Malkuth — Episode 5 (Stage: 201005)Location: The Library - Floor of HistoryAngela(Library Director)How has the compilation of history been going?Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Angela1"Roland(Servant)I came over with Angela this time. She says the time has come for this floor or whatevs.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Roland1"Malkuth(Patron Librarian - History)Angela… I won’t be afraid of facing you anymore.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Malkuth1"Angela(Library Director)Do as you wish. I care little about what you think of me.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Angela2"Angela(Library Director)What I want is a progress report on the compilation of history you’ve been doing.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Angela3"Malkuth(Patron Librarian - History)I guess I knew too little about the City I lived in.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Malkuth2-02"Malkuth(Patron Librarian - History)I couldn’t manage to compile a comprehensive timeline of the City’s history…Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Malkuth3"Angela(Library Director)Perhaps it was an impossible task for an inept talentless over-enthusiast like you.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Angela4"Malkuth(Patron Librarian - History)All these big and small events seem to form a coherent history… But the gaps between notable events are just so large, I can’t sort them out clearly.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Malkuth4"Malkuth(Patron Librarian - History)It’s like no one properly remembers their history.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Malkuth5"Roland(Servant)Or they could be refusing to remember.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Roland2"Malkuth(Patron Librarian - History)Refusing to remember?Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Malkuth6"Angela(Library Director)Of course. Looking back at the things of the past won’t help your present self one bit.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Angela5"Malkuth(Patron Librarian - History)But if we know our past, we can avoid making the same mistakes.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Malkuth7-01"Angela(Library Director)It could help to an extent. Is that truly worth being reminded of all the painful memories, though?Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Angela6"Roland(Servant)Like I said, people in the City barely have any time to reflect on themselves, and that time has been only getting shorter.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Roland3"Roland(Servant)So it’s going to be even harder to read about things that happened before they were born…Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Roland4"Roland(Servant)Especially those that aren’t directly related to them from their books.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Roland5"Roland(Servant)We can’t make a book out of something no one knows.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Roland6"Malkuth(Patron Librarian - History)No, I’m sure everyone knows their own history. They just lack the courage to face it!Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Malkuth8"Malkuth(Patron Librarian - History)I’ll make sure to remember and record everything, and fill those gaps…Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Malkuth9"Malkuth(Patron Librarian - History)The Library, Lobotomy Corporation, and the things that happened before. All of this history, inked with blood…Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Malkuth10"Malkuth(Patron Librarian - History)Employees and Abnormalities. Countless repeats of agonies, deaths, and neglects. The Library was built on top of their graves…Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Malkuth11"Angela(Library Director)And you are no exception, Malkuth.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Angela7"Malkuth(Patron Librarian - History)You’re right. I’m no different from anyone else. And the same can be said for the rest of the City.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Malkuth12"Malkuth(Patron Librarian - History)All the things we did with Carmen in my first life.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Malkuth13"Malkuth(Patron Librarian - History)All the things I did with you in my second life.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Malkuth14"Malkuth(Patron Librarian - History)I’ll carve all that pain and sorrow on my heart!Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Malkuth15-01"Malkuth(Patron Librarian - History)You’re the one trying to run away from the past, Angela. You’re refusing to face it!Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Malkuth16_b-01"Angela(Library Director)What’s the point if all those pasts are going to be the same anyway?Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Angela8"Angela(Library Director)They would all be minor variations of “A human kills another and causes an event, resulting in a change.”Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Angela9"Angela(Library Director)Ah, I suppose the Library’s history would stand out in that it’s the nonhumans that are killing humans.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Angela10"Angela(Library Director)I fail to see the significance of the record you’re trying to make.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Angela11"Malkuth(Patron Librarian - History)But! Even if the history were a repeating cycle of similar events, you can’t guarantee that the future would be just the same.