# E3 - Corrupt Ritual
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**[00:01] Batutta**
The Paladin Brigade
**[00:03] Batutta**
is a group of adventurers that I organized
**[00:06] Batutta**
to protect the priests
in this dangerous city.
**[00:09] Batutta**
It's true that due to my failings,
**[00:11] Batutta**
their violent behavior has stood out.
**[00:14] Lumachina**
So you promise to correct
their behavior, then?
**[00:19] Batutta**
Of course.
**[00:21] Lumachina**
By the way,
**[00:22] Lumachina**
this city is plagued with what's known
as the Death Knell Disease, isn't it?
**[00:26] Batutta**
Yes, it's a terrifying illness.
**[00:28] Lumachina**
Illness?
**[00:30] Lumachina**
You believe that, as well?
**[00:33] Batutta**
Pardon me?
**[00:34] Lumachina**
Well, it's not an illness,
**[00:37] Lumachina**
but a curse, right?
**[00:41] Batutta**
Why do you think that?
**[00:43] Lumachina**
I knew it.
**[00:44] Lumachina**
When I prayed on behalf of that child,
**[00:47] Lumachina**
I heard the voice of God.
**[00:49] Lumachina**
It told me that someone is
casting a large-scale curse
**[00:53] Lumachina**
to threaten the lives of
the people in this city.
**[00:57] Lumachina**
Does that ring any bells?
**[01:02] Batutta**
Goodness, I didn't think you had noticed.
**[01:05] Lumachina**
Head Paladin Batutta?!
**[01:10] Lumachina**
What is...
**[01:17] Rem**
Lumachina?!
**[01:18] Rem**
Lumachina?!
**[01:20] Rem**
So you've been—
**[01:24] Rem**
D-Dia...blo...
**[01:32] Batutta**
Looks like the sleeping
drugs finally kicked in.
**[01:35] Batutta**
You sure wasted my time.
**[01:37] Batutta**
Shiliu!
**[01:39] Shiliu**
Yes.
**[03:11] Shera**
There...
***SIGN*** Episode 3 "Corrupt Ritual"
**[03:14] Shera**
and there...
**[03:15] Shera**
and there...
**[03:18] Shera**
And that does it!
**[03:19] Shera**
How was it?
**[03:21] Diablo**
It felt real good.
**[03:25] Diablo**
Who goes there?!
**[03:27] Horn**
W-Wait, wait!
**[03:28] Horn**
Mister, it's me!
**[03:31] Diablo**
You're...
**[03:34] Diablo**
Do the adventurers of this town
explore other people's homes?
**[03:38] Horn**
I-I came here to see you!
**[03:40] Shera**
There's curry on your mouth.
**[03:44] Horn**
There were leftovers out...
**[03:46] Horn**
Anyway, forget that! Mister!
**[03:53] Shera**
Diablo, this is...
**[03:55] Horn**
See? It's just like I told you!
**[03:58] Horn**
Batutta's taken your friends away!
**[04:01] Shera**
What do we do? We really
shouldn't have trusted him!
**[04:05] Diablo**
I didn't think he'd make a move this soon.
**[04:08] Diablo**
We still needed to recover
ourselves first, too.
**[04:11] Shera**
What do you mean?
**[04:13] Diablo**
The Death Knell Disease.
**[04:14] Shera**
Huh?
**[04:15] Diablo**
It is a curse.
**[04:18] Both**
What?!
**[04:19] Diablo**
*I can't just tell them I saw it as a
limited-time event in* Cross Reverie*.*
**[04:25] Diablo**
At any rate, for now,
**[04:27] Diablo**
we need to get Rem and Lumachina back.
**[04:31] Diablo**
Let's go!
**[04:32] Shera**
Yeah!
**[04:32] Horn**
Right!
**[04:43] Rem**
What on earth is this?
**[04:45] Lumachina**
You've come to?
**[04:47] Rem**
Lumachina?!
**[04:48] Lumachina**
I was already here when I came to, as well.
**[04:57] Rem**
It looks like we're underground somewhere.
**[04:59] Rem**
And pretty deep, too.
**[05:01] Lumachina**
Rem-san...
**[05:03] Lumachina**
By the way, what are those people doing?
**[05:16] Rem**
Wh-Wh-Wha—
**[05:17] Lumachina**
Rem-san?
**[05:18] Rem**
I-I-I believe they're...
**[05:21] Rem**
doing *that*.
**[05:23] Lumachina**
Huh? What do you mean by "that"?
**[05:25] Rem**
It's...
