# E9 - A Stone Cast Into the Pond
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**[00:01] Holdem**
You really don't want to come back with me?
**[00:03] Holdem**
I'll take you to the Forbidden
Library, as promised.
**[00:06] Los**
Right now I am more preoccupied with
my ducklings than *The Grimoire of Zero*.
**[00:12] Los**
They grow dramatically
before one knows it.
**[00:15] ---**
I can't take my eyes off them.
**[00:17] Holdem**
Well, to you, a few years
is like the blink of an eye.
**[00:22] Los**
True.
**[00:23] Los**
I didn't see thee for a short
time and thou hast grown old.
**[00:27] Los**
The next time I see thee,
thou mightest be dead of old age.
**[00:31] Holdem**
I always look young and spry!
**[00:44] Hort**
You got your memories back?!
**[00:48] Saybil**
Yeah. But they're not very good memories.
**[00:53] Hort**
Do you wanna forget again?
Want a smack to the head?
**[00:56] Saybil**
No thanks.
**[00:57] Saybil**
But it barely feels like I remembered.
**[01:01] Saybil**
I thought things would be
different once I remembered.
**[01:04] Saybil**
But I still know nothing...
**[01:06] Hort**
What do you mean?
**[01:11] Saybil**
What is it like to have
feelings for someone?
**[01:14] Hort**
Huh?!
**[01:16] Saybil**
Professor Los says that
you're in love with me.
**[01:21] Hort**
What?! Um...
**[01:22] Hort**
I...
**[01:26] Saybil**
I was wondering what normally
happens when you like someone.
**[01:30] Hort**
Well... you want to be
special to them, I guess...
**[01:36] Saybil**
You *are* special to me, Hort.
**[01:39] ---**
Is this love?
**[01:41] Hort**
What?
**[01:44] Hort**
No. I don't think it is.
**[01:48] Saybil**
Oh. Sorry.
**[01:50] Hort**
It's okay!
**[01:52] Hort**
I'm happy you're asking
me for love advice, Sayb!
**[01:56] Hort**
Oh, how about this.
**[01:58] Hort**
Who comes to mind when
you think you might die?
**[02:02] Saybil**
When I think I might die?
**[02:09] Saybil**
Oh...
**[02:10] Saybil**
I think I might like Professor Los.
**[02:19] Hort**
I get that.
**[02:21] Hort**
I adore Professor Los, too!
**[02:25] Hort**
You can always talk to me, so promise me!
**[02:29] Hort**
That you'll come to me for love advice first!
**[02:34] Saybil**
Th-Thanks.
**[02:36] Saybil**
I wish there were something
I could do for you, too.
**[02:40] Hort**
How about a morning magic supply?
Is that okay?
**[02:44] Hort**
Thanks!
**[02:45] Saybil**
Sure.
**[02:57] Saybil**
I can't!
**[02:58] Hort**
What?
**[03:00] Saybil**
Sorry, Hort.
**[03:02] Saybil**
I need to go see Professor Zero.
***SIGN*** Episode 9 A Stone Cast Into the Pond
**[04:51] Saybil**
*I think I might like Professor Los.*
**[04:57] Los**
Yes! I shall pretend I never heard that!
**[05:00] Hort**
Professor Los! Professor Los!
**[05:02] Hort**
Sayb says he likes you!
**[05:08] Hort**
P-Professor Los?
**[05:13] Los**
Hort, one should not go around blabbing
someone else's feelings to others.
**[05:29] Saybil**
Professor Zero,
**[05:31] Saybil**
I, um...
**[05:34] Zero**
Sit down, young man.
**[05:36] ---**
Then we can talk.
**[05:40] Hort**
Professor Los, you won't leave us, will you?
**[05:43] Los**
Why dost thou ask that?
**[05:45] Hort**
'Cause teachers run when a
student falls for them, right?
**[05:50] Hort**
Since it's a burden and a pain.
**[05:53] Hort**
I know, because something like
that happened at the Church!
**[05:58] Los**
I should like to dissemble,
but I am fond of keen insight.
**[06:02] Los**
Just as thou fearest,
I am the type of teacher who runs.
**[06:08] Hort**
No! Please, no!
**[06:10] Hort**
I don't want you to leave, Professor!
**[06:13] Hort**
And it would be so sad for Sayb, too,
if the person he likes disappears!
**[06:18] Los**
That's why I was going to pretend
not to have heard anything...
**[06:22] Los**
Worry not. I have yet to
tire of observing you three.
**[06:32] Zero**
It happened sooner than I expected.
**[06:35] Zero**
And your reaction is calmer
than I feared it would be.
