# E11 - Eloquence and Silence: Opening Act
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**[00:03] Ashaf**
You're a valuable human resource.
**[00:05] Ashaf**
I would never do anything
that might result in losing you.
**[00:11] Ashaf**
You understand that our interests align.
**[00:15] Ashaf**
That's why you've obeyed my orders.
**[00:19] Ashaf**
When you suspect I'm "pulling
something" in spite of that,
**[00:22] Ashaf**
I'm only doing so for the sake
of the larger picture.
**[00:26] Ashaf**
Let me repeat myself:
**[00:28] Ashaf**
I'm not your enemy,
and I won't do anything to harm you.
**[00:34] Ashaf**
I don't need your faith or trust.
**[00:37] Ashaf**
For now, just understand that with your head.
**[02:16] Guideau**
Get out already.
**[02:18] Ashaf**
Oh, I can't go anywhere until I heal up.
**[02:21] Ashaf**
I have broken bones, you know.
**[02:25] Ashaf**
Oh, that smarts.
**[02:28] Ashaf**
Dear me, what a mess you've made.
**[02:34] Ashaf**
This takes me back.
**[02:38] Ashaf**
To three years ago, when we first met.
***SIGN*** Eloquence
and Silence
***SIGN*** Opening Act
**[02:56] Ashaf**
*A village on the Fifth Continent.*
**[02:59] Ashaf**
* Being so far from the Global Holy Church's*
* headquarters on the First Continent,*
**[03:06] Ashaf**
* this place hasn't developed*
* a magical civilization.*
**[03:09] Ashaf**
* A remote, utterly un-magical village*
* in an ordinary, utterly un-magical country.*
**[03:18] Child**
A coffin! Hey, that was a coffin, right?
**[03:21] Mother**
Yes, yes. I'm sure it was.
**[03:37] Ashaf**
*It couldn't be less remarkable.*
**[03:39] Ashaf**
*But a witch calls this village home.*
**[03:43] Ashaf**
*She's apparently lived here a long time,*
**[03:46] Ashaf**
*but until now, she's never caused a fuss.*
**[03:50] Ashaf**
* Which explains why her presence*
* went unremarked upon.*
**[03:53] Ashaf**
* But lately, it's been one*
* odd incident after another.*
**[03:57] Ashaf**
*And finally, the fuss drew attention.*
**[04:02] Ashaf**
* Now that this has happened, we must*
* take the witch under our wing at once,*
**[04:07] Ashaf**
*before someone turns up dead.*
**[04:11] Owent**
Let's go.
**[04:25] Owent**
Well, this should do it for groceries.
Do we have anything else to buy?
**[04:30] Owent**
Falvell, do you want anything?
**[04:36] Owent**
Aw, come on. Don't hold back.
**[04:38] Owent**
The latest batch of tea leaves and dyed stuff
were a hit, so the mayor paid us extra.
**[04:44] Owent**
Treat yourself once in a while.
**[04:47] Cowherd**
You there!
**[04:48] Owent**
What do you—
**[04:48] Cowherd**
Look what you've gone and done!
**[04:51] Cowherd**
My cows!
**[04:53] Cowherd**
Those were *my* cows!
**[04:55] Owent**
I don't know what you mean!
We didn't touch them!
**[04:57] Friend**
Hey, lay off. We've got no proof,
and the mayor's on her side.
**[05:01] Friend**
You'll catch hell if you try anything.
**[05:03] Cowherd**
Who else but a witch could've
done something like that?!
**[05:05] Cowherd**
No human could've, that's for sure!
**[05:08] Cowherd**
A crazy witch must've done it!
**[05:12] Craig**
That's prejudice.
**[05:14] Craig**
Ideas like that belong
in the past, if you ask me.
**[05:17] Owent**
Craig.
**[05:19] Craig**
This is about what happened
two days ago, right?
**[05:22] Craig**
I didn't witness it myself,
but I hear livestock fell from the sky.
**[05:28] Villager**
Hm? Huh?
**[05:31] Villager**
What the...
**[05:36] Cowherd**
That's right. And in pieces, too.
**[05:39] Cowherd**
Could a human do something like that?
