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Ask that question you don't know how to form, that you don't know who to ask.

You.....

'Why?'

(.......Such strong emotions.... FrostNova!)

Why?

Why wasn't I there? Why wasn't I stronger? Why didn't I stop it?

Ugh.... The temperature is still dropping!

Stand by me! Her cold is so overpowering, it's all I can do to keep the air around me warm!

...Why?

Why did I fall to the ground when my brothers and sisters needed me most?

They're all fools. All fools who only know how to help each other, who only want to survive, who only want a place to live.

...Why can't I even grant the wishes of a bunch of idiots?

Why is Ursus so cruel to our people, and so callous to ordinary Ursus?

Why is it that the little flame that could ignite the world has to be extinguished in this foreign land?

Why is it that in the war we waged to put a stop to evil, I wasted more lives?

*Cough*, *cough*.... Unf, *cough*, *cough*...!

Unf.... Ugh....

Why did we give up our lives, *hack*, only to have achieved a lie?

Why...? Why won't this world give me a little more time?

'The Infected should be proud of who they are, and use the simplest means to seize justice from the world'....

At first, I saw it as only a part of the Reunion ideal.

Indeed, it brought strength to the Infected. They stopped thinking of themselves as the Empire's fodder....

But now I realize that the beliefs that Talulah once taught us about, the ideas that demand grassroots support, and the goals that must be constantly reinforced and corrected, are all gone.

Only instigation. Only indulgence. We were thrown into the toughest of battles, with no input in the ranks, and it all came too soon....

If this is all Talulah's doing, then she deceived everyone from the very beginning.

She may have deceived you!;........;Things are often not as they seem.

If she would take the Infected to that darkest of futures.... To complete her most wicked plan...

Then her evil must be destroyed.

But my brothers and sisters, the countless dead Infected and uninfected....

Nothing can bring them back.

...What made her this way?

Ugh.... Ugh...!

It shouldn't be like this, it never should have been!

My people.... My brothers and sisters!

Amiya

Do you hear that, Amiya?

FrostNova..!

The cold stream is too much.... She can even condense it into a form!

It's blasting away my heat flow!

Is the cold enough to chill your body heat? Is death enough to make you squeamish?

You won't, Amiya, and you can't!

You can read minds, can't you, bunny?

Read now, then, my rage, the heart that has been stifled by bitterness and boiled in my breast for more than a decade, and yet never given up beating!

Read it, Amiya! Read it well!

How much anger is there in this heart, over dead loved ones, over the corrupt Ursus, over the Infected, over the people of Ursus, in this heart that will not stop, that will not die!

Did you ever hate her, Miss FrostNova?

...*Cough*.

Heh.

I never hated her.

Even if she was the cause of all this pain today, I have never hated her.

What does hatred bring you and me?

I have nothing but endless, seething rage for this despicable planet.

How about you?

Don't you have such anger in your heart?

Don't you have relatives who died of Oripathy? A friend who died thanks to the indifference of this world?

You haven't lost the people you depend on to survive, to give you something to live for?

Just proclaiming a certain philosophy, just taking on a certain Art, just organizing a few teams....

Will that be enough to defeat Talulah?

It's time to wake up from your fantastical dreams.

I get it, Miss FrostNova.

Everything that just flooded into my mind, I know what it is.

What's pushing Rhodes Island forward? What motivates you to keep fighting?

Dead ahead! A huge cold stream! It's about... Just about... the shape of a dagger!

If this keeps up, I'll have to surrender my back and gather the heat flow in front of me as a shield....

But her cold stream was robbing the air of its molecular vibrations. Even if I managed to form the shield, I couldn't hold it for long!

Doctor, come on, you must have some idea!

Since we can't break it, we'll just have to hold on!

That's like saying nothing!

No... The Doctor is right.

FrostNova doesn't have much life left in her. If we can hold out, we win.

What are you talking about? If we do that, she'll die!

It was her choice, and the only chance she left us!

What about your choices?

In the face of the evil that must be destroyed, in the face of the betrayer who has usurped the ideals of the Infected, what is in your heart? Why does it beat?

*Cough*, *cough*.... If you can't even defeat me, how are you going to face her? How are you going to lead the countless Infected? How are you going to fight against this malignant world!!!

FrostNova...

Thank you.

But I can't be mad at you.

You.....

Are wasting my time.

No, FrostNova... I know what I'm going to do.

I can't really read minds. And reading hearts doesn't mean I can understand someone better than people who don't have this ability.

I just can't refuse.... I can't shut out the emotions that pour out of you.

Flooding my mind with pain and worry, and....

Anger.

You're sober and calm, but the anger burns so hot that I want to pull back...

But I can't. FrostNova, I know exactly what I have to do. I will not refuse you.

Miss FrostNova, I felt it.

Why are you crying?

I....

FrostNova... You.....

No. Wipe your tears! You will not cry before your enemy.

Amiya, tell me your answer.

...Go ahead, Amiya

Dr. {@nickname}...

...Mhm.

'If we must fight, then we fight to the end.'

Doctor, we are going to fight FrostNova.

Only one side walks out of here.

Yes. You will now... fight me.