# 1 - Princess of VERS
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It truly is a lovely world.
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No matter how many times I see it,
it takes my breath away.
**[00:09] ---**
Does seeing the planet of your birth
stir up fond memories in you?
**[00:16] ---**
Slaine?
**[00:17] ---**
Um... I suppose so.
**[00:20] ---**
It is nothing to be
embarrassed about.
**[00:22] ---**
I have only been away
for two months,
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yet I already find myself
pining for Vers.
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Earth...
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The birthplace of all humanity.
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I have always dreamed of
seeing it with my own two eyes.
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I-I see.
**[00:40] ---**
Tell me, Slaine. They say that the
sky here is blue, as are the oceans.
**[00:44] ---**
I have always been
curious about that.
**[00:47] ---**
On Earth, are the air and
water both colored blue?
**[00:51] ---**
No, the air and water
are transparent.
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But in a thick enough layer,
it causes the light to be refracted,
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c-causing them to appear blue.
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I believe that is how it works.
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Water and air in such large
quantities that they bend light...
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Isn't that amazing?
I can't even begin to imagine it!
**[01:18] ---**
Ah, here you are.
**[01:22] ---**
Count Cruhteo!
**[01:24] ---**
The hour has grown quite late.
**[01:26] ---**
Please return to your bedchamber,
**[01:31] ---**
Princess Asseylum.
**[01:32] ---**
Oh, is it that late already?
**[01:35] ---**
The view from this veranda makes it
all too easy to lose track of time.
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Then I shall turn in, Slaine.
Let us continue my lessons tomorrow.
**[01:45] ---**
O-Of course.
It would be my pleasure.
**[02:34] ---**
1\an8}The goodwill visit of Asseylum Vers Allusia,
Princess Royal of the Vers Empire,*
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1\an8}is a mere three days away.*
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1\an8}But while there is a growing sentiment
worldwide to welcome her,*
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1\an8}tensions are also rising.*
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1\an8}Expert opinion is divided
on the subject of this royal visit,*
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1\an8}whose aim is the easing of interplanetary
tensions between Mars and Earth.*
**[02:50] ---**
'Morning, Nao...
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1\an8}In addition to the optimistic view that relations
between our two worlds can be improved,*
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Good morning, Yuki.
**[02:56] ---**
Which would you have preferred,
a rolled omelette or scrambled eggs?
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1\an8}another, more pessimistic view, is that
this is merely political theater*
**[03:00] ---**
A rolled omelette, I guess.
**[03:01] ---**
1\an8}meant to loosen interplanetary
trade regulations.*
**[03:03] ---**
Sorry. I made
scrambled eggs today.
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Aren't you eating breakfast, Nao?
**[03:11] ---**
I've already eaten.
**[03:13] ---**
What about you, Yuki? Today's your
shift as drill instructor, isn't it?
**[03:18] ---**
Why didn't you wake me up?!
**[03:21] ---**
I woke you up a dozen times,
Warrant Officer Kaizuka.
**[03:24] ---**
Hey, wait!
**[03:26] ---**
Don't worry. If you run, you'll be
able to catch the next bus. Barely.
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Speaking from
experience. Just FYI.
**[03:34] ---**
Oh, and put the dirty
dishes in the sink.
**[03:39] ---**
Heartless jerk...
**[03:49] ---**
"And so, the discovery of an artifact
belonging to an ancient Martian civilization,
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the Hyper Gate, on the
Moon by Apollo 17,
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paved the way for the human
colonization and development of Mars.
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However, this resulted in the
appearance of the Vers Empire,
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which claimed ownership of the Martian relics
and Aldnoah, their ancient technology,
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and proved to be the source
of a long-standing conflict."
**[04:21] ---**
Hey, Inaho!
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Good morning.
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Huh? Yuki isn't with you?
**[04:28] ---**
My sister overslept.
**[04:30] ---**
Well, if she shows some spirit, she
should make it in time for drills.
