Zelos is having a bad time and regrets ever learning how a phone works.
Also it's Emil! I like him! @actualaster has shot me with enough brain-influencing waves or something to really care for these three blond kids by now lmao good and thorough job. :'D
Also I think that's confirmation that the Great Kharlan Tree in the Tethe'Alla domain is Ratatosk's Tree. Good to know. I was honestly getting confused. I'm imagining him like that one huge bird in the internet video that sweeps down when someone touches its railing. "GET OUT OF ME TREE!!!! Dx"
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Mirrage Comm: legit their video phones lol
Chapter 5 - Wandering Spirit of the Great Tree 6: Defending the Great Tree
Genis: ... alright, I think we've kicked the Imperial Guard to the curb now.
Presea: Then the next step is to protect the area from the Empire and wait until the Salvation Front arrives... right?
Zelos: ... Ah~ Well, yeah, I'll go contact the Salvation Front.
Lloyd: What's wrong with Zelos? He looks troubled...
Sheena: ...
Colette: I think he's just surprised by everything that's been happening. Martel collapsed and Yuan appeared.
Genis: Yuan also got exoflected, huh. I wonder if he's okay going with Mithos...
Presea: Yuan is with the Renegades and Mithos is with Cruxis, right.
Sheena: Yuan opposed Mithos. But weren't they also comrades at one point, way back?
Sheena: As for Yuan, seeing Martel still alive must be quite a shock...
Sheena: I mean, the circumstances are different, but he has been working hard to prevent her revival...
Raine: ー Ah, hang on a second. Marta is calling on the Mirrage Comm.
[Marta is on the Mirrage Comm.]
Marta: Raine! Emil woke up!
Lloyd: What a relief! What's his condition now?
[Emil is on the Mirrage Comm.]
Emil: ... everyone, sorry for worrying you. I'm the only one who's awake now and I can feel Ratatosk battle inside of me.
Raine: What do you mean? Are you under some kind of spiritual attack?
Emil: We can't describe it very well, but it feels as if... something is trying to creep in from the Great Kharlan Tree.
Emil: Ratatosk has always thought of the Great Kharlan Tree as his home, but now something unknown has taken possession of it and the line has been cut... or so it seems.
Raine: A Dead Mirrite...? Or does something from the Kannonos' worlds have to do with it...?
Emil: I'll go support Ratatosk, so I'm going back to sleep for a while, but if you need anything please let Marta know.
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[Rowen is on the Mirrage Comm.]
Rowen: I understand the situation. We will send the Altamira ground forces to your Tree.
Rowen: In the meantime, the enemy might send in reinforcements, so be on your guard.
Zelos: O~K~ O~K~! Leave it to me!
Rowen: Also, and this is just an old man's rambling... But in battle, everything is about the right timing. The same is true for life.
Zelos: Alright~ ... I'm beginning to understand how Sync feels. It's a bit bitter when people are so concerned about you...
Rowen: Ho ho ho. Well, you're old enough to talk about it, Zelos, aren't you. Anyway, if you would excuse me.
[Rowen hangs up.]
Zelos: (The right timing, huh... I know that, I know, but I just don't know where to start...)
Zelos: Huh? Kratos? What's up, why are you calling me?
[Yuan is on the Mirrage Comm.]
Yuan: Well, sorry I'm not Kratos. I just borrowed his Mirrage Comm device.
Zelos: ... oh, it's you. What is it? Something's happened on your end?
Yuan: No... I just have a few things weighting on my mind.
Yuan: That being as it may, I don't know this world or the kind of lives Martel and Mithos and all the rest have led after being exoflected here.
Yuan: And yet... there are things that the Martel and everyone else existing here have no knowledge of, but that I DO know.
Zelos: Yeah... You were exoflected from a different point in time than the rest of us, weren't you?
Yuan: Chosen. Keep an eye out for a ring, please.
Zelos: ... hah? What, you lost it again!?
Yuan: Wh-What do you mean, "again"!? I'm not talking about mine! The ring MARTEL had!
Yuan: She's really sad because she lost it. Perhaps she dropped it in the... commotion, back when she fainted. I'm counting on you.
[Yuan hangs up.]
Zelos: Am I supposed to just be following her around!? What the hell is he thinking, huh!?
[Mithos is on the Mirrage Comm.]
Mithos: Chosen. Yuan and you haven't been talking about anything strange, have you.
Zelos: ... hah? Why are you contacting me, too?
Mithos: ... Yuan was exoflected from a different point in time than me and my sister. Besides, he was... opposed to saving her.
Mithos: I don't think he's going to do anything about her being exoflected here, but he might still hurt her somehow.
Mithos: Alright. So if Yuan contacts you, you tell me absolutely everything you know about it.
Zelos: Why would I play along with this farceー
Mithos: You're good at that, aren't you? Or do you want Lloyd to know about your triple spying?
Zelos: You!? You haven't changed at all, have you!?
Mithos: And I'm not going to. You got me?
[Mithos hangs up.]
Zelos: Those damn angelsー
[Kratos is on the Mirrage Comm.]
Kratos: Chosen, I need your adviceー
Zelos: Hah!? Can you shut the hell up!? Don't you have anything else to do!?
Kratos: ... what are you so angry about?
Zelos: Whaaat!? I'm not angry at all!? Anyway, Lloyd is coming so I'm going to hang up!!
Kratos: Chosenー
[Zelos cuts Kratos' line.]
Lloyd: Zelos! How are things on the Salvation Front's end?
Zelos: ーhuh? Ah. They're PERFECTLY fine!
Lloyd: ...
Zelos: Well then, we've got a Great Tree to protect until the Salvation Front arrives!
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Some notes: Zelos talks to Yuan in a pretty rude/cocky manner. Just zero respect there lol.
Yuan is so offended that he'd imply he could lose his ring TWICE! The audacity! No, of course it's the OTHER ring that's gone missing this time!!
Also poor Kratos having Zelos straight-up hang up on him. Kratos is probably staring at his phone like "?????". :'D
(Zelos cursing out the angels to himself is extremely funny, too, like "those shitty/goddamn/f*cking angels ARGH".)
