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<p>68.224.205.124: &quot;to a site&quot; changed &quot;to his side&quot;</p> <hr /> <div>{{AdventurerStories<br /> |quotes=<br /> &lt;div style=&quot;font-size:.9em;text-align:left;column-count:2&quot;&gt;<br /> ;On Sortied &lt;!--Voice line--&gt;<br /> :Will you send me to his side?<br /> <br /> ;On Entering a Room &lt;!--Voice line--&gt;<br /> :Let us lay them to rest.<br /> <br /> ;When Quest Begins<br /> :Let us go forth, to further pile up our sins...<br /> :Make careful preparations to avoid needless loss of life.<br /> <br /> ;Response to Beginning of a Quest<br /> :My journey of mourning continues apace.<br /> :I pray we all survive.<br /> <br /> ;When Controlling Character in Quest &lt;!--Voice line--&gt;<br /> :I'll not lose anyone else.<br /> <br /> ;When Receiving a Heal<br /> :My gratitude.<br /> :I...survived.<br /> <br /> ;When Entering a Boss' Room<br /> :Our final enemy approaches. Let us bring an end to this.<br /> :The time for sinners to atone for their crimes is at hand!<br /> <br /> ;Response to Entering a Boss' Room<br /> :Oh, I'll not let anyone die.<br /> :I shall take them on as though they are my husband's foes!<br /> <br /> ;Upon Getting to Low Health<br /> :I grow weak...<br /> :Is this what it means to fear death?<br /> <br /> ;Upon Opening a Chest<br /> :My heart is pounding. What could be inside?<br /> :This is the reward for our hard work.<br /> <br /> ;Boss on Low Health<br /> :They're poised on the cusp of death. Now for the killing blow!<br /> :Let us see them to the grave.<br /> <br /> ;Boss Enters Break State<br /> :It's off-balance—just as I am.<br /> :It leaves us an opening, and we must take advantage.<br /> <br /> ;Rare Enemy Spawns<br /> :A predestined meeting.<br /> :Does this fair luck come from him...?<br /> <br /> ;Upon Death<br /> :I go to be with him...<br /> :It's finally...over.<br /> <br /> ;Player Uses Damaging Skill<br /> :Ah, wonderful...<br /> :How strong you are.<br /> <br /> ;When Shape Shifting is Ready<br /> :The power of the dragon rages within!<br /> :The dragon and I shall be one.<br /> <br /> ;Shape Shifting into Dragon &lt;!--Voice line--&gt;<br /> :I shall mourn as the dragon.<br /> <br /> ;Idle During Quest<br /> :It's only sensible to not live recklessly.<br /> :I've been waiting for him for so very long...<br /> <br /> ;Quest Clear &lt;!--Voice line--&gt;<br /> :To be alive is a thing to be celebrated.<br /> <br /> ;Quest Failure &lt;!--Voice line--&gt;<br /> :This was not the end I sought.<br /> <br /> ;Home Screen Walking<br /> :I continue to mourn.<br /> :I wish only to be at his side.<br /> :I can't help but think of him always...<br /> :Why must I alone live on?<br /> :I thought I sensed his presence just there!<br /> :If I could go back to that fated day...<br /> <br /> ;Home Screen Inside<br /> :No matter how much one swears their love, there is no proof it will last. Now is all that we have.<br /> :The death of my husband was my punishment for all the lives I ruined while with the Syndicate.<br /> :Taking a life that you may live? Ah, but we are all sinners alike in this harsh world.<br /> :I feel I used to smile more when he was with me, but I cannot swear to such with certainty.<br /> :The pain I feel when I remember never dulls. It is the only way I have to love him.<br /> :When young, I spent all my time on study. He was my first love— and my last.<br /> <br /> ;Home Screen Portrait &lt;!--Voice line--&gt;<br /> :We fought as any would, but I can say with certainty that I loved everything about him.<br /> :The sword my husband left behind was his most precious possession.<br /> :I'll never forget him, I don't wish to forget him. This is what it means to love.<br /> :Do you too have someone you can never forget? Tell me more.<br /> <br /> ;Collection Portrait &lt;!--Voice line--&gt;<br /> :I cling to my memories, retrace them in my mind... I will never forget.<br /> :I should have spent more time with him no matter the cost.<br /> :I know he'd rather I forget him then continue to suffer in such misery. Ah, but he was kind.<br /> :My work with the Syndicate brought misfortune to so many, yet I still yearned for my own happiness. What a fool.<br /> <br /> ;At The Halidom<br /> :He is gone from my life...<br /> :Was my hat askew?<br /> :This is a peaceful place, and ill fit for my sorrow.<br /> <br /> ;New Mana Circle Unlocked &lt;!--Voice line--&gt;<br /> :How I dream of being at his side.<br /> <br /> ;On Mana Circle Fully Unbound &lt;!--Voice line--&gt;<br /> :My sorrow is such that I would welcome death, yet I've come to realize I must live for his sake.<br /> &lt;/div&gt;<br /> |episode1Title=The Color of Sadness<br /> |episode1Content=&lt;div style=&quot;text-align:left&quot;&gt;<br /> {{ST|Woman in Mourning Dress}} ......<br /> {{ST|Priest}} Are you all right, my child?<br /> {{ST|Woman in Mourning Dress}} ...Hmm?<br /> {{ST|Priest}} You appear to be weeping.<br /> {{ST|Woman in Mourning Dress}} Oh.<br /> {{ST|Priest}} I see you also wear a mourning dress. Has someone close to you perhaps gone home to Ilia recently?<br /> {{ST|Woman in Mourning Dress}} My husband.<br /> {{ST|Woman in Mourning Dress}} He died as punishment for my sins.<br /> {{ST|Priest}} Punishment?<br /> {{ST|Woman in Mourning Dress}} I brought misfortune to so many. I treated them as animals. As things.<br /> {{ST|Woman in Mourning Dress}} And yet, I still believed I could find happiness. Ah, what a fool I was.<br /> {{ST|Priest}} Salvation begins with belief, my child. Won't you join me in prayer?<br /> {{ST|Woman in Mourning Dress}} I shall not. My heart is beyond salvation.<br /> {{ST|Woman in Mourning Dress}} For my love for him is far too strong...<br /> {{ST|Priest}} A sword...? My child, no! You mustn't!<br /> {{ST|Woman in Mourning Dress}} Be calm. I am not considering adding the sin of self-slaughter to my tally. Not here or now, at any rate.<br /> {{ST|Woman in Mourning Dress}} I wish only to see my dear husband again, and I would have that young man send me to the place where he now is.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} How did it go, Aldred? Did you find some new information on the Syndicate?<br /> &lt;center&gt;''Former Prisoner of the Syndicate&lt;br&gt;Andromeda''&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} No. The trail went cold here. But I'm not giving up!<br /> &lt;center&gt;''Young Man Sworn to Vengeance&lt;br&gt;Aldred''&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} They took everything from me, and my journey won't be over until I've put every last one of 'em in the ground!<br /> {{ST|???}} ...Ah. There you are.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} You know me, lady?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I do indeed know you, Tf-997. My name is Grace, and I have come to you with a request.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} How do you know that name?! Are you with the Syndicate?!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} If I say yes, will you take my life?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} ...What?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I want my death to take place by your hands alone.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Um, are you all right there?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I am not &quot;all right.&quot; Nothing is &quot;all right.&quot; Ever since I lost him, I have been near to madness with grief and pain.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Please, Aldred. End my pain. Surely you are capable of such.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} What the hell are you talking about?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Do it. End me. I know you can.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} After all, you killed my only love.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Sorry, I did what?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} You don't even remember...? I see. To you, he was insignificant...<br /> {{ST|Grace}} But to me...<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I won't demand you bring him back. All I ask is that you send me to meet him.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Will you end me as you did him?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} ......<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Why will you not do this thing?! WHY?!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} DO IT! END MY WRETCHED LIFE!<br /> &lt;/div&gt;<br /> |episode2Title=Past Sins<br /> |episode2Content=&lt;div style=&quot;text-align:left&quot;&gt;<br /> &lt;center&gt;''An unknown woman in a mourning dress appeared&lt;br&gt;before Aldred and asked him to end her life.''&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> &lt;center&gt;''Her behavior bewildered Aldred and Andromeda,&lt;br&gt;who believed she must have gone mad.''&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Hey, so that's a mourning dress, right? Did someone close to you die?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} My husband. He and I worked together with the Syndicate.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} So you ARE with the Syndicate! No wonder you knew that damn name.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} My husband and I were involved in the Synthetic Shapeshifting Project.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} The project that gave me this body!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} The very same.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I can see the hate you hold for me. Unleash that fury now. End me.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} ......<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Finish me. Grant me salvation.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} You ask for salvation after what you did to me? Shameless. Pathetic!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} And yet, it is all I can do.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Fine. In that case, tell me about yourself. Every last detail. If I decide that you deserve salvation, I'll give it to you.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Very well.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} My husband and I were employed in research as to whether a certain kind of magic could be used for medicinal purposes.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} What magic is that?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Fusion magic—the combination of one living creature with another to bring about a wholly new organism.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} My husband thought this magic might make it possible to replace limbs lost due to war or disease.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} By which you mean you'd transfer limbs from beasts to people, right? That's a seriously sick idea.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Most believed as you do now, which is why his research was rejected.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} But the Doctor thought otherwise.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} The Doctor!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Yes. He invited us to join the Syndicate, with the promise we could continue our research uninterrupted.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} It was an offer we could not refuse.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} It did not take long for us to realize the Syndicate was engaging in practices most inhumane.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} But as we knew our research could benefit countless numbers of people, we did not stop.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} ...Until we saw the Tf-series.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} What difference did seeing us make?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} The Tf-series, created through the Synthetic Shapeshifting Project, was the fusion of human and dragon.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} The moment we saw you, we knew our research would be twisted for evil ends no matter how much positive potential it might hold.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} After that dark day, we changed the direction of our research.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} But soon thereafter, some of our experimental subjects escaped.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} My husband was killed in the chaos. Laid low by one of the escapees.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} And by &quot;one of the escapees,&quot; you mean me.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I do. Which is why I want you to finish your work. End me as you did him, that I might join him in a new life.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} ......<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Oh, this is all so sad.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} No. I won't kill you.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Why not? Do you not hate me? Do you not seek to end all who took the side of the Syndicate?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Oh, I hate you, all right. I hate you with absolutely everything that I am. So why would I give you salvation?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} You can suffer until you drop dead in a ditch, lady. I don't give a damn.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Wait! Look at this sword!<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Oh my gosh... It's practically bursting with mana!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} If you do not honor my request, I will cause the mana in this sword to run wild.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} It will easily destroy this entire town. Would you sacrifice so many simply to see me suffer a little longer?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Not gonna work, lady. What do I care if you decide to wipe out a few random townies?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Wipe out the town. Hell, wipe out two! I'm still not going to kill you.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} ......<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I have no other path to salvation.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} If you do not do this thing, I will know endless suffering.<br /> &lt;center&gt;''That night at the inn...''&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} What are you going to do, Aldred?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} About what?<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} That woman. She followed us here. What are you going to do about her?<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} She's locked herself in her room, but she clearly still wants you to... you know? Do that thing?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} If being alive means she suffers, I hope she lives a thousand years.