# 10 - The Pensive Doll
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GRZJ0M446/granbelm)
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**[00:02] Mangetsu**
What... is this?
**[00:05] Mangetsu**
What... What...
**[00:07] Shingetsu**
*Mangetsu!*
**[00:09] Suishou**
Do you understand now? That's the real you.
**[00:13] Suishou**
An empty doll that has absolutely nothing.
**[00:20] Suishou**
You were just... made.
***SIGN*** GRANBELM
***SIGN*** The Two Princeps
**[02:02] Shingetsu**
Mangetsu!
**[02:05] Shingetsu**
Mangetsu, get away!
**[02:06] Suishou**
Trying to protect her?
**[02:08] Suishou**
I suppose that makes sense.
**[02:12] Suishou**
You're the one who made her, after all.
**[02:15] Shingetsu**
Me?
**[02:16] Suishou**
*Yes, you built her...*
**[02:21] Suishou**
out of your loneliness, sadness, and despair.
**[02:25] Suishou**
*Magiaconatus responded to your feelings...*
**[02:29] Suishou**
To your desperate wish for a friend!
**[02:45] Suishou**
Doesn't that make you happy, Ernesta?
**[02:47] Suishou**
That's just how much Magiaconatus loves you.
**[02:52] Mangetsu**
Shingetsu-chan!
**[02:54] Suishou**
Don't you get it? All the feelings
you have toward Ernesta,
**[02:59] Suishou**
your wish to stay by her side,
**[03:01] Suishou**
and your determination to
fight along with her...
**[03:04] Suishou**
They're all fabricated.
**[03:06] Suishou**
You were made to be that way
from the very beginning.
**[03:10] Suishou**
Your ability to control that ARMANOX
**[03:14] Suishou**
and the release of your magical power
**[03:16] Suishou**
all happened because Magiaconatus
used its magic on you!
**[03:20] Suishou**
It's not your own power!
**[03:22] Suishou**
You're no more than a puppet!
**[03:31] Mangetsu**
She absorbed it...
**[03:33] Suishou**
Remember what I told you?
"I will be your mirror."
**[03:40] Suishou**
It won't work. What did I just tell you?
**[03:43] Suishou**
You're just a puppet that moves
the way Shingetsu wants you to.
**[03:48] Suishou**
A puppet that has nothing.
**[03:50] Shingetsu**
Mangetsu...
**[03:52] Suishou**
A completely empty doll!
**[04:09] Shingetsu**
Mangetsu...
**[04:12] Mangetsu**
Did you know... about me?
**[04:16] Shingetsu**
I'm sorry.
**[04:23] Mangetsu**
Shingetsu-chan! Over there!
**[04:25] Shingetsu**
Mangetsu...
**[04:35] Kuon**
Again?
**[04:54] Kuon**
I can hear...
**[04:56] Kuon**
Onee-chan's sound...
**[04:58] Kuon**
and what she's about to do.
**[05:03] (Flashback) Shisui**
Listen closely.
**[05:05] (Flashback) Shisui**
Feel what my fingers are doing.
**[05:13] Kuon**
*I see it... I can see it!*
**[05:15] Kuon**
*Beyond that point...*
**[05:19] Suishou**
No matter how fast you move...
**[05:23] Kuon**
*...is the key to Onee-chan's plan!*
**[05:28] Kuon**
Footsteps in the Silence!
**[05:33] Suishou**
Medusa!
**[05:52] Kuon**
I'm not done yet!
**[05:58] Mangetsu**
Kuon-chan!
**[05:59] Kuon**
Do it, please!
**[06:08] Mangetsu**
She's absorbing it all again?
**[06:11] Shingetsu**
She's trying to fill up on magic.
**[06:14] Shingetsu**
She's trying to avoid
releasing any magical power.
**[06:17] Shingetsu**
She's attacking enough to leave no openings,
**[06:20] Shingetsu**
but she just keeps absorbing all magic.
**[06:23] Mangetsu**
*What happens when she's all filled up?*
**[06:25] Shingetsu**
I doubt we'll escape unharmed.
**[06:28] Suishou**
This magic...
**[06:30] Suishou**
I just want to release it
once. I don't care where.
**[06:35] Kuon**
Onee-chan, why didn't you tell me?
