# E22 - WINNER OR LOSER
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GEVUZD0ED/winner-or-loser)
Translator:
Editor:
Timer:
QC:
(Please feel free to edit the speaker names if incomplete or inaccurate. Names are handled on a best-effort basis depending on the info on the source file. Dialogue is left as is.)
**[00:03] Finn**
Anything, Leo?
**[00:04] Leo**
There don't seem to be any
security measures implemented.
**[00:07] Leo**
The building looks abandoned.
**[00:10] Norman**
Schmier House?
**[00:12] Norman**
That damn Ban...
**[00:13] Finn**
You know this place?
**[00:15] Norman**
A certain incident transpired here.
**[00:18] Norman**
The public knows nothing of it, however.
**[00:21] Leo**
Finn, Owen, we'll go on foot
from here to avoid detection.
**[00:25] Finn**
Got it.
**[00:26] Finn**
Let's do this, mister!
**[00:29] Norman**
Huh?
**[00:31] Leo**
You stay here in case something happens.
**[00:34] Finn**
What's the problem?
**[00:35] Finn**
Another player on our side is good—
**[00:36] Leo**
Owen, let's go.
**[00:38] Finn**
H-Hey, wait up!
**[02:37] (Flashback) Young**
Late as it may be, the nation's finally
starting to move in the right direction.
**[02:43] (Flashback) Young**
All because you've touched my heart
and the hearts of others.
**[02:51] (Flashback) Young**
Be confident, Sugar.
**[02:59] Sugar**
I will, Captain.
**[03:04] Julius**
The cards are here?
**[03:07] Staff A**
What shall we do?
**[03:09] Julius**
Show him in.
**[03:10] Staff A**
Your Majesty.
**[03:11] Louis**
You finally came, Young.
**[03:17] Louis**
You're not Young.
**[03:19] Louis**
You're from Pinochle!
**[03:22] Wendy**
Sire, we have retrieved
the cards from the police.
**[03:26] Wendy**
We of High Card came to report
to Your Majesty immediately.
**[03:31] Julius**
I see. Well done.
**[03:33] Julius**
Now, give us the cards.
**[03:36] Wendy**
I'm afraid we cannot do that.
**[03:38] Wendy**
We'd like to request that we
guard the cards a little longer.
**[03:43] Vijay**
San Galgano is lurking in the shadows
to snatch the cards.
**[03:47] Vijay**
His aim is the most precious, the 53rd—
**[03:51] Julius**
What are you trying to say?
**[03:54] Vijay**
Pardon me.
**[03:55] Julius**
It isn't High Card that has my trust.
**[03:59] Julius**
It's Theodore himself, who swore fealty
to the royal family and kept his promise
**[04:05] Julius**
to never use the cards for his own gain!
**[04:07] Julius**
You are nothing but his dogs!
**[04:12] Staff**
Your Majesty!
**[04:13] Louis**
Father!
**[04:15] Vijay**
Your Majesty, speaking of
Master Theodore, we've located him.
**[04:19] Julius**
What? Is this true?!
**[04:21] Vijay**
Yes.
**[04:22] Vijay**
Our intel indicates he's been
captured by Ban Klondike.
**[04:25] Vijay**
A rescue team is on their way.
**[04:27] Wendy**
Master Theodore ordered us
to protect the cards with our lives.
**[04:33] Wendy**
So we'll be watching over them ourselves.
**[04:36] Wendy**
At least until our master returns.
**[04:39] Julius**
You won't even hand them to your king?
**[04:46] Julius**
I forbid you to leave the castle.
**[04:55] Noah**
*What's going on?!*
**[04:57] Noah**
* Members of High Card*
* showed up with the cards!*
**[05:00] Noah**
*Did you screw up again?!*
**[05:02] Noah**
* If the plan gets derailed any further,*
* I'll have to void our agreement!*
**[05:06] Ban**
You sound so worked up. What's the big deal?
**[05:09] Noah**
You promised me!
**[05:11] Noah**
You said you'd clear my way to the throne
**[05:13] Noah**
in exchange for all that
information about the cards!
**[05:17] Noah**
Half a year ago, they were
secretly gathered at the palace.
