Mephisto 6

MEPHISTO #6

tl by molokidan

105)
A: You can open your eyes now.
R(2b): What is this place...? I feel dizzy...
A: You'll get used to it soon.
R: I can hear something...like the voices of a crowd...

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Chapter III 2 - Leap

107)
R: The Colosseum?!
sfx: waaaaaah

108)
R: How can this be...?!
A(3b): What you see before your eyes is neither an illusion nor a dream. In an instant, we have traveled 1900 years into the past to the ancient city of Rome.
R: I can't believe this...
A: It looks like the gladiators' battle is just about to begin.
A: Let's watch for a bit.

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sfx: gashaaaaaan!
sfx: gashaaaaaan!
sfx: gan!
sfx: gan!
sfx: gashan!

110)
sfx: Gah!
sfx: kan kan kan
sfx: zuh
sfx: gashan!

111)
sfx: waaaaaaah
sfx: zun!

112)
sfx: waaaaah
A: What's wrong? This doesn't seem like you.
A: In this age, watching such battles was a way for the Romans to relieve their frustration.
A: This is because the magnificent "Pax Romana" was actually just a magnificent amount of free time and boredom.
R: I wonder what they think when they look at us...?
A: They're more focus on other things right now.
A: Look! It's time for today's main event.

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A: Emperors throughout history have always strived to keep two things alive more than anything else: "bread and entertainment," both of which the masses have constantly anticipated.
A: In this case, festival days featuring events such as these numbered over 200 a year.
A(2b): Not even this much bloodshed was enough to appease the desires of most of those in power, though, and so they would nightly engage in even more atrocious and decadent self-indulgent pleasures...
A(2b): The Tyrants Nero, Tiberius, Caracalla, and Caligula...they're all your superiors.
R: Ahh?!

114)
A: Something wrong?
R: What's going to happen to them...?!

115)
A(2b): They're all Christians who have been sentenced to death, and will become prey for starving beasts.
L: grrrrr
sfx: gara gara gara
R: Stop them!!

116)
sfx: doooooon
R: Uwahh!
sfx: zuzuzuzuzu

117)
R: What's happening?!
A: A volcano is erupting!
R: Volcano?!
R(3b): I see...I thought I had seen that mountain somewhere before...Mount Vesuvius!
R: That means this place is...?!
sfx: dokan!

118)
R: Pompeii!!
R(2b): Oct. 24, 79 AD! On this day, the entire city of Pompeii was instantly buried under volcanic ash and lava!
A: Rudou! Where are you going?!

119)
A: Why did you save her...?

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sfx: guoooohhh
sfx: hyuuuuun
sfx: gan!
sfx: dogah

121)
sfx: waaaaah
R(2b): Let's try not to get caught up in all the panic. As long as we don't get in a hurry, we should be fine...according to history, 90% of the citizens were saved, after all.
R: Hang in there!

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Mount Vesuvius

Located on the coast of the Bay of Naples in eastern Italy that brought upon the death of 10,000 to 25,000 people in 79 AD. It has been recorded as erupting approximately 50 times since, including a particularly devastating one in 1631 which buried many villages under lava flows and killed roughly 3,000 people.

A: Hey, Rudou, let's rest for a bit.
R: No! If we waste too much time, the toxic gas might reach us.

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Pompeii

Fell under Roman rule in 89 BC, and became a prosperous center of both agriculture and business, and also flourished as a health resort for Roman aristocrats. Pompeii has often been called a miniature version of Rome's golden age.

A: I'm fine, but that girl...

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R(3b): Fine...luckily, there seems to be a water supply here. Let's stop for a moment.
A: You're really showing me a side I didn't expect to see.
sfx: hyuuun
A: Watch out!

125)
sfx: gushan!
R: Youko!!

126)
sfx: dotah!
P: Hey! What's wrong?!
P: Hey!

127)
P: What happened?
P: We're not sure. He just suddenly fell unconscious when speaking with his visitor.
P: Could this be a chronic disease?
P: We don't have any records of something like that.
P: He seems to merely be sleeping now, though. His pulse and blood pressure are both normal.
P: Hmmm...I suppose there's no need to call a specialist, then...
P(2b): Tomorrow is supposed to be the next day of the trial...we'll just have to tell them it isn't possible for him to make it.
G: In order to fully perceive the complicated structure of the defendant, Rudou Reiji, as a human, we would like to take this opportunity to introduce an extremely important witness to the trial.
G(2b): We believe this witness's testimony may have the power to completely overthrow the defense side's theory of the defendant's loss of sanity and weakened mental state during the period of the crimes.

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G: Now then, would the witness, Kamizono Youko-san please come to the stand?
Y: I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help me God.

Chapter III 2 - Leap / End