289 - Mavis and Zeref

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    Everyone...
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    Fairy Heart has always been
    our guild's most confidential secret,
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    because it holds something that
    the world must never learn of.
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    However, it's also important
    you know why Zeref wants it...
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    ...and about my own sin.
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    The time has come to reveal everything.
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    This is a tale of a cursed boy
    and a cursed girl...
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    ...and a tale of the primordial
    magic they sought.
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    No matter how far, far away we are
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    you just need to keep on believing
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    So, please, stop crying, look up...
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    ...and let's move forward together
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    Why do you look down
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    and stare at the tears you've shed?
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    Even if today is a bust
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    we can always walk forward with faith in tomorrow
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    Having someone who can reach out to me
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    and someone I can laugh with
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    gives me a new strength
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    that can change the world as we know it
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    No matter how far, far away we are
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    you just need to keep on believing
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    everything is for you for you
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    The morning sun has driven the night away
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    I won't be afraid or hesitate anymore
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    I'm going to turn my dream into reality
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    So, please, stop crying, look up...
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    ...and let's move forward together
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    Over a hundred years ago,
    a little before Fairy Tail was founded...
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    In a forest west of Magnolia...
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    The two of us happened to cross paths.
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    He suffered from the curse of Ankhselam...
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    ...a curse that would take the lives
    of others against his will.
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    I found him mesmerizing, however.
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    He taught me all kinds of magic.
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    At the time, Magnolia was
    ruled by a dark guild.
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    So I, along with my comrades,
    learned magic to free the city.
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    And then, amid the fighting,
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    I cast an unperfected black magic spell
    that brought us victory.
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    But it came at a price: the spell
    caused my body to stop growing.
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    In the fourth month of 686,
    we founded Fairy Tail.
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    Trade disputes between
    feudal lords were intense
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    and sparked the Second
    Trade War later that year.
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    "Mavis and Zeref"
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    Please have the left wing pull back.
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    I-Is this little girl crazy?!
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    The enemy's formation has fallen apart there!
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    Now is the time to attack!
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    I dunno if you're a wizard or what,
    but mind your own business!
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    If I were the enemy,
    I would set an ambush near this hill.
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    I would lure in the opposition,
    then loose that squad upon them.
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    I would also send reinforcements to the west
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    to assail our main forces here.
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    Forty-nine effective
    countermeasures come to mind,
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    but first, we must pull the left wing back.
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    They'll integrate with the central squad,
    assume an echelon formation,
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    and wait to see what the enemy does.
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    There goes the little princess again.
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    She's too menacing to be a princess.
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    Talk about impressive
    analytical skills, though.
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    Everyone.
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    This is Yuri Dreyar,
    Makarov's future father.
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    Precht Gaebolg.
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    He would later become
    Fairy Tail's second master
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    and then eventually Grimoire Heart's master.
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    This is Warrod Sequen.
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    He would later become the fourth
    highest ranked Wizard Saint.
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    So when does our wizard
    squad get some action?
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    I need you to hold back
    the enemy's wizard squads.
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    There's an 85% chance they'll
    get reinforcements from the west.
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    Be careful!
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    All right! Let's tear it up!
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    Let's do it, men!
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    I believe in you!
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    Is that Fairy Tail's munchkin master?
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    An actual fairy...?
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    Thunder?
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    --What the...?!
    --Enemy wizards!
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    From what guild?!
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    Fairy Tail.
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    --Whoa...
    --This is what magic can do?!
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    All right! That's 27 down!
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    Gotta do better than that. I'm at 34!
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    Well, I'm at 100!
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    Just kidding.
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    They actually won,
    despite being heavily outnumbered...
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    She's a... fairy tactician.
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    --We won!
    --Look at all this gold!
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    Bring all the wine!
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    Cheers!
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    What's the matter, Mavis?
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    How many do you suppose lost
    their lives during today's battle?
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    How long do you think this war will continue?
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    I want to go on an adventure already.
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    The Second Trade War ended in 690.
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    There were ten times as many casualties
    as the First Trade War.
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    People blamed it on the wizard guilds'
    involvement in the fighting.
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    This compelled the wizarding world
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    to sign the Inter-Guild Conflict Ban Treaty...
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    ...thus ushering in a brief period of peace.
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    Six years later, in 696...
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    ...I had another chance
    encounter with him.
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    Mavis!
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    You're that black wizard!
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    Yay!
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    W-Wait! You remember
    about my curse, right?!
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    Of course!
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    Then--!
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    We managed to win back then,
    all thanks to you.
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    It's thanks to you I was
    able to save my friends.
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    Zeref?! The black wizard Zeref?!
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    You?!
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    That's why I didn't want
    to tell you my name.
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    You're the wizard who's
    been alive for 300 years?
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    Mm, I suppose it's been about that long.
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    You're nothing like what the rumors say!
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    Are they bad rumors?
    If so, they're probably mostly right.
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    That can't possibly be true!
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    You have very gentle eyes.
    I refuse to believe the rumors.
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    You're just too innocent, is all.
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    Say, do you remember Yuri?
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    He's going to be a father soon.
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    That boy is?
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    Well, it has been ten years and all.
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    I see you haven't changed at all since then.
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    Oh, my body...
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    Yes. You're right.
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    It's because I used an unperfected
    black magic spell back then.
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    I don't regret it, though.
    I did it to save my friends.
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    You used Law?!
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    What's going on?!
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    Umm...
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    Zeref?
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    It's not that you've stopped growing.
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    You're just like me.
    You've lost the ability to age or die!
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    Huh?
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    You judged who should live and die then!
    You made that choice!
