# 9 - Like Constant Change
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GY8D2D88Y/glass-fleet)
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Can people keep moving forward,
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even when they know
the future that must be?
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Or do they shrink back in terror,
unable to take even one step further?
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No matter what future awaits us,
people must keep moving forward.
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They must walk the path that they see
in front of them, one step at a time.
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*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,*
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*but since I am aiming higher,
I'm not going to cry now.*
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*I'm tired of hearing that
things will turn out all right.*
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*Don't bury your head in your hands.*
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*Instead give your positive gauge a clip!*
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*In time it will all feel
just like it should!*
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*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.*
**[02:08] ---**
John Fall's territorial ship, which had
been sent to secure Michel Volban,
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appears to have been assimilated
by the People's Army.
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The safety of Count John Fall is uncertain,
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but it is thought that he died in battle
in the People's Army's counterattack.
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For the soul of the great
Count John Fall...
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Subsequently, in order
for our Holy Emperor's forces
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to subdue the People's Army,
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we dispatched the
Patozzan fleet immediately,
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but a battle broke out in the vicinity
of the People's Army's Cavell territory...
**[02:58] ---**
Wow, we have a large number
of guests arriving again.
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It's the Holy Emperor's forces again.
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They really are being pesky.
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What?
**[03:09] ---**
N- nothing.
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Shall we get underway?
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You got it!
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--Don't sell the royal family's secret...
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--Oh, what's it going to be today?
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D- don't...
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Don't sell the royal family's secrets short!
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Although they fought well,
the Patozzan fleet was wiped out.
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Our casualties were tremendous.
We believe that our soleil was also taken.
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Up to now, the People's Army,
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who had been quite amateurish
when it came to warfare,
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were no match for us,
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but with the addition of one battleship
to the People's Army's forces...
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Cleo, right?
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Yes.
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I will be reporting on that matter.
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This is the glass battleship
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that previously defeated
Maconnais' battleship single-handedly,
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as well as both the John Fall
and Panozzan fleets.
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I've never seen that configuration before.
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It almost looks like
a child's toy, doesn't it?
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How could they be beaten
by a ship such as this?
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It is, as it were, a phantom ship,
belonging neither
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to our Holy Emperor's forces,
nor the People's Army.
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According to spies that I dispatched,
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information regarding the crew
of this ship is as follows:
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Her name is Eimer. She is in charge
of piloting the battleship.
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She handles the control stick like a knife,
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and is said to have piloting skills
exceptional enough to turn the ship around
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in a matter of seconds.
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She is believed to be clearheaded,
with the ability to make calm judgments.
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Next is the engineer, Badat.
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Once, he was the right-hand man
for the hero, Admiral Gawain.
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Admiral Gawain?
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He is praised as having
the greatest skill in the galaxy,
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and despite there being many who
wished to recruit him to their own ships,
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--even by force,
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--Aw, man, it's empty already?
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--following the Admiral's
death, he went into hiding,
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--and his whereabouts became unknown.
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Moving on, the gunner, Heizak.
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He had been on the wanted lists previously
as an enthusiast for dangerous weapons.
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He hopped from one battlefield to the next,
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and every division he was in
was sure to be wiped out.
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Finally, he went on an independent raid
against the Cross-Star religion,
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and remains at large.
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He is said to be a dangerous individual,
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and that there is no telling what
he will do when he goes into a frenzy.
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And this is their cryptographer, Nowy.
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He is said to be a genius
at deciphering codes.
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This is the youth that
broke the Robron Egg,
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the Allied Nobility's most top-secret code.
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Oh, the Robron Egg?
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--That young boy?
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--That can't be!
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Unbelievable!
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He is said to have been involved in
the decryption of many codes previously,
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and that wherever there is a shadow
of conspiracy, he is sure to be there.
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For the reasons I have stated,
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the crew of this ship is believed
to be a fairly dangerous group.
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My glasses... my glasses...
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H- however, there is only one person,
the leader of this battleship,
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a man named Cleo,
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for whom we were unable to gather
any reliable information.
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There have been imprudent remarks that
he carries the blood of the royal family,
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but that is unconfirmed, and his actions
are not unlike that of a common pirate.
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There are any number of groups
like that in the frontier lands.
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What is their objective? Why are they
acting alongside the People's Army?
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What is their force of arms?
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Ultimately, we don't really know
anything important about them, do we?
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If Narufu doesn't know, then it must be true.
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There have been two or three
reported sightings of a glass battleship
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in the frontier districts.
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However, for reasons that are unclear,
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they appear to have taken
Michel Volban aboard,
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and have come out in open hostility
against our Holy Emperor's forces
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by assisting the People's Army.
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Begging your pardon...
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The daughter of Pope Gorna has brought
a handwritten letter from the Pope.
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We're in a meeting here!
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She said that there was an urgent matter
for you to be made aware of.
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Bring it here.
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Excellency?
