E4 - Aspiration - Distant Dream

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SIGN    Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? III
SIGN    Aspiration
    Distant Dream
[01:47] Lyd
    Food!
[01:48] Lyd
    Alcohol!
[01:50] Lyd
    And keep it coming!
[01:51] Lyd
    For our new kin and our first human guests,
     today, we celebrate!
[01:56] Everyone
    Yeah!
[02:00] Welf
    Is this some kind of dream?
[02:02] Lili
    Shall I pinch your cheeks for you?
[02:18] Wiene
    And then!
[02:19] Wiene
    That's when Bell saved me!
[02:22] Rei
    I see.
[02:23] Rei
    Bell-san truly is very strange—I mean...
[02:26] Rei
    very kind, isn't he?
[02:28] Bell
    "Strange"...
[02:30] Lyd
    Bell-cchi.
[02:31] Bell
    "Bell-cchi"...
[02:32] Lyd
    No need to be polite. Eat up!
    We gathered it all around here.
[02:36] Lyd
    Apparently, this stuff's
    rare on the surface.
[02:45] Bell
    It's delicious!
[02:46] Lyd
    Right?
[02:50] Bell
    Um...
[02:51] Bell
    I'm sorry for punching you so hard earlier.
[02:53] Lyd
    What are you talking about? I did the same.
[02:57] Bell
    If I could ask...
[02:58] Bell
    Is that equipment from adventurers?
[03:01] Lyd
    Yeah.
[03:02] Lyd
    Loot from ignorant adventurers
    who came and attacked us.
[03:06] Lyd
    When you guys take down a monster,
[03:09] Lyd
    you take home claws and
    fangs and stuff, right?
[03:11] Bell
    That's... true.
[03:14] Lyd
    Human weapons really are amazing.
[03:16] Lyd
    They cut way better than any flower or
    plant lying around, and they're hard.
[03:21] Lyd
    We can't make stuff like this.
[03:36] Gros
    Lyd, cease this foolishness.
[03:42] Gros
    In the end, they are humans.
[03:45] Gros
    They are not worthy of trust.
[03:47] Lyd
    You still saying that, Gros?
[03:49] Lyd
    Bell-cchi and the others have
    been protecting Wiene.
[03:51] Lyd
    That's what Fels told us, right?
[03:53] Lyd
    It's because you guys said
    you still couldn't accept it
[03:56] Lyd
    that we took the rough route back there.
[04:02] Lyd
    Sorry about that.
[04:04] Lyd
    We've got a lot going on, too.
[04:06] Lyd
    When we heard humans were coming
    down here, it set everyone on edge.
[04:10] Bell
    I-It's fine.
[04:12] Lyd
    I'm pretty sure they know
    that you guys are different
[04:15] Lyd
    from other adventurers.
[04:20] Welf
    Hey. More importantly, is it true?
[04:23] Welf
    The Guild knows about all of you?
[04:25] Lyd
    Yeah.
[04:26] Lyd
    They take measures to make sure
    we don't get exposed,
[04:29] Lyd
    and sometimes they send food or weapons.
[04:30] Lyd
    They've been helping us a
    lot for a long time now.
[04:33] Lyd
    More than the Guild,
    it's the god Ouranos, really.
[04:37] Lyd
    Apparently, the people at the Guild
    don't know about us, either.
[04:40] Lili
    Then, the mission we accepted,
    to come down here, was...
[04:45] Lyd
    Ouranos-sama and his people brought
    it to us, and we agreed to it.
[04:50] Lyd
    "To see what the people sheltering one
    of our kin are really like," they said.
[04:55] Welf
    So the patron god of the
    Guild was testing us.
[04:58] Lyd
    But, after hearing about Bell-cchi and
    the others, I couldn't help hoping a little.
[05:03] Lyd
    I thought, maybe, something might change.
[05:08] Hestia
    Coexistence between people and monsters?
