# E19 - A Bridge Between Beasts and Humans
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G31UXWEPN/a-bridge-between-beasts-and-humans)
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**[00:01] Anubis**
At present, no noteworthy
disturbances have been reported.
**[00:06] Anubis**
Peace is returning to the realm.
**[00:09] Leonhart**
I'm glad that your wounds
have healed, as well.
**[00:12] Leonhart**
I demanded much of you.
**[00:15] Anubis**
Anything for Your Majesty.
**[00:17] Leonhart**
I see.
**[00:20] Leonhart**
Still, the palace seems
somewhat less than peaceful.
**[00:24] Anubis**
All in the name of preparation for
the ceremony in two days' time.
**[00:28] Anubis**
Fenrir's dissidents have been brought
to heel, and Your Majesty is well.
**[00:34] Anubis**
We shall celebrate with a triumphal
procession through the city.
**[00:38] Leonhart**
I need no pomp.
**[00:40] Anubis**
But in this triumph, as at
the Grand Consecration,
**[00:46] Anubis**
it may be wise to keep
Lady Sariphi out of sight.
**[00:51] Anubis**
Our king risked his life to
rescue his queen from a foe.
**[00:56] Anubis**
Were you both beasts,
no tale could be more moving.
**[01:00] Anubis**
However,
**[01:01] Anubis**
a reminder that you acted for a
human girl would be the lone blot
**[01:07] Anubis**
to dampen this victorious mood.
**[01:16] Anubis**
Far be it from me to say more.
**[01:19] Anubis**
I shall defer to Your Majesty's judgment.
***SIGN*** A Bridge Between Beasts and Humans
**[03:00] Sariphi**
Wow!
**[03:01] Sariphi**
These look even more delicious than usual!
**[03:04] Amit**
I baked them to celebrate
His Majesty's recovery.
**[03:06] Amit**
Would you care for one, Sir Lante?
**[03:08] Lanteveldt**
Sorry, but I swore off sweet
stuff for my training.
**[03:12] Amit**
Oh, my. Did you really?
**[03:15] Amit**
Why, Lady Sariphi.
**[03:17] Amit**
What's become of your ring?
**[03:19] Sariphi**
Oh, it broke.
**[03:21] Amit**
Goodness! Wasn't that
a gift from His Majesty?
**[03:25] Sariphi**
You knew about that, Amit?
**[03:27] Amit**
You always wore it, and the stone
matched the hue of His Majesty's eyes.
**[03:33] Amit**
Anyone would know at a glance.
**[03:37] Lanteveldt**
Who cares if you lost that little pebble?
**[03:40] Lanteveldt**
You'll have your pick of way fancier
stuff once you're queen for real.
**[03:44] Lanteveldt**
And I'll have one after all.
**[03:48] Amit**
If it comes as a gift from one's beloved,
**[03:52] Amit**
even a pebble from the roadside
will outshine any gem.
**[03:57] Sariphi**
Amit...
**[03:58] Lanteveldt**
Why not ask him for something really lavish?
**[04:01] Amit**
I don't know about lavish, Lady Sariphi,
**[04:05] Amit**
but perhaps you *should* ask His Majesty
for something to replace it.
**[04:11] Leonhart**
Your ring?
**[04:13] Leonhart**
Oh, so it broke.
**[04:15] Leonhart**
But I gave you that to alleviate the miasma,
**[04:20] Leonhart**
and you've now built up a tolerance to it.
**[04:24] Leonhart**
You should no longer need it.
**[04:26] Sariphi**
Tell me, sire,
**[04:28] Sariphi**
do you remember what I told you
when you gave that ring to me?
**[04:36] Sariphi**
Sorry! It's nothing!
**[04:39] Sariphi**
*I guess it* was *a long time ago.*
**[04:42] Sariphi**
*I shouldn't be surprised.*
**[04:44] Leonhart**
Sariphi.
**[04:46] Leonhart**
Come. I have something to show you.
**[04:51] Sariphi**
Where are we going, sire?
**[04:53] Sariphi**
We've already flown a long way.
**[04:56] Leonhart**
We've arrived.
**[04:57] Sariphi**
Huh?
**[05:08] Sariphi**
A tree...
