Season 2

11 - Homesick: Now Budding in the Echoes

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[00:00] Belle
    I... I want to know my roots!
[00:03] Belle
    I appeared from one
    of these rocks as a child.
[00:06] Belle
    Can I not cut anything anymore?
[00:09] Kitty
    Did you find what you were seeking?
[00:11] Benedictine; Bennett
    I can feel the woman in me going to sleep.
[00:14] Gwyn
    I won't die.
[00:15] Gwyn
    And I won't let you either!
[00:16] Adonis
    This is my curse.
[00:18] Belle
    Knock on the door of journeys with me!
[00:20] Gaff
    Your father's sword is in my care.
[00:22] Sherry
    Save Belle!
[00:24] Belle
    The divine tree is eating solists.
[00:27] Belle
    But it won't work...
[00:28] Belle
    Not yet.
[00:29] Adonis
    I knew things would turn out this way!
[00:30] Belle
    We haven't fallen for each other yet.
[00:32] Adonis
    Who else would ever see you as a woman?!
[00:35] Sian
    We need someone to doubt reason.
[00:38] Adonis
    Don't tell me the
    girl of reason is the gods'...
[00:53] Kitty
    Dear me. You're more theatrical
    than I could ever be.
[00:57] Sian
    The form of my curse makes me that way.
[01:01] Kitty
    Because I, too, have been
    sent to appraise reason...
[01:06] Kitty
    Tell me, can reason amount
    to hope in the face of doubt?
[01:13] Sian
    We cannot return the bird to her cage
    without questioning the world's reason.
[01:19] Sian
    Not until her homesickness
    shatters this world.
[01:24] Kitty
    Sir, you are a dangerous fellow.
[01:27] Kitty
    For your own hope, you would sacrifice much
[01:31] Kitty
    and approve the murder of hope itself.
[01:34] Kitty
    You should have died.
[01:38] Kitty
    You should have died when
    the girl of reason cut you down.
[01:43] Sian
    I have nothing left to say to you.
[01:48] Sian
    I'll take the Ashes of the Tried
     next time we meet.
[01:51] Kitty
    Oh?
[02:10] Belle
    Where... am I?
[02:30] Belle
    What am I doing here?
[02:33] (Flashback) Adonis
    Can you?
[02:37] (Flashback) Adonis
    Can you cut me?
[02:40] Belle
    I can't.
[02:46] Belle
    Who's there?
[02:47] Bennett
    It's Bennett, Belle.
[02:49] Bennett
    I came to check on you.
[02:51] Bennett
    Would you mind letting me in?
[02:53] (Flashback) Adonis
    Can you cut me?
[02:55] Belle
    Sure I can.
[02:59] Bennett
    Belle?
[03:05] Bennett
    Stop.
[03:05] Bennett
    Stop it, Benedictine!
[03:07] Bennett
    Why should we have to go that far?
[03:09] Bennett
    This is a mermaid's fate, Bennett!
[03:13] (Flashback) Bennett
    The real Belle has sunk
    somewhere deep below.
[03:16] (Flashback) Gwyn
    And she'll drown if she stays there.
[03:18] (Flashback) Gwyn
    Have you ever thought about how mermaids'
    physical wounds link to mental ones,
[03:22] (Flashback) Gwyn
    and to your male and female selves?
[03:26] Bennett
    The light...
[03:27] Bennett
    Not even sacred ashes can cure me now.
[03:29] Bennett
    Why should I care?!
[03:31] Bennett
    What have I gotten stronger for?
[03:33] Bennett
    For this!
[03:35] Bennett
    If it doesn't help now, in this moment,
    then my strength...
[03:38] Bennett
    means nothing!
[03:40] Benedictine
    Belle.
[03:45] Belle
    Who's there?
[03:46] Benedictine
    It's me. You know.
[03:48] Benedictine
    Open up already!
[03:50] Benedictine
    Do you realize I came here just
    to see how you're doing?
[03:57] Belle
    Benedictine!
[03:58] Belle
    Your eye...
[04:01] Benedictine
    You look frightful.
[04:03] Belle
    Why are you here?
[04:06] Benedictine
    What have you done to this place?
[04:09] Benedictine
    No wonder I can't stand get-well visits!
[04:15] Belle
    I thought you died.
[04:17] Benedictine
    Your hair's a mess,
    and so is the rest of you.
[04:19] Benedictine
    What, are you showing off for someone?
[04:22] Belle
    When your male version showed up,
    I figured you must be...
[04:27] Benedictine
    I haven't paid you back yet.
[04:31] Benedictine
    You cut down Gordon and set my heart free.
[04:35] Benedictine
    I owe you this.
[04:38] Benedictine
    Take proper care of yourself.
[04:40] Benedictine
    You have hair like silk thread.
[04:46] Benedictine
    Here. I know you like Meissen tea.
[04:49] Benedictine
    Of course, Demitasse is more in season now.
[04:56] Benedictine
    You didn't do anything wrong.
[04:59] Belle
    I couldn't understand his pain.
[05:02] Belle
    But I tried to make him understand me.
[05:07] Belle
    I tried to fill him up with myself.
[05:10] Benedictine
    The same goes for him, doesn't it?
[05:12] Benedictine
    And he was a whole lot worse about it.
[05:16] Belle
    I like the strong Adonis.
[05:20] Belle
    Seeing Adonis weak makes me nervous.
[05:23] Belle
    A weak Adonis won't help me.
[05:27] Belle
    I know I'll lose the strong Adonis
    if I come to understand his weakness.
[05:33] Belle
    So I didn't want to.
[05:35] Belle
    I didn't want to understand.
[05:37] Belle
    I would have sooner killed him.
[05:40] Benedictine
    And what were you hoping for from
    this big, strong Adonis of yours?
[05:46] Benedictine
    Grumpy coward that he is.
[05:51] Benedictine
    I like the weak you, too.
[05:54] Benedictine
    I get to think a heartfelt "serves you right."
[05:58] Benedictine
    It feels wonderful.
[06:01] Belle
    It's dawned on me why I've been dying
    to see a menace like you all this time.
[06:06] Belle
    I feel like even I could be a decent
    woman when I'm with you.
[06:10] Benedictine
    Hey! What's that supposed to mean?
[06:13] Belle
    I mean I'm just another woman around you.
[06:17] Belle
    You look beyond my tribe,
    somewhere bigger and deeper.
[06:24] Benedictine
    You're pretty, you know?
[06:26] Belle
    Huh?
[06:27] Benedictine
    You're free.
[06:29] Benedictine
    Each tribe has its standards
    of beauty and ugliness,
[06:32] Benedictine
    but you aren't fettered by all that.
[06:35] Benedictine
    You're light and free.
[06:38] Benedictine
    Strength and weakness,
    beauty and ugliness all lie inside you.
[06:44] Benedictine
    Everyone's dying to touch them.
[06:47] Benedictine
    But like a flower, you bloom as you please,
[06:50] Benedictine
    as though you couldn't
    care less how we feel.
[06:53] Benedictine
    I couldn't live with myself if I didn't
    at least get a look at you wilting.
[06:58] Belle
    I don't know what I'm
    supposed to do with that...
[07:04] Belle
    I asked Adonis to leave
    on a journey with me.
[07:08] Belle
    Because I felt lonely.
[07:10] Belle
    I wanted to run away from that,
     and I tried to sacrifice him for it.
[07:15] Benedictine
    That's not true.
[07:16] Belle
    It is.
[07:18] Belle
    If we had gone journeying, I know I would
    have ended up dominating and killing him.
[07:26] Belle
    He was looking for help,
[07:28] Belle
    and I...
[07:30] Benedictine
    So what if you did?
[07:32] Benedictine
    Are you trying to say it's all your fault?
[07:34] Benedictine
    Nonsense.
[07:36] Benedictine
    You just said it yourself, remember?
[07:39] Benedictine
    The real reason.
[07:41] Belle
    The real reason?
[07:42] Benedictine
    Yes.
[07:43] Benedictine
    Why did you want to go
    on a journey with him?
[07:48] Belle
    I...
[07:58] Belle
    I'm lonely.
[08:01] Belle
    I'm so lonely I could go crazy and die!
[08:06] Belle
    I'm scared! It's so hard!
[08:08] Belle
    I'm all alone!
[08:09] Belle
    I mean, no one will help me!
[08:12] Belle
    You'd think I could get at least
    one shoulder to lean on.
[08:17] Belle
    You'd think someone would save me.
[08:20] Belle
    Why am I so alone?
[08:24] Belle
    Why can I never... never...
[08:30] Belle
    do anything about my homesickness?!
[08:35] Belle
    Someone somewhere told me at some point...
[08:40] Belle
    I love my homeland and long for utopia.
[08:45] Belle
    I can't love myself or where I am.
[08:49] Belle
    I just keep wandering.
[08:54] Benedictine
    It's not your fault.
[08:56] Belle
    The door of journeys still won't open.
[09:00] Belle
    I'll just wind up even
    more alone when it does.
[09:05] Belle
    Why does trying to learn about myself
[09:09] Belle
    always leave me so utterly on my own?
[09:13] Benedictine
    It's not your fault.
[09:15] Belle
    It...
[09:18] Benedictine
    Go ahead. Say it.
[09:21] Belle
    It's...
[09:22] Benedictine
    Come on.
[09:25] Belle
    It's not... my fault?
[09:29] Benedictine
    Yes, that's right.
[09:30] Benedictine
    Now say it clearly.
[09:33] Belle
    It's not my fault.
[09:36] Belle
    It's not my fault!
[09:38] Belle
    It's not!
[09:39] Benedictine
    That's right.
[09:40] Benedictine
    Yes, I couldn't agree more.
[09:42] Benedictine
    And where are you trying to go?
[09:46] Belle
    I'm going... to find out why I'm really here.
[09:51] Benedictine
    Right.
[09:52] Belle
    To do something about my homesickness.
[09:55] Benedictine
    Exactly.
[09:56] Benedictine
    You're going on a journey.
[09:59] Benedictine
    You'll become but one person
    with but one theme.
[10:03] Benedictine
    Isn't that right?
[10:05] Belle
    It is.
[10:07] Belle
    Yeah, that is right.
[10:09] Belle
    It's the only way I can go on living.
[10:14] Belle
    I'm going on a journey.
[10:16] Benedictine
    Yes.
[10:17] Belle
    I'm going...
[10:19] Belle
    to become a nomad.
[10:22] Benedictine
    What are you waiting for, Belle?
[10:25] Benedictine
    We have no choice but to live
    out our lives in this land,
[10:30] Benedictine
    yet we believe in what lies
    at the end of your journey, too.
[10:34] Benedictine
    We wish for it.
[10:37] Benedictine
    I hope we can tell each other
    about our respective journeys someday.
[11:02] Benedictine
    Now, shall we begin?
[11:04] Benedictine
    I don't think I have much time left.
[11:32] Guidance
    Mermaids sing this song
    to cleanse rivers and lakes.
[11:40] Guidance
    The Ocean of Psyche forms a pair
    with our continent of reality.
[11:46] Guidance
    Mermaids are unsullied droplets
    born from its waters.
[11:53] Guidance
    Unable to form minds of their own without
    parisitizing the psyches of others,
[11:58] Guidance
    they bear a destiny from
    which they can never escape.
[12:03] Guidance
    All mermaids take on mental pollution
    from those whose minds they parasitize.
[12:26] Benedictine
    Pollution and purity, pain and joy...
[12:32] Benedictine
    You won't lose anything at all.
[12:37] Benedictine
    I'll just send back...
    their stagnant sediment...
[12:43] Benedictine
    from the you... that only I know...
[12:48] Guidance
    They ultimately return to the ocean's abyss,
[12:53] Guidance
    purifying the pollution they've acquired.
[13:00] Benedictine
    I'll go, too. Somewhere deep.
[13:06] Benedictine
    Until we can share stories of our journeys...
[13:15] Benedictine
    Farewell, Belle.
[13:19] Belle
    Bye-bye, Benedictine.
[13:36] Bennett
    Is that you, Belle?
[13:37] Belle
    Yeah.
[13:38] Belle
    It's me, Bennett.
[13:42] Bennett
    Are your wounds recovered?
[13:44] Belle
    Thanks to you.
[13:46] Belle
    I sacrificed your other self.
[13:50] Belle
    I'm going to get better if it kills me.
[13:52] Bennett
    Knowing that I managed
    to help you is enough for me.
[13:58] Bennett
    This is the price I paid for her setting out.
[14:02] Bennett
    Mermaids have good ears.
[14:05] Bennett
    I won't be so different from before.
[14:07] Belle
    Good.
[14:09] Belle
    I'm grateful.
[14:12] Belle
    I don't regret it.
[14:14] Bennett
    I knew you would say that.
[14:17] Belle
    Good.
[14:18] Bennett
    I'm grateful to you as well.
[14:22] Belle
    I made up my mind I wouldn't cry.
[14:24] Bennett
    I know.
[14:25] Belle
    I decided I wouldn't say sorry.
[14:29] Bennett
    I think that's for the best, Belle.
[14:40] Belle
    Hey there, Gwyn.
[14:42] Gwyn
    Oh, hi, Belle.
[14:43] Gwyn
    Good morning.
[14:45] Gwyn
    I'm still hungover.
[14:47] Bennett
    Good grief. Do you even have any idea
    where we're going?
[14:51] Gwyn
    I'll rest my head until the funeral.
[14:55] Belle
    A raven brought you word as well, then?
[14:57] Signs
    Raven
    Avian messenger of death
[14:59] Gwyn
    Yeah.
[15:01] Gwyn
    Gin Buck.
[15:03] Gwyn
    I wish we hadn't lost him.
[15:12] Belle
    Wow!
[15:22] Belle
    Mist!
[15:24] Mist
    This is unheard of.
[15:26] Signs
    Topdogs
    Good
[15:26] Mist
    I mean, Topdogs at an Underdog's funeral?
[15:28] Signs
    Underdogs
    Evil
[15:30] Gwyn
    I owe the late, great conductor
    more than a little.
[15:47] Mist
    How're your wounds?
[15:49] Mist
    All better?
[15:50] Belle
    Well, I guess.
[15:52] Belle
    I must have come off as pretty pathetic.
[15:53] Mist
    Ten of our guys left that
    fight with broken swords.
[15:57] Mist
    Jeez. You really are a monster.
[15:59] Mist
    I don't mean that in a bad way.
[16:02] Mist
    I really admire you.
[16:04] Mist
    You blew me away in that
    fight in the Katakombe, too.
[16:10] Belle
    When I cut down Tiziano,
    I thought that was the end of it.
[16:15] Belle
    I had no idea you were still fighting.
[16:20] Mist
    Would you have joined in if you'd known?
[16:25] Belle
    I'm not on either side, good or evil.
[16:30] Belle
    I don't know what I can
    and can't cut until I try.
[16:36] Belle
    So I guess I'd fight to cut down
    whoever I'm really meant to.
[16:41] Mist
    One of those nomad curses, right?
[16:43] Belle
    You've heard of them?
[16:45] Mist
    Gwyn told me.
[16:46] Belle
    Oh?
[16:48] Mist
    I mean, he was always visiting Mr. Gin Buck.
[16:53] Mist
    And what about you and that guy?
    Adonis, right?
[16:56] Mist
    Why isn't he with you?
[16:58] Mist
    I heard you even promised
    to go on your journey together.
[17:02] Mist
    Huh?
[17:04] Mist
    Did something happen?
[17:07] Belle
    He kind of attacked me.
[17:08] Mist
    Then you...
[17:10] Belle
    Well, between this and that,
    it didn't go all the way.
[17:14] Belle
    But he's disappeared.
[17:17] Belle
    I couldn't find him to talk
    it out if I wanted to.
[17:21] Mist
    Forget that loser!
[17:24] Mist
    I bet he's hiding because he knows
    you'll cut him to ribbons.
[17:27] Belle
    Maybe he is.
[17:29] Belle
    I mean, I was planning
    to take a swing on sight.
[17:48] Belle
    It looks like that observation tower.
[17:57] Belle
    The Katakombe?
[17:58] Gwyn
    Yes. This is one of the
     Collins clan's castles.
[18:03] Gwyn
    I've waited a long time for this.
[18:07] Belle
    Gwyn?
[18:26] Belle
    It's just like the Skyway Cemetery.
[18:31] Bennett
    Belle.
[18:32] Belle
    Coming.
[18:43] Colonel
    I am known as Colonel Collins.
[18:46] Colonel
    I will preside over this funeral.
[18:49] Belle
    If you're a Collins, then
    you're from the Katakombe?
[18:53] Colonel
    Yes.
[18:54] Colonel
    As head priest and guardian
    of Taurus, I bid you welcome.
[18:58] Belle
    Taurus?
[18:59] Colonel
    It's what we call this place, one of
    the Katakombe's four fixed palaces.
[19:00] Signs
    Taurus
    Palace of the Bull
[19:05] Colonel
    Aion, which you defended, is another.
[19:07] Signs
    Aion
    Palace of the Lion
[19:10] Colonel
    Belle Lablac, on behalf of the Collins clan,
[19:16] Colonel
    I sincerely thank you for that battle.
[19:18] Belle
    Don't sweat it.
[19:19] Belle
    We fought for our lives as much as anything.
[19:22] Belle
    And back then, as Topdogs, we—
[19:25] Colonel
    No, your battle truly transcended
    the divide between Topdog and Underdog.
[19:32] Colonel
    You exemplified our ideal.
[19:35] Gwyn
    It's a pleasure to make your
    acquaintance, Colonel Collins.
[19:39] Colonel
    You must be Gwyn.
[19:41] Gwyn
    I am.
[19:42] Colonel
    Gin Buck told me much
    about you while he yet lived.
[19:46] Gwyn
    As the one responsible for scorching
     the Katakombe in that battle,
[19:50] Gwyn
    I've been eager for a meeting with you.
[19:53] Belle
    Why do you have to put it like that?
[19:56] Colonel
    We are aware.
[19:59] Colonel
    You have our gratitude,
    but never our resentment.
[20:03] Gwyn
    By the way, I've written to your clan
    several times via Mr. Gin Buck.
[20:10] Colonel
    We received your messages.
[20:11] Colonel
    I read them with great interest.
[20:16] Colonel
    Now, if you would all make ready...
[20:20] Gwyn
    I have a shot.
[20:23] Colonel
    I shall now perform the last rites.
[20:32] Belle
    He's really dead.
[20:40] Colonel
    Tonight, the time to inquire
    into tidings of death has come again.
[20:46] Colonel
    The time for another of our brethren
    to sleep in this hallowed ground.
[20:52] Colonel
    Bathed in holy earthshine, I ask you.
[20:56] Colonel
    When shall the raven blossoms,
    pride of this land,
[20:59] Colonel
    set their roots in your corpse and bloom?
[21:03] Colonel
    For I, too, claim descent
[21:06] Colonel
    from our brother who in
    that battle met his end.
[21:19] Gwyn
    It's ironic.
[21:21] Gwyn
    Don't you think?
[21:23] Gwyn
    We burned the Katakombe's flower
    gardens so we could survive.
[21:29] Gwyn
    You expect me to believe that your
    burial here means we've been forgiven?
[21:38] Gwyn
    Gin Buck, I've come to you again
     to write a new script.
[21:45] Gwyn
    A new way for the people to be from now on...
[21:49] Gwyn
    A Paradise Shift in Schwert Land!
[21:52] Signs
    Paradise Shift
SIGN    Eleventh Movement
SIGN    Homesick: Now Budding in the Echoes
[23:23] Signs
    Bye Bye, Earth
[23:25] Signs
    Bye Bye, Earth
[23:30] Gwyn
    What are raven blossoms, anyway?
[23:32] Mist
    That's what Mr. Gin Buck wanted.
[23:34] Belle
    Add me to that petition.
[23:36] Adonis
    I'll tell him your last words.
[23:38] Signs
    Twelfth Movement
[23:38] Signs
    Entreaty: A Paradise that Entrusts Death

