E8 - If I Keep Gazing at You

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[00:00] Anne
    Please.
[00:02] Anne
    May I request an audience with the duke?
[00:05] Anne
    It is necessary for the creation
    of the sugar confection.
[00:08] Anne
    If possible, I'd like for it to be
    just His Grace and I, alone.
[00:14] ---
    I don't know how far I can go, but…
[00:29] ---
    It's all right
[00:31] ---
    Even alone, I'll be fine, but…
[00:35] ---
    You know, the truth is
    that no one is alone
[00:42] ---
    Things like happiness,
    loneliness, and even anxiety…
[00:48] ---
    We are born to savor all those things
[00:58] ---
    A single spoonful of sparkles
[01:01] ---
    Transforms everything into smiles
[01:05] ---
    That could be what I secretly wished for…
[01:12] ---
    That miracle
[01:14] ---
    We're each searching for
    our most precious treasures
[01:21] ---
    That's what our journey is for
[01:27] ---
    I don't know how far I can go, but...
[01:35] ---
    Each moment that passes before me
    shall be spun from hope
[01:45] Anne
    There is something I would like to ask
    for the sake of making the sugar confection.
[01:50] Anne
    The lady in the portrait...
    Please tell me her name.
[01:56] Alburn
    Why do you require a name?
[01:59] Anne
    In order to give the lady form.
[02:01] Anne
    I believe I need to know even the things
    which are not depicted in the portrait.
[02:07] Alburn
    And then you can make it?
[02:10] Anne
    I don't know.
[02:13] Alburn
    Your question intrudes upon my memories.
[02:17] Alburn
    If you dare to enter there,
    stirring things up...
[02:20] Alburn
    and are still unable to create it,
[02:22] Alburn
    I'll have you pay for it with your death.
[02:24] Alburn
    Are you prepared to accept that?
[02:28] Anne
    I cannot be prepared to die.
[02:31] Anne
    I have made a promise to a dear friend.
[02:33] Anne
    And I have something I must say, as well.
[02:36] Anne
    Which is why I won't die!
[02:38] Anne
    And because I am resolved to that,
[02:40] Anne
    I will not fail to create the piece!
[02:45] Alburn
    Christina.
[02:47] Anne
    Is that the lady's name?
[02:50] Alburn
    It is.
[02:52] Anne
    What is her proper fairy name?
[02:55] Alburn
    Lealis Cil Eril.
[02:57] Anne
    Why don't you call her by her true name?
[03:01] Alburn
    Because she desired it to be so.
[03:04] Alburn
    She wanted to be called by a humanlike name,
[03:07] Alburn
    and asked me to give her one.
[03:09] Alburn
    That was when she'd only just been born.
[03:16] Alburn
    She gazed out idly at the wave crests
    from which she'd been born.
[03:20] Alburn
    That she would be caught
    by humans and hurt was lamentable,
[03:25] Alburn
    so I brought her back to the castle.
[03:27] Anne
    Where is Lady Christina now?
[03:31] Alburn
    Dead and vanished.
[03:33] Alburn
    A year and a half ago.
[03:36] Anne; internal
    He was in love with her.
[03:39] Anne; internal
    And even now,
[03:42] Anne; internal
    somewhere in his heart,
    he's still calling her name.
[03:47] Hugh
    I'd heard that he'd been acting strangely,
    but I hadn't realized it was that bad.
[03:51] Hugh
    And I can't help wondering about the fact
    that Lady Christina isn't with him.
[03:55] Challe
    A lover?
[03:59] Hugh
    A fairy lover.
[04:02] Challe
    With blue hair?
[04:03] Hugh
    Yes. Did you see her in the castle?
[04:06] Challe
    A portrait of her.
[04:07] Challe
    The girl was ordered to create
    a sugar confection using it as a model.
[04:12] Hugh
    Not the lady herself?
[04:15] Hugh
    Challe.
[04:16] Hugh
    How long do fairies born of the sea live?
[04:19] Challe
    The lives of water fairies
    are unstable, so it varies.
[04:23] Challe
    There are some who live for hundreds of years,
    and some who vanish after only a few.
[04:27] Hugh
    What about sugar confections?
[04:28] Hugh
    Eating those extends
    a fairy's life, doesn't it?
[04:32] Challe
    There aren't many sugar confections
    with that sort of power.
