# 3 - A Game Between Two Worlds
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GRWEQEZER/blood-blockade-battlefront)
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**[00:21] ---**
Oh, you show up.
**[00:34] ---**
W-Why did you just take my picture?
**[00:36] ---**
Huh?
**[00:38] ---**
W-Well...
**[00:39] ---**
You said you were a ghost, so...
**[00:46] ---**
That's right. That's what I am.
**[00:50] ---**
You're a lot more unique than you look.
**[00:56] ---**
I like you!
**[01:05] ---**
What?! What?!
**[01:06] ---**
What is that?!
**[01:09] ---**
An idol?!
**[01:12] ---**
What a lovely view, what a lovely view!
**[01:14] ---**
Mr. Landlord?
**[01:15] ---**
I won the subdivision lottery!
**[01:18] ---**
This is now a tourist site and high-end hotel.
**[01:22] ---**
Eviction terms are stated in your
contract, so I hope you don't mind.
**[01:25] ---**
Huh?!
**[01:28] ---**
Pack your things and be out in
the next 40 seconds. Otherwise...
**[01:37] ---**
Hellsalem's Lot--a city where this
world and the alterworld intersect.
**[01:41] ---**
This is the record of
the clandestine activities
**[01:44] ---**
of the secret society of supermen,
Libra, which works in the shadows
**[01:47] ---**
to preserve the balance of worlds.
**[01:51] ---**
*Upon opening the door,
I found a twisted noontime evening*
**[01:55] ---**
*How did I get home yesterday?
My body's the only thing I'm sure of*
**[02:00] ---**
*Good morning; I'll carry on
with being lost once more*
**[02:04] ---**
*among the unknown sights
that have become so familiar*
**[02:18] ---**
*After I figured all was lost,
I've been getting by somehow,*
**[02:22] ---**
*somewhat embarrassed to
be tough enough to still be alive*
**[02:27] ---**
*I know what I have to do, even if I forget*
**[02:31] ---**
*Otherwise, things become so agonizing*
**[02:36] ---**
*I look up to see someone with big black eyes*
**[02:41] ---**
*It's because I saw you
that this light came to be*
**[02:45] ---**
*Surrounded by a world
painted in colors of my choosing,*
**[02:50] ---**
*where do I find meaning in
the scars I could not choose?*
**[02:54] ---**
*In the heart of a world
where only I am the hero,*
**[02:59] ---**
*I'm onstage, appearing
in every scene until the end*
**[03:03] ---**
*What do I do? I can't
even pretend to be empty*
**[03:08] ---**
*Hello, hi there, here I am*
**[03:13] ---**
Blood Blockade Battlefront
**[03:40] ---**
What is this, Mr. Gilbert?
**[03:43] ---**
He said that he was kicked out of his place,
**[03:46] ---**
as a result of it becoming a high-class hotel.
**[03:49] ---**
Shouldn't we be giving him a larger stipend?
**[03:53] ---**
He hasn't quit his other job,
and he's sending his money home, right?
**[03:56] ---**
I offered the same suggestion,
**[03:59] ---**
but he said that he does not wish
anything more than the basic rate.
**[04:02] ---**
How conscientious.
**[04:09] ---**
That's a lot of blood.
**[04:11] ---**
I got tangled up with some strung-out punk.
**[04:14] ---**
He came at me like a bat out of hell,
**[04:17] ---**
so I laid into his carotid artery.
**[04:21] ---**
I wonder if he's dead.
**[04:23] ---**
Was he human?
**[04:24] ---**
Judging by the feel and
how he came apart, yeah.
**[04:26] ---**
I see.
**[04:27] ---**
I don't know of any drug that
lets people survive decapitation.
**[04:32] ---**
Oh no?
**[04:36] ---**
Angel Scale (noun)
**[04:38] ---**
An ultra-advanced designer drug.
**[04:40] ---**
This new drug makes possible
a temporary physical alteration,
**[04:43] ---**
involving perceptual sensitization,
muscular and reflexive augmentation, etc.
**[04:47] ---**
This whole thing reeks of money.
**[04:49] ---**
Word is that a gram of it trades
for tens of thousands of zeros.
**[04:53] ---**
It's an even bigger deal if
you traffic it on the outside.
**[04:56] ---**
And on that note,
**[04:57] ---**
Ow-w-w-w-w!
**[04:57] ---**
please take a look at this.