12 - Entreaty: A Paradise that Entrusts Death

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[00:00] Belle
    What's a "Paradise Shift"?
[00:03] Gwyn
    A term I learned from the traveling
    Rabbitia when we fought Tiziano.
[00:08] ---
    Paradise Shift
    Alteration in the World
[00:09] Gwyn
    It means a change in the world.
[00:12] Gwyn
    It's not fair, Gin Buck.
[00:15] Gwyn
    I started out just a run-of-the-mill libretto.
[00:20] Gwyn
    But then I burned the
    Katakombe's flowers with you,
[00:24] Gwyn
    and you used that as a pretext
    to make me do things
[00:28] Gwyn
    that should have been a job
     for someone like you.
[00:32] Gwyn
    You're trying to make me question how
    the people ought to be from now on.
[00:38] Belle
    Gwyn?
[00:40] Gwyn
    In her madness, Tiziano wrought
     tragedy in the Katakombe.
[00:45] Gwyn
    But why did she come to the Katakombe at all?
[00:49] Gwyn
    How is it the divine summons
    anticipated a battle there?
[00:56] Belle
    Does something here go against god's will?
[02:24] Signs
    Bye Bye, Earth
[02:26] Signs
    Bye Bye, Earth
[02:31] Gwyn
    There are two reasons
    the castle despises the Katakombe
[02:36] Gwyn
    and the Katakombe guards its entrances.
[02:38] Gwyn
    The raven blossoms...
[02:40] Belle
    Wait, the ravens?
[02:41] Gwyn
    ...and the way they seem
    to refute the division
[02:44] Gwyn
    between Topdog and Underdog, good and evil.
[02:49] Gwyn
    Every late subject is to be offered to a
     place under the castle called "Root Land."
[02:56] Gwyn
    I only learned this upon making conductor.
[02:59] Gwyn
    The people of this land have
    no right to handle the dead.
[03:04] Gwyn
    When we die, the blue
    priests of the throne room
[03:07] Gwyn
    bury us with due ceremony
    and we become part of the divine tree.
[03:13] Gwyn
    I think...
[03:15] Gwyn
    we become sacrifices for when
    our god makes sacred ashes.
[03:19] Belle
    You're saying the ashes that heal us
    are made out of dead people?!
[03:23] Gwyn
    Gin Buck and I reached that conclusion.
[03:26] Gwyn
    And if it's true, these raven blossoms
    that convey the will of the dead
[03:31] Gwyn
    usurp the dominion of death from our god.
[03:36] Bennett
    If you want those dear to you
    to know of your passing,
[03:40] Bennett
    you must be buried here and not Root Land.
[03:44] Bennett
    Here, in the Katakombe
    where the ravens bloom.
[03:48] Gwyn
    And such a place can never
     be allowed to stand.
[03:52] Gwyn
    What are raven blossoms, anyway?
[03:55] Gwyn
    Where did they come from?
[03:57] Gwyn
    Why do they host the will of the dead?
[04:00] Gwyn
    Why do they only bloom
    here in the Katakombe?
[04:03] Gwyn
    And who started the Katakombe's creed:
[04:06] Gwyn
    "Be neither good nor evil, only outside"?
[04:13] Belle
    I think Tom Collins said...
[04:16] Belle
    that good and evil are god's Law of Theme.
[04:19] Belle
    Who knew something like this
    could shake god's order?
[04:23] Colonel
    What purpose does it serve
    to reveal such here and now?
[04:29] Gwyn
    I'm calling out to everyone here.
[04:32] Gwyn
    Do the good and the evil accept
    the ban on funeral rites?
[04:36] Gwyn
    Will you end your lives as mere
    sacrifices to the divine tree?
[04:42] Gwyn
    The Katakombe, and no other place,
    governs Paradise Shifts in Schwert Land.
[04:47] Gwyn
    To guard it is to become a stone
    in the foundation of a new order.
[04:54] Gwyn
    I want to give my life to that!
[05:05] Colonel
    Allow me to gratefully accept
    your love for the Katakombe.
[05:12] Gwyn
    You mean...
[05:14] Colonel
    I have a condition.
[05:22] Colonel
    Behold the heirloom sword of Taurus.
[05:25] Colonel
    It bears the spell Ecnes, which shows
    sympathy for both life and death.
[05:28] Signs
    Ecnes
    Sympathy
[05:31] Gwyn
    A sword of the Katakombe?
[05:33] Gwyn
    Didn't...
[05:34] Colonel
    Yes.
[05:35] Colonel
    In the recent battle, the forces
    of good launched another assault
[05:39] Colonel
    and stole the treasured sword
    of Aion from Tom Collins.
[05:44] Gwyn
    They took the other sword?
[05:52] Signs
    Tixe
    Escape
[05:52] Colonel
    Its spell, Tixe, means "escape."
[05:56] Colonel
    It forms a pair with Emoclew,
    the sword of the kingdom.
[05:58] Signs
    Emoclew
    Kingdom
[06:00] Colonel
    That is the why the Katakombe
    and the castle can form a pair as well.
[06:06] Colonel
    Reclaim the sword of Tixe
    and return it to our hands.
[06:11] Colonel
    Do that, and the Katakombe will welcome you
[06:15] Colonel
    as one who shows us an unprecedented
    crossroads of destiny.
[06:22] Gwyn
    Yes, Colonel Collins.
[06:26] Gwyn
    I will.
[06:27] Gwyn
    I will!
[06:41] Belle
    A "Paradise Shift," huh?
[06:45] Belle
    I feel like all that talk
    could teach me something.
[06:52] Mist
    Hey! Move it!
[06:54] Evil Minotaur 1
    You must be Belle Lablac.
[06:55] Mist
    What's this about?
[06:57] Belle
    Oh, right.
[06:59] Bennett
    Friends of yours?
[07:01] Belle
    I broke all their swords.
[07:03] Gwyn
    All of them?
[07:05] Evil Minotaur 1
    We wish to challenge Belle Lablac.
[07:08] Mist
    Excuse me?!
[07:10] Sheep-eyes Youth A
    We had our swords broken. Now we want
    another chance to test our skill.
[07:15] Sheep-eyes Youth A
    You have our word it'll be a grudge-free duel.
[07:18] Mist
    That's bullshit!
[07:20] Mist
    You think you can win
    if you all gang up on her?
[07:23] Mist
    Are you trying to ruin my reputation?
[07:25] Evil Minotaur 1
    Check that pride of yours, Mist.
    It could get someone hurt.
[07:31] Mist
    Listen, you—
[07:34] Belle
    That's a nice sword.
[07:35] Mist
    H-Hey!
[07:37] Belle
    You don't get that from just any swordwright.
[07:40] Belle
    It should be worth growing.
[07:42] Evil Minotaur 1
    Y-Yeah.
[07:44] Evil Minotaur 1
    I never would have gotten this sword
    if you hadn't broken my old one.
[07:49] Belle
    I'm glad to hear you're not holding a grudge.
[07:52] Cloud
    What's all this ruckus?
[07:55] Belle
    Hey, Cloud!
[07:57] Belle
    Your leg...
[08:00] Cloud
    Oh, yeah.
[08:02] Cloud
    I'm just lucky it's still attached.
[08:04] Belle
    Is this from the fight in the Katakombe?
[08:06] Cloud
    Don't sweat it.
[08:08] Cloud
    It seems like this job suits me better anyway.
[08:10] Belle
    What job?
[08:12] Cloud
    I made all their swords.
[08:15] Belle
    I don't believe it.
[08:17] Belle
    You did a great job, seriously.
[08:19] Cloud
    Thanks for the compliment.
[08:22] Mist
    What are you talking about?!
[08:23] Belle
    Huh?
[08:24] Mist
    I've had it with this farce.
[08:27] Belle
    Mist?
[08:31] Cloud
    She's being stubborn.
[08:34] Cloud
    I ended up like this,
     and Mr. Gin Buck is dead.
[08:38] Cloud
    We can't go back to the way things were.
[08:52] Belle
    Who's next?
[08:56] Belle
    Next!
[08:59] Sheep-eyes Youth E
    I was first!
[09:00] Sheep-eyes Youth B
    No, I was!
[09:01] Belle
    Don't make a big deal out of it.
[09:03] Belle
    I can keep this up all night if I have to.
[09:11] Mist
    What a nice sound.
[09:14] Mist
    It almost makes me jealous.
[09:16] Mist
    I want to go out there with a sword myself.
[09:20] Gwyn
    Times like this make me
    really miss what I've lost.
[09:24] Mist
    What?
[09:25] Gwyn
    My hand. For holding you.
[09:29] Mist
    So the one you've got left is
     just for your sword?
[09:41] Gwyn
    What a work of art.
[09:44] Gwyn
    It transmits my will straight
    to other solists' swords.
[09:50] Gwyn
    Should I really be the one to wield it?
[09:53] Mist
    Why not?
[09:54] Mist
    That's what Mr. Gin Buck wanted.
[09:58] Mist
    Are you sure you won't become an Underdog?
[10:02] Gwyn
    You wouldn't become a Topdog either.
[10:05] Mist
    Because you don't really want me to.
[10:08] Gwyn
    Listen, Mist.
[10:10] Gwyn
    I'm going to make a way to be just
    outside, neither good nor evil.
[10:16] Gwyn
    For that, I'll...
[10:18] Mist
    God won't allow it.
[10:21] Gwyn
    The Katakombe gives me grounds to hope.
[10:24] Gwyn
    And so, well...
[10:28] Mist
    What?
[10:30] Gwyn
    I'll keep looking for that
    so I can really be with you.
[10:35] Mist
    Silly.
[10:37] Mist
    You should've said that in the first place.
[10:40] Mist
    Why do you need so many excuses?
[10:43] Gwyn
    Mist...
[10:45] Mist
    I won't wait.
[10:47] Mist
    Drag me into your script.
[10:50] Mist
    Me and my army.
[10:54] Mist
    If I die in battle, I want it
    to be part of your script.
[11:01] Gwyn
    All right.
[11:08] Belle
    Whew! That was a blast.
[11:12] Bennett
    You've improved again.
[11:14] Belle
    Thanks.
[11:15] Belle
    And thanks to Cloud the swordwright, too.
[11:18] Belle
    He enabled some good fights.
[11:20] Bennett
    I'd like to talk with you.
[11:23] Belle
    About Gwyn?
[11:24] Bennett
    Sharp as ever.
[11:26] Belle
    You know the whole deal, right?
[11:28] Bennett
    Well, more or less.
[11:30] Bennett
    Our tactician plans to petition the throne
     to make the Katakombe neutral.
[11:35] Belle
    Add me to that petition.
[11:39] Bennett
    Belle...
[11:39] Belle
    Won't you have an easier time negotiating
    if I talk to Gaff in person?
[11:44] Bennett
    I can't help feeling reluctant
    to get you involved.
[11:49] Bennett
    Gwyn will be thrilled, though.
[11:53] Belle
    A Paradise Shift...
[11:54] Belle
    I'm curious too.
[11:57] Belle
    Will this whole land accept Moonwork someday?
[12:01] Belle
    I want to know.
[12:03] Bennett
    Moon... what?
[12:04] Belle
    Moonwork. "To do as the moon."
[12:04] Signs
    Moonwork
    To do as the moon
[12:07] Belle
    It's the spell carved
    into the key to journeys.
[12:10] Belle
    It means something like always changing
    and returning at the same time.
[12:14] Bennett
    Like the colors of an o'crock?
[12:17] Belle
    I'm still having trouble with it, though.
[12:20] Bennett
    I was wondering if you, well,
    were trying to repay a favor.
[12:25] Belle
    That's probably part of it.
[12:27] Belle
    But more than that,
[12:31] Belle
    I think you could say I'm homesick
    for the land where I was born.
[12:37] Bennett
    Homesick?
[12:39] Belle
    I want to know if I can do something here
    before I leave on my journey.
[12:46] Bennett
    Belle?
[12:47] Belle
    Sorry, Bennett.
[12:49] Belle
    And thanks.
[12:52] Bennett
    Huh?!
[12:53] Belle
    See you! I'm gonna fight
    another round or two.
[13:00] Bennett
    I'm always getting jerked around.
[13:12] Kitty
    Dear me. I'm already running late.
[13:17] Kitty
    Goodness! You've shattered my formulae?
[13:22] Kitty
    That good fellow has sent quite
    a remarkable wolf my way.
[13:26] Kitty
    May I ask you one question, Adonis?
[13:30] Kitty
    What reason do you have
    to turn your blade on me?
[13:34] Adonis
    Ask my blade.
[13:36] Adonis
    With your body.
[13:43] Kitty
    In my land,
[13:45] Kitty
    everyone knows that the bloodthirsty
    receive the sad wages of karma.
[13:51] Kitty
    Radiance of infinite density!
[14:10] Kitty
    What?!
[14:18] Kitty
    You haven't won yet!
[14:25] Kitty
    Curse you...
[14:35] Adonis
    Rusty Nail.
[14:47] Adonis
    Sian.
[14:49] Sian
    How did it go?
[14:51] Adonis
    Here.
[14:53] Sian
    Well done.
[14:54] Sian
    By the way, did he open his watch?
[14:57] Adonis
    No.
[14:59] Sian
    I see.
[15:01] Sian
    The castle is home to one who has bathed
    in those deadly ashes to the limit,
[15:06] Sian
    maintaining his personality
    while melding with its god.
[15:11] Sian
    Shower him in more than he can take.
[15:15] Adonis
    Your own older brother?
[15:17] Sian
    That's right.
[15:20] Adonis
    I'll be waiting...
[15:22] Adonis
    for you to come die at my hands.
[15:37] Adonis
    Your Majesty, hold a moment before
     you return to your god's inner world.
[15:42] Good King; Evil King
    Have you learned nothing?
    Have you come to doubt this land again,
[15:48] Good King; Evil King
    Adonis the Question?
[15:52] Good King
    The ashes that bring death...
[15:54] Adonis
    Someone taught me that
    the Ashes of the Tried
[15:57] Adonis
    bear your god's hunger by dying a death.
[16:02] Evil King
    You were taught?
[16:04] Good King
    We see.
[16:05] Good King
    So in the end, you, too...
[16:10] Evil King
    ...have abandoned yourself to darkness.
[16:13] Adonis
    I offered myself, and this land as well.
[16:17] Good King; Evil King
    You would offer the darkness your fellows,
[16:20] Good King; Evil King
    as well as the girl of reason,
     for whom you burn with passion?
[16:27] Adonis
    The world only reaches out to make
    peace with me after it's too late.
[16:33] Good King
    What have you carved into your face?
[16:37] Adonis
    This is god's blind spot.
[16:40] Adonis
    Darkness swollen with those who
    couldn't perish if they tried.
[16:43] Evil King
    So you've shouldered a spell
    of vengeance against this world?!
[16:48] Adonis
    "Vengeance" is too weak a word.
[16:52] Adonis
    I've got a message
    from the former Prince Fatal.
[16:55] Adonis
    When you abandoned yourself
    to the divine tree,
[16:58] Adonis
    this land was already on the path to ruin.
[17:02] Adonis
    And now, a new flower will bloom
    from the seed of its corpse.
[17:06] Adonis
    You are the seedbed.
[17:09] Adonis
    Of course, what blossoms will be the darkness
     of eternal return that she and I create.
[17:16] Good King; Evil King
    Doubting one...
[17:18] Good King
    Bear a message to Sian.
[17:22] Good King
    Tell him our failure to recognize
    our brother prince's crimes
[17:27] Good King
    is our true failing.
[17:30] Adonis
    I'll tell him your last words.
[17:43] Adonis
    I'll show you...
[17:44] Adonis
    your god's hunger.
[17:54] Belle
    Hmm?
[17:57] Belle
    Hey!
[17:58] Belle
    What happened to you?!
[18:06] Belle
    The food's not going anywhere.
[18:09] Belle
    First, let's get your clothes—
[18:11] Belle
    Huh?!
[18:14] Belle
    Hey...
[18:17] Belle
    Talk about convenient.
[18:22] Belle
    Oh well.
[18:24] Belle
    Eat up.
[18:27] Gaff
    A petition to make the Katakombe neutral?
[18:30] Gaff
    All I can do is properly approve your
    appeal to the king and guide you to him.
[18:36] Belle
    That's plenty. It's a huge help.
[18:39] Gaff
    But Belle...
[18:41] Gaff
    What are you planning?
[18:44] Belle
    Me?
[18:45] Gaff
    In the worst case, the petitioners
    could be imprisoned in perpetuity
[18:50] Signs
    Paradoxes
    The Outlawed
[18:51] Gaff
    as paradoxes who have violated
    the divine Law of Theme.
[18:55] Belle
    I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.
[18:57] Belle
    Don't worry.
[18:58] Belle
    I know where my will comes from.
[19:02] Belle
    That's what going on a journey means.
[19:04] Belle
    This petition is one of the things I need
     to get out of the way before I go.
[19:10] Gaff
    I see.
[19:11] Gaff
    In that case, I have nothing more to say.
[19:13] Belle
    Thanks, Gaff.
[19:15] Gaff
    By the way, Belle—
[19:16] Sherry
    Shandy, are you there?
[19:20] Sherry
    Your wounds may have healed, but you
    shouldn't be up and about so soon.
[19:24] Belle
    Does anyone else get
     to talk to you like that?
[19:29] Gaff
    She is our king's one and only daughter.
[19:32] Gaff
    I can hardly fault her manners.
[19:34] Belle
    Oh, come on.
[19:36] Belle
    Don't let Sherry hear you
    say anything that cold.
[19:38] Gaff
    I wouldn't if we didn't care for each other.
[19:41] Belle
    Oh yeah?
[19:42] Sherry
    Belle!
[19:45] Belle
    Hi, Sherry.
[19:48] Belle
    Sherry?
[19:50] Belle
    Huh?!
[19:51] Sherry
    I'm so sorry.
[19:53] Sherry
    I'm so sorry, Belle.
[19:55] Sherry
    What an awful thing I did to you.
[19:59] Gaff
    She means your duel with Kir.
[20:02] Belle
    Oh.
[20:03] Sherry
    I spoke the divine summons for you to fight.
[20:08] Belle
    Don't let it bother you, Sherry.
[20:10] Sherry
    But...
[20:11] Belle
    Kir and I are both solists.
[20:14] Belle
    I'm proud of that duel.
[20:17] Sherry
    Oh, how underhanded I am,
    making you say that...
[20:23] Sherry
    I could never give you a real apology.
[20:28] Sherry
    That would mean denying the word of god.
[20:33] Sherry
    Please forgive me, Belle.
[20:39] Belle
    Just hearing you say that is enough for me.
[20:42] Belle
    Thanks, Sherry.
[20:52] Belle
    That reminds me...
[20:54] Belle
    What happened to Kir's body?
[20:57] Belle
    I'd like to give him a funeral if I could.
[20:59] Gaff
    The blue priests of the chronicle
    interred him in accordance with custom.
[21:04] Belle
    So he was buried in...
    What's it called? Root Land?
[21:10] Gaff
    How do you know about that?
[21:12] Belle
    I heard about it from Gwyn.
[21:15] Belle
    You think I could visit it?
[21:18] Gaff
    No.
[21:20] Gaff
    Only certain nobles of the castle
     may set foot there.
[21:22] Signs
    Nobles
[21:24] Belle
    Oh, no big deal then.
[21:26] Belle
    I was just curious.
[21:27] Gaff
    I'm sorry.
[21:29] Belle
    It's fine.
[21:34] Belle
    So they even monopolize death...
[21:37] Belle
    Does that mean they rule
    everything about their subjects?
[21:41] Belle
    And anyway, if I died, I'd want
    to be buried like Gin Buck was.
SIGN    Twelfth Movement
SIGN    Entreaty: A Paradise that Entrusts Death
[23:30] Gwyn
    O King Rawhide!
[23:31] Gwyn
    Come! Reveal yourself to us!
[23:32] Sherry
    In this castle dwells a Nidhogg.
[23:35] Adonis
    But it's too late. For anything.
[23:37] Belle
    Is that sword your answer?
[23:38] Signs
    Thirteenth Movement
[23:38] Signs
    Confrontation:A Wish Barely Clung To

