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[Novoland: Eagle Flag] [Based on a fiction by Jiang Nan]
[Episode 45]
Ji Ye
What took you so long?
I'm late.
What do you mean late?
It's good that you're here.
Come in quickly.
Old man, look who's here.
How'd he get this way?
How did you find your way here?
I just arrived on land, and ran into some Feather soldiers killing people.
Killing people?
Were they killed the well dressed nobles?
No, they're all girls about the same age as you.
What's he going to do with all those girls?
I saved them, and they old me you're living here.
He said that one of these girls
is the chosen Valkyrie.
What are you doing getting up? Take it slowly.
If that's the case,
Princess, your situation right now is very dangerous.
What does it have to do with Yu Ran?
Because Her Highness is likely the one Bo Mingke
wants to kill, the Valkyrie.
No, we need to find more people to help us.
We need helpers. I'll look for my old colleagues.
You should sit down.
Look at you, how can you go find your old colleagues?
Your main job now is to recuperate. If it's just looking for your old colleagues,
We'll go tomorrow.
Drink this.
If you don't drink it, I won't go looking for help.
Are you going to drink it or not?
Lie down. Lie down for a bit.
Don't worry. Tomorrow Ji Ye and I
will go out first thing in the morning, okay?
Remember, you have to go quickly.
I know it.
Stupid buffalo, what are you thinking about?
I was afraid you wouldn't receive my letter.
I'm sorry, I should have come look for you sooner.
Yi Tianzhan said you are some Valkyrie. Is that true?
I don't know.
A lot of things happened while you were gone.
I am not sure what's real and what's not anymore.
I'm by your side now, and that is real.
What about Asule and Little Zhou?
They are at Shangyang Pass. They are fine. Don't worry.
Little Zhou is a good person, Asule is
lucky to have her by his side.
I'm sorry, Yu Ran. At the mountain village, I didn't protect you well.
If we weren't separated then,
maybe things would have been different.
What nonsense are you saying?
Don't I look fine? I just came home.
I have finally found you.
No matter what happens in the future,
I will never leave your side again.
Really?
Yes.
I will also not leave your side.
Wait.
Miss is a kind person.
Old mister... you-
This spear seems to belong to your friend.
How did you get this spear?
Who are you?
Like what the young miss is seeing,
I am only a wanderer without a home.
You know the owner of this spear?
No, I found this spear
while I was in the shrine the other day. This is a good spear.
It must be looking for its owner.
It hasn't completed what it's destined to do
so it can not be forgotten.
Mister, are you also a Feather Tribesman?
No.
I wanted to go to the Wan Province from the Shang Province,
but my boat was hit by a storm while at sea,
Luckily I didn't die. I held on to the mast and floated over here.
Mister wandered here by mistake,
but it seems like you are also not in a hurry to leave.
The journey is long, there's no reason to hurry.
Old mister, are you aware of the current situation in the Qing Province?
I think what's happening around here is no different than what'd happened in Eastland.
Are those feather people used to it?
Qing Province right now
is indeed not too different from the Hua Tribe in Eastland.
It's because of Bo Minkei's authoritarian rule. It's just as you said,
they eat Eastland's food and use Eastland's tools.
Those Feather Tribesmen that can't adapt to it have died.
Why didn't anyone resist?
You saw it when you landed at Qing Province.
That's how those resisters ended.
I saw people with huge wounds on shoulder blades.
What are those people?
Those used to be their wings.
Bo Minkei thinks any Feather Tribesman who can grow wings are evil,
so they must be killed.
There were some that tried to beg but
they were enslaved
After they finish their hard work every day,
they can live an extra day.
As I have said,
dust to dust, earth to earth,
we will eventually come to
the end of this long journey.
My guards told me
Your Highness has seen how the regular folks live now.
Tell me, do you still think I'm the tyrannical maniac?
Qing Province has changed a lot,
but it's still ruins everywhere.
Thank you for keeping this room as it is for me.
But don't be mistaken that we have formed a partnership.
We are not in the same camp after all.
Feather Emperor, I have a military report.
Speak.
We've been searching for girls born on the 14th of the Winter Month in the fifth year of Feather Blaze dynasty.
The several tens of them found in Stark City have all been executed.
Very well.
Bo Minkei, what are you doing?
Why did you kill those girls?
Your Highness, think for my sake.
Feather Blaze dynasty's fifth year, the 14th of Winter Month,
what date is that?
Do you remember now?
Eighteen years ago?
Blaze Feather dynasty's fifth year...
I don't have much recollection anymore.
Blaze Feather dynasty's fourth year, the 14th of Winter Month,
something big happened at that time.
That is Yu Ran's birth date.
Are you telling the truth, Your Highness?
Do you think I would lie about this?
I believe you.
Don't you want to know why I execute the girls born on that day?
So do you want to tell me or not?
