Location: WARP Train UW-212 - First Class Carriage
Doctor? Jae-heon
Why hello there, passengers in first class seats.
Doctor? Jae-heon
It takes twice the monthly wage of an average person in the Nest to afford a seat in this carriage, I hear?
Doctor? Jae-heon
That means someone in the Backstreets would have to work hard for at least a year for it.
Doctor? Jae-heon
I’ve always had some pressing questions about WARP trains.
Doctor? Jae-heon
For example, what is the point of first class seats when the trip supposedly only lasts ten seconds?
Doctor? Jae-heon
I guess it’s worth the expense, after all.
Doctor? Jae-heon
You can sleep without a care in the world.
Doctor? Jae-heon
All the while the passengers in the carriages behind us are defenseless against the maddening tide of time, trying to overcome it through the pain of tearing their own flesh or the comfort of conjoining with one other.
Doctor? Jae-heon
I’ve always wondered what kind of outstanding technologies Singularities could be to transport people to any platform in only ten seconds, no matter how far it is.
Doctor? Jae-heon
And now I get the gist of it after seeing how this train’s been going for about two thousand years.
Doctor? Jae-heon
Me? How am I staying sane, you ask?
Doctor? Jae-heon
Well, it’s all thanks to my fellow members of the ensemble. That hothead Elena and I’ve actually been here for only a week or so…
Doctor? Jae-heon
Pluto says our consciousness can be preserved in stasis and unfrozen only when needed or whatever.
Doctor? Jae-heon
He says it’s magic and all, and welp, I’ve got no choice but to trust him. He’s my coworker now, all things considered.
Doctor? Jae-heon
In any case, I pity the fools taking this train.
Doctor? Jae-heon
Thousands of years of pain and suffering, and it’s all long gone from their memories when they arrive. They return to their ordinary lives like nothing ever happened after a status restoration procedure, isn’t that right?
Doctor? Jae-heon
“Wow, WARP trains are awesome! It’s kinda expensive, but I can get anywhere in such a short time.”
Doctor? Jae-heon
“It’s a wonderful world. We can go everywhere in the blink of an eye!”
Doctor? Jae-heon
Uttering such remarks, they’ll blend back into the City life, completely forgetting about the hellscape that took place on this train.
Doctor? Jae-heon
The memories of trying to slaughter their own friends and families as all bonds were blurred over time, having lost themselves long ago…
Doctor? Jae-heon
And all of that is conveniently erased from their heads. It’s astonishing how Singularities are so uniformly appalling.
Doctor? Jae-heon
And yet you rich folks are scared of even that, so you doze off in your safe space for those thousands of years.
Doctor? Jae-heon
You must’ve heard a word of advice from some acquaintance of yours, hm?
Doctor? Jae-heon
That you’d be much better off taking first class seats. Or some of you are already aware of the truth behind WARP trains, perhaps?
Doctor? Jae-heon
That’d be ironic in its own right. You decided to take this train knowing what would happen.
Doctor? Jae-heon
Ah, in case a certain foolhardy individual or two are still believing that this train is broken or malfunctional:
Doctor? Jae-heon
It’s not defective.
This train is operating as intended.
Doctor? Jae-heon
You get the hint by now, don’t you? Strolling around in a completely different timespace axis for some thousand years, and when it comes back to reality…
Doctor? Jae-heon
Tadaa~ It’s ten seconds later.
Doctor? Jae-heon
Taking long roundabouts through time, reduced to ten seconds in real life. Sounds like a perfect ride for people who are in a hurry, doesn’t it?
Doctor? Jae-heon
What is your “real” life, though?
Doctor? Jae-heon
The one you were living for some few decades, or the one you’ve been trapped in for thousands of years?
Doctor? Jae-heon
If you lost your memories and returned to your ordinary life, would it be a blessing or a curse?
Doctor? Jae-heon
Who cares, really.
