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25 - Like a Blood Edict

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    The boundless universe reaches from
    the distant past into the future.
[00:21] ---
    God and the Devil
    continuously battle one another,
[00:22] ---
    with the universe as their stage.
[00:25] ---
    People's hearts are
    yet another universe.
[00:28] ---
    Yes, our two selves, who love
    each other, and injure each other,
[00:33] ---
    are indeed God and the Devil.
[00:36] ---
    And the place where God
    and the Devil do battle
[00:40] ---
    is indeed within our own hearts.
[00:55] ---
    I may have a habit of running away
    as soon as anything bad occurs,

[01:02] ---
    but no matter what happens,
    I'm not going to run away now.

[01:09] ---
    I may have a habit of bursting into tears,
    even though I understand it in my mind,

[01:16] ---
    but since I am aiming higher,
    I'm not going to cry now.

[01:23] ---
    I'm tired of hearing that
    things will turn out all right.

[01:25] ---
    Don't bury your head in your hands.
[01:27] ---
    Instead give your positive gauge a clip!
[01:28] ---
    In time it will all feel
    just like it should!

[01:32] ---
    Deeply, deeply, it's becoming
    etched in my mind

[01:38] ---
    that someday, this will all be real.
[01:45] ---
    Both the unchanging mornings
    and the never-ending nights.