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} She was with the Syndicate—I wouldn't give her a cup of water if she was on fire.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} What ought I to do?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} (He killed someone I love dearly.)<br /> {{ST|Grace}} (And yet, I was the one who wronged him first by taking his future and freedom.)<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I know I have no right to salvation.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} And yet, I wish it above all things.<br /> &lt;/div&gt;<br /> |episode3Title=Desperate for Salvation<br /> |episode3Content=&lt;div style=&quot;text-align:left&quot;&gt;<br /> &lt;center&gt;''Five days have passed since Aldred&lt;br&gt;and Andromeda encountered Grace.''&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} No info on the Syndicate today, either.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Why don't we ask Grace?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Hmm. I guess she might have something.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Then we should go see her! C'mon!<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Why do I get the feeling you're trying to hook the two of us up somehow?<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} She hasn't come out of her room since she arrived at the inn.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} She's not taking meals, and she won't answer if you try to talk through the door.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} I just... I don't know. I guess I feel bad for her.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Yeah, well, I ain't as nice as you. That lady's Syndicate—she can die and stink up that room for all I care.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} No, I get that—but I ALSO get that her life was upended by the Syndicate just like yours and mine were. ...Right?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Tch. This whole thing is a damn pain...<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Hey! Lady! You dead in there or what?<br /> {{ST|From Inside}} ......<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Right. I'm comin' in.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} ......<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} What's with the mime act, lady? Why ain't you talking?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Kill me.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Look, I'm gonna go grab dinner.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} What?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} I'm hungry. It's dinnertime. If you wanna talk or whatever, meet me downstairs. I'll hear you out there.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Liar.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} C'mon, Grace! Let's go eat!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} ......<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} You're one stubborn son of a fiend, ain't ya? Well, come down or don't. I'm gonna grab some chow.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Why am I...?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I want to die, and yet all I can think about is my empty stomach.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} My heart cries out for release, yet my body screams to continue.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Why is it so desperate to live?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} I don't really get your deal, lady—and I sure as hell don't care for your attitude. You're one of those people who tries to push all their problems on someone else.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Aldred! Don't talk to her like that! She's clearly troubled.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} If you really want to do this thing, you should eat up, regain your strength, then come at me with everything you got.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} In the physical and mental state you're in now, you wouldn't be enough of a threat for me to need lethal force.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Oh, Aldred...<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Listen, Grace. He may be rude, but he's also right: You should eat something and try to get your strength back.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} You're asking me to live in order to be killed at a later time?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} ...Very well.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} So how long are you gonna follow us?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Until you kill me.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} You don't know when to give up.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Hello, pot. This is kettle. Nice to meet you. ...Speaking of, where ARE we going next?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} I got some info that the Syndicate set up a research facility beyond the mountains.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} If you wanna follow us there, lady, I won't stop you. Just stay the hell outta my way if you do.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} ......<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Just a little more. Once we head down the mountain...<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Look! Syndicate goons!<br /> {{ST|Syndicate Soldier 1}} Didja really think we'd let ya run free forever, freak?<br /> {{ST|Syndicate Soldier 2}} This was all a trap to lure ya to this mountain!<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} So the information itself was fake?!<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} You think you guys caught me? Wrong! You just saved me the trouble of hunting you down!<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Behold the dragon that slumbers within. You will never forget this power!<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Don't matter how many of you useless flunkies come at me, I'm gonna... Hrrrgh! D-damn! M-my arm!<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} You're overusing the dragon's power, Aldred! You have to stop!<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Nnngh!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Don't try to suppress the dragon's power by force!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Feel the flow. Let it stream through you. That is the purpose of wyrmbinding!<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Grace?!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Aldred needs time. Let us stay here and protect him until he learns to control his ability.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} I'm good with that, but you—<br /> {{ST|Grace}} No time. They are coming!<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} How's it going, Aldred? You calm?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Yeah. When I try to use the power now, it actually feels sort of...good.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Yay! Also, it looks like the Syndicate has pulled back, so I think we can take a little break for the moment.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} So, uh, Grace...<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Yes?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Why did you help us?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} It would be a problem for me if you died.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} You cannot very well end my suffering if you are not alive to do so.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Are you STILL on about that?<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} You guys really are two peas in a pod.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} If you've got time to flap your gums, you've got time to walk. We need to get some miles in before we lose the sun.<br /> {{ST|Mysterious Man}} Ah, my dear Grace. I've found you at last.<br /> {{ST|Mysterious Man}} I WILL save you. I swear it.<br /> &lt;/div&gt;<br /> |episode4Title=A Dying Wish<br /> |episode4Content=&lt;div style=&quot;text-align:left&quot;&gt;<br /> {{ST|???}} I've found you at last, Grace!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Parker? Why are you here?<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Because we are old, dear friends! You must have known I would come looking for you when you vanished.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Come, Grace. Let us go back together.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} There is nothing for me in the Syndicate. Not without him. The only place I wish to go to is where he resides now.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Oh, my dear Grace...<br /> {{ST|Parker}} But very well! I accept your terms. I will abandon the Syndicate with you.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} What are you talking about, Parker? Surely you are aware of what happens to those who leave that organization.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} I am aware—and it's a risk I accept.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} ...H-huh?!<br /> {{ST|Parker}} I love you, Grace.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} !<br /> {{ST|Parker}} I have loved you from the moment I first set eyes on you.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Parker, I...<br /> {{ST|Parker}} I know you have lost someone you love and are trapped in the depths of grief.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} We bear a similar pain, you and I, for I grieve at the loss of a dear friend.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Should we not join our lives in that case? A pain shared is a pain halved, after all.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I am sorry, Parker, but I cannot. I am simply not strong enough to bear the enormity of his loss.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} You could if it was shared! With my help! Come with me, Grace, and I will show you how to leave that pain behind!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Ah, but I do not want to leave it behind. I wish to keep this pain inside me.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} When I remember him, my heart aches. And yet, the only way to free myself from this torment is for his memories to fade.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I do not wish that. Instead, I seek to go to him while his memories are yet fresh.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} What would he say on hearing such things? Do you think he wants this for you?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} !<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Do you think him the kind of man who hoped his love would blindly follow him off into oblivion?<br /> {{ST|Parker}} The kind of man who would reject happiness for his beloved if it came in a world he no longer inhabited?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} That's... I don't...<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Do this for him, Grace. Come with me for him!<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Graaaace! Where aaaare you?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Y-you must leave, Parker. Now!<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Hmm? Why are you so flustered?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} You are still with the Syndicate. If Aldred finds you, there will be great trouble.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Please, you must go.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Very well. But think about my proposal, won't you? I will come for an answer soon.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Who was that guy?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} A traveler asking directions. Nothing more.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} ......<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Where are you going, Grace?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I wish to be alone for a while. You two should get some rest.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Hey, you do you. But just so you know, we're crossing that mountain tomorrow. If you're worn out because you didn't sleep, I WILL leave you behind.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Be careful, okay? Who knows what kinds of things lurk around here at night.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I will. Thank you.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} (...What would you have me do, my love? As Parker says, you would never have desired my death to join with yours.)<br /> {{ST|Grace}} (And yet, I wonder if you know just how empty and shallow a world is once the person you love is no longer in it?)<br /> {{ST|Grace}} (I cannot go on in such a state. And yet...)<br /> {{ST|Parker}} ...Grace?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Parker. You followed me all the way here.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} I told you I would come for your answer.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} My answer, Parker, is no. I simply cannot do it.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Grace, I know what happened in his final moments.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} What?<br /> {{ST|Parker}} When Tf-997 and Tf-999 escaped, your husband was attacked by Tf-997.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} I knew as soon as I saw him that his wounds were beyond healing.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Even so, I tried. As I set in to heal him, he said four words: &quot;Take care of Grace.&quot;<br /> {{ST|Grace}} !<br /> {{ST|Parker}} While my love for you is true, I did not come here simply to sate my own desire.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} His last wish was for us to be together, and I seek only to honor it!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} He truly said that?<br /> {{ST|Parker}} He did. So please, Grace, come with me. I cannot live with myself if I let you get killed at the hands of that failure!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} By failure I take it you mean Aldred?! And Andromeda as well?!<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Why are you upset? They ARE failures— everyone at the lab called them such.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} ...You are a liar, Parker. And your claims of my love's last words are also a lie.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Grace, no! What are you saying?!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} My love never used the word &quot;failure.&quot; Not for them. Instead, he said that we were the failures.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} He said that if we researchers had been better at our jobs, the test subjects would not have had to suffer as they did...