E24 - Death of the Nameless Story
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[00:05] Legis
Have you seen Lady Tinasha anywhere?
[00:07] Oscar
What?
[00:09] Legis
It seems she vanished near the end
of the coronation and has yet to return.
[00:13] Oscar
I haven't...
[00:16] Oscar
Is it Valt?
[00:19] Legis
I shall order a search at once.
[00:21] Oscar
Just to be safe, I'll return
to Farsas for the time being.
SIGN I didn't expect you to transfer the orb to Farsas, after the first one was stolen.
SIGN You must trust that Akashia swordsman an awful lot.
[00:35] Tinasha
Of course I do.
SIGN Records say that it all began with the death of a child.
SIGN As the mother cried, with her child's corpse in her arms,
SIGN it's said that she felt the presence of someone else.
[00:51] (Flashback) Voice
Use these if you want to save him.
SIGN With those words, she received both halves of Eleterria.
SIGN The mother used them to return to the past and saved her child.
[01:06] Tinasha
It was an outsider who handed them to her?
SIGN Yes.
SIGN They're observing this world and its people,
SIGN after introducing these experimental artifacts.
[01:17] Tinasha
And what of your family, the Time-Readers?
SIGN The very first child who was saved...
SIGN We are his descendants.
SIGN Every generation, one of us is trapped as a part of Eleterria,
SIGN with our souls being used as record sheets.
[01:33] Tinasha
Your souls?
SIGN The soul of the current family head contains a log of all the times Eleterria is used,
SIGN as well as all of the names of the past and future heads.
SIGN I have spent a long time being alive, all by myself.
SIGN Time rewinds for me without mercy.
SIGN Die as I might, I find myself back in the past, conscious yet again.
SIGN The outsider who designed this mechanism
SIGN must have given no thought to the agony of those possessing the souls being used.
SIGN They figured that we owe our lives to Eleterria,
SIGN and trampled all over us, into the distant future.
SIGN That's why they must be destroyed.
SIGN Not only does destroying them require extraordinary power,
SIGN but when one is destroyed, the other will immediately activate.
SIGN Which is why both must be destroyed simultaneously.
SIGN I knew that you were the only one who seemed fit for the task,
SIGN but it was no easy feat making contact with you when you were a witch.
SIGN I was met with frustration again and again.
SIGN However, the impossible happened.
[02:37] Tinasha
What?
SIGN The orbs activate when they sense a powerful attachment toward someone.
SIGN It doesn't matter whether it's love or hate.
SIGN The user's strong emotions are what activate them.
SIGN So under normal circumstances, it should be impossible to travel back centuries.
SIGN Who would ever be so attached to someone from the distant past?
SIGN There was one exception, though.
SIGN A man who loved a witch and made her his wife.
SIGN Your husband.
SIGN He went back four hundred years and changed history, so you were no longer a witch.
SIGN Hope was born in me.
SIGN Maybe this would be the time it all worked out.
SIGN It might be possible to destroy them both at once, or so I thought.
[03:23] Tinasha
It's not enough to simply seal Eleterria away?
SIGN The world is waiting for an upheaval.
[03:29] Tinasha
What?
SIGN Right now, it's like a new pin is stuck into the world every time it is altered.
SIGN Its limit is close at hand.
SIGN As proof, the furthest history will go is thirty-one years from now at most.
SIGN The world is almost at a standstill.
SIGN Unless we destroy Eleterria, the world will come to a stop.
[03:51] Tinasha
No way...
SIGN At present, there is no family head to succeed me.
[04:00] Tinasha
How can that be?
[04:01] Tinasha
Even if history comes to a standstill,
[04:03] Tinasha
shouldn't there still be up to
thirty-one years left?
[04:06] Tinasha
If you die, wouldn't the next head take over?
SIGN My soul will be dismantled before it learns of the next family head.
SIGN Seeking magical power,
SIGN I turned to a forbidden curse, exchanging my soul for power.
SIGN As a result, my soul was dismantled, creating a gap in the family succession.