**[06:38] Saybil**
But I was frantic when I got here.
**[06:41] Zero**
True, you were.
**[06:44] Zero**
But you weren't trembling with fear,
**[06:47] Zero**
nor were you a captive of despair.
**[06:49] Zero**
You have gained the strength not
to be crushed by your memories.
**[06:54] Saybil**
Crushed by my memories?
**[06:57] Zero**
Unpleasant memories can at times become a
poison that eats away at you from the inside.
**[07:08] Saybil**
Why did I suddenly remember?
**[07:12] Zero**
I imagine because your life was in danger.
**[07:15] Zero**
In other words, you sought to live.
**[07:19] Zero**
Young man, you are no longer empty.
**[07:23] Zero**
You sought a way to fight, even if it meant
dredging up painful memories.
**[07:29] Saybil**
My mother told me something.
**[07:31] Saybil**
She said never approach a
witch with eyes like mine.
**[07:37] Zero**
These eyes are somewhat special.
**[07:40] Zero**
They are something my brother
and I inherited from our father.
**[07:45] Zero**
And that brother is your father, Thirteen.
**[07:55] Zero**
Thirteen and I are each other's
last remaining brethren.
**[08:02] Zero**
Perhaps that's why he would have done
anything for me, even destroy the world.
**[08:08] Zero**
Your magic is part of that.
**[08:10] Zero**
He plotted for it all to be offered up to me.
**[08:14] Zero**
He must have realized that if his
blood and your mother's combined,
**[08:18] Zero**
he would obtain a child with limitless magic.
**[08:23] Zero**
Your mother caught on and fled.
**[08:29] Saybil**
So then... you're...
**[08:31] Zero**
That makes me your aunt.
**[08:33] Saybil**
So there's not really
any danger. Isn't that right?
**[08:37] Zero**
Even so, most of the pain you've
experienced is my fault.
**[08:41] Saybil**
It may have been because of you,
but that doesn't mean it was your fault.
**[08:46] Saybil**
Besides. If not for you,
Professor Zero, I would not exist.
**[08:54] Zero**
You take after him.
**[08:56] Saybil**
After my father?
**[08:58] Zero**
Only in the good aspects, I mean.
**[09:01] Saybil**
I want to hear about my father.
**[09:04] Saybil**
Or, I mean, I want to know.
**[09:07] Saybil**
To know just who I am...
**[09:10] Zero**
Your father was a thorough rationalist.
**[09:14] Zero**
If it was rational,
**[09:16] ---**
he could even work with someone who
was a mortal enemy moments earlier.
**[09:19] Zero**
But rationality at times leads to cruelty.
**[09:24] Zero**
As a result of his extreme rationalism,
he committed a grave, irreparable misdeed.
**[09:31] Zero**
The war.
**[09:33] Zero**
To obtain a world for witches,
Thirteen sacrificed countless lives.
**[09:38] Zero**
An evil sorcerer whose name
will go down in history.
**[09:41] Zero**
That is my brother, your father.
**[09:45] Saybil**
I feel like I know a little
better what I want to be.
**[09:50] Saybil**
This morning I went to supply Hort
with magic, but I couldn't do it.
**[09:56] Saybil**
I felt like I might kill Hort,
and I got scared.
**[10:01] Zero**
I see.
**[10:02] Saybil**
But I want to keep being a magic supplier,
**[10:07] Saybil**
at least during the field program.
**[10:10] Zero**
For your friends?
**[10:12] Saybil**
For me.
**[10:14] Saybil**
Hort and Kudo are going to
teach me magic in exchange.
**[10:18] Saybil**
So please let me practice on you, Professor.
**[10:20] Saybil**
Since even if I mess up,
you won't die.
**[10:28] Saybil**
What? Both hands?
**[10:29] Zero**
We'll circulate magic between us.
**[10:32] ---**
Keep adjusting so the amount stays constant.
**[10:44] Saybil**
Kudo!
**[10:47] Zero**
Be calm. Don't break your concentration.
**[10:49] Zero**
Sorcery and magic require concentration.
**[10:52] Zero**
If you stop your incantation every
time a comrade screams in combat,
**[10:57] Zero**
you'll lose people you could have saved.
**[10:59] Saybil**
But...
**[11:01] Saybil**
I'll become stronger.
**[11:04] Zero**
Yes. You will indeed get stronger.
**[11:07] ---**
Perhaps even stronger than I.
**[11:10] Los**
My goodness.
**[11:13] Los**
It seems we arrived quite a bit late.
**[11:21] Los**
Oh, thou art younger than I thought.
