E22 - Give a thief enough rope and he'll hang himself.

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[00:02] Philomela
    I...
[00:09] Philomela
    H... Help...
[00:14] Chise
    Philomela!
[00:34] Philomela
    Don't you want to meet
    your mother and father?
[01:10] Philomela
    What...
[01:15] Philomela
    It's grown back.
[01:18] Philomela
    Everything but my fingers.
[01:39] Ruth
    You're leaving, huh?
[01:42] Ruth
    Not that I care what happens to you.
[01:46] Ruth
    But I think you're gonna have a rough time.
[02:11] Lizbeth
    You'll be home again soon...
[02:14] Lizbeth
    Adam.
[03:51] Elias
    Here I go.
[03:59] Alcyone
    I've never known...
[04:02] Alcyone
    why I'm so powerless.
[04:08] Alcyone
    Why I'm unable to hold Lady Philomela's
    shoulders when she's suffering so.
[04:30] (Flashback) Lizbeth
    So you're the artificial fairy Adam made.
[04:35] (Flashback) Alcyone
    Please return me to Lady Philomela.
[04:39] (Flashback) Lizbeth
    Is that your duty?
[04:42] (Flashback) Alcyone
    That's what I was created for.
[04:44] (Flashback) Lizbeth
    Then I'll give you a different duty.
[04:48] (Flashback) Alcyone
    No!
[04:49] (Flashback) Alcyone
    Even if I'm programmed with a
    different duty, I belong to her.
[04:54] (Flashback) Alcyone
    I exist for her.
[04:55] (Flashback) Alcyone
    And I will destroy for her.
[04:58] (Flashback) Lizbeth
    Oh?
[05:08] (Flashback) Lizbeth
    He must have had neither adequate
    materials nor equipment.
[05:12] (Flashback) Lizbeth
    That boy sure is skilled.
[05:14] (Flashback) Lizbeth
    But you're still just
    a cobbled-together artificial fairy.
[05:21] (Flashback) Lizbeth
    A little tinkering ought to fix you up.
[05:35] Alcyone
    My consciousness is fading.
[05:39] Alcyone
    Because of that spell,
[05:44] Alcyone
    I failed to protect her.
[05:49] Elias
    There's another one inside.
[05:52] Elias
    What's this?
[05:54] Alcyone
    We mustn't go there yet.
[06:02] Elias
    You...
[06:04] Alcyone
    What I knew to be true has finally returned.
[06:09] Alcyone
    My truth...
[06:12] Alcyone
    The reason for my existence.
[06:14] Alcyone
    Please, sir mage.
[06:18] Alcyone
    Take me to her.
[06:32] Lizbeth
    I'd finally had a child.
[06:35] Lizbeth
    I was more qualified than
    anyone in the household.
[06:41] Lizbeth
    My father chose me to be his heir.
[06:44] Lizbeth
    I was honored to serve as a Rickenbacker
    the way my ancestors did.
[06:51] (Flashback) Master
    It's about time you adopt.
[06:56] (Flashback) Master
    You're accomplished.
[06:58] (Flashback) Master
    You're going to need someone
    to take your place.
[07:01] (Flashback) Master
    It's fine.
[07:02] (Flashback) Master
    No one in this day and age will require
    the child to be yours by birth.
[07:07] (Flashback) Lizbeth
    Yes, sir.
[07:09] Lizbeth
    For the first time in my life,
     I hesitated in my response to my master.
[07:15] (Flashback) Relatives
    To think she can't bear an heir...
[07:17] (Flashback) Relatives
    The ancestors would be disappointed.
[07:19] (Flashback) Relatives
    She has the talent and the
    competence to be the master,
[07:22] (Flashback) Relatives
    and yet she's a failure.
[07:27] Lizbeth
    It wasn't that I wanted a child of my own.
[07:30] Lizbeth
    But if I couldn't have one,
    my peers wouldn't approve of me.
[07:35] Lizbeth
    They'd say I was inferior.
