E24 - A Queen and the Future of the Kingdom

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[00:00] (Flashback) Set's Mother
    Set,
[00:01] (Flashback) Set's Mother
    the truth is that you have
    royal blood in your veins.
[00:06] (Flashback) Set's Mother
    By all rights, you should
    be standing at the king's side.
[00:11] (Flashback) Set's Mother
    I'm sorry that I was only able to
    give birth to you in this form.
[00:15] (Flashback) Set's Mother
    But remember, Set...
SIGN    A Queen and the Future of the Kingdom
[00:40] Sariphi
    Sire!
[00:42] Leonhart
    Keep some distance from me, Sariphi.
[00:51] Set
    Returning to the form of a beast
    now will make no difference!
[00:56] Set
    You have already been unmasked!
[00:59] Set
    No throne will tolerate your
    weight upon it any longer!
[01:11] Set
    Curse you!
[01:24] Leonhart
    Set, your warped obsession with species
    has led the people of this land astray
[01:30] Leonhart
    and caused harm to those I hold dear.
[01:34] Leonhart
    Even if I must relinquish my throne,
[01:38] Leonhart
    I will see you pay for your crimes!
[01:44] Lanteveldt
    Is that...
[01:46] Cy
    The king!
[01:47] Clops
    His Majesty is back to normal!
[01:49] Lanteveldt
    Sariphi!
[01:54] Soldier A
    Wh-What magical power!
[01:56] Galois
    Half his blood is human, and yet
    he commands such arcane might.
[02:00] Galois
    No ordinary beast could hope to equal him.
[02:05] Soldier B
    S-So is His Majesty legitimate after all?
[02:09] Soldier C
    But...
[02:10] Leonhart
    That is beside the point.
[02:13] Leonhart
    The strength that a king should wield
    is not the magic of the royal line.
[02:19] Leonhart
    It is the strength to protect those
    who struggle to live in this realm.
[02:24] Leonhart
    Because you failed to grasp that,
[02:27] Leonhart
    you have no right to the throne!
[02:31] Set
    Protecting the people of this realm?
    You call that royal power?
[02:36] Set
    Don't make me laugh!
[02:38] Set
    If that's true, then why did
    no one protect my mother?!
[02:44] Set
    Merely because I was born looking like this,
[02:47] Set
    she was unable to become queen
    and died in obscurity.
[02:52] Set
    So I searched...
[02:54] Set
    And I found this!
[02:56] Set
    Sealed deep within the forbidden archive
[03:00] Set
    lay a codex of taboo spells that only
    those with royal blood can wield!
[03:04] Set
    With it, I shall prove that I
    possess the might of a king!
[03:13] Lanteveldt
    What is that?
[03:17] Sariphi
    This is a stone that the archpriest left me.
[03:21] Soldier B
    The archpriest?!
[03:23] Soldier C
    The one who's been missing since forever?!
[03:26] Set
    I knew it!
[03:27] Capel
    I am Archpriest Capel.
[03:31] Capel
    I took on the form of a speechless devil
[03:34] Soldier D
    Wh-What's this voice?!
[03:34] Capel
    in order to safeguard
    the truth about our king.
[03:37] Galois
    It must belong to the one
    who gave her that stone.
[03:41] Capel
    There is one more truth
    that I must impart to you.
[03:47] Sariphi
    Mr. Archpriest's last words...
[03:50] Capel
    This is the secret that I was
    to guard above all others.
[03:56] Capel
    His Majesty,
[03:58] Capel
    our former king, was physically
    incapable of siring children.
[04:05] Capel
    His Late Majesty shared a bed with many
    concubines in addition to his queen,
[04:12] Capel
    yet neither Her Majesty nor any of his
    other partners ever conceived a child.
[04:18] Capel
    At last, our late king realized
    that the cause lay with him,
[04:24] Capel
    and he reluctantly claimed
    his brother's son as his own.
[04:29] Jormungand
    The last king had a brother?!
[04:31] Amit
    That is His Majesty's true lineage.
[04:35] Capel
    To conceal that fact,
[04:37] Capel
    when one of the late king's concubines
    conceived a child by another man,
[04:42] Capel
    he falsely claimed the child as his own,
    and I signed my name as witness.
[04:49] Capel
    This is another of my sins.
[04:53] Capel
    Yet in time, that concubine
    became convinced of our falsehood.
[04:58] Set
    Lies!
[05:03] Set
    "Convinced of a falsehood"?
[05:07] Set
    That can't be!
[05:09] Set
    As we speak, I now wield the power of a king!
[05:13] Set
    I will prove it!
[05:15] Set
    Otherwise...
