E7 - The Strongest Sage Goes on a Journey

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[00:11] Boy
    Hey! Are you guys adventurers?!
[00:13] Matt
    Yes. We're on our way
    to a dungeon!
[00:16] Boy
    Awesome! Good luck!
[00:20] Lurie
    Leaving the capital on a journey
    is rather exciting!
[00:23] Matt
    Don't forget.
    We aren't out here for fun.
[00:26] Matt
    We're investigating the dragon's vein.
[00:28] Lurie
    Y-Yes! Of course we are.
[00:31] Matt
    And our current destination
    is the Melkia Dungeon.
[00:35] Lurie
    I've heard that Melkia is an enormous dungeon
    having hundreds of floors.
[00:39] Alma
    But dungeon cities are pretty safe,
    so I'm sure we'll be fine!
[00:43] Iris
    "Dungeon cities"?
[00:45] Lurie
    Y-Yes!
[00:47] Lurie
    There's a city built over the dungeon.
[00:49] Matt
    A city?!
[00:50] Lurie
    Yes?
[00:51] Matt
    There was nothing like that
    in my past life.
[00:53] Matt
    People can live on top
    of a dungeon that dangerous?
[00:58] Iris
    This sounds pretty neat!
[01:02] Alma
    It's a town of adventurers!
[01:03] Alma
    I'm sure it'll be brimming with life!
[01:06] Lurie
    It will take several days
    to reach Melkia.
[01:08] Lurie
    Let's take our time.
[01:10] Matt
    What? It's not far.
    We can reach it in a day.
[01:12] Lurie
    But...
[01:14] Iris
    We'll arrive by tonight!
[01:19] Lurie
    Do you mean...
[01:21] Lurie
    You want to pass
    through the Forest of Chikirisubia?
[01:24] Lurie
    But it's a monster den!
[01:26] Alma
    Yeah!
[01:27] Alma
    And it's not just strong monsters...
[01:29] Alma
    Rumors say there's a really smart monster
    showing up lately.
[01:33] Matt
    A smart monster?
[01:35] Alma & Lurie
    Oh, no!
[01:37] Alma & Lurie
    We got him curious!
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SIGN    The Strongest Sage Goes on a Journey.
[03:20] Lurie
    It's awfully unsettling in here, isn't it?
[03:24] Iris
    I can always fly you guys out
    if it comes to that.
[03:28] Matt
    Your wings are still healing, remember?
[03:30] Iris
    Oh, I forgot.
[03:34] Alma
    I'm beat!
[03:36] Matt
    Strange that we're not seeing
    many monsters, though.
[03:40] Lurie
    I prefer that to the alternative.
[03:44] Iris
    But I'm so hungry!
[03:46] Lurie
    I'm sure you are.
    Let's have lunch!
[03:48] Alma
    Great idea!
[03:50] Alma
    Let's pull some rations
    from our storage spe—
[03:53] Matt
    No. Let's find our food here.
[03:56] Matt
    I'll hunt us up something.
[04:05] Matt
    Countless monsters' magic signatures,
[04:08] Matt
    but they're moving
    in a conspicuously orderly fashion.
[04:11] Matt
    Someone's commanding them.
[04:13] Matt
    There's one intentionally restrained
    magic signature among them.
[04:18] Matt
    That must be
[04:20] Matt
    the smart monster!
[04:26] Alma
    I-Is that...
[04:27] Lurie
    C-Can it be...
[04:29] Iris
    I'm hungry!
[04:36] Matt
    I was disappointed, to be frank.
[04:39] Iris
    It doesn't look very yummy.
[04:42] Lurie
    It's a Wism Monkey!
[04:44] Lurie
    It's a famously smart monster.
[04:47] Alma
    Then the monster everyone's talking about...
[04:50] Matt
    It's probably this, yeah.
[04:52] Matt
    But forget about that.
[04:54] Matt
    More importantly...
[04:56] Matt
    Oh, step back!
[05:02] Matt
    Well, Iris?
[05:03] Matt
    This one looks better, right?
[05:05] Iris
    Yes!
