rarsneezes | totrays - dist event

i forgot to see waht the name of this quest was whoops

anyway the gang meets up! they worry about libera! no one is giving guy a break!!

luke: phew, we finally made it... asch told me about how dist escaped, is that true!?
ion: yes. when i went to tell jade about you leaving, he'd already left leon-- the salvation front's building. but the door to dist's cell was open, and there was no sign of dist.
guy: what was dist even doing there in the first place?
tear: well... asch would...
asch: i was in the middle of returning to the hideout when i caught him trying to break into the transmission center. apparently he left malkuth because he was trying to "achieve his goal"
natalia: and what is dist's goal?
mieu: surely it's to make friends with jade again!
jade: mieu if you say such strange things then luke might have a terrible accident
luke: what do you mean me!?
guy: haha, it's your duty to look after your pet, isnt it?
ion: jade, maybe you should tell them...
anise: hmm?? tell us about what?
jade: ...if i must. luke's already heard it, but i suppose i should tell the rest of you.
[SCENE FADE TO BLACK SO JADE CAN INFODUMP NEBILIM NONSENSE]

[SCENE CHANGE]
[annie (tales of rebirth) approaches ix and mileena]
annie: hey... have you seen libera anywhere?
mileena: libera? uh, no, i haven't. what's wrong?
annie: it's time for his medicine, but he wasn't in his room, and i haven't seen him anywhere.
ix: well he only just recently woke up, so i doubt he could have gone far. he's probably playing in the garden
[karia N arives]
karia N: excuse me, little miss mileena, master ix... have you seen ion?
ix: he went to aldurant with jade, why?
karia N: a message for him just came through the transmission center. it appears to have been written by a child. "sorry ion, i'll bring him back," it says
annie: this... looks like libera's handwriting. anise was teaching him how to write horizontally...
karia: when he said "i'll bring him back"... could he have meant dist?
ix: why would libera... wait a second, does this mean libera has something to do with how dist was able to escape...?

[SCENE CHANGE BACK TO ABYSS PARTY]
tear: so that means dist likely escpaed to find professor nebilim's replica
jade: i fear that's the case
luke: hey, jade, are you okay?
jade: i've been showing this one side of me ever since we came to this world, and i suppose i'll have to keep doing it. it's too late to do anything else.
[[TLN: this line gave me difficulty it might be wrong ;_; im sowry]]
natalia: [I DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS LINE EITHER AND IT SEEMS IRRELEVANT YOU'LL HAVE TO LIVE WITHOUT IT]
ix, calling in on the phone: hey, sorry jade. is libera with you?
jade: libera...? no, he isn't.
ix: he isn't? then that means...
anise: what's up with libera?
ix: it... seems he went with dist
jade: ...damn. then we have to be even more suspcious of dist's quick escape
luke: huh? what do you mean?
jade: dist had all he needed to be lead to professor nebilim's replica, becuase the prison's guards stepped out on purpose. when master ion told me the news, i'd thought that was an awfully quick escape for dist, but...
jade: if there was no one in the building, then that's how libera was able to get in,
ion: are you saying libera let dist out?
anise: libera would never do that!
jade: he wouldn't. but dist is quite skillful with words
ix: that would explain his "sorry, ion", wouldn't it? jade, we'll be there in a second to help look for libera too
????: HAHAHA! just as i planned!!!
luke: eh, who was that?
guy: ah, it can't be... a wiretap for [the phone's theyre using]. pascal only just finished that the other day!
[AND THEN EVERYONE TEASES GUY FOR HAVING A CRUSH ON PASCAL BUT I DONT' FEEL LIKE RENDERING THAT TO THE AUDIENCE]
asch: hey, hey! stop making fun of guy!
guy: asch....
luke: wow, asch, you really like guy, huh?
natalia: it's been like this since they were kids. they'd always go off to play without me--
tear: h- hold on, everyone. the signal's getting distorted. let's leave guy for another time--
guy: you can say that, but all i'm hearing is you wanting to cause me chaos, too
tear: what!? that- i'm sorry...
guy: the signal's clearing up. that voice earlier was dist's. pascal established a wire to dist through jade's [phone]
[TLN: they're called like, something to do with mirrortech, but, theyre phones, it's fine, they're phones]

anyway i don't have the energy to translate the rest but the gist of it is just

> jade makes a jadecore joke and creeps everyone out
> ix promises to bring some data over (might be data re: libera?)
> guy says if they can hear dist's voice through jade's [phone] then dist must be close.
> the party goes "dist must be at [this location]" but i don't know what the location is other than the backdrop for hte next few quests are caves, and the name of a location doesn't matter enough for me to translate these kanji

guy: and anyway there's absolutely nothing going on between me and pascal
luke: you know if you say there's nothing it sounds like there's something
anise: ooooh i wonder what pascal would thank if she heard you say all this--
guy: AUGH ENOUGH ALREADY

and that's all for this quest folks

also it occurs to me if they're using mirrors for phones then no wonder why that hologram thing is happening-- it's not a hologram, it's a fucking video phone. they're doing video calls with each other thru the mirror glass lmfao