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Alice
I'm sorry, Alice

Alice
I don't plan on letting Oz destroy anything else

Jack
Alice...?!

Alice
Jack...!!

Alice
I won't forgive you!!

Alice
Never...
Ever--!!

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Alice
Really right now, I want to make mince meat out of you

But more than that, right now...!

Alice
Alice!!

Alyss
...tch!

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Alyss
I'm sorry, Alice

Alyss
Even now I'm only forcing this on you

Alyss
But with this

Alyss
I'll be able to do it

Alyss
To live without hurting anyone--

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Alice
--tch?!

Will of the Abyss
...

Will of the Abyss
op...

Will of the Abyss
Stop

Will of the Abyss
Don't hurt...

Will of the Abyss
Alice...

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Alice
...!

Alice
You're...

Alyss
She certainly wouldn't allow me to injure myself.

Alice
I'm not trying to hurt her! I just...
I'm only destroying Alice's memories!!

Jack
!?

Will of the Abyss
No

Will of the Abyss
No

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Alice
Quit whining!!

Alice
You don't know anything!!

Jack
Stop it

Jack
Alice!!

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Vincent
...
Jack...?

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Vincent
...
Just now...
a bright...light...

Vincent
Hey

Vincent
Jack, are you all...right?

Vincent
Th-
There's blood

Vincent
Did Glen

Vincent
Kill you?

Vincent
In the middle of it
Glen

Vincent
He's
dead--

Vincent
Alice...!?

Vincent
What happened to Alice!?

Vincent
Is she all right...hey
Jack, please...!!

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[The beginning of it all. The end of it all.]

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Alyss
...Now you

Alyss
Remember it all, don't you...?

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Alice
Uh

Alice
Ah

Alyss
...
are you sad...?

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Alice
....
I don't know

Alice
just

inside my head...it's all sloppy...

Alyss
....
...The destruction I sought from B. Rabbit

That is, the destruction of my memories

Alyss
But because the Will of the Abyss appeared that wish wasn't granted

Alyss
In the end

Alyss
My memories were only torn apart and scattered

Alyss
The incomplete feelings toward Jack that remained only gave birth to further confusion

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Alyss
The plight of you losing your memories as well
Was certainly because of the connection you hold with me

Alyss
I'm sorry...Alice

Alice
When I first awoke

Alice
What was before my eyes

Alice
Was the endless jet black surface of the waters of the Abyss

Alice
Left within my empty chest

Alice
Was the name "Alice" and the mistaken awareness that I was "B. Rabbit"

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Alice
Clinging to only that, that whole time...

Alice
The whole time...

Alyss
Alice

Alyss
...hey, Alice
I believe

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Alyss
That the Alice the Will of the Abyss wanted to protect at that time
Was both you and myself

Alyss
If you had continued to use B. Rabbit's power of destruction at taht time

Alyss
Your soul which had done nothing more than steal that power would not have been able to bear the burden and would have been completely destroyed

Alyss
That's why, the Will of the Abyss...

Alice
---

Alice
That's why?

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Alice
That's why B. Rabbit's power was sealed?

Alice
"I'm restricted as I am right now so I can't use that much strength."

Alice
"A contract is the power to release that."

Alice
"I was waiting for a human like you."

Alice
"Someone who would be my contractor--!"

Alice
--wait...then

Alice
Then

Alice
What about Oz?

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Alice
Just what is
Oz right now?

Lottie
Who's there?

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Lottie
Zwei

Oz
Miss Echo

Echo
It's Echo.

Echo
Ah
No

Echo
That is

Lottie
Echo.
Well? What business do you have?

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Echo
Lottie!

Echo
Take this

Echo
It's a limited edition Mr. Janta doll sold at the Revlier Bridget Day.

Echo
Echo is...giving it to you.

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Echo
That's why!

Echo
Fo...for a little while...

Lottie
In other words this is

Lottie
A bribe...?

Lottie
Pffhuhuhu

Lottie
Aah...I feel like I need a breath of fresh air~

Baskerville
Hah?!
Hey, wait Lottie!!

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Echo
Master Oz...are you all right?

Oz
Huh...

Echo
Ah.
You're not all right!

Echo
Echo knows that you're not all right!
(Apologies.)

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Echo
...That's right.

Echo
Do you know this story, Master Oz?!

(journal)

Echo:
(uuh)
Echo heard it from someone before...

(excuse me)

Echo
After all of that Echo didn't write the punchline..

Oz
...huh

Oz
haha

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Oz
Ahaha...

Oz
haha

Echo
Why are you laughing!!
(Echo doesn't understand)

Oz
Eh??

Echo
What if forgetting the punchline is itself the punchline of the story...?
A turnabout concept...!?

Oz
...that anecdote
It was Gilbert who told, wasn't it?

Oz
...Long ago I remember hearing it from Uncle Oscar

Oz
Forgetting the punchline...
That's really...just like him...

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Oz
...thank you

Oz
Miss Echo

Echo
Master Oz

Echo
It was not Master Gilbert's intention to shoot Master Oz.

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Echo
Echo heard that Master Gilbert is Master Glen's servant.

Echo
That man
Is bound more strongly to "Glen" than the other Baskervilles.

Echo
That's why...

Oz
But

Oz
Gil despises Jack

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Echo
That's why...even if he just lumped me with Jack's body and shot
It can't be helped...I am...

Echo
You're wrong.
Master Oz and that man are different people.

Echo
He probably does not understand--

Oz
We're the same.

Oz
We're the same
Miss Echo

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Oz
This body belongs to Jack.

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Oz
...this body

Oz
Is nothing more than Oz's soul
Using Jack Vessalius's body that was rewound by the Abyss's power.

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"This body belongs to Oz Vessalius"

"That's a lie"

Oz
...I didn't think

Oz
It was really true...

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Oscar
Don't say such
foolish things, Zai...!

Oscar
Oz is...a chain...?
Jack Vessalius's body...!?

Oscar
There's no way
that can be true...!!

Zai
...

Zai
It's something that happened more than 25 years ago

Zai
A lone boy appeared before me

Zai
That person said that
He was someone who had slipped away from the dispensation of the Abyss

Zai
That he had

Zai
Over these hundred years

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Zai
Been alive the whole time

Chapter 77