[05:06] Alma
    Hang on!
    Are we gonna eat that?!
[05:08] Lurie
    Is it even possible to eat monsters?
[05:11] Matt
    Not all of them, of course,
[05:14] Matt
    but this one's just fine.
[05:15] Matt
    It's kind of a delicacy, really.
[05:17] Lurie
    If you say so...
[05:19] Alma
    Really? Are you being serious?!
[05:22] Matt
    Now, let's get it cooked up!
[05:24] Lurie
    Of course. Let me start...
[05:29] Matt
    I see.
[05:30] Matt
    Refining iron from the ground
    to make a pot.
[05:33] Lurie
    Yes! We'll forage for our tools as well!
[05:36] Iris
    I'm gonna forage, too!
[05:38] Iris
    I'll prepare the firewood!
[05:41] Alma
    Then I'll gather up some local plants
    to make a soup!
[05:45] Matt
    I think that's enough, Iris.
[05:49] Iris
    You think?
[05:54] Matt
    What did you just do?!
[05:57] Alma
    I don't usually have trouble with fire spells,
[06:02] Alma
    but for some reason,
    having the ingredients nearby makes it blow up.
[06:08] Alma
    I can still handle the cooking part!
    I can!
[06:10] Alma
    You don't believe me?
    But I really can!
[06:13] Alma
    Say something, Lurie!
[06:18] Alma
    I-It looks tasty enough...
[06:20] Lurie
    It's quite ample...
[06:32] Alma & Lurie
    So good!
[06:38] Alma
    Alma's special soup!
[06:40] Alma
    It might be a little
    on the strong side, of course!
[06:43] Lurie
    I've never seen you cook before!
[06:46] Alma
    I was banned from the kitchen back home!
[06:50] Iris
    I'm not picky!
[06:59] Matt
    Not even a darkness dragon can tolerate it?
[07:02] Lurie
    Alma, what in the world
    did you put in there?
[07:04] Alma
    I made it the normal way! Sheesh!
[07:08] Iris
    I could stand to eat a lot more,
[07:10] Iris
    but I suppose this human body
    is around 80% full.
[07:13] Alma
    After eating all that?
[07:15] Lurie
    You have quite an appetite!
[07:17] Lurie
    Were you that desperate
    to cancel out the taste of the soup?
[07:21] Alma
    That again? Really?
[07:22] Matt
    Well, let's get going.
[07:25] Matt
    I think the forest monsters
    are too afraid of Iris to approach.
[07:30] Lurie
    Dragon magic power! Is that why?
[07:33] Alma
    Plus he beat the Wism Monkey,
    which is probably an incentive to stay away.
[07:37] Matt
    Yeah.
[07:37] Matt
    We'll reach Melkia before sundown.
[07:56] Matt
    We're here!
[07:58] Matt
    So this is dungeon city Melkia...
[08:05] Matt
    What is all this?
[08:07] Alma
    I expected a little more life
    in a dungeon city.
[08:11] Lurie
    But it seems far more bleak
    than the capital.
[08:19] Matt
    What's that?
[08:20] Alma
    A magic lamppost?
[08:22] Lurie
    Yes, but there's something strange
    about how the magic flows.
[08:26] Matt
    You typically power magic equipment
    with magistones,
[08:29] Matt
    but this one seems directly tapped
    into the dragon's vein.
[08:32] Matt
    And in a slapdash fashion, at that.
[08:35] Matt
    If it's left like this—
[08:36] Shopkeeper
    Hey!
[08:37] Shopkeeper
    It's not safe there!
[08:39] Shopkeeper
    Those things explode sometimes.
[08:41] Shopkeeper
    At least ten people have died this year alone.
[08:44] Matt
    Not good!
[08:45] Matt
    Get away, all of you!
[08:51] Lurie
    Why would you make something
    so dangerous?!
[08:54] Shopkeeper
    H-Hang on! Calm down!
[08:57] Shopkeeper
    We don't have a choice.
    It's was on the lord's orders.
[09:01] Shopkeeper
    We used to use magistones.
