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- Customer : Huh, what the--
- Axl : (panting)
- Slayer : Axl Low!
- Panonika : Mr. Axl!
- B-but this person, he hasn't changed at all since when I was young...
- Axl : ...ha...ha... Sir! Slayer! What's the date today!
- Slayer : Today is the 25th of August, why?
- Axl : That means I only have half a day! Dammit! Not enough time!
- Slayer : What is the world is happening? Can you not explain more coherently?
- Axl : Just a while ago, I was in the 26th of August.
- Slayer : Tomorrow, I see.
- Axl : Yeah, the tomorrow of this place! And there, I met you.
- You were standing in front of this store, which was all busted up, and you looked sad, and you said,
- "You could have gone to the past and warned them! Why didn't you!" and blamed me like that.
- There wasn't a single person left around, it was that ruined.
- So then I thought with everything I could, I want to go back, I want to go back, and ended up here!
- Slayer : Then, if tomorrow, the village is in ruins, then...
- Axl : Yeah, we don't have time to lose!
- Hey, people, listen us! People of this village!
- Customer : What the hell is is?
- Customer : That guy from before wants to say something...
- Axl : There's a large army of gears coming this way! You need to run away right now before it's too late!
- Customer : Gears? Stop joking aound. There hasn't one come around here ever.
- Customer : Besides, if one ended up here, the Holy Knights would take care of it.
- Axl : No, that won't do! The Holy Knights are busy at the church in New Delhi right now!
- A really big one's going to come this way! They're going to rampage here!
- And by the time people notice and the Knights come, it's already too late!
- Customer : Hey, brat! I'm listening here, but you're saying everything in the past tense!
- Do you even have any proof?
- Customer : Yeah, this village has always been peaceful, and the Holy Knights wouldn't make a mistake like that!
- Axl : Dammit! I'm telling the truth! I saw this pub in ruins!
- If you don't run away right now, then you'll all be burnt to ashes!
- Customer : This doesn't make sense! If it's something that'll happen tomorrow, why the hell did you say "saw"?!
- Customer : Hey, you're probably a theif or a gangster, aren't you? That would make sense.
- You want us to run away, so that you can pillage while we're gone! Pff, so easy to see through what you want.
- Axl : That's not it, dammit! I don't know when I'm going to time slip again!
- Two of me can't exist in the same time span, so, please!
- Customer : What the hell is he saying...
- Slayer : (monologue) To be honest, unlike Axl, I was no interested in helping the people of the village.
- I would have simply taken Panonika with me and escaped.
- I am but an observer of humans, not their helper.
- The faces of the men at the pub, they were ones that had occurred so often throughout the years.
- Narrow minded and without consideration, arrogant and believing that tomorrow will be the same as today.
- That is the typical image of humans, and I did not want to interfere.
- However, Axl's actions were interesting.
- This young man before my eyes was trying so hard to change the past.
- The past he had experienced was no doubt the truth, and yet, he still tried so hard to fight it.
- Yes, perhaps to let his past be destroyed would be to deny his very existence.
- So, he had traveled through time to save these people who were not ever grateful to him.
- Slayer : People of the village, I believe you have heard this man.
- Customer : You're... Slayer, I think...
- Slayer : Would you not take a bet with me? The stakes are this.
- Axl : Slayer...
- Customer : So much gold!
- Customer : I've never seen so much before...
- Customer : With this much, you could buy this entire village and have some left over!
- Slayer : The rules of the bet are this. Tonight, you will take your family and leave the village.
- It is summer, so camping out in the hills one night should not be a problem.
- So, if tomorrow comes and nothing has happened, then this gold is yours.
- Customer : A-and if, something does happen?
- Slayer : Then you must all apologize to this young man.
- You must beg his forgiveness. And this gold is mine once again.
- Customer : Sir Slayer, you must be drunk, isn't this too much against you?
- Customer : Yeah, it seems like you know this guy called Axl.
- Customer : It seems almost too good.
- Slayer : Oh? I see them as perfectly legitimate terms.
- Panonika : Sounds good. I'm in.
- Customer : Pa-panonika!
