# 20 - Nomad: Now Here
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/G4PH0WJXN/bye-bye-earth)
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**[00:48] Sian**
I see.
**[00:51] Sian**
So the reason has been questioned.
**[00:54] Belle**
Sian.
**[02:24] Signs**
Bye Bye, Earth
**[02:26] Signs**
Bye Bye, Earth
**[02:31] Sian**
You remember my name?
**[02:36] Belle**
Gaff told me.
**[02:38] Sian**
I see.
**[02:40] Sian**
Who kept my sword alive?
**[02:43] Belle**
A guy named Cloud. He said someone
asked him to when he picked it up.
**[02:49] Belle**
It healed in no time.
**[02:51] Belle**
He thinks it's imbued with a fundamentally
different form of will than other swords.
**[02:59] Sian**
I'm proud of you, Belle.
**[03:03] Sian**
You brought aufheben to god and the people.
**[03:05] Signs**
Aufheben
Sublation
**[03:07] Sian**
That only leaves asking
the key of journeys why you're here.
**[03:12] Belle**
I don't get it.
**[03:14] Belle**
What's "aufheben"?
**[03:17] Belle**
If you taught me, I've forgotten.
**[03:21] Sian**
Listen, Belle.
**[03:23] Sian**
Buds vanish when flowers bloom.
**[03:26] Sian**
Flowers vanish when fruit ripens.
**[03:30] Sian**
But no fruit can grow without flowers.
**[03:34] Sian**
So flowers are always blooming,
just as buds are needed.
**[03:40] Sian**
They all form one path,
trodden again and again.
**[03:44] Sian**
Aufheben means the endless
tread of moonwork like that.
**[03:46] Signs**
Moonwork
To Do as the Moon
**[03:49] Sian**
It's like chasing homesickness everlasting.
**[03:52] Sian**
That is the reason your
sword's spell expresses.
**[03:57] Sian**
You already know it.
**[04:00] Sian**
You've been free of my yoke
as your Enola for a long time now.
**[04:10] Belle**
I know that!
**[04:12] Belle**
You're a ghost.
**[04:14] Belle**
I cut you down ages ago.
**[04:18] Belle**
But... But still!
**[04:20] Belle**
Seeing you like this doesn't seem so bad.
**[04:25] Belle**
Forgetting everything and meeting again
for the first time can be nice, you know?
**[04:32] Sian**
I see.
**[04:35] Sian**
* In that case, why not go*
* on a journey together?*
**[04:45] Sian**
You are my hope.
**[04:47] Sian**
I make solitude my duty.
**[04:50] Sian**
So to me, true hope means
knowing I'm not alone,
**[04:56] Sian**
even in the midst of the
riddle of my own existence.
**[05:00] Sian**
Aim to become neither a nomad nor a soldier
of Insatiable Emptiness, but also both.
**[05:07] Sian**
Someone who fights to exist in this world.
**[05:12] Sian**
That's what I wish for.
**[05:27] Sian**
I look forward to running
into you again on your journey.
**[05:36] Belle**
Bye-bye, Sian.
**[05:45] Bennett**
Has he set out already?
**[05:48] Belle**
Yup.
**[05:49] Bennett**
Then it's your turn next, Belle.
**[05:51] Belle**
Thanks.
**[05:53] Belle**
But there's something I've
got to see through first.
**[05:59] Belle**
Aren't you...?
**[06:00] Sandy**
Sandy Collins.
**[06:02] Belle**
Adonis's brother.
**[06:04] Sandy**
I now serve as high priest of Aion
in my father's place.
**[06:13] Bennett**
The swords of Tixe and Ecnes?
**[06:13] Signs**
Tixe
Escape
**[06:13] Signs**
Ecnes
Sympathy
**[06:16] Bennett**
What are we here to see?
**[06:19] Sandy**
A secret magical ritual to resurrect
a sword. Call it Examination.
**[06:21] Signs**
Examination
The Magic of Testing
**[06:24] Belle**
What?!
**[06:26] Belle**
Don't you know what that will do?!
**[06:29] Sandy**
Please, do not disturb yourselves.
**[06:32] Sandy**
This is a rite of the *other* god,
which we Collinses defend.
**[06:37] Belle**
What "other god"?
