# E3 - The Approaching Shadow
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**[00:00] Kids; unmarked AD**
Can I have that?
**[00:02] Gerhard**
We are proud aristocrats!
Why should we bother with such trifles?!
**[00:06] Dali**
Meals are as important here as our mission.
**[00:09] Dali**
A matter of life and death.
**[00:11] Henrique**
Yeah, that's a good point.
**[00:14] Gerhard**
The cooking should be left to the chefs!
**[00:17] Henrique**
Yeah, that's also a good point.
**[00:20] Dali**
It's always the same with you.
And I'm growing tired of hearing it.
**[00:24] Gerhard**
Be that as it may, I must insist!
**[00:28] Bear**
*Hey, hey.*
**[00:29] Bear**
*Don't you wanna play with the others?*
**[00:32] Theodore**
Why would I play with a bunch of children?
**[00:34] Bunny**
*You're just as much of a child!*
**[00:37] Theodore**
No, I'm not.
**[00:39] Mouse**
*You're a kid, all right.*
**[00:41] Mouse**
*Not much different than the rest of 'em.*
**[00:44] Kitty**
* It's so obvious that*
* you actually want to play.*
**[00:47] Theodore**
I'm nothing like them.
**[00:50] Theodore**
I need to grow up, and soon.
**[00:52] Stuffed Animals**
*You don't have to pretend with us!*
**[00:54] Stuffed Animals**
*We know everything about you!*
**[00:58] Theodore**
Shut up!
**[00:59] Bear**
*Why don't you ask your daddy?*
**[01:02] Theodore**
I could never do that.
**[01:04] Kitty**
*There you go, trying so hard.*
**[01:07] Mouse**
*What's wrong in being a little selfish?*
**[01:10] Theodore**
I said shut up! Leave me alone!
**[01:14] Dali**
Very well. I suppose it falls to yours
truly to show you how it's done.
**[01:18] Gerhard**
Excuse me?
**[01:21] Henrique**
You're so stubborn, Dali-boy.
**[01:27] Theodore**
I am not a child...
**[02:34] Sign**
Delico's Nursery
**[03:02] Sign**
The Approaching Shadow
**[03:07] Henrique**
Smells great!
**[03:09] Dali**
Doesn't it? All that's left is
to wait for it to simmer.
**[03:12] Gerhard**
I have an objection.
**[03:15] Dali**
Let's hear it, Sir Gerhard.
**[03:17] Gerhard**
What are we even doing here?
**[03:20] Dali**
I thought it was clear that
we're preparing a meal.
**[03:23] Gerhard**
Hence me asking why *we're* the ones doing it!
**[03:27] Dali**
Listen closely, Gerhard.
**[03:29] Dali**
This isn't any old cooking.
It's cooking for children.
**[03:33] Dali**
Fixing their food is part of raising them.
**[03:38] Gerhard**
Just look!
**[03:40] Gerhard**
Your chefs, deprived
of their jobs, are at a loss!
**[03:45] Dali**
They're still being paid.
I fail to see the problem.
**[03:50] Dali**
Wouldn't you agree, head chef?
**[03:54] Head Chef**
As you wish, sir!
**[03:55] Sous chefs**
Chef!
**[03:59] Gerhard**
It's like you have no grasp of
what it means to employ people.
**[04:04] Dali**
I must say, I surprise even myself.
**[04:08] Dali**
I've always believed that anything
was within my reach,
**[04:11] Dali**
but I never imagined I was a first-rate chef
on top of everything else.
**[04:17] Henrique**
I get the feeling you'd bounce back
even if you lost it all, Dali-boy.
**[04:20] Dino**
This isn't funny.
**[04:21] Dali**
Now, while the stew cooks, can you
all help me peel the blood cherries?
**[04:27] Henrique**
Sure thing.
**[04:29] Dino**
Sir Dali.
**[04:30] Dino**
Could we put a pause on this foolishness?
**[04:33] Dino**
Your plans adversely affecting
the mission would be unacceptable.
**[04:36] Dali**
We're currently playing defense.
**[04:38] Dali**
Officers are being stationed,
but for now, all we can do is wait.
**[04:44] Henrique**
"All is done in the TRUMP's name."
