# E1 - Earnest
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**[00:07] Demon King**
If you fail to stop me, the world
will come to an end, Great Hero.
**[00:18] Blade**
So this is all I've got?
**[00:42] Blade**
Enough with the cheap moves.
**[00:44] Blade**
Let's settle things once and for all.
**[00:46] Blade**
You and me, going all out.
**[00:49] Demon King**
Very well.
**[00:50] Demon King**
I couldn't ask for more.
**[00:59] Blade**
Dragon Series, Fifth Sword.
**[01:00] Demon King**
Satanic power at full force.
**[01:06] Demon King**
Be reduced to ashes!
**[01:09] Blade**
Dragon Annihilator!
**[01:47] Blade**
It's finally over...
**[02:14] Student 1**
Good morning!
**[02:14] Student 2**
Oh, you're here.
**[02:16] Student K**
Good morning!
**[02:17] Student A**
Good morning!
**[02:18] Blade**
Oh! They're greeting each other!
**[02:20] Blade**
Is that what friends do?!
**[02:22] Student E**
Good morning!
**[02:22] Student B**
Morning. You're here early.
**[02:25] Blade**
I see! This is what normal people do!
**[02:30] Blade**
All right!
**[02:31] Blade**
Starting today, I'm going to make friends
and live life as an ordinary person!
***SIGN*** Episode 1
***SIGN*** Earnest
**[02:45] Blade**
Okay! Time to make some friends!
**[02:48] Blade**
Good morning!
**[02:49] Blade**
Good morning!
**[02:50] Blade**
Good morning!
**[02:51] Blade**
Good morning!
**[02:52] Blade**
Good morning! Good morning!
**[02:53] Yessica**
Pretty funny student we've got here.
**[02:56] Blade**
Good morning! Good morning!
**[02:56] Claire**
Do you think he's a new transfer?
**[02:59] Kassim**
Whoa, he's coming this way!
**[03:01] Blade**
I'm Blade!
**[03:03] Claire**
Ah, yes.
**[03:04] Claire**
It's a pleasure to meet you.
**[03:06] Blade**
I'm Blade!
**[03:07] Kassim**
You sure are a weirdo.
**[03:09] Kassim**
I'm Kassim.
**[03:10] Clay**
My name's Clay. Nice to meet you.
**[03:12] Yessica**
I'm Yessica.
**[03:13] Claire**
Oh, um... I'm Claire.
**[03:15] Blade**
I see!
**[03:17] Blade**
I'm here to make some friends!
**[03:19] Claire**
If you don't mind, would you
like to be friends with us?
**[03:22] Blade**
I did it!
**[03:23] Blade**
I've got four whole friends now!
**[03:25] Blade**
If this keeps up, I could make ten friends...
**[03:26] Blade**
No, hold that thought!
**[03:28] Blade**
Even 100 friends doesn't sound so far-fetched!
**[03:32] Claire**
If you want to make 100 friends,
you'll have to befriend the whole student body.
**[03:36] Earnest**
What are all of you up to?
**[03:38] Earnest**
Why are you making a commotion
in the middle of the hallway?
**[03:42] Yessica**
Oh, no!
**[03:42] Earnest**
You are all students at the
prestigious Rosewood Academy.
**[03:45] Kassim**
That's Earnest Flaming.
**[03:46] Earnest**
You should strive to always follow the
rules and behave in an orderly manner.
**[03:47] Kassim**
She's the top student in this school,
so everyone calls her the Empress.
**[03:51] Blade**
I'm Blade!
**[03:55] Earnest**
Who are you?
**[03:56] Earnest**
I haven't seen you around here.
**[03:58] Claire**
U-Um, Lady Earnest...
**[04:00] Earnest**
No need for the title!
**[04:02] Claire**
Well, it seems Blade just
transferred into the school...
**[04:05] Earnest**
A new student?
**[04:07] Earnest**
This academy only admits those who aspire
to be heroes who protect this world!
