Speaker Dialogue
Location: Catherine's Room
Nelly StoryLog
Chief Butler
Nelly
You… What are you doing?
The room, now without its master, was completely turned upside-down.
And in the center of all that mess were Butlers, awkwardly standing, frozen mid-movement as though they'd all been caught red-handed.
LintonButler 2 StoryLog
Edgar Family
Discreet Butler
… We were cleaning the room, as per Master Linton's orders.
Nelly StoryLog
Chief Butler
Nelly
You lot were clearly ransacking the room!
LintonButler 1 StoryLog
Edgar Family
Firm Butler
… Chief Butler Nelly, have you seen any of the Dead Rabbits or the Wuthering Heights Butlers on your way here?
LintonButler 1 StoryLog
Edgar Family
Firm Butler
We have good reason to believe that the Wuthering Heights Butlers are scheming with that villain Hindley to harm Master Linton.
Heathcliff StoryLog
Sinner #7
HEATHCLIFF
… The Dead Rabbits ain't the type of gang to kill people for no reason.
Gregor StoryLog
Sinner #13
GREGOR
Okay, but they did try to kill us for no reason.
Heathcliff StoryLog
Sinner #7
HEATHCLIFF
I know, dammit! The boss can't be doing all this for nothing. He must have a good explanation for this.
Heathcliff StoryLog
Sinner #7
HEATHCLIFF
Just tell us what dodgy shite you were up to in Catherine's room.
LintonButler 2 StoryLog
Edgar Family
Discreet Butler
We told you, Heathcliff. We were… cleaning the room.
LintonButler 2 StoryLog
Edgar Family
Discreet Butler
Or have you sided yourself with the rest of those lowlives, the Dead Rabbits?
Heathcliff StoryLog
Sinner #7
HEATHCLIFF
Like Master, like Butlers, eh? Just as stupid and soft as Linton himself.
LintonButler 2 StoryLog
Edgar Family
Discreet Butler
That was uncalled for.
Heathcliff StoryLog
Sinner #7
HEATHCLIFF
No. This dodgy shite you're trying to pull here is what's uncalled for. You've crossed the line.
Heathcliff StoryLog
Sinner #7
HEATHCLIFF
I'm the only one who can tell you what to do with this room. Not that posh wanker.
Post-battleSpeaker Dialogue
Location: Catherine's Room
Nelly StoryLog
Chief Butler
Nelly
That's enough, Heathcliff!
LintonButler 2 StoryLog
Edgar Family
Discreet Butler
Gaah… Cough…
Ishmael StoryLog
Sinner #8
ISHMAEL
We can't kill her. Otherwise we won't know what they were looking for, or why.
Heathcliff StoryLog
Sinner #7
HEATHCLIFF
… Speak.
Heathcliff StoryLog
Sinner #7
HEATHCLIFF
I am going to take your utensils and cut off your fingers one by one with each dodgy answer you give me.
Heathcliff StoryLog
Sinner #7
HEATHCLIFF
You must know how sharp your own blades are.
Nelly StoryLog
Chief Butler
Nelly
… Please cooperate, won't you? I don't want to have to use the sleepy smack on my own subordinates.
LintonButler 2 StoryLog
Edgar Family
Discreet Butler
The… diary.
LintonButler 2 StoryLog
Edgar Family
Discreet Butler
Master Linton told us that we must find the diary in Mistress Catherine's room.
LintonButler 2 StoryLog
Edgar Family
Discreet Butler
That she must have hidden her diary somewhere in here as they were making modifications to the manor…
Nelly StoryLog
Chief Butler
Nelly
I see. So why do you think Master Linton's looking for that diary?
LintonButler 2 StoryLog
Edgar Family
Discreet Butler
Master Linton told us that it was to find… a way.
Nelly StoryLog
Chief Butler
Nelly
Please, do keep up your mysterious attitude. A few more answers like that and I will personally demonstrate how I managed to become the Chief Butler.
LintonButler 2 StoryLog
Edgar Family
Discreet Butler
It's the truth. He did not let us in on what this… 'way' is. I have told you all that I know.
Heathcliff StoryLog
Sinner #7
HEATHCLIFF
That's it. Looks like I'll have to—
Nelly StoryLog
Chief Butler
Nelly
That's enough, Heathcliff. I believe that she is telling the truth. All of you, leave us. Now.
LintonButler 2 StoryLog
Edgar Family
Discreet Butler
....