**[04:47] Henrique**
"That is Pendulum's way."
**[04:51] Henrique**
Weird for the perps to intentionally
reveal who they are...
**[04:54] Gerhard**
A warped turn of events.
**[04:56] Gerhard**
I can only imagine it's
their way of mocking us.
**[04:59] Henrique**
Feels like there's more to it than that.
**[05:02] Dali**
It's no more complicated than it seems.
**[05:04] Dali**
They want us to know they're
responsible for the killings.
**[05:09] Dino**
Making a statement, then.
**[05:11] Dino**
And not one directed at the public.
**[05:14] Henrique**
Their way of introducing themselves
to the Vlad Agency, you mean?
**[05:19] Dino**
The idea that the enemy
knows of our institution...
**[05:22] Henrique**
They might have a spy within
the Blood Pact Council.
**[05:26] Dali**
Pendulum is one of Vamp society's
preeminent criminal organizations.
**[05:31] Dali**
They gave Gerhard and I a rather hard
time back in our inquisitor days.
**[05:36] Dino**
An organization that worships
the god of vampires, the TRUE OF VAMP,
**[05:40] Dino**
whilst operating all manner
of criminal enterprises...
**[05:44] Dino**
If these killings are also their doing,
what's their actual objective?
**[05:50] Gerhard**
A Grand Guignol.
**[05:53] Gerhard**
The ritual for presenting TRUMP,
who is immortal and undying,
**[05:58] Gerhard**
with a display of death.
**[06:00] Dali**
All Vamps are said to be
mentally linked to TRUMP.
**[06:06] Dali**
The Grand Guignol was conceived as a way
to provide a deathlike experience
**[06:11] Dali**
to the undying TRUE OF VAMP.
**[06:14] Henrique**
They're providing death?
**[06:16] Dino**
Let me be blunt.
**[06:18] Dino**
There's clearly something of significance
between you and Pendulum.
**[06:22] Dali**
There is—considering I, Dali Delico,
was once the target of a Grand Guignol.
**[06:29] Gerhard**
Dali...
**[06:30] Dino**
For the duration of this case,
we all share the same fate.
**[06:34] Dino**
So let's hear it!
**[06:36] Dali**
I never intended to keep secrets.
**[06:39] Dali**
This was over a year ago...
**[06:42] Dali**
I had been hunting down a certain individual.
**[06:46] Dali**
His name was Barlach Bell.
Vamps enrolled at the Clan
**[06:49] Dali**
upon entering their cocoon phases
were disappearing one after the other.
**[06:54] Dali**
He was thought to be the one responsible.
**[06:57] Dino**
I'm familiar with the case.
**[06:58] Dino**
Young boys and girls in their cocoon
phases vanishing like that...
**[07:02] Dino**
An utterly disturbing affair.
**[07:05] Dali**
Barlach was imprisoning them to perform
all manner of cruel experiments.
**[07:10] Dali**
Experiments involving initiative.
**[07:21] Dali**
Vamps who bite a victim gain
absolute control over them.
**[07:26] Dali**
It was a deranged study meant
to explore the nature of Vamphood.
**[07:31] Dali**
The boys and girls who were placed
under initiative lost their free will,
**[07:35] Dali**
and then, under Pendulum,
**[07:38] Dali**
were subject to even more depraved
experiments before being cast aside.
**[07:46] Henrique**
Experiments on the living...
**[07:48] Dali**
Barlach was considered a suspect
of interest, so I was tracking him down.
**[07:53] Dali**
But he made his move before the
investigation could reach him.
**[07:58] (Flashback) Barlach**
And now, it's showtime!
**[08:01] Dali**
Barlach took his underlings
and all the cocoon phase Vamps
**[08:04] Dali**
he was controlling via initiative...
**[08:07] Dali**
and launched an assault on my estate.
**[08:19] (Flashback) Dali**
Find somewhere to hide.
**[08:44] Dali**
And then...
**[08:48] Dali**
One of them gained initiative over Frida.
**[08:53] Dali**
She was given the order...
**[08:57] Dali**
to kill those she loved.
**[09:05] Dali**
Which is why...
**[09:08] (Flashback) Dali**
Frida!
**[09:11] Dali**
She tried to kill me.