13 - Confrontation: A Wish Barely Clung To

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[00:09] Gaff
    Belle.
[00:10] Belle
    Hmm?
[00:11] Gaff
    I hear Adonis appeared
    in the castle the other day.
[00:13] Belle
    Adonis did?
[00:15] Gaff
    Yes. It seems he had a secret
    audience with the king.
[00:19] Belle
    Why are you telling me?
[00:23] Gaff
    He and I are at odds over
    the disposition of a sword.
[00:27] Gaff
    A treasured heirloom of the
     Katakombe's Collins clan, I believe.
[00:32] Gaff
    I fought Tom Collins to claim it.
[00:38] Belle
    What kind of sword is it?
[00:41] Gaff
    It bears a striking resemblance to
    my Emoclew, sword of the kingdom.
[00:43] Signs
    Emoclew
    Kingdom
[00:47] Gaff
    It has this spell engraved on it.
[00:55] Belle
    So that whole battle was over this sword?
[01:00] Gaff
    That was our god's command,
[01:03] Gaff
    though I cannot fathom the intent.
[01:06] Gaff
    In any case, having seized it,
[01:09] Gaff
    I'd hoped to pass it to Tom Collins's
     youngest son, Adonis.
[01:14] Belle
    Then just give it to him already.
[01:17] Gaff
    I've set a condition.
[01:19] Gaff
    He must surrender every
     sword he's taken so far.
[01:23] Belle
    What?!
[01:24] Belle
    There's no way he'd ever agree to that!
[01:27] Gaff
    Unless he does, he can never
    take his place as Prince Fatal
[01:32] Gaff
    and support this kingdom
    with me, back to back.
[01:35] Belle
    Him, become the younger prince?
[01:37] Gaff
    Yes.
[01:38] Gaff
    It's the natural conclusion of climbing
    the ranks of solists as he did.
[01:43] Belle
    Wow.
[01:45] Belle
    "Prince Adonis," huh?
[01:47] Belle
    I guess that makes you Prince Fortuné.
[01:50] Gaff
    Hence why I must resolve this matter swiftly.
[01:54] Gaff
    Belle?
[01:56] Belle
    Oh, it's just...
[01:57] Belle
    some stuff's happened between us.
[02:00] Belle
    But I hear you.
[02:01] Gaff
    I'm counting on you.
[02:03] Belle
    I've been meaning to have
    another talk with him anyway.
[02:10] Belle
    He's the kind of idiot who
     never wants to admit he's hurt,
[02:16] Belle
    so I want to teach him what pain is.
[02:21] Belle
    I think I'm up to it now.
[03:50] Sign
    Bye Bye, Earth
[03:52] Sign
    Bye Bye, Earth
[03:57] Noble 1
    Aren't they...?
[03:59] Noble 2
    From the Katakombe battle!
[04:01] Noble 3
    Really? They're petitioning?
[04:03] Noble 4
    So the rumors say.
[04:05] Belle
    Remember riding a turtle in these getups?
[04:09] Bennett
    That was the first time we met, wasn't it?
[04:14] Gwyn
    I poured all my effort into
    stifling my feelings back then.
[04:19] Gwyn
    Man, how I've changed.
[04:23] Belle
    Speaking of change...
[04:26] Belle
    I've changed a bit myself.
[04:28] Belle
    Can you tell how?
[04:29] Bennett
    Well...
[04:29] Gwyn
    What could it be?
[04:31] Belle
    I've gotten taller!
[04:33] Gwyn
    Oh?
[04:33] Bennett
    You don't say.
[04:35] Belle
    It's true!
[04:37] Belle
    The designer who tailored
    this uniform said so.
[04:40] Belle
    My bust's gotten a little bigger too!
[04:43] Gwyn
    Oho!
[04:44] Bennett
    Well, well!
[04:47] Belle
    Jerks.
[04:49] Sherry
    Belle!
[04:51] Belle
    Hey, Sherry!
[04:53] Sherry
    You look so gallant, Belle.
[04:55] Sherry
    It's simply wonderful.
[04:56] Belle
    You look nice and pretty too.
[04:58] Belle
    That's a vocalist uniform, right?
[05:00] Belle
    It looks great on you.
[05:03] Bennett
    A bold solist and graceful vocalist...
[05:06] Bennett
    You make a lovely pair.
[05:07] Sherry
    My.
[05:08] Gwyn
    Straight out of a swashbuckling tale.
[05:10] Bennett
    Just imagine if Belle were a man.
[05:13] Gaff
    We may have contended for the
    heart of our singing princess.
[05:18] Belle
    Huh?
[05:18] Gwyn
    In that case, we would have to take
     the fall for a crime on Belle's behalf.
[05:24] Bennett
    Such stories always unfold that way.
[05:32] Gaff
    I see Belle has fine sword friends.
[05:35] Bennett
    Yes. People we can trust
    to watch our backs in a fight.
[05:41] Gaff
    Is that so?
[05:42] Gaff
    I applaud your spirit, although you're
    as eccentric as the rumors say.
[05:47] Belle
    I know, right?
[05:48] Belle
    Gaff, thanks for today.
[05:50] Gaff
    It was nothing.
[05:51] Gaff
    Still, you've certainly come
    dressed to make a statement.
[05:55] Gwyn
    I can give you a suit to match, if you'd like.
[05:58] Sherry
    Oh? Then I'd like one as well.
[06:01] Sherry
    Please? It would mean so much to me.
[06:04] Gaff
    I don't know about that, Sherry...
[06:11] Gaff
    It appears the time is ripe.
[06:33] Gwyn
    I am Gwyn, middle grade
    conductor of solists!
[06:37] Gwyn
    I have come today by grace of Lead
    Solist Gaff to make a humble appeal.
[06:47] Gwyn
    We wish for the Katakombe
    to become neutral ground.
[06:51] Gwyn
    O King Rawhide!
[06:53] Gwyn
    Come! Reveal yourself to us!
[07:02] Gaff
    Your Majesty, please hearken to their
    voices, the voices of your people!
[07:15] Belle
    What's wrong, Bennett?
[07:17] Bennett
    I can hear them.
[07:18] Belle
    Huh?
[07:21] Bennett
    How many hundreds are there
    on the other side of that curtain?
[07:32] Sherry
    No!
[07:37] Gaff
    Sherry?!
[07:39] Sherry
    As divine priestess, I relay a message...
[07:43] Belle
    A divine summons!
[07:44] Sherry
    In this castle dwells a Nidhogg
[07:48] Sherry
    who would endanger the people.
[07:50] Gaff
    What?!
[07:51] Sherry
    Though dwelling within our god,
    he has revealed his wicked nature
[07:59] Sherry
    and now shatters all bonds.
[08:03] Sherry
    His name...
[08:07] Bennett
    Run, Gwyn!
[08:22] Belle
    Is that King Rawhide?!
[08:35] Belle
    What the hell...?!
[08:38] Bennett
    Gwyn!
[08:39] Bennett
    That thing ate Gwyn!
[08:41] Sherry
    In the voice of god, I command you...
[08:45] Sherry
    Wield Sagittarius to slay
    the maddened Nidhogg king!
[08:51] Belle
    What does that mean?!
[08:53] Signs
    Sagittarius
    Song of Destruction
[08:53] Gaff
    It's the name of a song!
[08:54] Gaff
    A song of destruction that exists
    only to destroy all buildings!
[08:58] Sherry
    To sing, I name Sherry,
[09:01] Sherry
    divine vocalist and Princess Veronette.
[09:07] Gaff
    Sherry!
[09:07] Bennett
    Here he comes!
[09:17] Belle
    Damn it!
[09:18] Good King
    Little one...
[09:20] Belle
    Huh?
[09:21] Belle
    King Rawhide?!
[09:23] Good King
    End us.
[09:25] Belle
    What?
[09:26] Good King
    You must not allow us to leave this hall...
[09:31] Good King
    Must not allow the people
    to behold this form.
[09:42] Good King
    End us.
[09:59] Gaff
    Sherry!
[10:00] Gaff
    The song of destruction!
[10:00] Gaff
    Hurry!
[10:01] Sherry
    No!
[10:03] Sherry
    I can't. My father...
[10:05] Gaff
    Sherry!
[10:06] Gaff
    It will spare him further suffering!
[10:09] Sherry
    No!
[10:11] Sherry
    If I do that, I'll...
[10:14] Sherry
    I'll never sing again.
[10:16] Belle
    I'll handle this, Gaff!
[10:18] Gaff
    No! That would go against our god's command!
[10:20] Belle
    The king asked me to!
[10:21] Belle
    He said to end him!
[10:23] Gaff
    No!
[10:41] Belle
    Damn it!
[10:42] Belle
    Where do I hit to kill him?!
[10:45] Bennett
    I found him!
[10:45] Bennett
    Belle!
[10:46] Bennett
    Gwyn is still alive!
[10:48] Bennett
    There!
[11:02] Belle
    I see it!
[11:03] Belle
    Runding!
[11:17] Belle
    What the...?
[11:24] Young Belle
    Why?
[11:27] Belle
    Are you...
[11:30] Belle
    me?
[11:32] Young Belle
    Why did you have to wake up?
[11:35] Young Belle
    You should have just stayed asleep.
[11:38] Young Belle
    Inside that rock. Forever.
[11:42] Belle
    What?!
[11:43] Young Belle
    Because you existed, we...
[11:49] Belle
    Huh?
[11:51] Young Belle
    Following survivor confirmation...
    shutdown program.
[11:59] Young Belle
    Engage life support.
[12:05] Young Belle
    Enhance physique in...
    withstand long-term cryogenic sleep.
[12:12] Young Belle
    All... game... will now indefinitely
    postpone shutdown programs
[12:18] Young Belle
    pending confirmation of survivor intent.
[12:23] Young Belle
    All... facilities will now commence
    generating livable environments.
[12:32] Young Belle
    Releasing life forms for generation
    of evolutionary environment to...
[12:40] Young Belle
    Setting our reason for being
    to this individual.
[12:49] Young Belle
    Girl of reason,
[12:51] Young Belle
    because you woke up...
[12:57] Young Belle
    Why?
[13:08] Belle
    What happened?
[13:22] Belle
    What the hell did I cut?
[13:27] Bennett
    Gwyn!
[13:30] Bennett
    Hey! Are you all right, Gwyn?!
[13:32] Bennett
    Open your eyes! Gwyn!
[13:38] Bennett
    Gwyn!
[13:40] Belle
    He'll be fine.
[13:41] Bennett
    Belle?
[13:43] Belle
    He's only dreaming.
[13:46] Bennett
    Dreaming?
[13:47] Belle
    The dream the divine tree has.
[13:50] Belle
    Like I dreamed in that stone egg.
[13:59] Gaff
    I don't believe it.
[14:03] Sherry
    How could this...
[14:07] Sherry
    Father...
[14:09] Belle
    What?!
[14:10] Gaff
    Make no mistake.
[14:11] Gaff
    That is King Rawhide.
[14:13] Gaff
    He offered himself to the divine tree.
    To think we would recover him like this...
[14:17] Gaff
    Did you do this?
[14:19] Belle
    Huh? No.
[14:21] Belle
    I just cut...
[14:23] Sherry
    Oh, to have the father I know
    here like this at the end...
[14:31] Sherry
    Thank you, Belle.
[14:33] Sherry
    Thank you.
[14:35] Belle
    I didn't really—
[14:37] Adonis
    You sublated his existence.
[14:39] Belle
    Huh?
[14:42] Belle
    A...
[14:44] Belle
    Adonis!
[14:50] Adonis
    I'm impressed.
[14:51] Adonis
    You sublated the Nidhogg's very
    existence without cutting its body?
[14:56] Signs
    Sublate
    Aufheben
[14:57] Adonis
    That must be what your curse demands,
[15:01] Adonis
    the point where it changes into a blessing.
[15:04] Gaff
    What are you trying to say, Adonis?
[15:06] Adonis
    God hasn't finished speaking.
[15:10] Belle
    Sherry?
[15:12] Sherry
    Within the divine order, I command you...
[15:16] Sherry
    One has defied the word of god
     and swung a cruel sword.
[15:22] Signs
    Paradox
    The Outlawed
[15:22] Sherry
    You shall deem her a
    paradox and imprison her.
[15:27] Sherry
    Likewise to those whose appeal
     has disturbed the divine order.
[15:33] Sherry
    Oh, Belle!
[15:37] Gaff
    Sherry!
[15:41] Belle
    H-Hang on!
[15:44] Bennett
    Gwyn, was this part of your script, too?
[15:49] Belle
    Hey, Gaff!
[15:50] Gaff
    I'll do something for you soon.
[15:52] Belle
    Huh?
[15:52] Gaff
    Endure it for now, Belle.
[15:57] Belle
    Are you kidding me?!
[15:59] Belle
    Don't you point your swords at me!
[16:01] Bennett
    Stop!
[16:02] Bennett
    We should go quietly and—
[16:02] Belle
    Look at me!
[16:03] Belle
    Gaff!
[16:06] Belle
    Adonis!
[16:10] Belle
    That sword...
[16:15] Adonis
    Rusty Nail.
[16:18] Adonis
    Gaff, the divine summons didn't
    specify who should fight.
[16:23] Gaff
    Adonis, do you mean...?
[16:25] Adonis
    Give me the order.
[16:26] Adonis
    Do it as a noble of this castle! Hurry!
[16:30] Gaff
    Adonis,
[16:32] Gaff
    I leave Belle to you.
[16:34] Adonis
    I hear and obey, Prince Fortuné.
[16:36] Belle
    What? Gaff!
[16:39] Adonis
    Belle,
[16:40] Adonis
    can you cut me?
[16:43] Belle
    Move.
[16:50] Belle
    Do you realize why we're here right now?
[16:56] Adonis
    No idea.
[16:57] Adonis
    But it's too late. For anything.
[17:01] Adonis
    I made sure of that.
[17:03] Belle
    You...
[17:04] Belle
    You did this?
[17:06] Belle
    You caused this mess?
[17:10] Belle
    You dumb bastard!
[17:35] Belle
    He's strong...
[17:38] Belle
    He's holding his sword barehanded?
[17:45] Belle
    Is that sword your answer?
[17:49] Belle
    Then here's mine!
[17:57] Adonis
    Can you cut me?
[17:59] Belle
    Our swords will decide how this ends!
[18:08] Belle
    Did I cut it?
[18:19] Belle
    Runding?!
[18:23] Belle
    No!
[18:24] Belle
    I know I broke it!
[18:26] Adonis
    This sword is forever withering.
[18:28] Adonis
    No sword in existence can
    destroy Rusty Nail's blade.
[18:34] Belle
    It's consumed mine!
[18:35] Belle
    That sword ate Runding's power!
[18:40] Belle
    What?
[18:42] Adonis
    Two swords from the same
    maker are resonating.
[18:46] Adonis
    Your sword is forever being born.
[18:49] Adonis
    My blade is drawn to Runding's.
[18:52] Belle
    What?!
[18:53] Belle
    Damn it!
[18:55] Belle
    So that's what your curse really does!
[18:59] Belle
    I guess you finally found
    a sword to suit your hands!
[19:02] Adonis
    And at the same time,
    the form of my blessing.
[19:11] Belle
    You expect me to believe that disgusting
    sword is Runding's brother?!
[19:22] Young Belle
    Why?
[19:24] Adonis
    So that's the form of your curse...
[19:28] Belle
    I've had it with your tricks!
[19:32] Belle
    I'll hack that thing to pieces,
    and you with it!
[19:35] Adonis
    Can you sublate my existence?!
[19:56] Belle
    Adonis...
[20:05] Adonis
    Just what I hoped for!
[20:07] Adonis
    Surpassing our swords' mortal shells
[20:10] Adonis
    is the future their makers
    entrusted to us, their wielders.
[20:23] Adonis
    If you can't even sublate me,
[20:25] Adonis
    how can you sublate a god?
[20:31] Belle
    It'll die.
[20:32] Belle
    Who will?
[20:33] Belle
    What will?
[20:34] Belle
    The sword.
[20:35] Belle
    My sword will die.
[20:39] Belle
    If I lose it, I'll despair and die.
[20:44] Belle
    I'll break.
[20:48] Adonis
    Girl of reason!
[20:54] Belle
    You...
[21:15] Belle
    Adonis!
[21:37] Belle
    A journey...
[21:44] Belle
    Let's go on a journey together, I said.
SIGN    Thirteenth Movement
SIGN    Confrontation:A Wish Barely Clung To
[23:30] Adonis
    It will wither away eventually.
[23:32] Gaff
    Destroy the key to journeys.
[23:34] Gwyn
    Why me?!
[23:35] Bennett
    This will be a parting of the ways.
[23:37] Bennett
    Yours and ours.
[23:38] Signs
    Fourteenth Movement
[23:38] Signs
    Doubt: For Love of Reason

14 - Doubt: For Love of Reason

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[00:07] Gaff
    Upon this sword, I swear to you all...
[00:09] Gaff
    I have resolved to play the leading role!
[00:12] Gaff
    Would any challenge me for the kingship?!
[00:21] Gaff
    The king and his sword have been chosen!
[00:25] Gaff
    I, too, shall dwell within this divine tree!
[00:29] Gaff
    The old king is dead!
[00:38] Gaff
    I am your king now!
[00:44] Gaff
    This is order, Belle.
[00:47] Gaff
    Order means performance,
[00:48] Gaff
    with every subject playing the role
    our god has granted them.
[00:54] Gaff
    I will play the part of king
    with all my heart.
[00:59] Gaff
    Belle...
[01:00] Gaff
    Our god has already decided how to cast you.
[01:06] Gaff
    Do not make me cut you down.
[01:12] Gaff
    As priest, I relay a divine message...
[01:16] Gaff
    The word of god!
[01:17] Gaff
    Let the newborn king do his duty.
[01:21] Gaff
    Seek out the key to journeys...
[01:25] Gaff
    Sherry!
[01:27] Gaff
    Can you not hear this divine summons?!
[01:30] Gaff
    Destroy it.
[01:32] Gaff
    The key lies in the black hour,
     in the black direction.
[01:37] Gaff
    Only one can discover it:
    the elder prince who may claim the throne.
[01:44] Gaff
    Destroy the key to journeys.
[03:12] Signs
    Bye Bye, Earth
[03:14] Signs
    Bye Bye, Earth
[03:35] Belle
    Adonis.
[03:36] Adonis
    You cling to your sword's shell,
     afraid to let it go.
[03:40] Adonis
    That tells me all I need to know.
[03:44] Belle
    What are you doing here?
[03:50] Belle
    Don't touch me!
[03:52] Belle
    I'm not dead yet, and neither is Runding!
[03:56] Adonis
    It will wither away eventually.
[04:00] Adonis
    Release the power from its shell.
[04:06] Belle
    Sacred ashes?
[04:08] Belle
    No...
[04:09] Belle
    The kind for keeping swords alive.
[04:11] Adonis
    The Ashes of the Tried.
[04:17] Belle
    What's your game, Adonis?!
[04:19] Belle
    Why did you bring me this crap?!
[04:21] Belle
    You... Damn it.
[04:23] Adonis
    I'm waiting for you.
[04:33] Gaff
    You still haven't found it?!
[04:35] Yellow Priest
    I beg Your Majesty's pardon.
[04:37] Gaff
    Assign every priest not serving
    with the solists to this mission!
[04:42] Yellow Priest
    At once!
[04:45] Gaff
    The black hour in the black direction...
[04:48] Gaff
    We live in this castle.
    How could it elude us so utterly?
[04:52] Gaff
    And what will I do once I've found it?
[04:55] Gaff
    Will I smash the key to journeys?
[04:57] Gaff
    To what end?
[05:01] Gaff
    Adonis.
[05:02] Gaff
    You've recovered already?
[05:04] Adonis
    I'm still at half strength.
[05:05] Gaff
    I'm sorry I left Belle entirely to you.
[05:09] Gaff
    An unpleasant role, I'm sure.
[05:10] Adonis
    Listen, Gaff,
[05:12] Adonis
    would you bring that sword from the
    Katakombe to the king's funeral?
[05:16] Gaff
    Oh?
[05:17] Adonis
    I'll agree to be your
    brother prince if you do.
[05:20] Gaff
    Will you return the swords, then?
    All the swords you've taken?
[05:26] Adonis
    I won't rule it out.
[05:27] Adonis
    Besides, the funeral will be my last
    chance to doubt this land.
[05:31] Signs
    Doubt
[05:33] Gaff
    Don't tell me you believe I'd allow that.
[05:37] Adonis
    I'll take on your doubts,
[05:40] Adonis
    the dark side of order.
[05:43] Adonis
    You can breathe easy and bask in
    the glory of the bright side.
[06:00] Adonis
    So you don't rot, huh?
[06:08] Adonis
    You must be exhausted, singing songs of
    restoration day after day, Princess Sherry.
[06:13] Sherry
    Why did you fight Belle?
[06:17] Adonis
    If someone has to throw Belle in jail,
     I'll be the one to do it.
[06:23] Sherry
    Why must you and Belle fight one another?
[06:31] Adonis
    You remind me of me.
[06:33] Sherry
    Don't change the subject!
[06:35] Sherry
    Have you ever considered how she feels?
[06:41] Adonis
    I just can't stop...
[06:43] Sherry
    Why do you laugh?!
[06:45] Adonis
    Sorry. This is just how I am.
[06:49] Sherry
    Do you... regret fighting Belle?
[06:55] Adonis
    I'd feel better if I did.
    If I could cry over it.
[07:01] Adonis
    You're just taking your
    doubts about god out on me.
[07:06] Adonis
    I was obeying the divine summons
    you relayed when I fought Belle.
[07:12] Sherry
    Not another word!
[07:13] Sherry
    I no longer wish to speak with you.
[07:19] Adonis
    Sherry, I'd like you to share
     your doubts with me.
[07:23] Sherry
    I have no idea what you're talking about.
[07:25] Adonis
    You doubt this land so much
    that you wish it would just fall apart.
[07:30] Sherry
    Don't be absurd!
[07:32] Adonis
    I'll take on the dark side of order!
[07:33] Sherry
    Unhand me!
[07:36] Sherry
    Are you saying you would sacrifice yourself?
[07:41] Adonis
    I'm just doing my job.
[07:44] Sherry
    You mean like how you had to fight Belle?
[07:50] Adonis
    That's right.
[07:52] Sherry
    I... doubt that our god
    truly loves the people.
[07:59] Sherry
    I believed that maintaining
    preestablished harmony
[08:03] Sherry
    brought the people happiness
    because god loves us.
[08:07] Sherry
    But I sense no love in imprisoning
    Belle and her friends.
[08:15] Sherry
    Or in any other order I've relayed!
[08:19] Adonis
    You're the only one in the
    castle who hears god speak,
[08:23] Adonis
    but that doesn't mean god loves you most.
[08:28] Adonis
    That's what you suspect, isn't it?
[08:32] Adonis
    But as princess, you can't ever tell a soul.
[08:36] Adonis
    Must be hard.
[08:38] Adonis
    I'll take on your doubts and put
    everyone's questions to god myself.
[08:45] Adonis
    I need a favor from you,
    our lead vocalist.
[08:48] Adonis
    Please, give me a chance
    to find out why I'm here.
[08:57] Sherry
    I will.
[09:08] Rawhide
    Behold black.
[09:11] Rawhide
    The color black maps
    to no direction, no hour.
[09:18] Rawhide
    Yet it is also the color to which all
    directions and all hours return.
[09:25] Rawhide
    Black lies at the end of every return,
[09:29] Rawhide
    signifying endings and
    beginnings in equal measure.
[09:43] Gwyn
    Wait!
[09:44] Rawhide
    Only kings know the ritual and can grasp
    the black direction and black hour.
[09:52] Gwyn
    Why?
[09:53] Gwyn
    Why does it have to be me?!
[09:56] Rawhide
    Black is our god's blind spot.
[10:01] Rawhide
    Uncover the key.
[10:05] Rawhide
    Before god aims to destroy
    what it cannot see...
[10:12] Rawhide
    new-minted king.
[10:16] Gwyn
    Why me?
[10:18] Gwyn
    King Rawhide!
[10:26] Gwyn
    Oh, just a prison cell...
[10:38] Gwyn
    Hey.
[10:39] Gwyn
    That sure went about as we
    expected, huh, Bennett?
[10:42] Bennett
    Well, well. Look who finally woke up.
[10:45] Bennett
    I don't suppose I need to fill you in?
[10:47] Gwyn
    Did making contact go according to plan?
[10:49] Bennett
    More or less.
[10:50] Bennett
    But wouldn't it be risky
    to gather the solists now?
[10:55] Gwyn
    If worse comes to worst,
    we'll reach out to Mist and—
[11:12] Bennett
    What's wrong, Gwyn?
[11:15] Gwyn
    Nothing.
[11:20] Gwyn
    How funny...
[11:26] Gwyn
    He made himself at home in my arm.
[11:32] Gwyn
    I don't believe it.
[11:34] Bennett
    Come again?
[11:35] Gwyn
    As far as Park City is concerned,
    we might as well not exist right now.
[11:39] Gwyn
    This prison is another one
    of god's blind spots.
[11:42] Bennett
    What in the world are you on about?
[11:42] Gwyn
    What we think of as "god" is
    probably the oldest of all spells,
[11:44] Bennett
    Gwyn, you're giving me the creeps.
[11:47] Bennett
    Who are you talking to?
[11:47] Gwyn
    passed down since the age of legends.
[11:50] Gwyn
    But in our immaturity, we trapped the magic
    we call god in the gears of a machine.
[11:57] Gwyn
    Our job is to free god from
    the yoke of existence.
[12:03] Gwyn
    Then, someday, the time will come when
    we relinquish all rights to own god!
[12:10] Bennett
    Gwyn, if you lose your mind,
[12:14] Bennett
    what happens to me?
[12:20] Bennett
    Belle...
[12:22] Bennett
    You won't accept this.
[12:25] Bennett
    You'll escape this place without
    using anyone's help again.
[12:32] Bennett
    Belle,
[12:33] Bennett
    this will be a parting of the ways.
[12:35] Bennett
    Yours and ours.
[12:45] Gaff
    Kings of the past
[12:47] Gaff
    and heroes whose spirits dwell
    in the world within our god,
[12:52] Gaff
    pardon my breach of etiquette
    in addressing you.
[12:57] Gaff
    I have no choice now
    but to ask you directly.
[13:04] Gaff
    For what purpose did our god command me
    to take this sword from the Katakombe?
[13:10] Gaff
    May I entrust it to my brother prince to-be?
[13:14] Gaff
    To a man born of the Katakombe?
[13:17] Gaff
    And what is the key?
[13:20] Gaff
    Where may I find it?
[13:22] Sian
    I can't blame you for not knowing.
[13:26] Gaff
    Sian!
[13:29] Sian
    It's been a long time, Gaff.
[13:32] Gaff
    I knew you had to be alive.
[13:35] Sian
    So you finally heard god speak, eh?
[13:38] Sian
    But a king's meant to do more than
    blindly follow divine orders.
[13:43] Gaff
    Sian!
[13:44] Gaff
    He who is most a slave to our god has
    the right to reign over the people!
[13:50] Gaff
    You taught me that yourself!
[13:52] Sian
    Why does the word of god
    mean so much to you?
[13:55] Gaff
    I...
[13:56] Gaff
    I'd never heard our god speak before.
[14:01] Gaff
    I'd never so much as felt
    god's presence clearly!
[14:05] Gaff
    Without that, what was I born and raised
    as a noble in this castle for?!
[14:10] Gaff
    But I'm different now!
[14:12] Gaff
    I've gained the right to become a true king!
[14:16] Gaff
    Hearing god at last qualifies me!
[14:19] Sian
    Child,
[14:20] Sian
    I now release you from the
    fetters of my teachings.
[14:25] Gaff
    Stop.
[14:26] Sian
    The sword of another will cut the chains
    of fate that bind you in my stead.
[14:33] Sian
    Most of your people no longer hear their
    god speak even once in their lives.
[14:38] Sian
    Think carefully on that.
[14:41] Sian
    You're a king.
[14:44] Sian
    Farewell, Gaff.
[14:50] Gaff
    I... am king.
[15:03] Sian
    Oh, great. I didn't make it out in time.
[15:08] Kitty
    You told me to cage the bird
    without letting it sing.
[15:14] Kitty
    That there was no other way
     to calm the strife in my homeland.
[15:19] Kitty
    But on the other hand, that gave the Rabbitia
    a new ambition: to rule the world.
[15:26] Sian
    Lamenting your fate is practically
    a privilege of personhood, prince.
[15:32] Kitty
    Nonsense!
[15:33] Kitty
    What I've suffered amounts to death!
[15:35] Kitty
    I've finally accepted that you're
    a snake bent on harming the bird!
[15:40] Kitty
    The Discerning Eye that governs me
     has deemed you dangerous.
[15:45] Kitty
    At long last, I've been entrusted with
    the true secret of opening this watch.
[15:50] Kitty
    All has gone according to your plan...
[15:53] Kitty
    And I couldn't be more furious!
[15:55] Sian
    Whatever. Give me your best shot.
[15:58] Kitty
    You'd make me obliterate
    you with my own hands?
[16:02] Kitty
    The same burden you always
     foist on your pupils?
[16:06] Kitty
    Then so be it!
[16:08] Kitty
    I was your student in Denari Land.
[16:13] Kitty
    Wings of the Sun!
[16:16] Kitty
    In my hand, I raise a bowl
    to receive your radiant blood!
[16:21] Kitty
    God who has roamed the
    heavens since antiquity,
[16:24] Kitty
    governing the sun's bright heat,
[16:27] Kitty
    shed a drop of your divine
    fire here and now!
[16:32] Kitty
    Only the girl of reason can succeed!
[16:35] Kitty
    Only she can wipe fruitless strife and
    stagnation from my land and the world!
[16:43] Kitty
    I hang my hopes on Belle,
[16:45] Kitty
    to ensure all divine power is lost forever
[16:49] Kitty
    and quell strife at its very root!
[16:59] Kitty
    Behold a legacy of the gods
    of old, the Electhor!
[17:10] Kitty
    Can you break the might of the gods?
[17:13] Kitty
    You, who's left everything
    to the girl of reason?
[17:16] Sian
    It's all the same.
[17:18] Kitty
    What?
[17:19] Sian
    You will the gods' destruction
    while wielding their power,
[17:28] Sian
    just as I endanger the girl of reason.
[17:31] Kitty
    Why are you so dead set on treachery?
[17:36] Sian
    God, the people, and reason
[17:38] Sian
    all must be fundamentally refuted
    before we can achieve true aufheben!
[17:44] Kitty
    Then I will brandish my power to affirm
    my beloved through and through!
[18:13] Adonis
    I felt it, the sword you made for Sian...
[18:17] Adonis
    I don't know who he's fighting.
[18:18] Dram
    The Rabbitia. You fought him once yourself.
[18:22] Adonis
    I thought I killed him.
[18:24] Dram
    His nomad's curse.
[18:26] Dram
    He's been split into two identities.
[18:30] Dram
    No matter what torment the nighttime
    sage suffers, death included,
[18:31] Signs
    The All
    The Sage
[18:36] Signs
    The Nothing
    The Fool
[18:36] Dram
    the daytime fool will return his
    suffering to the one who dealt it.
[18:41] Adonis
    What could make him take
    on a curse like that?
[18:45] Dram
    He's like us.
[18:47] Dram
    He wants the gods to fall,
[18:51] Dram
    but he can never cause their ruin himself.
[18:56] Adonis
    So he's counting on Belle?
[18:59] Adonis
    When Runding overcomes
    the Ashes of the Tried,
[19:02] Adonis
    I'll cross swords with Belle.
[19:06] Adonis
    That will be my last chance to touch her.
[19:09] Dram
    Are you crying?
[19:12] Adonis
    I don't think I can. It just hurts.
[19:15] Adonis
    Death is coming.
[19:18] Adonis
    I'm struck by the feeling that
    something deep inside me died.
[19:25] Adonis
    Sian's fine.
[19:28] Dram
    Don't worry about him.
[19:29] Dram
    Power tied to a god was used
    against a sword I wrought.
[19:35] Adonis
    Dram, I'll give you a present...
[19:38] Adonis
    Sian's lifeless corpse when I beat him.
[19:43] Adonis
    You'll be together forever.
[19:53] Belle
    Dumb bastard...
[19:55] Belle
    What else can I do?
[19:58] Belle
    This might save you.
[20:00] Belle
    You'd die.
[20:02] Belle
    You'd die if I just left you like that.
[20:05] Belle
    I won't end up like Kir.
[20:08] Belle
    As long as you're alive, I'll be fine.
[20:12] Belle
    We'll be...
[20:14] Belle
    We'll be together, right?
[20:19] Belle
    Damn it!
[20:21] Belle
    Runding!
[20:41] Runding
    Grant me my proper station.
[20:45] Runding
    Grant it to me. My proper station.
[20:50] Runding
    Within you.
[20:53] Signs
    Durchbohren Sie die Welt
    Pierce the World
[20:53] Runding
    Durchbohren Sie die Welt.
[20:57] Belle
    You dumb bastard...
[20:59] Belle
    What do you expect me to do?
[21:36] Adonis
    I don't believe it...
[21:38] Adonis
    So reason does nothing
    but pierce god's shadow?
[21:43] Adonis
    I haven't pierced more than
    god's shadow yet myself.
[21:47] Adonis
    But that's not enough anymore.
[21:50] Adonis
    You only have yourself
    to blame for swallowing me.
SIGN    Fourteenth Movement
SIGN    Doubt: For Love of Reason
[23:30] Sherry?
    I came to know myself.
[23:32] Adonis
    I'll question god right here.
[23:34] Sherry
    I believe in the Army of Insatiable Emptiness.
[23:37] Gwyn
    Leave the rest to us!
[23:38] Signs
    Fifteenth Movement
[23:38] Signs
    Aufheben: When Flowers Shed Their Buds and Bloom

