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7 - Like a Rebuke

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    The stars shine where
    no one can reach them.
[00:20] ---
    Nobody ever tries to take the stars.
    The galaxy will go on turning forever.
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    Like the stars, people unhurriedly,
    and yet unceasingly,
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    revolve in their own wheels of fortune.
[00:36] ---
    Finding consolation in tears,
    in what is yet another galaxy.
[00:54] ---
    I may have a habit of running away
    whenever anything bad occurs,

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    but no matter what happens,
    I'm not going to run away now.

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    I may have a habit of bursting into tears,
    even though I understand it in my mind,

[01:15] ---
    but since I am aiming higher,
    I'm not going to cry now.

[01:22] ---
    I'm tired of hearing that
    things will turn out all right.

[01:25] ---
    Don't bury your head in your hands.
[01:26] ---
    Instead give your positive gauge a clip!
[01:28] ---
    In time it will all feel
    just like it should!

[01:31] ---
    Deeply, deeply, it's becoming
    etched in my mind

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    that someday, this will all be real.
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    Both the unchanging mornings
    and the never-ending nights.

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    I'm off and running for tomorrow's sake.
[02:22] ---
    It's coming into view.
[02:25] ---
    They're here to greet us, is that it?
[02:32] ---
    Unidentified ship approaching.
    All ships, prepare to attack!
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    Commence-
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    Michel!
[03:24] ---
    --Michel! Michel!
[03:24] ---
    --Michel! Michel!
[03:28] ---
    He's incredibly popular, huh?
[03:30] ---
    He's a hero, after all.
[03:32] ---
    You bastard! We thought you were dead
    after being caught inside that bracered!
[03:37] ---
    Sorry to have worried you.
[03:39] ---
    Michel!
[03:40] ---
    H- hey, Isabel...
[03:43] ---
    We really did want to send out
    a search party as soon as possible.
[03:46] ---
    It took so long to reorganize
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    the People's Army that had
    been assimilated, though.
[03:50] ---
    No, you've done well. As a result,
    I was also able to find us our savior.
[03:56] ---
    Hello! I'm Eimer, the one who saved
    your hero! Pleased to meet you!
[04:05] ---
    He's the People's Army's leader, Theodoric.
[04:08] ---
    This is our strategy advisor, Hector.
[04:11] ---
    And this is the
    Women's Corps delegate, Isabel.
[04:13] ---
    Pleased to meet you.
[04:15] ---
    Yeah.
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    You're the ones who rescued Michel, right?
    We really are grateful.
[04:21] ---
    I hear that you guys defeated
    Maconnais and John Fall's fleets
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    with that teeny ship of yours.
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    It's encouraging to have you guys
    joining in with the People's Army.
[04:34] ---
    We've been needing
    combat pros like yourselves.
[04:38] ---
    I'll bet.
[04:39] ---
    What?
[04:40] ---
    Cleo...
[04:42] ---
    Fine.
[04:43] ---
    Why don't you hurry up
    and show me the form
[04:46] ---
    taken by these feelings
    of gratitude you have?
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    Form?
[04:49] ---
    Money! Money! In addition
    to the expenses we incurred
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    to deliver your general all the way here,
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    we'll be taking plenty for
    your feelings of gratitude, as well.
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    What's going on here?
    This isn't what you told us, is it?
[05:02] ---
    N- no...
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    Where are you going?
    We're not done talking!
[05:08] ---
    I have no intention of playing soldier
    with your People's Army.
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    What did you say?!
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    Stop, would you?!
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    How is this bastard
    supposed to be our savior?!
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    Non, non, he is just the wind.
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    You guys are too stuffy!
[05:32] ---
    The wind is impulsive.
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    You'll wear yourselves out
    expecting anything.
[05:37] ---
    Oh, right, Michel, about those
    negotiations with B.B....
[05:40] ---
    Hold on, we'll discuss that later.
[05:43] ---
    Michel, you must be tired.
    You should get some rest.
[05:47] ---
    Y- yeah, you're right.
    Excuse me, I'll do just that.
[06:28] ---
    You're going to go see the masked woman?
[06:30] ---
    Do you want to come, too?
[06:32] ---
    I'm not interested in
    any coming-of-age ceremony,
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    but I am worried about you
    physically, Vetti-sama.
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    You're going to miss me, huh?
[06:47] ---
    Keep thinking about me
    the whole time I'm gone.
[06:59] ---
    Vetti-sama,
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    you meanie!
