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Superior Cross Volume 3
The third volume of Superior Cross has been scanlated by Enxame.
This is the script.
Enjoy.
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Contents
Story.9 Rocci (Part 2) 3
Story.10 Wish 29
Story.11 The White God of Death 71
Story.12 Sweet Fruit 124
Cover page
Okina: To you goes all my gratitude.
Lakshri: Thanks a million times.
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Story.9 Rocci (Part 2)
010
Rocci: You must die.
Graham: I hate to do this, but you leave me no choice.
*wheeeeee*[tn: Whistling sound.]
011
Graham: If only you'd just listened to me. You brought this upon yourself.//You're coming with me. I'll use force if I have to.
012
Rocci: Let go of me.../Let g...
Graham: Save yourself the trouble.*shtap*
Graham: These little guys are more powerful than any human being.
*silence*
Graham: Will you finally be a good girl and just do as I say?//?!
013
Monster: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH*blob blob blob*
Rocci: I see...//My blood is an essential component to that drug you use to turn people into monsters...
Bird: Are... Are you okay?
Rocci: That's why you need me...//You're running out of antidote, I take it... Right?
Graham: ........
*chuckle*
Rocci: I'll interpret your silence as a confirmation.
014
Rocci: One injection of serum will act as a counterpoison/but a second shot will turn it into a poison that eats away at your flesh.//The stronger the dose/the greater the rejection.//You've used it upon yourself, I presume...?
*baf*
*whack*
015
Graham: The serum...!!*crack*
Graham: While I wanted to take you with me, I wished I could have spared you any undue discomfort...//but you leave me no choice!!
016
*CLAAAAANG*
Rocci: Brother...!!
017
Crow: Dad...
Graham: ........
*swish*
*clap*
Crow: Rocci!! That's enough!!*grab*
Rocci: He's gonna kill more people. We can't let him go./He just has to die!!
018
Rocci: If we keep running away/this nightmare will never end...!!
019
*woosh*
*swish*
Graham: Aargh
*baf* fwap*
020
*fffffp*
*blob blob blob*
Graham: Eeek?!//My leg.../My leeeeeeg!!
*whud*
021
*flomp*
Rocci: !
Crow: !!
022
*thud*
Crow: .........//Dad!!*dash*
Rocci: Don't bother.//The well was empty... And dug pretty deep.../Even if he lives, he'll have only minutes left once the serum spreads.
023
Rocci: I told you... He was beyond reasoning with...//If we'd let him go, many more would have suffered.../he just had to die...
024
Rocci: And you're still telling me I shouldn't have killed him...?!//Call me a criminal, I don't care!!//I don't...:care!!*baf*
Crow: Don't say another word...!!
025
Crow: When we were kids... I never got injected with any poison. Perhaps because I was meant to be his successor./I didn't know anything...//But one day/when I saw your hair color completely changed, I learned everything.//That's when I took you away/fleeing is the only thing I could do...//The idea was a simple one. You'd be fine if I never let you see him again.//But in truth, I was no more no less than running away...
026
Crow: I should have killed him.//You were always the one who suffered./Forgive me...!!!//You can stop traveling with the hero, too. True enough, it was a request from the Prince/but there's no real need for you to do it.//It pains me to see you so cold-hearted...
Rocci: Brother!*grip*
Crow: ...What it it?
Rocci: I'll do it. Somebody has to./And I had to kill him.//It was my fate.
027
Rocci: Brother...
Crow: Yes...?
Rocci: Can I stay like this for a minute...?*bom*
Crow: Sure...
Rocci: (I can't think anymore/This is all too much)/I'm tired...
028
Rocci: I'm so awfully tired.../(That's right. Let me get some rest.//On the back of the one who always protected me...)
029
Rocci: (True./There were moments like that too//We were so happy//Why did it come to this?//Is there no place in this world for kindness? Why...?)
030
Rocci: (Ah... Now I understand. That expression the Maou shows sometimes.../surely this is what she's thinking...//She's probably not her old cruel and cold-hearted self any longer.)
031
Rocci: (But the crimes she committed as the Demon Lord aren't gonna disappear overnight./So what does she intend to do about it...?//I can't think of an answer, no matter how hard I try. And there's no turning back time.//So let's just forget. Let me forget everything.)
032
Rocci: (Let me take some rest and forget it all.//So I can return to my merciless self.//I'll kill the Demon Lord./Such are my orders. The purpose of my existence.)
033
Rocci: (I always had someone to protect me./But the day comes when one must stand for herself.//And that's why I have to be merciless.//Because in this world, you just have to be if you want to survive...
035
Lakshri: Clive could do just about anything.*dash!*
Clive: C'mon, Lakshri. Jump!!
Lakshri: But...
Dude: Wait!
Lakshri: ?!
*stare*
Lakshri: ........//I can't do it, Clive. I just can't!!
Clive: Don't stare down but ahead. Look ahead!
036
Clive: Look at nothing else but me, and jump!!
Lakshri: Crap... I won't make it...
*grab*
*clasp*
037
Lakshri: Clive... Your hand!!*grin*
*grip*
Dude: I won't forget this, goddamned brats.
L&C: Haa/Haa
Lakshri: Clive.
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Clive: I'll be fine. It's just a scratch...
Lakshri: (You we always there to save me//That why I wanted to be the one to save you this time around.//And yet)
Clive: Argh...*sharp pain*
*sharp pain*
Lakshri: (I don't have what it takes to do so.)
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*sharp pain*
Lakshri: (I'm so powerless)
Story.10 Wish.
040
Dudes: Welcome back, Crow-sama. Rocci-sama.
Crow: Nothing unusual here in the castle while I was gone?
Dude: !*nervous*
Crow: What's wrong? Did something happen?
Dude: Huuh... Actually...
Crow: .......?
*startle*
*worn out*
Crow: Your Highness...?!!
041
Crow: Your Highness, is there something wrong?//Your High...*dash*
Juneau: Stupid, stupid Crow.
Crow: ........
*stap stap stap*
*blaaam*
René: Welcome back. That was fast...
*duduuuuuuuuun*
Crow: I see... Looks like the paperwork hasn't made any progress at all....... It's pretty much hopeless without me around..........
042
René: Actually, everything's done.
Crow: Uh?! You managed that much in only one day?!/How did you work that one out?!
René: The answer to that is a quite simple one./I merely exercised a little bit of severity.//Just a little bit...*smirk*
Crow: That would explain the Prince's reaction...!!
Juneau: Waaaaaaanh
René: Come on, faster. Let me see some work!!
Crow: That's René the Fiend for you.//Aaaah. So much done in only one day...//(If he's always gonna be THAT efficient, maybe I should let him do the job every once in a while...)*smile*
René: Considering having me do the job on occasion? Forget about it. I'm a busy man.../That defense mechanism is not gonna build itself.//What happened to that Graham man, by the way? Did you find him?
Crow: ?!!//........
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René: It didn't go over so well, it seems./What happened...?
*knock knock*
René: ! | ...Come in.
Val: Sorry for interrupting.*creak*
Crow: Valentin, eh...?/So you must be the doctor.
Raynald: My name is Raynald Altmann. | It is an honor.
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Raynald: And here are... | the famous human beings who turn into monsters.*shclank*
Raynald: Sleeping? Is that normal?
Doc: No. They're always fairly hectic, possibly out of pain. We're currently drugging them into settling down. | Please be careful. Itwouldn't be the first time a doctor got killed off./Also... Here's the data we've been able to collect so far.
Raynald: Physical ability 4 times greater than that of a normal man.../And about 10 times when they assume their monstrous shape........ Yeah.//Whoever did this was criminally insane./He modified them with utter disregard for the limits of human resistance./Any more of this treatment and their bodies won't be able to withstand it. They'll die...//?!!
René: ...What is it?
Raynald: ........
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Raynald: His pulse.../where is his pulse...?!//Are these guys really alive at all?
René: What are you talking about?//They ought to be. This morning again, they...
*todom*
*todom*
*todom* *glare*
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Raynald: ?!!
*GNAP*
*clink clink clink*
*gnap*
Doc: Drug him...!! | Quickly...!!*gnap*
Crow: Are you alright?
Raynald: Haaaah//I'll live. But this won't be going anywhere as long as you don't find whoever did this and bring them here.../Have you?
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Crow: No. He's dead...
René: Dead?! What is the meaning of this?!
Raynald: Are you sure?!
Crow: ?!
Raynald: Did you really go check?!
Crow: We could no longer see him once he fell down the well...
Raynald: Make sure, then. He might have survived.
Crow: Why...
Raynald: I've scanned this data as thoroughly as I could. It doesn't touch upon this ability of theirs at all.
048
Raynald: These people.../can enter a state of apparent death at will.
Crow: ?!!
Raynald: Go check the well again!!
049
*pain*
Lakshri: (My leg hurts...)
*knock knock*
Dude: Excuse me. I'm bringing some water.*creak*
Dude: He kept the curtains closed.../He hasn't touched his meal either...//Ahem... You haven't left this room in quite a while. How about going out for a little walk?
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Dude: I could lend you my shoulder if you wish...
Lakshri: No need.//I don't wanna go anywhere...
Dude: .......//I... I guess so./That wasn't a smart thing to say to someone with a wounded leg...//The weather's just wonderful, out there. I'll open the window.
*clasp*
Lakshri: Stop it.
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Lakshri: Sorry. Please leave me alone.*baf*
Dude: My... My apologies./.........
*slam*
Lakshri: (I'm exhausted...)//Haa...//(I woke up thinking of Clive./Yet no matter how hard I try, I can't find any way to help him out.//Maybe I really should have...)
052
Lakshri: Then I won't mind it if my leg never heals...*knock knock knock*
*BAOM*
Raynald: I'm here for an examination.*fwash*
Lakshri: .......//Ray... Raynald, was it...?
Raynald: Man... You didn't use to look quite that depressing, as I recall. Nevermind./You're next. Let me see.
053
Raynald: I told you to let me examine your wound./Hurry, or I'll strip you naked
Lakshri: It's healed...?
Raynald: Healed?
Lakshri: Yes. There was a hole in my leg....
Raynald: Uhm. I see.//Which reminds me. The last time you got hurt you took the medicine that I created./It must still be effective.//What about the pain?
*sharp pain*
Lakshri: Argh...
Raynald: You're still hurting? Maybe your leg's healed but your nerves haven't recovered just yet./You seem perfectly fine to me, but I think I'll have another look...
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Lakshri: You said I was next.
Raynald: Yeah.//So you've already seen to those people who change into monsters?
Raynald: .........
Lakshri: You were able to cure them?
Raynald: I hate to say it.../But in all honesty... | I'm having trouble...
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Raynald: As long as we don't find the one who did this, I won't know what to do./Even if we do find him, there's no guarantee that we'll manage anything.
Lakshri: What are the chances of recovery according to your estimations?
Raynald: .......//Currently lesser than one percent.
Lakshri: .........!!
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Lakshri: Heal them... Heal them, I beg you...!!*bwaf*
Raynald: What's the problem...?
Lakshri: My friend is one of them!
Raynald: ?!!
Lakshri: I can't do... anything.
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Lakshri: I promised I'd save him/yet there was nothing I could do.//At this rate/I'll have no other choice but to kill him...//I can't do anything.../I'm totally worthless.//And I'd sooner die than live this way.[tn: Boo-hoo-hoo!! Seriously, I'll never understand how a story that corny managed to become so popular.]
