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3 - Weaver of Light

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    Yo, hurry up and help.
[00:17] ---
    I'm going to have you pay for
    the inconvenience of having you
[00:20] ---
    show up in the middle of the
    night, as well as for your stay.
[00:23] ---
    Making money first thing in the morning?
[00:27] ---
    You still smell like the sewers.
[00:36] ---
    Get your ass over here, Soleil, you lowlife.
[00:40] ---
    The number you have called is...
[00:42] ---
    Our community safety division's
    evidence storage was raided.
[00:46] ---
    They took documents on fire dragons'
    and black dragons' heads.
[00:50] ---
    I see.
[00:51] ---
    Since the evidence is now missing,
    I'm reducing your reward.
[00:53] ---
    I spilled milk on my shirt this morning,
[00:55] ---
    and my daughter ran away
    from home and I broke a plate,
[00:57] ---
    so I'm charging you for that, too.
[01:00] ---
    What kind of bullshit is that?
[01:02] ---
    Sounds rough.
[01:04] ---
    I guess.
[01:05] ---
    That aside, do you know what this is?
[01:08] ---
    What's this?
[01:10] ---
    A shred of clothing from the witch
     we encountered last night.
[01:12] ---
    I've never seen such material.
[01:15] ---
    A specialist Jushikiist might know.
[01:19] ---
    Please.
[01:20] ---
    Make it quick if you can.
[01:21] ---
    Of course.
[01:22] ---
    I love actual Jushiki shop work.
[01:25] ---
    This is a nice gem.
[01:28] ---
    Of course. It was made by
    the great gem craftsman,
[01:32] ---
    Fleggun of late-age Damascus.
[01:35] ---
    Its computational ability is enhanced
    with specialized equations,
[01:37] ---
    and the various Jushiki-disabling abilities
    that result are great for the front line.
[01:42] ---
    I see.
[01:43] ---
    Yo, wait.
[01:44] ---
    You're supposed to check with the accountant
    first. That's the way the world works.
[01:50] ---
    We're perpetually broke.
[01:52] ---
    Why would we ever buy Jushiki
    gear that's worth an entire house?
[01:56] ---
    Mine was getting old.
[01:59] ---
    Was?
[02:00] ---
    I've already signed a
    monthly installment contract.
[02:03] ---
    Thank you.
SIGN    Weaver of Light
[03:49] ---
    Coming!
[03:51] ---
    You really do smell like the sewers.
[03:53] ---
    Better than perfume, isn't it?
[03:55] ---
    I wouldn't let such a cheater into my home.
[03:58] ---
    You actually jumped into a sewer?
[04:01] ---
    We had our reasons.
[04:03] ---
    All right, get undressed.
[04:04] ---
    The bath is ready.
[04:06] ---
    I'll take my pants off by myself.
[04:08] ---
    Oh, come on.
[04:11] ---
    Miss Jivvy...
[04:13] ---
    I really want to do you right now.
[04:15] ---
    Not happening.
[04:16] ---
    You have work this afternoon.
[04:18] ---
    It's fine.
[04:20] ---
    No.
[04:22] ---
    I understand your job is dangerous,
[04:26] ---
    so I can't let it get any more dangerous.
[04:30] ---
    Honestly, your work...
[04:33] ---
    Sorry I couldn't go to the Eridana
    Festival with you because of urgent work.
[04:37] ---
    It's okay.
[04:39] ---
    Never mind that, Gayus...
[04:41] ---
    You still smell like the sewers.
[04:48] ---
    We have an update on the
    Serial Jushikiist Murders.
[04:52] ---
    Today, on Wella Street in Eridana City,
[04:55] ---
    Jushiki engineer Lolorf Iscafendler
    was attacked with offensive Jushiki.
[05:00] ---
    The suspect is still on the loose.
[05:07] ---
    Gayus?
[05:08] ---
    Hey, Vinnel.
[05:09] ---
    What do you want to know today?
[05:11] ---
    Find out about a woman named
    Nidvork or something like that.
[05:16] ---
    Black hair, green eyes.
[05:18] ---
    A beautiful woman, either Alurian
    or from the eastern Seg region.
