Chapter 5: Manor of Despair (Dirge of Cerberus)

Vincent lands in the sewer system. He makes his way forward, and it becomes clear that he's not alone... as a Sahagin jumps in front of him!

Vincent	ヴィンセント
Looks like I'm not the only one here.	変わった住人が居座ったようだ……

Vincent clears the sewers, and exits them, arriving in some storage area beneath the basement of the Shinra Manor. He gets in an elevator and, arms crossed, has a flashback to when he first met Lucrecia.

Vincent	ヴィンセント
Vincent Valentine reporting for duty, ma'am. I have been assigned your protection.	本社から、護衛のため赴任してきました。 ヴィンセント・ヴァレンタインです

Lucrecia gasps.

Lucrecia	ルクレツィア
No...	うそ……

Vincent is confused, goes "huh?"

Lucrecia	ルクレツィア
Why would they send his...	なんで……あの人の……

Vincent	ヴィンセント
Excuse me?	あの？

Lucrecia	ルクレツィア
I apologize.	！　あ、ご、ごめんなさい

Lucrecia	ルクレツィア
This is the first time I have ever met anyone from the Turks.	そ、そう、タークスなんて初めて見たもので

Lucrecia	ルクレツィア
Lucrecia Crescent.	ルクレツィアです

Lucrecia	ルクレツィア
Pleased to make your acquaintance, Mr. Valentine.	よろしくお願いします、護衛さん

Scene change. Cait Sith is traversing deep, deep under Midgar in his attempt to determine what Deepground is up to.

Cait Sith	ケット・シー
This has got to be the place.	やっぱり、ここやな……

Cait Sith evades the patrolling DG soldiers, jumping to a new area. A container from Kalm, filled with human brings, travels across a railing.

Cait Sith	ケット・シー
That's the same container I saw in Kalm!	？！ あれ、カームにあったやつちゃうか？

On to another screen; Cait Sith arrives at a large pool of green liquid. A container (still filled with people) falls from above into the greenness.

Cait Sith	ケット・シー
What!?	な！？

Cait Sith	ケット・シー
Good gracious me!	な、なんちゅうこと！

Just as the container's about to fall in, a HUGE hand reaches out, grabs the container, and drags it under.

Cait Sith	ケット・シー
What in the blazes is growing down there?	な、なんや？ 何か生まれるっちゅうんか？

????	????
Usher of souls.	命を導くもの……

Cait Sith turns around to see a being whose outfit has wings, brimming with dark energy.

????	????
My brother.	兄さんの……

The darkness dissipates from his face, revealing all but his eyes, nose and chin are bandaged.

????	????
Omega.	オメガ……

Cait Sith	ケット・シー
It's Nero the Sable. Oh dear...	漆黒の闇……ネロ……

Cait Sith gets engulfed by black energy, as we see a Moogle doll floating on the surface of the green liquid.

Back to Vincent, who's now in the basement of the Shinra Manor. He opens a door to reveal he's in the library & laboratory portion of the Shinra Manor, where Sephiroth's rage was first felt 8 years earlier. A small materia rolls on the ground and lands at his feet. He reaches down and picks it up; it shines brightly. He turns around: Lucrecia is standing there!

Vincent	ヴィンセント
Lucrecia.	ルクレツィア……

Lucrecia	ルクレツィア
Vincent, right?	ヴィンセント……だよね？

Lucrecia	ルクレツィア
Have you come to check up on me?	私のこと、調べに来たの？

She walks forward, right through him. Her hologram flickers. They both turn around to face each other again.

Lucrecia	ルクレツィア
Omega. His awakening is upon us.	そう……オメガ、 オメガが目覚めようとしているのね？

Screen fades to white; the scene changes to Lucrecia standing in the cave where she would later be interred in crystals.

Lucrecia	ルクレツィア
Soul wrought of terra corrupt, quelling impurity, purging the stream to beckon forth an ultimate fate.	星の淀み生まれし魂　汚れ除き清き流れ 終わり名を持つオメガへ導く

Lucrecia	ルクレツィア
Behold mighty Chaos, Omega's squire to the lofty heavens.	その名はカオス 星の海への導き手

Lucrecia	ルクレツィア
I came across this passage while studying the scriptures of the Ancients.	これは、古代種のものと 思しき遺跡にあった一文

Lucrecia	ルクレツィア
The Chronicles of Yore.	終末の物語……

Lucrecia	ルクレツィア
Omega. The end.	オメガ……終わりを示す名を持つそれは

She faces the crystals and stretches out her hands, and a ball of energy begins to form at them.

