超ヒロイン戦記 - Super Heroine Chronicle/Flow Chart/Episode 51: Awakening (Meru Route)

Episode 51: Awakening

Tiffania: Excuse me, has anyone seen Meru?

Usada: I haven't seen her, have you?

Sonico: Didn't she go for dinner?

Tiffania: Shirayuki and Reki want to talk to her about our future plans......They're troubled.

Usada: It's such a small place, she'll be easy to find.

Tiffania: It should be..... I'm sure you're right, but what if you're not?

Sonico: Um, what if, you know...?

Tiffania: What if she left Dokoka town by herself.

Usada: No way.

Reki: It was a diversion. It seems that Meru has left by herself.

Usada & Sonico: Ehhhh!?

Shirayuki: I'll gather everyone together as soon as possible! We can't just leave her alone!

[Battle map]

Episode 51 Awakening

Eve: You've come a long way. But you've come alone.

Meru: I've decided to change your mind.

Eve: Hmm

Meru: Teacher, please tell me your true intentions. I think I have the right to ask.

Eve: You don't have the right.

Meru: This is ridiculous! You can't just kill me without telling me why! You're not even trying to kill me yourself! It's strange!

Eve: What about it?

Meru: We've been trying to fight and win against you, but we've decided to stop.

Eve: What?

Meru: I want to hear your true intentions! I won't leave until I hear them, and I won't fall, and of course I won't be killed!!

Eve: Fu......well said. It seems you've gotten more confident.

Eve: But don't think I'm going to tell you the truth?

Meru: Even if you fight me and I make you admit defeat?

Eve: That's impossible.

Meru: Then if you admit defeat, will you mind telling me your true intentions?

Eve: I'm not 100% sure and I don't want to talk about it.

Meru: ...Are you afraid of losing?

Eve: What did you say?

Meru: I said, are you afraid of losing?

Eve: I have no reason to fear losing to you.

Meru: Then what are you afraid of? If you weren't afraid, you wouldn't be afraid of my demands.

Eve: .....Oh, dear, you're wasting your time when you have no chance of winning.

Meru: It's not for nothing. Now I'm 100 times more motivated!

[Meru powers up]

Eve: Fufu.........Fufufufufufu!

Meru: What's so funny!

Eve: Yeah.... That's what I like about you.

Meru: Huh?

Eve: I love you.

Meru: What....?

Eve: Before we fight, let me ask you. What do you think "strength" is?

Meru: Strength?

Meru: That's what I'm going to tell you with this yo-yo!

Eve: Excellent! Let's get started!

Victory: Defeat Eve. Defeat: Meru is defeated.

[If you defeat Eve turn 1, ally and enemy reinforcements will appear but the stage will end before you get to do anything]

[Meru vs Eve]

Meru: Take this!

Eve: That's the spirit. It feels good.

[Post fight]

Meru: What's wrong? You aren't using an alter ego today?

Eve: An alter ego? I don't need one of those.

Meru: Why becuase you don't need to go all out against me?

Eve: No, it's different. It's because that's not strength.

Meru: Huh?

Eve: Alter egos, self-enhancement, regeneration ..... All that stuff is just magical archaeology.

Eve: That's not what human strength is all about. That's why I never taught you anything but yo-yo.

Eve: More important than magic, knowledge or skill, is strength.

Eve: Without it, any power is just a power of destruction. Now you know.

Meru: Teacher...

[Meru vs Eve 2nd battle encounter]

Eve: Show me! Show me more of your strength!

Meru: ....I'm not sure.

Eve: What?

Meu: You're is still a teacher! So why are you working with mi and Kei, and hurting my friends?

Eve: Who was it that said they'd make me talk if they won? Who do you think you're fighting that you can think about anything else in the middle of a fight?

Meru: That's right! I just need to win! Just win!

[Turn after Meru's first combat encounter with Eve]

[Shirayuki and Reki appear]

Shirayuki: There she is!!

Reki: It looks like she's fighting Eve.

Shirayuki: We're coming to help you!

Meru: Stay back!

Shirayuki: Eh?

Meru: This fight is between me and my teacher! I don't need any help!

