5 - Like a Mask

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    Somebody once said that
    when people die, they become stars.
[00:23] ---
    If that is true, does it mean that
    the twinkling of so many shining stars...
[00:27] ---
    ...is the twinkling of the lives of those
    who lived to their fullest,
[00:31] ---
    and then passed away?
[00:35] ---
    Swallowing up lives one by one,
    we continue to fight.
[00:40] ---
    People meet, people part.
[00:43] ---
    They have pasts,
    and presents, and futures.
[00:48] ---
    There are moments in their lives
    that shine brighter and stronger
[00:52] ---
    than the twinkling of stars.
[00:54] ---
    That is certain.
[01:07] ---
    I may have a habit of running away
    whenever anything bad occurs,
[01:14] ---
    but no matter what happens,
    I'm not going to run away now.
[01:21] ---
    I may have a habit of bursting into tears,
    even though I understand it in my mind,
[01:28] ---
    but since I am aiming higher,
    I'm not going to cry now.
[01:35] ---
    I'm tired of hearing that
    things will turn out all right.
[01:37] ---
    Don't bury your head in your hands.
[01:39] ---
    Instead give your positive gauge a clip!
[01:40] ---
    In time it will all feel
    just like it should!
[01:43] ---
    Deeply, deeply, it's becoming
    etched in my mind
[01:49] ---
    that someday, this will all be real.
[01:57] ---
    Both the unchanging mornings
    and the never-ending nights.
[02:03] ---
    I'm off and running for tomorrow's sake.
[02:45] ---
    There's an enemy fleet out there.
[02:47] ---
    I can see that for myself.
[02:50] ---
    Charge them.
[02:51] ---
    Okay! Hang on to something,
    or you'll fall down!
[02:55] ---
    Michel-sama's belongings!
[02:57] ---
    Mm-hmm. Michel-sama, if you'll
    excuse us for a moment...
[03:05] ---
    Did you need something?
[03:07] ---
    All righty, off we go!
[03:20] ---
    Excellency sir,
[03:22] ---
    the Holy Emperor's vessel has completed
    a safe withdrawal from the area of battle.
[03:28] ---
    Enemy ship approaching.
[03:29] ---
    It is evading all of our fleet's attacks!
    It has unbelievable maneuverability!
[03:34] ---
    Fire. Shoot it down. Blow them up!
[03:38] ---
    Unthrift is exquisite.
    Stinginess is a sin.
[03:41] ---
    Unspent rounds are an embarrassment.
[03:43] ---
    Forgive me for saying so, Excellency sir,
[03:46] ---
    but according to Ralph-sama's intelligence,
    the leader of the People's Army,
[03:51] ---
    Michel Volban, is hiding
    aboard that enemy ship.
[03:53] ---
    His Highness the Holy Emperor's orders
    were to capture Volban.
[03:57] ---
    I do not believe we should be
    shooting the enemy ship down.
[04:01] ---
    You are quite a capable little girl.
[04:04] ---
    Well then, ourselves and our consort ships
    will surround the enemy vessel
[04:07] ---
    while continuing to fire,
[04:08] ---
    then board their ship
    and take Volban into custody.
[04:11] ---
    Once the boarding party returns,
    we will shoot down the enemy ship.
[04:14] ---
    How does that sound?
[04:15] ---
    See to it.
[04:17] ---
    Yes, sir.
[04:18] ---
    Enemy ship within range of main batteries.
[04:21] ---
    All ships, open fire!
[04:31] ---
    I can't stand it!
[04:33] ---
    The soleil is fine form! Sometimes you
    have to get a little crazy like this!
[04:38] ---
    Cut through them.
[04:39] ---
    Yeah!
[04:41] ---
    You're not withdrawing?!
[04:42] ---
    You must be joking.
    They interrupted my fight.
[05:05] ---
    What fools those guys are!
[05:08] ---
    A fleet of ten ships...
    without firing a single shot...
