E12 - Blessings and a Vow for the Future
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[00:00] Calra
You must have nothing to occupy
you until the talks end.
[00:04] Calra
Please, have a look around
our palace in the meantime.
[00:09] Calra
I'll summon someone to guide you.
[00:12] Sariphi
U-Um...
[00:14] Tetra
Please wait.
[00:16] Tetra
If the acting queen of Ozmargo
needs a guide, then allow me,
[00:23] Tetra
Mother.
SIGN Blessings and a Vow for the Future
[02:00] Calra
Tetra! What are you doing here?
[02:05] Calra
Th-This is my fourth daughter, Tetra.
[02:08] Calra
She will accompany you through the palace.
[02:11] Calra
Now, if you'll excuse me.
[02:14] Sariphi
Um...
[02:16] Sariphi
Okay. Nice to meet you, Tetra.
[02:19] Tetra
Ugly!
[02:19] Cy
Wha?!
[02:20] Clops
What?!
[02:20] Tetra
I've never seen a human before,
but you're as hideous as everyone says.
[02:25] Tetra
No wonder my mother doesn't
want to let you hold Calcara.
[02:29] Clops
Where are your manners?!
You owe Sari an apology!
[02:32] Tetra
Servants should know their place.
[02:35] Tetra
So hold your tongues,
you cheeky little blobs.
[02:38] Cy; Clops
"Blobs"?!
[02:39] Sariphi
Wait.
[02:40] Sariphi
So Queen Calra really doesn't
want me to perform the ri—
[02:43] Tetra
Of course she doesn't.
[02:45] Tetra
No mother wants to let an
ugly freak touch her baby.
[02:49] Tetra
Don't get ideas above your station, ugly.
[02:52] Sariphi
I knew it.
[02:55] Sariphi
What should I do?
[02:57] Tetra
I might be able to pull
some strings for you.
[03:01] Sariphi
Huh?
[03:03] Tetra
Now, listen closely, Sariphi.
[03:05] Tetra
I'm going to throw this stone.
[03:08] Tetra
You must catch it and bring it back to me.
[03:10] Clops
Don't be ridiculous! Sari's no dog!
[03:14] Tetra
Are you sure you want to
take that tone with me?
[03:16] Tetra
If you become my minion, I'll ask my mother
to let you perform the rite of blessing.
[03:22] Tetra
So if you want to win her favor,
start by doing as I say.
[03:27] Tetra
Now fetch!
[03:29] Clops
We don't have time to play
along with these childish games!
[03:31] Tetra
Oh, and that stone is a national treasure
from my mother's trousseau.
[03:39] Tetra
Look at you run.
[03:42] Tetra
Now, what should I do nex—
[03:44] Sariphi
Here. You should be more careful
with your mom's jewelry.
[03:50] Tetra
What? Don't tell me what to do, minion.
[03:54] Sariphi
But, Tetra—
[03:56] Tetra
How impudent! Address me as "Your Highness"!
[03:58] Tetra
Now, on to your next task!
[04:02] Chef
Who's been nibbling at tonight's desserts?!
SIGN SNEAK SNEAK
SIGN SNEAK SNEAK
SIGN RUMBLE
SIGN RUMBLE
[04:06] Tetra
Hm... This is so-so.
[04:09] Tetra
Now, how about this?!
[04:13] Tetra
And this?!
[04:15] Tetra
And... this?!
[04:18] Tetra
What, do you admit defeat already?
[04:21] Sariphi
Yup. What should we play next?
[04:25] Tetra
Oh, so these orders are just games to you?
[04:30] Tetra
A horse! Your next task is to be my horse!
[04:33] Tetra
Get down on all fours, and let me ride you!
[04:36] Clops
Kn-Knock it off! Sari's not your toy!
[04:41] Cy
Toy!
[04:42] Sariphi
Here. Climb aboard.
[04:44] Tetra
Wha...
[04:45] Tetra
What's wrong with you? Have you no pride?!
[04:48] Tetra
Are you that desperate to
curry favor with my mother?!
[04:51] Sariphi
Your mother?
[04:52] Sariphi
Oh, that's right. I was having so
much fun, it slipped my mind.
[04:58] Tetra
Hey, wai—
[04:59] Sariphi
Giddyup!
