E9 - The Witch and the Demon Sword: Final Act

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[00:01] Executioner
    My mind control doesn't work?
[00:04] Executioner
    No, that can't be it.
[00:06] Executioner
    Sacrifices! I need more sacrifices!
    That must be the answer!
[00:13] Lowell
    Hey! What's going on? I thought
    you could control the Demon Sword!
[00:18] Lowell
    Why do you think I went
    along with your plan?!
[00:21] Lowell
    Do something about—
[00:24] Lowell
    Hey!
[00:25] Executioner
    More. I need more sacrifices.
[00:28] Executioner
    So many more.
[00:32] Executioner
    The Demon Sword can't touch me.
    I can try as many times as it takes.
[00:37] Executioner
    I'll just add more sacrifices and come back.
SIGN    The Witch and
    the Demon Sword
SIGN    Final Act
[02:16] Helga
    Ashgan.
[02:18] Ashaf
    Have you come to?
[02:20] Helga
    I broke the seal, didn't I?
[02:24] Ashaf
    Yes.
[02:26] Helga
    That's it, then.
[02:28] Helga
    I can't stop Ashgan.
[02:31] Helga
    Hurry. Leave me and run.
[02:34] Helga
    You'll be better off far away from me.
[02:37] Helga
    Ashgan...
[02:39] Helga
    must carry one hell of a
    grudge against my family.
[02:44] Helga
    In the end,
[02:45] Helga
    I failed in my duty,
    and now I guess I'll die here.
[02:51] Helga
    What a letdown.
[02:53] Helga
    If only... If only...
[02:56] Helga
    I could've at least gotten a kiss at the end!
[03:02] Ashaf
    You've never kissed anyone?
[03:04] Helga
    No! Is that a problem?!
[03:06] Guideau
    Hey. Fix my legs, too.
[03:08] Guideau
    I can't walk right.
[03:11] Ashaf
    Guideau, it appears
    all the cards are down.
[03:16] Ashaf
    We only expected the Paladins,
[03:19] Ashaf
    but a great elemental and
     the Executioners turned up.
[03:22] Ashaf
    And then the Demon Sword slipped its bonds.
[03:26] Ashaf
    Anyone and everyone has joined the game.
[03:30] Ashaf
    So what do you say we show
    them our ace in the hole?
[03:38] Ashaf
    Helga.
[03:39] Ashaf
    Would you permit us to
    grant that wish of yours?
[03:46] Helga
    Huh?
[03:47] Helga
    Wait, what?!
[03:49] Ashaf
    Now, close your eyes.
[03:52] Helga
    Hold on! Not so fast!
[03:54] Helga
    No! No way! I mean, not that I'd mind...
[03:58] Helga
    But, um, when you say
     you'll grant my wish,
[04:01] Helga
    do you... really mean it?!
[04:03] Ashaf
    Yes, of course.
[04:05] Ashaf
    I mean just that.
[04:10] Helga
    Blood's filling my mouth,
[04:13] Helga
    so I can't tell what
    my first kiss tastes like.
[04:24] Helga
    But wow. A man's lips...
[04:28] Helga
    sure are soft.
[05:16] Helga
    Huh? What?
[05:31] Matt
    What is this awful chill?
[05:36] Matt
    Even the Demon Sword has stopped dead.
[05:41] Matt
    What on earth are we in for now?
[06:16] Executioner
    What's going on?
[06:23] Helga
    Where'd that guy come from?
[06:27] Ashaf
    Guideau.
[06:30] Ashaf
    I'd prefer to take the Demon Sword alive.
[06:33] Ashaf
    Don't use your right hand.
[06:35] Helga
    Don't tell me he's going to fight!
[06:37] Ashaf
    Of course. Someone has to put a stop to this.
[06:40] Helga
    It's impossible! Why do you think
    the Dauntless Witches kept it sealed?
[06:45] Helga
    We weren't kidding when we
    said it can destroy the world!
[06:48] Helga
    There's nothing it can't cut if it tries.
[06:52] Helga
    The Demon Sword Ashgan is
    a blade that slices all creation!
[06:56] Ashaf
    Yes, I realize that.