Eve: Fufu, I expected this. Come out!

[Enemies appear]

Eve: Go and play with them. You'll get some good exercise.

Shirayuki: Ku, Meru! Don't lose!

Meru: Watch me! I'll win!

Eve: Now let's continue!

[Deploy]

[Defeat Eve]

Meru: Hahh, hahh! I knew it.... She's tough!

Eve: That's my line. I can't believe you're still holding on!

Meru: I will defeat you now!!

Eve: Can you do it? Can your strength surpass mine?

Meru: I'll do it! I'm the strongest I can be right now!

Eve: Then I'll decide with my next blow!

Reki: Do you feel it. Shirayuki......

Shirayuki: I know what you mean..... They look like they're having fun. I don't know why, but...

[Eve moves next to Meru]

Meru: At this distance!

Eve: Hit!!

Meru: Haaaaaaaaaaa!!

Eve: Haaaaaaa!!

[Eve and meru both power up]

[Mii and Kei appear]

Eve: !

[Kei shoots Eve]

Meru: Huh....?

[Stage end]

Mii: Kei-chan, what do you think? Did you do it?

Kei: No.... I don't think it's possible to shoot two humans with one shot...

Mii: Eh! Why did you hit Eve then?

Eve: Uuu!!

Meru: Teacher? Teacher!? Why!?

Eve: It's fine.....but give me your answer......What is strength?

Meru: That doesn't matter now!

Eve: Answer me!!

Meru: !!

Meru: Strength is... Not losing to yourself!

Eve: Yes.......no matter what. No matter what happens, don't forget .....that, it will help you.......!

Meru: Teacher!

Eve: Fufu....I'm not sure if this was a good idea...

Meru: Teacher.......teacher........why!!

Mii: Ah, it's all so boring!

Mii: Eve wanted to kill you, so I thought I'd annoy her by intervening!

Mii: How could she be so stupid as to let herself die? Ahh, she ruined it!

Meru:.......

Mii: You're guilty of ruining the king's fun, aren't you? You know...

[Cutscene. Eve dies and then Meru turns into a giant monster and starts destroying things, then she emarges back out of the monsters head and flies off]

(Note: unfortunately there is no difference in the cutscene if your chosen mc was Meru instead of Noel. Thats why it looks like Noel's hair turning into the monsters claws and why it looks like Noel's sillhouete emerges from the monster head. Both of those should have been Meru instead)

Noel: Phew.... I made it in time.

Aria: You're going to tell us what's going on, aren't you? If you don't!

Cecillia: Please wait, Aria. I know how you feel, but you should say thank you first.

Rem: You're right, Cecilia. Besides, this behaviour is not that of an enemy, is it?

Noel: Don't thank me. I've got lots of things I need to talk to you about.

Aria: Your teacher's dead, remember? How can you be so calm!

Noel: ......I've been preparing myself for this for a long time. Just in case the worst happens.

Aria: The worst case scenario?

Noel: Meru, she's become like a monster, hasn't she?

Noel: Teacher has known for a long time that it could happen.

Rem: Eve did?

Noel: Teacher called it the 'Goddess of Destruction'.

Louise: You mean Meru was the Goddess of Destruction?

Noel: I think she had the "factor" to become the Goddess of Destruction. That's what teacher said.

Mion: So what's that all about?

Noel: According to her research, the Goddess of Destruction used to be a destroyer of the void world.

Noel: The awakened 'Goddess of Destruction' destroys all the worlds completely. She exists to annihilate the world.

Tsubasa: Why is that?

Noel: We don't know that. But what I do know is that it's not man-made or anything like that.

Rem: You say they're going to destroy the world, but how is that even possible?

Noel: I don't know. But you saw it, didn't you? The Goddess of Destruction has the power of destruction. And she can do it infinitely.

Kurumi: What! No one can control it! It's worse than the Gustave!

Shirayuki: Mii and Kei were like children in the face of it's power too....

Houki: That's the most suprising thing.... It's not just out of the ordinary, it's way beyond anything we humans can do...

Rena: What should we do? I wonder?

