E22 - Once upon a Time with You

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[00:05] Sylvia
    Nark?!
[00:07] Sylvia
    No, it's not!
[00:08] Kav
    Let's bring it down!
[00:14] Tinasha
    I finally managed to catch it.
[00:18] Sylvia
    What is that thing?
[00:20] Tinasha
    Oscar brought it back from a ruins expedition.
[00:23] Tinasha
    He told me it was a stone egg,
    but it must have hatched at some point.
[00:30] Tinasha
    Great work reformulating
    a suitable spell so quickly.
[00:35] Tinasha
    Or perhaps it's only natural
    for our new chief mage...
[00:39] Tinasha
    Valt.
SIGN    I'm honored, Your Majesty.
SIGN    ~ Once upon a Time with You ~
SIGN    How many cycles have I lived now?
SIGN    I've never tried counting.
SIGN    However, this is the first time 
    I've joined the Farsas royal court.
[02:29] Tinasha
    I swear!
[02:30] Tinasha
    Bringing back such a suspicious item!
[02:32] Tinasha
    Spirit sorcerer ruins
    are full of dangerous things!
[02:36] Oscar
    Okay, I get it.
[02:37] Tinasha
    I can tell you don't from that reply!
SIGN    It was likely used for patrolling.
[02:44] Tinasha
    Yes.
[02:45] Tinasha
    However, it contains
    an unfamiliar spell composition.
[02:49] Tinasha
    I'll set about analyzing it.
[02:51] Oscar
    Thanks.
[02:53] Oscar
    So, how did the towns to the east look?
SIGN    You mean the increase in sudden deaths  and suicides of unknown cause?
SIGN    Quite frankly,  the investigation's not going well.
SIGN    Even those who escape death end up  losing their sanity or falling into a coma.
[03:08] Oscar
    I see.
SIGN    Many of the casualties are mages,  with their magic going haywire,
SIGN    but the postmortems don't tell us much  about their condition.
[03:19] Oscar
    Tinasha.
[03:20] Oscar
    The barrier around the castle city
    doesn't allow demons to pass, does it?
[03:24] Tinasha
    That's correct.
[03:25] Tinasha
    Though it won't do much
    against the highest-ranking ones.
[03:29] Oscar
    Then can you set up the same barrier
    around the towns and villages to the east?
[03:33] Tinasha
    Yes, but not all at once.
[03:36] Oscar
    Whatever you can manage is fine.
[03:39] Oscar
    Five days before the first unnatural death...
[03:42] Oscar
    At Minnedart Fortress,
    which guards the eastern border,
[03:45] Oscar
    a mage fell from a rampart to his death.
[03:49] Tinasha
    If we assume it was the same cause of death...
SIGN    It'd mean whatever's causing the deaths  is approaching us from the east.
SIGN    What I've learned from living countless lives
SIGN    is the fact that things you have 
    no knowledge of occur all the time.
SIGN    I knew nothing of the king bringing back 
    a mysterious egg from the ruins,
SIGN    nor of the outbreak 
    of suspicious deaths within Farsas.
SIGN    Last month, there was an expedition 
    from Minnedart Fortress
SIGN    to subdue the Ito, an equestrian tribe.
SIGN    That was also new to me.
SIGN    It'd be best to write it  all down in the records...
SIGN    The records, huh?
SIGN    Could this all be meaningless?
[04:41] Miralys
    Valt. The food's ready.
SIGN    I'll be right there.
[04:48] Miralys
    Anything interesting
    happen lately in the castle?
SIGN    I go there to do work, you know.
SIGN    I saw a stone bird flying around the palace.
[04:56] Miralys
    Made of stone?!
[04:57] Miralys
    How does it fly?
SIGN    In the Dark Age, people did research  on similar magical creatures.
SIGN    The queen is going to analyze it,  so I'll ask her to show me the spell diagram.
[05:07] Miralys
    You sound so enthusiastic
    whenever you talk about magic.