SIGN It seems the world saw this as the crack it sought to tear Eleterria apart.
SIGN So no matter how much history may change, my soul will always end up dismantled.
SIGN But eventually, I'm sure a new head will be chosen, regardless of bloodline.
SIGN In that case, it's far better that this all ends with me.
SIGN As long as there is one who suffers, Eleterria can continue to be used.
SIGN As for me, I've had enough.
SIGN How foolish and selfish, to care only about saving the people close to you.
SIGN It infuriates me.
[05:04] Tinasha
You and your family have suffered
every time Eleterria has been used.
[05:09] Tinasha
That's a truth we cannot overlook.
[05:12] Tinasha
However, I can't deny the feelings
of those who used Eleterria.
[05:18] Tinasha
That's the human heart.
[05:22] Tinasha
To deny that would mean rejecting our humanity.
[05:27] Tinasha
What drives Eleterria are strong emotions.
[05:30] Tinasha
That means it can be used to save people.
[05:34] Tinasha
Deep down, don't you agree with me?
[05:38] Tinasha
You're not really trying to stop
the orbs from being misused.
[05:42] Tinasha
Am I right?
[05:44] Tinasha
That's why you're trying to
destroy them, not seal them away.
[05:47] Tinasha
What's your reason here?
[05:50] Tinasha
That soul that cannot be saved...
[05:52] Tinasha
Were you really talking about yourself?
[05:56] Tinasha
The residence you were living in...
[05:58] Tinasha
Wasn't there a girl with you there?
[06:02] (Flashback) Valt
Just so you understand,
I wasn't the one who cast this spell.
[06:07] Tinasha
The caster of that spell
is who you really want to save.
[06:14] Tinasha
I knew it.
[06:15] Tinasha
There's one more head that succeeds him.
[06:21] Tinasha
The final family head...
[06:24] Tinasha
is her.
[06:27] Miralys
Valt?
[06:30] Tinasha
The one whose soul will be dismantled.
[06:32] Tinasha
The one at the center of the world stalling.
[06:35] Tinasha
The one who will endlessly
repeat history is her.
[06:39] Tinasha
That's why Valt shows no hesitation.
[06:41] Tinasha
I understand your wish,
[06:44] Tinasha
as well as the situation facing
the world and Eleterria.
SIGN That's good to hear.
SIGN Let's have you destroy them, then.
[06:53] Tinasha
Still...
SIGN If you cannot make the choice here, Tuldarr is sure to perish.
[07:02] Tinasha
I know that...
[07:04] Oscar
Tinasha!
SIGN This way!
SIGN Of all the people...
SIGN Come with me, or I'll have her activate the spell.
[07:20] Tinasha
The Lake of Silence!
[07:23] Oscar
Stop right there.
[07:26] Oscar
Hand over Tinasha.
[07:28] Oscar
Eleterria as well.
[07:31] Oscar
I won't let you change history.
SIGN You're the one who overwrote it!
SIGN And we're the ones who have had to suffer yet again because of you!
[07:38] Oscar
For that, I apologize.
[07:40] Oscar
But it all ends here.
[07:41] Oscar
We'll seal those orbs away,
out of everyone's reach.
SIGN No. You don't understand.
SIGN You would place your country over all else you hold dear!
SIGN That's why I can't back down here—
[07:54] Miralys
Valt.
[07:57] Miralys
Valt. Run away.
[08:00] Valt
It's fine. I can keep going.
[08:02] Miralys
Please, come back.
[08:05] Miralys
There's no point in saving me
if you disappear instead.
[08:11] Miralys
Instead of the happiness
I'd gain by never meeting you,
[08:15] Miralys
I would choose sorrow
if it means being with you.
[08:18] Miralys
Even if our time is limited.
[08:23] Miralys
Isn't that what it means to be human?
[08:30] Oscar
It always ends up like this
when I take my eyes off you.
[08:33] Tinasha
I'm sorry.
[08:35] Tinasha
It may not look like it, but I'm always
trying to find the quickest resolution.
