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Huh? Threat-en? I don't know what that word means. You didn't teach me yet.

*Sigh*, you told me my brother learned everything really fast. But I can only go step by step... Where's my brother now?

Huh?! Why are you hugging me all of a sudden? You'll freeze!

...Are you crying? I felt something drip on my shoulder...

No? Everyone says you don't have blood or tears. Does that mean you don't cry?

But you're definitely crying, Daddy...

...I don't know what I was saying! I'm sorry! Daddy, are you crying because you're freezing and it hurts?

Daddy! Daddy! I won't say things like that anymore! And, and when I grow up... I'll make a medicine for you so you won't get frozen!

Then you won't cry anymore, right? I'm gonna grow up really fast!

Family?

Oh, you mean my brothers and sisters, and me, and you, we're all a family? Even my brother who isn't here?

Um... then, Daddy, you're everyone's daddy!

Then I'll learn from you, and avenge grandma! I'll kill all the bad people who bully us!

I can't say that?

Why?! You kill the bad guys every day, Daddy!

...What do you mean you don't want me to become like you? Aren't you a good guy?

How can my daddy be a bad guy?! That doesn't make any sense! Tell me! How are you a bad guy?!

I hate you, Daddy!

If I can't be like you, can I go to the city?

Um... Daddy... Can we really go to the city?

The candy fingers you were talking about... are they really good?

So I can't eat it if I'm like you...? Oh...!

I don't get it.

Daddy...?

I guess, it doesn't matter, I could be a good guy or a bad guy.

As long as I can be with you, Daddy, and my brothers and sisters... forever.

You're my family, I know. My closest family.

Obviously, the second is... the third is...

Yelena... Yelena... My daughter.

My daughter... Father, couldn't, do anything, for you.

I couldn't, do anything.

I owe you, too much.

Too much.

Too much, too much...

Cautus girl. You are, Rhodes Island's leader.

What is special, about you?

One of your people, told me of you.

Your warriors, are excellent. But only excellent, they still die.

Where is it? Show me, your worth.

You want to stop, the core city. But you can't, defeat me?

Don't touch Amiya!

One, two, three... four!

Shield, shattered.

Spear, snapped.

The huge monster doesn't even flinch. He keeps hulking forward.

Heh.

You can, pierce my armor. This suit, is finally, at its limit.

...You won't get away...!

Feline, you are strong. A threat, to me.

Wait, Mr. Patriot.

Only ten, more steps. No need to wait.

You're at your limit, I know.

Because you're not a caster like Miss FrostNova...

This is enough already.

I've seen everything... in these Arts. Everything of you.

...It's enough, Mr. Patriot.

It's enough.

What... is... this?

This strike, it's precise.

I can't, move, anymore.

...His wounds are finally catching up to him.

Buldrokkas'tee...

(I planned, to destroy you, then the guerrillas, in your name, kill Talulah.

(No need, now. You won, the right, to kill, Talulah.)

(Mr... Patriot?)

(How could I, let the Infected, be enslaved, exploited?)

(My life, take it. Use it. It's your prize, as the victors.)

You, won.

Dame. Please. Take this.

—What is it?

The key, to stop, Chernobog.

If you go, to the bridge... you need it.

Mr. Patriot, you... just to...

Oh...

No.

I did, intend, to kill you.

But now, you defeated me. You earned it.

Why did you take it this far?

Because I don't trust you.

I only trust, war.

My daughter, was naive. She was soft, she assumed, an outcome.

I don't. I wait for results.

And this... is the best... result.

My men, surprised, did not use, their strength. They live.

Only I, alone... will die. A worthy death.

...What happened?!

Closure, I need the schematics to Bioprocessing Unit Thirteen!

Cabin temperature is increasing rapidly! It's an energy leak!

Wait, it's changing shape! Why is it progressing like this after fourteen hours?

PRTS, who was in this cabin last?

Dr. {@nickname}? Did we lose someone in the battle for Lungmen? Who's being processed?

What?

Wait, slow down. Who did you say Dr. {@nickname} put in there?

Dame!

I'm listening, Buldrokkas'tee.

The Wendigos, exiled ourselves, lost everything.

But we carry, Sarkaz traditions.

Ancestors, molded me, nurtured me, watched over me. Now, bear witness.

Buldrokkas'tee...

...I don't know if I'm qualified.