**[05:12] ---**
That *was* on the outside, wasn't it?
**[05:14] ---**
That's correct, you damn monkey.
**[05:16] ---**
Don't go dropping "damn monkey"
each and every time. Is that polite?
**[05:19] ---**
This really is pretty bad news.
**[05:22] ---**
Chain, you start with any gang connections.
**[05:24] ---**
Right.
**[05:25] ---**
Zapp, dig up what you can from the pushers.
**[05:27] ---**
You bet.
**[05:28] ---**
Are you okay with that, Klaus?
**[05:39] ---**
Nicely done, Mr. Yamakawa.
**[05:43] ---**
I resign.
**[05:45] ---**
You sure like that, don't you?
**[05:49] ---**
What?
**[05:58] ---**
Waah! Yikes! He ain't breathing!
**[06:02] ---**
What do we do, Mr. Gilbert?!
**[06:03] ---**
My goodness, what a fine game that was.
**[06:07] ---**
Don't you die, now, Leo!
**[06:08] ---**
If you die, it'll be my fault!
**[06:10] ---**
Don't die! Hey!
If you die, it's all over! Hey!
**[06:14] ---**
Okay, you're dismissed. Be sure to keep in touch.
**[06:16] ---**
Say it's not my fault first! Leo!
**[06:18] ---**
A Game Between Two Worlds
**[06:21] ---**
However, despite an intense
information-gathering effort,
**[06:25] ---**
we didn't manage to find even a clue
**[06:27] ---**
Do a good deed daily
**[06:27] ---**
as to the Angel Scale trafficking routes.
**[06:37] ---**
Things are moving in fairly
deep places, aren't they?
**[06:40] ---**
There's a good chance
they've gone underground.
**[06:43] ---**
That video of the president was going
around a lot among the underworld.
**[06:47] ---**
Shall we dig in a little deeper?
**[06:51] ---**
If we dig in any deeper,
we'll be going to the alterworld.
**[07:05] ---**
K.K.!
**[07:06] ---**
Oh, Klausie!
**[07:08] ---**
You've kept me waiting, you know.
**[07:12] ---**
Are you hurt?
**[07:12] ---**
Huh? Are you worried about me?
**[07:14] ---**
I'm so happy!
**[07:17] ---**
Klausie, you're the only one
that cares about me like this.
**[07:21] ---**
Most of humanity is not as
strong as you are. I can't help it.
**[07:25] ---**
But no matter how strong
you are, you're still a lady.
**[07:29] ---**
Feel free to come to me
whenever you're in danger.
**[07:32] ---**
What are you talking about?
**[07:34] ---**
There's nowhere more dangerous
than where we're going now, is there?
**[08:10] ---**
Grandmaster Ulchenko!
**[08:13] ---**
What are you doing down here?
**[08:16] ---**
Who're you?
**[08:17] ---**
Please excuse me.
**[08:18] ---**
My name is Klaus V Reinherz.
**[08:21] ---**
Who're *you*?
**[08:23] ---**
Please remove yourself from here at once.
**[08:25] ---**
This is no place for a normal
person such as yourself to be.
**[08:29] ---**
You have the wrong person. Excuse me.
**[08:36] ---**
There you have it.
**[08:37] ---**
This is absurd.
**[09:14] ---**
Welcome,
**[09:16] ---**
my friend.
**[09:18] ---**
I am most pleased to
see you are so well, Klaus.
**[09:22] ---**
It has been too long, Don Arlelelle.
**[09:27] ---**
Arlelelle Eruca Fulgrouche--
**[09:30] ---**
one of the leading bosses in the alterworld.
**[09:34] ---**
He's not someone that would usually
receive any one of us.
**[09:39] ---**
However...
**[09:40] ---**
I'm glad you came,
**[09:43] ---**
my new friend.
**[09:44] ---**
Hello.
**[09:46] ---**
How about we get started
right away, my human visitors?
**[09:54] ---**
This man...
**[09:56] ---**
is an unparalleled Prosfair fan.
**[10:03] ---**
Come,
**[10:05] ---**
let us together enjoy this miraculous game!
**[10:16] ---**
Prosfair (noun)
**[10:17] ---**
A chess-based board game of alterworld origin.
