E8 - Reunion with the Past

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    I'm Ilwer Chang, head of
    the Fuhren Adventurer's Guild.
[00:09] ---
    Uh-huh.
[00:11] ---
    Hajime-kun, Yue-kun, Shea-kun,
    I've been looking for you.
[00:18] ---
    There are rumors going
    around the town of Brooke,
[00:20] ---
    rumors of a group of three talented people
[00:23] ---
    who easily made their way
    through Reisen Gorge.
[00:26] ---
    You've got the wrong group.
[00:27] ---
    I believe your skills would make you well-suited
    for a request I'd like you to undertake.
[00:32] ---
    Not doing it.
[00:36] ---
    Mind if I just tell you what it is?
[00:38] ---
    Then I won't have to deal with the paperwork.
[00:44] ---
    Can't say I expected less from
    the head of an adventurer's guild.
[00:46] ---
    You've got the right personality.
[02:29] ---
    I thought she was strangely quiet,
    but she's just sleeping.
[02:32] ---
    We won't be stopping at all,
    so let her rest while she can.
[02:38] ---
    You want me to find a missing person?
[02:40] ---
    That's right, specifically,
[02:41] ---
    a party of adventurers headed
    to the northern mountains on a survey.
[02:45] ---
    Among them is the third son
    of Count Cudeta, Will Cudeta.
[02:48] ---
    I want you to rescue him.
[02:51] ---
    A Count? Must've been
    a pretty big party then, huh?
[02:58] ---
    They're quite skilled, yes.
[03:00] ---
    Which means if there was
    something they couldn't handle...
[03:05] ---
    ...then lots of people will get hurt.
[03:06] ---
    We don't know how powerful
    this enemy is, after all.
[03:10] ---
    That's where your notorious group comes in.
[03:14] ---
    The Count's a friend of mine.
[03:17] ---
    A friend, huh?
[03:20] ---
    Could you take on this request?
[03:23] ---
    Not a chance. We've got
    our own goals to accomplish.
[03:28] ---
    I'll make sure you're rewarded.
[03:32] ---
    Sorry, but we're in a hurry.
[03:35] ---
    Well, then. How about
    if I agree to fully back you...
[03:40] ---
    ...if you ever get into trouble with the guild?
[03:45] ---
    If you're going to go that far for our help,
    then I guess I have to consider.
[03:49] ---
    But I have two conditions.
[03:50] ---
    And they are?
[03:51] ---
    First, I want you to make us status plates.
[03:56] ---
    And the second?
[03:57] ---
    If we ever have need of you,
    you'll do everything we say.
[04:01] ---
    Very well. It's a deal, then.
[04:04] ---
    All right.
[04:09] ---
    So assertive, Hajime.
[04:11] ---
    They want this Will guy back alive, right?
[04:15] ---
    The more indebted they feel to us,
    the more effective Ilwer's backing's gonna be.
[04:20] ---
    Mm. But there's something else.
[04:22] ---
    You figure it out?
[04:24] ---
    Right now we're headed to Ur.
[04:26] ---
    We'll spend a night here then
    head up towards the mountains,
[04:29] ---
    but on our way we'll apparently pass through
    the continent's largest rice farming area.
[04:33] ---
    Farming area?
[04:34] ---
    Rice, man, rice!
[04:36] ---
    It's a staple of my homeland's diet!
[04:39] ---
    And I haven't had any rice since I got here!
[04:42] ---
    Well, then, I want to eat some, too.
[05:15] ---
    Good work today, everyone!
[05:18] ---
    Fill your bellies and get ready
    to work hard again tomorrow!
[05:22] ---
    Right!
[05:24] ---
    Let's dig in!
[05:28] ---
    Ai-chan-sensei?
    You thinking about Shimizu again?
[05:32] ---
    Where could he have gone?
    It's been a whole week.
[05:37] ---
    Nothing like this has
    happened with him before...
[05:40] ---
    I should've kept a closer eye on him.
[05:43] ---
    I'm sure he's fine.
[05:46] ---
    He'll be back before we know it.
