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[pulsing music playing]

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♪ ♪

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[footsteps thudding]

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[creature growling]

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- [snarling]
- [sobbing]

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[father] Just keep your eyes closed.

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[mother] It's going to be all right.

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[Yi Xing] I was orphaned by a living city.

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Ever changing, always in motion.

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A city controlled by a great machine.

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The Tiangong.

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The city is supposed to care for

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and protect us...

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...but something is wrong.

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The mechanical mind
that rules the city is failing.

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A mad god,
for whom everything is just a game,

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fortified
within the Palace of the Tiangong.

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How do you take revenge on a god?

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[mad beggar shudders] No.

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No, no, no, no, no, boy.
Not in there. Never.

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You...

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You, you're not going in there, are you?

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I am.

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Then... then you're crazy!

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You'll end up just
like the rest of us. [shuddering]

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We'll save a place for you!

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[beggar laughing]

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[tense music playing]

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♪ ♪

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You're here to challenge the Tiangong.

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Yes.

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You're young.

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I'm the best Weiqi player in Chang'an.

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And arrogant as well.

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Wonderful.

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Come in, come in.

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We have a game to play.

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[somber music playing]

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[rumbling]

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From this place, The Tiangong observes
and controls every aspect of the city;

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everything that has been,
everything that will be.

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"You may face the Tiangong
in any game of your choosing."

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[Yi Xing] I know the rules.

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[Tiangong] Then you know
I have to tell them to you.

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[rhythmic thudding]

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"You'll have only one chance.

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As the all-knowing Tiangong
is responsible

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for the movements of our great city,

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and his moments
in the river of time are precious."

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"If you defeat the Tiangong,
you will take its power,

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its glory, and its burden.

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The fate of this city."

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But you won't win.

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Every last person
who's faced the Tiangong has come away

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stark raving mad.

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- [mad man clamoring]
- I know that.

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But I also know you're losing control.

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This city is crumbling.

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As the Tiangong’s always known it would.

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When I say that I know everything,
I mean every thing.

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All of history, every cause

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and every effect:

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One domino knocks down the next.

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Even a human could understand this.

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But here is the world the Tiangong sees.

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Every fact, every moment.

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One thing leads to the next,
and to the next,

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and to what comes undeniably after that.

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For the Tiangong, there's no difference

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between remembering the past
and imagining the future.

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I know your every move,

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long before you make it.

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Okay, let's play.

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If you're so superior to humans,
why would you want to look like us?

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It's for you.

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But I'm afraid I have no face
that's not a disguise.

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How would you like me to appear?
You could play against yourself.

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Or any of the Weiqi masters
you studied with and long ago surpassed.

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Or yourself as a child.

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Your whole life is here.

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Everything you ever were,

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everything you'll ever be.

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I know where you begin and where you end.

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Pick a hand.

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You'll choose black.

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And I play white.

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Place the first stone.

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[intriguing music playing]

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Why do you even bother playing games?

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If you know how everything turns out.

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I only know what will happen
because it will happen.

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So you control everything.

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I control nothing.

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But you move the city.

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As the Moon moves the tides.

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Cause and effect, that is all.

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You're going to tell me why you're here.

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Don't use that face.

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As you wish.

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[Yi Xing] You killed my parents.

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You have not been paying attention.

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Look.

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I know how this ends.

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- [creature growling nearby]
- Stop.

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[creature snarling]

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I said, stop!

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There was an earthquake.
A demonic incursion.

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The demons had to be
returned to the underworld.

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Play your stone.

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You could have done anything.

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You didn't have to kill my parents.

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If the tide rolled in
and drowned your parents,

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would you seek revenge against the Moon?

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[Yi Xing] Yes.

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[Tiangong] You'd rather make
the Moon an enemy

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than admit that cause precedes effect.

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You still don't believe me.

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Here. This mirror reflects
one second into the future.

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[echoing] Nothing happens by chance.

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I could set the mirror
two minutes into the future.

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Or an hour.

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Do you want to see how this ends?

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And then drive yourself crazy
trying to avoid the inevitable?

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This is the point where people
start to go insane.

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When you face absolute proof
that you have no control.

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Your brain will try to convince
itself that it's making choices.

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That you have free will.

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That you're not just one more cog
necessarily spinning

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in a complex
but utterly predictable machine.

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You only think that way...

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[echoing] You only think that way
because you are a machine.

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And you're not?

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Some machines are made of metal,

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some machines are made of flesh.

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The city of Chang'an is made of both.

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[eerie music playing]

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Wait. What?

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[people screaming]

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Is that real?

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How could you not know?

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We are playing for control
of the movements of Chang'an.

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That means we are playing with Chang'an.

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What we do here has consequences.

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[Yi Xing] Stop. Stop it.

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[tense music playing]

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There are people out there.

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And this is the other point
at which people lose their minds.

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To be stuck in a destiny
you can't control,

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but still responsible
for the lives of thousands.

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[echoes] You can't be perfect.

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You can't know everything.

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And you're failing. You're falling apart.

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You're falling apart.

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This city has been falling apart
more and more my entire life.

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Nothing lasts forever.

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My end, like yours,
is built into my design.

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Of course, if it's too much for you,

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- why not just stay in the past?
- [distant laughter]

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I have it all here.

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Because they're dead.

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[Tiangong] No.

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They're only in the past.

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- They're gone.
- So certain,

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when you can't even bear to look at it.

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You ruined my life.

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You make me an enemy so you can hate me.

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Because once you start hating,
you can stop thinking.

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[somber music playing]

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So show me.

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Show me how they died.

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[Tiangong] The earthquake
tore the city open,

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releasing demons from the underworld.

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[dramatic music playing]

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[growling]

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[people screaming]

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[low roar]

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Citizens like your parents

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tried to fight them off,

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- but there were too many.
- [crying softly]

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[Yi Xing's father] Just keep
your eyes closed.

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[Yi Xing's mother] It's going to be
all right.

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[somber music playing]

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[demon roaring]

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[Tiangong] The Tiangong gave up
a piece of the city that day

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to preserve the whole.

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My parents saved me.

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They chose to sacrifice themselves.

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It had to happen.

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Because they made it happen.

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How can you still believe that?

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[dramatic music playing]

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Because I'm making the same choice.

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The board represents Chang'an,

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with us at its heart.

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[soaring music playing]

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What are you doing?

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You would say,

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exactly what I'm here to do.

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Stop. Stop this.

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You would sacrifice yourself?

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I can't win,
but I can choose how this ends.

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Despite everything I've shown you,

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you still somehow believe
you're making a choice?

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Play your stone.

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[Tiangong] Then...

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...I concede.

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[contemplative music playing]

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This was a... fun game.

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♪ ♪

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[choral music playing]

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[mad beggar] What did you do?

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- I won.
- No.

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Not possible.

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Impossible...

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Inevitable...

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[mad beggar] But... what happens now?

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Exactly.

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[contemplative music playing]

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[low rumble]

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[uplifting music playing]

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♪ ♪

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You're here to challenge the Tiangong.

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[Yi Xing] Yes.

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- [soft clattering]
- [contemplative music playing]

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♪ ♪

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♪ ♪

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♪ ♪