Arknights story · Episode 6: Partial Necrosis
6-17 Winter's End
FrostNova closes her eyes for eternity.
1 scenes, 109 lines
1. After Operation
109 linesIt... shattered?
The old man got this from some wizard.... Said it would keep me alive.
Didn't even make it through one fight, huh. I guess it was fake.
Just like I'm his fake daughter, maybe...? And now, like Reunion.... As well.
*Cough* *cough*.... Blaze!
Nice win, Rhodes Island.
My brothers and sisters.... I let them die in vain.
We accomplished nothing.
My life.... wasn't worth anything at all.
They followed you because of your ideas.
........
My death.... isn't worth anyone's time.
Go save who you can. Hurry.
Go.
Whether it's stopping the raincoats, going to kill Mephisto, or sheltering the Infected who have nowhere else to go....
Go. Go do something worthwhile.
I'll stay.
You go.
What a.... naive rabbit.
Just like Talulah back then. Very similar.
To be able to see someone like this before I die, someone so determined to realize their ideals....
What about the burden you bear?!
........
Didn't you promise to join Rhodes Island?
I guess that's been swirling around in your head, huh?
Villains are what villains are. I have no complaints about the ending I deserve.
I have hurt you. Reunion, and I, targeted innocent Lungmenites and single-handedly led the Ursus Infected into this nightmare. Such people have no business at Rhodes Island.
My brothers and sisters.... Those fools must have tried to keep me alive, huh?
I thought that even if I died here, those idiots would get a place where they could live in peace.
Wrong and wrong. They died. To protect me, a woman who didn't have much time left to begin with.
I'm not happy. We were used and abused. Our lives thrown away.
I'm not happy.... This last moment of life, this does not belong to me. They bought this with their blood!
This little bit of life..... I must give it to someone trustworthy.
Thank you.
...Ah... Even if we survived, where is there to go?
We had nowhere. The only thing we were ever knew was the snow.
Lungmen is not Ursus. We came, desperate to save our people, and the Infected, looking for a warm place, with food, and shelter....
That's not Lungmen. From the beginning, it should not have been Lungmen. The people of Lungmen are also struggling to eke out a living.
We should have gone back to Ursus.... Our homeland.....
Snow.... a peaceful river.... the pine forests gently swaying.... the turquoise moss....
This world, it's beautiful....
So, you think Talulah is the one who orchestrated it all.
...If I'm right... The plot is ready to unfurl.
Even if old man Buldrokkas'tee could stall it for a while, Talulah would have a way to deal with him.
Lungmen can't do anything.... And all Ursus can do is watch.
But you're still here, and the Infected still have a chance. Even if only a small one...
——go put an end to Talulah. Stop her madness and don't let Reunion swallow up any more Infected. Reunion doesn't need Talulah, any Talulah....
Or.....
I could make a selfish request. Go save her. No. Go help her. Along with our countless fellow Infected....
The real one.... Walking on muddy earth.... Talulah....
FrostNova?
Go... ahead.
I think your father really loves you.
Just like you remember your birth parents dying for you.
You remember clearly all that your father did for you.
........
How could I not know? It's just, he's going to outlive me.
How much better it would have been if he had never adopted me. That way, he wouldn't have to feel all the pain I've brought him.
He's suffered so much....
It is because he has suffered so much that he cherishes you.
Hehehe....
...Doctor.
I can call you that, can't I?
Doctor of Rhodes Island, choices just might be meaningless, in this world.
Even so, even if the outcome makes no difference.... I do want to choose for myself. I made my choice.
With my own hands.... To take the fruit of the seeds I have sown.
FrostNova's fingers grope at your face .
Your fingers... are warm?
Strange. Your face... is cold.
My body temperature.... Is not so low anymore?
Yes. Your symptoms are gone.
........
You're warm, FrostNova
I can finally touch someone... before I die.
FrostNova, Amiya and I want you to join Rhodes Island.
Do I really deserve that?
If you just die, here and now, you won't have a chance to right your wrongs.
...It would be rude not to give a response.
Tell Amiya, Dr. Doctor....
In this world, a single person is worthless.
But she's absolutely not alone.
From now on, I am at your side. Both of you.
I...... would like to join Rhodes Island.
Thank you.
No... thank you.
Your eyes.... remind me of someone I used to know.
I met a boy who said his brother would rather go to the gallows than beg for his enemies' mercy....
So he was going to walk across the snowy plains, he was going to walk all of Ursus.... And he didn't come with us.
I thought he was the most idealistic person I'd ever met.
But now, you and Amiya changed my mind... Maybe ideals can be a kind of faith.
Rhodes Island is all about fighting for shared beliefs.
The original Reunion.... was the same.
Just the same.
Your eyes, and that boy's, really do look the same.
Only, you're not as determined as he was. You're so much.... So much gentler.
Let me go. My brothers and sisters are waiting for me.
......Father...... I've been such a fool.
Forgive me.
She slips down.
The corners of her mouth turn up, haughty as she was when she lived.