[05:48] ---
    You're right. Worrying about
    him won't solve anything!
[05:55] ---
    How was your dinner tonight, friends?
[05:58] ---
    It was delicious, as always!
[06:01] ---
    I'm glad to hear that...
[06:04] ---
    Mr. Owner?
[06:06] ---
    Unfortunately, and I hate to disappoint you,
    but tonight we used the last of our spices.
[06:13] ---
    Huh? Does that mean we won't
    be able to eat this food anymore?
[06:18] ---
    Sounds like there's some
    trouble up in the mountains,
[06:21] ---
    and the traders can't get to the spices.
[06:24] ---
    Trouble?
[06:26] ---
    Rumors say a gang of monsters
    has suddenly appeared.
[06:29] ---
    And just the other day,
[06:30] ---
    a group of high-ranking adventurers
    ventured out there and didn't come back.
[06:34] ---
    That's concerning...
[06:37] ---
    Thankfully, we've got guests in today
[06:41] ---
    who say they were sent here
    by the guild leader in Fuhren
[06:44] ---
    to search for that missing party.
[06:48] ---
    Hmm. They must be pretty tough, then.
[06:51] ---
    How many times do I have to ask you?
[06:52] ---
    My, speak of the demons...
[06:55] ---
    Will you stop excluding me
    to retreat into your own little world?
[06:58] ---
    Do you hear me? Hajime-san?
[06:59] ---
    I hear you, I hear you.
[07:01] ---
    I just don't wanna see you,
    so I figured separate rooms would be good.
[07:04] ---
    Sheesh! Did you hear that, Yue-san?
[07:06] ---
    Hajime-san's being so cruel to me!
[07:09] ---
    Bad boy, Hajime.
[07:11] ---
    Yeah, yeah.
[07:13] ---
    Wh-What did they just say?
[07:18] ---
    And doesn't his voice sound familiar?
    Like that one guy.
[07:23] ---
    Nagumo-kun?
[07:28] ---
    Nagumo-kun?
[07:31] ---
    Sensei?
[07:33] ---
    Nagumo-kun?
[07:35] ---
    It really is you, isn't it, Nagumo-kun?
[07:37] ---
    I'm so glad you're alive...
[07:41] ---
    Nope, you got the wrong guy.
[07:43] ---
    Huh?
[07:43] ---
    Bye.
[07:44] ---
    Please, wait!
[07:46] ---
    You are Nagumo-kun, aren't you?
    You called me "Sensei," after all!
[07:51] ---
    No, you heard me wrong. It's, uh...
[07:54] ---
    A regional dialect! It means "tiny"! Yeah.
[07:58] ---
    Then you're being incredibly rude!
[08:00] ---
    And there's no dialect like that!
[08:04] ---
    You're just trying to trick me!
[08:05] ---
    What happened to you?
    Why do you look like that?
[08:08] ---
    Why haven't you come back to everyone?
[08:09] ---
    Nagumo...
[08:11] ---
    Answer me, Nagumo-kun!
[08:14] ---
    Get back. You're bothering him.
[08:17] ---
    And who are you? I'm trying to have
    an important talk with Nagumo-kun...
[08:23] ---
    Then calm down a little.
[08:30] ---
    I lost my composure.
[08:32] ---
    Let's try this again. You're Nagumo-kun, right?
[08:38] ---
    Yeah.
[08:40] ---
    Long time no see, Sensei.
[08:47] ---
    Hajime-san, are you sure
    you should be ignoring her?
[08:50] ---
    Did you know this place has curry?
[08:52] ---
    Wait, you don't know what that is.
[08:54] ---
    Anyway, they've got some
    really good, spicy food here.
[08:58] ---
    Then I want that, too.
    I want to know what you like to eat.
[09:03] ---
    Ooh, look at you,
    nonchalantly jumping in on that!
[09:06] ---
    Good one, Yue-san.
[09:07] ---
    Excuse me, we'd like to order!
[09:11] ---
    I'm not done talking to you.
[09:13] ---
    The hell do you think you're doing,
    ordering food like it's nothing?
