# E1 - Cursed Words and the Azure Tower
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**[00:02] Lazar**
Your Highness!
**[00:04] Lazar**
Prince Oscar!
**[00:06] Lazar**
This really is too dangerous!
**[00:08] Lazar**
We should go back!
**[00:09] Lazar**
Please, Your Highness!
**[00:11] Oscar**
Quiet, Lazar.
**[00:13] Oscar**
All our efforts to sneak out of the castle
**[00:15] Oscar**
will have been for nothing if we return now.
**[00:17] Lazar**
What if the witch ends up
casting another curse on you?
**[00:21] Oscar**
I'll worry about it then.
**[00:23] Oscar**
We don't have any other leads.
**[00:25] Lazar**
I'm sure there must be some other way!
**[00:27] Oscar**
Fifteen years, and I've found nothing.
**[00:29] Oscar**
First, we'll find the Witch of the Azure Moon
and ask her how to lift the curse.
**[00:34] Oscar**
If that fails, we'll find the one
responsible, the Witch of Silence.
**[00:40] Oscar**
Flawless, right?
**[00:43] Tinasha**
A witch residing in an azure tower.
**[00:47] Tinasha**
A royal prince struck by a curse.
**[00:50] Tinasha**
If they could turn back time,
what would they wish for?
**[00:54] Tinasha**
This is a story where everything
can be rewritten.
***SIGN*** ~ Cursed Words and the Azure Tower ~
**[02:37] Oscar**
Okay, let's go.
**[02:38] Lazar**
P-Please wait!
**[02:40] Lazar**
I know how you must feel, Your Highness,
**[02:42] Lazar**
but the risk is too great!
**[02:44] Lazar**
To begin with, the Witch of Silence hasn't
been spotted in the last fifteen years.
**[02:49] Lazar**
And as for the Witch of the Azure Moon,
**[02:51] Lazar**
no one's ever managed to reach
the top of that tower in all those years!
**[02:56] Oscar**
Well, I'm sure it'll work out.
**[03:00] Lazar**
No, it won't!
**[03:01] Lazar**
If something happens to you,
how would I ever return to the castle?!
**[03:06] Oscar**
Just put on a grieving face.
**[03:07] Lazar**
You know I can't do that!
**[03:11] Lazar**
Ah, Your Highness!
**[03:12] Lazar**
Don't just open the doors so carelessly!
**[03:14] Lazar**
Please act with a little more caution!
**[03:18] Oscar**
The entrance is pretty much
as the records say.
**[03:21] Lazar**
That's true.
**[03:23] Lazar**
And if the records are to be believed,
**[03:25] Lazar**
within these walls
await a number of challenges!
**[03:29] Oscar**
And the one who overcomes
them to reach the very top
**[03:33] Oscar**
will have his wish granted by the witch.
**[03:36] Oscar**
Let's move quickly here.
**[03:37] Oscar**
Nice and quick.
**[03:38] Lazar**
Ah, please wait up!
**[03:40] Oscar**
It's dangerous, so you just wait here.
**[03:42] Oscar**
I'll be back before sunset.
**[03:44] Lazar**
N-No, I can't let you do that.
**[03:56] Lazar**
Your Highness.
**[03:57] Oscar**
I'm thinking here.
**[03:59] Lazar**
N-No, actually...
**[04:02] Lazar**
We're surrounded by snakes!
**[04:05] Oscar**
I can see that just fine.
**[04:09] Oscar**
We'll be fine. They're not venomous.
**[04:14] Oscar**
This must be the first challenge.
**[04:17] Oscar**
This is a mathematical theory studied about
a hundred years ago in a tiny eastern nation.
**[04:22] Oscar**
It was famous for being
an unsolvable problem.
**[04:25] Lazar**
It's unsolvable?!
**[04:27] Oscar**
It *was*, back then.
**[04:29] Oscar**
They figured it out around a decade ago.
**[04:40] Oscar**
I see. So that's how it works.
**[04:42] Lazar**
Are you sure you don't want to go back?