**[06:43] Kuon**
If you had told me at the start, I...
**[06:48] (Flashback) Kuon**
You can't!
**[06:50] (Flashback) Kuon**
There are dozens of them, aren't there?
**[06:52] (Flashback) Kuon**
And you have to be the last
one left at the end, right?
**[06:56] (Flashback) Shisui**
That's why I have to.
**[06:59] (Flashback) Shisui**
To protect you.
**[07:03] Kuon**
I'm sorry.
**[07:05] Kuon**
After you did all that for me...
**[07:08] Suishou**
This is... Any more, and I'll...
**[07:12] Suishou**
How dare you?!
**[07:16] Suishou**
You're inside me, and you
think you can just—
**[07:23] Kuon**
Isn't my sister amazing?
**[07:26] Kuon**
She knew she couldn't win,
**[07:28] Kuon**
so she thought hard about how
she could make me a mage.
**[07:32] Kuon**
She surpassed and isolated time,
**[07:35] Kuon**
so that the two of us, together,
**[07:38] Kuon**
could have this one moment!
**[07:49] Kuon**
I'm not done!
**[07:56] suishou**
A magic circle?
**[07:58] Kuon**
This is the spell
**[08:00] Kuon**
my sister left behind for me.
**[08:07] Kuon**
Tenmu Ryuusei!
**[08:10] Suishou**
Medusa!
**[08:18] Mangetsu**
Kuon-chan!
**[08:44] Kuon**
Onee-chan...
**[08:49] Suishou**
I won't... Not while I still have
all this magic accumulated...
**[08:56] Suishou**
I will always...
**[09:15] Kuon**
Looks like I've turned the tables on you.
**[09:18] Suishou**
How...
**[09:21] Kuon**
I told you. My sister guided everything,
so it would turn out this way.
**[09:26] Kuon**
We will become the Princeps...
**[09:31] Kuon**
My sister and I.
**[09:40] Kuon**
My sister knows everything.
**[09:44] Kuon**
You didn't eat her back then.
**[09:48] Kuon**
My sister ate you.
**[09:59] Suishou**
I see you're human, too.
**[10:03] Suishou**
So thoroughly shallow, crude, and ugly.
**[10:09] Suishou**
Sorry, but that didn't hurt.
**[10:13] Suishou**
I feel no pain at all.
**[10:14] Suishou**
I didn't feel a thing.
**[10:22] Suishou**
How nice for you.
**[10:25] Suishou**
I'll let you two sisters be as one.
**[10:38] Kuon**
Onee-chan...
**[11:01] Mangetsu**
Kuon-chan?
**[11:04] Shingetsu**
It's...
**[11:06] Shingetsu**
The battle is ending...
**[11:22] Mangetsu**
My hands just look normal here.
**[11:25] Shingetsu**
Mangetsu...
**[11:27] Mangetsu**
Why?
**[11:30] Mangetsu**
Why didn't you tell me?
**[11:36] Nene**
We weren't trying to hide it from you.
**[11:39] Mangetsu**
Nene-chan...
**[11:41] Nene**
I told her right before the battle started.
**[11:44] Nene**
I just didn't have time to tell you.
**[11:48] Mangetsu**
So I'm... a doll?
**[11:55] Mangetsu**
I'm not human?
**[12:05] (Flashback) Nene**
That's right. You're a doll
created by Magiaconatus.
**[12:10] (Flashback) Nene**
With the power of its magic,
**[12:12] (Flashback) Nene**
you existed just like any human who
had been born and raised in this town.
**[12:18] (Flashback) Nene**
The magic of Magiaconatus even
created memories and emotions
**[12:23] (Flashback) Nene**
to plant inside you.
**[12:26] (Flashback) Mangetsu**
That's why...
**[12:33] Kibou**
I'm going now.
**[12:35] Kibou**
Wow, it's really coming down.
**[12:38] Mangetsu**
Kibou...
**[12:42] Kibou**
Who are you?
**[12:46] Kibou**
Mom! Someone's here!
**[12:55] Mangetsu**
Mom...
**[12:58] Mom**
Is there someone you're here to see?
**[13:11] Mangetsu**
I'm sorry!
**[14:08] Teacher**
Now, who can solve this problem?