**[05:27] Batutta**
You two!
**[05:28] Batutta**
How do you like being on
the altar for our ritual?
**[05:32] Rem**
Batutta!
**[05:33] Lumachina**
What are you talking about?!
**[05:35] Lumachina**
This place is filled with evil!
**[05:38] Lumachina**
Such a repulsive altar would never—
**[05:40] Batutta**
Exactly.
**[05:42] Batutta**
What we have here is corruption.
**[05:46] Rem**
What are you planning to do with us?
**[05:48] Batutta**
Shiliu.
**[05:50] Shiliu**
Yes.
**[05:52] Batutta**
Behold.
**[05:53] Batutta**
That is the concentrate that
causes the Death Knell Disease.
**[05:57] Batutta**
This concentrate can be produced
from the essence of evil.
**[06:01] Batutta**
It's literally the source of evil itself.
**[06:03] Batutta**
Now, how does one obtain
this essence of evil?
**[06:07] Batutta**
They're like beasts, aren't they?
**[06:10] Batutta**
Yet they were all once devout believers.
**[06:14] Batutta**
Their faith was strong,
**[06:15] Batutta**
and they were virtuous men and chaste
women with a sense of justice.
**[06:20] Batutta**
But all it takes is a little push
on the back to make people fall!
**[06:27] Batutta**
Fornication, bloodshed, gluttony...
**[06:29] Batutta**
When a person falls,
the essence of evil is created!
**[06:33] Rem**
S-So you make people
commit sins in this place?
**[06:36] Lumachina**
That's...
**[06:38] Lumachina**
That's just...
**[06:40] Lumachina**
Ah, God...
**[06:42] Batutta**
My research has shown that those
who can use more powerful miracles
**[06:46] Batutta**
produce richer essence
of evil when they fall.
**[06:49] Batutta**
Which also means it should
produce a stronger concentrate.
**[06:54] Lumachina**
You want to inflict the Death
Knell Disease on that many people?!
**[06:58] Batutta**
That many? Not at all.
**[07:00] Batutta**
I'm only targeting one person right now.
**[07:03] Batutta**
Just the lord, Laminitus.
**[07:07] Rem**
All for that?
**[07:09] Lumachina**
Why are you committing such a great sin?
**[07:12] Lumachina**
I heard you were a noble man.
**[07:15] Lumachina**
What happened to you?
**[07:18] Batutta**
My family was killed.
**[07:20] Batutta**
I was betrayed by my best friend.
**[07:22] Batutta**
I was threatened by Fallen.
**[07:27] Batutta**
Would you be satisfied with
tear-jerking backstories like those?
**[07:34] Batutta**
There is no real reason.
**[07:36] Batutta**
People are just greedy and sinful.
**[07:38] Lumachina**
But you...
**[07:40] Batutta**
I can't wait...
**[07:42] Batutta**
to watch the Head Priest, the highest
member of the Church, fall into lust.
**[07:49] Batutta**
Shiliu, I'll leave the rest to you.
**[07:51] Shiliu**
As you wish, Master.
**[07:54] Shiliu**
Getting to corrupt such a beautiful
woman is so exciting.
**[08:00] Shiliu**
Soon enough, you'll be begging
me to give you more.
**[08:07] Shiliu**
Now, I'll lick you...
**[08:12] Shiliu**
to your very depths.
**[08:16] Lumachina**
No!
**[08:21] Lumachina**
N-No!
**[08:38] Shera**
Rem and Lumachina-chan!
**[08:41] Shera**
Diablo!
**[08:42] Diablo**
I know.
**[08:43] Diablo**
* In the game, this place was where*
* the Death Knell Disease's event boss...*
**[08:49] Diablo**
*Hmm?*
**[08:50] Diablo**
*That stuff around us...*
**[08:53] Diablo**
*Wh-What is this?!*
**[08:55] Diablo**
* Cross Reverie never had plot*
* developments right out of an eroge!*
**[09:00] Batutta**
I knew you'd show up.
**[09:02] Batutta**
Diablo, was it?
**[09:04] Batutta**
I'm impressed you found this place.
**[09:07] Diablo**
It was easy.
**[09:09] Diablo**
Your subordinates in the
Paladin Brigade were very helpful.
**[09:15] Diablo**
They were quick to tell me when I asked.
**[09:20] Diablo**
Batutta,
**[09:21] Diablo**
just what is this place?
**[09:23] Batutta**
If you're a first-rate sorcerer,
then can't you tell?
