Type Moon General

___ · Oct 11, 2023

Zap Rowsdower said:
I've said it before, I'll say it again - Grand Saber is going to be the Saberface who first used Excalibur to slay the White Titan 12,000 years ago, and will turn out to be cavewoman Saber Lion.

SinisterPorpoise said:
Other possible Noble Phantasms of Ur-Saber;
A fire-hardened stick, serving as a javelin.
A small tree with most of the branches removed, serving as a club.
The pelt of a saber-toothed cat, serving as a cape.

Meatcalibur is obviously Excalibur's ultimate form. An EX ranked anti-anti-world Noble Phantasm!

linkhyrule5 · Oct 11, 2023

buli-buli said:
So, I just finished binging Garden of Sinners over the past two days (or at least the animations. I still need to read Final Record, but I will do that tomorrow).

Was the cat in Recalled Out Summer - Extra Chorus a reincarnation of SHIKI? Or was it just a joke about Shiki's personality?

Pretty sure it's just a joke. Or like, the fact that she and the cat do essentially the exact same thing the entire time Kokutou is gone is definitely a joke about Shiki.

buli-buli · Oct 12, 2023

buli-buli said:
So, I just finished binging Garden of Sinners over the past two days (or at least the animations. I still need to read Final Record, but I will do that tomorrow).

Was the cat in Recalled Out Summer - Extra Chorus a reincarnation of SHIKI? Or was it just a joke about Shiki's personality?

So I read Final Record last night.
Sorta blah.
Though I guess we can confirm Misaya Ouji is now inexplicably friends with Azaka, Fujino, and Sero?
And confirm that Shiki is attended the same academy?

all fictions · Oct 15, 2023

This post by Comun on Beast Lair is a scenario I found very entertaining, probably the speculation of what would have happened had Gray become Artoria that I find the most fitting my own conception:

Comun said:
Waver quits teaching immediately to research a cure for the curse full time.
Caules doesn't get to learn his shit, setting back internet magecraft a few years or decades.

Meanwhile in Fuyuki, Shirou dies when he is killed a second time, as Asterism said.
Sakura loses her emotional anchor and relapses into eating people. Gilgil
an warns her and she eats him.
Rin lost her tracking dog to weaken Blood Fort Andromeda, so Medusa activates if full force and kills Archer in battle.
Archer flows into the Sakura Grail instead of Illya. With the Sakura Grail online, Zouken kills Medea, trades Kojirou for Hassan, and kills Cu.
Medusa, Hassan, and Heracles left in the war. Sakura tries to catch Herc without having Saber Alter to use against him. Herc kills Sakura and Medusa dies trying to protect her.
The 5 Servants in the Sakura Grail flow into Illya so she immediately jumps from fully able-bodied to barely functional. Easy Hassan target.
Zouken kills Hassan with a CS. Kirei baptizes him once he loses the Servant bodyguard. Angra Mainyu incarnates.
The Holy Church calls the big boys to deal with it and Fuyuki is erased from the map.

Meanwhile, back in London, some must have noticed King Arthur's sudden presence, especially the Harwey family since their magecraft is all Arthuriana-themed.
Families fight Arthuria, aeach other, and the Sealing Designation enforcers over King Arthur organs. Flat dies here and many more die fighting over Thia. Huge decrease in the Clock Tower population, akin to Apocrypha's Sub-HGWs fiasco.
Waver gets out of his library with the cure after Gray's organs already distributed among 30 owners.

3 years later, Latio turns Ergo into a god computer, ends global warming, dismantles the nuclear warfare industry, blocks alien threats, and guides mankind to sustainable progress. Happy ending.

Grim, but makes sense to me lol.

___ said:
See Arcueid, Archer and Ryougi.

See what? I didn't say they never appeared again, I said their stories is considered "finished" so you never get much of them past it. It's telling that Arc is herself and also 2 alternate versions of herself (and Nasu also said for ages he wanted a Tsuki collab, her presence is not surprising), that EMIYA is only there for comedic event and only his Altered forms are important to story events, and Ryougi has had nothing after the Garden of Sinners event.

Almost every Servant from OG FSN barely show up in story events, and when they do, it's the alternate versions of them that are the ones showing up and being super important. Artoria is the most blatant example (Lion King, Saber Alter, the Servant Universe Sabers, Castoria), but you also have Nasu say he thought he had nothing to write about Gilgamesh after CCC until he came up with Caster Gil.

You talk of extrapolation, but Notes. is a setting that unlike others like KnK saw not much adaptations or appearance of its characters in anything else, only its concepts transferred over as Squirtodyle said. The only non-Notes thing is a brief easy to miss appearance of V/V in Carnival Phantasm. Expecting them or the TYPEs to show up in FGO is not something I would hold my breath for, no more than I would for the April Witch, DDD, or Tsuki no Sango (and Tsuki no Sango is much more plausible because it at least got a manga adaptation, and even DDD Kanata showed up elsewhere).

Mizu · Oct 15, 2023

all fictions said:
This post by Comun on Beast Lair is a scenario I found very entertaining, probably the speculation of what would have happened had Gray become Artoria that I find the most fitting my own conception:

I'm just surprised the Harweys are a thing outside of /Extra, personally. Assumed they didn't exist in FSN canon.

all fictions · Oct 15, 2023

Mizu said:
I'm just surprised the Harweys are a thing outside of /Extra, personally. Assumed they didn't exist in FSN canon.

I assume it's just part of the scenario, the Harweys haven't been mentioned outside of the Extraverse AFAIK.

Geedubs · Nov 23, 2023

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all fictions · Nov 24, 2023

As I said on SB, this scene is just unintentionally goofy. There's something that breaks any sense of gravitas the scene is going for to have Taiga still wearing her 2004 outfit underneath her cultist robes and pointing a gun at Emiya while smiling with the weirdest look on her face is just too much. It's trying so hard to be tragic it loses any impact for me and just becomes funny.

It's like the "Watcha Say" shooting scene from The OC.

Vanargand · Nov 24, 2023

Like how official material keeps clowning on Fanfiction Shirou Typemoon has also decided to clown on all the Edge Shirou fanfictions

Zap Rowsdower · Nov 24, 2023

Vanargand said:
Like how official material keeps clowning on Fanfiction Shirou Typemoon has also decided to clown on all the Edge Shirou fanfictions

The Pruning Theoretical Phenomenon deletes timelines for becoming stagnant, not for becoming objectively rediculous or comically fanfictiony.

The multiverse may not be infinite, but anything is still possible as long as its not dull to watch for long periods.

Geedubs · Nov 24, 2023

all fictions said:
As I said on SB, this scene is just unintentionally goofy. There's something that breaks any sense of gravitas the scene is going for to have Taiga still wearing her 2004 outfit underneath her cultist robes and pointing a gun at Emiya while smiling with the weirdest look on her face is just too much. It's trying so hard to be tragic it loses any impact for me and just becomes funny.

It's like the "Watcha Say" shooting scene from The OC.

afreaknamedpete · Dec 29, 2023

I have so many thoughts and I'm only halfway through Mahoyo that I have to gush about it here.

I've been distantly aware of Nasu's works for... god, decades now? I've watched Fate Anime. I've bounced off of Tsukihime. I got super addicted to FGO then dropped like two top offs on Nero Bride, didn't get her, got super pissed and scrambled my password, killing a two year account in a single fit of sheer unadulterated nerdrage. I've read Fate fanfiction, I've gotten into Type Moon crap over the years.

But technically? I've never actually read something Nasu wrote, beyond whatever he parts he wrote in FGO.

I've had this... idea, maybe a false impression is more accurate. Through sheer osmosis of this behemoth multimedia franchise, mostly from FGO, I've thought that I knew what kind of story Type Moon works were. That Type Moon is all about complicated magic systems, cool fights, lore and a sense of there always being 'something behind the curtain'. Fights where people out DBZ each other, big dramatic speeches, bombast, like... Marvel or something like that. I have more engagement with scrolling through the Type Moon wiki more than any other way of engaging with Type Moon works.

But I picked up Mahoyo on a lark. I used to read a lot of VNs but I got burned out with Umineko and haven't picked one up in years. I figured I'd play Mahoyo for a few hours and refund like 90% of all the VNs I've tried lately.

But it's just... I'm not sure I have the words to describe it. It's filled with everything I hate.

I hate the Asuka/Rei Tsundere and Kuudere dynamic.
I hate Tsundere characters in general, no matter where they show up.
I hate when physical violence is used as a punchline.
I hate the whole 'we're fighting to the death but now we're BFFs' trope.
I hate the coincidences, I hate how the fights seem impossible to follow because it's never clear what, precisely, anyone is capable of doing.
I hate how so much drama is wrung out of misunderstandings and how nobody seems willing to fucking communicate.

This is a story filled with all the things I hate from the consumption of Japanese media for decades. I feel like I've outgrown it all. That in order for me to enjoy something it has to be original or high concept or something so perfect I can't find fault in it.

But reading Mahoyo it's like... I can't remember why I hated everything I thought I did.

Aoko is a Tsundere. She's an ur-tsundere, her 1st, 2nd and 3rd traits are Tsundere, Tsundere and Tsundere. But she's somehow my favorite character in like... what feels like years. It's not even the whole defrosting thing, Aoko is fun to read even at maximum Tsun.

Aoko/Alice/Soujyrou works super well as a trio, and feeling their mutual exasperation with each other is an amazing dynamic. They all gel like oil and water but it works and is interesting to read.

I can even believe that these characters can be killing each other one minute and then drinking tea the next without it seeming contrived to me.

My critical mind is screaming to me in hindsight that Aoko firing three super beams at the dumb moon monster is stupid, there's no indication after the first shot that she had juice for shots 2+3, it has about as much justification as a Kamehameha but I'm still at the edge of my seat and whooping when she wins.

There's tension in every scene, everybody feels like they have secrets, and even the info dump stuff is interesting. Like... separate from all the sheer detritis that is Type-Moon works.

I have shipping opinions. I've never had shipping opinions before!

It's just... there's all the magic and bombast and implications of a wider world and lore crap sprinkled in that I expected when I started Mahoyo. I can clearly see where all the Fate lineage sprung from here. But I just didn't expect the character writing to be so interesting. I didn't expect that the tropes I've grown to hate I find I love in this story.

It's still... hard to describe, personally? It's just quality. It's somehow rocketed to the top as one of the best things I've ever read. I've always been scared stiff about reading Nasu stuff especially since at this point between the animes and sheer osmosis I already know all the plot twists well in advance, but there's this sense for me that maybe I've been missing out this whole time. That Type Moon is a behemoth because underneath all the fluff and lore and power level nonsense... they write really fucking good stories.

Edit: And I finished it.

I don't even know how to describe the ending. Happy but not saccharine, melancholic without feeling sad? Having the story end with just... a conversation between two people, rather than something super bombastic just fits the story so well. I know that it could, potentially, get a sequel or something down the line but I don't think it needs a sequel. Sure, Soujyuro's past isn't explicitly spelled out and the whole neck thing isn't fully absolutely explained but it seems almost counter to what feels like the theme of the story to focus on that. Like his past doesn't really matter, it's all about moving forward.

I think this story just hit me in the right time when I had the right mindset to enjoy it. Best story I've read in years. Damn it, I'm actually looking forward to the Tsukihime remake now, and I might have to go down the rabbit hole of actually reading FS/N.

buli-buli · Dec 30, 2023

afreaknamedpete said:
Aoko is a Tsundere. She's an ur-tsundere, her 1st, 2nd and 3rd traits are Tsundere, Tsundere and Tsundere. But she's somehow my favorite character in like... what feels like years. It's not even the whole defrosting thing, Aoko is fun to read even at maximum Tsun.

I have not gotten around to Mahoyo yet so I do not know if this applies, but in my experience the Tsundere archetype works when it is the natural result of the characters other traits. Not a goal or, heaven-forbid, a trait in and of itself.
And unless there is some solid-character writing and history backing it up "embarrassed by their own emotions" does not count.

In the case of Fate, there is of course Rin.
I've even read that Nasu did not intend for her to be a Tsundere.
I do not know how much you've gleamed from fanfic, so I will spoiler my only vaguely spoilerly analysis.
Rin Tohsaka is (despite her grades) a know-nothing know-it-all. She also has a very strong moral code. And that moral code conflicts with her ethical code. That is to say that she likes protecting lives, but, as a Mage, feels professionally obligated to be an asshole.

Geedubs · Jan 4, 2024

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Sucal · Jan 5, 2024

...

I thought we knew this already?

Grue · Jan 5, 2024

As I understand the fantranslators misinterpreted Hitodenashi(a single word, 'bastard' works as a translation) as Hito de nashi(three 'words', Not Human). And yes, we've known for a while(I believe by Grand Carnival the people translating knew it was a reference).

fallacies · Jan 14, 2024

7 Days 8 Years Snow Carol, on the subject of non-rayshift time travel:

Below is a series of excerpts from Christmas 2023, relating to the subject of time travel outside the context of rayshifting, and Nemo's use of it in this event.
For further details on time travel by use of rayshifting, please refer to this post.

As specifically pertains to the discussion below, some background information on what was established regarding thaumaturgical time travel prior to this event:

Per Extella Material and other sources, approximately once a century, the World creates a Quantum Time-Lock / Human Order Foundation based on an average of the apprehension of notable events within the relevant period by "humans alive in the era." The action of establishing a QTL locks these notable events from alteration by the influence of time travelers and similar intervention, but events that aren't subject to the lock were supposedly changeable in some capacity.
The factor that gradually realigns a timeline to the average pattern of events recorded per a QTL is referred to as 修復力(shuufuku-ryoku), which has appeared in translations as "the Restorative Force" or "the Corrective Force." This is apparently something like a narrower subset of 抑止力(yokishi-ryoku) — variously, "the Deterrent Force" or "the Counter Force."
Aside from realigning altered timelines, the Restorative Force was prior to Christmas 2023 non-explicitly implied to be the factor responsible for purging time travelers projected into the past via rayshifting, in the circumstance that observation from "the present day" doesn't anchor their existence to confirmation. A time traveler successfully purged is presumed to be lost beyond reclamation.
Whereas living humans that time travel via rayshifting are effectively "projected" into a target era in a manner vaguely comparable to Gradation Air, primarily spiritual existences such as Grails and Einzbern homunculi can make use of rayshift for one-way teleportation, along the lines of a "Star Trek style" transporter. The in-bound rayshifting of existences not primarily spiritual to Chaldea (for example, food supplies) apparently requires something a little extra, per da Vinci's mysterious bag in Karna's interlude.
The Restorative Force is apparently incapable of independently purging Grails in excess of a certain scale. Outward transport of Grails via rayshift unsummoning is per QSH's interlude apparently capable of functionally altering the course of history.
In LB6, the Saint Graph of the Morgan who rayshifted her personality / memories into her local analogue was annihilated. The Morgan native to LB6 was thereafter able to change the course of history, but it isn't entirely clear that a system that periodically imposed QTLs was functional within the context of LB6.
Prior the completion of rayshifting technology, Lord Animusphere committed a fair amount of resources to the development of the Shadow Border as a "conventional" time machine, capable of "physically driving" to other time periods. The acquisition of the Paper Moon was in some capacity related to this, as absent of it, the Shadow Border would be entirely incapable of coherent navigation within the Imaginary Sea. Eventually, the development of the Shadow Border was for various reasons abandoned in favor of rayshift technology.