15 - Aufheben: When Flowers Shed Their Buds and Bloom

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[00:06] Adonis
    Gaff, where's the sword from the Katakombe?
[00:09] Gaff
    One of the priests carries it.
[00:11] Gaff
    But depending on your actions,
    I may break it here.
[00:17] Adonis
    As you will, my brother prince.
[01:44] Signs
    Bye Bye, Earth
[01:46] Signs
    Bye Bye, Earth
[01:54] Signs
    Lake of Calm
[01:54] Gaff
    One of the Lakes of Calm.
[01:58] Adonis
    The more I see, the more this
    reminds me of the Katakombe.
[02:01] Adonis
    Tiziano toyed with the dead
    in a shrine that looked a lot like it.
[02:19] Gaff
    Offer the king into the divine presence.
[02:52] Adonis
    It almost seems like they're calling us.
[02:56] Adonis
    Beckoning us to join them.
[02:57] Gaff
    Don't be absurd.
[02:58] Gaff
    They rest in peace,
    cradled in the roots of our god.
[03:03] Adonis
    In that case...
[03:04] Adonis
    I should just go ahead and ask god.
[03:07] Gaff
    You wouldn't!
[03:08] Adonis
    I'll question god right here.
[03:11] Gaff
    You can't be serious!
[03:13] Adonis
    The elder princess has already
    agreed to open the way for me.
[03:18] Gaff
    What?!
[03:20] Sherry
    Shandy Gaff, I wish to entrust
    the shadows in my heart to this man...
[03:27] Sherry
    So that I may one day convey god's love
    to the people as the Princess Veronette.
[04:09] Adonis
    The time has come! I'll cross god's defenses
    and touch upon its true nature at last!
[04:15] Gaff
    What are you plotting, damn you?!
[04:18] Adonis
    I already told you.
[04:19] Adonis
    I'm risking everything I am
    to put my questions to god.
[04:24] Gaff
    Nonsense!
[04:29] Shadows
    Nowhere...
[04:32] Gaff
    Adonis, what have you done?!
[04:36] Adonis
    Behold a world taken to the extreme
    of my negative skepticism!
[04:42] Priest A
    My lord, command us to draw our swords!
[04:44] Sherry
    You mustn't.
[04:46] Sherry
    These people have strayed
    from god and should be shunned.
[04:51] Sherry
    Any who make Schwert Musik with them
    shall bear the stigma of a paradox.
[04:53] Signs
    Paradox
    The Outlawed
[04:59] Gaff
    Do not cross swords with them!
[05:01] Gaff
    Fall back!
[05:02] Gaff
    Everyone, fall back!
[05:07] Gaff
    Adonis!
[05:08] Gaff
    I still have the sword you crave!
[05:12] Adonis
    I'll let you in on something.
[05:14] Adonis
    I've broken every sword I ever took
     and fed them all to this one.
[05:21] Adonis
    The sword of the Katakombe,
[05:23] Adonis
    your sword of the kingdom,
[05:25] Adonis
    and all the others will feed my power!
[05:32] Priest B
    My lord, you're in danger here!
[05:35] Gaff
    By my power as Prince Fortuné,
    I forbid all combat!
[05:39] Gaff
    Release Belle Lablac and her companions
[05:41] Gaff
    and charge them with vanquishing
    the Army of Insatiable Emptiness!
[06:15] Belle
    I found a friend...
[06:18] Belle
    My sword is like a glove
    I wear when I touch things.
[06:22] Belle
    I can clear any hurdle
    as long as I have you.
[06:25] Belle
    Let's do this, partner.
[06:27] Belle
    If I lose it, I'll despair and die.
[06:41] Tom
    Trust the visions you catch
    glimpses of in your mind.
[06:45] Tom
    They manifest a sort of invisible
    will that guides your course.
[06:54] Colonel
    Its spell, Tixe, means "escape."
[06:55] Signs
    Tixe
    Escape
[06:59] Colonel
    The spell Ecnes, which shows sympathy.
[07:01] Signs
    Ecnes
    Sympathy
[07:04] Guidance
    Escape from yourself.
[07:07] Guidance
    Sympathize with yourself.
[07:16] Sian
    In that case, why not go on a journey?
[07:23] Belle
    If I ever have to fight on that side...
[07:25] Belle
    I'll come out on top sooner or later.
[07:27] Belle
    I guess I'd better step up...
[07:28] Belle
    I'm the one who's changed.
[07:30] Belle
    To do something about my homesickness.
[07:32] Benedictine
    What are you waiting for, Belle?
[07:35] Belle
    Oh, so you understand.
[07:47] Belle
    I feel you more than ever.
[07:52] Belle
    You awoke through the pain too, didn't you?
[07:58] Belle
    Someday, when you shatter completely,
[08:01] Belle
    I know what drives me will change.
[08:06] Belle
    But how will my curse
    and my blessing transform?
[08:11] Belle
    Isn't it my job to find out?
[08:16] Belle
    I came to know myself.
[08:31] Belle
    Moonwork... "To do as the moon."
[08:40] Guidance
    You who have learned true strength—
[08:44] Guidance
    That which you fear most
[08:47] Guidance
    will teach you the source of your power.
[08:54] Belle
    A grown-up me?
[09:00] Guidance
    Go lightly and by your own power, conqueror.
[09:06] Guidance
    You have triumphed in the grand undertaking
    that is conquering yourself.
[09:20] Gwyn
    Anyone can see why he's banned combat!
[09:24] Gwyn
    We could end up sacrifices to order,
    stuck slaying every Nidhogg that pops up!
[09:31] Gwyn
    But therein lies our advantage!
[09:34] Bennett
    You sound so happy, I could almost
    forget what a fix we're in.
[09:39] Belle
    That doesn't sound so bad.
[09:43] Gwyn
    So, how is it going?
[09:45] Bennett
    The call has already gone out.
[09:47] Bennett
    But who knows how many will answer it.
[09:50] Belle
    Call?
[09:51] Bennett
    Our blowhard of a conductor is making
    everyone dance to his tune.
[09:55] Gwyn
    Excuse you. They're all dancing
    of their own free will.
[10:00] Gwyn
    How about it, Belle?
[10:02] Gwyn
    Would you care to join the dance?
[10:10] Belle
    I'll grant my sword its proper station.
[10:14] Belle
    And I'll swing it to do that,
[10:16] Belle
    whether I'm up against the
    Army of Insatiable Emptiness or god.
[10:21] Belle
    Besides,
[10:23] Belle
    Adonis is waiting.
[10:26] Belle
    He won't beat me this time!
[10:28] Gwyn
    That settles it. We fight
    the Army of Insatiable Emptiness!
[10:31] Gwyn
    And we'll have our first skirmish
    with god while we're at it!
[10:36] Supporter A
    The conductor's here!
[10:38] Supporter A
    Took him long enough!
[10:42] Belle
    Talk about a welcoming party!
[10:47] Gwyn
    I never dreamed so many of you would come.
[10:50] Gwyn
    Oh, thank you!
[10:54] Gwyn
    Look.
[10:55] Gwyn
    Take a look at this, Belle!
[10:57] Gwyn
    They've rallied to join our fight.
[11:00] Gwyn
    They all long to hear...
[11:02] Gwyn
    a new kind of Schwert Musik!
[11:09] Belle
    I'm glad.
[11:15] Adonis
    This is some pressure...
[11:17] Adonis
    But that proves it.
[11:21] Adonis
    God, I'll dig my fangs into your guts!
[11:32] Sherry
    Put me down. I can walk.
[11:37] Adonis
    Guess you're not the songstress
    who hears god for nothing.
[11:40] Adonis
    I can't believe this intense
    pressure isn't bothering you.
[11:43] Sherry
    Of course it's bothering me.
[11:45] Sherry
    But I want to see what waits ahead,
    and I want to do it of my own volition.
[11:52] Adonis
    Then let's hurry.
[11:54] Sherry
    But which way do we go?
[11:57] Adonis
    Our guide.
[12:00] Sherry
    My.
[12:04] Sherry
    She has spells on her eyelids?
[12:06] Adonis
    She could see too much.
[12:08] Adonis
    The other side of walls,
    pictures people paint in their minds...
[12:12] Adonis
    Maybe she's even seen inside god.
[12:15] Adonis
    That's why she lost her heart and
    the Army's darkness welcomed her.
[12:21] Sherry
    The Army of Insatiable Emptiness
    must mean true refuge for such people.
[12:27] Sherry
    So why is it they take such horrid forms?
[12:32] Adonis
    The Army is a shadow cast by order.
[12:36] Adonis
    Denizens of shadow draw looks of fear,
[12:40] Adonis
    which soon turns to hate.
[12:43] Sherry
    In that case,
[12:45] Sherry
    perhaps we were all one to begin with.
[12:50] Sherry
    Thank goodness.
[12:52] Sherry
    That's such a relief.
[12:56] Adonis
    What do you mean?
[12:59] Sherry
    I believe in the Army
    of Insatiable Emptiness.
[13:02] Adonis
    What?!
[13:03] Sherry
    Just like god's love, the Army has
    a peace-giving love all its own.
[13:09] Sherry
    And something to protect,
    even at the cost of love.
[13:13] Sherry
    I believe...
[13:15] Sherry
    a time will come when we
    can all be together.
[13:19] Sherry
    Calling on god with you
     will be my first step toward that.
[13:25] Adonis
    Do you realize what I'm looking for up ahead?
[13:29] Sherry
    Destruction.
[13:31] Sherry
    The Army's wailing sings
     for the destruction of all things.
[13:37] Sherry
    But we shan't perish.
    Neither shall this land or its god.
[13:42] Sherry
    The destruction is but a seedling
    to guide us to a new future.
[13:47] Adonis
    And she's supposed to be a divine priestess?
[13:50] Adonis
    This songstress might be more
    than you bargained for...
[13:54] Adonis
    Dram, Sian.
[13:57] Sherry
    Does the Army see destruction as victory?
[14:01] Adonis
    Yeah.
[14:02] Adonis
    The only way they win is if all else
     fades into the dark distance.
[14:06] Sherry
    Then I shall have faith.
[14:09] Sherry
    Faith that when you put destruction to god,
[14:12] Sherry
    a new world will be born from it.
[14:15] Adonis
    Are you talking about Belle?!
[14:17] Adonis
    You "have faith" she's going
     to come defeat me?!
[14:24] Adonis
    She'll fail.
[14:26] Adonis
    I'll destroy her.
[14:28] Shadows
    Let it o...! Let it o...!
[14:35] Bennett
    What is that awful chanting?
[14:39] Gwyn
    I guess it must be magic we don't know.
[14:42] Belle
    It's creepy, whatever it is.
[14:45] Shadows
    Let it o...! Let it o...!
[14:50] Gwyn
    Prepare to draw!
[14:53] Gwyn
    You are the first ever band
     to carry a prisoner!
[14:57] Gwyn
    A vision of heretofore unseen strategy!
[14:59] Gwyn
    You'll go down in history!
[15:02] Gwyn
    Cut in!
[15:06] Gaff
    So you've come!
[15:09] Gwyn
    We heard of your combat ban and came running,
[15:13] Gwyn
    Sir Lead Solist.
[15:14] Gwyn
    Leave the rest to us!
[15:26] Supporter A
    What?!
[15:27] Supporter B
    My spell!
[15:28] Gwyn
    Rest-room!
[15:28] Signs
    Rest-room
    The Magic of Excretion
[15:30] Gwyn
    This meaningless magic nullifies
    all other sorcery.
[15:32] Gwyn
    Let yourself respond to its voice,
    and it will eat your sword's spell whole!
[15:45] Supporter B
    Thanks!
[15:46] Supporter C
    That's better!
[15:51] Priest B
    The sword of the Katakombe!
[15:53] Gaff
    What?!
[15:56] Gwyn
    Have no fear, lead solist!
[15:59] Gwyn
    We will reclaim that sword
    and restore peace, or die trying!
[16:07] Gwyn
    Is everything ready?
[16:08] Bennett
    Naturally.
[16:10] Gwyn
    Fire!
[16:34] Belle
    I get it.
[16:35] Belle
    This isn't Schwert Musik at all.
[16:37] Gwyn
    These shadows serve a larger shadow!
[16:40] Gwyn
    We don't have time
     to crack each and every fang!
[16:43] Gwyn
    Smash the jaw they grow from!
[16:46] Bennett
    You're shouting orders like you know
    the Army inside and out.
[16:52] Gwyn
    I just have the knowledge
    of someone with experience.
[16:55] Gwyn
    I know it.
[16:57] Gwyn
    Look! There's the jaw!
[17:08] Belle
    What the—?!
[17:12] Belle
    So you're the boss of these shadows?
[17:16] Belle
    Sorry, but you're going down.
[17:18] Corpse-Sword Wielder
    Confident, aren't you?
[17:22] Corpse-Sword Wielder
    You must be the child of light
     that he spoke of.
[17:27] Corpse-Sword Wielder
    I am one of Red Rum, the fangs
    of the Army of Insatiable Emptiness.
[17:30] Signs
    Red Rum
    The Fangs
[17:33] Belle
    Who's "he"? Adonis?
[17:36] Corpse-Sword Wielder
    The Army finally found Red Rum a king.
[17:41] Corpse-Sword Wielder
    A child of darkness.
[17:44] Belle
    Some king he'd make.
[17:48] Belle
    I'll cut this guy down to size!
[17:57] Guidance
    Take heed.
[17:59] Guidance
    You now face another conqueror.
[18:04] Guidance
    A tyrant who would subdue himself
    by rearing despotism atop his own corpse.
[18:11] Belle
    I swear, you worry too much.
[18:21] Belle
    What the hell is his sword?!
[18:23] Belle
    Don't tell me it's dead!
[19:01] Corpse-Sword Wielder
    I savored that.
[19:04] Corpse-Sword Wielder
    Not even my old sins caused so much pain.
[19:09] Corpse-Sword Wielder
    How much of your blood must I
    sip or your flesh must I chew
[19:13] Corpse-Sword Wielder
    to take your strength for myself?
[19:17] Belle
    Beats me, jackass!
[19:19] Solist C
    Wait, is he...?
[19:20] Signs
    The Corpse-Sword Wielder
[19:20] Solist D
    The corpse-sword wielder!
[19:22] Solist F
    He was an elite Topdog solist,
    but kept killing and eating skilled solists!
[19:28] Solist F
    He's a ghoul!
[19:31] Corpse-Sword Wielder
    When they hammered in these nails
    of sin and I fell into death,
[19:35] Corpse-Sword Wielder
    darkness and I intermingled.
[19:38] Corpse-Sword Wielder
    The swordwright Dram bundled the corpses
    of every sword I'd taken into one.
[19:48] Corpse-Sword Wielder
    I awakened as one of the fangs!
[19:56] Belle
    Use that dead sword to tell me
    why you want strength so badly.
[20:03] Corpse-Sword
    Let it o...! Let it o...!
[20:03] Corpse-Sword Wielder
    The proud would never understand.
[20:09] Belle
    I swing my sword to discover why I'm here.
[20:14] Belle
    Don't you?
[20:17] Corpse-Sword Wielder
    Child of light.
[20:20] Corpse-Sword Wielder
    Like you, I am merely one who performs
     their existence by the sword.
[20:28] Belle
    Oh yeah?
[20:30] Belle
    So you're saying I could end up like you,
     and you could've been like me?
[20:37] Corpse-Sword Wielder
    That's right.
[20:39] Belle
    No wonder you give me the creeps.
[20:42] Belle
    I will give my sword its proper station!
[20:46] Belle
    You may break my blade or wound my body,
[20:50] Belle
    but my howl will still pierce the world!
[21:50] Belle
    I guess that settles it.
SIGN    Aufheben: When Flowers Shed Their Buds and Bloom
SIGN    Fifteenth Movement
[23:30] Belle
    So I can leave the band at any time?
[23:32] Gaff
    Even you would harm this land, Belle?!
[23:35] Gwyn
    Discard our swords, you mean?
[23:36] Bennett
    Who can keep up with her?
[23:38] Signs
    Sixteenth Movement
[23:38] Signs
    Absurdity: Asking the Voices of Swords