Nelly StoryLog
Chief Butler
Nelly
And please, do stay out of my sight.
LintonButler 2 StoryLog
Edgar Family
Discreet Butler
Chief Butler Nelly…
LintonButler 2 StoryLog
Edgar Family
Discreet Butler
According to what intelligence we could gather…
LintonButler 2 StoryLog
Edgar Family
Discreet Butler
The 'Dead Rabbits', the Syndicate of an Urban Plague classification, had long been obliterated from the T Corp. Backstreets.
Heathcliff StoryLog
Sinner #7
HEATHCLIFF
… What?
Nelly StoryLog
Chief Butler
Nelly
…!
LintonButler 2 StoryLog
Edgar Family
Discreet Butler
They have been inactive for a long, long time—in other words, they have already been vanquished. Other gangs have not seen the Dead Rabbits in the Backstreets in a while, either.
LintonButler 2 StoryLog
Edgar Family
Discreet Butler
We have no way of verifying their identities. Please, do be careful.
Nelly StoryLog
Chief Butler
Nelly
Who in the blazes did Mister Hindley let into this manor…? And that diary…
Dante2 StoryLog
Manager
DANTE
Ishmael StoryLog
Sinner #8
ISHMAEL
If we do find it, it'll at least clue us in as to what kind of situation we've just walked into.
Outis StoryLog
Sinner #12
OUTIS
A small container, a space to hide such a thing as a diary… would be these bookshelves or drawers.
Outis StoryLog
Sinner #12
OUTIS
But it appears that the Butlers have combed this room clean already.
Don Quixote StoryLog
Sinner #3
DON QUIXOTE
Hm hm…! I have once beheld such a sight.
Don Quixote StoryLog
Sinner #3
DON QUIXOTE
Forsooth, 'tis oft the case that a hidden button exists somewhere! We ought to scour this room from corner to corner with magnifying glasses much larger than even Gregor's…!
Gregor StoryLog
Sinner #13
GREGOR
These are glasses for my myopia…
[Memory.]
Catherine StoryLog
Wuthering Heights
Catherine
There are a thousand feathers of so many birds in this pillow.
Catherine StoryLog
Wuthering Heights
Catherine
Other people of means like to collect rare bird feathers and stuff their pillows with them. But… I don't like that.
S607 1
Catherine StoryLog
Wuthering Heights
Catherine
Do you know… why?
Heathcliff Past StoryLog
Wuthering Heights
Heathcliff
....
Heathcliff Past StoryLog
Wuthering Heights
Heathcliff
Because birds are meant to fly. Not to be killed like that.
Catherine StoryLog
Wuthering Heights
Catherine
Yes. Birds do not belong in their cages; they are beings born to soar the skies.
Catherine StoryLog
Wuthering Heights
Catherine
So I am going to empty this pillow of their feathers.
Catherine StoryLog
Wuthering Heights
Catherine
Instead, I will fill it with my secret.
S607 2
Catherine StoryLog
Wuthering Heights
Catherine
So that I will always have it at an arm's reach.
[Memory ends.]
Hong Lu StoryLog
Sinner #6
HONG LU
Heathcliff…? Why are you tearing that pillow open…?
Heathcliff StoryLog
Sinner #7
HEATHCLIFF
This is where… Cathy would have…!
Outis StoryLog
Sinner #12
OUTIS
… A diary. Hidden within the pillow.
Hong Lu StoryLog
Sinner #6
HONG LU
Hm… it's stained by ink. Even the cover, too.
Rodion StoryLog
Sinner #9
RODION
I wonder why anyone would do this to their own diary…?
Hong Lu StoryLog
Sinner #6
HONG LU
Mm… when I would hold my pen against the paper for a long, long time, because I'm not sure what to write…
Hong Lu StoryLog
Sinner #6
HONG LU
… the ink will start to pool and spread, leaving big stains like these.
Faust StoryLog
Sinner #2
FAUST
These ink stains appear to have been made from nonstandard, special ink. A pool of ink that stained this page has left no marks on the subsequent page.
Faust StoryLog
Sinner #2
FAUST
Perhaps…
Faust StoryLog
Sinner #2
FAUST
… these stains were made on purpose to hide the words under them.
Ishmael StoryLog
Sinner #8
ISHMAEL
If that Linton guy's trying so hard to find this diary, then…
Ishmael StoryLog
Sinner #8
ISHMAEL
… I'm willing to bet that it's something important.
Heathcliff StoryLog
Sinner #7
HEATHCLIFF
Most of these pages are stained.