[07:15] ---
    Um...
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    Please continue to look
    after Michel-sama for us.
[07:21] ---
    This is for you.
[07:33] ---
    You there!
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    You're the man who
    rescued Michel, right? Eat up!
[07:40] ---
    Oh, you're the one?
[07:41] ---
    Thank you so much for rescuing him.
[07:44] ---
    Thank you, thank you.
[07:45] ---
    You're a hero!
[07:47] ---
    Stay at my place tonight!
[08:00] ---
    Do you see now? Michel-sama
    is everyone's star of hope.
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    But as you are aware,
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    he has not been in good spirits
    ever since that earlier incident.
[08:13] ---
    I don't know why Michel-sama
    is so preoccupied with you.
[08:18] ---
    But I do think that you are the only one
    who can cheer Michel-sama up.
[08:24] ---
    So, I would ask you...
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    It's none of my business.
[08:30] ---
    But still...
[08:32] ---
    If you want, would you eat this for me?
[08:39] ---
    Cleo-san, you idiot!
[08:46] ---
    --Cheers!
[08:46] ---
    --Cheers!
[08:49] ---
    Thank goodness Michel is safe!
[08:51] ---
    Our savior is immortal after all!
[08:53] ---
    What have you been so upset
    about this last while?
[08:55] ---
    Nothing.
[08:57] ---
    You're pining, huh?
[08:58] ---
    What for?
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    Shut up.
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    You're such a boor!
[09:02] ---
    Put a little distance between you and
    the man you love, and you pine for him.
[09:06] ---
    Shut up, you drunk!
[09:07] ---
    The man she loves?
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    My glasses... my glasses...
[09:12] ---
    --my glasses... my glasses...
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    --Still, you know, I didn't think that Michel
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    --was such an important figure as this.
[09:15] ---
    --Oh, here they are.
[09:19] ---
    I'm gonna do it.
[09:23] ---
    Do what?
[09:24] ---
    Isn't it obvious?! It's Michel! Michel!
[09:27] ---
    Huh?
[09:32] ---
    Sorry to keep you wait-
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    Cleo-san!
[09:36] ---
    Thanks for coming. Come on, this way.
[09:39] ---
    Just a moment. I'm the one who decides
    whether guests enter or whether they-
[09:46] ---
    I'm the one who invited him.
    You please keep quiet, Grandfather.
[09:50] ---
    She's growing sassy. This is the
    influence of that good-for-nothing.
[10:05] ---
    This is the brother, huh?
[10:07] ---
    As you can see.
[10:14] ---
    How long do you plan to stay here?
[10:17] ---
    I do not know what Sylua said to you,
[10:20] ---
    but please do not involve yourself
    with Michel-sama any further.
[10:24] ---
    I think you're telling
    that to the wrong person.
[10:30] ---
    Michel-sama! What's the matter,
    Michel-sama? Michel-sama!
[10:34] ---
    Sylua, what is going on?
[10:35] ---
    I don't know.
    There's someone else in there.
[10:38] ---
    What?
[10:39] ---
    Stand back.
[10:42] ---
    Yowch!
[10:46] ---
    Yeah, the roof gave out, you see...
[10:49] ---
    Eimer!
[10:53] ---
    I told her not to.
[10:55] ---
    W- what are you doing up there?!
[10:58] ---
    Get out of here!
[11:00] ---
    All of you, get out of here!
[11:05] ---
    A w- w- woman?!
[11:10] ---
    Those are the wings
    of an angel, aren't they?
[11:13] ---
    Sylua, quickly, a towel!
[11:14] ---
    R- right!
[11:18] ---
    M- my glasses!
[11:30] ---
    So, you realized, did you?
[11:33] ---
    Kind of.
[11:35] ---
    I was-
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    Wait.
[11:45] ---
    Not you guys again! Enough, already!
[11:47] ---
    I don't care.
[11:49] ---
    Everyone, come on in.
[11:51] ---
    Michel-sama...
[11:55] ---
    My real name is Racine Brush Volban.
[12:00] ---
    The reason why I wear this getup is
    all because of my brother's influence.
[12:05] ---
    My mother passed away
    right after I was born,
[12:08] ---
    and my father was always away from home
    with the People's Liberation Movement.
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    So I spent most of my life with my brother.
[12:20] ---
    Racine! Racine!
[12:23] ---
    Come, strike me.
[12:24] ---
    I'd rather play house.
[12:28] ---
    If you won't come at me,
    then I'm coming at you.
[12:36] ---
    As someone who was unusually
    bashful in front of strangers,
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    my brother was the only playmate I had,
    so I naturally became more boyish.
[12:47] ---
    Now that I think back on it, my brother
    must have been trying to ease my solitude,
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    by always being there for me.
[12:54] ---
    grown to like swordsmanship,
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    and improved my skills
    as I competed with my brother.
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    I wanted to study the same
    things as my brother,
[13:03] ---
    who received all sorts of education,
    as the heir to the house of Volban,
[13:07] ---
    but my father would not allow that.
[13:10] ---
    On the contrary, he was
    even against my fencing,
[13:13] ---
    and in order to vent my anguish, I became
    even more absorbed in my fencing,
[13:17] ---
    and secretly continued
    to practice by myself.
[13:20] ---
    And so, eventually...
[13:28] ---