You are my most trusted so I don't mind telling you.
The real killer of the emperor
is actually me.
You came to the palace as a hostage. On the surface, the Feather Emperor raised you with kindness.
Actually, it was his way to control the Gong family.
In the palace, you hardly saw each other a few times, not to mention raising you.
Before the Feather Emperor died, he told me
the most beautiful dancer in the world will kill me.
You know too,
what is meant by the most beautiful dancer is Valkyrie.
And the most likely person to become Valkyrie
is from the Feather Emperor's bloodline.
Do you mean Yu Ran?
I've lived with her over a dozen years,
she doesn't know how to dance. It's impossible that she is Valkyrie.
I will find out if she really is Valkyrie.
You don't have to rush to refute it.
I do have a question for you.
What if someday your closest relative is no longer close to you
and actually become your stumbling block, what would you do?
I don't understand what you mean.
Come, let me show you something.
Back then, you were severely scolded just
for putting on a fake crown of flowers.
Now it won't happen.
I will officially and openly put the real floral crown on you.
Do you know why I choose you?
The reason that I invited you here
is because the youthful love inside me is still alive.
This love has never changed after all these years.
The reason that I'm telling you the truth, and have invited you after everything has been prepared,
is because I want you to jointly rule Qing Province
and make you the Empress of Qing Province.
Your Highness has been living in South Huai many years, but you are not a Lower Tang person.
Baili Jinghong is using you as his State Preceptor.
But I'm different from Baili Jinghong.
You strategized for him to rule the world,
but I will share the world with you.
Reporting, My Lord.
Ever since Ying Wuyi returned to Li State,
Thunder Calvary has not made any movement.
Reporting, My Lord.
There have been refugees continuing coming from Qing Province across the Tiantuo sea.
Qing Province is far and there is scant news.
Reporting, My Lord.
The fifty officials from Lower Tang
have entered the royal court to hold ministerial positions.
Now your command is communicated smoothly, all the departments and ministries are under control.
You can all leave.
We shall take our leave.
Old Man. Old Man.
Look at what I've brought back for you?
However, we haven't found any of your old colleagues.
Perhaps they've all been killed by Bo Minkei.
Old Man, how are you feeling now?
Look, we've found the spear for you.
You should get well soon.
Old Man, do you remember that you previously told me
the Snow Cranes only listen to Valkyrie.
Then is there a way for Valkyrie
to save the fossilized Snow Cranes?
Do you remember, in the mountain village,
the dance you danced during the wedding?
When you accidentally danced those moves,
I was sure you are Valkyrie.
That dance is called Taigelise's dance.
According the the legend, when the real Valkyrie dances inside the Taigelise's Divine Temple
at a spot that's closes to the moon,
even the Feather Tribesmen without wings
will suddenly grow wings and fly.
Why haven't you told me already?
If I had known it,
I would just go to the divine temple
and dance that dance.
We'll see if we can wake up the Snow Cranes.
If that dance can really work,
the price you'd have to pay is too high.
What is the price?
Snow Cranes and all the Feather Tribesmen in Qing Province
will kneel to Your Highness,
at that moment, you can only become Valkyrie.
There will be no other choice.
What does no other choice mean?
She will stay alone all her life
and live in a sacred temple inside the forest,
never to marry,
never to have a son or daughter,
and devote yourself to Heaven.
All of Feather Tribe
will worship you as a Goddess
who will live all alone in the forest for the rest of your life.
This is just a legend, right?
Has there ever been a Valkyrie?
Behind the divine temple is the forest where Valkyrie has lived.
In there, is also where the past Valkyries
were buried.
It's because that I know
the price to pay to become Valkyrie,
when I stepped on Qing Province's land, I decided
that I wouldn't tell you the truth.
Yu Ran, I need to tell you something.
Auntie.
What's the matter?
Nothing. You haven't come see me for many days now. Don't you miss me?
Come. Sit.
I need to tell you something.
What is it?
I will be marrying Bo Minkei.
He promised me that we will jointly rule Qing Province.
It's a condition he made.
Auntie, are you crazy?
How can you marry that evil person?
I am very clear-headed.
Then what about Lord Baili?
I am just marrying him.
It doesn't mean that I love him.
But don't you want to marry someone you love?
Yu Ran, why are you still so childish like you were in South Huai?
You haven't matured after these years.
I took you to Lower Tang and lived as guests.
It's for this moment.
The moment when we can restore our country.
The opportunity has arrived.
How can I not take it?
But, Auntie, don't you remember he's the one that fossilized Snow Cranes?
What kind of person he is
doesn't matter to me at all.
As long as he can give me what I want, it's enough.
The ancestors of Feather Tribe could only live in the forest.
When war arises, they had to escape and hide.
Bo Minke rules Qing Provinces with Eatland's culture.
We can pick up heavy swards again.
I think it's quite good.