Usada: Do you want to escape the end of the world?

Charl: Even if we ran away, we'd eventually be swallowed up by destruction.

Jeanne: That said, I don't see the point in trying to fight it.

Hibiki: Noel! Is there anything we can do?

Hibiki: I definitely want to help, Meru! We're friends! I'll never give up!

Noel: I know! Meru is like a sister to me, I've grown up with her all my life!

Hibiki: Noel......

Noel: I got into a fight with Meru, which is why I left everyone.

Noel: My teacher told me Meru's secret.

Noel: Then she appeared before you all as an enemy,

Noel: The idea was to separate Meru from the rest of the group, so that she could live in seclusion.

Noel: We were going to injure her, enough to make her realize that she's not good enough, and then tell her to stop.

Hibiki: If she lived in seclusion, she wouldn't have awakened?

Noel: It's not that. It's just that the teacher was afraid that Mii and Kei would find out about Meru's secret.

Rena: So that's why you didn't tell us the truth for so long....

Noel: Of course, Meru had to avoid finding out about it herself.

Noel: That's why teacher kept it a secret from everyone but me,

Noel: To avoid any suspicion, we tried to get Meru to retire.

Mion: Didn't she say she'd kill Meru?

Noel: That was half true. Teacher was prepared to do it herself, rather than let the Goddess of Destruction awaken.

Noel: However, she wanted to take the chance that she could put her in a state of suspended animation and make Mi and Kei think that she was dead so that they wouldn't get suspicious.

Laura: That's why they fought such a roundabout way so many times, looking for an opportunity.

Noel: But it was very difficult. Meru's meeting with Mii and Kei was a very dangerous situation.

Kurumi: Because there was a chance that Mii and Kei might find out?

Noel: No, it's not. In fact, the Goddess of Destruction was supposed to awaken when Meru learned the truth about the world.

Rika: The truth of the world?

Noel: Everyone, me and my teacher still don't know the truth about this world and why it has been turned upside down by Polyal.

Noel: But Mii and Kei know. They are not human, they don't belong to any world. They are special.

Louise: Mii and Kei are special?

Noel: Where do they come from and who are they? Teacher thought that when we found out, we would probably find out the truth about the world.

Noel: That's why we wanted to keep Meru away from them, but there was no way to stop the confrontation.

Aria: That's why you intervened and said you'd kill her........

Rena: But wait a minute. Now, isn't it strange that the Goddess of Destruction has awakened?

Tsubasa: Rena is right. Meru didn't know the truth about the world, but she was awakened, wasn't she?

Hibiki: Oh, it's true! Eve's research, it's wrong!

Koto: uh, what do you mean?

Aoi: Meru seemed to be awakened by Eve's death.

Aoi: To know the truth about the world is very...

Koto: Ah! That's what it is!

Dejiko: So, how do we save the world nya?

Dejiko: Hey! Dejiko, you! Do you have a fever?

Dejiko: What nya? I have a normal temperature nya.

Satoko: If Dejiko suddenly says she's going to save the world, everyone would be surprised!

Dejiko: What do you mean nya?

Dejiko: If we don't save the world, what will happen to the book fair nya?

Usada & Kurumi & Rin: Ah.

Dejiko: The destruction of the world means the end of the fair! Even if God and the Demon King allow it, Lady Dejiko won't allow it!

Hibiki: I don't know about that, but I wont allow it either!

Haruka: Me too!

Cecillia: I feel the same way!

Aria: It goes without saying.

Louise: That's no surprise!

Houki: Think, we need to think of a way to stop the Goddess of Destruction!

Rem: Hasn't Eve left you any research material?

Noel: If you go to your teacher's laboratory, you'll find it. I have access to a hidden room in her lab too.

Rena: That's the first step.

Jeanne: We need information.

Reki: The Goddess of Destruction will also need to be monitored and observed, if possible.

Chris: It's not easy, but we have to do it! I'll do it!

Mion: As the head of the club, I'll also take charge in watching the bad guy!

Rem: It looks like we're going to have to split up into two groups.

Aria: We've had a long talk, let's take a short break and then we'll split into teams.

