7 - The Woman of the Tall Tower

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[00:06] ---
    I am Casshern.
[00:09] ---
    Luna, I'm going to kill you.
[00:14] ---
    Hey, for what reason were we born?
[00:18] ---
    Hey, for what reason did our lives cross?
[00:22] ---
    I'm scared because I don't know,
    so I take your hand
[00:27] ---
    Right now, I want you to
    firmly squeeze mine back
[00:40] ---
    I try to escape this harrowing reality
[00:44] ---
    Everything I hoped for in my life
    turned out to be an illusion
[00:51] ---
    A flood of emotions,
    struggles that lead me astray...
[00:55] ---
    I just want to cling onto them
    and move forward, forward!
[00:58] ---
    On these shattered hills,
    under a sky of rust,
[01:02] ---
    you and I are fraught with
    life like azure flowers
[01:07] ---
    We dream that we're bubbles,
    nestled together,
[01:11] ---
    and yet I'm not ready to wither yet!
[01:15] ---
    Hey, for what reason were we born?
[01:19] ---
    Hey, for what reason did our lives cross?
[01:23] ---
    I'm scared because I don't know,
    so I take your hand
[01:28] ---
    Right now, I want you to
    firmly squeeze mine back
[01:59] ---
    All right!
[02:00] ---
    A royal flush!
[02:05] ---
    Why, you...!
[02:09] ---
    I knew it, I knew it, I knew it!
[02:12] ---
    Cheater, cheater, cheater!
[02:17] ---
    Royal flush...
[02:20] ---
    Geez, we lost another player.
[02:30] ---
    Hey, you play poker?
[02:33] ---
    No.
[02:35] ---
    A game, a game, a game!
[02:38] ---
    I'll pass!
[02:39] ---
    Play with us!
[02:43] ---
    Stop.
[02:48] ---
    Poker!
[02:52] ---
    Win or lose, win or lose, win or lose!
[02:56] ---
    A game!
[03:13] ---
    Play a game, play a game, play a game!
[03:19] ---
    You...
[03:36] ---
    We can't get any real tools anymore.
[03:48] ---
    And we can't get any
    good metal to make them.
[03:56] ---
    It was like you were dancing...
[04:02] ---
    You...
[04:07] ---
    Never mind.
[04:12] ---
    "The Woman of the Tall Tower"
[04:18] ---
    You are...
[04:19] ---
    I worked at this factory.
[04:22] ---
    Me, and everyone else.
[04:25] ---
    They made parts,
[04:28] ---
    but there's no need to make them now.
[04:32] ---
    So they play games all day.
[04:37] ---
    There's nothing else for them to do.
[04:42] ---
    But I... I don't want to just rot
    away without doing anything.
[04:52] ---
    I don't want to.
[05:20] ---
    Won't you climb it?
[05:34] ---
    The world is descending into Ruin,
    so why is it so beautiful?
[05:44] ---
    When the morning sun rises,
    and the evening sun sets,
[05:48] ---
    it's even more beautiful.
[05:50] ---
    What you want to do is make a tower.
[05:59] ---
    Why?
[06:03] ---
    I'm going to ring a bell.
[06:11] ---
    A bell?
[06:18] ---
    I'm going to make a bell,
    and put it at the top of this tower.
[06:24] ---
    Ding-dong, ding-dong.
[06:28] ---
    If they hear the sound of the ringing bell,
[06:31] ---
    people may realize that the
    world harbors beauty in it yet.
[06:44] ---
    You're beautiful, too.
[07:06] ---
    Don't move.
[07:13] ---
    You're getting newer and
    newer, even as we speak.
[07:23] ---
    I can feel it through my fingers.
[07:39] ---
    What are you?
[07:50] ---
    I want...
[07:53] ---
    to know as well.
[08:16] ---
    What do you want to know?
[08:21] ---
    Why do you look so pained?
[08:30] ---
    You're the first person I've met
    to call the world beautiful.
[08:37] ---
    I hope that I can hear the
    sound of the bell you'll make.
[08:48] ---
    Then listen.
[08:52] ---
    Listen!
[08:59] ---
    The bell's almost done.
[09:42] ---
    It's hard to find the parts
    I need to make the bell.
[09:47] ---
    Normally gold or silver would be best,
[09:51] ---
    but those are gone now.
[09:57] ---
    But, I've finally got all
    the materials I need.
