Exalt in the Hollow

(Enter combat)

Hugo: Landon's stash should be somewhere nearby.

Hugo: I did some digging. Some of the missing workers were brought here too.

Hugo: Dina's getting ready to make her move.

(After arriving at the first point)

Lycaon: Don't worry, we'll clear them out.

(After arriving at the second point)

Dina's Subordinate: They're tryin' to destroy the goods! Stop 'em!

Hugo: We need to take care of the guards first.

(After defeating all the enemies)

Hugo: Some of the serum is stored in this warehouse.

(After destroying the first marked Potion Chest)

Dina's Subordinate: You're not taking anything from here!

Lycaon: Hugo, get the guards first.

(After defeating the previous wave)

Dina's Subordinate: You just stepped into your own graves!

Vivian: Hmph, fools.

Destroy the Serum

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 Destroy the Serum

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Video Summary: Getting closer and closer to that ending...

Story Description: As the group plans to split up and destroy Landon's remaining medicine to stop Dina's plan, Vivian secretly pockets a vial of Sacrifice Serum for herself...

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Hugo: More of Landon's serum survives than expected.

Hugo: Fortunately, since they're still here, it means Dina hasn't executed the final step of her plan.

Lycaon: There is likely a lot more stashed around here, and we have yet to locate the missing people.

Lycaon: Our actions here won't go unnoticed. Perhaps they're making plans to deal with us on their side.

Hugo: With Landon and Dina's concoctions combined, she may be capable of creating a Sacrifice that obeys her. If it comes to that, this will get far more troublesome.

How about splitting up?

(ProtagonistProtagonistWise / Belle): How about we split up? Hugo and Lycaon will destroy what remains of the substance around here and Vivian and I will go search elsewhere.

Hugo: Very well, let's go with your plan. But... be careful if you encounter Dina and her people.

Hugo: According to Camille, she's absolutely obsessed with completing her father's dying wish. Who knows what she may try.

Hugo: Let's part ways here for now. And perhaps the other Manager could use Eous to guide us?

(SiblingSiblingWise / Belle): (‍Sure. I've been feeling way better these past few days, so just leave it to me.Sure. I've been feeling way better these past few days, so just leave it to me.Text for Wise / Sure, I've been feeling better these past few days, so just follow me.Sure, I've been feeling better these past few days, so just follow me.Text for Belle‍)

Hugo: It's only now that I realize how fortunate we are to have two Lord Phaethons.

(SiblingSiblingWise / Belle): (‍Yeah, but I feel like our work's doubled... In the past, Wise and I would only ever work on the same route...Yeah, but I feel like our work's doubled... In the past, Wise and I would only ever work on the same route...Text for Wise / Although, I feel like our work's doubled... In the past, Belle and I would only ever work on the same route...Although, I feel like our work's doubled... In the past, Belle and I would only ever work on the same route...Text for Belle‍)

Hugo: Greater power means more responsibility, and in any case, I'm sure the mayor would be able to provide double compensation. He's a very generous person, after all, right Lycaon?

Lycaon: ...

Lycaon: I will request additional compensation from the mayor.

(SiblingSiblingWise / Belle): (‍It's not about compensation... It's just... I'm still not used to us being separated in the Hollow, so I'm worried about Wise's safety...It's not about compensation... It's just... I'm still not used to us being separated in the Hollow, so I'm worried about Wise's safety...Text for Wise / Compensation is just one aspect. It's one thing with Belle being in the Hollow in person, but now with us working on separate routes, I can't help but worry even more for her safety.Compensation is just one aspect. It's one thing with Belle being in the Hollow in person, but now with us working on separate routes, I can't help but worry even more for her safety.Text for Belle‍)

(SiblingSiblingWise / Belle): (‍Oh, but I have no doubt in your abilities! I just haven't gotten used to it yet...Oh, but I have no doubt in your abilities! I just haven't gotten used to it yet...Text for Wise / Oh but, I trust in your abilities; I'm just not quite used to this.Oh but, I trust in your abilities; I'm just not quite used to this.Text for Belle‍)

As they talk, Vivian stands behind them and suddenly sheds tears as she gazes at one of them...