**[10:18] ---**
It has many fans in both the alterworld and
human world. It truly is a beautiful game,
**[10:19] ---**
artistic in its endless complexity. Due to the
**[10:19] ---**
Marked by its highly versatile rules
**[10:21] ---**
artisic value of the pieces used in the game,
**[10:21] ---**
that change to match the competitors' skill.
**[10:23] ---**
there are also many collectors.
**[10:25] ---**
It features intrigue on par with chess.
**[10:28] ---**
However, my study of Prosfair
has also been more than sufficient...
**[10:35] ---**
for this day!
**[10:38] ---**
One moment, please!
**[10:40] ---**
Don Arlelelle,
**[10:42] ---**
are you planning
to play two games today?
**[10:45] ---**
That's right.
**[10:47] ---**
Mr. Ulchenko is one of
mankind's greatest assets.
**[10:49] ---**
If, by some small chance,
his mind were to be lost,
**[10:53] ---**
it would represent a
tremendous loss for our world!
**[10:56] ---**
I ask that you please desist--
**[10:57] ---**
Hey, now...
**[10:59] ---**
I wish you wouldn't speak
for me like I'm not here.
**[11:02] ---**
I have come, well aware
of all the implications.
**[11:05] ---**
Would you mind refraining
from overstepping your bounds?
**[11:10] ---**
And another thing--why do
you assume that I will lose?
**[11:15] ---**
I can say dispassionately,
without any pretentiousness,
**[11:18] ---**
that there is no other human that
excels at this game more than I.
**[11:23] ---**
Hm-hm, that's what I like to hear.
**[11:28] ---**
Mr. Ulchenko!
**[11:30] ---**
Buzz off!
**[11:32] ---**
Just one thing!
**[11:35] ---**
I suggest you forget
trying to checkmate him.
**[11:40] ---**
You're advising me not to win?
I don't even know what that means.
**[11:48] ---**
Of all the...!
**[11:50] ---**
Does he really not know what you mean?!
**[11:53] ---**
If all he wants is to play a game,
let him find a cafŽ in Paris, man!
**[12:00] ---**
Tell me...
**[12:04] ---**
Are you worried, Klausie?
**[12:08] ---**
I want my nation to possess nuclear powers.
**[12:12] ---**
Nine hours.
**[12:14] ---**
It'll be all right!
He's a wizard at chess, right?
**[12:19] ---**
That is a request worthy
of a nine-hour game.
**[12:23] ---**
If you hold on that long or force
a draw, let alone get me to resign,
**[12:28] ---**
you will win.
**[12:30] ---**
I hate to point this out,
**[12:32] ---**
but you've come back out of
there alive four times now, right?
**[12:39] ---**
If you win, I promise you
that I will grant your request.
**[12:52] ---**
I...
**[12:53] ---**
have not come back alive a winner.
**[12:59] ---**
Also, about the man and woman out front...
**[13:02] ---**
I want them eliminated.
**[13:05] ---**
I can't have my visit here
becoming public knowledge.
**[13:10] ---**
Hmm.
**[13:12] ---**
He is not the sort of man to speak
outside of events that happen here.
**[13:18] ---**
I did nothing more than
hold out for the duration,
**[13:20] ---**
making it out of there
by the skin of my teeth.
**[13:26] ---**
However, as you wish.
**[13:29] ---**
We will extend it to ten hours,
and I will agree to that, as well.
**[13:33] ---**
If you lose,
**[13:35] ---**
I will claim the rest of your remaining life.
**[13:48] ---**
Prosfair grows more complex
the more competitive it becomes.
**[13:55] ---**
Additionally, the more time passes,
**[13:58] ---**
the difficulty level increases exponentially.
**[14:02] ---**
*Tor me-tor. Dey carlio.*
**[14:06] ---**
My warning to Mister Ulchenko
to forget about checkmate
**[14:11] ---**
was by no means a trick.
**[14:17] ---**
What is this?
**[14:21] ---**
Is it getting hot in here?
**[14:24] ---**
A little bit...
**[14:33] ---**
And so, from now until the end of time,
**[14:37] ---**
there will probably be no human...
**[14:40] ---**
who will ever be able to beat him at Prosfair.
**[14:45] ---**
Mr. Ulchenko!
**[14:47] ---**
Indeed, it was a close one.
**[14:50] ---**
It's too bad; he only had two minutes to go.
**[14:54] ---**
Still, I'd like to express my gratitude.
**[14:56] ---**
The chance meeting between our
two worlds is an event to be welcomed.
