Valentine Timeslip Episode 4 Part 2

Things pick up with Echo walking back to base by herself, carrying her sketchbook in both her hands while confidence is shining off her face. She’s happily humming to herself when Gyumao pops up in her personal space commenting on her return and saying he was worried about how late she was coming back. She’s surprised into dropping the sketchbook over this, so Gyumao apologizes for scaring her and saying he just started shouting when he saw her.

 

Echo says she’s back and apologizes for coming back late. Gyumao comments that it looks like her going to the spring was a good idea, saying he can see that good expression on her face. Echo agrees and thanks him for his ideas earlier. Gyumao is glad to hear that and says that while it is his advice, in the end you have to be appropriate and flexible. Echo agrees.

 

Gyumao changes the subject to ask if Echo has issues with his voice since he has a habit of speaking loudly. Echo is a bit embarrassed he noticed, and Gyumao says it comes from being someone higher on a corporate chain. When you spend days with someone you start noticing things. Echo stammers out and admits that she’s not good with voices that are forceful. She also makes a point about something not being Gyumao’s fault, then admits she’s not good with bovines.

 

Gyumao is shocked by that remark, and Echo explains that it’s because someone she has bad memories of uses a bull as a symbol. She’s quick to say that Gyumao is a good guy and apologizes for bringing up this topic. Gyumao tries to keep calm as he says it’s important to express yourself. He can’t help it if Echo has bad memories, and he figures he can just be the one figure who can counter her perceptions.

 

Snow and Barguest walk over as Barguest suggests Gyumao start by keeping his voice down as he says they could hear him from inside the base. Snow welcomes Echo back and asks where you and Heracles are. Echo says you two are going to be at the spring a little longer and notes that you two seemed to be enjoying things.

 

Barguest accepts that and says he was thinking of getting you two before dark, but if you two are together he figures that’s okay. Snow agrees that it should be fine, but if it gets really late then he’ll go fetch you guys.

 

A moment later, the rest of the party is inside the base as Barguest asks how Echo’s brainstorming went. Snow laughs and says he probably wouldn’t need to ask based on how Echo and her sketchbook look. Echo says she got lots of ideas, and that Gyumao’s sadeschons and ahdeas were helpful. She shows off the sketchbook to the three of them, and they react with amazement at what they see.

 

Scene shifts over to your side as night has fallen, with the moonlight shining down and making the place look fantastic. Heracles wakes up with a start embarrassed that he fell asleep. You either ask if he’s up, say you fell asleep too, or say Echo already went ahead.

 

Going C, Heracles goes oh and asks if it was okay for her to go alone. He says you could have just ditched him and went back too. He then asks why you’re making a face at him since it’s making him uncomfortable.

 

Anyways, Heracles suggests hurrying back to base when the flowers by the spring gets his attention for some reason. You try to ask him what’s up, though he doesn’t answer right away. Heracles then says he had a dream of an old friend. It’s been a long time since he had a dream, since most of the time he was so busy he’d just flop over dead when the day was done. Heracles then asks if you’d be willing to hear him out about a regret he remembers, though he thinks it may bore you. He says it’s of feelings about something he wasn’t able to do.

 

You agree to listen to him, say you can do it if he’s okay with telling you, or ask him about his regret. Heracles sighs before he gets started, then looks up at the moon. He starts talking about how he used to work for A Certain Prince who lost his royal authority and helped with his trial to get it back. He got onto a boat with like fifty other people on a journey for the Golden Fleece.

 

On this journey there was a certain follower who went with Heracles everywhere. That person was Hylas. He was the only person to follow him by his own will. Most people lionized Heracles while secretly fearing him, so Hylas stood out as unusual for following him in a different way. And now that he thinks about it, Heracles thinks his time with him was a time of peace like the time he spent with you guys.

 

Heracles says that when he looked at Echo he started thinking about his own things again. He thought about why Hylas devoted himself to him. He’s only now possibly thinking that he might have been in love with Hylas. You either say he only noticed after learning what love is, say Hylas sounds like he was a wonderful person, or quietly keep listening.

 

Going A, Heracles says he still questions it since he still doesn’t understand much. He smiles, though not in a happy, sad, or bright way. Heracles talks about how many people in Olympus have a value system of love, a quick and reliable way of making connections like lightning. People have wanted him for his blood connections, but Heracles says they probably didn’t actually want a connection with him personally.

 

To Heracles, anyone wanting a connection with him just meant more work set to him by his bloodline. However, you and Echo and everyone else have taught him that this alone isn’t love. Because of that, he’s Remembered Hylas. You either ask about his phrasing of remembering and ask if Hylas is dead, or you quietly wait for him to go on.

 

Heracles says that Hylas disappeared in front of him. When the ship went to port one day, Hylas went to a spring to get water, and that was the last he saw of him. When he didn’t come back, Heracles went looking for him in the forest. He called for him over and over, but echoes were the only thing to answer him. In the end, he was unable to find him, and the ship left without Heracles as well. Heracles had to give up and find his own way back. When he asked about Hylas on the way, he was told that maybe he was taken by the water nymphs.

 

Heracles looks right at the spring, where the shining Narcissus flowers sway gently in the breeze. Heracles says a lot of time passed, and then he heard a rumor while doing his work as a slave. It said that a certain beautiful person was taken away by the water nymphs, and for some reason that interested him. You ask if this rumor was about Narcissus.

 

Heracles describes the love in Olympus as the impulse of passion that goes like lightning in which one seeks pleasure. Because of that, it was common for those with good looks to be stolen away. And yet for Heracles, this one thing stuck out to him. Next thing he knew, he came to visit This Spring to ask the nymphs what happened. He thought that if he learned what happened to Narcissus, then maybe he could find out something about Hylas. You either hope they can reunite one day, say they definitely have a connection, or say it’s not definite that they’ll never see each other again.

 

Going A, Heracles says that would be nice, but he feels he doesn’t have the right to see him again. He Gave Up on him, and he feels this would have cut off their connection when he did so. He never even made it to the point of considering whether it was love or not. You either call his name sadly, say he was awkward since back then, or comment that it might have been his first love.

 

Heracles says it’s because of this that he wants to see how Echo’s love pans out. He wants to see how two people separated in the same way might end up. Heracles smiles as he gets up, then holds his hand out for you. He says it’s about time you guys return since everyone will be worried about you. Heracles laughs as he wonders why he dreamed about his days on that boat, then talks about how he has the strange sense of feeling the Sea from you. Or maybe he feels a fickleness in you that might disappear to the bottom of the sea one day.

 

On the way back, Heracles talks to you some more. He says he has a wish for you, then asks you to listen to him. You either ask him to say what’s on his mind first, ask if he has some sort of favor to ask, or say you’ll do it if you can. Heracles asks for you to have a formal contract of master and servant with him. He’s okay with it lasting only as long as the overworld shift exists, and he asks you to consider it. As much as Heracles refers to himself as a slave, you can still feel the spirit of a hero brimming from him.

 

Heracles talks about how he can’t use his power under his own judgment. The only way he could use it is if someone he recognizes as master commands him to do so. Heracles says he believes there will be a time when he’ll need to use his strength for you, Echo, and everyone else. When it happens, he wants to borrow your power. He feels that if it’s you, he can trust in things. You either agree, say you hope you can become friends one day, or hope that you guys can become lovers one day.

 

In C, Heracles is surprised by the suggestion but eventually says it’s not like he’s never thought about the idea of a master loving their servant. But for now, he’d like to just leave things at that. Anyways the connection is established, and Heracles says the contract is made. He swears to give you his heart and body, then thanks you as the episode ends.