E12 - Blessings and a Vow for the Future

Source: Crunchyroll
Translator:
Editor:
Timer:
QC:
(Please feel free to edit the speaker names if incomplete or inaccurate. Names are handled on a best-effort basis depending on the info on the source file. Dialogue is left as is.)
[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?
SIGN    m -46 -13 l -29 -28 6 -37 28 -36 28 -1 -23 15
SIGN    The Wonders
    of Beasts
[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?!
SIGN    Next Episode
SIGN    A Sympathy Call and a Hyena Guard Captain