# E14 - Embarking on a Challenge Once Again
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**[00:01] Anne**
Wake up, Mithril Lid Pod!
**[00:04] Mithril**
Huh? What is it?
**[00:06] Anne**
I saw him! Yesterday, I saw Challe!
**[00:10] Mithril**
W-What did you say?!
**[00:12] Anne**
And when I told Challe that I'd be able to
save him if I'm successful in my work here,
**[00:16] Anne**
he said he'd wait for me!
**[00:17] Mithril**
He did? That's so great!
**[00:20] Mithril**
Especially since he seems like he'd say,
"No one asked for your help. Get out."
**[00:26] Mithril**
Maybe being a companion to
that girl is really grueling.
**[00:29] Mithril**
It could be that he's being made to do
*unbelievable* things that we can't even imagine.
**[00:33] Anne**
W-What kind of unbelievable things?
**[00:35] Mithril**
All right, let's go, Anne!
**[00:38] Mithril**
We'll rebuild this place
as fast as we can and set that guy free!
**[00:43] Anne**
Y-Yes.
**[02:22] Nadir**
Who are you?
**[02:23] Anne**
What?
**[02:25] Nadir**
And there's a fairy, too!
**[02:27] Mithril**
What's wrong with you?
**[02:28] Nadir**
Hey, come out! I haven't really
seen teeny ones like you!
**[02:32] Nadir**
Hey, come on! It's all right!
**[02:33] King**
Stop that, Nadir.
**[02:34] Elliott**
Oh, I see everyone's all here!
**[02:40] Valentine**
Elliott, who are they?
**[02:42] Elliott**
I'll introduce you.
**[02:44] Elliott**
Anne Halford. Starting today, she'll be
working for us as our Head of Artisans.
**[02:50] Elliott**
And...
**[02:54] Elliott**
this is her helper, Mithril Lid Pod.
**[02:58] King**
Halford? Isn't that the artisan who made
**[03:01] King**
a sugar confection
for the former Duke of Philax?
**[03:03] Elliott**
And with this year's Royal Medal,
she's a silver sugar master!
**[03:08] King**
A silver sugar master?
**[03:10] Nadir**
Why would someone so amazing
work here? And a girl at that?
**[03:17] King**
Is Mister Glen aware of this?
**[03:19] Elliott**
Yeah.
**[03:20] King**
Then I have no objections.
**[03:22] King**
Nice to meet you. I'm King.
**[03:25] Anne**
King?
**[03:27] King**
I've forgotten my real name.
**[03:29] Anne**
I see. It's nice to meet you.
**[03:34] King**
What's that for?
**[03:36] Anne**
A handshake?
**[03:37] King**
O-Oh, right. A handshake. There, a handshake!
**[03:44] Nadir**
I'm Nadir. Hey, come on out.
**[03:48] Mithril**
No!
**[03:50] Valentine**
A wise decision, little fairy.
**[03:53] Valentine**
I'm Valentine.
**[03:54] Valentine**
Very pleased to meet you.
**[03:56] Anne**
I'm pleased to meet you, too.
**[03:58] Elliott**
Oh! Orland's here, too!
**[04:03] Elliott**
So, these five are our artisans.
**[04:06] Elliott**
We're counting on you, Miss Head of Artisans!
**[04:14] Anne**
Um, well then...
**[04:18] Anne; internal**
* Oh dear. I have no grasp on exactly*
* what I've taken responsibility for here.*
**[04:23] Anne**
F-For now, if you could continue
your work from yesterday, please.
**[04:26] Nadir**
Sure thing!
**[04:27] King**
Will do.
**[04:29] Valentine**
Of course.
**[04:36] Mithril**
Anne, what should I do?
**[04:38] Anne**
Um... Can I leave the cleaning to you?
**[04:41] Mithril**
Yeah!
**[04:44] Anne; internal**
* What I need to do most is get*
* a sense of the current situation!*
**[04:49] Anne; internal**
*Wow, he's incredibly good.*
**[04:52] Anne**
Mister Langston, what sort of commission
are you working on right now?
**[04:59] Orland**
Don't be so polite with me.
There's no need to call me "mister."
**[05:06] Anne**
All right.
**[05:07] Anne**
So, what is that?
**[05:09] Orland**
It's an order from a shop owner.
**[05:11] Orland**
Apparently, it's to celebrate
their son's birthday.
**[05:14] Anne**
Their son likes horses?
**[05:16] Orland**
I don't know. I offered several ideas
and was told that horses were good.
**[05:21] Anne**
Did they say why?
**[05:23] Orland**
Is there some reason I should have asked?