- Panonika : You can earn a lot of gold by not doing anything.
- Besides, Sir Slayer is a gentleman, I'm sure he has something in mind.
- If you have any guts at all, then why won't you accept the challenge?
- The saying goes that you should be the head of a chicken rather than the tail of a dragon, cowards!
- Customer : Ah-alright, Panonika.
- Customer : Yeah...it doesn't make any sense that gears would come this way!
- Then we can get the gold and buy more livestock, it's two birds with one stone!
- We can stop getting yelled at for bringing in too little...okay! I'm in!
- Customer : Yeah, me too!
- Slayer : Well then, it has been decided. I will leave the gold with Miss Panonika.
- As she is the woman I trust the most in this village.
- Panonika : Sir...
- Slayer : Now, get going... Though, if any of you were to lay a finger on her,
- Then you will end up with the Holy Knights on your trail.
- Customer : We wouldn't dare do anything like that, sir.
- We originally have a pact to never lay a hand on Miss Panonika. If we did, we'd get lynched.
- Slayer : Ah, then that is a relief.
- ++++++++
- TRACK SEVEN : TO THE END OF THE ENDLESS FLOWING
- Axl : (panting)
- Slayer : Ah, I have just finished checking. There is not even a single cat in the village now.
- Axl : Thanks a lot, sir... ha, always just getting help from you.
- Slayer : This is not even something to be thanked for.
- If it were not for your time traveling, I would not have even realized this would happen.
- I would have left the village by nightfall.
- Axl : So, um...I'm really sorry, but...
- Slayer : Ah, yes. I hope that this time, you will return to the 20th century.
- Axl: Well then, do it well, sir!
- Slayer : Leave it to me.
- Axl : Good luck!
- Slayer : So...he's gone...
- Slayer : ...already here, they're faster than I expected...
- Slayer : Ehem... I see them there. I thought they would have come creeping from the darkness.
- A pity, but I am completely different from humans! Uwoooooo, It's Late!
- Slayer : Pathetic killing machines without minds, I can take on any number of you!
- And for tonight, I am a vampire fighting for a woman, a gentleman fighting for a friend, I cannot lose!
- ++++++++
- TRACK EIGHT : HALFWAY PAST ETERNITY
- Axl : .....Eeeh...where is this? What kind of time have I dropped into now?
- Slayer : It is the village where we first met, Axl.
- Axl : Sir...Sir Slayer... these ruins are of that village...
- Slayer : This pile of debris that I am sitting on is what is left of Panonika's bar.
- Axl : ...that...what the hell happened?
- Slayer : Just a few hours ago, an army of Gears came this way. I was not here, and I could not do anything.
- Axl : What?! Then-- everyone was killed? Panonika too?!
- Slayer : But! You could have warned them! If it were you, it was possible!
- For you, who constantly travels through the future and past!
- If you had the will, you could have gone back and warned them!
- Axl : I-- I didn't know, I just found out right now! And I can't just control my time-slipping!
- Slayer : No more. I am no longer your companion, nor your friend. Axl Low, you are but a coward now.
- I have misjudged you. Go away to a different age, while I am still calm.
- Axl : ....I'm sorry, sir. It's my fault...farewell.
- Slayer : Farewell Axl Low, a friend of the past.
- Axl : Dammit!
- Slayer : He's gone... Playing the villain in this way is not to my liking, it certainly feels somewhat painful.
- Slayer : Panonika?
- Panonika : Ah, yes... this...
- Slayer : Yes, it has happened as Axl said it would. But do not worry. I will leave the gold.
- Think of it as thanks for the good drink. I am sure you will put it to good use.
- Panonika : Are you going, sir?
- Slayer : Once every five years. That is my rule. Until we meet again, Panonika.
- Panonika : Um...were you the one who defeated the gears, sir?
- Slayer : Me? No, I do not have any powers like that. The Holy Knights did.
- Panonika : But I don't see them anywhere. So I want to believe that you protected us, sir.
- Slayer : Then you may think was you will. Adieu, Panonika.
- Panonika : S-sir!
- Panonika : Gone... he vanished...
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