Gate of Steiner

* ?
* Kris, it's okay! It's just us!
* You just said not to mention any of that...
* Because it'd get... heard.
* ... Kris... Kris, it's okay, it's just us.

But, Papa, you weren't alone in this world. Mama loved you deeply. Your believers, your attendants...my sibilings... Zephia, Griss, Marni, Mauvier... My brother and me! Everything we did was for you!

I lost someone too.
I thought we'd be together forever, but our lives went in different directions.
Relationships are so fragile.

Fréminet has a complex mind and often hides his emotions. He blames himself for things that aren't his doing and allows them to eat away at his conscience. The other children might find it difficult to understand his manner of thinking, but you seem to share a similar delicate sensibility.

* S... Susie...?
* Y... you missed...

* I...
* I don't wanna kill you, man.
* Just move. Please.

* Kris... are you there?
* ... Then, I'll just leave a message.
* You are going to the festival tomorrow, aren't you?
* ... I just wanted to confirm.
* Noelle said...
* She's really looking forward to seeing you.

Back then... I was jealous of everyone else's happy families... That's why I lied about mine...

I've conducted so many investigations across the centuries, but there's not even a sliver of hope that we might break the prophecy...
All I can do is keep heart. I must maintain this act. It is the only way to save Fontaine. Please, "Mirror-me." You have to succeed...

No. You misunderstand. You haven't lost. I... have lost.

Clervie never gave another reason, but Peruere could see it written all over her face. Clervie still thought of Crucabena as her mother. Killing her own flesh and blood was a line she couldn't bring herself to cross.

I... don't want to lose you.
Because you're important to me... that's probably why I'm scared.
You're... the only one there is for me.
The only one I want...
So please, stay with me.

Honestly, I still feel like humanity ought to be wiped out, for all I care. If anything, those feelings have only grown... But...I can still fight, if it's for all of you. I can bear humanity's sins and fight for my beautiful comrades, who are in turn fighting for each other.

She knew that this was a performance. If she could endure until the danger had passed, she could finally take off her mask and regain the freedom to express her feelings.
Yet, she slowly began to realize that the godly role she was playing was eating into her.

Why am I even here? I know they won't come, but here I am anyway...
How has it already been five years? Time stops for no one, I suppose.

* ... what the hell is this giant bloodstain?
* Just use VINEGAR, dumbass. Vinegar and hot water. Cleans it up.
* ... look, we don't have time to...

* (Somehow, you and Susie made time to clean up the stain.)

* Dammit. We're gonna be late. Dammit.

Professor... When we leave the monastery, will you still think of yourself as my teacher?

I remember the huge oak tree by the clearing... I'd been sleeping in the hollow by the roots.

* (Sigh...)
* (Kris is the only one who knows how weird I am.)
* (It's not fair, y'know!?)
* (Everyone knows how weird YOU are. Fahahaha.)

That's not true, and you know it, Luis. You have returned to this place for a reason.
You chose to become a Testament, so you could return here. Because this moment proved who you once were.

"It's true... It is my fault...
You were the kindest man I knew, Commander... But I made you use the same enemy tactic that cost Nimue her life...
I drove you to...such desperation, and...now...you're determined to kill me."
"Precisely right, Taion. The past... has come back to haunt you!"

* Susie...
* ... she's...
* She's a really really nice person, Kris.
* How can she be so kind...?
* ... how?

"Why are you helping us now?"
"Hah... I'm not sure of that myself. Perhaps here at the close, I'm feeling that it's just the right thing to do."

Listen up, Phones! The world ends with you. If you want to enjoy life, expand your world. You gotta push your horizons out as far as they'll go.

* The air crackles with freedom.

Mama... Don't erase me... Don't hate me...
Help me... Papa...

Sweet child... I am sorry.
I wanted to see her...see my mother...even if it meant doing that which is forbidden.

"Embers on coat... Brush them off."
"When push comes to shove, do not flinch!"
"Do whatever it takes... for the greater good!"

"So if Bella dies, then…"
"I die with her! And yet! It must be so!
Lady Bella brought me! To this battle!
She gave me my pride! As a warrior!
The chance to revel anew! In the clash of steel!
In return! I do gladly! Lay down my life!"

Those emotions were what drove me. I was in agony every day. And when I learned they were all fabricated... That the hatred that consumed me was nothing but a lie... I honestly wanted to die. I wanted to be freed from this pain. I was so tired... Tired of holding on to this loathing for so long.

"(Go back to the forest. This is not where you should be.)"
"(No! I'm staying here with everyone! These people are my friends... my family! I will not leave them!)"
"Has the heron clan changed so much? They've always been so passive and accepting of their natural fate..."