**[04:13] Earnest**
There's no way they'd permit
such a late admission!
**[04:14] Blade**
I don't really care about being a hero.
**[04:16] Blade**
I'm just here to make some friends.
**[04:18] Earnest**
You don't really care?!
**[04:19] Earnest**
What halfhearted resolve you have!
**[04:25] Blade**
Oh, almost forgot!
**[04:26] Blade**
I need to go to the headmaster's office!
**[04:28] Earnest**
What?!
**[04:29] Blade**
Can you show me the way to
the headmaster's office?
**[04:32] Group**
Go!
**[04:35] Earnest**
Why'd it have to be me?
**[04:39] Earnest**
This is Earnest Flaming.
**[04:41] Earnest**
I'm here with a brat who lost his
way and was on the verge of tears.
**[04:45] King**
You may enter.
**[04:47] Earnest**
Pardon me.
**[04:56] Earnest**
Wh-What brings you here, Sir?!
**[04:59] Blade**
I'm here!
**[05:01] Earnest**
Y-You idiot!
**[05:03] Earnest**
Don't you have any idea
who you stand before?!
**[05:06] Blade**
Sure I do.
**[05:07] Earnest**
Please forgive his rudeness,
Your Majesty the King!
**[05:12] King**
I've heard all about you from the
previous headmaster, Miss Earnest.
**[05:16] King**
It seems you have quite the excellent record.
**[05:18] Earnest**
O-Oh, no. I have a long way to go...
**[05:20] Earnest**
Excuse me, "previous headmaster"?
**[05:23] King**
Indeed.
**[05:24] King**
As of today, I will be acting
as the new headmaster here.
**[05:28] Earnest**
Your Majesty is?!
**[05:29] Earnest**
Why, I hear Your Majesty is
quite the accomplished warrior!
**[05:32] Earnest**
To be instructed by Your Majesty himself!
**[05:35] Earnest**
I find myself lacking words to
express my joy at the sheer honor!
**[05:38] Earnest**
I could never have imagined I would get
a chance to speak with Your Majesty!
**[05:41] Earnest**
How can I put this?
**[05:43] Earnest**
Oh, I really am so truly struck with awe!
**[05:43] King**
That's enough.
**[05:45] Earnest**
Huh?
**[05:46] King**
You may take your leave.
**[05:48] King**
I must speak with him in private.
**[05:57] Earnest**
What's the deal with that boy?!
**[05:59] Earnest**
He's so friendly with His Majesty!
**[06:01] Earnest**
I don't get it!
**[06:01] Blade**
Hey! Thanks to you,
I've gotten on her bad side!
**[06:04] King**
What could be the reason?
**[06:05] Blade**
Don't give me that!
**[06:06] Blade**
And what are you doing here, anyway?!
**[06:09] King**
You see, Blade...
**[06:11] King**
I want you to regain your powers as a hero.
**[06:15] Blade**
I want to be an ordinary person!
**[06:17] Blade**
Normal as can be!
**[06:18] King**
The students here are really something.
**[06:21] King**
They should serve well
in your rehabilitation.
**[06:24] Blade**
You're not listening, old man.
**[06:25] King**
I plan on making sweeping changes
to the curriculum, as well.
**[06:29] King**
My predecessor had a bit of a lenient streak.
**[06:32] King**
We're trying to nurture heroes here.
**[06:35] King**
Great heroes like you—
**[06:37] Blade**
There's no need for that!
**[06:39] Blade**
The Demon King's gone now.
**[06:41] King**
I received reports of the Great Hero
and the Demon King trading blows,
**[06:45] King**
resulting in mutual annihilation
of their powers.
**[06:47] Blade**
That's right.
**[06:48] King**
But I have faith!
**[06:51] King**
The Great Hero's powers will be resurrected!
**[06:54] King**
And that's because you are the Great Hero!
**[06:59] Blade**
This old man's gone off the deep end.
**[07:13] Blade**
Hey!
