# E4 - I'm Not Afraid to Die
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**[00:01] Priest**
You three are mages?
**[00:04] Priest**
From the field program, then.
**[00:06] Hort**
What?
**[00:07] Saybil**
You know about that?
**[00:08] Priest**
Of course the residents of the target village
for the program would know about it.
**[00:15] Priest**
Are you simpletons?
**[00:18] Priest**
I beg your pardon.
**[00:19] Priest**
I held ill will for witches
for a long time. It was reflexive.
**[00:24] Kudo**
Wh-What a jerk.
**[00:26] Hort**
Shh!
**[00:27] Laios**
These people protected me.
**[00:30] Priest**
Oh, my...
**[00:32] Priest**
You confronted the mercenary
and did not run?
**[00:35] Priest**
Somewhat reckless of you.
**[00:37] Hort**
U-Um, what's going on here?
Who is that beastfallen?
**[00:43] Priest**
Leave this place.
**[00:44] Hort**
What?!
**[00:46] Priest**
That beastfallen is a guard,
**[00:49] Priest**
who solidifies the witch's
control over this village.
**[00:53] Priest**
**[02:23] Priest**
It was two years ago that control
of the village changed hands.
***SIGN*** Episode 4 I'm Not Afraid to Die
**[02:28] Priest**
The witch who was to be your supervisor
**[02:31] Priest**
surrendered the village to an invader
without a fight and vanished.
**[02:36] Priest**
Ever since, no one has been
able to oppose her.
**[02:40] Kudo**
Wh-What's the deal?
**[02:42] Kudo**
Does the Headmaster know?
**[02:44] Kudo**
Wh-What's the point
of sending us here if—
**[02:49] Saybil**
Of the five special program students,
**[02:53] Saybil**
three were working
with the anti-witch faction,
**[02:56] Saybil**
one is a badly-behaved beastfallen,
**[03:00] Saybil**
and one is a remedial student.
**[03:03] Saybil**
We're all problems for the Academy.
**[03:06] Hort**
Y-You mean... she took students
she wanted to be rid of
**[03:10] Hort**
and sent them to the field program?
**[03:11] Hort**
Would going back to the Academy now
mean we flunk and get expelled?
**[03:17] Hort**
It wouldn't, right?
**[03:18] Kudo**
Why do something so roundabout when—
**[03:20] Priest**
Not fulfilling one's duties
**[03:23] Priest**
is a serious issue in large organizations.
**[03:26] Kudo**
Damn it!
**[03:28] Kudo**
Then why don't we go notify the Church
& Mage Army and defeat the witch?
**[03:31] Priest**
Battling a powerful witch
could mean losing 1,000 soldiers.
**[03:37] Priest**
It's not worth it to them.
**[03:39] Kudo**
The Church & Mage Army doesn't
operate based on profit and loss!
**[03:42] Priest**
In these parts, they call
themselves the Church Knights.
**[03:47] Priest**
The troubles of a witch village
**[03:50] Priest**
would not move them in the slightest.
**[03:53] Los**
Why would you trust him?
**[03:55] Los**
Do you not find him fishy?
**[03:58] Los**
What proof do you have that this priest
is not in league with that beastfallen?
**[04:03] Saybil**
Professor Los.
**[04:05] Hort**
But the father here is blind...
**[04:07] Los**
What does that matter?
**[04:09] Los**
I look like no more than
an *adorable* young girl,
**[04:12] Los**
but in fact I am a renowned
**[04:15] Los**
witch.
**[04:16] Los**
In the absence of sufficient
reason for trust,
**[04:19] Los**
I maintain skepticism.
**[04:22] Priest**
A sudden appearance
followed swiftly by rudeness.
**[04:26] Los**
That beastfallen knew
I was the students' escort.
**[04:32] Los**
'Tis strange, is it not?
**[04:34] Los**
What aspect of mine adorable visage
would have suggested that?
