# Season 2
# E1 - Those Newly Come of Age
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G31UXD285/those-newly-come-of-age)
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**[00:36] Barbara**
That noise just now...
**[00:37] Barbara**
It sounded like it came
from this way, didn't it?
**[00:42] Barbara**
The door to the hallway
leading to the entrance is open.
**[00:46] Barbara**
To think that someone
who would violate the rules
**[00:48] Barbara**
of Shadows House might
be in the children's wing.
**[00:55] Barbara**
This is the Star Bearer Barbara.
**[00:56] Barbara**
Is someone there?
**[00:58] Barbara**
Show yourself, and come quietly!
**[01:06] Barbie**
A scorch?!
**[01:08] Barbie**
Mistress Barbara, please stand back.
**[01:19] Barbara**
Barbie, be careful not to
let it get in your mouth.
**[01:34] Barbie**
What is this? There's so much of it.
***SIGN*** Those Newly Come of Age
***SIGN*** Those Newly Come of Age
***SIGN*** Those Newly Come of Age
***SIGN*** Those Newly Come of Age
***SIGN*** Those Newly Come of Age
***SIGN*** Those Newly Come of Age
**[01:53] someone's living doll**
All living dolls must gather
in the great hall immediately!
**[01:56] Emilico**
What? I wonder what could have happened.
**[02:01] Ben**
Are you certain it wasn't a veiled doll?
**[02:04] Barbie**
I've never seen a doll like that.
**[02:06] Barbie**
And lately, the number
of scorches has been increasing.
**[02:08] Barbie**
I must inform Edward.
**[02:10] Ben**
That transgressor?
**[02:12] Barbie**
He is still the warden
of the children's wing.
**[02:17] Ben**
Is there any possibility
that it was Lord Edward?
**[02:20] Barbie**
He would hardly repeat
the same transgression.
**[02:24] Barbie**
He's only just received his
punishment for the prior incident.
**[02:27] Barbie**
Entering the children's wing unbidden,
**[02:29] Barbie**
and receiving only a stern caution for it...
**[02:32] Ben**
It would be good if this
made him a little more docile.
**[02:35] Barbie**
It doesn't matter who it is.
**[02:36] Barbie**
No trespassers will be tolerated.
**[02:39] Barbie**
It may have been Warden Edward,
**[02:41] Barbie**
but the ones who keep watch over
the children's wing are us, the Star Bearers.
**[02:46] Barbie**
Whether they are intruders or traitors,
**[02:47] Barbie**
we will eliminate every single one.
**[02:50] Barbie**
All is for the sake of the Shadows family.
**[02:54] living doll; adlib**
What is all this?
**[02:58] Barbie**
Hurry up and get in line!
**[03:00] Barbie**
Stop dawdling!
**[03:02] Barbie**
Earlier, a suspicious figure wearing
a robe appeared in the great hall.
**[03:07] Barbie**
Anyone who knows anything must report it.
**[03:10] Barbie**
If you fail to report, you will
be dealt severe punishment.
**[03:13] Barbie**
That is all!
**[03:18] Barbie**
Hey, Sunshine.
**[03:19] Emilico**
Y-Yes?
**[03:23] Barbie**
You wouldn't happen to be involved
again this time, would you?
**[03:28] Barbie**
If you are hiding something,
**[03:30] Barbie**
it won't end well for you.
**[03:39] Kate**
Master Robe?
**[03:40] Emilico**
Yes, because it seems the
suspicious figure was wearing a robe.
**[03:44] Kate**
Is everyone calling it that?
**[03:46] Emilico**
No, I gave it that name!
**[03:49] Emilico**
If it happened to be a shadow,
I didn't want to be rude,
**[03:51] Emilico**
so I added "Master" to make "Master Robe."
**[03:54] Kate**
I see.
**[03:57] Kate**
A suspicious figure appearing
in the children's wing...
**[04:01] Kate**
It couldn't possibly be Edward, could it?
**[04:03] Kate**
Perhaps he hasn't given up yet.
**[04:07] Kate**
Don't worry. You have Kate with you.
**[04:09] Emilico**
Yes, Mistress!
**[04:13] Kate**
Still, to call all of you out
in the middle of the night...
**[04:17] Kate**
Even considering the urgency,
that was quite high-handed of her.
**[04:19] Emilico**
Yes, I was surprised.
**[04:22] Kate**
Especially given that you and Kate
**[04:24] Kate**
have passed our debut
and so have come of age.
**[04:26] Emilico**
But the Star Bearers stand above us,
even though we've come of age, right?
**[04:32] Kate**
Yes, that's true, but still...
**[04:34] Kate**
It doesn't mean that they're
allowed to do anything they please.
**[04:37] Emilico**
Oh! And Barbie also...
**[04:40] Kate**
Did she say something to you?
**[04:41] Emilico**
Yes.
**[04:42] Emilico**
She said, "You wouldn't happen to be
involved again this time, would you?"
**[04:45] Emilico**
"If you are hiding something,
it won't end well for you."
**[04:49] Kate**
You were called out so late at night,
**[04:51] Kate**
and told something so hateful...
**[04:56] Emilico**
But I...
**[04:58] Emilico**
I was happy that you were
waiting for me, Mistress Kate!
**[05:03] Kate**
Then allow me to say it again.
**[05:04] Kate**
Good night, Emilico.
**[05:09] Emilico**
Good night, Mistress Kate!
**[05:16] Kate**
* Barbara's surveillance will only*
* grow more strict from now on.*
**[05:20] Kate**
*Kate has few allies.*
**[05:22] Kate**
* Ricky and Lou's brainwashing*
* likely hasn't been broken yet.*
**[05:26] Kate**
* The only one who has been*
* completely released from it is Shaun.*
**[05:44] Maryrose**
Lovely rose, Kate.
Gerbera in full bloom, Louise.
**[05:48] Maryrose**
Today we shall once again
begin our orientation.
**[05:51] Maryrose**
You shall be taught how
to live a proper life in the main house.
**[05:54] Kate**
Yes, thank you.
**[05:55] Louise**
Yes, indeed!
**[06:01] Kate**
Louise is a favorite of Sarah's.
They are difficult to approach.
**[06:06] Maryrose**
Your movements are quite stiff.
**[06:08] Maryrose**
There's no need to be so formal here.
**[06:11] Maryrose**
That's right!
**[06:12] Maryrose**
Becoming someone who is of use
to our Lord Grandfather
**[06:16] Maryrose**
is a goal all children should strive to achieve.
**[06:20] Maryrose**
And you've come of age.
**[06:22] Maryrose**
You can now freely move around
the main house and look where you like!
**[06:29] Maryrose**
Every day should be full of brilliant color!
**[06:31] Maryrose**
That is Maryrose's personal preference.
**[06:35] Maryrose**
Study in the library!
**[06:39] Maryrose**
Admire the plants in the conservatory!
**[06:42] Maryrose**
Nurture your heart in the music room.
**[06:46] Maryrose**
And in the dance hall,
Maryrose herself will instruct you.
**[06:50] Maryrose**
To improve oneself is a child's job.
**[06:54] Maryrose**
Enjoy it.
**[06:56] Maryrose**
Come, let us trust each other,
**[06:59] Maryrose**
in our lives here at Shadows House!
**[07:01] Louise**
Well, that seems fun, doesn't it?
**[07:04] Kate**
Would it be wrong
to read books in our rooms?
**[07:07] Maryrose**
That would be fine.
**[07:08] Maryrose**
In the room for each pastime,
however, there is a notebook,
**[07:11] Maryrose**
and the rules say to record
the time you've spent there.
**[07:13] Maryrose**
If you do not make enough entries,
**[07:15] Maryrose**
you will be seen as a worthless shadow
with no intent to improve yourself.
**[07:22] Kate**
*She spoke of freedom and pastimes...*
**[07:25] Kate**
* But this means that we will not be afforded*
* much time to move around on our own.*
**[07:29] Kate**
* Everything is set up so that even children*
* who know nothing can keep watch on each other.*
**[07:34] Kate**
*Kate must tell John this.*
**[07:36] Kate**
John—
**[07:36] Maryrose**
Have you finished your orientation as well?
**[07:39] William**
Yes.
**[07:40] William**
We've covered the main points.
**[07:41] Maryrose**
That is splendid.
**[07:43] Kate**
*Both John and Patrick are acting coldly.*
**[07:46] Kate**
*Could they have been re-indoctrinated?*
**[07:50] Kate**
* In that case, a letter would only*
* bring Kate unnecessary trouble.*
**[07:52] Kate**
*It would expose my rebellion to the enemy.*
**[07:55] Kate**
*Could Kate even pass them letters...*
**[07:57] Kate**
*when we're surrounded by so many people...*
**[08:03] Kate**
*Are we already under observation?*
**[08:06] Kate**
* Since we're in different groups,*
* it won't be easy to speak with them.*
**[08:08] Kate**
* Kate would like to ask after their*
* current situation at the very least.*
**[08:12] Kate**
* To keep the other shadows*
* from becoming suspicious,*
**[08:14] Kate**
*it must be a casual conversation.*
**[08:17] Kate**
* If Kate were Emilico, she would*
* simply ask and that would be all.*
**[08:21] Kate**
*At times like this, Kate envies her.*
**[08:23] John**
Kate! Regarding our engagement!
**[08:24] John**
John wanted to speak more on the subject.
**[08:32] Patrick**
What are you talking about?
**[08:34] John**
Back at the debut...
**[08:35] Kate**
* Kate is glad that John is an honest*
* and straightforward idiot.*
**[08:37] Louise**
What?
**[08:39] Louise**
If we're speaking of engagements,
shouldn't you have proposed to Louise first?
**[08:42] Louise**
Just look at how beautiful her face is!
**[08:44] John**
You're such an idiot.
**[08:45] John**
Back then, our ranks hadn't
even been decided yet!
**[08:47] John**
And it's not like John picked
her based on her face.
**[08:50] Louise**
Idiot—?
**[08:50] Louise**
You are the last person
Louise wants to hear that from!
**[08:52] Louise**
Louise would refuse you anyway!
**[08:54] John**
All of you! Stop interrupting John!
**[08:58] John**
Basically, Kate,
**[08:59] John**
John wanted to say that there's
no hurry for you to reply.
**[09:02] John**
John plans to take this time to show
you everything that is good about him.
**[09:05] John**
So... for now, if we could just...
**[09:09] Kate**
Honestly. All right, Kate understands.
**[09:12] Kate**
*What a relief that John is still John.*
**[09:14] Emilico**
*It seems that everyone was just nervous.*
**[09:18] Patrick**
You're all so ridiculous.
**[09:20] Patrick**
Go ahead and lose your
hearts in a love affair.
**[09:22] Patrick**
In that time, Patrick will
become an outstanding shadow.
**[09:28] Kate**
John...
**[09:29] Susanna**
Ah, so you're all here.
**[09:31] Kate**
*Star Bearer Susanna...*
**[09:34] Susanna**
We'll be having a special lesson.
**[09:36] Susanna**
Those who were brilliant and are now
newly come of age, this way please.
**[09:41] Kate**
*Just our peer group?*
**[09:43] Kate**
*This may be an important chance.*
**[09:54] Susanna**
Susanna simply loves this lesson!
**[09:57] Susanna**
Dear little Kate and John and Louise
all seem like they will be brilliant,
**[10:00] Susanna**
so I can't help but be excited!
**[10:03] Kate**
*"Dear little"?*
**[10:05] Susanna**
All of you children are so adorable!
Susanna will pat you all!
**[10:08] John**
Stop it! We're not babies!
**[10:11] Susanna**
It's a habit of Susanna's.
**[10:13] Kate**
* Emilico, that expression is not*
* correct for Kate's right now.*
**[10:19] Kate**
*She's a strange one.*
**[10:21] Kate**
*But we can't afford to relax our guard.*
**[10:23] Kate**
* We must proceed in such a way*
* that Susanna will not discover us.*
**[10:27] Kate**
* Patrick wasn't invited*
* to this special lesson.*
**[10:30] Kate**
* And, to be honest, I can't*
* read what Louise is thinking.*
**[10:34] Kate**
*Kate is a little worried,*
**[10:36] Kate**
* but it seems John is the only*
* one to whom she can pass a note.*
**[10:43] Ricky**
*A special lesson?*
**[10:45] Ricky**
*Could it be something about soot powers?*
**[10:47] Ricky**
* To think that all of Master Patrick's peers*
* have awakened their powers...*
**[10:52] (Flashback) Edward**
What you have just seen of John's powers...
Do not ever speak of it.
**[10:57] Ricky**
* During the debut,*
* I was ordered to keep quiet.*
**[11:00] Ricky**
*I want to tell Master Patrick about it!*
**[11:02] Ricky**
*But...*
**[11:05] Ricky**
*The rules of Shadows House are absolute.*
**[11:09] Susanna**
From here on, the living dolls
will take a different path.
**[11:12] Susanna**
Susie! Susanna will leave them to you!
**[11:19] Susanna**
This is the training room.
**[11:33] Susanna**
We will now begin a lesson on soot powers.
**[11:36] Susanna**
As you are able to control soot,
you may consider yourselves chosen shadows.
**[11:41] Kate**
May Kate ask a question?
**[11:44] Kate**
What is the reason for hiding soot powers
from those who have not awakened them?
**[11:48] Susanna**
Those are the rules here.
**[11:51] Susanna**
Right now, our Lord Grandfather wants
to find those who excel at soot powers.
**[11:56] Kate**
*Lord Grandfather wants...?*
**[11:59] Kate**
*I suppose I shouldn't try to ask why.*
**[12:02] Susanna**
Let us use our powers
to polish ourselves even further,
**[12:05] Susanna**
right here in this training room.
**[12:07] Susanna**
Furthermore, this place collects soot.
**[12:09] Susanna**
It's two birds with one stone!
**[12:12] Susanna**
The soot from shadows is treated
and turned into soot coal.
**[12:15] Susanna**
It's a very important source
of energy for Shadows House.
**[12:19] Susanna**
Large quantities of soot are produced
whether one has powers or does not,
**[12:23] Susanna**
which can increase your
value here tremendously.
**[12:26] Susanna**
Each shadow has a different soot volume.
**[12:29] Susanna**
A different amount of soot
they carry within themselves.
**[12:33] Susanna**
It isn't as if we can
produce infinite amounts.
**[12:35] Susanna**
Controlling soot in particular
consumes tremendous amounts of soot.
**[12:40] Susanna**
It's important to take note of
how much soot you can use in a day.
**[12:44] Susanna**
Keeping it inside will only
cause you suffering,
**[12:46] Susanna**
so make sure to come here
regularly to release it.
**[12:49] John**
Shadows really are amazing!
**[12:50] John**
And even among them, John is amazing!
**[12:53] Susanna**
That's right! Let us give praise!
**[12:56] Susanna**
Dear little John! Dear little John!
**[13:00] Susanna**
And next, we'll talk
about your power's range.
**[13:04] Susanna**
Look at this.
**[13:07] Kate**
*John has fallen asleep.*
**[13:10] Susanna**
Perhaps a practical lesson
rather than theory.
**[13:12] Susanna**
Dear little John!
**[13:14] Susanna**
Susanna has an assignment for you.
**[13:16] Susanna**
Destroy that wall from where you're standing.
**[13:20] Kate; Louise**
Destroy?
**[13:21] Susanna**
Susanna has heard about your power, John.
**[13:24] Susanna**
They say it's amazing.
**[13:26] John**
Kate! This will be dangerous. Stand back!
**[13:28] Louise**
Say something to Louise, too!
**[13:30] John**
Sure, and Louise.
**[13:40] John**
Huh?
**[13:41] John**
John is super weak!
**[13:44] Susanna**
Soot has a range, you see.
**[13:46] Susanna**
The stronger a physical power is,
the shorter the range tends to be.
**[13:50] Susanna**
In John's case,
**[13:51] Susanna**
the furthest he can maintain solidity
is about two meters.
**[13:53] John**
You knew that and made me
do it anyway, didn't you?
**[13:55] Louise**
Now, what is all of this?
**[13:57] Louise**
Louise can't do anything
like this with soot.
**[14:00] Susanna**
John's has a physical effect,
**[14:01] Susanna**
but yours, Louise,
works on the mind, doesn't it?
**[14:04] Susanna**
You're using soot to control
your face, Lou's, loyalty.
**[14:08] Susanna**
Though, it won't work on shadows.
**[14:10] Kate**
*Considering the coffee,*
**[14:13] Kate**
*I'm not surprised a power like that exists.*
**[14:16] Susanna**
That type of power also has a range,
**[14:18] Susanna**
so if you're too far apart,
the effect will weaken.
**[14:20] Susanna**
Once you are able to control soot,
the effect should stabilize.
**[14:24] Susanna**
Next, Kate.
**[14:26] Susanna**
You have a physical type, too,
but it appears to be different from John's.
**[14:30] Susanna**
Kate, this is your task.
**[14:31] Susanna**
Move the pen from the cart on the right
to the table on the left.
**[14:35] Kate**
* They're very far away,*
* but I will prove that I can do it.*
**[14:40] Kate**
John, you'll be in the way where
you are, so move over there.
**[14:43] Kate**
Louise, you go over there,
**[14:44] Kate**
and Kate will go... here.
**[14:46] Kate**
No, a little more to the left.
**[14:48] Louise**
How precise!
**[14:50] Susanna**
Susanna simply wants
to see how much you can do, so...
**[14:52] Susanna**
It's all right if you fail, you know?
**[15:01] John**
You can move objects without touching them?
**[15:03] Susanna**
Kate doesn't have much strength,
**[15:06] Susanna**
but Susanna sees that she
has precise control at long distances.
**[15:10] Kate**
*This is difficult...*
**[15:13] John**
That's John's fiancée for you!
**[15:20] Kate**
It requires intense concentration.
**[15:23] Kate**
Please refrain from saying such odd things.
**[15:25] John**
S-Sorry...
**[15:27] Kate**
You said there was no hurry
for Kate to reply, didn't you?
**[15:30] Kate**
In that case, please don't use
that word at every chance you get.
**[15:32] John**
John just... wanted to compliment you.
**[15:35] Louise**
Oh, she's angry with him!
**[15:35] Kate**
The words that make you happy
are not words that make Kate happy.
**[15:38] Susanna**
Now, now, don't argue.
**[15:41] Kate**
*Kate passed it to him!*
**[15:42] Kate**
* As Kate worked on her task*
* with her right hand,*
**[15:44] Kate**
* she used soot emitted from her left hand*
* to slip a letter into John's pocket.*
**[15:48] Kate**
* Kate also arranged our*
* positioning accordingly...*
**[15:51] Kate**
* so that it would be in Susanna's*
* and the veiled dolls' blind spots!*
**[15:58] Susie**
Emilico...
**[16:01] Susie**
Are you hungry?
**[16:02] Susie**
We will be provided a light meal soon.
**[16:04] Susie**
It's a privilege for those
who have come of age.
**[16:07] Susie**
Shaun, will you bring it here?
**[16:09] Emilico**
Oh! I'll help, too!
**[16:12] Susie**
You're such a good girl.
**[16:14] Susie**
But it will only require one of you.
**[16:20] Susanna**
Susanna wonders what you passed to him.
**[16:22] Susanna**
Allow Susanna to demonstrate
the basics of soot powers.
**[16:25] Susanna**
Your senior, Susanna, is capable
of much more advanced skills than you are.
**[16:30] Susanna**
Hmm, this is...
**[16:33] Susanna**
Well, Susanna can't pat you
for this, can she?
**[16:35] Susanna**
Do you have some kind of secret,
**[16:38] Susanna**
Kate?
**[16:40] Susanna**
Oh, dear. Releasing so much soot like that...
**[16:45] Susanna**
But it's no good, you know.
**[16:49] John**
It disappeared!
**[16:50] Louise**
It's just like a magic trick!
**[16:52] Kate**
* The letter Kate slipped*
* into John's pocket...*
**[16:55] Kate**
*No, before worrying about that...*
**[16:57] Kate**
* Kate is certain she passed it*
* without Susanna seeing.*
**[16:59] Kate**
*How was Kate discovered?*
**[17:03] Susanna**
Allow Susanna to ascertain the contents.
**[17:07] Susie**
Oh, no!
**[17:08] Susie**
Emilico, your finger is bleeding.
**[17:11] Emilico**
I'm sorry. I'm very clumsy, you see.
**[17:13] Emilico**
But an injury like this won't
cause any problems for me.
**[17:19] Susie**
I'm on the first-aid team.
**[17:21] Susie**
Wait right there. I'll bring the first-aid kit.
**[17:29] Emilico**
Oh, I'll clean this up.
**[17:31] Shaun**
I'll fetch a dustpan.
**[17:32] Emilico**
Thank you!
**[17:37] Emilico**
*Oh! I can speak privately with Lou now!*
**[17:40] Emilico**
*Breaking this dish was very lucky!*
**[17:43] Emilico**
Lou...
**[17:45] Emilico**
Aren't you sad that Rum failed?
**[17:49] Lou**
Don't fret over trivial matters.
**[17:51] Emilico**
But, but, we living dolls need
to look out for one another, right?
**[17:55] Emilico**
The Shadows House rules are strange.
**[18:00] Lou**
Don't fret over trivial matters.
**[18:02] Lou**
Everything is for the sake of Shadows House.
**[18:06] Emilico**
Lou... Do you hate me now?
**[18:11] Lou**
What are you talking about? Of course not.
**[18:15] Lou**
Emilico, you suddenly
say the strangest things.
**[18:18] Lou**
I'm going to tidy this up.
The injured should rest.
**[18:30] Susanna**
How amusing this is, Kate!
**[18:33] Susanna**
What's written here is truly amusing!
**[18:38] Susanna**
However...
**[18:41] Susanna**
What need was there for you
to pass it to him in secret, I wonder?
**[18:45] Kate**
You have taught Kate something.
**[18:47] Kate**
Everyone, look closely.
**[18:49] Kate**
There is a thin sheet of soot
enveloping Kate, and you as well.
**[18:53] Kate**
It must have been there since
we entered the training room.
**[18:56] John**
Huh? Whoa, you're right!
**[18:57] Louise**
This is so creepy!
**[18:59] Kate**
Could it be that Susanna's soot
has a sense of touch, like hands do?
**[19:04] Kate**
Susanna, you asked what Kate passed him.
**[19:06] Kate**
Does that mean that you
didn't know it was a letter?
**[19:10] Susanna**
To think that a student
would test Susanna's powers.
**[19:20] Kate**
Kate is very sorry, Susanna,
**[19:22] Kate**
for doing something so insolent.
**[19:24] Kate**
Star Bearers truly are impressive.
**[19:27] Susanna**
That is absolutely the correct answer!
**[19:29] Susanna**
Susanna loves little ones with a
deep desire to learn about soot!
**[19:32] Susanna**
Susanna will pat you lots and lots!
**[19:38] Susanna**
By the way, this is where Susanna hid the scalpel.
**[19:41] John**
That's scary!
**[19:42] Louise**
It's just like a magic trick!
**[19:47] Kate**
* Somehow, Kate managed*
* to smooth everything over.*
**[19:50] Susanna**
Oh, Kate.
**[19:51] Susanna**
Are you absolutely certain you
want to pass this to John?
**[19:54] Kate**
If you've seen Kate's
behavior up to this point,
**[19:56] Kate**
Kate is sure you understand.
**[19:57] Susanna**
Oh, well, yes. Susanna supposes that's true.
**[19:59] John**
It was a letter to John?
**[20:02] John**
From Kate?
**[20:04] Susanna**
Read it in your room after
you've calmed your heart.
**[20:07] Susanna**
Susanna will pat you later.
**[20:09] John**
What?
**[20:16] Barbie**
Get out!
**[20:34] Louise**
Were we just given orders by a living doll?
**[20:36] Susanna**
Barbie is special.
**[20:38] Susanna**
Barbara is sometimes unable
to speak, you see.
**[20:42] Barbie**
Is this all you've got?
**[20:44] Barbie**
And you say you're planning
to help support the Shadows family?
**[20:49] John**
John doesn't understand any of this.
**[20:50] Susanna**
She's helping her emit soot.
**[20:52] Susanna**
Poor Barbara can't control her soot.
**[20:57] Susanna**
Susanna told you that emitting large amounts
**[20:59] Susanna**
of soot greatly increases
one's value, didn't she?
**[21:02] Susanna**
That is the reason Barbara
is the leader of the children's wing.
**[21:07] Susanna**
Barbara emits sixty percent of the soot
Shadows House produces in a day.
**[21:12] John**
Sixty percent?!
**[21:13] John**
More than all the soot produced
by every other shadow combined?
**[21:18] Susanna**
With that volume of soot,
**[21:19] Susanna**
simply containing it must be very painful.
**[21:23] Susanna**
However...
**[21:24] Susanna**
Barbara, who serves
the Shadows family so earnestly,
**[21:26] Susanna**
is incredibly beautiful.
**[21:28] Susanna**
We should all continue to train.
**[21:31] Susanna**
I am certain that anyone can become
someone of service to our Lord Grandfather.
**[21:53] lyrics**
*In the face of sadness, we shall smile*
**[21:57] lyrics**
*To live is to be a marionette*
**[22:01] lyrics**
*Once your heart gets into the swing...*
**[22:05] lyrics**
*Would you like a coffee?*
**[22:10] lyrics**
*1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2*
**[22:11] lyrics**
*1, 2, 2, 3*
**[22:13] lyrics**
*I can't seem to dance very well*
**[22:16] lyrics**
*Pain and resentment, and sadness, too...*
**[22:19] lyrics**
*Mix them, knead them...*
**[22:23] lyrics**
*And then a good night kiss*
**[22:27] lyrics**
*Shall we Dance? We shall dance*
**[22:31] lyrics**
*Despair and desire. This is the life!*
**[22:35] lyrics**
*Shadow Life!*
**[22:37] lyrics**
*Don't puzzle over things unnecessarily*
**[22:41] lyrics**
*Let's become one*
**[22:43] lyrics**
*How nice (How nice) How nice (How nice)*
**[22:47] lyrics**
*Humans... Being human... It's so nice*
**[23:27] (Flashback) Barbie**
We did it, Mistress Barbara!
**[23:30] (Flashback) Barbie**
With this, I am now officially
Mistress Barbara's face!
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** The Best Star Bearer
***SIGN*** The Best Star Bearer
***SIGN*** The Best Star Bearer
***SIGN*** The Best Star Bearer
***SIGN*** The Best Star Bearer
***SIGN*** The Best Star Bearer
***SIGN*** The Best Star Bearer
***SIGN*** The Best Star Bearer
***SIGN*** The Best Star Bearer
**[23:36] Kate**
Next time,
**[23:37] Kate**
"The Best Star Bearer."
**[23:39] ---**
# E2 - The Best Star Bearer
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GPWUK4XMW/the-best-star-bearer)
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**[00:09] Barbara**
Is it morning already?
**[00:11] Barbie**
Yes.
**[00:14] Barbara**
How long have you been here?
**[00:16] Barbie**
We've been having you release
soot at a tremendous pace.
**[00:20] Barbie**
I was a little worried about your health.
**[00:23] Barbara**
What are you saying?
**[00:25] Barbara**
The emission of soot is a shadow's duty.
**[00:30] Barbara**
Everything...
**[00:32] Barbie**
...is for the sake of Lord Grandfather.
**[00:49] lyrics**
*In the face of sadness, we shall smile*
**[00:53] lyrics**
*To live is to be a marionette*
**[00:57] lyrics**
*Once your heart gets into the swing...*
**[01:01] lyrics**
*Would you like a coffee?*
**[01:06] lyrics**
*1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2*
**[01:08] lyrics**
*1, 2, 2, 3*
**[01:09] lyrics**
*I can't seem to dance very well*
**[01:12] lyrics**
*Pain and resentment, and sadness, too...*
**[01:15] lyrics**
*Mix them, knead them...*
**[01:19] lyrics**
*And then a good night kiss*
**[01:23] lyrics**
*Shall we Dance? We shall dance*
**[01:27] lyrics**
*Despair and desire. This is the life!*
**[01:32] lyrics**
*Shadow Life!*
**[01:33] lyrics**
*Don't puzzle over things unnecessarily*
**[01:37] lyrics**
*Let's become one*
**[01:39] lyrics**
*How nice (How nice) How nice (How nice)*
**[01:43] lyrics**
*Humans... Being human... It's so nice*
***SIGN*** "The Best Star Bearer"
***SIGN*** "The Best Star Bearer"
***SIGN*** "The Best Star Bearer"
***SIGN*** "The Best Star Bearer"
***SIGN*** "The Best Star Bearer"
***SIGN*** "The Best Star Bearer"
**[02:30] Benjamin**
Let's go.
**[02:36] Barbara**
What happened to
the perfume Oliver developed?
**[02:39] Benjamin**
Benjamin brought it with him.
**[02:43] Barbara**
What a foul odor.
**[02:45] Benjamin**
This is no good.
**[02:47] Benjamin**
He will have to make it again.
**[02:49] Barbara**
Blast it. This is infuriating.
**[02:53] Shadow 1**
Yeah.
**[02:54] Shadow 1**
Wow.
**[02:55] Shadow 2**
It's Barbara.
**[02:56] Shadow 2**
She's always angry, isn't she?
**[03:00] Shadow 1**
Hurry. Let's go over there.
**[03:03] Susanna**
Just a moment.
**[03:06] Susanna**
To see a Star Bearer and run away...
**[03:08] Susanna**
Have you done something
you feel guilty about?
**[03:10] Shadow 1**
No!
**[03:11] Shadow 2**
We're so sorry!
**[03:12] Shadow 2**
We truly respect them!
**[03:14] Barbara**
Susanna, it is time
for the Star Bearers' meeting.
**[03:17] Barbara**
Now, let us go to Oliver's rooms.
**[03:22] Sarah**
Yes, becoming a Star Bearer
is a worthwhile goal.
**[03:25] Sarah**
In the children's wing,
only four pairs are chosen! The elite!
**[03:29] Sarah**
You can live in lovely rooms,
**[03:31] Sarah**
and if you are invited
to Lord Grandfather's wing,
**[03:33] Sarah**
you are sure to receive special treatment.
**[03:35] Sarah**
If Sarah were to become a Star Bearer,
**[03:37] Sarah**
she would assuredly gain
more trust than Barbara has.
**[03:40] Maryrose**
Cease such talk, Sarah.
**[03:43] Sarah**
Why?
**[03:44] Sarah**
Back then, we all had such fun.
**[03:47] Sarah**
Barbara doesn't hold a candle
to the previous leader.
**[03:51] Sarah**
Rose, even you think the previous
leader was better, don't you?
**[03:56] Maryrose**
Ah, Christopher...
**[04:08] Benjamin**
Do not speak that name.
**[04:12] Sarah**
W-Wait. Sarah offers her apologies.
**[04:29] Sarah**
How infuriating.
**[04:31] Sarah**
Sarah refuses to ever become
that kind of Star Bearer.
**[04:43] Barbara**
Oliver, it's time for the meeting.
**[04:45] Barbara**
Oliver.
**[04:47] Oliver**
Barbara!
**[04:48] Barbara**
The meeting...
**[04:48] Oliver**
Look!
**[04:49] Oliver**
At last, it's finished!
**[04:52] Oliver**
It's a mobile soot collector!
**[04:55] Oliver**
Olly!
**[04:56] Olly**
Yes?
**[04:57] Oliver**
Start it up!
**[04:58] Olly**
Immediately, Professor Oliver!
**[05:04] Oliver**
It's the newest model, using
the combustive energy of soot to operate.
**[05:09] Oliver**
The soot is conveyed by suction
**[05:10] Oliver**
into this enormous tank
where it is then stored!
**[05:13] Barbara**
What are you talking about? Turn it off!
**[05:18] Susanna**
What an incredible invention.
**[05:21] Susanna**
It's such an amazingly powerful machine.
**[05:23] Susanna**
What could you possibly use it for?
**[05:26] Oliver**
A countermeasure against
those phantoms, for example?
**[05:28] Susanna**
And how...
**[05:30] Susanna**
would you get it out the door?
**[05:36] Susanna**
It's just like a ship in a bottle, isn't it?
**[05:38] Oliver**
It seems there's room for improvement here.
**[05:42] Susanna**
Susanna has set up some sheets
outside of this room.
**[05:44] Susanna**
If anyone comes, Susanna will know.
**[05:49] Barbara**
Recently, reports of scorches appearing
**[05:53] Barbara**
due to breakages
in the facilities have increased.
**[05:56] Barbara**
Continued observation of their
movements will be necessary.
**[05:59] Barbara**
Moving on, the topics
of discussion for today are...
**[06:01] Barbara**
how to address the directives from Edward,
**[06:04] Barbara**
and vigilance against Kate's misbehavior.
**[06:06] Barbara**
Susanna, have you noticed anything?
**[06:09] Susanna**
Well...
**[06:10] Susanna**
Her attitude can be slightly defiant,
**[06:13] Susanna**
but it wasn't really enough
to make her stand out.
**[06:16] Susanna**
More importantly, her keen
interest in soot is quite wonderful!
**[06:19] Barbara**
Susanna, you are entirely too
preoccupied with soot powers.
**[06:23] Susanna**
Well, it is Susanna's job, after all.
**[06:25] Susanna**
And Edward's directives
are very vague, aren't they?
**[06:28] Susanna**
Star Bearers are busy.
**[06:30] Susanna**
They can't spend all their time on Kate.
**[06:33] Barbara**
There must be some things which
are difficult to speak of.
**[06:36] Barbara**
Barbara doesn't like Edward,
**[06:38] Barbara**
but Lord Grandfather
granted him this authority.
**[06:41] Barbara**
We will continue our vigilance.
**[06:43] Oliver**
If we say nothing's happened,
**[06:45] Oliver**
Edward is going to nag us again.
**[06:48] Oliver**
Even the previous phantom mayhem
was made out to be the Star Bearers' fault.
**[06:51] Benjamin**
That is true.
**[06:53] Oliver**
He just says and does whatever he likes.
**[06:56] Oliver**
And even when he causes problems,
he's never penalized.
**[07:00] Barbara**
Our next topic of discussion is...
**[07:02] Barbara**
the mysterious figure seen on the premises.
**[07:04] Oliver**
The suspicious, robe-wearing figure?
**[07:06] Benjamin**
The living dolls have reported
sightings in many locations.
**[07:10] Oliver**
Huh...
**[07:11] Oliver**
Maybe there's more than one figure?
**[07:13] Susanna**
Have there been any
reports of damage or injury?
**[07:16] Barbara**
No, not at the moment.
**[07:18] Barbara**
There is, however, no knowing how
or when this matter will develop.
**[07:21] Oliver**
What about the report to Edward?
**[07:28] Oliver**
So it's another "nothing happened" report, huh?
**[07:31] Susanna**
We'll be able to hear all sorts
of lovely snide remarks from him, won't we?
**[07:41] Barbara**
If Christopher were here...
**[07:44] Barbara**
Would things be different?
**[07:47] Barbie**
Mistress Barbara,
**[07:49] Barbie**
you are always thinking of what's best
for the children's wing,
**[07:51] Barbie**
and striving to serve your best.
**[08:14] Emilico**
We've been told not to
go out at night, but...
**[08:17] Emilico**
They even have guards in place.
**[08:19] Kate**
Yes.
**[08:21] Kate**
Kate may be the only one being
so openly watched this way.
**[08:26] Kate**
Did Kate stand out too much in the debut?
**[08:28] Kate**
During the soot lesson,
Kate was clearly regarded as suspicious.
**[08:30] Kate**
Or could it be that something
has happened on John's side?
**[08:34] Kate**
Was it a mistake to choose John
as the recipient of the letter?
**[08:38] Emilico**
That letter...
**[08:40] Emilico**
What did you write in it?
**[08:44] Kate**
Well...
**[08:48] Shaun**
So, you've finally opened it.
**[08:51] Shaun**
What does it say?
**[08:54] Shaun**
What's wrong, Master John?
**[08:56] John**
Stop your chattering, Shaun!
**[08:58] John**
Go back to your room!
**[08:59] Emilico**
What?
**[09:00] Emilico**
That's mean!
**[09:02] Emilico**
Didn't you say you wanted to
make him your ally?
**[09:04] Kate**
That's right.
**[09:06] Kate**
That's why Kate wanted to give Susanna
the impression that she hates John.
**[09:10] Kate**
It's important to know
your friends very well.
**[09:15] Kate**
The letter was deliberately written
so that John would emit soot.
**[09:18] Kate**
There's wax on the paper,
and those spots will repel the soot.
**[09:23] Kate**
If he doesn't notice that,
**[09:25] Kate**
then he will never be allowed
to say that he loves Kate again.
**[09:31] John**
"To John,"
**[09:32] John**
"Kate is sorry. She has a favor to ask."
**[09:36] John**
"To save the children
who are suffering in this house,"
**[09:40] John**
"Kate asks for your assistance."
**[09:43] Kate**
* Check to make sure that Shaun's*
* brainwashing has been broken, just in case,*
**[09:46] Kate**
* and if there are no issues,*
* please leave a mark outside your rooms.*
**[09:50] John**
"Please. John, you are
the only one Kate can rely upon."
**[09:54] John**
Kate!
**[09:56] John**
Shaun!
**[09:58] Shaun**
Yes? Is something wrong?
**[10:00] Shaun**
Master John...
**[10:03] John**
Shaun, you...
**[10:06] Shaun**
Y-Yes?
**[10:07] Shaun**
Did you need something?
**[10:09] John**
You're not brainwashed, are you?
**[10:11] Shaun**
We're doing that again?!
**[10:26] Emilico**
I wonder if it will be difficult
to find Shaun's room...
**[10:33] Emilico**
Oh! A roll!
**[10:37] Shaun**
Emilico, come inside.
**[10:40] Shaun**
I thought you might be coming, Emilico.
**[10:42] Shaun**
I'm glad I had that ready.
**[10:45] Shaun**
We understand Mistress Kate's intentions.
**[10:47] Shaun**
I'll keep the explanation short.
**[10:50] Emilico**
I see.
**[10:51] Emilico**
So that's the method
that brought Shaun back.
**[10:55] Emilico**
I thought we'd have Lou and Ricky
drink lots of water and throw it up...
**[11:00] Emilico**
But would it be better to hit them?
**[11:03] Shaun**
Both methods are bad!
**[11:05] Shaun**
It's already been over a week since then.
**[11:08] Shaun**
The coffee has probably
seeped deep into their bodies.
**[11:11] Shaun**
But I don't think that one cup
is enough to completely brainwash them.
**[11:16] Shaun**
Right after I drank it,
**[11:17] Shaun**
my head was filled with
the magnificence of this house,
**[11:20] Shaun**
but I feel like my presence of mind
is slowly returning to me.
**[11:24] Emilico**
Which means...
**[11:26] Emilico**
once a little more time has passed...
**[11:29] Shaun**
We'll find the right timing
to bring the two of them in as allies.
**[11:32] Emilico**
Hooray!
**[11:36] Shaun**
It's too soon to celebrate.
**[11:38] Shaun**
And we're human, Emilico.
**[11:41] Shaun**
You shouldn't carelessly hug me like that.
**[11:46] Shaun**
Really?
**[11:49] Emilico**
Shaun, the fact that you're
back makes me truly happy.
**[12:04] Mia**
Emilico! Did you oversleep?
**[12:06] Emilico**
Oh, um, yes.
**[12:09] Emilico**
Mia, did you come to get me?
**[12:11] Mia**
I wouldn't do that.
**[12:13] Mia**
You can find your way here
on your own now, can't you?
**[12:15] Mia**
We are tools for the Shadows family.
**[12:18] Mia**
We can't spend all our time
looking after other living dolls.
**[12:23] Mia**
More importantly...
**[12:24] Mia**
There were two dolls!
**[12:25] Mia**
Two who were invited
to the detached wing!
**[12:27] Emilico**
So, you can be invited even
if you're not a Star Bearer?
**[12:30] Mia**
That's right! I'm so jealous!
**[12:33] Rosemary**
Emilico, you should check the blackboard.
