E8 - Honey for Sweets, and a Reservoir for the Villages

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[00:02] Casserole
    Agnes.
[00:04] Casserole
    I need you to stay calm and hear me out.
[00:06] Agnes
    Dear... you look so pale.
[00:09] Agnes
    Is something the matter?
[00:12] Casserole
    Y-Yes.
[00:14] Agnes
    Oh, I know!
[00:16] Agnes
    You made another extravagant purchase, right?
[00:19] Agnes
    Listen here, now.
[00:20] Agnes
    I would never get mad
    over something like that!
[00:24] Agnes
    All right. What is it?
[00:26] Casserole
    I... I'm so sorry.
[00:29] Agnes
    Really, what is it?
[00:31] Casserole
    I have a new girl in my life!
[00:34] Agnes
    Huh?
[00:38] Casserole
    Agnes...
[00:40] Agnes
    I... I suppose it's not
    such an unusual story.
[00:45] Agnes
    I am a bit shocked, though.
[00:49] Casserole
    I didn't mean for it to happen.
[00:52] Casserole
    I simply became overwhelmed.
[00:55] Agnes
    W-Well... tell me more about her.
[00:59] Casserole
    Of course.
[01:00] Casserole
    She's beautiful, and from
    a high-ranking family.
[01:06] Agnes
    I see. Sh-She's very charming, then?
[01:09] Casserole
    And she's a twin!
[01:13] Agnes
    Casserole!
[01:14] Casserole
    I-I'm sorry!
[01:15] Casserole
    I should have gotten
    permission from you first!
[01:17] Agnes
    And you really think I'd have allowed it?!
[01:21] Casserole
    Well, Pas agreed to it,
[01:23] Casserole
    and I think she's more than
    an acceptable match for him...
[01:28] Agnes
    Pas agreed?
[01:30] Agnes
    What?
[01:30] Agnes
    A match... for him?
[01:33] Casserole
    What did you think I was talking about?
[01:36] Agnes
    Well... I thought... you were cheating.
[01:39] Pas
    Father, how is Mother taking it?
[01:44] Casserole
    She'll need some time.
[01:45] Pas
    She really was shocked, then?
[01:48] Casserole
    I expect it to last for a month.
[01:52] Agnes
    Another daughter... I can't wait!
[01:58] Narrator
    This is the tale of a genius
    patissier who died before his time,
[02:03] Narrator
    and was reincarnated as the son
    of a poor noble in another world
[02:07] Narrator
    to pursue a world full
    of desserts and smiles.
[02:11] Narrator
    It's a tale that is at once cold
    and unsparing, and syrupy sweet.
[02:17] Narrator
    His dream is to create this
    world's very own land of sweets!
SIGN    County of Retes Retesvale
[03:57] Coaton
    Count Retes! Your Ladyship!
SIGN    Honey for Sweets, and a
    Reservoir for the Villages
[04:02] Retes
    So much shouting. What's the meaning of this?
[04:04] Coaton
    The heir to House Morteln is engaged!
[04:09] Coaton
    He's been matched with a
    daughter of Margrave Hubarek!
[04:12] Retes
    What was that?!
[04:14] Retes
    That impoverished backwater knight,
[04:15] Retes
    joined to a prestigious noble house?!
[04:17] Retes
    Ow!
[04:20] Retes
    Ugh! This will leave a stain.
[04:24] Coaton
    Ahem. Do forgive me.
[04:28] Retes
    So? Which girl from House Hubarek?
[04:32] Coaton
    His fourth daughter, Licorice Mille Hubarek.
[04:35] Coaton
    Twin sister to Petra, who was recently
    engaged to the grandson of Duke Kadlecek.
[04:41] Retes
    The one involved in the kidnapping, you mean?
[04:44] Coaton
    Yes.
[04:45] Coaton
    An engagement to prove her chastity
    in the wake of the kidnapping—
[04:50] Coaton
    At least, such are the
    vulgar rumors being spread.
[04:55] Coaton
    Is it possible the Hubareks
    intend to wait a few years
[05:00] Coaton
    until memory of the incident has faded,
[05:02] Coaton
    and dissolve the engagement then?
[05:06] Retes
    I don't think so.
[05:09] Retes
    I wonder if Hubarek's true objective is to
    set others at ease regarding their family.
[05:15] Coaton
    Of course!
[05:17] Coaton
    The joining with the house
    of Margrave Kadlecek
[05:20] Coaton
    has significantly increased
    House Hubarek's influence.
