E11 - Determination to Kill

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[00:02] Hort
    If there were a single mastermind
    behind everything
[00:05] Hort
    and killing them would solve everything,
[00:08] Hort
    I'd go kill 'em right now.
[00:14] Hort
    We were powerless.
[00:16] Hort
    We had two mages and even an Arbiter,
[00:21] Hort
    and yet we still couldn't save him.
[00:23] Saybil
    I should have accompanied you...
[00:26] Kudo
    We won't get to work together forever.
[00:30] Kudo
    If Hort and I take your magic provision
    for granted, we'll be useless.
SIGN    Here lies Kady
[00:37] Kudo
    Ain't that right, Hort?
[00:43] Hort
    You shouldn't feel bad about that, Sayb.
[00:55] Kudo
    A dragon.
[00:57] Kudo
    It's the Dragon Conqueror King!
[01:09] Kudo
    Dragon Conqueror King.
[01:11] Dragon Conqueror King
    Ah, you three.
[01:13] Dragon Conqueror King
    You have orders to return to Wenias.
[01:16] Dragon Conqueror King
    Before long, this village
[01:17] Dragon Conqueror King
    will be a battlefield.
[02:51] Saybil
    What do you mean by "orders to return?"
SIGN    Episode 11    Determination to Kill
[02:54] Kudo
    What about what we want?
[02:55] Hort
    And what's this about a battlefield?
[02:58] Zero
    It is as you were told.
[03:00] Zero
    We cannot let students risk
    their lives on the battlefield.
[03:03] Kudo
    Don't choose now to start
    acting like a normal teacher!
[03:07] Kudo
    If there's gonna be a battle here,
    then you need all the help you can get!
[03:10] Hort
    That's right!
[03:12] Zero
    You have been given instructions.
[03:13] Zero
    Follow them, or you'll be expelled.
[03:16] Saybil
    Then I'll drop out.
[03:18] Hort
    Sayb?!
[03:19] Saybil
    But if I prove useful in battle,
[03:22] Saybil
    then please readmit me
    in recognition of my achievements.
[03:25] Zero
    Don't be ridiculous.
[03:27] Zero
    That's quite a farce.
[03:29] Saybil
    This war itself is a farce to begin with.
[03:33] Saybil
    Professor Los said that when mages
    are punched, they can't punch back.
[03:39] Saybil
    In that case, this war is a
    thoroughly defensive battle.
[03:43] Zero
    And?
[03:45] Saybil
    Professor Los said witches
    lay traps when they fight.
[03:48] Saybil
    In which case, we just need
    to lay traps that won't kill people.
[03:52] Saybil
    If we lay 100 traps that each
    incapacitate 10 people,
[03:55] Saybil
    we can bring a force of 1,000 to zero.
[03:57] Zero
    How will you make those traps?
[04:00] Zero
    To disable someone is far more
    difficult than to kill them.
[04:03] Saybil
    With magic potions.
[04:06] Zero
    You made one?
[04:07] Zero
    A potion that supplies magic?
[04:10] Saybil
    It's still unfinished,
[04:12] Saybil
    but I can perfect it with Hort and Kudo.
[04:16] Saybil
    And so, if we consult the Tyrant,
[04:19] Saybil
    we can reduce the casualties due to magic.
[04:24] Zero
    If you managed that, I'd have to
    graduate you, not expel you.
[04:32] Los
    A graduation exam is a fine idea!
[04:34] Los
    I am ever fond of innovative endeavors!
[04:39] Zero
    Dawn Witch, this is an Academy matter.
[04:42] Los
    If thou sendest the students back,
     I too shall leave!
[04:46] Los
    To me, this village's disappearance would
    hurt no more than the bite of a stray dog.
[04:51] Saybil
    That sounds pretty painful.
[04:54] Los
    Thou art right!
[04:55] Los
    I have taken a liking to this village!
[04:58] Los
    Let me protect it! Let me fight!
[05:01] Los
    Please! Please!
[05:03] Zero
    All right, Dawn Witch. Don't throw a fit.
