Cibella/Stories
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The Vengeful Lance
Cibella: now you shall pay for all you've taken!
Euden: Huh? I'm sorry, who-
Cibella: I've no name to waste on you, monster!
Cibella: Now shall you atone for the lives you've taken with an offering of your own!
Cleo: Euden, watch out!
Euden: Waugh?!
Euden: Wait, stop! Why are you doing this?!
Cibella: Do not play the fool with me!
Cibella: Just how many do you think perished at the claws of the fiends you loosed?!
Euden: What? I did no such thing!
Cibella: LIAR!
Euden: It's the truth! You have to believe me!
Cleo: He's right! Euden is fighting for the good of the people!
Cibella: Silence! Words are cheap and tawdry things, and yours will not save you!
Euden: Please-
Cibella: HAAAAH!
Cibella: What game is this? Draw your blade!
Euden: ...I share your anger at whoever loosed those fiends.
Euden: I have no cause to fight you.
Cibella: What?!
Cleo: You claim a righteous cause. How is it you can't see that the one who fed you these lies is the true villain?
Cleo: so long as you act in the service of that lie, you are complicit in their evil!
Cibella: No...Silence! what could you people know of righteousness? I swore revenge, and I will see it done!
Cleo: No!
Euden: CLEO!
Euden: Hngh!
Cleo: Euden?! What have you done?! You need healing immediately!
Euden: I kept my friend safe...as anyone would... Don't worry, it's...it's not deep.
Cibella: He shielded her with his own body? What is happening here?
Cibella: You ARE Euden, are you not?
Cibella: The sort of heartless villain who would loose a horde of fiends on the capital and revel in the slaughter they caused?
Euden: You REALLY have the wrong guy.
Cibella: ......
Cibella: At the very least, I cannot see the man before me doing such things.
Cibella: Tell me your version of events.
Cibella: ...I see. Then the true culprit is the Empire, and you are their victim as much as any.
Cibella: M fool credulity nearly led me to murder an innocent man. I haven't the words to even beg your forgiveness.
Euden: You thought your actions just--I'm just glad you were willing to listen.
Cleo: I'm not glad at all.
Cleo: Just how did you plan to stop Dyrenell from beyond the grave? Hmm? What was your plan?
Euden: My body sort of did what it wanted there. Plus...I think I knew she wouldn't kill me.
Euden: The intent just wasn't there.
Cibella: Were I not so completely in the wrong, I might feel insulted.
Cibella: I suppose that's proof I'm no warrior yet.
Cibella: Prince Euden...
Cibella: You strive to protect the people from the horrors of the Empire.
Cibella: Have you room for one more in that fight?
Euden: Will you continue to fight for revenge?
Cibella: Until my last breath.
The Saint's Hatred
Ranzal: Hoo-ee! Those were some fiends we fought today, yeah?
Ranzal: I'm dead on my feet here.
Euden: I think we all deserve a good night's rest.
Cibella: Prince Euden.
Cibella: May I ask why I was not allowed to join you in today's battle?
Euden: Evening, Cibella.
Euden: You've been fighting nearly every day.
Euden: I don't want you wearing yourself out. A body needs rest, after all.
Cibella: What happens to this body is of no concern to me if it means the chance to strike down one more fiend or imperial.
Euden: What is it that made you hate them so?
Cibella: That is...not a pleasant story.
Euden: But I would hear it just the same. I want to understand you, Cibella.
Cibella: ...Very well.
Cibella: I was once a priestess at a small church on the capital's outskirts.
Cibella: We took in children there who had nowhere else to go.
Cibella: It was far from an affluent life—for me or for the children—yet we were happy.
Cibella: But the day Alberia became Dyrenell, the church was attacked by fiends sent by the Empire.
Euden: Oh no...
Cibella: I see it in my dreams even now.
Cibella: By the time the fiends moved on, the church lay in ashes, and all were slaughtered save me.
Euden: ......
Cibella: I swore revenge.
Cibella: Swore those responsible would feel the pain and loss they inflicted on those innocent children.
Euden: That's quite a burden to bear.
Cibella: Then you see I've no time for rest.
Cibella: I'd sooner spend my days culling the Empire's forces to hasten Dyrenell's fall.
Cibella: Please, Prince Euden.
Cibella: Permit me to join you in the field for each and every battle.
Euden: I can't promise that. I'm sorry.
Euden: I can't sit by and watch you push yourself to the point of breaking.
Cibella: I will not break! That is another luxury I can no longer afford.
Euden: Then understand this, at least...
Euden: You are one of us now.
Euden: You may not care what happens to you, but WE do. If you die, it will be a loss no less than the one you felt.
Euden: You have to take care of yourself.
Cibella: Now we arrive at a promise that I cannot make.
Cibella: But I will remember your words.
Painful Memories
Cleo: Lunch is ready, Cibella.
Cibella: You're very kind, but there is no need.
Cleo: She's been here at the Halidom for some time, yet she still feels so distant.
Cleo: I wish she would at least eat properly.
Euden: I'll go look in on her.
Euden: Everything all right, Cibella?
Euden: Why don't you eat with the rest of us?
Cibella: I would rather spend the time training.
Cibella: I allowed two enemies within my reach to slip away today.
Cibella: That cannot happen again.
Euden: It looks to me as if you're intentionally keeping everyone at arm's length.
Cibella: ...That isn't so.
Euden: Then at least eat with us.
