【Virche FD】Virche Evermore -EpiC:lycoris Encore- Adolphe Route Impressions

【Contains Spoilers】

Right from the start, Capucine cut Adolphe down to size, and I actually chuckled.

Capucine looked at him with genuine contempt. It was an irrefutable, hard truth... Adolphe seemed to think, "I can't even argue with that..."

It seems this remark really struck a nerve with Adolphe, as he threw himself into the experiments with a "don't worry about me... as long as you're safe, that's all that matters..." attitude, looking like he was ready to die. In the main story, Adolphe cooperated with the experiments strategically to buy time to save Ankou, but this Adolphe has given up on a future where he lives with Ceres. I already have a bad feeling about this.

Seeing Adolphe being so self-deprecating, Ceres cried out emotionally, "I hate myself for making Adolphe push himself even at a time like this! If it was going to come to this, I should have just died back then!!"

It's painful to see these two, who care for each other so deeply, end up saying the very things that hurt the other the most. What is this game of dodgeball with good intentions...

Céres offers herself to Capucine, saying, "I will become a test subject too, to reduce Adolphe's burden."
I know she's doing it for Adolphe's sake, but that's the one thing that would hurt him the most! Please, stop beating each other up with good intentions... I'm begging you...

The sense of tragedy was immense as Adolphe lamented in his cell that Céres had thrown herself into the experiments in his place!!
Adolphe shed tears of regret, saying, "My insistence on only protecting you and not moving forward together led to this outcome." Even at a time like this, he thought, "If only it had been Yves or Ankou by her side..." and I just thought, that's so like you...

Adolphe was crushed by despair when he saw Céres after she had been experimented on. It broke my heart when he said, "How can you go to such lengths to protect someone like me, who abandoned you to save my own skin??"

He swore to protect her with all his heart, and now the person he swore to protect is hurt because she was shielding him.
It's frustrating that even though he's trying his best to protect Céres in his own way, he always fails to choose the best path.

Yves rescues Adolphe and Céres from the experiments. It's so cool how Yves always shows up like a hero to save Céres whenever she's in trouble!! The contrast with Adolphe is so cruel.

Even though Yves and Professor Lucas opened a path for escape, Mathis provided the location and equipment, and Scien is treating Céres, Adolphe can do nothing but watch her suffer...

Seeing Adolphe crushed by his own incompetence is just too delicious~~!!!!! So good~~~~!!!!!!

The fact that Céres's suffering is caused by Adolphe's helplessness is just irresistible!!! I love it!!!!

The situation is truly tragic and I definitely want them to be saved, but his despair-filled voice as he's crushed by his own helplessness was so delicious that I got incredibly excited! I love how Adolphe is always struggling!!

I usually watch the story from the position of a guardian spirit, cheering for the heroine and the love interest from the sidelines, but I love suffering Adolphe so much that my own ego is getting in the way!! Please go home!!
This is definitely not the mood to be enjoying a scene like this...

After everything that happened, Céres's condition worsened. I was filled with despair at the fact that even Scien had given up on her.

Céres, on the verge of death, said, "If I say 'I want to die,' it will only drive Adolphe and Ankou further into despair, so I must never say it. I have to take responsibility for having driven them both to despair," and I was like, whaaaaaat!!!???
The fact that she thinks that is exactly what's driving them to despair!!??

Ankou was depressed, and Adolphe was also sinking, saying, "It's my fault... I'm the one who should have died, Yves should have been the one to survive..." The atmosphere was incredibly heavy.

Céres desperately pleads with the depressed Adolphe.
"I don't want all the effort you and Ankou have put in to go to waste, so I want to keep struggling a little longer."

It makes me want to cry~~ How admirable she is...😭😭😭
The dynamic where Céres is the one suffering, yet Adolphe is the one clinging to her, is just amazing!!!

Seeing Céres, who is so strong yet fragile, thirsting for life, Adolphe changes his mind, thinking, "I was a fool to despair on my own."
When he asked, "No matter what the outcome is, I will be by your side until the very last moment. Will you struggle with me?" Céres nodded and said, of course.

