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[Noloty's Father] We lost our fields, our home, and all respect from the villagers.
Do you feel sorry for yourself, my child?
I don't know.
You shouldn't, my daughter.
Even if everything is taken away from you,
don't ever feel sorry for yourself.
You can go anywhere and do anything.
I want to see you succeed.
Okay. I understand.
Do you, child?
In that case, the world is yours.
The whole world...
[Noloty] The entire world is mine.
So I'm not going to kill you.
Even if you're the one who will destroy the world,
I will protect you.
I will protect both you and the world.
Do you really think you can do that?
[Noloty] I know I can!
I won't give up until I do that.
Things have gotten out of hand.
What on earth is going on here?
A disease of contagious hatred...
What? A disease?
Hatred towards the Armed Librarians was somehow spliced into,
Cerulean Death by the Shindeki Church.
But that's... How is that even?
Your guess is as good as mine, little lady.
[Milepoc] I am speaking to all Armed Librarians who can hear my voice.
The Acting Director has ordered everyone to gather.
Come to the main lobby at once.
Staying behind the scenes, while he tries to kick the crap out of his master...
I won't make death pleasant for Kachua.
Don't get ahead of yourself, we're not likely to last even that long, Hamy.
The barrier will only last three days.
Once it's gone, tens of thousands of soldiers will storm the Library.
[Hamyuts] So, you're all that remain...
I suppose this is how the king felt when he was killed during the revolution, but that's beside the point.
From what Minth's been able to ascertain,
we're not sure how, but for some reason the countries' attacks are definetly related to Cerulean Death.
At this point, the reason is irrelevant.
[Milepoc] Acting Director...
We must go forward.
We are left with two choices.
Either we fight our way out,
or we try to protect this place and die like dogs.
Am I wrong?
I will cut down their front-lines.
I'll rush in and slice my way through.
Just follow along.
Okay? Try to keep up.
The world belongs to you, does it?
Can you tell me you honestly believe that?
I really do.
[Archit] Then you can do whatever you want,
including killing someone or letting them live.
I mean, it all belongs to you.
[Noloty] Archit...
Just like an Armed Librarian to think they can do whatever they want...
No! That's not true!
Oh yeah!? Then return the people who died to me!
Give Berta back to me! And Montgomery and Joseph and Billy!
There's a music corps that travels with the army.
Those people have nothing to do with war at all.
They don't carry weapons, they just got instruments.
[Archit] I had a fever that day, so I had to stay home.
That's why I was the only survivor.
Everyone else was killed.
An Armed Librarian, Mokkania, killed every last one of them.
He and the others even had the gall to try and buy us off.
They tried to make up for the loss of life with money!
But the worst part of it all
was people saying that Armed Librarians protected the peace!
They call the people who killed my friends defenders of justice!
Do you expect me just to let that go, Noloty?!
Do something!
Doesn't the world belong to you? You can do whatever you want, right?!
Bring them back! Bring them all back!
You can do that, can't you? That's what you said, right?!
I'm sorry.
Let go...
Get your dirty hands off of me!
I'm sorry. This is all...it's the only thing I can do right now.
I'm so sorry.
Noloty.
That's my magic ability.
I have the power to infect anyone who touches me.
But I'm not actually able to kill anyone.
Archit...
Shut your mouth!
There's not a thing you can do.
For Berta and Montgomery and Joseph and Billy!
My hatred will never go away!
My rage will never go away!
You get it, Noloty? Nothing you can say will change my mind.
Nothing! Nothing will make me forgive any of you people!
Well done. Just like we planned.
Your work here is done. Let's go.
Thank you, Archit, thanks for talking with me.
Don't try and talk.
Everything's fine. I'm going to treat you right away.
He's beyond saving.
Keep moving.
What do you think you're doing? That sword can parry any attack, Rithly!
You're on guard duty.
I know, but I kind of ran off, so I came out here...
So what's happening with the Acting Director?
She'll take care of herself.
What?
Don't lag behind, people.
Is your appetite still whet, Hamy?
[Overseer] There's nothing to be concerned about.
She was an Armed Librarian. Nothing will change that.
I wish she hated me.
If she hated me and came to kill me, I'd have no qualms murdering her.
I wouldn't think twice about pretending to like her and tricking her.
But that's not how she is.
She said dumb things like how she wants to save me,
and she came and hugged me with that stupid look on her face.
[Overseer] And yet you infected her.
Your hatred didn't go away.
That's all it is, boy.
You are a very wise man, Master Kachua.
Using poor little Noloty to generate such pure hatred...
Merely killing Vizac isn't enough to guarantee a Book worthy of paradise.
Performing one more little task just might edge me even closer to Heaven.
Noloty, are you still breathing?
Dartom...is that you?
Cerulean Death is spread by the black melancholy lizard.
True.
And if one were to implant Archit's hatred,
of Armed Librarians into a black melancholy lizard,
and thus into the Cerulean Death germs, which were then spread to humans?
[Overseer] It'd make for some fun, that's what.
Watching the humans of the world being pillaged by said hatred, that is.
[Overseer] Why have you come here?
You aren't going to spout some nonsense about saving the world, are you?
I've merely come to deliver Noloty's book.
Sorry. I'm afraid you're far too late.
The Armed Librarians will be destroyed, and the world will be born anew.
