• Spirit: Ugh...w-what!?
• Aria: The games end here.
• Spirit: W-what... is this!?
• Spirit: She never said... that you'd be so cunning, so devious!
• Spirit: To try and trick a spirit...
• Spirit: Just what is your deal!?
• Reed: ...Who is this she you're talking about?
• Spirit: G-ghh!
• Spirit: It is nothing that concerns you!

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• Spirit: Stay back, or, or...
• Aria: Or what? You'll attack me again?
• Aria: Do you really want to die so soon?
• Spirit: Uuuh...!
• Spirit: A DISGRACE, a disgrace I'll be, if I give up!
• Spirit: Don't think you've won just yet!
• Spirit: It doesn't matter if anything happens to me...
• Spirit: Even if you kill me, it changes nothing!
• Spirit: The others will finish the job in my place!

Aria: Kill it.

• Aria: So be it, then.
• Reed: Wait, Aria!

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• Reed: Hold on.
• Reed: Don't kill her.
• Aria: Huh...?

Reed: Reconsider.

• Reed: ...You.
• Reed: I don't have many reasons to believe what you've said about Nino.
• Reed: But I won't completely deny your words, either.
• Spirit: A-are you... letting me live?
• Reed: ...

Illusion: Fall.

• Reed: Consider it an exchange for being more amicable than the average spirit.
• Spirit: So my... m-my death...
• Spirit: I... I won't die here...?
• Reed: Only as long as you don't dare attack us again.
• Aria: What!? Reed... are you really thinking of letting it go, just like that?
• Aria: It's a malicious spirit, you know!
• Aria: And it hurt you so badly...!
• Reed: If that's what it takes to change their minds about targeting us,
• Reed: Then yes, I'm willing to try.
• Aria: But...
• Spirit: Human, you're saying...
• Spirit: You want a truce?
• Reed: That would be ideal.
• Reed: I would spare you, if it's going to end this whole mess.
• Spirit: ...What... a strange fellow you are.
• Spirit: So that means, despite my warnings,
• Spirit: You will also still try to find your dangerous companion.

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• Reed: Look.
• Reed: I will keep your warning to me in mind. But...
• Reed: I've never abandoned a human in this world before,
• Reed: And I'm not about to ruin a long track record.
• Reed: I won't disregard what you said completely,
• Reed: But I'm still going to do things here my way.
• Reed: So, I don't want a truce only with you,
• Reed: I want a truce with all of your buddies coming after us, too.
• Reed: If Nino really is acting out with unjustified violence against your kind,
• Reed: Then we'll be the ones who stop him. Not any of you.
• Reed: And if my choice to go after him puts me in any danger,
• Reed: Then I'll be the one to deal with it.
• Reed: Basically, you all have to stay the fuck out of this,
• Reed: While we find him, take him back, and keep him reeeal far away from you.
• Reed: Wouldn't that help all of us now?
• Spirit: ...

Spirit: Think about it carefully.

I know what I must do.

• Spirit: ...Very well.
• Spirit: At least you're making the choice to follow him with awareness now,
• Spirit: Even if you don't entirely believe me.
• Spirit: But, what about this vicious girl, then?
• Spirit: You don't seem to be on board with your partner here.
• Aria: ...O-of course not! I don't trust you one bit!
• Aria: Make one suspicious move, and your head's gonna fly!
• Reed: I'm probably asking too much by wanting you to agree to this, aren't I.
• Aria: Reed, what are you even thinking!?
• Aria: Letting a spirit go, when we know for a fact it wants us dead, is just...
• Reed: No. Killing us isn't her original goal.
• Aria: ...What?
• Reed: She was willing to talk amicably for a while,
• Reed: And only wanted to lead us out of this world, at first.
• Reed: But I was definitely the one who provoked her into a fight.
• Reed: That's on me.
• Aria: Huh...
• Reed: And, Aria... you heard what she said.
• Reed: "The others will finish the job".
• Reed: So as long as they have a reason to not want us here,
• Reed: More of them will keep getting in our way.
• Reed: So I want to make their original purpose for coming after us void, if I can.
• Reed: It's better if we don't have to go through more of these contrived tricks,
• Reed: That's honestly all I'm thinking.
• Aria: ...
• Reed: In fact, that could have been the case for the previous spirits, too.
• Reed: Did they all just want us to leave this world... like you, too?
• Spirit: ...Hm.
• Spirit: I didn't expect you to figure this much out.
• Aria: Huh!? Are you saying...
• Aria: They weren't lying about leading us to a rift?
• Reed: Possibly so. If I had to guess,
• Reed: Their master instructed them to "make us leave".
• Spirit: That is... what we tried to do, yes.
• Spirit: Each of my fellows, in their own ways, with their own tricks,
• Spirit: Just wanted to make you leave.
• Spirit: Whether by earning your trust, or by threatening you.
• Spirit: We weren't supposed to start a fight,
• Spirit: But only fight back when necessary.

Aria: Consider.

• Aria: ...
• Aria: I still... don't believe you.
• Aria: I don't really have a way to verify anything you say.
• Aria: But, fine. I'm willing to consider this, for my friend's sake.
• Aria: However, if... if you or any other spirit dare do anything against any of my friends again, I won't hesitate to make the perpetrators pay for it!
• Aria: And I really won't hold anything back next time!
• Spirit: ...I understand your fury.
• Spirit: That won't happen again.
• Spirit: At least, not from me.
• Spirit: By now, I truly don't wish to see more of us suffer either.
• Spirit: Survival is... the more important choice at this point, isn't it...?
• Spirit: So if you really will let me go, I will tell everyone else not to hinder you.
• Spirit: But, whether they really go along with it or not is up to them.
• Reed: ...So we'd have to take our chances with that.
• Aria: That's not very assuring!
• Spirit: Ah... well, that is...
• Spirit: If you act only in retaliation, then I can accept that.
• Spirit: But, don't harm any spirits that do not provoke you.
• Spirit: That really is... the best I can do for a truce.
• Reed: No. There's something else you can offer in addition.
• Reed: We have questions that need answering.