[01:52] ---
    I'm off and running for tomorrow's sake.
[02:15] ---
    What is it?
[02:17] ---
    Excellency, your hair...
[02:24] ---
    What's going on here?!
[02:25] ---
    Vetti-sama, you collapsed
    on the way back here,
[02:28] ---
    and have not woken up
    for two whole days.
[02:32] ---
    I see.
[02:34] ---
    Your condition is quite serious.
[02:37] ---
    It is hard for me to say this,
[02:40] ---
    but the next time you have
    a seizure, you will probably...
[02:44] ---
    Then I don't have a moment to spare.
[02:49] ---
    Dear!
[02:52] ---
    Look, look at this!
    My, what beautiful hair you have!
[02:59] ---
    Oh, yes, your adorable
    little Ralph-kun
[03:02] ---
    said he was going on
    a journey to find himself.
[03:06] ---
    So it was you. What have
    you done to Ralph?!
[03:10] ---
    I have done nothing.
[03:12] ---
    Never mind that, why don't
    we go on a trip as well?
[03:16] ---
    I'm tired of looking at you. Get lost!
[03:19] ---
    No! Are you not the one who
    said that we would become one,
[03:24] ---
    unite the galaxy,
    and save its lost people?
[03:28] ---
    But you are not the god of love.
[03:31] ---
    And my true purpose in uniting
    the galaxy is to prolong my life.
[03:37] ---
    To prolong your life?
    That is all?
[03:41] ---
    You and the masses are no
    more than tools to that end.
[03:47] ---
    I, the pope of the Cross-Star
    religion's daughter...
[03:53] ---
    ...am just a tool?
[03:58] ---
    You're behind schedule,
    aren't you?
[04:01] ---
    This is the royal family's
[04:02] ---
    secret glass manufacturing process,
    which never left their premises.
[04:05] ---
    You expect it to be that simple?
[04:07] ---
    More importantly, there's
    no end to the number
[04:09] ---
    of territories going over
    to the People's Army.
[04:11] ---
    Are you sure we're all right?
[04:12] ---
    Of course.
[04:14] ---
    Thanks to them, we have pinpointed
    the location of Bardeaux territory.
[04:18] ---
    Then, it is almost time.
[04:21] ---
    Excellency, what has
    happened to your hair?
[04:25] ---
    Do not worry. All warships are to
    mobilize for Bardeaux territory.
[04:29] ---
    Yes, sir.
[04:30] ---
    But my reborn Invincible
    Armada is not ready yet.
[04:34] ---
    Have it ready in time.
[04:36] ---
    If we don't use it now,
    when will we ever use it?
[04:51] ---
    You really do have
    the devil's own luck, Eimer.
[04:54] ---
    I mean, you get wounded as badly
    as this, and yet you still survive.
[04:57] ---
    You didn't need to call it
    "the devil's luck."
[05:05] ---
    Oh, no! My glasses, my glasses!
[05:07] ---
    Where are my glasses?
    My glasses...
[05:14] ---
    Eimer, did something happen
    between you and Cleo?
[05:19] ---
    Not especially.
[05:21] ---
    That day... I saw...
[05:24] ---
    Cleo and Michel coming back
    from that cabin together.
[05:28] ---
    By any chance, are those two...
[05:30] ---
    Shut up!
[05:31] ---
    Never mind about me,
    go help Cleo!
[05:35] ---
    He's the one who
    needs you right now!
[05:42] ---
    You can take off all of
    those embellishments.
[05:45] ---
    We're going to lighten our tonnage,
    and fight them with speed!
[06:24] ---
    Warships that had moved
    to the frontier lands
[06:26] ---
    in order to escape Vetti's rule,
[06:29] ---
    as well as some of
    the territorial ships
[06:30] ---
    that were forcibly
    annexed by Côte-d'Or,
[06:33] ---
    have come over to our side.
[06:35] ---
    Even so, the military power
    is still about 70-30.
[06:39] ---
    What do you think, wind boy?
[06:43] ---
    I won't say that it'll be plenty,
    but still, well done.
[06:50] ---
    Bad news! The Holy Emperor's forces
    are headed this way with a large fleet!
[06:56] ---
    We knew they would
    find us sooner or later.
[07:01] ---
    It's almost time.
[07:03] ---
    We still haven't had
    enough preparation.
[07:05] ---
    Shouldn't we avoid fighting yet?
[07:08] ---
    No, this gives us
    the perfect opportunity.
[07:11] ---
    We can use these meteors
    against them if we fight here.
[07:14] ---
    If we're going to take them on,
[07:16] ---
    it's now or never.
[07:21] ---
    Rachel? Rachel?
[07:24] ---
    Are you listening to me, Rachel?
[07:27] ---
    As I anticipated, Vetti has dropped
    his guard after imprisoning me.
[07:33] ---
    In the interim, my men have
    been moving things forward,
[07:35] ---
    and Côte-d'Or's functions have
    fallen into our possession.
[07:39] ---
    Now, I can finally accomplish
    my true objective.
[07:45] ---
    I will make it look like we are
    trying to reach the Black Cross,
[07:48] ---
    and then escape to another galaxy.
[07:51] ---
    I thought we were going to obtain
    the everlasting galaxy, weren't we?
[07:55] ---
    Even if we were to reach the Black Cross,
    we would just be destroyed.
[07:58] ---
    Instead, we can make
    Côte-d'Or our own utopia.
[08:03] ---
    Here, in Côte-d'Or, where the avaricious
    nobility have assembled themselves.
[08:09] ---
    It will make for a fitting
    golden utopia, don't you think?
[08:13] ---
    That little one wants to go outside.
[08:17] ---
    Rachel, what is the matter with you?
[08:20] ---
    If anything were to happen to me,
    you would become the pope.
[08:24] ---