She turns and quickly approaches the area where Landon's serum is stored—

Foreseeing the Fall of the Sun

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 Foreseeing the Fall of the Sun

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Video Summary: If a tragedy is inevitable, then let the misfortune fall upon me.

Story Description: Vivian recalls her vision of a tragedy involving Phaethon — this time, she's determined to change the ending.

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Vivian recalls the tears she shed when looking at Phaethon and the destiny she saw then...

Vivian: This... This is the future I saw.

Vivian: Lord Phaethon...

Vivian closes her eyes as if making a decision, then grabs a vial of Landon's serum.

If a tragedy is inevitable, then let the misfortune fall upon me...

Vivian: I'm sorry...

Vivian: This time, I will make sure the future I saw does not come to pass.

Vivian: I don't want to bring you misfortune.

Vivian: That's all I wish for...

(Enter Combat)

Vivian: Leave this to me, Lord Phaethon.

(After defeating all the enemies)

Vivian: Lord Phaethon, there might be more serum here.

(After breaking the Potion Chests)

Dina's Subordinate: How dare you steal from Lady Dina?

Vivian: Heh, I'll try to go easy on you... no promises.

(After approaching the containers)

Vivian: There are containers by the fissure!

Vivian: There's got to be something inside. Let's try opening them.

Terrified Missing Worker: We don't want the money anymore. Please just let us go!

Weak Missing Worker: I don't think I'm going to make it... Just end my pain... please.

Vivian: We're here to save you. Are there any other captives?

Weak Missing Worker: There were...

Weak Missing Worker: But they...

Terrified Missing Worker: They all turned into Ethereals! So many Ethereals... They're all dead...

Terrified Missing Worker: Please, just let us go. That girl never intended to let us live...

Vivian: My friends will get you out. We'll deal with this.

Vivian: Don't be afraid. You'll get out of this Hollow alive, we promise.

Terrified Missing Worker: Really? Oh thank goodness...

Weak Missing Worker: Be careful...

Weak Missing Worker: So many people were brought in with us... They're all Ethereals now... Really, really scary Ethereals...

Weak Missing Worker: I can't even imagine what she's planning to do with such a massive horde of Ethereals...

Weak Missing Worker: People will die... Everyone will be killed by those Ethereals... *cough cough*

Vivian: Hush. Say no more. My friends will get you out.

Vivian: Leave the rest to us.

Destroyed Hope

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 Destroyed Hope

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Video Summary: The Exaltists celebrate the hope hidden in everyone's selfish heart.

Story Description: Dina's obsession perpetuates Landon's false hopes, while Vivian exposes the true nature of Sacrifice. Camille rebels, hoping to bring Dina to her senses...

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After contacting Hugo and Lycaon, they quickly arrive. You eventually decide to have them first take the civilians to a safe place, while Vivian and you continue to search for any overlooked serum or victims.
Shortly after they leave, a familiar voice comes—

Dina: It must have been tough for you to find this place.

Dina: Vivian, if you had stayed out of it, I wouldn't be so eager to get rid of you.

Vivian: Those people have been taken to safety. You're all out of options.

Dina: They're just mere test subjects. So what if they get away?

Dina: There will always be people consumed by greed, and therefore, they will come willingly to me.

Dina: In any case, what are a few sacrifices in comparison to the completion of Father's grand ambition?

Vivian: Dina, you deceived those people. They didn't come willingly to you. You tricked them just like Landon did back then.

Dina: Deceived?

Dina: Father gave hope to those who had everything taken from them by the Hollows.

Dina: Vivian, you once rejoiced at the hope Father offered you too.

Dina: Before Father took you in, you were no more than an omen of disaster that no one wanted.

Dina: It was Father who gave you shelter and a purpose for existing.

