E4 - Spell of Proof Still Distant

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[00:05] (Flashback) Gaff
    The king will reward you
    for your recent battle.
[00:09] (Flashback) Gaff
    You were selected
    to sortie with those solists.
[00:14] Belle
    So that was my first mission from god?
[00:18] Kings
    Little one, we commend you.
[00:24] Good King
    Set your sword upon the scales.
[00:28] Good King
    We shall grant you unwilting iron commensurate
    with the deeds of which it tells.
[00:36] Belle
    These must be the scales.
[00:43] Kings
    Unwilting iron will bless you with sustenance
[00:47] Kings
    and go on to bless many with the same.
[00:53] Belle
    The god tree still won't look at me. Figures.
[01:00] Belle
    I still have two missions to go.
[01:03] Belle
    Call me anytime.
[01:06] Kings
    Await the divine summons, little one.
[01:14] Gaff
    Did you meet with your parents?
[01:15] Belle
    Yeah. But I doubt I'll see them again.
[01:19] Gaff
    You seem content.
[01:20] Belle
    Well, I feel nice and refreshed
    after everything that's happened.
[01:25] Belle
    By the way, you and Kir are two of the
    top four solists. Who're the others?
[01:31] Gaff
    Taken an interest?
[01:32] Belle
    A bit.
[01:35] Gaff
    One is called Tiziano,
[01:39] Gaff
    but they're missing at the moment.
[01:41] Gaff
    I don't even know if they're
    a man or woman right now.
[01:45] Belle
    Oh, so they're a mermaid?
[01:47] Gaff
    Mermaids can change everything
    from their appearance to their aura.
[01:50] Gaff
    If Tiziano has changed gender and gone
    into hiding, we'll never find them.
[01:55] Belle
    Are they strong?
[01:56] Gaff
    Very.
[01:57] Belle
    What about the other one?
[01:58] Gaff
    He's a bit of a special case as well.
[02:01] Belle
    But he's strong?
[02:04] Belle
    What's his name?
[02:05] Gaff
    Adonis.
SIGN    Bye Bye, Earth
SIGN    Bye Bye, Earth
[03:47] Belle
    I didn't get picked again?
[03:50] Belle
    How many times in a row is this?
[04:00] Belle
    What's a paw tree doing here?
[04:04] Belle
    Oh, pops!
[04:06] Belle
    They're so cute!
[04:12] Belle
    They look surprised they were born.
[04:17] Belle
    I know!
[04:23] Belle
    Don't be afraid.
[04:37] Belle
    Guess they won't let me near them.
[04:40] Belle
    Reminds me of that guy.
[04:46] (Flashback) Gaff
    Don't get involved.
[04:48] (Flashback) Solist A
    You damn sword thief!
[04:50] (Flashback) Solist B
    Spit it out! Where'd you hide them?!
[04:53] (Flashback) Gaff
    What's all this about?
[04:55] (Flashback) Solist C
    Shandy Gaff!
[04:56] (Flashback) Gaff
    This hardly resembles a duel between solists.
[04:59] (Flashback) Solist A
    This thief is no solist,
    and I won't treat him like one!
[05:05] Belle
    He's not looking down on them.
[05:08] Belle
    He pities them...
[05:13] Belle
    Oh, sorry...
[05:21] (Flashback) Solist A
    Come on! Let's go!
[05:25] (Flashback) Adonis
    Looks like your words carry weight,
     even with that lot.
[05:32] (Flashback) Adonis
    Well, see you around.
[05:41] (Flashback) Belle
    What started that ordeal?
[05:43] (Flashback) Gaff
    He took the sword of a solist
    who recently died in battle.
[05:49] (Flashback) Gaff
    Their next of kin demanded
    its return, and he refused.
[05:53] (Flashback) Belle
    Huh?
[05:54] (Flashback) Belle
    What good is a sword you
    didn't grow yourself?
[05:58] (Flashback) Gaff
    I don't know his reasons.
[06:00] (Flashback) Gaff
    He takes the swords of the
    fallen from battlefields
[06:03] (Flashback) Gaff
    and buys up the swords of those
     who renounce the blade.
[06:09] Belle
    I wonder why he doesn't just
    grow a sword of his own.
[06:13] Belle
    You think maybe he can't?
