E23 - At Memory's End

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[00:03] Oscar
    The Witch of the Forbidden Forest?
[00:05] Oscar
    Is that even possible?
SIGN    Not with magic.
SIGN    However, there's an artifact that makes it possible.
[00:12] Oscar
    You mean one of the outsiders'
    artifacts that Travis mentioned?
[00:17] Oscar
    I see.
[00:18] Oscar
    It seems you have memories
    from before history was changed.
SIGN    The demon king told you all of that?
SIGN    The nerve of him...
[00:27] Oscar
    Why are you after Eleterria?
SIGN    What other reason could there be?
SIGN    I want to change the past.
[00:35] Oscar
    Then wouldn't one be enough?
SIGN    It would be meaningless without both of them.
SIGN    Shouldn't you go ahead and make your way to her instead?
[00:45] Oscar
    She doesn't want my help.
SIGN    Do you really believe that after all you've been through?
SIGN    You may have exerted no effort to win her over this time around,
SIGN    but that's no excuse to be lazy.
SIGN    You always suffer a great deal each time to make her fall for you.
SIGN    It's not often she loves you from the beginning.
SIGN    So do take some initiative.
SIGN    Perhaps for you, other women could take her place.
SIGN    But for her, you're the only one she has.
[01:15] Oscar
    What are you talking about?
[01:17] Oscar
    How presumptuous of you,
    like you've seen it all.
SIGN    That I have.
SIGN    There was once a time when I served under the two of you.
[01:26] Oscar
    What?
SIGN    Please, do be on your way.
SIGN    Right now, Tuldarr... she's the one
    who's taken on the task,
SIGN    but aren't you the one who should be confronting the witch?
[01:39] Oscar
    You said she's not irreplaceable to me?
SIGN    It's the truth.
[01:44] Oscar
    Who cares about the times
    I have no memories of?
[01:47] Oscar
    She's the only one for me.
[01:50] Oscar
    And I'm about to prove it.
SIGN    Well, we'll see about that...
SIGN    ~ At Memory's End ~
SIGN    Tuldarr Army
SIGN    Magdalsia Army
[02:15] Renart
    There they are!
[02:16] Renart
    Magdalsian troops!
[02:18] Tinasha
    Soldiers of Tuldarr.
[02:19] Tinasha
    You have nothing to fear.
[02:22] Tinasha
    I promise we will reign victorious.
[02:25] Tinasha
    No matter who stands in our way,
    they will never intrude upon our nation.
[02:37] Tuldarr Soldier
    Charge!
[02:38] Renart
    Onward!
[02:43] Lucia
    You think the mere queen of Tuldarr
    stands any chance against a witch?
[02:47] Lucia
    I'll beat that arrogance out of you.
[02:50] Tinasha
    Who's the arrogant one here?
[02:52] Tinasha
    If it's me you're after,
    pay the price with your life.
[02:57] Tinasha
    Would you happen to know where Senn's gone?
[03:00] Lucia
    Senn?
[03:01] Tinasha
    My spirit.
[03:03] Tinasha
    Aren't you the Witch of the Forbidden Forest?
[03:09] Lucia
    That's right.
[03:10] Lucia
    I am that very witch.
[03:12] Tinasha
    Senn knew all about you.
[03:15] Tinasha
    Isn't that why you captured him?
    So he wouldn't reveal your identity to me?
[03:20] Tinasha
    Where is he now?
[03:22] Lucia
    Why, I couldn't say.
[03:25] Tinasha
    Then we have nothing more to discuss.
[03:27] Tinasha
    This is where you die.
[03:29] Oscar
    Tinasha.
[03:32] Tinasha
    What are you doing here, Oscar?!
[03:34] Oscar
    Just listen for now.
[03:36] Oscar
    It's not the witch residing in that body.
[03:38] Oscar
    Inside is the mind of Magdalsia's king.
[03:40] Tinasha
    What?
[03:41] Oscar
    The real witch's soul is trapped
    inside the Mirror of Oblivion.
[03:45] Oscar
    Same goes for that spirit of yours.
[03:47] Oscar
    The Mirror of Oblivion is apparently
    an outsiders' artifact
[03:50] Oscar
    that traps people's minds
    and memories to record them.
[03:53] Tinasha
    And who told you this?
[03:55] Oscar
    Valt.
[03:56] Tinasha
    What?!
[03:58] Oscar
    You're right to be skeptical.
[03:59] Oscar
    But I want you to head to
    Magdalsia and destroy the mirror.
[04:04] Oscar
    That should turn the witch back to normal.
[04:06] Oscar
    If you can't find the mirror,
    you can simply teleport back here.