058
Raynald: ........*grit*
*whump*
Lakshri: Ooooooooooow?!!//Wha... What are you doing...? >Right in my sore spot...<
*bump bump*
Lakshri: Aaaaagh
Raynald: Don't be so full of yourself!!//I don't need you to ask me. I always work to the best of my ability. I'll heal those people./Less that one percent? So what? Enough of your whining!!
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Lakshri: But...
Raynald: I said I'd heal them, so I will.//Don't speak of things you know nothing about./Let the doctors handle the doctoring.//I'm a genius doctor. You just leave the difficult patients in my care.
Lakshri: ......../He just called himself a genius...
Raynald: A depressing guy like you couldn't even hope to help them even if he died trying.//Life and health belong only to the living.
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*grip*
Raynald: Don't you look down so long as you live. Face forward.//Even one as boring as you should manage something of note this way.//Dang it. Always thinking of something pointless. Why don't you clear your head some?! >I'm off<
*pain*
Rocci: So? How do you feel?/Was that a doctor? And what happened to the door?
Lakshri: .......
Rocci: ......./(No explanation?)//You'll be staying here a little longer, I presume? I'm leaving...
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Lakshri: ..........//Hey, Clive. You can do just about anything.
Clive: Of course not.
Lakshri: But you always end up saving me.
Clive: I'm merely putting up a good facade so you don't notice when I'm in way over my head.
Lakshri: Really...?
Clive: Yep.
*pain*
Lakshri: (I can't do anything...)
062
Lakshri: (But I'm gonna do my best. For you.)
063
Lakshri: (That's right. To hell with the pain.//To hell with the fatigue.//If anyone should be hurt an exhausted, it's him.)//My leg's fine, now. Let's go. We have a battle to fight.//(Let my leg hurt as much as it wants)*pain*
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Lakshri: (That way, I'll never forget about you. That's all.)*step step*
Val: This is the first time I see you really angry.
Raynald: I can't bear to hear someone wholesome blathering about their own death.//(But the thing I can bear the least/is that I showed weakness myself by saying those things.)//Sadism is my middle name.
Val: I know.
Raynald: But I didn't show much of that, today.
Val: Then who pounded someone's hurting leg repeatedly again?
065
Raynald: Shut up. I cannot torment these people if they aren't at least somewhat healthy.//No way around it.//I'm gonna have to cure them.
Raynald: (Men struggle/in order to obtain what they wish...*swash*
Raynald: No matter how great the hurdle/No matter how powerless they feel)
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Raynald: Because they just can't let go of whatever it is they wish for.)*bwash*
Lakshri: (I'll look straight at you//And this time around, I'll return the favor.)//Ah...//Sorry for what happened earlier...
067
Lakshri: Can you relay a message to the doctor who was there earlier?//Tell him I'm counting on him.//(Clive.)
068
Lakshri: (I'm gonna save you, I swear)/Alright. Let's go./(Just wait for me...//And watch me at it...)
*cough cough*
069
Clive: Ugh.//Coughhh coughhhh./Gasp. Gack. Cough....//Huuh..//!
*stap*
070
Clive: What happened to your leg?
Graham: A little quarrel between parent and child.../It's nothing. Just give it some time, it's gonna grow back.
Clive: Grow back?
Graham: More importantly, we have a job to do.
Clive: ?!//........
Rocci: Following orders even if they disagree./Committing crime upon crime.
071
Rocci: (Unable to flee, unable to die under their own terms.)
Clive: (I'll reach my limit soon enough.)//Kill me please./(I may have said that//But I don't really wanna die./If there's any I can be saved, I want it.//I wanna escape from this vicious circle.)
Lakshri: I'll help you!
Clive: (I'm placing all my hopes into you.)
072
Clive: (Lakshri/Please help me...)
Copy: The village, eh? There it was...//Thank you for leading me here./Aaah, I see. A barrier. Small wonder I had so much trouble locating it.
073
Girl: The village gets attacked by monsters a lot.
Copy: Eh?!
Girl: But we're fine. Thanks to the defense mechanism René created for us.
Copy: That'd be the barrier, I take it?
Girl: Yes. People can get in, but monsters can't.
Copy: Is that so./So all those people must have grown foolish with peace.
Girl: Uh...
*crackle*
Girl: You're a monster?!*baf*
074
Copy: Not quite.*crackle crackle*
*ploc*
Girl: Ugh...
Copy: I am the Demon Lord.
077
Narrator: I was always there inside of her.//Confined in a dark and narrow cell.
Copy: Let me out./This isn't my place...
Narrator: Chances are this isn't what it really was like. | But this is how I remember it.
Copy: This isn't my world.//Please. I want to be free...*grab*
Copy: ?!
078
Sheyla: Rise./You are my Copy.//Rise.//...I created her out of myself/and a little bit of earth.
079
Narrator: ...This/is my new world.
Sheyla: Use her as your Demon Lord.
Narrator: This is... freedom...
Story.11 The White God of Death
080
Girl: *singing*//*more singing*
081
*bumpf*
Girl: Hey! Hey! What was it like?!
Copy: ...What do you mean?!
Girl: The song! What did I sound like?!
Copy: ......../Uuuhhhhm.//I felt like sleeping.
Girl: You mean it was boring?!
Copy: ...Oh well. It wasn't so bad, now was it...?*grin* *rustle*
Copy: ..Though I'm somewhat under the impression that you were expecting some praise.//Come on./Hoppity/Weren't you supposed to take me to the village if I listened to your song?
Girl: ...Can't say I didn't expect better, but a promise is a promise.
082
Girl: My mummy used to sing in the city's theater./So I wanna leave the village to go there too, someday.
Copy: Wherever people live, I can't see any difference./Why don't you just sing in your own village?
Girl: Yeah.../This village is free from monster attacks. | The flowers are pretty and everyone is so kind. I like it. I really do.//But this isn't my place...
083
Girl: Try to imagine.//The stage, completely silent. | The audience, gazing./The beautiful echo of a singing voice.//A hurricane of applause...
Copy: ......
Girl: It's all right there, in my heart.
084
Girl: Someday, I'll leave for the city, and sing my songs on stage, like mummy used to.
Copy: You're just curious about the wonders of the whole wide world, aren't you?/Humpf/I get that a lot, from daydreaming little girls like you.
Girl: You don't understand.//It's not like... the daily life in my village is boring, or anything./I really mean it.//I can't find a good way to put it, but this isn't my world./Have you never felt the same...?
Copy: ......
Girl: Ah. Look. There we are.
*chuckle*
Copy: Go figure...
Girl: Go figure...?
085
Copy: I've forgotten what the past was like...//because my present is just so much fun...*chatter*
People: Monster?!//What is a monster doing inside our village? How did it get there?!
086
People: What happened to the defense mechanism?!*fwash*
People: Is it broken?!
Copy: Step one: Infiltration. Complete.*vzum*
Copy: Now the next step./It's party time.
People: Eeeeeek.../Waaaaaaah!//Run for your lives!
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*thump* *swash* *whishh*
People: Aaaaaaaaah./Waaaaaaah!!
Copy: Come have fun with me, everyone.
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People: Haa.../Haa...//What was that...?!//Nevermind that. We're almost out of the village...//We're gonna make it...//?!
*bfwwashhh*
People: Aaaaaaaaargh!!
*perk..*
Copy: Sounds like somebody fell into my trap./Am I to understand some more people made it out?
089
*grip*
*drag* *drag*
Copy: This is only the beginning. | Why don't you go have some more fun?*grrrruuuoooooaaaaaaaarrr*
090
People: A dragon?//That monster just pulled it out of the ground.
Copy: Go, dragon./These humans are yours to crush and trample at your leisure.
*grrrrraaaaaaaaaaaahhh*
*rrrooooaa*
*rooooh*
Dude: !
*THAAOOOOOOOMP*
091
Specs: ...The//The beast's movements are slow!!*grrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaah* *stooooomp* *dash*
Dude: If we flee fast enough we should manage something.
*booom*
Dude: Everybody run. Ruuun!!*booom*
Copy: ...*tsk*
*peeved* *grind grind*
Copy: !
*grin*
Copy: I almost forgot./This isn't a party if nobody's dancing!
092
*stooooomp* *gash*
Dude: Uh..? Did that monster just.../save us...?
*grrrrraaaaaaaaaarrrrrghhh*
093
*whump*
*crrraaaasshhhhh*
*grrraaaah*
Copy: Good!*baoom* *crunch* *brraom* *Aaaaaaaah*
Copy: Now you're showing me some nice steps!//Keep dancing. Keep dancing!/Ahahaha.
094
*thump thump*
Copy: What do you think, humans?//Heh./They're all way too busy running...//Can't have that. Way too boring!/Go get yourselves squashed. Entertain me more!!//Ahaha Haha..
Dude: .......
095
Dude: What's wrong with that one?
Guy: (Hey, stop it.)
Dude: People die, and she gets a kick out of it...//Treating even her ally like filth./You monstrous freak...
*vzum*
Copy: What...?
*stap*
Dude: Run away.//Uh?!*thump*
Copy: Monstrous freak, eh...?/Not quite.
096
Copy: I am the Demon Lord.
097
Copy: Mh? What's wrong You don't look so good./If you've got anything more to say, go ahead. I won't stop you.
*twitch twitch*
Copy: Uh?/I can't hear you.//Aah! I get it.
098
Copy: You can't say anything more because you're already dead?!/HAHA HAHA/AHAHA//Ahahahaha | Hahaha!
*creak creak*
*thwack*
*thunk*
*swish*
099
Bow: !
Copy: Too bad. Try aiming better next time... mhh?
*tremble tremble*
Bow: ........
Copy: Oh, my. You're positively shaking./Fire the next round quickly, or I won't waste any time killing you.
100
*tilt*
Copy: ?!*baf*
Copy: Gunpowder?!*bfwosh*
Copy: Tsk
*kaboooom*
101
People: Hurray! The dragon's burning.*grrrrraaaaaaaaaah*
People: And the Demon Lord got caught in the blast!!//We defeated the Demon Looooooord!!!*yeaaaaaaaaaaah*
102
Copy: Heh heh.../Heh heh//That was... amusing.*baf*
Copy: You seriously thought that little explosion would be enough to get the best of me? Amusing indeed.*gwoooooosh*
103
People: She... she survived the flames...?![tn: She... She ain't naked?! Guess even her clothing is fireproof. Too bad. :hahaha:]
Copy: Here's your reward for keeping me entertained./Hope you like it!
104
Copy: Ahahaha | Hahaha...//(So much fun...//So much, so much fun...//The best fun/ever...!!!//More grief/More cries...!!!)
105
Copy: More fear...!!!//As long as I have these, I shall control everything./I'll be free.//This world/is a brimming well of pleasure...!!![tn: This is gonna get misinterpreted. :konokono:]
106
*todom*
Copy: ?!
Sheyla: ...
Copy: Let... | me...*todom*
Copy: Out.. of...*TODOM*
Copy: here...//Huff.
107
*tremble tremble*
Copy: ...If I fool around too much/I'll get an earful from Kagami/...Heh.//I hate to leave you guys, but everything must come to an end./We all had such a great time, too.//Till we meet again...*snap*
108
*gwoosh*
*thump*
Copy: ...Just kidding./You guys won't be there to see it.