[05:06] Zero
    I'll see what the
    Mooncaller Witch has to say.
[05:11] Hort
    Hooray!
[05:12] Los
    Ah, my heart is dancing!
[05:15] Los
    I shall thrust those bloodthirsty
    fighters into a farce
[05:19] Los
    and, in front of everyone, make them
    a century-long subject of mockery!
[05:32] Albus
    Great. That sounds fantastic!
[05:36] Albus
    Come. We have a grand performance to put on.
[05:39] Holdem
    This doesn't really change anything.
[05:42] Holdem
    You were planning from the beginning
    to conduct the fight so no one died.
[05:46] Holdem
    So? What flavor should it have?
[05:49] Albus
    Think about it from
    the audience's perspective.
[05:52] Albus
    Instead of just silently ignoring them,
[05:54] Albus
    it's more entertaining to tease
    the advance army and drive them away.
[05:58] Holdem
    Then it should really pop.
[06:01] Albus
    I'll leave the casting to you.
[06:03] Albus
    I need to arrange an audience for the show.
[06:10] Priest
    It's an odd feeling, isn't it?
[06:14] Priest
    To think former Arbiters would
    engage Church believers in battle.
[06:19] the Tyrant
    It's not like I was ever a believer.
[06:23] the Tyrant
    I was just on death row.
[06:26] Priest
    I hear you protected the children.
[06:30] Priest
    Loux Krystas gave me a report.
[06:34] Priest
    She said you're more
    compassionate than she thought.
[06:39] the Tyrant
    I just protected my owner, like a tool.
[06:42] Priest
    I see. You claim not to
    follow your own will.
[06:47] Priest
    And if the previous owner
    wishes to use the tool?
[06:52] the Tyrant
    The current owner will probably break it.
[06:56] Priest
    I am concerned
[06:58] Priest
    that the tool might suddenly break
    and injure the owner.
[07:03] the Tyrant
    Well, the owner decides how much
    faith to place in their tools.
[07:09] Priest
    And how does the owner do that?
[07:11] the Tyrant
    The only way is to try the tool out, right?
[07:13] Priest
    In a safe environment?
[07:16] the Tyrant
    That's what I would do.
[07:18] Priest
    Where are you going?
[07:19] the Tyrant
    The teacher called for me.
[07:21] Priest
    I see. It appears you've
    grown quite close with her.
[07:25] the Tyrant
    Giving a compliment wouldn't kill you.
[07:28] Priest
    Indeed, it is a joyous thing.
[07:32] Priest
    May the divine protect you.
[07:38] Hort
    Amazing!
[07:39] Hort
    This really does replenish magic!
[07:41] Hort
    This is amazing, Sayb!
[07:43] Hort
    So this is what you were making.
[07:46] Hort
    You weren't just staying away from us.
[07:49] Saybil
    What?
[07:50] Hort
    Uh, how did you make it?
[07:53] Saybil
    Well, in Professor Zero's library,
    there was a book my father wrote.
[07:58] Saybil
    I used that.
[07:59] Kudo and Hort
    What?!
[08:00] Kudo
    Y-Y-Yer pops was a sorcerer?!
[08:04] Saybil
    I'll tell you two this
    because I want you to know.
[08:07] Saybil
    My father
[08:09] Saybil
    is Thirteen.
[08:12] Hort
    Thirteen? He's... the bad guy
    who caused the war, right?
[08:17] Saybil
    Yeah.
[08:20] Kudo
    What the hell? It's like you're
    a chosen one or something!
[08:24] Kudo
    Of course you'd get special treatment!
[08:26] Kudo
    You all-talent, no-hard-work jerk!
[08:30] Saybil
    Hey!
[08:31] Saybil
    I'm working hard now, too.
[08:33] Saybil
    Fairly hard.
[08:35] Hort
    No...
[08:36] Hort
    Maybe more like finally working hard?
[08:40] Saybil
    Yeah, I'm finally working hard.
[08:45] Children
    Mr. Tyrant, thank you for saving us!
