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Gilgamesh I see. So Merlin has gone on ahead, then.
Without coming to know defeat in the waking realm, he has been crushed within the depths of the dreaming.
Truly an end befitting of him.
Still,
the Evils of Humanity (人類悪,
Jinrui-Aku?) -- Merlin did indeed speak of such, you say?
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Mashu Yes. He said that
the King of Thaumaturgy (魔術王,
Majutsu-Ō?) has to this land called to awakening one among
the Seven Evils of Humanity (七つの人類悪,
Nanatsu no Jinrui-Aku?).
... er, Lord Gilgamesh.
What precisely are the Evils of Humanity?
What are the Seven?
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Gilgamesh What, you're unfamiliar with them?
I would've thought that you'd already come across the answer to that in your investigations.
The Evils of Humanity are, as the name implies,
the Stigmata of Humanity (人類の汚点,
Jinrui no Oten?) -- the various
Calamities (災害,
saigai?) positioned to enact the annihilation of Humanity.
They accumulate strength in proportion to the advancement of humans, and are in essence as a cancer that consumes society from within.
To rephrase, they are as a
stagnation (淀,
yodo?) within the current of
the History of Humanity (人類史,
Jinrui-Shi?).
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da Vinci Avengers (復讐者,
fukushūsha?) in the cast of Gorgon, you mean?
That is to say, existences that out of enmity seek the destruction of Humanity?
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Gilgamesh It is the reverse, O fair one.
The Evils of Humanity are not the Evils by which Humanity comes to destruction.
Rather, they are the Evils that Humanity shall come to destroy.
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Mashu The Evils that ... Humanity shall come to destroy?
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Gilgamesh Indeed. ... hm.
It would be best if the explanation thereon is left to someone more appropriate.
For now, commit this to memory, for such are the Calamities that threaten the History of Humanity.
They are the archetype upon which
the Summoning of the Heroic Spirits (英霊召喚,
Eirei Shōkan?) is founded -- at once a
fail-safe (安全装置,
anzen sōchi?) and
a system by which the Apoptosis of Humanity is enacted (人類の自滅機構,
Jinrui no Jimetsu Kikō?, lit. "System for the Apoptosis of Humanity).
The Seven Evils of Humanity. They too exist and
manifest (顕現,
Kengen?) as
Saint Graphs (霊基,
Reiki?, lit. "Spiritual Foundations").
They are the Seven Calamities born of
the animalistic qualities inherent to humans (人間の獣性,
ningen no jūsei?, lit. "the ******** Nature of Humanity") --
thus, Class Beast.
That which the King of Magecraft has awakened is such a creature.
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Ishtar But, wait. Should not
the Primordial Sea (原初の海,
Gensho no Umi?) refer to Mother?
Should this aberration not be of the hand of the Matriarch of the Gods?
The acts of the Goddess Tiamat?
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Gilgamesh Fool. I am telling you now that the Goddess Tiamat is one amongst the Beasts.
The opponent that we challenge now is authentically a
Divine Corpus (神体,
Shintai?, lit. "Divine Flesh") of
the Primordial World (原始世界,
Genshi Sekai?).
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Mashu Class Beast ... The Seven Evils of Humanity ...
Is that the name of our Enemy?
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Gilgamesh Indeed. That is the term for
the Beasts of Calamity (災害の獣,
Saigai no Kemono?, localized as "Beasts of Disaster") in collective.