Location: Inside a Circus Tent
Ringmaster Oswald
This is… the 8 o’Clock Circus!
Ringmaster Oswald
We bring the bestest of the smells to City people who have lost their flower stalks.
Ex-Dawn Fixer Philip
What…? The 8 o’Clock… Circus?
Ringmaster Oswald
Don’t tell me, do you perhaps not know what a circus is?
Ringmaster Oswald
Well, no matter! Venturing into unknown tastes always comes with a stomachache, after all!
Ringmaster Oswald
We are the circus whose singular purpose is to spread the flower seeds of the people.
Ringmaster Oswald
If ten people could become clowns and blow up one thousand flowers… Oh, just imagine how wonderfully joyous this world would be!
Ex-Dawn Fixer Philip
B—Bullshit… This is…
Ex-Dawn Fixer Philip
Ugh… These are… …Oh, what the…! These… These are all… people…
Ringmaster Oswald
My oh my oh my! Our new clown friend still seems to be a shy one!
Ringmaster Oswald
Maybe I should introduce you to the rest of our troupe first.
Ringmaster Oswald
Alright, Ms. Mermaid and Mr. Knife? Let’s share some of our salts with him!
Ex-Dawn Fixer Philip
Stop, stop it!!
Ringmaster Oswald
Oh dear, oh my… Looks like Ms. Mermaid didn’t have enough practice with her scaly mane, you lackadaisical girl… Your voice is too small! Or are you feeling timid all of a sudden? Whatever the case!
Ex-Dawn Fixer Philip
You maniacs… This is all abnormal…
Ringmaster Oswald
Who gets to decide what’s normal and what’s abnormal, now?
Ringmaster Oswald
If everyone wears a hat weaved from fancy rats on their head… Should that be considered normal?!
Ringmaster Oswald
Haha! Hahahah!!
Ex-Dawn Fixer Philip
You won’t ever get to be considered normal, that’s for sure…
Ringmaster Oswald
Harumph, you’re such a rude fellow, aren’t you!
Ex-Dawn Fixer Philip
The 8 o’Clock Circus…
Ex-Dawn Fixer Philip
Now I remember. You’re the ones who kept Wedge Office busy… And everyone at Dawn Office died in the Library because they couldn’t help.
Ex-Dawn Fixer Philip
…If it weren’t for small fries like you, maybe my master and seonbae would’ve been safe and sound.
Ex-Dawn Fixer Philip
Talk about a coincidence…
Ringmaster Oswald
You… You’re actually starting to give a similar stink as mine!
Ringmaster Oswald
But the stench isn’t strong enough just yet; you’re still too fragrant!
Ex-Dawn Fixer Philip
Shut up! I’ll slay you… here and now…
(Cut 1)
Ringmaster Oswald
Hm… Still smells good, way too good…
Ringmaster Oswald
But, what if we mixed that fragrance with a filthy smell to create a new, boggy scent!
Ringmaster Oswald
Okay, alright. Let’s perform with me, shall we!
??? Salvador?
Young Philip.
Ex-Dawn Fixer Philip
…Master? Seonbae?
Ex-Dawn Fixer Philip
What the… What are you…
Ringmaster Oswald
A big hand for the three clowns who will lead the show~ Clappity clap~
Ex-Dawn Fixer Philip
I… What the hell have you done…
Ringmaster Oswald
Whoopsie daisy, you’re making such a humpy face!
Ringmaster Oswald
Surprise is a stimulant, one that leads to laughter and entertainment!
Ringmaster Oswald
A true flower only blooms after you have faced your biggest inner abscess and squeezed all the pus out of it!
Ringmaster Oswald
You can’t laugh to your heart’s content until you’ve swallowed the fragrant pus of sadness whole, you know?
Ringmaster Oswald
That’s where I would like to help you!
??? Yuna?
Philip… I’m sorry I couldn’t answer what you asked back then.
Ringmaster Oswald
Oh, what an unexpected turn of events?!
Ex-Dawn Fixer Philip
B-But, master already has a wife and children…
Ringmaster Oswald
Hahaha! Talk about childish. This is such a typical telenovela we have here!
