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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<data>
<story>
<scene id="0" background="bg.jpg">
<bgm src="mid-lude.mp3" status="start"></bgm>
<cg src="lastChapter.png" bg="bg.jpg"></cg>
<goto goto="10" change="#000000"/>
</scene>
<scene id="10" background="blackHole.jpg">
<bgm src="03_15_ruinBerlin.mp3" status="start"></bgm>
<text>The world reflecting in Otto Apocalypse's eyes was bending.</text>
<text>He felt as if all of creation was being unraveled in front of him.</text>
<text>He felt as if time itself was thrown into a giant agitator.</text>
<text>Past, present and future. Everything was blending together, coming to a halt.</text>
<text article="1">
<p class="article-text">Black hole.</p>
<p class="article-text">He had read about this in one of Einstein's physics papers.</p>
<p class="article-text">Generally, they are the result when a massive star, at least 3 times more than the Sun, collapses at the end of their life cycle.</p>
</text>
<text article="1">
<p class="article-text">Their force of gravity is so great that nothing can stop it.</p>
<br />
<p class="article-text">...And eventually all is reduced to 3 parameters: mass, angular momentum, and electric charge.</p>
</text>
<text article="1">
<p class="article-text">By that point the gravitational field is so strong nothing can escape from it, not even light.</p>
<br />
<p class="article-text">From the point of view of a far away observer, the process of being sucked in will be a slow one due to time dilation.</p>
</text>
<text article="1">
<p class="article-text">In the area known as "event horizon" all finite processes are infinite.</p>
</text>
<text article="1">
<p class="article-text">He received a signal from the outside——</p>
<br />
<p class="article-text">As his consciousness is gradually breaking apart.</p>
</text>
<goto goto="20" change="#000000"/>
</scene>
<scene id="20" background="dreamSky.jpg">
<bgm src="11_17_memory.mp3" status="start"></bgm>
<show chara="kallenChristMemoryFar" position="center"/>
<speak chara="kallenNoNameNoFace">「Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player」</speak>
<speak chara="kallenNoNameNoFace">「That struts and frets his hour upon the stage」</speak>
<show chara="kallenChristMercyFar" position="center"/>
<speak chara="kallenNoNameNoFace">「And then is heard no more: it is a tale」</speak>
<show chara="kallenChristDeterminedFar" position="center"/>
<speak chara="kallenNoNameNoFace">「Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,」</speak>
<speak chara="kallenNoNameNoFace">「Signifying nothing.」</speak>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">.....</speak>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">Y-You are...</speak>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">M-My...</speak>
<bgm src="horror.mp3" status="start"></bgm>
<show chara="kallenChristMercyFar" position="center"/>
<speak chara="kallenNoNameNoFace">Otto Apocalypse.</speak>
<show chara="kallenChristDeterminedFar" position="center"/>
<speak chara="kallenNoNameNoFace">「He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear.」</speak>
<speak chara="kallenNoNameNoFace">「He hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear:」</speak>
<show chara="kallenChristMercyFar" position="center"/>
<speak chara="kallenNoNameNoFace">「And you all know, security is mortals' chiefest enemy.」</speak>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">N-No...</speak>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">You...</speak>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">You are...</speak>
<show chara="kallenChristMemoryFar" position="center"/>
<speak chara="kallenNoNameNoFace">「Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.」</speak>
<show chara="kallenChristDeterminedFar" position="center"/>
<speak chara="kallenNoNameNoFace">From the very beginning this was a futile road.</speak>
<show chara="kallenChristMercyFar" position="center"/>
<speak chara="kallenNoNameNoFace">——My Otto Apocalypse.</speak>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">...Who are you!?</speak>
<show chara="kallenChristDeterminedFar" position="center"/>
<speak chara="kallenNoNameNoFace">You are scared of this discussion, Otto Apocalypse.</speak>
<show chara="kallenChristMemoryFar" position="center"/>
<speak chara="kallenNoNameNoFace">「I am in blood. Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o'er.」</speak>
<show chara="kallenChristMercyFar" position="center"/>
<speak chara="kallenNoNameNoFace">After all this time you haven't changed in the slightest.</speak>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">No! You're wrong!</speak>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">Everything is going according to my plans!</speak>
<show chara="kallenChristDeterminedFar" position="center"/>
<speak chara="kallenNoNameNoFace">...Your plans?</speak>
<show chara="kallenChristMercyFar" position="center"/>
<speak chara="kallenNoNameNoFace">There is no plan.</speak>
<speak chara="kallenNoNameNoFace">You are trapped in the past, brooding over fate.</speak>
<show chara="kallenChristMemoryFar" position="center"/>
<speak chara="kallenNoNameNoFace">「And fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling, show'd like a rebel's whore: but all's too weak.」</speak>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">My——</speak>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">My Kallen would never say that!</speak>
