{
"dataList": [
{
"id": 0,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "The Boss... at the Thumb summit? ... Huh."
},
{
"id": 1,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "Got it... Thanks for the warning."
},
{
"id": 2,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "I'll carry your name to the grave even if we end up getting Purged."
},
{
"id": 3,
"content": "Resting his gaze on the skyscrapers outside the window, the child lit his cigar."
},
{
"id": 4,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "*puff* I told him to watch his mouth since the Thumb Sottocapo would be attending the summit."
},
{
"id": 5,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "And yet, he's finally done it... and it couldn't have been a more spectacular fail, too."
},
{
"id": 6,
"content": "Syndicates that swarm into a Collapsed Wing all have similar interests:"
},
{
"id": 7,
"content": "Lay claim to at least one of the many alleyways of the Backstreets, and keep a tight grip on it until they can sell it to a new L Corp. that will one day rise as a Wing."
},
{
"id": 8,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "The Thumb's probably set its sights on these parts if Famiglia Laterano and the Kurokumo Clan are pulling back."
},
{
"id": 9,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "The Sette Famiglie ain't getting pushed out, though... which can only mean that the leading member Syndicates still get to keep their cuts."
},
{
"id": 10,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "Subsidiaries like us are the ones breaking backs... *exhale* only for the Thumb to swoop in and stake its ground."
},
{
"id": 11,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "As for our hot-blooded Boss... Guess he just couldn't help asking why we gotta pull out empty-handed."
},
{
"id": 12,
"content": "The Night Awls, which the child is a member of, was one of the Syndicates vying to claim their slice of the pie in the absence of the Collapsed L Corp.—all with the Thumb's permission, of course."
},
{
"id": 13,
"content": "However, they were forced to take their hands off the whole business simply at the whim of the Capo dei Capi, the \"Padrino\" of the Thumb."
},
{
"id": 14,
"content": "Perhaps he thought it too unfair,"
},
{
"id": 15,
"content": "but the leader of the Night Awls couldn't hold his temper in check and asked the one question he should never have dared to ask."
},
{
"id": 16,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "*puff* What difference did he hope to make by second-guessing the Padrino's intentions?"
},
{
"id": 17,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "A bit of careless talk... and we're suddenly painted red for the Purge."
},
{
"id": 18,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "Hard to believe the same unease I felt back when we were the Enforcers of the Purge... is happening for real."
},
{
"id": 19,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "Anyone outside?"
},
{
"id": 20,
"teller": "Committed Subordinate",
"title": "Night Awls",
"content": "Yes, Capitano?"
},
{
"id": 21,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "Send up the remaining crew to my office."
},
{
"id": 22,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "And... make sure to let them know what I'm about to say. Don't leave out a single word."
},
{
"id": 23,
"content": "The child gathered up what was remaining of the crew at headquarters..."
},
{
"id": 24,
"content": "But not the ones outside. He couldn't let the Thumb find out that the Night Awls had been forewarned."
},
{
"id": 25,
"content": "No sense in dying for the ones who're already doomed, he told himself."
},
{
"id": 26,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "Is everyone here?"
},
{
"id": 27,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "You all must've heard about what happened... at the Thumb Summit."
},
{
"id": 28,
"teller": "Committed Subordinate",
"title": "Night Awls",
"content": "We all knew the Boss had a habit of jumping the gun... But none of us even had an inkling it'd turn out like this."
},
{
"id": 29,
"teller": "Desperate Subordinate",
"title": "Night Awls",
"content": "... Can't wrap my head around it. To think he had the audacity to question the Capo dei Capi's intentions..."
},
{
"id": 30,
"teller": "Desperate Subordinate",
"title": "Night Awls",
"content": "Is it our turn to get Purged now?"
},
{
"id": 31,
"teller": "Committed Subordinate",
"title": "Night Awls",
"content": "After everything we did to Purge the other Syndicates... How could it possibly turn on us?"
},
{
"id": 32,
"content": "It wasn't surprising at all that the rank and file started to blame their dead Boss."
},
{
"id": 33,
"teller": "Committed Subordinate",
"title": "Night Awls",
"content": "... Why couldn't you be our Boss, Capitano?"
},
{
"id": 34,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "No use thinking about shoulda coulda wouldas."
},
{
"id": 35,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "We can't deny it was that young streak of his that helped us expand this far."
},
{
"id": 36,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "Me... I liked being out in the field, getting a little action. The Boss might've been impatient as hell... but damn if he didn't know how to keep us in business."
},
{
"id": 37,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "*puff* For now, we gotta think of ways to stay alive. You can spit on the Boss's grave later once we've saved our own necks."
},
{
"id": 38,
"teller": "Committed Subordinate",
"title": "Night Awls",
"content": "... How about we cut through L Corp.'s Nest and get to the other side of the Backstreets before the heat catches on?"
},
{
"id": 39,
"content": "Fortunately enough, it was raining in District 12."
},
{
"id": 40,
"content": "The Nest of L. Corp, shrouded in a thick blanket of fog following its Collapse... was a perfect place to move without drawing eyes."
