# E2 - Sword Arts
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**[00:02] Katie**
Did you sleep well?
**[00:04] Nanao**
Yes, I slept splendidly!
**[00:06] Katie**
There they are!
**[00:09] Chela**
Good morning, Oliver, Pete.
**[00:12] Chela**
Did you sleep well last night?
**[00:16] Pete**
I guess.
**[00:17] Oliver**
Yes, luckily.
**[00:20] Guy**
Sorry I'm late!
**[00:21] Guy**
I almost overslept!
**[00:24] Guy**
Why didn't somebody tell me
there were clocknoks here?
**[00:27] Katie**
Clocknoks?
**[00:29] Katie**
I didn't see any in my room.
**[00:31] Katie**
Nanao was up early, though.
**[00:33] Nanao**
I just naturally rise around six.
**[00:38] Guy**
You're wearing your uniform today, Nanao?
**[00:40] Nanao**
Indeed.
**[00:41] Nanao**
It had arrived at my room last night.
**[00:43] Nanao**
Do I look the part of a mage now?
**[00:47] Katie**
You sure do!
**[00:48] Guy**
You look great!
**[00:53] Guy**
By the way, Oliver,
**[00:55] Guy**
is it just me or is your robe... kind of damp?
**[00:58] Oliver**
You're definitely imagining things.
**[00:59] Pete**
Let's just hurry up and eat breakfast.
**[01:02] Pete**
Our first day is packed with classes!
**[01:05] Pete**
There's no time to waste!
**[01:06] Guy**
Calm down!
**[01:07] Pete**
Don't put your hand on my head!
**[01:10] Nanao**
I can certainly understand your excitement.
**[01:13] Nanao**
I cannot wait to find out
what magic class is like!
***SIGN*** Reign of the Seven Spellblades
***SIGN*** First Period
***SIGN*** Sword Arts
**[02:48] Garland**
Welcome, new students, to sword arts class.
**[02:52] Garland**
Before we start swinging
our athames around, though,
***SIGN*** Instructor
***SIGN*** Luther Garland
**[02:56] Garland**
let's start by reminding ourselves
what sword arts actually are.
**[03:00] Garland**
Can someone define the term for me?
**[03:01] Pete**
I can, Master Garland.
**[03:03] Garland**
You, then.
**[03:05] Garland**
First, give me your name.
**[03:06] Pete**
Y-Yes, sir! I'm Pete Reston!
**[03:09] Students**
First day, and he's already the teacher's pet?
**[03:11] Students**
He's an ordinary, I heard.
**[03:14] Students**
Total egghead, from the look of it.
**[03:19] Pete**
Sword arts are the techniques
performed using these athames.
**[03:25] Pete**
The use of athames as a complement to
white wands dates back to 400 years ago,
**[03:31] Pete**
when a famous mage named Wilf Badderwell
lost a duel to a nonmagical.
**[03:38] Pete**
Ever since then, mages have carried athames
to deal with attacks from close range,
**[03:42] Pete**
where they otherwise wouldn't have
time to chant an incantation.
**[03:47] Pete**
Not only can they fight
with the blade itself,
**[03:49] Pete**
they can also use incantationless magic
to dazzle or disorient an enemy,
**[03:53] Pete**
allowing for a variety of combat styles.
**[03:57] Garland**
When you fight at close enough range that
you can take one step and cut down your foe,
**[04:01] Garland**
we call that the "one-step,
one-spell distance."
**[04:04] Garland**
It's in this tiny world that you will fight
with your blade and magic.
**[04:08] Garland**
That is what it means to master sword arts.
**[04:10] Garland**
We always kick off the first day
**[04:11] Garland**
by having two people who already know
how to fight put on a duel for us.
**[04:15] Garland**
Any volunteers?
**[04:19] Nanao**
Please, allow me the honor!
**[04:22] Katie**
Nanao?
**[04:24] Garland**
So you're the famous Ms. Hibiya?