*drawing in*
*drag*
109
*dragging*
Girl: Mummy...
Copy: Uh? Strange.//I was pretty sure I'd killed you.//And if you get out of here, you're gonna get blown to bits...//........./Ah.//I see. Not high enough, eh?/Silly me.
110
Copy: .......
Girl: Mum... my...//(This isn't my world./Have you never felt the same...?)
Copy: This place/it isn't my world.
111
*baaaooom*
*crackle crack*
*fwoosh*
Copy: I was told.../to obliterate this village and its inhabitants.//You no longer live here.
112
Copy: ........*rustle rustle*
Copy: .......*todom*
*todom*
Copy: Damn it....//Damn it.*todom*
Copy: Damn it./Damn it!!*thump*
113
*zwooosh*
Copy: I get to have some fun at long last./The best time I ever had.//I ought to be free of her.//But the image of her just keeps getting in my way.//Am I to understand I won't see the end of it until I take her life?
114
Copy: If it must come to this/I shall fully claim my freedom.//By taking the head of the Original.*yumm*
Chef: Dear customer. If you'd be so kind...
Exa: Uh...? But I haven't bought anything...
Chef: The lady over there is with you, is she not?*om nom nom*
Exa: ......... >Ahem<
115
Exa: Hey! Sheyla, who told you you could...*nom nom*
Exa: .......*yummy*
Exa: Why, you...
Chef: Come on. Let me see some money...
Exa: At least ask me before you start eating everything!!//Aaah, women... Damn.../Huff Puff Puff.*ka-ching*
Chef: Thank you.
Sheyla: Last but not least. My favorite part../Aaaaah
*GULP*
Arrow: Hero.
Exa: It's your punishment for eating without asking for permission.*munch munch*
Exa: Hum. Delicious.
*brrrr brrrrr* *brrrrrr*
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Sheyla: STOOOPIIIIIIID!!! >You had to take this of all things!!<//It's a crime!/A crime, you hear me!!/You will face eternal hell, for this!!*bash bash*
Angelica: Sheyla-chan. If you trample him any more, he'll die before he gets the chance to have an offspring.
Dude: Another village has been destroyed.
Sheyla: ?!
People: And apparently there's only one survivor...//All of it perpetrated singlehandedly by a monster styling itself the Demon Lord.//I hear a village has been destroyed...//Wasn't that village experimenting a defense mechanism?/Yeah. The one created by René, the genius?/This means that René guy was all talk, doesn't it?
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People: Towns and villages have been destroyed increasingly fast, lately./I'm afraid the same fate might befall our village too...
Exa: (...Maou...//Sheyla's been with us all the time./It can't be her.//That means the one I met once was the real deal, then...?/Judging by her looks I'd swear she was Sheyla's twin sister. But what is the connection between the two?)//Haaaah./(I'm gonna have to come right out and ask her someday...//...But when is this "someday", exactly...?)
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Exa: (I've been putting off that question forever...)/........//(I'll ask her now)*todom*
Exa: (No more time for procrastination. | ...Is there?)/_____
Sheyla: Hero.*todom*
Sheyla: We'll defeat the Demon Lord... We must.
Exa: Uh...?
*smile*
Sheyla: .........
Exa: Su... Sure!/(You've got nothing to do with the Maou./Or you wouldn't be talking like that, right? Right?//Would you, Sheyla?)[tn: Ooops...]
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Sheyla: (Hero.../If you ever learned the truth you'd never forgive me...//I made her that way. She's been killing people by the dozen while I was traveling with you./And she'll probably kill more.//I can't allow her to continue./Not anymore.//I've made up my mind./I shall put an end to my trip with the Hero and go destroy the Copy.)
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Sheyla: (Farewell. I guess we shall never meet again.)
Exa: Sheyla, what's wrong?!
Sheyla: ...Uh...
*shiver*
Angelica: Must be because you ate Sheyla-chan's portion, Exa-sama.
Exa: That's it?! But this is nothing worth crying about. Old man! Another cake!!
Chef: Right on.
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Sheyla: .......
Exa: There.. Don't cry.
Sheyla: (But.../I'll never see you again...)//Ugh
*brrr brrr brr brrrrr*
Angelica: Sheyla-chan, you can have mine too.
Exa: Ten more!!
Chef: I ain't go that many.
*todom todom*
Sheyla: (My head understands.../but my heart won't hear it.)
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Sheyla: (Sigh...//What should I do...?)
Bro: ..........
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*knock knock*
Bro: !/Come in.
*creak*
Esu: I'm Esu.
Bro: Aah... | I get to see someone different every time.
Esu: I hope you're feeling comfortable here in our village. Have you gotten used to the place yet?
Bro: I like it. It's quiet, and all. Whenever I need something, someone takes care of it for me right away./Um. There's one thing I wanted to ask, though...
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Bro: Why are there only females in this village?
Esu: To make it easier to spot any intruders./You're here to carry out the Lord's orders. | We wouldn't want to get you killed by monsters, brigands or anything of the sort. Such negligence would be unwelcome.
Bro: Yeah.../I'm not sure I understand, but yeah...//...So?/Did it work out?
*grin*
Esu: A great success./The Lord was very pleased.
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Bro: The Lord...?!/Pleased...?!
Esu: I must apologize for not giving you any time to relax./But let's begin mass production immediately. | We shall be counting on your guidance.
Bro: Yes! Of course...
Esu: You have a sharp mind, on top of which you're such a wonderful person. It is a pleasure for us to work with someone like you.*creak*
Esu: We'll be more than happy to help you should you need anything. Just let us know.
*slam*
Esu: .........
*gwosh*
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Kagami: We wiped out an entire village just to manufacture this./We have a significant number of humans gathered under our control thanks to that medicine./Although since we made soldiers out of the males because we needed them for their strength, only the females remain.//And now finally, this device is complete...//Soon/we will exterminate the human race...
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Tails: .......//..........
*clank*
Bro: René, my brother. I did it...
*grasp*
Bro: The Lord is pleased with me...
*thunk*
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Bro: Gahahahahaha!!//I created a device that incapacitates your defense mechanism./I have surpassed you, my older brother.//That's right./I'm the genius. Me.
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Bro: Forget about that worthless picture.*CRACK*
Bro: I will squash you flat/and stick you into the frame so I can admire that instead...
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Story.12 Sweet Fruit
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Sheyla: Haa/Haa//?!!
*tchrrrrrr*
*crack crack*
Sheyla: A dead end...
Dude: Nowhere left to run!!
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Dude: Demon Lord...!!
Sheyla: You're wrong. I'm not the Demon Lord!!
Mob: ........*stare*
Sheyla: (It's not like I expected my words to get through... But how did they find out who I was?/Only my ears would give it away that I'm a monster, and they're well-hidden...//I'm not sure what's going on/but let's just get out of here...)*vzum*
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Girl: Do you think we forgot what happened just a few days ago?!// What have you done to my village...?!/I survived, but now my voice is ruined.[tn: A small mob against a person they deem capable of singlehandedly destroying an entire village? Are these people nuts?]
Sheyla: ?!
Girl: Singing in the city theater was my dream./But I can't anymore...//Even if you do forget, I won't.
Sheyla: ...?!//Th... that wasn't me...
Girl: Did you think changing your hair and skin color would be enough?!*Ha*
Dude: Another village has been destroyed.
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Sheyla: (It must have been her.../But her creator is no one else but me.)
Girl: Do you have any idea how much pain I've been though by your fault...?//I'll never forgive you...
Sheyla: (So her current troubles are actually my fault.)
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Sheyla: (All I have is power//power for destruction//I did this to her...//Hero... You were right all along...//Harming others is unbearably painful...)
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Sheyla: (Yeah. It'd be so much better to just flee from it all.)
Exa: Huh...? Where did Sheyla go? Didn't I just tell her to wait for me here...?
Angelica: Exa-sama! We have a problem.
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Angelica: The townspeople found out Sheyla-chan was a monster, and now they're chasing her!
Exa: What...?!
Rocci: Hullo
Lakshri: Aaah, Exa. Angelica. Here we come. We catch up to you at last.//Uh...? Where's Sheyla-chan at...?
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Sheyla: Uh...
Jerry: Art! Art! She's waking up!
Art: That so, Jerry?[tn: Art? Now we know what happens to people who don't leave the Drome. :XD:]
Sheyla: ........
Jerry: My brother Art found you after you fell off a cliff.
Art: You fell from so high, yet somehow you didn't break a bone. Quite the miracle, if you ask me.//What on Earth happened? You got careless?
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Sheyla: ........
Art: Don't you think you owe us an explanation for saving your bum?
Jerry: Art! Don't be so harsh with her!
Art: Can it.... So? Who are you? Where do you come from?/It's not like we're gonna let you stay here forever, you know.
Sheyla: .........
Art: Are you still half asleep or what? Answer me.
Jerry: Art.
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Sheyla: I... I don't know who I am...[tn: I hereby officially coin the Kaiman syndrome.]
Art&Jerry: Huuuh?!
*flap*
Jerry: First things first. Let's give you a name.//How about Margaret...?*clank clonk* *rustle*
Art: Whatever. Not like it matters.
*creak*
Art: ......./These clothes of yours are a real mess. Just trash 'em.
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Art: Don't expect me to go easy on you just because of your amnesia.//The very fact that you still live makes you a burden. So just get to work.
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*FLAP*
Sheyla: Art, you're awesome. >You did great, right there<
Jerry: Yaaay.*huff puff*
Art: Awesome, my foot. >I ended up doing the job myself.<//Here you go.*woosh*
*spat*
Sheyla: ........
Art: I trust at least you know how to prepare a stew?
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Art: ........*brr brr brr*
Sheyla: Ouch.*snip*
Art: You're the epitome of useless.../Let me show you.
*pissed*
Art: And you're bleeding, too.*pfeh* *dudun*
Art: Just look at Jerry.*assiduous*
*dejected*
Art: Well.. I guess I can leave the rest to you guys.//I'm going to town.
Jerry: See you later, Art.
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*assiduous*
Sheyla: .......//I...//I'm really not good for anything.
Jerry: ........//Of course you are.//Just take your time over it./Eh, Miss Margaret.
Sheyla: ......../Sure. You're right.//Thank you.
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*dun*
Art: .......What the hell is this?
Sheyla: Stew....*clank*
Art: What's this, dog food?//Well no. Even a dog wouldn't touch this...//Cut 'em smaller...*dash!*
Art: What's wrong...?!
Jerry: That was terrible. She tried her best!!
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Art: Jerry, are you going after her?/Forget it.
Jerry: .........
*slam*
*splotch*
Sheyla: .......I can't even cook or clean properly........
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Sheyla: The more I think of it, the more I realize how useless I am...//I don't even have my memories..../But I'm sure I used to just as worthless.
Jerry: Miss Margaret!!/Thank goodness I found you...//Are you okay....?
Sheyla: You're a nice boy, Jerry..//But I'm wondering why Art is so harsh?
Jerry: Art can sure be unpleasant/but he's really kind.
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Jerry: He's a no-nonsense kind of guy./And I respect him a lot.
Sheyla: But he can be so strict.../Haaa.
