# 9 - NOCTURNE Changes Colors
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GRZJ0M446/granbelm)
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**[00:11] Nene**
* The magical signature in this*
* spot is massively abnormal.*
**[00:14] Nene**
*This goes beyond just normal strength.*
**[00:22] Nene**
* It's as if a powerful barrier has*
* been placed around this entire house.*
**[00:28] Nene**
*And at its center is...*
**[00:31] Nene**
*Kohinata Mangetsu.*
**[00:34] Nene**
*It can't be...*
**[00:37] Nene**
*It can't be...*
**[00:39] Nene**
*It can't be!*
***SIGN*** GRANBELM
***SIGN*** The Two Princeps
**[02:19] (Flashback) Kuon**
Onee-chan...
**[02:22] (Flashback) Shisui**
Don't look so sad.
**[02:25] (Flashback) Kuon**
Are you really okay?
**[02:30] (Flashback) Shisui**
The only way to protect you
from them is to become a mage.
**[02:36] (Flashback) Shisui**
It's the only way to get
them to leave us alone.
**[02:42] (Flashback) Kuon**
Onee-chan... You don't have to...
**[02:45] (Flashback) Shisui**
It's all right. I can win.
**[02:48] (Flashback) shisui**
Someday...
**[02:51] (Flashback) Shisui**
I promise.
**[02:58] (Flashback) Shisui**
If I don't come back,
**[03:00] (Flashback) Shisui**
hide in this location.
**[03:01] (Flashback) Kuon**
Just forget about GRANBELM!
**[03:03] (Flashback) Kuon**
I can deal with it!
**[03:05] (Flashback) Kuon**
Even if they take me, I...
**[03:12] (Flashback) Kuon**
Onee-chan...
**[03:16] (Flashback) Shisui**
I'm sorry.
**[03:26] (Flashback) Shisui**
Wait... please...
**[03:30] (Flashback) Shisui**
Suishou...
***SIGN*** Message
Mangetsu-chan
Where are you?
Tap to see more
***SIGN*** Morning!
***SIGN*** Can we meet up?
**[03:49] Mangetsu**
It says she's read it,
but there's no reply...
**[03:52] Shingetsu**
I see.
**[03:54] Shingetsu**
Maybe it's best not to rely on her.
**[03:57] Mangetsu**
Do you think she intends to fight by herself?
**[04:00] Shingetsu**
Those fighting in GRANBELM
normally do so alone, anyway.
**[04:07] Shingetsu**
All right, let's begin.
**[04:10] Shingetsu**
Relax.
**[04:15] Mangetsu**
I know I said this before,
**[04:17] Mangetsu**
but it really does look real.
**[04:20] Mangetsu**
It feels just the same, too.
**[04:22] Shingetsu**
The technique is projecting a part of
your memory into your optic nerves.
**[04:27] Shingetsu**
Like if you could dream
while you were awake.
**[04:34] Mangetsu**
Okay, here goes.
**[04:38] Shingetsu**
Spirits have their own consciousness,
though it can be faint.
**[04:46] Shingetsu**
That means they can be cautious,
**[04:48] Shingetsu**
but it's also possible to
get them to befriend you.
**[04:51] Mangetsu**
So they're kinda like pets?
**[04:53] Shingetsu**
Just projecting your own mental image
like you've done before won't be enough.
**[05:00] Shingetsu**
You need to establish an accord with
the spirit to allow you to approach it.
**[05:04] Mangetsu**
Okay.
**[05:06] Shingetsu**
Pull the strings in,
**[05:07] Shingetsu**
drawing the magical power
at the other end toward you.
**[05:15] Shingetsu**
What happened?
**[05:16] Mangetsu**
Nothing... I'm okay.
**[05:18] Mangetsu**
I'll try one more time.
**[05:40] Shingetsu**
Let's take a break.
**[05:45] Mangetsu**
I know I can do it...
**[05:46] Shingetsu**
We have time. No need to rush.
**[05:50] Mangetsu**
But you can't fight in
the next battle, can you?
**[05:55] Shingetsu**
Considering the damage I took
last time, probably not.
**[06:07] Suishou**
You showed up.
**[06:09] Suishou**
I didn't think you would.
**[06:13] Suishou**
You heard, didn't you?
**[06:15] Kuon**
Heard what?