[05:16] Leonhart
    Enough, Set!
[05:17] Leonhart
    Any more, and—
[05:18] Set
    Otherwise, my birth would be meaningless!
[05:29] Set
    What is... this?
[05:34] Leonhart
    Your limits.
[05:36] Leonhart
    Those forbidden spells consume
    immense magical power.
[05:40] Leonhart
    You cast more than your blood could bear.
[05:43] Leonhart
    Set,
[05:45] Leonhart
    you became drunk on brute strength
    and never attempted to accept yourself.
[05:50] Leonhart
    And so, you lost.
[05:53] Set
    Is this... the truth?
[05:57] Set
    Everything I believed
[06:00] Set
    was a lie.
[06:02] Set
    What I sought was always beyond my reach.
[06:08] Set
    Then... why have I...
[06:19] Sariphi
    It doesn't matter what your reason was.
[06:23] Sariphi
    If meaning only makes you suffer,
    you're better off without it.
[06:27] Sariphi
    No matter how you were born,
    you can only ever be yourself.
[06:32] Sariphi
    No one else can ever become you.
[06:36] Sariphi
    What more meaning does your birth need?!
[06:40] Set
    Oh, I see.
[06:43] Set's Mother
    Set.
[06:44] Set
    What I've always longed for was merely...
[06:49] (Flashback) Set's Mother
    No matter what you look like,
    you're still you.
[06:53] (Flashback) Set's Mother
    Your mother loves you very much.
[06:56] Set
    What I've always longed for
    was merely... merely...
[07:04] Set
    that one thing.
[07:08] Set
    I know.
[07:09] (Flashback) Set
    I love you, too, Mother!
[07:17] Anubis
    You must be furious with me.
[07:21] Leonhart
    Don't you mean the reverse?
[07:24] Leonhart
    I've deceived you all this time.
[07:27] Anubis
    No, I have spoken out against humans
    many times in your presence.
[07:35] Anubis
    It is only natural that you could
    not unburden yourself to me.
[07:40] Leonhart
    My weakness was to blame.
    That was no fault of yours.
[07:44] Anubis
    Even so, I cannot forgive myself.
[07:49] Anubis
    Once my wounds heal somewhat
    and I am able to walk,
[07:52] Anubis
    I intend to leave this realm.
[07:56] Anubis
    In all this time, I have done nothing
    but hound and harm you.
[08:02] Anubis
    Now that I realize that, I cannot
    bear to remain at your side.
[08:07] Leonhart
    Anubis!
[08:07] Anubis
    You have the girl.
[08:11] Anubis
    I admit it.
[08:13] Anubis
    More than anyone else, she has
    guided you to become a mighty king.
[08:17] Anubis
    She became the thing that you needed most.
[08:22] Leonhart
    You are right that Sariphi
    made me the strongest of all.
[08:27] Leonhart
    But that was only possible
    because I had you, Anubis.
[08:34] Leonhart
    To make a weakling like me a king,
    you've played the villain all this time.
[08:40] Leonhart
    No one knows that as well as I do.
[08:44] Leonhart
    Without you,
[08:46] Leonhart
    I would still have been soft
    when I was crowned.
[08:49] Leonhart
    And I may have been toppled from
    my throne before I ever met Sariphi.
[08:54] Leonhart
    I could have crushed all opposition
    and made Sariphi my queen at once.
[09:00] Leonhart
    I stayed my hand because I wanted you,
    of all people, to approve.
[09:05] Leonhart
    I wanted the woman I truly
    love to be truly accepted
[09:11] Leonhart
    by you, my first friend.
[09:19] Young Leonhart
    Hi, Sirius.
[09:21] (Flashback) Young Anubis
    My name is Anubis.
[09:23] (Flashback) Young Anubis
    Your Highness must never
    treat a vassal as a friend.
[09:27] Anubis
    I didn't care how shunned or detested I was.
[09:31] Anubis
    We could never go back to
    the way we used to be.
[09:35] Anubis
    I thought that I would never
    be able to touch him again.
[09:39] Anubis
    To feel this warmth.
[09:41] Leonhart
    Lacking though I am,
[09:43] Leonhart
    lend me your aid a little longer... Sirius.
[09:48] Lanteveldt
    What?!
[09:50] Lanteveldt
    You knew that the chancellor
    hadn't turned traitor the whole time?!
[09:53] Jormungand
    Of course.
[09:55] Jormungand
    He's too much of a contrarian for
    such a straightforward betrayal.
[09:59] Lanteveldt
    Then what'd you punch him so hard for?
[10:03] Jormungand
    How could Set doubt Abi's loyalty after that?