<show chara="kallenChristDeterminedFar" position="center"/>
<speak chara="kallenNoNameNoFace">But it's something that you would say yourself, Otto Apocalypse.</speak>
<show chara="kallenChristMercyFar" position="center"/>
<speak chara="kallenNoNameNoFace" remark="next">Your life is "Macbeth" without its supporting cast.</speak>
<remark post="U2FsdGVkX18BqSCxNHLELV1rn82a">
<p class="article-text-h">Note</p>
<p class="article-text">The quoted lines spoken by Kallen is from Shakespeare's masterpiece "Macbeth".</p>
</remark>
<show chara="kallenChristSilentFar" position="center"/>
<speak chara="kallenNoNameNoFace">「Thy soul's flight, if it find heaven, must find it out to-night.」</speak>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">...</speak>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">.....</speak>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">I see now.</speak>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">You don't know anything——</speak>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">——Because you are Otto Apocalypse and nothing else.</speak>
<show chara="kallenChristDeterminedFar" position="center"/>
<speak chara="kallenNoNameNoFace">...But of course I don't know you.</speak>
<show chara="kallenChristMemoryFar" position="center"/>
<speak chara="kallenNoNameNoFace">「Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell; though all things foul would wear the brows of grace, yet grace must still look so.」</speak>
<show chara="kallenChristMercyFar" position="center"/>
<speak chara="kallenNoNameNoFace">From the beginning, you and I were different.</speak>
<show chara="kallenChristDeterminedFar" position="center"/>
<speak chara="kallenNoNameNoFace">It's been so long and yet you... Only you aren't able to accept my death.</speak>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">Yes.</speak>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">That's right. I can't accept it.</speak>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">I was like a kid waiting for Christmas to come.</speak>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">Craving for the present known as Kallen Kaslana...</speak>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">...Or rather, the Santa Claus called Kallen Kaslana.</speak>
<show chara="kallenChristMercyFar" position="center"/>
<speak chara="kallenNoNameNoFace">...What a silly child.</speak>
<show chara="kallenChristDeterminedFar" position="center"/>
<speak chara="kallenNoNameNoFace">How many more people are you planning to get involved in your crusade until you're satisfied?</speak>
<bgm src="8_24_war.mp3" status="start"></bgm>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">...</speak>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">That's not it.</speak>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">The amount of people is irrelevant.</speak>
<!-- TYPO: Like how in an universe without observers a song praising it will never be born, -->
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">Like how in a universe without observers a song praising it will never be born,</speak>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">There is no point to a world without Kallen!</speak>
<show chara="kallenChristMercyFar" position="center"/>
<speak chara="kallenNoNameNoFace">...What a pitiful child.</speak>
<show chara="kallenChristDeterminedFar" position="center"/>
<speak chara="kallenNoNameNoFace">As you are right now, you're nothing more than a madman full of unrequited feelings.</speak>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">So what if I am!</speak>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">It's because the world has left me no other choice that I have to eliminate everything that gets in my way!</speak>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">Even if it is myself...</speak>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">...Yes, not even I can't stop myself anymore!</speak>
<goto goto="30" change="#ffffff"/>
</scene>
<scene id="30" background="blackHole.jpg">
<bgm src="8_24_war.mp3" status="continue"></bgm>
<text>「Otto」's body was no longer able to keep its human shape.</text>
<text>The skin made out of liquid metal had peeled off, and the machine underneath can be seen.</text>
<text>Welt clenched his teeth, as if the power of his entire body was being poured into the 「Star of Eden」.</text>
<text>I have to do my very best.</text>
<text>If I do my best, I can put an end to this chaotic day.</text>
<text>If I do my best, Reanna-san may be able to regain control from him.</text>
<text>If I do my best——</text>
<goto goto="40" change="0"/>
</scene>
<scene id="40" background="black">
<bgm src="8_24_war.mp3" status="stop"></bgm>
<speak chara="ritaFullNameNoFace">Welt-sama, watch out!</speak>
<goto goto="50" change="0"/>
</scene>
<scene id="50" background="CG26-2.jpg">
<bgm src="8_24_war.mp3" status="stop"></bgm>
<sound src="05_18_smash.mp3"/>
<cg src="CG26-2.jpg" bg="CG26-2.jpg" fadeIn="0" fadeOut="1"></cg>
<goto goto="60" change="0"/>
</scene>
<scene id="60" background="blackCloud.jpg">
<bgm src="11_17_tatakau.mp3" status="start"></bgm>
<show chara="ottoLaughChainFar" position="center"/>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">Creating a black hole... What a barbaric ability.</speak>