[05:11] Hestia
    Do you know what you're saying, Ouranos?
[05:15] Ouranos
    Of course.
[05:16] Hestia
    Conflict between people and monsters has
    been their destiny since ancient times!
[05:21] Hestia
    Yet you'd still...
[05:22] Ouranos
    The Xenos do not attack
    simply based on instinct.
[05:25] Ouranos
    They wish for dialogue with people.
[05:28] Ouranos
    And it is not those claws and fangs,
[05:31] Ouranos
    but words and reason they
    bring in their appeals.
[05:34] Ouranos
    That they wish to go to the surface...
[05:36] Ouranos
    That they wish to know our children...
    to know humans.
[05:40] Ouranos
    The power of reason dwells within the Xenos.
[05:42] Ouranos
    They are attacked even by monsters.
[05:44] Ouranos
    They are alienated and ostracized.
[05:46] Ouranos
    There is no place for them
    even within the labyrinth.
[05:50] Ouranos
    As they are monsters, it is plain that their
    only choice is to be consigned to oblivion.
[05:54] Ouranos
    But they have gathered their will,
[05:56] Ouranos
    and they have the skill to express it,
[05:59] Ouranos
    just as our children do.
[06:02] Ouranos
    To watch as they are destroyed,
    unmoved by their lamentations,
[06:06] Ouranos
    I fear that is no longer something
    which I am able to do.
[06:10] Hestia
    You're really planning to strive
    toward harmony with monsters?
[06:14] Ouranos
    Yes.
[06:15] Ouranos
    But if our aim is co-existence
    with our children,
[06:19] Ouranos
    then we must inquire into the significance
    of the existence of monsters.
[06:23] Hestia
    So the bridge that will make people
    acknowledge value in the existence of monsters
[06:28] Hestia
    is Bell-kun and the others?
[06:30] Ouranos
    That is what I wish to determine.
[06:34] Hestia
    I empathize.
[06:36] Hestia
    But if our position is exposed, my family
    will lose its place in this town!
[06:41] Hestia
    Just like the Xenos.
[06:44] Ouranos
    I am aware.
[06:46] Ouranos
    Everything is being done
    at my sole discretion.
[06:50] Hermes
    I see. So you were noticed.
[06:52] Asfi
    My deepest apologies.
[06:54] Asfi
    It seems they sensed I was shadowing them.
[06:57] Hermes
    Ikelos's children must have
    some pretty good intuition.
[07:01] Asfi
    Dix Perdix, titled "Hazer."
[07:05] Asfi
    He is the captain of the familia, and,
    as of ten years ago, was already Level 4.
[07:10] Hermes
    So what happened to them?
[07:11] Asfi
    They scattered and ran.
    I was unable to follow.
[07:14] Asfi
    They have either returned
    to the surface, or...
[07:17] Hermes
    Not long from now,
    they'll be plotting something.
[07:20] Hermes
    Don't take your eye off the middle floors.
[07:23] Gran
    It really ticks me off!
[07:24] Gran
    If we could have tailed the
    Little Rookie from there,
[07:27] Gran
    we would have found the monsters' nest!
[07:30] Dix
    Didn't have a choice, did we?
[07:31] Dix
    Shaking off the Hermes Familia
    took everything we had.
[07:35] Dix
    With that damned god getting in the way...
[07:40] Party member B
    But this'll be trouble.
[07:42] Party member B
    If people find out we're
    smuggling monsters,
[07:45] Party member B
    we'll have to deal with the Guild, as well.
[07:48] Gran
    What are we going to do, Dix?
[07:50] Dix
    The fact they didn't come at us there
[07:53] Dix
    means we've got the upper
    hand in fighting power.
[07:55] Dix
    Besides, you really think we can quit
    doing something that's this much fun?
[07:59] Dix
    The hunt is back on.
[08:03] Fels
    Well, it seems things have once again
    developed in an unexpected direction.