[05:11] ---
    1st, 5th, and 8th ships are inoperable.
[05:14] ---
    All systems on the flagship are down.
[05:16] ---
    Our attacks are unable to
    home in on the enemy ship!
[05:20] ---
    All right, all right, do not balk.
    It is our own fault for being hit.
[05:25] ---
    Forgive me for saying so,
[05:28] ---
    but we do not have a ship in our fleet
[05:29] ---
    with the maneuverability
    of the enemy battleship.
[05:32] ---
    In that case, we can always
    power-up the soleil.
[05:36] ---
    Forgive me for saying so,
    but our ship is already inoperable.
[05:46] ---
    The 2nd ship is inoperable.
[05:47] ---
    It's too dangerous to remain
    any longer! We must escape!
[05:50] ---
    Enemy ship is directly above us.
[05:55] ---
    Let's do it, shall we?
[05:56] ---
    Don't sell the royal
    family's secret technologies short!
[06:15] ---
    The glass battleship is too daunting!
[06:18] ---
    We cannot go on. We are withdrawing.
[06:31] ---
    Take that!
[06:38] ---
    That felt great, huh?
[06:40] ---
    Yes, well done!
[06:44] ---
    That hits the spot!
[06:46] ---
    My glasses... my glasses...
[06:52] ---
    Are you all right?
[06:53] ---
    Yeah.
[07:01] ---
    He's in a bad mood, huh?
[07:21] ---
    Oh, Excellency,
    thank goodness you are safe!
[07:24] ---
    Are you all right? We have
    a doctor standing by.
[07:28] ---
    He can examine you right away.
[07:30] ---
    No need.
[07:31] ---
    But Excellency,
[07:32] ---
    I'm afraid that having the Holy Emperor
    going to such a trash heap of a planet,
[07:37] ---
    and then engaging in a duel there
    has us concerned about your health-
[07:41] ---
    You talk too much!
[07:43] ---
    Yes, sir.
[07:44] ---
    Ralph, you are not fulfilling
    your role as imperial guard.
[07:48] ---
    This is what happens when you run off to
    some dustbin of a planet without our leave.
[08:08] ---
    We just received a report
    from Count John Fall.
[08:12] ---
    Do not talk about work!
    Vetti-sama needs his rest!
[08:17] ---
    What did the Count say?
[08:19] ---
    He was unable to carry out
    Your Excellency's orders,
[08:22] ---
    and was forced to retreat.
[08:24] ---
    The shock was so great that he apparently
    took to his bed. Hmph, truly pathetic.
[08:29] ---
    He carries a heavy burden,
[08:31] ---
    particularly so as long
    as Michel is with him.
[08:34] ---
    "He"?
[08:36] ---
    A scoundrel, by the name of Cleo.
[08:38] ---
    The one with the glass battleship
    that drove back Maconnais.
[08:43] ---
    I am going to disperse that wind someday.
[08:46] ---
    Forget about that guy, already.
[08:50] ---
    There is one other thing.
[08:51] ---
    We received a reply from Pope Gorna.
[08:56] ---
    Unfortunately,
[08:58] ---
    although Pope Gorna has
    gladly given his approval,
[09:02] ---
    I regret to inform you that
    Rachel-sama said she declines.
[09:05] ---
    Indeed, it is the height of disrespect!
[09:08] ---
    The princess just doesn't
    know the kind of man I am.
[09:18] ---
    Keep moving forward
    the talks with Pope Gorna.
[09:21] ---
    But what about Rachel-sama?
[09:25] ---
    This princess is sure to fall for me.
[09:28] ---
    Say, let's go to the bedroom.
[09:30] ---
    Tonight, Vetti-sama, on a bed
    of your favorite scarlet roses,
[09:34] ---
    I will wash away the impurity
    of that planet for you.
[09:37] ---
    Let's sleep, and forget about everything.
[09:40] ---
    I'd like to hear your opinions
    on what the oracle on Orleans said.
[09:45] ---
    --Yes, sir.