**[05:42] Craig**
I doubt it.
**[05:44] Craig**
But the same goes for her.
**[05:47] Craig**
She couldn't do something like that
in a million years, either.
**[05:50] Cowherd**
What?! But she's a witch!
**[05:52] Cowherd**
What makes this pair
of monsters so different?!
**[05:56] Ashaf**
Hi there. Excuse me.
**[05:59] Ashaf**
I hate to butt in on a quarrel,
**[06:02] Ashaf**
but yours involves someone
I came here to see,
**[06:05] Ashaf**
and your discussion piqued my interest.
**[06:08] Ashaf**
Why do you say that she, a witch,
couldn't have done it?
**[06:14] Cowherd**
Wh-Who are you?
**[06:16] Owent**
Why? Because it's true.
**[06:19] Ashaf**
Oh?
**[06:21] Owent**
Everyone calls my big sister a witch,
**[06:24] Owent**
but Falvell Farmington
can't cast a single spell!
**[06:30] Ashaf**
Well, now.
**[06:30] Cowherd**
What?! You expect me to believe she's
innocent because she can't use magic?!
**[06:35] Cowherd**
Anyone can make an excuse like that!
**[06:37] Ashaf**
Not so loud.
**[06:39] Ashaf**
I'm afraid I must ask you to leave us.
**[06:52] Ashaf**
Put him down.
**[06:53] Cowherd**
Sure.
**[06:54] Ashaf**
Go home.
**[06:56] Cowherd**
Sure.
**[06:57] Friend**
All right.
**[07:00] Ashaf**
Oh, are you single?
**[07:03] Cowherd**
No, I've got a wife.
**[07:05] Friend**
Me, too.
**[07:06] Ashaf**
Is that so? Then shower them with love.
**[07:10] Ashaf**
Why not buy flowers for them on your way home?
**[07:12] Friend**
Good idea. I'll do that.
**[07:15] Cowherd**
Once in a while, you know?
**[07:18] Owent**
Was that... magic?
**[07:21] Ashaf**
Well, just a bit.
**[07:23] Owent**
Yikes! Magic gives me the creeps!
**[07:26] Craig**
Don't tell me *you're* behind everything?
**[07:31] Ashaf**
I wonder.
**[07:33] Ashaf**
Well, all joking aside...
**[07:35] Craig**
He passed it off as a joke!
**[07:37] Ashaf**
Lady Witch, I'd like a word.
**[07:41] Ashaf**
I've been looking for you.
**[07:43] Ashaf**
I'm Ashaf. A first-rate mage, as you saw.
**[07:48] Ashaf**
As you are a witch,
I have an earnest request for you.
**[07:55] Owent**
Suspicious.
**[07:56] Craig**
You're super shady, Mister.
**[07:58] Owent**
But, well, you did help us out,
so I guess we owe you a thank you.
**[08:10] Cowherd**
Hey, watch it.
**[08:11] Cowherd**
You just jostled me.
**[08:14] Cowherd**
Are you listening?
**[08:43] Ashaf**
Really, now?
**[08:53] Ashaf**
I never thought I'd need *three* layers
against a flesh-and-blood opponent.
**[08:59] Guideau**
Move! You're in my way!
**[09:00] Ashaf**
How fierce. What exactly
am I stopping you from doing?
**[09:05] Guideau**
Hand over that witch.
**[09:07] Guideau**
She's *my* prey.
**[09:09] Owent**
What's wrong with people today?
**[09:12] Owent**
What do you all want with Falvell?!
**[09:17] Guideau**
Remember this face?
**[09:19] Guideau**
Or this mark?!
**[09:22] Owent**
That mark...
**[09:25] Guideau**
Sounds like a yes.
**[09:43] Owent**
What's this freaky thing?
**[09:46] Craig**
It vanished.
**[09:49] Ashaf**
*Did it protect her?*
**[09:54] Villager**
Did you see that?
**[09:55] Villager**
What was that monster just now?
**[09:57] Villager**
There she is.
**[09:59] Villager**
The witch! The witch is right there!
**[10:01] Villager**
Then that monster was...
**[10:03] Ashaf**
Not good. People saw that.
**[10:05] Owent**
What?
