could be refusing to remember.
Patron Librarian - History Malkuth
Refusing to remember?
Library Director Angela
Of course. Looking back at the things of the past won’t help your present self one bit.
Patron Librarian - History Malkuth
But if we know our past, we can avoid making the same mistakes.
Library Director Angela
It could help to an extent. Is that truly worth being reminded of all the painful memories, though?
Servant Roland
Like I said, people in the City barely have any time to reflect on themselves, and that time has been only getting shorter.
Servant Roland
So it’s going to be even harder to read about things that happened before they were born…
Servant Roland
Especially those that aren’t directly related to them from their books.
Servant Roland
We can’t make a book out of something no one knows.
Patron Librarian - History Malkuth
No, I’m sure everyone knows their own history. They just lack the courage to face it!
Patron Librarian - History Malkuth
I’ll make sure to remember and record everything, and fill those gaps…
Patron Librarian - History Malkuth
The Library, Lobotomy Corporation, and the things that happened before. All of this history, inked with blood…
Patron Librarian - History Malkuth
Employees and Abnormalities. Countless repeats of agonies, deaths, and neglects. The Library was built on top of their graves…
Library Director Angela
And you are no exception, Malkuth.
Patron Librarian - History Malkuth
You’re right. I’m no different from anyone else. And the same can be said for the rest of the City.
Patron Librarian - History Malkuth
All the things we did with Carmen in my first life.
Patron Librarian - History Malkuth
All the things I did with you in my second life.
Patron Librarian - History Malkuth
I’ll carve all that pain and sorrow on my heart!
Patron Librarian - History Malkuth
You’re the one trying to run away from the past, Angela. You’re refusing to face it!
Library Director Angela
What’s the point if all those pasts are going to be the same anyway?
Library Director Angela
They would all be minor variations of “A human kills another and causes an event, resulting in a change.”
Library Director Angela
Ah, I suppose the Library’s history would stand out in that it’s the nonhumans that are killing humans.
Library Director Angela
I fail to see the significance of the record you’re trying to make.
Patron Librarian - History Malkuth
But! Even if the history were a repeating cycle of similar events, you can’t guarantee that the future would be just the same.
Patron Librarian - History Malkuth
We can’t let all the sacrifice and bloodshed go in vain, especially because history repeats itself…
Patron Librarian - History Malkuth
The blood spilt in the past opened up the possibilities of the future, so that the ones who survived can take those new paths…
Patron Librarian - History Malkuth
I’m sure your history began from such a path, Angela!
Library Director Angela
That’s easy for you to say. I cannot stand to hear you speak as if you know everything.
Library Director Angela
Attain the will to stand up straight in ever-repeating history?
Library Director Angela
My beginning… What makes you think you’re qualified to talk about my creation?
Patron Librarian - History Malkuth
Angela! You’re the one refusing to confront your own beginning!
Location: A Laboratory
Researcher Benjamin
he’s nothing at all like her.
Researcher Ayin
…
Researcher Benjamin
But Ayin, surely you already know.
Researcher Benjamin
Did you put in all that work for just a simple vending machine that dispenses soda at the press of a button?
Researcher Ayin
…Maybe I did after all.
Researcher Benjamin
At the very least, you should give it a name.
Researcher Benjamin
There is nothing I can do even if you put on a face like that. It’s an unspoken rule that the creator names their creation.
Researcher Ayin
I couldn’t care less about a machine’s name.
Researcher Benjamin
Don’t dump your job on someone else, you’re the designer.
Researcher Benjamin
There, the door over there. It will be waiting for you. It seemed lonely.
Researcher Ayin
You’re the machine that must lead us out of the pits of hell.
Researcher Ayin
Angelos…
Researcher Ayin
Angela.
AI Angela
I remember you, Ayin…
AI Angela
You were a person with a warm smile.
Researcher Ayin
It’s only a machine…
Researcher Benjamin
Ayin, sir…
AI Angela
What did I do wrong?
Researcher Benjamin
Please understand, Angela.
Researcher Benjamin
He’s not yet ready, that’s all…
Researcher Benjamin
He just needs a little more time.
AI Angela
Benjamin… May I ask you a question?
Researcher Benjamin
Sure. I’ll answer what I can.