[08:52] Laios
    Okay, eat up! Enjoy them!
[08:55] Laios
    You don't look happy.
[08:57] Hearthful
    Goodness. Maybe it was a little
    early for something like this.
[09:00] Hearthful
    It seems as though Mr. Tyrant
    is so happy that he's stunned.
[09:04] Hearthful
    Go ahead, children.
    You can eat the treats now.
[09:08] Children
    Yes, Ms. Hearthful!
[09:10] Children
    It looks so good!
[09:12] Hearthful
    We all discussed how to thank you.
[09:16] the Tyrant
    Oh, you did...
[09:19] Hearthful
    I told them that Kady was receiving
    treatment in a bigger town.
[09:24] the Tyrant
    Oh, you did...
[09:26] Hearthful
    Are you going to try
    the treats the kids made?
[09:30] the Tyrant
    I don't—
[09:41] Hearthful
    Your mind seems elsewhere.
[09:44] Hearthful
    Would you like to talk to me about it?
[09:46] the Tyrant
    You can't help.
[09:48] Hearthful
    Don't say that. Try me.
[09:50] the Tyrant
    You'll regret it.
[09:52] Hearthful
    I prefer to take action and regret it,
    rather than do nothing and regret it.
[09:59] the Tyrant
    What will make you and
    the kids suffer, cry, and scream?
[10:05] the Tyrant
    It's constantly on my mind.
[10:08] the Tyrant
    Will you tell me, Teach?
[10:12] Hearthful
    Are you...
[10:14] Hearthful
    saying you like me?
[10:18] the Tyrant
    Wha—
[10:19] the Tyrant
    What?!
[10:20] Hearthful
    It's okay. Don't be afraid.
[10:23] Hearthful
    It's the same for everyone in the village.
[10:25] Hearthful
    When they gain something precious,
    they imagine the moment it's destroyed,
[10:31] Hearthful
    so they can find a way to protect it.
[10:34] the Tyrant
    To protect it?
[10:36] Hearthful
    Thank you.
[10:37] Hearthful
    You're trying to protect us, aren't you.
[10:56] Hort
    You...
[10:59] Hort
    ...are just a tool, with no
    will of your own, right?
[11:04] Hort
    You know, I'm not a big fan of Ms. Hearthful.
[11:09] the Tyrant
    I don't know what the Mask said to you,
[11:12] the Tyrant
    but I'll cut to the chase.
[11:20] the Tyrant
    I could do it.
[11:23] Hort
    What, so you're saying you could
    even kill the person you fell for
[11:27] Hort
    if you were ordered to?
[11:29] the Tyrant
    That's how I was trained.
[11:31] Hort
    Your tortured face suggests otherwise.
[11:33] the Tyrant
    Test me, then, if you have doubts.
[11:37] Hort
    I just figured I'd torment you a little.
[11:43] Hort
    Sayb is relying on your traps,
[11:47] Hort
    to use in combination with his potions.
[11:49] Hort
    But you see,
[11:51] Hort
    that means your traps are
    a cornerstone of the plan, doesn't it?
[11:55] Hort
    Frankly, I really don't like that,
[11:57] Hort
    but I couldn't oppose it.
[12:01] Hort
    Even human scum like you can protect people
    when their lives are suddenly in danger.
[12:07] Hort
    You see, that really mixed things up for me.
[12:11] Hort
    If you have feelings like a person,
[12:14] Hort
    then more and more people
    will become important to you.
[12:17] Hort
    If so, you'll suffer your whole life
    under the weight of everything you took.
[12:24] Hort
    That'll be so very sad for you!
[12:29] Hort
    If living will make you suffer,
    then keeping you alive is worth it.
[12:33] Hort
    And so, I won't kill you.
[12:35] Hort
    I'll even watch your back.
[12:39] Hort
    Bye.
[13:00] Los
    So? Didst thou give her
    the idea for all that?
[13:04] Priest
    I was certain that you had
    given her the idea.
