# E23 - The Terms of a Duelist
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GMKUX4MZX/the-terms-of-a-duelist)
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**[00:08] ---**
Let's live heroically, let's live with style.
*isagiyoku kakko yoku ikite yukou*
**[00:15] ---**
Even if the two of us are torn apart...
*tatoe futari hanarebanare ni nattemo*
**[00:20] ---**
*...take my revolution.*
**[00:20] ---**
Revolutionary Girl Utena
*...take my revolution.*
**[00:23] ---**
Revolutionary Girl Utena
**[00:24] ---**
In the sunlit garden, we both joined our hands.
*hikarisasu garden te wo toriai*
**[00:29] ---**
Drawing close for comfort, we both swore...
*chikai atta nagusame atta*
**[00:32] ---**
...never again would we ever fall in love.
*mou koi wa ni do to shinai yotte*
**[00:39] ---**
I see that photo of us standing cheek to cheek...
*hoho wo yoseatte utsuru shashin no*
**[00:47] ---**
...and place a bit of my loneliness in our smiles.
*egao ni sukoshi no samishisa tsumekonde*
**[00:56] ---**
Even if I dream, even if I cry, even if I get hurt...
*yume wo mite namida shite kizutsuitemo*
**[01:00] ---**
...reality keeps on coming recklessly.
*genjitsu wa gamushara ni kuru shi*
**[01:04] ---**
I wanna find my own place, the value of being...
*jibun no ibasho sonzai kachi wo mitsuketai*
**[01:07] ---**
...the person I've been until now...
*kyou made no jibun wo*
**[01:11] ---**
Let's find the strength to throw it all away.
*isagiyoku nugisuteru*
**[01:13] ---**
Strip down to nothing at all.
*hadaka ni naru*
**[01:15] ---**
Become like rose petals, blowing free!
*jiyuu wo mau bara no you ni*
**[01:19] ---**
Even if the two of us are torn apart...
*tatoe futari hanarebanare ni nattemo*
**[01:22] ---**
...I swear that I will change the world.
*watashi wa sekai wo kaeru*
**[01:27] ---**
**[01:35] ---**
Look at this.
**[01:36] ---**
Yes.
**[01:38] ---**
We're down to one last black rose.
**[01:41] ---**
Yes.
**[01:45] ---**
Tokiko...
**[01:47] ---**
Your brother's sins are deep.
**[01:50] ---**
But true eternity will built upon the
sacrifice of those 100 young Duelists.
**[01:56] ---**
Is it true?! You did this?!
**[02:01] ---**
You were behind this?!
**[02:03] ---**
Yes...
**[02:05] ---**
Why...?
**[02:08] ---**
Why did you do this?!
**[02:13] ---**
She's strong.
**[02:14] ---**
Utena Tenjou, I mean.
**[02:15] ---**
Yes.
**[02:17] ---**
I sense immeasurable strength within her.
**[02:19] ---**
Yes.
**[02:21] ---**
Look at this.
**[02:22] ---**
We're down to one last black rose.
**[02:24] ---**
Yes.
**[02:26] ---**
I just can't find it.
**[02:27] ---**
A winning scenario...
**[02:31] ---**
Must I get her to join me?
**[02:35] ---**
Get Utena Tenjou to join us?
**[02:38] ---**
Yes. We don't exactly know
who is moving against us.
**[02:42] ---**
Right now, we need help from The Engaged.
**[02:48] ---**
But don't you hate her, Nanami?
**[02:51] ---**
I don't like her, but this is
a threat to the student council!
**[02:54] ---**
When you consider the situation,
we need her as a friend.
**[02:58] ---**
I'm so smart!
**[03:00] ---**
Big Brother, your little Nanami
will save the student council!
**[03:03] ---**
Still, all this talk about "friends"...
**[03:05] ---**
Even we aren't what you'd call friends.
**[03:08] ---**
Then, what are we?
**[03:10] ---**
What we are...
**[03:11] ---**
...are Duelists.
**[03:13] ---**
The Terms of a Duelist
**[03:22] ---**
She's not here...
**[03:24] ---**
Or here...
**[03:25] ---**
Or here, either!
**[03:27] ---**
Himemiya, where'd you go?
