# E2 - Sophie
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**[00:18] Earnest**
Hey, Blade!
**[00:20] Earnest**
The least you could do is draw your sword!
**[00:22] Earnest**
Don't disrespect your opponents
by looking away during a fight!
**[00:28] Blade**
You look a little different.
**[00:32] Earnest**
D-Do I?
**[00:33] Earnest**
In what way?
**[00:42] Blade**
Oh!
**[00:43] Blade**
Ah!
**[00:45] Blade**
No idea!
**[00:50] Leonard**
Take notice when a lady
changes up her hairstyle!
**[00:52] Blade**
Huh? Oh, was that it?
**[00:55] Earnest**
It's not like I wanted you to notice...
**[00:59] Leonard**
Oh yeah, Blade.
**[01:01] Earnest**
If you've got time to horse around
with the likes of Leonard,
**[01:04] Earnest**
can you also keep an eye on that girl?
**[01:05] Leonard**
The likes of me?!
**[01:07] Blade**
That girl?
**[01:10] Blade**
Ah, you mean Sophie?
**[01:12] Leonard**
The likes of...?! How heartless!
**[01:15] Blade**
Why's she by herself?
**[01:16] Leonard**
Ignored!
**[01:17] Earnest**
That's how she always is.
**[01:19] Earnest**
Even though she obeys any
commands she's given.
**[01:22] Blade**
Is that so?
**[01:23] Earnest**
Yeah.
**[01:24] Earnest**
But I've never seen her take
any spontaneous action.
**[01:28] Earnest**
And yet, she voluntarily told you her name.
**[01:31] Earnest**
That's why I'm leaving her to you, Blade.
**[01:34] Blade**
Got it.
**[01:36] Earnest**
You need to build up more stamina!
**[01:38] Earnest**
Run ten kilometers every morning
for the rest of your life!
**[01:43] Leonard**
My whole life?
**[01:46] Blade**
Yo! I'm Blade!
**[01:48] Sophie**
I know.
**[01:50] Blade**
Earnest asked me to watch over your training!
**[01:54] Sophie**
Is that a command?
**[01:55] Blade**
Well, that's not what I meant.
**[01:58] Blade**
I guess it's true that she asked me...
**[02:05] Blade**
I'm here because I want to help you.
**[02:09] Sophie**
But... this is all I can use.
**[02:14] Blade**
Why barehanded?
**[02:15] Sophie**
This is all I was taught.
**[02:18] Blade**
In that case, I'll teach
you other ways to fight.
**[02:20] Sophie**
Is that a command?
**[02:22] Blade**
Nope.
**[02:24] Blade**
I want to lend you a hand as your friend!
**[02:27] Blade**
It's not a command,
so I won't force you into it.
**[02:31] Blade**
Are you against the idea?
**[02:36] Sophie**
No, I'm not.
**[02:40] Blade**
It's settled, then!
**[02:41] Blade**
Okay, first off...
**[02:43] Instructor**
All right, that's it for
today's practical training!
**[02:47] Earnest**
Huh?! Why?!
**[02:49] Blade**
We were just getting started!
**[02:50] Earnest**
It's because you took your sweet time!
**[02:52] Blade**
No way...
***SIGN*** Episode 2
***SIGN*** Sophie
**[04:39] Sophie**
I can't cut through it.
**[04:41] Blade**
Channel your fighting spirit into the sword.
**[04:43] Blade**
You have no problem channeling
it into your fists, right?
**[04:46] Blade**
Then think of the sword as
an extension of your body.
**[04:52] Blade**
Like this.
**[04:55] Sophie**
Understood.
**[05:06] Sophie**
I managed to cut them.
**[05:08] Blade**
You sure learn fast!
**[05:09] Blade**
If you can handle a sword like this,
I think you're set.
**[05:13] Blade**
Let's call it a day.
**[05:15] Sophie**
Can I beat her now?
**[05:17] Blade**
Eh?
**[05:19] Blade**
Who do you mean?
**[05:20] Sophie**
Earnest.
