# E7 - Examiner of Curses, Blessings, and Their Shapes
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**[00:07] Guidance**
*Funeral rain.*
**[00:08] Guidance**
* It falls as a ritual to cleanse the*
* signs of battle in the Katakombe.*
**[00:14] Guidance**
*Guided by the music of the weather players,*
***SIGN*** Weather Players
**[00:17] Guidance**
*it absolves all blood and all grudges.*
**[00:27] Belle**
You're hurt.
**[00:30] Gaff**
The wound no longer pains me.
**[00:33] Gaff**
I can still play Schwert Musik for the dead.
**[00:36] Belle**
What happened?
**[00:39] Gaff**
I fought a priest of the Katakombe.
He showed tremendous skill.
**[00:43] Gaff**
Tom Collins, his name was.
**[00:46] Belle**
Adonis's dad?!
**[00:49] Gaff**
I slew him.
**[00:53] Belle**
Why did you do it?
**[00:55] Gaff**
The divine summons orchestrated that
battle down to the closing band.
**[01:01] Gaff**
I cannot stay my sword when
our god wills otherwise.
**[01:06] Belle**
Your sword's the last one
I'd ever want to die by.
**[01:10] Gaff**
As nobility of the castle,
I was born into this fate.
***SIGN*** Nobility
**[01:14] Belle**
I think I'm done crossing swords for today.
***SIGN*** Bye Bye, Earth
***SIGN*** Bye Bye, Earth
**[03:02] Belle**
Sorry.
**[03:03] Belle**
I wasn't paying attention.
**[03:06] Sherry**
I see now. The city's simply *full of pain.*
**[03:12] Belle**
Can you stand?
**[03:21] Sherry**
I taste iron!
**[03:25] Sherry**
I'm not accustomed to walking around the city.
**[03:28] Sherry**
Maybe that's why I keep
falling again and again.
**[03:32] Sherry**
Bumping into people, tripping on stairs...
**[03:37] Sherry**
But this is the first time I've gotten hurt.
**[03:40] Sherry**
Who knew blood came out of noses?
**[03:43] Sherry**
What an enormous sword!
**[03:45] Sherry**
You must be a solist.
**[03:47] Belle**
Do you feel okay? Are you hurt anywhere else?
**[03:51] Belle**
* It's like she just expects other*
* people to clean her up.*
**[03:54] Belle**
*Is she nobility from the castle?*
**[03:56] Belle**
Are you on your own?
**[03:58] Belle**
You didn't even bring an umbrella.
**[04:00] Sherry**
I've never gotten permission before.
**[04:03] Sherry**
To go out on the town alone, I mean.
**[04:05] Sherry**
They did give me an umbrella,
**[04:08] Sherry**
but I didn't know how to open it,
so I threw it away.
**[04:11] Belle**
*What does she mean, she didn't know how?*
**[04:15] Belle**
*Are noblewomen really* that *sheltered?*
**[04:19] Sherry**
Um, Miss Solist?
**[04:21] Belle**
Oh, just call me Belle.
**[04:23] Sherry**
Goodness.
**[04:25] Sherry**
That must make you Belle Lablac.
**[04:29] Sherry**
How lovely you are.
**[04:31] Belle**
E-E-Excuse me?
**[04:33] Sherry**
So bold and dashing.
**[04:35] Sherry**
A mighty solist, I'm certain.
**[04:42] Belle**
You'll catch a cold standing out here.
**[04:45] Sherry**
This rain wouldn't dream of harming me.
**[04:50] Sherry**
I mean, I called it up with my own song.
**[04:56] Guidance**
* Funeral rain is effected through*
* a chorus of united musicians*
**[05:02] Guidance**
*and the castle's lead vocalist,*
**[05:06] Guidance**
* who harmonizes with all things*
* in heaven and earth.*
***SIGN*** Lead Vocalist
**[05:10] Belle**
Don't tell me you're...
**[05:13] Sherry**
Oh, I haven't introduced myself.
**[05:15] Sherry**
I'm Sherry. I'm on my way
to see lead solist Shandy Gaff.
**[05:24] Bennett**
You sure brought a load
of trouble with you, didn't you?
