Chapter 3 | Part 8: Their "Weapon"

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Gerard: Hey… Are we still not there yet? We’ve been traveling for a while now.

Hansel: Since they call it a “weapon”, I thought they could have hidden it inside a nearby building, but…

Cadena: Me too~ Isn’t it inconvenient when it’s so far away?

Niko: ...We’re here.

Cadena: Hm? But there’s… nothing here?

Niko: ...Over there.

Hansel: With “over there”... do you mean that ravine?

Cadena: Whoaaah!? T-That’s so deep! Just looking down is already making me scared… wuah…

Flost: ...Is this so-called “weapon” hidden down there?

Evan: Wh― There’s no way, right~? You can’t see anything from here.

Orochi: Hehe… heh…

Evan: Hm? What? What’s up??

Orochi: Hahahaha! Oh, sorry, sorry. I just think you’re looking into it too deeply.

Orochi: See, our “weapon” isn’t actually a thing.

Cadena: ...Uh? Not a thing? Then what is it?

Orochi: Hmm, how do I explain this…

[BEAST CRY]

Gerard: Tsk! These things have horrible timing, as usual!

Orochi: Beasts! ...Niko, now is the perfect time to show them how we use our “weapon”.

Niko: ...Sure. Look closely, you lot.

[BATTLE]

[BEAST CRY]

Burgess: Alright, they’re retreating! Let’s chase after them and deliver the finishing bl―

Niko: Wait. Stop what you’re doing.

Burgess: What? Why should we st―

Abel: Ah! Look!

[BEAST CRY]

[RUMBLING SOUND]

[BEAST CRY]

[INCREASINGLY DISTRESSED BEAST CRY]

Cadena: I-It fell down…

[BEAST CRY]

Niko: Well? Bit dangerous to go after it now, don’t you think?

Flost: ...I see. This must be your “weapon.”

Dolly: …Er? What do you mean?

Flost: Even without the power to fight them head-on, if we throw them down here, they won’t be able to return.

Burgess: I see… So, in other words, the ravine itself is your “weapon”...

Niko: ...It’s not the ravine alone, though.

Niko: When Vista was still alive, he told us that we are our own weapon.

Niko: We can do it because we’re together. We can understand it because we’re together. The fact that we can fight using our mentality is more important than anything else.

Niko: Our best weapon is the experience we’ve gained from living here.

Abel: Experience…?

Orochi: Which roads lead to where, which buildings are unstable, where the ravine easily crumbles down… That kind of thing.

Orochi: If we’d combine everyone’s information, strategise, and carry out our individual tasks…

Orochi: ...Then there wasn’t a single beast we couldn’t defeat. That’s what Vista told us.

Gerard: ...But that gigantic beast is your enemy, isn’t it? I doubt it’s always going to behave the way you expect it to.

Niko: We had another way. A strategy we'd all constructed together…

Orochi: ...The first thing we did was investigate Cetus’ habitat.

Orochi: That’s how we learned about that patrol route we mentioned earlier. After that, came the “sound”.

Gerard: The “sound”?

Niko: Cetus’ “favorite sound”. I was whistling through my fingers when we saved you, remember? That’s what it likes.

Niko: Whenever it hears that sound, it instinctively heads to its source. It’s a surprisingly stupid fucking beast.

Orochi: That’s what sets it off, right?

Musashi: That’s most out of character for a beast. They don’t feel things like anger and sadness.

Niko: I don’t know if it feels emotions or not, but the fact that Cetus is stupid still stands.

Niko: If you provoke it even a little bit, it’ll furiously chase after you forever.

Orochi: Its constant rampages are really troublesome… But because of its big body, it’s not that quick.

Flost: ...I see. You’re saying that it is possible to manipulate it, right?

Niko: Yeah, it is. We’ll drive it towards the ravine and then push it into the fissure at the last moment.

Gerard: It’s quite easy for you two to say that, but actually taking down something that large is going to require effort, you know?

Niko: “Attack it from the side once you’ve startled it.”

Gerard: W-What? What are you going on ab―

Orochi: We’ll lure him to the target with a whistle, up until the last moment. In the event it gets distracted, we ram into it from the side using the car.

Niko: When it’s startled, we’ll hit it from the side. That way we can knock that behemoth into the ravine.

Volker: Hm. I see…

Niko: ...Or something like that, at least.

Flost: That seems rational enough, more or less. Although I can’t say it’s reliable, the chances of victory seem high to me.

Niko: Don’t look down on me.

Musashi: ...But it has failed before, hasn’t it?

Ian: H-Hey now, Musashi…

Niko: ………...

Orochi: ...Yeah.

Musashi: What on earth happened? I think telling us the reason your plan failed would be most helpful, so I’d like to arrange a meeting after this.

Ian: Stop it, Musashi!

Musashi: But why? Their experiences will be our stepping stone to success. This is a valuable chance of getting to hear their testim―

Ian: No, it’s not! Their comrades… when it happened, they…

Niko: ...He didn’t whistle.

Ian: Eh? Didn’t whistle?

Niko: During the final phase… The whistle we’d use to create a gap between ourselves and that fucking behemoth… He didn’t sound it.

Burgess: Hold on for a moment. Could it be that this “he” is…

Niko: ...Joker.

Orochi: Mhm…

Niko: That asshole… betrayed us all… just so he could save his own fucking life!