**[04:33] ---**
How could you shirk your duty to
escort our Goddess of Tuesdays?
**[04:39] ---**
Maybe she's Penivia.
**[04:41] ---**
Who's that?
**[04:42] ---**
The goddess of laziness.
**[04:43] ---**
I'm down with that!
**[04:45] ---**
Folks who plan to go on to college
don't need to worry about drills.
**[04:50] ---**
Going on to college, huh?
You flunked midterms, Okojo.
**[04:55] ---**
Look who's talking, Calm. You got
a C-minus on our last maneuvers.
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I've been taking notes
on every little thing, you hear?
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I'm gonna take back my crown
as top student in our class.
**[05:05] ---**
You sure are psyched
to take down Inaho, Inko.
**[05:14] ---**
Disaster recovery, huh?
**[05:16] ---**
I guess even in Shingawara, once you leave the
city proper, things are still being rebuilt.
**[05:20] ---**
It's been 15 years since Heavens Fall.
**[05:22] ---**
Those Martian jerk bastards
really went crazy, huh?
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Japan's in way better shape than
where Nina and I come from.
**[05:33] ---**
But we've got a cooperative
policy with Mars now, right?
**[05:36] ---**
There's even that goodwill
ambassador who's coming.
**[05:39] ---**
Oh, you mean that Vers princess.
What's her name again?
**[05:42] ---**
Assay? Easy?
**[05:44] ---**
- It's no wonder you flunked!
- Bite me!
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1\an8}In 1999, the Vers Empire finally
declared war against the UE.*
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1\an8}As a result of the fierce back and forth
fighting on the Moon's surface,*
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1\an8}the Hyper Gate went out of control
and destroyed the Moon itself.*
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1\an8}The astronomical body that had been
Earth's satellite for 4.5 billion years*
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I'm sorry I'm late!
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1\an8}was pulverized into countless boulders and now
continues on in its orbit as the Satellite Belt.*
**[06:28] ---**
Hey there, Warrant
Officer Sleepyhead.
**[06:29] ---**
1\an8}As a result of this event, Earth
suffered catastrophic damage.*
**[06:31] ---**
Lt. Marito!
**[06:32] ---**
1\an8}Meteor impacts, gravity
wave-induced crustal deformation,*
**[06:32] ---**
Pee-yew!
**[06:36] ---**
1\an8}earthquakes, tsunami,
abnormal weather...*
**[06:36] ---**
I thought I asked you to refrain from
drinking on military drill days, Lieutenant!
**[06:38] ---**
1\an8}Scars left by the catastrophe that followed on
in the wake of the Moon's breakup, Heavens Fall,*
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This is just a game.
**[06:42] ---**
1\an8}are still fresh all around the world.*
**[06:42] ---**
Don't get too into it.
**[06:44] ---**
1\an8}Soldiers of the Vers Imperial Army
whose path home to Mars was cut off*
**[06:46] ---**
We're doing live-fire
exercises today.
**[06:47] ---**
1\an8}by the destruction of the Hyper Gate
took up residence in the Satellite Belt,*
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1\an8}and even with travel between Earth and Mars
now possible without the Hyper Gate...*
**[06:52] ---**
M-Master Arm switch...
Fire control...
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Lower the dampers,
then lock on...
**[06:59] ---**
Targeting correction...
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F-Fire!
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Okay, switch pilots.
**[07:08] ---**
Squad B, take cover
in the bleachers.
**[07:11] ---**
Go act as spotter,
Warrant Officer Kaizuka.
**[07:14] ---**
Please go easy on the booze, sir.
**[07:17] ---**
When a teacher smells of alcohol,
students lose respect for him.
**[07:21] ---**
Don't you worry about me.
I'm used to being looked down on.
**[07:26] ---**
No, sir.
**[07:28] ---**
You're actually a
fine soldier, Lt. Marito.
**[07:50] ---**
I warned you to cut back on the
alcohol, didn't I, Lieutenant?
