E12 - Possibility

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[00:02] Godfrey
    We're going in.
[00:03] Godfrey
    Everyone's ready, right?
[00:04] Tim
    Of course.
[00:06] Tim
    We're the Kimberly student council.
[00:09] Tim
    If our students have been kidnapped,
    it's our job to get them back.
[00:13] Lesedi
    If Ophelia's been consumed by the spell,
[00:15] Lesedi
    we have to stop her.
[00:17] Lesedi
    And this entire thing is our fault, as well.
[00:21] Lesedi
    Right, Godfrey?
[00:24] Godfrey
    Being slow to act hurt us, bad.
[00:26] Godfrey
    This all happened sooner than I'd expected.
[00:29] Carlos
    Or rather, she acted fast
    because she guessed our plans.
[00:32] Carlos
    She's always pushed herself too hard.
[00:36] Carlos
    If I screw up, take care of things, Al.
[00:43] Carlos
    Now, let's get going.
[00:46] Carlos
    It's time for our last adventure!
SIGN    Reign of the Seven Spellblades
[02:23] Oliver
    Pete hasn't come back yet.
[02:26] Chela
    The upperclassmen are doing
    everything they can.
[02:30] Chela
    All we can do is wait and believe.
[02:32] Guy
    But it's been days!
[02:35] Guy
    Are you sure they're not slacking off?
[02:38] Guy
    How long do they think
    he can survive out there?!
[02:42] Katie
    Stop it, Guy!
[02:43] Chela
    Katie's right, Guy.
[02:45] Chela
    Getting emotional won't change a thing.
[02:48] Guy
    And just sitting here will?
[02:51] Oliver
    Calm down, Guy.
[02:53] Oliver
    There's nothing we can do.
    This time, there really is nothing!
[02:56] Guy
    Then let me go!
[02:58] Guy
    If she takes me to wherever Pete is,
    I can at least cook for hi—
[03:02] Nanao
    End this line of thought, Guy.
[03:05] Nanao
    The dead cannot eat.
[03:09] Guy
    What does that mean?
[03:11] Nanao
    Exactly what I said.
[03:13] Nanao
    The only way to give food to a corpse
    is to leave an offering at their grave.
[03:18] Guy
    So you're saying Pete's dead?
[03:20] Nanao
    I do not know.
[03:22] Nanao
    But in my homeland,
[03:24] Nanao
    of every ten people who went
     missing on the battlefield,
[03:27] Nanao
    eight would turn up dead.
[03:30] Oliver
    You're being too pessimistic, Nanao.
[03:32] Oliver
    Those chimeras were designed
    to take people alive.
[03:37] Oliver
    That must mean she has a reason
    to keep them that way.
[03:40] Katie
    So what's Ophelia doing to Pete?
[03:47] Chela
    It's time.
[03:49] Chela
    We need to head to our next class.
[03:51] Guy
    Wait, Chela!
[03:52] Chela
    Arguing here is a waste of time.
[04:01] Oliver
    I'll just come out and ask, Brother.
[04:03] Oliver
    Can you rescue Pete?
[04:08] Gwyn
    Shannon and I are planning to accompany
    the student council into the labyrinth.
[04:12] Gwyn
    But Salvadori's set up her lair
    on the third layer.
[04:17] Gwyn
    It won't be easy to find her.
[04:20] Gwyn
    And we can't afford to mobilize
    our comrades now.
[04:23] Gwyn
    You understand why, right?
[04:27] Shannon
    Don't put too much pressure
    on yourself, Noll.
[04:29] Shannon
    I'll try my hardest to find him, too.
[04:40] Rossi
    Say, yer looking pretty stressed out.
[04:44] Rossi
    Oliver.
[04:47] Rossi
    I probably don't even need to tell ya this,
    but our little tournament's called off.
[04:51] Rossi
    This is no time to be having fun.
[04:55] Rossi
    Oh, and don't go getting any funny ideas, see.
[04:59] Rossi
    I'd be real disappointed
    if you died this soon.
[05:08] Garland
    I'm afraid that we're not at
    that point with Mr. Reston.
[05:13] Katie
    Still?
[05:14] Katie
    What would it take for you to step in
    and save him, then?
[05:17] Garland
    In these cases, the teachers can begin
    searching once eight days have passed,
[05:21] Garland
    as the survival rate drops
    precipitously after that.
[05:24] Katie
    E-Eight days?
[05:26] Garland
    I'm sure this will sound cruel,
[05:28] Garland
    but you mustn't get used to thinking that
    the teachers will bail you out of trouble.
[05:33] Katie
    I understand perfectly.
