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This event occurs almost immediately at the beginning of Disc 2, and the
character who has the highest level of affection with Lloyd will be waiting on
the terrace to speak with him, except for Sheena who will initiate the
conversation immediately once you get there. Please note that each of these
dialogs are preceded by what the character would normally say to Lloyd if the
character is not waiting on the terrace, and then followed by the special
dialog.

elos: I bet you lived a crappy, hard life so far, huh?...

Lloyd: Gee, you sure know how to cheer someone up, don't ya?

Zelos: Heh heh. Well, don't worry about it too much. So now what? Aren't you at
your wit's end right about now?

Lloyd: Why do you say that?

Zelos: The Giant Tree which we thought was all good, goes nuts, our cute little
Colette comes down with some funky cold...It's just human nature to
start getting tired of it all.

Lloyd: I'm...never gonna give up. If I quit, I'll never be able to face all the
people who've suffered because of what I've done. So I'm gonna
fight...to the very end. I can't give up!

Zelos: ...Hot-headed and stubborn as hell. Well...but I guess that's what I dig
about you.

<<< Music changes, special dialog begins >>>

Lloyd: Yeah...you're here, doing "hot-headed" things with us.

Zelos: ...I know. Everything I'm doing right now goes against my mantra.

Lloyd: And what's that?

Zelos: Don't work for what you can get for free. Always stick with the winning
team. An easy life is the best life...et cetera, et cetera.

Lloyd: ...I shouldn't have asked.

Zelos: oh sure, you'd say that. But let me tell ya, you're better off avoiding
hardship.

Lloyd: You say that like it's from personal experience.

Zelos: Oh hell yeah. My life buys hardship in bulk. The poor, handsome boy
Zelos, envied for his status, looks, and beautiful voice, grew up with
his life in constant danger! Heh.

Lloyd: Uh-huh.

Zelos: It's true. The Chosen is respected in name only. We're imprisoned in our
own homes, always eating meals that are cold from being carefully
tested for poison. Even our marriage partners are decided from the
moment we're born.

Lloyd: I had no idea that Chosens have such a rough time...

Zelos: Chosens are treated by everyone like some kind of strange, inhuman
creatures, separated from our parents as children and attacked by
thugs...When will our suffering end?!

Lloyd: Oh, I never knew...I'm sorry, I...I always thought you just lived a life
of luxury, living in a big mansion, ordering your servants around, and
playing all day long. But Colette was treated differently by everyone
in the village so...I guess you were the same.

Zelos: ...Just messin' with ya. I'm just saying that if I suffered like that,
my personality would be even cooler and I'd get even more hotties than
I do now.

Lloyd: Oh, I see...wait, what? Are you saying all of that was a lie?!

Zelos: Hey, hey, whoa, settle down.

Lloyd: ...Man, I'm never taking anything you say seriously ever again!

Zelos: Don't get mad, buddy!

Lloyd: Don't touch me, you stupid jackass Chosen!

Zelos: Hahahaha! Sorry, sorry. Really, really...I'm sorry.

His Flanior Scean


Lloyd: Who is it? Come on in.

<<< Zelos opens the door and walks in >>>

Zelos: Hey man, you awake?

Lloyd: ...I just got sleepy right now, G'night.

Zelos: Whoa whoa whoa! Don't be like that! Come on, let's go talk outside for a
bit.

Lloyd: Sure.

<<< Scene switches to the front of the Flanoir church >>>

Zelos: ...On that day, Meltokio had a record snowfall. It looked just like this
city.

Lloyd: What are you talking about all of a sudden?

Zelos: Ah, just a story about the past. I suddenly felt like talking about it.

Lloyd: Well, if you want to talk, I'm all ears.

Zelos: I was so excited to see snow for the first time, and I made a snowman in
the garden with my mother. Then suddenly, the snowman fell apart.
Before I knew what was going on, red snow began to fall.

Lloyd: ...Red...snow?

Zelos: It was my mother's blood. She was murdered.

Lloyd: ...

Zelos: As she fell, she grabbed my shoulder and told me, "You should never have
been born."

Lloyd: That's...that's horrible!

Zelos: My mother probably loved somebody else. But because of the oracle from
Cruxis, she had to marry the Chosen at the time--my father. And the old
man had another woman as well.

Lloyd: But none of that was your fault!

Zelos: ...The magic that killed my mother was meant for me.

Lloyd: What?

Zelos: They targeted me because I was the next Chosen. My mother was caught in
the crossfire.

Lloyd: ...

Zelos: The one who tried to kill me was Seles' mother. They executed her and
Seles was placed under house arrest in the abbey.

Lloyd: So that's what happened.

Zelos: I never wanted to be the Chosen. I spent every moment of my life wishing
I could just run away.

Lloyd: ...Chosens lead really difficult lives. I can only imagine what it's
like. But I can still understand how hard it must be.

Zelos: ...Sorry. Kinda hard to think of anything to say to a story like that,
right?

Lloyd: Don't worry about it. But why did you suddenly decide to tell me?

Zelos: I should've never been born.

Lloyd: Wh...why do you say that?!

Zelos: I'm not saying I still think that way now. But all my life, I've been
rejected by my parents, shunned by the Church, and viewed as a threat
by the royal family... ...I just wanted to run away.

Lloyd: But you're here with us, now, right?

Zelos: I dunno. Even now, to tell the truth, I get tired of all the problems.
Sometimes I think it'd be easier if everyone and everything were just
destroyed.

Lloyd: Zelos! How can you say that?!

Zelos: ...Did I piss you off?

Lloyd: Hell yes! Of course! It'd be a huge problem for me if everything was
destroyed.

