# E1 - BALL
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**[00:14] Narration**
*What do you desire?*
**[00:24] Narration**
*Honor and pride?*
**[00:34] Narration**
*Power and influence?*
**[00:42] Narration**
*Money and riches?*
**[00:46] Narration**
*Revenge? Or...*
**[00:49] Narration**
*To transcend all such things?*
**[00:53] Headon**
For what do you risk your
life to climb the tower?
**[01:03] Bam**
I...
**[01:08] Headon**
Whatever you desire, you will find it here.
**[01:23] Headon**
Welcome to the Tower of God.
**[01:30] Narration**
*Climb the tower, and everything will be yours.*
**[01:34] Narration**
* At the top of the tower exists*
* everything in this world,*
**[01:37] Narration**
*and all of it can be yours.*
**[01:40] Narration**
*You can become a god.*
**[01:42] Narration**
* This is the story of Rachel,*
* the girl who climbed the tower*
**[01:44] Narration**
*so she could see the stars,*
**[01:46] Narration**
*and Bam, the boy who needed nothing but her.*
**[01:51] Narration**
*Their end and their beginning.*
**[03:46] Rachel**
I'm sorry, Bam.
**[03:49] Bam**
Where are you going?
**[04:08] Rachel**
Forget about me.
**[04:10] Bam**
No!
**[04:23] Rachel**
I'm sorry. I'm climbing the tower.
**[04:29] Bam**
Don't leave me!
**[04:30] Bam**
I'll follow you until I die!
**[04:33] Rachel**
Pray for me.
**[04:35] Rachel**
Pray I'll be born again.
**[04:49] Bam**
Rachel!
**[05:23] Headon**
The answer can always be found
at the top of the tower.
***SIGN*** Test 1
***SIGN*** The White Steel Eel and the Ball
**[05:46] Bam**
Where am I?
**[05:47] Headon**
All visitors are welcome here.
**[06:00] Headon**
I am Headon...
**[06:04] Headon**
The caretaker of this tower.
**[06:10] Bam**
Tower?
**[06:18] Bam**
Tower? This is it?
**[06:21] Headon**
It's a pleasure to meet you, Master Bam.
**[06:27] Bam**
How do you know my name?
**[06:29] Bam**
Her...!
**[06:33] Bam**
You spoke with her?
**[06:35] Bam**
I followed her here!
**[06:38] Headon**
The answer can always be found
at the top of the tower.
**[06:42] Bam**
The top of the tower?
**[06:45] Bam**
At the top of the tower...
**[06:49] Bam**
Rachel's there.
**[06:51] Headon**
Will you take the test
required to climb the tower?
**[06:56] Bam**
What test?
**[07:15] Headon**
The rules are simple.
**[07:20] Headon**
You will enter the cage.
**[07:23] Headon**
If you can break that ball while
avoiding the White Steel Eel, you pass.
**[07:28] Headon**
Will you take it?
**[07:30] Headon**
If you wish to turn back, now is the time.
**[07:32] Headon**
The tower is dangerous.
**[07:33] Headon**
For someone like you, death is...
**[07:39] Headon**
Marvelous.
**[07:56] Yuri**
Atuna oniana jakabu!
(What are you, stupid?)
**[07:59] Evan**
Isanu ketta, amairui!
(Wait for me, Yuri!)
**[08:07] Evan**
Usedun nianete jutaga botoku.
(He doesn't understand us.)
**[08:18] Evan**
You understand us now, right?
**[08:20] Bam**
Y-Yes.
**[08:22] Yuri**
That high-quality Pocket
is too good for you.
**[08:25] Bam**
Pocket?
**[08:26] Evan**
It's not just a translator.
**[08:28] Evan**
It's also our lifeline in the tower.
**[08:30] Evan**
Face the Pocket and say, "Invisible mode."
**[08:33] Bam**
I-Invisible mode.
**[08:36] Evan**
Don't be so shocked.
**[08:38] Evan**
By the way, if you say, "Visible
mode," it'll revert to—
**[08:40] Yuri**
I knew it. You're an Irregular.
**[08:43] Bam**
An Irregular?
**[08:44] Yuri**
An outsider who entered the tower
by opening the gates on their own.
