# E7 - The Witch and the Demon Sword: Act II
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**[00:04] Paladin 2**
Huh? Did you lose your way?
**[00:07] Paladin 2**
I can get out a map, if you'd like.
**[00:10] Ashaf**
Don't kill him, Guideau.
**[00:22] Ashaf**
Come here, Guideau.
**[00:23] Guideau**
You come here.
**[00:29] Ashaf**
Recognize the insignia?
**[00:31] Guideau**
Nope.
**[00:33] Ashaf**
Good grief. You really have no interest
in anything but witches, do you?
**[00:38] Ashaf**
Armies normally rely on strength in numbers.
**[00:41] Ashaf**
Against witches, in particular,
having an elite few makes no sense.
**[00:45] Ashaf**
They require a quantity
so vast, it seems infinite.
**[00:49] Ashaf**
But annoyingly, this force
is built not on numbers,
**[00:52] Ashaf**
but on overwhelming individual might.
**[00:56] Ashaf**
If you encounter someone
who looks like their commander,
**[00:59] Ashaf**
don't assume you can beat him.
**[01:01] Ashaf**
The Third Continent Paladin Corps's
6th Battalion is led by the "Man of Ice,"
**[01:06] Ashaf**
Matt Cugat.
**[01:08] Ashaf**
His power rivals that of a witch.
**[01:12] Guideau**
This must be him.
***SIGN*** The Witch and
the Demon Sword
***SIGN*** Act II
**[02:58] Ashaf**
*Stop, Guideau.*
**[03:00] Ashaf**
*Save the kiss for later.*
**[03:02] Guideau**
What? Why?
**[03:04] Guideau**
This guy's gotta be the boss, right?
**[03:06] Guideau**
If I take him out here, our job's done!
**[03:09] Ashaf**
* Guideau, your strength*
* is our ace in the hole.*
**[03:12] Ashaf**
* We haven't gotten the*
* full picture of this case yet.*
**[03:15] Ashaf**
* Always hide your ace in the hole*
* until all the cards are down.*
**[03:20] Ashaf**
*For the moment, buy her time to escape.*
**[03:24] Ashaf**
*Just concentrate on that.*
**[03:27] Ashaf**
Now...
**[03:29] Ashaf**
I believe my attention is needed here.
**[03:32] Helga**
What are you muttering to yourself for?
**[03:34] Helga**
Wait, were you talking to that hot—
uh, that guy from before?
**[03:40] Helga**
Hey! Put up a decent fight!
**[03:42] Helga**
He'll focus on me if you go down.
**[03:45] Guideau**
I'll help you escape.
**[03:47] Guideau**
Get lost while I keep him busy.
**[03:50] Helga**
What? But what will you do
once I've gotten away?
**[03:53] Guideau**
Shut up and move it.
**[03:56] Guideau**
Having a witch next to me
makes my damn skin crawl.
**[04:00] Helga**
Well...
**[04:01] Helga**
That works out great for me.
**[04:05] Matt**
*So that's the Demon Sword?*
**[04:07] Matt**
*He was telling the truth.*
**[04:10] Matt**
*All the more reason to finish this now.*
**[04:12] Guideau**
Look this way!
**[04:13] Matt**
I already am.
**[04:25] Helga**
What? She lost already?
**[04:43] Guideau**
Shit.
**[04:45] Guideau**
I heard you were bad news,
**[04:46] Guideau**
but you're not even a witch. How do
you fire off spells without moving?
**[04:50] Matt**
You surprised me, as well.
I didn't expect you to be so fast or strong.
**[04:56] Matt**
That weapon in your right
hand must be magical.
**[04:59] Matt**
Is it the secret to your superhuman strength?
**[05:02] Matt**
I have a lot of questions, but you can wait.
**[05:11] Matt**
Witches don't die easily,
even when you strike to kill.
**[05:16] Matt**
I hope that holds true.
**[05:21] Helga**
What the...
**[05:31] Ashaf**
It really is stunning
what an elemental can do.
**[05:36] (Flashback) Guideau**
He's on par with a witch?
**[05:38] (Flashback) Guideau**
How? You mean he's not human?
**[05:41] (Flashback) Ashaf**
No, he's human.
**[05:44] (Flashback) Ashaf**
But he made a pact.
**[05:46] (Flashback) Guideau**
A "pact"?
