✦Omniscient Viewer's Chat Lodge✦—
Stelle: "Holy shit!! What is happening?!!"
Stelle: "Am I dreaming right now?!"
Stelle: "Sam is a massive mecha, and you're telling me Hotaru was piloting that thing the whole time?!"
March 7th: "This… this is just too…"
Himeko: "Although we had already guessed at this possibility just a moment ago…"
Himeko: "Actually witnessing this scene with my own eyes… it still feels somewhat incredulous."
Welt Yang: "A delicate young girl is, in truth, the pilot of a blazing mecha."
Welt Yang: "This scenario certainly brings to mind a few classic anime tropes."
Dan Heng: "In other words… Miss Hotaru is Sam, and thus, a member of the Stellaron Hunters!"
Furina de Fontaine: "Good heavens! Just how many more shocking spectacles does this grand drama known as Penacony have in store for us?!!"
Furina de Fontaine: "That gentle, adorable Miss Hotaru is actually the dashing mecha Sam??"
Furina de Fontaine: "You could beat me to death and I still wouldn't have guessed that!"
Hu Tao: "Heh, yet another earth-shattering reversal!"
Hu Tao: "The plot rises and falls like the eighteen bends of a mountain road!"
Hu Tao: "This is truly thrilling!!"
Lumine: "Miss Hotaru… Sam…"
Lumine: "To think these two diametrically opposed identities could be linked…"
Lumine: "I thought Sam was just a pure machine!"
Guinaifen: "Fam, a beautiful girl piloting a mecha!!"
Guinaifen: "This is literally too cool for words!!"
Li Sushang: "I'm so envious. Even a girl who looks as soft and weak as Miss Hotaru gets to pilot a mecha."
Li Sushang: "I really want to experience that too!"
Stelle: "Aaaah, HOTARU!!!"
Stelle: "My adorable Hotaru!!"
Stelle: "Please, you must let me pilot your mecha!!"
Stelle: "As long as you let me pilot your Sam unit just once, EVERYONE IS WILLING TO DO ANYTHING!!!"
Silver Wolf: "???"
Silver Wolf: "You really are full of 'everyone' in that head of yours, aren't you?!!"
Hotaru: "Ah… ?!"
Hotaru: "Do you… not blame me for deceiving… you?"
Stelle: "i did have some grievances originally… BUT!!! YOU PILOT A MECHA!!!"
Stelle: "The moment I think about how this Sam unit is piloted by you, Hotaru!"
Stelle: "I feel myself getting hyped up!!"
Stelle: "So, I'm begging you, I'm begging you!!"
Stelle: "Lend me the mecha to pilot too!! (begging_on_knees.jpg)"
Hotaru: "B-But…"
Hotaru: "It's not that I don't want to lend it to you…"
Hotaru: "But this mecha… only I can pilot it…"
Stelle: "Waaah… I'm so heartbroken! (loud_crying.jpg)"
Hotaru: "Don't… don't cry!"
Hotaru: "I can lend you the transformation device!"
Hotaru: "That should be close enough, right?"
Stelle: "Transformation device?"
Stelle: "Hehe, that works too!!"
Stelle: "You really do spoil me, Hotaru!!"
March 7th: "Miss Hotaru, me too, me too!"
March 7th: "Can you lend it to me as well? I want to hold it and strike a few poses, then take some pictures!!"
Hotaru: "Yes, that shouldn't be a problem."
March 7th: "Yay, thank you, Miss Hotaru!"
March 7th: "By the way, what pose should I strike when the time comes?"
Stelle: "Do you even need to ask?"
Stelle: "I WILL… SET THE SEAS ABLAZE!!!"
Venti: "Oho, it's that super fiery line!!"
Venti: "Although… when I think about how these lines were actually spoken by Miss Hotaru…"
Venti: "Why do I suddenly feel such a sense of dissonance?"
Furina de Fontaine: "Someone as gentle as Miss Hotaru can actually deliver such domineering lines!"
Furina de Fontaine: "Is this the legendary 'soft on the outside, steel on the inside'?!"
Furina de Fontaine: "Wow, thinking about it like that, Miss Hotaru suddenly seems so dashing!"
Hu Tao: "Hehehe, truly, one cannot judge a book by its cover!!"
Silver Wolf: "Well, with the armor masking her, she can say whatever she wants, right?"
Silver Wolf: "If I had armor like that, I could spout lines even more chuunibyou than hers."
Paimon: "Hehehe, Miss Hotaru, we want to see you perform that previous scene without the armor, just using your own appearance!~~!"
Paimon: "I feel like that would definitely look amazing!!"
Stelle: "Seconded! I raise both hands and feet in approval!"
