02x09 - Kagami no Meikyuu

[bunniefuu]

A heart that cares for a friend?

You could be reborn into a new life,

and still not understand, I'm sure.

- Episode 9:
The Mirror Labyrinth

- Right now, I'm about
the size of a squirrel.

- But what will happen if
I turn back when I'm down here?

An exit?

It's happening here?!

I don't want to get crushed again!

Oh, sh*t! Klen!

Very well.

Klen?!

What's going on?!

sh*t! sh*t! Klen!

You're still there, right? Do something!

I can't help you if you're
not in contact with a shadow.

Just wait until you're done falling.

Until I'm done falling?!

I'll repair the damage when
I restore you to your original body.

It'll be fine.

Like hell it will!

What do you think I am—

Whew.

I'm really back!

sh*t.

The pain from the recovery's
hitting all at once...

It hurts so bad, I could die!

Hey, Klen.

Could I get some clothes, at least?

You're in too deep.

And I've run out of dark ichor power.

Fight alone until I arrive.

Right. I'll do that.

Where am I?

A chair?

To confine someone?

A t*rture room?

Am I locked in?

Was there a door like this?

Well, I'll have to go see for myself.

Okay, if I can move,
that's good enough for now.

A door!

That's the shirt I just took off, right?

I went straight ahead. So why?

And was there a door there?

What the hell?

I'm kind of scared of ghosts...

I don't know what this is,
but it's not getting away!

You've gone soft.

The old you would've k*lled him
where he stood and gone after Vordin.

And the old you wouldn't
have lost the book, either.

And you could've delayed him
with your fog, if you'd wanted to.

Scared for your shaman?

You're always far too kind to the humans.

You've no right to speak, as you are now.

Well, if anything, it's Vordin who's
really taken an interest in humans.

Or more precisely,

he seems extremely
interested in the "true hero."

There's more you haven't told me
about him, isn't there?

It likely stems from what happened
with the last hero who battled him.

The last hero?

What made him different
from the current crop?

Everything.

Lady Zavthier, I've returned.

Good. How goes it?

I found the hero Alicia.

She's gone in search of the secret room,

and has dived into something
behind the hidden world.

Something behind the hidden world.

Clevatess.

I'm aware.

My connection with her has recovered.

She's a bit far, though.

Are you going?

Take care of the students.

You used your fog to hide them before
the k*lling blows were struck, right?

You noticed, huh?

If you don't want your shaman to die,

then don't use any more of your power.

I'll finish this myself.

It's strange to see Clevatess worried
about a human being.

Let's see for ourselves
how he "finishes this."

I really do hate ghosts...

No, but...

No, no, I'm fine.

That fall gave me the ability
to use my power a few times.

I'm glad it's still here.

Let's go.

Again.

What's going on?

The voices are gone, too.

I came in through there, right?

What is this?

What's going on, really?

Am I imagining things?

I'm sure I felt someone looking at me.

You're...

the Boelate princess?

Now then, everyone.

Before we unlock the sealed room,
there's someone I want you to meet.

The one who guided me here,

who ensured that General Drel
and I could gather the Books of Toah.

At last!

By the second chapter
of the Book of Toah!

Manifest by the power of
the Book of the Village of Origin!

This is the caldera of Volt Mountain.

Volt Mountain?

In the Far North?

Oh man...

You're kidding me.

Tremble in awe, comrades.

You stand in the presence of the great
Northern Lord of Dark Beasts, Vordin!

Kneel before me, humans.

I-I can't lift my head...

The pressure is incredible.

So this is...

- ...a true Lord of Dark Beasts?!

- ...a true Lord of Dark Beasts?!

Hey there, Vordin.

Milea Renault Allozar Werz.

Yes.

Take this.

The third chapter! The Book of the Forge!

The fragments of the soul
will gather soon as well.

Now all is in place.

The preparations have been made.

Now it's time for our
great wish to come true!

Then begin.

Immediately.

Another mirror?!

This is the deepest level
of the secret room.

Only General Drel has been invited here.

This place's true purpose
is to allow the hero

to hear the voice of God
and learn of their destiny,

after overcoming the second trial,
the Mirror Labyrinth.

We hear the voice of God here?

We get to hear it ourselves?

Right now, it's silent.

But that changes today.

Together with mine...

With the power of all five
books of Toah, together...

That book's bad news,
and there's five of them?

This just keeps getting worse...

Damn it.

To use the power of a book,
you need the key from the one before it.

By connecting them all,

the powerful cycle
of magic called the hero legend

can be made to spin again!

Look!

Each of the gates is connected
to where each book truly belongs.

For instance, the gate
of the third book, the Book of the Forge,

connects to the Hiderat castle forge.

It will revive in the place it belongs.

So all the holy grounds
beyond the gates have revived?

This place exists not just
for the hero to speak with God,

but for them to move to each location.

The legend is about to begin.

So we should be heading...

there.

