Horropedia: Honestly, can't we just show her our sincerity and care?
Horropedia: To share something from the bottom of our hearts, to cure her agony caused by the antagonist's lonely childhood.
Horropedia: Oh, there she is.
Jessica: Just like I expected, you made it!
Jessica: Did you enjoy the story?
Jessica: Oh. I didn't give you any background information in advance. But it's okay. You will see a familiar face or two. I believe you haven't forgotten them.
Jessica: Just like I can't forget you, Jennifer.
Jessica: Come with me. I've prepared you a new home, a home where you may sleep on beds made of soft moss and drink clear, cold spring water.
Jessica: I will get you toffees, coffee, and so many teeth in beautiful shapes. You can even have mine, if you like.
Jessica: You will stay here with me happily ever after, till ... till a time even I don't know of.
Blonney: Huh, Jessica, let us talk. You've been thinking of me, haven't you?
Jessica: Of course, I have!
Blonney: You are fond of me, as well as the stories I made, aren't you?
Jessica: Yes, I'm fond of you, Jennifer.
The young girl takes a deep breath and tries to show a smile.
Blonney: Do you wanna make me happy?
Jessica: I think so. I have made you happy once. Would you let me do it again? Do you like my story?
Blonney: Let us go, then, including Jason, Freddie, and Michael. Let all of us go.
Jessica: Why?
Blonney: You have made a mistake. You hurt people, and that is unacceptable. This is not funny.
Blonney: I was to blame for misleading you. I can't let you keep on doing this. I ...
Jessica: Don't you like my story?
Blonney: Yes, I like it very much.
Blonney: It resembles a lot of the stories I wrote when I was a kid. You must have really liked them so much that you would remember them, as well as me, for such a long time.
Blonney: I will not leave you alone again. I'll come back for you.
Blonney: Every year, no, every six months. I'll have more time after the graduation.
Blonney: If I make a new movie, you'll be my first audience, like what we used to do.
Jessica: But I hate living by myself. I don't wanna live like this anymore.
Jessica: I have no one to talk to. The friends I have here can do nothing but roar. I sing with them as the sun comes up and wake up among them as the moon rises.
Jessica: Jennifer, you know, I used to have the same dream over and over again.
Jessica: A forest and a grassland. Not in Green Lake, nor any places that I know of. I can hear music that I've never heard before.
Jessica: After we met, there is you in that dream.
Jessica: You'd wake up in that dream with me, giving me a wreath. In that dream, I can truly rest.
Jessica: But when I wake up, I found myself in Green Lake again.
Jessica: Do I belong here, in Green Lake Campsite? Or somewhere afar?
Jessica: In the days when no one is here, I always hum the melody in the dream, quietly waiting, until my figure almost blended into the mosses.
Jessica: But I've waited for too long—so long that you are no longer a girl but a woman now.
Jessica: I'm tired of waiting for you. I'm tired of living all by myself.
Jessica: I was hoping that you may like my story, that you are different from all those people who always try to run away.
The fog starts to surge, bringing a suffocating smell of grass.
In the middle of the fog vortex, the deer girl approaches her targets step by step, her eyes glowing green.
COMBAT
Tooth Fairy: The fog starts to gather around her. Step back!
Tooth Fairy: Cover your mouth and nose. Don't breathe the fog in.
Sonetto: Her wounds are healing, and I sense her arcanum is getting stronger. We need to leave now, Timekeeper!
Jessica: No, please don't go.
Jessica's voice comes out of the fog. She is like a little girl begging her mom for a puppy.
Jessica: Please stay here. I will get you the best beds, honey, and fruits. I will search for foods for you. I will take the responsibility to take care of you.
Blonney: Jessica, we will not stay. Now listen to me carefully!
Jessica: No, I hate living alone!
Blonney: Come with me!
Blonney: I will get you a beautiful house, much better than the one you have here!
Blonney: I will show you around, restaurants, shopping malls, and discos. We can have fun in so many places!
Blonney: I will also get you a room, right in our house. I don't care whether my parents allow this or not.
Jessica: Jennifer.
Jessica: I really want to be with you, but I don't want to leave here. I have no desire for the outside world.
Jessica: I will quickly reveal this true look of mine, and people will look at me as if I've done something wrong!
Jessica: I don't like that. I hate when my power gets weakened.
