Sinoa/Stories

General Stories Misc

Quotes

On Sortied

On Entering a Room

When Quest Begins

It's about time we departed.

Ready to depart?

Response to Beginning of a Quest

Right. Let's go!

Just say the word!

When Controlling Character in Quest

When Receiving a Heal

Thank you!

I owe you one!

When Entering a Boss' Room

This is the final push!

We won't back down!

Response to Entering a Boss' Room

Let's give it our all!

Victory will be ours!

Upon Getting to Low Health

It's not over... Not yet!

Regroup and recover!

Upon Opening a Chest

I have a theory as to what's inside...

I can hardly take the suspense!

Boss on Low Health

We're almost there!

Not far now! Push!

Boss Enters Break State

That's our window to strike!

Give it all you got!

Rare Enemy Spawns

I spy a rare foe over there!

Oh! Don't see those often!

Upon Death

Is this where it ends...?

My dream doesn't end here...

Player Uses Damaging Skill

Amazing!

That's quite the skill.

When Shape Shifting is Ready

Dragon, come to my aid!

The dragon beckons!

Shape Shifting into Dragon

Idle During Quest

Can we get going?

I suppose it's true one mustn't be hasty...

Quest Clear

Quest Failure

Home Screen Walking

Things are going to go well today!

This book is fascinating.

A fine night for research.

*sigh* Another failure...

Why do they always explode...?

Goodness! It's night already?

Home Screen Inside

The castle has such sturdy construction that none of my explosions even faze it!

Unscientific as it sounds, I believe it was fate that steered me toward the magical sciences.

I envy how in-shape you all are. After living in my lab so long, I can barely climb a set of stairs.

I love watching clocks. Something about how the hands inch ever- forward relaxes me.

I'm not TRYING to make things explode! It just...tends to happen! ...All of the time.

Magic research has no end. That boundless quality is part of what attracts me to it.

Home Screen Portrait

Collection Portrait

At The Halidom

Oh! Hey there.

Hmm? Did you need me?

Why does everything have to be so explosive?

On Promotion to 5

Magical studies are everything to me.

Adventurer Story Episodes

Episode 1

Another Failed Experiment

The hell was that?!

It sounded like an explosion!

Well, that's a piece'a bad news. I'm gonna go check it out.

Please stay back! If anything was damaged, I'm happy to pay for the repairs!

Uh...where did she come from?

I know my room is a little smoky—er, and filled with rubble and a couple of fires—but I have some VERY important equipment in there, so please stay out!

All right, all right. We'll stay back. Er, but what happened here, anyway?

Oh, just a little mishap with one of my current experiments. All I was doing was trying to distort time and space, and then...boom.

Sorry, did she say she was distorting time and space?

Don't ask me—that stuff's way too far from swingin' steel for my taste.

*sigh* I knew you wouldn't understand. No one ever does. Anyway, all it means is that the experiment failed this time, too. It's not a big deal.

A huge explosion like that seems like a pretty big deal to me. So this is somethin' you've been trying over and over?

This was only the sixth time, so I wouldn't quite say ＂over and over.＂

The sixth?! That's probably enough, don't you think?

No it is not! This explosion is proof of that.

I...don't really follow that at all. Still, I'm glad you weren't hurt.

*sigh* My body might not have been, but I can't say the same for my heart or wallet. I dread to think how much it's going to cost to repair this room. Or to replace all the damaged equipment...

Yeah, I imagine all them science-y gee-gaws cost a fair bit'a scratch.

They certainly do. I used to do my research as part of the Institute of Magic, but once they kicked me out, I was forced to buy all my own equipment.

Hey, if ya kept blowin' all my crap up, I'd wanna kick ya out, too.

Alas, you're probably right...although it still hurts to hear it said aloud. *sigh* I suppose I'll be kicked out of this room as well. Wherever am I supposed to go now?

Well, you COULD come to our castle. Er, provided you don't blow anything up. How does that sound?

You're incredibly kind to offer. But I must warn you, I'm a magical scholar first and foremost—and quite useless at nearly everything else. Honestly, I'm not even that good at research—but I'm still MUCH better at it than physical labor or...whatnot. Knowing all that, do you still want me to continue my research in your castle?

Actually, being able to create an explosion of that size IS a talent...of sorts. Regardless, welcome aboard. By the way, what's your name?

Oh, thank you so much! I'm Sinoa.

Ya sure this is a good idea, boss? That was one huge explosion earlier...

Episode 2

Ever Heard of a Wormhole?

Is everything all right in here? I heard a terrifically loud noise. Where did this mountain of books come from?

Urgh. I'm... I'm sorry.

Is that you, Sinoa? Are you underneath all of these?! Hold on! I will dig you out!

I'm so sorry... I was completely engrossed in reading, and before I knew it, all the books on the shelf were falling on top of me!

Hmm. You really do need to be more careful. Honestly, you seem to have your nose in a book every time I see you. What kinds of books are you reading?

Oh, I read all kinds—but the topic I have the most interest in is space-time physics magic. Those books are my greatest treasure.

Space-time physics magic sounds... complicated.

Have you ever heard of a wormhole, Cleo?

Not unless it's in an old apple.

Theoretically, it should be possible to create a kind of hole in space-time that connects the past, present, and future.

Really? So you could use this thing to travel backward or forward in time?

Yes! Exactly! The possibilities of such a thing nearly boggle the mind! Why, you could go back and watch key moments in history unfold—or maybe even try to change them!

That's a fascinating thought.

Isn't it just? But rather than just wait for someone else to discover one, I want to create a wormhole for myself.