[06:18] Belle
    Those gloves...
[06:20] Belle
    They make him seem like he's afraid
    to touch a sword directly.
[06:45] Belle
    Oh well. I'd just get passed over, anyway.
[06:47] Men
    Hey! Speak up!
[06:49] Men
    Yeah!
[06:51] Belle
    Adonis!
[06:53] Belle
    Don't you think this is a little much,
[06:55] Belle
    all of you ganging up on just one guy?
[06:57] Man B
    It's her!
[06:59] Man C
    The girl who beat Kir!
[07:06] Belle
    You... killed them?
[07:09] Man A
    You always start with something
    soft when testing a sword's edge.
[07:16] Man B
    Can't say I approve of feeding wildflowers.
[07:19] Man D
    Y-You can find pops anywhere.
    Besides, they wilt in no time.
[07:24] Man D
    This guy lost it over a few lousy
    pops too, and look at him.
[07:28] Belle
    If you're so weak that you can only
    cut down helpless creatures,
[07:33] Belle
    you shouldn't be solists!
[07:36] Man A
    I won't take that lying down!
[07:40] Belle
    I'll take you all on!
[07:49] Adonis
    Talk about brute strength.
[07:51] Belle
    What did the pops ever do to you?
    How heartless can you be?
[08:00] Belle
    Come on.
[08:02] Adonis
    This is the second time you've
    seen me this worse for wear.
[08:07] Belle
    Where do you live?
[08:09] Adonis
    I've got no problem ditching you,
     if you'd prefer.
[08:20] Belle
    Sorry.
[08:27] Adonis
    That paw tree was planted to grow
    pops for people to practice on.
[08:32] Adonis
    A truly sharp sword has to be able
    to cut soft things as well as hard.
[08:36] Belle
    What? That's awful!
[08:38] Adonis
    Solists can't grow without cutting things.
[08:41] Adonis
    But I agree. If they can only cut down
    helpless creatures, they shouldn't be solists.
[08:48] Belle
    If that's how you feel,
    you should've said so sooner.
[08:51] Belle
    Did you want me to think
    you're as bad as them?
[08:55] Adonis
    How do you know my name?
[08:58] Adonis
    Did Gaff tell you?
[08:59] Belle
    That's right.
[09:00] Belle
    I hear people call you the sword thief.
[09:03] Adonis
    I've heard about you, too.
[09:05] Adonis
    Isn't your name...
[09:07] Adonis
    Belle Lablac?
[09:09] Belle
    Right in one. What else have you heard?
[09:13] Adonis
    He called you "the girl of reason"
SIGN    "The Girl of Reason"
[09:23] Belle
    Raven blossoms...
[09:26] Guidance
    Avian flowers that take flight
    to deliver news of death.
SIGN    Raven
    Avian messenger of death
[09:31] Guidance
    They grow from corpses.
[09:33] Guidance
    Each one blooms to inform
    a bereaved relative.
[09:38] Belle
    So he just heard about a death in the family.
[09:42] Belle
    Want me to clean those up?
[09:44] Adonis
    No, leave them.
[09:46] Adonis
    I'm going to the castle.
[09:47] Belle
    In the shape you're in?
[09:49] Adonis
    Aren't you going too?
[09:51] Belle
    Why bother? I won't get picked.
[09:53] Adonis
    I'll give you a ride.
    I bet Bamboo will like you, too.
[09:56] Adonis
    Bamboo.
[10:02] Adonis
    This is my shell.
[10:04] Adonis
    It's always eating itself,
    so it doesn't exist anywhere.
[10:08] Adonis
    I've never invited anyone else inside before.
SIGN    Restau Rant
    The magic of consumption
[10:12] Guidance
    Restau Rant.
[10:18] Belle
    Uh... Wow.
[10:21] Belle
    Wait, where's Adonis?
[10:23] Belle
    And this room has no windows,
     not to mention a door!
[10:26] Belle
    Am I trapped in here?
[10:31] Adonis
    Sorry, but you'll have
    to make yourself comfortable.
[10:34] Adonis
    I'm not feeling up to much.
[10:52] Adonis
    What's the matter? Sit.
[10:54] Belle
    S-Sure.
[11:00] Adonis
    Bamboo seems to like you as much as I do.
[11:06] Adonis
    One of these is all I need to patch myself up.
