Location: Library Entrance
Library Director Angela
So it was no coincidence that you came to the Library, Roland.
Roland
You bet. The series of events leading up to this moment was the biggest gamble of my life.
Library Director Angela
I see. You helped me attain my freedom, but it wasn’t for my sake…
Library Director Angela
You just used me like a tool.
Roland
C’mon, don’t talk like you got nothing out of me. I never slacked off, y’know?
Roland
I gave it my all to support you until you reached your goal. It’s mutual exploitation, at the very least.
Library Director Angela
Did you get the result you wanted?
Roland
Well, I got enough. The reason I’d come to the Library was to figure out the cause of the phenomenon that created Distortions like the Pianist.
Roland
And to find out who was responsible for it.
Roland
As such, all obvious signs… point to you, Angela.
Roland
None of this would’ve happened if you hadn’t thrown a tantrum in your last moment.
Library Director Angela
Why didn’t you try to stop me or kill me right away, then?
Roland
…First off, you were simply unkillable when I first met you.
Roland
Second, I wanted to know why you made the choice you did.
Roland
Third, I thought that maybe you could make a different decision that I couldn’t.
Roland
And fourth, to bring you the greatest loss—the greatest suffering… at the very end of it all.
Roland
Right now, you’re completely human. You can feel pain as its whole, and experience death.
Roland
I learned here that you went through your own fair share of torment, frustration, and loss.
Roland
I can understand why you made the choices you made.
Roland
And seeing you start to contemplate your aim as time went by… I thought that maybe there was room for another option.
Roland
That maybe, just maybe, you might choose a different answer…
Roland
And if you somehow did by that smallest chance… Then I might have been able to find a different solution myself.
Roland
But in the end, you didn’t.
Roland
Sure, the pain I went through may be a speck of dust compared to your million years of despair… But so what?
Roland
That day, I swore to myself before that damned piano.
Roland
I swore that I’d make the City experience the same sorrow of loss—of the frustration that I felt when it took my world away from me.
Library Director Angela
Then… Who will pay for the misery I went through?
Library Director Angela
There was nothing else I could do; all I knew was to make them suffer the same pain…
Roland
You’re asking me for an answer?
Roland
If I knew the way… and if I could choose it, I wouldn’t have done this drivel.
Roland
I do know one thing for sure: This is what happens when you try to wash blood with blood.
Roland
Angela, you have to feel the same sorrow as mine…
Roland
No. You have to feel even worse than that. You took Angelica from me—she meant the world to me.
Roland
I sat on my hands as I watched the people I knew die, and I even killed my old friend with these shadowed gloves, just for this moment.
Roland
All for this very moment… I’ve been suppressing my emotions, forcing a pained smile.
Library Director Angela
…Seeing you shed tears is an unfamiliar sight.
Roland
I’m done with the façade now.
Roland
I’ll do everything I can—in ways beyond your imagination—to give you the most painful death possible.
Roland
And I’ll do it right before you take the final step to your freedom. I’ll rob you of everything.
Roland
You’ll reap the whirlwind for what you’ve sown…
Library Director Angela
…I only want to be compensated for my suffering.
Roland
…What’s this now? You’re acting weak all of a sudden?
Roland
Are you finally starting to hesitate when it’s almost over?
Roland
You’ve got power and knowledge, and now a proper life as a living being on top of it… You just don’t wanna give up what you finally took hold of.
Library Director Angela
At least I used a method that isn’t forcef—
Roland
You used the same logic as when you’d stolen the Light. You used it to kill those who came to the Library in the name of fair price.
Roland
You didn’t even stop to think about the consequences of your actions.
Roland
That’s how you’ve always been. You don’t give two shits about anyone other than yourself.
Roland
I don’t blame you, though. I just can’t.
Roland
It’s how the City works… That’s that, and this is this.
Roland
That’s why I’m going to kill you strictly with the mindset of the City folk.
Roland
What I need to do is kill you and take my revenge; what you need to do is kill me and get the freedom you want.
Roland
We just need to have a simple, raw state of mind as we fight each other.
Roland
So I want you to stop getting any funny little ideas and stick to your desire for freedom and vengeance.
I have nothing but my sorrow…
It has been, it still is, faithful to me.
Why should I begrudge it, since during the hours…
When my soul crushed the depths of my heart,
It was seated there beside me?
O sorrow, I have ended, you see, by respecting you,
Because I am certain you will never leave me.
Your beauty lies in the force of your being.
You are like those who never left
The sad fireside corner of my poor black heart.
O my sorrow, you are better than a well-beloved:
Because I know that on the day of my final agony,
You will be there, lying in my sheets, O sorrow,
So that you might once again attempt to enter my heart.
