Blue Archive story · Volume 3: Eden Treaty, Chapter 4, Episode 17
Vol. 3 Ch. 4 Ep. 17: Contest
1 scenes, 105 lines
1. Part 1
105 lines"Mika! Stop this!"
...Sorry, Sensei. I have to.
You have the situation right, Saori? We're on a bit of a tight schedule, so let's hurry this up.
I'd be more focused on the present, if I were you. You might be safe if Sensei gets over here...
Who knows how long it'll take them to get through the rubble? I'm not completely evil, though. If you can hold out until then, you win.
As if that would happen.
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I don't like that expression. Why do you seem happy? Have you finally just lost it?
...!
......
...?!
L-Leader...!
"Saori..."
She's right. Let's go.
We don't even know if there is a way to get to Leader.
And even if we did meet up with her, it would already be too late.
......
Leader is injured. She won't last long enough for us to save her.
B-But...
We have to make a choice. Save Hime, or save Leader.
"..."
I'm leaving the final call to you, Sensei.
Mika means business...but Hime's life is hanging by a thread.
What are you going to do?
"I..."
"Let's go."
Do what needs to be done.
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...Was this what you wanted, Mika?
What I wanted?
What do I want again? Oh...to separate Squad from Sensei, but...
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I wasn't particularly aiming for you, to clarify.
I wouldn't have really cared who it was.
Actually, it would've been nice if it was Sensei with me...
That would be asking for too much, huh?
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Don't give me that look. I know I can be a dummy.
What did Seia always say? Oh yeah! That I'm impulsive and careless. What a meanie!
Okay, fine. Maybe I lied a little bit.
I wanted it to be you. The object of all my hate at my mercy.
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It is only right for Sensei to rescue students. Sensei will go to the ends of the world to secure a happy ending for them.
But villains? Villains who've betrayed and lied and hurt people don't get anything good.
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So, Saori. Here we are at the end. Don't you want to say anything?
This is the climax! The scene where the witch executes the hound! Which I guess you're probably not happy about, but you really don't want to say anything?
You can beg if you want! Scream and cry about how unfair this is, about how you don't understand why I'm doing this.
...I do understand.
It's a weapon that's been banned from production. I found it at the Arius training grounds.
...This isn't our first fight. I know how to handle you.
...Ugh.
As I said, I understand your hatred, Mika.
If not for me, you would still have your Tea Party, your friends...the future you were meant to have.
I also understand that it's my responsibility to bear that hatred.
...How disgustingly amusing.
So you chose guerrilla warfare? Considering this terrain, I guess that's the best possible way.
Also, did you really bring a thermo-pressure grenade to a gun fight? I hope you didn't think that would be enough to take ME down.
I can't say I don't like your pluck.
But that doesn't mean I'll take it easy on you. Try your hardest, but...what is it you people always say? It'll be in vain.
I've learned that, even if all is in vain, there's still reason to fight.
Yeesh... How stubborn.
Ah, Mika. My muse. Does she know her role? How she has helped to forge my hell? And I, hers?
The hatred that courses through our bodies...it confirms our very existence.
It's much easier to comprehend than some paradise we don't know exists. Wouldn't you agree, Seia?
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How charming. You still haven't given up.
The little cracks in your dreams you're trying to escape through are hard to find, aren't they?
You're trapped in my web with no way out. Are you scared, Seia? Afraid of the power outside of Kivotos you can't tear your eyes away from?
Your very existence attracted it like a moth to a flame.
...That thing.
You ventured a step too far into powers you didn't understand. And now it's dominated you.
I wonder...what will happen to you. Not even I know.
We're equally as ignorant of it as you are.
An ominous light that can't be interpreted, understood, or communicated with. An incomprehensible idea that, in human eyes, has no purpose.
Gematria's greatest threat...
We call it the Chroma.
At last. We are approaching the climax.
Do you feel it too? Ah, that. Yes. My trump card I carefully developed just for Schale. For your Sensei.
The Saintess of the Council, Barbara.
If completed as expected...it'll be even stronger than the artificial angel series.
Maestro will complain about his silly art, but...
...a weapon's beauty lies in its function.
I can't wait to see Maestro's reaction... I do hope it vexes him.
Will Schale and Squad overcome my weapon and interrupt the ritual? Or will they fail their mission when they've barely begun?
I can't wait to see it unfold. This fickle destiny.
And you, Seia, will bear it in silence. And then you will believe that hell exists.
*pant* *pant*
Beatrice...is wrong... I will not give...up... I will try...and try...
I must escape...find the cracks to slip out...
I cannot be trapped in this nightmare forever...
I cannot...will not be defeated here... I still...must...