# E2 - In the City of Flowers
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G14U4E5G8/in-the-city-of-flowers)
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Ever heard of a curse-bearer, Noé?
**[00:16] ---**
Huh?
**[00:17] ---**
That's what they call vampires who
suddenly lose their minds and go berserk.
**[00:24] ---**
My grandfather told me about them.
**[00:26] ---**
A curse? Whose?
**[00:30] ---**
Who else? The Vampire of the Blue Moon's.
**[00:36] ---**
Are you okay?
**[00:50] ---**
Noé! Let's play!
**[00:53] ---**
Noé.
**[00:55] ---**
Even with a curse-bearer here before you,
**[00:59] ---**
are you still able to see the
blue moon as something beautiful?
**[01:20] ---**
"The Case Study of Vanitas"
**[01:29] ---**
*You're pondering the simple things,
pretty much: human emotions, and love?*
**[01:34] ---**
*I hope one day you'll understand*
**[01:38] ---**
*Too many wounds have left you
patched together, a miserable sight*
**[01:43] ---**
*That doesn't even know
the definition of "alive"*
**[01:48] ---**
*No need to say,
"Just the two of us" or anything*
**[01:56] ---**
*I've a feeling we can understand
each other, and that's fine for now*
**[02:06] ---**
*I love this world,
and the light only you give me*
**[02:13] ---**
*Makes the world I see
through these fractured eyes*
**[02:18] ---**
*Look gleaming and bright*
**[02:23] ---**
*There's no such thing as a sure thing*
**[02:27] ---**
*But you can see me, can't you?*
**[02:35] ---**
*When sky and void meet, look back
because the dreams will come later*
**[02:46] ---**
Vanitas.
**[02:49] ---**
Yes?
**[02:50] ---**
Can you explain why we're behind bars?
**[02:54] ---**
A fine question, my dear Noé.
**[02:57] ---**
About ten hours ago, you were poisoned by
the Eglantine due to your absurd antics.
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Then you face-planted by the roadside.
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You've slept like a baby ever since,
nearly half a day to be exact.
**[03:08] ---**
That about sums it up.
You up to speed now?
**[03:10] ---**
No, I'm not.
**[03:11] ---**
Seriously?
**[03:12] ---**
You were the one who
stole aboard the airship.
**[03:15] ---**
I just happened to be there,
so how did I end up in prison, too?
**[03:19] ---**
Because I told them
we're partners in crime,
**[03:22] ---**
you moron!
**[03:24] ---**
My wallet's missing!
**[03:26] ---**
They confiscated all our belongings.
**[03:28] ---**
What?! *The Book of Vanitas*, too?!
**[03:30] ---**
Naturally.
**[03:31] ---**
H-How can you remain so calm?!
**[03:34] ---**
Wait, were you after my book?
**[03:36] ---**
No!
**[03:38] ---**
My master merely requested
that I assess its true nature.
**[03:44] ---**
Assess, you say?
**[03:46] ---**
That's quite a vague way
for your teacher to word it.
**[03:50] ---**
That's true. He didn't
say steal or destroy it.
**[03:55] ---**
What is it my teacher wants me to do?
**[03:59] ---**
Wait a second, Noé!
**[04:01] ---**
Yes?
**[04:02] ---**
If you seek *The Book of Vanitas*,
then you should join me.
**[04:08] ---**
So why do you keep refusing to help?
**[04:13] ---**
That's true!
**[04:15] ---**
Jeez.
**[04:24] ---**
Now I understand, Vanitas!
**[04:26] ---**
Perhaps I simply don't like you that much!
**[04:31] ---**
What?
**[04:32] ---**
What shall I do?
**[04:34] ---**
For my teacher's sake,
I suppose I should go with you.
**[04:37] ---**
But meekly accepting
whatever someone I dislike says
**[04:40] ---**
is bad for my mental well-being,
**[04:43] ---**
or rather,
it's psychologically impossible.
**[04:46] ---**
Okay, so what now?
**[04:51] ---**
Out.
**[04:52] ---**
We're unable to hold you here any longer.
**[04:56] ---**
This is an invitation from Count Orlok.
**[05:03] ---**
The vampires likely came to
an arrangement with the humans.
**[05:07] ---**
Huh?
**[05:08] ---**
Come along. I'll show you the way.
**[05:11] ---**
Thank you. This is my first time in Paris.
**[05:14] ---**
Is that so?
**[05:37] ---**
Welcome to Paris, the City of Flowers.
**[06:00] ---**
The invitation from the Count
said to come get our things,
**[06:03] ---**
both those the police took
and those we left on the airship.
**[06:11] ---**
Why are you so exhausted, Vanitas?
**[06:14] ---**
A certain someone keeps
wandering off when I'm not looking.
