01x04 - The Almerian Rebellion

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Emperor: I'm told the assassinsgave us useful information.

Emperor: The rebels were trying to kidnap you as a bargaining chip.

Noah: I see.

Noah: It sounds like they gave in rather easily.

Noah: It's possible they're lying.

Emperor: You are clever, Noah.

Emperor: But not to worry.

Emperor: There is a way to find out if one is speaking the truth.

Noah: It takes a thief to catch a thief.

Noah: I'm not knowledgeablein the ways of t*rture,

Noah: so I'll just take his word for it.

Emperor: Well done, Noah.

Emperor: Had you been captured,

Emperor: the empire would have been forced to make a difficult choice.

Noah: Yes, sire.

Emperor: Also, setting your sights on their horses was brilliant.

Noah: I only just now gave the order to buy up all the horse feed!

Noah: This has happened before, but not this quickly.

Emperor: Anyone could have had the idea to use starvation tactics.

Emperor: In fact, Albert had just suggested starving the rebels

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Emperor: to make examples of them.

Emperor: But you realized that it could cause them to attack our people

Emperor: and chose to starve only their horses.

Emperor: With your own funds, no less.

Emperor: Your ideas...

Emperor: and ability to act on them...

Emperor: are most impressive, Noah.

Emperor: That is not an easy thing to accomplish.

Noah: Thank you, sire.

Emperor: I must reward you somehow.

Emperor: I permit the addition of a sword to Noah's crest.

Narrator: The empire is a nation of warriors.

Narrator: Adding a sword, the symbol of a warrior,

Narrator: to one's crest without the emperor's permission is sacrilege.

Narrator: It may even be punished by death.

Narrator: On the other hand, being granted the emperor's permission to add one

Narrator: is among the greatest honors one can earn.

Emperor: Cruz, issue the proclamation.

Cruz: At once.

Noah: Thank you very much!

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Byron: I have been waiting for you.

Noah: You're early.

Byron: There are only so many types of feed designed to be transported,

Byron: and we know the route used to bring it in.

Byron: It won't be difficult to buy up all of it.

Byron: Also, regarding Karfun, the leader of the rebels...

Byron: He is extremely tenacious and will do whatever it takes to achieve his goal.

Byron: I'm certain it's nothing you need to worry about,

Byron: but please, do be careful.

Noah: Why tell me this?

Evelyn: M-Master.

Evelyn: I apologize for interrupting.

Evelyn: There's a wounded man at the main gate

Evelyn: who says he has an urgent report.

Captain: It's an honor to meet you, Your Imperial Highness.

Captain: I serve as a decurion in the province of Adora in Almeria.

Noah: Yes.

Captain: A rebellion has begun in Almeria.

Captain: My superior started an uprising...

Captain: but I couldn't go along with it, so I fled to report to you.

Episode

The Almerian Rebellion

Byron: So that's what the urgent report was?

Byron: Unfortunately for him,the prince already knew of this.

Noah: Understood. Thank you for informing me.

Noah: Treat him.

Evelyn: Right away.

Noah: And give him a reward of five hundred... no, a thousand rean.

Byron: Your Highness, what was that all about?

Noah: Hmm?

Byron: The information he brought isn't even useful to you anymore.

Noah: That's true, but...

Noah: a mere decurion came here to inform me, despite the danger.

Noah: I have to reward his loyalty.

Byron: That's why you promised him so much money?

Noah: I believe he's worth it.

Zoey: M... Master...

Noah: Enter.

Noah: Is something wrong?

Noah: You look pale.

Noah: Hey. What's wrong?

Zoey: Th-This...

Noah: Money?

Noah: It looks to be around five hundred rean.

Zoey: S-Someone I didn't know gave it to me...

Zoey: a-as a reward for getting you...

Zoey: to drink... this.

Zoey: I was told... it's a sleeping drug.

Noah: You were to mix it into my drink,

Noah: then hand me over to them once I fell asleep?