[06:59] Ashaf
    The Demon Sword has immense power.
[07:01] Ashaf
    We've established that beyond doubt.
[07:04] Ashaf
    But you see...
[07:07] Ashaf
    You have one thing wrong.
[07:17] Ashaf
    It's not one of a kind.
[07:19] Ashaf
    Power great enough to destroy
    the world is hardly unique.
[07:24] Ashaf
    Not in this world of ours.
[07:30] Matt
    It's on its guard?
[07:33] Matt
    The great elemental is warier of this
    man than it is of the Demon Sword.
[08:22] Matt
    Demon Sword...
[08:25] Matt
    You must feel the same way.
[08:28] Matt
    Just like the great elemental,
    something unfathomable about this man
[08:34] Matt
    fills you with fear.
[09:05] Matt
    Now's my chance to finish it!
[09:50] Ashaf
    It unleashed even more power.
[09:52] Ashaf
    Could it be...
[09:54] Ashaf
    But of course.
[09:57] Ashaf
    The Demon Sword was just unsealed
    for the first time in centuries.
[10:00] Ashaf
    Of course it had lost its edge.
[10:03] Ashaf
    So we've yet to witness
    what it's truly capable of.
[10:10] Guideau
    So it's strong as shit?
[10:13] Ashaf
    Exactly.
[10:15] Guideau
    Stronger than me?
[10:18] Ashaf
    Who can say?
[10:22] Ashaf
    But I'd be fascinated to learn
    which of you comes out on top.
[11:02] Guideau
    Don't worry.
[11:04] Guideau
    I won't hit you with a right.
[11:07] Guideau
    Now...
[11:09] Guideau
    Grit those teeth!
[11:31] (Flashback) Quena
    Ashgan,
[11:34] (Flashback) Quena
    I'm going to seal you now.
[11:40] (Flashback) Ashgan
    Damn you.
[11:45] (Flashback) Quena
    You'll remain conscious
     but unable to move.
[11:49] (Flashback) Quena
    You'll live out an eternity of impairment,
     denied even of sleep, Ashgan.
[11:56] (Flashback) Ashgan
    You tricked me, Quena?
[11:59] (Flashback) Quena
    Yes, I tricked you.
[12:02] (Flashback) Quena
    You did too much killing.
[12:06] (Flashback) Quena
    I can't make excuses for you anymore.
[12:10] (Flashback) Quena
    I'd like to let you die quickly,
[12:13] (Flashback) Quena
    but the others don't want that.
[12:18] (Flashback) Quena
    I'd like to let you die,
    but I also want you to suffer.
[12:23] (Flashback) Quena
    I feel torn between hating you
     and another emotion.
[12:31] (Flashback) Quena
    I pray that my children, at least,
    inherit the feeling that isn't hatred.
[12:48] Ashgan
    I'm surprised.
[12:51] Ashgan
    There's enough of the city left to recognize.
[12:56] Ashgan
    I never dreamed someone would exist
     who could stop me so quickly.
[13:02] Ashgan
    Still...
[13:04] Ashgan
    Thanks to them, I was spared killing you.
[13:09] Ashgan
    No matter how much danger I brought you,
[13:12] Ashgan
    you refused to draw me to the bitter end.
[13:17] Ashgan
    Nothing goes my way with you.
[13:21] Ashgan
    Helga...
[13:23] Ashgan
    What an extremely
    headstrong woman you are.
[13:50] Resident 1
    It's the end of the world!
[13:52] Paladin 1
    Calm down! Please remain calm!
[13:54] Resident 2
    We're safe here, aren't we?!
[13:55] Paladin 2
    Yes. Rest assured,
    we have wards protecting us here.
[14:00] Paladin 3
    The sky split apart, the earth quaked,
    and the city is in shambles.
[14:04] Paladin 3
    What the hell is going on?
[14:06] Paladin 4
    We've lost contact with base, too.
[14:09] Paladin 3
    Hey, look!
[14:13] Executioner
    Help me!
[14:15] Executioner
    Let me in!
[14:21] Ashaf
    Guideau, straight ahead.
[14:37] Ashaf
    Whoops. He started running.
[14:40] Ashaf
    One millimeter to the right and three down.
