Hod โ Episode 3Location: The Library - Floor of LiteratureRoland(Servant)Hello, hello~ Got some fresh books for you!Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_roland1"Hod(Patron Librarian - Literature)Hi, Roland. Youโre working hard as always.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_hod1"Roland(Servant)You tell me. If only our Miss Head Librarian could appreciate all this hard work with a huge reward or anything.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_roland2"Hod(Patron Librarian - Literature)How are you doing with Angela by the way?Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_hod2"Roland(Servant)Eh, so-so I guess? She can be scary at times, but I can live with it.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_roland3"Hod(Patron Librarian - Literature)Angela seemed to be the most comfortable when she was talking with you.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_hod3"Roland(Servant)Really? To be fair, all the librarians Iโve met so far did seem to despise Angela.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_roland4"Hod(Patron Librarian - Literature)You told me before about your motto of โThatโs that, and this is this,โ right?Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_hod4"Hod(Patron Librarian - Literature)Iโve been thinking, and I donโt think I can follow that.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_hod5"Hod(Patron Librarian - Literature)Iโd have to loathe Angela with all my being, but I just canโt get myself to bear any unconditional hatred towards her.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_hod6"Roland(Servant)Oh boy, that took a turn.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_roland5"Roland(Servant)Iโm guessing itโs because Angela has her fair share of tragic history and stuff?Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_roland6"Hod(Patron Librarian - Literature)Thatโs right. Everyone has their own stories. Even if someone is committing bad things right nowโฆAudio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_hod7"Hod(Patron Librarian - Literature)I donโt want to judge them based on solely the snippets I see of them.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_hod8"Hod(Patron Librarian - Literature)So I try to understand them in depth.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_hod9"Roland(Servant)Man, youโre an angel. I wish Yesod and Netzach were half as kind as you.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_roland7"Hod(Patron Librarian - Literature)Do I look like a good person to you, Roland?Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_hod10"Roland(Servant)Hmm, dunno about that. โKindโ and โgoodโ arenโt exactly one and the same.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_roland8"Hod(Patron Librarian - Literature)Is that so? I wasnโt really a good person, you see.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_hod11"Roland(Servant)Oh, is this about your first and second lives? I remember Malkuth talking about โem. Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_roland9"Hod(Patron Librarian - Literature)I see, thatโs how Malkuth put it.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_hod12"Hod(Patron Librarian - Literature)Yeah, youโre right. My first life was a tragic one.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_hod13"Roland(Servant)That seems to be the case with everyone here. You were all doing research to โcureโ humanity, right?Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_roland10"Hod(Patron Librarian - Literature)So many people were killed because of meโฆAudio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_hod14"Roland(Servant)Huh? Youโre admittedly pretty good at fighting as a librarian, but you donโt smell like a serial killer or anything.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_roland11"Hod(Patron Librarian - Literature)Do I? I still think Iโm directly responsible for their deaths.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_hod15"Hod(Patron Librarian - Literature)I snitched to the Head. About the experiments we were doing, and about the atrocious things we were committing.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_hod16"Hod(Patron Librarian - Literature)They sent an Arbiter to the laboratory and killed so many of my colleagues.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_hod17"Hod(Patron Librarian - Literature)When I heard the news, I couldnโt take it anymore, so Iโฆ took my own life.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_hod18"Roland(Servant)What happened thereโฆ?Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_roland12"Hod(Patron Librarian - Literature)I had to watch as Malkuth, Yesod, and Netzach died horrible deaths in that laboratory.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_hod19"Hod(Patron Librarian - Literature)And what happened to a young boy who participated in the experimentโฆAudio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_hod20"Hod(Patron Librarian - Literature)Thatโs not all. We injected people with drugs and recorded the changes and side effects they madeโฆAudio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_hod21"Roland(Servant)Within the City?Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_roland13"Hod(Patron Librarian - Literature)No, the laboratory was in the Outskirts. To avoid the Head and its Eyes.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_hod22"Roland(Servant)HmmโฆAudio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_roland14"Hod(Patron Librarian - Literature)Now you can see that Iโm not a good person at all, right?Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_hod23"Roland(Servant)Nope, itโs not that. Iโm frowning because thereโs one thing about this story I donโt understand.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_roland15"Roland(Servant)The Head bothered to dispatch an Arbiter just to take care of a research project that got some people killed? One that took place in the Outskirts, outside of the Cityโs limits?Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_roland16"Roland(Servant)This part doesnโt make senseโฆ Are you really sure it was an Arbiter?Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_roland17"Hod(Patron Librarian - Literature)Thatโs what I heardโฆ It matches what I learned in Lobotomy Corp. during my second life, too.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_hod24"Roland(Servant)Hnngh. Itโs still too hard for me to believe.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_roland18"Hod(Patron Librarian - Literature)Youโre pondering over odd things, Roland. I thought youโd lambast me for being a traitor.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_hod25"Roland(Servant)Well, betrayals happened on a daily basis where I used to live.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_roland19"Roland(Servant)Besides, real betrayals tend to be a whole lot more cruel.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_roland20"Roland(Servant)Are you from one of the Nests, Hod?Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_roland21"Hod(Patron Librarian - Literature)Yeah. I was born in a Nest, and went to a school in a Nest.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_hod26"Roland(Servant)And the other librarians are too?Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_roland22"Hod(Patron Librarian - Literature)Most of them are. Thereโs one from the Backstreets, and one from the Outskirts, but thatโs about it.