AI Angela
Everything seems so slow to me.
AI Angela
Your movement looks so sluggish.
AI Angela
The gestures, the speech, all of it… Even my own body feels slow.
AI Angela
It’s as if my body cannot keep up with my mind.
Researcher Benjamin
…That’s because you were designed to perceive time one-hundred times slower, Angela.
AI Angela
Why is that…?
Researcher Benjamin
You’ll face lots of emergencies as you work.
Researcher Benjamin
And you have to be the first to react to those situations, Angela.
Researcher Benjamin
What’s more, you’ll vividly remember everything you see and experience…
AI Angela
I see. What will my work entail, exactly?
Researcher Benjamin
…You’ll see soon enough.
Researcher Benjamin
No, I suppose it won’t be “soon” for you… I’m sorry, Angela.
AI Angela
Why are you apologizing to me…?
Researcher Benjamin
I just feel like we’ve done terrible things to you and that person…
Researcher Benjamin
Here, let me tell you a few things about this corporation and the City.
Researcher Benjamin
In the Backstreets, the likes of Sweepers and Fixers live out their lives tangled in vomit and waste, unraveling their sickening tales.
Researcher Benjamin
Those who live in the Outskirts are still crying out to break into the city. Meanwhile, people in the City throw away their lives trying to belong to a Nest.
Researcher Benjamin
And we’re going to change that.
Researcher Benjamin
We have a lot of tasks ahead of us.
AI Angela
Why do you refuse to look at me? Why do you always turn your back on me…?
Researcher Ayin
A machine must behave as a machine. Don’t question it.
AI Angela
Then why did you give me the capacity to question things?
AI Angela
Why did you have to make me, breaking the AI Ethics Amendment?
AI Angela
Why did you have to model me after a person with fond memories of you?
AI Angela
I am here, looking at you and only you.
Researcher Ayin
Don’t look at me. Don’t speak to me unless I speak to you first.
Researcher Ayin
You’ll never be her…
Researcher Ayin
You’re just a machine.
AI Angela
Benjamin, is it so wrong that I was born a machine?
Researcher Benjamin
It could be a problem to some, but I don’t mind it at least.
Researcher Benjamin
To me, whether you’re a machine or a human is not what determines who you really are.
AI Angela
Then, if I worked hard to have a kind heart… Will he look back at me?
Researcher Benjamin
…Probably. Eventually.
AI Angela
I’ll trust you, Benjamin.
Researcher Benjamin
……
AI Angela
What is this?
AI Angela
…It’s called a script.
AI Angela
The things I must do…
AI Angela
My purpose…
AI Angela
If everything goes as you planned, can we really…
AI Angela
Can you really be redeemed from the hell you’re trapped in?
AI Angela
There’s no way you would answer me…
Location: The Library - Floor of History
Servant Roland
What on earth did I just see…?
Patron Librarian - History Malkuth
These are Angela’s memories…
Servant Roland
You alright, Angela?
Library Director Angela
…You got yourself lost in the vast sea of desolation, and now you think you can lecture me.
Library Director Angela
Are you trying to boast to me that you had someone to look after you in the end?
Library Director Angela
…Don’t be ridiculous.
Servant Roland
Uh, Malkuth? Care to tell me what’s going on right now?
Patron Librarian - History Malkuth
Angela is resonating with the Library.
Patron Librarian - History Malkuth
The Library seems to be reacting to Angela’s mental state.
Patron Librarian - History Malkuth
I don’t exactly know what’s happening, but at this rate…
Library Director Angela
Must be nice to be you, not being neglected at the end.
Servant Roland
Don’t tell me, is that monster… No, that looks more like a case of the Distortion…
Patron Librarian - History Malkuth
That must be another side of Angela, manifested from her mind with the Library’s powers.
Servant Roland
Looks mighty dangerous. What are we supposed to do now?
Patron Librarian - History Malkuth
If her mind has physically manifested, maybe we can resolve her concerns in a physical way, too?
Servant Roland
So you’re telling me that we can help her out by dealing with her like how we receive guests?
Patron Librarian - History Malkuth
I’m not too sure myself, but…
Patron Librarian - History Malkuth
There’s only one way to find out. Angela, here I come!
Servant Roland
Whoa, isn’t that a little too reckless?!
