23 - Checkmate is Called on a Gray Chess Board

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    It seemed like it had
    been decided long before
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    It seemed like we knew long ago
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    As if we followed an invisible line
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    We were led to each other,
    to an intersecting saison
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    Like how light and dark
    are two sides of the same coin
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    I was captivated by mystification
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    When I turned around toward the voice
    that whispered in my ear
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    The door had opened before I realized
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    Like joining a little
    chance with inevitability
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    Two histoires were set into motion, ah
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    Continuing on forever
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    The white king is protected by the knight,
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    moving for a slow victory.
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    But the black rook is tinged with ash.
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    It will bring change to the chessboard.
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    "Early Spring, 1925"
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    It seems Germany has finally
    begun their invasion of Poland.
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    But we of Saubure,
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    thanks to the chairman of the
    Academy of Sciences, Jupiter Roger,
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    have chosen to show proper love
    to our dear citizens.
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    There is no reason for our country
    to stain its hands with war.
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    Let the light of peace
    shine from all windows.
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    Roger's work is truly splendid.
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    But it's such a shame.
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    If only he was truly working
    for the sake of our country,
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    and not for his own personal ambitions.
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    Blois, are you--?
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    Do you know of the Kingdom
    of Saillune, Majesty?
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    Saillune?
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    Saillune, he said?
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    Those wretched Gray Wolves...
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    Here, white, which had the
    overwhelming advantage, falters.
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    The next thing they know...
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    Bad bishop.
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    The Gray Wolves of the Kingdom of Saillune,
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    their terrible intelligence feared,
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    have been pursued throughout
    Saubure's history.
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    They still bear a grudge against Saubure.
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    And...
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    ...their people have a custom
    of keeping a memento box.
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    This is the evidence of one man's life.
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    A descendant of the Kingdom of Saillune,
    born in the village of the gray wolves.
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    Isn't that right?
    You are the owner of this box,
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    Jupiter Roger.
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    What?
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    --Roger is?
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    --R-Roger...
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    --That can't be!
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    He hid his tainted origins
    to ingratiate himself to the palace.
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    He deceived the former king
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    and became president of the
    vaunted Academy of Sciences.
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    But it was all to take control of Saubure
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    and revive the Kingdom of Saillune.
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    This is the covenant
    written by Jupiter Roger...
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    ...deceiving the former king.
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    Peace, you say?
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    This war will have a great influence
    on the world map in the future.
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    If we do not get involved in this war,
    Saubure's power will surely falter.
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    Roger knew that!
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    Roger, is this true?
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    Answer me, Roger!
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    Your Majesty... I...
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    The traitor escaped!
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    He really was a wolf...
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    We'll send out a search party at once.
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    No need. A wolf whose fangs
    have been pulled will die of hunger.
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    The chessboard speaks.
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    The scuffle in the box garden is over.
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    The stage for the next game will be...
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    "Episode 23"
    "Checkmate is Called on a Gray Chess Board"
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    Hey, where are those planes from?
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    Hey, it's the army!
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    Move! Open the road!
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    Do you want to die?
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    My son! My son!
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    What the heck?
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    Must be an urgent summons.
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    My son!
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    Do not ever let go.
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    What?
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    Never let go...
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    ...of your soul.
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    Cordelia, I will...
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    I will protect you, Cordelia.
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    And I must protect Victorique.
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    The wolf cub is being kept
    in the palace's dungeon.
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    We can't reach her.
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    I can't just let her die.
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    She is my soul.
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    We'll find a chance.
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    I see...
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    You're going back to England too, Avril?
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    Yeah...
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    Okay! Then let's give our last class
    everything we've got!
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    Okay, anyone know this one?
    Raise your hand!
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    No one? Then I'll call on someone!
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    Okay, Avril!
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    Monstre Charmant!
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    Monstre Charmant!
    Monstre Charmant! Monstre Charmant!
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    Monstre Charmant, eh?
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    I hear the Ministry of the Occult has it.
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    Is that what they're all riled up about?
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    Miss! Please get to safety over here.
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    What a pain in the butt.
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    Kujo...
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    Victorique...
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    Today, on behalf of the
    Ministry of the Occult,
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    I have come here to ask
    the police's assistance,
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    Superintendent General Signore.
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    So you're the Ministry of the Occult's
    lapdog now, Grévil?
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    Grévil!
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    Jacqueline...
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    You sent that boy back to his home country!
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    How could you trick him like that?
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    I know you're not that kind of person...
