Disgaea
It's like I'm tied up tight by the sighs of love.
I can't break free no matter what spell I try.
Tranquil eyes that conceal sorrow behind them...
...throw my heart into turmoil more than they ought to.
You mean more to me than I do,
...even though we both refuse to admit to our feelings.
You're the one for me. I don't care if you're a demon.
Oh, this is a miracle that I've stumbled upon.
Even these wounds that never fade, even this profound karma.
Oh, I'll give you my love.
Time and again, no matter where you are.
I'll give you my love.
Welcome to the saloon!
My, how rude!
Table for a party of three!
Netherworld Siblings
It's too early in the morning to have something that disgusting shoved in my face...
I think I'm going to throw up.
Hi! Boo-Boop-Be-Doo!
Hello, Mr. Gordon! Good morning!
You're working here this time?
You still haven't earned enough to pay your repair bill?
Oh, don't you worry about us! We'll have enough any day now!
By the way, Prince, I had no idea that you had a little sister.
What?!
A little sister?!
Um... This is the first that I've heard of this.
Of course it is! I don't HAVE a little sister!
Really? But we met her yesterday.
SHE SAVED US WHEN WE WERE ABOUT TO BE MUGGED BY A GANG OF DELINQUENTS.
This has to be some kind of mistake.
Extra! Extra, dood!
In a shocking turn of events, Krichevskoy had another child besides Prince Laharl!
What did you say?!
Are you okay, Prinny?
Wha...?
I am Maharl, rightful heir to King Krichevskoy, the previous Overlord.
In my father's place, I will restore order to the Netherworld!
Yes, that's the girl!
What do you think? Doesn't she look just like the Prince here?
This is an such an obvious trick...
Doesn't she have a ferocious look in her eye?
She looks like she was born to be Overlord.
I wonder who's more powerful, her or Laharl?
10 HL on Laharl!
20 on the kid sister!
Gosh, I can't believe that you have a little sister, Laharl...
I bet you're dying to meet her! Or even for a glimpse of her!
Didn't I just tell you that I don't have a sister?!
I don't want my vassals buying into this nonsense, too!
Hey, junk heap! Get in gear and go bring me something to eat!
Y-YES, SIR!
Speak of the devil! It's the Prince's sister!
Maharl?
Wow, are we in for a tearjerker first meeting here?!
This oughta be good!
Help me, Laharl...
Please, you have to hide me, big brother...
- What? - Hide her?
I don't know you.
Maharl's collapsed!
Are you all right?
Ignore her. I don't want any trouble.
How can you say such a thing?! She's your one and only little sister, isn't she?
That sound! It's the Netherworld Emperors!
Oh, my! Are they really important people?
They're a backwoods biker gang.
But he said they were emperors.
They were put out of business during King Krichevskoy's reign,
but they've been making a comeback recently.
The Netherworld Emperors...
Um, hello? What's the matter?
You don't suppose that she's being chased by these people, do you?
She ran in here, no doubt about it. Look for her.
Just a moment! Who gave you permission to enter this establishment?!
We reserve the right to refuse service to bike gangs!
PLEASE LEAVE.
Stand aside.
This is all the screen time we get?!
We have to catch her while we have the chance.
Hey, did a pint-sized kid come in here?
We're looking for a little girl named Maharl.
The thing is, we're certain that she ran into this bar...
Are you SURE you haven't seen her?
Anyone who hides her will be shown no mercy!
We'll talk, we'll talk! Actually, she's...
With God as my witness, I swear that there is no girl under this table!
Flonne, could you be any more obvious?
Stand aside!
I won't! No one is hiding underneath this table!
Oh, give it a rest! Get out of the way, already!
No one is under here!
Stop it, you're kicking up dust! I'm eating here!
So, you must be Laharl.
You bested us when last we met, but this time will be different!
Friends of yours?
I dunno.
What?!
The two things that annoy me more than anything else...
...is being bothered when I'm sleeping and when I'm eating!
It isn't you that we're after. Please accept our apologies.
We'll leave for now out of deference to you.
Thank you for saving me, big brother.
Stop calling me that. And for one thing, I don't recall "saving" you.
I chased them off because they were interrupting my meal, that's all.
Say what you will, you've sure turned into a real softie lately.
Given the circumstances, don't you think we should take Maharl under our protection?
Fine, whatever.
What in the world are you thinking, Highness?!
The ability to show kindness to demons has finally...
...begun to blossom in your heart!
Now that that's settled, let's go. I can't eat in peace here.
As if. You ate everything in sight.
Here's another question, then. Where did King Krichevskoy and your mother meet?
Where my mommy works!
Where's that?
The Black Garden!
My, what a beautiful name!
What do they do there?
It's a place where you can talk to girls while you have a drink!
But it's with a different girl each time, and the men have to buy the girl's drink.
Sometimes, they buy them presents, too.
I get it! I get it, so please stop!
What's the matter, Etna? You should be more patient.
Um, won't they see us on a busy street like this?