**[09:29] Diablo**
* I wasn't a first-rate anything.*
* I was just a shut-in gamer.*
**[09:33] Diablo**
You're casting the curse for the
Death Knell Disease, aren't you?
**[09:37] Batutta**
Oh? Did you hear about that from Lumachina?
**[09:40] Diablo**
You're saying she realized it, too?
**[09:43] Batutta**
Hmm? You didn't hear about it from her?
**[09:45] Diablo**
Who do you think I am?
**[09:47] Diablo**
I am Diablo, the Demon Lord
from another world!
**[09:50] Batutta**
What nonsense!
**[09:52] Diablo**
*Hardly anyone really believes that...*
**[09:55] ---**
Yay! Yay! Yay!
***SIGN*** Diablo, the Demon Lord from Another World
***SIGN*** Diablo, the Demon Lord from Another World
***SIGN*** Diablo, the Demon Lord from Another World
***SIGN*** Diablo, the Demon Lord from Another World
***SIGN*** Diablo, the Demon Lord from Another World
**[09:56] Diablo**
* Rem and Shera were so trusting,*
* believing me that easily.*
**[10:02] Diablo**
You learned about the Death Knell Disease
curse from the Fallen, didn't you?
**[10:06] Batutta**
H-How did you—
**[10:08] Diablo**
Bingo!
**[10:10] Diablo**
It's because the ones casting
that curse here were the Fallen.
**[10:14] Diablo**
I told you I'm a Demon Lord, didn't I?
**[10:17] Diablo**
Now, release those two.
**[10:20] Batutta**
You're clever,
**[10:21] Batutta**
and you seem to be unreasonably strong, too,
**[10:24] Batutta**
but what kinds of magic can you use here?
**[10:28] Batutta**
And are you skilled at fighting on stairs?
**[10:32] Batutta**
How many times can you
evade me on these steps?
**[10:36] Diablo**
You're the one who will struggle,
unable to evade!
**[10:39] Diablo**
Explosion!
**[10:47] Both**
You did it!
**[10:52] Diablo**
What is this?!
**[11:00] Batutta**
Well, it's a dangerous place, isn't it?
**[11:03] Batutta**
If the blast from your attack
collapses the walls or the ceiling,
**[11:06] Batutta**
what's going to happen to your friends?
**[11:11] Diablo**
Why, you...
**[11:13] Diablo**
*He's right, they're brittle.*
**[11:15] Diablo**
*I can't be reckless.*
**[11:16] Diablo**
*And his movements are fast.*
**[11:19] Diablo**
*Did he instantly dodge my attack?*
**[11:22] Diablo**
*To hit him with that speed,*
**[11:24] Diablo**
*I need a spell with a wider range.*
**[11:26] Batutta**
Not coming for me?
**[11:28] Batutta**
Then I'll come for you!
**[11:31] Diablo**
*What level of magic should I use?!*
**[11:34] Batutta**
You hesitated, greenhorn!
**[11:38] Diablo**
*He's fast!*
**[11:49] Shera**
D-Diablo!
**[11:52] Diablo**
You're quite good, Batutta.
**[11:54] Batutta**
Whoops...
**[11:57] Batutta**
You came here overconfident
in your own strength,
**[12:00] Batutta**
not realizing that you can't
fully use your magic here.
**[12:04] Batutta**
You might think you managed to
pin down my secret location,
**[12:08] Batutta**
but it was a trap to lure you in!
**[12:11] Diablo**
*Ow, ow...*
**[12:12] Diablo**
*Shit!*
**[12:14] Diablo**
Don't underestimate a Demon Lord.
**[12:16] Diablo**
How about this, then?
**[12:18] Diablo**
Lightning Sphere!
**[12:22] Diablo**
*This spell only affects its target,*
**[12:24] Diablo**
*and it doesn't blast the surroundings.*
**[12:27] Diablo**
*Now, Batutta,*
**[12:29] Diablo**
*try and overcome this one!*
**[12:31] Diablo**
* Then he'll get blasted back by the*
* Ground Mine I placed on the wall!*
**[12:37] Diablo**
*What's wrong? He's not jumping at me?*
**[12:40] Batutta**
It's too easy to tell what you're after.
**[12:55] Diablo**
*No way...*
**[12:57] Batutta**
You lose!
**[13:01] Diablo**
*The Martial Art called Rising Spear?*
**[13:06] Diablo**
*No! I can't avoid it!*
**[13:08] Diablo**
*Then...*
**[13:16] Diablo**
*It crushed my heart?!*
**[13:20] Diablo**
*I'm...*
**[13:22] Shera**
Diablo... N-No!