**[05:10] Sariphi**
It reminds me of the one the palace
is built into, but this one is thriving.
**[05:16] Leonhart**
Wards normally hide this
great tree from sight.
**[05:20] Leonhart**
We'll land here.
**[05:22] Sariphi**
How strange. A spring of blue water.
**[05:26] Leonhart**
This water is untainted by any miasma.
**[05:29] Leonhart**
Such a clear spring is a wonder in Ozmargo.
**[05:33] Leonhart**
The ambrosia that I used to make
your ring only bears fruit here.
**[05:41] Leonhart**
This blue water is said to be
**[05:42] Leonhart**
a remnant of a time when blue skies,
not clouds of miasma, canopied this land.
**[05:50] Sariphi**
Ozmargo used to be like that?
**[05:52] Leonhart**
So legend has it. I don't know the truth.
**[05:55] Leonhart**
But due to that legend, this place
is considered holy ground.
**[05:59] Leonhart**
Only mighty royalty and select priests
may cross the wards that safeguard it.
**[06:05] Sariphi**
Should someone like me really be here, then?
**[06:09] Leonhart**
I always meant to show you
**[06:11] Leonhart**
this clear, beautiful blue—
the same color as your eyes.
**[06:16] Sariphi**
Th-Thank you.
**[06:18] Sariphi**
But your eyes are a lovely color, too, sire.
**[06:22] Sariphi**
They're warm, like fire.
**[06:26] Leonhart**
Sariphi,
**[06:27] Leonhart**
give me your hand.
**[06:29] Leonhart**
The other one.
**[06:31] Leonhart**
Is it not the third finger of the left hand
**[06:34] Leonhart**
on which a ring has a special significance?
**[06:41] Sariphi**
*Sire,*
**[06:43] (Flashback) Sariphi**
do you know what putting a ring on your
left ring finger means in human lands?
**[06:49] (Flashback) Sariphi**
Well, you see,
**[06:51] (Flashback) Sariphi**
it's a token of a promise
to stay together forever.
**[06:56] Sariphi**
You remembered?
**[07:00] Sariphi**
I'm so glad.
**[07:01] Sariphi**
Thank you.
**[07:02] Leonhart**
That's still but an improvised
adornment. Step back a bit.
**[07:24] Leonhart**
I saw your last ring as a
tool to keep you safe.
**[07:29] Leonhart**
But this
**[07:31] Leonhart**
is a genuine token of our vows.
**[07:34] Leonhart**
Proof that you and I will never part.
**[07:41] Sariphi**
*What should I do?*
**[07:43] Sariphi**
* Can I really afford to indulge*
* in these feelings?*
**[07:48] Sariphi**
* I can't go back to who I was*
* before I knew them.*
**[07:53] Leonhart**
Sariphi.
**[07:55] Leonhart**
At tomorrow's ceremony,
stand beside me wearing this ring,
**[08:00] Leonhart**
as my one and only lawful queen-to-be.
**[08:05] Sariphi**
*Me, stand with His Majesty?*
**[08:09] Crowd**
The king!
**[08:10] Crowd**
Long live the king!
**[08:12] Crowd**
Long live Ozmargo!
**[08:20] (Flashback) Sariphi**
I won't appear in that ceremony.
**[08:23] (Flashback) Leonhart**
Sariphi...
**[08:25] (Flashback) Sariphi**
There will be a big fuss if I do.
**[08:28] (Flashback) Leonhart**
I'll silence it.
**[08:31] (Flashback) Leonhart**
I'll dispel all distressing chatter.
**[08:33] (Flashback) Leonhart**
I swear that I'll protect you!
**[08:36] (Flashback) Sariphi**
It's not "distressing chatter."
It's the voices of this kingdom's people.
**[08:42] (Flashback) Sariphi**
I appreciate the thought.
**[08:44] (Flashback) Sariphi**
But I'll become a queen worthy of you, sire,
**[08:49] (Flashback) Sariphi**
so wait until I do.
**[08:50] (Flashback) Leonhart**
Sariphi...
**[08:52] (Flashback) Sariphi**
In exchange,
**[08:53] (Flashback) Sariphi**
once the ceremony is over,
go back to being *my* king.