<show chara="ottoHaughtyChainFar" position="center"/>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">Once something falls into it it's over, not even light can't escape from it.</speak>
<show chara="ottoConfidentChainFar" position="center"/>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">But that also means that as long as you don't cross the point of no return, you can escape even without going at the speed of the light.</speak>
<goto goto="70" change="0"/>
</scene>
<scene id="70" background="CG26-3-1.jpg">
<bgm src="11_17_tatakau.mp3" status="continue"></bgm>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">...You were careless, Herrscher.</speak>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">Since when were you under the impression that 「Divine Keys」 are unbreakable?</speak>
<!-- RENAME: This is a copy of the 「Key of Promise」 fine-tuned to my liking. By using it, I can completely seal the Houkai energy of my target. -->
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">This is a copy of the 「Key of Binding」 fine-tuned to my liking. By using it, I can completely seal the Houkai energy of my target.</speak>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">Now you're no different than a powerless insect.</speak>
<speak chara="weltNoFace">...</speak>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">It's no use thinking, my hopeless friend.</speak>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">Your chance to pass judgement on me slipped away.</speak>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">You thought you had won so you lowered your guard, and as a result your 「Divine Key」 was defenseless.</speak>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">This is our difference in battle experience——</speak>
<goto goto="80" change="0"/>
</scene>
<scene id="80" background="CG26-3-2.jpg">
<bgm src="11_17_tatakau.mp3" status="continue"></bgm>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">——Regret coming at me unprepared!</speak>
<goto goto="90" change="#ffffff"/>
</scene>
<scene id="90" background="blackCloud.jpg">
<bgm src="horror.mp3" status="start"></bgm>
<text article="1">
<p class="article-text">In just a moment,</p>
<br />
<!-- RENAME: Destiny's Bishop turned the tide on what seemed to be a clear victory. -->
<p class="article-text">Schicksal's Overseer turned the tide on what seemed to be a clear victory.</p>
</text>
<text article="1">
<p class="article-text">My hand.</p>
<p class="article-text">Margaret's legs.</p>
<p class="article-text">Einstein and Tesla, who have been hurt and lost consciousness, are tied.</p>
</text>
<text article="1">
<p class="article-text">Everyone is trapped by these chains of hatred.</p>
<br />
<p class="article-text">Unable to escape, unable to resist.</p>
</text>
<text article="1">
<p class="article-text">Eh? Wait... What's that?</p>
<br />
<p class="article-text">...A helicopter? Did it crash?</p>
</text>
<text article="1">
<p class="article-text">Have you been captured too——</p>
</text>
<text article="1">
<p class="article-text">Professor Planck?</p>
<br />
<p class="article-text">Joachim?</p>
</text>
<text article="1">
<p class="article-text">What is the meaning of this?</p>
<br />
<p class="article-text">Why are they here!?</p>
</text>
<goto goto="100" change="#ffffff"/>
</scene>
<scene id="100" background="blackCloud.jpg">
<bgm src="horror.mp3" status="continue"></bgm>
<show chara="ottoLaughChainFar" position="center"/>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">There is a saying that goes 「You can wear out iron shoes in fruitless searching, and yet by chance you may find the lost thing without even looking for it」.</speak>
<show chara="ottoScornfulChainFar" position="center"/>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">Are you that eager to die? In that case executing everyone at the same time is no good.</speak>
<show chara="ottoConfidentChainFar" position="center"/>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">I have an idea. How about I take care of each one of them in front of you?</speak>
<show chara="ottoHaughtyChainFar" position="center"/>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">Of course... you will be last, Welt.</speak>
<show chara="ottoConfidentChainFar" position="center"/>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">6 people, 6 chains, 6 deaths...</speak>
<show chara="ottoLaughChainFar" position="center"/>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">...Shall I start with the little kid?</speak>
<goto goto="110" change="0"/>
</scene>
<scene id="110" background="bloodWhite.jpg">
<bgm src="horror.mp3" status="stop"></bgm>
<sound src="05_18_claw.mp3"/>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">...Hm?</speak>
<goto goto="120" change="0"/>
</scene>
<scene id="120" background="blackCloud.jpg">
<bgm src="horror.mp3" status="start"></bgm>
<show chara="ottoHaughtyChainFar" position="center"/>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">Oh, so you plan to sacrifice yourself in his place?</speak>
<show chara="ottoScornfulChainFar" position="center"/>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">How boring.</speak>
<show chara="ottoHaughtyChainFar" position="center"/>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">But, in honor of your spirit of self-sacrifice, I'll start with someone else.</speak>
<show chara="ottoScornfulChainFar" position="center"/>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">...</speak>
