Mephisto 10

MEPHISTO #10

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Chapter III 6 - Destiny

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A: Is something wrong?! Madam?
A: Madam?
M: Ahhhh, oh God...
A: Ah!
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M: God...
M(2b): This child has done no wrong. Please, your mercy...
M: Lady Alma, I beg you...
M: Could you please pray with me for this child...?
A: When did he contract the disease?
M: One week ago, spots began appearing on his legs...

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M(2b): To think that a child like this would be ravaged by such an impure disease...ohhh, Pierre! Hold on, my darling!
A: That's strange...if it really was syphilis, there's no way the symptoms would worsen that quickly...
A: Madam, this child does not have the French disease.
M: Ehh?!
A: It even spread through my town in the country once, a bit ago...
A: This disease is glanders, a contagious disease carried by horses and donkeys that sometimes is transferred to humans.
M: Then...he can be saved?!
A: What a problem...this disease is actually even more dangerous than syphilis...
A: At this rate, his intestines will be the next to go, and he'll die...

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M: Ahhh, Lady Alma!
M(2b): I have no money to buy any medicine!
A(2b): Could it be that what these townspeople are fearing as syphilis is actually a chronic glanders epidemic...? If that's the case, I could make medicine to cure it...
A: But...

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A: Madam, please spread this medicine on his body every day.
M: If you do this, the boy's life will surely be saved.
M: Are you a doctor?!
A: Yes, well...because of a certain reason, I stopped doing business.
A: This is simply my thanks to you for giving me a room here for free.

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A(2b): But you must do something for me...keep this a secret from the other townspeople at all costs!
A: This is something for only you and I to know!
A: Can you do that for me?
M: O-of course!

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R: Eeee...!
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N: Is he dead...?
M: Apparently...
N: If only he would have confessed, we could have given him a better death...

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W: Uaaahh, uaaaaahh!
M: #18, Marie Collete!
W: Auuu...
N(2b): Hmph! You're just pretending to be a mute, aren't you?!
N: Let's tear off that fake flesh of yours and see who you really are.
W: Uyaaaaah, uyaaaaaaaaaaah!

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W: Uuu...aaaaauuuuuuuuuuu!!
W: Uuuuuuuu!!
M: All you have to do is admit you're a wtich.
M: If you don't, we'll hurt you even more!
M: You're a witch, aren't you?!
W: Au! Au!

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M: She's nodding.
N: That won't do!
N: We cannot stop here while she's still carrying on this insolent act of hers.
N: You must tell us you're a witch form your own mouth.
N(2b): Your torture is too weak! Witches don't feel pain from little things like this.
N: Fufufu...
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M: She's lost consciousness...
N: When she awakes, you are to continue.
N: Confession or death...two in one.

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Whether witches confessed or not, the result was the same. If they confessed, they would be found guilty and killed. If they didn't confess, the torture would only continue. This torture was infinite in both trials and the time in which these trials took place. There is no real way to discern a witch from a normal human being. -Friedrich von Spee, "Cautio Criminalis," 1631

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P: Please!
P: Please!
P: Please, Mistress Alma, give medicine to me too!
P: Please heal me...
P: I'll give you all the land I own, so please...
P: Mistress Alma! For the love of God!
M(2b): Look at this child! See?! See what good health he's in?!
M: There is no way to express my gratitude!

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A: Madam...you told someone, didn't you...?
M: Keeping such a great joy all to myself was just too great a burden to bear!
M: Mistress Alma, you have become the savior of this town!
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M: Get out!

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M: We have brought him, Sir Remy.
N: Enter.
N: You are able to speak a little English, correct?
R: Yes...a little.
N: I have also studied a little.
N: Have you ever been to England?
R: Yes!
R: I was there suppressing witchcraft under the orders of Queen Elizabeth.
N: What...?!
R(2b): Listen to what I have to say! I too hate witches from the bottom of my heart!
R(2b): They also despise me. And so, I momentarily fell into one of their traps!

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R(2b): Please allow me to work for you. I am sure my knowledge will be of use.
R: I pledge my loyalty to you, Sir Remy!
N: Hmmm...
R: Say yes!
R: This is the kind of world I've always hoped for!
D: That Alma woman...just what is she?

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P: Shut up! How should I know?!
P: I don't care who it is, I won't forgive anyone who steals business away from me!
P: Ever since that woman started passing out medicine here, my shop hasn't had a single customer!
D(2b): Expensive medicine that doesn't work, or cheap medicine that works very well...it isn't even a question.
P: SHUT UP! (I said!)
D: What should we do...?
E: Are you the one who called me...?

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E: Is it true that there is a witch here?
P: Why, if it isn't Judge Rabelais!
P: It's so obvious that this one is a witch that we shouldn't even have to rely on your great witch-discerning powers this time.
P(2b): If there is any sort of medicine that can possibly outdo Oriental ingredients purchased straight from Venicia, it'd have to be something created by one practiced in the black arts.
P(2b): "Death" to witches! That woman has no other fate than to be crushed under the hand of heretic extermination!

Chapter III 6 - Destiny/End