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Tender Is the Night

Tender Is the Night

Part 13: Documentary



Sonetto: Why ... why can't the fog be cleared? ... How can we get in?
Sonetto: I've already heard the Timekeeper's voice. She is close to us. She needs help!
APPLe: The arcane skill on the fog is far more powerful than ours. It's countering us.
Sonetto: I can't wait any longer. I don't want it to be ... like the last time ...
Sonetto: There must be a way to focus all of our arcanum simultaneously.
Sonetto: As long as we're more powerful, even just for a second! ... As long as there's a breach ...
???: Sometimes, things can be fixed without arcanum.
Sonetto: Huh ...!
X: It is also a good way ... to learn from human experience.
Sonetto: Mr. X, and ... Regulus!
Sonetto: So the reinforcements sent by the Foundation are you guys. Excellent!
Regulus: Phew! Finally we catch up. I'm cream crackered!
Regulus: No worries, Sonetto! We will rush in and meet Vertin!
Sonetto: What did you just say, Mr. X? Is there another way?
X: The essence of arcane power ... lies in the intuitive insight into everything.
X: And our human friends are good at logical deduction based on awareness, which is rejected by the arcanists.
X: Since we can't beat the Manus in terms of arcanum, then ...
X: He knocks at the weird-shaped pipe hiding under his coat.
X: Why not try to use a counter-intuitive logic experiment to open the door of this protective incantation?
X: Anyway, as long as the caster can be interrupted, anything is fine.
Sonetto: Hmm, are you going to avoid the surveillance of the fog, and go directly in to break the incantation?
Sonetto: What counter-intuitive experiment will you do?
X: Heh heh, check it out.
X: The next experiment is: within three minutes, use this copper pipe to boil a pot of water in the distance!
Sonetto: A Goldberg Machine! That explains it. Now I understand!
Regulus: How did you get it? Uhh, I think people at the Foundation are more or less freaks.
Regulus: But well, the kind of machine designed to be meaningless at every step is indeed counter-intuitive.
Regulus: Maybe it really will release us from the control of arcanum. Haha! It's a gas!
Sonetto: So, please start the experiment soon! We do not have much time.
Sonetto: Please hold on, Timekeeper. Reinforcements are coming right away.
Forget Me Not: There are so many of us. How many rounds can you make it through?
Vertin: Your good luck won't last long.
Vertin: Despite the coming "Storm," or the Foundation's reinforcements, there is only one ending to your story.
Forget Me Not: Ha ha! I don't care about the words of a dying man.
Forget Me Not: Miss Druvis, I've found the truth for you.
Forget Me Not: The culprit to blame, the arsonist, is right here in the shelter.
Forget Me Not: As long as you keep your promise to stay.
Druvis Ⅲ: No ... It's not important anymore ...
Forget Me Not: Not important?! He ruined everything with just 20 barrels of gasoline!
Forget Me Not: That's him. Do you know who he is?
Tramp: Arrgh ... Uggh ...
Forget Me Not: A firefighter who lost his job because of the depression! Thought that putting out a fire could win him his job back!
Forget Me Not: Look at those hands, they set the fire, burned your families alive, burned your woods into ashes!
Forget Me Not: How could you ... how could you even forget such pain like that? Druvis!
Druvis Ⅲ:
Druvis Ⅲ: Thank you, Mr. Forget Me Not.
Druvis Ⅲ: For your help in the flames in the past. For your compassion for someone you've never met.
Druvis Ⅲ: Today is just the same as before. In the past, I tried everything to protect something.
Druvis Ⅲ: But before I knew it, I already stood on the opposite side of myself in the past.
Druvis Ⅲ: My woods will not perish.
Druvis Ⅲ: They will live with scars, and new shoots in spring.
Druvis Ⅲ: They will look haggard, but at the same time they will stand upright.
Druvis Ⅲ: They will continue to grow, recording everything about their own history, territory, residents, and an anecdote of a reckless firefighter in the 1920s.
Druvis Ⅲ: They will keep growing upwards, until they cross the millennium.
Druvis Ⅲ: Huh ... please allow me to bid you farewell, Mr. Forget Me Not.
Forget Me Not: ...
Forget Me Not: I don't understand ... I can't understand ...
Vertin: We belong to the future, Forget Me Not.
Vertin: It's raining.
Vertin: What comes after the rain, is a bottle of boiled water pouring down on him.
Vertin: But he stands still.
Forget Me Not: ... It's still February. But for you, isn't the spring already here?
Druvis Ⅲ: I think I should go back to where I belong.
Forget Me Not: Flowers. More flowers. Without being noticed, they are sprouting on the scorched earth and become flower fields.
Journalist: The forget-me-not flower field?! I wrote about the place ... in Rainier ... Urrgh!!!
Forget Me Not: ——
Forget Me Not: That journalist falls down in a puddle of her own blood.
Forget Me Not: Footsteps are getting closer. The incantation has dispelled, and people who dispelled it are running towards here.
Forget Me Not: These seem nothing to Forget Me Not, as he just turns around and walks to the piano.
Forget Me Not: Next time you see a wounded snake, don't save it no more.
Forget Me Not: Crush it to pieces.
Forget Me Not: Smear its tongue with the ashes of despair.
Forget Me Not: People are coming here. This time, they are our companions.
X: Wow. What is that man going to do? What a terrible arcanum fluctuation ...! If I knew it I wouldn't have come in!
Regulus: Ahh hah? Are you having a quarrel? Looks like it poured at a bad time?
Sonetto: Timekeeper!
Vertin: Sonetto ... Regulus ...?
Sonetto: You're not hurt! That's great!
Sonetto: I am sorry. You protected me when the wall fell ...
Sonetto: But I could not save you ... and even let you confront the Manus alone. ... I am sorry ...
Vertin: Your hands are trembling, Sonetto ...
Vertin: Calm down. You did nothing wrong.
Vertin: We are together now, aren't we? There are more challenges for us to take.
Vertin: It's not the time to catch up.
Sonetto: ... You ... you are right.
Sonetto: We are late, but not too late ...
Sonetto: Timekeeper, I-I am so glad that you are safe and sound!
Sonetto: What comes next is the final battle!
Sonetto: This time, please let me protect you.


BOSS: Forget Me Not