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* 7.45 follow-up
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10TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SEQ_00Bunchin holds in his hand yet another missive addressed to you.
21TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SEQ_01Genbu of the Four Lords, the legendary auspices who serve as guardians of the Ruby Sea, has once more summoned you to their hidden sanctuary beneath Hells' Lid. Though he did not divulge his reasons, it seems likely that it relates to the impending escape of the imprisoned Koryu.
32TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SEQ_02As expected, Genbu seeks your assistance in quelling the aramitama of one of his comrades, the auspice Suzaku. However, when Genbu likens you to Tenzen, Suzaku flies into a rage, insulted by the suggestion that any mortal could ever compare to the fallen hero. Indeed, it appears there is more to this story than meets the eye...
43TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SEQ_03Suzaku yet mourns for Tenzen, whom it seems she loved with all her heart, and despite the looming threat of Koryu's release, she is unable to move beyond her tortured past. Byakko attempts to make his ailing comrade see reason, but alas, the aramitama has driven her to the brink of madness, so much so that at times she seems to mistake you for her beloved. For a mercy, she consents to a battle that you might subdue her primal rage, but should you and yours falter, she will not hesitate to consign you to the fiery depths. ※Hells' Kier can be accessed via the Duty Finder.
54TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SEQ_04The transformative powers of Suzaku were undeniably wondrous to behold, deadly as they were. Nevertheless, they were not enough to bewilder you and your comrades and deter you from your purpose. The auspice is once more the keeper of her soul.
65TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SEQ_05In the wake of your battle, Suzaku reflects on the man she so dearly loved─how they met and traveled the land with her fellow auspices, earning the trust and adoration of so many, only to watch helplessly as their leader fell to their greatest foe. In the cruelest of ironies, Suzaku eventually came to wield powers with which she could have saved Tenzen, and for long years she wondered what purpose fate had in mind for her, but no longer. Once more will she join forces with Genbu and Byakko to carry on her beloved's legacy and defend the realm from the forces that would destroy it.
76TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SEQ_06Genbu and the others are relieved to see that Suzaku is herself once more. Would that the same could be said for Soroban, who for the present has been transformed into a massive tortoise, perhaps by having summoned a great kami into his own body. Though the Kojin is understandably distressed, Genbu is unconcerned, and Tataru is simply annoyed to see history repeating, after a fashion. In any event, your work is done, and Soroban will probably recover. Probably.
87TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SEQ_07To his credit, Bunchin takes the news of Soroban's predicament in stride. If anything, he seems to be somewhat puzzled by the whole affair, unsure whether or not it is some sort of elaborate Eorzean joke. Humor is subjective, to say the least...
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2524TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_TODO_00Speak with Genbu in Reisen Temple.
2625TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_TODO_01Speak with Suzaku.
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2827TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_TODO_03Confront Suzaku in Hells' Kier.
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4948TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_BUNCHIN_000_001How kind of you to pay us a visit, Player. Now I need not summon you.
5049TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_BUNCHIN_000_002But a moment ago, a certain surly cat returned with another missive addressed to you. See for yourself...
5150TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_BUNCHIN_000_003(-Genbu's Missive-)Brave adventurer who stood fast and quelled the raging aramitama of my comrade, Byakko. The time has come for you to return to Reisen Temple.
5251TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_BUNCHIN_000_004I presume the auspices of Hells' Lid have need of you once more? If so, give my regards to them and dear Soroban.
5352TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_GENBU_000_010Well met, Player, well met! But wait─where is the little urchin girl of whom I have grown so fond?
5453TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_GENBU_000_011It would be remiss of us to proceed without her, would it not? Why not summon her with that trinket of yours, your linkpearl?
5554TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_TATARU_000_012(-Tataru-)Hello? Player, is that you?
5655TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_TATARU_000_013(-Tataru-)...Huh? Right now? Very well, if you insist...
5756TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_GENBU_000_014What wondrous things, these linkpearls. Now then─let us wait until your friend arrives...
5857TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_TATARU_000_015Player, Genbu.
5958TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_GENBU_000_016Ah, good of you to join us, little urchin girl.
6059TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_TATARU_000_017...You know, there is such a thing as running a joke into the ground.
6160TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_GENBU_000_018It pleases me to inform you that thanks to your assistance with his training, Soroban's strength has grown by leaps and bounds. Ere long we may count him among our most formidable warriors.
6261TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_TATARU_000_019Out of curiosity, where is Soroban anyway?
