A list of people who have been coercing drivers to smuggle contraband into the city, compiled from the truckers' testimonies.
Eirene
It is the same people behind the accident that night, the fire at Nuova Volsinii port, and the insurrection on the square that's happening right now. The mafia.
Lavinia
...I see.
Lavinia
You should have told me about the things that happened to the Truckers' Union. I went to the camp yesterday but didn't find you—
Eirene
Too late for that now, Your Honor. The important thing right now is to put these people on trial.
Lavinia
Trial?
Eirene
They want to take over the courthouse and eliminate their greatest threat before Carnevale is done... first Signore Leontuzzo, then you, Judge Lavinia.
Eirene
They are no longer citizens of Nuova Volsinii. They have violated everything that the New Urban Management Act stands for.
Eirene
The evidence is right before you. The drivers are the witnesses.
Eirene
Signorina Texas here belongs neither to the government, the famiglie, nor the Truckers' Union. She is eminently qualified to be the jury.
Texas
Er...
Eirene
And you are the Supreme Justice of Nuova Volsinii. The conditions have been met for emergency judicial procedures... did I get the term right?
Eirene
Under extreme circumstances, the courts may, when the basic conditions have been fulfilled, try persons who present a significant risk to the public security of Nuova Volsinii in absentia.
Lavinia
...
Lavinia
The most important matter at hand is to bring the situation under control, to ensure the safety of the citizens and the smooth progress of Carnevale.
Eirene
That's what I'm here for, Your Honor. Deliver your judgment, and the Truckers' Union will carry it out.
Lavinia
Is that so?
Lavinia
This list of names that you gave me—
Lavinia
Venezia, Saluzzo, Medici, Leoti, Genovese... are all of these famiglie on the square outside?
Eirene
Nobody on this list is innocent, Your Honor.
Lavinia
...
Lavinia
If emergency judicial procedures are activated, once I sign this verdict, everyone on this list becomes an outlaw under the New Urban Management Act...
Lavinia
By law, anyone may apprehend, even execute them at their own discretion, without legal consequence.
Lavinia
The present situation is not enough for me to justify such a measure.
Eirene
But they're here for you, Lavinia, and they're not coming with good intentions.
Lavinia
That may be true, Eirene. But what intentions are YOU coming here with?
Lavinia
Why have you surrounded the courthouse with all these trucks? Is it to protect a friend... or to take the opportunity to solve all the problems you're facing?
Eirene
When you came to the camp yesterday, I was trying to find Sommer's body...
Lavinia
—
Eirene
Thank you for remembering him... yes, he's dead. I mobilized a lot of people, but we never found his body.
Eirene
I don't know who killed him, but I know he—or she—is out there, in the darkness below.
Eirene
It's not any one man or woman who killed him. It's a shadow that has always hung above our heads, one that has continued to stalk us, even after coming to this new city.
Eirene
I want the murderers to get the punishment they deserve. I want to protect the rest of them and prevent the same fate from befalling anyone else.
Eirene
That's my intention, Your Honor.
Eirene
I should go. They're not used to this kind of stuff. I got to be by their side...
Eirene
I know it's a lot to take in all at once, and you need time to process. I'll make sure you're not disturbed.
...It's quite a scene. I never imagined there would a festival in Siracusa like this, where everybody is part of it.
Leontuzzo
It's because this city belongs to all of them.
Demetri
Tell me, Leon... in those grand dreams of yours, how many cities like this will there be in Siracusa?
Leontuzzo
...
Demetri
You're quiet. It's not like you.
Leontuzzo
Just thinking about whether I should give you an actual figure, or just say, all of Siracusa.
Leontuzzo
If Nuova Volsinii is the only place where this legal system, this new order without the famiglie exists, then it will be nothing but a lonely island in the ocean...
Leontuzzo
This is something that Lavinia and I have taken to heart.
Leontuzzo
One lonely island in a swamp matters little. Before that, though, I must demonstrate to Signora Sicilia that this is possible in Siracusa.
Demetri
How many people, how many things will you leave behind in the process?
Leontuzzo
...
Demetri
You haven't changed one bit, Leon. You're firm, unwavering, and very talkative when you talk about your dreams.
