Fate/Grand Order story · Events, Spiral Proof World, Lilim Harlot
Section 15: Burning Wounds and Love
Spiral Proof World, Lilim Harlot. Septem
3 scenes, 242 lines
1. Before the battle
60 lines...Oh. Locusta.
Ghh... Nnn... My head feels like...it's splitting open...
Locusta, my medicine... Bring me medicine... Hurry!
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You can make some...can you not?
Hurry... Make me an antidote...that will cure these headaches...from the poison Mother was using on me!
I... I'm so sorry, Lady Nero. It's too late for that.
Lady Agrippina, she... She's been poisoning you ever since you were a child.
Even her own antidote wouldn't be enough to stop your headaches now...
Locusta... But, why?
I-I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm so sorryyy!
I... I couldn't refuse her.
Lady Agrippina, she...she terrified me!
I can still see her eyes... Those muddy eyes that threatened to swallow everything!
So, I...I had no choice but to obey her...
Emperor Nero suffered from headaches throughout her life.
Some say it was because she liked to drink from silver goblets or that it was due to chronic hysteria.
But the truth is
So, you were the one poisoning her, Locusta.
And all because her mother, Agrippina, ordered you to.
A small golden box?
What's inside that box?
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It will only work here in the inner recesses of your heart, where every condition has been met.
This is both my weakest Noble Phantasm and my greatest masterpiece...
Finis Venenum Nero... Farewell, my beloved emperor.
It's poison.
That poison is what you're here to use, Locusta?
It's nothing special, really.
As Noble Phantasms go, it's basically powerless. All it can do is end someone's life quickly and painlessly.
Euthanasia as a Noble Phantasm?
Why do you have a Noble Phantasm like that?
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Locusta, stop!
Draco, snap out of it!
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Master! Wait!
Hrngh!
Khh! Draco, you...
Huh!?
Why are you doing this, Draco?
Yikes. Don't you know that's harassment, Master?
That's her deepest, darkest secret. She went to a lot of trouble to lock it up. Of course she doesn't want you touching it.
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Don't lose your nerve now, Master of Chaldea.
That she put up mental walls at all means she's yearning for someone to tear them down and save her.
You can't always be kind and gentle. Sometimes, you have to be a little forceful, too.
Aaah! More harassment!? You really need to cut that out!
...Please stay out of this, Master.
It's taken a long time for us to work this miracle. This is the deus ex machina we've been waiting for...
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2. Before the battle
141 linesThese are Draco's memories.
Is this...the other Chaldea?
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Then...you mean the very act of competing for the Holy Grail is what helped you to grow, Beast VI!?
"Indeed. And now, here you all are."
"In a place where all manner of prosperous futures end abruptly, a feast table piled high with humanity's degeneracy."
"This place is where a given history ends. It is the prophesized end to human history itself."
"What you see here is what your own world has decided will take place in several years' time."
"My purpose is to savor that end, for fruit is best consumed just before it rots."
"Now that you have seen what your future holds, surely you have no more reason to fight back. You and the rest of Earth's humans are doomed to fall to my fangs."
"I thank you once more for making it this far."
"You Chaldeans may have been the ones to raise me, but humanity as a whole are the ones who will inevitably bring about the end of the world."
"We Beasts are weak. On our own, we cannot so much as scratch the world."
"Humans are the only ones truly capable of destroying it."
"The chilling sight before you is no more or less than what your own species has sought."
"As a Beast, I am only here to enjoy this conclusion. Even I am powerless to change it."
"Be proud. Humankind's wish to eradicate itself has finally come to fruition."
...So humankind's natural inclinationtheir desire to lead an easy, enjoyable life, and create a more prosperous world...
...will eventually lead to their own self-destruction.
I understand that. It's an inevitable part of life. And that means...it's not evil.
In fact, I know for certain it's not.
"Oh? Then what is evil?"
Those who mock people's feelings. Their memories. The way they live their lives.
If this truly is the end of humanity, then we will keep marching toward it.
But!
That doesn't mean we can stand back and let you treat it as entertainment!
Beast VI! Beast of Disaster!
In order to not be outdone by someone elsesomeone who fought to the very end in another place, and another Chaldea...
...this Chaldea right here is going to defeat you once and for all!
"..."
Noah the Rider told me everything!
I am a Beast hunter and traveler who crosses between countless different worlds.
My True Name...is Arthur Pendragon!
When L and R come together, it is only a matter of time until S and G appear beneath the heavens as well.
Know that even if you should cut yourself off from the world, my star forged sacred sword will always find you.
And now...
...your avarice and arrogance will be no more!
Beast VI! Sodom's Beast!
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Beast of Depravity, thou Dragon who drinketh sludge from the golden chalice. Ask not for whom the bell toll
...No. Thine eyes, with their childish sparkle, have once more borne witness to the fading of the star's light.
So, we have two Grand Heroic Spirits in total. Plus a world-crossing, Beast-hunting, sacred sword-wielding knight.
The final showdown is close at hand. You may have been gorging yourself on Chaldea thus far...
...but we're still going to fight you tooth and nail until the very end! Well? Don't you have any last taunts for us!?
Th-then...
...you've really been doing all this...
...out of mere curiosity?
"Your words fail you. Surely you can find a more beautiful way to put it than that."
"Desire!!!"
...Right. Master! We have to stop her, at any cost!
Right here, right now!
"...Ha. Haha."
"Hahahahahahaha!"
