# E12 - Point of Departure
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**[00:07] ---**
What? You want to go back
for your hat and parasol?
**[00:11] ---**
Lady Dominique selected
them especially for me.
**[00:17] ---**
No, don't be silly.
**[00:19] ---**
Worst-case scenario, the Chasseurs
have already been summoned.
**[00:25] ---**
Lady Dominique...
**[00:28] ---**
Let's go. I'll escort you to the barrier.
**[00:30] ---**
What?
**[00:31] ---**
Hmm?
**[00:34] ---**
Perhaps you'd intended to stay
with me till the morning?
**[00:39] ---**
No! I can't leave without
achieving my original objective!
**[00:44] ---**
Original objective?
**[00:47] ---**
You mean determining whether
your love for me is true?
**[00:50] ---**
Mission accomplished, is it not?
**[00:52] ---**
Yeah, right, dream on!
**[00:54] ---**
I've done all this so
I'd never have to see you again!
**[00:57] ---**
I've worked so hard to make it happen!
**[01:00] ---**
I quietly suffered unbearable humiliation
**[01:03] ---**
just to pretend I was in love with--
**[01:07] ---**
Oops.
**[01:14] ---**
Yes, I did find that side
of you quite lovely today.
**[01:21] ---**
I knew that's what I liked about you.
**[01:26] ---**
Huh?
**[01:30] ---**
Still, I'm surprised Luca
let you come see me alone.
**[01:35] ---**
Are you sure it's okay?
**[01:38] ---**
Oh, you didn't tell him?
**[01:42] ---**
Master Luca is with his elder brother.
**[01:46] ---**
The grand duke's brother.
**[01:48] ---**
You speak of the Bestia Loki.
**[01:53] ---**
That's why I was told to take the day off
**[01:56] ---**
and received permission to come see you.
**[01:59] ---**
Permission? From whom?
**[02:02] ---**
Lord Ruthven?
**[02:07] ---**
Yes. How did you...?
**[02:17] ---**
Vanitas?!
**[02:26] ---**
Noé!
**[02:29] ---**
What is it, Vanitas?
**[02:42] ---**
"The Case Study of Vanitas"
**[02:51] ---**
*You're pondering the simple things,
pretty much: human emotions, and love?*
**[02:56] ---**
*I hope one day you'll understand*
**[03:00] ---**
*Too many wounds have left you
patched together, a miserable sight*
**[03:05] ---**
*That doesn't even know
the definition of "alive"*
**[03:10] ---**
*No need to say,
"Just the two of us" or anything*
**[03:18] ---**
*I've a feeling we can understand
each other, and that's fine for now*
**[03:28] ---**
*I love this world,
and the light only you give me*
**[03:35] ---**
*Makes the world I see
through these fractured eyes*
**[03:40] ---**
*Look gleaming and bright*
**[03:45] ---**
*There's no such thing as a sure thing*
**[03:49] ---**
*But you can see me, can't you?*
**[03:58] ---**
*When sky and void meet, look back
because the dreams will come later*
**[04:30] ---**
Swear to me.
**[04:34] ---**
But once at the time of my choosing,
**[04:38] ---**
you shall obey my command,
no matter what it may be.
**[04:42] ---**
Swear it.
**[04:45] ---**
Swear it!
**[04:54] ---**
I swear that...
**[04:58] ---**
...but once at the time of your choosing,
**[05:03] ---**
I shall obey your command,
no matter what it may be.
**[05:10] ---**
I swear it.
**[05:13] ---**
Excellent.
**[05:25] ---**
What? Why didn't you kill him?
**[05:28] ---**
I changed my mind.
**[05:30] ---**
The Shapeless One concerns me.
**[05:32] ---**
We must discover why that monster
is keeping an Archiviste close at hand.
**[05:38] ---**
Until then, it may be wiser
to use the boy as a pawn.
**[05:45] ---**
He's but a child.
**[05:47] ---**
We could slay him anytime we wish.
**[05:51] ---**
I have high hopes for you, my lad.
**[05:55] ---**
When the time comes,
do not forget your vow.
**[06:05] ---**
It's already dark outside!
**[06:07] ---**
Did I really sleep that long?!
**[06:12] ---**
Vanitas, why are you so out of breath?
