E8 - The Fairy Sovereign

Source: Crunchyroll
Translator:
Editor:
Timer:
QC:
(Please feel free to edit the speaker names if incomplete or inaccurate. Names are handled on a best-effort basis depending on the info on the source file. Dialogue is left as is.)
[00:02] Noelle
    I'm bored!
[00:03] Noelle
    Bored! Bored! Bored! Bored!
    Bored! Bored! Bored!
[00:06] Noelle
    I'm so bored!
[00:09] Noelle
    Where are the empire's best blades?
[00:11] Noelle
    Where are the dwarven workshops?
[00:13] Noelle
    I want to see a smithy.
    I want to forge a sword.
[00:17] Henriette
    You can give up on that. The town is under
    the strictest of guards right now.
[00:23] Noelle
    Say it isn't so...
[00:25] Henriette
    That aside, there's somewhere you—
[00:29] Lise
    Noelle has begun forging an invisible sword!
[00:32] Noelle
    The best blades. Dwarven workshops.
     The best blades.
[00:35] Lise
    This is dire!
[00:39] Alan
    But, you know...
[00:41] Alan
    I'm the one the Black Wolf Knights
     are after, right?
[00:44] Alan
    If Noelle goes into town alone, it shouldn't
    be too dangerous, should it?
[00:49] Henriette
    That's true enough, but...
[00:51] Alan
    Or do you have some sort of plan for us?
[00:54] Henriette
    N-Nothing in particular.
[00:56] Noelle
    What? It's all right for me to go into town?
[00:59] Henriette
    You might as well.
[01:02] Noelle
    All right!
SIGN    THE BANISHED FORMER HERO
SIGN    THE BANISHED FORMER HERO
    LIVES AS HE PLEASES
SIGN    Episode 8
    The Fairy Sovereign
SIGN    Episode 8
    The Fairy Sovereign
[02:36] Noelle
    An outing! An outing!
[02:45] Noelle
    Myléne, thank you for coming with me.
[02:47] Myléne
    I'm your bodyguard, Noelle.
[02:49] Noelle
    How reassuring!
[03:00] Noelle
    We've still got tons to go see!
[03:02] Myléne
    Yeah!
[03:04] Noelle
    Although...
[03:05] Noelle
    I can't help noticing
     there are a lot of elves here.
[03:08] Noelle
    And does it feel like they're staring at us?
[03:11] Noelle
    Oh, could it be...
[03:13] Noelle
    that I'm just too cute?
[03:16] Noelle
    Oh, what should I do? What if someone
    suddenly comes up to talk to me?
[03:19] Noelle
    What if they ask me to forge
     a sword with them?
[03:22] Noelle
    Am I a popular elf?
[03:24] elf A
    Um...
[03:27] elf A
    Never mind!
[03:31] elf B
    Excuse me.
[03:33] elf C
    May I have a moment?
[03:37] Myléne
    Noelle, this place is dangerous!
[03:39] Noelle
    Wait, Myléne! Let go!
[03:42] Noelle
    I'm exhausted...
[03:45] Myléne
    Did Myléne do a good job?
[03:47] Noelle
    Yes, you did great.
[03:51] Alan
    Sounds like quite an ordeal.
[03:53] Noelle
    It didn't exactly make me feel bad, though.
[03:57] Lise
    Well, you are cute, Noelle.
[03:59] Lise
    It's no wonder the other
    elves wouldn't leave you alone.
[04:02] Noelle
    It's criminal to have so little
    self-awareness, isn't it?
[04:05] Noelle
    From now on, I'll appreciate that
    I'm so highly admired—
[04:07] Henriette
    That's not it at all.
[04:08] Noelle
    That's blunt!
[04:11] Henriette
    Though you're not wrong about them
    taking an interest in you specifically.
[04:15] Noelle
    What's that supposed to mean?
[04:18] Henriette
    Do you want to know more about yourself?
[04:21] Noelle
    Huh? Well...
[04:24] Noelle
    I do want to know, but I
    remember nothing of my past.
[04:29] Henriette
    Then come along.
[04:31] Henriette
    Henriette will show you the way.
[04:33] Noelle
    The way to where?
[04:38] Noelle
    To the Elven Forest.
[04:41] Henriette
    This place looks good.
[04:43] Noelle
    Does it? Where's the forest?
[04:46] Henriette
    Just watch.
