Scenario:Maria Theresa - Oh Dear...

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Oh Dear...

The maid places the card of Justice in Theresa's hand before sacrificing herself. Justice helps Theresa break out of the prison. She learns that the new empress is actually her long-lost twin sister who was cast out as a baby. Theresa discovers that her mother is alive and pays her a visit, only to be scorned by hateful words; this causes her to reflect on her role in life.



Maria Theresa: Noooo!
Servant: Lady Theresa... Please calm yourself!
Maria Theresa: Charlotte... Please... Just let me die! I don't want to live anymore!
Servant: Lady Theresa! This world deserves you.
The servant forces a card onto Theresa's palm.
Maria Theresa: ...?
Servant: You cannot let it end like this.
Maria Theresa: What... is this?
Servant: Ngh... Know that it has been my greatest joy to serve you.
Servant: I could not have asked for a better life...
The servant turns to Theresa with an apt readiness, a prayer in her breath.
Maria Theresa: Char... lotte?
Charlotte puts on a gentle smile for Theresa.
Servant: My dearest Theresa... Stay happy...
Maria Theresa: ...
Charlotte turns away from Theresa and bites her own tongue off.
Maria Theresa: Aaaagh!
The servant's body collapses with a thud, blood flowing out of her mouth.
Maria Theresa: No! Noooo!

Please, noooooo!

Charlotte!
Maria Theresa: Don't leave me all alone! Please! Come back to me!
With no way to stop the stream of blood, the servant's complexion slowly turns pale.
Servant: Hack... Urgh...
Even in her final moments, Charlotte keeps on her best smile for Theresa.
Servant: ...
Maria Theresa: No... Why...
Please!
As if to signal the moment of the servant's passing, a mysterious figure appears before Theresa.
???: ...
Maria Theresa: Wh-who are you!
Justice: My name is Justice. I govern all that is righteous.
Maria Theresa: You... What did you do to Charlotte?
Justice: You saw for yourself that she chose death of her own volition.
Maria Theresa: Wh-what exactly are you? And what's your relation to Charlotte!
Justice: Duchess Charlotte Fuchs was my pactbearer—one of the many who swear devotion to justice.
Maria Theresa: Pactbearer... Wait... What are you even talking about?
Maria Theresa: Oh... Charlotte! Is she really... dead?
Justice: The pactbearer has died. I must seek a new pillar who will side with justice.
Maria Theresa: Wh-what do you mean?
Justice: Justice must come from within. Show me your resolve to forge a path of righteousness.
Justice: No matter how arduous the road becomes, I will lend you my strength and see you through your destiny until the very end.
Justice: But first you must tell me... Do you swear fealty to justice?
Maria Theresa: ...
Maria Theresa: (Charlotte's dead... My status, my sweetheart, my home, my country, my people...)
Maria Theresa: (There's nothing left for me...)
Maria Theresa: Sob... Waaaah...
Servant: Lady Theresa! This world deserves you.
Servant: You cannot let it end like this.
Maria Theresa: Char... lotte...
Maria Theresa: (Charlotte ended her pact with Justice so that I could become its new partner...)
Maria Theresa: (Perhaps as a means of escaping these confines...)
Maria Theresa: (She did this for me... In exchange for her own life...)
Justice: ...
Maria Theresa: (Why...)
Theresa embraces the cold body of the servant lying on the ground.
Maria Theresa: How... How could you leave me all alone when things are so desperate! You're too cruel!
Maria Theresa: I won't forget this, Charlotte... Dying before my very eyes... is a grave sin...
Maria Theresa: Sniff... You'd better... be thinking... of how you're going to make it up to me... when I come to you... on the other side... Sob...
With the servant still clutched in her arms, Theresa turns to Justice.
Maria Theresa: Very well. I swear fealty to justice. And you're going to lend me your power in return!
Justice's scales shift into equilibrium.
Justice: Our pact is complete. May you tread a most righteous path.
With her newfound power, Theresa manages to slip out of the underground prison along with the servant's body.
Theresa has been laying low ever since. She gathers info wherever she can, waiting for the opportunity to exact revenge and recover her spot on the imperial throne.
But it is during those days that Theresa comes to learn of another shocking truth.
Curator: ...
Maria Theresa: Wha...
The girl who had taken her place was her long-lost twin sister.
Deemed an inauspicious child by the court magicians, she was to be cast away.
Before that could happen, Theresa's mother placed the younger sister in the custody of a trustworthy church without the court's knowledge.
Despite lavishing Theresa with attention in the castle, her mother would sneak off to the church with the help of an accomplice.
Her mother couldn't bear to leave the sister on her own. Within a few years, she left the palace to live with the young girl.
Both were proclaimed dead for all official purposes, but the girl and her mother survived as nuns.
To confirm the veracity of this news, Theresa visits the church that her mother is said to reside in.
There stood my mother, alive and well.
I trembled in surprise and joy, but my emotions were quickly crushed.
M. Theresa's Mom: It's you!
M. Theresa's Mom: Nooo! Don't come any closer!
Upon realizing that I wasn't my sister, she broke into a panic.
Then she proceeded to spout every hateful thing she could about me, my father, and the empire.
M. Theresa's Mom: It was pure bliss in the imperial court when you were born!
M. Theresa's Mom: But when it became clear that another child lay in my womb, everything changed! The look in their eyes changed to one of utter disgust!
Perhaps it was the old superstition that twins are bad luck. The court magicians deemed my little sister a child of calamity and separated her from our mother.
As far as I can tell, my father never tried to save my sister. He prioritized matters of state above all else, and the birth of twin girls was only an impediment to that.
My mother, who tried to protect my sister, had little choice but to leave the palace and ended up moving into the church.
It was easier for everyone to tell me that my mother had passed away.
M. Theresa's Mom: The two of us were poor, but we did our best to live a good life! And most importantly we were happy!
M. Theresa's Mom: But that happiness was shattered the moment an imperial messenger showed up one day!
My sister was dragged away before my mother's very eyes, and she was forbidden from ever going after them.
That incident pushed my mother to the brink of insanity. She directed all her anger toward my father and me.
M. Theresa's Mom: If not for you, she never would have had to know such suffering!
M. Theresa's Mom: You came into this life without a care in the world, adored by everyone, blessed by your people... I despise you...
M. Theresa's Mom: It's all your fault!
If only I had never given birth to you...
Maria Theresa: ...!
Justice: Everyone is given a role at birth.
Justice: Yours is a great one. As one of the larger cogs in the wheel, one misstep on your part could lead all the smaller cogs astray.
Justice: Only you can rectify any mishaps that may have happened along the way. Take this chance to consider what your role in life is.
Justice: I will follow your brand of justice, whatever it may be.
Maria Theresa: ...
Justice's words weighed heavy upon me.
I was born to protect the Loman Empire. That is the role I was given.
I was despised by my mother and drove my sister to the shadows. All for the glory of the empire. What was my purpose in it all?
To meet everyone's expectations? To accept my father's teachings? To uphold tradition?
To hell with it all.
If I could have said those words back then, perhaps I might have found redemption.
Vyrn: Careful! It's easy to lose your footing over here!
Lyria: This feeling... A primal beast is coming, (Captain)!
Although the crew members would almost certainly sympathize with Theresa's past, they're too preoccupied with the battle before them.