**[05:25] Anne**
It's easier to make something better, even
just comparing horses to horses, right?
**[05:30] Orland**
Fawning on customers and creating what
they tell you doesn't make it good, does it?
**[05:36] Orland**
Artisans use all their skills to
make what they want to make.
**[05:39] Orland**
If they don't, they won't
create anything good.
**[05:43] Anne; internal**
* Living up to the customer's wishes*
* isn't the obvious thing to do?*
**[05:53] Anne**
How lovely. The color is wonderful.
**[05:56] King**
A-A-Aren't you a little too close?
**[05:58] Anne**
What?
**[05:59] Anne**
Oh, I'm so sorry!
**[06:02] Nadir**
Why don't you have Anne
dress in men's clothes?
**[06:04] King**
I will throttle you.
**[06:06] Anne; internal**
* Could it be that he's*
* uncomfortable around women?*
**[06:10] Valentine**
Excuse me.
**[06:11] Anne**
Yes?
**[06:12] Valentine**
I've finished maintenance on the tools.
What should I do next?
**[06:15] Anne**
Well... Are there any orders?
**[06:18] Orland**
No. There are only two.
**[06:20] Anne**
In that case, will you help
one of them with their work?
**[06:24] Valentine**
I couldn't do that. It's their work, you see.
**[06:27] Anne**
But it would be faster that way.
**[06:30] Valentine**
One shouldn't interfere with another's work.
**[06:33] Anne**
What?
**[06:34] Anne**
But in a workshop, isn't it natural
for everyone to help with the work?
**[06:38] Valentine**
What?
**[06:39] Anne; internal**
*Is what I'm saying somehow strange?*
**[06:42] Anne**
Then, do you each complete the work
assigned to you solely on your own?
**[06:46] Valentine**
Yes, because we're artisans.
**[06:49] Valentine**
We take responsibility for
the work we do, correct?
**[06:51] Anne**
Then what does the Head of Artisans do?
**[06:54] Orland**
Manage the silver sugar,
deal with clients, and...
**[06:57] Orland**
ascertain whether the sugar confections
produced will shame the Paige Workshop.
**[07:05] Anne**
Ascertain whether...?
**[07:07] Orland**
We cannot issue pieces
which will tarnish the workshop's name.
**[07:10] Orland**
So, if you think it's bad,
you indicate corrections.
**[07:14] Orland**
It's a tremendous responsibility.
**[07:16] Orland**
But if you think that the piece won't be
an embarrassment, you show it to Mister Glen.
**[07:20] Orland**
It will receive the seal of
the Paige school's Main Workshop.
**[07:24] Orland**
That is the Head of Artisans' job.
**[07:28] Anne; internal**
* It's very different from other*
* workshops and from the way I do things.*
**[07:34] Anne**
Hello.
**[07:36] Anne**
I'm Anne Halford.
**[07:39] Daana**
Oh, yes. I'm Daana. This is Hal.
**[07:45] Anne**
You two look just alike! Are you siblings?
**[07:49] Daana**
Yes.
**[07:50] Daana**
Apparently we were born from
the same tree at the same time.
**[07:54] Daana**
In human terms, we would be
something like twins.
**[07:57] Anne**
Really? So, there are
twins among fairies, too?
**[08:01] Anne**
Have you had dinner yet?
If not, would you like to join me?
**[08:05] Daana**
No, we couldn't!
This table is for artisans and family.
**[08:09] Anne**
Since we live in the same house,
aren't you and Hal basically family?
**[08:13] Daana**
No, not at all! We are fairies, after all.
**[08:16] Daana**
If you'll excuse us.
**[08:20] Elliott**
What a shame!
**[08:24] Elliott**
Looks like they turned you down.
**[08:25] Anne**
Mister Collins.
**[08:26] Elliott**
How was your commemoration-worthy
first day as Head of Artisans?
**[08:30] Elliott**
I'd love to hear your opinions.
**[08:34] Anne**
I learned a lot of things about this place.
**[08:37] Anne**
The artisans make
what the artisans want to make.
**[08:40] Anne**
They each take complete responsibility
for their work and complete it alone.
**[08:43] Elliott**
Those have been the Paige school's
convictions for 300 years.
**[08:46] Elliott**
Mister Glen has made sure that, if nothing else,
those have been drilled into the artisans.
**[08:49] Anne**
I think they are perfectly ideal, but...
**[08:53] Elliott**
But?
**[08:54] Anne**
I suppose you could say
something about it nags at me.
**[08:58] Elliott**
Well, I'm the one who piled hopes on you
and brought you here.
**[09:02] Elliott**
Do you have a moment?
**[09:05] Anne**
What is that?
