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Enter the Karlsplosion
Elisanne: You've led us on quite the merry chase, but there's nowhere left to run.
Elisanne: We know you're the one who stole into our castle, thief.
Thief: Rgh... Like a pack of dogs, you are.
Euden: The authorities will give you ample time to reflect on your actions. Now, come—
???: Justiiice SCREAMING COMET SMAAASH!
Elisanne: Huh?! What is— *cough* *cough*
Elisanne: I can't see anything through this cloud of dust... Hey! You there! Wait!
Thief: I dunno who you are, pal, but thanks! So long, suckers!
Elisanne: Oh, blast it all! He's getting away! ...You! Explain yourself! Who are you, and what do you think you're doing?!
Karl: Heh. I'm glad you asked...
Karl: The name is Karl. The Karlsplosion! The Inkarldescent! And what I do...is JUSTICE!
Elisanne: ...I beg your pardon?
Karl: My name is synonymous with justice the continent over! ...Well, it will be soon.
Karl: You there, villain!
Euden: Er, you seem to be pointing at me, but—
Karl: Yes, you! I saw the whole thing from afar!
Karl: Ganging up on that poor defenseless man along with your henchman. For shame!
Karl: The world may turn a blind eye to your crimes, but my justice never blinks!
Karl: Prepare yourself! Justiiice SHATTER!
Euden: Okay, hang on just a second here!
Karl: He dodged?!
Karl: You fear the blade of justice?! The true mark of a villain is ever cowardice!
Euden: The man you saw just now is a thief. He broke into our castle and raided our stores, so we were trying to catch him.
Karl: HNWHAAAT?!
Elisanne: Had he merely been hungry and stealing food, we might have turned a blind eye, but next he ransacked our storehouse.
Elisanne: He's helped himself to valuables from the nearby townsfolk of late, too.
Karl: GRNK?!
Elisanne: And we finally had him pinned down. ...Until you arrived, that is.
Karl: ...One second.
Thief: LEMME GO!
Karl: Ha HA! THIS was the villain all along!
Karl: I brought him around the local villages to have him identified, and there can be no mistaking this. Justice...is served!
Elisanne: Justice is...very, very fast.
Euden: You just left. I mean, JUST now.
Karl: Justice rides upon a screaming fireball!
Karl: And today, so does epiphany... For I have seen it!
Karl: The flames of justice burn bright in you. I must join my flame to yours and stoke it into a raging JUSTICE INFERNO!
Elisanne: That sounds extremely dangerous. Are you proposing to join us, or to engage in arson?
Euden: If it's the former, I'm all for it. The more the merrier.
Euden: Arson, er...less so.
Karl: Haaah ha ha ha! Then let us join forces and set our sights...
Karl: ...on JUSTICE!!!
For JUSTICE!
Karl: Well met, dear grandmother type! That's quite the load you're carrying. Allow me to help you!
Old Lady: Oh, you needn't bother. I'm nearly home.
Karl: No, no. I insist...for JUSTICE!
Old Lady: Ahh! Get back here! Somebody help! Thief! THIEF!
Karl: Are you lost, miss? I shall deliver you safely home!
Waiting Woman: No, I'm meeting my sweetheart here.
Karl: Then I shall deliver you to him... with JUSTICE!
Waiting Woman: GAH!
Boyfriend: HEY! Let my girlfriend go, you monster! Somebody help! Kidnapper! KIDNAPPER!
Karl: Someone's dumped a mountain of garbage here!
Karl: I'll see it to the junkyard straightaway... because JUSTICE!
Cleaning Man: All my furniture! I just put it outside to dust it off as part of my annual cleaning! Somebody help! Idiot! IDIOT!
Cleo: ...We've received a stack of complaints from the nearby villages.
Cleo: ＂Kindly put a leash on the one going about screaming 'JUSTICE!'＂ ＂Stop the bad justice man.＂ They go on...
Karl: Incomprehensible. I've merely been carrying out justice!
Euden: Your intentions are admirable, but your methods are a bit...extreme.
Euden: Can't you tone it down just a bit?
Karl: Impossible!
Karl: Justice burns hotter than the sun! My passion cannot be bridled!
Cleo: Oh, I see. He's one of those types who's so full of himself he's unwilling to listen.
Euden: Hmm. Let's try a different approach. Karl, what was it that first sparked this flame inside you?