**[04:44] Oscar**
Nuh-uh. It's just getting interesting.
**[04:52] Litola**
We seem to have our first
challengers in a while, Master.
**[04:56] Tinasha**
How rare.
**[04:57] Tinasha**
I was sure they'd all forgotten
this tower existed.
**[05:01] Litola**
There was another one just a month ago.
**[05:04] Litola**
They ran out of time after being
unable to solve the first tablet.
**[05:07] Tinasha**
Right.
**[05:09] Litola**
These challengers are steadily
making their way up the tower.
**[05:13] Litola**
Would you care to observe them?
**[05:15] Tinasha**
I'm not going.
**[05:17] Tinasha**
It can wait until they reach the top.
**[05:20] Litola**
As you wish.
**[05:21] Tinasha**
Go on, Litola.
**[05:23] Tinasha**
You know what to do when they fail.
**[05:27] Litola**
Very well.
**[05:30] Tinasha**
They may be progressing steadily now,
**[05:33] Tinasha**
but most of them don't make it
past the first guardian beast.
**[05:40] Oscar**
I thought this thing looked
awfully white, but it's not real.
**[05:44] Oscar**
Must be a guardian beast animated by magic.
**[05:46] Lazar**
I'd be scared if a real lion was this huge.
**[05:48] Lazar**
Your fearlessness is just as scary!
**[05:51] Oscar**
It made for a good warm-up.
**[05:54] Oscar**
You think I'd die if I fell down?
**[05:56] Lazar**
Ah! Please don't get so close to the edge!
**[05:59] Oscar**
You should have just waited at the bottom.
**[06:01] Lazar**
I can't let you die all alone here,
Your Highness!
**[06:04] Oscar**
I'm not dying.
**[06:08] Oscar**
How far have we come?
**[06:11] Lazar**
We should be past the midway point, at least.
**[06:14] Oscar**
The last person to succeed
was my great-grandfather, was it?
**[06:18] Lazar**
Yes, around seventy years ago now.
**[06:22] Lazar**
Back then, ten men embarked on the climb,
**[06:24] Lazar**
but only King Regius, who reigned
at the time, reached the top.
**[06:29] Oscar**
I see.
**[06:31] Oscar**
So far, it's been pretty easy.
**[06:33] Lazar**
We really should turn back!
**[06:34] Oscar**
You go back on your own.
**[06:36] Oscar**
It's not like you're helping.
**[06:37] Lazar**
Let's return together!
**[06:41] Lazar**
Your Highness!
**[06:42] Lazar**
Are you listening?
**[06:53] Lazar**
Those are definitely coming to life!
**[06:55] Lazar**
Let's head back!
**[06:56] Oscar**
Seriously, you wait outside.
**[07:05] Oscar**
Whoa there.
**[07:18] Litola**
Master, the challengers have made it
to the stone statue room.
**[07:22] Tinasha**
Quite the feat. How many are there?
**[07:25] Litola**
Two of them.
**[07:27] Litola**
No, in practice, just one.
**[07:29] Tinasha**
One person...
**[07:31] Tinasha**
I was making some tea for them,
but it seems it'll go to waste.
**[07:35] Tinasha**
Should we give them a consolation
prize for the effort?
**[07:39] Litola**
It looks like he'll clear it easily.
**[07:41] Tinasha**
What?
**[07:49] Oscar**
These were a real pain.
**[07:51] Lazar**
I'm glad you're unhurt.
**[07:53] Oscar**
One hit from them,
and I'd be worse than hurt.
**[07:56] Oscar**
Let's go.
**[07:57] Lazar**
Yes.
**[07:59] Oscar**
What?!
**[07:59] Lazar**
Your Highness!
**[08:01] Oscar**
Hurry, Lazar!
**[08:03] Lazar**
Y-Your Highness...
**[08:06] Oscar**
Wait right there!
**[08:07] Lazar**
You mustn't!
**[08:10] Lazar**
Your Highness.
**[08:11] Lazar**
Please go on ahead.
**[08:13] Oscar**
Don't be stupid!
