E9 - Silence of Keys Unplayed

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[00:06] Belle
    It's quiet.
[00:07] Belle
    Almost like no one wants to go journeying.
[00:21] Belle
    I'll become a nomad.
[00:31] Belle
    I'm going to leave.
[00:33] Belle
    I don't know where I'll end up,
[00:36] Belle
    but it won't be here.
SIGN    Bye Bye, Earth
SIGN    Bye Bye, Earth
[02:10] Kings
    State the name of the one
    who enters our throne room.
[02:15] Belle
    Belle Lablac. That's my name.
[02:18] Good King
    What do you seek in our throne room?
[02:22] Belle
    To leave Park City and cross the
    borders the gods set between lands.
[02:27] Belle
    I want the key that will allow me to do so.
[02:29] Evil King
    For what reason do you wish to depart
    the realm from our throne room?
[02:36] Belle
    I'll go on a journey.
[02:37] Belle
    A journey to find out who and what I am.
[02:42] Kings
    What title do you desire in our throne room?
[02:50] Belle
    I want to become a nomad.
[02:52] Belle
    That's the title I desire,
    and the one that suits me best!
[03:04] Kings
    Then, little one, play the key.
[03:09] Good King
    Reveal your soul's timbre.
[03:14] Evil King
    Do so, and a spell to overcome divine
    barriers will be engraved within you.
[03:29] Belle
    What's this?
[03:30] Good King
    You look upon the keyboard vessel,
    the key to journeys.
SIGN    Keyboard Vessel
[03:36] Belle
    This is the key?
[03:44] Evil King
    The key recognizes those who would play it.
[03:49] Good King
    As for how you play...
[03:52] Evil King
    Do as you will.
[03:56] Belle
    Easy for you to say.
[03:59] Belle
    What's this?
[04:01] Kings
    "Moonwork."
[04:03] Kings
    A spell from the age of gods.
    It means "to do as the moon."
SIGN    Moonwork
    To do as the moon
[04:08] Belle
    "To do as the moon"?
[04:11] Kings
    A spiral of progression and regression.
[04:14] Good King
    To do as the moon is
    to regress while progressing,
[04:21] Good King
    as the turning of the seasons
    or the cycle of life and death.
[04:24] Good King
    That which reverts to its origin
    yet is different than it was.
[04:29] Good King
    It goes on changing.
[04:32] Belle
    "The moon"?
[04:33] Belle
    What even is that?
[04:36] Evil King
    A mystery from the age of gods.
     None now can fathom it.
[04:43] Belle
    What's this feeling?
[04:47] Belle
    I should've had this answer when I was born.
[04:50] Belle
    My words...
[04:54] Belle
    I'm on the right path.
[04:56] Belle
    Going journeying and meeting
    Runding and coming to Park City
[05:01] Belle
    have all been indispensable
    steps toward knowing myself.
[05:07] Belle
    All is free.
[05:19] Belle
    This... is my timbre?
[05:26] Good King
    The key will resonate with you and play
    the old magic that enables travel.
[05:32] Evil King
    But first, you must encounter chance
[05:36] Evil King
    and understand that which has
    the form of heart and mind.
[05:40] Belle
    The form of heart and mind?
[05:43] Kings
    It is called...
[05:45] Kings
    "Now Here."
SIGN    Now Here
    That which is
[05:48] Belle
    "Now Here"?
[05:49] Good King
    You will exile yourself from divine law
[05:53] Good King
    and take on a great curse,
    believing it will someday become a blessing.
[06:01] Evil King
    You will bespell yourself to keep your
    own way, alone, wherever you may be.
[06:11] Belle
    Pierce the world!
[06:13] Belle
    I'll go out of tune and let out a howl.
[06:16] Belle
    When I do, a hole will open in the world—me!
[06:21] Belle
    I'll let my being truly blossom!
[06:25] Belle
    This is what my sword taught me.
[06:37] Belle
    But it won't work...
[06:40] Belle
    Not yet.
[06:45] Belle
    This instrument expresses freedom,
    but I can't feel it as freedom yet.
[06:52] Belle
    I feel lonely.
[06:53] Belle
    I feel so lonely I could go crazy.
