The scenario for .hack//G.U. TRILOGY was assembled with very different content during the development. The truth span within Ovan’s words. The name of the report is “Ovan’s Report”.
“I bring with me the recompense I will give to each according to his deeds”.
The mark is the name of the Beast or its number.
Here, the wisdom is needed. A wise person must solve the number of the beast.
What is the number?
– Harald’s Room –
The sound of an easy chair cracking echoes monotonously.
A single footstep arises to disturb the sound.
Ovan looks up from the open book in his hand and speaks to the girl (Aina) sitting in the easy chair.
Ovan:
Don’t you think it’s funny, Aina?
Aina doesn’t answer.
Ovan doesn’t care, he just continues.
Ovan:
Since the ancient times, people have desired an eternal prosperity, but it always comes at a price. No, to be more precise, it is the price that brings prosperity.
The Pure Land, which cannot be obtained without paying a price, and the Noble Land, which can be obtained without paying a price.
I chose to pay the price even though I knew it was different from true happiness.
And “he” walks onto the same path as me. Believing in the purified land that is beyond the price of promised.
Aina, today I’m going to tell you a story about “him”.
Yes, the foolish devout boy…
– Wilderness –
Haseo face on the cliff (lower half). Haseo’s story began as he smirked…
– Wilderness –
Haseo in the 3rd form appears before PKs under the cliff. They kick away with an overwhelming force.
Haseo:
Have you ever heard of “Tri-Edge”?
– Mac Anu –
A black PC (Haseo) walks through the bustling streets, people passing by and talking to each other.
He meets Atoli and Sakaki
Suddenly, a short message arrives.
– Hulle Grantz Cathedral (Outside) –
Haseo appears in the Chaos Gate
He looks up at the cathedral with a vicious expression on his face and slowly walks away. On the way there, we see a brief recall of memories between Ovan and Haseo.
Ovan: Do you want to know about Tri-Edge?
If my information was correct, he will be back today…
At the scene of the crime.
Haseo: Tri-Edge… is coming here!
– Hulle Grantz Cathedral (Inside)
Haseo opens the door and enters.
Gazing at the altar, he reminisces about Shino.
Haseo just snapped into reality at the sound of “A in C major”.
Right in front of him, Tri-Edge appears in a Blue Flame. He stares at them in horror, roars, and charges at them!
His twin sword attack does not affect him at all!
Haseo takes out his great sword and charges. His attacks also have no effect, he is blown away easily. Haseo tries to get up, but the data drain from Tri-Edge penetrates him.
– Flash Video-
Haseo comes back down to level 1, grits his teeth, and craves power with an expression like an ogre/ Kuhn’s first appearance, turns around and winks/ Bo comes to the Mac Anu guild store to buy/ Saku in Lumina Clothes/ In the serpent of lore, Yata comes down from above/ Pi’s first appearance, from a standing position/ Alkaid in the arena match, “You’re outmatched!” it’s not the same thing/ Haseo’s first possession of Skeith/ Endrance’s possession of Macha/ VS Endrance (against Macha).
Ovan:
It was a gamble
A risky bet that could lose him. You can only bet once, and there’s no guarantee of winning. But I took the gamble and won.
From now on, Haseo followed the path that I prepared for him.
Encounters with wise men, rivalries, and cooperation with the Epitaph users. The path that he thought was right was the very one I had laid out for him.
The wise man, the inscribers, the former emperor’s palace, and the players in general.
Funny how faithfuland comically blind they were.
The more I chose, the more I went on, the more righteous, the more mad, the more they danced at my will.
and one more. A poor little girl, so narcissistic that she could not forgive others.
She, too, was my dancer, funny, and faithful.
– On the Terrace after the Hy Brasail Arena Crowning Ceremony –
Atoli, alone and pensive with a melancholy expression.
A voice reminisces over Atoli, who is pensive.
– Field of Grass (recollection scene) –
Atoli, step out in front of Haseo.
She looks up at the world spread out in front of her, as if to say, “Like this”.
Atoli smiles at Haseo and says, “Like this”.
Haseo snaps at Atoli, who smiles at him.
Haseo looks for the object of his anger.
He slashes at a nearby pillar and screams.
He gets angry at Atoli, who is shrugging, and chases him away.
Haseo chases after Atoli, who shudders.
Atoli slumps his shoulders and leaves.