**[04:39] Los**
But what if the Arbiter who attacked us
ran back to the Church and provided intel?
**[04:45] Los**
And then a priest shared that information
from the Church with the witch?
**[04:51] Priest**
I see. Suspicious indeed.
**[04:53] Priest**
If you encounter someone so suspicious,
**[04:56] Priest**
wouldn't the effective strategy
be to kill them immediately?
**[04:59] Los**
'Twould be simple to kill them.
**[05:01] Los**
However, I am fond of careful
scrutiny of the circumstances.
**[05:05] Los**
If thou insist thou art not our enemy,
**[05:08] Los**
show us around the village.
**[05:11] Los**
I should like to see
the villagers' reactions.
**[05:14] Priest**
As you please.
**[05:19] Laios**
Daddy!
**[05:23] Uls**
Laios!
**[05:25] Uls**
You're safe. I was so worried!
**[05:28] Priest**
It's all right. He is unharmed, Uls.
**[05:32] Uls**
Father.
**[05:33] Uls**
Who are these kids?
**[05:35] Priest**
Field program students, apparently.
They protected Laios from the mercenary.
**[05:40] Saybil**
This is the field program village...
**[05:43] Uls**
Thank you for bringing my boy back.
**[05:47] Uls**
Father, is the danger to the village past?
**[05:49] Priest**
Yes.
**[05:51] Priest**
However, these folks appear to
suspect me of working for the witch.
**[05:56] Uls**
Yeah, you do seem fishy.
**[06:00] Uls**
Still, that's quite some
bad luck you guys have.
**[06:03] Uls**
But don't lose heart!
**[06:05] Uls**
Oh, you must be tired from your journey.
**[06:08] Uls**
Even if you're going back,
you should rest for the night.
**[06:12] Laios**
And that's the school over there!
**[06:14] Hort**
Wow, you have a school.
**[06:17] Uls**
We take care of the orphaned
kids as a village.
**[06:21] Laios**
I'm the only kid who was
born in the village.
**[06:24] Laios**
When I was born,
the nice witch lady did a spell
**[06:28] Laios**
so everyone would like me!
**[06:30] Laios**
She told me so.
**[06:32] Laios**
That's why I'm the most
precious child in the village!
**[06:36] Laios**
Oh, um,
**[06:38] Laios**
I'm talking about the previous witch lady.
**[06:42] Laios**
Remember the barrier in the forest?
She made that, too!
**[06:46] Los**
'Twas a marvelous barrier.
**[06:48] Uls**
Yes. She was the pride of the village.
**[06:51] Kudo**
If that witch was so great,
**[06:53] Kudo**
how come she fled without fighting?
**[06:56] Hort**
Hey!
**[06:57] Uls**
I just don't know. She'd been with us
since the founding of the village.
**[07:04] Los**
'Tis very quiet around here.
**[07:07] Uls**
We hardly ever get any
strangers visiting, so...
**[07:11] Uls**
Here we are. This is it.
**[07:17] Kudo**
Wh-What are those?
**[07:20] Uls**
Dolls.
**[07:21] Uls**
One for each person who used to live here.
**[07:25] Hort**
*Used* to live here?
**[07:28] Uls**
Well...
**[07:30] Uls**
The witch and the mercenary
aren't bad people,
**[07:33] Uls**
but they don't tolerate escape.
**[07:36] Uls**
The sight of those dolls stops
people from trying to run.
**[07:39] Uls**
Except for the kids who don't
remember two years ago.
**[07:43] Uls**
But life ain't that bad here.
**[07:45] Uls**
If ya follow the rules,
it's calm and peaceful.
**[07:51] Laios**
See ya later!
**[07:54] Los**
I see...
**[07:56] Los**
Yes.
**[08:03] Los**
I *see*...
**[08:06] Los**
Very well!
**[08:09] Los**
Let us kill the witch.
**[08:13] Los**
And Albus, while we're at it.