**[13:28] Diablo**
*...gonna die.*
**[13:35] Batutta**
I win.
**[13:42] Batutta**
I always make flawless preparations
and lure strong foes into my strategies
**[13:47] Batutta**
to ensure I defeat them from
an advantageous position!
**[13:51] Shera**
Diablo! Diablo!
**[13:54] Rem**
D-Diablo?
**[14:03] Diablo**
I've caught you.
**[14:06] Batutta**
H-How are you alive?!
**[14:10] Diablo**
This spell can't be used
without touching the target.
**[14:18] Diablo**
Absolute Zero!
**[14:21] Diablo**
Become an ice statue!
**[14:36] Batutta**
Why, you...
**[14:38] Diablo**
What's wrong?
**[14:39] Diablo**
Wasn't losing your weapon and
left arm part of your strategy, too?
**[14:44] Diablo**
*That hurts like hell!*
**[14:45] Diablo**
*I seriously thought I'd die!*
**[14:47] Diablo**
*If I was alone, I'd be screaming and sobbing!*
**[14:50] Diablo**
* The cape I had equipped,*
* the Curtain of Dark Clouds,*
**[14:53] Diablo**
* allows me to survive any attack*
* with just one hit point remaining.*
**[14:57] Diablo**
*To think there'd come a time when I'd need it.*
**[14:59] Diablo**
* And my Distorted Crown's auto-recovery*
* has been activated, too.*
**[15:03] Batutta**
A-Are you telling me you're immortal?
**[15:06] Batutta**
That's impossible!
**[15:08] Batutta**
Shiliu!
**[15:09] Shiliu**
Yes, Master.
**[15:15] Shiliu**
Looks like your strategy
ultimately triumphed, Master.
**[15:20] Shera**
Rem!
**[15:21] Rem**
Diablo!
**[15:22] Rem**
Don't worry about me! Just fight!
**[15:26] Diablo**
Why, you...
**[15:28] Diablo**
I'll kill you!
**[15:30] Diablo**
*What do I do?*
**[15:40] Shera**
How's that? It's my Angel Shot!
**[15:43] Diablo**
Shera, well done!
**[15:55] Shera**
Huh? Huh?
**[15:56] Shera**
She turned to stone?
**[15:58] Diablo**
What?
**[15:59] Diablo**
Is that an effect of Klem's magic power?
**[16:01] Shera**
K-Klem-chan, this is too scary!
**[16:05] Batutta**
Sh-Shiliu...
**[16:07] Rem**
Shera!
**[16:08] Horn**
Are you all right?
**[16:10] Rem**
You're...
**[16:12] Horn**
I wanted to prove to that guy
**[16:15] Horn**
that I can be a little useful, too.
**[16:17] Diablo**
*Horn...*
**[16:21] Diablo**
Now, what will you do, Batutta?
**[16:26] Diablo**
*Good.*
**[16:27] Diablo**
*We managed to win somehow.*
**[16:31] Batutta**
You will all sink into a sea of despair.
**[16:35] Diablo**
What?
**[16:36] Batutta**
Though it's unfortunate that I won't get
to watch your faces fill with grief!
**[16:42] Diablo**
*Does he still want to fight?!*
**[16:46] Batutta**
Shining Blow!
**[16:50] Diablo**
Darkness Cannon!
**[17:06] Shera**
Diablo!
**[17:13] Diablo**
It's no use!
**[17:14] Diablo**
I am Diablo, the Demon Lord
from another world!
**[17:32] Shera**
Diablo!
**[17:35] Diablo**
Shera?!
**[17:36] Diablo**
Why did you come down here?!
**[17:38] Diablo**
This place is about to collapse!
**[17:40] Shera**
Yeah, that's why we need to get out fast!
**[17:42] Shera**
Together with the others!
**[17:48] Diablo**
*She could have escaped by herself.*
**[17:52] Diablo**
*Sheesh...*
**[18:01] Diablo**
Hold on tight.
**[18:03] Shera**
Huh?
**[18:14] Laminitus**
Who are you?!
**[18:17] Varakness**
Pardon me for interrupting your bath.
**[18:19] Varakness**
I am Varakness, the one appointed as the
Grand General of the Demon Lord's Army.
**[18:25] Varakness**
The Demon Lord has...
**[18:27] Varakness**
His Majesty has awakened,
**[18:29] Varakness**
so I've come to advise your surrender.
