Scary Monsters! ~Screaming Halloween Show~/Story/Episode 4-1
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This story has been fan-translated by okaykei, and proofread by dolce (JP), and Starly (EN). This translation was based off the scripts from the Japanese version of the game. |
| Episode 4-1: No One Knows The Truth | ||
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| Botanical Garden | ||
| Woman A | We're finally at the botanical garden!
The rare flowers that can only be found here that were trending on Magicam… We've gotta get our own photos of them! | |
| Man B | For sure! Where do you think they're growing, though? | |
| Woman A | Oh, aren't those the pretty flowers over there? The ones right at the very back of the flowerbeds! | |
| "Please do not enter the flowerbeds." | ||
| Man B | I know it says not to go in, but… if we try to take a photo from here, the weeds'll just get in the road. | |
| *rustle rustle* | ||
| Woman A | Hm? There's someone behind the trees. | |
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Hey, did you hear? There's a rumor surrounding Night Raven College's botanical garden… | |
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Really? I've never heard this one. What is it? | |
| Woman A | What? A rumor? | |
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Centuries ago, this area was supposedly used as the graveyard for... problematic people. | |
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Problematic? In what way? | |
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Mages who caused trouble for society, tyrannical rulers, cruel knights… All kinds of terrible people that couldn't be controlled.
Burying those with such terrible reputations in a city filled with people is just asking for trouble, so why not force them on Sage's Island out in the middle of nowhere? It would be terrible if they were to come back to life as evil spirits. That's why the islanders assigned a guard to the graveyard. But on one foggy night… that gravekeeper mysteriously disappeared. The next gravekeeper met the same fate, and the gravekeeper after that, and the gravekeeper after that… No matter how many gravekeepers they hired, they would all disappear into the foggy night. | |
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Did they all run away? Or were they dragged to the other side by the buried ruffians?
…No one knows the truth. But people say that even now, they sometimes see skeletons wandering around the botanical garden at night, shovel in hand. It is believed that those may be what the vanished gravekeepers became. Unaware that they lost their lives, they continue wandering the graveyard. | |
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What?! No one ever told me that! | |
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The school is trying their best to cover it up, but I've heard that people go missing at Night Raven College every year.
The last place those missing persons were witnessed was at this very botanical garden. That's why there's so many flowerbeds that you are prohibited from entering. For appearance's sake, they can't say it out in the open, but… …I'm pretty sure it's to ensure the students don't wander into the areas the skeletons can appear in. | |
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…Speak of the devil, the fog's starting to gather. I can feel the chill on my skin. We should hurry and leave. | |
| *rustle rustle* | ||
| Woman A | …Did you hear that just now? | |
| Man B | Oh, come on! Skeletons appearing in a former graveyard at a school? That's just your run-of-the-mill ghost story. | |
| Woman A | Ah, that does make sense. Like a "Seven Mysteries of NRC" kind of deal? | |
| Man B | Actually, isn't this way better? A haunted botanical garden is the perfect amount of scary for Halloween.
Videos of supernatural phenomena are all the rage. It'll definitely go viral! | |
| Woman A | Yeah, I guess you're right. Let's head on in, then! | |
| *crunch crunch* | ||
Deuce  |
They seriously went in even after seeing the sign! | |
Cater  |
Definitely Magicam Monsters. | |
Deuce |
There really are people who would trespass on the flowerbeds despite hearing what Dorm Leader Rosehearts was saying! | |
Cater |
They didn't even hesitate. They were just laughing away… Guess we'll have to give them a bit of a hard time.
Everyone, get to your positions! | |
| Alright! | ||
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