# E21 - Peace and a Secret Revealed
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**[00:02] Anubis**
*What do you mean?!*
**[00:04] Anubis**
*What truth about His Majesty?!*
**[00:06] (Flashback) Set**
I lack conclusive evidence.
**[00:10] (Flashback) Set**
Thus, I desire your cooperation.
**[00:14] (Flashback) Anubis**
My cooperation?
**[00:17] (Flashback) Set**
For some time now, I have occasionally felt
**[00:20] (Flashback) Set**
that the king is concealing
a great secret from us.
**[00:25] Anubis**
* Impossible. I could never trust*
* Set more than His Majesty.*
**[00:30] Anubis**
*And yet...*
**[00:31] Set**
**You *should know the truth about the king.*
***SIGN*** Peace and a Secret Revealed
**[02:15] Ocelot**
Well done, Sariphi.
**[02:18] Sariphi**
Ocelot!
**[02:20] Anastasia**
Ocelot?
**[02:22] Anastasia**
Wh-What are *you* doing here?
**[02:24] Ocelot**
Asya...
**[02:28] Ocelot**
Were you always this short?
**[02:30] Anastasia**
You just got tall!
**[02:32] Anastasia**
What did you expect after more
than a decade, you big oaf?
**[02:37] Sariphi**
You two know each other?
**[02:42] Ocelot**
Actually, Sariphi, I'm from
the same village as Asya.
**[02:46] Sariphi**
What?!
**[02:47] Anastasia**
You up and left out of the blue, though.
**[02:51] Anastasia**
Because of me.
**[02:53] Ocelot**
You're wrong, Asya.
I came here of my own free will.
**[02:59] Ocelot**
I felt that I needed to get stronger.
**[03:01] Anastasia**
What?
**[03:02] Ocelot**
I always meant to come back for you someday.
**[03:06] Ocelot**
Then Sariphi turned up.
**[03:09] Ocelot**
When I told her about you,
she was eager for a meeting.
**[03:12] Ocelot**
So I thought I'd get her to fetch you,
**[03:17] Ocelot**
since I felt sure that she wouldn't
view you with suspicion.
**[03:22] Anastasia**
You did?
**[03:24] Ocelot**
I've gotten stronger, Asya.
**[03:27] Ocelot**
I practiced swordsmanship and riding,
and I improved myself.
**[03:31] Ocelot**
I know that I can protect you now!
**[03:35] Ocelot**
What do you think?
How do I look in your eyes?
**[03:40] Anastasia**
The same as ever.
**[03:44] Anastasia**
So what do you want me to do?
**[03:55] Anastasia**
It's done.
**[03:57] Anastasia**
Will this do?
**[03:58] Ocelot**
Yes, thank you.
**[04:00] Ocelot**
I'll show this to His Majesty at once.
**[04:04] Ocelot**
Both of you, wait here.
**[04:06] Ocelot**
You'll see His Majesty as soon
as he grants an audience.
**[04:16] Anastasia**
Meeting the king makes you nervous, too?
**[04:20] Sariphi**
Yes, sort of.
**[04:22] Anastasia**
Oh, I guess you *are* about to meet
the jerk who made you a sacrifice.
**[04:27] Sariphi**
I don't hold it against him, really.
**[04:30] Anastasia**
You're too softhearted.
**[04:31] Anastasia**
I'd get back at him,
even if it got me executed.
**[04:36] Sariphi**
What?
**[04:37] Anastasia**
I mean it.
**[04:39] Anastasia**
I'd punch out a king or even a god if I had to.
**[04:44] Anastasia**
So go in there and say your piece
with your head held high.
**[04:49] Sariphi**
Thank you.
**[04:57] Sariphi**
*I don't remember much about the days*
**[05:01] Sariphi**
* between the night I learned I was*
* a sacrifice and when I accepted it.*
**[05:07] Sariphi**
* But until I resigned myself to*
* everything, he did frighten me.*
**[05:13] Sariphi**
* And now I'm about to be face-to-face*
* with him, the ruler of Yoana.*
**[05:23] King**
You are the Ozmargan emissary,
Sariphi Kleinoel,
**[05:28] King**
the sacrifice who was spared?
**[05:32] Sariphi**
I am.
**[05:33] King**
We have seen your document, and it does
indeed bear the royal seal of Ozmargo.
**[05:40] King**
Thus, we acknowledge it
as a genuine royal letter.
