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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