**[14:10] Teacher**
How many seconds has it been?
**[14:12] Teacher**
Hmm... It's been 18 seconds,
so number 18, Iwata, you're up.
**[14:30] Teacher**
Okay, next is Hakamada.
**[14:34] Nene**
Drink this. It'll calm you down.
**[14:46] Mimi**
That should stabilize you a bit.
**[14:50] Mangetsu**
Stabilize?
**[14:51] Nene**
With the magic interference gone,
**[14:53] Nene**
your existence has become unstable.
**[14:56] Nene**
You'll be fine now, for a while.
**[14:59] Mimi**
Although, only mages can control magic,
**[15:02] Mimi**
so it's only the most basic solution.
**[15:05] Nene**
I'll get right to the point.
**[15:07] Nene**
You're not human.
**[15:09] Nene**
If left alone, your very existence
would vanish for sure.
**[15:14] Nene**
To prevent that from
happening, you need magic.
**[15:18] Mangetsu**
Magic...
**[15:21] Nene**
For example, if the Princeps mage
were to use magic on you...
**[15:27] Mangetsu**
You mean...
**[15:28] Mimi**
Unfortunately, there's no way a doll is
qualified to become the Princeps mage.
**[15:34] Mimi**
The only ones left who have that right
**[15:38] Mimi**
are that Suishou girl and Shingetsu-chan.
**[15:40] Mangetsu**
Just them? Then Kuon-chan really is...
**[15:46] Nene**
Kuon? Who's that? Do you know?
**[15:49] Nana**
No, I don't.
**[15:52] Mangetsu**
Kuon-chan, too...
**[15:55] Nene**
I see.
**[15:57] Nene**
That means there are some people who
lose their lives during the battle.
**[16:03] Mimi**
And when that happens, powerful magic
interference occurs in the area,
**[16:06] Mimi**
and their existence is erased.
**[16:09] Nana**
So that must have happened to
lots of other girls in the past.
**[16:13] Nana**
It's just that no one remembers them.
**[16:16] Mangetsu**
Why would that happen?
**[16:21] Mangetsu**
Isn't GRANBELM a battle to
become the one true mage?
**[16:25] Mangetsu**
We all go in that space and fight
to become the mage, right?
**[16:32] Nene**
That's what we thought.
**[16:35] Nene**
But we were wrong.
**[16:37] Nene**
It's just what someone, or something,
is leading us to believe.
**[16:42] Nene**
It lets us experience the hope
that we can become a mage,
**[16:44] Nene**
gets us to participate in GRANBELM,
**[16:47] Nene**
and erases any inconvenient truths
through magic interference.
**[16:50] Nene**
It created a doll and forced
it to join the battle,
**[16:54] Nene**
and it's even taking the fighters' lives.
**[16:56] Mangetsu**
Who is?
**[16:58] Nene**
Most likely...
**[17:00] Nene**
Magiaconatus.
**[17:06] Suishou**
Magiaconatus is searching
for the Princeps mage.
**[17:10] Suishou**
It seeks the one among the many candidates
**[17:12] Suishou**
whose heart is suited to the role.
**[17:16] Shingetsu**
Then why does it take their
lives and erase their existence?
**[17:22] Suishou**
It's all part of the test.
**[17:28] Suishou**
You don't get it?
**[17:29] Suishou**
Magic is a power too great for humans.
**[17:33] Suishou**
The chosen must have the heart
and strength to match it.
**[17:37] Suishou**
They can't be people who'll just use it to
fulfill their wishes or destroy things.
**[17:44] Shingetsu**
Stop it...
**[17:45] Suishou**
What's more, unlike when the
world was abundant in mages,
**[17:50] Suishou**
there can be only one Princeps mage.
**[17:53] Suishou**
That one is basically regarded as a god.
**[17:55] Suishou**
So, you could say this is a test of godhood.
**[17:58] Suishou**
Knowing that lives are taken
and existences are erased,
**[18:01] Suishou**
plus that your dearest
friend is actually a doll,
**[18:04] Suishou**
can you still strive to be that mage?
**[18:11] Suishou**
I'm going to tell you something.
**[18:13] Suishou**
You are loved by magic.
**[18:16] Suishou**
Magiaconatus has high hopes for you.