**[06:21] ---**
We're here. Galerie Valentine.
**[06:25] ---**
This is where we'll find the Count?
**[06:27] ---**
That's right.
After the war with humankind,
**[06:30] ---**
vampires were forbidden
from attacking humans.
**[06:33] ---**
After that, most of them
vanished beyond the barrier.
**[06:37] ---**
But there are still many who
continue to live among humankind.
**[06:44] ---**
A vampire has been appointed by the
queen to maintain the balance between
**[06:48] ---**
the vampires and humans here in Paris.
**[06:51] ---**
He is...
**[06:53] ---**
...the Lord of Altus, Parks Orlok.
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Don't move.
**[06:59] ---**
Is this how you welcome invited guests?
**[07:03] ---**
Silence.
**[07:05] ---**
Ill-mannered fools who do not knock
are no better than trespassers.
**[07:15] ---**
So you're the human who has
assumed the name of Vanitas.
**[07:24] ---**
Murr! I'm so relieved you're safe!
**[07:28] ---**
Your possessions.
**[07:30] ---**
What about the rest?
**[07:37] ---**
I'll get right to the point.
**[07:40] ---**
Hand over *The Book of Vanitas*
and Amelia Ruth. I want them back.
**[07:44] ---**
Vanitas, Mademoiselle Amelia
is fine now, so--
**[07:48] ---**
Curse-bearers cannot be allowed to live.
**[07:52] ---**
We will take it upon
ourselves to eliminate her.
**[07:56] ---**
Please, Count, don't!
**[07:58] ---**
Mademoiselle Amelia should be cured!
**[08:01] ---**
You mean by using this book?
**[08:04] ---**
That's right!
**[08:05] ---**
I saw him use *The Book of Vanitas*.
**[08:08] ---**
Its power restored her
to her former state.
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Therefore--
**[08:12] ---**
Don't be absurd!
**[08:14] ---**
Do you truly believe this fool's nonsense?
**[08:18] ---**
There is no such thing
as a cursed grimoire.
**[08:21] ---**
This thing is but rubbish.
**[08:27] ---**
Or perhaps you stole it
but don't know how to use it.
**[08:32] ---**
I expect you can't even open it.
That's why you summoned me.
**[08:35] ---**
This is hilarious!
**[08:36] ---**
Couldn't you just say,
"Please teach me how to use the book"?
**[08:42] ---**
You are mistaken.
**[08:44] ---**
I summoned you, the man who
assumed the name of Vanitas,
**[08:47] ---**
to rake you over the coals
till you confess your plot.
**[08:51] ---**
I'm simply trying to save vampire kind
from utter annihilation.
**[08:56] ---**
Save us?!
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Pretentious, human!
**[08:59] ---**
Are you so loathe to admit
*The Book of Vanitas* is real?!
**[09:04] ---**
That Amelia regained her sanity
should be as plain as day.
**[09:08] ---**
Bourreaus must behead
curse-bearers as soon as they are found.
**[09:16] ---**
Mina is to be executed tomorrow?
**[09:18] ---**
I don't understand!
**[09:19] ---**
Because she's a curse-bearer.
**[09:21] ---**
They're beheaded by a bourreau.
That's the rule.
**[09:24] ---**
We must go save her!
**[09:25] ---**
Can you lift the curse of the blue moon?
**[09:28] ---**
Of course, you can't!
**[09:29] ---**
She is beyond all help now, Noé!
**[09:33] ---**
Hear me now, human!
**[09:34] ---**
Vampires whose names have been defiled
can never return to their former state.
**[09:39] ---**
This is what's wrong with you senile old
coots bound by antiquated traditions.
**[09:44] ---**
You wretch!
**[09:45] ---**
There is nothing you can do.
**[09:58] ---**
How about this?
**[10:01] ---**
The vampire attacks sowing
chaos throughout Paris
**[10:05] ---**
are the work of a curse-bearer,
are they not?
**[10:08] ---**
Let us go capture that vampire
and bring the fiend back here.
**[10:14] ---**
Then Vanitas will use the
book's power here before you!
**[10:19] ---**
You must see what *The Book of Vanitas*
is with your own eyes!
**[10:26] ---**
Very well. We shall wait but one day.
**[10:31] ---**
I thank you.
**[10:35] ---**
We must hurry!
**[10:38] ---**
At last, you wish to help me, Noé!
**[10:41] ---**
I'm not helping you.
**[10:43] ---**
It's *you* who is helping *me*!
**[10:56] ---**
Excellent! I knew you'd
prove quite amusing!
**[11:02] ---**
There's nothing you can do.
**[11:05] ---**
Not this time.
I will not fail to save her!
**[11:13] ---**
Noé. Hey, Noé, wait!
