Crisis of Trust

* Characters

Anby, Belle, Billy, Fairy, Nekomata, Nicole, Wise

**Crisis of Trust** is the first act in Chapter 002 of the *Zenless Zone Zero* storyline.

## Dialogue

 **Commission Description**

"Belief" is impulsive, but "trust" perseveres
### The Concealment

**Belle/Wise:** (Proxy)! You're back!
**Belle/Wise:** (I tracked down Nekomata! / I know where Nekomata is!)
**Fairy:** Objection: to be precise, 'I' determined the whereabouts of the client — Mana Nekomiya, aka. Nekomata.
**Fairy:** A person's image with a 96.53% matching rate to the client was identified via the streetside security cameras on Sixth Street.
**Fairy:** It is most likely the client.
**Belle/Wise:** (...So that's it. / ...Fairy's right.)
**Belle/Wise:** It looks like she slipped over from the adjacent alley. (The estimated time taken to get from the Dead End Hollow to Sixth Street is approximately the same. / The estimated arrival time should be now, calculating the time taken from the Dead End Hollow to the Sixth Street.)
**Belle/Wise:** (Please can you go and pick her up? / Can you go and pick her up, (Proxy)?)
 What about you? / What will you do?
**Belle/Wise:** (Me? I have to have a little bit of a con-ver-sa-tion with this chatty little AI. Don't worry about it. / I have to stay here a while and go over some basic "office rules" with our AI friend.)

(Chat with Nekomata)
**Nekomata:** ...That should be enough.
 Nekomata?
 What do you mean, enough?
**Nekomata:** Me-yow?!
**Nekomata:** Oh, it's (Proxy)! Approaching cats from behind is dangerous, dontcha know? You'll get scratched!
 What are you doing here?
**Nekomata:** Nothing! I was just on the phone with someone who helped me get back to Sixth Street.
**Nekomata:** Anyway, I escaped the Hollows in one piece, and I'll fill you in on all the details back at the store! I'll be back soon!

(Enter the store)
**Nekomata:** I'm back!
**Nekomata:** I not only beat back our pursuers, but also destroyed the track switch. That should delay them a while...
 I'm glad you're back safe, Nekomata.
 Let's go over what just happened, shall we?
**Nekomata:** Wow, such a serious tone... Can't you at least pretend to be a little more caring!
**Belle/Wise:** (You're lucky I don't throw you out. / Seems you know you're only worthy of pretending.)
**Belle/Wise:** You claim Nicole and the others are trapped in the Vision Corporation blast area, and have to go through the Dead End Hollow to save them.
**Nekomata:** I'm telling the truth! I even brought Nicole's Bangboo as proof...
**Belle/Wise:** Perhaps. But on our way we learned from the news that Vision's train was full of explosives and heading into the Dead End Hollow.
**Belle/Wise:** So we had to shut down the train to buy time before we could reach Nicole and the others.
**Nekomata:** That was the plan.
**Belle/Wise:** That was the plan. So why is Vision's train filled with gun-toting Public Security soldiers instead of explosives?
**Belle/Wise:** Seems like you saw this coming. That's why you appeared at the right time, allowing my (brother / sister) to escape.
**Nekomata:** Hehe, you're welcome...
**Nekomata:** Oh yeah, when I was escaping the Hollow, I think I heard that dangerous Ethereal's footsteps!
**Nekomata:** It was scary! Luckily, we only ran into soldiers~
**Belle/Wise:** (Ahem. Don't interrupt. / You're trying to change the topic.)
**Nekomata:** ...Meowww.
**Belle/Wise:** (You're the reason we're in this situation. / We still don't know if this was you being grateful or a trap.)
**Nekomata:** You're angry?
 That depends on how you answer.
 I'm not yet, but I might be.
**Belle/Wise:** Didn't the news say the train was carrying explosives? Why would it be carrying Public Security personnel? Is this what you meant about the Vision CEO lying? Exactly how did Nicole and the others get trapped?
**Belle/Wise:** (Is there something you want to confess? / ...What aren't you telling us?)
**Belle/Wise:** If you want support from "Phaethon", you'd better tell us what it is you're hiding...
**Nekomata:** I'm not hiding anything. I want to save Nicole and the others even more than you do!
**Nekomata:** ...Here, this is my Bangboo. Can't you guys access the visuals? Watch the record for yesterday and you'll understand.

### New Eridu's Magic Hour Sun

(Watch the Video Archive)
**The Cunning Hares were heading for the Red Fang Gang's last hideout. They decided to take a break on the metro station overpass in the Dead End Hollow.**

**Anby:** Have you guys seen New Eridu at 4 AM?
**Nekomata:** Be quiet, I'm catnapping... Everyone knows cats snooze till noon.
**Nekomata:** What's that? Is it so early I'm still dreaming?
**Anby:** I saw it too. Seemed like a little kid ran past just now.
**Billy:** A little kid? Where? No way!
**Anby:** This reminds me of a scary movie I saw last week—
**Billy:** Even if kids do get lost in Hollows sometimes, this area was cleared for the Old Capital Metro renovation, there shouldn't be anyone here...
**Nekomata:** Could it be a child left behind when they evacuated?
**Anby:** Or, like in that movie — She's a ghost.
**Nicole:** There's no such thing as g-g-ghosts!
**Anby:** Don't worry, if a ghost attacks, I'll protect you.
**Billy:** But if a kid really was left here, that's worrying...
**Anby:** If it's a human kid, we can't leave them in such a dangerous place.
**Nekomata:** Or a demi-human kid!
**Nicole:** You guys are so soppy...
**Billy:** Hey, over there!
**Billy:** Don't run! Wait!

### Dead End Hollow — Shallows

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### A Suspicious Shadow

**Nekomata:** Zzz...
**Nekomata:** ...Ahhh...!
**Nekomata:** Can someone tell me why I have to get up so early today?
**Billy:** Nicole had to contact a Proxy with the lowest price... so we have to leave early just in case...
**Nicole:** I was saving the budget! If we have to contact "Phaethon" for such a little thing you can forget about your bonus!
**Nekomata:** "Phaethon" is...
**Nicole:** New Eridu's most dodgy Proxy. But I admit, they're better than most.
**Nicole:** But their quote for the Dead End Hollow is higher than the industry standard by a half... They've got it in for me!
**Billy:** But we were met with a wave of Ethereals as soon as we got in the Hollow— Perhaps there's a reason why "Phaethon" is wary of the Dead End Hollow?
**Nicole:** ...
**Anby:** Nicole. Are you regretting this?
**Nicole:** R-Regret? No!
**Nicole:** That kid ran over here... Hurry up, don't get separated!

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