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Clang—!
Gyah—!
As the situation becomes increasingly chaotic, Rosetta's M.I.N.D. is reaching boiling point.
I only saved you to ease my guilt!
I didn't think... you would end up getting in my way!
How foolish of me to be kind...
Rosetta's relentless assault on Lee shows no sign of stopping, until he is on the brink of death...
...
(Pants)
Coming to her senses, Rosetta notices the carnage that the Corrupted has wreaked on the Forest Guards and the port residents...
Nausicaa!
Miss Nausicaa...
It... it hurts...
...
Evan has never looked at her that way before.
Everything...
Everything is my...
Ugh—!
AAAAGGHHH!
No! Her corruption has reached critical level...
—!
Rosetta!
Can you hear me?
Diana... what's happening to me...
You've lost something important, but it's not your fault...
We all know what you've been through...
Diana looks at Nausicaa, who lies on the ground, severely injured, being tended to by Evan. Standing before them...
...are port citizens, their harpoons raised, protecting the two of them.
...
Expressions of guilt and shame hang on their face as they avoid making eye contact with Diana.
Residents of New Murmansk...
The Forest Guard has come in your time of need and died for you, not out of duty...
...But out of sympathy for all lives.
You have avoided contact with us, averted your gaze from us...
So take a good look at the Forest Guards today. Let our names be known throughout the Arctic Route Union!
We shall be known as the Forest Guard, and nothing else.
No one argues.
Sympathy... for lives...
I see...
But it's too late...
It was an honor to be your sister and student.
Urgh...
Rosetta forces herself to stand up again as another wave of Corrupted makes landfall on the beach.
She takes a deep breath and swings her lance—
The gust from her lance rends the Corrupted to pieces and sends them flying into the ocean depths.
...
Her eyes begin to cloud over as remnants of her consciousness cling to a thread.
Rosetta takes one last look at everyone, then soars into the air...
Derek...
Rosetta recalls how she sailed with her grandfather through the dark ocean waves, leaving ARU for the first time, chasing after the Narwhal that had laid waste to the port...
They pursued the Narwhal from the Arctic to the Antarctic until they encountered Corrupted for the first time at the Derek Strait...
Until finally, they rescued the Narwhal and, so too, the Narwhal rescued them.
Grandpa...
Rosetta recalls carrying her grandfather through the snowy woods for two days, as her grandfather grew thinner by the day from the Punishing Virus...
Her grandfather was dead by the time she arrived at the port. Surrounded by the residents, she was forced to become a tool for their protection...
It's so cold...
Rosetta falls. As she does, she finds her final resting place by the side of the Narwhal.
But just as she is about to close her eyes—
Ahhhhhhh!
Suddenly, Rosetta is enveloped in red lightning before crashing onto the ice field in pain.
Those who have witnessed the truth about humanity have earned the right to ascend.
Rosetta writhes in pain on the ice.
Stop!
!
Lucia's powerful blow disrupts Alpha from connecting with Rosetta.
