The Bulla's Requiem

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**The Bulla's Requiem** is one of the parts of Chapter 3.

## Summary

When the Protagonist and Aria visit Shatolla, they learn from a woman that a new diva is now in the tavern. They head there and see Emo, the tavern's diva, singing onstage, but a fisherman comes in and is concerned that her singing will attract Lorelei, a dangerous siren monster; his warnings are ignored. After the tavern's landlord convinces Emo to keep singing, he reminds her about a meeting tonight behind the bar; this makes Aria suspicious. As the duo eavesdrop on their conversation, the landlord claims that they do not have enough money to build the boat and tells her to keep working before leaving. As the duo try to talk to her, she quickly leaves, as she isn't sure if she can trust them. The Protagonist suddenly finds a letter that the landlord dropped, which reveals that he plans to sell Emo and he had never intended to help her at all. They ask the Bartender to let them see Emo, but he informs them that the landlord will not allow anyone to see her without his permission. However, the landlord is out of town on a business trip to make arrangements to sell her, so the Bartender reluctantly agrees to let them see her without his boss knowing, and then takes them to Emo's room. They then show her the letter that reveals the landlord's true intentions. With the truth exposed, Emo and the Bartender end their allegiance with the landlord. After discovering Juno hiding in the Protagonist's pocket, they have her act as a temporally translator for Emo as they cannot understand her. Through Juno, they learn that she needs to reach the Summer Seaslight and that the landlord brought her to the tavern recently and had her work as a diva in exchange for a boat to the Seaslight. He had also taken the stone that she needs to speak to humans, explaining how he can understand her, so to prevent her from asking for help. Now seeing that the landlord never planned to keep his promise, Emo decides to instead go with Aria and the Protagonist. Because no one dares to take their boats out to sea due of Lorelei's presence, they enlist the help of Heine and for the use of his submarine after informing him of the landlord's plan. They manage to reach the Seaslight following a rough landing, where they find various messages left by the decreased sirens, revealing that Emo is the last of her kind. After reading all the messages, they return to town where Heine has a brief conversation with Emo. They soon return to the Seaslight to continue their investigation. After fighting Lorelei, revealed to be created from the Sirens' souls, Emo sings her song to defeat it and set the Sirens free. Once back in Shatolla, Heine reveals that he traded a bag of supposedly rare stones to the landlord in exchange for Emo's stone and contract and returns the stone to her, regaining her ability to speak. He also explains that the Bartender had destroyed her contract, setting her free. She decides to join the Protagonist, but Aria is concerned by the people in the tavern who love her singing. Heine claims that they may be too busy going out to sea to stay at the bar. However, Emo also decides to continue working as a diva as she likes to sing and enjoys the customers. Aria and Heine then return to the Seaslight for examination, but are confronted by Geist.