**[05:45] King**
Its import, however, is far too great
**[05:50] King**
for our kingdom to weigh its truth
or issue a response alone.
**[05:55] King**
We shall convene a global
council within seven days
**[05:59] King**
and confer with representatives
of other nations.
**[06:02] King**
Kindly inform the king of Ozmargo
that we wish for more time.
**[06:09] Sariphi**
I understand, sire.
I promise to inform His Majesty.
**[06:13] King**
Incidentally, we have one
other question for you.
**[06:18] King**
What sort of place is the realm of beasts?
**[06:22] Sariphi**
Huh?
**[06:24] King**
Our royal house of Maskviana accepted
the sacrifices in exchange for peace.
**[06:31] King**
Since then, we have sent
countless maidens there,
**[06:35] King**
forcing the weak alone to pay
the heavy price of our respite.
**[06:42] King**
We have a duty to know all.
**[06:49] Sariphi**
The beast realm is much more
ordinary than humans think.
**[06:54] Sariphi**
The environment isn't like here,
**[06:57] Sariphi**
but its people laugh, rejoice, waver,
and fret over little things.
**[07:03] Sariphi**
Some of them are lovely,
and some aren't so nice.
**[07:07] Sariphi**
And they have a kind king who wishes
peace for beasts and humans alike.
**[07:15] Sariphi**
It's not some other world.
**[07:17] Sariphi**
Everyone there lives each
day as best they can.
**[07:23] Sariphi**
It's an ordinary place,
**[07:25] Sariphi**
and one that means a lot to me.
**[07:29] Sariphi**
That's how I see it.
**[07:32] Sariphi**
Um... Did I say something rude?
**[07:36] Ocelot**
No. I was surprised that
you were so forthright.
**[07:40] Ocelot**
But I'm even more shocked that His Majesty
thought of the sacrifices that way.
**[07:45] Ocelot**
He's always stern in public
and never shows weakness.
**[07:50] Sariphi**
*That... sounds like His Majesty.*
**[07:54] Ocelot**
It might take time,
**[07:57] Ocelot**
but it no longer seems
impossible that someday,
**[08:01] Ocelot**
the human and beast realms
will have normal relations.
**[08:07] Sariphi**
*Listen, sire.*
**[08:10] Sariphi**
*I managed to tell them how you feel.*
**[08:16] Set**
* My Lord Chancellor,*
* I desire only one thing of you.*
**[08:21] Set**
* I will outline a proposal.*
* Kindly convey it to the king*
**[08:27] (Flashback) Set**
without mentioning my involvement.
**[08:41] Anubis**
*Why do I hesitate? There is no need.*
**[08:46] Anubis**
*He speaks nonsense.*
**[08:48] Anubis**
*I am merely making certain.*
**[08:54] Anubis**
It is Anubis. May I have a moment
of Your Majesty's time?
**[08:59] Leonhart**
Not now, unless it's urgent.
**[09:02] Leonhart**
Or you may speak from out there.
**[09:04] Anubis**
No, I would prefer to see your face.
I require only a moment.
**[09:10] Set**
* If the king firmly denies your request*
* or refuses to leave his chamber,*
**[09:17] (Flashback) Set**
then perhaps he has a reason
to conceal himself from you.
**[09:22] Anubis**
Please, sire.
**[09:24] Anubis**
Please show yourself before
your humble servant, Anubis.
**[09:39] Anubis**
Sire...
**[09:41] Leonhart**
What is it? I'm busy.
**[09:43] Anubis**
I beg your pardon, sire.
**[09:46] Anubis**
I have proposals concerning
your future course.
**[09:50] Anubis**
First, about negotiations with Yoana.
**[09:55] Anubis**
And then one other,
**[09:58] Anubis**
about Lady Sariphi.
**[10:02] Sariphi**
Okay, I'll head back now.
**[10:05] Sariphi**
Thank you for the diary.
**[10:07] Ocelot**
You should just wait here until
the council reaches a decision.
**[10:10] Anastasia**
You're so insensitive.
**[10:13] Anastasia**
She has her own life to worry about.
**[10:16] Ocelot**
Ow.
**[10:17] Sariphi**
Yes, I'm just dying to go back.
**[10:21] Sariphi**
Hey, Asya.
**[10:23] Anastasia**
Yes?
**[10:24] Sariphi**
I want to ask you something,
but promise you won't get mad.