**[12:36] Rosemary**
There has been a change
to part of the team assignments.
**[12:40] Mia**
The teams that were lacking
in numbers were redistributed,
**[12:43] Mia**
so there's one team less now.
**[12:44] Emilico**
Huh? But...
**[12:47] Emilico**
There's empty space for two teams here.
**[12:49] Mia**
They broke.
**[12:52] Emilico**
The... The whole team?
**[12:54] Mia**
It's such a shame, isn't it?
**[12:56] Mia**
New living dolls will be
supplied soon enough.
**[13:00] Mia**
I'm sure it's because
Barbie drove them so hard.
**[13:03] Mia**
Though, it's possible that something
happened to their shadow masters.
**[13:13] Emilico**
*When I first came here...*
**[13:15] Emilico**
*my world got so much bigger.*
**[13:17] Emilico**
*It was astonishing.*
**[13:19] Emilico**
*Everyone seemed so joyful.*
**[13:21] Emilico**
* I thought that being here at*
* Shadows House was true happiness.*
**[13:25] Emilico**
*But...*
**[13:27] Emilico**
*When I looked again, everyone...*
**[13:29] Emilico**
* Everyone might only have been trying*
* to look like they were happy.*
**[13:33] Lou**
What's wrong, Emilico?
**[13:35] Emilico**
Lou...
**[13:38] Emilico**
Is everyone...
**[13:39] Emilico**
really happy with this?
**[13:45] Lou**
You're fretting over trivial matters again.
**[13:48] Lou**
That's very like you, Emilico.
**[13:49] Emilico**
*It's just like John said!*
**[13:51] Emilico**
*The brainwashing is wearing off!*
**[13:57] Emilico**
We've finished cleaning.
**[13:59] Emilico**
Is there anything else?
**[14:03] Mia**
It's here!
**[14:13] Barbie**
We will now begin our rejoicing party.
**[14:17] Rosemary**
I've been looking forward to this!
**[14:19] Ricky**
This happens once a week?
**[14:21] Billy**
It's a reward for children
who have come of age.
**[14:28] Susie**
Hurry up, Olly!
**[14:31] Olly**
It must be measured exactly.
**[14:38] Barbie**
Now, line up single-file!
**[14:40] Barbie**
Don't forget your gratitude
to Shadows House!
**[15:16] Emilico**
How can anything be this delicious?
**[15:20] Shaun**
Thanks, Emilico.
**[15:22] Barbie**
Who will be the representative this time?
**[15:24] living dolls**
Me! Me! Me! Me! Me!
**[15:26] Mia**
Me! I'll do it! I'll do it!
**[15:29] living dolls; background**
Me! Me! Me! Me! Me!
**[15:29] Barbie**
Right, then.
**[15:31] living dolls; background**
Me! Me! Me! Me! Me!
**[15:32] Barbie**
Doug!
**[15:35] Doug**
To serve the Shadows family is
the pride and joy of every living doll!
**[15:39] living dolls**
To serve the Shadows family is
the pride and joy of every living doll!
**[15:43] Doug**
The Shadows are an outstanding
family of nobles!
**[15:46] living dolls**
The Shadows are an outstanding
family of nobles!
**[15:49] Doug**
Living dolls are tools
of the Shadows family!
**[15:52] living dolls**
Living dolls are tools
of the Shadows family!
**[15:55] Doug**
Shadows House is absolute!
**[15:57] living dolls**
Shadows House is absolute!
**[16:00] Doug**
As their faces, we can
belong to our masters!
**[16:02] living dolls**
As their faces, we can
belong to our masters!
**[16:11] Kate**
To think they'd hold an event
to make you drink soot coffee so soon.
**[16:15] Emilico**
Making you give up your own
thoughts like that is just...
**[16:19] Emilico**
It's cruel.
**[16:22] Kate**
But we've learned a lot from this.
**[16:25] Emilico**
What?
**[16:30] Kate**
The method of brainwashing.
**[16:32] Kate**
The coffee puts you
into a brainwashed state,
**[16:34] Kate**
and then you recite the Shadows family rules.
**[16:36] Kate**
You're made to embed them
deep in your subconscious.
**[16:39] Kate**
These "rejoicing parties"
are held once a week,
**[16:41] Kate**
but they can only give you one spoonful.
**[16:43] Kate**
That means that the coffee
doesn't last very long.
**[16:47] Kate**
It means that they can't
make very much at a time.
**[16:50] Kate**
And...
**[16:51] Kate**
The ones in charge of the coffee
are the Star Bearers.
**[16:54] Kate**
Emilico, Kate has made a decision.
**[16:57] Kate**
You and Kate will aim
to become Star Bearers!
**[17:00] Emilico**
Right!
**[17:03] Mia**
Now, let's get this done!
**[17:05] Mia**
Today, we'll be switching out
the broken chairs in the great hall.
**[17:09] Mia**
I want to finish quickly
and go back to sleep.
**[17:14] Emilico**
Lou...
**[17:16] Emilico**
During the debut, did you
and Ricky become friends?
**[17:21] Lou**
It was just chance.
**[17:22] Lou**
We happened to be together,
that's all. I think.
**[17:25] Mia**
Say!
**[17:26] Mia**
Tomorrow's the rejoicing party!
**[17:29] Mia**
I can't wait!
**[17:31] Lou**
I want to hurry up
and drink the coffee. Don't you?
**[17:34] Emilico**
Yes... I do.
**[17:37] Emilico**
* Just remembering the coffee*
* made our conversation stray.*
**[17:40] Emilico**
* This is how they'll gradually stop being*
* able to think about other things.*
**[17:44] Mia**
We're done!
**[17:45] Mia**
Well, let's head back!
**[17:50] Mia**
Ugh, it's Belle.
**[17:53] Emilico**
*From the same team as Rum.*
**[17:57] Mia**
Snacking. I'll report you for that.
**[17:59] Belle A**
I've received permission from Susie.
**[18:03] Emilico**
*Rum...*
**[18:07] Belle B**
Oh dear. How clumsy of you.
**[18:10] Mia**
Come on. We're going.
**[18:14] Emilico**
Which one of them is Belle?
**[18:16] Mia**
They're both Belle.
**[18:17] Emilico**
What?
**[18:18] Emilico**
With the same name,
things must get mixed up, right?
**[18:21] Mia**
That's right.
**[18:22] Mia**
And that's why they only do
one person's share of work.
**[18:24] Mia**
On top of that, they're team leaders,
**[18:26] Mia**
so it's horrible for anyone on their team!
**[18:28] Mia**
And in their free time,
**[18:29] Mia**
it seems they cozy up
to the Star Bearers to win their favor.
**[18:33] Mia**
Now, I'm going to take a nap
until Mistress Sarah wakes up.
**[18:37] Emilico**
May I go to the classroom to study?
**[18:40] Mia**
You can't be serious!
**[18:42] Mia**
I'm amazed that you can be
in the mood for studying after this.
**[18:46] Rosemary**
I'll go with you.
**[18:50] Emilico**
Scorches are...
**[18:51] Emilico**
Um, scorches are...
**[18:55] Emilico**
How do you read this?
**[19:00] Emilico**
Rosemary?
**[19:02] Rosemary**
Oh. That's "density."
**[19:05] Emilico**
I'm sorry to ask when you're so sleepy.
**[19:08] Rosemary**
It's just fine.
**[19:10] Rosemary**
I'm the team leader, after all.
**[19:14] Rosemary**
I've been told I'm a half-wit,
and it may be true,
**[19:18] Rosemary**
but I can still help you, Emilico,
since you're so eager to study.
**[19:22] Emilico**
Rosemary, you aren't a half-wit!
**[19:31] Emilico**
I can't move.
**[19:38] Kate**
Was the previous leader
issued an invitation?
**[19:41] Maryrose**
That's right.
**[19:42] Maryrose**
No one so dear had ever gone
to Lord Grandfather's wing.
**[19:47] Kate**
And that person recommended Barbara?
**[19:50] Maryrose**
Barbara has some traits of a leader, too.
**[19:54] Maryrose**
More importantly...
**[19:55] Maryrose**
Kate.
**[19:57] Maryrose**
If you intend to become a Star Bearer,
you mustn't speak of him.
**[20:01] Kate**
Kate will be sure to keep that in mind.
**[20:08] Maryrose**
*The previous leader...*
**[20:14] (Flashback) Barbara**
Will Barbara be able to make it
as a member of the main house from now on?
**[20:17] (Flashback) Barbara**
Barbara is worried.
**[20:20] (Flashback) Maryrose**
You're always alone, aren't you, Barbara?
**[20:25] (Flashback) Barbara**
Maryrose?
**[20:27] (Flashback) Barbara**
How did you know that Barbara was here?
**[20:30] (Flashback) Maryrose**
With the amount of soot you
were emitting, anyone would know.
**[20:34] (Flashback) Barbara**
What brings you here?
**[20:35] (Flashback) Maryrose**
What's wrong with starting a conversation
for no particular reason?
**[20:38] (Flashback) Maryrose**
We're peers. Let's get along.
**[20:40] (Flashback) Barbara**
You've already become
part of the main house.
**[20:43] (Flashback) Barbara**
There's no need for you
to involve yourself with Barbara.
**[20:46] (Flashback) Maryrose**
Let's dance, Barbara.
**[20:57] (Flashback) Maryrose**
Are you all right, Barbara?
**[21:00] (Flashback) Maryrose**
Your movements aren't bad.
**[21:02] (Flashback) Maryrose**
Now, one more time.
**[21:04] (Flashback) Barbara**
Please, don't bother yourself
about Barbara any more!
**[21:08] (Flashback) Barbara**
Your miserable peer, Barbara...
**[21:11] (Flashback) Barbara**
You're making fun of her, aren't you?!
**[21:17] (Flashback) Maryrose**
What stupendous soot volume!
**[21:19] (Flashback) Maryrose**
This is astounding, Barbara!
**[21:20] (Flashback) Maryrose**
It's a splendid ability!
**[21:22] (Flashback) Maryrose**
Even if Maryrose stood on her head,
she'd be no match for you!
**[21:30] (Flashback) Maryrose**
You have something that Maryrose doesn't.
**[21:33] (Flashback) Maryrose**
Maryrose may be good
at picking up the knack of things,
**[21:36] (Flashback) Maryrose**
but she's unsubtle in everything.
**[21:38] (Flashback) Maryrose**
On that point, you are earnest and prudent.
**[21:42] (Flashback) Maryrose**
It may be difficult alone...
**[21:46] (Flashback) Maryrose**
but with the two of us,
perhaps we will be able to grow.
**[21:50] (Flashback) Maryrose**
This is a promise.
**[21:52] (Flashback) Maryrose**
Let us become adults together.
**[22:01] (Flashback) Christopher**
You make a good pair, don't you?
**[22:05] lyric**
*Traveling through a jumbled labyrinth...*
**[22:10] lyric**
*Over and over*
**[22:14] lyric**
*This lonely utopia...*
**[22:19] lyric**
*I have no more need of it*
**[22:23] lyric**
*A vanished smile*
**[22:25] lyric**
*Promises are lies, too*
**[22:28] lyric**
* Everything is pointless,*
* isn't it? And yet...*
**[22:32] lyric**
*Even misshapen as I am, I keep searching...*
**[22:37] lyric**
*For shadows of recollection*
**[22:43] lyric**
*Roses whose love has rotted...*
**[22:48] lyric**
*Lock their feelings away*
**[22:53] lyric**
*That silhouette from back then...*
**[22:57] lyric**
*I've kept on chasing it...*
**[23:01] lyric**
*Even if pale, frozen thorns*
**[23:06] lyric**
*Pierce my heart over and over*
**[23:10] lyric**
*Until I can take that hand*
**[23:15] lyric**
*Again and again*
**[23:19] lyric**
*I'll wish on a star*
**[23:36] Kate**
Next time,
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** A Great Cleaning
***SIGN*** A Great Cleaning
***SIGN*** A Great Cleaning
***SIGN*** A Great Cleaning
***SIGN*** A Great Cleaning
***SIGN*** A Great Cleaning
***SIGN*** A Great Cleaning
***SIGN*** A Great Cleaning
***SIGN*** A Great Cleaning
**[23:38] Kate**
"A Great Cleaning."
**[23:39] ---**
# E3 - A Great Cleaning
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G2XU0WV92/a-great-cleaning)
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**[00:02] (Flashback) Christopher**
Since then, the living dolls
of Shadows House
**[00:06] (Flashback) Christopher**
have been tasked with cleaning
this huge mansion every day.
**[00:10] (Flashback) Christopher**
And with that, Christopher's
story time comes to a close.
**[00:15] (Flashback) child A**
Cleaning really is important, isn't it?
**[00:17] (Flashback) child**
Yes.
**[00:18] (Flashback) child B**
We know that skipping
cleaning leads to scorches.
**[00:22] (Flashback) child B**
But we're not afraid of those things!
**[00:26] (Flashback) Christopher**
This is a story Christopher once heard.
**[00:28] (Flashback) Christopher**
They say there was once a child,
like you, who scorned cleaning.
**[00:32] (Flashback) Christopher**
More and more scorches
emerged in the child's room...
**[00:35] (Flashback) Christopher**
Until one day, the child awoke,
unable to breathe.
**[00:39] (Flashback) Christopher**
Scared, the child
tried to call for help,
**[00:41] (Flashback) Christopher**
but no one heard.
**[00:44] (Flashback) Christopher**
And that...
**[00:46] (Flashback) Christopher**
was because scorches had
covered the child's entire body!
**[00:51] (Flashback) Christopher**
The child died that way...
**[00:54] (Flashback) Christopher**
But those scorches, it seems,
**[00:56] (Flashback) Christopher**
slithered off and began to walk around.
**[00:59] (Flashback) Christopher**
Upon seeing their form,
everyone screamed...
**[01:04] (Flashback) Christopher**
"It's a giant phantom!"
**[01:09] (Flashback) Christopher**
Christopher doesn't want
to end up that way,
**[01:12] (Flashback) Christopher**
so he cleans very thoroughly.
**[01:14] (Flashback) child A**
How scary!
**[01:15] (Flashback) child B**
They combine!
**[01:16] (Flashback) child B**
They merge together and become phantoms!
**[01:18] (Flashback) child C**
We need to clean really well!
**[01:20] (Flashback) Maryrose**
Christopher should probably become
a novelist or something, don't you think?
**[01:25] (Flashback) Christopher**
Now, as a special treat today,
we'll have just one more story.
**[01:31] (Flashback) Maryrose**
If Christopher ever receives an invitation,
**[01:33] (Flashback) Maryrose**
it will be difficult for anyone else
to win over these young ones.
**[01:41] (Flashback) Christopher**
Maryrose and Barbara are here
to carry on Christopher's wishes,
**[01:44] (Flashback) Christopher**
so Christopher isn't worried about a thing.
**[01:51] (Flashback) children**
Christopher!
**[02:13] lyrics**
*In the face of sadness, we shall smile*
**[02:17] lyrics**
*To live is to be a marionette*
**[02:21] lyrics**
*Once your heart gets into the swing...*
**[02:25] lyrics**
*Would you like a coffee?*
**[02:30] lyrics**
*1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2*
**[02:32] lyrics**
*1, 2, 2, 3*
**[02:33] lyrics**
*I can't seem to dance very well*
**[02:36] lyrics**
*Pain and resentment, and sadness, too...*
**[02:39] lyrics**
*Mix them, knead them...*
**[02:43] lyrics**
*And then a good night kiss*
**[02:47] lyrics**
*Shall we Dance? We shall dance*
**[02:51] lyrics**
*Despair and desire. This is the life!*
**[02:56] lyrics**
*Shadow Life!*
**[02:57] lyrics**
*Don't puzzle over things unnecessarily*
**[03:01] lyrics**
*Let's become one*
**[03:03] lyrics**
*How nice (How nice) How nice (How nice)*
**[03:07] lyrics**
*Humans... Being human... It's so nice*
***SIGN*** A Great Cleaning
***SIGN*** A Great Cleaning
***SIGN*** A Great Cleaning
***SIGN*** A Great Cleaning
***SIGN*** A Great Cleaning
***SIGN*** A Great Cleaning
**[03:35] Kate**
We have a little breathing space today,
**[03:37] Kate**
so let's go to the training room.
**[03:38] Emilico**
Yes, Mistress!
**[03:40] Kate; internal**
* In order to become Star Bearers,*
* we will need to gather information.*
**[03:44] Kate; internal**
* First, we should investigate*
* to see who has soot powers.*
**[03:48] Louise**
Kate!
**[03:50] Kate**
Louise...
**[03:52] Kate**
Kate is on her way to the training room.
**[03:55] Kate**
Would you like to come with Kate?
**[03:57] Louise**
Louise is tired, so she's
going back to her rooms.
**[04:00] Louise**
Oh! But look, look!
**[04:09] Louise**
A cute expression!
**[04:12] Louise**
An even cuter expression!
**[04:16] Louise**
An expression that's even more cute!
**[04:20] Louise**
See? See?
**[04:21] Louise**
Louise has improved, hasn't she?
**[04:22] Louise**
Louise's repertoire has expanded.
**[04:24] Kate**
That's amazing!
**[04:26] Kate**
But doesn't that cause your
living doll to break down?
**[04:29] Louise**
What?
**[04:30] Louise**
Her face is as beautiful as ever.
**[04:33] Louise**
Louise is so glad you were here, Kate!
**[04:35] Louise**
She can't boast to Sarah.
**[04:37] Louise**
Louise doesn't know if she
can even show Sarah or not.
**[04:40] Kate; internal**
*That's right.*
**[04:42] Kate; internal**
* We don't know if Sarah or*
* Maryrose can use soot powers.*
**[04:53] background shadow; male**
That sounds like fun.
**[04:54] background shadow; male**
Let's try it next time.
**[04:56] Kate**
All of them can control soot.
**[04:59] Kate**
What kinds of powers might they possess?
**[05:02] Isabelle**
You must be Kate.
**[05:10] Kate; internal**
* The twins who are always*
* cozying up to the Star Bearers.*
**[05:13] Kate; internal**
* They're sure to try to become*
* Star Bearers the next chance they get.*
**[05:21] Patrick; internal**
* What are Kate and Louise doing*
* that they'd keep secret from Patrick?*
**[05:26] Patrick; internal**
*And Emilico was with them, too.*
**[05:28] Louise**
What are you doing over there?
**[05:30] Patrick**
Huh?
**[05:31] Patrick**
Oh! Louise!
**[05:33] Louise**
Well, well...
**[05:34] Louise**
Could it be that you were planning
to go to that room up ahead?
**[05:37] Louise**
Patrick, you haven't received permission
for that yet, have you?
**[05:40] Patrick**
P-Patrick knows that. He knows that.
**[05:43] Patrick**
Of course Patrick wouldn't do that.
**[05:44] Patrick**
Patrick was simply taking a little walk.
**[05:46] Patrick**
And Patrick was just about
to head back to his rooms!
**[05:49] Louise**
Really? How very suspicious.
**[05:53] Isabelle**
You're quite adept at soot
manipulation for a beginner.
**[05:56] Isabelle**
That's what Susanna said.
She was praising you.
**[05:59] Mirabelle**
No wonder you passed your debut.
**[06:04] Isabelle**
Pleased to meet you. We're Isabelle...
**[06:06] Mirabelle**
...and Mirabelle.
**[06:09] Kate**
Kate is pleased to meet you.
**[06:11] Emilico**
Woof!
**[06:12] Kate**
Emilico? What are you doing?
**[06:13] Emilico**
Woof! Woof!
**[06:15] Emilico**
Woof! Woof! Woof!
**[06:17] Douglas**
What's going on there?
**[06:19] Emilico**
Woof! Woof!
**[06:20] Kate**
You two are controlling her, aren't you?
**[06:22] Mirabelle**
Dear, dear...
**[06:24] Mirabelle**
Even if one has some degree of soot power...
**[06:26] Isabelle**
...with a face like that, one can only give up.
**[06:28] Emilico**
Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof!
**[06:32] Isabelle**
Now, the way back...
**[06:34] Mirabelle**
...is right through there.
**[06:36] Isabelle; Mirabelle**
Huh?
**[06:41] Kate**
Let's go, Emilico.
**[06:43] Emilcio**
Yes, Mistress!
**[06:44] Isabelle**
What do you think you're doing?
**[06:47] Kate**
What do you mean?
**[06:48] Kate**
Since you're twins,
**[06:49] Kate**
Kate can only presume your clumsy
spells have the same timing, too.
**[06:58] Kate**
Kate is sorry, Emilico.
**[07:00] Emilico**
What?
**[07:01] Kate**
If we want to become Star Bearers,
**[07:03] Kate**
we shouldn't respond to such provocations.
**[07:05] Kate**
Those twins must hate us now, too.
**[07:10] Emilico**
Wait!
**[07:12] Emilico**
When you saved me, it made me really happy,
**[07:15] Emilico**
Mistress Kate!
**[07:21] Kate**
Did it?
**[07:42] Emilico**
*I wasn't able to sleep very well.*
**[07:46] Emilico**
*After all, today is...*
**[07:48] Mia**
Good morning, Emilico!
**[07:50] Mia**
Now, let's go to the rejoicing party!
**[07:55] Olly**
Where's Barbie?
**[07:57] Susie**
Attending to one of Mistress Barbara's fits.
**[07:59] Susie**
We'll have to take her some coffee later.
**[08:06] Emilico**
*Aside from Shaun, I can't rely on anyone.*
**[08:09] Emilico**
*Oh!*
**[08:10] Emilico**
* But I do feel like I'll be able to*
* explain everything to my team!*
**[08:14] Emilico**
Huh? Where's Rosemary?
**[08:17] Mia**
She went to take out the garbage
quite some time ago.
**[08:19] Mia**
Where could she be dilly-dallying?
**[08:25] Mia**
Oh.
**[08:26] Mia**
Oh, there she is!
**[08:38] Mia**
What?
**[08:39] Mia**
Has Rose gotten soot sickness again?
**[08:43] Emilico**
A-Are you all right?
**[08:46] Emilico**
Rosemary?
**[08:48] Emilico**
Something about the shape
of her seems... strange.
**[08:50] Ben**
Move away from her!
**[08:56] Ben**
Scorches!
**[09:04] Emilico**
Take...
**[09:05] Emilico**
that!
**[09:09] Emilico**
They're stronger than the ones
we got rid of in the garden!
**[09:12] Emilico**
These scorches must be denser!
**[09:14] Mia**
Honestly, that Rose!
**[09:16] Mia**
Where did she pick these up?
**[09:19] Emilico**
Oh! Oh, no!
**[09:26] Emilico**
Are you all right?
**[09:38] Emilico**
Shaun!
**[09:39] Shaun**
Emilico! Are you unharmed?
**[09:41] Emilico**
Yes.
**[09:42] Emilico**
After the scorch went
in his mouth, he attacked me.
**[09:45] Shaun**
If they get all the way inside...
**[09:47] Shaun**
You turn into that?
**[09:49] Ben**
Pull them off!
**[09:51] Shaun**
Blast it!
**[09:52] Shaun**
They've gotten to several of us already!
**[09:54] Ben**
Tie up anyone fighting back!
**[10:04] Susie**
Wh-What is all this commotion?
**[10:07] Olly**
Whoa!
**[10:08] Susie**
First-aid team!
**[10:09] Susie**
Take all living dolls with soot
sickness to the washing room!
**[10:11] Ben**
Susie! Can we use water?
**[10:13] Susie**
Well, we'd have to ask Barbie.
**[10:16] Susie**
Olly, will you go and ask...
**[10:18] Susie**
Oh, for crying out... He's gone!
**[10:23] Ricky**
He's strong!
**[10:24] Shaun**
Follow Ben's example!
**[10:30] Emilico**
Take that!
**[10:32] Mia**
Nice work, Emilico!
**[10:35] Doug**
Whoops, look out!
**[10:38] Emilico**
Mia!
**[10:55] Susie**
The coffee! We have to protect the coffee!
**[10:58] Susie**
Belle!
**[10:59] Susie**
Take the coffee and retreat!
**[11:01] Belle; Belle**
Right away!
**[11:02] Susie**
Doug's team!
**[11:03] Susie**
Go and bring the emergency
cleaning equipment!
**[11:06] Doug**
Understood!
**[11:08] Emilico**
Mia! Mia!
**[11:18] Emilico**
P-Please stop, Mia!
**[11:23] Lou**
Emilico, while you can...
**[11:25] Emilico**
Right!
**[11:30] Lou**
Emilico, let's run.
**[11:32] Emilico**
Yes, let's.
**[11:39] Susie**
Everyone, calm down!
**[11:42] Susie**
The scorches have retreated
to the second floor!
**[11:44] Susie**
If we deal with this calmly now,
**[11:47] Susie**
it shouldn't pose
a significant problem to...
**[11:56] Shaun**
A phantom.
**[11:57] Emilico**
Yes.
**[12:10] Susie**
The scorches from earlier...
**[12:12] Susie**
All of them...
**[12:13] Susie**
They've combined!
**[12:23] Ben**
It's no good.
**[12:24] Ben**
Even if I break them off, they reform.
**[12:30] Emilico**
What are we supposed to do
against something like that?
**[12:40] Olly**
Sir!
**[12:40] Olly**
The mobile soot collector, Oliver Mark II...
**[12:43] Olly**
has been completed with impeccable timing!
**[12:45] Emilico**
Wow!
**[12:48] Olly**
That said, we haven't done a test run.
**[12:51] Olly**
But with you, my fellow researcher,
at my side, we can do this, Nancy!
**[12:54] Nancy**
I'm not so sure.
**[12:57] Olly**
Now, we switch it on!
**[13:06] Olly**
Good. The force produced is okay.
**[13:08] Olly**
I'll temporarily reduce the power.
**[13:15] Nancy**
I... I will go charge in.
**[13:18] Nancy**
Please increase the power.
**[13:21] Nancy**
Wait a moment, please—!
**[13:26] Olly**
My!
**[13:27] Nancy**
I can't go on.
**[13:31] Olly**
You've done good work, Nancy!
**[13:34] Olly**
Much can be learned from mistakes!
**[13:36] Olly**
The user must be quick-witted,
agile, and physically strong!
**[13:38] Olly**
One needs an instinctive understanding of
how to counter the hose's movements!
**[13:42] Olly**
Is there anyone here
who might be able to handle it?
**[13:44] Susie**
Olly!
**[13:45] Susie**
Stop tinkering with that
unusable machine and help us!
**[13:50] Emilico**
Excuse me!
**[13:53] Emilico**
Please allow me to do it!
**[13:57] Olly**
Mobile soot collector...
**[13:59] Olly**
Oliver Mark II!
**[14:01] Emilico**
It's spectacular!
**[14:04] Olly**
First, the scorches are
sucked in through the nozzle.
**[14:06] Olly**
They then pass through a mill
which pulverizes them,
**[14:09] Olly**
and they're stored in the
soot tank under the driver's seat.
**[14:13] Olly**
Oh, and this is the power unit.
**[14:20] Olly**
There's also a cutter
embedded within the pipe.
**[14:23] Olly**
It's incredibly dangerous,
**[14:25] Olly**
so please do not put
your arms or legs inside.
**[14:27] Emilico**
I won't!
**[14:29] Olly**
I will adjust the power level,
**[14:31] Olly**
so when you're ready, please let me know!
**[14:35] Emilico**
Ready to go!
**[14:36] Olly**
Switching it on!
**[14:44] Olly**
Wow!
**[14:45] Olly**
It's bucking a bit, but she's
heading toward the phantom!
**[14:47] Emilico**
Here we go!
**[14:52] Olly**
You're doing well! It's working!
**[15:10] Olly**
With the suction pointed toward the floor,
**[15:11] Olly**
she's riding the nozzle
to move at high speed!
**[15:14] Shaun**
Ingenious!
**[15:16] Ben**
We'll break up the phantom
so that Emilico can suck it up!
**[15:23] Emilico**
There!
**[15:27] Emilico**
And there!
**[15:28] boy 5**
Yeah! We can do this!
**[15:30] girl 7**
We should all help break up the phantom, too!
**[15:35] Ricky**
Ow, ow, ow...
**[15:39] Ricky**
Huh?
**[15:39] Shaun**
Hey!
**[15:41] Shaun**
Are you all right, Ricky?
**[15:44] Ricky**
I found it.
**[15:45] Ricky**
The figure Barbie talked about.
**[15:47] Shaun**
Wha—? Really?
**[15:50] Ricky**
Up there.
**[15:54] Ricky**
It's standing on one of the beams.
**[15:59] Ricky**
Huh? Hey, wait!
**[16:00] Ricky**
I'm the one who spotted it!
**[16:10] Shaun**
Is it still there?
**[16:12] Ricky**
Yes, it's there.
**[16:15] Ricky**
It's trying to get away!
**[16:17] Shaun**
I won't let it!
**[16:17] Ricky**
Hey!
**[16:21] Ricky**
Neither will I.
**[16:26] Ricky**
Shaun! Help...
**[16:28] Ricky**
No.
**[16:29] Ricky**
Never mind about me!
**[16:30] Ricky**
What you're doing is the priority!
**[16:32] Ricky**
Leave me and go on ahead!
**[16:34] Ricky**
You could have hesitated just a little!
**[16:40] Shaun**
*Okay.*
**[16:41] Shaun**
*I'm just about to catch up!*
**[16:51] Shaun**
Wait!
**[16:58] Shaun**
It got away.
**[17:00] Ricky**
Shaun!
**[17:01] Ricky**
Come help me after all!
**[17:03] Ricky**
Hey!
**[17:07] Ben**
We can do this!
**[17:14] Olly**
Oh! This is bad!
**[17:16] Olly**
It's performing outside its parameters!
**[17:18] Olly**
Based on this pattern of events,
its limiter may not be working...
**[17:21] Olly**
because the power has been operating
for a prolonged period of time.
**[17:24] Nancy**
To put it simply, it is on the fritz!
**[17:28] Lou**
Emilico, where are you going?
**[17:30] Emilico**
Please ask the nozzle!
**[17:35] Emilico**
Oh, that was close.
**[17:39] Olly**
I will temporarily shut it down!
**[17:41] Nancy**
What?
**[17:42] Jeremy**
Wouldn't it be bad to turn it off now?
**[17:44] Lyddy**
Yes, it would.
**[17:49] Lou**
Emilico!
**[17:54] boy 5**
She's amazing.
**[17:57] Susie**
This is no time to be distracted!
**[17:59] girl 2**
Take this!
**[18:04] boy 5**
The phantom just shot out a scorch!
**[18:07] girl 4**
In this brief amount of time,
**[18:08] girl 4**
it's increased the number
of ways it can attack?
**[18:11] Barbie**
Watch the way it's moving, you useless lot!
**[18:14] Barbie**
The scorches will come flying
in the same direction their faces appear.
**[18:17] Barbie**
They're aiming for our mouths!
**[18:19] Barbie**
They'll move in straight lines.
**[18:25] Barbie**
Use that to aim!
**[18:28] Barbie**
That girl again...
**[18:30] Barbie**
Just how infuriated
is she trying to make me?
**[18:33] Doug**
Doug's team, reporting back
with the emergency cleaning equipment!
**[18:36] Barbie**
Good!
**[18:37] Barbie**
Everyone provide support for Doug's team!
**[18:39] Barbie**
Bring water!
**[18:41] Barbie**
If the need arises,
I grant permission to use it!
**[18:44] Susanna**
Barbie is directing things quite well.
**[18:46] Susanna**
Perhaps there won't be any need
to use soot powers.
**[18:48] Susanna**
There are living dolls here whose shadows
have yet to awaken their powers.
**[18:54] Shaun**
Emilico?
**[18:55] Ricky**
How did you end up like that?
**[19:00] Emilico**
Olly!
**[19:01] Emilico**
Please turn the power up to full!
**[19:03] Nancy**
What? While you're in that state?
**[19:05] Olly**
I've removed the limiter!
**[19:12] Nancy**
What?
**[19:21] Doug**
The phantom's getting smaller!
**[19:24] Nancy**
The tank has reached full capacity!
**[19:26] Olly**
Let's open it up, Nancy!
**[19:28] Olly**
The contents have been pulverized,
**[19:30] Olly**
so they shouldn't become
scorches again for a while!
**[19:33] Nancy**
I'm not sure about this.
**[19:36] Ricky**
All right. Just a little more.
**[19:41] Ricky; Lou**
Emilico!
**[19:51] Olly**
Magnificent! Well done!
**[19:57] Shaun**
Are you all right, Emilico?
**[20:00] Emilico**
Yes, of course I am.
**[20:02] Olly**
Huh?
**[20:03] Belle**
Don't come this way!
**[20:07] Emilico**
There are scorches headed toward Belle!
**[20:09] Emilico**
I'm coming to help you now!
**[20:11] Shaun**
She's got amazing strength of spirit.
**[20:13] Ricky**
Ow...
**[20:15] Lou**
Say, Ricky...
**[20:17] Ricky**
Huh?
**[20:18] Lou**
Has my face been harmed?
**[20:21] Ricky**
What?
**[20:23] Ricky**
*Huh? I feel like...*
**[20:25] Lou**
*I feel like this has happened before.*
**[20:30] Oliver**
Yes!
**[20:31] Oliver**
This has been a huge success!
**[20:32] Susanna**
What? Oliver?!
**[20:34] Susanna**
What are you doing there?
**[20:35] Oliver**
Operating this machine
requires Oliver's soot powers.
**[20:39] Susanna**
That makes sense.
**[20:41] Susanna**
Still, with this many scorches,
**[20:45] Susanna**
checking the soot pipes
seems like a good idea.
**[20:48] Barbie**
Yes, miss.
**[20:53] Emilico**
Are you hurt at all, Belle?
**[20:55] Belle**
Not really.
**[20:57] Belle**
Nothing that presents a problem.
**[20:59] Belle**
And the coffee is safe, too.
**[21:04] Emilico**
Huh?
**[21:24] Belle; Belle**
N-No!
**[21:26] Belle; Belle**
I didn't do that!
**[21:31] Emilico**
*On this day,*
**[21:33] Emilico**
* the living dolls have been*
* returned to their rooms,*
**[21:35] Emilico**
*and they, along with their shadow masters,*
**[21:37] Emilico**
*have been forbidden from leaving.*
**[21:41] Emilico**
*Rosemary, Mia...*
**[21:42] Emilico**
* and everyone who*
* contracted soot sickness...*
**[21:45] Emilico**
*All I can do is worry for them.*
**[21:48] Emilico**
*Why did the Belles do such a thing?*
**[21:50] Emilico**
*After hearing my story,*
**[21:53] Emilico**
* Mistress Kate is quietly*
* thinking things over.*
**[21:56] Emilico**
* What is happening here*
* in the children's wing?*
**[22:05] lyric**
*Traveling through a jumbled labyrinth...*
**[22:10] lyric**
*Over and over*
**[22:14] lyric**
*This lonely utopia...*
**[22:19] lyric**
*I have no more need of it*
**[22:23] lyric**
*A vanished smile*
**[22:25] lyric**
*Promises are lies, too*
**[22:28] lyric**
* Everything is pointless,*
* isn't it? And yet...*
**[22:32] lyric**
*Even misshapen as I am, I keep searching...*
**[22:37] lyric**
*For shadows of recollection*
**[22:43] lyric**
*Roses whose love has rotted...*
**[22:48] lyric**
*Lock their feelings away*
**[22:53] lyric**
*That silhouette from back then...*
**[22:57] lyric**
*I've kept on chasing it...*
**[23:01] lyric**
*Even if pale, frozen thorns*
**[23:06] lyric**
*Pierce my heart over and over*
**[23:10] lyric**
*Until I can take that hand*
**[23:15] lyric**
*Again and again*
**[23:19] lyric**
*I'll wish on a star*
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**[23:36] Kate**
Next time,
**[23:37] Kate**
"Potential Suspects."
**[23:39] ---**
# E4 - Potential Suspects
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**[00:14] lyrics**
*In the face of sadness, we shall smile*
**[00:18] lyrics**
*To live is to be a marionette*
**[00:22] lyrics**
*Once your heart gets into the swing...*
**[00:26] lyrics**
*Would you like a coffee?*
**[00:31] lyrics**
*1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2*
**[00:33] lyrics**
*1, 2, 2, 3*
**[00:34] lyrics**
*I can't seem to dance very well*
**[00:37] lyrics**
*Pain and resentment, and sadness, too...*
**[00:40] lyrics**
*Mix them, knead them...*
**[00:44] lyrics**
*And then a good night kiss*
**[00:48] lyrics**
*Shall we Dance? We shall dance*
**[00:52] lyrics**
*Despair and desire. This is the life!*
**[00:56] lyrics**
*Shadow Life!*
**[00:58] lyrics**
*Don't puzzle over things unnecessarily*
**[01:02] lyrics**
*Let's become one*
**[01:04] lyrics**
*How nice (How nice) How nice (How nice)*
**[01:08] lyrics**
*Humans... Being human... It's so nice*
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**[01:37] Benjamin**
Barbara, how is your health?
**[01:40] Barbara**
It poses no difficulty.
**[01:41] Barbara**
And we are in no position
to be discussing it.
**[01:43] Oliver**
The source of the phantoms
is definitely the soot pipes.
**[01:47] Oliver**
As we suspected, the door
to the soot-crushing room was left open,
**[01:50] Oliver**
and both of the veiled
dolls assigned full time
**[01:53] Oliver**
to the soot pipes have soot sickness.
**[01:55] Oliver**
Soot is sent here through the pipes
that run through every room,
**[01:59] Oliver**
so a lot of scorches come through here.
**[02:02] Oliver**
After being set loose,
they combined to form a phantom.
**[02:05] Oliver**
After a great cleaning,
**[02:07] Oliver**
the scorches are sent to Lord Grandfather's
wing to be crushed and disposed of.
**[02:11] Oliver**
Given time, scorches will regenerate,
so it's done before that happens.
**[02:15] Barbara**
They chose the precise time when there'd
be the maximum number of scorches.
**[02:19] Susanna**
This is your fault, Susie!
**[02:21] Susanna**
Entrusting the coffee to others
was the worst possible choice!
**[02:24] Barbara**
Susanna...
**[02:27] Barbara**
The one who favored the twins
was you, wasn't it?
**[02:30] Barbara**
Susie simply abided by your opinion.
**[02:32] Susanna**
If we're pointing fingers,
**[02:34] Susanna**
then you and Barbie
bear responsibility as well.
**[02:37] Susanna**
Neither of you were there at all!
**[02:39] Oliver**
Let's not fight.
**[02:41] Oliver**
Not among fellow Star Bearers.
**[02:42] Gil**
Please excuse us.
**[02:44] Gil**
Gil and Eve from the first-aid team,
**[02:46] Gil**
here to report!
**[02:48] Eve**
Two living dolls are seriously ill.
**[02:50] Eve**
Ten have contracted light soot sickness.
**[02:52] Eve**
Teams in which all members are healthy are
**[02:54] Eve**
the first-aid team, the research team,
**[02:56] Eve**
Doug's team, and Belle's team.
**[02:59] Barbara**
And the one who brought the
scorches and started it all...
**[03:01] Barbara**
Rosemary. What is her testimony?
**[03:03] Gil**
She is still unable to speak.
**[03:06] Gil**
We will return to the washing room.
**[03:12] Oliver**
Will we report this to Edward?
**[03:17] Barbara**
We couldn't possibly.
**[03:20] Barbara**
We allowed the coffee carafes
to be broken by rebellious forces.
**[03:23] Barbara**
A great number of living dolls
have been stricken with soot sickness.
**[03:25] Barbara**
We won't be able to grant them
any coffee for an entire week.
**[03:28] Barbara**
And we don't know the motives
behind these crimes.
**[03:31] Barbara**
It is unlikely that we will be
able to remain Star Bearers.
**[03:36] Barbara**
And once our Star Bearer status is gone,
**[03:38] Barbara**
there is no guaranteeing
that we'll be allowed to live.
**[03:40] Barbara**
No, what is even more unforgivable...