[09:45] ---
    --Yes, sir.
[09:49] ---
    Vetti-sama, you can sleep alone tonight!
[09:53] ---
    Ralph...
[09:54] ---
    Yes, Vetti-sama?
[09:57] ---
    Find out what you can about Cleo.
[10:12] ---
    I'm sorry, Michel-sama.
[10:13] ---
    We were unable to preserve
    your precious teacups.
[10:17] ---
    Don't worry about it, Sylua.
[10:21] ---
    It smells good today, huh?
[10:23] ---
    Yes, I tried adding a little
    vervain to the chamomile.
[10:29] ---
    Things have been so hectic.
[10:31] ---
    Ever since we've come here,
    Jean has seemed to be quite indignant.
[10:35] ---
    Yes. He doesn't like Cleo-san, after all.
[10:38] ---
    I've said nothing of the sort.
[10:40] ---
    It's okay, I know. It's just that
    after seeing how he fought earlier,
[10:45] ---
    I would hate to have to part with
    the fighting spirit that this bunch has.
[10:49] ---
    Do you think so? There's no way
    that a gang like Cleo-san's...
[10:53] ---
    ...could understand the
    significance of the People's Army.
[10:56] ---
    They make me want to hurry
    back to Cavell territory
[10:58] ---
    and disinfect myself
    right down to my bones.
[11:01] ---
    If I might be so bold,
    I do not feel at ease either.
[11:04] ---
    When I think of the bad influence that man
    might bring upon you, Michel-sama...
[11:10] ---
    Cut it out!
[11:14] ---
    Oh, so this is where you are?
[11:16] ---
    Yeah, we've helped ourselves.
[11:19] ---
    Say, what's that you're drinking?
[11:25] ---
    What is this?! Do you aristocrats drink
    this nasty stuff to be pretentious?
[11:30] ---
    My, how rude!
[11:32] ---
    Well, I guess it's okay.
    I just kissed Michel indirectly!
[11:37] ---
    I'm going to have to disinfect again.
[11:40] ---
    You sure seem to say
    whatever you feel like.
[11:43] ---
    Are you aristocrats trying to say
    that we're like garbage and germs?
[11:48] ---
    You don't like the nobility?
[11:51] ---
    There's an interesting story
    about the nobility.
[11:54] ---
    Do you know about the Robron Egg?
[11:56] ---
    Yeah, it was the most highly classified
    code of the Allied Nobility, right?
[12:00] ---
    Yes, it was said to be a code that
    was absolutely impossible to break,
[12:05] ---
    and yet I heard that it
    was broken by someone.
[12:08] ---
    As such, the Allied Nobility's
    intelligence was exposed,
[12:10] ---
    which was one of the factors behind
    the Holy Emperor's force's victory.
[12:14] ---
    That boy is the one who deciphered it.
[12:19] ---
    As a result, he's on the wanted list.
[12:22] ---
    What about you, Eimer?
[12:24] ---
    What about me?
[12:26] ---
    You're the one who's Queen of the Slums.
[12:29] ---
    Queen?
[12:31] ---
    There are all kinds of women. Right?
[12:34] ---
    There are not!
[12:35] ---
    Badat and Heizak are
    unusual folks, themselves.
[12:39] ---
    There's a story, and I don't
    know if it's true or not,
[12:42] ---
    that Heizak raided the Cross-Star religion
    with homemade weapons.
[12:47] ---
    Badat says that he was once the legendary
    hero Admiral Gawain's flagship captain.
[12:52] ---
    Oh, Admiral Gawain, huh?
[12:55] ---
    Badat is just boasting.
[12:57] ---
    Still, Cleo is something else.
[12:59] ---
    I'm impressed that he put together
    such an idiosyncratic crew.
[13:03] ---
    He didn't put us together.
    We all just follow him on our own.
[13:08] ---
    On your own? A dangerous man
    such as that?
[13:11] ---
    What is so attractive about that man?