True. Most of the pages were stained, and their contents were rather difficult to read.
Heathcliff StoryLog
Sinner #7
HEATHCLIFF
… I would have liked to read them. Even a little bit.
That's when…
… the pages suddenly began to flip rapidly, until it came to a stop at a page with actually legible words.
It couldn't have been the wind. There weren't any open windows.
[Diary.]
XX/XX
Heathcliff left me. Without a word.
A terrible thunderstorm rages outside.
Will he cease to pain my heart and return home once the rain passes? Like Nelly said?
[Next page.]
XX/XX
Fine. Don't come back.
I don't want to see your face ever again, either.
[Next page.]
XX/XX
This manor and me… we're all you have. You don't have anything else.
Will you truly abandon what is everything to you?
Gregor StoryLog
Sinner #13
GREGOR
Boy, this all feels extremely private. Should we…?
Sinclair StoryLog
Sinner #11
SINCLAIR
Why don't we leave Heathcliff alone so he can…
Heathcliff StoryLog
Sinner #7
HEATHCLIFF
… No. This entry seems… off.
[Resume Diary.]
XX/XX
A guest paid me a visit. The first in a long time.
Conversing with someone new… really cleared my head.
S610 1
And I saw my shape in the mirror before me.
I know what to do now.
S610 2
The basement.
We… must descend there.
Sinclair StoryLog
Sinner #11
SINCLAIR
Who do you think this 'we' is?
Nelly StoryLog
Chief Butler
Nelly
The basement… the basement…?
Heathcliff StoryLog
Sinner #7
HEATHCLIFF
From what I remember, Nelly…
Nelly StoryLog
Chief Butler
Nelly
I agree, Heathcliff.
Nelly StoryLog
Chief Butler
Nelly
Everyone, it appears that our next destination lies at the basement of this manor.
Outis StoryLog
Sinner #12
OUTIS
What makes you say that?
Nelly StoryLog
Chief Butler
Nelly
The old Mistress, who passed many years ago, ordered us to seal the entrance to the basement.
Heathcliff StoryLog
Sinner #7
HEATHCLIFF
....
Nelly StoryLog
Chief Butler
Nelly
Which means that the basement was unsealed when the modifications were made to the manor.
Heathcliff StoryLog
Sinner #7
HEATHCLIFF
But why… why the basement…?
Heathcliff StoryLog
Sinner #7
HEATHCLIFF
Cathy hated the dark. Enough to keep her room always lit with several lanterns.
Nelly StoryLog
Chief Butler
Nelly
Indeed. I recall having to purchase an entire set of lanterns whenever I left the manor to procure the groceries.
Outis StoryLog
Sinner #12
OUTIS
That is certainly suspicious.
Gregor StoryLog
Sinner #13
GREGOR
Got any idea as to where we might find the basement, Nelly?
Nelly StoryLog
Chief Butler
Nelly
Well~ It's usually by the kitchen, isn't it? Let us investigate that place first, shall we?
6-20: The Diary 2Speaker Dialogue
Location: Wuthering Heights Fireplace
There already was a group of people by the fireplace.
Nelly StoryLog
Chief Butler
Nelly
Master Linton…
Linton StoryLog
Edgar Family
Linton
So you've arrived…
Heathcliff StoryLog
Sinner #7
HEATHCLIFF
This can't be a coincidence, can it? I suppose you're also trying to enter the basement.
Linton StoryLog
Edgar Family
Linton
....
Nelly StoryLog
Chief Butler
Nelly
Master Linton, what are you hiding in the basement?
Linton StoryLog
Edgar Family
Linton
… I see that they have gotten their hands on it first. Despite the fact that you had the head start.
LintonButler 2 StoryLog
Edgar Family
Discreet Butler
Our most profound apologies, Master Linton…
Linton StoryLog
Edgar Family
Linton
… Return that diary to me.
Outis StoryLog
Sinner #12
OUTIS
Why must we?
Linton StoryLog
Edgar Family
Linton
… Is it that unreasonable for a husband to request that you return his loving wife's memento to his hands?
Heathcliff StoryLog
Sinner #7
HEATHCLIFF
Don't provoke me.
Heathcliff StoryLog
Sinner #7
HEATHCLIFF
Tell me why Catherine died.
Heathcliff StoryLog
Sinner #7
HEATHCLIFF
And like I said earlier… I won't believe a word from your gob until I see her body for myself.
