E23 - Of two evils choose the less.

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[00:03] Zaccheroni
    This kid won't be getting up for a while.
[00:06] Zaccheroni
    Well, then...
[00:07] Zaccheroni
    I guess I should get to work.
[00:15] Zaccheroni
    What, are you here for me?
[00:18] Zaccheroni
    Or...
[01:57] Philomela
    Are you really going to help me?
[02:00] Chise
    Yeah.
[02:01] Philomela
    Really?
[02:03] Chise
    Yeah.
[02:10] Alcyone
    She's all right.
[02:16] Philomela
    Alcyone...
[02:18] Alcyone
    Lady Philomela...
[02:23] Alcyone
    Lady Philomela.
[02:28] Lizbeth
    Why...
[02:33] Lizbeth
    Why do you interfere when you know nothing?!
[02:38] Chise
    She's the same as Philomela.
[02:39] Elias
    Must be the magic book's influence.
[02:43] Elias
    She's being dragged in by the thing
    inside that's trying to get out.
[02:49] Chise
    How? We broke the circle.
[02:52] Elias
    The circle's just an opportunity.
[02:54] Elias
    It's merely an aid. It's not that important.
[02:56] Elias
    Magic and sorcery is all up to
     the will of the living in the end.
[03:01] Lizbeth
    You have no business here!
[03:04] Lizbeth
    Why do you involve yourself?
[03:06] Lizbeth
    What does it matter to you what happens
    to her, or to me, or to this house?!
[03:15] Chise
    Philomela is a good person.
[03:18] Chise
    She thanked me when I was being nosy.
[03:23] Chise
    She even gave me advice.
[03:25] Chise
    There are plenty of people like that.
[03:28] Chise
    Hiding, suffering, dying...
[03:32] Chise
    But I don't want to pretend I don't see when
    she's right there where I can reach her.
[03:38] Chise
    What you're trying to do makes sense to you.
[03:44] Chise
    But not to me.
[03:47] Chise
    And if Philomela's going to
    be consumed for your sake...
[03:51] Chise
    I'll stop you!
[03:53] Lizbeth
    You don't even have something
    you'd be willing to pay any price for!
[03:58] Elias
    Get back!
[04:04] Lizbeth
    He was my only one...
[04:06] Lizbeth
    He was my lovely, disgusting, only one...
[04:12] Lizbeth
    And he was taken from me!
[04:15] Lizbeth
    Taken!
[04:20] Lizbeth
    What's taken from me must be taken back!
[04:35] Chise
    The werewolf!
[04:36] Lizbeth
    You've returned to your senses?!
[04:39] Werewolf
    Wretched witch!
[04:40] Werewolf
    My god has freed me from your shackles!
[04:44] Werewolf
    You're the one that will face
     a trial of lightning and ice!
[04:49] Lizbeth
    Your children aren't here.
[04:51] Lizbeth
    The only child to be here is mine.
[04:55] Lizbeth
    Your children are nowhere in this world.
[04:59] Werewolf
    You lie!
[05:01] Werewolf
    Who would believe what a witch has to say?!
[05:04] Werewolf
    You're hiding...
[05:07] Werewolf
    You're hiding my children!
[05:16] Alcyone
    Pitiful woman...
[05:18] Alcyone
    Forgive me.
[05:20] Alcyone
    I cannot allow you to break it, either.
[05:47] (Flashback) Adam
    Alcyone, I'm going to have
    you be Philomela's shield.
[05:53] (Flashback) Adam
    When you're destroyed out of malice,
    that will become the trigger.
[05:59] (Flashback) Adam
    So please, do all you can to protect her.
[06:06] Elias
    So that's the other thing that
    was attached to the core.
[06:11] Lizbeth
    You!
[06:12] Adam
    "Let's make sure I never see you again."
[06:16] Adam
    Or at least, that was his
    wish, but here we are.
[06:22] Adam
    You've done your duty, Alcyone.
[06:26] Adam
    It must have been difficult.
[06:29] Alcyone
    No...
[06:31] Alcyone
    No, Master.
[06:33] Alcyone
    This was my duty.
