E3 - Payday

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[00:07] Blood
    Okay, that's enough.
[00:09] Blood
    You've gotten a lot stronger.
[00:13] Will
    What are we gonna do today?
[00:15] Will
    Spar?
[00:17] Blood
    Nope, today's all about this.
[00:20] Will
    What is it?
[00:21] Blood
    Here.
[00:24] Blood
    Take a sniff.
[00:27] Will
    Why do you have this?
[00:28] Blood
    I thought we could drink it together.
[00:30] Blood
    I made it by putting honey
    in some forest grape juice.
[00:34] Blood
    The honey wasn't easy to get, y'know.
[00:39] Will
    Is something wrong?
[00:40] Blood
    Nah, just... come the winter
    solstice, you'll be an adult.
[00:44] Blood
    And a man's gotta get used to this stuff.
[00:47] Will
    Won't Mary be mad about this?
[00:49] Blood
    Nah, we'll keep it a secret.
[00:51] Blood
    It'll be just between us men.
[00:55] Will
    Okay, let's drink.
[00:56] Blood
    All right! Here y'go!
[00:59] Will
    Cheers!
[01:03] Blood
    Whoa, that's good! Delicious!
[01:06] Blood
    And I even get to drink it with you!
[01:09] Will
    Yeah. It's good.
SIGN    The Faraway Paladin
[02:44] Blood
    Okay! Time to test your courage!
[02:47] Will
    My courage?
[02:49] Blood
    We're gonna take a little peek
    at Mary while she's changing.
[02:52] Will
    But won't we get in trouble?
[02:54] Blood
    Say what?!
[02:55] Will
    The hallway's spinning...
[02:56] Blood
    C'mon, follow me!
[02:58] Blood
    Hey, you okay?
[03:00] Will
    I'm fine, I'm fine!
[03:12] Will
    I can erase my presence easily.
[03:14] Will
    This'll be a piece of cake!
[03:16] Blood
    Wait! You idiot!
[03:20] Mary
    Who's there?!
[03:21] Blood
    Crap!
[03:22] Mary
    Blood!
[03:23] Mary
    What's the meaning of—ugh, you stink!
[03:26] Mary
    What did you make Will drink?!
[03:28] Will
    Oh, this is just...
[03:29] Blood
    Oh, we were just gonna have a
    little peek while you changed.
[03:33] Mary
    Wha... Wha... Wha...
[03:35] Will
    I told him we shouldn't...
[03:36] Mary
    What do you think you're doing, you idiot?!
[03:51] Will
    My voice has been changing,
[03:53] Will
    so I knew I was due for
    my first ejaculation...
[03:55] Will
    But it was inspired by Mary
    changing... Mary changing...
[03:58] Blood
    What're you washing there, Will?
[04:01] Blood
    Hey, is that...
[04:03] Will
    Don't laugh!
[04:06] Will
    I really gotta be careful
    not to drink too much.
[04:11] Will
    Today's the day of my battle with Blood.
[04:14] Will
    Once this is over,
[04:16] Will
    I'll probably be leaving
    this temple by spring.
[04:21] (Flashback) Gus
    Could you find a way to lose the duel
    in a way that Blood won't notice?
[04:28] Will
    Okay...
[04:29] Mary
    Will.
[04:31] Mary
    I'll help you get changed.
[04:34] Mary
    As of tomorrow, you'll be an adult.
[04:37] Mary
    Have you decided which god
    you'll swear your oath to?
[04:41] Will
    Well... Yeah, I've got an idea.
[04:44] Mary
    I see.
[04:46] Will
    Mary, I'm gonna win today.
[04:52] Mary
    Okay.
[05:02] Will
    Where's Gus?
[05:06] Blood
    Hey, Will. Ready to do this?
[05:09] Will
    Anytime. Let's do it.
[05:11] Blood
    Good. Then, let's go over
    things one more time.
[05:14] Blood
    No magic, no trying for instant kills.
[05:16] Blood
    Otherwise, anything goes.