Dina: Do you remember the first time you bestowed a "blessing" under Father's guidance? How did you feel... when that person looked at you with adoration and gratefulness?

Vivian: ...

Dina: That was the first time you felt hope, like your existence had a purpose, right?

Dina: Don't forget that it was Father, who, through what you call "deception," gave you hope.

Dina: And you, what have you done?

Dina: You basked in Father's attention and everyone's adoration, only to destroy everything!

Dina: Do you think that by leaving the Exaltists, those people will live better lives?

Dina: Of course not! Those who suffered under the Hollows will only continue on as walking corpses without the hope Father gave them.

Dina: Do you really think you're some sort of savior, Vivian?

Dina: In the end, you're just an ungrateful brat who brings misfortune to those around her. It was you who destroyed everyone's hope.

Vivian: Not everyone wants to live in false hope, Dina.

Vivian: You say it's because of greed that people willingly become your sacrifices.

Vivian: Perhaps, those people aren't entirely virtuous.

Vivian: But that greed is just wanting to live a better life beyond the Hollows.

Vivian: What you and Landon have done was never about giving people hope, but exploiting it.

Vivian: Stop lying to yourself. Deep down, you know what Landon did was cruel...

Dina: No...

Vivian: Back then, when Landon wanted to inject you with the serum, the fear in your face was as plain as day.

Vivian: I saw it all clearly... If all of this is as righteous as you claim, then why did you make such an expression, Dina...

Dina: Don't look at me with such pity!

Dina: Father did nothing wrong... All of this is to make something of the Hollows other than disaster. That's everyone's only hope...

Vivian: Dina, it's not too late to stop. Stop living in this lie.

Vivian: You know what would happen if a Sacrifice loses control and escapes the Hollow.

Vivian: It's not the Hollows that are to blame for those people's deaths...

Vivian: But the "hope" you keep talking about. That will cause more despair and claim more lives.

Dina: That is merely the necessary sacrifice to accomplish a greater goal!

Vivian: No one deserves to be a sacrifice.

Dina: Hah... Your hypocritical magnanimity disgusts me.

Dina: I can always go and get more test subjects if they've escaped. And I will be able to replicate Father's serum with enough time.

Dina: With you gone, I'll be able to complete Father's gift to the Creator and fulfill his last wish.

Dina: Camille, release the failed subjects.

Camille: Lady Dina...

Vivian: Camille, are you going to do what you did before? You keep saying you'll follow the Creator, but it's all lies.

Camille: Lady Dina, the Hollows took my family from me.

Camille: I understand that there's no way to get back what I've lost. It was Lord Landon who told me that the Creator would guide me...

Camille: One day, Hollows will no longer be disasters. Everyone will be able to survive inside them.

Camille: I look forward to the day when this hope becomes reality.

Camille: I watched you grow up, and I know that you've always looked up to your father... he gives you hope.

Camille: And I... destroyed that hope with my own hands.

Camille: I know the pain of loss, so I've always felt guilty...

Camille: I want to atone for the hope I destroyed.

Camille: But Dina... I don't want to ruin more lives, and I don't want to continue watching you destroy yourself.

Camille: Vivian is right. Not everyone wants to live in false hope, so... Please, stop.

Dina: Camille, are you abandoning me too?

Camille: I'm not abandoning you, I just don't want to see you go past the point of no return...

Dina: "The point of no return?" Hah, I passed that point ages ago.

Camille: No... Dina, you can still turn back.

Camille: I'll be your way back.

Goodbye, Hope

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 Goodbye, Hope

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Video Summary: I hope you'll have a better life.

Story Description: Camille takes full responsibility and agrees to cooperate with the mayor, trading everything for a chance at a new beginning for Dina.

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Dina: Where are you going, Camille?!

Camille: I made a deal with Hugo and the mayor. If someone needs to take the fall for this, let it be me. I did it. All of it.

Camille: I've been forcing Landon's only daughter, Dina, to research how to create Sacrifices.

Camille: I colluded with the Ravenlock family for my own gain.

