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What do you mean? | {{VN:Dialogue:Choice | ||
|heading=1 option | |||
|header= | |||
!<i>What do you mean?</i> | |||
{{!}}- | |||
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It’s not an interesting story. | It’s not an interesting story. | ||
}} | }} | ||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character=Horkeukamui | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=…………….. | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character=Horkeukamui | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=Alright, I’ll talk.<br> | |||
But it might be a little long. | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character=Horkeukamui | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=In my homeland of Kamuikotan, my purpose was to raise junior heroes into full-fledged heroes. | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character=Horkeukamui | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=I was a hunter with the power to hunt my prey,<br> | |||
But I was also a hunter who had to hunt down and take children who could become heroes. | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character=Horkeukamui | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=I tempered the powers they needed to be a hero through training,<br> | |||
And as a sort of foster parent, I grew to love them. | |||
}} | |||
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{{VN:Dialogue:Choice | |||
|heading=2 options | |||
|header= | |||
!<i>A job?</i> | |||
!<i>Your mission?</i> | |||
{{!}}- | |||
{{!}}{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|frameless=true | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue= | |||
}} | |||
{{!}}{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|frameless=true | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue= | |||
}} | |||
}} | |||
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{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character=Horkeukamui | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=My job, my mission…<br> | |||
It was both, and yet neither. | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character=Horkeukamui | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=I wasn’t getting paid for it,<br> | |||
And if you were to say I was forced…. | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character=Horkeukamui | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=…Well, that was just the kind of planet I was born on. | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character=Horkeukamui | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=I thought that was fine,<br> | |||
And I had no questions or doubts about it. | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character=Horkeukamui | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=Living together with the junior heroes was fun,<br> | |||
And I believe over time they grew to like me too. | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character=Horkeukamui | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=………… | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character=Horkeukamui | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=It happened one day. | |||
I was to look after a new junior hero. | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character=Horkeukamui | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=The same as always, I raised it, imparted my power into it, and sent it off as an offering. | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character=Horkeukamui | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=And where we sent them off to, was the world “above ground.” | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character=Horkeukamui | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=Days passed, and one day, nonchalant, I went to see how that new hero was doing. | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character=Horkeukamui | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=I saw the instant that the hero departed that world. | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character=Horkeukamui | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=…………… | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character=Horkeukamui | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=The young child had arrived above ground, and had mingled with the humans there.<br> | |||
But, their final moment was not a happy one. | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character=Horkeukamui | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=The people that hero had saved were haughty, and looked down on him.<br> | |||
His good-will and sympathy were stepped on by weak people. | |||
}} | |||
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{{VN:Dialogue:Choice | |||
|heading=2 options | |||
|header= | |||
!<i>His final moments-</i> | |||
!<i>You mean he died?</i> | |||
{{!}}- | |||
{{!}}{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|frameless=true | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue= | |||
}} | |||
{{!}}{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|frameless=true | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue= | |||
}} | |||
}} | |||
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{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character=Horkeukamui | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=I don’t know.<br> | |||
But that hero disappeared from the world. | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character=Horkeukamui | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=I don’t even have any idea where he went. | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character=Horkeukamui | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=But….He was laughing.<br> | |||
I’m sure of it, at that last moment he was laughing. | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character=Horkeukamui | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=And then he told the remaining people something.<br> | |||
He said “I don’t hate anybody.” | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character=Horkeukamui | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=I didn’t understand.<br> | |||
I had no idea why he said such a thing. | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character=Horkeukamui | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=With no answers, I no longer felt I had it in me to raise heroes. | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character=Horkeukamui | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=I was afraid that all I had done with my life was send heroes down a path of misery. | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character=Horkeukamui | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=Thinking that, I continued to observe the world above ground.<br> | |||