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    Grévil!
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    I'm putting my father's plan into action.
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    That's my role as eldest son.
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    But...
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    Who's there?
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    Blois, is it?
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    I told the messenger from Germany
    that we will fight alongside them.
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    Saubure will finally take its place
    on the world stage.
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    The world stage, eh?
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    The people are crying.
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    To build a kingdom on their grief...
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    Am I throwing innocent people
    into an ocean of lamentation?
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    Making them cry tears of blood...
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    ...with my own hands...
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    What are you talking about?
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    In service to your jealousy and pride,
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    you even killed love.
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    The blood on your hands
    can never be cleansed.
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    You have no reason to fear staining them
    with a little more blood.
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    And this is not for black desire,
    like that was.
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    It is for the sake of your duty.
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    That's right.
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    I killed love.
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    You killed love.
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    Armies from various countries are currently
    assembling in Saubrème and reorganizing.
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    Over 80% of the nobles support you,
    Marquis de Blois.
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    Who are they?
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    Volunteer soldiers.
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    Countrymen devoted to Monstre Charmant
    are scrambling to be the first to the palace,
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    hoping to become her heart.
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    To acquire the beautiful monster alive...
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    ...it is like obtaining power itself.
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    Monstre Charmant! Monstre Charmant!
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    Certain of Saubure's victory,
    the people lean in favor of war.
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    Right now, this entire country
    serves the Ministry of the Occult.
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    Monstre Charmant has
    one more role to fulfill.
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    The queen moves east.
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    But the black knight...
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    Monstre Charmant.
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    The treaty with Germany is signed.
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    How will they move next?
    The world? Saubure?
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    The strategy is laid out on that chessboard.
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    Now, predict it!
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    Not even offering a proper hello.
    What a boor.
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    I prepared all of these books for you.
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    This is no different than the library tower
    you have lived in until now.
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    It's true, I told you
    to bring books to this place.
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    A wise man from the past
    has told me everything...
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    And about your schemes, too.
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    What?
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    Leviathan's memoir told me...
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    ...of the homunculus you
    longed for for many years.
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    I see you finally made it.
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    When you were young,
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    you believed wholeheartedly
    in the alchemist, Leviathan.
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    You dreamed of creating a homunculus.
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    But Leviathan's so-called alchemy
    was merely a trick.
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    You realized the truth that no one else did.
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    It scarred you deeply.
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    Was it possible that the occult
    held no power after all?
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    But you did not give up.
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    The country danced for Leviathan's lies,
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    expending a great deal of gold
    and military power.
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    That is when you realized it...
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    That the occult had the power
    to move people's hearts.
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    Damn you! I won't permit any more heresy!
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    You would create puppets that
    would dance on your strings,
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    just as you had danced
    for Leviathan before.
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    They would be your homunculi.
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    And those homunculi
    are now pawns in your hands.
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    You do indeed believe in the power
    of the occult more than anyone.
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    In its power as a fraud that
    enchants people's hearts.
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    An excellent deduction.
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    I have already set this country in motion.
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    The Academy of Sciences
    has been driven out.
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    Rupert is my pawn.
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    The country is overflowing
    with my homunculi.
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    And the same goes for you, Gray Wolf.
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    You taste like my blood.
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    You are also a homunculus I made.
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    You are mine.
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    Your blood, your flesh,
    and your wellspring of wisdom.
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    It all exists for myself alone.
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    Like the library tower,
    there are many books here.
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    There is much knowledge here.
[14:04] ---
    But...
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    ...you are not here.
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    All done?
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    Hey, you stayed behind?
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    Those look sweet.
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    They're not at all.
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    I'm out of a job.
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    You can stay with me for a while.
    I don't have any family.
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    When the war is over,
    I have to go look for those kids.
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    No matter what.
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    You're a good teacher.
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    Let me help, too.
[14:52] ---
    Okay.
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    Those kids...
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    ...where are they now?
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    "Winter, 1925"
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    What are you spacing out for?
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    Listen up.
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    Even if you are the son of an officer,
    here, you're just one soldier!
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    Remember that, all of you!
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    Yes, sir!
[15:12] ---
    Disperse!
[15:16] ---
    Can you stand?
[15:17] ---
    Thanks.
[15:18] ---
    He's pretty unreasonable, huh?
[15:20] ---
    It's okay.
[15:21] ---
    I'm used to unreasonable people
    being mad at me.
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    "Victorique."
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    Fire!
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    "I'm up north right now.
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    Even if we're far away,
    I'll never forget you.