Zoey: Yes, it seems so.

Noah: It's the rebels again.

Noah: Looks like they really want me.

Noah: I understand, but why did you bring this to me?

Zoey: I...

Zoey: I could never betray you!

Zoey: You helped my mother, after all...

Zoey: and my village...

Zoey: But they said I'd be k*lled if I didn't.

Zoey: But still... I just couldn't betray you...

Zoey: So... um...

Noah: I understand.

Zoey: What is this?

Noah: A reward.

Noah: They tried to buy your betrayal for five hundred rean.

Noah: But you didn't do it,so I'll add a zero to that.

Zoey: F-Five thousand...

Zoey: But... I can't accept this much!

Noah: Take it.

Zoey: Thank you.

Zoey: You are truly a generous master.

Noah: More importantly, there's something I want you to do.

Zoey: Of course! I'll do anything!

Noah: I'm going to drink this drug.

Noah: When I fall asleep, take me to them.

Zoey: Master?

Noah: Then, I want you to run and hide immediately.

Noah: They'll try to silence you if you stick around.

Zoey: M-Master...

Zoey: What are you saying?

Bandit: What a pain in the a*s.

Bandit: One stab with that creepy little dagger, and it'd be all over.

Bandit: That's supposed to be a last resort, remember?

Bandit: We can't go wrong if we do what Karfun says.

Noah: They're my captors.

Noah: What's my situation?

Noah: Bound at the hands and feet, of course.

Noah: I was right to hide my weapon. They would've taken it.

Noah: And they didn't take my ring.

Noah: My eyes have adjusted.

Noah: I thought I was in a room, but this is the back of a wagon.

Noah: Show me your memories, Leviathan.

Bandit: Hurry.

Bandit: Tie him up good.

Bandit: Hey, where'd the maid go?!

Bandit: Leave her. We gotta get him out before the guards catch on.

Noah: I see.

Noah: I understand the situation now.

Bandit: Hey, which one of youcan't tie a knot?

Bandit: What, you lookin' fer a fight?

Bandit: Your big brother saved you last time,

Bandit: but what's one li'l kid gonna—

Noah: What a waste of time.

Noah: I was hoping I'd get some useful information, but you're just lackeys.

Bandit: Y-You stupid little brat!

Bandit: Get him!

Zoey: Master!

Noah: What in the world is all this?

Zoey: I-I'm very sorry.

Zoey: I know you told me to hide, but I was worried about you,

Zoey: so... um...

Noah: You came to save me?

Zoey: Y-Yes.

Zoey: But... you did this by yourself?

Zoey: Amazing...

Noah: Who's the captain here?

Captain: I am. It's an honor to meet you, Thirteenth Prince.

Noah: Take care of them.

Noah: They're with the ones who attacked me a few days ago.

Captain: Understood.

Noah: Don't touch that!

Noah: Step back.

Captain: O-Of course...

Zoey: Master?

Noah: Is this the dagger they were talking about?

Noah: So much malice...

Noah: Through Leviathan,I can sense a curse on it, too.

Noah: Sorcery...

Noah: It's filled with the hatred of the one who cursed it.

Noah: Could this be...?

Noah: Can you do this?

Noah: It should be easy for awater magic sword like you, right?

Noah: Then show me.

Emperor: Ah, you're here.

Emperor: Excellent, Noah. Well done.

Emperor: Last night, the leader of the rebels was pierced through the brow

Emperor: by a pillar of water that appeared out of nowhere.

Emperor: It was your doing, was it not?

Emperor: You had your magic sword do it.

Noah: Yes.

Noah: As always, word travels fast.

Noah: I used the hatred in the dagger to guide Leviathan

Noah: to the rebel leader with a long-distance sniping shot.

Noah: It seems like it worked.

Narrator: After that, the Almerian rebels, having lost their leader,

Narrator: were quickly suppressed by Fourth Prince Henry.

Runner: Nearly all those involved in plotting the uprising have been arrested.