What about those Feather Tribesmen?
Their wings got cut.
They're forced to change their way of life.
Don't you find any of it not right?
Auntie, don't forget.
You are also a Feather Tribesperson who has wings.
Then I will be
the last winged person of Feather Tribe.
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I've prepared a ship.
You and Ji Ye
can return to Eastland together.
Don't come back. It's best you go as far as you can.
From now on you can live a peaceful life.
Since you like her, take her away.
The farther it is, the better. Qing Province isn't hers.
It has nothing to do with you, either.
Yu Ran, leave as soon as you can.
Yu Ran.
Why are you up? Why don't you rest inside.
Ji Ye, I want to chat with you.
I owe you an explanation about what happened at the mountain village.
I've made many mistakes in my life.
The rebellion failed, I was captured.
After I went to South Huai, I took a lot of effort
to get the Blue Cloud Ancient Tooth sword.
Later, I went to the capital city.
It was also my own greed
that hurt Chief Leader.
into dying in that chaos.
And now, I've hurt Princess and led her into a quagmire.
You deserve to die many times for these mistakes.
If you weren't severely injured, I would have counted each one with you.
You don't need to waste your time.
I won't live much longer.
I am sure.
I've made so many mistakes,
but there is only one choice
that I will never regret even when I die.
That is becoming a Heavenly Samurai.
Persisting in the conviction to carry a torch in a strong opposing wind,
safeguard all the people in peace and harmony.
Many people view Heavenly Samurai as old-fashioned
and even stubborn to a fault,
but our ideal
never changes,
and we have never give it up.
Ideal?
Ideal.
What is your ideal?
When I was young, my ideal
was to achieve merit , establish fame,
- and defeat all those people that looked down at me. - Then have you thought about
someday, when you have achieved honors and fame,
even become a noble or king,
but you suddenly realize there isn't anyone around you that you could share your deepest thoughts,
wouldn't it be sad?
Actually, I see my own shadow in you.
That's why I taught you how to use the spear.
However, I don't want you
to become such a stubborn person like me.
I am about to die.
I want to tell you, an ideal isn't about
you taking your spear to conquer the whole world.
It's about using your spear
to help the one you want to help.
Your Highness.
I thought you were visiting the people in Qing Province.
You actually went to see your niece.
She is my niece, of course I care about her safety.
Have I violated your rules?
Of course not.
I've told you, you are free here.
Free?
Then why have you assigned people to monitor me?
Ever since I've come to Qing Province, it's been you making demands upon me.
Today, I'm here to offer a condition.
Please say it, Your Highness.
I agree to marry you right away.
But Yu Ran isn't any Valkyrie.
Let her go.
I guarantee that she won't step on Qing Province again.
All of you can leave.
Yes.
Why are you here?
I want your despicable life.
Have your wounds recovered?
Sir Gumo, why do you always overestimate yourself?
All these years, you keep wanting to vindicate yourself.
But why don't you look at yourself?
You killed the previous Feather Emperor, and now you want to kill me?
Sure.
Take it.
Take it. Take it.
You can't even pick up the spear.
How can you kill me?
A Feather Tribesman would rather die than suffer the humiliation.
Go ahead and do it.
Are you still a Feather Tribesman?
You can't grow wings.
You can't hold the spear. How are you different from a disabled person?
I know.
You want to have an honored end like the Snow Cranes.
I'll tell you, you don't deserve it.
You only deserve to die a lowly death in earth.
I beg you, kill me.
I won't kill you.
I want you to stay alive.
Your Highness.
Please announce for me. I want to see Gong Yuyi.
Only you can enter.
No one else is allowed to enter.
Just wait for me here.
I'll be back very soon.
Welcome, Princess.
What are you doing here? Where is my aunt?
Follow me.
What are you doing?
You should understand what I want to do.
You just need to open your eyes wide to watch a good show.
Let go of them!
What are you doing?
They were saved by your friend from Eastland.
But Qing Province is my land. Where can they hide?
Why did you kill them?
It's all because of you.
My sister.
I am not your sister.
My mother was a commoner girl in the Feather Tribe.
After she gave birth to me,
Feather Emperor refused to acknowledge her and bestowed death to her.
Feather Emperor kept me by his side to be a Snow Crane.
It was just to humiliate me.
How could someone who can't grow wings become a Snow Crane?
So, tell me, shouldn't such a terrible person
deserve to die?
Do you want to know why I don't kill you?
- What are you doing? - Come here!
Come here!
Look! Look!
No!
- No! - Look!
No!
I want you to remember that they died because of you.
No!
Not me!
Before Feather Emperor died, he said something stupid.
He said that the future Valkyrie will personally end my life.
Not me!
And you, my sister,
is the mos likely to become that.
So, anyone who is born on your birth date
must die.
Not me!
My sister.
Can you feel my pain now?
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