Location: Library Entrance
The Musicians of Bremen Bremen
Neiiigh~ Bawk, cluck cluck!!! Arf~!! Bow-wow, woof!!!
Yesterday’s Promise Pluto
Knock, and the door shall open!
Blood-red Night Elena
Talk about stupid-strong.
The Eighth Chef Greta
Hawhaw! Cooking is a test of endurance, after all.
Blood-red Night Elena
Whatever you say sister.
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
Now, friends? You’re going to frighten the residents of this place—they might end up hiding…
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
We’re introducing our whole group to them for the first time, so we should be polite about it, no?
The Crying Children Philip
They might turn us away if we’re too noisy.
L’heure du Loup Tanya
If they do, then we’ll just hafta break in and wreck ‘em.
The 8 o’Clock Ringmaster Oswald
So this is the famed Library~! I’ve heard many things about it, but to see it myself!
Church of Gears Leader Eileen
You used to lead a circus in a humble tent for such a long time…
The 8 o’Clock Ringmaster Oswald
And I thank you for changing that!
The 8 o’Clock Ringmaster Oswald
With your help, I could finally step out of that tent filled with the musty scent of flowers~!
L’heure du Loup Tanya
Y’know how tiring it was to deal with your antsy antics? Ya almost got one of us pulped.
The 8 o’Clock Ringmaster Oswald
I was not in my right mind at that time. Why, I thought you were simply trying to perform with me…
Yesterday’s Promise Pluto
Still, I think it’s truly serendipitous that we could walk the same path in the end.
Church of Gears Leader Eileen
I feel the same… Sir Argalia gave us true salvation.
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
Haha, no… Don’t mention it, friends.
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
I couldn’t have done this alone. I should be thanking you all.
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
By the by… It seems no one is here to greet us today?
The Musicians of Bremen Bremen
Rarf, arf arf!! Ruff!!! Neiiiigh~ Cha-caw~ Neigh! Bwak!!
L’heure du Loup Tanya
Musta wimped out and hid behind a shelf.
Library Director Angela
…Are you lot insane? You can’t just fling the door open by force.
Servant Roland
That’s a first, I gotta admit.
Yesterday’s Promise Pluto
Perhaps this is an indication that the Library has grown close enough to the physical realm that it can be interacted with from the outside?
Blood-red Night Elena
And we knocked several times, too, mind you.
Library Director Angela
If you rap your dirty fists on a door and no one responds, what you should do is leave, not break in.
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
Don’t get your skirt in a twist. We were in a bit of a… hurry, so to speak.
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
Pluto? Do your job.
Yesterday’s Promise Pluto
But of course. I shall see to it that the entrance is repaired in no time.
Library Director Angela
…Is that a Singularity?
Yesterday’s Promise Pluto
Singularity? Such a preposterous claim…
The 8 o’Clock Ringmaster Oswald
It’s magic!
Yesterday’s Promise Pluto
We are truth seekers and artists, perched on the boundary as we search for an answer.
Library Director Angela
You haven’t been taken over by the Distortion… How is that possible?
The Eighth Chef Greta
To eat! Or be eaten! We’re walking a fine line at the crossroads!
Blood-red Night Elena
The so-called Pale Librarian has fully become a human, huh… I can’t even call her pale anymore.
Blood-red Night Elena
She now has red blood coursing beneath her soft flesh.
Blood-red Night Elena
I want to rip out every little blood vessel in your body and eat it. The veins of a machine turned human… How will they taste, I wonder?
The Eighth Chef Greta
Easy there, Elena! That stuff tastes better cooked than raw!
Blood-red Night Elena
…The thought is making my mouth water.
Library Director Angela
I respect your preferences, but please save discussions about them for private conversation.
Servant Roland
What’s your business here, anyway? We don’t feel like giving any books to you. Didn’t invite you here, either.
The Crying Children Philip
I heard that the answer we seek lies at the Library. At its very core…
The 8 o’Clock Ringmaster Oswald
And we’ve come to snatch that book with our forky tongue!
Yesterday’s Promise Pluto
Angela. We are aware that you have nearly completed that volume.
Library Director Angela
…Who said anything about giving it away?
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
I never said anything about asking permission, either.
