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“Hello, Manager!”
“I assume you’ve found your answer to my questions, then?”
“I don’t expect you would have deigned to look back, if not.”
“Luckily for you, you were just in time!”
“...Ah, you haven’t, you say? Well, seeing how you’ve helped me these last weeks…”
“It feels only fitting to help you, too!”
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‘The Will to Stand up Straight’ - 10% Germination of the Seed of Light
“...Even now, I still itch.”
“Rationally, I know there’s nothing wrong with me. You confirmed that yourself.”
“However, as I told you last, I have been rotting from the moment I awoke in this place.”
“Holding such despair, keeping it contained…”
“It can easily drive you to madness.” “How do you manage to cope? How do you see clearly through such suffering?
“...At a certain point, you must begin to almost…”
“Enjoy it, no?”
“The employees call me The Viper. Would that nickname not be better suited to yourself?”
“Perhaps you require a view through a different perspective. To better inform you of where you are lacking, so you may work to remedy it.”
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‘The Rationality to Maintain Discretion’ - 20% Germination of the Seed of Light
“Man, I thought I made it clear last time we spoke.”
“I don’t want to talk to you. I don’t want to talk to anybody. I never wanted this position, heading up the Safety Team.”
“Enkephalin is a hell of a drug, huh?”
“No matter how quickly you put someone into detox, there’s always gonna be some lasting effects.”
“Compound those with continued use, and, well. Past a certain point, the momentum of death becomes nigh unstoppable.”
“I’ve tried to resign from my position so many times.”
“Maybe the issue isn’t my continued attempts, but your continued efforts to save me.”
“This facility houses nothing but death and critical injury. If I have to drag everybody else down with me to finally escape this cycle, so be it.”
“How about we take away some of the friction keeping people tethered here?”
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‘The Fearlessness to Keep On Living’ - 30% Germination of the Seed of Light
“...Whenever I try to help, it always goes wrong.”
“Have you ever felt that way, Manager?”
“All this time, I’ve been working so hard to make sure my agents are comfortable and well.”
“And for what?”
“Is a good deed done for selfish reasons not still a good deed?”
“Why does the intention matter?”
“You don’t keep the agents alive because you care about them. No, it’s just because they’re too expensive to hire trained, so you rely on us to make them fit to help.”
“Why should you get to reap the rewards of being a good person, from other’s efforts?”
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‘The Hope to be a Better Person’ - 40% Germination of the Seed of Light
“You know, no answer is often just as good as speaking your mind.”
“I can handle everything here by myself. I have to, with Tiphereth gone.”
“...I’ve always had to.”
“You dredge him back, again and again, never letting him escape to that far off place. Why? Why won’t you let him rest for once?”
“It’s impossible to mourn somebody properly when you see them day in, day out.”
“Still. We have to try.”
“For Tiphereth…”
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‘The Expectation for the Meaning of Existence’ - 50% Germination of the Seed of Light
“...heh.”
“Honestly, I was expecting you to leave me hanging."
“Again.”
“I’m glad you’ve come here. That means it’s not just me responsible for opening the door this time~”
“Who knows? Your compliance might end up saving a couple of your coworkers, haha…”
“Despite being in Welfare, I’m probably responsible for the most deaths overall in this place. Isn’t that funny?”
“Every day, I make things slightly harder for all of the employees, under Angela’s orders.”
“I think it may be time to take some initiative with regards to my work, do you not?”
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‘Those who are Faithful and Trustworthy’ - 60% Germination of the Seed of Light
“Trying to talk me out of this?”
“My mind has been made up. You’ve weathered the other’s rebellions, I know, but there’s nothing worth preserving here.”
“If the cost of protecting the outside from these monsters is the corporation, that’s a price I’m all too willing to pay.”
“With this place, there’s been nothing to protect. I’ve been cast astray, directionless.”
“I’ll be glad to channel that into an actionable direction, for the first time in this new life.”
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‘The Courage to Protect’ - 70% Germination of the Seed of Light
“...You have weathered the trials of the upper layers.”
“And now, you believe that your road to absolution lays through me, no?”
“...I hold nothing for you.”
“I must confess, however, that despite myself, I am curious.”
“There is a spark. One that was not there before.”
“Have you learnt anything from your ordeals? Or is this just a fleeting moment of hope?”
“I suppose that falls to me to determine, then.”
“Show me your strength. Resist me on your own two feet, apart from the support you have garnered.”
“Neither of us have anywhere left to run to.”
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‘The Eye Facing the Fear; Breaking the Cycle’ - 80% Germination of the Seed of Light
“And so, then, the penultimate act falls to me.”
“You are not prepared yet to move on. You have not yet let go.”
“Why do you insist on continuing forwards? The sins of your past still haunt you. Is it not better to atone fully, to be whole and complete before going into that dark unknown?”
“The march of time has been frozen. We have been down here so long the hands can turn no longer. What awaits you past this point? Must you recklessly charge on, dragging the hours behind you?”
“This place has become immutable, unchangeable. It is all we have left.”
“Have you not taken enough from us? Let the ghost of us linger here, I beg of you.”
“...Alas, if this is truly it… if the end of this endless cycle has come at last…”
“Allow me to savour the last of my time with you.”
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‘The Eye Embracing the Past; Building the Future’ - 90% Germination of the Seed of Light
“You can reverse time…”
“But you cannot reverse a tale.”
We were all so cold. More than we could take. No escaping it. Please forgive me.
“That strength to choose a different path, a different future, a different answer.”
“I shall witness your strength.”
“I hope you can finally prove yourself to this doubtful old man.”
I found the water. Like I promised. Where the rivers meet the sea. A bitter and empty place. You were right.
“There is one final door past here that wasn’t written in the story.”
“It’s one I can’t open.”
“It only opens to those who are not soaked in regret.”
“Think you can open it?”
I left you behind. My guts freezing. My feet on fire. Each step a hundred years. It was too far, too far.
“So you refuse to join me, and instead choose to move toward the unpredictable future?”
“Our days will be filled with marvel and wonder that you cannot possibly imagine if you join me.” “You are painfully crawling through each day, and you still aren’t even sure if you are on the right path.”
“...Heh. So you don’t want to stop here, but instead stop me from going forward.”
“Very well.”
Why couldn’t you hold out? Why couldn’t I let go? Are you at rest? Is there sky above where you are?
The world falling away. Did you know already, somehow? Before you left us? The lights, they used to go on.
'The Knowing I' - 100% Germination of the Seed of Light
And once again, the light shall shine on us all.
Now…
Fade away without a trace.