[05:24] Retes
    So to go in the opposite direction, and bind
    their house to minor one like Morteln...
[05:29] Coaton
    He's making the case that he's not trying
    to amass power through marriage politics?
[05:36] Retes
    It's the kind of thing that
    old fox might think of.
[05:40] Retes
    And there's one more thing.
[05:41] Retes
    He believes the Fief of Morteln has the
    potential to grow into a bountiful one,
[05:47] Retes
    on par with my own.
[05:48] Coaton
    Surely impossible!
[05:50] Retes
    Can you be so sure?
[05:52] Retes
    When the land was first granted
    to him twenty years ago,
[05:56] Retes
    it was effectively a wasteland.
[05:58] Retes
    I've heard it took them several years
    to produce their first harvest.
[06:02] Retes
    But over the past three years,
    they reduced their wheat yield,
[06:06] Retes
    and began to cultivate beans.
[06:08] Retes
    The result?
[06:09] Retes
    Using the beans as fertilizer
    to nourish the soil,
[06:13] Retes
    they've improved their
    subsequent wheat harvests.
[06:15] Coaton
    That's true!
[06:17] Retes
    And whose idea was that, now?
[06:20] Retes
    Could it not have been the suggestion
    of that silver-haired child?
[06:23] Coaton
    Impossible! He's all of nine years old!
[06:27] Retes
    Have you forgotten when they came to
    negotiate compensation for the bandits?
[06:33] Retes
    The one conducting the negotiations
    was not Lord Morteln,
[06:38] Retes
    but his child.
[06:41] Retes
    And he completely got the better of me.
[06:45] Retes
    That sly old fox has surely
    noticed the boy's potential.
[06:51] Retes
    I've been outmaneuvered.
SIGN    Village of Le Milotte, Fief of Morteln
[07:03] Pas
    There we go!
[07:04] Decoco
    All right, Lord Pas! That should be it!
[07:06] Pas
    Thank you so much!
[07:08] Marc
    Pas, what is all this stuff?
[07:10] Lumi
    Food?
[07:12] Pas
    The aid I asked Duke Kadlecek
    and Lord Squale for has arrived!
[07:18] Pas
    During the engagement announcement,
    I got them to pledge their support!
[07:27] Lumi
    What's this thing?
[07:28] Marc
    A tree?
[07:29] Pas
    It's a black locust sapling.
[07:31] Pas
    Also known as pseudoacacia.
[07:34] Lumi
    Can we eat it?
[07:36] Pas
    I'm afraid not.
[07:37] Lumi
    Can you make black locust pie out of it?
[07:40] Pas
    I'm afraid not.
[07:41] Pas
    If I did, you couldn't eat it.
[07:42] Lumi
    Aw...
[07:45] Pas
    However...
[07:46] Lumi
    However?
[07:47] Pas
    These trees are easy to grow in poor soil,
[07:50] Pas
    and they provide nectar!
[07:51] Marc
    Nectar?
[07:54] Pas
    Nectar.
[07:55] Pas
    It means they can help us make honey!
[07:58] Marc/Lumi
    Honey?!
[08:00] Marc
    Honey. The sweet stuff!
[08:02] Pas
    Yes, the sweet stuff!
[08:04] Pas
    It's so indispensable to the creation
    of sweets across time and location,
[08:08] Pas
    any place with a history of
    sweets always involves honey!
[08:14] Rumi
    We'll raise these trees!
[08:15] Marc
    We'll collect honey!
[08:17] Marc/Lumi
    We'll be able to eat sweets!
[08:19] Pas
    Yes, correct!
[08:20] Marc/Lumi
    Hooray!
[08:22] Pas
    But there are issues with raising them here.
[08:26] Marc
    Oh, yeah?
[08:27] Lumi
    Oh, I know!
[08:29] Lumi
    Land and water, right?
[08:30] Pas
    Right! Excellent deduction!
[08:34] Lumi
    My grandpa taught me all about it.
[08:36] Pas
    The Fief of Morteln gets little rainfall.
[08:40] Pas
    Any trees we plant frequently
    die before they're fully grown.
[08:43] Marc
    How are we gonna get 'em water, then?
[08:46] Pas
    With a shifting of gears.
[08:48] Marc
    "A shifting of gears"?
[08:50] Lumi
    Is that edible?
[08:52] Pas
    Certainly not!
[08:54] Pas
    It means we change our approach.
[08:57] Pas
    There are sweets created from
    a shifting of gears as well.