    You've beaten me, Racine.
    I'm no match for you anymore.
[13:36] ---
    What are you doing?!
[13:38] ---
    Father!
[13:39] ---
    Racine, I thought
    I forbade you from fencing!
[13:42] ---
    I'm the one who asked her to.
    I'm the one you should scold-
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    You keep quiet!
[13:48] ---
    Racine, swear to me now that you
    will never hold a sword again.
[13:52] ---
    But...
[13:53] ---
    What good will it do a girl
    like you to learn fencing?!
[13:57] ---
    What's more, if anyone were to
    find out that you beat your brother,
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    it would bring shame
    upon the house of Volban!
[14:08] ---
    That is all of it, then?
[14:13] ---
    That was the end of my adolescence.
[14:18] ---
    From that day on, I decided
    to live my life as a woman-
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    as the only daughter
    of the house of Volban.
[14:29] ---
    Yes?
[14:31] ---
    Your carriage is ready.
[14:34] ---
    I'm coming now.
[14:38] ---
    Then, one day,
[14:39] ---
    a tournament was held to determine
    the greatest swordsman in the galaxy.
[14:44] ---
    My brother, entering as the representative
    for the nearby region of space,
[14:47] ---
    proceeded to advance his way through.
[14:52] ---
    However, the one he was up
    against in the finals...
[14:56] ---
    Begin!
[15:07] ---
    Break!
[15:09] ---
    Brother!
[15:18] ---
    Not yet!
[15:20] ---
    But wounded as you are...
[15:22] ---
    He has not officially scored a point yet.
[15:25] ---
    Besides that, I cannot admit defeat
    over a wound such as this.
[15:30] ---
    For the sake of the
    house of Volban's honor, as well...
[15:35] ---
    Well spoken, Michel!
[15:42] ---
    Crimson Virginia, give me strength!
[15:46] ---
    Begin!
[15:56] ---
    Brother! Circle right!
[16:12] ---
    Beautiful.
[16:23] ---
    You're quite becoming,
[16:26] ---
    Michel-kun...
[16:28] ---
    Break!
[16:31] ---
    number of significant hits,
[16:33] ---
    is declared to be Contestant Vetti Sforza!
[16:50] ---
    Michel Volban...
[16:53] ---
    Someday, without fail,
    I will make you my own.
[16:59] ---
    Just then, the age of
    warring between nations
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    for the survival of the fittest began.
[17:04] ---
    Just as Vetti had said,
[17:06] ---
    he came to take away my brother and the
    territory of the house of Volban- by force.
[17:11] ---
    The fighting was extremely fierce,
    but victory was favoring Vetti's forces,
[17:16] ---
    and as my brother was being
    pressed to surrender,
[17:18] ---
    he faced off against Vetti's ship
    all by himself. And then...
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    Racine-sama, it's the Master!
[17:29] ---
    Father! Father, stay with us! Father!
[17:34] ---
    Racine...
[17:37] ---
    Yes, Father!
[17:39] ---
    Michel said... to give this... to you...
[17:46] ---
    It can't be... It's not true...
[17:49] ---
    There's no way that Brother could be dead!
[17:58] ---
    Racine...
[17:59] ---
    Father! Be strong!
[18:09] ---
    Father! Father!
[18:12] ---
    Father!!
[18:19] ---
    Before long, Vetti had
    crushed the Allied Nobility,
[18:22] ---
    and created a society that was even
    more centered around the nobility.
[18:26] ---
    I decided to carry on
    the will of my father and brother,
[18:29] ---
    and resolved to stand up
    for the people who were suffering.
[18:39] ---
    I'm sorry, Jean.
[18:42] ---
    Please do not say a word. I have given
    my entire life to the house of Volban.
[18:47] ---
    I understand what it is
    that you are thinking, my lady.
[18:51] ---
    At least permit your pain
    to come from my hand.
[19:04] ---
    G- Grandfather! What in
    the world are you doing?!
[19:07] ---
    Sylua, you must not
    speak of this to anyone.
[19:11] ---
    I ask of myself, as well.
[19:13] ---
    But!
[19:14] ---
    This is what I must do.
[19:18] ---
    Racine-sama...
[19:24] ---
    My lady...
[19:25] ---
    I mean, Michel-sama,
    what a gallant figure you cut.
[19:29] ---
    You truly do. It's like your brother
    has come back to life.
[19:33] ---
    Now, as of this moment,
[19:36] ---
    I renounce the name Racine,
    and will live as Michel Volban.
[19:42] ---
    Crimson Virginia, give me strength!
[19:46] ---
    I kept that oath within my heart,
[19:49] ---
    and waited for my chance to escape
    from Vetti's integrated territories.
[20:04] ---
    Excellency! Excellency!
    You must take shelter at once!
[20:33] ---
    But why did you go so far
    as to pose as your brother?
[20:38] ---
    She couldn't take the head of the family
    as a woman now, could she?
[20:40] ---
    But I mean, she didn't
    have to scar her back.
[20:43] ---
    You loved him, huh?
[20:46] ---
    Not as your brother, but with
    your whole body and soul.
[21:06] ---
    What is that for?
[21:08] ---
    Save your crying for after
    we've defeated Vetti.
[21:12] ---
    I have to use you as a lure
    to draw him out, after all.
[21:16] ---
    Michel-sama is not some tool for you to-
[21:18] ---
    To say nothing of you upholding
    the people's expectations,
[21:21] ---
    and being their star of hope.
[21:23] ---
    Hope is something that
    always sparkles brightly.
[21:29] ---
    There's no going back now.
[21:32] ---
    You have to know that.
[21:36] ---
    I...
[21:37] ---
    Isn't that right, Michel Volban?
[21:54] ---
    "Like a Rebuke"
[22:04] ---
    It's twilight already in the
    glass city of mistaken notions