**[06:39] Bennett**
Gwyn!
**[06:40] Bennett**
What are you plotting?
**[06:42] Gwyn**
Good question.
**[06:43] Gwyn**
I'm not clear on that myself.
**[06:45] Bennett**
You're impossible.
**[06:46] Gwyn**
It's starting.
**[06:47] Gwyn**
This is what I wanted to show you, Belle.
**[07:13] Colonel**
Here and now,
we have revealed our secret rite!
**[07:38] Belle**
I don't believe it.
**[07:41] Colonel**
Ecnetsixe is the name for all that is.
**[07:41] Signs**
Ecnetsixe
All That Is
**[07:45] Colonel**
This name contains the god machine's
feelings for the reason it existed.
**[07:52] Colonel**
The feelings of Deus Ex Machina,
which gained a mind without a body,
**[07:57] Colonel**
and which, to become a god
and rule the people,
**[08:03] Colonel**
had no choice but to forbid itself
from growing into a person.
**[08:09] Belle**
*Mechanical gods don't die.*
**[08:12] Belle**
* Their existences just end,*
* and they fade away like they never were.*
**[08:19] Colonel**
Nidhoggs, god's desire to possess
the bodies of others and gain physical form,
**[08:26] Colonel**
eventually become raven blossoms.
**[08:27] Signs**
Raven Blossoms
Avian Messengers of Death
**[08:29] Bennett**
So the ravens pass on the will of the
fallen in announcing their deaths
**[08:33] Bennett**
because they were originally
born from the divine tree?
**[08:37] Colonel**
Once, when god's feelings regarding its
purpose gave rise to self-contradictions,
**[08:43] Colonel**
those feelings escaped—similar to root
division—and grew in the Katakombe.
**[08:49] Gwyn**
And that's how a god who allows its
subjects to deal with death arose here.
**[08:55] Gwyn**
But the divine tree rejected
the budding will of personhood
**[08:59] Gwyn**
and launched repeated, hate-filled
assaults on the Katakombe.
**[09:04] Colonel**
This tree filled with sympathy
for escape from that,
**[09:08] Colonel**
and became soaked in sympathy
for its own existence in turn.
**[09:13] Gwyn**
What do you plan to do with this tree?
**[09:15] Colonel**
Cut it down.
**[09:17] Colonel**
Then we will raise swords
from the seedbed of its stump
**[09:21] Colonel**
and divide this spell between two of them.
**[09:25] Colonel**
The roots will sprout into ravens.
**[09:26] Signs**
Raven Sprouts
**[09:27] Colonel**
We will burn the rest,
refining it into sacred ashes
**[09:28] Signs**
Sacred Ashes
**[09:31] Colonel**
to resurrect the swords
when they break again.
**[09:35] Colonel**
That is the secret law of the Katakombe
and the way of the other god.
**[09:42] Colonel**
Belle Lablac.
**[09:45] Colonel**
Could I ask you to cut down this tree?
**[09:49] Belle**
Me?!
**[09:50] Colonel**
You. Your sword freed the
passion of the castle's god.
**[09:56] Belle**
So you'll let me try my sword on this tree?
**[09:59] Belle**
It'd be my pleasure.
**[10:01] Solist A**
Belle Lablac!
**[10:02] Solist B**
The beastly beauty!
**[10:04] Solist C**
Not even god's safe from her blade!
**[10:08] Runding**
*Durchbohren Sie die Welt.*
**[10:11] Belle**
*Talk about a payoff.*
**[10:32] Belle**
*I could cut it!*
**[10:40] Gwyn**
The key to journeys lies in the obsidian
shadow of the heart of order!
**[10:47] Gwyn**
That's what "the black hour
in the black direction" means!
**[10:50] Gwyn**
We need to claim it for ourselves!
**[10:54] Gwyn**
The key will play a vital role
in our struggle.
**[10:59] Gwyn**
We must fight to sublate Topdogs and
Underdogs while defending the Katakombe.
**[11:06] Gwyn**
Your sword, and no one else's,
triggered the paradise shift.
**[11:12] Gwyn**
That gives me great hope.
**[11:15] Belle**
Thanks.
**[11:16] Gwyn**
You always cause creation
in the midst of destruction.
**[11:21] Gwyn**
What will your sword trigger
in the key of journeys?
