You don't give him straight answers to these, Broca.
Chiave
Damn, that's a shame! This is perfect weather to piss to!
Aosta
Aside from polar wastes, I don't think there's any weather bad for p... for relieving yourself.
Chiave
You just don't get it, Aosta. It's all about a feeling!
Chiave
Ah, a perfect arc—che cazzo!
Aosta
What's wrong?
Chiave
The wind just blew my perfect arc onto my shoes! Tch, what a bummer.
Aosta
Just leave it, we're gonna go. If we can't find a rendezvous before sundown, we'll have to sleep out on the barrens tonight.
Chiave
What's wrong with the barrens?
Chiave
Look at it this way, I've never been camping before! Let's camp out today!
Aosta
The barrens are a death trap, and realistically speaking, this jacked ride doesn't even have any camping equipment in it. Our only place to sleep is inside.
Aosta
Also, fuel is another problem.
Chiave
Cheh. The last owner just didn't get it.
Aosta
I don't think the average city car owner would have any camping stuff prepared, let alone additional fuel.
Chiave
Who knows if one day someone'll borrow your car to go camping, eh? It doesn't hurt to prepare!
I bet you weren't even listening in the first place.
Aosta
I nabbed a map while were slipping out. For now, we're heading towards Locomotiva City, since it's closest.
Aosta
They've taken a rocky road with our family. As long as we're lucky, we can join up with them.
Aosta
If not, at least we have somewhere to stop over.
Chiave
Hey, I used to hear about this weird village in the west of Siracusa. It was all haunted inside. Let's go take a look.
Aosta
Keep dreaming. We don't even know where it is. You don't even know if someone just made that up.
Chiave
Then how about we go see a city one of the other Twelve Families runs?
Chiave
Hey, y'know, the Sicilia Legale counts as one of the Thirteen Families, but they fight each other plenty. Some alliance, hah!
Aosta
The Sicilia Legale don't organize like all the actual Families. After all, it's made up of tons of families, big and small.
Aosta
Nobody from the big Families would give a shit about our Sicilia Legale nobodies.
Chiave
Pff. They'll come begging for me to join them one day, no doubt about it.
Aosta
In any case, there's no heading back to Vite City for now... no, maybe we can never return.
Aosta
And we've offended the Trin Famiglia. We've got no place in Vite anymore.
Chiave
Ha ha. We caused a shitstorm, after all. I kinda wanna see my old capo Layton. *Hack*—*spit*! See what his stupid face looks like right now.
Aosta
For sure.
Chiave
Ha. Too late for regrets at this point.
Aosta
Regrets... I wouldn't go that far. Layton was a real son of a bitch, after all.
Aosta
Sold us out and still wanted us to count his money. Wasn't happening.
Broca
Mm-hm. No regrets here either.
Chiave
Hey, take your mind off it. Look, there's still some families who treat coming out of jail for the first time like an initiation, and you're not a real member until then.
Chiave
And yesterday, we defied our Family and hightailed it out of the city.
Chiave
So I now declare, you are true members of my Chiave Famiglia!
Chiave
Aosta, you're the family's consigliere!
Aosta
Haha.
Chiave
Broca, you're the family's underboss!
Broca
Heh.
'♪But when you smile at the ground it ain't hard to tell—'
By the way, we've been driving for ages without seeing a single guy, eh.
Aosta
Apart from a couple gathering spots and settlements, there wouldn't be any lone travelers outside the cities in the first place.
Aosta
Because there's a few families who couldn't stick it in the cities and spread out to the barrens to wreck shop. I've been with the family's caravans a few times before, and every time we'd make the right preparations.
Aosta
Anyone like us, running off into the wild without a second of prep? Probably cruising down Death Road.
Chiave
Ha, Death Road. I like that.
Chiave
But yeah, back in the garage, I saw plenty of guys prepping themselves a hell of a lot of stuff to head out with.
Chiave
Egh, if we coulda brought a little more to eat when we escaped, that woulda been good. Aosta—
Aosta
Forget about the food in the trunk. That's for emergencies.
Chiave
Tch.
Aosta
I'll take the fact we escaped at all.
Aosta
If we weren't lucky enough to have Mandel on guard that night, we'd probably be tied to chairs blindfolded in a dark closet right about now.
Chiave
Broca, next time something like this happens, remind me to bring more food.
Broca
Alright.