[05:07] Henriette
    This is the Elven Forest.
[05:12] Lise
    But we were just at the mansion...
[05:15] Henriette
    We still are.
[05:17] Lise
    What?
[05:18] Henriette
    Just in a slightly different dimension.
[05:20] Lise
    I-I see.
[05:22] Alan
    The Elven Forest was hidden with barrier magic
    because they were wary of outside enemies, right?
[05:28] Henriette
    Exactly.
[05:30] Henriette
    And to keep people from finding out about it,
[05:33] Henriette
    they wipe the memory of anyone who
    leaves the forest, without exception.
[05:36] Henriette
    But Henriette has been granted
    the right to enter the forest.
[05:41] Noelle
    So is that why I don't have
    any of my old memories?
[05:45] Henriette
    It's possible, don't you think?
[05:48] Alan
    I'm surprised, though.
[05:50] Alan
    To think that the elves could construct a
    barrier so powerful that I couldn't sense it...
[05:54] Alan
    Were you involved by any chance, Henriette?
[05:57] Henriette
    W-Well, you know.
    Perhaps a bit here and there.
[06:02] Alan
    I see.
[06:04] Henriette
    Let's hurry along now.
[06:07] Henriette
    The settlement is this way.
[06:19] Lise
    Noelle, is something wrong?
[06:21] Noelle
    Yes, but I don't know how to explain it.
[06:24] Noelle
    I have this sense that this is where I belong.
[06:28] Noelle
    It feels nostalgic somehow.
[06:32] Lise
    I'm sure that the forest where you
    were born was as lovely as this one.
[06:47] Noelle
    Wh-Who are all of you?
[06:49] Alan
    It's all right. They don't seem
    to have any hostile intent.
[06:52] Henriette
    Of course not. After all...
[06:57] Henriette
    their sovereign has returned.
[06:59] Noelle
    S-Sovereign?
[07:01] Percival
    Welcome home, my liege.
[07:05] elves
    Welcome home.
[07:07] Noelle
    Wh-What? Me? You mean me?
[07:11] Percival
    We have awaited your return
    with all our hearts.
[07:16] Alan
    Oh, I get it.
    The eyes of the fairy sovereign.
[07:19] Noelle
    The eyes of the fairy sovereign?
[07:22] Noelle
    That demonic man who
    attacked us mentioned that.
[07:25] Henriette
    The eyes of the fairy sovereign, Grahm Sight,
     are only possessed by the elven royal family.
[07:30] Henriette
    It's a special gift.
[07:32] Noelle
    You're saying... I'm descended from royalty?
[07:37] Henriette
    And the royal bloodline has all but ended.
[07:41] Henriette
    So, to these people, their sovereign is...
[07:43] Noelle
    Me?
[07:46] Percival
    I serve as the sovereign's regent.
     My name is Percival.
[07:49] Percival
    My liege and your honored friends,
     welcome to the Elven Forest.
[07:54] Noelle
    W-W-Wait!
[07:55] Noelle
    You're really putting me on the spot,
    just suddenly treating me like your ruler.
[07:59] Percival
    Indeed. We have no intention
    of rushing your decision.
[08:02] Percival
    Let's begin by having you
    get to know us better.
[08:06] Percival
    Please, right this way.
[08:08] Percival
    I shall show you around the forest.
[08:21] Percival
    This is our settlement.
[08:23] Alan
    Elves are as free and uninhibited
     as I've heard.
[08:27] Myléne
    A nap would be nice.
[08:28] Lise
    Still, I didn't expect
[08:30] Lise
    to see human tools
    and furniture in the Elven Forest.
[08:35] Percival
    Oh, it was Henriette-dono
    who brought those for us and—
[08:38] Henriette
    Percival!
[08:40] Percival
    N-Never mind.
[08:44] Percival
    My liege, what do you think
     of our way of life?
[08:48] Noelle
    I'm not your liege yet.
[08:51] Percival
    My apologies, my liege.
[08:56] demon child A
    My liege!
[08:59] Noelle
    Yes? What is it?
[09:01] demon child A
    Here! A present for you, my liege!
[09:04] demon child B
    We gathered lots of them!
[09:06] Noelle
    Oh, how delightful!
[09:08] Noelle
    I'll take this one and this one.
[09:11] demon child A
    Tomorrow, we'll bring you
    something even more amazing!
