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-====== IV. Imperator's Cause of Death ======
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-==== 4-1 ====
-I dreamed that the Imperator's statue stood before the Worldbearing altar,\\
-Her gaze level with that of the god's.
-Then, blood gushed out from the statue's orifices,\\
-And the people, in cheers and elation, washed their hands in that golden blood.
-The tyrant's life will end with violent death.\\
-None will weep,\\
-And all will cheer as her statue topples.
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-She will die before the dawn comes.[(All spoken by an unknown man.)]
-//... A vengeful aristocrat,\\
-<color #993333>One whose title was stripped by the Imperator</color>,\\
-thus spoke.//
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-==== 4-2 ====
-**We** cannot agree with your excessive deeds.\\
-You have imprisoned Tribios's split selves,\\
-Demanding that divine authority regress into the ruler's mouthpiece.
-**We** will reveal your future with the prophecy\\
-And tell in truth...
-Your crusade will indeed be a smooth path.\\
-Yet in the same breath **we** see omens of your death,\\
-A demise in an absolute, pure darkness.
-Even so, please excuse **us**, as **our** eyes...\\
-Continue to be drawn to your crown's flames...
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-... <color #993333>"Dux Fatorum"</color>?\\
-**We** don't exactly hate that name.[(All spoken by Tribbie.)]
-//... In the name of Janusopolis's priestess,\\
-Holy Maiden, and oracle\\
-Thus spoke\\
-The Imperator's <color #993333>"Dux Fatorum."</color>//
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-==== 4-3 ====
-Allow me to remind you:\\
-Your life is now on a countdown with the fall of <color #993333>"Law,"</color>\\
-And you will become <color #993333>"Law."</color>
-I must confirm: Is our deal still going strong?\\
-Is the future I promised you\\
-More satisfying than the future in the prophecy?
-Ah. You are as resolute as always.\\
-Good! As ever!\\
-This prison of gods, Amphoreus,\\
-And all mundane and average worlds\\
-Need someone like you, a daring ruler.
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-Let us end this despicable extrapolation together.[(All spoken by Lygus.)]
-//... Amphoreus's <color #993333>"Theoros,"</color>\\
-The Imperator's **co-conspirator**,\\
-Lycurgus,\\
-thus spoke.//
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-==== 4-4 ====
-The Imperator <color #993333>"betrayed"</color> the Flame-Chase Alliance,\\
-And I was the sinner who paved the way for her achievements,\\
-Like how a deep-sea fish cannot escape the tides' push and pull.
-I granted her an end fitting for a tyrant.\\
-Her dying smile\\
-Gazed towards my tear-swelled eyes.
-She commanded me to wash away all sins and filth\\
-And return a blinding dawn to the holy city.
-She commanded me to set up stones and monuments\\
-In lightless sea beds to commemorate our friends.
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-But who will remember her achievements?\\
-I will. I will rest with her in a lonely song.[(All spoken by Hysilens.)]
-//... Helekra, the last heir of the <color #993333>"Ocean,"</color>\\
-Who played music on the waves alone,\\
-Spoke thus.//
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-==== 4-5 ====
-Please record the truth of my life, dear author.\\
-No need for words of praise or solemnity.
-Just as I once instructed <color #993333>Dux Carminum</color>...\\
-The histories of rulers are not for recording our merits,\\
-But for warning future generations.
-As for why the Imperator died\\
-And what reproach she would face in life and death,\\
-Those should be left for the new world to judge.
-Now, I have personally entered my end, a self-flagellation.\\
-Let the boiling gold covering the holy city\\
-Be stamped with my name.
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-For I am certain I have won half a move against the gods,\\
-And this unfinished game will be left to the future to reach completion.[(All spoken by Cerydra.)]
-//... <color #993333>Cerydra</color>,\\
-The only Imperator the holy city had ever seen,\\
-Spoke thus.//