# E3 - Episode 3
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**[00:00] Nef**
Blegh!
**[00:03] Hime**
She's gone?
**[00:07] Jade**
Good grief...
**[00:08] Jade**
What a hopeless shut-in princess.
**[00:12] Jade**
As you can see,
**[00:13] Jade**
this is what our nation's princess is like.
**[00:16] Jade**
I think it'll prove difficult
to get the ring from her.
**[00:19] Satou**
Uh, who might you be?
**[00:22] Jade**
I'm Jade Romca.
**[00:24] Jade**
I'm the eldest son
of the previous Wind King Romca,
**[00:27] Jade**
and the older brother
to the princess of the Ring of Wind
**[00:30] Jade**
that just ran away, Nefritis Romca.
**[00:33] Jade**
So,
**[00:35] Jade**
you're the famous new Ring King?
**[00:43] Satou**
Wha?!
**[00:45] Alabaster**
Wh-What are you doing?!
**[00:47] Satou**
Let go! Let go of me!
**[00:50] Jade**
We'll be taking him into custody for a while.
**[00:54] Jade**
Of course, the rest of you will be
treated as state guests.
**[00:59] Hime**
Satou...
**[01:03] Satou**
Umm...
**[01:04] Satou**
have I done something wrong?
**[01:08] Jade**
My little sister Nefritis is...
**[01:11] Jade**
very, very delicate.
**[01:13] Satou**
Yeah, kind of timid, kind of immature—
**[01:19] Jade**
Don't judge her by your standards, human!
**[01:22] Jade**
Listen. Nefritis is an angel!
**[01:26] Jade**
She's pure and kind...
**[01:28] Jade**
and while she may be timid,
**[01:30] Jade**
she loves me, her older brother...
**[01:34] Jade**
She's a very, very good girl!
**[01:38] Jade**
However...
**[01:39] Jade**
she's rarely ever left the palace,
**[01:41] Jade**
let alone our nation, for certain reasons.
**[01:45] Jade**
That's why she's unaccustomed to outsiders.
**[01:48] Jade**
She's only 54, too,
**[01:50] Jade**
so it's way too early for her to get married.
**[01:53] Satou**
*Fifty-four?!*
**[01:55] Jade**
I should be fondly watching over
her growth as her older brother...
**[02:00] Jade**
so all I need you to do is wait here patiently.
**[02:05] Jade**
Oh, it'll only be for a mere 80 years.
**[02:07] Satou**
*Eigh—?!*
**[02:08] Jade**
That'll be enough time for Nef to mature.
**[02:12] Satou**
Hey!
**[02:13] Satou**
You might be fine with that,
but I'll die of old age!
**[02:21] Elf**
Are you sure about this?
**[02:23] Elf**
Won't doing this just...
**[02:24] Jade**
I don't care.
**[02:27] Jade**
I don't care about this so-called Abyss King.
**[02:30] Jade**
Our nation will be safe as long as
we have our tempest wall.
**[02:33] Jade**
We have to protect the Ring of Wind
responsible for that power.
**[02:37] Jade**
That's what's most important.
**[04:14] Satou**
It's been three days...
**[04:16] Satou**
Is he seriously planning
to hold me here forever?
**[04:20] Peridot**
Ring King.
**[04:25] Satou**
Who are y—?!
**[04:27] Peridot**
Don't be so loud.
**[04:31] Peridot**
What do you hope to gain
by gathering the five rings?
**[04:36] Peridot**
World peace?
**[04:37] Peridot**
Absolute power?
**[04:40] Peridot**
Maybe beautiful princesses?
**[04:47] Satou**
I don't know what your deal is,
**[04:49] Satou**
but what I want is Hime's happiness.
**[04:52] Satou**
To live a happy married life with Hime!
**[04:59] Peridot**
You are a strange one.
**[05:00] Peridot**
You'll use the enormous power of
the Ring King for just one woman, huh?
**[05:06] Peridot**
I like you.
**[05:16] Peridot**
You should follow me.
**[05:20] Satou**
Why are you helping me?
**[05:22] Peridot**
I'm the one responsible for
watching over this country's future.
**[05:26] Peridot**
Only you, the Ring King,
are capable of opposing the Abyss King.
**[05:31] Peridot**
Prince Jade knows that,
and yet he still imprisoned you.
**[05:35] Peridot**
All because of that tempest wall.
**[05:38] Peridot**
That...
**[05:39] Peridot**
is a cage entrapping the elves.