Doctor? Jae-heon
Moving on, my biggest question was this…
Doctor? Jae-heon
This box with T Corp’s logo on it, so shamelessly and ridiculously and nonchalantly on board.
Doctor? Jae-heon
I was wondering what this thing was doing plugged into the train.
Doctor? Jae-heon
But I could roughly guess why after a bit of thinking.
Nurse? Elena
The hell are you doing, quietly muttering lectures to yourself?
Doctor? Jae-heon
You’re coarse with words as usual.
Doctor? Jae-heon
I’m speaking to the couple of voyeurs who are probably watching us as we speak, of course.
Nurse? Elena
Oh, right. That was the plan.
Nurse? Elena
Being stuck in this train for a week really did take a toll on my focus.
Doctor? Jae-heon
Your acting was excellent. Were you an aspiring actress in the past?
Nurse? Elena
Anyway, just carry on with what you’re doing.
Doctor? Jae-heon
How cold.
Doctor? Jae-heon
And it seems this disguise Pluto gave me has almost expired now.
Doctor? Jae-heon
Shall we get started, wealthy fellows?
Reverb. Ensemble Member The Puppeteer
I have no hard feelings for the somewhat average commoners back there, but you lot make me upset, if I’m being honest.
Reverb. Ensemble Member The Puppeteer
The way you try to squirm your way into comfort with money like the maggots you are agitates me beyond reason.
Reverb. Ensemble Member The Puppeteer
Life sure is bizarre, isn’t it.
Reverb. Ensemble Member The Puppeteer
You spend your hard-earned cash for a first class ticket to keep yourself safe and sound from the torture of time… But now you’re about to suffer something entirely else.
Reverb. Ensemble Member The Puppeteer
You unfortunately run into the likes of us and meet a terrible fate. Just because you’ve taken first class seats.
Reverb. Ensemble Member The Puppeteer
Yeah, right. Who knows, one of you might have been a piss poor sod who just so happened to win a ticket, hm?
Reverb. Ensemble Member The Puppeteer
That’s what makes choices so mysterious and profound.
Reverb. Ensemble Member The Puppeteer
I personally think there’s no such thing as choice in our lives.
Reverb. Ensemble Member The Puppeteer
Someone is playing tricks on all of us, mischievously and sneakily.
Reverb. Ensemble Member The Puppeteer
Staging an endless puppet show, attaching invisible strings to us.
Reverb. Ensemble Member The Puppeteer
Now, shall we get started?
Reverb. Ensemble Member The Puppeteer
It’s time for a little puppetry.
Location: Inside the Library
Servant Roland
So that’s the ‘Puppeteer’, huh…
Library Director Angela
It’s as if he were speaking directly to us.
Servant Roland
If he’s part of the Blue Reverb’s gang, maybe he knows something about us.
Library Director Angela
Could the Blue Reverberation be focusing on the Library, then?
Servant Roland
Possibly. I don’t know what he’s looking for, but it certainly ain’t gonna be normal.
Library Director Angela
What else could he be after, other than the books we have?
Servant Roland
The question would be what kind of books they really want.
Library Director Angela
Anyway, WARP Corp. is going to be in big trouble if the disappearance of every passenger in the first class carriage gets known by others.
Servant Roland
For sure. W Corp. might get involved with us at this rate.
Servant Roland
Was this part of the Blue Reverb’s plan…
Library Director Angela
It would be intriguing if that were the case.
Servant Roland
Oh, I bet your enthusiasm will turn into disdain real quick when you actually meet that cuckoo.
Location: Library Entrance
Puppet Puppet 2
Grgrgrgrg.
Library Director Angela
Guests who cannot speak…
Library Director Angela
Still, you’ve managed to come to the Library through the invitation… That means you must have some sort of consciousness, no?
Library Director Angela
Even though you are puppets controlled by the strings above you.
Puppet Puppet 3
Gygygygygyg.
Library Director Angela
I have no idea what you may be saying.
Library Director Angela
If you want to get the books as your puppeteer so wishes, you can go through that door.