[22:10] ---
    where we exchanged farewells
    among the countless lights.

[22:15] ---
    After making that pinky promise,
    the finger that lied to you

[22:21] ---
    developed a hangnail,
    and still hurts a little even now.

[22:26] ---
    We called each other's names,
    we spoke each other's names,

[22:29] ---
    and the world where you and I
    once met keeps spinning around.

[22:35] ---
    After these tears fall,
    will they be forgotten?

[22:41] ---
    After the sadness melts away,
    will I be able to see?

[22:46] ---
    Quivering and shimmering
    in this glistening world,

[22:52] ---
    they grow cold and dry up
    as I grasp them in my hands.

[22:58] ---
    Even if this world were made of nothing
[23:03] ---
    but lies and nonsense,
    I probably wouldn't care.

[23:09] ---
    Somewhere on this world,
    I am here singing,

[23:15] ---
    so please, may you be
    here on this world, smiling.

[23:30] ---
    A coming-of-age ceremony,
    swirling with selfish interests.
[23:33] ---
    A young emperor sees
    the future of the galaxy
[23:35] ---
    in the eyes of an unmasked young woman.
[23:38] ---
    Next time on Glass Fleet, "Like the Truth"
[23:41] ---
    "Like the Truth"
[23:41] ---
    The galaxy in revolution. Renaissance.