I observed the lives of many heroes who lived above ground. | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character=Horkeukamui | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=…………….. | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character=Horkeukamui | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=Among them, there were people who moved my heart. | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character=Horkeukamui | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=Some of them lost their lives. Some of them disappeared.<br> | |||
Many of them met sad ends. | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character=Horkeukamui | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=But all of them, all of them laughed at the end just like him. | |||
}} | |||
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{{VN:Dialogue:Choice | |||
|heading=1 option | |||
|header= | |||
!<i>………………….</i> | |||
{{!}}- | |||
{{!}}{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|frameless=true | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue= | |||
}} | |||
}} | |||
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{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character=Horkeukamui | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=I grew angry.<br> | |||
I detested my own existence. | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character=Horkeukamui | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=I thought, what was I doing,<br> | |||
Just looking at them from afar. | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character=Horkeukamui | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=Why couldn’t I be their shield, and die for them?<br> | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character=Horkeukamui | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=That’s when I first realized that I was just nothing but a pathetic bystander.<br> | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character=Horkeukamui | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=That’s why, I… | |||
}} | |||
Just then, the two heard the sound of a door opening behind them. | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character=Horkeukamui | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=Wait a moment.<br> | |||
I feel a presence approaching. | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character=Nomad | |||
|face=Neutral | |||
|dialogue=…………. | |||
}} | |||
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{{VN:Dialogue:Choice | |||
|heading=3 options | |||
|header= | |||
!<i>That’s that guy from the Ikebukuro guild…</i> | |||
!<i>Nomad!?</i> | |||
!<i>And the other guys are Ikebukuro helpers?</i> | |||
{{!}}- | |||
{{!}}{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|frameless=true | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue= | |||
}} | |||
{{!}}{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|frameless=true | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue= | |||
}} | |||
{{!}}{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|frameless=true | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue= | |||
}} | |||
}} | |||
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The first one to move, was Horkeukamui. | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=There’s no time to argue! | |||
}} | |||
Before Nomad was able to do anything, | |||
Horkeukamui uses his sacred weapon to conjure up spheres of ice. With a kick, he sends them to the foes, blowing them back. | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character=Nomad | |||
|face=neutral | |||
|dialogue=…..! | |||
}} | |||
A sphere of ice went through Nomad- | |||
Or so it seemed, but all it was was a layer of clothing. | |||
His body had done a somersault, revealing his true form. | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character=Ninja | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=I saw how serious you were with that attack. | |||
You did well to see through my disguise. | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=A shinobi, huh? | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=I didn’t see through you.<br> | |||
I simply knew the real Nomad would be able to dodge an attack of that magnitude. | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character=Ninja | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=I see, so I’m still inexperienced.<br> | |||
It’s like I’m being lectured by the chief. | |||
}} | |||
While speaking, the other ninja form a circle. | |||
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{{VN:Dialogue:Choice | |||
|heading=2 options | |||
|header= | |||
!<i>Horkeukamui.</i> | |||
!<i>Ku, the poison…!</i> | |||
{{!}}- | |||
{{!}}{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|frameless=true | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue= | |||
}} | |||
{{!}}{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|frameless=true | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue= | |||
}} | |||
}} | |||
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………. | |||
[<i>Player</i>] tries to get up from bed, but Horkeukamui picks him up. | |||
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{{VN:Dialogue:Choice | |||
|heading=1 option | |||
|header= | |||
!<i>Horkeukamui….!?</i> | |||
{{!}}- | |||
{{!}}{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|frameless=true | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue= | |||
}} | |||
}} | |||
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{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=I’m…not sure what I’m doing.<br> | |||
Protecting someone who isn’t a hero, and heading to my doom… | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=It seems I’ve completely abandoned my purpose.<br> | |||
I, Horkeukamui… no.... | |||
}} | |||
Hanging his head down, Horkeukamui changes his way of thinking. | |||
To win this battle, he didn’t have time to think about anything unnecessary. | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=Close your mouth, [<i>player</i>].<br> | |||
Or else you’ll bite your tongue! | |||
}} | |||
He runs. | |||
Horkeukamui runs. | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=[<i>Player</i>], who was being carried, smells the stench of blood.<br> | |||
And…. | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=Huff, huff…<br> | |||
Are you okay, [<i>player</i>]… | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=That escape must have been rough on your body…<br> | |||
You’re still not in normal condition? | |||
}} | |||
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{{VN:Dialogue:Choice | |||
|heading=3 options | |||
|header= | |||
!<i>I’m fine, but</i> | |||
!<i>Horkeukamui, you’re hurt!</i> | |||
!<i>You protected me!</i> | |||
{{!}}- | |||
{{!}}{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|frameless=true | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue= | |||
}} | |||
{{!}}{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|frameless=true | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue= | |||