[04:35] Challe
    With something you've made, it's possible...
[04:38] Challe
    but it would just be a
     few weeks to a few months.
[04:41] Hugh
    I see...
[04:43] Hugh
    She's disappeared.
[04:47] Hugh
    That's why the duke is...
[04:50] Challe
    Why would a human be bothered
    over something like that?
[04:52] Challe
    They simply buy another companion fairy
    and satisfy themselves that way.
[04:59] Hugh
    She wasn't a companion fairy.
[05:03] Hugh
    No one can possibly take her place.
[05:07] Alburn
    She was always saying that water fairies
    never know how long they will live.
[05:16] Anne; internal
    I didn't understand at all.
[05:19] Anne; internal
    What the duke truly desires is...
[05:22] Anne
    May I bring my tools here?
[05:26] Anne
    I will perform my work
    in your presence, Your Grace.
[05:29] Anne
    As I ask questions about Lady Christina,
    I will give her form!
[05:35] Hugh
    What the duke has been bearing
     alone is impossible to fathom.
[05:39] Hugh
    House Alburn did not rebel
    against House Millsland.
[05:43] Hugh
    They fought for His Majesty, Edmond II.
[05:46] Hugh
    And yet, what happened next?
[05:48] Hugh
    The royal family sucks up
    all the trade profits,
[05:51] Hugh
    and they were obliged
    to pay a monthly courtesy visit.
[05:55] Hugh
    How much must they have resented
    the treatment they'd been dealt.
[06:00] Hugh
    It was she who soothed that anger.
[06:02] Hugh
    Her alone.
[06:06] Challe
    Someone to take on all that
    resentment and bitterness?
[06:08] Challe
    Such a fairy must have been happy indeed.
[06:11] Hugh
    Yes, I do believe she was happy.
[06:15] Hugh
    I've made many
    sugar confections for the duke.
[06:19] Hugh
    I heard that all of them were given to her.
[06:23] Hugh
    And she said it herself.
[06:25] Hugh
    She said that, for the duke's sake, she'd
    like to live even the slightest bit longer.
[06:30] Challe
    For the duke's sake?
[06:33] Hugh
    She was probably worried
    that things might turn out this way.
[06:40] Hugh
    What's going on?
[06:43] Salim
    Viscount, the earl's troops
    are on the road ahead.
[06:47] Hugh
    That old man...
[06:50] Hugh
    Earl of Downing!
[06:51] Earl of Downing
    Mercury, is it?
[06:53] Earl of Downing
    Your attempts at persuasion
    were a waste of time, I see.
[06:56] Hugh
    You were aware?
[06:59] Earl of Downing
    We knew of your connections
    to House Alburn even before
[07:02] Earl of Downing
    you were made Silver Sugar Viscount.
[07:05] Earl of Downing
    However, we will allow
    no further interference!
[07:08] Earl of Downing
    The last sparks of rebellion
    in the kingdom must be extinguished.
[07:11] Hugh
    I will not interfere.
[07:13] Hugh
    However, Anne Halford is in the castle.
[07:15] Earl of Downing
    Really? Her?
[07:18] Earl of Downing
    That is unfortunate.
[07:19] Earl of Downing
    All we can do is hope that
    she has hidden herself well.
[07:22] Hugh
    But...
[07:30] Challe
    That girl...
[07:32] Salim
    Hey.
[07:33] Salim
    Is this an acquaintance of yours?
[07:36] Salim
    Apparently, one of the cavalrymen caught it.
[07:38] Salim
    Open it.
[07:41] Mithril
    Hup!
[07:42] Mithril
    Whoops! Ha ha!
[07:44] Challe
    Mithril Lid Pod.
[07:46] Salim
    He seems to have eaten
    all of the soup as he hid inside.
[07:50] Mithril
    That's not it! I mean, I did, but...
    It isn't like that!
[07:53] Mithril
    I was trying to fulfill my mission,
    but then I got hungry.
[07:57] Challe
    What's happened to her?
[07:59] Mithril
    That's right! I came
    looking for you for her sake!
[08:03] Challe
    For me?
[08:05] Mithril
    Because Anne is calling for you.
[08:07] Mithril
    Because she wants you to come back.
[08:10] Challe
    Are you stupid?
    She's the one who told me to leave.
[08:13] Mithril
    Do you really think Anne would
    seriously tell you to leave?!
