We will lead a troop of pegasi cavalry from Mantua and attack Neo Verona.
So, victory or defeat will depend on how well we can gather people with anti-Montague sentiments together.
Undeniably, a group of people with anti-Montague sentiments exists here.
What if we went to the houses that have hung dried roses and asked them for aid?
The Carabinieri would come before we can even visit ten houses.
If only there was a way to tell at a glance who of those in Mantua would be our allies...
If magic like that existed, I'd want to learn it.
Yes, indeed.
Good Sirs, the goods you've requested have arrived.
We've been waiting for that!
Amazing!
Hey! Don't just touch those!
What is it?
When I think how we may soon be bringing harm to a great number of people...
Lady Juliet.
If we do not act now, a greater number of people will have their lives crushed beneath his foot.
I know.
None of us wishes to fight.
Except with Montague...
The recent tragedy of my father, Titus...
...was, in a way, an accident...
I can find no words to beg for forgiveness...
...for the considerable trouble caused to you, and the concern you have shown.
The Grand Duke grew tired of him, and...
It's true, then...
Murdered...
No! How terrible...
Remember this, Mercutio.
If you serve an ambition,
the things that move the world are terror and hatred!
My close kin and friend, loved and respected, Titus du Marchege.
In the silence and stillness of eternity does your soul sleep,
and to it, I offer my deepest sympathies.
The ground is hard...
Does Lord Romeo... truly intend to stay in this desolated village?
Don't ask me!
Look at this!
How did you get this?
We sold some swords at a nearby town.
And you got this much?
Yeah.
Right now, swords and armor are sellin' for amazingly high prices in town.
So this is the scent of war...
Now then...
Hey, be careful.
What are you doin'?
And I warned you about the uneven ground there and all...
You're that...!
We met you at that dry spring!
For the food you shared with us back then...
Thank you very much.
You've returned to the village?
Yes.
And is that girl still the same as before?
Still sensing the screams of the tree's roots.
Juliet and I... are living apart from each other for now.
However, one day, we will be together.
One day may be too late.
Take this.
What is this?
Seeds.
Resistant to frost, strong in arid conditions;
they will bring flourishing sprouts to the poorest soil.
Amazing!
T-Thank you... Sir.
How beautiful...
Messenger of heaven, bright angel in the north,
once more... um... once, what was it...
O, speak again, so that I may hear the sweet echo of thy voice.
Could you... do something about that acting?
You are my lover.
You really have to put a little more feeling into it.
I have errands to do.
H-Hey! Wai-
Oh, Odin! No, Juliet!
Nothing to do?
No...
Here! Could you read this part of the manuscript?
Um... I... I don't think I'm in the mood...
Honestly, every last one of you!
It's so dreary, it should be outlawed!
I came along because Mantua is a resort town!
Yet day after day after day, all they talk about is doom and gloom!
How is this any different from being in Neo Verona?
When can I meet a handsome, charming nobleman of my own?!
Move out of the way!
Sorry!
This is the remainder of the payment.
Thanks for your business.
So...
When did you hear that tale?
I heard talk of it two or three days ago.
The Gradisca miners, they're criminals thrown out of the city, you know.
And what do you know, they're in that abandoned village.
Elbe village...
Hey, Romeo.
You really planning for us to make a life here?
This parched soil?
Reality is not so easy.
Do you really think we can survive in this village without ever seeing the future spread out before us?
Giovanni-
Stories of dreams won't put food in our bellies.
That's not what I meant!
These seeds will sprout in any soil, even during a drought.
With these, we can make it through the winter,
and by spring the village ought to be taking shape.
And then we will be able to call everyone's family here.
Family...?
I want to create a village where all your families can laugh and live together.
There was once a rich life in this village...
Damn it! If I can see my family's faces once before I die...
Well then...
What shall we start with, boss?
The miners are in Elbe village?
Indeed, I heard that the Grand Duke's son was exiled to the mines.
I'll tell Francisco and the others.
Understood, Sir.
Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye than ten, than twenty of their swords!
Look thou but sweet on me, and I would never die!
Then deny thy father,
and refuse thy name!
What is this?
Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love-
My new work-in-progress.
Once I arrived here, my pen suddenly had wings!
The work of a lifetime, a pure love story!
If thou dost banish me,
"banished" is banished from the world,
It seems to be a story that I've heard somewhere before.
purgatory, torture, hell itself!
If we performed this in Neo Verona, the Duke would be crazed with rage.
Crazed with rage?
Yes.
For such treasure as thee,
I would adventure as far as that vast shore
wash'd with the furthest sea-
J-Just a moment, Emilia-
There are people-
The stage moves the hearts of people.
Pay them no heed.
For a short period only, many people's hearts...
...can be moved to feel anger, joy, full of hatred or grief!
And so, in the right hands, it can become a very dangerous...
...weapon, as well.
I see.
Intriguing.
Ow, my back!
I should've carried water.
Here's the water!
Good! Go!
Hey, there's not enough water!
Need help?
Scat, scat!
Out of the way, please!
What is the meaning of this, Lord William?