<br /> {{ST|Grace}} And I agree with him: We stole everything from them. Their bodies. Their souls. That is a sin WE must bear.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} How can you say this about mere test subjects?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} &quot;Mere test subjects&quot;? &quot;Failures&quot;? No. My husband would never have wanted me to be with a man who carried such thoughts as these.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} And I, too, cannot love one such as you. That is one thing I can say with certainty.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Oh, Grace. Oh, my dear. If you will not walk beside me...<br /> {{ST|Parker}} ...You will die by my hand.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Syndicate soldiers!<br /> {{ST|Parker}} If you will not obey me, then you are a traitor who must be disposed of.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Urrgh!<br /> {{ST|Parker}} You could have been with me, Grace, and instead you cast it all aside. You are a hopeless fool.<br /> {{ST|???}} And you're a selfish piece of crap.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Tf-997! Why are you helping her?!<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Oh, I'm not. But one look at those masks, and I couldn't hold my arm back.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Are you okay, Grace?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} What are you two doing here?<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Perhaps this is a blessing in disguise. My standing with the Syndicate will only rise if I also deal with you, Tf-997!<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Careful. Your mouth is making promises you can't possibly keep.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Oh, but I can. For you see, your own strength is about to devour you.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} With the power of this crystal...<br /> {{ST|Grace}} No... Aldred, RUN!<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} The hell...?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Nnngh! M-my body is... GRAAAAGH!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Aldred!<br /> &lt;/div&gt;<br /> |episode5Title=Holding on to Hatred<br /> |episode5Content=&lt;div style=&quot;text-align:left&quot;&gt;<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Graaagh! I'm losing control of the dragon!<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} AAAAAAUGH!<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Aldred's going berserk! What are we gonna do?!<br /> {{ST|Parker}} This crystal was made to stimulate activity in a fused body, and I must say, I'm rather delighted with the results!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} How could you?<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Do not blame me, Grace—it is but another fruit of you and your husband's research.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Our design only stimulated activity in a fused subject in order to help those whose lives were in danger.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} It was NEVER meant to force a person into a rage like this!<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Ah, but every tool has its use. This crystal, the failed experiment...and your husband.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} What are you talking about?<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Would you like me to share your husband's TRUE last words with you, my dear?<br /> {{ST|Parker}} &quot;How could you?&quot;<br /> {{ST|Grace}} No. That cannot be. That means his killer...<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Was ME! Yes, exactly! I took advantage of the chaos wrought by the failure's escape and killed him with my own two hands!<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Oh, how I loathed that man. He took everything I wanted and lived his life in blissful happiness.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} But even once he was gone, you STILL rejected me!<br /> {{ST|Parker}} So if I cannot have you for my own, I will have the joy of ending you!<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Grace!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} ...No.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Oh? What now? Have you not been praying for death this entire time?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Yes—but not at your hand.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} That's why I'm going to release the power stored in the memento he left me!<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} That's the sword with all the mana!<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Grace, no! If you release that mana, it will destroy everything for miles!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Worry not. I'm not planning to involve any innocents in my own end.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Now behold the true power of the sword!<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} It's...drawing the dragon's power...!<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Aldred's back? What is going ON?!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} This sword is a memento from my late husband—one which serves to control the magic of wyrmbinding.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Even as we worked for the Syndicate, my husband and I advanced our own independent research so that we might atone for our crimes!<br /> {{ST|Parker}} You think that makes you good people? Absurd! The crimes you have committed can NEVER be forgiven!<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Die, Grace! Die, die, DIE!<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Urgh...?!<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} You mind, Grace? I mean, seeing as how he's with the Syndicate and all.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I do not. It is time he atoned for his sins—with his very life.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} ......<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Here you are.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I have many things to repent for. My tally is so very long.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} And I am sorry to burden you with even more sin.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} If you're talking about that guy, it had nothing to do with you.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} The Syndicate is my enemy, so I killed him. That's it.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I disagree—it DOES have to do with me. Your hatred begins with me and my sins.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} There's plenty of sin to go around. Plus, sounds like you and your hubby actually tried to save us test subjects in your own way.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} That sword? Your research? I'd be dead without 'em.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} You're surprisingly cute when you smile.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Wh-what?!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Now then, will you continue your journey of revenge knowing that your body can be rather...unreliable?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Revenge is all I have, and my fight won't end until I've ripped out the still-beating heart of the Syndicate.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Even though that revenge will not return your lost happiness? Even though you only stand to lose even more in the end?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} My past is all I have. I don't know another way.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} We are very much alike, you and I.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Yeah, maybe so.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I don't want to forget about him.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} But if I am to go on living, I want to do so hating everyone and everything that stole my husband from me. I want to hold onto that hate until the day that I die.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} So please let me continue to hate you.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Let me hate you so the pain in my heart will never be healed and my grief can continue unabated.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} You should hate me—if I didn't escape, your husband would still be alive.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} So I'll own that.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} And you may hate me, as well. However, I think I know a way to help atone for my sin.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} You're talking about the power in that sword, aren't you?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Yes—and so I will continue my research into it. Even if there can be no salvation from grief, I will use my remaining life in an attempt to atone for my sins.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Anyway, I think this is where we part. Thank you for everything.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} If you don't have a destination in mind, you should strike out for the Halidom.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} The Halidom?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Yeah, there's a real bleeding heart of a prince there. He'll help you.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I see. Thank you, Aldred. Let us meet again someday.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} (We are beyond redemption. Not even a god could save us.)<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} (But it is that fact—that hopelessness— that gives us the path on which we must continue our lives.)<br /> &lt;/div&gt;<br /> }}<br /> [[Category:To-Do Adventurer Voice Lines]]</div>

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<p>68.224.205.124: &quot;to a site&quot; changed &quot;to his side&quot;</p> <hr /> <div>{{AdventurerStories<br /> |quotes=<br /> &lt;div style=&quot;font-size:.9em;text-align:left;column-count:2&quot;&gt;<br /> ;On Sortied &lt;!--Voice line--&gt;<br /> :Will you send me to his side?<br /> <br /> ;On Entering a Room &lt;!--Voice line--&gt;<br /> :Let us lay them to rest.<br /> <br /> ;When Quest Begins<br /> :Let us go forth, to further pile up our sins...<br /> :Make careful preparations to avoid needless loss of life.<br /> <br /> ;Response to Beginning of a Quest<br /> :My journey of mourning continues apace.<br /> :I pray we all survive.<br /> <br /> ;When Controlling Character in Quest &lt;!--Voice line--&gt;<br /> :I'll not lose anyone else.<br /> <br /> ;When Receiving a Heal<br /> :My gratitude.<br /> :I...survived.<br /> <br /> ;When Entering a Boss' Room<br /> :Our final enemy approaches. Let us bring an end to this.<br /> :The time for sinners to atone for their crimes is at hand!<br /> <br /> ;Response to Entering a Boss' Room<br /> :Oh, I'll not let anyone die.<br /> :I shall take them on as though they are my husband's foes!<br /> <br /> ;Upon Getting to Low Health<br /> :I grow weak...<br /> :Is this what it means to fear death?<br /> <br /> ;Upon Opening a Chest<br /> :My heart is pounding. What could be inside?<br /> :This is the reward for our hard work.<br /> <br /> ;Boss on Low Health<br /> :They're poised on the cusp of death. Now for the killing blow!<br /> :Let us see them to the grave.<br /> <br /> ;Boss Enters Break State<br /> :It's off-balance—just as I am.<br /> :It leaves us an opening, and we must take advantage.<br /> <br /> ;Rare Enemy Spawns<br /> :A predestined meeting.<br /> :Does this fair luck come from him...?<br /> <br /> ;Upon Death<br /> :I go to be with him...<br /> :It's finally...over.<br /> <br /> ;Player Uses Damaging Skill<br /> :Ah, wonderful...<br /> :How strong you are.<br /> <br /> ;When Shape Shifting is Ready<br /> :The power of the dragon rages within!<br /> :The dragon and I shall be one.<br /> <br /> ;Shape Shifting into Dragon &lt;!--Voice line--&gt;<br /> :I shall mourn as the dragon.<br /> <br /> ;Idle During Quest<br /> :It's only sensible to not live recklessly.<br /> :I've been waiting for him for so very long...<br /> <br /> ;Quest Clear &lt;!--Voice line--&gt;<br /> :To be alive is a thing to be celebrated.<br /> <br /> ;Quest Failure &lt;!--Voice line--&gt;<br /> :This was not the end I sought.<br /> <br /> ;Home Screen Walking<br /> :I continue to mourn.<br /> :I wish only to be at his side.<br /> :I can't help but think of him always...<br /> :Why must I alone live on?<br /> :I thought I sensed his presence just there!<br /> :If I could go back to that fated day...<br /> <br /> ;Home Screen Inside<br /> :No matter how much one swears their love, there is no proof it will last. Now is all that we have.<br /> :The death of my husband was my punishment for all the lives I ruined while with the Syndicate.<br /> :Taking a life that you may live? Ah, but we are all sinners alike in this harsh world.<br /> :I feel I used to smile more when he was with me, but I cannot swear to such with certainty.<br /> :The pain I feel when I remember never dulls. It is the only way I have to love him.<br /> :When young, I spent all my time on study. He was my first love— and my last.<br /> <br /> ;Home Screen Portrait &lt;!--Voice line--&gt;<br /> :We fought as any would, but I can say with certainty that I loved everything about him.<br /> :The sword my husband left behind was his most precious possession.<br /> :I'll never forget him, I don't wish to forget him. This is what it means to love.<br /> :Do you too have someone you can never forget? Tell me more.<br /> <br /> ;Collection Portrait &lt;!--Voice line--&gt;<br /> :I cling to my memories, retrace them in my mind... I will never forget.<br /> :I should have spent more time with him no matter the cost.<br /> :I know he'd rather I forget him then continue to suffer in such misery. Ah, but he was kind.<br /> :My work with the Syndicate brought misfortune to so many, yet I still yearned for my own happiness. What a fool.<br /> <br /> ;At The Halidom<br /> :He is gone from my life...<br /> :Was my hat askew?<br /> :This is a peaceful place, and ill fit for my sorrow.<br /> <br /> ;New Mana Circle Unlocked &lt;!--Voice line--&gt;<br /> :How I dream of being at his side.<br /> <br /> ;On Mana Circle Fully Unbound &lt;!--Voice line--&gt;<br /> :My sorrow is such that I would welcome death, yet I've come to realize I must live for his sake.<br /> &lt;/div&gt;<br /> |episode1Title=The Color of Sadness<br /> |episode1Content=&lt;div style=&quot;text-align:left&quot;&gt;<br /> {{ST|Woman in Mourning Dress}} ......<br /> {{ST|Priest}} Are you all right, my child?<br /> {{ST|Woman in Mourning Dress}} ...Hmm?<br /> {{ST|Priest}} You appear to be weeping.<br /> {{ST|Woman in Mourning Dress}} Oh.