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(Over here... Commander...)

(Thank you... for your... bandage...)

(While you are bleeding out, above you I am standing)

(I aim the euthanizing pistol towards you, and hesitate)

You don't want to pull the trigger

But you have no choice

So I clasp my hands around yours

And bid farewell with a weeping voice

Together is what I had hoped that we would always be

A future with you is one I thought I'd live to see

But cruel fate had other plans for us it would seem

As a nightmare rose from the corpse of this dead dream

You have a different form and a new name

But your face and your eyes are the very same

I thought long ago you had died (you had died)

When I was forced to shoot the Vapaus between your eyes

Here you stand before me, alive (alive)

Now that the Raptures resurrected you back to life

No longer are you lifelessly laying in

The ground that you were buried in

As we clash in our bittersweet reunion

Desperate I call out your name, Marian

A story so tragic

Somber phantasmagoria

I am the Heretic

My name is Modernia

Can we make amends?

Am I still in your memories?

Will this truly end

In yet another tragedy?

(Commander, I could use another bandage here as well)

(I thought you'd be more of a rough and tumble kind of person)

(Thank you... the pain is gone already)

(I will protect you... no matter what happens)

(The first time I felt warm inside...)

(It was the first time in my life anyone had ever been kind to me...)

(So don't... please don't leave me)

No longer shackled to the bringers of your doom

You embrace me like bandages around a wound

Now that I have been reunited back with you

To my promise I will keep remaining true

Whether they are a Rapture or from The Ark

I won't let anything try to tear us both apart

Together we both stand and fight for us

I will find a way out of this conflict, I must

No more goodbyes

I will stay with you right here

I am at your side

Do not let me go, my dear

I will hold you tight

I swear this undying vow

As one we will fight

For nothing can stop us now

(We'll be happy this time around, Commander... I'm sure of it)