6362TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_GENBU_000_020Engrossed in a very special exercise, I'm afraid. Trust me when I say he would not want you to see him in his current state.
6463TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_TATARU_000_021Working up a sweat no doubt. Glad to hear it!
6564TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_GENBU_000_022But I called you here not to discuss our Kojin friend.
6665TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_GENBU_000_023The wards have grown weaker, presaging Koryu's inevitable escape.
6766TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_GENBU_000_024Before he breaks free, the Four Lords must marshal their strength.
6867TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_GENBU_000_025And so, Player, I must entreat you to quell the raging aramitama of a dear comrade once more.
6968TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_TATARU_000_026A fight, is it? That's where our Warrior of Light shines! Who's her opponent this time?
7069TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_GENBU_000_027See for yourself. She should be joining us shortly...
7170TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SUZAKU_000_028(-???-)It has been too long, elder brother.
7271TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_GENBU_000_029Several hundred years, by my reckoning. Am I to assume you have kept your silent vigil all this time, Suzaku?
7372TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SUZAKU_000_030...Let us not speak of such things. You bade me come hither for another purpose.
7473TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_GENBU_000_031That I did. Koryu's wards grow weaker by the day, and the calamity he would visit upon us draws nigh. The Four Lords must join their strength together once more.
7574TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SUZAKU_000_032And to that end, this warrior would unburden my tortured soul.
7675TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_GENBU_000_033Just so. Hers is a power far surpassing that of mortal men. She is heir to the legacy of Tenzen.
7776TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SUZAKU_000_034Brother! How dare you compare this *creature* to that shining paragon of virtue, of kindness! You sully his memory...
7877TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SUZAKU_000_035And you! You dare think yourself his equal? His better!? Then I will put you to the proof. And when you fall, it will be a fate most deserved.
7978TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SUZAKU_100_035Turn back if you would not have it be so. Or join me in misery.
8079TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_TATARU_100_035Compared to Byakko, she seems much more...angry...
8180TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_GENBU_000_036The aramitama feeds upon her grief and fuels her rage. She yet mourns a love lost...but it is not my place to speak. Go to her, brave warrior, and learn the truth of her heart.
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8382TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_BUNCHIN_000_040Do let me know how Soroban is doing. We cannot help but worry about him, even if we know he is in good hands.
8483TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_BYAKKO_000_045You are returned, then? Good. Genbu is looking for you.
8584TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SUZAKU_000_050You crave battle, then. Even if it brings you your death.
8685TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SUZAKU_000_051...Out of duty you pit yourself against enemies ever stronger. Without hesitation, without fear, you muster your courage, and...and...
8786TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SUZAKU_000_052No! You are not even a pale shadow of his glory! There was but one man fit to wear the mantle of hero, and he has long since passed from this world...
8887TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_BYAKKO_100_052If so, then the Ruby Sea will be consumed by Koryu's fiery judgment, and we, her sworn protectors, will have failed in our duty. Is Tenzen's memory so sacred that you would doom this land out of spite?
8988TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SUZAKU_000_053Oh Byakko, do you not see? Before I called you brother, I was but a bird who loved a man. Perhaps that was all I was ever meant to be, for I can brook no replacement at my side or in my heart. Not so easily as you...
9089TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_BYAKKO_100_053Have you forgotten his final moments? How he fought and died to defeat Koryu─how he sacrificed himself before our very eyes?
9190TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SUZAKU_200_053How dare you ask me that! Every detail is forever seared in my mind's eye─a blackened scar upon my soul! How could I possibly forget!?
9291TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_BYAKKO_300_053Nor should you! Nor will I forget every day we spent together on the road. But to exalt the past over the present, to live life in mourning and never move on is to dishonor his memory!
9392TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SUZAKU_400_053How dare you speak to me of dishonor! You who have opened our home to this pretender! I see her plainly, how she has wormed her way into your hearts, mimicking Tenzen's manner, cloaking herself in his scent, seeking to supplant Tenzen in our minds!
9493TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_BYAKKO_500_053Listen to yourself, my sister. The aramitama has driven you to see oni in shadows. Let it be quelled, before your soul is forever lost.
9594TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SUZAKU_600_053Only to Tenzen will I entrust my soul! Only his love will I accept!
9695TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_Q1_000_000What will you say?
9796TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_A1_000_001Let me help you.
9897TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_A1_000_002You have nothing to fear from me.
9998TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SUZAKU_000_055He said...he said... Oh, Tenzen... Very well! But I will brook no delay!