**[06:18] Suishou**
The truth.
**[06:23] Suishou**
"Please..."
**[06:26] Shisui**
"Please... eat me."
**[06:30] Kuon**
You're making her say that, aren't you?!
**[06:32] Kuon**
You're using that curse!
**[06:33] Suishou**
If you really believed that,
**[06:36] Suishou**
you wouldn't have come here.
**[06:40] Suishou**
It's the truth.
**[06:42] Suishou**
Your sister Shisui wanted me to eat her.
**[06:48] Kuon**
You're lying...
**[06:49] Suishou**
You heard it out of her mouth—
**[06:51] Kuon**
You're lying!
**[06:52] Suishou**
Why don't you ask her, then?
**[06:54] Suishou**
Ask the part of her soul that's inside me.
**[07:01] Kuon**
Onee-chan...
**[07:05] Shisui**
Kuon.
**[07:15] Suishou**
You were just a burden.
**[07:20] Suishou**
I got tired of looking after you.
**[07:32] Suishou**
How nice...
**[07:34] Suishou**
It's just like turbulence on an airplane,
**[07:36] Suishou**
the way your emotions
abruptly rise and fall...
**[07:43] Suishou**
I love those eyes.
**[07:50] Suishou**
Hear me, mage,
**[07:53] Suishou**
girl who has been chosen by
Magiaconatus to be the Princeps...
**[07:59] Suishou**
It is only by embracing your wounds—
including ones you have yet to experience—
**[08:05] Suishou**
that a mage can be born.
**[08:10] Mangetsu**
No... No!
**[08:14] Shingetsu**
Are you all right?
**[08:16] Mangetsu**
Sorry I couldn't get it to come out.
**[08:19] Mangetsu**
I guess I'm still just a klutz.
**[08:22] Shingetsu**
No, it's not your fault.
**[08:25] Shingetsu**
If I had explained it more clearly...
**[08:28] Mangetsu**
That's not it at all. It's my fault.
**[08:32] Mangetsu**
I just... can't help remembering...
**[08:35] Mangetsu**
that white place of nothingness...
**[08:39] Shingetsu**
As I told you before,
**[08:41] Shingetsu**
there's no way you have nothing.
**[08:45] Shingetsu**
Someone who had nothing wouldn't
be of such help to me.
**[08:50] Mangetsu**
Shingetsu-chan...
**[08:57] Mangetsu**
*Please... Shingetsu-chan...*
**[09:01] Mangetsu**
*I'm doing this for Shingetsu-chan.*
**[09:03] Mangetsu**
*I want to protect Shingetsu-chan!*
**[09:06] Mangetsu**
*Tell me your name.*
**[09:20] Mangetsu**
Is this...
**[09:22] Shingetsu**
It's a spirit.
**[09:24] Shingetsu**
A summoned spirit that you called here...
**[09:28] Shingetsu**
Orca.
**[09:31] Mangetsu**
So this is...
**[09:36] Shingetsu**
What's important is that you don't
forget what you're feeling right now.
**[09:41] Mangetsu**
Okay! I'll practice!
**[09:45] Mangetsu**
Here. To thank you.
**[09:47] Shingetsu**
What did I tell you before?
**[09:49] Shingetsu**
I don't eat in the evenings.
**[09:50] Mangetsu**
Aw, it's fine. I want to eat
with you, Shingetsu-chan.
**[10:03] Shingetsu**
It's good!
**[10:04] Mangetsu**
Right?
**[10:07] Shingetsu**
I can't get into the habit of
buying food to immediately eat.
**[10:11] Nene**
Got a minute?
**[10:15] Shingetsu**
You're...
**[10:36] Mangetsu**
I can't see anything.
**[10:39] Mangetsu**
*Shingetsu-chan?*
**[10:41] Shingetsu**
Yes?
**[10:42] Mangetsu**
*How does it feel? Think you can move?*
**[10:48] Shingetsu**
I'm all right.
**[10:50] Mangetsu**
*Are you okay?*
**[10:51] Shingetsu**
Yes.
**[10:55] Mangetsu**
Stay here, Shingetsu-chan!
**[10:57] Shingetsu**
*Wait!*
**[10:58] Shingetsu**
*I'll go.*
**[11:00] Mangetsu**
Huh?
