4 - The Writhing Island

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[00:00] Orthros
    Herukerun... Unzerun...
    Korukerun... Peie... Sebue...
SIGN    Chaika the Coffin Princess
SIGN    Chaika the Coffin Princess
[01:43] Chaika
    Dull ache...
[01:45] Chaika
    Scratches... Lucky.
[01:48] Chaika
    Fredrica?
[01:50] Chaika
    Fredrica!
[01:53] Chaika
    Please answer! Fredrica!
[01:58] Fredrica
    Darn it! What's with this island?
[02:08] Fredrica
    I wonder where Chaika landed.
[02:21] David
    You okay, Princess?
[02:23] Red
    Yes.
[02:24] David
    Looks like we made it to the
    island we were heading for.
[02:27] Selma
    It appears that fog was produced
    by magic to conceal the island.
[02:32] Selma
    What's wrong?
[02:33] Red
    Hurt?
[02:34] David
    Yeah, a fragment from the
    ship hit me. Just my luck.
[02:38] David
    Let's get to land quick,
    before that monster comes back.
[02:59] David
    Worried about the saboteur boy?
[03:00] Red
    N-No!
[03:02] David
    Well, no need. He's not the type to
    let something like that kill him.
[03:11] Toru
    Magic does come in handy at times like this.
[03:14] Akari
    I agree. If only you hadn't
    fought with Chaika,
[03:18] Akari
    we might be at the top by now.
[03:21] Toru
    Are you trying to smart off?
[03:22] Akari
    I would never smart off
    to my beloved Brother.
[03:25] Akari
    Though, if being insulted is a fetish
    of yours, I would gladly...
[03:30] Toru
    Shut up and climb!
SIGN    The Writhing Island
[03:52] Chaika
    Orthros...
[03:54] Chaika
    Els, nyme, ainkt, mu...
[03:57] Chaika
    Brilliant flash, appear!
[03:59] Chaika
    The Flasher!
[04:24] Soldier
    Intruders must be taken!
[04:26] Soldier
    Come with us!
[04:29] Chaika
    Island... natives?
[04:31] Chaika
    Want to know more about island!
[04:34] Soldier
    Intruders must be taken!
[04:36] Soldier
    Come with us!
[04:42] David
    It's fine that we got to the island,
    but what do we do now?
[04:45] Selma
    Guy said we'd find out when we got here.
[04:52] Red
    Who?
[04:56] Toru
    This is...
[04:58] Akari
    It's Chaika's.
[04:59] Toru
    So she's definitely here.
[05:03] Akari
    Brother.
[05:04] Toru
    Yeah.
[05:10] Toru
    Demi-human soldiers?
[05:12] Toru
    Are they this island's guards?
[05:14] Akari
    Looks that way.
[05:15] Toru
    If these guys are roaming around,
    there must be something here.
[05:18] Akari
    If Chaika is here,
    they may already have her.
[05:24] Toru
    I'm following them. You search the forest.
[05:28] Akari
    Understood.
[05:35] Chaika
    Island underground...
[05:37] Chaika
    Giant facility.
[05:39] Chaika
    Father's fortune... here.
[05:51] Wizard
    Izhmash-sama.
[05:54] Izhmash
    What are the Fayla doing?
[05:55] Wizard
    They are operating with
    the demi-human soldiers
[05:59] ---
    to smoke out the intruders.
[06:00] Wizard
    We should receive a report soon.
[06:10] Izhmash
    Monitoring and numerical records...
[06:13] Izhmash
    What is the point in doing all this?
[06:17] Izhmash
    What His Majesty desired
    is already complete...
[06:21] Izhmash
    But only Emperor Gaz knows
    how to activate it.
[06:26] Izhmash
    We haven't the slightest clue...
[06:29] (Flashback) Gaz
    I will die soon.
[06:32] Izhmash
    Now that the emperor is dead,
[06:35] Izhmash
    is there any meaning in
    this island's existence?
