Though twilight may come,
and darkness may attempt to swallow all that is,
oh starlight
that shines forever in my heart,
flare up now like the morning sun!
Yurugi no nai sono hitomi
Even if the place
Misueteiru saki de
where you direct your unwavering gaze
Akireru hodono ikidoori uzumaiteitemo
is swirling with an incredible rage
Nando datte nando demo
A person can rise up,
Hito ha tachi agareru
again and again,
Iki ataerareta inochi
using the life given to them
Tokoton tsukatte
to the fullest.
Tenohira de moeru atsui honoo ha
The flame dancing in the palm of my hand,
Kokoro no oku no oku de
is a power that everyone
Dare mo ga motteru chikara
holds deep inside their heart.
Tooi mirai heno mayoi yori mo
Rather than fretting about the dilemmas of the distant future,
Ima me no mae ni aru genjitsu
if I crash through the reality in front of me,
Hitotsu hitotsu kudaita nara
little by little,
Tada no suna ni kawaru
it'll all turn into plain sand.
Nari furi kamacchya irarenai
I don't care what it looks like.
Shoumen toppa de ikou
I'll take it head on!
Tits, bread buns...
A big dumpling...
Here I come!
Owww! Ow ow ow!
The dumpling spoke.
Who're you calling a dumpling? That hurt!
Your sleepwalking is really...
The jar! The jar's gone!
Wisdom, wishing for times lost forever!
Don't take this personally.
What will happen if you continue to tread this path?
You shall not hesitate.
There is no road before me,
and no road appears behind me.
Shut up!
Now, fess up and tell me how to get my body back!
If you don't, I'll shatter you right here and now.
Damn it, Zelgadis! What do you think you're pulling, cutting ahead of me!?
What a pain. We were caught totally off guard.
Off guard? Did you know this would happen, Miss Lina?
Zel would put his life on the line to get his body back.
I thought he wouldn't be able to pull anything if I kept the jar, but...
That's why you did it?
So you weren't just acting out of pure greed, huh.
You all...
But still, if he wanted his body back, it wouldn't kill him to wait until we get to Taforashia and resurrect Rezo, would it?
Strictly speaking, Zel probably doesn't want Rezo to come back, per se.
I can't say I don't understand why.
After all, Rezo's the one who made Zel that way.
There's got to be some kind of reason behind that.
I still believe in Rezo, no matter what.
Zel said he once believed in Rezo and worked for him, too.
He did?
Though I can't say I know the specifics.
Piece of cake.
This village was easy pickings too, eh?
What could a buncha cowards like them do?
Hey you, come over and have a drink too!
How about you return what you stole from the villagers?
Who're you people?
Just kill 'em!
What the hell?
A monster?
You musn't run away!
The stink!
He got better!
Wait, wait. You have to stand in line.
You little rascal! No cutting in line!
Not there!
Voices.
I can hear the voices of children laughing.
What those children need is food and water to survive.
Though I may bring them paltry miracles with magic, I cannot say that I am truly helping them.
I am always thankful to you for helping me because I cannot see.
We just want to provide strength to the weak.
However...
Leave the dirty work to us.
Rezo the Red Priest is a great sage who leads the unfortunate to happiness.
You have to stay as a symbol of peace.
Food and water isn't everything.
People need hope to survive, too, don't they?
Zelgadis.
We're proud to be the strength of the great sage, Red Priest Rezo.
Thank you.
From the bottom of my heart.
Stop that.
We're living in a time where small evils are necessary for great good.
That's why we have to become stronger.
Even stronger!
They're getting away!
After them!
The guards here aren't pushovers!
Harder than we expected.
Hey.
Are you all right, Zelgadis?
No.
I have to keep going...
for the children...
More, more!
For that great man!
I want to become stronger! Stronger!
Even stronger!
I will grant you your wish.
What?
I never said I wanted to become a chimera.
But...
Do you hate me?
Of course!
How could I ever forgive you?
I did keep my promise, did I not?
Promise?
True, I did gain strength by becoming a chimera.
Then why?
Why?
Do you even realize what you've done?
I'll never forget that.
It wasn't long after I'd become a chimera.
Wait up!
Are you all right?
Yeah, I'm okay.