[09:14] Noelle
    Okay! I'm looking forward to it.
[09:20] Percival
    Now then, our liege is in
    the middle of an inspection.
[09:23] Percival
    Run along.
[09:24] demon child A; B
    Yes, sir!
[09:28] Percival
    Phillip, that means you, too.
[09:32] Percival
    Honestly. You've been following us this whole
    time trying to get a closer look at our liege.
[09:37] Phillip
    That's because...
[09:38] Percival
    Now, go and play with the other children.
[09:40] Percival
    Our liege is busy.
[09:42] Noelle
    If you'd like to chat a little, I don't mind.
[09:46] Percival
    No. There will be no end to it.
[09:48] Phillip
    But the other kids got to talk to her!
[09:51] Percival
    Phillip.
[09:52] Phillip
    It's no fair! I can't, but they can?
[09:55] Phillip
    They're bad guys!
[09:58] Phillip
    After all, they're—
[10:00] Percival
    Phillip!
[10:07] Percival
    My apologies.
[10:08] Noelle
    What was that just now?
    What did he mean by "bad guys"?
[10:11] Percival
    It's nothing.
[10:12] Percival
    Now, let's proceed.
[10:14] Percival
    Up ahead, there is a beautiful water source.
SIGN    THE BANISHED FORMER HERO
    LIVES AS HE PLEASES
[10:30] Oswald
    Hey, Lizette.
[10:36] Lizette
    That's "Captain" to you, Oswald.
[10:38] Oswald
    I didn't take you for the formal type.
[10:41] Lizette
    Have you found the entrance
    to the Elven Forest?
[10:44] Oswald
    Those elves sure are cagey.
[10:47] Lizette
    When someone like you approaches,
    radiating bloodlust, anyone would run.
[10:54] Oswald
    I don't want to hear that from you,
[10:55] Oswald
    the heinous criminal who broke the worst
     possible taboo in the history of the empire!
[11:00] Lizette
    I suggest refraining from jokes
    no one would find funny.
[11:04] Oswald
    For which one of us?
[11:07] Lizette
    Don't mess this up.
[11:09] Oswald
    I won't. Don't get so hotheaded.
[11:14] Lizette
    And don't complicate the situation.
[11:17] Oswald
    Complicate it?
[11:18] Lizette
    Don't go on a rampage.
[11:20] Oswald
    Yeah, yeah.
[11:38] Percival
    May I have a moment?
[11:39] Alan
    Of course.
[11:42] Percival
    To long-lived folk like us,
[11:44] Percival
    the past decade without a monarch
    has been both short and long.
[11:47] Percival
    Everyone's been so anxious.
[11:48] Alan
    No wonder you all welcomed
    Noelle with open arms.
[11:52] Percival
    We elves cannot be without our ruler.
[11:56] Alan
    You can't?
[11:58] Percival
    We elves serve our monarch, and it is through
    years of such service that we grow.
[12:03] Alan
    So without a sovereign, you stop growing?
[12:07] Percival
    It's not just that.
    We can't even bear children.
[12:11] Percival
    Thus our people face a slow death.
[12:17] Percival
    The one who kindled hope for us...
[12:20] Percival
    was Henriette-dono.
[12:24] (Flashback) Henriette
    There is a lost one whose
     only interest is smithing.
[12:28] (Flashback) Percival
    Really? It's unusual for our kind
    become so taken with smithing.
[12:32] (Flashback) Percival
    How did you meet her?
[12:33] (Flashback) Henriette
    Huh? I haven't m-met her exactly.
[12:37] (Flashback) Henriette
    I just sort of saw her...
    I guess you say I was spying on her.
[12:42] (Flashback) Henriette
    Anyway, she has the eyes
    of the fairy sovereign!
[12:49] Alan
    And that was Noelle?
[12:51] Percival
    Yes.
[12:52] Percival
    And that's not all Henriette-dono
     has provided us with.
[12:57] Percival
    We always avoided contact with other peoples,
[13:00] Percival
    so we'd never enter
    the villages where they dwelt.
[13:03] Percival
    But Henriette-dono brought us goods
     from other cultures as often as she could.
[13:09] Percival
    Thus we who have only known
     life in the forest
[13:12] Percival
    slowly came to understand the outside world.
[13:16] Percival
    Thanks to that, many of us have
    now experienced other cultures
[13:20] Percival
    and freely enter towns outside the forest.