[07:37] Lizbeth
    That I was flawed for
     having a broken womb.
[07:41] Lizbeth
    I am not inferior.
[07:44] Lizbeth
    I'm not a failure.
[07:59] Lizbeth
    I named my son Adam.
[08:02] (Flashback) Relatives
    Did you hear?
[08:03] (Flashback) Relatives
    The son-in-law suddenly died, apparently.
[08:06] (Flashback) Relatives
    Was he sick?
[08:08] (Flashback) Relatives
    I heard he suffered quite severely.
[08:10] (Flashback) Relatives
    Well, they have a child now.
[08:12] (Flashback) Relatives
    No reason to fret.
[08:17] Lizbeth
    The wet nurse raised my son.
[08:20] Lizbeth
    But he soon began to follow me around.
[08:53] (Flashback) Adam
    Mother, um, where are you headed to?
[08:58] (Flashback) Lizbeth
    Would you like to join me?
[09:01] (Flashback) Adam
    Yes.
[09:05] (Flashback) Lizbeth
    What do you want?
[09:06] (Flashback) Adam
    Oh... nothing.
[09:11] Lizbeth
    Seeing how small and hopeless
    he was, I couldn't help but find him
[09:15] Lizbeth
    irresistibly adorable and
    intensely repulsive.
[09:30] Lizbeth
    This hopeless creature grew
    up the way I'd wished.
[09:54] (Flashback) Adam
    I'm thinking of using that test
    subject for a long-term experiment.
[09:59] (Flashback) Adam
    You can trust me to dispose
    of it when I'm done,
[10:02] (Flashback) Adam
    Mother.
[10:05] Lizbeth
    So I didn't think much of it.
[10:09] Adam
    Mother.
[10:12] (Flashback) Lizbeth
    Adam!
[10:17] (Flashback) Lizbeth
    What nonsense is this?
[10:19] (Flashback) Lizbeth
    Who talked you into this?!
[10:21] Adam
    Beats me.
[10:23] (Flashback) Lizbeth
    It's that girl!
[10:29] Adam
    I searched for him.
[10:31] Adam
    He belongs to me.
[10:37] Adam
    I was told there wasn't so much
    left of him as a speck of dust.
[10:41] Adam
    That after he'd shot himself,
    he collapsed like a pillar of salt.
[10:45] (Flashback) Leánnan sídhe
    Miss Lizbeth.
[10:51] Lizbeth
    Her face was a lot like that creature.
[10:53] Lizbeth
    But she took on an unfamiliar color.
[10:57] (Flashback) Lizbeth
    Are you scared?
[10:59] (Flashback) Lizbeth
    Then...
[11:02] (Flashback) Lizbeth
    Forget about any memories
    that make you miss them!
[11:09] Lizbeth
    I despised her.
[11:11] (Flashback) Philomela
    U-Um...
[11:14] (Flashback) Philomela
    Grandmother.
[11:16] (Flashback) Philomela
    I completed the puzzle.
[11:18] (Flashback) Philomela
    On my own.
[11:21] (Flashback) Lizbeth
    There's nothing impressive about that.
[11:24] (Flashback) Lizbeth
    Don't waste my time with such trite news.
[11:27] (Flashback) Philomela
    I'm sorry.
[11:32] Lizbeth
    Everything about her
    seemed inferior to Adam.
[11:43] Lizbeth
    The same hair.
[11:44] Lizbeth
    Flimsy arms and legs.
[11:47] Lizbeth
    A hesitant voice.
[11:50] Lizbeth
    She's so much like him.
[11:58] Lizbeth
    And yet, this isn't it.
[11:59] Lizbeth
    This isn't it...
[12:01] Lizbeth
    This isn't what I want!
[12:18] Chise
    Philomela...
[12:34] (Flashback) Chise
    It's not an order.
[12:36] (Flashback) Chise
    It's a request, I guess.
[12:37] (Flashback) Chise
    Want to make some together sometime?
[12:39] (Flashback) Rian
    I'm asking about what you want!
