The Index, Part 2 — Epilogue (Stage: 50007)Location: Inside the LibraryRoland(Servant)You know, sometimes, it doesn’t sound too bad to just let go of all complicated thoughts and follow orders like the Index does.Audio: "ch6_Index_ep2_Roland_12"Angela(Library Director)I think otherwise. You won’t be better than a corpse if you just mindlessly perform tasks as they’re given to you, and the Index looks just like walking corpses in that regard.Audio: "ch6_Index_ep2_Angela_15"Angela(Library Director)They appear to have no respect for the free will of individuals.Audio: "ch6_Index_ep2_Angela_16"Roland(Servant)Hmm… You know, I do have a thing or two to say about performing tasks as they’re given.Audio: "ch6_Index_ep2_Roland_13"Angela(Library Director)Here’s the difference: Both you and I are working hard in order to get out of this place.Audio: "ch6_Index_ep2_Angela_17"Angela(Library Director)We have a clear goal set in our minds. We’re doing this because we wish to be free.Audio: "ch6_Index_ep2_Angela_18"Angela(Library Director)However… Yan’s efforts to prove that he has a will of his own went up in smoke.Audio: "ch6_Index_ep2_Angela_19"Roland(Servant)You used to berate it hard, calling people who follow it pathetic and stuff. Have you changed your mind on that?Audio: "ch6_Index_ep2_Roland_14"Angela(Library Director)…Perhaps I have.Audio: "ch6_Index_ep2_Angela_20"Angela(Library Director)I thought they were nothing more than completely meaningless arrays of words… for those who have no purpose in life…Audio: "ch6_Index_ep2_Angela_21"Angela(Library Director)As you pointed out, the Prescripts of the Index end up benefiting the Syndicate.Audio: "ch6_Index_ep2_Angela_22"Angela(Library Director)That Prescript commanded them to eliminate all members of the Thumb in L Corp’s Nest. Right when an Underboss and his Capos have disappeared.Audio: "ch6_Index_ep2_Angela_23"Angela(Library Director)The Prescripts Yan had been delivering were false, but an invitation to the Library was in that man’s hand as if it were destined to occur.Audio: "ch6_Index_ep2_Angela_24"Roland(Servant)And they knew that he was up to something. It’s like they’re seeing one step ahead… heck, three steps, maybe.Audio: "ch6_Index_ep2_Roland_15-01"Angela(Library Director)Yeah. I thought they were no more than zealots wasting away their lives and time…Audio: "ch6_Index_ep2_Angela_25"Angela(Library Director)But that was a hasty judgement I made from mere fragments. Could the Prescripts actually be as omniscient as they make them out to be, Roland?Audio: "ch6_Index_ep2_Angela_26"Roland(Servant)Whether that’s true or not, I don’t think you have to be so unnerved about ‘em, yeah?Audio: "ch6_Index_ep2_Roland_16"Roland(Servant)The Prescripts could be some grand entity or a big ball of nothing for all I know. Point is, there’s no need to pay too much attention to what they say.Audio: "ch6_Index_ep2_Roland_17"Roland(Servant)Even if everything I’ve been doing was actually done out of the City’s will and not mine, that doesn’t matter to me one bit since there’s no way for me to realize that.Audio: "ch6_Index_ep2_Roland_18"Roland(Servant)What I do know is that the emotions I feel are wholly mine.Audio: "ch6_Index_ep2_Roland_19-01"Angela(Library Director)…The emotions you feel.Audio: "ch6_Index_ep2_Angela_27"Angela(Library Director)Thanks for putting it that way.Audio: "ch6_Index_ep2_Angela_28"Roland(Servant)I gotta wonder, though. Where was that Messenger going?Audio: "ch6_Index_ep2_Roland_20"Angela(Library Director)He was apparently invited by a Prescript… To where he was invited is still a mystery for us.Audio: "ch6_Index_ep2_Angela_29"Roland(Servant)Talk about a cliffhanger… Always gotta tease me this way.Audio: "ch6_Index_ep2_Roland_21-01"Angela(Library Director)You seem quite interested.Audio: "ch6_Index_ep2_Angela_30"Roland(Servant)Who knows? He might lead us to the full story behind the Prescripts.Audio: "ch6_Index_ep2_Roland_22"Angela(Library Director)Even then, we won’t get to see it if he isn’t our guest.Audio: "ch6_Index_ep2_Angela_31"Roland(Servant)Hngh… Good point.Audio: "ch6_Index_ep2_Roland_23"
