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Nowhere To Rome: Chapter IV

  Faithful Night and Yoni enter the tower, and see Sinners Sextant and all kinds of destructive equipment.

  Elybe: Well, this is quite the warm reception

  Wjenx: Yeah

  Sinners Sextant Member: We definitely didn't bring enough people to deal with a Century Corps intrusion

  Dassu: We on a time crunch, you on a manpower shortage, seems like a fair fight

  Sinners Sextant Member: Ok why is it called MANpower, seems a little human centric

  Sinners Sextant Member II: I have no clue, I'm not a linguistics expert

  Monact: YOU'RE STALLING

  Sinners Sextant Member: Stall? I don't know the meaning of the word?

  Sinners Sextant Member II: It means to slow or delay

  Sinners Sextant Member: Thanks Resident Linguistic Expert

  Sinners Sextant Member II: I'm, not a linguistics expert

  Sinners Sextant Member III: Are we going to fight them or not?

  Yoni: I'll start if that's cool with you

  Yoni leaps over and punches them in the face, starting a brawl

  Dassu: Oh we should probably help her

  Monact: Gee you sure are a quick one

  Fight against Sinners Sextant Wave I

  When you win

  Sinners Sextant Member III: Should we wait for…any backup…any at all?

  Sinners Sextant Member I: There's no time we've got to hold the line until Ayev comes back

  Elybe: Wait, they're not here?

  Sinners Sextant Member II: You want to pause the fight till they arrive? That's awfully generous of you

  Elybe: Wait no we don't

  Sinners Sextant Member II: it was worth a shot

  Sinners Sextant Member IV: Yeah…worth a shot…we can SHOOT them

  Sinners Sextant Member III: You HAVEN'T been doing that

  Monact: I DO NOT CARE about your problems

  Sinners Sextant Member V: How rude

  Wjenx: You're trying to kill us or at least knock us unconscious!

  Sinners Sextant Member VI: For the paycheck, kaching

  Fight against Sinners Sextant Wave II

  When you win

  Yoni: So do any of you have any fight left in you?

  Sinners Sextant Member VII: Me

  Monact: Were you people this chatty when you worked under Ghice?

  Sinners Sextant Member V: This has certainly devolved

  Sinners Sextant Member II: I need a raise

  Sinners Sextant Member I: Maybe mention your linguistics expertise

  Sinners Sextant Member II: I'm not a ling-actually it's not worth it to correct you anymore

  Yoni: Ok I'm just gonna

  Yoni punches Sinners Sextant Member VII in the face, and moves along

  Elybe: Well, let's follow her

  Wjenx: Alas, farewell you entertaining jobbers

  Sinners Sextant Member I: What does jobber mean?

  Sinners Sextant Member II: It's a wrestling term, it means someone who is routinely defeated at big events

  Sinners Sextant Member II: Wait fuck

  Moving on past the defeated Sextant, Faithful Night comes across the main vault tower and all the destructive equipment there, burning holes into the treasure vaults filled with gold. The Chalice of Bacchus is also right in front of them, surrounded by a little cage

  Dassu: So, here comes the demo team

  Elybe: Think I can knock them down in a single strike?

  Yoni: If you get the angle right

  Elybe: Well there's no harm in trying

  Elybe fires off their string ball using its maximum range, the ball flies into the a large portion of the melters, destroying them on impact

  Wjenx: Nice shot

  Elybe: Thanks, although I need more range to destroy the rest of them

  Yoni: Well it's a tower so we should get to climbing

  Dassu: Before that, let's not forget what we came here for?

  Dassu cuts the bars of the cage, and takes the chalice

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  Dassu: There…it's safe now

  Wjenx: Alright now let's go and-

  Ayev swoops down at The Century Corps, grabbing the chalice

  Ayev: I'm afraid that chalice is still under my possession

  Elybe: Hey your goons said you weren't here

  Ayev: I wasn't

  Ayev flies high into the tower with the chalice

  Dassu: Well…

  Yoni: Up we go

  Begin scaling The Vaults

  When you are up X vaults

  Elybe: Ok, (lines up their ball with the melters), and fire

  Elybe's ball ricochets again, destroying even more of the melters

  Elybe: Good job me

  Yoni: Yeah, we're doing great

  Wjenx: So how many of these do we need to destroy?

  Yoni: All of them, a little drop of liquid is all it will take for the chalice to do it's thing

  Monact: Let's continue to follow the path then

  Resume

  When you're up XX vaults

  Elybe: Ok, this should destroy all the melters that remain

  Elybe takes another shot with their ball and annihilates the remaining melters, except for one they miss.

  Yoni: So, uh, what was that

  Elybe: It almost looks like it was deflected

  Dassu: I can bet on why that is

  Dassu points from across the vault tower, seeing Lorenza in a golden armor

  Yoni: She's really gone and lost it huh? She's gonna try to take out our family's legacy.

  Elybe: Well, we've got a job to do

  As Faithful Night tries to move off the vault, Ayev swoops down and prevents their movement

  Ayev: I've got a job to do

  Elybe: Ayev…

  The two stare at each other for a long second

  Monact: Ayev, surrender the chalice to us and we'll allow you to go free…

  Ayev: I'm not going to surrender to the Century Corps…

  Elybe: Then surrender to your family

  Ayev: … I cannot

  Dassu: Ayev…

  Ayev: I'm not giving up this chalice…

  Wjenx: Give it up!

