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{{DialogueHeader|One Man's Missing}}
{{DialogueSubheader|When I remember, my first thought was... I feel suffocated. I think that's all I thought.}}
{{DialogueSubheader|'''''In the past...'''''}}
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{{Dialogue1|Emperor Frederick|[[Avis]], is there anything you want?}}
{{Dialogue1|Little Prince|What do I want?}}
{{Dialogue1|Emperor Frederick|Yes, you are the heir to our country, and you will be responsible for the future of not only [[Northern Pride]], but of the continent of Babel.{{br}}And that task is too heavy to bear with a sense of duty alone.}}
{{Dialogue1|Little Prince|Is that why you ask me to hope, Father?}}
{{Dialogue1|Emperor Frederick|Yes, my son, no matter how selfless the clergy may be, in the end, the driving force of man is desire.{{br}}The desire for equality and the prayer for peace are nothing more than the outpouring of desire in the hearts of the saints and sages.}}
{{Dialogue1|Little Prince|The desire for peace is also a desire...}}
{{Dialogue1|Emperor Frederick|Yes. Therefore, my son. Embrace your ambitions...{{br}}Even if it does not come true, it is good. It doesn't matter if it's a pipe dream, sometimes it doesn't matter "how much blood is spilled."}}
{{Dialogue1|Little Prince|Isn't that the humanitarian way?}}
{{Dialogue1|Emperor Frederick|Haha, that's what I'm trying to say!{{br}}The point is this: Live your life the way you want, [[Avis]].{{br}}Your life, after all, is your own, no matter how far you go.}}
{{DialogueSubheader|'''''The present...'''''}}
{{DialogueSubheader|I still remember my father laughing at me when I was a child.{{br}}My father told me to live free.{{br}}That I am the vessel for the reincarnation of [[Nimul]] the First.{{br}}Even though I knew from the beginning that there was no future that I could choose for myself.}}
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{{Dialogue1|14th Lord Commander|[[Avis]], from [[Northern Pride]], Captain of the 1st Regiment.}}
{{Dialogue|Avis|Avis|Here...}}
{{Dialogue1|14th Lord Commander|I entrust you with this sword... for the future needs strong leaders.{{br}}To "even out" all the prejudices and all the discrimination that are spread all over this continent, and to show our righteousness.{{br}}I couldn't do it, but I know you can.{{br}}Show us with your life what absolute justice looks like...}}
{{Dialogue|Avis|Avis|I beg you, sir, all for the sake of our justice.}}
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{{Dialogue|Avis|Avis|Sir [[Waginau]]. What is it to me?}}
{{Dialogue|Waginau (Shadow NPC)|Waginau|You know what I mean, last vessel of incarnation in this millennium.}}
{{Dialogue|Avis|Avis|...}}
{{Dialogue|Waginau (Shadow NPC)|Waginau|The agreement with Frederick the Great...{{br}}The time for treating you as a "human" ends today, as of this moment.}}
{{Dialogue|Avis|Avis|I see...}}
{{Dialogue|Waginau (Shadow NPC)|Waginau|Any complaints?}}
{{Dialogue|Avis|Avis|No, not at all. I feel rather refreshed.{{br}}Finally, this life of nonsense is coming to an end.}}
{{Dialogue|Waginau (Shadow NPC)|Waginau|...}}
{{Dialogue|Avis|Avis|And then? Did you start by breaking down [[Envylia]].}}
{{Dialogue|Waginau (Shadow NPC)|Waginau|Yes.{{br}}More than a decade ago, the King of [[Wratharis]] and your father hatched a plan to liberate the vessel of reincarnation.{{br}}The aftermath of that plan warped and distorted the cause of envy and resentment.{{br}}Our Corpse will stir and cause chaos once again on this continent.}}
{{Dialogue|Avis|Avis|Then, we, the Holy Guard Knights...}}
{{Dialogue|Waginau (Shadow NPC)|Waginau|Close your eyes and cover your ears for the time being.{{br}}The Sacrifice of Creation, the last drop that can change the world.{{br}}Your value will only be revealed after the tower is activated.}}
{{Dialogue|Avis|Avis|Hahaha...}}