**[03:30] ---**
If she's not here, I'm
out of places to check.
**[03:33] ---**
Maybe I shouldn't have
blown up at her yesterday.
**[03:36] ---**
Man, it's tough having
"The Rose Bride" as a friend!
**[03:41] ---**
It smells nice in here.
**[03:42] ---**
Oh, Mikage...
**[03:44] ---**
The gentle scent of a single blossom is nice,
**[03:47] ---**
but I also enjoy the scent of many at once.
**[03:50] ---**
It's exciting, how they
compete with one another...
**[03:52] ---**
Have you seen Himemiya anywhere?
**[03:55] ---**
I don't know. Who is that?
**[03:56] ---**
A classmate.
**[03:58] ---**
She's been missing since this morning.
**[03:59] ---**
You're very concerned for your friend.
**[04:00] ---**
You're very concerned for your friend.
**[04:01] ---**
It's not that, but...
**[04:03] ---**
Did you think over what we discussed before?
**[04:06] ---**
What we discussed before...?
**[04:07] ---**
About you joining the Mikage Seminar.
**[04:10] ---**
Well, I mean... Why do you want me?
**[04:12] ---**
You have a mysterious charm...
**[04:15] ---**
To be honest, I'm attracted to you.
**[04:17] ---**
If possible, I'd like to get closer to you.
**[04:19] ---**
Oh, so *that's* what it is...
**[04:19] ---**
Oh, so *that's* what it is...
**[04:26] ---**
Kind of a bold way to tell me, though...
**[04:29] ---**
I'd be happy if you just came by to visit.
**[04:31] ---**
And, if we become friends,
**[04:34] ---**
I'll help you any time you need me to.
**[04:37] ---**
Well, I'd be happy to visit you...
**[04:40] ---**
But, well... I'm not really
having any trouble...
**[04:43] ---**
...so I don't need any help.
**[04:45] ---**
Besides, if I came to visit,
Chu-Chu would come with me.
**[04:49] ---**
He gets cookie crumbs everywhere.
**[04:52] ---**
It's really hard to clean up after him.
**[04:56] ---**
Huh?
**[04:57] ---**
It doesn't have to be you personally.
**[05:00] ---**
Is anyone close to you having some problems?
**[05:03] ---**
Friends with problems?
**[05:07] ---**
Friends with problems...
**[05:09] ---**
Let's see...
**[05:18] ---**
Please, don't open it.
**[05:21] ---**
This coffin is for me.
**[05:24] ---**
Living on... It's just making me sick.
**[05:28] ---**
Why does everyone go on living
if they all have to die someday?
**[05:32] ---**
Why didn't I realize it before today?
**[05:36] ---**
There's no such thing as something eternal.
**[05:46] ---**
Himemiya... She came back.
**[06:02] ---**
Hey, Himemiya...
**[06:08] ---**
You can't quit being the Rose Bride, can you?
**[06:19] ---**
Friends with problems, huh...?
**[06:29] ---**
Excuse me!
**[06:32] ---**
Excuse me!
**[06:34] ---**
Anybody home?
**[06:36] ---**
Hello?!
**[06:40] ---**
Oh, I'm so tired...
**[06:42] ---**
Why am I so sleepy lately?
**[06:49] ---**
You have a visitor in the entrance hall.
**[06:51] ---**
Thank you. I'll be there shortly.
**[06:53] ---**
Well, I have a car waiting for me.
I'll be going now.
**[06:56] ---**
I see.
**[06:57] ---**
Thank you for all your work.
**[06:59] ---**
Having me dismissed so suddenly...
You haven't changed at all.
**[07:02] ---**
You're the same as when we first met.
**[07:04] ---**
"Be my secretary," you suddenly asked.
**[07:07] ---**
Well, it doesn't matter now.
**[07:08] ---**
I can let my hair down now
that I'm free of your yoke.
**[07:11] ---**
When you looked at me, I always
wondered how I appeared to you.
**[07:15] ---**
You are who you are.
**[07:16] ---**
You really are a special person.
**[07:19] ---**
Maybe one of the chosen.
**[07:21] ---**
But the one I fell in love with
wasn't a younger boy like you.
