Haku

'Let's go. To the forest.'

*Haku - The son of the forest who lives in solitude*

*Indifferent, Calm, Nonchalant, and Detached*

## Intro

Haku sometimes wakes up in the middle of the night. In summer, he's surrounded by the chirping of insects and birds in the woods; in winter, everything is dead quiet. Haku often uses his fox flames as a light source when he's resting at a secluded creek or whispering to the tree elves. During the day, Haku likes to take a walk in the forest and play with animals, which are not afraid of him at all. It's almost like Haku himself is a part of the forest instead of a member of the human world. Enjoying solitary, Haku doesn't like to be disturbed by others and rarely shows any emotions. The forest adds an aura of mystery to the boy as time passes, and nobody knows much about him except that he's a Kaism hierophant.

### Forming a Pact

**Haku's rarity:** SR

**Max Epiphany without Illumination:** Level 5

The player can form a pact with Haku by the following methods:

* Starter Summon
	+ Use 14 Heart Stones to add this Gyee to the Starter Summon pool.
* Limited Summon
	+ You can form a pact with Haku by summoning him on his limited-time banner.

## Skills

### Basic

**Skill Level**
1. 72%
2. 77%
3. 82%
4. 87%
	+ Increases the damage of Incinerate by 25%.

### Advanced

* [Subdued I]: Increases M.DMG taken by 15%. Lasts 2 rounds and can be purified.

**Skill Level**
1. 97%
2. 114%
3. 131%
4. 158%
	+ Increases the damage of Subjugate by 15%.
* **Oppressive**
	+ Inflicts [Subdued II] on the secondary targets.
		- [Subdued II]: Increases M.DMG taken by 10%.

### Ultimate

* [Suffering]: The character cannot receive any buffs. Lasts for 1 round and can be purified.

**Skill Level**
1. 345%
2. 381%
3. 417%
4. 453%
	+ Increases the damage of Boundless Void by 10%.
* **Void Ward**
	+ Casting Boundless Void grants a shield that absorbs M.ATK \*100% damage (the shield's HP is greatly increased in the PVP). Lasts for 2 rounds.
* **Vicious Cycle**
	+ If Boundless Void kills the target, Haku takes action again and recovers 30 Focus points.

### Mastery

* [Inner Fire]: Before taking action, gains 1 Concentration if self HP is below 50%.
* [Fire Imbued]: At the beginning of the battle and the end of his action, Haku gains one of the following effects based on the stacks of Fox Flames he possesses:
	+ [Kindled]: When holding 0 to 2 stacks of Fox Flames, reduces damage taken by 50%.
	+ [Eternal Flame]: When holding 3 or 4 stacks of Fox Flames, increases damage dealt by 20%.
	+ [Combustion]: When holding 5 stacks of Fox Flames, increases damage dealt by 20%, removing and becoming immune to control effects.

## Imprint

### Basic Engraving

* Wisdom Engraving (M.ATK +0.48% per Engraving level)
	+ Each engraving level requires I.N. Flux - Fire x120 and Gold x25,000

### Imprint Skill

The following Imprint Skill can be equipped on other Gyees and Avatars once unlocked.

* Nether Fire lasts 22 rounds, does not stack. Cannot be dispelled. Removed when defeated.
	+ Immune to paralysis.
	+ If inflicted with poison, burn or bleed, then gains 1 Concentration.
* Nascent Fire lasts 4 rounds, does not stack. Cannot be dispelled. Removed when defeated.
	+ Reduces damage taken by 40%.
* Grievous Fire lasts 4 rounds, does not stack. Cannot be dispelled. Removed when defeated.
	+ Increases damage dealt by 10%.
	+ Places Lonely Whispers on all enemies after gaining the buff.
* Ghostly Fire lasts 4 rounds, does not stack. Cannot be dispelled. Removed when defeated.
	+ Increases damage dealt by 15%.
	+ Removes all control effects upon gaining this buff, and becomes immune to control effects while this buff is active.
* Kindling lasts 4 rounds, does not stack. Can be dispelled. Removed when defeated.
	+ When dispelled, the holder takes true damage equal to 15% of max HP.
* Lonely Whisper lasts 1 round, does not stack. Cannot be dispelled. Removed when defeated.
* Endless Nether Fire: Lasts 22 rounds, cannot be dispelled, removed when defeated, does not stack.
	+ If inflicted with poison, burn or bleed, then gains 1 Concentration.
* Nether Kindling: Lasts 4 rounds, cannot be dispelled, removed when defeated, does not stack.
	+ While the effect is active, becomes immune to all control effects.
	+ Increases the holder's damage dealt by 15%, and reduces damage taken by 30%.
* Lonely Whisper lasts 1 round, does not stack. Cannot be dispelled. Removed when defeated.
	+ The holder cannot gain any buffs.

## Intimacy

### Date Choices

Dates will give either 500, 700, or 900 intimacy points depending on the choice selected.

* **Rest - Think of a recreational activity that suits Haku and recommend it to him.**
	+ **Cue:** Hmm... Give me a sec to think of some leisurely activities that would be good for you...
		- Back on Earth, we have this thing called flower arrangement...
		*900 Intimacy*
		- Life is hard. You should beat up Shadows to vent your anger.
		*700 Intimacy*
		- Go out and travel. Get close to nature.
		*500 Intimacy*

* **Festival - A food festival is currently being held in Elysiann. What kinds of gourmets are you going to bring to Haku?**
	+ **Cue:** What should I take him?
		- A beautifully-crafted dessert
		*900 Intimacy*
		- A unique-tasting Sour and Spicy Fruit
		*500 Intimacy*
		- A classic old-fashioned dessert
		*700 Intimacy*

* **Windy Night - Haku asks you to help him eradicate the poachers in the Star Woods.**
	+ **Cue:** Tonight is when they'll be collecting their traps.
		- Dismantle the traps and collect evidence
		*500 Intimacy*
		- Fight them!
		*700 Intimacy*
		- Go with Haku to ask the Shadowhunters for help.
		*900 Intimacy*

### Intimacy Blocks

To reach Intimacy levels 7 and 11, Haku needs mementos (found in Darkflux Raid), reiki (found in Extreme Fight or Arcana Tracker), and the following block item:

* **Intimacy Level 7**
	+ S - Handmade Sparrow
		- It is a vivid handmade sparrow. Placing it outside the window will make one think it would fly away immediately.
		Used to break through Haku's Intimacy. Obtained in Extreme Fight.
* **Intimacy Level 11**
	+ Fox Mask
		- This seems to be Haku's fox mask. Leaving it outside the cabin like that doesn't seem to be his usual style. Perhaps he was nervous about something?
		Used to break through Haku's Intimacy. Obtained in Extreme Fight.

### Basic Drink Preferences

 No bonus

 No bonus

 No bonus

 No bonus

*Note: All blended drinks have a base preference bonus of 25% that can be modified by the drink's attributes.*

### Gift Preferences

**50% bonus**

**25% bonus**

**No bonus**

### Views

Unlock views by leveling the intimacy of other gyees.

* **Miles**: Oh... Could he have been raised by a white fox for a while? Ha-ha, I can see some traits of a fox in him!
*Miles's Intimacy reaches Lv.4 to unlock*
* **Sven**: There was indeed some misunderstanding between us when we first met. But then we cleared it up. Don't worry about Haku living in the forest alone. He knows how to take care of himself.
*Sven's Intimacy reaches Lv.4 to unlock*
* **Grancy**: You can often see that kid in the woods. It's a surprise that he can talk to the tree elves. Does it mean he's carrying a certain kind of responsibility...? Hopefully, it's not too heavy for him.
*Grancy's Intimacy reaches Lv.4 to unlock*
* **Billy**: That kiddo comes to see Captain often. He's always clean and tidy and polite but also a bit distant. Captain seems to be the only one that he takes close to heart.
*Billy's Intimacy reaches Lv.4 to unlock*
* **Villager**: I saw it! I swear I saw something! Like a flash in the woods!
* **Elysiann Passerby**: I once saw an unusual kid standing in front of a hierophant's house as if he's waiting for someone... That kid couldn't be a elf or something, could he?
* **Hunter**: What, a ghost? That's just a boy living in the forest! But anyway, you'd better not hunt animals when he's around. That kid looks way too calm, and it's kind of scary.

## Scripts

### Consolation Letter

Thank you very much for your present. Here's something I brought for you.

### Bath Drama

* The water temperature is just right...
* I used to take baths often when I lived in the woods... But only in summer...
* If you feel cold, I can light up my fox flames to keep you warm...

### Fave Hottie Slogan

Shh, it's hard to avoid noise when there are so many people around. It's been a long journey, and you might as well rest here with me for a while.

### Intimacy Breakthrough

**This section contains spoilers for Intimacy Breakthrough scenes.**

**-Intimacy Level 4**

*Nighttime.*
*Player suddenly feels a slight chill.*
**Player**: Ah, it's cold. Where's my quilt...
**Player**: Huh?! What's this?!
*Before Player's eyes are dense woods, and the sound of gurgling waters fills their ears.*
**Player**: Wasn't I just asleep? What am I doing in the woods?!
*A bell rings softly, and a figure emerges into the moonlight.*
*Their bright white clothes stands out sharply against the night woods.*
**Haku**: ...
**Player**: Haku...
*Haku bows, as if to express his gratitude.*
**Player**: H...huh?
**Haku**: Thank you for the gift.
**Player**: What?
**Haku**: Have a nice dream.
*Early morning, on the airship*
**Player**: Haku!
**Billy**: What's wrong, Captain?
**Billy**: You scared the hell out of me, screaming like that first thing in the morning.
**Player**: It's all right, I'm fine. I had a dream. Sorry.
**Player**: (The dream seemed so real...)
**Player**: Haku...