[05:21] ---
    She uses gravity Jushiki at an
    Enlightened or higher level.
[05:27] ---
    Her husband is named Eningiluud.
[05:30] ---
    That's plenty of information to...
[05:34] ---
    Hmm, she's not coming up.
[05:35] ---
    I tried looking her up, too,
    but there are no records.
[05:38] ---
    A lot of people, even in the Jushikiist Guild,
[05:41] ---
    don't publicize their personal information.
[05:44] ---
    We may have to hack into the guild or the
    government's data stores to find anything.
[05:49] ---
    That's why I'm asking you, information broker.
[05:52] ---
    All right. I'll give it a try.
[06:03] ---
    Hey.
[06:04] ---
    Oh, Gayus.
[06:06] ---
    Deep-fried pollock and
    deep-fried bread. Ten each.
[06:08] ---
    And some of today's specials.
[06:10] ---
    That's quite an order.
[06:13] ---
    It's all for Gigina.
[06:15] ---
    Front line Jushikiists eat like horses.
[06:19] ---
    Oh yeah, Arzel, you made
    a huge splash yesterday.
[06:22] ---
    You saw?
[06:24] ---
    From a distance.
[06:26] ---
    Look, they used my photos and article.
[06:30] ---
    Although it's under my boss's name.
[06:33] ---
    "Tienlun Accord Resistance Movement.
[06:36] ---
    Participants insist that dragons
    and humans can never reconcile."
[06:41] ---
    Read the whole thing.
[06:43] ---
    I wrote about how the pro-accord
    people believe it's the accord
[06:48] ---
    that keeps an all-out war from happening.
[06:51] ---
    Are you in favor of the Seven-City
    Alliance ratifying the Tienlun Accord?
[06:56] ---
    In principle.
[06:58] ---
    But I know how the critics feel, too.
[07:01] ---
    A lot of people have lost their families
    and loved ones to the dragons.
[07:06] ---
    That aside, do you know anything
    about the Serial Jushikiist Murders?
[07:11] ---
    Nope.
[07:12] ---
    You might be a target, too, you know.
[07:15] ---
    It's my time to shine, then.
[07:17] ---
    Ta-dah!
[07:18] ---
    It's time for today's exciting
    Horton Fortune Telling.
[07:21] ---
    It's time for you to end it. End it all.
[07:25] ---
    Bam!
[07:26] ---
    Watch out for cars, glasses!
[07:34] ---
    I just took some pictures by reflex,
[07:36] ---
    but this isn't going to
    make for a good article.
[07:46] ---
    You have no trouble riding bikes,
[07:50] ---
    but you're terrible with cars, Gigina.
[07:52] ---
    Bikes are like horses.
[07:54] ---
    But cars make no sense.
[07:56] ---
    They're the vehicle of demons.
[07:57] ---
    Hurry up and get used
    to civilization already.
[08:00] ---
    Let's get this over with.
[08:02] ---
    It's the last day of our
    pain-in-the-ass bodyguard duty.
[08:26] ---
    Thanks for coming so early in the morning.
[08:29] ---
    Or were we just late?
[08:31] ---
    To think that Your Eminence would be
    thirty minutes late for an arrangement...
[08:36] ---
    Have you not heard
[08:38] ---
    the Draken saying, "One cannot
    swing their blade without their head"?
[08:42] ---
    I'm stealing Gigina's line here,
    but it seems to be spot on.
[08:47] ---
    I'd like to imitate you, too, but I'm
    going to have to restrain myself,
[08:50] ---
    seeing as this dog shit has put on
    a great performance on the streets.
[08:55] ---
    That's some big talk for a Draken.
[08:57] ---
    You even have a picture diary.
[08:59] ---
    And I know you use "boku" for
    your first-person pronoun.
[09:02] ---
    You!
[09:03] ---
    How did you unlock the office cabinet?
[09:06] ---
    It's not hard to open with the technique
    that our old bounty taught us before.
[09:11] ---
    Well, I know that you said you choose
    your lewd image storage devices
[09:15] ---
    more carefully than you'd choose your wife.
[09:20] ---
    How did you hear that?!
