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 ~