**[07:55] ---**
Good to see you, Dr. Yagarai.
**[07:58] ---**
Don't see you here often.
**[08:00] ---**
Making a house call
all the way out here, huh?
**[08:03] ---**
A patient of mine
is being uncooperative.
**[08:06] ---**
I can't do my job without drinking.
**[08:09] ---**
It was drill day
for them again today.
**[08:12] ---**
The work you're doing is important.
**[08:15] ---**
The KG-6 Sleipnir.
**[08:18] ---**
The Kataphrakt developed by the UE to
prepare for the coming Martian threat.
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A manned humanoid weapon.
**[08:26] ---**
Military training is now part
of their required curriculum.
**[08:31] ---**
They fire off that 75mm
cannon like it's some game,
**[08:34] ---**
and you guys tell 'em they
can defend the ol' homeland.
**[08:38] ---**
Pumping those kids' heads full of this
stupid crap, you call this a job?
**[08:42] ---**
Get real.
**[08:44] ---**
Lieutenant...
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15 years ago,
**[08:49] ---**
the top brass hushed up what
happened in Tanegashima.
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Nobody believes me
when I tell them now.
**[09:02] ---**
But even if no one else
remembers, I do.
**[09:06] ---**
Aldnoah...
**[09:08] ---**
Out on Mars, they got their hands
on the power of the gods.
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Relics of a civilization
30,000 years gone.
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Unbelievable power that reduced
the Moon to rubble.
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Who are you kidding, trying to
stand against something like that?
**[09:23] ---**
Nobody's taking this seriously.
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They believe that this transitory
peace will last forever.
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Tell me, Doc.
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What's gonna happen to those kids whose heads
have been pumped full of lies by us adults?
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When the day comes for them to
face off against those guys
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that have been biding their time
in the wreckage of the Moon,
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how do you suggest we make up
for all the lies we've told them?
**[10:00] ---**
Slaine.
**[10:02] ---**
Princess Asseylum.
**[10:04] ---**
Look up, Slaine.
**[10:07] ---**
Yes.
**[10:11] ---**
The day has come for us
to say farewell.
**[10:14] ---**
I will now go down to Earth
and carry out my goodwill mission.
**[10:20] ---**
The many facts you have imparted
to me are certain to prove useful.
**[10:25] ---**
Um... Will it not be dangerous?
**[10:29] ---**
We cannot go on in fear.
**[10:31] ---**
Right now, someone must take that first step
towards Earth and Mars reaching a compromise.
**[10:39] ---**
Princess...
**[10:46] ---**
Take this.
**[10:48] ---**
I'm told that it's an old Earth
charm that wards off evil spirits.
**[10:51] ---**
But you said that this is all
you have of your father...
**[10:55] ---**
It's fine. I'm sure that Father
would want you to have it.
**[10:59] ---**
It's to thank you for saving me and my father
when we were at death's door five years ago.
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I shall deliver your and your father's
prayer of peace to that blue world.
**[11:17] ---**
Thank you, Slaine.
**[11:20] ---**
Princess Asseylum.
Your shuttle has arrived.
**[11:24] ---**
Very well. Goodbye, then.
**[11:27] ---**
Yes.
**[11:40] ---**
Know your place, scum.
**[11:45] ---**
While I appreciate all you have done to
dissuade Her Highness from her folly,
**[11:51] ---**
when a dog soils the carpet,
its master is responsible.
**[11:57] ---**
That is your only warning, Terran.
**[12:01] ---**
Yes, Milord...
**[12:04] ---**
You do not think much of Slaine,
either, do you, Eddelrittuo?
**[12:09] ---**
Well, um...
**[12:12] ---**
If we go back far enough, we ourselves are descendants
of emigrants who struck out from that blue world.
**[12:19] ---**
Why do we hate them so?
**[12:23] ---**
Begging your pardon, Milady...
**[12:25] ---**
we subjects of the empire became a new race
distinct from the old humanity we left on Earth
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when Emperor Vers inherited
the authority of Aldnoah.