[06:39] Izhmash
    Enter.
[06:42] Cyril
    The search party has returned.
[06:45] Cyril
    They've captured the intruders
    and placed them in the dungeon.
[06:49] Cyril
    We believe they were on board the
    cargo ship that passed by earlier.
[06:53] Cyril
    Do you wish to interrogate them immediately?
[06:55] Izhmash
    It can wait.
[06:57] Cyril
    There are also signs of infiltration
    on the southern cliff wall.
[07:01] Cyril
    We searched the area,
    but found no one suspicious,
[07:04] Cyril
    so we called off the search for now.
[07:06] Izhmash
    You called it off?
[07:08] ---
    I ordered you to capture all
    intruders on the island!
[07:11] Cyril
    I'm sorry...
[07:13] Cyril
    But according to the reports,
    it was dark and footing was poor,
[07:16] Cyril
    so pursuing them further would
    have endangered the men...
[07:18] Izhmash
    Don't you talk back to me!
[07:21] Izhmash
    When you demi-humans,
[07:23] ---
    relics of the war, had nowhere
    left to go, I gave you work.
[07:27] Izhmash
    All you need to do is follow my orders!
[07:32] Cyril
    Yes, sir. Forgive me.
[07:35] Izhmash
    Lowly demi-human...
[07:37] Izhmash
    We have enough of the
    mass-produced models now.
[07:40] Izhmash
    Maybe we should start using the demi-humans
    in experiments to get rid of them.
[07:53] Ursula
    Here's your food.
[07:54] Chaika
    Grateful.
[07:57] Chaika
    Why imprison me?
[07:59] Chaika
    Why keep island secret?
[08:02] Ursula
    I can't tell you anything.
[08:04] Ursula
    Someone higher up will come soon.
[08:07] ---
    You should ask them.
[08:08] Chaika
    Understood.
[08:10] Wizard
    Ursula! Haven't you fed the
    Fayla yet? Get moving!
[08:13] Ursula
    Y-Yes, sir!
[08:14] Chaika
    Ursula!
[08:15] Chaika
    Ursula, chaste flower.
[08:18] Ursula
    Yes, in Raackean...
[08:21] Ursula
    You speak Raackean?
[08:23] Chaika
    Yes. Born in Gaz Empire.
[08:25] Ursula
    You, too?
[08:26] Chaika
    Yes.
[08:27] Ursula
    I see...
[08:28] Chaika
    This island, research...
    Emperor Gaz's order?
[08:33] Ursula
    I'm sorry. I don't know the details, either.
[09:04] Toru
    They excavated the entire
    island to make this?
[09:07] Toru
    Pretty massive undertaking...
[09:22] Akari
    Fayla again?
[09:34] Fredrica
    What?
[09:35] Fredrica
    You're here, Akari?
[09:38] Akari
    Fredrica... Where's Chaika?
[09:40] Fredrica
    I'm looking for her, too.
[09:43] Akari
    I see...
[09:44] Akari
    Just what is going on with this island?
[09:55] Chaika
    To—
[09:57] Toru
    You alone? Where's Fredrica?
[09:59] Chaika
    Separated.
[10:01] Toru
    Okay.
[10:02] ---
    For now, we're getting out of here.
[10:04] Toru
    Keep an eye out to make
    sure no one's coming.
[10:08] Chaika
    Toru... apology.
[10:11] Chaika
    Was selfish.
[10:14] Chaika
    Trouble for everyone.
[10:15] Toru
    Oh...
[10:17] Toru
    Nah, I might have been
    jumping the gun myself.
[10:20] Toru
    But we've found the island now.
[10:22] Toru
    Anyway, we'll talk later.
[10:24] Toru
    There's definitely something
    strange about this island.
[10:27] Toru
    Where's your coffin and Gundo?
[10:28] Chaika
    Coffin, with Fredrica.
[10:30] Chaika
    Gundo confiscated.
[10:32] Toru
    The Gundo will have to wait.
