• Reed: You said there was a rift nearby that would lead us to an exit.
• Spirit: ...Yes. There is one in the proximity of the capital.
• Spirit: Even now as we speak, it is still open.
• Spirit: I could lead you there right away, in fact...
• Aria: No! Not yet!
• Aria: We're going to find our friends first!
• Reed: Right. You already know we won't be going anywhere without them,
• Reed: Even if the exit was right in front of us.
• Reed: Now, since it would only make us leave faster,
• Reed: Are you going to tell us where Nino is?
• Spirit: ...
• Aria: Come on, talk!

Aria: Ask if it knows where Nino and Mei are. You may not have an exact location, but maybe it can point you in the right direction.

• Spirit: ...Well, human.
• Spirit: I don't see any reason to tell you that now,
• Spirit: Since your friend already knows.
• Reed: ...
• Aria: Huh? He does...?
• Spirit: Aaah, I slipped up just a little bit,
• Spirit: And it was enough for you to figure out that much!
• Spirit: You are far brighter than I anticipated, boy.
• Aria: Wait! W-what about Mei, then? Is she where Nino is?
• Spirit: If you find that boy,
• Spirit: You will most certainly find his guardian angel, as well.
• Spirit: They've become somewhat inseparable, it seems,
• Spirit: So you have nothing to worry about.
• Aria: Ah...?
• Spirit: Alas! Despite my effort in warning you,
• Spirit: It seems you still wish to walk towards your doom, boy.
• Reed: ...
• Aria: What's she talking about, Reed?
• Aria: You already know where those two are?
• Aria: And what does she mean by "warning"...?
• Reed: ...I guess you should hear this, Aria,
• Reed: Even if there's no chance that it's true.

Aria: Why were the spirits trying to make you leave, instead of killing you outright?

• Reed: ...And they warned me that Nino would even hurt us,
• Reed: But I don't really buy that part.
• Aria: Ah, me either!
• Aria: I mean, it's just hard to believe any of this!
• Aria: Especially after seeing how he rushed after Mei in the rift...
• Aria: ...And... how he rushed to save me before, too.

• Reed: So, that's how it is.
• Reed: I want you to explain why you think Nino would kill me, spirit.
• Spirit: Ah, hah... should I even bother now?
• Spirit: You place so much trust in him,
• Spirit: So you probably won't believe anything I say.
• Aria: Should you bother explaining?
• Aria: It's only your life that's at stake, I guess.
• Spirit: ...
• Spirit: Ha, girl... your point has been made...
• Spirit: I'll talk.
• Aria: Good. Go on.

Reed: Ask why Nino would be the cause of your death.

• Spirit: I've heard it from someone I trust...
• Spirit: That boy, that "Nino", would bring ruin wherever he went.
• Spirit: And, if left completely alone...
• Spirit: He'd even drag well-meaning souls like you two into it.
• Spirit: I was simply sympathetic, you see, so I tried to warn your friend here.
• Aria: ...Uh-huh. And what was that someone basing their claim on?
• Spirit: Haha... this is the part where you definitely get upset at my response.
• Spirit: It is based on "nothing", because it has not happened yet.
• Spirit: It is simply a prediction of the future.
• Aria: Well, that doesn't sound like a very realistic prediction now, does it?
• Aria: In the first place, the description you gave us is nothing like Nino!
• Spirit: You don't have to believe it, girl...
• Spirit: It's only your lives that are at stake, hm?
• Aria: Why you...! Don't get sassy with me!
• Spirit: Heh heh. I'm just saying, I take what I've heard as absolute truth.
• Spirit: If you won't do the same, then that's up to you.
• Spirit: I'd have done my part by at least passing on the message.
• Aria: ...Reed. This seems like a worthless line of questioning to me.
• Reed: I agree. "It's true because it just is" doesn't really mean anything.
• Spirit: It sounds like a lie, an impossible future to you, I'm aware!
• Spirit: But, it is... hard to see it as one from my perspective.
• Spirit: Perhaps he has not acted in that manner now...
• Spirit: But it is still his crime, for it is still within his capabilities,
• Spirit: And is most definitely a choice he could easily make.
• Aria: Huh? Are you hearing yourself right now? You're talking nonsense, lady!
• Spirit: Ha, haha... "nonsense", you say...?
• Spirit: But those predictions might as well be facts to me!
• Spirit: The way I see it, I was only attempting to stop the inevitable.
• Reed: Ok. Yeah. You can stop talking now.
• Reed: Nino's not gonna go on a bloody rampage here, no matter what you say.

