- There is no honor in this foe's defeat.
- That took longer than I would have liked.
- And with that, the impediment is removed.
- That fool could not even see how outmatched
[cdb]they were.
- Lady Edelgard's enemies will be eliminated.
- Lady Edelgard's path to conquest continues!
- Such resistance was a wasted effort.
- Perhaps we will incorporate this territory into
[cdb]our future stratagems.
- Well, you were certainly a lively one.
- What we did here, we did for your benefit,
Lady Edelgard. I trust you understand that.
- I hope you will never interfere with us again,
[cdb]but I expect to be disappointed.
- Your strategy was overwrought at best,
[cdb]dear Claude.
- Honestly, Ferdinand. Being your opponent is
[cdb]exhausting sometimes.
- You lack the strength to stand alongside our
[cdb]emperor, Petra.
- It goes without saying which of us is the
[cdb]superior servant.
- You time is at an end. I trust you see this now.
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- I pray this has not provoked Lady Edelgard's
[cdb]wrath.
- I would have you do your duty now.
- My heart does not bleed for refuse.
- Should you survive, you might consider
[cdb]altering your way of thinking.
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- Though this pains me, it is my duty.
- If this experience has taught you anything,
[cdb]you will never oppose me again.
- I shall paint Lady Edelgard a brilliant red
[cdb]path—one wreathed in burning flame!
- Salvation is not a balm afforded fools. See how
[cdb]they continue to fight despite such losses!
- There are avenues that yet remain open to us.
- I will deliver victory to Lady Edelgard even at
[cdb]the cost of my life!
- You have my thanks.
- I give you the rarest of all jewels—my thanks.
- My eternal thanks, Lady Edelgard.
- Please forgive me for troubling you.
- I did not credit your strength enough.
- Superb.
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- Splendid—though yours is indeed a power
[cdb]that warrants caution.
- Caution is most warranted after laying low
[cdb]one's enemy.
- You truly are a man of much talk and little
[cdb]action, Claude.
- That might be worth a word of praise if I did
[cdb]not think it would go straight to your head.
- You do a credit to yourself, Petra—do be
[cdb]careful not to take it too far, now.
- You perform your duty with praiseworthy
[cdb]aplomb, Monica.
- Lady Edelgard will be most pleased with your
[cdb]fine work this day.
- Do your utmost, that you might leave your
[cdb]mark upon this world.
- I will have need of your ready cooperation if
[cdb]we hope to to eke out victory.
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- I can always predict you will do good work.
It makes things easy on me.
- All hands, follow your emperor to glory!
- Your skill is indispensable to our Empire.
- You fight well, Monica. Now let us be a blade
[cdb]in the hands of our emperor!
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- You have strength enough to turn the tide of
[cdb]battle yourself. Where does it come from?
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- Your power walks the line of darkness, yet is
[cdb]great enough to overrun the battlefield.
- Though I would prefer you to avoid fighting
[cdb]at the front, the fruits of your efforts are
[cdb]beyond reproach.
- Your performance is so resplendent I cannot
[cdb]tear my eyes from you.
- You are performing well, but take care not to
[cdb]get carried away and make a sloppy error.
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- Your excellent work has set my heart racing.
What a truly unexpected experience.
- There are none who can bar your progress,
Lady Edelgard! Let us press boldly forward in
[cdb]our conquest!
- Heh. It is a curious feeling indeed to be
[cdb]this excited at your performance in battle.
- Let none argue that you are indispensable to
Lady Edelgard's journey.
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- This is sub-optimal.
- We must take appropriate action at once.
- This enemy will demand our full attention.
- I hope to settle this matter personally.
- What a troublesome state of affairs...
- We'll have these defenses crippled in
[cdb]short order.
- You will not be permitted to run amok in one
[cdb]of my strongholds, friend.
- A key location is under enemy attack.
We must hurry to their aid!
- Our territory has been taken by the enemy.
We have failed.
- So you seek to throw your life away, do you?
- Any who get in my way will be disposed of.
- Though it daggers the heart, I fear this is
[cdb]my duty.
- How vexing that we friends should find
[cdb]ourselves as foes.
- This will make for a fine opportunity to test
[cdb]your power.
- The advantage is mine, Lady Edelgard.
Perhaps you might consider a withdrawal?
- A silver tongue won't avail you today, Claude.
- A fight between the pair of us is utterly
[cdb]asinine, Ferdinand.
- Then you have chosen hostility? So much the
[cdb]better! Heheh!
- Dialogue would prove meaningless with you.
- Surely Lady Edelgard does not wish for
[cdb]conflict between us?
- I sense your determination.
- Though I confess your true nature eludes me,
I will thank you to stay out of human conflicts.
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- All according to plan.
- That was a redoubtable foe.
- How can I face Lady Edelgard after such a
[cdb]shameful display?
- I cannot so brazenly scurry away...
- I leave this situation in your hands for now.
I have other matters I must attend to.
- Now is my time to act!
- I stand now upon the field of battle, a bulwark
[cdb]against the aims of our enemy.
- I return with weapon in hand and debts to
[cdb]be paid.
- We move ever toward victory.
- Sadly, I fear I must withdraw.
- Victory to Lady Edelgard!
- This battle will be another victory I lay upon
Lady Edelgard's road to glory!
- I will crush every last gasp of morale from
[cdb]the throats of our foes.
- Our mission is to provide aid. We can
[cdb]ill afford indolence.
- Our aim is defense—hold fast and secure
[cdb]your victory!
- All troops, retreat! But do not fall to pieces,
[cdb]nor let a good sword go unused!
- The winds of change in Fódlan hinge upon this
[cdb]battle's outcome! Now march!
- I will ensure that what needs to be done
[cdb]is done.
- Though the wind blows ill, victory is never
[cdb]beyond our grasp.
- Heh. The words of the weak are little more
[cdb]than air.
- I can ill afford to be particular about the
[cdb]means if I am to secure victory.
- As in all things, this victory is in the name of
Lady Edelgard.
- Even now, the road ahead stretches past the
[cdb]horizon—this battle was little more than a
[cdb]way station.
- I am relieved I was able to provide assistance.
- I will long remember the sight of our enemies'
[cdb]dejected faces.
- That was a terrible struggle. Let us consider it
[cdb]a blessing we escaped with our lives.
- Victory is ours!
- Forgive me, Lady Edelgard...
- Lady Edelgard... Use my corpse as a stepping
[cdb]stone...to change the world...
- The enemy frays. Victory is near!
- Victory awaits if we can claw our way back
[cdb]from this disadvantage.
- What a bother that was... Well, let us advance
[cdb]on regardless.
- To be stymied in a place such as this...
- I go forth.
- You appear to need assistance.
- Shall we join hands in battle?
- Time to mobilize the troops.
- Please provide support.
- The situation calls for a rescue.
- I need you to provide defense.
- I require no aid. Focus on securing victory.
- I wonder if I might have your assistance?
- Good timing. I could use your assistance.
- You have my thanks, Lady Edelgard—my lack
[cdb]of support was beginning to trouble me.
- I deeply regret that I must beg your aid,
Lady Edelgard.
- The moment calls for all my strength!
- This will not help morale.
- Right then. Let us go to work.
- Heh. I will see my duty done.
- Perhaps this will shift the situation in
[cdb]our favor.
- Orders have been carried out. Now then,
[cdb]what comes next?
- Perhaps the enemy predicted this...
- I can make no excuses.
- Any victory calls for a sound strategy!
- Well, that went rather poorly.
- The next course of action is plotted.
- Objective fulfilled.
- We must do all to ensure such a thing never
[cdb]happens again.
- No! It cannot be!