[08:15] Challe
    You little...
[08:16] Mithril
    That was because that Jonas
    threatened Anne and made her say it!
[08:20] Challe
    What?
[08:21] Mithril
    Jonas stole my wing
    and tore you away from Anne!
[08:25] Mithril
    And he used that to allow himself to escape!
[08:28] Mithril
    Anne has been calling for you all this time!
[08:33] Mithril
    Anne stayed in the castle and she's been
    working on the sugar confections.
[08:36] Mithril
    The duke isn't going to let Anne
    leave until she makes something he likes.
[08:41] Mithril
    And Anne's gotten all stubborn about it.
[08:45] Challe
    That idiot.
[08:46] Mithril
    Huh? Hey!
[08:48] Mithril
    What's all this? Hey!
[08:49] Mithril
    Hey! What is all this! Let me out!
[08:49] Challe
    I'll come back for him!
[08:53] Salim
    Why should I care for something like this?
[08:54] Mithril
    Something like this?
    What's that supposed to mean?
[08:56] Mithril
    I am the great Mithril Lid—
[08:59] Alburn
    Artisan, what is it that you're trying to do?
[09:03] Anne
    I will make it exactly
    the same as Lady Christina.
[09:05] Anne
    Her height, her face,
    her expression, everything.
[09:10] Anne
    Your Grace, when you think of Lady Christina,
    how does she appear most often?
[09:18] Anne
    When I think of a certain person...
[09:22] Anne
    for some reason, I remember him looking down
    at me in a seemingly bad mood.
[09:29] Alburn
    She's relaxed, leaning against a wall.
[09:33] Alburn
    And she's smiling.
[09:36] Anne
    I see.
[09:41] Dale
    Your Grace.
[09:44] Alburn
    What is it?
[09:45] Dale
    More than 300 mounted
    troops have surrounded the castle.
[09:49] Dale
    They're the Earl of Downing's men.
[09:51] Alburn
    What of it?
[09:53] Dale
    They've come to demand
    the surrender of the castle,
[09:55] Dale
    and to take you into custody, Your Grace.
[09:58] Alburn
    Have them wait.
[10:00] Alburn
    I want to see this.
[10:03] Anne
    Why would the Earl of Downing
    take you, Your Grace?
[10:07] Alburn
    I haven't been to Lewiston
    for a year and a half.
[10:10] Alburn
    Saying that I lack loyalty must provide
    the perfect excuse to strike at me.
[10:15] Anne
    But why? Doing something like that would...
[10:17] Alburn
    Quiet, artisan. You just
    work on creating that.
[10:20] Anne
    But why—
[10:23] Alburn
    You couldn't possibly understand.
[10:25] Alburn
    To have every scrap of dignity ripped away...
[10:27] Alburn
    and to be forced to behave in a self-abasing
    manner. How that makes you feel!
[10:31] Alburn
    The only one who understood was her!
[10:43] Anne; internal
    For the duke, Lady Christina
    was the only one who...
[10:48] Anne; internal
    But now she has vanished.
[10:52] Anne; internal
    And now this person is all alone.
[10:56] Anne; internal
    That's what he believes.
[11:00] Anne; internal
    I want to make this.
[11:04] Anne; internal
    I want to make the one thing
    the duke desires.
[11:09] Anne; internal
    And I want to depict that person's
    feelings just as they are.
[11:17] Challe
    I will have her back.
[11:20] Anne
    Challe?
[11:22] Anne
    What?
[11:30] Anne
    Challe...
[11:32] Anne
    Are you real?
[11:34] Challe
    Your idiocy is astounding.
[11:40] Anne
    Challe...
[11:42] Challe
    Mithril Lid Pod told me everything.
[11:45] Anne
    He told you?
[11:48] Anne
    Challe, I'm so sorry. Back then, I...
[11:52] Challe
    There is no need to apologize.
[11:54] Challe
    More important right now is that
    we're going and leaving this castle.
[11:58] Anne
    But the sugar confection...
[12:02] Alburn
    I will not allow this artisan to leave.
[12:05] Alburn
    She will stay here
    until she makes what I seek.
[12:09] Challe
    Then I shall cut you down here and now.
[12:12] Anne
    Wait, Challe!
[12:13] Anne
    And you, too, Your Grace. Please, wait.