[05:35] Katie
    You're telling us students to figure
    this out on our own, aren't you?
[05:41] Oliver
    I see.
[05:43] Oliver
    So you went to talk to Mr. McFarlane?
[05:45] Chela
    Yes.
[05:46] Chela
    I know it's shameless of me, but I made
    a personal plea to him as his daughter...
[05:51] Chela
    And my father told me that here,
[05:53] Chela
    if you lack the power to protect your friends,
    you lose them the moment you gain them.
[06:00] Chela
    And I wanted to tell you, too...
[06:05] Chela
    I'm going into the labyrinth tonight.
[06:09] Oliver
    Are you insane, Chela?
[06:10] Oliver
    That's suicide!
[06:12] Chela
    In that instant when Pete was taken,
[06:14] Chela
    I ran the numbers myself.
[06:16] Chela
    I compared the risk that we'd all die
    if we went back to help
[06:19] Chela
    to the possibility of survival if we didn't...
[06:23] Chela
    We knew nothing about those beasts,
    and there were many of them.
[06:27] Chela
    We could have all died, easily.
[06:29] Chela
    And I also assumed that their goal
    was to take people alive.
[06:34] Chela
    I told myself that they wouldn't kill
    whoever they took immediately.
[06:38] Chela
    I made a judgment call
    with the life of my friend.
[06:44] Oliver
    You weren't the only one—
[06:47] Chela
    Let me take responsibility.
[06:49] Chela
    Or I...
[06:53] Chela
    Or I'll never be able to face Pete again!
[06:56] Oliver
    Then I'll go with you!
[06:57] Chela
    No.
[06:58] Chela
    If both of us vanish, the other three will
    head straight down into the labyrinth.
[07:05] Oliver
    I can't let you go down there
    alone like you are now!
[07:07] Oliver
    I can't!
[07:09] Chela
    Oliver...
[07:11] Miligan
    All you're deciding is whether
    one of you will die, or both.
[07:17] Oliver
    Ms. Miligan... Why?
[07:19] Miligan
    I have something to discuss with you.
[07:22] Miligan
    Well, not just me.
[07:25] Miligan
    Katie does, too.
[07:28] Oliver
    What are you doing, Katie?
[07:30] Oliver
    You're selling yourself to her?
[07:31] Katie
    Yes, if that's what it takes
    to save my friend!
[07:35] Chela
    Katie...
[07:36] Miligan
    "I'll let you examine my body however
    you want, if you'll save my friend"?
[07:42] Miligan
    You all have such a beautiful friendship.
[07:46] Oliver
    I'm rescinding her offer right now!
[07:49] Katie
    Oliver, this was my choice!
[07:52] Oliver
    Yeah, and you made it without
    talking to your friends at all!
[07:57] Miligan
    I understand that you're upset.
    But what's your actual plan?
[08:00] Oliver
    Ophelia Salvadori is the
    same year as you, right?
[08:05] Oliver
    What do you think the chances
    are that he'll be rescued?
[08:10] Miligan
    I can more or less guess what's
    happening with her right now.
[08:16] Miligan
    Factoring that in, if I were to estimate
    the possibility of Pete's survival...
[08:20] Miligan
    I'd say twenty percent, at best.
[08:24] Miligan
    Salvadori's got her back to the wall.
[08:26] Miligan
    She'd throw the lives of the students she
    kidnapped away without a second thought
[08:30] Miligan
    if it helped her research.
[08:32] Miligan
    But the way she's doing things takes time.
[08:37] Oliver
    Hence twenty percent?
[08:39] Miligan
    Yup.
[08:40] Miligan
    But you might be able to increase
    that chance to twenty-one percent.
[08:47] Oliver
    What do you mean?
[08:49] Miligan
    Let's change the subject for a moment.
[08:52] Miligan
    My research has hit a dead end.
[08:56] Miligan
    Partly because of what happened
    between us, of course,
[08:58] Miligan
    but I was also relying on Darius's assistance,
    and now he's gone missing.
[09:04] Miligan
    So basically, I'm in a tough spot right now.
[09:08] Miligan
    That's why I'd like to turn to Katie for help.
[09:12] Katie
    "Help"?
[09:13] Miligan
    I have an interest in interspecies
    communication, just as you do.
[09:17] Miligan
    You were the key to giving intelligence to
    that troll. I'd like you to join my research.
[09:22] Miligan
    So here's my proposal.
[09:26] Miligan
    I'll train you all.
[09:29] Miligan
    Ophelia is much, much stronger than I am.
[09:33] Miligan
    You've got no chance in a head-on fight.
