E17 - Returning the Promise

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[00:02] Tinasha
    I will now proceed to break the curse.
[00:05] Oscar
    I didn't think you'd make it in time.
[00:07] Tinasha
    Analyzing the curse?
[00:09] Tinasha
    Of course I'd make it in time.
[00:11] Tinasha
    You'd be left beyond help otherwise.
[00:13] Tinasha
    Hurry up and go to sleep already.
[00:16] Tinasha
    I can't have you conscious for the procedure.
[00:24] Oscar
    Half a year, huh?
[00:25] Oscar
    It passed by in a flash.
[00:26] Tinasha
    You're still awake!
[00:28] Oscar
    I can't fall asleep that quickly.
[00:32] Oscar
    When I first saw you, I thought
    you were a woman made for me.
[00:38] Oscar
    I had no idea why this curse was cast on me,
[00:41] Oscar
    but I believed it was so I'd meet you.
[00:44] Tinasha
    Yes.
[00:45] Tinasha
    I came here to meet you.
[00:50] Oscar
    Tinasha.
[00:51] Tinasha
    What is it?
[00:53] Oscar
    You're really going to break it?
[00:55] Tinasha
    Yes.
[01:00] Oscar
    Please do.
SIGN    ~ Returning the Promise ~
[02:47] Lazar
    It's hard to believe that
    Lady Tinasha's returned home.
[02:51] Lazar
    To think we're here for her coronation today.
[02:55] Oscar
    She'll be inheriting the spirits
    of Tuldarr as well.
[02:58] Guest A
    Showing off the spirits after all this time...
[03:00] Guest A
    Could there be an ulterior motive?
[03:02] Guest B
    Don't worry.
[03:03] Guest B
    She may be inheriting them,
    but I doubt she can handle more than one.
[03:06] Oscar
    She already has a spirit serving her...
[03:28] Tinasha
    Appear before me...
[03:33] Tinasha
    spirits that rest in Tuldarr by ancient pact.
[03:38] Tinasha
    I am Tinasha As Meyer Ur Aeterna Tuldarr.
[03:43] Tinasha
    As your ruler, my declaration defines you.
[03:46] Tinasha
    Come to me.
[03:55] Lazar
    Look at that!
[04:01] Guest A
    That can't be!
[04:02] Guest A
    All twelve spirits?!
[04:05] Tinasha
    Heed my command, twelve spirits of Tuldarr.
[04:08] Tinasha
    As your ruler, I declare an end
    to our ancient, long-lived pact.
[04:15] Tinasha
    You are hereby released
    from your binding chains.
[04:19] Tinasha
    This means you are now free.
SIGN    Lilia
[04:21] Tinasha
    You may do as you wish.
[04:22] Calste
    Wh-What?!
[04:24] Tinasha
    Bygone is the era in which a ruler
    must wield fearsome power.
[04:29] Tinasha
    Tuldarr is a powerful nation,
    even without the spirits.
[04:34] Calste
    Legis, did you know she would do this?!
[04:36] Legis
    Yes, Father.
[04:37] Calste
    How absurd!
[04:39] Tinasha
    For the next year, I will be the last queen
    to succeed our ancient traditions.
[04:45] Tinasha
    Prince Legis will take the throne after me
[04:48] Tinasha
    and rule Tuldarr with
     a new government in place.
[04:52] Tinasha
    There you have it.
[04:54] Tinasha
    Thanks for everything you've done for us.
SIGN    Karr
[04:56] Karr
    We can really do whatever we want?
[04:58] Tinasha
    Of course.
[05:00] Karr
    Then I'll take this chance to serve you
    as a spirit until you die, little girl.
[05:05] Karr
    I'm still free to consider you my queen.
[05:08] Mila
    Lady Tinasha, I'll stay with you as well!
[05:11] Nil
    Huh? Maybe I should stay, too.
SIGN    Nil
[05:13] Nil
    I know I won't be bored
    with Her Majesty around.
[05:15] Mila
    Feel free to leave, Nil!
[05:17] Mila
    You're in the way!
[05:18] Legis
    They're quite fond of you.
[05:20] Tinasha
    I'd say it's more like
    they enjoy messing with me.
