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Cadena: The last time we saw Nandin was around here, if I recall correctly…

Dolly: There are holes everywhere…

Cadena: Those are signs Nandin rammed into something. After all, any obstacle in its way is as good as none.

Flost: So it tends to move in straight lines, doesn’t it… If that’s the case, its movement seems easy to predict.

Hansel: …Cadena, what are you doing here?

Cadena: !? Hansel!

Hansel: Why are you with these people? …Gerard clearly refused their pleas for help, didn’t he?

Cadena: That’s… uh…

Hansel: Are you ignoring Gerard’s instructions?

Cadena: T-That’s wrong! It’s—

Hansel: How am I wrong? What you’re doing now is an act of betrayal, isn’t it?

Cadena: N-No! There’s no way I’d be—

Abel: Should you be talkin’ like that?

Hansel: …What’s the matter with you? Could you, as an outsider, please be quiet?

Abel: We ain’t outsiders anymore. Cadena said he’d be helpin’ us.

Hansel: …How ever did you coax Cadena into joining you?

Evan: Eh, he directly addressed us. He decided to stick with us on his own accord, y’know?

Hansel: This is impossible. Under Gerard’s supervision, we have always survived as a group of three…

Hansel: Cadena betraying us without any of you people coaxing him into it is impossible…

Cadena: You’re wrong, Hansel!

Hansel: Cadena?

Cadena: A-At this rate… Gerard is p-probably… gonna die...

Hansel: What are you… saying?

Cadena: Gerard wants to face Nandin all by himself…

Cadena: I felt that I couldn’t stop Gerard on my own, so… that’s why…

Abel: Hey! Is what you just said true!?

Cadena: Yeah… So, if we don’t beat Nandin before Gerard goes through with his plan—

Abel: You should’ve said that earlier! Then, if we don’t hurry—

Hansel: …What’s with this charade?

Cadena: Huh?

Hansel: Hey… could you not make Gerard out to be a fool?

Cadena: I’m not really doing that—

Hansel: That is what you’re doing! To say that at this rate, he’s gonna get killed by Nandin…

Hansel: With how he is, there’s no way Gerard’s gonna leave us behind and die, right!?

Hansel: This absurd story is unbelievable...!

Cadena: Hansel!

Dolly: Hey, what’s the matter with him…?

Cadena: Hansel doesn’t trust anyone more than Gerard— no, he doesn’t trust anyone except Gerard.

Evan: What about you? You called him your friend, didn’t you?

Cadena: I think that, since I separated myself from Gerard... my existence is worthless in Hansel’s eyes…

Abel: What the heck...

Cadena: It’s because we’ve all been abandoned originally.

Dolly: Abandoned?

Cadena: Look, Gerard is easily misunderstood with the vibe he gives off, right?

Cadena: Being misunderstood although he says what’s right, and being told to scram because he’s not cooperative…

Dolly: Ah… that’s what you mean, huh.

Cadena: For my part… I’m upbeat, so there have been times where I’ve been a nuisance and getting up people’s noses too much, so I’ve come to be hated as well.

Flost: …A story much too common within groups.

Cadena: Yeah, but Hansel was even worse off…

Evan: Even worse?

Cadena: Hansel doesn’t have much stamina, so he was deemed useless and abused…

Cadena: He was subjected to punches and kicks as a way for his horrible previous teammates to entertain themselves.

Cadena: Some of them would even snatch his food or drinks from him.

Dolly: That’s awful…

Cadena: But the worst of it all was that he was tricked into acting like a decoy to attract a beast…

Abel: Huh!?

Cadena: …The people who used Hansel as a form of entertainment also used him as a tool to escape from a beast…

Flost: The one who saved him from that… was Gerard, right?

Cadena: Yeah… Gerard rushed in by himself while we happened to pass by… I couldn’t do anything since I was too scared, though.

Dolly: Gerard… did that…

Evan: …So that’s the reason why Hansel sticks to Gerard.

Cadena: Gerard’s existence means everything to Hansel. Nobody can come in between them…

Evan: I see. Gerard won’t cooperate as long as Abel is here, and Hansel won’t separate from Gerard’s side.

Evan: So that’s why you came to us first and foremost, fully prepared to become the bad guy...

Cadena: Yeah… but… I really can’t do it, after all. Although I wanted to convince myself it’d be fine if things came to this…

Cadena: ...as soon as Hansel appeared in front of me, I desperately tried to explain…

Abel: Ain’t that a good thing?

Cadena: Huh?

Abel: It’s not like you came to hate ‘em. You wouldn’t spout such senseless lies, right?

Evan: Right. Thinking it’s fine if only you are hurt is, so to speak, just self-satisfaction. Nobody’s expecting that of you.

Evan: Cadena, you came here ‘cause you, too, couldn’t stand the thought of Gerard being the only one to get hurt, isn’t that right?

Cadena: That’s…

Abel: Alrighty! Whatever happens, let’s get Hansel and Gerard to cooperate in the fight against Nandin!

Abel: And then, it’s case closed!

Dolly: No no no, we can’t do that, that’s why we’re in this situation in the first place, remember? Do you even have a plan?

Abel: They’ll get it if we tell ‘em properly!

Dolly: Gah, you really don’t think, huh…

Abel: But at this rate we can’t do anythin’! They’re friends, so they gotta fight together…

Cadena: Abel…

Abel: So, let’s beat Nandin with everyone’s help!

Flost: However, we don’t have much time left, do we?

Abel: That’s why we’re goin’ now!

Cadena: Abel, why are you going to that extent…?

Abel: It’s like everyone’s runnin’ away… I hate that, y’know?

Cadena: Running away…?

Abel: To me, if feels like you… and Gerard, and Hansel… are runnin’ away.

Cadena: I’m… running away, too?

Abel: Why should you be the only one to go the hard way in order to protect everyone?

Cadena: That’s—

Evan: You convinced yourself to use whatever help you could get to protect your friends… and you’re running away from that.

Cadena: Ah!?

Evan: If you’d prepared yourself to become the villain even though that would hurt your friends, then wouldn’t it have been better if you’d admitted that to yourself directly?

Cadena: Directly…

Flost: …Your relationship will become stronger if you’re willing to hurt each other temporarily and share the pain.

Flost: Amongst the three of you, you might be the only one capable of doing that, because you’ve faced reality the most.

Cadena: …Alright, got it. I’ll try it!

Abel: Alrighty! Well, let’s head to Gerard’s place—

Cadena: Wait! Before we do that, I have a request…

Flost: What? We don’t have time left to waste.

Cadena: I… I also want the power… I want the power to protect the both of them… to protect my friends!

Abel: Cadena...!

Evan: Well then, Lapomme.

Lapomme: I see. Well, Setsu, hold out your hand.