**[09:00] (Flashback) Leonhart**
Very well. I understand.
**[09:02] Crowd**
The king!
**[09:04] Leonhart**
*Perhaps I was a bit too hasty.*
**[09:04] Crowd**
Long live the king!
**[09:08] Leonhart**
*Sariphi, I have every faith in you.*
**[09:16] Lanteveldt**
Good grief.
**[09:17] Lanteveldt**
Do you need to bring *all* these
to your room at once?
**[09:20] Clops**
We're helping carry!
**[09:21] Cy**
Carry!
**[09:22] Sariphi**
Sorry. When a book catches my eye,
I can't rest unless I read it straight away.
**[09:27] Lanteveldt**
What's so fun about reading? I don't get it.
**[09:32] Sariphi**
Books are full of things I don't know.
**[09:38] Set**
Oh?
**[09:39] Set**
Dear me.
**[09:41] Set**
I humbly beg your pardon,
Acting Queen Consort.
**[09:44] Set**
Have I injured you?
**[09:46] Sariphi**
Oh, no. I'm fine.
**[09:49] Set**
Then, by your leave.
**[09:51] Lanteveldt**
Who's he?
**[09:52] Sariphi**
Justice Set. I've barely ever
spoken with him, either.
**[09:57] Lanteveldt**
He doesn't leave much of an impression.
**[10:00] Lanteveldt**
Is that all of them?
**[10:02] Lanteveldt**
You'd better hurry back to your room, then.
**[10:05] Lanteveldt**
It looks like rain.
**[10:13] Leonhart**
Do you feel calmer now?
**[10:15] Sariphi**
Yes, I'm fi—
**[10:21] Leonhart**
I suppose I left that wound on your heart.
**[10:27] Sariphi**
What do you mean?
**[10:28] Leonhart**
You said it all began on a night like this,
**[10:30] Leonhart**
when you learned that you
were to be a sacrifice.
**[10:35] Leonhart**
My royal predecessor decreed the
sacrifices, and I continued them.
**[10:41] Sariphi**
But, sire, you—
**[10:42] Leonhart**
True, I never devoured a sacrificial maiden,
**[10:47] Leonhart**
but I can do nothing for the girls
I spare after they escape.
**[10:52] Leonhart**
And once chosen as sacrifices, they can
never return to their former lives.
**[10:59] Leonhart**
Even now, at your side, I am
powerless to calm this storm.
**[11:06] Sariphi**
Hey, sire, would you tell me a story?
**[11:10] Leonhart**
A story?
**[11:10] Sariphi**
Yeah.
**[11:12] Leonhart**
Very well.
**[11:13] Leonhart**
Then I will tell you of my mother.
**[11:17] Sariphi**
You don't mind?
**[11:18] Leonhart**
It would be unfair of me to learn
your past without sharing mine.
**[11:26] Leonhart**
When I was young, "mother" to me meant
**[11:30] Leonhart**
the portrait of the late queen, who I
was told had died soon after my birth.
**[11:35] Leonhart**
But that queen
**[11:37] Leonhart**
was not my mother.
**[11:40] Leonhart**
So where did I come from?
**[11:44] Leonhart**
Do I truly have a mother? Does she
still live somewhere in the world?
**[11:50] Leonhart**
Sometimes I still ponder, even now.
**[11:54] Leonhart**
Did my father, who loathed
other species, love my mother?
**[11:59] Leonhart**
Did the mother whom I've never seen love me?
**[12:04] Leonhart**
Did anyone wish for my birth?
**[12:10] Sariphi**
Sire...
**[12:12] Leonhart**
Forgive me. I spoke of parity, but I may
as well have told you nothing at all.
**[12:19] Sariphi**
No.
**[12:20] Sariphi**
Thank you for telling me.
**[12:23] Sariphi**
* His Majesty was born with the blood*
* of two conflicting peoples.*
**[12:27] Sariphi**
*My own parents abandoned me.*
**[12:31] Sariphi**
Even if no one did want us to be born,
**[12:36] Sariphi**
what can we do about it?
**[12:38] Sariphi**
I mean, we're already here.