**[05:21] Noah**
I told you so you could steal them,
**[05:23] Noah**
which ended up causing the X-Blind.
**[05:26] Noah**
In return, you managed to dispose
of Dylan and cover it up as terrorism,
**[05:31] Noah**
but you failed to assassinate Louis...
**[05:34] Noah**
You damn fool!
**[05:36] Noah**
But I learned that Theodore's
secretary was hiding the cards,
**[05:39] Noah**
which I leaked to you!
**[05:41] Noah**
It's all thanks to me that you were able
to steal the cards and capture Theodore.
**[05:47] Noah**
Isn't that right?!
**[05:48] Noah**
Moreover, I told you the
whereabouts of the joker.
**[05:52] Noah**
But because of dumb infighting,
**[05:53] Noah**
your subordinate got arrested by the police.
**[05:55] Noah**
And thanks to that blunder, that detective
began to suspect our connection!
**[06:00] Noah**
That's why I had to...
**[06:04] Noah**
If this keeps up, and Louis is coronated,
then everything I've done...
**[06:09] Noah**
I've... I've got to be the next king!
**[06:13] Ban**
Stop yapping, you greedy kid.
**[06:16] Noah**
*You're just as bad as I am!*
**[06:19] Ban**
No.
**[06:20] Ban**
I'm in this for my pride.
**[06:23] Ban**
*Talk to you later, boy.*
**[06:29] Noah**
You useless fool!
**[06:36] Noah**
Calm down.
**[06:37] Noah**
I still have a chance.
**[06:39] Noah**
There must be a way for me to be king.
**[06:47] Leo**
Let's go.
**[06:57] Leo**
What's that?
**[07:02] Finn**
Doesn't look like the president's here.
**[07:04] Owen**
This is why I couldn't reach him,
even with my power.
**[07:13] Owen**
It's warm!
**[07:14] Leo**
What?!
**[07:18] Finn**
What the heck?!
**[07:38] Leo**
Where am I?
**[07:42] Leo**
Father!
**[07:44] Leo**
Are you all right?!
**[07:45] Leo**
Are you hurt?!
**[07:46] Leo**
I'm so relieved.
**[07:49] Theodore**
Why are you here?
**[07:50] Leo**
Huh?
**[07:52] Theodore**
Is this you acting logically,
without your emotions controlling you?
**[07:56] Leo**
I was trying to save you...
**[07:58] Theodore**
Did it occur to you that your reckless
actions could lead to more harm?
**[08:04] Leo**
Owen, Finn...
**[08:07] Ban**
What a touching reunion.
**[08:10] Ban**
A son risking his life to save his father...
**[08:14] Ban**
Sound familiar to you?
**[08:18] Leo**
Ban Klondike!
**[08:19] Ban**
Hey, do you want to hear an
interesting tale about the cards?
**[08:24] Leo**
What?
**[08:26] Ban**
A story about this nation you've never heard.
**[08:31] Ban**
About 25 years ago...
**[08:33] Ban**
My father, a politician,
**[08:36] Ban**
invited guests from abroad
to this guesthouse for a party.
**[08:42] Ban**
However...
**[08:49] (Flashback) Young Theodore**
Hold it.
**[08:49] (Flashback) Young Ban**
What?!
**[08:51] (Flashback) Young Theodore**
You'll need transportation
to go save your father.
**[08:55] (Flashback) Young Theodore**
Let's go.
**[09:10] Ban**
That day, stuffy Theodore broke Pinochle's
golden rule and used his card for my sake.
**[09:18] Ban**
It made me so happy.
**[09:21] Ban**
With him by my side,
we'd be able to save my father.
**[09:24] Ban**
Or so I thought.
**[09:36] (Flashback) Young Ban**
Pops...
**[09:41] (Flashback) Young Theodore**
Ban!
**[09:50] (Flashback) Young Ban**
Is this...
**[09:51] (Flashback) Young Ban**
Is this how it ends for my father?!
**[09:57] Ban**
It was the worst-case scenario we feared.
**[10:01] Ban**
What crossed my mind at that moment
was a method considered taboo.
**[10:07] (Flashback) Young Theodore**
What are you...