[08:09] Lyd
    Fels! You came!
[08:11] Bell
    "Fels"?
[08:15] Hestia
    Given that Hermes knows about
    Wiene-kun and the Xenos,
[08:20] Hestia
    are we the only others who do?
[08:22] Ouranos
    No. Among the gods, there is one other.
[08:24] Ouranos
    Ganesha.
[08:26] Hestia
    Ganesha?
[08:27] Ganesha
    I am Ganesha!
[08:30] Ganesha
    ...sha! ...sha! ...sha! ...sha! ...sha!
[08:33] Hestia
    Then you can't mean that
    Monsterphilia is...
[08:35] Ouranos
    That is correct.
[08:37] Ouranos
    To ease people's revulsion towards monsters,
[08:41] Ouranos
    Ganesha hosts them at my request.
[08:44] Ouranos
    To gain his cooperation,
    I explained everything to him.
[08:49] Hestia
    You can't be serious.
[08:50] Hestia
    Out of everything I've heard today,
    that's the most shocking.
[08:53] Ouranos
    In spite of appearances, he is
    a god who can keep secrets.
[08:57] Hestia
    But to think you've been planning reconciliation
     between monsters and people for that long.
[09:04] Fels
    First, I shall say I am pleased to meet you.
[09:07] Fels
    I am Fels.
[09:09] Fels
    Conveying communications between Ouranos and
    Lyd and the Xenos is the bulk of my duties.
[09:15] Fels
    For the past seven days, I have watched
    over you and the dragon maiden.
[09:20] Bell
    You have...
[09:22] Lyd
    Fels has eyes all over the place.
[09:24] Lyd
    With this one, they can
    contact us at any time.
[09:28] Lili
    Fels-sama, are you a monster, too?
[09:32] Lyd
    Nope, Fels is a human.
[09:34] Fels
    To be precise, a former human.
[09:37] Bell
    What?
[09:38] Fels
    I shall show you, as well.
[09:43] Welf
    Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
[09:44] Bell
    A monster?! A spartoi?
[09:47] Fels
    I did tell you. A former human.
[09:50] Bell
    Wh-What does that mean?
[09:52] Lyd
    Fels is a sage! A super-amazing mage!
[09:56] Lili
    Sage? You mean...
[09:57] Lili
    In that one well-known, great nation
    of sages... The philosopher's stone...
[09:59] Lili
    Only one person managed to successfully
    create it and gain eternal life!
[10:03] Lili
    That sage?
[10:04] Lyd
    Huh? Yeah... They might be that sage.
[10:08] Fels
    That is correct.
[10:10] Fels
    I am the remaining ruins of one
    who was once called a sage.
[10:14] Fels
    In my pursuit of infinite wisdom,
    I became obsessed with eternal life.
[10:19] Fels
    I devised a secret formula to
    become undying and regenerative,
[10:22] Fels
    and I became a living ghost.
[10:25] Fels
    Now, I am known as Fels the Fool.
[10:30] Fels
    At Ouranos's side,
[10:32] Fels
    I observe the shifting of the ages.
[10:39] Fels
    I first made contact with Lyd and
    the others over 15 years ago.
[10:44] Fels
    We called them "Xenos," and created
    a community by the same name.
[10:50] Fels
    An organization to shelter their kin,
     born of the Dungeon,
[10:54] Fels
    and allow them to live together.
[10:56] Rei
    Since then, so that other
    monsters don't find us,
[11:00] Rei
    we move through the labyrinth,
    living together, looking for new kin.
[11:05] Lili
    Living together...
[11:08] Lili
    Doesn't this room give birth to monsters?
[11:11] Lyd
    Hey! That's a good point you've
    noticed there, Lili-cchi!
[11:14] Lili
    "Lili-cchi"...
[11:16] Lyd
    This is unexplored territory that
    adventurers haven't found yet.
[11:20] Lyd
    A place where monsters
    aren't born. A safe point.