Karl: I grew up in a terribly poor village. Nearly a ghost town, really.
Karl: What little we had was stripped from us by outlaws.
Karl: ...Until the day HE showed up.
Karl: He defeated the band of rogues who tormented us in the blink of an eye. He saved our village!
Karl: When I looked at him, I saw justice!
Karl: And I knew that was what I had to become.
Karl: So I put my back to home and set off on a journey to go justice all the justice I could justice!
Euden: That DOES sound quite justice!
Euden: But why did that man fight the outlaws plaguing your village, do you think?
Karl: Isn't it obvious?! For JUSTICE!
Karl: Taking down villains needs no reason!
Euden: Are you sure?
Euden: I wonder if his aim wasn't to bring a bit of happiness to a suffering village. To put the smiles back on your faces.
Karl: Smiles, you say?
Euden: I wonder if that isn't what you really saw in him. What you wanted to emulate.
Karl: I see... Yes, I see!
Karl: True justice would be putting a smile on YOUR face, Eduen!
Euden: Come again?
Karl: Prepare yourself! Justiiice...TICKLE!
Euden: GAH! S-stop that! This is— HA HA HA! This is undignified! HA HA HA HA HA!
Cleo: *sigh* This is hopeless.
What Is Justice?
Euden: Something's wrong. These fiends' numbers aren't normal!
Euden: And those thieves with them—
Ranzal: Ya noticed too? The urn they're carryin' is controllin' the fiends.
Karl: SMAAAAAASH!
Karl: I heard a distant cry...for JUSTICE! Make way for the Karlsplosion, people!
Karl: Looks like you're outnumbered, my friends.
Karl: Which means it's time I joined the fray! Prepare yourselves, fiends!
Euden: Your timing's impeccable, Karl!
Euden: Everyone, fall in behind him! We'll clear the fiends out first!
Euden: Excellent work! That's the last of those!
Euden: Next, we strip that urn from the thieves and round them up!
Karl: Right. Any villains who'd draft an army of fiends to do their nefarious bidding deserve a double helping of JUSTICE!
Karl: PREPARE YOUR— Wait a second.
Euden: Now's really not the time for introspective pauses, Karl!
Karl: I helped these guys the other day!
Karl: They were being attacked by fiends, so I made with the justice.
Thief: Oh hey! It's you, buddy!
Thief: Didn't think the guy who helped us steal this urn would turn around and try to take it from us.
Karl: I did WHAT?!
Thief: Yeah. We tried to buy it off a black market fence, but he decided we looked like easy marks and made to gouge us.
Thief: Soon as we called the guy out on it, he used the damn thing to sic his pack of guard fiends on us.
Thief: Except that's when—
Ranzal: Karl showed up and took out the fiends.
Ranzal: Which let these jokers steal the urn.
Thief: We're proper thankful. This little gem's made all our jobs since go smooth as silk! Keh heh ha ha ha!
Karl: What have I done...?
Thief: You're basically an accomplice in all this, friend. Why not just let us go?
Karl: I'm not the hero... I'm one of the outlaws?
Ranzal: Ugh. I ain't got time for this!
Ranzal: Eduen! Back me up! With the fiends gone, the two of us can finish this!
Euden: Er, right! I'm with you!
Ranzal: ...Whew. One urn confiscated, and one pack'a thieves trussed up real tight. That's everything sorted.
Ranzal: Well, almost everything. Karl, how ya holding up there?
Karl: Everything I stood for was a lie... My life is a hollow mockery of justice...
Ranzal: Yikes.
Euden: Come now, Karl. We all make mistakes.
Euden: It's what we do after that matters.
Karl: What we do after... *inhale*
Karl: JUSTIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICE!
Euden: Waugh?! That was a little sudden! And exceptionally loud...
Karl: You're right. I'll take some time to ponder what justice truly means to me! Ha HAA ha ha ha!
Euden: Well, at least he's back in high spirits.
Ranzal: I think I liked him better depressed.
True Justice
Euden: Karl is moving slow? ...THAT Karl?
Elisanne: Yes, and he's off lost in his head in the middle of combat.
Elisanne: If this keeps up, it's only a matter of time before he ends up in some fiend's belly.
Ranzal: Think he's still mullin' things over after his little mistake earlier?
Ranzal: He did say somethin' about ponderin' the true meaning of justice.
Euden: Hmm, but how can we help him find his answer?