[09:04] Shopkeeper
    But our lord said that magistones
    are our most precious export,
[09:07] Shopkeeper
    so he forbids us from using them.
[09:10] Lurie
    How awful!
[09:11] Lurie
    What could your new lord be thinking?
[09:15] Alma
    Yeah!
    Setting up dangerous stuff like that...
[09:19] Matt
    Is the lord also the reason
    why you're so underpopulated?
[09:23] Shopkeeper
    Yeah, apparently a powerful monster
    has appeared
[09:26] Shopkeeper
    around the tenth floor
    of the dungeon.
[09:28] Shopkeeper
    Most of the adventurers were sent in
    on the lord's orders.
[09:33] Shopkeeper
    Veteran and greenhorn alike.
[09:35] Matt
    I see. So that's the reason.
[09:39] Matt
    Can I have one for each of us?
[09:41] Shopkeeper
    S-Sure...
[09:45] Alma
    The local lord sounds like a creep!
[09:46] Lurie
    I feel for the poor townspeople!
[09:49] Matt
    He appears quite incompetent.
[09:51] Matt
    If you send a lot of inexperienced people
    on a monster hunt,
[09:54] Matt
    they'll just trip each other up.
[09:57] Matt
    The area's weapons seem to be
    of poor quality as well.
[10:00] Lurie
    What will we do next?
[10:03] Matt
    Let's head to the guild first.
[10:06] Matt
    "To enter the dungeon,
    you need a guild-issued permit," it says.
[10:12] Matt
    I want to enter the dungeon
    and have a look for ourselves.
[10:18] Matt
    Excuse me!
[10:20] Matt
    I'd like a permit to enter the dungeon.
[10:23] Receptionist
    A permit?
[10:25] Receptionist
    I would advise against that.
[10:26] Matt
    Why? What's wrong with it?
[10:29] Receptionist
    The permits aren't issued by the guild,
    but by the lord himself.
[10:33] Receptionist
    So as long as you stay in Melkia,
[10:36] Receptionist
    you have to participate
    in any special requests the lord asks of you.
[10:39] Matt
    So to get a permit,
    we have to serve as the lord's lapdogs.
[10:44] Matt
    Are those special requests
    typically dangerous?
[10:47] Receptionist
    They come in many forms,
    from dungeon exploration to monster hunting,
[10:52] Receptionist
    but they're uniformly absurd.
[10:54] Receptionist
    They come about once a month,
    but every one results in casualties.
[10:59] Receptionist
    Children like you could never—
[11:01] Matt
    I should ask just in case.
[11:02] Matt
    What do you want to do?
[11:04] Alma
    I'm totally in!
[11:05] Lurie
    I'll follow you anywhere, Matty!
[11:07] Iris
    Me, too!
[11:10] Adventurer A
    Listen to these brats run their mouths!
[11:11] Adventurer A
    You see what that dungeon did
    to adults like us?
[11:15] Matt
    I'd like four permits, please.
[11:17] Receptionist
    Very well.
    We can start the application process.
[11:21] Guild worker
    We have a huge number of injuries
    from a monster attack!
[11:23] Guild worker
    There are too many injured
    for us to keep up!
[11:26] Guild worker
    Does anyone know healing spells?
[11:29] Adventurer A
    All the real adventurers are in the dungeon!
[11:33] Adventurer A
    You really think—
[11:34] Matt
    There's one right here.
[11:37] Lurie
    Matty...
[11:39] Matt
    Take me where I need to go.
[11:46] Nurse A
    We're out of bandages! Bring some new ones!
[11:47] Matt
    This is...
[11:48] Nurse B
    I can't stop the bleeding!
    I need healing spells, fast!
[11:53] Healer A
    I'm locked down here.
[11:54] Healer A
    I need help!
[11:56] Alma
    This is awful...
[11:57] Lurie
    Look at that.
[11:58] Matt
    They can't even manage a stopgap.
[12:00] Matt
    In a dungeon city full of adventurers...
[12:02] Matt
    Why do they have so few healers?
[12:05] Guild worker
    We used to have a number on staff,
[12:07] Guild worker
    but they were all driven out by the lord.