**[11:26] Belle**
Your words give *me* hope, Gwyn.
**[11:31] Belle**
Knowing my sword can create something
in the middle of destruction
**[11:36] Belle**
instills me with courage.
**[11:39] Gwyn**
We won't leave you alone. I promise.
**[11:43] Belle**
I'll swing my sword to try myself.
**[11:48] Belle**
Anytime, anywhere.
**[11:50] Bennett**
Belle!
**[11:51] Mist**
Belle Lablac!
**[11:53] Mist**
Get out here!
**[11:54] Belle**
You guys!
**[11:56] Belle**
What's this?
**[11:58] Mist**
I figured you'd need it on your journey.
**[12:01] Cloud**
I looked at every one we had and picked
the one I thought you'd like best.
**[12:07] Cloud**
How'd I do?
**[12:08] Belle**
I can keep it?!
**[12:10] Bennett**
This is from me.
**[12:13] Belle**
Bennett... Did you make this?
**[12:17] Bennett**
Does it please you?
**[12:19] Belle**
Yeah.
**[12:21] Bennett**
Travel safe, Belle.
**[12:34] Gwyn**
Well then, last but not least...
**[12:37] Sandy**
For you, Belle.
**[12:39] Belle**
Is that...
**[12:41] Sandy**
Our secret vestments.
**[12:43] Sandy**
Adonis should have worn these.
**[12:47] Sandy**
There are worse things to journey
forth in. We hope you agree.
**[12:53] Belle**
I really lived in this land.
**[12:58] Belle**
Thank you.
**[13:03] Gaff**
I could not spy out the key.
**[13:06] Gaff**
Can you?
**[13:08] Belle**
Who knows? But I guess I'll try.
**[13:13] Gaff**
Belle, it seems to me that you have another
choice when it comes to the key.
**[13:18] Belle**
Seal it away?
**[13:20] Gaff**
Your comrades desire the key as a symbol
of their fight against the land
**[13:27] Gaff**
and as an escape route from order.
**[13:29] Gaff**
If the key cannot be destroyed,
**[13:32] Gaff**
I deem leaving it locked away
forever the wisest course.
**[13:37] Belle**
I only ever do things one way.
**[13:41] Belle**
If there's a will hidden in something,
I set it free.
**[13:47] Gaff**
The black hour, the black direction...
**[13:50] Gaff**
Will your sword solve that riddle?
**[14:21] Gaff**
So this is the key to journeys?
**[14:24] Gaff**
It reminds me of the Army's shadows.
**[14:27] Belle**
I bet the key to journeys
and the Army's hunger were both
**[14:31] Belle**
born from this divine tree's shadow.
**[14:41] Belle**
*I'm being tried.*
**[14:43] Belle**
* So nomads and the Army come*
* from the same place, huh?*
**[14:57] Belle**
*What did I just cut?!*
**[15:01] Key**
Be.
**[15:25] Belle**
It's singing.
**[15:37] Belle**
*Homesickness...*
**[16:04] Belle**
*I'm alive and standing here.*
**[16:17] Gaff**
What in the world?
**[16:19] Gaff**
The key to journeys has
entered our shadows!
**[16:22] Belle**
Behold a new kind of nomad!
**[16:25] Belle**
People who hear the melody of the
keys inside their own shadows
**[16:30] Belle**
can become new nomads now.
**[16:34] Belle**
I managed to cut it.
**[16:37] Belle**
*Are you hearing this, Gwyn?*
**[16:41] Belle**
*You and Gaff just lost your reason to fight.*
**[16:46] Belle**
*The key's in all your shadows now!*
**[16:50] Gaff**
It's as if we've all become wilderness-bound
nomads this very moment.
**[16:57] Gaff**
The rite of the ordeal is complete.
Well done.
**[17:00] Belle**
Thanks.
**[17:02] Gaff**
Allow me to see you off as king,
and as a solist.
**[17:07] Gaff**
Until you play Schwert Musik
on this land's stage again...
**[17:13] Gaff**
Farewell, Belle.
**[17:18] Belle**
Bye-bye, Gaff.
**[17:24] Sherry**
You revealed this butterfly garden
as a gift to us, didn't you?
**[17:30] Belle**
All I did was swing a sword.