**[05:48] (Flashback) Ashaf**
Exactly.
**[05:50] (Flashback) Ashaf**
Matt Cugat forged a pact with a
primordial force to rival witches:
**[05:53] (Flashback) Ashaf**
a great ice elemental.
**[05:58] (Flashback) Ashaf**
He's an elemental mage.
**[06:12] Helga**
Ow.
**[06:13] Helga**
Who is this guy?
**[06:16] Helga**
He's practically a witch.
**[06:19] Helga**
Ashgan! Where are you?
**[06:21] Ashgan**
I'm here.
**[06:23] Ashgan**
Come to me.
**[06:26] Helga**
Thank good—
**[06:27] Ashgan**
No.
**[06:28] Helga**
Huh?
**[06:29] Ashgan**
I wasn't calling you.
**[06:32] Ashgan**
I meant...
**[06:33] Ashgan**
you.
**[06:38] Matt**
The Demon Sword. I'm glad I secured
it before you could try anything.
**[06:43] Helga**
Give it back!
**[06:44] Matt**
Really? Return a weapon this
dangerous to a murderous witch?
**[06:55] Helga**
*I know I can't beat him.
But what else* can *I do?*
**[07:03] Guideau**
This time...
**[07:04] Guideau**
I got you!
**[07:07] Helga**
You survived?
**[07:08] Guideau**
I bought you a few dozen seconds,
so why the hell are you still here?
**[07:11] Guideau**
You're a witch, right?!
**[07:13] Helga**
Well, excuse me for not being much of one.
**[07:20] Guideau**
Huh?
**[07:22] Helga**
No! Don't let them take it!
**[07:27] Lowell**
*What strength.*
**[07:31] Matt**
Hand over the Demon Sword.
**[07:34] Guideau**
Hah! You want this thing that bad?
**[07:42] Guideau**
I don't really give a shit about this thing,
**[07:45] Guideau**
but you assholes aren't
getting anything out of me!
**[07:50] Lowell**
Huh?
**[07:53] Helga**
What's wrong with you?!
**[07:55] Matt**
Of all the pointless....
**[07:59] Helga**
* I don't believe it. She picked up*
* Ashgan, then let it go again.*
**[08:04] Helga**
*I've never seen a human do that before.*
**[08:14] Helga**
Damn it!
**[08:18] Ashgan**
You again?
**[08:19] Helga**
Hey! Give it back!
**[08:21] Helga**
You've got no right to carry that!
**[08:24] Ashgan**
Yes, let go already. I can't stand you.
**[08:27] Guideau**
You want it? Do what I say.
Now, shut up and follow me.
**[08:30] Helga**
Excuse me?!
**[08:31] Guideau**
We're gonna meet up with Ashaf!
**[08:34] Helga**
Why should I listen to this brat?
**[08:36] Guideau**
Ashaf, where do you wanna meet?
**[08:39] Ashaf**
*So you're safe, Guideau. What about her?*
**[08:41] Guideau**
She's with me, and she'll do what I say.
**[08:44] Ashaf**
*Come again?*
**[08:45] Guideau**
Now we've just gotta get away and—
**[08:49] Ashaf**
*Is something wrong?*
**[08:52] Guideau**
Hey! Run like hell!
**[08:59] Helga**
Wha—
**[09:05] Helga**
Is he trying to freeze the whole city?!
**[09:09] Guideau**
Move it! He's gonna catch up to us!
**[09:11] Helga**
Over here!
**[09:13] Guideau**
What's your plan?
**[09:15] Helga**
Once we're through here, no matter what,
don't let go of my hand!
**[09:24] Guideau**
Hey, what's with these puny-ass spells?
**[09:28] Helga**
Never call them "puny" again, you hear me?
**[09:30] Helga**
I hate that word.
**[09:33] Ashgan**
You always say a woman's size isn't every—
**[09:35] Helga**
Shut up! Both of you!
**[09:40] Helga**
What?
**[09:45] Helga**
You're kidding me!
**[09:52] Helga**
What am I supposed to do against *that*?
**[10:02] Helga**
*Pontevert.*
**[10:03] Helga**
* This city in the south of the Third*
* Continent is blessed with great weather.*
**[10:09] Helga**
*The food is delicious, too.*
**[10:11] (Flashback) Waiter**
On the house.
**[10:13] (Flashback) Helga**
Goodness!