Céres's reason for not giving up on life is that she "doesn't want to waste the efforts of Adolphe and the others," whereas Adolphe is making the decision to force suffering upon Céres because he "doesn't want to lose her and can't bring himself to kill her."
I know taking Céres's wishes into account is the most important thing, but seeing his own self-centeredness peek through felt very much like Adolphe.

Céres's suffering was inflicted by others, but the fact that how she lives from here on out is left up to Adolphe makes me feel the profound depth of this scenario's karma.

■ Separation ED2

The situation reached a point where Ceres could no longer hold on, and I was forced to choose between wanting to live or wanting to die.

I thought, 'I know saying I want to live is the right thing to do, but it's too painful to watch her lose her reason and turn into a lump of flesh. That would only make Adolphe suffer,' so I chose 'I want to die.' But after seeing the title 'Chapter of Separation,' I regretted it from the bottom of my heart.
That's not a good title for two people who have tried so hard to stay together until the very end...

When Ceres said, 'We've spent so much time together, so I'm okay with dying now,' Adolphe looked clearly dejected and said, 'Is that... your wish?' It made me want to say, 'Actually, I want to live.'

That's right, saying 'I want to die' is basically the same as asking Adolphe to end it for me...
Oh no~~~ I messed up!!!! I ended up burdening Adolphe with this sin!!!!!

Adolphe thinks, 'If I'm being honest, I wanted you to say you wanted to live,' but he hides his true feelings and says with a gentle smile, 'You did well.'
I was already crying at this point.
The way he casually treats her like a little sister, saying, 'I'm proud to have such a strong little sister,' is just so painful.

Adolphe prepares himself with grim resolve to grant Ceres death, but I was surprised that the method was strangulation. Isn't it too cruel that the sensation of Ceres's death remains in his hands...? It's just too painful...

As Adolphe puts his hands around her neck with a desperate look, Ceres whispers, 'I love you...'
I almost flipped out, thinking, 'You're saying that now of all times!?'
I wonder if she didn't like being treated like a little sister... I understand her feelings, but please don't say something that shatters Adolphe's resolve at a time like this... Don't let him be hurt any further...

Adolphe was also intensely shaken, asking, 'Why are you saying that now!?'
He said, gasping for air, 'If you say that, I'll end up wishing we could still live together...!!' and I cried again.

Adolphe suffers, thinking that while he wants to let her live, it wouldn't be for Ceres's sake.
Even though he tells himself in a voice filled with agony, 'I must not waver. If I let her live just because I'm attached, Ceres will continue to suffer until she dies. Kill her, kill her, kill her...!', he cannot bring himself to do it...😭😭😭

Save me...!! I still want to live with her!! The sight of him wailing while crying was just too painful.
I've overcome many desperate situations, but no one has ever shown their despair so openly like this.
The sight of him begging for help while roaring at a god that doesn't even exist is heart-wrenching...

In the end, Ceres breathes her last due to Ankou's bullet.
Adolphe ended up relying on someone else's hands until the very end, and couldn't even grant her the death she wished for...

It makes me feel sorry for him when I think about Ankou's feelings.
He believed in Adolphe's potential, only to end up giving Ceres new despair, and while realizing his own helplessness, he had to take the lives of both Ceres and Adolphe...
It's also sad that Ceres never found out Ankou's true identity.
Even though Ceres should have known how strong Ankou's feelings were, she only had eyes for Adolphe in the end, and it's a pity that she just ended up thinking of him as 'a good person, though I don't really know him.'

Adolphe heads to his death, holding onto the hope of reuniting in the underworld.
The men of Virche are all heroine-first, and it's shocking how they throw their lives away, saying, 'There's no point in living in a world without her.' It's unbearable to think about how Mam feels being left behind.
Even though he's the leader of the vigilante corps, he abandons his duties, and I thought that kind of selfishness—worrying everyone around him and then just passing away—is also very Adolphe.

Man... Adolphe suffering and lamenting while holding the power of life and death over Ceres was pitiful, but it was so good. It updated the record for the highest emotional intensity in Virche.

