Scary Monsters! ~Endless Halloween Night~/Story/Episode 3-18

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This translation was based off the scripts from the Japanese version of the game.
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Episode 3-18: This is Bad…

The Other Dimension - Forbidden Laboratory
Ghost Ghost	Oooh… This is unthinkable… Blech.
Floyd Floyd	So it just called more of pretty much the same ghosts? Aw man, that's boring.
Ace Ace	huff huff I wasn't expecting to have to fight armies of ghosts back-to-back like this… I won't be able to keep this up if we just keep letting Floyd do as he wants. Best case scenario would be us going down with them and I can't even call that good!
Floyd Floyd	This is so boooriiiiing. Maybe I shouldshout super loud and have a bunch of ghosts come running. Sounds like a way funner fight.
Leona Leona	If we let him run wild in a narrow laboratory like this, we're gonna get injured, too. Honestly would much rather make dried eel out of him, but… …Hm? This is…
Ace Ace	Leona? What are you looking at? Is there something on the table? …Wait, what's this small box? It's ticking like a clock.
Floyd Floyd	Wonder what kinda device it is. There's a square button and a triangular button on the front of it…
Leona Leona	Stop! Don't touch it!
Floyd & Ace Floyd & Ace	Wha?
Leona Leona	This is bad… This box is a powerful magic tool that will turn all living creatures in a 1km radius into stone!
Floyd & Ace Floyd & Ace	A magic tool?!
Leona Leona	Damn it, it's activated itself, too. If we don't deactivate it with the right button, everyone here'll turn into stone in a matter of five minutes!
Ace Ace	I-I wanna think you're joking, but…I've honestly never seen you this flustered before… Is this for real?!
Leona Leona	Yeah. First time I saw one of these was when I went to a Halloween party being held on a boat 'cause of family stuff. One of the passengers was wearing a necklace with a gemstone known as an Ocean's Tear. It's a legendary sapphire, so naturally, there were those after it. In an attempt to get hold of it, someone decided they'd put one of those magic tools inside the orchestra's piano.
Ace Ace	A-A party on a ship…? A legendary sapphire? Man, this is a world I have no hope of being part of. I can't even imagine it.
Floyd Floyd	Oh hey, so humans have parties on ships for more than just birthdays and wedding receptions. Why do you guys like boat parties so much? If the seas were rough, the whole thing could capsize and then that would be that.
Ace Ace	I shouldn't be surprised that merfolk would focus on something completely different to us humans.
Leona Leona	I freed the ship's captain, stole the enemy's escape boat, and then evacuated the 5000 people onboard. Finally, I had to deal with this device. I was around seven years old at that time.
Ace Ace	You were basically a baby! You'd have just started elementary school at that point! I get that you're the one and only, second to no other, great almighty Leona Kingscholar, but a seven year old protecting a whole ship by themselves? That's such a stretch.
Leona Leona	Oi. Are you making fun of me?
Ace Ace	What?! N-No, of course not! Yeah, now that I think about it, you see that kind of thing in movies a lot, huh? Where the kid agent stands up to the villain in this sudden reversal! Uhhh, so I don't really know about this kind of thing 'cause I'm a commoner, but…princes and stuff really do go through special training, huh?
Leona Leona	We do. Though even then, I couldn't decide which button to press until the last minute… Now I know for sure it was the right choice. The square button is a fake. Press that and we'll instantly be petrified. If we want to deactivate it, we need to press the triangular button!
Floyd Floyd	Hmm… …In that case, let's press the square button.
Ace Ace	WAIT, WHAT?! F-Floyd, hang on a sec!
Leona Leona	What?! No, stop! Don't do it!
boop
Ace & Leona Ace & Leona	UWAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Ace Ace	…Huh? I'm not turned to stone…?
Leona Leona	…Pfft. Hehe, HAHAHA! You idiot. You really fell for that.
Ace Ace	Y-You're laughing… Don't tell me that was all a joke?!
Floyd Floyd	Tch… You really made me think I was in for some fun, too.
Leona Leona	Didn't take much at all for you to be taken in by what I was saying and press the square button instead… You're a hundred years too young to outsmart me.
Floyd Floyd	It really irks me that you act so chill about everything… Well, whatever. I guess that was a bit exciting. At least more than fighting those ghosts.
Ace Ace	Ugh, are you serious? Your acting was way too realistic! Feel like I'm about to have a heart attack over here! Geez, this stupid box shortened my lifespan by way too much.
Leona Leona	Hey, it's your choice if you want to pick up the box and look at it, but…be careful how you handle it. If that activates again, there's no stopping it.
Ace Ace	…Excuse me?
Leona Leona	That was the perfect story to satisfy that antsy eel, don't you think? It was easy to guess from the start that someone as twisted as him would choose the opposite button to what I was saying to press.
Ace Ace	Huh…? Huh? Then it's true that this is a magic tool? And yet you were so casual about which button was pressed… Actually, that whole story about the party on the ship, and about the magic tool that could turn people into stone… Just how much of that was fake and how much of it was real?!
Leona Leona	Who knows? I'll leave that to your imagination.
Ghost Ghost
Floyd Floyd	Oh, found a ghost.
Leona Leona	There's a door back there. Alright, let's steal whatever shards they've got and get out of here.
Ace Ace	Hang on! I'm way more interested in how true your story was than some stupid ghosts!
Battle