[09:01] Lumi
    So, how do we go about that?
[09:04] Pas
    Rather than imitating lands
    with plentiful rainfall,
[09:07] Pas
    we'll grow them with a method
    common to arid regions.
[09:12] Marc
    What method is that?
[09:15] Pas
    We'll make a reservoir!
[09:18] Marc
    A reservoir?
[09:19] Lumi
    Can we—
[09:20] Pas
    —eat it? No.
[09:22] Pas
    It's a place where water collects.
[09:24] Pas
    One big enough to last us all year
    round, even the dry early spring!
[09:29] Pas
    For that, I chose this
    relatively undeveloped land!
[09:35] Feuille
    After expenses, profits on the sale of
    textiles comes to eight silver coins.
[09:41] Feuille
    Wheat comes to fourteen
    silvers and five coppers.
[09:46] Feuille
    And with the emergency aid earlier...
[09:50] Feuille
    That's four and three-eighths gold profit.
[09:53] Feuille
    This concludes last year's earnings report!
[09:55] Feuille
    Congratulations!
[09:57] Feuille
    Our efforts have finally
    earned us a full-year profit!
[10:02] Casserole
    At last. At last, we made it.
[10:06] Feuille
    It was all pretty touch and go
    when we first came here, right?
[10:12] Casserole
    Twenty years...
[10:15] Casserole
    It's had its ups and downs,
[10:17] Casserole
    but our efforts were finally rewarded.
[10:21] Feuille
    And the kid played a huge role in that.
[10:24] Casserole
    Indeed.
[10:26] Casserole
    Truly, my son is our savior, sent by God!
[10:29] Feuille
    I wasn't gonna go that far...
[10:32] Feuille
    Sheesh, what a proud papa...
[10:35] Casserole
    Feuille...
[10:37] Casserole
    You, Cointreau, and Glacage
    stayed with me all this time.
[10:43] Casserole
    I'm so grateful.
[10:44] Feuille
    Oh, give me a break.
[10:46] Feuille
    I made the decision to stick with
    you a long time ago, right, boss?
[10:51] Feuille
    Now, there are two more items to report...
[10:55] Feuille
    Good news and bad news.
    Which do you want first?
[10:58] Casserole
    Let me see...
[11:00] Casserole
    Let's start with the good.
[11:02] Casserole
    I want to maintain this
    elation for as long as I can.
[11:06] Feuille
    Figured you'd say that.
[11:09] Feuille
    Our new village, Le Milotte, has
    gathered over forty settler applicants.
[11:16] Casserole
    Wow, forty?
[11:18] Feuille
    Most are refugees,
[11:21] Feuille
    left with nowhere to go after their
    farms were ravaged by bandits.
[11:26] Casserole
    If we've got forty, we'll want to
    speed up getting the village in shape.
[11:31] Feuille
    Well, we got our new infusion of workers.
[11:33] Feuille
    I think we'll figure it out.
[11:35] Casserole
    How are those newcomers doing, anyway?
[11:37] Feuille
    The five we hired with the reward we
    received for handling the Licorice kidnapping?
[11:43] Feuille
    Glacage is showing them the ropes.
[11:46] Casserole
    I see.
[11:47] Casserole
    If having more people means the land grows
    more prosperous, I'll have no complaints.
[11:53] Casserole
    So? What's the bad news?
[11:56] Feuille
    This one's big.
[11:58] Feuille
    I'm told the kid's embarked on a new venture.
[12:04] Feuille
    I got a report that he headed out to Le
    Milotte with just his little friends.
[12:10] Casserole
    That mischief-maker!
[12:12] Casserole
    Can't he ever sit still?!
[12:16] Casserole
    Feuille! We're going!
[12:18] Feuille
    Ready when you are!
[12:36] Pas
    All right...
[12:41] Pas
    Excavate!
[12:58] Lumi
    What did you do?!
[13:00] Marc
    That's awesome!
[13:02] Pas
    Amazing.
[13:04] Pas
    I'm so glad I secretly
    replicated Strudel's magic!
[13:10] Marc
    Pas! That was awesome!
[13:13] Lumi
    That was magic, right?!
[13:18] Both
    Pas?
[13:21] Pas
    This'll work! I can use this!
[13:24] Pas
    This spell's way more useful than I expected!
[13:29] Pas
    This is the definition of fantastic, right?!
[13:32] Pas
    It'll work! It'll work! It'll work!
[13:35] Lumi
    He's snapped.