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Malkuth17-01"Malkuth(Patron Librarian - History)We can’t let all the sacrifice and bloodshed go in vain, especially because history repeats itself…Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Malkuth18"Malkuth(Patron Librarian - History)The blood spilt in the past opened up the possibilities of the future, so that the ones who survived can take those new paths…Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Malkuth19"Malkuth(Patron Librarian - History)I’m sure your history began from such a path, Angela!Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Malkuth20-01"Angela(Library Director)That’s easy for you to say. I cannot stand to hear you speak as if you know everything.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Angela12"Angela(Library Director)Attain the will to stand up straight in ever-repeating history?Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Angela13"Angela(Library Director)My beginning… What makes you think you’re qualified to talk about my creation?Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Angela14"Malkuth(Patron Librarian - History)Angela! You’re the one refusing to confront your own beginning!Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Malkuth21_b"Location: A LaboratoryBenjamin(Researcher)She’s nothing at all like her.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Benjamin1"Ayin(Researcher)…Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Ayin1"Benjamin(Researcher)But Ayin, surely you already know.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Benjamin2"Benjamin(Researcher)Did you put in all that work for just a simple vending machine that dispenses soda at the press of a button?Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Benjamin3"Ayin(Researcher)…Maybe I did after all.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Ayin2-01"Benjamin(Researcher)At the very least, you should give it a name.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Benjamin4"Benjamin(Researcher)There is nothing I can do even if you put on a face like that. It’s an unspoken rule that the creator names their creation.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Benjamin5"Ayin(Researcher)I couldn’t care less about a machine’s name.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Ayin3-01"Benjamin(Researcher)Don’t dump your job on someone else, you’re the designer.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Benjamin6"Benjamin(Researcher)There, the door over there. It will be waiting for you. It seemed lonely.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Benjamin7"Ayin(Researcher)You’re the machine that must lead us out of the pits of hell.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Ayin4-01"Ayin(Researcher)Angelos…Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Ayin5-01"Ayin(Researcher)Angela.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Ayin6-01"Angela(AI)I remember you, Ayin…Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Angela15"Angela(AI)You were a person with a warm smile.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Angela16"Ayin(Researcher)It’s only a machine…Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Ayin7-01"Benjamin(Researcher)Ayin, sir…Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Benjamin8"Angela(AI)What did I do wrong?Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Angela17"Benjamin(Researcher)Please understand, Angela.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Benjamin9"Benjamin(Researcher)He’s not yet ready, that’s all…Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Benjamin10"Benjamin(Researcher)He just needs a little more time.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Benjamin11"Angela(AI)Benjamin… May I ask you a question?Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Angela18"Benjamin(Researcher)Sure. I’ll answer what I can.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Benjamin12"Angela(AI)Everything seems so slow to me.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Angela19"Angela(AI)Your movement looks so sluggish.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Angela20"Angela(AI)The gestures, the speech, all of it… Even my own body feels slow.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Angela21"Angela(AI)It’s as if my body cannot keep up with my mind.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Angela22"Benjamin(Researcher)…That’s because you were designed to perceive time one-hundred times slower, Angela.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Benjamin13"Angela(AI)Why is that…?Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Angela23"Benjamin(Researcher)You’ll face lots of emergencies as you work.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Benjamin14"Benjamin(Researcher)And you have to be the first to react to those situations, Angela.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Benjamin15"Benjamin(Researcher)What’s more, you’ll vividly remember everything you see and experience…Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Benjamin16"Angela(AI)I see. What will my work entail, exactly?Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Angela24"Benjamin(Researcher)…You’ll see soon enough.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Benjamin17"Benjamin(Researcher)No, I suppose it won’t be “soon” for you… I’m sorry, Angela.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Benjamin18"Angela(AI)Why are you apologizing to me…?Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Angela25"Benjamin(Researcher)I just feel like we’ve done terrible things to you and that person…Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Benjamin19"Benjamin(Researcher)Here, let me tell you a few things about this corporation and the City.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Benjamin20"Benjamin(Researcher)In the Backstreets, the likes of Sweepers and Fixers live out their lives tangled in vomit and waste, unraveling their sickening tales.