**[06:17] ---**
Hmm? Have you been injured?
**[06:20] ---**
Never mind that.
**[06:23] ---**
Why did Vanitas run off like that?
**[06:27] ---**
If he hasn't returned by now,
**[06:31] ---**
I suppose I can leave.
**[06:33] ---**
Jeanne.
**[06:38] ---**
Professor Ruthven,
what are you doing here?
**[06:41] ---**
There was a matter that
couldn't wait to be dealt with.
**[06:45] ---**
Upon hearing a vampire had
caused an uproar on Montmartre,
**[06:48] ---**
I thought I'd come have a look.
**[06:51] ---**
That was your doing, Jeanne?
**[06:53] ---**
P-Please, forgive me!
**[06:55] ---**
I swear I didn't harm a single human!
**[07:00] ---**
Actually, I mean,
I *did* bite this one human,
**[07:04] ---**
but it was consensual!
I had their consent!
**[07:07] ---**
Then there shall be no problem.
**[07:14] ---**
How lovely you look.
**[07:16] ---**
I have no doubt Éric and Louise would
have loved to have seen you like this.
**[07:24] ---**
Professor.
**[07:30] ---**
The night grows cold.
Come now, Jeanne, let's go home.
**[07:37] ---**
Well? Were they over there?
**[07:39] ---**
Nope, no sign of 'em.
**[07:41] ---**
How about calling off the search?
**[07:43] ---**
It seems they made a clean escape.
**[07:47] ---**
Still, Jeanne was clearly acting strange.
**[07:51] ---**
I'll keep looking a bit longer.
**[08:02] ---**
Roland!
**[08:04] ---**
Greetings, Olivier!
I can't believe you found me.
**[08:09] ---**
I hear you've been sneaking around
searching for something.
**[08:12] ---**
Sneaking around? That's not nice.
**[08:14] ---**
I'm simply brushing up on my history.
**[08:18] ---**
History?
**[08:19] ---**
That's right.
**[08:21] ---**
The history of humans
and vampires, to be precise.
**[08:25] ---**
No need to look so angry.
**[08:28] ---**
I haven't laid a hand on
any of the forbidden tomes.
**[08:31] ---**
Why do this now?
**[08:34] ---**
I thought I might find something
unlike anything before.
**[08:41] ---**
I had always thought
of vampires as pure evil.
**[08:46] ---**
Of that, I had no doubt.
I had no grounds to question it.
**[08:51] ---**
But I've learned that's not true!
**[08:54] ---**
My eyes are open!
**[08:57] ---**
There is no cause for concern.
**[09:00] ---**
One so deeply faithful as Captain Roland
would never do harm to the Church.
**[09:07] ---**
You do not understand, Georges.
**[09:09] ---**
Strictly speaking,
it is not God he believes in.
**[09:14] ---**
He believes in *himself*
as one of the Lord's faithful.
**[09:22] ---**
You listen to me, Roland!
**[09:25] ---**
You are a Chasseur, a hunter
of vampires in our Lord's name!
**[09:30] ---**
If our superiors learn of such remarks,
you'll be deemed dangerous.
**[09:34] ---**
And if worst comes to worst, your parents
and siblings may come to harm!
**[09:46] ---**
Say, Olivier.
**[09:49] ---**
How many paladins do you
think I could battle on my own?
**[09:53] ---**
What?
**[09:54] ---**
Three? Four?
**[09:56] ---**
Maybe even more if I wanted to tempt fate?
**[09:59] ---**
What is this nonsense?!
**[10:00] ---**
Oh, but...
**[10:02] ---**
I imagine I'd be
hard-pressed if I battled you.
**[10:09] ---**
After all that, he has
the nerve to threaten *me*?
**[10:15] ---**
You understand, Olivier?
**[10:17] ---**
You know what kind of man I am.
**[10:22] ---**
I can only believe in that
which I believe to be true.
**[10:31] ---**
Hell's bells.
**[10:35] ---**
What is this?
**[10:36] ---**
Quack!
**[10:37] ---**
Dante.
**[10:38] ---**
Dominique's not with you?
**[10:40] ---**
What? Domi?
**[10:41] ---**
Aw, hell. I thought you might be on to us.
