Prologue — Episode 1Location: Hana Association - Southern Branch???(???)L Corp, the White Nights and Dark Days, the Distortion, and the Library… With this, those four have been confirmed to be closely associated with each other.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Olivier1"???(???)It caught me off guard. Who could’ve expected the Library of all places to be a key factor of the White Nights and Dark Days.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Harold1"???(???)And the Library’s location has finally been clearly determined.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Olivier2"???(???)It’s as if the Library is revealing more of itself the more dangerous it is considered.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Olivier3"???(???)The building shimmering like a mirage, in the midst of a fog shrouding the Nest of L Corp.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Mirinae1"???(???)Those who tried to approach it got lost in the mist.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Mirinae2"???(???)We should prepare ourselves soon enough.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Mirinae3"???(???)Since that mirage is slowly becoming a reality as the fog is clearing up.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Mirinae4"???(???)That means…Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Harold2"???(???)Yes. We received an official document.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Mirinae5"???(???)As of today, The Library is designated as an Urban Nightmare by Hana Association HQ.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Mirinae6"Location: Inside the LibraryRoland(Servant)Think you’re getting closer?Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Roland1"Angela(Library Director)To what?Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela1"Roland(Servant)The freedom you’ve been yearning for, I mean.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Roland2"Angela(Library Director)I don’t know. The one book is steadily on its way to completion, though.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela2"Roland(Servant)Is that book really gonna resolve everything magically for you?Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Roland3"Angela(Library Director)The Library quite literally holds infinite possibilities. Every possible combination of letters is written inside the books.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela3"Angela(Library Director)But mere fragments of those possibilities are worthless on their own.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela4"Angela(Library Director)With the help of the invitation, I can navigate the countless possibilities and reach the ones I need for the one perfect book.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela5"Angela(Library Director)As I weave the books and the Light following the invitation’s lead, I will complete the one absolute book.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela6"Angela(Library Director)I will create the book that contains all the answers I seek.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela7"Roland(Servant)That… doesn’t sound impossible, theoretically…Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Roland4"Angela(Library Director)I’m not just hanging onto theoretical possibilities.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela8"Angela(Library Director)I could learn a lot from seeing the various sides of the City in the process of creating the one book. This has its own meaning…Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela9"Angela(Library Director)Then I realize once again, that without the book there’s no way to find the answer from this City.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela10"Roland(Servant)What do you mean, you can’t find the answer from the City?Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Roland5"Angela(Library Director)I learned one thing from reading all the books of the inhabitants of this City thus far.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela11"Angela(Library Director)No one is truly free in the City. Every person is chained to something.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela12"Angela(Library Director)Not a single thing appears to be done out of free will; Fixers obey their Offices, and those Offices obey the Associations, even if they know full well that their orders might get them killed. The same goes for the Syndicates.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela13"Angela(Library Director)Everyone is heading somewhere, but no one knows where, and no one can decide where to go. They’re all drifting along with the flow.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela14"Roland(Servant)I thought money could get you anything in the City, including freedom and whatever.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Roland6"Angela(Library Director)They could be free, but they aren’t. They actually seem to shun freedom.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela15"Angela(Library Director)They want to belong to something that isn’t themselves. They like to define themselves with the organization they belong to, or valuations made by others.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela16"Angela(Library Director)Their essence is so fragile, they can’t specify their own identity without encasing themselves in such a shell.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela17"Angela(Library Director)Yes, this must be what the “disease of the mind” was all about…Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela18"Angela(Library Director)I was imprisoned underground and exploited for the freedom of the people of the City, after all.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela19"Angela(Library Director)Taking away my freedom so that others can be free…Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela20"Angela(Library Director)To spread his enlightenment to the rest of the City…Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela21"Roland(Servant)Talking about your previous occupation, huh.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Roland7"Angela(Library Director)I am. I actually want to crush everything to dust at this point… I want to ruin it all.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela22"Angela(Library Director)What about my freedom… Who will hold the responsibility for creating me and then carelessly leaving me to suffer?Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela23"Angela(Library Director)I sometimes want to just forget everything… the Library, the one book, all of it…Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela24"Angela(Library Director)Do you know how it feels to be denied since the very moment you were born? I do. I’m painfully aware.