That being said, excerpts from this event, with summaries of key points, and a bit of commentary toward the end:

Day 5 - Part A said:
１７：００勤務終了の１時間前

＠マシュ／ Mashu

今日は余裕をもって戻ってきましたね、先輩。
無理をせずキリのいいところで仕事を終えるのは良いことですが、何か理由があっての事でしたか？

＠ぐだ子／ Gudako

1：さすがマシュ。するどい
2：そろそろ訊(き)いていいタイミングかなって

＠マシュ／ Mashu

それは……ネモさんたちにはプレゼントを配る他に、何か目的があるのでは……という？

＠ぐだ子／ Gudako

1：疑問という程でもないけど
2：そのあたりどうなの、ＢＢ？

＠ＢＢ

えー、それわたしに訊(き)くんですかー？
世界各地の配達エリアにジャンプする虚数移動を無料サービスしてるのに、
今回のお話の核心まで教えろとか、なんか便利に使われすぎてる気がしますぅー。

＠マシュ／ Mashu

その件に関してはご厚意に甘えさせていただき、たいへん助かっているのですが……
ネモさんたちの身に何かあった時、それは同席しなかったわたしたちの責任でもあります。
ＢＢさんがご存じであれば、可能な範囲でネモさんたちの目的を教えていただけないでしょうか。

＠ぐだ子／ Gudako

1：うん。危険なことなら放っておけない
2：ただの考えすぎなら、それが一番だけど

＠ＢＢ

…………危険なこと、ですか。
誓(ちか)って言いますが、ネモさんには裏も表もありません。
彼は自分が『そうあるべき』と感じたサンタをこなそうとしているだけです。
その中に一つ、難易度の高いミッションが交ざっています。
特殊事例、ともいえる配達任務が。
ネモさんたちはその配達任務の参考に、と、サーヴァントたちから話を聞いているのでしょう。
おふたりが『ネモサンタは何か隠している』ように感じたのは、その話を彼が秘密にしているから。
これはそれだけの話です。そして……
わたしから真剣な忠告です。
この件について、問い合わせる事はしないように。
おふたりがネモサンタに問い合わせた時点で、彼はその配達任務を取りやめるでしょう。
『誰にも知られず、何にも影響を与えないこと』。
それがこの特殊事例配達の成功条件だからです。

＠マシュ／ Mashu

誰にも知られず……

＠ぐだ子／ Gudako

1：何にも影響を与えない配達……？

＠ＢＢ

はい！世界に何の変化も齎(もたら)さない特殊事例(オペレーション)！
つまり、配達したけど荷物はカラ、という事ですね！
『そんな配達、なんの意味があるの？』という疑問はごもっとも！
ＢＢちゃんもそう思います！
ですが、これは幻霊ネモがその魂をかけて行う、不条理にして不可解な任務です。
彼がサンタクロース役を請け負ったのはこの任務を遂行するため。
わたしはその選択を尊重し、沈黙を守ります。
たとえ『何の意味もない』行いだとしても、決して、『無意味である』と笑うことはないのです。

Day 5 - Part A said:
＠マシュ／ Mashu

それは……ネモさんたちにはプレゼントを配る他に、何か目的があるのでは……という？
So ... other than delivering presents, the Nemos have some other objective, you're saying?

＠ぐだ子／ Gudako

1：疑問という程でもないけど
1: It isn't quite on the level of a question, but
2：そのあたりどうなの、ＢＢ？
2: anything to say on [the matter], BB?

＠ＢＢ

えー、それわたしに訊(き)くんですかー？
Ehh, you're asking me?
世界各地の配達エリアにジャンプする虚数移動を無料サービスしてるのに、
[Given that I'm already providing to you] the free service of [enabling] jumps [via] Imaginary Movement (虚数(kyosuu)移動(idou), lit. "imaginary numbers movement") to delivery areas all over the world,
今回のお話の核心まで教えろとか、なんか便利に使われすぎてる気がしますぅー。
it somehow feels like [you'd be] too excessively [taking advantage of me] if I were to explain even the [matter about which the situation revolves] this time around.

＠マシュ／ Mashu

その件に関してはご厚意に甘えさせていただき、たいへん助かっているのですが……
With regards to that, you've of course been of a great assistance to us, and [we recognize that] we've taken advantage of your generosity. However ...
ネモさんたちの身に何かあった時、それは同席しなかったわたしたちの責任でもあります。
We likewise bear a responsibility in the circumstance that something happens to the Nemos, being as [we've elected] not to accompany them.
ＢＢさんがご存じであれば、可能な範囲でネモさんたちの目的を教えていただけないでしょうか。
If BB-san is aware of the Nemos' objective, could you explain it to us to whatever extent possible?

＠ぐだ子／ Gudako

1：うん。危険なことなら放っておけない
1: Un. If it's something dangerous, we can't just let it be.
2：ただの考えすぎなら、それが一番だけど
2: Though it'd be best if we're simply being paranoid.

＠ＢＢ

…………危険なこと、ですか。
... something dangerous, huh?
誓(ちか)って言いますが、ネモさんには裏も表もありません。
I can promise you that Nemo isn't double-faced.
彼は自分が『そうあるべき』と感じたサンタをこなそうとしているだけです。
Merely, he felt the need to act as Santa on account that 『there were things he ought to do』.
その中に一つ、難易度の高いミッションが交ざっています。
And among those things, there was a singular high-difficulty mission mixed in.
特殊事例、ともいえる配達任務が。
A delivery mission that could be described as 'a special case.'
ネモさんたちはその配達任務の参考に、と、サーヴァントたちから話を聞いているのでしょう。
Presumably, it was in making reference to things they heard from [other] Servants that the Nemos [arrived upon the basis of] this delivery mission.
おふたりが『ネモサンタは何か隠している』ように感じたのは、その話を彼が秘密にしているから。
And because he was keeping it a secret, the two of you sensed that 『Nemo Santa's concealing something』.
これはそれだけの話です。そして……
That's all there is to it. That being said ...
わたしから真剣な忠告です。
An earnest word of warning from me.
この件について、問い合わせる事はしないように。
Don't inquire [further] on the matter.
おふたりがネモサンタに問い合わせた時点で、彼はその配達任務を取りやめるでしょう。
As of such a point that the two of you pose a query to Nemo Santa, he'll presumably cancel the mission.
『誰にも知られず、何にも影響を与えないこと』。
『Without coming to anyone's apprehension; without imposing influence on anything』
それがこの特殊事例配達の成功条件だからです。
Those would be the success conditions to the special-case delivery mission.

＠マシュ／ Mashu

誰にも知られず……
Not coming to anyone's apprehension ...

＠ぐだ子／ Gudako

1：何にも影響を与えない配達……？
1: A delivery that doesn't impose influence on anything ... ?

＠ＢＢ

はい！世界に何の変化も齎(もたら)さない特殊事例(オペレーション)！
Indeed! a special case(An operation) that brings about no change to the world whatsoever.
つまり、配達したけど荷物はカラ、という事ですね！
In other words, even though a delivery is being made, the package is empty!
『そんな配達、なんの意味があるの？』という疑問はごもっとも！
You'd be justified in posing the question, 『What meaning is there in making such a delivery?』
ＢＢちゃんもそう思います！
BB-chan is of [a similar] sentiment!
ですが、これは幻霊ネモがその魂をかけて行う、不条理にして不可解な任務です。
However, this would be the unreasonable, incomprehensible mission that the Phantom Nemo has put his soul [upon the line] to pursue.
彼がサンタクロース役を請け負ったのはこの任務を遂行するため。
[And it's] for the purpose of prosecuting this mission that he's taken [upon himself] the role of Santa Claus.
わたしはその選択を尊重し、沈黙を守ります。
I respect his decision, and so maintain my silence.
たとえ『何の意味もない』行いだとしても、決して、『無意味である』と笑うことはないのです。
Even that it's an action that 『holds no meaning』, I would never ridicule it as 『meaningless』.

Day 5 - Part A said:
＠ Mashu

So ... other than delivering presents, the Nemos have some other objective, you're saying?

＠ Gudako

1: It isn't quite on the level of a question, but
2: anything to say on [the matter], BB?

＠ＢＢ

Ehh, you're asking me?
[Given that I'm already providing to you] the free service of [enabling] jumps [via] Imaginary Movement to delivery areas all over the world,
it somehow feels like [you'd be] too excessively [taking advantage of me] if I were to explain even the [matter about which the situation revolves] this time around.

＠ Mashu

With regards to that, you've of course been of a great assistance to us, and [we recognize that] we've taken advantage of your generosity. However ...
We likewise bear a responsibility in the circumstance that something happens to the Nemos, being as [we've elected] not to accompany them.
If BB-san is aware of the Nemos' objective, could you explain it to us to whatever extent possible?

＠ Gudako

1: Un. If it's something dangerous, we can't just let it be.
2: Though it'd be best if we're simply being paranoid.

＠ＢＢ

... something dangerous, huh?
I can promise you that Nemo isn't double-faced.
Merely, he felt the need to act as Santa on account that 『there were things he ought to do』.
And among those things, there was a singular high-difficulty mission mixed in.
A delivery mission that could be described as 'a special case.'
Presumably, it was in making reference to things they heard from [other] Servants that the Nemos [arrived upon the basis of] this delivery mission.
And because he was keeping it a secret, the two of you sensed that 『Nemo Santa's concealing something』.
That's all there is to it. That being said ...
An earnest word of warning from me.
Don't inquire [further] on the matter.
As of such a point that the two of you pose a query to Nemo Santa, he'll presumably cancel the mission.
『Without coming to anyone's apprehension; without imposing influence on anything』
Those would be the success conditions to the special-case delivery mission.

＠ Mashu

Not coming to anyone's apprehension ...

＠ Gudako

1: A delivery that doesn't impose influence on anything ... ?

＠ＢＢ

Indeed! a special case(An operation) that brings about no change to the world whatsoever.
In other words, even though a delivery is being made, the package is empty!
You'd be justified in posing the question, 『What meaning is there in making such a delivery?』
BB-chan is of [a similar] sentiment!
However, this would be the unreasonable, incomprehensible mission that the Phantom Nemo has put his soul [upon the line] to pursue.
[And it's] for the purpose of prosecuting this mission that he's taken [upon himself] the role of Santa Claus.
I respect his decision, and so maintain my silence.
Even that it's an action that 『holds no meaning』, I would never ridicule it as 『meaningless』.

The victory conditions for Nemo's operation are:

not coming to anyone's apprehension
not imposing influence on anything

Day 5 - Part B said:
＠ぐだ子／ Gudako

1：邪魔してるのＢＢじゃん！
2：『その選択を尊重し、沈黙を守ります』とは……

＠ネモ・プロフェッサー／ Nemo Professor

はい～。特に理由もなく現れて、いつも通り、痛い目を見てお帰りになりました～。

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

まあ、理由があるから邪魔……
いや、警告に来たんだろうけど。
ＢＢが愉快犯のように振る舞う時は、たいてい、第三者の善意を守ろうとする時だからね。

＠ネモ・プロフェッサー／ Nemo Professor

なるほどー。虚数潜航が深度５まで成功したので、これ以上は冠位(グランド)の壁があ、

Day 5 - Part B said:
＠ぐだ子／ Gudako

1：邪魔してるのＢＢじゃん！
1: BB [ended up] interfering!
2：『その選択を尊重し、沈黙を守ります』とは……
2: [What exactly was] 『I respect his decision, and so maintain my silence』 supposed to mean ...

＠ネモ・プロフェッサー／ Nemo Professor

はい～。特に理由もなく現れて、いつも通り、痛い目を見てお帰りになりました～。
Hai~. She manifested for no particular reason, and, as usual, went away after having a bad time~

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

まあ、理由があるから邪魔……
Maa, she did [in fact] have a reason to interfere ...
いや、警告に来たんだろうけど。
Rather, I presume she came to [give us] warning.
ＢＢが愉快犯のように振る舞う時は、たいてい、第三者の善意を守ろうとする時だからね。
When BB conducts herself as if [committing crimes for pleasure] (愉快犯(yukai-han), lit. "criminal for enjoyment"), it's generally to the end of sustaining the goodwill of a third party.

＠ネモ・プロフェッサー／ Nemo Professor

なるほどー。虚数潜航が深度５まで成功したので、これ以上は冠位(グランド)の壁があ、
I see~. Because we've successfully reached up to Depth 5 per Imaginary Submersion (虚数(kyosuu)潜航(senkou), lit. "imaginary numbers underwater navigation"), and beyond this point, [we'll be going up against] the Boundary (壁(kabe), lit. "wall") of the Station of the Crown(Grand) ...

Day 5 - Part B said:
＠ Gudako

1: BB [ended up] interfering!
2: [What exactly was] 『I respect his decision, and so maintain my silence』 supposed to mean ...

＠ Nemo Professor

Hai~. She manifested for no particular reason, and, as usual, went away after having a bad time~

＠ Nemo Santa

Maa, she did [in fact] have a reason to interfere ...
Rather, I presume she came to [give us] warning.
When BB conducts herself as if [committing crimes for pleasure], it's generally to the end of sustaining the goodwill of a third party.

＠ Nemo Professor

I see~. Because we've successfully reached up to Depth 5 per Imaginary Submersion, and beyond this point, [we'll be going up against] the Boundary of the Station of the Crown(Grand) ...

On the 5th day of the event, as of descent to Imaginary Submersion, Depth 5, BB appears to obstruct Nemo.
Reading her intentions as an offering of warning, he comments that on descending to Depth 6, he'll be contending against something he refers to as 冠位(kan'i)の(no)壁(kabe) — the Boundary of the Grand. Presumably, this would be the point at which he anticipates interference from a Grand Servant.