**[07:25] ---**
I am who I am.
**[07:29] ---**
Well then, goodbye.
**[07:51] ---**
Huh...?
**[07:55] ---**
Kanae...
**[07:58] ---**
And Kozue, too.
**[08:06] ---**
What is all this...?
**[08:19] ---**
The path to the Dueling
Arena has been opened.
**[08:22] ---**
Soon it will all begin.
**[08:24] ---**
With this, Professor
Nemuro's work is finished.
**[08:27] ---**
We'll probably carry on without him.
**[08:30] ---**
That's what that man is probably planning.
**[08:33] ---**
Surely even he will lose to someone.
**[08:36] ---**
And then we will carry on without him.
**[08:39] ---**
Come. Let's open the champagne.
**[08:43] ---**
They're so selfish.
**[08:46] ---**
Opening the way to that area where...
**[08:48] ---**
...the castle appears was
your doing, wasn't it?
**[08:52] ---**
They all fear you.
**[08:55] ---**
They think eternity is almost in your grasp.
**[08:57] ---**
I will not duel with them.
**[08:59] ---**
Why? Don't you want the power
to revolutionize the world?
**[09:05] ---**
That castle is where eternity dwells.
**[09:12] ---**
Eternity means "to last forever," doesn't it?
**[09:16] ---**
For years... Decades...
**[09:18] ---**
Centuries... Millennia...
**[09:20] ---**
Millions of years... Billions of years...
**[09:23] ---**
Epoch upon epoch, age upon age...
**[09:25] ---**
My life may only be a fraction of an instant.
**[09:29] ---**
But eternity is that instant lasting
for millions upon millions of years.
**[09:34] ---**
Never ending...
**[09:37] ---**
I... I...
**[09:40] ---**
I want eternity!
**[09:45] ---**
What are you talking about?
**[09:46] ---**
This is the first step
towards the task you have.
**[09:50] ---**
One day, the path to eternity
will be opened from this school.
**[09:59] ---**
Mr. Nemuro...
**[10:00] ---**
Mamiya did the right thing.
**[10:03] ---**
I, too, now wish to grasp
eternity with my own hands...
**[10:08] ---**
You finally came.
**[10:10] ---**
I thought you would eventually return to me.
**[10:18] ---**
Tokiko...
**[10:20] ---**
You don't have to regret abandoning me.
**[10:24] ---**
Mikage... You...?
**[10:50] ---**
Mikage... You've been manipulating everyone?!
**[10:54] ---**
Manipulating them? Hardly.
**[10:57] ---**
These are all members of the Mikage Seminar.
**[11:01] ---**
They all had memories they couldn't forget.
**[11:06] ---**
Very, very precious memories.
**[11:08] ---**
And they all fought to
preserve those memories.
**[11:12] ---**
In short, they were people...
**[11:15] ---**
...who tried to change their lives
according to their memories.
**[11:18] ---**
Memories...?
**[11:22] ---**
And what about you?
**[11:26] ---**
We'll meet again, won't we? My prince...
**[11:29] ---**
We'll meet again...
**[11:31] ---**
Until that day, I won't cry.
**[11:35] ---**
No matter what happens, I'll be strong.
**[11:46] ---**
Like me, you should be able to
make your memories eternal.
**[11:52] ---**
The world requires it.
**[11:55] ---**
The path you must take has been prepar-
**[11:58] ---**
You son of a bitch!
**[12:01] ---**
Who exactly is "the world"?!
**[12:03] ---**
Don't assume I'm a
manipulative monster like you!
**[12:08] ---**
No need to get excited.
**[12:11] ---**
You seem to be screaming,
"Don't touch my precious memories!"
**[12:15] ---**
I'm what?! Don't pretend
that you understand me!
**[12:18] ---**
My memories are...!
**[12:19] ---**
I see...
**[12:20] ---**
Your memories are all that
have supported you till now.
**[12:24] ---**
Don't be ashamed of that.
**[12:25] ---**
The memories you hold are worthy ones.
**[12:30] ---**
Only those who hold beautiful
memories are allowed to wish.
**[12:34] ---**
To wish for that time to go on and on...
**[12:37] ---**
To wish to never change from what you were.
