Queensway |
"HAH!" |
Monster |
"PWRAGH!" |
Queensway |
"That's the last one!" |
Yoshino |
"Zenzen not a cute fairy-san." |
Putra |
"No, I told you it wasn't a fairy. It kinda looked like one though." |
Conductor |
The monsters that were the source of the outbreak was not very strong. Probably from the monster that Queensway defeated. The Mist that had been hanging over the area quickly cleared. |
Conductor |
At the same time, the formerly menacing Val Sans Retour returned to its original peaceful forest appearance. It seems that what Bourse was shown was a trick by the Phantom Mist. |
Vivienne |
"See? I told you, didn't I? The human-faced trees and the eyeball-y leaves, they were all illusions. There is no way that such a horrible forest could exist here in Brocéliande." |
Yoshino |
"Senbu caused by the Mist." |
Yakutsk |
"There were fewer of them than I thought. I thought they were all over the place..." |
Queensway |
"Are those more monsters from the west?" |
Vivienne |
"It would be strange if they weren't. The east side is within the warding network. This Val Sans Retour is no exception to that." |
Vivienne |
"But the Mist Monster we just fought is a bit different from what we heard in the strategy meeting. The Forestiers reported that the enemy that had massed in the west was much bigger and the Mist Monsters look like monsters..." |
Yakutsk |
"For sure, that's not the information that was given in the report. Besides, if there were any enemy illusions, it would have been mentioned in the West side long ago." |
Yakutsk |
"So this is..." |
Queensway |
"So they're new enemies! There is a new Phantom Mist on the east side too!" |
Yakutsk |
"Hmm... well, that's what I was going to say." |
Conductor |
Queensway is correct, that this is a new Phantom Mist on the east side. It is also localised within Val Sans Retour, which borders the west. |
Conductor |
If there was any trigger, it would have been the massive outbreak of Mist on the west side. The Phantom Mist that flowed to the east crossed the boundary network and created a new Phantom Mist. |
Yakutsk |
"Or altered." |
Queensway |
"It is possible for Phantom Mist to be altered. It's because the Mist can become thicker when it leaks through the warding network, when it reacts to a large amount of Phantom Mist stones, or when affected by strong magic." |
Yoshino |
"In that case, it could be the opposite too!" |
Queensway |
"Eh? The opposite?" |
Yoshino |
"Mhm. The source was originally here, but it drifted to the west and was transformed." |
Yoshino |
"...... This hypothesis is also possible, but not absolute about that." |
Vivienne |
"Hmmmm, it's not impossible, but in this case it might be a bit different." |
Yoshino |
"I see. That's a little too zanshin-and-dried..." |
Vivienne |
"But it's important to look at it that way. It's the little things that give us clues to solving the incident." |
Yoshino |
"Ooooh-, good. Everyone is so kire-kire today, so Yoshino wanted to do some suiri too." |
Vivienne |
"We're the only ones who have had that spooky hallucination so far, so I'm pretty sure that something not good is in Val Sans Retour..." |
Putra |
"That's the thing, though, I'm a bit stuck on something." |
Yoshino |
"Ooooh-? Did you get your pantsu caught on a tree branch?" |
Putra |
"WRONG! Even I've had that happen in the past, sure, but WRONG!" |
Putra |
"I meant Bourse. Look at her, Bourse, as soon as she entered Val Sans Retour, she saw weird things, right? And she said she heard mysterious voices all the time..." |
Putra |
"But it wasn't foggy then, was it? There was no Mist around until we heard the voice, right?" |
Yoshino |
"Oooh-, now that you mention it!" |
Putra |
"I don't think the timing makes sense either. I wonder if it's really caused entirely by Phantom Mist..." |
Vivienne |
"If you say it's not caused by Phantom Mist, then what? We all saw the same thing as Bourse." |
Putra |
"Hmm, well, yes, but that's why, I mean. I wonder what the relationship is between that scary forest and Phantom Mist." |
Vivienne |
"Just to confirm, Bourse, you're not the only one who can still see it, right?" |
Bourse |
"No problem with that. It's like the horrifying scene we just saw never happened." |
Bourse |
"But... le Bourse really still felt something strange." |
Vivienne |
"Bourse?" |
Bourse |
"Ma head's spinning, and chest region is kind of hot..." |
Vivienne |
"BOURSE!" |
Conductor |
Almost as soon as the Mist Monsters are defeated and the localised Phantom Mist is cleared, Bourse suddenly collapses to her knees... |