E17 - The Congress Dances

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    More and more Laḫmu are surfacing!
[00:27] ---
    They're not responding to us.
[00:29] ---
    They must have dull senses
    right when they come out of the water.
[00:32] ---
    As time passes, they'll be
    like the ones we saw at Eridu.
[00:37] ---
    Those things aren't the new humanity.
    They're just soulless tools.
[00:41] ---
    In the name of the goddess, me,
    I'll destroy them all, yes!
[00:45] ---
    Yes.
[00:46] ---
    We need to stop this unending
    Demonic Beast factory fast!
[00:55] ---
    Abnormal Spirit Origin confirmed!
[01:02] ---
    So that's...
[01:05] ---
    Tiamat!
[02:45] ---
    Enemy confirmed! Is that really...
[02:48] ---
    She doesn't seem anything
    like the Mother of Demonic Beasts.
[02:53] ---
    No doubt about it.
    That is the Goddess of Creation, Tiamat.
[02:58] ---
    Are her limbs bound together?
[03:00] ---
    Yes. Now's our chance
    as Tiamat can't move freely!
[03:04] ---
    Now's the only time to defeat her!
[03:06] ---
    Yes!
[03:14] ---
    My body... I can't move!
[03:17] ---
    The Magical Energy inside Tiamat is surging!
[03:21] ---
    She's putting out as much energy
    as a hydrogen bomb!
[03:24] ---
    If she fires, Uruk will get blasted
    even from that distance!
[03:30] ---
    It's dangerous to get too close!
    I'm going to settle things in one shot!
[03:33] ---
    Fujimaru!
[03:35] ---
    I'm counting on your backup!
[03:37] ---
    Sure!
[03:43] ---
    I'll use a Command Spell!
[03:49] ---
    I trust you, Ishtar!
[03:55] ---
    Leave it to me!
[04:03] ---
    Gate Open!
[04:16] ---
    This is all of my power, all of my soul!
[04:40] ---
    Smash it down!
[04:41] ---
    An Gal Ta Ki Gal Šè!
[05:01] ---
    All right!
[05:02] ---
    Doctor!
[05:04] ---
    Confirming collapse of Tiamat's Spirit Origin!
    The Magical Reactor has also stopped!
[05:10] ---
    Then...
[05:12] ---
    You defeated her!
[05:14] ---
    W-We did it! We did it, Senpai!
[05:17] ---
    Yeah!
[05:21] ---
    Did she really disappear?
[05:23] ---
    Yeah!
[05:24] ---
    Now, just wait for the ocean
    to return to normal, retrieve the Grail,
[05:27] ---
    and mission accomplished!
[05:31] ---
    Senpai, are you all right?
[05:36] ---
    I'm tremendously tired.
[05:39] ---
    Are you all right physically?
[05:41] ---
    Thanks, Ishtar.
[05:43] ---
    I went full strength for the first time
    in a while, so we'll call it even!
[05:46] ---
    In the end, I couldn't be
    in the limelight at all!
[05:50] ---
    That's not true!
[05:52] ---
    Now,
[05:53] ---
    the Coffin is in good condition.
[05:55] ---
    We're ready at any time.
[05:59] ---
    Roger.
[06:00] ---
    Come on now. Your job continues
    until the two of them are back here safely, right?
[06:04] ---
    Yep.
[06:08] ---
    Romani...
[06:09] ---
    This is...
[06:24] ---
    Transformation into a mega-structure
    post-dispersion, increasing scale...
[06:30] ---
    Confirming
    reconstruction of Spirit Origin!
[06:32] ---
    Can it be that the Tiamat we observed
    was just its brain, and this is the main body?
[06:37] ---
    Water levels of the Persian Gulf
    are quickly rising!
[06:40] ---
    Romani!
[06:41] ---
    Everyone, retreat!
[07:30] ---
    Don't touch that!
[07:31] ---
    Go much higher!
[07:38] ---
    The ground...
[07:48] ---
    She's looking toward Uruk!
[07:50] ---
    This is such a...
[07:53] ---
    So, that's the real thing, huh?
[07:57] ---
    We should head back to Uruk for now
    and rejoin Gilgamesh.
[08:01] ---
    We have to do something!
[08:03] ---
    Calm down. That thing is absolutely
    impossible to win against.
[08:07] ---
    Quetzalcoatl...
[08:08] ---
    Yes?
[08:09] ---
    Even with your powers and Noble Phantasm
    as the highest deity in Mesoamerica,
[08:13] ---
    you can't win against Tiamat?