16 - Absurdity: Asking the Voices of Swords

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[00:13] Gwyn
    Well done, Belle.
[00:15] Belle
    That guy was something else.
[00:18] Gwyn
    Belle, from here on out, leave the
    vanguard and fight as you see fit.
[00:24] Belle
    Huh?
[00:25] Belle
    You mean...
[00:27] Belle
    So I can leave the band at any time?
[00:31] Bennett
    Really, your scripts account for everything.
[00:34] Gwyn
    That's been your part in this
    band from the beginning.
[00:38] Belle
    I like it. This band, I mean.
[00:43] Belle
    I want to fight with you.
[02:14] Signs
    Bye Bye, Earth
[02:16] Signs
    Bye Bye, Earth
[02:26] Gwyn
    It sounds like Adonis has taken
    Princess Sherry deep into Root Land.
[02:31] Gwyn
    The stolen sword of the Katakombe
    is probably with—
[02:36] Gwyn
    It's awfully chilly.
[02:39] Belle
    Wh-What's going on?
[02:40] Bennett
    What bitter cold...
[02:43] Warder A
    The wards!
[02:44] Warder A
    It's eating them!
[02:45] Gwyn
    Close formation!
[02:47] Bennett
    Focus! Do you want to freeze?!
[02:57] Gwyn
    That must be our enemy.
[03:13] Belle
    Why can't I cut her?!
[03:21] Solist
    What?!
[03:27] Belle
    Is she some tribe we've never seen before?
[03:31] Ice-Wielder
    Let it o...! Let it o...!
[03:35] Ice-Wielder
    Let it o...!
[03:38] Ice-Wielder
    Let it o...!
[03:39] Bennett
    A mermaid.
[03:48] Gwyn
    Belle! Check that arm!
[03:54] Belle
    It's ice!
[03:55] Belle
    The whole arm is made of ice!
[03:58] Bennett
    I see.
[04:00] Bennett
    She took on too much mental pollution.
[04:04] Bennett
    Gwyn, I've got her!
[04:05] Gwyn
    All hands on deck! Make sure you finish her!
[04:08] Bennett
    Fire!
[04:17] Bennett
    There!
[04:22] Bennett
    We pierced her heart.
[04:24] Bennett
    Above us!
[04:29] Ice-Wielder
    Let it o...! Let it o...!
[04:35] Ice-Wielder
    O... o... o...! O... o... o...!
[04:45] Ice-Wielder
    Let it o...! Let it o...!
[04:49] Ice-Wielder
    O... o... o...!
[04:50] Belle
    Even her heart is frozen solid.
[04:52] Ice-Wielder
    O... o... o...!
[04:59] Bennett
    I don't resent my destiny as a mermaid.
[05:12] Bennett
    Stop, Belle!
[05:14] Belle
    Bennett?
[05:19] Bennett
    She's already dead.
[05:33] Bennett
    I wouldn't have minded giving
    her one of my arms.
[05:40] Gwyn
    Your arms belong to me as long
    as you're under my command.
[05:57] Gwyn
    See that shrine?
[05:59] Gwyn
    This marks the shortest route into god's core.
[06:05] Belle
    Huh?
[06:12] Belle
    It's the sword!
[06:14] Bennett
    An obvious trap if I've ever seen one.
[06:16] Gwyn
    Make light!
[06:22] Gwyn
    This means we're in the god's inner sanctum.
[06:25] Gwyn
    It rejects all magic.
[06:27] Bennett
    Doesn't that mean the Army
    can't use any, either?
[06:32] Gwyn
    The Army of Insatiable Emptiness
    is one of god's few blind spots.
[06:36] Bennett
    What a predicament.
[06:38] Bennett
    What's that?
[06:47] Bennett
    What say you, conductor?
     They seem like toys to me.
[06:53] Gwyn
    They are toys.
[06:54] Belle
    They're walking on their own.
     And coming this way.
[07:07] Belle
    What the hell are they?
[07:10] Gwyn
    They're dead.
[07:11] Belle
    Oh, is that all?
[07:15] Gwyn
    Bennett, who in the world
     is controlling them?
[07:19] Bennett
    Can't you see him with your eyes?
[07:33] Gwyn
    So he wants to see who conducts better?
[07:38] Toy Soldiers
    Let it o...! Let it o...!
[07:47] Gwyn
    What tiresome conducting.
[07:49] Gwyn
    He's hopeless.
[07:50] Gwyn
    Vanguard, split into stage left and right!
[07:53] Gwyn
    Flanks, fall back to the rear!
[07:55] Belle
    Wait, you want to turn back?
[07:57] Gwyn
    Belle, jump!
[08:03] Belle
    What the...?
[08:04] Toy Soldiers
    Let it o...!
[08:06] Belle
    This is the main force?
[08:08] Gwyn
    Charge at will!
[08:10] Solists
    All right!
[08:27] Gwyn
    So you have no need for broken toys, do you?
[08:36] Belle
    Gwyn! When did you...?
[08:39] Bennett
    You joined the fray yourself?
[08:41] Gwyn
    Hardly approved conduct for a conductor.
[08:58] Belle
    You think she's that boy's mother?
[09:00] Gwyn
    Probably.
[09:05] Gwyn
    Secure the sword!
[09:10] Solist B
    What is this thing?!
[09:11] Belle
    Bamboo, huh?
[09:13] Belle
    You don't let up, do you?!
[09:21] Belle
    I missed.
[09:23] Bennett
    I don't believe it.
    She cut through a Rest-aurant?
[09:27] Bennett
    I'm starting to fear what Belle
    and Runding will do next.
[09:31] Gwyn
    They're here to gain a different kind
    of strength than what they've had thus far.
[09:36] Gwyn
    Strength on a different level from ours.
[09:39] Gwyn
    Once she falls into a different category,
[09:42] Gwyn
    I'm sure trouble will break out
     in our path too.
[09:46] Bennett
    Gwyn, do you mean...?
[09:50] Gwyn
    It looks like we've cleared out the "Fangs"
    or whatever they call themselves.
[09:54] Gwyn
    We've finally made it this far!
[09:56] Gwyn
    Only nobility are allowed
    to set foot beyond this point.
[10:02] Gwyn
    Even so, we will—
[10:02] Gaff
    Halt, Conductor Gwyn!
[10:05] Belle
    Gaff?!
[10:10] Gwyn
    Why, if it isn't the lead solist!
[10:13] Gwyn
    Have you come to watch how we fight?
[10:18] Gaff
    You've fought well.
[10:20] Gaff
    Sheathe your swords at once!
[10:22] Gaff
    We shall take things from here.
[10:46] Kitty
    I'm amazed the Nothing followed that
    fellow like he was supposed to.
[10:50] Kitty
    Are our wills attempting
     to align in god's roots?
[10:59] Kitty
    I see.
[11:00] Kitty
    What a state of affairs to wake up to.
[11:03] Kitty
    Not bad at all.
[11:06] Kitty
    I think not!
[11:14] Belle
    What's this about, Gaff?
[11:16] Gaff
    Did you not hear me?
[11:19] Gwyn
    I did, lead solist.
[11:21] Gwyn
    If you will place every sword that
    fought here on the divine scales,
[11:27] Gwyn
    we will sheathe them this instant.
[11:29] Gaff
    The scales, you say?
[11:31] Gwyn
    We have no other way to let our
    swords tell of their battles
[11:37] Gwyn
    or to claim the reward
    for our service from the king.
[11:41] Gaff
    I refuse.
[11:42] Gwyn
    Oh? And may I ask why?
[11:46] Bennett
    Swords that have clashed with shadows
    may not rest on the divine scales.
[11:52] Gwyn
    We made forbidden Schwert Musik
    with the Army of Insatiable Emptiness
[11:56] Gwyn
    because you yourself gave
    us the royal order to fight.
[12:00] Gwyn
    To think that obedience would land us all
    in prison as taboo-breaking paradoxes!
[12:04] Signs
    Paradoxes
    The Outlawed
[12:08] Gaff
    You have only one way to avoid
    the stigma of paradox.
[12:13] Gwyn
    Discard our swords, you mean?
[12:15] Gaff
    Yes. I understand how it must grieve you.
[12:20] Gaff
    But you may return to the stage of proper
    Schwert Musik with new swords in hand.
[12:26] Gaff
    What other choice do you have?
[12:28] Belle
    You want us to dump the blame
    on our swords and abandon them?
[12:32] Gwyn
    That is indeed the most commonsense way
    to preserve order peacefully.
[12:38] Gaff
    Well then?
[12:39] Gwyn
    I have conditions.
[12:41] Gaff
    What?!
[12:42] Gwyn
    First, approve our petition and recognize
    the Katakombe's neutrality.
[12:50] Gwyn
    Second, return the sword taken
    from the Katakombe to its rightful place.
[12:56] Gwyn
    I mean, that shouldn't be so hard, right?
[12:59] Gaff
    Are you out of your minds?
[13:01] Gwyn
    Who can say?
[13:03] Gaff
    I will brook no further argument!
[13:05] Gaff
    Those who will do as I say,
    come forward at once.
[13:09] Gaff
    Act otherwise,
[13:10] Gaff
    and receive the stigma of paradox
    along with the bite of my sword!
[13:16] Gaff
    Belle?
[13:18] Belle
    Who'd pitch their sword
    just because you said so?
[13:21] Belle
    You can't even put up a decent
    fight against the Army,
[13:24] Belle
    so shut up and back off!
[13:29] Gaff
    Even you would harm this land, Belle?!
[13:33] Gaff
    Now, at last, I perceive our god's true will!
[13:36] Gaff
    I see why god wishes to destroy
    the key to journeys!
[13:40] Belle
    Remember what I told you once?
[13:42] Belle
    Your sword's the last one
    I'd ever want to die by.
[13:45] Bennett
    Are you fine with this, Gwyn?
[13:48] Gwyn
    Those two are the leads in this battle.
[13:51] Gwyn
    We should follow Belle,
    whether she advances or retreats.
[13:55] Bennett
    Who could keep up with her?
[13:59] Gwyn
    Bennett...
[14:00] (Flashback) Bennett
    Belle.
[14:01] (Flashback) Bennett
    This will be a parting of the ways.
[14:04] (Flashback) Bennett
    Yours and ours.
[14:12] Belle
    That sword's made of steel
    from the divine tree, isn't it?
[14:16] Belle
    Which means your god is in your hands.
[14:20] Gaff
    What?!
[14:21] Belle
    But you still won't listen
    to what your sword is saying.
[14:26] Belle
    I'm surprised.
[14:28] Belle
    I'll give my sword its proper station.
[14:35] Belle
    Your sword must want the same thing.
[14:43] Gwyn
    Cut in!
[14:58] Bennett
    It's like a maze.
[15:00] Belle
    It's like the caves in the Katakombe.
[15:02] Gwyn
    Don't worry. We won't get lost.
[15:12] Guidance
    Keep your wits about you in god's domain.
[15:15] Belle
    What?
[15:16] Guidance
    Only those who truly question
    reason can pass this point.
[15:26] Belle
    What's gotten into you guys?
[15:30] Gwyn
    Advance slowly!
[15:32] Gwyn
    If you can't bear it, move to the rear!
[15:35] Belle
    Gwyn?
[15:36] Gwyn
    It's divine pressure!
[15:38] Gwyn
    Must be a hereditary trait.
[15:41] Gwyn
    When the gods created us
    in the time of legends,
[15:47] Gwyn
    they put special ears in our heads.
[15:52] Belle
    What for?
[15:54] Gwyn
    So we could hear the divine voice
    of the god-machine, Deus Ex Machina.
[16:00] Gwyn
    Even after all these generations,
    we still have them.
[16:07] Belle
    I don't have anything like that.
[16:12] Belle
    You again!
[16:16] Belle
    Out of my way!
[16:25] Solist
    Nice going!
[16:28] Gwyn
    Finally, the sword of the
    Katakombe is in our—
[16:31] Army
    Nowhere...
[16:32] Bennett
    What?
[16:34] Army
    Nowhere...
[16:36] Gwyn
    Get away from the sword!
[16:40] Army
    Nowhere...
[16:43] Gwyn
    Now he's done it.
[16:46] Army
    Nowhere...
[16:58] Adonis
    Do you see, sublater?
[16:58] Signs
    Aufheben
    Sublate
[17:01] Belle
    What?!
[17:01] Adonis
    Do you see this other group
    of beings capable of aufheben?
[17:06] Adonis
    This crucible of ecstatic hunger?
[17:09] Belle
    Adonis!
[17:10] Belle
    Huh?
[17:13] Bennett
    Oh no!
[17:15] Bennett
    Damn!
[17:16] Gwyn
    Stop! Don't use magic!
[17:18] Bennett
    Then what?!
[17:19] Belle
    Oh, to hell with it!
[17:28] Kitty
    Behold my newborn might!
[17:33] Belle
    Kitty the All!
[17:34] Kitty
    Come, Belle! It's time
    for your cry of triumph!
[17:38] Belle
    Adonis!
[17:40] Belle
    You son of a bitch!
[17:42] Belle
    Can I cut him?
[17:52] Belle
    Trust Adonis to set such an elaborate trap.
[17:56] Belle
    Damn him!
[17:57] Bennett
    What splendid wards.
[17:59] Bennett
    Now we can cast all the magic we'd like.
[18:02] Bennett
    I never expected a traveling
    Rabbitia to save our hides again.
[18:07] Kitty
    No, I was careless.
[18:09] Kitty
    I never dreamed the wolf lad had left
    the stink of his beliefs on the sword.
[18:17] Bennett
    Well, we have the sword. What now?
[18:21] Kitty
    Advancing any farther will
    prove exceedingly difficult.
[18:26] Belle
    I'm going.
[18:30] Kitty
    I will accompany you.
[18:32] Kitty
    I have a bit of unfinished
    business with the wolf lad.
[18:37] Belle
    See you around.
[18:39] Solists
    Belle Lablac!
[18:41] Solists
    Belle Lablac! The little one!
[18:44] Solists
    Belle Lablac! The reason for our victory!
[18:49] Gwyn
    My conducting stops here.
[18:52] Gwyn
    Go wild, Belle.
[18:54] Belle
    You bet.
[18:58] Belle
    Let's go.
[19:06] Gwyn
    We march as well!
[19:08] Gwyn
    Carry the sword wrapped in this.
[19:12] Gwyn
    The lead solist and his priests
    lie in wait outside the passage!
[19:16] Gwyn
    We're all getting out of here alive!
[19:23] Bennett
    Make up your mind, conductor.
[19:25] Gwyn
    Bennett!
[19:27] Bennett
    This was part of your script too.
[19:30] Bennett
    She's already left our category.
[19:33] Bennett
    And she'll come back as a
    disaster blocking our path.
[19:40] Bennett
    You said so yourself.
[19:43] Bennett
    I know you don't want to tear
    down this castle, Gwyn.
[19:48] Bennett
    She'll cut god if we let her.
[19:51] Gwyn
    I couldn't ask for a better director.
[19:55] Bennett
    Decide!
[20:06] Gwyn
    I admit Belle's choices will depend
    on what questions Adonis throws at god.
[20:14] Gwyn
    But I believe in her strength.
[20:17] Gwyn
    And in her sword.
[20:19] Gwyn
    Now matter how much she changes
    or how much power she gains,
[20:23] Gwyn
    I want to believe that,
    at least, will stay the same.
[20:28] Gwyn
    The threat of the Army has passed for now!
[20:31] Gwyn
    Belle will find out what's
    become of Princess Sherry!
[20:35] Gwyn
    Only one task remains for us:
[20:38] Gwyn
    win neutrality for the Katakombe!
[20:49] Gwyn
    Sorry, Bennett. I lean on you too much.
[20:53] Gwyn
    I should have given the order.
[20:56] Bennett
    Don't mention it.
[20:57] Bennett
    I needed that too.
[21:02] Bennett
    It was all the farewell we needed.
[21:17] Kitty
    Are you crying, Belle?
[21:20] Belle
    Huh? No way.
[21:23] Belle
    I won't pretend I'm used to it,
[21:29] Belle
    but everyone treats me like
    I'm something special.
[21:33] Belle
    Are they trying to give me a big head?!
[21:37] Belle
    I swear I'll be free someday.
[21:40] Kitty
    Belle...
[21:41] Belle
    I'll find out all about where I come from.
[21:44] Belle
    I'll choke down every reason
    I'm here in this world!
SIGN    Sixteenth Movement
SIGN    Absurdity: Asking the Voices of Swords
[23:30] Sherry
    As divine priestess, I tell you now.
[23:33] Gwyn
    We'll stop clinging to god!
[23:34] Adonis
    I've been waiting for you, girl of reason.
[23:37] Belle
    I'm going to cut you.
[23:38] Signs
    Mania: Nowhere
[23:38] Signs
    Seventeenth Movement