It's a monster!
Help!
It's okay. This is enough.
This strength...
...is what I'd wished for.
I saw then.
You were conducting research on chimeras and hiding it from us.
And even that...
Why? Why!?
I thought that with the techniques of chimera creation, I'd finally be able to open my eyes!
I was even prepared to change my own body!
Everything was in order to gain sight...
I was just another component in your tests.
Even the supplies we risked our lives to obtain were squandered in the name of your experiments!
I never...
Zel!
Mister Zelgadis...
Rezo really...?
You were listening? Well, whatever.
Now you understand.
Just what kind of a human being Rezo is.
S-Still...
Still? Still what?
Rezo was a fiend wearing the mask of a benevolent sage,
willing to sacrifice anything if it meant opening his eyes.
Is that true?
What?
These is no such thing as true evil in this world.
That is what Master Rezo said.
Do you even know what Rezo has done?
Shut up!
But...
Give it up.
Nothing you say will get through to Zel right now.
Miss Lina.
Hey, is he telling the truth?
Well, yeah.
Setting aside the question of whether Rezo was truly evil or good,
it's true that Rezo would have stopped at nothing in the name of sight.
Actually, I almost ended up dying once because of that.
R-Really?
So, this wasn't really my intention,
but I just realized I was forgetting something very basic.
Something basic?
Rezo.
Why did you make something like the Hellmaster's jar in the first place?
Now that I think about it,
we were only thinking of finding the jar and removing its seal because of the business in Taforashia, but...
Surely the great Rezo wouldn't have made something like this just out of plain boredom.
It couldn't have been that you thought by moving your soul to another body,
"My eyes shall gain light!"?
Well?
A thousand specimens were needed.
What?
A thousand specimens?
What do you mean by that?
As the girl said.
Following many failed experiments,
I endeavored to borrow the eyes of another in order to gain sight,
and applied myself to the creation of a tool with which to do so.
Thankfully, the test to move a soul to another body succeeded.
However, the transfer of a soul from one human body to another is not so easy.
In order to find a vessel capable of taking my power,
I required at least a thousand specimens.
Hey, wait a second...
By a thousand specimens, do you mean...!?
I had procured the needed materials.
Afterwards, through painstaking research and examination,
I was able to find a vessel worthy of receiving my soul.
But before I began the process of moving my soul, I was...
killed by Lina Inverse, together with Shabranigdu,
and only this soul of mine was left imprisoned inside the jar.
That doesn't matter!
The thousand specimens you needed...
were those the people of Taforashia!?
Is that it?
I-It can't be...
Unbelievable.
A thousand, just for one person to gain sight...
So you used the plague over Taforashia to obtain your specimens in one fell swoop?
It'd be better if he'd just used it, but...
Hey, Lina... What did you just...
I told you, didn't I?
Rezo would stop at nothing to open his own eyes.
Though I don't really want to linger on the thought...
Even then, that's too much...
Hey...
Sometimes, small evils are necessary to achieve great good.
What?
That can't be...
Small evils?
How can you say that?
The lives lost to the plague?
The sleeping people of Taforashia, unaware of the fact that they're just being used as fodder for experiments?
All that is small compared to just you opening your eyes?
With the gift of sight, I would be able to save many times that amount.
So Taforashia can just go to hell if it means you get what you want?
That's right.
Rezo...
That's a lie!
You bastard...!
I was so surprised by how incredible it all sounded...
But still, that's just impossible, isn't it?
Right?
I was so desperate that I almost fell for it. Really..
Mister Pokota.
Well, I can't say I can blame you for not wanting to believe, but...
What is there not to believe?
If you're going to lie, at least put a little effort into it!
You just don't know the real Rezo.
Be quiet!
If what you're saying is really true,
then who's the vessel that you say you found, Rezo?
That's...
That's?
Say it if you can!
Then maybe I'll believe you!
That person's name is...
Out with it!
Posel Korba Taforashia.
What?
Me?
Correct.
Unfortunately, the vessel I found was none other than the specimen I had used as an experiment in transferring souls, your original body.
I'm the vessel?
If you use my body, then everyone else can come back?
If I just sacrifice my one life...
That's right. That was what had to be done.