Demetri
But I'm not interested in engaging in a philosophical debate about the future of Siracusa with you here.
Demetri
In the past few months, City Hall has rejected all applications by businesses associated with the Bellones. You're behind it, aren't you?
Leontuzzo
I won't deny it.
Demetri
I can understand why you did it. You wanted to separate yourself from the past, to demonstrate the purity of City Hall...
Demetri
You remember how some associates of the famiglia chose to stay one year ago, even after most left because of what the old man did.
Demetri
What you don't know is that, as we discussed where we would go from there, there was unanimous agreement from the remaining associates to keep the Bellone name.
Demetri
Even if the name put a target on our backs for the other famiglie, for all our enemies, and gave us trouble after trouble...
Demetri
Even if it forced us to seek new opportunities in Nuova Volsinii...
Demetri
They don't regret it. They had lived together, fought together, and bled together under the Bellone name, carved out our own bit of turf together, earned the respect of everyone together...
Demetri
Not even the betrayal of the Don and his heir could shake this sense of belonging.
Leontuzzo
...
Demetri
You and the Don wanted to do away with the old and bring in the new, to change this country from the foundation. How admirable. How determined.
Demetri
But isn't it a little cruel, if there is no room in your great ambitions for the fratelli who have had your back all this time, who had gone through hell and high water with you?
Demetri
They respect you, Leon. But they're also...
Leontuzzo
Disappointed.
Demetri
Yes, disappointed... you knew.
Demetri
How cold of you, Leontuzzo.
Leontuzzo
...
Demetri
If Nuova Volsinii rejects purely because the mayor was once the heir of Bellone, because of the potential backlash that permitting the entry of Bellone business might bring—
Demetri
The problem can be solved by taking you out of the equation.
Leontuzzo
...
Leontuzzo
You men are in place nearby. The reveling crowd pays no heed to us. It's not hard for you.
Demetri
Barely an inconvenience.
Demetri
I said a year ago that I am responsible to those left behind.
Demetri
I had intended to tell you this, that night at the restaurant. I've had to push it back for a few days.
Demetri
I didn't have anything to do with your accident, Signor Mayor. But I will not hesitate to get you out of our way, if you become an obstacle to us.
Leontuzzo
I believe it. You were never the joking type.
Demetri
So—
Demetri
What's that sound?
Demetri
An even bigger float? Did the City Hall plan a surprise for the parade?
I don't know how many of you are skulking out there tonight, but I can tell you pretty much every driver from the guild is here, be it full members or temporary contractors.
Mafioso
Hah, strength in numbers, she says.
Mafioso
What's next? You'll whip out a spanner from the trunk or something?
Mafioso
I'll tell you what, get out of my sight right this instant, all of you, and I'll pretend I didn't see you tonight.
Eirene
I never thought we could stop you through strength of numbers alone.
Eirene
A bunch of haulers who could hardly hold their own in a drunken brawl, much less fight to the death. Life's already hard enough. There's too much in life that we have to give up.
Eirene
You've proven one thing: The famiglie will never give a second thought about us. Not then, not now, not ever.
Eirene
Continue to cower, and all we'll continue to see is blood. Our own, our friends', our family's...
Mafioso
...
Antonio
It's been a full ten minutes.
Capone
...
Antonio
Can you reach Gambino?
Capone
No, I ain't getting through at all...
Capone
Something's not right...
Capone
The landship shoulda reached the rendezvous point and made port, and the convoys shoulda been on their way already. But there's no movement at the docks at all...
Antonio
Are you going to listen to that driver talk until morning, Capone?
Capone
They're just a bunch of haulers, Antonio. Are you sure—
Antonio
They're in the way, Capone.
Capone
————
Eirene
————
Eirene
What's going on? Feels like the whole plate is shaking...
A massive vehicle that travels from city to city, its enormous, resilient hull able to protect massive amounts of cargo from Catastrophes and hazardous terrain. It is not an object that one would expect to see inside a city.
But it has forced its way into Nuova Volsinii by brute force, its tracks crushing the ground underneath it, sending gravel flying. It tears buildings apart like paper as it brushes past them, and the resultant rubble falls from the sky like a rain of stone.
