4 - Epiphany

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[00:04] G
    What is this?
[00:17] G
    Stop...
[00:19] G
    Stop!
[00:21] G
    Stop!
[00:32] G
    Not again...
[00:37] Devil
    Da...
[00:40] Devil
    Danger...
[00:43] G
    You...
[00:44] G
    What the hell?
[00:46] Devil
    Danger...
[00:48] Devil
    Hurry.
[00:49] Devil
    There will be a pillar of fire
[00:52] Devil
    where blind sheep gather
[00:55] Devil
    on holy ground.
[00:56] Devil
    The hour of Heaven's fall...
[00:59] Devil
    Hurry.
[01:01] Devil
    Go now...
[01:07] G
    Danger?
[01:10] G
    Wait, has something happened to Casca?
SIGN    Epiphany
[03:06] P
    Snow, snow, flurry, flurry,
[03:08] P
    spirits of winter!
[03:09] P
    Drifting from the sky, spirits of winter!
[03:13] P
    Dancing as they fall, like puffs of down!
[03:18] P
    Try to catch them... How mysterious—
[03:22] P
    Spirits of winter...
[03:22] Erica
    Yay!
[03:23] Erica
    I caught something amazing!
[03:24] Erica
    Rickert!
[03:26] Erica
    I found a goblin—
[03:32] G
    Hey.
[03:33] G
    You've grown a bit, huh?
[03:41] E
    Rickert!
[03:44] R
    Welcome back, Erica.
[03:45] R
    Good work.
[03:46] G
    You've bulked up a bit.
[03:50] G
    I almost didn't recognize you.
[03:53] R
    Guts, you're alive?!
[03:55] R
    It's been two years!
[03:56] R
    Where and what were you—
[03:57] G
    Sorry, Rickert, but first,
[04:01] G
    is she...
[04:02] G
    Is Casca okay?
[04:05] G
    What's wrong?
[04:08] R
    Casca's...
[04:10] R
    Casca's gone.
[04:12] G
    Wh-What happened, Rickert?
[04:15] E
    Guts!
[04:15] G
    Why? Since when?
[04:17] G
    Where'd she go?!
[04:21] E
    It's all my fault!
[04:25] E
    It's my fault!
[04:27] E
    Because I took her with me to find nuts!
[04:31] R
    It happened about a month ago.
[04:33] R
    We had no choice.
[04:35] R
    After so long in the mine shafts,
    Casca was in pretty bad shape.
[04:38] R
    She was barely eating.
[04:41] R
    Erica felt sorry for her, so...
[04:44] E
    Before I realized anything was
    wrong, she was gone...
[04:49] G
    Rickert,
[04:50] G
    then why are you still here?
[04:52] G
    Why aren't you out looking for Casca?!
[04:54] G
    You know what state she's in!
[04:57] E
    You idiot!
[04:58] E
    Idiot, idiot, idiot!
[05:00] E
    What's with you?
[05:01] E
    You're the one who abandoned her
    and were gone for two years!
[05:05] E
    You have no idea what Rickert went through!
[05:07] E
    He did go look for her a million times...
[05:10] E
    He could've just left.
[05:13] E
    But Rickert...
[05:15] E
    He came back.
[05:17] E
    He still came back here...
[05:19] R
    There's a reason I can't go.
[05:25] Godo
    Shut up...
[05:27] Godo
    I can't sleep.
[05:29] G
    Godo...
[05:32] G
    Is it a disease?
[05:33] Godo
    Nothing so fancy.
[05:36] Godo
    It's old age. Just old age.
[05:38] Godo
    I don't feel like listening to your prattle.
[05:42] Godo
    Show me your sword and false hand.
[05:48] Godo
    Chips in the edge, blood, rust, warp...
[05:53] Godo
    Looks like you've been
    swinging this nonstop,
[05:55] ---
    barely stopping for food or rest.
[05:58] Godo
    To survive, you can't afford sanity.
[06:00] Godo
    That's the kind of fighting you've been doing?
[06:03] Godo
    Two years ago,
[06:05] Godo
    when Rickert showed up at my door,
    all of you grievously injured...
[06:09] Godo
    I still don't know what happened to you.
[06:12] Godo
    Given the monster that came after you,
[06:15] Godo
    I'm sure it was something abhorrent.