}} | |||
{{!}}{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|frameless=true | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue= | |||
}} | |||
}} | |||
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Horkeukamui was starting to disappear. | |||
Blood poured from his back. | |||
But that blood disappeared before it even hit the ground. | |||
His body, his spirit, his existence. | |||
The world was trying to erase all of it. | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=I’m alright. There’s no need to worry about me anymore. | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=It seems my time has come.<br> | |||
With no master, my connection to Tokyo will soon disappear. | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=I will simply vanish from this world.<br> | |||
That’s all there is to it. | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=There’s no need to worry. | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=I can’t even feel my body.<br> | |||
This is …where I will die. | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=I wonder, will I be able to go to the same place that all those other heroes disappeared to... | |||
}} | |||
[<i>Player</i>] holds his arm, while Horkeukamui looks to the heavens. | |||
He had accepted it. | |||
He accepted his own erasure. | |||
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{{VN:Dialogue:Choice | |||
|heading=2 options | |||
|header= | |||
!<i>I can’t allow that.</i> | |||
!<i>I’ll become bait.<br> | |||
You can escape in the meantime.</i> | |||
{{!}}- | |||
{{!}}{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|frameless=true | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue= | |||
}} | |||
{{!}}{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|frameless=true | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue= | |||
}} | |||
}} | |||
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Hearing that, Horkeukamui turns his head towards you. | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=Foolish.<br> | |||
What… what are you saying? | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=Were you not listening?<br> | |||
You want to protect someone who’s about to disappear!? | |||
}} | |||
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{{VN:Dialogue:Choice | |||
|heading=3 options | |||
|header= | |||
!<i>I have a reason.</i> | |||
!<i>It’s because I like you, Horkeukamui.</i> | |||
!<i>Just smile.</i> | |||
{{!}}- | |||
{{!}}{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|frameless=true | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue= | |||
}} | |||
{{!}}- | |||
{{!}}{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|frameless=true | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue= | |||
}} | |||
{{!}}{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|frameless=true | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue= | |||
}} | |||
}} | |||
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{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=-----! | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=Horkeukamui’s body shakes. | |||
Then, he gazes at [<i>player's</i>] face. | |||
}} | |||
Just by exchanging looks, | |||
You get the sense that you now understand each others feelings. | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=Aa…aah…. | |||
}} | |||
Tears pour from the wolf’s eyes. | |||
They’re hot, very hot tears. | |||
He once gave up on everything, and accepted his disappearance. | |||
But now, he wanted more than anything to stay. | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=Ah….I see… | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=Now, I understand.<br> | |||
I see, so the heroes I rose… | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character=Ninja | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=B group, reply.<br> | |||
Have you captured them? | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character=Ninja | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=No reply?<br> | |||
Reply, rep- | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=Ha….hahaha…<br> | |||
Hahahaha…. | |||
}} | |||
Horkkeukamui raises a howl, while streaming tears. | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=I see, so that’s how it was.<br> | |||
Dear heroes that I loved. | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=The meaning of your final smiles.<br> | |||
The people you tried to protect… | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=I’m standing together on the battle field, and not gazing from afar.<br> | |||
Thanks to that, I finally understand everything…. | |||
}} | |||
He clenches his fist, and flutters his gakuran. | |||
Horkeukamui now understands the heart. | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=So that was the meaning…<br> | |||
Dear [<i>player</i>]. | |||
}} | |||
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{{VN:Dialogue:Choice | |||
|heading=2 options | |||
|header= | |||
!<i>Nod</i> | |||
!<i>Return a smile</i> | |||
!<i>Just smile.<br> | |||
{{!}}- | |||
{{!}}{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|frameless=true | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue= | |||
}} | |||
{{!}}- | |||
{{!}}{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|frameless=true | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue= | |||
}} | |||
}} | |||
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{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=Ah, now we have forged a contract.<br> | |||
My new, and final, summoner [<i>player</i>]. | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=You said before you’re not a hero.<br> | |||
That’s fine. | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=The world won’t accept you as a hero.<br> | |||
That’s also fine. | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=But you… you are my hero.<br> | |||
You are the hero, the only person, who saved my heart, and my world. | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=Everyone if nobody else accepts it, it doesn’t matter.<br> | |||
As long as my heart knows it, that’s all I need! | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=My Role is “Hunter.”<br> | |||
My Rule is “freezing.” | |||
}} | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=I decree on my name of Horkeukamui.<br> | |||
Please, harden, and steal away, my Rule! | |||
}} | |||
By Horkeukamui’s Rule, the poison in [Player]s blood freezes hard, and is stolen away, flowing outside off [player]s body. | |||
Imprisoned by his own role, the weak wolf who did nothing but look from afar is no longer here. | |||
In accordance with my own heart, | |||
I will protect the hero that my soul has accepted. | |||
{{VN:Dialogue | |||
|character= | |||
|face= | |||
|dialogue=Horkeukamui, enters the battlefield! | |||
}} | |||
===(Battle)=== |
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