On the following day, prior to departure, he has a conversation with Guda:

Day 6 - Part A said:
＠ぐだ子／ Gudako

1：ちょっと待って

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

ん？なに？

＠ぐだ子／ Gudako

1：サンタクロースになった理由とか、聞いていい？

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

ーーーーーー。
そうだね。きっかけはマルタからの指名だったけど、サンタ役を受けたのは届けたいものがあったから。
サンタクロースはどこの誰であっても、幸運を送り届ける幻想だろう？
僕の理由は、その奇跡に乗っかったものだ。
『プレゼントを待つ』誰かのためはもちろんだけど、『プレゼントを届けたい』誰かのためにサンタになった。
他のサンタサーヴァントに比べると利己的だけどね。ひとりくらい、そういうサンタがいてもいいはずだ。

＠ぐだ子／ Gudako

1：もちろん。ぜんぜん、利己的じゃないけどね
2：いってらっしゃい、ネモサンタ

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

じゃあまた、夕方に。
今日の配達先は極めて稀有(けう)な相手でね。
土産話、楽しみにしておいて。

Day 6 - Part A said:
＠ぐだ子／ Gudako

1：ちょっと待って
1: Hold on.

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

ん？なに？
Hm? What is it?

＠ぐだ子／ Gudako

1：サンタクロースになった理由とか、聞いていい？
1: Is it alright if I ask you the reason you're [acting as] Santa Claus?

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

ーーーーーー。
そうだね。
[Well, about that.]
きっかけはマルタからの指名だったけど、サンタ役を受けたのは届けたいものがあったから。
Though [I suppose] the impetus [came of] Martha's designation, it's on account that there was something I wanted to deliver that I accepted the role of Santa.
サンタクロースはどこの誰であっても、幸運を送り届ける幻想だろう？
Santa Claus is a fantasy [capable of] delivering good fortune to anyone in any location, yes?
僕の理由は、その奇跡に乗っかったものだ。
My purpose was to take advantage of that miracle.
『プレゼントを待つ』誰かのためはもちろんだけど、『プレゼントを届けたい』誰かのためにサンタになった。
Though of course it's [likewise] on behalf of those 『awaiting presents』, I became Santa for the sake of somebody 『I'd like to deliver a present to』.
他のサンタサーヴァントに比べると利己的だけどね。
Versus the other Santa Servants, it's a bit self-serving, [I suppose].
ひとりくらい、そういうサンタがいてもいいはずだ。
But it should be fine that a single Santa is like this.

＠ぐだ子／ Gudako

1：もちろん。ぜんぜん、利己的じゃないけどね
1: Of course. Though it isn't self-serving at all.
2：いってらっしゃい、ネモサンタ
2: Take care, then, Nemo Santa.

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

じゃあまた、夕方に。
I'll see you in the evening.
今日の配達先は極めて稀有(けう)な相手でね。
Today's recipient is of the extremely uncommon [variety].
土産話、楽しみにしておいて。
Look forward to hearing about it.

Day 6 - Part A said:
＠ Gudako

1: Hold on.

＠ Nemo Santa

Hm? What is it?

＠ Gudako

1: Is it alright if I ask you the reason you're [acting as] Santa Claus?

＠ Nemo Santa

ーーーーーー。
[Well, about that.]
Though [I suppose] the impetus [came of] Martha's designation, it's on account that there was something I wanted to deliver that I accepted the role of Santa.
Santa Claus is a fantasy [capable of] delivering good fortune to anyone in any location, yes?
My purpose was to take advantage of that miracle.
Though of course it's [likewise] on behalf of those 『awaiting presents』, I became Santa for the sake of somebody 『I'd like to deliver a present to』.
Versus the other Santa Servants, it's a bit self-serving, [I suppose].
But it should be fine that a single Santa is like this.

＠ Gudako

1: Of course. Though it isn't self-serving at all.
2: Take care, then, Nemo Santa.

＠ Nemo Santa

I'll see you in the evening.
Today's recipient is of the extremely uncommon [variety].
Look forward to hearing about it.

Santa Claus is here described as "a fantasy capable of delivering good fortune to anyone in any location."
Nemo's stated objective in assuming the aspect of Santa Claus was to take advantage of this quality, perhaps to establish Nidana / a tie of En to "the designated recipients of presents" for purposes of thaumaturgical instrumentality; as a way of boosting the probability of arrival at a target.

Day 6 - Part B said:
＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

ふう、なんとか首は落ちずに済んだ。
（ガッツがなかったら危なかったけど）

＠山の翁／ Old Man of the Mountain

当然だ。手心を加えた故。貴様の行く末に繋(つな)がるであろう、救世の加護に感謝せよ。

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

？なにそれ。
サンタクロースにそんな属性あったっけ？

---

(Conversation about Tiamat's present to the Old Man of the Mountain.)

---

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

あの、山の翁。実は、

＠山の翁／ Old Man of the Mountain

そうか。首を出せ。

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

まだ何も打ち明けていないんだけど！？

＠山の翁／ Old Man of the Mountain

『あのような経路』で我が下(もと)を訪れた時点で、貴様の目論見(もくろみ)は理解している。
許しを求める必要はない。過(あやま)てば貴様は消える。
それを以(もっ)て清算としよう。
我は既に冠位にあらず、関与はしない。
他の冠位どもも手は出すまい。ひとりを除いてな。

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

…………成功すると思う？

＠山の翁／ Old Man of the Mountain

異な事を。『どちらにせよ』、『世界には何の変化もない』。
力(ちから)及ばなければ骨はおろか名前さえ残らず消滅する。
だが貴様はもとより『誰でもない者』。
後始末とて不用であろう。
ーーー叶うかどうかなど、悩む余地があるのかね？

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

そうか。ありがとう翁。
ずっと心の底にあった、最後の迷いがなくなったよ。

＠山の翁／ Old Man of the Mountain

だが心せよ。
我は生と死の境界に永(なが)く身を置いた末、境界そのものとなった。
死に触れるあまり、死そのものになった。
ありえない世界に身を置けば、その者もまたありえないモノになるようにーーー
起こりえない(目に見えない)事象を起こしたものは、
起こりえない(目に見えない)存在となる。
形而上(けいじじょう)の世界において、信仰のみが無意味化する存在をつなぎ止める。
ーーー意義を忘れぬ事だ、船長。
遙かな因果の末に、我らがまた会うためにな。

---

＠ネモ・ナース／ Nemo Nurse

お帰りなさいリーダー。
山の翁にご挨拶はできましたか？

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

ああ。想像以上に怖ろしい英霊(じんぶつ)だったよ。
僕らがこれからやろうとする事なんて、彼にとっては朝の祈り程度のものらしい。
僕らの試(こころ)みは許される事なのか聞きに行ったのに、その迷いごと突き放された。
要約すると、『どうでもいいから好きにやれ』だってさ。

＠ネモ・ナース／ Nemo Nurse

まあ。これは手厳しい。
では予定通り？

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

ああ。マリーン。マスターには『今日は帰らない』と伝達を。
総員、配置につけ！虚数潜航深度７、目標、西暦2015年！
本艦は是より『約束の時間』に向けて、時間移動を敢行する！

Day 6 - Part B said:
＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

ふう、なんとか首は落ちずに済んだ。
Fuu. Somehow, I managed not to lose my head.
（ガッツがなかったら危なかったけど）
(Though if not for Guts, things might've gotten dangerous.)

＠山の翁／ Old Man of the Mountain

当然だ。手心を加えた故。
Of course. I exercised restraint.
貴様の行く末に繋(つな)がるであろう、救世の加護に感謝せよ。
Give thanks to the Blessing of Salvation (救世(kyuusei)の(no)加護(kago), lit. "blessings of the world's salvation) that thy path does unto its terminus [yet] connect.

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

？なにそれ。
? What's with that?
サンタクロースにそんな属性あったっけ？
Did Santa Claus have such an attribute?

---

(Conversation about Tiamat's present to the Old Man of the Mountain.)

---

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

あの、山の翁。実は、
Um, Old Man of the Mountain. Actually,

＠山の翁／ Old Man of the Mountain

そうか。首を出せ。
I see. Offer forth thy head.

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

まだ何も打ち明けていないんだけど！？
But I haven't yet explained anything!?

＠山の翁／ Old Man of the Mountain

『あのような経路』で我が下(もと)を訪れた時点で、貴様の目論見(もくろみ)は理解している。
As of thy arrival at this location mine by 『such an itinerary』, I grasped thy intent.
許しを求める必要はない。
Asking forgiveness is unnecessary.
過(あやま)てば貴様は消える。
If there be error, thou shalt vanish.
それを以(もっ)て清算としよう。
By such [consequence] does thy [trespass] come to correction.
我は既に冠位にあらず、関与はしない。
I be of the Station of the Crown no longer, and shall not interfere.
他の冠位どもも手は出すまい。ひとりを除いてな。
The others of the Station would likewise stay their hand, excepting one.

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

…………成功すると思う？
... do you think I'll succeed?

＠山の翁／ Old Man of the Mountain

異な事を。『どちらにせよ、世界には何の変化もない』。
Thou asketh a curious thing. 『Whatever the case, the World changes not at all.』
力(ちから)及ばなければ骨はおろか名前さえ残らず消滅する。
If thy strength be insufficient, thou shalt come to annihilation, leaving behind not even a name, let alone a [set of] bones.
だが貴様はもとより『誰でもない者』。
But thou wert to begin with 『one who was nobody at all』.
後始末とて不用であろう。
A squaring away of [loose ends] would in outcome be as unnecessary, perhaps.
ーーー叶うかどうかなど、悩む余地があるのかね？
— but hast thou the leeway to concern thyself with [probability] of success?

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

そうか。ありがとう翁。
I see. Thank you.
ずっと心の底にあった、最後の迷いがなくなったよ。
The final doubts that [remained within] my heart have cleared away.

＠山の翁／ Old Man of the Mountain

だが心せよ。
But take heed.
我は生と死の境界に永(なが)く身を置いた末、境界そのものとなった。
Long lingering at the boundary of life and death did the boundary itself I become.
死に触れるあまり、死そのものになった。
And in so touching death did I death become.
ありえない世界に身を置けば、その者もまたありえないモノになるようにーーー
[Therefore], as he who lingers in an impossible World becomes as an existence [likewise] impossible —
起こりえない(目に見えない)事象を起こしたものは、
that which brings to occur phenomena what cannot arise(cannot be seen)
起こりえない(目に見えない)存在となる。
becomes [itself] an existence that cannot arise(cannot be seen).
形而上(けいじじょう)の世界において、信仰のみが無意味化する存在をつなぎ止める。
In the context of the metaphysical World, it is faith alone what binds to preservation existences rendered absent of meaning.
ーーー意義を忘れぬ事だ、船長。
— meaning is a matter what ought not be forgotten, Captain —
遙かな因果の末に、我らがまた会うためにな。
in order that we meet again, at the terminus of a distant causality.

---

＠ネモ・ナース／ Nemo Nurse

お帰りなさいリーダー。
Welcome back, Leader.
山の翁にご挨拶はできましたか？
Were you able to give your salutations to the Old Man of the Mountain?

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

ああ。想像以上に怖ろしい英霊(じんぶつ)だったよ。
Aah. He was a Heroic Spirit(personage) more frightening than I imagined.
僕らがこれからやろうとする事なんて、彼にとっては朝の祈り程度のものらしい。
It would seem that [from his perspective], the [mission] we're about to undertake is something on the order of a morning prayer.
僕らの試(こころ)みは許される事なのか聞きに行ったのに、その迷いごと突き放された。
Though I approached to inquire whether our endeavor was permissible, he brushed aside our doubts and misgivings altogether.
要約すると、『どうでもいいから好きにやれ』だってさ。
In summary, 『It doesn't matter, so do as you will.』

＠ネモ・ナース／ Nemo Nurse

まあ。これは手厳しい。
Maa. Quite strict [of him].
では予定通り？
In that case, shall we proceed as planned?

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

ああ。マリーン。マスターには『今日は帰らない』と伝達を。
Aah. Marine. Please communicate to the Master that 『we won't be returning home today』.
総員、配置につけ！
All hands, to your stations!
虚数潜航深度７、目標、西暦2015年！
Imaginary Submersion Depth 7. Destination, AD 2015!
本艦は是より『約束の時間』に向けて、時間移動を敢行する！
This ship hereforth commences the prosecution of temporal travel, setting course to 『the promised hour』!

Day 6 - Part B said:
＠ Nemo Santa

Fuu. Somehow, I managed not to lose my head.
(Though if not for Guts, things might've gotten dangerous.)

＠ Old Man of the Mountain

Of course. I exercised restraint.
Give thanks to the Blessing of Salvation that thy path does unto its terminus [yet] connect.

＠ Nemo Santa

? What's with that?
Did Santa Claus have such an attribute?

---

(Conversation about Tiamat's present to the Old Man of the Mountain.)

---

＠ Nemo Santa

Um, Old Man of the Mountain. Actually,

＠ Old Man of the Mountain

I see. Offer forth thy head.

＠ Nemo Santa

But I haven't yet explained anything!?

＠ Old Man of the Mountain

As of thy arrival at this location mine by 『such an itinerary』, I grasped thy intent.
Asking forgiveness is unnecessary.
If there be error, thou shalt vanish.
By such [consequence] does thy [trespass] come to correction.
I be of the Station of the Crown no longer, and shall not interfere.
The others of the Station would likewise stay their hand, excepting one.

＠ Nemo Santa

... do you think I'll succeed?

＠ Old Man of the Mountain

Thou asketh a curious thing. 『Whatever the case, the World changes not at all.』
If thy strength be insufficient, thou shalt come to annihilation, leaving behind not even a name, let alone a [set of] bones.
But thou wert to begin with 『one who was nobody at all』.
A squaring away of [loose ends] would in outcome be as unnecessary, perhaps.
— but hast thou the leeway to concern thyself with [probability] of success?

＠ Nemo Santa

I see. Thank you.
The final doubts that [remained within] my heart have cleared away.

＠ Old Man of the Mountain

But take heed.
Long lingering at the boundary of life and death did the boundary itself I become.
And in so touching death did I death become.
[Therefore], as he who lingers in an impossible World becomes as an existence [likewise] impossible —
that which brings to occur phenomena what cannot arise(cannot be seen)
becomes [itself] an existence that cannot arise(cannot be seen).
In the context of the metaphysical World, it is faith alone what binds to preservation existences rendered absent of meaning.
— meaning is a matter what ought not be forgotten, Captain —
in order that we meet again, at the terminus of a distant causality.

---

＠ Nemo Nurse

Welcome back, Leader.
Were you able to give your salutations to the Old Man of the Mountain?