[09:22] ---
    I was doing repairs inside the dresser
    when I heard you muttering to yourself.
[09:26] ---
    You furniture freak!
[09:28] ---
    Go get swallowed by a man-eating chair!
[09:31] ---
    I might want a chair like that.
[09:34] ---
    Jeez...
[09:36] ---
    This is some excellent
    early morning entertainment.
[09:39] ---
    Watching you two might even
     be more fun than sightseeing.
[09:44] ---
    Gayus Levina Soleil and Gigina
    Jardi Doruk Meleios Ashley-Bufh.
[09:49] ---
    We're just guards. I'm surprised
    you remembered our names.
[09:53] ---
    Remembering names is the least I can do
    for the people I become involved with.
[10:01] ---
    So, where does His Eminence
    the Cardinal wish to see today?
[10:07] ---
    Right, I've made plans to have tea with a
    guest from afar first thing today.
[10:12] ---
    I expect it'll be quite
    a stimulating tea party.
[10:33] ---
    Do you not believe in God?
[10:37] ---
    I can't really say,
[10:39] ---
    but seeing the state of the world,
    I don't want to believe He physically exists.
[10:45] ---
    I won't tell you that those are
    blasphemous words to utter
[10:49] ---
    in front of the guardian of the religion.
[10:54] ---
    Helodel's fiancée, Shifaka, died
[10:56] ---
    because of a silly dispute between the
    Dragon Empire and the Seven-City Alliance.
[11:00] ---
    If gods do exist,
[11:03] ---
    why do they allow people to be killed
    by wars, disease, or accidents?
[11:08] ---
    Why did my sister, Aleciel, have to die?
[11:12] ---
    Is it wrong to ask for the reason?
[11:17] ---
    Very well.
[11:19] ---
    God either does not exist or is merciless.
[11:25] ---
    But how could we live without deception?
[11:28] ---
    The dead do not come back to life.
[11:30] ---
    Miracles don't exist.
[11:33] ---
    Our world has no real purpose or meaning.
[11:36] ---
    That's why people have no
    option but to close their eyes
[11:40] ---
    and pretend in order to keep living.
[11:43] ---
    You ought to be careful about
    searching too hard for reasons.
[11:46] ---
    You, well... All Jushikiists are
    attempting to understand this world.
[11:51] ---
    But that is arrogance.
[11:54] ---
    We can't touch the world directly.
[11:57] ---
    What are you...
[12:00] ---
    That's my answer.
[12:03] ---
    You'll have to come up with your own.
[12:06] ---
    And pose a question.
[12:09] ---
    To face a question without an answer
[12:11] ---
    is the only way we humans can fight reality.
[12:16] ---
    And of the many paths a human can take,
[12:19] ---
    it is the most sincere and most venerable.
[12:23] ---
    Are we done with the word games?
[12:28] ---
    Appearances aside,
    you two get along quite well.
[12:32] ---
    The only reason I work with him
[12:35] ---
    is because if you ignore the fact that he's stupid,
    obsessed with fighting and furniture,
[12:38] ---
    and has no sense of personal
    financial responsibility,
[12:41] ---
    he's a good partner.
[12:43] ---
    You two are complementary.
[12:45] ---
    Your inability to accept
    things for what they are
[12:49] ---
    must be your limit.
[12:54] ---
    The guest has arrived.
[13:05] ---
    Your Eminence, I look forward
    to our meeting today.
[13:08] ---
    Likewise.
[13:09] ---
    Now, right this way.
[13:46] ---
    I really don't want to hear,
    but what's your idea of a good chair?
[13:51] ---
    What else?
[13:53] ---
    It has to ooze the quintessence
     of a chair. Noble, beautiful...
[13:58] ---
    Perhaps the pews here
    are of a good lineage.
[14:00] ---
    They're pious and have regal expressions.
[14:04] ---
    Anyway, Gayus, have you noticed?
[14:07] ---
    The guest is Representative Azu Bita
    of the Lapetodes Seven-City Alliance.
[14:12] ---
    I know.
[14:13] ---
    Representative Azu Bita is one of
[14:15] ---
    the right-hand men of the Seven-City
    Alliance House's Supreme Chairman Kai Kuyou,
[14:19] ---
    and the executive of the
    Democratic Liberal Party.
