Editing Story/Night 8-4 (Part2)/Script

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Dreamer: I made a little sacrifice on the road, and used the mediocre standards of your digiminds to guess your plan.<br>
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IWS 2000：So she’s already caught up, huh...<br>
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Dreamer: By reconnecting and modifying the equipment at our communications stations… you can broadcast even under the jamming of the Parapluie virus, no?<br>
Am I correct?<br>
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AUG：Indeed, you are.<br>
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Dreamer: Then what are you waiting for? The SF station is right in front of your eyes.<br>
Once you connect to it, you can save your beloved Commander and your friends, no?<br>
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IWS 2000：<nowiki>*quietly*</nowiki> AUG… bait her a little further forward...<br>
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AUG：Thank you for the reminder, but we're not blind.<br>
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Dreamer: How interesting, AUG. I’ll never get bored watching you.<br>
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AUG：I cannot bear your praise.<br>
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Dreamer: Then let’s put the pleasantries aside.<br>
Now then… shall I start, or would you like to go first?<br>
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AUG：There’s no need to discuss that. Thank you for concerning yourself with it.<br>
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IWS 2000：SSG, Glock! Now!<br>
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SSG 69：Hey, baldy! You know what are two kinds of people I hate the most!?<br>
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Dreamer: Oh…? The cannon...<br>
I see, so you even prepared a surprise like this...<br>
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SSG 69：One of them is people who wear tasteless black, and the other is the mysterious type.<br>
Fortunately, you fall into both categories, you big baldy! Lock-on complete!<br>
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Glock 17: Special Move - Cannon Blast! Target - Big Baldy! FIRE!<br>
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[Boom!]<br>
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[The cannonfire strikes Dreamer’s position dead center.]<br>
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Dreamer: Whew… that startled me...<br>
Honestly… how am I going to enjoy watching your choices to the very end when you’ve blasted this dummy into this state?<br>
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[The Dreamer dummy collapses to the ground, utterly shredded,]<br>
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Dreamer: One of you is going to die today, AUG, and my dear IWS 2000.<br>
No matter who you choose in the end-<br>
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[Blam!]
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AUG：Interrupting someone else’s last words at their funeral is very rude.<br>
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IWS 2000：Finally… it’s quiet.<br>
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Glock 17: Leader! We’re not sure if we hit, but there’s SF outside again!<br>
SSG and I won’t be able to meet up with you for the time being!<br>
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IWS 2000：Understood. Thank you… I order you to make survival your highest priority.<br>
This… is my final wish.<br>
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[IWS and AUG stand in front of the comms equipment.]<br>
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IWS 2000：A worthwhile trade, don’t you think?<br>
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AUG：That’s an interesting question. Tell me, after you connect to the equipment, forcibly change its communications protocols, and then connect to the Commander’s comms frequency...<br>
What are the odds that you won’t be infected by Parapluie and become an SF doll?<br>
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IWS 2000：About…<br>
A 93% failure rate?<br>
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AUG：If you want my opinion, I would say that putting out a warning on the anonymous message board would be better.<br>
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IWS 2000：People are going to laugh us to death if we stood in front of an SF comms station and did nothing but post on a messageboard.<br>
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AUG：Yet your choice not to fire on your comrades brought this disaster on your friends.<br>
I cannot understand this paradox.<br>
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IWS 2000：Normally, a doll wakes up in the repair tank after they’re completely destroyed.<br>
I don’t know about the others… but I think… I could get used to this kind of life.<br>
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AUG：You’re changing your beliefs so selfishly?<br>
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IWS 2000：For the mission… for everyone… I haven’t changed that.<br>
Besides... I have you.<br>
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AUG：In that case, please consider how I feel when I have to shoot you.<br>
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IWS 2000：Dolls infected by Parapluie are your enemy...<br>
Besides, when I wake up, I won’t remember this, and you’ll hide it from me, won’t you?<br>
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AUG：Wrong. I will remind you about it over and over again, and savor the look of confusion and sadness on your face.<br>
“Things ended up like that again because I wasn’t more decisive,” the awakened IWS will say.<br>
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IWS 2000：Yeah... I can imagine what I’ll say after I hear about this...<br>
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AUG：Therefore, I hope you’ll remember what you have to remember.<br>
I’m tired of remembering these boring things for you.<br>
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IWS 2000：I’m afraid I can’t do anything about that… In the end, I’ll have to bother you again.<br>
Perhaps if you were team leader instead, you could do better than me.<br>
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[IWS squeezes her eyes shut and connects to the comms equipment.]<br>
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IWS 2000：Urgh...<br>
…<br>
………<br>
IWS 2000：…No response?<br>
Is it… broken?<br>
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AUG：It’s not broken, you just connected to the wrong thing. You’re standing in front of an offline server.<br>
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IWS 2000：Eh…!?<br>
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AUG：It’s very much like you to do something like that. <br>
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IWS 2000：Eh…? Is this broken equipment? Then why didn’t you...<br>
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[...zzz…]<br>
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IWS 2000：AUG…?<br>
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AUG：...Keep going.<br>
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IWS 2000：Where’s the real… interface port?<br>
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AUG：Of course it’s where it should be. Can’t you tell?<br>
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IWS 2000：Under your left hand...<br>
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[AUG raises her left hand, revealing what it was hiding.]
[It’s an interface port that’s currently in use.]
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IWS 2000：AUG… Why...<br>
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AUG：Ask your questions carefully. I’m starting to pick up signal noise.<br>
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IWS 2000：Why… do you keep defying me even until the end…!<br>
At long last… I finally found something I could do for everyone!<br>
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AUG：Frankly speaking, that just annoys me. I’ve heard most of what you’ve said before.<br>
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IWS 2000：But I don’t-<br>
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AUG：Of course you don’t, because you forgot.<br>
The you that woke up from the repair tank forgot.<br>
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[AUG takes out a device from her pocket.]
