# 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