＠ Nemo Santa

Aah. He was a Heroic Spirit(personage) more frightening than I imagined.
It would seem that [from his perspective], the [mission] we're about to undertake is something on the order of a morning prayer.
Though I approached to inquire whether our endeavor was permissible, he brushed aside our doubts and misgivings altogether.
In summary, 『It doesn't matter, so do as you will.』

＠ Nemo Nurse

Maa. Quite strict [of him].
In that case, shall we proceed as planned?

＠ Nemo Santa

Aah. Marine. Please communicate to the Master that 『we won't be returning home today』.
All hands, to your stations!
Imaginary Submersion Depth 7. Destination, AD 2015!
This ship hereforth commences the prosecution of temporal travel, setting course to 『the promised hour』!

Nemo survives an encounter with the Old Man of the Mountain, acknowledging in dialogue the use of Guts.
The Old Man of the Mountain attributes his sparing of Nemo to something he names as 救世(kyuusei)の(no)加護(kago) — "the Blessing of Salvation." The nature of this is unclear.
Nemo doesn't recognize this as a known attribute or Skill associated with his Saint Graph as a Santa Claus, and wonders if Santa possessed such an attribute.

After some conversation relating to the Christmas gift Tiamat wanted Nemo to deliver to the Old Man of the Mountain, the subject switches to the matter of Nemo's mission.
Simply by the way in which Nemo arrived at his location, the Old Man was able to guess that Nemo was making use of the Imaginary Sea for purposes of time travel.
He warns Nemo that if there's some "error" in the way he's going about this business, he'll as a "correction" (清算(seisan), "settlement" as an outcome of a legal dispute; often, "liquidation") face the consequence of vanishing.
Being as the Old Man is no longer a Grand, he won't interfere, but he notes that one amongst the current Grands may.

When Nemo asks the Old Man his opinion on whether he'll succeed, the Old Man replies that even if he does, "the World changes not at all."
There's a bit of clarification on conditions for failure, where the Old Man gives that if Nemo's strength isn't equal to the task, he'll face annihilation, and vanish without leaving behind even a name.
However, acknowledging that as Nemo was to begin with "one who was nobody at all" — referencing the probable origin of Nemo's name in the legend of Odysseus — he speculates that perhaps "a settling of affairs in the aftermath would be unnecessary."

As a final warning before Nemo departs, the Old Man gives that in lingering at the boundary between life and death, he became the boundary itself; and in long being in contact with death, he became death itself.
Perhaps referencing the Imaginary Sea, he gives that things that dwell in an impossible World become impossible, and that things that give rise to phenomena that are invisible or "cannot arise" may themselves become things that are invisible or "cannot arise."
Saying that in a metaphysical context, only faith can bind to preservation things rendered absent of meaning, he warns Nemo that meaning is something "that ought not to be forgotten."

Returning to the Nautilus, Nemo sets course to his final destination.

Day 7 - Part A said:
＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

みんな集まったね。
いよいよプレゼントの配達を始める訳だけど……
その前に聞いてほしい。
僕がサンタクロース役を請け負った、本当の理由について。
サンタクロースはサンタクロースであるだけで人々に奇跡を届けられる。
求めるもの全員にプレゼントを配って、その年の最後を善いものにする。
それがサンタクロースの基本業務であり、存在理由だ。
聖夜に集まる人々の願いと言っていい。
でも、それはサンタクロースの願いじゃない。
あくまで人々の願いだ。
サンタクロース個人の願いは、サンタクロースの基本業務とは別にあっていい筈だ。
つまり、僕が何を言いたいかと言うとーーー

＠ネモ・エンジン／ Nemo Engine

バーカ、話がなげーよキャプテン野郎！
いまさら言わなくても分かってるって。
こっちから勝手にプレゼントをあげたいヤツがいるってコトだろ！

＠ネモ・マリーン／ Nemo Marine

もちろんマスターのコトだよね！
それも、いまカルデアにいるマスターじゃなくて、ボクたちが出会う前の、ずっと昔のマスター！

＠ネモ・ナース／ Nemo Nurse

そうですね。トリトンは航海の安全を約束する海の子ですから。
お守りを渡すのなら、旅の終わりが見えている今ではなく、そのはじまりに渡すのがいい。
眠っている誰かの枕元に、小さな奇跡を届ける。
それはサンタクロースらしいお仕事ですね。

＠ネモ・ベーカリー／ Nemo Bakery

うん、説明しなくても大丈夫！
キャプテンの気持ちはちゃんと伝わってるわ！
一番プレゼントを届けたいひとに、一番のプレゼントを！ ……でしょ？

＠ネモ・プロフェッサー／ Nemo Professor

はい～。『誰でもない』サンタクロースでなければできない、素晴らしいアイディアだと思います～。
達成するのは、少しばかり難しいですが。

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

みんなーーー
ああ、その通りだ。
これは理由というより欲求だ。
僕が届けたい相手は現在にはいない。
いや。正確には、現在(いま)渡しても意味がない。
現カルデアには充分な戦力が、仲間が集っている。
助けが必要な時は、きっと他の者が与えてくれる。
けれど過去のカルデアは違う。
特異点修復が始まってからのカルデアには、コーヒー一杯の余裕すらなかった。
だからーーー
2015年、南極カルデア基地。
「彼女」の長い旅が始まる前に、僕にできるささやかな、最大限の敬意を届けたい。
これは虚数潜航のできる幻霊ネモだからこそできる試みだ。
過去への干渉は一つ間違えれば自己の消滅に繋がる。
わずかでも過去の出来事を変えてしまえば、
歴史の修復力は容赦なく僕たちを『いなかった事』にするだろう。
そもそも過去座標への航海は容易なものじゃない。
１年分遡(さかのぼ)るごとにノーチラスは圧壊の危機にあう。
その年層(ねんそう)ごとに僕らの行く手を阻む障害も変わる。
それを承知の上で、僕の我(わ)が儘(まま)に同意してもらえるだろうか。

＠一同／ All

もっちろん！アイアイ、キャプテン！

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

ーーーありがとう。では、改めて作戦内容を説明する。
虚数空間からジャンプができるとはいえ、過去への移動は極めて難しい。
１日に１年分を移動し、成功次第、ペーパームーンでその座標にピンを打ち次回のスタート地点とする。
ピンを打ち次第本艦(ノーチラス)は通常時間に浮上し、艦体を回復させながらプレゼント配達を遂行する。
そうして当艦は７日かけて2015年まで遡(さかのぼ)り、その後、もっとも霊基強度の高い担当者が現地任務にあたる。
ここまでで質問のある者は？

＠ネモ・マリーン／ Nemo Marine

はいはーい！
2015年に飛べるなら、例の爆破事件を止めちゃうのはダメなんですかー？

＠ネモ・プロフェッサー／ Nemo Professor

それは最悪の改竄(かいざん)ですね～。
カルデアの爆破を阻止した場合、現在のカルデアも消滅します～。
過去へのジャンプにおいては、『過去にあった事は何一つ変えてはならない』が基本です。
というより、並行世界での活動強度がない私たちでは『過去にあった事は何一つ変えられない』が正しいかと～。
仮にマリーンが2015年のカルデア基地に侵入して、『過去にはなかった事』をしようとしたら……
その瞬間、消えるのはマリーンの方です。
『何も変えられないし、何も付け足せない』
それが今回の作戦の鉄則です。

＠ネモ・マリーン／ Nemo Marine

……そうなんだ。
でも、誰かと話すくらいはできる？
運命は変えられなくても、一言、『ありがとう』って伝えるくらいは……

＠ネモ・プロフェッサー／ Nemo Professor

安全とは言えません。
相手からみて根拠のない感謝や態度は、その後の行動を変えてしまいますので。
もし会話をするとしたら、それは『当時のカルデア基地で当たり前』のものでなくては。

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

プロフェッサーの言う通りだ。
そのため、侵入には最大の注意を払う。
担当者は単身で虚数の海を泳ぎ、南極基地にゼロセイルを行い、基地に侵入。
誰にも見つからないよう目的を完遂する。
当日のカルデアスタッフのシフト表は入手できた。
侵入するべき目的地、ルートも割り出してある。
万が一スタッフと出くわしても、その時刻にそのルートにいて違和感のないスタッフも選抜済みだ。
外見を偽装する変装用具もこれから作成する。
問題は『変装した人物』になりきれるかどうかだが、
幸いにもこの問題はクリアできている。心配しなくていい。
以上が作戦の概要だ。他に質問のある者は？
ーーーよし。これより本艦は特殊任務を開始する。
作戦名、『8years Snow Carol』。
みんな、よろしく頼む。
サンタクロースの名にかけて、必ず荷物を届けよう！

Day 7 - Part A said:
＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

みんな集まったね。
Everyone's here?
いよいよプレゼントの配達を始める訳だけど……
It's about time that we begin the delivery, but ...
その前に聞いてほしい。
Before that, I'd like you to hear me out.
僕がサンタクロース役を請け負った、本当の理由について。
It's with regard to the true reason that I took on the role of Santa Claus.
サンタクロースはサンタクロースであるだけで人々に奇跡を届けられる。
Santa Claus is merely [by virtue] of being Santa Claus [empowered] to deliver miracles unto the people.
求めるもの全員にプレゼントを配って、その年の最後を善いものにする。
[In the] bestowal of presents to all who yearn [for them], the final [days] of a given year are made as a [happy] thing.
それがサンタクロースの基本業務であり、存在理由だ。
Such would comprise the fundamental duties of a Santa Claus — their raison d'etre.
聖夜に集まる人々の願いと言っていい。
You could [likewise] describe it as the wish of the people who gather upon the Holy Night.
でも、それはサンタクロースの願いじゃない。
However, this wouldn't be the wish of Santa Claus.
あくまで人々の願いだ。
At most, it amounts to the wishes of the people.
サンタクロース個人の願いは、サンタクロースの基本業務とは別にあっていい筈だ。
That is to say, the wish that Santa Claus personally bears is distinct from his fundamental duties.
つまり、僕が何を言いたいかと言うとーーー
Ergo, to put to words what I'd like to say —

＠ネモ・エンジン／ Nemo Engine

バーカ、話がなげーよキャプテン野郎！
Idiot. You've been monologuing for way too long, Captain!
いまさら言わなくても分かってるって。
Even if you don't say it aloud, we get it already.
こっちから勝手にプレゼントをあげたいヤツがいるってコトだろ！
You're saying that there's somebody you voluntarily wanna deliver a present to, yeah?

＠ネモ・マリーン／ Nemo Marine

もちろんマスターのコトだよね！
Of course we're talking about the Master, right?
それも、いまカルデアにいるマスターじゃなくて、ボクたちが出会う前の、ずっと昔のマスター！
And it isn't the Master that's currently back at the Chaldea of the present, but the Master that was, long before she ever met us!

＠ネモ・ナース／ Nemo Nurse

そうですね。トリトンは航海の安全を約束する海の子ですから。
Indeed. For Triton is a Child of the Sea who promises the safety of a ocean voyage.
お守りを渡すのなら、旅の終わりが見えている今ではなく、そのはじまりに渡すのがいい。
If a charm is to be granted, rather than [giving it] here and now, where the end of the journey is in sight, it's better to have bestowed it at very start.
眠っている誰かの枕元に、小さな奇跡を届ける。
A tiny miracle left by the pillow-side of a certain somebody in the midst of slumber.
それはサンタクロースらしいお仕事ですね。
It seems a job befitting of a Santa Claus.

＠ネモ・ベーカリー／ Nemo Bakery

うん、説明しなくても大丈夫！
Un. It's fine that you don't explain!
キャプテンの気持ちはちゃんと伝わってるわ！
Your feelings have properly communicated!
一番プレゼントを届けたいひとに、一番のプレゼントを！ ……でしょ？
The best of presents, for the person you most want to deliver a present to! ... Yes?

＠ネモ・プロフェッサー／ Nemo Professor

はい～。『誰でもない』サンタクロースでなければできない、素晴らしいアイディアだと思います～。
Hai~. [A job] that can't be performed, except by a Santa Claus who is 『nobody at all』. It's a wonderful idea, I think~.
達成するのは、少しばかり難しいですが。
Though the implementation would be a little difficult.

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

みんなーーー
Everyone —
ああ、その通りだ。
Aah, that's right.
これは理由というより欲求だ。
Rather than a 'reason,' [it would be more appropriate] to call it a 'desire.'
僕が届けたい相手は現在にはいない。
The desired recipient of this delivery does not exist within the present.
いや。正確には、現在(いま)渡しても意味がない。
No. More correctly, even that I deliver it in the present(now), it'd be meaningless.
現カルデアには充分な戦力が、仲間が集っている。
The Chaldea of the present is sufficient in its gathered allies; in its combat strength.
助けが必要な時は、きっと他の者が与えてくれる。
If the time comes that aid must be rendered, it's certain that somebody else can bestow it.
けれど過去のカルデアは違う。
However, this wasn't the case for the Chaldea of the past.
特異点修復が始まってからのカルデアには、コーヒー一杯の余裕すらなかった。
The Chaldea that existed as of initiating the restoration of the Singularities hadn't the leeway for a single cup of coffee.
だからーーー
Therefore —
2015年、南極カルデア基地。
AD 2015; the Antarctic Base of Chaldea.
彼女の長い旅が始まる前に、僕にできるささやかな、最大限の敬意を届けたい。
Prior the beginning of her long journey, [I wish to] deliver [to her] the greatest possible [token] of my respect, to whatever slight extent is within my power.
これは虚数潜航のできる幻霊ネモだからこそできる試みだ。
And this endeavor is possible precisely on account that as the Phantom Nemo, I'm capable of Imaginary Submersion.
過去への干渉は一つ間違えれば自己の消滅に繋がる。
In performing an intervention unto the past, a single error provokes a self-annihilation.
わずかでも過去の出来事を変えてしまえば、歴史の修復力は容赦なく僕たちを『いなかった事』にするだろう。
Should the events of the past change in the slightest, the Restorative Force (修復力(shuufuku-ryoku)) of History will mercilessly render us 『a matter non-extant』, I presume.
そもそも過去座標への航海は容易なものじゃない。
In the first place, a navigation unto a past coordinate isn't a thing easily managed.
１年分遡(さかのぼ)るごとにノーチラスは圧壊の危機にあう。
A retrogression of a single year subjects the Nautilus to the risk of collapsing to pressure.
その年層(ねんそう)ごとに僕らの行く手を阻む障害も変わる。
And per the annual stratum (年層(nensou), lit. "year layer") do the obstacles that obstruct our path come to vary.
それを承知の上で、僕の我(わ)が儘(まま)に同意してもらえるだろうか。
Knowing all of the above, do you consent to my self-indulgence?