[09:17] ---
    First off, who are these girls?
[09:21] ---
    I'm hungry. At least let me eat.
[09:25] ---
    And let them say.
[09:26] ---
    Yue.
[09:27] ---
    I'm Shea!
[09:28] ---
    And I belong to Hajime!
[09:32] ---
    Belong...?
[09:34] ---
    Hey. Yue might be right,
    but don't you go saying that, Shea.
[09:38] ---
    What?! You're so mean, Hajime-san!
[09:41] ---
    How can you say that
    when you stole my first kiss?
[09:44] ---
    Whoa, how long are you
    going to keep saying that?
[09:47] ---
    You drowned, I just gave you--
[09:49] ---
    Nagumo-kun.
[09:50] ---
    Yeah, Sensei?
[09:52] ---
    Not only did you steal a girl's first kiss,
    but you're two-timing her?
[09:58] ---
    If that's true, that is completely unacceptable!
[10:01] ---
    Yep, no way am I going to let that go!
[10:05] ---
    You're getting a lecture!
    You'd better change your ways!
[10:14] ---
    In any case, I'm glad you were all right.
[10:17] ---
    But what happened after that?
[10:20] ---
    I worked real hard.
[10:22] ---
    Why is your hair white?
[10:24] ---
    'Cause I worked real hard.
[10:26] ---
    What happened to your
    right eye and your left arm?
[10:30] ---
    Happened 'cause I was working real, real hard.
[10:32] ---
    Why didn't you come back to us right away?
[10:35] ---
    Didn't have a reason to.
[10:37] ---
    Give me actual answers!
[10:43] ---
    We're eating here. Mind your manners.
[10:46] ---
    Mind my manners?
[10:48] ---
    I think you should be the
    one minding your own manners!
[10:51] ---
    You need to learn how to
    speak properly to your superiors!
[10:54] ---
    And what are you doing,
    sharing a table with a filthy beastman?
[11:00] ---
    At the very least, let me cut off
    those horrid ears of yours.
[11:05] ---
    Then you'll at least look human.
[11:14] ---
    What's that look for?
[11:15] ---
    Insolence! You're no Apostle;
[11:18] ---
    how dare you disobey an order
    from a member of the templar knights?!
[11:21] ---
    What a small man.
[11:24] ---
    Damned heretic!
[11:37] ---
    I told you to mind your manners.
[11:47] ---
    You're not getting a warning next time.
[12:09] ---
    Stay calm, you're okay!
[12:11] ---
    N-Nagumo?!
[12:13] ---
    Slowly back away!
[12:15] ---
    O-Okay!
[12:17] ---
    I'll take it from here. You go!
[12:20] ---
    Got it!
[12:29] ---
    Yuukacchi, you okay?
[12:32] ---
    Y-Yeah. I'm still just surprised.
[12:35] ---
    Right? I still can't believe it.
[12:39] ---
    I mean, look at him.
    He's like a whole 'nother person!
[12:42] ---
    Yeah. He's gotten so... wild?
[12:48] ---
    And popular, too.
[12:53] ---
    That was damn good.
[12:58] ---
    I've got no interest in you guys, nor do
    I want you to get involved with me at all.
[13:05] ---
    I don't plan on telling you everything that's
    happened or that's going to happen to me.
[13:10] ---
    Go and do whatever you want, I don't care,
[13:14] ---
    just don't get in my way.
[13:16] ---
    Because if you piss me off,
    like what happened just now,
[13:18] ---
    I won't hesitate to kill you.
[13:23] ---
    Hey, Shea. You still worrying
    about what he said?
[13:27] ---
    N-No...
[13:29] ---
    This is normal out here.
    There's no point in worrying about it.
[13:33] ---
    You're right. I know that, but...
[13:38] ---
    I didn't know that humans
    thought my ears were disgusting...
[13:43] ---
    Your ears are fluffy and cute, Shea.
[13:46] ---
    You think so?
[13:48] ---
    Uh, what do you think of
    my ears, Hajime-san? Well?
[13:54] ---
    They're whatever.
