NIER Part #47 - Episode XLIV: They're Coming...

Part 47: Episode XLIV: They're Coming...

Episode XLIV: They're Coming...

Looking pretty stormy out, huh...?

...That is kinda weird. Ya know...given the lack of precipitation anymore and all... A bet a good thunderstorm would freak these people the fuck out...

Oh well, let's head home. We need to tell Yonah we helped out her pen pal and the like.

Music: Village Room Ambience

"I'm sorry."

Nier tucks Yonah in like a good dad. They have a little chat afterwords...

"It won't be long, Yonah. I have all of the Sealed Verses. Now I just need to find Grimoire Noir."

"Don't worry about me."

"Are you gonna make me better? Is my cough gonna go away?"

<nods>

"....."

"Yonah?"

"Dad, don't... Don't hate me for this, okay?"

"What are you talking about?"

"It's just... I don't want you to hate me because of this...this disease."

"A father could never hate his daughter."

"....."

"I'll see if Popola has more medicine."

There isn't any way this story is ending well, is there...?

Nier exits the house...

"We must find Grimoire Noir at once. Only this can save her."

Nier rushes up to Popola's office...

"Oh, that's not good."

"I need more medicine. Please."

"The thing is...I actually just ran out. I hate to ask this, but can you get me some vapor moss? You'll find it growing near the southern gate."

"You said vapor moss, right? I'll be right back."

Nier dashes over to the other end of town...

Just as Popola said, the required medicinal moss is easily found over by the southern gate. Though... Something else awaits here as well...

"Huff...huff...huff..."

Nier rushes over to Emil's side. The boy collapses just as Nier arrives...

"H-Hurry..."

Later...

"I can't imagine how hard it is to run all this way without sight."

_{_{_Rumble...}}

"Uuuugh..."

"Are you all right, Emil?"

_{_Rumble...}

"I can...see it."

"Enough. Don't talk."

"The air... It's vibrating... I can feel it behind my eyes... So much pressure... Oh god, there's so many of them."

"So many what?"

"Get out. Get out of the village. ...The Shades are coming."

"Outside! Now!"

Well folks... You know what they call situations like this...?

The shit...

...hitting...

Music: The Dark Colossus Destroys All

...the fan.

A goddamn legion of Shades is pouring in from the Southern Gate. Nier needs to run his ass across town to help combat them with extreme prejudice.

Nier hauls ass to do just that. He runs into Devola by the town square...

"No time! Get everyone into the library! Someone make sure Yonah's safe!"

"Don't worry! I'll go and get her! Just don't get yourself killed, all right?"

"Go, Devola. Hurry!"

Devola runs off toward Nier's house...

There is anarchy out in the streets as a huge mob of Shades are piling into the area. Something has certainly pissed them off. I sure do hope that newly complete set of arcane spells has nothing to do with these unfortunate events...

Nier and Weiss do not at all appreciate assholes steppin' on their home turf and cut a bloody storm of violence across the market street until over two dozen Shades' innards are repainting the town's brickwork.

Meanwhile, at the southern gate...

At least the Village had the sense to have a reinforced secondary gate in case of the ever looming threat of the RPG protagonists' home town being razed to the ground by evil forces cropped up. That ought to keep out those Shades that Nier is just finishing mopping up...