**[08:14] Oscar**
You'll fall!
**[08:15] Lazar**
No, I'll be fine.
**[08:17] Lazar**
My apologies, but I'll
be returning without you.
**[08:25] Lazar**
Your Highness!
**[08:26] Lazar**
Please go ahead.
**[08:27] Lazar**
I greatly await the day that you become king.
**[08:32] Oscar**
Wait, Lazar!
**[08:34] Oscar**
Lazar!
**[09:14] Tinasha**
Welcome.
**[09:16] Tinasha**
I've brewed us some tea.
**[09:22] Tinasha**
Please, take a seat.
**[09:27] Tinasha**
Pleasure to meet you.
**[09:28] Tinasha**
My name is Tinasha.
**[09:30] Tinasha**
Though there are few who call me by my name.
**[09:34] Oscar**
You're the witch?
**[09:36] Oscar**
You don't look it to me.
**[09:38] Tinasha**
How foolish to question a witch's appearance.
**[09:42] Tinasha**
Your companion is sleeping down
at the bottom.
**[09:45] Tinasha**
He remains uninjured.
**[09:47] Oscar**
I see.
**[09:58] Oscar**
Did you use magic to alter your appearance?
**[10:01] Tinasha**
You ask some rude questions.
**[10:03] Tinasha**
This is all natural.
**[10:04] Oscar**
I heard you've lived hundreds of years,
but you don't have any wrinkles.
**[10:08] Tinasha**
We live many times longer than humans do.
**[10:10] Tinasha**
My body has simply stopped aging.
**[10:13] Tinasha**
Well?
**[10:14] Tinasha**
Isn't it your turn to speak now?
**[10:18] Tinasha**
You're the first one to climb this tower
practically by yourself.
**[10:23] Tinasha**
Please, if you'd at least tell me your name.
**[10:25] Oscar**
Sorry about that.
**[10:26] Oscar**
I am Oscar Lyeth Increatos Loz Farsas.
**[10:31] Tinasha**
Farsas?
**[10:32] Tinasha**
You're Farsas royalty?
**[10:34] Oscar**
I'm the crown prince.
**[10:36] Tinasha**
You're Regius's descendant?
**[10:38] Oscar**
I'm his great-grandson.
**[10:39] Tinasha**
What?!
**[10:42] Tinasha**
You *do* look a bit like him.
**[10:44] Tinasha**
Maybe?
**[10:46] Tinasha**
Regius had a more kindhearted face, though.
**[10:50] Oscar**
Sorry for looking so heartless.
**[10:56] Tinasha**
My apologies.
**[10:58] Tinasha**
That said, you're manlier than him.
**[11:01] Tinasha**
Reg was too pure,
**[11:04] Tinasha**
and he had a childish side to him.
**[11:10] Oscar**
Do you live here alone?
**[11:13] Tinasha**
I have a familiar with me.
**[11:15] Tinasha**
Litola.
**[11:18] Litola**
Pleased to make your acquaintance.
**[11:20] Litola**
My name is Litola.
**[11:22] Litola**
Your companion is sound asleep from my spell.
**[11:26] Oscar**
Ah, thanks for that.
**[11:29] Oscar**
What happens to the challengers
who never make it back?
**[11:33] Oscar**
Are they buried in a mass grave or something?
**[11:35] Tinasha**
Can you not insinuate
that I live by a graveyard?
**[11:39] Tinasha**
I don't want to end up with corpses
in the tower, so I make sure no one dies.
**[11:44] Oscar**
One hit from those stone statues
is more than enough to kill.
**[11:47] Tinasha**
The instant that a fatal blow is about
to land, you get sent to the ground floor.
**[11:52] Tinasha**
Those who fail
have their memories altered a bit
**[11:56] Tinasha**
and get sent off to random corners
of the mainland.
**[11:59] Tinasha**
Most of them are just in it to
prove themselves or gain fame,
**[12:03] Tinasha**
so it's more than
a fair price to pay, I think.
**[12:07] Litola**
But for challengers who come
to cure their child's illness or the like,
**[12:12] Litola**
Master is kind enough
to do so even if they fail.
