ISEKAI OVERLOAD: The End, Part 2

SCENE 2

INT./EXT. –HALLWAY TO THRONE ROOM – DAY

WIDE SHOT down middle of the hallway. Banners line both walls, black with gold trim. Each is the shape of a monster or demon in red. In front of each banner is an onyx statue of the same creature.

DOLLY BACK as BROADHEAD, AUGUSTINE, AND WANDA exit the doorway and run toward the camera. Flaming throne room is visible in background.

BROADHEAD
"Faster! Faster!"

AUGUSTINE
"We should've had her bless our boots before
we burned her."

BROADHEAD
"Next time we have a cleric to toast, then."

HEROES run silently, vaulting over fallen rubble and dodging debris.

HEROES exit DEMON QUEEN's castle. Behind them are the drawbridge, portcullis, and castle walls, ruined, charred, and smoking. They're panting and exhausted. WANDA is leaning against a bare and bony tree.

WANDA
"How many more Queens do we have to clear?"

BROADHEAD
"That's it for this duchy."

AUGUSTINE
"Good. For the next one, let's not use a cleric, 'kay?"

WANDA
(looks at AUGUSTINE)
"Professional courtesy?"

AUGUSTINE
"As if. Some gods might not appreciate how we
use them."

WANDA
"BROADHEAD? What's your—"

BROADHEAD
(turns ¾ around)
"Let's keep moving. NAFU is coming."

WIDE SHOT of HEROES in foreground, castle in middle, and forest in background. There is a clear demarcation between withered trees closer to the castle and verdant trees beyond.

Beyond that, a translucent, golden foot the far larger than the trees lowers silently. The ankle extends beyond the top of frame.

As they watch, a second foot slowly, inexorably pads down toward them.

HEROES look at one another, then start running, exiting the frame.

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SCENE 3

INT. – DESTROYED THRONE ROOM - DAY

CLOSE UP on CHARLOTTE as she blinks awake and grows back to her original size. As she does, her body relaxes from the rigid "standing at attention" pose.

PULL BACK to show she is resting on the body of the DEMON QUEEN as a DOWN SHOT.

CHARLOTTE
(stands and dusts herself off)
"Curses ain't all that, I guess."

DEMON QUEEN
"You… you keep believing that."

CHARLOTTE clambers off the DEMON QUEEN, kneels beside her, and starts healing her.

CHARLOTTE
"Curse or not, I can't let you die."

DEMON QUEEN
(coughs)
"You're a cute kid. Stupid, but cute."

CHARLOTTE
"But, but… you've reformed now, right? You're
not going to invade us anymore, right?"

DEMON QUEEN pushes her aside.

CHARLOTTE
"Wait, what?"

Huge piece of rubble falls atop DEMON QUEEN.

CHARLOTTE
"Ahh! I'm sorry! Please don't be dead! Please don't be-"

DEMON QUEEN
(weakly and muffled)
"Curses… curses aren't any fun if you're… if
you're..."

WIDE SHOT from behind CHARLOTTE. Cartoon DEMON QUEEN ghost with X-X as eyes rises from under large chunk of ceiling atop her. Only part of NAFU's huge, translucent golden foot lands, passing through the walls and ceiling. All that is visible is a huge big toe and two toes, the last of which is clipped by the wall.

CHARLOTTE
"What… the…"

NAFU's huge hand passes through the vaulted stone ceiling and picks CHARLOTTE up in a fist. It is so large that the wrist isn't visible, occluded by the ceiling.

CHARLOTTE
"Hey! Put me dow—"

CHARLOTTE is lifted the whole height of throne room. The ghostly hand passes through the stone, and she falls.

CHARLOTTE
"Truck—ouch!"

DOWN SHOT on CHARLOTTE lying on the rubble. A huge gust of wind sweeps the space above her, taking with it a huge amount of wrecked stone, glass, and iron.

CHARLOTTE covers her face with her forearms.

Gold translucent liquid-like distortion washes over the lens as the NAFU's hand envelops the POV. CHARLOTTE is lifted toward the POV until it fades to black.

CUT to WIDE SHOT of what's left of the throne room. Everything above where CHARLOTTE lies is swept clear. Interior cutaway of the castle is visible in the background, showing that everything from CHARLOTTE out to twenty meters in the background has been swatted aside.

CHARLOTTE rolls over, holds her rib, and starts scrambling to run away.

Before she can take her second step, NAFU pinches the back of her clothes between his huge thumb and forefinger. He lifts her toward the top of frame.

BOOM UP to keep CHARLOTTE stationary at top of frame as NAFU's body flows past on the left frame.

CHARLOTTE's upward motion stops when she is at eye level with NAFU. Camera continues to BOOM UP until CHARLOTTE is center-of-frame.

Only part of NAFU's face in profile is visible at edge of frame. The visible eye is clenched shut and noticeably sunken under the eyelids.

NAFU
(an elderly man's high-pitched voice)
"You're small for vermin."

CHARLOTTE
"What?"

CUT to WIDE SHOT showing NAFU's face full-on, with CHARLOTTE shown as a minute silhouette, slightly out-of-focus in the foreground.

NAFU's face is wrinkled and weather-worn. His form is a translucent golden gel, otherwise he would have skin mottled with age spots and white hair. Only his eyes and the top of his nose are visible, and they show centuries of wear.

As indicated before, his right eye is missing. His left eye is unfocused. His eyebrows are long, bushy, and swept-back. He blinks his remaining eye rapidly as he moves CHARLOTTE back and forth, trying to focus on her. This causes her silhouette to move in and out of focus for the camera.

NAFU
"I said, you're a pipsqueak. Who's your
Patron Deity?"

CHARLOTTE is now in focus. She's held aloft by NAFU pinching the top of her trousers with his enormous fingernails. Her belt is tied just beneath her armpits. She's hunched over as a result, with her arms dangling.

CHARLOTTE
(shrugs)
"I'm… I'm too young for that. I haven't Come
Out yet. So, I guess, uh, Truck-Kun?"

NAFU
"He's not the problem. So, you don't have a Patron?"

CHARLOTTE
"Uh, should I?"

NAFU flicks her off his finger as if she was a glob of dried nasal mucus.

CHARLOTTE
(offscreen)
"Aaaaaaaaaaaah!"