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As we left the castle, Emrls said that he would return to Malkuth to help
settle Malkuth's policy. He took the Highwind with him, so we ended up stuck
in Baticul.
With no other choice, we headed for the mansion, but then Jeremy contacted
me, saying he was going to come and meet me. That gave me a thought, so I
told him to come to the mansion.
Okay, let's wait for Jeremy in the mansion.
Jeremy arrived before long. Apparently he hasn't been able to find the Jewel
of Sol, and is out of clues on where to look. That reminded me of Sion's
Score, the one about going to Belkend to find a way to eliminate the miasma.
That way was to use hyperresonance to dissolve the miasma, with the power of
the Sword of Sol and ten thousand sacrifices. I asked Jeremy about that,
but he came right back and asked me if I was offering to die.
...That's when I first realized how insincere, how weak my resolved to
change, even the gesture of cutting my hair, had been.
Back then, I had thought I could die. But now? Even if my death could save
the world from the miasma, I'm afraid of dying...
Jeremy said that he didn't want to die either. It's just like Emrls said...
This method is too unrealistic.
Jeremy tried to leave then, but I still had something for him to do. I'm
going to make him see Father and Mother...
I brought Jeremy to see Father and Mother, and left for the courtyard. I'd
been thinking I wanted to get Jeremy back here to see them, but now that I
finally have, it was too difficult to watch.
When I got out into the courtyard, everybody scolded me for thinking about
dying in order to get rid of the miasma. But I've spent a lot of time
thinking about it...thinking about why I was born. Maybe I was born in order
to eliminate the miasma...then wouldn't that mean I had a reason to exist
after all?
Then Jeremy returned from seeing Father and Mother, yelled at me, and left.
Even though we're the same person, we always wind up fighting. ...Or maybe
it's because we're the same person.
Gwen and Emrls returned the following day. Both countries had agreed to
stopping the Planet Storm in order to attack Eldrant. Now we just need to get
things arranged at the summit. Both rulers are already headed for Daath--
let's get going in the Highwind ourselves.
But just as we were leaving Baticul, we found Spinoza waiting for us. He
said Jeremy had gone to ask him about how to neutralize the miasma.
He can't be planning to use hyperresonance to do that...?!
Even Jeremy, the original, wouldn't be able to survive that. And what's he
planning to do about the ten thousand people he'd have to sacrifice?
I wondered about that out loud, and Emrls replied that he was probably
going to use replicas.
Since the Seventh Fonon is used to bond together atomic particles during
replica synthesis, replicas could serve as substitutes for Seventh Fonists,
Emrls said. Is Jeremy planning a mass suicide with that many replicas...?
We can't let him do that. We decided to head for the Tower of Rem, which
is probably where Jeremy has gone. The Tower of Rem is on the Qiubi Peninsula,
the southernmost part of the Rugnican continent--southwest of Kaitzur. Let's
board the Highwind and hurry after Jeremy.
 Foxraikov · Wed Jun 06, 2007 @ 01:59pm · 0 Comments |
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