**[10:28] Anastasia**
I probably will, but let's hear it anyway.
**[10:34] Sariphi**
What made you start studying beast script?
**[10:40] Sariphi**
You've suffered a lot because of beasts,
**[10:43] Sariphi**
so why did you choose to
get involved with them?
**[10:47] Anastasia**
No real reason.
**[10:49] Anastasia**
I just wanted to make sure of who I was.
**[10:55] Anastasia**
But I don't care about that anymore.
**[10:57] Sariphi**
Huh?
**[10:58] Anastasia**
I mean, no matter who I am,
**[11:02] Anastasia**
that idiot won't change one bit.
**[11:06] Sariphi**
You have a point.
**[11:09] Sariphi**
*No matter who you were born as,*
**[11:13] Sariphi**
*having someone who accepts you*
**[11:16] Sariphi**
*should be all you need to live on and smile.*
**[11:23] Sariphi**
*Leo,*
**[11:25] Sariphi**
*I want you to feel the same someday.*
**[11:29] Sariphi**
* You always look a little*
* nervous and lonely somehow.*
**[11:34] Sariphi**
*But eventually...*
**[11:37] Bennu**
Man, it looks like this'll actually work out!
**[11:41] Bennu**
Way to go, girlie!
**[11:43] Sariphi**
Yes, but...
**[11:45] Sariphi**
* The big picture of history*
* is important, of course,*
**[11:48] Sariphi**
*but so is this.*
**[11:51] Sariphi**
*If I can decipher this diary,*
**[11:54] Sariphi**
* I might be able to discover*
* His Majesty's unknown roots.*
**[11:57] Sariphi**
*Or maybe even his own—*
**[12:01] Bennu**
We're almost there, girlie!
**[12:05] Ozmargan Soldier**
A message from the border guard!
**[12:08] Ozmargan Soldier**
The acting queen consort
has returned from Yoana!
**[12:19] Bennu**
There!
**[12:20] Bennu**
Package delivered!
**[12:22] Sariphi**
I'm home, Your Majesty!
**[12:33] Sariphi**
I'm so sorry I'm late.
**[12:36] Sariphi**
Did I worry you to death?
**[12:38] Leonhart**
Yes.
**[12:43] Sariphi**
Sire?
**[12:45] Anubis**
Welcome home.
**[12:46] Anubis**
I am delighted to see you safe,
**[12:48] Anubis**
Lady Sariphi.
**[12:50] Sariphi**
Mr. Chancellor.
**[12:52] Anubis**
Loath as I am to rush you
so soon after your return,
**[12:54] Anubis**
the royal council shall immediately convene.
**[12:57] Sariphi**
The council?
**[12:59] Sariphi**
Then I'll be in my room.
**[13:01] Anubis**
No.
**[13:02] Anubis**
Although I realize that you must be fatigued,
**[13:05] Anubis**
I humbly request you to attend, Lady Sariphi.
**[13:09] Speaker A**
So they will gauge each nation's
opinion at a global council,
**[13:15] Speaker A**
and they reserve their formal
response until it concludes?
**[13:18] Sariphi**
Yes.
**[13:19] Speaker B**
That's only natural.
This was all too sudden.
**[13:22] Speaker B**
Abolishing the system of
sacrifices benefits Yoana,
**[13:27] Speaker B**
but when it comes to total peace, who can say?
**[13:30] Sariphi**
*I'm dying to tell His Majesty about so much.*
**[13:35] Sariphi**
*But I haven't read that diary yet,*
**[13:38] Sariphi**
* so maybe I should wait until*
* I know something definite.*
**[13:41] Sariphi**
*Still...*
**[13:43] Sariphi**
* Is it my imagination, or does*
* he seem different somehow?*
**[13:48] Anubis**
These negotiations to abolish sacrifices
and normalize relations with Yoana,
**[13:55] Anubis**
as well as the acting queen
consort's role in them,
**[13:59] Anubis**
shall be proclaimed publicly
in the near future.
**[14:03] Anubis**
Does that please you, sire?
**[14:04] Sariphi**
Huh?
**[14:05] Leonhart**
Yes. You may proceed.
**[14:08] Sariphi**
Wait.
**[14:10] Sariphi**
Sire, I—
**[14:12] Anubis**
If we continue to negotiate with Yoana,
it will become known eventually.
