Turn 10: Slient Nanking
Nanking
Mao is sitting on a crate in the factory, laughing to himself.
Mao: Slashed, strangled and slaughtered. Beaten, stabbed and crushed. Gutted and impaled, shot and executed without mercy. Nicely said, Kaiser. I wonder if this will be more amusing than last time...
(panshot shows he is surrounded by Black Knights bodies)
Tohdoh and Chiba, who are looking for Zero both are peering around a corner. A woman in a unique uniform that consists of a buttoned sleeveless shirt, a long-sleeved jacket, and a black and red corset and skirt combination worn over a short white skirt approaches them from behind and pulls out a gun. Tohdoh turns around, also holding his katana. Both swords are pointed at each other's heads. Tohdoh looks down at her badge on her shoulder.
Tohdoh: You're Glinda Knights?
Oldrin: Who's asking?
Tohdoh puts his sword back in its holster
Tohdoh: Kyoshiro Tohdoh. Ohgi sent us.
Chiba: Captain Nagisa Chiba. I'm with him. And you are?
The girl twirls sword and shoves it into her holster.
Oldrin: My apologies. Oldrin Zevon, Head of Knight of Glinda Knights. Cornelia li Britannia has told me much about you.
Chiba: You know Cornelia?
Oldrin: Me and my late brother met her.
Tohdoh: What happened here in this city?
Oldrin: That's what I would like to know. I'm here on other business, but something's not right. It's too… quiet. I've seen no trace of Xylvania, or the squads that were sent in to fight them. Also, where are the 8,230,000 people that were supposed to be living here? Well… this is getting us nowhere. Like I said, I have business to attend to. I'll see you both around.
Oldrin starts walking off
Chiba: Business?
Oldrin: [pauses] Cornelia keeps telling me I'm wasting my time. My time searching.
Tohdoh: Searching for what?
Oldrin: For my reason to live.
Suzaku makes his way through the city. The streets are quiet, the buildings are silent, and the alleyways are like a ghost town. Eventually Suzaku stumbles on a solitary dying Black Knight Soldier sitting against a wall.
Black Knight Soldier: Ambushed... by... soldier... in white... Squad... wiped out... Warehouse... on the... edge of the city... They... were gathering... civilians... Soldier goes limp; Suzaku walks over and closes man's eyes.
Tohdoh and Chiba sees a garage saying "Zeno's Garage"
Chiba: I can't see anything through this heavy rain! We need some shelter. Kyoshiro!
Tohdoh: We need repaires.
They went inside, but the place looked deserted.
Chiba: Hello?
But no one answered. It felt liked it was dark in a old man's heart. In the office, Tohdoh looked through the files.
Then he feels a gun on the back of his neck.
Spyro: Μείνετε εκεί που είστε! (Take your hands off me!)
But Tohdoh overpowers him.
Spyro: Πάρτε τα χέρια σας μακριά από μένα! (Take your hands off me!)
Tohdoh: You speak good Greek.
Spyro: I don't see you speaking Greek, Jap!
Tohdoh releases him.
Tohdoh: What the hell happened here?
Spyro: I don't know the first half of the population to the safe place, and the second half just vanish. I don't know where my dad is he just disappeared in a puff of smoke.
Tohdoh: This is your dad's garage?
Chiba: You and your father both run this place, here in the middle of China?
Spyro: It was the best car fixer shop in the city.
Tohdoh: What happened to your father?
Spyro: We were getting ready to leave the city, my father told me to go to this warehouse at the edge of the city, but when I decide to go check on him, he was gone.
Chiba: Where this warehouse?
Spyro: At the edge of this city.
Suzaku moves on to an area with snipers, and kills them all. Eventually he spots a lone kid running away from several Xylvanian soldiers; he kills them and saves the kid.
Small Boy: Uh… thanks. The warehouse… I…I know how to get there. It's though that gate. You have the card key?
A nearbye gate is revealed, which requires a cardkey to get by.
Suzaku barely shakes his head to signal "no".
Small Boy: C'mon, I know someone who does. Follow me.
Tohdoh, Chiba, and Spyro make their ways through rain and darkness, then they saw a light in the second floor of a building.
Tohdoh: Let's see who's in there.
They walked upstairs and saw a young girl.
Chiba: You're one of the members from the Glinda Knights, right? We just ran into your leader, Oldrin.
Sokkia: How did a woman like you managed to survive?
Chiba: Hey, I'm no ordinary civy. I'm a member of the Four Holy Knights.
Sokkia: Four Holy Knights? You mean the Black Knights special force team?
A knight lying on the chairs, Tink Lockhart, moans as he clutches his arm, injured.
Tohdoh: Hey, is someone wounded back there?
Chiba walks up to Tink and kneels before him, inspecting his wounds.
Chiba: Oh, this looks bad.
Tink Lockhart(groaning in his sleep): They're coming. Get ready! (raises his arm) Aaaaaah...vile...vile! (arm drops) Stand together!