<br /> {{ST|Priest}} I see you also wear a mourning dress. Has someone close to you perhaps gone home to Ilia recently?<br /> {{ST|Woman in Mourning Dress}} My husband.<br /> {{ST|Woman in Mourning Dress}} He died as punishment for my sins.<br /> {{ST|Priest}} Punishment?<br /> {{ST|Woman in Mourning Dress}} I brought misfortune to so many. I treated them as animals. As things.<br /> {{ST|Woman in Mourning Dress}} And yet, I still believed I could find happiness. Ah, what a fool I was.<br /> {{ST|Priest}} Salvation begins with belief, my child. Won't you join me in prayer?<br /> {{ST|Woman in Mourning Dress}} I shall not. My heart is beyond salvation.<br /> {{ST|Woman in Mourning Dress}} For my love for him is far too strong...<br /> {{ST|Priest}} A sword...? My child, no! You mustn't!<br /> {{ST|Woman in Mourning Dress}} Be calm. I am not considering adding the sin of self-slaughter to my tally. Not here or now, at any rate.<br /> {{ST|Woman in Mourning Dress}} I wish only to see my dear husband again, and I would have that young man send me to the place where he now is.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} How did it go, Aldred? Did you find some new information on the Syndicate?<br /> &lt;center&gt;''Former Prisoner of the Syndicate&lt;br&gt;Andromeda''&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} No. The trail went cold here. But I'm not giving up!<br /> &lt;center&gt;''Young Man Sworn to Vengeance&lt;br&gt;Aldred''&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} They took everything from me, and my journey won't be over until I've put every last one of 'em in the ground!<br /> {{ST|???}} ...Ah. There you are.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} You know me, lady?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I do indeed know you, Tf-997. My name is Grace, and I have come to you with a request.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} How do you know that name?! Are you with the Syndicate?!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} If I say yes, will you take my life?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} ...What?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I want my death to take place by your hands alone.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Um, are you all right there?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I am not &quot;all right.&quot; Nothing is &quot;all right.&quot; Ever since I lost him, I have been near to madness with grief and pain.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Please, Aldred. End my pain. Surely you are capable of such.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} What the hell are you talking about?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Do it. End me. I know you can.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} After all, you killed my only love.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Sorry, I did what?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} You don't even remember...? I see. To you, he was insignificant...<br /> {{ST|Grace}} But to me...<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I won't demand you bring him back. All I ask is that you send me to meet him.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Will you end me as you did him?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} ......<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Why will you not do this thing?! WHY?!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} DO IT! END MY WRETCHED LIFE!<br /> &lt;/div&gt;<br /> |episode2Title=Past Sins<br /> |episode2Content=&lt;div style=&quot;text-align:left&quot;&gt;<br /> &lt;center&gt;''An unknown woman in a mourning dress appeared&lt;br&gt;before Aldred and asked him to end her life.''&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> &lt;center&gt;''Her behavior bewildered Aldred and Andromeda,&lt;br&gt;who believed she must have gone mad.''&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Hey, so that's a mourning dress, right? Did someone close to you die?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} My husband. He and I worked together with the Syndicate.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} So you ARE with the Syndicate! No wonder you knew that damn name.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} My husband and I were involved in the Synthetic Shapeshifting Project.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} The project that gave me this body!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} The very same.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I can see the hate you hold for me. Unleash that fury now. End me.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} ......<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Finish me. Grant me salvation.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} You ask for salvation after what you did to me? Shameless. Pathetic!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} And yet, it is all I can do.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Fine. In that case, tell me about yourself. Every last detail. If I decide that you deserve salvation, I'll give it to you.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Very well.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} My husband and I were employed in research as to whether a certain kind of magic could be used for medicinal purposes.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} What magic is that?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Fusion magic—the combination of one living creature with another to bring about a wholly new organism.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} My husband thought this magic might make it possible to replace limbs lost due to war or disease.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} By which you mean you'd transfer limbs from beasts to people, right? That's a seriously sick idea.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Most believed as you do now, which is why his research was rejected.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} But the Doctor thought otherwise.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} The Doctor!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Yes. He invited us to join the Syndicate, with the promise we could continue our research uninterrupted.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} It was an offer we could not refuse.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} It did not take long for us to realize the Syndicate was engaging in practices most inhumane.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} But as we knew our research could benefit countless numbers of people, we did not stop.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} ...Until we saw the Tf-series.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} What difference did seeing us make?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} The Tf-series, created through the Synthetic Shapeshifting Project, was the fusion of human and dragon.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} The moment we saw you, we knew our research would be twisted for evil ends no matter how much positive potential it might hold.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} After that dark day, we changed the direction of our research.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} But soon thereafter, some of our experimental subjects escaped.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} My husband was killed in the chaos. Laid low by one of the escapees.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} And by &quot;one of the escapees,&quot; you mean me.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I do. Which is why I want you to finish your work. End me as you did him, that I might join him in a new life.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} ......<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Oh, this is all so sad.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} No. I won't kill you.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Why not? Do you not hate me? Do you not seek to end all who took the side of the Syndicate?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Oh, I hate you, all right. I hate you with absolutely everything that I am. So why would I give you salvation?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} You can suffer until you drop dead in a ditch, lady. I don't give a damn.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Wait! Look at this sword!<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Oh my gosh... It's practically bursting with mana!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} If you do not honor my request, I will cause the mana in this sword to run wild.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} It will easily destroy this entire town. Would you sacrifice so many simply to see me suffer a little longer?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Not gonna work, lady. What do I care if you decide to wipe out a few random townies?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Wipe out the town. Hell, wipe out two! I'm still not going to kill you.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} ......<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I have no other path to salvation.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} If you do not do this thing, I will know endless suffering.<br /> &lt;center&gt;''That night at the inn...''&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} What are you going to do, Aldred?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} About what?<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} That woman. She followed us here. What are you going to do about her?<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} She's locked herself in her room, but she clearly still wants you to... you know? Do that thing?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} If being alive means she suffers, I hope she lives a thousand years.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} She was with the Syndicate—I wouldn't give her a cup of water if she was on fire.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} What ought I to do?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} (He killed someone I love dearly.)<br /> {{ST|Grace}} (And yet, I was the one who wronged him first by taking his future and freedom.)<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I know I have no right to salvation.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} And yet, I wish it above all things.<br /> &lt;/div&gt;<br /> |episode3Title=Desperate for Salvation<br /> |episode3Content=&lt;div style=&quot;text-align:left&quot;&gt;<br /> &lt;center&gt;''Five days have passed since Aldred&lt;br&gt;and Andromeda encountered Grace.''&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} No info on the Syndicate today, either.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Why don't we ask Grace?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Hmm. I guess she might have something.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Then we should go see her! C'mon!<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Why do I get the feeling you're trying to hook the two of us up somehow?<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} She hasn't come out of her room since she arrived at the inn.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} She's not taking meals, and she won't answer if you try to talk through the door.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} I just... I don't know. I guess I feel bad for her.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Yeah, well, I ain't as nice as you. That lady's Syndicate—she can die and stink up that room for all I care.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} No, I get that—but I ALSO get that her life was upended by the Syndicate just like yours and mine were. ...Right?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Tch. This whole thing is a damn pain...<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Hey! Lady! You dead in there or what?<br /> {{ST|From Inside}} ......<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Right. I'm comin' in.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} ......<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} What's with the mime act, lady? Why ain't you talking?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Kill me.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Look, I'm gonna go grab dinner.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} What?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} I'm hungry. It's dinnertime. If you wanna talk or whatever, meet me downstairs. I'll hear you out there.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Liar.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} C'mon, Grace! Let's go eat!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} ......<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} You're one stubborn son of a fiend, ain't ya? Well, come down or don't. I'm gonna grab some chow.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Why am I...?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I want to die, and yet all I can think about is my empty stomach.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} My heart cries out for release, yet my body screams to continue.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Why is it so desperate to live?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} I don't really get your deal, lady—and I sure as hell don't care for your attitude. You're one of those people who tries to push all their problems on someone else.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Aldred! Don't talk to her like that! She's clearly troubled.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} If you really want to do this thing, you should eat up, regain your strength, then come at me with everything you got.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} In the physical and mental state you're in now, you wouldn't be enough of a threat for me to need lethal force.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Oh, Aldred...<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Listen, Grace. He may be rude, but he's also right: You should eat something and try to get your strength back.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} You're asking me to live in order to be killed at a later time?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} ...Very well.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} So how long are you gonna follow us?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Until you kill me.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} You don't know when to give up.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Hello, pot. This is kettle. Nice to meet you. ...Speaking of, where ARE we going next?