[11:23] Lyd
    We call it a hidden village.
[11:26] Fels
    The Dungeon has several spaces like this.
[11:29] Bell
    Is that right?
[11:33] Fels
    There are approximately forty Xenos here.
[11:36] Fels
    Among them, Lyd, Rei, and Gros
    have been members the longest.
[11:42] Welf
    Then... are you the leader?
[11:44] Lyd
    Yeah. And I'm also the strongest, too.
[11:48] Lyd
    At least, that's what I'd like to say.
[11:50] Lyd
    But recently, a newcomer who
    joined us has passed me up.
[11:54] Welf
    Really?
[11:56] Lyd
    Y-Yeah...
[11:57] Lyd
    Even now, the newcomer's gone down
    to the deeper levels alone to train.
[12:01] Lyd
    Probably planning to get
    even stronger, that one!
[12:06] Lili
    But, Fels-sama, why do you and
    the others support the Xenos?
[12:12] Lili
    In their position, there is
    no need to give them aid.
[12:16] Lili
    Though it is dangerous, they are more than
    capable of living here in the Dungeon.
[12:20] Lili
    Fels-sama, what is it that the Xenos
    seek through their connection to you?
[12:30] Rei
    To emerge on the surface.
[12:32] Rei
    That is our wish.
[12:38] Lyd
    I have this dream...
[12:39] Lyd
    A dream where this crimson light
    sinks behind giant rocks.
[12:44] Lyd
    A sky that doesn't exist here
    is dyed red enough to cry red.
[12:49] Bell
    Is that a sunset?
[12:51] Welf
    Have you ever been to the surface?
[12:53] Lyd
    No.
[12:54] Lyd
    Not even once.
[12:56] Lyd
    That's why I think maybe...
[12:59] Lyd
    The last time I lived, I might have
    been somewhere I could see the sky.
[13:03] Lili
    The "last time you lived"?
[13:07] Lyd
    Bell-cchi...
[13:09] Lyd
    Wiene learned how to speak
    really quickly, right?
[13:11] Bell
    Huh? Yes.
[13:14] Lyd
    Here, we have both those who
    can speak and those who can't.
[13:18] Lyd
    The ones who can speak, for some reason,
     they learn how really fast.
[13:23] Lyd
    It's just like they're remembering
    that they've spoken before.
[13:29] (Flashback) Wiene
    My body grows cold.
[13:32] (Flashback) Wiene
    My chest is empty, as though
    there was a hole in it.
[13:35] (Flashback) Wiene
    I see those people so clearly...
[13:39] Fels
    An intense, severe longing...
[13:42] Fels
    The feelings hidden in
    their hearts are varied.
[13:45] Fels
    But an intense aspiration towards humanity,
    or the surface, is the sole commonality.
[13:51] Lyd
    I want to see that sunset one more time.
[13:55] Rei
    I want to try spreading my
    wings in a world of light.
[13:59] Rei
    In place of these wings,
    which can embrace no one...
[14:02] Rei
    I want to be embraced by someone I love.
[14:05] Lyd
    We know.
[14:07] Lyd
    We're outcasts, meant to live in the shade.
[14:09] Lyd
    We're neither one thing nor the other,
    hated by both people and monsters.
[14:13] Lyd
    Even this place...
[14:15] Lyd
    We think maybe our mom
    might've prepared it for us.
[14:20] Welf
    "Mom"?
[14:22] Rei
    The Dungeon which gave birth to us.
[14:24] Rei
    We were attacked by our own kind,
     our lives targeted...
[14:29] Rei
    But at the same time, our existence
    is permitted by our mother, the labyrinth.
[14:35] Rei
    That is what we believe.
[14:37] Lyd
    That's why, see?
[14:38] Lyd
    Why we were so happy to meet
    you and the others, Bell-cchi!
[14:41] Lyd
    It's not about wanting you
    to help us or anything.