Jerry: ...Sure. He could stand to be a little nicer./Anyway. It's pretty cold, around here. Let's head back...//Okay...?
Sheyla: Okay.
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Jerry: Uh...?//Where did I come from again...?
Sheyla: Uh...? Well, I don't remember either.
Jerry: What are we gonna do, nooooow...?!*swish*
Art: I warned you, didn't I?
Jerry: Art!!
Art: You have no sense of direction whatsoever...
Jerry: I knew you'd come. >Yaaay<
Art: Heh./How convenient...
Sheyla: .........
Art: Hey, you. Are you gonna stand there, spacing out forever?
Jerry: Art
Art: Do you think that's how you're gonna get somebody to help you?
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Sheyla: ...rsh....//Why are you so harsh...?//........
Art: Because I hate people who just run away.//Don't do it...
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Art: You're no good if you don't even know how to take care of yourself./Even Jerry's doing his best in that regard.//I'm gonna protect him no matter what, until he's old enough to manage on his own./I'll never run away from this task!//But someday he'll be on his own./Now you know why I'm so harsh.//Tell me I'm wrong...
Sheyla: ....... No.
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Sheyla: I'm sorry.
Art: .........//>Tsk< Going out again made me hungry.
Sheyla: Sorry. All we have is the stew.
Art: Ah. The stew. Never mind how it looks. It was almost edible.
Jerry: Art!//........../(I think I heard you wrong)*snap*
Art: ...........>Ugh<//Yeah... It was... good.../Kaaah.
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Art: Margaret!!
Sheyla: Yes Sir.
Art: I want seconds....
Sheyla: Eh...//Sure!!
*clank clank*
Art: There...
Sheyla: ...Mh...?
Art: Your clothes. These are for men. We can't have you wearing them forever, now can we?//I bought those at the human town nearby.*creak*
Art: I'm a guy, so my selection may not suit your tastes, though... >And I'd be neck-deep in trouble if the townspeople had found out there was a monster among them.<
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Sheyla: Thank you!
Art: ...Humph.
*clap clap*
Art: Kof.//(I screwed up...)
*thonk thonk*
*thonk thonk*
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*snap snap*
Art: Oh-ho. She's become pretty good.//.........
Jerry: Sure she did./Sure.
Art: Hey, Jerry.
Jerry: Mh...?
Art: Would you like it if Margaret was to stay with us? Forever...?
Jerry: Sure./But why do you ask?
Art: .........
*bwoom*
Jerry: Ow. | What the...?!
Exa: Sheyla!!
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Exa: I've been looking for you...!!
Bros: ?!!
*todom todom*
*baf*
Sheyla: Let go of me!!
*stat tap tap*
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Exa: Sheyla, the heck is wrong with you...?!
Art: That'd be her name, I take it?
Exa:..........? It is...
Art: What's going on between you and her?
Exa: We're more or less friends.
Art: And why would she be so afraid of her friends?!
Exa: .........
Angelica: Sheyla-chan!!*dash*
Lakshri: Sheyla-chan, what happened?!
Art: Stay where you are!
Lakshri: Duh?!
Art: She's lost her memories./But surely she subconsciously remembers running away from you. I don't know what happened? but you must have done horrible things to her!
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Lakshri: Hey pal! You have no idea what you're talking about... Listen up. We're...
Exa: Lakshri: we're off.
Lakshri: Uh...? But...
Exa: Let's go.//Please take care of Sheyla.
Art: ........
Exa: Farewell, Sheyla.
Lakshri: Hey, Exa! Not so fast!!
Angelica: Wai... Exa-sama...
Lakshri: What do you think you're doing?! Sheyla-chan is one of us!/We can't ditch her now, especially not when she's lost her memories!
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Exa: Sheyla's better off with them./These monsters don't look like a bad sort...
Lakshri: But come on...!!
Exa: And I trust you didn't forget? We're out on a trip to defeat the Demon Lord.
Lakshri: ......./Sure, but...
Exa: If she's lost her memories, fair enough./She's a monster. She had no business traveling with us in the first place. It was wrong.
Lakshri: .......
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Exa: ......../(Sheyla. If you are the Demon Lord, I'll have no other choice but to kill you./I don't wanna have to think of it. Not anymore.//If you really are the Demon Lord/I am betraying everyone and everything I ever stood for.//Even then... I wish you happiness. Even if the entire world must turn against me for it.)
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*todom todom*
Art: Everything okay?
Sheyla: Uh-huh...//That man... He scared me.../I could feel my heart racing/when he set his hands upon me.
Art: Huh//Tell me... Should your memories never return, would you mind staying here with us for a while...?
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Sheyla: Uh...?
Art: ...I'll be there for you.
Jerry: Brother!!
Mob: After you fell from that cliff it wasn't likely you'd survived, but we looked around just in case./Turns out it was a good idea.//You live.*brush*
Mob: Maou!!*DOOOOOM*
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Mob: We're gonna make sure to kill you off this time. Personally.//Say your prayers...!!
*whoomp*
Mob: ?!!
Art: I'll protect you!!
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Mob: Kill all the monsters!!
Jerry: Art!/Help me...!!
Art: Jerry!!
*gash*
Sheyla: ?!!
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*DOOOOOOOOOM*[tn: Sfx for "Yur gon' get RAEPD"]
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Mob: Uuuh//Aaah...
Art: Uh...
Jerry: Brothe...
*tremble tremble*
*stap* *crackle*
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Girl: I'll never.../forgive... you...
Sheyla: You're lucky you're still alive./If you have time to waste burning with thoughts of revenge, why don't you spend it thinking about your own dream instead?//Unless you wish to share the same fate as those unfortunates?
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Girl: Uh.../...Ah...//Ah...//Waaaaaaah!!Aaaaa-haaah.//Aaaaaaaaah.../Waaaaaah
Art: Uh...
Sheyla: Come to your senses?
Art: Margaret...?//Jerry... What about Jerry...?!
Sheyla: He'll be fine. He's just unconscious.
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*clank*
Sheyla: 'll go get some water.
Art: ?! | Are you... bailing out on us?
Sheyla: .........
Art: ?!!//It's him...!!/You're in love with the man who came here looking for you, and now you're going back to him, that's it?!//I don't care if you're the Demon Lord//It doesn't change my feelings for...
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*wham*
Sheyla: Even with my memories gone, I can't believe I wasted my time with you guys...//I mean, this isn't exactly my idea of entertaining.//Killing people off. Now that's fun.//You say you're gonna protect me? Me?/Don't make me laugh.
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Sheyla: Remember what happened!!//I'm the strongest being ever!!
Mob: Uh...//Huh...?//Strange... We've lost so much blood, and now our wounds are healed...//How the hell did that happen...?
Girl: ........
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Girl: ...Ahhh.//I got my voice back?!
Jerry: .........Was that really the Demon Lord?
Art: Beats me.
Jerry: Miss Margaret was really a nice monster./I'm sure she was...//When she hurt those people, she did it to protect us.
Art: Who knows?
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Jerry: The place feels empty, now.
Art: Hmph. Fine by me.//Now we can get back to the tranquility of our daily life...
Jerry: Art...
Art: !//........
Jerry: ........
Angelica: Exa-sama. Exa-sama!!//Exa-sama!!
Exa: Mh? Uuuh... What is it?
Angelica: (You've been lost in your won world)/You're looking kinda down, today...
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Exa: Ah, uh... Yeah...//Let's camp here for the day, then.
Angeica: We've bought some ingredients in town. How about a stew?//Alright. Lakshri, lend a hand!!
Lakshri: Uh?! I kinda suck with a knife, you see...
*brawn-for-brains*
Lakshri: Maybe I can use my sword...
Angelica: Put that down, you're scaring me.
Rocci: Knives are my specialty.*twink*
Angelica: I'm counting on you, Rocci-san...
*whack whack whack*
Rocci: What do you think? Pretty neat, eh?
Angelica: Are you gonna put them all through the same treatment? >Thanks, but no thanks<//Exa-sama
Exa: Uh...?
Angelica: I'll let you take care of the potatoes.
Exa: Okay.
*brawn-for-brains*
Angelica: Exa-sama. This isn't a potato...//Hey, Exa-sama. Helloooooo.
Exa: .........*gush*
Sheyla: Let go of me!!
Exa: Haaaaaaaaaaaaah*thump*
Exa: (It really hurts, after all)
Angelica: What's wrong, Exa-sama?! Exa-sama!!
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Angelica: There we are, and we still don't have anyone capable of preparing some ingredients properly.../Haaah.[tn: Is it a good time to ask how they manage to survive that long in the wilderness if they were unable to cook their own food properly?]
Sheyla: Give me that, Angelica.
Angelica: Uh... Sure. There you are.//Sheyla-chan...?!
Sheyla: There...
Angelica: That's awesome, Sheyla-chan. When did you become such a great cook?//What am I talking about?!/You got your memories back?!
Sheyla: Yeah... This is where I want to be./Because this is my place...
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*sob sob*
*bampf!*
Sheyla: Whoa!
Angelica: I was so worried, Sheyla-chan!!
Lakshri: Looks like fun. Can I join...?*trot trot* *Shoo Shoo*
Angelica: Stay away!
Lakshri: Duuuuuh...
Exa: .........
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Sheyla: .........
Art: You're going back to him because you love him, that's it?!
Sheyla: (You don't understand./The truth is that my memories were already back by the time the hero showed up.//But I still didn't want to go. I was afraid.//I wanted to feign amnesia and live with Art and his brother/I wanted to escape from reality.//But when the humans hurt them/I just had to do something.//At the thought of it, I could only feel one thing.)
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Sheyla: (Relish.//It's right there, inside of me. No matter how hard I try to stamp it out, the part of me that revels in destruction just won't go away./That's right. I'm the one who created the Copy. There's no mistaking it.//I have no power./Nothing. Except the power to destroy...)
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Sheyla: (So this time around I'll turn that power against all that is grief and sorrow.//No matter how far I run away, it will never be far enough.//Art. You taught me that escaping my problems was not a solution./So I'll face them. And I'll fight.)
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Sheyla: (I will fight against that other side of me...)//...Thank you. Art...
Superior Cross { 3 }. The End.
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Afterword
Ichtys: You're holding Superior Cross volume 3./Yahoooeeey.
Lakshri: (Yeeee-haaah)/Thank you for buying.
Ichtys: Days go by at a breakneck speed./Monthly publications is really fast business. I'm not quite used to it yet./Wooh.//Now I can't even tell night from day. I've lost any notion of time passing, actually./Ah. Flowurrrz. Ooh -hoo-hoo. Ah-hahaa.[tn: Literally “flower garden”, but meh.]
Lakshri: Hey, get a grip on yourself.
Ichtys: Ah. Come to think of it, I can't even remember how old I am.
Lakshri: That's because you DON'T WANT to think of it.
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Bonus manga
Rocci: My left shoulder's been feeling kinda heavy, of late.*pain pain*
Rocci: (Maybe it has to do with something I've been carrying. Nah, can't be.)//Huh.
Angelica: Aaah. So cuuute.
Sheyla: You look tasty nyaaow. Maybe you could make a good snack?
Rocci: (They're fattening him up?!)
*pudgy*
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Bonus manga
Exa: I've been feeling a bit dumpy these days. I'm wondering why...//Huh
Sheyla: Hero, what do you wannyaaa have for lunch today? You look pretty appetizing yourself, lately.