**[09:19] (Flashback) Dali**
Frida! Frida!
**[09:23] (Flashback) Gerhard**
Forgive me, Dali...
**[09:27] (Flashback) Gerhard**
But I cannot allow you to die!
**[09:31] Dino**
That explains everything.
**[09:33] Dino**
Sir Gerhard's concern for you
is out of a sense of guilt, then.
**[09:43] Dali**
What a funny thing to say!
**[09:46] Dali**
I'd rather you not underestimate Gerhard.
**[09:49] Henrique**
What do you mean?
**[09:50] Dali**
Gerhard is the noble master of House Fra.
**[09:55] Dali**
He'd never let personal feelings
affect his performance.
**[09:59] Dali**
And if it weren't for him, I'd be dead.
**[10:03] Dali**
To be frank, if I hadn't let
myself be cornered so,
**[10:07] Dali**
he wouldn't have been
forced to dirty his hands.
**[10:11] Dali**
I owe the man my life.
**[10:15] Gerhard**
I... don't care for the way you put that.
**[10:19] Dino**
I can't fathom any of this.
**[10:22] Henrique**
It's probably fine, right?
**[10:24] Dino**
Now, I assume this Barlach Bell,
**[10:27] Dino**
responsible for the attack on your residence,
was a member of Pendulum?
**[10:33] Dali**
Yes, that's right.
**[10:34] Henrique**
Any chance he's connected to this?
**[10:38] Dali**
Barlach died at the end of that case.
**[10:42] Dino**
Then...
**[10:44] Dali**
We know nothing about the scale
of Pendulum's operation.
**[10:48] Dali**
But if they are, in fact, a group of
religious zealots who worship TRUMP...
**[10:53] Dali**
then eliminating them becomes our mission.
**[10:56] Dino**
The worshipers of the primordial have
long been a font of trouble.
**[10:59] Dino**
We'll root them out if they begun to sprout.
**[11:01] Dino**
That's what the Vlad Agency was founded to do.
**[11:04] Henrique**
Still, I don't like having to wait
for the other side to make a move...
**[11:09] Henrique**
We could wind up with more victims
while we sit around, you know?
**[11:13] Gerhard**
Our duty is not to protect individual persons
**[11:17] Gerhard**
but to ensure the survival of our entire race.
**[11:21] Gerhard**
Sacrifices are—
**[11:22] Dali**
Well, I believe the stew should
nearly be done by now.
**[11:25] Dali**
I'm going to check on Ul.
**[11:28] Dali**
You men take it from here.
**[11:31] Gerhard**
W-Wait!
**[11:33] Henrique**
I think Dali-boy's big idea is to love
his boys on behalf of the wife he lost.
**[11:40] Dino**
Could you not spout such
revolting notions so casually?
**[11:44] Gerhard**
This is a curse...
**[11:49] Sign**
Delico's Nursery
**[11:57] Elena**
Over here, over here!
**[11:59] Lucia**
Wait!
**[12:01] Raphael**
Wait for me!
**[12:01] Ferdinand**
It's wonderful how lively they are.
**[12:03] Clara**
Careful now, or you'll fall.
**[12:07] Elena**
It's fine!
**[12:08] Lucia**
Don't worry!
**[12:10] Dali**
There, Ul, how's that?
**[12:12] Dali**
You're sure up high, aren't you?
**[12:16] Dali**
Hey, there's a smile!
**[12:18] Dali**
I can appreciate how bold
you are when crying,
**[12:21] Dali**
but you look simply invincible when smiling.
**[12:27] Unmarked kids Adlib (Elena?)**
They got the ball!
**[12:29] Dali**
Listen well, Ul.
**[12:31] Dali**
You'll enter your cocoon phase someday.
**[12:34] Dali**
All Vamps do once they're old enough.
**[12:37] Dali**
When it happens,
you'll go somewhere called the Clan.
**[12:41] Dali**
And while there, I'm sure you're going
to make irreplaceable comrades.
**[12:45] Dali**
You'll laugh with them, quarrel
with them, compete with them...
**[12:50] Dali**
And before long, you'll be all grown—
**[13:05] Clara**
Is something the matter, Master Raphael?
**[13:08] Raphael**
Look.
