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