**[11:25] Los**
Thy face was in quite a state last night.
**[11:31] Hort**
What are you doing, Tyrant? Let go of him!
**[11:38] the Tyrant**
Okey dokey.
**[11:46] Los**
My dear Ludens,
**[11:49] Los**
say hello!
**[11:58] Hort**
You think he's here on
orders from the Church?
**[12:01] Kudo**
I bet so. To the Church,
a penniless kid is just a pawn.
**[12:07] [Hearthful?]**
There are many good-hearted
people within the Church, too.
**[12:13] [Hearthful?]**
I can't say I approve of
such over-generalization.
**[12:17] Los**
Ah, if it isn't Lady Hearthful!
**[12:20] Los**
Shouldst thou not be at the school?
**[12:23] [Hearthful?]**
I ended class in the morning today.
**[12:26] [Hearthful?]**
I brought lunch for our patient.
**[12:29] [Hearthful?]**
Only, I heard a scream on the way,
so I came to investigate.
**[12:35] [Hearthful?]**
Please forgive me for
essentially eavesdropping.
**[12:38] Los**
Thou hast a proper sense of
yourself as being protected.
**[12:43] Los**
Still, lately it smells like
trouble is brewing, does it not?
**[12:47] Los**
Dost thou not feel it is
time to flee the village?
**[12:51] [Hearthful?]**
Goodness, no.
**[12:53] [Hearthful?]**
It is to be expected that the extremists
within the Church would target a witch village.
**[12:58] [Hearthful?]**
Everyone who came here was
prepared for that possibility.
**[13:03] the Tyrant**
Whaddya want?
**[13:04] [Hearthful?]**
As I said, I brought you lunch.
**[13:08] the Tyrant**
Oh... well, that was... kind of ya.
**[13:13] [Hearthful?]**
This one is
**[13:16] [Hearthful?]**
for him.
**[13:18] [Hearthful?]**
He is still just a kid.
**[13:21] [Hearthful?]**
Did the extremists not consider
that a child like him would fail?
**[13:28] Hort**
Good point.
**[13:29] Los**
He is chum.
**[13:32] Los**
To the anti-witch faction,
this village is a murky swamp.
**[13:36] Los**
They do not know what fish
there might be, or how many.
**[13:40] [Hearthful?]**
So then, he's...?
**[13:42] Los**
They probably wished to see how this young man
would be killed for attacking with clear hostility.
**[13:52] Kudo**
He'll get no sympathy from me!
**[13:54] Kudo**
He tried to stab not just
me, but Professor Los, too!
**[13:58] Kudo**
He attacked the one he thought
was weakest to break through.
**[14:02] Kudo**
He'd even have no qualms
killing the village children.
**[14:07] Los**
Ah, but, Kudo, no one said
anything about sympathy.
**[14:11] Kudo**
I don't... I didn't...
**[14:14] Los**
Thou dost, right?
**[14:15] Los**
Though dost have sympathy for him, right?
**[14:19] Los**
Very well!
**[14:20] Los**
I am fond of compassion
that overcomes even hatred!
**[14:23] Los**
Here, I shall pat thee for it!
**[14:25] Hort**
I'm jealous!
**[14:26] Kudo**
Stop it!
**[14:27] Hort**
I'll show compassion, too! I will!
**[14:28] [Hearthful?]**
That is bad manners.
**[14:30] [Hearthful?]**
Would you like to sit and eat at a table?
**[14:32] the Tyrant**
I'm an Arbiter, you know.
**[14:35] [Hearthful?]**
Even for Arbiters and witches,
etiquette and manners are important.
**[14:40] the Tyrant**
Oh? Am I gonna etiquette
my enemies to death?
**[14:44] [Hearthful?]**
Other people's opinions of you can
be a way of protecting yourself.
**[14:48] [Hearthful?]**
Manners are a useful and efficient
way of gaining positive regard.
**[14:54] the Tyrant**
I'm only regarded for killing.
**[14:58] [Hearthful?]**
You intend to build relationships with
others in this village through killing?
**[15:04] the Tyrant**
That's my job. Ain't that right, boss?
**[15:08] Hort**
Your job is protecting, not killing!
**[15:12] the Tyrant**
Ain't that the same thing?
**[15:14] Hort**
Not at all!
**[15:16] [Hearthful?]**
Ah, yes. If your job is to protect the village,
then you need to learn about it.
**[15:22] [Hearthful?]**
Might I show you around the village?
**[15:25] Hort**
Huh? U-Um, I think that's
dangerous. He's a killer.