[09:35] Miligan
    But with training, you might
    be able to get one up on her.
[09:39] Miligan
    You can't beat her, but...
[09:41] Miligan
    you might be able to rescue a single friend.
[09:46] Miligan
    I'll find her lair, of course,
    and I'll take you there, too.
[09:49] Miligan
    In exchange,
[09:51] Miligan
    when this is all over,
[09:53] Miligan
    Katie will officially become
    my research partner.
[09:59] Oliver
    "Research partner"?
[10:00] Miligan
    A lot of the time, that means a
    master-and-student relationship.
[10:03] Miligan
    But in this case, we'd be equals!
[10:06] Katie
    I accept!
[10:07] Katie
    I won't let either of you refuse for me!
[10:10] Katie
    It's not a bad deal at all, is it?
[10:12] Oliver
    Calm down, Katie!
[10:13] Oliver
    Ms. Miligan, what are you after?
[10:16] Oliver
    Is what you just said really everything?
[10:19] Miligan
    Figuring that out is just part
    of the bargaining process.
[10:22] Miligan
    That's how deals between mages work.
[10:26] Katie
    Let's accept!
[10:27] Katie
    It gives us a chance, right?
[10:29] Katie
    Let's go, Oliver!
[10:30] Katie
    Chela!
[10:31] Katie
    I'll do everything I can to save Pete!
[10:35] Miligan
    Katie, I'm afraid...
[10:43] Nanao
    Enter.
[10:46] Nanao
    I see it's time to go.
[10:48] Nanao
    I knew you'd already made up your minds.
[10:53] Nanao
    So I was simply waiting
    for you to come to me.
[10:57] Chela
    We need to expect the worst.
[11:00] Chela
    Are you still prepared to go?
[11:02] Nanao
    It's all the same.
[11:04] Nanao
    Whether I'm going to rescue my friend...
[11:06] Nanao
    or retrieve his body.
[11:10] Katie
    I'm sorry, Nanao.
[11:12] Katie
    I can't go.
[11:14] Katie
    Ms. Miligan says I'm still not ready.
[11:18] Chela
    I'm sorry, but in this case, she's right.
[11:26] Nanao
    I want you to take class notes for me.
[11:29] Nanao
    You're the only one to whom
    I can entrust this, Katie.
[11:34] Katie
    That's right. You can't ask Guy, can you?
[11:37] Katie
    Leave it to me. I'll get
    every last word for you!
[11:41] Guy
    So I'm staying home, huh?
[11:43] Guy
    I hate to say it, but I can see why.
[11:46] Guy
    I can't be slowing you guys down.
[11:48] Oliver
    Guy...
[11:51] Guy
    Take this.
[11:52] Guy
    It's got the toolplant seeds I cultivated.
[11:56] Guy
    The ones I used to make that barricade.
[11:58] Oliver
    Oh, those were great.
[12:01] Oliver
    I'll be sure to use these if I need them.
[12:03] Guy
    And...
[12:06] Guy
    Some rations I prepared.
[12:08] Guy
    Way better than the school store's.
[12:11] Guy
    Save some for Pete.
[12:13] Guy
    I bet he's really hungry.
[12:16] Guy
    Damn it!
[12:17] Guy
    Listen, don't do anything reckless
    down there! Seriously!
[12:22] Oliver
    I'll come back alive.
[12:24] Oliver
    We all will.
[12:26] Oliver
    Pete, too!
[12:29] Miligan
    We'll be going in through here this time.
[12:32] Miligan
    But first, Katie, I'm leaving
    Milihand in your care.
[12:41] Miligan
    If I don't come back alive,
[12:43] Miligan
    she'll serve as the key to
    access my research notes.
[12:48] Miligan
    Take good care of her.
[12:50] Katie
    Don't say that...
[12:53] Miligan
    I leave it all to you.
[12:54] Miligan
    Goodbye.
[12:57] Guy
    Take care.
[12:58] Chela
    It'll be fine.
[13:00] Chela
    We'll come back safe. All of us.
[13:02] Oliver
    Yeah, that's right.
[13:04] Nanao
    Yes.
[13:05] Nanao
    Now, let us be off!
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[13:19] Pete
    Where am I...?
[13:21] Pete
    It hurts to breathe.
[13:24] Pete
    I can barely move...
[13:29] Pete
    What is this place?
[13:32] Pete
    How did I get here?
[13:33] Pete
    That's right...
[13:43] Ophelia
    Be good kids and just stay asleep.
[13:47] Ophelia
    If you don't wake before the end,
[13:49] Ophelia
    it'll all just be a bad dream.
