The Index — Episode 1 (Stage: 40005)Location: L Corp’s Nest - Residential AreaYan(Index Messenger)Hello, Miss Lala… Here’s your Prescript.Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Yan1-01"Resident 1(Nest Resident)“To Lala. Put three needles in Lily’s birthday cake by noon tomorrow.”Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_inhabitants1_1"Resident 1(Nest Resident)By Lily, does it mean Mrs. Lily who’s living next door…? I did hear it’s her birthday tomorrow…Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_inhabitants1_2"Yan(Index Messenger)I’m not sure myself…Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Yan2"Resident 1(Nest Resident)…What if she bites one of those needles and gets hurt?Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_inhabitants1_3"Yan(Index Messenger)……You never know, she might luckily notice the needles before she eats them.Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Yan3"Yan(Index Messenger)Or you could tell her in advance that there are needles in her cake.Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Yan4-01"Resident 1(Nest Resident)Oh… Is it okay for me to spoil the Prescript to her?Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_inhabitants1_4"Yan(Index Messenger)The Prescript didn’t say anything about it, so it should be alright…Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Yan5"Resident 1(Nest Resident)It’s strange, though. I’ve been only getting weird Prescripts like this lately… Is there a meaning to this?Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_inhabitants1_5"Yan(Index Messenger)If you don’t carry out the Prescripts, the Index won’t provide protection… You have a family, right?Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Yan6-01"Yan(Index Messenger)I hope you can fulfill this one smoothly.Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Yan7-01"Resident 1(Nest Resident)…Okay.Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_inhabitants2_1"Yan(Index Messenger)Hello, Mister Lee Deok-gu. You’ve got a new Prescript.Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Yan8-01"Resident 2(Nest Resident)What now… What more am I supposed to do now?!Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_inhabitants2_2-01"Yan(Index Messenger)Sorry, sir. I sadly can’t do anything for you even if you cling to me.Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Yan9-01"Yan(Index Messenger)Now… Take in deep breath, and read it out.Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Yan10"Resident 2(Nest Resident)…‘To Lee Deok-gu. Play rock paper scissors with the third person you meet and play rock. If you win, pull out 59 strands of their hair…’Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_inhabitants2_3"Yan(Index Messenger)…Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Yan11-01"Resident 2(Nest Resident)‘Then, apply seafood-cream pasta sauce with mealworms fed on styrofoam to it three times, and eat it with a fork.’Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_inhabitants2_4"Resident 2(Nest Resident)Sick bastards… You’re telling me to eat that shit?Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_inhabitants2_5"Resident 2(Nest Resident)I had to make risotto out of sewer water and give it to Minji next door just a week ago… They ate it without asking, and ended up going to the ER!Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_inhabitants2_6"Resident 2(Nest Resident)Fuck this!Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_inhabitants2_7-02"Yan(Index Messenger)I’m sorry… All I do is deliver the Prescripts…Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Yan12"Resident 2(Nest Resident)Please… I’ll give you as much money as you want! Or let me get a different Prescript just this once, I beg you…Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_inhabitants2_8-01"Yan(Index Messenger)I’d love to change this, but… I don’t have the authority to do that.Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Yan13-01"Yan(Index Messenger)…Everyone faces a test of faith in the Prescripts. I hope you can overcome this.Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Yan14"Resident 2(Nest Resident)…Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_inhabitants2_9"Gloria(Index Proxy)Messenger Yan! Long time no see~Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Gloria1"Yan(Index Messenger)Hello, Proxy Gloria. Do you have business with Mister LaMarcus here, too?Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Yan15"Gloria(Index Proxy)Yep, I do! I got a Prescript, hehe.Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Gloria2"Yan(Index Messenger)Hello, Mister LaMarcus? Are you there? We’re here to talk~!Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Yan16-01"Gloria(Index Proxy)Mmm~? This won’t do! Leave it to me, sweetie~Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Gloria3"Gloria(Index Proxy)Aha~ There you are!Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Gloria4"Resident 3(Nest Resident)…Please… It was… It was a tiny issue…Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_inhabitants3_1"Yan(Index Messenger)Did this person not carry out his Prescript?Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Yan17-01"Gloria(Index Proxy)Nope! So a Prescript came down to me, telling me to smash Mister LaMarcus’s frontal lobe.Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Gloria5"Yan(Index Messenger)Usually, Proxies only receive Prescripts on the rare occasion… of someone else not carrying out their Prescript, Mister LaMarcus.Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Yan18-01"Resident 3(Nest Resident)…You’re shitting me. ‘Kill the painting you've drawn.’ …Does this make sense to you!!?Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_inhabitants3_2"Resident 3(Nest Resident)Painting was everything in my life, and I smeared my own art with ink… stabbed them, tore them… Painted pictures of dead people in so many different ways… I did everything!!!Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_inhabitants3_3"Gloria(Index Proxy)Huh~? That’s a totes simple problem~Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Gloria6"Gloria(Index Proxy)Just pick anyone from the streets, use them as a model for your painting, and then kill them. Isn’t that a no brainer?Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Gloria7"Resident 3(Nest Resident)…Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_inhabitants3_4"Resident 3(Nest Resident)Th… This is… This isn’t my fault! It’s the Prescript being too vague…!Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_inhabitants3_5"Gloria(Index Proxy)It’s not the Prescript’s fault that you were too dumb to get it~Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Gloria8"Resident 3(Nest Resident)You sick fucks! I did all I could to live!Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_inhabitants3_6"Resident 3(Nest Resident)I relayed numbers to a guy called Riemann, I moved a unicorn plushie to a park, and I even found a way to see green from a white wall for Hye-in!Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_inhabitants3_7"Resident 3(Nest Resident)I’d been doing so good…Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_inhabitants3_8"Gloria(Index Proxy)Too bad you couldn’t keep it up this time~Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Gloria9"Yan(Index Messenger)I understand that you tried. But…Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Yan19"Gloria(Index Proxy)Once we get a Prescript, we should carry it out, no exceptions~Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Gloria10"Yan(Index Messenger)…I’m sorry.Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Yan20-03"Resident 3(Nest Resident)Ahhhhhhh!Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_inhabitants3_9"Yan(Index Messenger)…Hello, Mister John. Here’s your Prescript.Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Yan21"Resident 4(Nest Resident)‘To John. Stand on any three-way intersection at 3:38 tomorrow, look to the east, and wave seven times.’Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_inhabitants4_1"Resident 4(Nest Resident)Is this really all I have to do to be protected by you guys? No need to pay money like with the other Syndicates?Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_inhabitants4_2"Yan(Index Messenger)Yes… That’s the case. All you need to do is carry out each Prescript accordingly.Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Yan22"Resident 4(Nest Resident)Sweet! The Index really is the best!Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_inhabitants4_3"Resident 4(Nest Resident)You don’t ask for backbreaking fees like the others do.Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_inhabitants4_4"Yan(Index Messenger)Will you please reconsider? Nothing is truly free in this City…Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Yan23"Resident 4(Nest Resident)I just have to carry out the Prescripts that come to me from time to time, don’t I?Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_inhabitants4_5"Resident 4(Nest Resident)The Nest went under so suddenly… Dangerous gangs started prancing around the residential area…Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_inhabitants4_6"Resident 4(Nest Resident)And other Syndicates all wanted me to pay absurd amounts of money or sign these ridiculous contracts…Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_inhabitants4_7"Resident 4(Nest Resident)The Index is the only one me and my family can count on!Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_inhabitants4_8"Yan(Index Messenger)…If you believe so. You’ll be safe as long as you follow the Prescripts.Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Yan24-01"Yan(Index Messenger)Maybe…Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Yan25"Yan(Index Messenger)Hello… Proxies. You have a new Prescript to carry out.Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Yan26"Esther(Index Proxy)New Prescripts, huh…Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Esther1"Gloria(Index Proxy)We’ve been getting Prescripts a whole lot more often these days!Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Gloria11"Yan(Index Messenger)Prescripts will be Prescripts. It’s not like you ever cared about how many Prescripts you got.Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Yan27-01"Gloria(Index Proxy)I have no doubts about Prescripts, no~ Though we might be seeing a lot of bloodshed with the Thumb and the Sweepers at this rate?Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Gloria12"Gloria(Index Proxy)I don’t have any blood left in my body to shed anyhow~Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Gloria13"Hubert(Index Proxy)If war is what the Prescript requires, we shall gladly wage war.Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Hubert1"Esther(Index Proxy)It’s our role to act on behalf of the Prescript’s will.Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Esther2"Yan(Index Messenger)……Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Yan28-01"Esther(Index Proxy)We will carry out the Prescripts we’ve received first.Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Esther3"Esther(Index Proxy)As Proxies, each of us will convey the content that Prescript Messenger Yan gave us to the Proselytes in our familia.Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Esther4"Yan(Index Messenger)…What are the Prescripts about this time, by the way?Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Yan29"Gloria(Index Proxy)Let’s see~ Mine is to extract the spinal cords of 37-year-old people in this Nest.Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Gloria14"Yan(Index Messenger)Every 37-year-old in the Nest?Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Yan30"Gloria(Index Proxy)Dunno~? It’s up to Proxy Esther to clarify ambiguities in Prescripts, y’know~?Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Gloria15"Esther(Index Proxy)It does target all denizens of the Nest. Search for every single person of the specified age and take their spine.Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Esther5"Hubert(Index Proxy)Our familia’s task is to exchange the left leg of the fourteenth person we come across today with the right leg of the twenty-sixth person we run into.Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Hubert2"Gloria(Index Proxy)They’re so out there~ It actually feels strange to get a straightforward Prescript for once, you see, Yan~?Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Gloria16"Esther(Index Proxy)‘…Eliminate the Thumb. No time limits.’Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Esther6"Hubert(Index Proxy)This one needs no explanation.Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Hubert3"Esther(Index Proxy)…I will send my Proselytes to the Library as my Prescript dictates.Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Esther7"Location: Inside the LibraryRoland(Servant)Oh boy… The Index really is coming for us, huh.Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Roland1"Angela(Library Director)It seems the ‘Prescripts’ are often vague and need clarification.Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Angela1"Roland(Servant)I haven’t seen ‘em myself, so I frankly have no idea how those instructions look. Dunno who makes the Prescripts, either.Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Roland2"Angela(Library Director)It’s impossible that they could maintain such a massive Syndicate following orders that come out of nowhere.Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Angela2"Roland(Servant)That’s the scary part. Those Prescripts seem random, but they work out in their favor somehow.Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Roland3"Angela(Library Director)And no one knows who’s responsible for making them?Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Angela3"Roland(Servant)I haven’t seen anyone that knows, at least.Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Roland4"Roland(Servant)The Prescripts are long since appointed as a Star of the City.Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Roland5"Angela(Library Director)I can hardly believe that so many are following such amphigory so blindly.Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Angela4"Roland(Servant)That’s pretty much everyone in the City. Like they said, people all just live according to the purpose of life given by someone or something else without thinking twice.Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Roland6"Roland(Servant)Heck, those who are still lost without a purpose would gladly take Prescripts.Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Roland7"Angela(Library Director)Even if they require them to yield their own lives?Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Angela5"Roland(Servant)They’re willing to declare war against the Thumb because a Prescript said so. Life surely isn’t the biggest concern for them.Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Roland8"Angela(Library Director)But that’s only a conflict between Syndicates, not Wings. Can it really be called a war?Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Angela6"Roland(Servant)Ehey, ma’am~ You have no idea how big they really are!Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Roland9"Roland(Servant)When the hundreds of Finger-affiliated Syndicates all clash at the same time, the scale and the aftermath is most certainly comparable to that of a war between Wings.Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Roland10"Roland(Servant)This town’s gonna be noisy with those fanatics around for a while.Audio: "ch5_Index_ep1_Roland11"