[10:34] Toru
    We need to get somewhere safe first,
[10:36] Toru
    then we'll think about what comes next.
[10:38] Chaika
    Yes.
[10:46] Toru
    Dragoons and Orthros?
[10:48] Chaika
    Yes.
[10:49] Toru
    And it was a Kraken that
    attacked the ship...
[10:51] Toru
    Are the people on this island taming Fayla?
[10:59] Toru
    Can't go this way.
[11:01] Toru
    Let's look for another exit.
[11:02] Chaika
    Yes.
[11:17] Toru
    What is this place?
[11:27] Toru
    If we dive in, it'll probably
    take us to the ocean outside,
[11:30] Toru
    but there's no way to guess how deep it is.
[11:40] Chaika
    Fayla...
[11:42] Kraken
    They are not true Fayla.
[11:45] Toru
    Who's there?!
[11:47] Kraken
    They are all duplicates, outsider.
[12:10] Toru
    A Kraken...
[12:19] Toru
    Is this the one that just talked?
[12:22] Toru
    Krakens can talk?
[12:24] Chaika
    Kraken, high intelligence. Dragoon, same.
[12:28] Toru
    What do you mean by duplicates?
[12:30] Kraken
    This facility has been used to research the
[12:34] ---
    mass production of Fayla through
    application of forging magic.
[12:37] Kraken
    Those discarded here are the failures.
[12:41] Toru
    Are you one of them, too?
[12:44] Kraken
    I was captured for experimentation.
[12:47] Kraken
    By studying and reproducing my flesh,
[12:52] Kraken
    they have mass-produced Krakens.
[12:57] Chaika
    Cruel treatment...
[13:00] Kraken
    Silver hair and purple eyes...
[13:03] Kraken
    The Coffin Princess, Chaika.
[13:06] Toru
    You know Chaika?
[13:08] Kraken
    I met a girl who called herself
    Chaika once, long ago.
[13:12] Kraken
    After learning her own fate,
    she abandoned the name.
[13:19] (Flashback) Layla
    One day, I learned the truth...
[13:23] (Flashback) Layla
    We are all merely tools
    to gather his remains...
[13:26] (Flashback) Layla
    The Chaikas, as well as those who help us.
[13:29] Chaika
    Layla...
[13:30] Toru
    She was on this island?
[13:32] Chaika
    Want to know truth!
[13:34] Chaika
    Know truth about Chaika?
[13:36] Kraken
    My life is nearing its end.
[13:39] Kraken
    If you have questions, I shall
    answer, Coffin Princess.
[13:45] Chaika
    Who am I? Who is Chaika?
[13:48] Kraken
    The one who will set destiny in motion.
[13:51] Kraken
    You carry a coffin and gather the remains,
[13:54] Kraken
    and your body has become
    a tool for that purpose.
[13:56] Kraken
    You hold the key to unlock destiny.
[13:59] Chaika
    Destiny?
[14:01] Ursula
    I came to bring her food,
    and the door was open...
[14:05] Cyril
    She had a friend?
[14:07] Cyril
    It's probably the one that the
    search party lost track of.
[14:10] Ursula
    I'm sorry, Cyril. I made a mistake...
[14:12] Cyril
    It's not your fault.
[14:14] Ursula
    But I know we'll be punished.
[14:17] Ursula
    Izhmash-sama hates us demi-humans.
[14:20] Ursula
    We might be killed...
[14:21] Cyril
    I won't let him do that!
[14:23] Cyril
    I'll capture them right away.
[14:28] David
    What's up? Sure is noisy out there.
[14:31] Selma
    Looks like something happened.
[14:33] David
    This might just be our chance...
[14:37] Selma
    Hey, are you all right?
[14:42] Kraken
    That which humans call "magic" is
    the power to materialize thoughts.
[14:47] Kraken
    Long ago, we Fayla
[14:50] ---
    lived alongside this power before
    mankind even came to exist.