**[03:45] Barbara**
is that as Star Bearers who watch
over the children's wing,
**[03:48] Barbara**
we were entrusted with the
incredibly precious coffee,
**[03:52] Barbara**
and we have betrayed
Lord Grandfather's love for us!
**[03:56] Barbara**
And that is precisely why we
must put things right ourselves.
**[04:01] Barbara**
First, we will quell the
chaos in the children's wing!
**[04:04] Barbara**
The twins will be punished immediately.
**[04:06] Barbara**
How we deal with Rosemary will be decided
once we've heard what she has to say.
**[04:10] Barbara**
And that troublesome intruder...
**[04:12] Barbara**
Blast it! This is infuriating!
**[04:14] Barbara**
Before word of this reaches the adults,
**[04:16] Barbara**
we must come to some consensus
about how to deal with it.
**[04:20] Susanna**
Future patrols of the soot pipes
will have to be more stringent.
**[04:23] Susanna**
But why did this phantom disturbance
occur in the first place?
**[04:26] Benjamin**
Someone is trying
to bring down the Star Bearers.
**[04:29] Oliver**
The twin Belles were merely expendable
perpetrators, don't you think?
**[04:33] Benjamin**
We will discover the true culprit
and dispense with them.
**[04:37] Barbara**
It is just as Edward said after all.
**[04:41] (Flashback) Edward**
Be wary of Kate.
**[04:47] Kate; internal**
* Everyone has been called*
* to the Star Bearers' meeting room.*
**[04:50] Kate; internal**
*Has there been some sort of development?*
**[04:52] Barbara**
Everyone, we have resolved this affair.
**[04:55] Barbara**
The recent incident was caused by
Isabelle and Mirabelle's living dolls.
**[05:00] Barbara**
And as for the reports of the
much-rumored mysterious figure...
**[05:04] Barbara**
In this matter as well,
**[05:05] Barbara**
we have confirmed that those same
living dolls are the culprits!
**[05:09] Barbara**
As such, the two pairs
**[05:10] Barbara**
have been assigned soot-pipe
cleaning as punishment.
**[05:13] Barbara**
This puts an end to this matter.
**[05:15] Barbara**
Any further talk of phantoms
will not be tolerated!
**[05:18] shadow A**
They've been sent to the soot pipes!
**[05:19] shadow B**
That's what they deserve!
**[05:21] shadow C**
Such discerning judgment.
**[05:22] shadow D**
That's the Star Bearers for you!
**[05:24] Douglas**
Cleaning soot pipes...
**[05:25] Douglas**
For a shadow, that is the ultimate disgrace.
**[05:28] James**
Indeed.
**[05:29] James**
And after repeatedly
contracting soot sickness,
**[05:31] James**
the twin's living dolls will end
up destroyed, don't you think?
**[05:35] Barbara**
You are dismissed!
**[05:40] Kate; internal**
* So the twins have been given a punishment,*
* and the matter brought to a close...*
**[05:48] Barbara**
Kate,
**[05:49] Barbara**
do you have anything to say
regarding the phantom incident?
**[05:52] Kate**
What do you mean by this question?
**[05:54] Kate**
I believe we were not
to speak of it anymore.
**[05:57] Susanna**
What an impertinent attitude.
**[05:59] Susanna**
Just answer the Star Bearers'
questions honestly.
**[06:02] Kate**
Kate has nothing to say.
**[06:05] Kate**
You don't suspect Kate of something, do you?
**[06:09] Barbara**
And why would you think that?
**[06:11] Barbara**
Could it be because you've done
something suspicious?
**[06:14] Oliver**
Now, Oliver thinks highly of you.
**[06:17] Oliver**
It's only that, at this rate,
**[06:18] Oliver**
Edward will get angry with—
**[06:20] Susanna**
Quiet, Oliver!
**[06:22] Kate; internal**
*Edward?*
**[06:24] Kate; internal**
*So that's what this is.*
**[06:26] Kate; internal**
*He's putting pressure on the Star Bearers.*
**[06:29] Kate; internal**
*Does he still suspect Kate of rebellion?*
**[06:33] Kate; internal**
*He's quite persistent.*
**[06:34] Susanna**
Emitting soot like that...
**[06:37] Susanna**
means you must be feeling guilty
about something. Right?
**[06:39] Benjamin**
Speak of what you know while you still can.
**[06:42] Kate; internal**
*In short, there was never any chance*
**[06:46] Kate; internal**
*the Star Bearers would think highly of me.*
**[06:52] Kate**
You seem to be quite at your wit's end.
**[06:57] Kate**
Kate is aware that Edward hates her.
**[07:01] Kate**
He went to the trouble
of committing an offense
**[07:03] Kate**
and came to the children's wing...
**[07:05] Kate**
All because he could not stand
the outcome of Kate's debut.
**[07:09] Kate**
Doesn't this seem like
an unjustified grudge?
**[07:12] Kate**
Your plan is to frame Kate as the culprit
to curry favor with Edward
**[07:16] Kate**
and send her to the soot pipes, is it not?
**[07:19] Kate**
If you think that will resolve
everything, then you're naïve.
**[07:24] Kate**
The current Star Bearers...
**[07:26] Kate**
Do you know how you're thought
of in the children's wing?
**[07:29] Kate**
They say that compared
to Christopher, you're all far inferior.
**[07:34] Benjamin**
You little...
**[07:36] Kate**
Haven't you ever looked
at yourselves objectively?
**[07:39] Kate**
You may have been anxious about
living up to Christopher's example,
**[07:43] Kate**
but in reality, all you've done
is whatever Edward says.
**[07:46] Kate**
You are only letting him manipulate you.
**[07:48] Kate**
The fact that you have your eyes on Kate...
**[07:50] Kate**
means that you think that the twins
aren't the only culprits, correct?
**[07:55] Kate**
If Kate were in your place...
**[07:59] Kate**
She would be able to truly
resolve this matter!
**[08:06] Barbara**
We will overlook your intemperate
comments about the Star Bearers.
**[08:12] Barbara**
You will not be granted
any special authority.
**[08:15] Barbara**
Refrain from any unpardonable actions
which might set a bad example for others.
**[08:20] Barbara**
If you are able to discover the true
perpetrator in spite of all this,
**[08:24] Barbara**
you shall receive great recognition.
**[08:29] Barbara**
Blast it! This is infuriating!
**[08:31] Barbara**
Why must everything be so troublesome?
**[08:33] Benjamin**
If this fails, then we need only point
to Kate as the culprit.
**[08:37] Susanna**
No, Benjamin.
**[08:39] Susanna**
*That* is the problem.
**[08:42] Benjamin**
Soot stalactites?
**[08:43] Susanna**
The mark of one with high soot volume.
**[08:46] Barbara**
Shadows with high quantities
of soot cannot be dealt with carelessly.
**[08:50] Susanna**
Oh, it's all so troubling.
**[08:54] Barbara**
Is Kate a traitor...
**[08:56] Barbara**
or is she...
**[09:00] Emilico**
You did it, Mistress Kate!
**[09:02] Emilico**
If you can find the culprit,
**[09:05] Emilico**
you'll be so much closer
to becoming a Star Bearer!
**[09:08] Kate**
You're right.
**[09:09] Kate**
Persuading them went well.
**[09:17] Emilico**
Oh!
**[09:18] Emilico**
I need to go to the toilet!
**[09:20] Emilico**
I won't be back for a while!
**[09:40] Kate; internal**
*Earlier, I snapped*
**[09:42] Kate; internal**
* and ended up saying all*
* of those things to the Star Bearers.*
**[09:44] Kate; internal**
*The future seems bleak.*
**[09:49] Kate; internal**
*Kate needs to think things through.*
**[09:51] Kate; internal**
* What was the meaning behind*
* the phantom disturbance?*
**[09:55] Kate; internal**
* Is it someone who has a grudge against*
* the Belles, who have now been punished?*
**[09:58] Kate; internal**
* Or could it be a grudge*
* against the Star Bearers?*
**[10:00] Kate; internal**
* Was it arranged by someone who wants*
* the position for him or herself?*
**[10:04] Kate; internal**
*But could it really be so simple a motive?*
**[10:08] Kate; internal**
*Someone is trying to fly the flag of rebellion against Shadows House...*
**[10:11] Kate; internal**
*There's someone other than Kate.*
**[10:14] Kate; internal**
* The most important facts are*
* that the coffee carafes were broken...*
**[10:18] Kate; internal**
*and the sighting of the mysterious figure.*
**[10:22] Kate; internal**
* The individual that Emilico*
* and the others call "Master Robe."*
**[10:26] Kate; internal**
* The Star Bearers concluded*
* that the Belles were responsible...*
**[10:30] Kate; internal**
* but it seems worth*
* considering the possibility...*
**[10:34] Kate; internal**
* that it was someone*
* in the children's wing...*
**[10:36] Kate; internal**
*If that's the case,*
**[10:37] Kate; internal**
* then it would have to be a non-Star-Bearer*
* who has been here a relatively long time.*
**[10:41] Kate; internal**
*Emilico told me...*
**[10:43] Kate; internal**
* that it was an incredibly*
* large phantom.*
**[10:46] Kate; internal**
* Could it be the doing of a shadow*
* with a high soot volume?*
**[10:49] Kate; internal**
*It couldn't be...*
**[10:50] Kate; internal**
* At that moment, Barbara just*
* happened to not be present.*
**[10:54] Kate; internal**
*They say that she can't control her soot.*
**[10:57] Kate; internal**
*But if it was Barbara,*
**[10:59] Kate; internal**
* then she may have had other reasons*
* for entrusting this to Kate.*
**[11:02] Kate; internal**
* And if we're speaking*
* of high soot volume, John...*
**[11:05] Kate; internal**
*No, it couldn't be him.*
**[11:08] Kate; internal**
* Mind control powers*
* can't manipulate shadows,*
**[11:11] Kate; internal**
* but it might be possible*
* to control scorches.*
**[11:14] Kate; internal**
*Isabelle, Mirabelle, Louise...*
**[11:18] Kate; internal**
*This is no good.*
**[11:19] Kate; internal**
*Everyone is starting to seem suspicious.*
**[11:21] Kate; internal**
*There is still far too little information.*
**[11:24] Kate; internal**
*Speaking of which,*
**[11:25] Kate; internal**
* it might be worth reviewing*
* Emilico's "don't fret" notebook.*
**[11:30] Kate**
Emilico?
**[11:31] Emilico**
Yes, Mistress?
**[11:31] Kate**
That was quick!
**[11:32] Kate**
Were you back there this whole time?
**[11:39] Kate**
Hm?
**[11:40] Kate**
Emilico, what is this map?
**[11:43] Emilico**
That is a map of the main house
that Mia drew for me.
**[11:46] Emilico**
It was very helpful
**[11:48] Emilico**
on our late-night patrols after
the first phantom disturbance!
**[11:52] Kate**
Mia contracted soot sickness, didn't she?
**[11:56] Emilico**
Yes.
**[11:58] Kate**
Shall we pay a visit to see how she is faring?
**[12:00] Emilico**
May we, really?
**[12:02] Kate**
Yes.
**[12:02] Kate**
And there we might find some sort of lead.
**[12:08] Isabelle; Mirabelle**
Open this! Open it now!
**[12:11] Isabelle; Mirabelle**
Open it immediately!
**[12:18] Isabelle**
It's soot sickness! Isabelle...
**[12:21] Mirabelle**
...and Mirabelle's faces have...
**[12:23] Gilbert**
That was fast.
**[12:24] Gilbert**
It hasn't even been ten minutes
since you entered.
**[12:28] Gil**
To the washing room!
**[12:37] Gil**
Now, continue!
**[12:38] Belle A**
Wait! I can't yet!
**[12:40] Gilbert**
Do you intend to spend
more than a year cleaning?
**[12:42] Belle B**
No! I don't want to go back!
**[12:45] Kate**
This place is in quite an uproar.
**[12:47] Evelyn**
Do you require aid?
**[12:52] Kate**
No.
**[12:53] Kate**
We're on an investigation under
special orders from the Star Bearers.
**[12:56] Kate**
Please allow us to speak with the
living dolls who are being cleansed.
**[13:00] Emilico**
Huh?
**[13:00] Emilico**
They said they weren't giving
you any special authority.
**[13:03] Kate**
Yes, well, the Star Bearers
will likely forgive Kate this much.
**[13:17] Emilico**
Mia?
**[13:24] Emilico**
Mia, are you all right?
**[13:32] Mia**
I tricked you!
**[13:34] Mia**
Thank you.
**[13:35] Mia**
Did you come to see how I'm doing?
**[13:37] Emilico**
Yes!
**[13:38] Mia**
Honestly, I've had enough of
being seriously ill!
**[13:41] Mia**
They keep telling me
to rest, just to be safe.
**[13:44] Mia**
All while Mistress Sarah waits in her rooms.
**[13:46] Mia**
Oh, and listen to this!
**[13:47] Mia**
Drinking the water was really—
**[13:49] Mia**
Mistress Kate?! Please, forgive me!
**[13:51] Kate**
It's quite all right.
**[13:52] Kate**
The important thing is
that you're all right.
**[13:54] Kate**
Kate was told that you once
drew a map for Emilico.
**[13:58] Kate**
Kate apologizes for taking
so long to thank you.
**[14:01] Mia**
Oh! No, it's fine!
**[14:02] Kate**
But to have another phantom wreak havoc...
**[14:06] Kate**
Mia, on the day of the disturbance,
**[14:08] Kate**
did you notice anything strange?
**[14:11] Mia**
I was attacked by scorches
almost immediately, so...
**[14:17] Mia**
Honestly!
**[14:18] Mia**
Thanks to Doug, I wasn't able
to help with the phantom at all.
**[14:25] Emilico**
That's Rosemary's voice!
**[14:28] Evelyn**
It's another fit!
**[14:51] Evelyn**
Eve, administer the remaining two sets
at three-minute intervals.
**[15:00] Evelyn**
We haven't introduced
ourselves yet, have we?
**[15:02] Evelyn**
Evelyn, in charge of cleansing.
**[15:05] Kate**
Kate.
**[15:06] Evelyn**
You want to hear
from the patient, is that right?
**[15:08] Evelyn**
But that is not possible at the moment.
**[15:11] Evelyn**
She's being given the very best treatments.
**[15:14] Evelyn**
We can only hope that she doesn't break.
**[15:20] Kate**
Rosemary is sure to return
to her former self.
**[15:25] Emilico**
Yes!
**[15:25] Emilico**
I trust that she will!
**[15:27] Kate**
Of greater concern
**[15:28] Kate**
is that Rosemary was the
instigator of the incident...
**[15:32] Kate**
and how the Star Bearers will
ultimately deal with her.
**[15:34] Emilico**
If we find the real culprit,
**[15:36] Emilico**
then she won't be disposed of, right?
**[15:38] Emilico**
And neither will the Belles!
**[15:40] Kate**
What did you think
of Mia's condition earlier?
**[15:42] Emilico**
She was as spirited as ever!
**[15:45] Kate**
Yes.
**[15:46] Kate**
It isn't to be underestimated.
**[15:48] Kate**
Kate had hoped that the brainwashing
effects of the coffee might have weakened.
**[15:52] Kate**
But that doesn't seem to be the case.
**[15:55] Kate**
Coffee has been accumulating
within her over a long period of time.
**[15:58] Kate**
This brief interruption produced no change.
**[16:00] Emilico**
Yes, she was just as she always is.
**[16:05] Emilico**
That's right!
**[16:06] Emilico**
The Star Bearers' meeting room
was on the third floor, right?
**[16:08] Emilico**
The map that Mia drew for me only
showed up to the second floor.
**[16:12] Kate**
True.
**[16:13] Kate**
And it only showed the main house.
**[16:16] Kate**
That's it.
**[16:17] Kate**
We will take this as an opportunity to
create a floor plan of the children's wing.
**[16:25] Kate**
This is the site of the incident.
**[16:27] Kate**
If a shadow took advantage of
**[16:29] Kate**
the disturbance to hide somewhere
and control the Belles,
**[16:31] Kate**
it is unlikely that they would be noticed.
**[16:35] Kate**
Now that Kate thinks about it,
**[16:37] Kate**
Kate's room is being watched.
**[16:39] Kate**
To be treated as the culprit
in the face of that...
**[16:41] Kate**
It's too much, isn't it?
**[16:42] Emilico**
It really is!
**[16:44] boy 6**
Oh, it's Kate!
**[16:46] boy 7**
We heard that your face played
an important role in the great cleaning.
**[16:50] boy 7**
That's impressive.
**[16:51] Kate**
Oh. Well, thank you.
**[16:53] boy 4**
You guys.
**[16:54] boy 4**
Don't make a living doll's
work the topic of conversation.
**[16:58] boy 6**
Oh!
**[16:59] boy 6**
It is unbefitting of a shadow.
**[17:02] boy 7**
Please don't tattle on us
to the Star Bearers!
**[17:06] Emilico**
They complimented me.
**[17:08] Kate**
Kate is happy that there are some
who hold Emilico in high regard.
**[17:20] John**
Have you been well, Kate?
**[17:22] Kate**
Why are you coming from a place like that?
**[17:24] John**
That's John's room!
**[17:26] John**
Calling out loudly
to stop you would be bad, right?
**[17:28] John**
It's better not to do anything
that might draw attention.
**[17:31] Kate**
If you think that what you
just did won't draw attention,
**[17:34] Kate**
then Kate has nothing more to say.
**[17:38] John**
Interesting.
**[17:40] John**
And impressive as always, Kate!
**[17:41] John**
Right!
**[17:42] John**
John will lend his strength
to help solve this case!
**[17:44] Emilico**
I'm so happy to have you
with us, Master John!
**[17:47] John**
What?
**[17:48] John**
You didn't move your mouth at all!
**[17:51] Emilico**
I didn't want anyone to think that a face was
speaking on its own while we were outside,
**[17:54] Emilico**
so I practiced!
**[17:55] John**
Incredible!
**[17:56] John**
Shaun, John wants you to do that, too!
**[17:58] John**
John has no idea what you're saying!
**[18:01] Shaun**
Mistress Kate, while
we're speaking of this...
**[18:04] Shaun**
On the day of the phantom disturbance,
**[18:05] Shaun**
I spotted a suspicious figure.
**[18:07] Kate**
Was it, perhaps, the robed figure?
**[18:09] Shaun**
Yes.
**[18:10] Shaun**
Ricky and I chased it,
but it escaped us almost immediately.
**[18:16] Kate**
Is someone watching us?
**[18:20] Kate**
It's possible that they're monitoring us.
**[18:23] girl 4**
Those two are engaged
or something, aren't they?
**[18:27] girl 3**
To go on a date at a time like this...
**[18:29] girl 3**
They seem quite sure of themselves.
**[18:33] Kate**
John really is just an
encumbrance, isn't he?
**[18:37] Emilico**
Mistress Kate!
**[18:59] Kate**
Kate is exhausted!
**[19:00] Kate**
But this is an impressive result,
wouldn't you say?
**[19:02] Emilico**
As always, you're amazing, Mistress Kate!
**[19:04] Kate**
The areas we weren't able to access were...
**[19:07] Kate**
the ramparts and the
Star Bearers' residential wing.
**[19:09] Kate**
Most of it was locked.
**[19:12] Kate**
And we haven't yet gone to the area
where Star Bearers are often found,
**[19:15] Kate**
the third floor of the main house.
**[19:17] John**
Huh?
**[19:18] John**
Speaking of the third floor
of the main house...
**[19:20] John**
It has an external stairway connected to it.
**[19:26] Kate**
What? Are you going there?
**[19:29] Kate**
Now?
**[19:31] John**
Heights are meant to be reached, right?
**[19:37] Emilico**
Wow!
**[19:41] Emilico**
What a wonderful view!
**[19:43] Shaun**
This is dangerous.
**[19:44] John**
So, part of the third floor is outdoors.
**[19:47] Emilico**
It's fun seeing the map get filled in!
**[19:53] Kate**
Wait... The three of you...
**[19:55] Kate**
You're too quick.
**[19:57] Emilico**
Mistress Kate!
**[19:59] John**
Kate!
**[19:59] John**
John will lend you a hand.
**[20:00] Kate**
It's too late now!
**[20:02] John**
You used soot for that?!
**[20:06] Kate**
What a pleasant breeze.
**[20:08] Kate; internal**
* After John proposed it,*
* Kate came here unwillingly,*
**[20:11] Kate; internal**
* but it's a nice change of pace,*
* so it might have been for the best.*
**[20:15] Emilico**
Mistress Kate, why would
there be a cabin there?
**[20:19] John**
It's quite large, but John
has never noticed it before.
**[20:22] Kate**
It doesn't look maintained.
**[20:24] Kate**
It's quite overgrown.
**[20:26] John**
Let's go and check it out!
**[20:27] John**
We may be able to make
a secret base for ourselves!
**[20:30] Emilico**
That sounds like fun!
**[20:37] Emilico**
Are you all right, Mistress Kate?
**[20:40] Shaun**
The door is rusted shut. It won't budge at all.
**[20:43] John**
Stand aside!
**[20:44] John**
John will wrench it open for Kate's sake!
**[21:26] Emilico**
Being precisely in the path
of the window frame saved us!
**[21:29] Kate**
John! You truly are just...
**[21:33] Shaun**
He was the only one to suffer from this.
**[21:35] Shaun**
Please forgive him.
**[21:36] Kate**
Honestly.
**[21:37] Kate**
It's because he does
everything by brute force.
**[21:46] Oliver**
Huh?
**[21:49] Oliver; Kate**
What?
**[21:55] Oliver**
You...
**[21:56] Kate**
We're so sorry!
**[21:57] Kate**
We didn't know this belonged
to the research team!
**[22:01] Oliver**
Olly...
**[22:05] lyric**
*Traveling through a jumbled labyrinth...*
**[22:10] lyric**
*Over and over*
**[22:14] lyric**
*This lonely utopia...*
**[22:19] lyric**
*I have no more need of it*
**[22:23] lyric**
*A vanished smile*
**[22:25] lyric**
*Promises are lies, too*
**[22:28] lyric**
* Everything is pointless,*
* isn't it? And yet...*
**[22:32] lyric**
*Even misshapen as I am, I keep searching...*
**[22:37] lyric**
*For shadows of recollection*
**[22:43] lyric**
*Roses whose love has rotted...*
**[22:48] lyric**
*Lock their feelings away*
**[22:53] lyric**
*That silhouette from back then...*
**[22:57] lyric**
*I've kept on chasing it...*
**[23:01] lyric**
*Even if pale, frozen thorns*
**[23:06] lyric**
*Pierce my heart over and over*
**[23:10] lyric**
*Until I can take that hand*
**[23:15] lyric**
*Again and again*
**[23:19] lyric**
*I'll wish on a star*
**[23:36] Kate**
Next time,
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Next Time
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**[23:37] Kate**
"A Midnight Meeting of Peers."
# E5 - A Midnight Meeting of Peers
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GZ7UV8M9X/a-midnight-meeting-of-peers)
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**[00:05] Oliver**
Huh?
**[00:08] Kate; Oliver**
What?
**[00:13] Oliver**
You...
**[00:15] Kate**
We're so sorry!
**[00:16] Kate**
We didn't know this belonged
to the research team!
**[00:20] Oliver**
Olly...
**[00:24] Emilico**
Huh?
**[00:24] Olly**
Super living doll, secured!
**[00:28] Oliver**
You handled Oliver's invention
wonderfully well, didn't you?
**[00:33] Oliver**
You have so much power concealed
within such a small frame!
**[00:38] Oliver**
Right, Olly!
**[00:39] Oliver**
Give her a thorough examination, will you?
**[00:40] Olly**
Yes, Professor Oliver!
**[00:42] John**
Shaun!
**[00:42] Olly; background**
First, raise your arms up.
**[00:43] John**
Make sure Emilico isn't having
any strange experiments run...
**[00:44] Olly; background**
Slowly stretch your back, and then...
**[00:46] Olly; Emilico; background**
One, two! One, two!
**[00:47] John**
He's gone.
**[00:49] Emilico**
Shaun...
**[00:49] John; background**
Hey!
**[00:51] John**
John is trying to apologize.
**[00:53] John**
Will you please listen?
**[00:55] Oliver**
Are you guests here?
**[00:56] Shaun; Emilico**
Huh?
**[00:57] John**
He's not listening!
**[01:00] Oliver**
Anna! Nancy! Please make some black tea.
**[01:04] Anna**
Anna isn't so sure about this!
**[01:08] John**
What kind of black tea?
**[01:25] lyrics**
*In the face of sadness, we shall smile*
**[01:29] lyrics**
*To live is to be a marionette*
**[01:33] lyrics**
*Once your heart gets into the swing...*
**[01:37] lyrics**
*Would you like a coffee?*
**[01:42] lyrics**
*1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2*
**[01:44] lyrics**
*1, 2, 2, 3*
**[01:45] lyrics**
*I can't seem to dance very well*
**[01:48] lyrics**
*Pain and resentment, and sadness, too...*
**[01:51] lyrics**
*Mix them, knead them...*
**[01:55] lyrics**
*And then a good night kiss*
**[01:59] lyrics**
*Shall we Dance? We shall dance*
**[02:03] lyrics**
*Despair and desire. This is the life!*
**[02:07] lyrics**
*Shadow Life!*
**[02:09] lyrics**
*Don't puzzle over things unnecessarily*
**[02:13] lyrics**
*Let's become one*
**[02:15] lyrics**
*How nice (How nice) How nice (How nice)*
**[02:19] lyrics**
*Humans... Being human... It's so nice*
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**[02:43] Anna**
We didn't have many tea leaves left,
**[02:46] Anna**
but we managed to make enough for everyone.
**[02:52] Kate; internal**
*It's so weak!*
**[02:54] Oliver**
Anna, Nancy, thank you.
**[02:58] John**
Is this feeding time?!
**[03:02] Anna**
This is one way that Oliver
shows affection, you see.
**[03:05] John**
It's bizarre!
**[03:05] Lydia**
Quit all the screeching, brats.
**[03:08] Lydia**
I'll slit your throats.
**[03:11] John**
She's scary!
**[03:13] Anna**
Lydia and Liddy have
a slightly rough way of speaking.
**[03:16] John**
As a noble, that level
of roughness is absurd!
**[03:19] John**
And that pair!
**[03:20] John**
How are they able to sleep
through all of this?
**[03:23] Anna**
Jeremiah and Jeremy don't like others
intruding on their world.
**[03:28] John**
John has no idea what that means!
**[03:30] John**
Does everyone here lack an
awareness of common sense?
**[03:36] Kate; internal**
*John has awareness of common sense?*
**[03:39] Oliver**
Well, we've only just
moved the laboratory here.
**[03:42] Kate**
Why here?
**[03:44] Oliver**
Our previous lab was in the
basement of the main house,
**[03:48] Oliver**
but it was just too cramped.
**[03:50] Oliver**
This place is old and dirty,
**[03:52] Oliver**
but it's connected to the house,
and it's big, which is useful.
**[03:56] Oliver**
The outer doors were rusted and wouldn't open,
**[03:58] Oliver**
so we had planned
to do repairs later, but...
**[04:04] Oliver**
It's so much easier to get
outside through the front now!
**[04:07] Oliver**
It's quite convenient!
**[04:09] Kate; internal**
*He certainly has a positive mindset.*
**[04:11] Oliver**
Kate has been investigating that recent matter,
and the boy beside her is...
**[04:15] Anna**
Murmur, murmur, murmur...
**[04:17] Oliver**
Oh! They're in *that* sort of
relationship, are they?
**[04:21] Kate; internal**
*Just how far has the story spread?*
**[04:25] Olly**
Now, let's remove your portrait, shall we?
**[04:27] Shaun**
Emilico is capable of
changing her own clothes!
**[04:37] Emilico**
I smell something nice!
**[04:41] John**
The pair that was sleeping
woke up without us noticing!
**[04:46] John**
Well, *that* area certainly looks fancy!
**[04:49] Emilico**
He's a living doll...
but he gets to eat meat?
**[04:52] Olly**
It's a privilege for those
associated with Star Bearers.
**[04:55] Olly**
They get more extravagant food
than other living dolls!
**[04:58] Olly**
And they're exempted from great cleanings.
**[05:00] Kate**
That's quite a lot of exceptions.
**[05:01] Kate**
And the shadows work, too.
**[05:04] Anna**
It isn't work.
**[05:06] Anna**
The first-aid team performs
philanthropic actions,
**[05:09] Anna**
and the research team explores knowledge.
That is their purpose.
**[05:14] Kate; internal**
*The first-aid team and research team...*
**[05:16] Kate; internal**
* The members of these teams may*
* be future Star Bearer candidates.*
**[05:20] Kate**
So, what is the research team making?
**[05:23] Kate**
Something like the soot remover?
**[05:25] Oliver**
That was created previously,
and Oliver and the others maintain it.
**[05:29] Oliver**
That mobile soot collector
is something Oliver made!
**[05:33] Kate**
Incredible.
**[05:34] Kate**
Kate likes things like that.
**[05:36] John**
You do?
**[05:37] Oliver**
Just what one would expect
of the super living doll's master!
**[05:41] Kate**
Kate hopes you will show her everything!
**[05:43] Emilico**
One hundred!
**[05:44] Emilico**
One hundred one, one hundred two,
one hundred three,
**[05:46] Olly**
Incredible!
**[05:47] Olly**
She shows no sign of dropping them!
**[05:47] Emilico**
one hundred four, one hundred five,
one hundred six...
**[05:49] Shaun**
You can do it, Emilico!
**[05:51] Oliver**
This is a model of
a lightweight soot collector.
**[05:54] Oliver**
After the Oliver Mark II's success,
we are proceeding to rave reviews!
**[05:59] Kate**
This one has wheels attached.
**[06:01] Kate**
Based on the size, could these be... shoes?
**[06:04] Oliver**
Exactly! They're shoe-shaped cycles!
**[06:08] John**
* There's no opportunity for John*
* to join the conversation!*
**[06:10] Oliver**
Kate, you are impressive!
**[06:12] Oliver**
And you produce soot stalactites.
You're quite exceptional.
**[06:15] Kate**
Soot stalactites?
**[06:17] Kate**
Do you mean those things
that form on the ceiling when Kate is angry?
**[06:20] Oliver**
Uh-oh.
**[06:21] Oliver**
Um, this is a secret, but...
**[06:24] Oliver**
It's a trait peculiar to those
who have a high soot volume.
**[06:28] Oliver**
In the children's wing,
there are only a handful of such cases.
**[06:30] Oliver**
According to Susanna...
**[06:32] Oliver**
Barbara, Benjamin, Gilbert, Kate, John.
**[06:36] Oliver**
And, based on the volume
of soot collected from the rooms,
**[06:39] Oliver**
some say that Douglas and Sarah
might be able to create stalactites, too.
**[06:43] Kate; internal**
*He's giving Kate quite a lot of information.*
**[06:45] Kate**
Oliver, regarding the phantom incident,
**[06:48] Kate**
who do you find suspicious?
**[06:51] Oliver**
Oliver doesn't know anything
about that sort of thing.
**[06:54] Oliver**
But he does think
that it's likely to be a man.
**[06:58] Kate**
Why is that?
**[06:59] Oliver**
This is a secret,
**[07:01] Oliver**
but the scorches that became the phantom
escaped from the soot pipes.
**[07:04] Oliver**
And the door to
the soot pipes is very heavy.
**[07:08] Oliver**
Unless there were two girls
working together, like the twins,
**[07:11] Oliver**
it would be difficult to open.
**[07:15] Oliver**
Your balance is stupendous!
**[07:15] Kate**
Shaun...
**[07:17] Kate**
Master Robe is tall, correct?
**[07:21] Shaun**
Yes.
**[07:22] Shaun**
Based on its height,
we can't be sure that it's a child.
**[07:25] Shaun**
That's what Barbie said.
**[07:27] Kate**
Really...
**[07:28] Kate**
Say, Oliver.
**[07:29] Kate**
Adults don't come
to the children's wing, do they?
**[07:32] Oliver**
That's correct, according to the rules.
**[07:34] Oliver**
All management is entrusted
to the Star Bearers.
**[07:38] Kate; internal**
*Master Robe appears secretly late at night.*
**[07:40] Kate; internal**
*Is the reason it's avoiding attention...*
**[07:43] Kate; internal**
*because it's an adult?*
**[07:45] Kate; internal**
* And it's someone who is very familiar*
* with the inside of the children's wing.*
**[07:49] Kate; internal**
*Could Master Robe...*
**[07:51] Kate; internal**
*be a former Star Bearer?*
**[07:53] Kate; internal**
*Christopher?*
**[07:56] Kate**
Oliver! Christopher—
**[07:58] Oliver**
Please stop! Not that!
**[08:00] Oliver**
It will make everyone angry, truly.
**[08:03] Oliver**
He was just too exceptional.
**[08:05] Kate; internal**
*Yes, that's most likely impossible.*
**[08:07] Oliver**
Christopher and Anthony are the only
topics Oliver can't tell you about.
**[08:11] Kate; internal**
*Anthony?*
**[08:12] Oliver**
These things really are secret. Really.
**[08:16] Kate; internal**
*Who is that?*
**[08:18] Kate; internal**
*Another former Star Bearer?*
**[08:21] Oliver**
Apologies.
**[08:23] Oliver**
Oliver can answer any
other questions, but...
**[08:26] Kate**
Um, then...
**[08:28] Kate**
Oliver, do you not have rooms
in the Star Bearers' residential wing?
**[08:32] Oliver**
Oliver does,
**[08:33] Oliver**
but they're far from the lab,
so he doesn't return to them often.
**[08:35] Kate**
What? Then when do you bathe?
**[08:37] Oliver**
A very good point!
**[08:39] Oliver**
That's why Oliver had this idea!
**[08:41] Oliver**
Deodorizing perfume!
**[08:43] Kate**
But when do you bathe?
**[08:45] Oliver**
However, even though it
worked well for Oliver,
**[08:47] Oliver**
in Benjamin's case,
it resulted in a horrible stench.
**[08:49] Oliver**
We discovered that it produces different
results depending on who uses it!
**[08:52] Kate**
Okay, but when do you bathe...?
**[08:55] Shaun**
Mistress Kate,
**[08:56] Shaun**
when I ran into Master Robe,
I smelled perfume.
**[09:00] Shaun**
It may have been using
one of the perfumes from here.
**[09:04] Kate**
That seems a reasonable possibility.
**[09:07] Kate**
Could we smell your perfumes?
**[09:09] Oliver**
Of course.
**[09:10] Anna**
Lydia is the one who oversees them.
**[09:17] Kate**
You have quite a few.
**[09:20] Lydia**
At the moment, we are supplying
the children's wing with ten varieties.
**[09:23] Lydia**
Are you wanting to change your perfume?
**[09:26] John**
What? Perfumes can be changed?
**[09:29] Lydia**
After debuting, things
like clothes, furniture,
**[09:32] Lydia**
and even wallpaper can be
changed, if you so desire.
**[09:34] John**
Really?
**[09:35] John**
Then perhaps John will take this perfume.
**[09:38] Lydia**
You can't.
**[09:38] Lydia**
The full amount is already reserved.
**[09:40] John**
So now it *can't* be changed?!
**[09:42] Lydia**
Those who contribute and those
who are older are given priority, of course!
**[09:45] Lydia**
Don't go thinking we'll pander
to the whims of every brat who asks!
**[09:49] Lydia**
And what do you mean, you'll just "take" it?
**[09:51] Lydia**
Each person only gets one, you greedy brat!
**[09:53] John**
John is sorry.
**[09:55] Kate**
What do you think?
**[09:56] Shaun**
I think these three are closest.
**[10:00] Kate**
Is there a list of the shadows
who use this one?
**[10:06] Kate**
Thank you.
**[10:08] Kate**
And are there any shadows who recently
changed their perfume for a brief time?
**[10:13] Lydia**
No, there aren't.
**[10:15] Lydia**
Don't tell us you're trying
to identify a particular individual.
**[10:19] Kate**
What?
**[10:19] Lydia**
Ha!
**[10:21] Lydia**
That's clearly impossible!
**[10:24] Lydia**
Once a perfume is on the skin,
**[10:25] Lydia**
it's difficult for even a professional
to discern which it is!
**[10:28] Lydia**
As it is part of a noble's accoutrements,
**[10:29] Lydia**
everyone is supplied with it from the start!
**[10:32] Lydia**
And everyone has a specific personal odor
**[10:34] Lydia**
which can change daily depending
on their physical condition.
**[10:36] Lydia**
Even a little time passing after application
**[10:39] Lydia**
can make it smell like a completely
different scent in some cases!
**[10:41] Lydia**
The speed of evaporation changes depending
on the essential oil and age of the wearer!
**[10:45] Lydia**
And adults wear perfume
from a different wing!
**[10:49] Shaun**
There you have it, Mistress.
**[10:51] Lydia**
Hmph!
**[10:56] Olly**
Thank you for letting us
examine so many things.
**[11:00] Emilico**
It's so sweet!
**[11:04] Kate**
It's already time for the evening meal.
**[11:06] Kate**
And there is so much more
Kate had hoped to ask.
**[11:09] Oliver**
What? You're leaving already?
**[11:11] Oliver**
Then...
**[11:12] Oliver**
This is a secret, but...
**[11:14] Oliver**
Oliver will give you a key.
**[11:17] Oliver**
It's a key to the living doll's rooms.
**[11:19] Oliver**
You can use it to come to this
lab at any time, even at night.
**[11:25] Oliver**
The super living doll
is always most welcome!
**[11:29] Olly**
Most welcome!
**[11:30] Oliver; Olly**
Most welcome! Most welcome! Most welcome!
**[11:33] Oliver; Olly**
Most welcome! Most welcome! Most welcome!
**[11:37] Oliver**
Here.
**[11:37] John**
Huh?
**[11:38] John**
You're giving one to John and Shaun, too?
**[11:40] Oliver**
Yes. You two...
**[11:42] Oliver**
will fix the wall.
**[11:50] John**
And here John was hoping they'd
let the whole wall thing slide.
**[11:53] Shaun**
They seem likely to use us for odd jobs.
**[11:57] Kate; internal**
*We obtained quite a lot of information.*
**[11:59] Kate; internal**
*We even received a key.*
**[12:01] Kate; internal**
* Kate would not have been able to*
* take these actions alone.*
**[12:04] Kate; internal**
*It was nerve-wracking,*
**[12:06] Kate; internal**
*but John, this was all thanks to you.*
**[12:09] Kate; internal**
* The two pairs who helped us*
* during the incident with Edward...*
**[12:13] Kate; internal**
*Louise.*
**[12:15] Kate; internal**
*She lacks a spirit of cooperation,*
**[12:16] Kate; internal**
*but she works hard to achieve her own goals.*
**[12:18] Kate; internal**
*There's no malice to her.*
**[12:20] Kate; internal**
*And there's no hidden side of her, either.*
**[12:23] Kate; internal**
*Patrick.*
**[12:24] Kate; internal**
* He's arrogant, but he's also*
* possessed of a strong sense of duty.*
**[12:27] Kate; internal**
* In the garden, he pulled out*
* a pair of scissors and helped Kate.*
**[12:31] Kate; internal**
*If nothing else,*
**[12:32] Kate; internal**
* today's investigation showed*
* that those recently come of age*
**[12:34] Kate; internal**
* could not possibly have*
* committed this crime.*
**[12:38] Emilico**
If we go through my room,
**[12:40] Emilico**
we should be able to leave
while avoiding the guards.
**[12:42] Kate**
Yes.
**[12:44] Kate; internal**
*The next rejoicing party is in six days.*
**[12:47] Kate; internal**
*Though we have so little time...*
**[12:49] Kate; internal**
* we will solve the mystery*
* of the phantom disturbance...*
**[12:52] Kate; internal**
*and discover the identity of Master Robe.*
**[12:55] Kate; internal**
*To make these things possible,*
**[12:57] Kate; internal**
*we will once again hold a meeting of peers!*
**[13:04] Emilico**
Professor Oliver gave me this!
**[13:06] Emilico**
A long-distance key extender stick!
**[13:09] Emilico**
Set the key in the tip!