<show chara="ottoHaughtyChainFar" position="center"/>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">Do you have any brave words this time, Owner?</speak>
<speak chara="ritaFullNameNoFace">...</speak>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">...I can't hear you, your voice is too low.</speak>
<show chara="ottoScornfulChainFar" position="center"/>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">——Step forward and talk!</speak>
<goto goto="125" change="0"/>
</scene>
<scene id="125" background="black">
<bgm src="horror.mp3" status="stop"></bgm>
<speak chara="ritaFullNameNoFace">(Heh.)</speak>
<goto goto="130" change="0"/>
</scene>
<scene id="130" background="CG26-4-2.jpg">
<bgm src="11_17_tatakau.mp3" status="start"></bgm>
<cg src="CG26-4-1.jpg" bg="CG26-4-2.jpg" fadeIn="0" fadeOut="1"></cg>
<speak chara="ritaFullNameNoFace">You are the one who lowered his guard, Otto!</speak>
<goto goto="140" change="0"/>
</scene>
<scene id="140" background="errorBlack.jpg">
<bgm src="11_17_tatakau.mp3" status="continue"></bgm>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">(W-What is this!)</speak>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">(What happened? Was the signal cut?)</speak>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">(No... It's something else...)</speak>
<speak chara="ottoNoFace">(There is a disturbance in the Soulium...?)</speak>
<bgm src="04_20_Brigantia.mp3" status="start"></bgm>
<speak chara="ritaFullNameNoFace">Welt-sama! Quickly!</speak>
<speak chara="ritaFullNameNoFace">Do you remember the pepper spray that is always in your coat's pocket?</speak>
<speak chara="ritaFullNameNoFace">It's a drug made to suppress Soulium! It'll harden his liquid skin temporarily!</speak>
<speak chara="ritaFullNameNoFace">Get rid of this piece of garbage right now!</speak>
<goto goto="150" change="#ffffff"/>
</scene>
<scene id="150" background="nebula.jpg">
<bgm src="04_20_Brigantia.mp3" status="continue"></bgm>
<show chara="weltNakedNormalFar" position="center"/>
<speak chara="weltNoFace">...Emergency hemostasis of my wounds—— Complete.</speak>
<show chara="weltNakedCoatNormalFar" position="center"/>
<speak chara="weltNoFace">...Entering mimicry mode.</speak>
<show chara="weltNakedCoatShoutFar" position="center"/>
<speak chara="weltNoFace">My fist, become an 「Oath of Judah」 that's not inferior to the real thing!</speak>
<goto goto="160" change="0"/>
</scene>
<scene id="160" background="CG26-5.jpg">
<bgm src="04_20_Brigantia.mp3" status="continue"></bgm>
<sound src="05_18_smash.mp3"/>
<speak chara="weltNoFace">Get out of Reanna-san's body, you damn smug clown!</speak>
<goto goto="170" change="#ffffff"/>
</scene>
<scene id="170" background="CG26-6-1.jpg">
<bgm src="04_20_Brigantia.mp3" status="continue"></bgm>
<speak chara="ottoNoFaceRed">(...Hmph. Idiot.)</speak>
<speak chara="ottoNoFaceRed">(This is just a borrowed body——)</speak>
<speak chara="ottoNoFaceRed">(——destroying it to take you all out won't hurt me at all.)</speak>
<goto goto="180" change="0"/>
</scene>
<scene id="180" background="errorWhite.jpg">
<bgm src="04_20_Brigantia.mp3" status="continue"></bgm>
<speak chara="ottoNoFaceGreen">...?</speak>
<speak chara="ottoNoFaceGreen">(What is the meaning of this?)</speak>
<speak chara="ottoNoFaceGreen">(Was the self-destruction program disabled?)</speak>
<speak chara="reannaNoNameNoFace">...You did something really awesome there, my dear Otto-sama.</speak>
<speak chara="ottoNoFaceGreen">I-It can't be...</speak>
<speak chara="ottoNoFaceGreen">Y-You are....</speak>
<goto goto="190" change="0"/>
</scene>
<scene id="190" background="CG26-6-2.jpg">
<bgm src="04_20_Brigantia.mp3" status="continue"></bgm>
<speak chara="reannaNoNameNoFace">What's wrong? Have you forgotten already the voice of the body you stole control from?</speak>
<speak chara="reannaNoNameNoFace">...By the way, did you ever imagine things would end up like this the first time you remodeled my body using the 「Void Archive」? </speak>
<speak chara="reannaNoNameNoFace">...The end of this 100 years old 「Theseus' Ship」.</speak>
<speak chara="reannaNoNameNoFace">Otto-sama sure is a perserverant person.</speak>
<speak chara="reannaNoNameNoFace">But... did you know?</speak>
<goto goto="200" change="0"/>
</scene>
<scene id="200" background="CG26-7.jpg">
<bgm src="04_20_Brigantia.mp3" status="continue"></bgm>
<sound src="05_18_claw.mp3"/>
<cg src="CG26-7.jpg" bg="CG26-7.jpg" fadeIn="0" fadeOut="1"></cg>
<speak chara="reannaNoNameNoFace" remark="next">「Theseus' Ship」 was called that because of Theseus himself!</speak>
<remark post="U2FsdGVkX19qTSI4PtT67p6CeBN5">
<p class="article-text-h">Note</p>
<p class="article-text">There was a hero of the Athenians named Theseus. He was so great that the locals consecrated the ship he sailed as a monument.</p>
<p class="article-text">But time is merciless, and the wood from which the ship was made gradually decayed. So that the great ship would not end up being burned as a sacrifice, they came up with a good idea: every few years, all the parts of the ship should be inspected, and if any were rotten, they would be replaced with new ones.</p>
<p class="article-text">So, many years later, when a philosopher came to visit, all the parts on the ship had been replaced at least twice.</p>
<p class="article-text">When the philosopher heard of this, he was very upset. He asked the local people, "Is this still the same ship?”</p>