**[08:15] Kudo**
What now?!
**[08:16] Hort**
P-Professor?!
**[08:18] Hort**
Killing the Headmaster won't solve anything!
**[08:22] Los**
But 'tis infuriating!
**[08:24] Los**
That damned Albus!
**[08:25] Los**
She duped not only you three,
**[08:27] Los**
but *me* as well!
**[08:30] Hort**
Oh, right. If there's no supervising witch,
your job can't end.
**[08:36] Los**
Precisely.
**[08:38] Los**
So...
**[08:42] Los**
The more I think about it,
the more it infuriates me!
**[08:44] Los**
The lass made a total fool of me!
**[08:48] Los**
Listen up, my ducklings!
**[08:50] Los**
I swear to complete my job!
**[08:53] Los**
I'll teach her
**[08:55] Los**
what happens if thou
underestimate the Dawn Witch!
**[09:05] Los**
My goodness. Youngsters these days.
**[09:07] Los**
Utterly lacking in passion and drive.
**[09:10] Kudo**
I'm pissed, too.
But there's nothing I can do.
**[09:14] Hort**
If we go back to Wenias, maybe the
Church & Mage Army will help us!
**[09:20] Saybil**
But...
**[09:22] Saybil**
If we do that, the village
is sure to become a battlefield.
**[09:27] Saybil**
I'm not sure it's right to do that
to the village just so we can graduate.
**[09:33] Hort**
Th-That's...
**[09:35] Saybil**
Which is why I feel we
should do this on our own.
**[09:39] Hort**
What?
**[09:41] Saybil**
The fact that she let us into
the village means she isn't wary of us.
**[09:45] Saybil**
With me around,
you two can cast without limit.
**[09:49] Saybil**
And we even have Professor Los!
**[09:51] Saybil**
And if I grab the Staff of Ludens again,
it can at least serve as a distraction—
**[09:55] Kudo**
That's enough!
**[10:00] Kudo**
The beastfallen in the forest
has clearly seen war.
**[10:04] Kudo**
Imagine the sort of witch he works for.
**[10:06] Kudo**
You're telling us to die in a fight
we have no shot at winning!
**[10:11] Hort**
C-Calm down! That's not what Sayb meant.
**[10:15] Kudo**
Who cares! It's what he said!
**[10:19] Saybil**
So we just sit back and get expelled?
**[10:22] Saybil**
If that happens, we'll have
our memories erased.
**[10:25] Saybil**
Including all memory of this journey,
and of everyone else.
**[10:29] Saybil**
Then I'll be empty.
**[10:33] Kudo**
You'd die to avoid starting over?
**[10:37] Saybil**
I realized something
**[10:39] Saybil**
when we were attacked by the Arbiter
and I decided to use the Staff of Ludens.
**[10:50] Saybil**
I'm not afraid to die.
**[10:57] Hort**
But just the thought scares me.
**[11:00] Saybil**
I'm sorry. Of course it does.
**[11:03] Saybil**
You and Kudo can leave
the village and wait, then.
**[11:08] Hort**
What are you talking about?
**[11:13] Hort**
I was telling you
**[11:15] Hort**
that I don't want you to die!
**[11:18] Saybil**
Huh? Why?
**[11:25] Saybil**
Huh? Um...
**[11:29] Saybil**
Hort!
**[11:30] Los**
What is the point of chasing after her?
**[11:33] Saybil**
To apologize, of course.
**[11:35] Los**
"I don't know what I did,
but I'll just apologize." Is that it?
**[11:40] Los**
'Tis an awful kind of apology.
**[11:43] Los**
Excessively low regard for thyself
can at times hurt others.
**[11:48] Saybil**
Kudo, educate this numbskull
about why Hort cried.
**[11:55] Kudo**
It's because you're friends.
**[11:58] Saybil**
What?
**[11:59] Kudo**
Hort just doesn't want her
friend to die like a dog.
