Story Reader / Border Pact / Glazed Arch / Story
Is it over yet?
Almost. Just another twenty secs!
Five seconds!
Time for the curtains to fall! Now all we need to do is take out the remaining Corrupted and—
As the banging of the drums and gongs fades away into a gentle hum, the pulley for the curtains begins to move, grinding through yellowed rust and dried grease.
The pulley, rusty after fifty years of disuse, can no longer support the two-ton curtains. The set falls apart, slamming onto the stage, sending dust flying.
My golden armor has been laid to rest. My twin blades sleep soundly in their sheaths...
When spring comes around, to the mountains I shall go, and there I will bow down low...
I will bow to the royal guards... to the hawk-eyed warrior's bow... to Princess Linghua, who has left home... and to General Xu, who inspects his troops...
His unaccompanied soliloquy finished, it is time for Bunshiro to exit the stage.
Except, it may even be one verse too many for him.
Bunshiro, for his part, remains unaffected. The feedback from his receiver tells him that the long-awaited end has finally come.
Let him be. We should start searching for the CPF in the Glazed Arch.
We gotta thank him, then. Isn't that it, right there?
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Where the curtains were mounted upon the ceiling, a giant hole now gapes skyward. It looks like the pulleys weren't the only thing dragged down by the finale.
Through the hole, faintly, one could make out the vague outline of the CPF tower.