Lucrecia	ルクレツィア
Just as all other sentient beings, he too, is born of the Lifestream.	あたかも他の命と同じように、 ライフストリームから生まれる

Lucrecia	ルクレツィア
However, his only purpose is to cleanse the planet of all things living	ただし、星に存在する、 すべての命を使い……

Lucrecia	ルクレツィア
and lead their immortal souls through the abyssal aether to a new beginning far, far beyond the neverending sea of stars.	そして、その命のすべてを、 終わりから、始まりへと導くため、 星の海へと飛び去っていく

The ball of energy disappears.

Lucrecia	ルクレツィア
Just as life circulates through our planet,	これは、この星で命が循環するように

Lucrecia	ルクレツィア
so too, does our planet through the universe. Or at least in theory.	宇宙(そら)でも同じように循環するという、 システムのひとつなのかもしれない

We see Lucrecia amidst a sea of stars; outer space, if you will.

Lucrecia	ルクレツィア
However, what I can be certain of is, if Omega awakens, then all life as we know it will end.	分かることは、オメガが生まれれば、 この星に生きるすべての命が終わること

Lucrecia	ルクレツィア
And when Omega has embarked on his journey to the cosmos, our planet will wither and die.	オメガが飛び去った後、 ここは死の世界へと変わること

Back to the present, and the Lucrecia hologram.

Lucrecia	ルクレツィア
I will leave a copy of my records here for you, Vincent.	詳しい資料はここに残します

Lucrecia	ルクレツィア
Though I cannot imagine what help they might be, if any at all.	それで……あなたが、 これからどうするのか分からないけど……

Lucrecia	ルクレツィア
Just remember...	ただ……

Lucrecia faces the ground.

Lucrecia	ルクレツィア
I am so sorry.	ごめんなさい……

She disappears, and so does the materia in his hand.

Vincent	ヴィンセント
Lucrecia.	ルクレツィア……

He eyes a computer disc on a nearby table; he picks it up.

Gameplay continues; Vincent makes his way around the Shinra Manor, killing DG units and collecting any files on the Omega Report he can find. At one point he enters a door, falls to one knee - and it's flashback time!

Flashback: Vincent's inside the tube of liquid again, with Lucrecia looking at him; it's the exact same flashback as earlier. Scene cuts back to the present.

Vincent	ヴィンセント
This pain.	いまのは……？

Rosso	ロッソ
Well, well. We meet again.	こんなところで、会えるなんて

Rosso	ロッソ
This is perfect. I so wanted to see you, my love.	でも丁度よかったわ。 そろそろ会いにゆこうかと思ってたから

Vincent	ヴィンセント
Deepground. What are they attempting to do with Omega?	お前らは、オメガをどうするつもりだ？

Rosso	ロッソ
I don't know. And to be honest, I don't care.	さぁ？　私は、それほど興味がないから

Vincent	ヴィンセント
What?	なに？

Rosso	ロッソ
But this is what Weiss desires.	でもね、ヴァイスが欲しがってるの

Rosso	ロッソ
Hail Weiss.	ズィーガー、ヴァイス

Rosso	ロッソ
And what Weiss orders, we do. It is very simple.	ディープグラウンドの全ソルジャーは ヴァイスに賛同し、彼のために動く

Rosso	ロッソ
If he desires the awakening of Omega, then that is what all of Deepground desires.	だから、彼がオメガを求めるなら、 私たちは、すべてをかけて、彼にオメガを与える……

Rosso	ロッソ
We could care less what happens to the planet.	その結果、この世界がどうなろうとも

Rosso	ロッソ
But all this matters little to me.	ふふ……。 でも、そんなの抜きにして

Rosso	ロッソ
It is not every day you are granted the chance to cleanse the world of all life.	《人類皆殺し》なんて、 楽しいこと断るわけないわよねぇ