**[15:08] ---**
Now, as promised...
**[15:11] ---**
I will have the remainder of your life.
**[15:19] ---**
I ask that you forgive my discourtesy.
**[15:22] ---**
I would request that you wait
**[15:24] ---**
until after we have played our
game to carry out your promise.
**[15:27] ---**
No way... is what I'd normally say,
**[15:30] ---**
but you and I are on our own special terms.
**[15:33] ---**
Now then, I do not wish to
be too unkind. Let me see...
**[15:38] ---**
99 hours.
**[15:40] ---**
If you entertain me for that long,
I will think nothing of it.
**[15:43] ---**
I accept.
**[15:47] ---**
Well now, why don't you tell
me what your *other* request is?
**[15:52] ---**
Information regarding Angel Scale's
sources and trafficking routes.
**[15:57] ---**
I suspected as much.
**[16:00] ---**
I have to ask, why do your requests always
**[16:03] ---**
run up against the
chokepoints of world affairs?
**[16:07] ---**
Sorry about that, my old friend.
**[16:10] ---**
Don't mention it.
**[16:12] ---**
It's kind of like a ritual I go through
**[16:14] ---**
to produce a marvelous game of
Prosfair complete with a sense of tension.
**[16:19] ---**
Once you play me for 99 hours,
I shall grant that, as well.
**[16:25] ---**
We've been set up!
**[16:27] ---**
That old geezer's goal was to
get Klaus in there from the start!
**[16:37] ---**
Why hasn't he come out?
**[16:41] ---**
What a foolish thing to ask.
It's because he hasn't lost.
**[16:45] ---**
They say that that monster has
spent 1,200 years just on Prosfair.
**[16:52] ---**
I can't imagine playing for
99 hours without rest against him.
**[16:57] ---**
Just who is he? How is
he competing against him?
**[17:08] ---**
He's Klaus V Reinherz--
**[17:11] ---**
our mighty leader,
and an unrivaled gentleman.
**[17:15] ---**
An almost brutally headstrong man,
armed with a beastly vitality.
**[17:21] ---**
My *Gore* at F8 morphs to Level 14,
and takes your *Guichard*.
**[17:27] ---**
My *Laazi* is now at *Barlum* 55.
**[17:30] ---**
My *Cain* 19 and *Shamain* 7
are in *Ozzeau-averdidect.*
**[17:38] ---**
Pledge: *Daurasex me-tor.*
**[17:41] ---**
*El arlio.*
**[17:43] ---**
*Venalcantos.*
**[17:48] ---**
It's been a long time since
I've seen this piece come out.
**[17:51] ---**
By my estimation, at the very least,
**[17:55] ---**
my upcoming offensive drive
will continue for fully 36 hours.
**[18:00] ---**
Don't let it break you, Klaus.
**[18:03] ---**
Understood.
**[18:07] ---**
I will confront you with everything I have.
**[18:23] ---**
This man is an interesting one, all right.
**[18:26] ---**
He made a deal with his life
without the slightest hesitation,
**[18:30] ---**
to protect the other one.
**[18:33] ---**
And the information that he seeks
is a matter of such great import
**[18:36] ---**
that the fate of the world
could be swayed by it.
**[18:42] ---**
Why does he pile on greater risk
so casually? It's truly irrational.
**[18:51] ---**
I don't understand these humans.
**[18:56] ---**
Do you regret anything?
**[18:58] ---**
Not one bit.
**[19:00] ---**
Why not?
**[19:02] ---**
All I can say is that I
made up my mind not to.
**[19:05] ---**
Hmm...
**[19:08] ---**
Everything has been well-considered.
**[19:23] ---**
Hmm...
**[19:25] ---**
Klaus, about this Ulchenko chap that you
are now risking your life trying to rescue...
**[19:34] ---**
In our previous game, without even
batting an eye, he asked me...
**[19:41] ---**
to eliminate you.
**[19:45] ---**
Don't you think that's ridiculous?
**[19:48] ---**
Don't you, Klaus V Reinherz?
**[19:54] ---**
Are you really trying to save that guy?
**[20:03] ---**
People are weak.
**[20:05] ---**
Because of their weakness,
**[20:07] ---**
they sometimes
behave in ways devoid of self-respect.
**[20:15] ---**
But then, so what if they do, my old friend?