**[10:07] Owent**
No. You're wrong!
**[10:09] Owent**
Falvell didn't do anything!
**[10:11] Owent**
She didn't!
**[10:32] Owent**
We don't have parents.
**[10:34] Owent**
The villagers don't treat us like people,
**[10:37] Owent**
but the mayor's always been good to us.
**[10:41] Owent**
Falvell uses plants from our garden and
the mountain out back for dyeing and tea,
**[10:47] Owent**
and the mayor sells what
she makes to acquaintances.
**[10:51] Owent**
Her stuff's popular.
**[11:07] Ashaf**
Well, I'll be.
**[11:08] Craig**
Hard to believe how good it tastes, right?
**[11:10] Craig**
It's the best tea I've ever had.
**[11:14] Owent**
She can't use magic, but she says this is
part of the witch knowledge she inherited.
**[11:19] Ashaf**
I see.
**[11:21] Ashaf**
Would you care for a cup, too?
**[11:23] Ashaf**
It tastes wonderful.
**[11:30] Ashaf**
What a surprise.
**[11:32] Ashaf**
I expected you to scream at me to
undo the spell, but you've stayed calm.
**[11:37] Ashaf**
I guess you don't like to waste effort.
**[11:39] Ashaf**
And I examined you
while you were unconscious,
**[11:43] Ashaf**
but I found no signs
of magical enhancement.
**[11:47] Ashaf**
Yet you're tough enough to have barely
a scratch on you. And that brute strength...
**[11:53] Ashaf**
You don't strike me as an ordinary human.
**[11:58] Ashaf**
That mark on your neck.
**[12:00] Ashaf**
It proves you're under
a witch's curse, doesn't it?
**[12:04] Owent**
A witch's curse?
**[12:06] Ashaf**
If my guess isn't wrong, you hoped
she'd give you a clue about the caster.
**[12:12] Ashaf**
Or you suspect her of
casting the curse herself.
**[12:18] Ashaf**
Why don't we start there?
**[12:21] Ashaf**
But first, may I have a second cup?
**[12:27] Ashaf**
Now, let me see. You are?
**[12:30] Owent**
My name? Owent.
**[12:33] Ashaf**
It's a pleasure, Owent.
**[12:35] Ashaf**
I'd like your confirmation.
**[12:37] Ashaf**
Falvell can't speak, can she?
**[12:39] Owent**
No, she can't.
**[12:41] Owent**
Not a single "witch" in our family ever can.
**[12:45] Owent**
They can't even make
noises in their throats.
**[12:47] Craig**
What? You told me she was sick.
**[12:50] Owent**
Well, I mean, it's a weird story, right?
**[12:53] Owent**
We just saw so many crazy things
that I figured I might as well come clean.
**[12:58] Ashaf**
I see. And as such, she can't cast spells.
**[13:03] Ashaf**
How much do you all know about magic?
**[13:05] Owent**
Not much...
**[13:07] Ashaf**
Thank you.
**[13:09] Ashaf**
In that case, time for a lesson.
**[13:12] Ashaf**
Generally speaking,
**[13:15] Ashaf**
a person with magical energy
casts spells by tracing runes.
**[13:21] Ashaf**
We either pour magic
into pre-written runes,
**[13:25] Ashaf**
or write runes using magical energy itself.
**[13:37] Ashaf**
Let me treat you.
**[13:40] Guideau**
Listen, asshole—
**[13:46] Craig**
She froze up?
**[13:47] Ashaf**
Well, anyway...
**[13:50] Ashaf**
As you can see,
writing forms the basis of magic.
**[13:53] Ashaf**
Spellcasting relies on
special letters called "runes."
**[13:57] Ashaf**
But there are exceptions.
**[13:59] Ashaf**
And Falvell, I suspect your
bloodline is one of them.
**[14:05] Ashaf**
Its Origin: the "Mystic Witch,"
Luna Farmington.
**[14:10] Ashaf**
A practitioner of vocative magic
who cast all her spells with speech.
***SIGN*** Invocation
**[14:17] Ashaf**
But since you can't use your voice,
you naturally can't cast spells, either.
**[14:24] Craig**
For real?