Heathcliff StoryLog
Sinner #7
HEATHCLIFF
Even your claim that she married you.
Linton StoryLog
Edgar Family
Linton
How desperate.
Linton StoryLog
Edgar Family
Linton
Allow me to offer you an alternative. Go hide in some corner of this manor. Wait until the lightning strikes seven times… Then take the Golden Bough Catherine left you, leave, and never return to this place ever again.
Linton StoryLog
Edgar Family
Linton
It is what you do best, Heathcliff—turning tail and hiding. Shrouding your shameful, tear-soaked face from the world, fleeing from the beatings, abandoning Catherine… because you were too busy running away from the gnawing hounds.
Heathcliff StoryLog
Sinner #7
HEATHCLIFF
… Keep talking, 'Young Master' Edgar. And you'll find that I'm no longer that weak child you once knew.
Linton StoryLog
Edgar Family
Linton
Well… I'm not so sure what has really changed about you since then, Heathcliff.
Linton StoryLog
Edgar Family
Linton
And those… cheap, tacky letters you sent…?
Linton StoryLog
Edgar Family
Linton
All burned with the rest of the trash in the incinerator.
Heathcliff StoryLog
Sinner #7
HEATHCLIFF
....
Post-battle
Post-battle
Speaker Dialogue
Location: Wuthering Heights Fireplace
Outis StoryLog
Sinner #12
OUTIS
What have you done to this manor?
Linton StoryLog
Edgar Family
Linton
I did not… tamper with the manor myself. I have not once been anywhere near the subject of workshops or engineering in my life; I am but a sheltered child of the esteemed Edgar Family. How would I have the capacity to do the modifications myself?
Linton StoryLog
Edgar Family
Linton
All I have done is… make a few investments in a separate organization that worked on the construction.
Linton StoryLog
Edgar Family
Linton
They were introduced to me as a group that was once a part of this… Syndicate called 'the Ring'.
Ryoshu StoryLog
Sinner #4
RYŌSHŪ
… Hah.
Rodion StoryLog
Sinner #9
RODION
The Ring…? Didn't the Dead Rabbits guy say something about being plucked by the Ring?
Heathcliff StoryLog
Sinner #7
HEATHCLIFF
What the hell are you doing… bringing those blighters here…?
Linton StoryLog
Edgar Family
Linton
I don't know… I never really cared much about the details of how this manor was modified. If my brother found out what I was doing, he would have tried to kill me… but I cared not.
Ishmael StoryLog
Sinner #8
ISHMAEL
How did you even come across the Golden Bough? It's…
Linton StoryLog
Edgar Family
Linton
… impossible for a private individual to acquire the Golden Boughs? Indeed. But the Edgar Family is a family of vast means.
Linton StoryLog
Edgar Family
Linton
When my eldest brother left, most of the family fortune became mine. I quite enjoyed the affluence. One could say that it's the only thing of my possession that I liked. Though I have spent most of it… procuring… the Golden Bough… Cough…
Linton was coughing harshly between every couple of words. It seemed as though he was pushing himself just to finish a sentence.
It wasn't that the battles had been grueling; it was merely that he was someone of a frailer constitution.
Don Quixote StoryLog
Sinner #3
DON QUIXOTE
The Edgar Family… I believe that I have once witnessed that name in the Fixers Monthly magazines… Mayhaps…?
Heathcliff StoryLog
Sinner #7
HEATHCLIFF
Haah… what have I got to say to a bloke who looks like he belongs in the infirmary?
Heathcliff StoryLog
Sinner #7
HEATHCLIFF
Just tell me what happened to… Catherine. That's all I'm asking.
Linton StoryLog
Edgar Family
Linton
Do you really think that you even deserve to meddle in my family's affairs…? To meddle in this business between me and… my wife?
Heathcliff StoryLog
Sinner #7
HEATHCLIFF
Don't talk like that to me, dammit! What, are you trying to flaunt those words at me or something…?!
Linton StoryLog
Edgar Family
Linton
We were married. De facto, de jure.
Linton StoryLog
Edgar Family
Linton
I was Catherine's lawfully wedded husband, and we lived under the same roof. We built a family together.
Heathcliff StoryLog
Sinner #7
HEATHCLIFF
....
Linton StoryLog
Edgar Family
Linton
Right, 'husband'. I suppose you will never know how it feels to be called that… am I wrong?
Linton StoryLog
Edgar Family
Linton
It's only expected at this point, is it not? Who in their right mind would leave everything behind just to be with some… poor Backstreets vagrant… like you…? Cough.