[11:08] Adonis
    It might as well be an illusion.
[11:11] Belle
    I thought the priests kept sacred
    ashes under lock and key.
[11:15] Adonis
    A few bribes, and they'll give
    me some under the table.
[11:25] Belle
    So...
[11:27] Belle
    what is a "girl of reason," anyway?
[11:36] Adonis
    Beats me.
[11:37] Belle
    What do you mean?
[11:39] Adonis
    I don't think Gaff really knows either.
[11:41] Adonis
    I heard his master—your
     master—called you that.
[11:48] Adonis
    Said you have some special destiny.
[11:50] Belle
    I'm not that big a deal.
[11:53] Belle
    I just don't know my way home.
[11:56] Adonis
    How do you mean?
[11:57] Belle
    I don't know where to go to find my people.
[12:01] Adonis
    You don't say.
[12:04] Belle
    Why do you take swords from folks?
[12:07] Adonis
    I'm just asking Park City something.
[12:11] Belle
    You are?
[12:15] Adonis
    This isn't even all.
    I have more rooms in here.
[12:19] Belle
    Why...?
[12:25] Belle
    Did you add something to its spell?
[12:28] Adonis
    The Question mark.
SIGN    Question
    Of those who doubt
[12:30] Adonis
    A glyph from the age of gods
    signifying one who doubts.
[12:33] Adonis
    It can change any sword to suit me.
[12:36] Adonis
    This is my spell and also my other name:
[12:40] Adonis
    "The Question."
[12:42] Adonis
    Why did these swords and their
    wielders need to fight?
[12:46] Adonis
    What does it mean to be a solist?
[12:49] Adonis
    What is Schwert Land?
[12:51] Adonis
    Who is the king? Who is our god?
[12:55] Adonis
    I won't ask you to understand,
[12:57] Adonis
    but I can't live any other way.
[13:03] Belle
    He's like those pops.
[13:05] Belle
    He doesn't know anything.
[13:08] Belle
    Not why he's here or why he goes on living.
[13:13] Belle
    I bet we're the same.
[13:20] Adonis
    Once I add my Question to a sword,
    no one else can handle it.
[13:24] Adonis
    It changes the meaning
    of the spell, you see.
[13:28] Belle
    I was right. He can't grow a sword himself.
[13:33] Belle
    The reason, and his resentment,
    are buried deep, deep down,
[13:38] Belle
    engulfed in darkness.
[13:40] Belle
    I doubt anyone can reach them down there.
[13:44] Belle
    Not anyone at all.
[13:47] Adonis
    Looks like we made it in time.
[13:49] Good King
    Solists...
[13:51] Belle
    What's this?
[13:51] Good King
    Make the heavens resound with Schwert Musik.
[13:52] Adonis
    Everything Bamboo sees and hears.
[13:53] Good King
    All serves our god's harmony.
[13:57] Good King
    Tiziano's scales have tilted toward evil.
[14:01] Good King
    They have whispered in the ears
    of the evil, inciting them,
[14:04] Good King
    and sworn to strike at the good.
[14:05] Adonis
    Tiziano, huh?
[14:07] Belle
    One of the top four solists?
[14:07] Good King
    Our god will play the divine
    summons, here and now.
[14:08] Adonis
    They've finally crossed into evil.
[14:10] Belle
    What happened?
[14:12] Adonis
    Tiziano's got a bad habit of seducing
    people irrespective of gender,
[14:15] Adonis
    then dangling themself as a prize
    to make their lovers fight each other.
[14:19] Adonis
    Basically, they play god.
[14:21] Adonis
    Gaff couldn't take it anymore
     and broke their sword in a duel.
[14:24] Good King
    Restore the scales to the
    balance our god desires.
[14:25] Adonis
    I don't know where they
     disappeared to afterward,
[14:28] Adonis
    but it sounds like they
    finally went over to evil.
[14:29] Good King
    You chosen solists of good,
    show forth the notes of your blades.
[14:30] Adonis
    Now they've stirred up the Underdogs
    and sworn vengeance on the Topdogs.
SIGN    Underdogs
    Evil
SIGN    Topdogs
    Good
[14:35] Belle
    I had no idea.
