E10 - Bygone Banyue Days

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    General Millstone, try to stay calm!
[00:21] ---
    Is that the Grand Preceptor
    hanging over the Sinners' Pit?
[00:24] ---
    That's right!
[00:25] ---
    I made sure to drag that
    traitor to the grave with me!
[00:28] ---
    Whenever I get
    my hands on her, I hang her!
[00:32] ---
    So for all these years, every time
    you caught the Grand Preceptor,
[00:36] ---
    you would hang her over the Sinners' Pit?
[00:39] ---
    Yes, and hanging was too good for her!
[00:42] ---
    After she died, that witch hunted
    down my Wrath soldiers
[00:45] ---
    and threw them into the pit!
[00:47] ---
    She set up a magical formation around it
[00:49] ---
    to ensure that none who fell
    in could ever climb out again.
[00:51] ---
    I had to listen to their
    howling night after night.
[00:57] ---
    All I could do was toss down a few Central
    Plains merchants from time to time,
[01:03] ---
    so they could feed.
[01:05] ---
    I had no other choice.
[01:10] ---
    What about that half-buried face
    in the royal palace?
[01:11] ---
    Was that your handiwork?
[01:13] ---
    We had to fertilize the
    Good-Moon herb somehow.
[01:15] ---
    Otherwise, we'd have no way
    to deal with those vile snakes.
[01:19] ---
    It seems that even though Millstone
    and his soldiers were no longer human,
[01:22] ---
    they still feared the
    scorpion-tailed snakes.
[01:25] ---
    So why didn't the Grand Preceptor
    wield her snakes against them
[01:28] ---
    instead of letting herself
    be hanged so easily?
[01:32] ---
    Besides, it's rather strange that she let
    her snakes out of the city to attack humans.
[01:35] ---
    It's almost as if she wanted
    to lure people back into the city,
[01:37] ---
    so that Millstone could
    feed them to his soldiers.
[01:39] ---
    But if they're enemies,
    why would she help him?
[01:42] ---
    And there's another thing
    that's troubling me...
[01:48] ---
    General Millstone,
    when we entered the city just now,
[01:50] ---
    we saw two figures,
    one in black and one in white--
[04:28] ---
    What happened, Millstone?
[04:31] ---
    "What happened"?!
[04:33] ---
    You pushed them all off!
[04:35] ---
    You demon Daoist!
    You killed them!
[04:39] ---
    I should hang you a thousand times over!
    Ten thousand times!
[04:43] ---
    Demon Daoist?
[04:46] ---
    So she's the Half-Moon Grand Preceptor?
[04:49] ---
    Wait. Who are these people?
[05:32] ---
    All right.
[05:34] ---
    "All right"?! Are you happy now?
[05:38] ---
    They're all dead, finally!
[05:41] ---
    Millstone, it's all over at last.
    We're finally free.
[05:49] ---
    Was it you who killed those soldiers?
[05:52] ---
    That was an accident.
[05:55] ---
    Nonsense!
[06:00] ---
    Who are you?
[06:01] ---
    I'm a heavenly official. And this is...
[06:05] ---
    This is a friend of mine.
[06:13] ---
    No heavenly officials
    have ever come here before.
[06:16] ---
    I thought you'd given up on us.
[06:21] ---
    Do you want to leave?
[06:23] ---
    Of course we do.
[06:25] ---
    But there's a magical formation here.
    We can't get out.
[06:38] ---
    It's gone now. You're free to go.
[06:41] ---
    So she was the one who put it there.
[06:43] ---
    Then who were those
    black- and white-robed figures?
[06:49] ---
    Hello?
[06:57] ---
    If no one's down there, I'm leaving!
[06:58] ---
    Fu Yao! Down here!
[07:01] ---
    What else is down there?
[07:03] ---
    Come see for yourself!
[07:07] ---
    He really is down there?
[07:24] ---
    They're all dead!
[07:28] ---
    These piled-up bodies... Are they all...?
[07:40] ---
    San Lang...
[07:53] ---
    Weren't you supposed
    to look after the caravan?