  Ayev: No

  Elybe: C'mon, give the chalice to us, and then go live a normal life

  Ayev: I'll never stand idly by, not while Sinners Sextant needs me

  Monact: I guess we know where you stand…

  Yoni: Well, you tried your best

  Elybe: We've hardly tried enough

  Ayev: This Chalice is property of The Sextant now

  Monact: Well, we warned you

  Fight against Ayev

  When they are at XC%

  Ayev: Don't make this harder than it needs to be

  Monact: Your stubborn unyielding will is the reason this is so hard

  Ayev: That's what always made me a great fighter

  Monact: Yeah, it's one of your better qualities, but you need to see that this isn't right

  Ayev: It feels wrong..but inside..I know it's right

  Resume

  When they are at LXXX%

  Dassu: Do you really think that this will make a difference for the better?

  Ayev: I don't know, but I don't care anymore

  Dassu: You used to care

  Ayev: When my heart is marred by war, I can only care about where my next meal will come from

  Dassu: Unfortunate

  Ayev: Don't pity my plight, it's the one I choose

  Resume

  When they are at LXX%

  Wjenx: Why won't you release the chalice?

  Ayev: I've got a job to do, that's why

  Wjenx: There's got to be more

  Ayev: There isn't, sometimes, we've got our own paths to contend with

  Wjenx: Seeing the person you've come has become revolting

  Ayev: Sorry you hate what you see

  Resume

  When they are at LX%

  Ayev: Elybe? Do you have anything else to say to me?

  Elybe: I'm at a loss for words, you've become so much like Ghice after their death

  Ayev: Ghice and Keighan…they're my family

  Elybe: No…

  Ayev: And who killed them? That's right your little guild

  Elybe: I…

  Ayev: It doesn't matter what you think, you killed my family

  Monact: That wasn't us

  Ayev: You're still aiding and following a guild of butchers, who minces my family, why would I care if you did the deed yourselves or not.

  Resume

  When Ayev is at L%

  Yoni: Do you have anything else you wish to say? Anything at all?

  Ayev: I can't say anything else I could say that would be of much significance

  Yoni: Are you sure, speak now or forever hold your peace.

  Ayev: …

  Yoni: Well Ayev, I can't say I expected anything else from you.

  Resume

  When Ayev is at XL%, they begin to struggle keeping their grip on the chalice

  Ayev: Damn it, I have to hold on

  Elybe: Ayev… I'm sorry

  Ayev: What?

  Elybe slings the ball at the chalice sending it through the air and falling down the tower

  Ayev: NO NO DAMN IT

  Ayev dives after the Chalice but Monact launches a brick at Ayev's booster pack, send them veering off course

  Ayev: No!

  Lorenza: Catch it you BUFFOON

  Ayev tries to grab it but it hits the ground, shattering

  Ayev: Damn it! I failed again, all thanks to the Century Corps!

  Lorenza: Oh Ayev, you disgrace

  Ayev: You know, I have no obligation to follow you anymore

  Lorenza: Hey hey wait

  Ayev: You won't be paying us jack shit from behind your prison cell

  Lorenza: Hey come on, don't you want revenge?

  Ayev: Maybe another day…you fraud

  Ayev blasts a hole in the tower and escapes

  Wjenx: Shouldn't we go after them?

  Monact: We have a bigger problem to contend with first

  Yoni: You're absolutely right

  Faithful Night begins making their way to Lorenza

  Lorenza: Come, I posses the armor worn by Julius Caesar himself and the Li Cadenzo family luck, I'm not scared of a confrontation

  Yoni: I also have our family's luck

  Lorenza: Oh sister, how I detest the thought of harming you, but you stood in my way today, and now my plan to help the poor is finished

  Yoni: Your plan was going to help no one

  Lorenza: Oh can it, however I can still destroy our family's legacy

  Yoni: But why?

  Lorenza: Becuase I-

  Yoni: Oh I GET IT

  Lorenza: Get what?

  Yoni: You're a spoiled little brat throwing a tantrum because things didn't go your way, being "daddy's little princess" must make one so used to getting whatever they want

  Lorenza: Ok that's not it, I have good reasons

  Yoni: No you don't

  Elybe: Let's take you in

  Lorenza: I'm NEVER going to prison

  Fight against Lorenza Li Cadenzo

  When she is at LXXV%, some of the gold in the Li Cadenzo vault finally melts

  Lorenza: Heh, it's begining

  Elybe: Thanks for reminding me about the problem

  Elybe makes a trick shot with their ball, smashing the melter

  Yoni: Nice job Elybe

  Lorenza: I'M SICK OF YOU PEOPLE

  Monact: Tough crowd

  Resume

  When Lorenza is at LX%

  Lorenza: I could have changed…EVERYTHING FOR THE BETTER

  Yoni: Aww you didn't get to genocide the city…you poor little baby

  Yoni punches her sister in the gut

  Dassu: Looks like that hurt

  Resume

  When Lorenza is at XL%

  Lorenza: You think they'd let me rot in prison forever

  Yoni: It's not like our family is gonna bail your sorry ass out?

  Lorenza: THEY WON'T MOURN YOU EITHER

  Yoni: Geez, escalation much, oh right, you're a big baby

  Wjenx: Well Monact, you were right about one of them being a brat

  Monact: Wrong kid but same spoiled rotten family

  Resume

  When Lorenza is at XV%

  Lorenza: I..have to win

  Wjenx: Looking unlikely

  Yoni: Lorenza…you make me feel ashamed to be related

  Lorenza: THAT'S RICH, coming from the family outcast

  Yoni: That's you now, genocider

  Lorenza: SHUT UP

  Resume

  When you win, Lorenza gets wobbly

  Lorenza: I HATE YOU

  Yoni: Sister, I'd be careful if I were you

  Lorenza tries to attack again but she slips on some of the liquid gold and falls to the bottom of the tower, where she is surrounded by police.

  Yoni: Holy

  Dassu: Who called

  A familiar voice begins to be echo throughout the tower

  Eili: Hey Yoni!!

  Yoni: Eili!!

  As Faithful Night heads down the tower, the police begin taking Lorenza into custody

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