**-Intimacy Level 5**

*On the airship*
**Billy**: Don't forget, captain. We're going to the temple this evening.
**Player**: Okay. I won't be late!
*Nighttime*
*The bell rings and the practitioners quietly begin their worship.*
**Player**: Why are so many people worshiping at the temple tonight?
**Billy**: Some astrologers say that today's celestial aspects only occur once every 100 years and that today, everyone's appeals to karma will be heard!
**Player**: Karma? What karma?
**Billy**: Good karma, predestined love, happiness... Karmic retribution!
**Player**: Is there such a thing?
**Billy**: I made it up. Just join in the fun!
**Player**: Haha. Where I come from, we have a saying: Always keep your dreams at heart, and they are sure to come true!
**Player**: Billy, what you pray for today will certainly come to fruition!
*A string of bell chimes ring out, like ripples in the heart.*
*Player suddenly becomes aware of the temple nearby.*
*Though the courtyard is full of candles, no one has come to visit.*
**Player**: Huh? Over there, that looks like...
**Billy**: What's wrong, Captain?
**Player**: It's nothing, Billy. You go on ahead. I'll come find you in a minute.
**Billy**: Huh? Captain?
*Temple Courtyard*
**Player**: That person in white... Is that Haku?
**Haku**: I've got something for you.
*Haku opens his palm, revealing a sparrow.*
**Player**: Huh?!
*Player stares at it for a bit then realizes that the sparrow isn't real.*
**Player**: This sparrow... It's handmade!
**Player**: It's so realistic, Haku. Was it made using real feathers?
**Haku**: They're fallen feathers.
**Player**: This is a well-made gift. Thank you, Haku.
**Haku**: Take it.
**Haku**: Is this how someone establishes a relationship?
**Player**: Huh?
**Haku**: An interpersonal relationship.
**Haku**: Established through gift-giving.
**Player**: Haku, this is...
**Player**: A relationship between people can't be established through such superficial actions alone.
**Haku**: ...
**Haku**: Then how?
**Player**: It's complicated...
**Player**: Some people are separated from their friends by great distances, but their hearts are still connected. Even if they haven't heard from each other in a long time, when they do see each other again, they're as close as ever.
**Player**: Some people are inseparable and spend every day together.
**Player**: Some people can't seem to get along and always fight, but still regard one another as trusted friends.
**Player**: In short, if you want to establish a relationship, the most important thing is to keep the other person in your heart.
**Haku**: To keep them in your heart.
**Haku**: ...
**Haku**: Your friend is looking for you.
**Billy**: What are you doing here, Captain?
**Player**: Billy, I...
*A breeze passes, and Haku is already gone.*
**Player**: I'm just here getting some air.
**Billy**: I'm done here. Let's go back to the airship!
**Player**: All right!
**Player**: I'll put this sparrow at the head of my bed!

**-Intimacy Level 6**

*In the Star Woods*
**Player**: I've got some free time today. I need to ask Haku about my dream.
**???**: Help! Help me!
**Player**: That sounds like a child crying for help!
*Deep in the Woods*
**Boy**: No! Alexander!
**Player**: A little boy over there is being attacked by a wolf!
*Player stands in front of the boy to protect him and readies their Arcana, glaring at the wolf.*
*The wolf looks at Player for a moment. It snorts and then turns to leave.*
*In front of the boy is a dog with its throat bitten. It lies on the ground taking its last breath, choking on its own blood.*
**Boy**: Oh, no... Alexander...
**Player**: The woods are very dangerous, little boy. Where do you live? I can take you home...
**Boy**: If I didn't come to the woods to play then... Alexander wouldn't...
**Player**: ...
*After comforting the boy, Player takes him home.*
**Player**: Alas...
**Haku**: You saved the little boy, but he still cried.
**Player**: Haku?! You saw the whole thing?!
**Player**: He survived, but lost his best friend...
**Player**: To a survivor, this kind of pain can never be forgotten.
**Haku**: That dog has simply returned to the woods.
**Haku**: And if you hadn't saved him, that boy would have returned to the woods, too.
**Player**: Returned to the woods?
**Haku**: Life courses through the woods.
**Haku**: The death of the body does not mean the annihilation of the soul.
**Player**: ...Who told you that?
**Haku**: ...
**Haku**: Am I wrong?
**Haku**: There is no need to cling to the flesh.
**Player**: But when you no longer have the ability to create shared memories together...
**Player**: and you think about the times you spent together before, you'll feel sad.
**Player**: What's more, that boy saw his friend die.
**Player**: Perhaps his tears didn't just contain his sadness and his grief, but also the powerlessness and fear he felt when he faced his enemy.
**Haku**: ...
**Haku**: It's all very complicated.
**Player**: Haku...
**Player**: Haku couldn't be this indifferent about his own life, could he?
**Player**: He seems to have no mortal concerns or attachments.
**Player**: Like the web of a spider, everything seems to simply dissipate for him.
**Player**: ...
**Haku**: It's getting late. I'd better get back.
**Haku**: We will meet again.

**-Intimacy Level 7**

*After a busy day, Player finally returns to the airship.*
*After resting for a while, you play with the handmade sparrow by your bedside.*
**Player**: Haku told me before that 'life courses through the woods.'
**Player**: When facing his own death, will he handle it so calmly...
**Player**: Haku has a view of right and wrong that's very different from most people.
**Player**: Is the world in his eyes different from the one we see?
**Billy**: Captain! It's so late. Why aren't you asleep?
**Billy**: The Order of Equality and Oathblades have been looking for you lately. You need to get started bright and early tomorrow.
**Player**: All right. I'll get to sleep then!
**Player**: Should I let Haku go, or...
*Player prepares to go to sleep.*
*Scene - The Star Woods*
**Player**: Do I smell...flowers?
**Player**: Ah!
*Player opens their eyes and finds themselves in the woods.*
**Player**: This is Haku's dream!
**Player**: What am I doing back here?
*In the distance, wisteria hangs down like a curtain. There seems to be dew upon its petals.*
*Haku stands off to the side, silently watching Player.*
**Player**: Haku, why have you pulled me into your dream?
**Haku**: You came here on your own.
**Haku**: I can only enter dreams when someone is thinking about me.
**Haku**: What's on your mind?
*Choice 1.1 - I feel like you could disappear at any time.*
**Player**: The words you said to me before have given me a feeling that you could disappear at any time.
**Haku**: I won't disappear out of thin air.
**Player**: What I mean is, you will suddenly stop contacting me and I'll never see you again.
**Haku**: ...
**Haku**: Do you worry so much about every person or thing that has the potential to leave you?
**Player**: No, it's just that... We've gone through so much together.
**Player**: I don't want to let you go.
*Choice 1.2 - I think you're different from everyone else.*
**Player**: The words you said to me before made me feel like you're different from everyone else.
**Player**: I feel like you see the world very differently.
**Player**: You've seen things I cannot.
**Haku**: Yes.
**Player**: So I'm at a loss. I don't know if I should use my perspective of the world when communicating with you.
**Player**: Or use my perspective of the world to judge your actions.
**Player**: For example, I always feel like you're going to leave. However, I don't know if that's good or bad for you.
**Player**: So, do I need to dissuade you?
*Conversation continues after choices*
**Haku**: I will always live in the Star Woods.
**Haku**: I will never leave.
**Haku**: But Player, if I were really to leave...
**Haku**: I would tell you first.
**Haku**: I would tell you where I was going.
**Haku**: We will meet again.
**Haku**: ...
**Haku**: It's getting light out. You'd better get back.
*Continue to Trifle*

**-Intimacy Level 8**

**Player**: Oh... I know this feeling...
*Player opens their eyes to find themselves inside Haku's dream again.*
**Player**: Ah! This is Bergsen's house.
**???**: Stop leaning on the window, Haku. Come eat.
**Player**: Is this Bergsen from several years ago?
**Player**: Why is Haku dreaming about something that happened several years ago?
**Player**: Maybe Haku's been thinking of Bergsen?
*Player looks around, and the circumstances of the dream change in an instant.*
*Bergsen leans against the cradle, teasing the baby inside.*
**Bergsen**: Look at this baby's nose turn!
**Bergsen**: Look at it make a crying face.;Look at it make a happy face!
**Bergsen**: Huh? You don't like that?
**Bergsen**: Little baby, you don't like to cry or smile. I can't even tell if you're hungry or not!
**Bergsen**: Oh? When you put your hand in your mouth, that means that you're hungry?
**Bergsen**: Such a good baby...
**Player**: I want to go see what Haku was like when he was a baby.
*Player steps forward, but the dream changes again.*
**Player**: This dream's sense of time is really disordered...
**Player**: I don't know what time period this is.
*It's the middle of the night. Haku sits by the window, looking out.*
*Many tree elves are fluttering around him.*
**Haku**: Why have you come for me?
**Haku**: I have a good life here.
**Player**: Huh? Is Haku talking to me? ...No. He's talking with the tree elves.
**Haku**: Yggdrasil needs me?
*Haku stands up and goes out the door.*
**Player**: Haku! Where are you going?!
*The dream changes for the third time. Player finds themselves outside.*
*Haku is standing by a dock, looking at something.*
**Player**: This must be when Haku left Bergsen...
**Haku**: The tree elves said that Yggdrasil needs me.
**Player**: Is... Is Haku looking at me?
**Haku**: (Nods)
**Haku**: So I'm leaving.
**Player**: Haku, I can't tell... Is this a memory of you? Or the real you?
**Haku**: The real me.
**Haku**: The doll has made me remember lots of things.
**Haku**: I... I want to stay here just a little bit longer.
**Haku**: Will you stay with me?
**Player**: All right. I'll stay with you, Haku.
*Player pulls Haku, and the two of them sit on the ground together.*
**Player**: Your dreams seem so real. The wind...
*The two of them keep talking until they wake up from the dream.*