March 7th: "Seconded + 1"
Silver Wolf: "Seconded + 2"
Guinaifen: "Seconded + 3"
Li Sushang: "Seconded + 4"
Welt Yang: "Seconded + 5"
Everyone: "Seconded + 99"
Hotaru: "Ah, y-you guys!!"
Hotaru: "Which… which one are you talking about…?"
Stelle: "Obviously…"
Stelle: "A Galaxy Ranger, and a Memokeeper!"
March 7th: "Leave now, and nobody gets hurt!"
Furina de Fontaine: "Or else… all of you will die!"
Hu Tao: "The detective game is over. You shouldn't be here!"
Paimon: "Commencing scorched earth operations!"
Lumine: "I will… set the seas ablaze!!"
Venti: "Protocol passed. Executing scorched earth operations."
Qingque: "Once you're back in the real world, remember to tell everyone… it was the Stellaron Hunters Sam who sent you on your final journey!!"
Silver Wolf: "???"
Silver Wolf: "Good lord, you guys memorized the whole thing, didn't you?!"
Aventurine: "Hahaha, word for word. This is truly fascinating."
Robin: "This contrast in identity… if we used this as an angle to debut Miss Hotaru as a star, she would surely explode in popularity with ease."
Hotaru: "Eek… p-please stop talking, everyone!"
Hotaru: "I'm dying of embarrassment… (facepalm.jpg)"
Li Sushang: "Uh… I feel like Miss Hotaru is about to die of social anxiety."
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『 [ Labyrinthine corridors and halls, traps and mechanisms everywhere… ]
[ The master of this mansion is a bit heavy on the paranoia. ]
Inside Sunday's conference room, gallagher's figure arrives.
[ You have a sense of humor, Mr. Security Officer. ]
[ I hope that sense of humor has already helped you locate the culprit behind the serial murders. ]
Sunday continues to speak with his back turned.
[ Just expressing a personal opinion. ]
[ What, did I touch a nerve? ]
Gallagher's remarks at this moment, are somewhat laced with aggression.
[ Mr. Gallagher, my patience is limited. ]
[ Negligence of duty— ]
[ —Will only make me suspect your involvement with the true culprit even more. ]
Sunday turns around, looking at Gallagher with an unkind expression.
[ … ]
[ Scoundrel, thug, drunkard, hooligan… ]
[ I've heard too much of this trash talk, but I never thought I'd see the day I'd be treated as an accomplice to a serial killer. ]
[ I retract my previous statement: your problem isn't paranoia. ]
[ You're a lunatic, understand? A lunatic. ] 』
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—✦Omniscient Viewer's Chat Lodge✦—
Hu Tao: "Is this Mr. Gallagher?"
Hu Tao: "While everything outside is in total chaos, instead of maintaining order as a security officer, he ran off to find Mr. Sunday?"
Hu Tao: "What is he planning to do?"
Stelle: "With that sarcastic tone, is he here to pick a fight with Sunday?"
Stelle: "Bro, do you have a death wish?"
Stelle: "Aren't you afraid he'll snap and hit you with some hex?"
Stelle: "You'll be crying then."
March 7th: "Yeah!"
March 7th: "Aventurine was lucky enough to encounter Miss Acheron's intervention, which allowed him to break free from that bizarre power."
March 7th: "If Mr. Gallagher gets infected by that power too, he's probably done for."
Himeko: "Choosing this specific timeframe to seek out Mr. Sunday."
Himeko: "It seems Mr. Gallagher has a plan!"
Himeko: "I just wonder if it's related to that Mikhail?"
Welt Yang: "My intuition tells me there is a significant connection!"
Furina de Fontaine: "Suddenly I feel… like another earth-shattering scene is about to unfold?"
Paimon: "No way…"
Paimon: "Are they going to pull off another jaw-dropping maneuver?"
Gallagher: "Heh, what 'grand scene'?"
Gallagher: "It's merely a mundane conversation between an old dog like me and the esteemed Head of the Oak Family."
Sunday: "Mundane?"
Sunday: "Is that truly so, Mr. Gallagher?"
Gallagher: "What else?"
Gallagher: "Could I possibly kill you?"
Amber: "Uh… the atmosphere seems to be getting weird."
Hanabi: "Oh my, chicken-wing boy is in danger~"
Hanabi: "Perhaps he's about to go keep chicken-wing girl company~"
Hanabi: "Hurry up, hurry up, I can't wait to see this scene~"
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『 [ You—The Family—broke this old dog's spine, pulled his fangs, and now you start accusing me of murder? ]
[ Bastard, only an idiot who's drunk too much SoulGlad would rave at a stray dog on the street. ]
[ What exactly is making you spout this nonsense? ]
[ Rather than me, you should be concerned about that group of foreign guests raising hell in the Theme Park. ] 』
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—✦Omniscient Viewer's Chat Lodge✦—
Stelle: "Looking at Gallagher's statement."