**[13:20] Emilico**
Escape successful!
**[13:22] Emilico**
I'm so sorry!
**[13:24] Emilico**
I keep doing discourteous things.
**[13:25] Kate**
It's all right.
**[13:27] Kate**
For some reason, this feels fun.
**[13:33] Emilico**
Will you really be all right alone?
**[13:36] Kate**
Kate will be fine.
**[13:37] Kate**
We'll attract attention
if there are too many of us,
**[13:39] Kate**
so it will just be us shadows.
**[13:40] Kate**
That was what we promised.
**[13:47] Kate; internal**
* The scattered positions of the veiled dolls*
* are the same as during the day.*
**[13:53] Kate; internal**
* It's a good thing we made notes*
* while we wandered around.*
**[13:57] Kate; internal**
* There is a path which*
* will avoid their notice.*
**[13:59] Kate; internal**
* During the evening meal,*
* I spoke to Louise...*
**[14:02] Kate; internal**
*John spoke to Patrick...*
**[14:04] Kate; internal**
*and we each made arrangements to meet.*
**[14:07] Kate; internal**
*We are to assemble at midnight.*
**[14:17] John**
She's here!
**[14:19] John**
Kate, look at this table!
**[14:21] John**
It looks like it was put
here just for us, doesn't it?
**[14:24] John**
John has been thinking this
for a while, Patrick.
**[14:27] John**
You wanted to ask us all
here again, didn't you?
**[14:29] John**
You silly little...
**[14:30] Patrick**
Stop blithering! Don't touch Patrick!
**[14:32] John; background**
You're more adorable than one might imagine!
**[14:32] Louise**
You're always so haughty.
**[14:33] Patrick; background**
I-It isn't like that at all!
**[14:33] Louise**
But in truth, you were just lonely?
**[14:34] John; background**
Come now...
**[14:35] Louise**
How amusing!
**[14:39] Patrick**
All of you,
**[14:40] Patrick**
don't get above yourselves just
because you've had those special lessons.
**[14:42] Patrick**
So, what is this?
**[14:44] Patrick**
A midnight gathering of hooligans
without their faces.
**[14:46] Patrick**
Patrick will report you all
to the Star Bearers, understand?
**[14:50] Kate**
John, do you know what to do?
**[14:52] John**
Of course!
**[14:55] Kate**
What was that?
**[14:57] John**
* John won't say that this is Kate*
* and himself trying to start a revolt.*
**[15:01] John**
* We're simply using the resolution*
* of the phantom incidents*
**[15:04] John**
* to establish a bond of trust*
* with our fellows.*
**[15:08] Patrick**
The phantom disturbance incidents
haven't been resolved?
**[15:11] Kate**
That is correct.
**[15:12] Kate**
The real culprit lies elsewhere.
**[15:14] Kate**
The twins are merely scapegoats.
**[15:16] Kate**
For a brief time, Kate was
almost blamed as the culprit.
**[15:19] Kate**
Kate convinced the Star Bearers to forgive her
if she caught the real mastermind.
**[15:24] Kate**
But the Star Bearers won't wait for long.
**[15:27] Kate**
Personally, Kate would like
to produce results within a week.
**[15:31] Kate**
To do that, she will need your help.
**[15:34] Kate**
That's why she asked you to gather here.
**[15:36] Patrick**
Hold on.
**[15:37] Patrick**
The risk of drawing the Star Bearers'
attention for this is too high.
**[15:40] Patrick**
This isn't funny.
**[15:42] Patrick**
Just because Patrick helped you once,
don't assume that he will help again.
**[15:45] John**
H-Hey!
**[15:46] John**
Normally, anyone would grant
Kate's requests, wouldn't they?
**[15:48] Patrick**
That's just you!
**[15:50] Patrick**
Why would Patrick want
to keep causing problems?
**[15:54] Kate**
But if we resolve this,
**[15:56] Kate**
the Star Bearers will think
more highly of all of us.
**[15:58] Louise**
Say, Kate.
**[16:00] Louise**
This conversation is incredibly boring.
**[16:04] Louise**
Talk about something else.
Something amusing.
**[16:07] Kate**
Th-This isn't about being boring or amusing!
**[16:10] Kate**
You've all noticed, haven't you?
**[16:12] Kate**
There's a rule that someone
must always be held responsible.
**[16:15] Kate**
During our debut,
Edward tried to make Kate fail.
**[16:19] Kate**
Because he failed in that,
and because of the kidnapping incident,
**[16:22] Kate**
even now he still resents Kate
and is making her his target!
**[16:25] Kate**
Think about the moment
when all of that could fall on you!
**[16:28] Louise**
Louise doesn't like Edward,
so she doesn't want to get involved.
**[16:32] Patrick**
Just so.
**[16:33] Patrick**
If one doesn't get involved
in the first place, nothing will happen.
**[16:36] John**
You're all just...
**[16:39] Louise**
Kate, all you're talking about
is what you want us to do for you.
**[16:43] Louise**
It's incredibly egotistical of you!
**[16:46] Louise**
You always do that
when you speak to us, Kate.
**[16:50] Kate; internal**
* It isn't the re-indoctrination that's*
* making this conversation break down...*
**[16:50] Louise**
Last time, too, you...
**[16:56] Kate; internal**
*It's me.*
**[17:00] Kate; internal**
*Emilico isn't self-centered,*
**[17:03] Kate; internal**
*and she's good at drawing people in.*
**[17:06] Kate; internal**
* It's because she finds*
* joy in being with others.*
**[17:09] Kate; internal**
* That sincere innocence*
* creates allies for her.*
**[17:13] Kate; internal**
* Am I capable of finding a way*
* for everyone to have fun?*
**[17:19] Kate**
This is it!
**[17:22] John**
Kate's broken down under the
weight of everyone's criticism!
**[17:26] John**
Huh?
**[17:27] John**
What?
**[17:28] John**
No, wait...
**[17:30] John**
Kneading John's soot like that...
He's starting to feel embarrassed.
**[17:33] Patrick**
What is wrong with you?
**[17:36] Kate**
Look, it's a sootman!
**[17:39] Kate**
Kate is sorry for only
speaking of difficult things.
**[17:42] Kate**
Since we're all here together,
let's enjoy ourselves.
**[17:46] Kate**
See?
**[17:47] Kate**
You make these when
you're bored, right?
**[17:49] Kate**
What?
**[17:50] Kate**
Is it only Kate?
**[17:52] Louise**
Yes.
**[17:53] Kate**
Um...
**[17:54] Louise**
And yet, you don't seem very good at it.
**[17:57] Kate**
No, usually they're a little rounder.
**[18:00] Kate**
It turned out like this
because John's soot is so stiff.
**[18:02] John**
It's John's fault?!
**[18:03] Louise**
What? Soot has different textures?
**[18:05] Louise**
Maybe Louise will try making one, too!
**[18:09] Patrick**
How inane.
**[18:10] Patrick**
This is exactly why Patrick doesn't
want to involve himself with all of you.
**[18:12] John**
This is fun!
**[18:14] Louise**
Oh, is this how it works?
**[18:16] Kate**
When you use the base of
your thumb, it spreads quite well.
**[18:18] Kate**
Kate often does it that way.
**[18:20] Louise**
Oh! You're right!
**[18:22] John**
Louise, your soot feels
incredibly pleasant to touch.
**[18:25] Louise**
John, that's creepy.
**[18:27] John**
You don't have speak so harshly.
**[18:30] John**
It's finished!
**[18:31] Patrick**
What is this? Some unsightly insect?
**[18:33] John**
It's Kate!
**[18:34] Louise**
Kate is a little cuter than that.
**[18:37] Kate**
What?
**[18:38] Patrick**
John...
**[18:39] Patrick**
You have zero creative sense.
**[18:41] John**
This from someone who hasn't even tried it?
**[18:43] Patrick**
Idiot.
**[18:44] Patrick**
Patrick is quite skilled with his hands.
**[18:46] Patrick**
He will show you!
**[18:51] Patrick**
It doesn't even hold together!
**[18:53] Kate**
Perhaps the particles are too fine?
**[18:55] Patrick**
Blast it!
**[18:57] Patrick**
Someone please give Patrick some soot!
**[18:58] Louise**
Why don't we mix it with Louise's?
**[19:00] John**
We might as well mix everyone's!
**[19:02] John**
Whoa!
**[19:03] John**
Mixed together, they make a soot clay
that's incredibly easy to work with!
**[19:06] Louise**
Really?
**[19:08] Patrick**
Behold! A skull!
**[19:09] John**
It's really good, but why did you make that?
**[19:12] Patrick**
Huh? It's stylish, don't you think?
**[19:14] Louise**
A scorch!
**[19:15] John; Patrick**
What?
**[19:16] John**
Don't do that!
**[19:18] John**
It's actually possible
that it could start moving!
**[19:20] Patrick**
Hey, now!
**[19:22] Kate**
There's a way to make sure it won't move.
**[19:25] Louise**
What?
**[19:31] Louise**
Baking them into something
like porcelain ornaments!
**[19:41] Kate**
Being able to spend time
with everyone like this...
**[19:43] Kate**
It's been fun.
**[19:45] Patrick**
Hey.
**[19:47] Patrick**
You can come to Patrick's
room again if you'd like.
**[19:50] John**
It can't be...
**[19:52] John**
Have you fallen in love with Kate?
**[19:54] Patrick**
What? Of course Patrick...
**[19:58] John**
Huh?
**[19:59] John**
You were about to say,
"Of course Patrick hasn't," then you stopped!
**[20:01] John**
You can't be serious! That's just too...
**[20:03] Patrick**
That isn't what we're
discussing here, is it?
**[20:05] Louise**
All of Louise's fellow
debutants are such odd ducks.
**[20:08] Louise**
To think that no one has
fallen in love with her!
**[20:10] John**
To put it simply, it's because
you have a terrible personality!
**[20:13] Louise**
Really?
**[20:14] Louise**
But Kate's manner
is so prim, don't you think?
**[20:17] Louise**
And Louise has the better looks.
**[20:18] Kate**
Prim?
**[20:20] Kate**
Is that what's wrong with Kate?
**[20:22] John**
It's the best part of her!
**[20:25] Kate**
It's been bothering me since earlier...
**[20:27] Kate**
But you sound a little
like Lydia, don't you think?
**[20:30] Patrick**
Hm?
**[20:33] Patrick**
Kate made two things?
**[20:37] John**
One for Shirley, huh?
**[20:40] John**
John and Shirley's living doll...
**[20:44] John**
During the debut...
**[20:46] John**
It was only for a little while,
but we worked together.
**[20:50] John**
She was...
**[20:51] John**
She was really amazing, you know?
**[20:54] Patrick**
Yes.
**[20:57] Kate**
All we are told about shadows
who fail is that they are dealt with.
**[21:01] Kate**
But if...
**[21:02] Kate**
If we were ever able to see her again...
**[21:07] Kate**
Kate will keep this safe for that day.
**[21:11] Kate**
Let's do this again sometime!
**[21:13] Kate**
Kate will return to her rooms for today.
**[21:16] John**
Are you sure?
**[21:17] Kate**
Yes.
**[21:19] Kate; internal**
* Patrick and Louise shouldn't be forced*
* to get involved in the phantom business.*
**[21:23] Kate; internal**
*Just growing closer like this is enough.*
**[21:27] Kate; internal**
* And I've managed to discover*
* a little something to look forward to.*
**[21:30] Patrick**
Wait.
**[21:32] Patrick**
What should we accomplish
before the next time we meet?
**[21:37] Patrick**
Regarding the phantom mystery.
**[21:40] Louise**
Kate is more fun than Louise thought,
**[21:42] Louise**
so Louise will go along with it, too.
**[21:45] Patrick**
Patrick's pride will not allow him
to receive things without giving in turn.
**[21:49] Patrick**
Patrick will assist you.
**[21:52] Patrick**
And we will discover the true culprit!
**[22:00] everyone**
We swear it on our bonds as peers!
**[22:05] lyric**
*Traveling through a jumbled labyrinth...*
**[22:10] lyric**
*Over and over*
**[22:14] lyric**
*This lonely utopia...*
**[22:19] lyric**
*I have no more need of it*
**[22:23] lyric**
*A vanished smile*
**[22:25] lyric**
*Promises are lies, too*
**[22:28] lyric**
* Everything is pointless,*
* isn't it? And yet...*
**[22:32] lyric**
*Even misshapen as I am, I keep searching...*
**[22:37] lyric**
*For shadows of recollection*
**[22:43] lyric**
*Roses whose love has rotted...*
**[22:48] lyric**
*Lock their feelings away*
**[22:53] lyric**
*That silhouette from back then...*
**[22:57] lyric**
*I've kept on chasing it...*
**[23:01] lyric**
*Even if pale, frozen thorns*
**[23:06] lyric**
*Pierce my heart over and over*
**[23:10] lyric**
*Until I can take that hand*
**[23:15] lyric**
*Again and again*
**[23:19] lyric**
*I'll wish on a star*
**[23:36] Kate**
Next time,
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Night Sky
***SIGN*** Night Sky
***SIGN*** Night Sky
***SIGN*** Night Sky
***SIGN*** Night Sky
***SIGN*** Night Sky
***SIGN*** Night Sky
***SIGN*** Night Sky
***SIGN*** Night Sky
**[23:37] Kate**
"Night Sky."
**[23:38] ---**
# E6 - Night Sky
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GD9UVJG7D/night-sky)
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**[00:14] lyrics**
*In the face of sadness, we shall smile*
**[00:18] lyrics**
*To live is to be a marionette*
**[00:22] lyrics**
*Once your heart gets into the swing...*
**[00:26] lyrics**
*Would you like a coffee?*
**[00:31] lyrics**
*1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2*
**[00:33] lyrics**
*1, 2, 2, 3*
**[00:34] lyrics**
*I can't seem to dance very well*
**[00:37] lyrics**
*Pain and resentment, and sadness, too...*
**[00:40] lyrics**
*Mix them, knead them...*
**[00:44] lyrics**
*And then a good night kiss*
**[00:48] lyrics**
*Shall we Dance? We shall dance*
**[00:52] lyrics**
*Despair and desire. This is the life!*
**[00:56] lyrics**
*Shadow Life!*
**[00:58] lyrics**
*Don't puzzle over things unnecessarily*
**[01:02] lyrics**
*Let's become one*
**[01:04] lyrics**
*How nice (How nice) How nice (How nice)*
**[01:08] lyrics**
*Humans... Being human... It's so nice*
***SIGN*** Night Sky
***SIGN*** Night Sky
***SIGN*** Night Sky
***SIGN*** Night Sky
***SIGN*** Night Sky
***SIGN*** Night Sky
**[01:34] Shaun**
Master John and Mistress Kate
must be at the meeting of peers by now.
**[01:37] Shaun**
I wonder if they're all right.
**[01:39] Shaun**
Master John, in particular.
**[01:40] Emilico**
I'm sure they're fine!
**[01:42] Emilico**
There are five days left
until the rejoicing party.
**[01:44] Emilico**
Let's work hard to fill in the map!
**[01:47] Emilico**
This is a nighttime expedition!
**[01:50] Emilico**
This seems to be a garret.
**[01:53] Shaun**
There are quite a few places
that aren't in use.
**[01:56] Shaun**
I wonder how long this house has been here.
**[01:59] Emilico**
If we go out here, I think
we can get up on the roof.
**[02:02] Shaun**
Emilico?
**[02:04] Shaun**
You always go straight for the
most dangerous places, don't you?
**[02:16] Emilico**
Shaun...
**[02:17] Emilico**
Do you ever want to go outside?
**[02:20] Emilico**
Outside of Shadows House?
**[02:23] Shaun**
What's wrong? You seem down.
**[02:26] Emilico**
I feel sort of unsettled and depressed.
**[02:29] Emilico**
I keep thinking about how I'm human
and wondering what that means.
**[02:36] Emilico**
What will change if my human
memories return completely?
**[02:41] Emilico**
I don't remember anything right now, so...
**[02:45] Shaun**
I'm the same. And you're right.
**[02:49] Shaun**
Outside, huh?
**[02:51] Shaun**
If we came from the village,
**[02:53] Shaun**
then if we did leave the house,
would we be able to go back there?
**[02:56] Shaun**
If we went back, would we be happy?
**[03:04] Shaun**
Here at the house, we aren't
given much time to sleep,
**[03:07] Shaun**
and cleaning is an enormous task.
**[03:08] Shaun**
Compared to the shadow masters',
our meals are meager.
**[03:11] Shaun**
But life in the village
might be much the same.
**[03:16] Emilico**
I wonder what we all
used to do. Don't you?
**[03:20] Emilico**
I think you and Ricky must
have been born to wealthy families.
**[03:23] Emilico**
You already knew how to
read and write, after all.
**[03:25] Shaun**
No, Ricky was...
**[03:27] Shaun**
He was probably a nouveau
riche type, don't you think?
**[03:30] Shaun**
My family was a little more secure...
**[03:34] Shaun**
Commissioned merchants, maybe?
**[03:35] Emilico**
Oh! Commi-*Shaun*ed merchants!
**[03:38] Shaun**
That sounds like something
Master John would say.
**[03:41] Emilico**
I'm good at needlework,
**[03:43] Emilico**
so maybe my work had
something to do with sewing.
**[03:45] Emilico**
Oh, but I'm strong, so maybe I grew crops?
**[03:50] Emilico**
Baking bread would be nice, too!
**[03:52] Emilico**
Or birdwatching...
**[03:54] Shaun**
Birdwatching for work?
**[03:56] Emilico**
Oh, I just can't decide!
**[03:58] Shaun**
It isn't as though you can choose.
**[04:00] Emilico**
Lou seems like she'd be a gardener.
**[04:02] Shaun**
You only think that because you saw
her in the garden with scissors, right?
**[04:06] Shaun**
I can't really imagine what Lou was like.
**[04:08] Shaun**
She doesn't have enough
personality of her own.
**[04:10] Emilico**
She was probably
the shopgirl everyone went to see!
**[04:12] Shaun**
That's a haphazard way of thinking.
**[04:15] Shaun**
Stay in Shadows House as a living doll...
**[04:18] Shaun**
Or go outside as a human...
**[04:20] Shaun**
Which will lead to happiness?
**[04:22] Emilico**
Speaking of which, I wonder
why we're called "living dolls."
**[04:26] Emilico**
If they're bringing in children
from the village,
**[04:28] Emilico**
then they could simply say that the
children are humans serving the house.
**[04:31] Shaun**
If they did that, then the lack of
memories would raise questions.
**[04:36] Emilico**
Oh, that's true.
**[04:37] Emilico**
And this way, no matter how we're treated,
we think it's because we're dolls.
**[04:44] Shaun**
It's to make us less aware of our own lives.
**[04:48] Shaun**
Say...
**[04:49] Shaun**
We were made to believe that we were
created in the image of our shadow masters.
**[04:53] Shaun**
But the opposite is true, isn't it?
**[04:56] Emilico**
The shadow masters
were created in imitation of us?
**[04:59] Emilico**
But I don't think that's true.
**[05:02] Emilico**
They eat and everything, after all.
**[05:03] Emilico**
Even if they look like us,
**[05:05] Emilico**
their voices and personalities
are different, aren't they?
**[05:07] Shaun**
I don't mean that they
are objects which were made.
**[05:09] Shaun**
The shadow masters are raised
in imitation of the humans at their sides.
**[05:13] Shaun**
And I'm certain that they
are influenced by those humans, too.
**[05:17] Shaun**
Master John once told me something...
**[05:18] Shaun**
that there isn't much difference between
how much he remembers and how much I do.
**[05:22] Shaun**
He lived in his rooms
for a while, then I came.
**[05:26] Shaun**
Maybe interaction with humans is what
brings their consciousnesses forward?
**[05:30] Shaun**
If that's true,
**[05:31] Shaun**
then we don't know if the shadow masters
are the same age as we are.
**[05:34] Emilico**
Interaction?
**[05:36] Emilico**
The goodnight kiss is a rule set
by Shadows House, too.
**[05:39] Emilico**
Maybe it's necessary
for them to become more human.
**[05:43] Emilico**
Why Rum failed the debut was a mystery to me.
**[05:47] Emilico**
When Rum had the will to do something,
**[05:48] Emilico**
she had the strength to overcome anything.
**[05:51] Shaun**
That's right.
**[05:52] Shaun**
Mistress Shirley never said a single word.
**[05:55] Shaun**
Maybe she couldn't speak because
Rum was too timid for them to interact much?
**[05:58] Emilico**
So she couldn't become more like a human?
**[06:00] Shaun**
Shadow masters like her fail the debut,
and then they are dealt with.
**[06:05] Shaun**
With their masters dead,
they're made to wear mourning clothes!
**[06:08] Emilico**
What's this all of a sudden?
**[06:11] Shaun**
The veiled dolls.
**[06:13] Shaun**
The clothes they wear are mourning clothes.
**[06:15] Shaun**
Living dolls who have lost the sources
of their names and roles as faces...
**[06:19] Shaun**
That could be what the clothes mean.
**[06:20] Emilico**
Then Rum is somewhere
among the veiled dolls!
**[06:24] Emilico**
Let's go and unveil them all, one by one!
**[06:27] Shaun**
We can't!
**[06:27] Shaun**
Suspicious behavior like
that would be reported immediately!
**[06:31] Emilico**
But one day, we will make
certain to rescue Rum.
**[06:38] Shaun**
After talking this through,
now I'm certain.
**[06:41] Shaun**
My name...
**[06:42] Shaun**
is John.
**[06:43] Emilico**
What?
**[06:44] Shaun**
Keep this a secret from Master John.
**[06:46] Shaun**
When you consider the relationship
between living dolls and shadows,
**[06:50] Shaun**
doesn't it seem natural to give
the human's name to the shadow?
**[06:53] Emilico**
Then that means I was Kate?
**[06:56] Emilico**
Oh, I can't remember.
**[07:01] Emilico**
Why don't we try calling
each other by those names?
**[07:04] Shaun**
Kate.
**[07:05] Emilico**
John!
**[07:09] Shaun**
What are we doing?
**[07:11] Emilico**
It doesn't feel right at all!
**[07:13] Emilico**
Ricky was Patrick.
**[07:14] Emilico**
Lou was Louise.
**[07:16] Emilico**
Rum was Shirley.
**[07:17] Emilico**
Not saying "master" or "mistress"
makes me feel a little uneasy.
**[07:20] Emilico**
I like Emilico, the name
that Mistress Kate gave me.
**[07:25] Shaun**
Mistress Kate...
**[07:27] Shaun**
The fact that living dolls are humans...
**[07:29] Shaun**
Where did she get that knowledge from?
**[07:32] Shaun**
When you were brainwashed, Emilico,
**[07:34] Shaun**
the effect didn't seem
to extend to her at all.
**[07:36] Shaun**
There are too many mysteries.
**[07:38] Emilico**
There are a lot of things she hasn't told
me yet, so as not to overwhelm me.
**[07:42] Emilico**
I'd like for her to tell me,
**[07:44] Emilico**
but I know that Mistress Kate
has a lot to think about.
**[07:47] Emilico**
I don't want to add
to her burdens if I don't have to.
**[07:49] Shaun**
Emilico, you and Master John
really do love Mistress Kate.
**[07:53] Shaun**
She does have a mysterious charm to her.
**[07:56] Shaun**
It's not like I don't understand
why you feel that way.
**[08:06] Emilico**
This starry sky! I remember seeing it!
**[08:08] Emilico**
But here at Shadows House,
I've never seen it before!
**[08:11] Emilico**
So, it's a memory from when I was human.
**[08:14] Emilico**
Come on! Shaun, you should
take a good look, too!
**[08:17] Shaun**
I am looking. I remember it, too.
**[08:20] Emilico**
Why did I feel so at a loss?
**[08:22] Emilico**
The reason this sight moves me is
because I'm a human, not a living doll.
**[08:27] Emilico**
I never want to forget this feeling!
**[08:29] Emilico**
If Ricky and Lou could
see this starry sky, too,
**[08:32] Emilico**
I just know they'd
recall their old memories!
**[08:36] Emilico**
And one day, so will Rum.
**[08:39] John**
Yes.
**[08:43] Emilico**
Next time, all five of us will be here!
**[08:48] Emilico**
Now, we'll fill in the rest of this map!
**[09:02] Master Robe**
You two really are entertaining.
**[09:05] Emilico**
Were you eavesdropping on our conversation?
**[09:09] Master Robe**
Don't worry.
**[09:10] Master Robe**
I am not your enemy...
**[09:13] Master Robe**
Though I am not your ally, either.
**[09:15] Emilico**
Then, what are you?
**[09:17] Shaun**
I don't have my glasses,
so please don't get too far ahead of me.
**[09:20] Emilico**
Shaun! It's...
**[09:21] Emilico**
Over there!
**[09:23] Shaun**
There's nothing there.
**[09:32] Kate**
That happened?
**[09:33] Emilico**
Yes, Mistress.
**[09:34] Emilico**
It's not our enemy, but it isn't an ally.
**[09:38] Emilico**
That's what it said.
**[09:39] Kate; internal**
*I don't understand. What could it be after?*
**[09:52] Emilico**
How strange.
**[09:54] Emilico**
I thought I'd be able to
sleep a little longer.
**[09:58] Kate**
Ow!
**[10:03] Eve**
All right, everyone!
Hurry to the great hall!
**[10:12] Mia**
What? The shadow masters?
**[10:15] Barbie**
We will now begin our rejoicing party.
**[10:20] crowd**
Hooray!
**[10:22] Emilico**
*No...*
**[10:23] Emilico**
*We should still have four days left!*
**[10:29] Emilico**
* Should I spit it into my*
* clothes like last time?*
**[10:31] Emilico**
*But...*
**[10:35] Shaun**
*It's no good.*
**[10:36] Shaun**
*The shadow masters are watching us.*
**[10:41] Emilico**
*What do I do?*
**[10:43] Emilico**
*I can't think straight.*
**[10:56] Barbie**
This time, the representative is...
**[10:58] Barbie**
Mia!
**[11:00] Mia**
To serve the Shadows family is
the pride and joy of every living doll!
**[11:07] Kate**
What did you just say?
**[11:10] Emilico**
Rejoicing party!
**[11:12] Emilico**
And Star Bearer shadow
masters were there, too!
**[11:15] Emilico**
Mia was the representative today!
**[11:17] Emilico**
I drank the coffee!
**[11:20] Emilico**
It was incredibly bitter!
**[11:21] Emilico**
But I am now filled with enthusiasm!
**[11:24] Emilico**
I am going to clean!
**[11:25] Emilico**
All so that I can be of use
to you, Mistress Kate!
**[11:29] Kate**
S-Sit down!
**[11:31] Kate**
You have to spit up that coffee.
**[11:33] Kate**
I'll bring some water.
**[11:35] Emilico**
There's no need!
**[11:36] Emilico**
I must begin cleaning at once!
**[11:37] Kate**
Do as you're told!
**[11:39] Emilico**
I will clean!
**[11:43] Kate; internal**
*I can't subdue her with brute force.*
**[11:46] Emilico**
Rolly!
**[11:48] Emilico**
Rolly! Rolly!
**[11:52] Emilico**
Soot rope! Soot powers!
**[11:54] Kate**
Now...
**[11:55] Kate**
Drink the water and spit it up.
**[12:00] Emilico**
I spit up the water!
**[12:04] Kate; internal**
*This is no good.*
**[12:07] Kate; internal**
*No, wait.*
**[12:09] Kate; internal**
*Something is strange.*
**[12:10] Kate; internal**
*Think this over logically.*
**[12:15] Emilico**
I've made a mess!
**[12:17] Emilico**
I must clean!
**[12:17] Kate**
Honestly, just be quiet!
**[12:19] Emilico**
Oh, it's dark! Is it night already?
**[12:22] Emilico**
Night? Time to sleep?
**[12:24] Kate; internal**
* Just now, when Emilico*
* said the coffee was bitter,*
**[12:26] Kate; internal**
*her expression said she didn't like it.*
**[12:29] Kate; internal**
* At the debut, once the*
* brainwashing came into effect,*
**[12:32] Kate; internal**
*she thought it was delicious.*
**[12:34] Kate; internal**
* And she won't do what I,*
* a shadow, tell her to do.*
**[12:39] Kate; internal**
*Before, she was overly obedient.*
**[12:41] Kate; internal**
*Does she possess her own will this time?*
**[12:44] Kate; internal**
*Was it different from the usual coffee?*
**[12:49] Kate; internal**
*Now, she's really fallen asleep.*
**[12:51] Kate; internal**
*It's amazing she can sleep in that state.*
**[12:56] Kate; internal**
* The brainwashing coffee served*
* at the debut and rejoicing parties...*
**[13:00] Kate; internal**
* I'm certain it must be made*
* in Lord Grandfather's wing.*
**[13:03] Kate; internal**
* When the coffee carafes broke,*
* the Star Bearers were greatly shaken.*
**[13:07] Kate; internal**
*That's what Emilico said.*
**[13:09] Kate; internal**
* In which case, I can't imagine they'd be*
* able to immediately procure more.*
**[13:13] Kate; internal**
* What Emilico and the others drank*
* this time was most likely ordinary coffee.*
**[13:18] Kate; internal**
*In short, by holding a rejoicing party...*
**[13:20] Kate; internal**
* the living dolls were given*
* psychological peace of mind.*
**[13:24] Kate; internal**
* It was just a clever scheme*
* the Star Bearers devised.*
**[13:26] Kate; internal**
* Did they mix something that can*
* manipulate minds into the coffee?*
**[13:30] Kate; internal**
*No, that's not it.*
**[13:32] Kate; internal**
* There were shadows*
* at the rejoicing party...*
**[13:35] Kate; internal**
* Does that mean that every living doll there*
* was being controlled with soot mind powers?*
**[13:40] Kate; internal**
* The power probably has*
* the effect of heightening emotions.*
**[13:44] Kate; internal**
*Emilico and Shaun haven't been brainwashed.*
**[13:47] Kate; internal**
* Their emotions have*
* simply been stirred up.*
**[13:50] Kate; internal**
* Still, it will have an effect on those*
* who are already loyal to the house.*
**[13:55] Kate; internal**
* Someone with enough soot*
* to manipulate everyone's emotions...*
**[13:59] Kate; internal**
* If it's true that Barbara*
* can't control soot,*
**[14:03] Kate; internal**
* then the only one who possesses*
* that power is Benjamin.*
**[14:06] Kate; internal**
* Powers that act on emotions must certainly*
* have an effect outside the designated range.*
**[14:13] Kate; internal**
* She's sleeping*
* in an incredibly odd position!*
**[14:19] Kate**
If I let her sleep for a time,
I'm certain the effects will abate.
**[14:26] Kate**
Then, today we're working separately.
**[14:28] John**
Right! See you later!
**[14:30] Shaun**
I did think that the coffee seemed
somehow different than usual.
**[14:34] Shaun**
But trust Mistress Kate
to have figured it out.
**[14:36] John**
John thought we'd have to
exchange blows again.
**[14:40] John**
Still, the Star Bearers
really got us, didn't they?
**[14:43] John**
To think they'd try something so soon.
**[14:45] Shaun**
But the fact that the Star Bearers are
thinking about ways to tide us over
**[14:49] Shaun**
means that they're in a situation where
they can't ask the adults for more coffee.
**[14:55] Shaun**
And, even with this great a disturbance,
**[14:58] Shaun**
not a single adult has appeared.
**[15:00] John**
Do you think news of Master Robe
**[15:01] John**
or the phantom disturbance
has reached the adults?
**[15:04] Shaun**
I don't think so.
**[15:06] Shaun**
If it had, it would be unnatural
for them to show no reaction at all.
**[15:11] Shaun**
As we thought,
the house is split in two,
**[15:15] Shaun**
even down to the flow of information.
**[15:16] John**
And that is why it has proven so difficult
**[15:19] John**
to obtain information
on Lord Grandfather's wing.
**[15:21] Shaun**
But it also makes it easier
**[15:23] Shaun**
to hide information
about the children's wing.
**[15:27] John**
Right, then!
**[15:28] John**
To live up to Kate's expectations,
John and Shaun will do everything they can!
**[15:31] Shaun**
Yes, Master!
**[15:33] (Flashback) Kate**
John, keep our secrets
and act at your discretion.
**[15:36] John; internal**
*Acting at John's own discretion!*
**[15:37] John; internal**
*It's a sign of her trust in him!*
**[15:40] John; internal**
*To begin with, John can use fixing the wall*
**[15:42] John; internal**
* as a pretext to interact*
* with the research team...*
**[15:44] John; internal**
* and obtain incredible*
* amounts of information!*
**[15:46] John; internal**
*Then, Kate will be overjoyed!*
**[15:55] John**
But all we've ended up
doing is fixing the wall!
**[15:58] John; internal**
* John never imagined that*
* they'd be the only ones here.*
**[16:01] John; internal**
* And they're just silently*
* watching John work.*
**[16:04] John; quietly**
John has never spoken to them before.
**[16:06] John; quietly**
It will be a little awkward, won't it?
**[16:08] Shaun; quietly**
They're older than you, too.
**[16:10] Shaun; quietly**
They are Master Jeremiah and Jeremy.
**[16:12] John; quietly**
For today, let's just do some work
on the wall and head back quickly.
**[16:16] John; internal**
*What? They're coming this way?!*
**[16:19] Shaun**
That's a spirit level, isn't it?
**[16:21] Shaun**
When the air bubble is in
the center of the glass pipe,
**[16:23] Shaun**
it means the surface is level.
**[16:25] Jeremiah**
Disgraceful.
**[16:26] John**
What does it matter
if it's just a little off?
**[16:29] Jeremy**
Master Jeremiah said,
"Being off-level is disgraceful."
**[16:33] John**
John is aware!
**[16:34] John**
Thank you for your kind clarification.
**[16:37] John**
Well, he's a difficult one to figure out.
**[16:38] John**
Hold on.
**[16:40] John**
Doesn't he seem suspicious?
**[16:42] John; internal**
*He sleeps during the day.*
**[16:43] John; internal**
*That means he's active at night.*
**[16:45] John; internal**
*That means he's Master Robe!*
**[16:47] John; internal**
* A disagreeable person who finds fault*
* with others is likely to do bad things!*
**[16:51] John; internal**
* Like the culprit behind*
* the phantom disturbance!*
**[16:52] John; internal**
*He must be Master Robe!*
**[16:56] John**
Hey, Jeremiah!
**[16:58] John**
What is that cloth for?
**[17:00] John**
What are you quietly hiding here?
**[17:03] Shaun**
Those are...
**[17:04] John**
John knew it! You are...
**[17:06] John**
the culprit behind the phantom disturbance!
**[17:10] Jeremiah**
And?
**[17:10] Jeremy**
"And if Jeremiah is the culprit,
what do you intend to do?" he asks.
**[17:15] John**
Defeat him!
**[17:20] Jeremiah**
Unsightly.
**[17:22] Jeremy; fast**
"You will not be given time
to use your soot powers."
**[17:25] Jeremy; fast**
"Jeremiah is proficient
in his soot power, Spider Legs."
**[17:28] Jeremy; fast**
"You will not be able to counter it."
**[17:29] Jeremy; fast**
"You will end up in an unsightly,
groveling heap on the ground."
**[17:32] Jeremy**
That is what he said.
**[17:33] John**
Blast it!
**[17:34] John**
His slight contained all of that meaning?
**[17:36] Shaun**
Master John, I'm sorry.
**[17:38] Shaun**
I let down my guard.
**[17:39] John**
You too, Shaun?!
**[17:44] Jeremiah**
Don't think that you'll
simply be allowed to leave.
**[17:46] John**
Stop! Don't you dare touch Shaun!
**[17:57] John**
What was that? A prank?
**[18:00] Jeremy; a little fast**
"John, as you have a high
soot volume, and you're here,"
**[18:02] Jeremy; a little fast**
"we can't simply allow you to leave."
**[18:04] Jeremy; a little fast**
"Please let us have some of your soot."
**[18:05] Jeremy**
That's what he said.
**[18:07] John**
Your translation is a little late!
**[18:09] Jeremy**
Master Jeremiah is tasked
with researching energy.
**[18:13] Jeremy**
Currently, he is focused on scorches.
**[18:16] John**
This sounds like a difficult topic.
**[18:19] Shaun; quietly**
This is valuable information.
It might be best to listen.
**[18:23] John; quietly**
Really?
**[18:24] John**
Well, since John gave you some soot,
**[18:27] John**
tell him the details of your research.
**[18:29] Jeremiah**
Very well.
**[18:31] Jeremy**
"Very well," is what he said.
**[18:33] John**
There's no need to
interpret simple sentences!
**[18:36] John**
Why do you make Jeremy
speak for you, anyway?
**[18:38] Jeremiah**
Less effort.
**[18:38] John**
So he's just lazy!
**[18:40] Jeremy**
This is our data.
**[18:44] Jeremy**
Let's explain through drawings.
**[18:46] Jeremy**
First, the soot emitted
by shadows due to negative emotions...
**[18:50] Jeremy**
It drifts lightly upwards, doesn't it?
**[18:52] Jeremy**
After it accumulates enough mass,
it falls to the floor.
**[18:55] Jeremy**
And after an average of two days,
the piled-up soot transforms into a scorch.
**[19:00] Jeremy**
It bears no connection to a shadow's will,
and moves solely through malice.
**[19:04] Jeremy**
It is not a life-form.
**[19:06] Jeremy**
Scorches, in general,
grow to about this size.
**[19:10] Jeremy**
Even scorches of the same size,
however, differ in energy quantities.
**[19:13] Jeremy**
It's to do with density.
**[19:15] Jeremy**
If it's full of openings inside, it's weak.
**[19:17] Jeremy**
If it's tightly packed, it's powerful.
**[19:19] Jeremy**
When a scorch first develops,
its density is 1.
**[19:21] Jeremy**
If two scorches fuse together, they remain
the same size and reach density 2.
**[19:25] Jeremy**
It's simple addition.
**[19:27] John**
So, when scorches meet,
do they always combine?
**[19:31] Jeremy**
If they are both density 1, then yes.
**[19:34] Jeremy**
They can combine the soot
of many different shadows,
**[19:36] Jeremy**
so there are individual differences.
**[19:38] Shaun**
If left alone, they'll all
end up at high density.
**[19:42] Shaun**
That would be problematic.
**[19:44] John**
Cleaning regularly is very important!
**[19:48] Jeremy**
Regarding the recent phantom disturbance...
**[19:50] Jeremy**
Before transforming into a phantom,
**[19:53] Jeremy**
the scorches seemed to be density level 3.
**[19:56] Jeremy**
Here, we will refute your assertion
that we are the culprits.
**[20:01] Jeremy**
We attempted to create a phantom
in our experiments, but we couldn't.
**[20:06] Jeremy**
No matter how high we raised
the density of the scorches,
**[20:09] Jeremy**
they never grew to a larger size,
like a phantom.
**[20:12] Shaun**
Could it be that phantoms
are made with soot powers?
**[20:15] Jeremy**
Right now, that seems highly probable.
**[20:18] John**
Scorches get inside living dolls
and make them go berserk, right?
**[20:23] John**
Why do they do that?
**[20:24] Jeremiah**
Soot sickness.
**[20:25] Jeremy**
We know that in the stomach, they act
as parasites to control the host,
**[20:29] Jeremy**
but further details fall under
the purview of the first-aid team.
**[20:33] Jeremy**
However, it is possible...
**[20:35] Jeremy**
that they desire a face.
**[20:40] Jeremiah**
Now for the main event.
**[20:42] Jeremy**
Allow us to show you.
**[20:44] Jeremy**
This is Master Jeremiah's invention.
**[20:47] Jeremy**
A new form of energy, scorch power!
**[20:51] John**
Wow!
**[20:52] Jeremy**
Motive power can be obtained
from the wheel through this device,
**[20:55] Jeremy**
which we then tried utilizing
for soot grinding.
**[20:57] John**
What is this picture frame for?
**[20:59] Jeremy**
To exploit the scorches'
tendency to move toward faces.