[14:43] Guideau
    As if I can aim that precisely.
[14:46] Ashaf
    Oh, right. You lack your
    other body's dexterity.
[14:51] Ashaf
    Well, then, just pray he doesn't die,
[14:56] Ashaf
    and go to town.
[15:12] Executioner
    S-Stop...
[15:16] Executioner
    P-Please, no more... Stop...
[15:26] Matt
    Tell me, Executioner.
    Why did you need to attack us?
[15:31] Matt
    If your orders were to
    retrieve the Demon Sword,
[15:35] Matt
    you could easily have carried
    them out with fewer sacrifices.
[15:40] Executioner
    Not my mission. It was my personal goal.
[15:44] Executioner
    Matt Cugat is inflexible,
[15:47] Executioner
    and his elemental may
    protect him from mind control.
[15:52] Executioner
    That left one option:
    take the sword by force.
[15:55] Executioner
    I wanted the Demon Sword.
[15:58] Executioner
    I spent such a long time trying to get it.
[16:01] Executioner
    But I'm not the only one
    who covets the sword's power.
[16:06] Executioner
    Other Executioners! The Holy Church!
    They all have their sights on it!
[16:11] Executioner
    If Cugat retrieved the sword,
    it would never make its way to me again.
[16:18] Executioner
    So I...
[16:20] Ashaf
    I see.
[16:21] Ashaf
    I believe Executioners
    typically operate in pairs.
[16:25] Ashaf
    Given that his partner hasn't appeared,
    he doesn't seem to be lying.
[16:29] Ashaf
    And this appears to be all he can tell us.
[16:32] Ashaf
    Executioners have their lips
    sealed with contract magic.
[16:37] Ashaf
    We can't hope to get more out of him.
[16:39] Ashaf
    The only remaining use for them
[16:42] Ashaf
    is to bear responsibility
    for this unmitigated disaster.
[16:47] Ashaf
    But the Executioners
    belong to the dark side.
[16:49] Ashaf
    They don't exist, so arrest them as
    the true culprits and nothing more.
[16:56] Ashaf
    Oh, but of course,
    you don't need them alive.
[17:01] Ashaf
    After a magical battle on this scale,
[17:03] Ashaf
    no one would be surprised
    to find them finely minced.
[17:06] Lowell
    N-No, wait.
[17:09] Lowell
    Please wait, sir! You have it all wrong!
[17:12] Lowell
    I was only being used!
[17:15] Matt
    You called me soft, didn't you?
[17:18] Ashaf
    Yes. You are.
[17:21] Matt
    You're right. I am soft.
[17:26] Matt
    My form of justice won't
    permit a good person to die.
[17:30] Matt
    Or an evil person to die while
    they might still turn out to be good.
[17:37] Matt
    So I try to keep everyone alive as long
    as I can, no matter who they are.
[17:42] Matt
    But...
[17:45] Matt
    Once someone crosses
    the line, I have no mercy.
[17:50] Matt
    Even so, the people I lost were soldiers.
[17:54] Matt
    They died in the line of duty.
[17:57] Matt
    I believe they took your family from you.
[18:01] Matt
    What do you want to do?
[18:06] Helga
    Nothing much.
[18:07] Helga
    I'm as sensitive as the next person,
    and I've had all I can stomach.
[18:12] Helga
    I don't want to see any more.
    If you finish the job, do it elsewhere.
[18:17] Matt
    I see.
[18:19] Helga
    I do have one request, though.
[18:22] Helga
    Make them hurt so bad that
    they wish they'd never been born.
[18:29] Matt
    Understood.
[18:37] Helga
    He left without even asking
    who you shady guys are.
[18:42] Ashaf
    He must have some inkling.
[18:44] Ashaf
    We have a tacit understanding
    with the Paladin Corps.
[18:49] Ashaf
    Sparks that might ignite
    a war are strictly taboo.
[18:52] Ashaf
    So he feigns ignorance.
[18:54] Helga
    Why?
[18:55] Ashaf
    Because an all-out war between
    us would annihilate the world.
[19:00] Helga
    You've got to be kidding.
[19:02] Helga
    Oh, well. Too late for second thoughts.