[04:10] Oscar
    I'll take care of the one up there.
[04:12] Tinasha
    What?
[04:13] Tinasha
    This is Tuldarr's war to fight.
[04:16] Tinasha
    It's unthinkable to have
    a bystander like you take part!
[04:18] Tinasha
    I appreciate the information,
    but please head back to Farsas.
[04:21] Oscar
    No, thanks.
[04:24] Tinasha
    I'm going to get mad.
[04:25] Tinasha
    I am not your wife.
[04:28] Tinasha
    I am queen of Tuldarr.
[04:30] Tinasha
    I cannot allow you to intervene.
[04:32] Oscar
    The battle's mostly over already.
[04:35] Oscar
    All that's left is you against the witch
     and the cleanup.
[04:38] Oscar
    I'm saying I can finish this
    in a way that'll satisfy you.
[04:41] Tinasha
    My satisfaction shouldn't come
    at the cost of breaking the status quo.
[04:46] Tinasha
    A ruler is but a cog to ensure
    that a country runs smoothly.
[04:50] Tinasha
    I mustn't let my own emotions
    get in the way of that.
[04:53] Young Tinasha
    That's right. You mustn't.
[04:56] Young Tinasha
    There's no one who can act in your place.
[05:00] Young Tinasha
    Four hundred years ago, you made it all alone.
[05:04] Young Tinasha
    There's nothing anyone else can share with you.
[05:07] Tinasha
    Hesitation breeds weakness.
[05:10] Tinasha
    So I mustn't falter, now of all times.
[05:14] Tinasha
    I can even forget... that which I hold dear.
[05:18] Oscar
    I understand your side as well.
[05:20] Oscar
    But things have changed since back then.
[05:24] Oscar
    Don't bear all the burden alone.
[05:26] Oscar
    Rely on me so you don't regret it later.
[05:31] Oscar
    If you do, I'll share your burden
    for the rest of my life.
[05:34] Oscar
    Believe in me.
[05:38] Tinasha
    I can't do that.
[05:40] Tinasha
    Let's say you hold the fort here,
    and I break the mirror.
[05:45] Tinasha
    What will you do if the real witch tries to
    kill you after returning to her own body?!
[05:49] Oscar
    If that happens, I'll kill the witch.
[05:51] Oscar
    That's what this sword is for.
[05:59] Tinasha
    I command all spirits who can hear me.
[06:02] Tinasha
    I have two commands for you.
[06:05] Tinasha
    The first is don't be killed.
[06:07] Tinasha
    The second is to temporarily recognize
    the wielder of Akashia as your master
[06:12] Tinasha
    and lend him your support.
[06:15] Oscar
    Crybaby.
[06:18] Tinasha
    Quiet, you.
[06:21] Lucia
    The king of Farsas...
[06:23] Lucia
    The one who wields Akashia!
[06:28] Tinasha
    Don't disappoint me and die here.
[06:30] Oscar
    We haven't even gotten married yet.
[06:32] Oscar
    I couldn't die with regrets like that.
[06:35] Tinasha
    He'll be here to keep you busy.
[06:38] Tinasha
    I'll be seeing you later.
[06:40] Lucia
    How dare you.
[06:45] Lucia
    It's no fun tormenting a man.
[06:48] Oscar
    Don't talk big with those borrowed powers.
[06:50] Oscar
    I already know you're nothing but an impostor.
[06:56] Lucia
    You little whelp...
[06:58] Lucia
    We'll see how true that is once
    I've torn you to shreds.
[07:09] Tinasha
    Without a care in the world.
[07:13] Tinasha
    There it is.
[07:18] Tinasha
    Senn, can you hear me?
[07:22] Senn
    My queen!
[07:23] Tinasha
    That's him!
[07:39] Senn
    My queen! You're here!
[07:41] Tinasha
    Senn!
[07:43] Tinasha
    What a relief...
[07:46] Tinasha
    Um, is that the witch?
[07:49] Senn
    Yes, that's the Witch of the Forbidden Forest.
[07:55] Tinasha
    You must really care for her.
[07:59] Senn
    Well...
[08:00] Senn
    You could say she's a handful.
[08:04] Lucrezia
    Oh?
[08:06] Lucrezia
    What are you doing here?
[08:08] Tinasha
    I came looking for Senn.
[08:11] Lucrezia
    That would mean you're Tuldarr's queen.
[08:14] Lucrezia
    Your astonishing magic levels
    made me think you were a new witch.
[08:20] Lucrezia
    So? What is it you want?
[08:23] Tinasha
    I was hoping to break this mirror.
