 Ruda: [It calmed down once I chased away the Harpies.]- Ruda: They ran with the riches while I was fighting.
- Ruda: Is this why they involved the Harpies...? Conniving crooks.
- Ruda: I will not fall for the same trick again.
- Ruda: [I've swallowed my bitterness and called out to the villagers hiding in their homes.]
- Ruda: Everyone! It's safe now!
- Ruda: [Though I could sense their presence, I did not hear any sound. I went to the closest house and knocked on the door.]
- Ruda: Is anyone here?
- Ruda: [When I heard no reply, I had a sudden bad feeling and felt shivers down my back.]
- Ruda: [Thankfully, I heard a voice. It was weak and in despair.]
 Villager: Lady Ruda...- Ruda: You're here! Are you safe?
- Villager: Lady Ruda... We are safe, but what use is it? It's all for nothing.
- Ruda: [I swallowed my greeting. Of course. There was no relief to be felt. They have already paid a sacrifice too big to ask for anyone.]
- Ruda: [Kalmahari is not a land with abundant resources. It was the patience and perseverance of the people that has led to the success of this village.]
- Ruda: But the bandits attacked the village two times like this...!]
- Villager: This is their second attack. I'm sure for the bandits, our village looks like well fed cattle for slaughter.
- Ruda: Don't say that...
- Villager: The way they come by and take out belongings like they are entitled to it seems to suggest that's how they view us.
- Villager: So you don't have to worry about us any more, Lady Ruda. We will be leaving.
- Ruda: ... Do you have a place to go?
- Villager: The land is as vast as the sky. Surely we can find somewhere we can settle.
- Ruda: It's hopeless. They have lost most of the wealth they have accumulated. Even moving to another village would be difficult endeavor.]
- Ruda: But... There's nothing I can say. I said my farewells and returned.]
- Ruda: There will be more letters to inscribe on the wall.
- Ruda: I have yet again failed to protect them...
- [Village Outskirts]
- Ruda: [On the way out, I fond a bandit who has yet to run away in a house partially destroyed by bandits.]
- Ruda: Because of you, innocent people, who didn't have to lose their lives...!
- (TAP TAP TAP...!)
- Ruda: [I chased down the bandit desperately running away again and again, until I cornered him.]
- Ruda: The bandit, trapped by the wall, sank to the ground.]
- Ruda: [... He was a terribly skinny young man.]
- Ruda: [He was barely twenty. It was hard to tell, because of how emaciated he was, but he must have been around that age.]
- Young Man: I'm young! I was just, so, so, hungry! I didn't kill anyone! Please... Have mercy...
- Ruda: [The dull sword he dropped did not have a single drop of blood.]
- Ruda: [I could see his bony arms and legs between his battered clothes.]
- Ruda: [When I saw his sunken stomach, with his ribs all visible... I have lost my will to fight.]
- Young Man: I swear! I only followed them because they told we won't have to wander, to starve if we find the El!
- Young Man: And then, I saw a pot covered by a lid in the kitchen, and hope maybe, there would be food...
- Young Man: I'm telling the truth... I didn't steal anything! I couldn't find the El... I don't even know what that looks like!
- Ruda: You idiot! The Wind El cannot be found! It's been sealed with the Behemoth aleady, ages ago!
- Ruda: [Without meaning to, I yelled in sorrow.]
- Ruda: [The boy did no understand what I said. He only cowered in fear and sobbed because he was afraid of me raising my voice.]
- Ruda: Ahhh... Ahhh...! Goddess, why must such tragedies exist!
- Ruda: This hunger, this grief...! How long do we have to repeat this cycle!
- Vayur: (Ruda... Be patient. You must.)
- Vayur: (When the Goddess looks after us gain, the El will be joined once more, and the chain of tragedies will finally end.)
- Ruda: No! No, Lady Vayur! You're wrong... That day will never come!
- Ruda: I have seen it... The wind whispered to me!
- Ruda: I saw the land burn, the people aim their weapons to each other!
- Ruda: The war to claim the El will never end! Out patience will never be awareded!
- Ruda: What are we praying for?
- Ruda: What do we have to do to escape this tragedy!!
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Wailing Wind