Runner: Your Majesty's judgment is requested in deciding their punishment.

Emperor: Ready the horses and cattle.

Emperor: Every last one of them will bedrawn and quartered!

Spectators: Brilliant!

Spectators: Excellent judgment!

Emperor: Just wait, Noah.

Emperor: They will pay at once for the crime of launching a rebellion in your fief!

Noah: If I may, Your Majesty...

Noah: You mustn't do that.

Emperor: What?!

Emperor: What is the meaning of this, Noah?

Noah: They must be punished in accordance with the law.

Noah: According to imperial law, rebel leaders are to be cut in half at the waist,

Noah: third-degree supporters and accomplices are to be hanged,

Noah: and any others are to be beheaded for participating.

Noah: Even if "drawn and quartered" is simply idiomatic,

Noah: no such punishment exists in the laws of this empire.

Emperor: But these people sullied your name!

Noah: If the emperor takes the initiative in breaking the law,

Noah: it can throw his supremacy into disarray.

Noah: Please reconsider.

Emperor: Hmph. Your logic is sound.

Emperor: You've done well to catch me in my mistake.

Emperor: But a tame punishment will not satisfy me.

Emperor: Punish them to the fullest extent of the law!

Emperor: There will be no commutations!

Emperor: Will that suffice?

Noah: I see no problems whatsoever.

Emperor: First Prime Minister.

Noizhill: Sire?

Emperor: I assume you heard all that.

NoizhillFirst Prime Minister

Emperor: I'll let you handle this.

Noizhill: Understood.

Spectators: Th-That's the Thirteenth Prince for you!

Spectators: How brave of him to admonish the emperor like that!

Spectators: And without the slightest change in his expression!

Spectators: His genius is truly a gift from the heavens!

Spectators: A child prodigy indeed!

Spectators: Remarkable!

Spectators: His conviction is strong!

Emperor: You stopped me from sullying this empire's good name in history.

Emperor: I must reward you.

Emperor: Yes. I shall grant you a title.

Emperor: Any of my children may be capable of simply admonishing me,

Emperor: but to do so rightly is a valuable talent.

Emperor: To make your cleverness known to all my subjects...

Emperor: I grant you the title "Wise"!

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Spectators: The prince has a new title!

Thirteenth Imperial Prince

Spectators: This has never happened before!

Wise Prince

Noah: Thank you, Your Majesty.

Emperor: Noah, if only you had been born a bit earlier...

Spectators: Long live the Wise Prince!

Spectators: Long live Wise Prince Noah!

Spectators: Banzai! Banzai! Banzai!

Emperor: By the way, Noah, the knight selection exam is soon.

Emperor: Have you decided how you will judge it?

Noah: I have a plan. May I show you after this?

Emperor: Yes.

Noah: Go ahead.

Noah: I will have the participants attack me in this way

Noah: and judge them based on how close their attacks get to me.

Emperor: Brilliant, as usual.

Emperor: This reduces the burden on you andeases the judgment process.

Emperor: But it is not without its risks.

Emperor: If any contender is powerful enough to break through your defenses...

Noah: I am prepared to deal with that.

Emperor: Well said.

Emperor: That is what makes you my son,an imperial prince...

Emperor: no, the Wise Prince!

Noah: Thank you, Your Majesty.

Noizhill: Still...

Noizhill: do you not think saying,"if only you had been born earlier"

Noizhill: before the public was a bit much?

Emperor: And what is the issue?

Emperor: Not only did he admonish me,

Emperor: but he took out an enemy leader without even going to the b*ttlefield.

Emperor: It's unprecedented!

Emperor: Besides...

Emperor: that magic sword of his really does seem to possess terrifying power.

Noizhill: Yes.

Emperor: Cruz.

Cruz: Sire.

Emperor: Bring it out.

Cruz: Yes, sire.

Emperor: The legends say that the true seal on Leviathan must not be broken.

Emperor: But perhaps, if Noah were to do it...