[06:18] Godo
    But vengeance and repaying blood debts?
[06:22] Godo
    Don't you think you're running away to battle?
[06:26] Godo
    To your hatred?
[06:29] Godo
    Hatred is where you turn when
    you can't face your grief.
[06:37] Godo
    Vengeance is like sharpening a blood-stained,
[06:39] ---
    rusty sword in a pool of blood.
[06:42] Godo
    The more you sharpen it, the more rust
    builds up, so you sharpen it again.
[06:46] Godo
    Ultimately, all that remains is a
    shattered pile of powdered rust.
[06:53] G
    You don't understand.
[06:56] G
    You can't understand.
[06:59] G
    Not here, where it's nice and cozy.
[07:02] G
    Not when you're about to kick the bucket,
[07:04] ---
    acting like you have no unfinished business.
[07:07] G
    No one,
[07:08] G
    no human being,
[07:10] G
    can understand what happened.
[07:12] G
    They all died.
[07:14] G
    Every single one of them.
[07:17] G
    Without reason.
[07:19] G
    Without warning...
[07:21] G
    Without justice.
[07:23] G
    They died like vermin!
[07:25] G
    They died ignorant...
[07:28] G
    In that instant,
[07:30] G
    those who were irreplaceable to me...
[07:34] Godo
    To leave by yourself,
[07:37] Godo
    you cast aside those irreplaceable people.
[07:40] Godo
    Two years ago,
[07:42] Godo
    you went alone, leaving the remaining
    irreplaceable people,
[07:47] Godo
    broken after unimaginable suffering.
[07:53] Godo
    You fled to be alone,
[07:55] Godo
    to use your personal hatred
    to burn your very self.
[07:58] Godo
    Am I wrong?
[08:01] Godo
    You abandoned that girl.
[08:04] Godo
    Do you have the right to speak
    of vengeance for your fallen?
[08:08] Godo
    When it really matters,
[08:10] Godo
    you lean on war for your actions.
[08:12] Godo
    You're an unsheathed sword,
    whose blade has countless nicks.
[08:16] Godo
    It glistens with blood, encroached by rust.
[08:21] Godo
    A half-broken blade, with a lethal crack...
[08:30] Erica
    Hurry!
[08:31] Erica
    This way!
[08:32] Erica
    See? Over there!
[08:37] G
    What are they?
[08:38] ---
    Graves.
[08:41] Erica
    It just gives me peace of mind.
[08:43] R
    I forge the swords to serve
    as their grave markers.
[08:45] R
    It isn't as if anyone actually rests under them.
[08:47] R
    There aren't nearly enough for all of them,
[08:50] R
    but we often did this on the battlefield, right?
[08:54] G
    Two years...
[08:55] G
    More than enough time for someone to change.
[08:58] G
    While I remained mired in hatred,
[09:00] G
    Rickert did this.
[09:03] G
    He accepted their deaths.
[09:05] G
    He mourned and found a new way of life.
[09:08] G
    It's just like him, this vigorous strength.
[09:15] G
    I know I'm safe here,
[09:17] G
    but without my sword,
    I can't sleep in the dark.
[09:20] G
    No...
[09:21] G
    I probably can't ever sleep at night
    for the rest of my life.
[09:28] Godo
    You fled to be alone,
[09:32] ---
    to use your personal hatred
    to burn your very self.
[09:51] G
    I didn't run away...
[09:53] G
    I can't get away!
[09:55] G
    It's burned into my right eye,
[09:57] G
    that final terror and hatred.
[10:01] G
    I can never atone for this pitch black flame!
[10:05] G
    If I can't atone, and I can't run from it,
[10:09] G
    I must let it burn me.
[10:10] G
    I must let it engulf my enemies.
[10:16] Beast
    Keep bathing in blood,
[10:18] Beast
    killing,
[10:19] Beast
    and thirsting.
[10:21] Beast
    Forever alone.
[10:24] Beast
    Forever...
[10:28] G
    That's right.
[10:30] G
    I...
[10:31] G
    I left her in that state.
[10:33] G
    What right do I have now?
[10:36] G
    I abandoned Casca, who was
    the Band of the Hawk itself.
[10:39] G
    I have no right to speak of
    vengeance for the fallen.