**[12:41] Sariphi**
Thanks to that, we can desire
someone and be desired now,
**[12:47] Sariphi**
and that matters so, so much more.
**[12:50] Leonhart**
Yes, you're right.
**[12:52] Leonhart**
*The past counts for less than the present.*
**[12:56] Leonhart**
*And the future.*
**[12:59] Leonhart**
Sariphi.
**[13:00] Sariphi**
What is it?
**[13:02] Leonhart**
I've been toying with an
idea for some time now.
**[13:07] Leonhart**
Several nights of revelation from now,
Yoana will send another sacrifice.
**[13:14] Sariphi**
Yes.
**[13:15] Leonhart**
Trickery can only fool the court for so long.
**[13:20] Leonhart**
And those chosen as sacrifices
will suffer regardless.
**[13:25] Leonhart**
The time has come to strike
at the root of the problem.
**[13:29] Sariphi**
You mean...
**[13:31] Sariphi**
*He'll abolish the system of sacrifices?!*
**[13:35] Leonhart**
Sacrifice is the power balance between
beasts and humans in microcosm.
**[13:40] Leonhart**
The older generations who experienced
the war will oppose its abolition.
**[13:44] Leonhart**
But new generations have not
learned to hate humans,
**[13:48] Leonhart**
and their numbers will surely grow.
**[13:51] Leonhart**
If they are to face humans earnestly,
unswayed by prejudice and past discord,
**[13:59] Leonhart**
I must lay a foundation of normal
relations between our realms now.
**[14:04] Leonhart**
That is my duty as king.
**[14:08] Sariphi**
*Sire...*
**[14:09] Leonhart**
But first, we must overcome an obstacle:
the principle of mutual inviolability.
**[14:15] Sariphi**
What's that?
**[14:18] Leonhart**
Anyone who crosses the border for
any reason, in either direction,
**[14:24] Leonhart**
does so at their own mortal peril.
**[14:26] Leonhart**
To reconcile with Yoana,
we must send emissaries to them.
**[14:31] Leonhart**
But our envoys will have no one
to guarantee their safety.
**[14:36] Sariphi**
So if the envoys were to die for some reason...
**[14:40] Leonhart**
Hatred of humans would only grow,
**[14:43] Leonhart**
and the road to reconciliation
would grow much longer.
**[14:47] Sariphi**
* Just like the beast realm*
* is dangerous for humans,*
**[14:50] Sariphi**
* the human realm is a*
* dangerous place for beasts.*
**[14:55] Sariphi**
*Human?*
**[14:57] Sariphi**
Sire...
**[14:59] Sariphi**
Could I be your envoy?
**[15:04] Sariphi**
Since I'm...
**[15:09] Anubis**
I am opposed!
**[15:11] Anubis**
Abolishing the system of sacrifices
at all is ill-advised.
**[15:14] Anubis**
No one will ever accept such a thing!
**[15:17] Leonhart**
The change need not be immediate.
**[15:20] Leonhart**
I will propose creating a space
for our realms to speak directly.
**[15:26] Anubis**
*That* is the problem!
**[15:29] Anubis**
Do you realize what it would mean
**[15:31] Anubis**
for us to be seen reaching out to Yoana?!
**[15:34] Leonhart**
Naturally.
**[15:36] Leonhart**
For the sake of restoring
diplomatic relations in the future,
**[15:38] Leonhart**
Ozmargo will henceforth negotiate
with Yoana as an equal nation.
**[15:44] Speaker B**
B-But sire, how can Yoana be our equal?
**[15:48] Speaker A**
Vanquishing the rebels allowed you
to display your royal dignity,
**[15:52] Speaker A**
but the people will never stand for this!
**[15:55] Lanteveldt**
"The people"? Don't you mean *you*, old-timers?
**[16:00] Lanteveldt**
Most people these days haven't seen
enough of humans to really hate 'em.
**[16:05] Lanteveldt**
Don't act like you speak for the masses
when you never listen to them.
**[16:10] Speaker A**
I-Insolence!
**[16:12] Speaker B**
Mind your tongue!
**[16:13] Lanteveldt**
We won't get anywhere with you guys.
**[16:16] Lanteveldt**
If Sariphi goes, then so will I.