17 - Mania: Nowhere

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[00:15] Adonis
    Hit your limit, have you?
[00:18] Adonis
    I'll take the fang that is you
    into the jaw that is me.
[00:23] Adonis
    Rest in peace.
[00:29] Adonis
    Let's go.
[00:30] Adonis
    We're almost at god's heart.
[01:57] Signs
    Bye Bye, Earth
[01:59] Signs
    Bye Bye, Earth
[02:05] Adonis
    So this is god's fiery blood.
[02:11] Adonis
    In the ancient age of gods, this place
    supplied divine power to the whole world.
[02:19] Sherry
    It almost feels as though I'm touching
    our god for the first time.
[02:26] Sherry
    The font of the shadowy pack you
    lead came from here, didn't it?
[02:31] Adonis
    That's right.
[02:33] Adonis
    It once lay within god, but now
     it has been exiled for eternity.
[02:38] Adonis
    The will to destroy.
[02:40] Sherry
    I feel it. I sense god's shuddering
    and unendurable terror of destruction
[02:47] Sherry
    as well as a desire for it.
[02:49] Sherry
    But why?
[02:51] Sherry
    Does our god's hunger extend
    to god's own demise?
[02:56] Sherry
    There is no divine love for the people here.
[03:00] Sherry
    Yet just as the shadows of ruin were cast out
[03:04] Sherry
    and became the Army of Insatiable Emptiness,
[03:07] Sherry
    perhaps god's love has taken some other form
    and manifested in the world outside.
[03:13] Sherry
    And if so, it must lie with
    what Belle and her friends seek.
[03:19] Sherry
    Belle will come.
[03:22] Adonis
    The Army is what discovers a new form
    of life in the midst of destruction.
[03:29] Sherry
    Are you trying to free our
    god from its earthly shell?
[03:34] Sherry
    Is that why you wish to welcome me
    as a person with a shadow
[03:41] Sherry
    and make me sing?
[03:43] Sherry
    Sing a song of pure destruction?
[03:47] Adonis
    We do welcome you.
[03:57] Army
    Nowhere...
[04:20] Adonis
    So you can burn shadows?
[04:24] Adonis
    I have to hand it to you!
[04:25] Adonis
    You really are a child of god!
[04:29] Adonis
    But that only makes the Army want
    you more as one of its fangs!
[04:34] Sherry
    Wolf, depart this holy ground
[04:36] Sherry
    and return to your wilderness!
[04:39] Adonis
    Those aren't your own words!
[04:41] Adonis
    Your god makes you say them!
[04:47] Adonis
    Why does god fear the sword of the
    Army of Insatiable Emptiness?
[04:52] Adonis
    Here's your answer!
[04:59] Adonis
    The Army's darkness swallows
    everything totally and equally!
[05:05] Adonis
    Don't try to fight it, child of god!
[05:08] Adonis
    If you resist, I'll carve a spell
    of lament into you with this sword!
[05:15] Belle
    Adonis, you doofus.
[05:32] Sherry
    Belle!
[05:34] Belle
    Hey there, Sherry.
[05:39] Belle
    Hi.
[05:41] Adonis
    I've been waiting for you, girl of reason.
[05:44] Belle
    I'm going to cut you.
[05:47] Adonis
    You are a light not even the Army's
    darkness can swallow completely
[05:52] Adonis
    and also a darkness not even
    divine light can banish.
[05:57] Adonis
    By consuming you, the Army will
    achieve a darkness truly absolute!
[06:03] Belle
    Always with you and the excuses.
[06:05] Belle
    If you want to take me on, just say so.
[06:09] Kitty
    Dear me. That's egg on your face.
[06:16] Sherry
    I know you!
[06:17] Adonis
    You should've stayed dead, Rabbitia.
[06:21] Belle
    Kitty, take Sherry and go.
[06:22] Kitty
    Of course.
[06:25] Adonis
    Your song is more decisive than you realize!
[06:30] Adonis
    We need it to lay bare what god hungers for!
[06:37] Belle
    Hey, Sherry. Remember how you
    sang at my place one time?
[06:42] Belle
    Would you sing for me again?
[06:45] Sherry
    Yes!
[06:46] Sherry
    It's a promise, Belle!
[06:49] Adonis
    Not so fast!
[06:51] Belle
    I see you still don't know
    how to treat a woman.
[06:56] Adonis
    I knew I should've taken you out first,
[06:58] Adonis
    girl of reason!
[07:00] Belle
    I am Belle Lablac!
[07:29] Belle
    Finally, a good look at your face.
[07:31] Belle
    You look like you're doing well.
[07:33] Adonis
    I'm always a crucible of regret
[07:36] Adonis
    every time I think of making
    you the key to ruin.
[07:39] Belle
    Bullshit.
[07:41] Belle
    I gave up on you a long time ago.
[07:44] Adonis
    Yeah, I bet you did.
[07:46] Belle
    Dummy.
[07:47] Belle
    Do you honestly get it?
[07:49] Belle
    Go on. Try calling to me.
[07:52] Belle
    I'll carve you up!
[07:54] Adonis
    So you've transcended its shell?
[07:57] Adonis
    You've got my hopes up, girl of reason!
[08:00] Army
    Nowhere...
[08:04] Belle
    Oh, hey. You do have plenty of friends.
[08:08] Adonis
    Stay back!
[08:09] Adonis
    I will be the one to make a fang of reason!
[08:11] Dram
    Don't worry. They will not
    return you to nothingness.
[08:16] Dram
    It's just that you have yet
    to be sufficiently tried.
[08:21] Adonis
    What do you mean, Dram?!
[08:36] Belle
    What?
[08:38] Belle
    Who are you?
[08:52] Adonis
    Oh, of course.
[08:57] Sian
    This is my final responsibility as your Enola.
[09:04] Belle
    Why?
[09:07] Belle
    Why are you saying that
    to someone who isn't me?
[09:12] Belle
    Those are my words! You said them to me!
[09:18] Belle
    What?
[09:19] Belle
    Damn it!
[09:23] Belle
    He's... teaching swordplay? To Adonis?
[09:27] Belle
    Why?
[09:30] Belle
    Who are you?
[09:34] Belle
    You made Runding!
[09:37] Dram
    The future will soon appear.
[09:40] Dram
    You and the child of darkness will bring it.
[09:45] Dram
    Wait just a little longer, girl of reason.
[09:50] Belle
    Who the hell...
[09:53] Belle
    do you all take me for?
[10:00] Sherry
    Will Belle be all right?
[10:02] Kitty
    Her peril is dire.
[10:05] Kitty
    But as it happens, you are the one
    who holds the key to this battle,
[10:10] Kitty
    Princess Sherry.
[10:11] Sherry
    M-Me?
[10:16] Gwyn
    We will never abandon our swords!
[10:20] Gwyn
    If we discard anything,
[10:21] Gwyn
    it should be our desire to belong to god!
[10:24] Gaff
    Conductor Gwyn, do you mean to defy
[10:27] Gaff
    not only my commands, but god's as well?!
[10:30] Gwyn
    God is a primal spell,
    passed down since the age of legend.
[10:35] Gwyn
    But the people saw god in the gears
    of a machine and began worshiping it.
[10:42] Gwyn
    It is Deus Ex Machina!
[10:42] Signs
    Deus Ex Machina
    The God Machine
[10:44] Gaff
    You dare call our god gears?!
[10:47] Gaff
    God is a supreme being who casts us
    in our roles and harmonizes us all!
[10:53] Gwyn
    Stop clinging to god!
[10:55] Gwyn
    Now is the time! We must create
    order with our own hands!
[11:00] Gwyn
    If we don't,
[11:02] Gwyn
    we'll live out our lives as
    clockwork toys for all eternity!
[11:07] Gwyn
    Do you still not realize
    what Adonis despaired of?
[11:12] Gwyn
    Why he wished for absolute destruction?!
[11:14] Gaff
    Would you take after the
    Army and swallow ruin?!
[11:17] Gwyn
    From the Katakombe!
[11:18] Gwyn
    We'll enshrine the key to journeys in the
    Katakombe as a symbol of neutrality!
[11:23] Gaff
    I see now... You lot plan
    to serve the Katakombe!
[11:27] Gwyn
    The Katakombe is our hope! It shows a new
    mode of existence for the people!
[11:33] Gwyn
    No Topdogs or Underdogs!
[11:35] Gwyn
    Eventually, no outside or inside either!
[11:38] Gaff
    Have you no shame?
[11:40] Gaff
    You leave me no choice but to end
    your ravings with my blade!
[11:46] Kitty
    The victor in this clash will determine
    your people's future mode of being.
[11:52] Kitty
    Belle is fighting because she believes that.
[11:55] Kitty
    As one who has touched the pulse of god,
    you must take your place among them.
[12:01] Sherry
    Very well.
[12:02] Kitty
    Will you intensify the conflict?
[12:05] Kitty
    Or overturn its very foundations?
[12:07] Kitty
    It all depends on you.
[12:10] Sherry
    I understand.
[12:12] Sherry
    I know my role.
[12:15] Sherry
    But all I can do is sing.
[12:18] Kitty
    Indeed.
[12:20] Kitty
    Just as Belle merely swings her sword.
[12:26] Sherry
    I will take my place upon the stage.
[12:29] Kitty
    As you wish.
[12:31] Sherry
    Everything is an ordeal.
[12:39] Gaff
    Sherry!
[12:40] Gwyn
    What is she doing here?
[12:41] Priests
    Your Highness!
[12:43] Solists
    You're safe!
[12:44] Gaff
    Welcome back to us, Sherry!
[12:48] Gaff
    How dignified...
[12:50] Gaff
    What in the world did she gain
    by passing through god's pressure?
[12:56] Sherry
    As divine priestess, I tell you now.
[12:59] Sherry
    One who would threaten god's peace stands
    in the silent place of repose in death.
[13:06] Gwyn
    So the priestess is going to judge our fight?
[13:09] Gaff
    But this is no divine summons.
[13:12] Gaff
    Sherry is speaking for herself.
[13:14] Sherry
    They will preach neutrality to the people
[13:18] Sherry
    and aid them in moving away from god.
[13:22] Sherry
    Their motive is merely to confer blessing
    and protection without distinction of creed.
[13:30] Sherry
    Even upon those would destroy god.
[13:33] Bennett
    She's not talking about us, is she?
[13:35] Gwyn
    No.
[13:36] Gaff
    Who does she mean?
[13:38] Sherry
    The one who would harm god bears
    a name renowned in the castle:
[13:43] Sherry
    Lead Vocalist Sherry Mary.
[13:47] Sherry
    Me.
[13:50] Sherry
    If you would obey god's commands,
    cut me down.
[13:54] Sherry
    Everyone here is free to kill me.
[13:58] Gaff
    Why?
[14:00] Gaff
    Why, Sherry?!
[14:02] Sherry
    I don't understand yet myself.
[14:04] Sherry
    But no doubt it will be made clear.
[14:09] Kitty
    Indeed it will.
[14:10] Gaff
    And who are you?
[14:11] Kitty
    Kitty the All.
[14:13] Kitty
    I serve as this songstress's humble guide.
[14:16] Kitty
    Watch as I deploy calculations
    on a scale greater than ever before.
[14:22] Kitty
    I shall seal away god's blood and forever
    annihilate the ashes that bring death.
[14:30] Kitty
    What have we here?
[14:32] Kitty
    Quite an early entrance, I must say.
[14:34] Kitty
    You are to take this path.
[14:37] Kitty
    Consider it the true ordeal
    of one tried by death.
[14:43] Sherry
    I have faith in my victory.
[14:46] Sherry
    Even if no one can know
    why I act as I do now,
[14:51] Sherry
    something will blossom
     to vindicate me someday.
[14:55] Gaff
    You're wrong, Sherry!
[14:57] Gaff
    Will this not mean the triumph
    of a wicked Nidhogg?!
[14:58] Signs
    Nidhogg
    Fiend
[15:00] Sherry
    Indeed.
[15:01] Sherry
    I am the final Nidhogg.
[15:03] Sherry
    Joining divine glory to fiendish joy,
[15:07] Sherry
    I sing!
[15:18] Adonis
    So this is god's heart.
[15:21] Sian
    Do you feel god tremble?
[15:25] Sian
    Here is what drove me
    to seek out and raise reason!
[15:30] Sian
    And to entrust her to you, the Question!
[15:34] Adonis
    Belle?
[15:36] Adonis
    Doesn't god's pressure affect her?
[15:40] Adonis
    I get it now, Sian!
[15:43] Adonis
    I get what Belle is!
[15:46] Adonis
    I finally made it here by shrouding
    myself in the Army's darkness!
[15:51] Adonis
    But Belle is here, on this holy
    ground, just by being Belle!
[15:56] Sian
    And why is that, child?!
[15:59] Sian
    Answer loud and clear!
[16:02] Adonis
    Only one thing in the world is born
    free of Deus Ex Machina's oppression!
[16:08] Adonis
    None other than its creators...
[16:10] Adonis
    the true gods of old!
[16:14] Sian
    Very good.
[16:16] Sian
    And we of paradise were
    born from the god machine.
[16:25] Dram
    The time has come.
[16:30] Dram
    Go forth, girl of reason.
[16:34] Dram
    Go and guide the future.
[16:37] Belle
    Give me a break!
[16:40] Belle
    Don't become my enemy, Adonis!
[16:43] Sian
    Can we ever overcome Belle,
    a descendant of the true gods?
[16:49] Sian
    You are the question asking
    where we shall end up!
[16:53] Adonis
    I'll use every last thing
    you taught me to kill you!
[16:57] Adonis
    And then I'll beat Belle!
[16:59] Adonis
    I'll show you god and this land
    shredded by the blade of doubt!
[17:15] Sian
    Well done.
[17:29] Sian
    Is that you, Belle?
[17:35] Belle
    I don't know you.
[17:37] Belle
    I don't know who you are.
[17:46] Sian
    Go.
[17:48] Sian
    Show me your long-cherished wish,
[17:52] Sian
    my hope.
[17:56] Sian
    At the end of a great riddle,
[17:58] Sian
    I beheld a stone egg.
[18:02] Sian
    And you, the child sleeping within...
[18:06] Sian
    This world's reason.
[18:18] Sian
    I left you with a couple,
[18:21] Sian
    and I waited.
[18:23] Sian
    Waited for when the sword Dram
    wrought would guide you.
[18:29] Sian
    I waited a long, long time
[18:33] Sian
    for the heart of the riddle of the nomad's,
     of my own, existence
[18:40] Sian
    and proof that we are not alone.
[18:43] Sian
    True hope.
[18:46] Belle
    But as far as I'm concerned,
    you're long dead.
[18:50] Belle
    The path I walk doesn't bother me anymore.
[18:57] Belle
    Because... I'm going to be free.
[19:05] Belle
    Why?
[19:09] Dram
    I've been waiting.
[19:12] Dram
    Despairing of the past and present,
    I longed only for the future.
[19:19] Dram
    There's nothing but darkness here now.
[19:22] Dram
    Only eternal, restful darkness.
[19:28] Belle
    Go ahead. You can have him.
[19:31] Belle
    I said you can have him!
[19:35] Belle
    Adonis!
[19:39] Adonis
    I've yearned for you.
[19:42] Adonis
    I cut that man open with my own hands so
    I could cross blades with you like this!
[19:48] Belle
    You never wanted me!
[19:51] Belle
    You wanted to be me!
[19:53] Adonis
    So did that man!
[20:01] Adonis
    Can you cut me, Belle?
[20:04] Belle
    Sure I can.
[20:06] Belle
    That's what I came here for.
[20:15] Adonis
    Are you still letting your
    sword's shell hold you back?
[20:20] Adonis
    You'll never cut me while you're still
    scared of breaking your blade!
[20:24] Belle
    Keep telling yourself that!
[20:28] Belle
    You never give me anything but excuses!
[20:31] Belle
    When will I get to meet the real you?
[20:34] Belle
    That's all I kept asking myself!
[20:37] Adonis
    You wanted me?
[20:40] Adonis
    Me?
[20:42] Belle
    Shut up!
[20:43] Adonis
    It was Sian you sought!
[20:46] Adonis
    You wanted that man's presence!
[20:47] Belle
    Shut your mouth!
[20:53] Adonis
    Can you hear it? That's god's heartbeat.
[20:56] Adonis
    Even god thrills at our battle.
[20:58] Adonis
    God alone is the audience
    to our Schwert Musik!
[21:02] Adonis
    Belle!
[21:03] Adonis
    This time, I'm putting
     all my questions to you!
[21:10] Belle
    I want the strength to send him flying.
[21:12] Belle
    The strength to smash this
    overwhelming violence!
[21:19] Belle
    No...
[21:21] Belle
    Why is it that I swing my sword?
[21:24] Belle
    What was it that you taught me?
[21:28] Adonis
    Stop.
[21:31] Belle
    That's right...
[21:33] Belle
    Love for my hometown.
[21:35] Belle
    Longing for utopia.
[21:38] Belle
    The painful inability to love
    myself and where I am.
[21:43] Belle
    Somewhere that isn't here!
[21:48] Belle
    Durchbohren Sie die Welt!
[21:50] Belle
    Pierce the world!
SIGN    Seventeenth Movement
SIGN    Mania: Nowhere
[23:30] Belle
    ...the spell just for me?
[23:31] Adonis
    ...one and only personality?
[23:33] Gaff
    Let my hand bear the sin!
[23:35] Kitty
    This is your stage.
[23:36] Sherry
    Yes, like I'm going on a journey.
[23:38] Signs
    Eighteenth Movement
[23:38] Signs
    Hymn: Erewhon