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Benjamin21"Benjamin(Researcher)Those who live in the Outskirts are still crying out to break into the city. Meanwhile, people in the City throw away their lives trying to belong to a Nest.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Benjamin22"Benjamin(Researcher)And we’re going to change that.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Benjamin23"Benjamin(Researcher)We have a lot of tasks ahead of us.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Benjamin24"Angela(AI)Why do you refuse to look at me? Why do you always turn your back on me…?Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Angela26"Ayin(Researcher)A machine must behave as a machine. Don’t question it.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Ayin8-01"Angela(AI)Then why did you give me the capacity to question things?Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Angela27"Angela(AI)Why did you have to make me, breaking the AI Ethics Amendment?Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Angela28"Angela(AI)Why did you have to model me after a person with fond memories of you?Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Angela29-01"Angela(AI)I am here, looking at you and only you.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Angela30"Ayin(Researcher)Don’t look at me. Don’t speak to me unless I speak to you first.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Ayin9-01"Ayin(Researcher)You’ll never be her…Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Ayin10"Ayin(Researcher)You’re just a machine.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Ayin11-02"Angela(AI)Benjamin, is it so wrong that I was born a machine?Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Angela31"Benjamin(Researcher)It could be a problem to some, but I don’t mind it at least.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Benjamin25"Benjamin(Researcher)To me, whether you’re a machine or a human is not what determines who you really are.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Benjamin26"Angela(AI)Then, if I worked hard to have a kind heart… Will he look back at me?Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Angela32"Benjamin(Researcher)…Probably. Eventually.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Benjamin27"Angela(AI)I’ll trust you, Benjamin.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Angela33"Benjamin(Researcher)……Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Benjamin28"Angela(AI)What is this?Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Angela34"Angela(AI)…It’s called a script.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Angela35"Angela(AI)The things I must do…Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Angela36"Angela(AI)My purpose…Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Angela37"Angela(AI)If everything goes as you planned, can we really…Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Angela38-01"Angela(AI)Can you really be redeemed from the hell you’re trapped in?Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Angela39"Angela(AI)There’s no way you would answer me…Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Angela40"Location: The Library - Floor of HistoryRoland(Servant)What on earth did I just see…?Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Roland7"Malkuth(Library Director)These are Angela’s memories…Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Malkuth22-02"Roland(Servant)You alright, Angela?Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Roland8"Angela(Library Director)…You got yourself lost in the vast sea of desolation, and now you think you can lecture me.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Angela43-01"Angela(Library Director)Are you trying to boast to me that you had someone to look after you in the end?Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Angela44-01"Angela(Library Director)…Don’t be ridiculous.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Angela45-01"Roland(Servant)Uh, Malkuth? Care to tell me what’s going on right now?Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Roland9"Malkuth(Patron Librarian - History)Angela is resonating with the Library.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Malkuth23-01"Malkuth(Patron Librarian - History)The Library seems to be reacting to Angela’s mental state.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Malkuth24"Malkuth(Patron Librarian - History)I don’t exactly know what’s happening, but at this rate…Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Malkuth25-01"Angela(Library Director)Must be nice to be you, not being neglected at the end.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Angela46"Roland(Servant)Don’t tell me, is that monster… No, that looks more like a case of the Distortion…Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Roland10"Malkuth(Patron Librarian - History)That must be another side of Angela, manifested from her mind with the Library’s powers.Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Malkuth26"Roland(Servant)Looks mighty dangerous. What are we supposed to do now?Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Roland11"Malkuth(Patron Librarian - History)If her mind has physically manifested, maybe we can resolve her concerns in a physical way, too?Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Malkuth27"Roland(Servant)So you’re telling me that we can help her out by dealing with her like how we receive guests?Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Roland12"Malkuth(Patron Librarian - History)I’m not too sure myself, but…Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Malkuth28"Malkuth(Patron Librarian - History)There’s only one way to find out. Angela, here I come!Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Malkuth29"Roland(Servant)Whoa, isn’t that a little too reckless?!Audio: "ch8_Malkuth_ep5_Roland13"