    Me? The pope?
[08:27] ---
    That's right.
[08:28] ---
    And all of the people will bow
    down before you, Pope Rachel.
[08:34] ---
    How marvelous!
    It's flying! I will fly, too!
[08:41] ---
    Rachel... are you...
[08:50] ---
    You should still be lying down.
[08:51] ---
    Shut up. Who's going
    to pilot us if I don't?
[08:56] ---
    Heizak is there, and if it
    comes to that, so is Sylua.
[08:59] ---
    You think I'm going to let
    that little girl take over?!
[09:03] ---
    Come on, back to bed.
[09:05] ---
    Leave me alone!
[09:05] ---
    I can't leave you alone!
[09:08] ---
    I- I can't very well just
    leave you alone, you know.
[09:11] ---
    We're pals, who have been fighting
    together a long time, aren't we?
[09:14] ---
    Pals?
[09:15] ---
    Huh? W- well, you know, Eimer,
    you're important to all of us...
[09:21] ---
    Then take me to the bridge!
[09:24] ---
    I'm not about to go dying
    all by myself in bed!
[09:27] ---
    Don't say anything like that!
    Don't say you're going to die!
[09:30] ---
    Besides, you're... you're...
    not alone, you know...
[09:38] ---
    Nowy...
[09:43] ---
    It's almost time, huh?
[09:46] ---
    Will we still even be alive
    after this battle is over?
[09:51] ---
    O- of cour-
[09:53] ---
    If we are still alive, there are lots
    of things that I would like to do.
[09:58] ---
    I'd like to travel to
    all sorts of places...
[10:00] ---
    meet lots of different people...
[10:03] ---
    fall in love... get married...
[10:10] ---
    Heizak-san...
[10:13] ---
    Would you please continue
    to watch over me?
[10:25] ---
    Admiral...
[10:27] ---
    It looks like this is going
    to be my last battle.
[10:30] ---
    After that, let's share a drink
    together again in Heaven.
[10:40] ---
    Cleo?
[10:47] ---
    Cleo...
[10:49] ---
    Are you all right?
[10:50] ---
    Yeah. Looks like I fell
    asleep before I'd realized it.
[10:57] ---
    Are you sure your body is all right?
[10:59] ---
    Incessant woman!
[11:03] ---
    You are... the person
    most dear to me.
[11:11] ---
    I will engrave those
    words upon my heart.
[11:17] ---
    Michel-sama, it is time.
[11:22] ---
    Go on.
[11:24] ---
    Promise me one thing.
[11:26] ---
    Once this battle is over,
    you won't go anywhere.
[11:31] ---
    Who knows? The wind is impulsive.
[11:36] ---
    Then I will become the wind as well.
[11:47] ---
    Cleo-sama...
[11:50] ---
    Please take good
    care of Michel-sama.
[11:54] ---
    You are the only one who is capable
    of returning her to being Racine-sama.
[12:05] ---
    My beloved friends,
    zero hour is upon us!
[12:09] ---
    For a long time, I have gone
    on appealing to your spirits!
[12:14] ---
    And those feelings have not
    changed the least bit now!
[12:17] ---
    --However, we are made to stand
    before an even greater crossroads!
[12:19] ---
    --Now, how about we get underway?
[12:22] ---
    --Right now, the galaxy is
    signaling its final days!
[12:26] ---
    Even having reached this situation,
[12:27] ---
    Vetti sees only the wasteland
    of his own heart!
[12:31] ---
    He does not love this galaxy!
[12:33] ---
    But we are different!
[12:35] ---
    We love the galaxy,
    as well as the future!
[12:38] ---
    For that reason, we will be victorious,
    and with these hands,
[12:42] ---
    we will take hold of
    our peace and freedom!
[12:51] ---
    Enemy fleet approaching!
[12:53] ---
    But there's something
    unusual about them...
[13:04] ---
    That's...
[13:06] ---
    That's, as it were...
[13:09] ---
    ...a glass fleet!
[13:19] ---
    Brave heroes of the
    Holy Emperor's forces,
[13:22] ---
    now is the time when we
    stamp out those outlaws
[13:26] ---
    who put on the mask
    of freedom and peace!
[13:29] ---
    They say that their righteous
    cause justifies even making war.
[13:35] ---
    However, I say to you that
    a righteous war makes any cause holy!
[13:42] ---
    It is not to peace that
    I lead you, but to victory!
[13:48] ---
    Let us obtain the victory
    that will grant us our peace!
[14:01] ---
    Sure enough, they're using
    the meteor swarm as a shield.
[14:05] ---
    But our glass armor
    will not be broken.
[14:08] ---
    Don't let up! Flush them
    out of their den!
[14:23] ---
    That is indeed the royal
    family's secret glass armor.
[14:27] ---
    So they studied Cleo's ship when
    they took it from him, did they?
[14:31] ---
    Deploy!
[14:33] ---
    Draw them into our center,
    and pound them at point-blank range!
[14:42] ---
    The royal family's secret glass...
[14:44] ---
    ...is only handed down
    through the royal family!
[14:55] ---
    T- the royal family's
    secret is revealed?
[14:58] ---
    That armor is the real deal!
    What do we do?!
[15:03] ---
    The fools only know the one trick.
[15:05] ---
    Go! Shoot down that ghost of
    the royal family for good this time!
[15:10] ---
    Your wind has started
    to blow, hasn't it?
[15:13] ---
    You are now the only thing
    that stokes my flames.
[15:19] ---
    Excellency...
[15:31] ---
    I- insolence! This is His
    Imperial Excellency seated here!
[15:38] ---
    Your... Excellency...
[15:42] ---
    That was inattentive of me.
[15:44] ---
    To think that your devilish hands
    could reach even my own men...
[15:49] ---
    "We have been deceiving