**[11:01] Shingetsu**
*Get as far away as possible.*
**[11:04] (Flashback) Nene**
There's no doubt about it.
**[11:06] (Flashback) Nene**
That girl, Kohinata Mangetsu, is...
**[11:11] Mangetsu**
Shingetsu-chan?!
**[11:18] Mangetsu**
What?!
**[11:24] Shingetsu**
It vanished?
**[11:25] Mangetsu**
*Shingetsu-chan, where are you?*
**[11:27] Shingetsu**
Stay back, Mangetsu!
**[11:29] Mangetsu**
*But why—*
**[11:30] Shingetsu**
The magic is unstable... A barrier?
**[11:41] Shingetsu**
Suishou...
**[11:43] Kuon**
*Be careful.*
**[11:44] Shingetsu**
Kuon?
**[11:46] Kuon**
She's using that staff to
control powerful magic.
**[11:49] Kuon**
And...
**[11:55] Kuon**
Her spirit is powerful, too.
**[12:03] Shingetsu**
Where's it coming from?
**[12:06] Mangetsu**
Shingetsu-chan! Shingetsu-chan!
**[12:15] Mangetsu**
What is that?!
**[12:18] Kuon**
Suishou's spirit...
**[12:20] Mangetsu**
*Shingetsu-chan! Shingetsu-chan!*
**[12:23] Kuon**
Mangetsu?
**[12:30] Kuon**
She's fast!
**[12:32] Kuon**
Mangetsu?
**[12:35] Kuon**
Mangetsu... Mangetsu!
**[12:49] Kuon**
Power of the earth, which
exists within all things...
**[13:08] Mangetsu**
What...
**[13:08] Shingetsu**
This is...
**[13:10] Kuon**
*A trap.*
**[13:10] Kuon**
It was intended to make the
three of us fight each other.
**[13:17] Suishou**
I mean, it's three against one.
**[13:19] Suishou**
You've got to give me this much, at least.
**[13:22] Suishou**
Ah...
**[13:23] Suishou**
I suppose it's actually two against one...
**[13:32] Suishou**
How very savage.
**[13:34] Suishou**
I just love how the color of
your heart fluctuates.
**[13:39] Kuon**
Shut up!
**[13:41] Kuon**
Child of the earth!
**[13:46] Mangetsu**
Kuon-chan!
**[13:48] Shingetsu**
Don't!
**[13:49] Mangetsu**
Why—
**[13:50] Suishou**
*Because then you would...*
**[13:52] Mangetsu**
Kuon-chan!
**[13:53] Suishou**
*...find out the truth.*
**[13:56] Suishou**
The truth about what you really are.
**[14:00] Mangetsu**
The truth?
**[14:02] Suishou**
The fact that you are nothing.
**[14:05] Suishou**
Right, Shingetsu?
**[14:12] Mangetsu**
You keep saying these things
to make us feel terrible,
**[14:16] Mangetsu**
and to rile us up!
**[14:17] Suishou**
Very well. Come to me.
**[14:19] Suishou**
I will be your mirror.
**[14:23] Mangetsu**
*Shingetsu-chan, why...*
**[14:29] Mangetsu**
What is it that you know?
**[14:32] Suishou**
Shingetsu Ernesta...
**[14:34] Suishou**
You'd better restrain yourself,
**[14:36] Suishou**
or I'll tell them everything!
**[14:57] Shingetsu**
This is...
**[14:58] Shingetsu**
a spirit?
**[15:01] Suishou**
It's the one who crawls, Medusa.
**[15:05] Suishou**
Do your best. Before I defeat you...
**[15:11] Suishou**
I'll bring this all to an end.
**[15:15] Kuon**
Footsteps in the Silence!
**[15:30] Suishou**
Now, that's no good. Your heart
is already such a mess.
**[15:35] Suishou**
If you're wavering that much...
**[15:39] Suishou**
You're unworthy.
**[15:43] Kuon**
Onee-chan...
**[15:48] Suishou**
*I'll eat you, too.*
**[15:52] Suishou**
*Let's be together, Kuon.*
**[15:58] Mangetsu**
*The truth? The truth about what I really am?*
**[16:07] Shingetsu**
Mangetsu...
**[16:09] Mangetsu**
I can't think about it!