**[21:02] Jeremy**
And to ensure it is recognized as a face,
**[21:04] Jeremy**
we used Nancy without her glasses.
**[21:06] John**
Poor Nancy!
**[21:08] John**
But this idea is incredible!
**[21:11] Jeremy**
Master Oliver praised us highly as well.
**[21:13] Jeremy**
He said that it could replace soot coal and
become the house's energy source in the future!
**[21:18] John**
Wow.
**[21:19] John**
The whole house, huh?
**[21:21] John; internal**
* Now that John thinks about it, Barbara seemed*
* to be suffering as she emitted soot.*
**[21:25] John; internal**
*If this is more efficient than soot coal,*
**[21:27] John; internal**
* maybe she wouldn't need*
* to emit as much soot?*
**[21:31] John; internal**
*Oliver is being so considerate of Barbara.*
**[21:33] John; internal**
* That means that Oliver*
* is in love with Barbara!*
**[21:35] John; internal**
*He won't cling to Kate!*
**[21:38] John; internal**
*Right!*
**[21:38] John; internal**
*Oliver and Jeremiah are no longer suspects!*
**[21:42] John; internal**
* And this information about scorches*
* will probably make Kate happy.*
**[21:45] John; internal**
* Later, John will have Shaun*
* summarize everything they said.*
**[21:48] Oliver**
So this is where you were.
**[21:50] John**
Oliver!
**[21:52] Oliver**
John, you are to come
to the Star Bearers' meeting room.
**[22:01] John; internal**
* Did John do something*
* worthy of praise recently?*
**[22:05] lyric**
*Traveling through a jumbled labyrinth...*
**[22:10] lyric**
*Over and over*
**[22:14] lyric**
*This lonely utopia...*
**[22:19] lyric**
*I have no more need of it*
**[22:23] lyric**
*A vanished smile*
**[22:25] lyric**
*Promises are lies, too*
**[22:28] lyric**
* Everything is pointless,*
* isn't it? And yet...*
**[22:32] lyric**
*Even misshapen as I am, I keep searching...*
**[22:37] lyric**
*For shadows of recollection*
**[22:43] lyric**
*Roses whose love has rotted...*
**[22:48] lyric**
*Lock their feelings away*
**[22:53] lyric**
*That silhouette from back then...*
**[22:57] lyric**
*I've kept on chasing it...*
**[23:01] lyric**
*Even if pale, frozen thorns*
**[23:06] lyric**
*Pierce my heart over and over*
**[23:10] lyric**
*Until I can take that hand*
**[23:15] lyric**
*Again and again*
**[23:19] lyric**
*I'll wish on a star*
**[23:36] Kate**
Next time,
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Next Time
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**[23:37] Kate**
"Individual Investigations."
**[23:39] ---**
# E7 - Individual Investigations
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GQJUG1ZWP/individual-investigations)
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**[00:03] Kate**
Let's do this again sometime!
**[00:05] Kate**
Kate will return to her rooms for today.
**[00:07] John**
Are you sure?
**[00:09] Kate**
Yes.
**[00:10] Kate; internal**
* Patrick and Louise shouldn't be forced*
* to get involved in the phantom business.*
**[00:15] Kate; internal**
*Just growing closer like this is enough.*
**[00:18] Kate; internal**
* And I've managed to discover*
* a little something to look forward to.*
**[00:22] Patrick**
Wait.
**[00:24] Patrick**
What should we accomplish
before the next time we meet?
**[00:29] Patrick**
Regarding the phantom mystery.
**[00:32] Louise**
Kate is more fun than Louise thought,
**[00:34] Louise**
so Louise will go along with it, too.
**[00:36] Patrick**
Patrick's pride will not allow him
to receive things without giving in turn.
**[00:41] Patrick**
Patrick will assist you.
**[00:44] Patrick**
And we will discover the true culprit!
**[00:52] everyone**
We swear it on our bonds as peers!
**[01:09] lyrics**
*In the face of sadness, we shall smile*
**[01:13] lyrics**
*To live is to be a marionette*
**[01:17] lyrics**
*Once your heart gets into the swing...*
**[01:21] lyrics**
*Would you like a coffee?*
**[01:26] lyrics**
*1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2*
**[01:28] lyrics**
*1, 2, 2, 3*
**[01:29] lyrics**
*I can't seem to dance very well*
**[01:32] lyrics**
*Pain and resentment, and sadness, too...*
**[01:35] lyrics**
*Mix them, knead them...*
**[01:39] lyrics**
*And then a good night kiss*
**[01:43] lyrics**
*Shall we Dance? We shall dance*
**[01:47] lyrics**
*Despair and desire. This is the life!*
**[01:52] lyrics**
*Shadow Life!*
**[01:53] lyrics**
*Don't puzzle over things unnecessarily*
**[01:57] lyrics**
*Let's become one*
**[01:59] lyrics**
*How nice (How nice) How nice (How nice)*
**[02:03] lyrics**
*Humans... Being human... It's so nice*
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**[02:26] Louise**
Lou, please clean twice as quickly today!
**[02:31] Louise**
We're going out as soon as you finish!
**[02:33] Louise**
Kate has asked us to do something for her!
**[02:36] Lou**
Mistress Kate?
**[02:38] Louise**
Don't just stand there.
**[02:40] Louise**
If you're done,
ready everything for going out!
**[02:44] Louise**
Louise found Kate boring because
she was always asking for favors,
**[02:48] Louise**
but our gathering
was unexpectedly entertaining!
**[02:51] Lou**
And that is why we're asking around?
**[02:53] Louise**
Exactly!
**[02:54] Louise**
If we're assessed highly,
we might receive an invitation!
**[02:59] Louise**
You there!
**[03:01] Louise**
You've come from
the training room, yes?
**[03:03] Louise**
What sort of powers do you have?
**[03:05] James**
Huh? And who are you?
**[03:08] James**
Do you think James would
actually tell you that?
**[03:09] Louise**
Oh, don't say that.
**[03:12] Louise**
There are all sorts of things
we'd like you to tell us.
**[03:16] Louise**
Louise is just a child, so she doesn't know.
**[03:20] James**
W-Well then, James supposes he has no choice.
**[03:23] Louise**
Louise placed first in her debut!
**[03:26] Louise**
May she ask a few questions?
**[03:29] Louise**
If you treat her so cruelly,
Louise is going to cry!
**[03:34] Louise**
Won't you teach Louise
how you do your makeup?
**[03:37] Louise**
And while you're at it...
**[03:54] Louise**
Lou! Have you written everything out?
**[03:57] Louise**
We gathered quite a lot of information
on soot powers, don't you think?
**[04:01] Louise**
Kate's request was so simple to fulfill!
**[04:06] Louise**
Since Louise is so exceptional,
**[04:07] Louise**
do you think she'll soon
receive an invitation?
**[04:09] Louise**
She is so looking forward to
becoming an adult!
**[04:11] Louise**
Louise is certain that she'll
have lots of lovely clothes.
**[04:14] Louise**
After all, Edward was just a living doll,
and he was dressed very well.
**[04:18] Louise**
And Louise will eat foods
that are good for her beauty!
**[04:22] Louise**
Oh, Louise wants her invitation
to hurry up and come!
**[04:25] Louise**
Do you think maybe it
has already been sent?
**[04:28] Louise**
Maryrose might know!
**[04:30] Louise**
Let's go, Lou!
**[04:35] Louise**
What's wrong?
**[04:38] Lou**
It's nothing.
**[04:40] Louise**
Are you all right?
**[04:41] Louise**
You didn't injure your face?
**[04:43] Lou**
No. I will be careful.
**[04:53] Maryrose**
Well, this is a surprise.
**[04:54] Maryrose**
To think you'd visit the rooms of
a shadow in the absence of her face.
**[04:58] Louise**
Is it strange?
**[04:59] Louise**
Louise is simply curious about something.
**[05:02] Maryrose**
Clearly, Maryrose
is no match for you, Louise.
**[05:04] Maryrose**
Maryrose's rooms are dirty.
**[05:06] Maryrose**
Do you mind speaking here?
**[05:07] Louise**
Then Louise will just ask:
when one receives an invitation,
**[05:10] Louise**
one then goes to live in
Lord Grandfather's wing, correct?
**[05:13] Maryrose**
That's right.
**[05:14] Louise**
When faceless shadows successfully debut,
**[05:17] Louise**
they become children
with faces who have come of age!
**[05:20] Louise**
And then, when they receive an invitation,
they become adults!
**[05:23] Maryrose**
Just as you say.
**[05:25] Maryrose**
What is it you wish to ask about?
**[05:27] Louise**
Has Louise been sent an invitation?
**[05:30] Maryrose**
Only you would know the answer to that.
**[05:33] Maryrose**
And it's something you're informed
of unexpectedly the day before.
**[05:37] Louise**
What does one do after being invited?
**[05:39] Louise**
Is it a test, like the debut?
**[05:41] Maryrose**
Maryrose doesn't know that, either.
**[05:43] Maryrose**
And the particulars of the debut change
according to the examiner's tastes.
**[05:49] Louise; internal**
*Edward has horrifying tastes!*
**[05:52] Louise**
Who was the last person
to receive an invitation?
**[05:55] Maryrose**
You wouldn't be acquainted
with them, Louise.
**[05:58] Maryrose**
Those shadows who have gone
to Lord Grandfather's wing
**[06:02] Maryrose**
must not be spoken of. It's the rule.
**[06:04] Maryrose**
And those who have become
adults never return here, anyway.
**[06:08] Louise**
So, you don't know anything, then?
**[06:11] Maryrose**
That's what being a child means.
**[06:12] Maryrose**
And that's why everyone strives
to become an adult.
**[06:16] Maryrose**
If you wish to know more,
**[06:17] Maryrose**
then you have no choice
but to ask the Star Bearers.
**[06:19] Louise**
The Star Bearers? What a good idea!
**[06:22] Louise**
Then, Louise will be going now!
**[06:25] Maryrose**
Well, she's quite the whirlwind.
**[06:29] Maryrose**
Louise!
**[06:32] Maryrose**
Faces should be treated with great care.
**[06:41] Louise**
What was Maryrose talking about?
**[06:44] Louise**
Louise does treat her face with care!
**[06:47] Louise**
Right?
**[06:49] Lou**
Yes, Mistress.
**[07:17] Louise**
Oh! This place reeks of sweat!
**[07:21] Louise; internal**
* Oh, that's Benjamin, the person*
* who threatened Maryrose!*
**[07:28] Benjamin**
What do you want?
**[07:31] Benjamin**
If you've gone to the trouble of coming
to the Star Bearers' residential wing, then...
**[07:36] Louise; internal**
*Hm?*
**[07:36] Louise; internal**
*Perhaps he isn't so frightening?*
**[07:38] Louise; internal**
* Louise simply needs to avoid*
* mentioning Christopher, right?*
**[07:42] Louise**
The door wasn't locked.
**[07:44] Louise**
Is there a rule saying
that others shouldn't enter?
**[07:46] Benjamin**
There is no such rule.
**[07:50] Benjamin**
But as for you and John both,
**[07:53] Benjamin**
you should stay out of Star Bearer business.
**[07:56] Louise**
Say, what is that contraption?
It's so strange!
**[08:03] Benjamin**
It's an elbow-flexion-type
upper-arm-load amplification machine.
**[08:09] Benjamin**
One of Oliver's inventions.
**[08:10] Louise**
Really?
**[08:12] Louise**
Say, Louise wants to ask you something!
**[08:15] Louise**
Has she been sent an invitation?
**[08:18] Benjamin**
No idea.
**[08:19] Louise**
Truly?
**[08:21] Louise**
You're a Star Bearer,
and even you don't know?
**[08:23] Louise**
Wait. Do Star Bearers
not receive invitations?
**[08:29] Benjamin**
Don't fret over trivial matters.
**[08:31] Louise**
Being an adult must be fun, don't you think?
**[08:34] Louise**
Louise feels that a child's lifestyle
is far too restrictive.
**[08:39] Louise**
Say, do you train yourselves like
that in order to intimidate everyone?
**[08:44] Benjamin**
If one is not strong,
one cannot protect anything.
**[08:48] Louise**
Protect?
**[08:50] Louise**
Being a Star Bearer seems
like a lot of bother.
**[08:53] Louise**
One can receive an invitation even
without becoming a Star Bearer, right?
**[08:57] Benjamin**
Yes, that's right.
**[08:59] Louise**
In that case, Louise will not aim
to become a Star Bearer!
**[09:04] Benjamin**
That would be best.
**[09:07] Louise**
Barbara, for example,
seems to have to deal with quite a lot.
**[09:13] Louise**
Oh, there's a mirror here!
**[09:15] Louise**
Louise makes all sorts of expressions
in front of the mirror, you see.
**[09:19] Louise**
To practice appearing beautiful!
**[09:23] Benjamin**
Possessing the desire
to improve oneself is good.
**[09:26] Benjamin**
But your face appears pale.
**[09:30] Louise**
Really? We must fix her makeup at once!
**[09:33] Benjamin**
That alone will not solve
the fundamental issue.
**[09:37] Benjamin**
Training is good for the body.
**[09:40] Benjamin**
It improves the metabolism.
**[09:43] Louise**
Does it? Then perhaps Louise will try it!
**[09:59] Benjamin**
You aren't doing it?
**[10:01] Louise**
What? But we are. Lou is doing it.
**[10:04] Benjamin**
Even if your face trains, you won't change.
**[10:10] Benjamin**
It seems you think that your living doll
is no more than your face.
**[10:15] Benjamin**
Louise, try doing it alongside her.
**[10:18] Louise**
What?
**[10:24] Louise**
Oh, this is impossible! Louise is exhausted!
**[10:28] Benjamin**
Your face grows tired
in exactly the same way.
**[10:32] Benjamin**
Recognize her for the efforts
of her body, not just as a face.
**[10:36] Benjamin**
Do not err in the use of your tools.
**[10:38] Louise**
What? But she's a living doll.
**[10:42] Louise**
Louise will return to her rooms now.
**[10:45] Benjamin**
Do that.
**[10:47] Louise**
This was sort of fun! Thank you!
**[10:56] Benjamin**
"Thank you," huh?
**[11:01] Louise**
We didn't gain much information
from Benjamin, did we?
**[11:05] Louise**
What a failure.
**[11:09] Louise**
Say, Lou... Are you tired?
**[11:14] Lou**
I'm all right.
**[11:16] Lou**
No...
**[11:18] Lou**
I am a little tired.
**[11:21] Louise**
What?! You've been lying?
**[11:24] Louise**
If you don't say anything,
how is anyone expected to know?
**[11:28] Louise**
In that case, let's rest for today.
**[11:42] Patrick; internal**
*Patrick is forever worrying over things.*
**[11:45] Patrick; internal**
*What should he say?*
**[11:47] Patrick; internal**
*What should he do?*
**[11:50] Patrick**
Ricky, Patrick needs some advice.
**[11:54] Ricky**
Please ask me anything.
**[11:56] Patrick; internal**
* In such moments, Ricky always*
* provides a clear answer.*
**[12:04] Ricky**
Holding another midnight
meeting of peers...
**[12:07] Ricky**
That's quite bold.
**[12:09] Ricky**
Well, now...
**[12:13] Ricky**
We should agree to that proposal.
**[12:15] Ricky**
Resolving the matter and rising in the
Star Bearers' estimations is quite desirable.
**[12:19] Ricky**
Even if the endeavor fails,
the blame will lie with Mistress Kate,
**[12:22] Ricky**
so there are no demerits
for us in the matter.
**[12:25] Patrick**
That's true.
**[12:26] Ricky**
In order to examine the relationships
between peers within the house,
**[12:29] Ricky**
first, it might be best to speak
with our team leader, Master William.
**[12:34] Patrick; internal**
*Ricky is truly exceptional.*
**[12:38] William**
Yes.
**[12:39] William**
William and Henry are peers.
**[12:42] William**
If memory serves, Rebecca and
Cynthia debuted with us as well.
**[12:46] Henry**
Randall has no peers left, right?
**[12:48] Patrick**
W-Wait a moment, please.
**[12:50] Patrick**
Patrick hasn't grasped everyone's names yet.
**[12:54] Patrick**
But it seems one does
tend to lose one's peers.
**[12:58] Henry**
Those who cannot adapt to the
circumstances do not survive.
**[13:01] William**
The trick is not to stand out.
**[13:04] Henry**
That, and not to disobey.
**[13:07] Patrick**
Indeed...
**[13:09] William**
Of those that Patrick knows, let's see...
**[13:12] William**
It would be Barbara and Maryrose.
**[13:14] Patrick**
What?!
**[13:16] Patrick**
Those two debuted together?
**[13:19] William**
In the children's wing,
those two have been here the longest.
**[13:24] Patrick**
What does Maryrose think about,
alone in her rooms?
**[13:28] Henry**
It would be good if her face could be mended.
**[13:31] William**
Having someone older than you here in
the children's wing is reassuring, isn't it?
**[13:35] William**
It makes William feel it's all right
that we haven't received an invitation yet.
**[13:40] Ricky; internal**
*These people will never achieve greatness.*
**[13:44] William**
In order, the others who have
been here the longest are...
**[13:46] William**
The Star Bearer Susanna,
of the first-aid team...
**[13:49] Henry**
And Gilbert.
**[13:50] William**
That's right!
**[13:51] Henry**
The research team has
quite a few in one place...
**[13:54] Henry**
Oliver, Lydia, Jeremiah.
**[13:57] William**
Then there are Douglas and Sarah,
who debuted together.
**[14:01] William**
Huh? Is that John?
**[14:03] William**
He seems a bit downcast.
**[14:07] Patrick**
The Star Bearers scolded you?
**[14:09] John**
About John and Kate.
**[14:12] Patrick; quietly**
What are you doing?
**[14:14] Patrick; quietly**
Have you gone and made a mess of our plans?
**[14:16] John**
No.
**[14:24] John**
They said that as John hasn't
even petitioned for marriage yet,
**[14:27] John**
he shouldn't make such a fuss.
**[14:29] John**
And their expressions
were so scary when they said it!
**[14:32] (Flashback) Barbara**
As punishment, John and his living doll
are ordered to clean this room.
**[14:39] Henry**
What?
**[14:39] Henry**
Do people get called before
the Star Bearers for that sort of thing?
**[14:42] William**
John, they have their eye on you
for some reason, don't they?
**[14:46] William**
That is a problem.
**[14:47] William**
Don't cause trouble for our team.
**[14:50] John**
But none of it makes any sense!
**[14:52] John**
Not documents for marriage,
or petitions, or anything else!
**[14:55] William**
You must understand the gist of it, though.
**[14:57] Henry**
Go look it up in the library.
**[15:00] Patrick**
Is marriage something one must petition for?
**[15:02] William**
Oh! Patrick, are you interested, too?
**[15:05] Patrick**
No, not really.
**[15:06] Henry**
In that case, you'd like to hear our
ranking of recommended girls, right?
**[15:11] Patrick**
Um, perhaps another time.
**[15:13] Henry**
In first place is Evelyn!
**[15:27] Patrick**
Regarding marriage...
**[15:34] Sarah**
Quite studious, aren't you?
**[15:36] Sarah**
Patrick, wasn't it?
**[15:38] Sarah**
Or could it be that you've
fallen in love with someone?
**[15:41] Patrick**
No, it's...
**[15:43] Sarah**
But it's not good to rush things.
**[15:46] Patrick**
Huh?
**[15:47] Sarah**
Did you know that one cannot marry
unless one is an adult?
**[15:51] Sarah**
While one is a child,
all one can do is petition.
**[15:55] Sarah**
Do you think it to be a meaningless system?
**[15:58] Sarah**
The most important element of this system...
**[16:01] Sarah**
is the determination
to become an adult, no matter what.
**[16:05] Patrick**
There are some who are dealt with
before ever becoming adults.
**[16:09] Sarah**
That's right.
**[16:10] Sarah**
If after petitioning for marriage,
one of the pair ends up being dealt with,
**[16:15] Sarah**
they become the subject of derision.
**[16:18] Sarah**
You must choose carefully.
**[16:20] Sarah**
Find a partner who will
not be dispensed with.
**[16:22] Patrick**
After saying all of that, Sarah,
do you have a partner in mind?
**[16:26] Sarah**
But of course.
**[16:27] Sarah**
Sarah has absolute confidence, you see.
**[16:30] Sarah**
And you, Patrick... Your face is lovely,
overflowing with confidence.
**[16:36] Sarah**
How pleasing.
**[16:38] Sarah**
Sarah wouldn't mind allowing
you to join her allies.
**[16:41] Patrick**
When you say that you find
Patrick's face pleasing...
**[16:45] Patrick**
Do you mean that you've taken a liking
to Ricky, Patrick's living doll?
**[16:48] Sarah**
What?
**[16:50] Sarah**
Patrick, complimenting your face
is the same as complimenting you, isn't it?
**[16:55] Sarah**
Stop thinking of yourself
and your living doll as separate.
**[16:59] Sarah**
Grow up.
**[17:03] Patrick**
Do living dolls not experience
romantic love, Ricky?
**[17:09] Ricky**
Of course not.
**[17:12] Ricky**
You seem a little fatigued.
**[17:14] Ricky**
Lately, you've grown fond
of flowers, haven't you?
**[17:17] Ricky**
Let's take a rest in the conservatory.
**[17:29] Patrick**
These flowers are particularly fragrant.
**[17:34] Margaret**
M-Margaret grew... those peonies.
**[17:40] Patrick**
Really? That's amazing.
**[17:43] Patrick**
What a worthwhile pastime.
**[17:44] Patrick**
Oh, begging your pardon.
Patrick is pleased to meet you.
**[17:48] Patrick**
Margaret...
**[17:50] Patrick**
Your team is led by Isabelle
and Mirabelle, isn't it?
**[17:53] Patrick**
You must be worried.
**[17:54] Margaret**
What?
**[17:55] Margaret**
Yes, worried...
**[17:59] Margaret**
What will we do if they return?
**[18:02] Margaret**
Since they've been sent
to the soot pipes and everything...
**[18:06] Margaret**
Margaret hopes they will just disappear.
**[18:09] Margaret**
Because those twins' hearts
are twisted and ugly.
**[18:15] Margaret**
Um, do you like flowers?
**[18:19] Margaret**
You come here often, don't you?
**[18:21] Patrick**
Huh?
**[18:22] Patrick**
Yes.
**[18:23] Patrick**
Patrick does have an interest,
but he isn't very knowledgeable yet.
**[18:27] Margaret**
Children who love flowers...
**[18:29] Margaret**
have beautiful hearts, you see.
**[18:33] Margaret**
This section is available for use
by shadows... if they wish.
**[18:40] Margaret**
Would you...
**[18:41] Margaret**
like to try growing something together?
**[18:44] Patrick**
Yes, Patrick will consider it.
**[18:47] Margaret**
Margaret will be waiting.
**[18:49] Margaret**
Oh, right.
**[18:51] Margaret**
Um...
**[18:53] Margaret**
As a memento of our acquaintance...
**[18:56] Margaret**
please take this flower...
that Margaret grew.
**[19:00] Margaret**
Um...
**[19:01] Margaret**
You took a liking to it, didn't you?
**[19:08] Ricky**
Marriage seems to be
**[19:09] Ricky**
mode deeply embedded in the house's
power struggles than we thought.
**[19:13] Ricky**
Mistress Sarah, whom we saw earlier,
should prove a good example for us to follow.
**[19:17] Ricky**
If Mistress Maryrose should fall behind,
**[19:19] Ricky**
then she would be a candidate
for the next team leader.
**[19:22] Ricky**
Keeping the conversation
with Mistress Sarah in mind,
**[19:24] Ricky**
I gave some thought to those
who have the aptitude to become adults.
**[19:28] Ricky**
Mistress Isabelle and Mistress Mirabelle
are on the verge of failing as leaders.
**[19:32] Ricky**
Mistress Kate came last in the debut.
**[19:35] Ricky**
Mistress Margaret's interests
align with yours, but that is all.
**[19:39] Ricky**
As I thought, the only one
worthy of you, Master Patrick,
**[19:43] Ricky**
is the one who placed top
in the debut, your peer...
**[19:49] Patrick; internal**
*Speak of her and she appears.*
**[19:51] Patrick; internal**
*Well, then. Yes, he's right.*
**[19:54] Patrick; internal**
* Ricky is exceptional, and he always*
* guides Patrick in the right direction.*
**[19:58] Louise**
Oh, it's Patrick!
**[20:00] Patrick; internal**
* But Patrick's interest in flowers*
* is the one thing...*
**[20:04] Patrick; internal**
*which doesn't spring from Ricky's influence.*
**[20:06] Kate**
Oh, all of you are here.
**[20:13] Patrick; internal**
*No.*
**[20:15] Patrick; internal**
*Just how great a fool can you be, Patrick?*
**[20:20] Patrick**
Y-Yes. What a coincidence.
**[20:24] Patrick; internal**
* Kate and Emilico*
* are different, aren't they?*
**[20:27] Patrick; internal**
*Because of Emilico...*
**[20:29] Patrick; internal**
* Patrick learned that living dolls*
* have their own inner aspects.*
**[20:36] Patrick; internal**
* You're the one who split*
* Patrick's heart in two.*
**[20:42] Patrick; internal**
*Patrick has fallen in love with Emilico.*
**[20:48] Patrick; internal**
*Patrick is sorry, Ricky!*
**[20:51] Patrick; internal**
* Patrick is such a bungling*
* failure of a master!*
**[20:55] Patrick; internal**
*The least Patrick can do...*
**[20:57] Patrick; internal**
*is take these feelings for Emilico...*
**[21:00] Patrick; internal**
*and make certain to never, ever reveal them!*
**[21:10] lyric**
*Traveling through a jumbled labyrinth...*
**[21:15] lyric**
*Over and over*
**[21:19] lyric**
*This lonely utopia...*
**[21:24] lyric**
*I have no more need of it*
**[21:28] lyric**
*A vanished smile*
**[21:30] lyric**
*Promises are lies, too*
**[21:33] lyric**
* Everything is pointless,*
* isn't it? And yet...*
**[21:37] lyric**
*Even misshapen as I am, I keep searching...*
**[21:42] lyric**
*For shadows of recollection*
**[21:48] lyric**
*Roses whose love has rotted...*
**[21:53] lyric**
*Lock their feelings away*
**[21:58] lyric**
*That silhouette from back then...*
**[22:02] lyric**
*I've kept on chasing it...*
**[22:06] lyric**
*Even if pale, frozen thorns*
**[22:11] lyric**
*Pierce my heart over and over*
**[22:15] lyric**
*Until I can take that hand*
**[22:20] lyric**
*Again and again*
**[22:24] lyric**
*I'll wish on a star*
**[22:42] Emilico**
Both Master Patrick and Mistress Louise
are very kind, aren't they?
**[22:46] Kate**
They are.
**[22:47] Kate**
There is information Kate
cannot gather on her own,
**[22:50] Kate**
so they are a very great help.
**[22:52] Kate**
It may be a good time
to hold another meeting of peers.
**[22:58] Kate**
What is it?
**[22:59] Emilico**
You seem happy somehow, Mistress Kate!
**[23:03] Kate**
What?
**[23:09] Gilbert**
Don't block the path to the washing room!
**[23:12] Gilbert**
Move!
**[23:21] Isabelle**
Please, let us go!
**[23:23] Mirabelle**
We can't endure any more!
**[23:25] Gilbert**
That isn't something you get to decide!
**[23:28] Isabelle**
We're begging you!
**[23:31] Mirabelle**
Let us go! Please!
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**[23:36] Kate**
Next time,
**[23:37] Kate**
"The Identity of Master Robe."
**[23:39] ---**
# E8 - The Identity of Master Robe
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G50UZ9DG9/the-identity-of-master-robe)
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**[00:07] Patrick**
These flowers are particularly fragrant.
**[00:12] Margaret**
M-Margaret grew... those peonies.
**[00:18] Patrick**
Really? That's amazing.
**[00:21] Patrick**
What a worthwhile pastime.
**[00:23] Patrick**
Oh, begging your pardon.
**[00:24] Patrick**
Patrick is pleased to meet you.
**[00:27] Patrick**
Margaret...
**[00:28] Patrick**
Your team is led by Isabelle
and Mirabelle, isn't it?
**[00:31] Patrick**
You must be worried.
**[00:33] Margaret**
What?
**[00:34] Margaret**
Yes, worried...
**[00:37] Margaret**
What will we do if they return?
**[00:40] Margaret**
Since they've been sent
to the soot pipes and everything...
**[00:44] Margaret**
Margaret hopes they will just disappear.
**[00:48] Margaret**
Because those twins' hearts
are twisted and ugly.
**[00:53] Margaret**
Oh, right.
**[00:56] Margaret**
Um...
**[00:57] Margaret**
As a memento of our acquaintance...
**[01:01] Margaret**
please take this flower...
that Margaret grew.
**[01:05] Margaret**
Um...
**[01:06] Margaret**
You took a liking to it, didn't you?
**[01:24] lyrics**
*In the face of sadness, we shall smile*
**[01:28] lyrics**
*To live is to be a marionette*
**[01:32] lyrics**
*Once your heart gets into the swing...*
**[01:36] lyrics**
*Would you like a coffee?*
**[01:41] lyrics**
*1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2*
**[01:43] lyrics**
*1, 2, 2, 3*
**[01:44] lyrics**
*I can't seem to dance very well*
**[01:47] lyrics**
*Pain and resentment, and sadness, too...*
**[01:50] lyrics**
*Mix them, knead them...*
**[01:54] lyrics**
*And then a good night kiss*
**[01:58] lyrics**
*Shall we Dance? We shall dance*
**[02:02] lyrics**
*Despair and desire. This is the life!*
**[02:06] lyrics**
*Shadow Life!*
**[02:08] lyrics**
*Don't puzzle over things unnecessarily*
**[02:12] lyrics**
*Let's become one*
**[02:14] lyrics**
*How nice (How nice) How nice (How nice)*
**[02:18] lyrics**
*Humans... Being human... It's so nice*
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**[02:42] Emilico**
Both Master Patrick and Mistress Louise
are very kind, aren't they?
**[02:46] Kate**
They are.
**[02:47] Kate**
There is information Kate
cannot gather on her own,
**[02:50] Kate**
so they are a very great help.
**[02:52] Kate**
It may be a good time to hold
another meeting of peers.
**[02:58] Kate**
What is it?
**[02:59] Emilico**
You seem happy somehow, Mistress Kate!
**[03:03] Kate**
What?
**[03:09] Gilbert**
Don't block the path to the washing room!
**[03:12] Gilbert**
Move!
**[03:21] Isabelle**
Please, let us go!
**[03:22] Mirabelle**
We can't endure any more!
**[03:25] Gilbert**
That isn't something you get to decide!
**[03:28] Isabelle**
We're begging you!
**[03:31] Mirabelle**
Let us go! Please!
**[03:44] Kate**
Both Isabelle and Mirabelle
carried the scent of perfume.
**[03:49] Kate**
Even in that situation, they put some on,
**[03:52] Kate**
so perfume must truly be essential
to a shadow's toilette.
**[03:58] Kate**
The scents which Shaun discerned
to be close to Master Robe's...
**[04:02] Kate**
are used by those on this list.
**[04:04] Kate**
Lydia said that pinpointing
a specific perfume is difficult,
**[04:08] Kate**
but as shadows bathe frequently,
**[04:10] Kate**
their perfumes are always fresh, and thus
smell the same as they do in liquid form.
**[04:15] Kate**
So, the people on this list could still
be Master Robe. That remains unchanged.
**[04:22] Emilico**
*That evening,*
**[04:23] Emilico**
* Mistress Kate happened to meet*
* Mistress Louise and Master Patrick,*
**[04:27] Emilico**
* and the three of them agreed*
* to once again hold a meeting of peers.*
**[04:44] Kate**
What is John doing?
**[04:46] Kate**
Staying in one room
for too long will draw suspicion!
**[04:49] Kate**
That's why we said we'd keep this brief!
**[04:51] Patrick**
Don't release so much soot.
**[04:53] Patrick**
This is Patrick's room, you know.
**[04:55] Patrick**
Let's begin our reports.
**[04:57] Patrick**
John's absence doesn't actually
pose a problem, does it?
**[04:59] Kate**
Today, Kate wanted to hear
the living dolls' observations, too.
**[05:02] Kate**
Shaun's opinions are very helpful.
**[05:06] Kate**
But Kate supposes that we must proceed.
**[05:08] Kate**
Let's begin organizing our information
on the phantom disturbances.
**[05:14] Kate**
First, the information
Louise kindly gathered
**[05:16] Kate**
on the soot volumes of different shadows.
**[05:20] Kate**
When one considers the conditions required
for the formation of a phantom...
**[05:23] Kate**
We can narrow our list of suspects
to those shadows with high soot volumes.
**[05:28] Kate**
There is no way for us to confirm
whether everyone answered truthfully,
**[05:31] Kate**
but by comparing
the statements we can deduce...
**[05:34] Kate**
The ones with a high soot volume are
**[05:36] Kate**
Barbara, Benjamin, Gilbert,
Douglas, John, Sarah, and Kate.
**[05:42] Louise**
It is also said that those with high
soot volumes are difficult to dispose of.
**[05:47] Louise**
Kate, that gives you and
John quite an advantage!
**[05:50] Ricky; internal**
* Those sorts of things*
* are graded within the house, too?*
**[05:55] Kate**
Next, the information Patrick
was kind enough to gather on peer groups.
**[05:59] Kate**
What?
**[06:00] Kate**
Barbara and Maryrose debuted together?
**[06:03] Patrick**
Patrick reacted in exactly
the same manner you just did, Kate.
**[06:06] Kate**
And on top of that, they've been
here the longest of anyone?
**[06:08] Kate**
That means they're older than Susanna,
Lydia, and Jeremiah, doesn't it?
**[06:12] Louise**
Oh!
**[06:13] Louise**
Those three look quite old, don't you think?
**[06:15] Kate**
Stop that. It's rude, Louise.
**[06:17] Patrick**
Kate, you touched on it first.
**[06:19] Kate**
Um... Ahem.
**[06:22] Kate**
Returning to the topic at hand...
**[06:24] Kate**
Once all the relationships
between peers are brought to light,
**[06:27] Kate**
then we should also have the motives
for the incidents clearly in sight.
**[06:33] Emilico**
"To light" and "in sight"...
**[06:36] Kate**
Th-That wasn't on purpose, Emilico.
**[06:39] Kate**
Patrick, did you learn anything else?
**[06:42] Patrick**
Well, let's see...
**[06:44] Patrick**
There was something about Henry and
William's ranking of recommended girls...
**[06:48] Ricky**
Master Patrick, I'm certain
that topic is of no relevance.
**[06:51] Kate**
What?
**[06:52] Kate**
Ranking girls? That's atrocious.
**[06:54] Louise**
Henry and William seem like nobodies,
so it's fairly certain they aren't the culprits.
**[06:58] Ricky**
And both gentlemen have very low ambitions.
**[07:01] Kate**
So we can rule them out.
**[07:04] Kate; internal**
*And from Louise's investigations,*
**[07:06] Kate; internal**
* we know that neither Henry nor*
* William possess soot powers.*
**[07:11] Kate; internal**
* Though, we can't speak of it with Patrick,*
* as none have awakened in him.*
**[07:14] Louise**
Who do you think the culprit is?
**[07:16] Patrick**
This guy seems suspicious, don't you think?
**[07:18] Louise**
Why?
**[07:19] Patrick**
W-Well, because...
**[07:21] Kate; internal**
*And yet...*
**[07:22] Kate; internal**
* Even after gathering*
* all of this information,*
**[07:24] Kate; internal**
*Christopher's name hasn't come up.*
**[07:27] Kate; internal**
*If he's become an adult,*
**[07:29] Kate; internal**
* then he's probably older*
* than Barbara and Maryrose.*
**[07:33] Kate; internal**
* With what we have,*
* there's no way to predict anything.*
**[07:36] Patrick**
And as we had time, Patrick also looked
into the marriage system.
**[07:42] Kate**
Really... Sarah said that?
**[07:45] Kate**
One should pick someone who won't be
dispensed with as a marriage partner.
**[07:49] Louise**
Marriage, you say?
**[07:51] Louise**
Louise hasn't given any thought to it yet.
**[07:57] Kate**
Sarah's name is on the perfume list.
**[08:00] Kate**
What if Sarah's marriage partner is Douglas?
**[08:05] Patrick**
Douglas?
**[08:06] Patrick**
Well, he *is* Sarah's peer, but...
**[08:08] Kate**
And that isn't all.
**[08:09] Kate**
Sarah said she was confident.
**[08:12] Kate**
Wouldn't that be because her partner
was someone with a high soot volume?
**[08:20] Kate**
We can eliminate current Star Bearers
Barbara and Benjamin.
**[08:25] Kate**
Gilbert is a peer of Star Bearer Susanna,
**[08:28] Kate**
so it's very likely that he's allied
with the current Star Bearers.
**[08:31] Louise**
And John is engaged to Kate!
**[08:33] Kate**
He is not.
**[08:37] Kate**
The only ones left are Sarah and Douglas.
**[08:42] Patrick**
Isabelle and Mirabelle
are favorites of Susanna.
**[08:45] Patrick**
Quite the unpleasant spectacle.
**[08:47] Lou**
I think Mia didn't like the Belles.
**[08:52] Ricky**
During the phantom disturbance,
Doug used Mia as a shield.
**[08:55] Ricky**
Could that have been to make
themselves appear to be victims?
**[08:58] Kate**
If Maryrose falls by the wayside,
**[09:00] Kate**
Sarah will attain
the position of team leader.
**[09:05] Kate**
If Sarah and Douglas were
co-conspirators in the crime,
**[09:09] Kate**
could it have been an effort to disrupt
the order among the current Star Bearers?
**[09:12] Kate; internal**
* It's true that Sarah has been*
* focused on becoming a Star Bearer.*
**[09:16] Kate; internal**
* And she is the type to cling to power*
* and influence, but...*
**[09:22] John**
Sorry for being late!
**[09:24] John**
You see...
**[09:26] John**
We had to repair the wall and
clean the Star Bearers' meeting room!
**[09:33] John**
We've been busy!
**[09:34] Patrick**
What a happy-go-lucky guy.
**[09:36] Patrick**
Don't you understand?
**[09:37] Patrick**
Cleaning is a humiliating
punishment for a noble!
**[09:41] Patrick**
And we've already finished our discussion!
**[09:43] Patrick**
Sarah and Douglas are the culprits!
**[09:46] John**
Are they?
**[09:47] Patrick**
They are! And that is because...
**[09:51] John**
Well, that makes sense.
**[09:53] John**
But, you know,
**[09:54] John**
having a high soot volume doesn't
mean you can make phantoms.
**[09:57] Kate**
What?
**[09:58] John**
Jeremiah told us about scorches.
**[10:01] John**
Right, Shaun?
**[10:03] Shaun**
Yes.
**[10:04] Shaun**
He said that when scorches gather together,
they don't naturally form a phantom.
**[10:07] Shaun**
Which means that phantoms don't appear
unless they are deliberately created.
**[10:13] Kate**
We've narrowed our list of suspects
to shadows with high soot volumes,
**[10:16] Kate**
but it seems our fundamental
assumptions were wrong.
**[10:18] Patrick**
You moron! You should have
come sooner and said that!
**[10:21] John**
What do you mean, "moron"?
It's good information, isn't it?
**[10:23] Patrick**
Take responsibility for sending
us back to square one!
**[10:26] Patrick**
Try to deduce who the culprit is!
**[10:28] John**
You just leave it to John!
**[10:29] John**
It's actually those with low
soot volumes who are suspicious!
**[10:31] John**
Namely you, Patrick!
**[10:32] Patrick**
That isn't deduction or logic!
**[10:35] John**
Kate, show John the documents!
**[10:36] John**
He will give it serious thought!
**[10:40] John**
What?!
**[10:41] John**
Barbara and Maryrose are peers?!
**[10:43] Patrick**
We're done with that already!
**[10:45] Patrick**
Hearing it again from someone
who came late is just annoying!