},
{
"id": 41,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "... Any thoughts on where to go from there?"
},
{
"id": 42,
"teller": "Committed Subordinate",
"title": "Night Awls",
"content": "How about... V Corp.?"
},
{
"id": 43,
"teller": "Committed Subordinate",
"title": "Night Awls",
"content": "I heard some kind of monster tore through their Nest and left it looking like a butcher's floor... The whole place is a real mess."
},
{
"id": 44,
"teller": "Committed Subordinate",
"title": "Night Awls",
"content": "By now, though... there should be somewhere we can stay holed up if we can get there."
},
{
"id": 45,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "Not a bad idea..."
},
{
"id": 46,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "But the question is, how do we even get there?"
},
{
"id": 47,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "L Corp.'s Nest and Backstreets... have long turned into a hellhole where all kinds of pests come crawling in."
},
{
"id": 48,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "Thumb subsidiaries like us, R Corp., and even Liu Association are all stirring the place up like vultures on a carcass."
},
{
"id": 49,
"teller": "Committed Subordinate",
"title": "Night Awls",
"content": "One wrong move... and we'd be dead before we even manage to get away."
},
{
"id": 50,
"teller": "Committed Subordinate",
"title": "Night Awls",
"content": "I say we lay low till sundown. We could use the Night in the Backstreets as cover to get out."
},
{
"id": 51,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "Wings may Collapse... but don't forget that Nests are still out of reach for Sweepers."
},
{
"id": 52,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "Getting out of L Corp.'s Nest is one thing; getting away from waves of Sweepers when we're dead on our feet is another."
},
{
"id": 53,
"teller": "Committed Subordinate",
"title": "Night Awls",
"content": "......."
},
{
"id": 54,
"teller": "Committed Subordinate",
"title": "Night Awls",
"content": "So there's really no way out..."
},
{
"id": 55,
"content": "With everyone at their wits' end, a stifling silence fell upon the room..."
},
{
"id": 56,
"content": "But the child remembered that they still had a way out."
},
{
"id": 57,
"content": "His instincts kept screaming that this might be jumping out of the frying pan into the fire,"
},
{
"id": 58,
"content": "however, the fact was that the Night Awls simply had no other choice."
},
{
"id": 59,
"content": "The child's decision was already swaying toward the only exit available."
},
{
"id": 60,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "... We go to the Library."
},
{
"id": 61,
"teller": "Committed Subordinate",
"title": "Night Awls",
"content": "You managed to get an Invitation?"
},
{
"id": 62,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "No. It was already on my desk when I heard what happened to the Boss..."
},
{
"id": 63,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "... as if we were being summoned there."
},
{
"id": 64,
"teller": "Committed Subordinate",
"title": "Night Awls",
"content": "......."
},
{
"id": 65,
"content": "Though the child's knowledge was by no means necessary for the collection of the One True Book..."
},
{
"id": 66,
"content": "I still hoped that that the Library had a bookshelf to house the child's desperation for survival."
},
{
"id": 67,
"content": "Because that's why I'd had that Invitation given to him."
},
{
"id": 68,
"teller": "Committed Subordinate",
"title": "Night Awls",
"content": "... If that's our Capitano's order... We follow."
},
{
"id": 69,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "*inhale* Drop the formalities. We're on the same boat—we don't have the time to mind the Thumb's rules between us at this point."
},
{
"id": 70,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "Just speak up if you have any suggestions. We need all the ideas we can get if we want to increase the odds of our survival."
},
{
"id": 71,
"teller": "Committed Subordinate",
"title": "Night Awls",
"content": "Going to the Library... is way too risky."
},
{
"id": 72,
"teller": "Committed Subordinate",
"title": "Night Awls",
"content": "Word is, even Grade 1-Fixer Offices are backing out of any contracts that have to do with the Library. Imagine those money hounds actually eating penalty fees just to stay away."
},
{
"id": 73,
"teller": "Desperate Subordinate",
"title": "Night Awls",
"content": "Not just the Fixer Offices. Even the Fingers are calling it a graveyard—there were Index Proselytes who went missing there not long ago..."
},
{
"id": 74,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "... The Index, huh."
},
{
"id": 75,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "Of course, the Index. Now that I think about it, they went to the Library too."
},
{
"id": 76,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "And if there's any truth to that rumor... we might be able to gather valuable intel on the Index in the Library."
},
{
"id": 77,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "The Book of the Index. That would be bargain enough for the Thumb to overlook our Boss's insolence."
},
{
"id": 78,
"teller": "Committed Subordinate",
"title": "Night Awls",
"content": "Are you sure about this?"
},
{
"id": 79,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "There's not much time left before we're Purged to the last man. Those of you who're thinking of backing out, now's the time."
},
{
"id": 80,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "I... I'm going to put my name on the Invitation."
},
{
"id": 81,
"teller": "Desperate Subordinate",
"title": "Night Awls",
"content": "... It's been an honor, Capitano."
},
{
"id": 82,
"teller": "Decorous Subordinate",
"title": "Night Awls",
"content": "Hope we meet again someday, Capitano. I hope you'll survive no matter what."