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As one who embodies the power
of the gods, Milady...
**[12:40] ---**
...you should not say such things.
**[12:42] ---**
My wish is to establish friendly
relations with our distant home.
**[12:48] ---**
Regardless of how we found ourselves here, I am
visiting Earth as a show of amity and our well-wishes.
**[12:56] ---**
Milady...
**[13:08] ---**
Selena, Hohmann
transfer orbit complete.
**[13:11] ---**
Now commencing descent sequence.
**[13:14] ---**
All we can do now
is pray for her safety.
**[13:18] ---**
*Milord, you have a message from
Saazbaum Castle. Shall I put it through?*
**[13:22] ---**
Yes.
**[13:26] ---**
*I expect you are rather stir crazy after playing
host for three months, Count Cruhteo.*
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I cannot say that I carried out
my duties satisfactorily.
**[13:35] ---**
This was my final opportunity to
dissuade her from this foreign trip.
**[13:40] ---**
*You needn't be concerned.*
**[13:42] ---**
*If something were to
happen to Her Highness,*
**[13:45] ---**
*the 37 Clans here in orbit
would not take it sitting down.*
**[13:50] ---**
*Even the Terrans must know this.*
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One can only hope.
**[13:55] ---**
*Or perhaps if their intent
all along was to provoke a fight,*
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*that would be a blessing
for us in its own way.*
**[14:06] ---**
Saazbaum!
Do not say such things!
**[14:09] ---**
*Oh, did I go too far?*
**[14:11] ---**
*However, we Orbital Knights have dwelt in our
castles for 15 years since the time of our fathers.*
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Dreaming of the day we would reach
out and touch that blue radiance.
**[14:28] ---**
It's finally happening...
**[14:30] ---**
All these years of lying low
is about to pay off.
**[14:55] ---**
Look!
**[14:56] ---**
The limousine that is carrying Her Highness Asseylum
Vers Allusia, Princess Royal of Mars, has just appeared.
**[15:04] ---**
It is slowly heading this way,
flanked by its escort vehicles.
**[15:05] ---**
We made it!
**[15:08] ---**
I still say watching it live on TV
would've been just as good.
**[15:10] ---**
This is supposed to be a goodwill visit,
so we need to join in and add to the noise.
**[15:17] ---**
Make her feel welcome, you know?
**[15:18] ---**
When did you switch sides
and become a Mars sympathizer?
**[15:21] ---**
Hey, she's royalty! A princess!
**[15:24] ---**
Plus, the buzz on the net
is that she's pretty cute.
**[15:28] ---**
Should've known.
**[15:35] ---**
I don't see her.
**[15:36] ---**
Not surprising. That's 200mm
thick bulletproof tinted glass.
**[15:41] ---**
Specs like that are pretty
typical for VIP cars these days.
**[15:46] ---**
Isn't she gonna wave or something?
Y'know, to the crowd? This is a parade, after all.
**[15:49] ---**
How should I know?
Must be a security thing.
**[15:53] ---**
What are we even
doing here, then?
**[15:55] ---**
Because you said
you wanted to come!
***SIGN*** Domestic medium eggs, 98 yen 10 per carton, limit 1
**[15:59] ---**
Eggs are on sale.
**[16:01] ---**
And you are always lost
in your own little world...
**[16:05] ---**
I knew you'd come!
**[16:07] ---**
Hey, Inko. You here to
see the parade, too?
**[16:10] ---**
Student Council business.
**[16:12] ---**
We're helping direct traffic at the
request of the security detail.
**[16:15] ---**
Well, aren't we a go-getter...
**[16:23] ---**
Hey, if you three aren't doing
anything, you should help out, too.
**[16:27] ---**
We're really shorthanded!
**[16:29] ---**
I'd be willing to use trained
monkeys at this point!
**[16:36] ---**
Don't give me that!
**[16:38] ---**
Trained monkeys would
be more useful.