[06:37] Adam
    Then it's time I carry out my duty, too.
[06:47] Philomela
    Alcyone...
[06:49] Alcyone
    Lady Philomela...
[06:52] Alcyone
    I must be leaving now.
[06:56] Philomela
    Why did you...
[06:59] Philomela
    You weren't like this before.
[07:02] Philomela
    But now, you...
[07:06] Alcyone
    I remembered that I was created for you.
[07:14] Alcyone
    You were supposed to be my purpose.
[07:18] Alcyone
    And yet, I could not protect you.
[07:25] Alcyone
    I apologize for my failure.
[07:31] Philomela
    No!
[07:32] Philomela
    No—
[07:33] Alcyone
    Please have my memories as reparation.
[07:39] Alcyone
    Lady Iris had instructed me to keep records.
[07:45] Alcyone
    Although I don't know the difference
    between a record and a memory,
[07:49] Alcyone
    I hope it is of use to you.
[07:54] Philomela
    Alcyone—
[08:18] Alcyone
    Now, even without me here,
    you'll be all right.
[08:39] Philomela
    But since they're your records...
[08:41] Philomela
    You're not in them...
[08:58] Philomela
    Father?
[09:00] Lizbeth
    Is it you, Adam?
[09:03] Chise
    Philomela's father?
[09:05] Chise
    I thought you were dead.
[09:07] Adam
    I'm me, and not Adam.
[09:11] Adam
    Adam was really hoping it wouldn't be you.
[09:14] Adam
    That you wouldn't be the one to destroy
    your granddaughter's guardian.
[09:21] Adam
    But it all turned out as he'd predicted.
[09:24] Lizbeth
    I have no need of you if you aren't him!
[09:30] Adam
    I'm a curse. A facsimile of
    Adam's memories and shape.
[09:34] Adam
    The shadow of the deceased,
    imbued with memories.
[09:37] Adam
    You could say I'm a program.
[09:39] Adam
    That won't reach me.
[09:42] Adam
    But I can reach you.
[09:46] Adam
    You, Lizbeth Sargant.
[09:54] Lizbeth
    What is this?
[09:56] Adam
    Adam's final act of spite.
[09:59] Adam
    Adam snuck a curse within Alcyone
    that would retaliate against
[10:04] Adam
    whoever destroyed her
    and threatened Philomela.
[10:08] Adam
    In other words...
[10:10] Adam
    My duty is to destroy you.
[10:15] Lucy
    Hold it.
[10:17] Isaac
    Lucy!
[10:18] Lucy
    She still has a lot she needs to tell me.
[10:21] Adam
    Would this not satisfy your
    need for revenge as well?
[10:25] Lucy
    If I wanted her dead,
    I would kill her myself.
[10:28] Lucy
    But I haven't even had a chance
    to hear an explanation.
[10:31] Lucy
    I won't stand for her dying just
    so she can get off the hook.
[10:37] Lucy
    She's mine. You can't have her.
[10:41] Adam
    What an unusually
    straightforward girl for your time.
[10:44] Adam
    You've made good friends, Philomela.
[10:47] Lucy
    F-Friends?!
[10:49] Philomela
    Father...
[10:51] Adam
    I won't hand her to you, though.
[10:53] Adam
    Your hatred is irrelevant to Adam.
[10:57] Adam
    I'm made of Adam's hatred.
[10:59] Adam
    She's certainly not yours.
[11:10] Chise
    The shouting...
[11:16] Elias
    Don't touch that!
[11:17] Elias
    It'll take more than just your magic power.
[11:27] Adam
    Give—
[11:28] Werewolf
    Give her back!
[11:29] Werewolf
    That woman is my prey!
[11:42] Morrigan
    If a parent's duty is to love and to hold
    dear, so too is it to tease the child.
[11:51] Morrigan
    Is it also, then, the child's
    duty to drag down the parent?
[11:59] Morrigan
    Bitch of the wastelands.
    A heroic, vile mother.
[12:04] Morrigan
    A splendid display of reckless valor.
[12:07] Werewolf
    You have my gratitude,
    god howling in the twilight.