[08:40] Oscar
And I'm saying that's not needed.
[08:44] Tinasha
I can only do it because you're here for me.
SIGN They can't see the future...
SIGN That's why...
[08:59] Tinasha
So that's why, Oscar...
SIGN I won't give up!
[09:07] Tinasha
Please come and save me.
[09:12] Tinasha
Even knowing Tuldarr's fate,
Oscar would not hesitate to fight.
[09:17] Tinasha
He would be sure to stop Valt.
[09:20] Tinasha
No lives will be lost.
[09:21] Tinasha
I'll return to Tuldarr and break
the spell, no matter the price.
[09:25] Tinasha
Then we can talk it over with Valt, again,
[09:29] Tinasha
and decide what to do with Eleterria.
[09:33] Tinasha
Washing my hands of all the burden...
[09:35] Tinasha
Is it really right to depend on him so much?
SIGN It can't be!
[09:57] Tinasha
What he gave me transcended
four hundred years.
[10:01] Tinasha
I thought if I could marry him,
I would even be fine dying that very night.
[10:07] Tinasha
But now...
[10:19] Voice
Where would you like to return to?
[10:22] Voice
The world will reform
at the moment of your choosing.
[10:27] Voice
You'd do well to choose the safest moment
from your infinite memories of your lives.
[10:32] Voice
Or perhaps the happiest.
[10:36] Voice
Go on, make your choice.
[10:40] Young Tinasha
My choice.
[10:43] Young Tinasha
There's only one option.
[10:45] Young Tinasha
By his side.
[10:47] Young Tinasha
The place where he is.
[10:50] Young Tinasha
The closest I can be to him.
[10:54] Young Tinasha
The time when I could safely fall asleep.
[10:59] Voice
Run. Go forth.
[11:07] Young Tinasha
To where he is.
[11:12] Voice
This time, the new records...
[11:17] Voice
will be etched into your soul.
[11:20] Voice
Fight.
[11:22] Voice
Keep fighting.
[11:26] Voice
Until you reach the ending you desire.
SIGN ~ Death of the Nameless Story ~
[11:45] Oscar
What's wrong?
[11:50] Tinasha
Who are you?
[11:52] Tinasha
Who am I?
[11:55] Tinasha
And where are we?
[11:57] Oscar
Still half asleep?
[11:59] Oscar
I'm your husband, and the king of Farsas.
[12:03] Oscar
You're my queen, a witch,
and the successor to Old Tuldarr.
[12:07] Oscar
And this is the Farsas royal bedchamber.
[12:11] Oscar
Should I tell you our names, too?
[12:16] Tinasha
I'm sorry.
[12:17] Tinasha
I really was half asleep.
[12:19] Oscar
Looks like it.
[12:21] Oscar
It's the middle of the night.
[12:23] Tinasha
It's like I was in a dream of a different time.
[12:27] Tinasha
It felt like I spent a really
long time getting here.
[12:31] Oscar
A dream of the past?
[12:33] Oscar
You have been alive
twenty times longer than me.
[12:36] Oscar
You've worked hard.
[12:40] Tinasha
Right now, I'm really happy.
[12:43] Tinasha
I'm glad I was able to make it to your side.
[12:47] Oscar
Are you okay?
[12:50] Tinasha
In what way?
[12:53] Tinasha
Huh?
[12:54] Tinasha
What could it be?
[12:56] Tinasha
It almost felt like I wasn't
able to marry you...
[13:04] Tinasha
Huh?!
[13:04] Tinasha
What now?!
[13:06] Tinasha
Please wait!
[13:07] Tinasha
Wait, we've never done this before!
[13:09] Tinasha
You're acting weird!
[13:09] Oscar
The weird one here is you.
[13:11] Oscar
You're out of your mind.
[13:12] Tinasha
L-Let go of me!
[13:14] Oscar
I refuse.
[13:19] Oscar
What's that?
[13:24] Tinasha
This is...
[13:47] Oscar
What happened?
