Scenario:Estarriola - Beyond the Trial
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Beyond the Trial
The Inchoate World unleashes his full power to overcome the trial that is the crew. A final showdown ensues.
Inchoate World: You've come.
By tracking the aura of the Inchoate World, the crew finally reaches the center of his realm.
The Inchoate World looks down on the crew as he speaks, a hint of surprise in his breath.
Inchoate World: How strangely comforting... Though you obstacles in my path normally fill me with disgust...
Inchoate World: Seeing you as a trial meant to be overcome fills me with pride and joy.
Inchoate World: The face of fate changes depending on your interpretation. And my interpretation has led me to birth a new world.
Inchoate World: You are nothing but nuisances now—stepping stones on my path to world creation... That is how I define your fates.
Estarriola: I have to say, I've grown tired of your talk—or rather, I'm not interested.
Inchoate World: It is there that providence exists—for only a god can define fate. Whether you are interested matters not.
Inchoate World: What's more, you are blinded. You are incapable of even making the best choice when it is right in front of you.
Estarriola: Don't be absurd. I've already received something precious from my beloved.
Estarriola: And I have no obligation to take the time to explain it to you.
Inchoate World: It is not that which remains incomprehensible to me. It is how you abide by meaningless values and purposefully choose to suffer hardships.
Inchoate World: I feel pity seeing you suppressed by that beast, merely clinging onto a dream.
Inchoate World: I cannot agree to your foolishness. I can't let that fraud-like, irrational pride of yours exist in the new world.
Inchoate World: The time has come to bury you all as wretched artifacts of the old world!
Fierce winds begin to blow around them, causing the various colors to converge on the Inchoate World.
As he is encased in what appears to be some sort of cocoon, Lyria audibly gasps.
Lyria: Watch out! The Inchoate World is getting stronger!
Inchoate World: You antiquated relics will become the cornerstone of the new world. For that is your fate; that is providence.
Inchoate World: You have no future beyond today. Your destinies end here. I shall wipe away your very souls from existence!
Beyond the Trial: Scene 2
The crew finally defeats the Inchoate World and returns to the Sky Realm. Now that his time is moving once more, the awakened Estarriola decides to face a new future with Temperance, who consents.
Inchoate World: Rgh!
Inchoate World: Impossible! I should be the one who decides destiny!
Inchoate World: All trials succumb before me... Your defeat here was supposed to mark the celebration of the new world's creation...
Inchoate World: But yet... how is it that mortals of the old world have bested me!
Estarriola: It is because you looked down on everything other than yourself that you fell behind, bringing yourself to destruction!
Temperance: Know thy defeat.
Estarriola and Temperance unleash a mighty attack that pierces through the Inchoate World's body.
Inchoate World: Gwaaah!
Inchoate World: Damn you... Damn you all! How could I lose...
Inchoate World: What of my new world!
His hands reach out, only to grasp at thin air. Cracks begin to form all over the Inchoate World's body.
Inchoate World: Guuuuh!
With a deafening roar, the Inchoate World lets out a flash of light followed by a harsh noise that stains the world white.
Estarriola: Hm? Where is this?
Vyrn: What happened? Where's the Inchoate World?
The white light finally disappears, and the crew find themselves collapsed on the deck of the Grandcypher.
They sit up and look around. The ominous sphere is nowhere to be seen, replaced by vast blue skies.
Lyria: I don't sense the Inchoate World anywhere, and the sphere is gone... Is everything really over?
Estarriola: Hm... That's certainly how it seems. What do you think?
Temperance: Interference has been severed without any remains. The World has been extinguished.
Estarriola: I see... So it's over...
Whispering these words, Estarriola gazes out at the clear skies.
Estarriola: It was a rugged battle, but I was able to protect the future of the young ones.
Estarriola: Haha... It is a most refreshing feeling.
Estarriola: It is all because of you, Temperance. You have my thanks.
Temperance: O little one—my pactbearer. I have seen with my own eyes and recorded thy victory.
Temperance: As a result, our contract comes to an end here.
Estarriola: Are you saying that this is farewell?
Temperance: Yes. I have no reason to exist once the contract and purpose have been carried out.
Lyria: No...
Estarriola: You are right... The two of us no longer have a connection with The World. The records for the event are complete.
Lyria: ...
Estarriola: Consequently, I shall have you record the new circumstances that you and I now find ourselves in.
Temperance: New... circumstances?
Estarriola shifts his gentle gaze to Temperance.
Estarriola: Our time in life is finite, and we have been given the opportunity to walk down this path together once more.
Estarriola: I will take time to reexamine myself. By giving and receiving new obligations, I shall celebrate the life I have with sincerity.
Estarriola: There may be joy, and there may be suffering. Together, let us walk a path as vivid as that which you hold in your hand.
Temperance: Very well. Then our contract shall continue.
Estarriola: Yes, it will continue, just as before.
Vyrn: Just as before... You say that, old man, but even with the Inchoate World gone, you're still in your young state.
Vyrn: Wait, does that mean I gotta stop callin' you "old man"?
Estarriola: Haha. You can call me as you always have. My appearance may have changed, but my mind is still that of an old man's.
Estarriola: This body is something that manifested with the power of The World when it meddled with my mind. It embodies the very time that I had lost.
Estarriola: It is also proof that I was able to restrain my emotions and put a stop to the prolonged fate I was trapped within.
Estarriola: It is a strange experience. It feels as if I have been given a new life and been reborn.
Temperance: ...
Estarriola: Starting over... Yes, I am.
Vyrn: So what's next? You got anythin' you wanna do?
Estarriola: Evil aspirations have been eradicated, and my wish was realized. However, the debt I owe all of you has yet to be fully paid.
Lyria: Does that mean...
Estarriola: Young skyfarers, allow me to utilize these eyes of mine that have finally opened and see you to the future in which you shall live.
Estarriola: Along with Temperance, who is one and the same as me, of course.
Temperance: Yes.
Temperance: Poor fools thou may be... but I shall continue recording the power thou possesses—one capable of changing fate itself.
Lyria: This is wonderful! We'll be glad to have you with us for a long, long time!
Vyrn: You can't pretend you're snoozin' anymore! We know you're awake now, old man!
Estarriola: Haha. Ah, what shall I do now? I must think of new ways to carry out my mischief.
Monika's Voice: Hey! Is everyone okay?
An echoing voice calls for the crew.
Turning to the voice reveals Monika and Lecia leaning over the deck railing of their approaching airship.
Vyrn: Guess those guys came to check things out now that the sphere's gone, huh.
Lyria: Mm-hm! We're all safe and sound!
(Captain) and company smile, having successfully returned peace to their surroundings.
Their smiles are as bright as blue skies on a clear day. Estarriola narrows his eyes, as if dazzled by the crew.
Estarriola: Arcarum beast.
Estarriola: Until now, your role was to record and replay events you witness—that will change from here on.
Estarriola: But fear not. Just as you will be present in my future, I, too, will be in your future.
Temperance: ...
I cannot comprehend... at this point in time.
I cannot comprehend... at this point in time.
Estarriola: Haha. That's fine. Not yet... I suppose.
The Sky Realm has escaped danger once more, now that the Inchoate World is gone.
Though it was a difficult and painful experience...
The day will come when they can speak of it as a series of events that brought about a new path on which they can move forward.
Released from his punishment and infinite life, there is no unease in the hermit's expression.
The primal beast that stands beside him will record and treasure all the answers he will reach, and the growth that he longs for.
Estarriola knows this without a doubt.