[13:25] Percival
    She never scorns hard work and is
    always laboring for the sake of others.
[13:33] Alan; internal
    So she hasn't changed a bit in this world.
[13:37] Alan
    Was it also Henriette who brought in
     those children we saw earlier?
[13:41] Percival
    Children?
[13:42] Alan
    Yeah, the demon children.
[13:46] Percival
    So you knew.
[13:48] Percival
    I've heard those who are very skilled
    or sensitive can see a demon's aura.
[13:54] Alan
    You don't need to worry.
[13:56] Alan
    I don't hold any particular
    animosity toward demons.
[14:01] Percival
    Really? That's unusual.
[14:04] Alan
    But this has got me curious.
[14:06] Alan
    Why would demons, who are
    so loathed in this world,
[14:09] Alan
    be living together with elves,
     who are so insular?
[14:13] Percival
    About three years ago, Henriette-dono
    suddenly asked it of us.
[14:18] Percival
    She said that she wanted us to shelter
    these kids who had no relatives.
[14:22] Percival
    Of course, most were opposed to it.
[14:25] Percival
    For elves, who do not mingle with other races,
[14:27] Percival
    they said harboring demons was
    completely out of the question.
[14:31] Percival
    But Henriette-dono introduced us to an idea.
[14:35] Percival
    She said that if elves lived
    alongside other races,
[14:37] Percival
    we might be able to grow
    even without a monarch.
[14:41] Percival
    Of course, deep in their hearts,
    many still don't approve of this.
[14:45] Percival
    Even so, little by little, we're trying to change.
[14:58] Lise
    Are you all right?
[15:00] Noelle
    If I look all right to you, Lise, then
    there's something wrong with your eyes.
[15:05] Lise
    Don't say that!
[15:07] Alan
    Well, she has been subject to the
    elves' excessive hospitality all day.
[15:11] Alan
    Good job hanging in there.
[15:12] Noelle
    Seriously! Even if they think of me
    as their ruler, let's be reasonable here!
[15:19] Myléne
    Noelle, are you going
     to become their sovereign?
[15:23] Myléne
    If you do, will you still be able to play?
[15:26] Noelle
    Nothing's been decided yet.
[15:29] Noelle
    I really don't know.
[15:34] Alan
    Well, why don't we go and
    get some rest for today?
[15:37] Lise
    Y-Yes. The elves have prepared this
    comfortable place for us to stay, after all.
[15:42] Alan
    Well then, good night.
[15:45] Lise
    Myléne-san, we should go too.
[15:48] Alan
    You too, Henriette. Good night.
[16:03] Noelle
    What should I do?
[16:07] Noelle
    Vanessa's unfulfilled wish to forge
[16:10] Noelle
    a blade that surpasses a divine sword...
[16:13] Noelle
    I've accomplished that goal.
[16:16] Noelle
    Wait a minute!
[16:19] Noelle
    Then what is my goal right now?
[16:21] Noelle
    What do I want to do?
    What to I want to become?
[16:24] Noelle
    Why am I traveling with Alan and the others?
[16:37] Noelle; internal
    I see.
[16:39] Noelle; internal
    I've come all this way without
    really understanding myself.
[16:56] Henriette
    Alan.
[17:00] Henriette
    That look you gave me earlier...
[17:02] Henriette
    Was that meant to call me to your room?
[17:05] Alan
    That's right.
[17:06] Alan
    I really wanted the two of us to be alone.
[17:08] Henriette
    I-I'm not really familiar
    with this sort of thing.
[17:15] Henriette
    So, um, I hope you'll be
    gentle as you teach me.
[17:25] Alan
    Sure. You can go now.
[17:27] Henriette
    Hey! You don't know how
    to take a hint, do you?!
[17:30] Henriette
    Not jumping on a beautiful girl like me?!
[17:32] Henriette
    There's something wrong
    with you, isn't there?!
[17:35] Alan
    You're not beautiful on the inside, though.
[17:37] Henriette
    Huh?! What'd you just say?!
[17:39] Alan
    Oh, nothing.
[17:43] Henriette
    So, what is it you want to discuss?
[17:47] Alan
    I heard that you asked the elves
    to give the demon children refuge.
[17:51] Henriette
    That blasted Percival.
[17:53] Henriette
    He's supposed to be tight-lipped.