**[10:44] ---**
Anyone who didn't notice that
needs their head examined.
**[10:47] ---**
I won't argue that.
**[10:50] ---**
But enough about that, quack!
Some unbelievable info just came in!
**[10:54] ---**
The Beast lives!
**[10:56] ---**
The Beast of Gévaudan
**[10:58] ---**
has reared its head!
**[11:02] ---**
Gévau... what?
**[11:06] ---**
Now that's interesting.
**[11:09] ---**
Don't spare the details, Dante.
**[11:14] ---**
It is said to have
resembled an enormous wolf.
**[11:19] ---**
Its large maw was twisted,
and its ears pointed.
**[11:22] ---**
It had sharp claws and
a body covered in red fur.
**[11:26] ---**
And it had many
black stripes upon its back.
**[11:31] ---**
The 18th-century regions
of Auvergne and Gévaudan
**[11:34] ---**
were where over 100 women and
children were brutally ripped to shreds.
**[11:42] ---**
Known as the Beast of Gévaudan,
it had the people cowering in fear.
**[11:54] ---**
Even now, there are all sorts of theories
as to what the Beast really was.
**[11:59] ---**
But back then, both Church
and vampires agreed on one thing.
**[12:05] ---**
The Beast of Gévaudan was none
other than a curse-bearing vampire!
**[12:16] ---**
So what's this about the
Beast of Gévaudan rearing its head?
**[12:20] ---**
Is it truly the same Beast
as the 18th-century killer?
**[12:24] ---**
Honestly, I can't say either way yet.
**[12:27] ---**
But five bodies have
already turned up this month.
**[12:31] ---**
All the killings differed. Some had their
entrails devoured or heads torn off.
**[12:36] ---**
Just like in the 18th century, eh?
**[12:39] ---**
Yeah, and there are even
eyewitness accounts of the Beast.
**[12:43] ---**
So? What's the plan, quack?
**[12:48] ---**
I'll go see for myself
whether it really is a curse-bearer.
**[12:54] ---**
What will you do, Noé?
**[12:58] ---**
Who? Me?
**[13:01] ---**
Let me think.
**[13:04] ---**
I... umm...
**[13:08] ---**
I think it sounds truly delicious.
**[13:13] ---**
Huh?
**[13:14] ---**
Delicious? You don't
mean the Beast, do you?
**[13:18] ---**
I didn't see that one coming.
**[13:22] ---**
Don't tell me you have some
kind of creepy food fetish.
**[13:27] ---**
This is bad, bad. Really bad.
**[13:30] ---**
Vanitas's blood smells so good.
I can't focus on the conversation.
**[13:35] ---**
It doesn't make sense.
I already knew how good it smelled.
**[13:40] ---**
Why do I feel this way?
**[13:43] ---**
I'm starving!
**[13:45] ---**
I slept the entire day away.
**[13:47] ---**
Which means I haven't eaten anything!
**[13:50] ---**
Which means I'm absolutely ravenous!
**[13:53] ---**
Yes, that must be it!
**[13:55] ---**
When I'm hungry,
I always get thirsty, too!
**[13:58] ---**
So it's because I slept too much.
I do feel really lethargic.
**[14:07] ---**
Damn it. It feels like my sense
of smell is only getting stronger.
**[14:11] ---**
His blood smells positively delectable.
I must have a taste.
**[14:15] ---**
No, wait! I should have
some bread or something first.
**[14:18] ---**
I want blood.
**[14:19] ---**
I know, but we're in the midst
of an important conversation.
**[14:23] ---**
Wait. Is it all right to suck the blood of
a human that has been marked?
**[14:28] ---**
It smells so sweet.
**[14:30] ---**
Just a taste will do. He must let me try.
**[14:34] ---**
What's with him?
**[14:35] ---**
Beats me.
**[14:38] ---**
This is like the time I sucked the blood
of that village child just for fun.
**[14:44] ---**
Listen well, Mon Chaton.
**[14:47] ---**
You have the power to see people's
memories by sucking their blood.
**[14:53] ---**
That means you have to be
more careful than other vampires.
**[14:57] ---**
So then...
**[14:58] ---**
In other words, he means blood-sucking
is a form of communication.
