Fate/Grand Order story · Ordeal Call, The Inescapable Gehenna, Id
Decisive Battle/Farewell
The Inescapable Gehenna, Id. Black Spiral
6 scenes, 398 lines
1. Before the battle
39 linesYou descend the spiral staircase, alone.
There is no one next to you anymore. No Avengers. No Heroic Spirits of humanity.
So you continue on your own.
How long have you been going down these stairs?
As usual, it's hard to tell how much time has passed.
You haven't bothered counting the steps. Nor have I.
You just keep going down. Ever further down.
And then...
Dantès.
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He doesn't respond. He doesn't have to.
You can tell the shadow's become faint. He's about to disappear.
Are you...
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...Edmond Dantès from Chaldea?
...the Count of Monte Cristo from the prison tower?
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... ...
Or maybe...
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Both?
Neither?
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The black shadow remains silent.
...Okay.
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Thanks for all your help.
I'll take it from here.
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The black shadow disappears, though not in his typical way of retreating into your shadow.
He disappears without a sound, as if dissolving into the nearby darkness.
You/I watch him go until no sign of him remains.
And then, almost as if it was taking the black shadow's place...
...you/I see the same fire you/I saw once before.
It is the same, in every way, as last time.
It begins to approach you, practically dripping with malice and bloodlust.
(Wordlessly assume a combat stance)
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2. Before the battle
30 linesJust you?
Everyone else left.
As if you didn't know.
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The shadow humanity sent?
Hassan couldn't make it.
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I see.
And the charlatan?
Cagliostro was...a Foreign Disciple through and through.
He was...a Foreign Disciple to the end.
I have questions for you.
There are things I want to ask you.
And, like it or not, you're answering.
I just told you.
...Heh.
I'll make you answer.
...I am fire. ...I am ash.
I am the unholy flames of vengeance.
My soul burns for revenge. My flames reduce all they touch to ash.
You, who still bears a heart, listen well. I am the hellfire that will end your life.
...Here I come.
Prepare yourself, Fujimaru.
3. After the battle
76 lines...Heh. I see. So you can fend off my blazing sword.
Then I must admit you did indeed have what was necessary to come so far.
Enough talking around the point.
No more games!
Count of Monte Cristo!
You're going to take that mask off and look me in the eye.
Look me in the eye and tell me what I want to know.
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...I fail to see the sense in that.
But very well. I suppose it is just like you to attempt to talk with your enemy before the final show down.
So saying...
...he slowly removes his dark mask.
His face is falling apart.
Yes... You/I can see it.
The entire left upper half of his face, where his left eye should be, is fractured.
Beyond his crumbling Spirit Origin lies a deep and lightless darkness.
Count of Monte Cristo.
Edmond Dantès.
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Your Edmond Dantès...
That is, the shadow whose Spirit Origin is registered in Chaldea, is not here.
I, the Count, absorbed all of his magical energy.
The shadow at your feet is no more than an empty husk, devoid of magical energy.
It is utterly powerless. It will not help you again.
Do you understand, Fujimaru?
We are alone here, you and I.
...Why?
Why?
Why are you doing this?
Why didn't you just kill me?
If you really wanted me dead, I would be.
So why?
Why did you start by having me face Heroic Spirits I knew?
Why did you save Heroic Spirits I'd never met before for last?
This was all on purpose, right?
You could've had all the trial enemies attack me at once and been done with it.
So why this way?
Why did you make me face these trials?
Why did you make this Tokyo?
What'll happen to it once I pass all the trials?
And what happens to this Tokyo after this?
...Is it going to disappear?
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No. All of this will continue to exist within you.
However much I might change its shape, all you see here is a part of you.
Even whatever's past this point?
What happened to Kyrie? To my mom? To my sister?
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...In one sense, their structural elements will remain. Haven't you already noticed?
Answer the question.
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...Yes, that's right.
The people who seemed to be your mother... Your sister... Your neighbor...
All of them. Everyone close to you, who held warmth and affection for you in their hearts...
...is dead. I killed them myself. They're never coming back.
