Chapter 252

Boothill: "You only just figured that out?"

Boothill: "The Company is nothing more than a cancerous organization that hides behind the banner of Preservation to rake in dirty money!"

Boothill: "To the Company, only things of value, things that can generate profit, are goddamn worthy of their so-called Preservation!"

Furina: "So... the Company deceived the Eivakins?"

Furina: "They never lifted a finger at all!"

Welt: "It seems the Company was merely using the Eivakins..."

Paimon: "What on earth is going on here?"

Paimon: "Paimon's still a bit dizzy right now."

Paimon: "Didn't the Company say they would help the Eivakins?"

Paimon: "Why would they go back on their word?"

Paimon: "And, if the Katicans are this evil, why has the Company kept letting them get away with it?"

Dr. Ratio: "The truth is actually quite simple."

Dr. Ratio: "Although the Katicans repeatedly launched rebellions and disrupted the Company's operations,"

Dr. Ratio: "out of humanitarianism, the Company could not strike at them directly!"

Dr. Ratio: "Therefore, that bastard Osvaldo found a pretext, using the conflict between the Eivakins and the Katicans to give the Company a justifiable reason to act."

Dr. Ratio: "So, from the very beginning, the Eivakins were nothing more than a pawn in his hand."

Dr. Ratio: "Once that pawn was broken by the Katicans, he naturally had a perfectly legitimate reason to wipe out the Katicans!"

Furina: "Then isn't this Osvaldo just way too evil?"

Furina: "That's an entire Eivakin clan!"

Furina: "He sold them off without batting an eye?"

Aventurine: "To Osvaldo, nothing else matters as much as profit."

Aventurine: "As long as profit can be achieved, no amount of sacrifice is worth his notice."

Aventurine: "But I bet he'll pay a terrible price one day!"

Dr. Ratio: "Within the Company, not everyone actually puts profit above all else."

Dr. Ratio: "But under Osvaldo's leadership, the Market Development Department sees nothing but profit."

Dr. Ratio: "They only care about results, so they stop at nothing in their methods, with no shred of human decency."

Dr. Ratio: "Oh, as a side note, the Penacony reclamation operation almost fell into Osvaldo's hands as well."

Dr. Ratio: "Just imagine."

Dr. Ratio: "If the Market Development Department had really stuck its fingers into Penacony, it's likely not a single person in this dream would be left."

Hu Tao: "Not... a single one left?!"

Hu Tao: "That ruthless?!"

Diluc: "Hardly a surprise."

Diluc: "That spokesperson from the Market Development Department said in the news that the wounded Eivakins had already been rescued by them."

Diluc: "But... why is Aventurine the only one left now?"

Diluc: "And if they truly had any conscience left, they wouldn't have sold off the sole survivor, Aventurine, as a slave."

Diluc: "They have to squeeze out even the last pittance of profit..."

Diluc: "Heh, they've long since lost every last shred of decency, and don't deserve to be called human!"

Himeko: "Looking at it this way, the Company's final statement really is a kind of irony."

March 7th: "Pulling off something like this, and they still have the nerve to mention Preservation?"

March 7th: "I think if Qlipoth found out about this, he'd probably be so furious he'd smash the Market Development Department to bits with one hammer strike!"

Brother Dan Heng: "This Osvaldo was never a believer of Preservation to begin with."

Brother Dan Heng: "On the contrary, his former self was actually a Nameless!"

Stelle: "Pah, how does a piece of scum like him deserve to be called a Nameless!"

Stelle: "No need to say more, I've got a feeling!"

Stelle: "Our Astral Express crew will definitely run into this trash someday!"

Stelle: "When that time comes, watch me smash his dog head in with my bat!"

Stelle: "Oh, no!"

Stelle: "I'll just stab him to death with my Preservation-symbolizing flame spear!"

Boothill: "Then you'd better hurry up."

Boothill: "Otherwise, one of these days this little treasure of mine might just get shot dead by me!!"

Xiangling: "Sigh... Kakavasha is so pitiful."

Xiangling: "Kakavasha's sister is also so heartbreaking..."

Xiangling: "They only wanted to live their lives in peace!"

Xiangling: "But why are there always bad people bullying them!"

Sunday: "This is the strong exploiting the weak."

Sunday: "In this tragedy, the Eivakins are weak, the Katicans are also weak—only the Company can be considered truly strong."

Sunday: "The Katicans lack the power to stand against the Company, so they swing their blades at those even weaker!"

Sunday: "Sigh... this is the eternal, unchanging undertone of the universe."

Sunday: "If this isn't changed, tragedies will only keep playing out."

Amber: "Then, how do we change all of this?"

Robin: "Use the strong to aid the weak!"

Robin: "Only this way will we have a chance to change all of this!"

Herta: "The Path of Harmony's philosophy, right?"

Herta: "But pardon my bluntness — this is nothing more than a drop in the bucket."

Robin: "Even if it's just a drop in the bucket, we still have a reason we must do it!"

Stelle: "Well said!"

Stelle: "No matter what, this evil of bullying the weak must be punished!"

Stelle: "Otherwise it will only embolden the arrogance of the perpetrators!"

Collei: "But... even if the weak want to resist, it's useless, isn't it..."

Brother Dan Heng: "That's why this requires strong ones stronger than the perpetrators, to uphold justice for the weak."

Brother Dan Heng: "The Galaxy Rangers are precisely such an organization."

Brother Dan Heng: "And they are, without a doubt, all great!"

Boothill: "Hey, Brother Dan Heng, hearing you talk about us Galaxy Rangers like this, I swear to goodness I feel everything I've done was worth it!"

Boothill: "If the scales of fairness in this world only tip toward the strong, then let us Galaxy Rangers add a little weight for the weak!"

Boothill: "Maybe it's a trivial little thing, but damn it if it doesn't work!!"

Shadow: "Mm... if it works, then that's enough."

Nahida: "Yeah, that's enough..."

The video continues.

【Kakavasha?】

【...】

【... Goodbye.】

Dr. Ratio awakens from his memories,

opens his eyes once more,

and Kakavasha's figure

has already vanished along with the power of the Path of Harmony.

From this point on, Dr. Ratio is no longer affected by anything.

【Alright — the actors are in position, the show is about to begin.】

【This performance is dedicated to you; may it leave you with an unforgettable memory........】

【... Kakavasha.】

Dr. Ratio gazes at the curtain,