**[05:28] Belle**
What else was I supposed to do?
**[05:30] Belle**
I don't know anyone else who
might have clothes that fit her.
**[05:34] Belle**
She must be freezing. Let her use your bath.
**[05:38] Belle**
And, anyway, I came to see you as a *woman*.
**[05:41] Belle**
How'd I get stuck with two drunk guys?
**[05:44] Gwyn**
Hey!
**[05:46] Bennett**
I can't help it.
**[05:48] Bennett**
I haven't been a woman since I was injured,
though I don't know if that's the cause.
**[05:52] Bennett**
Please, come right this way.
**[05:56] Sherry**
My! What a bath!
**[05:58] Sherry**
O-Oh dear.
**[06:01] Belle**
Remember: you peek, I fillet you.
**[06:04] Bennett**
Really, Belle. I have my
good name to consider.
**[06:10] Gwyn**
That's rich. You're always running
off on some fling or another.
**[06:14] Bennett**
And you seem awfully hung up on
that girl you gave your sword to!
**[06:15] Sherry**
What's this?
**[06:16] Belle**
You break it and hot water comes o—
**[06:19] Sherry**
Oh, it's for breaking.
**[06:22] Bennett**
No! My best carpet!
**[06:25] Bennett**
What did I do to deserve this?!
**[06:28] Sherry**
Are you certain this is enough water, Belle?
**[06:28] Gwyn**
Her Highness doesn't even
know how to take a bath!
**[06:31] Bennett**
Belle! Take responsibility and show her!
**[06:37] Belle**
Sherry, let's get in together.
**[06:41] Sherry**
Certainly!
**[06:43] Sherry**
These bubbles have such a lovely fragrance.
**[06:47] Belle**
I guess Bennett doesn't skimp
on foam fruits, either.
**[06:51] Sherry**
I must tell my maidservants when I get back.
**[06:54] Belle**
Man, you really *do* live like a princess.
**[06:57] Gwyn**
You think maybe Belle doesn't know?
**[06:59] Bennett**
How could she not?
**[07:01] Bennett**
Princess Sherry is the castle's
lead vocalist and...
**[07:04] Belle**
King Rawhide's *daughter*?!
**[07:13] Sherry**
Why, you have the same furniture as Shandy.
**[07:17] Belle**
I borrowed it off him.
**[07:18] Belle**
Gaff's been a lifesaver.
**[07:22] Sherry**
And you've done so much for me.
**[07:25] Sherry**
I wish I had some way to repay you.
**[07:28] Belle**
Sing for me, then.
**[07:30] Sherry**
Sing? Really?
**[07:32] Belle**
Yeah. I want to hear you sing.
**[07:35] Sherry**
But what should I sing?
**[07:39] Sherry**
Nothing here is broken,
and I mustn't stop the rain yet.
**[07:45] Belle**
That's okay. I'd love to hear you
sing whatever you feel like.
**[07:51] Sherry**
All right.
**[08:40] Belle**
Thank you. That was amazing.
**[08:43] Sherry**
No one's ever asked me to repay
a favor with song before.
**[08:49] Belle**
Seems singing's really hard on you.
**[08:56] Belle**
Sherry?
**[09:01] Belle**
Huh?
**[09:04] Sherry**
Shandy!
**[09:05] Gaff**
Sherry? I never dreamed
I'd find you with Belle.
**[09:09] Sherry**
Do pardon me.
**[09:11] Sherry**
I've been imposing.
**[09:13] Sherry**
But she's just like you said she was.
**[09:17] Sherry**
Strong, gallant, and profoundly perceptive.
**[09:23] Sherry**
Her insight is so keen it's frightening.
**[09:26] Gaff**
Apologies for the trouble, Belle.
**[09:29] Belle**
Don't sweat it. I could say the same.
**[09:31] Gaff**
Sherry.
**[09:46] Kir**
Tiziano's sword?
**[09:48] Kir**
What a dreadful Schwert Streich.
**[09:51] Kir**
If Belle Lablac dealt this blow,
**[09:54] Kir**
I couldn't hold a candle to her
now that I've lost my own sword.
**[09:59] Adonis**
I need to ask you something.