**[10:47] John**
That's right!
**[10:48] John**
Patrick, John is going to
borrow your bathroom.
**[10:50] John**
John got dirty while cleaning,
so he's going to wash his face.
**[10:52] Patrick**
Go and stay gone!
**[10:58] Kate**
He's like a storm, isn't he?
**[11:00] John**
Huh?
**[11:01] John**
Something smells nice. Is it this flower?
**[11:04] John**
That Patrick.
**[11:05] John**
He should display this flower
in his rooms, don't you think?
**[11:10] Shaun**
Master John, this is...
**[11:12] John**
What?
**[11:13] John**
Of course!
**[11:15] John**
That's why he's got it here
where no one will see it.
**[11:18] John**
Everything makes sense now!
**[11:21] John**
John has misjudged you, Patrick!
**[11:23] Patrick**
What?
**[11:24] John**
You really are Master Robe and the
culprit behind the phantom disturbance!
**[11:28] Patrick**
What are you talking about?!
**[11:30] Shaun**
Master John, please don't be hasty.
**[11:32] Kate**
What's happened?
**[11:34] John**
This!
**[11:35] John**
It's the true source of
Master Robe's fragrance!
**[11:38] Shaun**
Mistress Kate, my apologies.
**[11:40] Shaun**
When I smelled the perfumes
at the lab, it didn't hit me,
**[11:43] Shaun**
but I'm certain that it was
the scent of this flower.
**[11:46] Kate**
So, Master Robe's scent
wasn't that of perfume?
**[11:49] Patrick**
Who are you calling Master Robe?
**[11:51] Patrick**
Patrick received that peony from Margaret!
**[11:54] John**
Huh? Really?
**[11:56] John**
So, you and Margaret are friends, then?
**[11:57] Patrick**
No! It was the first time we'd met!
**[12:00] Patrick; internal**
*Blast it...*
**[12:01] Patrick; internal**
* Patrick didn't want Emilico to see*
* he'd received a flower from another girl.*
**[12:07] John**
Then Master Robe is... Margaret?!
**[12:10] Louise**
Say, what is this "Master Robe," anyway?
**[12:13] Emilico**
Mistress Kate?
**[12:14] Kate**
When you think about it, it makes sense.
**[12:16] Kate**
Why didn't Kate realize sooner?
**[12:19] Kate**
To conceal one's identity,
one would obscure one's perfume.
**[12:24] Kate**
Kate had thought there was a possibility
that Master Robe was Christopher...
**[12:27] Kate**
But no.
**[12:29] Kate**
Adults use different perfumes
than children do.
**[12:32] Kate**
And no child would be able to
identify those variations.
**[12:35] Kate**
There would be no need
to hide the fragrance in the first place.
**[12:38] Kate**
And it isn't any of the shadows who are
suspects because of the perfume list.
**[12:41] Kate**
They would pick a flower with
a completely different scent
**[12:43] Kate**
from the perfume they usually wear.
**[12:47] Kate**
If we use the process of elimination...
**[12:48] Kate**
Then the identity of Master Robe is...
**[12:51] Kate**
This shadow.
**[12:54] Kate**
But why?
**[12:59] Emilico**
Um...
**[13:00] Emilico**
I thought I must have been imagining it...
**[13:03] Emilico**
I didn't want to say something strange
and confuse you, Mistress Kate...
**[13:08] Kate**
What is it?
**[13:09] Emilico**
But I do think it's strange after all.
**[13:13] Emilico**
When I think back on it...
**[13:16] Emilico**
One face was clean.
**[13:21] John**
We said we'd tell Patrick and Louise
when we'd confirmed the culprit,
**[13:25] John**
and they seemed convinced, but...
**[13:28] John**
What do you want to do?
**[13:29] John**
Should we charge into the offender's rooms?
**[13:32] Kate**
Wait.
**[13:33] Kate**
Kate found another hint on the map.
**[13:35] John**
A hint?
**[13:36] Kate**
A place under the jurisdiction
of that shadow's living doll.
**[13:39] Kate**
Master Robe has written
two things onto this map.
**[13:43] Kate**
The first is right here.
**[13:45] Kate**
And then, here.
**[13:47] Kate**
When we were exploring,
Kate remembers a flower bed being here.
**[13:51] Shaun**
When you look closely, it seems like the
pen pressure is different from the original.
**[13:54] John**
Still, would you really be
able to find a hint like that?
**[13:57] John**
It would be impossible for anyone but Kate!
**[13:59] Kate**
First, let's try going to this flower bed.
**[14:10] Shaun**
An untended flower bed...
**[14:13] John**
People wouldn't come
to a place like this very often.
**[14:17] Shaun**
There's just one spot where
the soil has been made level.
**[14:21] John**
Right, Emilico!
**[14:22] Emilico**
What?
**[14:22] John**
Team Brawn is going to dig!
**[14:25] Kate**
John!
**[14:26] Kate**
Please don't equate Emilico with yourself!
**[14:28] Shaun**
I'll do it!
**[14:34] John**
We've got something!
**[14:45] John**
"In that moment which spans across days..."
**[14:47] John**
"Let us meet in the place where
that which was wicked was shattered."
**[14:52] Shaun**
Do you think it could be a trap?
**[14:55] Kate**
It may very well be.
**[14:57] Emilico**
Do you think that Master Robe
hasn't been brainwashed?
**[15:01] Emilico**
Why would they do something like this?
**[15:04] Kate**
Why, indeed.
**[15:06] Kate**
They had the disposition to
create all this strife, after all.
**[15:08] Kate**
We need to prepare ourselves first.
**[15:11] Kate**
The frightening thing is that
we still don't know their motives.
**[15:15] Kate**
And we don't know what
they might mean to do next.
**[15:20] Kate**
Honestly. It's all so circuitous.
**[15:23] Kate**
Kate doesn't like their methods one bit.
**[15:28] Kate**
Fine, then. We'll do as you wish.
**[15:31] Kate**
Just you wait.
**[15:33] Kate**
We'll tear that robe right off of you!
**[16:16] Kate**
You really did come.
**[16:21] John**
Say, John would like to ask you something!
**[16:25] John**
Have you been waiting here every night?
**[16:27] John**
That must have been grueling!
**[16:28] Kate**
Simply checking if the flower bed had been
dug up would render that entirely unnecessary!
**[16:32] John**
That makes sense.
**[16:35] Kate**
Phantoms and their disturbances
were once only rumors,
**[16:37] Kate**
and now they've appeared twice
in a short span of time.
**[16:42] Kate**
According to the research team,
**[16:44] Kate**
scorches do not naturally
turn into phantoms.
**[16:48] Kate**
Which makes it clear that
someone's soot power made them.
**[16:53] Kate**
And...
**[16:54] Kate**
Late at night, you sought
to make contact with Emilico.
**[16:56] Kate**
You, a strange, unsettling presence...
**[16:59] Kate**
Do the messages you left on the map
**[17:02] Kate**
mean that you were hoping
for something from us?
**[17:11] Master Robe**
It's amazing that you've been able to
**[17:13] Master Robe**
conduct yourself in a way that
doesn't expose you, Kate.
**[17:16] Master Robe**
You're a special morph, too, aren't you?
**[17:20] Kate**
Morph? You know about that, too?
**[17:24] John**
Morph?
**[17:25] Master Robe**
You haven't told your allies about it?
**[17:29] Master Robe**
To think you'd be so thoroughly cautious...
**[17:32] Master Robe**
I'm impressed.
**[17:35] John**
Kate, what is it that you know?
**[17:40] Master Robe**
However...
**[17:42] Master Robe**
Do you control information in that manner
because you don't trust your allies?
**[17:47] Kate**
That's not true.
**[17:49] Master Robe**
Since your own existence is special...
**[17:52] Master Robe**
You look down on others, don't you?
**[17:57] Master Robe**
As I thought... Your memories
remain, do they not?
**[18:00] Master Robe**
Memories from before you
began to mimic a human.
**[18:06] Master Robe**
What will you do?
**[18:08] Master Robe**
Your underlings are confused.
**[18:10] Master Robe**
Shall I explain?
**[18:14] Master Robe**
A morph is the previous form of a shadow,
**[18:18] Master Robe**
from before they begin to mimic a human.
**[18:21] Master Robe**
Once they mimic a human,
they also mimic its intelligence.
**[18:25] Master Robe**
It's very close to reincarnation.
**[18:27] Master Robe**
And once that happens,
**[18:29] Master Robe**
their memories from when they
were morphs slowly disappear.
**[18:33] Master Robe**
But Kate and I are different.
**[18:37] Master Robe**
We remember everything.
**[18:39] Master Robe**
I have seen the mechanisms by which
Shadows House treats its living dolls as tools.
**[18:45] Master Robe**
Shadows are nobles?
That is simply make-believe.
**[18:50] Master Robe**
Shadows House is a house of kidnappers.
**[18:54] Kate**
Kate wants to change that! That's why she—
**[18:57] Master Robe**
Are you sure about that, Kate?
**[18:59] Master Robe**
You haven't changed either, have you?
**[19:02] Master Robe**
In the end, you're the only one
who knows the secrets of this house,
**[19:05] Master Robe**
and you compel your
underlings to follow you.
**[19:07] Master Robe**
You manipulate them
from a position of superiority.
**[19:10] Master Robe**
Were you frightened?
**[19:12] Master Robe**
Did you think that if the information leaked,
you'd be digging your own grave?
**[19:16] Master Robe**
Or did you think that
if they learned how cunning you are,
**[19:20] Master Robe**
you would lose their trust?
**[19:31] John**
You're saying all that when you
know nothing of John and the others!
**[19:37] John**
If you hurt Kate any more,
John will punch you!
**[19:42] John**
She's the smartest, so of course she's
thinking about all kinds of things!
**[19:46] John**
Kate, please say something
in your own defense!
**[19:48] John**
John can't figure out what to say!
**[19:56] Kate**
Well, it seems you've said everything
you wanted to, with no restraint.
**[19:59] Kate**
Kate is furious right now!
**[20:01] Kate**
Because of you, Kate fell under
suspicion from the Star Bearers.
**[20:05] Kate**
And even supposing there were morphs
who retained their prior memories,
**[20:09] Kate**
are you saying that all
of them would share your ideology?
**[20:12] Kate**
Just how many living dolls do you suppose
were hurt by the phantom disturbance?
**[20:17] Kate**
Some, like Rosemary and Victor,
were even severely injured!
**[20:20] Kate**
As you know that living dolls are human,
**[20:23] Kate**
Kate cannot understand why you would
take such a course of action!
**[20:26] Kate**
If anyone here is preening over
their own splendid superiority,
**[20:29] Kate**
it's you!
**[20:31] Kate**
If that's the kind of shadow you are,
**[20:33] Kate**
then Kate has no reservations about
handing you over to the Star Bearers.
**[20:35] Kate**
Remove your robe.
**[20:37] Kate**
Kate knows who you are.
**[20:40] Kate**
Hiding your scent, height, and voice means
that you're someone close to us.
**[20:46] Kate**
It's highly likely that you're affiliated
with Emilico, Shaun, or Rum's teams.
**[20:50] Kate**
We also investigated
perfumes and soot powers!
**[20:54] Kate**
After the process of elimination,
the only one left was you!
**[20:56] Kate**
And then Emilico testified to something else.
**[21:00] Kate**
One trait of soot sickness is that the
afflicted's whole face is blackened with soot.
**[21:05] Kate**
That's because they resist
when the scorches cling to them.
**[21:10] Kate**
And yet...
**[21:12] (Flashback) Emilico**
When I think back on it...
**[21:14] (Flashback) Emilico**
One face was clean.
**[21:17] Kate**
The living doll who started
the whole incident...
**[21:20] Kate**
bore no signs of resisting!
**[21:22] Kate**
That's because you ordered your own
living doll to do it, right?
**[21:28] Kate**
To think you'd go so far...
**[21:35] Kate**
Why did you do it,
**[21:46] Kate**
Maryrose?
**[22:01] Maryrose**
All of you really are quite entertaining.
**[22:05] lyric**
*Traveling through a jumbled labyrinth...*
**[22:10] lyric**
*Over and over*
**[22:14] lyric**
*This lonely utopia...*
**[22:19] lyric**
*I have no more need of it*
**[22:23] lyric**
*A vanished smile*
**[22:25] lyric**
*Promises are lies, too*
**[22:28] lyric**
* Everything is pointless,*
* isn't it? And yet...*
**[22:32] lyric**
*Even misshapen as I am, I keep searching...*
**[22:37] lyric**
*For shadows of recollection*
**[22:43] lyric**
*Roses whose love has rotted...*
**[22:48] lyric**
*Lock their feelings away*
**[22:53] lyric**
*That silhouette from back then...*
**[22:57] lyric**
*I've kept on chasing it...*
**[23:01] lyric**
*Even if pale, frozen thorns*
**[23:06] lyric**
*Pierce my heart over and over*
**[23:10] lyric**
*Until I can take that hand*
**[23:15] lyric**
*Again and again*
**[23:19] lyric**
*I'll wish on a star*
**[23:36] Kate**
*Next time,*
***SIGN*** Next Time
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**[23:37] Kate**
*"The Last Lessons."*
**[23:39] ---**
# E9 - The Last Lessons
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**[00:14] lyrics**
*In the face of sadness, we shall smile*
**[00:18] lyrics**
*To live is to be a marionette*
**[00:22] lyrics**
*Once your heart gets into the swing...*
**[00:26] lyrics**
*Would you like a coffee?*
**[00:31] lyrics**
*1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2*
**[00:33] lyrics**
*1, 2, 2, 3*
**[00:34] lyrics**
*I can't seem to dance very well*
**[00:37] lyrics**
*Pain and resentment, and sadness, too...*
**[00:40] lyrics**
*Mix them, knead them...*
**[00:44] lyrics**
*And then a good night kiss*
**[00:48] lyrics**
*Shall we Dance? We shall dance*
**[00:52] lyrics**
*Despair and desire. This is the life!*
**[00:56] lyrics**
*Shadow Life!*
**[00:58] lyrics**
*Don't puzzle over things unnecessarily*
**[01:02] lyrics**
*Let's become one*
**[01:04] lyrics**
*How nice (How nice) How nice (How nice)*
**[01:08] lyrics**
*Humans... Being human... It's so nice*
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**[01:33] John**
Whoa! Th-There, at her feet!
**[01:36] John**
She's riding a scorch!
**[01:46] John**
She put a scorch in her throat?!
**[01:48] John**
The raspiness in her voice is gone!
**[01:50] Maryrose**
You saw through everything. Well done.
**[01:53] Maryrose**
I'd expect nothing less...
**[01:55] Maryrose**
of such a beautiful rose.
**[01:58] Maryrose**
I do not possess much soot,
**[02:02] Maryrose**
but this power is quite useful.
**[02:07] Maryrose**
It activates when even a tiny amount
of my soot is incorporated into a scorch.
**[02:12] Maryrose**
They are compelled to obey
simple commands from me.
**[02:15] Kate**
And that's how you played tricks
with your height and voice.
**[02:18] John**
Hold on...
**[02:20] John**
Robe. Rose. Robe. Rose.
**[02:23] John**
Master Robe's true identity is Rose!
What a tremendous hint!
**[02:27] Kate**
It was Emilico who started
calling her "Master Robe"!
**[02:29] Kate**
Will you please stop
making silly jokes?!
**[02:32] Kate; internal**
*According to Louise's research,*
**[02:34] Kate; internal**
* Maryrose's soot powers have physical effects*
* which she can manipulate from a distance.*
**[02:38] Kate; internal**
* Since scorches aren't*
* living organisms,*
**[02:40] Kate; internal**
* she can physically*
* make them move.*
**[02:43] Kate; internal**
* When she made the Belles*
* break the coffee carafes,*
**[02:45] Kate; internal**
* she must have been*
* hiding somewhere,*
**[02:47] Kate; internal**
* using her powers from*
* afar to guide events...*
**[02:52] Kate; internal**
* just the way I did at the debut*
* when I made Emilico dance.*
**[02:58] Kate**
Maryrose, Kate simply
cannot understand.
**[03:02] Kate**
Rosemary is your living doll.
**[03:04] Kate**
How could you do such cruel
things to her and the others?
**[03:07] Rosemary**
You have it wrong.
**[03:18] Rosemary**
This is something I wanted.
**[03:22] Kate**
Rosemary?
**[03:23] Kate**
Have you recovered
from your soot sickness?
**[03:26] Rosemary**
To be precise, Mistress Maryrose
manipulated a scorch,
**[03:30] Rosemary**
anchoring it in a spot in my stomach
where it would not easily be washed away,
**[03:33] Rosemary**
to make it so that I wouldn't
recover from the soot sickness.
**[03:37] Kate**
She went as far as that?
**[03:39] Rosemary**
It was necessary.
**[03:45] Maryrose**
Rosemary and I don't
have much time left.
**[03:49] Maryrose**
We have received an invitation.
**[03:53] Kate**
What?
**[03:54] Maryrose**
Becoming an adult here
at Shadows House...
**[03:56] Maryrose**
Do you know what that entails?
**[04:00] Maryrose**
A shadow's ultimate goal...
**[04:03] Maryrose**
is to become one with a human.
**[04:09] Maryrose**
The "invitation" is a summons
to undergo the fusion ceremony
**[04:13] Maryrose**
where a shadow and living
doll become one entity.
**[04:16] Maryrose**
The "adults" are all shadows
who have completed this fusion!
**[04:22] John**
Th-That's amazing!
**[04:24] John**
Shadows can really
do something like that?
**[04:27] Maryrose**
To gain a face,
shadows extinguish a human life.
**[04:33] Maryrose**
The living doll's
awareness is snuffed out,
**[04:35] Maryrose**
and the shadow steps
into their body!
**[04:38] John; internal**
*Huh? What does that mean?*
**[04:40] John; internal**
*If John and Shaun fuse,*
**[04:42] John; internal**
* will we never be able to speak*
* to each other again?*
**[04:45] John; internal**
*That would be horrible!*
**[04:47] Maryrose**
For a long time, we have awaited
a chance to escape this house...
**[04:52] Maryrose**
But with no moves we could make,
time simply slipped away.
**[04:56] Maryrose**
I possess very little soot,
**[04:59] Maryrose**
and my power was only good
for moving small, light objects.
**[05:03] Maryrose**
Then, one day,
**[05:04] Maryrose**
it suddenly blossomed into
an ability to manipulate scorches!
**[05:09] Maryrose**
I was so grateful
for this stroke of luck!
**[05:12] Maryrose**
I thought that maybe I could
use it to find those of like mind.
**[05:16] Maryrose**
As a first step,
**[05:18] Maryrose**
I orchestrated the phantom disturbance.
**[05:25] Maryrose**
This house robs people of thought,
**[05:27] Maryrose**
so I wanted to uncover those who
"fret over trivial matters."
**[05:36] Maryrose**
Just as we thought that everything
was progressing perfectly,
**[05:40] Maryrose**
we received our invitation.
**[05:44] Maryrose**
We no longer had time
to search for kindred spirits.
**[05:47] Maryrose**
We risked everything on one last
chance for the two of us to escape.
**[05:57] Maryrose**
In order to temporarily
defer our invitation,
**[05:59] Maryrose**
we had no choice but for Rosemary
to contract soot sickness.
**[06:03] Maryrose**
That's why we caused the second
phantom disturbance—to buy ourselves time.
**[06:08] Maryrose**
I took advantage
of the resulting chaos,
**[06:10] Maryrose**
and searched for other
entrances and exits.
**[06:12] Maryrose**
But I couldn't find any.
**[06:14] Kate**
"Other"? What do you mean?
**[06:17] Maryrose**
Emilico has told you, hasn't she?
**[06:19] Maryrose**
The main house has an entryway.
**[06:23] Maryrose**
I had searched that area previously.
**[06:34] Maryrose**
However...
**[06:40] Maryrose**
beyond the doors lay only a cliff!
**[06:43] Maryrose**
The "entryway" is no
more than a facade!
**[06:47] Maryrose**
It seems the only way to escape is
to pass through Lord Grandfather's wing—
**[06:53] Maryrose**
a completely impregnable fortress.
**[06:56] Maryrose**
Shadows House is toying
with all of our lives.
**[07:02] Maryrose**
To steal Rosemary's body,
**[07:04] Maryrose**
so that I alone can continue
to live a carefree life...
**[07:07] Maryrose**
The very idea is unthinkable!
**[07:09] Maryrose**
And so!
**[07:10] Maryrose**
We shall fight our fate!
**[07:17] Rosemary**
We know that we are being selfish.
**[07:20] Rosemary**
When others learned of the secrets
**[07:22] Rosemary**
of this house and were disposed of,
we stood by and watched.
**[07:27] Rosemary**
And because we tried to break
the brainwashing, lives were lost.
**[07:33] Rosemary**
It may be that our emotions
have become muted.
**[07:38] Rosemary**
My tears have run dry.
**[07:41] Rosemary**
But, Mistress Kate, in such a short time,
and without anyone noticing,
**[07:44] Rosemary**
you have gathered yourself so many allies.
**[07:47] Rosemary**
You are far more brilliant than we are.
**[07:51] Rosemary**
Were it possible, I only wish
we could have met sooner.
**[07:56] Kate; internal**
*It can't be...*
**[07:57] Kate; internal**
* They wrought all this havoc precisely because*
* of how much they care for each other?*
**[08:04] Kate; internal**
*What if it were me?*
**[08:06] Kate; internal**
* If I'd spent years in this house,*
* unable to make allies,*
**[08:09] Kate; internal**
* only to learn in the end*
* that I'd lose Emilico...*
**[08:14] Rosemary**
Emilico...
**[08:20] Rosemary**
There was so much more...
I wanted to teach you.
**[08:27] Rosemary**
Mia can be difficult to get along with,
**[08:30] Rosemary**
but she's good at looking
after people,
**[08:32] Rosemary**
so she's sure to become
a wonderful team leader.
**[08:36] Rosemary**
Lou is a quiet, intelligent girl.
**[08:40] Rosemary**
She lacks initiative, so, Emilico,
**[08:42] Rosemary**
you make up for that
for her, all right?
**[08:47] Rosemary**
It only existed for a brief time...
**[08:51] Rosemary**
But it was a wonderful
team, wasn't it?
**[08:55] Rosemary**
Shaun, you come over here, too.
**[09:03] Rosemary**
I'm so sorry, truly.
**[09:08] Rosemary**
It's too late for us...
**[09:10] Rosemary**
to turn back now.
**[09:20] Rosemary**
So please don't get in our way.
**[09:24] Kate**
Emilico!
**[09:25] John**
Shaun!
**[09:26] Maryrose**
Tomorrow, we shall once
again receive our invitation.
**[09:30] Maryrose**
And that shall be our final act.
**[09:34] Maryrose**
Which is why we cannot allow
you to expose us as the culprits!
**[09:38] Maryrose**
You will be restrained
until the time comes!
**[09:42] John**
Whoa!
**[09:43] John**
There are still this
many scorches?!
**[09:45] John**
Who was it? Who skipped
out on their cleaning?!
**[09:48] Maryrose**
These are my last lessons
for you as team leader!
**[09:58] John**
Blast!
**[09:59] John**
We can't get close
to Shaun and Emilico!
**[10:07] Maryrose**
So, you also have a long-distance,
physical-type power?
**[10:09] Maryrose**
I have a general idea
of what you're thinking.
**[10:12] Maryrose**
You are intelligent.
**[10:15] Maryrose**
But you lack experience.
**[10:17] Maryrose**
Lured by hints,
**[10:19] Maryrose**
you came all the way to
this stage I'd set for you.
**[10:22] Maryrose**
Did you not think that
it might be dangerous?
**[10:25] Maryrose**
Did you think you could wing it against an
opponent who had little soot to work with?
**[10:31] Maryrose**
Lesson one!
**[10:32] Maryrose**
Do not regard those who have
been here longer with disdain!
**[10:36] Kate**
We'll retreat for now!
**[10:37] Kate**
If she's gathered every scorch
in the house, we're at a disadvantage!
**[10:40] Kate**
We'll go outside!
**[10:41] John**
Right!
**[10:49] John**
We defeated quite
a few of them with that!
**[10:51] Kate**
It seems that even when manipulated,
**[10:53] Kate**
scorches are still weak against water!
**[10:55] John**
Still, Rosemary really got us!
**[10:59] John**
That talk she had with Emilico
even made John cry a little!
**[11:03] John**
And it was all just to get us
to let down our guards?
**[11:05] John**
She's such a good actress!
**[11:06] Kate**
It may be that her words were the truth.
**[11:08] Kate**
But achieving their goal was more
important to them than anything else.
**[11:13] John**
Look out!
**[11:14] John**
These things just don't give up!
**[11:17] John**
How far is her scorch-controlling range?
**[11:21] Kate**
While Rosemary was receiving treatment,
she was controlling that scorch...
**[11:25] Kate**
even though there's
quite a distance between
**[11:27] Kate**
the washing room
and Maryrose's rooms.
**[11:30] Kate**
Could it be that once she's given
an order, they become automated?
**[11:35] Kate**
And when it comes to soot,
**[11:36] Kate**
she has far more information
than Kate and the others do.
**[11:39] Kate**
She's a formidable foe.
**[11:41] John**
The John Punch is our last resort, right?
**[11:45] Kate**
What is that?
You named your ability?
**[11:47] Maryrose**
Sorry to keep you waiting.
**[11:54] John**
They're riding the scorches!
**[11:57] John**
And there are more
of them than before!
**[11:59] John**
Where'd she get them from?!
**[12:03] Kate**
They're fast!
**[12:09] John**
They're gonna catch us!
**[12:19] John**
They're gonna catch us!
**[12:29] John**
Just kidding!
**[12:35] Maryrose**
Blast it.
**[12:37] Kate**
This is an aqueduct that
brings water to the house.
**[12:41] Maryrose**
A bridge made of soot.
**[12:43] Maryrose**
You made it appear to be an extension
of the land in order to lead us here...
**[12:47] Maryrose**
Is that how it worked?
**[12:48] John**
Well, this is a hill, you see!
**[12:50] John**
You couldn't tell
from below, right?
**[12:52] John**
We didn't do all that
exploring just for show!
**[12:54] John**
With this, you've lost your
fighting power, haven't you, Maryrose?
**[12:58] Kate**
And now, to restrain you!
**[13:07] Kate**
Kate's being pulled in!
**[13:08] John**
Kate!
**[13:11] Maryrose**
Why didn't you drop us
into the aqueduct as well?
**[13:14] Maryrose**
Were you being careful
not to hurt Rosemary and me?
**[13:19] Maryrose**
How naïve.
**[13:20] Maryrose**
Lesson two!
**[13:22] Maryrose**
Do not show compassion
for your enemies.
**[13:25] John**
How could you do that to Kate?
**[13:27] John**
Don't show compassion, you say?
**[13:29] John**
Then you'd better
prepare yourselves!
**[13:31] John**
You're about to get blown away!
**[13:33] Kate; internal**
*Wait...*
**[13:34] Kate; internal**
*What is it? Something feels wrong.*
**[13:37] (Flashback) Maryrose**
You are intelligent.
**[13:39] (Flashback) Maryrose**
But you lack experience.
**[13:41] Kate; internal**
*That's right.*
**[13:43] Kate; internal**
* They've lived in the house*
* for a long time.*
**[13:45] Kate; internal**
* It's highly possible that they*
* knew about this aqueduct.*
**[13:49] Kate; internal**
* Could they have let themselves*
* spring the trap on purpose?*
**[13:52] Kate; internal**
* Why did they want us*
* to let down our guard?*
**[13:57] (Flashback) Maryrose**
Did you think you could wing it against an
opponent who had little soot to work with?
**[14:01] Kate; internal**
*Maryrose has a low soot volume.*
**[14:03] Kate; internal**
*If that is true, then...*
**[14:06] Kate; internal**
* A great number of scorches were*
* defeated in the great hall.*
**[14:09] Kate; internal**
* It's odd that they multiplied*
* to such an extent.*
**[14:11] (Flashback) John**
Who was it? Who skipped
out on their cleaning?!
**[14:15] Kate; internal**
* Could it be that those*
* scorches earlier...*
**[14:19] Kate; internal**
*were made from my soot?!*
**[14:22] John**
John...
**[14:24] John**
Punch!
**[14:26] Kate**
John, no!
**[14:28] Kate**
Maryrose's soot power isn't limited
to manipulating scorches!
**[14:32] John**
What?
**[14:40] Kate**
She can instantaneously transform
others' soot into scorches!
**[14:44] John**
Uh... Uh-oh.
**[14:45] John**
There's more than double
what was there before!
**[14:52] Maryrose**
Lesson three.
**[14:54] Maryrose**
One's true power should be
kept secret as long as possible.
**[15:01] John**
So this is a phantom?
**[15:10] John**
All we can do is run!
Let's go, Kate!
**[15:13] Kate**
J-John!
**[15:14] Kate**
What's wrong?
**[15:16] John**
Why...
**[15:17] John**
John's body won't move
the way he wants it to...
**[15:19] Kate**
You've used too much soot.
**[15:20] Kate**
But you can do this, John!
**[15:21] Kate**
For now, we just have to run!
**[15:24] John**
John is sorry for being so pathetic.
**[15:30] Maryrose**
You will not be allowed
to interfere, Kate.
**[15:34] Maryrose**
We will decide the manner
in which our curtain falls.
**[15:45] Kate**
It's no good.
Kate is exhausted, too.
**[15:49] John**
The more you attack,
the stronger your opponent becomes!
**[15:52] John**
That's just cheating!
**[15:54] John**
This is no different from having
our soot powers sealed away.
**[15:57] John**
Blast it!
**[15:58] John**
Both John and Kate thought that our
high soot volumes were our one advantage!
**[16:04] Kate**
And we left Emilico and Shaun
back in the great hall, too.
**[16:07] Kate**
It's just as Maryrose said.
**[16:10] Kate**
Kate and the others were naïve.
**[16:14] Kate; internal**
* And that points to one*
* devastating truth...*
**[16:18] Kate; internal**
*That even Maryrose, with all her power,*
**[16:21] Kate; internal**
* had no choice but to give up*
* on escaping from this house.*
**[16:25] Kate; internal**
* Just how great a gap in strength*
* is there between us and the adults?*
**[16:32] Edward**
Bah. It's quite dispiriting,
**[16:35] Edward**
having to go and check on the box.
**[16:37] Aileen**
Even if one pair succeeds,
it may be difficult for another.
**[16:42] Thomas**
They entered the box a long time ago.
**[16:46] Thomas**
What a shame.
**[16:48] Thomas**
It seems you've started off with a failure,
**[16:52] Thomas**
new warden of the children's wing...
**[16:55] Thomas**
Young Edward.
**[16:57] Edward**
Master Thomas.
**[16:59] Thomas**
Your first welcoming...
**[17:01] Thomas**
What do you think?
**[17:03] Thomas**
Does it make you feel the
weight of your responsibilities?
**[17:05] Gerald**
We are about to confirm
whether they failed or not.
**[17:10] Thomas**
It's a truly wretched thing, you know?
**[17:13] Edward**
I see.
**[17:15] Edward**
It seems you have too
much time on your hands.
**[17:17] Edward**
Is this what you wish to say?
**[17:19] Edward**
The warden's most important
duty, the welcoming...
**[17:22] Edward**
If it fails repeatedly,
**[17:24] Edward**
the warden is removed from
the position.
**[17:28] Edward**
Is that it, former Warden Thomas?
**[17:32] Thomas**
Why would a little brat
who's only just risen
**[17:35] Thomas**
to the second floor
be given my position?
**[17:37] Aileen**
What does it matter?
**[17:38] Aileen**
Just think of it as having
more leisure time.
**[17:40] Aileen**
Flaring up at him like that...
**[17:42] Aileen**
In addition to losing your position,
you might be demoted to the first floor.
**[17:47] Aileen**
Is your fear of that
the cause of this?
**[17:49] Thomas**
Don't underestimate me, you nobodies.
**[18:00] Edward**
Now, now...
**[18:02] Edward**
Running wild in a place like this
**[18:04] Edward**
and ruining Lord Grandfather's mood
would be idiotic, don't you think?
**[18:08] Edward**
Allow me to apologize
for speaking out of turn.
**[18:10] Edward**
I am still quite young.
**[18:14] Edward**
Please hold on to a long-term perspective.
**[18:18] Edward**
After all, the ones who are
worthy of the third floor...
**[18:23] Edward**
are us.
**[18:32] Gerald**
But, Edward, if only
one pair of two succeeds,
**[18:37] Gerald**
that would be a hard blow to take.
**[18:39] Aileen**
If half succeed, it zeroes
out on balance.
**[18:42] Aileen**
But next time...
**[18:44] Aileen**
Maryrose.
**[18:46] Aileen**
I can understand why
you're interested in her.
**[18:49] Aileen**
Even if she were to be
welcomed now, she would fail.
**[18:52] Edward**
In the report for her transfer,
**[18:54] Edward**
her evaluations were lower than expected,
even considering her low soot volume.
**[19:00] Edward**
It's strange, isn't it?
**[19:04] Edward**
We are speaking of Maryrose,
who used to excel.
**[19:15] Edward**
What happened to her
after we became adults?
**[19:23] Edward**
As I thought,
**[19:24] Edward**
the system wherein adults cannot directly
affect the children's wing must be changed.
**[19:29] Aileen**
And the reports, too.
**[19:30] Aileen**
Only the warden is allowed to read them.
**[19:40] Edward**
On top of which,
**[19:41] Edward**
the moment they were invited,
they contracted soot sickness.
**[19:46] Edward**
All one can think is that they are resistant
to coming to Lord Grandfather's wing.
**[19:51] Gerald**
Is Maryrose a rebellious element?
**[19:54] Edward**
This is only a hypothesis,
**[19:55] Edward**
but what if she deliberately lowered her
evaluations to stay in the children's wing...
**[19:59] Edward**
so that she could inspire newcomers to rebel?
**[20:04] Edward**
Kate could be the product of that.
**[20:06] Edward**
She's a member of Maryrose's team.
**[20:08] Edward**
There's more than
enough to connect them.
**[20:11] Edward**
Kate will carry on her mutinous ideology,
**[20:14] Edward**
and if it spreads throughout
the whole of the children's wing,
**[20:16] Edward**
the Star Bearers will be unable
to quell it on their own.
**[20:19] Edward**
To make those up on the
third floor understand this,
**[20:22] Edward**
we will welcome Maryrose,
**[20:24] Edward**
and have her come clean,
spilling everything she knows.
**[20:27] Edward**
If we can deliver a rebellious
element to Lord Grandfather,
**[20:31] Edward**
our path to the third floor will open.
**[20:34] Gerald**
I see.
**[20:35] Gerald**
Since you have thought that
far ahead, I have no complaints.
**[20:39] Aileen**
And to gain trust,
an enemy is needed.
**[20:43] Edward; internal**
* When a shadow and a living doll*
* enter the Box of Completion...*
**[20:47] Edward; internal**
*a cocoon is formed from the shadow's soot.*
**[20:50] Edward; internal**
* If the process succeeds,*
* the living doll's life is extinguished,*
**[20:53] Edward; internal**
* and a shadow made perfect*
* emerges from the cocoon.*
**[20:57] Edward; internal**
* Just as a caterpillar becomes a*
* chrysalis and then emerges with wings.*
**[21:01] Edward; internal**
* The process takes between*
* one and two weeks.*
**[21:04] Edward; internal**
*Failure means death.*
**[21:07] Edward; internal**
* I'm afraid that Maryrose*
* is unlikely to succeed.*
**[21:11] Edward; internal**
* A failed fusion reduces the*
* evaluation of the warden in charge,*
**[21:15] Edward; internal**
*but that is of little concern.*
**[21:32] Edward**
What a horrible odor.
**[21:46] Edward**
The real thing is even more
hideous than I was told.
**[21:51] Edward; internal**
*Maryrose...*
**[21:53] Edward; internal**
*This is where your fate shall lead.*
**[21:56] Edward; internal**
*Those who plot rebellion...*
**[22:00] Edward; internal**
*should be punished.*
**[22:05] lyric**
*Traveling through a jumbled labyrinth...*
**[22:10] lyric**
*Over and over*
**[22:14] lyric**
*This lonely utopia...*
**[22:19] lyric**
*I have no more need of it*
**[22:23] lyric**
*A vanished smile*
**[22:25] lyric**
*Promises are lies, too*
**[22:28] lyric**
* Everything is pointless,*
* isn't it? And yet...*
**[22:32] lyric**
*Even misshapen as I am, I keep searching...*
**[22:37] lyric**
*For shadows of recollection*
**[22:43] lyric**
*Roses whose love has rotted...*
**[22:48] lyric**
*Lock their feelings away*
**[22:53] lyric**
*That silhouette from back then...*
**[22:57] lyric**
*I've kept on chasing it...*
**[23:01] lyric**
*Even if pale, frozen thorns*
**[23:06] lyric**
*Pierce my heart over and over*
**[23:10] lyric**
*Until I can take that hand*
**[23:15] lyric**
*Again and again*
**[23:19] lyric**
*I'll wish on a star*
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** The Value of Friends
***SIGN*** The Value of Friends
***SIGN*** The Value of Friends
***SIGN*** The Value of Friends
***SIGN*** The Value of Friends
***SIGN*** The Value of Friends
***SIGN*** The Value of Friends
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**[23:36] Kate**
Next time,
**[23:37] Kate**
"The Value of Friends."
**[23:39] ---**
# E10 - The Value of Friends
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GG1U2QV18/the-value-of-friends)
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**[00:00] John**
John...
**[00:01] John**
Punch!
**[00:03] Kate**
John, no!
**[00:05] Kate**
Maryrose's soot power isn't
limited to manipulating scorches!
**[00:08] John**
What?
**[00:16] Kate**
She can instantaneously transform
others' soot into scorches!
**[00:20] John**
Uh... Uh-oh.
**[00:22] John**
There's more than double
what was there before!
**[00:26] Maryrose**
Lesson three.
**[00:28] Maryrose**
One's true power should be
kept secret as long as possible.
**[00:35] John**
So this is a phantom?
**[00:44] John**
All we can do is run!
Let's go, Kate!
**[00:47] Kate**
J-John!
**[00:49] Kate**
What's wrong?
**[00:50] John**
Why...
**[00:51] John**
John's body won't move
the way he wants it to...
**[00:53] Kate**
You've used too much soot.
**[00:55] Kate**
But you can do this, John!
**[00:56] Kate**
For now, we just have to run!
**[00:58] John**
John is sorry for
being so pathetic.
**[01:07] John**
The more you attack,
the stronger your opponent becomes!
**[01:10] John**
That's just cheating!
**[01:12] John**
This is no different from having
our soot powers sealed away.
**[01:15] John**
Blast it!
**[01:16] John**
Both John and Kate thought that our high
soot volumes were our one advantage!
**[01:21] Kate**
And we left Emilico and Shaun
back in the great hall, too.
**[01:25] Kate**
It's just as Maryrose said.
**[01:28] Kate**
Kate and the others were naïve.
**[01:33] Maryrose**
You will not be allowed
to interfere, Kate.
**[01:37] Maryrose**
We will decide the manner
in which our curtain falls.
**[01:57] lyrics**
*In the face of sadness, we shall smile*
**[02:01] lyrics**
*To live is to be a marionette*
**[02:05] lyrics**
*Once your heart gets into the swing...*
**[02:09] lyrics**
*Would you like a coffee?*
**[02:14] lyrics**
*1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2*
**[02:16] lyrics**
*1, 2, 2, 3*
**[02:17] lyrics**
*I can't seem to dance very well*
**[02:20] lyrics**
*Pain and resentment, and sadness, too...*
**[02:23] lyrics**
*Mix them, knead them...*
**[02:27] lyrics**
*And then a good night kiss*
**[02:31] lyrics**
*Shall we Dance? We shall dance*
**[02:35] lyrics**
*Despair and desire. This is the life!*
**[02:40] lyrics**
*Shadow Life!*
**[02:41] lyrics**
*Don't puzzle over things unnecessarily*
**[02:45] lyrics**
*Let's become one*
**[02:47] lyrics**
*How nice (How nice) How nice (How nice)*
**[02:51] lyrics**
*Humans... Being human... It's so nice*
***SIGN*** The Value of Friends
***SIGN*** The Value of Friends
***SIGN*** The Value of Friends
***SIGN*** The Value of Friends
***SIGN*** The Value of Friends
***SIGN*** The Value of Friends
**[03:31] John**
Kate, what will we do now?