SIGN    Itz
[05:25] Itz
    I thank you for declaring an end to our pact.
[05:30] Itz
    But, as Karr suggests, please allow us
    to stay with you until the end.
[05:35] Itz
    We choose to obey you of our own free will.
[05:38] Tinasha
    Well, I did say you could do as you wish.
[05:42] Tinasha
    Please stay with me for the time being, then.
[05:44] Itz
    It would be our pleasure.
[05:59] Doan
    I don't think anyone expected her to do that.
[06:02] Doan
    I suppose even with Queen Tinasha's bloodline,
[06:04] Doan
    there would still have come a time
    when the spirits could no longer be inherited.
[06:08] Oscar
    That said, as long as the spirits
    remain while she's in power,
[06:11] Oscar
    that's enough to deter foreign intervention.
[06:14] Oscar
    The question is whether they can establish
    a new government in that time.
[06:21] Oscar
    Where's Tinasha?
[06:22] Legis
    She's fighting with my father.
[06:24] Legis
    I imagine it won't be much longer.
[06:29] Legis
    King Oscar. Do you have a moment?
[06:37] Oscar
    There she is.
[06:46] Tinasha
    Y-You again?!
[06:49] Oscar
    What do you mean, "again?"
[06:51] Tinasha
    Never mind.
[06:54] Tinasha
    There should be a barrier up.
[06:56] Oscar
    I easily managed my way in.
[06:59] Oscar
    How insecure.
[07:00] Tinasha
    Not many people can break my barrier.
[07:04] Oscar
    That was quite a bold move back there.
[07:06] Tinasha
    Well, I'd made my decision a while back.
[07:10] Oscar
    What will you do after you step down?
[07:12] Tinasha
    I think it'd be best if I married Legis.
[07:16] Tinasha
    I'm sure Calste would be relieved as well.
[07:19] Oscar
    Why don't you come with me instead?
[07:21] Tinasha
    What?
[07:23] Oscar
    In other words, be my wife.
[07:26] Oscar
    I don't think it's a bad deal.
[07:28] Oscar
    With a new government, it'd be safer
    to form an alliance with another nation.
[07:33] Oscar
    Some may see you as a danger,
[07:36] Oscar
    but they wouldn't dare to take on
    both Tuldarr and Farsas.
[07:40] Tinasha
    M-Maybe you're right, but hold on!
[07:44] Oscar
    No, that was cowardly of me.
[07:49] Oscar
    Let me start over.
[07:51] Oscar
    I want you.
[07:53] Oscar
    That's why I want your hand in marriage.
[07:56] Oscar
    Nothing more.
[07:58] Oscar
    Well, you still have a year left.
[08:00] Oscar
    Take some time to think about it.
[08:02] Tinasha
    W-Wait a minute!
[08:04] Tinasha
    Why the window?!
[08:06] Tinasha
    Wait, no!
[08:08] Tinasha
    I thought you weren't interested in me!
[08:11] Oscar
    My kingdom comes before my personal emotions.
[08:14] Oscar
    That is why I tried my best
    not to grow attached to you.
[08:17] Oscar
    But that all changes if you're
    going to abdicate the throne.
[08:21] Oscar
    I want you by my side.
[08:23] Oscar
    I don't want anyone else to have you.
[08:26] Oscar
    If you want me, I'm yours.
[08:30] Oscar
    Until next time.
[08:37] (Flashback) Legis
    She is Tuldarr's greatest treasure.
[08:41] (Flashback) Legis
    Will you offer us what she's worth?
[08:43] (Flashback) Oscar
    If that's what she wants, then sure.
[08:48] Oscar
    What is it like in the future you've seen?
[08:51] Oscar
    Did she end up marrying me?
[08:59] Lilia
    Lady Tinasha.
[09:01] Lilia
    You need to train to separate
    your emotions from your magic.
[09:04] Tinasha
    I did... a long time ago.
[09:06] Lilia
    It didn't stick.
[09:08] Tinasha
    Yes...
[09:09] Tinasha
    Next time, I'll use a steel cup.
[09:12] Lilia
    Why not deal with the source?
[09:14] Lilia
    Like eliminating him.