[07:55] ---
    You've been gone for six hours.
[07:57] ---
    So I drew a protection circle
    around them and came to find you.
[08:02] ---
    They must have thought
    you'd abandoned them.
[08:05] ---
    If they want to risk their lives,
    there's not much I can do about it.
[08:17] ---
    Who are these people?
[08:18] ---
    This is the Half-Moon Grand Preceptor,
    and that is General Millstone.
[08:23] ---
    --Now they--
    --Yah!
[08:25] ---
    You demon! I'll kill you!
[08:27] ---
    You'll pay for this in blood!
[08:36] ---
    You despicable traitor!
[08:39] ---
    Where's your scorpion-tailed snake now?
[08:42] ---
    Go on, bite me!
[08:45] ---
    Millstone, I can't control
    the snakes anymore--
[08:48] ---
    Nonsense! Then why don't they bite you?
[08:50] ---
    I'm sorry.
[08:54] ---
    I'm... I'm sorry.
[08:57] ---
    You're sorry?
[09:04] ---
    Will your apologies bring
    my men back to life?
[09:09] ---
    But I--
[09:10] ---
    Traitor!
[09:19] ---
    I'll hang you every time I catch you!
[09:27] ---
    General, take it easy!
    Let's talk this out.
[09:44] ---
    It's you!
[09:45] ---
    G-General Hua?
[09:51] ---
    Let him cool off for a bit.
[09:59] ---
    Do you two know each other?
[10:04] ---
    Half-Moon?
[10:07] ---
    You still remember me, General?
[10:10] ---
    Of course I do. But...
[10:13] ---
    ...what happened to you?
[10:17] ---
    I'm terribly sorry, Captain.
    I... I made a mess of things.
[10:26] ---
    General? Captain?
    What's he on about?
[10:32] ---
    Hold on. Are you that
    general from the tombstone?
[10:37] ---
    Yes, that was my tomb.
[10:40] ---
    What exactly is going on here?
[10:43] ---
    Well... It's a long story.
[10:48] ---
    Two hundred years ago, I had to lie low
    for a while, for one reason or another.
[10:54] ---
    So I took my compass and headed south.
[10:56] ---
    But my compass broke, and I ended up
    wandering until I reached a desert.
[11:00] ---
    There, I ran into an army
    that was conscripting troops.
[11:04] ---
    So you were drafted into the army?
[11:07] ---
    Later, I took part in a few
    missions to drive off bandits.
[11:10] ---
    Somehow or other,
    I was promoted to captain.
[11:14] ---
    Some of my men called me
    General, out of deference.
[11:18] ---
    But why "General Hua"?
    That's not your surname.
[11:23] ---
    Back then, I went by an alias-- "Hua Xie."
[11:29] ---
    The frequent border skirmishes
    made orphans of many children.
[11:33] ---
    Half-Moon here was one of them.
[11:36] ---
    One day, when I was cooking a meal...
[11:46] ---
    Ugh! What the hell is that?
[11:50] ---
    I was just cooking up something to eat.
    Don't be angry at the food.
[11:53] ---
    Look at that garbage!
    Who in their right mind would eat that?
[12:01] ---
    Wait a minute, kid! Don't--
[12:08] ---
    Little girl, you really shouldn't
    eat things you find on the ground.
[12:13] ---
    Where are your parents?
[12:18] ---
    Hey! What are you doing?
[12:32] ---
    You can have this.
[12:38] ---
    After that, the child would
    follow me around quietly.
[13:12] ---
    I got to know her after a while.
[13:16] ---
    I had no idea where she came from.
[13:18] ---
    She knew how to speak the language,
    but she rarely talked.
[13:22] ---
    She had no friends,
    other than one Yong An boy.
[13:28] ---
    In my spare time,
    I taught her to sing and wrestle.
[13:30] ---
    We got along pretty well.
[13:33] ---
    But all good things must come to an end.
[13:38] ---
    One day, a riot broke out,
    and I got caught up in the crowd.