[13:14] ---
    How happy-go-lucky!
[13:16] ---
    In other words, the crew of this ship
    are all wanted men, are they not?
[13:22] ---
    We are wanted men, ourselves.
[13:27] ---
    Eimer, what do you know about Cleo?
[13:32] ---
    You want to know?
[13:34] ---
    Oh, no...
[13:35] ---
    Liar. We don't know about him, either.
    He doesn't talk about himself.
[13:43] ---
    We get on on our own,
    and we get off on our own.
[13:45] ---
    Even if one of us were to get off,
    it wouldn't concern Cleo.
[14:15] ---
    Who is it?
[14:16] ---
    It's Michel. I'd like to speak with you.
[14:20] ---
    Cleo?
[14:22] ---
    Come in.
[14:31] ---
    Does it hurt?
[14:34] ---
    You should get off.
[14:36] ---
    What?
[14:38] ---
    Go on back to the People's Army
    on your own.
[14:40] ---
    You promised to take me with you.
[14:45] ---
    I don't remember making that promise.
[14:48] ---
    You're planning on going after Vetti, huh?
[14:51] ---
    He's waiting for me, too.
    I can't go on like this one bit.
[14:55] ---
    You're just like a little child.
[14:57] ---
    That's what it is to be a man.
    Are you any different?
[15:05] ---
    I'm the one he's after. If I
    make a move, he'll make one, too.
[15:10] ---
    He will present an opportunity
    for you to settle things between you,
[15:13] ---
    without you having to move
    around vainly. How does that sound?
[15:16] ---
    I should warn you, you won't be
    anything to me except for a lure.
[15:21] ---
    Don't you speak out against
    anything I do on the battlefield.
[15:24] ---
    I don't care what you might do.
[15:26] ---
    There's only one thing for you
    to do on the battlefield.
[15:29] ---
    This is your ship. You're the one
    who determines which way the wind blows.
[15:42] ---
    Deal.
[15:50] ---
    Sorry to intrude. Get better soon.
[15:57] ---
    That settles which course to set.
[16:00] ---
    We've already started heading
    that way, while you were asleep.
[16:41] ---
    Did I wake you?
[16:43] ---
    No. I couldn't sleep without you
    by my side, Vetti-sama.
[16:48] ---
    Come here.
[16:49] ---
    Okay.
[16:51] ---
    I'm composing a poem.
[16:53] ---
    For that masked woman?
[16:55] ---
    You're feeling jealous over nothing.
[16:59] ---
    I'm sorry. I won't be jealous anymore.
[17:03] ---
    Even if I do take a bride, my heart
    will still be together with you.
[17:08] ---
    Right.
[17:09] ---
    This marriage will secure a firm
    power for the Holy Emperor.
[17:15] ---
    Nothing more, nothing less.
    There will be no love in it.
[17:21] ---
    Say, what kind of poem is it?
[17:24] ---
    Good question.
[17:27] ---
    "My beloved, with face unknown
    to me, I had a dream about you."
[17:31] ---
    "In my dream, your face is still
    unknown to me, yet I know who you are."
[17:37] ---
    "Your silken voice, your willowy fingers,
    your limpid skin take hold of me,"
[17:44] ---
    "and won't let me go."
[17:45] ---
    "Ah, your eyes beckon to me
    from behind that mask."
[17:49] ---
    "Someday, may we wander
    together through this dream."
[17:59] ---
    Liar.
[18:01] ---
    There is nothing more
    simple and meaningless
[18:03] ---
    than spinning together words of love.
[18:24] ---
    Deliver this for me.
    Address it to the Cross-Star religion.
[18:33] ---
    We will be arriving at
    John Fall Territory momentarily.
[18:51] ---
    Excellency sir...
[18:54] ---
    Commander Kaz,
[18:56] ---
    under His Excellency Vetti's command,
    along with his doll platoon,
[18:59] ---
    are here to pay their respects
    upon arriving at their post here.
