# E9 - Secret Cartado Festival!
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GRJ0455XY/secret-cartado-festival)
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**[00:01] Mei**
Big news, big news!
**[00:04] Mei**
Big news!
**[00:06] Mei**
I managed to get into the Cartado Festival!
**[00:09] All three**
Huh?
**[00:10] Mei**
Once a year, the Tarkas,
the only manufacturers
**[00:13] Mei**
of Cartado in the world,
host a Cartado Festival!
**[00:16] Mei**
It's a private festival that
outsiders can't participate in,
**[00:18] Mei**
so it's a secret festival that
most only ever read about!
**[00:22] Mei**
And I...
**[00:23] Mei**
got invited...
**[00:24] Mei**
to attend!
**[00:32] Yusha**
Uh, and who's that?
**[00:34] Mei**
This is Dodo-san,
**[00:36] Mei**
the Tarka I met and bonded with
at my usual Cartado shop.
**[00:40] Mei**
He's allowing me to participate!
**[00:44] All three**
So cute!
**[00:46] Fai**
Sit here!
**[00:48] Seira**
Would you like some snacks?
**[00:49] Yusha**
Have some tea!
**[00:50] All three**
So cute!
**[00:55] Seira**
I'm Seira. Nice to meet you!
**[00:55] Mei**
Um, so about the Cartado Festival...
**[00:57] Yusha**
I'm Yusha!
**[00:58] Fai**
I'm Fai!
**[01:00] Yusha**
Are the snacks good?
**[01:02] Mei**
You've all wasted no time in making friends.
**[01:06] Seira**
Do you like the snacks?
**[01:06] Mei**
Yet it took me months to do that...
**[01:07] Fai**
Those snacks taste good!
***SIGN*** Endro!
***SIGN*** Roll 9
Secret Cartado Festival!
**[02:55] Mei**
"This way, path to village." I see.
**[02:59] Mei**
So this cave leads to Tarka Village, then.
**[03:03] Mei**
Well, that means this is as
far as you girls can come.
**[03:06] All**
What?!
**[03:09] Mei**
Don't "What?!" me!
**[03:10] Mei**
There are lots of evil merchants
**[03:12] Mei**
who'd love to know how to get to
Tarka Village, where Cartado originate.
**[03:16] Mei**
It's not a place outsiders can just waltz into.
**[03:19] Mei**
It was a miracle that I received
permission from Dodo-san,
**[03:22] Mei**
so I'm going to the Tarka Village
I've longed to see
**[03:24] Mei**
and attending that Cartado Festival!
**[03:28] Fai**
He says, "You girls can come, too!"
**[03:31] Mei**
Fai-san! Don't say such ridiculous things
just because you want to come.
**[03:36] Mei**
"You all, come, village, welcome."
**[03:40] Mei**
Wait, you're right.
**[03:41] Mei**
How did you understand him?!
**[03:43] Fai**
I just kind of did.
**[03:44] Fai**
Wild instincts, maybe?
**[03:46] Seira**
So does that mean it's okay
for us to go to the village?
**[03:49] Yusha**
Yay!
**[03:51] Yusha**
Yay!
**[03:58] Mei**
It is okay to be taking this so lightly?
**[04:09] Fai**
Looks like this is a dead end.
**[04:17] Yusha**
Wow, a huge hole!
**[04:19] Seira**
Huh? What's going on?
**[04:23] Fai**
Sounds like he's telling us to jump down.
**[04:26] Mei**
She's right.
**[04:27] Seira**
Huh?!
**[04:28] Seira**
N-No way, no way, no way, no way!
**[04:32] Yusha**
He really went.
**[04:35] Yusha**
All right, here I go!
**[04:37] Fai**
Me, too!
**[04:38] Seira**
Huh?!
**[04:38] Mei**
This is for the Cartado Festival!
**[04:43] Seira**
Fine!
**[04:49] Seira**
H-How were they able to
jump without hesitation?!