[13:58] ---
    He likes them a lot.
[14:00] ---
    He was petting them softly
    when you were asleep.
[14:04] ---
    You promised you wouldn't tell her!
[14:07] ---
    Hajime-san!
[14:08] ---
    You like my bunny ears?!
[14:11] ---
    You've got it all wrong.
[14:13] ---
    I was not petting them!
[14:14] ---
    Till now I was terrified of him,
[14:14] ---
    You can pet them whenever you want!
[14:16] ---
    I don't want to!
[14:17] ---
    but now I just wanna murder him.
[14:20] ---
    Later, Sensei.
[14:22] ---
    Nagumo-kun, wait!
[14:25] ---
    I'm not giving up on you!
[14:28] ---
    Mm-hmm, there's no way
    I'm giving up on you!
[14:31] ---
    I'm bringing you back home with everyone else!
[14:36] ---
    Nagumo... I never got to thank him.
[14:48] ---
    Nagumo-kun survived.
[14:50] ---
    But what was with his violent attitude?
[14:54] ---
    He must have endured a lot of hardships...
[14:57] ---
    And there was nothing I could do to help him.
[15:02] ---
    I don't care, you're still coming with us!
[15:06] ---
    What're you making all those faces for, Sensei?
[15:09] ---
    Nagumo-kun?!
[15:11] ---
    How?!
[15:13] ---
    Guess I should say,
    "Through the door, like everyone else."
[15:16] ---
    Huh? But I locked it...
[15:18] ---
    I'm a Synergist, remember?
[15:21] ---
    Opening a lock like that is a cinch.
[15:24] ---
    You broke into a woman's room
    at this time of night and snuck in!
[15:29] ---
    That's nothing to brag about!
[15:30] ---
    Sorry. I just didn't want the others to hear me.
[15:38] ---
    What did you want to discuss?
[15:40] ---
    I figured if I talked to you now,
    you'd be way calmer about stuff.
[15:46] ---
    Let me give you the reason
    I'm not coming back with you.
[16:03] ---
    Just after the ancient Age of Gods,
    the world was plagued by war.
[16:09] ---
    Humans, demons,
    and the countless forms of beastman
[16:12] ---
    fought ceaselessly against one another.
[16:15] ---
    During those centuries of war, a group of
    people who wanted to stop it came forward.
[16:21] ---
    The leader of that group came
    to realize their god's true intent.
[16:27] ---
    Their god was using his people as pawns,
    and the war was no more than a game.
[16:33] ---
    As he lurked in the shadows,
    pulling the strings to cause conflict,
[16:39] ---
    heroes came forth,
    united in their desire to stop him.
[16:42] ---
    At the time, they were called The Liberators.
[16:46] ---
    However, their plans fell apart
    before they could fight him.
[16:51] ---
    Their god declared the
    Liberators the enemy of the Church,
[16:56] ---
    hell-bent on destroying the world,
[16:58] ---
    and turned humanity against them.
[17:01] ---
    The Liberators, unable to fight
    the people they were sworn to protect,
[17:05] ---
    were relabeled "Mavericks,"
    and taken out one by one.
[17:10] ---
    In the end, only a few core members remained.
[17:15] ---
    Realizing they could not
    defeat him with their powers alone,
[17:18] ---
    they then scattered across the world,
    built labyrinths, and hid themselves away.
[17:26] ---
    They prepared trials, and whomever overcame
    them would be granted their Maverick powers,
[17:31] ---
    so that one day, this champion would be able
    to stop this mad god's games once and for all.
[17:39] ---
    That's what I learned
    in the bottom of the abyss.
[17:42] ---
    It's up to you, Sensei.
[17:44] ---
    You could say these are all just lies,
    or you could choose to believe it.
[17:49] ---
    Do what you want.
[17:52] ---
    Nagumo-kun, are you on a journey, then,
    to do something about this mad god?
[17:56] ---
    Hell no. I don't care
    what happens to this world.
[18:01] ---
    I just want to find a way home.
[18:05] ---
    The labyrinths are the key.