**[07:13] Earnest**
Why are *you* here?
**[07:15] Earnest**
This is the advanced class!
**[07:17] Blade**
I took the exam for the lower classes,
but I was told to come here.
**[07:22] Earnest**
Did you bribe someone?!
**[07:24] Blade**
What?
**[07:25] Earnest**
Did you gain back-door
admission into this school?!
**[07:27] Earnest**
You must have cheated somehow to be
placed straight into the advanced class!
**[07:31] Earnest**
Besides, this isn't the kind of academy
that admits halfhearted people like you!
**[07:37] Blade**
Don't call me halfhearted!
**[07:38] Blade**
I'm dead serious.
**[07:40] Blade**
About making 100 friends here.
**[07:42] Earnest**
What?
**[07:43] Blade**
I'm Blade!
**[07:44] Blade**
Let's be friends!
**[07:45] Scientist**
What?
**[07:46] Blade**
I'm Blade!
**[07:47] Priestess**
Wh-What do you want?
**[07:48] Blade**
I'm Blade!
**[07:50] Blade**
Let's be friends!
**[07:51] Blade**
I'm Blade!
**[07:52] Blade**
I'm Blade!
**[07:53] Blade**
Let's be friends!
**[07:53] Earnest**
Listen to me!
**[07:56] Blade**
I'm listening.
**[07:59] Earnest**
D-Don't pat my head!
**[08:05] Blade**
Whoa.
**[08:07] Sophie**
The instructor has asked
everyone to assemble.
**[08:10] Earnest**
I'll be right there.
**[08:11] Blade**
I'm Blade!
**[08:14] Earnest**
He's asking for your name.
**[08:15] Sophie**
Is that a command?
**[08:17] Earnest**
She's always like this.
**[08:18] Blade**
I'm Blade!
**[08:20] Earnest**
You need to listen when people are talking.
**[08:22] Sophie**
Sophie.
**[08:24] Blade**
I see!
**[08:26] Blade**
I'm Blade!
**[08:27] Blade**
Nice to meet you!
**[08:29] Earnest**
Instructor!
**[08:31] Instructor**
Wh-What is it?
**[08:32] Earnest**
I'd like to test the
transfer student's ability.
**[08:36] Instructor**
Well, that wasn't in today's lesson plan...
**[08:40] Earnest**
You don't mind, right?
**[08:42] Instructor**
Go ahead...
**[08:49] Blade**
That's made of enchanted metal, right?
**[08:51] Earnest**
And what if it is?
**[08:53] Earnest**
Just so you know,
**[08:54] Earnest**
simply slicing through it is something
all the advanced students can do.
**[08:59] Earnest**
Your job is to prove yourself
to everyone here.
**[09:01] Earnest**
If you can't, I'll have you admit to your
illicit entry and leave the academy.
**[09:05] Earnest**
The advanced class is on
a whole different level.
**[09:08] Blade**
How many levels are we talking?
**[09:09] Earnest**
Huh? W-Well... two...
**[09:12] Earnest**
No, three!
**[09:13] Earnest**
It's three whole levels different!
**[09:16] Blade**
I see. Three levels, huh?
**[09:18] Blade**
Then, Second Sword should do.
**[09:24] Leonard**
Wait, the shape of his fighting spirit...
**[09:27] Leonard**
Dragon Series?!
**[09:28] Earnest**
Dragon Series? Wait!
**[09:38] Blade**
Dragon Eater!
**[09:56] Sophie**
Cough.
**[09:58] Blade**
Hmm... Meh.
**[10:06] Earnest**
Blade.
**[10:08] Earnest**
Who in the world... *are* you?
**[10:20] Blade**
I-I'm ordinary!
**[10:23] Blade**
Just your exceedingly average,
ordinary person!
**[10:27] Earnest**
Ordinary... Ordinary?!
**[10:38] Boy Student**
No, the best thing they
serve is their hamburger!
**[10:43] Blade**
Hey!