[05:09] Tetra
Are you stupid, as well as ugly?
[05:13] Tetra
Horses don't walk on two legs.
[05:15] Sariphi
Oh, you're right.
[05:17] Tetra
You really are an idiot.
[05:19] Tetra
Buttering me up won't improve
your chances with my mother.
[05:24] Tetra
She only cares about my little brother.
[05:27] Tetra
I don't matter to her.
[05:30] Tetra
In fact, she sees me as
a disobedient nuisance.
[05:36] Tetra
I know Calcara is more important.
[05:40] Tetra
He's the heir my parents have always wanted.
[05:43] Tetra
All three of my elder
sisters were married off.
[05:46] Tetra
And someday, I'll be given to some man
I don't know in a strange country, too.
[05:51] Tetra
Like a sacrifice.
[05:54] Tetra
My mother can't wait to get rid of me.
[06:00] Sariphi
I don't think she does.
[06:03] Sariphi
People with no love at all
have darker, colder eyes.
[06:10] Sariphi
But that wasn't how the queen looked at you.
[06:13] Sariphi
I'm sure she does love you, but maybe
she can't figure out how to show it.
[06:20] Sariphi
Just like you right now.
[06:26] Sariphi
Your Highness?!
[06:27] Tetra
Don't try to sugarcoat things.
[06:29] Tetra
I don't want fake sympathy from you.
[06:32] Tetra
I know I'm an unwanted child.
[06:35] Tetra
I made up my mind a long time ago.
[06:39] Tetra
While the king of Ozmargo is here,
[06:41] Tetra
I'll outdo myself and give
my mother one last headache
[06:45] Tetra
by jumping off the tallest
tower in the palace!
[06:49] Sariphi
Wait!
[06:53] (Flashback) Gossip
Another girl?
[06:56] (Flashback) Gossip
How long must we wait
for the birth of an heir?
[07:00] (Flashback) Calra's Father
Do you realize how hard I labored
to marry you into the royal family?
[07:05] (Flashback) Calra's Father
Don't you dare disgrace me further!
[07:08] Calra
Oh, Calcara.
[07:10] Calra
You are my hope.
[07:13] Vassal A
Your Majesty!
[07:14] Calra
What are you doing, making such
a racket? You'll wake Calcara.
[07:19] Vassal A
I beg your pardon,
[07:21] Vassal A
but it's about Princess Tetra.
[07:26] Tet
My humble apologies.
[07:28] Tet
I deeply regret these difficulties
with the sacred rite of blessing.
[07:32] Sariphi
Princess Tetra!
[07:34] Tet
Tetra?!
[07:38] Tetra
Don't come closer!
[07:39] Tetra
I'll jump if you do!
[07:41] Clops
You only get one life!
You shouldn't waste it!
[07:47] Cy
Don't!
[07:48] Tetra
Even if I die, someone,
somewhere is born every day.
[07:52] Clops
That's not what I mean!
[07:54] Clops
If you throw away the life
your parents gave you—
[07:57] Tetra
Don't lecture me!
[07:59] Tetra
I didn't get a say in being born,
[08:03] Tetra
so what's wrong with choosing
when I end it for myself?
[08:06] Tetra
My life belongs to me! Who are you
to tell me what to do with it?!
[08:12] Sariphi
Come down from there, Your Highness.
[08:15] Sariphi
I'd love to play with you again.
[08:19] Tetra
You won't fool me with a lie like—
[08:21] Sariphi
I mean it.
[08:23] Sariphi
You're correct that only you have
the right to decide your future.
[08:28] Sariphi
So this is just a selfish request from me.
[08:34] Tetra
My mother was always weeping.
[08:37] (Flashback) Tetra
Don't cry, Mother.
[08:40] (Flashback) Tetra
I'm here. I'll always be here for you.
[08:45] Tetra
Then Calcara was born,
and her tears stopped.
[08:51] Tetra
I wasn't able to do that.
[08:54] Tetra
My birth didn't make a single person happy.
[09:01] Tetra
Look at this huge fuss.
[09:04] Tetra
People hate me more than ever.
[09:07] Tetra
I feel great.
[09:08] Tetra
My last act will be the biggest
payback I could hope for.
[09:15] Calra
Tetra...
[09:17] Sariphi
Wait!