[08:26] Tinasha
    Are you the Witch of the Forbidden Forest?
[08:29] Lucrezia
    I am.
[08:30] Lucrezia
    You can call me Lucrezia.
[08:32] Lucrezia
    Oh, right, you wouldn't use my name anyway.
[08:36] Tinasha
    I will.
[08:40] Tinasha
    This pillar has created
    a conceptual tear in the mirror.
[08:45] Tinasha
    So punching another hole from
    the outside might be able to break it.
[08:50] Lucrezia
    Hm?
[08:51] Lucrezia
    Well, if it can be broken,
    then please go ahead.
[09:01] Tinasha
    What must be defined is power.
[09:03] Tinasha
    The ocean of life.
[09:04] Tinasha
    Wills meld together in the past.
[09:07] Tinasha
    A spiral geyser piercing
    the earth from the skies.
[09:11] Tinasha
    Six doors locked shut.
[09:13] Tinasha
    Voices of premonition.
[09:15] Tinasha
    I command the end of twilight.
[09:20] Tinasha
    I can't let him down...
[09:23] Tinasha
    I can't fail here...
[09:25] Tinasha
    I will overcome this!
[09:29] Tinasha
    I believe!
[09:31] Lucrezia
    Huh, she's pretty good.
[09:34] Senn
    Yeah.
[09:48] Lucia
    You'd be a powerless brat without that sword.
[09:51] Lucia
    Do you not fear this witch?!
[09:53] Oscar
    I'd rather not hear that from you.
[09:55] Oscar
    Also, witches are a lot scarier.
[09:58] Oscar
    I'm left wanting with you in her body.
[10:01] Lucia
    Come again?
[10:06] Lucia
    Wait...
[10:08] Lucia
    It can't be...
[10:11] Lucia
    No...
[10:13] Lucia
    No...
[10:13] Lucia
    No!
[10:35] Lucrezia
    It's been so long since I've had fresh air.
[10:43] Lucrezia
    Good evening.
[10:45] Lucrezia
    Are you Lucrezia?
[10:47] Lucrezia
    Indeed I am.
[10:48] Lucrezia
    Wait, don't tell me you're
    the Akashia swordsman?
[10:52] Lucrezia
    You have an awful lot of magic if so.
[10:55] Lucrezia
    You're no mage, are you?
[10:57] Oscar
    I am the Akashia swordsman.
[10:59] Oscar
    I have magic as Lavinia's grandson.
[11:02] Lucrezia
    Lavinia did what?!
[11:04] Lucrezia
    With the Farsas royal bloodline?!
[11:05] Lucrezia
    I can hardly believe it!
[11:08] Oscar
    Where's Tinasha?
[11:09] Lucrezia
    She's still with Senn.
[11:10] Lucrezia
    I imagine she'll come back before long.
[11:13] Oscar
    I see.
[11:15] Lucrezia
    What's your relationship with her?
[11:17] Oscar
    I'm her fiancé.
[11:19] Lucrezia
    No kidding?
[11:20] Lucrezia
    Hmm...
[11:21] Lucrezia
    You two sure are fascinating.
[11:24] Lucrezia
    With your considerable magic,
    if you were to marry her...
[11:28] Lucrezia
    You could change the world as we know it.
[11:31] Oscar
    Not that we plan on doing so.
[11:33] Oscar
    Aren't you witches the same,
    always staying out of the public eye?
[11:37] Lucrezia
    Nothing fun comes from public attention.
[11:42] Lucrezia
    I must be going now,
    to attend to some business.
[11:45] Lucrezia
    We'll meet again, if fate so dictates.
[11:51] Oscar
    The story is that Hubert was killed in combat.
[11:54] Oscar
    So is Lucrezia the one who killed him?
[11:57] Tinasha
    Well, I can't blame her.
[11:59] Tinasha
    It seems that sixty years ago,
[12:02] Tinasha
    Lucrezia entered the Mirror of Oblivion
    of her own will to try and destroy it.
[12:06] Tinasha
    Unable to do so, she put up
    a barrier in a nearby cave,
[12:10] Tinasha
    sealing away both the mirror and herself.
[12:14] Tinasha
    When you put that together with what you heard,
[12:16] Tinasha
    that'd mean Valt broke that barrier
    and gave Hubert the mirror.
[12:20] Oscar
    Why was Senn inside?
[12:23] Tinasha
    When the barrier was broken,
    her magic leaked out into the air.
[12:26] Tinasha
    That aroused his suspicions, and he was
    sealed away when he went to check it out.
[12:31] Oscar
    I see now.
