Yeah, it's currently in production.
How are things proceeding on your end?
Reporting in!
I've currently got great surveillance on the Azure Brigade's main base, Uranus Castle.
Marquis Conrad just left for the imperial capital moments ago.
Looks like he's hoping to petition for an opportunity to rejoin the empire.
Well, not much we can do there.
So what about the you-know-what?
I've found it!
I see.
In that case, make sure you're out of there before matters are set in motion.
Roger that.
With the Azure Brigade reforging ties with the empire,
it's dangerous to be here.
However...
High School Prodigies Have It Easy Even In Another World!
It Seems Keine Can't Stand Naughty Boys!
Is this... an epidemic?
Miasma enters through the wounds and eventually causes death.
Keine called it septicemia.
Doctor, please save my daughter!
Unfortunately... we're out of holy water.
That can't be!
Holy water?
It's a medicine Keine created that she calls antibiotics.
We've had so many patients that production can't keep up.
Mama, where are you?
I'm here!
I'm right here!
It hurts.
Akatsuki!
Please, save my Melinda!
Please!
I don't have the power to save these people...
What a cold-hearted god!
Forsaking an ailing child.
This is practically a sight out of hell.
I see the god of the Seven-Light Faith
has no intention of saving the people who suffer from this plague.
Who are those people?
Members of the Medical Guild in Gustave.
Indeed.
I am the head of the Medical Guild, Serentius.
Would you like us to save her for you?
Huh?!
If you use this secret medicine,
you'll be able to relieve your child of their pain.
Count Serentius, that's...
P-Please!
Please save my child!
As if!
I do apologize!
The use of our secret medicine, opium,
has been forbidden by the Seven-Light Faith's angel, Keine!
How could you...
If you must,
then resent the Seven-Light Faith, which leaves the ill to suffer.
You bastards!
Lowly humans.
Who ever said that we would not save this child?
We will save her indeed!
We will save this girl, and all of the other patients as well,
through the miracle of the healing power that I have bestowed upon my angel, Keine!
Huh?
Precisely, Akatsuki.
Keine!
Save them?
How?
You're out of your holy water, aren't you?
You're right.
We can't supply the necessary amount of penicillin, or what you call holy water.
Which is why I'll be making medicine with this.
That's... coal?
You're going to make medicine from a rock?
This is terrific!
That's an angel for you!
Very well.
However, if your medicine fails to treat it,
then you'll have to lift your ban on our opium!
Yes, that won't be a problem.
Th-Thank you so much, angel!
No, I've only soothed her pain.
People don't accept death that easily.
So please don't give up and continue to encourage Melinda.
Yes!
I'm sorry.
He was ticking me off, so I went and ran my mouth.
No, you did well.
That's our God, Akatsuki!
Can you really create medicine from coal, though?
Of course.
You can make the miracle drug that once defeated septicemia,
the "magic bullet."
We're going to make the medicine ourselves?
Isn't it better to ask Ringo to handle something like this?
It is.
However, she's currently spending all of her time on that one project.
Sorry for the wait!
Lyrule?
I was planning to borrow Lyrule's magic power for this.
Her magic?
Yes.
After some discussion with Tsukasa and Ringo,
we've concluded that magic in this world is a technology
that acts upon substances at the atomic level.
In which case, controlling the chemical reactions of substances,
or the manufacture of medicines, should be possible.
If my magic can help, then I'll do it!
Well, let's get started, then.
First, we steam the coal, and separate out the coke and the coal tar.
Yes!
There's something black and syrupy...
That's good.
Now heat up that coal tar and transfer the steam from it to that pot there.
Yes!
Well done.
That's benzene.
It's pretty.
You'll die if you breathe in too much of it, so please be careful.
I'll die?!
Is this really gonna work?
I have no idea.
Next, we're going to use this sulfuric acid.
You'll melt to death if you touch it, so make certain you don't.
I'll melt and die?!
Next we add in this ammonia water.
This smells like pee.
Yes, because it is like incredibly condensed pee.
I-I am making medicine, aren't I?!
Yes, of course you are.
It's finished.
So that powder's the medicine?
Yes,
this is human history's first synthesized antimicrobial,
the magic bullet, sulfonamide.
Now, everyone, administer this sulfonamide to every patient.
Yes!
Mama?
Melinda?!
Temperature, pulse, and breathing all stable.
She'll be fine now.
Angel!
Thank you so very much!
No, you're the one who saved Melinda.
Huh?
Sulfonamide only stops the growth of pathogens.
It was Melinda's own vitality that defeated the pathogens within her.
This girl was able to keep fighting them off
thanks to you encouraging her as her mother.
You both won this battle.
What a naughty boy.
To think she'd honestly create medicine from a rock!
At this rate, we'll be out of business!
What do we do, Count?!
That medicine was made by their mage woman, wasn't it?
That's what I hear.
Then threaten that girl and get her to change the medicine into poison.
I don't care if you have to torture her.
Once patients start dying from the Seven-Light Faith's medicine,
their power and reputation will be gone.
I knew you all would come to an idea like that.
Good evening, Count Serentius.
Wh-Why are you here?!
Please don't be so wary of me.
I've only come here to persuade you.
M-My body won't move?!
What are you planning to do?!
I told you, didn't I?
I'm only here to persuade you.
Directly through your brain.
Did you know it's possible to change a person's
opinions, personality, and everything else to suit your needs?
It's easy when you tinker with their brain.
A-All right!
I'll give up on the opium!
I'll serve you for the rest of my life!
Just please spare me!
Don't be so frightened.
The anesthesia will kick in soon.
D-Demon!
That's right.
That label suits me far better than angel.