<p class="article-text">The locals replied nonchalantly: "If you say no, Mr. Philosopher, when do you think it started not to be? You have to know that even when going out to sea, ships need to replace parts from time to time.”</p>
</remark>
<goto goto="210" change="0"/>
</scene>
<scene id="210" background="blackCloud.jpg">
<bgm src="04_20_tank.mp3" status="start"></bgm>
<show chara="weltNakedCoatSurpriseClose" position="center"/>
<speak chara="weltNoFace">R-Reanna-san!?</speak>
<show chara="reaChangeNormalClose" position="center"/>
<speak chara="reannaNoFace">Don't worry...</speak>
<show chara="reaChangeConfidentClose" position="center"/>
<speak chara="reannaNoFace">For a robot, losing one or two parts means nothing.</speak>
<show chara="reaChangeSeriousClose" position="center"/>
<speak chara="reannaNoFace">The ones I'm worried about are...</speak>
<show chara="ritaSadHeadphoneGunClose" position="center"/>
<speak chara="ritaFullNameNoFace">(In a call) ...Yes, the Professor and the child are okay.</speak>
<show chara="ritaNervousHeadphoneGunClose" position="center"/>
<speak chara="ritaFullNameNoFace">...What was that?</speak>
<speak chara="ritaFullNameNoFace">...Say it again!</speak>
<show chara="weltNakedCoatNervousClose" position="center"/>
<speak chara="weltNoFace">What happened?</speak>
<show chara="ritaNervousHeadphoneGunClose" position="center"/>
<!-- RENAME: I received a message from Cuba. It seems Destiny Organization has raised its alert level to 「Zero」. -->
<speak chara="ritaFullNameNoFace">I received a message from Cuba. It seems Schicksal has raised its alert level to 「Zero」.</speak>
<show chara="reaChangeSeriousClose" position="center"/>
<speak chara="reannaNoFace">...!</speak>
<show chara="reaChangeShoutClose" position="center"/>
<speak chara="reannaNoFace">Welt! Can you make a radar!?</speak>
<show chara="weltNakedCoatSurpriseClose" position="center"/>
<speak chara="weltNoFace">Radar? Make one??</speak>
<show chara="reaChangeShoutClose" position="center"/>
<speak chara="reannaNoFace">Don't play dumb! If the 「Void Archive」 is the 「1st Key」, then you as the 「1st Herrscher」 should be able to do the same!</speak>
<goto goto="215" change="0"/>
</scene>
<scene id="215" background="CG26-8.jpg">
<bgm src="04_20_tank.mp3" status="continue"></bgm>
<cg src="CG26-8.jpg" bg="CG26-8.jpg" fadeIn="0" fadeOut="1"></cg>
<speak chara="reannaNoFace">If you don't understand what I'm saying take a look at my data!</speak>
<goto goto="220" change="0"/>
</scene>
<scene id="220" background="dreamSky.jpg">
<bgm src="04_20_tank.mp3" status="continue"></bgm>
<text>.....</text>
<text>The Earth's atmosphere is like a Mille-feuille.</text>
<text article="1">
<p class="article-text">Troposphere. The most dense layer. This is where clouds can be found.</p>
<p class="article-text">Stratosphere. Due to the rise of temperature there is almost no vertical mixing in this layer.</p>
<p class="article-text">Mesosphere. Being past the Ozone Layer makes this the most diluted layer.</p>
</text>
<text article="1">
<p class="article-text">And above them the thermosphere can be found.</p>
<p class="article-text">At this altitude, solar rays ionize molecules——</p>
<p class="article-text">——to create ionized plasma.</p>
</text>
<text article="1">
<p class="article-text">This layer is called Ionosphere——</p>
<br />
<p class="article-text">——It acts as a capable reflector of radio waves, allowing them to travel from one side of the Earth to the other one.</p>
</text>
<text article="1">
<p class="article-text">Due to this it's possible to locate objects that emit electromagnetic waves even if they can't be seen with the naked eye.</p>
</text>
<text>The principle behind a radar is not complicated.</text>
<text>The amount of energy required is not a lot.</text>
<text>If Welt is the 「1st Herrscher」 then——</text>
<text>——Such a machine can be made even with one hand.</text>
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<speak chara="ritaFullNameNoFace">.....</speak>
<speak chara="reannaNoFace">.....</speak>
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<show chara="ritaNervousHeadphoneGunClose" position="left"/>
<speak chara="ritaFullNameNoFace">Is this... an intercontinental ballistic missile?</speak>
<speak chara="ritaFullNameNoFace">Is the estimated kinetic blast too big?</speak>
<show chara="ritaNervousHeadphoneGunClose" position="left" opacity="0.7"/>
<show chara="reaChangeSeriousClose" position="right"/>
<speak chara="reannaNoFace">No... this one is more dangerous than that.</speak>
<speak chara="reannaNoFace">...After the Houkai incident in Berlin, HQ has been working on something——</speak>
<speak chara="reannaNoFace">——An Anti-Honkai missile.</speak>
<show chara="reaChangeSeriousClose" position="right" opacity="0.7"/>
<show chara="weltNakedCoatSurpriseClose" position="left"/>
<speak chara="weltNoFace">What is that?</speak>
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<show chara="reaChangeSeriousClose" position="right"/>
<speak chara="reannaNoFace">Anti-Honkai missiles artificially condense and release vast amount of Honkai energy by producing a physical chain reaction. As a result, everything around it is exterminated.</speak>
<speak chara="reannaNoFace">In short, this weapon is the latest triumph card developed against Honkai beasts and Herrscher.</speak>
<show chara="reaChangeSeriousClose" position="right" opacity="0.7"/>
