Asklepios 12

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Chapter 12 - A plan
Text: The path they walked together, like something long past...


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Insert: Buzz surrenders himself to their judgement!! What are his thoughts and his purpose...?!

Box: The Vatican; Assembly Hall

Knight #1: I... I can't believe it

Knight 2: There's never been a case where all the cardinals were gathered to deal with just a heretic!!
Who the hell is this Asklepios...?!


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Nezumi: How troublesome... No matter how "big a catch" the Asklepios is
Why did we all have to make an appearance?
We can just do a short interrogation and put him to the stakes as usual, right?

Cardinal: That won't do

Cardinal: The Asklepios didn't have
the "Biblos" on him...

Nezumi: "Biblos"?
What's that...?

Knight: His eminence, the Pope, has arrived!!!


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Pope: There's no need for such formalities... It'll just make you tired
Well then, young heretic

Pope: I'm the Pope, Yurians
I heard there was something you wanted to say to me?


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Text: This is...
Buzz: Yes...

Text: This is the start...!!
Buzz: I'd like to have a word with you...!!

Box: One week ago
Lignum Village


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Postale: You're planning to go to the Church, aren't you...?

Postale: Your eyes aren't that of a person planning to run
They're eyes full of sorrow and anger...

Buzz: Y... you're right
I'm going... to the Church now

Buzz: We Medills... haven't done anything wrong
We've just been operating on people and healing them...
And yet

Buzz: And yet, the Church
killed my friend!
I can't forgive them...!!!


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Postale: I see... Knowing you'd get caught
you plan to go to the Church to just to show them your hatred

Postale: What an irrational and foolish act that'd be...

Buzz: ...Then
What am I supposed to do...?

Buzz: Even after Pare-san's murder,
am I supposed to just keep quiet
and continue healing people?!!


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Postale: Pare told you to "keep being a doctor"
If you get caught and get put on the stake,

Postale: Pare's death would've been in vain...
Isn't that so?

Buzz: ...What-

Buzz: Whatever you say,
I'm going to the Church!!!

Buzz: You only watch anyway
and it's not like you're gonna do anything..!!


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Postale: ...If you're sure you wanna go
leave the Biblos behind...

Postale: I'll give you a "plan"
A "plan" to help you live through it...

Buzz: I- I'm sure you're aware
of the "Pact of the Biblos"...?


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Pope: Yeah... Of course
It's the pact that was made 50 years ago between the then pope, Galba the fourth,
and the Asklepios three generations before you, right?

Pope: That when the Biblos is filled with the "blood signature" of patients,
the Church would remove the Asklepios from the list of heretics
and approve of the Medill healing arts...

Pope: What idiocy.
That pact wasn't the will of the Church... It was the "insane pope", Galba the fourth's single-minded decision.
The moment he had the Asklepios in his hands, he should've rid this root of evil.

Pope: Not only did he give away the Biblos, a secret treasure of the Church,
but he even let the heretic back into the world...

Buzz: No...
Galba the fourth wasn't an "insane pope"


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Buzz: Galba the fourth knew there was right in the Medill arts...
That's why, instead of dismissing it completely,
he left us a chance in the form of the "Biblos"...!!!

Pope: Asklepios...
It's not the "right" in the Medill arts that's in question here

Pope: Your means of healing people, by cutting them open and messing around inside
doesn't exist in our doctrines...
and

Pope: the Church speaks for God...
Those who go against God's will are "evil"


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Pope: And we must rid of evil
Isn't that so?


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Buzz: Then... why don't you
get rid of me right now...?

Buzz: It was just a promise made ages ago... and with a pope you call "insane"
You could just ignore it and get rid of all us Medills
And yet you choose not to...

Buzz: Isn't it because you want to make sure you get the Biblos back...?

Buzz: Galba the fourth was ignorant... and without knowing the true secret behind the Biblos,
he handed it over to us Medills thinking it was just a "secret treasure of the Church"...

Postale: I'll teach you a "magic phrase"
Use it when you have to

Buzz: The Asklepios before me... didn't know of this secret
But


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Postale: Use it well and you'd be able
to control the people of the Church as you want...

Buzz: I've found out the secret already...

Buzz: If I'm killed... I've made preparations so that the word be made public
If you fear that,
please listen to my request...


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Cards: R- request?!
What blasphemy--

Pope: Let's hear it...

Card: Y- your eminence...?!

Buzz: Just now... the Pope said that
anything not in your doctrine, is "evil"
But I'd like you to see and judge for yourselves...

Buzz: I- I will operate on patients in front of you
and cure them completely...

Buzz: I'll operate on as many people as you need to be convinced
And then


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Buzz: I want you to accept...
that we, Asklepios, aren't heretics
but doctors...!!!


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Knight: It's time, Asklepios
Get ready...

Text: Dad...

Text: Rosary
Pare-san...

Text: Lend me strength...!!


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Knight: Let the viewing of the surgeries begin!!!
Bring in the first patient!!!

Card: I won't let you have it your way
Asklepios...!!

Insert: Risking everything, the final battle begins!!