4 - The Expanding Darkness

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[00:06] Wayne
    What's the matter?
[00:23] Yuri
    I'm sorry, Juliana.
[00:27] Juliana
    Burckhardt...
[00:28] Juliana
    A demon?
[00:29] Wayne
    No...
[00:31] Wayne
    He was such a righteous man.
[00:33] Yuri
    If I had only noticed
    the change in him sooner...
[00:39] Juliana
    No.
[00:40] Juliana
    It isn't your fault.
[00:44] Juliana
    Are the others okay?
[00:46] Yuri
    Y-Yes.
[00:47] Juliana
    I see... That's good.
[00:49] Yuri
    But the enemy knows we're here.
[00:54] Yuri
    Traveling at night is dangerous,
    but I want to push forward.
[00:58] Juliana
    You're right.
[01:00] Juliana
    That's a good idea.
[01:01] Yuri
    Goodbye.
[01:02] Juliana
    Wait.
[01:03] Juliana
    Stay safe.
[01:05] Juliana
    Thank you.
[01:13] Aries
    Your Highness!
[01:14] Aries
    The Holy Capital's on fire!
[01:16] Wayne
    What?
SIGN    The Expanding Darkness
[03:12] A
    May all be engulfed in blackness!
[03:14] A
    May all be engulfed in blackness!
[03:16] B
    No, stop!
[03:18] B
    Let go!
[03:18] C
    Move it!
[03:20] D
    Smash it!
[03:21] D
    Pull it down!
[03:22] E
    Please spare me!
[03:24] F
    Put it out!
[03:25] F
    Why are you doing this?
[03:26] C
    So that all may be engulfed in blackness!
[03:29] G
    Stop.
[03:30] H
    Shut up.
[03:31] H
    I'm going to join the Black Army
    so I can survive!
[03:35] I
    Hurry, this way.
[03:37] J
    Destroy it all!
[03:39] J
    May all be engulfed in blackness!
[03:43] Cervantes
    Fools! Getting riled up over
    a bunch of silly rumors...
[03:47] A
    Cervantes!
[03:48] Cervantes
    Don't worry. I'm holding back.
[03:52] Cervantes
    My back...
[03:54] A
    Don't over do it.
[03:55] A
    Give me your hand.
[03:56] Cervantes
    Don't treat me like I'm over the hill!
[03:59] Einslotte
    Focus on evacuating the citizens.
[04:01] Einslotte
    Close off all roads to the central square.
[04:03] Einslotte
    Stop this panic from spreading any further.
[04:16] Cervantes
    Put your backs into it, men!
[04:23] Rowendia
    Apprehend them!
[04:40] Einslotte
    Looks like things are finally under control.
[04:42] A
    This is all because you people
    don't do your job!
[04:46] Rowendia
    What are...
[04:47] A
    Please calm down.
[04:49] A
    For now, let's clean this mess up.
[04:51] Einslotte
    What's the matter?
[04:52] Rowendia
    I ordered the knights to
    clean up the city, but...
[05:01] Einslotte
    Seize him!
[05:09] Einslotte
    Your Highness!
[05:10] Einslotte
    I'm glad you're safe.
[05:12] Juliana
    Save the greetings.
[05:13] Juliana
    What is going on here?
[05:16] Einslotte
    Since the defeat at the castle,
    some of the citizens have been on edge.
[05:21] Einslotte
    Riots have started breaking out all over.
[05:24] Cervantes
    A bunch of punks making a racket,
[05:27] Cervantes
    ranting about joining
    the Black Army to survive.
[05:30] Juliana
    That's...
[05:32] A
    Holy Princess Juliana!
[05:34] A
    You cannot save this world!
[05:36] Aries
    You!
[05:38] Wayne
    A kid?
[05:40] Juliana
    Aries, release him.
[05:42] Aries
    But...
[05:43] Juliana
    Just do it.
[05:46] Juliana
    If there's something you want to say,
    now's your chance.
[05:49] A
    The Holy King is dead.
[05:51] A
    The holy men at the Great Shrine
    won't help us.
[05:54] A
    But the Black King is different.
[05:56] A
    He'll spare us if we join the Black Army!
[05:58] Aries
    Nonsense.
[05:59] Juliana
    Who told you that?
[06:01] A
    Everyone's saying it.
[06:03] Juliana
    "Everyone"?
[06:04] Juliana
    You believe such a rumor?
[06:06] A
    I don't want to die!
[06:08] A
    I'll become a demon and join the Black Army!