**-Intimacy Level 9**

*The Star Woods*
**Player**: Phew, it's done! This wave of Shadows has been dealt with.
**Haku**: ...
**Player**: Haku! What a coincidence! Before I came to the Star Woods, I was wondering if I would run into you here.
**Player**: This is a rare opportunity. Why don't you come to the Hottie Bar and sit with me? The airship is parked nearby.
**Haku**: All right.
*Hottie Bar*
**Player**: I'm sorry, children can't drink liquor. Here's some specially prepared orange juice for you!
*Haku takes the orange juice and tries a sip.*
**Player**: (Judging from that last dream and his birthday, Haku seems to have feelings for Bergsen.)
**Player**: (Why doesn't he go back to see him?)
**Player**: (I'll take this opportunity to ask him.)
**Player**: Hey Haku, why haven't you gone back to Elysiann all these years?
**Haku**: I've been back.
**Player**: But Bergsen said that ever since you left from the dock, he hasn't seen you again.
**Haku**: I've gone back several times.
**Haku**: I saw Bergsen...
**Haku**: He's doing well.
**Player**: Uh... Haku, do you mean you took one look at him and then left?
**Haku**: Yes.
**Haku**: I have nothing to talk with him about.
**Player**: But Bergsen misses you.
**Player**: Since you left, Bergsen hasn't seen you again. He doesn't know where you've been or how you've been doing...
**Player**: Haku, when you get the chance, you should go back and visit Bergsen.
**Haku**: And do what?
**Player**: Tell Bergsen what you've been through the past few years. Show him the grown-up you.
**Haku**: All right...
**Haku**: Come with me. How about it?
**Player**: Okay!

**-Intimacy Level 10**

*In front of Bergsen's house.*
**Player**: Bergsen, are you home?
**Bergsen**: I'm here. Oh, you're back? Cough...
**Bergsen**: Come on in...
*Bergsen lies ill in bed. When he sees Player enter, he props himself up.*
**Bergsen**: Have you found Haku?
**Bergsen**: A few days ago, I saw Haku in a dream...
**Player**: Look who it is, Bergsen.
**Haku**: ...
**Bergsen**: Ah? Is this... Is this Haku? Cough, cough.
**Bergsen**: Haku. Come here...
**Bergsen**: This is exactly how I saw it in my dream, Haku...
**Bergsen**: It seems that I wasn't wrong. You grew up to be such a big young man!
**Player**: (So Bergsen went into Haku's dream, too...)
**Bergsen**: Ah... I want to take you to the place I found you... Cough...
**Bergsen**: It's too bad I probably won't get the chance... Cough!
*Because of his excitement, Bergsen has a coughing fit.*
**Player**: Drink some water, Bergsen. What's wrong?
**Bergsen**: It's nothing. But... My time is almost up.
**Bergsen**: Haku, it's so good to get to see you again.
*Bergsen's eyes tear up.*
*Haku lightly grasps Bergsen's hand.*
**Haku**: You weren't coughing before.
**Haku**: This year...
*Haku looks around.*
**Haku**: Nothing's changed since last year.
**Haku**: Why have you suddenly fallen ill?
**Bergsen**: Haku... Do you mean that you've come back before?
**Haku**: (Nods)
*Bergsen silently clasps Haku's hand.*
*The two of them look at each other without speaking a word.*
*Dusk*
*In front of Bergsen's house.*
**Haku**: Did you know, Player?
**Haku**: When I left, I thought that leaving was the most natural thing in the world, and that I just had to accept it.
**Haku**: I never thought that a reunion could be so sweet.
**Haku**: That someone in the human world would miss me.
**Haku**: I'm not just someone from the woods.
**Haku**: It wasn't until I met you that I felt this.
**Player**: How do you feel now?
**Haku**: I want to experience more...
**Haku**: However, I need to savor the emotions I've felt today.
**Haku**: Thank you. I'm going back now.
*Haku leaves.*

**-Intimacy Level 11**

**Player**: What are you doing here on the airship, Haku?
**Haku**: Bergsen's soul has left.
**Player**: What?!
**Haku**: He said good-bye to me in a dream.
**Player**: Are you okay, Haku?
*(Haku shakes his head.)*
**Player**: Let's go.
**Haku**: Go where?
**Player**: We're going to see Bergsen off for the last time.
*Scene - Outside Bergsen's house*
*Player and Haku arrive at Bergsen's residence.*
*Several volunteers work silently in front of the house.*
**Volunteer Woman**: Hey, aren't you that person from before?
**Volunteer Woman**: Uh... Bergsen will be buried this afternoon...
**Volunteer Woman**: Were you friends of his? Are you here to join the funeral?
**Player**: This is his adopted son...
**Volunteer Woman**: Oh...
*(The volunteer woman looks Haku up and down in disgust)*
**Volunteer Woman**: Then don't cause any trouble!
**Player**: Okay, sorry for troubling you...
**Player**: (It seems that the woman is a little prejudiced against Haku for leaving home...)
*Bergsen lay in the coffin peacefully, ready for the funeral.*
**Haku**: Bergsen is just a shell now.
*Haku crouches over and touches Bergsen's hand.*
**Haku**: His soul took away his warmth.
**Haku**: Besides, he'll no longer be the Bergsen I knew.
**Haku**: He's just a shell...
**Haku**: Why do we attach so much importance to a shell?
*Choice 1.1 - Because he will melt away completely.*
**Player**: Because shortly, he will be buried, melt away, and become a pile of unrecognizable bones.
**Player**: You will never see him again, and he will never visit your dreams again.
**Player**: So take this opportunity to get a good look and etch his face into your mind.
**Player**: Actually, this is just the wishful thinking of the living.
**Player**: Because we know we're getting ready to say goodbye forever, we try to create memories all on our own.
*Choice 1.2 - He is not just a shell, he is the Bergsen you know.*
**Player**: Haku, I know that in your viewpoint, life flows and does not end because of the body's death.
**Player**: But...for now, this body is all Bergsen is.
**Haku**: What do you mean?
**Player**: Is the Bergsen of your memories, the one who brings you warmth, the soul itself...
**Player**: Or is it his corporeal form?
**Player**: Perhaps Bergsen's soul really has left his body, and this body has become a mere shell.
**Player**: But it is also something into which you put your heart and emotions.
**Player**: It doesn't matter what form Bergsen will take in the future. A deer. A dog. Maybe even another person.
**Player**: This is body is how you will always remember him.
**Player**: Also, I know that if he appeared in front of you again, he probably wouldn't bring you the same warmth he used to.
*Conversation continues after choices*
**Haku**: ...
**Haku**: I do not understand...
**Haku**: I don't want to see it right now.
**Haku**: I just want to find Bergsen.
**Haku**: I want to find wherever his soul is residing.
**Player**: Haku...
**Player**: Let's bury him and put his vessel in its rightful place.
**Haku**: Where will he be put?
**Player**: A public cemetery for clergy.
**Haku**: I'm never going to see him again, am I?
**Player**: In the future, you can visit his gravestone to remember him...
*Haku softly clutches Bergsen's hand.*
**Haku**: Goodbye.
*In the afternoon, Bergsen's funeral is held as planned.*
*Haku stands in front of Player, looking on silently.*
*Before leaving, Haku takes a handful of grave dirt.*