**[03:36] Kate**
This isn't going as planned, is it?
**[03:39] Kate**
For now, we have to make
sure she doesn't find us.
**[03:42] Kate**
Since soot attacks won't
work on Maryrose,
**[03:46] Kate**
it will be incredibly difficult
for Kate and John to capture her.
**[03:49] Kate**
First, let's try to get
close to the house.
**[03:52] Kate**
If we must, we can shout for help.
**[03:55] John**
With everyone brainwashed,
**[03:57] John**
John would've really liked
to settle this with just us, though.
**[04:01] Kate**
Can you still move, John?
**[04:03] John**
Yes, John can manage.
**[04:09] John**
There are scorches
coming this way!
**[04:10] John**
Didn't they all turn
into that phantom?!
**[04:13] Kate**
This time, she's planning to
use sheer numbers to overwhelm us.
**[04:15] John**
A human wave attack...
**[04:17] John**
No, a scorch wave attack?
**[04:18] John**
That Maryrose is ruthless!
**[04:24] John**
And now John is hungry!
**[04:26] John**
Blast!
**[04:27] John**
If John had known things would
go like this, he'd have eaten something!
**[04:29] Kate**
Indeed!
**[04:30] Kate**
Using soot powers chips
away at one's stamina, so...
**[04:35] Maryrose**
What a truly enjoyable evening.
**[04:39] Maryrose**
Kate has conducted herself admirably.
**[04:42] Maryrose**
And John's soot
volume is impressive.
**[04:45] Maryrose**
We've rendered their soot powers ineffective,
**[04:47] Maryrose**
and their living dolls aren't
here to fight for them.
**[04:49] Maryrose**
The next thing they'll think
about is calling for help.
**[04:54] Maryrose**
Now, my scorches!
**[04:56] Maryrose**
Do not let those two get
anywhere near the house!
**[05:02] Kate**
If we're cornered now,
we'll have nowhere left to go.
**[05:05] Kate**
It's no good. She's reading our every move!
**[05:08] Kate**
Kate is worried about
Emilico and Shaun.
**[05:11] John**
Huh? They're probably fine, right?
**[05:13] John**
After all, we implemented
the Mouth Full of Water Plan!
**[05:17] John**
Since she can control scorches,
we knew she'd target our living dolls first.
**[05:21] John**
That's why they filled their
mouths with water ahead of time.
**[05:24] John**
Protected against scorches,
**[05:25] John**
they'd create an opening by acting
like they'd contracted soot sickness.
**[05:30] John**
And to make sure they
weren't found out,
**[05:31] John**
Kate, you sent soot into their eyes
and made them look pitch-black!
**[05:34] John**
Your control there was perfect!
**[05:37] Kate**
True, but... up until now,
**[05:39] Kate**
Maryrose has been one step ahead
of everything we've tried.
**[05:46] Kate; internal**
*This is bad.*
**[05:47] Kate; internal**
* If she sent high-density*
* scorches at them...*
**[05:58] Shaun; Emilico**
My eyes hurt!
**[06:02] Emilico**
Mistress Kate, you didn't
have to go this far!
**[06:05] Shaun**
My eyes won't stop watering.
**[06:07] Shaun**
I have to rinse them out.
**[06:09] Emilico**
I'll go and bring the water we hid.
**[06:16] Emilico**
I can't see very well.
**[06:18] Shaun**
You can do it! Please, Emilico.
**[06:29] Shaun**
I had no idea that getting soot
in my eyes would hurt this much.
**[06:33] Emilico**
But thanks to that,
our acting was very realistic!
**[06:36] Shaun**
Still...
**[06:37] Shaun**
I thought we were
prepared against scorches,
**[06:40] Shaun**
but the timing of that
attack was just...
**[06:42] Emilico**
You don't have any left
in your mouth, do you?
**[06:47] Shaun**
I'm fine.
**[06:48] Shaun**
Actually, it's the irritation
in my eyes that's awful.
**[06:51] Shaun**
And that's because the soot
was really packed in there.
**[06:54] Shaun**
Seen in comparison to that,
Mistress Maryrose is really amazing.
**[06:58] Shaun**
She sent scorches with a precisely
calculated amount of soot at us.
**[07:01] Shaun**
Though, thanks to that,
**[07:03] Shaun**
we were able to hold them off
with a mouthful of water.
**[07:07] Shaun**
I-It isn't a criticism of Mistress Kate!
**[07:10] Emilico**
Mistress Maryrose is very kind, isn't she?
**[07:15] Shaun**
I see.
**[07:16] Shaun**
If she'd sent small,
high-density scorches at us,
**[07:20] Shaun**
we might not have been
able to defend against them.
**[07:24] Shaun**
Could it be...
**[07:25] Shaun**
Did she calculate the amount so we'd
only receive a light case of soot sickness?
**[07:29] Emilico**
If we turn her in as the culprit...
**[07:32] Emilico**
Will Mistress Maryrose and Rosemary...
**[07:35] Emilico**
be disposed of?
**[07:39] Shaun**
Right now, we should concentrate
only on our own masters.
**[07:44] Shaun**
I have a bad feeling about this.
**[07:46] Shaun**
If Master John is alone
with Mistress Kate...
**[07:49] Shaun**
He'll be overeager and expend
all of his strength, won't he?
**[07:55] Shaun**
Master John's punch
is incredibly powerful,
**[07:58] Shaun**
but he can't regulate it the
way Mistress Maryrose can her powers.
**[08:00] Shaun**
Apparently, a single punch consumes
a huge amount of his stamina!
**[08:05] Shaun**
Blast.
**[08:06] Shaun**
He should have
had seconds at dinner.
**[08:10] Emilico**
Then there's no need to worry!
**[08:12] Emilico**
After all, Mistress Kate
has a secret weapon!
**[08:20] Kate**
Ta-dah!
**[08:21] Kate**
Kate's just remembered
that she has this!
**[08:26] Kate**
Who'd have imagined that
it would prove useful?
**[08:28] Kate**
First, we must
replenish our strength.
**[08:31] Kate**
Let's eat it together.
**[08:32] John**
Huh? Oh...
**[08:33] John**
You're giving this to John?
**[08:39] John**
Do you always have
rolls in your pocket?
**[08:42] Kate**
What? No, not usually.
**[08:44] Kate**
It's because Emilico insisted.
**[08:48] (Flashback) Emilico**
Rolls are an absolute necessity!
**[08:50] (Flashback) Emilico**
When we did our late night patrols,
they came in very handy!
**[08:54] John**
No, it's just...
**[08:56] John**
John was so happy,
he didn't know how to react!
**[08:58] John**
Ahem.
**[09:00] John**
It's the first present John
ever received from Kate...
**[09:02] John**
He'll treasure it all his life.
**[09:04] Kate**
Eat it immediately.
**[09:12] John**
All right! John's power is at its maximum!
**[09:15] John**
Next time, John will bring her down!
**[09:16] John**
You just wait! You'll get what's
coming to you, Maryrose!
**[09:19] Kate**
If you make too much noise,
she'll find us! Keep quiet!
**[09:24] John**
The strength from the roll Kate gave
him has filled John with energy!
**[09:28] Kate**
The situation hasn't
turned in our favor.
**[09:30] Kate**
We can't run any further.
**[09:32] John**
No, there's the mouth
of the aqueduct.
**[09:34] John**
Let's use that!
**[09:35] John**
We can douse the scorches with water!
**[09:38] John**
Nice idea!
**[09:39] Kate**
How would we do that?
**[09:41] John**
Well...
**[09:42] John**
We could make
buckets out of soot.
**[09:44] John**
Another nice idea!
**[09:46] Kate**
The water would just wash the soot away!
**[09:51] Kate**
John!
**[09:55] Kate; internal**
*How can we survive this crisis?*
**[09:58] Kate; internal**
* One, drop them into the*
* aqueduct one by one...*
**[10:02] Kate; internal**
* Two, attack with soot powers to*
* decrease their numbers straightaway...*
**[10:06] Kate; internal**
* Or three, wait for Emilico*
* and Shaun to arrive?*
**[10:10] John**
Come on! John will smack you
down into the aqueduct!
**[10:17] John**
Ow! It's so hard!
**[10:21] John**
Could this be what they
called a "high-density" one?
**[10:24] John**
Is it because it was John's soot?
**[10:28] John**
Now it's come to this...
**[10:29] John**
To protect John's beloved Kate,
**[10:31] John**
he will put all his strength into
a John Punch and blow them all away!
**[10:34] Kate**
Don't use all your strength
against just one of them!
**[10:38] Kate; internal**
*One and two won't work.*
**[10:40] Kate; internal**
* As long as Maryrose is around,*
* she can just make more scorches.*
**[10:44] Kate; internal**
* And next time, John really won't*
* be able to move afterwards.*
**[10:46] Kate; internal**
*Which leaves number three.*
**[10:49] Kate; internal**
*It seems too obvious.*
**[10:51] Kate; internal**
* We don't know what Emilico*
* and Shaun's situation is.*
**[10:55] Kate; internal**
* And we've strayed far from*
* our agreed meeting place.*
**[10:59] John**
Kate! Don't let yourself worry!
**[11:03] John**
If you emit soot, our position
here will be revealed.
**[11:06] John**
You need to keep a cool head.
**[11:08] Kate**
That's it, John!
**[11:10] John**
Huh?
**[11:11] Kate**
Let's go cool our heads!
**[11:20] Kate**
Oh, honestly. This is the worst!
**[11:23] Kate**
It's cold, and Kate's
clothes are soaked.
**[11:26] Kate**
It feels disgusting.
**[11:27] John**
Should John carry
you on his shoulders?
**[11:29] Kate**
No!
**[11:31] John**
Blast it.
**[11:32] John**
They're still watching us from
the edge of the aqueduct.
**[11:35] John**
Kate, what's our next move?
**[11:37] Kate**
Well...
**[11:39] Kate**
This aqueduct brings water from the
outside for the use of Shadows House.
**[11:42] Kate**
It splits a few times up ahead...
**[11:45] Kate**
branching toward the vegetable
garden and the main house.
**[11:47] Kate**
And beyond that, it should continue
all the way to the fountain garden.
**[11:51] Kate**
No matter what we do,
**[11:53] Kate**
we'll have to briefly leave the
aqueduct and use the stairs.
**[11:56] John**
And they'll definitely be watching
for that opportunity to attack us.
**[12:01] John**
Right, then!
**[12:02] John**
We're headed for the
main house, right?
**[12:04] John**
Even from the aqueduct,
**[12:05] John**
if we shout loud enough,
the Star Bearers might notice!
**[12:11] Kate**
The whole reason we're
in this mess to begin with...
**[12:14] Kate**
is because the Star Bearers
falsely accused Kate of a crime.
**[12:18] Kate**
This isn't amusing in the least!
**[12:20] Kate**
We're heading for
the fountain garden!
**[12:22] Kate**
If you use your John Punch with exactly
the right timing, we'll beat them!
**[12:26] John; internal**
*John doesn't quite understand,*
**[12:27] John; internal**
* but is Kate thinking of him*
* as her secret weapon?*
**[12:30] John**
All right!
**[12:31] John**
John will put everything
he's got into one punch!
**[12:38] Kate; internal**
* We haven't seen Maryrose*
* up to this point.*
**[12:41] Kate; internal**
* Is that simply because she*
* can't touch us in the aqueduct?*
**[12:44] Kate; internal**
*Emilico...*
**[12:46] Kate; internal**
*If you're making a move right now,*
**[12:47] Kate; internal**
* I hope you'll be able to*
* figure out my destination.*
**[12:53] Shaun**
What was that noise?
**[12:55] Shaun**
Can you see anything, Emilico?
**[13:00] Emilico**
There are a few scorches
next to the aqueduct...
**[13:03] Emilico**
but I don't see Mistress Maryrose
or Mistress Kate.
**[13:07] Shaun**
As we thought,
they must be being chased.
**[13:09] Shaun**
We have to make sure
we aren't found, either.
**[13:15] Shaun**
I wonder if this means that
the soot bridge plan failed.
**[13:22] Shaun**
We tried heading toward
the soot that went up earlier,
**[13:25] Shaun**
but it seems we're too late.
**[13:27] Emilico**
Oh! At the edge of the aqueduct!
**[13:31] Emilico**
Mistress Kate's handkerchief
and a bit of bread?
**[13:36] Shaun**
Why would Mistress Kate have bread?
**[13:38] Emilico**
I had it ready for her!
**[13:40] Emilico**
See? I have some, too!
**[13:42] Emilico**
Oh!
**[13:43] Emilico**
With all that rolling around earlier,
it's been squashed really flat!
**[13:46] Shaun**
Well, we know that
they were here.
**[13:50] Shaun**
But what message
was she trying to convey?
**[13:54] Emilico**
They must have gone
into the aqueduct!
**[13:56] Emilico**
And they left the bread behind because
they didn't want it to get ruined.
**[13:59] Shaun**
Oh, no!
**[14:01] Shaun**
Those scorches earlier...
**[14:02] Shaun**
Could it be...
**[14:03] Emilico; Shaun**
They were after Mistress Kate
and Master John?
**[14:09] Shaun**
What? You keep things in there?
**[14:12] Emilico**
It's the map from when
we were exploring.
**[14:14] Emilico**
We added to it in preparation
for tonight's undertaking.
**[14:17] Emilico**
Let's check the information
on the gardens!
**[14:20] Emilico**
Even if we go back
along the same route,
**[14:22] Emilico**
we won't make it in time.
**[14:24] Shaun**
This aqueduct goes to the vegetable gardens,
the main house, and the fountain garden.
**[14:30] Shaun**
If we can figure out where Mistress Kate
and Master John are heading,
**[14:32] Shaun**
we might be able to catch up
by traveling overground.
**[14:35] Shaun**
And there are three options...
**[14:37] Shaun**
What is it?
**[14:39] Emilico**
When I imagine Mistress Kate
walking through the aqueduct...
**[14:44] Emilico**
with her clothes soaked,
she must be freezing!
**[14:47] Emilico**
She might catch a cold!
**[14:50] Emilico**
I'm so worried for her!
**[14:53] Shaun**
*That's* what you're worried about?
**[14:56] Shaun; internal**
* It's just like Emilico*
* to be that way.*
**[15:11] Kate**
Here we go! John,
you come after!
**[15:14] John**
Understood!
**[15:16] Kate; narration**
*First, I'll draw the scorches' attention...*
**[15:18] Fake Kate**
Over here!
**[15:20] Kate; narration**
* ...and lead them to the*
* edge of the fountain!*
**[15:27] Fake John**
Kate!
**[15:33] Fake John**
Kate!
**[15:34] Fake John**
Hold on just a little longer!
**[15:38] John; narration**
* And then, the last move is smashing*
* the fountain with a John Punch!*
**[15:42] Fake John**
The spray of water will
catch them all at once!
**[15:50] Fake John**
Huh?
**[15:53] Fake John**
How?
**[15:55] Fake John**
How can you already be here?
**[15:59] Maryrose**
I can sense the movements
of the scorches I control.
**[16:05] Maryrose**
I arrived before you and set a phantom
to wait for you by the fountain.
**[16:11] Fake Kate**
Mary...rose...
**[16:16] Maryrose**
Your lessons end here.
**[16:21] Maryrose**
You chose wrongly, Kate.
**[16:24] Maryrose**
You should have gone to the
main house to seek help.
**[16:31] Maryrose**
To the last, you insisted on
a direct confrontation with me.
**[16:36] Maryrose**
That is why you have lost.
**[16:41] John**
John...
**[16:42] John**
Punch!
**[16:54] Maryrose**
It can't be!
**[16:55] Maryrose**
How could John come
from behind us?
**[16:57] Maryrose**
Then the ones I captured are...
**[17:08] Maryrose**
You painted your bodies
with soot and traded places?
**[17:11] Kate**
It's over, Maryrose.
**[17:25] Kate**
Emilico, Shaun, you really saved us.
**[17:28] Kate**
And it's such a relief
that you're unharmed.
**[17:30] Emilico**
It's all thanks to your Mouth Full
of Water Plan, Mistress Kate!
**[17:34] Kate**
Still, it's amazing that you knew Kate
was heading for the fountain garden.
**[17:40] Kate**
We weren't able to leave any message
other than the piece of bread.
**[17:44] Shaun**
I thought you'd go to the house
to ask for help, but Emilico...
**[17:49] Emilico**
Mistress Kate, you were very angry
at the Star Bearers' mistrust of you,
**[17:54] Emilico**
so I knew that you wouldn't
ask them for help.
**[17:56] Emilico**
And if that were true,
then to fight a phantom,
**[17:59] Emilico**
I thought you might pick
somewhere with lots of water!
**[18:02] Emilico**
That's why we came here!
**[18:04] Kate**
And thanks to that, we were able
to meet up before Maryrose got here.
**[18:08] Kate**
You knew exactly how Kate felt.
**[18:11] Kate**
Thank you, Emilico.
**[18:14] Emilico**
Well, I am Mistress Kate's face, after all!
**[18:17] John; gurgling**
And...
**[18:20] John; gurgling**
thanks to the roll Emilico
made Kate carry with her...
**[18:25] John; gurgling**
John was able to use his
John Punch a second time.
**[18:30] Emilico**
Master John's strength has run out
in the middle of the fountain!
**[18:34] John**
This makes you see John in a
new light, doesn't it, Kate?
**[18:37] Kate**
Yes, well.
**[18:39] Kate**
Though, in your current state,
it's a little difficult.
**[18:43] Kate**
The improved John Punch plan
was a wonderful idea.
**[18:47] Kate**
Thank you, Shaun.
**[18:49] Kate**
If not for your suggestion to switch places,
we would likely have failed.
**[18:53] Shaun**
No, that was thanks to Emilico, too.
**[18:57] (Flashback) Emilico**
If it would keep Mistress Kate
from catching a cold,
**[18:59] (Flashback) Emilico**
I'd like her to switch
her clothes for mine!
**[19:03] Shaun**
Her saying that is what
gave me the idea.
**[19:06] Shaun**
Though, I did think that wearing your
clothes would be presumptuous of us.
**[19:10] Kate**
Not at all.
**[19:11] Kate**
There is no need to be bound
by the rules of Shadows House.
**[19:15] Kate**
You are quite brilliant.
**[19:16] John**
Shaun is John's face, after all.
**[19:19] Kate**
You're just completely carefree, aren't you?
**[19:22] Kate**
Also, you two were very good
at imitating Kate and John.
**[19:26] Emilico; Shaun**
Thank you!
**[19:29] Kate**
In the end,
**[19:30] Kate**
the strategies Kate thought up
on her own weren't any good.
**[19:34] Kate**
Truly, thank you, Emilico...
**[19:37] Kate**
Shaun...
**[19:39] Kate**
and John.
**[19:42] Kate**
You can't be serious!
**[19:43] Kate**
Your stomach is growling now?!
**[19:46] John**
Wh-What else do you expect?
**[19:48] John**
The energy from
the roll has run out!
**[19:49] Shaun**
Master John, now isn't
really the time...
**[19:51] John**
You too, Shaun?
**[19:53] Emilico**
Ta-dah!
**[19:55] Emilico**
We actually have one more roll!
**[19:58] Shaun**
Emilico... is that edible?
**[20:01] Emilico**
Huh? I'm sure it's delicious!
**[20:03] John**
It's a celebration, right?
Let's eat it together!
**[20:05] Kate**
Kate doesn't need any.
**[20:07] Emilico**
It's very flat, so it's
easy to portion out!
**[20:09] Emilico**
Four... No, six pieces!
**[20:14] Maryrose**
Kate...
**[20:16] Maryrose**
You have wonderful friends.
**[20:18] Maryrose**
We, who were unable
to make allies, have lost.
**[20:22] Maryrose**
If you...
**[20:24] Maryrose**
No, if all of you work together,
**[20:26] Maryrose**
perhaps you will be able
to change Shadows House.
**[20:30] Maryrose**
The culprits behind the recent phantom
disturbance were Maryrose and Rosemary.
**[20:35] Maryrose**
Kate was not involved and
so will be cleared of all suspicion.
**[20:39] Maryrose**
This will be quite the
achievement for all of you.
**[20:41] Maryrose**
And I will accept my punishment.
**[20:44] Maryrose**
Is that all right, Rosemary?
**[20:48] Rosemary**
To be disposed of together with you
**[20:50] Rosemary**
is all I could ever wish for.
**[20:53] Kate; internal**
* If I give Maryrose over*
* to the Star Bearers,*
**[20:56] Kate; internal**
*my value in their eyes will rise greatly.*
**[20:59] Kate; internal**
*If I allow Maryrose to go free,*
**[21:01] Kate; internal**
* then I will be punished as the culprit*
* behind the phantom disturbance.*
**[21:06] Emilico**
Mistress Kate.
**[21:09] Emilico**
Saving everyone who is brainwashed
is your goal, isn't it, Mistress Kate?
**[21:14] Emilico**
But...
**[21:16] Emilico**
How can we possibly...
**[21:18] Maryrose**
Do not pity us, Emilico.
**[21:21] Maryrose**
We exposed many living dolls
to the dangers of soot sickness.
**[21:25] Maryrose**
And to cause further chaos,
**[21:28] Maryrose**
we forced the Belles, who happened
to be nearby, to break the coffee carafes.
**[21:33] Maryrose**
All just to buy ourselves more time.
**[21:38] Maryrose**
To get here, we've done many things
that can never be forgiven.
**[21:57] Kate; internal**
*The next day,*
**[21:58] Kate; internal**
* we handed Maryrose and Rosemary*
* over to the Star Bearers.*
**[22:05] lyric**
*Traveling through a jumbled labyrinth...*
**[22:10] lyric**
*Over and over*
**[22:14] lyric**
*This lonely utopia...*
**[22:19] lyric**
*I have no more need of it*
**[22:23] lyric**
*A vanished smile*
**[22:25] lyric**
*Promises are lies, too*
**[22:28] lyric**
* Everything is pointless,*
* isn't it? And yet...*
**[22:32] lyric**
*Even misshapen as I am, I keep searching...*
**[22:37] lyric**
*For shadows of recollection*
**[22:43] lyric**
*Roses whose love has rotted...*
**[22:48] lyric**
*Lock their feelings away*
**[22:53] lyric**
*That silhouette from back then...*
**[22:57] lyric**
*I've kept on chasing it...*
**[23:01] lyric**
*Even if pale, frozen thorns*
**[23:06] lyric**
*Pierce my heart over and over*
**[23:10] lyric**
*Until I can take that hand*
**[23:15] lyric**
*Again and again*
**[23:19] lyric**
*I'll wish on a star*
**[23:36] Kate**
Next time,
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** The Answer of the Two
***SIGN*** The Answer of the Two
***SIGN*** The Answer of the Two
***SIGN*** The Answer of the Two
***SIGN*** The Answer of the Two
***SIGN*** The Answer of the Two
***SIGN*** The Answer of the Two
***SIGN*** The Answer of the Two
***SIGN*** The Answer of the Two
**[23:37] Kate**
"The Answer of the Two."
**[23:39] ---**
# E11 - The Answer of the Two
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**[00:07] Maryrose**
For us both to be given the same
clothes and put into similar rooms...
**[00:12] Maryrose**
It's ironic, isn't it?
**[00:14] Maryrose**
At last, the house is
treating us the same way.
**[00:19] Rosemary**
That's true.
**[00:22] Rosemary**
I'm sorry.
**[00:24] Rosemary**
I fell asleep for a little while.
**[00:26] Rosemary**
Mistress Maryrose,
were you able to rest at all?
**[00:30] Maryrose**
No.
**[00:31] Maryrose**
Being in this place made
it impossible to sleep.
**[00:34] Maryrose**
Honestly. You have nerves of steel.
**[00:38] Maryrose**
Also, I didn't get a goodnight kiss.
**[00:41] Rosemary**
Oh, dear. Did you feel lonely?
**[00:44] Rosemary**
I should have sung you a lullaby.
**[00:48] Maryrose**
Please don't.
**[00:50] Maryrose**
I'm not a child any longer.
***SIGN*** The Answer of the Two
***SIGN*** The Answer of the Two
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**[01:05] Emilico**
Mistress Kate! You're awake!
**[01:07] Emilico**
I'm so glad!
**[01:08] Emilico**
Last night was quite an ordeal,
**[01:10] Emilico**
so I was worried
you might not wake up!
**[01:15] Emilico**
This soot is as soft as a bed!
**[01:19] Emilico**
I'm so sorry to make you use your soot
powers when you're already so tired!
**[01:23] Kate**
This much poses no difficulty.
**[01:25] Kate**
Kate must hone her soot powers.
**[01:27] Kate**
The adults are likely to be
far stronger than Maryrose.
**[01:31] Kate**
As we fought, she taught Kate something...
**[01:34] Kate**
She said not to show enemies mercy.
**[01:37] Emilico**
But she held back against me and Shaun.
**[01:40] Kate**
And if she hadn't,
we would have lost.
**[01:43] Kate**
She truly was formidable.
**[01:44] Emilico**
Yes.
**[01:45] Emilico**
I'm certain that Master John
will be exhausted today, too.
**[01:52] Shaun; internal**
*I readied a lot of food for his meal,*
**[01:56] Shaun; internal**
*but he's not waking up.*
**[02:01] Kate**
By the way, what was that letter just now?
**[02:08] Kate**
Thank you for inviting us here.
**[02:11] Kate**
Your rooms are very large... and very lovely.
**[02:16] Barbara**
The adults have given an order.
**[02:18] Barbara**
It has been decided that Maryrose will
be punished in Lord Grandfather's wing.
**[02:24] Barbara**
Tonight, she will be turned over
to the warden in the Passageway of Glory.
**[02:28] Barbara**
As an interested party,
Kate, you will bear witness.
**[02:31] Kate**
The Passageway of Glory?
**[02:32] Barbara**
The only passage connecting the children's wing
to the adult wing. An elevated walkway.
**[02:37] Kate**
Oh.
**[02:38] Kate**
The passage we used
on the way to the debut.
**[02:44] Kate**
Is that...
**[02:46] Kate**
a Star Bearer's medal?
**[02:48] Kate**
Kate has never seen
a shadow wearing one.
**[02:52] Barbara**
There is no need for you
to know about that.
**[03:00] Kate**
We should be going.
**[03:05] Barbara**
Kate...
**[03:07] Barbara**
Thank you for stopping Maryrose.
**[03:31] Maryrose**
Barbara...
**[03:33] Maryrose**
Maryrose is sorry for
breaking our promise.
**[03:38] Barbara**
Barbara knows nothing of a promise
made with the likes of you.
**[03:43] Barbara**
Blast it! This is infuriating!
**[03:52] (Flashback) Maryrose**
This is a promise.
**[03:56] (Flashback) Maryrose**
Let us become adults together.
**[03:59] (Flashback) Christopher**
You make a good pair, don't you?
**[04:02] (Flashback) Christopher**
We've been waiting for
newcomers with high aspirations.
**[04:06] Barbara; narration**
* Christopher was already respected*
* throughout the children's wing.*
**[04:12] Barbara; narration**
*Maryrose took an immediate liking to him,*
**[04:14] Barbara; narration**
* and they talked together of*
* the house's future nearly every day.*
**[04:20] (Flashback) Christopher**
Selections are generally made based
on existing powers at the debut.
**[04:24] (Flashback) Christopher**
This is where many
shadows end up failing.
**[04:27] (Flashback) Maryrose**
If they were to receive proper instruction...
**[04:30] (Flashback) Christopher**
Shall we try doing it?
**[04:32] (Flashback) Christopher**
Currently, Star Bearers have
no responsibility to teach,
**[04:36] (Flashback) Christopher**
but when Christopher becomes a Star Bearer,
**[04:38] (Flashback) Christopher**
the children's wing will likely
become more lively than it is now.
**[04:41] Barbara; narration**
* Their conversations were*
* complicated and difficult to follow,*
**[04:45] Barbara; narration**
* but Barbara was happy*
* to be allowed into their circle.*
**[04:49] (Flashback) Shadow Edward**
Edward isn't so sure about that.
**[04:52] (Flashback) Shadow Edward**
The house seeks capable
shadows, does it not?
**[04:55] (Flashback) Shadow Edward**
Surely one should prioritize self-improvement
over looking after those who are inferior?
**[04:59] (Flashback) Barbara**
E-Edward...
**[05:01] (Flashback) Barbara**
That isn't the way Christopher thinks.
**[05:04] (Flashback) Shadow Edward**
Pipe down, useless girl.
**[05:06] (Flashback) Shadow Edward**
If you have no opinion
of your own, just keep quiet.
**[05:09] (Flashback) Shadow Edward**
It seems we have inferior
types mixed in here as well.
**[05:13] (Flashback) Christopher**
Edward, thank you for your
direct and honest opinion.
**[05:17] (Flashback) Christopher**
And you do have a point.
**[05:19] (Flashback) Christopher**
But in the long run,
**[05:21] (Flashback) Christopher**
these reforms will prove
to be of service to the house.
**[05:24] (Flashback) Christopher**
True, at first, there may
be things which feel vexing.
**[05:27] (Flashback) Christopher**
But we know of your brilliance,
and that is why we want your help.
**[05:38] (Flashback) Christopher**
Barbara...
**[05:40] (Flashback) Christopher**
You are part of the first class of
students in this educational reform.
**[05:43] (Flashback) Barbara**
What?
**[05:43] (Flashback) Christopher**
Together with Maryrose.
**[05:45] (Flashback) Christopher**
Your abilities have already been
acknowledged by the house.
**[05:49] (Flashback) Christopher**
You've debuted.
**[05:50] (Flashback) Christopher**
You should be more confident.
**[05:54] (Flashback) Barbara**
Thank you so much!
**[05:55] (Flashback) Barbara**
Please show Barbara the way!
**[05:57] (Flashback) Christopher**
Show the way? You're a
bit dramatic, aren't you?
**[06:00] (Flashback) Christopher**
You and Christopher
are friends, right?
**[06:05] (Flashback) Maryrose**
Christopher will change
the house as one of its leaders.
**[06:09] (Flashback) Maryrose**
All Star Bearers receive invitations,
but his will be especially significant.
**[06:15] (Flashback) Barbara**
Um, are Maryrose and Christopher...
**[06:19] (Flashback) Maryrose**
Hm?
**[06:20] (Flashback) Barbara**
A-Are you courting?
**[06:27] (Flashback) Maryrose**
Rest easy.
**[06:28] (Flashback) Maryrose**
Our relationship is not like that.
**[06:30] (Flashback) Barbara**
What? Rest easy?
**[06:31] (Flashback) Maryrose**
Isn't it you, Barbara,
who thinks of Christopher as...
**[06:34] (Flashback) Barbara**
What?
**[06:35] (Flashback) Barbara**
It would be far too presumptuous for
Barbara to view him romantically!
**[06:39] (Flashback) Barbara**
Barbara admires him.
**[06:41] (Flashback) Barbara**
And she thought that the two of
you suited each other well, that's all.
**[06:44] (Flashback) Barbara**
Barbara respects you
very much, too, Maryrose.
**[06:47] (Flashback) Maryrose**
Even though you and Maryrose are peers?
**[06:50] (Flashback) Barbara**
After all, you came first at
our debut, and Barbara was second.
**[06:55] (Flashback) Maryrose**
There is no difference between us.
**[06:58] Barbara; narration**
*And just as we expected...*
**[07:00] Barbara; narration**
* Christopher became a Star Bearer*
* along with his peers.*
**[07:05] (Flashback) Christopher**
We will hold regular instructor's meetings
with all those gathered here.
**[07:09] (Flashback) Christopher**
Starting now, we can finally dedicate
our efforts to instructing newcomers.
**[07:13] (Flashback) Christopher**
We will each teach them our
specialties in the pastime rooms.
**[07:17] (Flashback) Christopher**
No one surpasses Edward
in literacy and music.
**[07:20] (Flashback) Christopher**
If you would?
**[07:21] (Flashback) Shadow Edward**
Edward has no choice, it seems.
**[07:29] (Flashback) Barbara**
That's incredible, Barbie!
**[07:31] (Flashback) Barbara**
It's as if Barbara has
become healthier too!
**[07:34] (Flashback) Christopher**
That really was incredible!
**[07:36] (Flashback) Barbara**
Master Christopher!
**[07:37] (Flashback) Christopher**
Please do not use "master"
with Christopher, Barbara.
**[07:40] (Flashback) Christopher**
Barbie can become a sports instructor!
**[07:42] (Flashback) Barbara**
What?
**[07:43] (Flashback) Barbara**
But a living doll as an instructor?
**[07:46] (Flashback) Christopher**
Let's try everything we can.
**[07:48] (Flashback) Christopher**
Christopher has previously noticed
**[07:49] (Flashback) Christopher**
that Shadows and their living dolls don't
always share the same characteristics.
**[07:54] (Flashback) Christopher**
And since you have so much soot, Barbara,
it's easy for you to exhaust yourself.
**[07:58] (Flashback) Christopher**
You should build up your endurance, too.
**[08:00] (Flashback) Barbie**
All right! Let's go running!
**[08:05] (Flashback) Ben**
You're too fast, Barbie!
**[08:07] (Flashback) Barbie**
Ben, you're doing well!
**[08:09] (Flashback) Barbie**
I know you can still keep going!
**[08:10] (Flashback) Ben**
Huh?
**[08:11] (Flashback) Ben**
Mistress Barbara is running,
too, isn't she?
**[08:15] (Flashback) Ben**
Don't you need
to stay by her side?
**[08:17] (Flashback) Barbie**
What? Well, I mean, just look.
**[08:21] (Flashback) Barbara**
Christopher!
**[08:22] (Flashback) Barbara**
There's no need for you to
stay with Barbara!
**[08:25] (Flashback) Christopher**
Christopher is worried
about your health.
**[08:28] (Flashback) Christopher**
You seem the type to overwork
yourself from trying too hard.
**[08:30] (Flashback) Christopher**
You don't have to worry.
It's all right to rest.
**[08:32] (Flashback) Susanna**
And if things get too hard,
Susanna will kindly pat you!
**[08:36] (Flashback) Barbara**
Oh! You're the newcomer... Susanna?
**[08:39] (Flashback) Christopher**
Aileen is training her for the first-aid team.
**[08:41] (Flashback) Christopher**
She can be quite forceful.
**[08:44] (Flashback) Shadow Edward**
This new group is full
of problem children!
**[08:47] (Flashback) Christopher**
He renovated the soot removal room
without permission, causing chaos?
**[08:51] (Flashback) Christopher**
Well, that in itself isn't good,
but it *is* impressive!
**[08:55] (Flashback) Christopher**
Let's have him train with
Gerald in the research team!
**[08:59] (Flashback) Maryrose**
When Christopher receives an invitation,
**[09:01] (Flashback) Maryrose**
it will be difficult for anyone else
to win over these young ones.
**[09:05] (Flashback) Christopher**
Maryrose and Barbara are here
to carry on Christopher's wishes,
**[09:07] (Flashback) Christopher**
so Christopher isn't
worried about a thing.
**[09:10] Barbara; narration**
* The Star Bearer's medal had probably*
* never shone so brightly before.*
**[09:16] Barbara; narration**
* We were the greatest generation.*
* Everyone was happy.*
**[09:20] Barbara; narration**
*But...*
**[09:22] Barbara; narration**
* Christopher's invitation*
* changed everything.*
**[09:43] (Flashback) Barbara**
Maryrose, please come out.
**[09:47] (Flashback) Barbara**
Why have you suddenly
lost all your motivation?
**[09:51] (Flashback) Barbara**
No one comes to the instructor meetings
or conversation parties anymore.
**[09:56] (Flashback) Barbara**
Barbara can't do it alone.
**[10:00] (Flashback) Barbara**
But...
**[10:01] (Flashback) Barbara**
If you were there,
Maryrose, then everyone...
**[10:04] (Flashback) Barbara**
It would be like before.
**[10:06] (Flashback) Barbara**
Maryro—
**[10:07] Maryrose**
Barbara...
**[10:09] (Flashback) Maryrose**
Sorry, but Maryrose isn't
in the mood for that.
**[10:13] (Flashback) Maryrose**
Maryrose doesn't want
to become an adult.
**[10:25] (Flashback) Barbara**
Christopher... Maryrose...
**[10:29] (Flashback) Barbara**
Barbara had the wrong
idea about everything.
**[10:32] (Flashback) Barbara**
There isn't a single thing that
Barbara can do on her own.
**[10:36] (Flashback) Barbie**
Mistress Barbara! That isn't true!
**[10:39] (Flashback) Barbara**
All of it was for nothing!
**[10:47] (Flashback) Barbara**
No...
**[10:48] (Flashback) Barbara**
Barbara didn't mean to...
**[10:51] (Flashback) Barbara**
Barbie?
**[10:53] (Flashback) Barbara**
Barbie!
**[10:58] (Flashback) Thomas**
I'll get straight to the point.
**[11:01] (Flashback) Thomas**
You cannot become an adult.
**[11:04] Barbara; narration**
*It was the first time since the debut*
**[11:06] Barbara; narration**
* that we'd been called*
* to Lord Grandfather's wing.*
**[11:10] (Flashback) Thomas**
You know why, don't you?
**[11:13] (Flashback) Thomas**
Your face has been grievously wounded.
**[11:16] (Flashback) Barbara**
Thomas...
**[11:18] (Flashback) Barbara**
For a living doll to be
ordering Barbara around...
**[11:20] (Flashback) Barbara**
she must now be seen as
truly worthless. Is that right?
**[11:23] (Flashback) Thomas**
I am not a living doll.
**[11:27] (Flashback) Thomas**
You should use "master"
when addressing an adult.
**[11:29] Barbara; narration**
*Fusion.*
**[11:31] Barbara; narration**
*That is what it meant to become an adult.*
**[11:35] Barbara; internal**
*If only we could have met one last time...*
**[11:38] (Flashback) Thomas**
Normally, you'd be disposed of.
**[11:40] (Flashback) Thomas**
However...
**[11:41] (Flashback) Thomas**
An exception has been made,
just this once,
**[11:45] (Flashback) Thomas**
since Christopher has such
high hopes for you.
**[11:49] (Flashback) Barbara**
Christopher?
**[11:51] (Flashback) Thomas**
There are two conditions.
**[11:53] Barbara; internal; present**
* The first was to preserve*
* order among the children.*
**[11:58] Barbara; internal; present**
* The second was the full recovery*
* of Barbara's face for fusion.*
**[12:02] Barbara; internal; present**
*The system changed.*
**[12:04] Barbara; internal; present**
* Being a Star Bearer was no longer*
* the first step toward an invitation.*
**[12:07] Barbara; internal; present**
* Instead, it meant being an*
* educator in the children's wing.*
**[12:12] (Flashback) Barbara; past**
Barbara can't wear this medal yet...
**[12:15] (Flashback) Barbara; past**
not until she becomes like Christopher.
**[12:19] Barbara; internal; present**
* The selection of the other*
* Star Bearers was entrusted to Barbara.*
**[12:23] (Flashback) Maryrose**
Maryrose doesn't want to become an adult.
**[12:27] Barbara; narration**
*Barbara parted ways with Maryrose.*
**[12:30] Barbara; narration**
* Maryrose no longer had any intention*
* of carrying on Christopher's wishes.*
**[12:35] Barbara; narration**
*Since then,*
**[12:35] Child A**
The Star Bearers are here!
**[12:36] Barbara; narration**
* no matter what anyone has said,*
* Barbara has maintained complete control.*
**[12:37] Child B**
They're scary!
**[12:39] Barbara; narration**
* Barbara has been able to try this hard*
* because she has something she believes in.*
**[12:42] (Flashback) Barbara**
Blast it! This is infuriating.