4. Before the battle
105 lines...Yes, that's right.
The people who seemed to be your mother... Your sister... Your neighbor...
All of them. Everyone close to you, who held warmth and affection for you in their hearts...
...is dead. I killed them myself. They're never coming back.
(Feel the air go out of you)
(Grind your teeth)
This place is...
...just like the prison tower. A world you made inside me.
...a world you made inside me, just like the prison tower.
I don't know much about them, but I'd guess it's a Reality Marble.
Probably a Reality Marble, if I had to guess.
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Correct. This is the second prison tower.
It is a Reality Marble variant you could call Pseudo-Tokyo Prison.
That is why some of its residents resemble people from your memory.
They're all hollow.
Depending on the definition you choose to use, you might say they are not alive at all.
This place is a dream, an illusion; it has no bearing on reality.
Even if they are just an illusion...
Even if this is all fake...
...they're still alive.
...At least, they were alive.
It's no different for Singularities or Lostbelts.
That doesn't change even if my home here isn't real.
At least, that's what I think.
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I see.
I could point out the flaws in your reasoning, but that needn't detain us at the moment.
In a way, you are correct. Even if everything here is just an illusion inside you...
...it remains true that anyone killed here will never return to life.
Just as in reality, the best they can do is become memories. Feelings. The past.
The dead and the living will always be separated, just as the underworld and the real world can never interact.
They are different, just as chronicled and pruned events, reality and dreams, are different.
In all possible worlds, regardless of timeline or reality...
...death is death.
That's why I don't understand.
That's why I have to ask you something.
Tell me, Count of Monte Cristo.
...Why?
Why did you kill Kyrie? My mother? My sister?
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To teach you about revenge. To teach you both what it means and the power it confers.
That's why I killed them with my own hands.
Oh, honey, it's you.
Hehe, what are you doing here? I almost never see you out of your study.
Well, maybe we'll see pigs flying now, hm? Oh, but for now, we'll need another plate for dinner.
Whoa! Why're you here, Daddy?
Are you all done with work for today? Wanna play with me then?
...I won't ask your forgiveness.
I ask only for your hate.
Burn with my soul, in the realm beyond my vengeance.
Huh?
Honey, what are you talking abou
Is that...a sword? On fire?
Wow, how're you doing that, Daddy!? That's amazing!
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Honey...
I'm home!
Um, there was something Senpai needed, so I came back without him.
Here, Auntie, let me help with din
...Auntie?
Don't...
Stay...back...
Get out of...here... Run...now...
Please...take care of him...
(Gasp)
O-oh my gosh! Auntie, you're... There's so much blood...
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W-we... F-first we stop the bleeding... Y-yeah, I'll get the first aid kit from the living room!
... ...Wha.
Huh? No way...
Uncle? Did you...
There, on the floor... Is she
Yes. I killed her.
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Wha...
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...Why?
Why would you do this, Uncle?
Why would you...kill your own family...?
Why!?
For Fujimaru.
...So that he can walk the path he must.
The wall of humanity will never let him reach his final destination until he fulfills all of his duties.
Even if the wall doesn't stop him, then our flamesthe one who awaits him at the final showdownwill.
...I can't let that happen. I can't!
If he fails here, everything will have been for nothing!
...You're kidding.
Uncle, I... I don't know what you're talking about...
...but there's no way this can be for Senpai!
I'm calling the police. Oh, but first, I need to get the first aid kit and treat their wounds.
Then I'll call an ambula
5. Before the battle
131 linesRevenge...
There is tremendous power in the act of revenge.
When all hope is lost and grief threatens to gorge you whole, your burning soul gives you the resolve vital to destroy everything between you and your goal!
Fury's true essence is powerpower unchecked by mercy.
When you burn for revenge, you can kill and ravage like no other.
You cannot imagine the rapture.
That is why I had to teach you in a way that would touch your very soul.
So I ask you now, Fujimaru.
How was it, letting anger guide your hand?
When you let hatred and hellfireforces capable of killing even Divine Spiritsfuel you...
...and you used them to kill Nitocris Alter, whom you believed in service of your sworn enemy at the time...
