01x24 - A New Form

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Lusul!

Anne! I'm so glad to see you're safe!

Please! Save Challe!

Unless we do something,
he'll be k*lled by Lafalle!

Please... Please!

Does it hurt?

This is your punishment
for insulting me and defending a human.

You poor thing.

I once thought that we could
respect each other as kings,

that we could love each other.

How did things descend to this state?

I know!

The humans are to blame for everything!

Master Lafalle!

We've captured the human girl.

Well done.

Watch closely.

See what happens to your
darling silver sugar master.

Just watch what happens...

Anne!

...to the human who stood
between the two of us.

No!

You!

Challe! Here's your wing!

Thank you.

How dare you!

What are you playing at?

Master Lafalle, please let this girl go.

She's a human, but please let her go.

You fools dare to—!

Get out of the fortress, Anne!

Lusul El Min, go!

Take Anne with you!

Challe!

You traitors!

Lafalle!

What a pathetic sight you are, Challe.

Now, climb up here.

Come...

Challe fenn Challe!

How did the humans find this place?

So, you've finally come, you dullard?

Was it you, Challe?

Am I to be betrayed by my allies once again?

And, of all people... betrayed by you?

As long as you held my wing,
you were simply the one who controlled me.

We are not allies, so there is
no betraying or being betrayed.

A year ago, a human girl of fifteen knew that,

but you failed to realize it.

If I had found you before you met Anne...

you probably wouldn't have turned
your sword on me like this, would you?

Probably not.

But that is destiny.

Destiny, is it?

It's over, Lafalle.

Wait!

What's wrong?

Humans.

Soldiers! But why?

You mustn't!

Not even you can defeat that many soldiers.

It's just as Anne says.

Don't treat your lives as if they're worthless.

Challe!

Challe! I'm so glad, Challe!

I'm glad you're safe.

Challe, where is Master Lafalle?

He fell from the fortress walls.

I feel so sorry for him.

All of your wings are in here.

Once you have them,
leave through the back gate and run.

We've lost our king.

Won't you become our new king for us?

You don't need a king to be free.

It's your future. All of you
should decide it for yourselves.

Anne Halford is inside the fortress as well.

My lord, please, if you could exercise caution.

I understand.

But against fairies who have committed
such v*olence, we can't afford to hold back.

I didn't know that my wing was beautiful.

I only realized after you said that it was.

It made me feel proud somehow.

I'm going to go with him.

I want to see the ocean, too!

Farewell!

I wonder if Lusul will be able
to see the ocean.

The lives of fairies born of plants
are usually about a year long.

But she ate your sugar confections.

I'm sure she'll be able to see the ocean.

I hope she does.

Anne!

Mithril!

Mithril Lid Pod!

Anne, I'm so glad. I'm so glad!

I'm sorry I made you worry.

Honestly.

We're all shocked by your
sudden return, you know?

Welcome back, both of you.

We've just returned, Mister Collins.

Orland...

Don't worry. I'm fine.

More importantly, have you been well?

Yes!

What's all this? You lot really
are hopeless, you know that?

I told you she was definitely
coming back, didn't I?

Thank you, Kat! And you, Jonas! And...

What?

Keith?!

Welcome back, Anne, Challe.

I'm truly glad you're both safe.

Why are you here?

I'm helping with the work.

But what about Mister Radcliffe?

It's all right. I came to this decision
after giving it a lot of thought.

Mister Collins! The sugar confections!
How is the work progressing?

I thought you'd ask.

Anne, you always think about
sugar confections before anything else.

Want to see?

Mister Collins... This... Could it be?

Yes. We've got all the pieces we planned for.

What? Then...

There are still ten days
until the Holy Beginnings Festival.

We've finished in time, Anne!

While we were working, the image of our
Head of Artisans just wouldn't leave our minds.

We ended up getting a little too enthusiastic.

It's all thanks to you, Anne!

Amazing.

Everyone is truly amazing!

All these sugar confections,
and ten days early?

Mister Collins, we still have
ten days left, don't we?

I feel like we can do something more.

I've been thinking about that, too.

So, what are we going to do, Head of Artisans?

Considering the balance of the whole display,
we can't make anything besides snowflakes.

Still, just increasing the number
of them would be boring.

If we're gonna do something,
we should do it big and bold! Big and bold!

Let's make something really huge.

Let's do it! Something big and bold!

Yeah!

You'd like to start bringing the pieces
three days before the festival?

It would be a great favor.
The pieces are already finished, but...

If we can have those three days,

you'll see the greatest piece ever created
for the Holy Beginnings Festival!

What are you doing?

Miss Bridget.

Nothing in particular.
Just looking at the moon.

You'll catch a cold.

This is...

I haven't had a chance
to return it, that's all.

I've dissolved my engagement to Elliott.

What?

Why?

