How to activate the barrier?
The only ones who don't know are Hans and...
If I kill everyone, I'm sure to find the enemy.
Chamot can handle the Demon God alone!
Nyaa! N-Nyaa!
There's a swamp inside Chamot's stomach.
And all the things Chamot's ever eaten
live happily down there!
Hans,
if we're truly done for, escape on your own.
Shut up. Don't tell me what to do.
Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers
Taken by the sinkin' blue
Gonna understand, don't hide your truth
Understand true meanings of love
Death in their hand until the end comes
And the people get replaced again
But this keeps on building up and up
Another start
A wind prearranges the fall
You won't get far
Can't escape
If you gotta let cross a Black Swallowtail
karamitsuita ima ni shigamitsuku jibun firewall
Until the rust upon your entangled, still clinging, self-firewall,
sabi nurikaete made
Is painted over anew,
me ni shita mono ga mieru ni utsurikawaru
The things you lay your eyes upon will change the moment they come into view,
kono sekai koete ii no
And you can go beyond this world.
Episode 9 Blossoms of Doubt
There's no end to these things!
Then, if we go after Chamot...
We need to work together.
I know.
It's no good.
The fiends are protecting Chamot on their own...
Everyone does the same thing.
Work together to get Chamot?
No one could do that.
You've got nothing, Adlet?
Fiends don't get tired...
If this continues, we'll be at a disadvantage.
Hans!
Cover me!
I have my hands full!
Don't get lazy!
While you protect me, I'll think of something!
How long can you hold out?
Sixty seconds.
When sixty seconds are up, run at Chamot, and don't think about anything else.
I'll back you up.
Hurry. Think.
Sleep and paralysis needles don't work on fiends.
But the pain of the poison ones should work.
And...
That scared me!
You can breathe fire?! That isn't human!
The flute that draws fiends...
That isn't enough.
All that's left...
That's sixty seconds!
Hans, go!
I'll delay the fiends for a second, and aim for Chamot.
No, everyone must've tried that before.
Prepare to die!
Idiot.
Don't dodge! Block!
Finish her, Hans!
Nyaa!
Did we get her?
Adlet, hold her!
Right.
Stay put.
My back hurts...
I don't think Chamot is the seventh.
Me, neither.
Then what are going to ask Chamot?
I don't think she'll be able to answer, though.
It's fine.
Just move your head.
Please.
Before you met us at this temple,
did you know about the barrier?
I see.
Adlet?
I'm sure of it.
Those were the sounds of Chamot fighting.
But I don't hear them now.
Chamot couldn't possibly have lost.
Hans is there, too.
I see...
Then Flamie deliberately let you go?
You realized?
I thought it was possible.
I want to talk to Flamie about something.
She's dangerous...
Since you aren't the seventh,
she's the one who's the most likely suspect.
Flamie isn't the fake.
I'm certain of that.
But I don't think we should make contact.
She let me go.
Only for the time being.
Why do you think that?
Flamie lives in darkness.
She loves no one, and believes no one.
Everyone around her is an enemy or might become an enemy soon.
That's the world she lives in.
I also live in the darkness.
But hers
is deeper than mine.
With your trust, friendship, and the will to protect your comrades,
makes her an entirely different species.
I think what you're saying is true...
But I want to meet and talk to her, anyway.
Take care of Chamot.
And think about what I said.
Whether it'll really work or not...
If you find proof, I'm counting on you.
Adlet!
Flamie doesn't like you.
And not in the "but I really like him" way.
She dislikes you from the bottom of her heart.
No, it's more like she hates you.
That was how it seemed.
Just last a little longer...
What is it?
Flamie hates me?
I had the feeling
that the two of us had started to understand one another a bit...
Did I hallucinate that?
You're different than I am.
You have something to believe in...
I'm amazed you're alive.
I thought I was dead many times.
You fools!
N-Nyaa!
You don't need to get that mad!
Chamot's bad enough! But, Hans...
I thought you were an idiot,
but I didn't think you were this stupid!
That's really mean...
Why did you let Adlet escape?! That was our best...
No, maybe our only chance!
Well, listen to me, Maura...
I think I can prove his innocence.
What are you saying?
Adlet's an incredible guy.
He figured out the seventh's plan.
I've figured out part of the seventh Brave's trap.
I'll listen.
We were mistaken.
No, the seventh tricked us into being mistaken.
It wasn't that someone activated the barrier
just before I opened the door.
When I opened the door and entered,
the barrier hadn't activated yet.
I don't think that's too plausible.
Keep listening.
We know how to activate the barrier.
You put the sword in the dais,
put your hand on the stone tablet, and give the order.
And it activates.
But who told us that?
The soldier in the fortress, Lauren.
But what if he were working with the seventh?
You and I didn't even know about the barrier until Lauren told us.
Nachetanya and Goldov said
they didn't know until yesterday, too.
Maura knew of it,
but said she learned the activation from Lauren.
Hans didn't meet Lauren, so he didn't know.
And Chamot said she heard about it after meeting us.
In other words,
we all learned how the barrier's activated from Lauren...
Even if he'd lied, we wouldn't know.
Continue.
First, the seventh used
Lauren to lie to us about how the barrier is activated.
And then they used the fiends to bring us inside it.
They waited for me to open the door,
and covered the entire forest with fog, somehow.
So we assumed
that someone had activated the barrier and run.
But actually, the barrier hadn't been activated yet.
There was only fog.
The sword was in the dais to begin with.
We all messed around with the sword, to see if there were some way to deactivate it.
In the process, the seventh activated the barrier.
Then, they only had to prove the temple was a locked room until I arrived,
blame it on me, and the trap was complete.
It was Hans who blamed you.