<show chara="weltNakedCoatSurpriseClose" position="left"/>
<speak chara="weltNoFace">If it explodes in a place like this——</speak>
<show chara="weltNakedCoatSurpriseClose" position="left" opacity="0.7"/>
<show chara="reaChangeSeriousClose" position="right"/>
<speak chara="reannaNoFace">...Not only us are in danger, but everything that Edison-san did to protect the city would had been for nothing.</speak>
<show chara="reaChangeSeriousClose" position="right" opacity="0.7"/>
<show chara="weltNakedCoatSurpriseClose" position="left"/>
<speak chara="weltNoFace">.....</speak>
<show chara="weltNakedCoatShoutClose" position="left"/>
<speak chara="weltNoFace">Damn it, that's crazy!</speak>
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<show chara="reaChangeSeriousClose" position="right"/>
<speak chara="reannaNoFace">.....</speak>
<show chara="reaChangeConfidentClose" position="right"/>
<speak chara="reannaNoFace">Calm down.</speak>
<speak chara="reannaNoFace">We still have a way to save everyone.</speak>
<show chara="reaChangeNormalClose" position="right"/>
<speak chara="reannaNoFace">To protect everyone... I'll need your help, Welt.</speak>
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<text article="1">
<p class="article-text">Reanna explained the plan in a calm manner.</p>
</text>
<text article="1">
<p class="article-text">The logic was very easy to follow——</p>
<br />
<p class="article-text">Before the Anti-Honkai missile hits the ground, Abyss Flower will destroy the missile's detonator.</p>
</text>
<text article="1">
<p class="article-text">Her machine body has a small rocket propeller. Once she knows the location of the missile she can approach it while it's still in the air.</p>
<br />
<p class="article-text">「This is where things get complicated.」 she said.</p>
</text>
<text article="1">
<p class="article-text">「Destroying the detonator will deplete Abyss Flower and my own combat capabilities.」</p>
<p class="article-text">「——To be specific, if we're lucky Abyss Flower will survive due to being made from special materials. As for myself, the Soulium that my body is made of will evaporate immediately after being exposed to extremely high temperatures.」</p>
<p class="article-text">「This is the price one has to pay to use power that exceeds the standard output... Just like what Schrodinger did in another way.」</p>
</text>
<text article="1">
<p class="article-text">「...But this alone won't stop the missile's kinetic energy. It will continue to fall while carrying a lot of Houkai energy.」</p>
<p class="article-text">「While a chain reaction won't occur, it will still cause devastating damage to regular people and buildings.」</p>
</text>
<text article="1">
<p class="article-text">「So, Welt, your job is...」</p>
<br />
<p class="article-text">「...To not hesitate and avoid the destruction caused by the missile no matter what.」</p>
</text>
<text article="1">
<p class="article-text">「By using the same principle the 『Star of Eden』 operates on, you should be able to make a shield to protect the entire city.」</p>
<p class="article-text">「...A range of 20 kilometers. By waking up all the Herrscher Core within your body that make up your DNA you should be able to withstand it—— Assuming Professor Schrodinger wasn't mistaken.」</p>
<p class="article-text">「Needless to say, this will put a tremendous strain on your already injured body.」</p>
</text>
<text article="1">
<p class="article-text">「However the cost of making one of these Anti-Honkai missiles is too high. Otto's intentions aside, he shouldn't be able to make another one for at least 10 years.」</p>
<br />
<p class="article-text">「In short—— This is the last card he has to play—— And all we have to do to win is to destroy it.」</p>
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<show chara="weltNakedCoatSurpriseClose" position="left"/>
<speak chara="weltNoFace">But then... you will...</speak>
<show chara="weltNakedCoatSurpriseClose" position="left" opacity="0.7"/>
<show chara="reaChangeConfidentClose" position="right"/>
<speak chara="reannaNoFace">I am of no importance, you don't have to worry about me.</speak>
<show chara="reaChangeSeriousClose" position="right"/>
<speak chara="reannaNoFace">...Maybe there could be a better solution.</speak>
<speak chara="reannaNoFace">But the missile is already in the air and will be here in 10 minutes.</speak>
<speak chara="reannaNoFace">We don't have the luxury to take our time.</speak>
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<show chara="ritaNervousHeadphoneGunClose" position="left"/>
<speak chara="ritaFullNameNoFace">...</speak>
<show chara="ritaNervousHeadphoneGunClose" position="left" opacity="0.7"/>
<show chara="reaChangeConfidentClose" position="right"/>
<speak chara="reannaNoFace">...No need to feel bad about this.</speak>
<show chara="reaChangeSeriousClose" position="right"/>
<speak chara="reannaNoFace">Also...</speak>
<speak chara="reannaNoFace">Welt, I'll say it again——</speak>
<speak chara="reannaNoFace">When we are carrying out this plan, if your energy output exceeds the limit of what you can handle...</speak>
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<speak chara="reannaNoFace">The wounds caused by the 「Key of Binding」 could reopen and get worse...</speak>
<speak chara="reannaNoFace">...To the point they may claim your life.</speak>
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<show chara="weltNakedCoatShoutClose" position="left"/>