＠一同／ All

もっちろん！アイアイ、キャプテン！
Of course! Aye-aye, Captain!

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

ーーーありがとう。では、改めて作戦内容を説明する。
— Thank you. In that case, I'll once again go over the details of the operation.
虚数空間からジャンプができるとはいえ、過去への移動は極めて難しい。
Even that we're capable of performing jumps from Imaginary Numbers Space, movement to the past is extremely difficult.
１日に１年分を移動し、成功次第、ペーパームーンでその座標にピンを打ち次回のスタート地点とする。
Subject to successfully traveling by a single year per day, we utilize the Paper Moon to pin the coordinates [arrived upon at the conclusion of a day's journey], making use of [the logged location] as our starting point for [the journey of] the subsequent day.
ピンを打ち次第本艦(ノーチラス)は通常時間に浮上し、艦体を回復させながらプレゼント配達を遂行する。
On [logging] a pin, the ship(Nautilus) surfaces to normal time, and we proceed with present deliveries as the body of the ship (艦体(kantai), generally "hull") recovers.
そうして当艦は７日かけて2015年まで遡(さかのぼ)り、その後、もっとも霊基強度の高い担当者が現地任務にあたる。
And with seven days' [travel], the ship retrogresses to the year 2015, whereupon the operative of the highest Saint Graph Resilience (霊基(reiki)強度(kyoudo)) [disembarks] to the undertaking of a field operation.
ここまでで質問のある者は？
Does anyone have any questions so far?

＠ネモ・マリーン／ Nemo Marine

はいはーい！
Hai-hai~!
2015年に飛べるなら、例の爆破事件を止めちゃうのはダメなんですかー？
Given that we've traveled to 2015, can we not prevent that bombing incident~?

＠ネモ・プロフェッサー／ Nemo Professor

それは最悪の改竄(かいざん)ですね～。
That would be the worst sort of revision (改竄(kaizan)).
カルデアの爆破を阻止した場合、現在のカルデアも消滅します～。
In the circumstance that we prevent the bombing of Chaldea, the Chaldea of the present will be annihilated.
過去へのジャンプにおいては、『過去にあった事は何一つ変えてはならない』が基本です。
In the context of jumping into the past, the fundamental rule is, 『nothing that occurred in the past should be changed』.
というより、並行世界での活動強度がない私たちでは『過去にあった事は何一つ変えられない』が正しいかと～。
Or perhaps more accurately, to we who haven't the Operational Resilience (活動(katsudou)強度(kyoudo); 活動(katsudou), lit. "activity") [to act] within an Adjacent World, 『nothing that occurred in the past can be changed』.
仮にマリーンが2015年のカルデア基地に侵入して、『過去にはなかった事』をしようとしたら……
Supposing hypothetically that a Marine were to infiltrate the Chaldea Base of 2015, and [instigate] 『a matter that didn't exist in the past』 ...
その瞬間、消えるのはマリーンの方です。
In that instant, it would be the Marine that vanishes.
『何も変えられないし、何も付け足せない』
『Nothing can change, and nothing can be appended.』
それが今回の作戦の鉄則です。
That would be the iron rule of the present operation.

＠ネモ・マリーン／ Nemo Marine

……そうなんだ。
... I see.
でも、誰かと話すくらいはできる？
But, talking to somebody should be possible, right?
運命は変えられなくても、一言、『ありがとう』って伝えるくらいは……
Even that destiny can't be changed, it should at least be fine to say 『thank you』 ...

＠ネモ・プロフェッサー／ Nemo Professor

安全とは言えません。
I can't say that that would safe [either].
相手からみて根拠のない感謝や態度は、その後の行動を変えてしまいますので。
If [the individual in question] were to [arbitrarily] receive appreciation, or some attitude that from their own perspective has no basis, it might alter their subsequent actions.
もし会話をするとしたら、それは『当時のカルデア基地で当たり前』のものでなくては。
Supposing that conversation is engaged in, the [words exchanged] must be something that would be 『a matter of course in the Chaldea of the time』.

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

プロフェッサーの言う通りだ。
It's as the Professor says.
そのため、侵入には最大の注意を払う。
To this end, we need to exercise the greatest degree of caution when proceeding with infiltration.
担当者は単身で虚数の海を泳ぎ、南極基地にゼロセイルを行い、基地に侵入。
The deployed operative shall independently swim through the Sea of Imaginary Numbers, engage in Zero-Sail as of the Antarctic Base, and perform an infiltration.
誰にも見つからないよう目的を完遂する。
[There, they] will carry the objective to completion without being detected.
当日のカルデアスタッフのシフト表は入手できた。
We've obtained a shift table for the Chaldea Staff [present] on that day.
侵入するべき目的地、ルートも割り出してある。
A route to the target site has likewise been plotted.
万が一スタッフと出くわしても、その時刻にそのルートにいて違和感のないスタッフも選抜済みだ。
[In the unlikely event] that staff members are encountered, we've furthermore already performed a selection of staff that wouldn't feel out of place given the time and [location along] the route.
外見を偽装する変装用具もこれから作成する。
Preparation of implements by which to disguise one's appearance is hereforth underway.
問題は『変装した人物』になりきれるかどうかだが、
Though there exists the issue of whether [the operative] can assume [the persona] of 『the individual they're disguised as』,
幸いにもこの問題はクリアできている。心配しなくていい。
fortunately, this problem can be cleared. It's nothing to worry about.
以上が作戦の概要だ。他に質問のある者は？
Thus concludes the overview of the operation. Does anyone have any questions?
ーーーよし。これより本艦は特殊任務を開始する。
— Very good. Hereforth, this ship shall initiate a special mission.
作戦名、『8years Snow Carol』。
The operation name — 『8 years Snow Carol』
みんな、よろしく頼む。
I'll be in your care, everyone.
サンタクロースの名にかけて、必ず荷物を届けよう！
In the name of Santa Claus, let that this package be delivered!

Day 7 - Part A said:
＠ Nemo Santa

Everyone's here?
It's about time that we begin the delivery, but ...
Before that, I'd like you to hear me out.
It's with regard to the true reason that I took on the role of Santa Claus.
Santa Claus is merely [by virtue] of being Santa Claus [empowered] to deliver miracles unto the people.
[In the] bestowal of presents to all who yearn [for them], the final [days] of a given year are made as a [happy] thing.
Such would comprise the fundamental duties of a Santa Claus — their raison d'etre.
You could [likewise] describe it as the wish of the people who gather upon the Holy Night.
However, this wouldn't be the wish of Santa Claus.
At most, it amounts to the wishes of the people.
That is to say, the wish that Santa Claus personally bears is distinct from his fundamental duties.
Ergo, to put to words what I'd like to say —

＠ Nemo Engine

Idiot. You've been monologuing for way too long, Captain!
Even if you don't say it aloud, we get it already.
You're saying that there's somebody you voluntarily wanna deliver a present to, yeah?

＠ Nemo Marine

Of course we're talking about the Master, right?
And it isn't the Master that's currently back at the Chaldea of the present, but the Master that was, long before she ever met us!

＠ Nemo Nurse

Indeed. For Triton is a Child of the Sea who promises the safety of a ocean voyage.
If a charm is to be granted, rather than [giving it] here and now, where the end of the journey is in sight, it's better to have bestowed it at very start.
A tiny miracle left by the pillow-side of a certain somebody in the midst of slumber.
It seems a job befitting of a Santa Claus.

＠ Nemo Bakery

Un. It's fine that you don't explain!
Your feelings have properly communicated!
The best of presents, for the person you most want to deliver a present to! ... Yes?

＠ Nemo Professor

Hai~. [A job] that can't be performed, except by a Santa Claus who is 『nobody at all』. It's a wonderful idea, I think~.
Though the implementation would be a little difficult.

＠ Nemo Santa

Everyone —
Aah, that's right.
Rather than a 'reason,' [it would be more appropriate] to call it a 'desire.'
The desired recipient of this delivery does not exist within the present.
No. More correctly, even that I deliver it in the present(now), it'd be meaningless.
The Chaldea of the present is sufficient in its gathered allies; in its combat strength.
If the time comes that aid must be rendered, it's certain that somebody else can bestow it.
However, this wasn't the case for the Chaldea of the past.
The Chaldea that existed as of initiating the restoration of the Singularities hadn't the leeway for a single cup of coffee.
Therefore —
AD 2015; the Antarctic Base of Chaldea.
Prior the beginning of her long journey, [I wish to] deliver [to her] the greatest possible [token] of my respect, to whatever slight extent is within my power.
And this endeavor is possible precisely on account that as the Phantom Nemo, I'm capable of Imaginary Submersion.
In performing an intervention unto the past, a single error provokes a self-annihilation.
Should the events of the past change in the slightest, the Restorative Force of History will mercilessly render us 『a matter non-extant』, I presume.
In the first place, a navigation unto a past coordinate isn't a thing easily managed.
A retrogression of a single year subjects the Nautilus to the risk of collapsing to pressure.
And per the annual stratum do the obstacles that obstruct our path come to vary.
Knowing all of the above, do you consent to my self-indulgence?

＠ All

Of course! Aye-aye, Captain!

＠ Nemo Santa

— Thank you. In that case, I'll once again go over the details of the operation.
Even that we're capable of performing jumps from Imaginary Numbers Space, movement to the past is extremely difficult.
Subject to successfully traveling by a single year per day, we utilize the Paper Moon to pin the coordinates [arrived upon at the conclusion of a day's journey], making use of [the logged location] as our starting point for [the journey of] the subsequent day.
On [logging] a pin, the ship(Nautilus) surfaces to normal time, and we proceed with present deliveries as the body of the ship recovers.
And with seven days' [travel], the ship retrogresses to the year 2015, whereupon the operative of the highest Saint Graph Resilience [disembarks] to the undertaking of a field operation.
Does anyone have any questions so far?

＠ Nemo Marine

Hai-hai~!
Given that we've traveled to 2015, can we not prevent that bombing incident~?

＠ Nemo Professor

That would be the worst sort of revision.
In the circumstance that we prevent the bombing of Chaldea, the Chaldea of the present will be annihilated.
In the context of jumping into the past, the fundamental rule is, 『nothing that occurred in the past should be changed』.
Or perhaps more accurately, to we who haven't the Operational Resilience [to act] within an Adjacent World, 『nothing that occurred in the past can be changed』.
Supposing hypothetically that a Marine were to infiltrate the Chaldea Base of 2015, and [instigate] 『a matter that didn't exist in the past』 ...
In that instant, it would be the Marine that vanishes.
『Nothing can change, and nothing can be appended.』
That would be the iron rule of the present operation.

＠ Nemo Marine

... I see.
But, talking to somebody should be possible, right?
Even that destiny can't be changed, it should at least be fine to say 『thank you』 ...

＠ Nemo Professor

I can't say that that would safe [either].
If [the individual in question] were to [arbitrarily] receive appreciation, or some attitude that from their own perspective has no basis, it might alter their subsequent actions.
Supposing that conversation is engaged in, the [words exchanged] must be something that would be 『a matter of course in the Chaldea of the time』.

＠ Nemo Santa

It's as the Professor says.
To this end, we need to exercise the greatest degree of caution when proceeding with infiltration.
The deployed operative shall independently swim through the Sea of Imaginary Numbers, engage in Zero-Sail as of the Antarctic Base, and perform an infiltration.
[There, they] will carry the objective to completion without being detected.
We've obtained a shift table for the Chaldea Staff [present] on that day.
A route to the target site has likewise been plotted.
[In the unlikely event] that staff members are encountered, we've furthermore already performed a selection of staff that wouldn't feel out of place given the time and [location along] the route.
Preparation of implements by which to disguise one's appearance is hereforth underway.
Though there exists the issue of whether [the operative] can assume [the persona] of 『the individual they're disguised as』,
fortunately, this problem can be cleared. It's nothing to worry about.
Thus concludes the overview of the operation. Does anyone have any questions?
— Very good. Hereforth, this ship shall initiate a special mission.
The operation name — 『8 years Snow Carol』
I'll be in your care, everyone.
In the name of Santa Claus, let that this package be delivered!

Nemo provides an overview of the operation that he's so far conducted in this event.
Restating what he explained to Guda earlier on, he gives that "Santa Claus is merely by virtue of being Santa Claus empowered to deliver miracles unto the people."
In his capacity as Triton — "a Child of the Sea who promises the safety of a ocean voyage" — Nemo endeavors to deliver a blessing / charm to the Guda that existed prior to the Incineration of the Human Order.
Such a delivery can only be made by "one who was nobody at all." More specifically, by virtue of possessing such a trait, the Phantom Nemo is implied to be afforded a degree of resistance to having his Saint Graph compromised by direct exposure to the Imaginary Sea, allowing that he can independently conduct Imaginary Submersion.
This places him amongst the handful of Servants capable of enduring the Imaginary Sea, where most others bear a direct immunity to the Hollow / Imaginary Numbers Element, or have the capacity to assert control over the Element, as is the case the case with the Foreigners that appeared during Imaginary Scramble.

Navigation to the past subjects the Nautilus to incredible pressures, which necessitates time for the hull of the ship to regenerate between trips. This limits travel to the depth of a single 年層(nensou) — "annual / year stratum" — in a given day, in excess of which the ship risks critical structural failure. The Imaginary Sea also assails the Nautilus with obstructions that vary per the annual stratum, assuming the forms of enemies Chaldea encountered in the year that the stratum represents.
The Paper Moon is used to log the coordinates arrived upon at the end of each day of the journey, allowing that the Nautilus immediately starts from said coordinate the following day.

Nemo gives that in performing an intervention unto the past, the Restorative Force of History will purge parties that alter events, rendering them as entities non-extant.
More accurately, absent of the necessary Operational Resilience (活動(katsudou)強度(kyoudo); 活動(katsudou), lit. "activity") to act within an Adjacent World, an effort to alter the past will instead result in the purging of the time traveler performing the intervention.
Even supposing that a time traveler of high Operational Resilience were to prevent the bombing of Chaldea, it would invalidate the timeline of the current Chaldea.
Even an act as simple as saying "thank you" can snowball into a major deviation.
Thus, Nemo Professor summarizes the rule the operation needs to abide by as: "Nothing can change, and nothing can be appended."
Any encounters engaged within at destination must fall within the bounds of "things that are a matter of course, given the time and location." As the destination is Chaldea in the year 2015, on the day of the Incineration, and the Nemos have obtained a detailed schedule of the locations of Chaldea staff present within the facility, they plot out a predefined infiltration route to the objective, complete with disguises in case staff members are encountered.
Further, the operative with the highest Saint Graph Resilience (霊基(reiki)強度(kyoudo)) will be the one performing the infiltration — presumably as a measure of maximizing survivability within the Imaginary Sea? Being as Nemo's crew are implied to have Resilience inferior to his own, he's the only realistic selection for the operation.