[05:18] Blood
    If anything happens, Mary will
    fix it with her blessing.
[05:21] Blood
    The first one to admit defeat or
    become unable to fight loses.
[05:29] Blood
    Try your best not to die!
[05:51] Will
    He's like a storm.
[05:52] Will
    If I take just one solid hit,
    I'll be out of the fight!
[06:07] Blood
    Thought you could get in close, didn't ya?
[06:09] Will
    Ugh, this is infuriating!
[06:15] Will
    It's a challenge to avoid one
    of Blood's strikes perfectly,
[06:19] Will
    but if I receive one with just my
    sword, it'll shatter along with me.
[06:23] Will
    So how do I survive his strike
    and get into the gap between us?
[06:28] Will
    There's only one answer!
[06:32] Will
    Here it comes!
[06:43] Blood
    Will...
[06:52] Will
    He's holding my sword between his ribs?!
[06:56] Blood
    That was pretty good.
[06:58] Will
    I concede.
[07:00] Blood
    Yep. Man, having no muscles
    really is a disadvantage.
[07:04] Mary
    Blood!
[07:05] Blood
    Ack!
[07:06] Mary
    Don't you "Ack!" me!
[07:07] Mary
    You promised you wouldn't
    use that trick again!
[07:10] Blood
    N-Not sure what you're talking about...
[07:12] Mary
    The one where you use your ribs
    to trap an opponent's weapon!
[07:15] Blood
    Yeah, but I don't have
    organs or anything, so...
[07:17] Will
    What?! He did that when he was alive?!
[07:20] Mary
    Yes, he did! Can you believe it?!
[07:23] Blood
    Well, my opponent at the
    time was really quick!
[07:26] Blood
    And it looked like he was
    gonna stab you, so I just...
[07:28] Mary
    You did not "just" anything!
[07:30] Will
    I can't believe he survived.
[07:32] Mary
    Without my blessing, he wouldn't have!
[07:35] Blood
    Look, I did it 'cause I
    trusted your prayer to work!
[07:38] Mary
    I was genuinely concerned
    that you had instantly died!
[07:42] Mary
    Didn't I ask you to never do that again?!
[07:44] Will
    Even I know what this is.
[07:45] Mary
    Do you understand what
    "please don't do it again" means?!
[07:46] Will
    This is one of those things even
    a dog wouldn't butt in on.
[07:47] Mary
    It means "don't do it again"!
[07:50] Blood
    Will, even if you couldn't beat me,
[07:53] Blood
    what you've accomplished is still remarkable.
[07:55] Blood
    Even if you couldn't beat me.
[07:57] Will
    You didn't have to say
    it twice for emphasis!
[07:59] Will
    I'll make sure you lose next time!
[08:03] Blood
    That's the spirit, little Will!
[08:05] Blood
    Ow.
[08:06] Mary
    Don't get carried away!
[08:08] Mary
    Both of you need to take this seriously!
[08:11] Blood
    But you know,
[08:13] Blood
    if I had a killer slash or secret technique,
    I could've taught it to you.
[08:16] Will
    You don't?
[08:17] Blood
    Nope.
[08:19] Blood
    The way I fight and the way
    you fight aren't the same.
[08:22] Blood
    My goal was never to raise
    you into an imitation of me.
[08:26] Blood
    So the moves that I rely on
    won't be the same for you.
[08:31] Blood
    It's the basics that matter most.
[08:33] Blood
    Make sure you can use all the things
    you've learned at any time.
[08:37] Blood
    Both Mary and I have already taught
    you everything that's important.
[08:42] Will
    Okay...
[08:45] Will
    Dad, Mom.
[08:48] Blood
    "Dad," eh?
[08:50] Blood
    Yeah, I guess that's
    pretty much what we are.
[08:52] Mary
    That's true.
[08:54] Blood
    I can't teach you any secret techniques,
[08:56] Blood
    but to mark your new independence,
    I'll give you this.