Rosso	ロッソ
Just the thought sends a chill of excitement through my body.	私の悲願なのよ…… 《み・な・ご・ろ・し》

Rosso	ロッソ
The Deepground soldiers were born and bred to kill.	だって私は、 人を殺すためだけに生まれてきたのだし

Rosso	ロッソ
We were chained to a destiny of servitude.	他に、何の自由もなかったのよ

Rosso	ロッソ
But then three years ago, we were freed from our chains--though waiting for us was darkness lit only by the faint glow of mako.	でも３年前、私たちは初めて自由を得たわ。 闇と魔晄しかない閉ざされた世界だったけど……

Rosso	ロッソ
And what do you think we did when we gained our freedom?	それで、自由を得た私たちが何をしたと思う？

Rosso laughs.

Rosso	ロッソ
We killed.	ふふ、《殺し合い》よ

Rosso	ロッソ
That is how we were raised. That is all we knew.	みんな、それしか知らないんですもの、 仕方ないわよねぇ

Rosso	ロッソ
And so I bathed in the blood of a thousand soldiers.	私も数千のソルジャーの血を浴びながら生き残った

Rosso	ロッソ
And I enjoyed it. I reveled in it.	でも、それは私にとっては、 徹底的に……《余裕》だったわ

Rosso	ロッソ
And when I finally stepped out of the abyss, I craved for more.	それで思ったの。 ……世界中の人間だって殺せそうだって

Rosso	ロッソ
You understand, right?	アナタにも分かるでしょ？

Vincent points his gun at her.

Vincent	ヴィンセント
I don't think so.	分かりかねるな

Rosso	ロッソ
How can you say that, darling? We're one and the same.	ふふ、よくいうわ。 所詮は《同じ》くせに

She speeds away; Vincent follows, temporarily being delayed by a robot firing explosives. He eventually reaches the entrance to the Shinra Manor, where the stairs lead to the second floor. Boss Battle vs. Black Widow (the aforementioned robot)

After the battle's conclusion, Vincent is standing around. Something is approaching fast from behind... he turns around, just as Rosso reaches him and jabs her hand directly into his chest. I mean, INTO. When she pulls it out, she's holding some uniquely-glowing materia... Vincent crouches on the ground.

Vincent	ヴィンセント
	ぐはっ

Rosso	ロッソ
I'm sorry. Were you not expecting that?	ごめんねぇ、不意討ちしちゃったわ

Vincent is on the ground, spasming. His eyes, and then his whole body, glow red. He transforms into Chaos, but is still unable to move, and transforms back into Vincent.

Vincent	ヴィンセント
	ゴボッ

Vincent	ヴィンセント
	ガッ！？

Rosso	ロッソ
	へぇ

Rosso	ロッソ
So, you cannot control the beast without this.	これがないと、まともに制御できないんだ

Rosso	ロッソ
Well, there will be no need for it when I'm done with you.	ふふ、でも、終わりにしてあげるわ

Rosso crouches down to finish off Vincent, but in runs some mysterious person with a big shuriken! The person flings the shuriken at Rosso, causing her to back away from Vincent. The shuriken spins around, and then it emits bright light, blinding Rosso... by the time the light dissipates, both the mysterious person and Vincent are gone.

Rosso	ロッソ
	くっ！

Rosso	ロッソ
Wutai flea!	ちっ！　ウータイの忍が

Rosso runs out of the manor, looking around franticly but seeing nothing. She punches the ground, flinging rocks everywhere.

Rosso	ロッソ
	はぁー！！

Rosso	ロッソ
If you manage to survive that wound, I'll make sure you don't survive the next one.	あの傷で生きながらえるなら、 次こそ、ちゃんと切り刻んであげる

Rosso	ロッソ
But no matter.	でもこれで……

She holds up the materia in her hand.

Rosso	ロッソ
The end is upon us.	終わりが始まるわ……

Flashback. Hojo is sitting at a table while Vincent talks to him. For the record, the game never actually says Hojo says these lines, but it's obviously him.