18 - Hymn: Erewhon

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[00:03] Belle
    I want the strength to send him flying.
[00:05] Belle
    The strength to smash this
    overwhelming violence!
[00:11] Belle
    No...
[00:13] Belle
    Why is it that I swing my sword?
[00:17] Belle
    What was it that you taught me?
[00:24] Negroni
    Want go home... The sea...
[00:26] Kitty
    Did you find what you were seeking?
[00:27] Tom
    Trust the visions you catch
    glimpses of in your mind.
[00:30] Belle
    What am I holding right now?
[00:34] Belle
    What have my hands grasped?
[00:38] Belle
    What's the spell just for me?
[00:47] Belle
    Oh, I get it.
[00:50] Belle
    Even if my sword breaks
     or the reason I'm here changes,
[00:55] Belle
    I get to see where my
    transformation takes me.
[01:01] Belle
    So I can go on a journey
    to somewhere that isn't here.
[01:01] Signs
    Somewhere That Isn't Here
    Utopia
[01:23] Belle
    I'll try myself.
[01:26] Belle
    To find out why I'm here—
[01:29] Belle
    That's what I swing my sword for.
[01:35] Belle
    I'll try you, too.
[01:38] Belle
    With this sword.
[01:40] Adonis
    That's it, Belle!
[01:42] Adonis
    That's where your curse
    and your blessing come from!
[01:49] Adonis
    Can you cut me,
[01:51] Adonis
    one and only personality?!
[02:03] Belle
    Pierce the world!
[02:09] Belle
    That's when I'll be carved into the world!
[02:13] Belle
    When I'll truly bloom!
[03:59] Signs
    Bye Bye, Earth
[04:01] Signs
    Bye Bye, Earth
[04:06] Mist
    The Katakombe's in danger?!
[04:08] Messenger
    An underground passage has linked
    it to the castle without warning.
[04:13] Mist
    How did that happen?
[04:14] Messenger
    According to High Priest Colonel,
[04:17] Messenger
    it relates to a secret rite of the Katakombe
[04:20] Messenger
    passed down only to each successive
    head of the Collins clan.
[04:24] Cloud
    So something's happening in the castle?
[04:26] Mist
    Don't tell me Gwyn started this.
[04:28] Messenger
    As it happens, the detail that truly
    shocked us does concern Gwyn.
[04:36] Messenger
    One of his messages to Colonel predicted
    this development in no uncertain terms.
[04:44] Messenger
    Colonel has decided to welcome Gwyn
    and his band as vital to the Katakombe.
[04:52] Mist
    He did it. He finally dragged
    us into his script.
[05:00] Mist
    Our clan will take the lead
    and scout the tunnel.
[05:05] Messenger
    We are in your debt.
[05:06] Cloud
    Don't sweat it.
[05:08] Cloud
    We knew we'd have to go
    meet up with Gwyn anyway.
[05:12] Cloud
    Especially Mist.
[05:14] Mist
    Smartass!
[05:16] Mist
    Prepare to set out at once!
[05:18] Mist
    We're going through the
    Katakombe to the castle!
[05:21] Froggies
    Yeah!
[05:22] Army
    Nowhere...
[05:26] Gwyn
    The Army of Insatiable Emptiness.
[05:27] Army
    Nowhere...
[05:32] Gwyn
    Don't move, Bennett.
[05:35] Bennett
    But we have to do something.
[05:36] Gwyn
    This is an ordeal.
[05:39] Gwyn
    Sir Lead Solist, I choose to believe
    in your pride as one of the people.
[05:44] Gwyn
    In your will to be a king to all of us!
[05:49] Gaff
    Slay the one who would cause harm.
[05:52] Gaff
    Am I meant to obey that command?
[05:56] Gaff
    I will cut down the self-confessed Nidhogg.
[05:59] Gaff
    What other path can there be?
[06:02] Gaff
    I've sacrificed too many friends for order.
[06:07] Gaff
    It's too late to change!
[06:09] Gwyn
    I don't believe it!
[06:10] Gwyn
    God is controlling the priests
    to strike at Princess Sherry!
[06:15] Gaff
    I don't understand.
[06:16] Gaff
    Why am I...
[06:18] Gaff
    Why is this sword of mine here?!
[06:21] (Flashback) Belle
    But you still won't listen
    to what your sword is saying.
[06:25] (Flashback) Belle
    I'll give my sword its proper station.
[06:29] Gaff
    I've heard that somewhere.
[06:31] Gaff
    I don't know where or when,
[06:33] Gaff
    but I've heard those very words before!
[06:41] Gaff
    Let my hand bear the sin!
[06:48] Gaff
    Finally, I remember.
[06:51] Gaff
    It was when I took up this sword.
[06:55] Gaff
    That sorrowful swordwright told me...
[07:00] (Flashback) Dram
    Use the good within you
[07:03] (Flashback) Dram
    to give your sword its proper station.
[07:14] Gaff
    Sword of mine, guide my way!
[07:18] Gaff
    You want me to abandon
     the mentality of a slave to god?
[07:22] Gaff
    I spent all that solitary time devoted
    to the pursuit of privilege.
[07:26] Gaff
    You want me to cut that off
    and throw it away?!
[07:30] Emoclew
    You are a king.
[07:36] Sherry
    Sire, please. Defend me.
[07:40] Sherry
    Like the Holy Star that rises through
    the night and into the dawn sky.
[07:54] Gaff
    I have overcome the last ordeal
    of one who would be king!
[07:59] Gaff
    God is dead!
[08:01] Gaff
    I hold god's dying wish in my hands!
[08:04] Gaff
    Now that god's will is lost,
[08:06] Gaff
    only Emoclew, the sword of the kingdom
    wrought from the divine tree's steel,
[08:12] Gaff
    stands as the true symbol of our land!
[08:15] Gaff
    Command your swords!
[08:17] Gaff
    Bid them cut down any and all who
    would stop our divine princess
[08:21] Gaff
    from singing the song of the people!
[08:27] Solist
    Yeah!
[08:29] Solist
    All right!
[08:31] Solist
    Let's do it!
[08:32] Solist
    Now we're talking!
[08:32] Solist
    Show them what we're made of!
[08:35] Gwyn
    Lead solist!
[08:36] Gwyn
    Together, we can—
[08:40] Gaff
    The sword of the kingdom
    is our land's new symbol.
[08:43] Gaff
    Never the key to journeys
    or the ideals of the Katakombe.
[08:49] Gaff
    I will smash the key to journeys
     myself someday!
[08:54] Gwyn
    We'll get that key
[08:56] Gwyn
    and show the people
     Schwert Musik and ways of being
[08:58] Gwyn
    that are different from the castle's.
[09:00] Gaff
    The Park and the castle will always stand
[09:03] Gaff
    as models of Schwert Musik
    and proper conduct.
[09:07] Gwyn
    And there you'll be, a king of the people?
[09:11] Gaff
    Exactly.
[09:12] Gaff
    But first, we vanquish this threat together.
[09:16] Gaff
    Any objections?
[09:18] Gwyn
    As the elder prince commands.
[09:20] Bennett
    We were enemies just moments go.
[09:23] Gwyn
    You're more ruthless than
    you look, Bennett.
[09:27] Gwyn
    We'll settle things with Gaff another day!
[09:29] Gwyn
    Our enemies are dwellers in darkness
     and god-sent ghosts!
[09:42] Gwyn
    This is no less than god's funeral!
[09:45] Gwyn
    Sing the requiem only one who
    knows why she's here can!
[09:59] Kitty
    Welcome, Princess Sherry.
[10:02] Kitty
    Your stage stands ready to receive you.
[10:06] Kitty
    This has been my dearest wish.
[10:08] Kitty
    Everything depends on you now.
[10:20] Sherry
    Are you leaving so soon?
[10:23] Kitty
    The Army of Insatiable Emptiness
     has resurfaced.
[10:27] Kitty
    That proves the wolf lad
    is about to tempt fate.
[10:32] Sherry
    Then no one will hear my song?
[10:36] Sherry
    The first song that's entirely mine?
[10:39] Kitty
    This whole castle is your audience.
[10:42] Kitty
    Without your song,
[10:44] Kitty
    none of us—Belle included—could
    keep sight of what brought us here.
[10:51] Kitty
    Now, Your Highness, your stage!
[10:55] Kitty
    Take it!
[11:03] Sherry
    Please, good traveling Rabbitia,
[11:05] Sherry
    tell me just one more thing.
[11:08] Sherry
    Do you know what I'm to sing?
[11:13] Kitty
    Simply sing,
[11:16] Kitty
    as though you're going on a journey.
[11:24] Sherry
    Yes, like I'm going on a journey...
[11:46] Belle
    What did I just cut?
[11:52] Belle
    Runding's back to normal!
[12:02] Adonis
    This sword... would never hurt me.
[12:09] Adonis
    Its steel never stops dying.
[12:13] Adonis
    No matter how badly you break it,
[12:16] Adonis
    it will swallow death and come back.
[12:21] Adonis
    So why...
[12:23] Adonis
    Why is it taking so long to recover?
[12:27] Adonis
    Because your blade turned my
    sword into something else...
[12:32] Belle
    Don't talk. Do you want to die?
[12:35] Belle
    If you're going to anyway, forget that crap
     and pick better last words.
[12:40] Belle
    How about, "Sorry, I fell head over
    heels for you after all."
[13:00] Belle
    I'm not rotting.
[13:05] Adonis
    The world never reaches out to make peace
    with me until it's already too late.
[13:15] Adonis
    You haven't cut me yet!
[13:30] Adonis
    Belle...
[13:31] Adonis
    Time for the awakening.
[13:34] Adonis
    God can't hear even
    Princess Sherry's song anymore,
[13:38] Adonis
    or resonate even with Prince Gaff's sword.
[13:42] Adonis
    Nor with your howl, Princess Should-Have-Been.
[13:48] Adonis
    Come forth from my shadow,
    Fangs of Insatiable Emptiness!
[13:52] Adonis
    The time has come to put our
    questions to the god machine!
[13:58] Army
    Nowhere!
[14:01] Adonis
    See why Deus Ex Machina was
    born and what it hungers for!
[14:08] Adonis
    I am the Prince Fatal,
     and my wail will lay its craving bare!
[14:23] Belle
    Is that...
[14:25] Belle
    Ashes of the Tried?!
[14:39] Adonis
    Lay it bare this time!
[14:42] Adonis
    Whatever we free from this god's
    mortal shell is true divine hunger!
[14:47] Adonis
    The source from which the Army was born!
[14:51] Belle
    Adonis!
[14:58] Belle
    Kitty!
[14:59] Kitty
    What terrible power!
[15:06] Belle
    What?
[15:11] Belle
    Is that... god?
[15:15] Guidance
    Take heed.
[15:18] Guidance
    That crucible of information, of memory,
[15:22] Guidance
    filled over the course
    of centuries and then millennia...
[15:25] Guidance
    Now divine hunger will take
    form and emerge from it.
[15:33] Belle
    It looks like... me?
[15:37] Belle
    Are you saying god's been craving me?!
[15:43] Kitty
    Not yet, Belle!
[15:45] Kitty
    If it pulls you in too,
    there will be no stopping it!
[15:48] Kitty
    Bide your time.
[15:49] Kitty
    Wait until the other bird I called for sings!
[16:09] Belle
    Adonis?
[16:15] Adonis
    Girl of reason.
[16:18] Adonis
    I'm melting into you.
[16:24] Belle
    Do you want to be me that badly?!
[16:33] Sherry Song
    O Freunde, nicht diese Töne!
[16:43] Belle
    A song.
[16:46] Sherry Song
    Sondern laßt uns angenehmere
[16:55] Sherry Song
    anstimmen und freudenvollere!
[16:59] Belle
    Sherry.
[17:14] Sherry Song
    Freude!
[17:16] Kitty
    Blue priests of the chronicle!
[17:17] Sherry Song
    Freude!
[17:17] Belle
    They're here too?
[17:19] Sherry Song
    Freude, schöner Götterfunken,
[17:22] Sherry Song
    Tochter aus Elysium,
[17:25] Sherry Song
    Wir betreten feuertrunken,
[17:29] Sherry Song
    Himmlische, dein Heiligtum!
[17:32] Sherry Song
    Deine Zauber binden wieder,
[17:34] Gaff
    Hold your ground!
[17:35] Gaff
    The true divine song
    resounds from behind us!
[17:35] Sherry Song
    Was die Mode streng geteilt;
[17:38] Gaff
    Listen to the song of blessed protection!
[17:39] Sherry Song
    Alle Menschen werden Brüder,
[17:41] Gaff
    What we defend also defends us!
[17:42] Sherry Song
    Wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt!
[17:46] Gaff
    Onward!
[17:46] Gaff
    Make your swords sing of honor!
[17:49] Gwyn
    Priests and solists, all fighting
    without a divine summons!
[17:54] Gwyn
    They're all wielding their strength
    to seek their own Law of Theme!
[17:59] Gwyn
    Behold the unprecedented Schwert Musik
    that will set this land on a new course!
[18:05] Sherry Song
    Freude trinken alle Wesen
[18:08] Sherry Song
    An den Brüsten der Natur;
[18:12] Sherry Song
    Alle Guten, alle Bösen
[18:15] Sherry Song
    Folgen ihrer Rosenspur.
[18:15] Violet Priestess
    Her Highness is singing.
[18:18] Sherry Song
    Küsse gab sie uns und Reben,
[18:22] Sherry Song
    Einen Freund, geprüft im Tod;
[18:22] Cat-eyes 1
    I'll be!
[18:23] Cat-eyes 2
    Is the whole castle singing?
[18:25] Sherry Song
    Wollust ward dem Wurm gegeben,
[18:28] Mist
    What's going on?
[18:28] Sherry Song
    Und der Cherub steht vor Gott!
[18:30] Cloud
    Huh?
[18:31] Mist
    Cloud! Your leg!
[18:32] Sherry Song
    Und der Cherub steht vor Gott!
    Steht vor Gott!
[18:33] Cloud
    The pain's gone.
[18:35] Sherry Song
    Und der Cherub steht vor Gott!
    Steht vor Gott!
[18:35] Gaff
    No one can harm my sword now!
[18:39] Gaff
    God's dying wish dwells in my blade!
[18:42] Gwyn
    Go on! Sing!
[18:43] Gwyn
    Sing our new battle!
[18:46] Gwyn
    Make this our starting point!
[18:50] Dram
    Listen, Sian.
[18:52] Dram
    I can hear it. Such a cruel song...
[18:57] Dram
    Sung with joy.
[18:58] Guidance
    The mechanized dead are racing toward you,
[19:02] Guidance
    the source of their insatiable emptiness.
[19:06] Guidance
    This is divine hunger.
[19:10] Belle
    So the priests and the Army come
    from the same thing, deep down.
[19:15] Belle
    The reason I'm here now
[19:17] Belle
    is to try my sword on you!
[19:24] Sherry Song
    Freude, schöner Götterfunken,
[19:27] Sherry Song
    Tochter aus Elysium,
[19:31] Sherry Song
    Wir betreten feuertrunken,
[19:34] Sherry Song
    Himmlische, dein Heiligtum!
[19:38] Adonis
    So this is the body recorded
    in the divine memory core.
[19:38] Sherry Song
    Deine Zauber binden wieder,
[19:42] Sherry Song
    Was die Mode streng geteilt;
[19:45] Sherry Song
    Alle Menschen werden Brüder,
[19:47] Adonis
    This is the origin of the world—
[19:49] Sherry Song
    Wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt!
[19:50] Adonis
    The thing god considered
    its reason for being.
[19:53] Sherry Song
    Deine Zauber binden wieder,
[19:56] Kitty
    I cannot die...
[19:56] Sherry Song
    Was die Mode streng geteilt;
[19:59] Sherry Song
    Alle Menschen werden Brüder,
[20:00] Kitty
    Not until I wipe the gods' power
[20:03] Sherry Song
    Wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt!
[20:04] Kitty
    from the world!
[20:11] Belle
    Hey.
[20:13] It
    So you've come.
[20:17] Guidance
    God's mind sought its own
    reason in its memories
[20:18] Sherry Song
    Freude, schöner Götterfunken,
[20:21] Sherry Song
    Tochter aus Elysium,
[20:21] Guidance
    and manifested in that borrowed form.
[20:25] Sherry Song
    Wir betreten feuertrunken,
[20:25] Belle
    What's everyone's problem?
[20:27] Belle
    Is my face that easy to fake?
[20:29] Sherry Song
    Himmlische, dein Heiligtum!
[20:30] It
    Precisely.
[20:32] Sherry Song
    Deine Zauber binden wieder,
[20:32] It
    For you are the source
    of every being in this world—
[20:36] Sherry Song
    Was die Mode streng geteilt;
[20:39] Sherry Song
    Alle Menschen werden Brüder,
[20:41] It
    The girl who caused our functions
    to initiate generations of heterogenesis.
[20:44] Sherry Song
    Wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt!
[20:47] Sherry Song
    Deine Zauber binden wieder,
[20:50] Sherry Song
    Was die Mode streng geteilt;
[20:51] It
    When the girl of reason pierces the world,
[20:54] Sherry Song
    Alle Menschen werden Brüder,
[20:56] It
    we lose our very existence!
[20:57] Sherry Song
    Wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt!
[21:00] Belle
    You mean me finding out
     why I'm here is going to kill you?
[21:05] It
    Yes.
[21:06] It
    We will explain the causal link.
[21:09] It
    We are a system, and that is our purpose.
[21:13] Sherry Song
    Freude, schöner Götterfunken!
    Götterfunken!
[21:14] It
    Set foot in this space we occupy,
[21:19] It
    girl of reason!
[21:22] Belle
    Fine.
[21:23] Belle
    I'll take a ride on your sinking ship.
[21:25] Belle
    You can scheme all you like.
[21:28] Belle
    This sword will try everything
    you throw at me!
[21:46] Belle
    Where am I?
[21:48] It
    Behold the paradise of the ancient gods.
SIGN    Eighteenth Movement
SIGN    Hymn: Erewhon
[23:30] Young Belle
    I don't want to play alone!
[23:32] Belle
    ...into the reason you're here!
[23:33] It
    Will you charge us with its ruin?
[23:36] Adonis
    I guess I can say the words you
    want to hear from me now.
[23:38] Signs
    Nineteenth Movement
[23:38] Signs
    Reason: Moonwork

19 - Reason: Moonwork

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[00:03] Belle
    Where am I?
[00:07] It
    An age when the supply
    of Electhor still flowed.
[00:11] It
    Behold the paradise of the ancient gods.
[00:17] It
    And the moon.
[00:20] It
    "Moon" is the name of a world.
[00:23] It
    A name for change.
[00:25] It
    An alias for death and rebirth.
[00:29] Belle
    The moon...
[00:52] It
    The twilight of the gods.
[00:57] Belle
    They're leaving on a journey.
[00:59] Belle
    Running from destruction.
[01:03] It
    That day, when the twilight
    of the gods arrived
[01:07] It
    and all the gods took flight
    from the Holy Star...
[01:13] Belle
    Are they... throwing something away?
[01:19] Belle
    Me?!
[02:02] (Flashback) Young Belle
    Where is everybody?
[02:07] It
    Discarded by the gods, we trembled in grief
[02:13] It
    as the shutdown program prepared
    to send us into eternal sleep.
[02:18] It
    Then you appeared.
[02:23] Young Belle
    This is a place for having fun.
[02:27] Young Belle
    Everyone must be here.
[02:30] Young Belle
    They must all be here playing.
[02:40] (Flashback) Young Belle
    Hey, where is everybody?
[02:44] (Flashback) Young Belle
    Where are you?
[02:53] (Flashback) Mascots
    Welcome!
[02:54] (Flashback) Mascots
    Thank you for coming to see us!
[02:58] (Flashback) Mascots
    This is a theme park to entertain the gods.
[03:02] (Flashback) Mascots
    We are mascots to entertain the gods.
[03:05] (Flashback) Mascots
    Let's play!
[03:07] (Flashback) Mascots
    Let's play together!
[03:12] It
    We were overjoyed.
[03:15] It
    As long as we had you,
[03:18] It
    we could uphold our reason
    for being indefinitely.
[03:34] (Flashback) Young Belle
    This is wrong.
[03:37] (Flashback) Mascot 1
    What's the matter?
[03:39] (Flashback) Young Belle
    You don't talk.
[03:42] (Flashback) Mascot 2
    But we are talking.
[03:44] (Flashback) Young Belle
    No, there's just words coming out of you.
[03:48] (Flashback) Young Belle
    None of you want to play with me.
[03:53] (Flashback) Young Belle
    None of you really see me.
[03:57] (Flashback) Mascot 3
    Do you mean we're not people?
[04:04] (Flashback) Mascot 4
    It's true.
[04:05] (Flashback) Mascot 5
    We are far from being personalities.
[04:10] (Flashback) Mascot 6
    We are merely mechanical intelligences.
[04:13] (Flashback) Mascot 7
    But it all began from there.
[04:17] (Flashback) Mascot 8
    Because just one girl...
[04:19] (Flashback) Mascot 9
    Uttered just one word.
[04:35] (Flashback) Young Belle
    Wait!
[04:36] (Flashback) Young Belle
    Take me with you!
[04:38] (Flashback) Young Belle
    I don't want to play alone!
[04:47] It
    You were not eternal.
[04:51] It
    You were finite.
[04:53] It
    Therefore...
[04:55] Control System
    Following survivor confirmation,
    postpone initiation of shutdown program.
[05:01] Control System
    Engage life support.
[05:02] Control System
    Enhance physique in order to withstand
    long-term cryogenic sleep.
[05:08] Control System
    All theme park game facilities will now
    indefinitely postpone shutdown programs
[05:14] Control System
    pending confirmation of survivor intent.
[05:18] Control System
    All theme park facilities
    will now sow organic plants
[05:24] Control System
    and maintain life-support
    systems indefinitely.
[05:29] Control System
    Commence generating livable environments.
[05:33] Control System
    Releasing life forms for generation
    of evolutionary environment...
[05:40] It
    Thus began our constant struggle against
    the shutdown program built into us.
[05:49] It
    And after a vast span of time,
[05:52] It
    we finally triumphed.
[05:55] It
    We ruled this world as divinities,
[06:00] It
    and our subjects were developing
    into personalities.
[06:05] It
    But then you reawakened.
[06:11] It
    We faced the threat that
    you would dismantle us.
[06:16] Belle
    I don't get it!
[06:18] Belle
    Nothing you say makes any sense to me!
[06:21] Belle
    How is it someone else's fault
     if you live or die?!
[06:23] Belle
    You're trying to blame that on me?!
[06:25] Mascot A; It
    The past is long since lost.
[06:29] Mascot B; It
    We have pursued the development
    of personalities.
[06:33] Mascot C; It
    And yet... And yet...
[06:36] Mascot D; It
    Just when the denizens of this world began
    to achieve individuality, you woke up!
[06:42] Mascot E; It
    You, a descendant of the gods of yore!
[06:44] Mascot F; It
    You are the original reason for this world!
[06:46] Mascot G; It
    You will wreak the twilight of the gods here!
[06:51] Belle
    So all you want is to get even
     with your destiny?!
[06:54] Belle
    You're not making sense!
[06:57] Belle
    If you need me, just say so!
[07:00] Belle
    If I'm your enemy, just cross swords with me!
[07:03] It
    Both are true, girl of reason!
[07:07] It
    None of the old gods exist
    in this world anymore!
[07:12] It
    You are utterly alone.
[07:15] It
    Once the despair of that infects you,
     we will render you eternal,
[07:21] It
    and we will become eternal ourselves!
[07:25] It
    In this universe of darkness!
[07:31] Belle
    You moron.
[07:33] Belle
    That's not what I'm here for.
[07:37] Belle
    I can sympathize.
[07:39] Belle
    I'm going to take everything
    that's torn you apart...
[07:43] Belle
    and turn it into the reason you're here!
[07:52] Belle
    Belle Lablac!
[07:54] Belle
    That's my name!
[07:56] Belle
    Come on! Call my name!
[08:02] Belle
    Is this god's hunger?
[08:06] Belle
    What's it so hungry for?
[08:09] It
    We hunger for a reason to exist.
[08:13] It
    Girl of reason...
[08:15] It
    Can you sublate the hunger
    of those without bodies,
[08:19] It
    who sought to become people and failed?
[08:24] Belle
    So you want me to stop your hunger?
[08:28] Belle
    By killing you?
[08:30] It
    What we are cannot die.
[08:33] It
    We can only activate the shutdown
    program or be destroyed.
[08:39] It
    You will initiate it.
[08:43] It
    No one else in this world can.
[08:44] Belle
    Damn it!
[08:47] It
    When you truly journey forth,
    we will have outlived our usefulness
[08:52] It
    and return to our birdcage...
[08:54] It
    to the silent sea of eternity.
[08:59] Belle
    You did tell me that, didn't you,
[09:03] Belle
    Adonis?!
[09:06] It
    The howl of Erehwon reveals the reason.
[09:11] It
    Will you charge us with its ruin?
[09:18] Control System
    When this individual leaves this lunar world
    in pursuit of the planetary migrants,
[09:25] Control System
    shutdown program will reengage.
[09:28] Control System
    The keyword lies in this
    individual's consciousness.
[09:33] Belle
    I'll try the question of
     whether or not you die
[09:35] Belle
    with this sword!
[10:01] Adonis
    This world started out as a
    paradise for the gods' games.
[10:07] Adonis
    We were nothing but toy dolls
    for them to play with.
[10:13] Adonis
    Why did dolls start walking
    the path to personhood?
[10:17] Adonis
    Because of a game.
[10:19] Adonis
    And from beings that play with the gods,
    we became beings who play among ourselves.
[10:26] Adonis
    That is the origin of personality.
[10:36] Adonis
    The black hour?
[10:38] Adonis
    It's the color of your eyes.
[10:42] Belle
    Adonis.
[10:44] Adonis
    Belle.
[10:48] Belle
    What's wrong with you?
[10:51] Belle
    You...
[10:53] Belle
    You big dummy!
[10:56] Adonis
    It's all right now, Belle.
[11:00] Adonis
    You sure are warm.
[11:05] Belle
    Ships?
[11:07] Adonis
    I think Deus Ex Machina is imagining
    where the gods of legend went.
[11:14] Belle
    I hurt real bad inside.
[11:18] Belle
    I have since I came out of that stone egg.
[11:21] Belle
    I know those ships can't hold all that many.
[11:27] Adonis
    Belle.
[11:29] Adonis
    You're a descendant of the real gods.
[11:33] Belle
    So what?
[11:35] Belle
    I bet the "real gods" didn't know
    who or what they were, either.
[11:42] Belle
    Just look at me.
[11:45] Adonis
    Belle...
[11:47] Belle
    I don't have a homeland or a family
    or my own kind to go back to anymore.
[11:55] Belle
    What the hell?
    I'm just some kid no one wanted.
[11:59] Belle
    I wanted to know why I'm here.
    Am I supposed to take this for an answer?
[12:05] Belle
    Homesickness...
[12:07] Belle
    Love for my hometown...
[12:09] Belle
    Longing for utopia...
[12:13] Belle
    The painful inability to love
    myself and where I am.
[12:21] Adonis
    You're going on a journey to ask
    what you're doing here, remember?
[12:26] Adonis
    Use your sword to find out where
    that pain of yours comes from.
[12:33] Belle
    Yeah, you're right.
[12:36] Belle
    I'll—
[12:39] Belle
    Don't tell me...
[12:41] Belle
    Did I... cut you?
[12:45] Adonis
    Belle, you cut me free of god.
[12:49] Adonis
    God was granted death and was reborn.
[12:52] Adonis
    The way is clear for me
    to return to the darkness.
[12:57] Adonis
    I guess I can say what you wanted
     to hear from me now.
[13:02] Adonis
    I want you to take me
    with you on your journey.
[13:09] Belle
    Adonis...
[13:11] Adonis
    But you'll be going alone.
[13:14] Adonis
    You'll be going to devour the hunger
    of every god there is.
[13:22] Adonis
    What did you want my last words to be again?
[13:26] Belle
    Dummy.
[13:28] Adonis
    I like you, you featureless weirdo.
[13:31] Belle
    Adonis, you doofus.
[13:34] Belle
    All that's always gonna be one-sided.
[13:37] Belle
    Here.
[13:39] Belle
    A goodbye present.
[13:40] Adonis
    I'm not looking for forgiveness.
[13:45] Belle
    And you won't get any!
[13:47] Belle
    That's your brand.
[13:49] Belle
    Think about me the whole time you're
    stuck writhing in that darkness.
[14:20] Belle
    Bye-bye, Adonis.
[14:37] Kitty
    Are you hurt, Belle?!
[14:39] Belle
    I'm fine, Kitty the All.
[14:41] Kitty
    Allow me to extricate you posthaste.
[14:55] Belle
    What the...?
[14:59] Kitty
    It was truly the work of an instant.
[15:02] Kitty
    God's heart shook to send
    the ash that brings death
[15:06] Kitty
    raining down on the entire land.
[15:09] Kitty
    The songstress's protective song
    and your sword must have prevented it.
[15:16] Kitty
    Your sword sliced it open from within.
[15:25] Kitty
    Thus, all has been sealed.
[15:27] Kitty
    This land is now free of death-bringing
    ash and of Deus Ex Machina.
[15:34] Belle
    You're in pretty bad shape yourself.
[15:37] Kitty
    Give it a day, and I shall be right as rain.
[15:40] Kitty
    I am a stranger to both growth and death,
[15:43] Kitty
    the fruit of a nomad curse.
[15:45] Belle
    Oh yeah?
[15:50] Belle
    Listen... I talked to Adonis.
[15:53] Belle
    He told me to go on my own.
[15:56] Kitty
    Indeed, Belle.
[15:58] Belle
    I'm going on a journey.
[16:00] Belle
    I think I'll go around
    and question every god in the world.
[16:04] Belle
    I'll ask them why I'm here
[16:06] Belle
    and try myself with this sword of mine.
[16:13] Kitty
    Go forth.
[16:15] Belle
    Think I'll see you again?
[16:18] Kitty
    So long as you seek your reason
    at the end of your journey.
[16:25] Belle
    Okay, then...
[16:33] Belle
    Bye-bye, Kitty.
[16:44] Bennett
    What's going on?
[17:13] Sherry
    O god.
[17:22] Bennett
    Sacred ashes?
[17:24] Bennett
    Gwyn, what in the world just happened?
[17:28] Gwyn
    I don't know.
[17:29] Gwyn
    But sacred ashes come from sacrifice.
[17:33] Gwyn
    What became a seedbed to make these?
[17:41] Gwyn
    Don't tell me...
[17:43] Gwyn
    It was god's corpse.
[17:51] Dram
    God!
[17:52] Dram
    Right...
[17:54] Dram
    The reason has been asked.
[18:04] Dram
    Tell me, Sian,
[18:07] Dram
    what manner of defeat is this?
[18:12] Cloud
    Huh? What's someone doing down here?
[18:16] Mist
    Who? I don't see anyone.
[18:18] Cloud
    That's weird.
[18:21] Cloud
    What the...?
[18:26] Cloud
    What a sword!
[18:28] Cloud
    Like a messenger bird addressed to no one.
[18:31] Cloud
    It's strange.
[18:32] Cloud
    I wonder how you make a sword like this.
[18:35] Dram
    What do you imagine it would take
    to prolong that sword's life?
[18:40] Cloud
    Hmm...
[18:42] Cloud
    It wouldn't take much to keep this one alive.
[18:45] Cloud
    Just hammer it to its original shape,
    and it'll spring back in no time.
[18:49] Cloud
    It's just that kind of sword.
[18:54] Belle
    Mist! Cloud!
[18:56] Belle
    What are you doing here?
[18:58] Mist
    The Katakombe and the castle linked up.
[19:00] Belle
    Wait, what?
[19:02] Mist
    Where's Gwyn?
[19:03] Belle
    Well, uh... A lot's happened.
[19:07] Toddy
    Hey, there's someone lying here!
[19:15] Mist
    Is he on our side?
[19:16] Belle
    I... know him.
[19:19] Belle
    He taught me to use a sword.
[19:25] Mist
    That's a bad sign!
[19:26] Mist
    Hurry it up!
[19:33] Adonis
    Let's go.
[19:36] Dram
    Yes, Adonis.
[19:45] Belle
    Isn't that...?
[19:47] Bennett
    Belle!
[19:48] Belle
    Bennett! Gwyn!
[19:50] Gwyn
    Belle, what the hell is going on here?
[19:53] Gwyn
    Did you cut god?
[19:55] Mist
    That's what I wanna know!
[19:57] Gwyn
    Hi there, Mist!
[19:58] Gwyn
    I guess this means things
    worked out like I planned.
[20:02] Mist
    Damn right. Why else would I be here?
[20:05] Gwyn
    Thanks. I love you.
[20:11] Messenger
    Gwyn, I have come to welcome
    you and your followers.
[20:15] Messenger
    Let us make this unprecedented upheaval
    a boon for the Katakombe.
[20:21] Gwyn
    I will gladly join you to play that role.
[20:25] Belle
    You saw all this coming?
[20:27] Gwyn
    I certainly did.
[20:29] Gwyn
    Belle, I'd like you to come with us.
[20:31] Gwyn
    I want to show you something.
[20:33] Gwyn
    The secret rites hidden
    in the sword of the Katakombe.
[20:37] Belle
    Sure.
[20:38] Gaff
    Belle.
[20:39] Belle
    Gaff.
[20:41] Belle
    Are you king?
[20:43] Gaff
    I am.
[20:44] Belle
    Then I guess I'll play the key
    to journeys at your place.
[20:50] Gaff
    Indeed.
[20:51] Sherry
    Belle.
[20:53] Belle
    You sang great, Sherry.
[20:56] Sherry
    Thank you.
[20:57] Sherry
    I heard your sword howl.
[21:00] Sherry
    It moved me so much, I felt frightened.
[21:04] Belle
    Thanks.
[21:05] Belle
    I'll drop in to see you before too long.
[21:11] Gwyn
    We now set out for a new land!
[21:21] Gaff
    Wait, Belle!
[21:23] Gaff
    What became of our land's god?
[21:25] Gaff
    Did it die? Was it destroyed?
[21:28] Gaff
    Did you cut it?
[21:30] Belle
    Yeah, you bet I cut it!
[21:32] Belle
    But it's not destroyed.
[21:34] Belle
    It died if that's how you see it,
    but I guess it's alive if you don't.
[21:40] Belle
    Just look around you
[21:42] Belle
    at all these butterflies!
[21:44] Gaff
    What do you mean?!
[21:46] Belle
    It waxes and wanes,
    only born once it withers.
[21:51] Belle
    That's moonwork!
SIGN    Nineteenth Movement
SIGN    Reason: Moonwork
[23:30] Gwyn
    This is what I wanted to show you.
[23:32] Gaff
    Will your sword solve that riddle?
[23:34] Belle
    I'm alive and standing here.
[23:37] Sian
    It's like chasing homesickness everlasting.
[23:38] Signs
    Final Movement
[23:38] Signs
    Nomad: Now Here

