LimbusStaticData/Localize/en/StoryData/EN_P10615.json

{
  "dataList": [
    {
      "id": 0,
      "teller": "Levelheaded Resident",
      "title": "District 19",
      "content": "*pant* *pant* It's just up ahead, young man. Soon, we shall find ourselves past the border of the T Corp. Backstreets..."
    },
    {
      "id": 1,
      "teller": "Youthful Resident",
      "title": "District 19",
      "content": "What... *pant* What happened to everyone else?"
    },
    {
      "id": 2,
      "teller": "Levelheaded Resident",
      "title": "District 19",
      "content": "All snared by the Ch'unokkuns... those vile wretches..."
    },
    {
      "id": 3,
      "teller": "Young Resident",
      "title": "District 19",
      "content": "S-sir, behind you! Look behind you!"
    },
    {
      "id": 4,
      "teller": "Levelheaded Resident",
      "title": "District 19",
      "content": "Gah...!"
    },
    {
      "id": 5,
      "model": "홍루",
      "title": "Ch'unokkun",
      "content": "Gotcha."
    },
    {
      "id": 6,
      "content": "It is well into the late hours of the night, only a few minutes after the Night of the Backstreets has passed."
    },
    {
      "id": 7,
      "content": "The child, hot on the heels of the two residents who had chosen to use that precarious hour as cover to flee S Corp., threw a heavy lasso at one of them."
    },
    {
      "id": 8,
      "content": "The lasso was made from ropes called <i>Ohra</i>, or Scarlet Bonds."
    },
    {
      "id": 9,
      "content": "The fugitive fell to the ground helplessly, and was soon dragged before the child."
    },
    {
      "id": 10,
      "teller": "Youthful Resident",
      "title": "District 19",
      "content": "No!"
    },
    {
      "id": 11,
      "teller": "Levelheaded Resident",
      "title": "District 19",
      "content": "Forget about me and flee! <i>Go!</i>"
    },
    {
      "id": 12,
      "content": "The fugitive shouted in a desperate attempt to at least get the boy out of there, but..."
    },
    {
      "id": 13,
      "content": "... the child was a Ch'unokkun, and Ch'unokkuns <i>never</i> hunt alone."
    },
    {
      "id": 14,
      "content": "Unlike the Royal Censors, who act under royal decree, Ch'unokkuns are Fixers, each serving their own interests."
    },
    {
      "id": 15,
      "content": "And when the hunt begins, they form packs with those among their ranks who stand to gain from the same pursuit."
    },
    {
      "id": 16,
      "model": "홍루",
      "title": "Ch'unokkun",
      "content": "Can I trust you to handle the kid?"
    },
    {
      "id": 17,
      "teller": "Colleague",
      "title": "Ch'unokkun",
      "content": "Of course."
    },
    {
      "id": 18,
      "model": "홍루",
      "title": "Ch'unokkun",
      "content": "......."
    },
    {
      "id": 19,
      "teller": "Levelheaded Resident",
      "title": "District 19",
      "content": "... I thought we had lost you in the maze of alleys. I commend your tenacity, for what it's worth."
    },
    {
      "id": 20,
      "model": "홍루",
      "title": "Ch'unokkun",
      "content": "Hehe, I hate to break it to you, but these parts are a common escape route for you fugitives~"
    },
    {
      "id": 21,
      "model": "홍루",
      "title": "Ch'unokkun",
      "content": "So thanks to you, I can navigate this entire network of alleys with my eyes closed!"
    },
    {
      "id": 22,
      "teller": "Levelheaded Resident",
      "title": "District 19",
      "content": "... And you're proud of that?"
    },
    {
      "id": 23,
      "model": "홍루",
      "title": "Ch'unokkun",
      "content": "Proud? No, it's got nothing to do with pride—I've just been here enough times that I know it like the back of my hand."
    },
    {
      "id": 24,
      "content": "Those seeking a way out of S Corp. didn't have that many options, which made their routes rather predictable."
    },
    {
      "id": 25,
      "content": "They would often make for the borders between Districts, where their hunters know they are likely to turn up..."
    },
    {
      "id": 26,
      "content": "In the cover of dark alleyways, the narrow spaces between collapsed walls, and within abandoned homes where those with nowhere else to hide go find what little refuge they are afforded..."
    },
    {
      "id": 27,
      "content": "There was no mistaking it: the fugitives fleeing their homeland already knew that these were the places the Ch'unokkun were keen to look."
    },
    {
      "id": 28,
      "content": "But it wasn't like they had any alternatives."
    },
    {
      "id": 29,
      "content": "There weren't any other places to go, anyway."
    },
    {
      "id": 30,
      "teller": "Levelheaded Resident",
      "title": "District 19",
      "content": "... I've already given up any hope of seeing S Corp. change for the better."
    },
    {
      "id": 31,
      "teller": "Levelheaded Resident",
      "title": "District 19",
      "content": "I've given up. I no longer care about its current state of affairs—all we want is to put this place behind us and never look back, yet you still pursue us with such doggedness... Why...?"
    },
    {
      "id": 32,
      "model": "홍루",
      "title": "Ch'unokkun",
      "content": "Because it pays to bring you in. And who knows, maybe I'll land a big fish and climb my way up the ladder."