[13:07] Los
    Do proper maintenance,
    entertain good doubts, then trust.
[13:13] Los
    No wonder Sayb and Kudo
    can be so carefree right now.
[13:16] Priest
    Indeed. They are very observant.
[13:19] Los
    Just like thee, eh?
[13:21] Priest
    They'd be upset if you told them that.
[13:25] Los
    Oh? I would take it as a compliment.
[13:32] Los
    I guess he really is
    the right man for the job.
[13:35] Mercenary
    It makes you want to call him "boss."
[13:37] Villager
    Hey, boss, I have a question
    about this part of the blueprint.
[13:40] the Tyrant
    Do that to the west.
[13:43] Los
    They're already calling him that.
[13:45] Hort
    So,
[13:46] Hort
    why don't we target the Flagis spell
    at only their equipment?
[13:50] Kudo
    It's threatening enough.
[13:51] Kudo
    The most effective thing is to heavily
    injure them and then heal them.
[13:55] Saybil
    But won't that turn into
    a massacre if it goes wrong?
[13:58] Hort
    Hmm. How about...
[14:01] Zero
    Hold on, students.
[14:03] Zero
    If we add another method
    of combined magic...
[14:07] Mercenary
    They're really into this.
[14:09] Los
    What? Art thou not?
[14:11] Mercenary
    We can only hope our opponents are weak.
[14:15] Mercenary
    If the odds turn against us,
    we won't have the luxury of not killing.
[14:19] Priest
    They are exceedingly weak.
[14:22] Priest
    Farmers, poor people, the down
    and out. About 10,000 in total.
[14:26] Los
    Ten thousand?!
[14:27] Los
    'Tis quite the number.
[14:29] Mercenary
    Killing people like that
    would make us the bad guys.
[14:33] Priest
    That is no doubt their aim.
[14:35] Lilly
    There you are!
[14:37] Lilly
    There's food prep to do!
[14:40] Mercenary
    Right, of course. I'm coming.
[14:43] Priest
    Lilly, tonight the Dragon Conqueror King
    is going to take the villagers
[14:47] Priest
    and fly them to Loutra Cathedral.
[14:49] Priest
    You leave the village with them.
[14:53] Lilly
    Uh-Uh!
[14:54] Priest
    Excuse me?
[14:54] Lilly
    I'm really strong.
[14:57] Lilly
    I'm gonna fight with you and protect you!
[15:00] Lilly
    Aren't I?
[15:02] Mercenary
    You certainly are.
    You're stronger than me, after all.
[15:05] Los
    What's this?
[15:07] Los
    This cute little mouse girl is that strong?
[15:12] Los
    Thou art like me!
[15:16] Los
    Even softer than I imagined!
[15:18] Los
    Priest, you scoundrel.
[15:20] Los
    Thou art fully appreciating such
    a wonderful creature every day?
[15:24] Los
    How darest thou?
[15:25] Priest
    I am not.
[15:26] Priest
    You're making her uncomfortable.
[15:28] Priest
    I'm separating you.
[15:30] Mercenary
    Oh, you aren't? I always assumed you—
[15:36] Lilly
    You big dummy!
[15:38] Lilly
    I hate you!
[15:40] Mercenary
    Wait!
[15:42] Priest
    Lilly, come back!
[15:43] Los
    'Tis futile.
[15:44] Los
    This farce will go down in history.
[15:47] Los
    'Twould be sad to leave someone
    who wishes to participate out.
[15:51] Priest
    She has no such wish.
[15:55] Los
    What does she have, then?
[15:57] Priest
    Wouldn't it be love for me?
[16:00] Priest
    What is wrong?
[16:02] Los
    I was stunned by that extreme confidence!
[16:04] Los
    But on to a more important matter.
[16:08] Los
    This is the Remnant of Disaster
    that ate through Kady's stomach.
[16:12] Los
    This is just a model.
[16:14] Los
    If I had not exterminated it,
[16:17] Los
    it would have spread out infinitely
    from the village and devoured the populace.
[16:22] Los
    Which raises a question.