[06:58] Good King
    Then you will forsake this trial?
[07:02] Belle
    I mean, just listen...
[07:08] Belle
    Talk about heavy.
[07:11] Evil King
    Then do you accept permanent
    residence in this land?
[07:16] Belle
    No, I don't.
[07:17] Belle
    I'm gonna wait for my next chance.
[07:20] Good King
    But little one...
[07:23] Evil King
    You who wreak howls...
[07:25] Belle
    Wreak howls?
[07:27] Good King
    Many will suffer unbearable worry
     when you journey forth.
[07:35] Good King
    The howl of being you release
    will make it so.
[07:40] Belle
    Are you saying I'm a bad influence on people?
[07:44] Evil King
    You know not what you wreak.
[07:49] Kings
    Our god does not wish it.
[07:53] Kings
    Little one, should you
    find the key beyond you,
[08:00] Kings
    make a new home in Park City.
    Nay, in this very castle.
[08:14] Belle
    I'll think about it.
[08:17] Belle
    But I'm going on my journey.
[08:19] Belle
    My mind's made up.
[08:21] Belle
    This isn't the homeland where I belong.
[08:24] Belle
    Even if I can't play the key,
[08:27] Belle
    I'll fight against the divine walls,
[08:30] Belle
    and if I'm unlucky, I'll perish.
[08:33] Belle
    It's as simple as that.
[08:56] Man 2
    Sword thief!
[08:58] Man 3
    Hope you know what you've got coming!
[09:00] Man 1
    Now give us back our swords!
[09:03] Adonis
    All right.
[09:06] Adonis
    Bamboo.
[09:09] Man 2
    Look at that weird magic.
[09:12] Man 2
    No wonder we couldn't find 'em anywhere.
[09:15] Man 1
    We're not done yet.
[09:17] Man 1
    Cough up all the swords you've
    got stashed away! Now!
[09:21] Adonis
    And then?
[09:22] Man 1
    I'll take over your position!
[09:25] Adonis
    You couldn't handle it.
[09:27] Man 1
    Oh yeah?!
[09:37] Adonis
    I knew things would turn out this way!
[09:39] Adonis
    I knew before I came to Park City!
[09:41] Adonis
    I knew before I became a solist!
[09:44] Man 2
    I-I'll be damned if I call
     the likes of you a solist,
[09:48] Man 2
    you freak!
[09:50] Adonis
    What is a solist? What is a sword?
[09:54] Adonis
    Who are you? What are you?
[09:57] Adonis
    What do you live for?
[09:59] Adonis
    What do you die for?
[10:00] Adonis
    What is death?!
[10:03] Adonis
    Show me.
[10:13] Adonis
    I knew things would turn out this way.
[10:16] Adonis
    I can hone my skills all I want,
    but my swords still end up like this.
[10:20] Adonis
    What should I do?
[10:21] Adonis
    Should I be killed? Or go on living?
[10:26] Adonis
    Should I cry for someone to end me?
[10:33] Adonis
    I knew things would turn out this way...
[10:38] Adonis
    I'm a partial corpse.
[10:41] Adonis
    What do I want from this world that
    I was born cursed and cast out into?
[10:47] Adonis
    I don't even know.
[10:49] Adonis
    I had no choice but to doubt the world.
[10:53] Adonis
    Until I met that girl.
[10:57] Adonis
    She seems so utterly alive.
[11:00] Adonis
    For the first time,
    I felt truly drawn to someone.
[11:03] Adonis
    I felt like I could truly want something.
[11:08] Adonis
    I felt like I could become truly alive.
[11:11] Belle
    Adonis!
[11:15] Adonis
    Did you already pass the trial?
[11:17] Belle
    I couldn't do it.
[11:18] Belle
    I can't open the door yet.
[11:22] Adonis
    Knowing you, you'll find a way soon enough.
[11:25] Belle
    I'm honestly relieved to hear you say that.
[11:28] Belle
    I'm feeling pretty stumped here.
[11:31] Belle
    You smell like blood.
[11:33] Adonis
    All solists do.
[11:36] Adonis
    But for some reason...
[11:38] Adonis
    you smell nice, even when you reek of blood.