**[11:16] ---**
Do you know where you're supposed to go?
**[11:19] ---**
I've no idea--
**[11:21] ---**
Looks like you could use a hand, Vanitas.
**[11:24] ---**
Dante!
**[11:25] ---**
Hey.
**[11:26] ---**
You left Amelia Ruth behind
to save your own skin!
**[11:30] ---**
My agreement with you didn't
include protecting the target!
**[11:35] ---**
I don't work beyond what I'm paid!
**[11:37] ---**
Greedy jerk!
**[11:38] ---**
Shut your piehole, quack!
**[11:40] ---**
Excuse me.
**[11:42] ---**
What the hell are you doing with him?!
**[11:45] ---**
Noé, allow me to introduce you.
**[11:47] ---**
This is Dante,
an information peddler I often use.
**[11:50] ---**
But he's really just someone
who'll do anything for money.
**[11:54] ---**
Now I remember. The one you called baldy.
**[11:57] ---**
I'm not bald!
Don't remember me by that slur!
**[12:00] ---**
I don't know why you're here,
Dante, but it's your loss!
**[12:03] ---**
I already found my penultimate partner!
**[12:06] ---**
Penultimate partner? You mean this guy?
**[12:09] ---**
Nope, not me.
**[12:10] ---**
So, sorry, Dante.
**[12:13] ---**
You'll have to look elsewhere
for your allowance.
**[12:16] ---**
Really? That's too bad.
**[12:18] ---**
Just when I located that killer
who claimed nine lives.
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What a crying shame.
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O Lord Dante, how I love thee!
**[12:29] ---**
What? That's highway robbery, baldy!
**[12:33] ---**
Shut it! Old man Orlok
doesn't even know about this.
**[12:36] ---**
Such information doesn't come cheap!
**[12:40] ---**
We should follow this bat?
**[12:43] ---**
Exactly. It will lead you to my comrade
who is tailing the killer you seek.
**[12:57] ---**
Seriously, what's that guy's deal?
**[13:00] ---**
Was that *the* Vanitas?
**[13:03] ---**
Such an adorable face, don't you think?
**[13:06] ---**
You followed me here, Johann?
**[13:09] ---**
I have something very special
I wanted to tell you myself.
**[13:14] ---**
Lord Ruthven's bourreau is here in Paris.
**[13:17] ---**
What?!
**[13:18] ---**
He's after *The Book of Vanitas*, no doubt.
**[13:21] ---**
And that friend of yours
**[13:24] ---**
may end up dead.
**[13:31] ---**
Thomas Berneux.
**[13:32] ---**
What?
**[13:33] ---**
He's the vampire who came from
beyond the barrier two months ago
**[13:37] ---**
and killed nine by draining their blood.
**[13:41] ---**
I'd been pursuing him up until
I received a letter from Amelia Ruth.
**[13:47] ---**
So, I already know much about him.
**[13:49] ---**
So then you're the doctor
Mademoiselle Amelia mentioned?
**[13:53] ---**
*Oui.*
**[14:06] ---**
There he is. I'm sure of it.
**[14:07] ---**
Thomas Berneux.
**[14:09] ---**
Stop him, Noé!
**[14:10] ---**
Very well!
**[14:18] ---**
Are you trying to kill me?!
**[14:56] ---**
I paralyzed him for a short while.
**[14:58] ---**
Let's tie him up while we can
and take him back to Orlok.
**[15:08] ---**
That was amazing.
**[15:10] ---**
You so swiftly incapacitated
a curse-bearer.
**[15:15] ---**
You must be Vanitas.
**[15:18] ---**
I am Luca.
**[15:19] ---**
And this is Jeanne.
**[15:22] ---**
Are you humans or vampires?
**[15:25] ---**
How rude of me.
**[15:27] ---**
We are vampires.
**[15:30] ---**
Monsieur Vanitas.
**[15:31] ---**
Though it may seem ill-mannered,
I have a favor to ask.
**[15:35] ---**
Would you not give me that grimoire,
*The Book of Vanitas*?
**[15:43] ---**
No way in hell!
**[15:44] ---**
This book isn't some plaything
for little brats like you!
**[15:57] ---**
Why do you want it, anyway?
**[15:59] ---**
*The Book of Vanitas* can
corrupt a vampire's true name.
**[16:04] ---**
That is why it is known as an analytical
engine in the form of a book.
**[16:07] ---**
It is the infernal device that creates
those known as curse-bearers!
**[16:14] ---**
Are you suggesting that I'm using
*The Book of Vanitas* to spread the curse?
**[16:20] ---**
I am.
**[16:21] ---**
I shall save the curse-bearers by
destroying that book in the proper manner.
**[16:27] ---**
And as its bearer, I imagine
you'll be punished accordingly.
