Not sending me out on a field mission today? Suit yourself.

What is it?! What is that thing?!

—If they're out for blood, then we'll just have to do it ourselves before they get a chance. A killer without a target's not going to swing their knives around for no reason.

Calm down! Say it again slowly.

My father said that Sergei would become the greatest of all scientists, even if he was born in Ursus. I thought they were friends, partners, and kindred spirits... Yet Sergei stabbed them all in the back. He deserved to die, but I also doubt whether the blame was his alone

Aren't you from Lungmen?

Thanks for the help. I'll be going, then.

Infected or otherwise, there are so many on this land who yearn to live freely and with dignity. Some of them have failed, but so many more are still pressing on. May you continue to move forward with them, Rhodes Island.

How did it go?

Eirene... You have the answer? ... It's not the one we want to hear, is it?

(I have to contact them right away!)

I get it. No need to go into detail.

Here's the last thing I have to say to you: Forget Talulah. Forget Chernobog. Forget Lungmen. Forget Reunion. Forget us. If you choose to leave, then leave it all behind you. Hell, forget the crystals growing on your body. Maybe if you forget everything, you can go home.

||There was no difference between the gangsters rushing into that house and the Ursus Guard charging into the lab. She felt like she was back in Chernobog, back in that night she lost her father.||

||Years ago, Crownslayer stormed off in a rage to prove that she was strong enough to take revenge on the conspiracies looming over her.||

Back when I was leaving Siracusa to go to Ursus, to take revenge for my father, my teacher stopped me. Saying I was weak, and I couldn't do it. I didn't believe it. But it was the truth.

There's something I want to ask before I leave. That night, when you ordered us to point our weapons at the Venezia mafiosi... what were you thinking? That all of the Union's problems will go away if we kill those bastards? And who smuggled what will remain a secret forever?

So this is all meaningless? Everything my father did, everything I did... was for nothing?

||Why? Why has this girl wearing a red hoodie chased after her, haunted her from Yan to Siracusa?||

The necessary lives have been taken. Mission accomplished.

——Who?!

Back when I was leaving Siracusa to go to Ursus, to take revenge for my father, my teacher stopped me. Saying I was weak, and I couldn't do it. I didn't believe it. But it was the truth.

Because you're scum!

I drove behind her car and came back here only after I saw her enter the courthouse.

Just kill me.

Don't underestimate me!

Ugh, my tail's all wet.

Go. Tear them apart.

||The faces of the drivers flash through Lyudmila's mind one after another. She doesn't say anything.||

Hey, you can be proud of the part you did for the Carnevale.

Cazzo...!

Pizdets! This is suddenly a lot more complicated than smuggling tires and crashing into the Acting Mayor! Wait, someone's coming.

Or maybe they don't exist in any real sense? Just like... Just like how Reunion is over.

Say again!

I've driven a truck in Ursus. Does that count?

I heard they hid it from you because they were worried you wouldn't take it well.

...Red hood.

*Hack* *hack*...! Gah!

Goodbye, all of you. Don't make the same mistakes I did.

I've got something to take care of, so I'll be hanging back too.

Shut up! You have no right to speak my father's name!

I'll slay the crown.

......*gasp*......

Listen to me carefully. These people have gotten their hands on weapons. They have become true wolves. The situation is out of control.

||She was stick-thin before she died. Lyudmilla barely had to exert herself.||

'Swallow the bitterness of the dead'...

But since you guys will be busy with that film shoot at Court Square tonight, you'll just have to make do with soda

I've got something to take care of, so I'll be hanging back too.

Never imagined I'd be welcoming the New Year on Rhodes Island. But here I am, with all of you… Looks like we've changed a lot. Happy New Year. To you, and to Rhodes Island.

Very well.