**[04:52] Seira**
Am I just fussing too much?!
**[04:54] Mei**
Yusha-san and Fai-san are just special.
**[04:57] Seira**
But you're not panicking, either!
**[05:00] Mei**
I'm panicking quite a bit.
**[05:02] Seira**
It doesn't seem that way at all.
**[05:04] Mei**
I'm the type who'd drown in a river
without anyone ever noticing.
**[05:07] Seira**
That's a scary thing to just let slip!
**[05:12] Seira**
What's that?
**[05:14] Mei**
Probably a gate or something
that leads to the village.
**[05:18] Yusha**
Then we'll be in the village
once we pass through!
**[05:21] Fai**
Yahoo! We're there!
**[05:34] Seira**
I wish it could've dropped us
out a little more gently.
**[05:41] Mei**
Those are...
**[05:51] Yusha**
What odd trees.
**[05:53] Fai**
It looks like they're bearing
paper instead of fruit.
**[05:56] Mei**
They are!
**[05:57] Mei**
Those are the Cartado trees I've
always, always wanted to see,
**[06:02] Mei**
ever since I read about them!
**[06:03] All three**
What?!
**[06:08] Yusha**
I didn't know Cartado grew on trees.
**[06:11] Seira**
I always thought some powerful mage
**[06:13] Seira**
was using some kind of special magic circle
**[06:16] Seira**
to raise his power and imbue
the spells into cards.
**[06:20] Fai**
Me, too!
**[06:23] Mei**
Yes! That's part of what
makes Cartado so deep!
**[06:26] Mei**
Cartado aren't manufactured
items created by man.
**[06:30] Mei**
They're a product of nature
grown from the land itself!
**[06:32] Yusha**
Wow.
**[06:33] Yusha**
There are all kinds of Cartado
growing from a single tree.
**[06:37] Mei**
That's another part of their mystery!
**[06:39] Mei**
From what I've researched,
**[06:41] Mei**
the stronger theory is
that the earth of this land
**[06:44] Mei**
produces Cartado more so than the trees.
**[06:47] Fai**
Wow, that's strange.
**[06:51] Fai**
Are those Tarka children?
**[06:54] Yusha**
Wow! They're wearing such cute outfits!
**[07:03] Mei**
What are they saying?
**[07:05] Fai**
Uh, they said they're wearing that attire
because today's the festival day.
**[07:10] Mei**
I see.
**[07:11] Seira**
You've just accepted Fai's intuition, huh?
**[07:14] Mei**
When I thought about it,
**[07:15] Mei**
it's easier having an interpreter
than translating from a book.
**[07:24] Mei**
Hey!
**[07:26] Mei**
Cartado are precious!
**[07:28] Mei**
You have to handle them with care!
**[07:31] Mei**
My goodness.
**[07:35] Fai**
He said it's no big deal,
since they grow every year.
**[07:39] Fai**
He also said you all can have
some as well, if you want.
**[07:42] Mei**
Huh?!
**[07:43] Mei**
Seriously?!
**[07:45] Mei**
I'll take this one!
**[07:46] Mei**
This one! And that one! They're mine!
**[07:51] Fai**
Calm down, Mei-chan!
**[07:51] Mei**
I'll take all of the Cartado here!
**[07:52] Yusha**
Calm down!
**[07:54] Seira**
You'll break your staff!
**[07:57] Mei**
I lost myself in this paradise.
**[08:10] Mei**
So this is Tarka Village.
**[08:12] Mei**
I'm finally setting foot in the forbidden
village that keeps outsiders out!
**[08:17] Mei**
Everyone, make sure you're
not rude to the villagers.
**[08:25] Mei**
They're welcoming us?
**[08:27] Yusha**
They're really friendly!
**[08:32] Fai**
He said everyone's really happy,
since they rarely get any visitors.
**[08:36] Seira**
They're nice people.
**[08:38] Mei**
This is even more reason to make sure
others don't find out about it!