**[16:18] Lanteveldt**
Isn't that what a guard captain's for?
**[16:21] Sariphi**
Lante, we should excuse ourselves.
**[16:25] Lanteveldt**
Ugh! Me going with you
would solve all our problems.
**[16:31] Sariphi**
But if a beast like you got in a fight
with humans, we'd have trouble.
**[16:38] Sariphi**
Can you swear you won't fight?
**[16:40] Lanteveldt**
Nope!
***SIGN*** HONEST
***SIGN*** HONEST
**[16:41] Sariphi**
See?
**[16:43] Sariphi**
*Of course, this is easier said than done.*
**[16:47] Sariphi**
Sire. Did you talk things out?
**[16:50] Leonhart**
No. Anubis wishes to speak with you privately.
**[16:55] Sariphi**
He does?
**[17:05] Sariphi**
Unbelievable. Can't young women
these days so much as clean properly?
**[17:11] Anubis**
Who is *that* an impression of?!
**[17:15] Anubis**
Girl, do you honestly believe
that beasts and humans can come
**[17:19] Anubis**
to an understanding with each other?
**[17:21] Sariphi**
Well, I know that it won't be easy, but—
**[17:25] Anubis**
Spare me the preamble.
**[17:27] Anubis**
Answer yes or no.
**[17:30] Sariphi**
I think... we can.
**[17:33] Anubis**
And by volunteering as an envoy,
**[17:36] Anubis**
do you believe you can become a bridge
between beasts and humans?
**[17:39] Anubis**
Be truthful, girl.
**[17:41] Sariphi**
Me, a bridge? Oh, Mr. Chancellor,
you're exaggerating.
**[17:45] Anubis**
That was exactly my point!
**[17:47] Anubis**
How vexing! I knew that talking
to humans was a waste of time!
**[17:51] Sariphi**
You mean talking to me,
not "to humans," don't you?
**[17:57] Sariphi**
This isn't about humans and beasts.
You just don't like me.
**[18:03] Sariphi**
If someone as hard-headed as you
can see a person before their species,
**[18:07] Sariphi**
then other people can do it, too.
***SIGN*** FREEZE
**[18:10] Sariphi**
I can't help it if they don't like what they see.
**[18:13] Sariphi**
But perfect strangers hating each other
through misconceptions and hearsay?
**[18:19] Sariphi**
That terrifies me.
**[18:21] Sariphi**
So if approaching Yoana can
change the future even slightly,
**[18:27] Sariphi**
then I'll do everything that I can right now.
**[18:31] Sariphi**
If there's something only I can do
for the future His Majesty wants...
**[18:36] Sariphi**
If it will help the king who made
me the person I am now...
**[18:41] Anubis**
Very well.
**[18:43] Anubis**
I will approve a diplomatic mission to Yoana
and the appointment of you as our emissary.
**[18:50] Anubis**
I shall inform the senate forthwith.
**[18:53] Sariphi**
Thank you, Mr. Chancellor!
**[18:55] Sariphi**
I guess you *can* be nice every now and then!
**[18:58] Sariphi**
I'll tell His Majesty, okay?
**[19:01] Anubis**
*For His Majesty, is it?*
**[19:04] Anubis**
*That girl never fails to irritate.*
**[19:08] Leonhart**
I see. So Anubis agreed.
**[19:11] Leonhart**
Very well.
**[19:12] Leonhart**
My message to Yoana is in your hands.
**[19:16] Sariphi**
Sire!
**[19:17] Leonhart**
But Lanteveldt and several
guards will accompany you.
**[19:21] Sariphi**
Huh? But doesn't that defeat
the point of sending me?
**[19:25] Leonhart**
I refuse to compromise on your safety.
**[19:28] Sariphi**
Please, sire.
**[19:29] Sariphi**
I know I'm not the most dependable, so—
**[19:32] Leonhart**
No! I—
**[19:34] Bennu**
Hold it right there!
**[19:36] Bennu**
Make way for the greatest
holy beast, Bennu the phoenix!
**[19:41] Bennu**
I ain't a beast *or* a human, so nothing
can tie *me* down, numbskulls!
**[19:49] Sariphi**
Bennu!