[10:08] Jormungand
    But anyway,
[10:09] Jormungand
    the worst is yet to come.
[10:12] Jormungand
    We need to deal with the sorting squads
    that followed Set's way of thinking.
[10:15] Lanteveldt
    So I'd better stay on my toes?
[10:17] Lanteveldt
    Tell me something I don't already know.
[10:22] Lanteveldt
    Please continue to spar with me,
    Captain of the Royal Guard, sir!
[10:32] Sariphi
    Thank goodness!
[10:33] Sariphi
    It's still here.
[10:35] Sariphi
    Look!
[10:37] Leonhart
    So this is the diary you
    brought back from Yoana.
[10:41] Leonhart
    You hid it in the passage I used
    to let the sacrifices escape.
[10:45] Sariphi
    It might not bring any fresh discoveries.
[10:48] Sariphi
    And you might end up wishing
    you'd never read it.
[10:59] Leonhart's Mother
    A life with a human mother and a beast
    father is now growing inside me.
[11:05] Leonhart's Mother
    This child may resent its beast father.
[11:09] Leonhart's Mother
    Or it may resent me for loving a beast.
[11:13] Leonhart's Mother
    A beast I met one year ago,
    in the forest near the border.
[11:19] Leonhart's Mother
    He'd been horribly wounded in battle.
[11:22] Leonhart's Mother
    "I won't hurt you, so please,
    let me die in peace."
[11:26] Leonhart's Mother
    He said that with such a sad look
    in his eyes that I heard him out.
[11:31] Leonhart's Mother
    His family cast him out
    as soon as he was born,
[11:34] Leonhart's Mother
    so he had no home or
    loved ones to return to.
[11:37] Leonhart's Mother
    He could only win recognition by fighting,
    but he was sick of hurting people.
[11:43] Leonhart's Mother
    He just wanted to live loving someone
    and being loved by them.
[11:48] Leonhart's Mother
    He was so different from
    my image of a beast.
[11:54] (Flashback) Leonhart's Mother
    Don't cry.
[11:56] (Flashback) Leonhart's Mother
    I'll love you.
[12:00] Leonhart's Mother
    My whole family shunned me
    because I have red eyes like a witch,
[12:04] Leonhart's Mother
    and he was all alone,
    never even given a name.
[12:08] Leonhart's Mother
    Looking back now, our meeting
    must have been fate.
[12:14] Leonhart's Mother
    Though he was taken from us all too soon,
    I'll tell our child for him.
[12:20] Leonhart's Mother
    "Your father couldn't wait
    for you to be born," I'll say.
[12:26] Leonhart's Mother
    "You were born loved."
[12:29] Leonhart's Mother
    "And someday,
[12:31] Leonhart's Mother
    I want you to love someone—
    and yourself—with all your heart, too."
[12:39] Sariphi
    Sire?
[12:40] Leonhart
    No, I'm fine.
[12:43] Sariphi
    Okay.
[12:45] Sariphi
    I understand.
[12:46] Sariphi
    Those aren't sad tears.
[12:49] Leonhart's Mother
    My baby kicked a lot today.
    I'm sure it will be born healthy.
[12:56] Leonhart's Mother
    If my baby is a boy, my first gift
    to him will be the name "Richard."
[13:03] Leonhart's Mother
    The same name as the legendary king
    whom people called "Lionheart."
[13:08] Leonhart's Mother
    Please, let my baby have the
    indomitable heart of a lion.
[13:13] Leonhart's Mother
    Let my child be strong and brave.
[13:17] Leonhart
    Now I feel as though I truly
    do understand who I am.
[13:22] Leonhart
    Thank you, Sariphi.
[13:25] Sariphi
    I just passed on a diary I was given.
[13:28] Sariphi
    Anyway, I guess your real
    name is Richard, sire.
[13:32] Sariphi
    Should I call you that from now on?
[13:35] Leonhart
    No. My only name is the one you gave me.
[13:39] Leonhart
    From now on, I'll face everyone
    as I am, keeping no secrets.
[13:45] Leonhart
    And...
[13:47] Leonhart
    that includes you.
[13:48] Sariphi
    Me?
[13:55] Amit
    Oh, is resuming the ceremony where
    they left off really a good idea?!
[14:00] Lanteveldt
    Like I said, it'll be fine.
[14:02] Cy
    More importantly, your scar.
[14:04] Clops
    Why didn't you ask Sari's holy beast to heal it?
[14:07] Amit
    What? W-Well...
[14:11] (Flashback) Jormungand
    Lante told me what happened.
[14:13] (Flashback) Jormungand
    Forgive me.