**[08:41] Yusha**
We'd better keep the way here a secret!
**[08:44] Mei**
But frankly, I do want to brag about this a bit.
**[08:49] Seira**
Hey, now. Keep your fanaticism in check.
**[08:52] Mei**
I know!
**[08:54] Mei**
My lips are sealed!
**[09:00] Fai**
He says, "Let's get you changed
into the festival attire!"
**[09:04] Yusha**
Oh! We get to wear that, too?!
**[09:07] Mei**
I want to wear it!
**[09:09] Mei**
H-Huh?
**[09:11] Mei**
It won't go up any higher.
**[09:17] Fai**
It's catching at my chest.
**[09:19] Yusha**
Hup!
**[09:26] Yusha**
Yes! I got it on!
**[09:34] Seira**
Uh...
**[09:40] Fai**
He says they have larger ones!
**[09:43] Yusha**
I got it on! It's so cute!
**[09:47] Fai**
It fits perfectly! It's so easy to move in!
**[09:51] Mei**
I was worried there for a moment.
**[09:56] Seira**
The first one fit me just fine.
**[10:04] Fai**
He says this is the main area for the festival.
**[10:08] Fai**
He says the festival's about to start.
**[10:12] Mei**
It's finally time!
**[10:14] Mei**
I'm actually present at this huge event
**[10:17] Mei**
that Cartado fans worldwide would
drool over: the Cartado Festival.
**[10:21] Mei**
The only harvest festival that celebrates
and honors a crop of Cartado!
**[10:32] Fai**
He says they're going to sing
the Cartado Festival song.
**[10:35] Mei**
Huh?
**[10:36] Both**
Song?
**[10:47] Fai**
He telling us to sing along.
**[10:49] Seira**
Huh? But we don't know the words.
**[10:52] Mei**
I guess it doesn't matter
if we don't know them.
**[10:57] Fai**
Yeah!
**[10:58] Yusha**
Then let's just sing something!
**[11:40] Fai**
He says that they're now going to compete
to determine this year's Cartado King.
**[11:45] Seira**
Cartado King?
**[11:47] Mei**
I've read about this before.
**[11:49] Mei**
It's the main event of the festival.
**[11:51] Mei**
Every year they compete to collect
**[11:53] Mei**
Cartado from the wild Cartado
trees growing around the village,
**[11:56] Mei**
and not the cultivated ones,
**[11:58] Mei**
and whoever manages to harvest
the most wonderful Cartado
**[12:02] Mei**
becomes that year's Cartado King...
**[12:05] Mei**
the star of the festival!
**[12:08] Yusha**
Really? That sounds fun!
**[12:10] Seira**
You do like that sort of thing.
**[12:14] Fai**
He says anyone can participate.
**[12:16] Yusha**
All right! Let's do it!
**[12:18] Mei**
Of course!
**[12:21] Fai**
"Ready," he says.
**[12:25] Fai**
"Start," he says.
**[12:27] Mei**
I got that!
**[12:31] Yusha**
All right, let's do our best!
**[12:33] Seira**
If we're doing this, let's aim to be King!
**[12:35] Fai**
Of course!
**[12:37] Mei**
Let's do it!
**[12:53] Yusha**
There's one!
**[12:57] Yusha**
Huh?
**[12:58] Fai**
He says you can't become King
with the ones found around here.
**[13:02] Fai**
You need to find rarer ones.
**[13:04] Mei**
I see. I read about this before.
**[13:07] Mei**
The rarer a Cartado is,
the more difficult it is to harvest.
**[13:10] Mei**
And even in the wild,
they grow only on trees in difficult places.
**[13:14] Seira**
I guess everything's been written in books.
**[13:17] Mei**
That's right!
**[13:18] Mei**
Generations of Cartado fans have
**[13:20] Mei**
continued their unyielding
pursuit to record it all!
**[13:25] Fai**
He says to go this way.
**[13:31] Seira**
Are you saying we have to climb this?