[14:44] Lyd
    It's just the fact that people
    who can accept us exist.
[14:50] Lyd
    Bell-cchi, I'm glad
    I met you and the others!
[14:54] Hestia
    Ouranos, allow me to ask one final question.
[14:58] Ouranos
    What is it?
[14:59] Hestia
    What in the world is
    happening in the Dungeon?
[15:02] Hestia
    Do you know why the Xenos are being born?
[15:08] Ouranos
    What do you think happens
    to monsters after they die?
[15:11] Hestia
    What are you talking about?
[15:12] Ouranos
    Our children's spirits return to Heaven,
[15:15] Ouranos
    and they are once again given
    life in this Lower World.
[15:18] Ouranos
    Then where do you think
    monsters' spirits go?
[15:22] Hestia
    You can't mean...
[15:23] Ouranos
    The spirits of monsters return
    to their mother, the labyrinth.
[15:27] Ouranos
    Then, in a different form, they are
    born in the depths of the labyrinth.
[15:33] Hestia
    The monsters have a cycle
    of death and rebirth!
[15:36] Ouranos
    This is no more than supposition.
[15:38] Ouranos
    But I am confident in my belief.
[15:40] Ouranos
    Over thousands of years,
    through countless rebirths,
[15:44] Ouranos
    their wishes and regrets have layered,
     one on another,
[15:46] Ouranos
    and now try to change the
    nature of their souls.
[15:50] Hestia
    But why?
[15:51] Ouranos
    It is either the strength of
    the monsters' yearning, or...
[15:55] Ouranos
    the will of the Dungeon.
[15:59] Rei
    Thank you for today, truly.
[16:01] Rei
    I am glad to have met you.
[16:03] Bell
    W-We should be thanking you.
[16:05] Lyd
    Bell-cchi, do you know what this is?
[16:07] Bell
    Huh? A monster's magic stone?
[16:13] Lyd
    We get attacked by other monsters
    without a chance to talk.
[16:17] Lyd
    And we, too, kill monsters to survive.
[16:23] Lyd
    We eat magic stones this way and
    use them to strengthen ourselves.
[16:27] Lyd
    So, please, don't hesitate
    about killing monsters.
[16:30] Lyd
    Don't waver out of consideration for us.
[16:33] Lyd
    If you hesitate, Bell-cchi, you will die.
[16:40] Lyd
    Make sure you don't die, okay?
[16:42] Lyd
    I want to see you again.
[16:55] Wiene
    Bell! That was fun, wasn't it?
[16:57] Wiene
    Let's go home together!
[16:59] Lyd
    You're with us, Wiene.
[17:01] Wiene
    No! Put me down!
[17:03] Lyd
    I can't! You're with us!
[17:06] Wiene
    No! I want to be with Bell!
[17:08] Lyd
    If you're with them, you're going
    to make Bell-cchi and the others cry!
[17:09] Wiene
    Let go!
[17:12] Wiene
    What?
[17:14] Rei
    They treated you terribly on
    the surface, didn't they?
[17:16] Rei
    Next time, all of that will be turned
    toward Bell-san and the others.
[17:22] Lyd
    We can't live on the surface yet.
[17:25] Lyd
    But here, no one will hurt you.
[17:28] Lyd
    You're going to live here with us.
[17:34] Wiene
    Bell...
[17:35] Wiene
    I...
[17:38] Lyd
    See you around, Bell-cchi.
[17:41] Wiene
    Bell!
[17:43] Wiene
    Bell!
[17:44] Wiene
    Bell!
[17:49] Bell
    We'll see each other!
[17:50] Bell
    We'll see each other again!
[17:53] Wiene
    Bell!
[18:10] Bell
    We're back.
[18:11] Hestia
    Welcome back, Bell-kun, everyone.
[18:15] Bell
    Goddess...
[18:17] Bell
    What is the Dungeon?