**[12:03] Kudo**
But you couldn't see why she would be sad.
**[12:08] Saybil**
Friends...
**[12:13] Saybil**
I don't want Hort to die, either.
**[12:16] Saybil**
I'm going to apologize!
**[12:20] Los**
Ah, youth.
**[12:25] Hort**
What kind of mage am I?
**[12:28] Hort**
This just screams "one of
the Church's faithful."
**[12:32] Lilly**
Is that bad?
**[12:38] Hort**
D-Do you live here?
**[12:42] Lilly**
I'm Lilly. I was cleaning.
**[12:45] Hort**
O-Oh, I see. I'm sorry for interrupting.
**[12:50] Hort**
Th-There's no rain.
Why are you dressed like that?
**[12:53] Lilly**
Um, I'm supposed to stay out of sight.
**[12:57] Lilly**
But... you were crying.
**[12:59] Hort**
Oh, um, I...
**[13:03] Lilly**
Are you sad?
**[13:04] Hort**
No, no. I just had a fight with a friend.
**[13:09] Lilly**
Oh.
**[13:11] Lilly**
Um, it's okay for a mage
to follow the Church.
**[13:16] Lilly**
The father says that all the time.
**[13:21] Hort**
Hey, Lilly, do you love the father?
**[13:25] Lilly**
Huh?
**[13:26] Lilly**
H-How did you know?
**[13:28] Priest**
Lilly.
**[13:32] Hort**
Father...
**[13:35] Kudo**
Hey, do we have a shot?
**[13:38] Los**
I couldn't say.
**[13:39] Kudo**
Then what's the point of fighting?
**[13:42] Los**
To live.
**[13:45] Los**
My purpose in life is entertainment.
**[13:47] Los**
And right now, mine entertainment
**[13:50] Los**
is you three!
**[13:52] Los**
These past few days, I have completely
inhabited the role of teacher.
**[13:57] Los**
The ducklings I have protected and guided
**[14:01] Los**
are about to be cruelly
brought crashing down to earth.
**[14:04] Los**
I detest simplistic tragedies.
**[14:07] Los**
I shan't allow anyone to trample upon
my beloved students' denouement.
**[14:14] Los**
If it is to obtain the ending I desire,
**[14:18] Los**
then I shall be willing to die.
**[14:26] Priest**
My goodness. I told her not to come out.
**[14:30] Hort**
She comforted me because I was crying.
**[14:34] Hort**
So please, don't scold her.
**[14:37] Priest**
Are you in a position to worry about others?
**[14:40] Hort**
Huh?
**[14:42] Priest**
I heard you had a fight with a friend.
**[14:44] Hort**
Y-You heard that?
**[14:47] Priest**
I have excellent hearing.
**[14:50] Hort**
It's not a big deal.
**[14:53] Hort**
I just...
**[14:57] Hort**
Of course. I...
**[14:59] Hort**
I should have used my words.
**[15:03] Hort**
Sayb just didn't understand.
I didn't have to get so upset.
**[15:08] Hort**
I'm sure they're all worried about me.
**[15:10] Hort**
I'll just use my words.
**[15:12] Hort**
I better head back now.
**[15:16] Hort**
Huh?
**[15:16] Priest**
How utterly careless of you.
**[15:19] Priest**
Going off alone in a village
controlled by a witch.
**[15:25] Hort**
*His cane...*
**[15:27] Hort**
*That symbol...*
**[15:29] Hort**
*Dia Ignis!*
**[15:31] Priest**
Speaking of fights,
**[15:33] Priest**
I heard you betrayed the Church.
**[15:37] Priest**
I don't blame you.
**[15:40] Priest**
You attended a mage academy
for four whole years.
**[15:44] Priest**
Of course it had an effect on you.
**[15:47] Priest**
Furthermore, the Tyrant's barbaric
nature is difficult to condone.