**[12:41] ---**
I, too, understand...
**[12:43] ---**
You're just like me.
**[12:46] ---**
You never stop wishing that
your memories can be made eternal.
**[12:50] ---**
You can see it in our eyes.
**[12:58] ---**
Interview Room
**[12:59] ---**
Interview Room I challenge you!
**[13:00] ---**
Meet me in the Dueling Arena at sunset!
**[13:03] ---**
I'll tear you apart!
**[13:06] ---**
I'll prove that I'm nothing like you!
**[13:10] ---**
IN USE
**[13:30] ---**
Souji, why did you call her here?
**[13:37] ---**
Why won't you speak?
**[13:44] ---**
What's so funny?
**[13:50] ---**
Here, look at this.
**[13:52] ---**
Tears.
**[13:53] ---**
Tears?
**[13:55] ---**
It seems that pain has brought
forth an unintended tear.
**[13:59] ---**
If she hadn't seen my Rose Seal,
**[14:02] ---**
she might have killed me
right then and there.
**[14:09] ---**
You seem to be enjoying this.
**[14:11] ---**
Dammit... All she does is
hurt me and surprise me.
**[14:16] ---**
Tokiko really has come back to me.
**[14:19] ---**
To settle things once and for all.
**[14:22] ---**
You intend to accept her challenge?
**[14:24] ---**
In the end, we haven't
advanced a bit in all this time.
**[14:28] ---**
But that girl is closer to the
Power of Dios than either of us.
**[14:31] ---**
If we don't beat her, we'll never advance.
**[14:45] ---**
I take this rose which blooms
at the End of the World...
**[14:47] ---**
...UNTO ME!
**[14:59] ---**
You never stop wishing that
your memories can be made eternal.
**[15:04] ---**
You can see it in our eyes.
**[15:10] ---**
Utena!
**[15:16] ---**
Come on! Have you forgotten all about...
**[15:18] ---**
...your good ol' best friend, Wakaba?
**[15:20] ---**
No, I haven't.
**[15:21] ---**
No matter what happens,
**[15:23] ---**
I'm always on your side, Utena!
**[15:28] ---**
Extra! Extra! Extra!
**[15:30] ---**
When I was your age,
I was the representative for my class!
**[15:34] ---**
Wow! That's great, Daddy!
**[15:37] ---**
Hey! This paperwork's all wrong!
What's with you?!
**[15:41] ---**
Dammit... I used to be the class rep!
**[15:44] ---**
Dear, you can't just throw
your socks anywhere...
**[15:47] ---**
...when you take them off!
**[15:48] ---**
Dammit... I used to be the class rep!
**[15:52] ---**
Bye, Daddy! I'm off to school!
**[15:55] ---**
Hold it! Gimme that backpack!
**[15:57] ---**
I'M going to school!
**[15:59] ---**
See ya later!
**[16:16] ---**
Grant me the power to
bring the world revolution!
**[16:22] ---**
*Darkness, burning.*
**[16:25] ---**
*Puppets given life...*
**[16:28] ---**
**The name given is human movement theory.**
**[16:28] ---**
Here we go.
**[16:29] ---**
*The name given is human movement theory.*
**[16:34] ---**
Well met...
**[16:35] ---**
Well met...
**[16:35] ---**
**The world is controlled...**
**[16:37] ---**
However...!
**[16:38] ---**
*...by a single being.*
**[16:40] ---**
I'm not in full form.
**[16:41] ---**
I'm not in full form.
**[16:41] ---**
**The rest is imagined puppetry.**
**[16:42] ---**
The shoulder you injured still hurts.
**[16:44] ---**
However... I don't intend to lose to you!
**[16:47] ---**
However... I don't intend to lose to you!
**[16:47] ---**
However... I don't intend to lose to you!
**[16:47] ---**
**Darkness, freezing.**
**[16:49] ---**
Get real!
**[16:50] ---**
Like I'd lose to a manipulator like you!
**[16:51] ---**
**Creatures given life...**
**[16:53] ---**
You've got it all wrong.