**[09:07] Elliott**
Promissory notes.
**[09:08] Anne**
What? They're debts?
**[09:10] Elliott**
Yup. Roughly 10,000 cress worth,
with this land as collateral.
**[09:13] Anne**
T-Ten thousand cress?!
**[09:15] Elliott**
Things have been tight since
the last master of the school's time.
**[09:18] Elliott**
If we can't repay it within the year,
half of this place will be taken away.
**[09:22] Anne**
Do you have the means to repay it?
**[09:23] Elliott**
No.
**[09:25] Elliott**
Which is why I went to try to
negotiate again today.
**[09:28] Elliott**
Oh, but keep this a secret
from Mister Glen, all right?
**[09:31] Anne**
He doesn't know?
**[09:33] Elliott**
He knows about the debt, of course.
**[09:35] Elliott**
But he doesn't know that we're
in a bind about the repayment.
**[09:38] Elliott**
The lenders are worried about the future of
the workshop given Mister Glen's illness.
**[09:43] Anne**
But that's...
**[09:45] Elliott**
You mentioned earlier that
something was nagging you.
**[09:48] Anne**
Yes.
**[09:50] Elliott**
The truth is, I have
some thoughts about things, too.
**[09:52] Anne**
What?
**[09:54] Elliott**
We don't want to turn our
backs on Mister Glen,
**[09:57] Elliott**
but something has gone wrong here.
**[09:59] Elliott**
I've given a lot of thought
to things, in my own way,
**[10:02] Elliott**
but I can't figure out what's wrong.
**[10:04] Elliott**
Whatever the case,
I'll handle the debt somehow.
**[10:07] Elliott**
Anne, you do things the way you think is right,
just like the first silver sugar master.
**[10:12] Anne**
What does that mean? Why do you keep
talking about the first silver sugar master?
**[10:19] Challe**
You could at least
take your meals with the others.
**[10:22] Bridget**
I don't want to. I prefer
to be alone with you.
**[10:26] Challe**
Even so, your expression seems lonely.
**[10:30] Bridget**
I'm not lonely.
**[10:38] Bridget**
Hold me.
**[10:46] Bridget**
Carry me to bed.
**[10:52] Bridget**
Lay me down, gently.
**[10:54] Bridget**
Stroke my hair.
**[10:57] Bridget**
Stay with me until I fall asleep.
Please don't go see that girl.
**[11:03] Bridget**
Please stay by my side. Only mine.
**[11:44] Challe**
No matter how much you stare,
nothing interesting will happen.
**[11:52] Anne**
You scared me!
**[11:55] Anne**
You snuck out again? Won't Bridget
make you do unbelievable things?
**[11:59] Challe**
Unbelievable?
**[12:00] Anne**
Well, Mithril Lid Pod said...
**[12:03] Challe**
Don't take his ridiculous imaginings as fact.
She is a normal woman.
**[12:08] Anne**
You're really not being made
to do upsetting things?
**[12:10] Challe**
No, I'm not.
**[12:12] Anne**
I'm so glad.
**[12:15] Anne**
I'm going to work hard, so just wait a while.
**[12:27] Anne**
What is it?
**[12:29] Challe**
Nothing.
**[12:30] Challe**
Is there something about these pieces?
**[12:33] Anne**
Yes.
**[12:34] Anne**
Orland's clearly expresses
a sense of power and vigor.
**[12:39] Anne**
He's a little hard to approach
and he can be taciturn,
**[12:42] Anne**
but his passion for sugar
confections comes through clearly.
**[12:46] Anne**
King, the one who made this,
seems like a very sincere person.
**[12:50] Anne**
He's also awkward and
uncomfortable speaking with women,
**[12:53] Anne**
but the things he creates
are so very romantic!
**[12:58] Anne**
Don't you think it's beautiful?
**[13:01] Anne**
They're both so good.
**[13:04] Anne**
But right now, we only have
these two commissions.
**[13:07] Anne**
Why has business declined this far?
**[13:11] Anne**
What is it?
**[13:14] Challe**
Nothing.
**[13:16] Bridget**
Challe!
**[13:18] Bridget**
I begged you not to meet with her!
**[13:22] Challe**
That wasn't a request. It was an order.
**[13:25] Challe**
But I have no intention of obeying.
**[13:27] Challe**
Go ahead and punish me.
**[13:29] Bridget**
You won't consider my feelings?
**[13:32] Challe**
You are my master.
**[13:35] Challe**
Just as it is not necessary
for you to consider my feelings,
**[13:38] Challe**
it is not necessary for me
to consider your feelings.
**[13:43] Bridget**
That's just not... No one,
no one will consider my feelings, then.