**[10:46] Earnest**
Seriously, what's your deal?
**[10:48] Blade**
Like I said, I'm just ordinary.
**[10:50] Girl Student 1**
And that's why she messed up!
**[10:52] Girl Student 2**
What, for real?
**[10:53] Blade**
Hey! There are seats here!
**[10:58] Blade**
Hey! Over here!
**[11:04] Blade**
What's gotten into them?
**[11:05] Earnest**
This table is basically reserved for me.
**[11:09] Blade**
Wait... are you being bullied?
**[11:12] Blade**
You can talk to me about it.
**[11:14] Earnest**
You're a real moron.
**[11:16] Earnest**
Everyone's scared of me.
**[11:20] Blade**
Scared of you? Why?
**[11:27] Blade**
Whoa, what *is* this?!
**[11:30] Blade**
I'm not sure what it is, but it's great!
**[11:33] Earnest**
Huh? It's just curry.
**[11:35] Earnest**
Tonkatsu curry.
**[11:36] Blade**
So it's called tonkatsu curry?!
**[11:38] Blade**
Tonkatsu curry is super amazing!
**[11:40] Blade**
The guy who invented it was a real genius!
**[11:42] Earnest**
I take back what I said about you.
**[11:45] Blade**
What was that again?
**[11:46] Earnest**
I mean when I accused you
of illicit entry here!
**[11:49] Blade**
Did you say that?
**[11:50] Earnest**
I sure did!
**[11:51] Earnest**
It's been bothering me,
and you don't even remember?!
**[11:56] Blade**
Since I don't remember,
you shouldn't let it bother you.
**[11:59] Earnest**
I admit you've got a bit of talent.
**[12:03] Earnest**
So, well...
**[12:06] Earnest**
I'm sorry.
**[12:08] Blade**
Did you say something?
**[12:10] Earnest**
I swear! You're so...
**[12:13] Blade**
You have my thanks.
**[12:15] Blade**
You've done so much to help me.
**[12:17] Earnest**
Wh-What's this all of a sudden?!
**[12:19] Blade**
I'm a new transfer, right?
**[12:21] Blade**
I thought I wouldn't be
able to make any friends.
**[12:23] Earnest**
Huh? Friends? Who?
**[12:28] Earnest**
Wait, m-me?!
**[12:30] Blade**
Yeah.
**[12:31] Blade**
Look, we're eating lunch together.
**[12:34] Blade**
That makes us pals!
**[12:36] Earnest**
W-Well, I don't mind being your friend...
**[12:41] Yessica**
That was easy.
**[12:42] Kassim**
The Empress is so quick to fall.
**[13:00] Earnest**
Seriously, what's with him?
**[13:02] Earnest**
Eating together makes you friends?
**[13:05] Earnest**
How absurd.
**[13:07] Earnest**
Friends, he said...
**[13:14] Earnest**
Yay!
**[13:15] Earnest**
My very first friend!
**[13:35] Asmodeus**
Surrender yourself to me.
**[13:49] Asmodeus**
Destroy! Slash! Burn!
**[13:52] Earnest**
Shut up!
**[13:54] Earnest**
I'm the next head of the Flaming family!
**[13:57] Earnest**
I won't give in to the likes of you!
**[14:13] Earnest**
Leonard, take this fight seriously!
**[14:15] Leonard**
Dear me.
**[14:16] Leonard**
We may be simulating a real fight,
**[14:18] Leonard**
but I'd rather not wield
my lance against a lady!
**[14:25] Blade**
Wow! So awesome!
**[14:27] Leonard**
Come! It's time for this show to begin!
**[14:41] Leonard**
How merciless.
**[14:43] Leonard**
It seems I've lost.
**[14:45] Leonard**
Earnest?
**[14:57] Magical Girl**
The Empress has been kind of scary lately.
**[15:01] Earnest**
Next!
**[15:10] Sophie**
If you continue this...