To be honest, I despise God so much, I wish I could kill him.
As a doctor, I've openly thought,
"If God had only created mankind with proper, healthy minds and bodies,
then mankind would never have to suffer from diseases or wars."
I find it unforgivable
that our incompetent creator would make such endearing beings with so many flaws!
So I intend to correct all of his ineptitude.
I will grant these weak bodies destined for death an eternal life.
I will patch those weak minds that dare to hurt others into perfect minds.
And in doing so, I will create a world
where all are free of flaws and deficiencies.
Thank you!
I'm truly glad you're doing better!
A patient's smile is the greatest medal of honor, Lady Keine!
Yes, it is.
Yes!
Our Medical Guild will support the Seven-Light Faith with all our power!
Now, off to work, off to work!
I heard his values had changed after he was attacked by robbers in his mansion,
but he feels like a completely different person, and it's kind of creepy.
Try to get along with him, though.
He's a very good boy now.
It's been a long time, Conrad.
I'm truly grateful that you've made time in your busy schedule to see me, General Neuro!
Don't be so tense.
I have no intention of chastising the Azure Brigade.
While I acknowledged Gustave's loyalty to His Majesty,
there are limits to everything.
Allowing one's domain to starve and grow frail is out of the question.
The Azure Brigade simply killed and consumed the weak Gustave.
That's well within the empire's policy of survival of the fittest.
It's commendable, even.
Th-Then you mean we—
However, the Seven Light-Faith... They are unacceptable.
That reminds me. I hear the Azure Brigade is working with the Seven-Light Faith.
That's...
I jest.
Your Azure Brigade
currently lacks the forces to fight against the Seven-Light Faith, right?
Y-Yes!
So we shall supplement your forces.
This is my adjutant, Tanganika.
Show him your power.
That's...
That's just like L'age Soleil?
It is a bona-fide L'age Soleil.
H-He can manifest L'age Soleil, that grand magic, in an instant?
I'll lend this exceptional mage to the Azure Brigade to support you.
I'll even send 10,000 troops as reinforcements.
With those forces on your side,
you won't need to bow down to the Seven-Light Faith any longer, will you?
Yes!
We shall surely eliminate those impudent fools defying the empire!
Only one man is fit to stand above the people in all the lands,
His Imperial Majesty Lindworm.
The Seven-Light Faith, which proclaims false gods and preaches equality for all
will not be tolerated.
Looks like you finished it.
Thank you, Ringo.
Yeah. Though...
was it really a good idea to bring one of these into this world?
Ringo.
What do you think it takes to create a nation?
I don't know.
Nothing.
Huh?
For example, say some children build a secret base
and declare that base to be their own nation.
In that very moment, we witness the birth of a nation of children.
R-Really?
Naturally, though, the adults around them won't stand for it.
They'll destroy the secret base,
scold the children, and the nation of children will collapse.
It's very easy to found a nation,
but it takes power to maintain its sovereignty.
Count Blumhardt,
I will make sure the Azure Brigade you created changes the empire...
into a nation where people can live more humanely.
Raisenach?
I thought you headed out to help rebuild the impoverished villages?
Oh, I finished that up sooner than expected.
Then where's Count Conrad?
He headed straight to his meeting.
Are you sure you shouldn't be with him as his guard?
Yeah, we were given other orders.
You dodged it? What a pain.
What do you think you're doing?!
I told you. Following orders.
To kill you.
Why me?!
Don't any of you interfere.
I'll put her down myself.
Do you really think that's going to work?!
Shoot her!
This is cowardly, Raisenach!
Shut up.
Have you no pride as a knight?!
Both lord and retainer are so naive!
Blumhardt said the exact same thing as he died.
Have I no pride as a knight? Hah!
What do you mean?
You're dense.
I'm telling you that I'm the one who killed Blumhardt.
Wha?!
Though, really, Gustave went too far.
If you kill off the peasants,
then who are we supposed to wring taxes out of?
You scumbag!
It'd be a waste to just kill her.
Yeah, have at her.
Man, this is exciting.
Make some nice screams for us, too.
Stop!
What?
Looks like I made it in the nick of time!
Yoohoo!
Been a while, Jeanne!
Shinobu?!
This looks like a purge of the doves in the Azure Brigade.
The Azure Brigade has decided to rejoin the empire
and fight the Seven-Light Faith, right?
Troublesome woman.
Shinobu, why?
Because we're friends.
Let's go, Jeanne.
Yes!
Little shits.
One extra person won't make any difference!
Jeanne!
That sword...
Yes.
It was Count Blumhardt's sword.
I asked to have it as a memento after the last battle.
You really looked up to the Count, huh?
I'm the woman I am today because of Count Blumhardt.
There's something I want you to see, Jeanne.
I can't believe there was a place like this beneath Uranus Castle.
It's an underground shelter only a few people know about.
It's the perfect place to hide secrets.
Secrets?
Is that...
the golden statue?
Count Conrad said he didn't know where it went, but he took it in secret.
The golden statue built from taxing the people until they were skin and bones...
He stole it?!
Count Blumhardt...
said the current empire was wrong.
He said survival of the fittest may be a law of nature,
but that makes us no different than animals.
He said that people should aid and support each other to live nobly.
The Azure Brigade was founded upon those ideals, so this...
The Azure Brigade may have changed,
but those ideals still remain as vividly as ever.
Deep within your heart.
Come with me.
The Seven-Light Faith will accept those sentiments you and the Count shared.
For the ideals of Count Blumhardt that dwell within this sword,
and for my own sake as well,
I shall accompany you.
Yeah!
Hide!
That's Count Conrad.
Also...
That can't be!