**[10:03] Adonis**
Kir...
**[10:04] Adonis**
Do you know about the examiner?
***SIGN*** Examiner
One who tests
**[10:06] Kir**
I've heard of them.
**[10:09] Kir**
A royal inspector who visits
solists with broken swords.
**[10:13] Adonis**
Right now, I fulfill that role.
**[10:17] Adonis**
The price I paid for sacred ashes.
**[10:20] Adonis**
I was given something similar
called "Ashes of the Tried,"
***SIGN*** Sacred Ashes
***SIGN*** Ashes of the Tried
**[10:25] Adonis**
and I go around testing the good and evil
in solists who've broken their swords.
**[10:30] Kir**
Testing them how?
**[10:32] Adonis**
When a broken sword is reborn,
the sword tests its wielder.
**[10:37] Kir**
"Reborn"?
**[10:39] Kir**
So when Gaff shattered this sword
of Tiziano's, you restored it to life?
**[10:47] Adonis**
The resurrected sword turned
Tiziano into a Nidhogg.
***SIGN*** Nidhogg
Fiend
**[10:52] Adonis**
I came back from the Katakombe with
that certainty, and that doubt.
***SIGN*** Doubt
**[10:57] Adonis**
I'm going to revive your sword,
**[11:00] Adonis**
together with this one.
**[11:01] Adonis**
That's my latest order from the priests.
**[11:04] Adonis**
But if the reborn sword only exists
to turn its wielder into a Nidhogg,
**[11:11] Adonis**
I mean to break it again and ask
the priests to explain themselves.
**[11:16] Adonis**
Please allow me that.
**[11:19] Kir**
You witnessed Tiziano's final moments.
**[11:22] Kir**
Do as you wish.
**[11:28] Adonis**
Ashes of the Tried...
**[11:32] Adonis**
Your Lived. Tiziano's Legna.
**[11:35] Adonis**
I will now subject both
swords to examination.
***SIGN*** Examination
The magic of testing
**[11:47] Kir**
Look at the spells!
**[12:00] Kir**
Dillegnave!
**[12:02] Kir**
"One who bears good tidings"
in the tongue of the age of gods.
***SIGN*** Dillegnave
One who bears good tidings
**[12:05] Adonis**
I can't believe you know that.
**[12:07] Kir**
I didn't. The sword told me.
**[12:10] Adonis**
The *sword* told you?
**[12:11] Kir**
Far from a thing of evil, this sword
will grant me boundless strength.
**[12:17] Kir**
Thank you, Adonis.
**[12:20] Adonis**
Then it wasn't the sword
that drove Tiziano mad after all...
**[12:28] Belle**
That's a lot to digest.
**[12:30] Adonis**
Yeah. I've made my peace
with what happened to Tiz.
**[12:35] Belle**
Have you? I'm glad to hear it.
**[12:37] Adonis**
Anyway, sorry about that. You were saying?
**[12:40] Belle**
Oh, right.
**[12:42] Belle**
I felt kind of annoyed. Or maybe lonely.
**[12:46] Adonis**
When Gaff put his arm
around Princess Sherry's shoulders?
**[12:51] Belle**
Bennett and Gwyn were cracking jokes about
love, but I do *not* have a thing for Gaff!
**[12:57] Adonis**
Maybe it has more to do with the princess.
**[13:00] Belle**
You think I fell for *her*?
**[13:05] Adonis**
Listen, my point is...
**[13:08] Adonis**
you could never be like her,
even if you tried.
**[13:12] Belle**
What's that supposed to mean?
**[13:13] Adonis**
You're featureless.
**[13:15] Belle**
You don't have to rub it in.
**[13:17] Adonis**
You're the one who asked.
**[13:20] Belle**
I don't judge people by their looks.
**[13:24] Adonis**
I like it.
**[13:26] Adonis**
Sometimes I even wish I could shave off
my ears and fur so I'd look like you.
**[13:33] Belle**
Now you're giving me the creeps.
**[13:35] Adonis**
How old are you?
**[13:37] Belle**
Who knows?
**[13:38] Belle**
I know how long it's been since I hatched
from that stone egg, but that's it.