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} I got some info that the Syndicate set up a research facility beyond the mountains.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} If you wanna follow us there, lady, I won't stop you. Just stay the hell outta my way if you do.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} ......<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Just a little more. Once we head down the mountain...<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Look! Syndicate goons!<br /> {{ST|Syndicate Soldier 1}} Didja really think we'd let ya run free forever, freak?<br /> {{ST|Syndicate Soldier 2}} This was all a trap to lure ya to this mountain!<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} So the information itself was fake?!<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} You think you guys caught me? Wrong! You just saved me the trouble of hunting you down!<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Behold the dragon that slumbers within. You will never forget this power!<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Don't matter how many of you useless flunkies come at me, I'm gonna... Hrrrgh! D-damn! M-my arm!<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} You're overusing the dragon's power, Aldred! You have to stop!<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Nnngh!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Don't try to suppress the dragon's power by force!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Feel the flow. Let it stream through you. That is the purpose of wyrmbinding!<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Grace?!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Aldred needs time. Let us stay here and protect him until he learns to control his ability.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} I'm good with that, but you—<br /> {{ST|Grace}} No time. They are coming!<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} How's it going, Aldred? You calm?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Yeah. When I try to use the power now, it actually feels sort of...good.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Yay! Also, it looks like the Syndicate has pulled back, so I think we can take a little break for the moment.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} So, uh, Grace...<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Yes?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Why did you help us?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} It would be a problem for me if you died.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} You cannot very well end my suffering if you are not alive to do so.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Are you STILL on about that?<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} You guys really are two peas in a pod.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} If you've got time to flap your gums, you've got time to walk. We need to get some miles in before we lose the sun.<br /> {{ST|Mysterious Man}} Ah, my dear Grace. I've found you at last.<br /> {{ST|Mysterious Man}} I WILL save you. I swear it.<br /> &lt;/div&gt;<br /> |episode4Title=A Dying Wish<br /> |episode4Content=&lt;div style=&quot;text-align:left&quot;&gt;<br /> {{ST|???}} I've found you at last, Grace!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Parker? Why are you here?<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Because we are old, dear friends! You must have known I would come looking for you when you vanished.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Come, Grace. Let us go back together.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} There is nothing for me in the Syndicate. Not without him. The only place I wish to go to is where he resides now.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Oh, my dear Grace...<br /> {{ST|Parker}} But very well! I accept your terms. I will abandon the Syndicate with you.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} What are you talking about, Parker? Surely you are aware of what happens to those who leave that organization.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} I am aware—and it's a risk I accept.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} ...H-huh?!<br /> {{ST|Parker}} I love you, Grace.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} !<br /> {{ST|Parker}} I have loved you from the moment I first set eyes on you.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Parker, I...<br /> {{ST|Parker}} I know you have lost someone you love and are trapped in the depths of grief.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} We bear a similar pain, you and I, for I grieve at the loss of a dear friend.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Should we not join our lives in that case? A pain shared is a pain halved, after all.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I am sorry, Parker, but I cannot. I am simply not strong enough to bear the enormity of his loss.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} You could if it was shared! With my help! Come with me, Grace, and I will show you how to leave that pain behind!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Ah, but I do not want to leave it behind. I wish to keep this pain inside me.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} When I remember him, my heart aches. And yet, the only way to free myself from this torment is for his memories to fade.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I do not wish that. Instead, I seek to go to him while his memories are yet fresh.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} What would he say on hearing such things? Do you think he wants this for you?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} !<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Do you think him the kind of man who hoped his love would blindly follow him off into oblivion?<br /> {{ST|Parker}} The kind of man who would reject happiness for his beloved if it came in a world he no longer inhabited?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} That's... I don't...<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Do this for him, Grace. Come with me for him!<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Graaaace! Where aaaare you?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Y-you must leave, Parker. Now!<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Hmm? Why are you so flustered?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} You are still with the Syndicate. If Aldred finds you, there will be great trouble.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Please, you must go.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Very well. But think about my proposal, won't you? I will come for an answer soon.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Who was that guy?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} A traveler asking directions. Nothing more.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} ......<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Where are you going, Grace?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I wish to be alone for a while. You two should get some rest.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Hey, you do you. But just so you know, we're crossing that mountain tomorrow. If you're worn out because you didn't sleep, I WILL leave you behind.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Be careful, okay? Who knows what kinds of things lurk around here at night.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I will. Thank you.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} (...What would you have me do, my love? As Parker says, you would never have desired my death to join with yours.)<br /> {{ST|Grace}} (And yet, I wonder if you know just how empty and shallow a world is once the person you love is no longer in it?)<br /> {{ST|Grace}} (I cannot go on in such a state. And yet...)<br /> {{ST|Parker}} ...Grace?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Parker. You followed me all the way here.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} I told you I would come for your answer.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} My answer, Parker, is no. I simply cannot do it.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Grace, I know what happened in his final moments.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} What?<br /> {{ST|Parker}} When Tf-997 and Tf-999 escaped, your husband was attacked by Tf-997.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} I knew as soon as I saw him that his wounds were beyond healing.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Even so, I tried. As I set in to heal him, he said four words: &quot;Take care of Grace.&quot;<br /> {{ST|Grace}} !<br /> {{ST|Parker}} While my love for you is true, I did not come here simply to sate my own desire.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} His last wish was for us to be together, and I seek only to honor it!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} He truly said that?<br /> {{ST|Parker}} He did. So please, Grace, come with me. I cannot live with myself if I let you get killed at the hands of that failure!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} By failure I take it you mean Aldred?! And Andromeda as well?!<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Why are you upset? They ARE failures— everyone at the lab called them such.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} ...You are a liar, Parker. And your claims of my love's last words are also a lie.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Grace, no! What are you saying?!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} My love never used the word &quot;failure.&quot; Not for them. Instead, he said that we were the failures.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} He said that if we researchers had been better at our jobs, the test subjects would not have had to suffer as they did...<br /> {{ST|Grace}} And I agree with him: We stole everything from them. Their bodies. Their souls. That is a sin WE must bear.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} How can you say this about mere test subjects?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} &quot;Mere test subjects&quot;? &quot;Failures&quot;? No. My husband would never have wanted me to be with a man who carried such thoughts as these.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} And I, too, cannot love one such as you. That is one thing I can say with certainty.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Oh, Grace. Oh, my dear. If you will not walk beside me...<br /> {{ST|Parker}} ...You will die by my hand.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Syndicate soldiers!<br /> {{ST|Parker}} If you will not obey me, then you are a traitor who must be disposed of.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Urrgh!<br /> {{ST|Parker}} You could have been with me, Grace, and instead you cast it all aside. You are a hopeless fool.<br /> {{ST|???}} And you're a selfish piece of crap.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Tf-997! Why are you helping her?!<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Oh, I'm not. But one look at those masks, and I couldn't hold my arm back.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Are you okay, Grace?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} What are you two doing here?<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Perhaps this is a blessing in disguise. My standing with the Syndicate will only rise if I also deal with you, Tf-997!<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Careful. Your mouth is making promises you can't possibly keep.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Oh, but I can. For you see, your own strength is about to devour you.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} With the power of this crystal...<br /> {{ST|Grace}} No... Aldred, RUN!<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} The hell...?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Nnngh! M-my body is... GRAAAAGH!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Aldred!<br /> &lt;/div&gt;<br /> |episode5Title=Holding on to Hatred<br /> |episode5Content=&lt;div style=&quot;text-align:left&quot;&gt;<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Graaagh! I'm losing control of the dragon!<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} AAAAAAUGH!<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Aldred's going berserk! What are we gonna do?!<br /> {{ST|Parker}} This crystal was made to stimulate activity in a fused body, and I must say, I'm rather delighted with the results!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} How could you?<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Do not blame me, Grace—it is but another fruit of you and your husband's research.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Our design only stimulated activity in a fused subject in order to help those whose lives were in danger.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} It was NEVER meant to force a person into a rage like this!<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Ah, but every tool has its use. This crystal, the failed experiment...and your husband.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} What are you talking about?<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Would you like me to share your husband's TRUE last words with you, my dear?<br /> {{ST|Parker}} &quot;How could you?&quot;<br /> {{ST|Grace}} No. That cannot be. That means his killer...<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Was ME! Yes, exactly! I took advantage of the chaos wrought by the failure's escape and killed him with my own two hands!<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Oh, how I loathed that man. He took everything I wanted and lived his life in blissful happiness.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} But even once he was gone, you STILL rejected me!<br /> {{ST|Parker}} So if I cannot have you for my own, I will have the joy of ending you!<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Grace!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} ...No.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Oh? What now? Have you not been praying for death this entire time?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Yes—but not at your hand.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} That's why I'm going to release the power stored in the memento he left me!<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} That's the sword with all the mana!<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Grace, no! If you release that mana, it will destroy everything for miles!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Worry not. I'm not planning to involve any innocents in my own end.