Dante: "
Faust: "Wasn't that what you expected to hear? Either way, you're better off believing us to be your saviors."
Faust: "We're racing against time and the situation isn't in our favor, so let me explain this once."
After some time passed…
Dante: "
Faust: "Correct. So long as you give them the right orders."
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"Isn't that just a private army? Raising a private army is a grave crime punishable by the execution of nine generations!" a scion of a noble family said in shock.
In the eyes of the ancients, what else could Faust's description mean besides a private army?
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Dante: "
Dante: "
Dante: "
Dante: "<...>"
Dante: "
Dante: "
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Three Kingdoms Period
"His amnesia must be related to that ■■■," Sima Yi said contemplatively.
"That ■■■ must hide some major secret; otherwise, why would he be hunted down even after losing his memory?"
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Faust: "Calm down. It's only natural to happen with your current head."
Faust: "You should focus on the struggle at hand, Dante."
Outis: "Clock… Pardon, I'm not sure how I should address you."
Outis: "Would Commander Clock suffice…? In any case, we await your orders!"
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Tang Dynasty
"Clock? The title contains 'clock'... Could his head record time?" Li Chunfeng fell into deep thought upon hearing Outis's words.
"It does look quite like a sundial, but the gnomon isn't standing upright; instead, there are two needles, one long and one short, pressed against it. The scales on it don't look like the twelve double-hours of our Great Tang either."
===[Sky Screen]===
Gregor: "Eh, do we really need orders? Seems like going one-on-one is the only way."
Ishmael: "Huh?! H-Hey!"
Heathcliff: "Quit running off your mouths! We just need to crush them all!"
From behind Ishmael, a dark-skinned man appeared, wielding a massive baseball bat, wearing a white short-sleeved shirt and black leather pants with brown hair.
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"Where did this commoner come from? He's truly an eyesore," an incredibly wealthy noble scion said impatiently.
"Based on his tone and appearance, he's a textbook ruffian," the other noble scions echoed.
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Faust: "…Please do your best, Dante."
Dante: "<…There's no two ways about it, I suppose.>"
Several more people jumped out from behind Dante, though it was too dark to see clearly. They charged alongside Faust, Outis, and the others toward the trio of Wolf, Lion, and Panther.
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Qin Dynasty
"Although I couldn't see the people who appeared at the end clearly, based on numbers alone, they should definitely overwhelm those three," Fusu answered decisively.
"Mhm, that is indeed true," Qin Shi Huang agreed from the side.
Though they disagreed on philosophies of governance, this father and son held the same view regarding the situation on the heavenly screen.
Moreover, counting the dark figures from earlier, there are twelve people in total. Surely these twelve can't be killed by just three opponents?
===[Sky Screen]===
A period of time passes as the slaughter went on...
Panther: "I don't get it. This is what Lion struggled against?"
Gregor: "W-Whoa, hang on! I know this is kinda weird coming from someone you were just fighting, but I'm pretty sure we can talk this ou—"
Before Gregor could finish, his abdomen was pierced straight through from behind.
Gregor: "...!"
Yi Sang: "This... Is unideal."
Ishmael: "Haa… I knew it was a ridiculous idea to put up a fight against them."
With that, Wolf directly pierced through both of their chests.
Rodion: "Are y'all kidding? I haven't even…"
Lion casually turned Rodion into Rodion-paste.
Dante: "
Faust: "We never promised to win said fights."
Dante: "
Faust: "And, it seems that I'm the only survivor."
Dante: "
Faust: "Not… necessarily a trump, no. Rather… It's about following the star."
Faust's heart was pierced by Panther's halberd.
Panther: "What is this, some kind of suicidal performance? Not the funnest lives to end."
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Not only was Panther confused by the behavior of Faust and the others, but the ancestors beneath the light screen were also dumbfounded. Are you really this pathetic?
Qin Dynasty
"They... they really got killed." Fusu's eyes widened in disbelief.
"You had ten more people than them! Even if they were stronger, you shouldn't have died that quickly!"
Three Kingdoms Period
"It can't just end like this, right?" Cao Cao said with a face full of disbelief.
After all, when Faust first appeared, her tone made it seem like she could tear the opposing three apart single-handedly.
"What a pity, such a beautiful white-haired woman with big... big eyes is gone. I don't even know if she was married yet¹."
"Prime Minister, I have an important matter to explain." Xun Yu hurriedly interrupted his Prime Minister's fantasies, whose mind was currently full of... eyes.
"I have discovered that judging by the wounds of Gregor, Yi Sang, Ishmael, and Faust, there is real flesh and blood inside."
"What do you mean?" Cao Cao asked.
"I believe those on the screen are not immortals or gods, but mortals just like us."
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Dante: "
Dante: "
Lion: "Aah~ I took my sweet time. Let's finish this for real!"²
Dante: "
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Song Dynasty
"What else? What can you do? Beg them for mercy?" Emperor Huizong of Song, Zhao Ji, looked at Dante and sneered.
As someone who was an expert in all kinds of pleasure during his time as a Prince, he had inherited the throne of his brother Emperor Zhezong, Zhao Xu, amidst the entanglement of various interests, and successfully managed the Great Song into a chaotic mess.
Later, upon hearing of the Jin invasion, he was so terrified that he abdicated to his son, packed his things with his confidants like Tong Guan and Cai Jing, and fled to Zhenjiang, only to be captured by the Jin later anyway.
Now, walking the path of being escorted to the Jin territory with his son, they weren't even given dry rations to eat, and those around them were dying one by one along the way.
"If it were me, I would beg those three to give me a quick death."
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T/N:
¹: Apparently, Cao Cao really likes married woman
²: This dialog wasn't in the original game but it appeared in the datamined story logs for Limbus so I added it because I feel like it can add to the next next dialogs
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