Adolphe in Encore is constantly suffering and struggling, it's truly unbearable!!??
Adolphe is at his best when he's suffering!! I could feel the scenario writer's intent: 'Let's mess him up with regret and helplessness!'

Thank you for preparing such a dramatic development for the only normal man in a game full of heretics like Virche.
My mind was in shambles between feeling sorry for him and enjoying it, and I was very satisfied.

■ Chapter of Hardship ED2

Adolphe monologues, 'If I'm being honest, I wanted you to say "I want to die" while you still had your human dignity.'

Haaaaaaah!!??

That's what I thought.

Oh, oh, oh, you—!!!
When I said I wanted to die,
you were thinking, 'If you were being honest, I wanted you to say you wanted to live...'!!!

So you're going to be negative no matter what I choose!
Apologize to the me from two days ago who cried after choosing 'I want to die'!!!

Adolphe was trying to save Ceres by performing the same experiments on himself and supplying the experimental data.

How did it come to this!!!??
Why can't you understand that Ceres-chan wouldn't be happy even if you did that!!!
Even though Ceres wishes to live together with Adolphe!!

This is exactly the same as what you did at the beginning of the route, 'sacrificing yourself to let Ceres live'... even though that resulted in Ceres-chan suffering, you haven't learned a thing!!!

'Please, be happy.'
Seeing Adolphe fade away while saying those satisfied words, I thought, 'No way... is this the end...?'

Since the story cuts off here, I'm sure she couldn't be saved.
It's just too painful to think that she suffered to the very end and died in a world without Adolphe...

■Chapter of Separation ED1

It was an ED where Adolphe puts an end to Ceres's life...

'I put my full weight on her, continuing to stop Ceres's breathing.'
Isn't this one sentence just too painful??
It's so, so hard to watch Adolphe suppress his own will to grant her the salvation of death...
The description of his fingers digging into her neck was incredibly vivid and painful.
Ankou must have been watching this from the shadows...
Ah~~ (holds head)

Ceres-chan and Adolphe properly told each other 'I love you' at the end, but the fact that they couldn't convey the massive emotions beneath that was just heartbreaking.

Even though it was in the form of death, I think Adolphe gave Ceres salvation.
I liked this one too, but personally, I think I liked the other ED better.
Adolphe, who held the power of life and death over Ceres while his heart was falling apart and he struggled in agony, was just too good. My heart is still trapped in that ED.

■Chapter of Hardship ED1

The two of them continue to live in the frontier until Ceres's life runs out...
This situation is just too painful~~~!!!
It was such a living hell that I felt like I was going to foam at the mouth.

Ceres-chan said, 'If it's a world with you, I can endure any pain,' and they really went and executed that head-on.
And Adolphe, too, fulfills that wish of Ceres...

Adolphe said, 'Even if we are covered in wounds, we will continue to live together. Because that is the form of love that a powerless Adolphe, whose only merit is being stubborn, can prove.' And that might be true.
Because being together is the greatest salvation for Ceres.

Ceres-chan's thirst for life exists only because of Adolphe's presence.
I can understand Adolphe's feelings of feeling affection for Ceres-chan, even while knowing that he is the root cause of her enduring suffering that is equal to hell.
It was a heartbreaking ED that depicted a stagnant end, where each other's existence is both hope and despair.

This ED is a counterpart to the Evermore ED in the third act of the main story.
I thought as I compared them that it contrasts with Ankou saying, 'When you are suffering to the point of death, I will die with you without hesitation; that is the only form of love I can offer you as Ankou.'

That's all.
Adolphe in Encore was absolutely wonderful...
I love the Adolphe salvation ED from the main story, so I was fiercely thinking, 'If they show me hell in Encore, I won't forgive them, I'll erase the whole scenario from my memory,' but I was very satisfied because Adolphe's charm was depicted from a new angle!

Adolphe, crushed by his own powerlessness and falling into despair, was just too good.
Because he is 'ordinary,' he can't have spectacular achievements, and he hesitates and worries in crucial moments—the way he struggles in such a gritty way is really great!!
The fact that Ceres's suffering is a seed sown by Adolphe is also irresistible.
I love Adolphe, the man who loses to karma...!!! I'm looking forward to the salvation end too!!