Exa: She... She's fattening me up...?!
This is the script.
Enjoy.
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Contents
Story.9 Rocci (Part 2) 3
Story.10 Wish 29
Story.11 The White God of Death 71
Story.12 Sweet Fruit 124
Cover page
Okina: To you goes all my gratitude.
Lakshri: Thanks a million times.
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Story.9 Rocci (Part 2)
010
Rocci: You must die.
Graham: I hate to do this, but you leave me no choice.
*wheeeeee*[tn: Whistling sound.]
011
Graham: If only you'd just listened to me. You brought this upon yourself.//You're coming with me. I'll use force if I have to.
012
Rocci: Let go of me.../Let g...
Graham: Save yourself the trouble.*shtap*
Graham: These little guys are more powerful than any human being.
*silence*
Graham: Will you finally be a good girl and just do as I say?//?!
013
Monster: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH*blob blob blob*
Rocci: I see...//My blood is an essential component to that drug you use to turn people into monsters...
Bird: Are... Are you okay?
Rocci: That's why you need me...//You're running out of antidote, I take it... Right?
Graham: ........
*chuckle*
Rocci: I'll interpret your silence as a confirmation.
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Rocci: One injection of serum will act as a counterpoison/but a second shot will turn it into a poison that eats away at your flesh.//The stronger the dose/the greater the rejection.//You've used it upon yourself, I presume...?
*baf*
*whack*
015
Graham: The serum...!!*crack*
Graham: While I wanted to take you with me, I wished I could have spared you any undue discomfort...//but you leave me no choice!!
016
*CLAAAAANG*
Rocci: Brother...!!
017
Crow: Dad...
Graham: ........
*swish*
*clap*
Crow: Rocci!! That's enough!!*grab*
Rocci: He's gonna kill more people. We can't let him go./He just has to die!!
018
Rocci: If we keep running away/this nightmare will never end...!!
019
*woosh*
*swish*
Graham: Aargh
*baf* fwap*
020
*fffffp*
*blob blob blob*
Graham: Eeek?!//My leg.../My leeeeeeg!!
*whud*
021
*flomp*
Rocci: !
Crow: !!
022
*thud*
Crow: .........//Dad!!*dash*
Rocci: Don't bother.//The well was empty... And dug pretty deep.../Even if he lives, he'll have only minutes left once the serum spreads.
023
Rocci: I told you... He was beyond reasoning with...//If we'd let him go, many more would have suffered.../he just had to die...
024
Rocci: And you're still telling me I shouldn't have killed him...?!//Call me a criminal, I don't care!!//I don't...:care!!*baf*
Crow: Don't say another word...!!
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Crow: When we were kids... I never got injected with any poison. Perhaps because I was meant to be his successor./I didn't know anything...//But one day/when I saw your hair color completely changed, I learned everything.//That's when I took you away/fleeing is the only thing I could do...//The idea was a simple one. You'd be fine if I never let you see him again.//But in truth, I was no more no less than running away...
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Crow: I should have killed him.//You were always the one who suffered./Forgive me...!!!//You can stop traveling with the hero, too. True enough, it was a request from the Prince/but there's no real need for you to do it.//It pains me to see you so cold-hearted...
Rocci: Brother!*grip*
Crow: ...What it it?
Rocci: I'll do it. Somebody has to./And I had to kill him.//It was my fate.
027
Rocci: Brother...
Crow: Yes...?
Rocci: Can I stay like this for a minute...?*bom*
Crow: Sure...
Rocci: (I can't think anymore/This is all too much)/I'm tired...
028
Rocci: I'm so awfully tired.../(That's right. Let me get some rest.//On the back of the one who always protected me...)
029
Rocci: (True./There were moments like that too//We were so happy//Why did it come to this?//Is there no place in this world for kindness? Why...?)
030
Rocci: (Ah... Now I understand. That expression the Maou shows sometimes.../surely this is what she's thinking...//She's probably not her old cruel and cold-hearted self any longer.)
031
Rocci: (But the crimes she committed as the Demon Lord aren't gonna disappear overnight./So what does she intend to do about it...?//I can't think of an answer, no matter how hard I try. And there's no turning back time.//So let's just forget. Let me forget everything.)
032
Rocci: (Let me take some rest and forget it all.//So I can return to my merciless self.//I'll kill the Demon Lord./Such are my orders. The purpose of my existence.)
033
Rocci: (I always had someone to protect me./But the day comes when one must stand for herself.//And that's why I have to be merciless.//Because in this world, you just have to be if you want to survive...
035
Lakshri: Clive could do just about anything.*dash!*
Clive: C'mon, Lakshri. Jump!!
Lakshri: But...
Dude: Wait!
Lakshri: ?!
*stare*
Lakshri: ........//I can't do it, Clive. I just can't!!
Clive: Don't stare down but ahead. Look ahead!
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Clive: Look at nothing else but me, and jump!!
Lakshri: Crap... I won't make it...
*grab*
*clasp*
037
Lakshri: Clive... Your hand!!*grin*
*grip*
Dude: I won't forget this, goddamned brats.
L&C: Haa/Haa
Lakshri: Clive.
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Clive: I'll be fine. It's just a scratch...
Lakshri: (You we always there to save me//That why I wanted to be the one to save you this time around.//And yet)
Clive: Argh...*sharp pain*
*sharp pain*
Lakshri: (I don't have what it takes to do so.)
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*sharp pain*
Lakshri: (I'm so powerless)
Story.10 Wish.
040
Dudes: Welcome back, Crow-sama. Rocci-sama.
Crow: Nothing unusual here in the castle while I was gone?
Dude: !*nervous*
Crow: What's wrong? Did something happen?
Dude: Huuh... Actually...
Crow: .......?
*startle*
*worn out*
Crow: Your Highness...?!!
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Crow: Your Highness, is there something wrong?//Your High...*dash*
Juneau: Stupid, stupid Crow.
Crow: ........
*stap stap stap*
*blaaam*
René: Welcome back. That was fast...
*duduuuuuuuuun*
Crow: I see... Looks like the paperwork hasn't made any progress at all....... It's pretty much hopeless without me around..........
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René: Actually, everything's done.
Crow: Uh?! You managed that much in only one day?!/How did you work that one out?!
René: The answer to that is a quite simple one./I merely exercised a little bit of severity.//Just a little bit...*smirk*
Crow: That would explain the Prince's reaction...!!
Juneau: Waaaaaaanh
René: Come on, faster. Let me see some work!!
Crow: That's René the Fiend for you.//Aaaah. So much done in only one day...//(If he's always gonna be THAT efficient, maybe I should let him do the job every once in a while...)*smile*
René: Considering having me do the job on occasion? Forget about it. I'm a busy man.../That defense mechanism is not gonna build itself.//What happened to that Graham man, by the way? Did you find him?
Crow: ?!!//........
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René: It didn't go over so well, it seems./What happened...?
*knock knock*
René: ! | ...Come in.
Val: Sorry for interrupting.*creak*
Crow: Valentin, eh...?/So you must be the doctor.
Raynald: My name is Raynald Altmann. | It is an honor.
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Raynald: And here are... | the famous human beings who turn into monsters.*shclank*
Raynald: Sleeping? Is that normal?
Doc: No. They're always fairly hectic, possibly out of pain. We're currently drugging them into settling down. | Please be careful. Itwouldn't be the first time a doctor got killed off./Also... Here's the data we've been able to collect so far.
Raynald: Physical ability 4 times greater than that of a normal man.../And about 10 times when they assume their monstrous shape........ Yeah.//Whoever did this was criminally insane./He modified them with utter disregard for the limits of human resistance./Any more of this treatment and their bodies won't be able to withstand it. They'll die...//?!!
René: ...What is it?
Raynald: ........
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Raynald: His pulse.../where is his pulse...?!//Are these guys really alive at all?
René: What are you talking about?//They ought to be. This morning again, they...
*todom*
*todom*
*todom* *glare*
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Raynald: ?!!
*GNAP*
*clink clink clink*
*gnap*
Doc: Drug him...!! | Quickly...!!*gnap*
Crow: Are you alright?
Raynald: Haaaah//I'll live. But this won't be going anywhere as long as you don't find whoever did this and bring them here.../Have you?
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Crow: No. He's dead...
René: Dead?! What is the meaning of this?!
Raynald: Are you sure?!
Crow: ?!
Raynald: Did you really go check?!
Crow: We could no longer see him once he fell down the well...
Raynald: Make sure, then. He might have survived.
Crow: Why...
Raynald: I've scanned this data as thoroughly as I could. It doesn't touch upon this ability of theirs at all.
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Raynald: These people.../can enter a state of apparent death at will.
Crow: ?!!
Raynald: Go check the well again!!
049
*pain*
Lakshri: (My leg hurts...)
*knock knock*
Dude: Excuse me. I'm bringing some water.*creak*
Dude: He kept the curtains closed.../He hasn't touched his meal either...//Ahem... You haven't left this room in quite a while. How about going out for a little walk?
050
Dude: I could lend you my shoulder if you wish...
Lakshri: No need.//I don't wanna go anywhere...
Dude: .......//I... I guess so./That wasn't a smart thing to say to someone with a wounded leg...//The weather's just wonderful, out there. I'll open the window.
*clasp*
Lakshri: Stop it.
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Lakshri: Sorry. Please leave me alone.*baf*
Dude: My... My apologies./.........
*slam*
Lakshri: (I'm exhausted...)//Haa...//(I woke up thinking of Clive./Yet no matter how hard I try, I can't find any way to help him out.//Maybe I really should have...)
052
Lakshri: Then I won't mind it if my leg never heals...*knock knock knock*
*BAOM*
Raynald: I'm here for an examination.*fwash*
Lakshri: .......//Ray... Raynald, was it...?
Raynald: Man... You didn't use to look quite that depressing, as I recall. Nevermind./You're next. Let me see.
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Raynald: I told you to let me examine your wound./Hurry, or I'll strip you naked
Lakshri: It's healed...?
Raynald: Healed?
Lakshri: Yes. There was a hole in my leg....
Raynald: Uhm. I see.//Which reminds me. The last time you got hurt you took the medicine that I created./It must still be effective.//What about the pain?
*sharp pain*
Lakshri: Argh...
Raynald: You're still hurting? Maybe your leg's healed but your nerves haven't recovered just yet./You seem perfectly fine to me, but I think I'll have another look...
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Lakshri: You said I was next.
Raynald: Yeah.//So you've already seen to those people who change into monsters?
Raynald: .........
Lakshri: You were able to cure them?
Raynald: I hate to say it.../But in all honesty... | I'm having trouble...
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Raynald: As long as we don't find the one who did this, I won't know what to do./Even if we do find him, there's no guarantee that we'll manage anything.
Lakshri: What are the chances of recovery according to your estimations?
Raynald: .......//Currently lesser than one percent.
Lakshri: .........!!
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Lakshri: Heal them... Heal them, I beg you...!!*bwaf*
Raynald: What's the problem...?
Lakshri: My friend is one of them!
Raynald: ?!!
Lakshri: I can't do... anything.
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Lakshri: I promised I'd save him/yet there was nothing I could do.//At this rate/I'll have no other choice but to kill him...//I can't do anything.../I'm totally worthless.//And I'd sooner die than live this way.[tn: Boo-hoo-hoo!! Seriously, I'll never understand how a story that corny managed to become so popular.]