[11:41] Belle
    Doofus.
[11:44] Adonis
    Did you see the key?
[11:46] Adonis
    I can't help thinking
    it's a tool for exiling yourself.
[11:52] Adonis
    It hurts so much.
[11:55] Adonis
    Before I know it,
    everything around me goes dark,
[11:58] Adonis
    and I can't even use my
    hands to feel my way.
[12:02] Belle
    You know, your dad said that
[12:05] Belle
    if you believe you can see in the
    dark and trust in that,
[12:09] Belle
    feeling where the current leads,
[12:13] Belle
    something will appear to guide you.
[12:17] Adonis
    Thanks.
[12:18] Belle
    Adonis...
[12:19] Adonis
    I'd like to try fighting back my own way.
[12:35] Belle
    I'll be waiting in your room.
[12:46] Adonis
    Sire, the time has come
    for me to voice my doubt!
SIGN    Doubt
[12:52] Adonis
    What are the Ashes of the Tried?!
[12:53] Adonis
    What do they test in those
    whose swords are broken?!
[12:58] Adonis
    What are sacred ashes?!
[12:59] Adonis
    Where do they come from?!
[13:01] Adonis
    How are they connected
    to the Ashes of the Tried?!
[13:05] Adonis
    What are swords?!
[13:06] Adonis
    What does it mean to wield one?!
[13:08] Adonis
    Why does our god ask us to take them up?!
[13:12] Adonis
    If it's the Law of Theme,
    then what is the theme?!
[13:16] Adonis
    What is a cancerous sword?!
[13:19] Adonis
    Why do they drive their wielders mad?!
[13:21] Adonis
    What is a Nidhogg, really?!
[13:23] Adonis
    Why does our god want to make more of them?!
[13:27] Adonis
    Why did Tiziano have to go mad?!
[13:30] Adonis
    Kir too!
[13:32] Adonis
    Why did you send me to spread
    the Ashes of the Tried?!
[13:35] Adonis
    Sire, can you hear my questions?!
[13:38] Adonis
    What is our god?! What is Deus Ex Machina?!
[13:41] Kings
    Doubting one...
[13:44] Good King
    Everything is part of the
    harmony our god arranges.
[13:49] Good King
    Your doubt departs not one step
     from the Law of Theme.
[13:54] Adonis
    What?
[13:55] Evil King
    Behold.
[13:56] Evil King
    Can you see the fruits
    of your swordplay behind you?
[14:02] Adonis
    There's no way...
[14:04] Good King
    The Ashes of the Tried are scattered
[14:07] Good King
    so that the divine tree may grow
    branches and support its roots.
[14:12] Evil King
    Only after infecting solists as deathly ashes
     can they become sacred.
[14:20] Good King
    A cancerous sword is steel whose
    cells multiply without limit.
[14:26] Evil King
    Through quietus, it dies a death
    and bestows eternal survival.
[14:33] Good King
    Due to your curse,
    you were born an outsider.
[14:39] Evil King
    Thus, our god bestows a greater
    receptacle for your control.
[14:45] Good King
    Hence your role as examiner.
SIGN    Examiner
[14:48] Evil King
    Hence your role as Prince Fatal.
SIGN    Prince Fatal
[14:51] Adonis
    Me, the Prince Fatal?
[14:53] Adonis
    That's not what I want at all!
[14:56] Good King
    Behold.
[14:57] Good King
    Our god has already woven that which
    you seek into the divine harmony.
[15:03] Adonis
    What's this?
[15:06] Adonis
    It doesn't rot?!
[15:08] Adonis
    That can't be!
[15:10] Adonis
    I decide what I want!
[15:18] Adonis
    What kind of trick are you trying to play?!
[15:20] Good King
    You just beheld yourself, harmonized.
[15:26] Evil King
    You just touched yourself, mechanized.
[15:32] Kings
    Under the divine tree, you shall
    become one of our god's records.
[15:37] Adonis
    A record?
[15:38] Good King
    All your memories will be discarded
    and your being converted to a record.
[15:44] Evil King
    Then you will give yourself
    to eternal survival,
[15:50] Evil King
    and join our god at the divine tree's
    root as a blue priest of the chronicle.
