Location: A Den of Sweepers
Sweeper Anton
578…2179…8213….
Sweeper Valerie
12915762348
Location: Inside the Library
Servant Roland
…I knew it. It’s pretty much impossible to understand the language of Sweepers without an interpreter to translate ‘em for you.
Library Director Angela
Wait. I can promptly translate their speech as long as it has the form of a language.
Servant Roland
Wha, seriously? You can make sense out of those few sentences AND decode a whole language from them?
Library Director Angela
I’m that capable.
Location: A Den of Sweepers
Sweeper Lyla
It is becoming clear that the night is no longer ours alone.
Sweeper Valerie
I know. I know that we have fewer and fewer places to properly dine at with our families.
Sweeper Lyla
I hear that the families who dine at the Nest of L Corp. are recently having a hard time seeing what is in front of them because of the mist covering the area.
Sweeper Lyla
I hear that some families even get lost in the fog and fail to leave.
Sweeper Anton
Why… are we not… letting Mother know…
Sweeper Valerie
If Mother knows, she will wage an all-out war against the Index. We are not certain enough to risk losing our families to battle.
Sweeper Lyla
If it is true that the Index truly has betrayed us, and if Mother is too late to realize their treachery… Many of our families will starve. They will slowly die out.
Sweeper Anton
Less food… means Mother… will have… difficulty… fostering… new family members…
Sweeper Valerie
We all have our own homes, our own families, and our own children.
Sweeper Valerie
I am not advocating neglect. I am simply saying that we need to practice caution.
Sweeper Lyla
You know that it has only been a week since those despicable filth known as the Carnival raided the dens of our brothers and ate our families.
Sweeper Lyla
Five days ago, L’heure du Loup invaded my younger sibling’s den and brutally killed two families.
Sweeper Lyla
Three days ago, a Proxy of the Index laid waste on our neighbors.
Sweeper Lyla
Two days ago, Puppeteer took my children. And yest—
Sweeper Valerie
I know! I know that those incidents all happened at night!
Sweeper Valerie
I know that our presence is not as powerful as before! I know that we have lost our dominance over the nighttime of this Nest.
Sweeper Valerie
Mother should be aware as well. We know that we need more space to use as our den.
Sweeper Valerie
We will only lose more of our dens if we get involved in bigger conflicts. If we were to engage in a full-fledged battle against the Index, we will have even less time in our hands. We must make it through, on our own.
Sweeper Lyla
What will we possibly do.
Sweeper Valerie
It is the Library. We must go to the Library.
Sweeper Valerie
I know that the Library has the books of those who worked for the Thumb and the Index.
Sweeper Lyla
Have you received its invitation?
Sweeper Valerie
I have. With this, we can confirm if the Index truly has turned its back on Mother and our families.
Sweeper Valerie
Moreover, this will help us relieve the hardships of our families dining at Nest L.
Sweeper Anton
If we… are not… too late… by then… that is…
Sweeper Lyla
I understand what you mean, uncle.
Sweeper Valerie
Let us call our neighbors. Let us head to the Library together.
Sweeper Valerie
Let us tell our children to lock the doors and not let strangers in before we leave.
Sweeper Valerie
Let us as parents protect our Mother, our neighbors, our family, and our children with our own hands.
Location: Inside the Library
Servant Roland
Whoa… Are we really getting Sweepers as guests here?
Servant Roland
They have the capacity to collectively go somewhere with a clear purpose at a time that isn’t night? And talk so fluently?
Library Director Angela
That’s funny. I expected them to be a little coarser.
Servant Roland
I once got an interpreter to try to talk to ‘em before. I thought they could only speak in jumbled words back then.
Servant Roland
But boy oh boy, look at them using complete sentences. And they’re so talkative with each other, too…
Servant Roland
That means the interpreter I paid an arm and a leg for was a total scam and a rip-off.
Library Director Angela
Are the Sweepers all composed of family members?
Servant Roland
It’s probably just a symbolic term they chose to forge bonds between each other. I doubt they’re actually families by blood. It’s metaphorical like the titles most other Syndicates use.
Library Director Angela
I heard they kidnap children from the Outskirts and the Backstreets.
Servant Roland
I don’t really suggest looking too deep into Sweepers. They’re all over the Backstreets and the Outskirts. And I don’t think they have much to do with the freedom you’re looking for, anyway.
Location: Inside the Library
Sweeper Valerie
Dear neighbors, this is the Library.
Sweeper Valerie
This is the place the scum of the Backstreets have been rattling on about.
Sweeper Anton
We… did not… expect… to come… to the Library ourselves…
Library Director Angela
Greetings, dear guests.
Sweeper Valerie
Greetings. …Are you our family?
Library Director Angela
There’s no way I am, now is there?
Sweeper Anton
However… you speak… in the language… of our family…
Sweeper Lyla
We can speak with other members of our family.
Library Director Angela
I try to talk to the guests on their level these days, as you can see.
Sweeper Lyla
I am impressed. This is surprising. Behold, neighbors. The Library is not like any other place.
Sweeper Valerie
I know. This is the first time we are having a real conversation with someone who is not our family.
Library Director Angela
Family, family, family, family… Could you stop with that horrid rubbish?
Sweeper Anton
Family… is important… It is not… horrid…
Sweeper Lyla
We apologize. We are simply here to take the books we desire.
Sweeper Lyla
And in regards to the mist covering this Nest… Do you know anything about it?
Library Director Angela
You’ll find out when you read the books, no?
Sweeper Valerie
That is true. All we want is to acquire the books we want to find. We will be satisfied.
Library Director Angela
Fine. May you find your book in this place.
