# 11 - Homesick: Now Budding in the Echoes
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/G4PH0WJXN/bye-bye-earth)
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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