**[13:44] Adonis**
But you're a grown woman physically, right?
**[13:47] Belle**
Who just comes out and asks that, jackass?!
**[13:53] Adonis**
How would you feel
about having my kids someday?
**[13:56] Belle**
Huh?!
**[13:58] Adonis**
That way, I might end up
with little ones who look like you.
**[14:05] Belle**
Your kids aren't you, you know?
**[14:07] Adonis**
I know.
**[14:09] Adonis**
Basically, I want to sleep with you.
**[14:12] Belle**
What'd you say *that* for?!
**[14:15] Adonis**
Not just to say it, and not
on a whim. I know that much.
**[14:17] Belle**
I'd go berserk if that's all it was.
**[14:24] Adonis**
So, what do you say?
**[14:29] Belle**
If I fall for you, then sure.
**[14:34] Adonis**
To be honest, I'm not totally sure
what possessed me to say it either.
**[14:39] Belle**
Seriously?
**[14:46] Belle**
Tell me, Adonis.
**[14:49] Belle**
You can't grow swords, can you?
**[14:56] Adonis**
Oh, right. I still haven't told you anything.
**[15:00] Belle**
Huh?
**[15:01] Adonis**
I just assumed I must have explained
my whole deal at some point.
**[15:05] Belle**
What?!
**[15:07] Adonis**
I'm completely at ease with you.
**[15:10] Adonis**
You're so strange. A total mystery.
**[15:12] Belle**
One of us sure is.
**[15:14] Adonis**
Bamboo.
**[15:21] Adonis**
This is my curse.
**[15:24] Adonis**
I've been stuck with it since I was born.
**[15:32] Belle**
No way...
**[15:34] Adonis**
Like you said, I can't grow swords.
**[15:38] Belle**
Is there a reason?
**[15:40] Adonis**
It's a nomad's curse.
**[15:44] Adonis**
Before I was born, an old
nomad visited the Katakombe.
**[15:49] Adonis**
He wanted the Collins family
to give him a funeral.
**[15:53] Adonis**
If he died in the Katakombe,
**[15:55] Adonis**
raven blossoms would carry the news
to his lost homeland.
**[15:59] Adonis**
By way of payment,
**[16:01] Adonis**
the old nomad offered to help my family
in what little time he had left.
**[16:06] Adonis**
He defended the Katakombe alongside them
**[16:10] Adonis**
and ultimately fell in battle.
**[16:13] Adonis**
My father was there when it happened.
**[16:16] Adonis**
He cradled the nomad's
body without thinking.
**[16:19] Adonis**
And then...
**[16:21] (Flashback) Old Nomad**
You must not touch my blood.
**[16:25] (Flashback) Old Nomad**
It's my curse.
**[16:28] (Flashback) Old Nomad**
It spreads through nomad blood.
**[16:33] (Flashback) Old Nomad**
Have faith that it will become a blessing...
**[16:39] Adonis**
The curse didn't manifest in my father.
**[16:42] Adonis**
That trial only affects those who
overcome fear and accept it.
**[16:46] Adonis**
Still, the nomad's blood never left my father.
**[16:51] Adonis**
I was born a few years later.
**[16:55] Adonis**
And this is the form
the nomad's curse has taken.
**[16:59] Adonis**
You could say I was born to become a nomad,
**[17:03] Adonis**
even though I still have no
reason to leave on a journey.
**[17:09] Adonis**
I kept knocking on the door of journeys
**[17:11] Adonis**
and wound up one of the top four solists,
wondering what the hell our god wants.
**[17:17] Adonis**
I still haven't found any kind of meaning.
**[17:21] Adonis**
In the end, no one knows
what they're living for.
**[17:26] Belle**
*I've always felt the same way, deep down.*
**[17:31] Belle**
*I... I want to know my roots!*
**[17:34] Belle**
*So I can find my roots.*
**[17:37] Belle**
* I want to know who I am, where I*
* came from, and where I should go!*
**[17:45] Belle**
Let's go on a journey, Adonis.
**[17:48] Belle**
Knock on the door of journeys with me!
**[17:53] Adonis**
Do you remember those pops?