**[14:18] Anubis**
And if our relations with Yoana
improve and the people accept that,
**[14:24] Anubis**
you will certainly deserve
credit for your achievements.
**[14:28] Anubis**
So, should that happen,
**[14:31] Anubis**
Lady Sariphi, I will recognize
you as our lawful queen-to-be.
**[14:38] Amit**
What?!
**[14:39] Amit**
A-At last, Lady Sariphi will be...
**[14:41] Cy; Clops**
She'll be queen for real?!
**[14:44] Lanteveldt**
Don't get ahead of yourselves, okay?
**[14:47] Lanteveldt**
That's only if she passes this last test.
**[14:50] Amit**
And that test is successfully negotiating
peace with Yoana, I presume?
**[14:56] Lanteveldt**
You presume right.
**[14:57] Lanteveldt**
She can't avoid this problem if she
wants to be queen, of course,
**[15:01] Lanteveldt**
but something about this
doesn't sit right with me.
**[15:05] Amit**
What do you mean?
**[15:06] Lanteveldt**
This is the chancellor's idea, as usual,
**[15:11] Lanteveldt**
but I doubt that guy would
ever accept Sariphi.
**[15:14] Lanteveldt**
So would he really set this condition?
**[15:19] Lanteveldt**
I mean, it's definitely not easy,
but it *is* possible.
**[15:24] Lanteveldt**
Maybe he plans to invalidate it on a
technicality again, whatever happens.
**[15:29] Cy; Clops**
What?!
**[15:30] Amit**
B-But Lady Sariphi has worked
so hard all this time.
**[15:35] Amit**
The chancellor is severe in his speech,
**[15:39] Amit**
but perhaps he has already
accepted her in his heart.
**[15:43] Clops**
He would never.
**[15:43] Cy**
Never.
**[15:44] Lanteveldt**
No way.
**[15:46] Lanteveldt**
And I feel like something
stinks in the palace lately.
**[15:53] Lanteveldt**
Something fishy.
**[15:57] Lanteveldt**
I just hope I'm worried for nothing.
**[16:02] Anubis**
All of the messenger beasts
dispatched throughout Ozmargo
**[16:05] Anubis**
have returned to the palace
as of this morning.
**[16:09] Anubis**
Nearly the entire realm should now
be aware of tomorrow's proclamation.
**[16:15] Anubis**
The ruling classes of each land
now know what to expect.
**[16:19] Anubis**
A date for the council
has not yet been fixed,
**[16:23] Anubis**
but I would advise convening it
not too long after the proclamation.
**[16:29] Anubis**
Sire?
**[16:30] Sariphi**
Oh, sire!
**[16:33] Sariphi**
Do you have a minute?
**[16:34] Sariphi**
Listen, I want you to
take me away right now!
**[16:38] Sariphi**
I'm *so* bored!
**[16:40] Sariphi**
I want to go out!
It doesn't even matter where!
**[16:42] Sariphi**
Pretty please?!
**[16:45] Sariphi**
Can't we?
**[16:47] Anubis**
Lady Sariphi, His Majesty must
prepare for tomorrow's—
**[16:50] Leonhart**
Very well.
**[16:52] Anubis**
Sire!
**[16:53] Leonhart**
With regard to the preparations,
I've done all that I can.
**[16:57] Leonhart**
I won't be long.
**[16:59] Leonhart**
See to whatever remains.
**[17:02] Senator C**
The nerve of that girl.
**[17:08] Sariphi**
Sorry, sire. I know that was selfish of me.
**[17:10] Leonhart**
No matter. You said that to bring me outside
**[17:16] Leonhart**
without the others guessing your motive.
**[17:19] Sariphi**
You knew?
**[17:21] Leonhart**
But your timing was perfect.
**[17:23] Leonhart**
I had been hoping to speak with you
outside of the palace, as well.
**[17:30] Sariphi**
So something *is* worrying you, then?
**[17:33] Sariphi**
You haven't seemed like yourself in a while.
**[17:40] Sariphi**
What's wrong?
**[17:41] Leonhart**
Since we're already outside,
**[17:43] Leonhart**
we might as well take a detour.
**[17:48] Sariphi**
A detour? Into this pitch-dark place?
**[17:52] Leonhart**
I thought it might seem so to human eyes.
**[17:56] Sariphi**
What's down here?
**[17:59] Leonhart**
Look around you.
