The Day You Vanished with the Stars/Story/Impetus

Impetus is the 7th chapter of the The Day You Vanished with the Stars storyline.

Summary

The party reaches the outskirts of Moon Emberya and sees fire burning in the city's commercial area. As they come closer, a shop manager calls out to them. He informs the two that all citizens evacuated to the mountains as instructed by Rita, as it is where the beast and monsters it summoned are unlikely to go. Captain tells him to go to the shelter as his life is more important than the shop.

To battle the fire, Kongming uses a branch to deploy a formation that will soon summon rain. Without waiting for its effect, Kongming urges Captain to continue their initial pursuit.

Script

Transcluded Script

This section contains story script that was transcluded from the game with the help of OCR tools to avoid human-made mistakes as much as possible. Generally speaking, it shouldn't be altered unless the in-game equivalent has been changed. Any typos or other errors that are also present in the game are to be retained on the wiki but can be marked via {{sic}}.

Chinese and Japanese romanizations and translations, if present, are unofficial.

Last updated: January 5, 2022

Characters Present

Zhuge Kongming

Captain

Resident

Start

Zhuge Kongming

I have a very bad feeling.

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Zhuge Kongming

It's like... I know there's a thin thread in the wind, but I can't see it or grip it.

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Zhuge Kongming

For the first time in my life, I can feel... the future slipping through my fingers like sand grains.

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Zhuge Kongming

Never mind, to endeavor to my wit's end and leave no room for regret is my way... Hold on, Captain.

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Standing on a hill top outside Moon Emberya, we saw sporadic fire burning in the city's commercial area.

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Captain

Some shops are damaged, but not very badly. The fire should be put out soon.

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Captain

It's a bit weird. None of the citizens are out to snuff out the fire.

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Resident

Your Majesty!

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Zhuge Kongming

You're... the manager of the fabric store, right? There's fire in the city. Are you alright? Where are you going?

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Resident

I'm fine... just here to check my store...

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Zhuge Kongming

How does it look?

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Resident

Half of the store is toasted, but thanks to the chancellor, all of our precious stock were moved elsewhere.

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Zhuge Kongming

You saw the chancellor?

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Zhuge Kongming

Did she head to the mountain behind the city? The difficult terrain there is very likely to keep Huodou away.

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On hearing these words, the manager knelt down and kowtowed three times.

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Resident

The chancellor sent word and told us to hide in the mountain. She said the beast wouldn't go there.

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No wonder there's no one in the city. They all went to the mountain.

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Resident

She mentioned there were other monsters brought by Huodou, but they wandered about without a clear target.

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Zhuge Kongming

So where's the chancellor then?

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Resident

I... I have no idea.

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Kongming helped the manager get on his feet. Her lips parted, but something held her words back.

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Captain

Leave now and hurry. Stores can be rebuilt, but you only have one life.

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Kongming remained where she was, her eyes staring into the distance.

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Captain

Kongming, don't blame him...

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Zhuge Kongming

You think I'd blame him for ditching the safety zone Rita told them to stay in and risking his life for the shop?

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Zhuge Kongming

No, I won't. Life is hard, and the shop means the world to him. Besides, he doesn't owe his life to Rita...

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Kongming sighed before she carefully observed the neighborhood and plucked a tree branch to draw a formation.

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Zhuge Kongming

Water on the top and Lake at the bottom...

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Zhuge Kongming

This rain praying formation should be enough to handle the fire.

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Zhuge Kongming

Let's track Huodou down along the path.

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< The screen goes black, then switches to Shenzhou, where the Captain will have control of Theresa's [Starlit Astrologos] battlesuit. >

< Reach the end of the stage within the time limit. The stage has to be finished within three minutes or else the screen will turn red and, after a short delay, a defeated screen will show up signaling state failure. Nothing is said during the stage, but the story continues afterwards. >

< Defeat the enemies. >

< Enemies defeated. >

A trail of huge scorched footsteps extended before our eyes, and on the side of the trail were trees slashed in half.

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This is obviously from Huodou's tail sweep.

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Zhuge Kongming

Huodou went that way... the ancient battlefield!

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Zhuge Kongming

That's an open space where it can run freely. If we can't stop it there, it would be even harder to trap it later...

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Zhuge Kongming

Rita... don't even think about...

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Kongming bit her lips and took long to make up her mind.

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Zhuge Kongming

I fear I won't be able to protect you later, so take the bamboo path and get into the mountain now.

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Captain

Don't give up on me yet, Kongming.

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Captain

I may not be much of a help, but I certainly won't become your deadweight...

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Captain

I can take care of myself.

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Zhuge Kongming

Humph, it's your call.

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Kongming packed her fan and flipped her long sleeve to stride off.

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Captain

I'll stay by your side no matter how hard it is...

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This time, we'll save Rita together and rewrite history...

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Zhuge Kongming

Follow up! I'm not waiting for you!

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Her voice faded as our gap expanded. I threw my hesitation aside to catch up with her.

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End