[17:57] Henriette
    All right, fine. There are a few things
    about demons that I haven't told you.
[18:02] Alan
    I'm sure there are.
[18:04] Henriette
    First, demons aren't a
    distinct race or anything.
[18:09] Henriette
    When someone resents other people
     and wishes them all dead,
[18:13] Henriette
    the Will of the World
    recognizes that person as a demon.
[18:18] Henriette
    But there are exceptions.
[18:20] Henriette
    Demon children are born to demon parents.
[18:24] Henriette
    From the moment they enter this world,
[18:27] Henriette
    they are branded and despised as demons.
[18:31] Henriette
    They're made demons through
    no fault of their own.
[18:35] Henriette
    And demons cast their children
    into the poorest conditions.
[18:39] Henriette
    They're forced into a harsh
    struggle for existence.
[18:43] Henriette
    Because those who survive become
    the strongest demons, you see?
[18:47] Alan
    What a horribly vicious cycle.
[18:50] Henriette
    It's nearly impossible for
    children to escape on their own.
[18:53] Alan
    Then what about the kids in the woods?
[18:55] Henriette
    I happened to find them when
    they were about to be killed.
[18:59] Henriette
    I couldn't just leave them, could I?
[19:01] Alan
    I see.
[19:03] Henriette
    What's with that expression?
[19:06] Alan
    I was just thinking how like you that is.
[19:09] Henriette
    I-I didn't ask for your opinion!
[19:23] Lise
    Incredible! There are places like this here?
[19:26] Percival
    The Elven Forest is very vast.
[19:31] Henriette
    Didn't get much sleep?
[19:32] Noelle
    Huh?
[19:34] Henriette
    You shouldn't fret about turning them down.
[19:36] Henriette
    In their own way, they're trying to figure out
     how to live without a monarch.
[19:41] Henriette
    The decision you make should be for you.
[19:45] Noelle
    Yeah. Thanks.
[19:47] demon child A
    My liege!
[19:49] demon child B
    Here! This is for you!
[19:52] demon child A
    It's our treasure! A sparkly stone!
[19:55] Noelle
    It's beautiful! Thank you.
[19:58] Henriette
    Oh, a spirit stone!
[20:00] Noelle
    A spirit stone?
[20:02] Henriette
    It's a crystallization of elven power,
    a precious stone that's used in alchemy.
[20:09] Phillip
    This stupid thing!
[20:10] Phillip
    Stay away from our sovereign!
    You're just demons!
[20:16] Percival
    Phillip! You stand before our liege!
[20:20] Percival
    Phillip!
[20:22] Percival
    My deepest apologies
     you had to witness such an ugly scene.
[20:24] Noelle
    Not at all.
[20:28] Alan
    It seems the elves' loathing
    of demons runs deep.
[20:32] Henriette
    It isn't just the elves.
[20:39] Henriette
    The other races are the same.
[20:42] Alan
    Henriette?
[20:43] Henriette
    Some minor business calls.
[20:55] Henriette
    So this is where you are.
[20:57] Phillip
    Lady Henriette?
[21:00] Henriette
    That was pretty mean earlier,
     don't you think?
[21:02] Phillip
    But those demons were getting
    so cozy with our sovereign!
[21:07] Phillip
    I can't stand it!
[21:08] Henriette
    So what if they're demons?
[21:10] Henriette
    Have they done anything to you?
[21:14] Phillip
    They haven't.
[21:18] Henriette
    Wanting to speak with the monarch.
[21:20] Henriette
    Wanting to give her gifts.
[21:22] Henriette
    Wanting to be friends with her.
[21:24] Henriette
    Phillip, they feel the same way about
    your sovereign that you do, don't you think?
[21:31] Phillip
    Yeah.
[21:32] Henriette
    In that case, Henriette believes
    you could all be friends.
[21:38] Henriette
    They're littler than you are,
     so you should treat them kindly.
[21:42] Henriette
    Everyone will be worried,
    so come back soon, all right?
[21:51] Phillip
    I have to go apologize.
[22:01] Oswald
    Hang on, kid.
[22:03] Phillip
    Let go!
[22:06] Oswald
    You really think I'd do that?
[22:08] Oswald
    I need you to show me the way, you see?
[22:11] Oswald
    The way to the Elven Forest.
SIGN    The Mark of a Demon
[23:46] Lise
    Next time: "The Mark of a Demon."