Ex-Dawn Fixer Philip
Shut up… You, don’t you dare insult my two mentors with these false illusions!!!
Ringmaster Oswald
Pardon? I would never.
Ringmaster Oswald
Isn’t what you’re seeing right now… the putrid scent that you believed to be true in your heart so blindly and obviously?
Ringmaster Oswald
Whether it’s true doesn’t matter! You were so certain about it, too. I don’t get why you could be trying to denounce your own claims now!
Ringmaster Oswald
You’re pausing it at just the right moment like it’s a rerun you’ve watched over and over… There’s got to be a reason.
Ex-Dawn Fixer Philip
Shut up, shut the hell up…!
Ringmaster Oswald
“Did you know? The reason I shunned you, and the topic he wanted to discuss with you.”
Ex-Dawn Fixer Philip
No… This has to be a dream… That—That pesky damn clown…
Ringmaster Oswald
“That’s enough, Philip. We were simply…”
Ex-Dawn Fixer Philip
They’re all the same… You all toyed with me!
??? Salvador?
…Young Philip.
??? Salvador?
What efforts have you actually made to advance your goals?
??? Salvador?
You must’ve spent most of your energy fabricating all sorts of filthy and uncouth delusions about us simply because Yuna was reluctant to answer your question. Am I wrong here?
??? Yuna?
Do you think you have any right to blame us?
Ex-Dawn Fixer Philip
Stop, stop it… I…!
??? Yuna?
How pathetic. You ran away alone, and now you’re playing the victim.
??? Yuna?
It was your incompetence, and you didn’t even try to fix it… All you were doing was shamelessly looking for excuses.
??? Yuna?
You ran off without us telling yourself that it’s to save us, and now you’re blaming us for it.
??? Yuna?
You’re believing whatever you want to believe. Because it makes you feel better. Isn’t that true?
??? Yuna?
After all, it’s much easier to pretend that you’re thinking of others before yourself, rather than accept who you really are.
Ex-Dawn Fixer Philip
You both… abandoned me… died like that.
??? Salvador?
You still haven’t realized. It was foolish of me to put my trust in you…
Ex-Dawn Fixer Philip
Shut up! Why do you show up now and haunt me!!!
(Note 1)
Ex-Dawn Fixer Philip
You keep bothering me till the end… Just leave me alone now!
(Note 2)
Yesterday’s Promise Pluto
…It would appear that you require assistance.
Yesterday’s Promise Pluto
Not feeling quite talkative, are you? Well, it’s fine. We have all the time in the world, so let us open up inch by inch.
Yesterday’s Promise Pluto
When a person feels victimized or vexed, someone has to reach out to them and give them a helping hand.
Yesterday’s Promise Pluto
I shall be that someone for you. That is what I am here for.
Yesterday’s Promise Pluto
Now, hold my hand… Alright, I will kindly extend my arm this far for you.
Ex-Dawn Fixer Philip
Are you… going to make my wish come true?
Yesterday’s Promise Pluto
If you utter your wishes, I will give you what you need to make them come true. Does this offer still sound unsatisfactory?
Yesterday’s Promise Pluto
I can grant you strength to avenge yourself on that prankster who inflicted much suffering upon you, or I can provide you with powerful weaponry to save the two people you cherish.
Ex-Dawn Fixer Philip
I… don’t want to hear anything.
Ex-Dawn Fixer Philip
I don’t want to see anything… or speak anything…
Ex-Dawn Fixer Philip
I’m tired of it all. Right now, all I want is to just… cry out loud.
Yesterday’s Promise Pluto
But of course. I can help you with that.
Yesterday’s Promise Pluto
Pay close attention to her voice…
Ringmaster Oswald
What’s this now?! You started exuding the same stink as mine?
Ringmaster Oswald
Aren’t you a man of talent! You never told me you could make such vibrant expressions~!
Ringmaster Oswald
And… oh. Could you be another new jester to visit us? You’re looking splendid!
Yesterday’s Promise Pluto
…Yes, hello. My name is Pluto.
