Side Story: Noah/Script

The following is the script of dialogue used in cutscenes in Side Story: Noah. For the preceding cutscene (for which the quest activates upon completion), see Script of Xenoblade Chronicles 3/Chapter 7#Homecoming Commences.

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Premonition

Sena

So, it's beyond this bridge...?

Lanz

Yeah.
No chance from the front, not like this.

Noah

We can go across those islands.
That way...we should be able to swing round the back.
Then...it's in and out, fast as we can.

Eunie

Yeah. We go in, we get the shard, and we hightail it outta there.

Noah

Right.

Mio

I can't see another way... Let's do it.

Noah

(Crys...)
(You were a week away from your Homecoming...)
(Why...)

Mio

Noah? You OK?

Noah

Oh, yeah.
Sorry about that.

Mio

Hmm?

Noah

(Strange... Now of all times?)

A Familiar Melody

Taion

This is unsettling.

Lanz

Not a single person anywhere in sight.

Eunie

What's goin' on?
Is this...'cause we busted up the Annihilator?

Taion

No, I very much doubt it.
We didn't do any direct damage to the Castle itself.

Sena

Maybe it's because of the machiney Queeny?

Taion

Even so, we didn't actually free the soldiers here, right?
And yet no one's here.
Huh?
The shard's changing position!
Hey, Noah!
Look at this.

Noah

Noah?
It's a song.

Taion

What song?

Mio

You're right.
It's a Kevesi one. The melody...

Noah

Yeah.
And it's not just any melody.
I know who's playing.

Mio

Crys...

Eunie

Wait, Crys...?
Wasn't that the guy who was Noah's off-seeing instructor?

Noah

Yeah...

Eunie

Huh? But, Crys is...

Lanz

Yeah.
He died. Four years ago.

Taion

Does that mean...he's been reborn, like Ethel?

Noah

No...
I don't think that's it.

Lanz

What then...like Moebius?

Mio

There are two types of Moebius.
The kind like Z and X...who were Moebius from the beginning...
and humans...who became Moebius... like N, M and Joran.

Sena

S-so...
Is this like, a trap?

Noah

Probably.
But the Origin metal readout is real. It's definitely here.

Taion

In we go?

Noah

Yeah. In we go.

Eunie

Wha-? Into the jaws?!

Noah

They're clearly aware that we're coming.
But there's no one around.
He's waiting. For me...

Former Friend

Crys

Good to see you again, Noah.

Noah

I knew it. Crys.

Crys

Thank goodness.
I'm so happy to see that you're still an off-seer.

Noah

Crys! Come out!
Reveal yourself!

Crys

I'm waiting in the throne room.
Take your time.
I want you to come up here.
Then I want you to play...
that special melody.

Noah

Crys!

Crys

I'll be waiting.

What Lies Behind a Smile

Noah

I first met Crys...on the day of a Homecoming.

Lanz

I remember.

Noah

A short time later, I put in to become an off-seer.
And then...we met again.

Crys

The name's Noah, right?
I'm Crys. Starting today, I'll be your personal tutor. All right?
Let's begin.

Noah

Hey, Crys? Tell me something.
Back then on that day, why did you look so sad?

Crys

Which day?

Noah

The day of Homecoming. In Colony 14.

Crys

Ahh.
I see. So that's how I looked to you then.

Noah

The others looked so happy.
And the soldier, he was so pleased about it.
But not you.

Crys

I think...
he probably felt content.

Noah

Content?

Crys

He had lived through it all.
Fought hard.
And in serving his Colony,
he found purpose.
I find...it's quite a tragic thing.

Noah

But why? I mean, it was time for him to return Home.

Crys

What do you think that entails?

Noah

Huh?

Crys

Reaching your life's expiry date?
Surviving through so many battles?

Noah

Well, I...

Crys

Do you honestly believe...he was happy to disappear for such trivial reasons?
That his smile belied no doubt?
To me,
he looked ready to cry.

Noah

Huh...

Crys

Being unable to choose his end,
merely accepting what comes next.

Noah

Crys...

Crys

There's no joy in a contrived death,
Noah.

Eunie

Contrived death, huh.
At this point, I get him.
Kind of, at least.

Noah

On that day...he shook my belief.
Was I really content?
Content with the path I'd chosen to follow?
And then he chose for himself.
His end...would be by his design.
I need to know.
What was he thinking back then?
And why now? Why has he appeared before me?

The Battle with Crys

Noah

Crys...

Queen of Keves

Ouroboros.
You dare to appear before me once again.
Do you not value your lives? Such idiocy.
You should never have shown your faces here again.
But you leave me no choice.
For sullying this consecrated ground,
I will see to it...that justice is served!

Crys

What a terrible din.

Noah

Huh?

Crys

Only an imitation.
Its empty words could never ring true.
Let me hear it...Noah.
I want...a true melody.

Noah's Conviction

Noah

Why, Crys?
Why become Moebius?
Tell me... What would possess you to side with them?