**[10:13] Helga**
*And passionate men.*
**[10:16] Helga**
* My witch blood makes me such*
* a people magnet, it scares me.*
**[10:20] Helga**
*I love this town.*
**[10:23] Newscaster**
* Six corpses were discovered*
* in the city early this morning.*
**[10:27] Newscaster**
* All six bear cuts from*
* some kind of edged weapon,*
**[10:30] Newscaster**
* and the wounds show signs*
* of extreme magical corrosion.*
**[10:33] Newscaster**
* Reports suggest a single killer*
* using powerful magic.*
**[10:39] Helga**
*The victims are all people I met yesterday.*
**[10:44] (Flashback) Helga**
Ashgan, did you do something again?
**[10:48] (Flashback) Ashgan**
What could I do, sealed away like this?
**[10:52] (Flashback) Ashgan**
But, Helga, if you want to
make me do something...
**[10:59] Ashgan**
Draw me, Helga!
**[11:02] Ashgan**
You have no other way out this time.
**[11:05] Ashgan**
Unless you draw me, you'll die.
**[11:09] Matt**
Save your breath, Demon Sword.
**[11:12] Matt**
The witch can't move.
**[11:14] Ashgan**
An elemental's protection?
**[11:16] Ashgan**
I don't like you, either.
**[11:19] Matt**
Put the witch and her ally in Armor.
**[11:28] Matt**
I doubt you've ever been put in Armor before.
**[11:32] Matt**
It hits pressure points that restrict
the release of magical energy.
**[11:35] Matt**
The perfect restraining
device for witches.
**[11:40] Lowell**
Come to think of it,
didn't they have an accomplice?
**[11:43] Lowell**
And quite a skilled one,
according to the reports.
**[11:45] Ashaf**
Quite skilled? You're too kind.
**[11:49] Ashaf**
You're astonishingly powerful yourself.
**[11:53] Ashaf**
I'll be in a real bind if you cart off
those two and the Demon Sword.
**[11:57] Matt**
Is that so?
**[12:00] Matt**
Too bad for you, then.
**[12:10] Matt**
Take them to the Castle.
I'll take care of this one.
**[12:15] Lowell**
I'll rendezvous with the commander.
**[12:18] Lowell**
Take the witch and her friend to base.
**[12:21] Ashaf**
I suppose I can't stop you from taking them.
**[12:26] Ashaf**
Still, this works out well.
I was hoping for a word with you.
**[12:31] Matt**
What?
**[12:32] Ashaf**
I have a good eye for people.
**[12:35] Ashaf**
Matt Cugat, the Man of Ice,
**[12:38] Ashaf**
you strike me as the type to listen
to an argument in good faith.
**[12:42] Matt**
Don't give me that.
**[12:44] Matt**
You obstructed our mission,
and now you talk about "good faith"?
**[12:52] Ashaf**
Speaking of that mission,
**[12:55] Ashaf**
don't you think it smells fishy?
**[12:59] Ashaf**
A witch and six victims.
**[13:02] Ashaf**
Each has a convenient witness,
**[13:05] Ashaf**
and the witch committed every murder
with her magical swordsmanship?
**[13:09] Ashaf**
If a witch simply wants to kill a human,
she has so many other ways of doing it.
**[13:15] Ashaf**
She's practically asking you
to send her to the gallows.
**[13:18] Ashaf**
A taunt like that shows true confidence.
**[13:21] Ashaf**
A typical witch, you might say.
**[13:23] Ashaf**
Fear of witches may have lessened,
but it remains deeply rooted in society.
**[13:28] Ashaf**
People are so on edge that
a witch just being near a death
**[13:31] Ashaf**
is enough to create a "witch incident."
**[13:35] Ashaf**
Framing a witch for a crime is simple.
No hard evidence is required.
**[13:40] Ashaf**
And that's just what happened here.
**[13:43] Ashaf**
Someone set a trap for Helga Velvette.
**[13:50] Paladin 1**
What?
**[13:53] Ashgan**
I'll teach you to put me on ice.
**[13:56] Ashgan**
Don't think a trick like that
will keep me asleep for long.
**[14:00] Ashgan**
Nothing can imprison me
**[14:03] Ashgan**
except a witch.
**[14:04] Helga**
Oh, no!
**[14:06] Paladin 2**
What are you doing? Don't struggle!
**[14:08] Helga**
Stop! Don't touch the Demon Sword!