That was when they noticed that there are ribbons and balloons all over this behemoth of steel, meant to roam the wilderness. It is here for the festival.
???
Ciao!
???
*cough* *cough* Why so serious, wolf pups? It's Carnevale! A time to celebrate and party!
Be it admonishment or taunt, all could hear the voice coming from the deck of the landship.
The White Wolf removes her mask. No one can take their eyes off her.
Well, why are you standing there like a bunch of statues? The least you could do is blow a kiss or two.
Lappland
This is the final stop of the night of wonders. What are you doing, if you're not welcoming the parade with the grandest show of them all?
Lappland
...
Lappland
Oh, I see! Most of you are still empty-handed!
Lappland
My bad, my bad. A game has got to be fair, and a performance has got to be grand. Thankfully, someone has prepared the props ahead of time—
Music begins to play, and Lappland puts her foot forward to the rhythm. Acting like she owns the place, she kicks box after box off the deck; all the while, she never stops talking.
The boxes break apart in mid-air, sending their contents scattered across the plaza—Arts units, guns, staves, crossbows, Originium explosives...
It is a rain of weapons that falls everywhere. All one has to do is stretch out their hand to pick up the raindrops.
The White Wolf of Saluzzo has hijacked our landship...
Antonio
Is this Alberto's doing? No, the use of the landship was a last-minute decision. Alberto hasn't shown any sign of intervening, other than the two of us butting heads on the matter of the Truckers' Union.
Antonio
What is that Lappland thinking? She's not doing this just for fun, is she?
Lappland just spared us the effort of delivering the weapons to the square. Other than the commotion being a little bigger than expected, things are going largely according to plan.
Antonio
I'm going to the docks. Lappland is just one Lupo. Even if something did happen at the Nuova Volsinii port, there will be enough time to deal with it.
Antonio
You take care of things here at Court Square. Get the guys from adjacent districts to come over towards Court Square. Take inventory and make sure the goods are delivered properly.
Antonio
The city's brain and heart is what's really important. Once that's under control, everything else will fall into place.
Capone
You got it.
Capone
I had the boys clear a path that takes you away from the parade and cops, so that you can get to the Nuova Volsinii port in the shortest amount of time.
Capone
The route has been sent to your terminal.
Antonio
I'm on my way—
Antonio
...
Antonio
Capone?
Capone
Wasn't easy to get you out of the shadows, boss.
Antonio
Is betrayal a proud Sicilian tradition too?
Antonio
Who are you wagging your tail to? City Hall? Saluzzo? Or one of the other famiglie that's trying to take advantage of the situation in the city?
Capone
Oh, just putting you in touch with somebody who wanted to meet you.
Antonio
...
Antonio hears footsteps behind him. He turns around and sees the familiar figure at the end of the alley, walking slowly towards him.
Ingrid
...
Capone
As for your question...
Capone
You weren't such a bad boss, you know. Temperamental, but sharp. I actually felt pretty guilty when that crazy Lappland came knockin'.
Capone
Glad I don't feel that way now. Thanks for that one.
Capone
The famiglie got a hundred ways to deal with enemies and traitors. Cut their tongues, slit their throats, bury 'em alive with their families...
Capone
We're villains through and through, and there ain't much we wouldn't do... but no famiglia would raise a hand against honest folk who pay their protection money.
Antonio
What?
Capone
Times may change, but there's some rules in Siracusa that never do.
Capone
I guess, when all's said and done, you're still a Bolívarian, Antonio.
Antonio
...
Capone
That was quick.
Ingrid
You need to get your news faster.
Ingrid
I was waiting nearby all this time.
Capone
...
Ingrid
Still, thank you.
Capone
If you wanna thank someone, thank Lappland. Not that I got any clue what she's planning.
Ingrid
...If I get a chance.
Capone
Need a hand?
Ingrid
You can go.
Capone
...
Antonio
Ingrid...
Texas stands on the roof of one of the administrative buildings.
She had came here from the courthouse's rooftop. The night wind rustles her clothes. She tries to keep herself pressed against the fence as she moves towards her mark, ignoring the commotion on the ground.
Look, the poor child. The box cracked next to him, and a whole box of weapons spilled into his arms.