**[13:51] Bridget**
Very well.
**[13:54] Bridget**
You will be punished!
**[13:56] Anne**
Wait!
**[13:57] Challe**
Don't, Anne!
**[13:58] Anne**
No, I don't want you to be punished!
**[14:03] Challe**
That meddler.
**[14:14] Bridget**
Why...
**[14:20] Bridget**
Only I know about this place.
**[14:23] Bridget**
But it's gone! Challe's wing!
**[14:27] Elliott**
If that's what you're looking for,
Mister Glen has it.
**[14:32] Bridget**
What?
**[14:33] Bridget**
Why does father have it?
**[14:35] Glen**
Bridget.
**[14:37] Glen**
Someone placed the wing by my pillow.
**[14:42] Glen**
This is a good opportunity.
**[14:43] Glen**
I will look after the wing from now on.
**[14:47] Glen**
That must be what the one
who placed the wing there wants.
**[14:51] Bridget**
But why?
**[14:52] Bridget**
You said that it would be
all right until I got married!
**[14:54] Glen**
Your ways are intolerable.
**[14:57] Glen**
Locking the fairy in your room.
Letting no one but yourself interact with him.
**[15:02] Glen**
It's like you're obsessed.
**[15:07] Glen**
Bridget, be sensible.
**[15:10] Glen**
Whose daughter are you?
**[15:13] Bridget**
I don't care!
**[15:18] Challe**
This time, you are my master?
**[15:20] Glen**
That's right. And so, I give you an order.
**[15:23] Glen**
Interact with her in moderation.
**[15:26] Glen**
There's no need to respond
to her every demand.
**[15:29] Glen**
And don't do anything that would hurt her.
**[15:31] Anne**
Mister Glen, Challe is...
**[15:33] Glen**
I decide what happens to him.
**[15:36] Mithril**
So, you got your wing back?!
**[15:40] Anne**
No, it's just that Mister Glen has it now.
**[15:43] Mithril**
But you can walk around freely now, right?
**[15:45] Mithril**
It must have been so torturous,
**[15:46] Mithril**
having that woman do those things
and even those things to you!
**[15:50] Challe**
Stop your imaginings.
**[15:51] Anne**
Well then. There's a guest coming by,
so I'm going to go now.
**[15:54] Mithril**
All right!
**[15:57] Glen**
It has been quite some
time, Mister Radcliffe.
**[16:01] Anne; internal**
*Mister Radcliffe and Keith?*
**[16:03] Marcus**
I'm glad that you're doing better
than rumors would have you.
**[16:06] Marcus**
And the new silver sugar master, as well.
**[16:11] Elliott**
We have high hopes for our Head of Artisans.
**[16:14] Marcus**
From the fact that you've
brought her in at this point in time,
**[16:17] Marcus**
I assume you'll be participating in the
selection for the Holy Beginnings Festival?
**[16:22] Anne; internal**
*Selection?*
**[16:23] Glen**
Of course not. My father rejected it.
**[16:26] Marcus**
I see.
**[16:27] Marcus**
Well, I did suspect that would be the case.
**[16:31] Marcus**
Oh, yes. I brought Powell's son with me.
**[16:34] Keith**
I am Keith Powell.
**[16:36] Glen**
I've heard rumors of you.
Apparently, you've become a good artisan.
**[16:40] Keith**
Yes, I...
**[16:43] Keith**
I'm sorry.
**[16:45] Glen**
There's nothing to feel badly about.
You are free to do as you like.
**[16:49] Anne; internal**
*Keith?*
**[16:52] Anne**
I was surprised to see you, Keith!
**[16:54] Keith**
Mister Radcliffe suddenly
announced that we were coming here.
**[16:57] Keith**
And I had been wondering about you.
**[17:00] Keith**
You're not having any
sort of trouble, are you?
**[17:02] Keith**
Are things with Challe all right?
**[17:03] Anne**
Yes, we're managing.
**[17:05] Anne**
What about all of you? How are Kat and Jonas?
**[17:09] Keith**
Mister Hingley has returned to his own shop.
**[17:12] Keith**
But...
**[17:14] Keith**
it seems that Jonas
hasn't returned to his hometown.
**[17:16] Keith**
No one has been able to
get in touch with him.
**[17:19] Anne**
I see.
**[17:21] Anne**
Oh, right!
**[17:22] Anne**
Keith, what is this "selection" for the
Holy Beginnings Festival you were talking about?
**[17:26] Keith**
Every year for the Holy Beginnings Festival,
in celebration of the coming year,
**[17:29] Keith**
they set out sugar confections in
the Church of Saint Lewiston Bell, don't they?
