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[Endgame: rise or DROWN]
[How long have you been exploring Nessa's palace now? You've met her family, viewed her memories, learned how to fight as a witch and tried to find the source of her power and the Treasure of her palace: the Voidheart. And along the way, you've tired your best, with mixed success, to avoid the incarnation of her eldest cousin and the representation of her trauma and fear, the Nightmare of Esmau.]
[Wherever you are in the Palace right now, you feel the ground briefly shake under your feet. Little shakes here and there haven't been out of the ordinary - Esmau is trying to blow the place down to the studs, after all. But that felt different. That felt....worse.]
[Your phone beeps as you receive a message.]
[Wherever you are in the Palace right now, you feel the ground briefly shake under your feet. Little shakes here and there haven't been out of the ordinary - Esmau is trying to blow the place down to the studs, after all. But that felt different. That felt....worse.]
[Your phone beeps as you receive a message.]
Re: THE TIDE RISES....
[Shadow Nessa walks down the stairs next. She's as sarcastic ever, but she looks....pretty devastated. She knows what just happened here.]
You're all going to want to get out of here. Now.
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Surrender is a responsibility taken by the leadership of the chain of command. Individual units decentralized from this hierarchy are free to pursue the mission, despite surrender.
This mission will not be failed.
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[she gives a wink]
Do you know how rare it is for me to be able to play Mukuro Ikusaba, especially because she's always paired with Junko?! I'm not letting you spoil my fun anymore!
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Leaders take responsibility. When the mission is a failure, it is your failure. When the mission is a success, it is the success of your soldiers.
Remember this.
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Now I wish you would leave for two reasons.
I'm taking responsibility for you by telling you to go. There's nothing else for you to do here. Don't go down with the ship just to try and prove a point or something.
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If you are convinced you are facing a suicidal operation, you have two options.
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Re: THE TIDE RISES....
No. Everyone else leave. I am seeing this through.
Re: THE TIDE RISES....
There's nothing else to see through. This place is about to fall apart completely. You won't survive.
Re: THE TIDE RISES....
Re: THE TIDE RISES....
Re: THE TIDE RISES....
Then let her try! I am not so easy to make disappear! Do you think I would sit by and allow her to unmake everything that I see here? Unmake you? So I may stand in wreckage of what comes after and know I did nothing to stop it? Don't be ridiculous. I am Sprezzatura fucking Vaux. I am through with losing.
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[. . . that's it. just a simple. . . no]
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[She looks like she wants to smile, but she can't manage it.]
I'm sorry. I know you tried your hardest. It's over. Nessa wouldn't want you to die for nothing.
["Nessa wouldn't." Not, "I don't".]
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[he seems firm on this point]
You can either help us, or step aside. But I'm not running away.
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[She sounds exhausted. Beaten. But also...scared?]
The last time she had it.
She killed her. She skilled Nessa.
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I saw the aftermath of that incident.
[said gently, with much empathy]
But that's all the more reason for us to fight. Or. . . to at least find a way to outsmart Lilith and steal back the Voidheart. So again-- either help, or step aside.
You won't stop me either way.
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Didn't you listen to what I said?!
[She reaches out and grabs Akira's collar. Her voice is cracking.]
She killed Nessa -- she'll kill you too! And nobody's around to bring you back!
There's nothing left to fight! It's over! Do you think Nessa wants you to throw your life away for her?! How many times do you think she's already had to watch someone she cares about die because of her?! Don't add yourself to the pile!
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... Sorry, Nessa-san. We've come this far. We're not going to leave you behind.
There's still hope.
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...
...
You don't know that.
[Her voice sounds....scared?]
You can't. You don't know what those two are like. What they can take from you.
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That's true. I don't know, not like you do.
But... it doesn't matter. Leaving you behind isn't something I can do, no matter how dangerous they are.
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[She reaches out and grabs his collar.]
You idiot...! Do you have any idea how many people she's had to watch die for her?! Because of nothing?! Because of those two?! Because of this STUPID Voidheart?!
Nessa doesn't want you to die for nothing with her!
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I won't.
No matter what... I won't die for nothing. No matter what... I won't leave Nessa-san behind--and not you, either.
... Believe in us, Nessa-san. Can you believe in your friends?
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I can't face them.
Nessa has never been able to face them, once, in her entire life.
She's not strong enough.
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