**[05:57] Peridot**
Now, we're here.
**[05:59] Peridot**
This is the Wind Temple,
**[06:01] Peridot**
the location of the Wind Ring.
**[06:10] Satou**
The ring?!
**[06:11] Peridot**
Yes.
**[06:13] Peridot**
That is one of the rings of power,
the Wind Regalia.
**[06:17] Peridot**
The ring that Nefritis should have inherited.
**[06:21] Satou**
What is the ring doing here?
**[06:23] Satou**
Shouldn't the princess have it?!
**[06:27] Peridot**
Hide!
**[06:32] Peridot**
That furball is moving?!
**[06:34] Peridot**
No, that's the...
**[06:49] Nef**
Father, Mother...
**[06:51] Nef**
The Ring King has come from the outside world.
**[06:55] Nef**
He's here...
**[06:56] Nef**
to steal both the ring and me.
**[06:59] Nef**
But I will never go outside.
**[07:03] Nef**
I'll honor your command, Mother.
**[07:06] Nef**
Please continue to protect our nation's peace.
**[07:13] Satou**
She's praying to statues of her parents?
**[07:17] Peridot**
Statues?
**[07:18] Peridot**
You're wrong.
**[07:19] Peridot**
Though their hearts have stopped
and their bodies are petrified,
**[07:23] Peridot**
they continue using the power of the ring
**[07:25] Peridot**
to create that wall of wind
as our pitiful protectors.
**[07:29] Peridot**
They're the real elf king and his queen.
**[07:32] Satou**
Huh?!
**[07:33] Nef**
Is someone there?!
**[07:35] Peridot**
She noticed us?
**[07:36] Satou**
Cheeep, cheep cheep cheep cheep!
**[07:40] Peridot**
Wh-What are you—?!
**[07:41] Satou**
Well, trying to fool her?
**[07:43] Peridot**
You idiot! There are no birds in here!
**[07:46] Nef**
P-P-Playing hide-and-seek?!
**[07:50] Nef**
C-C-Come on out, you scoundrel!
**[07:55] Satou**
It's me, the Ring King, Satou.
**[07:59] Nef**
Th-Th-The Ring King?!
**[08:05] Peridot**
Good grief.
**[08:07] Peridot**
She's as meek as ever.
**[08:10] Servant**
Princess? Is something the matter?
**[08:13] Peridot**
It'll mean trouble if people
from the palace catch us.
**[08:15] Peridot**
Bring Nefritis with you, Ring King.
**[08:18] Satou**
Huh?! Wait, to where?!
**[08:20] Peridot**
Don't worry.
**[08:21] Peridot**
I know everything there is
to know about this place.
**[08:24] Peridot**
You just leave it to the Elder of the elves.
**[08:27] Satou**
E-Elder?!
**[08:32] Servant**
Princess?
**[08:34] Jade**
Nefritis has disappeared?!
**[08:36] Elf**
Yes!
**[08:37] Elf**
We're certain that she entered the Wind Temple,
**[08:39] Elf**
but she hasn't been seen since.
**[08:40] Jade**
Anyone! Has no one has seen Nefritis?!
**[08:46] Jade**
It couldn't be!
**[08:57] (Flashback) Peridot**
I've known that girl since
the day she was born.
**[09:00] (Flashback) Peridot**
She may be like this now,
but she's a strong girl at heart.
**[09:04] (Flashback) Peridot**
She'll accept a bit of forcefulness.
**[09:07] (Flashback) Peridot**
Fulfill your duty.
**[09:09] (Flashback) Peridot**
Obtain the ring.
**[09:11] (Flashback) Peridot**
Well, have a good time.
**[09:13] (Flashback) Satou**
Huh?
**[09:19] Satou**
*Wait, wait, no, no, no!*
**[09:22] Satou**
*I'm just claiming the ring!*
**[09:24] Satou**
*Nothing more than that!*
**[09:33] Nef**
R-Ring King?!
**[09:35] Satou**
It's okay!
**[09:36] Satou**
I won't do anything, so calm down!
**[09:42] Nef**
Blegh!
**[09:46] Jade**
I knew it!
**[09:47] Jade**
There's no mistake! It's his doing!
**[09:54] Peridot**
That's right, Jade.
**[09:58] Jade**
Elder!
**[10:00] Peridot**
The Ring King has left
with the Maiden of the Ring of Wind.
**[10:04] Peridot**
The two of them have eloped.
**[10:06] Jade**
E-Eloped?!