[12:42] Philomela
    Stop it!
[12:43] (Flashback) Isaac
    You're amazing, Philomela.
[12:44] (Flashback) Chise
    But even if you make a mistake or
    you fail, you can always try again.
[12:48] (Flashback) Lucy
    Do something and say whatever you want!
[12:52] Philomela
    Stop!
[12:54] Philomela
    Please!
[12:58] (Flashback) Lizbeth
    Greedy child.
[13:10] Lizbeth
    I must sacrifice the magic power that's been
    gathered to summon the depicted divinity.
[13:17] Lizbeth
    And to that end...
[13:22] Lizbeth
    I need you, Philomela.
[13:34] Lucy
    I feel gross.
[13:37] Isaac
    Something's slimy.
[13:40] Chise
    Are you all right?
[13:42] Lucy
    Chise.
[13:43] Lucy
    Are you all right?
[13:45] Chise
    Yeah.
[13:47] Lucy
    What is this?
[13:49] Lucy
    What happened here?
[13:50] Chise
    She's been absorbing magic power, I think.
[13:54] Chise
    Philomela lost control and
    consumed our entire bodies.
[13:58] Chise
    We were disassembled for a moment.
[14:00] Isaac & Lucy
    Disassembled...
[14:02] Chise
    W-Well, we were able to find all
    of our own pieces by ourselves.
[14:08] Chise
    That's how we got back.
[14:09] Isaac
    We were re-materialized?
[14:12] Chise
    I think so.
[14:13] Lucy
    I'm dry now, but it's still all over me.
[14:16] Chise
    I'm going to go look for Philomela.
[14:18] Chise
    The two of you...
[14:19] Lucy
    "Stay put because it's dangerous?"
[14:22] Lucy
    I still haven't gotten an answer out of her.
[14:26] Isaac
    You're right.
[14:28] Isaac
    We were interrupted last time.
[14:32] Chise
    All right.
[14:33] Chise
    Let's go ask her properly this time, then.
[14:37] Lizbeth
    Today, my son, your father, comes home.
[14:43] Lizbeth
    With the magic power you've gathered.
[14:46] Lizbeth
    With the blood running through your veins.
[14:49] Lizbeth
    He's coming home.
[14:51] Lizbeth
    I could bring your mother
    back too, you know.
[14:57] Lizbeth
    Now, I've prepared everything.
[15:00] Lizbeth
    Come.
[15:01] Lizbeth
    Come, Philomela.
[15:09] Philomela
    I have no freedom.
[15:13] Philomela
    I don't need a will of my own.
[15:16] Philomela
    Nothing I do matters.
[15:20] Philomela
    I'm not allowed anything.
[15:28] Philomela
    But...
[15:32] Philomela
    But... But...
[15:35] (Flashback) Chise
    What did you want to do, Philomela?
[15:40] Philomela
    Is all of that really true?
[15:51] Philomela
    Are you really going to grant my wish
    and bring back my mother and father?
[16:03] Lucy
    Hey, do you know where she is?
[16:06] Chise
    Yeah.
[16:07] Chise
    I can follow it now.
[16:09] Chise
    I can follow the scent of her soul.
[16:18] Lizbeth
    Guards.
[16:23] Lizbeth
    Your wishes don't matter to me.
[16:27] Lizbeth
    I need proof that he existed.
[16:31] Lizbeth
    I'm not adequate on my own.
[16:33] Lizbeth
    I need an iron clamp to hold him here.
[16:38] Lizbeth
    I have you, his daughter, to be a sacrifice.
[16:44] Philomela
    A sacrifice...
[16:46] Lizbeth
    You were a good girl.
[16:49] Lizbeth
    You did as you were told.
[16:52] Lizbeth
    You focused on gathering magic
    power from many people.
[16:56] Lizbeth
    You didn't even try to find out how
    I was going to use that power.
[17:04] Lizbeth
    You faithfully, almost foolishly,
    carried out your task.