**[19:50] Bennu**
Hey.
**[19:51] Sariphi**
Of course!
**[19:53] Sariphi**
Beast and human laws
don't apply to holy beasts!
**[19:56] Bennu**
You got it, girlie. I'll just fly
right over with you on my back.
**[20:01] Sariphi**
I can get to Yoana safely if I fly on Bennu.
**[20:04] Sariphi**
Please, sire!
**[20:08] Leonhart**
You win.
**[20:11] Set**
* I knew it. Not a single trace*
* in all these documents.*
**[20:17] Set**
*The pregnancies of queens and concubines.*
**[20:20] Set**
* Where and when they gave birth, the*
* weather at the time, the attending priest...*
**[20:25] Set**
* All these details that should have been*
* recorded are conspicuously missing.*
**[20:31] Set**
*And for only one royal.*
**[20:34] Set**
*Yes,*
**[20:36] Set**
*only the records of our current king's birth!*
**[20:43] Amit**
Lady Sariphi, please, please take care!
**[20:47] Amit**
Turn back at the first sign of danger!
**[20:49] Clops**
Sari!
**[20:50] Cy**
Ri!
**[20:51] Lanteveldt**
I still don't like it.
Guarding you is my job.
**[20:56] Sariphi**
Thank you all for seeing me off.
**[20:59] Lanteveldt**
The king's awfully cold, though.
**[21:01] Lanteveldt**
I can't believe he didn't come to
say goodbye. Is he still sulking?
**[21:04] Sariphi**
Nothing like that.
**[21:06] Sariphi**
His Majesty said his goodbyes
when I left the palace.
**[21:12] (Flashback) Sariphi**
I just have to deliver your letter and
come back with the answer, right?
**[21:19] (Flashback) Sariphi**
Well, I'd better get going.
**[21:22] (Flashback) Leonhart**
Sariphi.
**[21:24] (Flashback) Leonhart**
Making you my emissary is probably
the best choice available to me.
**[21:30] (Flashback) Leonhart**
The decision may even
leave its mark on history.
**[21:37] (Flashback) Leonhart**
And yet, I...
**[21:42] (Flashback) Sariphi**
Sire, I owe you an apology.
**[21:46] (Flashback) Sariphi**
I said that I knew you were worried
because I'm not dependable.
**[21:52] (Flashback) Sariphi**
But that wasn't it, was it?
**[21:53] (Flashback) Sariphi**
You were only worried
because you care about me.
**[22:02] (Flashback) Sariphi**
So...
**[22:05] (Flashback) Sariphi**
I won't tell you not to worry.
**[22:07] (Flashback) Sariphi**
Instead, I'll only ask you to wait.
**[22:12] (Flashback) Sariphi**
If you'll wait for me—if I can
have a place to come home to—
**[22:18] (Flashback) Sariphi**
I'll be able to draw so much
courage just from that.
**[22:22] (Flashback) Leonhart**
Yes.
**[22:25] (Flashback) Leonhart**
I'll be waiting for your return.
**[22:28] (Flashback) Leonhart**
So...
**[22:29] (Flashback) Leonhart**
Let me worry myself to death.
**[22:33] (Flashback) Sariphi**
Okay.
**[22:35] Sariphi**
*I'll be back, sire.*
**[22:42] Set**
The king's birth holds some vital secret.
**[22:47] Set**
Likely one whose exposure
could upend everything.
**[22:51] Amit**
Please take care!
**[22:54] Cy; Clops**
Sari!
**[22:55] Lanteveldt**
You'd better make this quick!
**[22:57] Sariphi**
See you later, everyone!
**[23:01] Set**
So, if I can uncover it,
then I can finally achieve
**[23:08] Set**
my long-cherished ambition!
**[23:15] Sariphi**
* As a human—and a sacrifice—*
* I will be the beasts' emissary to Yoana.*
**[23:25] Sariphi**
To end the sacrifices and normalize relations,
**[23:29] Sariphi**
with His Majesty's great resolve in my heart,
**[23:31] Sariphi**
I set out for my homeland, Yoana,
**[23:34] Sariphi**
as the beasts' emi—
**[23:36] Bennu**
That's why I said to hang on tight, dimwit!
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