[13:37] Marc
    Our next suzerain lord has
    totally snapped, yeah.
[13:40] Pas
    All right, moving on!
[13:43] Pas
    Excavate!
[13:46] Pas
    Excavate!
[13:49] Pas
    Excavate!
[13:50] Pas
    Excavate! Excavate! Excavate! Excavate!
[14:00] Pas
    That should do it!
[14:02] Lumi
    Unbelievable!
[14:03] Marc
    Awesome! He did all this himself!
[14:07] Marc
    And the floor and walls
    are packed down hard...
[14:12] Pas
    That's what makes it a reservoir!
[14:14] Pas
    We'll plant the saplings all around it.
[14:18] Pas
    It should start raining soon,
[14:21] Pas
    so it'll collect water then.
[14:23] Pas
    As the trees grow, they'll
    act as reservoirs themselves,
[14:30] Pas
    leading to a synergistic effect!
[14:35] Pas
    It's all going perfectly!
[14:36] Pas
    I could use that excavation spell to
    propel me right to my land of sweets!
[14:42] Pas
    No, no! Don't think like that!
[14:44] Pas
    In sweets-making, proper process
    and time is of greatest importance.
[14:48] Marc
    Pas!
[14:49] Pas
    What now?
[14:50] Pas
    I'm envisioning a beautiful
    scene beneath my closed eyes.
[14:55] Lumi
    Well... you might wanna open those eyes.
[14:59] Pas
    Huh? What good will opening my eyes...
[15:08] Casserole
    Pas...
[15:13] Pas
    F-Father...
[15:16] Casserole
    Th-This is...
[15:19] Feuille
    I thought I'd heard the sound
    of a massive landslide, but...
[15:24] Feuille
    This is seriously...
[15:27] Pas
    I may have overdone it.
[15:30] Casserole
    Over... done... it?
[15:33] Pas
    Tee-hee.
[15:36] Casserole
    My fool of a son!
[15:43] Marc
    That hurt!
[15:45] Lumi
    Why us too?!
[15:48] Coaton
    Your Ladyship. Er...
[15:54] Coaton
    Shall I... freshen up your tea?
[15:58] Coaton
    Surely you're not still worried
    about House Morteln's connections?
[16:03] Coaton
    Are you really that concerned
    over the Morteln heir?
[16:12] Retes
    If I had a daughter of my own,
[16:14] Retes
    I'd have made the same
    decision that old fox did.
[16:19] Coaton
    Would you?
[16:21] Retes
    But what gets under my skin most of all
[16:23] Retes
    is that Kadlecek and Hubarek...
[16:25] Retes
    Those two easterners ganged
    up to go over my head
[16:28] Retes
    and start meddlingin affairs of the south!
[16:31] Retes
    Don't they know they should talk to me
[16:32] Retes
    before they start poking
    their noses in my business?!
[16:38] Retes
    It's gone lukewarm!
[16:39] Coaton
    Perhaps you should marry him yourself?
[16:44] Coaton
    F-Forgive me.
[16:46] Coaton
    It was in jest.
[16:48] Retes
    If I were ten years younger,
    or he were ten years older,
[16:53] Retes
    I might have tried it, though.
[16:57] Retes
    There must be some way to
    take him under my wing.
[17:01] Coaton
    Shall I refresh your tea?
SIGN    She took me seriously?
[17:11] Retes
    Perhaps that's what I'll try.
[17:21] Cointreau
    It's an excellent irrigation channel.
[17:24] Villager 2
    Isn't it wonderful?
[17:25] Villager 2
    We're so glad to have it!
[17:27] Villager 3
    I'm told Lord Pas created three ponds!
[17:31] Child 1
    Isn't that amazing?
[17:33] Child 1
    He made three in less than a month!
[17:35] Child 2
    Wouldn't it normally take
    at least a month each?
[17:39] Cointreau
    The amazing part was thinking of
    a way to get water without wells
[17:44] Cointreau
    by digging a reservoir for
    irrigation channels...
[17:48] Pas
    Hey!
[17:51] Child 1
    It's Lord Pas!
[17:53] Pas
    How does it look?
[17:54] Cointreau
    It's looking great, Lord Pas.
[17:57] Pas
    I'm so glad!
[17:59] Pas
    We got all the saplings planted, too.
[18:01] Pas
    And once we get honey...
[18:03] Lumi
    We can make sweets!
[18:05] Marc
    We can eat!
[18:07] Pas
    Yes, correct!
[18:09] Josephine
    Pas!