[10:03] ---
    At last...
[10:10] ---
    I was waiting.
[10:11] ---
    I was waiting for you.
[10:20] ---
    I can smell the scent of the candles...
[10:26] ---
    Yes, that's right.
[12:20] ---
    You were never asleep.
[12:28] ---
    You should become part
    of my beautiful bell, too.
[12:32] ---
    You don't have anything
    to do either, do you?
[12:35] ---
    Then be my bell!
[12:38] ---
    It's better than ending up as scrap.
[12:41] ---
    I thought so, too.
[12:42] ---
    That I would become part of your
    bell and resound across the land.
[12:46] ---
    That that would be better.
[12:49] ---
    But I can't do that yet.
[12:53] ---
    I have killed the Sun named Moon.
[12:56] ---
    There is still something I must do.
[13:00] ---
    Just like how you make your bell.
[13:27] ---
    I want to hear it.
[13:29] ---
    I want to hear the sound
    of the bell ringing out.
[13:31] ---
    I want others to hear it!
[13:34] ---
    I want to believe that, even though
    the world has rusted, it's still beautiful.
[13:39] ---
    I want others to believe that too.
[13:41] ---
    Even the robots who do nothing but gamble.
[13:47] ---
    Even the scrap contains
    the desire to live within it.
[13:52] ---
    Did that emotion within the robots
    you've destroyed not resound within you?
[15:01] ---
    This sound...
[15:43] ---
    This isn't how it's supposed to sound...
[16:20] ---
    -Rizbel...
    -Witch...
[16:22] ---
    Too loud!
[16:29] ---
    Too loud...
[16:33] ---
    Too loud!
[16:35] ---
    Too loud! Too loud! Too loud!
[16:39] ---
    Too loud... Too loud!
[16:41] ---
    Too loud! Too loud!
[16:46] ---
    It's your fault for making this damn thing!
[16:49] ---
    This world is on its way to Ruin!
[16:56] ---
    We don't need to make anything anymore!
[17:00] ---
    That's right.
[17:03] ---
    There's no need...
[17:40] ---
    Ow...
[17:43] ---
    Three of a kind.
[18:09] ---
    You...
[18:12] ---
    Your bell is safe.
[18:16] ---
    Why?
[18:21] ---
    The sound of the bell reached my heart.
[18:26] ---
    You're lying!
[18:29] ---
    It sounded awful.
[18:31] ---
    What reached my heart may
    have been your desire to create...
[18:35] ---
    something new in this world.
[18:44] ---
    The moment I heard your
    bell is the first moment...
[18:48] ---
    that I felt that the
    world was beautiful.
[18:52] ---
    The world that I may have destroyed.
[19:03] ---
    Casshern!
[19:41] ---
    What is that tower?
[19:45] ---
    'Dunno.
[19:49] ---
    Would you like to climb it?
[19:55] ---
    Would you like to climb the tower?
[20:17] ---
    What a nice view!
[20:22] ---
    Be careful, Ringo!
[20:25] ---
    Ohji, the land is so pretty!
[20:33] ---
    Ring it, if you please.
[20:43] ---
    There's a bell here.
[21:01] ---
    Ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong.
[21:12] ---
    I don't need a bell anymore.
[21:15] ---
    I can ring it within my heart.
[21:21] ---
    Ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong...
[21:41] ---
    There exists a woman who sounded a bell...
[21:44] ---
    in a dying world.
[21:47] ---
    I can still hear it ringing in my ears...
[21:53] ---
    Ding-dong, ding-dong.
[22:04] ---
    Let's stop asking ourselves
[22:11] ---
    why the tears keep flowing
[22:17] ---
    As soon as the sky is filled
    with blue at daybreak,
[22:24] ---
    let's go ahead and row towards tomorrow
[22:30] ---
    You can't get by on kindness alone,
    so you hurt someone
[22:37] ---
    You can't get by naked to the world,
    so you hold someone
[22:43] ---
    Nobody knows the reason why
[22:45] ---
    Why do we experience love if it hurts so?
[22:56] ---
    Nobody knows the place to go
[22:58] ---
    We seek each other so fervently,
    because nothing goes on forever
[23:30] ---
    There's a woman who gave hope,
[23:33] ---
    even as destruction encroached
    on a world of despair.
[23:37] ---
    Next time: "A Hymn of Hope."
[23:40] ---