**[14:25] Owent**
You sure know a lot.
**[14:27] Owent**
Do all mages know so much about witches?
**[14:31] Ashaf**
I don't believe so.
**[14:33] Ashaf**
Very few have knowledge of
the Mystic Witch, in particular.
**[14:39] Ashaf**
Well?
**[14:40] Guideau**
Huh?
**[14:41] Ashaf**
Falvell descends from the Mystic Witch.
**[14:44] Ashaf**
Does that match the witch who cursed you?
**[14:47] Guideau**
Being a different bloodline
doesn't prove shit.
**[14:51] Guideau**
That bitch swaps bodies.
**[14:55] Ashaf**
Oh?
**[14:56] Guideau**
And you're telling me she can't use magic?
**[14:59] Guideau**
What do you call that thing
that sent me flying, then?!
**[15:03] Ashaf**
Yes, that's the problem.
**[15:05] Ashaf**
I'm not saying it presents a contradiction.
**[15:08] Ashaf**
The problem is that we may have enemies here.
**[15:12] Ashaf**
That thing looked exactly
as though Falvell created it.
**[15:17] Ashaf**
But Falvell can't use magic.
**[15:21] Ashaf**
Working from that assumption,
**[15:23] Ashaf**
someone must have orchestrated
it to appear that way.
**[15:27] Ashaf**
Now that so many people have seen it,
if any more incidents occur,
**[15:33] Ashaf**
all the blame will fall upon the "wicked witch."
**[15:38] Ashaf**
Just to check, are there
any local spellcasters?
**[15:41] Owent**
No. Not even one.
**[15:44] Ashaf**
I hear these minor odd incidents
started about a month ago.
**[15:48] Ashaf**
Did any outsiders come through around then?
**[15:51] Owent**
Not really.
**[15:53] Craig**
Well, I guess I might count.
**[15:58] Craig**
My dad and I moved here half a year ago.
**[16:01] Craig**
Of course, neither of us can do magic, though.
**[16:05] Owent**
Craig and his dad help us out!
**[16:08] Owent**
They protect us like the mayor does!
**[16:12] Ashaf**
No need to be so protective.
**[16:16] Ashaf**
I won't pounce on every suspect I find.
**[16:19] Ashaf**
Half a year is too long ago.
He's in the clear.
**[16:22] Ashaf**
Hmm... No clues, then.
**[16:25] Ashaf**
Our guest still doesn't
seem convinced, either.
**[16:30] Ashaf**
Are you scared?
**[16:32] Ashaf**
A bestial woman,
a mysterious mage, the villagers...
**[16:39] Ashaf**
You and your brother are
surrounded by too many enemies.
**[16:42] Craig**
Do you have to spell it out like that?
**[16:47] Ashaf**
Don't worry. I've come to
protect you two from now on.
**[16:54] Ashaf**
Let me reintroduce myself.
**[16:56] Ashaf**
I come from an occult organization
of magic, by magic, and for magic:
**[17:02] Ashaf**
the Order of Magical Resonance.
**[17:05] Ashaf**
Lady Witch, would you return
to the Order with me?
**[17:18] Craig**
I'm back.
**[17:20] Sven**
You're home late.
**[17:23] Craig**
Hey! Are you drinking Falvell's tea again?
**[17:27] Craig**
That's the last of it.
**[17:29] Sven**
It's just so good, I can't help it.
**[17:34] Craig**
Good thing I got some more.
**[17:36] Sven**
Oh, that should keep us for a while.
**[17:39] Craig**
Falvell ought to start charging us already.
**[17:43] Sven**
We pay her, just not with money.
**[17:47] Craig**
Oh, you won't believe what happened today.
**[17:51] Owent**
What do you think?
**[17:54] Owent**
I've never seriously
considered leaving the village.
**[17:58] Owent**
It doesn't feel real.
**[18:01] Owent**
I mean, can *you* imagine
this hell ever ending?
**[18:05] Owent**
Then again, what's to say things
will get better if we go?
**[18:10] Owent**
To start with, that guy's really shady.
**[18:12] Owent**
I don't trust a word he says.
**[18:15] (Flashback) Ashaf**
I'll come back tomorrow.