**[16:54] ---**
**Linked by human movement theory.**
**[16:54] ---**
*Linked by human movement theory.*
**[17:00] ---**
*On nature's stage...*
**[17:04] ---**
*...are units on existence.*
**[17:05] ---**
Those who took my black roses all
came to me of their own free will!
**[17:07] ---**
Those who took my black roses all
came to me of their own free will!
**[17:07] ---**
*Comprised of the imaginary art of life.*
**[17:10] ---**
And they all stood in this place
**[17:13] ---**
All who stand here are like me!
**[17:13] ---**
All who stand here are like me!
**[17:13] ---**
**Words are born, they meet,**
**[17:15] ---**
**Words are born, they meet,**
**[17:15] ---**
They come to attain eternity!
**[17:16] ---**
**then hesitate.**
**[17:17] ---**
Shut up! Don't blame others for what you do!
**[17:20] ---**
**Ideas are born, they meet,**
**[17:22] ---**
*then become empty.*
**[17:23] ---**
The minute I first saw you, I knew!
**[17:26] ---**
You met someone important to you
in the past as well, didn't you?!
**[17:26] ---**
**Oh, where am I and when am I?**
**[17:29] ---**
And that person changed your life, right?!
**[17:33] ---**
*Spells, charms, mysteries, prayers, me.*
**[17:34] ---**
You stand here because of that illusion!
**[17:36] ---**
That's why you can enter the Dueling Arena!
**[17:39] ---**
Am I wrong?!
**[17:39] ---**
**Stage, destiny, magic, mirror.**
**[17:41] ---**
In the end, you and I are the same!
**[17:46] ---**
And now, in this place, you shall be beaten!
**[17:49] ---**
**Full moon. Mysterious...**
**[17:49] ---**
I will defeat you, Tokiko!
**[17:52] ---**
You're not making sense!
**[17:52] ---**
**...and ever-changing.**
**[17:54] ---**
I'm not losing to you!
**[17:55] ---**
*I am an imaginary life form at my end.*
**[17:56] ---**
You're a stubborn girl, Tokiko.
**[17:59] ---**
*Full moon. Mysterious...*
**[18:00] ---**
You won't understand unless
I scatter that rose on your breast.
**[18:01] ---**
You won't understand unless
I scatter that rose on your breast.
**[18:02] ---**
*...and ever-changing.*
**[18:05] ---**
*I am an imaginary destined form at my end.*
**[18:09] ---**
*Asking for time.*
**[18:11] ---**
I knew you'd jump!
**[18:12] ---**
Damn!
**[18:12] ---**
**Never resting.**
**[18:15] ---**
Mistress Utena!
**[18:15] ---**
**Living on, a hollow form.**
**[18:17] ---**
Mistress Utena!
**[18:18] ---**
Himemiya!
**[18:20] ---**
HIMEMIYA!!!
**[18:21] ---**
MISTRESS UTENA!
**[18:21] ---**
**Seeking land. No arms, no legs.**
**[18:23] ---**
*Seeking land. No arms, no legs.*
**[18:25] ---**
*Yet I still exist. Formless and transparent.*
**[18:27] ---**
Souji, you're going to lose.
**[18:28] ---**
Souji, you're going to lose.
**[18:28] ---**
*I let out a faint sigh...*
**[18:30] ---**
Mamiya!
**[18:31] ---**
She will scatter the rose you wear.
**[18:33] ---**
What?! Where are you?! Mamiya!
**[18:36] ---**
Mamiya!
**[18:37] ---**
Mamiya!
**[18:39] ---**
What the...?!
**[18:41] ---**
Who's...?!
**[18:45] ---**
You can't beat her.
**[18:48] ---**
My sister who dwells in your memories...
You'll never defeat her.
**[18:57] ---**
Tokiko!
**[19:00] ---**
Eternity is within my reach!
**[19:03] ---**
I will defeat you and gain the
power to change the world!
**[19:07] ---**
With my own hands!
**[19:09] ---**
Why won't you understand me?!
**[19:11] ---**
I took everything upon myself!
**[19:14] ---**
Even your brother's crime!
**[19:20] ---**
Souji... Take a good look!
**[19:23] ---**
Back then, in that place,
who was really there?
**[19:26] ---**
Who wasn't there?!
