角色故事•四（解鎖條件：角色等級80）
她曾以為，「逐火」便是她尋找的、永不散席的盛宴。
可在那不斷失卻的旅途中，光芒也終如泡沫般碎裂。
她是凱撒的鋒刃，她的劍尖總是蜿蜒流淌鮮血。
可當凱撒滾燙的金血滴落在她的指尖，恍惚之間，她又墜落回那孤獨的深海。
「呵，為什麼…我為之游動的火，由我親手熄滅……」
在那痛苦的千年迷醉中，她逃避著那迷離光彩的泡沫，但那些已然片片碎裂的過往如今卻像海草纏繞不休。
「啪嗒……」
棋子落下。執棋的君王神意自若，可王冠上時而平靜時而濃烈的光焰卻透露出她真實的情緒。
「我不懂如何下棋。」
「來，我教你。」
她不太熟練地拿起棋子。不過是又一場廝殺而已，她想。
「啪嗒……」
那陡然亢奮的藍色火焰使她的身邊如熱泉般溫暖。她隨意移動著棋子，問道：
「既然終要從棋局上消失，為何它們要不停前進？」
「啪嗒……」
君主啜飲杯中蜜釀，滿足地伸展著雙臂，又暢然地喟嘆著：
「前進本身，不已經足夠快意？」
……
千年的等待，她為逐火開闢新的天地，可也知曉那也並非最終的歸宿。
「魚兒需要的，終究只是一片棲身的海……」
在君主留下的一頁記憶中，她走向清澈的海水。
♫啪嗒♫，♫皮咔♫，♫波砰♫…五顏六色的泡沫倒影過往歲月，凝結碎裂，碎裂凝結。
「海洋的寵兒，你可有什麼心願想要實現？」
「海瑟音，你在往何處去？」
「劍旗爵，你可有想要之物？」
……
故鄉，歡宴，逐火…它們都曾在她的生命中閃耀，然後迅速化為泡影…只剩下一聲嘆息迴蕩天際。
從始至終，這便是她擁有的全部——在人世與大海中，都是泡沫破碎的痕跡。
「可它們…多麼美麗……」
「♫……♫」
「♫……♫」
「♫……♫」
翁法羅斯的黎明將要升起。
在最後的泡沫破碎前，她微笑著，仿佛已唱盡…那已無需言語表達的心聲。
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.
