Here's our tax reform plan.
Please implement it at once.
We'll be abandoning the class system and implementing a new code of laws.
Any objections?
Good.
Now, for our next reform,
we'll be referring to these...
Thank you.
You may rest now.
I certainly will.
Did you need something?
When do you get any sleep?
Oh, that's all?
Everyone's saying that the angel of the Seven-Light Faith never sleeps.
Watching the way you work, it's easy to believe they're right.
Well, I am working you nobles-turned-government-officials very hard.
I can't ask that of you and then go around taking naps, right?
Don't worry, though. I do get some rest.
I just make it a point to rest after the work is done.
High School Prodigies Have It Easy Even In Another World!
It Seems Lyrule's Growing Closer to Him!
He's recovering well.
Man, you're impressive.
His guts were laid out for a moment there,
and now he's doing so well.
Right?
Ow! You're always so rough!
I am your daughter, after all!
Jeez...
I really owe you a lot, Doctor Keine.
I only did my job as a doctor.
We can't have you sleeping forever.
Some big things have happened while you were asleep.
Yeah, our village picked a fight with the Empire, for one.
You missed out on something really cool!
I need to heal up quickly and join the next battle!
If you plan on overexerting yourself,
I'll have you go back to sleep for a while longer.
Good grief.
Please take better care of your body.
Sorry.
Roo?
What's the matter?
One times five is... five.
I'm alive again!
What have you been doing, going without food or water?
My teacher's giving me a multiplication test,
so I'm trying to memorize this tables thing.
"Tables thing"?
It's a song about multiplication.
Memorizing it helps make learning multiplication easier.
Multiplication, huh.
Multiplication, huh?
I'm not great at it, either.
You'll be fine, Roo!
You can make a living just fine without knowing how to multiply!
Uh-huh! Just like us!
Good examples of bad adults...
My teacher told me tables are a merchant's foundation.
But I just can't memorize them at all...
The basics are important in everything.
So you'll just have to keep at it and study more.
Looks like the power plant's coming along well.
We managed to secure a large amount of coal, too.
I'm storing the power it generates in high-capacity batteries
taken from our miniature nuclear reactor.
We'll be starting the trial run tomorrow, bear!
Then that takes care of our power generation issue.
Thank you, Ringo.
In that case, I'll move on to the next project, okay?
I'm counting on you.
Bye-bye, bear!
Next project?
The production of machine tools like a lathe and a milling machine.
For the battles in spring,
I'm planning to equip a portion of our squads with guns.
Modernizing our military, huh?
Wait, why not build an automatic manufacturing plant?
Well, I'd like the people of this world to make guns and gunpowder
with their own hands as much as possible.
This is their fight, after all.
I see.
If we just handed them freedom on a silver platter,
it wouldn't mean anything.
Exactly.
Besides, we need Ringo to construct an aerial defense system as quickly as possible.
Aerial defense?
You think missiles are going to fly our way? In this world?
This world has its own version of aerial warfare, with magic and dragons.
We need to be wary of the skies.
Besides, I received a curious report from Shinobu.
Heaven's Flames?
Uh-huh!
It's a tactical spell with the force to obliterate an entire city.
The governor of the northern lands, Oslo El Gustave,
used Heaven's Flames in the previous war,
creating seas of fire in the cities of his enemy's nation.
The governor of the northern lands, huh?
Sounds like there's a strong possibility
he'll chuck this Heaven's Flames at us here, in Dormundt.
Exactly.
Tsukasa!
Lyrule?
Didn't you go back to Elm Village with Winona and the others?
Well, this whole war started because of me,
so I wanted to be useful to you all in some way.
Which is why I'm helping to distribute food right now.
I see.
Thank you. This is a big help.
Um, Tsukasa?
What is it?
If you wouldn't mind,
could we have lunch together?
I wanted to thank you properly for saving me.
I appreciate the offer, but I'll just accept the sentiment for now.
I have a meeting I need to attend,
so I have to head back right away.
Masato, do you think Tsukasa hates me?
No way. He's just busy.
You think so?
I get the feeling he's keeping me at a distance.
Lyrule...
I suppose he must be mad.
Since I did trigger this war...
That's not true.
Then does he find my ears creepy?
Calm down.
Everything's fine.
But, but...
It's honestly not something to cry over like that!
But I'm so worried...
Look, he's just having trouble facing you because he feels guilty.
Huh?
When everyone in the village wanted to rescue you,
he was the only one who spoke up to suggest abandoning you.
I didn't know that...
Please don't get the wrong idea, though.
It wasn't because he didn't want to save you.
He made that suggestion out of concern for the village as a whole.
Yes, I understand.
He always prioritizes the happiness of the majority,
even when that would mean sacrificing those precious to him.
It's something I'll never understand.
To be frank, I think he's crazy.
But, well, you know!
That idiot's just lost in himself, so leave him be for a while and he'll be fine.
I'm sorry.
You asked for building-age assessments,
but the craftsmen that accompanied us said they couldn't make them any more precise.
Okay.
This is important information for urban development and improvement.
You did a good job on this difficult task.
You can take tomorrow off.
Get some rest.
Thank you very much!
I guess I've been pushing myself too hard.
Who is it?
It's me, Lyrule.
Do you have some time right now?
I'm sorry, but I have a busy day tomorrow,
so I was planning to turn in early tonight.
Could you come back some other time?
I understand.
If you're about to sleep, then you're done with work for today, right?
Huh?
Pardon me!
I-Is this something that urgent?