[12:32] Oscar
    Well, looks like it all
    turned out well for you.
[12:36] Oscar
    You hesitated to kill her because
    that spirit was friendly with her.
[12:41] Oscar
    By neutralizing Magdalsia's
    troops without harming them,
[12:45] Oscar
    your strange powers terrorized many.
[12:47] Oscar
    As a result, the magic empire of Tuldarr
    has spread as a name to be feared.
[12:53] Oscar
    Isn't that exactly what you wanted?
[12:58] Tinasha
    I'm feeling a little bit tired now.
[13:01] Oscar
    Stop acting all on your own already.
[13:03] Oscar
    You really need to have
    a little more trust in me.
[13:06] Tinasha
    I didn't want to cause you any trouble.
[13:09] Oscar
    If you come off as a danger,
    it'll be harder to get married.
[13:13] Tinasha
    Couldn't you just use your powers as
    the owner of Akashia to abduct me?
[13:18] Tinasha
    Lock me up in the castle,
    and it'd be the same as if we got married.
[13:22] Oscar
    You need to rethink some things
    if you consider that the same.
[13:27] Tinasha
    Imprisoning royalty was pretty
    common back in the Dark Age.
[13:30] Oscar
    How can I make it clear
    that times have changed?
[13:34] Oscar
    Go back and learn the basics.
[13:35] Tinasha
    You're calling off our engagement?
[13:37] Oscar
    No!
[13:40] Tinasha
    Still, I have to wonder
    what Valt is playing at.
[13:44] Tinasha
    Did he mention anything else
    that piqued your interest?
[13:49] Oscar
    Not at all.
[13:52] Tinasha
    Then forget I asked.
[13:58] Oscar
    Just so you know, you're the only woman for me.
[14:01] Tinasha
    Where'd that come from?
[14:02] Tinasha
    I know that.
[14:04] Tinasha
    Oh, if something's worrying you,
    we can start over and go back to basics.
[14:08] Oscar
    Seriously, stop.
[14:11] Oscar
    I'm...
[14:13] Oscar
    the one who made you come to this era.
[14:20] Oscar
    I'll definitely make you happy.
[14:26] Tinasha
    I'm plenty happy already.
[14:32] Tinasha
    You made sure to keep the promise
    you made when I was a child.
[14:41] Oscar
    Things are about to get busy again.
[14:45] Oscar
    Your abdication, then Legis's
    coronation, and two days after that...
[14:50] Tinasha
    Our wedding ceremony.
[14:56] Oscar
    It'd be nice to be free
    of setbacks from now on.
[15:02] Legis
    I, Legis Dys Kacoratis Gul Tuldarr,
[15:06] Legis
    hereby ascend the throne
    as the forty-fourth king of Tuldarr.
[15:15] Legis
    Tuldarr was founded in the Dark Age
    to protect the rights and lives of mages,
[15:21] Legis
    and mutual support among mages...
SIGN    Oh, so you really did come.
[15:33] Tinasha
    Valt.
SIGN    It happened long ago.
SIGN    There once stood here an azure tower.
SIGN    For those who overcame the trials of the tower and made it to the very top,
SIGN    it was said that the witch who lived there would grant a wish.
SIGN    Though that tower no longer exists, be it in the past or future.
[15:56] Tinasha
    Are you saying I was that witch?
SIGN    Yes.
SIGN    The fifth witch, said to be the strongest: the Witch of the Azure Moon.
SIGN    She was even stronger and crueler than you are now.
SIGN    Does that surprise you?
[16:10] Tinasha
    A little.
[16:11] Tinasha
    Although I figured that might be the case.
SIGN    When I learned you had failed to become a witch for the very first time,
SIGN    and had fallen into a magic slumber...
SIGN    I was overjoyed.
SIGN    Come.
SIGN    It's about time we bring this to an end.
SIGN    Let us go and retrieve the other half of Eleterria.
[16:32] Tinasha
    I won't be doing any such thing.
[16:34] Tinasha
    Please return that at once.
SIGN    You will.
SIGN    You'll be raring to go.
[16:40] Tinasha
    What are you...
[16:44] Tinasha
    You can't be serious!
SIGN    What I'm taking as hostage is this very nation.
SIGN    Once this magic circle activates, it will bring forth an inferno.
SIGN    And as it consumes all the lives within its reach,
SIGN    those lives will act as a catalyst to summon magical power, annihilating this nation.
SIGN    Fail to cooperate, and Tuldarr will be no more.
[17:10] Tinasha
    Where did you learn to create this spell?
[17:13] Tinasha
    Among the many forbidden curses to summon
    magical power with souls as the catalyst,
[17:17] Tinasha
    this one...