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
Ah, right. Roland… It’s been a while since I got to have a chat with you in peace.
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
You won’t talk to me?
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
That’s heartless of you. And I had good news for you, too…
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
We’ve brought along the person you wanted to meet so dearly, actually.
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
Truth be told, I didn’t want her to meet you again. The two of you were comparable to a marriage between a beautiful rose and a rabid beast…
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
Though, a love story that ends with the lovers never getting to see each other again would be… too tragic, wouldn’t you say?
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
So I decided to take her with us.
Servant Roland
What bullcrap are you…
The Puppeteer Jae-heon
It’s been a while, Roland.
Servant Roland
…Have we met before?
The Puppeteer Jae-heon
How could I forget. She wouldn’t shut up about you.
The Puppeteer Jae-heon
That’s right, Angelica had much to say.
The Puppeteer Jae-heon
…Oh dear. Was it too much?
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
What’s wrong…? Are you at a loss for words by the reunion of your dreams?
Servant Roland
What… motherfuckery are you trying to pull?
The Puppeteer Jae-heon
There’s no trickery here. Or are you so mesmerized by her polished up beauty that you can’t stop admiring her?
Servant Roland
…Argalia!!!
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
How intimidating… What’s the problem? You’ve finally met your beloved Angelica once more.
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
Oh, don’t tell me… Fell in love at first sight for the second time? Want to steal away Angelica from me yet again?
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
No, you won’t. I won’t let that happen this time.
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
You don’t deserve Angelica. She deserved better than having her life ruined by the likes of you.
Servant Roland
…Don’t you feel anything when you look at that mess you made out of her?
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
You must be quite bedazzled by her perfected form.
Servant Roland
You’re not gonna croak in peace. I’ll chew you up alive, crunch your bones to dust…
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
You’re still bound to the past, blind to the present. Roland, you fool.
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
Try looking into the future like I do. Do you know how hard Jae-heon worked for this?
The Puppeteer Jae-heon
Sorting out the corpses clustered within the piano was an arduous task, even for me.
Blood-red Night Elena
I went through a fair bit of trouble next to him. I had to extract Angelica’s blood out of the pile of bodies bloated from the heat.
Library Director Angela
…The piano?
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
What? Hahaha…
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
Ah… My oh my. Was it too early to reveal this…?
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
Oh, I’m so sorry, Roland.
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
I didn’t ruin your little… “plan” by accident, did I?
Library Director Angela
Is this about… the Pianist?
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
…
The Musicians of Bremen Bremen
Neeighhhghh!!! Arf arf, ruff ruff ruff!!!
The Eighth Chef Greta
HAWHAWHAW!!! Even I know that fact! All your smarts were good for nothing, heh?
The 8 o’Clock Ringmaster Oswald
This show is getting spicier than I thought~!
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
Hahaha!!! Ah~ I was trying to hold it in, I really was…
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
But this is too hysterical, I can’t hold back my tears…
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
You naive, moronic heap of scrap…
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
Angela… You’re the one who killed that black-hearted bastard’s undeserved better half, do you see it now? You’re the one who killed my sister…
Yesterday’s Promise Pluto
Quite a scene, indeed… Even I cannot help but laugh at this.
L’heure du Loup Tanya
The White Nights and Dark Days caused the Distortion phenomenon… which made the Pianist.
Blood-red Night Elena
And you, Angela, are responsible for the White Nights and Dark Days.
The Crying Children Philip
The relation couldn’t be any clearer.
Church of Gears Leader Eileen
Poor Miss Angela… How can you be still so blind to the truth…
Servant Roland
…Cut it out.
The Puppeteer Jae-heon
You’re being calmer than I expected this time. Rather than, you know, throwing a furious fit.
L’heure du Loup Tanya
That rabid psycho whopped a whole lotta Syndicates and Offices that were running experiments which seemed even a tiny bit suspicious.
Church of Gears Leader Eileen
And his blind rampage… affected us as well.
The Puppeteer Jae-heon
Roland. I don’t expect you to remember us.
The Puppeteer Jae-heon
All I wanted… was to bring back my son, who had died in an unfortunate incident.
The Puppeteer Jae-heon
There was no way for me to have anything to do with the death of your wife.
The Puppeteer Jae-heon
I explained it all to you, and yet… You killed my son in cold blood, in that workroom.
