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<b>Francine, will you be mine?</b>

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<b>That night, an alchemist vanished
 from the streets of Prague.</b>

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<b>And with him, a woman.</b>

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<b>Did the younger brother abduct her?</b>

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<b>I embarked on a journey to find them.</b>

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<b>You know what happened next, don't you?</b>

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<b>How does Minghai know?</b>

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<b>Before dawn, when the stars paint the sky</b>

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<b>I am searching for the thing I lost</b>

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<b>With a restless heart
 Under the sun yet in the dark</b>

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<b>I patch together little prayers
 to light my path</b>

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<b>I don't need anything,
 as my hands are full</b>

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<b>My hands are full of emptiness</b>

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<b>Please, just once, nod for me</b>

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<b>Just once, reach out to me like the mirror</b>

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<b>I will live for that single moment,
 that single second</b>

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<b>All the rest can just burn away</b>

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<b>What's right for me is for me alone</b>

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<b>Whatever the path, I'll follow it to you</b>

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<b>This feeling grows and grows,
 deep inside my heart</b>

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<b>For one single reason</b>

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<b>I continue to climb up on the stage</b>

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<b>9 years after they vanished from Prague.</b>

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<b>It was springtime.</b>

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<b>#10 Francine</b>

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<b>Jin, Jin!</b>

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<b>I'll kill you. You will feel my wrath!</b>

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<b>Jin!</b>

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<b>Oh? What's wrong, Yin?</b>

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<b>You know what!</b>

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<b>Ouch. What are you so mad about?</b>

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<b>You stole Francine from me and ran away!</b>

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<b>I searched for you for 9 whole years.</b>

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<b>What are you talking about?</b>

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<b>Francine is my wife.</b>

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<b>Yin, my own big brother...</b>

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<b>Why did you betray me?</b>

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<b>I told you that Francine was mine.</b>

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<b>You said you didn't like her.
Yet, you...</b>

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<b>You took Francine from me!</b>

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<b>Jin.</b>

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<b>I was at the church that day.</b>

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<b>I came to my senses
 upon hearing those words.</b>

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<b>It's true that I betrayed your heart.</b>

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<b>That's fine, Yin.</b>

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<b>You're surprised. I surprised Yin!</b>

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<b>I finally came to the realization,</b>

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<b>that Jin was no longer the Jin I knew.</b>

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<b>Oh yeah, Yin.
I've kept up my research on alchemy.</b>

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<b>My medicine is almost complete.
Soon I'll be able to cure Francine.</b>

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<b>Cure? Is she sick? Where is she?</b>

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<b>Those accursed villagers...</b>

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<b>Excuse me...</b>

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<b>I know not who you are, but do not
come any closer. You must leave.</b>

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<b>And be sure to rinse your mouth
and wash your hands.</b>

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<b>Francine.</b>

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<b>Can it be...?</b>

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<b>Francine! It's me, Yin.</b>

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<b>Yin.</b>

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<b>Is this a vision?</b>

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<b>Vision or not, don't disappear.</b>

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<b>I'm no vision, I've finally found you
after 9 years.</b>

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<b>Finally...</b>

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<b>I thank you, Lord.</b>

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<b>You reunited me with
the one I love the most.</b>

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<b>Come closer, let me see your face.</b>

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<b>Are you okay? Who did that?</b>

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<b>Who locked you up and why?</b>

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<b>Don't be angry.</b>

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<b>The villagers just want
to protect their families.</b>

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<b>I'm sorry. I've fallen sick.</b>

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<b>I can't let you catch it. So...</b>

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<b>So this is goodbye.</b>

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<b>Come closer.</b>

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<b>If you breathe the air I breathe,
you could die too.</b>

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<b>I mind not!</b>

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<b>If I die embracing my wife, so be it!</b>

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<b>Come to me, Francine.</b>

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<b>Yes.</b>

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<b>Listen to me. You are my wife.</b>

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<b>No matter what.</b>

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<b>Oh, Yin.</b>

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<b>Let me examine you. Take off your clothes.</b>

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<b>I learned Chinese and Western medicine
during my long journey.</b>

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<b>I'm certain I can heal you.</b>

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<b>Then we can live together at last.</b>

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<b>Did you meet Jin?</b>

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<b>Yeah.</b>

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<b>Don't be too hard on him.</b>

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<b>During our journey here, and even now,</b>

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<b>his soul has never been truly at ease.</b>

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<b>May I sit down?</b>

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<b>Look at me.</b>

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<b>I can't even stay standing.</b>

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<b>I tried my best because you came,
but this is all I can do.</b>

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<b>She's weaker than I thought.</b>

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<b>What is this disease?</b>

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<b>The door's open!</b>

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<b>Who are you? You trespasser!</b>

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<b>The villagers! Run!</b>

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<b>Just you wait! I'm an alchemist.</b>

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<b>I'll find a cure for you.</b>

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<b>I'm sorry.</b>

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<b>But I can't live with you anymore.</b>

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<b>Don't give up! Once Aqua Vitae
is complete, I can cure you.</b>