——
Atoli is lost in thought when a voice calls out to him.
Ovan slowly puts his mouth close to Atoli’s ear and says something.
– The Serpent of Lore –
Haseo is in front of Yata
Began to transfer monitors from Mac Anu to somewhere else.
They found Atoli and all the monitors were in sandstorms afterward.
– Coin Locker Area – Atoli –
Atoli desperately tries to open the locker door.
Haseo, who has been transported to the locker, finds Atoli and calls out to him.
Atoli turns around, startled by the sudden voice.
The place becomes quiet with a cry of denial.
Atoli is at a loss for words.
Then suddenly, the sound of “A in C Major” echoes through the room, surprising everyone.
A ripple is created in the space, and Tri-Edge appears.
Haseo clenches his fists and takes a stance.
Haseo and the others rush forward, shouting. The Tri-Edge swings his swords.
The ground shatters, and Haseo and the others fall into the possessed space.
Tri-Edge reveals his true power and transforms into the Azure Flame God.
– The battle against Azure Flame God –
Skeith rushes forward.
The two men are in clashes again and again, yelling and yelling. Both men are in a last-ditch of a sword fight.
Tri-Edge in silence… Haseo clenches his teeth.
The battle gets even more intense.
The Azure Flame God catches Skeith by surprise and slams him into the blue-flaming planet.
Skeith is heavily in damage. Sparks are all over the place and unable to move. Meanwhile, Azure Flame God shifted to data drain mode. The data drain charge increases to critical. Flashes of Shino’s recollections (Her philosophy of action and her returning to the roots), and the memory of his first fight against Tri-Edge and defeat. Haseo awakens!
The Drain Drain began to burst and then exploded! Skeith, covered in a red aura, comes flying out of the smoke of the explosion. Skeith strikes a blow toward Azure Flame Gods at tremendous speed!
The blow pierced through the Azure Flame Gods’s body! “PROTECTION BREAK” Skeith went straight into the Data Drain mode and delivered the coup de grace.
The Azure Flame Gods start collapsing.
—
The group returned to the Locker Room again.
Tri-Edge stood at them with cracks running through his body.
Tri-Edge shatters without a word.
A sickening sound, like an old metal door opening, echoes through the room. The groups turn around, caught by that sound.
The locker door silently and with a nasty sound, began to open.
Among them, only Atoli responds to something.
“Something,” asks her from behind that door, and she wanders up to it as if attracted by that “Something”. Haseo and Atoli began to feel something strange happen behind that door as she approached it. Atoli comes back to her senses.
And then AIDA pierced her with tentacles.
—
Ovan:
Cathedral Reenactments (Replay).
However, “he” would get bored with the same script. Therefore, the ending was slightly rewritten.
Of course, I want the best wishes for me and “him” on our path.
This has been a very long story.
I guess, that’s all for today.
Ovan suddenly looks up as if someone called him.
Oh?
Looks like I need to see Haseo again. I’ll be gone for a while again, Aina.
Well, let me clarify one last thing. Why was it necessary to data drain Haseo?
Of course, it was an essential process.
Once upon a time, there was a cowardly programmer.
He feared the power of the Epitaph and refused to awaken its power.
Then, he came up with an idea to chain and seal the Epitaph. He tightly bound the Epitaph with many layers of chains and set it so that it could be only broken under certain conditions.
The conditions are:
“The Crisis of the Epitaph User”
Yes, it’s a crisis. That’s why I led Haseo to the Cathedral. To awaken the Reaper’s inside of him.
I looked behind me and said,
Okay, it’s time for me to go.
I’m going to miss you for a little while. Can you bear it, Aina? Don’t worry.
Just as he and I are strongly bound by our mirror image, so are you and I. Thought what connects us is my inextinguishable sin, you see.
Well, I’m off. See you later.
Ovan walks away.
After he is transported and gone, only the original and monotonous creak of the armchair continues to echo.
“Der Mond Zeight Mir Meine Eigne Gestalt”
The Moon Shows Me My Own Shape.
– Harald’s Room –
The sound of an easy chair creaking echoes monotonously.
A single footstep disturbs the sound.
Ovan looks up from the open book in his hand and speaks to the girl (Aina) sitting in the easy chair.
Ovan:
Atoli barely survives.