**[12:15] Tinasha**
You don't need to tell him that!
**[12:22] Oscar**
You sure are a mystery.
**[12:24] Tinasha**
That's the way I like it.
**[12:26] Oscar**
You don't ever go into town?
**[12:29] Oscar**
I hear the other witches show
themselves to humans more often.
**[12:33] Tinasha**
I don't want to interfere
with human lives too much.
**[12:36] Tinasha**
My powers are not meant
to be wielded on a whim.
**[12:40] Oscar**
I see.
**[12:42] Oscar**
If only the Witch of Silence
thought the same way.
**[12:47] Tinasha**
Is that related to why you came here?
**[12:52] Oscar**
I've been cursed by the Witch of Silence.
**[12:57] (Flashback) Lavinia**
Never again shall you beget an heir.
**[13:02] (Flashback) Lavinia**
The same goes for that son of yours.
**[13:06] (Flashback) Lavinia**
Your blood will eat away
at any womb it touches.
**[13:11] (Flashback) Lavinia**
The Farsas bloodline ends with you.
**[13:18] Tinasha**
Why did you end up with a curse like that?
**[13:21] Oscar**
My father doesn't wish to speak of it,
so I've never directly asked him the cause.
**[13:26] Oscar**
It seems related to my mother,
who passed away immediately before.
**[13:30] Tinasha**
I see.
**[13:32] Oscar**
Of course, I tried to find
a way to break the curse,
**[13:36] Oscar**
but no matter how much I read
**[13:37] Oscar**
or explored ruins that seemed promising,
**[13:40] Oscar**
I couldn't find a single clue
to rid myself of this curse.
**[13:47] Oscar**
And so, I came here.
**[13:50] Tinasha**
Before we go any further,
**[13:52] Tinasha**
there's no guarantee that a curse
can be lifted in the first place.
**[13:57] Tinasha**
What we call magic is organized and
operated using a shared set of rules.
**[14:02] Tinasha**
However, curses don't follow any rules.
**[14:05] Tinasha**
When you imbue arbitrary words
with meaning that you define,
**[14:07] Tinasha**
as well as magical power,
you end up with a curse.
**[14:10] Tinasha**
Which means, of course,
that it varies depending on who casts it.
**[14:13] Tinasha**
In the most extreme cases,
**[14:15] Tinasha**
if breaking the curse is left undefined
at the time of casting,
**[14:18] Tinasha**
not even the caster can undo it.
**[14:20] Oscar**
They can't undo it?
**[14:21] Tinasha**
They can't.
**[14:23] Tinasha**
But in turn, curses don't hold
overwhelming power.
**[14:28] Tinasha**
They can't directly kill people,
and they can only act in roundabout ways.
**[14:33] Oscar**
But this curse seems fairly powerful.
**[14:37] Tinasha**
Yes.
**[14:38] Tinasha**
Your curse seems to go
beyond what I described.
**[14:41] Tinasha**
That's because what you've been
afflicted with is not a curse,
**[14:45] Tinasha**
but a variant of what
you might call a blessing.
**[14:48] Oscar**
Huh?
**[14:51] Oscar**
What's this?
**[14:53] Tinasha**
I've made visible a part of the blessing
that's been cast on you.
**[14:57] Tinasha**
Fundamentally, blessings are cast
the same way as curses,
**[15:01] Tinasha**
but they vary in the direction of power.
**[15:04] Tinasha**
They magnify the energy
that's already present.
**[15:07] Tinasha**
Which is why blessings can be quite powerful,
depending on the caster's prowess.
**[15:13] Tinasha**
The one that's been cast on you
subverts the idea,
**[15:17] Tinasha**
and tries to protect any unborn child
with an extremely powerful force.
**[15:22] Tinasha**
It'd be impossible
for a normal mother to bear.
**[15:25] Tinasha**
If the blessing could be analyzed,
you could use magic to alleviate it,
**[15:30] Tinasha**
but there are about
twenty layers intertwined here.
