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