**[16:11] Mangetsu**
That's what she wants.
**[16:16] Mangetsu**
Orca!
**[16:37] Suishou**
Well? How do you feel?
**[16:42] Kuon**
Stop... using that voice...
**[16:45] Shisui**
*I just can't help thinking...*
**[16:49] Shisui**
*If only she weren't around...*
**[16:52] Shisui**
*Eat me.*
**[16:54] Kuon**
Stop! Stay out of my head!
**[16:57] Suishou**
*Don't you recognize me? I'm your sister.*
**[17:00] Kuon**
Stop! Stop!
**[17:02] Kuon**
Stop!
**[17:04] Suishou**
*It's your big sister, who just loves Suishou.*
**[17:10] Kuon**
Stop...
**[17:11] Suishou**
*Go on, say it. Say, "Eat me."*
**[17:16] Suishou**
*"Please eat me."*
**[17:19] Suishou**
See?
**[17:25] Kuon**
Please...
**[17:30] Kuon**
Me, too...
**[17:54] Kuon**
This sound...
**[17:56] Kuon**
Onee-chan...
**[18:34] Suishou**
You little—
**[18:46] Kuon**
Onee-chan...
**[18:48] Kuon**
Onee-chan, you were with me this whole time...
**[18:53] (Flashback) Shisui**
I'm sorry.
**[19:06] Suishou**
What's this?
**[19:07] Suishou**
Further abusing your victim, now?
**[19:09] Kuon**
You're not the victim here.
**[19:12] Kuon**
*You don't get it?*
**[19:15] Kuon**
You don't know why my sister was eaten?
**[19:17] Kuon**
Why she asked to be eaten?
**[19:19] Kuon**
You were fooled.
**[19:22] Kuon**
My sister fooled you!
**[19:25] Kuon**
My sister got you to eat her on purpose!
**[19:27] Kuon**
All to defeat you!
**[19:29] Suishou**
Wha—
**[19:30] Kuon**
I finally understand.
**[19:32] (Flashback) Kuon**
You can't!
**[19:33] (Flashback) Kuon**
There are dozens of them, aren't there?
**[19:35] (Flashback) Kuon**
And you have to be the last
one left at the end, right?
**[19:40] (Flashback) Shisui**
That's why I have to.
**[19:43] (Flashback) Shisui**
To protect you.
**[19:47] Kuon**
What my sister said... meant the same thing!
**[19:55] Suishou**
As if that's—
**[19:57] Suishou**
She's fast!
**[20:06] Kuon**
Child of the earth!
**[20:32] Mangetsu**
Wow...
**[20:36] Shingetsu**
This is...
**[20:38] Shingetsu**
the power of SETSGETS BAIKA...
**[20:44] Kuon**
Onee-chan...
**[21:11] Kuon**
What?
**[21:15] Suishou**
Well?
**[21:17] Suishou**
It's a lovely doll, isn't it?
**[21:20] Mangetsu**
That's...
**[21:30] Mangetsu**
Kuon-chan!
**[21:33] Mangetsu**
Don't!
**[21:34] Shingetsu**
Mangetsu!
**[21:36] (Flashback) Shingetsu**
Then... Mangetsu...
**[21:39] (Flashback) Shingetsu**
Mangetsu is...
**[21:41] (Flashback) Shingetsu**
She's...
**[21:42] Suishou**
So you came after all,
**[21:44] Suishou**
Kohinata Mangetsu!
**[23:44] Mangetsu**
What... is this?
**[23:54] [SONG] Text**
To Be Continued
***SIGN*** Next Time
**[23:58] Na**
* The truth she has learned*
* gouges out her heart,*
**[24:01] Na**
* wounds her, and robs her*
* of the desire to live.*
**[24:05] Na**
* Nonetheless, the sound of*
* the piano echoing in her heart*
**[24:08] Na**
*calls Kuon's magical power forth,*
**[24:10] Na**
*and the piano duet heard as night falls*
**[24:12] Na**
*locks on to a shining victory.*
**[24:16] Na**
*Next time on* GRANBELM*,*
**[24:17] Na**
*"The Pensive Doll."*
***SIGN*** The Pensive Doll
**[24:20] Na**
* A scream of despair echoes*
* through the night sky.*
***SIGN*** Look forward to the next episode!