E7 - Episode 7

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[00:08] Hime
    We're getting out, Nefritis.
[00:10] Nef
    Please wait!
[00:13] Satou
    I heard this was a far corner of the world,
[00:15] Satou
    but it's a lively place, isn't it?
[00:17] Satou
    This Land of Water, Maasa.
[00:19] Alabaster
    Even if the kingdom is remote,
    this is its largest city.
[00:23] Satou
    That reminds me, where's Marse-san?
[00:26] Alabaster
    Apparently, he had some other business.
[00:29] Alabaster
    He went on ahead of us.
[00:31] Satou
    Did he?
[00:32] Satou
    He did seem to want to
    go to the Land of Water.
[00:35] Satou
    I guess there was a reason for that?
[00:40] Saphir
    Excuse me!
[00:41] Satou
    Hmm?
[00:45] Saphir
    You're the Ring King, right?
[00:49] Satou
    Yeah, I am...
[00:50] Saphir
    Wow, that's amazing!
[00:52] Satou
    Huh?
[00:53] Saphir
    I'm a huge fan of yours!
[00:54] Satou
    Man, you're making me blush.
[00:57] Hime
    Huh? He's really popular.
[00:59] Granart
    That's my husband for you!
[01:01] Saphir
    I know! Please take these flowers!
[01:03] Satou
    Huh?
[01:04] Saphir
    And this, as well!
[01:30] Saphir
    I had heard the rumors,
[01:33] Saphir
    but you really are a great fool
    with too little caution, Ring King!
[01:38] Satou
    Wha?!
[01:39] Saphir
    I am Saphir Maasa!
[01:43] Saphir
    Maiden of the Ring of Water!
[01:46] Saphir
    And I just made you my husband!
[01:51] Satou
    Is this even allowed?
[01:52] Alabaster
    Yes, it is.
[03:25] Alabaster
    We're grateful for your quick cooperation,
[03:28] Alabaster
    Maiden of the Ring of Water.
[03:30] Saphir
    Mhm, it was nothing.
[03:33] Saphir
    I see you're unfazed, Great Sage.
[03:36] Saphir
    That leaves...
[03:39] Saphir
    Oh?
[03:41] Saphir
    Well, you princesses may do as you please.
[03:44] Saphir
    I doubt we'll be forming
    any deep connection anyway.
[03:48] Saphir
    Now, Ring King.
[03:50] Saphir
    Since I've made you my husband,
[03:52] Saphir
    that also means you're
    the king of the Land of Water!
[03:56] Satou
    Does it really work that way?
[03:58] Saphir
    You have a duty to peacefully govern this land.
[04:01] Saphir
    Are you prepared to do that?
[04:03] Satou
    S-Sure?
[04:05] Saphir
    Then follow me.
[04:07] Saphir
    It's time for you to use
    your power for my sake.
[04:11] Satou
    You make it sound obvious,
    but what exactly is going on?
[04:16] Saphir
    If nothing is done, this nation will perish.
[04:22] Sluder
    So this is where you've been, Princess Saphir.
[04:28] Sluder
    Please return to the palace.
[04:31] Saphir
    This man here is the Ring King!
[04:33] Saphir
    I just married him moments ago,
[04:36] Saphir
    and handed Maasa's Ring of Water over to him.
[04:38] Saphir
    That doesn't inconvenience you, does it?
[04:42] Sluder
    Very well.
[04:43] Sluder
    For now, I'd like you all
    to come to the palace.
[04:50] Satou
    That's huge!
[04:53] Alabaster
    The Great Falls, Euyumaasa.
[04:56] Alabaster
    The maasterful symbol of
     Maasa, the Land of Water.
[05:00] Satou
    Huh?
[05:01] Nef
    Beyond these waterfalls
    lies the former Land of Earth.
[05:05] Nef
    As well as the dark domain
    where the Abyss King is said to lurk.
[05:09] Satou
    Wow.
[05:11] Saphir
    Take a look.
[05:13] Saphir
    The city streets are
    filled with imperial soldiers.
[05:17] Saphir
    Maasa's troops are no longer to be found.
[05:19] Satou
    The Empire...
[05:21] Satou
    That's Marse-san's country, right?
[05:23] Alabaster
    Good of you to remember.
[05:25] Satou
    I can remember that much!