**[16:41] ---**
Hey.
**[16:42] ---**
All you have to do is put on an armband
and stand there! Pretty please!
**[16:45] ---**
How about it?
**[16:47] ---**
What about you, Inaho?
Will you help?
**[16:50] ---**
Let's get away from here right now.
**[16:54] ---**
A missile is coming.
**[17:01] ---**
What was that?!
**[17:18] ---**
What's going on?!
**[17:25] ---**
- It's through!
- The limo made it!
**[17:28] ---**
No.
**[18:15] ---**
*Our Princess Asseylum's heartfelt wish
for peace has been mercilessly crushed*
**[18:19] ---**
*by a violent act of
the treacherous Terrans!*
**[18:25] ---**
*We subjects of the Vers Empire*
**[18:28] ---**
*must resolutely bring down the hammer of righteousness
in response to this atrocity committed by Old Humanity!*
**[18:36] ---**
*Hear me, proud knights of Mars!*
**[18:38] ---**
*The time has come!*
**[18:40] ---**
*The grand task that has
spanned generations,*
**[18:43] ---**
*the Earthfall Operation,*
**[18:45] ---**
*will now be carried out with
justice on our side!*
**[18:49] ---**
Count Cruhteo, reactor output is at 97%.
Launch preparations are complete.
**[18:56] ---**
*I am solely to blame for not stopping
the Princess from going to Earth.*
**[19:02] ---**
Do not fall behind the other lords.
**[19:04] ---**
If it has come to this, we shall demonstrate
our grief through force of arms!
**[19:08] ---**
Landing Castle, begin descent!
**[19:10] ---**
Your target, Japan!
**[19:15] ---**
Princess...
**[19:25] ---**
Of the 37 Landing Castles remaining in orbit,
we have confirmation of 19 coming down.
**[19:32] ---**
Projected landing points are New Orleans,
Beijing, Mozambique, and Tokyo.
**[19:39] ---**
We believe one Landing Castle will come down
somewhere within 20km of Ichigaya or Chiyoda Ward.
**[19:40] ---**
These guys aren't
coordinating their efforts at all.
**[19:44] ---**
They're only interested in landing first.
There's no command structure at all.
**[19:46] ---**
Estimated landing time is 0800,
three hours from now.
**[19:47] ---**
Goes to show
how little you know.
**[19:49] ---**
Although we're unable to estimate how much
damage will be done when it comes down,
**[19:52] ---**
Lieutenant...
**[19:53] ---**
They don't need a command structure.
**[19:54] ---**
it is believed that the Martian troops will launch
their attack under the cover of that impact.
**[19:56] ---**
Those are 37 distinct military forces
led by 37 different knights.
**[19:59] ---**
Therefore, we will deploy at a point 50km
southwest of the projected impact point,
**[20:01] ---**
They're each trying to land first
in a race to be king of the hill.
**[20:03] ---**
and after the shockwave has passed, we will mount
a counteroffensive before they can form up.
**[20:06] ---**
Their rivals are their
fellow Mars Knights.
**[20:08] ---**
According to observations, the enemy
Landing Castles are roughly 2km in length.
**[20:09] ---**
They were never concerned about
counterattacks from the surface.
**[20:13] ---**
This is a...
**[20:15] ---**
They'd unilaterally
break the cease-fire?
**[20:18] ---**
Cease-fire?
**[20:21] ---**
These past 15 years,
**[20:24] ---**
they've been fighting a war
up there in the wreckage of the Moon.
**[20:28] ---**
A war to live to fight another day.
**[20:51] ---**
Get moving, jackass!
**[20:52] ---**
That's what I keep saying!
**[20:55] ---**
What's that?
**[21:47] ---**
Look, Sis! Shooting stars!
**[21:51] ---**
Oh, wow... There's so many...
**[21:54] ---**
Did you make a wish?
**[21:56] ---**
Yep!
**[21:57] ---**
I wished that people all over the world
would get along and live in peace!