[16:25] Priest
    A question?
[16:27] Los
    Did the Church extremists intend to take
    themselves out along with the witches?
[16:32] Priest
    No one is foolish enough to spread a plague
    without first preparing a cure.
[16:38] Los
    And supposing that the upper
    echelons of the Church,
[16:41] Los
    perhaps not even the bishops,
    know how to deal with this?
[16:45] Priest
    Then whoever knows how to stop it
    is the one who spread it.
[16:52] Los
    The dragon is flying
    to Loutra Cathedral tonight, yes?
[16:55] Los
    Might there be a seat reserved for me?
[16:59] Eudorite
    Don't dispatch the troops?!
[17:01] Eudorite
    Are you telling the Church & Mage Knights
    to ignore this oppression of witches?
[17:06] Holdem
    Calm down.
[17:08] Holdem
    They won't be fighting,
    but we will send troops.
[17:11] Eudorite
    What do you mean?
[17:13] Holdem
    We'll be taking care of those
    who flee the witch village.
[17:20] Holdem
    We'll treat their injuries, feed them,
    and let them listen to the band.
[17:26] Holdem
    They're idiots whipped up by simplistic
    speeches claiming "witches are all bad."
[17:32] Holdem
    If we treat them well,
    they'll be on our side.
[17:35] Eudorite
    But then...
[17:37] Eudorite
    This will wind up requiring even more
    soldiers than if we annihilated them.
[17:41] Holdem
    Yes. Which is why I ask you, Knight Captain.
[17:46] Holdem
    How many can you get?
[17:48] Cal
    Ria, a request from the Church & Mage
    Knights to dispatch the Magic Medic Unit.
[17:54] Faeria
    Church extremists are marching
    against Zero and Mercenary's village
[17:58] Faeria
    with a force 10,000 strong.
[18:00] Faeria
    How awful.
[18:02] Faeria
    Those 10,000 people are going to die.
[18:05] Cal
    Yeah, they don't do well with holding back.
[18:08] Faeria
    Will things be okay if I leave a single
    medic here as a proxy in my absence?
[18:12] Cal
    We have so many more magic medics now,
[18:15] Cal
    you could even abdicate your
    position as Saint if you'd like.
[18:20] Faeria
    Hey! Don't rib me like that!
[18:23] Faeria
    From Faeria, the Ruler
    of the Holy City Acdios.
[18:26] Faeria
    An emergency message to Torres,
    Head of State of the Creon Republic.
[18:33] Torres
    Fantastic!
[18:34] Torres
    A fantastic venture!
[18:36] Torres
    I have always thought
    that war ought to be conducted
[18:39] Torres
    through a game played on a board.
[18:41] Torres
    But to conduct that game
     on the battlefield...!
[18:45] Albus
    Ow. Not so hard, Torres.
[18:48] Torres
    Now, about that Remnant of Disaster
    from your report the other day.
[18:54] Torres
    We have determined where it came from.
[18:56] Albus
    Really?
[18:57] Torres
    Indeed!
[19:00] Torres
    It started with a noble
    who loved stories of adventure.
[19:03] Torres
    He hired troops, marched to the north,
    and then lost half his troops in a day.
[19:10] Torres
    In the bodies they managed to bring back,
    Remnant of Disaster seeds were found.
[19:16] Albus
    So, the noble went crying to the Church,
[19:18] Albus
    which took them and secretly
    passed them to the extremists.
[19:21] Albus
    Which means...
[19:23] Albus
    a great number of Remnants
    of Disaster could still appear.
[19:28] Torres
    Take this.
[19:31] Torres
    The noble brought back roughly
    500 bodies from the north.
[19:36] Torres
    Supposing they all contained
    Remnants of Disaster,
[19:42] Torres
    when and where would they use them?
[19:46] Albus
    We may have been underestimating them.
[19:48] Cal
    Albus! I didn't know you were here.
[19:52] Cal
    Torres, I brought an emergency
    message from Ria.
[19:55] Cal
    Here it is.