**[05:22] Blade**
Well...
**[05:23] Blade**
I don't know about that.
**[05:25] Blade**
Getting to her level won't be so easy...
**[05:28] Sophie**
I see.
**[05:31] Blade**
Huh?
**[05:36] Blade**
Huh?
**[05:38] Sophie**
This is stronger.
**[05:41] Blade**
Guess you're right.
**[05:43] Blade**
By the way, I can't move.
**[05:46] Sophie**
It wouldn't be a good mount position
if the opponent could move freely.
**[05:52] Blade**
Good point.
**[05:54] Sophie**
I want you to teach me
something else tomorrow.
**[05:58] Blade**
Yeah, sure thing!
**[06:01] King**
How's your school life going?
**[06:05] Blade**
I made some friends.
**[06:07] King**
I'm glad to hear that.
**[06:09] King**
You've been active as a hero
since you were three years old.
**[06:12] King**
Even I have someone I consider my best friend,
while you, on the other hand...
**[06:16] Blade**
Well, sorry!
**[06:18] King**
I really am so glad.
**[06:22] King**
So, who exactly is it you call your friend?
**[06:26] Blade**
There's more than one...
**[06:28] Blade**
But recently, I guess... Sophie.
**[06:30] King**
Oh...
**[06:32] King**
I should have known you'd
take an interest in her.
**[06:37] King**
She's a strong one, wouldn't you say?
**[06:39] Blade**
Yeah, she's strong.
**[06:42] King**
Even so, she's still incomplete.
**[06:45] Blade**
What?
**[06:46] King**
After all, the goal was for her
completed form to surpass you.
**[06:51] Blade**
What are you talking about?!
**[06:53] King**
You didn't befriend her because you knew?
**[06:57] King**
About the Artificial Great Hero Project?
**[07:00] Blade**
Artificial Great Hero?
**[07:03] King**
If you, the Great Hero, can exist,
**[07:06] King**
it should also be possible to
create a being just like you.
**[07:09] King**
That was the idea proposed
by a certain group.
**[07:12] King**
With ancient forbidden
knowledge that had been lost,
**[07:15] King**
they took a human who showed
aptitude as a template,
**[07:17] King**
and tried to artificially manifest
the Great Hero's powers.
**[07:22] King**
What's more, they duplicated
that original human
**[07:25] King**
in order to perform countless
experiments and adjustments.
**[07:29] Blade**
Hold on...
**[07:30] Blade**
Hold on just one minute!
**[07:31] Blade**
Duplicated?
**[07:32] Blade**
I thought we were talking about Sophie!
**[07:35] King**
Her real name is Sophitia Femto.
**[07:39] King**
Femto meaning "twelve."
**[07:41] King**
That is to say, she's the twelfth iteration
of the human named Sophitia.
**[07:47] King**
As an experimental subject, she was
treated for so long as simply an object.
**[07:53] Blade**
Hey, don't tell me that those experiments...
**[07:56] King**
No need for concern!
**[07:58] King**
I've completely put an
end to that organization.
**[08:03] King**
If it wasn't your doing,
you should have said so.
**[08:05] King**
When I took her in, I told
her that she was free now.
**[08:10] King**
She responded with...
**[08:12] (Flashback) Sophie**
Is that a command?
**[08:16] King**
I expect that hasn't changed.
**[08:24] Blade**
Sophie was robbed of a normal life
for the sake of creating a Great Hero.
**[08:32] Blade**
It's my fault.
**[08:34] Blade**
It's all because I exist.
**[08:37] Blade**
In that case...
**[08:38] Blade**
I'll make sure Sophie gets
her normal life back!
**[08:42] Blade**
But...
**[08:43] Blade**
What *is* normal, anyway?
**[08:47] Doctor**
Oh, what's wrong?
**[08:49] Doctor**
You're not scheduled for
your check-up just yet.
**[08:52] Doctor**
Did you want me to look you over?
**[08:54] Doctor**
In that case, take off your clothes.
**[08:56] Doctor**
Take them off right now.