[09:18] Sariphi
Your Highness, you said you want to
jump to make trouble for the queen,
[09:26] Sariphi
but are you sure it's not the opposite?
[09:29] Sariphi
Really, you just want your mom to smile.
[09:35] Tetra
I...
[09:36] Tetra
I...
[09:40] Calra
Tetra!
[10:00] Sariphi
Your Majesty!
[10:05] Sariphi
Were you scared?
[10:07] Sariphi
You won't try this again, will you?
[10:10] Tetra
But... But I...
[10:14] Sariphi
Thou art a sovereign's child.
[10:17] Sariphi
May thy noble path through life
[10:20] Sariphi
be peaceful and many times blessed.
[10:31] Tetra
Was that...
[10:33] Tetra
a blessing?
[10:35] Sariphi
I'm so glad that you were born.
[10:39] Sariphi
Otherwise, I would never have
met a girl as kind as you are.
[10:59] Calra
Tetra...
[11:01] Calra
I've never known her to cry so loudly.
[11:05] (Flashback) Tetra
Don't cry, Mother.
[11:08] (Flashback) Tetra
Mother...
[11:09] (Flashback) Calra
Don't talk to me right now.
[11:12] (Flashback) Calra
You'll wake Calcara. Go elsewhere.
[11:16] Calra
I was so obsessed with Calcara—
or rather, with my own duties as queen—
[11:23] Calcara
that I never even thought
to embrace her like that.
[11:27] Tet
M-My most sincere apologies!
[11:30] Tet
How could I not only allow this commotion,
but also tax your holy beast?
[11:34] Tet
I am truly ashamed that you were subjected
to such an unsightly spectacle.
[11:39] Leonhart
Did that princess appear
unsightly in your eyes?
[11:43] Tet
Sire?
[11:43] Leonhart
I take no interest in your family affairs,
[11:47] Leonhart
but if you heard her words,
[11:50] Leonhart
then placating me should not
be your chief concern.
[11:54] Leonhart
That is, if you are a father,
as well as a king.
[12:02] Anubis
Sire?
[12:13] Tetra
Mother...
[12:15] Tetra
I'm so sor—
[12:19] Calra
I'm sorry, Tetra. I'm so sorry.
[12:22] Calra
Forgive your foolish mother.
[12:28] Tetra
Mother!
[12:31] Calra
Acting Queen of Ozmargo,
[12:34] Calra
thank you for aiding my
daughter in my stead.
[12:39] Calra
Though it shames me,
[12:41] Calra
might I presume to ask one more favor of you?
[12:48] Sariphi
No one gets to decide how they're born.
[12:52] Sariphi
Birthplace, birth order, and status
[12:58] Sariphi
are out of all of our hands.
[13:01] Sariphi
And so, I pray,
[13:04] Sariphi
wishing that new lives
[13:06] Sariphi
may at least be peaceful and blessed.
[13:16] Anubis
I won't accept her.
[13:18] Anubis
I refuse to accept her.
[13:21] Anubis
Yet perhaps this girl
truly can change others.
[13:31] Tetra
So you used to be a sacrifice?
[13:33] Sariphi
Yup.
[13:35] Tetra
But you must have hated that, right?
[13:37] Tetra
Becoming the queen of beasts must have
been the only way you could escape.
[13:41] Sariphi
No. I had no say in anything,
not even whether I lived or died.
[13:49] Sariphi
But the first decision I made for myself
[13:52] Sariphi
was that I wanted to live
at His Majesty's side.
[13:55] Tetra
I guess that's one way to meet someone.
[13:57] Clops
You never know what will
happen if you keep living.
[13:59] Clops
The future has all kinds of encounters
in store for you, too, Your Highness.
[14:03] Tetra
I wonder.
[14:04] Tetra
Oh, that reminds me. The chancellor
of Ozmargo is awfully young.
[14:09] Tetra
He's just my type.
[14:11] Sariphi; Cy; Clops
What?!
[14:11] Tetra
What? Is he already spoken for?
[14:14] Clops
I... I don't think so,
but I wouldn't recommend him.
[14:18] Cy
Wouldn't.
[14:19] Tetra
Still, he's a Jackalian.
[14:22] Tetra
If we married, my Felidian
blood would lose out,
[14:25] Tetra
so our children would be Jackalians, too.