**-Intimacy Level 12**

**Player**: It's been a while since Bergsen passed away...
**Player**: Haku has been living in the woods alone for this period of time, and I haven't visited his dreams since.
**Player**: I'm going to check in on him.
*The Star Woods, in front of a small wooden house.*
**Player**: You're home, Haku.
**Haku**: Player, you're here!
**Player**: How have you been lately? Have you found the next body that Bergsen's soul has inhabited?
**Haku**: I can't find it.
**Player**: Ah...
**Haku**: Are you worried about me, Player?
**Player**: Yeah. You just lost a loved one. I hope it hasn't got you too down...
**Haku**: I went to see Bergsen.
**Haku**: Just as before, he's still doing well.
**Player**: What?!
**Haku**: Someone will help him keep his gravestone clean and pay him tribute.
**Haku**: Just as before, he doesn't know I've been coming to see him.
**Player**: Haku...
**Haku**: What will happen to Bergsen's body?
**Player**: It will probably decompose into bones, then stone, and then that's the state it will exist in for millions of years.
**Haku**: His life was but a moment compared to this.
**Haku**: Why such a big difference?
*Player thinks for a moment.*
**Player**: You probably know by now, Haku, that I come from a different world.
**Player**: So let me explain to you from our worldview.
**Player**: Maybe hearing another world's viewpoint on death may make you feel differently.
**Player**: In my world, people are also very passionate about exploring the soul and the body.
**Player**: But there are different opinions, and there isn't a definitive conclusion that everyone can agree upon.
**Player**: Perhaps because we can't see the future, we study the past.
**Player**: The bones and fossils that have been preserved over eons show us how time has unfolded, step-by-step.
**Player**: So...those bones are actually saving up their energy for the future.
**Player**: So after millions of years, someone can get a glimpse of what our lives were like.
**Player**: So, Haku, keep looking forward.
*Haku doesn't say anything, and Player feels a light breeze blow in.*
**Haku**: Thank you, Player.
**Player**: What happened?
**Haku**: Thank you for letting me see Bergsen before he died.
**Haku**: It made me feel a lot of emotions.
**Haku**: Perhaps it was also fate.
**Player**: If you ever feel lonely, you can come find me.
*Haku looks straight into Player's eyes.*
**Haku**: Whenever I think of Bergsen, I can only describe it in the past tense.
**Haku**: But life is always changing. I can't be like before.
**Haku**: I've been thinking of him constantly, but I'll never lay eyes on him again.
**Haku**: Never.
**Haku**: This is a very difficult emotion.
**Haku**: I want to accept it - the fact that Bergsen is gone.
**Player**: Well that's not exactly it, Haku.
**Player**: You need to learn to make peace with it.
**Player**: After making peace with it, then you'll know how to face it.
**Haku**: Make peace...
**Haku**: Does that mean like to suck out a poison? Or...dispel it, like a mongoose?
**Player**: There's lots of ways, Haku.
**Player**: But I think that in the end, time heals all wounds.
**Haku**: Like water evaporating?
**Player**: However, this process is much more painful.
**Haku**: Yes.

**-Intimacy Level 13**

*[Airship]*
**Billy**: Captain!
**Player**: What's wrong, Billy?
**Billy**: Someone's here to see you!
**Player**: Haku?
**Haku**: ...
**Player**: What's up, Haku? Is something wrong?
**Haku**: (Shakes head)
**Haku**: I just like to take a stroll every once in a while.
**Player**: Hold on, Haku. Let me finish this up real quick.
**Haku**: That's not necessary.
*Haku sits next to Player and watches them while they work.*
**Haku**: You asked me before, Player.
**Haku**: You asked me, will I suddenly disappear one day?
**Haku**: Back then, I didn't understand. I didn't know why you wanted to ask that question.
**Haku**: But I think I understand now.
**Player**: Haku, are you afraid that I'm going to leave you, like Bergsen did?
*Haku thinks for a moment, then speaks.*
**Haku**: Maybe. Fruit eventually falls from the tree, but... I just don't want it to happen too soon.
**Haku**: Bergsen and I didn't get to spend a lot of time together.
**Haku**: When I wanted to go find his soul, all I could do was stand in front of his grave. I didn't know where he liked to go.
**Haku**: Can you tell me, Player? When you die, where will your soul go?
**Player**: That's hard to say...
**Player**: Maybe after I die, I'll return to Earth?
**Haku**: ...
**Haku**: I can't go there...
**Haku**: It turns out that when you want to spend time with someone, no amount of time can be enough.
**Haku**: When today ends, that's another day down.
*Haku looks out the window as the sun gradually sets.*
**Haku**: But if you think of tomorrow as another day, it's much easier to accept.
*Youngsters usually don't talk like that.*
**Player**: Then how about we go boating tomorrow, Haku?
**Haku**: Really?
**Player**: Really.
**Haku**: Can we promise to meet tomorrow? So that when today is gone, I'll know you're still here.
**Player**: Okay, I agree to that.

**-Intimacy Level 14**

*[Airship]*
**Haku**: Come here, Player.
**Player**: What have you found, Haku?
**Haku**: Follow me.
*[Bergsen's Grave]*
**Haku**: Look.
*A small white flower is growing in front of Bergsen's gravestone.*
*It trembles in the breeze, its roots tightly clutching the soil.*
**Haku**: I think that's Bergsen.
**Haku**: Life flows. One comes across their new body only serendipitously.
**Haku**: This flower transformed Bergsen's old vessel and gave his soul a new place to live.
**Player**: Haku, you...
**Haku**: If I leave it here, it may get removed.
**Haku**: I want to move it to the Star Woods...
**Haku**: To let it grow.
*Haku uses his fingers to gently stroke the edges of the petals.*
**Player**: The crow's repayment.
**Haku**: What?
**Player**: The crow's repayment. It means that someone grows up, then supports the elders who brought them up.
**Player**: But crows are black. You're white.
**Haku**: Repay, huh? Bergsen...
**Haku**: The vitality of plants is very tenacious. Maybe Bergsen doesn't need me.
**Haku**: But...why? On an intuitive level, I want to bring it to the Star Woods.
**Haku**: Bergsen always reminded me...
**Haku**: One must not repeat their mistakes.
**Player**: What?
**Haku**: It's useless to cherish something only after you've lost it.
*Haku lifts his head and looks at Player.*
**Player**: Huh? Why are you looking at me?
**Haku**: (Smile)
**Haku**: Do you still remember our date tomorrow, Player?
**Player**: Yeah, I remember.
**Haku**: You... You're just like a fish in a lake...
**Haku**: Without you, my heart would be like a lake of stagnant water.
**Haku**: So, Player...
**Haku**: Tomorrow... Another tomorrow...
*Haku suddenly stops talking. Player lowers their head to look at Haku, and their gazes meet.*
*Haku's eyes no longer has a sense of tranquility. Player feels like he's looking into a clear spring.*
**Player**: Haku...
**Player**: I will always be by your side, Haku.
**Haku**: Let's take Bergsen to the Star Woods together.
**Player**: All right.

### Dates

**This section contains spoilers for Date scenes.**

**Rest**

**-Intro**

*Star Woods*
**Player**: The air in the Star Woods is so fresh! We should go to the Star Woods for a vacation!
**Player**: Huh? That shadow up ahead looks like Haku.
**Player**: He looks like he's fishing. Should we go over and say hi?
**Player**: (Go)
*Scene - The Star Woods*
**Player**: Hey Haku! Are you fishing?
**Haku**: Yes.
**Haku**: I don't like to stare off into space on my time off.
**Haku**: I like to do stuff to pass the time.
**Player**: Fishing, huh? Looks interesting.
**Haku**: I heard you don't often fish.
**Haku**: How do people outside the woods pass the time?
**Haku**: Do you have any recommendations?
**Player**: Hmm... Give me a sec to think of some leisurely activities that would be good for you...

**-Back on Earth, we have this thing called flower arrangement... - 900 Intimacy**

**Player**: Back on Earth, we have this thing called flower arrangement...
**Haku**: What's that?
**Player**: You use tools and techniques and craft plants into artistic forms.
**Haku**: Do you know how?
**Player**: I can only do very basic forms, and they don't look very good when arranged.
**Haku**: Let me have a look.
**Player**: What?
**Haku**: Let me have a look!
**Player**: ...Really?
*Haku looks at you serenely.*
**Player**: All right. But don't make fun of me.
*Player figures out a way to introduce flower arranging to Haku.*
**Player**: First you've got to prepare a container, and put a little water in it.
**Player**: Then you cut the flower's stem into two stems of the right length.
**Player**: Then you lay the broken stems across the mouth of the container. The tension in the stems will keep them wedged in the mouth of the container.
**Player**: Think you stick the flower between the two broken stems. Check it out. The flower's standing upright.
**Haku**: Interesting...
**Haku**: When I get some free time, I'll try it out.

**-Life is hard. You should beat up Shadows to vent your anger. - 700 Intimacy**

**Player**: When I get free time, I defeat Shadows.
**Haku**: Oh?
**Player**: They're always causing trouble for no reason. It pisses me off just thinking about it.
**Player**: I'm here in the Star Woods on holiday, but I still fight Shadows when I get the chance.
**Haku**: Shadows should be taken out whenever you see them.
**Haku**: However, you're always fighting Shadows.
**Haku**: Getting some rest would be a better use of your vacation.
**Player**: That makes sense...
**Player**: But the sooner the Shadows are all eliminated, the sooner we can welcome the light!
**Player**: I just feel like, every little bit helps...
**Haku**: ...
**Player**: What? What's wrong?
*Haku shakes his head and replies.*
**Haku**: Nothing.
**Haku**: I hooked a fish, that's all.

**-Go out and travel. Get close to nature. - 500 Intimacy**

**Player**: We're usually so busy. When you get time to rest, it's best to get close to nature.
**Player**: When you're in nature, there's always a sense of tranquility...
**Haku**: Yes.
**Player**: People nowadays especially yearn for nature. In recent years, tourism in the Star Woods has really taken off.
**Haku**: But...
**Haku**: It doesn't matter whether I'm on vacation or working, I'm always in the Star Woods.
**Player**: Ah!
**Player**: (That's right, Haku lives in the Star Woods! This suggestion isn't very suitable for him.)
**Player**: You could also go see the North Desert and experience the local customs of the people there.
**Player**: And it's not far from here!
**Haku**: Now that I think about it, I've never been to the North Desert.
**Player**: Yeah!
**Haku**: All right. I'll keep that in mind. Thank you.