[08:21] ---
    Even with Ishtar's Authority...
[08:23] ---
    or with any other power
    currently left in Mesopotamia,
[08:27] ---
    we can't so much as scratch Tiamat.
[08:31] ---
    Not a scratch...
[08:34] ---
    Master...
[08:51] ---
    Let's go back!
[08:54] ---
    Current conditions?
[08:55] ---
    The black mud swallowed Lagash City
    and is flowing towards Umma and Uruk!
[09:00] ---
    They're like black flames flaring up!
[09:02] ---
    The walls of Umma City can't withstand it!
[09:05] ---
    Estimated time of arrival—
[09:06] ---
    I don't care!
[09:08] ---
    Raise the anchors!
[09:13] ---
    Deploy the Fang of Napishtim!
[09:39] ---
    I guess we're somehow
    managing to hold on.
[09:43] ---
    Now,
[09:45] ---
    the time has finally come.
[09:48] ---
    I've been awaiting this moment
    with bitter anticipation for six months.
[09:55] ---
    Tiamat, the Mother of All Beasts!
[10:00] ---
    What's beyond this mythical battle
    is something even I can't foresee!
[10:05] ---
    Will you swallow the world...
[10:07] ---
    or will humanity be worthy of flourishing?
[10:11] ---
    It's time to see that question answered!
[10:14] ---
    Let the final battle of the Age of Gods begin!
[10:22] ---
    King Gilgamesh!
[10:27] ---
    Good to see you return.
[10:33] ---
    Five hundred...
[10:35] ---
    That can't be.
[10:36] ---
    That is a mistake, right?
[10:39] ---
    The number of people left...
[10:41] ---
    is only 500?
[10:46] ---
    Indeed.
[10:47] ---
    Between the two Laḫmu attacks
    and the sea encroachment from Tiamat,
[10:52] ---
    the first dynasty of Uruk has fallen.
[10:56] ---
    Even if we make it through this predicament,
    the kingdom cannot be maintained.
[11:01] ---
    It would only go into decline.
[11:03] ---
    Uruk...
[11:05] ---
    Were we unable to protect this era?
[11:10] ---
    Do not despair.
[11:11] ---
    Even if we perish, there will be others
    who'll follow in our footsteps.
[11:17] ---
    Sumerian culture?
[11:19] ---
    If the symbols of Sumerian civilization,
    Uruk and this dummy, manage to survive,
[11:23] ---
    Mesopotamian civilization
    will be protected.
[11:27] ---
    In other words,
    if you want to protect human history,
[11:29] ---
    you must stop Tiamat and protect Uruk!
[11:33] ---
    Senpai!
[11:34] ---
    We can still do this!
[11:36] ---
    Yes!
[11:39] ---
    We'll stop Tiamat!
[11:42] ---
    Yes!
[11:45] ---
    Did you hear that, Chaldeans?
[11:47] ---
    Fujimaru's spirit has yet to be broken!
[11:50] ---
    Surely, you guys haven't given up
    on this yet, right?
[11:53] ---
    O-Of course not!
[11:56] ---
    Let's make him understand, Romani.
    Just how persistent of a guy you are...
[12:02] ---
    And just how much carnage
    we have gone through!
[12:05] ---
    Yeah!
[12:07] ---
    We'll send you Tiamat's data!
[12:11] ---
    Time for a fresh start!
[12:16] ---
    A mobile creature factory...
[12:18] ---
    She has enough Magical Energy
    to travel between stars.
[12:21] ---
    She has ample life origins
    stored inside her body.
[12:24] ---
    Humanity needs a few more centuries
    to reach this divine ark.
[12:31] ---
    This is Tiamat's true form.
[12:34] ---
    Damn you!
[12:36] ---
    Are you on Tiamat's side or something?
[12:37] ---
    There's nothing in here
    about her weaknesses!
[12:40] ---
    Believe me, I wanted to write
    at least one possible method of attack!
[12:43] ---
    But this is reality!
[12:45] ---
    She's just perfect, with no physical
    or mythical shortcomings!
[12:50] ---
    We're no match for her!
[12:52] ---
    I know this sounds absurd,
    but stay with me...
[12:54] ---
    It seems Tiamat wasn't born with the concept
    of death because she is the mother of life!
[13:00] ---
    The very fact that we're alive
    proves her existence.
[13:06] ---
    As long as life continues to exist on land,
[13:09] ---
    Tiamat will never die.
[13:12] ---
    That means we really can't beat her.
[13:14] ---
    Mash...
[13:16] ---
    To defeat Tiamat, all life on Earth
    would have to die out first!