**[10:10] Jade**
I-Impossible.
**[10:11] Jade**
Nef is so terrified of others!
**[10:15] Peridot**
Face reality, Jade.
**[10:17] Peridot**
Your little sister! Eloped!
With the man she loves!
**[10:22] Peridot**
She'll never tell you,
"I love big brother the most!" anymore!
**[10:30] Peridot**
Now cool your head a bit, Jade.
**[10:33] Peridot**
It was always the princess' destiny
to inherit the Ring of Wind
**[10:36] Peridot**
and grant power to the Ring King.
**[10:38] Peridot**
Your actions were never
for the good of Nefritis.
**[10:42] Jade**
For the good of Nefritis?
**[10:47] Jade**
The ring is still in my father
and mother's hands,
**[10:51] Jade**
and the nation is still protected by its magic.
**[10:54] Jade**
That is what's best.
**[10:56] Jade**
There's no need for Nefritis
to inherit the ring!
**[11:01] Jade**
Elder.
**[11:02] Jade**
I'm going to have your manor searched.
**[11:07] Nef**
I'm so sorry!
**[11:08] Nef**
For making you wash my clothes, too!
**[11:11] Satou**
My clothes needed to be washed anyway.
**[11:14] Nef**
Ah, I can't believe I've soiled the
inter-dimensional super-being, the Ring King!
**[11:19] Nef**
How could I do such a terrifying thing?!
**[11:26] Satou**
Hey, am I really that scary?
**[11:29] Nef**
Yes, incredibly so!
**[11:30] Satou**
An instant reply, huh?
**[11:32] Nef**
I grew up without ever leaving the palace.
**[11:37] Nef**
So anyone from outside is scary.
**[11:41] Nef**
And you, the Ring King,
are from outside our nation...
**[11:44] Nef**
and from a whole world
outside of ours, as well...
**[11:51] Satou**
I know I might have come from another world,
**[11:54] Satou**
but I'm really not anyone that special.
**[11:57] Satou**
I'm probably not that much different
from the humans of this world.
**[12:04] Nef**
What kind of place is it?
**[12:07] Satou**
Huh?
**[12:07] Nef**
The world you come from.
**[12:10] Nef**
What's it like?
**[12:12] Satou**
What's it like? Well...
**[12:16] Nef**
It's a terrifying place, isn't it?
**[12:19] Nef**
The kind of place that has oceans
full of orcs and goblins,
**[12:22] Nef**
where you could be attacked
by dragons just walking down the street?
**[12:25] Satou**
No, no, no!
**[12:27] Satou**
There aren't any monsters like that!
**[12:29] Satou**
So in that sense, it's a peaceful world.
**[12:33] Nef**
And elves?
**[12:34] Nef**
Do you have elves?
**[12:36] Nef**
In your world?!
**[12:38] Satou**
E-Elves?!
**[12:39] Nef**
Yes!
**[12:40] Satou**
*So close!*
**[12:41] Satou**
No, there probably aren't any elves.
**[12:45] Nef**
There aren't...?
**[12:48] Satou**
Are you interested in my world, by chance?
**[12:52] Nef**
Huh?
**[12:54] Satou**
They called you the shut-in princess,
**[12:57] Satou**
so I thought you'd be more averse to it.
**[13:00] Satou**
Oh, sorry!
**[13:01] Satou**
That's what your older brother called you,
**[13:03] Satou**
but I guess that's rude to say, huh?
**[13:05] Nef**
It's all right.
**[13:07] Nef**
I know others call me that.
**[13:10] Nef**
Besides, even if I am interested
in the world outside the palace,
**[13:15] Nef**
it doesn't negate the fact
that I'm still afraid.
**[13:20] Nef**
I usually just read the books the Elder
brings me about the outside world,
**[13:26] Nef**
and I imagine what the scenery is like,
what it smells like, what it feels like,
**[13:32] Nef**
and I get so excited imagining those things.
**[13:34] Nef**
It's fun, and it feels like
I could go anywhere...
**[13:39] Nef**
But the real me is stuck in my room,
and I can't do anything.
**[13:44] Nef**
It's weird, isn't it?
**[13:47] Satou**
Can't do anything, huh?
**[13:51] Satou**
I'm pretty much the same.
**[13:53] Nef**
Huh?
**[13:54] Satou**
I didn't come here because of
any special powers or anything.
**[13:58] Satou**
I just came here because I didn't want to be
separated from the woman I loved.