Zelos: But think about it. If everything was destroyed, you'd vanish, too.

Lloyd: I refuse to vanish. And so I don't want anyone else to be destroyed...I
want you to live, too, Zelos.

Zelos: ...I think I'm gonna cry.

Lloyd: Don't make fun of what I'm saying. Tomorrow, once we're sure that
Altessa is okay, I'm going to challenge Mithos to a final battle. But
if that's the way you feel, I'll be too worried to bring you along.

Zelos: You're going to fight? Do you really think you can unite the worlds?

Lloyd: I can and I will. I'm not going to run away.

Zelos: All right, all right. I hear ya. I swear, your fervent enthusiasm is
enough to melt all the snow in Flanoir. ...I'm in. I guess I'll give
this not running away thing a shot.

Lloyd: Haha. Once the world is at peace, you can run away all you like.

Zelos: Gee, thanks. Man, I can't believe I'm joining the weaker side. This
isn't like me at all.

Lloyd: What are you talking about?

Zelos: Nothing, just talking to myself. Anyway, let's get back. it's way too
cold out here.

Lloyd: Yeah.

<<< Scene switches back to inside the cabin >>>

Lloyd: Hmm? Did Zelos drop this? Hey, there's a letter attached...

Zelos' voice: This is a symbol of my trust. Hang on to it for me, okay? I don't
have the right to ask for your forgiveness, but I still want you to
forgive me. P.S. Don't tell the others.

Lloyd: What the?...Man, what the heck is he trying to say? He should make it
easier to understand!

[The Chosen's Orb was found]

Night at Heimdall Talk

Lloyd: What is it?

<<< Zelos walks in >>>

Zelos: ...Sorry. Did I wake you?

Lloyd: ...I couldn't really get to sleep.

Zelos: Then could I talk to you for a sec?

Lloyd: ...Okay then, just for a little while.

<<< Scene switches to Heimdall's park >>>

Zelos: Sorry about calling you out here in the middle of the night.

Lloyd: Nah, don't worry about it. What's up?

Zelos: I'll get right to the point. What's up with this Kratos guy?

Lloyd: What do you mean, what's up?

Zelos: Doesn't he piss you off?!

Lloyd: Zelos, why are you so mad?

Zelos: He's done all this stuff to us. Turned against us and even betrayed his
own son. Damned right I'm mad!

Lloyd: Um...do you really think you're in a position to be mad?

Zelos: We don't need to talk about me. I'm really good at conveniently
forgetting things like that!

Lloyd: That's hardly something to brag about.

Zelos: I think...parents are there to protect their children.

Lloyd: Well...yeah.

Zelos: But this guy, he just goes back and forth, like he can't make up his
mind. Doesn't he realize that it only hurts you? And then after all
that, he challenges you to a duel?! What kind of family turns swords
against one another?! This whole thing's nuts!

Lloyd: Yeah...well, I guess that's true...

Zelos: You certainly don't seem that worked up about it. Doesn't he piss you
off?

Lloyd: Well, right now, you're mad enough for the both of us.

Zelos: ...I hate parents like that. Parents who just jerk their kids around for
their own convenience.

Lloyd: Yeah, when you put it that way, I guess he did kinda jerk me around.

Zelos: Exactly! I mean, he knew about the Eternal Sword and Eternal Ring from
the very beginning and didn't say a word about them! ...Uh!

Lloyd: ...What? What about the Eternal Ring?

Zelos: Uh...well...

Lloyd: Is Kratos the one that told you about the Eternal Ring?!

Zelos: ...S...so, Lloyd. After we've succeeded in reuniting the worlds, what
are you gonna do?

Lloyd: Zelos, you heard about the ring from Kratos, didn't you?

Zelos: ...He...he knew everything. That humans can't use the Eternal Sword, the
details of Colette's sickness, the way to make the Eternal Ring--
everything.

Lloyd: Yeah, I guess when you think about it that way, he could have said
something sooner.

Zelos: Exactly!

Lloyd: But even if he had told us, I don't think we would have believed him. So
maybe he did his best to gauge when to do what and to set things up for
us along the way.

Zelos: When you put it that way, I suppose that might be true. Now I feel kinda
stupid for getting so worked up over it.

Lloyd: Not at all. ...Because you were upset, I think I've calmed down. I'm not
worked up anymore.

Zelos: ...Oh. Well, that's good then.

Lloyd: ...Tomorrow, I'll fight Kratos and then I'll ask him what he was
thinking, and what he was trying to do.

Zelos: ...Tomorrow...if Origin's seal is broken, the worlds will begin to
unite, right?

Lloyd: ...Yeah. Oh, yeah, about that question you asked earlier...I'm planning
to go on a journey to search for Exspheres.

Zelos: Huh?

Lloyd: You asked what I was gonna do after the worlds are reunited.

Zelos: ...Oh, I get it. That sounds like a good idea. We should put the
Exspheres somewhere people will never get their hands on them
again...for the sake of living beings, as well as for the lifeless
ones.

Lloyd: What about you? What are you going to do?

Zelos: Me? Hmm, good question. The institution of the Chosen will surely be
abolished. So, uh...I guess I'll just tag along with you!

Lloyd: Huh?! Are you serious?

Zelos: Yep, I think it's an awesome idea, if I do say so myself. Zelos, savior
of the world, on a journey with his faithful sidekick. What do you
think?

Lloyd: ...Whatever, man. Do what you like.

Zelos: Okay then, it's settled! It's gonna be awesome traveling around with me,
just you wait!

Lloyd: Yeah, yeah.