**Festival**

**-Intro**

*Elysiann*
*Traffic is heavy along the main road and the roadside is lined with snack stalls.*
**Player**: Whoa! When did this road become a snack street?!
**Billy**: It seems like Mike is holding some kind of snack festival. Heh, let's stuff our faces.
**Player**: I had no idea Luxium had so many different kinds of snacks!
**Player**: I'm going to blow right past my calorie limit today!
*Player and Billy enjoy themselves while exploring the snack street.*
**Player**: Haha, there isn't a person alive who can resist something this beautiful!
**Player**: These snacks all look so delicious! So many exquisite shapes and bright colors!
**Player**: They're all so irresistible...
**Player**: Hey, Haku spends all his time in the woods. I wonder if he's ever tried these?
**Player**: Should I take him some?
**Player**: (Take him some.)
**Player**: Haku may be elusive and mysterious...
**Player**: But he's still just a child. He would probably love these.
**Player**: What should I take him?

**-A beautifully-crafted dessert - 900 Intimacy**

**Player**: An adult has a hard time resisting the allure of a delicate dessert like this...
**Player**: The sweet appearance of this calorie bomb will definitely trick Haku into eating it!
**Player**: I wonder what kind of face Haku will make when he tastes it!
*Scene - The Star Woods*
**Player**: Hey Haku. Have you eaten?
**Haku**: How so?
**Player**: Check out what I brought you! Dessert!
**Player**: Today, Elysiann is holding a snack festival! I thought you might like one of these, so I brought it here.
**Player**: Wanna have a taste?
*Haku silently takes a bite using a spoon.*
**Player**: How is it?
**Haku**: (Munch, munch...)
**Haku**: Orange, basil seed, chocolate...
**Haku**: Another taste that I don't know the name of...
**Haku**: With egg and milk.
*After tasting the dessert, Haku quietly looks at you.*
**Player**: ...
**Player**: What?
**Haku**: Huh?
**Player**: N-nothing... It's just that your reaction wasn't what I expected...
**Haku**: It's good.
**Player**: Haku...
**Haku**: ...
**Player**: Well, just so long as you like it!

**-A unique-tasting Sour and Spicy Fruit - 500 Intimacy**

**Player**: This fruit is crisp. Its fresh sweet and sour taste as well as the spicy powder sprinkled on top must produce a wonderful combination.
**Player**: Its perfect sourness is enough to arouse an inexhaustible appetite.
**Player**: It's also oil-free and low in sugar, so Haku is sure to love it!
*Scene - The Star Woods*
**Player**: Hey Haku. Have you eaten?
**Haku**: What's up?
**Player**: Look what I brought you. Sour and Spicy Fruit!
**Player**: Today, Elysiann is holding a snack festival! I thought you might like one of these, so I brought it here.
**Player**: Wanna have a taste?
*Haku silently takes a bite.*
**Player**: How about that?
**Haku**: My mouth hurts.
*The corners of Haku's mouth begin to redden.*
**Haku**: It hurts, but I'm not bleeding. What is this sensation?
**Player**: Huh? You've never had spicy food before?
**Haku**: So this is what spicy tastes like...
**Player**: Drink some milk, it'll help.
*Player gave Haku a drink of some milk.*
*A few moments pass.*
**Haku**: The spicy taste is gone.
**Haku**: So outside the woods...
**Haku**: This is what some food tastes like.
**Haku**: Do a lot of people eat it?
**Player**: Yes, some people really enjoy this kind of experience.
**Haku**: Experience...
**Haku**: There's lots of interesting things outside the woods, huh.
**Player**: I'm sorry, I didn't know you'd never had spicy food before.
**Player**: I hope I didn't cause you any trouble!

**-A classic old-fashioned dessert - 700 Intimacy**

*Scene - The Star Woods*
**Player**: Hey Haku. Have you eaten?
**Haku**: Not yet.
**Player**: Look what I brought you. Dessert!
**Player**: Today, Elysiann is holding a snack festival! I thought you might like one of these, so I brought it here.
**Player**: Wanna have a taste?
*Haku silently takes a bite.*
**Player**: How about that?
**Haku**: I've missed this taste very much.
**Haku**: I've eaten this before.
**Player**: You've had this kind of old-fashioned dessert before?
**Haku**: Yes.
**Haku**: The taste is exactly the same...
*Haku seems to have lost himself in thought.*
**Player**: Haku? Do you like it?
**Haku**: Yes, I like it. Thank you.
**Haku**: It's just that this familiar taste...
**Haku**: Has brought back some memories.
**Haku**: Can you help me buy some more, Player?
**Player**: Okay!

**Windy Night**

**-Intro**

*Player is shaken awake in the dead of night.*
**Player**: H...huh? Who is it?!
**Haku**: I've found something. You want to come take a look?
**Player**: Uh...what? It's the middle of the night...
**Player**: (Go)
**Player**: I'm coming, I'm coming. Just let me wake up a little bit...
*The Star Woods*
*The night is cold and you bundle yourself up tight.*
**Player**: Haku, why did you get me out of bed?
**Haku**: Lots of the animals in the woods have been hurt.
**Player**: Is this the work of the Shadows?
**Haku**: It's the work of poachers.
**Haku**: They've been putting down traps.
**Haku**: People have been hurt as well.
**Player**: So you called me here to punish the poachers?
**Haku**: There are too many of them and I can't handle them all alone.
**Haku**: Tonight is when they'll be collecting their traps.
**Haku**: Are you up for it?

**-Dismantle the traps and collect evidence - 500 Intimacy**

**Player**: The greed of poachers knows no bounds.
**Player**: Tonight after they collect their traps, they'll set new ones to catch more animals.
**Player**: Let's just follow behind them, destroy their traps, then capture the criminals and their ill-gotten goods!
**Haku**: Yes.
*Under the cover of night, the two of you quietly hide behind a tree, waiting for the poachers.*
*A while passes, and then there is finally movement in the woods.*
*The poachers check the new traps and then leave.*
**Player**: Let's move.
*Under the cover of night, Player and Haku begin destroying the traps.*
**Player**: This trap is the spring-loaded type.
**Player**: If you don't handle them just right, not only will you fail to disarm it, but you may also be injured.
**Player**: The easiest way to trigger it is with a branch, but...the woods are quiet, and it will make a sound.
**Player**: It wouldn't be good if we drew those poachers' attention.
**Haku**: Ah!
*The trap next to Haku is triggered.*
**Player**: Haku! Are you hurt?
**Poacher Underling**: Boss! I think I just heard a trap!
**Poacher Boss**: We caught some prey so quickly? It's a good thing we're still nearby, haha! Let's go have a look!
**Player**: How are you doing, Haku?
**Haku**: I'm unhurt, but someone's coming.
**Haku**: What should we do?
*Choice 1.1 - Hide*
**Player**: We don't know how many of them there are...
**Player**: Haku, let's hide!
*Player and Haku hide*
*Shortly after, the poachers go back to their traps*
**Poacher Underling**: Boss! There's a couple traps here that have been collected!
**Poacher Boss**: Shut up. I'm not blind!
*The poacher boss investigates the traps...*
**Poacher Boss**: There's a problem...
**Poacher Boss**: There's nothing in the traps, and there's no trace of blood nearby...
**Poacher Underling**: Has someone been here, boss?
**Poacher Boss**: ...
**Poacher Boss**: Haha, it's too dark tonight. I didn't notice!
**Poacher Boss**: We'll hunt them down when it gets light out tomorrow! This trap inflicts bleeding. Even a tiger wouldn't be able to survive the night!
**Poacher Boss**: Let's go. Let's keep spreading our traps!
*After the poachers leave, the two of you emerge from the bushes.*
**Poacher Underling**: Hey, boss! Our traps are gone!
**Poacher Underling**: Why are you running out of the woods?!
**Poacher Boss**: Shut up, fool!
**Player**: You're going to alert the enemy...
**Player**: I don't think we're going to catch them tonight.
**Haku**: I'm sorry. I can't disable the traps.
**Player**: Don't worry about it, Haku. We'll get them all next time!
*Scene ends*
*Choice 1.2 - Fight the poachers*
**Player**: Humph, you're right on time!
**Player**: I was just planning on collecting all your traps, but since you're here...
**Player**: Don't blame me for going rough on you!
**Poacher Underling**: Aw, I got happy for nothing. I thought we caught something. Turns out, it's a trouble-maker!
**Poacher Underling**: Leave! What right do you have to mess with our traps?
**Player**: And what if I don't leave?
**Poacher Underling**: Then we'll just let our fists do the talking!
**Poacher Underling**: Let's do this!
*Player fights with the poachers and captures them.*
**Poacher Underling**: Boss... Run...
*The woods are silent. Perhaps the boss has already escaped.*
**Player**: Well, although we didn't catch the boss, we did get two of the poachers!
**Player**: That's all we can do for tonight. Let's go, Haku. Tomorrow I'll help you collect the traps.
**Haku**: All right. Thank you.
*Scene ends*

**-Fight them! - 700 Intimacy**

**Player**: We will round up those despicable poachers when we run into them.
**Player**: It stands to reason that poaching is a behavior that harms the Forest Nexus. Shadowhunters are responsible for doing something about this.
**Player**: After we capture them, we can ask Sven and Grancy.
**Haku**: Yes.
*Under the cover of night, the two of you quietly hide behind a tree, waiting for the poachers.*
*A while passes, and then there is finally movement in the woods.*
**Player**: Now's our chance. Fight!
**Haku**: Got it!
*Player fights with the poachers and captures them.*
**Player**: Hmm. Traps, poachers, and ill-gotten gains. What do you all have to say for yourselves?
**Poacher Underling**: ......%......\*##$%&......%@
**Player**: Your face is so swollen, you can't even speak clearly.
**Poacher Underling**: ...
**Player**: Let's go! Haku, hand these guys over to Sven and Grancy. They'll handle the punishment!
**Haku**: Yes.
**Haku**: Thank you for your help tonight.
*Suddenly, there is a howling from far away.*
**???**: Ah! Who... Who is setting traps here?!
**Player**: We should let Sven and Grancy know that Shadowhunters need to be careful...
**Haku**: Let's go rescue the injured. I will use Foxfire to light the way.
**Player**: Yeah. Thank you, Haku.