**[04:26] Garland**
It's not that I don't
appreciate the enthusiasm,
**[04:29] Garland**
but can you really use sword ar—
**[04:31] Richard**
Mr. Garland, if I may, as well.
**[04:33] Richard**
I am Richard Andrews.
**[04:35] Richard**
I've heard stories that she defeated
a troll with just a sword.
**[04:39] Richard**
This would be a perfect opportunity for her
to show us how they fight in Azia.
**[04:45] Katie**
I don't like him.
**[04:47] Oliver**
* He wants to show off that*
* he's tougher than Nanao?*
**[04:50] Oliver**
* Taking advantage of her lack*
* of sword arts experience...*
**[04:52] Garland**
Well, if you both agree.
**[04:56] Oliver**
I'm Oliver Horn.
**[04:57] Oliver**
I'd like to duel Nanao.
**[05:02] Richard**
Hey, you.
**[05:03] Richard**
Back off.
**[05:04] Richard**
I asked first—
**[05:05] Oliver**
You're the one who needs to back off.
**[05:06] Oliver**
I fought that troll alongside Nanao,
so we already have a connection.
**[05:10] Oliver**
*I see.*
**[05:12] Oliver**
* He's one of the ones who was close by*
* during the incident but did nothing.*
**[05:16] Richard**
You seem quite proud of
the fact that you fought.
**[05:20] Richard**
But in a situation like that,
**[05:22] Richard**
the smart thing would be to leave it
to the teachers or upperclassmen.
**[05:24] Oliver**
A very rational decision.
**[05:26] Oliver**
So that's the choice you'd make, then, when a
classmate was about to be crushed before you?
**[05:31] Richard**
Why, you...
**[05:32] Chela**
I'll challenge you, then, Mr. Andrews.
**[05:38] Richard**
Ms. McFarlane.
**[05:40] Chela**
Everyone will be much more
impressed if you can defeat me.
**[05:44] Chela**
Or are you afraid?
**[05:47] Richard**
Of course not!
**[05:49] Chela**
Then it's settled.
**[05:50] Oliver**
*Do those two know each other?*
**[05:52] Oliver**
*Either way, though... Thanks, Chela!*
**[05:55] Garland**
Then the first duel will be between
Ms. Hibiya and Mr. Horn.
**[05:59] Garland**
The second duel will be between
Mr. Andrews and Ms. McFarlane.
**[06:04] Garland**
First pair, to the center!
**[06:06] Garland**
Bow, and then draw!
**[06:11] Garland**
Securus.
**[06:15] Garland**
I've cast an anti-lethality
spell on your swords.
**[06:18] Garland**
Now you won't injure each other.
**[06:22] Nanao**
You're right!
**[06:23] Garland**
This is the only form in which combat
between students is allowed.
**[06:28] Garland**
The penalty for breaking this rule is harsh!
**[06:31] Garland**
There's no time limit.
**[06:32] Garland**
The duel ends when one of you inflicts
a mortal blow to the head or chest.
**[06:37] Garland**
Now, raise your weapons!
**[06:39] Nanao**
Let us face each other
honorably in battle, Oliver!
**[06:42] Oliver**
Yup, let's!
**[06:44] Oliver**
*Nanao doesn't know magic.*
**[06:47] Oliver**
* I won't use my magic. I'll just*
* fight a little and call it a day.*
**[06:53] Oliver**
*No, that's wrong!*
**[06:55] Garland**
Begin!
**[06:56] Oliver**
*I can't afford to hold back against her!*
**[07:02] Oliver**
*I can't keep her at bay!*
**[07:04] Oliver**
*Grave Soil!*
**[07:10] Oliver**
*Got her!*
**[07:12] Oliver**
*What?*
**[07:16] Oliver**
*Don't try to block! Try to deflect!*
**[07:24] Oliver**
*Now!*
**[07:47] Oliver**
*There's no doubt about it.*
**[07:49] Oliver**
*She's killed people with that sword.*
**[07:51] Oliver**
*And not just a dozen or so.*
**[07:56] Oliver**
*How much blood has that blade seen?*
**[08:01] Nanao**
Here...