[05:11] Miralys
    I wish I'd been born with magic, too.
SIGN    I'm lending you my magic, aren't I?
[05:17] Miralys
    That's nothing but a mark.
[05:18] Miralys
    It's not like I can use magic with it.
SIGN    On that note, strange deaths have been  cropping up recently east of here.
SIGN    His Majesty thinks  it might be the work of demons.
SIGN    Make sure you keep an eye out.
[05:35] Miralys
    Sure.
[05:37] Miralys
    But it's not like I ever leave the castle city.
[05:39] Miralys
    I have no reason to.
SIGN    Just making sure.
[05:54] Oscar
    Which one of us do you need?
SIGN    Her Majesty.
SIGN    There's a merchant caravan  with a demonic beast in tow,
SIGN    asking for an inspection  to enter the castle city.
SIGN    If you would grant me the authority,  I can handle it for you.
[06:05] Oscar
    Ask Valt to deal with it.
[06:07] Oscar
    With how weary you are,
    it'll be a while until you're fit to be seen.
[06:11] Tinasha
    Please do, then.
SIGN    As you wish.
SIGN    Are those the same birds?
SIGN    They're smaller now.
[06:22] Oscar
    Fascinating, right?
[06:24] Tinasha
    I made copies of them following my analysis.
[06:27] Tinasha
    It seems they were created to patrol after all,
[06:29] Tinasha
    but they're equipped with
    a spraying mechanism, too.
SIGN    Spraying?
[06:36] Tinasha
    It looks like it wants to come along.
[06:43] Miralys
    Valt?
SIGN    Miralys.
SIGN    What's with the flowers?
[06:49] Miralys
    They're for decoration back home.
SIGN    Don't you think that's an awful lot?
[06:53] Miralys
    At the shop I always go to, they had
    a customer back out of an order.
[06:58] Miralys
    I bought all the flowers
    to help their predicament.
SIGN    Miralys, you're a kind girl.
[07:04] Miralys
    That's not true at all...
[07:08] Miralys
    Say, what's that on your shoulder?
SIGN    This is a magical creature made by Her Majesty.
[07:16] Miralys
    Can I pet it later?
SIGN    Go right ahead.
[07:23] Miralys
    Huh? What's wrong?
SIGN    I'm not sure, but...
SIGN    I think...
SIGN    That's Tris and...
SIGN    Savas    Prince of Yarda
SIGN    the Yarda prince, Savas?
SIGN    Why are they here?
[07:47] Savas
    Go on.
SIGN    Miralys!
SIGN    Miralys...
[08:13] Savas
    Feast your eyes on this, Leonora!
[08:15] Savas
    This spells the end for that witch!
SIGN    I thought I'd understood.
SIGN    The fact that things I have 
    no knowledge of occur all the time.
SIGN    She will never open her eyes again.
SIGN    There's no trace left of her soul.
SIGN    The world waits for its chance.
SIGN    Which is why, at times, 
    it can catch up to her like this.
SIGN    As though to say, "This is as far as you go."
SIGN    That which robs mages of their sanity,  forces their magic to go haywire,
SIGN    and devastates their spirits and lives.
SIGN    Irityrdia, the sole god of Tayiri,  was what had been sealed inside Tris.
[09:22] Oscar
    You know of it?
SIGN    Irityrdia, freed last month in  the aftermath of the fight against the Ito,
SIGN    had been slowly making its way  while causing death around it,
SIGN    until it was captured in its path.
[09:34] Oscar
    Savas must have been
    after Tinasha from the very start.
SIGN    An act of vengeance for killing Leonora,  the witch he had worshiped?
[09:43] Oscar
    The stone birds were spraying
    a psychological safeguard against Irityrdia.
[09:49] Oscar
    It's thanks to them that you're still sane
[09:52] Oscar
    after you came in close contact
    with that thing.
[09:56] Oscar
    Three hundred dead in three days' time.