But the players’ consciousness is trapped in the server built by the evolution of AIDA, which was taken from her Epitaph.
…. AIDA.
– Operation Folders -.
Pi executes the transfer command.
The PCs are transferred one after another. The Gatekeeper appears just as it begins to transfer.
Haseo is in a dire situation! A mysterious duo appears and takes down the gatekeepers.
Coffins of Azure Kite appears behind the duo.
And then Haseo is transferred.
– Flash Video-
Alkaid asks Haseo (2nd Form) for help/ Haseo, Atoli, and Alkaid enter the Arena Tournament/ Doing Job Extension to 3rd Form (Haseo extension job after 1st round of the tournament)/ Alkaid disappears, Haseo (3rd Form) “No… please don’t go… Alkaid…!!” Alkaid “Don’t cry, you’re boy, right…”/ Sakubo (Saku) becomes possessed/ AIDA invading Bordeaux’s arms becomes AIDA tentacles are severed in two. Endrance appears.
Ovan:
After escaping the AIDA servers, Haseo, not surprisingly, became more engaged with AIDA.
Epitaph calls AIDA, and AIDA calls epitaph…
At last, Haseo ascended to the throne of the palace. But, unbeknownst to him, a conspiracy was steadily progressing…
– Moon Tree: Throne Room –
Sakaki and Atoli stand in the throne room, floating in space.
Haseo looks up at them and shouts. Atoli is possessed. Haseo also becomes possessed. Skeith drained the data.
Innis disappears. When the space became normal, Sakaki’s face turned to disgust as he returned to magnify instead of the Moon Tree area, and he rushed away in a panic.
Ovan:
Sakaki’s attempt to use AIDA and his desire for power was crushed by Haseo and his team.
And finally, the time for the trial has come…
The coffin cracks open, and Azure Kite is resurrected.
– On the top floor of the Corridor Dungeon –
When the door opens and the three Azure Knights enter, Ovan stands in front of them. Ovan removes the commandment from his arm and exposes his AIDA arm.
Sakaki slips through a crack in the back of the small magnified room and crashes down with a pitiful cry.
When Haseo turns around, Ovan is standing there.
Haseo looks a bit doubtful.
Ovan releases and throws down his right arm (Azure Kite’s arm) at Haseo’s feet.
At that moment, there was a thumping sound, and Ovan’s body distorted. Ovan’s body begins to glow. The sealing lock on his left arm comes off and his AIDA arm is exposed.
Three arms flutter with a flash of light.
Haseo closed his eyes involuntarily, but when he opened them, he saw the Tri-Edge’s scars carved into the floor surrounding him.
Skeith vs Corbenik. A fierce battle of the spirits.
Finally after the data drain. Ovan disappears. Haseo stares at him with a blank expression.
– Hulle Grantz Cathedral, In front of the altar –
Haseo and Atoli are in front of the altar.
Atoli’s expression hardens as he calls out to her worriedly.
When Haseo noticed this and turned around, Ovan was standing there. Ovan puts his hand on Haseo’s shoulder.
Ovan:
Become stronger, Haseo…!
Strong enoughto destroy me!!
– Harald’s Room –
Haseo teleported to Harald’s room.
When Haseo and Ovan’s gazes intertwine, a shock runs through Ovan’s consciousness, and as he flashes back, the scene from when he met Haseo and the day during in Twilight Brigade flows by like running lights.
Ovan fires with his bayonet repeatedly, while parrying Haseo’s attack with sickle.
Ovan:
Taihaku’s sword…
Sakaki’s obsession…
The Epitaph User’s rampage…
I couldn’t even stop your steps.
Ovan is stunned by Haseo’s powerful blow. Haseo also becomes possessed.
VS Corbenik 2nd Possessed Form. Skeith’s data drain pierces Corbenik 2nd. When the flash disappeared, Ovan was standing in a white space.
The Rebirth system was activated. There is a sense of life in Aina’s eyes.
Rebirth is activated with a smile of satisfaction.
Ovan’s body shatters into pieces.
– Data Collapse Dessert –
A Net Slum appears above Haseo’s head, whose data were corrupted.
– Cubia’s revival –
Countless dots of light flickering faintly in the darkness. Eventually, the screen becomes clearer that there are tens of thousands of Gomoras writhing in the water (amniotic fluid?). The camera dives deeper and deeper as if pushing through the Gomoras. In the deepest past, the head of an unbelievably huge “thing” emerges in the black shadow, with its four eyes shining menacingly.
