{ "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." } ] }