The gate of the first book,
The Book of "The Shrine."

The gate was damaged along with the book.

We will repair it and enter.

And in the stone coffin
at the center of the shrine,

the body of the true hero awaits
the return of its soul.

The soul of the hero was shattered
and spread all throughout Edthea.

Gathering the fragments
and returning them

to where they belong is
the ultimate goal of the Union!

And when the true hero awakens,

the frozen time within the shrine,

and the hero legend,
will begin to move once more!

All the sacrifices,
all the sins we've committed,

they were all for today!

Let us go to see him!

Our savior, who will bring us
the voice of God, and a golden age!

This is worse than I thought.

I don't trust this hero whom
a Lord of Dark Beasts wants to revive.

We need to get out of here.

Someone has entered the second trial,
the Mirror Labyrinth.

What?

Who could it be?

I think I know.

I will activate the Mirror Labyrinth's
defense magic.

I want several of you in the back
to go eliminate the intruder.

Leave it to us.

The lower levels of the Labyrinth are
where we Dismemberers do our work.

We'll rip their body into pieces!

This is our chance.

Yeah. We can use this to get out of here.

Wait.

If you find something there with my face,

it's merely a cheap fake.

k*ll it without hesitation.

We need to find a way to get out of here.

Yeah. This whole thing is crazy.

But despite that...

We've gotta go!

What's a Boelate princess doing here?

Look above you!

What are these things?!

You okay, Princess?

Yes!

Get the rest
of the belts off by yourself!

It's hard to fight
with you in the middle of it!

Okay!

I think they'll keep moving until
I destroy whatever's controlling them!

They'll keep standing up!

Oh my.

To think the intruders were girls.

I'll have fun taking them apart.

And look!

One of them looks just like our leader!

Damn it!

This is getting us nowhere!

Did you get free, Princess?

Yes.

I hate to use it on weak enemies like
these, but I don't have a choice.

I decided on a name after hearing what
that gardener boy picked.

Wave of Agony!

Diffusion!

Is that a Crest?

An emission-type Crest?

They're running away!

They'll wind up back here either way,

unless they know the right path.

We made it out,

but I know we'll just end up back there!

What do we do?

Um...

I think I have a hint toward solving
the mystery of this corridor.

A hint?

As for why I'm here to begin with...

Dean Elro Romain...

What are you?

Oh, Princess...

my foolish other half...

I'm sure you see me clearly,

but that's not real.

No one has ever seen
the two of us standing together.

Even if you have memories of us together,

those are an illusion that only you see.

The truth is that you're alone.

You've always been alone.

Even at this moment...

Look at the mirror.

This is the curse of Allozar blood.

The destiny of the Allozar bloodline,

those who are in charge
of The Book of The Village of Origin.

My mother suffered and died
without knowing of her destiny.

All has been preordained,

and follows the words of the book.

It hurts!

What are you doing to me?

You're going to get
in my way in the future.

So you're going in the mirror.

In the mirror?

Even if you die...

I can simply play both roles.

Good luck.

So the Dean I know
is actually the princess?

Correct.

I wandered this labyrinth
until the puppets caught me.

And I realized...

Hey!

It's the same place!

Close it, quick!

What matters is what happens next.

It leads somewhere else?

Each time you open and close it,
it changes, up to six times.

And on the seventh, it resets.

That was the case for all the doors.

Is that useful?

It's super-important.

Let's try every combination!

They haven't returned.

It's them!

They figured out how to open
the doors multiple times?

Damn it! Let's go!

Get ahead of them!

Now what the hell is going on here?

The walls on the sides are mirrors.

A hall of mirrors?

It looks big, but it's just
one long corridor.

You.

I knew it!

Tygel and Leon!

You guys made it all the way down here?

Amazing!

Who's the half-naked chick?

Who the hell are you?

It's me! Me!

I've never met you!

And the girl behind you!

She's the one
who was pretending to be the dean!

Wait, wait.

I don't think this is
the princess you saw.

And look carefully.

You recognize this scar on my eye, right?

We made an alliance.

An alliance?

Are you...

Alyssa?!

Yeah.

Alicia's my real name, though.

I see.

Five gates, huh?

Drel said that the legend we know is a
fake, and his goal was to destroy it.

They're trying to restore the era
when the true hero was alive.

Pretty crazy.

The fact that they're doing it
in secret tells you it's bad news.

They were gathering up innocent babies
for some purpose of their own.

No matter what their reason was,
they have to pay.

I was doing that... in secret...?

You take the princess
and get out of here.

If you head up, it should
take you to the surface.

If we can get out of here, you mean.

Look! There's something
behind the mirrors!

And it's coming closer!

Run! Hurry!

Towards that door!

No!

The floor's a mirror too!

Hey!

Take care of the princess!

Go on without me!

We can't! Not with that monster!

It feels like falling is all I ever do.

Now where am I?

Bones?