[14:55] Kraken
    Soon enough, humans appeared,
    and they desired magic.
[15:00] Kraken
    They imitated us, studied us,
[15:03] ---
    and finally began to use
    man-made implements of magic,
[15:06] Kraken
    allowing them to control
    many types of magic.
[15:09] Chaika
    Magic implements... Gundo?
[15:12] Kraken
    Eventually, with the arrival
    of one particular wizard,
[15:15] Kraken
    mankind's magic techniques
    experienced rapid development.
[15:20] Kraken
    He was the man called the Taboo Emperor:
[15:23] ---
    Arthur Gaz.
[15:27] Chaika
    Father...
[15:28] Kraken
    The Chaikas are tools to fulfill
    Emperor Gaz's grand ambitions.
[15:34] Kraken
    Their life and death, their joy and sorrow,
[15:38] Kraken
    are part of the gears that comprise them
[15:41] Kraken
    and cannot be denied.
[15:43] Toru
    How do you know this?
[15:45] Kraken
    By sharing thoughts among many
    bodies since ancient times,
[15:49] Kraken
    we have seen all.
[15:52] Kraken
    When destiny is set in motion,
[15:54] Kraken
    not only humans, but we Fayla
    and all other living things
[15:58] Kraken
    will be hurled into a maelstrom
    of destruction and slaughter.
[16:02] Kraken
    The Chaikas hold the key to that future.
[16:05] Kraken
    You must never forget this.
[16:12] Toru
    Damn it!
[16:15] Toru
    Chaika! Stay close to me!
[16:17] Chaika
    Right!
[16:24] Cyril
    You won't escape!
[16:38] Chaika
    Toru!
[16:40] Toru
    Damn it.
[16:45] Toru
    Chaika, are you okay?
[16:46] Chaika
    Yes.
[16:47] Cyril
    Wait.
[16:49] Cyril
    You just called her Chaika.
[16:51] Cyril
    Are you Chaika?
[16:54] Izhmash
    Did you say Chaika?
[16:56] Cyril
    Yes. I looked into it,
[16:58] Cyril
    and the girl in the group of intruders
    we captured looks just like her.
[17:02] Cyril
    She calls herself Chaika, as well.
[17:04] Izhmash
    Two Chaikas here at the same time...
[17:07] Izhmash
    A coincidence?
[17:09] Izhmash
    No... This is interesting.
[17:12] Izhmash
    Bring them here. Both of them!
[17:16] Vivi
    Castles?
[17:18] Drunk
    That's right! Huge castles
    floating in the sky!
[17:21] Drunk
    From the top of the hill close to here,
    you can see the national border.
[17:25] Nikolai
    So you saw castles in the sky over the border
[17:28] ---
    between this nation and the Gaz Empire?
[17:29] Drunk
    Yep!
[17:32] Drunk
    There were five or six castles,
    huge ones like this,
[17:35] Drunk
    floating there in the moonlight.
[17:37] Drunk
    My back gave out then and there!
[17:40] Vivi
    Five or six?
[17:41] Drunk
    But then, in the morning,
    they had vanished like smoke!
[17:45] Zita
    When did this happen?
[17:47] Drunk
    I was still just a boy.
[17:49] Drunk
    Eighty... No, ninety years ago?
[17:52] Vivi
    What?
[17:53] Zita
    Can you draw what they looked like on this?
[18:00] Zita
    They do look like floating fortresses.
[18:02] Leo
    The Gaz Empire had floating fortresses?
[18:05] Nikolai
    We detoured here hoping to find rumors of
    the emperor's fortune near the border,
[18:09] Nikolai
    but we weren't expecting a story like this.
[18:12] Matheus
    But floating fortresses hadn't
    been invented yet at that time.
[18:17] Leo
    It doesn't seem to have anything
    to do with the fortune.
[18:20] Nikolai
    There's not much we can say,
    but we might as well report this.
[18:23] Vivi
    A fortune, floating fortresses, and Chaika...