Crys

So I could see you again...Noah.

Noah

But why?

Crys

Your sworn mission is to change this world, is it not?

Noah

Yes.

Crys

And is that because you're unhappy with the way it is?

Noah

It's wrong, and we have to correct it.
That is all.

Crys

I see...
So relentless desire...is what drives you.

Noah

Desire?

Crys

You fight for betterment.
For ever greater aspirations.

Noah

And what's wrong with that?

Crys

Nothing at all.
It's human nature, after all.
But you still don't understand.
There's something you must learn.

Noah

What's that?

Crys

To be content...with one's lot.

Noah

What do you mean?

Crys

Don't you see? Only the strong can ever hope to reach the fabled horizon that you seek.
Your words must be backed up by strength in equal measure.
Winners' logic.

Joran

But birds... What can they possibly know of how a lowly worm feels?!

Crys

Then...what would you have become of the weak?
Would you abandon them?
You would refute their everything? End their story there?

Noah

Moebius are the ones doing that!

Crys

Noah... What you're trying to achieve here amounts to the same thing.
You really think freeing Origin will revive the world and solve all of our problems?
You must surely have heard from the Queen of Agnus.
The truth of this world.

Sena

So what then? You're saying the Queen's lying?

Crys

No... Surely not.

Sena

Then what?!

Crys

But there is no guarantee.
If...
If the Queen is wrong, and the world is not created anew...
what happens then?

Sena

Huh?

Crys

What if this is some flight of fancy?
What if you've been taken in, staking your lives, on a whim?
Who's accountable? I ask you that.

Sena

Um... Well, I...

Noah

I think...
it's still the right thing to do.

Crys

Oh?

Noah

It was your smile...Crys.
I get it now.
I know why you were smiling back then.
"I'm good here."
I get what you meant now.
You asked me once...if I would keep moving.
And my answer...

Crys

Tell me, Noah.

Noah

I will. To the end.
So that I can treasure those final moments...

Crys

Final?

Noah

When that hour is upon me... I want to look back and smile...
Then I'll be..."good".

Crys

Huh?

Noah

And to come out smiling...we all have to choose where our lives take us.
For our future selves.
And yet...lack of choice is enough to break a person.
They struggle, suffer... clawing their way through endless fog.
A world without choice... That's wrong.
If death is a lie in this world,
it deserves to end.

Crys

So you'd rather perish along with the world.

Noah

I just...
I just want to cut this world free from Moebius.

Crys

Whatever the consequences?

Noah

Yeah.
Otherwise...the Queen would never have told us the things she did.
We take everything as it comes.
And we're afforded so little.
Still... No matter how slim a chance we might have, it's a chance.
So if that's an option we can take...
Then I'll take it!

Crys

Noah.
Your melody... I hear it loud and clear.
Now show it to me.
Your conviction...
and your smile!

Sing Your Song for All to Hear

Crys

It's...
a beautiful song...Noah.
Noah...
The one who made me Moebius...
...was Z.
And it wasn't just me.
J too. And N...and M...
All of us were human once,
and Z changed our very being.

Noah

Why? Why would he do that to you?

Crys

For that...you'd be best off asking Z himself.
But listen...Noah.
I think in the end, I was happy... to have become Moebius.
How could I not be...
after hearing such a wonderful song.

Noah

Crys...

Crys

Moebius are...an entity bound by the confines of this world.
Strong...yet somehow fragile...
And in their fragility...they crave only the "now".
Fearing to tread even a single step towards the future...
I chose...
the path of the off-seer...because I had a thought.
The sender, and the ones being sent...
I wanted to learn exactly what it was... that connected them.
Though we may be forgotten... our feelings live on.
It is through our melodies that we carry them on.
I think...I once told you something... to that effect?

Noah

Yeah.

Crys

There's a place doing just that:
The City.

Noah

The City is?

Crys

The many lives born of the City...
Lives, whose existence was never recorded in Origin...
They are our future.
They themselves are proof of the coming winds of change.

Noah

I think...I see...

Crys

They are...
our hope.
Just as you once were,
they too are the product of Ouroboros's will.
And that...is something that can never die.

Noah

Crys...
You knew everything all along...

Crys

Noah... One last thing.

Sena

Aren't you gonna...?

Crys

You really...do play the most beautiful tune...
Go now, Noah.
Sing your song...
for all to hear...

Lanz

Noah...

Noah

Hm?

Lanz

So those things Crys said... What was that all about?

Noah

Finding value.

Lanz

What now?

Noah

Crys... When he played his off-seer song, he conveyed his wish to me.
His wish...that I would come to find value in all things.

Taion

He entrusted it all to you, Noah.
Ergo...
The rest is history.

Noah

Yeah.
But it's so...

Mio

Sad, isn't it?

Noah

I'm going. For sure.
His wishes won't be in vain as we march...
on Origin.

Z

Do you truly want it thus, o ye voices?
Then let me enunciate, emphatically so,
the rules to which this world adheres, for the benefit of us all.