[19:06] Helga
    You'll look out for me, right?
[19:08] Ashaf
    Yes, of course.
[19:10] Ashaf
    We can guard you like a precious gem.
[19:17] Ashaf
    But we'd also welcome your help,
    if you should feel so inclined.
[19:23] Helga
    My help?
[19:24] Helga
    You're after a witch's power, right?
[19:28] Helga
    No can do, then.
[19:30] Helga
    Most of my power goes to Ashgan's seal.
[19:33] Helga
    I can only actually use
    a teeny bit of it, so...
[19:39] Helga
    Oh, right. I won't need the seal anymore.
[19:47] Ashaf
    Guideau only threw left-handed punches.
[19:52] Ashaf
    A monster of the Demon Sword's
    caliber must have survived them.
[19:56] Ashaf
    And our organization
    should be able to repair it.
[19:59] Ashaf
    It will take some time,
    but the sword will revive.
[20:04] Helga
    I'm sure the world would
    be better off if it died.
[20:07] Helga
    I thought that would've
    been better for Ashgan, too.
[20:16] Helga
    But what do you know? It's alive.
[20:24] Ashgan
    Ah. This is a curse.
[20:31] (Flashback) Helga
    Hey, are you Ashgan?
[20:34] (Flashback) Helga
    I kind of figured the Demon Sword
    would look like a bigger deal.
[20:38] (Flashback) Helga
    Hey, can you hear me?
[20:40] Helga
    Hello!
[20:40] Ashgan
    Thinking back, I realized it the
    moment I first set eyes on her.
[20:42] Helga
    Is it sleeping?
[20:43] Helga
    Actually, can it even talk?
[20:48] Ashgan
    But I couldn't bring myself to admit it.
[20:52] (Flashback) Mother
    Stop this, Helga.
[20:54] (Flashback) Mother
    Leave the Demon Sword
    asleep in the basement.
[20:58] (Flashback) Mother
    It's dangerous.
[21:00] (Flashback) Helga
    But... I mean...
[21:04] (Flashback) Helga
    Don't you feel super bad for it?
[21:07] (Flashback) Helga
    It was a big, scary sword.
    People used to call it a disaster.
[21:10] (Flashback) Helga
    But now it looks like this,
    and all it can do is roll its eyeball around!
[21:14] (Flashback) Helga
    And how can I "leave it asleep"
     when it can't sleep?
[21:17] (Flashback) Helga
    It just stares at the wall all day, right?
[21:20] (Flashback) Helga
    And it's all dusty!
    You've gotta feel bad for it!
[21:22] (Flashback) Helga
    See here? Look at all the dirt
    built up in these grooves!
[21:26] (Flashback) Mother
    I get it, all right? Just put it back right now.
[21:29] (Flashback) Helga
    Hey, there's even more dirt here.
[21:31] Mother
    Enough, Helga.
[21:32] (Flashback) Sister 1
    Being so earnestly pitied by a little girl
    probably stings worse than anything.
[21:37] (Flashback) Sister 2
    You said it.
[21:40] (Flashback) Sister 1
    It's laughing.
[21:42] (Flashback) Sister 2
    That was a laugh?
[21:43] (Flashback) Sister 3
    Maybe it's one of those things, like when
     you get so scared, you start laughing?
[21:47] (Flashback) Sister 4
    Oh, so it's laughing because it blew its top?
[21:50] Helga
    C'mon, say something for yourself!
[21:51] Ashgan
    She's making a fool of me,
    yet I don't feel even a twinge of anger.
[21:52] Helga
    Hey! Are you listening?
[21:53] Helga
    Are you not even capable of saying "thank you"?
[22:02] Ashgan
    She could be Quena's double.
[22:05] Ashgan
    And something that isn't hatred...
[22:09] Ashgan
    Must I accept it at this point?
[22:13] Ashgan
    No, never.
[22:17] Ashgan
    This is a curse.
[22:22] Ashgan
    A witch's curse. It must be.
[24:01] Angela
    Long time no see.
[24:02] Angela
    I've missed you.
[24:05] Ashaf
    Next time: "Origin Witch."
SIGN    Origin Witch