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Raynald: ........*grit*
*whump*
Lakshri: Ooooooooooow?!!//Wha... What are you doing...? >Right in my sore spot...<
*bump bump*
Lakshri: Aaaaagh
Raynald: Don't be so full of yourself!!//I don't need you to ask me. I always work to the best of my ability. I'll heal those people./Less that one percent? So what? Enough of your whining!!
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Lakshri: But...
Raynald: I said I'd heal them, so I will.//Don't speak of things you know nothing about./Let the doctors handle the doctoring.//I'm a genius doctor. You just leave the difficult patients in my care.
Lakshri: ......../He just called himself a genius...
Raynald: A depressing guy like you couldn't even hope to help them even if he died trying.//Life and health belong only to the living.
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*grip*
Raynald: Don't you look down so long as you live. Face forward.//Even one as boring as you should manage something of note this way.//Dang it. Always thinking of something pointless. Why don't you clear your head some?! >I'm off<
*pain*
Rocci: So? How do you feel?/Was that a doctor? And what happened to the door?
Lakshri: .......
Rocci: ......./(No explanation?)//You'll be staying here a little longer, I presume? I'm leaving...
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Lakshri: ..........//Hey, Clive. You can do just about anything.
Clive: Of course not.
Lakshri: But you always end up saving me.
Clive: I'm merely putting up a good facade so you don't notice when I'm in way over my head.
Lakshri: Really...?
Clive: Yep.
*pain*
Lakshri: (I can't do anything...)
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Lakshri: (But I'm gonna do my best. For you.)
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Lakshri: (That's right. To hell with the pain.//To hell with the fatigue.//If anyone should be hurt an exhausted, it's him.)//My leg's fine, now. Let's go. We have a battle to fight.//(Let my leg hurt as much as it wants)*pain*
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Lakshri: (That way, I'll never forget about you. That's all.)*step step*
Val: This is the first time I see you really angry.
Raynald: I can't bear to hear someone wholesome blathering about their own death.//(But the thing I can bear the least/is that I showed weakness myself by saying those things.)//Sadism is my middle name.
Val: I know.
Raynald: But I didn't show much of that, today.
Val: Then who pounded someone's hurting leg repeatedly again?
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Raynald: Shut up. I cannot torment these people if they aren't at least somewhat healthy.//No way around it.//I'm gonna have to cure them.
Raynald: (Men struggle/in order to obtain what they wish...*swash*
Raynald: No matter how great the hurdle/No matter how powerless they feel)
066
Raynald: Because they just can't let go of whatever it is they wish for.)*bwash*
Lakshri: (I'll look straight at you//And this time around, I'll return the favor.)//Ah...//Sorry for what happened earlier...
067
Lakshri: Can you relay a message to the doctor who was there earlier?//Tell him I'm counting on him.//(Clive.)
068
Lakshri: (I'm gonna save you, I swear)/Alright. Let's go./(Just wait for me...//And watch me at it...)
*cough cough*
069
Clive: Ugh.//Coughhh coughhhh./Gasp. Gack. Cough....//Huuh..//!
*stap*
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Clive: What happened to your leg?
Graham: A little quarrel between parent and child.../It's nothing. Just give it some time, it's gonna grow back.
Clive: Grow back?
Graham: More importantly, we have a job to do.
Clive: ?!//........
Rocci: Following orders even if they disagree./Committing crime upon crime.
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Rocci: (Unable to flee, unable to die under their own terms.)
Clive: (I'll reach my limit soon enough.)//Kill me please./(I may have said that//But I don't really wanna die./If there's any I can be saved, I want it.//I wanna escape from this vicious circle.)
Lakshri: I'll help you!
Clive: (I'm placing all my hopes into you.)
072
Clive: (Lakshri/Please help me...)
Copy: The village, eh? There it was...//Thank you for leading me here./Aaah, I see. A barrier. Small wonder I had so much trouble locating it.
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Girl: The village gets attacked by monsters a lot.
Copy: Eh?!
Girl: But we're fine. Thanks to the defense mechanism René created for us.
Copy: That'd be the barrier, I take it?
Girl: Yes. People can get in, but monsters can't.
Copy: Is that so./So all those people must have grown foolish with peace.
Girl: Uh...
*crackle*
Girl: You're a monster?!*baf*
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Copy: Not quite.*crackle crackle*
*ploc*
Girl: Ugh...
Copy: I am the Demon Lord.
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Narrator: I was always there inside of her.//Confined in a dark and narrow cell.
Copy: Let me out./This isn't my place...
Narrator: Chances are this isn't what it really was like. | But this is how I remember it.
Copy: This isn't my world.//Please. I want to be free...*grab*
Copy: ?!
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Sheyla: Rise./You are my Copy.//Rise.//...I created her out of myself/and a little bit of earth.
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Narrator: ...This/is my new world.
Sheyla: Use her as your Demon Lord.
Narrator: This is... freedom...
Story.11 The White God of Death
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Girl: *singing*//*more singing*
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*bumpf*
Girl: Hey! Hey! What was it like?!
Copy: ...What do you mean?!
Girl: The song! What did I sound like?!
Copy: ......../Uuuhhhhm.//I felt like sleeping.
Girl: You mean it was boring?!
Copy: ...Oh well. It wasn't so bad, now was it...?*grin* *rustle*
Copy: ..Though I'm somewhat under the impression that you were expecting some praise.//Come on./Hoppity/Weren't you supposed to take me to the village if I listened to your song?
Girl: ...Can't say I didn't expect better, but a promise is a promise.
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Girl: My mummy used to sing in the city's theater./So I wanna leave the village to go there too, someday.
Copy: Wherever people live, I can't see any difference./Why don't you just sing in your own village?
Girl: Yeah.../This village is free from monster attacks. | The flowers are pretty and everyone is so kind. I like it. I really do.//But this isn't my place...
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Girl: Try to imagine.//The stage, completely silent. | The audience, gazing./The beautiful echo of a singing voice.//A hurricane of applause...
Copy: ......
Girl: It's all right there, in my heart.
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Girl: Someday, I'll leave for the city, and sing my songs on stage, like mummy used to.
Copy: You're just curious about the wonders of the whole wide world, aren't you?/Humpf/I get that a lot, from daydreaming little girls like you.
Girl: You don't understand.//It's not like... the daily life in my village is boring, or anything./I really mean it.//I can't find a good way to put it, but this isn't my world./Have you never felt the same...?
Copy: ......
Girl: Ah. Look. There we are.
*chuckle*
Copy: Go figure...
Girl: Go figure...?
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Copy: I've forgotten what the past was like...//because my present is just so much fun...*chatter*
People: Monster?!//What is a monster doing inside our village? How did it get there?!
086
People: What happened to the defense mechanism?!*fwash*
People: Is it broken?!
Copy: Step one: Infiltration. Complete.*vzum*
Copy: Now the next step./It's party time.
People: Eeeeeek.../Waaaaaaah!//Run for your lives!
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*thump* *swash* *whishh*
People: Aaaaaaaaah./Waaaaaaah!!
Copy: Come have fun with me, everyone.
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People: Haa.../Haa...//What was that...?!//Nevermind that. We're almost out of the village...//We're gonna make it...//?!
*bfwwashhh*
People: Aaaaaaaaargh!!
*perk..*
Copy: Sounds like somebody fell into my trap./Am I to understand some more people made it out?
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*grip*
*drag* *drag*
Copy: This is only the beginning. | Why don't you go have some more fun?*grrrruuuoooooaaaaaaaarrr*
090
People: A dragon?//That monster just pulled it out of the ground.
Copy: Go, dragon./These humans are yours to crush and trample at your leisure.
*grrrrraaaaaaaaaaaahhh*
*rrrooooaa*
*rooooh*
Dude: !
*THAAOOOOOOOMP*
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Specs: ...The//The beast's movements are slow!!*grrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaah* *stooooomp* *dash*
Dude: If we flee fast enough we should manage something.
*booom*
Dude: Everybody run. Ruuun!!*booom*
Copy: ...*tsk*
*peeved* *grind grind*
Copy: !
*grin*
Copy: I almost forgot./This isn't a party if nobody's dancing!
092
*stooooomp* *gash*
Dude: Uh..? Did that monster just.../save us...?
*grrrrraaaaaaaaaarrrrrghhh*
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*whump*
*crrraaaasshhhhh*
*grrraaaah*
Copy: Good!*baoom* *crunch* *brraom* *Aaaaaaaah*
Copy: Now you're showing me some nice steps!//Keep dancing. Keep dancing!/Ahahaha.
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*thump thump*
Copy: What do you think, humans?//Heh./They're all way too busy running...//Can't have that. Way too boring!/Go get yourselves squashed. Entertain me more!!//Ahaha Haha..
Dude: .......
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Dude: What's wrong with that one?
Guy: (Hey, stop it.)
Dude: People die, and she gets a kick out of it...//Treating even her ally like filth./You monstrous freak...
*vzum*
Copy: What...?
*stap*
Dude: Run away.//Uh?!*thump*
Copy: Monstrous freak, eh...?/Not quite.
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Copy: I am the Demon Lord.
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Copy: Mh? What's wrong You don't look so good./If you've got anything more to say, go ahead. I won't stop you.
*twitch twitch*
Copy: Uh?/I can't hear you.//Aah! I get it.
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Copy: You can't say anything more because you're already dead?!/HAHA HAHA/AHAHA//Ahahahaha | Hahaha!
*creak creak*
*thwack*
*thunk*
*swish*
099
Bow: !
Copy: Too bad. Try aiming better next time... mhh?
*tremble tremble*
Bow: ........
Copy: Oh, my. You're positively shaking./Fire the next round quickly, or I won't waste any time killing you.
100
*tilt*
Copy: ?!*baf*
Copy: Gunpowder?!*bfwosh*
Copy: Tsk
*kaboooom*
101
People: Hurray! The dragon's burning.*grrrrraaaaaaaaaah*
People: And the Demon Lord got caught in the blast!!//We defeated the Demon Looooooord!!!*yeaaaaaaaaaaah*
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Copy: Heh heh.../Heh heh//That was... amusing.*baf*
Copy: You seriously thought that little explosion would be enough to get the best of me? Amusing indeed.*gwoooooosh*
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People: She... she survived the flames...?![tn: She... She ain't naked?! Guess even her clothing is fireproof. Too bad. :hahaha:]
Copy: Here's your reward for keeping me entertained./Hope you like it!
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Copy: Ahahaha | Hahaha...//(So much fun...//So much, so much fun...//The best fun/ever...!!!//More grief/More cries...!!!)
105
Copy: More fear...!!!//As long as I have these, I shall control everything./I'll be free.//This world/is a brimming well of pleasure...!!![tn: This is gonna get misinterpreted. :konokono:]
106
*todom*
Copy: ?!
Sheyla: ...
Copy: Let... | me...*todom*
Copy: Out.. of...*TODOM*
Copy: here...//Huff.
107
*tremble tremble*
Copy: ...If I fool around too much/I'll get an earful from Kagami/...Heh.//I hate to leave you guys, but everything must come to an end./We all had such a great time, too.//Till we meet again...*snap*
108
*gwoosh*
*thump*
Copy: ...Just kidding./You guys won't be there to see it.
