Before the Final Trial
...I've set foot here once again.
Then the blame for bringing you here and failing to stop you will be mine.
So do as you please.
...Your smug arrogance makes me sick.
I never imagined... I'd return here feeling this way.
I can't even remember how long I was imprisoned inside that little thing...
And after all that endless confinement and waiting, this is how it ends.
Haha... How ridiculous I must look.
You have a future ahead of you now.
So I think you'll be all right.
Yes. A future.
While I was imprisoned there, born to serve as her Executor...
It was something I was never once permitted to have, nor could I claim it for myself.
...I haven't given it much thought yet.
But maybe, given more time to understand these feelings you forced on me...
I might give it some thought.
Even without you, I can remember what your foolish kindness was like.
Gille began walking slowly.
She approached the Planetarium that had once determined her fate and gazed at it for a long time.
...This is where I was projected.
Again and again, without end.
And now that cycle is broken, I'm standing here, facing it like my reflection in a mirror.
Then what's on the other side...?
Who knows.
You could call it my shadow.
...
Interesting.
To think the one who projected me would be... myself.
Gille...?
I can barely stand to look at you.
Infected by the emotions of those vermin, crying your eyes out. You're making a mockery of the title Executor of Aldebaran.
Have you truly forgotten your duty?
...
...What's with that look?
Don't tell me you're feeling some pathetic regret over the things you've done.
You do love to chatter.
Why would I bother with regret? It wouldn't change anything about me.
That wretched Cycle has stopped, and I don't know when my master will return.
So rather than despair as a defeated wretch who's lost everything...
I've simply decided it's better to live with these dreadful feelings.
...Unlike you.
Captain. One last dance.
I'll make a special exception and allow you to join me... on this stage.
If you'll have me as your partner...
I'd be delighted.
...Hmph. How impertinent.
Still... I'll allow it this once.