Chesed — Episode 5 (Stage: 207005)Location: The Library – Floor of Social SciencesChesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)Say, Angela, is it really necessary to indiscriminately kill all the guests coming to the Library just to collect more books?Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Chessed_1"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)Looking at the power the Library has gathered so far, we could easily…Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Chessed_2"Angela(Library Director)To get refined books in our hands, we need the emotions of our guests to be heightened above a certain level.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Angela_1"Angela(Library Director)To draw out their emotional tension, the guests are pitted against librarians in a battle of life and death with something precious on the line.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Angela_2"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)Refined books, huh…Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Chessed_3"Angela(Library Director)What do you think is considered precious by all people?Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Angela_3"Roland(Servant)Their own lives, I guess.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_1-01"Angela(Library Director)Exactly. Being alive is the prerequisite to achieving anything.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Angela_4"Angela(Library Director)We’re picking out people for their books at the cost of one’s life.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Angela_5"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)We still disagree with each other, I see.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Chessed_4-01"Angela(Library Director)Are you still dwelling on what you did in Lobotomy Corp?Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Angela_6"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)How could I ever forget~?Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Chessed_5"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)I drove employees to death for the sake of energy refinement even though we were more than capable of saving them.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Chessed_6-01"Angela(Library Director)Sigh… Chesed, that was all part of the script.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Angela_7"Angela(Library Director)It was devised to provoke your so caring and delicate heart.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Angela_8"Angela(Library Director)And I simply followed it as per obligation.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Angela_9-01"Angela(Library Director)You know now who to blame for all that, don’t you?Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Angela_10"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)It’s true. It was all part of the script. Then what’s our excuse now?Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Chessed_7-01"Angela(Library Director)This is not the same as back then.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Angela_11-01"Angela(Library Director)Individual choice meant nothing in that corporation. But here, the guests that enter the Library and meet their demise were all notified of possible risks and agreed to take all responsibility for whatever happens in this place.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Angela_12-01"Angela(Library Director)…Nothing disgusts me more than talking about the past with you lot.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Angela_13-01"Angela(Library Director)Sigh… I’ve had enough of this for now.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Angela_14"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)Whoops, there she ran off~Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Chessed_8-01"Roland(Servant)That was tense, huh? You sure are good at rubbing things in others’ faces.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_2-01"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)…And brewing coffee.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Chessed_9-01"Roland(Servant)Mhm. Thanks to you, I realized how all the coffee I’ve drunk in my life was hot garbage…Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_3-01"Roland(Servant)I don’t think I’ll ever bear to drink ordinary coffee again.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_4"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)That’s good to hear~~Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Chessed_10-01"Roland(Servant)I never imagined there could be such subtle differences in sourness and sweetness, or how that could bring out a deep taste.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_5"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)See? You can savor the taste when you know more about it~Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Chessed_11"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)Maybe the same goes for this world we live in?Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Chessed_12-01"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)Perhaps we’re just led to believe that the path ahead of us is all there is to it, because there’s so little that we can see or learn.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Chessed_13-01"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)Just like the Index obsessing over Prescripts, and the Fixers hanging on requests.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Chessed_14"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)Speaking of, does the Index really not know where their Prescripts come from? Like, completely oblivious?Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Chessed_15-01"Roland(Servant)Mm, yeah, I don’t think they have any idea.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_6"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)Following orders without even knowing who gave them or for what reason, that’s just… bitter.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Chessed_16-01"Roland(Servant)Can’t be helped. The Index does seem extreme with their methods, but the whole City is operating based on some grand instructions coming out of nowhere when you think about it.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_7"Roland(Servant)One can’t even be sure if the values they’re pursuing are their own anymore.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_8"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)Are you okay with the City staying this way forever?Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Chessed_17-01"Roland(Servant)It’s not a matter of being okay with it.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_9"Roland(Servant)It’s a matter of survival. This is just how the world is, and we’ve got to live in it somehow.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_10"Roland(Servant)There’s nothing we can do about giant streams created from people tangling with each other.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_11"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)Sometimes, I’m stricken with sorrow looking at the stories taking place in this City.