01x06 - Night Banquet of Burning at the Stake

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Dead: Give it back...

Dead: Give back...

Dead: My warm body...

Nina: Oh, no...

Nina: Let's go home, Elaine!

Nina: It's getting dark.

A Nighttime Feast: Burning at the Stake

Ishi: Wow...

Ishi: I knew it, he's...

Ishi: sh*t!

Ishi: He took off without me again!

Ishi: He won't leave me behind!

P: Hey, we've been on the move since yesterday.

P: If you don't rest, you'll be exhausted when we reach our destination.

P: I wonder what happened to the boy.

P: His nasty looks and stubbornness kind of reminded me of you, Guts.

G: Yeah, right.

P: No sudden stops!

P: Be more considerate of your host!

P: What is it this time?

G: Someone I've known for a long time.

Skele: You look to be in good health, Struggler.

Skele: An elf?

Skele: An interesting choice of companions.

P: Huh?

P: He's kind of...

G: Been a while, old man.

G: What are you doing out here?

Skele: I am a foe to otherworldly beings.

Skele: You will soon learn what lies ahead.

G: There's an Apostle nearby?

Skele: Or their root cause.

G: You don't mean...

G: They're...

G: The God Hand is here?

Skelle: Did you not also see the shining hawk in your dreams?

Skelle: That was a revelation.

Skelle: That someone, who signifies the hawk, will appear in this mortal world.

G: The hawk...

G: The hawk?

Skele: The flocks of sheep are being guided to a blood-stained holy land.

Skele: What they seek is a hawk of light.

Skele: When the place of power attains a critical threshold, what normally lies in

Skele: the realm of gods is incarnated, once every thousand years.

Skele: You and the girl will find yourselves thrown into that maelstrom,

Skele: as though tracing a passage through time.

Skele: The Eclipse...

Skele: An event similar to the Eclipse is about to occur.

G: It's about to...

G: It's going to happen again?

P: Joy?

Skele: Unfortunately, no man possesses the means to change this festival's outcome.

Skele: A shadow will be born.

Skele: It will simply be a shadow cast by a dying sun that shines on a faraway land.

G: You're saying the outcome will be the same as last time?

Skelle: That we are both here, without meaning to be,

Skelle: is proof beyond reproach.

Skelle: We are already caught in the whorls of karma.

G: Shadows, karma... Like I give a damn.

G: In the past, I borrowed your powers, sure.

G: But this time, I will draw on my own strength to save her!

G: And I'll...

Skele: Perhaps that brand will be of assistance to you.

G: What?

Skele: A word of advice.

Skele: Do not have more than one that you care for.

Jerome: Man, what is our holy commander thinking?

Jerome: Why is she kissing up to Father Mozgus?

Jerome: Yeah, she sure has some noble faith.

Knight: Hey, she can hear you!

Ser: Oh, my apologies...

Knights: Please be more careful!

Knights: Come on...

F: {\an}Don't waste food.

Jerome: Why is a klutz like him the officer of arms?

Ser: {\an}Sorry.

Knights: Because he wags his tail and falls over himself to please her, that's why.

Knight: Anyway, we have even more of them now.

Jerome: More what?

Knight: Refugees.

F: A-Ah, where is Father Mozgus?

Crow: I will come with you.

Crow: I was just on my way to the chapel to call him.

Crow: Did we shock you?

F: Er, no...

Crow: All of us have been persecuted because of our appearances.

Crow: Exiled from villages and towns,

Crow: we were reviled as monsters.

Crow: Some even lived in hiding, in the forests.

Crow: Please look.

Crow: I was born with a rare disease.

Crow: Without this mask,

Crow: I'd be b*rned all over my body.

Crow: I wouldn't even look human anymore...

Moz: God, I thank you for bringing us here today in a fateful act.

Moz: Child of fate, find pride and faith within yourself.

Crow: I do not like my work.

Crow: I cannot find it within myself to enjoy hurting others.

Crow: But still, I am proud.

Crow: For this is a holy task given to me by God.

F: What is this sound?

Crow: It is the sound of

Crow: my master's worship.

Crow: Prostration.

F: Eh?

Crow: Every day, morning and evening,

Crow: Father Mozgus prostrates himself before God a thousand times.

Crow: In the past decade, he hasn't failed to do so even once.

Crow: He seems to be finished.

Moz: Well met, Lady Farnese.

F: Father Mozgus, you're bleeding...

Moz: Ah, excuse me.

Moz: This tower is a most sacred place.

Moz: A holy man, imprisoned here by the conqueror Gaiseric,

Moz: continued to recount the king's sins to God, even while being tortured.

Moz: Eventually, in response to his pleas, an angel is said to have descended.

Moz: I cannot help but be more devout in my worship here.

Moz: Thank you.

Moz: Because of these wounds, I can barely walk.

Moz: I can run no longer.

Moz: But I am fond of this agony.

Moz: My holy mission is to enforce God's stern law.

Moz: Regrettably, that means causing agony to many.

Moz: These wounds are admonitions to me,

Moz: as well as proof of my faith.

Moz: Are you having some kind of doubts?

F: I am simply unsure.

F: Will this mission allow us to save people?

F: The common people bear us only ill will.

F: And though it shames me to admit,

F: even some among my Holy Iron Chain Knights oppose this mission.

F: Please dismiss this as a mere initiate's ramblings.