**[14:10] Helga**
Don't even look at it!
**[14:15] Paladin 4**
What's gotten into you?!
**[14:17] Paladin 3**
Let go! It's mine!
**[14:18] Paladin 5**
Enough! Stop! That doesn't belong to you!
**[14:21] Paladin 5**
It belongs to *me*!
**[14:23] Helga**
*It's begun.*
**[14:25] Helga**
* Even sealed, the Demon Sword's immense*
* power tempts and captivates people.*
**[14:32] Helga**
* Once it takes hold,*
* the temptation spreads like ripples.*
**[14:37] Ashgan**
Everyone loses themselves
in pursuit of my power.
**[14:42] Ashgan**
Mere humans can't help themselves.
**[14:46] Ashgan**
The problem is that woman.
**[14:49] Ashgan**
Why isn't she tempted?
**[14:51] Ashgan**
What in the world is she?
**[14:54] Farmus**
What is all this?
**[14:56] Farmus**
What's happening here?
**[14:59] Executioner**
You seem to be having trouble.
**[15:02] Executioner**
Allow me to sort this out.
**[15:05] Farmus**
I instructed you to remain
in the command center!
**[15:08] Farmus**
That goes for all of you!
**[15:10] Farmus**
I didn't order you to deploy seekers!
**[15:15] Farmus**
Stop! Have you lost your minds, too?
**[15:18] Helga**
*Ashgan?*
**[15:19] Helga**
* No. Humans tempted by Ashgan*
* aren't so well-organized.*
**[15:25] Executioner**
Open fire.
**[15:30] Matt**
Someone framed the witch?
**[15:33] Ashaf**
Speaking from experience,
I have a good idea who.
**[15:36] Ashaf**
It's their oldest trick, after all.
**[15:38] Ashaf**
You couldn't know about them,
**[15:40] Ashaf**
but you do share a connection.
**[15:44] Ashaf**
This group targets all witches,
good and evil alike,
**[15:49] Ashaf**
and uses any means to
hunt them to extinction.
**[15:51] Ashaf**
The dark side of the
righteous Paladin Corps.
**[15:56] Ashaf**
A secret force of witch hunters:
**[15:59] Ashaf**
the Executioners.
**[16:04] Executioner**
I knew this would happen if you
brought the Demon Sword here
**[16:07] Executioner**
without knowing what to expect.
**[16:11] Executioner**
So, all according to plan.
**[16:13] Executioner**
Even amid all this chaos,
**[16:16] Executioner**
I can create loyal soldiers who won't fall
under the Demon Sword's influence.
**[16:23] Executioner**
With this Forbidden Instrument.
**[16:30] Executioner**
Now, where's Helga?
**[16:33] Farmus**
Where could she be?
**[16:34] Executioner**
Find her.
**[16:40] Matt**
The Executioners set up this witch incident?
**[16:43] Ashaf**
Yes.
**[16:44] Matt**
Impossible.
**[16:46] Matt**
The Executioners epitomize the Dark Ages.
**[16:49] Matt**
A detestable product of a millennium ago.
**[16:51] Ashaf**
The survival of the dark side would
never make it into the history books.
**[16:55] Ashaf**
Due to my work, I know the Holy Church
at least as well as you do.
**[17:00] Ashaf**
I can't prove the Executioners
orchestrated this.
**[17:03] Ashaf**
I'm merely speculating
based on experience.
**[17:06] Ashaf**
But are you sure my theory
doesn't ring any bells?
**[17:10] Ashaf**
Did no one approach you with a smile
plastered on their face, posing as a helper?
**[17:19] Matt**
You said you were speculating?
**[17:21] Ashaf**
Yes. Nothing more.
**[17:24] Matt**
You're talking nonsense. At least, for now.
**[17:27] Ashaf**
Yes. For now, that will do.
**[17:32] Matt**
Come in, command center.
**[17:37] Matt**
What's wrong? Come in!
**[17:39] Ashaf**
Does it sound a bit less like nonsense now?
**[17:48] Lowell**
Since you house a great elemental,
I wasn't sure I could run you through.
**[17:53] Lowell**
But thank goodness.
**[17:54] Lowell**
I see you're still weak to heat, Commander.
**[17:58] Matt**
Lowell...
**[18:04] Lowell**
Harming you provokes the
great elemental's wrath, yes?