...did you feel the rapture?
Did your soul drink in its sweetness? Did you see how gratifying it can be? Did you feel the ecstasy of it?
No. Don't tell me. You needn't.
You know better than anyone.
Yes. Yes!
Revenge is a ferocious force that makes the impossible possible!
Even seemingly invincible enemies can be laid low by its awesome power!
There is no stronger blade than this hell-forged steel which yet brings all the sweet pleasures of heaven!
As you now know. So, I ask you:
How did you enjoy the taste of your revenge?
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I don't know. And I don't care.
I don't know. What does it matter?
I never needed to taste it!
I didn't need any of this to fight!
This didn't help me at all!
I know I can go the distance anyway!
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So you say, but you know the truth as well as I.
As you head towards Chaldea and the final confrontation...
...the fire burning in your soul could transform you into an avenger.
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Were he here, I can imagine what a certain detective might have to say about this.
He would say that, just like the King of Demon Gods' plan to incinerate humanity...
...the bleaching of the Earth is a case that affects everyone you ever knew and loved.
An case of mass murder.
(Say nothing)
(Return his gaze)
(Look down at your feet)
(Bite your lip)
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Don't look away, Fujimaru!
Your home...your friends...your family...every living person on Earth...
...the whole of your past, all that you knew...is dead!
Killed by the bleaching of the Earth!
Which is exactly why...
...if you want to, you could be the last, and greatest, avenger this world will ever see!
With such vengeance and hatred as yours, nothing could stand in your way!
And why is that!?
Because here, in this bleached white world...we are the gods of vengeance!
Even if...
Even if the original God should disapprove of your vengeance, your hatred...
...we, the new gods of vengeance, will still approve.
...Fujimaru.
(Hang your head)
(Meet his gaze)
Count of Monte Cristo.
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...I thought it might be something like that.
So, you wanted to teach me something.
That's why you did all this.
There's something you feel it's important for me to know...
...and you thought this would be the best way for me to learn.
But...
Whatever your reasons, they still didn't need to die.
That's still no reason for you to kill them.
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Yes.
I expected you'd say as much.
There is some truth to what you say. In an ideal world, we should be able to accomplish our goals without sacrifice.
I admit, the most beautiful kind of success is one which requires no sacrifices at all.
Be that as it may, Fujimaru...
...thanks to these hands, stained as they are with blood, you now know what it is to take revenge.
What it means to let your rage fuel you, push you to merciless violence.
How sweet your nemesis's blood tastes. The pleasures of the dark.
So I ask you.
I, Edmond Dantès...
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No. No, no! I, Monte Cristo the murderer, have a question for you!
Fujimaru!
Once your journey for tomorrow ends, and you reach Chaldea in the Antarctic...
...what will you accomplish!?
What purpose drives you to your journey's end!?
"Then let me now ask you this: What does that scene inspire you to do?"
When I reach Antarctica...
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...I'm going to fight.
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To kill? To avenge? To stoke the fires of your soul!?
No.
I'm going to fight because I'm one of those still alive.
I'm going to fight for myself, and the others who are still alive.
Yeah.
And it won't be to kill.
That's exactly what I'm going to do.
I'm going back to Chaldea.
No matter what happens afterwards...
...my feelings will never change.
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Heh...
Hehe. Hahaha... Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
I knew it! I always believed that was what you would choose!
If you can resist the pleasures of surrendering to the fire and still defeat us Avengers...
NOTHING CAN STOP YOU!
So show me! Show me what your soul is truly made of!
Show me that you can fight against this unjust destiny without need of our flames!
6. After the battle
17 lines... ...
At times...
...those who reach ever for the sky...
...may lay claim to a star.
Similarly, I believe it is possible that sometimes, one may find salvation through vengeance.
However, we will not be the ones to find it.
We must not be.
By my feet... Is that...?
This looks like...light from a Rayshift.
Wait, Count.
We still haven't had a real conversation!
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It's time for you to wake up.
Keep the embers burning in your heart, Fujimaru.
But leave the flames behind.