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...