**[08:57] Blade**
Please tell me!
**[08:58] Blade**
What does being normal mean?
**[09:00] Blade**
What kinds of things do
kids my age normally do?!
**[09:03] Doctor**
So you're finally interested
in exploring that subject.
**[09:06] Doctor**
I don't mind.
**[09:08] Doctor**
I'll teach you *everything* there is
to know about the vigor of youth—
**[09:12] Blade**
Got it!
**[09:13] Blade**
So it's youth!
**[09:16] Leonard**
What is it, Blade?
**[09:18] Blade**
Youth! What does youth mean?
**[09:20] Blade**
What does it involve?!
**[09:22] Leonard**
I'm not sure where this came from...
**[09:24] Leonard**
But when you think of youth,
it'd have to be...
**[09:26] Leonard**
Love, perhaps?
**[09:27] Blade**
Got it!
**[09:28] Blade**
So it's love!
**[09:29] Group**
Go!
**[09:29] Yessica**
Blade?
**[09:30] Claire**
What's the matter?
**[09:31] Blade**
Please tell me!
**[09:33] Blade**
What is love?
**[09:34] Blade**
What do you do when you're in love?!
**[09:35] Claire**
What? Love?!
**[09:37] Claire**
W-Well...
**[09:38] Yessica**
Go on! Out with it!
**[09:40] Claire**
Things like... going on dates together—
**[09:43] Blade**
Got it!
**[09:44] Blade**
So it's dates!
**[09:46] Earnest**
Why'd you suddenly come up to my room?
**[09:49] Blade**
Earnest!
**[09:50] Blade**
What's a date?
**[09:51] Blade**
What exactly do you do?!
**[09:52] Earnest**
A date?!
**[09:53] Earnest**
H-H-Hold on a moment, Blade!
**[09:55] Blade**
Please tell me!
**[09:56] Blade**
I'm begging you, Earnest!
**[09:58] Earnest**
Eh?!
**[09:59] Earnest**
That's, well...
**[10:01] Earnest**
Couples spend time alone talking,
walk around town, go shopping...
**[10:05] Earnest**
B-But we're not at that level yet...
**[10:09] Earnest**
I think it's still a little
too early for a date...
**[10:12] Blade**
Got it!
**[10:13] Earnest**
I'm off on a date!
**[10:15] Earnest**
Huh? Wait...
**[10:18] Earnest**
With who exactly?!
**[10:19] Earnest**
Step step step.
**[10:20] Blade**
Where's Sophie?!
**[10:22] Priestess**
Sophie's still inside—
**[10:24] Blade**
Thanks!
**[10:24] Priestess**
Huh?! Wait!
**[10:25] Blade**
Sophie!
**[10:26] Blade**
Sophie!
**[10:27] Blade**
Sophie!
**[10:29] Girl Student 1**
What?!
**[10:30] Girl Student 2**
Blade?!
**[10:32] Blade**
Sophie!
**[10:34] Blade**
Let's go on a date!
**[10:36] Sophie**
Is that a command?
**[10:38] Blade**
No, it's not.
**[10:39] Blade**
But it's very important!
**[10:44] Sophie**
I understand.
**[10:48] Sophie**
Yes, officer, this man right here.
**[10:55] Claire**
Blade barged into the girls' shower...
**[10:58] Claire**
A lot of girls have filed complaints.
**[11:00] Earnest**
What in the world's gotten into that idiot?
**[11:02] Earnest**
I'll have to sternly steer
him down the right path.
**[11:04] Yessica**
Red bean bun!
**[11:06] Earnest**
Huh?
**[11:07] Yessica**
Here, Claire.
**[11:08] Yessica**
Please take one too, Empress.
**[11:09] Claire**
Thank you.
**[11:10] Earnest**
Bread?
**[11:12] Earnest**
What is this? It's so sweet!
**[11:14] Yessica**
It *is* a red bean bun.
**[11:15] Yessica**
Have you never had one before?
**[11:17] Earnest**
O-O-Of course I have!
**[11:19] Earnest**
So sweet!