Jessica: I ... I want you to stay, here, with me!
Vertin: If I say I could stay?
Sonetto: Timekeeper?!
Vertin: Jessica, if I stay, what will you get me? Except for food and shelter, what else will you get me?
Jessica: Will you?
Jessica wipes the tears off her face and smiles.
Jessica: If you stay, I will share my critter friends with you.
Jessica: Along with my cave, my keys, my little buttons ... anything you want!
Vertin: Sounds great. We will definitely have great fun.
Vertin: But Jessica, where are the people who once chose to stay here?
Vertin: When they stayed for long enough, after you ran out of all available games, they were no longer attractive to you and no longer adored by you.
Vertin: I can stay longer than them, but with no exception, I will become boring one day.
Vertin: You will be alone again. Every day, waking up, falling asleep, roaming in the dream alone …
Jessica: No, I don't want that. I don't wanna live like that anymore!
Vertin: You can lead a different life. You can embrace a diversified and meaningful life.
Jessica: A diversified, meaningful life?
Vertin: When you were Anne, you asked what my wishes were.
Vertin: Now I know the answer. I know what I want.
Vertin: It's you.
Vertin: Do you want to come with me?
Vertin: I will find you a good place to stay, where nobody will consider you to be weird, nor will they keep staring at you.
Vertin: You will see the world with us—the amazing and unique outside world.
Jessica: This outside world ... what else will it have?
Vertin: There are a lot of people and fantastic things out there.
Vertin: There, some people eat gold bars; some others dance on the crocodile skin.
Vertin: Some people ride a rocket, dashing into the sky, and eventually fall into an unknown Zero-G.
Vertin: Even the grassland and the anonymous music in your dream, they truly exist ... in the outside world.
Vertin: If you are willing to come with me, you will have them all.
Jessica: Will you really take me to that place?
Vertin: Of course.
Jessica: Why would I trust you?
Vertin: I promise, with everything I can offer.
Jessica: Promise ... I know that word. It means words that cannot be broken.
Jessica sniffs at Vertin, from forehead to jaw, again and again, like a small animal sniffing at something carefully.
When she finally stops, she smiles like a happy child.
Jessica: I will make your wish come true.
Jessica: I like you. I hope you can be my friend.
Jessica: This is new. I haven't made a friend like you in a really long time.
The deer girl is holding a remote control. It's delicate but very old.
Vertin: What's this?
Jessica: This is a gift to you.
Jessica: Press it. You will find out.
Vertin: I see.
The gift, or the remote control, makes a beep sound.
Vertin: ...!
The sky brightens up. Zeno's members are coming this way.
The night is over, and the fog has lifted. The horror story has reached its final act.
Zeno Soldier: They are here! Hey, come here!
Female Foundation Investigator: The medics are ready. Please leave the injured to us.
Zeno Soldier: Captain, captain, we found the target and are now carrying out the rescue. Over.
Vertin: There are no enemies here. Everyone here is a member of our squad!
Vertin: Please don't attack. Repeat, please don't attack!
Horropedia: Oh, come on ... seriously?
Horropedia: First we persuaded her with love and care, then we presented the deus ex machina. Now we are doing this?
Horropedia: This is the worst antagonist ever! Everything is so screwed! Commentators won't write anything nice for us!
Horropedia: Well, if it were them to write the story, characters like me would always fail to live long enough to see the end. So I don't oppose to end this peacefully, but to end like this … errr …
Tooth Fairy: Aren't you happy? They did it, like what you said.
Tooth Fairy: Some emotional and comforting plots. Eventually, it shows us that love always wins.
Horropedia: Emm, Ms. Tooth Fairy, that was a joke, a joke to show you my sense of humor.
A familiar figure approaches them.
Male Foundation Investigator: Timekeeper, it's great to see that you are fine.
Male Foundation Investigator: And Mr. Horropedia, Madam Z is waiting for you in the car outside the woods. Please come with us.
Horropedia: What? Madam Z? She's here?
Horropedia: Oh, hiss, ah, my wounds ... Ah, how painful! Medics ... where are the medics?
Jessica: What are these?
Vertin: People from the "outside world." Don't worry. They won't hurt you.
Vertin: You might receive some training for a period. It might be a bit boring, but I promise it won't last too long.