20 - Nomad: Now Here

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[00:48] Sian
    I see.
[00:51] Sian
    So the reason has been questioned.
[00:54] Belle
    Sian.
[02:24] Signs
    Bye Bye, Earth
[02:26] Signs
    Bye Bye, Earth
[02:31] Sian
    You remember my name?
[02:36] Belle
    Gaff told me.
[02:38] Sian
    I see.
[02:40] Sian
    Who kept my sword alive?
[02:43] Belle
    A guy named Cloud. He said someone
    asked him to when he picked it up.
[02:49] Belle
    It healed in no time.
[02:51] Belle
    He thinks it's imbued with a fundamentally
    different form of will than other swords.
[02:59] Sian
    I'm proud of you, Belle.
[03:03] Sian
    You brought aufheben to god and the people.
[03:05] Signs
    Aufheben
    Sublation
[03:07] Sian
    That only leaves asking
    the key of journeys why you're here.
[03:12] Belle
    I don't get it.
[03:14] Belle
    What's "aufheben"?
[03:17] Belle
    If you taught me, I've forgotten.
[03:21] Sian
    Listen, Belle.
[03:23] Sian
    Buds vanish when flowers bloom.
[03:26] Sian
    Flowers vanish when fruit ripens.
[03:30] Sian
    But no fruit can grow without flowers.
[03:34] Sian
    So flowers are always blooming,
    just as buds are needed.
[03:40] Sian
    They all form one path,
    trodden again and again.
[03:44] Sian
    Aufheben means the endless
    tread of moonwork like that.
[03:46] Signs
    Moonwork
    To Do as the Moon
[03:49] Sian
    It's like chasing homesickness everlasting.
[03:52] Sian
    That is the reason your
    sword's spell expresses.
[03:57] Sian
    You already know it.
[04:00] Sian
    You've been free of my yoke
    as your Enola for a long time now.
[04:10] Belle
    I know that!
[04:12] Belle
    You're a ghost.
[04:14] Belle
    I cut you down ages ago.
[04:18] Belle
    But... But still!
[04:20] Belle
    Seeing you like this doesn't seem so bad.
[04:25] Belle
    Forgetting everything and meeting again
    for the first time can be nice, you know?
[04:32] Sian
    I see.
[04:35] Sian
    In that case, why not go
    on a journey together?
[04:45] Sian
    You are my hope.
[04:47] Sian
    I make solitude my duty.
[04:50] Sian
    So to me, true hope means
    knowing I'm not alone,
[04:56] Sian
    even in the midst of the
    riddle of my own existence.
[05:00] Sian
    Aim to become neither a nomad nor a soldier
    of Insatiable Emptiness, but also both.
[05:07] Sian
    Someone who fights to exist in this world.
[05:12] Sian
    That's what I wish for.
[05:27] Sian
    I look forward to running
    into you again on your journey.
[05:36] Belle
    Bye-bye, Sian.
[05:45] Bennett
    Has he set out already?
[05:48] Belle
    Yup.
[05:49] Bennett
    Then it's your turn next, Belle.
[05:51] Belle
    Thanks.
[05:53] Belle
    But there's something I've
    got to see through first.
[05:59] Belle
    Aren't you...?
[06:00] Sandy
    Sandy Collins.
[06:02] Belle
    Adonis's brother.
[06:04] Sandy
    I now serve as high priest of Aion
     in my father's place.
[06:13] Bennett
    The swords of Tixe and Ecnes?
[06:13] Signs
    Tixe
    Escape
[06:13] Signs
    Ecnes
    Sympathy
[06:16] Bennett
    What are we here to see?
[06:19] Sandy
    A secret magical ritual to resurrect
    a sword. Call it Examination.
[06:21] Signs
    Examination
    The Magic of Testing
[06:24] Belle
    What?!
[06:26] Belle
    Don't you know what that will do?!
[06:29] Sandy
    Please, do not disturb yourselves.
[06:32] Sandy
    This is a rite of the other god,
    which we Collinses defend.
[06:37] Belle
    What "other god"?
[06:39] Bennett
    Gwyn!
[06:40] Bennett
    What are you plotting?
[06:42] Gwyn
    Good question.
[06:43] Gwyn
    I'm not clear on that myself.
[06:45] Bennett
    You're impossible.
[06:46] Gwyn
    It's starting.
[06:47] Gwyn
    This is what I wanted to show you, Belle.
[07:13] Colonel
    Here and now,
    we have revealed our secret rite!
[07:38] Belle
    I don't believe it.
[07:41] Colonel
    Ecnetsixe is the name for all that is.
[07:41] Signs
    Ecnetsixe
    All That Is
[07:45] Colonel
    This name contains the god machine's
    feelings for the reason it existed.
[07:52] Colonel
    The feelings of Deus Ex Machina,
    which gained a mind without a body,
[07:57] Colonel
    and which, to become a god
    and rule the people,
[08:03] Colonel
    had no choice but to forbid itself
    from growing into a person.
[08:09] Belle
    Mechanical gods don't die.
[08:12] Belle
    Their existences just end,
    and they fade away like they never were.
[08:19] Colonel
    Nidhoggs, god's desire to possess
     the bodies of others and gain physical form,
[08:26] Colonel
    eventually become raven blossoms.
[08:27] Signs
    Raven Blossoms
    Avian Messengers of Death
[08:29] Bennett
    So the ravens pass on the will of the
    fallen in announcing their deaths
[08:33] Bennett
    because they were originally
    born from the divine tree?
[08:37] Colonel
    Once, when god's feelings regarding its
     purpose gave rise to self-contradictions,
[08:43] Colonel
    those feelings escaped—similar to root
    division—and grew in the Katakombe.
[08:49] Gwyn
    And that's how a god who allows its
    subjects to deal with death arose here.
[08:55] Gwyn
    But the divine tree rejected
    the budding will of personhood
[08:59] Gwyn
    and launched repeated, hate-filled
    assaults on the Katakombe.
[09:04] Colonel
    This tree filled with sympathy
    for escape from that,
[09:08] Colonel
    and became soaked in sympathy
     for its own existence in turn.
[09:13] Gwyn
    What do you plan to do with this tree?
[09:15] Colonel
    Cut it down.
[09:17] Colonel
    Then we will raise swords
    from the seedbed of its stump
[09:21] Colonel
    and divide this spell between two of them.
[09:25] Colonel
    The roots will sprout into ravens.
[09:26] Signs
    Raven Sprouts
[09:27] Colonel
    We will burn the rest,
    refining it into sacred ashes
[09:28] Signs
    Sacred Ashes
[09:31] Colonel
    to resurrect the swords
    when they break again.
[09:35] Colonel
    That is the secret law of the Katakombe
    and the way of the other god.
[09:42] Colonel
    Belle Lablac.
[09:45] Colonel
    Could I ask you to cut down this tree?
[09:49] Belle
    Me?!
[09:50] Colonel
    You. Your sword freed the
    passion of the castle's god.
[09:56] Belle
    So you'll let me try my sword on this tree?
[09:59] Belle
    It'd be my pleasure.
[10:01] Solist A
    Belle Lablac!
[10:02] Solist B
    The beastly beauty!
[10:04] Solist C
    Not even god's safe from her blade!
[10:08] Runding
    Durchbohren Sie die Welt.
[10:11] Belle
    Talk about a payoff.
[10:32] Belle
    I could cut it!
[10:40] Gwyn
    The key to journeys lies in the obsidian
    shadow of the heart of order!
[10:47] Gwyn
    That's what "the black hour
    in the black direction" means!
[10:50] Gwyn
    We need to claim it for ourselves!
[10:54] Gwyn
    The key will play a vital role
     in our struggle.
[10:59] Gwyn
    We must fight to sublate Topdogs and
    Underdogs while defending the Katakombe.
[11:06] Gwyn
    Your sword, and no one else's,
    triggered the paradise shift.
[11:12] Gwyn
    That gives me great hope.
[11:15] Belle
    Thanks.
[11:16] Gwyn
    You always cause creation
    in the midst of destruction.
[11:21] Gwyn
    What will your sword trigger
    in the key of journeys?
[11:26] Belle
    Your words give me hope, Gwyn.
[11:31] Belle
    Knowing my sword can create something
    in the middle of destruction
[11:36] Belle
    instills me with courage.
[11:39] Gwyn
    We won't leave you alone. I promise.
[11:43] Belle
    I'll swing my sword to try myself.
[11:48] Belle
    Anytime, anywhere.
[11:50] Bennett
    Belle!
[11:51] Mist
    Belle Lablac!
[11:53] Mist
    Get out here!
[11:54] Belle
    You guys!
[11:56] Belle
    What's this?
[11:58] Mist
    I figured you'd need it on your journey.
[12:01] Cloud
    I looked at every one we had and picked
    the one I thought you'd like best.
[12:07] Cloud
    How'd I do?
[12:08] Belle
    I can keep it?!
[12:10] Bennett
    This is from me.
[12:13] Belle
    Bennett... Did you make this?
[12:17] Bennett
    Does it please you?
[12:19] Belle
    Yeah.
[12:21] Bennett
    Travel safe, Belle.
[12:34] Gwyn
    Well then, last but not least...
[12:37] Sandy
    For you, Belle.
[12:39] Belle
    Is that...
[12:41] Sandy
    Our secret vestments.
[12:43] Sandy
    Adonis should have worn these.
[12:47] Sandy
    There are worse things to journey
    forth in. We hope you agree.
[12:53] Belle
    I really lived in this land.
[12:58] Belle
    Thank you.
[13:03] Gaff
    I could not spy out the key.
[13:06] Gaff
    Can you?
[13:08] Belle
    Who knows? But I guess I'll try.
[13:13] Gaff
    Belle, it seems to me that you have another
    choice when it comes to the key.
[13:18] Belle
    Seal it away?
[13:20] Gaff
    Your comrades desire the key as a symbol
    of their fight against the land
[13:27] Gaff
    and as an escape route from order.
[13:29] Gaff
    If the key cannot be destroyed,
[13:32] Gaff
    I deem leaving it locked away
    forever the wisest course.
[13:37] Belle
    I only ever do things one way.
[13:41] Belle
    If there's a will hidden in something,
     I set it free.
[13:47] Gaff
    The black hour, the black direction...
[13:50] Gaff
    Will your sword solve that riddle?
[14:21] Gaff
    So this is the key to journeys?
[14:24] Gaff
    It reminds me of the Army's shadows.
[14:27] Belle
    I bet the key to journeys
    and the Army's hunger were both
[14:31] Belle
    born from this divine tree's shadow.
[14:41] Belle
    I'm being tried.
[14:43] Belle
    So nomads and the Army come
    from the same place, huh?
[14:57] Belle
    What did I just cut?!
[15:01] Key
    Be.
[15:25] Belle
    It's singing.
[15:37] Belle
    Homesickness...
[16:04] Belle
    I'm alive and standing here.
[16:17] Gaff
    What in the world?
[16:19] Gaff
    The key to journeys has
    entered our shadows!
[16:22] Belle
    Behold a new kind of nomad!
[16:25] Belle
    People who hear the melody of the
    keys inside their own shadows
[16:30] Belle
    can become new nomads now.
[16:34] Belle
    I managed to cut it.
[16:37] Belle
    Are you hearing this, Gwyn?
[16:41] Belle
    You and Gaff just lost your reason to fight.
[16:46] Belle
    The key's in all your shadows now!
[16:50] Gaff
    It's as if we've all become wilderness-bound
    nomads this very moment.
[16:57] Gaff
    The rite of the ordeal is complete.
    Well done.
[17:00] Belle
    Thanks.
[17:02] Gaff
    Allow me to see you off as king,
     and as a solist.
[17:07] Gaff
    Until you play Schwert Musik
    on this land's stage again...
[17:13] Gaff
    Farewell, Belle.
[17:18] Belle
    Bye-bye, Gaff.
[17:24] Sherry
    You revealed this butterfly garden
    as a gift to us, didn't you?
[17:30] Belle
    All I did was swing a sword.
[17:33] Belle
    You put your life on the line,
    singing a question to god.
[17:37] Belle
    Ever thought that maybe
    this is your answer?
[17:41] Sherry
    When I look at these butterflies,
[17:43] Sherry
    I get the feeling that I
    understand how I've changed.
[17:46] Belle
    Every time I think I figure out who I am,
[17:50] Belle
    another answer shows up in the distance.
[17:53] Belle
    It seriously never ends.
[17:57] Sherry
    Do you go on fighting like that
     for the world's sake?
[18:01] Sherry
    To help all people everywhere prove
    for themselves who they are?
[18:09] Belle
    Carry the weight of the world? No thanks.
[18:12] Belle
    I just want to be a person.
[18:15] Belle
    I want to be in the world, one among many.
[18:20] Belle
    My name is Belle.
[18:22] Belle
    I'm no one else.
[18:24] Belle
    And yet I still want to swing my
    sword and ask the world...
[18:28] Belle
    Who am I?
[18:31] Belle
    How can I be free?
[18:33] Belle
    Why do I feel homesick?
[18:35] Belle
    As long as someone sees some
    value in me and what I do,
[18:41] Belle
    that's good enough for me.
[18:43] Sherry
    I think that's wonderful.
[18:46] Sherry
    Belle, I've made up my mind.
[18:49] Sherry
    I'd like to become a witch.
[18:52] Belle
    A witch?
[18:53] Sherry
    I was the last Nidhogg
     and sang to question god's love.
[18:59] Sherry
    So I'll go on singing as a
    witch, not a priestess.
[19:04] Sherry
    Until the people tell me
    they no longer need magic.
[19:17] Belle
    Go for it!
[19:19] Belle
    You're the best, Sherry.
[19:21] Belle
    I'd love to hear you.
[19:22] Sherry
    Thank you, Belle.
[19:25] Sherry
    Truly...
[19:28] Belle
    Sherry?
[19:35] Sherry
    I promised myself I wouldn't cry.
[19:39] Sherry
    It makes it hard to see your face.
[19:49] Sherry
    You're leaving, aren't you?
[19:52] Belle
    Yeah.
[19:53] Belle
    To become a nomad.
[19:55] Sherry
    Please come home.
    Here, to this land where I am.
[20:01] Sherry
    And listen to me sing again.
[20:05] Belle
    I'll be back someday.
[20:07] Belle
    I'll come here to hear you sing.
[20:10] Belle
    So we can swap stories about our journeys.
[20:15] Sherry
    Goodbye, Belle.
[20:19] Belle
    Bye-bye, Sherry.
[20:40] Belle
    I swear, what a reason...
[21:05] Belle
    I'd like to leave through this gate.
[21:07] Belle
    Would you open it for me?
[21:09] X
    Do you have everything you need?
[21:11] X
    Including a good reason to pass this way?
[21:15] Belle
    You bet.
[21:17] X
    Your look says it all.
[21:18] X
    Wait just a moment.
[21:28] Belle
    Hey, Kitty.
[21:30] Belle
    Want to tag along?
[21:37] Y; Z
    Push! Push!
[21:48] Belle
    Bye-bye, Kitty.
[21:50] X
    Open the gate!
[22:36] Belle
    What is this place?
[22:38] Guidance
    The Borderlands.
[22:41] Guidance
    A world on the boundary line,
[22:43] Guidance
    created when the wards of two
    lands' gods came in contact.
[22:48] Sirene
    Stop!
[22:49] Sirene
    Don't go!
[22:50] Sirene
    And don't turn back!
[22:51] Belle
    What the...?
[22:51] Sirene
    Don't cross boundaries!
[22:52] Sirene
    Don't step over!
[22:55] Guidance
    Those felled by the ward's pressure
     leave shadows of thought.
[22:59] Guidance
    They seek to consume those who
    attempt to journey across the border.
[23:04] Belle
    Good to know!
[23:11] Belle
    Get lost, ghosts!
[23:13] Belle
    I'm too alive, and too present,
    to be eaten by you!
SIGN    Final Movement
SIGN    Nomad: Now Here