Euden: We're all worried about you.
Cibella: ...That is something I cannot do.
Euden: Why not?
Cibella: When I'm around all of you, it... I'm reminded of life with the children at the church. It is simply too painful.
Cibella: What's more, I'm afraid that if I allow myself to return to the sort of life I had before, I...
Cibella: I'll grow to hold you all dear.
Cibella: The same way I did them.
Euden: Surely that's not so bad?
Cibella: We are at war. Any of us could fall at any time.
Cibella: I'll not go through such pain anew.
Cibella: I could not bear it.
Cibella: Better never to have gotten close in the first place.
Euden: That's...awful.
Euden: Listen, the thought of losing an ally keeps me up at night as well.
Euden: But isn't that fear just another part of what drives us to fight our hardest and keep our friends safe?
Cibella: But...
Euden: I want to be your friend, Cibella. And I want you to be mine.
Euden: The closer we are, the harder we'll fight to defend each other.
Euden: That's how we work together to ensure we don't lose anyone in the Halidom.
Cibella: ......
Euden: Join me, Cibella. Join US.
Euden: Unless shared meals are still too frightening a prospect?
Cibella: ...Lunch sounds lovely. Lead the way.
Euden: Good. I'm sure they're all waiting for us.
The Power of Prayer
Cibella: HAAAH!
Euden: That looks like the last of the fiends that attacked the village.
Cibella: Yet we arrived too late to save everyone.
Cibella: Moments... If we'd been but a few moments earlier, they would still be alive!
Village Chief: But the village has survived. And for that, you have our thanks.
Village Chief: You've already done so much, but I have one humble request, if it please you.
Euden: What can we do?
Village Chief: Do you know of someone who might offer a proper prayer for the departed?
Village Chief: I'd like to send them on right, but we've no one of the cloth here.
Euden: You'll want to ask Cibella here. She used to be a priestess.
Cibella: What? B-but I...
Cibella: I cannot. That was a lifetime ago, and my hands are now stained with blood.
Cibella: I've no right to pray for the fallen.
Euden: Yes, you do.
Euden: I know your prayers will reach the goddess.
Cibella: ...I wish I shared your certainty.
Cibella: But if I can offer some comfort to those left behind, I shall do all I can.
Cibella: ...I've finished the service.
Cibella: That should offer some peace, at least.
Village Chief: You don't know what a comfort that is to the rest of us.
Village Chief: Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.
Cibella: ......
Euden: Prayer is a powerful thing.
Euden: They're all still weeping, but you can see how their grief has been lightened.
Euden: I'm almost jealous. A sword can save lives in its own way, but people's souls are far beyond my reach.
Cibella: I've not done much.
Cibella: Merely shown the way forward to souls of the departed and hearts of the living.
Cibella: But you're right... I had forgotten.
Cibella: I told myself that vengeance was the only thing that would grant peace to the children I lost.
Cibella: But that isn't who they were. They never would have wanted revenge.
Euden: They learned kindness from a good teacher.
Cibella: If anyone was saved by my prayers just now, it was surely me.
Cibella: Prince Euden? If I may, there's somewhere I would like to go.
Cibella: Might I ask you to accompany me? When you have the time, that is.
Euden: Of course. Where are we going?
Cibella: ...I shall tell you anon.
Vengeance
Euden: This is where you wanted to bring me?
Euden: There's nothing here.
Cibella: Not anymore, no. But my church once stood just here.
Euden: Oh... Wow.
Cibella: I've never once been back since I took weapon in hand and swore revenge.
Cibella: Not even to offer a prayer for the children.
Cibella: I believed revenge to be the only thing that could bring their souls peace.
Cibella: But living with you and the others, I've come to see I was mistaken.
Cibella: ...I'm sorry, my children. You must have been so very lonely.
Cibella: But I'm here with you now.
Cibella: So please, be at peace. Find rest.
Cibella: Thank you, Prince Euden.
Cibella: For coming with me, I mean.
Cibella: I was too afraid of the pain to come alone.
Euden: It was my honor.
Euden: So now that you've laid them to rest, what will you do?
Cibella: I shall keep fighting with you and the others at the Halidom.
Cibella: Not for revenge, but to restore peace to the world, that its people may live free again.
Euden: I'm glad to hear it. You'd have been sorely missed if you left.
Euden: Let's win this fight together.
Cibella: Indeed.
Cibella: And one day, when it's all over, I'd like to return here and rebuild the church.
Cibella: I shall make it a place where children can live and grow up happy again.
Cibella: Then will I lay down my weapon and return to the gentle priestess my children knew.
Euden: That day will come. I'll make sure of it.
Cibella: I'm certain you will. Thank you.
Cibella: All right, everyone. I have to go now.
Cibella: But I'll be back soon, I promise.
Cibella: Oh, but first, I have a favor to ask.
Euden: What's that?
Cibella: Would you mind if I made a portion of the Halidom into a chapel?
Euden: Of course not. Er, but why?
Cibella: I want to make a space where those the Empire has hurt can come and rest their minds and spirits.
Cibella: It will be a small first step in a lifelong journey of healing.
Cibella: Undoing the harm they've done will be my true revenge against Dyrenell. Not with a weapon, but a prayer.
Euden: That kindness is very you, Cibella.
Cibella: And that is kind of YOU to say.
Cibella: I couldn't ask for a better partner in this, Prince Euden. Now let's get to work.