Caesar
See how he stares with mouth agape. Does he not know how it works? The ones in the masks have seen him. He raises the gun in his hand by instinct...
Zaaro
Finally talking, Caesar?
Caesar
What did you think?
Caesar
It's not just I who didn't want to speak. Agnese, Vargo... we were ready to rip your throat out, until your little pup showed up.
Caesar
Is this what that Lappland wanted to show us?
Caesar
Only a little better than those colorful streets and flippant fireworks.
Caesar
Does the 'human game' refer to how those humans still refuse to remove their absurd masks and show their true face?
Caesar
Is this worth all the Signori dei Lupi gathering here tonight?
Zaaro
Are you anxious, Caesar?
Caesar
Well, Vargo is the one who should be anxious right now.
Caesar
Thanks to your help, Red should be paying a visit to the Tailor de Montano as we speak.
Vargo
...
Vargo
I am ashamed of you, Zaaro.
Zaaro
Hah, is that an emotion worthy of the Signori dei Lupi, Vargo?
Zaaro
Besides, you were the one who broke the rules first.
Zaaro
You interfered directly in the game. The killer that you had the Higashi dog find attacked the fangs of Caesar and Agnese in public.
Vargo
Hmph.
Caesar
There have been too many irregularities in this round. Agnese, Vargo... it is a position shared by more than one kindred. The game itself must be reviewed.
Caesar
But—
Vargo
...!
The wolves that laid lazily upon the deck suddenly spring up.
With Caesar, the Signori dei Lupi surround Vargo and Agnese, shifting and crouching while bellowing belligerently.
If not for the night wind that drowned out the sound of the Signori dei Lupi's hunt, those on the ground would have been overwhelmed by terror beyond fathoming.
Zaaro
Well, well. After all these years, we're going back from using our literal fangs.
Caesar
...Shut up, Zaaro.
Caesar
The last three fangs have revealed themselves. The Signori dei Lupi shall stay here until this round is decided, and shall not intervene in any manner!
Caesar
Any in violation shall be exiled from the pack, and be punished in the most cruel way for eternity!
Signori dei Lupi
The pack has spoken!
Zaaro
Let us watch with patience.
Zaaro
We will see if the human game is truly so much more interesting, as Lappland said.
Didn't nobody tell you that by the rules of Siracusa, sneaking onto somebody else's turf gets your leg cut off at the knee?
Gambino
Now get outta those boxes and go sit in a corner.
Luchino
...
Luchino
It's you who should sit down, big guy.
Gambino
Oh, it's you, the little de Montano tailor.
Gambino
So, after I spared your life, you tailed me to the Nuova Volsinii port, and sneaked onto this landship?
Gambino
You got talent on this front, I'll give you that.
Luchino
I wouldn't have known that you were smuggling so much weapons into the city if I didn't! What's Venezia junior planning?
Gambino
Whaddya think?
Luchino
Have you any idea how many people will die?
Gambino
Didn't you wanna join a famiglia and become somebody? Never thought about what the somebody had to do to get there?
Luchino
Nonno was right...
Luchino
A somebody like you keeps ordering new clothes because they keep getting soaked in blood...
Gambino
If I was you, I'd listen to my nonno, swallow my tears, and learn how to sew buttons.
Luchino
...
Luchino
I won't let you!
Gambino
Who's gonna stop me? You?
Luchino
G-Get back!
Luchino kicks open a plank. Red sewing threads nimbly weave through it, with Luchino holding the end.
Gambino
...Explosives? You learn that from the movies?
Luchino
All the Originium explosives are connected by this thread. All I need to do is pull it, and these weapons will burn to ash...
Gambino
You know what's gonna burn to ash? You.
Luchino
...
Gambino
Or you give up that dream of becomin' a famiglia somebody? Decided to be a hero who teaches the famiglie a lesson?
Gambino
Sure, the headlines will all be talkin' about the young hero Luchino who saved Nuova Volsinii. Maybe you'll get a medal from the Mayor.
Gambino
You won't be that little tailor anymore. Everyone'll tip their hats when they see you on the streets...
Gambino
That's enough, pup. I don't got time to play What I Wanna Be When I Grow Up with you.
Luchino
...
Luchino
I-I don't need that.
Gambino
What're you talkin' about?
