Reminisced League of Nine, part 5 (after battle)

It's quiet.

Nothing like the Outskirts...

You're right. Was the world beyond the Outskirts one filled with such beautiful and tranquil beings?

Yeah, I guess that must be the reason everyone tried to keep quiet about it.

Right, do you, by any chance... know a story about the things beyond the Outskirts? It's said there's a thing that lives here... granting wishes to those who are earnest. Wanna hear it?

Sure. I always look forward to your stories.

Can it wait just a moment? I saw something nice over there.

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When we look up at our sky... all we see is a pinch of muddled light.

But here...

I can see lone stars looking down at us.

Since the city I can see from here is filled with cries of pain and despair...

I'd rather... gaze down at people from the loneliness up in the sky and shed tears with them...

Sorry, I was a bit late. There were flowers I'd never seen before, maybe we could smell them as I tell my story...

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I see, have you... finally fulfilled your wish?

Starting today, even if the handful of stars doesn't rise in a corner of the night sky...

Those stars will light the dark of the lands below instead...

So it'll all be okay.

What was that just now? It felt like a story from long ago.

As the Golden Bough generated the fathoms of ego in a frenzy... foreign matters were mixed into them.

K Corp's Singularity: Tears of the so-called 'Tearful Thing'.

Can sure see that... It's bringing back dead people to fight us.

Yes, they seem to be relevant to the experiences... of melting down.

Did the mind of that Tearful Thing melt into this resonance as well, then?

That means... the Tearful Thing is... no different from people...

Dante, in this world... there are many who seek after stars.