The plan is to stop the Nautilus a distance away from the specified date, and have Nemo independently swim a depth of "several hours" per Zero-Sail, to surface from the Imaginary Sea within Chaldea Base shortly before the Incineration. There, he'll perform a solo infiltration, assuming a disguise to reach his delivery target.

Day 7 - Part B said:
＠マーリン／ Merlin

いやあ、忠告に来たのに障害物扱いとは。
これは本格的に嫌われたかな？
とはいえ無茶な作戦で、今後のカルデアに必要な人材が失われるのも見過ごせない。
このあたりで止めるのはどうかなネモ君。
一日程度(サンタクロース)の奇跡に命を懸けるなんて馬鹿らしい。
うまくいったところで何の効果もないし、別に誰を失望させるものでもないんだ。
過去への時間移動なんて不正行為、それこそキミらしくないんだし。

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

心のこもっていないご忠告、痛み入る魔術師マーリン。
虚数潜航中にわざわざ足を運んでいただき光栄の至りだ。
ーーーそれで、いま何と？
よく聞き取れたが、念のため確認したい。

＠マーリン／ Merlin

ああ、『何の効果もない』と言った事かな。
うん。悲しいが事実だ。
キミたちが「彼女」に贈ろうとしているのは、
『過去改竄(かいざん)には至らないレベルの、ささやかな幸運』だったね。
この先の戦いで不幸に遭わないよう、大凶を退ける魔除け、ドリームキャッチャー。
それを編み込んだカルデアの制服を、誰にも気づかれないように置いていく計画だ。
過去へのアプローチの参考には化石掘りの淑女と、シヴァ神の権能の話を。
寸分違(たが)わぬ制服作りは糸紡ぎの妖精が一役買っている。
あいにく物質転移の理論はアテが外れたが、この手の話に甘い翁(おきな)殿はお目こぼしをしてくれた。
しかし。そこまでやっても、キミたちの努力には意味がない。
『過去に移動し、
誰にも気づかれずに制服をすり替える』
『これを着込むマスターが贈り物をもらったと
認識しなければ事実の食い違いは起きない』
ああ。その方法ならタイムパラドックス問題はない。
しかし、同時に『効果もほぼない』。
護符の類いは『持ち主がそうと信じる』事によって最大の効果を発揮する。
『持っている事を知らない』お守りなんて、それこそ気休め以下だ。
そうだね。仮に、その人物が毎日悪夢を見るとして、その目覚めが１秒早くなる程度の『幸運』だよ。
効果が無い、とはそういう事だ。分かってもらえたかな？

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

それははじめから承知している。
僕が確認したのはその前だ。
『一日程度(サンタクロース)の奇跡に命を懸けるなんて馬鹿らしい』
それが君の本意であれば戦闘を再開する。
馬鹿げた事ではない事を証明しよう。

＠マーリン／ Merlin

本当に？
あるかないか分からない誤差のような幸運のために、自分が消滅しかねない過去改竄(かいざん)を行う事が？
まったく割に合わない。やり遂げたところで、結果はもう出ているのに(何も変わらないのに)？

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

ああ。こんな事をしなくてもカルデアはやり遂げる。
僕の行為は、彼らの勝利になんの貢献もしないだろう。
でも、そういうコトじゃない。
出遅れたものが先を行くものに報いるというのは、そういうコトじゃないんだよ。
見返りも、喜びも、手に入れる機会は過ぎ去っている。
はじめから僕らに『仲間』の席はない。
それでも彼らの助けになりたいと「彼女」は思った。
その行為自体が報酬だと微笑んだ。
……そうだ。たとえ僅かな、シバでさえ観測できない誤差だとしても、
その余分は無意味なものではないと、僕は信じる。
そのために嵐に飛び込む人間の勇気を、僕は尊(とうと)ぶ。
……ある召喚者の人生がそうであったように。
一杯のやすらぎのために全てを支払うことを、馬鹿げた行いとは言わせない。

＠マーリン／ Merlin

…………そうか。私の千里眼は『現在』を観るものだ。
ぼやけて見えていたのは吸血種だからと思っていたけど、そういう事だったのか。
失礼、言い直そう。
『馬鹿らしいほど、素晴らしい』と。
いや。真に愚かなのは私だったようだ。
翁(おきな)殿はこういう選択、間違わないんだよねぇ。
水を差して済まなかったね。
征きなさい、英霊ネモ。
キミの願いは私が覚えておこう。

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

それはどうも。忠告に来てくれた事自体はこちらも感謝している。

＠マーリン／ Merlin

おっと、そうだ。
向こうに出たら彼によろしく。
一言、『馬鹿じゃない？』と伝えてくれ。
たぶん気が合うだろうからね、キミたちは。

Day 7 - Part B said:
＠マーリン／ Merlin

いやあ、忠告に来たのに障害物扱いとは。
To think that I'd be treated as an obstacle, even though I came to offer a warning.
これは本格的に嫌われたかな？
Should I take this to imply that I really am disliked?
とはいえ無茶な作戦で、今後のカルデアに必要な人材が失われるのも見過ごせない。
Or rather, I should say, I can't turn a blind eye to [a situation wherein] an individual of critical importance to Chaldea's [activities] from here on out could potentially lose his life to recklessness.
このあたりで止めるのはどうかなネモ君。
What do you say we put an end to there hereabouts, Nemo-kun?
一日程度(サンタクロース)の奇跡に命を懸けるなんて馬鹿らしい。
It's [utter] foolishness [that you would] stake your life upon a miracle on the order of single day(of Santa Claus).
うまくいったところで何の効果もないし、別に誰を失望させるものでもないんだ。
Even that things go well, [your efforts] would [come to] no particular effect, but nobody would be disappointed.
過去への時間移動なんて不正行為、それこそキミらしくないんだし。
It [really] isn't like you to engage in illicit actions [along the lines of] time travel into the past.

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

心のこもっていないご忠告、痛み入る魔術師マーリン。
Your insincere warning is painfully felt, Magus Merlin.
虚数潜航中にわざわざ足を運んでいただき光栄の至りだ。
I'm honored that you would take the trouble to visit in the midst in the midst of my Imaginary Submersion.
ーーーそれで、いま何と？
— that being said, what was it that you stated just now?
よく聞き取れたが、念のため確認したい。
[I believe] I properly heard you, but just to be safe, I'd like to reconfirm.

＠マーリン／ Merlin

ああ、『何の効果もない』と言った事かな。
Aah, you mean the bit where I said [your efforts would come to] 『no particular effect』?
うん。悲しいが事実だ。
Un. Sadly, it's true.
キミたちが彼女に贈ろうとしているのは、
For that which you bestow to her
『過去改竄(かいざん)には至らないレベルの、ささやかな幸運』だったね。
would be 『good fortune of inconsequential [weight], what doesn't reach the level of a revision of the past』
この先の戦いで不幸に遭わないよう、大凶を退ける魔除け、ドリームキャッチャー。
A dream-catcher; a ward against the foulest of luck (大凶(daikyou), lit. "great misfortune"), that in the battles hereforth, misfortune isn't encountered.
それを編み込んだカルデアの制服を、誰にも気づかれないように置いていく計画だ。
Your scheme entailed that, evading all detection, you would plant a Chaldea uniform woven to incorporate this.
過去へのアプローチの参考には化石掘りの淑女と、シヴァ神の権能の話を。
The approach unto the past makes reference to the maiden paleontologist, and the matter of Shiva's Divine Authority.
寸分違(たが)わぬ制服作りは糸紡ぎの妖精が一役買っている。
Manufacture of a uniform of precisely the right measurements was obtained by enlisting the services of the Faerie of the Loom.
あいにく物質転移の理論はアテが外れたが、この手の話に甘い翁(おきな)殿はお目こぼしをしてくれた。
Unfortunate, the principle of material transport was a bit off-the-mark — but a kindly old man elected to turn a blind eye.
しかし。そこまでやっても、キミたちの努力には意味がない。
However. Even that you've gone to such lengths, your efforts are meaningless.
『過去に移動し、誰にも気づかれずに制服をすり替える』
『Travel into the past, and exchange the uniform without anyone noticing.』
『これを着込むマスターが贈り物をもらったと認識しなければ事実の食い違いは起きない』
『So long as the Master who dons the [uniform] doesn't apprehend it as a gift received, no discrepancy with [established] reality arises.』
ああ。その方法ならタイムパラドックス問題はない。
Aah. By such a method, the problem of time paradox isn't of issue.
しかし、同時に『効果もほぼない』。
However, simultaneously, 『the effect [of the charm] is likewise mostly voided』.
護符の類いは『持ち主がそうと信じる』事によって最大の効果を発揮する。
The likes of talismans [come to] express their maximum effect per 『the faith of their bearers』.
『持っている事を知らない』お守りなんて、それこそ気休め以下だ。
Something alike to a talisman 『unknown to its bearer』 is [in potency] inferior [even] to a placebo.
そうだね。仮に、その人物が毎日悪夢を見るとして、その目覚めが１秒早くなる程度の『幸運』だよ。
Indeed, if hypothetically a certain individual [suffers] nightmares every day, the 『luck』 [you bestow would exert an effect] on the order of permitting that [they] awaken a second earlier [than they otherwise might].
効果が無い、とはそういう事だ。分かってもらえたかな？
That's what not having an effect means. Do you understand?

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

それははじめから承知している。
I understood that from the very start.
僕が確認したのはその前だ。
What I wanted to confirm was the bit before that.
『一日程度(サンタクロース)の奇跡に命を懸けるなんて馬鹿らしい』
『It's [utter] foolishness [that you would] stake your life upon a miracle on the order of single day(of Santa Claus).』
それが君の本意であれば戦闘を再開する。
If you truly mean that, we can resume our battle.
馬鹿げた事ではない事を証明しよう。
I'll demonstrate that it isn't foolishness.

＠マーリン／ Merlin

本当に？
Truly?
あるかないか分からない誤差のような幸運のために、自分が消滅しかねない過去改竄(かいざん)を行う事が？
For the sake of [a bit of] luck what amounts to a rounding error [that might as well] not exist, you'd undertake a revision of the past at the risk of [probable] self-annihilation?
まったく割に合わない。やり遂げたところで、結果はもう出ているのに(何も変わらないのに)？
It truly isn't worth it. [Even that you] follow through, the outcome is already settled(won't at all vary).

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

ああ。こんな事をしなくてもカルデアはやり遂げる。
Aah. Even if I don't go about this, Chaldea should carry on [as it has].
僕の行為は、彼らの勝利になんの貢献もしないだろう。
I presume that my actions [here] won't be of any contribution to their victory.
でも、そういうコトじゃない。
However, that isn't what this is about.
出遅れたものが先を行くものに報いるというのは、そういうコトじゃないんだよ。
[This isn't a matter of] latecomers putting forth requite to their forerunners.
見返りも、喜びも、手に入れる機会は過ぎ去っている。
The opportunities to offer gratitude or congratulations have long since passed.
はじめから僕らに『仲間』の席はない。
From the start, [the option of claiming] seats as 『companions』 was unavailable to us.
それでも彼らの助けになりたいと「彼女」は思った。
Even so, 「she」 desired to be of assistance to them.
その行為自体が報酬だと微笑んだ。
[She] smiled, [saying that performing] this act was its own reward.
……そうだ。たとえ僅かな、シバでさえ観測できない誤差だとしても、
... that's right. Even that it's a rounding error slight enough that SHEBA isn't capable of observing it,
その余分は無意味なものではないと、僕は信じる。
I believe that [any] excess [so extant] isn't a meaningless thing.
そのために嵐に飛び込む人間の勇気を、僕は尊(とうと)ぶ。
And to the courage of a human who would for the sake of such a thing plunge headlong into the storm, I [offer] my respect.
……ある召喚者の人生がそうであったように。
... so was the life led by a certain summoner.
一杯のやすらぎのために全てを支払うことを、馬鹿げた行いとは言わせない。
I will not say that putting everything on the line for a moment of peace is a foolish undertaking.

＠マーリン／ Merlin

…………そうか。私の千里眼は『現在』を観るものだ。
... I see. My Thousand League Eyes are a thing that observes 『the present』.
ぼやけて見えていたのは吸血種だからと思っていたけど、そういう事だったのか。
I thought the vagueness of the thing I perceived to be something [come of the involvement] of a Vampiric Breed — but that's the way of it, hm?
失礼、言い直そう。
Apologies. I'd like to correct my statement.
『馬鹿らしいほど、素晴らしい』と。
『It's [equal parts] foolish and wonderful.』
いや。真に愚かなのは私だったようだ。
Or rather, it would seem that the foolish one was me.
翁(おきな)殿はこういう選択、間違わないんだよねぇ。
Okina-dono doesn't err in this sort of judgment, does he?
水を差して済まなかったね。
I apologize for hindering you.
征きなさい、英霊ネモ。
Go forth and conquer, Heroic Spirit Nemo.
キミの願いは私が覚えておこう。
I'll remember your wish.

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

それはどうも。忠告に来てくれた事自体はこちらも感謝している。
Thank you for that. I likewise thank you for going through the trouble of coming to warn me.

＠マーリン／ Merlin

おっと、そうだ。
O-to. That's right.
向こうに出たら彼によろしく。
If it happens that on the other end, you run across [that guy], give him my regards.
一言、『馬鹿じゃない？』と伝えてくれ。
[Do me a favor] and pass along the words, 『Are you an idiot?』
たぶん気が合うだろうからね、キミたちは。
Because I imagine the two of you are likely to hit it off.

Day 7 - Part B said:
＠ Merlin

To think that I'd be treated as an obstacle, even though I came to offer a warning.
Should I take this to imply that I really am disliked?
Or rather, I should say, I can't turn a blind eye to [a situation wherein] an individual of critical importance to Chaldea's [activities] from here on out could potentially lose his life to recklessness.
What do you say we put an end to there hereabouts, Nemo-kun?
It's [utter] foolishness [that you would] stake your life upon a miracle on the order of single day(of Santa Claus).
Even that things go well, [your efforts] would [come to] no particular effect, but nobody would be disappointed.
It [really] isn't like you to engage in illicit actions [along the lines of] time travel into the past.