[12:09] Guild worker
    He said they were a waste of money!
[12:12] Matt
    It's wrong to let people die
    due to the orders of an incompetent lord.
[12:17] Matt
    I will save them all!
[12:20] Matt
    I'll start with a Passive Detect.
[12:22] Matt
    I'll feel out the patients' magic power
    to get a quick idea of their status.
[12:32] Matt
    These numbers represent
    their injuries' severity.
[12:34] Matt
    I'll look at the worst off among them.
[12:36] Matt
    The rest of you, cast healing spells
    in descending order of urgency.
[12:39] Lurie
    We will!
[12:42] Healer A
    Hold it!
[12:44] Healer A
    You can't just barge in here like this!
[12:45] Healer A
    People's lives are on the line!
[12:47] Healer A
    This is no place for children!
[12:49] Matt
    Can you save them all by yourself?
[12:53] Healer A
    Of course not!
[12:55] Healer A
    I have to triage them
    based on their condition
[12:57] Healer A
    to keep losses to a minimum!
[12:59] Matt
    Then be quiet and watch.
[13:03] Healer A
    Typical nonsense,
    from a Crest of Failure!
[13:05] Matt
    Actually, this kind of healing is the sort
    that the Crest of Failure is best at.
[13:10] Matt
    Close the blood vessels
    to stanch the bleeding.
[13:13] Matt
    Heal the damaged organs.
[13:16] Matt
    Then close the wound!
[13:20] Matt
    Success.
[13:21] Patient A
    Th-Thank you...
[13:24] Healer A
    You healed him.
    From such a severe wound...
[13:26] Healer B
    The wound's completely gone!
[13:30] Matt
    I'm asking you again.
[13:32] Matt
    Cast your healing spells
    in the order on the tablets.
[13:34] Matt
    If we all work together,
    we can save them all.
[13:38] Healer A
    V-Very well.
[13:40] Healer A
    Split up and cast those spells!
[13:42] Healer B
    Sir!
[13:45] Matt
    Lurie, 23's okay!
[13:47] Matt
    Move on to the next patient!
[13:48] Lurie
    Right!
[13:49] Matt
    Recovery on 27's not going fast enough!
[13:52] Matt
    Come with me, you two!
[13:53] Healer A
    All right, we'll do it!
[13:57] Patient B
    I'm... done for...
[13:58] Matt
    Don't give up!
[13:59] Matt
    We will save you!
[14:02] Adventurer A
    W-We'll help, too!
[14:05] Lurie
    Do your best!
[14:06] Healer A
    Hey, speak to me!
[14:10] Matt
    It's all done!
[14:15] Matt
    Healing successful on everyone.
[14:21] Healer A
    I can't believe we really saved them all...
[14:24] Healer A
    Despite looking like a child,
    are you a famous healer, by chance?
[14:29] Matt
    Certainly not.
[14:30] Matt
    I've actually used healing
    only magic a few times.
[14:34] Healer A
    But you orchestrated this miracle...
[14:36] Matt
    "Miracle"?
[14:38] Matt
    No, as I said before,
    this was the act of everyone here.
[14:43] Healer A
    I haven't properly thanked you yet.
[14:45] Healer A
    Thank you. Truly.
[14:47] Matt
    Same to you.
[14:48] Matt
    Oh, there is one thing I wanted to ask...
[14:51] Healer A
    What is it?
[14:52] Matt
    The previous lord.
[14:55] Matt
    Why was he replaced?
[14:56] Matt
    Did he pass away, by chance?
[14:58] Matt
    From what I've heard,
    the previous lord knew what he was doing.
[15:03] Matt
    If he really got replaced
    with a complete incompetent...
[15:07] Healer A
    Yes, and without warning.
[15:09] Healer A
    He passed away abruptly in his sleep.
[15:12] Matt
    Was he ill?
[15:14] Healer A
    We simply don't know.
[15:17] Healer A
    An abrupt, unexplained death...
[15:19] Healer A
    That was all we could ascertain.
[15:24] Matt
    Dungeons were considered dangerous
    even in my old life.