Had to be done?
But happiness and disaster walk hand in hand.
All is like the burning of a futile torch...
I...
Like I'd let you do that!
He ran away!
Master Rezo!
Again?
Amelia, let's go too.
Right!
Raywing!
Really...
W-Wait for me!
I...
It seems we're back at step one.
What are you thinking?
Don't play innocent, Rezo.
I'm finally going to end this, once and for all.
End this?
That's right.
Listen close, I'm only going to ask once more.
How do I turn my body back to the way it was?
If you don't tell me, I'll throw the jar that holds you deep into the sea.
You won't resurrect me?
That depends on your answer.
What will it be? Answer me, Rezo!
You are transparent to me.
You cannot bury me.
What?
If you throw me into the sea, you will also be throwing away the way to turn your body back forever.
Can you still throw me away, knowing that?
Don't underestimate me.
You think I'm the only one who'll lose something if you keep your mouth shut?
If I can't become human again, you'll never come back to life, either.
Since I never wanted you to come back in the first place.
I see.
Then I have no choice but to reveal the truth.
That's fine.
He's there.
Master Rezo.
Zel.
Zelgadis.
There is no need to hesitate.
Throw me into the sea.
What?
Master Rezo.
What does that mean?
I do not know the information you seek.
What?
I said, there is no way to turn a chimera back into its original form.
Y-You must be kidding me.
You're the one who made me like this.
There's no way you don't know!
I would not know, even had I access to the Claire Bible.
Since there is no way to do so in all the world.
You're lying.
Stop spewing bullshit!
I am not lying.
Unfortunately, this is the truth.
That...
That's a lie.
A lie, a lie, a lie, a lie.
A lie!
Mister Zelgadis!
Please.
Tell me you were lying, Rezo!
It can't be...
You did that to me, even knowing that!?
And what will you do, if I did?
If you did? If you...
Rezo...
You bastard!
Master Rezo.
Why?
Because he's human.
No matter how much he hates him, this isn't so simple for him.
There's bound to be doubt in him somewhere, no matter how much he wishes there wasn't.
Doubt? Because he is human?
I cannot understand.
Though it seems that Zel's not the only one harboring doubts.
First telling Ozel to protect the jar,
then to destroy it,
and now you tell Zel...
Rezo, I thought you wanted to come back to life?
Then why?
What's wrong? Aren't you going to do it?
Of course.
I will!
What?
Bomb Di Wind!
Mister Pokota!
Wait, what're you thinking?
I'm the vessel, huh?
Funny!
If that's what it takes to bring Taforashia back,
I'll give you my body willingly!
But then you'll...
Living this way for the rest of my life isn't so bad.
Now, there's no time to waste!
Let's go, Rezo!
Wait, Pokota!
Honestly, those hot-headed idiots.
Let's go after them.
Wait for us!
Now we're going this way?
Wait, everyone.
I'll save you now.
I can't understand Rezo's thoughts.
It might be that there's another mystery to be solved in this mess.
Kanashimi ni kureru kokoro wo
There's nothing that can save a heart
Sukueru mono ha nai
that's been immersed in sadness.
Jibun de jibun wo oikonde
Trapped by your own self,
Kudaketa namida ni somatteiru
soaked in shattered tears.
Akiramenai koto wo shitteru
I know you won't give up.
Jibun de kimeta michi shinjiteru
You believe in the path you chose for yourself.
Soredemo nuguenai
But what will you do if,
Itami ni
even for all your efforts,
Moshimo deattanara dousuru no
you come up against a pain you can't erase?
Tsuyoku naritai
I want to become stronger.
Donna toki mo
So that I can take in
Kimi no kanashimi
your sadness,
Uketomerareru youni
at any time.
Tada iki tsuzukeru koto sae imi wo towareteiru
I'm being questioned about something as simple as continuing to live.
Kotae nante ari ha shinai
There's no answer to that.
Tada kao wo agete aruiteiku
I just lift up my head and walk on.
After the passage of time,
after many hardships,
holding an unlikely wish, the rebirth of the legendary red...!
Next time, on Slayers Evolution-R!
Xeno, the master of resurrection!
Xeno,
the master of ressurection!
You're in for it if you don't watch!