**[15:54] Hort**
*I-I can't move!*
**[15:57] Priest**
Let's have a little conversation.
**[16:06] Hort**
S-Somebody!
**[16:09] Priest**
Shh. Quiet.
**[16:12] Priest**
If your heart is righteous,
**[16:16] Priest**
then no one will be hurt.
**[16:20] Los**
Thou art unable to find Hort?
**[16:23] Saybil**
Correct. I've looked everywhere.
**[16:25] Los**
Did any of the villagers see anything?
**[16:31] Los**
There's no other option.
We'll track her magic.
**[16:35] Kudo**
Are you sure this is the right way?
**[16:37] Los**
I can track any mage I have met.
**[16:41] Kudo**
But why would she be in this forest?
**[16:45] Los**
It appears she must be in there.
**[16:49] Kudo**
A cave?!
**[16:52] Los**
Wow!
**[16:53] Los**
The cave is lit up! How convenient!
**[16:56] Saybil**
Amazing!
**[16:58] Saybil**
So you can cast Solm
with no incantation, too.
**[17:01] Kudo**
Of course I can!
**[17:02] Kudo**
One day, I'll be able to cast any spell
without doing the incantation.
**[17:10] Saybil**
Professor Los?
**[17:13] Los**
Blood.
**[17:15] Los**
And the magical traces I sense
from further in don't belong to Hort alone.
**[17:22] Kudo**
Shit, this is a trap! Let's retreat!
**[17:26] Los**
No, this is perfect.
**[17:27] Kudo**
What?!
**[17:27] Saybil**
Huh?
**[17:29] Los**
If the village's ruler
is granting us an audience,
**[17:33] Los**
then let's graciously
accept the offer, shall we?
**[17:36] Kudo**
Are you stupid?! We'll be killed!
**[17:39] Los**
A battle with a witch
**[17:41] Los**
is all about evading
the traps she has laid out.
**[17:45] Los**
My dear Ludens and
I shall discern those traps.
**[17:49] Kudo**
That still won't change the fact
we're at a disadvantage!
**[17:53] Los**
The Church & Magic Army does
not fear fighting witches.
**[17:57] Los**
The symbol of that army is
**[18:00] Los**
the king of a lost nation destroyed by a dragon,
**[18:03] Los**
the Dragon Conqueror King.
**[18:04] Los**
He found victory
in a seemingly hopeless fight
**[18:07] Los**
and became the master of a dragon.
**[18:10] Los**
Wilt thou be a daring and resolute
soldier or a fleeing civilian?
**[18:15] Los**
The choice is thine.
**[18:21] Kudo**
This is stupid!
**[18:22] Kudo**
I ain't goin' along with this!
**[18:24] Kudo**
I'm not as strong
as the Dragon Conqueror King
**[18:26] Kudo**
and charging to an obvious
death isn't bravery!
**[18:30] Kudo**
I don't care if I'll be expelled!
**[18:32] Saybil**
Kudo!
**[18:34] Los**
It seems I didn't push hard enough.
**[18:37] Los**
Sayb, light, please.
**[18:45] ---**
Damn it!
**[18:46] Mercenary**
You abandoned them?
**[18:51] Kudo**
Y-You...
**[18:53] Mercenary**
If you cut ties with them,
**[18:56] Mercenary**
then how about joining *me*?
**[18:59] Mercenary**
You'll be able to learn magic.
**[19:02] Kudo**
What?
**[19:04] Saybil**
Chapter of Harvest, verse one, Solm!
**[19:07] Saybil**
Grant me power!
**[19:09] Saybil**
My name is Saybil!
**[19:16] Los**
What the devil was that? An explosion?!
**[19:19] Saybil**
S-Sorry, Professor.
**[19:22] Los**
Thou hast not the least bit of control.
**[19:25] Saybil**
Sorry.
**[19:27] Los**
If *I* could use magic...
**[19:31] Los**
I believe I've had a great idea.
