# 14 - Doubt: For Love of Reason
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/G4PH0WJXN/bye-bye-earth)
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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