**[15:03] ---**
So if you thirst for someone's blood,
**[15:05] ---**
you must coax them
into letting you have it.
**[15:10] ---**
Coax them?!
**[15:12] ---**
What? How am I supposed to do that?!
**[15:19] ---**
Noé, what's gotten into--
**[15:20] ---**
Vanitas! Your blood has a divine aroma
that one would not imagine possible
**[15:25] ---**
given your intolerable
personality and attitude.
**[15:29] ---**
Huh? Are you picking a fight?
**[15:32] ---**
It's a compliment!
**[15:35] ---**
So, in other words,
**[15:38] ---**
what I'm trying to say is...
**[15:40] ---**
Vanitas! I want but a taste of your--
**[15:42] ---**
Archiviste!
**[15:46] ---**
I'll say this but once, so listen well.
**[15:52] ---**
If you make any attempt to suck my blood
and thereby peer into my memories,
**[15:58] ---**
I will kill you.
**[16:01] ---**
Is that clear?
**[16:06] ---**
Yes.
**[16:08] ---**
Please forgive me.
**[16:36] ---**
I sure bungled that.
**[16:42] ---**
You have it all wrong.
**[16:44] ---**
I didn't want to peer into your memories.
**[16:52] ---**
Then again, is that really true?
**[17:00] ---**
Maybe *I'm* wrong.
**[17:07] ---**
I...
**[18:20] ---**
Just stop it already.
**[18:21] ---**
You're knocking me off-kilter.
**[18:23] ---**
If you've a bone to pick
with me, out with it!
**[18:28] ---**
No, it's nothing like that.
**[18:31] ---**
I wanted to say that what happened
yesterday was all my fault.
**[18:37] ---**
Truth be told, part of me
wants to blame you
**[18:44] ---**
for emitting such a sickly
sweet scent around a vampire.
**[18:46] ---**
Watch it!
**[18:47] ---**
But if I had to say, I can't
swear that sucking your blood
**[18:51] ---**
wasn't a pretext born of my desire
to get a glimpse of your past.
**[18:58] ---**
Why even bother peering into my past?
**[19:02] ---**
What would you gain from that?
**[19:05] ---**
I don't know what I would gain and
whatnot, but I did once say to you,
**[19:10] ---**
"I do find you intriguing."
**[19:18] ---**
Does that Archiviste power of yours
let you see memories in people's blood,
**[19:23] ---**
no matter the source?
**[19:25] ---**
No, it's just like draining life energy.
**[19:29] ---**
You must suck the blood from their veins
if you wish to delve into their memories.
**[19:38] ---**
With other sources, I may,
in rare cases, see fragments of emotions.
**[19:45] ---**
I see.
**[19:46] ---**
In that case, the next time I'm injured,
you can lap up the blood on my clothes.
**[19:52] ---**
But that's a one-time offer.
**[19:54] ---**
What?! Really?!
**[19:56] ---**
Just kidding.
**[19:57] ---**
What?!
**[20:09] ---**
All right, let's go, Noé.
**[20:14] ---**
Okay!
**[20:23] ---**
We'll take this to Gévaudan.
**[20:27] ---**
This?!
**[20:37] ---**
Pardon me.
**[20:38] ---**
No need.
**[20:40] ---**
It was entirely my fault, monsieur.
**[20:44] ---**
Noé, over here.
**[20:48] ---**
Wait for me, Vanitas!
**[20:54] ---**
I-I'm so sleepy.
**[20:57] ---**
You haven't slept a wink?
**[20:59] ---**
I was sure that you would go off and
abandon me when I wasn't looking.
**[21:07] ---**
We have a long way to go.
You'd best get some sleep while you can.
**[21:12] ---**
If I fall asleep...
**[21:16] ---**
...you're not going to leave me?
**[21:21] ---**
I'll wake you when we're there.
**[21:24] ---**
Now get some sleep.
**[21:24] ---**
"Point of Departure"
Now get some sleep.
**[21:26] ---**
"Point of Departure"
**[23:25] ---**
At last, the time has come.
**[23:29] ---**
Here in Gévaudan,
**[23:31] ---**
I shall make my song of vengeance
echo across the land.
**[23:42] ---**
"To be continued..."