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NIER ebooks @nierquote.bsky.social · 39m

Villager: It's a pack of wolves!
Nier: Maybe if I cut out your tongue, you won't be so...
Nier: ...
Nier: Oh, crap! It IS a pack of wolves!

NIER ebooks @nierquote.bsky.social · 1h

P-33: You have taught me much... You... have helped to expand... my vocabulary. You have instructed me... in the ways of the outside world.
Kalil: Well, there's tons of stuff I don't know either. Maybe we should leave here and go explore the world!
P-33: Because we... are friends.

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Nier: I guess he's taught me everything he knows.
Weiss: Oh? And what have you learned up to now?
Nier: Well, the... art of... perseverance?
Weiss: That's hardly a skill which can be taught.

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Kainé: So how was the village?
Weiss: Oh, it was truly magnificent. There are no words, really.
Kainé: Huh. Neat.

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Nier: That sounds bad.
Weiss: Enemies with such barriers are impervious to both weapons and magic!
Nier: ...Yeah, that's bad.

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Kainé: So how was the village?
Weiss: Oh, it was truly magnificent. There are no words, really.
Kainé: Huh. Neat.

NIER ebooks @nierquote.bsky.social · 6h

Popola: The whole village is buzzing. They say you're gonna rescue Yonah.
Nier: It's true. This is my final journey.
Popola: Hard to believe this is the end.
Nier: I'll bring her back. I promise.
Popola: Um... about that... Never mind.
Devola: Popola just loves to worry...

NIER ebooks @nierquote.bsky.social · 7h

I am not a Shade. I am Kainé.
Repeating this mantra in her mind, she slowly began digging through the rubble of her house, being careful to ignore a certain red-stained spot in the corner.

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Nier: Oh, stop being morbid, Weiss! ...Besides, you can't die. You're made of paper.

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Mayor: ...Huh? You want to know if anything unusual is happening? Well, I have been feeling a rather strange presence whenever I visit the Divine Tree.
Nier: The Divine Tree?
Mayor: Yes. It's a legendary tree that exists in the heart of our village.

NIER ebooks @nierquote.bsky.social · 10h

Nier: ...I don't understand a single goddamn thing that's happening right now.

NIER ebooks @nierquote.bsky.social · 11h

>I'll do it. I can't say no to her.
>No way! Yonah's too young for a boyfriend!

NIER ebooks @nierquote.bsky.social · 12h

>A bird!
>A letter!
>Sunlight!

NIER ebooks @nierquote.bsky.social · 13h

Weiss: Rah! Stop! For the love of all that is holy, stop pounding me!
Nier: Then move!

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Nier: Hey, Kainé? Did you take the antidote?
Kainé: Don't need it. ...God, those berries were amazing.
Weiss: The truly amazing thing is that your stomach is fouler than your taste in clothing!
Kainé: If you had genitals, I would so chop them off right now.

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Nier: That statue looks pissed.

NIER ebooks @nierquote.bsky.social · 17h

Emil: Kainé, are you all right? We've got to get help!
Weiss: I fear there is little we can do.
Emil: No! Kainé!

NIER ebooks @nierquote.bsky.social · 18h

Additionally, Weiss was proving to be a spectacularly poor traveling companion. Unhindered by either terrain or physical effort, he spent most of his time urging Nier to pick up the pace and grumbling about their slow progress.

NIER ebooks @nierquote.bsky.social · 18h

Villager: Oh, and if I may ask, are you friends of Kainé?
Nier: You could say that.
Villager: Ah, I've heard the rumors! Here to hunt Shades, are you?
Weiss: Exactly! Our aim is to defeat every last one.
Villager: Every... every last one?

NIER ebooks @nierquote.bsky.social · 20h

If Devola and Popola are to blame...

Then I am equally at fault.

For not stopping for a moment to think about Kainé and Emil...

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Nier: I had no idea Shades were loose so close to the village... A man can't even go hunting in peace anymore.

NIER ebooks @nierquote.bsky.social · 22h

Nier: So who is this friend?
Yonah: Um, well, he's kinda—
Nier: It's a guy!?

NIER ebooks @nierquote.bsky.social · 23h

Her heart racing, Kainé took a series of rapid, shallow breaths and tried to calm herself.

I have to prove myself. I have to help Grandma. I...I have to be strong.

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Tyrann: Oh, the little vixen has finally run out of steam. Is it my turn now? Are you suuuure about that, Sunshine?

NIER ebooks @nierquote.bsky.social · 1d

Villager: Oh, and if I may ask, are you friends of Kainé?
Nier: You could say that.
Villager: Ah, I've heard the rumors! Here to hunt Shades, are you?
Weiss: Exactly! Our aim is to defeat every last one.
Villager: Every... every last one?