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<b>I returned to Jin's mansion
and set to work.</b>

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<b>I went days without sleep.</b>

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<b>I'd collapse with fatigue,
 then awaken and continue.</b>

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<b>Until finally...</b>

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<b>I succeeded in creating the substance
all alchemists had sought.</b>

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<b>The "soft stone" that produces Aqua Vitae.</b>

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<b>Francine!</b>

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<b>No... No...!</b>

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<b>I'll save you!</b>

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<b>I've completed the medicine!
It can cure anything.</b>

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<b>Please give that medicine
to those who need it more.</b>

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<b>Hair?</b>

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<b>Francine?</b>

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<b>For 9 years, I lived with Jin.</b>

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<b>You understand what that means.</b>

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<b>It's not your fault.
I don't mind it one bit.</b>

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<b>I swore myself to you before God.</b>

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<b>Yet, I was with Jin.</b>

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<b>Knowing all the while how heartbroken
you would be.</b>

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<b>Those 9 years cannot be erased.</b>

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<b>Don't say that, stop it.</b>

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<b>Remember the carnival?</b>

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<b>It was so much fun.</b>

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<b>Yin, thank you for being in my life.</b>

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<b>Thank you for your words.</b>

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<b>Thank you for making me laugh so much.</b>

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<b>Thank you for loving me.</b>

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<b>No, don't go!</b>

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<b>Who knew it'd be so hard?</b>

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<b>I know. Next time, I'm going to hate you.</b>

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<b>I'll be insolent and cold.</b>

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<b>I won't open my heart to you.</b>

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<b>So please, let us meet again
in another time and place.</b>

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<b>What did you say?</b>

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<b>Francine!</b>

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<b>You made it, too?</b>

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<b>Francine never loved me. Not once.</b>

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<b>You had everything I wanted.</b>

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<b>You had it all along.</b>

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<b>You're wrong.</b>

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<b>Why do you think
she didn't run away from you?</b>

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<b>She was devoted to you as well.</b>

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<b>You just didn't notice.</b>

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<b>That day, we parted there at Quiberon.</b>

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<b>We never crossed paths again.</b>

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<b>What happened after that?</b>

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<b>The elder brother, Yin, left the village.</b>

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<b>But the younger, Jin, stayed behind.</b>

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<b>23 years passed.</b>

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<b>A beautiful face.</b>

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<b>Luscious lips.</b>

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<b>A lithe body.</b>

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<b>Only her hair is real.</b>

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<b>And for blood, some Aqua Vitae.</b>

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<b>Master.</b>

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<b>Oh, Francine.</b>

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<b>Call me "dear."</b>

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<b>Yes, dear.</b>

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<b>Come, I have some clowns
to make you laugh.</b>

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<b>Why is it? Why won't she laugh?</b>

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<b>Are they not funny enough?</b>

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<b>I'll show you something else.</b>

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<b>Something funnier and even more raucous.</b>

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<b>Here are the people who took laughter
away from you 23 years ago.</b>

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<b>Those who took away your life.
They will become the clowns now.</b>

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<b>Listen well.</b>

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<b>You are all now afflicted with
ZONAPHA syndrome.</b>

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<b>You must make someone laugh
in order to escape the pain.</b>

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<b>Should you wish to live,
you must make Francine laugh.</b>

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<b>I was among those who suffered.</b>

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<b>The clowns' tricks intensified
and they began killing the villagers.</b>

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<b>All to make Francine laugh.</b>

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<b>Well, well. Here's another one left.</b>

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<b>No, not her...</b>

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<b>I'll do it myself.</b>

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<b>Angelina!</b>

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<b>Francine!</b>

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<b>What...?</b>

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<b>Is that what happened?</b>

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<b>Good, you're back to your senses.</b>

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<b>But the real hell was yet to come.</b>

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<b>It gets worse?</b>

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<b>The true horror of ZONAPHA syndrome
is that you can't die.</b>

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<b>Even after the puppets were gone,
 the villagers couldn't die.</b>

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<b>One fall, 6 years later,</b>

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<b>"he" came to our village.</b>

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<b>What happened?</b>

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<b>I told him everything.</b>

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<b>And he told me what he knew, too.</b>

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<b>Why that man did what he did.</b>

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<b>All this, just for that?</b>

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<b>I won't ever forgive him.</b>

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<b>You won't forgive him?</b>

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<b>Then let me ask you.</b>

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<b>Do you choose to survive
and fight the puppets?</b>

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<b>Or let the passage of time
wither your life away?</b>

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<b>I want to get my revenge.</b>

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<b>I see.</b>

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<b>Then I shall take responsibility.</b>

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<b>I made Aqua Vitae using the soft stone.</b>

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<b>This should be enough
to save the villagers.</b>

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<b>-Oh, thank you.
-Do not thank me yet.</b>

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<b>Come here again tomorrow. It will be
your turn to question the villagers.</b>

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<b>And allow only those who wish for revenge
to drink this water.</b>

