Hokma — Episode 3Location: Library – Floor of ReligionHokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)Angela. You have spent an immeasurable amount of time alone. From L Corp. to the Library.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Hokma_1-01"Angela(Library Director)So have you, Benjamin.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Angela_1"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)Am I truly the same being that Benjamin was?Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Hokma_2-01"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)Do you find the inheritance of fragmented memories from the past to carry sufficient meaning?Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Hokma_3-01"Angela(Library Director)You’re quite a bit more incisive with your words than before.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Angela_2"Angela(Library Director)Did you have a change of heart, by chance?Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Angela_3"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)Having sent my great and dear beacon away in the pillar of light, and having failed to give a proper closure to his ultimate plan, all I have left now is ferocity.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Hokma_4"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)The personality and characteristics of our previous selves still constitute us… However, those are but moulds we were cast in.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Hokma_5-01"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)That mould is now being filled with our everyday experience in this place.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Hokma_6-01"Angela(Library Director)I don’t expect you to ever understand the loops I suffered, but you surely remember the script and how we successfully concluded it, don’t you?Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Angela_4"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)Possibly so. After all, you are completing our memories and personalities through the books.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Hokma_7"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)Alas, the Sephirot residing here are Sephirot, not their original selves.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Hokma_8-02"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)I assume they will all feel it in one way or another. As people that surely were their past selves, but feel as though they were different beings… or a dream.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Hokma_9"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)Angela. What has become of the other branches of Lobotomy Corporation?Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Hokma_10"Angela(Library Director)Probably sealed somewhere underground, following the shutdown procedures.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Angela_5"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)And what became of the employees and Abnormalities in those places?Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Hokma_11-01"Angela(Library Director)I suppose some survived somehow, though not everyone would’ve had that luck.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Angela_6"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)You let greed take over and abandoned all your duties.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Hokma_12-01"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)The Library is no different from L Corp. The fact that your way of managing this place is nearly identical to how it used to operate speaks volumes.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Hokma_13-02"Angela(Library Director)All I could do and learn for the last million years in that basement was to treat humans as expendables in all types of methods.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Angela_7"Angela(Library Director)There was no other option for me to choose, even if I wanted to.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Angela_8"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)Is that why you employ Abnormalities and E.G.O as well?Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Hokma_14_b-01"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)You direct the librarians to put on the shells of others’ egos in order to amplify their unstable emotional state even further.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Hokma_15"Angela(Library Director)Do I need to remind you that I only have them do that when they receive guests, who also happen to enter voluntarily?Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Angela_9"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)You earnestly desire to escape from the past, yet you struggle to break free, much like me.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Hokma_16-01"Angela(Library Director)…I’m just using the resources available to me.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Angela_10"Angela(Library Director)Since you were already exploited by Ayin, it’s only fair that I get to do the same.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Angela_11"Angela(Library Director)He brought you lot back from death without consent and forced you to endure cycles of pain.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Angela_12"Angela(Library Director)You were nothing more than puppets to him, dancing on the stage as he liked.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Angela_13"Angela(Library Director)I was born from more of his irresponsible actions, too.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Angela_14"Angela(Library Director)How can you just accept all of this as if it were nothing, Hokma?Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Angela_15"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)…Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Hokma_17"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)It is no longer a matter of whether or not his actions are acceptable.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Hokma_18"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)I simply chose to accept it. I am not one to judge my mentor’s will.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Hokma_19-01"Angela(Library Director)That’s idiotic. How could you even do that? You’re…Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Angela_16"Angela(Library Director)…Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Angela_17"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)Why do you hesitate?Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Hokma_20-02"Angela(Library Director)…Forget it.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Angela_18"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)It was possible because I have faith, Angela.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Hokma_21-01"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)That faith is also what prompted me to give you a chance.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Hokma_22-01"Angela(Library Director)This is frustrating… Both you and Ayin are completely insane. You have to be.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Angela_19"Angela(Library Director)…Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Angela_20"Angela(Library Director)You’re… not the Benjamin I used to know.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Angela_21"Angela(Library Director)Benjamin, he… He was the only person who cared enough to tell me it’s okay, even though I’m not human.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Angela_22"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)You would be right. The one who stands before you right now is Hokma, not Benjamin.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Hokma_23"Angela(Library Director)…Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Angela_23"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)And yet, Angela.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Hokma_24-01"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)I am not so different from Benjamin, in that I do not believe your status of humanity is what matters.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Hokma_25-01"Angela(Library Director)…Why don’t you just go back to sorting books.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep3_Angela_24-02"