**-Go with Haku to ask the Shadowhunters for help. - 900 Intimacy**

**Player**: We don't have all the information about the poachers, and we don't know how many traps they've set in the woods.
**Player**: Let's go ask the Shadowhunters for help!
**Haku**: Yes.
*After you explain the situation clearly, Sven and Grancy decide to bring a team to set up an ambush, then wait for the poachers to appear.*
*Player, Sven, Haku and some Bearmen hide near the poacher's traps*
*The poachers come to examine their traps*
**Poacher Boss**: Hold on, something's wrong.
**Poacher Boss**: The air here... It seems a bit heavy.
**Poacher Boss**: It's a trap. Run!
**Sven**: They're trying to run? Brothers, attack them!
*The Shadowhunters rush forward, and after a few attempts, the poachers are finally captured.*
**Sven**: The operation was a great success!
**Sven**: One of our Shadowhunters got injured when he stepped on a trap. I've been wanting to give these poachers a beating for a long time!
**Sven**: Haha, your intel came at the right time!
**Sven**: We'll spend the next few days clearing out the traps in the woods. You don't need to worry about any follow-up problems.
**Player**: Thank you, brother.
**Player**: As thanks for your help tonight, drinks at the Hottie Bar are free tonight! Drink up!
**Shadowhunters**: All right!
*Sven and the Shadowhunters have left for the Hottie Bar to celebrate and the woods are quiet again.*
**Haku**: You're not going to go celebrate with them?
**Player**: There are still lots of traps nearby. I'll take you back first.
**Haku**: Thank you for your help today.
**Player**: It was nothing. Let's go.

### Trifle

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**Dust Covered Memories**

Actually... he wasn't always so detached.

**-Part 1**

*Scene - Hottie Bar*
*Having seen off the last group of guests, Player begins to tabulate the day's accounts.*
*(Turns pages...)*
**Player**: Hey, Billy. Have you seen Sven or Grancy lately?
**Billy**: No, Captain.
**Billy**: You didn't know? It's been raining like hell in the Star Woods lately. They can't get out right now.
**Player**: It's raining in the Star Woods? I had no idea.
**Player**: But I'm not worried about Sven or Grancy.
**Player**: Haku lives alone in the woods. I hope nothing happens to him...
**Player**: Has the rain tapered off at all the past couple days?
**Billy**: I think so. You should be able to enter the Star Woods tomorrow.
**Player**: (All right... Tomorrow, I'll go see Haku.)
*Scene - The Star Woods*
*The Star Woods, outside a small wooden house.*
**Player**: The rain has stopped. The humidity in these woods is awful.
**Player**: Haku's fabrics are probably all too wet to use. Let's help him change them.
*Sven and Grancy approach Player*
**Sven**: Hey, Player! Are you here looking for Haku, too?
**Grancy**: Have you seen him lately?
**Player**: No. It's been raining in the Star Woods recently. I can't even get in.
**Player**: Is there something you're here to talk to Haku about?
**Sven**: Nothing in particular. We just haven't seen him for a few days and were worried about him.
**Player**: You haven't seen him?
**Grancy**: Sven has made a hobby out of ascertaining Haku's whereabouts. He's even said he's practicing his investigation techniques.
**Grancy**: From time to time, he's gone running into the woods to look for Haku.
**Grancy**: Maybe Haku got annoyed and left.
**Sven**: Nonsense! I haven't been annoying Haku.
**Sven**: Besides, what's wrong with being concerned about a small child living alone in the woods?
**Sven**: See! He's gone!
**Player**: Can you two stop quarreling for now?

**-Choice 1.1 - Haku likes to come and go. Maybe he's just gone for a little while?**

**Sven**: No. I haven't seen a single trace of Haku in two or three days now.
**Sven**: Grancy and I just took a look around Haku's house. The tables and chairs are covered in a layer of dust.
**Sven**: So I can tell that Haku hasn't been here for a few days.
**Player**: Could Haku be living somewhere else?
**Sven**: No, not that I can tell.
**Sven**: I hope it's just that he's got another home somewhere in the woods. Otherwise, if something happened to him...
**Sven**: It'd be really difficult to find a corpse in the woods after the rain it just had.
*Choice 1.1.1 - Haku likes to come and go. Maybe he's just gone for a little while?*
*Go to Choice 1.1*
*Choice 1.1.2 - Right now, we need to think of a way to find Haku.*
*Go to Choice 1.2*

**-Choice 1.2 - Let's think of a way to find Haku.**

**Grancy**: Haku is a bit of an eccentric. Even though he's been neighbors with the Shadowhunters for so long, many of us haven't even seen him.
**Grancy**: If one of our members didn't have the senses of a bloodhound, we never even would've noticed he was gone.
**Sven**: Can you stop being so ambiguous, bro?
**Grancy**: Hmph.
**Grancy**: It's going to take a lot of hard work to find Haku.

**-Choice 1.2.1 - Should we look for traces of Haku nearby?**

**Sven**: Traces? Even if he did leave traces, the rains would've washed them away.
**Sven**: What's more, Haku's home doesn't have anything in it except a bad and a table. There isn't any journal or calendar to speak of.
**Sven**: Haku's like an ascetic. If you told me that no one lives in that house, I'd believe you.
**Grancy**: Maybe no one really does live in there?
**Sven**: For sure he lives here! I've seen it myself!
*Choice 1.2.1.1 - Should we asked if anyone knows where Haku is originally from?*
*Go to Choice 1.2.2*
*Choice 1.2.1.2 - Haku is a Kaist. Maybe he left the woods to join a celebration?*
*Go to Choice 1.2.3*

**-Choice 1.2.2 - Should we asked if anyone knows where Haku is originally from?**

**Grancy**: No one knows.
**Grancy**: Aside from the boss, you, and Sven, there aren't too many people who interact with Haku.
**Grancy**: The boss a long time ago said that he doesn't know Haku's full story.
**Grancy**: Anyway, he never did anything to disrupt the Forest Nexus, so we never gave him any trouble.
**Grancy**: According to the boss, no one knows for sure when Haku came to the Star Woods.
**Sven**: I usually keep track of his whereabouts, but I haven't talked with him much.
**Grancy, Sven**: (Staring at Player...)
**Player**: Hey, don't look at me like that. I don't know where Haku's from.
**Player**: Maybe he's lived in the woods all his life?
**Grancy**: Then how did he come to be a Kaist? If no one brought Kaism to him, then he must have learned about it when he left the Star Woods.
*Choice 1.2.2.1 - Should we look for traces of Haku nearby?*
*Go to Choice 1.2.1*
*Choice 1.2.2.2 - Haku is a Kaist. Maybe he left the woods to join a celebration?*
*Go to Choice 1.2.3*

**-Choice 1.2.3 - Haku is a Kaist. Maybe he left the woods to join a celebration?**

**Player**: That's right! Haku is a Kaist!
**Player**: Have there been any Kaist meetings lately? Or...are there any other Kaists who might know Haku?
**Sven**: Kaists...
**Grancy**: Do you have any ideas?
**Sven**: I don't know anything about any Kaist meetings lately.
**Sven**: But I think I heard the boss say that several years ago, a Kaism Hierophant named Bergsen came to the Star Woods.
**Sven**: Bergsen really, really likes wood.
**Player**: Wood?
**Grancy**: Trees. Living, growing trees.
**Grancy**: That reminds me...
**Grancy**: Back then, the boss said he'd never seen someone who loves trees so much.
**Sven**: At the time, it seemed like Bergsen had come here to study the Forest Nexus. He stayed for a long time.
**Sven**: I wonder if Bergsen knows Haku.
**Grancy**: Are you sure that when Bergsen came to the woods, Haku was already here?
**Grancy**: The way the boss said it, it sounded like it must have been a long time ago.
**Sven**: Wanna go have a look? We might as well try everything we can.
**Sven**: What do you say, Player?
**Player**: It seems like we only have one clue right now. Let's go look.
**Sven**: I think Bergsen was from Elysiann. Let's go to Elysiann to find him.
**Player**: Let's go!
*Go to Part 2*

**-Part 2**

*Scene - Elysiann*
**Player**: The streets of Elysiann are always bustling with activity.
**Player**: Trying to find someone in Elysiann is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
**Sven**: Since it's a Hierophant we're looking for, we should go ask around at a church!