<speak chara="weltNoFace">Still... T-This is something only I can do——</speak>
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<show chara="reaChangeConfidentClose" position="right"/>
<speak chara="reannaNoFace">It's the same for me.</speak>
<show chara="reaChangeNormalClose" position="right"/>
<speak chara="reannaNoFace">Destroying the detonator before the missile hits the ground. That's a job only I can do——</speak>
<show chara="reaChangeConfidentClose" position="right"/>
<speak chara="reannaNoFace">That's all there is to it.</speak>
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<text article="1">
<p class="article-text">Reanna inserted her fingers in the liquefied Soulium in her waist.</p>
<br />
<p class="article-text">As she moves her arms slowly, you can tell her power is going up. Two small propellers, about the size of tea cups, came out of her body.</p>
</text>
<text article="1">
<p class="article-text">「I leave the rest to you.」</p>
</text>
<speak chara="weltNoFace">Yeah, leave it to me.</speak>
<speak chara="weltNoFace">This is something only I can do.</speak>
<speak chara="weltNoFace">I'll make sure to do it properly.</speak>
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<speak chara="adaNoFace">That day, we tried to stop a frightening Anti-Honkai missile.</speak>
<speak chara="adaNoFace">Me and Margaret-sama——</speak>
<speak chara="adaNoFace">No, even if the Professors had been awake——</speak>
<speak chara="adaNoFace">Nobody would had opposed to this crazy plan.</speak>
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<speak chara="adaNoFace">I say crazy plan because in the previous civilization——</speak>
<speak chara="adaNoFace">Even they who had used the core of the 「1st Herrscher」 to make the 「Void Archive」, had seemingly never once created anything of this scale out of nothing.</speak>
<speak chara="adaNoFace">The reason is very simple. The 「Void Archive」 can't withstand the ridiculous energy output needed in the first place.</speak>
<speak chara="adaNoFace">Welt-sama—— The Herrscher who tried to do this didn't come out unscathed.</speak>
<speak chara="adaNoFace">As for the ignorant citizens of New York, it was as if a sudden 「Meteorite Rain」 fell on the city.</speak>
<speak chara="adaNoFace">The Empire State Building collapsed and the 5th Avenue became a sea of fire.</speak>
<speak chara="adaNoFace">But the citizens lived.</speak>
<speak chara="adaNoFace">Aside from certain people who weren't from this city, we managed to achieve 「zero casualties」.</speak>
<speak chara="adaNoFace">Yes... Truly amazing, but it wasn't a miracle.</speak>
<speak chara="adaNoFace">Because he knew it would be possible if he did his best.</speak>
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<speak chara="adaNoFace">Winter has passed and Spring has come. Professor Einstein and Tesla woke up one after the other from their hospital beds.</speak>
<speak chara="adaNoFace">It was a bit surprising...</speak>
<speak chara="adaNoFace">...How calmly they accepted everything that happened over this Winter.</speak>
<speak chara="adaNoFace">Thanks to Professor Planck's 「Empty City Stratagem」 —— presenting a bold front to conceal a weak defense, Otto took no further hostile actions.</speak>
<speak chara="adaNoFace">Using the power of the Herrscher of Reason, Joachim changed his appearance to that of Welt's, and, together with the Professors, accepted numerous interviews by the media.</speak>
<speak chara="adaNoFace">We kept our heads down—— But our enemy knew we were still alive, and seemingly as strong as ever.</speak>
<speak chara="adaNoFace">...That was enough for us.</speak>
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<speak chara="adaNoFace">And the price we had to pay for that was... the boy who was once known as Joachim...</speak>
<speak chara="adaNoFace">...Rather than healing, the wounds in his heart only grew bigger.</speak>
<speak chara="adaNoFace">In a single day he not only lost his father, the hero he admired, and even his previous life——</speak>
<speak chara="adaNoFace">——but also, the innocence of his childhood.</speak>
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<speak chara="newsNoFace">Today is a very special day.</speak>
<speak chara="newsNoFace">For the 53-year-old Architect, John Smith, today is the first Thanksgiving Day he has celebrated in 22 years.</speak>
<speak chara="johnSmithNoFace">As someone from Brooklyn... I am proud of what we've accomplished. We managed to rebuild that building.</speak>
<speak chara="johnSmithNoFace">The former Empire State Building—— Now known as Welt Obelisk.</speak>
<speak chara="johnSmithNoFace">Now I truly feel like Manhattan is back.</speak>
<speak chara="newsNoFace">Welt Obelisk is the result of the skyscraper restoration project by ME Company. The design follows the 1930 version of the Empire State Building to the letter.</speak>
<speak chara="newsNoFace">General Mechatronics went through rough times after the 「Thanksgiving Disaster」, but now reborn as ME Company they've become one of the Fortune 500 companies in the world.</speak>
<speak chara="newsNoFace">As both a New York citizen and a ME Company employee, this must not have been easy for him. What he is feeling surely cannot be encapsulated by a slogan like "build back better".</speak>
<speak chara="johnSmithNoFace">At the time I was just an electrician in charge of the building's security.</speak>