**[13:34] Fai**
He says so.
**[13:36] Seira**
Of course...
**[13:46] Fai**
I'm great at this stuff! Yahoo!
**[13:49] Yusha**
That looks fun!
**[13:53] Seira**
Those two really are full of energy,
aren't they, Mei?
**[13:58] Seira**
Mei?
**[13:59] Mei**
Seira-san!
**[14:00] Mei**
My heart's dancing so hard
at this opportunity
**[14:03] Mei**
to experience harvesting
rare Cartado in the wild!
**[14:07] Mei**
Also, if I manage to become Cartado King
at the legendary Cartado Festival,
**[14:11] Mei**
I'll be able to brag for life among fans!
**[14:15] Seira**
I guess so.
**[14:17] Seira**
Uh, the Cartado tree is...
**[14:21] Seira**
Oh, there!
**[14:22] Mei**
No!
**[14:23] Mei**
That's not a rare one!
**[14:25] Seira**
Huh? You can tell from this far away?
**[14:27] Mei**
Of course!
**[14:29] Mei**
I can tell Cartado apart even from so
far away that they look like specks!
**[14:33] Mei**
By the way, that's a "Toad Voice."
**[14:36] Seira**
Y-You can even tell that much?
**[14:38] Seira**
By the way, what kind of spell is that?
**[14:40] Mei**
One that makes your voice
sound like a frog's.
**[14:42] Seira**
What would you even use that for?
**[14:45] Yusha**
Oh, I found one!
**[14:47] Yusha**
Is that rare?
**[14:51] Mei**
Yusha-san! That's a legendary rare Cartado!
**[14:55] Yusha**
Huh? Really?!
**[14:57] Yusha**
All right! Here I go!
**[15:02] Fai**
Leave it to me!
**[15:07] Fai**
I got it!
**[15:12] All**
Fai-chan!
**[15:12] All**
Fai-san!
**[15:18] Fai**
That was close.
**[15:24] Mei**
They're taking it!
**[15:25] Seira**
Too bad.
**[15:26] Fai**
Not yet! Dodo!
**[15:45] Seira**
I guess this makes that person Cartado King.
**[15:49] Yusha**
Really?
**[15:50] Seira**
I mean, it was a legendary rare, right?
**[15:52] Seira**
You aren't going to find two or three of them.
**[15:55] Fai**
But it looks like Mei-chan
hasn't given up yet.
**[15:59] Mei**
That's a common. That's a common, too.
**[16:03] Mei**
That's... an ordinary rare.
**[16:06] Seira**
Mei, are you looking for legendary rares?
**[16:08] Yusha**
Oh! Maybe we can find a mythic rare
like the one Rona-chan has!
**[16:13] Mei**
Impossible.
**[16:14] Mei**
There are only a few mythic
rares in the entire world.
**[16:17] Mei**
They're all said to be given from God
**[16:20] Mei**
and passed down for
generations since long ago.
**[16:24] Mei**
There's no written record of any
being found growing on trees.
**[16:28] Mei**
But there's still a chance that
we might find a legendary rare.
**[16:32] Mei**
Besides, even if I don't become Cartado King,
**[16:36] Mei**
I'm getting to participate in the
Cartado Festival I dreamed of!
**[16:39] Mei**
I'm going to keep at it until time's up
**[16:41] Mei**
and enjoy this moment I dreamed of,
for as long as possible!
**[16:46] Yusha**
Mei-chan...
**[16:48] Seira**
Mei...
**[16:49] Yusha**
Then I'll help you now, Mei-chan!
**[16:52] Seira**
Yeah.
**[16:53] Seira**
I've never seen Mei this passionate before.
**[16:55] Fai**
What should we do? Ask away!
**[17:00] Fai**
Dodo says he'll help, too!
**[17:03] Mei**
Everyone...
**[17:04] Mei**
Thank you!
**[17:32] Mei**
Let's call it quits.
**[17:35] Fai**
Huh?