{{DialogueSubheader|The vessel of rebirth.{{br}}Born of the grace of the earth, born in the flesh like [[Nimul]] and [[Emmel]], the founders of the world.{{br}}That is my "meaning" from the moment of my birth.{{br}}From the beginning, everything I am was only a narrow cause and effect rooted in that fact.{{br}}A life with a predetermined end, a short youth with a predetermined end, I ran through it as a Holy Guard Knight.{{br}}If I have any regrets...}}
{{Dialogue|Avis|Avis|Justice. My justice.}}
{{DialogueSubheader|In the end, I could not only find the meaning of it.{{br}}Absolute justice.{{br}}How empty that word, how empty that sound.{{br}}The structure of the world has already been determined by the beautiful, useless, and cruel fact that "everything is the accumulation of history."{{br}}There is no great change ahead. There are no consequences without causes.{{br}}There will be technological innovations, environmental changes, but the sorrows and griefs of the human world will never disappear.{{br}}A better order. The sweet dream of a better future is a dream that will never go away.}}
{{Dialogue|Avis|Avis|But what if I have the opportunity to change it?}}
{{DialogueSubheader|For example, a world where sacrifices, the vessels of reincarnation, are not made.{{br}}For example, a world where domination by force is not instinctively good.{{br}}For example, a world where it is always more beneficial to help than to take.{{br}}A world in which the world could be reconfigured "without regard for cause and effect."{{br}}What would I wish for?}}
{{Dialogue|Avis|Avis|Well, I would...}}
{{Dialogue1|Unknown Voice|"Here are some flowers for you."{{br}}"I grew them in the back of the Order. They're so beautiful, so..."{{br}}"I think they'll go very well with your lovely hair, Sir Knight."}}
{{DialogueSubheader|Let's just cut the evil out of the world. Let's tilt the balance of good and evil in the world a bit in favor of the good.{{br}}There's no guarantee it'll really make the world a better place. It's a childish idea, really, but, well...}}
{{Dialogue|Avis|Avis|I'm going to try things out, and if I'm going to use this life, I'd like it to end in a dreamlike way.}}
{{DialogueSubheader|And with that thought, I stepped forward, remembering my father, Frederick the Great.{{br}}My father was a strange philanthropist, and he used to tell me that I was equal to him.{{br}}He taught me that all lives were of equal value, no matter how noble or low.}}
{{Dialogue|Avis|Avis|Well, at least in this day and age, we have no choice.}}
{{DialogueSubheader|If this "plan" is carried out, many will die.{{br}}Grief and anguish will fill the continent, and yet...}}
{{Dialogue|Avis|Avis|If this time is the price to pay for a future of peace...{{br}}If the misery of the people of "now" can be used to fill the earth with the happiness of more people as a result...{{br}}The net is positive, and there can be no greater equality.}}
{{DialogueSubheader|And so I walked out, all things being equal, it doesn't matter where you substitute one for another... I believe, I hope, I wish, I have done so.{{br}}Believing and hoping so, I set out on the path of transformation, risking my life and the fate of the world.{{br}}...and if others had known, they would have pointed back, or perhaps even recorded it in later history...{{br}}"You are the very embodiment of pride..."}}
{{Dialogue|Avis|Avis|Yes, that's...{{br}}What a dream worth betting one's life on!}}
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{{Dialogue|Avis|Avis|This is the "real" center of the Tower of Babel.{{br}}The Door of Truth.}}
{{Dialogue|Ouroboros|Ouroboros|I never thought I'd see you step into this place with your feet on the ground.{{br}}How did you come to this place, [[Avis]], who does not know the value of life?}}
{{Dialogue|Avis|Avis|Of course, for the sake of creation.{{br}}The future of man, believed in by [[Nimul]] the founder and embraced by the maiden [[Emmel]], a tomorrow in which all will live equally.{{br}}Transcendence of Good and Evil. Our history that has deviated from that wish...{{br}}I have come to seize the last opportunity to correct it with my own hands.}}
