msg_tq012114f

1 tq012114_msg0001 M 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 The look on your face tells me
you want to ask something.
2 tq012114_msg0002 3 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 You...knew about all this from the start?
3 tq012114_msg0003 3 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 About Moebius, about how the people
of this world are born, all that...
4 tq012114_msg0004 3 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 Since before you even met us... All along...
5 tq012114_msg0005 M 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 Can I...tell you a story?
6 tq012114_msg0006 3 0x8100 0x10004081 0x430 126 ...
7 tq012114_msg0007 M 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 It's from a ridiculously long time ago,
a time all but gone from memory.
8 tq012114_msg0008 M 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 Today soldiers fight and scrabble to
survive for ten years, all to be blessed
with the honor of the Homecoming ritual...
9 tq012114_msg0009 M 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 But once, there was a time when there
was no such thing as a Homecoming ritual.
10 tq012114_msg0010 3 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 You what?
I've never heard this before.
11 tq012114_msg0011 M 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 I did just say.
It's all but gone from memory.
12 tq012114_msg0012 M 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 Even so, there was a ceremony for those
soldiers who reached Homecoming age.
Do you know what would happen?
13 tq012114_msg0013 M 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 A Consul would end them personally.
No off-seers to be seen. In other words...
14 tq012114_msg0014 M 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 ...an execution.
15 tq012114_msg0015 3 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 Wha... Execution...
What the spark for?!
16 tq012114_msg0016 M 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 It sounds better if you call it a ceremony
to offer up the light of a person's life...
17 tq012114_msg0017 M 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 But really, all that awaited them was a
death much more humiliating than if they'd
fallen to an enemy's Blade.
18 tq012114_msg0018 3 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 But...that doesn't make any sense!
And why do you know any of this?
19 tq012114_msg0019 3 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 (gasp) Wait... No way...
You don't mean...
20 tq012114_msg0020 M 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 ...This scar on my neck.
I didn't always have this, you know.
21 tq012114_msg0021 M 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 It starts appearing as I get older...
Along with memories of that day...
and the pain.
22 tq012114_msg0022 M 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 Each time, I remember thinking one thing.
"This isn't how it's supposed to be."
23 tq012114_msg0023 M 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 "I didn't go through all this fighting
for it to end like this."
24 tq012114_msg0024 3 0x8100 0x10004081 0x430 126 ...
25 tq012114_msg0025 M 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 And another lovely gift - the pain
keeps getting worse and worse.
26 tq012114_msg0026 M 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 It'll become unbearable as Homecoming
nears...until finally I go mad from the pain,
and then...
27 tq012114_msg0027 3 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 I didn't... How many times have you had
to go through this? Do you know?
28 tq012114_msg0028 M 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 ...Eunie. I know to you it must've
seemed like I just spout nonsense
and try to look cool...
29 tq012114_msg0029 M 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 But really... I just want to escape.
Escape the feeling that death is wrapped
around my throat, ready to take me.
30 tq012114_msg0030 M 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 So there you have it. All I want is to die
in the time and place that *I* choose.
31 tq012114_msg0031 M 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 That's basically it.
Maybe I really am just a coward.
32 tq012114_msg0032 3 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 Ashera...
33 tq012114_msg0033 3 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 Well, now I get why you
asked me if I'd kill you.
34 tq012114_msg0034 M 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 Heh. You must've thought I was a fool.
But you see, Eunie...
35 tq012114_msg0035 M 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 It would mean more to me...
Much more than any of the deaths
I've gone through until now.
36 tq012114_msg0036 3 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 ...I'll do it.
No need to convince me any further.
37 tq012114_msg0037 M 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 Thank you. This way I can finally
move on without any regrets.
38 tq012114_msg0038 3 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 However, under one condition.
39 tq012114_msg0039 3 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 If I'm gonna kill you...
40 tq012114_msg0040 3 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 I go too. You gotta take me with you.
41 tq012114_msg0041 M 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 ...Huh? Erm... Sorry...?
Run that past me again...?
42 tq012114_msg0042 3 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 Argh, just forget it, shut up!
I know I'm sounding like an idiot.
43 tq012114_msg0043 3 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 But...guess there's no helping that.
44 tq012114_msg0044 3 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 You're... I've sort of realized you're
the same as me.
45 tq012114_msg0045 M 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 I'm the same as you...?
46 tq012114_msg0046 3 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 So you won't hear any crap like,
"you gotta tough it out, you gotta live on"...
47 tq012114_msg0047 3 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 ...or "anything's better than dying".
Not from me, of all people.
48 tq012114_msg0048 M 0x8100 0x10004081 0x430 126 ...
49 tq012114_msg0049 3 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 I'd just rather...help you find the right
place where you can end things.
50 tq012114_msg0050 3 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 And if I mess that up...
I'll just have to kick your bucket myself.
51 tq012114_msg0051 3 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 But you've gotta do the same for me.
And I'm not takin' no for an answer. Deal?
52 tq012114_msg0052 M 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 Eunie... Do you remember...?
53 tq012114_msg0053 3 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 But, Ashera...
54 tq012114_msg0054 3 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 Both of our lives...
They don't belong to just us, you know.
55 tq012114_msg0055 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126
56 tq012114_msg0056 M 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 Ahahaha, you've got me there...
57 tq012114_msg0057 M 0x8100 0x4081 0x430 126 You put me in a bind...
Guess I can't go dying just yet.