**[18:23] Sariphi**
Wow!
**[18:25] Sariphi**
The whole ceiling is glowing!
And the walls, too!
**[18:29] Sariphi**
But how?
**[18:31] Leonhart**
The minerals found in this cave
shine in the presence of magic.
**[18:37] Leonhart**
But a certain degree of power is required
to produce such a visible reaction.
**[18:45] Leonhart**
The mere act of lighting up these stones
**[18:48] Leonhart**
was once a sign of might among beasts.
**[18:53] Sariphi**
Amazing. It's like a starry sky.
**[18:58] Leonhart**
Stars? I see.
**[19:01] Leonhart**
I considered this light merely a sign
of magic, but you see it differently.
**[19:07] Leonhart**
In this land, stars only shine
on nights of revelation.
**[19:11] Leonhart**
I can never behold it.
**[19:14] Leonhart**
Even on my sole visit to
Yoana to retrieve you,
**[19:19] Leonhart**
I was too preoccupied with concealing
myself to look up at the sky.
**[19:26] Leonhart**
Such sights are too far beyond my ken.
**[19:30] Sariphi**
One day, when we make peace with Yoana...
**[19:34] Sariphi**
When you can appear openly in any form,
**[19:39] Sariphi**
I know you'll be able to see them.
**[19:42] Sariphi**
When that happens, let's go gaze
at a real starry sky together.
**[19:47] Leonhart**
Yes.
**[19:50] Leonhart**
Tomorrow's proclamation may
prove a critical moment for me.
**[19:55] Sariphi**
Because getting people to
accept peace won't be easy?
**[20:00] Leonhart**
That's part of it.
**[20:02] Leonhart**
But this is a wall that I must overcome
for our—no, for my own sake.
**[20:09] Leonhart**
Whatever happens, I cannot back down.
**[20:14] Sariphi**
Okay.
**[20:15] Sariphi**
I'm sure they'll understand
how you feel, sire.
**[20:23] Sariphi**
I promise you'll be fine.
**[20:25] Sariphi**
No matter what happens,
I'll always be with you.
**[20:40] Jormungand**
Unsurprisingly, the people's
eyes are on this proclamation.
**[20:44] Jormungand**
I suppose this calls for
greater-than-usual caution.
**[20:48] Jormungand**
Although the people may not be
the only ones I need to be wary of.
**[20:55] (Flashback) Set**
I will disappear briefly during the event.
**[20:59] (Flashback) Set**
But please, pay that no mind.
**[21:02] (Flashback) Set**
I have no designs against the king.
**[21:06] (Flashback) Set**
Not against the *king*.
**[21:10] Anubis**
It is time, sire. You should go.
**[21:14] Leonhart**
Yes.
**[21:18] Sariphi**
*I promise you'll be fine.*
**[21:20] Sariphi**
* No matter what happens,*
* I'll always be with you.*
**[21:34] Leonhart**
My kingdom is about to choose a new future.
**[21:39] Leonhart**
One in which we join hands with our
near-yet-distant neighbor, Yoana.
**[21:45] Subject A**
What? He can't be serious.
**[21:48] Subject B**
Are the rumors of a human queen true, then?!
**[21:53] Leonhart**
I have already sent an envoy to Yoana
**[21:56] Leonhart**
to smooth the way for talks
to normalize relations.
**[22:02] Leonhart**
All so that we can make true peace,
not this truce in name only.
**[22:08] Leonhart**
And our emissary who strives
to bridge this gap is—
**[22:15] Leonhart**
*Wh-What is this?*
**[22:18] Leonhart**
Our emissary... is...
**[22:20] Leonhart**
*Why now, of all times?!*
**[22:24] Leonhart**
our new... future que...
**[22:30] Sariphi**
Sire?
**[22:52] Subject C**
Wh-What the?! Look at the sky!
**[22:54] Subject D**
What's going on?!
**[22:56] Subject E**
What's that?!
**[23:08] Set**
**You *should know the truth
about the absolute monarch*
**[23:19] Set**
*to whom you pledged everything.*
**[23:25] Anubis**
What did I just see?
**[23:27] Anubis**
The miasma suddenly cleared,
and His Majesty became human.
**[23:31] Anubis**
But that's absurd!
**[23:33] Anubis**
It's Set. This must be his scheme.
**[23:36] Anubis**
The king—*my* king—could not
possibly have human blood!
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