Pre Mission
- Finn
- ...Shiori, were you following me yesterday?
- Shiori
- But when I saw you giving food to the
hungry... I just couldn't do it.
- Finn
- Shiori...
- Shiori
- I heard you talking with the rebel leader.
About destroying our weapons.
- Shiori
- Please, Finn. You can't do what she's
asking you to do!
- Shiori
- The Vanguard can be... horribly cruel.
That I'll admit.
- Shiori
- But those weapons are our only defense
against the undead!
- Shiori
- Destroying the caches won't free the city.
It'll just leave our troops unarmed!
- Shiori
- And if a single undead slips past them,
everyone in Last Bastion will die.
- Shiori
- That can't be what the rebels want.
- Finn
- ...I...
- Shiori
- Yeah. I thought you were acting weird
at dinner.
- Finn
- I'm sorry. I can't tell you what I'm going to
do. I have no idea what's right either way.
- Shiori
- ...I see.
- Shiori
- I understand. Just... think very carefully
before you decide. Okay?
- Finn
- ...
- Finn
- Oh, right. I wanted to ask you something.
- Finn
- What was that "island" Ludmilla
mentioned?
- Shiori
- Oh... that. I guess you wouldn't know,
since you're not from around here.
- Shiori
- Look out past the shore. You can see the
faint shape of an island, right?
- Finn
- Out on the lake?
Oh, yeah! There it is!
- Shiori
- That's where we send all our ill and mortally
wounded. Outcast Isle.
- Finn
- I had no idea. I thought I managed to
sneak out unnoticed...
- Shiori
- We call it that because no one who goes
there ever returns.
- Finn
- Why? Don't most people have friends or
family who'll take care of them in the city?
- Shiori
- Yes, but... listen. The undead goddess can
raise any corpse with her black rain.
- Shiori
- Even if we burned our dead, their ashes
would become her soldiers eventually.
- Shiori
- She would force our loved ones to march
against us, bound to her will forever.
- Finn
- But—if burning the dead doesn't work,
can't you just bury them?
- Shiori
- No. The black rain soaks deep into the earth.
It'll reach anything that's buried, in time.
- Shiori
- The only way we can protect our loved ones
is to bury them at sea.
- Finn
- So...you send your sick to a place surrounded
by water...so they can die more conveniently?!
- Shiori
- I—yes. That's exactly what we do.
But it's not without reason!
- Shiori
- Well, I come from a family of noble
bodyguards.
- Shiori
- A single unexpected undead could bring
down the city. You have to understand...
- Finn
- Understand? Shiori, think about what
you're saying! There has to be another way!
- Shiori
- There isn't! Not when the undead can
multiply like they do!
- Shiori
- If a single one of their soldiers touches a
corpse, Orcanix's fire will turn them too.
- Finn
- (Oh... so that's what the other Rizette used
to raise our fallen soldiers.)
- Shiori
- One undead turns into two. Which turns into
a dozen. Which turns into a hundred.
- Shiori
- They wouldn't need to breach the wall. They
could grow an army right inside the city.
- Finn
- That's what happened in Hymelia. Their
army grew and grew. We couldn't stop them...
- Shiori
- Hymelia. That's the kingdom that fell to
the undead in your world, isn't it?
- Shiori
- Countless countries here crumbled the
same way. My homeland was one of them.
- Shiori
- It's only natural I can sense when
someone's up to something.
- Shiori
- That's why we need Outcast Isle. We despise
it. But without it, we would die.
- Finn
- You... you might be right. I'm sorry.
- Finn
- (I thought the rules of this world were
senseless and cruel...)
- Finn
- (But after hearing the whole story, I can
see how little choice they have.)
- Finn
- (Astrid... she's the one trying to bring down
the Vanguard.)
- Finn
- (How does she feel about this? Does she
see a solution here we don't?)
- Finn
- Ah, that explains a lot.
- Shiori
- Most of my family still fell to the undead,
though... so we're not perfect.
- Finn
- ...
- Shiori
- To be honest, I probably could've stopped
you yesterday. Maybe I should have.