[18:21] Hestia
    The Dungeon is the Dungeon.
[18:27] Fear
    It's just about time to set out, Wiene.
[18:31] Wiene
    Okay.
[18:33] Ranye
    You're late, Wiene.
[18:35] Ranye
    We may not make it by the time we're meant
    to meet up with the advance party.
[18:39] Wiene
    I'm sorry.
[18:45] Wiene
    Thank you, Foh.
[18:48] Ranye
    Stop dawdling!
[18:50] Ranye
    While we're moving, anything could happen.
[18:52] Ranye
    Until we reach the new village,
    absolutely do not let your guard down!
[18:55] Everyone
    Understood!
[19:01] Wiene
    Why are we moving villages?
[19:03] Wiene
    Did someone find us?
[19:05] Ranye
    Out of caution against the unlikely
    event of a raid, we change positions.
[19:10] Fear
    And if we stay in the same spot for
    too long, we run out of things to eat.
[19:15] Wiene
    I see...
[19:18] Wiene
    Mikoto's food was really yummy.
[19:20] Fear
    Don't worry!
[19:22] Fear
    Those people from the surface,
    Bell-san and the others, you'll see them again.
[19:27] Wiene
    Yes.
[19:28] Ranye
    Are you still saying those things?
[19:30] Ranye
    Forget those humans.
[19:32] Ranye
    Wiene, they will only cause you harm.
[19:36] Wiene
    Ranieh, do you hate Bell and the others?
[19:39] Wiene
    Bell and Haruhime and the
    Goddess were all kind to me!
[19:42] Ranye
    That was simply a whim of theirs.
     You are too ignorant.
[19:47] Ranye
    You know nothing of their cruelty or cunning.
[19:53] Fear
    Wiene?
[19:54] Wiene
    I can hear it...
[19:56] Wiene
    Someone crying... saying "help me!"
[20:00] Ranye
    The voice of our kin?
[20:01] Wiene
    Yes.
[20:03] Wiene
    So much suffering...
[20:05] Wiene
    If we don't help soon...
[20:08] Fear
    What do we do, Ranieh?
[20:10] Ranye
    In these circumstances,
    every moment must be fought for.
[20:13] Ranye
    We go!
[20:21] Wiene
    We're very close.
[20:24] Ranye
    Yes. I can hear it, too.
[20:26] Ranye
    Gros, can you hear me?
[20:28] Ranye
    We are going to rescue new kin.
[20:30] Ranye
    Please, wait for us at the meeting point.
[20:32] Gros
    Wait, Ranieh!
[20:33] Gros
    It's too dangerous with just your group!
[20:35] Gros
    We'll come support you!
[20:37] Ranye
    After hearing this voice...
[20:40] Ranye
    We can't wait!
[20:41] Gros
    Ranieh! Stop! It could be a trap—
[20:58] Siren
    Run...
[21:03] Dix
    So you really can cry...
[21:05] Dix
    you monsters.
[21:13] Ranye
    Adventurers?
[21:14] Fear
    An ambush?
[21:16] Dix
    It all went exactly as planned.
[21:19] Dix
    To lure in a vouivre,
    with her excellent hearing,
[21:21] Dix
    a screaming siren is the perfect choice.
[21:28] Ranye
    You evil, scheming...
[21:43] Ranye
    Orde!
[21:44] Dix
    Gran, you moron.
[21:45] Dix
    What if there was a monster
    we could have sold in there?
[21:48] Gran
    Sorry, Dix. Couldn't help myself.
[21:52] Dix
    Not as many as I thought there'd be.
[21:55] Dix
    Kills my motivation.
[21:57] Dix
    Guess I won't need to use this, will I?
[22:01] Dix
    All right.
[22:03] Dix
    Let's hunt.
SIGN    Next Time
SIGN    Ikelos Familia
    King of Atrocity
[23:37] Hestia
    Next time, "Ikelos Familia."