**[18:32] Laminitus**
Surrender?
**[18:34] Laminitus**
Is the Demon Lord planning
to rule the people of this city?
**[18:36] Varakness**
The Demon Lord's rule is merciful and fair.
**[18:42] Varakness**
He'll have all of the mortal
races commit suicide.
**[18:46] Varakness**
That's far more merciful than allowing
them to be devoured alive by monsters.
**[18:51] Varakness**
What do you think?
**[18:53] Laminitus**
My answer is...
**[18:56] Laminitus**
You're an idiot!
**[19:01] Varakness**
That's great!
**[19:02] Varakness**
I love strong women.
**[19:06] Laminitus**
Don't toy with me!
**[19:13] Varakness**
Fanis Laminitus,
**[19:14] Varakness**
I will not kill you.
**[19:16] Varakness**
I shall add you to my harem.
**[19:20] Laminitus**
Your harem?
**[19:21] Varakness**
I shall come to collect you on
the night of the next full moon.
**[19:25] Varakness**
Be sure to pick out your
wedding outfit, Fanis.
**[19:30] Laminitus**
Don't use my first name so lightly!
**[19:34] Laminitus**
That ruffian!
**[19:38] Laminitus**
The night of the next full moon...
**[19:45] Horn**
It's floating.
**[19:47] Horn**
We're really floating.
**[19:49] Rem**
Diablo, you always surpass
our expectations with ease.
**[19:56] Shera**
But it really was dangerous this time!
**[20:00] Diablo**
*That's true.*
**[20:01] (Flashback) Rem**
Diablo!
**[20:03] (Flashback) Lumachina**
Diablo-sama!
**[20:05] (Flashback) Diablo**
Stay close to me!
**[20:11] (Flashback) Diablo**
Change your position as my will demands!
**[20:15] (Flashback) Diablo**
Adzet!
**[20:18] (Flashback) Diablo**
Rise!
**[20:28] Diablo**
*That really was a close call.*
**[20:29] Rem**
Lumachina?
**[20:31] Shera**
L-Lumachina-chan?!
**[20:32] Shera**
Hang in there, Lumachina-chan!
**[20:34] Rem**
What's the matter? Are you all right?!
**[20:40] Diablo**
This is the Death Knell Disease!
**[20:42] Rem**
H-How?!
**[20:43] Shera**
Why the Death Knell Disease?
**[20:48] (Flashback) Batutta**
You will all sink into a sea of despair.
**[20:54] Diablo**
*He had already placed the curse on Lumachina?*
**[20:57] Shera**
That's right, Lumachina-chan!
**[20:59] Shera**
Just pray for healing like
you did for the baby!
**[21:02] Diablo**
That's impossible.
**[21:03] Diablo**
Lumachina's miracles won't work on herself.
**[21:07] (Flashback) Lumachina**
The power of miracles
won't work on my own body.
**[21:12] Shera**
No way...
**[21:14] Shera**
No! Lumachina-chan!
**[21:17] Lumachina**
Please don't cry.
**[21:20] Lumachina**
I'm sure this is also part of God's plan.
**[21:24] Diablo**
Right.
**[21:26] Rem**
Diablo!
**[21:27] Horn**
Mister, that's just—
**[21:29] Diablo**
Which is why you won't die yet!
**[21:33] Lumachina**
Diablo-sama...
**[21:36] Diablo**
You journeyed here to correct the
rot within the Church, didn't you?!
**[21:40] Diablo**
Then put some strength into your guts!
**[21:43] Diablo**
Don't surrender to some curse!
**[21:45] Diablo**
If you need it, I shall lend you my power!
**[21:53] Lumachina**
Right.
**[21:54] Lumachina**
I won't give in to any curse!
**[21:57] Diablo**
Have faith in me!
**[21:59] Diablo**
Boy, lead us to this new dungeon.
**[22:03] Horn**
O-Okay!
**[22:05] Diablo**
* There, I should have the protective charm*
* I won for clearing the event,*
**[22:09] Diablo**
*the one that cures the Death Knell Disease.*
**[22:12] Diablo**
There lies the item
**[22:13] Diablo**
you need to defeat the Death Knell Disease!
**[23:51] Diablo**
* I never thought I'd be taking*
* on my own dungeon myself.*
***SIGN*** Next Episode "Personal Domain"
**[23:54] Horn**
You're telling us to dance on that stage?
**[23:56] Diablo**
*Die!*
**[23:57] Diablo**
*For the sake of my expensive cosmetics!*
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