Riki-Oh 14

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white: THOSE WHO CURSE THE LAND

Black text:
Tatari Mountain: An area on the northernmost tip of Honshu (*T/L Note: Japan's biggest island) composed of two dormant volcanoes. Until roughly 1990, it was considered sacred ground of the northeast region, but now, due to strange administrative guidance, there it hardly sees anymore visitors. In turn, it has become a haunt for people cast out from society, as well as hundreds of strange spirits, forces, and demons....

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violent14 THOSE WHO CURSE THE LAND

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O: You ephemeral ones have come here on your odyssey to the afterlife...
O: The distance between this world and the next is great...think of me as your mother and father for this new life...call on me for everything.
O: In your infancy, I place a gift of compassion in the hem of your robes...a thank-you.
O: It has been finished...you shall walk no more...an infant gripping the handle of a bishop's staff...
O: Embracing skin of forebearance, disgrace, and benevolence....stroking it gently...I hand you a gift of compassion....a thank-you...

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O: Bless you.
R: How do I get to the Ridge of Corpses?
O: You can follow the hidden trail behind the temple, however....
O: To where are you journeying?
R: The cape...
O: Fo...for what reason?
R: To get back something I lost...

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O: You have murdered your fellow man before...
O: I could feel the tingling sensation of your killing intent from over a ri* away... (*T/L Note: An ancient Japanese/Chinese way of measuring distance, it's approximately 2.44 miles)
O: My job is to speak with the dead...I am an itako*. As a thank-you for retreiving my ball for me, allow me to summon a ghost for you. (*T/L Note: A Japanese summoner/necromancer who can control the dead to some degree and speak with them.)
R: A ghost...?
O: Are your father and mother in good health?
R: I don't know who my father is...
R: And my mother died shortly after giving birth to me.
O: Then allow me to call on your late mother.

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O: I beg you, return to this life past...to this wretched earth...
O: Birth, birth, birth, birth...the darkness at the beginning...to death, to death, to death, die, and darkness at the end of death..

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O: HIIIIEEEEEEE!!
R: Bruises from the rope....
R: Hanging....!?

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O: Th...the pain...
O: The...pain...
R: A six-pointed star...
R: a swastika!!

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O: Wa...wait!!
O: D..do you really intend to go on?
O: This will be a journey to death.
O: Is there any way you could give up...
O: ...on whatever it is you lost?

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O: The path to Hell has seven passages, and no way back....
O: No escape!!
O: No way back...
O: No escape!!

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R: This is the teahouse on the Ridge of Corpses...

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Blood on the wall:

"Through me you pass into the city of woe
Through me you pass into eternal pain
Through me among the people lost for aye...
Abandon hope all ye who enter here"

R: A passage from Dante's Inferno...
?: Ready yet?

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?: Ready yet?
?: Ready yet?
?: Ready yet?

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R: So that's the cape...

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P: Pl...please, help us!!

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P: Pl..please...
P: Hel....

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P: Pl...please help us!
P: We're gonna be killed!
P: Hiiieee! They're coming...the cape's watchmen!!
R: The cape's watchmen...?

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P: We're criminals that robbed a jewlery shop in Ginza last week...
P: It was all over the papers, so you probably heard about it. Deserts from the American military turned jewelry thiefs...
R: But why would you...
P: Money.
P: The kid I have back in the US is sick, so I need money.
P: It's an incurable disease...
P: The costs just to keep her there are enormous...there's no way I'd be able to come close with my salary from the force.
P: So there you have it...I had no choice.

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P: The life of a child isn't something you can get back...
R: Why were you at the cape...?
P: We thought we'd hide here on the cape until the excitement calms down...
P: This place is famous to any pilot in the Far East air force. When you fly over this place, the gauges go crazy and you start to lose control....
P: This cape isn't drawn on any map...in other words, it's a place that doesn't exist.
P: After seeing it up close, I realized it must be this world's Hell.
P: The police can't even get in there...I heard it was criminal heaven, but damn!

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P: Come on, now, you need to run too!
P: While we're wasting time sitting here, the cape's watchmen are getting closer!!
P: Y...you don't know what those guys are...

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W: Fooooound ya! Fahyahyahya!!