[06:11] Juliana
    A demon?
[06:13] Juliana
    Do you understand what that means?
[06:18] Juliana
    Become a demon and you'll never see
    your friends or family or ever again.
[06:25] Juliana
    You'd do that just to save your own skin?
[06:29] Juliana
    Have you even considered what would happen
[06:32] Juliana
    to those you leave behind?
[06:35] Juliana
    We... We fought together all this while.
[06:40] Juliana
    You swore to fight alongside your comrades.
[06:45] Juliana
    Why?
[06:47] Juliana
    Why did you become a demon?
[06:51] Juliana
    How could I not have known?
[06:55] Juliana
    Why couldn't I stop you?
[06:58] Rowendia
    Your Highness...
[07:02] Einslotte
    What in the world happened?
[07:06] Wayne
    Burckhardt became a demon.
[07:10] A
    More fires!
[07:11] Cervantes
    Damn it all. There's no end to it.
[07:22] Louise
    Thank goodness you're safe.
[07:23] Juliana
    Louise...
[07:24] Juliana
    I'm sorry I worried you.
[07:26] Louise
    No, this whole situation started
     because I wasn't strong enough.
[07:32] Juliana
    It isn't your fault.
[07:34] Einslotte
    The three of us have taken on the duties
    of the Holy King between us.
[07:38] Einslotte
    We promised to do what we could
    to help each other out, did we not?
[07:42] Louise
    Yes.
[07:43] Einslotte
    But the fact of the matter is that
    the current situation is becoming grave.
[07:48] Einslotte
    The riots are spreading faster
    than we could have imagined.
[07:52] Einslotte
    At this rate...
[07:54] Louise
    What should we do now?
[08:20] A
    What the?
[08:25] B
    Are you all right?
[08:27] B
    What is this?
[08:28] A
    Let's report this to Chief Olga.
[08:46] Wayne
    I'm told that the forces
    of the Nine Territories,
[08:49] Wayne
    led by Shuza,
    are stationed near the Holy Capital.
[08:52] Juliana
    Shuza?
[08:53] Juliana
    He's still in the Holy Kingdom?
[08:55] Einslotte
    Shuza's army is still recovering from
    their battle with the Black King.
[09:00] Einslotte
    It will be a while until they can move out.
[09:03] Wayne
    Your Highness.
[09:05] Wayne
    Why don't we have them join
    the Black King Suppression Army?
[09:10] Juliana
    Right.
[09:12] Juliana
    Shuza would be a invaluable asset.
[09:14] Juliana
    Let's send a messenger immediately.
[09:34] Phoena
    Yuri.
[09:35] Yuri
    Phoena.
[09:37] Phoena
    I'll slow down the blackening.
[09:39] Yuri
    I'm fine.
[09:40] Phoena
    Hold out your arm.
[09:42] Yuri
    I'll be all right.
[09:43] Phoena
    No!
[09:52] Phoena
    All this time, you've helped me.
[09:56] Phoena
    It's my turn to help you.
[10:14] Phoena
    Why...
[10:20] Phoena
    Please, Chronicle.
[10:26] Phoena
    Please.
[10:31] Yuri
    Phoena...
[10:33] Yuri
    It's...
[10:41] Yuri
    Thank you.
[10:54] Aram
    What the heck are they doing,
    skipping out on dinner?
[10:59] Aram
    What?
[11:01] Aram
    Hey!
[11:02] Aram
    Yu—
[11:02] ---
    Shh!
[11:03] ---
    We're going back.
[11:04] Aram
    What?!
[11:05] Kain
    A kid has no business seeing this.
[11:07] Aram
    I'm not a kid!
[11:08] Kain
    Shut up, idiot!
[11:24] Aram
    It's huge!
[11:26] Aram
    Is that the Sage's Tower?
[11:29] Kain
    Yeah.
[11:30] Kain
    It's some kind of weird building,
    made using some kind of weird technology.
[11:35] Aram
    Wow.
[11:36] Aram
    That's super weird, but awesome.
[11:40] Kain
    The Sage of Destiny there
    might know where Pirika is.
[11:52] Yuri
    What the?
[12:05] Kain
    The Sorcerer's Army!
[12:06] Michidia
    Why are they attacking us?
[12:08] Melchior
    We've been waiting for you, Volunteer Army.
[12:11] Melchior
    Melchior.
[12:14] Aram
    Where?
[12:16] Yuri
    Melchior!
[12:18] Yuri
    We're going to fight the Black King again.
[12:21] Yuri
    Please.