**[17:57] Adonis**
I noticed you feeding them,
**[18:01] Adonis**
and I couldn't understand why.
**[18:03] Adonis**
Why does she feed them?
**[18:06] Adonis**
And if she's feeding them,
why not take them in?
**[18:10] Adonis**
Why does she look so happy?
**[18:14] Adonis**
Why does she want to leave on a journey,
**[18:18] Adonis**
even if it means taking on a curse?
**[18:24] Adonis**
I bet traveling with you
would never get dull.
**[18:39] Sherry**
I'd like you to return these
clothes to that gentleman.
**[18:43] Belle**
I see you learned how to work an umbrella.
**[18:45] Sherry**
I had Shandy teach me.
**[18:48] Sherry**
Oh, how I struggled at first.
**[18:50] Belle**
I'll bet.
**[18:52] Sherry**
To be honest, I wanted to see you
so I could ask you something.
**[18:58] Sherry**
When I sang here, you said that it
seemed hard on me, did you not?
**[19:05] Sherry**
No one has ever said
anything like that before.
**[19:09] Sherry**
Singing is all I have.
**[19:11] Sherry**
I've been singing for the castle and
the people since I was but a child.
**[19:16] Sherry**
Who would spare me a glance if I couldn't?
**[19:20] Sherry**
How could singing... be hard on me?
**[19:25] Sherry**
Why, Belle?
**[19:27] Belle**
Sherry.
**[19:32] Adonis**
Belle.
**[19:34] Adonis**
Oh, you already have company.
**[19:36] Adonis**
No big deal. I was just wondering if you
wanted to get something to eat.
**[19:39] Belle**
That's it!
**[19:40] Belle**
Sherry! I might just have your answer!
**[19:45] Belle**
Nice going, Adonis!
**[19:57] Sherry**
My, you have so many charming friends.
**[20:00] Belle**
They can be your friends, too,
if you ever feel like it.
**[20:04] Gwyn**
Naturally.
**[20:05] Bennett**
Just say the word.
**[20:08] Sherry**
Thank you.
**[20:13] Kitty**
There she is.
**[20:16] Belle**
I ordered a song.
**[20:17] Sherry**
A song?
**[21:38] Sherry**
E-Excuse me!
**[21:43] Kitty**
She cannot speak except for in song.
**[21:48] Kitty**
Likewise with her hearing.
It's her nomad's curse.
**[21:59] Sherry**
I hate crying. It's cowardly.
**[22:03] Sherry**
I don't want to cry and feel better.
**[22:06] Sherry**
Look. Does *she* shed a single tear?
**[22:12] Sherry**
As a fellow songstress, I feel envious,
frustrated, and heartbroken.
**[22:17] Sherry**
But...
**[22:19] Sherry**
the thought that I can still
cry fills me with joy.
**[22:25] Kitty**
Well, Belle wept when
*she* first heard a song here.
**[22:30] Sherry**
You mean you cry too?
**[22:33] Belle**
Well, yeah. Whenever I feel like it.
**[22:38] Sherry**
I want to be needed!
**[22:42] Sherry**
Does anyone have need of someone who cries?
**[22:46] Belle**
You'll forget how to need other
people if you keep that up.
**[22:51] Belle**
Must be hard on you.
**[22:54] Sherry**
True...
**[22:55] Belle**
I bet you won't stay that
way anymore, though.
**[23:00] Sherry**
True.
**[23:02] Belle**
No, I said too much. Sorry.
**[23:06] Sherry**
True.
**[23:07] Belle**
Basically, er, I want
to feel needed too, so...
**[23:13] Belle**
You understand, right, Sherry?
**[23:16] Sherry**
Thank you, Belle.
***SIGN*** Seventh Movement
***SIGN*** Examiner of Curses, Blessings, and Their Shapes
**[23:30] Adonis**
Let's keep the guests entertained.
**[23:31] Kir**
Belle Lablac awaits me.
**[23:33] Sherry**
Run, Belle!
**[23:34] Belle**
*This* is the sword you're so proud of?!
**[23:36] Kitty**
This is your last duty before
you can go journeying!
***SIGN*** Eighth Movement
***SIGN*** A Ball Shaking Before the Fiend Flower