[13:51] Tinasha
Oscar.
[13:54] Tinasha
Will you listen to me?
[13:56] Oscar
Go ahead.
[13:58] Tinasha
I've been on a very long journey.
[14:09] Oscar
What an incredible story.
[14:11] Oscar
I don't believe it.
[14:12] Tinasha
I figured as much.
[14:14] Oscar
Tuldarr, you say...
[14:16] Oscar
I wish I could have seen it.
[14:21] Tinasha
In all the countless cycles, that was the
one time that Tuldarr was able to survive.
[14:28] Tinasha
But that history has disappeared now.
[14:31] Tinasha
Eleterria, on the verge
of breaking, brought me back.
[14:39] Tinasha
In the end...
[14:42] Tinasha
I wasn't able to protect Tuldarr.
[14:46] Oscar
Was it a fine nation?
[14:48] Tinasha
Yes, the finest.
[14:54] Oscar
So, the fact that you've retained those
memories that should have disappeared means...
[15:00] Tinasha
I've become the head of the Time-Readers.
[15:04] Tinasha
The way I was selected was quite unprecedented.
[15:07] Tinasha
As an emergency measure, Eleterria
dismantled the world and reformed it.
[15:13] Oscar
Which means?
[15:16] Tinasha
This world...
[15:19] Tinasha
It was created moments ago, when I woke up.
[15:25] Tinasha
It asked me when it should
reform the world, and I chose now.
[15:30] Tinasha
Because among all of my memories,
this is my happiest moment.
[15:37] Oscar
I'm honored to hear that.
[15:39] Oscar
I see now.
[15:41] Oscar
I think I get the gist of it.
[15:43] Oscar
An outsiders' artifact, huh?
[15:45] Oscar
That said, there are other items
that work in unexplainable ways.
[15:49] Tinasha
Huh?
[15:51] Oscar
I mean Akashia.
[15:54] Oscar
It's said that an inhuman being
pulled Akashia from the Lake of Silence.
[15:59] Oscar
So couldn't that being have come
from outside our world?
[16:03] Tinasha
Now that you mention it...
[16:06] (Flashback) Travis
I once met someone
who came from outside our world.
[16:09] (Flashback) Travis
An outsider, but also not really.
[16:12] (Flashback) Travis
Choosing to align herself with humans,
she lived and died among them.
[16:18] (Flashback) Travis
How can you not know anything
about outsiders' artifacts?
[16:23] Tinasha
That person must have been
the creator of Akashia herself.
[16:27] Tinasha
The first queen of Farsas, Deirdre.
SIGN Deirdre Outsider; First Queen of Farsas
[16:30] Oscar
The first queen?
[16:32] Tinasha
I heard of her from Farsas royalty
four hundred years ago.
[16:35] Tinasha
She traded her own power
to give Akashia to the founding king.
[16:41] Tinasha
But in exchange, she couldn't
return to her homeland.
[16:44] Oscar
I have blood from outside
this world flowing through me?
[16:47] Tinasha
We're talking about more than
twenty generations ago.
[16:50] Tinasha
I imagine those traits have
completely faded away by now.
[16:52] Oscar
Perhaps Akashia was originally intended
to destroy outsiders' artifacts.
[16:58] Oscar
If the Lake of Silence
still holds the same power,
[17:01] Oscar
it would make sense for the lake itself
to try and destroy Eleterria.
[17:06] Tinasha
So that's why Eleterria escaped from the lake?
[17:10] Oscar
Tinasha.
[17:11] Tinasha
Yes?
[17:14] Oscar
Let's get going.
[17:15] Tinasha
What?
[17:17] Oscar
There's another orb, right?
[17:26] Oscar
We need to destroy
both of them at the same time?
[17:29] Tinasha
That's right.
[17:30] Tinasha
Wait, you want to destroy them?!
[17:32] Oscar
Of course.
[17:33] Tinasha
What?!
[17:34] Oscar
I understand your reasoning.
[17:37] Oscar
Or I guess the reasoning
of the you that argued against Valt.
