Loading
To Single Out Fate
- Dagda
In front of you, Siege!
- Dagda
Is that...?
- Siege
A suit of steam armor.
The spurts of white steam stand out in front of the dark hue of the armor.
Spurt after spurt.
Like breathing.
The fog parts before him. He awakens from history.
Nothing can stop him. Nothing can defeat him.
Not abandonment, not betrayal.
Not even death.
- Victorian Mercenary
It's moving! Look, it's moving!
- Victorian Mercenary
Man alive, what is happening here?!
- Totter
Agh! Bolts do nothing!
- Totter
Get the grenades!
The massive suit of armor rises from the rubble.
Heavy footsteps.
Heavy gushing.
It walks toward the panicked crowd, one step at a time.
- 'Steam Armor'
(Heavy gushing)
- Victorian Mercenary
There's no point.
- Victorian Mercenary
You're from Sargon, Totter. You wouldn't understand.
- Victorian Mercenary
They were the stuff of our bedtime stories.
- Victorian Mercenary
It's still stories of the Steam Knights I tell when I put my kids to bed.
- Victorian Mercenary
How are we supposed to defeat him?
- Victorian Mercenary
How do we defeat our pride, our glory, our hero, who's already been betrayed once?
- Victorian Mercenary
We can't defeat him.
- Victorian Mercenary
This is a... a Victorian Steam Knight.
- Totter
Fall back! Fall back!
- Morgan
What's that sound?
- Indra
Sounds like steam.
- Morgan
How?
- Indra
Definitely steam. They're back!
- Indra
I know I backed the right one! This is where Vina hid her joker!
- Indra
Morgan, we've got the Steam Knights on our side!
- Morgan
There are Steam Knights left in Londinium? Here?
- Morgan
Are they guarding the Mausoleum of Kings? The Sighs of Kings?
- Indra
Ha, who cares what they're doing?
- Indra
Vina is their king!
- Indra
When we come out up top with the Steam Knights, those Sarkaz will... hey, Morgan, what's that look on your face for?
- Morgan
Vina's gonna get the Sighs of Kings.
- Morgan
Four years. The Steam Knights have stayed by the sword for four years, in this sunless dungeon.
- Morgan
They didn't show up when the Sarkaz occupied the city. They didn't show up when the Sarkaz took over the factories. They didn't show up when the Sarkaz burned the noble houses.
- Morgan
What do they think?
- Morgan
Are they gonna side with intruders into the Mausoleum of Kings?
- Morgan
Who's there?!
- Indra
Take your weapon, Morgan.
- Indra
They're strong... they're all around us.
- Indra
Hah, this is getting interesting.
- ???
Why are the hoodlums of Norport here?
- ???
The Glasgow Gang? Under Alexandrina?
- Indra
Show your face, now!
- ???
Hmph. There are enough variables without that sound of gushing steam rising in Londinium again.
- ???
What would the Duke think if she knew there were survivors among the Steam Knights?
- ???
Would she be uneasy? Or glad that the glorious heroes of old have returned?
- ???
Ha, glory...
- ???
Let's take care of the hoodlums. Don't let them get in Allerdale's way.
- 'Steam Armor'
(Heavy gushing)
- Siege
...Steam Knights.
- Siege
Four years... there are survivors among the Steam Knights?
- Dagda
Those marks... they should have been lethal wounds. The Sarkaz spikes destroyed the cores. There's no way the wearer would survive.
- Dagda
Plus, no one could enter or leave the Mausoleum of Kings without the royal key.
- Dagda
He's spent four years in this dark dungeon...
- Dagda
Even if he survived the initial carnage, how could he have survived in this place?
- Siege
......
- Dagda
What does the man in the armor look like now?
- 'Steam Armor'
(Heavy gushing)
- Allerdale
......
- Allerdale
Who are... you...?
- Allerdale
No... what are you?
A flame sparks in the helmet of the armor.
Allerdale can feel a cold gaze upon herself.
Upon everyone here.
The flame...
The armor roaring in the flames.
It was a dream from her childhood.
Her hope for salvation.
