Event Scenario/The Shadow Puppet Girl
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| Hearing Chitose's account of her life, I couldn't suppress my sigh. It is said that everyone has a history - but I can't help but marvel at the bizarre fate she has followed. | ||
 Chitose |
"Fufu. I'm sorry for telling thee such a long and boring story, bouzu." | |
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| Chitose |
"It must have been tedious to hear the fusty tale of a baba who simply did fail to kick the bucket and hath lived a long and futile life." | |
| Conductor |
No, it was interesting. I am glad to know so much about you, Chitose. | |
| Chitose |
"I see. But I'm sure there art many more in the SSS with strange backgrounds." | |
| Chitose |
"Coequal those who is has hath lived as long as I has, I am not the only one. There is eke Ooe the kijin child who is younger than I am, and a Termini who is hast hath changed bodies many times and continues to wend on." | |
| Chitose |
"I am by nay means special. I am one of those no more brain than stone people who is coequal not know wherefore they has been given such a long, long life." | |
| Chitose |
"The elderly's babble is oft significant, though. Basically, thee should hark to them and live thy lives as young people doth, as thee see fit." | |
| Chitose |
"It is not elderly like me who is make the times, but thee. I shall not stand in thy way, and if 't be true I can holp thee in any way, I shall be very joyous." | |
| Conductor |
I think you could pursue your own happiness more too, Chitose. | |
| Chitose |
"Fufu. Receive not get me wrong, bouzu. To live in this way is mine own blessing yond I want." | |
| Conductor |
Is that so? In Chitose's upbringing, which I have just heard, you were always doing work for someone else. You wished for the happiness of others, became a human pillar, solved their problems, even fought against the government - | |
| Conductor |
Shouldn't Chitose be rewarded even just a little, for your continuous service to others? You should be rewarded for being a 'good girl' all these years. | |
| Chitose |
"Fufu. If 't be true there was a reward, this immortal body wouldst be it. Oft people envy me, I'm so young forever - and so on." | |
| After saying this light-heartedly, Chitose's face suddenly turned grim. She levitated her talismans and the lantern artifact round her body and readied herself. | ||
| Chitose |
"Stand ho, bouzu." | |
| Conductor |
What's wrong, Chitose? | |
| Chitose |
"I've been walking around with a stout spell detector to find Abashiri's co... I hath found something I wasn't expecting." | |
| Chitose |
"Behold at yond." | |
| Chitose pointed - To a strange object in the darkness of the dreaded Underworld. | ||
 Shadow Puppet Girl |
'.........' | |
| It was a figure painted in black, like a shadow puppet. Countless lumps of flesh were gathered around the figure, writhing. | ||
| Shadow Puppet Girl |
'Kagome, kagome -' | |
| Shadow Puppet Girl |
'Kago no naka no, tori wa--' | |
| The figure who hummed the nursery rhyme that I remember hearing somewhere, seemed to be a little girl. Her voice is young and lovely. No, I thought the voice sounded familiar. | ||
| Chitose |
"Thou art--" | |
| Shadow Puppet Girl |
'Aaah... Finally, you are back.' | |
| Shadow Puppet Girl |
'I'm tired of waiting, you, you worthless, you're - Chitose-chan, right?' | |
| Shadow Puppet Girl |
'You don't mind if I call you that, do you? You're not like me anymore, are you?' | |
| Shadow Puppet Girl |
'This is difficult, so you should change how you speak like this! You know how kids talk like this these days, don't you?' 'Thee' and 'thou'... pfft, it's stupid!' | |
| Shadow Puppet Girl |
'If you don't speak the same language as everyone else, you can't make friends, okay? You'll be lonely if you don't have any friends, you know? Hey, isn't that right - Chitose-chan?' | |
| Chitose |
