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.