The Puppeteer Jae-heon
You were such a merciless being.
Servant Roland
…Right. It was the place with a terrible stench…
The Puppeteer Jae-heon
This was unexpected. You actually remembered it.
Servant Roland
Looking at that puppet… I can’t help but be reminded of it. I guess you got more skillful since then, even though your disgusting method hasn’t changed one bit…
The Puppeteer Jae-heon
…No Singularity could save my son when he was found. He was in an abysmal state.
The Puppeteer Jae-heon
He was playing in a spot that was out of my sight… when he unfortunately got in the way of a road roller which was making way for gentrification in a Backstreets redevelopment site.
The Puppeteer Jae-heon
I shouldn’t have been at work that day. But I still wanted to undo what happened… even if it cost everything I had…
The Puppeteer Jae-heon
What’s more… The revival of my son was nearly complete.
The Puppeteer Jae-heon
But then you had to intervene moments before our touching reunion, and ruin it all.
Servant Roland
…You still insist that thing was your son.
Servant Roland
All it was, was an abomination made with the flesh of random people weaved together.
The Puppeteer Jae-heon
You don’t get to decide the worth of my method. Or the ways of anyone else here for that matter.
The Puppeteer Jae-heon
I… never did any harm to you.
The Puppeteer Jae-heon
The worst thing I did was use the bodies of children who’d already gone astray and lost their lives during the night.
The Puppeteer Jae-heon
Even so, if the parents of those kids wanted to hold me accountable… I was ready to accept their judgement.
The Puppeteer Jae-heon
…Not yours, Roland!
The Puppeteer Jae-heon
You had no right to kill my son who was just about to be given new life, or judge me for my actions!
The Puppeteer Jae-heon
That day, staring at the fire which engulfed all I had, I swore to myself…
The Puppeteer Jae-heon
That I’d do everything… to make you suffer the same. And to make this damned world suffer as well.
The Puppeteer Jae-heon
There was no justification for a maniac who was lashing out at blameless people to kill my son…
The Puppeteer Jae-heon
Then I came across another chance. I could awaken to this power…
The Puppeteer Jae-heon
But I was confused, and lost my way for a good while. My head was brimming with all kinds of thoughts.
The Puppeteer Jae-heon
That was when the orchestrator here reached out to me, and led me to this exact moment.
Servant Roland
…That’s that, and this is this.
Servant Roland
Whatever you’d gone through…
Servant Roland
You shouldn’t have fucked with my wife!!!
Servant Roland
It doesn’t matter what kind of miserable past you have anymore…
Servant Roland
I don’t even care if I was the reason for your suffering…
Servant Roland
But you… YOU!!!
Library Director Angela
Roland. Calm down.
Library Director Angela
What’s the matter? This isn’t like you.
Servant Roland
Not like me, huh…?
Servant Roland
You’ve got the wrong impression, then.
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
Ahh… This is taking such an amusing turn.
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
Don’t get me wrong, Angela.
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
I’m not here to get my revenge like that man with a heart of coal is.
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
It’s the opposite, rather… I’m thankful for you, you see?
The Eighth Chef Greta
You gave us the power to reach here, sister!!
Church of Gears Leader Eileen
Thank you… for opening up a path through which we can reach salvation…
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
Here, we’ll take the light of the Library, and illuminate the City with beauty that exceeds the Pianist’s.
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
So that no one will ever be able to forget us!
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
That’s why, Angela… you have my deepest gratitude.
The Puppeteer Jae-heon
Let me express my appreciation as well. I could shake him up as I desired thanks to your ignorance.
The 8 o’Clock Ringmaster Oswald
As eager as I am to see what happens next with googly eyes, we’ll have to miss out on it, sadly.
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
Now! Get ready, then.
The Blue Reverberation Argalia
The song of this City is approaching its coda… And you have your stories to keep, don’t you?
The Musicians of Bremen Bremen
Neiiiiigh!! Bwakbwakbwak!!! Woof! Arf~!! Ruff ruff ruff!!
Location: Inside the Library
Library Director Angela
…Roland.
Servant Roland
Don’t say a word.
Servant Roland
We still have a common goal of stopping Argalia…
Library Director Angela
…Okay.