[05:27] Saphir
    The Gisaras Empire is
    humanity's largest nation,
[05:30] Saphir
    and it continues to grow larger by
    forging ties with many other nations.
[05:34] Satou
    So that guy we saw earlier is...
[05:37] Alabaster
    The first prince of Gisaras.
    Marse's older brother.
[05:41] Satou
    Huh?!
[05:42] Alabaster
    The undefeated general, Sluder Gisaras.
[05:46] Alabaster
    That man is the one turning
    the Emperor's orders into a reality.
[05:50] Alabaster
    While the ring nations have been spared,
[05:53] Alabaster
    he's proven capable of annexing
    many other nations.
[05:57] Satou
    So is the Empire... an evil nation, then?
[06:00] Saphir
    You hardly need to ask.
[06:03] Saphir
    That's an occupying force.
[06:05] Saphir
    Protecting us from abyss
    monsters is just a pretext.
[06:10] Granart
    Some would surely see it that way,
[06:12] Granart
    but isn't it also true that
    they're bringing people together
[06:15] Granart
    to oppose the Abyss King's resurrection?
[06:19] Satou
    You're surprisingly knowledgeable.
[06:21] Granart
    Impressed?
[06:22] Saphir
    Lowly animal, acting like she knows anything.
[06:26] Granart
    Why you!
[06:28] Granart
    You want me to grind you up
    and burn you with catnip?!
[06:35] Satou
    So, this is the palace?
[06:42] Satou
    What?!
[06:44] Saphir
    It's a monster attack.
[06:46] Saphir
    That woman's prediction was right again, huh?
[06:48] Hime
    Are things okay here?!
[06:50] Saphir
    This is why the imperial army
    is stationed here.
[06:54] Granart
    Satou! Look out!
[07:03] Saphir
    Impossible!
[07:04] Saphir
    How can it be here?!
[07:07] Satou
    Huh?
[07:08] Saphir
    Ring King!
[07:24] Satou
    That was close.
[07:28] Saphir
    So that's the power of the rings?
[07:31] Hime
    I'm so glad you're safe.
[07:32] Saphir
    Ring King, Satou... perhaps you can...
[07:33] Satou
    Yeah, somehow.
[07:35] Granart
    That's my husband for you!
[07:40] Sluder
    So the legends
    aren't just fairy tales after all?
[07:48] King
    That man is the Ring King?
[07:51] Saphir
    That's right, Father.
[07:53] Saphir
    This is my husband.
[07:55] Saphir
    I've given the Ring of Water to this man!
[07:58] Satou
    Hey!
[07:59] Saphir
    I know you thought you could
[08:01] Saphir
    lock me away in the palace to keep me
    from handing over the ring,
[08:04] Saphir
    but it looks like all your
    plotting has been foiled.
[08:08] Oracle
    Lock you away?
[08:10] Oracle
    I have no idea what you mean.
[08:14] Saphir
    Vixen.
[08:16] Sluder
    An army of monsters is already drawing close.
[08:19] Sluder
    Please refrain from acting on your own.
[08:22] Oracle
    However, this will prove most troubling, yes?
[08:26] King
    Oh, ohh!
[08:29] King
    She handed the ring over to the Ring King
    just as you predicted she would!
[08:34] King
    Then that means even greater
    disaster will befall our nation?!
[08:40] King
    Ring King!
[08:41] King
    If only you had never come here!
[08:44] Satou
    Huh?! Me?!
[08:54] Oracle
    My, my, any more than this
    will risk your health.
[08:58] Oracle
    Let's get you some rest over there.
[09:00] King
    Ring King!
[09:04] Satou
    Was that suspicious woman your mother, Saphir?
[09:08] Saphir
    Of course not!
[09:09] Saphir
    That woman is the palace's oracle.
[09:13] Saphir
    At some point, my father
    became completely reliant on her,
[09:16] Saphir
    and now he's like that.
[09:19] Saphir
    My father used to be heralded
    as a wise king, too.
[09:27] Saphira
    Sister!
[09:28] Saphira
    Why?
[09:30] Saphira
    I thought we swore we'd decide together
[09:33] Saphira
    which of us would fulfill
    the duty of the ring princess?
[09:36] Saphir
    I'm sorry.