Camille: Everything Dina did was under duress.

Camille: Since I've kept her captive for so long, she doesn't have the skills to survive as an independent member of society. She'll need a caretaker and teacher. Someone who will look after her and educate her.

Dina: No, I refuse, Camille! I refuse to accept this!

Camille: Dina, I'm going to dispose of those failed subjects...

Dina: I won't allow it! You'll die, I won't allow it... You can't leave me, I command you.

Dina: You've always followed my orders and you will follow them now!

Camille: It wasn't your orders that I've been following...

Camille: My younger sister, who was stolen from me by the Hollows... also had such beautiful red hair...

Camille: When Landon told me the Creator could bring me hope, you were standing there, right behind him.

Camille: I was certain, then and there, that this was the hope the Creator had given me.

Camille: Start over, Dina... You still have so long, so much time... You'll make friends, find people who love you, and make many beautiful memories.

Dina: That's not... That's not what I want... Camille, you're not allowed to die, I won't allow it, I won't allow it!

"Goodbye, Dina."

"And... I'm sorry, Vivian. I'll leave the rest to you."

Camille resolutely walks toward the fissure, as Dina stares after her disappearing figure. After a moment, she also walks forward.
Vivian is about to stop her, but Dina uses the controls to open a container door. Ethereals surge out, blocking the path.

(Enter Combat)

Vivian: Let's take out these Ethereals first!

Vivian: We can't let Camille's efforts go to waste.

(After defeating all the enemies)

Vivian: Let's go after Dina, Lord Phaethon.

Vivian: They must be on the other side of the fissure.

Only Hatred Remains

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 Only Hatred Remains

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Video Summary: But, alas, only hatred refuses to fade.

Story Description: Hugo reveals to Lycaon the truth behind Hartman's fratricide and usurpation, admitting that he once fell into darkness but refuses to become a monster. The two finally reconcile.

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Dina: Are you satisfied now, Vivian...?

Vivian: You were the one who brought yourself to this point.

Dina: Hah, you're saying this is all my fault? Losing my father, losing Camille...

Dina: I wish you had never come into my life.

Dina: At first, when Father brought you home, I was happy.

Dina: There are so many Exaltists, yet Father never allowed me to get too close with any of them. I never had any friends either.

Dina: But when Father brought you back, he told me to take good care of you, that you were my first friend.

Dina: I was also so happy the first time you took my place in helping Father select a person to receive the Blessing.

Dina: Because it meant you were different from all those other people. You could stay with me.

Dina: But soon, I grew jealous... You took the attention that should've belonged to me. You even took Father's love from me.

Vivian: It's only because of my ability that Landon...

Dina: I know, but... Vivian, jealousy is something you cannot control.

Dina: ...Of course, the same goes for fear and hatred.

Dina: I was terrified that one day, you would look at me and shed tears.

Dina: I knew if that day ever came, Father would not hesitate to force the Blessing upon me.

Dina: And when that day did come, I hated you for causing my father's death.

Vivian: Dina... You knew everything about what happened back then so... why are you still defending Landon?

Vivian: And why didn't you tell me back then? If I had known earlier, maybe I could've found a way...

Dina: Because it's the only thing that makes me more special than you, no?

Dina: It proves I had Father's trust. I was more useful to him.

Dina: Vivian, you said you wandered, without a home, ever since you were young, hated by anyone you encountered.

Dina: You were happy to gain recognition from everyone and help Father when you were among the Exaltists.

Dina: But in the end, you discovered you were being used, so you felt betrayed and hurt.

Dina: Then... what about me?

Dina: All I ever had... was my father...

Dina: I've never known a life outside of the Exaltists. Ever since I was young, my only purpose was to help Father select who was to be Blessed.

Dina: The only purpose I had was my father and the Exaltists.

Dina: I've never been taught anything else, Vivian.

Dina: It is what little value I have, and have ever had.

Dina: In the end, you took even that from me... and completely destroyed it.

