Location: Thumb Southern Base - Meeting Room
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Tell me, who do you think will be the one to get through all this mist and claim the collapsed Nest in the end?
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It’s hard for me to predict the outcome of this event, underboss. It has been a while since we were involved in a bloodshed of this scale.
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However, it is certain that we should not allow the Index to take over the yolk.
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Well said. The Middle, the Ring, and the Pinky seem to be too occupied with their own business to take part in this strife, so that’s a relief.
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Have you heard of ‘The Library’, a recently appointed Urban Legend?
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Perhaps it will be closely related to this Nest we’re so concerned with.
Location: Inside the Library
Servant Roland
Looks like we’re about to ride a real big wave!
Library Director Angela
What wave?
Servant Roland
At this rate, the Library will soon be exalted to being an Urban Legend from its status as an Urban Myth.
Servant Roland
The City is brimming with cheap Urban Myths. It’s really hard to tell which are real and which are all made up.
Servant Roland
What’s more, a lot of those Urban Myths turn out to be pretty plain and boring when you get down to the root of it all.
Servant Roland
The real fun begins when an Urban Myth gets recognized as an Urban Legend.
Library Director Angela
You’re being too roundabout.
Library Director Angela
If the Associations designate us with a higher grade, we can expect to attract guests of higher classes with more valuable information, is that what you’re trying to say?
Servant Roland
You got it! Urban Legends get talked about; people will begin to acknowledge us as an actual phenomenon in the City that’s worth their attention.
Servant Roland
You see, when I was a kid, my grandma used to tell me tales about all sorts of Urban Legends. They would always send a chill down my spine.
Servant Roland
Ah, bugger. Didn’t want to be reminded of the old days.
Library Director Angela
Family…?
Servant Roland
Yeah, a family. I lost them all, though.
Library Director Angela
So you’re without a family now?
Servant Roland
No one’s with me anymore. I was raised by my grandma.
Servant Roland
Dunno how my parents passed away, n’ grandma disappeared without notice one day.
Servant Roland
And then… Nevermind. It’s nothing special.
Library Director Angela
What were you even trying to say?
Servant Roland
Anyways, you said your goal is to get this one book that’ll give you freedom, right?
Library Director Angela
That’s right. I want the freedom to leave this place, and the freedom to live as myself.
Library Director Angela
And the freedom to forget…
Servant Roland
Then, is freedom the only reason you’re trying to gather all these books?
Library Director Angela
You’re only half right.
Library Director Angela
During my time living underground, I could only pick up fragmented information about the outside world.
Library Director Angela
I’ve seen and heard the same stories over and over and over again.
Library Director Angela
I want to hear new stories now. I want to see new faces.
Library Director Angela
That’s also why I’m looking for the book that contains everything about the world.
Library Director Angela
And a little bit of revenge at the same time.
Servant Roland
…Revenge, huh. For what?
Library Director Angela
I’m taking revenge on the abominable person and world that made me into what I am.
Library Director Angela
Only after I’ve completely and thoroughly destroyed everything he dreamed for, will my freedom finally be whole.
Servant Roland
…So you’ll eventually get to the freedom and vengeance you want if we keep following where this red invitation leads us to?
Library Director Angela
It will guide me to the book that will let me achieve such things, to be exact.
Library Director Angela
How exactly those wishes will come true is beyond me.
Library Director Angela
The one book that will complete me and the Library…
Library Director Angela
If I can find that one absolute book containing everything I want to know, all will be resolved.
Servant Roland
Wait, hold on. That’s your whole plan? Just find the book? You don’t exactly know how to earn that freedom and stuff?
Library Director Angela
The only thing I know for sure is that I myself will become whole at the end of the journey led by the invitation.
Library Director Angela
The Library has infinite space. I could extract infinite books from countless guests and store them all if I wanted to.
Library Director Angela
But simply collecting books that are mostly filled with junk without a clear purpose in mind is rather inefficient, don’t you think?
Library Director Angela
Hence the invitation’s guidance along the path that leads to the book I wish to obtain, as I explained before.
Servant Roland
Let’s say that you got the one book somehow.
Servant Roland
But you don’t even know what it’ll exactly do to you to make you “whole”?
Library Director Angela
I don’t care what happens to me. I’ll be satisfied with anything as long as I can get the results.
Servant Roland
It’s almost scary how tenacious you are.