Ringmaster Oswald
You’ve come at just the right time! The three of us could make for a wonderful show~
Yesterday’s Promise Pluto
Now, may I ask you a single question?
Yesterday’s Promise Pluto
Was the relationship between the three people you just showed on the stage actual truth?
Ringmaster Oswald
Pft, how lame! Why would anyone care about that at this point?!
Ringmaster Oswald
What matters the most is that the show gave our audience fun and entertainment, isn’t it?!
Yesterday’s Promise Pluto
Creating illusions from one’s distorted desires, is it… I can see that this place amplifies people’s desires to the maximum.
Ringmaster Oswald
Sniff, sniff… You’re also a rather smelly individual…
Ringmaster Oswald
Ooh, did you also hear her voice?
Ringmaster Oswald
…Nevermind that! Nooow, now! The audience is waiting, so please join me in the rest of the show!
Yesterday’s Promise Pluto
I’m afraid the circus must come to an end as of today.
Ringmaster Oswald
Golly, what are you even talking about now?!
Yesterday’s Promise Pluto
Philip, here is an invitation for you. Move onward.
Yesterday’s Promise Pluto
And Oswald, I invite you to a far grander stage where we can hold the greatest show you could imagine.
Location: Inside the Library
Servant Roland
That’s one miserable guy, I gotta say.
Library Director Angela
Are you sympathizing with him after all this time? You called him selfish and dangerous the last time we saw him.
Servant Roland
I mean, that’s… I’m not really showing sympathy, if I had to explain…
Servant Roland
I still think Philip is hopeless personality-wise, but the circumstances he’s getting into don’t seem to be helping his emotions at all.
Servant Roland
I know I said tragedies like that are common, but he probably still feels cornered, you know what I mean?
Servant Roland
He seemed pretty close to overcoming that, but then that clown named Oswald broke his will again.
Servant Roland
So it’s hard for me to just laugh. I don’t really enjoy watching others rolling in a pit of misery like it’s some kind of entertainment show.
Servant Roland
Oh, not trying to be sentimental, of course. That’s that, and this is this.
Library Director Angela
…I see what you mean. It was his own failure to overcome it, after all.
Servant Roland
That aside, I wonder how he ended up looking like this.
Library Director Angela
The surge of emotions crossed the line of E.G.O, which caused him to undergo the so-called Distortion phenomenon… Thus turning him into an Abnormality.
Servant Roland
So that’s how a Distortion is made, huh… I could still use some more explanation, though.
Servant Roland
That looked kinda similar to how people are turned into books here in the Library?
Library Director Angela
It’s similar to the process of Abnormalities coming into existence as well. That one still seems unstable, however.
Library Director Angela
Distorted desires and emotions… What do you think the stage will show you?
Servant Roland
It’s gonna be my wife, one-hundred percent.
Servant Roland
You get the picture. The woman who I couldn’t protect walks up to me, I cry in despair, et cetera.
Library Director Angela
You’re quite honest about it.
Servant Roland
I got nothing to lose, so there’s no point in lying.
Location: Library Entrance
??? Unseeing Child
Where is this?
??? Unhearing Child
Who talked shit about me just now?!
Library Director Angela
Interesting. There’s three of them.
??? Unseeing Child
You have a pretty voice, eh, lady?
??? Unhearing Child
What? You don’t even wanna deal with me ‘cause I look like a kid?
??? Unseeing Child
Did that lady with a pretty voice just stare us down or something?
??? Unhearing Child
Yeah, she did. Talk about a weird place.
Library Director Angela
How uncouth. Well, guests are guests, I suppose.
(Cut 2)
??? Unseeing Child
What now, what’s up with this noise?
??? Unhearing Child
I bet that one’s making all kinds of insults at me.
Library Director Angela
See that door behind me? You’ll go through there.
??? Unseeing Child
Door…? Yeah, doors are good… Where’s that door at, though?
??? Unhearing Child
She’s pointing at something. Is she telling us to fuck off over there?
Library Director Angela
Make haste and get in. I don’t feel like getting caught in your annoying powers.
??? Unspeaking Child
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