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