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    After all...
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    After all, I have..."
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    What's that?
[15:50] ---
    Th-That's...
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    Flashy nonsense.
[15:53] ---
    I'm confiscating this!
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    Damn you!
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    I won't give it up!
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    What was that?!
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    I'm... sorry...
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    But... I can't... give it to you.
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    "I still have...
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    ...the ring you gave me.
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    This ring is giving me power."
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    This pendant is giving me power.
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    No matter how far away we are,
    even if you are not here...
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    ...I...
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    What, it's the son?
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    In everything, from your
    footsteps to your smell,
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    you've become exactly like your father.
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    Tomorrow, the Ministry of the Occult
[17:11] ---
    will be holding Albert de Blois's
    prime ministerial inauguration.
[17:16] ---
    He wants to show you off then.
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    Put this on.
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    The Monstre Charmant I wore then
    was purple and dazzling.
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    But this dress...
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    It's black.
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    I...
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    Even so, I...
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    As long as you have this pendant,
    I'll always be by your side.
[18:07] ---
    I'll always be by your side.
[18:18] ---
    Another storm has come.
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    Its scale will be far beyond
    that of the last war.
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    Right now, if we cannot stand,
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    Europe and its ancient history
    will be destroyed.
[18:32] ---
    But our country, Saubure, is different.
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    We have the power to stand.
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    I stand here today
    with all of you in celebration
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    of the fact that Saubure
    has a promised future.
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    This will be a glorious battle.
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    For even if we are hurt,
    we have victory promised to us.
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    Because...
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    ...we have Monstre Charmant on our side!
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    Monstre Charmant!
[19:05] ---
    Monstre Charmant!
[19:07] ---
    Monstre Charmant!
    Monstre Charmant! Monstre Charmant!
[19:13] ---
    Monstre Charmant! Monstre Charmant!
    Monstre Charmant!
[19:19] ---
    I...
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    I do not promise this.
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    A promise is something shining that exists
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    only between hearts and souls that resound.
[19:36] ---
    This country has no promise for its future.
[19:41] ---
    What it does have...
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    ...Albert...
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    ...is a contract for destruction
    stained by your lies!
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    You...
[19:52] ---
    It's been a while...
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    ...Albert de Blois.
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    Mama!
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    Take me back! Because of me, Mama is--
[20:08] ---
    That's right.
[20:13] ---
    Because of you, Cordelia is--
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    Gray Wolf!
[20:21] ---
    You remember me, Albert?
[20:24] ---
    I haven't forgotten you, either.
[20:26] ---
    The floor of that gray tower...
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    The feel of that floor so cold,
    it froze me down to my heart.
[20:35] ---
    My body still remains frozen through.
[20:38] ---
    To warm me up, set my blood flowing again,
[20:41] ---
    and prepare the first bath for my child...
[20:45] ---
    ...I must have flame!
[20:48] ---
    Fire!
[20:58] ---
    Curse you!
[21:11] ---
    I should have finished you off
    long ago, Gray Wolf!
[21:15] ---
    I won't let you play with
    my daughter anymore, Albert!
[21:28] ---
    Cordelia...
[21:29] ---
    In order to protect you...
    she chose to take your place!
[21:35] ---
    And my other half...
[21:38] ---
    In order to see Cordelia's hopes realized...
[21:41] ---
    ...he chose to help her.
[21:44] ---
    Not for you!
[21:46] ---
    But because she would rather
    kill herself than lose you.
[21:50] ---
    Because Cordelia would cry.
[21:53] ---
    She would cry!
[21:55] ---
    She would cry without shedding
    a tear... or letting out a sob.
[22:00] ---
    But...
[22:08] ---
    But I'm different.
[22:10] ---
    I'll cut off the source of Cordelia's tears.
[22:13] ---
    Here and now, I will...
[22:15] ---
    ...kill you!
[22:23] ---
    C...
[22:25] ---
    Cor...
[22:34] ---
    Cordelia!
[22:54] ---
    Flames... burn...
[22:57] ---
    Burn... and illuminate...
[23:02] ---
    ...her future.
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    On that morning's calm sea, I saw it.
[24:17] ---
    Your hair, flowing in eternal light.
[24:20] ---
    I have something I can believe in.
[24:23] ---
    I write your name on something certain.
[24:25] ---
    "Next Episode"
    "Eternity is Seen Over the Reaper's Shoulder"
[24:26] ---
    --Victorique.
[24:26] ---
    --Kujo.