[12:13] Chise
    Goddess... Morrígan.
[12:23] Chise
    Why are you here?
[12:25] Morrigan
    The war hasn't ended yet, has it?
[12:28] Morrigan
    Should there be a mother and son steeping
    their souls in revenge of days long past,
[12:34] Morrigan
    that land is mine to have and mine to rule.
[12:42] Morrigan
    I see you've crawled out of your roost.
[12:44] Morrigan
    Such arrogance.
[12:46] Morrigan
    You, who defiles my grounds, foreign
    god drifting between time and place...
[12:53] Morrigan
    This here is my territory.
[12:55] Morrigan
    My shores.
[12:57] Morrigan
    I bring you a prophecy of doom.
[13:01] Elias
    Well, it's decided to show up.
[13:03] Chise
    Elias, what is that?
[13:04] Elias
    What you would call a god, in a sense.
[13:08] Isaac
    This?
[13:09] Lucy
    A god?
[13:11] Elias
    Not a complete one, though.
[13:13] Elias
    It hasn't been given a name
    the way Morrígan has.
[13:17] Elias
    It must have come out from
    having swallowed that woman.
[13:21] Morrigan
    What a fool.
[13:31] Morrigan
    You, hex who exists for just one man...
[13:34] Morrigan
    Your duty has yet to be
    fulfilled, you must be aware.
[13:39] Adam
    Yes, that's right.
[13:41] Adam
    You're correct.
[13:42] Morrigan
    Then become my claw.
[13:45] Morrigan
    Become the accursed spear
    that slaughters that beast.
[13:55] Philomela
    Fath—
[13:58] Adam
    You shouldn't use such a word for me.
[14:06] Morrigan
    To think I have two opportunities to
    swing my spear in just one festival...
[14:11] Morrigan
    'Tis a good day!
[14:14] Morrigan
    My maiden...
[14:17] Morrigan
    Though I was given a name,
    I am now but a forgotten shadow.
[14:23] Morrigan
    I cannot myself be their end.
[14:38] Morrigan
    With so many branches, it wouldn't be
    strategic to call upon my soldiers.
[14:46] Morrigan
    Not as easy as that boy, is it?
[14:53] Lucy
    Hey!
[14:54] Ruth
    You guys need a hand, don't you?
[14:57] Lucy
    Chise, why are you grinning?
[15:02] Elias
    She must be under the
    influence of the goddess.
[15:05] Morrigan
    I was in need of a hunting
    dog to chase down the game.
[15:11] Morrigan
    Clever dog, jump and bark
    to your heart's content.
[15:15] Ruth
    That's it?
[15:16] Ruth
    Distract it and earn some time.
[15:40] Isaac
    Is she going to deal with it?
[15:43] Chise
    I don't know.
[15:44] Chise
    But...
[15:45] Elias
    It doesn't look like she's trying to end it.
[15:48] Lucy
    After all that bluster?
[15:50] Philomela
    It's absorbing magic power.
[15:53] Philomela
    It might be dangerous, even for a deity.
[16:00] Isaac
    It noticed us!
[16:03] Lucy
    Isaac!
[16:05] Isaac
    Philomela!
[16:14] Chise
    Philomela, are you all right?
[16:18] Chise
    Lucy!
[16:24] Elias
    Get inside me!
[16:28] Lucy
    Let me go, damn it!
[16:30] Werewolf
    No.
[16:30] Werewolf
    Touch it, and this happens.
[16:33] Werewolf
    Stay here.
[16:35] Lucy
    Do you think you're making things right?
[16:38] Werewolf
    You're a mere child.
[16:41] Werewolf
    Children must live.
[16:43] Lucy
    You seem lucid right now.
[16:46] Werewolf
    Don't talk!
[16:47] Werewolf
    You'll bite your tongue!
[16:49] Lucy
    Why did you attack my home?
[16:52] Werewolf
    I don't know.
[16:53] Werewolf
    But it must have something
    to do with that book.
[16:57] Werewolf
    Before she was ordered to make the kill,
[17:00] Werewolf
    that woman handed the book to
    a man who reeked of spiders.