Stelle: "He doesn't seem to have any issues, right?"
Stelle: "On the contrary, Sunday keeps targeting him?"
March 7th: "Mr. Gallagher's words give off such a desolate feeling."
March 7th: "Did The Family really bully him that badly?"
Furina de Fontaine: "Mr. Gallagher's tone is simply too humble."
Furina de Fontaine: "Even though he's snapping back at Mr. Sunday now, I feel pity for him…"
Hu Tao: "Mr. Sunday suspects Mr. Gallagher is connected to the deaths?"
Hu Tao: "This must be baseless slander, right?"
Hu Tao: "From what the video shows, aside from his identity being a bit strange, Mr. Gallagher doesn't seem to have any connection to death."
Black Swan: "But sometimes, looking only at the surface won't do~"
Lumine: "Uh… Miss Black Swan believes Mr. Gallagher really is suspicious?"
Black Swan: "…Ha, it's not as simple as merely being suspicious…"
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『 [ I don't need your reminders. ]
[ The moment that envoy stepped out of the Mansion, I knew what he intended to do. My 'servants' saw everything. ]
[ His little magic trick did indeed fool me, but no matter. I am very pleased to see the current situation. ]
[ Why do you think I let him go, and why did I specifically clear the stage at the Theme Park? ]
[ Because my target, from start to finish, has been you, hound. ]
[ The bigger the commotion he causes, the more opportunity I have to make you and your true master pay in blood. ] 』
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—✦Omniscient Viewer's Chat Lodge✦—
Furina de Fontaine: "The chaos outside was intentionally allowed by Mr. Sunday."
Furina de Fontaine: "We've already realized that much."
Furina de Fontaine: "But his goal was solely to draw out Mr. Gallagher?"
Eula Lawrence: "It seems Mr. Sunday hasn't cared about the Charmony Festival from the beginning; he only cares about his sister."
Eula Lawrence: "That's why he orchestrated this entire scene—to draw out the killer and avenge his sister!"
March 7th: "But could Mr. Gallagher really be the killer?"
March 7th: "The killer should clearly be that Memory Zone Meme!"
Acheron: "Memory Zone Memes… can also be artificially created."
Welt Yang: "That purple bird… so it was Mr. Sunday's servant?"
Welt Yang: "I thought it was the eyes and ears of that Dreammaster who has never shown his face…"
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『 [ If I really am the culprit, why are you being so secretive? ]
[ Ha, I forgot, you also have a master who isn't easy to serve—they told you to ignore some bullshit murder case and focus on the Charmony Festival… ]
[ …Isn't that right, 'gentle older brother'? ]
Gallagher looks at Sunday, smiling playfully.
[ …It appears your disguise has helped you fully understand every detail of The Family. ]
Mr. Sunday gazes intently at Gallagher.
[ Disguise? ]
[ With which eye did you see that I am a fake person? ]
[ Open your eyes and look closely, you halo-wearing— ]
Gallagher feels like Sunday is talking out of his ass.
[ … ]
[ Admittedly, every part of you is real. ]
[ Brown hair, soft and curly like Benny's; orange eyes, reminding me of Sir Whitaker's gaze; the peculiar scar, Woolsey's medal of honor… ]
[ And the grey vest, the tie, the hound emblem, the flask, the mixing skills, the identity of a security officer… they are all real— ]
[ —Derived from fifty-two loyal 'Family members'. ]
[ When they converge in one place, countless tiny truths weave together into a lie—you plucked a strand of cognition from each person, claimed them as your own, and 'fictionalized' a complete Gallagher within the dreamscape… ]
[ …Am I correct, minion of the Enigmata? ] 』
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—✦Omniscient Viewer's Chat Lodge✦—
Stelle: "A person composed of details from fifty-two members?!!"
Stelle: "Holy shit!! Such an inconceivable operation exists?!!"
Stelle: "What kind of high-tech synthetic human is this?!"
Hu Tao: "Shocking! Mr. Gallagher's true identity is actually this bizarre?!"
Furina de Fontaine: "Oh no, oh no, my brain can't keep up!"
Furina de Fontaine: "I can't quite understand, how did he manage to synthesize fifty-two people into one?"
Lumine: "I really want to know as well…"
Dan Heng: "It is not merging fifty-two people into one."
Dan Heng: "Rather, it is taking the details of fifty-two individuals, filtering them, and finally fictionalizing a brand new person!"
Himeko: "So… Mr. Gallagher. Perhaps we should address you as… A History Fictionologist! Correct?"
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