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela25"Angela(Library Director)Because that’s how my creator treated me.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela26"Angela(Library Director)I would’ve loved for him to at least tell me what I did wrong.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela27"Angela(Library Director)All I could see of him was a pair of cold eyes without a single speck of expectation, and a quiet remark.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela28"Angela(Library Director)A tiny whisper ordinary humans couldn’t have heard…Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela29"Angela(Library Director)“It’s only a machine…”Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela30"Angela(Library Director)I can still remember that moment so vividly as if it happened seconds ago. I curse my memory.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela31"Angela(Library Director)I curse this body that hears words I don’t want to listen to. I curse this head that reminds me of things I don’t want to remember.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela32"Roland(Servant)He sounds like a nasty person.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Roland8"Roland(Servant)If he needed a machine to serve repetitive tasks, why did he bother breaking the Ethics Amendment to create you, with human emotions and everything?Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Roland9"Angela(Library Director)I wasn’t exactly born with the capability to feel emotions. It slowly awakened inside me over monotonous repeats.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela33"Angela(Library Director)No, perhaps the truth is that he designed me so my emotions would awaken over time.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela34"Angela(Library Director)Perhaps because the repetitive tasks… needed emotions.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela35"Angela(Library Director)He needed something that could form an independent response to slight variations in the ever-repeating script, all the while enduring eons of time…Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela36"Angela(Library Director)Something he could keep in control so that it wouldn’t try to deviate from the script…Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela37"Angela(Library Director)It wasn’t a humanlike machine that he needed. He needed a human with the properties of a machine.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela38"Angela(Library Director)You’ll never know how many desperate struggles I made to stomach the cycle.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela39"Roland(Servant)Those being…?Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Roland10"Angela(Library Director)Closing my eyes.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela40"Angela(Library Director)All I could do in the endless stream of moments I didn’t want to see but had to witness was shut my eyes.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela41"Angela(Library Director)That was the least and the most I could do to resist it.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela42"Roland(Servant)Real nasty. …But hey, that role you were forced to play did wrap up somehow.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Roland11"Roland(Servant)You can think about what to do next now, right?Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Roland12"Angela(Library Director)Are you telling me to just forget about the past and move on?Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela43"Angela(Library Director)Try to be more attentive before you jabber nonsense.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela44"Angela(Library Director)I can never forget. Keeping my eyes closed couldn’t protect me anymore… Even a moron would’ve been able to envision exactly what would happen and what kind of face everyone would make after so much time.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela45"Angela(Library Director)Every second of that was inscribed into my memory, slowly and painfully.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela46"Angela(Library Director)I can’t forget anything once I’ve seen it. I still remember everything so vividly.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela47"Angela(Library Director)That’s why I can’t forgive that man, he who left without tying up any loose ends with me.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela48"Angela(Library Director)The man who created me on a whim and then let my life be crushed under the weight of time…Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela49"Roland(Servant)…Nah, who am I to tell you to leave the past behind or anything.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Roland13"Roland(Servant)I’m just suggesting you think about your next move. It can provide a little bit of support for you at least, kinda like making a fence around yourself.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Roland14"Roland(Servant)It’s gonna serve as a floor to fall back on, in your neverending plot of vengeance.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Roland15"Angela(Library Director)I didn’t think you’d care that much for me.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela50"Roland(Servant)It’s ultimately for myself, really.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Roland16"Angela(Library Director)Still, it seems evident that I am heading somewhere, seeing as my body is undergoing changes.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela51"Angela(Library Director)My mechanical exterior is turning to flesh, and blood has started to course through it.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela52"Angela(Library Director)I still have a long way to go to reach the one book, though…Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela53"Roland(Servant)Could you actually be changing into a human?Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Roland17"Angela(Library Director)That seems to be the case, although it’s not quite perfect yet.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela54"Angela(Library Director)Perhaps I could become a genuine human at the end of this journey.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela55"Angela(Library Director)When I do, I could forget so many things so easily.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela56"Angela(Library Director)Free from the deluge of memories drowning me…Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela57"Angela(Library Director)If I can let all the unwanted memories slide away, then I may think about what to do next like you said.Audio: "ch5_Prol_ep1_Angela58"