**[19:28] ---**
Who was it that really set the fire?!
**[19:36] ---**
Mamiya...
**[19:38] ---**
It's been such a long time...
**[19:40] ---**
It's been decades since I saw you...
**[19:54] ---**
Ah, Mr. Nemuro.
**[19:56] ---**
I was expecting this call.
**[19:59] ---**
Yes. Your companion Mamiya,
**[20:02] ---**
who was produced by your
lingering regret over Tokiko,
**[20:05] ---**
actually died a long time ago.
**[20:11] ---**
You treasured that illusion of memory
so much that it stopped time for you.
**[20:16] ---**
I made use of that.
**[20:21] ---**
The time you spent not growing up...
**[20:22] ---**
...as you kept possibilities hidden
in your heart proved useful to me, but...
**[20:27] ---**
...that's all over now.
**[20:29] ---**
The path you must take has
*not* been prepared for you.
**[20:34] ---**
Now graduate from this place.
**[20:42] ---**
Aw, man.
**[20:43] ---**
We ended up someplace weird
while looking for Himemiya.
**[20:47] ---**
There was a big fire here a long time ago.
**[20:51] ---**
Wow... Something that terrible
really happened here?
**[20:54] ---**
No one was hurt in it, but...
**[20:57] ---**
Well, it was a long time before
the student council existed.
**[20:59] ---**
No records remain from it.
**[21:03] ---**
Now, what was the building called again...?
**[21:06] ---**
Kushiro Memorial Hall...?
**[21:08] ---**
I don't think that's right.
**[21:09] ---**
Himemiya? Where are you?
**[21:09] ---**
Noboribetsu Memorial Hall...?
**[21:11] ---**
Ooh...! I hate it when
I can't remember stuff!
**[21:17] ---**
What's wrong?
**[21:18] ---**
Do you feel sympathy for him?
**[21:21] ---**
But he isn't here at this school anymore.
**[21:24] ---**
Rather, he never really
was in the first place.
**[21:27] ---**
Just like you...
**[21:42] ---**
Missing truth and forever,
kissing love and true your heart.
**[21:47] ---**
Hold me tight with your arms so true.
*dakishimete honto no te de*
**[21:51] ---**
The key to unlock tomorrow is reality.
*ashita wo hiraku kagi wa reality*
**[21:54] ---**
I want to keep on smashing lies apart.
*uso wo kowashi tsuzuketai*
**[22:07] ---**
No matter how much the two of us may talk...
*kore ijou hanashi wo shitemo*
**[22:10] ---**
...you still just can't see anything.
*anata ni wa mienai*
**[22:14] ---**
Excuses are fitting for adults who...
*mukashi no hanashi ni sugaru*
**[22:18] ---**
...just cling to old stories.
*otona ni wa ii wake ga niau*
**[22:23] ---**
The angels who weren't chosen...
*erabarenai tenshitachi ni*
**[22:27] ---**
...don't need wings to fly!
*hane saemo iranai*
**[22:32] ---**
Missing truth and forever,
kissing love and true your heart.
**[22:36] ---**
I like who I'll be tomorrow and...
*ashita no jibun ga suki to*
**[22:40] ---**
...I'll believe in myself because I want to believe.
*shinjiteiru no shinjitai kara*
**[22:44] ---**
I want to be hated by lies.
*uso ni kirawareteitai*
**[22:56] ---**
Next Episode
**[22:59] ---**
Tsuwabuki got run over by a runaway horse!
**[23:01] ---**
Oh, my! How awful!
**[23:03] ---**
Huh? What's this notebook?
**[23:06] ---**
Whoa, hold it. You shouldn't just
look in other people's notebooks.
**[23:10] ---**
Oh, my goodness! Look at all
the awful things written in here!
**[23:13] ---**
Which is why you shouldn't be looking at it!
**[23:15] ---**
Oh, my! I had no idea!
**[23:17] ---**
Huh? Where? Where?
**[23:19] ---**
Next time, on Revolutionary Girl Utena,
**[23:20] ---**
The Secret Nanami Diary
**[23:22] ---**
"The Secret Nanami Diary."
**[23:22] ---**
**[23:23] ---**
The absolute destiny apocalypse.