[09:38] Saphir
    I've decided for us.
[09:40] Saphira
    No way!
[09:43] Satou
    If she's calling you sister, then...?
[09:46] Saphir
    Yes, this is my twin little sister, Saphira.
[09:51] Satou
    Twin princesses?!
[09:54] Saphira
    Why would you, Sister?
[09:58] Saphira
    How could you wed such a plain-looking man?!
[10:01] Satou
    Gah!
[10:03] Saphira
    You could have bound yourself
    to a much lovelier gentleman.
[10:09] Saphira
    Ah, did you do this to protect me?!
[10:11] Saphira
    How cruel!
[10:12] Saphira
    Fate truly is a cruel thing!
[10:15] Granart
    I beg your pardon, Saphira-dono.
[10:18] Granart
    Satou is the man who
    defeated me, the Fire Princess.
[10:23] Granart
    I know he may not seem very
    reliable as a warrior, but still...
[10:28] Satou
    I thought you were trying to help me!
[10:30] Nef
    Uh...
[10:31] Nef
    As an elf, I don't really
    understand human aesthetics,
[10:35] Nef
    so I couldn't comment on his looks...
[10:37] Satou
    You, too, Nefritis?!
[10:39] Hime
    Satou's...
[10:40] Hime
    Satou's...
[10:42] Hime
    Satou's very cool!
[10:45] Satou
    Thank you, Hime!
[10:48] Saphir
    Regardless.
[10:49] Satou
    She's not listening!
[10:50] Saphir
    Now you won't have to marry
    the Ring King, Saphira.
[10:55] Saphir
    So it's nothing for you to worry about.
[10:58] Saphira
    Sister...
[11:02] Marse
    Princess Saphira!
[11:09] Hime
    Huh? What's this?
[11:11] Hime
    There's a strange tension here!
[11:13] Marse
    I know anything I say may sound like
    an excuse after everything that's happened,
[11:19] Marse
    but I haven't forgotten
    the promise I made to you!
[11:25] Saphira
    I don't even
[11:27] Saphira
    want to hear your voice anymore.
[11:31] Marse
    Princess Saphira!
[11:35] Saphir
    You're still as good-for-nothing
    as ever, Marse.
[11:43] Satou
    Marse-san has always wanted
    to come to this land, but is that...
[11:48] Saphir
    That man and Saphira had sworn
    their love for each other.
[11:52] Satou
    Huh?
SIGN    A love drama...?!
[11:54] Saphir
    Did he not tell you anything about that?
[11:57] Saphir
    That sounds just like something
    that man would do.
[12:01] Saphir
    Then, I suppose I'll tell you.
[12:03] Saphir
    I'll tell you all about the relationship
[12:05] Saphir
    between our land of Maasa
    and his empire, Gisaras.
[12:13] Saphir
    Long ago, the Gisaras Empire wasn't
    satisfied with just their human territories.
[12:18] Saphir
    So they launched an invasion
    into this land, Maasa, the Land of Water.
[12:25] Saphir
    However, it was hardly even a skirmish,
[12:27] Saphir
    and once the Empire
    realized it couldn't touch us,
[12:29] Saphir
    they turned to diplomacy.
[12:34] (Flashback) Marse
    I am Marmarugias Gisaras,
    second prince of the Gisaras Empire.
[12:38] (Flashback) Marse
    It is my hope to learn from
    the wisdom and history of Maasa,
[12:40] (Flashback) Marse
    and that I may help foster friendship
    between our nations.
[12:51] Saphir
    It didn't take long for the two
    of them to grow close.
[12:59] Saphir
    Their feelings for each other were true.
[13:02] Saphir
    At least, it seemed that way to me.
[13:04] Saphir
    Even if Marse was tasked with a secret mission.
[13:09] (Flashback) Saphira
    Please, just take me away from here!
[13:12] Saphir
    Marse's duty
[13:14] Saphir
    was to inform the Empire
    of the inner workings of Maasa.
[13:18] (Flashback) Marse
    I want you to wait for now.
[13:21] Saphir
    However, he never did that.
[13:25] (Flashback) Marse
    I promise I'll come for you one day!
[13:27] (Flashback) Saphira
    Marse-sama,
[13:30] (Flashback) Saphira
    I believe in you.