**[11:22] Claire**
So even the Empress makes faces like that.
**[11:26] Earnest**
H-Hey, you two...
**[11:27] Earnest**
Can you stop it with the whole Empress thing?
**[11:30] Yessica**
Lady Earnest, then?
**[11:31] Earnest**
Not that, either!
**[11:33] Earnest**
Just call me Earnest.
**[11:34] Claire**
O-Oh, no! We couldn't possibly!
**[11:37] Earnest**
Right now, we're comrades
united by our mission,
**[11:41] Earnest**
to watch Blade so he doesn't
try any funny business.
**[11:45] Earnest**
You could...
**[11:46] Earnest**
p-practically say that we're friends!
**[11:49] Yessica**
Yep.
**[11:50] Doctor**
You're right.
**[11:51] Yessica**
Ah, it's almost time.
**[11:54] Blade**
Oh, you're right on time.
**[11:56] Sophie**
Is that not normal?
**[11:58] Sophie**
I don't know anything about dates.
**[12:01] Blade**
That's fine.
**[12:02] Blade**
Leave everything to me!
**[12:04] Blade**
I did loads of studying for this!
**[12:07] Blade**
Okay, let's review our agenda for today.
**[12:10] Blade**
Assemble at 1000 hours.
**[12:11] Blade**
Salute and briefing at 1001 hours.
**[12:13] Blade**
Begin mobilizing at 1003 hours.
**[12:14] Blade**
Patrol town until 1030 hours.
**[12:15] Blade**
Afterwards, R&R at a parlor until 1100 hours.
**[12:17] Blade**
Lunch time starting at 1200 hours.
**[12:18] Blade**
Further agenda items to follow at lunch time!
**[12:20] Earnest**
Isn't that a little too precise?
**[12:22] Claire**
This sounds less like a date...
**[12:23] Yessica**
And more like a spec ops mission!
**[12:26] Sophie**
It's already 1004 hours.
**[12:27] Blade**
Oh, no! What do we do?!
**[12:29] Blade**
The agenda! The agenda!
**[12:32] Sophie**
We just need to begin mobilizing now.
**[12:35] Blade**
Ah, that's right!
**[12:39] Earnest**
W-Walking arm in arm? How indecent!
**[12:41] Yessica**
That's totally normal.
**[12:43] Yessica**
Calm down, Anna.
**[12:44] Earnest**
Anna?
**[12:45] Yessica**
It's a nickname, since we're friends.
**[12:48] Yessica**
Should I call you something else?
**[12:50] Earnest**
I'm fine with Anna!
**[12:53] Claire**
Ah!
**[12:55] Claire**
I lost sight of them.
**[12:57] Sophie**
Heave-ho.
**[13:10] Woman**
Look, look!
**[13:11] Man**
Oh, wow.
**[13:11] Woman**
They're eating it!
**[13:12] Sophie**
I want to try feeding them.
**[13:14] Blade**
Okay! Just you wait!
**[13:19] Blade**
Let's dump it in.
**[13:20] Blade**
There!
**[13:23] Claire**
Too much! There's too much!
**[13:26] Earnest**
What's with the date-like activities?!
**[13:29] Yessica**
They *are* on a date.
**[13:33] Claire**
There they go.
**[13:35] Sophie**
Heave-ho.
**[13:38] Sophie**
I just need to punch this?
**[13:39] Blade**
Okay, on the count of two.
**[13:41] Blade**
Are you ready?
**[13:42] Earnest**
I-I'll have you know...
**[13:44] Earnest**
I'm perfectly capable of this much!
**[13:46] Claire**
Th-That aside...
**[13:47] Claire**
W-We need to stop them!
**[13:48] Blade**
One, two!
**[13:52] Yessica**
Aw, man, they've done it now.
**[13:54] Claire**
We're so sorry! We're so sorry!
**[13:55] Earnest**
You can send the bill to Rosewood Academy...
**[13:57] Sophie**
Heave-ho.
**[13:58] Blade**
Our next mission is to finish this
Lovely Infinite Tropical Drink together!