– Extracognitive space –
Ovan: …..
Ovan: ………….
Ovan: …… Who’s…. calling me? I’m tired of it all, just… let me sleep like this…..
The noises get louder and louder, and Ovan reluctantly opens his eyes. He notices a figure beside him and wakes up.
Ovan: Did you…. call me?
Aura: No…. listen more closely.
Soon, Ovan hears a faint voice. The voice soon gets louder and louder.
Haseo: Ovan….. Ovan!!….
Ovan: ….. Haseo!
– Flash Video –
Explanation of the situation during Ovan’s absence/ Haseo’s recognition leads the job to extend into Xth Form in outer space. Each PC fights on the lost ground (Moon Tree, Kestrel, Silabus, Gaspard, etc.)/ Revival of the Wavering Light.
Aura: Right now, The World is in trouble right now.The existence of you as the Epitaph users has disrupted the balance of the world, and the “Anti-Existence” that has been born from this reaction is trying to swallow up not only the network but the real world too.
Ovan: What about Haseo!?
Aura: Together with his friends, he fighting against the anti-existence. However, as he faces the shadows of the Eight Epitaph, seven epitaph users are not enough… Haseo asks for your help.
Ovan: But… I should have perished due to Rebirth’s activation, can I still help him?
Aura: If yours and Haseo’s wishes are strong, they will come true… A person who harbors strong feelings can even influence their fate.
Ovan: Haseo… I’m coming for you…!!
As he closes his eyes as if in remembrance, his body glows golden. And then it fades away.
– Inside Cubia’s body –
Haseo rushes towards Cubia Core.
However, Haseo is not strong enough to penetrate the absolute barrier.
A crack runs through the Xth form.
Haseo: Damn it!!!!!
At that moment of desperation, a light flashes and a whiteout occurs. In a moment of silence, a hand is placed on Haseo’s hand.
Ovan: And now, you have them all!!
Haseo:…. O…. Ovan!!
Ovan:… Can we do it? …. Haseo….
Haseo: …… Yeah, of course we can!!
Haseo: All right, this is it…
Haseo: It’s time. All of the feelings that I’ve carved deep into The World… are going into this one attack!!
Haseo & Ovan: Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!
As Cubia is finally defeated, Haseo faces Ovan.
Haseo: ….Ovan!
Ovan: You’ve gotten quite strong… A lot stronger than you were back then.
Ovan’s body is slowly disappearing.
Haseo: Wait! You’re not going to leave your own again…! Hey, Ovan…
Ovan: One ending, you know, is a new beginning… We’re not finished. Our journey will continue. Don’t you think that’s true?
Haseo: What the hell are you talking about…?I have no idea what you’re talking about, Ovan! I… I still have so much I want to say to you! Ovan!!!!
The screen is closed in darkness, and only Haseo’s scream echoes in vain. No reply. He pauses for a while, as if giving up, and then lets out a final scream.
The Wave sounds can be heard somewhere.
A girl, Aina, is walking along the beach in the grass field area.
It is as if they have come for a walk around the neighborhood. They walk slowly, looking around and admiring the scenery in the distance.
They appear innocent, but they are somehow listless.
Aina:
and thus, the threat of The World is now gone. The power of the rebirth cleansed the world via network and medical equipment, even AIDA, which had nested in the brains of the unconscious.
The anti-existence resurgence caused major accidents around the world, but they are now steadily restored. The players of The World are all back. Smiles are back on people’s faces.
But…
My brother is the only one who doesn’t come home.
Aina, alone in the flower garden, waiting for Ovan.
The person from CC Corps informed me that they found my brother unconscious in an apartment.
It seems that CC Corp’s medical institution is currently protecting him. Since I shared the consciousness with AIDA, I know how deeply he saved me.
And the guilt that my brother has shouldered.
But, brother.
You’re not the only one to bear that guilt. Because there are so many people who were saved thanks to you.
If what you did was a sin, all the people who were saved must pay for it.
No… no matter who doesn’t pay for it, I’ll pay for it.
if only it could ease her brother’s pain, even just a little.
I’ll take any punishment.
That’s why, please… come back.
– End Roll –
Aina is smiling when she sees him. Ovan and Aina hug each other.
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