**[08:48] Yuri**
Anyway, you look pretty weak for an Irregular.
**[08:51] Evan**
What are we doing getting
involved with an Irregular?
**[08:55] Yuri**
You're saying you don't care if he
gets swallowed by the White Steel Eel?
**[08:59] Headon**
You may be Yuri, Princess of Jahad,
**[09:00] Evan**
But...
**[09:02] Headon**
but if the king learned of this,
you would be executed.
**[09:08] Headon**
Am I wrong?
**[09:10] Yuri**
Only if you tattled to the king.
**[09:12] Evan**
Lady Yuri!
**[09:13] Headon**
I devote myself to maintaining
order in the tower
**[09:17] Headon**
and ensuring the royal family's prosperity.
**[09:19] Headon**
So I am simply doing my job.
**[09:25] Yuri**
Then why give him an unfair test?
**[09:27] Yuri**
Even guys on the 20th Floor
**[09:29] Yuri**
have trouble handling that
eel covered in steel scales.
**[09:33] Headon**
Unfair?
**[09:35] Headon**
He's an Irregular.
**[09:37] Yuri**
As a Navigator, do you sense
any hidden power in him?
**[09:41] Yuri**
Does he seem like he'll suddenly transform?
**[09:43] Evan**
He does seem agile.
**[09:45] Yuri**
See? Even Evan says so.
**[09:47] Yuri**
Look at how small and weak he looks.
**[09:50] Yuri**
Well, if I had to say...
**[09:54] Yuri**
...he's a little bit handsome.
**[09:56] Yuri**
Couldn't you drop the
level of his test, Headon?
**[10:01] Headon**
I am the caretaker of the tower.
**[10:03] Headon**
It is necessary to determine
if he is worthy of the tower.
**[10:06] Yuri**
Yeah, but—
**[10:07] Yuri**
I'll be fine.
**[10:08] Yuri**
What?
**[10:09] Bam**
I don't know who you are, but I
appreciate your consideration.
**[10:13] Yuri**
You don't even recognize
a Princess of Jahad?
**[10:17] Yuri**
You're trying to climb the tower
when you're that ignorant?
**[10:21] Yuri**
Are you trying to die?
**[10:22] Bam**
It's better than giving up here.
**[10:25] Headon**
If you're so determined to have
him climb the tower, Princess Yuri...
**[10:30] Headon**
...why not lend him the Black March?
**[10:34] Headon**
Depending on who wields it,
that legendary sword of Jahad
**[10:38] Headon**
can be a lump of lead or a blade
that cuts through anything.
**[10:42] Evan**
Absolutely not!
**[10:43] Evan**
Only a Princess of Jahad
can wield the Black March!
**[10:46] Evan**
If word got out that another
wielded it, execution would be—
**[10:47] Yuri**
Arms Inventory, visible mode.
**[10:50] Evan**
Lady Yuri!
**[11:02] Yuri**
I'll let you borrow this,
since you've got a cute face.
**[11:05] Evan**
Lady Yuri...
**[11:08] Bam**
But it's an incredible weapon.
**[11:10] Yuri**
Don't you want to climb the tower?
**[11:31] Headon**
I can't believe you really
let him borrow it.
**[11:34] Yuri**
What? You're the one who told me to!
**[11:36] Bam**
I'll return it as soon as I break the ball.
**[11:39] Yuri**
You should start by focusing
on defending your own life.
**[11:44] Bam**
Got it.
**[11:46] Evan**
Lady Yuri...
**[11:48] Evan**
Have you fallen in love at
first sight with that boy?
**[11:51] Evan**
Ow!
**[11:53] Yuri**
Shut up!
**[11:55] Evan**
Then do you truly believe an
Irregular will change the tower?
**[11:59] Yuri**
Are you stupid?
**[12:00] Yuri**
You know I hate being bored. That's all.
**[12:08] Evan**
The truth is, there's one
way to pass this test.
**[12:27] Evan**
What?!
**[12:30] Yuri**
That idiot! What is he doing?
**[12:33] Headon**
If you provide any more assistance,
he will fail.
**[12:37] Yuri**
You want me to watch him die?
**[12:46] Headon**
It is the path he chose.