Heathcliff StoryLog
Sinner #7
HEATHCLIFF
… I told you to stop provoking me.
Heathcliff StoryLog
Sinner #7
HEATHCLIFF
It's… Agh. Dammit…
Heathcliff fell silent for a moment. What Linton said hurt him so much that he could not even come up with a rebuttal.
Linton continued, somewhat emboldened by his silence.
Linton StoryLog
Edgar Family
Linton
You were the first to leave her, yes… but I assure you, it was certainly for the better.
Linton StoryLog
Edgar Family
Linton
Because she would have… left you first if you hadn't. Because she would have grown tired of you!
Heathcliff StoryLog
Sinner #7
HEATHCLIFF
Tired… of me…?
[The Second bolt of lightning strikes.]
Location: Wuthering Heights Fireplace
Catherine Baby StoryLog
Wuthering Heights
Catherine
Linton. You said that on purpose, didn't you?
Other StoryLog
Edgar Family
Linton
What do you mean?
Catherine Baby StoryLog
Wuthering Heights
Catherine
Just now. You provoked Heathcliff. So that you'll anger that boy, so that he'll attack you first.
Other StoryLog
Edgar Family
Linton
No! I never said anything to him. You see, I was just talking to Hindley.
Other StoryLog
Edgar Family
Linton
Besides, let's be honest. Just look at him. His unkempt hair, the rags he's wearing… He's laughable, isn't he?
Catherine Baby StoryLog
Wuthering Heights
Catherine
Do you even know what you've done? Hindley will thrash that boy once you leave! Do you understand?
Other StoryLog
Edgar Family
Linton
No, no!
Catherine Baby StoryLog
Wuthering Heights
Catherine
Quit your weeping, Linton! You have no idea how unhappy your tears make me.
Wuthering Heights
Catherine
Linton tortures Heathcliff like that on purpose.
Wuthering Heights
Catherine
Every time my brother speaks ill of Heathcliff, he giggles with him or mutters in agreement. As if he wants Heathcliff to hear.
Wuthering Heights
Catherine
And Heathcliff would always attack Linton. Because he is an impulsive child.
Wuthering Heights
Catherine
Why can't the people I love… also love one another?
Catherine StoryLog
Wuthering Heights
Catherine
Linton. You love me, don't you?
Linton StoryLog
Edgar Family
Linton
Of course, dear Catherine.
Wuthering Heights
Catherine
Then how far are you willing to go for love?
Wuthering Heights
Catherine
What does 'love' mean to you?
Wuthering Heights
Catherine
… If you truly love me, then…
Wuthering Heights
Catherine
… perhaps you could bring Heathcliff back to me?
Location: Wuthering Heights Fireplace
Linton StoryLog
Edgar Family
Linton
… That… diary…!
Linton StoryLog
Edgar Family
Linton
You can… read it…?
Linton looked downright pathetic. He was gasping for air with every breath, trying to read the open diary.
It was a wretched sight; the rapier in his hand clattered pitifully to the floor.
Heathcliff StoryLog
Sinner #7
HEATHCLIFF
Yeah. As you can plainly see yourself.
Linton StoryLog
Edgar Family
Linton
When I tried to read it, it was full of nothing but pages upon pages of ink stains…
Linton StoryLog
Edgar Family
Linton
So why does it refuse me but not…
Linton StoryLog
Edgar Family
Linton
… Hah.
Linton StoryLog
Edgar Family
Linton
Catherine… this is your answer, then?
Linton StoryLog
Edgar Family
Linton
I no longer know if I even have the right to stand in your way.
Linton closes his eyes for a moment, and backs away from us.
He activates a button somewhere within the fireplace, and…
… the fireplace opens, loud with the sound of moving mechanical parts. Before us appears a long staircase leading downstairs.
Linton StoryLog
Edgar Family
Linton
....
He is watching us with a hollow, dejected look.
Nelly StoryLog
Chief Butler
Nelly
Master Linton…
Ishmael StoryLog
Sinner #8
ISHMAEL
This staircase leads to the basement…? What the hell were you doing down there…?
Linton StoryLog
Edgar Family
Linton
All I can say is that… I have been preparing to invite a new guest.
Linton StoryLog
Edgar Family
Linton
Descend. Whatever appears before you, whatever transpires…
Linton StoryLog
Edgar Family
Linton
… it shall all be as Catherine willed.