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101100TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SUZAKU_000_057I will await you in the depths─in my place of mourning. And when it is ended, I shall mourn you too...
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103102TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_BYAKKO_000_059Forgive her, Player. She is yet consumed by her failure to save Tenzen all those years ago. Her regret is as a festering wound.
104103TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_BYAKKO_100_059The love she bore him gave her strength once. Alas, through it the aramitama has found purchase in her soul. It feeds on her grief and despair.
105104TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_BYAKKO_200_059'Tis plain that your presence troubles her as well. She senses your blessing, and it reminds her of him. There were moments when she looked on you with a fire in her eyes...
106105TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_BYAKKO_300_059When she gives herself to the aramitama, she may surrender to her delusions as well. If so, do not be alarmed by what she says. Stand fast and free her from her torment.
107106TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_BYAKKO_400_059Be warned: she commands many powers, including the ability to manipulate geomantic currents. Only by remaining observant will you survive.
108107TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_GENBU_000_060Forgive her, my friend. She knows not what she says...
109108TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_TATARU_000_065Be careful, Player. I don't think she's going to go quietly...
110109TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_BYAKKO_000_070Our dear sister, Suzaku, has returned. I pray she will hear reason this time.
111110TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_BYAKKO_000_075Remember: do not lose sight of your surroundings when you face Suzaku. If you would overcome the trials she sets before you, you must remain observant.
112111TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SUZAKU_000_090...How long have I been blinded by this dream? This never-ending nightmare, unable to escape the memory of my beloved...
113112TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SUZAKU_000_091I owe you an apology, brave warrior, as well as my life. In spite of the crude and disrespectful way I treated you, you nevertheless risked your life to free my heart from the terrible delusion which threatened to consume my soul.
114113TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SUZAKU_000_092For the first time in centuries, I can reflect on my time with the man I so deeply loved without being driven to tears...
115114TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SUZAKU_000_093I was born into this world long, long ago, blessed with crimson plumage that shone like blazing fire in the sun.
116115TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SUZAKU_000_094My form was likened to that of the Firebird of legend, a being said to have the power to confer immortality upon mortal men.
117116TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SUZAKU_000_095Thus was I pursued endlessly by those who yearned to conquer death. To them─to all mankind, I was no more than a means to an end...
118117TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SUZAKU_000_096But Tenzen...Tenzen, did not look upon me so. To him, I was so much more...and he would become everything to me...
119118TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SUZAKU_000_097Together we traveled, we Four Lords and the samurai. As comrades-in-arms we journeyed the realm. Feared at first by many for our nature...
120119TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SUZAKU_000_098But Tenzen, dear Tenzen, would not close his heart to the people's plight. Not once did he hesitate to proffer a helping hand, and one by one he won over those who once cursed and condemned us.
121120TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SUZAKU_000_099Be there oni in the east to slay, or revenants in the west to exorcise, without hesitation would he bid us rise to the challenge, and leave grateful men and women to spread word of our deeds. Word which, one day, reached the ears of a king...
122121TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SUZAKU_000_100'Twas by the king's order that we battled the mad auspice Koryu. Despite the many deeds to our credit, we four had only lived some few centuries, and were no match for our foe.
123122TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SUZAKU_000_101Against the might of Koryu's raging aramitama, my brothers and I were powerless. But Tenzen...brave Tenzen, he would not be denied. At the last he unleashed a powerful technique, knowing full well that it would leave him exposed...
124123TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SUZAKU_000_102I watched as the light left his eyes forever...
125124TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SUZAKU_000_103Had I been the Firebird of legend...had I been possessed of the power of immortality! Had I been able to rescue him from death's obsidian abyss...
126125TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SUZAKU_000_104And then, the cruelest irony of all. Centuries later, when I finally went through the change, immortality became mine to command. I can but wonder if my bottomless grief for my beloved made it so.
127126TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SUZAKU_000_105The power for which I yearned so desperately that day is now mine. If not to save him, then perhaps...
128127TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SUZAKU_000_106...Then perhaps to save those for whom Tenzen died.
129128TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SUZAKU_000_107For the memory of my beloved, for his legacy, I shall fight. Let us go and tell Genbu together. And Player...thank you.
130129TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_FURI_000_108Headed to the surface? Follow me!
131130TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SYSTEM_100_108Leave Reisen Temple?
132131TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_FURI_200_108Need a guide back to the temple? 'Course you do! Follow me!