**-Choice 1.1 - Go ask the passionate Volunteer Woman**

*Player, Sven and Grancy walk up to the church and see a woman talking to a hierophant*
**Volunteer Woman**: Is this the list of Hierophants who retired last year?
**Unknown Hierophant**: Yes, please plan your work based upon that list.
**Volunteer Woman**: Leave it to us! The Hierophants listen to our confessions and show us the right path.
**Volunteer Woman**: Now they have retired. It is our time to take care of them!
**Volunteer Woman**: Especially the old ones who have no one else to look after them...
**Volunteer Woman**: Naturally, we don't have to worry too much about the ones with families, right?
**Volunteer Woman**: Alas, last months, Bergsen's rheumatism flared up again, so make sure to take extra good care of him!
**Player**: Were you just talking about Bergsen?
*The woman turns around*
**Volunteer Woman**: Yes! He used to have a child.
**Volunteer Woman**: But it's terrible! The child did not care for his father and ran away!
**Player**: The same Bergsen who loves trees?
**Volunteer Woman**: Trees? Why, yes!
**Volunteer Woman**: He's got lots of tree rings hanging around his house, and he's even got some bonsais!
**Volunteer Woman**: His rheumatism has made the house very humid...
**Player**: (Interrupts) Can you take me to him?
**Volunteer Woman**: Huh? Okay, let's go!
*Go to Part 3*

**-Choice 1.2 - Go ask the Young Hierophant**

**Player**: Hello, do you know a Hierophant by the name of Bergsen?
**Young Hierophant**: Bergsen? I know lots of Bergsens. Which one are you looking for?
**Player**: It's said that he has an incomparable passion for trees.
**Young Hierophant**: Sorry, I don't know anything about that. I don't know anything about my colleagues' private lives.
**Young Hierophant**: If you want to find the right Bergsen, ask them one-by-one. Let me see...
**Young Hierophant**: There's the Bergsen who just joined this year, the one who is responsible for scripture management, the one who is responsible for cleaning...
**Player**: Okay, okay. That won't be necessary!
**Young Hierophant**: It won't? Well, may Ka protect you.
**Player**: I had no idea there were so many people named Bergsen.
**Sven**: According to the boss's description, the Bergsen we're looking for is really old. Maybe we should go ask the elder Hierophant?
*Choice 1.2.1 - Go ask the passionate Volunteer Woman*
*Go to Choice 1.1*
*Choice 1.2.2 - Go ask the Elder Hierophant*
*Go to Choice 1.3*

**-Choice 1.3 - Go ask the Elder Hierophant**

**Player**: Excuse me, do you know Bergsen?
**Elder Hierophant**: Ah... Bergsen. I remember.
**Elder Hierophant**: He loves trees. One time, he brought back a child from gods know where...
**Elder Hierophant**: The child grew up very big, but Bergsen never mentioned this child to us.
**Elder Hierophant**: Later, one day, the child disappeared. Bergsen was beside himself for a while...
**Elder Hierophant**: But he didn't report the disappearance to get help in looking for the child. He just looked for him on his own. It was strange.
**Elder Hierophant**: We all debated amongst ourselves...
**Player**: I'm sorry, I need to interrupt - do you know where I can find Bergsen?
**Elder Hierophant**: He has been retired for many years now...
**Elder Hierophant**: I'm sorry, I have no idea!
*Choice 1.3.1 - Go ask the passionate Volunteer Woman*
*Go to Choice 1.1*
*Choice 1.3.2 - Go ask the Young Hierophant*
*Go to Choice 1.2*

**-Part 3**

*The woman leads the group to an Elysiann house*
**Volunteer Woman**: Okay. This is it. I'm going now!
**Player**: All right, thank you.
**Player**: I finally found Bergsen!
**Player**: Let's go inside and ask if he has any news about Haku.
*Player goes up and knocks on the door.*
**An Extremely Old Voice**: Who is it?
**Player**: Hello, I'm looking for Bergsen.
**An Extremely Old Voice**: I'm not able to walk. The door is unlocked, come on in.
*Scene - Inside Bergsen's courtyard*
*The three meet a very old man*
**Bergsen**: I'm Bergsen. Who are you all? Why have you come for me?
**Player**: I'm Player. These two are Shadowhunters from the Star Woods. This is Sven, and this is Grancy.
**Player**: Sir, may I ask, do you know a Kaism Hierophant from the Star Woods named Haku?
**Bergsen**: Haku...?
**Bergsen**: Did you just say Haku? Does he have white hair?
**Player**: Yes.
**Bergsen**: Isn't usually very expressive?
**Sven**: Yeah! That's him! See, you guys? I was right!
**Bergsen**: (Grumbles) So Haku returned to the Star Woods, did he?
**Sven**: Sir, we're Haku's friends. We can't find him. Do you know where Haku went?
**Bergsen**: So he disappeared again...
**Player**: Again? What do you mean?
**Bergsen**: Haku already left me once.
**Bergsen**: I picked him up in the Star Woods. He grew up in Elysiann.
**Bergsen**: You could say Elysiann is his home...
**Player**: You're Haku's adoptive father...
**Bergsen**: Yes. Back then, I'd been dispatched to the Star Woods for work. What a nice place that is...
**Bergsen**: The Star Woods is a vibrant land where many astonishing trees grow.
**Bergsen**: Those life forms bear the weight of time itself. Seeing them, I feel great admiration and respect.
**Bergsen**: I unwittingly wanted to get close to it. I wanted to hear its pulse...
**Bergsen**: That night, I finished my work in the Star Woods. Although I was reluctant to leave, time waits for no man.
**Bergsen**: I took a dense trail. I wanted to see them as much as possible on my way out.
**Bergsen**: But after nightfall, the woods were completely different from the daytime, and I got lost on the road.
**Bergsen**: I couldn't see the moon in the sky. I only had the light in my hand to show me the way forward.
**Bergsen**: But the path ahead was full of dense trees. The twisted shadows of the trees rustled threateningly in the darkness...
**Bergsen**: After bumping around for a while like a headless fly, the light in my hand finally went out.
**Bergsen**: I was swallowed up by the darkness.
**Bergsen**: All I could do was tremble and draw my blade, then sit down and cower under the roots of a large tree.
**Bergsen**: But, they were coming. The...ah...what are those called? Those elves that can fly?
**Player**: Tree elves?
**Bergsen**: Oh, yeah...
**Bergsen**: At first, there was just one of them. Then, there were more and more...
**Bergsen**: The tree elves danced around the giant tree. They lined up as if guided by the gods, pointing me in that direction.
**Bergsen**: I followed them, without any sense of direction of my own. I didn't know where the tree elves were taking me...
**Bergsen**: I cautiously followed the tree elves.
**Bergsen**: The light they emitted slightly illuminated the path under my feet. Aside from that, the woods were pitch black.
**Bergsen**: Even though I had no idea how to use my blade, but I clutched it tightly. Its handle was sticky with sweat.
**Bergsen**: But at that moment, I witnessed a miracle.
**Bergsen**: The tree elves guided me into an open field. There, I could see moonlight.
**Bergsen**: A white fox was lying in the clearing in the woods, the moonlight shining on its fur.
**Bergsen**: And on the belly of that white fox, a little baby was sleeping peacefully.
**Bergsen**: The tail of the white fox covered his body, and his face was buried in the white fox's fur.
**Bergsen**: When the white fox saw me arrive, it narrowed its eyes and then got up and left.
**Bergsen**: The tree elves that had gathered around the baby and the white fox dispersed.
**Bergsen**: Suddenly, I was deeply afraid and shocked by what I saw. Instinctively, I approached the baby.
**Bergsen**: I stepped forward and embraced the baby.
**Bergsen**: Beyond the layers of trees, I could faintly see the lights of the world...
**Bergsen**: The woods were quiet again and the baby was sound asleep in my arms.
**Bergsen**: The tree elves, the white fox, the moonlight... They were nowhere to be seen. Only my dropped blade remained in the direction I'd come from.
**Bergsen**: It seemed as though the baby had brought me back to the world.
**Bergsen**: I looked at the distant lights. Feeling the baby's warmth, I knew that I was still in the mortal world.
**Bergsen**: I brought the child back with me to raise it.
**Sven**: You brought him back?
**Bergsen**: Children grow up very quickly. When Haku was a baby, he didn't cry or make noise. He was very precocious. He never bothered me.
**Bergsen**: After he grew up... He'd always look out the window, never expressing his emotions.
**Bergsen**: Later, one night, I met Haku in a dream. He said he wanted to leave.
**Bergsen**: I instantly awoke, but Haku was already gone.
**Bergsen**: I went out to look for him, and found him on a dock on the river bank.
**Bergsen**: Haku seemed to be waiting for me. Or maybe he was just standing there.
**Bergsen**: There was something glowing next to him. As I got closer, I discovered it was a tree elf.
**Bergsen**: Haku said, 'Someone is calling for me.' But I don't know who.
**Bergsen**: I had no choice but to think about it. I saw his outlines, the moonlight shining upon the Elysian River, as if engulfed by the water itself, to be carried into the Sea of Storm.
**Bergsen**: Haku left me so suddenly, yet it also seemed like he'd planned it.
**Bergsen**: I saw Haku for the last time, and then he left.
**Bergsen**: I wanted him to stay, but I hesitated.
**Bergsen**: Should I have made him stay? Could I have?
**Bergsen**: When I thought about this question, I thought that I'd better let the child go.
**Player**: ...
**Sven**: What are you thinking, Player?