[13:33] Saphir
    Still, the Empire wasn't just going to
    ignore his dereliction of duty.
[13:38] Saphir
    Marse was summoned back to the Empire,
[13:40] Saphir
    and then several months later...
[13:44] Marse
    I'm going to become the Ring King,
    by order of the Emperor.
[13:48] Marse
    With this, I'll finally be able
    to come for you.
[13:54] Saphir
    Even if our duty to the Ring King
    is a warped reason for marriage,
[13:57] Saphir
    it would still allow her
    to marry the one she loved.
[14:01] Saphir
    We were both born to be Ring Princesses,
[14:04] Saphir
    so that was a stroke of fortune we
    were never even allowed to dream of.
[14:10] Saphir
    However...
[14:12] Saphir
    Prince Marse abandoned the role of Ring King!
[14:17] Saphir
    He entrusted the rings to some unknown
    man who appeared from another world.
[14:23] Saphir
    That man...
[14:25] Saphir
    abandoned his vow to Saphira!
[14:29] Marse
    Princess Saphira!
[14:31] Marse
    Please listen to me just once more!
[14:33] Marse
    My feelings haven't changed since that day!
[14:36] Marse
    My heart is still with you, where I left it!
[14:40] Saphira
    Then why?!
[14:42] Saphira
    Why didn't you become the Ring King?!
[14:49] Marse
    Because...
[14:50] Marse
    I felt...
[14:53] Marse
    that I wasn't worthy to.
[14:57] Saphira
    I have no idea what's going on
    in your mind anymore.
[15:10] Saphir
    Shortly after that...
[15:12] Saphir
    that Oracle appeared.
[15:16] Saphir
    At first, nobody believed her.
[15:19] Saphir
    Not until her predictions
    actually started coming true.
[15:24] Saphir
    That Oracle's predictions
    proved useful in driving off monsters.
[15:29] Saphir
    So my father, the king,
    placed her at his side...
[15:33] Saphir
    and you saw the state he's in now.
[15:36] Satou
    Do you think that Oracle
    was sent by the Empire?
[15:40] Saphir
    There has to be some connection there.
[15:42] Saphir
    That's what I believe,
[15:44] Saphir
    and it's why I want to catch
    that vixen by her tail.
[15:50] Oracle
    Damn Saphir!
[15:52] Oracle
    She really got me this time.
[15:55] Oracle
    Go assassinate the Ring King
    and take the rings!
[15:58] Oracle
    This is all for our great ruler!
[16:01] Assassin
    Yes!
[16:09] Satou
    H-Hmm?
[16:13] Assassin
    I'm so jealous.
[16:15] Assassin
    Has he no shame?
[16:17] Assassin
    No, wait...
[16:18] Assassin
    Isn't one of them missing? That cat person?
[16:23] Granart
    You actually came to attack him in his sleep.
[16:26] Granart
    That Water Princess is quite sharp.
[16:30] Granart
    No horns?
[16:31] Granart
    Plain humans, then?
[16:43] Granart
    Does this mean they really
    are servants of the Empire?
[16:47] Satou
    Assassins?!
[16:49] Granart
    Yeah.
[16:50] Satou
    Huh... So those really do exist.
[17:08] Satou
    By the way, where are we heading?
[17:11] Saphir
    The sunbathing area.
[17:17] Alabaster
    The dragonfolk struggle with heat regulation,
[17:20] Alabaster
    and when their body temperature gets too low,
    it causes their movements to grow sluggish.
[17:25] Satou
    I see...
[17:26] Satou
    So that's why they go sunbathing after
    waking to warm themselves up.
[17:31] Granart
    And if they get too hot,
[17:33] Granart
    they just cool off with water.
[17:36] Satou
    You aren't going to go play with the others?
[17:39] Granart
    I'm fine.
[17:41] Granart
    More importantly...
[17:43] Granart
    I know I said you weren't
    reliable as a warrior,
[17:46] Granart
    but your body...
[17:48] Granart
    certainly makes me want to
    make babies with you, Satou.
[17:51] Granart
    How about sometime tonight?
[17:54] Satou
    Wait, hey! There's an order!
[17:57] Granart
    That's just what Princess Krystal says, right?
[18:00] Hime
    Hey! What are you doing over there?!
[18:02] Hime
    I'm first in line, okay?!