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Now behold the true power of the sword!<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} It's...drawing the dragon's power...!<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Aldred's back? What is going ON?!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} This sword is a memento from my late husband—one which serves to control the magic of wyrmbinding.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Even as we worked for the Syndicate, my husband and I advanced our own independent research so that we might atone for our crimes!<br /> {{ST|Parker}} You think that makes you good people? Absurd! The crimes you have committed can NEVER be forgiven!<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Die, Grace! Die, die, DIE!<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Urgh...?!<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} You mind, Grace? I mean, seeing as how he's with the Syndicate and all.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I do not. It is time he atoned for his sins—with his very life.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} ......<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Here you are.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I have many things to repent for. My tally is so very long.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} And I am sorry to burden you with even more sin.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} If you're talking about that guy, it had nothing to do with you.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} The Syndicate is my enemy, so I killed him. That's it.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I disagree—it DOES have to do with me. Your hatred begins with me and my sins.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} There's plenty of sin to go around. Plus, sounds like you and your hubby actually tried to save us test subjects in your own way.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} That sword? Your research? I'd be dead without 'em.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} You're surprisingly cute when you smile.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Wh-what?!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Now then, will you continue your journey of revenge knowing that your body can be rather...unreliable?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Revenge is all I have, and my fight won't end until I've ripped out the still-beating heart of the Syndicate.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Even though that revenge will not return your lost happiness? Even though you only stand to lose even more in the end?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} My past is all I have. I don't know another way.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} We are very much alike, you and I.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Yeah, maybe so.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I don't want to forget about him.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} But if I am to go on living, I want to do so hating everyone and everything that stole my husband from me. I want to hold onto that hate until the day that I die.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} So please let me continue to hate you.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Let me hate you so the pain in my heart will never be healed and my grief can continue unabated.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} You should hate me—if I didn't escape, your husband would still be alive.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} So I'll own that.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} And you may hate me, as well. However, I think I know a way to help atone for my sin.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} You're talking about the power in that sword, aren't you?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Yes—and so I will continue my research into it. Even if there can be no salvation from grief, I will use my remaining life in an attempt to atone for my sins.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Anyway, I think this is where we part. Thank you for everything.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} If you don't have a destination in mind, you should strike out for the Halidom.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} The Halidom?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Yeah, there's a real bleeding heart of a prince there. He'll help you.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I see. Thank you, Aldred. Let us meet again someday.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} (We are beyond redemption. Not even a god could save us.)<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} (But it is that fact—that hopelessness— that gives us the path on which we must continue our lives.)<br /> &lt;/div&gt;<br /> }}<br /> [[Category:To-Do Adventurer Voice Lines]]</div>

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<p>68.224.205.124: &quot;to a site&quot; changed &quot;to his side&quot;</p> <hr /> <div>{{AdventurerStories<br /> |quotes=<br /> &lt;div style=&quot;font-size:.9em;text-align:left;column-count:2&quot;&gt;<br /> ;On Sortied &lt;!--Voice line--&gt;<br /> :Will you send me to his side?<br /> <br /> ;On Entering a Room &lt;!--Voice line--&gt;<br /> :Let us lay them to rest.<br /> <br /> ;When Quest Begins<br /> :Let us go forth, to further pile up our sins...<br /> :Make careful preparations to avoid needless loss of life.<br /> <br /> ;Response to Beginning of a Quest<br /> :My journey of mourning continues apace.<br /> :I pray we all survive.<br /> <br /> ;When Controlling Character in Quest &lt;!--Voice line--&gt;<br /> :I'll not lose anyone else.<br /> <br /> ;When Receiving a Heal<br /> :My gratitude.<br /> :I...survived.<br /> <br /> ;When Entering a Boss' Room<br /> :Our final enemy approaches. Let us bring an end to this.<br /> :The time for sinners to atone for their crimes is at hand!<br /> <br /> ;Response to Entering a Boss' Room<br /> :Oh, I'll not let anyone die.<br /> :I shall take them on as though they are my husband's foes!<br /> <br /> ;Upon Getting to Low Health<br /> :I grow weak...<br /> :Is this what it means to fear death?<br /> <br /> ;Upon Opening a Chest<br /> :My heart is pounding. What could be inside?<br /> :This is the reward for our hard work.<br /> <br /> ;Boss on Low Health<br /> :They're poised on the cusp of death. Now for the killing blow!<br /> :Let us see them to the grave.<br /> <br /> ;Boss Enters Break State<br /> :It's off-balance—just as I am.<br /> :It leaves us an opening, and we must take advantage.<br /> <br /> ;Rare Enemy Spawns<br /> :A predestined meeting.<br /> :Does this fair luck come from him...?<br /> <br /> ;Upon Death<br /> :I go to be with him...<br /> :It's finally...over.<br /> <br /> ;Player Uses Damaging Skill<br /> :Ah, wonderful...<br /> :How strong you are.<br /> <br /> ;When Shape Shifting is Ready<br /> :The power of the dragon rages within!<br /> :The dragon and I shall be one.<br /> <br /> ;Shape Shifting into Dragon &lt;!--Voice line--&gt;<br /> :I shall mourn as the dragon.<br /> <br /> ;Idle During Quest<br /> :It's only sensible to not live recklessly.<br /> :I've been waiting for him for so very long...<br /> <br /> ;Quest Clear &lt;!--Voice line--&gt;<br /> :To be alive is a thing to be celebrated.<br /> <br /> ;Quest Failure &lt;!--Voice line--&gt;<br /> :This was not the end I sought.<br /> <br /> ;Home Screen Walking<br /> :I continue to mourn.<br /> :I wish only to be at his side.<br /> :I can't help but think of him always...<br /> :Why must I alone live on?<br /> :I thought I sensed his presence just there!<br /> :If I could go back to that fated day...<br /> <br /> ;Home Screen Inside<br /> :No matter how much one swears their love, there is no proof it will last. Now is all that we have.<br /> :The death of my husband was my punishment for all the lives I ruined while with the Syndicate.<br /> :Taking a life that you may live? Ah, but we are all sinners alike in this harsh world.<br /> :I feel I used to smile more when he was with me, but I cannot swear to such with certainty.<br /> :The pain I feel when I remember never dulls. It is the only way I have to love him.<br /> :When young, I spent all my time on study. He was my first love— and my last.<br /> <br /> ;Home Screen Portrait &lt;!--Voice line--&gt;<br /> :We fought as any would, but I can say with certainty that I loved everything about him.<br /> :The sword my husband left behind was his most precious possession.<br /> :I'll never forget him, I don't wish to forget him. This is what it means to love.<br /> :Do you too have someone you can never forget? Tell me more.<br /> <br /> ;Collection Portrait &lt;!--Voice line--&gt;<br /> :I cling to my memories, retrace them in my mind... I will never forget.<br /> :I should have spent more time with him no matter the cost.<br /> :I know he'd rather I forget him then continue to suffer in such misery. Ah, but he was kind.<br /> :My work with the Syndicate brought misfortune to so many, yet I still yearned for my own happiness. What a fool.<br /> <br /> ;At The Halidom<br /> :He is gone from my life...<br /> :Was my hat askew?<br /> :This is a peaceful place, and ill fit for my sorrow.<br /> <br /> ;New Mana Circle Unlocked &lt;!--Voice line--&gt;<br /> :How I dream of being at his side.<br /> <br /> ;On Mana Circle Fully Unbound &lt;!--Voice line--&gt;<br /> :My sorrow is such that I would welcome death, yet I've come to realize I must live for his sake.<br /> &lt;/div&gt;<br /> |episode1Title=The Color of Sadness<br /> |episode1Content=&lt;div style=&quot;text-align:left&quot;&gt;<br /> {{ST|Woman in Mourning Dress}} ......<br /> {{ST|Priest}} Are you all right, my child?<br /> {{ST|Woman in Mourning Dress}} ...Hmm?<br /> {{ST|Priest}} You appear to be weeping.<br /> {{ST|Woman in Mourning Dress}} Oh.<br /> {{ST|Priest}} I see you also wear a mourning dress. Has someone close to you perhaps gone home to Ilia recently?<br /> {{ST|Woman in Mourning Dress}} My husband.<br /> {{ST|Woman in Mourning Dress}} He died as punishment for my sins.<br /> {{ST|Priest}} Punishment?<br /> {{ST|Woman in Mourning Dress}} I brought misfortune to so many. I treated them as animals. As things.<br /> {{ST|Woman in Mourning Dress}} And yet, I still believed I could find happiness. Ah, what a fool I was.<br /> {{ST|Priest}} Salvation begins with belief, my child. Won't you join me in prayer?<br /> {{ST|Woman in Mourning Dress}} I shall not. My heart is beyond salvation.<br /> {{ST|Woman in Mourning Dress}} For my love for him is far too strong...<br /> {{ST|Priest}} A sword...? My child, no! You mustn't!<br /> {{ST|Woman in Mourning Dress}} Be calm. I am not considering adding the sin of self-slaughter to my tally. Not here or now, at any rate.<br /> {{ST|Woman in Mourning Dress}} I wish only to see my dear husband again, and I would have that young man send me to the place where he now is.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} How did it go, Aldred? Did you find some new information on the Syndicate?<br /> &lt;center&gt;''Former Prisoner of the Syndicate&lt;br&gt;Andromeda''&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} No. The trail went cold here. But I'm not giving up!<br /> &lt;center&gt;''Young Man Sworn to Vengeance&lt;br&gt;Aldred''&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} They took everything from me, and my journey won't be over until I've put every last one of 'em in the ground!<br /> {{ST|???}} ...Ah. There you are.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} You know me, lady?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I do indeed know you, Tf-997. My name is Grace, and I have come to you with a request.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} How do you know that name?! Are you with the Syndicate?!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} If I say yes, will you take my life?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} ...What?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I want my death to take place by your hands alone.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Um, are you all right there?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I am not &quot;all right.&quot; Nothing is &quot;all right.&quot; Ever since I lost him, I have been near to madness with grief and pain.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Please, Aldred. End my pain. Surely you are capable of such.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} What the hell are you talking about?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Do it. End me. I know you can.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} After all, you killed my only love.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Sorry, I did what?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} You don't even remember...? I see. To you, he was insignificant...<br /> {{ST|Grace}} But to me...<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I won't demand you bring him back. All I ask is that you send me to meet him.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Will you end me as you did him?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} ......<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Why will you not do this thing?! WHY?!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} DO IT! END MY WRETCHED LIFE!<br /> &lt;/div&gt;<br /> |episode2Title=Past Sins<br /> |episode2Content=&lt;div style=&quot;text-align:left&quot;&gt;<br /> &lt;center&gt;''An unknown woman in a mourning dress appeared&lt;br&gt;before Aldred and asked him to end her life.''&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> &lt;center&gt;''Her behavior bewildered Aldred and Andromeda,&lt;br&gt;who believed she must have gone mad.''&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Hey, so that's a mourning dress, right? Did someone close to you die?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} My husband. He and I worked together with the Syndicate.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} So you ARE with the Syndicate! No wonder you knew that damn name.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} My husband and I were involved in the Synthetic Shapeshifting Project.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} The project that gave me this body!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} The very same.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I can see the hate you hold for me. Unleash that fury now. End me.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} ......<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Finish me. Grant me salvation.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} You ask for salvation after what you did to me? Shameless. Pathetic!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} And yet, it is all I can do.