[09:15] Tinasha
    Not happening!
[09:17] Lilia
    I don't know why you're hesitating.
[09:19] Lilia
    You came here to meet him
    in the first place, right?
[09:22] Tinasha
    That's true...
[09:24] Tinasha
    But this isn't what things were like before.
[09:27] (Flashback) Oscar
    You'll come and find me for sure.
[09:31] (Flashback) Oscar
    You'll find happiness.
[09:33] Tinasha
    It was the old him that said that.
[09:37] Tinasha
    Still, he realized why I came here.
[09:40] Tinasha
    And told me not to feel sorry...
[09:44] Tinasha
    I was really happy to hear that.
[09:46] Tinasha
    I was glad I came to this era.
[09:49] Tinasha
    But marrying him?
[09:51] Lilia
    What's wrong with that?
[09:53] Tinasha
    I'm not sure why he chose me.
[09:56] Tinasha
    Not to mention, he doesn't know
    what it was like back in the Dark Age.
[10:00] Lilia
    That's true.
[10:01] Lilia
    Back then, betraying others
    was practically a part of growing up.
[10:06] Tinasha
    Was it that bad?!
[10:08] Tinasha
    I mean, I guess it was...
[10:10] Lilia
    So perhaps Akashia's wielder actually
    plans on betraying you as well.
[10:15] Tinasha
    You mean to take me as a hostage for Tuldarr?
[10:18] Tinasha
    That'd be nice and easy to understand.
[10:21] Lilia
    So should I eliminate him?
[10:22] Tinasha
    I said "no!"
[10:25] Lilia
    I'm glad you seem to be enjoying yourself.
[10:29] Lilia
    When you suggested traveling through time,
    I thought you'd finally lost your mind.
[10:33] Tinasha
    That's how little faith you had in me?!
[10:38] Tinasha
    Lilia, how do you think he was able
    to travel back in time?
[10:42] Tinasha
    It defies the laws of magic.
[10:45] Lilia
    I couldn't say.
[10:47] Lilia
    Maybe it just looks like he traveled back
    in time, and it's something else entirely.
[10:52] Lilia
    It's human folly to try
    and understand everything.
[10:56] Lilia
    Even our kind cannot
    perceive many other realms.
[11:00] Lilia
    That's why strange phenomena with
    no explanation occur from time to time.
[11:04] Tinasha
    There were some weird happenings
    during my previous reign.
[11:08] Tinasha
    Like the Harvesting.
[11:10] Lilia
    Oh, those mysterious ruins.
SIGN    You should get some sunlight now and then for your health.
[11:20] Miralys
    I don't like the sun.
[11:23] Miralys
    I heard the witch took the throne.
SIGN    It'll be fine.
[11:27] Miralys
    What about Farsas?
SIGN    Akashia is the one uncertain factor, but it doesn't matter.
SIGN    We can split the two up and take on the witch.
SIGN    She's the weaker one.
[11:39] Miralys
    Really?
SIGN    Mentally, that is.
SIGN    And that's the important part.
SIGN    When the world is altered, it converges back near its original state,
SIGN    but it can't fully revert back.
SIGN    So the world is waiting for an opportunity.
SIGN    One push to bring it back to its original state.
[11:59] Miralys
    I don't want you to die.
SIGN    It'll be fine.
[12:08] Oscar
    The ruins unearthed in the southwest?
[12:11] Oscar
    Didn't we send out an expedition?
[12:14] Oscar
    None of them have returned?
[12:16] Kumu
    All the residents of the villages
    near the ruins have gone missing, too.
[12:20] Kumu
    Also, the entrance to the ruins are enchanted
    with a spell to prevent deterioration,
[12:24] Kumu
    but its composition uses techniques
    unseen in known magical history.
[12:29] Kumu
    Therefore, I believe we should seal off the ruins.
[12:35] Oscar
    Just as you hoped for...
[12:37] Oscar
    Or perhaps feared?
[12:39] Oscar
    I'll go check it out.
SIGN    Outsider Ruins Southwestern Farsas
[12:44] Oscar
    If anything happens,
    feel free to retreat.
[12:47] Oscar
    Make safety your first priority.
[12:49] Group
    Yes!