[14:28] Sariphi
Huh? You mean they wouldn't
be half and half?
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[14:31] Clops
That does happen sometimes,
[14:34] Clops
but usually, children take after the
parent with the stronger bloodline.
[14:37] Sariphi
Really?
[14:39] Tetra
You don't even know that?
[14:41] Tetra
If you're going to be queen, you'll have
to bear the king's children someday.
[14:45] Sariphi
His Majesty's... Oh.
[14:50] Sariphi
I guess you're right.
SIGN BLUUUSH
[14:55] Tetra
Don't start acting bashful now!
You'll give me secondhand embarrassment!
[15:01] Sariphi
I guess I'd never thought
it through that far.
[15:06] Sariphi
Doing my duty so I could stay with His
Majesty was all I could think about.
[15:12] Sariphi
But if...
[15:15] Sariphi
if I could start a real family
with him someday, then...
[15:22] Sariphi
What sorts of challenges would we face?
[15:25] Sariphi
His Majesty suffers because
of his own mixed blood.
[15:29] Sariphi
How does he feel about the legacy
our relationship might leave?
[15:34] Sariphi
Does he want that to happen?
[15:47] Sariphi
What's the matter, sire?
[15:50] Leonhart
Sariphi, I have something to tell you.
[16:00] Leonhart
We should be safe from prying eyes here.
[16:06] Sariphi
What do you want to tell me?
[16:09] Leonhart
Before I speak, let me ask you something.
[16:13] Leonhart
As king, I am duty bound
to produce an heir one day.
[16:18] Leonhart
Do you understand that?
[16:21] Sariphi
Yes.
[16:23] Leonhart
The true royal line of Ozmargo,
the blood of the kings of beasts,
[16:27] Leonhart
mingles with no other strain,
passing unchanged to our children.
[16:33] Leonhart
That is why we have continued to reign
over this realm of many peoples.
[16:39] Leonhart
But the blood in my veins is... different.
[16:43] Leonhart
I am not confident that I can
love a child born of my blood.
[16:48] Leonhart
I was...
[16:50] Leonhart
No, I don't recall my
parents loving me, either.
[16:54] Leonhart
By the time of my earliest memories,
I had no mother and no siblings.
[17:00] Leonhart
My father, the previous king,
was my only relative,
[17:04] Leonhart
and he was harsh with me.
[17:07] (Flashback) Young Leonhart
Father!
[17:09] (Flashback) Young Leonhart
Father, I've learned all
the ancient beast runes!
[17:13] (Flashback) Previous King
All royals learn to be both
warriors and scholars.
[17:17] (Flashback) Previous King
Do not boast of your every achievement!
[17:20] Leonhart
And at times, my father
imprisoned me in a small cell.
[17:25] (Flashback) Young Leonhart
Father, let me out! Father!
[17:29] Young Leonhart
Father!
[17:30] Leonhart
In time, his motive made itself clear.
[17:33] Young Leonhart
I mustn't let anyone see me in this form.
[17:37] Young Leonhart
Father is protecting me.
[17:41] Leonhart
He neither praised nor coddled me.
[17:45] Leonhart
I felt sure he meant to
raise me into a fine king.
[17:50] Leonhart
I believed that love
underpinned all his actions.
[17:54] Leonhart
And then,
[17:57] Leonhart
one day, my father fell ill.
[18:01] Leonhart
My strict and mighty father was
wasting away. He didn't have long.
[18:07] Leonhart
Although saddened,
I entertained a faint hope
[18:12] Leonhart
that at the bitter end,
even my hard-hearted father
[18:17] Leonhart
would hold me tight and
tell me that he loved me.
[18:20] (Flashback) Previous King
So, I have come... to the end.
[18:23] (Flashback) Young Leonhart
Father!
[18:24] (Flashback) Previous King
I regret...
[18:27] (Flashback) Previous King
that I will leave you... when I die.
[18:30] (Flashback) Young Leonhart
Fath—
[18:32] (Flashback) Previous King
How mortifying...
[18:34] (Flashback) Previous King
Oh, how mortifying it is to die
and pass my throne to you!
[18:40] (Flashback) Previous King
How I loathe the filthy blood in your veins!
