# 17 - Mania: Nowhere
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/G4PH0WJXN/bye-bye-earth)
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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