{{Dialogue|Ouroboros|Ouroboros|You have misunderstood the wishes of the founders, O unqualified one.{{br}}They only wished for a future where people could survive.{{br}}They will not judge the good or evil of those who live there.}}
{{Dialogue|Avis|Avis|So you want me to overlook evil? Are we to stand by and watch, with our fingers crossed, while we have the chance to change the impermanence of the world?}}
{{Dialogue|Ouroboros|Ouroboros|I say to you, do not ask others whom you have never met for the basis of your wish.{{br}}If it is your wish, howl loudly about it.{{br}}You trample on so many wills, so many comforts, and yet you still stand for what is right, no, in the first place...{{br}}The ideal you speak of, the creation of order without evil... That is not your true wish.}}
{{Dialogue|Avis|Avis|...}}
{{Dialogue|Ouroboros|Ouroboros|So much so that I do not feel a "will" from within you.{{br}}At the door of this truth.{{br}}Only those with earnest lamentations and a strong will can reach this end, but even then, I feel no wish or prayer from you.{{br}}Then you are a puppet moved by the wish of someone else, someone other than yourself.{{br}}I do not know what the heat that burns in your heart is. But...{{br}}That is why you are not qualified.}}
{{Dialogue|Avis|Avis|Even so...}}
{{Dialogue|Ouroboros|Ouroboros|...?}}
{{Dialogue|Avis|Avis|Even so, I will open the door. I will, because...}}
{{Dialogue|Ouroboros|Ouroboros|...! What are you...?}}
{{Dialogue|Avis|Avis|Even if I have no wish, these pseudo-stones are filled with enough "wishes".{{br}}Fear, despair, contrition, grief, rage, jealousy... in other words, the voices of those who wish for change.}}
{{Dialogue|Ouroboros|Ouroboros|This sign. You don't think so?}}
{{Dialogue|Avis|Avis|Oh, yes, I want to make "their" wishes come true.{{br}}Their lamentations are truly mournful... Though each one is small, when united they shake the earth.{{br}}We have piled up too much pain, we have turned our eyes away from the suffering we have accumulated.{{br}}And this is the end result.}}
{{Dialogue|Ouroboros|Ouroboros|...}}
{{Dialogue|Avis|Avis|It's true. I may not have a wish, I may not be qualified to stand here.{{br}}But still... This voice...{{br}}This lamentation. The vindictiveness. Despair. It is not justice to leave it behind.{{br}}I feed on their wishes...{{br}}I will create the world they wish for, even if there is no image of those who wished for it themselves.{{br}}If only the future they wished for comes true, their disappointment will be rewarded.}}
{{Dialogue|Ouroboros|Ouroboros|Selfless, selfless hermit, unable to distinguish between self and other, wise and foolish.{{br}}If you do not have the boundaries to "separate the world," you cannot fulfill the ceremony of creation.{{br}}The door of truth will never open to those who cannot even decide who they are.}}
{{Dialogue|Avis|Avis|I will make way for you, [[Ouroboros]], by any means necessary.{{br}}I will wipe out the Voice with my own hands and make the world right.}}
{{Dialogue|Ouroboros|Ouroboros|The key that I hold has already been entrusted to the hands of a new reformer.{{br}}I say again, you are not worthy of it.{{br}}...}}
{{Dialogue|Avis|Avis|I see, [[Logi|Logi Crowley]]...{{br}}You have already given the alchemists the key of creation, the Grand Pact.{{br}}It seems that we can't just walk away victorious without a resolution after all.{{br}}Then, let us face them with all our might, [[Ouroboros]]. I, or rather, all of us, will meet the reformers you have chosen with our whole hearts and souls.}}
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{{Dialogue|Avis|Avis|No matter how this "settlement" comes to an end... in order to make the next millennium even better...}}
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