"What the hell are you doing here, brat?" "Are you the son of a Roland officer?" "Or a pleasure child taken from an Estabul village?" "What's your name?" "Ryner Lute." "I can't hear you!" "I'm Talrom." "This is how things are gonna be between us." "Get it, Ryner Lute?" "If you wanna live, work like your life depends on it." "If you understand that, get to work." "No standing around daydreaming." "Or I'll kill you." "Staying asleep" "Losing sight of you" "It makes me want to break everything right now" "If I can't hear the words I yearn for again" "I'd carelessly offer my life" "Desires that cuddle" "With a fading light" "It's lonely" "Will the morning sun come before me?" "Answer me" "Is there a love that binds us?" "Stand and face the despair we invited" "The wills of the people" "Born and destroyed" "Choose the future and open the lock" "Iris Punch!" "Quit trying to hit me every time you come by." "No touching Iris!" "If I get touched by a wild beast, that's the end!" "Yeah, yeah." "Ferris got it into your head that one touch from me could make you pregnant, right?" "There's no way that could happen, so just relax." "Grabbing my younger sister's arm, and..." "Abducting a young child, assaulting her, or impregnating her?" "Not on my life." "You know, I'm starting to become more afraid of myself, for having an easier time guessing the expressions on your expressionless face." "My dear sister!" "How nice of you to come, Iris." "Nothing happened on your trip?" "Nope!" "I missed you, so I came in a big hurry!" "Isn't Iris... a good... girl?" "Yes." "Hey, now!" "Is there a problem?" "I merely put my adorable younger sister to sleep." "You put her to sleep?" "When I was a child, I often had my brother put me to sleep this way." "What the hell kind of family are you?" "Ah, here we are." "Dango are only at their best when they come from the Wynnit dango shop." "If you've got time to eat, take care of your little sister!" "Are you going to take responsibility for this girl's future?" "Iris should have arrived safely by now." "I hope my message makes it in time." "Sister, this is delicious!" "Ever since this morning, it's been nothing but "dango this, dango that."" "Iris, what did you come here for?" "Er, umm, uhh..." "Oh, yeah!" "A letter!" "A letter?" "Yeah, Iris got a letter!" "Brother Sion said to bring it on a super express delivery!" "He said it's a really important letter!" "So read it!" "Sure, go ahead." "Er, um..." "It's important, so I put it someplace where I wouldn't lose it..." "Aw, where is it?" "Did you hear anything from Sion?" "Um, let's see..." "He said something about some dragon disappearing!" "Dragon?" "Oh, yes, that pointlessly dangerous dragon." "He must want us to investigate the cause." "What a pain." "Um, er, I think he said something else important, but..." "Don't worry about it." "We'll figure it out once we get there." "You're serious?" "I suddenly feel the urge to go out investigating." "Iris, tell Sion we'll be going to investigate." "Got it!" "What's this?" "Let's see. "About the incident you reported the other day, where the dragon emerged from the surface..."" "Countless villagers living around that forest have been slaughtered, and the dragon seems to have vanished." "Abandon all research concerning this relic." "Whatever you do, never go anywhere near that forest again." "It would be quite elegant to have some tea here." "Yeah, I like that idea." "Let's drop this stupid investigation and have some tea right now." "Don't tell me that dragon..." "We'll investigate the cause." "Look." "There's no blood." "So that's why there's no smell of blood with this many people dead." "Why would this?" "Over there." "Hey, you two over there!" "It's you guys!" "You guys are the secret inspector duo from Nelpha?" "My, what a pleasure." "It's been quite some time." "What are you doing here?" "We came to see the rumored dragon, of course." "A dragon would really spur my writer's inspiration, you know!" "A dragon that suddenly appears and abducts the princess!" "And..." "I hope you're not going to add some cliché development, like a hero suddenly emerging to boldly face the dragon." "That's why your writing never sells, Brother!" "So, what's all this?" "We don't have a clue." "There's no blood from the bodies, either." "Ferris?" "Perhaps you can explain this?" "Oh, dear." "I guess you noticed?" "Did you two kill them?" "Our goal in visiting that fortress was the same as yours." "Do you understand now?" "You're also after hero relics?" "So you guys tailed us, and found the relic." "Is that about right?" "Yes." "Thanks to cooperation from the Taboo Breaker Squadron, it went quite well." "Just as we had hoped, you two found the relic, and abandoned it for us to find." "I'm grateful beyond words, I assure you." "Bullshit." "You guys killed everyone who saw the dragon in order to silence them." "So that fewer people would know of the existence of the hero relics." "It's best if we're the only ones monopolizing unknown power." "So, we'll need you two to die as well." " Who the hell are?" " Who are you two?" "Why are you gathering hero relics?" "Oh, I see." "You intend to survive this." "That's why you'd ask." "No, I suppose there's no need to ask." "I'm already well aware of the country you two are affiliated with." "I offer up this contract, to bear the wicked spirit beast which sleeps in the earth!" "Magic to increase your physical capabilities, is it?" "How very fast." "But..." "From the direction of the west, the empty, the formation, the yang!" "From the direction of the west, the empty, the formation, the yang..." " Alpha Stigma?" "...I bring forth