[19:02] ---
    We are positively delighted to have
    been appointed to Your Excellency,
[19:05] ---
    Count John Fall.
[19:07] ---
    Having been ordered by His Excellency,
    Holy Emperor Vetti,
[19:10] ---
    to serve the Count to the fullest,
[19:13] ---
    I, Kaz, and my doll platoon
    have arrived with all due haste.
[19:17] ---
    You must have had a long and
    difficult journey, Commander Kaz.
[19:22] ---
    Your dolls are as curious
    as I have been told.
[19:24] ---
    Thank you.
[19:26] ---
    However, Your Excellency's daughters
    are indeed beautiful, as well.
[19:30] ---
    Yes, I'm proud of my girls. As diligently
    well-mannered as flowers and butterflies,
[19:35] ---
    they daily seek out the beauty that
    ordinary soldiers do not possess.
[19:41] ---
    However, Kaz-dono,
[19:42] ---
    I would ask you not to make any
    unwanted advances towards my daughters.
[19:47] ---
    You need not be concerned. My doll
    platoon is both human, and not human.
[19:52] ---
    They are literally living dolls,
    who act only as they are ordered to.
[19:55] ---
    You may be assured that we will
    be successful in capturing Michel.
[19:59] ---
    So, what is your strategy?
[20:02] ---
    I will be dressing up my dolls.
[20:11] ---
    Hey...
[20:14] ---
    Don't forget my reward when
    we reach Cavell Territory.
[20:17] ---
    Yeah, I know.
[20:20] ---
    I'm getting a distress signal.
[20:22] ---
    What ship is it coming from?
[20:23] ---
    It's not an imperial vessel.
    It's a freighter.
[20:27] ---
    A freighter, huh?
[20:29] ---
    What do we do, Cleo?
[20:31] ---
    What choice do we have? We help them.
[20:34] ---
    You guys?
[20:36] ---
    Excuse me?
[20:38] ---
    Oh, nothing...
[21:09] ---
    This is a mess.
[21:12] ---
    You there!
[21:14] ---
    Thank you! You've come
    to rescue us, right?
[21:17] ---
    Survivors!
[21:20] ---
    We were caught in the middle of a battle,
    and got hit by stray fire.
[21:24] ---
    We still have many
    more that are wounded.
[21:26] ---
    Could we have them treated
    aboard your ship?
[21:29] ---
    What are you transporting?
[21:31] ---
    I have expenses. You'll have to
    share some of your goods with me.
[21:36] ---
    Oh, yeah, you got it.
[21:47] ---
    Are you all right?
[21:50] ---
    Thanks.
[21:54] ---
    Brother!
[21:54] ---
    "Like a Mask"
[22:03] ---
    It's twilight already in the
    glass city of mistaken notions
[22:09] ---
    where we exchanged farewells
    among the countless lights.
[22:14] ---
    After making that pinky promise,
    the finger that lied to you
[22:20] ---
    developed a hangnail,
    and still hurts a little even now.
[22:25] ---
    We called each other's names,
    we spoke each other's names,
[22:28] ---
    and the world where you and I
    once met keeps spinning around.
[22:34] ---
    After these tears fall,
    will they be forgotten?
[22:40] ---
    After the sadness melts away,
    will I be able to see?
[22:46] ---
    Quivering and shimmering
    in this glistening world,
[22:51] ---
    they grow cold and dry up
    as I grasp them in my hands.
[22:57] ---
    Even if this world were made of nothing
[23:03] ---
    but lies and nonsense,
    I probably wouldn't care.
[23:08] ---
    Somewhere on this world,
    I am here singing,
[23:14] ---
    so please, may you be
    here on this world, smiling.
[23:30] ---
    In shining corners of the galaxy,
[23:32] ---
    as encounters and farewells
    take place again and again,
[23:34] ---
    people will continue to play the monster.
[23:37] ---
    Next time on Glass Fleet, "Like a Clown"
[23:41] ---
    The galaxy in revolution. Renaissance.