[15:27] Matt
    To build a city over one...
[15:30] Matt
    I thought it was unusual from the start.
[15:32] Matt
    This world has been altered by demons.
[15:35] Matt
    This must be another example
    of that in progress.
[15:39] Matt
    The demons must have killed
    the previous lord.
[15:43] Matt
    There's a chance
    that the current lord is a demon himself.
[15:47] Matt
    I'll have to meet him and find out.
[15:49] Iris
    Zoom!
[15:52] Lurie
    I must say...
    The current lord is quite cruel!
[15:56] Alma
    We have to do something!
[15:58] Iris
    Agreed!
[15:59] Matt
    I agree.
[16:00] Matt
    That's why I'm writing
    the headmaster a letter.
[16:02] Alma
    I see! You're going to have him
    forward it to the king?
[16:07] Matt
    Exactly.
[16:08] Matt
    This is what I went with.
[16:11] Lurie
    "We don't know
    what the homework is while we're here."
[16:14] Alma
    "May we be excused from it?"
[16:16] Alma
    What in the world?
[16:18] Matt
    It's a decoy, of course.
[16:19] Matt
    This is the real one.
[16:22] Matt
    I'll hide it under a false bottom
    in the delivery box.
[16:25] Matt
    Obviously, I've use magic
    to make it harder to spot.
[16:29] Matt
    I worked out this method of correspondence
    with the headmaster in advance.
[16:33] Lurie
    Protection against inspection?
[16:35] Lurie
    And they must be inspecting the mail,
[16:38] Lurie
    or the capital would have heard
    about what's going on in Melkia earlier.
[16:41] Matt
    Precisely.
[16:43] Matt
    This will help us avoid the inspection.
[16:46] Alma
    Wouldn't it be faster
    if you went there personally?
[16:49] Matt
    Most likely,
[16:50] Matt
    but I want to see what's going on
    in the dungeon first.
[16:53] Matt
    We got our permits, after all.
[16:55] Alma
    The dungeon, huh?
[16:57] Alma
    It's got that monster
    that hurt all the people today, right?
[17:01] Alma
    Are you sure about this?
[17:02] Lurie
    If we leave it at large,
    it might reach the surface!
[17:05] Matt
    Exactly.
[17:06] Matt
    Let's check it out tomorrow.
[17:08] Matt
    For today, let's all have a nice rest.
[17:23] Lurie
    I just realized I'm spending the night
    in the same building as Matty...
[17:27] Lurie
    And the same room, at that!
[17:29] Lurie
    I even let him see me in my pajamas!
[17:32] Lurie
    It's so, so, so bad!
[17:34] Matt
    This is my first time
    spending the night with Lurie,
[17:37] Matt
    though Alma and Iris are here, too.
[17:42] Matt
    Just get your mind off it, man!
[17:44] Matt
    She just happens to be
    in the next bed over!
[17:46] Matt
    She just happens...
[17:47] Iris
    Let's bust in there!
[17:49] Iris
    Leave it all to me...
[17:53] Lurie
    She's talking in her sleep?
[17:53] Matt
    Don't startle me like that!
[17:55] Alma
    C'mon... Drink more...
[17:57] Iris
    Can't... I'm sorry...
[18:00] Lurie
    They're talking to each other?!
[18:01] Matt
    Why are they in sync?!
[18:05] Lurie
    Just calm down.
[18:07] Lurie
    You've had a long day,
    and you're tired.
[18:09] Lurie
    Just close your eyes,
    and before you know it...
[18:12] Matt
    Remain calm. Calm.
[18:14] Matt
    Sleep as you always do,
    in preparation for tomorrow.
[18:22] Matt & Lurie
    I still can't sleep!
[18:24] Lurie
    What do I do?
[18:25] Lurie
    I have to find a way to sleep.
[18:28] Matt
    That's it.
[18:29] Matt
    Let's count monsters until I sleep.
[18:32] Matt
    One monster.
[18:33] Lurie
    Two monsters.
[18:35] Matt
    Three monsters.
[18:36] Lurie
    Four monsters.