But Laharl told us to sit here.
It's what they call "hiding in plain sight," get it?
We're actually less conspicuous out here.
Oh, big brother said to stay here, did he?
We can stay out here in the open, then.
Uppity little pipsqueak... Highness, why are you playing along with this little fake?
I can hear every word you say about me!
She's just like the Prince, right down to his killer hearing...
What did you say about me?
Live it up while you still can.
What do you hope to gain by pretending to be my sister?
I'm gonna find out what you're really up to.
Big brother!
S-Stop calling me that!
So anyway, are you hungry?
It's my treat, so name anything, and I'll get it for you.
Oh, Laharl! I'm so proud of all this brotherly love!
He's lulling her into a false sense of security.
His plan is to be nice to her to find out why she came to him.
I wanna eat pickled dragon skin!
Pickled dragon skin?! But that's one of the three great delicacies of the Netherworld!
Even I haven't eaten that before!
Is it that expensive?
Sure, it's expensive, all right! But it's also illegal!
Pick something else.
But you said I could have anything I wanted!
And pickled dragon skin is what I want!
I wanna eat pickled dragon skin!
Is that kid serious?
If she eats pickled dragon skin, she'll be...
Move it! Come on, hurry!
Hey, cook. You have any pickled dragon skin?
Do you have any pickled dragon skin?
Do you...
Youngster.
If you're looking for pickled dragon skin, I just happen to have one piece left.
Excellent! I owe you one, old man!
What's wrong?
Well, the things is...
I feel like eating something that's plain and simple now.
Are you jerking me around, kid?!
Well, I don't feel like eating it anymore.
Your plan was to butter her up, but she's totally taking you for a ride, isn't she, Highness?
Be quiet! Call in the Prinnies!
I'm stuffed!
So busy!
I expect dessert next, got it?!
She's taking you for a ride! She's taking you for a ride!
Who asked you?!
Don't you know how to do anything?!
The non-recyclable trash goes over there, and the recyclable trash goes over there!
Make sure it's properly sorted before you throw it out!
You're making me very cross!
Great, we have another nutjob to deal with, dood...
Prince Laharl sure has trouble with girls, dood...
She's taking you for a ride! She's taking you for a ride!
SHUT UP!
I can't walk any farther! My feet hurt, big brother!
Why do I have to do this?
She's literally taking you for a ride! She's literally taking you for a ride!
I want that! Get it for me!
Why should I have to do that?
Because you're my vassal, that's why!
Um, I'm not your vassal, Maharl, I'm...
My big brother's vassals are by definition my vassals!
Gosh, she sounds just like a certain someone I know...
Buy me things!
Taiyaki!
Forcing an angel do my bidding is oh such fun!
What's taking you so long, you people?! Over here! Over here!
If you don't hurry, I'm gonna get into the bath first and hog it all to myself!
Highness, are you gonna keep letting her jerk you around like this?
Of course I'm not...
Time for a change of plan.
Disgaea
Big brother? Are you asleep?
Yes.
I had a scary dream... Can I sleep with you?
Any demon who's scared of a little nightmare will never be a good Overlord.
Yay!
I'm so happy! I've been dying to do this.
I've felt lonely ever since I found out that I had a big brother.
Whenever you feel lonely, you'd do well to remember our old man's words.
You DO remember, don't you?
Of course I do! "Act like a demon!"
Right?
T-That's right.
How could I forget that? It's something that our dear old daddy said.
Big brother, where do you suppose the "Black Lizard's Tail" is?
You know, the most secret of all the treasures passed down in the royal...
How did you...
You don't know?
No. My old man was the only one who knew, but he died before he could tell me.
So now I'm looking for it like everyone else.
Wouldn't it be great if you found it?
Do you carry that doll everywhere you go?
I sure do. After all, it's a memento from my mommy.
My mommy...
A memento, huh?
Big brother...
Well played. You're more formidable than I thought...
Oh, for crying out loud! How come those two are all buddy-buddy all of a sudden?
I've loved you for as long as I can remember, big brother!
Maharl...
I feel sick! I feel sick! I feel sick!
Then maybe you oughta puke and get it out of your system, dood.
That's not what I meant!
What's all the ruckus in here?
We were ordered by the great Maharl to clean the place, that's what!
By Maharl?
C'mon... You don't actually believe that she's really your sister, do you, Highness?
She knew my old man's favorite saying, and she even knew about the Black Lizard's Tail.
How could she know that? Where did the get that intel?! Who told her?!
I wish I knew. She's my enemy, but she's earned my respect.
I almost wish she was my vassal.
Oh, it'd be silly for you to make your little sister into a vassal...
Get it through your thick skull! She's not his little sister!
Laharl! She has a terrible fever!
I want to have some of daddy's homemade porridge of the damned...
You even know about that?
This is your father's special porridge.
Eat this, and you'll feel better in no time.
Whoa! Highness, you can cook?!
Demons actually EAT this stuff? The power of love is strong, indeed...
Porridge... Yummy...