[09:00] Blood
    It's the most powerful of
    all the demonblades I own.
[09:03] Will
    What? But I didn't even win...
[09:06] Blood
    I told you, it's to mark
    your new independence.
[09:09] Blood
    Go on, try it out.
[09:16] Blood
    It's called "Overeater."
[09:18] Blood
    It ranks at the highest
    level of demonblades.
[09:21] Blood
    It can even cut down one of the gods'
    Echoes, so long as it can reach them.
[09:25] Blood
    The Words engraved in it are
    too difficult to understand,
[09:28] Blood
    but I can sum up its effects:
[09:31] Blood
    "If a living being is cut with this blade,
[09:33] Blood
    its wielder recovers life
    force with each cut."
[09:36] Will
    Huh? Recover life force?
[09:39] Blood
    Yep. In other words,
[09:41] Blood
    you can just swing it around without
    thinking and still be the last man standing.
[09:46] Blood
    You're a smart kid, so I'm
    sure you understand this,
[09:50] Blood
    but don't use it any more than you have to.
[09:52] Blood
    It makes its wielder feel a lot stronger,
[09:56] Blood
    but it's not the type of demonblade
    that enhances your spirit.
[09:59] Blood
    The more you use it, the more
    dependent you'll become,
[10:01] Blood
    until you're so weak that
    there's nothing left of you...
[10:04] Will
    And then I'll go back to the start
    of the life-and-death cycle.
[10:06] Blood
    That's probably part of what
    makes it a "demonblade."
[10:09] Blood
    Anyway, I've said a lot,
    but I'm sure you'll be fine.
[10:15] Will
    They both have faith that I
    can use this sword properly.
[10:21] Will
    But am I really someone
    worthy of their faith?
[10:27] Blood
    Well, if I'm gonna give you a demonblade,
[10:29] Blood
    I guess I gotta tell you
    about its history, too.
[10:33] Blood
    Along with what you've been
    wanting to know, of course.
[10:38] Will
    He's talking about what I've
    wondered all these years.
[10:45] Mary
    You are a grown-up now, after all.
[10:48] Blood
    I promised I'd tell you once you grew up.
[10:50] Blood
    Your mind and body are both
    plenty big enough now.
[10:55] Blood
    This is the tale of the king among demon
    kings who tried to conquer this continent,
[11:00] Blood
    the one known as the High
    King of the Eternals...
[11:04] Blood
    the tale of the defeat and death of
    many heroes, as well as our own...
[11:09] Blood
    and the tale of why you grew up here.
[11:17] Mary
    The Undying Bladefiend.
[11:19] Mary
    The King Among Kings.
[11:21] Mary
    The Purest Evil.
[11:22] Mary
    The Inexhaustible Darkness.
[11:23] Mary
    The Rider of Warstorms.
[11:25] Mary
    They are all names for the
    High King of the Eternals.
[11:28] Mary
    About 200 years ago,
[11:31] Mary
    the demon kings led a great uprising.
[11:34] Mary
    An army of countless demons invaded
    our continent of Southmark.
[11:39] Blood
    All the continents were crawling
    with demon kings, generals...
[11:43] Blood
    The kinds of demons you really
    don't wanna see showing up.
[11:47] Will
    Demons?
[11:49] Blood
    And these swarms of demons offered up
    massive amounts of flesh and blood
[11:52] Blood
    in a number of great rituals to
    their deity, the god of dimensions.
[11:57] Mary
    In response to this, the minions
    of the god of tyranny, Iltreat,
[12:01] Mary
    and those of the god of
    the undead, Stagnate,
[12:03] Mary
    also became active all over the world.
[12:05] Mary
    The virtuous gods expended
    a great deal of strength
[12:08] Mary
    in a series of battles intense
    enough to change the map.
[12:12] Blood
    I know you learned geography from Gus,
[12:15] Blood
    but don't think it's the
    same now as it was then.
[12:17] Blood
    Because of that,
[12:19] Blood
    even we don't know much about what the
    other continents were like back then.