[12:54] Doan
    It's too pristine.
[12:56] Doan
    The walls are seamless.
[12:57] Oscar
    We're pretty deep inside now.
[12:59] Doan
    Yes.
[13:00] Doan
    You'd expect to pass through the mountain
    and reach the surface by now.
[13:05] Soldier
    Your Majesty!
[13:06] Soldier
    General Granfort has gone missing!
[13:09] Oscar
    What?
[13:10] Soldier
    I can't find the other soldiers, either!
[13:12] Doan
    We already have people missing?
[13:14] Oscar
    I didn't sense anything out of the ordinary.
[13:16] Doan
    What's going on here?
[13:18] Oscar
    Step back!
[13:22] Doan
    Your Majesty!
[13:34] Oscar
    That's not good.
[13:36] Oscar
    We're all split up now.
[13:48] Oscar
    What?
[13:54] Oscar
    What in the world?
[13:56] Oscar
    Are these ruins full of ghosts?
[14:05] Oscar
    Are you... Tinasha?
[14:19] Oscar
    Thanks, Nark!
[14:26] Oscar
    How sickening.
[14:29] Oscar
    This will give me nightmares.
[14:37] Tinasha
    Oscar?!
[14:40] Tinasha
    Oscar, wait!
[14:45] Oscar
    It sure is a good resemblance.
[14:47] Tinasha
    Wait! Y-You're too close!
[14:49] Oscar
    The more I look, the more you resemble her.
[14:51] Tinasha
    It's the real me!
[14:54] Tinasha
    W-Wait, I'm really...
[15:01] Oscar
    So? How'd you come here?
[15:04] Tinasha
    You knew all along?!
[15:06] Oscar
    Of course I did.
[15:07] Oscar
    Just a bit of banter.
[15:10] Tinasha
    A magical attack made contact
    with the barrier I placed on you,
[15:14] Tinasha
    so I went to Farsas to see what happened.
[15:17] Tinasha
    Als told me everything, so I came here.
[15:20] Oscar
    So that was it.
[15:22] Tinasha
    Did you fight a mage?
[15:24] Oscar
    Yeah.
[15:25] Oscar
    You, but slightly younger.
[15:27] Tinasha
    Huh?
[15:28] Tinasha
    So it got a record of me after all?
[15:31] Oscar
    A record?
[15:32] Tinasha
    This place is sort of a repository
    to preserve records of humans.
[15:37] Tinasha
    I don't understand the mechanics, but it
    captures humans to create copies of them.
[15:43] Tinasha
    The copies it creates
    are stored as simple data,
[15:48] Tinasha
    but they can also materialize
    to get rid of any detected intruders.
[15:53] Oscar
    So that's what I faced.
[15:55] Tinasha
    Tuldarr records refer to it as the Harvesting.
[15:59] Tinasha
    I came here four hundred years ago,
    and I found myself captured.
[16:04] Tinasha
    I managed to escape halfway through,
[16:05] Tinasha
    but I guess it got enough data
    to materialize me.
[16:08] Oscar
    That's an ominous name.
[16:11] Oscar
    What happens to those it captures?
[16:14] Tinasha
    Duplication chambers.
[16:16] Tinasha
    They should be sleeping here.
[16:20] Tinasha
    I'll open a teleportation
    portal at the entrance,
[16:23] Tinasha
    so go wake the people inside.
[16:25] Tinasha
    They're encased in cocoons,
    but it's safe to cut them free.
[16:29] Tinasha
    A large number of guardians will spawn,
    but I'll take care of them.
[16:33] Oscar
    Will you be okay on your own?
[16:35] Tinasha
    I'll be fine.
[16:36] Tinasha
    But I might not be able to last long,
    so please hurry.
[16:40] Oscar
    Call me if things look bad.
[16:42] Oscar
    Don't get hurt.
[16:44] Tinasha
    I'll keep that in mind.
[16:53] Tinasha
    Go on.
[16:54] Oscar
    Yeah.
[16:56] Tinasha
    Steel unformed into blade,
    defined by my words.
[17:00] Tinasha
    Rift of negation.
[17:01] Tinasha
    Time unbound to pain.
[17:06] Tinasha
    Reject them.