Reed: Does it know anything about the professor?

• Reed: What about the professor?
• Reed: Do you know anything about him, or where he is?
• Spirit: Hmm... there is one thing.
• Spirit: It's not news to you, however...
• Spirit: The fact that he has spent a good amount of time placing hidden contraptions all over the world.
• Reed: ...I know that, yes.
• Spirit: As for why he'd done so, well...
• Spirit: I couldn't tell you!
• Spirit: Not unless I meet him myself, and sneak a peek into his mind.
• Reed: ...
• Spirit: Heheh... are you tempted to try that?
• Spirit: Perhaps you want to take me with you on your journey now, hm?
• Reed: Fuck no.
• Spirit: Ahahahah! I jest, I jest...
• Spirit: I don't even know where that man is!
• Spirit: And I'd much rather go back and be with my kind again, anyhow.

Aria: Ask if they know any spirits from near the forest you first found Nino. Maybe one will have seen five before Nino found her.

• Spirit: Hm... I don't know.
• Spirit: That child in your memories,
• Spirit: I've never seen her before.
• Spirit: I've also never heard any of my fellows talk about a kid like that, either.
• Aria: Ah... that's kind of useless.
• Spirit: Sorry, girl, but it really is all I know.

Aria: Ask the spirit who it's "master" is. Perhaps they're the "she" it was talking about?

• Reed: ...Aria, lower your weapon.
• Reed: I know everything I need to know now.
• Reed: We're done here.
• Aria: ...Well, I'm not done yet!
• Aria: I still have questions.
• Aria: And you, you're going to answer.
• Spirit: Aha, ha, ha, human...
• Spirit: I've never felt more fear than I do now,
• Spirit: Facing you with your axe to my throat!
• Spirit: I must admit, you're a fearsome girl.
• Aria: ...Keep the commentary to yourself.
• Aria: Who's your master, spirit?
• Spirit: I cannot say.
• Aria: ...I don't think you're lying about the fear you feel.
• Aria: I can see so clearly it in your eyes.
• Aria: So why start withholding information now?
• Spirit: Aha, you misunderstand.
• Spirit: It's not that I don't want to say it,
• Spirit: But I cannot, even if I wanted to.
• Spirit: I certainly don't want you to slice my head clean off!
• Spirit: But, girl...
• Spirit: It just so happens that you're too late to be asking this question now.
• Spirit: By the time you'd arrived to this world...
• Spirit: My hands were already tied, and my lips, sealed.
• Spirit: I simply cannot reveal anything about my master.
• Aria: Then should I make your head roll?
• Spirit: Ha, haha...!
• Spirit: The alternative isn't any better, girl!
• Spirit: I'm between a rock and a hard place, you know...