[13:44] ---
    I was trampled in the
    stampede and couldn't get up.
[13:47] ---
    I had to play dead.
[13:52] ---
    The rest is a bit of a blur.
[13:54] ---
    When I awoke, I found myself
    back in Yong An Kingdom.
[13:56] ---
    Afterwards, I lost track of Half-Moon.
[14:00] ---
    I thought the "Half-Moon"
    in "Half-Moon Grand Preceptor"
[14:01] ---
    referred to the name of the kingdom.
[14:03] ---
    I didn't realize it was you.
[14:06] ---
    I'm sorry.
[14:08] ---
    General Hua, you were only trampled
    because you were trying to protect me.
[14:13] ---
    It wasn't that bad, really!
[14:15] ---
    How could you have been trampled?
[14:18] ---
    Even on your worst day,
    you should have been able to get away.
[14:21] ---
    Well, I seem to recall that the two sides
    wouldn't listen to me and began fighting.
[14:25] ---
    I saw that Half-Moon had
    been swept up by the crowd,
[14:28] ---
    so I tried to carry her to safety.
    But before I could--
[14:31] ---
    You seem to recall?
[14:33] ---
    How could you forget something like that?
[14:35] ---
    Everyone's memory has limits.
[14:36] ---
    I'd rather remember the delicious
    pork buns I had yesterday
[14:39] ---
    than how I got trampled 200 years ago.
[14:46] ---
    I'm sorry.
[14:47] ---
    Half-Moon, it was my choice to save you.
[14:50] ---
    It's not me you should be apologizing to.
[14:57] ---
    Let's get back to the point.
[14:58] ---
    So, why did you open the gates
    and let the enemy massacre your city?
[15:05] ---
    Who were you working with?
[15:07] ---
    What else were you scheming?
[15:13] ---
    You--
[15:15] ---
    Has she lost her voice?
[15:19] ---
    The Half-Moon I remember would never have
    sought revenge on or betrayed anyone.
[15:24] ---
    So what happened?
    Why did you open the gates?
[15:27] ---
    Can you tell us?
[15:30] ---
    Hmph!
[15:32] ---
    If you don't want to talk about that,
[15:34] ---
    can you at least explain why you
    sent your snakes to attack people?
[15:39] ---
    She's a Wrath. What is there to explain?
[15:42] ---
    I didn't send the snakes.
[15:43] ---
    They disobeyed me and escaped.
[15:46] ---
    What?
[15:47] ---
    It's the truth, General Hua.
[15:49] ---
    That's what they all say!
[15:51] ---
    All those people who took the pass
    were bitten by your snakes.
[15:55] ---
    Enough talk. Stick out your hands.
[16:07] ---
    We've accomplished our task. Let's go.
[16:10] ---
    Wait a moment, Fu Yao.
[16:12] ---
    Are you really going to
    listen to her nonsense?
[16:15] ---
    She has no reason to lie.
[16:24] ---
    You can't summon
    the snakes at all anymore?
[16:27] ---
    I can summon them,
    but they don't always obey me.
[16:33] ---
    Then summon them.
[16:49] ---
    No!
[17:03] ---
    You see? She was lying.
[17:05] ---
    Did you really think the snake
    could touch him? How foolish.
[17:08] ---
    It wasn't me! That snake
    wasn't acting on my orders!
[17:11] ---
    There's no way for us to know whether
    it was obeying or disobeying you!
[17:15] ---
    I didn't even summon that one!
[17:28] ---
    You still say it isn't you?
[17:29] ---
    It's not me!
[17:30] ---
    Who else could it be?
    Tell them to back off!
[17:46] ---
    Wait a minute!
[17:47] ---
    Don't tell me you believe her!
[17:49] ---
    Those snakes...
[18:03] ---
    Come on now! Can there be any doubt?
[18:06] ---
    Let's get out of here first!
    We'll talk about this later.
[18:09] ---
    Why are you coming back down?
[18:10] ---
    The formation's gone now.
    Get back up there!
[18:15] ---
    The hell is this?
[18:23] ---
    It was you all along!