[12:22] Blood
    All we know is that the High King
    went on a rampage in Southmark.
[12:27] Will
    He sure has a lot of scary nicknames.
[12:30] Blood
    Frankly, they don't even
    come close to the truth.
[12:32] Blood
    His abilities were absolutely insane.
[12:34] Blood
    He could turn any blood
    he shed into soldiers,
[12:37] Blood
    and any flesh cut from his body into
    commanders, in unlimited amounts.
[12:42] Blood
    In other words, he made demons
    from his own flesh and blood.
[12:45] Will
    That's serious hax...
[12:47] Blood
    Hax?
[12:48] Will
    It means he's a cheater.
[12:50] Blood
    Also, only blades could harm him.
[12:53] Blood
    Arrows and magic wouldn't
    even leave a mark...
[12:56] Blood
    and his weapon of choice was Overeater.
[12:59] Blood
    He was a madman who'd roar with laughter
[13:02] Blood
    as he created armies by cutting down
    enemies and getting cut himself.
[13:05] Mary
    Eventually, he came to
    be called the High King,
[13:08] Mary
    meaning the king of all kings.
[13:11] Mary
    This city was once a vital
    hub for lake transportation,
[13:15] Mary
    but it only held out for a
    matter of days before it fell.
[13:18] Mary
    The High King made his home in the
    city and mass-produced demons,
[13:23] Mary
    which used the water routes to
    attack surrounding settlements.
[13:27] Mary
    No one could kill the High King.
[13:29] Mary
    The destruction of the continent
    of Southmark was assured.
[13:33] Mary
    Just when everyone had begun
    to believe that, Gus...
[13:35] Mary
    Augustus, the Wandering Sage,
[13:38] Mary
    suggested that now was the perfect
    time to strike down the High King.
[13:41] Will
    "Now"? Was it even possible to kill him?
[13:47] Will
    An army of demons, a demonblade,
    the city underground,
[13:51] Will
    Blood's combat techniques,
    Mary's blessing, Gus's tactics...
[13:56] Mary
    Gus—
[13:57] Will
    I get it.
[13:58] Blood
    You do?
[13:59] Mary
    Really?
[14:00] Will
    Yeah, I think so.
[14:02] Will
    Gus was hoping to pinpoint
    the enemy's location,
[14:05] Will
    then invade via the underground
    with a few elite soldiers
[14:08] Will
    and steal his demonblade in battle.
[14:10] Will
    It was probably the only way.
[14:12] Will
    The High King couldn't be killed.
[14:14] Will
    The premise was that he could
    heal using the demonblade,
[14:18] Will
    but the demonblade is a
    weapon that can be stolen.
[14:21] Will
    Stealing it would change everything.
[14:23] Will
    To do it, Gus would use great magic
    to wipe out all of his minions
[14:27] Will
    and face him one-on-one.
[14:29] Will
    As long as Mary kept them both
    healed with her blessing,
[14:31] Will
    no new demons would appear.
[14:33] Will
    From there, Blood would just do what
    it took to steal the demonblade.
[14:36] Will
    This was almost certainly successful.
[14:38] Blood
    How can you be so sure?
[14:39] Will
    The proof is that you own the demonblade.
[14:42] Will
    That's how the High King died... I guess.
[14:46] Will
    And after that—
[14:47] Blood
    Not quite, Will.
[14:48] Blood
    You really are a genius,
[14:51] Blood
    but you've got the wrong conclusion there.
[14:53] Blood
    We... I... didn't succeed in killing him.
[14:59] Will
    You... didn't succeed?
[15:02] Mary
    That's right.
[15:03] Mary
    Gus made use of every factor visible to him
[15:06] Mary
    to draw in any possibility
    of killing the High King.
[15:09] Mary
    But...
[15:12] Mary
    The factors he could see
    were not all of them.
[15:16] Mary
    The High King revealed his true nature,
[15:18] Mary
    taking on the appearance of a
    hideous, grotesque warrior.
