# 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 ~