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Oh, but I can try.

It ought to be a lullaby, yes? I don't remember who taught it to me... I've forgotten.

It's just, someone in my dreams was humming it.

Go to sleep, go to sleep♪

Hedgehog dolls and little bears...

The Ursus, Infected, where will, they go?

How many stars... does the dark night, hide?

...Captain, Captain!

Final order.

Captain...

Fight on. Live on.

Only you, walk... your own path.

To have a path, you must walk.

I will die. But I do not know, if I should die, now.

What is it, my death, can change?

Maybe you, can tell me, the answer.

Sink into the still dark...

Brothers, sisters, young, and old. Dreams, oh dreams, envelop their bodies...♪

Missy? What are you bawling about...?

I'm not bawling!

Fine, fine. But you're right in front of the door to L.G.D. Headquarters.

Probably don't want other people seeing you cry, huh?

N... Nobody's here anyway!

How about this? I'll sit on the steps in front of you.

I'm big enough. Nobody'll see you cry if I'm in the way.

What are you doing...?

Oh. Well, we screwed up, so we feel lousy, right?

I mean both of us, Missy. We both blew it, didn't we?

What do I care...? I don't care where she went!

Um, right. I know.

Hey, no hitting. You're going to hit me no matter what I say, huh?

Finally...

My... life... can end.

Helen... Grrovae'zeeal... Yelena...

It's you...

I'm finally... going home...

No.

—No.

No.

Hallucination.

How... I, don't need visions, don't need, consolation!

Who...?

Who shows me... hallucinations?!

Oh... How...? How did Mr. Patriot... break free?

Now, I see.

—You. Cautus. It's you.

You, are her... successor.

Theresis, lied. The King... had a... successor.

You are... the Lord of Fiends.

Ah...!

To die, at the hands, of... the King of Sarkaz.

I... how?

In the end, I could not, escape fate.

No. No...

No.

Amiya?! You can't...?!

S-Sorry! B-But Dr. Kal'tsit...

I heard, in the past, Lords of Sarkaz, gave visions of comfort, as favors.

Their champions, could see great walls, or loves long passed—

Countless soldiers, for these visions, fought ceaselessly.

I just, I only... Mr. Patriot, I didn't mean to... I didn't want...

...The end of your life... it shouldn't be so tragic!

I saw it... I saw your two hundred years of life...

The constant fighting... and so much loss... you lost everything...

I don't... I don't want that... to be your end!

My, end?

...No

I wanted to give you... a better...

No!

My end, is not, someone else's, to give!

A vision? No! That is not my end!

If it is tragic, then it is tragic. If foolish, then foolish!

This is, my end. The end... I deserve.

I lived. I fought. I failed.

It's, enough.

Why? Why...? Why is it enough?

No one should have to lose everything like this!

...You are still, a child.

I'm not a child! I've been in more battles than I can count!

...A good ending, is never earned. Only children, believe in, happily ever after.

You, and my daughter, are only children, who believe in, fairy tales.

I told FrostNova, too heavy... too heavy.

I disagreed, with her. She was... a young girl. Only a child.

Oripathy, slavers, our world... won't even spare, a child.

Talulah, sent her, to die.

Then why not join us and fight Talulah tog—

What can you, give me?

You cannot, even give, what Talulah, once gave me.

Later, what will you, become?

This is fate. I tasted, too much.

I will never, bow to fate.

Even if, every time, fate brings me, to the same... end...

I would rather, wrestle it, until again, the sun rises.

But... Maybe, you can change.

I fought fate, so many years... in the end, I could not win.

But you... Maybe you're, different...

Do you have, what it takes, to succeed the King?

Oh...

Do you have, the power, to leave, alive?

Do you have, the courage, and insight, to step into, the infinite, wilderness?