04x17 - Our Choices

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Despite everyone's hope,

Meliodas awakened as the leader
of the Ten Commandments.

And then Meliodas announced
his callous decision.

As of today,

the Seven Deadly Sins are disbanded.

Please, Meliodas,
it's not too late to turn back!

Everyone in the Seven Deadly Sins…

and Hawk, they're all so worried!

Elizabeth, I'll protect you,
no matter what.

I'll become the Demon King
and lift the curse.

Damn it! What is the captain thinking?

That hurts!

Are you okay?

Yes.

The captain isn't currently
in his right mind.

Because his emotions have been stolen
by the Demon King in Purgatory.

We can't just leave
the two of them like that.

Come to think of it…

I think he called me "Demon King"
or something.

Did you think
I hadn't noticed all this time?

I'm sure you've enjoyed
secretly watching us suffer, Demon King!

It must have been your imagination.

No, he probably meant that my power is
in the same class as the Demon King!

Sir Hawk, do you mind?

Mind what?

Intriguing.

Sir Hawk, it appears
you’re connected to Purgatory.

Where am I?

What…

am I doing here?

What's wrong? Why are you here all alone?

Did you have another fight
with your big brother?

You're…

What was that dream just now?

So the princess has finally woken up?

Oh, it's you, Peronia.

Hey now, Lord Estarossa!
Surely I don't deserve that!

I, Peronia, took care of you
without rest this entire time!

Took care of me?

I think you mean experimented on.

I see that you're healthy again!

Excellent.

-Stare.
-Where are you looking as you say that?

Hey, Merlin.

What do you mean,
the master is connected to Purgatory?

Sir Hawk is a corridor, so to speak,
linking this world to Purgatory.

Me? To Purgatory?

Apparently, the Demon King
has been observing the captain

through your eyes for a long time.

Seriously?

In that case, all we have to do
is go to Purgatory through Hawk,

and take the captain's emotions back
from the Demon King, right?

Unfortunately, that's impossible.

-What?
-Why?

Aside from the captain, who's been cursed,

I only know one person
who's been to Purgatory and returned.

One?

But that means
there was at least one, right?

The man who not only was my father,

but also the chief
of the capital of the wizards.

He walked through the door to Purgatory
he'd discovered in his research,

and after a mere minute inside,
he returned…

completely decrepit.

In one minute?

Until his final moments,

he continued to mutter details
about Purgatory, as if delirious.

A land where the toxic air is both
blazing hot and freezing cold,

and destroys the bodies of the living.

Time and space are warped,
and one minute is turned into a year.

It eats away at
and invades the souls of the dead.

Having lost all sensation,
he only had his sixth sense to rely on.

It's a chaotic land strewn
with the crushed souls of the dead,

where monsters prowl in search of prey.

In a hell like that,

how are you going to find the captain's
emotions, which could be anywhere?

Above all, don't forget that
it was the Demon King who seized them.

He's far too powerful.

Give up.

But…

Even if you tell us to give up…

Then…

Then what are we supposed to do?

I'll go.

-Ban!
-Mr. Ban!

Unfortunately, I'm immortal.

Did you hear a word I said?

Even if you did go, there's no guarantee
that you'd find the captain's emotions,

or be able to get them back.

Much less any guarantee
that you'd be able to return!

Yes, maybe.

Merlin is right!

What would Elaine do
if something happened to you?

Ban, let's try to come up
with another way!

Please. Let me do this.

I want to save my buddy with my own hands.

If I can't even do that,

how can I protect the woman I love?

I guess it can't be helped.

We don't have much time
before Big Sis's curse activates.

Hey, Zeldris.

The traitorous criminal nonchalantly
wanders into enemy territory.

How bold of you.

And he's brought that immoral Goddess
back with him, too.

Such carelessness,
even with the Pacifier Demon there?

I was against it!

I told him we should
dispose of this woman right away.

Enough, Chandler!

But…

It's a simple.

I'm here to become the Demon King.

I will become the Demon King!

Why would you leave me out of this?

We three brothers are all we have
in this world, right?

To be honest, I'm not interested
in the Demon King's throne,

but if you two are going to fight over it,

count me in, too.

So you're alive, Estarossa.

He's the one who once k*lled Meliodas!

But it's strange.

It's like I've met him
somewhere before that.

You're looking good, too, Bro--

Are you Elizabeth?

How do you know my name?

I'm meeting you for the first time.

Beats me.

I don't understand it myself.

Hey, I've changed my mind.

I won't play musical chairs with you
to be the Demon King after all.

But in return, give me Elizabeth.

What?

What?

Now that's convenient!

I didn't come here after all this time
to get into a sibling fight.

I just want to make two things clear.

I'm going to become the Demon King.

And I won't let anyone have Elizabeth.

Don't be greedy, you spineless fool!

I won't let someone like you
thwart my ambition now!

Lord Zeldris!

Don't move!

This is between me and my brothers.

Stay out of it.

Curses.

This is the sort of thing
that will k*ll you if you move.

Now that's what you call
a king's authority!

A king's power!

I cannot hold back my tears of rapture!

Impossible!

Even with the Demon King's magical power,

I can't move at all?

Like Father said, Meliodas is truly…

This is amazing, Meliodas.

You're like a different person
from the other day!

That's enough, Meliodas!

If you keep doing this…

You're definitely that Meliodas!

Rumored to be the next Demon King,
feared even by the Four Archangels…

This is the brother I idolized!

I apologize for calling you spineless!

But I'm still not giving up.

Don't be stupid!

You may acknowledge him, but I don't!

I'll never acknowledge him!

Meliodas!

The only reason
you seek the Demon King's power…

is to lift the curses
placed on you and that woman.

That's right.

I came here to take
the magical power the old man lent you.