**[08:07] Nanao**
It was right here...
**[08:19] Oliver**
Don't cry.
**[08:21] Oliver**
*I want to stop her tears.*
**[08:23] Oliver**
* With everything I have in this moment,*
* holding nothing back at all...*
**[08:34] Nanao**
You have my thanks.
**[08:40] Oliver**
*We'll fight here until one of us dies!*
**[08:45] Garland**
That's enough!
**[08:47] Garland**
Both of you, swords down! Now!
**[08:49] Garland**
I most definitely did not tell you
to try to kill each other.
**[08:53] Garland**
I'm sure you did it unconsciously,
but you both broke the anti-lethality spell!
**[08:57] Oliver**
*What was I just about to do?*
**[09:01] Oliver**
Both of you, sheathe your
swords and go take a rest.
**[09:08] Nanao**
How many of Nanao's attacks just now
could you have deflected, Mr. Andrews?
**[09:16] Chela**
Master Garland!
**[09:18] Chela**
I don't think the new students
need to see any more fighting.
**[09:21] Chela**
May I retract my earlier offer?
**[09:23] Garland**
If the two of you agree.
**[09:26] Richard**
I'm fine with that.
**[09:31] Garland**
Now, let's get back to the lesson!
**[09:39] Nanao**
Oliver!
**[09:41] Nanao**
That was a wonderful fight!
**[09:45] Nanao**
I've never had such a fulfilling duel!
**[09:52] Nanao**
The one thing I regret, though,
is that we were unable to finish.
**[09:57] Nanao**
I want to see what lies beyond that moment,
**[10:00] Nanao**
more than anything in the world!
**[10:03] Nanao**
Don't you?
**[10:05] Nanao**
So fight me again, Oliver!
**[10:08] Nanao**
This time, until we're both satisfied!
**[10:10] Nanao**
With real blades, no spell dulling their edge!
**[10:13] Oliver**
I refuse!
**[10:16] Oliver**
I'll never fight you again!
**[10:18] Nanao**
But why?
**[10:20] Oliver**
I don't owe you a reason.
**[10:22] Oliver**
I just don't want to do it!
**[10:24] Oliver**
I don't want to kill you,
**[10:27] Oliver**
and I don't want you to kill me!
**[10:34] Nanao**
Why?
***SIGN*** Reign of the Seven Spellblades
**[10:47] Guy**
There's so much...
**[10:49] Guy**
There's so much more to learn than I thought!
**[10:51] Chela**
Spellology class was filled
with surprises, huh?
**[10:53] Guy**
Surprises...?
**[10:55] Guy**
I mean, we'd only just left sword arts class
when she started lecturing us!
***SIGN*** Second Period
***SIGN*** Spellology
**[11:00] (Flashback) Gilcrist**
Hmph!
**[11:01] (Flashback) Gilcrist**
Look at those unsightly athames.
**[11:04] (Flashback) Gilcrist**
We mages have no need of anything
but our white wands!
***SIGN*** Teacher
***SIGN*** Frances Gilchrist
**[11:11] (Flashback) Gilcrist**
If there's one thing I want
to teach you, it's this:
**[11:13] (Flashback) Gilcrist**
If you call yourself any kind of mage,
solve your problems with magic.
**[11:20] Pete**
She sure had a lot of familiars...
**[11:24] Guy**
This day's been full of surprises.
**[11:27] Guy**
Who knows what's going to happen
in the afternoon classes?
**[11:30] Katie**
Next is magical biology, right?
**[11:32] Katie**
I've been looking forward to it all day!
***SIGN*** Third Period
***SIGN*** Magical Biology
**[11:35] Aldiss**
If any of you are the animal-loving,
"Oh-they're-so-cute" types,
**[11:38] Aldiss**
in my class, you can take your ideals...