**[13:11] Dali**
Gracious...
**[13:12] Dali**
*This certainly isn't good...*
**[13:32] Clara**
Sir!
**[13:33] Raphael**
Father?
**[13:36] Raphael**
Father!
**[13:57] Dali**
Frida?
**[14:00] Frida**
Woke you, did I?
**[14:04] Frida**
What is it? You look like you've seen a ghost.
**[14:10] Dali**
I have. But I'm not scared.
**[14:14] Dali**
Because I've been wanting to see her again.
**[14:17] Frida**
I see.
**[14:19] Dali**
You don't need to worry.
We had a little hiccup, but...
**[14:24] Dali**
Dali Delico's child-rearing is flawless.
**[14:28] Frida**
You're really giving it your all, aren't you?
**[14:31] Dali**
Of course. Raphael and Ul...
**[14:35] Dali**
I'll make sure they grow up right.
**[14:38] Frida**
Even so, don't push yourself too hard.
**[14:41] Dali**
I haven't been.
**[14:43] Dali**
Child-rearing is no challenge
for someone like me.
**[14:50] Frida**
I entrusted the boys to you.
**[14:54] Frida**
I had no choice but to do so.
**[14:57] Frida**
And in return, you've been doing
more than I could've asked for.
**[15:04] Dali**
Frida...
**[15:06] Frida**
I'm sorry I can't be there with you.
**[15:09] Frida**
But, please, don't carry this burden alone.
**[15:15] Dali**
Frida?!
**[15:17] Clara**
I see you're awake.
**[15:21] Clara**
What a relief.
**[15:24] Dali**
How's Ul?
**[15:25] Clara**
You don't need to worry.
Not so much as a scratch on him.
**[15:30] Dali**
I see...
**[15:31] Clara**
Please, sir, do get some rest.
**[15:36] Dali**
Where are the children?
**[15:40] Gerhard**
Good, good.
**[15:44] Gerhard**
Good, good!
**[15:45] Elena**
Come on! Go faster!
**[15:48] Lucia (umarked AD)**
Yeah, faster!
**[15:49] Dali**
What is this?
**[15:50] Gerhard**
Sir Dali.
**[15:52] Gerhard**
Why're you standing there in a daze?
**[15:54] Henrique**
You're the one who told us to balance
the mission with the kids, right?
**[15:59] Dino**
And as reluctant as I may be,
**[16:01] Dino**
we have been doing exactly that.
**[16:04] Gerhard**
You're the leader of this team, are you not?
**[16:07] Gerhard**
It's only natural that we carry out
the agenda you've set for us.
**[16:11] Dino**
The mission does take priority, however.
**[16:14] Henrique**
We're gonna figure out who's behind
these serial murders, right?
**[16:18] Angelico**
What's a serial murder?
**[16:20] Raphael**
Did someone murder cereal?
**[16:22] Elena**
Is it something fun?
**[16:25] Henrique**
I don't know if I'd call it that,
but it's important to our job.
**[16:29] Henrique**
And once it's taken care of,
I'll play with you a bunch.
**[16:32] Lucia**
Yay!
**[16:34] Elena**
Take care of it fast, then!
**[16:35] Angelico**
It's no fair if only Lucia
and Elena get to play!
**[16:39] Raphael**
I...
**[16:40] Dali**
You'll play too, won't you, Gerhard?
**[16:44] Dali**
Entertaining children is
part of raising them.
**[16:46] Dali**
Which makes it part of this task.
**[16:50] Gerhard**
Very well! In the name of House Fra,
I will play to my utmost!
**[16:55] Angelico**
You mean it, Father?
**[16:57] Angelico**
You really will?
**[17:00] Gerhard**
An aristocrat keeps his word.
**[17:04] Elena**
Good for you, Angelico!
**[17:06] Lucia**
Let's all play together!
**[17:08] Angelico**
Yeah!
**[17:10] Angelico**
You'll join us too, right, Raphael?
**[17:12] Rapahel**
S-Sure.
**[17:13] Elena**
We're gonna play, gonna play!
**[17:20] Mouse**
*You should go with them.*
**[17:23] Bear**
*You wanna play too, don't you?*
**[17:25] Theodore**
I've had enough of you. Just go away.