**[12:50] Yuri**
Move, Headon.
**[12:52] Headon**
That's quite the way to speak to me.
**[12:54] Yuri**
Shut up. You may be the caretaker, but I—
**[12:56] Evan**
Wait, Lady Yuri!
**[12:58] Yuri**
Let go!
**[12:59] Evan**
He did the right thing!
**[13:01] Yuri**
What do you mean?
**[13:02] Evan**
It's impossible to escape
from that White Steel Eel.
**[13:06] Evan**
So rather than fleeing, you must
face it and leap into its mouth.
**[13:13] Yuri**
What?
**[13:19] Evan**
Overcoming the fear of death
is the answer to this test.
**[13:26] Yuri**
He entered its mouth and stabbed it?
**[13:31] Yuri**
If you knew the answer,
why didn't you tell him?
**[13:33] Evan**
Even if someone knows the answer,
**[13:35] Evan**
usually they won't be able
to do something so ridiculous.
**[13:40] Evan**
But that boy had something
greater than the fear of death.
**[13:45] Evan**
That boy had something that
let him face that fear.
**[13:57] Evan**
What?!
**[13:58] Yuri**
Headon!
**[14:01] Headon**
The test hasn't even begun yet.
**[14:07] Yuri**
What's going on?
**[14:09] Yuri**
Why won't the ball break?
**[14:11] Headon**
I can't answer that.
**[14:13] Yuri**
What are you planning?
**[14:20] Bam**
*Break!*
**[14:24] Bam**
*Break!*
**[14:40] Bam**
*Break!*
**[14:43] Bam**
*Break!*
**[14:53] (Flashback) Rachel**
What are you doing down there?
**[15:00] (Flashback) Rachel**
W-Wait. I'm coming to you.
**[15:04] (Flashback) Rachel**
I see. So you don't remember anything.
**[15:10] (Flashback) Rachel**
That must be scary.
**[15:15] (Flashback) Rachel**
But it's okay now.
**[15:19] (Flashback) Rachel**
I'm here with you.
**[15:21] Bam**
*Break!*
**[15:24] Bam**
*Break! Break!*
**[15:26] Bam**
*Break!*
**[15:27] Bam**
*Break!*
**[15:30] Bam**
*Break!*
**[15:32] (Flashback) Rachel**
I want to see the stars.
**[15:34] (Flashback) Bam**
The stars?
**[15:36] (Flashback) Rachel**
At the top of the tower stretches
this thing called the sky.
**[15:40] (Flashback) Rachel**
They say countless beautiful
stars shine there.
**[15:47] (Flashback) Bam**
They're just like you.
**[15:51] (Flashback) Rachel**
Where did you learn to say that?
**[15:55] Bam**
*Break!*
**[15:57] Rachel**
*Bam, I'm sick of being in this dark world.*
**[16:02] Bam**
*Break!*
**[16:03] Bam**
*Break!*
**[16:05] Bam**
*Don't go, Rachel!*
**[16:07] Bam**
Break!
**[16:14] Headon**
It seems he was a bit too loud.
**[16:16] Evan**
That's not good!
**[16:17] Evan**
Run, newbie!
**[16:21] Yuri**
Run!
**[16:22] Yuri**
Hurry!
**[16:23] Yuri**
Run!
**[16:25] Evan**
Hey, newbie!
**[16:27] Evan**
Speak to the Black March!
**[16:30] Evan**
Ask it to lend you its strength!
**[16:35] Yuri**
Evan!
**[16:36] Yuri**
Are you insane? That sword
won't even listen to—
**[16:38] Evan**
Just do it!
**[16:44] Bam**
Please grant me your strength.
**[16:50] Yuri**
No way.
**[17:03] Black March**
Boy.
**[17:06] Black March**
You wish for the strength
to climb the tower?
**[17:11] Bam**
No.
**[17:14] Bam**
I don't care about the tower.
**[17:16] Bam**
Please grant me your strength,
so I can see Rachel again.
**[17:22] Black March**
Such a boring boy.
**[17:25] Black March**
However...
**[17:29] Black March**
Since you have a cute face, I shall
grant you my strength just this once.
**[17:34] Yuri**
What?
**[17:37] Yuri**
She never granted me strength,
no matter how many times I asked...