**[14:04] Sophie**
I just need to drink this?
**[14:05] Blade**
Wait!
**[14:06] Blade**
It's only 1029 hours!
**[14:08] Blade**
We've still got one minute!
**[14:09] Sophie**
I'm thirsty.
**[14:11] Blade**
Well... that's fine, then.
**[14:15] Sophie**
It's hard to sip this.
**[14:17] Sophie**
Come a little closer.
**[14:18] Blade**
S-Sure.
**[14:22] Sophie**
What's wrong?
**[14:23] Blade**
Well, I'm not sure...
**[14:25] Blade**
But it feels...
**[14:27] Blade**
Feels...
**[14:28] Sophie**
I can't complete this mission by myself.
**[14:32] Sophie**
I need your help.
**[14:33] Blade**
I-I know.
**[14:35] Blade**
I know that!
**[14:37] Blade**
*Be still, my beating heart!*
**[14:42] Sophie**
Come a little closer.
**[14:43] Blade**
*My heart... My heart...*
**[14:45] Claire**
They haven't noticed us at all.
**[14:47] Yessica**
I think I've gotten sick of this.
**[14:49] Earnest**
How obscene! Dirty! Impure!
**[14:52] Earnest**
Filthy animals!
**[14:53] Earnest**
Their cheeks are touching!
**[14:54] Yessica**
Here, Anna.
**[14:55] Yessica**
You can have this.
**[14:57] Earnest**
Cheeks cheekily chafing...
**[15:00] Earnest**
So cool and sweet!
**[15:02] Earnest**
What is this yummy treat?!
**[15:04] Claire**
It's called a parfait.
**[15:05] Earnest**
Yum yum!
**[15:07] Yessica**
So are you done now?
**[15:09] Earnest**
With what?
**[15:10] Claire**
They've already left.
**[15:16] Sophie**
Heave-ho.
**[15:18] Sophie**
What's wrong?
**[15:19] Blade**
Well, it felt like we were being followed...
**[15:24] Blade**
Oh well.
**[15:25] Earnest**
Blade, you moron!
**[15:27] Blade**
Anyway, next on the agenda...
**[15:29] Blade**
Oh, no! Look at the time!
**[15:34] Sophie**
It's fine.
**[15:35] Sophie**
We can take a shortcut.
**[15:59] Sophie**
Is this our final target?
**[16:01] Blade**
I heard this is a legendary fountain.
**[16:05] Sophie**
I don't really understand.
**[16:06] Blade**
Me, neither.
**[16:11] Sophie**
I had fun today.
**[16:13] Blade**
Well...
**[16:17] Sophie**
Can I ask one thing?
**[16:20] Blade**
What is it?
**[16:23] Sophie**
Why are you going to all this trouble?
**[16:25] Blade**
Why, you ask...
**[16:28] Blade**
That's because...
**[16:29] Blade**
you're my friend.
**[16:35] Sophie**
You and I are friends?
**[16:38] Blade**
That's right!
**[16:39] Blade**
You bet we are!
**[16:41] Sophie**
I heard friends don't keep
secrets from each other.
**[16:48] Blade**
Well, I...
**[16:50] Sophie**
There's something I haven't told you.
**[16:54] Blade**
Huh?
**[16:56] Sophie**
If you and I are friends...
**[16:59] Sophie**
If you're willing to be my friend...
**[17:04] Sophie**
there's something I need to tell you.
**[17:07] Sophie**
I'm not an ordinary human.
**[17:11] Sophie**
An incomplete test subject,
created to be an artificial hero.
**[17:17] Sophie**
I was granted what are known as
Artificial Great Hero Powers.
**[17:23] Blade**
Artificial... Great Hero Powers?
**[17:26] Sophie**
Look.
**[17:33] Sophie**
Great Hero Powers can
alter the laws of physics.
**[17:37] Sophie**
However...
**[17:43] Sophie**
I have incomplete control of them.
**[17:48] Blade**
Gravity manipulation...