Is he the seventh?
Do you remember?
When we first introduced ourselves, Hans-san said...
I'd like to take my time listening to the bunny girl.
Hans, was it?
This is the Crown Princess of Piena.
Of course I remember.
But it doesn't make sense.
When Hans-san and Maura-san entered the temple,
he called me "princess" once.
Are you certain?
From the start,
he knew I was a princess.
But after that, he pretended not to.
Why?
And so, by revealing that the temple was a locked room,
the seventh ensured that Adlet was suspected.
Very clever.
But you were the one who mentioned it being a locked room.
That would make you the seventh, correct?
Oh, you might be right.
I think the seventh
was going to bring up the locked room.
But Hans knew a lot about the sealed door,
so they left it to him instead.
You believe Hans?
Why?
I fought Hans a while ago.
Just before he killed me...
No, basically, he would have killed me...
But in that moment, Hans believed me.
And he stopped.
And you believed him, huh?
What's matters is that someone waited for me
to enter the temple, and summoned the fog.
If I can catch them, my innocence will be proved.
You're right.
An amazing idea. I'm impressed.
All right!
But there's a mistake. A fatal one.
You have the wrong idea about Saints.
Even if they're using the power of gods,
there are limits.
And what they can use is totally different for each Saint.
But there must be a Saint who uses fog.
There is.
The Saint that made this barrier,
the Fog Saint Uspa.
But given her abilities,
it would take her fifteen minutes to cover the forest.
But the entire forest was covered instantly.
Because they took a long time setting up the barrier.
She probably needed
to spend years building up the fog god's power here.
You know a lot about it.
The fiends were desperate.
If Uspa had the power to blanket a whole forest in fog,
she would have been my first target.
Look.
Damn!
That stake contains the phantasmal barrier's power.
A countless number of them are buried throughout the whole forest.
That's why the forest was covered instantly.
If they'd made a different barrier than the phantasmal one...
They could have made one that just creates fog.
You can only erect one type of barrier in a given place.
If you put up two, one will be disabled.
But...
Summoning the fog instantly would be impossible
without a barrier's power.
And there's already a barrier in this forest, which summons fog.
In other words,
your hypothesis is impossible.
But it's more possible than breaking the locked room in the temple.
Think what you like.
I am going to find Adlet.
Wait.
I'm sure that
Adlet isn't the seventh.
If he were,
why didn't he kill me?
Why would he protect Flamie?
Why didn't he finish Chamot?
Can't you tell?
I can explain it easily.
Why did he appear before us, to begin with?
If he merely wanted to lock us in here,
he could have activated it, hidden, and run.
Well...
It's a trap. He's attacking our hearts.
Adlet may really be the seventh.
Or it might be someone else.
He wants to make us think that, so we'll fight each other, right?!
You were fooled by him.
And the princess seems to think he isn't the seventh.
Two of the Six Braves have already fallen for his tricks!
But I saw him!
You can't fool someone with a dying face?
That's only your personal opinion!
N-Nyaa...
I'll have to do whatever it takes now.
You've been checkmated.
Your hypothesis was completely wrong, and you're out of ways to escape.
Even if you aren't the fake,
there's no way for you to survive.
Is it impossible to enlist Flamie's help?
Would it be better to find another?
Someone who might possibly help me...
Now you're going to look for Nachetanya?
You rely on Hans. You rely on me.
Next, it's Nachetanya?
You're the strongest in the world, huh, Adlet Myer?
Yes, you're still smiling, aren't you?
I'm used to being insulted and laughed at.
I can't let myself die.
That's why I laugh.
I told you, once you stop being able to laugh, it's all over.
I'm not going to give up!
Your master's teachings, your feelings for your sister and friend...
That's why you'll laugh and struggle, even to the brink of death?
Flamie...
If I'm killed, the seventh will be after you next.
Adlet...
If I die, you'll be blamed
and killed in the same way.
As long as I'm alive,
no one will be suspicious of you.
Believe in me, Flamie!
I'll be going, then.
If you change your mind...
There's no way I can believe you.
I don't understand a single thing that you're thinking.
How can you still smile? Why don't you give up?
Why do you protect me?
Maura must have reached the temple a long time ago.
By now, she's persuaded Hans,
and is chasing you with Chamot.
They could appear any minute now.
Flamie...
But stay here a little longer.
I want to know you.
Because maybe...
I'll be able to believe you.
When I was traveling with Adlet-san,
I kept thinking to myself...
That there was something different about him,
compared to the other potential Braves.
Yes...
I don't really know the reason.
Something is different about him.
I must be the only one who sees that.
Look at my crest, Goldov.
Is Adlet-san still alive?
Pardon me.
No one has been killed yet.
Neither Adlet, nor our other comrades.
They are all alive.
Good.
He's working hard.
I'll work just as hard.
kage mo katachi mo nai
From a wound with no traceable form,
kizu kara mata chi ga koboreru
blood overflows again
hakanai akumu kara
While from within a fleeting nightmare,
kikoeru dareka no negai
I can hear someone's plea
iki o koroshi asa o matta
I killed my breath and awaited the morning,
sukui nado wa konai noni
Though I knew salvation will never come.
namida karashi ai o kobami
Emptying my tears and rejecting love,
tada hitori de ikita noni
I simply lived on my own.
doushite
So why is it
kuruoshii hodo kono shinzou
This emotion scratching away at my heart,
kakimushiru kanjou ga itai yo
Hurts so much I could lose my sanity
shinjiau koto omoiau koto
Trusting one another... caring for one another...
sono subete sutesatta no tooku
I cast it all away, into the distance.
Episode 10
Desperate Situation
Next time: Desperate Situation.