[12:15] Anne
    I will continue my work, so—
[12:18] Challe
    Are you in your right mind?!
[12:19] Anne
    I'm serious! I want to make
    a sugar confection of this fairy.
[12:24] Challe
    What are you trying to do?
[12:25] Anne
    I took on this work! That's why...
[12:28] Challe
    This castle is surrounded by soldiers!
[12:31] Challe
    If they storm this place...
[12:33] Anne
    I know.
[12:34] Challe
    It's dangerous!
[12:35] Anne
    I know that, too.
[12:37] Anne
    But I cannot abandon my work unfinished!
[12:46] Challe
    You are exasperating.
[12:52] Challe
    Make it, then. But I will stay here, too.
[12:58] Anne
    Will that be all right?
[13:01] Alburn
    Very well.
[13:03] Alburn
    Now, work.
[13:16] Alburn
    It looks very like her.
[13:20] Alburn
    But the color of her eyes is wrong.
[13:23] Alburn
    They're silver.
[13:24] Alburn
    And they have a sense of translucence,
    like light striking and reflecting off...
[13:27] Alburn
    If she had those eyes, she would...
[13:33] Challe
    That is a sugar confection.
[13:35] Challe
    What is the point of having
    something like that made?
[13:38] Alburn
    Fairies are born when living things gaze
    at an object and that energy condenses.
[13:44] Alburn
    If I gaze at this,
[13:46] Alburn
    will something be born?
[13:49] Alburn
    Don't you think it's possible?
[13:51] Anne
    It can't be...
[13:52] Anne
    You think that Lady Christina
    might be born once more from this?
[13:57] Alburn
    Have you ever witnessed
    the moment a fairy disappears?
[14:01] Alburn
    That which made up her form turned to
    motes of light and melted into thin air.
[14:10] Alburn
    Then all that needs happen is for that
    which melted into air to be given form again.
[14:17] Challe
    Not possible.
[14:19] Challe
    That which is lost cannot be resurrected.
[14:21] Challe
    No matter how much you wail or wish for it.
[14:24] Challe
    Even if you keep gazing at that thing,
[14:26] Challe
    a strange, warped fairy will be born
    from it, and that will be the end of it!
[14:30] Alburn
    I will not allow you to say any more!
[14:32] Challe
    It is the truth!
[14:32] Anne
    Don't, Challe!
[14:39] Alburn
    So, we didn't make it in time.
[14:42] Anne
    Your Grace...
[14:46] Challe
    What are you doing?
[14:47] Anne
    I might be able to make a silver color!
[14:49] Challe
    You're still planning on working
    when all this is going on?
[14:52] Challe
    There is no need for you to play along
    with this man's delusions!
[14:55] Anne
    I'm not playing along! This is my work!
[14:59] Anne
    It's the only thing I can do,
    and it's what I take pride in.
[15:07] Challe
    You are an idiot.
[15:08] Anne
    I think I must be.
    But... I want to see this through!
[15:13] Challe
    If that is your wish,
[15:16] Challe
    then work until you are completely satisfied.
[15:23] soldier
    The Duke of Philax is in the room above!
[15:25] Challe
    Stop.
[15:28] Challe
    I cannot allow you to pass.
[15:39] Anne
    Ow!
[15:45] soldier
    The Duke of Philax's warrior fairy?
[15:48] Hugh
    Hey there! Stop what you're doing!
[15:50] soldier
    Silver Sugar Viscount?
[15:52] Hugh
    We have permission from the Earl of Downing.
[15:54] Hugh
    Challe, I'd heard that you went off
    without warning to rescue Anne,
[15:59] Hugh
    but why are you protecting Alburn?
[16:01] Challe
    I'm not protecting him.
[16:03] Challe
    However, for the time being,
    I will not allow anyone to pass.
[16:07] Hugh
    Please understand.
[16:09] Hugh
    The more time passes, the more
    it appears that Alburn is resisting.
[16:13] Hugh
    It makes it worse for him.
[16:14] Challe
    I'm sorry, but this is what she wishes.
[16:23] Anne; internal
    Right here. Here in this silver sugar.
[16:30] Anne; internal
    I'm begging you, please appear!
[16:41] Alburn
    This is...
[16:58] Alburn
    It's her.
[17:06] Alburn
    Artisan.
[17:08] Alburn
    I never asked your name.
