01x20 - A Purple Promise

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What?!

Anne, are you serious
when you're saying that?

Yes.

By crest... you mean the crest of House Chamber,
the one that the royal family eradicated, right?

If you make something like that...

All right.

I'll help, too.

Which pigment powders do you need?

Thank you, Mithril Lid Pod.

Purple, red, and blue. And if you could
bring green and black, too, please.

Leave it to me!

And could you bring out all the colors
that are close to those, please?

Can do!

Their crest is the pride of a noble family.

It might be that Noah thinks of the crest
as Lord Herbert's heart in physical form.

That's why Noah continues to...

Even if the crest is forbidden to exist,

Lord Herbert's heart...

that which Noah has gazed at all this time...

Is it finished?

Yes, it's finished.

It's complete! Hooray! We did it!

You worked really hard!

Things seem pretty celebratory in here.

Let's go. Bring that with you.

We won't tell Noah
that this is a competition.

If we tell him, he might get stubborn out of
a strange sense of pride and refuse to eat.

Noah, are you awake?

Silver Sugar Viscount?

As I promised yesterday,
I've brought you a present.

This is...

How did Hugh know about this?

For the board, I used the one
from the lesser hall.

What?

Unfortunately, the pieces
were lost to looting, weren't they?

But Saint Lewiston Bell Church
still had detailed sketches.

As well as the information that
Lord Herbert was a master of fief.

What?

That's not true.

Lord Herbert wasn't very good at fief.

He said that's why I was
the only one who would play him.

I'm sure that was the case.

Who would ask the greatest master
in the kingdom for a match?

The greatest master?

You didn't know that and asked him
for a game of fief, didn't you?

It would've made Lord Herbert very happy...

the fact that you wanted to play,
not as a competition, but just for fun.

Then, Lord Herbert...

These pieces belong to you.

Do what you like with them,
just like you did long ago.

I see! If it's something that's easy for him
to take in his hand, then Noah might...

I...

Noah,

there's one more present for you.

This belongs to you, too, Noah!

Because I made it just for you.

How?

This is Lord Herbert's crest!

It's so beautiful!

It's beautiful?

Yes!

I'm so glad.

I hope it reaches him, even just a little...

the fact that Lord Herbert's heart lies there.

I ate it.

I...

I ate it!

I... I...

Noah.

Here.

Silver Sugar Viscount?

Eat as many as you want.

I'm certain that Lord Herbert won't be angry.

You know that, too, don't you?

As long as you continue to long for it,
this crest will not disappear.

Lord Herbert...

Lord Herbert truly was here.

He played fief with me
and ate sugar confections.

He smiled and laughed... He was here!

It was so much fun.

I had...

so much fun...

Lord Herbert.

That crest is not allowed to exist.

To make it can only be seen as
equivalent to rebelling against the crown.

As a silver sugar master,
didn't that cause you any hesitation at all?

Just a little.

But to not make something
that someone needed...

I don't think there's any point in being
a silver sugar master like that.

I see. Well, that's the reason
for your success.

What?

A crest conveys the spirit
of the house that gave birth to it.

It's proof that his dead master
once existed in this world.

Since Noah knows the meaning of a crest,

it's only natural that he saw
Lord Herbert's heart in it.

If you knew all of that,
then why didn't you make the crest?

I did make it once.

But I destroyed it.

I am the Silver Sugar Viscount
and a servant of the crown.

I can't make a crest that his majesty...

...that House Millsland has declared taboo.

It's something I must never do.

Hugh...

if you can only make
sugar confections for the monarch,

then why did you become Silver Sugar Viscount?

Kat asked me the same thing.

He asked, "Do you want power so badly
that you'd throw away your freedom?"

He was really angry.

I wanted power.

Even if it meant exchanging my freedom for it.

Without power, there are things
that just aren't possible.

Instead of the power of prayer
within a sugar confection,

I wanted power that was direct.

Now, that's enough talking!

There's no time to be dawdling.

Hurry up and call him in.

If Hugh had made the crest, then...

Anne!

You're amazing, Anne! I heard you won!

Y-Yes.

I heard Elliott and the Silver Sugar
Viscount talking just now!

This means that Mister Kat will come, right?

Exactly!

Mister Collins.

I'm going to go tell everyone!

The Silver Sugar Viscount told me
the gist of how the competition went.

I don't think I really won.

Well, whatever the outcome, you did save us.

Isn't that enough for now?

Good work.

Mister Collins.

Right, then! Time to resume work!

Anne, you should go rest a little.

You likely didn't sleep because
you were thinking about things, right?

If you bungle something because of it,
we're the ones who'll be in trouble.

Thank you.

Challe!

Noah has calmed down.

It seems the sugar confections
helped him recover quite a bit.

I'm so glad.

You did well.

Yes.

I-It wasn't like I was staring
at the sugar confections, you know?

Yes.

Oh. Where is the sugar confection from Hugh?

It was gone when I woke up.