[15:22] Mary
    And then... well...
[15:25] Blood
    He was a better swordsman than me.
[15:28] Blood
    I couldn't touch him.
[15:30] Blood
    I'd fought opponents bigger than
    me many times before,
[15:33] Blood
    but he was the first one that
    nothing I did could reach.
[15:35] Will
    Even you were no match for him?
[15:38] Blood
    Yeah, even as my buddies who
    were forming a wall outside
[15:41] Blood
    after entrusting everything to me
    were crushed one after another.
[15:44] Blood
    I had the support of Gus's
    magic and Mary's blessing,
[15:48] Blood
    and he was wounded.
[15:51] Blood
    Despite all that, I'm pretty sure
    he had made it one level higher...
[15:55] Blood
    enough to become something I
    couldn't kill so long as I lived.
[15:59] Blood
    To this day, I still wonder
    what I was lacking.
[16:05] Blood
    But it's too late now.
[16:06] Blood
    You know why, don't you?
[16:08] Will
    The undead don't grow.
[16:11] Blood
    My sword skills can't improve any further.
[16:14] Mary
    And when it became clear
    that we were bound to lose,
[16:18] Mary
    Gus and I placed a seal on the High King.
[16:22] Mary
    If we couldn't kill him,
    we could, at least, do that.
[16:24] Will
    You mean...
[16:26] Will
    They gave up on Blood's chance of winning.
[16:30] Mary
    Thankfully, the technique worked,
[16:32] Mary
    and the High King was sealed
    deep beneath this land.
[16:37] Mary
    In other words...
[16:39] Mary
    In the very end, we couldn't
    fully believe in Blood.
[16:44] Mary
    And then...
[16:46] Will
    Mary?
[16:47] Mary
    And then an Echo of Stagnate descended.
[16:51] Will
    What?! An Echo is a body
    double of a god, right?
[16:55] Will
    But why would...
[16:56] Mary
    The evil gods act individually,
    each following their own principles.
[17:00] Mary
    They will cooperate if it is in
    all parties' best interests,
[17:03] Mary
    but the opposite is also true.
[17:05] Blood
    I guess Stagnate wasn't
    too happy with any of it.
[17:08] Blood
    The High King was a monster that could
    slay a god's Echo using Overeater.
[17:13] Blood
    He thought it'd be better for him
    if the High King was sealed,
[17:16] Blood
    so he offered us a deal.
[17:18] Blood
    "You three are exceptionally gifted,
[17:20] Blood
    so become undead and fight
    on my side," he said.
[17:24] Will
    But that's...
[17:25] Blood
    If we did that, he'd get rid
    of the demons in this city.
[17:28] Blood
    After that, we could just watch over the
    seal as we pleased in our immortal bodies.
[17:33] Mary
    Stagnate couldn't bear to watch
    the tragedies of life and death,
[17:36] Mary
    so he hoped to create an eternally
    stagnant world with no tragedies
[17:40] Mary
    by turning as many exceptional
    souls as he could into undead.
[17:45] Mary
    And we had caught Stagnate's eye.
[17:48] Blood
    Isn't it more accurate to
    say he set his eyes on us?
[17:52] Blood
    He told us to choose, but there
    was no choice for us to make.
[17:58] Blood
    We accepted his hand.
[18:02] Blood
    Since my flesh was all cut
    up, I became a skeleton.
[18:05] Blood
    Mary was burned by Mater's
    flames, becoming a mummy.
[18:09] Blood
    And perhaps because he had no
    attachment to his aged body,
[18:12] Blood
    Gus became a ghost.
[18:15] Will
    Mary did tell me once...
[18:17] (Flashback) Mary
    That happens because I betrayed
    the earth-mother Mater.
[18:22] Blood
    The god of the undead then
    cleared out the entire city.
[18:26] Blood
    His overwhelming power turned the
    lower-ranking demons undead,
[18:29] Blood
    something that shouldn't even be possible.
[18:32] Will
    And the undead demons still
    roam the city to this day...