    each other."
[15:51] ---
    You are the one who said that,
    Your Excellency.
[15:54] ---
    No, you are no longer
    "Your Excellency."
[15:57] ---
    I will have you executed
    as a capital sinner,
[16:00] ---
    who has corrupted the people.
[16:03] ---
    Is that the same pretext you
    used to get rid of King Corvalle?
[16:08] ---
    In the Cross-Star religion,
[16:10] ---
    even one who kills others
    can become the pope, then?
[16:13] ---
    It was all the will of the Black Cross!
[16:16] ---
    I am able to see the inky
    blackness of your lust.
[16:21] ---
    What?
[16:22] ---
    You have no intention of
    reaching the Black Cross.
[16:26] ---
    You are planning to use
    Côte-d'Or as a foundation...
[16:28] ---
    ...to create your own utopia, and
    satisfy your craving to rule, aren't you?
[16:33] ---
    Oh, shut up, shut up!
    I'm going to have you pilloried!
[16:37] ---
    Take him away!
[16:39] ---
    Côte-d'Or is breaking away
    from the battle front!
[16:41] ---
    What is going on?
[16:43] ---
    About that, there has been no
    response from Côte-d'Or for some time.
[16:48] ---
    It can't be that something has
    happened to His Excellency...
[16:51] ---
    Ready His Excellency's vessel!
[16:52] ---
    What? Côte-d'Or?
    Is this part of their strategy?
[17:04] ---
    Swing us around!
[17:06] ---
    Swinging around!
[17:13] ---
    In between their armor. Smash them,
    right down to their souls.
[17:16] ---
    Heartbreaker!!
[17:43] ---
    The Black Cross is
    getting farther away!
[17:46] ---
    What is going on here?!
[17:48] ---
    Aren't we going to reach
    the Black Cross?!
[17:55] ---
    Pope...
[17:57] ---
    This course is moving us farther
    away from the Black Cross.
[18:01] ---
    We will now be heading toward
    the end of the galaxy
[18:04] ---
    most distant from the Black Cross.
[18:07] ---
    Then we will not obtain
    the everlasting galaxy.
[18:10] ---
    Do you not realize that we
    already have obtained it?
[18:15] ---
    The Holy Emperor's forces
    and the People's Army
[18:18] ---
    will expend themselves
    in this battle,
[18:20] ---
    and when it is over,
    the only ones who will
[18:22] ---
    have any power will be
    the Cross-Star religion.
[18:23] ---
    And Côte-d'Or here will
    become our utopia.
[18:29] ---
    Then sure enough, what His
    Excellency said is true, isn't it?
[18:34] ---
    W- what do you think you're doing?
    You would turn against me?!
[18:38] ---
    All who turn against me are devils!
    Devils are to be executed!
[18:43] ---
    Fire!
[18:49] ---
    Don't let up! Aim in between
    their armor, and return fire!
[18:53] ---
    Take this!
[19:01] ---
    Heizak, give them a sampling.
[19:04] ---
    This is where we come from!
    The secret of the royal family!
[19:25] ---
    Where is the Pope?!
[19:26] ---
    Get Pope Gorna out here!
[19:28] ---
    His Eminence is currently offering
    prayers for us to reach the Black Cross.
[19:32] ---
    We have already stopped heading
    toward the Black Cross, you know!
[19:35] ---
    Yeah! We're going to ask Pope
    Gorna about this directly!
[19:39] ---
    W- wait!
[19:48] ---
    Over there!
[19:49] ---
    S- stay back! This is holy-
[19:53] ---
    Don't you understand yet?!
[19:56] ---
    The end and the beginning are
    two sides of the same coin!
[19:58] ---
    The end of the galaxy is
    the beginning of the galaxy,
[20:01] ---
    and to reach the Black Cross is
    to be set free of the Black Cross!
[20:06] ---
    It is because this is
    repeated in every age
[20:09] ---
    that the Cross-Star
    religion goes on living!
[20:12] ---
    Does that mean that our
    suffering will continue forever?
[20:16] ---
    Huh?! Somebody throw
    this devil out of here!
[20:21] ---
    You're the devil!
[20:27] ---
    Y- you...
[20:34] ---
    May you have joy in
    the light of the Cross.
[20:54] ---
    So this is where you are hiding?
[20:59] ---
    I am returning this to you.
[21:01] ---
    This is the sword that my father
    killed your father with.
[21:06] ---
    Now, it is time for us to depart.
[21:18] ---
    If you wish to beat Cleo,
    then you must also have love...
[21:22] ---
    ...for the entire galaxy.
[21:31] ---
    Hey! That's Vetti!
[21:34] ---
    There's another devil here!
[21:35] ---
    String up the devil!
[21:40] ---
    "Like a Blood Edict"
[21:57] ---
    In these streets which have lost their color,
[22:03] ---
    under my breath, I look at the screen.
[22:09] ---
    Searching for the key to the future,
[22:16] ---
    I've torn my pocket.
[22:22] ---
    Have I any doubts?
[22:29] ---
    Will the light shine?
[22:35] ---
    What is right?
[22:40] ---
    As I struggle, I move into the distance.
[22:48] ---
    I am the only one,
[22:50] ---
    my drifting heart is as hard as a cocoon,
[22:56] ---
    and it protects me,
[23:01] ---
    but I am not the only one,
[23:03] ---
    and the words that issue forth
[23:06] ---
    want to catch
[23:09] ---
    going round and round.
[23:15] ---
    Farewell, my friends.
    Farewell, days of revolution.
[23:18] ---
    A ceremonial bell now tolls
    for the dawn of the galaxy.
[23:21] ---
    Next time on the final episode of
    Glass Fleet, "Like an Ovation..."
[23:26] ---
    The galaxy in revolution. Renaissance.
[23:26] ---
    "Like an Ovation..."