**[16:31] ---**
I'm afraid I can't let that happen!
**[16:33] ---**
Hurray!
**[16:34] ---**
But do as you will with Vanitas himself.
**[16:37] ---**
Boo!
**[16:38] ---**
We must make haste.
**[16:40] ---**
Forgive me. Let us discuss later--
**[16:42] ---**
I, too, have no time!
**[16:45] ---**
Someone dear to me suffers terribly
as a curse-bearer, and I must save them!
**[16:50] ---**
Unbelievable.
**[16:52] ---**
Who put that nonsense in your head?
**[16:55] ---**
Huh?
**[16:56] ---**
Listen. I'm a doctor.
**[16:58] ---**
I'm using the power of
*The Book of Vanitas* to save vampires.
**[17:03] ---**
If you wish to save the one you hold dear,
I will exam the patient.
**[17:07] ---**
My big brother suffers dearly from
the vampire of the blue moon's curse!
**[17:13] ---**
For you to suggest that I take you
to him is beyond all foolishness!
**[17:17] ---**
Master Luca.
**[17:20] ---**
Hmm. So your brother is the curse-bearer.
**[17:30] ---**
Master Luca,
further talk serves no purpose.
**[17:52] ---**
Master Luca, command me as you will.
**[17:55] ---**
Monsieur Vanitas, will nothing
convince you to give me the book?
**[18:03] ---**
Jeanne...
**[18:05] ---**
Understood. I will do
my best to take him alive.
**[18:11] ---**
Please.
**[18:13] ---**
Take *The Book of Vanitas* from him!
**[18:16] ---**
*Oui, Votre Altesse.*
**[18:19] ---**
The Crimson Gauntlet!
**[18:25] ---**
Run, Noé! She's Lord Ruthven's bourreau!
**[18:28] ---**
Who?
**[18:30] ---**
You're like a country bumpkin squared!
**[18:34] ---**
Listen up!
**[18:35] ---**
In the war long ago,
**[18:36] ---**
over 1,000 vampires sided with humanity,
betraying their own kind.
**[18:40] ---**
But a single bourreau is
said to have slain them all.
**[18:43] ---**
It is she who wields the
Crimson Gauntlet, Carpe Diem!
**[18:47] ---**
The bearer of a saintly name
who slew her own kind!
**[18:53] ---**
The Hellfire Witch, Jeanne!
**[19:06] ---**
She has no intention of taking me alive!
**[19:11] ---**
I can't have you die on me yet!
**[19:21] ---**
We're in trouble!
**[19:42] ---**
Jeanne!
**[19:43] ---**
Master Luca?! You're in danger!
**[19:45] ---**
Please find a safe place to hide!
**[19:48] ---**
Jeanne! You must not slay him!
**[19:50] ---**
You're no longer a bourreau!
You're my knight, my chevalier!
**[20:00] ---**
Forgive me, Master Luca.
**[20:14] ---**
Whether it's Count Orlok
or the city's vampires,
**[20:17] ---**
they're all horrible listeners.
**[20:20] ---**
All vampires have the fear of the vampire
of the blue moon etched into their minds.
**[20:26] ---**
That's just how it is.
**[20:28] ---**
Huh?
**[20:29] ---**
And what that kid said
is not entirely wrong.
**[20:34] ---**
*The Book of Vanitas* can
corrupt a vampire's true name.
**[20:38] ---**
That much is true.
**[20:40] ---**
A corrupted name causes a malnomen.
**[20:42] ---**
My treatment consists of restoring
that name to its true state.
**[20:46] ---**
In short, it's a matter of application.
**[20:49] ---**
So it's no wonder that
vampires fear this book.
**[20:54] ---**
But the potential to do something
and doing it are two different things!
**[21:00] ---**
Even if *The Book of Vanitas*
was created to exterminate vampires,
**[21:05] ---**
it's an undeniable fact that you used it
to save Mademoiselle Amelia.
**[21:12] ---**
Thank you!
**[21:13] ---**
What I saw that day was
a resoundingly righteous act.
**[21:23] ---**
That is why I wish to return
at once so we may save her!
**[21:34] ---**
Keep it down before she finds us!
**[21:37] ---**
You really are...
**[21:39] ---**
...a most amusing fellow.
**[21:43] ---**
What?
**[21:47] ---**
Now then! I've steeled myself, Noé!
**[21:51] ---**
I know not whether this will work,
but it's our only hope for a swift return.
**[21:55] ---**
What are you--?
**[21:58] ---**
I've found but one way.
**[22:00] ---**
One way we can defeat the Hellfire Witch.
**[22:08] ---**
"In the City of Flowers"
**[23:42] ---**
"The Fangs That Lay Bare Blood"