[10:43] Corkus
    You were captain of the
    raiding party, weren't you?
[10:45] Corkus
    You said something about dreams or whatever,
[10:47] Corkus
    but you left for selfish reasons, didn't you?
[10:50] Corkus
    You weren't there in our
    hour of greatest need.
[10:54] Corkus
    How can I call someone like
    that a brother-in-arms?
[10:57] Judeau
    You've left us, haven't you?
[11:00] Judeau
    You have no obligation to go that far for us.
[11:03] Judeau
    Take her with you, even if by force.
[11:05] Judeau
    This time, you have to.
[11:07] Judeau
    If you don't, she'll...
[11:09] C
    You'll fight your own war, won't you?
[11:12] C
    You have to go.
[11:14] C
    You have to go, even if you go alone.
[11:18] G
    That's right.
[11:19] G
    I left long ago.
[11:21] G
    At that moment, I lost the right...
[11:25] G
    I guess I started that war.
[11:28] G
    It's true that it wasn't what I wanted.
[11:31] G
    But at least it wasn't anything
    that was forced on me.
[11:35] G
    It's a war I chose to take on myself.
[11:39] G
    But...
[11:40] G
    Even still...
[11:49] G
    Those camp fires back then...
[11:53] G
    They continue burning in my heart.
[12:01] G
    That's right.
[12:03] G
    Is this fragile, residual fire
[12:06] G
    the only thing keeping that black
    flame from engulfing me?
[12:12] G
    Man...
[12:14] G
    Have I made
[12:16] ---
    the same mistake again?
[12:22] Devil
    Hurry.
[12:23] Devil
    Go now...
[12:26] G
    No, not yet.
[12:30] G
    It's not too late, yet.
[12:32] G
    This time for sure...
[12:34] G
    I can't lose her ever again!
[12:54] P
    You're working hard!
[12:56] Rickert
    H-Hey...
[12:58] Rickert
    I thought you were asleep.
[12:59] P
    Well, yeah, but I'll just get
    eaten if I stay asleep.
[13:02] Rickert
    Oh.
[13:03] P
    Okay, I'll help, too!
[13:04] P
    As a power-up, let's add a drill
    and a cutter on his false hand!
[13:07] Rickert
    Well, that's...
[13:10] Godo
    Not a shoemaker's elf, but a blacksmith's, I see.
[13:13] Rickert
    Master, why are you dressed like that?!
[13:15] Godo
    There's something I have to do.
[13:18] Rickert
    D-Don't be reckless! I'll do it—
[13:19] Godo
    Shut up!
[13:21] Godo
    Take care of Erica for me.
[13:23] Rickert
    Master...
[13:24] Godo
    She isn't my real daughter.
[13:27] Godo
    She was an orphan, who lost
    her family in the war.
[13:31] Godo
    I only knew how to deal with iron.
[13:33] Godo
    But she made me into a pretty
    decent human being.
[13:37] Godo
    But you know...
[13:39] Godo
    When you die,
[13:42] Godo
    it's good to plunge into it alone.
[13:44] Rickert
    Master...
[13:52] Godo
    Tell that idiot not to turn into me.
[14:10] Rickert
    How's the new armor?
[14:12] Rickert
    The master readied it for you.
[14:16] Rickert
    Also, there's a new weapon
    that uses gunpowder.
[14:19] Rickert
    And a new, improved bowgun
    that doesn't require assembly
[14:22] Rickert
    when you need it in a pinch.
[14:24] Rickert
    Where are you off to now?
[14:26] G
    Have you heard of anywhere nearby
    known as "holy ground"?
[14:30] Rickert
    Holy ground, huh...
[14:32] Rickert
    Now that I think of it, an old monastery
[14:35] Rickert
    named St. Albion is three
    days northeast of here.
[14:38] Rickert
    It's called the Tower of Conviction.
[14:40] G
    The Tower of Conviction...
[14:41] Rickert
    It's full of refugees.
[14:43] Rickert
    Supposedly, heretics hid among them.
[14:46] Rickert
    So now, the Holy See is sending
    a grand inquisitor.
[14:48] Rickert
    Basically, there'll be a witch trial...
[14:53] Rickert
    But why are you asking?
[14:54] Rickert
    Guts!