[17:04] Lucy
    Do you mean she was our client?!
[17:08] Isaac
    Not again!
[17:10] Werewolf
    Hold on to me!
[17:16] Elias
    There's no end in sight.
[17:19] Elias
    What is the goddess doing, playing around?
[17:22] (Flashback) Morrigan
    Though I was given a name,
    I am now but a forgotten shadow.
[17:27] (Flashback) Morrigan
    I cannot myself be their end.
[17:31] Chise
    Maybe we have to be the ones to end it.
[17:36] Philomela
    We do?
[17:39] Elias
    I see.
[17:40] Elias
    If it was a human that summoned that thing,
    it has to be a human that sends it away.
[17:46] Chise
    But how?
[17:48] Philomela
    It was summoned through the magic book.
[17:51] Philomela
    So we should probably use the magic book.
[17:54] Elias
    That should be right.
[17:55] Chise
    Where's the book right now, then?
[17:59] Philomela
    In there.
[18:01] Philomela
    Swallowed along with my grandmother.
[18:04] Philomela
    Chise, nothing happened
    to me when it touched me.
[18:10] Philomela
    I must still be recognized
    as the book's user.
[18:16] Philomela
    So I might be able to get the book back.
[18:21] Chise
    That's—
[18:23] Lucy
    Absolutely not!
[18:26] Chise
    L-Lucy. Isaac.
[18:28] Chise
    You were listening?
[18:30] Isaac
    She's distracting it right now.
[18:34] Lucy
    Look at your flimsy limbs.
[18:37] Lucy
    It might not absorb your
    magic power, but at best,
[18:39] Lucy
    it'll knock you around or impale you.
[18:41] Lucy
    You're a moron.
[18:43] Philomela
    But...
[18:45] Lucy
    We just need that magic book back, right?
[18:48] Lucy
    Listen, you're the only one here
    who can deal with that book.
[18:54] Lucy
    Our top priority is to get that
    book back without losing you.
[19:01] Isaac
    I agree with that.
[19:03] Isaac
    Philomela, is there anything else you need?
[19:07] Philomela
    I need magic power to control it.
[19:10] Chise
    Use me, then.
[19:13] Lucy
    What?
[19:16] Elias
    Chise, you...
[19:19] Chise
    This is the best course of action.
[19:22] Chise
    It's my own decision.
[19:24] Isaac
    In that case, you can use mine, too.
[19:29] Lucy
    As long as you aren't just taking
    it from me without telling me.
[19:32] Isaac
    But how do we reach the book?
[19:35] Chise
    Distracting it seems to work.
[19:39] Isaac
    Not with our legs, though.
[19:41] Isaac
    We'll be mummies in no time.
[19:46] Elias
    What?
[19:48] Ruth
    Goddess, there's no end to this!
[19:50] Morrigan
    I'm growing bored of dancing.
[19:53] Morrigan
    I thought the human children might move...
[19:56] Morrigan
    But we're out of time.
[20:03] Elias
    You really aren't shy about making
    demands of me anymore, Chise.
[20:08] Chise
    There's a phrase in Japanese that means,
[20:11] Chise
    "Even if it's your parents who are
    standing around, put them to work."
[20:14] Elias
    Sheesh.
[20:17] Lucy
    This way!
[20:22] Chise
    Philomela, do you know where that book is?
[20:30] Philomela
    Inside the big eyeball!
[20:36] Philomela
    King of the east, hauling the storms...
[20:39] Philomela
    By your hands, deafen the tyrants.
[20:43] Philomela
    By your crown, blind the eyes of the vile.
[20:48] Philomela
    By your breath, send beyond
    the fog your raised child.
[21:01] Philomela
    Here!
[21:02] Philomela
    Morrígan, attack it with your spear here!
[21:06] Morrigan
    I haven't the heart to deny a
    young child such an ardent wish.
[21:12] Morrigan
    You, who walk through the
    discarded carcasses of time...
[21:16] Morrigan
    Time to know the taste of the curse!
[22:05] Philomela
    Magic power...