[18:37] Matt
    Five monsters.
[18:38] Lurie
    Six monsters.
[18:46] Matt
    You almost used Dragon's Breath
    in your sleep earlier.
[18:49] Matt
    You could've blown the whole inn away.
[18:51] Iris
    I'll be more careful.
[18:53] Matt
    Why do you look so sleepy
    when you slept all night?
[18:57] Alma
    Boy, isn't morning air the best?
[19:01] Alma
    Right, Lurie?
[19:04] Alma
    Are you okay?
    Did you get any sleep?
[19:06] Lurie
    Absolutely.
[19:08] Alma
    You liar.
[19:10] Lurie
    This is the dungeon gate?
[19:13] Alma
    It's so big!
[19:14] Iris
    But it's just iron, isn't it?
[19:17] Matt
    Yeah.
    A monster could break through it easily.
[19:20] Alma
    So it's a total paper tiger?
[19:22] Matt
    Yeah, even though the gate is key to
    stopping monsters from leaving the labyrinth.
[19:27] Matt
    Everything about this dungeon city
    seems half-baked.
[19:32] Alma
    Strong as an ox, as usual!
[19:34] Lurie
    There's a powerful monster in there.
[19:37] Matt
    Stay on your guard, all right?
[19:51] Matt
    Buy this, please.
[19:53] Matt
    She underestimated her own strength
[19:55] Matt
    so the head was the only thing left, but...
[19:57] Lurie
    The monster was deformed
    beyond recognition,
[19:59] Lurie
    but Iris got off
    with a bump on the head.
[20:02] Receptionist
    Th-This...
[20:03] Receptionist
    It's that monster!
[20:05] Receptionist
    The strong monster from yesterday...
[20:07] Lurie
    Oh, is it really?
[20:09] Alma
    It definitely was the strongest one
    we ran into.
[20:12] Receptionist
    H-How did you defeat it?
[20:14] Matt
    The normal way, I guess?
[20:17] Matt
    Though actually,
    I didn't get involved.
[20:19] Matt
    The three of them did it.
[20:22] Receptionist
    I can buy it,
    but you won't get paid till later.
[20:26] Receptionist
    The lord has to confirm it.
[20:30] Matt
    I understand entirely.
[20:31] Receptionist
    A moment, then, if you will...
[20:40] Matt
    "If the report is to be believed,
    the three girls are total beasts."
[20:45] Matt
    "The boy appears to be a healer,
    and so didn't participate in the battle."
[20:49] Matt
    Hm?
[20:49] Matt
    What a curiously wrong conclusion
    to leap to...
[20:52] Matt
    Ah, well.
[20:56] Iris
    I'm hungry!
[20:59] Matt
    Can I get gold for the rest of it right now?
[21:02] Receptionist
    "The rest"? You mean there's more?!
[21:08] Lord
    So they defeated that monster...
[21:11] Lord
    What an interesting party.
[21:14] all
    Let's eat!
[21:16] Matt
    You handled the combat today
    just fine without me.
[21:20] Lurie
    We're really getting the hang
    of our teamwork!
[21:24] Alma
    Your enchantments,
    and my ranged attacks!
[21:27] Iris
    And once you've whittled the enemy down,
    I charge in!
[21:31] Matt
    Just try to rein it in a little, Iris.
[21:34] Iris
    Fine!
[21:36] Lurie
    That was delicious!
[21:38] Alma
    I'm all full!
[21:39] Iris
    I could eat more, actually.
[21:47] Matt
    The lord's been spurred to action.
[21:50] Matt
    Perfect.
[21:51] Matt
    I'll unmask you.
[23:26] Lurie
    Wasn't Matty's healing today amazing?
[23:30] Alma
    Yeah, I wanna do the same thing!
[23:32] Alma
    - Scalpel!
    - Yes!
[23:33] Alma
    - Sweat!
    - Wipe, wipe!
[23:35] Alma
    My surgery skills are unrivaled!
SIGN    Episode 8  The Strongest Sage Saves the City.
[23:37] Matt
    Is that how I looked to you?