F: But I fear that continuing this way will mean that terror spreads unchecked,

F: exhausting the people's hearts and minds.

Moz: You must not deplore difficult tasks.

Moz: You must not question God.

Moz: Though you may endure bloodshed, in both mind and body,

Moz: you must continue to live for God's glory.

Moz: That is faith.

Moz: It is for God, and God alone, that we act.

F: For God.

F: And God alone...

F: For God alone!

Gran: Thank you for always doing this...

Nina: Don't strain yourself, ma'am.

Nina: Hey, Elaine!

Nina: Come on, you can't get yourself all muddy like this.

Joa: N-Nina...

Nina: Joachim...

Joa: U-Um...

Nina: Don't you know what's happening to me?

Joa: U-Um...

Nina: Or are you saying you still want my services, even though you know,

Nina: Customer?

Joa: I'm just worried about you...

Nina: Don't you get it?

Nina: I'm telling you that I can't lie with you, even if you're nice to me!

Joa: Oh, but that's not what I meant—

Nina: Then try to screw me!

Joa: Oh, no. I...

Nina: If you think you're that brave,

Nina: come to the riverbank tonight, when the midnight bell tolls.

Luca: What's going on, Nina?

Luca: Why all the racket so early in the morning?

Nina: It's nothing!

Nina: Do you love me?

Joa: Y-Yeah.

Nina: Then, are you willing to be damned to Hell with me?

Joa: Y-Yeah.

If it's with you.

Nina: This isn't for work.

Luca: That girl. Could she be...

Nina: Come, let's go down.

Luca: I knew it. That girl...

Luca: This makes you hallucinate...

Nina: Now, let's run away together.

Cultist: The goddess of flames!

Joa: Nina!

Nina: Come, Joachim.

Nina: Oh, Great Goat,

Nina: please convert this man.

Nina: Now, drink this, and become one of us.

Nina: Joachim!

Nina: Wa—

Nina: k*ll him!

Nina: He'll expose us!

Cultist: He can't have survived from this height.

Cultist: Yeah, let's go home for now.

Cultist: People might come because of the commotion.

Nina: Yeah, right... Liar...

Luca: Nina...

Nina: Luca, why are you here?

Nina: No, stay away...

Nina: Stay away.

Nina: Stay away from me!

Nina: Why...

Nina: Why are you looking at me like that?

Nina: I've always hated you!

Nina: Always acting like a know-it-all, ordering us around!

Nina: I bet you feel good about yourself, don't you?!

Nina: You're a whore, just like me!

Nina: But how?

Nina: How can you look down on others like that?

Nina: I-If I scream, my people will come back.

Nina: You'll be torn apart!

Nina: Wh-What are you—

Nina: Stop!

Nina: Stop...

Nina: Sorry!

Nina: I'm sorry!

Nina: I'm so sorry...

Luca: You worried me.

Luca: You stupid girl...

Nina: Luca, I...

Nina: Joachim...

Luca: Don't talk right now.

Men: Who's this?

Men: Hey, she's a whore with Nina.

Men: Oh, right, the crazy one who's sick.

Men: Interesting.

Nina: Elai—

Luca: That girl.

Men: Hey, show us your rotting face!

Men: Huh?

Men: What?

Men: What's going on?

Men: She's a real beauty, once you look under the bandages.

Men: Yeah, struggle!

Men: It's more fun when they fight!

Men: What's with her?

Luca: Hey, you guys!

Nina: Luca...

Men: Huh?

Men: What?

Men: Hey, what's wrong?

Men: Starving!

Luca: Wh-What's going on here?

Cultist: Meat!

Cultist: Meat!

Luca: Elaine!

Luca: Elaine, you...

Men: A witch...

Men: She's a witch.

F: Light the fire!

Jerome: She's sure into this whole thing...

Knight: I heard the commander's family home

Knight: was right at a burning ground for heretics.

Knight: Since she was a young girl, she's willingly lit fires.

Knight: I heard she was allowed to search for the Black Swordsman

Knight: because three years ago, she caught heretics plotting to rebel against

Knight: the Holy See and b*rned them all at the stake.

Jerome: So she's born and bred that way, huh?

Jerome: I should stay away from her.

Azan: You, there!

Azan: No small talk!

Jerome: Yes, sir!

Boy: Dad...

Man: Brat, you're a heretic, too, aren't you?

Man: The son of a heretic is also a heretic.

Man: If not, throw this onto the pyre.

Boy: I... I...

Ser: That child is innocent.

Ser: We investigated him when we questioned the father.

Man: M-My apologies!

Jerome: Oh?

Ser: I'm not trying to obligate you to me.

Jerome: Hey!

Ser: Lord Jerome, I believe...

Jerome: Oh, you aren't the officer of arms for nothing. Good memory...

Jerome: You're not so bad, huh?

Ser: Hmm?

Jerome: That kid back there.

Jerome: That was nice knightly behavior.

Ser: Oh, that.

Ser: You see, it's personal for me.

Ser: I was just like him.

Ser: My mother was also b*rned at the stake as a heretic.

Ser: Three years ago, before my very eyes.

Jerome: Three years ago?

Shadows: Good work, miss!

Shadows: Bless her.

Shadows: God bless her.

F: I'm not wrong!

Ishi: sh*t!

Ishi: That monster never gets tired...

Ishi: I've finally caught up!

G: Casca...

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