[14:15] (Flashback) Jormungand
    I, a knight, am unscathed,
    while you suffered such a wound.
[14:19] (Flashback) Amit
    N-No, I did this to myself!
[14:23] (Flashback) Amit
    Besides,
[14:25] (Flashback) Amit
    I'm glad that even I was
    able to make myself useful.
[14:28] (Flashback) Amit
    It wasn't much compared
    to all of your contributions,
[14:32] (Flashback) Amit
    but to me, this scar is a badge of honor.
[14:38] (Flashback) Jormungand
    Then an apology from me
    would merely wound your pride.
[14:42] (Flashback) Amit
    What?!
[14:45] (Flashback) Jormungand
    You have my gratitude for
    the aid you rendered my king.
[14:50] (Flashback) Jormungand
    I know of no hand more beautiful.
SIGN    BLUSH
[14:57] Clops
    Princess Amit?!
[14:58] Lanteveldt
    Seriously, is she all right?
[15:00] Jormungand
    Silence!
[15:02] Jormungand
    His Majesty approaches!
[15:15] Leonhart
    Several days ago, on this spot, I appeared
    in a form that I have long concealed.
[15:22] Leonhart
    It is true that half of my blood is human.
[15:26] Leonhart
    Proving my royal lineage
    will not change that fact.
[15:30] Leonhart
    But my efforts to mend relations with Yoana
[15:35] Leonhart
    were not driven by a desire
    to conceal my lineage.
[15:39] Leonhart
    I did that
[15:40] Leonhart
    because I learned to love someone.
[15:44] Leonhart
    She was merely an unfortunate girl,
[15:47] Leonhart
    given to Ozmargo as a sacrifice.
[15:49] Leonhart
    But no one is as strong of heart as her,
    and she has sustained my own, weak heart.
[15:58] Leonhart
    She simply faced others as people,
    not as beasts or humans,
[16:02] Leonhart
    and her spirit moved me... and many others.
[16:07] Leonhart
    Loving her brought me to a realization.
[16:11] Leonhart
    The kingdom I should truly strive for
    is one unbound by species or birth,
[16:16] Leonhart
    where people are free to love
    and be loved as they are.
[16:34] El
    Hey! It's the lady from that time!
[16:38] Leonhart
    No doubt some of you cannot forgive me
    for having human blood and hiding it.
[16:44] Leonhart
    But I want you to trust me one more time.
[16:46] Leonhart
    With Sariphi at my side, I swear to
    defend Ozmargo until my dying breath.
[16:54] Leonhart
    Once more, I want you to entrust all
    of your presents and your futures
[17:00] Leonhart
    to me, as the new king of Ozmargo:
[17:03] Leonhart
    Leonhart!
[17:13] Bolas
    Long live King Leonhart!
[17:15] Bolas's Mother
    Long live Queen Sariphi!
[17:25] Sariphi
    That's my Leonhart.
[17:46] Anubis
    Tomorrow, our second meeting
    with Yoana will proceed as planned.
[17:51] Anubis
    Forgive me for rushing you, sire,
[17:53] Anubis
    but please prepare immediately
    after the ceremony.
[17:55] Leonhart
    I understand.
[17:57] Leonhart
    This is the most vital time.
[17:59] Leonhart
    Even newlyweds must attend
    to serious matters.
[18:02] Anubis
    You need have no fear.
[18:04] Jormungand
    We will devote our hearts and souls to
    Your Majesty more than ever before.
[18:10] Leonhart
    I'm counting on you.
[18:12] Priest
    Queen Sariphi is ready now.
[18:30] Sariphi
    H-How do I look?
[18:34] Leonhart
    You look lovely.
[18:35] Leonhart
    My queen is more beautiful
    than anything in the world.
[18:41] Leonhart
    Come. It's time.
[18:43] Sariphi
    Oh, just one thing first.
[18:47] Sariphi
    Before I become queen for real,
    I want you to hear
[18:51] Sariphi
    how I feel now, just as me.
[18:55] Sariphi
    I grew up in the small northern village of Noel.
[19:00] Sariphi
    I had a mom, a dad, and a big sister.
[19:03] Sariphi
    I never doubted that I was happy...
[19:07] Sariphi
    until I learned about the sacrifices.
[19:10] Sariphi
    I accepted my destiny.
[19:12] Sariphi
    That was so much easier than
    brooding over or struggling against it.
[19:17] Sariphi
    But...
[19:19] Sariphi
    I was really just running
    from my own feelings.
[19:23] Sariphi
    I was always weak.
[19:25] Sariphi
    But, you know,
[19:27] Sariphi
    everything changed when I met you.