**[15:30] the Tyrant**
I ain't gonna kill anybody for free.
**[15:33] the Tyrant**
But if there's money in it, then—
**[15:37] [Hearthful?]**
I must inform you that
acting fearsome like that
**[15:40] [Hearthful?]**
will gain you nothing here.
**[15:43] [Hearthful?]**
No one in this village will fear you.
**[15:47] the Tyrant**
Oh, is that so?
**[15:54] [Hearthful?]**
Professor Los, no need to escalate.
**[15:58] [Hearthful?]**
I'm sure it was just a little test to
see if I really wouldn't be afraid.
**[16:04] Los**
Do not play games like this again, Tyrant.
**[16:07] ---**
Next time thy head shall fly.
**[16:10] the Tyrant**
My bad.
**[16:13] [Hearthful?]**
Shall we go, then, Mr. Tyrant?
**[16:18] Mercenary**
Hey, he's just a kid.
**[16:21] Mercenary**
So the assailant was just some kid.
**[16:24] Mercenary**
I wanted to get some
information out of him,
**[16:28] Mercenary**
but this changes the plan.
**[16:30] Kudo**
What was the plan?
**[16:33] Mercenary**
Torture.
**[16:35] Kudo**
N-No torturing!
**[16:38] Mercenary**
I'm saying I'm not gonna torture a kid.
**[16:40] Kudo**
No adults, either!
**[16:42] Kudo**
The plan was to send him to Wenias
once his condition is stable!
**[16:47] Kudo**
But *torture*?
**[16:49] Kudo**
That ain't the rule of law!
**[16:51] Hort**
W-Wow, Kudo!
**[16:53] Hort**
You sound super smart!
**[16:55] Hort**
I agree!
**[16:57] Hort**
No torture!
**[16:58] Mercenary**
You're quite right.
**[17:00] Mercenary**
If torture's out, then this
is a job for the priest.
**[17:03] Kudo**
The priest?
**[17:05] Hort**
True. The Father can use verbal torment—
**[17:08] Hort**
Look out!
**[17:11] Priest**
I'm surprised. That was intended to hit.
**[17:15] Hort**
No violence! You call yourself a clergyman?
**[17:18] Priest**
You never know who could be listening.
**[17:22] Priest**
If you grasped that better, I would
not need to resort to violence.
**[17:29] Priest**
Also, look.
**[17:31] Priest**
He's awake. Has been for a while.
**[17:50] Priest**
Realize your position,
**[17:52] Priest**
heretic who comprehends not a single
ounce of the chaste Church's aims.
**[17:56] [Kady?]**
Damn it! Is everyone in
this village a monster?
**[18:00] Priest**
What is evil?
**[18:03] Priest**
Just what
**[18:04] Priest**
is a monster?
**[18:06] Priest**
If your head is for show and lacks even
the sense an infant would retain,
**[18:11] Priest**
shall I cut it off and replace it
with the head of that monster there?
**[18:16] Kudo and Mercenary**
*Does he mean me?*
**[18:17] Hort and Los**
Yikes.
**[18:19] Priest**
Can the room be made dark?
**[18:22] Los**
Indeed.
**[18:36] Hort**
Whoa! I-It's so dark!
**[18:39] Los**
'Tis roughly a moonlit night.
**[18:41] Los**
Perhaps a bit too bright
for the priest's eyes.
**[18:45] Priest**
No. This is enough.
**[18:47] Priest**
I will ask you several questions,
but you need not answer them.
**[18:52] Priest**
If you wish to answer, I will not stop you.
**[18:55] Priest**
But if you lie, I will know.
**[19:02] Priest**
Were you the only one sent to this
village with the Remnant of Disaster?
**[19:09] [Kady?]**
Good question.
**[19:10] Priest**
Affirmed. Well, as anticipated.
**[19:14] [Kady?]**
What?! I didn't say—
**[19:17] Priest**
Are further attacks with
Remnants of Disaster planned?
**[19:23] [Kady?]**
How should I know?
**[19:25] Priest**
You showed signs of embarrassment.
**[19:27] Priest**
I see. It appears you really don't know.
**[19:30] Priest**
Furthermore, you are embarrassed
you weren't informed.
**[19:34] Priest**
Is there a plan to rescue you?
**[19:36] [Kady?]**
D—
**[19:38] Priest**
Strong negative.
**[19:39] Priest**
It was made clear to you that you
would not be rescued if captured.
**[19:44] Hort**
What? How does he know? Is it a bluff?
**[19:48] Los**
Facial expressions.
**[19:49] Los**
Movements of the pupils, eyelids, and lips.