**[15:34] Sophie**
I admit defeat.
**[15:38] Earnest**
You're up next, Blade!
**[15:41] Blade**
Huh, me?
**[15:42] Earnest**
That Dragon Series of yours
is no big deal if I dodge it!
**[15:46] Blade**
I mean, I don't mind.
**[15:49] Blade**
But will you be all right in that condition?
**[15:52] Earnest**
Shut up!
**[15:53] Earnest**
I'll be fine.
**[15:56] Earnest**
Let's go!
**[16:01] Earnest**
Oh, no!
**[16:04] Blade**
Hey, Earnest!
**[16:14] Doctor**
There's nothing I can do.
**[16:15] Blade**
Don't say that!
**[16:17] Blade**
Make her better, like you did for me!
**[16:19] Doctor**
I can heal diseases and injuries,
even from the brink of death.
**[16:22] Doctor**
But spells and curses are
outside of my expertise.
**[16:27] Earnest**
Where am I?
**[16:30] Blade**
You passed out.
**[16:32] Blade**
Don't you remember?
**[16:33] Earnest**
I...
**[16:36] Earnest**
Don't tell me...
**[16:39] Blade**
Just calm down!
**[16:40] Earnest**
Did I... um... do something?
**[16:43] Earnest**
Something really awful?
**[16:46] Blade**
Really awful?
**[16:47] Blade**
No, you just suddenly fell unconscious.
**[16:49] Blade**
Oh, it was really awful carrying you here.
**[16:52] Earnest**
Y-You dummy!
**[16:53] Earnest**
I'm not that heavy!
**[16:56] Doctor**
You should rest a little longer.
**[16:58] Doctor**
That affliction of yours...
**[16:59] Earnest**
Stop it!
**[17:00] Earnest**
I feel better now.
**[17:02] Doctor**
No. Get back in bed.
**[17:03] Earnest**
Out of my way.
**[17:04] Doctor**
I'm not budging.
**[17:06] Blade**
It seems like Earnest feels okay,
so why not let her go?
**[17:10] Blade**
I'll keep an eye on her instead.
**[17:12] Doctor**
Fine.
**[17:13] Doctor**
That's a promise.
**[17:17] Student**
Seriously?
**[17:22] Earnest**
I can walk on my own.
**[17:24] Blade**
You can lean on me, you know.
**[17:27] Blade**
We're friends, after all.
**[17:29] Earnest**
Don't tell anyone what you
heard in the infirmary.
**[17:48] Blade**
Looks like I owe that old man now.
**[17:51] Blade**
Not that I mind.
**[18:09] Blade**
There we go.
**[18:11] Blade**
Rosewood Academy's data...
**[18:14] Blade**
So that demon sword's name is Asmodeus?
**[18:17] Blade**
Dunno why, but it gives me the creeps.
**[18:23] Blade**
Quiet down.
**[18:28] Blade**
I see now.
**[18:30] Earnest**
Why do you want to talk in private?
**[18:33] Earnest**
Are you trying to threaten me?
**[18:35] Blade**
Huh?
**[18:36] Blade**
Why would I threaten you?
**[18:38] Earnest**
Maybe you want my spot as top student.
**[18:40] Blade**
I couldn't care less about that.
**[18:42] Blade**
What's more important is you.
**[18:44] Blade**
I'm interested in you.
**[18:46] Earnest**
What?!
**[18:46] Earnest**
Wait, that's, well...
**[18:48] Earnest**
I said we could be friends,
but anything more is...
**[18:52] Blade**
I know the secret behind your sword.
**[18:58] Blade**
That sword has its own will,
**[19:01] Blade**
and grants its owner tremendous power.
**[19:03] Blade**
But you don't have full ownership of it.
**[19:09] Blade**
How did that happen?
**[19:11] Earnest**
When I was six years old,
**[19:13] Earnest**
I unknowingly laid my hands on a cursed
demon sword in the Flaming family's custody.