The destruction that she witnessed with her own eyes.
A nightmare, too terrible to gaze upon.
He is back. Back before her.
Allerdale cannot keep herself from trembling.
- Allerdale
Have you come to settle this?
- 'Steam Armor'
(Heavy gushing)
- Siege
......
- Siege
Allerdale!
- Siege
Look out!
- Siege
Steam Knight, I am Alexandrina Vina Victoria, heir to the Aslan kings.
- Siege
Halt your attack, knight.
- Siege
We are not your enemies.
- 'Steam Armor'
......
'Victoria.'
Siege hears a voice echo above her head.
Was it the Steam Knight? She is unsure. It sounded more like the rumbling of a machine than a human voice.
The spurts of white steam become more rapid and forceful.
The dark knight raises his massive weapon towards her.
'Victoria.'
Siege suddenly understands. The Steam Knight is not calling her name.
It is looking at her sword.
The Sighs of Kings, the symbol of the royal house of Victoria.
- 'The Last Steam Knight'
'Victoria.'
He called the sword Victoria.
The Victoria that he swore to defend unto his last breath.
Glorious Victoria betrayed him. Now, he will defend the symbol of Victoria.
The last knight of the empire shall take revenge on all those who transgress against her.
He charges towards the heir to the throne.
- Dagda
Get out of the way, Siege!
- Dagda
Why did the Steam Knight attack you?
- Dagda
Can't he tell...?
- Totter
Get down!
- Dagda
Argh... *cough*...
- Totter
The sword of fire...
- Totter
Don't let it hit you!
- Victorian Mercenary
It's gone mad! We can't stop it!
- Victorian Mercenary
Get out of here! Get out! Get out...
- Victorian Mercenary
Gah!
- Totter
......
- Totter
We'll all be dead before long.
- Siege
Get your men out.
- Totter
......
- Allerdale
Do as Vina says.
- Totter
Mission aborted, then.
- Totter
Looks like my retirement plan will have to wait.
- Siege
Dagda, take the mercs and get out.
- Dagda
Your Highness!
- Siege
You're the last one who bowed to them.
- Siege
Take their story back, let it see the light of day.
- Dagda
The story belongs to all of us, Siege.
- Dagda
We should tell it together.
- Dagda
I don't know what's come over you, Allerdale.
- Dagda
I used to respect you. I thought you were worthy of a knight's honor. No, you were a knight paragon in my mind.
- Dagda
Always at the forefront, not caring for fame and fortune, not afraid of any foe.
- Dagda
You were Cumberland the Ever on High!
- Allerdale
......
- Allerdale
Nothing can remain on High forever, Dagda.
- Dagda
But we fought together, didn't we?
- Dagda
Your story is here too, Allerdale.
- Dagda
If you want to come back.
- Allerdale
I can't do that, can I?
- Dagda
It depends on you.
- Dagda
But first, we deal with this knight.
- Dagda
My master taught me that a duel between knights must be fair and honorable.
- Dagda
Our foe is a glorious hero.
- Dagda
Allow me to stand by your side, Your Highness.
- Siege
...Of course.
- Allerdale
Fight... him?
- Allerdale
A pathetic, despicable, lying traitor.
- Allerdale
How can one like that challenge fate?
- Allerdale
It's a wonderful fable, isn't it?
- Allerdale
An innocent child wanted to become a hero. But she went bad, and when the hero returned from history, she found his sword at her throat.
- Allerdale
The story should end with her death.
- Allerdale
She should lose everything. Never to fulfill her destiny.
- Allerdale
Vina, I...
- Siege
I don't want to hear you talk about 'destiny' anymore, Allerdale.
- Siege
Hold your head high, Allerdale Cumberland. There is no such thing as destiny, for me or for you.
- Siege
I need to calm him down. Then, if you still want this sword, all you need to do is challenge me, and I'll abide.
- Siege
This is not your bloody destiny, Allerdale. What you want to do, do it.
- Siege
But don't say that word anymore.
- Allerdale
......
- 'The Last Steam Knight'
(Heavy gushing)
- Allerdale
He's coming.