*drawing in*
*drag*
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*dragging*
Girl: Mummy...
Copy: Uh? Strange.//I was pretty sure I'd killed you.//And if you get out of here, you're gonna get blown to bits...//........./Ah.//I see. Not high enough, eh?/Silly me.
110
Copy: .......
Girl: Mum... my...//(This isn't my world./Have you never felt the same...?)
Copy: This place/it isn't my world.
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*baaaooom*
*crackle crack*
*fwoosh*
Copy: I was told.../to obliterate this village and its inhabitants.//You no longer live here.
112
Copy: ........*rustle rustle*
Copy: .......*todom*
*todom*
Copy: Damn it....//Damn it.*todom*
Copy: Damn it./Damn it!!*thump*
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*zwooosh*
Copy: I get to have some fun at long last./The best time I ever had.//I ought to be free of her.//But the image of her just keeps getting in my way.//Am I to understand I won't see the end of it until I take her life?
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Copy: If it must come to this/I shall fully claim my freedom.//By taking the head of the Original.*yumm*
Chef: Dear customer. If you'd be so kind...
Exa: Uh...? But I haven't bought anything...
Chef: The lady over there is with you, is she not?*om nom nom*
Exa: ......... >Ahem<
115
Exa: Hey! Sheyla, who told you you could...*nom nom*
Exa: .......*yummy*
Exa: Why, you...
Chef: Come on. Let me see some money...
Exa: At least ask me before you start eating everything!!//Aaah, women... Damn.../Huff Puff Puff.*ka-ching*
Chef: Thank you.
Sheyla: Last but not least. My favorite part../Aaaaah
*GULP*
Arrow: Hero.
Exa: It's your punishment for eating without asking for permission.*munch munch*
Exa: Hum. Delicious.
*brrrr brrrrr* *brrrrrr*
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Sheyla: STOOOPIIIIIIID!!! >You had to take this of all things!!<//It's a crime!/A crime, you hear me!!/You will face eternal hell, for this!!*bash bash*
Angelica: Sheyla-chan. If you trample him any more, he'll die before he gets the chance to have an offspring.
Dude: Another village has been destroyed.
Sheyla: ?!
People: And apparently there's only one survivor...//All of it perpetrated singlehandedly by a monster styling itself the Demon Lord.//I hear a village has been destroyed...//Wasn't that village experimenting a defense mechanism?/Yeah. The one created by René, the genius?/This means that René guy was all talk, doesn't it?
117
People: Towns and villages have been destroyed increasingly fast, lately./I'm afraid the same fate might befall our village too...
Exa: (...Maou...//Sheyla's been with us all the time./It can't be her.//That means the one I met once was the real deal, then...?/Judging by her looks I'd swear she was Sheyla's twin sister. But what is the connection between the two?)//Haaaah./(I'm gonna have to come right out and ask her someday...//...But when is this "someday", exactly...?)
118
Exa: (I've been putting off that question forever...)/........//(I'll ask her now)*todom*
Exa: (No more time for procrastination. | ...Is there?)/_____
Sheyla: Hero.*todom*
Sheyla: We'll defeat the Demon Lord... We must.
Exa: Uh...?
*smile*
Sheyla: .........
Exa: Su... Sure!/(You've got nothing to do with the Maou./Or you wouldn't be talking like that, right? Right?//Would you, Sheyla?)[tn: Ooops...]
119
Sheyla: (Hero.../If you ever learned the truth you'd never forgive me...//I made her that way. She's been killing people by the dozen while I was traveling with you./And she'll probably kill more.//I can't allow her to continue./Not anymore.//I've made up my mind./I shall put an end to my trip with the Hero and go destroy the Copy.)
120
Sheyla: (Farewell. I guess we shall never meet again.)
Exa: Sheyla, what's wrong?!
Sheyla: ...Uh...
*shiver*
Angelica: Must be because you ate Sheyla-chan's portion, Exa-sama.
Exa: That's it?! But this is nothing worth crying about. Old man! Another cake!!
Chef: Right on.
121
Sheyla: .......
Exa: There.. Don't cry.
Sheyla: (But.../I'll never see you again...)//Ugh
*brrr brrr brr brrrrr*
Angelica: Sheyla-chan, you can have mine too.
Exa: Ten more!!
Chef: I ain't go that many.
*todom todom*
Sheyla: (My head understands.../but my heart won't hear it.)
122
Sheyla: (Sigh...//What should I do...?)
Bro: ..........
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*knock knock*
Bro: !/Come in.
*creak*
Esu: I'm Esu.
Bro: Aah... | I get to see someone different every time.
Esu: I hope you're feeling comfortable here in our village. Have you gotten used to the place yet?
Bro: I like it. It's quiet, and all. Whenever I need something, someone takes care of it for me right away./Um. There's one thing I wanted to ask, though...
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Bro: Why are there only females in this village?
Esu: To make it easier to spot any intruders./You're here to carry out the Lord's orders. | We wouldn't want to get you killed by monsters, brigands or anything of the sort. Such negligence would be unwelcome.
Bro: Yeah.../I'm not sure I understand, but yeah...//...So?/Did it work out?
*grin*
Esu: A great success./The Lord was very pleased.
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Bro: The Lord...?!/Pleased...?!
Esu: I must apologize for not giving you any time to relax./But let's begin mass production immediately. | We shall be counting on your guidance.
Bro: Yes! Of course...
Esu: You have a sharp mind, on top of which you're such a wonderful person. It is a pleasure for us to work with someone like you.*creak*
Esu: We'll be more than happy to help you should you need anything. Just let us know.
*slam*
Esu: .........
*gwosh*
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Kagami: We wiped out an entire village just to manufacture this./We have a significant number of humans gathered under our control thanks to that medicine./Although since we made soldiers out of the males because we needed them for their strength, only the females remain.//And now finally, this device is complete...//Soon/we will exterminate the human race...
127
Tails: .......//..........
*clank*
Bro: René, my brother. I did it...
*grasp*
Bro: The Lord is pleased with me...
*thunk*
128
Bro: Gahahahahaha!!//I created a device that incapacitates your defense mechanism./I have surpassed you, my older brother.//That's right./I'm the genius. Me.
129
Bro: Forget about that worthless picture.*CRACK*
Bro: I will squash you flat/and stick you into the frame so I can admire that instead...
130
Story.12 Sweet Fruit
131
Sheyla: Haa/Haa//?!!
*tchrrrrrr*
*crack crack*
Sheyla: A dead end...
Dude: Nowhere left to run!!
132
Dude: Demon Lord...!!
Sheyla: You're wrong. I'm not the Demon Lord!!
Mob: ........*stare*
Sheyla: (It's not like I expected my words to get through... But how did they find out who I was?/Only my ears would give it away that I'm a monster, and they're well-hidden...//I'm not sure what's going on/but let's just get out of here...)*vzum*
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Girl: Do you think we forgot what happened just a few days ago?!// What have you done to my village...?!/I survived, but now my voice is ruined.[tn: A small mob against a person they deem capable of singlehandedly destroying an entire village? Are these people nuts?]
Sheyla: ?!
Girl: Singing in the city theater was my dream./But I can't anymore...//Even if you do forget, I won't.
Sheyla: ...?!//Th... that wasn't me...
Girl: Did you think changing your hair and skin color would be enough?!*Ha*
Dude: Another village has been destroyed.
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Sheyla: (It must have been her.../But her creator is no one else but me.)
Girl: Do you have any idea how much pain I've been though by your fault...?//I'll never forgive you...
Sheyla: (So her current troubles are actually my fault.)
135
Sheyla: (All I have is power//power for destruction//I did this to her...//Hero... You were right all along...//Harming others is unbearably painful...)
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Sheyla: (Yeah. It'd be so much better to just flee from it all.)
Exa: Huh...? Where did Sheyla go? Didn't I just tell her to wait for me here...?
Angelica: Exa-sama! We have a problem.
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Angelica: The townspeople found out Sheyla-chan was a monster, and now they're chasing her!
Exa: What...?!
Rocci: Hullo
Lakshri: Aaah, Exa. Angelica. Here we come. We catch up to you at last.//Uh...? Where's Sheyla-chan at...?
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Sheyla: Uh...
Jerry: Art! Art! She's waking up!
Art: That so, Jerry?[tn: Art? Now we know what happens to people who don't leave the Drome. :XD:]
Sheyla: ........
Jerry: My brother Art found you after you fell off a cliff.
Art: You fell from so high, yet somehow you didn't break a bone. Quite the miracle, if you ask me.//What on Earth happened? You got careless?
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Sheyla: ........
Art: Don't you think you owe us an explanation for saving your bum?
Jerry: Art! Don't be so harsh with her!
Art: Can it.... So? Who are you? Where do you come from?/It's not like we're gonna let you stay here forever, you know.
Sheyla: .........
Art: Are you still half asleep or what? Answer me.
Jerry: Art.
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Sheyla: I... I don't know who I am...[tn: I hereby officially coin the Kaiman syndrome.]
Art&Jerry: Huuuh?!
*flap*
Jerry: First things first. Let's give you a name.//How about Margaret...?*clank clonk* *rustle*
Art: Whatever. Not like it matters.
*creak*
Art: ......./These clothes of yours are a real mess. Just trash 'em.
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Art: Don't expect me to go easy on you just because of your amnesia.//The very fact that you still live makes you a burden. So just get to work.
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*FLAP*
Sheyla: Art, you're awesome. >You did great, right there<
Jerry: Yaaay.*huff puff*
Art: Awesome, my foot. >I ended up doing the job myself.<//Here you go.*woosh*
*spat*
Sheyla: ........
Art: I trust at least you know how to prepare a stew?
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Art: ........*brr brr brr*
Sheyla: Ouch.*snip*
Art: You're the epitome of useless.../Let me show you.
*pissed*
Art: And you're bleeding, too.*pfeh* *dudun*
Art: Just look at Jerry.*assiduous*
*dejected*
Art: Well.. I guess I can leave the rest to you guys.//I'm going to town.
Jerry: See you later, Art.
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*assiduous*
Sheyla: .......//I...//I'm really not good for anything.
Jerry: ........//Of course you are.//Just take your time over it./Eh, Miss Margaret.
Sheyla: ......../Sure. You're right.//Thank you.
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*dun*
Art: .......What the hell is this?
Sheyla: Stew....*clank*
Art: What's this, dog food?//Well no. Even a dog wouldn't touch this...//Cut 'em smaller...*dash!*
Art: What's wrong...?!
Jerry: That was terrible. She tried her best!!
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Art: Jerry, are you going after her?/Forget it.
Jerry: .........
*slam*
*splotch*
Sheyla: .......I can't even cook or clean properly........
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Sheyla: The more I think of it, the more I realize how useless I am...//I don't even have my memories..../But I'm sure I used to just as worthless.
Jerry: Miss Margaret!!/Thank goodness I found you...//Are you okay....?
Sheyla: You're a nice boy, Jerry..//But I'm wondering why Art is so harsh?
Jerry: Art can sure be unpleasant/but he's really kind.
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Jerry: He's a no-nonsense kind of guy./And I respect him a lot.
Sheyla: But he can be so strict.../Haaa.
Jerry: ...Sure. He could stand to be a little nicer./Anyway. It's pretty cold, around here. Let's head back...//Okay...?