[17:10] Lizbeth
    You truly are such a good girl.
[17:21] Philomela
    I didn't even want to think...
[17:25] Philomela
    about why I couldn't remember
    Mother and Father.
[17:32] Philomela
    She must have deemed it unnecessary for me.
[17:39] Philomela
    That's the kind of person she is.
[17:52] Lizbeth
    Here, now, is what is needed
    to summon the master.
[18:00] Philomela
    It was all pointless.
[18:01] Philomela
    All of it.
[18:14] Philomela
    Everything I've done until now
    was so that I would die.
[18:21] Philomela
    Even though I'm the only
    one who carries her blood.
[18:28] Philomela
    I wanted to be loved.
[18:30] Philomela
    I wanted approval.
[18:34] Philomela
    That's all I wanted.
[18:39] Philomela
    I held hope, I was disappointed,
     I gave up, and I submitted.
[18:46] Philomela
    And then part of me held hope again.
[18:49] Philomela
    But it was for nothing.
[18:51] Philomela
    I have no one.
[18:57] Chise
    Do you want to go on?
[18:58] Chise
    Or do you not?
[19:00] Chise
    I'll help until you decide.
[19:06] Chise
    Philomela!
[19:12] Lizbeth
    Guards.
[19:14] Chise
    Elias! Ruth!
[19:19] Lizbeth
    You can't stop me.
[19:21] Lizbeth
    The price has already been paid.
[19:23] Chise
    Philomela!
[19:25] Chise
    If it's your wish, we can't stop it.
[19:29] Chise
    What do you want to happen to you?
[19:32] Lucy
    Whatever!
[19:33] Lucy
    Just finish what you were about to say!
[19:37] Isaac
    That's why we're here, Philomela.
[19:44] (Flashback) Joshua
    Who's she again?
[19:45] (Flashback) Veronica
    You're good at this kind of thing.
[19:46] (Flashback) Lizbeth
    She has no desires.
[19:52] Philomela
    I have no one.
[19:56] (Flashback) Rian
    You're such a good teacher.
[19:59] (Flashback) Lucy
    You don't look fine at all.
[20:00] (Flashback) Isaac
    But you're allowed to speak up now.
[20:02] (Flashback) Isaac
    Say what you want.
[20:03] Chise
    Friends and enemies walk
    amongst each other.
[20:03] Isaac
    What you want others to do for you.
[20:05] Chise
    and all you can do is to
    shout for what you want.
[20:07] (Flashback) Lucy
    What exactly do you want?
[20:08] (Flashback) Lucy
    What's your wish?
[20:12] Philomela
    If I may wish...
[20:23] Philomela
    Help me!
[20:31] Elias
    You ought not be so quick
    to touch that thing.
[20:34] Elias
    It absorbs everything.
[20:36] Chise
    What do we do, then?!
[20:38] Lucy
    Chise, you used your magic
    to solve that puzzle.
[20:41] Lucy
    That puzzle had all kinds
    of sorcery cast on it.
[20:44] Lucy
    With just one magic!
[20:46] Chise
    Isaac, can I use that tool from earlier?
[20:50] Isaac
    Uh, yeah!
[20:52] Isaac
    Hold the image of what
    you want in your mind!
[20:56] Chise
    A staff won't do.
[20:58] Chise
    I need something stronger, sharper...
[21:04] Elias
    Go, get it done.
[21:07] Chise
    Coffin lock, I am your iron stake.
[21:12] Chise
    By the howls of the beasts of the underworld,
[21:14] Chise
    you burn away into the fields, and
    I place my hand on the coffin!
[21:40] Lizbeth
    That circle was meant to summon a deity...
[21:43] Lizbeth
    How could it have been
    stopped by mere magic?
[21:56] Chise
    Sorry to keep you waiting, Philomela.
[22:01] Philomela
    You're the ones who
    helped me gather myself.
[22:10] Philomela
    Chise...
[22:13] Philomela
    I never realized I've always
    wanted someone to help me.