**[15:35] Tinasha**
The Witch of Silence is powerful indeed.
**[15:37] Tinasha**
I'm terribly sorry.
**[15:40] Oscar**
So... you can't break it?
**[15:45] Oscar**
Hey.
**[15:47] Tinasha**
W-Well...
**[15:49] Tinasha**
You came all this way, so I can't
have you leave empty-handed.
**[15:53] Tinasha**
I'll do what I can here.
**[15:55] Oscar**
So there's a way?
**[15:57] Tinasha**
There's a simple answer here.
**[16:00] Tinasha**
You just need to find a woman who can
withstand the child's protective power.
**[16:06] Oscar**
Does such a woman really exist?
**[16:08] Tinasha**
I'm sure there must be one
or two on the mainland.
**[16:12] Tinasha**
I'll look for someone based on their
magical power and magical resistance,
**[16:15] Tinasha**
so please overlook any other aspect.
**[16:17] Oscar**
What if it's she's married,
elderly, or a child?
**[16:20] Tinasha**
If she's married, then morally
there's nothing you can do,
**[16:24] Tinasha**
but the elderly should be fine
with some magic.
**[16:26] Tinasha**
If she's a child, you can raise her
to be your ideal woman!
**[16:30] Tinasha**
You see marriages with gaps of
twenty years all the time with royalty.
**[16:39] Tinasha**
Anyway, I'll find someone,
so keep your chin up!
**[16:42] Oscar**
Anyway?
**[16:45] Oscar**
Hey.
**[16:51] Oscar**
Tinasha.
**[16:52] Tinasha**
You scared me.
**[16:53] Oscar**
Why's that scare you?
**[16:55] Tinasha**
Practically no one calls me by my name.
**[16:58] Oscar**
You're the one who told me your name.
**[16:59] Tinasha**
Sorry.
**[17:01] Tinasha**
So? What is it?
**[17:03] Oscar**
Ah, well...
**[17:04] Oscar**
What about you?
**[17:07] Oscar**
Can you withstand the
Witch of Silence's magical power?
**[17:12] Tinasha**
Sure, I'd have no trouble against that.
**[17:16] Tinasha**
Wait.
**[17:17] Oscar**
Then it's settled.
**[17:19] Tinasha**
Eh?
**[17:21] Tinasha**
Hold it right there.
**[17:24] Oscar**
It's surer than trying to look for a woman
who might not even exist.
**[17:28] Oscar**
Let's say my wish as champion is that
you leave this tower and become my wife.
**[17:36] Tinasha**
I-I can't possibly accept that!
**[17:39] Oscar**
Didn't you say you'd do what you could?
**[17:42] Tinasha**
There are limits to that!
**[17:44] Tinasha**
Nuh-uh, not happening!
**[17:45] Oscar**
Could it be that you're actually married?
**[17:48] Tinasha**
I have no history of marriage.
**[17:49] Oscar**
Do you have a boyfriend?
**[17:51] Tinasha**
I've never had one!
**[17:52] Oscar**
Didn't you say the elderly should be fine?
**[17:55] Tinasha**
I may be old, but being called
elderly ticks me off!
**[17:59] Tinasha**
Wait, that's not the point!
**[18:01] Tinasha**
You can't be sane, trying to introduce
witch blood into the royal family!
**[18:04] Tinasha**
The royal council would
spit up blood at the idea!
**[18:07] Oscar**
I wouldn't mind seeing that.
**[18:10] Tinasha**
I can't tell if you
remind me of Reg or not...
**[18:13] Tinasha**
You're a real piece of work.
**[18:16] Oscar**
I have a mean streak.
**[18:19] Tinasha**
Anyway, no can do.
**[18:21] Tinasha**
If I granted wishes like that,
I'd be your great-grandmother by now.
**[18:28] Oscar**
My great-grandfather might have backed down,
**[18:30] Oscar**
but I'm my own man,
so it's got nothing to do with me.
**[18:34] Tinasha**
What are you saying?
**[18:35] Tinasha**
Neither is okay!
**[18:36] Tinasha**
No exceptions!