**[12:45] Barbara; narration**
*One day, when the scar is healed,*
**[12:47] Barbara; narration**
*Barbara can become an adult.*
**[12:48] Barbara; narration**
* That way, she'll be able*
* to see Christopher again.*
**[12:52] Barbara; narration**
*When that happens...*
**[12:53] Barbara; narration**
*will he praise Barbara?*
**[13:03] Edward**
This letter of consent
for the handover...
**[13:05] Edward**
It's quite formally written, I must say.
**[13:08] Barbara**
Master Edward...
**[13:10] Barbara**
Our response was delayed by the mistaken
information that Kate was a threat.
**[13:15] Barbara**
Would it be possible to stop manipulating
the Star Bearers according to your whims?
**[13:21] Edward**
Putting on the airs of a
worthy leader, are we?
**[13:24] Edward**
Never mind.
**[13:25] Edward**
I praise you for finding the culprit.
**[13:30] Edward**
Maryrose...
**[13:32] Edward**
It seems you were a
rebellious element, after all.
**[13:35] Edward**
Later, you will tell us
everything in great detail.
**[13:38] Edward**
To think that the powers
you'd kept hidden
**[13:41] Edward**
allowed you to control the soot
of others and create phantoms.
**[13:45] Edward**
Phantoms...
**[13:47] Edward**
That story Christopher made up
so that the children would clean.
**[13:51] Edward**
If he knew his tall tale ended up causing
so much division in the children's wing,
**[13:55] Edward**
he would weep.
**[13:58] Barbara**
Why isn't it Christopher?
**[14:02] Barbara**
The warden of the children's wing...
**[14:05] Barbara**
should be Christopher!
**[14:07] Edward**
Do not pry into
the affairs of adults.
**[14:10] Edward**
Lord Grandfather chose me.
**[14:22] Maryrose; internal**
*Barbara doesn't know anything.*
**[14:25] Maryrose; internal**
*I'm sorry, Barbara.*
**[14:28] Maryrose; narration**
* I retain my memories*
* from when I was a morph.*
**[14:32] Maryrose; narration**
* I thought that made me freer than*
* anyone else, and gave me more choices.*
**[14:37] Maryrose; narration**
*Where did I go wrong?*
**[14:40] Maryrose; narration**
*If it meant experiencing this anguish...*
**[14:43] Maryrose; narration**
* Then was breaking Anthony's*
* brainwashing the right thing to do?*
**[14:49] (Flashback) Anthony**
It's a strange feeling.
**[14:51] Maryrose; narration**
* Before Barbara and the new Star Bearer*
* order started to hold rejoicing parties...*
**[14:57] Maryrose; narration**
* Coffee was provided once a week*
* with meals in an individual's rooms.*
**[15:02] Maryrose; narration**
* The rule was that living dolls would*
* recite their instructions themselves.*
**[15:06] Maryrose; narration**
*Having learned of the brainwashing,*
**[15:09] Maryrose; narration**
* it was a simple thing for me*
* to keep them from drinking the coffee.*
**[15:12] (Flashback) Maryrose**
It seems the brainwashing
has worn off quite a bit, Anthony.
**[15:16] (Flashback) Anthony**
Yes.
**[15:17] (Flashback) Anthony**
It's as though the fog in my
brain has cleared.
**[15:20] (Flashback) Anthony**
The brainwashing may make
management easier for the adults,
**[15:23] (Flashback) Anthony**
but it means that children can't
think deeply about anything.
**[15:27] (Flashback) Maryrose**
That's true!
**[15:28] (Flashback) Maryrose**
In that case, let's break
everyone's brainwashing!
**[15:30] (Flashback) Anthony**
Wait! We should
be discreet about that.
**[15:33] (Flashback) Anthony**
It isn't as though you want
to start a rebellion, is it?
**[15:35] (Flashback) Maryrose**
Of course not.
**[15:37] (Flashback) Maryrose**
This life isn't a bad one, right?
**[15:40] (Flashback) Anthony**
First, we should think of ways to have
the adults reconsider the current system.
**[15:45] (Flashback) Maryrose**
Just what you'd expect
of Christopher's face!
**[15:48] (Flashback) Maryrose**
Very admirable!
**[15:49] (Flashback) Anthony**
Why did you want me and Rosemary
to stop drinking the coffee?
**[15:53] (Flashback) Maryrose**
Well...
**[15:54] (Flashback) Maryrose**
Maryrose was lonely!
**[15:56] (Flashback) Maryrose**
Since Maryrose is the only
one who knows the secret...
**[15:59] (Flashback) Maryrose**
First, Maryrose wanted Rosemary
to feel the same way she did.
**[16:03] (Flashback) Maryrose**
And if you're brainwashed,
then jokes aren't funny, right?
**[16:07] (Flashback) Maryrose**
Maryrose couldn't say,
"Let's try sneaking out!"
**[16:09] Anthony**
Soothing Mistress Maryrose
must be difficult.
**[16:09] (Flashback) Maryrose**
Or, "Why don't you try on
Maryrose's clothes?"
**[16:12] Rosemary**
Not at all.
**[16:13] (Flashback) Maryrose**
Hey!
**[16:14] (Flashback) Maryrose**
Stop whispering together, will you?
**[16:16] (Flashback) Christopher**
But this could be a problem...
**[16:18] (Flashback) Christopher**
Anthony is already so intelligent,
**[16:21] (Flashback) Christopher**
and now he'll be able to
use even more of his brain?
**[16:23] (Flashback) Christopher**
Will Christopher really be
able to manage as his master?
**[16:26] (Flashback) Anthony**
Master Christopher,
you are a splendid master.
**[16:30] Maryrose; narration**
*Amidst the greatest generation,*
**[16:32] Maryrose; narration**
*Christopher's achievements were celebrated.*
**[16:34] Maryrose; narration**
* And the secret star in the shadows*
* was the living doll, Anthony.*
**[16:39] Maryrose; narration**
* The fact that they could achieve so much*
* with Anthony's brainwashing broken...*
**[16:45] Maryrose; narration**
* It gave me a feeling of*
* superiority at the time.*
**[16:51] (Flashback) Rosemary**
Master Christopher has received
an invitation, hasn't he?
**[16:55] (Flashback) Maryrose**
Yes.
**[16:56] (Flashback) Maryrose**
Things are going to get busy.
**[16:58] (Flashback) Maryrose**
Maryrose and the others will have
to bring the children together in his stead.
**[17:02] (Flashback) Rosemary**
And our allies who are free
of the brainwashing are gone.
**[17:07] (Flashback) Rosemary**
If we had Mistress Barbara, at least...
**[17:09] (Flashback) Maryrose**
Stop saying that, Rosemary.
**[17:10] (Flashback) Maryrose**
We discussed it with
Christopher, didn't we?
**[17:13] (Flashback) Maryrose**
We said that this secret would
only be a burden for Barbara.
**[17:17] (Flashback) Rosemary**
Who's there?
**[17:21] (Flashback) Rosemary**
Anthony!
**[17:23] (Flashback) Maryrose**
What's happened?
**[17:24] (Flashback) Maryrose**
Didn't you go to Lord Grandfather's wing?
**[17:29] (Flashback) Anthony**
I've learned why the
brainwashing is necessary.
**[17:33] (Flashback) Anthony**
Without it, no one would
be able to accept the grave truth...
**[17:38] (Flashback) Anthony**
We humans were brought here to offer
our faces and bodies to the shadows.
**[17:44] (Flashback) Anthony**
We are no more than vessels.
**[17:47] (Flashback) Anthony**
Fusion...
**[17:49] (Flashback) Anthony**
When Master Christopher
learned of it, he...
**[18:00] Maryrose; narration**
*Christopher killed himself.*
**[18:03] Maryrose; narration**
*What decision should I have made?*
**[18:06] Maryrose; narration**
* At what point should I have realized the*
* gravity of everything in order to save him?*
**[18:12] Maryrose; narration**
*I couldn't find the answers.*
**[18:15] (Flashback) Barbara**
Maryrose, please come out.
**[18:19] (Flashback) Maryrose**
Barbara...
**[18:20] (Flashback) Barbara**
If you were there,
Maryrose, then everyone...
**[18:23] (Flashback) Barbara**
It would be like before.
**[18:25] Maryrose; narration**
*I wanted to speak to her in that moment.*
**[18:28] Maryrose; narration**
*But...*
**[18:28] Maryrose; narration**
* There were too many*
* things I couldn't tell her.*
**[18:32] Maryrose; narration**
* The distance between*
* Barbara and myself,*
**[18:34] Maryrose; narration**
* the span of a single door,*
* was just too far.*
**[18:54] Edward**
Maryrose...
**[18:55] Edward**
When Barbara called me Edward just now,
**[18:59] Edward**
you didn't react at all.
**[19:02] Edward**
Isn't this form "Ed" to you?
**[19:07] Edward**
We have confirmed that information
about the fusion process has been leaked.
**[19:11] Edward**
That means there must be an informer.
**[19:15] Edward**
You will cough up who it is,
and we will catch them.
**[19:18] Edward**
Be ready.
**[19:20] Edward**
And do not underestimate adults.
**[19:22] Maryrose**
Stepping past the halfway point
in the Passageway of Glory
**[19:26] Maryrose**
means that we're now in
Lord Grandfather's wing, doesn't it?
**[19:30] Maryrose**
There's no going back now.
**[19:46] Edward**
What is this?
**[19:48] Edward**
This tremendous quantity of soot...
**[19:50] Edward**
Where did you plant it?!
**[19:55] Maryrose**
This is the domain of the adults!
**[19:57] Maryrose**
Which means that if trouble occurs,
**[20:00] Maryrose**
it will be seen as your fault, Edward!
**[20:04] Barbara**
Maryrose!
**[20:05] Benjamin**
We will all stop her together!
**[20:08] Susanna**
Oh! Kate, you stay here,
would you?
**[20:11] Susanna**
No one but Star Bearers must ever
enter the Passageway of Glory!
**[20:16] Maryrose**
I would never forget Ed!
**[20:20] Maryrose**
Taking over Ed's body so you could live...
**[20:22] Maryrose**
Do you truly think
nothing of it, Edward?!
**[20:26] Edward**
Using the phantom disturbances
to stir up trouble,
**[20:28] Edward**
defying the adults...
**[20:30] Edward**
and now damaging the
Passageway of Glory itself...
**[20:32] Edward**
This goes beyond a simple lack of
devotion to Lord Grandfather.
**[20:36] Edward**
Has the coffee not accumulated
in her system enough?
**[20:40] Rosemary**
Mistress Maryrose!
**[20:48] Maryrose; internal**
*Is this Edward's soot power?*
**[20:54] Edward**
Edward's power is to vibrate
the air using soot to manipulate sound.
**[21:00] Edward**
I'm sure the soot placed in your ears must
be ringing most dreadfully right now.
**[21:04] Edward**
Oh...
**[21:05] Edward**
Apologies.
**[21:06] Edward**
You can't hear, can you?
**[21:14] Edward**
This is the difference
in our strengths.
**[21:16] Edward**
Becoming an adult heightens
one's soot powers as well.
**[21:19] Edward**
The world of adults which I so admired
as a child was exactly as I'd imagined it.
**[21:27] Maryrose**
The world of adults which you'd admired?
**[21:29] Maryrose**
If you thought I'd envy you, you're wrong.
**[21:32] Maryrose**
If something is only gained through
the sacrifice of something precious,
**[21:35] Maryrose**
what value could it possibly have?
**[21:38] Maryrose**
If it means having to go
through fusion, then...
**[22:05] lyric**
* Traveling through*
* a jumbled labyrinth...*
**[22:10] lyric**
*Over and over*
**[22:14] lyric**
*This lonely utopia...*
**[22:19] lyric**
*I have no more need of it*
**[22:23] lyric**
*A vanished smile*
**[22:25] lyric**
*Promises are lies, too*
**[22:28] lyric**
* Everything is pointless,*
* isn't it? And yet...*
**[22:32] lyric**
*Even misshapen as I am, I keep searching...*
**[22:37] lyric**
*For shadows of recollection*
**[22:43] lyric**
*Roses whose love has rotted...*
**[22:48] lyric**
*Lock their feelings away*
**[22:53] lyric**
*That silhouette from back then...*
**[22:57] lyric**
*I've kept on chasing it...*
**[23:01] lyric**
*Even if pale, frozen thorns*
**[23:06] lyric**
*Pierce my heart over and over*
**[23:10] lyric**
*Until I can take that hand*
**[23:15] lyric**
*Again and again*
**[23:19] lyric**
*I'll wish on a star*
**[23:36] Kate**
Next time,
***SIGN*** Next Time
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**[23:37] Kate**
"Those Who Fight Back"
**[23:39] ---**
# E12 - Those Who Fight Back
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GEVUZ2Q0N/those-who-fight-back)
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**[00:07] Susanna**
The window is...
**[00:08] Oliver**
This isn't the Star Bearers' responsibility!
**[00:10] Oliver**
It happened on the adults' side of the passage!
**[00:13] Edward**
Silence!
**[00:14] Edward**
I will deal with everything!
**[00:16] Edward**
This is an order:
**[00:18] Edward**
Forget everything that happened here!
**[00:23] Edward; internal**
*The letter of consent for the handover...*
**[00:26] Edward; internal**
* Was this all planned*
* from the very beginning?*
**[00:28] Edward; internal**
* With things as they are,*
* I can't lay the blame on the children!*
**[00:37] Edward; internal**
*Curse it!*
**[00:38] Edward; internal**
*That blasted Barbara!*
**[00:45] Kate**
Who's there?
**[01:07] lyrics**
*In the face of sadness, we shall smile*
**[01:11] lyrics**
*To live is to be a marionette*
**[01:15] lyrics**
*Once your heart gets into the swing...*
**[01:19] lyrics**
*Would you like a coffee?*
**[01:24] lyrics**
*1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2*
**[01:26] lyrics**
*1, 2, 2, 3*
**[01:27] lyrics**
*I can't seem to dance very well*
**[01:30] lyrics**
*Pain and resentment, and sadness, too...*
**[01:33] lyrics**
*Mix them, knead them...*
**[01:37] lyrics**
*And then a good night kiss*
**[01:41] lyrics**
*Shall we Dance? We shall dance*
**[01:45] lyrics**
*Despair and desire. This is the life!*
**[01:50] lyrics**
*Shadow Life!*
**[01:51] lyrics**
*Don't puzzle over things unnecessarily*
**[01:55] lyrics**
*Let's become one*
**[01:57] lyrics**
*How nice (How nice) How nice (How nice)*
**[02:01] lyrics**
*Humans... Being human... It's so nice*
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**[02:26] Emilico**
Mistress Maryrose?!
**[02:28] Kate**
No, it can't be.
**[02:32] Master Robe; Anthony**
Kate, who possesses memories of the past.
**[02:35] Master Robe; Anthony**
Emilico, who has broken free
of the brainwashing.
**[02:37] Master Robe; Anthony**
I have high hopes for both of you.
**[02:40] Kate**
You...
**[02:41] Kate**
Why have you entered
Kate's rooms uninvited?
**[02:43] Master Robe; Anthony**
I saw your battle with Maryrose last night.
**[02:47] Master Robe; Anthony**
Kate, the methods by which you overcame
every difficulty were magnificent.
**[02:52] Master Robe; Anthony**
However...
**[02:54] Master Robe; Anthony**
Even Maryrose, whom you found so formidable,
**[02:57] Master Robe; Anthony**
stood no chance against Edward, even with
the element of surprise during her transfer.
**[03:01] Master Robe; Anthony**
Now you understand the tremendous difference
in strength between adults and children.
**[03:07] Master Robe; Anthony**
With your strength yet undeveloped,
**[03:10] Master Robe; Anthony**
you stand to be swallowed
by the malice of this house.
**[03:13] Master Robe; Anthony**
Given your keen intellect,
you must already realize this yourself.
**[03:20] Kate**
Last night, she recounted
events of the past for us.
**[03:25] Kate**
Christopher's fate...
**[03:26] Kate**
was truly regrettable.
**[03:29] Kate**
But there was one thing
which stood out to Kate.
**[03:32] Kate**
One thing that Maryrose didn't tell us.
**[03:35] Kate**
After Christopher killed himself...
**[03:36] Kate**
where did the living doll he left behind go,
and what became of him?
**[03:45] Kate**
Anthony.
**[03:48] Kate**
Now all of the questions concerning the second
phantom disturbance have been answered.
**[03:52] Kate**
Maryrose's phantoms can't move well enough
to open the door to the soot pipes.
**[03:58] Kate**
You were her accomplice, weren't you?
**[04:00] Anthony**
Correct!
**[04:02] Anthony**
I took the liberty of asking Maryrose
to keep my identity secret in your talks,
**[04:06] Anthony**
but you still arrived at the answer.
**[04:08] Anthony**
Magnificent.
**[04:09] Kate**
Aren't you worried about Maryrose?
**[04:13] Anthony**
No.
**[04:15] Anthony**
She and I have known
each other for a long time,
**[04:17] Anthony**
but in the end, we didn't
share the same views.
**[04:20] Anthony**
After all, once Maryrose
received her invitation,
**[04:23] Anthony**
she planned to throw herself off the balcony
to declare her refusal to be fused, right?
**[04:28] Anthony**
I have no interest in those who do
not have the will to keep fighting.
**[04:33] Anthony**
But when you heard her plan,
**[04:36] Anthony**
you frantically thought up ideas
to help Maryrose and Rosemary escape.
**[04:40] Anthony**
By using your powers,
**[04:42] Anthony**
you could pad soot with air
to give it the elasticity of a cushion.
**[04:46] Anthony**
If you could catch them with that
at the bottom of the cliff,
**[04:48] Anthony**
their chances of survival
would greatly improve.
**[04:52] Anthony**
Not that we know
how it worked out in practice.
**[04:56] Anthony**
That said, while she had stocked up
enough soot to destroy the hallway,
**[05:00] Anthony**
there wouldn't have been enough
to create a cushion, too.
**[05:03] Anthony**
I'm in awe of you, Kate.
**[05:05] Anthony**
The remaining soot needed...
**[05:07] Anthony**
you supplied yourself.
**[05:09] Anthony**
And it was an incredible amount.
**[05:12] Anthony**
The willingness you demonstrated
to step up and save those in trouble...
**[05:16] Anthony**
It shows that you have
the makings of a leader.
**[05:21] Anthony**
To make me feel that way
in just two days is quite a feat!
**[05:24] Kate**
Kate didn't do it to receive recognition.
**[05:28] Kate**
If there was any chance they could be saved,
Kate had to try! That's all!
**[05:31] Kate**
If you've known someone for a long time,
**[05:33] Kate**
wouldn't you try to find any
possible means of saving them?
**[05:36] Kate**
If nothing else,
Maryrose trusted Christopher!
**[05:40] Kate**
What about you, Anthony?
**[05:44] Anthony**
I am human.
**[05:46] Anthony**
There are limits to what those
who are not shadows can do.
**[05:51] Anthony**
"If I'm to be caught
and killed in any case,"
**[05:53] Anthony**
"then I want to at least
strike back at the house."
**[05:56] Anthony**
I do respect Maryrose and
Rosemary feeling that way.
**[06:00] Anthony**
And I was the one who carried
the soot over the soot pipes.
**[06:03] Anthony**
When I heard your escape plan, I even
readied food and other things for them.
**[06:07] Kate**
You are full of mysteries.
**[06:10] Kate**
After Christopher killed himself,
**[06:12] Kate**
how did you escape and return here?
**[06:14] Kate**
And where have you been
hiding all this time?
**[06:17] Kate**
What is it that you're after?
**[06:19] Anthony**
I believe our goals are the same.
**[06:23] Anthony**
For that purpose, you must
become even stronger,
**[06:26] Anthony**
and we need more information.
**[06:28] Anthony**
If you would become my student,
**[06:30] Anthony**
then the day when we
command the children's wing
**[06:32] Anthony**
and stand against
the house will surely come.
**[06:41] Anthony**
You need me.
**[06:46] Kate**
Wait! Where are you going?
**[06:53] Emilico**
H-He disappeared!
**[06:56] Emilico**
But there isn't an exit.
**[06:57] Emilico**
How could he have?
**[06:59] Kate; internal**
*Maryrose didn't call Anthony her ally.*
**[07:03] Kate; internal**
*"Our goals are the same." That may be true.*
**[07:06] Kate; internal**
*But something is nagging at me.*
**[07:09] Kate; internal**
*Anthony...*
**[07:10] Kate; internal**
*What is he thinking?*
**[07:13] Emilico**
Mistress Maryrose and Rosemary...
**[07:16] Emilico**
I'm sure they're alive and have
escaped to somewhere safe, right?
**[07:19] Kate**
Yes.
**[07:21] Kate**
Let's believe in them.
**[07:23] Kate**
Kate still has things
she wishes to think over,
**[07:26] Kate**
but she'll do that tomorrow.
**[07:31] Emilico**
Good morning!
**[07:34] Emilico**
Today, it's even brighter
than usual outside.
**[07:39] Emilico**
Oh! Mister Bird!
**[07:48] Emilico; internal**
*A dream?*
**[07:49] Emilico; internal**
* That's the first time*
* I've dreamed since I came here.*
**[07:53] Emilico; internal**
* It must have been a dream from*
* when I lived in the village...*
**[07:56] Emilico; internal**
*from before I was brought to Shadows House.*
**[08:00] Emilico; internal**
* The me who lived in the village*
* woke with light shining down on her.*
**[08:06] Emilico; internal**
*Could a life like that truly have existed?*
**[08:09] Emilico; internal**
*When you're made to sleep in a little box,*
**[08:13] Emilico; internal**
* it makes you begin to think*
* that you really are a doll.*
**[08:18] Mia**
Emilico!
**[08:20] Mia**
Didn't you hear the summoning bell?
**[08:21] Mia**
Hurry up and come out!
**[08:23] Emilico**
I'll be right there!
**[08:28] Emilico; narration**
*After I return from the morning cleaning,*
**[08:30] Emilico; narration**
*I clean Mistress Kate's rooms.*
**[08:33] Emilico; narration**
*Then I help Mistress Kate dress.*
**[08:35] Emilico; narration**
*After that is my work as her face.*
**[08:37] Emilico; narration**
* Sometime during the morning*
* is the Star Bearers' report,*
**[08:40] Emilico; narration**
* and in the afternoon,*
* I have to attend to Mistress Kate.*
**[08:43] Emilico; narration**
*When we return to her rooms in the evening,*
**[08:44] Emilico; narration**
*I tidy up and ready things for her to sleep.*
**[08:47] Emilico; narration**
* After Mistress Kate retires for the night,*
* I eat supper and finish any mending.*
**[08:51] Emilico; narration**
*Then I can finally go to sleep.*
**[08:55] Emilico; internal**
*It's what I've done all this time.*
**[08:57] Emilico; internal**
* But... for some reason,*
* I feel like I'm suffocating.*
**[09:01] Emilico**
It's tough being so busy
every day, isn't it, Mia?
**[09:04] Mia**
Honestly. Are you still saying such things?
**[09:07] Mia**
We are tools of Shadows House.
**[09:10] Mia**
We mustn't fret over trivial matters.
**[09:12] Lou**
Don't think about anything
other than what we've been told.
**[09:15] Mia**
Exactly.
**[09:16] Mia**
That is how an exceptional
living doll behaves!
**[09:19] Mia**
Since our team has lost one member,
**[09:21] Mia**
I've become leader,
as I've been here the longest!
**[09:25] Liz (girl 1)**
This is the hall of cleaning implements.
**[09:27] Liz (girl 1)**
This is where we living dolls gather.
**[09:33] Emilico; narration**
* When someone is lost,*
* someone else replaces them.*
**[09:36] Emilico; narration**
*No one thinks about the ones who are gone.*
**[09:39] Emilico; internal**
* In this moment, are you excited*
* about your life in this house?*
**[09:45] Emilico; internal**
* The veiled dolls have lost their masters*
* and wear mourning clothes.*
**[09:50] Emilico; internal**
*How do they feel being here?*
**[09:53] Emilico; internal**
*Or are they made to forget even that?*
**[09:56] Emilico; internal**
* When I was under the*
* coffee's brainwashing effects,*
**[09:59] Emilico; internal**
*I never experienced these painful emotions.*
**[10:02] Emilico; internal**
* If you drink it, you don't have to think,*
* and you can just be happy.*
**[10:08] Emilico**
Good morning! Mistress Kate...
**[10:12] Emilico**
There's a rag meant
for the floor on the table.
**[10:15] Emilico**
Someone started this without telling me?
**[10:17] Emilico**
Why? And where is Mistress Kate?
**[10:21] Kate**
Good morning, Emilico.
**[10:23] Kate**
Kate started cleaning before you arrived.
**[10:26] Kate**
When living dolls are brought to the house,
they're made to live a harsh life
**[10:29] Kate**
to keep them from thinking
about things, right?
**[10:32] Kate**
Kate wants to help Emilico
as much as possible.
**[10:35] Kate**
Because Kate wants Emilico
to be bright and lively!
**[10:39] Emilico**
Thank you so much!
**[10:40] Emilico**
Then first, let's fix your apron.
**[10:43] Kate**
What? Have the ties come loose?
**[10:55] Emilico**
Wow!
**[10:57] Emilico**
To think you can use soot powers that way!
**[11:02] Kate**
A dream?
**[11:04] Kate**
What kind of dream was it?
**[11:05] Emilico**
I woke with sunlight on me
and went to open a window myself.
**[11:09] Emilico**
The outside gave me such a sense of freedom
that I felt like I could go anywhere...
**[11:14] Emilico**
but that was when I woke up.
**[11:17] Kate**
Could that be a memory from your past?
**[11:19] Kate**
Or was it just a dream?
**[11:22] Kate**
In any case, it may be a good sign.
**[11:25] Kate**
The effects of the coffee have grown weaker.
**[11:28] Emilico**
But because of that, I keep drifting off
and thinking about things I shouldn't.
**[11:33] Kate**
Emilico.
**[11:34] Emilico**
Huh?
**[11:35] Kate**
You are free to think about anything,
even things you shouldn't,
**[11:37] Kate**
because you're human.
**[11:40] Emilico**
I let myself be bound
by the rules of living dolls!
**[11:44] Kate**
Even though you're not brainwashed anymore,
it's hard to know what to do, isn't it?
**[11:48] Kate**
"Serve Shadows House as a living doll."
**[11:52] Kate**
To make it harder to break
the coffee-induced brainwashing,
**[11:55] Kate**
a cyclic life where you aren't
treated as humans was devised.
**[11:59] Kate**
A room where no sunlight enters.
**[12:01] Kate**
A box for a bed.
**[12:02] Kate**
A workload that allows no time for thinking.
**[12:05] Kate**
Insufficient sleep.
**[12:08] Kate**
As you lose your human emotions,
you cease to be conscious of your own life.
**[12:12] Kate**
The living doll's transformation
into a mere tool is complete.
**[12:16] Kate**
And then, you will end up
accepting fusion with a shadow.
**[12:20] Emilico**
I'm so sorry, Mistress Kate!
**[12:22] Kate**
What?
**[12:23] Emilico**
"If I'm going to have to
feel these things..."
**[12:26] Emilico**
"Then maybe it would have been better
for me to drink the coffee."
**[12:29] Emilico**
I couldn't help thinking it.
**[12:32] Kate**
The coffee is meant to numb you
to the harshness of your life.
**[12:36] Kate**
Without it, Emilico,
you must be suffering greatly.
**[12:38] Emilico**
But now I am able to clean
together with you, Mistress Kate!
**[12:42] Emilico**
And I can eat at the same table as you!
It makes me very happy!
**[12:50] Kate**
It's time to go to the great hall, isn't it?
**[12:56] Barbara**
We have information to report.
**[12:57] Barbara**
For the time being, all debuts
and invitations have been postponed.
**[13:01] crowd; adlib**
What? Really?
**[13:03] Barbara**
Please, don't worry.
**[13:05] Barbara**
It is only for as long as it takes to repair
worn-down areas in the Passageway of Glory.
**[13:09] Kate; internal**
*"Worn-down areas"?*
**[13:11] Kate; internal**
*Edward...*
**[13:12] Kate; internal**
*So that's how he dealt with that incident.*
**[13:14] Barbara**
And now, as the number of people
in the children's wing has changed again,
**[13:19] Barbara**
we will reexamine the
composition of the teams.
**[13:21] Sarah**
Oh, Sarah can become a team leader at last!
**[13:24] Sarah**
Since our team has lost a member,
perhaps we'll get someone new!
**[13:28] Kate**
Is it not possible that a team leader
will be picked from another team?
**[13:31] Sarah**
Sarah has contributed greatly for a long time,
so Sarah will definitely be the leader.
**[13:35] Barbara**
Come here...
**[13:43] Barbara**
Isabelle.
**[13:46] Barbara**
Isabelle and Mirabelle will join team ten.
**[13:49] Sarah**
Th-That can't be right!
**[13:51] Sarah**
The twins will be our leaders?
**[13:53] Sarah**
And Mirabelle is absent from
this very important briefing session!
**[13:56] Barbara**
Do not interrupt unnecessarily.
**[13:58] Barbara**
As they have all received punishment,
they are no longer worthy of being leaders.
**[14:03] Barbara**
And the reason Mirabelle is absent...
**[14:06] Barbara**
is because a living doll
has been disposed of.
**[14:11] Emilico; internal**
*Belle!*
**[14:13] Kate; internal**
* Someone has fallen victim*
* to this house yet again!*
**[14:16] Sarah**
Oh, w-well, then...
**[14:18] Sarah**
What a relief. Of course
that's the way of it.
**[14:21] Barbara**
As a result,
**[14:22] Barbara**
Elizabeth will transfer to team nine
and be promoted to leader.
**[14:26] Barbara**
And as hopes are high that this
newcomer will pass her debut,
**[14:28] Barbara**
we also plan to add her to the team.
**[14:30] Barbara**
And the leader of team ten...
**[14:34] Barbara**
will be you,
**[14:36] Barbara**
Kate.
**[14:44] Kate**
Barbara?
**[14:46] Barbara**
This is Barbara's
acknowledgment of you, Kate.
**[14:51] Barbara**
The letter of consent Barbara drew up
on your advice proved to be useful.
**[14:56] Barbara**
Show us what more you can do
in the future as team leader.
**[15:00] Barbara**
And it is likely that we will make use
of your wisdom again as an advisor.
**[15:07] Barbara**
Barbara has high hopes for you.
**[15:20] Emilico**
Mistress Kate has become our team leader!
**[15:26] Kate**
Gaining Barbara's trust is
a tremendous step forward,
**[15:30] Kate**
not to mention the
promotion to team leader.
**[15:31] Kate**
Kate can put it to use
in recruiting more allies.
**[15:34] Emilico**
And it seems like we'll be able to
obtain information through the Star Bearers!
**[15:37] Kate**
No.
**[15:38] Kate**
The coffee's effects have accumulated
within the Star Bearers for too long.
**[15:42] Kate**
Investigating them would seem suspicious.
**[15:43] Kate**
First...
**[15:44] Emilico**
We start with the members
of our team, right?
**[15:46] Kate**
Yes.
**[15:47] Kate**
We must take this opportunity
to unify our team,
**[15:49] Kate**
while avoiding drawing attention.
**[15:53] Kate**
Emilico, let's do our very best!
**[15:58] Kate**
What? What is it?
**[16:00] Emilico**
I'm so happy that Mistress Kate
is finally receiving recognition!
**[16:07] Emilico; internal**
*If I know Mistress Kate...*
**[16:08] Emilico; internal**
* She'll easily be able to make*
* allies and lead the team, too!*
**[16:13] Emilico; internal**
*Mistress Kate is our team leader!*
**[16:15] Emilico; internal**
*Mistress Kate is our team leader...*
**[16:21] Emilico**
Does that mean that I'm team leader, too?!
**[16:25] Emilico**
Huh? What should I do?
**[16:27] Emilico**
What did Rosemary do?
**[16:30] Emilico**
Oh! It would be terrible for me to be late!
**[16:34] Emilico**
I'm sorry!
**[16:36] Mia**
So, our team leader
is late on her first day.
**[16:39] Emilico**
Well, then! Let's start the morning cleaning!
**[16:42] Lou**
Your hair is mussed from sleeping.
**[16:44] Mia**
Hey...
**[16:45] Mia**
One of us isn't here yet.
**[16:48] Emilico**
Belle! It's time for morning cleaning.
**[16:50] Belle A**
No!
**[16:52] Belle A**
I don't want to go!
**[16:53] Belle A**
I won't, ever!
**[16:55] Emilico**
Ow!
**[16:57] Emilico**
Huh? What's wrong?
**[17:00] Lou**
She might think that she
has to clean the soot pipes.
**[17:03] Emilico**
Oh.
**[17:06] Emilico**
It's all right. It's just regular cleaning.
**[17:09] Emilico**
It isn't scary at all!
**[17:12] Lou**
Our team leader has been entrusted
with what seems to be a difficult task.
**[17:20] Mia**
Emilico is late again this morning.
**[17:22] Mia**
And yesterday, Belle ended up
running back to her room.
**[17:26] Mia**
It really is too soon
for Emilico to be team leader.
**[17:32] Emilico**
Oh! Mia, Lou, good morning!
**[17:36] Mia**
Why are you being so easygoing?
If we're late—
**[17:38] Lou**
Mia...
**[17:39] Lou**
It looks like Emilico arrived
before us and started cleaning.
**[17:42] Emilico**
I've gone ahead and organized our toolbox!
**[17:46] Mia**
When yesterday you didn't
know how to do anything?
**[17:48] Emilico**
I remembered that Rosemary would look
at the blackboard every morning!
**[17:53] Emilico**
I saw that the cleaning schedule
for each team is written there.
**[17:57] Emilico**
All right, team ten! Move out!
**[18:03] Mia**
It seems you understand a
little of your job as team leader now,
**[18:06] Mia**
but what are you planning
to do about Belle not coming?
**[18:10] Emilico**
This morning, I went
to see how she was doing.
**[18:13] Emilico**
I don't think that Belle should
push herself too hard yet.
**[18:15] Emilico**
I'd like to give her time to rest.
**[18:18] Mia**
What?
**[18:19] Mia**
The amount of cleaning we have to do
can't be completed with just three of us!
**[18:22] Mia**
If we let Belle rest and try
to continue our team's assignments...
**[18:25] Mia**
in the end, you, as team leader,
will have to take responsibility, Emilico!
**[18:28] Mia**
Our team will be treated
as incompetent again!
**[18:31] Emilico**
No, we will complete our cleaning.
**[18:33] Emilico**
Because I'll do the work of two!
**[18:36] Lou**
You can't do two people's
work on your own, Emilico.
**[18:39] Lou**
I'll work harder, too.
**[18:41] Emilico**
Thank you!
**[18:42] Mia; internal**
*Belle is already broken.*
**[18:45] Mia; internal**
*All of this hard work will be for nothing!*
**[18:48] Emilico**
Ta-dah!
**[18:49] Emilico**
Today, I brought a stuffed doll that I made!
**[18:52] Emilico**
If you have this, you won't feel lonely.
**[18:55] Emilico**
I'll leave a letter here, too!
**[18:56] Emilico**
Everyone in team ten
wrote something for you.
**[19:01] Emilico**
For the morning cleaning...
**[19:02] Emilico**
To start with, just making an appearance
will be enough, all right?
**[19:13] Emilico**
Mia, morning cleaning isn't
for a little while yet.
**[19:17] Emilico**
I—
**[19:17] Mia**
You're about to go to the
team leader meeting, aren't you?
**[19:19] Mia**
And I expect you'll request
that they dispose of Belle.
**[19:23] Mia**
She hasn't come out of
her room for three days.
**[19:25] Mia**
I've reached my limit.
**[19:26] Mia**
If things continue this way,
**[19:28] Mia**
the whole team will have
to take responsibility.
**[19:31] Mia**
And then Lou and I will become
targets for disposal, too.
**[19:34] Mia**
I trust you know that.
**[19:40] Barbie**
Regarding the newly-appointed team leaders...
**[19:43] Barbie**
Team nine's Liz is doing well.
**[19:45] Barbie**
The problem is...
**[19:47] Barbie**
team ten!
**[19:49] Barbie**
According to reports,
**[19:50] Barbie**
you are continuing your assignments
with one member missing.
**[19:53] Olly**
The reports say all their cleaning has
been properly completed, though.
**[19:59] Barbie**
Completing their cleaning
doesn't make everything all right!
**[20:01] Barbie**
Failing to function as a team violates
the rules of the house!
**[20:06] Barbie**
Sunshine...
**[20:08] Barbie**
You have not gained my approval.
**[20:11] Barbie**
But Mistress Barbara is the one
who decides on the team leaders.
**[20:16] Barbie**
She also decides who will be disposed of.
**[20:18] Barbie**
I must report to her the evidence
upon which she makes those decisions.
**[20:22] Barbie**
Why hasn't Belle shown herself?
Is she already broken?
**[20:26] Emilico**
She is not broken!
**[20:34] Barbie**
Are you listening?
**[20:35] Barbie**
If those who can't abide by the rules in the
children's wing are left to their own devices,
**[20:39] Barbie**
it causes problems for Mistress Barbara.
**[20:42] Emilico**
When they were cleaning the soot pipes...
**[20:44] Emilico**
I once saw the Belles
with faces filthy from soot.
**[20:48] Emilico**
It must have been so difficult.
**[20:51] Emilico**
And one of them even ended up breaking.
**[20:54] Barbie**
That does not serve as justification for—
**[20:55] Emilico**
But in spite of that...
**[20:56] Emilico**
Belle's room is clean!
**[20:59] Emilico**
She's definitely cleaning it!
**[21:02] Emilico**
Right now, Belle is
**[21:04] Emilico**
serving as the face of both Mistress
Isabelle and Mistress Mirabelle.
**[21:07] Emilico**
She's cleaning both of their rooms,
**[21:09] Emilico**
so she can't think about anything
outside of that. That's all!
**[21:13] Emilico**
Please don't speak of
disposing of her so easily.
**[21:16] Emilico**
Belle is a member of my team.
**[21:21] Emilico**
I won't lose another team member...
**[21:26] Emilico**
ever again!
**[21:29] lyric**
*Traveling through a jumbled labyrinth...*
**[21:34] lyric**
*Over and over*
**[21:38] lyric**
*This lonely utopia...*
**[21:43] lyric**
*I have no more need of it*
**[21:47] lyric**
*A vanished smile*
**[21:49] lyric**
*Promises are lies, too*
**[21:52] lyric**
* Everything is pointless,*
* isn't it? And yet...*
**[21:56] lyric**
*Even misshapen as I am, I keep searching...*
**[22:01] lyric**
*For shadows of recollection*
**[22:07] lyric**
*Roses whose love has rotted...*
**[22:12] lyric**
*Lock their feelings away*
**[22:17] lyric**
*That silhouette from back then...*
**[22:21] lyric**
*I've kept on chasing it...*
**[22:25] lyric**
*Even if pale, frozen thorns*
**[22:30] lyric**
*Pierce my heart over and over*
**[22:35] lyric**
*Until I can take that hand*
**[22:39] lyric**
*Again and again*
**[22:43] lyric**
*I'll wish on a star*
**[23:06] Kate; narration**
*Everyone who lives in the children's wing...*
**[23:08] Kate; narration**
*had a life they used to live.*
**[23:11] Kate; narration**
* The more than fifty children*
* who live in this wing right now...*
**[23:15] Kate; narration**
*were all brought here to die.*
**[23:19] Emilico; narration**
*They're unable to rely on anyone.*
**[23:20] Emilico; narration**
* But the truth is that they're*
* all just victims of the house.*
**[23:24] Emilico; narration**
*If they would only open their eyes,*
**[23:26] EMilico; narration**
* they'd become allies who would*
* stand against Shadows House.*
**[23:36] Kate; Emilico; internal**
*Shadows House...*
**[23:38] Kate; Emilico; internal**
*is wrong!*
**[23:39] ---**