**[10:10] (Flashback) Young Ban**
I'm going to turn back time...
**[10:13] (Flashback) Young Ban**
with an X-Hand!
**[10:15] (Flashback) Young Theodore**
Ban, don't!
**[10:16] (Flashback) Young Ban**
Shut up!
**[10:17] (Flashback) Young Theodore**
Don't do anything stupid!
**[10:19] (Flashback) Young Ban**
I don't care! I'm using these cards!
**[10:22] Ban**
I thought you'd understand.
**[10:25] Ban**
That's what I believed.
**[10:26] Ban**
But...
**[10:28] (Flashback) Young Theodore**
Ban Klondike.
**[10:29] (Flashback) Young Theodore**
I'm willing to overlook this.
**[10:32] (Flashback) Young Theodore**
Just give it up.
**[10:33] (Flashback) Young Ban**
What?
**[10:39] Ban**
It was a foolish delusion.
**[10:41] (Flashback) Young Ban**
Play...
**[10:42] (Flashback) Young Ban**
X-Hand!
**[10:59] (Flashback) Young Ban**
Theodore!
**[11:12] (Flashback) Young Ban**
Why...?
**[11:14] (Flashback) Young Ban**
Why, Theodore?
**[11:21] Ban**
The price of that X-Hand was my left eye.
**[11:25] Ban**
But that wasn't all I lost.
**[11:28] Ban**
The royal family covers up
all cases involving cards,
**[11:34] Ban**
and that's to say nothing of
an agent who's supposed to be
**[11:37] Ban**
collecting the cards trying to play an X-Hand.
**[11:41] Ban**
So everything was swept under the rug,
**[11:45] Ban**
including my father's very life.
**[11:47] Ban**
The dimwitted masses forgot about him
so quickly you wouldn't believe it.
**[11:53] Ban**
It was like he'd never existed.
**[11:58] Ban**
Everything was snatched away.
**[12:00] Ban**
His accomplishments, his fortune,
even his name... Everything.
**[12:06] Ban**
All of it!
**[12:09] Ban**
Ever since that day, these flowers that
keep blooming like time has stopped for them
**[12:14] Ban**
and the names of the victims
I had engraved here
**[12:17] Ban**
are the only remaining proof
that my father was here.
**[12:21] Ban**
Your father started this fight.
**[12:25] Ban**
If I'd played that X-Hand back then,
I could have saved mine.
**[12:31] Ban**
But enough with the old stories.
**[12:35] Ban**
Theodore, you sit right there
and witness what's about to happen.
**[12:44] Ban**
Well, that didn't take you long, TILT.
**[12:57] Ban**
What's wrong?
**[12:58] Ban**
Didn't you want to see me?
**[12:59] Tilt**
I need you to tell me something.
**[13:02] Tilt**
Why'd you make me do it?
**[13:04] Tilt**
You owe me an answer.
**[13:06] Ban**
It seems Zenon's power has worn off.
**[13:09] Ban**
My goal is to slay the joker
and destroy this stupid country.
**[13:15] Ban**
I needed San Galgano's power
to make that happen.
**[13:20] Ban**
It was total coincidence
I found a player that night
**[13:24] Ban**
while chasing after the king of spades.
**[13:28] Ban**
So, with Zenon's power...
**[13:33] Tilt**
After killing my parents,
I had to live in the shadows.
**[13:38] Tilt**
I thought you were extending a helping hand.
**[13:41] Tilt**
But I was wrong.
**[13:42] Tilt**
You only used me.
**[13:44] Tilt**
Isn't that right?
**[13:46] Ban**
My interests and San Galgano's
happened to align.
**[13:51] Ban**
The name I gave you, TILT,
wasn't half bad, right?
**[13:56] Ban**
Yes! Embrace that raging hatred!
**[14:00] Ban**
Surrender yourself to San Galgano!
**[14:02] Ban**
The point of having power is to use it.
**[14:05] Tilt**
Ban Klondike...
**[14:09] Ban**
That's right.
**[14:19] Ban**
Go ahead, keep dancing in the palm of my hand!
**[14:26] Leo**
Father, please run!