[16:00] Evil King
    Behold.
[16:02] Evil King
    They offered themselves
    to our god at your hand.
[16:06] Evil King
    Witness them modeled.
[16:14] Adonis
    It can't be...
[16:29] Adonis
    Stop...
[16:31] Adonis
    Please stop.
[16:33] Adonis
    Help...
[16:34] Adonis
    Save me, Belle...
[16:37] Good King
    You cannot escape.
[16:40] Evil King
    There is but one way out.
[17:09] Adonis
    I don't have one...
[17:11] Adonis
    I don't have a reason to go on a journey.
[17:16] Good King
    Doubting one, swear to become
    part of this land's foundation.
[17:23] Good King
    Your eternal peace awaits here in—
[17:38] Evil King
    In the end, even you...
[17:47] Adonis
    Nothing.
[17:53] Adonis
    I don't have... anything.
[18:03] Belle
    Oh man.
[18:05] Belle
    I was so sure I could take any
    trial they threw at me head-on.
[18:22] Belle
    Don't tell me...
[18:23] Adonis
    My eldest brother is dead.
[18:26] Belle
    Adonis.
[18:28] Adonis
    The miasma of death ate away at him.
[18:31] Adonis
    That's the price our family pays
    for guarding the Katakombe.
[18:35] Adonis
    I couldn't do it.
[18:37] Adonis
    No surprise there.
[18:39] Belle
    I see.
[18:42] Adonis
    Belle...
[18:43] Adonis
    Save me, Belle.
[18:46] Belle
    What do you mean?
[18:51] Belle
    Hey.
[18:52] Adonis
    Why am I the only thing
     my hands won't wither?
[18:57] Adonis
    My mother died when I was born.
[19:01] Adonis
    My touch killed her from within.
[19:04] Adonis
    So I've never known a mother's warmth.
[19:09] Adonis
    I don't know what warmth is...
[19:11] Adonis
    even though I'm so cold.
[19:14] Adonis
    I'm a partial corpse.
[19:16] Adonis
    I've only lived so I can fully die
     without ever being really alive.
[19:22] Adonis
    Today, I learned where the dead
    go to their eternal rest.
[19:26] Adonis
    It's the last place I ever
    want to be dragged off to.
[19:31] Adonis
    But I've got no way left to fight it.
[19:34] Belle
    Isn't there anything I can do for you?
[19:38] Adonis
    Can you cut me?
[19:42] Belle
    Of course I can't.
[19:44] Adonis
    Belle, fight me.
[19:47] Belle
    What for?
[19:48] Adonis
    The door to journeys isn't
    big enough for two.
[19:52] Belle
    That's not what I'm asking!
[19:54] Belle
    Don't force a shitty role on me!
[20:00] Belle
    Stop.
[20:02] Adonis
    Do my hands scare you?
[20:04] Belle
    Not one bit.
[20:05] Adonis
    Then...
[20:07] Belle
    We haven't fallen in love.
[20:08] Adonis
    What?
[20:09] Belle
    We haven't fallen for each other yet.
[20:12] Belle
    Neither one of us.
[20:15] Adonis
    I don't care.
[20:17] Adonis
    I've never felt anything
    like that in my life.
[20:21] Adonis
    I don't think I ever could.
[20:24] Adonis
    But who—
[20:25] Belle
    A-Adonis!
[20:27] Adonis
    Who else would ever see you as a woman?!
[20:44] Belle
    I'll kill you.
[20:48] Adonis
    You're warm.
[21:28] Shadow
    Nowhere...
[21:35] Shadow
    Nowhere...
[21:45] Shadow
    Nowhere...
[21:49] Shadow
    Nowhere...
[21:54] Shadow
    Nowhere...
SIGN    Ninth Movement
SIGN    Silence of Keys Unplayed
[23:30] Belle
    I want to swing my sword.
[23:31] Adonis
    The first sword that's really mine!
[23:33] Sian
    The form of my curse forces me to.
[23:35] Dram
    The ever-withering force of death.
SIGN    Tenth Movement
SIGN    Spiral: Howling Sword, Rusty Nail