    },
    {
      "id": 33,
      "teller": "Levelheaded Resident",
      "title": "District 19",
      "content": "......."
    },
    {
      "id": 34,
      "model": "홍루",
      "title": "Ch'unokkun",
      "content": "There's something I've been wondering for a while, actually."
    },
    {
      "id": 35,
      "model": "홍루",
      "title": "Ch'unokkun",
      "content": "Why does your kind flee? Do you actually expect something to change? There's nothing for you in the other Districts."
    },
    {
      "id": 36,
      "model": "홍루",
      "title": "Ch'unokkun",
      "content": "You think your life'll improve once you make it to a different Wing? The Wings are all the same. There's nothing you penniless, powerless people can do to better your lives."
    },
    {
      "id": 37,
      "content": "Thrash and struggle from within, flee to a different Wing without, but nothing will change."
    },
    {
      "id": 38,
      "content": "Why do they flee, knowing the risk to their lives? What could possibly be motivating them?"
    },
    {
      "id": 39,
      "content": "The child failed to understand the drive behind their desperation to flee."
    },
    {
      "id": 40,
      "content": "And he never will."
    },
    {
      "id": 41,
      "teller": "Levelheaded Resident",
      "title": "District 19",
      "content": "... You think we're fleeing in search of warmth and safety? In search of a home, nay, in <i>search</i> of anything?"
    },
    {
      "id": 42,
      "teller": "Levelheaded Resident",
      "title": "District 19",
      "content": "Wrong. We've grown... too weary to hope, too spent to expect even the faintest turn toward better days."
    },
    {
      "id": 43,
      "teller": "Levelheaded Resident",
      "title": "District 19",
      "content": "We only seek to be free of this hell."
    },
    {
      "id": 44,
      "teller": "Levelheaded Resident",
      "title": "District 19",
      "content": "Free of this awful hell that will reave us of our families, our neighbors, and eventually... our lives."
    },
    {
      "id": 45,
      "model": "홍루",
      "title": "Ch'unokkun",
      "content": "Be careful what you wish for, because you might find an even worse hell at the end of your journey."
    },
    {
      "id": 46,
      "teller": "Levelheaded Resident",
      "title": "District 19",
      "content": "That may be so. A life more horrid than this may indeed await us."
    },
    {
      "id": 47,
      "teller": "Levelheaded Resident",
      "title": "District 19",
      "content": "But to us, who wish for nothing save liberty, the uncertainty of tomorrow is a peril we would take with willing hearts."
    },
    {
      "id": 48,
      "content": "Somewhat unhappy with the resident's cryptic reply, the child stopped chatting with the captured Nobi..."
    },
    {
      "id": 49,
      "content": "... and the captive, too, fell quiet, eyes turned toward the direction where the Nobi boy had fled."
    },
    {
      "id": 50,
      "teller": "Levelheaded Resident",
      "title": "District 19",
      "content": "......."
    },
    {
      "id": 51,
      "content": "After an indeterminable amount of time spent in silence..."
    },
    {
      "id": 52,
      "content": "... the other Ch'unokkun returned, but instead of welcoming his return, the child responded with a click of his tongue..."
    },
    {
      "id": 53,
      "content": "... when he noticed that his pair came back empty-handed, evidently having lost the boy."
    },
    {
      "id": 54,
      "model": "홍루",
      "title": "Ch'unokkun",
      "content": "... Where's the boy?"
    },
    {
      "id": 55,
      "teller": "Colleague",
      "title": "Ch'unokkun",
      "content": "Got stopped by some new upstart Syndicate. Said I was to cough up a toll if I wanted to get past them."
    },
    {
      "id": 56,
      "model": "홍루",
      "title": "Ch'unokkun",
      "content": "That can't be helped, I guess. We're running a business, after all—no need to incur unnecessary expenses."
    },
    {
      "id": 57,
      "content": "As they were preparing to return the Nobis, the child noticed something that soured his mood. It was the look on the captured Nobi's face. A smile."
    },
    {
      "id": 58,
      "content": "The child frowned, puzzled by the fugitive's strange cheer. Surely he knew that his treatment would only grow harsher once he was dragged back. What could he possibly be smirking about?"
    },
    {
      "id": 59,
      "content": "Curious, the child tugged on the Scarlet Bond tied to the fugitive, and asked:"
    },
    {
      "id": 60,
      "model": "홍루",
      "title": "Ch'unokkun",
      "content": "... That boy who got away, he's just a stranger to you, isn't he? He's not even your kin."
    },
    {
      "id": 61,
      "model": "홍루",
      "title": "Ch'unokkun",
      "content": "You do know they're going to punish you once you're taken back, right? For all that effort, all you managed was to help just one other person escape. So tell me—whatever are you smiling for?"
    },
    {
      "id": 62,
      "teller": "Levelheaded Resident",
      "title": "District 19",
      "content": "......."
    },
    {
      "id": 63,
      "content": "The child's query was met with another quiet smile."
    },
    {
      "id": 64,
      "content": "What that smile carried..."
    },
    {
      "id": 65,
      "content": "... <i>this</i> child would never understand."
    },
    {}
  ]
}