brilliance!" "He stole it even when I stopped halfway through?" "Kuu!" "What?" "Damn it!" "Come, now." "Regardless of how much my beauty attracts you, this is hardly an appropriate time for assaulting me." "How can you act so calm and collected?" "I'm always calm and collected." "How much so?" "Enough to know that if you hadn't saved me, that attack just now would have killed me." "That scythe is dangerous." "Is that another hero relic?" "Yeah." "Looks like it raises its wielder's physical capabilities pretty damn high." "That, and..." "So that scythe's power is what kept those bodies from bleeding, and what made that wall of ice." "A sword that gets frozen over from multiple clashes would grow heavy." "It also lowers the surrounding temperature," " and makes it harder to move." " Okay." "I'll back you up with fire magic and create an opening." "You stop that scythe." "Sound good?" "It'll have to do." "Well?" "Have you decided on your plan?" "Yeah, more or less." "Excellent." "You have an Alpha Stigma." "That's quite valuable, you know." "I'll be sure to be careful when I crystallize it and take it from you." "Crystallize?" "Oh, you bear an Alpha Stigma and don't know of that?" "I wouldn't ask if I knew!" "Does he know more about the Alpha Stigma than I do?" "They don't seem to know anything." "I suppose that makes sense, given that they abandoned the Rule Fragment that was here." "Rule Fragment?" "Then, allow me to show you how to use the relic you two abandoned!" "That's how relics are used?" "The Dolueli Swordscale." "It's a weapon which burns targets as the user wills it." "The ground has no will, so when it emerged from the ground, it was completely harmless." "Now then, shall we get started?" "We shall give you a full taste of the power of relics!" "You must be quite calm to nap like that." "What I seek is thunder." "Izuchi!" "A waste of time!" "Is that another hero relic?" "Yes." "Kuu's Ailecrono Scythe." "The Dolueli Swordscale." "And this, the Elemio Comb." "As I just demonstrated, it holds a divine power which nullifies magic." "Three relics." "Retreat." "We don't stand a chance like this." " Ryner." " I know!" "I won't let you escape." "Resonate!" "Ryner?" "Hey, Ryner!" "What's wrong?" "You want it." "You want everything to disappear." "What did you do to Ryner?" "If I don't awaken the Alpha Stigma, it can't be stolen." "Awaken?" "There's no way you couldn't know." "The reason the Alpha Stigma is a hated taboo..." "It goes out of control, and destroys everything." "That's why people call them mad devils, despicable slaughterers." "Nothing matters..." "I..." "No..." "I..." "They're monsters whose very existence causes trouble." "Ryner!" "It doesn't matter..." "Ferris..." "Run..." "Get away... from me..." "Ryner?" "Don't..." "look at me..." "like this..." "A monster..." "I don't want to kill... you..." "People die." "But none of it matters to you." "Now, let us end it." "Stop!" "Everything." "Yours to toy with." "Release it." "Open up." "Kill." "Everything." "Collapse of the bearer confirmed." "It's awakened." "What the hell did you do to Ryner?" "!" "Now all he'll do is run wild and rain down destruction." "We'll kill him before that, though, and gouge out his crystal." "That won't work." "Didn't I just show you?" "This Elemio Comb has divine power." "It nullifies all of your power!" "Analyze existence." "Release." "Begone, you worm." "What the hell?" "Burn it!" "Brother Sui." "Are you alive?" "Y-Yeah." "What is this thing?" "He's not an ordinary Alpha Stigma bearer?" "You would kill me?" "With your power?" "You claim Elemio's paltry power would kill me?" "Ryner..." "Little worms, crawling in your holes." "Begone, begone, begone." "Everything is nothing." "Return to nothingness!" "We need to run, Kuu." "That's not Alpha Stigma!" "Ryner!" "Run where you will." "Everything will return to nothingness." "First comes destruction!" "I bring forth nothing." "I bless nothing." "I save nothing." "I just erase." "Completely." "Aren't you lonely living here by yourself, Ryner?" "Not really." "I have all of you." "I'll become your mom, Ryner!" "From now on, call me Mom." "Okay, then I'll be the dad!" "I don't wanna be husband and wife with Dell!" "Ouch, I've been dumped!" " Run!" " Hurry, run for it!" "Filthy corpse looters!" "Hand over everything you've stolen!" "W-We can't." "If we did that, we'd be..." "I beg your pardon!" "Please, my daughter..." "Give Quill back!" "What I seek is the burning field." "Kurenai!" " Damn." "You'll all defy us?" " Mom!" "Mom!" " Please, stop!" " I beg of you..." "What I seek is the burning field." "Kurenai!" "Just now, that was..." "That kid..." "His eyes!" "Quill..." " It's an Alpha Stigma bearer!" " It's a monster." "A monster!" "Quill?" "Monster..." "Alpha Stigma..." "That bastard Talrom." "Why'd he bring a brat like this here?" "Was he deceiving us?" "!" "How terrifying!" "A monster..." "He's a monster!" "Die, monster!" "Monster..." "I see, I'm..." "I'm a monster." "Once we've entrusted to the wind" "All the sadness filling us" "Let us play a kind serenade" "I'm certain this wishing heart of mine" "Is the surest guidepost of all to eternity" "Storm of light, whirl up" "In the sea of ever-increasing sin" "Keep on running, no matter how wounded you are" "The rain of grief, the solitary morning" "We can run right through them and meet again" "The voices of the falling stars will rain hope down upon us" "Let's take flight" "It begins: the truth of my destiny" "To another world" "This sucks." "Everything sucks, all of it." "Didn't I say that all I wanted was to enjoy afternoon naps?" "Yet..." "Why is the world so?" ""Hahahaha!""