Path to the Future/Mareeta: Sword of Stars

Mareeta: Sword of Stars - C

Mareeta	Yah! Hyah! Just like you showed me, Shannan! I won't let you down, Mother! Hah! Ah... No, can't rest yet... If I don't improve, I...
Pardon me, Mareeta. I don't mean to disrupt your concentration...		Fjorm
Mareeta	Princess Fjorm! No, it's all right. You haven't been waiting long, I hope?
Only a short while. Your training is so intense, I...could not bring myself to interrupt. But Commander Anna has called a strategy meeting, so...		Fjorm
Mareeta	Apologies. My exercises have a way of absorbing me.
No apologies necessary. I admire your focus, truly. Mastery of the sword is rare because it requires just the kind of discipline you possess.		Fjorm
Mareeta	You flatter me, but...
What is it? Is something the matter?		Fjorm
Mareeta	No, it's... It's nothing. Ngh! No... Not again... How is it so close?!
Mareeta, what is it?! Something in the forest?!		Fjorm
Mareeta	Yes. Something terrible is happening again. I can feel it...
Mareeta	It's here. I know it. There's no mistaking this wicked air. The cursed sword that once took hold of me...
...		Mareeta
Mareeta	It can't be. You're...me?!

Mareeta: Sword of Stars - B

Fjorm	Mareeta! What's happened? Are you all right?!
I'm fine. Only I came upon a...copy of myself. One that was still thrall to an evil blade. That shouldn't be possible. The sword lost its power...		Mareeta
Fjorm	Mareeta... That other version of you must have been summoned from a different world. A world in which she made different choices than you did in yours.
Not a copy, then. Nor even a fake. She is...truly me. I cannot abide this!		Mareeta
Fjorm	Mareeta! Come back!
I will not allow this to happen again. Not to anyone. That sword should not exist.		Mareeta
Mareeta	Yet here it is. Better defend yourself!
Ngh! Hyah! Hah!		Mareeta
Mareeta	Hmph... Skillful parry...
Release her. Release ME. Now!		Mareeta
Mareeta	Heh... How would you have answered that demand, when you were me? Your sword at Eyvel's throat... Drowning in power... Would you have been able to let go?
...		Mareeta
Mareeta	No. You were never the victim of a cursed sword... Only of your own desire for strength!

Mareeta: Sword of Stars - A

Mareeta	I will shatter that blade with my own hands, if I must! Rngh! Hyah!
Go on. Try...		Mareeta
Mareeta	Ugh!
All those exercises... All that training... You're not trying to get stronger. You're running away. Fleeing from the fact that you had true strength and cast it aside!		Mareeta
Mareeta	You're wrong. I'm not running... I'm being pushed. Well, guess what—I push back! Yah! Hyah!
You think you can banish your past with a swing of your sword? You spilled the blood of the ones you love most. That is the person you are. Finish what you started! Kill Eyvel! Kill them all! Reclaim your strength!		Mareeta
Mareeta	I'm stronger WITHOUT you!
Ngh! What? Impossible... The power of the sword is...		Mareeta
Mareeta	You won't ever hurt my mother! You won't ever hurt my friends! I will protect them from you!

Mareeta: Sword of Stars - S

Mareeta	Hyaaah!
Urgh! How is your sword...so strong? Why won't you die?!		Mareeta
Mareeta	True strength isn't the power to kill. It's the power to protect the ones you love. My mother and Lord Leif taught me that! HIIIYAH!
Heh... Protect the ones you love... Heheh... How quaint... But you are mistaken. Love cannot drive a blade into your foe's heart... Only hatred can do that.		Mareeta
Mareeta	That is not why I fight!
Heheh... That's a pretty thought... But you won't have a choice. Not when you face true struggle...		Mareeta
Mareeta	Stop! Come back! She disappeared... How?!
Mareeta! There you are! You're wounded! What happened?! Were you fighting your other self?		Fjorm
Mareeta	I'm all right. These cuts aren't deep. Sorry to worry you, Princess Fjorm. But some good did come of this. I now know that, along with my duties to Askr and my friends, I also have an obligation to myself.
What do you mean?		Fjorm
Mareeta	I must do for this other version of me what I could not manage for myself. I must free her from control. It cannot be a coincidence that the two of us have met here. This can only be destiny.
You know, 【Summoner】 once told me... Heroes are summoned to Askr for a reason. A purpose all their own. Perhaps you've just found yours.		Fjorm
Mareeta	Yes—and I think this other Mareeta may have found hers as well. I'd like to think that, on some level, she yearns for freedom. We'll see.
You don't need to bear this burden all on your own, you know. The people of Askr, and the other Heroes, are here for you.		Fjorm
Mareeta	Thank you. With your help, I'm certain we can save her. But to do it, I will need to hone my strength like never before. To overcome my past... To move beyond the temptation for quick and easy power... I will prove the truth of what I said to her. Strength is protecting the ones you love.

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Mareeta	Eyvel	Osian	Tanya

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