**[17:37] Yusha**
You're giving up?
**[17:38] Mei**
I'm searching for something
we're not likely to find anyway.
**[17:42] Mei**
And the sun's about to set,
so we're getting close to the end.
**[17:46] Mei**
Thank you all for coming along with me today.
**[17:53] Mei**
That's...
**[17:57] Fai**
Mei-chan?
**[18:03] Fai**
Oh! It's a Cartado!
**[18:05] Mei**
It is.
**[18:07] Mei**
It must have gotten buried
in a landslide or something.
**[18:10] Mei**
But this is...
**[18:16] Mei**
Th-This is...
**[18:17] Seira**
Huh?!
**[18:19] Yusha**
It's a huge Cartado!
**[18:23] Mei**
I wonder if it's a mutation.
**[18:25] Seira**
How are you so calm with such
a rare Cartado before you?!
**[18:30] Seira**
You might be able to become
King with this one!
**[18:34] Mei**
It's rare, all right,
**[18:36] Mei**
but this is just a one-star common.
**[18:40] Yusha**
Still!
**[18:41] Yusha**
We should try entering with it,
since we found it!
**[18:44] Fai**
It'll stand out, at least!
**[18:48] Mei**
Well, in that case...
**[18:58] Mei**
Huh? What?
**[19:06] Fai**
He says he sees legendary rares
about once every few years,
**[19:09] Fai**
but he's never seen a Cartado this big!
**[19:12] Fai**
It's wonderful!
**[19:14] Seira**
We did it!
**[19:15] Yusha**
Mei-chan, you're Cartado King!
**[19:21] Mei**
I-I'm Cartado King?
**[19:31] Yusha**
What kind of bonus do you get
for becoming Cartado King?
**[19:35] Fai**
He says that's it.
**[19:36] Seira**
Huh? We worked so hard just for that?
**[19:40] Fai**
Well, who cares?
**[19:42] Fai**
Mei-chan seems happy.
**[19:43] Yusha**
Uh-huh!
**[19:45] Seira**
I suppose.
**[19:53] Fai**
He says it's time for the festival's finale.
**[19:56] Yusha**
Are those Cartado?
**[19:57] Mei**
They're the wild Cartado
everyone picked today.
**[20:01] Mei**
They do that to offer them up to the gods.
**[20:06] Seira**
I see. It is a harvest festival, after all.
**[20:09] Mei**
I can't wait to see what the finale is!
**[20:18] Mei**
Huh?!
**[20:20] Yusha**
They lit them on fire?!
**[20:22] Fai**
Wh-What's going on, Dodo?!
**[20:28] Fai**
Uh, he says they do this
to offer all the Cartado
**[20:31] Fai**
everyone's gathered to the heavens as
a prayer for a good harvest next year.
**[20:37] Seira**
Huh?! Even that legendary rare Cartado?!
**[20:40] Seira**
What a waste!
**[20:41] Yusha**
Mei-chan's jumbo Cartado
is going to burn up, too!
**[20:44] Fai**
Can we take that one back, at least?!
**[20:49] Mei**
No!
**[20:51] Mei**
As a Cartado fan,
I have respect for the Cartado,
**[20:55] Mei**
and thus I must respect the Cartado Festival
and Tarka Village, where they're produced!
**[21:00] Mei**
If this is part of this village's culture,
**[21:02] Mei**
we have no right to stop them!
**[21:06] Yusha**
Mei-chan...
**[21:09] Yusha**
Yeah, you're right!
**[21:10] Yusha**
That's our Mei-chan!
**[21:42] Mei**
*Ah... It's so beautiful.*
**[21:45] Mei**
*I'm really glad I got to come here.*
**[21:49] Mei**
*The world of Cartado is truly deep.*
**[21:59] Mei**
*But still,*
**[22:02] Mei**
*it's such a waste.*
***SIGN*** Snowy Mountain Dream!
**[23:36] Seira**
"Snowy Mountain Dream!"