# 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