**[19:52] Los**
He is reading unconsciously
expressed emotion.
**[19:55] Hort**
He can do that?!
**[19:57] Priest**
I have the general picture.
**[19:59] Priest**
You may let it be light again.
**[20:04] Priest**
To be frank,
**[20:05] Priest**
we gained little information.
**[20:08] Priest**
Nor can we exclude the possibility that the
boy was supplied with false information.
**[20:14] Los**
From the fact that they acquired
a Remnant of Destruction,
**[20:18] Los**
a higher-up at the Church is involved.
Someone fairly high up, at that.
**[20:25] Priest**
Unfortunately.
**[20:27] Los**
So someone is presenting themselves as
a peace faction, but supporting the extremists.
**[20:33] Mercenary**
The internal conflict within the
Church is pretty messy right now, isn't it?
**[20:37] ---**
How alarming.
**[20:39] Los**
Someone so high up must have better
cards to play than a powerless boy.
**[20:44] Los**
In other words,
**[20:46] Los**
further moves ought to be coming.
**[20:49] Los**
But strangely, there has been no movement.
**[20:53] Los**
What should be happening, isn't.
**[20:55] Los**
Which means,
**[20:56] Los**
the move has already been made in secret.
**[20:59] Los**
We must assume so.
**[21:00] Los**
For now, regarding that boy,
**[21:03] Los**
it may be best to delay his
transfer to Wenias for a bit.
**[21:09] Hort**
The adults are deciding
everything themselves.
**[21:14] Hort**
I can fight, too, you know!
**[21:17] Hort**
Yeah, right.
**[21:19] Hort**
A student who can't take
responsibility can't do anything.
**[21:35] [Hearthful?]**
My, how rare for you to come by the school.
**[21:40] [Hearthful?]**
I was just showing Mr. Tyrant around.
**[21:44] Hort**
Oh.
**[21:45] Hort**
What's that they're making?
**[21:47] [Hearthful?]**
He says it's a trap to catch fish.
**[21:50] [Hearthful?]**
He apparently worked at a workshop
that made traps for hunting.
**[21:54] Hort**
Did he say, "traps for hunting people"?
**[21:58] [Hearthful?]**
Yes. First thing.
**[22:02] [Hearthful?]**
Apparently he can't help but try to scare me.
**[22:05] [Hearthful?]**
He's like a little kid.
**[22:07] Laios**
Look, mister! I finished my trap!
**[22:13] the Tyrant**
I'd say this looks pretty good.
**[22:16] Laios**
Ms. Hearthful! I wanna go to the river!
**[22:19] [Hearthful?]**
A fine idea. Why don't we all
go there together tomorrow?
**[22:23] Laios**
Yay!
**[22:32] [Hearthful?]**
I suppose the idea of us going
alone is still a little worrisome.
**[22:36] [Hearthful?]**
Might I ask you to escort us?
**[22:39] Hort**
O-Of course!
**[22:41] Laios**
Are you coming, too, mister?
**[22:42] the Tyrant**
Depends on the boss.
I don't get to decide.
**[22:46] Hort**
Of course you're coming, too!
**[22:48] Hort**
Don't forget, you're my servant!
**[22:52] the Tyrant**
Sure, sure.
**[22:53] the Tyrant**
But are ya sure? You want a killer
like me to be around kids?
**[22:58] Hort**
Hey! Not in front of the children!
**[23:01] Laios**
Mister, are you gonna kill us?
**[23:04] the Tyrant**
Nah, I mean... I don't intend to.
**[23:07] Laios**
Then it's fine for him to be
around us. Right, everyone?
**[23:11] Kids**
I agree!
**[23:11] Kids**
Yeah!
**[23:14] the Tyrant**
What're ya teaching these kids?
**[23:17] [Hearthful?]**
As I told you.
**[23:18] [Hearthful?]**
No resident of this village will fear you.
**[23:22] [Hearthful?]**
If there isn't sufficient reason to fear,
**[23:24] [Hearthful?]**
we won't be scared of anything.
**[23:42] Kudo**
*The transfer is postponed?*
**[23:47] [Kady?]**
Damn it!
**[23:49] Kudo**
Hey.
**[23:50] Kudo**
Come with me.
***SIGN*** Next Episode "Snack Time"
**[23:55] Lilly**
Eating something yummy
makes people feel better.
**[23:58] Lilly**
So, I'm gonna make yummy food!
**[24:01] Lilly**
Next episode: "Snack Time."
**[24:03] Saybil**
Professor Los, you're awfully quiet.
**[24:06] Los**
No comment. Wait for next week!