[14:01] Miligan
    You know that the Salvadori clan counts
    succubi among its distant ancestors, right?
[14:07] Miligan
    They mix the natures of different
    species together within the womb,
[14:11] Miligan
    and bring forth offspring.
[14:12] Miligan
    That's the special power
    of the succubus—or was.
[14:16] Miligan
    It was a multi-generational attempt
    to create the perfect lifeform.
[14:21] Miligan
    But it failed.
[14:24] Miligan
    And now, succubi are de-facto extinct.
[14:28] Miligan
    But the Salvadori found another
    way to make use of their wombs.
[14:33] Miligan
    They made them into culture tanks
    that could create synthetic beasts
[14:36] Miligan
    to perform a variety of tasks.
[14:39] Miligan
    You saw the chimeras she created, right?
[14:43] Miligan
    You need a lot of mana to create a chimera.
[14:47] Miligan
    This time, she needed so much
[14:49] Miligan
    that she decided to kidnap underclassmen
    and squeeze it out of them directly.
[14:53] Oliver
    She's trying to create more chimeras?
[14:56] Miligan
    That, or something much more terrifying.
[15:01] Chela
    Does it hurt to have your mana taken?
[15:06] Miligan
    I don't know.
[15:08] Miligan
    I would assume she's put them to sleep.
[15:11] Miligan
    Of course, they'll weaken by the day.
[15:14] Miligan
    She's sucking away their vitality, after all.
[15:18] Chela
    Wait.
[15:19] Chela
    What do you mean by vitality?
[15:22] Miligan
    Oh, that's not a roundabout
    way of saying sperm.
[15:25] Miligan
    What she needs is mana
    with a male aspect to it.
[15:28] Chela
    So she needs male mana only?
[15:34] Oliver
    That might be bad!
[15:37] Miligan
    What?
[15:39] Nanao
    Pete recently awakened as a reversi.
[15:43] Oliver
    Nanao!
[15:44] Nanao
    We shouldn't hide it.
[15:45] Nanao
    Miligan is an ally. She's risking
    her life alongside ours.
[15:51] Miligan
    That's a pretty rare thing
    Pete's got, though.
[15:57] Oliver
    What do you think she'd do with him?
[15:59] Miligan
    I'm afraid that to Ophelia,
    at the moment, a reversi
[16:03] Miligan
    is just a hindrance to her goal
    of making more chimeras.
[16:06] Miligan
    If she finds out, he might not survive.
[16:09] Miligan
    Let's hurry.
[16:14] Oliver
    Marco!
[16:16] Oliver
    You're safe!
[16:17] Marco
    Oliver. I'm okay.
[16:20] Marco
    What about Katie?
[16:22] Oliver
    She's safe, too. I'm sorry for
    making you go through all that.
[16:25] Miligan
    Oh, today's our lucky day.
[16:28] Miligan
    The chimeras didn't come after you?
[16:31] Marco
    They didn't chase me.
[16:34] Miligan
    That proves it.
[16:37] Miligan
    The chimeras are just
    following Ophelia's orders.
[16:41] Miligan
    She's still got some sense
    left in her, I guess...
[16:46] Miligan
    You take a few, too.
[16:48] Miligan
    We're going up against Ophelia.
[16:51] Miligan
    You'll need magic potions
    to protect against her perfume.
[16:59] Godfrey
    Ignis!
[17:04] Godfrey
    We can't let our guard down for a moment.
[17:06] Carlos
    Looks like our rough welcome isn't letting up.
[17:08] Godfrey
    I hope Lesedi and Tim are hanging in there.
[17:16] Lesedi
    Well?
[17:17] Tim
    Not bad.
[17:18] Tim
    You're not as nice as Carlos, though.
[17:22] Lesedi
    Do you expect me to be?
[17:24] Lesedi
    As I see it, the pain helps wake you up.
[17:28] Tim
    Ophelia used to say the same thing.
[17:31] Tim
    Let's go. I don't want to keep her waiting.
[17:34] Tim
    She gets lonely.
[17:42] Kevin
    I guess I hit the jackpot!
[17:44] Godfrey
    Walker?
[17:45] Kevin
    I'm glad I found you!
[17:47] Kevin
    I figured this was the route you'd take!
[17:50] Kevin
    Just intuition, though.
[17:51] Godfrey
    Calm down a little...
[17:53] Carlos
    Were you waiting for us, Kevin?
[17:56] Kevin
    Oh, right. I was.
[17:58] Kevin
    I wanted to give you this!
[18:02] Godfrey
    What is it?
[18:03] Kevin
    A map of what the third layer looks like now.
[18:05] Kevin
    I mapped out all I could find.