[18:04] Granart
    Your love is weak if all you do is wait!
[18:07] Granart
    My love for Satou is strong!
[18:14] Nefritis
    I don't care which turn I get, you know.
[18:16] Granart
    Meow?!
[18:17] Hime
    Hey!
[18:19] Saphir
    You're all fools through and through!
[18:24] Satou
    S-Saphir, what kind of swimsuit is that?!
SIGN    Stretch
SIGN    Strain
[18:28] Saphir
    This is my garden.
[18:30] Saphir
    I usually enjoy it in the nude,
    but I wore this for your sake.
[18:34] Saphir
    Setting that aside, you girls...
[18:36] Saphir
    If you're so concerned with order,
[18:39] Saphir
    then why not decide it with a contest?
[18:41] Saphir
    For example,
[18:42] Saphir
    how about whoever swims over
    to that the fastest wins?
[18:46] Granart
    What?!
[18:47] Hime
    There!
[18:48] Granart
    Meow!
[18:50] Hime
    Do you hate water?
[18:55] Hime
    Take that! And that, and that!
[18:55] Saphir
    You really are all fools.
[18:57] Granart
    Stop it!
[18:58] Nef
    Umm... Me, too.
[18:58] Granart
    I hate getting water in them!
[19:00] Granart
    Jeez!
[19:02] Saphir
    By the way, Satou,
[19:04] Saphir
    that Oracle won't have given up yet.
[19:07] Saphir
    Remember to stay wary
[19:09] Saphir
    while pretending to let
    your guard down like this.
[19:12] Satou
    We were pretending?
[19:15] Saphir
    Don't miss our chance to catch her tail.
[19:28] Satou
    Marse-san.
[19:30] Satou
    Sounds like it's been rough.
[19:33] Marse
    Same to you.
[19:36] Marse
    It's half my fault that Maasa
    has ended up in this state.
[19:41] Marse
    I do feel sorry about that.
[19:45] Satou
    Marse-san, why did you let me
    claim the role of Ring King?
[19:50] Satou
    If you hadn't...
[19:52] Satou
    you would have married Saphira-san.
[19:56] Marse
    It was too great a burden for me.
[19:59] Marse
    That's how I felt.
[20:01] Satou
    Is that really all there was to it?
[20:04] Satou
    If you had something
    that important riding on it,
[20:06] Satou
    then you could've taken it from me, right?!
[20:10] Marse
    I saw her face.
[20:13] Marse
    I saw Saphira in Princess Krystal's face.
[20:17] Marse
    It was the same expression, one of a woman
    being reunited with the man she truly loved.
[20:23] Marse
    Knowing how she felt,
[20:25] Marse
    I couldn't get in her way, you know?
[20:29] Marse
    Disregarding someone's feelings
     to push my own agenda...
[20:32] Marse
    I was too weak to do that.
[20:35] Marse
    It's why my father calls me a failure.
[20:39] Marse
    But you were able to throw away
    everything for Princess Krystal.
[20:43] Marse
    The Ring King truly should be a man like you.
[20:52] Marse
    Brother!
[20:54] Marse
    Won't you please reconsider?!
[20:57] Marse
    I thought you promised not to
    meddle with Maasa in the first place?
[21:00] Sluder
    It was the Emperor's decision to
    send reinforcements to the Land of Water.
[21:04] Sluder
    You still haven't been forgiven
    for the crime of disobeying your order
[21:06] Sluder
    to become the Ring King.
[21:08] Sluder
    But you have managed
    to gain the Ring King's trust,
[21:11] Sluder
    and you're doing good work
    reporting his actions to us,
[21:14] Sluder
    which our father views as some small penance.
[21:19] Sluder
    Continue living up to our
    father's expectations, Marse.
[21:22] Sluder
    You have no home
    other than the Gisaras Empire.
[21:40] Marse
    What do you want?
[21:42] Oracle
    Steal the rings, Prince Marse.
[21:46] Marse
    What?
[21:48] Oracle
    This is the will of His Imperial Majesty.
[21:51] Oracle
    He's allowed you to gain
    the trust of the Ring King
[21:54] Oracle
    because he was waiting for this moment.
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    Three days from now, an army
    of monsters will attack Maasa.
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    Use the cover of that battle
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    to kill the Ring King.