[09:59] Oscar
    To contain Irityrdia,
    which had been growing stronger,
[10:02] Oscar
    our only choice was to destroy it
    with Akashia while Tinasha was its vessel.
[10:08] Oscar
    She was the one who was
    the most careless with her own life.
[10:12] Oscar
    So in exchange, I wanted to treat it
    with more care than anyone else.
SIGN    I'm certain Queen Tinasha  understood that the best.
[10:26] Oscar
    The blame lies with me
    for being unable to prevent this.
[10:29] Oscar
    I'm sorry for making you go through this.
SIGN    Here's to your health and prosperity.
SIGN    Until we meet in another time,  in another manner.
[10:41] Oscar
    Yeah. You too.
SIGN    If you could turn back time  and redo everything,
SIGN    what do you think you'd do?
[11:03] Oscar
    I'm afraid I can't say.
[11:07] Oscar
    But I do know...
[11:09] Oscar
    That if it was for my own sake,
    I wouldn't be able to go through with it.
SIGN    The you here is a different you from before.
SIGN    That's a thought I couldn't help but entertain.
SIGN    But you are you.
SIGN    The world will not diverge.
SIGN    Throughout every cycle,  your soul is unique to you.
SIGN    Which is why I'm going to go see you again...
SIGN    Miralys.
[11:56] Miralys
    Valt?
[12:03] Miralys
    You were sleeping out here?
SIGN    Good morning.
[12:08] Miralys
    You must be tired, dozing off like that.
SIGN    I'm fine.
SIGN    I was just dreaming about the past.
SIGN    Events from the distant past, 
    which no longer exist at all.
SIGN    Precious memories that remain nowhere else.
[12:34] Oscar
    What's up?
[12:35] Tinasha
    Huh? Oscar?
[12:37] Tinasha
    I got lost in thought concentrating.
[12:40] Tinasha
    My apologies.
[12:41] Oscar
    What were you thinking about?
[12:43] Oscar
    Your brows were furrowed.
[12:46] Tinasha
    This and that.
[12:49] Tinasha
    Oscar, do you know the tale of
    the Mirror of Oblivion?
[12:53] Oscar
    Yeah, I think it's about a mirror
    that takes all your sadness away.
SIGN    Mirror of Oblivion
[12:58] Tinasha
    It's an old fairy tale
    dating back to the early Dark Age.
[13:01] Tinasha
    But in some regions, it takes away
    your memories instead of sadness,
[13:05] Tinasha
    or makes you fall asleep
    after absorbing your spirit.
[13:08] Tinasha
    It changes a little each time.
[13:10] Oscar
    Huh, interesting.
[13:12] Tinasha
    And tracing all the accounts, the last place
    the mirror is said to have been seen is...
[13:17] Oscar
    Magdalsia, huh?
[13:20] Oscar
    You think that fairy tale has something
    to do with the witch in Magdalsia?
[13:25] Tinasha
    If all the Witch of the Forbidden Forest
    wanted was to control the nation,
[13:28] Tinasha
    it'd be easier to control the king's mind
    instead of putting him into a coma.
[13:33] Oscar
    You mean the witch appeared 
    because the king fell ill?
[13:37] Tinasha
    Or so I suspect.
[13:39] Tinasha
    What caused the mysterious coma
    and summoned the witch?
[13:49] Oscar
    Tinasha?
[13:53] Tinasha
    I think I'll go see what's
    happening in Magdalsia after all.
[13:57] Oscar
    What?
[13:59] Oscar
    Not a chance.
[14:00] Oscar
    There's no need for you to meddle.
[14:02] Tinasha
    I'm the only human who can fight
    the Witch of the Forbidden Forest.
[14:07] Oscar
    Even so...
[14:09] Oscar
    She wields the royal authority of Magdalsia.
[14:12] Oscar
    With your standing, you could
    very well end up causing a war.
[14:16] Oscar
    You'll send us back to the Dark Age.
[14:18] Tinasha
    I'm sure things will work themselves out.
[14:20] Oscar
    Tinasha!