[14:36] Good King
    Shandy Gaff, Kir Royale, Boule
    Vardier, Grog, Cablegram, Aldila,
[14:37] Adonis
    So this is where their sword being broken
    and their good being tested got them...
[14:40] Adonis
    It's my story in reverse.
[14:42] Belle
    What do you mean
    about their good being tested?
[14:45] Adonis
    There's only one way to fix a broken sword.
[14:48] Adonis
    I can't tell you the details,
[14:50] Adonis
    but when you use it,
    a sword tests its wielder.
[14:54] Belle
    The sword tests you?
[14:54] Good King
    Carrol, Bosom Caresser,
    Stinger, Gordon, Benedictine,
[14:57] Belle
    Wait, so how is that your story in reverse?
[15:02] Adonis
    I started out on the outside.
[15:02] Good King
    Czarine, Volga Boatman,
[15:05] Good King
    Belle Lablac,
[15:08] Good King
    Adonis the Question,
[15:10] Good King
    Jack Rose, Xanthia, Camper, Robert Burns,
[15:11] Belle
    The king's still calling names.
     What's going on?
[15:15] Adonis
    Brace yourself.
[15:17] Adonis
    This selection couldn't be worse.
[15:17] Good King
    Bellini, Gwyn...
[15:20] Belle
    I swear.
[15:21] Belle
    He keeps harping on me about matching
    everyone else. What the hell for?
[15:24] Adonis
    We're forming bands for this fight.
[15:27] Belle
    What's wrong with moving
    to counter what I see coming?
[15:30] Adonis
    You've got to follow the choreography
    in a battle of the bands, featureless.
[15:34] Belle
    Lay off with the "featureless" stuff.
[15:37] Adonis
    Sure thing, Lablac.
[15:38] Belle
    Call me Belle.
[15:41] Belle
    Little one, we shall no longer call
    you "featureless" henceforth.
[15:46] Belle
    You're such a goof.
[15:50] Gaff
    Oh? Fancy finding you together.
[15:52] Adonis
    Hey, is it true you organized
    the bands for this fight?
[15:57] Gaff
    The chosen solists are horribly mismatched.
[16:00] Gaff
    I grouped you all as best I could.
[16:03] Adonis
    "Take your complaints to the king," you mean?
[16:07] Gaff
    The second band and closing act
     will follow after you.
[16:12] Gaff
    You don't need to vanquish
    Tiziano on your own.
[16:15] Gaff
    Don't do anything rash.
[16:17] Adonis
    This whole battle is rash.
[16:20] Belle
    What do you mean?
[16:21] Adonis
    Listen up, Belle.
[16:23] Adonis
    The stage for our fight will be the Katakombe.
[16:26] Adonis
    The Underdogs consider it sacred ground,
    the way the Topdogs do their castle.
[16:31] Adonis
    They know more ways in and out than I
    can count, plus all the passages inside.
[16:36] Belle
    The opening act is fighting now
    to secure our way in though, right?
[16:41] Adonis
    The Underdogs will fight like hell.
[16:44] Adonis
    Do the Topdogs understand that?
[16:46] Gaff
    That's why I assigned you to the first band.
[16:49] Gaff
    You know the place like—
[16:50] Adonis
    Do you really think anyone will listen to me?
[16:53] Gaff
    Failing to win their trust
    could get you killed.
[16:59] Belle
    Adonis!
[17:01] Gaff
    The balance will shift considerably.
[17:10] Kitty
    Dear me. I suppose I must make do until
    the threads of fate pull it back to me.
[17:21] Kitty
    Oh? Color me impressed.
[17:23] Sian
    I mean you no harm,
    roaming prince of Denari Land.
[17:28] Kitty
    I haven't heard from you in a long time,
     roaming prince of Schwert Land.
[17:33] Sian
    I have nowhere left to roam.
[17:36] Kitty
    Oh?
[17:37] Kitty
    You don't sound like the man who reached
    my land through sheer determination,
[17:41] Kitty
    questing for the world's enigmas.
[17:44] Sian
    I merely came to ask the one who would
    abscond with reason what he intends.
[17:49] Kitty
    I was dispatched to observe
    and judge reason.
[17:54] Kitty
    Absconding with her will come later.
[17:57] Sian
    What is there to judge?
[17:58] Kitty
    If her menace can't be managed,
    I'll kill her and all who know of her.
