Location: A Laboratory in the Outskirts
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
This is highly disappointing.
Church of Gears Leader Eileen
I am sorry, Sir Argalia…
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
I was so sure I would find an answer if I came all the way here.
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
But no, not a single soul here has a lead…
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Cough… What did you expect to see in a shabby fringe of the Outskirts…
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
The Red Mist began harnessing that power of hers after this place had become her base of operations, no?
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We don’t know anything about the Red Mist… We were just taking shelter in an abandoned laboratory…
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
They had to have left something here… Don’t you have any guesses, my friends?
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The monsters are about to come. Please… Let us go now, you’ve had enough…
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
You folks aren’t helping at all, sadly.
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We already told you that none of us know a damn thing about this facility! Why won’t you listen to us!!
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
You’d better hurry up and recall useful information, friends. This is driving me crazy, too.
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
Following her charming voice, I dropped by every little venue I could guess to be relevant. I searched every nook and cranny for hints.
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
In the end, L Corp, the Library, and… this used-to-be lab were the only three candidates remaining.
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They’re coming… they’ll be here any moment! They’ll come for us if you don’t close the doors!!!
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
The Pianist, who showed up in the middle of the streets… It took my sister…
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
I couldn’t be there as it happened, unfortunately…
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
Upon my belated arrival at the scene, all that greeted me… was the grand piano with its performer gone.
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
My sister had become one of the many keys and strings of the piano, joining in the last performance…
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
What she had become was utterly indescribable.
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
Not because it was horrible, no…
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
Rather, it was just too beautiful for words…
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Aaaaaaack!!!! Can’t you hear the sound of clockwork?! They’re coming!!!
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
I suppose it’s my fault for letting my dear younger sister marry an imbecile. I couldn’t stop her…
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
Throughout our lives, we could never quite understand each other; our hearts were too far apart to keep each other company…
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
It was through the performance that we could finally see the feelings of one another…
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
I shivered with pain and despair for losing my naive and adorable hoyden…
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
And looking at what once was my sister, I trembled from the enticing melody it created…
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
That’s when my eyes were opened. I could see it…
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
I could envision what I can do for her…
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Aah… They’re here… Wings have mercy…
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
Playing a gorgeous melody, a neverending dirge… in remembrance of dear Angelica…
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
A gentle voice whispered to me…
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That I shall be able to reenact that glorious performance.
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
I wandered around following her advice, but I couldn’t find a definitive answer anywhere…
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Gahhhhh!!! It’s them… Clockwork Teeth are here!! Everyone, run!!!! Don’t let them take a single strand of hair!!!
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
…
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
No, no. I didn’t come all the way here to see some sloppily made creatures…
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
Pluto? Eileen?
Yesterday’s Promise Pluto
Yes, Sir Argalia.
Church of Gears Leader Eileen
Shall I shut them down for you? Clockwork is rubbishy compared to gears.
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…How… How did you stop the flesh clockwork…? What are you people…
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
After wandering for a while, a revelation finally flashed in my head.
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
Ah, yes, it bore a striking resemblance to the beauty the Red Mist manifested as she danced with blood in her mouth.
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
The Pianist and the Red Mist showed vastly different colors of elegance, yet they were so alike at the core…
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Give up, pals… He’s worse than the monsters…
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
What a shame, I’ve got nothing. This invitation is the only lead I have now…
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
Eileen, care to lend me a few of your sheep?
Church of Gears Leader Eileen
As you wish. Are you sure you don’t need our company?
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
Don’t worry, I’ll be back in no time. It’s not ripe yet, anyway…
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
Pluto, stick around for a bit longer and see if there’s anything noteworthy here.
Yesterday’s Promise Pluto
But of course, sir.
Location: Inside the Library
Servant Roland
His two buddies have got to be Distortions, I’m one hundred and ten percent sure…
Servant Roland
And one of them seems oddly familiar, now that I think about it…
Library Director Angela
…Is it just me, or is there a hint of sadness in the Blue Reverberation’s face?
Servant Roland
You mean the Blue Sicko. He’s just lost it from the shock of losing his sister.
Servant Roland
The Pianist caused tons of people to part with their precious things in one way or another, but he in particular had to lose it in the worst way possible…
Servant Roland
When someone as powerful as him goes completely wacko and starts pillaging everywhere, there’s literally no way to stop him.
Library Director Angela
He said his sister was named Angelica. That sounds similar to my name.
Servant Roland
Well, yeah. I’m guessing they mean the same thing.
Library Director Angela
By the way, what were those entities they called “Clockwork Teeth”? Are they the creatures of the Outskirts?
Servant Roland
The Outskirts are where things abandoned and rejected from entering the City by the Head go.
Servant Roland
It’s basically a junkyard for ‘impurities’ of the City. Most people rarely get a chance to see the Outskirts throughout their lives, so they don’t even know that those things exist.
Servant Roland
A lot of the “monsters” living there are artificial creations made by humans or things brought from the outside.
Servant Roland
And I heard that a good chunk of them have sentience and emotions.
Servant Roland
They’re non-humans, impurities whose existence is unacceptable in the City, especially in this age of humanity.
Library Director Angela
…Just like me.
Location: Library Entrance
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
…
Library Director Angela
Greetings, dear guest. I am Angela, the director and librarian of my role’s namesake.
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
Angelica…?
Library Director Angela
My name is Angela, dear guest.
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
Yeah, you’re right. There’s no way something as hideous as you could be her.
Library Director Angela
Why don’t you stop spouting such uncouth nonsense and head inside already?
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
A power so potent that even a machine may become human…
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
It’s as I suspected. The Library has to ripen…
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
Hang in there, Angelica. It won’t be long.