[14:56] Rickert
    I think the possibility that Casca's there is low.
[14:59] G
    I have my reasons.
[15:01] G
    I'm grasping at straws,
[15:03] G
    but I have to trust my instincts.
[15:05] G
    Later.
[15:06] P
    I don't really get what's going on.
[15:09] P
    But I wonder what Casca's like.
[15:13] R
    Guts!
[15:15] R
    I'm counting on you to help Casca!
[15:17] R
    Promise me you'll come back.
[15:21] G
    Godo, you're a good smith!
[15:23] G
    I'll ask for help again when I return.
[15:25] Godo
    You and your big mouth, idiot.
[15:27] Erica
    Dad, you have to stay in bed!
[15:31] Godo
    I don't think we'll see each other again.
[15:35] Godo
    It's better than getting all weepy, for sure.
[15:40] Godo
    But when you're running toward a goal like that,
[15:43] Godo
    you'll let something pass by, unnoticed, again.
[15:46] Godo
    Whether you live or die,
    you never get your way.
[16:03] Ser
    It's like a mass migration.
[16:06] Azan
    Disease and famine.
[16:07] Azan
    And now, Kushan's massive invasion...
[16:10] Azan
    In its time of weakness after the king's death,
[16:12] Azan
    Windham, the capital, was attacked and occupied.
[16:15] Azan
    Most of the retainers are missing,
    including the royal heir,
[16:18] Azan
    Her Highness Charlotte.
[16:20] Ser
    When it rains, it pours...
[16:23] Azan
    Show some respect.
[16:24] Ser
    But if that's true, our destination, St. Albion,
[16:28] Ser
    is near the Midland border,
[16:30] Ser
    despite being within Holy See jurisdiction.
[16:33] Ser
    Kushans are considered our foes
    by religion, aren't they?
[16:36] Ser
    Is this the right time for an inquisition?
[16:40] F
    If anything were amiss, the Holy See
    would send new orders to us.
[16:44] F
    Until then, we only need carry
    out the one we were given.
[16:48] ASer
    Yes, my lady.
[16:48] Ser
    Lady Farnese is in a worse mood than usual.
[17:00] Ser
    Is something wrong?
[17:02] F
    I-It's nothing!
[17:04] F
    Don't think about it.
[17:05] F
    It couldn't have been real!
[17:07] F
    I couldn't possibly do that.
[17:10] F
    It must have been a hallucination, a nightmare.
[17:13] F
    Right now, focus on escorting
    the grand inquisitor!
[17:17] F
    Even if God never graces me with a miracle,
[17:20] F
    I need but pursue my faith!
[17:23] Demon
    God is too far removed from the likes of you.
[17:26] F
    No!
[17:27] F
    I...
[17:29] Ser
    Is it just a bad mood?
[17:32] Ser
    Those monsters...
[17:34] Ser
    I didn't imagine them.
[17:37] Ser
    It pains me to say it,
[17:38] Ser
    but the Black Swordsman is too
    heavy a burden for Lady Farnese.
[17:42] Ser
    Not only was she relieved of her role
    in the Black Swordsman's pursuit
[17:46] ---
    after being blamed for his escape,
[17:47] Ser
    but the new mission is to escort that man?
[17:51] Ser
    Of course she's in low spirits...
[17:53] Knight
    Clear the way!
[17:54] Refugees
    Watch out!
[17:55] Refugees
    That's a giant carriage!
[17:57] Refugees
    Shit! Who do they think they are?
[17:59] Refugees
    Shh! Know your place!
[18:01] Refugees
    That's the grand inquisitor's carriage.
[18:04] Refugees
    Look at the red wheels, hoisted on high!
[18:07] Refugees
    They're practically the banners of
    Mozgus of the Bloody Bible.
[18:11] Refugees
    There's no mistake.
[18:12] Refugees
    The Mozgus?
[18:14] Refugees
    The breaking wheel...
[18:15] Refugees
    The skewering, water torture,
    burning at the stake...
[18:17] Refugees
    He's easily sentenced over five
    hundred people to execution.
[18:20] Refugees
    An exponential number more are
    said to have died by torture.
[18:23] Refugees
    He's hated by many...
[18:34] F
    An enemy attack?!
