Main Scenario/Another Route

Decisive Battle of Steel Tree Episode
42-1	Sister's Change
42-2	Another Route
42-3	Reason for the Change
42-4	Begin Operation!
42-5	What Came Out of the Gate
42-6	Alma
42-7	For Peace
42-8	Youko's World
42-9	The Mist Core of the Steel Tree
42-10	Victory for All
42-EP	Epilogue

Maki	"I'm back..."
Ooenomiya	"No one told you to 'go'. Don't leave your post without permission."
Ooenomiya	"What is the matter with you all of a sudden ja? Eavesdropping on the sisters' conversation is in poor taste."
Maki	"I'm not eavesdropping. More like a sneak peek."
Ooenomiya	"Did you see anything...?"
Maki	"Couldn't see. But felt like I could see."
Maki	"Shishou said, 'Beware of Divine Child's power'. So Maki is carefully observing the flow of the Divine Children's power."
Ooenomiya	"When she says Divine Child, there are four Divine Children here at the moment. It would be stranger if nothing happens."
Maki	"But Shishou's words have meaning. Something big may happen."
Ooenomiya	"If it was something big, it would have already happened. We are about to start a battle at the Steel Tree."
Ooenomiya	"Shimoamazu the First used clairvoyance ja. Unlike the advice of the 'eye' attached to the subject, it does not see the truth. Do not be distracted by what you cannot see and misjudge what you should see."
Maki	"Shishou's clairvoyance is highly accurate. It is only at critical junctures that it should not be overlooked. That's why Shishou has acted on her own this time."
Ooenomiya	"No one is saying that you should overlook it. I am telling y'all not to forget what you have to do ja. Y'all job is not to monitor the Divine Children, Maki."
Maki	"......"
Maki	"Will be careful. Maki's job is to defeat the enemy. To fulfil the duty of a kijin."
Ooenomiya	"Yes ja. Today our job is to fight. We are to cut our way into the enemy camp ja, rampage and return so fast that Tsukiyo Banshuu cannot keep up with us."
Ooenomiya	"'Ten skilled kijin can bring down a castle' - Let's remind the soldiers of the Allied Forces that this saying is not myth, but the truth... The two of us are more than enough ja."
Maki	"Today's Ooenomiya-sama, battle mode. Very cool."
Mary	"Ooenomiya, there you are. I didn't recognise you at all, you were in a blind spot from the ground."
Ooenomiya	"Ooh, if it isn't Mary? How did you get up here? Did you bring me a drink?"
Mary	"Of course not. I flew here when I heard you had found the 'entrance'. I fell a few times on the way."
Mary	"What's this? By 'entrance', do you mean this nasty-looking chasm?"
Maki	"Exactly. It's a physical rift, but also a slight rift in space. A hole for a person created by a sorcery or magic caster using a special technique."
Mary	"Blackfriar would be the first to object."
Ooenomiya	"I leave it to y'all to decide what your unit will do. But I and Maki will go in from here."
Maki	"Ohana and Batu said they could go too."
Mary	"Ohana can act on her own, but tell Batu to wait for our decision, because if Batu goes, all the soldiers of the Skanda Mercenaries will follow her."
Mary	"But yes... I think we can fight our way inside if we feel like this. As long as we are careful in who we pick, the infantry unit might be able to achieve some results."
Ooenomiya	"Perhaps Farringdon will say she's going in too. If that happens, y'all have to hold onto the reins firmly."
Mary	"Farringdon should remain at the base. If anything happens to her, St. Iris won't just be unhappy."
Yuuzen	"That's impossible, Farringdon is planning to go into the Steel Tree from the start. I think she left the castle with some degree of preparedness."
Mary	"YUUZEN! WHERE DID YOU JUST COME FROM!?"
Yuuzen	"Where do ya mean? From inside the Steel Tree?"
Mary	"What were you thinking going inside by yourself? This is not the Giant Tree we know anymore, okay?"
Yuuzen	"I made sure I checked inside before we act, and I also prepared a Gate for evacuation. That's very prudent of me."
Ooenomiya	"So? What's it like inside?"
Yuuzen	"Simply put, it's a 'castle'. Not the kind of structure ya can take a Mist Train up in a single bound. It's probably a completely separate route from the main entrance railway."
Maki	"Is it well-defended? Are there guards?"
Yuuzen	"No guards. But there could be Phantom Mist at any moment. Those machine soldiers might also come gushing out with the Poisonous Mist."
Maki	"What about the structure? Complicated?"
Yuuzen	"The lower part is as seen from here. But if I go up a bit, the dimension distorts, and the doors and stairs change position. It looks like there might be a source of Mist on every level."
Ooenomiya	"Doesn't mean that there is a master who protects that hierarchy? This may be the work of the Mistism."
Ooenomiya	"Well, whatever. The fact that there is a separate road means that there is a possibility that Conductor and the rest of the main group will be affected in some way. Before that happens, we should try to break the enemy camp as much as possible."
Maki	"Let's do that."
Yuuzen	"That's it Mary. Let each head of the units know and get their best men. Miyako and the others will take care of the train."
Mary	"Sigh, it's so hard to organise a group of old people..."
Mary	"Very well... Let's go inside from here. We can't leave the conquest of the Steel Tree to Conductor's team alone. That's what all the people here will say."
Mary	"Yuuzen, if it comes to it, I'm counting on you. And don't forget to be prepared for the 'trump card'."
Yuuzen	"Don't worry. So far, so good. The 'eyes' and 'ears' are connected nicely."
Ooenomiya	"Maki, y'all stay here with Yuuzen. I'm going down with Mary."
Maki	"Understood. Will stay here with Yuuzen. Yuuzen, do not leave Maki's side."
Maki	"Understood? Do not leave Maki's side."
Yuuzen	"Got it already, stop making that face. I'm so pissed off I'm going to punch ya."
Mary	(I wonder what her face looks like from that mask...)
Ooenomiya	"Let's go Mary. Blackfriar is waiting for us below."
Mary	"Got it. And Yuuzen, take care of the rest."
Yuuzen	"I never thought I would be the one to go in here as a regular soldier. I've had nothing but trouble ever since I started my journey to find dolls. It's not like I honed my skills for this kind of thing."
Yuuzen	"For real, it's a pain in the ass... Ricardo, ya think so too, don't ya?"

Decisive Battle of Steel Tree Episode
42-1	Sister's Change
42-2	Another Route
42-3	Reason for the Change
42-4	Begin Operation!
42-5	What Came Out of the Gate
42-6	Alma
42-7	For Peace
42-8	Youko's World
42-9	The Mist Core of the Steel Tree
42-10	Victory for All
42-EP	Epilogue