LC::netzach5_introNetzach — Episode 5SYSTEM: Set BACKGROUND: 'netzachBK', effect: 'none'SYSTEM:SHOW character: Netzach (id: 'netzach') at 'center'SYSTEM: Play BGM: '1 - Beyond The Waves'Netzach(Id: 'netzach')Be honest with me, man. You’re not coming to these meetings with me for praise, are you?Netzach(Id: 'netzach')Aren’t you sick and tired of this?Netzach(Id: 'netzach')You’ll do something great tomorrow yet again, though it won’t be anything all that “great”, and Miss Angela and the other Sephirot will shower you with compliments.Netzach(Id: 'netzach')We’ll have another accident in my department, a couple will fall down and die, some will go nuts, and a pile of ‘em will get injuries they’ll never recover from.Netzach(Id: 'netzach')Hod will try and cheer me up. Yesod will lecture me about what “regulations” I didn’t follow. Malkuth will try to encourage me, lively as usual. “Let’s try harder tomorrow!” …Netzach(Id: 'netzach')Nobody will say to my face that it’s my fault, but it’ll be clear as day that I’m responsible for all of it, surely.Netzach(Id: 'netzach')My day always repeats like that.Netzach(Id: 'netzach')Starts with death. Ends with death.Netzach(Id: 'netzach')Every employee here regularly receives a small dose of a certain drug. Did you know?Netzach(Id: 'netzach')It helps them become desensitized to everything.Netzach(Id: 'netzach')Just think about it. If your good ol’ lunchmate is found dead, torn into thousands of pieces, who in the world would be able to clean up his dead body without a single drop of emotion?Netzach(Id: 'netzach')Could you blame them? Would you call them cowards for depending on drugs?Netzach(Id: 'netzach')Everyone’s just trying to escape from this reality in their own ways.Netzach(Id: 'netzach')They might look and pretend to be okay, but nobody really is.Netzach(Id: 'netzach')I keep thinking about how I can off myself.Netzach(Id: 'netzach')I know, it’s like a metaphor. Death for us is a hypothetical concept.Netzach(Id: 'netzach')I heard injecting substances like Enkephalin into machines will slowly but surely rust them.Netzach(Id: 'netzach')Then, maybe I could chug a whole bottle into my body.Netzach(Id: 'netzach')Give myself irreversible damage.Netzach(Id: 'netzach')...Funny. I just injected myself with way more Enkephalin than I usually do.Netzach(Id: 'netzach')Yet my mind is clearer than ever. Hell, I feel completely lucid right now.Netzach(Id: 'netzach')If I were to open my eyes again, maybe it’ll be somewhere without you, those other Sephirot, or that Angela.Netzach(Id: 'netzach')It hasn’t been fun. Let’s never meet again.SYSTEM: Display CG: 'BlackCG'SYSTEM:wait ( time: '2' )SYSTEM: Hide CGSYSTEM:HIDE character: Netzach (id: 'netzach')SYSTEM: Display CG: 'netzachCG2'A(Id: 'a')We began our research on Cogito in earnest. The most urgent issue that prevailed at the time was the correct dosage.A(Id: 'a')I tried to persuade people. I told them we have to proceed with the experiment in order to save Carmen and the others.A(Id: 'a')Everyone fell silent when I asked for volunteers. Then, one man quietly raised his hand.A(Id: 'a')It was Giovanni, who had kept to himself for most of his time here.A(Id: 'a')Giovanni was one of the patients from Carmen’s company. I heard they had known each other since childhood.A(Id: 'a')There is no such thing as a noble sacrifice. The end is always miserable, no matter how justifiable a cause it may be for.A(Id: 'a')My statement that this experiment could bring back Carmen must have been the strongest motivation that drove him to volunteer.A(Id: 'a')An experiment to find the proper dosage of a drug is not something that can be done in just a trial or two.A(Id: 'a')I never talked with him much. We had nothing in common, other than our acquaintance with Carmen.A(Id: 'a')Cogito emaciates the boundary of a human.A(Id: 'a')And repeated experiments will leave an indelible mark.Inject Cogito.Inject Cogito.Inject Cogito.