Aosta
You... whatever.
Chiave
Man, this is boring, though. All this land forever and no way to use it.
Chiave
Look, over here, we could set up a garage THIIIIIIIIS big, and then we could pimp rides inside. Wouldn't that rule?
Aosta
And what about Catastrophes? We'd have no way to stand up to one.
Chiave
Egh. Catastrophes, Oripathy—nothing's ever good in this whole stretch of world.
Chiave
Broca, I'm begging you, you got ANYTHING interesting?
Broca
Want to take a look?
Chiave
What's this?
Broca
A book I just finished reading.
Chiave
About what?
Broca
A novel about a pair of lovers who were broken apart in the end due to the conflict between their two families.
Broca
The ending is very moving.
Chiave
Forget it. Whaddaya even doing bringing that kinda book?
Broca
Because Aosta said the journey would be incredibly boring.
Chiave
Yo, Broca, I've been pretty curious for a while now. You like reading those?
Broca
Not 'like' like. I just read them when I have nothing else to do. They're alright.
Chiave
I gotcha. Yo, that reminds me, Aosta, you ever get a girlfriend before?
Aosta
No.
Chiave
You, Broca?
Broca
No.
Chiave
Pfft. Me neither. I don't get what's so fun about dating.
Chiave
Hey, Aosta, I'm guessing you like that kinda book too?
Aosta
I prefer political and historical titles more.
Chiave
Tch, I shouldn'ta asked. Those two words make me fall asleep.
(Whisper) I'll give you an opportunity. You take it...
Merchant
(Whisper) Got it, got it.
Aosta
Also, Broca, you...
Broca
Alright. I'll do my best.
Bandit A
What're you mumbling about over there!?
Broca
!
Bandit Leader
Out!
Bandit Leader
Tch. You're a pretty tough guy. All of you, over here! Deal with him!
Bandit C
Got it!
Broca
Hmph!
Aosta
......
Bandit B
Hey, pretty boy, where you going!?
Aosta
Now!
Merchant
Right, right!
With Aosta acting as bait, the bandits have momentarily overlooked the merchants' presence, and on Aosta's signal to seize this chance, they jump aboard the car.
After that, following a fit of rumbling, the car vanishes into the dirt and dust.
As the merchants draw the bandits' attention, Aosta jumps aboard the gang's own ride and revs the engine up.
Aosta
Chiave, get on!
Chiave
Yeah!
Without waiting for Chiave's response, Aosta first drives the car straight into the throng of bandits.
But Chiave's known how things roll for forever now, and after dodging two guys, he grabs onto the door handle while the ride's still accelerating, and clambers aboard.
Bandit A
You're not getting away!
Aosta
Broca!
Broca
Here!
Broca brandishes a drill bit out of nowhere at the bandits to push them off, and the moment the car passes him, Aosta putting pedal to the metal, he turns and jumps inside.
Aosta
Hold on tight!
Bandit Leader
Tch! Don't let 'em get away!
The bandits attempt to stop the three's car, but stopping a vehicle that's already going ain't easy. Their ride breaks out of the bandits' encirclement without a hitch, and races towards the horizon.
Bandit Leader
What are you doing staring at them?! You, you, and you, pursue the merchants! The rest of you, after those three assholes!
Bandit Leader
They WILL die in this wasteland today, you hear me!?
Yo, say, Aosta, you remember how we met each other, right.
Aosta
Hm? Yeah.
Aosta
You were still a mechanic at the time, and then you beat the shit out of my family's people. I got sent in to clean you up.
Chiave
Ha, and then us two fought, and then we were best friends forever.
Aosta
Heh.
Chiave
*cough* *cough* *cough*.
Aosta
Hey.
Chiave
I'm fine. Broca? You still remember?
Broca
Of course. I'll never forget. You two saved me.
Chiave
Ha ha, damn right. You really were a goddamn lunk, getting sold out by your family without even realizing.
Chiave
But rest assured. I'll never deal you away.
Broca
Mm.
Aosta
...Thinking about it, we really have known each other for a while now.
Chiave
Sure have—*cough* *cough*.
Aosta
Chiave, I'm vetoing you. Just rest in the car, no acting strong. Me and Broca can push just fine.
Chiave
Hmph. I'm not acting strong.
Chiave
Broca, I think we both got Oripathy together, right?
Broca
I don't know.