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IWS 2000：This is…<br>
A combat recorder?<br>
AUG：SSG recovered it from your remains. I once promised you that I would bring it back...<br>
I hope you won’t end up poisoning the Commander with this, given how careless you are.<br>
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IWS 2000：You still remember...<br>
AUG：You were really cute before you told me to take the important information and run.<br>
You said that once your repairs were finished, you’d immediately worry about failing and nothing anyone said would get through to you.<br>
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IWS 2000：That’s true...<br>
AUG：”If I start babbling foolish things nonstop again, then show this to her,” IWS said.<br>
I thought that I could pick a time when things weren’t so hectic...<br>
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[Beep.]
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AUG：Commander… this is an urgent message from Team IWS.<br>
The dolls coming back from the SF base are contaminated with a potent toxin that is  fatal to all living beings...<br>
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[...zzz...zzz…]
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AUG：…<br>
Time is tight, Commander...<br>
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IWS 2000：AUG, stop!<br>
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AUG：The Commander acknowledged the message… IWS...<br>
This way, I’m the only one the virus will kill.<br>
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IWS 2000：Why did you go this far…?<br>
If I had known… I shouldn’t have opposed your plan to shoot down the chopper...<br>
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AUG：You chose this, where’s your determination now?<br>
Would you have listened to me if I were team leader instead?<br>
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IWS 2000：It’s not like there’s no difference… you’re more reliable than me, you’re stronger than me, you’re even… more complete than me...<br>
In the first place… it’s strange that I was the one leading you...<br>
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AUG：You really are obsessed with what Dreamer says, is there a problem with your digimind?<br>
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IWS 2000：No… it has nothing to do with Dreamer… it’s how I really feel.<br>
That’s what I always think when you’re with me… whenever I look at you…<br>
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AUG：Well, that’s unfortunate...<br>
I’m not suited to being a team leader.<br>
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IWS 2000：But if you were leading everyone, many things wouldn’t have ended up the way they did…<br>
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AUG：So you mean I could have destroyed an entire Griffin team with my own hands, and there would be no Parapluie and no Dreamer?<br>
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IWS 2000：But all this… isn’t the fault of any of us...<br>
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AUG：It’s quite terrifying how such things can come from that mouth of yours. Fortunately I’ll forget what you just said.<br>
You’d better remember your own words, don’t backslide again.
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IWS 2000：But after you lose these memories… the first thing you’ll do when you wake up is make fun of me endlessly...<br>
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AUG：Don’t make someone who can’t cry see someone else cry in front of them, otherwise it’ll be very hard to explain.<br>
And perhaps I might have a good dream too. Who knows?<br>
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AUG: It is inevitable… IWS 2000.<br>
Didn’t you say you were prepared for this?<br>
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[...zzz… zzz…]<br>
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IWS 2000：What are you now?<br>
AUG, answer me…!<br>
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AUG: “The rain falls mainly on the plain…”<br>
It’s raining tonight as well…<br>
When the rain splashes on my face, it feels just like I’m crying.<br>
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IWS 2000：It’ll be alright… AUG, it’ll be alright very soon...<br>
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[...zzz…]<br>
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AUG：Reacquiring IFF signal...<br>
...Are you… my enemy?<br>
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IWS 2000：It shouldn’t have happened this way...<br>
AUG, I promised to your face that I wouldn’t...<br>
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AUG：...I don’t believe you.<br>
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IWS 2000：Please...<br>
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AUG：It seems we have no other choice. This is your first mistake.<br>
IWS 2000：It won’t be…<br>
...Our last-<br>
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Glock 17: The merits of bullpup rifles include a center of gravity that’s closer to the back of the weapon, ease of aim and low recoil.<br>
It’s a revolutionary design that’ll change the world… if you disagree with me you’re wrong… and sent!<br>
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SSG 69：Why are you still doing this...<br>
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Glock 17: Didn’t AUG-san tell us to flood the channels clean whenever we were free?<br>
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SSG 69：That was because she wanted to slide all the threads bashing Leader for failing her mission off the front page.<br>
There’s no need to do that this time.<br>
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Glock 17: Still, there’s a lot of posts like that left on the message board, right? Things like how “dolls with toxin on them was an internal conspiracy” and whatnot...<br>
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SSG 69：Don’t worry about them now… Leader doesn’t even care about their comments.<br>
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Glock 17: Ah, there’s someone else looking for the leader, she’s coming towards us.<br>
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Welrod: Excuse me, but do you know the location of IWS-san?<br>
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SSG 69：Sorry… we can’t find her...<br>
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Welrod: Is that so… I’d like to ask her about what happened on the previous mission.<br>
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[Welrod leaves.]<br>
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Glock 17: Not long ago, Leader would have probably been happy if this happened. Why’s she hiding now that she’s in the limelight...<br>
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[...]<br>
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''Let me guess…''<br>
''When you wake up, you’ll ask me why I’m here.''<br>
''You’ll ask why I don’t go and study the combat records more, if I’m free enough to be waiting here.''<br>
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[...]<br>
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''But I can’t learn anything from the records.''<br>
''I can’t focus… I don’t even have the mood to find out what the others have to say...''<br>
''And then you’ll say… how can someone who can’t even focus herself on her studies be a proper leader.''<br>
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[...]<br>
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''Isn’t it all because… it’s too quiet beside me?''<br>
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[System Voice: Neural cloud download complete. Repair program terminated. Be well.]<br>
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'''CHAPTER 8 NIGHT BATTLE: GIANT EAGLE AND JACKDAW - END'''