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It's intelligence that the People's Army
is headed for Bardeaux territory.
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Clever thinking.
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That information means...
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We'll make the first move.
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As you wish.
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Ah, all of the flowers in my garden
are certain to wither up.
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They will be ashamed of
their own ugliness next to your beauty,
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and it will mark the end of their lives.
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I have only come here
on my father's errand.
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Such transparent words
as those are unnecessary.
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How rude! In that case, you can
leave here at once, can't you?!
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What an adorable little boy.
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It seems like I have heard your voice
somewhere else, not long ago.
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I'm sure I must be mistaken about that.
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My life shines all the brighter
to be able to give sight to your face,
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and to give ear to your voice.
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Here.
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I hope that this will be able
to relieve your boredom,
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and provide even the least bit of solace.
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This is your first gift to me.
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Someday, I will have this placed
inside my coffin with me.
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Huh? What is this?
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It was in your letter earlier as well.
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It's true, I am as a clown,
controlled by your love.
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I doubt that what is controlling you is love,
as in a vision on a spring evening.
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The thing that you desire is not love,
to say nothing of myself.
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You may have removed your mask,
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but your heart is still heavy and cold,
as though clad in steel armor.
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However, the real you is
as delicate as these flowers,
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and you possess a heart
that is purer than any other.
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I await the day when you will bend to me.
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Vetti-sama!
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Vetti-sama, are you okay?
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Vetti-sama! Vetti-sama!
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Vetti-sama!!
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Over these last few battles,
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we, the People's Army, have gradually
begun to gain strength,
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but the truth remains that the
Holy Emperor's forces are a mighty power.
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If our force of arms makes up 10%,
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then Vetti's forces
would be 60% or greater.
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Apart from that are forces, such as B.B.'s,
that are unaffiliated with either side.
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Whichever side can bring in
this remaining 30%
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will hold the key to the tide of this war.
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So you're saying that
by having B.B. as an ally,
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we can bring in the remaining 30%
without even having to fight, right?
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What will you do once negotiations fail?
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The reason why we're discussing this
is so that doesn't happen, you know!
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Could you please
cooperate with us a little?
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Vetti is the only one I'm after.
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What?!
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It doesn't matter.
We are after Vetti as well.
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But is this the only way? Isn't there
a more peaceful way to do this?
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Peaceful, you say?! Are you planning
to sell your soul to the nobility?!
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No, I was just...
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Any way we do it, unless we gain an
equal footing with the Emperor's forces,
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then even if we do make peace,
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things will still go
whichever way they please.
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I will go to negotiate.
Will somebody lend me a ship?
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I will!
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No, that would not be advisable.
You have to defend us here.
**[12:42] ---**
If anything were to happen to Michel,
we couldn't have that.
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We can't just have him
taking any old ship.
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Yes.
**[12:49] ---**
Are you calling my ship dangerous?!
**[12:51] ---**
P- please, calm down.
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Then, what are we supposed to do?!
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I'm thinking about that right now.
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I'll go!
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For crying out loud, I can't
stand watching you guys.
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Hey! We're not done talking here!
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What a bastard!
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Vetti-sama...
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Don't make that face.
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But Vetti-sama, this happened
to you before, right? I'm scared...
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I'm going to tell this just to you.
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My life is going to come to an end soon.
**[13:36] ---**
No! Don't say such a terrible thing!
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The reason why I am trying to marry Rachel
is not just a political one.
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In the ancient past, there was
once an enormous battleship.
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A battleship?
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It's said that this battleship used
an unknown technology now lost to us...
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...that allowed it to freely
manipulate even time.
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However, at some point,
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that enormous battleship
broke up into many pieces.
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If I am able to bring that
gigantic battleship back,
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we will be able to obtain
that technology once again.
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To do that, it will be necessary to
bring the galaxy under unified rule.
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If you are able to obtain that technology,
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Vetti-sama, then you won't
have to die, will you?
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That's why you have to
marry Rachel, isn't it?
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Rachel is an indispensable tool
that I need to unify the galaxy.
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You will obtain it. I'm sure of it.
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Whatever happens, for your sake,
Vetti-sama, we will get that technology.
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You guys sure do like to
increase your territory, huh?
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It's not as simple as just that.
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We have to make her believe that
it would be worth it to deal with us.
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Her? She's a woman?
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Yeah, haven't you heard of her?
B.B. of Bardeaux.
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Nope.
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B.B. once backed up Vetti financially,
during the era of the Allied Nobility.
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Which is to say, she was his patron.
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Oh, yeah?
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Hold on, you people!
That is for Michel-sama!
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It's okay, it's not running out.
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Yes, it is!
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Ahem. However, as soon
as Vetti seized power,
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he switched to Gorna
of the Cross-Star religion.
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Yeah, that happens quite often.
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That's awful! What a philanderer!