I'm glad to hear it.
This is porridge that your big brother made from scratch all by himself.
Have some more.
What a touching scene!
Maybe, but I have no idea what the Prince is thinking...
How much of this is part of his plan?!
Big brother...
Come with me! Come with me!
Hey, just because you're feeling better doesn't mean that...
I want you to see something, that's all!
Look at that! See?
Well, well, if it isn't the Mid-Boss.
My goodness, what an enchanting mademoiselle you have on your arm.
I'm Maharl, his sister.
HIS SISTER?!
Pardon me if this seems out of turn, but what might your mother's name be?
No, forget I asked! Don't tell me!
I don't want to know! I don't want to know!
What are you getting so agitated about?
Is this man always like this?
Yeah. Don't talk to him, his stupidity is contagious.
Come on, let's go.
Wait!
H-Her doll moved!
Don't be stupid! You're just a dumb old Mid-Boss!
B-But it...
See?! It just looked at me!
What a strange man.
Oh, she isn't back yet?
It sure is peaceful around here without that little terror around, isn't it?
Who knows, maybe she found herself a new "big brother" somewhere!
Come to think of it, Flonne isn't around, either.
Bad news, dood! Real bad! It's a challenge letter!
It's a challenge letter addressed to you, Prince Laharl!
Challenge letter?
"Your sister is in our custody."
"If you wish her returned to you, come to the Netherworld Mines!"
Signed, the Netherworld Emperors.
The Netherworld Emperors?!
No way am I going to let that bunch of bumpkin bikers interfere,
not after I've played along with her scheme for so long!
Maharl! Where are you?
Maharl, you said that you had something that you wanted to ask me about!
This is the right place, isn't it?
Aieee! It's the Netherworld Emperors! Somebody help me!
We're not bears, lady!
Anyway, do you seriously think that anyone will come to your rescue...
...just because doing that old-school "damsel in distress" screaming?
Hold it right there!
What the...?
Beauty!
The five of you assaulting one lonely mademoiselle is hardly fair!
How uncouth!
There aren't five of us!
Maharl?
I didn't expect to meet you again in a place like this!
I'll pretend I didn't see you! Buh-bye!
Good grief...
He didn't come to save me?
You leave me no choice! I'll do whatever I can to protect myself and Maharl from... Aieee!
Look, that "damsel in distress" screaming isn't going to make anybody come to your rescue!
Hold it right there!
Hand over my little sister! We have unfinished business!
You're not here to save me?
Now! As long as we have this woman, he can't lay a finger on us!
What's with the accent?! More to the point, what the heck is going on?!
So, just when I thought you'd shown your true colors, it turns out that you all were in cahoots!
Highness, you had me convinced that you had fallen for her trap!
If you can't see through a ruse like this, you're not fit to be ze Overlord!
Listen up, everyone!
Put ze screws to Laharl and force him to tell us ze location of ze Black Lizard's Tail!
Right!
Big brother!
Those bad people were threatening me, and they forced me to trick you!
I couldn't possibly be part of their gang, right?
You know that, don't you, big brother?!
Whoa, she's selling 'em out!
This is unforgivable.
I had no idea that she was capable of such treachery...
Big brother, help...
Big brother, you big kidder...
Well, this sucks.
It's sad beyond words that we've been led by someone like her for so long...
Let's just get out of here.
What a terrible thing to do! Frying your own little sister like this!
This is too much, even for you!
Haven't you been listening to a single word that's been said around here, lady?!
I admire your fiendishness,
knowing so much about my father and managing to fool me for so long.
For that alone, I'll let you go just this once.
Now go! Run before I change my mind! I don't care where!
What's this, a heartwarming scene of brotherly love?
I think I'm gonna cry, "big brother"!
Look out!
Your little sister is a...
Curses, I was so close!
This is all your fault, you fool of a Mid-Boss!
There are still many things in this world that are best left unknown, Mademoiselle!
Oh, thank goodness she wasn't my love-child!
Take me back! Turn us around, Mid-Boss!
You blithering fool!
Pardon me for being a fool!
What is this, a hidden camera show?
Still, it sure knew a lot about you, Laharl...
Yeah, talk about strange...
If people ever notice the cycle of time on this world where blue skies come and go,
something's bound to happen when people with different outlooks get together.
Will we be buried by our desires? Will love come and save the day?
Either way, it doesn't matter to me. I'm gonna do as I please.
Light and shadow, egoists for whom everything in the world has meaning,
every little fragment lives his life with the balance on their shoulders.
Doing whatever we want, having it exactly the way we want it.
Right now, under the same sky,
light and shadow repeat again and again.
Chain react...
Next time! 30 minutes OF the Prinnies, BY the Prinnies, and FOR the Prinnies!
In a word, it's "Pringer X" next week, dood!
Prinnies sing! Prinnies dance! Prinnies twirl about!
Get drunk off the melody of love that the Prinnies will play!
I'm so excited about this, dood! We finally get to be the stars!
Next time on Disgaea!
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