**[18:18] Owent**
Don't worry. We're used
to having lots of enemies.
**[18:22] Owent**
This is nothing new.
**[18:24] Owent**
We can get by somehow.
**[18:28] Owent**
Just like we always have.
**[18:31] Owent**
It's all just like always.
**[18:38] Owent**
Hey, Falvell...
**[18:40] Owent**
Do you trust him? That Ashaf guy?
**[18:47] Owent**
Yeah. You're right.
**[18:50] Owent**
Okay! I'll whip up something
extra tasty tonight!
**[18:56] Ashaf**
You can't understand it?
**[18:58] Ashaf**
Sheltering a witch, you mean?
**[19:00] Guideau**
A witch with no magic is just dead weight.
**[19:05] Guideau**
What do you want her for?
**[19:07] Ashaf**
Oh, so you believe she can't cast spells now?
**[19:12] Guideau**
If I see someone up close long enough, I can
tell if she's that bitch or not on the inside.
**[19:17] Ashaf**
Is that so? I'm glad she's
been cleared of suspicion.
**[19:21] Ashaf**
But I wouldn't call her "dead weight."
**[19:25] Ashaf**
Do you remember how she
reacted to seeing your mark?
**[19:30] Ashaf**
It clearly rang a bell.
**[19:34] Ashaf**
You forgot?
**[19:36] Ashaf**
Maybe the hit that sent you flying
knocked a few memories loose, too.
**[19:40] Ashaf**
If you ask me, we shouldn't
be surprised she recognized it.
**[19:45] Ashaf**
She probably has a similar mark
somewhere on her own body.
**[19:50] Ashaf**
Don't you find it strange?
**[19:53] Ashaf**
Her voice is the source of her magic.
**[19:55] Ashaf**
Generations of witches,
and only witches, losing their voices
**[19:59] Ashaf**
couldn't be more contrived.
**[20:02] Ashaf**
So, could she be under a type of curse, too?
**[20:08] Ashaf**
Vocative magic boasts unparalleled power.
**[20:11] Ashaf**
Perhaps another witch got scared
and sealed it away with a curse.
**[20:16] Guideau**
So what? That makes her even more useless.
**[20:20] Guideau**
A witch's curse is a pain in the—
**[20:22] Ashaf**
True, it is a nuisance.
**[20:24] Ashaf**
Undoing curses is a challenge.
**[20:27] Ashaf**
Or it would be, if there
were only two ways to do it.
**[20:32] Guideau**
Hey! What do you know about—
**[20:34] Ashaf**
Not now.
**[20:36] Ashaf**
I hear a commotion across the way.
**[20:42] Ashaf**
Craig!
**[20:44] Ashaf**
What's all the fuss? What happened?
**[20:47] Craig**
It came back!
**[20:48] Craig**
That monster showed up again!
**[20:51] Craig**
And then, the mayor...
**[20:53] Villager**
How gruesome.
**[20:54] Villager**
Her greatest benefactor, of all people.
**[20:57] Villager**
Then we were right all along.
**[20:59] Villager**
That girl is a devil.
**[21:00] Villager**
We can't leave her alive!
**[21:03] Craig**
And it gets worse!
**[21:04] Craig**
An "expert witch hunter" showed up
and led the villagers to Falvell's house!
**[21:11] Craig**
He had this weird mask on and...
**[21:22] Ashaf**
An Executioner!
**[21:24] Ashaf**
This really is bad news!
**[21:25] Craig**
I'll go with you!
**[21:27] Ashaf**
That makes twice.
**[21:36] Ashaf**
Executioners work in pairs.
**[21:40] Ashaf**
I take it you're one of them.
**[21:45] Craig**
That's all the proof you
needed to pull the trigger?
**[21:53] Craig**
You said you'd cleared me,
**[21:57] Craig**
but you suspected me this whole time.
**[22:00] Craig**
Adults don't play fair.
**[22:19] Owent**
What?
**[24:01] Ashaf**
I want to teach you what love is.
**[24:05] Ashaf**
Next time: "Eloquence
and Silence: Final Act."
***SIGN*** Eloquence and Silence
***SIGN*** Final Act