Maybe the viscount took it with him?

Say, would you ask
the Silver Sugar Viscount for it for me?

I promise I'll treasure it forever, so...

so please ask if he would give it to me?

Yes, I'll try asking.

He made it for you, Noah,
so I'm sure it will be fine.

Yes.

But would Hugh really take it with him?

Um...

What?

You're... not a thief, you're...

I'm Anne.

Anne.

Anne, why did you give those two
fairies their wings back?

Is it because they weren't any use to you?

Noah...

Lord Herbert was kind, but he was a liar.

He said he wasn't good at fief,
but that wasn't true.

So, there might be other things...

The reason he left me here at the castle...

maybe it was really because
I was useless to him.

I gave them their wings back because
I think of them the same way I do myself.

Because we're friends on equal footing,
ordering them around would be wrong.

What?

Maybe Lord Herbert gave you yours back
because you were that important to him.

Because you were a dear friend.

A dear friend?

Yes. And he adores you.

Now, rest a little more. If you do,
you'll have even more energy!

I will.

Anne, will you stay until I fall asleep?

Yes, I will.

I give my thanks,
young Miss Silver Sugar Master.

Now, I too can finally leave
this castle with my heart at ease.

This time, for certain...

Lord Herbert.

For this year's Pull Soul Day, I'll make
a sugar confection for you, Lord Herbert.

That way, I'm certain you'll make it to heaven.

Now we'll be able to start on
the assembly work that's been delayed.

Right? And it's all thanks to Anne!

I heard that Anne made a crest and that
the Silver Sugar Viscount made a fief set!

I wish I could have seen
the Silver Sugar Viscount's work.

So, she won.

Gladus.

Gladus? Are you here?

What are you doing?

What do you think you're—

So, it's just you, Bridget.

Stop that, Gladus!

That was made for the fairy boy!

It was meant to bring him happiness.

Only the one it was bestowed upon may eat it.

It absolutely is not something
you may lay your hands on!

Quiet now.

Don't.

I can feel strength welling within me.

I'd expect no less from
the Silver Sugar Viscount. This is splendid.

Why...

I was injured, you see.

I've been searching for so long
for the power to restore me.

It's quite good luck that
I was able to obtain these.

You used me?

Yes. But I'm very sorry to say...

I do not feel the slightest speck of guilt.

What will you do?

Isn't it obvious?

What?

Why?

You poor thing.

I'm sure that the owner of that wing
must be suffering greatly right now.

No!

You are interrupting my meal.

So this is where you were, Challe.

Enough! What is your purpose
in trying to get close to me?

What beautiful eyes.

Stop fooling around.

I'm not fooling around.

It's something I've envisioned so many times...

how very beautiful
the obsidian fairy's eyes must be.

Challe fenn Challe. When I heard your name,
I understood immediately.

You are one of the ones
I have been searching for.

I didn't know your face or name.

But I did know that you had been born.

Through a sequence of unfortunate
coincidences, we were torn from each other.

"It's possible that we will never meet."

With that thought, I gave up
and a hundred years passed.

Who could have imagined
that we would meet?

Who are you?

What is your true name?

My name is Lafalle fenn Lafalle.

Lafalle fenn Lafalle?

What do you think?
It should sound familiar to you.

A sound that was close to you
before you were even born.

One that was always inside you.

The obsidian I was born from was embedded
in the hilt of a sword forgotten to time.

That's right. A sword enshrined in
a darkened chapel, as though to hide it.

And there should have been an opal
and a diamond embedded in that same hilt.

Before you were born,
I was born from that opal.

Those three precious stones
were chosen specifically with the hope

that something would be born from them.

Who... Who chose those three stones?

The sword's master.

Tell me who that was!

Don't rush, Challe.

I will tell you the answers
to everything you want to know.

Everything you've wondered until now,
and everything from now on.

Challe, come with me.

We are meant to be together.
Our destiny has already been decided.

The fact that we've met like this after
a hundred years is proof of that, isn't it?

What did you say?

Shake off the domination of the humans...

and come with me!

The likes of you will never determine my fate.

As I thought. Is it that girl?

Then I simply need to
make her mine, that's all.

I do not intend to let you have her.

Then, I'll take her by force!

It was you.

That cut from you really had an effect on me.

But, thanks to the Silver Sugar
Viscount's sugar confections,

I've completely recovered.

You have a lot of nerve,
exposing your true identity.

Don't run away this time.

Well, this is a problem.

Originally, I'd intended to cut you to
ribbons, but the situation has changed.

Since I don't wish to hurt you,
I am at an overwhelming disadvantage.

So, to make up for it...

I will take the girl.

If I do, then you will belong
to me as well, won't you?

I will take the girl.

You are meant to be with me.

Anne!

Challe?

I won't hand you over.

What's wrong?

I swore that I would always stay by
your side, that I would protect you.

I won't let anyone take you.

A Purple Promise

The Red Fairy