**[14:02] Satou**
But once I took a chance and made the leap,
**[14:05] Satou**
things worked out better than I expected.
**[14:09] Nef**
Took a chance...
**[14:12] Nef**
One day!
**[14:14] Nef**
I want to try going to your world!
**[14:17] Nef**
Would you take me there with you?!
**[14:22] Satou**
Sure, I don't mind doing that, but...
**[14:26] Satou**
your front...
**[14:33] Nef**
I'm sorry!
**[14:34] Nef**
I got so absorbed in our conversation!
**[14:38] Satou**
You know, I have to wonder...
**[14:40] Satou**
if you're that interested in the outside world,
**[14:42] Satou**
then why have you never gone outside before?
**[14:46] Nef**
That's because...
**[14:48] Jade**
Nefritis!
**[14:49] Nef**
That voice is...
**[14:51] Jade**
Nefritis!
**[14:53] Jade**
I know you're in there!
**[14:55] Jade**
Come on out!
**[14:57] Satou**
I became the Ring King
because I chased after Hime.
**[15:01] Satou**
So while it might be my duty
to gather the rings now,
**[15:04] Satou**
I have no intention
of forcing anyone to marry me.
**[15:08] Nef**
Hime...
**[15:09] Nef**
That's Princess Krystal, right?
**[15:12] Satou**
Yeah.
**[15:13] Satou**
It's up to you what you want to do with me.
**[15:17] Nef**
I'll try my best, too.
**[15:20] Nef**
I'm sure my older brother
will come to understand.
**[15:30] Jade**
Get away from her, Ring King!
**[15:32] Hime**
Satou...
**[15:37] Nef**
Brother, the Ring King is not
the kind of man you think he is!
**[15:42] Jade**
That's foolishness!
**[15:44] Jade**
You're being deceived!
**[15:46] Jade**
The ring rests in Father and Mother's hands,
**[15:48] Jade**
and our nation is being protected by it.
**[15:52] Jade**
You understand that, don't you?
**[15:54] Nef**
Even so, I have to inherit it one day!
**[15:59] Nef**
I can't be protected forever. I—
**[16:03] Jade**
Nefritis!
**[16:05] Jade**
I am not asking for your opinion.
**[16:08] Jade**
Do you intend to betray our parents' wishes?
**[16:15] Jade**
Come to me.
**[16:21] Satou**
Nefritis?!
**[16:29] Jade**
Now, Ring King.
**[16:31] Jade**
You not only escaped from prison,
**[16:32] Jade**
you also abducted Nefritis,
our nation's treasure.
**[16:36] Jade**
You're prepared for the consequences, yes?
**[16:39] Peridot**
Wait, Jade.
**[16:41] Peridot**
I was responsible for all of that.
**[16:43] Jade**
Elder!
**[16:45] Jade**
I have no idea what you were thinking.
**[16:49] Jade**
However, there are limits, even for you!
**[16:52] Peridot**
Like you're one to talk, Jade.
**[16:54] Peridot**
The way you treated
the Ring King is unforgivable.
**[16:59] Peridot**
I'll take care of the Ring King.
**[17:03] Peridot**
You won't object, right?
**[17:05] Jade**
Very well.
**[17:07] Jade**
But never show yourself before Nefritis again.
**[17:11] Jade**
Got it?
**[17:21] Hime**
I was so worried about you.
**[17:24] Hime**
They didn't hurt you anywhere, did they?
**[17:26] Satou**
I'm fine.
**[17:27] Satou**
Though three days in a cell was rough.
**[17:30] Hime**
Lucky you, getting rescued
by a beautiful woman.
**[17:34] Hime**
You managed to get on good terms with
the princess at some point, too, I see.
**[17:39] Satou**
Are you jealous?
**[17:44] Hime**
Is that bad?
**[17:46] Satou**
N-No, it's not a bad thing!
**[17:54] Peridot**
Sorry for the late introductions,
Maiden of the Ring of Light.
**[17:59] Peridot**
I am the oldest elf in Romca, Peridot.
**[18:03] Hime**
Oh! Uhh...
**[18:04] Hime**
I am the princess of Nokanatika,
Krystal Novaty Nokanatika.
**[18:11] Satou**
Elder,
**[18:12] Satou**
do Nefritis' father and mother have something
to do with how she wound up like that?
**[18:19] Peridot**
Ring King, Maiden of the Ring of Light,
**[18:23] Peridot**
I want you two to know this story.