**[11:41] Aldiss**
and throw that shit in the trash.
***SIGN*** Teacher
***SIGN*** Vanessa Aldiss
**[11:45] Aldiss**
Here, we treat magical
creatures as resources.
**[11:49] Aldiss**
And you're going to learn
how to best exploit them.
**[11:52] Aldiss**
Here's your task for today.
**[11:57] Katie**
They're so cute...
**[11:59] Aldiss**
Magical silkworms.
**[12:00] Aldiss**
They'll make as many cocoons as you want,
as long as you feed them with magic.
**[12:05] Student**
They don't grow up into adult insects?
**[12:06] Aldiss**
Just rip off the cocoon first.
**[12:09] Aldiss**
That is, if you can feed them
with the right amount of magic.
**[12:13] Aldiss**
Give too much, and...
**[12:20] Pete**
A black cocoon?
**[12:21] Aldiss**
Stay back. It'll bust out
of there any moment now.
**[12:29] Aldiss**
...they turn into fierce monsters.
**[12:32] Aldiss**
Flamma.
**[12:35] Aldiss**
So, your job for today is cocoon-making.
**[12:39] Aldiss**
You'll each have ten. If you succeed
with five, that's a passing grade.
**[12:43] Aldiss**
Any screwups, you clean up yourself.
**[12:46] Aldiss**
Nobody helps anybody else!
**[12:48] Aldiss**
And with that...
**[12:49] Aldiss**
Begin!
**[12:54] Students**
It turned black already!
**[12:55] Students**
Hurry up and burn it, idiot!
**[12:57] Students**
How much magic do I feed it?
**[12:58] Students**
Shut up! I can't concentrate!
**[13:03] Chela**
Today's class is pretty easy.
**[13:11] Chela**
That's one failure.
**[13:12] Chela**
Flamma.
**[13:15] Guy**
Is it that easy for you?
**[13:17] Chela**
Oh? We only need five to pass,
so I think I've done pretty well.
**[13:22] Chela**
Oliver, you don't find this at all
difficult either, do you?
**[13:24] Chela**
Why not help Katie or Pete?
**[13:27] Chela**
I'll help Nanao.
**[13:30] Chela**
I can tell.
**[13:32] Chela**
Something happened between
you and Nanao, right?
**[13:36] Oliver**
Thanks.
**[13:39] Guy**
Wh-What about me?
**[13:40] Chela**
Go get your five failures
out of the way first.
**[13:43] Chela**
I'll help you once you've
got a sense for it.
**[13:46] Guy**
She already knows I'm
really clumsy! Damn it!
**[13:55] Pete**
I just barely made five.
**[14:01] Guy**
Flamma!
**[14:02] Guy**
Damn it!
**[14:04] Guy**
I only got four!
**[14:05] Students**
I got it!
**[14:06] Aldiss**
Well, I guess this year's freshmen
are better than most.
**[14:06] Students**
Damn it!
**[14:08] Aldiss**
I don't see anybody getting attacked...
**[14:12] Aldiss**
You're still on your fifth?
**[14:14] Aldiss**
You just need to feed them some magic.
**[14:17] Katie**
I know!
**[14:18] Aldiss**
They're just silkworms.
**[14:20] Katie**
Be quiet, please!
**[14:32] Chela**
Nanao finished up.
**[14:34] Chela**
Hers were almost all failures, though.
**[14:36] Chela**
What about Katie?
**[14:37] Oliver**
She's done fine up to her ninth, but...
**[14:40] Chela**
She's doing great, then.
**[14:41] Chela**
She shouldn't need to be so careful
with the last one.
**[14:45] Oliver**
Her goal is different than ours.
**[14:48] Oliver**
She doesn't care about the class.
**[14:50] Oliver**
Katie wants to save the lives of as
many living creatures as she can.
**[14:56] Katie**
It's okay.
**[14:58] Katie**
You'll be okay!