Notte: Bad, bad, very bad! You've gotta come to the village! HURRY!
Karl: Easy, now. Put down the weapon and let the woman go.
Woman: Heeelp! Let me go, you brute! I shall swoon!
Man: You squeezed every last coin out of me, drove me into debt, raided my parents' estate, and gave it all to another man!
Woman: Yeah, and whose fault is it for being too stupid to see that?!
Woman: You're an empty bucket, loser! Now hurry up and kick it!
Karl: Rgh, clearly the man holding the woman at knifepoint is bad, yet her duplicity is the root cause!
Karl: So...which one do I smash? How is justice done?!
Man: Enough... I'm through talking to you! This is farewell forever! HrrRAAAH!
Karl: No!
Woman: Aaah!
Euden: HRAH! ...Your blade lies broken, sir. Get ahold of your emotions.
Karl: Eduen!
Man: Aah... Curse you, woman. *sob* Curse you!
Euden: ......
Woman: Ahh ha ha ha! A fine sight you are! You're pathetic!
Woman: Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got a date with my new lover.
Euden: You have a date with the authorities, madam.
Euden: They'll see you atone for the fraud you perpetrated against this man.
Woman: What?! No!
Karl: ...You didn't hesitate at all. You stepped in and meted out perfectly balanced justice.
Karl: Me, I was paralyzed. Lost in worrying who was right or wrong.
Karl: I feel ashamed. Angry at myself!
Karl: Please, Eduen! Teach me!
Karl: What do I need to do to be able to serve justice as you do?!
Euden: Believe me, I'm no avatar of justice.
Euden: Her life was in danger, so I acted.
Euden: But his grievances were also valid, so I held her accountable.
Euden: Nothing more.
Karl: I see... It isn't about what you do, but the cause that guides your actions.
Karl: I... I think I see it now!
Karl: I know what I want to do! What I must!
Euden: I'm glad to hear it!
Karl: Justice isn't some distant ideal to be chased!
Karl: It's in every act of consideration, every bit of concern, every chastisement! My true journey of justice begins here!
Karl: I am Karl! Man...
Karl: ...of JUSTIIIIIIIIIIIIIICE!
The Real Deal
Euden: Hellooo? Come on out, kids!
Euden: Your mothers are worried! They sent us to find you!
Notte: Yeesh, which one of the little geniuses thought it'd be a good idea to wander into the Banewood alone?
Notte: I sure hope they live long enough to learn better!
Euden: You shouldn't even joke about that. This place is home to dangerous fiends.
Euden: And the nasty weather limits visibility.
???: WaaAAAaAAAaaUGH!
Notte: The children!
Euden: Where are they?!
Girl: *sob* H-heeelp!
Boy: Anyone, please! HELP!
Fiend: SKREEEEE!
???: Justiiice SCREAMING COMET SMAAASH!
Boy: Wh-who are you, mister?!
Karl: The name's Karl. The Karlsplosion! The Inkarldescent! Man...of JUSTICE!
Fiend: Grrrrrr!
Karl: I bear you no grudge, fiends. Let these children be, and we'll leave your territory!
Fiend: GrrrROAAAWR!
Karl: Not in the mood for diplomacy, eh? Justiiice SUPERNOVA EXPLOSION!
Boy: H-he cleared 'em all out in one hit!
Euden: The voices were coming from this direc— Karl?! What are you doing here?
Karl: I heard a pair of village children had gone missing, so I came running!
Karl: Both of them are safe and sound!
Euden: Oh, whew!
Girl: You were amazing, mister!
Karl: Thank you, little lady!
Karl: But I'm also very cross with you both. Do you know why?
Girl: Be...cause we went into the Banewood even though we weren't s'posed to?
Karl: Because you made your mother worry.
Karl: The other villagers told you it wasn't safe here, didn't they?
Boy: B-but we wanted a secret base someplace everybody else was too scared to go! It was gonna be awesome...
Karl: Being awesome is definitely important.
Karl: But being considerate of others' feelings is even more important. It doesn't get any awesomer than that.
Karl: Once you've got that down, you'll be able to bring a smile to people's faces. And that's what I call justice!
Boy: ...Justice!
Notte: Heh. Karl sounds like a hero over there.
Euden: Yep. That's the real deal right there.
Karl: Now, shout it to the heavens! All together now...
Karl: JUSTIIIICE!!!