[18:45] (Flashback) Previous King
I have always despised you!
Detested you! Hated you!
[18:51] (Flashback) Previous King
You are an accursed demon child,
the greatest blot on my line!
[18:56] (Flashback) Previous King
One day, your blood will
bring this realm to ru—
[19:06] Leonhart
The king remained strong
and proud in his last illness,
[19:10] Leonhart
but even he wished to embrace
his son at the end.
[19:14] Leonhart
Or so the priests said,
with tears in their eyes.
[19:17] Leonhart
I learned later that my father's mind
had begun ailing long before his body.
[19:24] Leonhart
The priest who had been his chief
physician claimed not to know why,
[19:29] Leonhart
and the fact was buried,
never revealed to the people.
[19:34] (Flashback) Young Anubis
Your Highness will catch a chill.
[19:39] Leonhart
He loathed human blood so
deeply that it drove him mad.
[19:44] Leonhart
So why did he sire a child with a human?
[19:47] Leonhart
Why did he never sire a pure-blooded beast?
[19:51] Leonhart
I never considered those questions.
[19:54] Leonhart
I merely cursed my own blood.
[19:58] Leonhart
The thought of passing it to my heirs
filled me with nothing but terror.
[20:10] Leonhart
Forgive me, Sariphi,
[20:12] Leonhart
for telling you of such unpleasant things.
[20:15] Sariphi
No, don't apologize.
[20:19] Sariphi
I still didn't understand.
[20:22] Sariphi
His Majesty—Leo—doesn't just see
his human side as weak or inferior.
[20:30] Sariphi
To him, it truly is a curse.
[20:34] Leonhart
Don't look so downhearted, Sariphi.
[20:38] Leonhart
Today, another of my fears
became a thing of the past.
[20:42] Sariphi
What?
[20:43] Leonhart
I couldn't choose the blood
and status I was born with,
[20:47] Leonhart
but I was able to choose you.
[20:51] Leonhart
To me, your presence is the true blessing.
[20:56] Leonhart
No matter what predicament
my blood places my heirs in,
[21:01] Leonhart
if they are the children of our union,
[21:04] Leonhart
then I swear on my name, Leonhart,
to defend them with all my body and soul.
[21:11] Sariphi
"Children of our union"?
[21:15] Sariphi
Then... that means...
[21:20] Leonhart
When I have become a truly mighty king,
as I once promised you I would,
[21:25] Leonhart
I want you beside me as my queen.
[21:29] Leonhart
Then,
[21:31] Leonhart
one day, we shall consummate our union.
[21:44] Sariphi
Yes!
[21:46] Sariphi
I pray that someday this curse
will become a sign of blessing.
[21:55] Tetra
Are you really leaving already?
[21:57] Sariphi
Yes. Thank you for everything,
Te—Your Highness.
[22:01] Tetra
"Tetra" is fine.
[22:03] Tetra
Come play with me again... Sari.
[22:08] Calra
As her mother, allow me to
extend the same invitation.
[22:13] Calra
Please, always remain a friend
to my daughter Tetra.
[22:19] Tetra
Calcara can play with us, too,
once he grows up a little.
[22:23] Sariphi
I can't wait.
[22:25] Tetra
Listen, Calcara. I'm your big sister.
[22:29] Tetra
You're the little brother.
I'm the big sister.
[22:32] Calcara
B-Big... shishta.
[22:35] Sariphi
He talked!
[22:36] Cy; Clops
Talked! Talked!
[22:38] Tetra
Say it again, Calcara! Say it again!
[22:41] Clops
I want to hear it again!
[22:48] Sariphi
Everyone
[22:50] Sariphi
is moving ahead,
[22:53] Sariphi
step by step.
[23:04] Leonhart
You only just completed
your first duty at last.
[23:07] Leonhart
Don't push yourself too hard. Rest.
[23:10] Sariphi
R-Right. Thank you.
[23:16] Sariphi
We managed to take a step forward,
too, didn't we? A huge stride.
[23:25] Anubis
What is the world coming to?!
[23:27] Anubis
The king, of all people, slipping out
for a tryst with a human wench?!
[23:31] Anubis
To top it off, they exchanged
that unspeakable vow!
[23:34] Anubis
And now, the leader of her personal
guard is to be... H-Hyenian?!
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