[14:25] Tinasha
    You have no right to stop me.
[14:29] Oscar
    Didn't you travel
    four hundred years to be with me?
[14:34] Tinasha
    The two of us would be enemies
    if not for the times we live in.
[14:47] Oscar
    I don't know what goes on in your head.
SIGN    There were quite a few heads  of our family before me.
SIGN    These are the records of  the countless fragments of their lives.
[15:01] Miralys
    Have you ever written these, too?
SIGN    A number of times.
SIGN    The events that came to pass,  what changed between different cycles...
SIGN    If there's anything I want  to tell those who succeed me,
SIGN    writing this is the only way.
SIGN    There's no need to look so grim.
SIGN    The people who wrote this down  did so of their own volition.
[15:22] Miralys
    There are records of the Witch
    of the Azure Moon in here, right?
SIGN    Yes, there are.
SIGN    That said, she very rarely  came down from her tower.
SIGN    I'd say I know more than what's  been documented here.
SIGN    Since I know her from when she was queen...
[15:38] Miralys
    Wh-What?!
SIGN    Don't tell me...
SIGN    She ignored Magdalsia and came here instead?!
SIGN    Miralys, this way!
[15:52] Tinasha
    If you think I'd fail to act,
    you're sorely mistaken.
[15:56] Miralys
    Valt?!
SIGN    It's fine.
SIGN    I can't have these remain.
SIGN    Is this the side of her 
    I don't know, as a Dark Age ruler?
[16:08] Mila
    Not bad.
[16:10] Mila
    He's put up a pretty strong barrier.
[16:12] Tinasha
    Time to penetrate it.
[16:26] Tinasha
    A girl?
[16:31] Tinasha
    Writings?
[16:33] Mila
    Sorry, Lady Tinasha.
[16:34] Mila
    They got away.
[16:37] Mila
    Lady Tinasha?
[16:54] Oscar
    He ticks me off.
[16:56] Als
    Looks like Queen Tinasha's not here yet.
[16:59] Oscar
    She seems pretty busy lately.
[17:02] Oscar
    At least she gave up
    on taking action all by herself.
[17:09] Als
    Here she is.
[17:16] Oscar
    Didn't bother to dress up, I see.
[17:18] Oscar
    Not to mention you're late.
[17:20] Tinasha
    I barely made it.
[17:22] Tinasha
    I haven't eaten since this morning, either...
[17:24] Tinasha
    Today hasn't been a good day.
[17:27] Oscar
    Here, something sugary.
[17:29] Tinasha
    Starting off with dessert?!
[17:36] Travis
    Why'd you call me over?
[17:38] Tinasha
    Something troubling has come to light.
[17:41] Tinasha
    Let's get right to the point.
[17:43] Tinasha
    Do you have memories of time repeating?
[17:46] Travis
    Oh, is that all?
[17:48] Travis
    Nope, no memories.
[17:50] Travis
    Since those orbs are outsiders' artifacts.
[17:52] Tinasha
    Outsiders' artifacts?
[17:53] Travis
    What? Never heard of them?
[17:57] Travis
    In simple terms, it refers to all artifacts
    with powers that defy the laws of magic.
[18:03] Travis
    I'm susceptible to their effects, too.
[18:06] Tinasha
    Are you really?
[18:07] Tinasha
    You behave strangely at times.
[18:10] Tinasha
    Like you know what the future holds,
    or you've experienced it.
[18:13] Travis
    I really don't know! Lay off it.
[18:15] Tinasha
    Travis, I saw records of a history
    that no longer exists.
[18:20] Tinasha
    Before history changed, Cezar thrived
    as a wealthy Great Nation,
[18:24] Tinasha
    and it never invaded Farsas.
[18:27] Travis
    You saw all that?
[18:32] Travis
    Aurelia, go run off and play.
[18:34] Aurelia
    What? I can't...
[18:35] Travis
    Off you go.
[18:36] Travis
    Make sure you don't follow strangers.