[17:19] Tinasha
    it's the same curse used four hundred
    years ago, unrecorded in history.
SIGN    Our kind transcribes knowledge and passes it down.
SIGN    Go back far enough, and the man you considered a brother was one of them.
SIGN    That's all there is to it.
[17:33] Tinasha
    What a sick joke.
[17:35] Tinasha
    Are you saying you and your ilk have
    lurked in the shadows of all history?
SIGN    Oh, no.
SIGN    Our family of Time-Readers is not as influential as you'd believe.
SIGN    Every generation has but one family head.
SIGN    Until the previous head dies, the powers of the successor do not awaken.
SIGN    As for the other heads, past and future, the only knowledge I have is all of their names.
SIGN    Just so you understand, I wasn't the one who cast this spell.
SIGN    If you kill me, the caster will activate the spell.
SIGN    You will by no means leave Tuldarr to die,
SIGN    which is precisely why I chose Tuldarr as my target.
SIGN    But that's not my only reason.
SIGN    This country is one that should never have existed.
[18:26] Tinasha
    What?
SIGN    You see, Tuldarr was destroyed the moment your stomach was torn open.
[18:33] Tinasha
    No way...
[18:35] Tinasha
    You're wrong.
[18:36] Tinasha
    I mean, didn't I manage to suppress
    the magical power back then?
SIGN    Yes.
SIGN    However, the magical power summoned by sacrificing Lanak
SIGN    and that summoned by sacrificing you were orders of magnitude apart.
SIGN    You were unable to fully contain all that magic,
SIGN    and what was leftover destroyed Tuldarr, before spraying across the mainland.
SIGN    The true form of this age,
SIGN    for most of Tuldarr territory, was a wasteland ravaged by that forbidden curse.
[19:06] Tinasha
    You're lying...
[19:10] Tinasha
    That can't be...
SIGN    The world mends itself to minimize the effects of the changes from Eleterria.
SIGN    But the consequences of changing the fate of an entire country were great indeed.
SIGN    I feel no guilt in taking Tuldarr as my hostage,
SIGN    since it never should have existed at all.
SIGN    What about you, though?
SIGN    Because Tuldarr survived, a great number of Cezar citizens were made to suffer instead.
SIGN    Do you feel no remorse at all?
SIGN    If Tuldarr had been destroyed as it should have been,
SIGN    Cezar would not be like this now.
[19:50] Tinasha
    You mean to say that their fate was the price
    we paid for Tuldarr's prosperity?
[19:55] Tinasha
    And that at the root of it all is Oscar...
[19:58] Tinasha
    and me?
[20:05] Tinasha
    Even if what you say is true,
[20:07] Tinasha
    I won't let you claim that you are free of sin.
[20:11] Tinasha
    The one who summoned the evil god in Cezar,
[20:13] Tinasha
    as well as the one who aims
    to destroy Tuldarr now,
[20:16] Tinasha
    is none other than you.
SIGN    That's true.
SIGN    We are both sinners.
SIGN    Both of us perpetually betraying this world.
SIGN    The choice to keep one
    means abandoning another.
[20:32] Tinasha
    We are all made to choose without end.
[20:35] Tinasha
    Challenged to do so without end.
SIGN    And if what results...
[20:41] Tinasha
    Is our current reality...
[20:44] Tinasha
    I will protect my nation.
[20:47] Tinasha
    There is no doubt that Tuldarr exists now.
[20:50] Tinasha
    Even if it came about by altering history,
[20:53] Tinasha
    I will not choose to abandon
    the country before my eyes.
SIGN    I thought that might be your decision.
SIGN    If you wish to save your country, you will listen to my demands.
SIGN    Will I find Eleterria in Tuldarr's treasury?
[21:07] Tinasha
    What do you plan to do
    after obtaining them both?
[21:10] Tinasha
    One should be enough
    if you want to change the past.
SIGN    I'm well aware.
SIGN    But what I'm after is to change the future.
[21:18] Tinasha
    Traveling to the future?
SIGN    You are the most powerful mage in history.
SIGN    Not long ago, you destroyed an outsiders' artifact, the Mirror of Oblivion.
SIGN    But since you're no longer a witch, you are inferior to your original self.
SIGN    As such, I took it upon myself to test your powers.
SIGN    As luck would have it, you chose to absorb Simila's incarnation.
SIGN    The destruction of Eleterria.
SIGN    That's what I'm after.
[21:53] Tinasha
    All of your actions up until now...
[21:59] Tinasha
    They were all for this moment?
SIGN    ~ Death of the Nameless Story ~