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Fine. In that case, tell me about yourself. Every last detail. If I decide that you deserve salvation, I'll give it to you.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Very well.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} My husband and I were employed in research as to whether a certain kind of magic could be used for medicinal purposes.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} What magic is that?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Fusion magic—the combination of one living creature with another to bring about a wholly new organism.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} My husband thought this magic might make it possible to replace limbs lost due to war or disease.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} By which you mean you'd transfer limbs from beasts to people, right? That's a seriously sick idea.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Most believed as you do now, which is why his research was rejected.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} But the Doctor thought otherwise.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} The Doctor!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Yes. He invited us to join the Syndicate, with the promise we could continue our research uninterrupted.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} It was an offer we could not refuse.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} It did not take long for us to realize the Syndicate was engaging in practices most inhumane.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} But as we knew our research could benefit countless numbers of people, we did not stop.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} ...Until we saw the Tf-series.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} What difference did seeing us make?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} The Tf-series, created through the Synthetic Shapeshifting Project, was the fusion of human and dragon.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} The moment we saw you, we knew our research would be twisted for evil ends no matter how much positive potential it might hold.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} After that dark day, we changed the direction of our research.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} But soon thereafter, some of our experimental subjects escaped.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} My husband was killed in the chaos. Laid low by one of the escapees.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} And by &quot;one of the escapees,&quot; you mean me.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I do. Which is why I want you to finish your work. End me as you did him, that I might join him in a new life.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} ......<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Oh, this is all so sad.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} No. I won't kill you.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Why not? Do you not hate me? Do you not seek to end all who took the side of the Syndicate?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Oh, I hate you, all right. I hate you with absolutely everything that I am. So why would I give you salvation?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} You can suffer until you drop dead in a ditch, lady. I don't give a damn.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Wait! Look at this sword!<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Oh my gosh... It's practically bursting with mana!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} If you do not honor my request, I will cause the mana in this sword to run wild.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} It will easily destroy this entire town. Would you sacrifice so many simply to see me suffer a little longer?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Not gonna work, lady. What do I care if you decide to wipe out a few random townies?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Wipe out the town. Hell, wipe out two! I'm still not going to kill you.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} ......<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I have no other path to salvation.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} If you do not do this thing, I will know endless suffering.<br /> &lt;center&gt;''That night at the inn...''&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} What are you going to do, Aldred?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} About what?<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} That woman. She followed us here. What are you going to do about her?<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} She's locked herself in her room, but she clearly still wants you to... you know? Do that thing?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} If being alive means she suffers, I hope she lives a thousand years.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} She was with the Syndicate—I wouldn't give her a cup of water if she was on fire.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} What ought I to do?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} (He killed someone I love dearly.)<br /> {{ST|Grace}} (And yet, I was the one who wronged him first by taking his future and freedom.)<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I know I have no right to salvation.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} And yet, I wish it above all things.<br /> &lt;/div&gt;<br /> |episode3Title=Desperate for Salvation<br /> |episode3Content=&lt;div style=&quot;text-align:left&quot;&gt;<br /> &lt;center&gt;''Five days have passed since Aldred&lt;br&gt;and Andromeda encountered Grace.''&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} No info on the Syndicate today, either.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Why don't we ask Grace?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Hmm. I guess she might have something.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Then we should go see her! C'mon!<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Why do I get the feeling you're trying to hook the two of us up somehow?<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} She hasn't come out of her room since she arrived at the inn.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} She's not taking meals, and she won't answer if you try to talk through the door.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} I just... I don't know. I guess I feel bad for her.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Yeah, well, I ain't as nice as you. That lady's Syndicate—she can die and stink up that room for all I care.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} No, I get that—but I ALSO get that her life was upended by the Syndicate just like yours and mine were. ...Right?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Tch. This whole thing is a damn pain...<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Hey! Lady! You dead in there or what?<br /> {{ST|From Inside}} ......<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Right. I'm comin' in.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} ......<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} What's with the mime act, lady? Why ain't you talking?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Kill me.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Look, I'm gonna go grab dinner.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} What?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} I'm hungry. It's dinnertime. If you wanna talk or whatever, meet me downstairs. I'll hear you out there.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Liar.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} C'mon, Grace! Let's go eat!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} ......<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} You're one stubborn son of a fiend, ain't ya? Well, come down or don't. I'm gonna grab some chow.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Why am I...?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I want to die, and yet all I can think about is my empty stomach.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} My heart cries out for release, yet my body screams to continue.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Why is it so desperate to live?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} I don't really get your deal, lady—and I sure as hell don't care for your attitude. You're one of those people who tries to push all their problems on someone else.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Aldred! Don't talk to her like that! She's clearly troubled.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} If you really want to do this thing, you should eat up, regain your strength, then come at me with everything you got.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} In the physical and mental state you're in now, you wouldn't be enough of a threat for me to need lethal force.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Oh, Aldred...<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Listen, Grace. He may be rude, but he's also right: You should eat something and try to get your strength back.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} You're asking me to live in order to be killed at a later time?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} ...Very well.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} So how long are you gonna follow us?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Until you kill me.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} You don't know when to give up.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Hello, pot. This is kettle. Nice to meet you. ...Speaking of, where ARE we going next?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} I got some info that the Syndicate set up a research facility beyond the mountains.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} If you wanna follow us there, lady, I won't stop you. Just stay the hell outta my way if you do.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} ......<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Just a little more. Once we head down the mountain...<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Look! Syndicate goons!<br /> {{ST|Syndicate Soldier 1}} Didja really think we'd let ya run free forever, freak?<br /> {{ST|Syndicate Soldier 2}} This was all a trap to lure ya to this mountain!<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} So the information itself was fake?!<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} You think you guys caught me? Wrong! You just saved me the trouble of hunting you down!<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Behold the dragon that slumbers within. You will never forget this power!<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Don't matter how many of you useless flunkies come at me, I'm gonna... Hrrrgh! D-damn! M-my arm!<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} You're overusing the dragon's power, Aldred! You have to stop!<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Nnngh!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Don't try to suppress the dragon's power by force!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Feel the flow. Let it stream through you. That is the purpose of wyrmbinding!<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Grace?!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Aldred needs time. Let us stay here and protect him until he learns to control his ability.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} I'm good with that, but you—<br /> {{ST|Grace}} No time. They are coming!<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} How's it going, Aldred? You calm?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Yeah. When I try to use the power now, it actually feels sort of...good.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Yay! Also, it looks like the Syndicate has pulled back, so I think we can take a little break for the moment.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} So, uh, Grace...<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Yes?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Why did you help us?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} It would be a problem for me if you died.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} You cannot very well end my suffering if you are not alive to do so.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Are you STILL on about that?<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} You guys really are two peas in a pod.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} If you've got time to flap your gums, you've got time to walk. We need to get some miles in before we lose the sun.<br /> {{ST|Mysterious Man}} Ah, my dear Grace. I've found you at last.<br /> {{ST|Mysterious Man}} I WILL save you. I swear it.<br /> &lt;/div&gt;<br /> |episode4Title=A Dying Wish<br /> |episode4Content=&lt;div style=&quot;text-align:left&quot;&gt;<br /> {{ST|???}} I've found you at last, Grace!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Parker? Why are you here?<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Because we are old, dear friends! You must have known I would come looking for you when you vanished.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Come, Grace. Let us go back together.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} There is nothing for me in the Syndicate. Not without him. The only place I wish to go to is where he resides now.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Oh, my dear Grace...<br /> {{ST|Parker}} But very well! I accept your terms. I will abandon the Syndicate with you.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} What are you talking about, Parker? Surely you are aware of what happens to those who leave that organization.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} I am aware—and it's a risk I accept.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} ...H-huh?!<br /> {{ST|Parker}} I love you, Grace.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} !<br /> {{ST|Parker}} I have loved you from the moment I first set eyes on you.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Parker, I...<br /> {{ST|Parker}} I know you have lost someone you love and are trapped in the depths of grief.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} We bear a similar pain, you and I, for I grieve at the loss of a dear friend.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Should we not join our lives in that case? A pain shared is a pain halved, after all.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I am sorry, Parker, but I cannot. I am simply not strong enough to bear the enormity of his loss.