[17:41] Oscar
I can't say how you feel now.
[17:43] Oscar
But if you sympathize with saving others,
even at the cost of changing the past,
[17:49] Oscar
if you accept having your own life
changed whenever it activates,
[17:53] Oscar
with your acceptance in mind,
I want to see these destroyed.
[17:57] Tinasha
Oscar...
[18:00] Tinasha
Destroying Eleterria and rewriting
all changes back to their original fates...
[18:06] Tinasha
The final change, and the largest of them all.
[18:10] Tinasha
The clan of Time-Readers will vanish,
and the fates of many alive today will change.
[18:16] Tinasha
And Oscar, who was saved
by his mother using Eleterria...
[18:21] Tinasha
He's sure to die then and there.
[18:23] Oscar
These things saved me, and I've used
them to save you, so let me say this.
[18:30] Oscar
Changing the past is a fruitless action.
[18:33] Oscar
It goes against the natural human order.
[18:36] Oscar
No matter your regrets,
you should live on and accept them.
[18:41] Oscar
There is no tragedy that can't be overcome.
[18:44] Oscar
I believe that all humans
have the power to do that.
[18:52] Oscar
This must be the reason
Akashia was passed down to me.
[18:57] Oscar
Don't worry.
[18:58] Oscar
You won't need to bear the burden by yourself.
[19:02] Tinasha
You can always see right through me.
[19:12] Tinasha
Oscar.
[19:14] Tinasha
If history changes, and everything
goes back to the way it was...
[19:18] Tinasha
Even if no memories remain,
and I end up never being born...
[19:25] Tinasha
I will always love you.
[19:26] Tinasha
You are the first
and last person I will ever love.
[19:31] Oscar
That's more than I deserve.
[19:33] Oscar
I love you, too.
[19:42] Oscar
This is nothing more than a midway point.
[19:44] Oscar
Don't lose your way.
[19:47] Oscar
Make sure you come back to me.
[19:52] Tinasha
Our meeting...
[19:55] Tinasha
must be the intersection of two fates
that were never meant to overlap.
[20:01] Oscar
That's why this is the ending we reached.
[20:04] Tinasha
As humans.
[20:06] Oscar
To fight those who would interfere.
[20:10] Tinasha
Please wait for me.
[20:13] Tinasha
I'll make sure I find you again.
[20:16] Tinasha
Across time.
[20:18] Tinasha
When I do...
[20:21] Tinasha
We can fall in love again anew.
[20:24] Oscar
I'll look forward to it.
[20:29] Oscar
Had your fun toying with humans?
[20:32] Oscar
Don't look down on us.
[20:33] Oscar
We're done being your playthings.
[20:37] Oscar
We reject your interference.
[20:42] Oscar
Return to dust and leave this world!
[21:45] Tinasha
I've been looking for you.
[21:47] Tinasha
Are you the one that abducted
a child from the Farsas castle city?
[21:51] Teresa
Damn it! A mage?
[21:54] Tinasha
You're half right.
[21:55] Tinasha
But that makes you wrong.
[21:59] Teresa
That measly spell...
[22:04] Tinasha
That's what you get for
not being able to discern a witch.
[22:08] Tinasha
Well, not that you'd get away if you did.
[22:11] Young Lazar
D-Don't do it!
[22:17] Young Lazar
She's dangerous, Prince Oscar!
[22:21] Tinasha
Nice to meet you.
[22:23] Tinasha
I'm—
[22:23] Oscar
Tinasha.
[22:26] Oscar
You're finally here.
[22:27] Oscar
I was sick and tired of waiting.
[22:35] Tinasha
An old fairy tale about
a king and the fifth witch.
[22:47] Tinasha
All stories give rise to others.
[22:50] Tinasha
They're added on to...
[22:53] Tinasha
and enjoyed across generations.
[23:06] Tinasha
They can no longer be rewritten.
[23:19] Tinasha
This is...
[23:24] Tinasha
A fragment of an unnamed memory.