**[14:28] Leo**
Before it's too late!
**[14:31] Ban**
This is perfect.
**[14:35] Ban**
Hey, Theodore, can you see?
**[14:38] Ban**
Are you watching with those eyes of yours
that see through everything?
**[14:42] Ban**
Can you hear your son screaming for help?
**[14:54] Ban**
It's still, still, still not enough!
**[14:56] Leo**
Don't...
**[14:58] Leo**
Don't worry about me...
**[15:01] Leo**
Run, Father...
**[15:20] Ban**
Theodore, perhaps you'll understand
my pain if you lose a loved one too.
**[15:42] Leo**
Father!
**[16:01] Leo**
Father...
**[16:03] Leo**
No... Your eyes!
**[16:07] Ban**
Theodore, you have it easier
than I did back then.
**[16:13] Ban**
Your son is still alive.
**[16:15] Ban**
You still have a chance to save your family.
**[16:19] Ban**
The pain you're experiencing
is nothing like what I went through.
**[16:25] Ban**
Huh?
**[16:26] Ban**
Hey, are you trying to beg for your life?
**[16:31] Theodore**
Play...
**[16:35] Theodore**
X-Hand.
**[16:51] Owen**
Master Theodore?
**[16:56] Ban**
An X-Hand?
**[16:59] Ban**
How does it feel to break the rules?
**[17:03] Ban**
Now you understand...
**[17:05] Ban**
what it feels like to be denied your power!
**[17:20] Ban**
Damn it!
**[17:40] Theodore**
Give it up.
**[17:42] Theodore**
Right now, I can see through
your mind and everything else.
**[17:50] Theodore**
It's over, Ban.
**[17:51] Theodore**
Resisting is—
**[17:52] Ban**
Tell me! Why'd you play an X-Hand?
**[17:56] Ban**
Why wouldn't you let me
use mine back then?
**[18:00] Ban**
Not being able to save my father was...!
**[18:03] Ban**
After that, are you still going
to insist on following the rules?!
**[18:09] Ban**
After that, you still don't know how I feel?!
**[18:13] Ban**
What it's like not to be understood...
by your very best friend?!
**[18:19] Theodore**
You're wrong.
**[18:21] Theodore**
The person I really, truly wanted to protect—
**[18:31] Tilt**
Move.
**[18:34] Tilt**
*I'll* be the one to kill you, Ban Klondike.
**[18:40] Ban**
Very good, San Galgano.
**[18:46] Tilt**
Farewell.
**[19:00] Theodore**
Listen, Ban...
**[19:02] Theodore**
The person... I truly wanted to protect...
**[19:12] Theodore**
It was you.
**[19:28] Ban**
What a boring answer.
**[19:33] Leo**
Father...
**[19:36] Leo**
Father...
**[19:37] Leo**
Father! Father!
**[19:40] Leo**
Father...!
**[19:47] Ban**
Theodore.
**[19:48] Ban**
Burn into your eyes forever
**[19:52] Ban**
how Fourland goes up in flames.
**[19:56] Ban**
What I, Ban Klondike, will achieve!
**[20:00] Ban**
Play... X-Hand!
**[20:06] Ban**
This wager is mine.
**[20:23] Leo**
Where am I?
**[20:27] Leo**
Father!
**[20:28] Leo**
Are you all right?!
**[20:29] Leo**
Are you hurt?!
**[20:31] Leo**
I'm so relieved.
**[20:33] Theodore**
Why are you here?
**[20:35] Theodore**
Is this you acting—
**[20:50] Theodore**
Ban...
**[20:58] Leo**
Allow me, Father.
**[21:02] Leo**
Now you're free.
**[21:20] Tilt**
Ban Klondike...
**[21:23] Tilt**
Did you kill him?
**[21:25] Tilt**
There was something I needed to ask him.
**[21:28] Tilt**
More importantly, I was going to kill him.
**[21:31] Tilt**
For the family.
**[21:34] Tilt**
But I guess...
**[21:37] Tilt**
It doesn't matter.
**[21:53] Finn**
The Black Knight?!
**[21:57] Leo**
Finn!
**[23:36] Finn**
Next time: "SWEET HOME."