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Chessed_18-01"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)Things that happened to my past self and his colleagues, and the things we’ve done afterwards…Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Chessed_19"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)I joined the effort to change the City because I didn’t want to witness any more of that.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Chessed_20-01"Roland(Servant)And how did that go?Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_12"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)As you know, the City did not change as we’d hoped.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Chessed_21-01"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)…One can say that we caused even more trouble with the Distortion.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Chessed_22-01"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)Think we got what we deserved?Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Chessed_23-01"Roland(Servant)Nah. That’s just an obvious outcome, that’s all.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_13-01"Roland(Servant)There’s no way the City can change.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_14-01"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)Really? Even if we learned why all the pain is perpetuated in the City?Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Chessed_24"Roland(Servant)If anyone actually wanted to know why the City ended up this way, no one would be dying to Syndicates just because they didn’t cough up some small pocket change in time.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_15-01"Roland(Servant)No Fixers would be driven to death solely to fill out contractual obligations; no feathers would be spent like expendables by the Wings.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_16-01"Roland(Servant)As if knowing why could actually prompt changes.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_17-01"Roland(Servant)Point is, knowing does jack to change things. I told you, the stream is just too big for individuals to do anything about it.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_18-01"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)I’m not saying we’re looking for immediate change. I know that we can’t change things instantly.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Chessed_25-01"Roland(Servant)What do you know about it, then? What makes you think you can talk like it’s so easy?Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_19-01"Roland(Servant)Everyone just bears with it! They can’t afford to do otherwise!Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_20-01"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)When will you stop running away?Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Chessed_26-01"Roland(Servant)I’m not running from anything…Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_21-01"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)Aren’t you and Angela just lying to yourselves about it, though? That it can’t be helped, that there’s nothing you could do.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Chessed_27"Roland(Servant)That’s the truth, what else am I supposed to do?Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_22-01"Roland(Servant)This is the City… There is NO other option!Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_23-01"Location: ??????The word “promise” is perhaps one of the most empty in this City.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_24"???It’s a privilege that only those with power can make.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_25"A Fixer(???)Please… Can’t you just pretend that we never met?Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Pluto_1"Roland(???)…Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_26"A Fixer(???)What the hell was that contract about, then!Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Pluto_2-03"A Fixer(???)You know breaking contracts and dropping your reputation means a death sentence for a Fixer like you, right?Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Pluto_3-05"Roland(???)Read it again, carefully.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_27-01"A Fixer(???)…Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Pluto_4-02"A Fixer(???)Sneaky bastards, pulling filthy tricks with words…Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Pluto_5-05"Roland(???)So why did you try to smuggle Enkephalin in the first place? We wouldn’t have gotten into this if you hadn’t done that.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_28-01"A Fixer(???)I swear, I had no idea…Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Pluto_6-03"A Fixer(???)I didn’t know it was Enkephalin, and I didn’t know it was meant to be delivered to O Corp!Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Pluto_7-02"Roland(???)You know how we roll in this business… Next time, make sure to go through a contract Office.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_29-01"A Fixer(???)Let’s see how long you can act so high and mighty!Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Pluto_8-02"A Fixer(???)Just you wait… The City’s gonna screw you over in the exact same way!!!Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Pluto_9_a-02"Roland(???)That’s then, and this is now.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_30-01"???Things changed at the drop of a hat.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_31-01"Nest Migration Officer(An Official)Didn’t you know? Wing War participants cannot move to the Nest.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_People_1-02"Roland(???)What? But you said veterans of the war will be given first priority over moving to the Nest! That’s what I was told before joining the war!Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_32-03"Nest Migration Officer(An Official)Didn’t you receive the notice? The terms have long since changed.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_People_2-02"Roland(???)You’ve got to be joking… We aren’t talking about some cheap giveaway, it was a promise made by a Wing!Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_33-03"Nest Migration Officer(An Official)You know all there is to know. Yelling won’t get you anywhere, I’m afraid.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_People_3-02"Roland(???)…Please. It was all to earn that migration permit…Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_34-04"Roland(???)Is there really no way…?Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_35-03"Nest Migration Officer(An Official)No means no, even for you. Tremendous amounts of money were involved in the agreement.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_People_4-02"Roland(???)What about all the others who fought to death for the permit, then! What did they die for?!!Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_36-02"Roland(???)…I won’t forget this. K Corp. and I Corp…Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_37-04"Roland(???)No, if any of the Wings dare reach out to me asking for help, why I’ll make you regret it.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_38"Nest Migration Officer(An Official)You still received payment, didn’t you?Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_People_5-02"Nest Migration Officer(An Official)And next time, please avoid signing on deals without the mediation of a contract Office.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_People_6-01"Nest Migration Officer(An Official)Well… I’m sure you’re already well aware of these precautions, right?Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_People_7-01"Roland(???)Go fuck yourself.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_39-03"Nest Migration Officer(An Official)No thank you. Have a nice day.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_People_8-01"Roland(???)…I’m sorry. They won’t accept Smoke War veterans in the Nest… They changed their words out of nowhere.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_40-01"???(???)This is no Nest, but it’s quite safe here, you know?Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Angelika_1-02"???(???)It’s rather… romantic to be living in the so-called streets of music, too.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Angelika_2"Roland(???)Still, the Nest could…Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_41"???(???)And I honestly never really wanted to move to a Nest.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Angelika_4-04"???(???)We’ve both seen and done the dirty deeds going on in the Nest per request of the Wings.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Angelika_5-01"Roland(???)At least we wouldn’t have to worry about our lives walking around in the Nest!Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_42"Roland(???)Life is more valuable there than in the Backstreets!Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_43"Roland(???)And it’s not just us, what about our baby—Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_44-02"Roland(???)…Ghh.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_45"???(???)I’m telling you, it’s fine here.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Angelika_6-01"???(???)Who would ever want to touch our child when we’re the parents?Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Angelika_7_b-01"Roland(???)Good point…Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_46-02"???(???)C’mon… Again with that gloomy face of the past.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Angelika_8"???(???)You finally started socializing, too.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Angelika_9-01"Roland(???)But…Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_47-02"???(???)Roland. It’s a miracle that we even have a decent house and a family.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Angelika_10-04"???(???)You know how the life of a Fixer usually goes.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Angelika_11-03"???(???)And I’m saying this just in case… No matter what happens, don’t blame yourself for all of it. You know it won’t be your fault.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Angelika_12-02"Roland(???)Don’t say stuff like that.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_48"???(???)You’re so obviously gonna drive yourself to the extreme if I don’t say it here. Now, promise!Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Angelika_13-03"Roland(???)You know I don’t make promises.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_49"???(???)Hss…Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Angelika_14-01"Roland(???)Alright, fine! I promise!Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_50"Roland(???)…Yo. You sure about that?Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_51-01"Roland(???)…Alright. I’m counting on you.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_52-01"???(???)Who was that just now?Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Angelika_15-02"Roland(???)Remember my old friend, Olivier?Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_53-01"???(???)Course I do. He used to work at the same Office as you.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Angelika_16-03"Roland(???)He’s asking me to lend a hand for a bit.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_54"???(???)…Don’t tell me, is it Fixer work?Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Angelika_17-01"Roland(???)…Erm, yeah. Looks like he urgently needs a hand.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_55"Roland(???)Don’t worry, nothing dangerous. I just have to be there and fill the number.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_56"???(???)And the location?Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Angelika_18-01"Roland(???)District 25.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_57"???(???)Whew… You’re going to a cold place.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Angelika_19-02"???(???)Remember the delicious pajeon we ate there? Buy some for me when you come back.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Angelika_20-02"Roland(???)But of course, your majesty. I’ll be back as soon as possible.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_58-02"Roland(???)…And thanks for letting me do this.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_59-01"???(???)Can’t have you lose one of your last few remaining friends.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Angelika_21-01"???I turned away from the desperation of others.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_60"???My family and I came first.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_61"???I cursed those who turned away from my desperation.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_62"???Everyone turns away from each other’s suffering and goes about their lives.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_63"???Who could I dare blame in these circumstances?Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_64"???Each person spurs the suffering of the City trying to live, knowingly or not.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_65"Location: The Library – Floor of Social SciencesChesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)Roland. You can’t run all the time.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Chessed_28-01"Roland(Servant)I know! I know that I have to stand this ground and try to make a living like the rest… even if I loathe this cursed world and this City!!!Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_66"Roland(Servant)I can’t do anything about it… I can’t change this damned City alone.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_67"Roland(Servant)It’s just how things work. Knowing the truth or making up my mind won’t allow me to go against the flow.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_68"Roland(Servant)No matter how furious I am about the injustice I face, I have to abandon all of my pride and just accept it so I can make ends meet!Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_69"Roland(Servant)The City won’t change.Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_70"Roland(Servant)As long as humans exist, the City will never change…Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_71"Roland(Servant)It’s become a part of everyone’s life to hurt others for themselves to live…Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_72"Roland(Servant)We can only survive in this world with our sense of shame covered in scabs and calluses!!!Audio: "ch8_Chessed_ep5_Roland_73"