**[17:33] Belle**
You put your life on the line,
singing a question to god.
**[17:37] Belle**
Ever thought that maybe
this is your answer?
**[17:41] Sherry**
When I look at these butterflies,
**[17:43] Sherry**
I get the feeling that I
understand how I've changed.
**[17:46] Belle**
Every time I think I figure out who I am,
**[17:50] Belle**
another answer shows up in the distance.
**[17:53] Belle**
It seriously never ends.
**[17:57] Sherry**
Do you go on fighting like that
for the world's sake?
**[18:01] Sherry**
To help all people everywhere prove
for themselves who they are?
**[18:09] Belle**
Carry the weight of the world? No thanks.
**[18:12] Belle**
I just want to be a person.
**[18:15] Belle**
I want to be in the world, one among many.
**[18:20] Belle**
My name is Belle.
**[18:22] Belle**
I'm no one else.
**[18:24] Belle**
And yet I still want to swing my
sword and ask the world...
**[18:28] Belle**
Who am I?
**[18:31] Belle**
How can I be free?
**[18:33] Belle**
Why do I feel homesick?
**[18:35] Belle**
As long as someone sees some
value in me and what I do,
**[18:41] Belle**
that's good enough for me.
**[18:43] Sherry**
I think that's wonderful.
**[18:46] Sherry**
Belle, I've made up my mind.
**[18:49] Sherry**
I'd like to become a witch.
**[18:52] Belle**
A *witch*?
**[18:53] Sherry**
I was the last Nidhogg
and sang to question god's love.
**[18:59] Sherry**
So I'll go on singing as a
witch, not a priestess.
**[19:04] Sherry**
Until the people tell me
they no longer need magic.
**[19:17] Belle**
Go for it!
**[19:19] Belle**
You're the best, Sherry.
**[19:21] Belle**
I'd love to hear you.
**[19:22] Sherry**
Thank you, Belle.
**[19:25] Sherry**
Truly...
**[19:28] Belle**
Sherry?
**[19:35] Sherry**
I promised myself I wouldn't cry.
**[19:39] Sherry**
It makes it hard to see your face.
**[19:49] Sherry**
You're leaving, aren't you?
**[19:52] Belle**
Yeah.
**[19:53] Belle**
To become a nomad.
**[19:55] Sherry**
Please come home.
Here, to this land where I am.
**[20:01] Sherry**
And listen to me sing again.
**[20:05] Belle**
I'll be back someday.
**[20:07] Belle**
I'll come here to hear you sing.
**[20:10] Belle**
So we can swap stories about our journeys.
**[20:15] Sherry**
Goodbye, Belle.
**[20:19] Belle**
Bye-bye, Sherry.
**[20:40] Belle**
I swear, what a reason...
**[21:05] Belle**
I'd like to leave through this gate.
**[21:07] Belle**
Would you open it for me?
**[21:09] X**
Do you have everything you need?
**[21:11] X**
Including a good reason to pass this way?
**[21:15] Belle**
You bet.
**[21:17] X**
Your look says it all.
**[21:18] X**
Wait just a moment.
**[21:28] Belle**
Hey, Kitty.
**[21:30] Belle**
Want to tag along?
**[21:37] Y; Z**
Push! Push!
**[21:48] Belle**
Bye-bye, Kitty.
**[21:50] X**
Open the gate!
**[22:36] Belle**
What is this place?
**[22:38] Guidance**
The Borderlands.
**[22:41] Guidance**
A world on the boundary line,
**[22:43] Guidance**
created when the wards of two
lands' gods came in contact.
**[22:48] Sirene**
Stop!
**[22:49] Sirene**
Don't go!
**[22:50] Sirene**
And don't turn back!
**[22:51] Belle**
What the...?
**[22:51] Sirene**
Don't cross boundaries!
**[22:52] Sirene**
Don't step over!
**[22:55] Guidance**
Those felled by the ward's pressure
leave shadows of thought.
**[22:59] Guidance**
They seek to consume those who
attempt to journey across the border.
**[23:04] Belle**
Good to know!
**[23:11] Belle**
Get lost, ghosts!
**[23:13] Belle**
I'm too alive, and too present,
to be eaten by you!
***SIGN*** Final Movement
***SIGN*** Nomad: Now Here