**[17:28] Bunny**
*My goodness, he's being so stubborn!*
**[17:30] Kitty**
*Even though there's no point in hiding it.*
**[17:32] Mouse**
*That's right, that's right!*
**[17:34] Bear**
*You don't have to pretend!*
**[17:36] Head Chef**
Excuse me, sir...
**[17:39] Dali**
Oh, what is it?
**[17:41] Head Chef**
I heard you'd awoken.
**[17:43] Dali**
I have, as you can see. And I'm doing fine.
**[17:48] Head Chef**
Sir!
**[17:50] Clara**
Trying to tough it out again, I see.
**[17:52] Dali**
Well... sorry.
**[17:54] Head Chef**
Lately, you really seem
to be pushing yourself.
**[17:59] Head Chef**
You need to maintain your health for both
your work and child-rearing.
**[18:03] Dali**
Indeed.
**[18:04] Head Chef**
Which is why, sir...
**[18:06] Head Chef**
We've prepared you a meal.
**[18:11] Dali**
What is this?
**[18:13] Head Chef**
A soup made from duck blood.
**[18:17] Head Chef**
Since you're not at full strength, I thought
something to go down easy would be best.
**[18:22] Dali**
Quite.
**[18:45] Dali**
I've always believed there was nothing
I, Dali Delico, was incapable of.
**[18:51] Dali**
As a matter of fact,
**[18:53] Dali**
I'm sure I could achieve some measure
of fame and fortune in the culinary world
**[18:58] Dali**
if I so chose.
**[19:00] Dali**
That said...
**[19:02] Dali**
I have no idea if I could
craft a dish quite so sublime.
**[19:05] Dali**
I can see how you gentlemen have
found yourselves as the Delico house chefs.
**[19:12] Head Chef**
S-Sir!
**[19:15] Dali**
I have an order for my head chef.
**[19:19] Dali**
From now on... would you please
handle the children's meals too?
**[19:23] Dali**
At the end of the day,
I can't compete against a pro.
**[19:26] Sous chefs**
Chef!
**[19:29] Head Chef**
O-Of course, sir!
**[19:32] Head Chef**
Come on, we've got preparations to make!
**[19:35] Sous Chefs**
Right!
**[19:37] Head Chef**
Step lively now!
**[19:40] Clara**
You, compromising? What a rare sight.
**[19:46] Dali**
I had a dream.
**[19:48] Clara**
A dream?
**[19:49] Dali**
Yes. One with a ghost.
**[19:52] Dali**
I fear that if I worry her too much,
she may come to haunt me.
**[19:56] Clara**
I see. Then this ghost must care
for you deeply, sir.
**[20:04] Dali**
I suppose she must.
**[20:11] Johannes**
From the sound of things,
**[20:13] Johannes**
balancing the mission with children
is proving quite a challenge.
**[20:16] Morris**
This is no laughing matter, sir.
**[20:18] Morris**
Not only does the case remain unsolved,
but we have no leads.
**[20:23] Morris**
Lord Johannes, do you still intend
to leave the matter to Dali Delico?
**[20:29] Johannes**
And who would you suggest as
an alternative, Sir Morris?
**[20:34] Morris**
Still, at this rate...
**[20:37] Johannes**
Dali is simply waiting.
**[20:39] Johannes**
For the case to take a new turn
where the culprits will expose themselves.
**[20:43] Morris**
But if these people manage
to affect the TRUE OF VAMP...
**[20:48] Johannes**
I know.
**[20:50] Johannes**
We must prevent a collapse,
no matter what casualties it may cost.
**[21:02] Morris**
There's no turning back now.
**[21:17] Catalina**
Do you suppose they've
received our message by now?
**[21:20] Kiki**
They're not idiots, so they better have.
**[21:25] Juras**
The Police of the Blood are on high alert.
It's going to get harder to get around.
**[21:29] Keith**
Once they do realize what we're after,
they'll have to make a move.
**[21:35] Catalina**
Then I say it's time we proceed
to the next phase of the plan.
**[21:40] Keith**
God is out there, somewhere,
in this world. And soon...
**[21:44] Keith**
We're going to destroy you!
**[23:24] Sign**
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