Tsubasa: Right, let's all calm down a bit.

Sonico:........

Dejiko: (Huh? What's wrong with Sonico nya?)

[Sonico goes off alone]

Sonico:.......

Sonico: Eve..... That wasn't an act.....

Sonico: I thought this was a film shoot, all this time.....

Sonico: I'm sure this is true..... Isn't it...

Sonico: Uuu, uuuuu!

Sonico: Uu.....u, no, no, the saddest ones are Noel and Meru.

Sonico: If I cry!

Sonico: And they're all scared, they're all in pain, they're all working so hard...

Sonico: They were thinking of me, they didn't tell me it wasn't a film shoot, they didn't tell me......

Sonico: So now it's up to me. My dream is to become a rock musician who can cheer up the people who listen to me.

Sonico: So .... Even now, I have to smile so that I can share some of my energy with them!

Sonico: Okay!

Dejiko: Hey, Sonico nya! It's almost time for the meeting nya!

Sonico: Right!

Dejiko: Ohh, are you feeling better nya?

Sonico: Yes! The shooting is about to reach its climax! I'll do my best!

Dejiko: That's the spirit nya! Fufufu, Sonico is going to be a good artist in the future nya.

Sonico: Wawa! You, you think!

Dejiko: No doubt about it nya. Dejiko's seal of approval nya!

Sonico: Yes, thank you very much!

Dejiko: (That's great, isn't it nya. She's kind of cool nya.)

[Meanwhile with Claude]

Claude: (J, can you hear me? J!)

J: (It's unusual for you to call me)

Claude: (Please calm down and listen. I've just remembered something....)

J: (What?)

Claude: (The moment I saw Goddess of Destruction, I felt a switch in my head flick, and I understood!)

J: (Oh......So?)

Claude: (I have a role to play...... I have a job to do, a very important job...)

J: (Right.....So?)

Claude: (I don't know what I should do in this situation, what I should think about it. J, what should I do?)

J: (Do what you want. That's all)

Claude: (Do what I want?)

J: (It's your decision. That's what you're supposed to do.)

Claude: (My....decision? You can't just say that out of the blue)

J: (You should be able to. You have the power to decide what is important to you now. Believe in yourself.)

Claude: (Believe in myself...... What's important to me....

Claude: Then it's obvious, isn't it!

J: (That's right, Claude)

[Everyone meets up]

Mion: .....Is that everyone? Well, let's announce the teams.

Mion: Hibiki, Chris, Houki, Cecilia, Laura, Haruka, Aoi, Tiffania, Shirayuki, Reiki, Koto, Usada, and Sonico are on the monitoring team, along with Shion and myself.

Aria: Everyone else is going with Noel to Eve's lab.

(Any acquired secret characters will with whichever team you pick)

Aria: While watching the Goddess of Destruction your safety takes priority. Don't pressure yourself. It's probably dangerous enough as it is.

Aria: Speed is a priority for the team going to Eve's laboratory. We have to think of a solution as soon as possible.

Rem: As usual, Claude, which team do you want to go with?

Claude: I'm.....Meru isn't here this time....

J: (It's up to you)

Claude: I'm!

[Choose Team. Go to Eve's lab (Aria). Guard the Goddess of Destruction (Mion).]

Mion: Then it's decided.

Aria: We must hurry! Mii and Kei might be after Eve's research too!

Everyone: yeah!

[If you went with Aria go to https://akurasu.net/wiki/%E8%B6%85%E3%83%92%E3%83%AD%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E6%88%A6%E8%A8%98_-_Super_Heroine_Chronicle/Flow_Chart/Episode_52:_To_Saint_Mont_Blanc_Academy_(Meru_Route) [ Episode 52: To Saint Mont Blanc Academy] to continue]

[If you went with Mion go to https://akurasu.net/wiki/%E8%B6%85%E3%83%92%E3%83%AD%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E6%88%A6%E8%A8%98_-_Super_Heroine_Chronicle/Flow_Chart/Episode_52:_Goddess_of_Destruction_(Meru_Route) [ Episode 52: Goddess of Destruction] to continue]