[18:46] Travis
    Let me begin by saying that
    I really don't have any memories.
[18:50] Travis
    However, I've come across records as well.
[18:54] Travis
    A family known as the Time-Readers:
[18:56] Travis
    they retain their memories
    through repeated histories,
[19:00] Travis
    and these extensive memories
    are written down and passed on.
[19:04] Travis
    The current family head is...
[19:05] Travis
    Valt.
[19:07] Tinasha
    Tell us more about them.
[19:09] Travis
    Why should I?
[19:11] Tinasha
    Valt is after Eleterria!
[19:13] Travis
    What?
[19:14] Tinasha
    Why are they called
    "outsiders' artifacts," anyway?
[19:18] Tinasha
    I've never even heard the term before.
[19:20] Travis
    That's because their
    very existence is problematic.
[19:23] Travis
    Not exactly the kind of thing
    you can blabber on about.
[19:26] Travis
    We're talking about items introduced
    from outside our world.
[19:30] Tinasha
    So there really does exist something out there?
[19:33] Travis
    Well, whether you believe it
    or not is up to you.
[19:37] Travis
    Even if there are beings that get their kicks 
    from watching you humans from outside,
[19:41] Travis
    what's it matter, right?
[19:43] Tinasha
    Like how the characters in a book aren't
    aware of the world outside the book?
[19:50] Travis
    It's futile to even try and
    understand what they're thinking.
[19:55] Travis
    I met one of them a long time ago.
[19:58] Travis
    A completely unfathomable woman.
[20:00] Tinasha
    You met one of them?!
[20:02] Tinasha
    That's not fair!
[20:03] Tinasha
    It's like you were given all the answers!
[20:04] Travis
    Quiet!
[20:05] Travis
    It's your fault for being ignorant.
[20:07] Travis
    Besides, that woman was an outsider,
    but also not really.
[20:11] Travis
    Choosing to align herself with humans,
    she lived and died among them.
[20:16] Travis
    Long before you were ever born.
[20:19] Travis
    She was the only one of her kind,
[20:21] Travis
    and she's got nothing to do
    with the outsiders' artifacts.
[20:23] Oscar
    Are you talking about...
[20:25] Magistrate
    Your Majesty!
[20:26] Magistrate
    I have an urgent message!
[20:27] Magistrate
    Magdalsian soldiers have just crossed
    the border and begun their invasion!
[20:31] Magistrate
    Their army is about thirty thousand men!
[20:33] Magistrate
    In half an hour, they'll make contact
    with a Tuldarr village to the south!
[20:36] Oscar
    What'd you say?
[20:37] Tinasha
    That was sooner than I'd expected.
[20:40] Tinasha
    I understand.
[20:41] Tinasha
    Please tell the troops to mobilize.
[20:43] Magistrate
    Right away!
[20:44] Tinasha
    I must leave now to attend to this matter.
[20:47] Tinasha
    Thank you for your time, Travis.
[20:53] Oscar
    Magdalsia has chosen war, then.
[20:56] Travis
    She's finally back to her old self.
[20:59] Travis
    I was wondering when she'd grow a spine again.
[21:02] Travis
    Don't give me that look.
[21:04] Travis
    She's always been like that.
[21:09] Travis
    Following up on earlier...
[21:11] Travis
    Don't hand over Eleterria.
[21:13] Travis
    I'd rather not do everything over.
[21:15] Travis
    Don't use them or have them stolen.
[21:18] Travis
    I don't plan on giving up Aurelia,
    or the rest of this history.
[21:26] Oscar
    Change of plans.
[21:27] Oscar
    I'm going back to Farsas.
[21:34] Oscar
    Tinasha viewed herself 
    as foreign to this era all along.
[21:40] Oscar
    Could it be that she never
    intended to become my queen?
[21:50] Oscar
    Who goes there?
SIGN    Forgive the intrusion,  but I was hoping we could talk.
[21:57] Oscar
    Valt...
SIGN    ~ At Memory's End ~