[19:56] Albus
    Cal! Perfect timing!
[19:58] Albus
    Could you fly north right now
    and call back the Mage Commander?
[20:02] Cal
    The north?!
[20:04] Cal
    Ask the Dragon Conqueror King!
    I still wanna live!
[20:07] Albus
    Don't worry! You'll be fine.
[20:09] Albus
    The Commander will make sure to protect you.
[20:13] Albus
    Go as fast as possible! Right now!
[20:15] Torres
    How merciless...
[20:17] Albus
    Well, Torres, you gather the audience.
[20:21] Albus
    I need to return to
    the academy and inform Zero.
[20:26] Laios
    Sayb.
[20:30] Saybil
    Uls. Laios.
[20:32] Laios
    I'm leaving the village tomorrow,
    even though I actually wanna stay and fight.
[20:37] Laios
    But since I'm still a kid...
[20:40] Saybil
    Of course.
[20:42] Laios
    But I'll grow up and come
    back as fast as I can!
[20:47] Saybil
    I'll be waiting, for when
    you come back as an adult.
[20:51] Laios
    Make sure you hold out until I come back.
[20:56] Mercenary
    The outcome of war is largely
    determined by preparation.
[21:00] Mercenary
    How many troops you've mustered.
    How strong a fortress you've built.
[21:05] Mercenary
    The other side has made
    preparations to kill us.
[21:07] Hort
    Ready!
[21:09] Mercenary
    But we've been preparing to not kill them.
[21:14] Mercenary
    If we fail, we'll end up killing people.
[21:20] Saybil
    Professor Zero, if I may.
[21:27] Zero
    Young man, what are you doing?
[21:30] Saybil
    This is the most rational move.
[21:32] Saybil
    You have an obligation
[21:33] Saybil
    to do everything in your power to protect
    our futures and the future of mages.
[21:38] Saybil
    As such, even if my
    individual future is ruined...
[21:42] Hort
    Sayb!
[21:50] Zero
    How much magical energy to give me
    is your decision, young man.
[21:56] Zero
    I shall accept it.
[21:59] Saybil
    I'm going full throttle.
[22:14] Zero
    Ludicrous! Just how far does it go?
[22:25] Saybil
    P-Professor Zero?
[22:27] Zero
    Do you... feel okay?
[22:30] Saybil
    I feel a little lighter.
[22:33] Saybil
    So this is what it feels like
    to have less magic.
[22:37] Zero
    I was underestimating you...
[22:41] Zero
    You will one day make a name
    for yourself as a sorcerer.
[22:45] Zero
    Just as I am known as the Mud-Black Witch,
[22:47] Zero
    and Albus is known as the Mooncaller...
[22:50] Zero
    The Abyss Sorcerer.
[22:52] Zero
    When someone eventually
    inquires for your name,
[22:57] Zero
    that is what I shall call you.
[23:00] Saybil
    Um... I...
[23:03] Kudo
    Loosen up! Stand tall and proud!
[23:06] Hort
    You don't need to be anxious!
[23:08] Hort
    It's for after you've accomplished
    something so great people ask who you are!
[23:12] Kudo
    That's right.
[23:13] Zero
    And if you mess up in this war,
[23:15] Zero
    then all three of you
    will be expelled together.
[23:17] Saybil; Kudo; and Hort
    What?!
[23:27] Los
    A demon-possessed, huh?
[23:30] Los
    Looks like they're not quite
    as ragtag as we expected.
[23:37] Los
    Witness, my friend.
[23:41] Los
    Thou, too, wilt surely
    appreciate this farce.
[23:48] Los
    My dear Ludens,
[23:52] Los
    say hello!
[23:55] Los
    What dost thou think is required
    to beat an enemy without killing them?
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     "The Beginning of the Adventure"
[24:00] Los
    'Tis overwhelming superiority.
[24:03] Los
    Next episode: "The Beginning of the Adventure."
[24:05] Los
    Very well!
[24:06] Los
    You will bring those words
    to my lips, won't you?