**[18:26] Peridot**
It's about how Romca came to be
enveloped in a wall of wind,
**[18:30] Peridot**
and why Nefritis is like that now.
**[18:34] Peridot**
To start off,
**[18:36] Peridot**
Nefritis and Jade's mother wasn't
the firstborn meant to inherit the rings.
**[18:41] Peridot**
She had an older sister.
**[18:44] Peridot**
In order to keep the ring
from leaving the village
**[18:46] Peridot**
and protect it through the generations,
**[18:48] Peridot**
it became customary for the elven princesses
to marry someone from within our village.
**[18:53] Peridot**
However, the eldest princess
fell in love with a traveler.
**[18:58] Peridot**
A human one at that.
**[19:00] Peridot**
The elves began to fear.
**[19:02] Peridot**
"If the traveler receives one of the rings,
he might take it out of the village."
**[19:07] Peridot**
"No, that traveler approached the princess
**[19:10] Peridot**
intending to steal the ring
from the very beginning."
**[19:14] Peridot**
Various rumors began to spread
throughout the village.
**[19:17] Peridot**
As more people whispered those rumors,
the rumors grew into suspicion,
**[19:20] Peridot**
and suspicion grew into conviction.
**[19:22] Peridot**
The stronger the opposition
from those around her grew,
**[19:25] Peridot**
the stronger the eldest princess's
feelings toward the traveler grew.
**[19:29] Peridot**
However,
**[19:31] Peridot**
the traveler suddenly stopped
appearing before the princess.
**[19:35] Peridot**
Perhaps he was driven off
by those trying to protect the rings,
**[19:39] Peridot**
or perhaps he was erased.
**[19:41] Hime**
No way...
**[19:42] Satou**
They would go that far for the ring?
**[19:46] Alabaster**
The rings of power are symbols of legitimate
authority from the age of myth.
**[19:51] Alabaster**
Some are even used as proof
to justify a nation's existence.
**[19:56] Marse**
They can be blinding
to nations without any rings.
**[20:00] Peridot**
The villagers at the time were relieved.
**[20:03] Peridot**
However, can you imagine how they all looked
**[20:08] Peridot**
to the princess who had just
lost her lover so suddenly?
**[20:11] Peridot**
The elder princess' heart
sank into rage and despair,
**[20:15] Peridot**
and she left this village
after laying a curse on it.
**[20:19] Peridot**
"May Romca be swallowed by the Abyss!
**[20:21] Peridot**
May the line of ring maidens
come to an end!" she said.
**[20:25] Peridot**
That curse she spoke weighed
heavily on us elves.
**[20:29] Peridot**
Because we possess such long lifespans,
**[20:31] Peridot**
the fear that her revenge could strike
at any moment continued on forever.
**[20:35] Peridot**
The more years passed, the more
our people grew consumed by that fear.
**[20:40] Peridot**
And the same held true
for the royalty that remained.
**[20:43] Peridot**
Nefritis's parents inherited the rings
in the eldest princess's stead,
**[20:47] Peridot**
but they lived in fear
of the eldest princess's curse.
**[20:50] Peridot**
So to keep evil from ever approaching Romca,
**[20:53] Peridot**
she called upon the ring's power
**[20:55] Peridot**
and erected a barrier of wind.
**[20:57] Peridot**
All to protect this nation... and her children.
**[21:03] Peridot**
Though the price she paid was great.
**[21:06] Peridot**
She also made Nefritis swear her a promise.
**[21:10] Peridot**
A promise to never venture
outside the wall of wind.
**[21:14] Peridot**
That is what led to this village's
current state.
**[21:18] Peridot**
Nefritis wants to honor what
her parents sacrificed their lives for,
**[21:22] Peridot**
and she's convinced she must.
**[21:27] (Flashback) Mother**
Nefritis...
**[21:29] (Flashback) Mother**
your mother won't be able
to talk to you anymore.
**[21:33] (Flashback) Mother**
Elves don't die of old age,
**[21:35] (Flashback) Mother**
but when our hearts stop, so do our bodies.
**[21:39] (Flashback) Nef**
Why is your heart going to stop?
**[21:43] (Flashback) Mother**
Listen to me.
**[21:45] (Flashback) Mother**
You must never leave this country.
**[21:48] (Flashback) Mother**
Promise me.
**[21:53] (Flashback) Mother**
We'll be watching over you
until you ------ ------.
**[21:59] (Flashback) Mother**
Farewell, my beloved children.
**[22:07] Nef**
Mother...