**[18:37] Oscar**
It's been seventy years, and you
refuse to make any exceptions?
**[18:41] Oscar**
Why don't you be a little more flexible?
**[18:43] Tinasha**
There are limits, you know!
**[18:45] Tinasha**
If you refuse to listen to me,
**[18:47] Tinasha**
I'll alter your memories
and return you to the castle!
**[18:49] Oscar**
That's one hell of a thing to say.
**[18:52] Tinasha**
I could say the same thing.
**[18:54] Oscar**
Hey, don't make me fight back.
**[18:58] Tinasha**
The royal sword Akashia...
**[19:00] Tinasha**
That's the only sword in the world
boasting full magical resistance.
**[19:04] Tinasha**
Why are you walking around with that thing?
**[19:07] Tinasha**
Isn't it a royal treasure?
**[19:09] Oscar**
Items like these
are best put to practical use.
**[19:13] Oscar**
Ah, this thing is your worst enemy, isn't it?
**[19:21] Tinasha**
Let's talk things out a bit more.
**[19:24] Oscar**
I agree.
**[19:25] Oscar**
Calm yourself.
**[19:28] Tinasha**
You're so stubborn,
it's honestly a bit unusual.
**[19:31] Tinasha**
Back down and concede.
**[19:33] Oscar**
I could say the same of you.
**[19:39] Oscar**
Oh yeah, I hear you lived in Farsas Castle
for a while seventy years ago.
**[19:45] Tinasha**
Only for about half a year.
**[19:47] Tinasha**
Teaching magic, raising flowers, and so on.
**[19:50] Tinasha**
I had a pretty good time.
**[19:53] Oscar**
Was that my great-grandfather's wish?
**[19:56] Tinasha**
No.
**[19:59] Oscar**
Then how about this?
**[20:03] Oscar**
One year.
**[20:04] Oscar**
Leave this place for one year
and live with me in Farsas.
**[20:08] Oscar**
That is my request as champion.
**[20:12] Oscar**
Will you accept it?
**[20:20] Tinasha**
I understand.
**[20:22] Tinasha**
Then I will leave this tower
to act as your protector.
**[20:28] Lazar**
Your Highness.
**[20:30] Lazar**
We really should give up.
**[20:31] Oscar**
Lazar.
**[20:32] Oscar**
Lazar! Wake up, Lazar!
**[20:36] Lazar**
Yes!
**[20:37] Lazar**
Huh? Your Highness?
**[20:41] Lazar**
It's night already...
**[20:42] Oscar**
C'mon, let's go home.
**[20:43] Lazar**
Are you okay with returning home?
**[20:46] Lazar**
Yeah, I'm all done here.
**[20:50] Lazar**
Your Highness, who's that?
**[20:53] Oscar**
She's the witch's pupil.
**[20:54] Oscar**
She'll be staying at the castle
to help me remove the curse.
**[20:58] Tinasha**
Call me Tinasha.
**[21:00] Lazar**
I-I'm Lazar!
**[21:03] Lazar**
Did you meet the witch as well?
**[21:05] Oscar**
Yeah, I did.
**[21:07] Lazar**
She didn't eat you alive?
**[21:11] Oscar**
You're just asking for it now.
**[21:19] Oscar**
Well, she was quite the interesting one.
**[21:24] Lazar**
Ah, Your Highness.
**[21:25] Lazar**
Please wait for me!
**[21:33] Oscar**
Magic, huh?
**[21:34] Oscar**
Pretty nifty.
**[21:35] Tinasha**
I can use this whenever you'd like.
**[21:37] Tinasha**
Ask me if you need something
burnt to a crisp.
**[21:42] Oscar**
That won't be needed.
**[21:43] Oscar**
You just need to stay by my side.
**[21:47] Oscar**
Tinasha.
**[21:50] Oscar**
If you change your mind halfway through,
**[21:51] Oscar**
you can always make your home in Farsas.
**[21:56] Tinasha**
That won't happen.
***SIGN*** ~ The Past Recalled Once Again ~