**[19:36] Mercenary**
Real witches can create magic.
**[19:40] Mercenary**
That includes my employer.
**[19:42] Kudo**
I-I only want to join
the Church & Mage Army.
**[19:46] Kudo**
There's no point learning
magic if I'm expelled.
**[19:50] Mercenary**
I can get you into the Army.
**[19:52] Kudo**
What?!
**[19:53] Kudo**
Is that true, old man?
**[19:55] Mercenary**
"Old man?"
**[19:57] Mercenary**
If you accept the conditions, I'll enter
into a witch's blood contract with you.
**[20:07] Mercenary**
Whaddya say?
**[20:09] Kudo**
Where's Hort?
**[20:10] Mercenary**
Huh?
**[20:11] Kudo**
What did you do with Hort?
**[20:13] Mercenary**
Hort?
**[20:15] Mercenary**
Oh, the girl with the hat.
**[20:19] Mercenary**
I killed and ate her.
**[20:22] Mercenary**
She tasted great.
**[20:24] Mercenary**
The flesh of young women is so tender.
**[20:32] Kudo**
You cur!
**[20:34] Kudo**
Over my dead body!
**[20:36] Mercenary**
Fine. Get lost, then.
**[20:39] Mercenary**
It's a pain, but I gotta kill your friends.
**[20:44] Kudo**
Hold it!
**[20:48] Kudo**
You're not going anywhere! You hear me?
**[20:53] Mercenary**
I like your spunk. You pass.
**[20:56] Mercenary**
Or so I'd like to say,
**[20:59] Mercenary**
but first let's see what you've got!
**[21:03] Saybil**
There's nothing here.
**[21:06] Saybil**
No traps.
**[21:07] Los**
It seems not.
**[21:08] Los**
'Tis conciliation.
**[21:11] Los**
An apprentice mage with limitless magic.
**[21:14] Los**
Any witch would want thee,
**[21:17] Los**
including the witch
of this village, I dare say.
**[21:21] Saybil**
The witch wants me?
**[21:31] Los**
Sayb!
**[21:33] Saybil**
I-I'm fine.
**[21:36] Saybil**
I think I just remembered something.
**[21:40] Los**
Listen, Sayb.
**[21:43] Los**
None would blame thee
if thou turnst back.
**[21:46] Saybil**
What?
**[21:48] Los**
There is no shame in running.
**[21:50] Los**
Thou value thine own life too lightly.
**[21:54] Los**
Wouldst thou try to save Hort alone,
even if I were against it?
**[22:01] Saybil**
I would.
**[22:03] Los**
Why?
**[22:06] Saybil**
Hort is a... f-friend. That's why.
**[22:14] Los**
Ah, friendship.
**[22:17] Los**
I, too, had that once.
**[22:20] Saybil**
Y-You are, too, Professor.
**[22:27] Saybil**
I would try to save you, as well.
Without question.
**[22:35] Los**
My goodness!
**[22:37] Los**
Thou art certainly a sweet-talker!
**[22:39] Saybil**
Professor Los.
**[22:41] Los**
There are people who care for thee.
**[22:43] Los**
There are people thou carest for.
**[22:46] Los**
Never forget that.
**[23:00] Los**
Sayb!
**[23:04] Los**
Ludens!
**[23:14] Los**
Ow!
**[23:16] Los**
That was right in the stomach!
**[23:17] Priest**
I warned you, didn't I?
**[23:21] Priest**
That if you have suspicions,
**[23:24] Priest**
you should kill me.
**[23:55] Hort**
What's going on?
**[23:56] Hort**
Did I die? Tell me! Tell me!
***SIGN*** Next Episode "I Decide Who's Worthy"
**[23:58] Los**
Hort, calm down.
**[24:01] Saybil**
Next time: "I Decide Who's Worthy."
**[24:04] Hort**
Address my death already!
**[24:06] Los**
Be quiet!