# 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!
***SIGN*** Reign of the Seven Spellblades
**[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.
***SIGN*** Episode Twelve
***SIGN*** Possibility
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Noisy Forest