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NIER ebooks @nierquote.bsky.social · 45m

Shadowlord: Stop! Listen to me! Yonah, please!
Yonah: I... I'm sorry, Dad. I don't... I don't know what to... I'm so very sorry... I love you, Dad. ...I love you.

NIER ebooks @nierquote.bsky.social · 1h

Nier: Um... hmmm... Yeah. This is really good.
Yonah: Oh, yay! You work so hard for me, so I wanted to give you something back!
Nier: Uh, yes. Yes. This is great, Yonah. Thank you.
Yonah: Thanks! I made, like, seven cakes, so there's tons of leftovers.
Nier: .....

NIER ebooks @nierquote.bsky.social · 2h

Kainé: You're not the only voice in my life anymore. I've spent time with others. I'm a curse. A freak. I know that, and he knows it too. But guess what? He still accepts me. He still forgives me.
Tyrann: Oh, come on! You're doin' this for HIM?!

NIER ebooks @nierquote.bsky.social · 3h

August 31

I guess a shade came near the village today.
People kept coming up to me and saying
"Boy, we sure wish your father was around!"
And I said, "Me too! Dad could kick that Shade's butt!"

NIER ebooks @nierquote.bsky.social · 4h

Nier: Um... hmmm... Yeah. This is really good.
Yonah: Oh, yay! You work so hard for me, so I wanted to give you something back!
Nier: Uh, yes. Yes. This is great, Yonah. Thank you.
Yonah: Thanks! I made, like, seven cakes, so there's tons of leftovers.
Nier: .....

NIER ebooks @nierquote.bsky.social · 5h

Weiss: Emil!
Nier: Emil! EMIL!
Kainé: Emil, you jackass, get back here! ...EMIL!!

NIER ebooks @nierquote.bsky.social · 6h

Nier: Fair enough. What do you need?
Villager: I need five lizard tails and five mouse tails.
Nier: .....
Nier: What, seriously?

NIER ebooks @nierquote.bsky.social · 8h

Kainé: ...What's with the berries?
Nier: We picked them up over by that huge tree. I thought maybe-
Kainé: Hand 'em over. I'm starving.
Weiss: Are you mad! Those berries are clearly poisonous! Even one such as you can't hope to—
Kainé: Damn, those are delicious! Gimme some more!

NIER ebooks @nierquote.bsky.social · 9h

Blacksmith: (Hey! You! I need you to get my idiot son back here, pronto!)
Nier: You always start conversations like that?

NIER ebooks @nierquote.bsky.social · 10h

Devola: Yeah, the Song of the Ancients. It's an old tune that's been passed down through generations of villagers.

NIER ebooks @nierquote.bsky.social · 11h

Black. Pure darkness. Painted over everything.
Words. Scattered here and there across the blackness.

Kind words. Difficult words. Amorous words. All sparkling in the dark like jewels.
The words were few now. But time was shorter.
Grabbing the words in desperation, the tree turned to the sky.

NIER ebooks @nierquote.bsky.social · 12h

October 28

I was tired today, so I stayed home and hid in bed.
I could still hear Devola singing from somewhere, though.
Listening to her always makes me happy.

NIER ebooks @nierquote.bsky.social · 13h

Masked Person: (I'm sorry, but Rule 27,229 states when sending someone on an errand, you cannot state the name of the item you want him to buy.)
Nier: Oh, come on!

NIER ebooks @nierquote.bsky.social · 14h

Fyra: (I heard that we passed Rule 124,046 earlier this month.)
Weiss: Of all the idiocy! I could never live in this city.

NIER ebooks @nierquote.bsky.social · 15h

Nier: Ha ha! She may not look it, but get a few in her, and Popola's the strongest woman in the land.
Weiss: Surely you jest!

NIER ebooks @nierquote.bsky.social · 16h

Nier: All right. I'm gonna give it my all this time!
Weiss: Have you been holding back?
Nier: I always give it my all!
Weiss: Shhhhh! You're scaring them away!
Nier: Gahh...

NIER ebooks @nierquote.bsky.social · 17h

Nier: Well, this place is gloomy as hell.

NIER ebooks @nierquote.bsky.social · 18h

Devola: It began thirteen hundred years ago.
Popola: Humanity, finding itself on the brink of extinction, undertook a last ditch-rescue plan called Project Gestalt.
Weiss: Ges...talt...?
Popola: Do you still not remember, Grimoire Weiss?
Devola: Then let's give you a refresher.

NIER ebooks @nierquote.bsky.social · 19h

"Oh, come on! That's bullshit and you know it!"
"Possibly. But thinking of it in this way might make it easier for you to bear."
Nier glanced at Weiss's grinning face, cursed silently to himself, and resumed walking.

NIER ebooks @nierquote.bsky.social · 20h

What should I do?
>End Kainé's life and free her from her burden.
>Sacrifice your own existence to make Kainé human again.

NIER ebooks @nierquote.bsky.social · 21h

Nier: Good to see you, Kainé.
Kainé: ...You look like shit.

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NIER ebooks @nierquote.bsky.social · 22h

Finally, after Weiss muttered something about legless turtles being more adept at navigating the environment, Nier snapped.
"You know what, Weiss?" he cried. "Go to hell. We're stopping. I need to rest for a few minutes before I throw up."

NIER ebooks @nierquote.bsky.social · 23h

>I'm here to rescue Yonah!
>Why are those two here?
>They're right. Let's go back to the village.

NIER ebooks @nierquote.bsky.social · 1d

Weiss: Are you certain this woman even cares for you?
Resident: Of course she does!
Weiss: You humans certainly have complex and exhausting mating rituals.

NIER ebooks @nierquote.bsky.social · 1d

Weiss: Being her guardian must present some unique challenges.
Nier: I just need to see her smile; then it's all worth it.