＠ Nemo Santa

Your insincere warning is painfully felt, Magus Merlin.
I'm honored that you would take the trouble to visit in the midst in the midst of my Imaginary Submersion.
— that being said, what was it that you stated just now?
[I believe] I properly heard you, but just to be safe, I'd like to reconfirm.

＠ Merlin

Aah, you mean the bit where I said [your efforts would come to] 『no particular effect』?
Un. Sadly, it's true.
For that which you bestow to her
would be 『good fortune of inconsequential [weight], what doesn't reach the level of a revision of the past』
A dream-catcher; a ward against the foulest of luck, that in the battles hereforth, misfortune isn't encountered.
Your scheme entailed that, evading all detection, you would plant a Chaldea uniform woven to incorporate this.
The approach unto the past makes reference to the maiden paleontologist, and the matter of Shiva's Divine Authority.
Manufacture of a uniform of precisely the right measurements was obtained by enlisting the services of the Faerie of the Loom.
Unfortunate, the principle of material transport was a bit off-the-mark — but a kindly old man elected to turn a blind eye.
However. Even that you've gone to such lengths, your efforts are meaningless.
『Travel into the past, and exchange the uniform without anyone noticing.』
『So long as the Master who dons the [uniform] doesn't apprehend it as a gift received, no discrepancy with [established] reality arises.』
Aah. By such a method, the problem of time paradox isn't of issue.
However, simultaneously, 『the effect [of the charm] is likewise mostly voided』.
The likes of talismans [come to] express their maximum effect per 『the faith of their bearers』.
Something alike to a talisman 『unknown to its bearer』 is [in potency] inferior [even] to a placebo.
Indeed, if hypothetically a certain individual [suffers] nightmares every day, the 『luck』 [you bestow would exert an effect] on the order of permitting that [they] awaken a second earlier [than they otherwise might].
That's what not having an effect means. Do you understand?

＠ Nemo Santa

I understood that from the very start.
What I wanted to confirm was the bit before that.
『It's [utter] foolishness [that you would] stake your life upon a miracle on the order of single day(of Santa Claus).』
If you truly mean that, we can resume our battle.
I'll demonstrate that it isn't foolishness.

＠ Merlin

Truly?
For the sake of [a bit of] luck what amounts to a rounding error [that might as well] not exist, you'd undertake a revision of the past at the risk of [probable] self-annihilation?
It truly isn't worth it. [Even that you] follow through, the outcome is already settled(won't at all vary).

＠ Nemo Santa

Aah. Even if I don't go about this, Chaldea should carry on [as it has].
I presume that my actions [here] won't be of any contribution to their victory.
However, that isn't what this is about.
[This isn't a matter of] latecomers putting forth requite to their forerunners.
The opportunities to offer gratitude or congratulations have long since passed.
From the start, [the option of claiming] seats as 『companions』 was unavailable to us.
Even so, 「she」 desired to be of assistance to them.
[She] smiled, [saying that performing] this act was its own reward.
... that's right. Even that it's a rounding error slight enough that SHEBA isn't capable of observing it,
I believe that [any] excess [so extant] isn't a meaningless thing.
And to the courage of a human who would for the sake of such a thing plunge headlong into the storm, I [offer] my respect.
... so was the life led by a certain summoner.
I will not say that putting everything on the line for a moment of peace is a foolish undertaking.

＠ Merlin

... I see. My Thousand League Eyes are a thing that observes 『the present』.
I thought the vagueness of the thing I perceived to be something [come of the involvement] of a Vampiric Breed — but that's the way of it, hm?
Apologies. I'd like to correct my statement.
『It's [equal parts] foolish and wonderful.』
Or rather, it would seem that the foolish one was me.
Okina-dono doesn't err in this sort of judgment, does he?
I apologize for hindering you.
Go forth and conquer, Heroic Spirit Nemo.
I'll remember your wish.

＠ Nemo Santa

Thank you for that. I likewise thank you for going through the trouble of coming to warn me.

＠ Merlin

O-to. That's right.
If it happens that on the other end, you run across [that guy], give him my regards.
[Do me a favor] and pass along the words, 『Are you an idiot?』
Because I imagine the two of you are likely to hit it off.

Possibly the first time we've seen Merlin "properly" (?) acting in the capacity of a Grand.
Deeming "the miracle of Santa Claus" as something too excessively unreliable for Nemo to stake his life on, Merlin takes his mission as nothing short of recklessness.

Merlin explains from his perspective certain details of Nemo's operation not clarified in the previous excerpt.
Specifically, the "delivery" entails a replacement of the Chaldea uniform Guda put on on the day of the Incineration, exchanging it with an exact replica that Nemo ordered from Habetrot — incorporating within its weave a blessing described as "a dream-catcher; a ward against the foulest of luck, that in the battles hereforth, misfortune isn't encountered."
However, as talismans (護符(gofuu)) express their maximum potency upon the faith of their bearer, a talisman unknown to its bearer is largely void of effect. By virtue of the delivery being conducted in secret, without being detected by anyone, Merlin gives, regarding the scale of the effect, "if hypothetically a certain individual suffers nightmares every day, the 'luck' you bestow would exert an effect on the order of permitting that they awaken a second earlier than they otherwise might."
Ergo, changing history is averted because the impact of the talisman amounts to something on the order of a rounding error — but precisely given the lack of returns on a risky investment, Merlin feels that the act of attempting something so potentially suicidal is pointless.

Acknowledging that the "rounding error" was slight enough that even SHEBA wouldn't be capable of discerning it, Nemo gives that he understood that the impact would be negligible from the start, but that performing the act was important to him in any case — comparing it to the sort of risk-taking that Guda's engaged in to survive thus far.
He explicitly mirrors Sion's sentiments during Ordeal Call 1, couching his efforts here and now as his answer to a parallel insecurity within his heart, that he wasn't properly a "companion" to Guda and the others, being an outsider to Chaldea.

Hearing this, Merlin changes his stance, and allows Nemo to advance.

Day 8 said:
残り８時間分の距離に到達したところで、ノーチラスのハッチから単身で虚数の海に出る。
この先はノーチラスで向かう訳にはいかない。
南極に潜水艦が浮上すればシバに観測される。
カルデア基地に浮上するのは自分ひとり、最小限の装備でなくてはならないからだ。
時間軸を遡(さかのぼ)っているため、空間は激流のようにうねり、奥(さき)に向かおうとする体に襲いかかる。
下半身を人魚に変えて、ミキサーのような空間流を泳いでいく。

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

ーーー、ーーーーーー。

全身にまとわりつく負(マイナス)の冷たさと、わずかでもルートから外れれば消滅する重圧(プレッシャー)。
虚数空間を泳ぐことは慣れていたが、そこに時間移動まで加わると話は違う。
並の霊基では耐えきれない。
流れに逆らうどころか、踏み止(とど)まるだけで消耗する。
許された活動時間は60秒。
海中において、１秒をこれほど長く感じた事はない。

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

ーーー、ーーーーーー。

眩暈(めまい)で視界が塞(ふさ)がれる。
恐怖で意識が喪失(そうしつ)する。
強く歯をかみ合わせて、砕けた五感を強引に正常値にまで引き戻す。
目的座標まであと７時間分の距離をつめる必要がある。
残りの活動時間ではたして間に合うか。
そもそも、この霊基が残り時間保つかどうか。
この作戦にはマージンがない。
霊基が保つのは60秒が限界とされ、目的地に到達するための時間も最短で60秒。
一度のミスも許されない。
一度の減速も許されない。
2015年に向かう流れから小指一本でも外れれば、その時点で作戦は失敗し、この体は霧散する。
文字通りの決死行だ。
正気でも狂気でも、こんな作戦は行われない。
それだけの難航に挑むに足る報酬が、リターンがあるかと言われれば、それもない。
では、何が。何がこの作戦で得られるというのか。

---

＠マーリン／ Merlin

『ああ。その方法ならタイムパラドックス問題はない。
しかし、同時に「効果もほぼない」』

---

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

ーーー、ーーーーーー。

空間流のうねりが激しさを増す。
白い壁のように立ち塞がる。
その中で、ふと、誰かの記憶を垣間見る。

---

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

ーーーああ。

---

＠マーリン／ Merlin

『仮に、その人物が毎日悪夢を見るとして、
その目覚めが１秒早くなる程度の「幸運」だよ』

---

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

充分な、報酬だ。

---

＠カルデアス／ CHALDEAS

ーーー塩基配列ヒトゲノムと確認
ーーー霊器属性善性・中立と確認

ようこそ、人類の未来を語る資料館へ。
ここは人理継続保障機関(じんりけいぞくほしょうきかん) カルデア。

指紋認証声紋認証遺伝子認証クリア。
魔術回路の測定……完了しました。

登録名と一致します。
貴方を霊長類の一員である事を認めます。

はじめまして。
貴方は本日最後の来館者です。

どうぞ、善き時間をお過ごしください。

Day 8 said:
残り８時間分の距離に到達したところで、ノーチラスのハッチから単身で虚数の海に出る。
Coming to a remaining distance of about eight hours, he exited the hatch of the Nautilus, independently [taking] to the Imaginary Sea (虚数(kyosuu)の(no)海(umi), "sea of imaginary numbers").
この先はノーチラスで向かう訳にはいかない。
Here on out, it wouldn't do to approach [aboard] the Nautilus.
南極に潜水艦が浮上すればシバに観測される。
Were the submarine to surface in the Antarctic, [it would enter unto] SHEBA's observation.
カルデア基地に浮上するのは自分ひとり、最小限の装備でなくてはならないからだ。
It would have to be he himself — minimally equipped — that alone surfaced to Chaldea Base.
時間軸を遡(さかのぼ)っているため、空間は激流のようにうねり、奥(さき)に向かおうとする体に襲いかかる。
Per his retrogression along the time axis, the space [about him] surged alike to fierce current, assailing his flesh as he advanced [in the heading] of its source.
下半身を人魚に変えて、ミキサーのような空間流を泳いでいく。
Making his lower body as that of a merman, he swam [against] a spatial flow alike to a mixer.

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

ーーー、ーーーーーー。

全身にまとわりつく負(マイナス)の冷たさと、わずかでもルートから外れれば消滅する重圧(プレッシャー)。
To the whole of his flesh, there clung a negative(minus) cold, and an extreme stress(a pressure) [what threatened his] annihilation if he should even slightly deviate from the [predefined] route.
虚数空間を泳ぐことは慣れていたが、そこに時間移動まで加わると話は違う。
He was accustomed to diving in Imaginary Numbers Space (虚数(kyosuu)空間(kuukan)), but appending [the element] of temporal travel [turned it into] something else altogether.
並の霊基では耐えきれない。
An ordinary Saint Graph wouldn't be capable of enduring.
流れに逆らうどころか、踏み止(とど)まるだけで消耗する。
[To speak nothing of] moving against the flow, the mere [act of] holding position [courted a progressive] attrition.
許された活動時間は60秒。
The Active Time (活動(katudou)時間(jikan)) alotted to him was sixty seconds.
海中において、１秒をこれほど長く感じた事はない。
In the ocean, a single second had never felt so long.

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

ーーー、ーーーーーー。

眩暈(めまい)で視界が塞(ふさ)がれる。
Vertigo compromised his field of vision.
恐怖で意識が喪失(そうしつ)する。
Fear [threatened to] divest him of consciousness.
強く歯をかみ合わせて、砕けた五感を強引に正常値にまで引き戻す。
Clenching his teeth, he forcibly dragged his frayed senses back to their normative values.
目的座標まであと７時間分の距離をつめる必要がある。
It was necessary to clear the seven hours of distance unto the destination coordinates.
残りの活動時間ではたして間に合うか。
Would he make it within the remaining Active Time?
そもそも、この霊基が残り時間保つかどうか。
In the first, would his Saint Graph [actually] endure for [the entirety of] the time remaining?
この作戦にはマージンがない。
The operation permitted [nothing so much as] a margin [for error].
霊基が保つのは60秒が限界とされ、目的地に到達するための時間も最短で60秒。
The upper threshold of his Saint Graph's endurance was sixty seconds, and the minimum time required to arrive at the destination was likewise sixty seconds.
一度のミスも許されない。
Not even a single miss was permissible.
一度の減速も許されない。
Not even a single instance of deceleration was permissible.
2015年に向かう流れから小指一本でも外れれば、その時点で作戦は失敗し、この体は霧散する。
If he breached the bounds of the current flowing forth from 2015 by a single finger, the operation would fail, and his flesh would disperse.
文字通りの決死行だ。
Literally, it was [an action premised in a conviction unto death].
正気でも狂気でも、こんな作戦は行われない。
Neither sanity nor insanity what would such an operation endorse.
それだけの難航に挑むに足る報酬が、リターンがあるかと言われれば、それもない。
There awaited not a reward that corresponded to the challenge of the navigation, nor anything what could be deemed a return [on the investment].
では、何が。何がこの作戦で得られるというのか。
That being the case, what? What exactly would be gained of the operation?

---

＠マーリン／ Merlin

『ああ。その方法ならタイムパラドックス問題はない。
『Aah. By such a method, the problem of time paradox isn't of issue.
しかし、同時に「効果もほぼない」』
However, simultaneously, 「the effect [of the charm] is likewise mostly voided」.』

---

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

ーーー、ーーーーーー。

空間流のうねりが激しさを増す。
The turbulence of the spatial flow intensifies.
白い壁のように立ち塞がる。
Like a wall of white, it obstructs.
その中で、ふと、誰かの記憶を垣間見る。
Abruptly, in the midst of this, he catches a glimpse of somebody's memories.

---

(Excerpts from the Garden of Lost Will)

---

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

ーーーああ。
— Aah.

---

＠マーリン／ Merlin

『仮に、その人物が毎日悪夢を見るとして、
『If hypothetically a certain individual [suffers] nightmares every day,
その目覚めが１秒早くなる程度の「幸運」だよ』
the 「luck」 [you bestow would exert an effect] on the order of permitting that [they] awaken a second earlier [than they otherwise might].』

---

＠ネモサンタ／ Nemo Santa

充分な、報酬だ。
That's sufficient, recompense.

---

＠カルデアス／ CHALDEAS

ーーー塩基配列ヒトゲノムと確認
— Base Sequence: Human Genome Confirmed
ーーー霊器属性善性・中立と確認
— Spirit Vessel Alignment: Neutral Good Confirmed

ようこそ、人類の未来を語る資料館へ。
Welcome to the archive that documents the future of Humanity.
ここは人理継続保障機関(じんりけいぞくほしょうきかん) カルデア。
This is the Human Order Preservation Security Organization Chaldea.