**[20:21] ---**
Even if I am struck
with a thousand setbacks...
**[20:26] ---**
it does not serve as a
reason to alter the way I live...
**[20:31] ---**
my life!
**[20:37] ---**
Klaus!
**[20:39] ---**
As promised, I will tell you
the Angel Scale trafficking routes.
**[20:44] ---**
Also, Ulchenko, you are free to go.
**[20:51] ---**
Start raiding the people
and places I'm about to tell you!
**[20:54] ---**
Hit them with all you have before
they realize what's happening!
**[20:57] ---**
Got it?!
**[20:58] ---**
Tell them that if by any chance they fail,
**[21:00] ---**
I'll kill every one of them!
**[21:08] ---**
As for where Mr. Klaus
got that kind of information,
**[21:12] ---**
the truth is, not even the
other members know for sure.
**[21:16] ---**
Off the cuff, I asked if it had
anything to do with that game,
**[21:22] ---**
but nobody even gave me the time of day.
**[21:24] ---**
Though, you know,
anything can happen in this world.
**[21:30] ---**
"Anything can happen in this world."
**[21:42] ---**
One can even become friends
**[21:44] ---**
with a cute girl, out of the blue.
**[21:45] ---**
It still has this, too? I'm so glad!
**[21:49] ---**
What?
**[21:50] ---**
Huh? Nothing!
**[21:52] ---**
Are you enjoying those?
I didn't shoot anything that great.
**[21:55] ---**
They really are quite interesting.
**[21:58] ---**
I've been locked up in
here for three whole years,
**[22:01] ---**
with never anything to do.
**[22:04] ---**
I'm glad I found someone else
to talk to besides my brother.
**[22:08] ---**
Okay.
**[22:14] ---**
What?
**[22:16] ---**
Mm-mm, nothing.
**[22:19] ---**
Nice pictures.
**[22:20] ---**
You think so?
**[22:22] ---**
Thanks.
**[22:24] ---**
I'll bet you have sharp eyes.
**[22:31] ---**
Ha, actually, better than 20/10 in both eyes.
**[22:35] ---**
I knew it!
**[22:36] ---**
*Accustomed to the supernatural
disaster-like madness,*
**[22:39] ---**
*I mistake my daily life for peace*
**[22:42] ---**
*As this rambling coaster
jolts me back and forth,*
**[22:46] ---**
*what is it that I mustn't lose sight of?*
**[22:50] ---**
*Swallowed up by the concept
of egalitarian fundamentalism,*
**[22:54] ---**
*feels like even my soul is so much et cetera*
**[22:57] ---**
*Have to clearly state what
you love and what you hate*
**[23:01] ---**
*or you're not all that different than a dummy*
**[23:04] ---**
*Ah, crowds of people
walking the streets at night*
**[23:08] ---**
*some seem to be so happy,
some seem to be so lonely*
**[23:12] ---**
*The contrast jumps around the music staff*
**[23:17] ---**
*creating the song and rhythm*
**[23:19] ---**
*Marmalade and sugar song,
peanuts and bitter step*
**[23:23] ---**
*So sweet and then so acrid,
it makes my head spin*
**[23:26] ---**
*Let's head south-southwest
and keep this party going*
**[23:30] ---**
*to make it a night
that will astonish the world*
**[23:34] ---**
*I feel fantastic, a chain of reflections*
**[23:41] ---**
*Marmalade and sugar song,
peanuts and bitter step*
**[23:44] ---**
*So sweet and then so acrid,
it makes my head spin*
**[23:48] ---**
*Let's head south-southwest
and keep this party going*
**[23:52] ---**
*to make it a night
that will astonish the world*
**[23:56] ---**
*I feel fantastic,
the chain of reflections goes on*
**[24:00] ---**
*From one good time,
to a problem, to another good time*
**[24:07] ---**
"Where is your foe? Your foe is within you."
**[24:12] ---**
I'll bet some people think that.
**[24:14] ---**
It's not true.
**[24:15] ---**
The enemy always comes at you from without.
**[24:17] ---**
Never let your guard down!
**[24:20] ---**
Someone you'll never expect
will come threatening you today.
**[24:25] ---**
Next time on Blood Blockade Battlefront,
**[24:27] ---**
"Blood Line Fever."
**[24:29] ---**
It's too late for introductions now, brother.
**[24:32] ---**
You already know my name, don't you?
**[24:35] ---**