Disc 2, Track 3 - Racing the Night 2
[SCENE: Katsuragi rushes down the pavement. She stops for a moment to catch her breath.]
Katsuragi: (breathing heavily) I've been rushing about all day today! But there's no way she'd come here, right?
[A weird, eerie sound is heard.]
Katsuragi: At night, parks look creepy. [She begins walking again.]
Katsuragi: Huh? Why am I walking in the opposite direction? [Another strange sound is heard. This time another high-pitched tone overlays it.]
Katsuragi: Did I start going in the opposite direction without realizing it? Wh-what is this?
This is wrong! Why are my legs doing this? (dissociated) It's so hot. Feels like I'm melting.
The scenery in front of my eyes . . . looks so strange. Like I'm looking in a funhouse mirror.
(she walks for a bit, her footsteps echoing) So weird. There's no way . . . a door would be here.
[she reaches for the door knob, but then a jolt of electricity jumps from the door knob to her hand.
She is thrown back, pain causing her to snap out of the earlier mesmerism.]
Katsuragi: Hey! What the heck was that!? [we hear her heartbeat] Oh. Ah! Why - why am I getting a headache now? Ah. Owwww.
[She realizes that someone is walking toward her, their footsteps quietly breaking the stillness of the night.]
Someone else is here. [Marie steps out of the darkness and reveals herself.]
Marie: [She looks and sounds different from before. She also sounds emotionally distant.] Yes. Why is someone like you
concerned about her? I asked because I don't understand. Ohhh. I get it now.
You're the only key for opening the labyrinth's garden.
Katsuragi: Who are you? Did we meet somewhere before?
Marie: Why don't you come with me? It's different from what I was seeking, but she'll surely want to find you.
Katsuragi: I'll pass. I'm busy right now. Ask me next time. [On the soundtrack, a sustained creepy tone is heard. It's not unlike
the ambience you'd hear while exploring an abandoned house in the Project Zero/Fatal Frame series.]
Marie: (laughs) You're really funny.
Katsuragi: Wait. Is your hand - shining?
Marie: It doesn't look like she's using an art. It's probably okay if I leave the gate behind. But then again,
we have to keep the secret from her.
Katsuragi: What is she saying?
[Something flies in and crashes nearby.]
Katsuragi: What's that?
Marie: Oh, you're here.
Katsuragi: A pure white . . . child?
Hibino (Triten): Get away from her.
Marie: You don't need to make that scary face. This is the first time I meet you in that form.
Katsuragi: Oh, you two know each other? Well, don't involve me in whatever this is.
Marie: Getting to know each other over food is nice, but there's a better way for us to understand one another.
Isn't that right? Nee-san?
Hibino (Triten): Onee-san?
Marie: That's right!
Hibino (Triten): [Leaps into the air, away from their current location]
Marie: You don't have to run away. Here! [fires magical blasts at Hibino (Triten)]
Hib: Mana . . . and lots of it. Gonna stop it [charges and fires her own blast] Now break! [destroys the shot in midair with her own]
Marie: How about this one? [fires more which are dodged by Hibino (Triten)] Amazing. You could even avoid those.
Nee-san is great. I might even be having fun.
Hibino (Triten): Why are you doing this? You said I was your older sister.
Marie: (giggles) That's right. It'd be faster if I showed you than trying to explain.
Hibino (Triten): Show me? What? Her chest is glowing.
Marie: Nee-san will understand. What's inside, and what it is.
Hibino (Triten): I get it. Your body is artificial, and your real form is inside your chest.
Marie: Magic and religious faith. The ones seeking a fusion of the two couldn't stop and made the one Phantasm in the world.
It wasn't the one known in God's language with excerpts of gratitude . It was more than that.
Hibino (Triten): It didn't have a physical form.
Marie: Completed hundreds of years ago, hidden away in the labyrinth. The Seiten. Humans, using the rare few
scraps of paper, experimented. Aiming for a revival. And that was -
Hibino (Triten): Was what? You?
Marie: The fake, Mirabilis. I was born to be the same kind of existence as nee-san. So, we're like sisters. But it's still
not enough. Like a lost manuscript, there's a fragment left. The brilliance inside nee-san . . . if we could
become one, my existence would be perfected, I think.
Hibino (Triten): You - Mirabilis. That is -
Marie: Do you doubt me? That's all right. If we become one, you won't be lonely anymore. We'll eliminate the loneliness of this world.
Hibino (Triten): There is something I want to ask you.
Marie: That's fine. What is it?
Hibino (Triten): What do you intend to do with that girl?
Marie: That girl? Oh, you mean that human from before. Yes, yes, yes. I'm the only one who knows this. I'm willing to keep it a secret.
But neither I nor nee-san should be around those living things.
Hibino (Triten): Oh. As I thought, you and I are different. If you lay a hand on her . . . I'll have to stop you. (charges magical energy)
Marie: (laughs) I don't like it if you get that angry. You can't stop me that easily anyway.
[Marie launches herself into the air, trailing dirt, loose gravel, etc.] (laughs) [her voice becomes quieter as she leaves the area]
Sorry, nee-san. I have to go check on that troubled girl. We'll meet again at school.
Hibino (Triten): [walks over to Chikagi]
Katsuragi: (coughs, woozy) Today's been a real roller coaster.
Hibino (Triten): Hey. It's dangerous to be here.
Katsuragi: That I got.
Hibino (Triten): Yes. You've had enough today. I think you should go home. [Chikagi realizes something.] What is it?
Katsuragi: You - I've met you before somewhere.
Hibino (Triten): Ah.
Katsuragi: Somewhere before. A while ago. Where was that?
Hibino (Triten): [delivers a chop, knocking out Chikagi] I'm sorry. But it's fine. You don't have to remember that.
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