Vincent	ヴィンセント
Is it true?	本当なのか？

Lucrecia	ルクレツィア
Is what true?	何がだ？

Vincent	ヴィンセント
That Lucrecia... That Dr. Crescent is to take part in this project?	今回のプロジェクトにルクレツィア…… ルクレツィア博士をと聞いたんだが

Lucrecia	ルクレツィア
It's true.	本当よ

Lucrecia	ルクレツィア
Why are you so surprised?	それがどうかしたの？

Vincent	ヴィンセント
But using your own child for an experiment?	お腹の赤ん坊を……実験に使うなんて……

Hojo goes "Hah!"

Hojo	宝条
I don't know what you're implying, but both of us are scientists. We know what we are doing.	はっ、お前が何を言いたいのかしらんが、 彼女も私も科学者だ

Hojo	宝条
You are the last person to have any word in this. Now leave us at once, boy!	それに、これは私たちの問題だ。 部外者は口を出さんでもらおうか？

Vincent	ヴィンセント
But...	いや……

Lucrecia	ルクレツィア
But what?	何？

Vincent	ヴィンセント
	…………

Lucrecia	ルクレツィア
If you have something to say, say it.	いいたいことがあるなら ハッキリいって

Vincent	ヴィンセント
Are you...	だから…………

Vincent	ヴィンセント
Are you sure this is what you really want?	君は、君は本当に、それで……

Lucrecia	ルクレツィア
Am I sure?	なんで《君は》なのよ！

Lucrecia	ルクレツィア
Am I sure!?	私？

Lucrecia	ルクレツィア
If this only concerns me, then yes, I am sure!	私だけの問題なら あなたには関係ない！

Vincent	ヴィンセント
I just...	あっ……そう……私には……

Vincent stares at the ground, and thinks the following.

Vincent	ヴィンセント
All I did was watch.	……見てるだけだった……

Vincent	ヴィンセント
I didn't even try to stop her.	彼女を止めなかった……

Vincent	ヴィンセント
And then...	そして……

Shot of Lucrecia walking... she begins to fall over and clutches her stomach in pain, as we see images of Jenova, the Holy materia falling down, and Sephiroth walking through the flames of Nibelheim - all images directly lifted from Advent Children. Screen fades to black.

Vincent	ヴィンセント
That was my sin.	それが罪……

Vincent	ヴィンセント
And this...	だから、これは……

Vincent	ヴィンセント
this...	与えられし……

Vincent	ヴィンセント
is my punishment.	罰……

Flashback. Vincent is in the Shinra Manor laboratory, his vision is hazy. He looks at his hands, those of a Galian Beast. He lets out a blood-curdling scream.

Scene change; Vincent is dreaming about sitting in Lucrecia's Cave, as he looks at her encased in her crystal tomb.

Vincent	ヴィンセント
I...	君に……

Vincent	ヴィンセント
I saw you again.	会ったよ……

Vincent	ヴィンセント
It was the place we first met.	初めて君と、 出会った場所で……

Vincent	ヴィンセント
But you were...	そこでも君は……

Vincent	ヴィンセント
No. I'm the one to blame.	咎められるのは、 私の方だ……

Vincent	ヴィンセント
I couldn't stop you that day.	あのとき、止めることが できなかった……私の……

Vincent	ヴィンセント
I just...

Lucrecia's disembodied voice returns.

Lucrecia	ルクレツィア
I...found...	私が……みつけた……

Lucrecia	ルクレツィア
I gave...you...	私が……あなたに……

Vincent	ヴィンセント
Lucrecia?	ルクレツィア？

Lucrecia	ルクレツィア
I'm so sorry.	ごめんなさい……

Vincent wakes up, in the real world, being transported in a truck. The mysterious person is sitting in front of him.

????	????
Morning!	よ！

Vincent	ヴィンセント
Where...?	ここは？

Vincent	ヴィンセント
Who are you?	アンタは？

????	????
Well, I'm glad you asked!	よくぞ、聞いてくれました！

????	????
I am the champion of the earth and the sky.	天知る地知る人が知る

????	????
I am the conqueror of evil.	悪を倒せとアタシ呼ぶ

????	????
The single white rose of Wutai.	ウータイに咲く一輪の花……

The person throws off their outfit to reveal...

Yuffie	ユフィ
Yuffie Kisaragi!	ユフィ・キサラギ！！

She stands up on a chair.