Dina: You think you're doing good and fighting evil. Hah... You've only managed to affect a small part of your world.

Dina: But have you ever wondered if, maybe, that's all there is to my world...?

Vivian: I never wanted to hurt you...

Vivian: You were also my first friend, and that's why I wanted to save you back then.

Dina: Save me? Hah... You and Camille all talk about saving me.

Dina: Why don't you understand? To me, loss is so much more painful than death.

Vivian: Dina, you can start over... Everything Camille did was so you could live on.

Dina: ...

Vivian: Let's leave the Hollow together. There are so many amazing places in New Eridu. This time, I'll take care of you. I've also met so many amazing people. I'm sure they'll love you too...

Vivian: Okay, Dina...?

Dina: Vivian...

Dina: I can't... I can't forgive you, and I don't want to forgive you.

Dina: I have nothing left. If what little hatred I do still harbor were taken from me... Well, I refuse to be so pitiful...

Dina: I won't apologize, Vivian...

Please, Don't Forgive Me

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 Please, Don't Forgive Me

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Video Summary: I'm sorry... but please, don't forgive me.

Story Description: Dina injects herself with the Sacrifice Serum and gradually transforms into an Ethereal...

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Dina closes her eyes and injects a vial of the serum into her own arm. Soon, Ether crystals appear on her body — a sign of Corruption—

"I don't want to hate myself, so I can only hate you for killing my father and hate Camille for leaving me."

"That's just the kind of person I am, hateful and despicable. I refuse to owe anyone anything. I refuse to feel regret. I won't..."

Dina: Vivian, I will keep hating you. I will take all who are precious to you.

Dina: I will also hate Camille, so I won't do as she wished and start a new life.

Dina: Vivian...

Dina: If, you had never existed...

Dina: If I had never... you... would be...

Dina: ...

Vivian: Lord Phaethon, please do not interfere.

Vivian: She was my first friend...

Vivian: I'm going to bid her farewell.

(Enter Combat)

Vivian: Dina... soon, the pain will be over.

Vivian: Lord Phaethon, don't come any closer!

If You Look Up at the Night Sky

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 If You Look Up at the Night Sky

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Video Summary: Lastly, let me replace my promise with a kiss upon your ring finger.

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(A cinematic plays)

(ProtagonistProtagonistWise / Belle): (‍Vivian! Behind you!Vivian! Behind you!Text for Wise / Behind you!Behind you!Text for Belle‍)

Vivian: (‍Wise...Wise...Text for Wise / Belle...Belle...Text for Belle‍)

(ProtagonistProtagonistWise / Belle): What happened...?

(ProtagonistProtagonistWise / Belle): What the...?

(ProtagonistProtagonistWise / Belle): Vivian!

Vivian: (‍Wise...Wise... Tooltip for Wise...ⓘText for Wise / Belle...Belle... Tooltip for Belle...ⓘText for Belle‍) Don't come near me...

Vivian: This is my own choice

Vivian: I will change the fate I saw...

(ProtagonistProtagonistWise / Belle): Vivian!

Vivian: I just want you to remember me... when I looked my best

(ProtagonistProtagonistWise / Belle): Vivian!

(ProtagonistProtagonistWise / Belle): (‍Ah...! Careful!Ah...! Careful!Text for Wise / Ah...!Ah...!Text for Belle‍)

(ProtagonistProtagonistWise / Belle): Vivian, your body!

Vivian: I'm sorry... you had to see me like this...

Vivian: But... I don't want to be the one that only brings misfortune anymore...

(ProtagonistProtagonistWise / Belle): No... Please... No...

(ProtagonistProtagonistWise / Belle): No... There's got to be another way...

Vivian: It's... so warm...

Vivian: And the night is beautiful...

(ProtagonistProtagonistWise / Belle): Vivian?

(ProtagonistProtagonistWise / Belle): No... Vivian?

(ProtagonistProtagonistWise / Belle): No...

(ProtagonistProtagonistWise / Belle): It can't end like this!

(Cinematic ends)