[14:21] ---
    Why didn't you speak up, if you knew?
[14:23] ---
    "Don't go near danger."
[14:25] ---
    "Pretend you didn't see anything."
[14:27] ---
    That was my dad's...
[14:30] ---
    Gigina!
[14:59] ---
    Those guys...
[15:08] ---
    Gigina!
[15:09] ---
    Yeah!
[15:34] ---
    Run!
[15:39] ---
    I'll take it from here.
[15:40] ---
    That'd be great.
[15:42] ---
    What just happened?
[15:43] ---
    We've got the opposite
    of allies on our hands!
[15:50] ---
    All the other guards are dead.
[15:52] ---
    Prepare for evacuation.
[15:54] ---
    How are we supposed to get out of here?
[15:56] ---
    It's insane that a church that deals with
    royalty doesn't have escape routes.
[16:02] ---
    We've taken care of a few assassins,
    but there must be more enemies.
[16:06] ---
    If Gigina and I can stop them, we will.
[16:08] ---
    If not, we can at least buy time.
[16:10] ---
    Our lives are expendable.
[16:14] ---
    But if you were to die,
[16:16] ---
    there would be a war between the
    Dragon Empire and the Seven-City Alliance.
[16:20] ---
    If that were to happen, we'd see
    that same tragedy happen again.
[16:23] ---
    I suspect you're right.
[16:25] ---
    And I'd like to show my respect to
    those who speak on their own lives
[16:28] ---
    more than to those who speak
    on the lives of others.
[16:33] ---
    There's something I want
    more than respect or medals.
[16:37] ---
    If I make it out of here alive,
     I would consider no reward too great.
[16:42] ---
    Then the truth, please.
[16:45] ---
    As much as you'd like.
[16:53] ---
    They're coming.
[16:59] ---
    Relish now the banquet of battle!
[17:05] ---
    The blades of two lives meet, sending sparks.
[17:09] ---
    Just for that moment,
    the world and I pulsate.
[17:14] ---
    Now, show me your lives and your limits!
[17:44] ---
    That about does it.
[17:59] ---
    I'm impressed that an assassin exists
[18:02] ---
    who can fight squarely
    against a Draken warrior.
[18:05] ---
    Leave me with your name before you die.
[18:08] ---
    I can't do that, but I can tell you that I'm
    just a ninja who takes care of the Kouga clan.
[18:17] ---
    What the hell is that?
[18:19] ---
    Third-order chemical alchemy Jushiki.
[18:22] ---
    Chilliat.
[18:24] ---
    She generates hundreds of millions of
    monomolecular needles, hurling them at her enemy.
[18:29] ---
    She can pierce through just about anything.
[18:31] ---
    I can see that.
[19:04] ---
    The Kouga always finish their mission!
[19:09] ---
    Gigina!
[19:42] ---
    Aleciel! Aleciel!
[20:18] ---
    If only I'd died, too...
[20:21] ---
    This is how it's supposed to be.
[20:26] ---
    Please, no!
[20:27] ---
    Please, no!
[20:47] ---
    Hello.
[20:50] ---
    H-Hello.
[20:53] ---
    Is this a hospital?
[20:56] ---
    Yes.
[20:57] ---
    This is Eridana Private Hospital.
[21:01] ---
    This is like a foreign language
    textbook conversation.
[21:11] ---
    Gayus came back to life!
[21:14] ---
    That hurts...
[21:15] ---
    Thank goodness.
[21:17] ---
    Thank goodness.
[21:39] ---
    It seems that such a powerful spell
    is difficult to endure, even for me.
[21:50] ---
    Am I mistaken, feline?
[22:01] ---
    You don't fear me, do you?
[22:08] ---
    My dear, I will avenge you with these hands.
[23:50] ---
    There are things far more terrifying
    than artful, ferocious malice.
[23:56] ---
    Nothing is more problematic than benevolence
    that is sincere to the point of foolishness.
[24:00] ---
    Nobody can stop a disaster
    caused by good will.
SIGN    Ballet of the Winged