[18:34] People
    Die, Mozgus!
[18:36] People
    You killed my family!
[18:37] People
    My son!
[18:37] People
    My daughter!
[18:38] People
    I'll kill you!
[18:40] Knights
    We can't reach him through the refugees!
[18:41] Knights
    They've flanked us!
[18:48] People
    Show yourself, Mozgus!
[18:51] People
    Huh?
[18:52] People
    What?
[19:03] F
    What the...
[19:04] M
    Honestly, such a clamor...
[19:09] M
    God values silence.
[19:12] F
    Lord Mozgus, are you all right?
[19:15] F
    I apologize!
[19:16] F
    We were taken completely by surprise!
[19:18] M
    Lady Farnese, please rise.
[19:21] M
    God is generous to those who do His work.
[19:24] M
    It is fortunate that no one who serves
    the Holy See has been injured.
[19:29] M
    That is due to God's grace.
[19:32] F
    I am humbled by your words.
[19:34] F
    I shall be diligent in my efforts from here.
[19:36] F
    And who may these men be?
[19:38] M
    They are torturers, working only for me.
[19:41] M
    After rigorous training and service,
    they possess iron resolve.
[19:45] M
    They are always of great service to our work.
[19:49] F
    That is... very heartening to hear.
[19:52] M
    So, pray tell, why did you attack me?
[19:55] Man
    Shit!
[19:56] Man
    Let me go!
[19:57] Man
    It was for revenge!
[19:58] Man
    You burned the village, killing everyone!
[20:00] Man
    You claimed it was a sanctuary for heretics!
[20:03] M
    I merely meted out impartial judgment,
    in accordance with God's teachings—
[20:07] Man
    How can you call it impartial?!
[20:08] Man
    We only said we had to temporarily
    suspend our tithes
[20:10] ---
    because famine had exhausted our food stores!
[20:14] Man
    But you ignored what we said!
[20:16] Man
    Divine punishment...
[20:17] Man
    You will face divine punishment!
[20:19] M
    Divine punishment...
[20:22] M
    Divine punishment?
[20:24] M
    How dare you speak of divine punishment,
[20:27] M
    you reprobate?!
[20:29] M
    You are an apostate, who dares turn on a cleric!
[20:33] M
    And you speak of divine punishment,
[20:35] M
    you depraved lot?
[20:37] M
    Nay, none other than our Holy See
[20:40] M
    has the right to speak for God in this world!
[20:46] M
    Lady Farnese...
[20:47] F
    Y-Yes?
[20:48] M
    What would you deem appropriate
    punishment for ones such as they?
[20:54] F
    Those who plan to murder a man of
    the cloth are typically condemned
[20:58] F
    to execution by fire or the breaking wheel.
[21:00] M
    You are most wise, Commander of
    the Holy Iron Chain Knights.
[21:04] M
    That is most perceptive.
[21:07] M
    Then let us conduct a simplified trial here.
[21:10] M
    Here is my judgment.
[21:12] ---
    All the accused are condemned
    to the breaking wheel.
[21:17] Man
    Forgive me!
[21:18] Man
    Please! No!
[21:29] Soldier
    N-Next.
[21:43] Soldier
    Next!
[21:45] Soldier
    Hey!
[21:49] Man
    Help me!
[21:50] Luca
    Hey...
[21:50] Luca
    Don't involve yourself.
[21:52] Knight
    Hey, girl!
[21:54] Knight
    Are you one of them?
[21:55] Luca
    Wait! She isn't with them at all!
[21:57] Knight
    Shut up!
[21:58] Knight
    Come with us, too—
[22:02] Knight
    Wh-What, is she addled?
[22:04] Knight
    Hey, come!
[22:05] Man
    Mercy!
[22:06] Man
    No!
[22:07] Luca
    My name is Luca.
[22:09] Luca
    Are you okay?
[22:10] Luca
    What a gruesome spectacle.
[22:13] Luca
    I feel nauseated.
[22:15] Luca
    If you watch, you'll just be sickened.
[22:18] Luca
    Come.
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SIGN    What an unexpected test of my blade.
SIGN    I'm not a fan of being mocked.
SIGN    I'm... I'm scared of everything!
SIGN    The Kushans have no mercy, even for kids.
SIGN    Heretics.
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