**[15:07] Oliver**
It's a failure! Burn it, now!
**[15:10] Oliver**
Katie!
**[15:10] Katie**
It's still okay! If I rip off
the cocoon, it'll be okay!
**[15:20] Aldiss**
You two lose points for helping her.
**[15:25] Katie**
I'm sorry...
**[15:27] Katie**
For making you leave class to come with me.
**[15:31] Oliver**
It's okay.
**[15:32] Oliver**
I didn't want to be there either.
**[15:37] Katie**
My family had a bunch of animals.
**[15:41] Katie**
Everything from dogs and cats
to magical creatures.
**[15:43] Katie**
Demi-humans, too.
**[15:47] Katie**
I was especially close with our troll, Patro.
**[15:50] Oliver**
I see.
**[15:52] Katie**
That's why, whenever I see an animal or
demi-human get hurt, I can't take it...
**[15:59] Katie**
Rationally, I know that society needs
to do these things to advance.
**[16:05] Katie**
But to a mage, everything without human
rights is just a resource to exploit.
**[16:13] Katie**
And I just can't accept that.
**[16:16] Katie**
I don't want to accept what's
normal here at Kimberly.
**[16:19] Oliver**
Your childhood home must've been like
growing up among angels in paradise.
**[16:25] Oliver**
But you've come down to Earth now.
**[16:28] Oliver**
You've experienced the cruelty of this world,
**[16:31] Oliver**
so you can't stay an angel anymore.
**[16:36] Oliver**
But if you nonetheless choose to remain
the kind person that you are...
**[16:40] Oliver**
I think that's a noble thing.
**[16:43] Oliver**
Much more noble than any angel.
**[16:47] Oliver**
S-So what I'm getting at, Katie,
**[16:49] Oliver**
is that you've only seen
a small part of Kimberly.
**[16:53] Oliver**
You don't have to grow disillusioned
or make a decision just yet.
**[16:57] Oliver**
And...
**[17:01] Guy**
Oww...
**[17:02] Oliver**
You're not alone, as you can see.
**[17:07] Katie**
Yeah. Thanks!
**[17:16] Teresa**
Your first day has been difficult, I see.
**[17:19] Oliver**
Is that sarcasm, Ms. Carste?
**[17:21] Teresa**
Not at all.
**[17:23] Teresa**
I recommend choosing your friends
more carefully, though.
**[17:25] Teresa**
Someone who can't even kill a single
silkworm is unlikely to survive here.
**[17:30] Oliver**
I'll decide that for myself.
**[17:32] Teresa**
I apologize.
**[17:33] Oliver**
Did you need something?
**[17:34] Teresa**
Yes. I will be heading to
Master Gwyn's workshop.
**[17:39] Teresa**
I wanted you to know that I'll be
leaving your side for a while.
**[17:42] Oliver**
All right.
**[17:43] Oliver**
Tell him I said hello.
**[17:46] Teresa**
I will.
**[17:52] Katie**
That was so good!
**[17:54] Katie**
I'm so full!
**[17:55] Guy**
You're all better now, huh?
**[17:58] Katie**
Yeah, I'm fine now.
**[18:01] Katie**
But Nanao looks a bit down.
**[18:04] Nanao**
That's not true.
**[18:05] Katie**
Are you homesick?
**[18:07] Katie**
If you need someone to talk to, tell me!
**[18:09] Katie**
I'll help you any way I can!
**[18:12] Nanao**
You have my thanks.
**[18:13] Pete**
Huh?
**[18:15] Pete**
Oh, right.
**[18:17] Pete**
I gotta go back to the classroom.
**[18:19] Guy**
What for?
**[18:20] Pete**
I forgot my book.
**[18:21] Pete**
I think it was in spellology class.
**[18:23] Pete**
I'll go get it right now.
**[18:30] Oliver**
You shouldn't assume things lost
in Kimberly are so easily found.
**[18:33] Oliver**
We'll go with you.