I don't give a damn, Kachua.
I've only come here to make good on a promise!
[Overseer] To have Noloty, the only person to open Archit's heart,
be killed by an Armed Librarian...
I actually got goosebumps when I thought that up,
to think how deep that hatred runs.
[Enlike] A mist barrier.
Noloty Malche... I tip my hat to that girl.
Without the help of that young lady, Archit's heart could never have truly been opened.
And I could never have created such a deep-seated hatred.
Everything in this entire world is my pawn...
Noloty, yourself, Dartom, and all the Armed Librarians!
Noloty...
No way...
I brought the pitiful girl with me. You should thank me.
She came back?
I don't want you to die.
I don't want you to kill anyone.
You idiot! I tried to kill you!
But you didn't.
Why won't you get angry?!
Hate me! Hate me, damn it! Try and kill me!
I could never do that.
[Archit] But I lied to you!
I trampled on you and I kicked you!
C'mon hate me, just hate me!
I told you. The world belongs to me.
It-it's all mine, all of it.
Tell me why. Why are you an Armed Librarian?
Why?
Why is someone like you an Armed Librarian?!
True boy. This girl's not fit for the job.
She's nothing but a traitor...
[Mattalast] Hamy!
[Hamyuts] Matt?
Head back! You can't go on!
Head back and do what?
Sorry.
Hamy! Now's not the time! Don't do this again.
I must die.
I need to be slashed to shreds
and burned beyond the point of recognition. I will have it no other way.
Then I will become a Book.
I will become a book!
Bravo.
Bravo.
[Overseer] Why go so far?
She's long gone, you know.
[Enlike] Shut up.
[Overseer] Don't be so afraid to die.
There is no place for you in my new world. Your time has long since passed.
I told you to shut up!
You have a duty to read this Book. This is Noloty's Book!
Come here boy! You'll honor Noloty's last wish!
[Archit] No.
I don't want to see her again!
Not that pained look on her face as she was dieing!
Noloty...
We can't very well let one of Kachua's lowly conspirators survive now, can we?
She's nothing but a damned traitor!
Noloty... Noloty!
No. No...
Why you?
Why do the Armed Librarians always take them away?
All of them... All of them... All of them...
Why kill her?
Why did you do it?!
We're defenders of justice, that's why!
It seems that I underestimated your abilities somewhat.
Your hyper-regeneration and thunder magic...
They're more troublesome than I expected.
However!
If I can surpass the speed of your hyper-regeneration,
you won't even be able to move.
Noloty...
I was always in your world.
You have nothing you want to do?!
Before you die?! Nothing at all!?
There must be something!
At least one thing, please tell me what it is!
Whenever I saw something...
Whenever I heard something...
Whenever I thought something...
Looks like you got a new lease on life.
It was all thanks to you.
Please protect the world with me.
But I am about to lose everything.
Once this ends, I'll have nothing.
I will stand alone in your world.
Kachua, there is one thing which you cannot see.
Are you referring to love?
Or is it a person's heart?
Possibly courage and the like of that?
Look above you.
[Enlike] Even if I cannot move my body,
I am able to gather clouds.
I can take my time and create a powerful lightning strike.
I must tell you that's well played.
However, my plan's already been set into motion.
You can't escape annihilation.
I told you, I don't give a damn!
I've come to deliver this to you.
What a beautiful sky...
Can you see it, Arkit?
Can you?
[Enlike] Just as she gazed upon the sky with loving eyes, she loved everything.
Just as she opened her heart to the sea, she accepted everything.
Just as she closed her eyes to the summer wind, she tried to feel everything.
Those who hate, those who dislike,
those who steal and even the dirt...
Dirty cats...
And strays of all kinds...
Flightless birds...
She loved them equally.
They were hers, every single one of them.
That was all her land.
Both you and I, we were only visiting this world of her's.
Given that, do you still hate?
Do you still wish to kill, boy?
[Archit] This is the worst.
With my hatred taken from me, I have nothing.
I've lost the ability to hate.
What the hell are you talking about?
You could make it as an Armed Librarian!
Let's save everyone who's in trouble or suffering...
No not that! Let's save everyone who can be saved!
I've got a little question for you squirt, what's great about the world being yours?
Nothing could possibly be better!
I mean, if someone, somewhere, is happy,
then I'm the one who gets to share in their happiness!
The world is very precious to me.
So very, very precious! You have to understand that.
With Noloty gone from my life, I have nothing to live for.
What do I do now?
[Kyasariro] So Noloty stopped it?
[Minth] The second the source of that hatred vanished,
all the hatred everywhere vanished.
It's the only logical explanation well to me anyway.
[Rithly] Also, the Acting Director knew that this whole thing was all put into motion
by the Governor of Paradise, didn't she?
[Milepoc] Could it be...
So where the heck did Enlike go?
It doesn't say anything...
[Lascall] I suppose this is the happy ending to the painful battles,
between the Church of Drowning in God's Grace and the Armed Librarians.
And yet, I hear not a word, nor see a single smile.
[Lascall] Is this the tale of man?
Am I to write the next chapter in this frivolous ballad?
[Olivia] Did Kachua say anything...
Anything about Heaven?
[Mattalast] A lone violet, forgotten and unplucked,
still sways there.
If you listen carefully to the wind,
you can hear it saying, "Ruruta. Ruruta."