},
{
"id": 83,
"content": "Some of the crew bowed deeply to the child and left the office."
},
{
"id": 84,
"teller": "Committed Subordinate",
"title": "Night Awls",
"content": "... I trust in your judgement."
},
{
"id": 85,
"teller": "Aggressive Subordinate",
"title": "Night Awls",
"content": "Rumors always get blown up. The Library, eh? I'm pretty confident we can bring it down."
},
{
"id": 86,
"content": "The majority, on the other hand, stayed and waited for the child to sign the Invitation."
},
{
"id": 87,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "... Let's set off."
},
{
"id": 88,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "I'd thought the rumors were exaggerated..."
},
{
"id": 89,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "Guess there's a reason they call it the Library. Never imagined it'd be this massive."
},
{
"id": 90,
"teller": "???",
"title": "Library Director",
"content": "Greetings, dear guests."
},
{
"id": 91,
"teller": "???",
"title": "Library Director",
"content": "May you find your book in this place."
},
{
"id": 92,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "*puff* Figured nothing really fazes you past a certain age."
},
{
"id": 93,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "To think that a Fixer in the uniform of Shi Association's South Section would show off Kurokumo's sword technique..."
},
{
"id": 94,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "... and is that R Corp.'s combat style this time? Color me surprised."
},
{
"id": 95,
"content": "With calm and calculated footwork, the child slid past the gleaming arc of an Assistant Librarian's orange blade."
},
{
"id": 96,
"content": "A sudden thrust attack immediately followed, but the child sidestepped it and pressed into his opponent's outstretched arms."
},
{
"id": 97,
"teller": "Assistant Librarian",
"title": "Floor of History",
"content": "Hrrk...!"
},
{
"id": 98,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "Not a single opening to strike..."
},
{
"id": 99,
"content": "However, the child's pointed peg leg, which sparked as it raked across the floor, was blocked before it could pierce through the opponent's neck."
},
{
"id": 100,
"teller": "Committed Subordinate",
"title": "Night Awls",
"content": "Are you alright, Capitano?!"
},
{
"id": 101,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "Not in the slightest."
},
{
"id": 102,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "Thought we at least had some fighting chance when we took down that Index Proselyte wielding Liu Association's flames..."
},
{
"id": 103,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "*exhale* How many of us are still standing?"
},
{
"id": 104,
"teller": "Committed Subordinate",
"title": "Night Awls",
"content": "... Half of our men are dead."
},
{
"id": 105,
"teller": "Committed Subordinate",
"title": "Night Awls",
"content": "These Librarians... the rumors have got nothing on these monsters."
},
{
"id": 106,
"teller": "Committed Subordinate",
"title": "Night Awls",
"content": "Shouldn't we just call it quits and cut our losses?"
},
{
"id": 107,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "......."
},
{
"id": 108,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "These bastards... are no monsters."
},
{
"id": 109,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "They're humans, just like us. Humans who are afraid of getting killed."
},
{
"id": 110,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "They must have a gap or two we can exploit."
},
{
"id": 111,
"content": "For an instant, a surge of emotion cracked the child's mask of composure before he impaled the Librarian, killing them."
},
{
"id": 112,
"content": "Perhaps it was the sight of their unflinching leader fighting that inspired them,"
},
{
"id": 113,
"content": "because the rest of the crew charged into battle once more, the firm grip on the hilt of their stilettos a testament to their renewed morale."
},
{
"id": 114,
"teller": "Aggressive Subordinate",
"title": "Night Awls",
"content": "Those freaks... How'd they get so much power...?"
},
{
"id": 115,
"teller": "Despairing Subordinate",
"title": "Night Awls",
"content": "Why did we have to take the fall...? Gyaargh!"
},
{
"id": 116,
"content": "Predictably though, whatever hope they managed to muster came to a rather grisly end."
},
{
"id": 117,
"content": "Every time the curtains closed..."
},
{
"id": 118,
"content": "... some of them would be squashed flat by a giant teddy bear, gnawed and torn apart by frenzied fairies, and roasted alive in giant pyres."
},
{
"id": 119,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "......."
},
{
"id": 120,
"content": "In the end, the last man left standing was the child."
},
{
"id": 121,
"teller": "Patron Librarian",
"title": "Floor of History",
"content": "Yeah, it's going smooth! It's too soon to be rejoicing, though."
},
{
"id": 122,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "Too soon, huh... Yeah. It's too soon to give up."
},
{
"id": 123,
"model": "그레고르",
"teller": "Gregor",
"title": "Night Awls Capitano",
"content": "I didn't come all this way... just to snuff it... *puff* like a damn dog."
},
{
"id": 124,
"content": "The outcome wouldn't change no matter how hard the child fought against the odds,"
},
{
"id": 125,
"content": "but that shouldn't suggest that the child's struggles were meaningless."
},
{
"id": 126,
"content": "Because the emotion fueled by his determination... must have become ample sustenance for the Library."
},
{
"id": 127,
"content": "Now... let the child press on. May his resolve never waver, even as the end draws near."
},
{
"id": 128,
"content": "Let us watch him together through the window."
}
]
}