I've been thinking...

"What is it that I can do
in my current circumstances?"

Just as you once told me to do.

First, I tended to Orland,

then I looked after everyone.

While I was doing that, I realized something.

I truly love this workshop,
and I love everyone in it.

Elliott is a brilliant artisan, too, you know?

That's why, when my father said we should get
engaged, I obeyed without saying anything.

But that isn't something I did
because I truly loved the idea of it.

I was suffocating, I think.

My father should bring Elliott
into the family as his adopted son...

and have Elliott succeed him
as master of the school immediately.

That would be best for the workshop...

and it would be best for me as well.

What did Mister Glen say?

He understood.

And Elliott said,

"I've been put through all sorts of trouble
because of Bridget's demands,"

"but this time, I think her demands
make perfect sense." His exact words.

What? That is so like Mister Collins!

Isn't it?

Now for the final finishing touches
by the whole Paige Workshop.

Yes.

Let's get started!

Bring the biggest! The white ones! Two of them!

Anne.

Challe...

What are you doing so late at night?

I couldn't sleep for some reason.
What about you, Challe?

The fairy king.

Lafalle called himself that.

And he said that you were the same, Challe.

What did he mean?

Lafalle and I were born from stones gathered
by Riselva to produce the next fairy king.

At least, that is what Lafalle believed.

Which means, Challe, you're...

I don't know if I'm a fairy king
or anything else.

And even if I did know for certain,
becoming a king is not easily achieved.

There may come a time when it is necessary
for me to take some kind of action,

but that time isn't now.

Then, what is it time for now?
What will you do?

I will keep the vow I made.
I will stay by your side forever.

So that you will be able to
live a happy, human life...

For that purpose,
I will stay with you, forever.

Do what you love. Go to places you love.

Find someone you love
and have a great love together.

For that purpose, I will protect you.

Someone I love?

Thank you.

But I think that if I ever ended up
becoming perfectly happy,

then there wouldn't be
any more need for you to protect me.

If that happens...

If that happens, then it's your turn
to live as you like, Challe.

Do the things you love. Go to places you love.

Find someone you love
and have a great love together.

The truth is that I wish
you could do that right now, but...

I'm sorry, Challe! You've made quite
the troublesome promise because of me.

The meaning of "forever" is...

What?

Nothing. If that's what you wish, then...

Anne.

Finish the last piece and bring good fortune
to every living thing in the kingdom.

I will.

The fairy king recognized
King Cedric as a friend.

And King Cedric made
the fairy king his friend, too.

The two kings searched for a path that
humans and fairies could walk together.

Their dream never came true,

but the sugar confections that King
Cedric had made for the late Riselva...

gained the power to summon great good fortune.

Make it higher...

so that the good fortune summoned will
reach every single person in the kingdom...

And so it will reach...

every single fairy in the kingdom!

Happy New Year.

May new good fortune find you all.

Wow! Incredible!

This is...

This scale... Was it built here?

Using the effect of the lights, the whole
church has been turned into a snowy landscape!

I see. So, things like this
are possible, too...

with sugar confections!

That was good work.

Hugh.

With this, the Paige Workshop
will make an instant comeback.

Things are going to get busy.

I'm so glad!

You're glad, are you?

Are you content with that, Anne?

What?

If you plan to continue working
at the Paige Workshop, that's fine.

But what do you think of it as
Anne Halford, silver sugar master?

You still don't have a single accomplishment
of your very own, do you?

Silver Sugar Viscount!
Are you flirting with my Head of Artisans?

I had planned to, but trying to keep up
with your chatter is exhausting.

I'll take this opportunity to flee.

I hadn't thought about it.

I'd planned to work at the Paige Workshop
through the Holy Beginnings Festival,

but after that...

The silver sugar master part of me?

Looks like the Silver Sugar Viscount
has put some idea into your head.

So, what will you do?

U-Um, well...

You've fulfilled your obligations
to us quite completely.

I'm grateful from the bottom of my heart.

As thanks, a word of advice!

If you're thinking about your future,
you should build up some more experience.

The Paige Workshop is a very small world.

If you want to become
your ideal silver sugar master,

then you shouldn't stay here.

Mister Collins...

And there's no need to be
too formal about all of this.

If you ever feel like things
just aren't working out,

come back to us any time.

I'm thinking of leaving the Paige Workshop.

Leave, and then what?

What?

What will you do after that?

Are you going to sell sugar confections
out of your wagon and travel around again?

Oh. Um, well, that's...

Honestly. So, you just started talking
without thinking it through first?

Your head is definitely that of a scarecrow.

It's not like that! I—

Do as you like.

What?

I'll follow you, no matter where you may go.

Challe.

And, of course, so will
the magnificence that is me!

If you're going somewhere, Anne,
I'll follow you, no matter where it might be!

All right!

A New Form