[17:10] Anne
    It's Halford. I'm Anne Halford.
[17:14] Alburn
    This is what I wanted, Halford.
[17:19] Alburn
    No matter how foolish
    my desire might be, I wanted this.
[17:23] Alburn
    I simply wanted it.
[17:28] Alburn
    I wanted to see her again.
[17:30] Anne
    No one has proven it.
[17:33] Anne
    Your Grace, if you think of
    Lady Christina and keep gazing at it,
[17:37] Anne
    then one day, something might happen.
[17:40] Anne
    No one has proven that it won't happen!
[17:46] Alburn
    Even if those are only words of comfort,
    they make me happy.
[17:50] Alburn
    The promised gold.
[17:52] Alburn
    Take this and return to your fairy.
[17:55] Alburn
    Go now.
[18:00] Alburn
    Halford.
[18:03] Alburn
    You are a magnificent sugar artisan.
[18:09] Anne
    Challe!
[18:12] Anne
    Challe!
[18:29] Anne
    Challe. Th-Thank you.
[18:34] Hugh
    You're not hurt, are you, Anne?
[18:35] Anne
    Hugh?
[18:36] Anne
    Why are you here?
[18:38] Hugh
    There were certain circumstances.
[18:40] Hugh
    I've come to take
    the Duke of Philax into custody.
[18:43] Hugh
    Is he up there?
[18:45] Anne
    Yes. He's with a sugar confection.
[18:49] Hugh
    I see.
[18:51] Hugh
    Let's go.
[18:55] Anne
    Oh.
[19:00] Anne
    Challe?
[19:01] Challe
    For the moment, don't move.
[19:03] Anne
    But... Oh!
[19:06] Challe
    Don't make me worry so much.
[19:08] Anne
    I'm sorry.
[19:09] Anne
    But I'm a sugar artisan, so...
[19:13] Challe
    Anne.
[19:15] Anne
    That's the second time...
    you've called me by my name.
[19:21] Challe
    You remember how many times?
[19:23] Anne
    Well, because it makes me happy.
[19:28] Anne
    Challe.
[19:31] Anne
    I want you to stay with me. From now on, too.
[19:35] Anne
    Is that all right?
[19:48] Anne
    Hello, ma'am!
[19:49] proprietress
    I heard everything! It's so amazing!
[19:52] Anne
    Amazing?
[19:53] proprietress
    The Duke of Philax's sugar sculpture!
[19:56] proprietress
    I was shocked when I heard that
    the duke had been taken into custody.
[20:00] proprietress
    Everyone said that it wouldn't be odd
    at all for him to be harshly punished.
[20:03] proprietress
    But he's only living in seclusion under
    the Earl of Downing's supervision, right?
[20:06] proprietress
    That was quite a magnanimous way
    to deal with him, don't you think?
[20:09] proprietress
    And the rumor is that it's all because of
    the sugar confection you made him, young lady!
[20:16] proprietress
    I suppose it's true that sugar
    confections bring good fortune!
[20:31] Challe
    Have you finished your prayers?
[20:34] Anne
    Yes.
[20:37] Anne
    Hoping that we can accept
    the deaths of those we love
[20:40] Anne
    and that those of us who are left behind
    are not always trapped by sorrow.
[20:46] Mithril
    Anne!
[20:47] Mithril
    The food stand over there
    has lots of yummy-looking food!
[20:51] Mithril
    Let's go and eat, the three of us!
[20:53] Mithril
    Yay! Yahoo!
[20:56] Challe
    Shall we go?
[20:57] Anne
    Yes.
SIGN    If I Keep Gazing at You
[21:16] ---
    Is it just like the dreams we dream at night?
[21:21] ---
    Do we give names to our other dreams because,
[21:26] ---
    Just as our night dreams
    are forgotten upon waking,
[21:30] ---
    If they aren't held dear,
    they will disappear?
[21:37] ---
    No, it's because they aren't things
    that only special people can see
[21:48] ---
    That day
[21:49] ---
    I reached out again and again
[21:53] ---
    I failed to catch that shining fruit, and yet
[21:59] ---
    I'll reach out once more
[22:04] ---
    If I make my wishes come true myself
[22:08] ---
    I just know it will make you smile
[22:14] ---
    That's why I'm able to say I'm not giving up
SIGN    The Radcliffe Workshop