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    It's the curse of Ankhselam.
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    The more you value someone's life,
    the more life you'll take--
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    That's not true!
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    N-No one dies when I'm around...
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    Maybe that's the case for now.
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    Oh, right. There was that war
    a little while back.
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    War dulls a person's morals concerning life.
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    As a result, your thoughts
    on life are still in flux.
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    That's not true! I'm...!
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    You don't know the value of life,
    in the true sense of the word.
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    But the moment you do discover it,
    those around you will die.
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    Why are you saying such terrible things?
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    Because it's the truth.
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    I... think that you're...
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    Now do you see that the rumors
    about me are true?
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    It seems you have it in you after all.
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    What it takes to walk with me on this path...
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    I...!
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    I do know it!
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    I know the value of my friends' lives!
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    --Yuri! You're a father!
    --Oh!
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    I do know it!
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    In 696...
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    Yuri's son, Makarov, was born.
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    Oh!
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    It's a boy!
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    You did great, Rita!
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    Wow!
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    He's so cute!
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    She didn't have to have
    the baby in the guildhall.
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    Yeah, but Rita insisted on it.
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    I want my child to grow up... to be loved...
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    ...by everyone in the guild...
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    Of course he will!
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    Master...
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    Could we ask you to name him for us?
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    M-Me?!
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    Please, Mavis!
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    How about the name "Pippoko?"
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    I doubt any of us could choose
    a halfway decent name.
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    Makarov!
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    It's the name of a kindhearted
    king in a book I once read.
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    Makarov...
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    That's... a nice name...
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    --Makarov!
    --I still prefer "Pippoko."
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    Makarov!
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    As of today, you are Makarov!
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    We need to work hard... for his future...
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    Yes!
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    Let's all...
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    ...hold hands... and...
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    Rita?
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    Rita! Hey! What's wrong?!
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    Having the baby took too much out of her!
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    You don't know the value of life,
    in the true sense of the word.
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    But the moment you do discover it...
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    Stay with me, Rita!
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    Rita!
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    ...those around you will die.
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    Mavis!
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    No...
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    Stop...!
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    The Curse of Contradiction.
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    The more you love others,
    the more lives around you it takes.
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    If you love no one, it won't kill anyone.
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    It withers trees, kills animals,
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    and even takes people's lives.
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    I never visited
    the guildhall again after that.
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    I wandered aimlessly...
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    ...and took countless lives as I did so.
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    A year passed.
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    I've been looking for you, Mavis.
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    Zeref...
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    You look terrible.
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    I haven't eaten in half a year...
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    But... I'm unable to die...
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    That's the curse of Ankhselam.
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    Even if you cut off your head,
    you still wouldn't die.
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    Please...
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    I beg you...
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    Kill me.
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    I can't. Just as you can't kill me.
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    I felt the same way at first, too.
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    No, I still think about how nice
    it would be to die.
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    But try looking at things
    in a slightly different way.
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    We also have limitless time at our disposal.
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    I've created beasts I call "Etherious."
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    Yes...
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    My hope was that their inhuman
    strength could kill me.
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    But it hasn't worked yet, of course.
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    Now I'm building a country.
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    A country?
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    On a different continent.
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    I get people to do things
    so I can grow my territory.
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    It's surprisingly fun.
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    I'm the emperor there.
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    I view the people as nothing
    but units or pawns.
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    That way, the curse of Ankhselam
    won't affect them.
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    It's almost like a simulation game.
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    For what purpose?
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    To prepare for war, I suppose.
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    Don't misunderstand me.
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    I don't like conflict.
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    In fact, I find it revolting.
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    My empire building is nothing more
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    than a sickening territorial expansion.
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    It's not fun at all.
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    But you just said it was surprisingly fun...
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    Oh? I did?
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    Even his thoughts are becoming contradictory?
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    That's what I live my life for...
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    I live to die.
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    I want to see my little brother...
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    No, I want to destroy him...
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    No... I want to be destroyed...
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    Huh? My head hurts for some reason...
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    Zeref...
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    The world... It continually rejects me...
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    The world--
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    I don't reject you. I accept you.
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    I'm the only other one
    who understands how you feel.
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    Don't give up.
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    I'm sure we'll find a way to lift the curse.
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    Let's look for it. Together.
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    Together...
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    Yes!
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    Mavis...
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    This is the first time anyone's
    ever been so nice to me...
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    No.
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    You've just forgotten. I'm sure of it.
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    And I've never felt such fond
    feelings for anyone...
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    The Abyss of Sorcery...
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    The beginning of everything.
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    It is made from the primordial
    essence of magic: love.
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    Love brings about miracles...
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    ...and sometimes tragedies.
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    The love of the two who carried
    the Curse of Contradiction
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    resulted in one final contradiction.
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    The curse that takes more lives
    the more you love...
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    ...took my immortal life as well.
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    Until you fall asleep, until you give that smile
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    You are beautiful to me more than anything
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    Under the same sky,
    we look up at the same stars
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    May the dream we shared come true now
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    There's no doubt we can achieve
    the future we wished for
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    as our harmonies connect
    and stretch endlessly along this path
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    The "miracle" that Mavis and Zeref created
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    evolves into a powerful form
    of magic that must remain secret.
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    The guild members try to cheer up
    Mavis, who regrets her sin,
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    with warm words of encouragement.
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    Meanwhile, as cruel fate would have it,
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    the Alvarez Empire steadily prepares
    for its advance on Ishgar.
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    Next Episode: "Fairy Heart."
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    "Fairy Heart"
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    The fairies will rise up to protect
    their friends' place in the world.