[12:22] Yuri
    Lend us the power of the Sage's Tower.
[12:27] Melchior
    If you want our assistance,
    first prove your might.
[12:32] Melchior
    Velnar!
[12:33] Wayne
    All right!
[12:37] Aludra
    No, you don't!
[12:44] Aludra
    What firepower...
[12:46] Aram
    Damn...
[12:47] Kain
    Aram, get back! It's dangerous.
[12:49] Yuri
    The carriage!
[12:50] Kain
    Got it.
[12:50] Katya
    Attack!
[12:55] Vorg
    This place is never boring.
[13:17] Yuri
    Aram!
[13:22] Velnar
    You don't have time to worry about others!
[13:33] Aludra
    My mana can't keep up.
[13:36] Velnar
    This is over!
[13:38] Aram
    Aludra!
[13:39] Aludra
    Thanks!
[13:41] Velnar
    Give it up, old hag!
[13:44] Aludra
    Who are you calling an old hag?!
[14:01] Melchior
    That kid can transfer mana?
[14:07] Dilma
    You seem to be having fun, Melchior.
[14:11] Melchior
    That is indeed entertaining.
[14:13] Dilma
    But there'll be a lot of damage.
[14:15] Melchior
    Sacrifices are necessary
    if progress is to be made.
[14:18] Dilma
    Then why not sacrifice yourself?
[14:23] Dilma
    You've toyed with them long enough.
[14:39] Fatima
    That's enough.
[14:42] Fatima
    No more games.
[14:48] Aram
    Y-You're naked?!
[14:56] Phoena
    Aram, allow me to introduce you.
[14:59] Phoena
    This is Dilma.
[15:02] Phoena
    Fatima.
[15:04] Phoena
    And Melchior.
SIGN    They are the Sages of the Tower.
[15:10] Dilma
    Nice to meet you.
[15:12] Melchior
    I heard you were gathering an Army,
    so I put you through your paces.
[15:17] Fatima
    Actually, your magic experiments failed,
    and you were just taking it out on them.
[15:21] Aram
    They're different from how I imagined them.
[15:23] Kain
    Everyone says that at first.
[15:35] Dilma
    This is the Imperial Castle as it is now.
[15:37] Melchior
    That's right.
[15:38] Melchior
    There's something interesting
    going on there.
[15:41] Melchior
    A High-Density Black Element is being emitted
[15:44] Melchior
    from the castle non-stop, creating a barrier.
[15:48] Melchior
    Calculations show that its density is double—
    no, more than double—that of normal,
[15:52] Melchior
    causing an unprecedented
    blackening of the region.
[15:54] Fatima
    Shut up.
[15:57] Dilma
    Basically, the Black Element barrier has
    grown so powerful, no-one can penetrate it.
[16:04] Dilma
    Tell us, do you believe people will follow you
    in this increasingly desperate situation,
[16:09] Dilma
    despite the fact that
    you've already failed once before?
[16:13] Yuri
    Well...
[16:17] Yuri
    We're doing this, regardless.
[16:20] Dilma
    Very well.
[16:21] Fatima
    The world's fate is a blank canvas.
[16:24] Fatima
    The future has yet to be written.
[16:26] Fatima
    Follow the path you believe to be true.
[16:29] Michidia
    Do you mean it's up to us what happens next?
[16:33] Fatima
    Yes.
[16:34] Kain
    If that's what the Sage of Destiny says.
[16:37] Aram
    She's the Sage of Destiny?
[16:40] Phoena
    She is.
[16:41] Phoena
    Fatima knows a lot of things.
[16:44] Aram
    Even though she's naked?
[16:46] Yuri
    Fatima, if you know anything
    about Pirika, please tell us.
[16:52] Fatima
    Pirika survives.
[16:55] Fatima
    But is somewhere from which
    it is impossible to return by oneself.
[16:58] Phoena
    Where is that?
[17:04] Yuri
    So not even Fatima knows.
[17:06] Fatima
    There is still hope.
[17:09] Aram
    Huh?
[17:12] Fatima
    Also, you must travel to the Maze Pass.
[17:25] Velnar
    Hey, kid.
[17:29] Velnar
    You're new around here.
[17:31] Aram
    I'm not a kid.
[17:32] Aram
    I'm Aram.
[17:33] Velnar
    Oh?
[17:35] Velnar
    You have a big mouth.
[17:37] Aram
    What's up with your body, anyway?
[17:40] Clauss
    That's the mark of a Sealer.