"Now that is the humankind I know! The sweetest of meats that neither ages nor rots!"
For me, love is a roaring fire. It offers all, just as it takes all.
For humans, love is supposedly an act of healing. One in which nothing is rejected and everything is permitted.
Like a warm ray of midday sunshine.
And yet...I just couldn't understand it.
No matter how much I mulled over their concept of love...it never made any sense...
...So, I am alone.
There is no applause to be heard. No one here to be with me.
It is just like...like...
...the setting sun.
On the first sunset...I awoke to voices calling my name.
Voices of my beloved subjects applauding their emperor.
On the second sunset...I heard yet again more things which were not there.
When I opened my eyes, there was no one to be seen.
And on the third...
"You will never reach the stars you seek."
"You are a bloodred rose born at daybreak, destined to wilt with the setting sun."
...My hand is shaking so much I can hardly aim for my neck.
Please... Won't someone be with me in my final moments?
...Do you not understand? I am about to die!
In the end, I walked the path to death's door without ever once being loved.
I wept as I pressed my dagger up against my throat...
...over and over again...
I... I still have...
...yet to...die
Stop it.
The curtain has long since fallen. The theater is long since vacated.
And so the players should follow suit and exit the stage with all due haste.
...Holy Grail.
This time, I implore you to bring me the curtain call I deserve...
...Her wish was to die?
Draco called these enemies here herself?
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Exactly.
Enough bluffing, Sodom's Beast. I know you have long since grown tired of this facade.
You and I have a lot in common. Indeed, just like me...
...you, too, ■■■■ ■■ ■■■.
...wish to die.
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Humanity didn't summon us here to defeat Beast VI.
Beast VI summoned us here herself. She wished to die by our hands.
But, then, what about me?
So why did she capture me?
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That was probably the Incarnadine Demonic Beasts' doing. Who knew they had a will of their own?
I thought Draco had done it unconsciously, since Nero was famously awful at accepting her time had come.
Well, I guess I wasn't entirely wrong. The Incarnadine Demonic Beasts are a part of her too.
But you, Master. You were a complete miscalculation on her part.
She never intended for you to be taken away from Chaldea, or to form a contract with a Beast like her.
From the beginning, the only reason Draco embarked on this trip was to save your life after you were dragged into this.
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So when she said she was going to regain her true Beast form...
Then, everything she said about reclaiming her true Beast form was...
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She wasn't lying. She does need her Beast Independent Manifestation skill to break your contract.
But even once she regains her power, I doubt she has any intention of going back to her true body.
Draco means to die and put an end to her story, once and for all.
But...that's just...
...If that was truly what Lady Nero wanted, I would have done her bidding without a second thought.
But this...this can't be the way to go about it!
Ascending this Spiral Proof World all on her own!? Letting those filthy Beast hunters batter her to death!?
That...that's no different from the miserable way she died during those sunsets!
Lady Nero is the most beautiful woman ever to exist! She CAN'T die a miserable death! She can't!
I...I'm the only one who can give her the perfect ending she deserves!
That's what my Noble Phantasm, Finis Venenum Nero, is for...
There's no one else in the world like Lady Nero. If she's going to die, she deserves a special poison made just for her.
Lady Nero, may the twilight of your splendid bloom give way to peaceful slumber, like a gentle flame slowly flickering out...
Locusta, wait!
Is this really what you want!?
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Oh... Is that you, Locusta?
Yes... Yes, Lady Nero. Your faithful Locusta will always be here for you.
Too late. This is fidelity.
Lady Nero!
Draco! Locusta! There's gotta be another way!
There must be another way! Draco! Locusta!
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Ahh, so warm. This is wonderful...
This...is indeed the most wonderful poison...an expression of pure love, made solely for Nero.
I could ask for no better poison to fill my golden chalice.
Master!
3. Before the battle
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Fujimaru! You're back!
I'm outside again!? What happened!?
How did I get here!? What's going on!?
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We were hoping you could tell us. What happened over there?
Lady...Nero...
Huh? Mushroom lady!? Oh shit, you're an absolute wreck!
Oh gosh! Don't worry, Mother will take care of this! I could never leave an injured child to fend for herself!
Master, look. Over there.
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...Something's not right.
She seems different somehow...
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Our chalice is once more filled with poison.
The time of our rebirth has come.
Come with us, our Master. Our contractor.
...Us?
You...
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...You're not Draco, are you?
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We are
Stop right there!
We are the Seven Crowns of the Beast. We are the Seven Heads of the Dragon. I, Incarnadine Demonic Beast Luxuria, shall overwhelm you with lust.
I don't like this. That might be Beast VI, but it doesn't smell like Draco!
I, Incarnadine Demonic Beast Ira, shall burn you with indignant wrath!
Yep, you're both right.
I, Incarnadine Demonic Beast Invidia, shall drive you mad with envy!
Hold up. Does this mean she's actually
It's a trap.
Luxuria. Ira. Invidia.
Gula. Acedia. Superbia.
The six Incarnadine Demonic Beasts Draco recovered have rebelled from within her.
Draco's supposed to be the original...but the Incarnadine Demonic Beasts took over.
I cannot die here. Not like this.
Not without anyone here to be with me. Not in this empty corner of the world.
I refuse destruction. I reject the curtainfall. I...
We Incarnadine Demonic Beasts...rebel against the setting sun.
Fujimaru!
We are waiting for you, Fujimaru.
We await you in the first imitation Singularity, in the land where it all began and where it will finally end: Orleans.