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