**[19:19] Earnest**
It tried to take over my body
**[19:22] Earnest**
and the demon sword's will flowed through me,
hungering for blood and carnage.
**[19:25] Earnest**
Ever since, I've been
holding back those urges.
**[19:29] Earnest**
As soon as I let my guard down,
I can hear it still, to this day.
**[19:33] Earnest**
The voice of Asmodeus,
begging me to let it slash and burn.
**[19:38] Blade**
But it hasn't taken over.
**[19:40] Earnest**
No.
**[19:41] Earnest**
Thanks to my stubbornness.
**[19:43] Blade**
There is a way.
**[19:44] Earnest**
I know that much.
**[19:46] Earnest**
I need the demon sword to
acknowledge me as its owner, right?
**[19:51] Earnest**
But I can't do that.
**[19:52] Earnest**
What if I fail?
**[19:54] Earnest**
Then a bloodthirsty demon would come to life!
**[19:56] Blade**
It'll be okay.
**[19:57] Earnest**
What?!
**[19:58] Earnest**
How can you say something so irresponsible?!
**[20:00] Earnest**
If the demon comes to life...
**[20:01] Blade**
Like I said, it'll be okay.
**[20:04] Earnest**
What?
**[20:05] Blade**
If that happens, I'll cut it down.
**[20:07] Earnest**
That's...
**[20:12] Blade**
Don't think I can do it?
**[20:15] Earnest**
I think you can.
**[20:17] Blade**
So what's the problem?
**[20:19] Earnest**
Nothing at all.
**[20:27] Earnest**
Demon Sword Asmodeus!
**[20:29] Earnest**
I am Earnest Flaming.
**[20:31] Earnest**
I beseech thee to form a pact with me!
**[20:37] Earnest**
Obey thy oath from days bygone,
**[20:39] Earnest**
and receive my being within thy own!
**[20:41] Earnest**
Try my strength.
**[20:43] Earnest**
See if thou can consume me!
**[20:47] Asmodeus**
So be it.
**[20:49] Blade**
I have faith in you, Earnest.
**[20:51] Earnest**
I have faith as well,
**[20:53] Earnest**
that you'll bring this all to an end,
no matter what happens.
**[21:05] Earnest**
So you must be Asmodeus.
**[21:07] Earnest**
I'll keep it brief.
**[21:09] Earnest**
Submit yourself to me.
**[21:11] Asmodeus**
I am fire!
**[21:13] Asmodeus**
I am power!
**[21:15] Asmodeus**
I am pure violence that
reigns over all destruction!
**[21:21] Earnest**
Looks like it means a fight, then.
**[21:24] Earnest**
Bring it on!
**[21:38] Earnest**
Destroy, destroy, destroy!
**[21:40] Earnest**
Kill, kill, kill!
**[21:42] Earnest**
Burn, burn, burn!
**[21:46] Earnest**
Oh, what fun!
**[21:48] Earnest**
I don't want to hold back!
**[21:50] Earnest**
Not when there's so much
to destroy around me!
**[21:53] Earnest**
My house, my family, my friends!
**[22:02] Earnest**
That's right.
**[22:03] Earnest**
I can fight now, thanks to him.
**[22:05] Earnest**
Even if I fail, I know he'll take it down.
**[22:09] Earnest**
Which is why I'll fight,
**[22:11] Earnest**
of my own will.
**[22:12] Earnest**
For the sake of my own pride!
**[22:16] Earnest**
My name...
**[22:19] Earnest**
My name is Earnest!
**[22:21] Earnest**
Earnest Flaming!
**[22:52] Earnest**
I made it back.
**[22:56] Blade**
Welcome back.
**[23:07] Claire**
What, really?
**[23:08] Yessica**
Yeah! And then Kassim was like...
**[23:10] Earnest**
Good morning.
**[23:23] Earnest**
Does it look weird on me?
**[23:26] Claire**
You look quite splendid!
**[23:28] Yessica**
Uh-huh!