**[18:33] Suishou**
That's why you were blessed with
magic and power from birth,
**[18:36] Suishou**
and have been able to
demonstrate your talents.
**[18:41] Suishou**
You were being tested to see
whether you were fit to use them.
**[18:46] Suishou**
Surely this all rings a bell, doesn't it?
**[18:49] Shingetsu**
It can't be...
**[18:51] Suishou**
You don't even know
**[18:52] Suishou**
why you have no parents,
**[18:55] Suishou**
why the friend you made at the home that
took you in went mad with envy against you,
**[19:00] Suishou**
or why the one true friend
you found was a doll?
**[19:05] Shingetsu**
Impossible...
**[19:06] Suishou**
Oh, it's possible. Who do you
think you're dealing with?
**[19:10] Suishou**
It's a being comprised of all
the magical power in the world.
**[19:13] Suishou**
Even when sealed by humans, it can
do anything it sets out to do.
**[19:18] Suishou**
You are the Princeps mage candidate
most loved by Magiaconatus.
**[19:23] Suishou**
It expects you to win GRANBELM, overcome
all trials, and become that mage.
**[19:31] Shingetsu**
Me?
**[19:33] Suishou**
But...
**[19:37] Suishou**
I don't believe that. You...
**[19:41] Suishou**
No, the so-called human fit
to be a mage does not exist.
**[19:45] Suishou**
I will prove that by winning GRANBELM.
**[19:58] Nana**
Are you sure?
**[20:00] Mangetsu**
Yeah. I want some time to
think about things alone.
**[20:05] Mangetsu**
Thank you.
**[20:06] Mimi**
We have a spare room. You're
welcome to use it anytime.
**[20:10] Nene**
No one gave you permission to do that.
**[20:12] Mimi**
That means she's okay with it.
**[20:14] Mangetsu**
Okay. Bye.
**[20:17] Nene**
Make sure you talk this over.
**[20:19] Mangetsu**
Huh?
**[20:21] Nene**
With Shingetsu, I mean.
**[20:22] Nene**
We can't do everything for you, you know.
**[20:26] Nene**
I'm sure Shingetsu is thinking
about how she can help you.
**[20:33] Mangetsu**
Okay.
**[20:41] Mangetsu**
What should I say?
**[20:44] Mangetsu**
If Shingetsu-chan becomes the Princeps mage,
**[20:49] Mangetsu**
she can use her magic to save me,
**[20:51] Mangetsu**
to make sure I don't disappear.
**[20:55] Mangetsu**
But that would mean...
**[20:57] (Flashback) Shingetsu**
I want to truly erase all magic and mages
from this world once and for all.
**[21:01] Mangetsu**
...that magic wouldn't truly go away.
**[21:07] Mangetsu**
If I just disappeared now,
**[21:10] Mangetsu**
maybe Shingetsu-chan's
wish would come true...
**[21:14] Mangetsu**
But...
**[21:21] Mangetsu**
No!
**[21:24] Mangetsu**
No! No!
**[21:25] Mangetsu**
No!
**[21:37] Mangetsu**
I'm so scared.
**[21:39] Mangetsu**
Even though I'm not even alive...
I'm not even alive...
**[21:43] Mangetsu**
I'm not even alive!
**[21:46] Mangetsu**
It hurts...
**[21:55] Mangetsu**
I'm not even alive...
**[21:58] Mangetsu**
Why does it hurt?
**[22:17] Mangetsu**
Are you...
**[22:24] [SONG] Text**
To Be Continued
***SIGN*** Next Time
**[23:58] Na**
* As Mangetsu wanders in darkness*
* after learning what she truly is,*
**[24:03] Na**
* Shisui, who has lost her*
* sister, appears before her.*
**[24:06] Na**
* Coincidence and inevitability,*
* hope and despair...*
**[24:09] Na**
*In this world of interwoven feelings,*
**[24:12] Na**
* Mangetsu makes a decision*
* and runs toward the others.*
**[24:16] Na**
*Next time on* GRANBELM*,*
***SIGN*** Even If My Goodbye Doesn't Reach You
**[24:18] Na**
*"Even If My Goodbye Doesn't Reach You."*
**[24:22] Na**
*And then, the moon rises...*
***SIGN*** Look forward to the next episode!