**[17:41] Yuri**
Was it just because she prefers men?
**[17:44] Black March**
That's right. Begone, woman.
**[17:48] Evan**
So the tower's superstition was true.
**[17:51] Yuri**
I refuse to accept that!
**[18:01] Evan**
It broke!
**[18:10] Yuri**
Huh? What's going on?
**[18:13] Headon**
You mean you don't know?
**[18:16] Headon**
He ascended to the next floor.
**[18:20] Evan**
What are we going to do?
**[18:21] Evan**
He still has the Black March.
**[18:24] Yuri**
We just need to go get it back.
**[18:26] Evan**
What?
**[18:27] Yuri**
We're going after him.
**[18:28] Evan**
But we're forbidden from entering the
testing grounds for climbing the tower.
**[18:32] Yuri**
Shut up!
**[18:34] Yuri**
A life without anything
interesting in it isn't worth shit.
**[18:38] Yuri**
Hurry up and do your job, Navigator!
**[18:41] Evan**
Wait!
**[18:42] Evan**
What a stubborn princess...
**[18:44] Headon**
What an interesting gathering that was.
**[19:01] Headon**
I'm interested in seeing
what will happen next.
**[19:09] Black March**
Even if you are reunited, things will
never be exactly as they were.
**[19:17] Black March**
When you meet her again, she will have
lived for some time without you.
**[19:29] Black March**
But first, sleep. The road ahead is hard.
***SIGN*** Test 2
***SIGN*** The Regulars
**[19:59] Annouce**
*Test, test.*
**[20:03] Announce**
* Hello, Regulars. Welcome to the*
* second floor of the tower.*
**[20:08] Announce**
*This testing floor will determine if you are*
**[20:11] Announce**
*worthy of climbing the rest of the tower.*
**[20:14] Announce**
*Let's get the first test started.*
**[20:19] Announce**
*The rules are simple.*
**[20:20] Announce**
*In total, there are 400 Regulars here.*
**[20:24] Announce**
* Please reduce that number to*
* 200 within the allotted time.*
**[20:29] Announce**
*Use whatever methods you wish.*
**[20:32] Announce**
* The moment that only 200 Regulars remain,*
* the test will end.*
**[20:37] Announce**
* Also, you can check the number of*
* Regulars and time remaining on your Pocket.*
**[20:45] Announce**
*Good luck, everyone.*
**[21:11] Enemy**
Hey!
**[21:12] Enemy**
Stop, kid!
**[21:16] Enemy**
There's no point in running.
**[21:21] Bam**
Please help!
**[21:24] Enemy**
Begging for your life? How impudent.
**[21:54] Rak**
You're in my way.
**[21:57] Bam**
* In order to make it to the*
* next floor, I have to survive.*
**[22:06] Khun**
Hey.
**[22:07] Khun**
Why are you trying to kill me?
**[22:09] Enemy**
Whoever survives, wins!
**[22:11] Enemy**
Those are the rules of the test, fool!
**[22:14] Khun**
I see. So you easily stoop
to being controlled.
**[22:19] Bam**
*In order to survive...*
**[22:21] Bam**
*To climb the tower...*
**[22:25] Bam**
*I have no choice.*
**[22:32] Levin**
What was that for?
**[22:33] Rak**
This is the hunter's position.
**[22:35] Levin**
Don't be ridiculous!
**[22:40] Rak**
Toss!
**[22:42] Rak**
Shall I toss you away, too?
**[22:44] Levin**
D-Damn it! You'll pay for this!
**[22:47] Rak**
Now, then...
**[22:49] Rak**
Any good prey?
**[22:53] Rak**
What is it I sense?
**[22:56] Rak**
This lizard? No...
**[22:59] Rak**
That weapon?
**[23:01] Rak**
Another formidable presence.
**[23:04] Rak**
That weapon.
**[23:07] Rak**
Found you!
**[23:10] Bam**
*I have to do it.*
**[23:13] Khun**
Don't bother.
**[23:15] Khun**
With such weak knees,
you won't catch even a single rabbit.
**[23:25] Khun**
Shouldn't you be pointing that
sword at the guy behind you?
**[23:27] Bam**
Huh?