Aosta
I think probably not. You just got examined at roughly the same time.
Aosta
Broca's should be from that time with the fire, where someone gashed him with that Originium thing.
Aosta
And as for you, you never normally protect yourself against anything. I wouldn't be surprised no matter when you got it.
Chiave
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Chiave
*cough* *cough* Aosta, you spend the whole time with us, and you're gonna get it too one day.
Aosta
Perhaps.
Aosta
But even if I do, something tells me it won't be that bad.
Chiave
Eh? Why's that?
Aosta
It'll be better than me watching you two suffer.
Chiave
Ha ha ha, now that's my good brother right there.
Aosta
You've been talking endless crap today. Just lie down inside and relax yourself.
Chiave
*cough* *cough*.
Chiave
Aosta, I've decided what's going top of the list of things I hate.
Aosta
What is it?
Chiave
It's Oripathy.
Aosta
Broca, carry Chiave into the car.
Broca
Alright.
Broca, taciturn the whole journey through, goes over as he's told and picks Chiave up in his arms, putting him into the car's back seat, before moving right back to his original position and continuing to push the car.
As Chiave lies on the back seat, he's dazzled by the sunlight, and he brings up his arm to shield his eyes.
Chiave
Heh. We got this disease, and that asshole Layton threw us out like we were disposable 'cause of it.
Chiave
Hated me to the point it got hard to even breathe.
Chiave
Aosta, the day we become heads of the Thirteen Families, I'm gonna find some way of settling this Oripathy thing, once and for all.
Aosta
Mm-hm. When the time comes, we'll get a whole taskforce of doctors just to research the disease. Or maybe those real mighty hospitals. Give them some cash and get them studying.
Chiave
Ha, damn right. And then I'm gonna set up this whole big hospital. Gonna find every single guy the world hated 'cause of their disease, and I'm gonna throw 'em all in there and cure 'em.
Chiave
And I'll clean up every single person who hated 'em.
Broca
I'll help you out.
Chiave
Ha, of course you gotta. Aosta, you too. Don't forget, you two are my consigliere and underboss.
Aosta
Mm. Chiave, you'd best stop talking now. Just rest nice and easy.
Chiave
*cough* *cough*...
Chiave
Hey, Aosta.
Aosta
What is it?
Chiave
What do you think about dying out here on the barrens?
Aosta
Huh?
Aosta
What are you talking about.
Aosta
Weren't you gonna be head of the Thirteen Families? What the hell are you dying in a place like this for.
Chiave
Ha, yeah.
Chiave
But I thought about it kinda carefully just now. And nothing seems too bad about just dying here in the barrens, really.
Chiave
All the big cheeses are gonna go in the ground someday. What's the difference between death in a wasteland and death on a bed that cost a couple million, huh?
Chiave
Find a couple stones, dig a hole, lie them down in it, and then close their eyes.
So, when you and the others got rescued by Rhodes Island, Chiave, that was when you joined them?
Aosta
Not at all. That operator, codenamed Straightedge, brought us all the way to the Rhodes Island office in Locomotiva, and then asked the medical operator stationed there to give Chiave some treatment.
Chiave
Eyo, Jaye, you've got some real skill.
Jaye
Much appreciated. See, I always thought that was how you joined Rhodes Island.
Chiave
How? We didn't know them from Adam yet, and besides, Aosta gave the car over in exchange for the medicine. At the time, I actually thought Rhodes Island was pretty lousy.
Jaye
Haha.
Chiave
But Rhodes Island's medicine's pretty effective, right, Broca?
Broca
I can confirm.
Aosta
As for why we joined Rhodes Island, to put it simply, it's because Chiave offended one of the big family heads in Locomotiva, and we had people out for our blood again.
Aosta
That time, Straightedge saved us again.
Aosta
And then, under his referral, we just straight-up came to Rhodes Island.
Jaye
Got it.
Chiave
Heh. For the record, Aosta, that one was never my fault.
Aosta
I know.
Jaye
It sounds like another new story all of its own.
Chiave
Heh, you got time, Jaye, brother? I'll tell it to you, in all its glory.
Jaye
It's already past midnight, and there's no missions tomorrow. I'll go get some Lungmen wine. We can drink and talk.
Chiave
Ha, now that's a plan.
Chiave
That evening, me and Aosta were gonna go see...
The men share their stories on into the dead of night in the empty cafeteria...