Do you really think you can do that? You can't even say for sure that it exists.

Weeeell...

Yes?

I don't know if I can make it happen or not—but if I'm successful, there's something I want to do... I want to go back in time and tell my younger self how to make a wormhole!

So you'll teach yourself how to invent it... yourself? This is very confusing.

Exactly! Of course, I have no idea if the universe will permit such a thing or not. But one thing I can say for sure is that I've never met my future self. This makes me relatively certain that I'll never even travel through a wormhole, much less create one.

In other words, you already know that your research is going to be fruitless?

Yes. Oh, I'm a fool, aren't I? How can I possibly be so enraptured by an idea I know will never come to fruition? Ah, but that's just how life is for us magical scholars.

Episode 3

A Necessary Sacrifice

Gya! We're under attack! Wait, it's you AGAIN?!

I'm SO sorry! I was so certain I had finally built the perfect space-time distortion device, but it wasn't to be.

All this space-time stuff goes right over my head. Just stop blowin' stuff up in our storehouse, yeah? This castle's pretty sturdy, but everything has a limit—plus I'm tired of mistakin' yer screw-ups for some enemy attack!

Y-you're not going to kick me out, are you? Please! Anything but that!

Ain't up to me. Euden makes that call—and between you and me, he's a real soft touch like that.

Oh, thank goodness. Honestly, I'm really not sure where I would go.

Ya came from some institute, yeah? Don't ya ever wanna go back?

Oh, I think about it from time to time. But even before I was told to leave, there wasn't really a place for me there.

How's that?

Space-time physics magic is theoretically sound, but it's thought to not lead to any concrete results. So people who dedicate themselves to it as I do are regarded by their colleagues as... Well, fools.

So nobody took yer side?

There WAS one other student like me. She often helped with my experiments.

Did she get kicked out too?

No. As the experiments were all my idea, I took the blame. Doing so allowed her to remain, so I was okay with it in the end.

Feels like they made ya a scapegoat.

I try not to think of it that way, but I suppose you're right. I mean, all I did was burn three research buildings to the ground! Surely expulsion is something of an overreaction.

Wait, three BUILDINGS? Okay, I gotta reconsider my thoughts here.

Don't let that cloud your judgment! Sometimes sacrifices must be made in the pursuit of a dream.

Yeah, within REASON.

If you let little details like that hold you back, you'll never get anywhere in your research. It makes no sense to be at an institute like that and NOT be able to perform whatever experiments you like!

I think I'm startin' to side with the guys who kicked ya out...

Episode 4

My Everything

Did you read the letter that came for you, Sinoa?

I did. It sounds like a fellow student I knew at the Institute was made a senior adviser.

Is that an important job?

Oh, absolutely. Any self-respecting scholar of magic dreams of achieving that position. Needless to say, it's a very competitive selection process.

Well, that sounds amazing! Er, but why don't you look happy about it?

Oh, I am happy. Truly I am. It's just... Well, I guess I'm also a bit disappointed.

Because if you had still been there, you might have been offered it?

Yes. I'd always quietly hoped to achieve that position someday.

You still could, right? I mean, it's not like you've been expelled forever.

Technically, yes—but I'm not sure how I could possibly return after everything that has transpired. When I set all of those buildings on fire, I was trying to conduct an experiment to send my voice back in time. Then, when I was adjusting the equipment, I felt like I really DID hear a voice. It said, ＂Put the red pipe onto the blue outlet and everything will be fine.＂ Normally no sane person would ever do that, but I was so convinced the voice was from the future that I went for it.

So that was how you ended up getting expelled?

Exactly. But do you want to know what message I was trying to send back?

I imagine you tried to warn yourself about why your previous experiments ended in failure.

Oh no. It was much more basic. I told myself, ＂Stay away from magical science. It's not worth your time.＂

Well, that's depressing.

I was the only one in the Institute actually chasing my dreams. And all that happened as a result was me getting ostracized and made fun of.

So did you ever send that message back?

No. Everything exploded before I could. When I was expelled, I felt like I should have said it...but now I feel differently. Magical science is my everything, after all.

Episode 5

Breakthrough

Look at this! It's a research paper written by the scholar who used to work with me!

Let's see... ＂An Examination of the Transmission of Sound Via Advanced Space-Time Metrics as Exemplified by...＂ Well, my brain hurts.

I'll explain the actual content later. The important part is right here! Look in the special-thanks section! That's my name! Ordinarily it's taboo to put the name of someone who's been expelled in a research paper.

So how did you end up here?

She must have pulled in a whole lot of favors to make it happen. All this time, I thought she couldn't do anything without me... But the content is really quite excellent! Back at the Institute, I always had to rewrite her papers.

You look really happy about this.

To tell you the truth, when I first heard she had been made a senior adviser, I didn't understand it at all. And part of me still feels unhappy—and a little jealous—that she's moved so far, so fast. But when I read this paper and imagined her all grown up, I wanted to cry. It would be one thing to feel happy that I was growing up, but feeling this way about someone else is strange, right?

Not at all. If anything, I'd say that feeling is proof that you are growing up, too.

I am?

Sure! You're a lot stronger than when we first met—and more positive, to boot. Surely you've noticed this.

Now that you mention it, I suppose I have. And I owe it all to the voice that made me cause that explosion. AAAAAH!

Whoa! What's wrong?!

It all makes sense now! It really WAS my voice that I heard!

You really think so?!

My experiment was a complete success! Everything that's happened up until now has been for the better because it was MEANT to happen! Sinoa? Can you hear me? It's you from the future! Put the red pipe onto the blue outlet and everything will be just fine!