**[17:50] Sophie**
I magnified my body weight by 1,000
times... or that was my intent.
**[17:54] Sophie**
This is actually around 10,000 times.
**[17:56] Blade**
Sophie.
**[18:02] Sophie**
I can even stop time itself.
**[18:12] Sophie**
As I am now...
**[18:14] Sophie**
I can manifest Artificial Great
Hero Powers for just ten seconds.
**[18:19] Sophie**
Sophitia Femto.
**[18:22] Sophie**
The twelfth clone of a woman named Sophitia.
**[18:27] Sophie**
That is what I am.
**[18:28] Sophie**
The final model of the
Artificial Great Hero Project,
**[18:32] Sophie**
and its sole success, with caveats.
**[18:38] Blade**
In that case, I won't
keep any secrets, either.
**[18:41] Blade**
Please listen.
**[18:43] Sophie**
I'm listening.
**[18:45] Blade**
I'm...
**[18:47] Blade**
They call me...
**[18:50] Blade**
They call me... the Great Hero!
**[18:58] Blade**
No, they *used* to call me that.
**[19:01] Blade**
Those powers are gone now.
**[19:04] Sophie**
I see.
**[19:06] Blade**
Could it be that you realized?
**[19:08] Sophie**
No.
**[19:09] Sophie**
But something about you felt familiar.
**[19:14] Blade**
I'm really sorry.
**[19:17] Blade**
It's not something that an apology
and forgiveness can fix...
**[19:20] Blade**
Feel free to resent me.
**[19:23] Sophie**
Why would I do that?
**[19:25] Blade**
Because the reason you were born
with such accursed powers...
**[19:30] Sophie**
Accursed?
**[19:32] Blade**
That's right!
**[19:33] Blade**
This power is a curse!
**[19:35] Blade**
I never...
**[19:38] Blade**
The Great Hero wasn't
something I asked to be!
**[19:43] Blade**
But because they said I could save everyone,
**[19:47] Blade**
that's why there was no choice but to do it!
**[19:49] Blade**
With powers that manifested
at the age of three...
**[19:52] Blade**
Fighting monsters,
fighting them again and again...
**[19:56] Blade**
Lingering between life and
death countless times...
**[19:59] Blade**
And growing strong.
**[20:01] Blade**
Even so, not every single
person can be rescued.
**[20:05] Blade**
There are those who couldn't be saved!
**[20:07] Blade**
People get so angry when
you can't save someone!
**[20:10] Blade**
Why didn't you save them?
**[20:12] Blade**
Why?!
**[20:13] Blade**
Aren't you the Great Hero?!
**[20:17] Blade**
It's... It's...
**[20:25] Blade**
The Great Hero...
**[20:27] Blade**
What does it mean to be the Great Hero?
**[20:37] Sophie**
Blade.
**[20:40] Sophie**
Even if you didn't choose to be,
you were the Great Hero.
**[20:46] Sophie**
After being rescued by the king,
**[20:49] Sophie**
I left on a journey to find out who I was.
**[20:53] Sophie**
People saved by the Great Hero.
**[20:55] Sophie**
Entire towns.
**[20:57] Sophie**
I came across so many.
**[21:01] Sophie**
You should be proud of that.
**[21:04] Blade**
That's impossible.
**[21:06] Sophie**
I see.
**[21:08] Sophie**
It's fine if you can't.
**[21:10] Sophie**
However...
**[21:11] Sophie**
I take pride in the fact that I was
created to be an Artificial Great Hero.
**[21:17] Sophie**
What?
**[21:18] Sophie**
I want to become like you.
**[21:24] Blade**
That's... That's...
**[21:27] Blade**
No, I...
**[21:34] Blade**
won't let my past as the
Great Hero bother me!
**[21:38] Sophie**
Yes.
**[21:39] Sophie**
If that's what you decide, then that's fine.
**[21:46] Sophie**
Your identity as the Great Hero...
**[21:48] Sophie**
is the secret we share.
**[21:53] Blade**
Yeah, it's a promise.
**[21:56] Blade**
Just between the two of us.
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