**[18:09] Lowell**
Now that you've learned too much,
you won't make such a good pawn anymore.
**[18:14] Lowell**
Then again, I believe he always
planned to dispose of you.
**[18:23] Lowell**
Apparently, being so
righteous and by-the-book
**[18:25] Lowell**
made you harder for the
Executioners to make use of.
**[18:29] Lowell**
He said you're perfect for
sending against witches,
**[18:32] Lowell**
but still not worth as
much as the Demon Sword.
**[18:35] Lowell**
Heartless, don't you think?
**[18:38] Lowell**
Goodbye, sir.
**[18:48] Helga**
* I have nowhere left to run*
* and no way of escaping.*
**[18:52] Helga**
*This is it for me.*
**[18:55] Helga**
* My life is going to end like this,*
* slandered as a serial killer.*
**[19:00] Helga**
*Ah, I so wanted a boyfriend.*
**[19:07] Executioner**
What a nimble girl.
**[19:09] Executioner**
Vice Commander, I'll let you handle her.
**[19:26] Executioner**
I wonder who you are.
**[19:30] Executioner**
You can tell me the whole story later.
**[19:37] Helga**
Stop!
**[19:39] Executioner**
Oh? So that's where you were, Helga.
**[19:44] Ashgan**
Helga.
**[19:46] Ashgan**
Draw me.
**[19:48] Ashgan**
It's only a matter of time
until I'm unleashed now.
**[19:53] Ashgan**
If you can't avoid it, then the
smart choice is to draw me yourself.
**[19:59] Ashgan**
Drawing me is the only way you can survive.
**[20:05] Helga**
*True.*
**[20:07] Helga**
*That man wants the Demon Sword.*
**[20:09] Helga**
*And in the shape I'm in,*
**[20:11] Helga**
* I won't be able to resist*
* telling him how to unleash it.*
**[20:16] Helga**
*But I won't let that happen.*
**[20:19] Helga**
* Anyone but me needs something*
* to draw the Demon Sword,*
**[20:23] Helga**
*and they'll never get it if I die.*
**[20:27] Helga**
* As long as I die, you won't be*
* able to have things your way.*
**[20:32] Helga**
*I wanted a boyfriend.*
**[20:35] Helga**
*I wanted to be happy.*
**[20:37] Helga**
*I don't want to go out like this,*
**[20:40] Helga**
*but there's no way I'll abandon my duty now!*
**[20:43] Helga**
* I keep the world safe*
* from the Demon Sword.*
**[20:46] Helga**
* That's the whole reason I've had*
* such rotten luck all this time!*
**[20:53] Executioner**
How is she moving on her own?
**[20:55] Executioner**
Does my control have no effect on her?
**[20:57] Executioner**
Is she really human?
**[21:01] Guideau**
Hey! Cast some kind of spell!
**[21:03] Helga**
I can't yet. I only just got it off.
**[21:11] Executioner**
Naughty, naughty.
**[21:13] Executioner**
The witch *and* the Demon Sword?
What a greedy girl.
**[21:20] Guideau**
Hey! What the hell are you thinking?!
**[21:25] Helga**
Go! Forget me and protect the Demon Sword!
**[21:28] Guideau**
Like hell I will!
**[21:29] Guideau**
I've gotta take you with me,
or I've wasted my time!
**[21:34] Helga**
Then rescue me.
**[21:37] Helga**
If bringing me back is your job,
keep the Demon Sword safe!
**[21:42] Helga**
Come back and rescue me!
**[21:48] Helga**
As if that'll ever happen.
**[21:52] Executioner**
Quite right.
**[21:54] Executioner**
I know everything there is
to know about you.
**[21:57] Executioner**
Hope doesn't suit you.
**[22:01] Executioner**
This base and the witch are now mine.
**[22:05] Executioner**
And soon, the Demon Sword will be, too.
**[22:08] Executioner**
There's never been any hope for you,
and there never will be.
**[22:13] Helga**
*I've gotten by on my own all this time.*
**[22:16] Helga**
*No one's coming to save me. I have no hope.*
**[22:20] Helga**
*I know all that.*
**[24:00] Ashaf**
Now, shall we show our own ace in the hole?
**[24:05] Ashaf**
Next time: "The Witch and
the Demon Sword: Act III."
***SIGN*** The Witch and
the Demon Sword
***SIGN*** Act III