[18:09] ---
    You can come with if you like,
[18:11] ---
    but I think you'll just end up dead
    pretty quickly if you do.
[18:16] ---
    Shirasaki-san never gave up on you.
[18:21] ---
    She wasn't going to believe you were dead
    unless she saw it with her own eyes.
[18:26] ---
    She's okay?
[18:28] ---
    I got a letter that she's gotten stronger
[18:30] ---
    and is working through
    the labyrinth with the others.
[18:35] ---
    Then you should tell her something.
[18:37] ---
    There's something she should be more
    worried about than the monsters down there.
[18:41] ---
    Her so-called "friends."
[18:43] ---
    Huh?
[18:44] ---
    I got a good idea of the situation
    from how the others reacted.
[18:48] ---
    You guys think I fell down there
    'cause of an accident, right?
[18:53] ---
    One of the magic spells
    lost control and hit you, right?
[18:57] ---
    Lost control, huh? Figures.
[19:00] ---
    But that's not the truth.
[19:03] ---
    That spell was intentionally aimed at me.
[19:07] ---
    Intentionally?!
[19:08] ---
    Right. One of your students tried to kill me.
[19:14] ---
    That's why you should warn Shirasaki
    and the others to watch their backs.
[19:26] ---
    No...
[19:55] ---
    I've got an idea of what you wanna ask,
    but go on, let's hear it.
[19:58] ---
    We're coming with you!
[20:00] ---
    If you're going to look for someone,
    it's better to have more people helping, right?
[20:04] ---
    Absolutely not. If you wanna go,
    then go on your own.
[20:08] ---
    If you came with us,
    you'd just make us walk at a snail's pace.
[20:12] ---
    Please, you're not telling us that you
    can run faster than our horses, are you?
[20:26] ---
    Get it now?
[20:28] ---
    Well, we're off.
[20:31] ---
    Get out of the way.
[20:32] ---
    P-Please wait!
[20:36] ---
    I have to hear more about what
    happened from you, Nagumo-kun!
[20:41] ---
    Huh?
[20:42] ---
    Could we talk while you travel,
    or while we're searching?
[20:46] ---
    If we can, then I'll keep my word
    and we'll part ways here.
[20:52] ---
    Fine. But there's really not much to talk about.
[20:59] ---
    I don't care. I just want to hear it
    in your own words, Nagumo-kun.
[21:05] ---
    You sure are stubborn, Sensei.
[21:07] ---
    Guess you never change,
    no matter what happens.
[21:10] ---
    Of course not!
[21:14] ---
    Hajime, we bringing them with us?
[21:16] ---
    Yeah, she's gotta play teacher, no matter what.
[21:20] ---
    She won't compromise
    when it comes to her students.
[21:23] ---
    And leaving her behind is gonna cause
    way more trouble for me when we get back.
[21:26] ---
    She sure cares a lot about her students, huh!
[21:31] ---
    But you can only fit three people
    on that motorcycle, can't you?
[21:34] ---
    What about the rest of us?
[21:45] ---
    If it's out of seats, get in the trunk.
[21:49] ---
    O-Okay, everyone!
[21:51] ---
    Here we go!
[21:59] ---
    "Good morning," "Good night,"
    all those simple things
[22:05] ---
    are so dreamlike and beloved to me
[22:10] ---
    Because I finally met you
[22:14] ---
    Everything is so special, thank you again
[22:24] ---
    I didn't think I'd be lonely all by myself
[22:29] ---
    That is, until you found me
[22:34] ---
    I wasn't afraid of anything
[22:40] ---
    That is, until I thought of a world without you
[22:45] ---
    Can you believe it?
    I miss you, I'm so fond of you
[22:52] ---
    I love you, don't forget it
[22:58] ---
    Shine bright like the first star in the night
[23:03] ---
    and stay closer to me than anyone else
[23:09] ---
    I'll never let you go
[23:14] ---
    I'll never let go of that hand
[23:20] ---
    Stay by my side and shine
[23:30] ---
    ARIFURETA: From Commonplace
    to World's Strongest.