Luchino
I caused trouble, I'll deal with it myself. Nobody needs to know.
Luchino
Luchino de Montano won't spend his entire life as a nobody... Maybe I'll never be more than a tailor, but right now, I don't think so!
Luchino
And I don't like the way you were talking, big guy.
Luchino
Don't look down on tailors! You don't know what we can do with a needle and a thread!
Gambino
...
Gambino
Hmph.
Gambino
You know, kid, I'm startin' to like you. You remind me of me, when I was a pup.
Luchino
Huh?
Gambino
Two things was common knowledge by the time I got old enough to know my own name—Sicilia is the oldest famiglia in Siracusa, and it ain't around no more because of Signora Sicilia.
Gambino
All who tried to curry favor with Signora Sicilia came up empty, and all who tried to revive the famiglia were banished. The name 'Sicilian' was a big, fat joke.
Gambino
But it became my label without my say-so! Just like how everyone calls you 'little tailor'.
Gambino
That's why I told myself I was gonna be somebody. All Siracusa's gonna know the name of Gambino Ricci, the Sicilian!
Luchino
Um... and how'd that go?
Gambino
Didn't go.
Luchino
...
Gambino
If you just want Venezia Junior to suffer, he's sufferin' enough right now.
Gambino
This ship ain't under his control. You're barking up the wrong tree, kid.
Gambino
You see that crazy bitch on the deck? Stay clear of her. She's trouble.
Luchino
...
Luchino
You think I'd believe—
Luchino
—
I'm just too young, thought Luchino when it happened.
Gambino had been drawing closer and closer. Even worse, Luchino had accidentally snapped the thread in his panic—
But there was no explosion, nothing. Everything was obscured by fog.
The next instant, he saw Gambino floating in mid-air, then he finds himself in mid-air too, falling off the landship and heading straight towards the ground.
Well, looks like we won't be disturbed for a while.
Texas
...
Lappland
What's that look on your face?
Lappland
I was expecting more gratitude for exposing a famiglia plot to bring violence back to Nuova Volsinii. Maybe even a medal.
Texas
Like THIS?
Texas
This is not Sauin in Lungmen, Lappland, and those Arts units and explosives aren't candies.
Texas
Hundreds of mafiosi are trying to take over the courthouse and city hall. And there are many out there in that revelry who want to see things get worse.
Texas
You know what this means as well as I do.
Lappland
That famiglia haven't changed their ways and incited another civil disorder?
Lappland
That Nuova Volsinii isn't really any different from the other twenty-two nomadic cities in Siracusa?
Lappland
Or that Carnevale is finally living up to its name?
Texas
There are almost a thousand truck drivers on this square.
Texas
The mafiosi are picking up the weapons, and these ordinary folk have to do the same in order to protect themselves—
Lappland
...
Lappland
Why did you decide to come down from the sky, Texas? Who blocked the courthouse doors?
Lappland
The mafiosi are not the only ones wearing masks on this square.
Texas
...
Lappland
Famiglia Venezia has been plotting to take over the city with these weapons. You needed to discover their plot. Those drivers needed to protect themselves...
Lappland
All I did was bring out into the open what everybody wanted.
Lappland
You know how much I hate chess players. I prefer to put my foot down on the chessboard.
Lappland
Tonight is Carnevale. It's a time to review the progress that this new city has made in the past year. Everyone has the right to express their views and their demands about it, don't they?
I know you have a lot of questions. but why don't we make a bet first.
Texas
Not interested.
Lappland
I'll take that as a yes.
Texas
...
Lappland
You were always more alert, more vigilant than anyone.
Lappland
You never claimed to have high and lofty ideals, but you have a funny way of ending up on whichever side stood for justice, whether in Yan or Siracusa.
Lappland
The time now is 11:30. The parade procession will arrive at Court Square in fifteen minutes.
Lappland
Who do you think will fire the first shot?
Lappland
Will hundreds of thousands of Nuova Volsinians see two groups lining the streets to welcome them in perfect peace and harmony...
Lappland
Or will they see the streets run red with blood, and bring this truly Siracusan festival to a climax?
Lappland
I've seen the weather forecast. Clear skies are expected tonight. There will be no rain to wash away the blood.