[18:08] Godfrey
    You've been down in the third layer
    while all this has been going on?
[18:11] Kevin
    Yeah. Sorry, though.
    I couldn't find her workshop.
[18:17] Carlos
    Thank you, Kevin.
[18:20] Carlos
    Thank you.
[18:23] Kevin
    Okay, I'm heading back out.
[18:26] Kevin
    I'll try to go a little deeper this time.
[18:27] Godfrey
    Wait. We'll go with you.
[18:30] Kevin
    No, thanks.
[18:32] Kevin
    I work better alone.
[18:34] Kevin
    Bye!
[18:38] Godfrey
    He never changes.
[18:41] Carlos
    He really doesn't.
[18:43] Carlos
    He's always there to help us out.
[18:45] Miligan
    Here's our first challenge.
[18:48] Oliver
    That's...
[18:49] Nanao
    It's just like the ones from before.
[18:52] Miligan
    You were right to retreat.
[18:54] Miligan
    This isn't a foe you should be taking on
    until you're at least a third-year.
[18:59] Miligan
    But in this case, you can't save
    Pete without getting past it.
[19:04] Miligan
    So what should you do?
[19:08] Miligan
    The answer is simple.
[19:09] Miligan
    Just watch and learn!
[19:13] Miligan
    Deformatio!
[19:16] Miligan
    Lesson 1: First, understand
    your foe's idiosyncrasies.
[19:19] Miligan
    For instance, this thing's practically blind!
[19:22] Miligan
    It can't have it all—
[19:24] Miligan
    what it gains in controlling many tentacles
    at once, it loses in acuity of vision.
[19:28] Miligan
    Lesson 2: When you're fighting
    a large magical beast,
[19:32] Miligan
    don't let it get a bead on you!
    Don't stop moving for even a second!
[19:35] Miligan
    If you can avoid fighting all its tentacles
    at once, and it's just one or two of them...
[19:41] Miligan
    Impetus!
[19:46] Miligan
    Don't try to rush.
[19:48] Miligan
    Start by whittling down
    its strength where you can.
[19:50] Miligan
    But don't let the fight drag on, either.
[19:55] Miligan
    Thus, lesson 3:
[19:57] Miligan
    Fight with a plan in mind!
[19:59] Miligan
    Make sure everything you do
    leads up to one decisive blow!
[20:04] Miligan
    So it's learned to ignore the decoys.
[20:07] Miligan
    That's the annoying thing
    about Ophelia's chimeras.
[20:10] Miligan
    None of them are stupid.
[20:12] Miligan
    So...
[20:15] Miligan
    You use that to your advantage.
[20:19] Miligan
    Too bad. It's checkmate for you.
[20:23] Miligan
    Tonitrus.
[20:25] Miligan
    It learned that the simple movements
    were from my decoys,
[20:27] Miligan
    and the complex movements were from me.
[20:30] Miligan
    By turning that on its head,
    I created an opening.
[20:34] Chela
    She made it look so easy...
[20:36] Miligan
    Get it, Ms. McFarlane?
[20:39] Miligan
    The fact that the tentacles covering
    its body all had lightning resistance
[20:43] Miligan
    was practically shouting from the rooftops
    that that was its weakness!
[20:47] Miligan
    It's not as easy as I made it sound, though.
[20:49] Miligan
    Observing a creature.
    Finding its weak spots.
[20:53] Miligan
    Putting a plan into action...
[20:55] Miligan
    One person doesn't have to do
    all three on their own.
[20:58] Nanao
    I'll take the third, then.
[21:01] Oliver
    Nanao?
[21:03] Nanao
    We can do this, Oliver!
[21:05] Nanao
    Remember how we fought the garuda!
[21:09] Miligan
    Yes.
[21:10] Miligan
    You've triumphed in the past.
[21:13] Miligan
    If you hadn't, I wouldn't have taken you on.
[21:15] Chela
    Nanao, stop trying to be the
    only one who's in danger.
[21:20] Chela
    All three of us will do these
    three things together.
[21:24] Nanao
    Oh, we will?
[21:27] Nanao
    Okay...
[21:29] Nanao
    I'll do my best to think, too!
[21:32] Oliver
    We'll make it work, Ms. Miligan!
[21:37] Miligan
    That's why it's so much fun
    mentoring underclassmen!
[21:41] Miligan
    We're about to enter the second layer:
    the bustling forest.
[21:45] Miligan
    Try to keep up.
[21:47] All
    Right!
[23:20] Godfrey
    Thanks to him, we now know
    how to get to Ophelia.
[23:24] Carlos
    Yes. Let's go get her.
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