[18:11] Pas
    Josie?
[18:13] Josephine
    A letter arrived.
[18:15] Josephine
    It's for you!
[18:17] Pas
    A letter?
[18:18] Josephine
    It seemed fairly urgent, so I brought it by.
[18:23] Glacage
    I said I'd bring it, but...
[18:26] Josie
    It could be from your cute fiancée!
[18:29] Josie
    So as your sister, I took responsibility.
[18:31] Pas
    Wh-What are you talking about?!
[18:37] Pas
    Th-This is...
[18:42] Josie
    From your fiancée after all?
[18:44] Pas
    From Count Retes.
[18:46] Cointreau
    Count Retes?
[18:48] Glacage
    What in the world?
[18:50] Pas
    It's an invitation to a tea tasting ceremony.
[18:54] Pas
    "I was hoping to receive..."
[18:58] Pas & Retes
    "...your opinion on our new teas."
[19:01] Retes
    "I'll be waiting."
[19:05] Pas
    The count asked for me, specifically?
[19:08] Pas
    She's up to something.
[19:13] Feuille
    Once that's over, we'll have to figure
    out how to manage the grain storage.
SIGN    New Retainer Nicolo Nono
[19:18] Nicolo
    Why's there so much to do?!
[19:22] Feuille
    Don't complain.
[19:24] Nicolo
    I thought I'd be able to take
    it easy out here in the sticks!
[19:28] Feuille
    I feel you, okay?
[19:30] Feuille
    It's that little demon who's
    got us busy as hell here.
[19:36] Pas
    You misunderstand, Feuille.
[19:38] Feuille
    Kid!
[19:39] Pas
    Everything that happens in Morteln is
[19:41] Pas
    under the authority of my
    father, the liege lord.
[19:46] Pas
    In other words, it's my father
    who's the reason you're busy.
[19:50] Feuille
    And who, exactly, went over that
    authority's head to dig a reservoir?
[19:57] Pas
    As next liege lord, I was
    acting on his behalf.
[20:00] Feuille
    You've got a real smart mouth, you know?
[20:03] Pas
    Aw, shucks!
[20:04] Feuille
    That wasn't a compliment!
[20:06] Feuille
    If you've got complaints,
    direct them at this guy!
[20:08] Feuille
    Go on! Really tell him off!
[20:10] Nicolo
    R-Right...
[20:13] Pas
    By the way, is Father not here?
[20:17] Feuille
    He flew off. Business at the royal capital.
[20:20] Feuille
    He's not back yet.
[20:22] Pas
    Oh, really?
[20:24] Feuille
    Something you need to talk to him about?
[20:27] Pas
    The truth is, Count Retes invited
    me to a tea tasting ceremony.
[20:33] Feuille
    You specifically?
[20:35] Pas
    Yeah.
[20:37] Pas
    I'm pretty sure she's plotting something.
[20:39] Feuille
    That does seem likely.
[20:41] Pas
    I wanted to talk to Father about it, but...
[20:44] Casserole
    I know all about it.
[20:48] Casserole
    I heard in the royal capital.
[20:50] Casserole
    From someone other than Count Retes.
[20:52] Pas
    What could she be up to?
[20:55] Pas
    Does she want revenge for how I handled
    the bandit compensation negotiations?
[21:00] Casserole
    We can talk about that later.
[21:03] Casserole
    Pas, I've brought an important guest.
[21:06] Pas
    Guest?
[21:12] Pas
    Lady Licorice!
[21:16] Licorice
    Lord Pastry!
[21:18] Licorice
    Oh, I mean...
[21:20] Licorice
    Just Pastry.
[21:22] Licorice
    I've been hoping to see you again.
[21:24] Pas
    Oh, right.
[21:26] Pas
    Licorice, I'm happy to see you, too.
[21:29] Feuille
    A visit from the fiancée, eh?
[21:32] Feuille
    Lucky you.
[21:33] Casserole
    Not merely a visit.
[21:36] Licorice
    Circumstances necessitate that I
    impose on you for the time being.
[21:42] Pas
    Impose?
[21:43] Pas
    You mean... you'll be living here?
[22:03] Pas
    Huh?
[23:37] Pas
    Next time on Sweet Reincarnation...
[23:39] Pas
    "Sweet or Bitter? The Tea Tasting Ceremony."
SIGN    Sweet or Bitter? The Tea Tasting Ceremony
[23:42] Pas
    Bon appétit!
SIGN    Illustration:
SIGN    Chako Abeno