{ "dataList": [ { "id": 0, "teller": "Well-dressed Citizen", "title": "The Client", "content": "I heard the Zwei's western branch is quite skilled at rescue operations, thanks to their experience rescuing people from X Corp. excavation sites." }, { "id": 1, "content": "The voice is at once expectant and dependent." }, { "id": 2, "content": "The child is walking through the streets alongside the Client as he details the contract." }, { "id": 3, "teller": "Well-dressed Citizen", "title": "The Client", "content": "I understand that this is your first time up here in the north, but it's a rescue operation all the same. I have faith in you." }, { "id": 4, "model": "싱클레어", "title": "Zwei West Section 3", "content": "... I'll try my best. As far as my abilities will allow." }, { "id": 5, "content": "Some may find this reply casual, but the child's expression remains conflicted." }, { "id": 6, "content": "His eyes are nervously scanning the various flyers posted all over the street." }, { "id": 7, "model": "싱클레어", "title": "Zwei West Section 3", "content": "... I see that there are a lot of flyers around here." }, { "id": 8, "teller": "Well-dressed Citizen", "title": "The Client", "content": "Yeah, thanks to all those Syndicates that have started popping up these days. I heard that you came up here for that precise reason, Sir Knight?" }, { "id": 9, "model": "싱클레어", "title": "Zwei West Section 3", "content": "... For a contract, yeah." }, { "id": 10, "model": "싱클레어", "title": "Zwei West Section 3", "content": "But I'm also seeing flyers looking for missing people among bounties for eradicating Syndicates." }, { "id": 11, "teller": "Well-dressed Citizen", "title": "The Client", "content": "Many of those upstart Syndicates are small-scale operations trying to cash in on the chaos by kidnapping people for ransom." }, { "id": 12, "teller": "Well-dressed Citizen", "title": "The Client", "content": "... And one of them managed to grab my son." }, { "id": 13, "teller": "Well-dressed Citizen", "title": "The Client", "content": "Please, save my son. I promise to reward you handsomely should you succeed." }, { "id": 14, "content": "Just as the child was about to nod affirmatively, one of the Fixers who was listening to the Client suddenly blurted out a complaint." }, { "id": 15, "teller": "Fixer from the South", "title": "???", "content": "Are you sure we can trust him, president? This one's clearly inexperienced." }, { "id": 16, "teller": "Fixer from the South", "title": "???", "content": "We came all the way up here from the south only to work with this... rookie?" }, { "id": 17, "teller": "Fixer from the South", "title": "???", "content": "And look at that ridiculous outfit he's wearing. We'll be more than enough to rescue your son." }, { "id": 18, "model": "싱클레어", "title": "Zwei West Section 3", "content": "W-well, this is just how we dress in the west..." }, { "id": 19, "content": "It is unclear whether that comment was borne out of spite or ignorance." }, { "id": 20, "content": "The child found the Fixer's antagonistic attitude confusing, but he did not walk away from the contract." }, { "id": 21, "model": "싱클레어", "title": "Zwei West Section 3", "content": "I'll visit my Association and... submit the documents needed for the contract." }, { "id": 22, "teller": "Fixer from the South", "title": "???", "content": "Hah." }, { "id": 23, "content": "Instead, he put his foot down and left to seal the deal." }, { "id": 24, "content": "Sounds of metal clashing against metal and the air-shredding sound of projectiles echo in the warehouse." }, { "id": 25, "content": "The child had built a formation with the other Fixers to hold back the Syndicate that kidnapped the missing people." }, { "id": 26, "model": "싱클레어", "title": "Zwei West Section 3", "content": "T-there's our target!" }, { "id": 27, "content": "The child managed to locate the rescue target, but the situation was not in his favor." }, { "id": 28, "content": "The Syndicate was fighting tooth and nail against the Fixers; running off on his own to rescue the target would leave the other Fixers in jeopardy." }, { "id": 29, "content": "That is why the child cannot bring himself to break formation." }, { "id": 30, "content": "As the battle continues in its stalemate..." }, { "id": 31, "teller": "Fixer from the South", "title": "???", "content": "N-no!" }, { "id": 32, "content": "How unlucky..." }, { "id": 33, "content": "Arrows that had been intended for the Fixers were flying straight toward the child's rescue target." }, { "id": 34, "content": "The child no longer had any reason to hesitate." }, { "id": 35, "teller": "Fixer from the South", "title": "???", "content": "W-wait! You can't leave the vanguard—" }, { "id": 36, "model": "싱클레어", "title": "Zwei West Section 3", "content": "... I'm sorry." }, { "id": 37, "model": "싱클레어", "title": "Zwei West Section 3", "content": "But today, I promised my client that I would protect this child." }, { "id": 38, "model": "싱클레어", "title": "Zwei West Section 3", "content": "And given the circumstances... I don't think I can protect you, too." }, { "id": 39, "content": "The child bit his lips with determination and broke formation, leaping between his rescue target and the onslaught of attacks." }, { "id": 40, "content": "Other Fixers tried to fill the child's place, but..." }, { "id": 41, "content": "... the child was the one taking most of the fire in the vanguard; his absence left a large hole in the formation." }, { "id": 42, "teller": "Fixer from the South", "title": "???", "content": "C-crap! Hold the line!" }, { "id": 43, "teller": "Fixer from the North", "title": "???", "content": "The entire vanguard crumbles without that one guy...?!" }, { "id": 44, "content": "Without the child, it wasn't long before the line completely fell apart." }, { "id": 45, "teller": "Fixer from the South", "title": "???", "content": "Hnngh..." }, { "id": 46, "content": "One by one, the Syndicate slaughtered the Fixers..." }, { "id": 47, "teller": "Citizen at Risk", "title": "P Corp.", "content": "H-help me!" }, { "id": 48, "content": "Even as other civilians who were kidnapped called out for help," }, { "id": 49, "content": "the child did not budge an inch from his position." }, { "id": 50, "teller": "Terrified Child", "title": "Protection Target", "content": "O-over there, people are—" }, { "id": 51, "model": "싱클레어", "title": "Zwei West Section 3", "content": "I can't protect everyone." }, { "id": 52, "model": "싱클레어", "title": "Zwei West Section 3", "content": "I don't have the strength or the wisdom to do it." }, { "id": 53, "content": "Some called the Zwei greedy, selfish shields who only protect those who pay them to." }, { "id": 54, "content": "Still, the child had already accepted that dishonorable title." }, { "id": 55, "model": "싱클레어", "title": "Zwei West Section 3", "content": "But I made a promise... So I will bring you home safely." }, { "id": 56, "model": "싱클레어", "title": "Zwei West Section 3", "content": "No matter what." }, { "id": 57, "content": "Because that dishonorable title... at least implied that these shields would defend their clients with their lives." }, { "id": 58, "content": "The child hauled his protection target from the ground and hurriedly escaped the warehouse, leaving the desperate screams of terror behind." }, { "id": 59, "content": "Because he had to protect those that he could. Those that he promised to protect." } ] }