Superior Cross 26

SUPERIOR CROSS #26

tl by molokidan

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Story.26 - The Dark Emperor's Trap

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1: Why did I meet the hero?
2: ...why
3: did I fall in love with the hero?

94)
1: Is this a clock...?
2: Hero!!
3: Angelica, Rossi...everyone!!
4: bang bang
5: Huh? What?
6: I can't hear what you're saying!!
7: I have to heal the hero at once...
8: Heal!!

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1: I can't use magic?
2: This is just like what happened with Rossi's father...
3: Maybe it's because of this dome.
4: If I break it...
5: slide...
6: What is this...?
7: This dome will never break no matter how hard you bang on it.
8: And even if you could, that wouldn't let you use magic again.

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1: All you can do is watch them die.
2: slide...
3: You...!!!
4: I just told you you couldn't break it...you're so simple-minded, as usual.
5: I sometimes wonder if you really are a clone of me.
6: Just watch me.

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1: I can get this.
2: Even this big.
3: I told you, this is MY territory.
4-5(small): Oof!
6: Whatever I imagine, I can do.
7: We play by my rules here.
8: Whatever I say is absolute.

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1: In return, if anyone lies, the lie will come back to you. The territory erases all.
2: ...so, he isn't actually
3: all-powerful here...
4: Why did you bring us here?
5: Because I can't forgive you.
6: You were born from me. How did you become so ugly...?
7: I brought you here to remember the past...

99)
1: Ugly...? What do you mean?
2: You like him, don't you?!
3: You didn't have any sort of feelings like that before you met him!
4: That's right! Remember the pure feelings you had back then!!
5: Pure instincts! Pure hatred!! Pure happiness!!!
6: ...Anyway.

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1: I'll give you two choices. You can choose either one.
2: While you're busy explaining that, they'll...
3: No, these are both good choices for you.
4: Depending on the result, I may even save the hero and your friends. I may even cease my destruction of the human race.
5: Really?!
6: Yes.

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1: Huh? Don't you trust me?
2: I told you I can't lie, right?
3: But I have no choice.
4: Fine, alright.
5: Then let's begin.
6: Even if it is a trap, I have to go along.

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1: The clock moved!
2: Here's your first choice.
3: Kill the hero by your own hand.
4: Then I will cease my destruction of the human race.
5: Your other choice...is to destroy the world with me. Then I'll let the hero and your friends survive.
6: Now, choose.

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1: Fuck you!! How could I pick either one of those?!
2: Hm...but the clock's already started moving. Better pick fast.
3: The minute hand will slice your friends in two when they reach it.
4: First...
5: is the hero.
6: Stop...please...!!!
7: I can't.
8: Sheila!!! Kill me!!
9: Don't falter!!
10: Hero...I can't hear what you're saying...!!

104)
1: ...but you're probably
2: telling me to kill you, right?
2: I know, because that's the kind of person you are.
3: All...
4: I've ever seen was you.
5: That's how I know.
6: I agreed to this to help you.
7: Because you gave me so much happiness.
8: How could I kill you?
9: But if you wish it, then I can even go against my own wishes.
10: I'll kill the hero.
11: Yeah. It's ridiculous to sacrifice the entire world just for one person.
12: That's the right choice.

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1: Hero!!
2: That's a voodoo doll of the hero. If you strangle it, you can kill him easily.
3: Like so...
4: Guuuh!
5: Uuu...
6(2b): Haa...hah...

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1: He...ro...
2-3: hah
4: He's bleeding...
5: I can't strangle him like this...
6: Oh, one more thing. I won't count it if you strangle him after the minute hand slices him.
7: So stop wasting time and get on with it! You want to run out of time?
8: Sheila, hurry...kill me...
9: My heart aches...
10: Yet...if you wish it...!!

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1: Guhhh!!!
2: Exa-sama!!
3: I can't believe he's forcing her to kill the one she loves.
4: What cruelty...!!
5: It's...it's sickening...
6: You plan on protecting this terrible world even though it's forcing you to kill him?
7: And he's just trying to torture her even more on top of it...
8: No...
9: I learned something from meeting the Hero: that all lives are equal! Every single one of them is wonderful!
10: This world is worth protecting!

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1: Are you serious?
2: That sounds so cliche.
3: I'm serious!!
4: Maybe you just happened to meet a bunch of people who were worth protecting?
5: There are a ton of ugly people out there. Think back...
6: To that one time...
7: That other time...
8: and that time!
9: You grew up believing that this world
10: wasn't worth protecting, didn't you?

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1: Yet you're starting at the hero's face and lying. Because you don't want him to hate you.
2: Go on, tell the truth.
3: Follow your instinct.
4: Look...he's in pain. Your time's almost up.
5: S...top...Sheila...don't listen to him...
6: That may be true. There are a lot of ugly people out there.
7: This world isn't filled with perfectly beautiful things.
8: You can only call the world beautiful if you pretend to be blind to its ugly spots.
9: The hero taught me that power isn't everything.
10: Live with hope, and someday, your dreams will come true.
11: But I've seen people easily killed off no matter how they struggled, no matter how right they were.
12: I...I laughed, watching them.

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1-2: Lie...
3: Lie...!!!
4: I have to lie to myself...
5: ...I know.

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1: But I just can't...
2: Sheila...
3: No...
4: Hero!!

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1: Please!! I'll help you destroy the world, so
2: just stop the needle...!!!

113)
1: The needle disappeared!
2: ...my wounds
3: are healing?!
4: ...so what he said about lies erasing things was true!
5: This world is filled with selfish people.
6: Why do I have to lie to myself in order to protect it...?
7: Stop! Kill me!!
8: Shut up.
9: It isn't your choice.
10: Hero...you're probably angry...of course you are.
11(2b): And...it seems like you can hear me. Why can you hear me?
12: ...but that doesn't matter now...
13: I accept it. I'm ugly.

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1: I exchanged the world for the hero.
2: A heart that loves people didn't make me beautiful, it made me ugly.
3: Just like this world.
4: I'm ugly.
5: Why did I meet the hero then?
6: Why did I fall in love with him?
7: I killed humans like the hero so easily before then...
8: Just like he said, in terms of pureness, I was just more beautiful back then.
9: Now come on. Let's make this world beautiful.

115)
1: I couldn't change my fate to destroy the world before, or after we came together...
2: slip...
3: I just caused pain. I served no one.
4: Why did I fall in love with the hero...?
5: S...top...Sheila...
6: Why did I bring her here, knowing the risks?
7: I didn't know she'd undergo such tenacious mental attacks.
8: But now I finally know.
9: If I could just throw her off guard a bit, I could beat her, but I never even thought about that.
10: He used me.
11: He even stole Sheila's resistance.

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1: That's right...
2: You're just my cute little puppet now...