Claymore 89

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Claymore
Scene 89: Impossible Dream
[Side text: The demon's bared fangs close in on Easley!!]
Easley: Tch... // Filthy brutes...

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Demon: GHAAAAAHHHHH!
Easley: Why, you...

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Demon: Gghh... // Gghh... // Gghh... // Ghaahhh...

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Demons: Ggh... // Gghh...

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Easley: Honestly... // They won't even let me regenerate in peace.
Demons: Gsshaaaahhhh!!
Easley: Hmph...

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Demons: Ghhaahh... // Ggahh... // Gghh... // Ggahhh... / Ggahh...

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Demons: Gghh... // Ggh... // Ggahhh... / Ggahh...
Easley: It's not as easy... // ...to smash their heads as it used to be, either...
Demons: Ghaahhh... / Ghaaahhhhaahhh...!

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Easley: So in the end... // I'm forced to resort to this.
Demons: Ggh... // Gghh... / Ggh...
Easley: Come. // This time, I will finally exterminate you all.

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Deneve: A group of eleven demons... // ...created by the Organisation... // When you say eleven, does that means that their original number... // ...have survived undefeated to the present day...?
Dietrich: No... I believe few if any of the original eleven are still living today. // If more than half... that is to say, six or more of them are defeated, they are conditioned to return to the Organisation. // And then, using new flesh and blood gathered from hunting of Awakened, // new demons... new Abyss Feeders are created. // Pursuing the demons once they choose to flee is difficult. // After all, none of them release any youki, and they scatter in separate directions all at once.

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Dietrich: Even pursuing them to the best of his ability, the most Easley can accomplish is to destroy a single one of them... // And then the four that survive synchronise their minds with the newly created replacements, such that their experience is retained.
Deneve: ! // But then... / Does that mean...?
Dietrich: Indeed. // Slowly, but nevertheless surely, // the demons are acquiring the skills they need to combat Easley.
Deneve: !!
Helen: Wha - ?

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Deneve: So that's the reason... // ...why Easley was masquerading as a human and hiding himself in that town...
Dietrich: I don't doubt it. // Those beasts track by smell alone; it is most difficult for them to find him when he conceals himself amongst the amalgam of scents a town provides.
Helen: A swarm of drooling beasts hungry for his flesh coming after him, stronger every time, no matter how many times he takes 'em out... // That would make a guy want to hide...
Dietrich: But his efforts to hide ultimately amount to nothing more than a play for time. // Moreover, the gap between this attack and the last was distinctly short. / Easley cannot have been able to fully regenerate his wounds from their last encounter. // The Organisation may intend... // ...to finish him off this time around.

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Deneve: The trip home is on hold, Helen. // We're heading west.
Helen: Huh?
Deneve: We'll meet up with Clare's group. // Then you can have Cynthia regenerate that eye of yours.
Helen: Huh...? // Ahh...
Deneve: Dietrich... was your name, yes...? // Can those demons be made to target other Abyssal Ones?

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Dietrich: Their actions are grounded in hunger for their target, based upon a scent... // As long as a part of the intended target's body is available, it should be possible.
Helen: Ahh! // There's one... in the West... // A piece of an Abyssal one that I tore off...
Deneve: The remains of Rifl of the West... // It was left in the place where the current members were originally fighting. It's difficult to imagine that the Organisation has failed to obtain it...
Dietrich: ...... // A nasty development...
Denever: ? / What is it?
Dietrich: I may just be worrying needlessly, but... if we're going, I would suggest we hurry.

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Dietrich: The Organisation is currently proactively hunting the Awakened whether it receives a request to do so or not... // The official reason is to bring the movements of the Awakened under control, in response to the Northern Conflict, but the implications on the creation of the demons are clear.
Deneve: !
Dietrich: I doubt the Organisation is restraining itself to a stock of only eleven demons at any one time. // If they have obtained a piece of another Abyssal One, they will most likely make use of it immediately.
Deneve: !!
Helen: What?
Dietrich: !

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Dietrich: Easley is... // ...going to fall...
Deneve: So when we fought with him back there... // ...he was already in a wounded state...
Helen: Ugh... // You're telling me we don't even stand a chance against those guys wounded...?

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[no text just easley not looking too good either]

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Easley: Ugh... // Damn it... // Even that time when I was half-obliterated in an instant by Priscilla... / ...was better than this... // Having my body worn away little by little like this... // ...is a truly horrible sensation...

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Demons: Gghhhh... // Gghhhh... / Gghhhh... // Gghhhh... // Ghaaahhh... / Haahhh...
Easley: Hah...

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Demon: Ggh... // Gghh... // Ggh...
Easley: If I could just have defeated one more... // ...they would all have retreated for the moment...

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Easley: To think that due to the irritation of being unable to eliminate them completely... // ...I had actually begun to find relief in their temporary withdrawals......

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Easley: !
Demon: Gghhh... // Ghaaaahh... // Ghaahhh... / Ghaaahhh...
Easley: Honestly... // From the crowns of their heads to the tips of their toes... / ...they truly are unsightly beings...

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Easley: (It must have been around the same time... // ...I left Priscilla with Raki and drove them out of the southern lands... // Strange... To begin with, all I ever intended... // ...was to use Priscilla to bring everything under my own control, and yet... // ...Somewhere during that time, watching Raki mature with Priscilla by his side... // ...I actually found myself becoming contented with nothing more than the bare minimum of meals...)

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Easley: (I don't want to die... // Even if that makeshift family... // ...was all nothing more than an illusion, doomed to someday fall apart... // ...I so wish... // ...so wish it could have lasted even the tiniest bit longer...)
[TN: ...Wow.]

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OrganisationDudes: Numbers 28, 35 and 42 have been recovered... // Number 8 was the only one unaccounted for. // The remains of the target Awakened were also confirmed, yes? // Indeed. One Awakened, severed cleanly in two... // We believe that they received aid from an unknown party... // ...and that Dietrich herself was the one to deal the killing blow.

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OrganisationDudes: The business at the town of Lacroix in the West, and now this... // "Unknown parties" do seem to be cropping up an awful lot lately... // What do you think? // Louvre.
Louvre: Frankly, I haven't the slightest idea... // I apologise for being of so little use, / but I lost consciousness at the very beginning of the encounter, and so, well... // However, I do feel that it is merely a distraction from the more pressing matters at hand. // Surely right now, retrieving Renée from the hands of Rifl should take priority over all else...
OrganisationDude: Oh, you need not worry about that. // We have already released a new group of Abyss Feeders in the West.
Louvre: Ohh?
OrganisationDude: This time around, however, the Abyss Feeders are guides; nothing more.
Louvre: !

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OrganisationDude: We have received word that Easley has been defeated in the southern lands. // Now that the balance between the Abyssal Ones has crumbled, / we have no intention of playing the waiting game with Rifl as we did with Easley. // We are dispatching the Organisation's Number 1 and 2... // ...Alicia and Beth to the West.
[Insert text: The controllable Awakened created by the Organisation... twin warriors Alicia and Beth are on the move!!]