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• Spirit: Were I to betray my master...
• Spirit: The last bit of flame in my soul will be forcibly extinguished.
• Spirit: I'd die so pathetically, a death even worse than beheading.
• Aria: So, between your master and I...
• Aria: You fear her more?
• Spirit: ...Well now, let's just say...
• Spirit: I have no choice but to hope that you're the more merciful one, don't I?
• Spirit: Especially if you intend to maintain our truce here...
• Spirit: Really, I pray you're not someone who goes back on their word.
• Aria: ...
• Aria: Well, you did confirm that she exists.
• Aria: So there is that, at least.
• Aria: You get to live.
• Spirit: ...Phew!!!
• Spirit: Oh, these intense feelings!
• Spirit: Intense fear, followed by this, this...
• Spirit: Overwhelming sense of relief!
• Spirit: Why, it's incomparable to anything else in the world!
• Spirit: No wonder we were all so lost...
• Spirit: We've forgotten what it's like to be free again!
• Spirit: Truly, only facing death could rouse us from this stupor!
• Spirit: Ahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaah!
• Aria: Ugh... she's just being weird now.
• Aria: I'm done here, Reed.
• Aria: Although...

Reed: Ask if they need to be stronger, if spirits stopped attacking in general, could they live happy lives, alongside monsters.

• Aria: I know I said I'd go along with this truce if it would benefit us,
• Aria: But who says just sparing her life guarantees anyone's safety?
• Aria: And, for that matter...
• Aria: What if she goes and kills someone else, like spirits normally do?
• Aria: Won't that basically be our fault, Reed...?
• Spirit: Ah. You're generalizing us, human.
• Spirit: There are some of us who know how to exist without killing.
• Spirit: And I happen to be one such spirit.
• Spirit: Really, only I came after you because of my master's command!
• Spirit: So, if you do let me go now...
• Spirit: Then I will have nothing more left to do with you!
• Aria: No, no, just stop... I don't even want to talk to you.
• Aria: I honestly can't bring myself to trust a single word you say!
• Reed: Look, we have to humor her for now, or we'll get nowhere.
• Aria: Ugh... fine. You do it, then.
• Reed: ...Spirit, if what you're saying really is true,
• Reed: Then is there no chance that all the others could be like you?
• Reed: You know, being able to coexist with monsters and all.
• Spirit: ...No. Well, you should know...
• Spirit: Spirits that kill are only doing it to survive in the first place.
• Reed: Well, why do they have to do that, exactly?
• Reed: What do spirits gain from killing people?
• Spirit: ...Our existences are weak and faint.
• Spirit: We are constantly on the verge of disappearing.
• Spirit: It's a problem, because us spirits have some deep desires that we spend the entirety of our short-lived existences trying to fulfill...
• Spirit: And no spirit wants to "die" without fulfilling said desires.
• Spirit: However, we can get some "extra time" if we consume living souls,
• Spirit: And strengthen ourselves, to avoid "death" longer.
• Spirit: That is why they kill and kill, human...
• Spirit: While waiting for the day they can finally accept death with open arms.
• Reed: ...What about you, then?
• Reed: If you have a method to survive without killing,
• Reed: That means there IS a way other spirits can coexist with monsterkind.
• Spirit: Haha... killing to keep on living is just one way for us to live longer.
• Spirit: Many spirits end up making that choice, but I do not wish to.
• Spirit: Instead, I have chosen to find fulfillment by following a master.

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• Spirit: Someone... who would give me purpose.
• Spirit: And with purpose comes enough strength to live, a reason to exist.
• Spirit: I suppose it helps that I happen to have a stronger soul than most, too.
• Spirit: So I have not found myself forced to kill anyone for survival.
• Spirit: Other spirits aren't as lucky as I am.
• Spirit: In this world... there's hardly anyone as understanding as my master.
• Spirit: Yes, things would be different if ordinary living people understood our plight, and lent us a hand. But we're feared, and seen as a danger...
• Spirit: Perhaps it's a sort of self-perpetuating cycle.
• Spirit: They shun us, leave us to die from weakness.
• Spirit: Then we kill them, to regain our strength, and avoid death.
• Spirit: And so, many spirits just have to keep killing...
• Spirit: Otherwise they'll disappear, regretful and broken.
• Spirit: I certainly don't know the solution to this cycle,
• Spirit: And neither could the two of you find one.
• Spirit: This is just how things are.