Yuffie	ユフィ
Feast your eyes on...	ここに見ざ……

She loses her balance and falls backwards, knocking her head into the wall, then clutching it and moaning "Owwww!"

Yuffie	ユフィ
	つつっっぅ……

Vincent	ヴィンセント
So, where are we?	……で、ここは？

Yuffie	ユフィ
C'mon, aren't you at least a little concerned!?	驚けよ！　心配しろよ！

Vincent	ヴィンセント
Yuffie.	あぁ、ユフィ……久しぶりだな。 《頭》は大丈夫か？

Vincent	ヴィンセント
It's been a while.

Vincent	ヴィンセント
How's your head?

Yuffie	ユフィ
You... Could you at least pretend to be sympathetic!?	な、なんか、 スゴイむかつくんですけど！

Vincent tries to stand up, but clutches his chest. Yuffie rushes to his side.

Vincent	ヴィンセント
	うっ……

Yuffie	ユフィ
Hey, take it easy. That was a big hole you had in your chest.	あ～あぁ、まだ無理しちゃダメだよ。 胸に穴空いてたんだから

Vincent	ヴィンセント
A hole in my chest?	胸に……穴？

Yuffie	ユフィ
I seriously thought you were a goner, but then the wound healed itself right up.	アタシも、こりゃ死んだかなと思ったけど、 みるみる治ってたよ

Yuffie	ユフィ
You were always "different," but I guess that's why you're still breathing.	相変わらずっていうか、 前にも増して便利な身体してんねぇ

Vincent	ヴィンセント
Yuffie, what are you doing here?	ユフィ、お前はなぜ？

Yuffie	ユフィ
Me? I'm just helping out Reeve and his gang.	アタシ？ リーブのおっちゃんの所にキョーリョクしてんのよ

Yuffie	ユフィ
I was poking around Nibelheim	んで、ニブルヘイムをチョーサしてたら

Yuffie	ユフィ
and I found you looking all corpselike in Shinra Manor. So I saved you.	神羅屋敷で、アンタが、どてぇ～ って倒れてるから、慌てて助けたワケ

Yuffie	ユフィ
Imagine that--me, saving the great Vincent Valentine.	へへぇ～、ヴィンセントはアタシに救われたんだ、 どうだ、感謝しろ

Yuffie	ユフィ
Do I get any thanks?

Vincent	ヴィンセント
Thanks, Yuffie.	そうか……、感謝するよ。 ありがとう……

Yuffie	ユフィ
I didn't mean for you to take me so seriously.	ぬな、ななな！！ ……や、やけに素直じゃんか

Yuffie	ユフィ
Anyway...	そ、そうだ

Yuffie	ユフィ
Reeve wanted us to contact him as soon as you woke up.	それより、リーブのおっちゃんが、 目、覚めたら連絡くれって

Scene change: The screen is black.

Reeve	リーブ
Vincent has come to? Excellent.	気が付きましたか？！ よかった……

A tv screen flickers on; Reeve is standing there.

Reeve	リーブ
I have some good news. Using you-know-who,	私の方は、いつもの姿で潜入したんですが……

Reeve	リーブ
I was able to infiltrate Midgar.	見事に殺されてしまいましたよ

Reeve	リーブ
However,	そこで……

Reeve	リーブ
what I saw wasn't the prettiest of pictures.	最悪のものを見てきました……

Reeve	リーブ
Omega... I should have known.	なるほど……。 オメガ………………

Reeve	リーブ
We cannot let them sacrifice the lives of any more people. Once we've gathered our forces, we'll launch a full offensive.	なんにせよ、これ以上の犠牲を 出すわけにはいきません。 足並みが揃い次第、始めましょう

Reeve	リーブ
Of course, we'll require the help of you two as well. Please hurry back to headquarters.	もちろん、おふたかたにも、ご協力願いますので、 お早く、こちらにお戻りください

Reeve	リーブ
Oh. I'm analyzing the data files you sent earlier. I should have results soon.	あ、先ほどの転送いただいたディスクは、 こちらで解析を始めます

Reeve	リーブ
Tuesti out.	それでは

The transmission ends; Yuffie is sitting at the monitor.