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<b>But how can we get revenge
on those atrocious puppets?</b>

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<b>Open that chest, and you shall see.</b>

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<b>Now go. Your daughter is waiting.</b>

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<b>And who might you be?</b>

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<b>I was born in China.</b>

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<b>But I like the name given to me
in a place called Japan.</b>

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<b>"Shirogane."</b>

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<b>My name is Shirogane.</b>

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<b>This water can be preserved
by having a human soul melted in it.</b>

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<b>I shall dissolve here
and control the villagers.</b>

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<b>Then crush every automaton
that Jin created.</b>

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<b>Francine, I've kept you waiting
 for so long.</b>

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<b>It must be lonely by yourself in hell.</b>

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<b>With such devilish deeds as I have done,
 I will be joining you soon.</b>

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<b>Francine.</b>

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<b>I loved you from the bottom of my heart.</b>

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<b>The following day...</b>

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<b>The moment I drank the water
 from the well, I was no longer myself.</b>

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<b>Various ideas came flowing into my mind.</b>

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<b>Alchemy and foreign languages.</b>

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<b>The basic structures of automata,
their weak points,</b>

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<b>and how to control the puppets
created to destroy them.</b>

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<b>But above all, a strong emotion.</b>

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<b>A deep malice towards automata.</b>

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<b>Crush them. Crush every automaton!</b>

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<b>Return dirt to dirt and puppet to puppet!</b>

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<b>But I drank the Aqua Vitae, too.</b>

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<b>I'm not under its control.</b>

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<b>Guy once said,</b>

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<b>it takes longer
for idiots to feel the effects.</b>

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<b>-What the heck?
-Wait.</b>

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<b>I understand how Yin died,
but what about Jin?</b>

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<b>Let me enlighten you.</b>

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<b>Before I send you all to hell.</b>

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<b>Who are you?</b>

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<b>One of Les Quatre Pionniers,
the four oldest automata.</b>

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<b>He's Pantalone.</b>

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<b>Who knew you'd be here?</b>

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<b>You're looking well, Lucille.</b>

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<b>The Creator's loathing
then turned to a different target.</b>

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<b>It turned to, of all things,
Lady Francine.</b>

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<b>I punished those evil villagers.</b>

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<b>I did it because I thought
you would laugh for me.</b>

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<b>But you didn't laugh.</b>

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<b>Does this hurt?
Yes, I designed you to need to breathe.</b>

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<b>But you're still merely
a machine-like puppet.</b>

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<b>A soulless toy.</b>

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<b>Goodbye, you thing that wasn't Francine.</b>

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<b>Goodbye.</b>

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<b>The Creator left the village.</b>

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<b>But Lady Francine was still alive.</b>

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<b>With her own hands, she distilled
synthetic body fluids.</b>

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<b>Then used them to give us,
Les Quatre Pionniers, the power of will.</b>

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<b>Will?</b>

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<b>We are searching for a way
to make Lady Francine laugh.</b>

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<b>To do so, we must drink Aqua Vitae.</b>

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<b>Then we will be able to understand
how Lady Francine thinks and feels.</b>

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<b>That is our mission
as the Midnight Circus.</b>

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<b>So you've come here
to drink this spring water.</b>

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<b>Yes, the Creator tossed
the soft stone into that spring.</b>

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<b>I can't let you drink it,
you puppet dressed in rags.</b>

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<b>Who are you?</b>

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<b>Insulting the clothes Lady Francine
gave to me. I will not allow this!</b>

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<b>I will bring an end to the sins
of my ancestors.</b>

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<b>Master, don't do it!</b>

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<b>The Aqua Vitae can cure you.</b>

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<b>He's right. Please, father!</b>

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<b>I have no need for a life full of lies.</b>

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<b>-I won't let you!
-Father!</b>

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<b>I can die without regrets.</b>

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<b>I lived a true and fulfilling life.</b>

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<b>It felt like Master's last words were the
 same as Francine's in that fiery blaze.</b>

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<b>The long journey of Yin's memory
 was finally concluded.</b>

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<b>That conclusion was also
 a beginning to the end.</b>

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<b>The end of the Midnight Circus.</b>

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<b>Fly up high, Marionette</b>

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<b>Turn to ash, gracefully</b>

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<b>My only purpose in life was to fight</b>

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<b>Why am I so angry
 even I dump my humanity</b>

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<b>Without you, I can't smile anymore</b>

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<b>I assume that I am to be blamed</b>

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<b>Like a puppet that can't smile naturally</b>

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<b>I feel like someone is pulling my strings</b>

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<b>What am I even living for?</b>

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<b>I was hurt, and thought
 that nobody would understand</b>

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<b>But you came along,
 and took me in your arms</b>

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<b>I felt my tangled arms and legs</b>

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<b>become free</b>

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<b>Fly up high, Marionette</b>

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<b>I think now I can reach you</b>

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<b>Before I met you, I was empty</b>

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<b>Now I have something
 I'd give my all to protect</b>

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<b>You taught me how to feel,
 the feeling of sorrow too</b>