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} You could if it was shared! With my help! Come with me, Grace, and I will show you how to leave that pain behind!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Ah, but I do not want to leave it behind. I wish to keep this pain inside me.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} When I remember him, my heart aches. And yet, the only way to free myself from this torment is for his memories to fade.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I do not wish that. Instead, I seek to go to him while his memories are yet fresh.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} What would he say on hearing such things? Do you think he wants this for you?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} !<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Do you think him the kind of man who hoped his love would blindly follow him off into oblivion?<br /> {{ST|Parker}} The kind of man who would reject happiness for his beloved if it came in a world he no longer inhabited?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} That's... I don't...<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Do this for him, Grace. Come with me for him!<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Graaaace! Where aaaare you?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Y-you must leave, Parker. Now!<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Hmm? Why are you so flustered?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} You are still with the Syndicate. If Aldred finds you, there will be great trouble.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Please, you must go.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Very well. But think about my proposal, won't you? I will come for an answer soon.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Who was that guy?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} A traveler asking directions. Nothing more.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} ......<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Where are you going, Grace?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I wish to be alone for a while. You two should get some rest.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Hey, you do you. But just so you know, we're crossing that mountain tomorrow. If you're worn out because you didn't sleep, I WILL leave you behind.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Be careful, okay? Who knows what kinds of things lurk around here at night.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I will. Thank you.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} (...What would you have me do, my love? As Parker says, you would never have desired my death to join with yours.)<br /> {{ST|Grace}} (And yet, I wonder if you know just how empty and shallow a world is once the person you love is no longer in it?)<br /> {{ST|Grace}} (I cannot go on in such a state. And yet...)<br /> {{ST|Parker}} ...Grace?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Parker. You followed me all the way here.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} I told you I would come for your answer.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} My answer, Parker, is no. I simply cannot do it.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Grace, I know what happened in his final moments.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} What?<br /> {{ST|Parker}} When Tf-997 and Tf-999 escaped, your husband was attacked by Tf-997.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} I knew as soon as I saw him that his wounds were beyond healing.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Even so, I tried. As I set in to heal him, he said four words: &quot;Take care of Grace.&quot;<br /> {{ST|Grace}} !<br /> {{ST|Parker}} While my love for you is true, I did not come here simply to sate my own desire.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} His last wish was for us to be together, and I seek only to honor it!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} He truly said that?<br /> {{ST|Parker}} He did. So please, Grace, come with me. I cannot live with myself if I let you get killed at the hands of that failure!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} By failure I take it you mean Aldred?! And Andromeda as well?!<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Why are you upset? They ARE failures— everyone at the lab called them such.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} ...You are a liar, Parker. And your claims of my love's last words are also a lie.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Grace, no! What are you saying?!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} My love never used the word &quot;failure.&quot; Not for them. Instead, he said that we were the failures.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} He said that if we researchers had been better at our jobs, the test subjects would not have had to suffer as they did...<br /> {{ST|Grace}} And I agree with him: We stole everything from them. Their bodies. Their souls. That is a sin WE must bear.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} How can you say this about mere test subjects?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} &quot;Mere test subjects&quot;? &quot;Failures&quot;? No. My husband would never have wanted me to be with a man who carried such thoughts as these.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} And I, too, cannot love one such as you. That is one thing I can say with certainty.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Oh, Grace. Oh, my dear. If you will not walk beside me...<br /> {{ST|Parker}} ...You will die by my hand.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Syndicate soldiers!<br /> {{ST|Parker}} If you will not obey me, then you are a traitor who must be disposed of.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Urrgh!<br /> {{ST|Parker}} You could have been with me, Grace, and instead you cast it all aside. You are a hopeless fool.<br /> {{ST|???}} And you're a selfish piece of crap.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Tf-997! Why are you helping her?!<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Oh, I'm not. But one look at those masks, and I couldn't hold my arm back.<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Are you okay, Grace?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} What are you two doing here?<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Perhaps this is a blessing in disguise. My standing with the Syndicate will only rise if I also deal with you, Tf-997!<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Careful. Your mouth is making promises you can't possibly keep.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Oh, but I can. For you see, your own strength is about to devour you.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} With the power of this crystal...<br /> {{ST|Grace}} No... Aldred, RUN!<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} The hell...?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Nnngh! M-my body is... GRAAAAGH!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Aldred!<br /> &lt;/div&gt;<br /> |episode5Title=Holding on to Hatred<br /> |episode5Content=&lt;div style=&quot;text-align:left&quot;&gt;<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Graaagh! I'm losing control of the dragon!<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} AAAAAAUGH!<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Aldred's going berserk! What are we gonna do?!<br /> {{ST|Parker}} This crystal was made to stimulate activity in a fused body, and I must say, I'm rather delighted with the results!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} How could you?<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Do not blame me, Grace—it is but another fruit of you and your husband's research.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Our design only stimulated activity in a fused subject in order to help those whose lives were in danger.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} It was NEVER meant to force a person into a rage like this!<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Ah, but every tool has its use. This crystal, the failed experiment...and your husband.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} What are you talking about?<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Would you like me to share your husband's TRUE last words with you, my dear?<br /> {{ST|Parker}} &quot;How could you?&quot;<br /> {{ST|Grace}} No. That cannot be. That means his killer...<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Was ME! Yes, exactly! I took advantage of the chaos wrought by the failure's escape and killed him with my own two hands!<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Oh, how I loathed that man. He took everything I wanted and lived his life in blissful happiness.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} But even once he was gone, you STILL rejected me!<br /> {{ST|Parker}} So if I cannot have you for my own, I will have the joy of ending you!<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Grace!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} ...No.<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Oh? What now? Have you not been praying for death this entire time?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Yes—but not at your hand.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} That's why I'm going to release the power stored in the memento he left me!<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} That's the sword with all the mana!<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Grace, no! If you release that mana, it will destroy everything for miles!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Worry not. I'm not planning to involve any innocents in my own end.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Now behold the true power of the sword!<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} It's...drawing the dragon's power...!<br /> {{ST|Andromeda}} Aldred's back? What is going ON?!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} This sword is a memento from my late husband—one which serves to control the magic of wyrmbinding.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Even as we worked for the Syndicate, my husband and I advanced our own independent research so that we might atone for our crimes!<br /> {{ST|Parker}} You think that makes you good people? Absurd! The crimes you have committed can NEVER be forgiven!<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Die, Grace! Die, die, DIE!<br /> {{ST|Parker}} Urgh...?!<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} You mind, Grace? I mean, seeing as how he's with the Syndicate and all.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I do not. It is time he atoned for his sins—with his very life.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} ......<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Here you are.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I have many things to repent for. My tally is so very long.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} And I am sorry to burden you with even more sin.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} If you're talking about that guy, it had nothing to do with you.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} The Syndicate is my enemy, so I killed him. That's it.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I disagree—it DOES have to do with me. Your hatred begins with me and my sins.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} There's plenty of sin to go around. Plus, sounds like you and your hubby actually tried to save us test subjects in your own way.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} That sword? Your research? I'd be dead without 'em.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} You're surprisingly cute when you smile.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Wh-what?!<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Now then, will you continue your journey of revenge knowing that your body can be rather...unreliable?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Revenge is all I have, and my fight won't end until I've ripped out the still-beating heart of the Syndicate.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Even though that revenge will not return your lost happiness? Even though you only stand to lose even more in the end?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} My past is all I have. I don't know another way.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} We are very much alike, you and I.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Yeah, maybe so.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I don't want to forget about him.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} But if I am to go on living, I want to do so hating everyone and everything that stole my husband from me. I want to hold onto that hate until the day that I die.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} So please let me continue to hate you.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Let me hate you so the pain in my heart will never be healed and my grief can continue unabated.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} You should hate me—if I didn't escape, your husband would still be alive.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} So I'll own that.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} And you may hate me, as well. However, I think I know a way to help atone for my sin.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} You're talking about the power in that sword, aren't you?<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Yes—and so I will continue my research into it. Even if there can be no salvation from grief, I will use my remaining life in an attempt to atone for my sins.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} Anyway, I think this is where we part. Thank you for everything.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} If you don't have a destination in mind, you should strike out for the Halidom.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} The Halidom?<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} Yeah, there's a real bleeding heart of a prince there. He'll help you.<br /> {{ST|Grace}} I see. Thank you, Aldred. Let us meet again someday.<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} (We are beyond redemption. Not even a god could save us.)<br /> {{ST|Aldred}} (But it is that fact—that hopelessness— that gives us the path on which we must continue our lives.)<br /> &lt;/div&gt;<br /> }}<br /> [[Category:To-Do Adventurer Voice Lines]]</div>

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