[18:05] Sian
    But to depart this land,
    she must question its reason.
[18:10] Kitty
    So it all comes down to Deus Ex Machina.
[18:14] Kitty
    A divine symphony of iron and blood...
    The gods' resistance, I suppose.
[18:18] Sian
    Indeed. And this god will try many a
    ploy to keep reason at bay,
[18:23] Sian
    so fiercely that it may nip reason in the bud.
[18:27] Kitty
    I won't let that happen.
[18:29] Kitty
    That's what you came to ask of me, is it not?
[18:33] Kitty
    Why don't you go yourself?
[18:37] Kitty
    Your curse, is it?
[18:38] Kitty
    Very well.
[18:40] Kitty
    But I have one more question for you.
[18:43] Kitty
    What is that girl to you?
[18:47] Sian
    She's like a raven blossom sprouting
    from my body after I've fallen in a play.
[18:55] Sian
    She will carry the corpses of words
    to heights I can never reach.
[19:02] Sian
    She is my hope.
[19:14] Gordon
    Quite a sword you've got there!
[19:17] Gordon
    Lend it here.
[19:18] Belle
    H-Hey!
[19:26] Belle
    Sorry, Runding.
[19:29] Benedictine
    You actually lifted that massive sword?
[19:32] Benedictine
    That's my Gordon!
SIGN    Solist Gordon
[19:33] Gordon
    I could swing that little thing,
     no sweat, Benedictine!
SIGN    Director Benedictine
[19:39] Benedictine
    With us around, that little girl
    won't have anything to do.
[19:45] Belle
    Who are these two idiots?
[19:48] Camper
    Everyone, we're approaching the Katakombe.
[19:51] Camper
    Stay vigilant.
SIGN    Conductor Camper
[19:54] Camper
    Lablac, I don't want trouble.
    Stay in formation.
[19:59] Camper
    I absolutely forbid any improvisation.
[20:02] Belle
    I'll be careful.
[20:04] Perry
    Hey, don't let it get to you.
[20:07] Perry
    He's always like that.
SIGN    Solist Perry
[20:08] Perry
    He finds some poor unfortunate to pick on.
[20:12] Belle
    Who's he calling a "poor unfortunate"?!
[20:15] Perry
    Can't he see you're trying your best?
[20:17] Gordon
    The hell's with this script?!
[20:19] Gwyn
    I'm so sorry! I had no time to take requests!
[20:22] Gordon
    I might slip and hack up
    the guys ahead of me.
[20:25] Gordon
    Put me up at the front! Got that?
SIGN    Libretto Gwyn
[20:28] Gwyn
    Yes, of course!
[20:29] Belle
    They're revising the script now*?!*
[20:32] Cassis
    How utterly thoughtless.
[20:35] Cassis
    They'll never win renown that way.
SIGN    Chained
    A locked sword
[20:38] Perry
    His sword is chained. That's our recorder.
[20:42] Perry
    Try not to catch his attention.
[20:45] Cassis
    As long as you devote yourselves to your duty,
SIGN    Pianistus Cassis
[20:48] Cassis
    I won't need to report
    anything more to the king.
[20:57] Camper
    First band, halt!
[21:06] Belle
    What is this place?
[21:08] Belle
    It's been washed clean, but the
    air's stagnant and I smell blood.
[21:15] Belle
    Where's the opening act?
[21:21] Adonis
    We haven't got a prayer.
[21:25] Belle
    The opening act pities us.
[21:30] Belle
    They're waiting for us to take the stage
    and get massacred.
[21:34] Belle
    This is no joke!
[21:36] Adonis
    It's a joke, all right. A sick one.
[21:39] Adonis
    God's telling it, and it's not funny.
[21:42] Adonis
    It's all we can do now to survive
    long enough to laugh it off.
[21:47] Adonis
    Now, let the Schwert Musik begin!
SIGN    Fourth Movement
SIGN    Spell of Proof Still Distant
[23:30] Belle
    Get back, you idiot!
[23:31] Benedictine
    He's already dead!
    Something's controlling him!
[23:33] Adonis
    Who is our enemy?
[23:35] Gin
    Want me to tell you when that watery
    lass went off the deep end?
SIGN    Fifth Movement
SIGN    Performance of Swords and Scales, Good and Evil