**[18:34] Chela**
A mischievous fairy may have taken it.
**[18:38] Chela**
The rest of you should
head back to your rooms.
**[18:40] Oliver**
Let's hurry, Pete.
**[18:41] Pete**
Hey, don't drag me like that!
**[18:43] Oliver**
Just come along.
**[18:45] Guy**
They seem really tense...
**[18:48] Katie**
Actually, I think I heard once
**[18:50] Katie**
that Kimberly's school building
sits on top of a giant labyrinth.
**[18:56] Katie**
And that at night, that labyrinth
starts to encroach upon the building.
**[19:01] Pete**
Here it is!
**[19:03] Pete**
And you made me think it'd be hard to find!
**[19:06] Pete**
You guys were pulling my leg, weren't you?
**[19:09] Oliver**
Let's get back before it gets late.
**[19:11] Chela**
Yes.
**[19:12] Chela**
We're not ready to be in the school
for long after dark.
**[19:16] Pete**
Like I said, quit dragging me!
**[19:22] Pete**
A dead end?
**[19:29] Chela**
The sun only just set, and the
encroachment's already spread this far?
**[19:33] Pete**
What do we do?
**[19:34] Oliver**
Don't worry.
**[19:35] Oliver**
New students getting stranded
happens all the time at Kimberly.
**[19:38] Oliver**
There should be instructors and
upperclassmen patrolling the school.
**[19:41] Ophelia**
It makes me happy to know
you're counting on me.
**[19:45] Pete**
Wait, Pete!
**[19:50] Ophelia**
One little lost sheep, two, three...
**[19:56] Ophelia**
How cute!
**[19:58] Ophelia**
So cute, I could just eat you all up!
**[20:05] Oliver**
Hello, ma'am.
**[20:06] Oliver**
You are an upperclassman, right?
**[20:08] Ophelia**
Yes.
**[20:09] Ophelia**
Ophelia Salvadori. A fourth-year student.
**[20:13] Oliver**
*Salvadori?!*
**[20:15] Student**
O-Ophe...
**[20:16] Ophelia**
Dolor.
**[20:18] Ophelia**
How impolite.
**[20:20] Ophelia**
Don't worry about him.
He just needs discipline.
**[20:23] Oliver**
I'm Oliver Horn, a first-year.
**[20:26] Oliver**
Your reputation precedes you, Miss Salvadori.
**[20:29] Ophelia**
Oh, you know of me?
**[20:32] Oliver**
I've read your thesis.
**[20:33] Oliver**
"A Study of Rapid Development from
Interbreeding Krakens and Scyllas."
**[20:38] Oliver**
It was wonderful.
**[20:41] Oliver**
It gave me the shivers, actually.
**[20:43] Ophelia**
I see.
**[20:44] Ophelia**
You know my research well, then.
**[20:52] Chela**
No, Pete!
**[20:57] Ophelia**
You can withstand it, huh?
**[20:59] Ophelia**
You're a tough kid.
**[21:02] Ophelia**
Don't get so mad.
**[21:04] Ophelia**
It's just how my body works.
**[21:06] Ophelia**
I spread this everywhere just by breathing.
**[21:11] Ophelia**
Now, why not come a little closer?
**[21:15] Oliver**
I must refuse.
**[21:17] Oliver**
Let's go.
**[21:22] Ophelia**
Oh, my.
**[21:29] Oliver**
*This smell... It's the stench of death!*
**[21:32] Rivermoore**
Don't be in such a hurry.
**[21:34] Rivermoore**
She's a lonely woman, you know.
**[21:36] Rivermoore**
Why not give her a little more of your time?
**[21:40] Rivermoore**
I'm Cyrus Rivermoore, a fifth-year.
**[21:42] Rivermoore**
If you don't like her,
I'll be happy to look after you.
**[21:46] Ophelia**
You're such cold children, running away
in the middle of our conversation.
**[21:51] Ophelia**
Perhaps you need discipline as well?
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