Oh? You didn't know?
It's a play, a play!
Weren't you listening?
Francisco, what is the-
Oh, don't be such a fusspot.
The citizens of Mantua need a little amusement, that's all!
What are you planning to start here? For God's sakes.
Shush. It won't hurt.
Good, good. Everyone, look at your scripts, please.
I'm in it too?
And me?
W-Wait, what is this?
Why am I the heroine's nurse?
But you see-
Antonio as the lover would hardly be well balanced with you!
Here, Regan.
I'm in it too?
Of course. You're the story's heroine.
Young people these days are completely unfathomable!
And now, we still need a despotic king!
I won't do it!
Oh, that's right, Curio!
You can draw, can you not?
I did that as a child.
But Cu-ri-o!
I want to make handbills for publicity!
Lend a hand!
Stop that!
Disgusting!
Romeo! What is it?
I'll be right back.
Chief Paulo.
I'm no longer a Chief!
Won't you come and eat with us over there?
With this kind of land, growing a field or two won't bring us a single penny.
All this time, I served the Grand Duke; for Neo Verona.
God damn it.
Everyone here is living for themselves.
Living a rich life, not bound by anything.
That's all.
Will you work with us?
I'd like to get more out of the fields and there's also the issue of water.
I need your managerial skills in order to reclaim this village.
There's no better time than now to send him to hell.
There is no justice in this corrupt world!
Even the glitter of thy sword is nothing but mere gilding.
There is nothing false in the shining of this sword!
No! No! No good at all!
Juliet! You are a Paladin of Justice that has come to slay the evil King!
A-All right...
Get it right! Honestly!
Not because I hate him.
Do you not hate him?
The man who killed your family for his own ambitions?
Because I love.
Because I came to love his son, Romeo,
there is no more hatred in me.
But for the Capulet House...
For the sake of Neo Verona's people...
I will... kill Montague...!
Hey.
Yes? What is the matter?
You. What do you want from Juliet?
For me, Juliet is the one and only hope.
Hope?
I want to see the new Neo Verona that Juliet will build.
That's all.
Is that a hope that can only be gained by Juliet's sacrifice?
What about her happiness?
Of course I want Juliet to be happy.
Juliet's happiness or Neo Verona's future...
...if you had to choose one, which would it be?
Juliet will never be happy unless Neo Verona is rebuilt.
For that purpose,
there is no sacrifice I would not make.
Even my life...
...I'm willing to forfeit.
Is that your way of showing your love?
Bull's-eye, I see.
I never thought that I'd hear such words from your mouth.
Chasing skirts, teasing me; they were both just ways of hiding how you felt?
Coward.
I don't know how.
I don't know what to do... to change this love into something real.
That's a tricky one.
The two of us have never learned anything beyond the sword.
They say love is self-taught.
Today's public performance is free to all!
Come and see!
I'm in it too!
My, my!
That's not easy!
Here, take a handbill!
Wait, don't rush!
Public performance today! Here are handbills!
You'll all get a turn!
Please.
Please!
Performance today!
Please! Come and see!
That's right!
Did you know the people from the mine are staying in Elbe village?
That's right nearby! Scary, huh?
Why not, Juliet?
Romeo's so near!
But right now, I shouldn't leave.
But...
...you so want to see him again!
The more you hold them in, the more those feelings will grow.
Tonight, when the curtain falls, you'll be Mantua's darling.
And then going to meet him... may no longer be possible.
Follow your own heart.
Nobody will blame you.
Juliet!
Thank you.
I'll go!
I'll take you.
I can't let someone go alone into the cave of those mountain monkeys.
Go and squeeze him in your arms, my dear!
I'll be back before curtain!
Truth is more passionate than fiction!
Romeo...
I can see Romeo!
Hey, what's that?
Montague soldiers?
No, they're not.
They're heading for Romeo's house!
H-Hey!
In such neglected soil...
Romeo...
Romeo is here!
Don't come out!
Hide inside the house!
Hey, that girl!
Could that be Lord Romeo's...?
Don't tell me she's the handkerchief girl?
Yeah, she must be!
Lord... Romeo?
Handkerchief...?
Beautiful...
A fine village.
None of this would be here if it weren't for Romeo.
And not just the fields.
He gave us all a reason to live!
We have a place to come home to!
Romeo...
Romeo carved out a new path, with his own strength!
Yet just when he's needed the most... where is he?
He's probably there again.
Lately, he's always going there when something happens.
Once the crops have grown, I think I'll scatter some flower seeds next.
I'll fill the village with flowers.
If I were Juliet,
what flower would I want?
I wonder...
I prefer fields of flowers.
But if you could only give one...
Juliet...
Give me a rose...
Romeo!
Crimson soul of valor,
bearing the weight of a pride to show before all.
Once more, we will raise the Wind of Truth.
The hope called "today," entrusted to us...
Oh my friend, I can hear your voice now.
Next time, Romeo and Juliet, Act Nineteen:
"Inheritance" ~If Any Will, We Will~
Is this truly a love that shall never bear fruit?