Sacred Stone Memories Chapter 7/Quest 3 - Storyline

Prototype
A few days ago...near the border of Greed Dike.
Greed Dike Soldier A	Halt! Who are you?!
Greed Dike Soldier B	...
Kudanstein	I am Kudanstein. I heard that Emperor Orion wanted to meet me, so I've come.
Greed Dike Soldier B	Ku-Kudanstein...?! Ah...I-I've been informed of this!
Kudanstein	...Where is Orion?
???	He should be in his royal castle Dynam Dionysus.
Kudanstein	?!
???	!
Kudanstein	...!
???	You're fast...I see. Your skill with the lance is quite impressive.
Kudanstein	Who are you?
Fung Liu	It's a pleasure to meet you too. I am Fung Liu.
Greed Dike Soldier A	Fu-Fung Liu...?! He-hey! Look!
Greed Dike Soldier B	Impossible! Did the experiment really succeed?!
Kudanstein	...What do you want?
Fung Liu	The Emperor is waiting for you in the royal castle. I am here to convey this to you.
Kudanstein	So you're my guide? Then quickly...
Fung Liu	!
Kudanstein	?! Ack! What're you playing at?!
Fung Liu	What am I...playing at? I am here to kill you.
Kudanstein	So...you're not my guide then?!
Fung Liu	I have to conveyed to you that the Emperor is waiting to meet you. From here...I will return to my original mission.
Kudanstein	Your mission?
Fung Liu	My original mission is to eliminate any foreign knight who enters within Greed Dike. That is all. As long as we're meeting like this, you fit the criteria as a target...for me to eliminate.
Kudanstein	Ack! Seriously. What an annoying nuisance! ...Fine. Anyone who stands in my way, I'll cut down. That's all there is to it.
Fung Liu	...You're fast!
Kudanstein	!
Fung Liu	Aghh!!!
Kudanstein	What rubbish. You'll pay dearly for this rude welcoming...Orion!
Meanwhile. In the Greed Dike's royal castle Dynam Dionysus.
Waginau	We've received word that Kudanstein has shwon himself.
Orion	Did he encounter Fung Liu?
Waginau	It appears so. I'm sure even Kudanstein will have a hassle dealing with him. After all, his assassin's technique was inspired by origami art.
Orion	Hmph. More importantly, you want to boast about the research you of the Corpse have been engaging in, correct?
Waginau	Hehe. Quite so. Having turned Fung Liu into Prototype 0, he is practically a human weapon. Kudanstein should not be able to easily beat him.
Kudanstein	Now, hurry up and take me to him. Or...do you want me to cut you lot down too?
Fung Liu	You should save those words...for after you've defeated me.
Kudanstein	?! Ack?! What's going on? I know for a fact that I punctured his vitals!
Later...
Waginau	He is the ultimate warrior...the product of repeated experiments. There is no such concept of death to a man who, through the technique of we the Corpse, has glimpsed the Door of Truth.
Orion	The ultimate warrior that cannot physically die, huh? I'm interested to see how Kudanstein responds to him.
Kudanstein	Impossible! I'm certain that I pierced his heart! What are you?!
Fung Liu	...
Kudanstein	He disappeared!
Fung Liu	No matter how strong you are, I will never be defeated. After all, I cannot die. Goodbye.
Kudanstein	Aghh!!!
Fung Liu	So you've managed to dodge my attack. Your defensive instinct is...fantastic.
Kudanstein	Y-you can't die...? Are you a...phantom soldier?!
Fung Liu	Am I a phantom soldier? Now that's an interesting idea.
Kudanstein	Ack...! Huzzzaaaahhh!!!
Fung Liu	...
Kudanstein	...?!
Fung Liu	I will tell you once again...you cannot kill me.
Kudanstein	Aghh...!!! Ug...ugh...! N-no...I'm sure that your body is made of flesh! Are you really...immortal?
Orion	Fung Liu, huh? Now that I think about it, he's a man that's been born time and time again under an unlucky star.
Waginau	Very much so. If only he hadn't been born in the witches' country of Lustburg... Most likely, he would never have ended up becoming an assassin.
Orion	You speak almost as if we tailored him to be an assassin. Having been born male and abandoned by his country as a child, my army took him in. Shouldn't we be praised for our actions?
Waginau	However...fate would have it that he was picked up by Greed Dike's special assassin forces. Heheh. Of course, I don't intend to belittle the circumstances. Thanks to that, he was able to develop the techniques of an assassin even before he could learn to think for himself.
Kudanstein	Tsk...!
Fung Liu	No. I'm not there anymore.
Kudanstein	Huh?! ...Ackkk!!!
Fung Liu	No matter how much you resist...you cannot defeat me. Please...give up.
Kudanstein	Agh...! Why? I seem unable to read you!
Orion	But...I hear that you cannot develop new prototypes after Fung Liu. Why was he the only one who managed to survive?
Waginau	Of course...I believe that his unique life of having been raised solely as an assassin plays a small part in this. It's not every day that you find an individual who has been trained to erase their emotions from their early childhood.
Orion	...So you're saying there's another reason?
Waginau	Yes. What's noteworthy about him is not his technique as an assassin... The reason why Fung Liu was able to become Prototype 0 was because of his unusually strong attachment to life.
Orion	His attachment of life...?
Kudanstein	Huff...huff...! Argh...!
Fung Liu	There's no point in continuing any longer. Let's finish this soon.
Kudanstein	Ack! Huzzaaahhh!!!
Fung Liu	You don't seem to know when to give up. What's the point of what you're doing?
Kudanstein	Shut up! I can't afford to die here...huh...?
Fung Liu	Your back is completely vulnerable.
Kudanstein	Gahhh!!! Ug...gfff! Wha...what is your body made of...?
Fung Liu	Who knows? It's time to say farewell.
Kudanstein	you have no body temperature...or any pulse! Are you...dead?!

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