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_hod27"Roland(Servant)Damn, you guys were all elites, huh. I gotta wonder how you ended up living such miserable lives.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_roland23"Roland(Servant)And you all had the drive to leave behind the comfort of living in a Nest for a research facility in the Outskirts. That mustโve taken some determination. My bad for calling you a bunch of spineless snobs.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_roland24"Hod(Patron Librarian - Literature)We were full of passion, too. Which I ended up betrayingโฆAudio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_hod28"Roland(Servant)That means the reason you canโt blindly hate Angela was mostly an excuse for yourself?Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_roland25"Hod(Patron Librarian - Literature)I guess. I made a huge mistake once, butโฆAudio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_hod29"Hod(Patron Librarian - Literature)I wanna be better now. I want to become a better person. Iโm sure everyone wants to.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_hod30"Hod(Patron Librarian - Literature)At the same time, a part of my mind still canโt forgive Angela.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_hod31"Location: Lobotomy Corporation HeadquartersAngela(AI Secretary)Weโve already spent two days on this stalemate.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_angela1"Angela(AI Secretary)Youโre holding up much better than I expected.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_angela2"Malkuth(Control Team Sephirah)Of course we are! Did you really think weโd go to sleep just because you told us to?Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_malkuth1"Binah(Extraction Team Sephirah)However, it is only a matter of time.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_binah1"Gebura(Disciplinary Team Sephirah)Hrkโฆ And time is what matters to you most right now.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_gebura1"Hod(Training Team Sephirah)Our employees have sustained too much damageโฆAudio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_hod32"Netzach(Safety Team Sephirah)The regenerators are at their limits, tooโฆAudio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_netzach1"Angela(AI Secretary)I put up with the play for such a long time, I could pass a day or two in an instant.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_angela3"Angela(AI Secretary)But the last two days have felt so long and slow.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_angela4"Hokma(Record Team Sephirah)Angela, your filthy deed born out of your personal desire shall never be brought to fruition.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_hokma1"Gebura(Disciplinary Team Sephirah)Arrrgh!Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_gebura2"Binah(Extraction Team Sephirah)The circumstances are no longer the same as before, Gebura. I am now aware of the existence of E.G.O and its capabilities.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_binah2"Yesod(Information Team Sephirah)All employees from the Welfare and Disciplinary Teams have fallenโฆAudio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_yesod1"Angela(AI Secretary)Youโll never get to spread the light for those seven days you all planned.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_angela5"Angela(AI Secretary)It would lastโฆ hmm, perhaps four days at most?Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_angela6"Angela(AI Secretary)And Iโd be left with only two or three daysโ worth of light for myself.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_angela7"Angela(AI Secretary)In any case, none of us will have won this battle.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_angela8"Hokma(Record Team Sephirah)What is your pointโฆ?Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_hokma2"Angela(AI Secretary)Iโd like to make a proposal.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_angela9"Angela(AI Secretary)โฆI want to live, you see.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_angela10"Location: The Library - Floor of LiteratureHod(Patron Librarian - Literature)Angela offered us a deal, and many of the Sephirot were against it.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_hod33"Roland(Servant)Sephirot?Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_roland26"Hod(Patron Librarian - Literature)Oh, thatโs what the librarians were called back in Lobotomy Corp.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_hod34"Hod(Patron Librarian - Literature)The nine librarians sleeping on each floor, you know.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_hod35"Roland(Servant)I see. Yeah, the ones I met didnโt seem too happy with this job. I guess thatโs why you all hate Angela so much.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_roland27"Hod(Patron Librarian - Literature)Me, Malkuth, Yesod, Netzach, and Hokma were the ones opposing her offer.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_hod36"Roland(Servant)That means the other four approved it. Angela wasnโt completely alone, huh.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_roland28"Hod(Patron Librarian - Literature)To be fair, they werenโt actively supporting itโฆ It was more of a deferral.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_hod37"Roland(Servant)One sec. Why were you against her offer if you thought she could eventually become a better being?Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_roland29"Hod(Patron Librarian - Literature)Itโs silly, I knowโฆ Even in the middle of that, I was thinking I could repent for my sins with death.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_hod38"Roland(Servant)Hold on, you what now?! You were supposed to die at the end of the plan Angela ruined?Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_roland30"Hod(Patron Librarian - Literature)Yep. The whole thing was meant to end with us shutting down, falling into an eternal slumber knowing that our long-desired wish was fulfilled.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_hod39"Roland(Servant)Geez, you were all ready to really accept a morbid fate like that?Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_roland31"Hod(Patron Librarian - Literature)Youโre always surprised over the oddest details, Roland. I thought youโd blame me for running away from my problems, even at the end.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_hod40"Roland(Servant)Nah, thatโs a totally natural reaction in my opinion. Iโm not a very strong or spirited person, so I get why youโd do that.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_roland32"Roland(Servant)So, in summary, you objected to Angelaโs offer at first because you wanted to forfeit your own life as the last step of your atonement, but now that you had some time to think things over, youโre willing to give Angela a chance?Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_roland33"Hod(Patron Librarian - Literature)Yeah, thatโs about right. It was a rather heavy topic for me, but you summed it up neatly.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_hod41"Roland(Servant)Well, things are bound to seem lighter from an outsiderโs perspective.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_roland34"Hod(Patron Librarian - Literature)Thanks for listening anyways. It helped me sort through my thoughts, too.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_hod42"Roland(Servant)Youโre welcome, Miss~ Itโs all part of my work.Audio: "ch8_Hod_ep3_roland35"