[13:24] ---
    That means there's no point.
[13:30] ---
    Well, Jaguar Warrior?
[13:31] ---
    What's your take on Tiamat?
[13:37] ---
    She was huge!
[13:38] ---
    And paws-itively awesome.
[13:41] ---
    Nonsense! I'm not asking for your
    idiotic human impressions of her!
[13:45] ---
    Use your animal instincts
    to tell me something useful!
[13:47] ---
    Oh, you mean that!
[13:49] ---
    At her speed, it'll take her about two days
    to reach the coast, then get from there to Uruk!
[13:54] ---
    Two days...
[13:56] ---
    That is fast.
[13:58] ---
    All we can do is intercept her.
[14:01] ---
    However, even the Fang of Napishtim
    has crumbled quite a bit from the earlier attack.
[14:06] ---
    I have the repairs going,
    but it won't be enough to defeat her.
[14:11] ---
    Isn't there something else?
[14:13] ---
    Gilgamesh!
[14:18] ---
    What's going on up there on land?
[14:21] ---
    This voice!
[14:25] ---
    Tons and tons of souls
    are coming one after another!
[14:32] ---
    Thanks to that, the underworld
    is in a panic right now!
[14:35] ---
    I'd even take a dead man's help
    to take care of the souls—
[14:36] ---
    - This is...
    - Ereshkigal!
[14:40] ---
    Wait! Fujimaru?
[14:54] ---
    Ereshkigal, Goddess of the Underworld...
[14:58] ---
    is here in all of her splendor!
[15:01] ---
    Ereshkigal, you're being
    so formal all of a sudden!
[15:06] ---
    The fact that you used this mirror...
[15:08] ---
    Do you have business with me, King of Uruk?
[15:11] ---
    I did not use it. You started
    the communication on your own accord.
[15:15] ---
    Good to see you're doing well.
[15:18] ---
    Um, about those souls you just mentioned...
[15:21] ---
    The people of Uruk...
[15:24] ---
    Currently, Tiamat is heading for Uruk.
[15:28] ---
    If we don't defeat her,
    Mesopotamia will fall.
[15:30] ---
    Yes, it seems that way.
[15:32] ---
    However, Tiamat will not die
    as long as there's life on Earth.
[15:36] ---
    And that's where we are stuck.
[15:38] ---
    Unfortunately, I have no new ideas.
[15:41] ---
    Say that after at least giving it
    some thought.
[15:45] ---
    You know...
[15:49] ---
    As you can see, the underworld is in chaos,
    overflowing with souls.
[15:54] ---
    It's not supposed to be this crowded.
[15:58] ---
    It's so different from before.
[16:00] ---
    This is the exact opposite
    of how Uruk looks.
[16:03] ---
    Even then, the underworld
    is where the souls of the deceased rest.
[16:08] ---
    All these lights are not of the living.
[16:13] ---
    That's the underworld.
[16:15] ---
    Underworld...
[16:17] ---
    is the land of the dead.
[16:23] ---
    You had the same inspiration
    that I did. What an audacious one!
[16:26] ---
    All right!
[16:27] ---
    You may tell her!
[16:30] ---
    Ereshkigal!
[16:31] ---
    Y-Yes?
[16:33] ---
    I have a favor to ask you!
[16:35] ---
    Okay!
[16:36] ---
    I want to send Tiamat
    down to the underworld!
[16:42] ---
    Pardon?
[16:45] ---
    If death can't touch her
    in a world full of life,
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    then send her
    down to a world devoid of life!
[16:50] ---
    If Tiamat is the only living thing
    in the underworld...
[16:53] ---
    it means we can defeat her!
[16:54] ---
    Oh meow!
[16:56] ---
    I-It sounds really reckless!
[16:58] ---
    But maybe it can...
[17:01] ---
    I think it could work.
[17:03] ---
    Wait, did you say "Send"?
    You seriously said "Send her down!"
[17:06] ---
    Yeah!
[17:07] ---
    Here?
[17:08] ---
    Ereshkigal, Goddess of Kur!
[17:11] ---
    In the name of the king, I command you!
[17:14] ---
    Open the gate of the underworld
    across all of Uruk,
[17:17] ---
    and bind the Beast of Disaster that calls itself
    Tiamat down in the bowels of the earth!
[17:22] ---
    That is your role after wreaking havoc
    with the Three Goddess Alliance!
[17:26] ---
    Consider that to be your atonement!
[17:29] ---
    Wh-What's impossible is impossible,
    and that's impossible!