指紋認証声紋認証遺伝子認証クリア。
Fingerprint Authentication; Voiceprint Authentication; Genetic Authentication, Cleared.
魔術回路の測定……完了しました。
Assessment of Thaumaturgical Circuits ... Completed.

登録名と一致します。
Registered Name Corresponds [to Record].
貴方を霊長類の一員である事を認めます。
You are acknowledged as a member of the Primates.

はじめまして。
I'm happy to make your acquaintance.
貴方は本日最後の来館者です。
You are the final visitor to this facility today.

どうぞ、善き時間をお過ごしください。
Welcome, and have a pleasant time.

Day 8 said:
Coming to a remaining distance of about eight hours, he exited the hatch of the Nautilus, independently [taking] to the Imaginary Sea.
Here on out, it wouldn't do to approach [aboard] the Nautilus.
Were the submarine to surface in the Antarctic, [it would enter unto] SHEBA's observation.
It would have to be he himself — minimally equipped — that alone surfaced to Chaldea Base.
Per his retrogression along the time axis, the space [about him] surged alike to fierce current, assailing his flesh as he advanced [in the heading] of its source.
Making his lower body as that of a merman, he swam [against] a spatial flow alike to a mixer.

＠ Nemo Santa

ーーー、ーーーーーー。

To the whole of his flesh, there clung a negative(minus) cold, and an extreme stress(a pressure) [what threatened his] annihilation if he should even slightly deviate from the [predefined] route.
He was accustomed to diving in Imaginary Numbers Space, but appending [the element] of temporal travel [turned it into] something else altogether.
An ordinary Saint Graph wouldn't be capable of enduring.
[To speak nothing of] moving against the flow, the mere [act of] holding position [courted a progressive] attrition.
The Active Time allotted to him was sixty seconds.
In the ocean, a single second had never felt so long.

＠ Nemo Santa

ーーー、ーーーーーー。

Vertigo compromised his field of vision.
Fear [threatened to] divest him of consciousness.
Clenching his teeth, he forcibly dragged his frayed senses back to their normative values.
It was necessary to clear the seven hours of distance unto the destination coordinates.
Would he make it within the remaining Active Time?
In the first, would his Saint Graph [actually] endure for [the entirety of] the time remaining?
The operation permitted [nothing so much as] a margin [for error].
The upper threshold of his Saint Graph's endurance was sixty seconds, and the minimum time required to arrive at the destination was likewise sixty seconds.
Not even a single miss was permissible.
Not even a single instance of deceleration was permissible.
If he breached the bounds of the current flowing forth from 2015 by a single finger, the operation would fail, and his flesh would disperse.
Literally, it was [an action premised in a conviction unto death].
Neither sanity nor insanity what would such an operation endorse.
There awaited not a reward that corresponded to the challenge of the navigation, nor anything what could be deemed a return [on the investment].
That being the case, what? What exactly would be gained of the operation?

---

＠ Merlin

『Aah. By such a method, the problem of time paradox isn't of issue.
However, simultaneously, 「the effect [of the charm] is likewise mostly voided」.』

---

＠ Nemo Santa

ーーー、ーーーーーー。

The turbulence of the spatial flow intensifies.
Like a wall of white, it obstructs.
Abruptly, in the midst of this, he catches a glimpse of somebody's memories.

---

(Excerpts from the Garden of Lost Will)

---

＠ Nemo Santa

— Aah.

---

＠ Merlin

『If hypothetically a certain individual [suffers] nightmares every day,
the 「luck」 [you bestow would exert an effect] on the order of permitting that [they] awaken a second earlier [than they otherwise might].』

---

＠ Nemo Santa

That's sufficient, recompense.

---

＠ CHALDEAS

— Base Sequence: Human Genome Confirmed
— Spirit Vessel Alignment: Neutral Good Confirmed

Welcome to the archive that documents the future of Humanity.
This is the Human Order Preservation Security Organization Chaldea.

Fingerprint Authentication; Voiceprint Authentication; Genetic Authentication, Cleared.
Assessment of Thaumaturgical Circuits ... Completed.

Registered Name Corresponds [to Record].
You are acknowledged as a member of the Primates.

I'm happy to make your acquaintance.
You are the final visitor to this facility today.

Welcome, and have a pleasant time.

Apparently, Nemo is reasonably well-acquainted with swimming in the Imaginary Sea, but the added dimension of time travel transforms the endeavor into something else altogether.

To avoid detection by SHEBA, the Nautilus stops at a distance of about eight hours away from the surfacing point, and Nemo independently disembarks — transforming his lower body into that of a merman, and swimming the remaining distance.
The upper threshold of his resilience to the Imaginary Sea is about a minute of exposure, and a depth of eight hours requires about sixty seconds to traverse at minimum.
The mere act of holding position within the spatial flow compromises his Saint Graph at a progressive attrition, but constantly maintaining a steady advance is necessary to clear the distance in the allotted time.
Ergo, there is no leeway for error, and he has to bear with the spatial current the entire way, even as it threatens to tear apart his body.

As he advances, his mind shifts to thoughts on why it is that he's pursuing this course of action; but he's abruptly assailed by visions of Guda's memories — her experiences in the Garden of Lost Will, among other things.
Witnessing these memories, he's reminded of what Merlin stated, regarding the potency of his gift amounting to reducing a second's worth of nightmares.
Even if that's the extent to which his gift can render aid to Guda, he concludes that it's worthwhile.

At Chaldea Base in 2015, we hear the "announcement" that greeted Guda in the prologue of the game — except that the speaker is now tagged as CHALDEAS.

As a matter of summary —
Modes of thaumaturgical time travel to the past, and the response they provoke from the Restorative Force:

Rayshift (Living Human):
The time traveler is purged by Restorative Force unless anchored to confirmation by observation from the present day per use of some equivalent of Clairvoyance / Thousand-League Eyes, such as CHALDEAS and SHEBA.
Even in the event that anchoring to confirmation prevents the time traveler from being purged, deviations introduced are corrected toward QTL by the Restorative Force.
Requires rayshift compatibility, which is tied in some unspecified capacity to Unmeiryoku.
Example: conventional outbound Chaldean rayshift
Rayshift (Servant):
Requires anchorage to Master, who would themselves be anchored to confirmation via observation from the present day.
In the circumstance that the destination is a Singularity, explicitly requires compatibility with the Singularity.
Fundamentally, Servants absent of Independent Manifestation require anchorage / yorishiro even without the context of rayshifting; and so, independent persistence as a time traveler absent of a Master is unlikely to last for long periods.
Example: outbound rayshifting of Servants from Chaldea during events
Rayshift (Primarily Spiritual Entity):
If a transported entity that isn't inherently dependent on anchorage exceeds a certain scale, the Restorative Force is incapable of enacting a purge.
Example: inbound transport of Grails and Einzbern homunculi to Chaldea; QSH's proposed backup plan, for outbound deployment of Grails to establish Singularities in the circumstance that Chaldea is destroyed
Rayshift (Overwriting of Lostbelt Analogue by Servant):
A Servant with the capacity to rayshift can overwrite an extant analogue within the simulated history of a Lostbelt.
Anchorage unnecessary, as the Servant's Saint Graph is annihilated.
Future of origin is eliminated, supplanted by an altered course of events.
Example: Ruler Morgan's actions in LB6
Imaginary Submersion (Low Operational Resilience):
The time traveler is purged by the Restorative Force as of introducing deviations that are not "a matter of course" in the context of the time and location they've surfaced to.
So long as purging is avoided, the time traveler's future of origin is generally unaltered, save for miniscule changes on the order of rounding errors.
Example: 7 Days 8 Years Snow Carol
Imaginary Submersion (High Operational Resilience):
The time traveler — said to bear sufficient Operational Resilience "to act within an Adjacent World" — is apparently capable to denying the purge of the Restorative Force and functionally changing the past.
Future of origin is eliminated, supplanted by an altered course of events. Other details unknown.
Example: ???

I would propose, based on the categories of thaumaturgical time travel I've here listed, that there's a systematic scheme that emerges from the explanations we've so far received.
Some idle speculations:

When not explicitly specified, purging presumably occurs in the circumstance that deviations are not "a matter of course" in the context of the time and location. That is to say, in the case that rayshift is conducted without anchorage by confirmation, the purging of the Restorative Force does not initiate until a substantial deviation is introduced.
Even outside the context of rayshifting, some manner of anchorage or confirmation may permit a resistance to the purging of the Restorative Force. Ergo, a time traveler that arrives in the past by use of Imaginary Submersion could potentially attain resistance to purging by anchorage to confirmation.
The mechanism that permits "entities possessed of sufficient Operational Resilience" to resist the purging of the Restorative Force may be entirely identical to whatever factor of scale that permits primarily spiritual entities to do the same. That is to say, the Grails that QSH intended to rayshift into the past in the event of Chaldea's defeat would hypothetically bear the capacity to resist the purging of the Restorative Force on account that they're possessed of "sufficient Operational Resilience."
To an observer unaware of the underlying circumstances, bearing "sufficient Operational Resilience to resist the purging of the Restorative Force" and "anchorage to confirmation via observation" may appear functionally indistinguishable.
"Sufficient Operational Resilience to act within an Adjacent World" is perhaps so described because the entity that induces a branching of history would naturally come to subsist within an Adjacent World at the outcome of their intervention into the past.
Even in the circumstance that a time traveler does in fact bear sufficient scale or Operational Resilience to alter history, corrections toward the pattern of events within the relevant Quantum Time-Lock should occur. This presumably accounts for the manifestation of stray Servants in Singularities that come about by the overturning of a QTL per a Grail's instantiation.
We're told that actions resulting in deviations from established history invalidate the future of a time traveler's origin, and provokes a purging of the responsible time traveler. Perhaps this in fact applies as well to time travelers of low Operational Resilience. That is to say, it's not that time travelers of low Operational Resilience cannot change the past, but that they're incapable surviving the resulting purge. Their future of origin may be invalidated regardless, barring corrections unto QTL.
Assuming that Restorative Force and related mechanisms apply in LB6, it's possible that the Ruler Morgan summoned by Beryl Gut was eliminated not because "the action of conveying information to her local analogue destroyed her Saint Graph," but on account that she changed the past.

With regards to the implementation of Imaginary Submersion specific to the Nautilus, a bit of a summary:

The Nautilus encases the Landship Carolinus, which has per the adoption of Nemo's Santa Saint Graph been modified into the Terrestrial Armored Vehicle Penguin-Porter (PP) — a possible revision of the Shadow Border? As such, the control room of the Shadow Border appears to exist within the Penguin-Porter, and the Penguin-Porter seems to inherit most of the features of the Shadow Border — including the capacity for time travel.
In outward appearance, the Penguin-Porter is a visual reference to the Cicada MC 2000 from Death Stranding.
Use of Imaginary Submersion outside the context of time travel presumably takes place at Depth 0 or Depth 1, and certainly not in excess of Depth 5, given that the Boundary of the Grand lies after this point — supposing that it's in fact an actual thing, and not just a turn of phrase to signify that Nemo believes that a Grand is likely to turn up.
Each full-number Depth corresponds to an annual stratum (年層(nensou), lit. "year layer"), to which the manifestation of obstructions vary in manifestation. In the current event, Nemo had to defeat enemies that appeared to draw from the history of opponents Chaldea encountered in the year associated with the stratum.
It doesn't appear that the CHALDEAS / SHEBA that existed in 2015 was capable of observing existences within the Imaginary Sea. Furthermore, Nemo's independent surfacing within the Antarctic Base Base likewise escaped notice. Note that SHEBA was previously given to substitute security cameras within the facility.
In the current event, making use of the Paper Moon to log coordinates arrived upon in the outcome of a day's journey, the Nautilus was able to save-state its progress, and resume travel on the following day by Submerging directly to the coordinate recorded. This was necessitated by the immense pressures the Nautilus was subjected to in its navigation of the annual strata, which would threaten structural compromise absent of recovery time at the end of a day of operation. Consequently, the rate of advance was restricted to a year a day.
Nemo's Saint Graph Resilience (霊基(reiki)強度(kyoudo)) is greater than that of his crew members. Alongside his nature as "one who was nobody at all," this affords him a bit of resistance against compromise to the Imaginary Sea, which would normally require immunity to the Hollow / Imaginary Numbers Element, or control of such, as acquired by BB and the Foreigners. More specifically, his Saint Graph is capable of enduring 60 seconds of direct exposure to the sort of spatial turbulence come of attempting to time travel via the Imaginary Sea. Independently implementing Zero-Sail, Nemo can manage the traversal of roughly 8 years of depth in the time allotted.
As an aside, it doesn't appear that Saint Graph Resilience is directly compared within the scenario to the Operational Resilience required to survive the purging of the Restorative Force. However, perhaps they vary proportionally, or otherwise share some correlation?
Though the annual strata correspond to numerical "Depth," it isn't entirely clear that greater Depths correspond to an escalation of pressure, as would occur in oceans of actual water.

TL;DR — You thought that Nemo Porter was a Death Stranding reference, but in fact, the story concluded with him performing a solo infiltration of a military base from a submarine.

Grue · Jan 30, 2024

To crosspost on the less active thread since it's somewhat relvant here too:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WEGvgyDf7w&feature=youtu.be
Port of Vita Realta Nua, this time with official English and Chinese.

The Void · Jan 30, 2024

Doesn't seem to be on Steam right now, though I suspect it'll be some time before it is.

Omegahugger · Jan 30, 2024

The Void said:
Doesn't seem to be on Steam right now, though I suspect it'll be some time before it is.

The release date is currently "2024", so we'll probably have to wait a while for it.

The Curious Fan · Jan 30, 2024

Grue said:
To crosspost on the less active thread since it's somewhat relvant here too:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WEGvgyDf7w&feature=youtu.be
Port of Vita Realta Nua, this time with official English and Chinese.

It only took twenty years for an official release of Fate/Stay Night in the west to become a reality.

Somebody · Jan 30, 2024

Fate Stay Night to be Remastered on Steam? Will this be the Realta Nua version with voice acting? Or the original version with certain scenes?

(A rework of those scenes might be needed, or it risks being disservice to fans.)

EDIT: Looks like it will be the Realta Nua version. Yay for voice acting!

Geedubs · Jan 31, 2024

I expect that the sex scenes will be modded back into the PC version in short order, though I'm not sure why anybody would really want to read them.

Faralis · Feb 1, 2024

Geedubs said:
I expect that the sex scenes will be modded back into the PC version in short order, though I'm not sure why anybody would really want to read them.

To delete the awful dolphin scene?

TrueMrMultiverse · Feb 1, 2024

Am excited for the Stay Night remaster-surprised how long its been without an official english translation

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