[17:45] Clauss
    He's strengthened himself by
    carving magic runes into his body.
[17:48] Clauss
    In other words, he's crazy about fighting.
[17:50] Velnar
    Clauss.
[17:52] Velnar
    You weren't at the battle.
[17:53] Velnar
    Where were you?
[17:54] Clauss
    It's my day off.
[17:57] Aram
    Is that why you can use that awesome magic?
    Because you're a Sealer?
[18:02] Velnar
    Wanna see it again?
[18:04] Clauss
    You're going to get suspended again.
[18:08] Velnar
    Speaking of which,
    you did something interesting yourself.
[18:12] Velnar
    You can transfer mana, can you?
[18:14] Aram
    Yeah.
[18:15] Velnar
    I thought I'd won
    when that old hag ran out of mana.
[18:19] Velnar
    Good job watching out for her.
[18:20] Aram
    I hate losing.
[18:23] Velnar
    And if you lose anyway?
[18:25] Aram
    I won't quit until I win.
[18:28] Velnar
    You're quite the dumbass, too.
[18:30] Aram
    I'm not quite a dumbass.
[18:32] Aram
    I'm a real dumbass.
[18:33] Clauss
    Is that supposed to be a compliment?
[18:36] Velnar
    It's important to look at
    the battlefield as a whole.
[18:40] Velnar
    Once you do, you start to see things
    that you couldn't otherwise.
[18:45] Aram
    Yeah.
[18:46] Clauss
    That was a surprisingly mature comment,
    coming from you.
[18:49] Velnar
    You need to watch carefully
    if you're gonna kill everyone.
[18:54] Clauss
    Right.
[18:55] Aram
    Aren't you guys going to
    fight the Black Army?
[18:58] Velnar
    We are fighting them.
[19:00] Velnar
    The ones that attack here, anyway.
[19:03] Clauss
    We, the Sorcerer's Army, can't act
    without orders from those weird Sages.
[19:10] Aram
    I see.
[19:15] Katya
    I apologize.
[19:17] Katya
    We didn't want to fight you, either.
[19:21] Aludra
    Don't worry about it, Katya.
[19:23] Aludra
    I know you're at the mercy
    of those crazy Sages.
[19:28] Melchior
    Is someone speaking ill of me?
[19:31] Aludra
    You're imagining things.
[19:33] Melchior
    So, when are you leaving?
[19:36] Aludra
    Unfortunately,
    I'm going to be staying for a while.
[19:38] Vorg
    So will I.
[19:40] Aludra
    We came all the way here to find out
    how to take on the Holy Castle, after all.
[19:45] Melchior
    After you ran away from here
    all those years ago, too.
[19:49] Aludra
    Don't worry. I'll stay away from your room.
[19:53] Melchior
    I'm not going to show you
    my newest paper on magic theory.
[19:57] Aludra
    Don't worry. I'll find it myself.
[20:00] Melchior
    Then I'll set some magic traps
    where I hide it.
[20:05] Aludra
    I wonder if your theory-obsessed magic
    will work on me.
[20:09] Melchior
    I'm sure we'll see the failings
    of your half-assed applied magic.
[20:18] Vorg
    Geez.
[20:35] Yuri
    All that and we still don't know
    Pirika's whereabouts.
[20:38] Katya
    Sadly.
[20:40] Katya
    We'll have to ask Yggdra
    at the island of sprites.
[20:43] Yuri
    Yeah.
[20:44] Yuri
    I'd like to go there immediately, but...
[20:48] Phoena
    Let's go to the Maze Pass first.
[20:51] Phoena
    Fatima doesn't offer advice
    unless there's a reason.
[20:55] Yuri
    I know.
[20:57] Michidia
    Juliana asked us to check on the area, too.
[21:01] Michidia
    This is a good opportunity.
[21:02] Velnar
    We'll come with you.
[21:08] Velnar
    I haven't had enough action lately.
[21:10] Aram
    Awesome!
[21:12] Aram
    You're coming with us?
[21:14] Katya
    Yes, under orders from Melchior.
[21:17] Katya
    He's interested in an artifact
    discovered recently at the Maze Pass.
[21:22] Katya
    We're to investigate.
[21:24] Phoena
    Artifact?
[21:26] Phoena
    I wonder what they found.
[21:28] Velnar
    Who cares what it is?
[21:32] Yuri
    All right, let's go.
[21:33] Yuri
    To the Maze Pass!
SIGN    Snowy Mountain Screams
[23:46] ---
    Fate is set in motion.