[17:32] ---
    Are you telling me to bring
    the underworld directly beneath Uruk?
[17:37] ---
    So,
[17:39] ---
    it's difficult after all.
[17:40] ---
    Ugh!
[17:41] ---
    I guess I have no choice!
[17:46] ---
    After all, if I don't,
    Mesopotamia will be wiped out, right?
[17:52] ---
    Yeah.
[17:53] ---
    That's why I want to ask this favor.
[17:55] ---
    But covering the entirety of Uruk
    with a hole of death...
[17:59] ---
    is not that simple a task to prepare for.
[18:01] ---
    How long will it take?
[18:03] ---
    Normally, it will probably
    take me at least ten years.
[18:07] ---
    Ten years! We don't have...
[18:11] ---
    "Normally"?
[18:13] ---
    Actually,
[18:15] ---
    since I hate Uruk, I might've been plotting
    something the whole time,
[18:19] ---
    so give me three days,
    and it'll be ready!
[18:23] ---
    Th-That's amazing, Ereshkigal!
[18:25] ---
    Y-You think so?
[18:27] ---
    Then, it was worth cursing every night!
[18:30] ---
    That's not something to be bashful about!
[18:34] ---
    Brilliant, Ereshkigal!
[18:36] ---
    But you and I need to chat a little more later!
[18:40] ---
    That means...
[18:41] ---
    the only issue is time now.
[18:43] ---
    Tiamat will arrive here in Uruk in two days.
[18:47] ---
    Ereshkigal needs three days
    to prepare the gate to the underworld.
[18:51] ---
    We need to hold Tiamat off at least for one day.
[18:54] ---
    But how?
[18:55] ---
    The Axe of Marduk is broken and useless.
[18:58] ---
    Why are you playing dumb like that?
[19:00] ---
    The strategy for victory is clearly in sight!
[19:03] ---
    And I'm saying, what is that strategy—
[19:07] ---
    It's you, Ishtar!
[19:11] ---
    Me?
[19:14] ---
    What a nice way of showing us
    the ace up your sleeve!
[19:18] ---
    Wait, hold up! Fujimaru!
[19:19] ---
    It's Gugalanna!
[19:23] ---
    Sumer's greatest Holy Beast
    who serves Ishtar,
[19:26] ---
    Gugalanna, the Bull of Heaven!
[19:28] ---
    Use it to stop Tiamat in her tracks!
[19:31] ---
    That's right!
[19:32] ---
    I've heard that Gugalanna has even made
    the Tigris River run dry!
[19:36] ---
    It will be a cinch!
[19:38] ---
    You're amazing, Ishtar!
[19:40] ---
    Wait! Um, Gugalanna actually
    isn't really that great, so to say!
[19:45] ---
    Gugalanna! Gugalanna!
[19:48] ---
    Gugalanna! Gugalanna! Gugalanna! Gugalanna!
[19:48] ---
    Ishtar! Ishtar! Ishtar! Ishtar! Ishtar!
[19:55] ---
    It wouldn't be of any use against Tiamat.
[20:02] ---
    Yep.
[20:08] ---
    Hey, what's the matter?
    You don't look well.
[20:11] ---
    Gulp!
[20:12] ---
    Normally we'd all have to listen
    to your irritating high-pitched laughter...
[20:15] ---
    while you brag about how great it is
    even though it's not even yours originally!
[20:19] ---
    I don't have it.
[20:22] ---
    Did you just...
[20:23] ---
    Right. I don't have Gugalanna.
[20:26] ---
    Gugalanna!
[20:35] ---
    I don't have it! I lost it!
[20:38] ---
    I lost it somewhere!
[20:40] ---
    Y-You lost...
[20:46] ---
    S-So, back then, you already had...
[20:50] ---
    I searched all through Mesopotamia,
[20:52] ---
    but I just can't find
    hide nor hair of Gugalanna!
[21:03] ---
    Y-You stupid, useless, bratty goddess!
[21:06] ---
    Why did we even bother
    recruiting you?
[21:13] ---
    I'll go...
[21:15] ---
    make some coffee.
[21:17] ---
    I AM THE WORST GODDESS
[21:27] ---
    Fine. Adjourned.
[21:30] ---
    This war council is taking a break!
[21:32] ---
    King Gilgamesh...
[21:34] ---
    Though there isn't much time until dawn.
[21:37] ---
    This will be our last chance to relax in Uruk.
[21:41] ---
    We're not going to sleep
    and just give up!
[21:49] ---
    We're going to get through tonight
    so we can survive tomorrow.
[22:06] ---
    The Congress Dances