[18:36] Blood
    And we became the guardians
    of the High King's seal,
[18:40] Blood
    as the highest-ranking undead.
[18:42] Mary
    In the 200 years since then,
[18:44] Mary
    we buried our former allies,
[18:46] Mary
    and Gus set up a security net using magic,
[18:48] Mary
    allowing us to continue protecting the city.
[18:51] Blood
    We didn't have anything else to do.
[18:54] Blood
    We were bound to this city by our contract.
[18:57] Blood
    We can't even find out what goes on outside.
[18:59] Blood
    The three of us talked about the possibility
    that humanity had already died out.
[19:05] Blood
    And then...
[19:07] Blood
    you came along.
[19:09] Blood
    Or, more accurately,
    demons brought you here.
[19:13] Will
    Oh...
[19:15] Will
    So I was meant to be a sacrifice
    to break the High King's seal.
[19:20] Will
    No wonder you couldn't tell me before.
[19:23] Will
    You couldn't bring yourselves to.
[19:25] Mary
    Yes. As crude as he is,
    even Blood was careful about that.
[19:29] Blood
    You really just called me crude, huh?
[19:31] Mary
    After the demons were defeated,
[19:33] Mary
    we argued with Gus a bit over
    what we should do with you.
[19:37] Will
    Argued?
[19:38] Mary
    Gus was against it,
[19:40] Mary
    but we decided to raise you.
[19:43] Will
    So that's why Gus said...
[19:45] (Flashback) Gus
    When you brought back a human child,
[19:48] (Flashback) Gus
    I thought you shouldn't have bothered...
[19:51] Mary
    The fact that the demons
    were able to bring you here
[19:55] Mary
    means there must be a place inhabited
    by humans relatively close by.
[19:58] Blood
    The situation outside might
    be pretty gruesome right now,
[20:02] Blood
    but if it is, you just need to build
    the strength to bust through it.
[20:06] Blood
    Like you have.
[20:08] Will
    And that's why I'm here right now, huh?
[20:12] Will
    I'm about to head into a nation of people
    who survived the great uprising.
[20:17] Will
    I'll take with me the strength
    that the three of them gave me.
[20:20] Will
    One day, I'll come back to this city.
[20:23] Will
    I'll bring my family and friends
[20:25] Will
    and introduce them.
[20:27] Will
    I could even rebuild this city.
[20:29] Will
    One day... I know I'll...
[20:31] Mary
    Be happy, Will.
[20:33] Mary
    And don't forget to do good and pray.
[20:36] Will
    Huh?
[20:37] Blood
    You were the best pupil
    I could've asked for.
[20:39] Blood
    Even in today's test, in terms
    of substance, you bested me.
[20:43] Blood
    You clever, precocious son of mine...
[20:46] Blood
    I love ya. Get stronger, okay?
[20:49] Mary
    In no time at all, we became a
    real family, and I was so happy.
[20:53] Mary
    Will, my sweet boy...
[20:56] Mary
    Your mother loves you.
[21:00] Will
    Wait... Why are you...
[21:03] Will
    talking like this is our last goodbye?
[21:19] Stagnate
    Have you said your farewells, heroes?
[21:22] Blood
    Yeah.
[21:23] Mary
    Go ahead. We are ready.
[21:25] Stagnate
    At last, you have lost your attachment.
[21:29] Stagnate
    In accordance with our contract,
[21:31] Stagnate
    place your souls in my hands right now.
[21:34] Will
    I can't do anything... I can't move!
[21:37] Will
    Why?!
[21:39] Will
    Please, move!
[21:41] Gus
    Vastare!
SIGN    Devastate
[21:50] Stagnate
    Oh, yes. There was a magic
    user left among you.
[21:53] Gus
    Will, take Blood and Mary
    and get out of here!
[21:59] Gus
    Don't you worry.
SIGN    Episode 3
    Payday
[22:01] Gus
    I will stop him!
SIGN    Episode 4
    The Goddess of the Divine Torch