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W: Gooootcha! Fahyahyahya!
W: Onyaaa!? Still alive?
P: As...as if I'd die here..
P: As if I'd die in a place like this...

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W: Fehyahyahya! How'd ya like that?

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R: You bastards!
W: Hnnnn? Who the hell are you?
W: Hey, calculate that guy's life value.
W: OK!

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Screen:
PHYSICAL STRENGTH S-CLASS
INTELLECT A-CLASS
SPIRITUAL STRENGTH A-CLASS
OBEDIENCE C-CLASS
REBELLIOUS SPIRIT S-CLASS
FIGHTING SPIRIT S-CLASS

W: And the prognosis?

Screen:
His usefulness for both mental tasks and heavy physical labor is eclipsed by his violently rebellious nature...
....kill him at once.

W: Ah, this guy's no good.
W: Kill him, kill him!
W: Kill him.

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R: That man you just killed..had a child...
R: Now I'm going to teach you about all the suffering and pain she's in.
W: Fehyahya! What are you mumbling, shithead?!

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W: Fehyahyahya! He dead?

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W: Uwahhh!!
W: What?!

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W: You son of a bitch...
W: DIEE!!

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W: Th..that's some power you got...
W: B..but you know what? We're just the tip of the iceberg...
W: T....to the Captain of the Black Knights, beating you'd be just like breaking a baby's neck...

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F: Saiga-san, I presume.
F: My name is Fukao Shinkichi, Chou Zenki's 7th Japanese disciple.
R: Master Chou's...
F: You'll be a great help to us, Riki-Oh...

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R: Wht is that...?
F: Open the lid and look for yourself.
F: Dead orphaned children who were living here...
F: They kept saying how pretty all the trash was, spreading it all over their body and playing, until it started eating away at their hands..within ten days, the three of them were completely decomposed.

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R: Uggh!
F: It's Cesium-137.
R: Cesium?!
Black text (right): By placing the results of nuclear fissure in a person's body, it will begin to mutate their DNA and chromosomes.
Black text (left): Just touching a bit to one's skin will start a burning sensation, following with the reduction of white blood cells and blockage of respiratory organs.
F: Some idiot engineer from that nuclear power plant produced too much, and was too afraid to write down the amount on their balance -- so they threw the extra Cesium-137 out here.
F: Surprised? Nuclear power plants and nuclear weapons were banned five years with the Hiroshima Treaty....yet...

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R: Are you saying the government's been secretly doing nuclear research...?
F: The government...?
F: The ones who control nuclear power plants like this aren't those little guys...
F: They're the big businesses that have surpassed the government -- all gathered here at CENTER.
F: This cape is like a supermarket full of garbage, but there's one thing it doesn't have...
F: A graveyard...
Black text (all): Those who die here are buried in concrete and shipped off somewhere...probably sunk in the ocean. The corpses of the cape's dead are filled with a considerable amount of concentrated radioactivity from ingesting the water, air, and food here. If they were burned, it would just spread the radioactivity even more through the smoke, and disposing of the ash would be too troublesome. Throwing them all in a big vat of concrete is just so much easier...sure sounds like something those bastards at CENTER would think of.

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F: They won't even allow those they kill here to rest in peace at a graveyard.
F: Now that I think about it, your body's probably absorbing the radioactivity just by standing here with me.
F: The Black Knights!
F: They're the CENTER's personal guardian force!
F: They seem to know exactly who you are...
F: Hide yourself! If they're here, it means CENTER's acknowledged some kind of great danger.

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B: Find him!
B: Sir!

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B: Alright, tell me where the rat is.
B: We've already confirmed that the man who evaded security in the wetlands is the same man who escaped from the national prison, Saiga Riki-Oh.
F: Saiga...?
F: Who's this now?
B: Trying to hide him from us? Don't think we'll go easy on you.
F: They found him!

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B: That jail you broke out of is like a peaceful playground compared to this cape.
B: We make the JP guards look like boy scouts.

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B: We are ordered to destroy anything that poses a threat to CENTER.
B: Shipped to the ocean in a metal box and dreaming of fishes for eternity...not a bad way to go, I guess.
B: That friend of yours with the six-pointed star...you'll go with him to underworld!
F: Uuuu...

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F: What?!
F: Pressed metal can't be moved!
B: Uuuu!!

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B: Riki-Ohhhhh!!