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Ever since, B.B. has withdrawn
from Vetti's Côte-d'Or,
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and lives in the galaxy's largest
neutral zone, Bardeaux territory,
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as its seigneur.
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If her vast financial means and materials
were to be turned over to Vetti's side,
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the galaxy would fall
completely into Vetti's hands.
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That couldn't be possible.
This woman must hate Vetti, right?
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She's not the sort of woman
who acts on such personal feelings.
**[15:59] ---**
She has survived the continual
strife of the universe.
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She is indeed a distinguished person.
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So that's it. I can't wait
to meet this woman.
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We of the People's Army have to show B.B.
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that we have the power
to sufficiently hold our own-
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no, that we are able to beat Vetti.
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That is why we have been
increasing our territory.
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In order to liberate the masses
who are suffering under Vetti's rule
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as soon as possible,
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we must not allow these
negotiations with B.B. to fail.
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He'll be coming, too.
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You feel that on the wind?
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Allow me to draw the whole
of that sigh into my breast.
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I have come because I wanted
to ask your forgiveness
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for my rude behavior the other day.
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That was me losing possession
of my faculties over your beauty,
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an expression of my fragile heart.
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Please, I ask but a single word
of your forgiveness.
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How did you get here?
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Embracing the love that
I have for you in my heart,
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I stole my way in under
the cover of night's darkness.
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Perhaps you had my father
conduct you here.
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It would seem that you
misuse your authority.
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If you tell me to cast off my position,
my name, or even my life,
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I would cast them off.
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Right now, I am just a poor man in love.
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I wonder, has untruth become truth?
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There are times when
untruth becomes the truth.
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Untruth... becomes truth?
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Sometimes, fate can be quite generous.
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This world is a lot like that masked ball.
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Even if we lay bare our faces, all of us
wear a heavy mask around our hearts.
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When one offers their
true heart to another,
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they ought remove the mask
around their heart.
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I will be proceeding to B.B.,
of Bardeaux territory, following this.
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Once my negotiations there are concluded,
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I will climb the stairway
to galactic unification.
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For the sake of the galaxy
that we will rule.
**[18:43] ---**
Please wait here for me. I will bring you
a souvenir from Bardeaux territory.
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Until then, I will hold this near
my heart as I sleep, thinking of you.
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Next time, may both of us
remove the masks from our hearts.
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Are you feeling all right?
Space travel can be taxing on the body.
**[19:33] ---**
Do not mention my physical condition
in front of others,
**[19:35] ---**
under any circumstances!
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O- okay. I'm sorry. I'll never speak of it.
**[19:44] ---**
That will do.
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Is it okay if I stay here, in Barotica?
**[19:54] ---**
Suit yourself.
**[19:58] ---**
I will be awaiting your
return here, Vetti-sama.
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How did it go?
**[20:11] ---**
Wonderfully.
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From here, Bardeaux is
a stone's throw away.
**[20:19] ---**
However, many years have passed
**[20:22] ---**
since Your Excellency and B.B.
have had any dealings.
**[20:25] ---**
No need to worry. In the end,
she will choose me.
**[20:53] ---**
Incoming message from one of
the Bardeaux territory patrol ships.
**[20:55] ---**
It says that they will
accompany us to our destination.
**[20:58] ---**
I can see it now.
**[20:59] ---**
It looks cold.
**[21:01] ---**
Hmm, I'm starting to smell their fine wine.
**[21:05] ---**
Michel-sama, have a cup of tea
before you depart.
**[21:08] ---**
I made you some cinnamon ginger,
to warm your body with.
**[21:12] ---**
Mm-hmm, thanks.
**[21:13] ---**
There's an odd wind beginning to blow.
**[21:32] ---**
Your visitors have arrived.
**[21:37] ---**
Looks like there's going to be a snowstorm.
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"Like Constant Change"
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*It's twilight already in the
glass city of mistaken notions*
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*where we exchanged farewells
among the countless lights.*
**[22:00] ---**
*After making that pinky promise,
the finger that lied to you*
**[22:06] ---**
*developed a hangnail,
and still hurts a little even now.*
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*We called each other's names,
we spoke each other's names,*
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*and the world where you and I
once met keeps spinning around.*
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*After these tears fall,
will they be forgotten?*
**[22:25] ---**
*After the sadness melts away,
will I be able to see?*
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*Quivering and shimmering
in this glistening world,*
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*they grow cold and dry up
as I grasp them in my hands.*
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*Even if this world were made of nothing*
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*but lies and nonsense,
I probably wouldn't care.*
**[22:54] ---**
*Somewhere on this world,
I am here singing,*
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*so please, may you be
here on this world, smiling.*
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A grand resolution by the Duchess B.B.,
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who holds the fate
of the galaxy in her hands,
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inscribes a new page
into the history of mankind.
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Next time on Glass Fleet, "Like a Demon"
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"Like a Demon"
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The galaxy in revolution. Renaissance.