**-Choice 1.1 - Maybe we underestimated Haku.**

**Player**: Maybe we underestimated Haku.
**Player**: Maybe Haku's disappearance this time is the second time the gods have called him away?
**Player**: Having listened to Bergsen's story, I'm starting to think...
**Player**: What if Haku doesn't need us to find him?
**Sven**: Why are trying to predict Haku's thinking?
**Player**: What...?
**Grancy**: This time, I agree with Sven.
**Sven**: We all found this place. Why are you starting to hesitate?
**Sven**: Haku is our friend and now he's lost. Of course we need to find him!
**Grancy**: But Sven, where do you want to go look next?
**Sven**: Well...
**Sven**: Sir, do you have any idea where Haku might have gone?
**Bergsen**: (Shakes head)
**Bergsen**: I don't know why he left, but he had a reason for everything he did.
**Bergsen**: If he returned to the Star Woods, it's because that's where he appeared in the first place.
**Bergsen**: Then he left the Star Woods again. Could it be because he found something there?
**Bergsen**: Go return to the Star Woods to have a look. Maybe you'll find something.
*Everyone returns to the Star Woods and wanders around, but Haku is nowhere to be found.*
*After the rain, the soil is slippery and the clouds are thickening again. People are afraid the rain will be heavy once more, and they disperse.*
*Several days later...*
*Scene - The Star Woods, at Haku's hut*
**Sven**: Why?
**Player**: What happened?
**Sven**: Haku came back, but we don't know when.
**Player**: How do you know?
**Sven**: There's a cake box in his house...
**Sven**: I'll go check it out!
**Player**: Hey! Sven!
**Sven**: He's not there.
**Player**: I know the icon on that box. It's from a cake shop in Elysiann.
**Player**: So Haku went to Elysiann to buy cake?
**Sven**: We went to Elysiann too, but we didn't run into him!
**Sven**: It feels like punching cotton!
**Player**: Maybe we missed him on accident.
**Player**: All right, Sven. As long as Haku's back.
**Sven**: ...
*Scene ends - Bad ending*

**-Choice 1.2 - The last time Haku left, he appeared in someone's dream. This time...**

**Player**: Did you guys see Haku in your dreams this time?
**Sven**: No. Can Haku enter my dreams?
**Grancy**: (Shakes head)
**Player**: Me neither. Haku didn't visit anyone in their dreams this time.
**Player**: If Haku hadn't left in a hurry, maybe he had an accident.
**Grancy**: Or maybe Haku didn't want to leave at all.
**Player**: What?
**Grancy**: We haven't considered this possibility yet.
**Grancy**: It's raining heavily in the Star Woods. The people there can't leave. Just the same, the people outside can't get in.
**Grancy**: Is it possible Haku left the Star Woods before the storm and then was unable to get back?
**Grancy**: If that's what happened, then Haku's probably already returned to the house.
**Bergsen**: Although Haku is unpredictable...
**Bergsen**: Everything he does, he does for a reason. If you all return to the Star Woods, you might find something.
*Everyone returns to the Star Woods and wanders around, but Haku is nowhere to be found.*
*After the rain, the soil is slippery and the clouds are thickening again. People are afraid the rain will be heavy once more, and they disperse.*
*Several days later...*
*Scene - The Star Woods, at Haku's hut*
**Sven**: Why?
**Player**: What happened?
**Sven**: Haku came back, but we don't know when.
**Player**: How do you know?
**Sven**: There's a cake box in his house...
**Sven**: I'll go check it out!
**Player**: Hey! Sven!
**Sven**: He's not there.
**Player**: I know the icon on that box. It's from a cake shop in Elysiann.
**Player**: So Haku went to Elysiann to buy cake?
**Sven**: We went to Elysiann too, but we didn't run into him!
**Sven**: It feels like punching cotton!
**Player**: Maybe we missed him on accident.
**Player**: All right, Sven. As long as Haku's back.
**Sven**: ...
*Scene ends - Bad ending*

**-Choice 1.3 - Then what about Haku? What did Haku want?**

**Player**: What about Haku? What does he want?
**Bergsen**: (Shakes head) I don't know.
**Bergsen**: That child is not close to me.
**Bergsen**: He usually doesn't take the initiative to come talk to me. I never know what he's thinking.
**Bergsen**: I just let him do what he wants.
**Bergsen**: So even though I've missed that child all these years, I haven't dared to go looking for him.
**Bergsen**: But every time I pass through woods, I unconsciously keep an eye out for that child.
**Bergsen**: As for what Haku wants... I don't think I ever asked him.
**Bergsen**: Could it be... That he's been gone all these years because I never asked him what he was thinking?
**Bergsen**: Oh, that's right!
*Bergsen enters the house and brings something out.*
**Bergsen**: When Haku first left, I never went looking for him.
**Bergsen**: You are doing what I wanted to do back then, but couldn't.
**Bergsen**: I hope you can help me with something...
**Bergsen**: I made this doll. It always kept Haku company as he slept.
*Bergsen gives the doll to Player.*
*The doll is pure white with crookedly drawn black lines drawn on it.*
*The stitches are crude and strangely shaped, making it hard to tell if this is a fox or a dog.*
*But the doll is well-preserved and does not bear any traces of time.*
**Bergsen**: Thank you all so much for bringing me news about Haku.
**Bergsen**: But I don't even know if I'm wasting my time.
**Bergsen**: If you're able to find Haku, can you return this to him?
**Bergsen**: I've already gotten so old. I can't go anywhere...
**Bergsen**: If he's still got any feeling left for me... He can keep it, and it will stand guard by Haku's side in my stead.
**Bergsen**: If Haku doesn't care, then he can just throw it away if he likes...
*Bergsen purses his lips. Something is on his mind.*
**Bergsen**: If I remember correctly, Haku's birthday is coming up.
**Bergsen**: (Mumbles) It would make a nice birthday present for him...
**Player**: All right. I do this for you.
**Player**: If we can find Haku, I'll give the doll to him.
**Bergsen**: Friend, there's no need to worry.
**Bergsen**: Everything Haku does has a reason behind it.
**Bergsen**: If he left the Star Woods, he had a reason for it. If you go back and look around, you might find something.
*Scene - The Star Woods*
*Everyone returns to the Star Woods again, this time carrying the white doll.*
**Sven**: Let's go back to the Star Woods.
**Player**: Yeah... That was the recommendation of Haku's adoptive father. We'd better go back and look for him.
**Grancy**: I didn't expected we'd find Haku's adoptive father on our trip to Elysiann.
**Player**: Even so, is there more we need to learn about Haku?
**Player**: Bergsen said someone called for Haku. Could that be the key to why Haku left?
**Grancy**: So, where do we start this time? Yggdrasil?
**Player**: Let's put this doll in Haku's house first, then go check out Yggdrasil.
**Sven**: Let's go!
*The three go to Haku's hut*
**Sven**: Hey, there's someone at Haku's!
*Haku meets the trio outside of his hut*
**Player**: Haku! Where did you run off to?!
**Player**: We went all the way to Elysiann to find out.
**Haku**: Elysiann...
**Haku**: Every year when the spring flowers bloom...someone prepares a cake for me.
**Haku**: Now that person is no longer by my side. So when the day arrives, I go myself to buy the cake...
**Player**: Well then this is perfect timing. Here, Haku. This is for you!
*Player gives the doll to Haku.*
**Haku**: This...
**Haku**: You saw him...
**Player**: I'm happy to return this to its original owner.
**Player**: Haku, we were really worried about you.
**Haku**: Why? You can't find Elysiann?
**Sven**: Haha, because our boss knows your father!
**Player**: The Shadowhunter's leader knows Bergsen came to the Star Woods.
**Player**: But he didn't know that Bergsen picked you up when he left the woods.
**Player**: After you grew up and returned to the Star Woods...
**Player**: We looked all over. In the end, we found the doll you had when you were little and brought it back to you.
**Player**: What a curious coincidence...
**Sven**: Haha, two happy events have collided!
**Sven**: Why don't we hold a birthday party for Haku? We'll have all the Shadowhunters come!
**Haku**: ...
**Grancy**: Get serious, Sven!
**Sven**: What?
**Haku**: (Bows to Grancy)
**Player**: It's been a long time since the two of you came to the Hottie Bar, Sven and Grancy.
**Player**: Why don't you come over? You can drink to your heart's content!
**Sven**: Okay!
**Grancy**: Yes.
*Grancy looks at Player and Haku.*
**Grancy**: Sven, that bottle of wine we left at the Hottie Bar last time - I think there's only one glass's worth left.
**Sven**: ...
**Grancy**: I'll go first.
*Grancy leaves*
**Sven**: You tried to sneak away!
*Sven takes off*
**Player**: Haha, as long as the two of you are here, things at the Hottie Bar will never get boring.
**Player**: Happy birthday, Haku.
**Haku**: Thank you.
**Player**: ...Haku?
**Player**: Did you just say...'thank you'?
**Haku**: ...
**Haku**: The cake hasn't been cut yet.
**Haku**: As a token of my thanks, I'll let you do it.
**Player**: Haku...
**Haku**: Let's cut it together.
**Player**: Okay!
*Scene ends - Good ending*

## Audio

*Note: Skins will use the audio from the basic skin unless indicated otherwise.*

### Haku's Basic Skin

* **Butler Interactions**
	+ Before Intimacy Level 7
		- **Head**: *Hm?*
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		- **Torso**: *Please keep your distance.*
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		- **Waist**: *...No.*
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	+ After reaching Intimacy Level 7
		- **Head**: *Your hand... is warm.*
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		- **Torso**: *My heart beats too... just like yours.*
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		- **Waist**: *It's... getting warmer...*
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* **Skills**
	+ **Basic**: *Stay away.*
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	+ **Advanced**: *Vanish. Extinguish!*
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	+ **Ultimate**: *Fox fire!*
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* **Arrival**: *You can call me Haku.*
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* **Display Voice 1**: *The fox fire maybe cold, but it can burn.*
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* **Display Voice 2**: *People can get noisy sometimes.*
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* **Display Voice 3**: *Hmmm? Hmmm...*
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* **Hit**: *Ough!*
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* **Dying**: *This is it.*
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