**[17:33] Keith**
Sample models of those
are created in advance...
**[17:35] Keith**
and they decide which workshop
to entrust the work to.
**[17:38] Anne**
Really?
**[17:40] Keith**
It's a great honor to be chosen.
**[17:43] Keith**
And if you deliver the pieces successfully,
**[17:44] Keith**
the kingdom's religion pays 10,000 cress.
**[17:47] Anne**
What?!
**[17:48] Keith**
On top of which, that school becomes
popular and lots of commissions come in.
**[17:53] Valentine**
Oh, you have a guest?
**[17:55] Nadir**
A boyfriend?
**[17:57] Valentine**
Stop that.
**[17:58] Anne**
I-It isn't like that! Please, don't say
such awful things to Keith!
**[18:01] Keith**
I don't mind.
**[18:03] Anne**
What?
**[18:07] Keith**
I'm Keith Powell from the Radcliffe Workshop.
**[18:10] Nadir**
Oh! You're Powell?
**[18:13] Valentine**
Are you? Well, please spend
as much time as you like here.
**[18:16] Valentine**
Let's go.
**[18:17] Nadir**
Huh? But...
**[18:20] Nadir**
Um... Bye, then!
**[18:23] Anne**
Why did they rush off?
**[18:26] Keith**
They couldn't do otherwise.
To them, I'm a traitor.
**[18:30] Anne**
A traitor?
**[18:32] Keith**
When my father was with the Paige Workshop,
he became the Silver Sugar Viscount.
**[18:36] Keith**
It brought vigor to this place.
**[18:39] Keith**
And yet, when my father died, they
thought I would join the Paige Workshop, too,
**[18:46] Keith**
but I chose the Radcliffe Workshop.
**[18:49] Keith**
When I did, a rumor went around, saying,
"Powell has given up on the Paige Workshop."
**[18:55] Keith**
It caused artisans affiliated with
this place to go to other schools all at once.
**[19:02] Anne**
Something like that happened?
**[19:04] Keith**
But it wasn't that I'd given up
on the Paige Workshop.
**[19:09] Keith**
I didn't want to be affected
by my father's influence.
**[19:12] Keith**
I resisted the idea of
following in my father's footsteps
**[19:15] Keith**
and joining this school, that's all.
**[19:18] Keith**
I endured it while my
father held his position.
**[19:21] Keith**
But I hated the idea of being called
Edward Powell's son even after his death.
**[19:27] Keith**
I am Keith. I have a name, too.
**[19:31] Anne**
Don't worry.
**[19:35] Anne**
It isn't your fault that this workshop
has ended up this way, Keith.
**[19:39] Anne**
Everyone here understands that.
**[19:41] Anne**
It's just that their feelings
haven't quite caught up yet, that's all.
**[19:44] Anne**
Once things have calmed down,
all their ill feelings will disappear.
**[19:51] Keith**
Thank you, Anne.
**[19:55] Anne; internal**
* If this place is rebuilt, then*
* Keith's sense of self-condemnation*
**[19:59] Anne; internal**
* and the artisans'*
* ill-feelings might all disappear.*
**[20:03] Anne; internal**
*I have to rebuild it.*
**[20:05] Marcus**
Keith!
**[20:06] Marcus**
We're going!
**[20:07] Keith**
Yes, sir!
**[20:09] Keith**
Leaving already?
**[20:11] Keith**
I wonder if Mister Radcliffe
is feeling pressured.
**[20:13] Keith**
There's only half a month left
until the selection, after all.
**[20:16] Anne**
The selection...
**[20:18] Anne**
That's right! That's it!
**[20:21] Keith**
What?
**[20:22] Anne**
Thank you, Keith!
**[20:24] Keith**
Um, I don't know what I've done...
**[20:28] Keith**
but I will say you're very welcome.
**[20:31] Anne; internal**
* That's it. If we win the selection,*
* then we'll become more popular,*
**[20:34] Anne; internal**
*and we'll get 10,000 cress, too.*
**[20:37] Anne; internal**
* The things that Mister Collins said,*
* and the things that keep nagging at me...*
**[20:41] Anne; internal**
*it could be that...*
**[20:44] Anne**
I have a request.
**[20:45] Anne**
I want the Paige Workshop to participate
in this year's festival selection.
**[20:49] Anne**
If we do, then perhaps
this workshop will, just like the old days—
**[20:52] Glen**
No.
**[20:53] Anne**
What?
**[20:55] Glen**
We will not participate.
***SIGN*** Embarking on a Challenge Once Again
**[21:01] Anne**
Oh, but...
***SIGN*** Sugar Confections in the Service of Others