Bye Bye, Earth (ばいばい、アース)

Where am I?

An age when the supply of Electhor still flowed.

Behold the paradise of the ancient gods.

And the moon.

"Moon" is the name of a world.

A name for change.

An alias for death and rebirth.

The moon...

The twilight of the gods.

They're leaving on a journey.

Running from destruction.

That day, when the twilight of the gods arrived

and all the gods took flight from the Holy Star...

Are they... throwing something away?

Me?!

Where is everybody?

Discarded by the gods, we trembled in grief

as the shutdown program prepared to send us into eternal sleep.

Then you appeared.

This is a place for having fun.

Everyone must be here.

They must all be here playing.

Hey, where is everybody?

Where are you?

Welcome!

Thank you for coming to see us!

This is a theme park to entertain the gods.

We are mascots to entertain the gods.

Let's play!

Let's play together!

We were overjoyed.

As long as we had you,

we could uphold our reason for being indefinitely.

This is wrong.

What's the matter?

You don't talk.

But we are talking.

No, there's just words coming out of you.

None of you want to play with me.

None of you really see me.

Do you mean we're not people?

It's true.

We are far from being personalities.

We are merely mechanical intelligences.

But it all began from there.

Because just one girl...

Uttered just one word.

Wait!

Take me with you!

I don't want to play alone!

You were not eternal.

You were finite.

Therefore...

Following survivor confirmation, postpone initiation of shutdown program.

Engage life support.

Enhance physique in order to withstand long-term cryogenic sleep.

All theme park game facilities will now indefinitely postpone shutdown programs

pending confirmation of survivor intent.

All theme park facilities will now sow organic plants

and maintain life-support systems indefinitely.

Commence generating livable environments.

Releasing life forms for generation of evolutionary environment...

Thus began our constant struggle against the shutdown program built into us.

And after a vast span of time,

we finally triumphed.

We ruled this world as divinities,

and our subjects were developing into personalities.

But then you reawakened.

We faced the threat that you would dismantle us.

I don't get it!

Nothing you say makes any sense to me!

How is it someone else's fault if you live or die?!

You're trying to blame that on me?!

The past is long since lost.

We have pursued the development of personalities.

And yet... And yet...

Just when the denizens of this world began to achieve individuality, you woke up!

You, a descendant of the gods of yore!

You are the original reason for this world!

You will wreak the twilight of the gods here!

So all you want is to get even with your destiny?!

You're not making sense!

If you need me, just say so!

If I'm your enemy, just cross swords with me!

Both are true, girl of reason!

None of the old gods exist in this world anymore!

You are utterly alone.

Once the despair of that infects you, we will render you eternal,

and we will become eternal ourselves!

In this universe of darkness!

You moron.

That's not what I'm here for.

I can sympathize.

I'm going to take everything that's torn you apart...

and turn it into the reason you're here!

Belle Lablac!

That's my name!

Come on! Call my name!

Is this god's hunger?

What's it so hungry for?

We hunger for a reason to exist.

Girl of reason...

Can you sublate the hunger of those without bodies,

who sought to become people and failed?

So you want me to stop your hunger?

By killing you?

What we are cannot die.

We can only activate the shutdown program or be destroyed.

You will initiate it.

No one else in this world can.

Damn it!

When you truly journey forth, we will have outlived our usefulness

and return to our birdcage...

to the silent sea of eternity.

You did tell me that, didn't you,

Adonis?!

The howl of Erehwon reveals the reason.

Will you charge us with its ruin?

When this individual leaves this lunar world in pursuit of the planetary migrants,

shutdown program will reengage.

The keyword lies in this individual's consciousness.

I'll try the question of whether or not you die

with this sword!

This world started out as a paradise for the gods' games.

We were nothing but toy dolls for them to play with.

Why did dolls start walking the path to personhood?

Because of a game.

And from beings that play with the gods, we became beings who play among ourselves.

That is the origin of personality.

The black hour?

It's the color of your eyes.

Adonis.

Belle.

What's wrong with you?

You...

You big dummy!

It's all right now, Belle.

You sure are warm.

Ships?

I think Deus Ex Machina is imagining where the gods of legend went.

I hurt real bad inside.

I have since I came out of that stone egg.

I know those ships can't hold all that many.

Belle.

You're a descendant of the real gods.

So what?

I bet the "real gods" didn't know who or what they were, either.

Just look at me.

Belle...

I don't have a homeland or a family or my own kind to go back to anymore.

What the hell? I'm just some kid no one wanted.

I wanted to know why I'm here. Am I supposed to take this for an answer?