[18:28] Vivi
    Just what was Emperor Gaz trying
    to leave behind in this world?
[18:32] Cyril
    Izhmash-sama.
[18:34] Cyril
    I've brought them.
[18:47] Red
    No touch!
[18:50] Red
    Rude!
[18:52] Toru
    We meet again.
[19:00] Izhmash
    I see!
[19:02] Izhmash
    Seeing you side by side, you do look alike.
[19:05] Izhmash
    I welcome you, Chaika Gaz.
[19:07] Izhmash
    I am the assistant director of the Gaz
    Empire Institute of Magic, Viktor Izhmash.
[19:13] Chaika
    Institute of Magic?
[19:15] Niva
    Chaika...
[19:17] Izhmash
    She reacted?!
[19:19] Izhmash
    Could it be... No, that's right.
[19:22] Izhmash
    Last time a Chaika came here,
    she was still being developed.
[19:26] Izhmash
    So Chaika really is...
[19:28] Toru
    Last time?
[19:29] Chaika
    Layla?
[19:30] Izhmash
    This is magnificent!
    A result beyond my expectations!
[19:34] Izhmash
    Perhaps your coming here was all
    part of Emperor Gaz's plan!
[19:39] Red
    You, Father's servant!
[19:41] Red
    I am emperor's daughter!
[19:43] Red
    Capture, imprison, rude!
[19:49] Izhmash
    His daughter? No, not quite.
[19:53] Izhmash
    Listen to me.
[19:54] Izhmash
    Emperor Gaz did not have a daughter.
[19:58] Red
    L-Lie!
[20:01] Izhmash
    After the war, orphaned children
    were left all over the streets.
[20:07] Izhmash
    According to the plans,
[20:08] ---
    girls of the same age were
    gathered from among them,
[20:12] Izhmash
    and magic was used to alter their memories.
[20:20] Izhmash
    All of the girls received identical
    memories of being Emperor Gaz's daughter.
[20:28] Izhmash
    That's who the Chaikas are.
[20:33] Izhmash
    When the Chaikas awoke, they took up coffins
[20:35] Izhmash
    and set out to collect
    the emperor's remains.
[20:38] Izhmash
    Though, it seems each was equipped with
    a different reason for collecting them.
[20:44] Izhmash
    That's it! The proof is right there!
[20:47] Red
    No! No, no!
[20:51] (Flashback) Kraken
    The Chaikas are tools to fulfill
    Emperor Gaz's grand ambitions.
[20:58] (Flashback) Kraken
    Their life and death, their joy and sorrow,
[21:02] (Flashback) Kraken
    are part of the gears that comprise them
[21:04] (Flashback) Kraken
    and cannot be denied.
[21:06] (Flashback) Layla
    You still don't know why you are alive,
[21:08] (Flashback) Layla
    why you were born.
[21:11] (Flashback) Layla
    When you find out,
[21:13] (Flashback) Layla
    you'll be able to feel despair
    from the depths of your heart.
[21:20] Toru
    Chaika!
[21:22] Chaika
    Created memories... all fake...
[21:27] Izhmash
    I am truly glad you came here!
[21:29] Izhmash
    Now my research can make vast progress!
[21:32] Izhmash
    I'm going to remove part of each
    of your brains and analyze them.
[21:38] Toru
    Bastard! Don't even—
[21:39] Izhmash
    What? There's no need to worry.
[21:42] Izhmash
    You will die here, but the
    remains will come together.
[21:45] Izhmash
    The other Chaikas will collect them.
[23:25] Chaika
    Found Father's lab!
[23:28] Chaika
    Boss Izhmash, freak! Lunatic!
[23:30] Chaika
    Red Chaika and me, human experiments?!
[23:32] Chaika
    And other girl captured!
[23:34] Chaika
    Must rescue!
SIGN    The Emperor's Fortune
[23:37] Chaika
    Next time: "The Emperor's Fortune."
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