But now I've realized.

To be honest, I miscalculated.

Even if I stole
that borrowed magical power,

I couldn't lift the curse.

Shut up!

I'm the one
who will become the Demon King!

You don't miss a thing.

Oh, that was so close!

Zeldris, I know why you're obsessed
with becoming the Demon King.

Shut up!

Lord Zeldris, what's the matter?

Fine. I'll work with you.

Though I honestly don't want to.

What a strange turn of events.

Did he blackmail you or something?

But like you said, even if you gain
the magical power loaned to me,

you'll still fall short
of Father's strength.

Or do you intend to train hard
until you reach the Demon King's level?

That would take too much time.

We have less than three days left.

Zeldris and Estarossa.

I want you two
to retrieve all of the Commandments.

What do you mean?

In order to rule over the vast,
chaotic Demon Realm,

our father shared half of his powers
with his servants,

in an attempt to conquer it all.

But that power was so massive,
it posed a thr*at to his own standing.

To take control
of the Demon Realm efficiently,

the old man divided that power
into ten fragments,

so no one's share would be too potent,
and gave them to ten warriors.

That would be the Ten Commandments.

Absorbing all of the Commandments

would give me power
equal to the Demon King's.

Hey, Zel.

Can something like that really be done?

I've already retrieved the Commandments

of the traitors Gowther,
Gloxinia, and Drole.

Are you serious? Show me!

Great.

Now hurry up and show me
how to retrieve them, too.

What's that look on your face?

Doesn't every bit of manpower help?

Hey, what are you doing?

Zel, you're not taking
my Commandment, are you?

Hey, nothing's happening.

You either need the target
to agree to the retrieval,

or for them to be incapacitated.

One or the other.

You should've told me first!
You really startled me.

But what do you intend to do, Meliodas?

Gowther, Gloxinia, and Drole
weren't loyal to the Demon King,

so they were exceptions.

The others have all pledged
undying loyalty to the Demon King.

If they refuse,
we won't be able to steal it from them.

Hey, can we steal it if we k*ll them?

What?

Oh, that didn't come out right.

What I meant was, what if
they've already been k*lled by someone?

If a Ten Commandment dies,
it stays with his corpse.

Detaching it from that would be easy.

We'll start by retrieving

the Commandments of the defeated
Galand, Melascula, and Grayroad.

I already have Grayroad's here.

What?

I made sure to steal it
for this situation.

Meliodas.

You two figure out a way
to find the rest of the Commandments.

What is it, Meliodas?
You're just going to be a spectator?

Who would obediently

hand over their Commandment
to a traitor of the Demon Clan?

That's why I'm leaving it to you.

I'm counting on you both.

It looks like you fully understand
the position you're in.

Hey, this is starting
to get kind of interesting!

The traitor returns,
and is about to become our king.

I'm telling you this
just in case, Estarossa.

Don't even think about
absorbing the Commandments we retrieve.

Let's go.

Hey, Ban?

What is it, Master?

Make sure you come back, all right?

Without you here,
I'll never get to eat any tasty scraps.

Don't worry!

I'll definitely be back.
Look after Elaine for me until then.

Ban.

What the hell?

Am I floating?

No.

This is Purgatory!

Please, Meliodas, think this over!

You absolutely must not
become the Demon King!

There's no other way.

Please understand, Elizabeth.

I'm going to lift the curse
no matter what.

That was our promise.

I'm afraid to die, too.

No.

I'm scared of being reincarnated
and losing my current memories.

Father and my sisters.

Hawk. Diane. Elaine.

The Seven Deadly Sins.
How could I forget them?

But what I fear the most
is never seeing you again.

If the curse is lifted, I might be saved,

and I might even get to keep my memories,

but what will happen to you
if you become the Demon King?

You already know, don't you?

The Demon King's power is devastating.

I probably won't be able
to continue living in this world anymore.

Then what's the point
of lifting the curse?

I refuse to live in a world without you.

You don't have to worry about that.

What?

Because of your mother's curse,

you're forced to fall in love with me
every time you're reborn.

As long as the curse is lifted,
you'll never have those feelings again.

So don't worry.

Do you really mean that?

Are you saying
that my feelings of love for you

were created by someone else?

It would be impossible otherwise.

How could you fall in love with only me
every time you're reborn?

Then, why?

You should've just ignored me
when I called for help!

Since I'm only going to die,
forget everything, and be reborn!

You could've taken a different path…

where you fall in love
with someone other than me!

It can't be helped.

What can't be helped?

Whichever one of you it is,

you as a Goddess,
or as a princess of Liones,

I love each and every one.

Meliodas.

I can say this with certainty!

That all Elizabeths,
and the me who is a princess of Liones,

fell in love with you of our own will.

I was so in love with you,
I could hardly stand it.

Just touching you like this made
my heart flutter, and I couldn't stop it.

But right now, I don't feel a thing.

So try to understand, Elizabeth.

The only thing left in me…

is to keep the promise I made you.

I see.

Then I have an idea of my own.

I'm going to join forces
with the Seven Deadly Sins,

and do all I can to stop you
from becoming the Demon King!

Don't do anything stupid.

Let me go!

Hit me, if it will make you feel better.

Idiot.

Just like you're trying to save me,
I want to save you, too!

Wait for me, Meliodas!

ALL ABOUT PERONIA

Hey!

I'm Peronia, a Demon in service
to the Ten Commandments, deshi.

Despite my appearance,

I can cast some pretty
powerful spells, deshi.

What I want to know is why
you end every sentence with "deshi."

I don't do that, deshi.

I do not, deshi!

You just did, deshi!

What?

Next time on
The Seven Deadly Sins: Wrath of the Gods,

"March of the Saints."

Now I'm doing it, deshi!