Yes. Please let me repay you.
Repay me, you say?
Any way is fine.
I'm willing to do anything I can!
You don't need to.
I tried to abandon you.
I know.
But that doesn't matter.
If putting up with it all by myself meant saving everyone else in the village,
then that's what I would have wanted, too.
Yet...
despite that, you still came to save me.
So please let me thank you. at least.
I'm not the kind of man you think I am.
That's not true!
You're a very kind person!
You gave us mayonnaise, thinking of the children.
You were also the one who drove off those violent men!
Even when the Chief of the Forest attacked,
you thought about everyone in Elm Village!
You're...
You're a good person!
I killed my own father, you know.
When I was young, I admired my father, a politician.
However, one day I discovered something.
I discovered that his power
was built upon such corruption that I wished I'd never found out.
I couldn't forgive my father for deceiving the people and abusing his power.
Former Prime Minister Mikogami Arrested
I worked with Shinobu and the Merchant to expose my father's wrongdoing.
He was put to trial
and sentenced to death.
You must be insane!
In prioritizing justice for the people,
I had, in fact, driven my father to his death.
My mother still hates me for what I did.
Of course she would.
Even if my father committed those crimes, he was still the man she loved.
However,
I can't forgive my father for what he did.
Why are you crying?
I'm sorry. I...
Just thinking about how you must have felt...
made me so sad...
How could you go that far? Doesn't it hurt?
It does.
But I don't regret it.
Because the type of politician I'm striving to be
is one only possible for a selfless saint.
Tsukasa...
I'm sorry.
That wasn't a very pleasant story.
Lyrule?
Tsukasa, you are selfish.
You're feeling guilt of your own making and distancing yourself from me.
You might believe it's only natural for me to hate you now,
but I'll never let it turn out that way!
I won't ever hate you, Tsukasa!
You win. I give in.
You mean...
Then I'm going to have you take on a slightly difficult task.
Brace yourself for it.
Huh?
Um, Tsukasa, wh-what is...?
You did say you'd do anything for me.
I should be able to get three hours worth of rest in an hour like this.
O-Okay, then. You can sleep here all night, not just one hour!
That will wear your legs out.
You can wake me up if they start to hurt.
Yes.
Thank you, Lyrule.
Huh?
For crying for me.
It made me feel a little better.
Sure.
Huh? Ringo?
Huh? Are you already done talking to Tsukasa?
Hey, Ringo, I thought you were going to hand over the material list
and consult him on the production system?
I don't think you were in there long enough to do that, bear!
Were you not able to talk to him, bear?
Do you need me to come with you, bear, bear, bear?
One times four is four. One times five is five. One times six is...
I don't understand tables at all!
Do not look this way, okay?!
I understand, so please make it quick.
Oh, you're both here?
Hey?! Wh-Why is Keine here, too?!
Oh, shut up and quit dawdling!
Would you just get in already?!
I'm a child of Edo, so I hate babbling and dawdling the most!
Man, I didn't expect you to be here, Roo.
Are you hurt?
No, just a little surprised.
This is all Akatsuki's fault for being stubborn.
This isn't right!
Why are you following me into the bath, too?!
You're the founder of the Seven-Light Faith.
In a sense, that makes you our lord.
So, naturally, you must be accompanied by a guard at all times.
Th-Then it still isn't right for Keine to get in the same bath with me!
Oh? I don't particularly mind.
I'm done.
Roo, you seem kind of down.
I can't memorize the tables...
You mean multiplication tables?
I need to pass my teacher's test on multiplication.
I see.
You're training to be a merchant, aren't you?
She's apprenticed to Masato.
Numbers just get all fuzzy and they won't go in my head...
Watching Roo work hard like that reminds me of my own training days.
I was all fed up when they had me just repeating sword forms.
Ah, I know what you mean.
Practicing magic was nothing but repetition, too.
Since I already knew the trick, it wasn't any fun at all.
That's true.
I had to memorize whole books on anatomy and medicine.
How did you all manage to push through it?
I had started learning the Ichijou Style of swordsmanship from a very young age...
but one day I found a goal for myself.
A goal?
I fell in love with a samurai drama called The Much Too Unfettered Shogun.
I wanted to become someone who could aid the powerless with their sword.
And you two?
Well, when I was in elementary school,
I had a feeling that this was the only thing for me.
I wonder what my goal is...
It's not that difficult to figure out.
It's basically what you want to do.
When there's something you want to do, all that's left is to work hard at it, right?
What I want to do?
There is something I want to do!
I'm going to work hard, too!
I'm going to work hard, memorize the tables, and defeat multiplication!
Indeed! That's the spirit!
I know. What's something you like, Roo?
Money!
O-Oh... Well, that works, too.
Numbers just tend to be a little abstract,
so why don't you try imagining money while doing your math?
Imagine money?
Yeah.
So for five times five, that would mean you have five stacks of five gold coins.
I know that! That's 25 coins!
I understand!
My!
R-Really?
Then how about seven times seven?
Forty-nine coins!
Huh, correct.
Then eight times nine?
Seventy-two coins!
Seriously?!
Th-Then...
Twenty-four times three hundred sixty-five!
8,760 coins!
C-Correct!
I did it!
I conquered multiplication!
Uh, Roo should've passed her multiplication test, right?
Surely.
Then why does she look like she's dead inside?
Apparently, her next test is division.
Ah...
The path to becoming a merchant is perilous.
Roo's coins keep going away...
I'm scared of division...
Listen, El.
This...
is the truth behind this village.
What is this?