Chiba: Calm down. You're safe now. (places her hand on his arm) Everything's going to be okay.
Eventually Suzaku gets the cardkey.
Small Boy: There. That should let you through.
Suzaku: Right. Thanks kid.
Small Boy: [starts crying] Avenge… I couldn't…do…Mom and dad… right there, but I couldn't move...
[Suzaku slowly crouches in front of boy]
Small Boy: I was too scared—but, but… Please! Please, help me avenge their deaths!
Tohdoh and Chiba enters the second car, where Oldrin Zevon and Sokkia Sherpa are.
Oldrin: So Tohdoh, you decide to help us out? It looks like we're the only ones who survived. We should work together.
Sokkia: No. We can't trust them.
Oldrin: Why? But Sokkia, we need their help! Our unit's down to you, me, and Commander Lockhart. That's it! And Tink's hurt bad. If we don't cooperate, we won't be walking away from this mission.
Suzaku proceeds to the warehouse, where he's ambushed by a Heavy Armored Soldier and an array of Xylvanian soldiers, who (naturally) shout "Hail Vald!" Suzaku kills them all.
Heavy Armored Soldier: How could I...?
The soldier falls down, Suzaku walks to the door.
Outside, Mao is staring upward, standing in the rain.
Mao: You know, this is the first time I've ever felt the rain on my skin. But then again, I hadn't even seen the sky until a few days ago.
Turns to look at Suzaku.
Mao: So you're Zero. Second Chairman of the UFN Supreme Council, and leader of the Black Knights. Or used to be Suzaku?
Suzaku: Suzaku?
Mao: Yes. The Knight of the Round, the White Knight, or known as the White Grim Reaper. We know you are him. Come to our side, and no harm will come to the empress.
Suzaku stares at him. He is unamused.
Mao: Not one to bargain, are we? Then I'll make sure you suffer.
Using his super-speed, he appears behind Suzaku.
Mao: Time to die.
He unfurls his weapon and attempts to strike him; Suzaku dodges his blows; the center of his weapon is revealed to be a hidden gun; he manages to dodge the gunfire. However, he gets close enough to punch him, sending him crashing into a wall, knocking him unconscious. Then the white zero appears and sends Mao flying away. As Suzaku loses consciousness, he sees Oldrin approaching him.
A flashback, or perhaps a hallucination, but he's in Euphemia's garden. The camera pans around Euphemia, still in her crystal tomb, as we
occasionally hear her disembodied voice.
Suzaku: Euphemia.
Euphemia: [from within crystal] …Sorry…
Suzaku: ...Why?
Euphemia: ...Awake…
Suzaku: Awake?
[screen goes black]
Euphemia: I'm so sorry.
Suzaku suddenly awakes full of terror in a diner. Apparently sleeping on a table booth, he madly sits up as if he had a nightmare. Oldrin steps towards him, arms crossed. She looks suspicious of Suzaku.
Suzaku sits on the booth bench as Oldrin sits on a stool at the bar, facing Suzaku.
Suzaku: Was I dreaming?
Oldrin: How do you feel?
Suzaku: Like I've been run over by a truck, but I'm alright, I guess.
Oldrin: Glad to hear it. You from around here? Why don't you tell me what happened?
Suzaku: Where is everybody?
Oldrin: I'd tell you if I knew, believe me. But from what I can tell, something bizarre is going on. That's all I know.
Oldrin picks up the Zero mask and begins to walk around as she talks.
Oldrin: So that explains your Identity as Zero. People says that your dead.
Suzaku: Suzaku's dead. I'm Zero.
Oldrin: You're still Suzaku or Zero that you called. But still, I need your help.
Suzaku: What do you want of me?
Oldrin: We just picked up a Morse Code single that should hear.
Oldrin plays the recording:
..-. - .-. -.-. . ... / ... .- ... / .-. ..- ... ... / - ... .-. - ..- -. ... / .-.. .. -. . ... .-.-.- / .-. .-.. .- -. ... / ... .- ...- . / -... . . -. / ... . - .-.-.- / ..- .-. .-. .. ... .. -. -. / ... .- ... / -... . -. ..- -. .-.-.- / -.. . .-. .- .-. - / ..-. - .-. / ... - .-.-.- / .-. . - . .-. ... -... ..- .-. -. .-.-.- / .-. . - - ...- .- .-.. / - ..-. / .- ..- -. ..- ... - .- / ... . -. .-. -.- / ...- . .-.. .- .. -. . ... .-.-.- / .- -. -.. / -. . -. - -.-. .. -.. . / - ..-. / - ... . / .-. - - .- -. - ...- / ..-. .- - .. .-.. -.- .-.-.-
Tohdoh walks in.
Tohdoh: Zero! Have you recovered already?
A/N: In the next Turn, Hear the secret of the Morse Code, travel to the destination of Sankt Petersburg, to the horrors of the uprising.