Yuffie	ユフィ
There you have it. I don't know what's going down, but it sounds big.	だって。まぁ、よく分かんないけど、 とにかく、アイツらぶっ飛ばすってことだよね

Yuffie	ユフィ
I've been waiting a long time to get my hands on those Deepground punks.	アタシもアイツらには

Yuffie	ユフィ
They've had their way long enough.	もう、はらわた煮えくりかえってたし……

Yuffie
Now it's time to give them a taste of Pain a la Yuffie.

Yuffie rambles on about how many of them she could take on, while Vincent just lies down.

Scene change. Shelke is inside a tube of water in WRO headquarters.

Shelke	シェルク
Where am I?	（ここは？）

She somehow manages to deactivate it and step out. She sees Shalua slouched over her computer terminal, sleeping. Elsewhere, we see a pair of WRO soldiers standing watch outside a room, where a still-unconscious Azul is lying down on a table of some sort. His eyes open up.

Back to Shelke; she picks up her weapon, waking Shalua up.

Shalua	シャルア
	ん？

Shalua	シャルア
Shelke! How are you feeling?	シェルク！ 身体は大丈夫か？

Shelke looks at her and sighs.

Shelke	シェルク
You were a fool to let your enemy live. Now I'm going to kill you and return to Deepground.	敵を助けるなど愚かです。私はアナタを殺し、 ディープグラウンドへ戻ります

Shalua	シャルア
I don't think so.	嫌だね

Shalua	シャルア
I have to admit, I wasn't myself back there.	さっきは結構不意打ちっぽかったし

Shalua	シャルア
Seeing you for the first time in ten years left me in a spin.	いろんな気持ちがゴチャゴチャになって、 かなり私らしくなかったが……

Shalua	シャルア
But I've had time to recover.	今は落ち着いた

Shalua	シャルア
And I'm not letting you get away.	だからハッキリいうぞ

Shalua	シャルア
Not this time.	い・や・だ

Shalua	シャルア
There's no way I'm going to let you kill me, and there's no way I'm going to let you go back to Deepground.	私はシェルクに殺されたくないし、 シェルクをやつらのところには帰す気もない

Shelke	シェルク
I don't recall needing your permission to do anything.	何も、アナタに許可を取る必要はありません

Shalua	シャルア
And I don't remember you ever being able to win any of our fights, do you?	私もね、だてに戦い続けてはいない

Shalua	シャルア
How about it? You want to try your luck?	そうだな、 １０年ぶりの姉妹喧嘩といくか？

We see a WRO soldier keeping watch outside Azul's room. He thinks he hears a noise, and goes closer to it... only to be blasted backwards, along with the door, as a giant beast's foot steps out. Elsewhere, a DG soldier snipes two WRO members. Another sniper snipes two more. A soldier breaks though the glass ceiling, sniping two more members. The complex is utterly overrun with DG soldiers, killing everything in sight.

Reeve	リーブ
Understood. You may begin mobilization.	はい、それでは、お願いします

WRO Member	WRO隊員
Commissioner!	きょ、局長！

Reeve	リーブ
Officer!	どうしました！？

We hear a garbled scream in the background of the transmission.

WRO Member	WRO隊員
Security Unit Beta! Sir, soldiers have... Holy...	こちら、第２警備隊！ ソルジャーが……！

WRO Member	WRO隊員
Commissioner!	リーブ局長！！

Reeve	リーブ
Deepground!?	ディープグラウンド？！

Reeve turns around and sees a Heavy Armor unit blasting a missile at him. The screen fades to white.

Back to Shalua and Shelke; as they're about to throw down, "Emergency" begins blaring throughout the complex.

Shalua	シャルア
They're back!? But why?	やつら、また？！

Shelke	シェルク
They were waiting for Azul.	アスールが動きだすのを 待っていたのでしょう

Shalua	シャルア
Azul?	なに？

Shelke	シェルク
His death was merely a prologue to the true terror.	あの男は、 一度、死んでからが始まりなのです

Scene change to Yuffie and Vincent, still sitting in the rear of the truck.

WRO Member	WRO隊員
We'll be arriving shortly.	もうじき本部です

WRO Member	WRO隊員
What the hell?	え？　な！？

The truck shakes; Yuffie falls down, rolls around and knocks her head on the wall (again), this time falling unconscious. Vincent jumps out of the truck.