[17:12] Oscar
    Doan. Wake up!
[17:18] Oscar
    There's a teleportation portal at the entrance.
[17:20] Oscar
    Destroy the cocoons
    and evacuate the people inside.
[17:22] Oscar
    If you find palace soldiers, have them help!
[17:24] Doan
    At your command...
[17:30] Tinasha
    Karr! Senn!
[17:31] Karr
    Yeah, yeah.
[17:31] Senn
    You called?
[17:32] Karr
    This place again?
[17:34] Karr
    I hate it here.
SIGN    Senn
[17:35] Senn
    Stop complaining and get to work, Karr.
[17:55] Oscar
    Can you keep going a little longer?
[17:58] Tinasha
    I'm fine. I can do it.
[18:01] Oscar
    Tinasha!
[18:02] Tinasha
    The enemy's begun to interfere.
[18:05] Tinasha
    They're trying to close the portal by force.
[18:07] Oscar
    What?
[18:08] Senn
    For crying out loud...
[18:11] Karr
    There's no end to them.
[18:17] Oscar
    Tinasha, lend me your vision.
[18:19] Tinasha
    What?
[18:24] Tinasha
    Please be careful.
[18:28] Oscar
    I'll be fine.
[18:45] Senn
    Oh.
[18:46] Karr
    He's pretty good!
[18:54] Oscar
    This is it.
[19:10] Tinasha
    The core...
[19:14] Tinasha
    Why are you laughing?
[19:16] Oscar
    You're making a funny face.
[19:18] Tinasha
    Is now the time?!
[19:20] Voice
    Damn you, insider...
[19:26] Oscar
    What was that?
[19:28] Oscar
    Was I hearing things?
[19:32] Oscar
    What in the world created those ruins?
[19:36] Tinasha
    I'd like to know, but I don't have
    the slightest clue.
[19:40] Tinasha
    It operates on forces
    outside the laws of magic,
[19:43] Tinasha
    so there's nothing to go off of.
[19:45] Tinasha
    Even on other planes of existence,
    there are no laws that defy the laws of magic.
[19:50] Tinasha
    That would mean going against this very world.
[19:54] Oscar
    What about outside this world?
[19:57] Tinasha
    What? Outside this world?
[19:59] Tinasha
    There's no way to prove that even exists.
[20:03] Tinasha
    It's impossible.
[20:08] Oscar
    You have plenty of time
    to answer my engagement offer.
[20:11] Oscar
    We still have a year left.
[20:14] Oscar
    Have you received any other
    proposals since then?
[20:16] Tinasha
    From seven countries or so.
[20:19] Oscar
    Oh?
[20:20] Tinasha
    Don't give me that look!
[20:22] Tinasha
    They're proposing just because
    they want a magical weapon!
[20:25] Oscar
    Are you sure?
[20:26] Tinasha
    What do you even see in me?
[20:29] Oscar
    You're weird.
[20:30] Tinasha
    What does that mean?
[20:32] Tinasha
    You don't know anything about me.
[20:35] Tinasha
    In the Dark Age, they used
    to call me the Ice Queen...
[20:42] Tinasha
    You'd regret spending
     your life with me if you knew.
[20:46] Oscar
    Really?
[20:50] Oscar
    If you want to tell me, then tell me.
[20:52] Oscar
    If you want to hide it, then hide it.
[20:55] Oscar
    I could know everything,
    and I'd still feel the same.
[20:58] Tinasha
    I did my best to make sure
    you'd expect nothing from me.
[21:06] Tinasha
    You're fine if you end up regretting it?
[21:09] Oscar
    Yeah.
[21:10] Oscar
    I want to spend my life with you.
[21:12] Oscar
    Let me indulge my personal
    emotions for once in my life.
[21:24] Tinasha
    I understand what you're
    trying to say very well.
[21:27] Tinasha
    I'd rather not keep you waiting,
    so here's my answer.
[21:33] Tinasha
    Thank you for the kind offer.
[21:35] Tinasha
    If you'll have me, I'll gladly accept.
[21:53] Tinasha
    You're too close.
[21:56] Oscar
    Get used to it.
SIGN    ~ Bloodless Scars ~