133132TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SYSTEM_300_108Enter Reisen Temple?
134133TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_GENBU_000_110Oho, I see you are still in one piece. I gather all went well?
135134TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SUZAKU_000_111Rest assured, elder brother, that I am myself once more.
136135TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_TATARU_000_112You certainly seem different from before! As if a great weight has been lifted from your shoulders. Your face is the very picture of serenity, I'd say!
137136TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SUZAKU_000_113How very perceptive you are, little one. Indeed, I have at long last come to accept the passing of my beloved Tenzen...
138137TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_BYAKKO_000_114At long last indeed! But perhaps such prolonged periods of distress are unavoidable when one lives for more than a thousand years. I myself am no stranger to melancholy.
139138TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SUZAKU_000_115...No, my brother, that you most certainly are not.
140139TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_GENBU_000_116Oh, how forgetful of me! I have yet to see how Soroban's training is coming along.
141140TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_GENBU_000_117Soroban? Soroban!
142141TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_TATARU_000_118W-Wait, I know this joke! Ahem!
143142TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_TATARU_100_118It's a Firebird!
144143TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_TATARU_200_118No, it's an airship!
145144TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_GENBU_000_119Ohoho! No, genre-savvy urchin, for it is, in fact...
146145TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_GENBU_000_120Soroban!
147146TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_TATARU_000_121I mean...I expected him in some capacity, but not like this...
148147TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SOROBAN_000_122No one told me that this training would lead to such a radical transformation! Look at me! I'm a giant tortoise! A tortoise!
149148TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_TATARU_000_123...I was wrong. *This* is the very definition of running a joke into the ground.
150149TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_GENBU_000_124There's no need for panic, Soroban. You probably just recited the words improperly and offered your body as a vessel for a great tortoise kami.
151150TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SOROBAN_000_125That seems to me like a very, very good reason for panic! Unless...I will return to normal after a short while? Like with the tamate-bako of geomancy?
152151TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_GENBU_000_126Ah, well...I cannot say with any significant degree of certainty, but you might regain your original form by the time Player quells Seiryu's aramitama.
153152TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SOROBAN_000_127Might? Might!? What is this “might”? “Might” is not an acceptable answer!
154153TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_GENBU_000_128You must be exhausted from your battle with Suzaku, my friend. Perhaps it would be best if you returned to the land above and took a rest.
155154TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_TATARU_000_129He's right. I doubt we will be needed here for some time, and Soroban seems to be in no mood for company. Be sure to contact me if anything comes up!
156155TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SOROBAN_000_130I had been meaning to return home, even if only briefly, but given my current state, that seems unlikely. If you could go in my stead and tell the elder I am...hale and healthy, I would be most grateful.
157156TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_TATARU_000_135How did your battle with Suzaku go? Is she still being...difficult?
158157TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_BYAKKO_000_140Is it true that in the West Lalafells are hunted for sport? 'Twas a strange tale related to me from a fellow auspice who overheard foreign adventurers in Yanxia...
159158TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SUZAKU_000_145Long did I question why I had been granted this power over life and death too late to save my beloved.
160159TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SUZAKU_000_146Now I understand: to carry on Tenzen's legacy, to save those for whom he gave his everything. Thank you for helping me to realize this, Player.
161160TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_BUNCHIN_000_150Ah, Player. All is well with our friends beneath Hells' Lid? What of Soroban? How goes his training?
162161TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_BUNCHIN_000_151He...failed to perform a ritual correctly and was transformed into a tortoise, you say? But you are aware that... Oh, I see. This must be some manner of Eorzean joke. How very amusing.
163162TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_BUNCHIN_000_152A pity we will not see him again for the foreseeable future, but I will trust it is for the best, as before. He should take as much time as required─he is a tortoise, after all! Hah hah...hah... Hmm. No, it still makes no sense to me...
164163TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_GENBU_000_155You needn't worry about Soroban. He will be fine. Eventually. Probably.
165164TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SOROBAN_000_160Have I truly become host to a great kami? What if it does not wish to leave?
166165TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SUZAKU_000_165Oh, my beloved, I pray you yet watch over me...
167166TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_BYAKKO_000_170It took me centuries to come to terms with Tenzen's passing. That Suzaku had not came as no surprise. Like us, Seiryu cared for him deeply, and I cannot help but worry that he too may struggle to accept your part in this...
168167TEXT_STMBDY321_03152_SYSTEM_171You have learned the emote **Hum**!