OPTIONAL QUESTS: LIONEL CASTLE (INSIDE)
[In Lionel's chapel, Celebrant Bremondt paces back and forth amidst a group of soldiers. A female ninja enters the room and approaches him, kneeling.]
NINJA: My lord, the gate is breached!
[Bremondt and the others in the room react in surprise.]
BREMONDT: What!?
NINJA: There's more. A great number of our troops have fallen comatose. We know not why. We fear them drugged.
BREMONDT: Im...impossible! Who-?
[Bremondt begins to tremble.]
NINJA: Our remaining numbers engage the enemy at the gate, but these are no common soldiers. I--forgive me, my lord, but I do not think they will be held for long.
[The ninja stands and moves to face the entrance to the chamber. Everyone in the room takes a step back as Ramza's party enters. Beowulf stands at the forefront.]
BEOWULF: Bremondt! I come for Reis. I shall have her relinquished at once!
[Bremondt covers his face.]
BREMONDT: B-Beowulf! N-no! C-come no closer!
[He turns to his troops.]
BREMONDT: K-kill them! Kill them all! You'll...you'll have whatever reward you wish! Gil - or...or jewels! Wealth enough to...to last you all your days!
[The soldiers all look to one another and then to Ramza and company.]
BEOWULF: Reis...you'll soon be safe.
[BATTLE BEGINS]
BEOWULF: Will you not accept the truth, Bremondt!? Reis does not love you, nor ever will she!
BREMONDT: N-no! That's...that's not true! Reis is but deceived! It is you... your lies that blind her heart! When you are gone, it will all be different! There's...there's naught you can do that I cannot. I can buy her aught and all she wishes. She'll want for nothing!
BEOWULF: 'Tis your mind that is deceived, you who deceive it! Love is not a thing for goods or gil exchanged! Reis would never open her heart to a man such as you! My living or dying plays no part in it!
BREMONDT: You...you cannot fool me! You do not...You do not know her as I do! Reis is mine! My own! I will not surrender her to you!
BEOWULF: Your notion of love is one of control and possession. Such a thing is not love! Reis freely took the curse you meant for me, though she knew what it might entail. For her, I would fain do the same. That is what it means to love. And it is something you will never know.
BREMONDT: No! It is you--you and that vile tongue! I need only silence it, and we can live together in bliss!
[ONCE BREMONDT IS INITIALLY DEFEATED]
[Bremondt drops to the ground.]
BREMONDT: P-power...of the Dark...Heed my call!
[He raises his hands to invoke a spell. The room shakes as dark energies turn him into a black dragon. His followers disappear.]
BREMONDT: Denied earthly pleasure, surely Paradise as well...But vengeance I shall know!
[BATTLE ENDS]
BREMONDT: Ungaaah!
[Bremondt dragon form falls away; he is a man once more.]
BREMONDT: Reis...is...mine...
BEOWULF: Reis belongs to no one.
NINJA: My lord, the gate is breached!
[Bremondt and the others in the room react in surprise.]
BREMONDT: What!?
NINJA: There's more. A great number of our troops have fallen comatose. We know not why. We fear them drugged.
BREMONDT: Im...impossible! Who-?
[Bremondt begins to tremble.]
NINJA: Our remaining numbers engage the enemy at the gate, but these are no common soldiers. I--forgive me, my lord, but I do not think they will be held for long.
[The ninja stands and moves to face the entrance to the chamber. Everyone in the room takes a step back as Ramza's party enters. Beowulf stands at the forefront.]
BEOWULF: Bremondt! I come for Reis. I shall have her relinquished at once!
[Bremondt covers his face.]
BREMONDT: B-Beowulf! N-no! C-come no closer!
[He turns to his troops.]
BREMONDT: K-kill them! Kill them all! You'll...you'll have whatever reward you wish! Gil - or...or jewels! Wealth enough to...to last you all your days!
[The soldiers all look to one another and then to Ramza and company.]
BEOWULF: Reis...you'll soon be safe.
[BATTLE BEGINS]
BEOWULF: Will you not accept the truth, Bremondt!? Reis does not love you, nor ever will she!
BREMONDT: N-no! That's...that's not true! Reis is but deceived! It is you... your lies that blind her heart! When you are gone, it will all be different! There's...there's naught you can do that I cannot. I can buy her aught and all she wishes. She'll want for nothing!
BEOWULF: 'Tis your mind that is deceived, you who deceive it! Love is not a thing for goods or gil exchanged! Reis would never open her heart to a man such as you! My living or dying plays no part in it!
BREMONDT: You...you cannot fool me! You do not...You do not know her as I do! Reis is mine! My own! I will not surrender her to you!
BEOWULF: Your notion of love is one of control and possession. Such a thing is not love! Reis freely took the curse you meant for me, though she knew what it might entail. For her, I would fain do the same. That is what it means to love. And it is something you will never know.
BREMONDT: No! It is you--you and that vile tongue! I need only silence it, and we can live together in bliss!
[ONCE BREMONDT IS INITIALLY DEFEATED]
[Bremondt drops to the ground.]
BREMONDT: P-power...of the Dark...Heed my call!
[He raises his hands to invoke a spell. The room shakes as dark energies turn him into a black dragon. His followers disappear.]
BREMONDT: Denied earthly pleasure, surely Paradise as well...But vengeance I shall know!
[BATTLE ENDS]
BREMONDT: Ungaaah!
[Bremondt dragon form falls away; he is a man once more.]
BREMONDT: Reis...is...mine...
BEOWULF: Reis belongs to no one.
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