"Thou art... Well enow, yond's how t is." | |
| Chitose frowned evasively at the 'shadow puppet girl' who spoke to her, as she danced around. As it is, she remains poised in a position where she can protect me--. | ||
| Chitose |
"Art thee me?" | |
| Shadow Puppet Girl |
'Mhm. You can tell by looking at it, you see - we're sooo much the same♪' | |
| Conductor |
What's going on, Chitose? | |
| Chitose |
"As I told thee, I has been wandering in this Underworld for a long time. For a thousand years, I has been living in this otherworld, adapting to t." | |
| Chitose |
"During that time, mine own magic power that had been poured out had congealed. Mine own power, which hast accumulated, hast grown into an ego over a long period of time..." | |
| Chitose |
"Said power with such an ego did inhabit the innumerable lumps of flesh yond did exist in this Underworld and became a monster. Yond is what thou art - The other me, the nameless wench." | |
| Shadow Puppet Girl |
'I have a name, though Chitose-chan seems to have abandoned it'. | |
| Laughing eerily merrily, the Shadow Girl danced, surrounded by a mass of flesh. Her outline is exactly the same as Chitose's, except her gestures are oddly childlike and uncomfortable. | ||
| Shadow Puppet Girl |
'I know. I read and understood the memories of your friends that you took in here. I realised - That everything of you right now become different from me.' | |
| Chitose |
"Thee tooketh in mine own cater-cousins? Thou art the one who is put everyone in the SSS to slumber and did drag their souls into the Underworld?" | |
| Shadow Puppet Girl |
'That's right. You see, Chitose-chan and 'I' are 'the one and the same'.' | |
| Shadow Puppet Girl |
'I can open the gates to the 'Underworld'. Just like you. Through that gate, I have sent your people to my world.' | |
| Shadow Puppet Girl |
'And. I had everyone's souls extracted and transported to this Underworld. In the Underworld, the body will soon decay and perish, so it's better to enjoy the souls alone for a long time.' | |
| Shadow Puppet Girl |
'The soul, too, will go crazy sooner or later. But it will not perish. So, I can enjoy it forever - I can be satisfied.' | |
| Shadow Puppet Girl |
'Thank you. It's the best Christmas present I've ever had, Chitose-chan.' | |
| Chitose |
"I remember not giving thee such a gift." | |
| Shadow Puppet Girl |
'Yeah. Santa-san didn't come, so I had to force him to give what I wanted.' | |
| Shadow Puppet Girl |
'I was a good girl all my life and waited for him, but he didn't give me any treats.' | |
| Shadow Puppet Girl |
'I couldn't take it anymore, so I had to become a thief, a bad girl - Who forcibly took what I wanted. I snuck in through the chimney and ransacked the place.' | |
| Shadow Puppet Girl |
'Hey, what do you think that would make me do that?' | |
| Chitose |
"............" | |
| Shadow Puppet Girl |
'You would know, wouldn't you - Chitose-chan?' | |
| Chitose |
"I can bid. Thou art me after all." | |
| Chitose |
"I am the one who is, by some accident 'r miracle, was not picked up from the wide lake - The one who hast hath lived in this hellish lodging as a human pillar, never to be rewarded." | |
| Chitose |
"If 't be true anyone spends such a hard, painful and lonely life, coequal the most wondrous of children shall be twisted." | |
| Chitose |
"Thou art I, has becometh a 'bad girl' in yond way." | |
| Shadow Puppet Girl |
'Yes - I'm a bad girl, I'll do what I want to do.' | |
| 'Shadow Girl' walks up to us, seemingly innocent. The writhing masses of flesh around her lean in and mingle together, forming the shape of a giant monster. | ||
| Shadow Puppet Girl |
'I can't wait for Santa-san. He's not coming for me anyway!' | |
| Shadow Puppet Girl |
'That's why. I'm going to take eeeeverything - That you want with my hands.' | |
| At the same time as the shadow puppet girl reached out her hand, countless tentacles extend from the huge mass of flesh. | ||