角色故事•四（解锁条件：角色等级80）
她曾以为，“逐火”便是她寻找的、永不散席的盛宴。
可在那不断失却的旅途中，光芒也终如泡沫般碎裂。
她是凯撒的锋刃，她的剑尖总是蜿蜒流淌鲜血。
可当凯撒滚烫的金血滴落在她的指尖，恍惚之间，她又坠落回那孤独的深海。
“呵，为什么…我为之游动的火，由我亲手熄灭……”
在那痛苦的千年迷醉中，她逃避着那迷离光彩的泡沫，但那些已然片片碎裂的过往如今却像海草缠绕不休。
“啪嗒……”
棋子落下。执棋的君王神意自若，可王冠上时而平静时而浓烈的光焰却透露出她真实的情绪。
“我不懂如何下棋。”
“来，我教你。”
她不太熟练地拿起棋子。不过是又一场厮杀而已，她想。
“啪嗒……”
那陡然亢奋的蓝色火焰使她的身边如热泉般温暖。她随意移动着棋子，问道：
“既然终要从棋局上消失，为何它们要不停前进？”
“啪嗒……”
君主啜饮杯中蜜酿，满足地伸展着双臂，又畅然地喟叹着：
“前进本身，不已经足够快意？”
……
千年的等待，她为逐火开辟新的天地，可也知晓那也并非最终的归宿。
“鱼儿需要的，终究只是一片栖身的海……”
在君主留下的一页记忆中，她走向清澈的海水。
♫啪嗒♫，♫皮咔♫，♫波砰♫…五颜六色的泡沫倒影过往岁月，凝结碎裂，碎裂凝结。
“海洋的宠儿，你可有什么心愿想要实现？”
“海瑟音，你在往何处去？”
“剑旗爵，你可有想要之物？”
……
故乡，欢宴，逐火…它们都曾在她的生命中闪耀，然后迅速化为泡影…只剩下一声叹息回荡天际。
从始至终，这便是她拥有的全部——在人世与大海中，都是泡沫破碎的痕迹。
“可它们…多么美丽……”
“♫……♫”
“♫……♫”
“♫……♫”
翁法罗斯的黎明将要升起。
在最后的泡沫破碎前，她微笑着，仿佛已唱尽…那已无需言语表达的心声。
Character Story: Part IV
• Unlocked at Character Level 80
She had once believed the Flame-Chase was the eternal celebration she had always searched for.
But as the journey wore on and more was lost, even that shining light shattered like seafoam.
She had been the Imperator's sharpest blade, her sword always flowing with blood.
But when the Imperator's molten gold blood dripped onto her fingertips, she suddenly felt herself sinking again back into that lonely, silent sea.
"Heh, why... did I snuff out the very flame I swam toward with my own hand..."
For a thousand painful years, she had fled from those dazzling bubbles of memory, but now those long-burst fragments clung to her like swaying seaweed, impossible to shake loose.
"Click."
A chess piece lands on the board. Despite her perfect composure, the sovereign's crown of flames reveals what she won't, dancing between serenity and fierce intensity.
"I never learned how to play."
"Then I'll teach you."
She picks up a piece with unpracticed fingers. Just another battleground, she thinks to herself.
"Click."
Suddenly, vibrant blue flames warm the air around her like hot springs. She moves chess pieces without much thought and asks:
"If they're bound to disappear from the board, why bother moving forward at all?"
"Click."
The sovereign takes a sip of honey brew, stretches her arms with satisfaction, and sighs with pleasure:
"Isn't the journey forward fulfilling enough on its own?"
...
After a millennium of waiting, she forged new paths for the Flame-Chase, though she knew they wouldn't be the final destination.
"What a fish truly needs is simply a sea to call home..."
As a fragment of her memories unfolds, she walks toward clear ocean waters.
♫ Pop ♫, ♫ Fizz ♫, ♫ Splash ♫... Bubbles of every color mirror bygone years, forming and bursting, bursting and forming.
"The ocean's dearest, do you have a wish?"
"Hysilens, where are you headed?"
"Dux Gladiorum, what do you seek?"
...
Homeland, revelry, the Flame-Chase... each once brilliant in her life, yet all quickly fizzing out like transient foam... Only a sigh lingers across the sky.
From the beginning till the end, this was all she had, in both the mortal realm and ocean depths, nothing but the fleeting traces of bubbles.
"But still... how beautiful they are..."
"♫...♫"
"♫...♫"
"♫...♫"
The dawn of Amphoreus approaches.
Before the final bubble bursts, she smiles, as if she has already sung everything her heart had to express beyond words.