Sheyla: Okay.
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Jerry: Uh...?//Where did I come from again...?
Sheyla: Uh...? Well, I don't remember either.
Jerry: What are we gonna do, nooooow...?!*swish*
Art: I warned you, didn't I?
Jerry: Art!!
Art: You have no sense of direction whatsoever...
Jerry: I knew you'd come. >Yaaay<
Art: Heh./How convenient...
Sheyla: .........
Art: Hey, you. Are you gonna stand there, spacing out forever?
Jerry: Art
Art: Do you think that's how you're gonna get somebody to help you?
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Sheyla: ...rsh....//Why are you so harsh...?//........
Art: Because I hate people who just run away.//Don't do it...
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Art: You're no good if you don't even know how to take care of yourself./Even Jerry's doing his best in that regard.//I'm gonna protect him no matter what, until he's old enough to manage on his own./I'll never run away from this task!//But someday he'll be on his own./Now you know why I'm so harsh.//Tell me I'm wrong...
Sheyla: ....... No.
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Sheyla: I'm sorry.
Art: .........//>Tsk< Going out again made me hungry.
Sheyla: Sorry. All we have is the stew.
Art: Ah. The stew. Never mind how it looks. It was almost edible.
Jerry: Art!//........../(I think I heard you wrong)*snap*
Art: ...........>Ugh<//Yeah... It was... good.../Kaaah.
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Art: Margaret!!
Sheyla: Yes Sir.
Art: I want seconds....
Sheyla: Eh...//Sure!!
*clank clank*
Art: There...
Sheyla: ...Mh...?
Art: Your clothes. These are for men. We can't have you wearing them forever, now can we?//I bought those at the human town nearby.*creak*
Art: I'm a guy, so my selection may not suit your tastes, though... >And I'd be neck-deep in trouble if the townspeople had found out there was a monster among them.<
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Sheyla: Thank you!
Art: ...Humph.
*clap clap*
Art: Kof.//(I screwed up...)
*thonk thonk*
*thonk thonk*
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*snap snap*
Art: Oh-ho. She's become pretty good.//.........
Jerry: Sure she did./Sure.
Art: Hey, Jerry.
Jerry: Mh...?
Art: Would you like it if Margaret was to stay with us? Forever...?
Jerry: Sure./But why do you ask?
Art: .........
*bwoom*
Jerry: Ow. | What the...?!
Exa: Sheyla!!
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Exa: I've been looking for you...!!
Bros: ?!!
*todom todom*
*baf*
Sheyla: Let go of me!!
*stat tap tap*
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Exa: Sheyla, the heck is wrong with you...?!
Art: That'd be her name, I take it?
Exa:..........? It is...
Art: What's going on between you and her?
Exa: We're more or less friends.
Art: And why would she be so afraid of her friends?!
Exa: .........
Angelica: Sheyla-chan!!*dash*
Lakshri: Sheyla-chan, what happened?!
Art: Stay where you are!
Lakshri: Duh?!
Art: She's lost her memories./But surely she subconsciously remembers running away from you. I don't know what happened? but you must have done horrible things to her!
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Lakshri: Hey pal! You have no idea what you're talking about... Listen up. We're...
Exa: Lakshri: we're off.
Lakshri: Uh...? But...
Exa: Let's go.//Please take care of Sheyla.
Art: ........
Exa: Farewell, Sheyla.
Lakshri: Hey, Exa! Not so fast!!
Angelica: Wai... Exa-sama...
Lakshri: What do you think you're doing?! Sheyla-chan is one of us!/We can't ditch her now, especially not when she's lost her memories!
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Exa: Sheyla's better off with them./These monsters don't look like a bad sort...
Lakshri: But come on...!!
Exa: And I trust you didn't forget? We're out on a trip to defeat the Demon Lord.
Lakshri: ......./Sure, but...
Exa: If she's lost her memories, fair enough./She's a monster. She had no business traveling with us in the first place. It was wrong.
Lakshri: .......
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Exa: ......../(Sheyla. If you are the Demon Lord, I'll have no other choice but to kill you./I don't wanna have to think of it. Not anymore.//If you really are the Demon Lord/I am betraying everyone and everything I ever stood for.//Even then... I wish you happiness. Even if the entire world must turn against me for it.)
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*todom todom*
Art: Everything okay?
Sheyla: Uh-huh...//That man... He scared me.../I could feel my heart racing/when he set his hands upon me.
Art: Huh//Tell me... Should your memories never return, would you mind staying here with us for a while...?
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Sheyla: Uh...?
Art: ...I'll be there for you.
Jerry: Brother!!
Mob: After you fell from that cliff it wasn't likely you'd survived, but we looked around just in case./Turns out it was a good idea.//You live.*brush*
Mob: Maou!!*DOOOOOM*
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Mob: We're gonna make sure to kill you off this time. Personally.//Say your prayers...!!
*whoomp*
Mob: ?!!
Art: I'll protect you!!
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Mob: Kill all the monsters!!
Jerry: Art!/Help me...!!
Art: Jerry!!
*gash*
Sheyla: ?!!
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*DOOOOOOOOOM*[tn: Sfx for "Yur gon' get RAEPD"]
165
Mob: Uuuh//Aaah...
Art: Uh...
Jerry: Brothe...
*tremble tremble*
*stap* *crackle*
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Girl: I'll never.../forgive... you...
Sheyla: You're lucky you're still alive./If you have time to waste burning with thoughts of revenge, why don't you spend it thinking about your own dream instead?//Unless you wish to share the same fate as those unfortunates?
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Girl: Uh.../...Ah...//Ah...//Waaaaaaah!!Aaaaa-haaah.//Aaaaaaaaah.../Waaaaaah
Art: Uh...
Sheyla: Come to your senses?
Art: Margaret...?//Jerry... What about Jerry...?!
Sheyla: He'll be fine. He's just unconscious.
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*clank*
Sheyla: 'll go get some water.
Art: ?! | Are you... bailing out on us?
Sheyla: .........
Art: ?!!//It's him...!!/You're in love with the man who came here looking for you, and now you're going back to him, that's it?!//I don't care if you're the Demon Lord//It doesn't change my feelings for...
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*wham*
Sheyla: Even with my memories gone, I can't believe I wasted my time with you guys...//I mean, this isn't exactly my idea of entertaining.//Killing people off. Now that's fun.//You say you're gonna protect me? Me?/Don't make me laugh.
170
Sheyla: Remember what happened!!//I'm the strongest being ever!!
Mob: Uh...//Huh...?//Strange... We've lost so much blood, and now our wounds are healed...//How the hell did that happen...?
Girl: ........
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Girl: ...Ahhh.//I got my voice back?!
Jerry: .........Was that really the Demon Lord?
Art: Beats me.
Jerry: Miss Margaret was really a nice monster./I'm sure she was...//When she hurt those people, she did it to protect us.
Art: Who knows?
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Jerry: The place feels empty, now.
Art: Hmph. Fine by me.//Now we can get back to the tranquility of our daily life...
Jerry: Art...
Art: !//........
Jerry: ........
Angelica: Exa-sama. Exa-sama!!//Exa-sama!!
Exa: Mh? Uuuh... What is it?
Angelica: (You've been lost in your won world)/You're looking kinda down, today...
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Exa: Ah, uh... Yeah...//Let's camp here for the day, then.
Angeica: We've bought some ingredients in town. How about a stew?//Alright. Lakshri, lend a hand!!
Lakshri: Uh?! I kinda suck with a knife, you see...
*brawn-for-brains*
Lakshri: Maybe I can use my sword...
Angelica: Put that down, you're scaring me.
Rocci: Knives are my specialty.*twink*
Angelica: I'm counting on you, Rocci-san...
*whack whack whack*
Rocci: What do you think? Pretty neat, eh?
Angelica: Are you gonna put them all through the same treatment? >Thanks, but no thanks<//Exa-sama
Exa: Uh...?
Angelica: I'll let you take care of the potatoes.
Exa: Okay.
*brawn-for-brains*
Angelica: Exa-sama. This isn't a potato...//Hey, Exa-sama. Helloooooo.
Exa: .........*gush*
Sheyla: Let go of me!!
Exa: Haaaaaaaaaaaaah*thump*
Exa: (It really hurts, after all)
Angelica: What's wrong, Exa-sama?! Exa-sama!!
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Angelica: There we are, and we still don't have anyone capable of preparing some ingredients properly.../Haaah.[tn: Is it a good time to ask how they manage to survive that long in the wilderness if they were unable to cook their own food properly?]
Sheyla: Give me that, Angelica.
Angelica: Uh... Sure. There you are.//Sheyla-chan...?!
Sheyla: There...
Angelica: That's awesome, Sheyla-chan. When did you become such a great cook?//What am I talking about?!/You got your memories back?!
Sheyla: Yeah... This is where I want to be./Because this is my place...
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*sob sob*
*bampf!*
Sheyla: Whoa!
Angelica: I was so worried, Sheyla-chan!!
Lakshri: Looks like fun. Can I join...?*trot trot* *Shoo Shoo*
Angelica: Stay away!
Lakshri: Duuuuuh...
Exa: .........
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Sheyla: .........
Art: You're going back to him because you love him, that's it?!
Sheyla: (You don't understand./The truth is that my memories were already back by the time the hero showed up.//But I still didn't want to go. I was afraid.//I wanted to feign amnesia and live with Art and his brother/I wanted to escape from reality.//But when the humans hurt them/I just had to do something.//At the thought of it, I could only feel one thing.)
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Sheyla: (Relish.//It's right there, inside of me. No matter how hard I try to stamp it out, the part of me that revels in destruction just won't go away./That's right. I'm the one who created the Copy. There's no mistaking it.//I have no power./Nothing. Except the power to destroy...)
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Sheyla: (So this time around I'll turn that power against all that is grief and sorrow.//No matter how far I run away, it will never be far enough.//Art. You taught me that escaping my problems was not a solution./So I'll face them. And I'll fight.)
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Sheyla: (I will fight against that other side of me...)//...Thank you. Art...
Superior Cross { 3 }. The End.
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Afterword
Ichtys: You're holding Superior Cross volume 3./Yahoooeeey.
Lakshri: (Yeeee-haaah)/Thank you for buying.
Ichtys: Days go by at a breakneck speed./Monthly publications is really fast business. I'm not quite used to it yet./Wooh.//Now I can't even tell night from day. I've lost any notion of time passing, actually./Ah. Flowurrrz. Ooh -hoo-hoo. Ah-hahaa.[tn: Literally “flower garden”, but meh.]
Lakshri: Hey, get a grip on yourself.
Ichtys: Ah. Come to think of it, I can't even remember how old I am.
Lakshri: That's because you DON'T WANT to think of it.
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Bonus manga
Rocci: My left shoulder's been feeling kinda heavy, of late.*pain pain*
Rocci: (Maybe it has to do with something I've been carrying. Nah, can't be.)//Huh.
Angelica: Aaah. So cuuute.
Sheyla: You look tasty nyaaow. Maybe you could make a good snack?
Rocci: (They're fattening him up?!)
*pudgy*
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Bonus manga
Exa: I've been feeling a bit dumpy these days. I'm wondering why...//Huh
Sheyla: Hero, what do you wannyaaa have for lunch today? You look pretty appetizing yourself, lately.
Exa: She... She's fattening me up...?!
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