<speak chara="johnSmithNoFace">When at around 3-4 o'clock, the security guard on duty suddenly started banging on my door.</speak>
<speak chara="johnSmithNoFace">I was sleeping and he dragged me out to the street in my pajamas.</speak>
<speak chara="johnSmithNoFace">That's when I realized the city's electric network wasn't working.</speak>
<speak chara="newsNoFace">In those chaotic and perilous twilit hours, people like John Smith inspected every corner of the building to eliminate any potential hazards.</speak>
<speak chara="johnSmithNoFace">We just followed procedures, really. In situations like that, it's impossible for your brain to figure out what to do, so the only thing we could do was to follow existing disaster management procedures.</speak>
<speak chara="johnSmithNoFace">But I gotta give thanks to everyone who was in the building, they respected our instructions and evacuated the building without panicking.</speak>
<speak chara="johnSmithNoFace">Otherwise it would had been impossible for the building to collapse and still have 「zero casualties」.</speak>
<speak chara="newsNoFace">As everyone knows, the Empire State Building was hit by a sudden meteorite at exactly 12:55pm and collapsed one hour later.</speak>
<speak chara="newsNoFace">According to the expert calculations, most of the meteorites from the 「Thanksgiving Disaster」 burnt up at altitudes of more than 300 metres——</speak>
<speak chara="newsNoFace">So besides the meteorite that fell into Raritan Bay, this is the only building in New York that was directly damaged.</speak>
<speak chara="newsNoFace">However, the panic brought by this disaster still affected the economy, causing the Dow Jones Index to drop below——</speak>
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<speak chara="yangNoFace">...Let's go back.</speak>
<speak chara="adaNoFace">...We are going back?</speak>
<speak chara="yangNoFace">Yeah.</speak>
<speak chara="yangNoFace">Let's go back. To the home where everyone is.</speak>
<speak chara="adaNoFace">...You mean 「Anti-Entropy」?</speak>
<speak chara="yangNoFace">...Yeah.</speak>
<speak chara="yangNoFace">Seriously. What am I doing, running away from home. I'm so dumb....</speak>
<speak chara="adaNoFace">But when it is time for 「Sovereign of Anti Entropy」 to appear, you have to change your appearance... I don't think they are doing the right thing in the long run.</speak>
<speak chara="yangNoFace">Yeah. I don't like that either.</speak>
<speak chara="yangNoFace">But try to see it this way. Just like the Empire State Building was rebuilt as it were before——</speak>
<speak chara="yangNoFace">An organization born from a person's sacrifice has no choice but to follow that person's image.</speak>
<speak chara="yangNoFace">...History will inevitably turn a new page.</speak>
<speak chara="yangNoFace">But before that we have to admit our mistakes.</speak>
<speak chara="adaNoFace">...Do you feel bad for running away from home?</speak>
<speak chara="yangNoFace">Yeah... but not only that.</speak>
<speak chara="yangNoFace">That battle changed a lot of people.</speak>
<speak chara="yangNoFace">Welt sacrificed himself to protect everyone.</speak>
<speak chara="yangNoFace">Professor Schrodinger's whereabouts have been unknown ever since undergoing Quantization; and the Abyss Flower could not be located after it fell to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.</speak>
<speak chara="yangNoFace">As for Einstein and Tesla... they had their bodies permanently changed.</speak>
<speak chara="yangNoFace">And I, as the only person there fit for it, inherited the core of the 1st Herrscher.</speak>
<speak chara="yangNoFace">Having said that, I am, after all, not the original 1st Herrscher.</speak>
<speak chara="yangNoFace">The Herrscher core, these decentralized nanobot-like creatures changed my cells into zombie-like machines.</speak>
<speak chara="yangNoFace">So that I can be prepared against future threats as much as possible.</speak>
<speak chara="yangNoFace">And when necessary, to change my body into the one of that hero.</speak>
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<speak chara="yangNoFace">Like I told Professor Planck the day I left home——</speak>
<speak chara="yangNoFace">This shouldn't have been my burden to carry. Not at all.</speak>
<speak chara="yangNoFace">But...</speak>
<speak chara="yangNoFace">Look at that. That architect that was on TV a moment ago...</speak>
<speak chara="yangNoFace">I noticed, walking around for the last 2 years. The scars that were made on that day are still there 20 years later.</speak>
<speak chara="yangNoFace">Though blood no longer flows from the wound, the scar still remains.</speak>
<speak chara="yangNoFace">Only...there are all these countless people who are braver than I am.</speak>
<speak chara="yangNoFace">.....</speak>
<speak chara="yangNoFace">The name of 「Welt」 is not a burden to be cast aside.</speak>
<speak chara="yangNoFace">Never.</speak>
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<speak chara="yangNoFace">Staten Island.</speak>
<speak chara="yangNoFace">Queens.</speak>
<speak chara="yangNoFace">Brooklyn.</speak>
<speak chara="yangNoFace">Bronx.</speak>
<speak chara="yangNoFace">Manhattan.</speak>
<speak chara="yangNoFace">.....</speak>
<speak chara="yangNoFace">Can you see it, Ada?</speak>
<speak chara="yangNoFace">All of this is—— Welt!</speak>
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