[19:30] Sariphi
    Because you chose me, I was
    able to face my own destiny.
[19:37] Sariphi
    And now, from the bottom of my heart,
[19:41] Sariphi
    I feel truly glad that I lived to see today!
[19:46] Sariphi
    So I hope you'll stay with
    me forever, warts and all.
[19:52] Leonhart
    Yes. I feel the same.
[19:55] Sariphi
    I'm so glad that I was born me.
[20:01] Sariphi
    Say, Leo.
[20:03] Sariphi
    Tomorrow, and the day after,
[20:05] Sariphi
    even a decade or a century from now,
[20:07] Sariphi
    I'll always feel this way.
[20:09] Sariphi
    I was truly lucky to get to live
    with everyone and by your side.
[20:16] Sariphi
    Truly.
[20:17] Leonhart
    Let's go, Sariphi.
[20:19] Sariphi
    Right.
[20:21] Sariphi
    This is only the beginning.
[20:23] Sariphi
    For this kingdom,
    for everyone... and for us.
[20:32] Clops
    Your Highness!
[20:33] Clops
    Prince Richard!
[20:35] Clops
    You slipped out of your lessons again!
[20:38] Clops
    Lord Anubis will be furious with us!
[20:40] Cy
    Us!
[20:41] Richard
    That's the problem!
[20:43] Richard
    I can't stand Anubis because he's always angry.
[20:46] Richard
    That's why I run away!
[20:51] Clops
    We've got you now.
[20:56] Clops
    No fair, Your Highness!
[20:56] Maidservant A
    Goodness!
[20:58] Maidservant A
    Prince Richard's transformations
    barely faze me anymore.
[21:03] Maidservant B
    Same here.
[21:03] Maidservant B
    I never thought the day would come
    that I got used to seeing humans.
[21:10] Amit
    Prince Richard is certainly
    a lively young man, isn't he?
[21:14] Jormungand
    Yes, although I worry he may be
    too rambunctious for his own good.
[21:18] Jormungand
    King Leonhart could never have
    spent his youth like that.
[21:23] Jormungand
    When I think of that,
    his childishness seems charming.
[21:28] Jormungand
    If I had a child of my own, I'd want them
    to be unfettered like the prince.
[21:34] Amit
    I feel the same way.
[21:38] Amit
    O-Only hypothetically, of course.
[21:41] Jormungand
    Yes, hypothetically.
[21:44] Lanteveldt
    Gotcha.
[21:45] Richard
    Lante! What gives?!
[21:47] Richard
    I thought you were on my side!
[21:50] Lanteveldt
    Sorry, Your Highness. I side with Her Majesty.
[21:54] Lanteveldt
    Come on. The chancellor is waiting for you.
[21:58] Anubis
    Now, let us resume your lesson.
[22:01] Richard
    I've had enough!
[22:03] Richard
    I'd rather train with Lante than study.
[22:07] Richard
    A king of beasts just has to be strong, right?
[22:10] Anubis
    Those days are over.
[22:14] Anubis
    You'll need more than powerful
    magic to become a great king.
[22:18] Anubis
    You must learn history and culture,
    both domestic and foreign,
[22:21] Anubis
    broaden your horizons, and become
    a king who can guide others.
[22:25] Richard
    Guide others?
[22:27] Anubis
    Indeed.
[22:28] Anubis
    Listen to the voices of many people
    and sympathize with their pain.
[22:32] Anubis
    That is how your father and mother
    have guided our land to this day.
[22:41] Richard
    Hey, Anubis,
[22:42] Richard
    in that case, tell me about
    my mom and dad today!
[22:45] Richard
    I wanna hear about what they
    did before they had me!
[22:47] Anubis
    What?
[22:48] Anubis
    Oh, very well.
[22:51] Anubis
    That is part of what a monarch ought to know.
[22:54] Richard
    Yes!
[22:55] Anubis
    But you mustn't tell your
    father that I told you.
[22:59] Richard
    Right!
[23:01] Anubis
    In those days, our land was still entirely
    isolated from Yoana diplomatically.
[23:07] Anubis
    The one exception to this inviolable
    rule was the practice of sacrifice,
[23:11] Anubis
    by means of which a lone
    girl came to our land.
[23:15] Anubis
    At first, I saw her as a wretched creature...
[23:21] King of Maskviana
    At the ends of the earth,
    blanketed by miasma,
[23:24] King of Maskviana
    lay a kingdom that was once
    called a forbidden realm.
[23:28] King of Maskviana
    There lived many beasts,
    ruled over by a kindly king
[23:33] King of Maskviana
    and a happy sacrificial princess.