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Ladies and gentlemen,\ngood evening.

The life of the young boy that\nwas sacrificed to my friend...

...was cradled in the pure soul's arms\nas it faded away.

And I rejoiced.

His soul has at long last\nbeen tainted.

Tainted by the fires of a remorse and hatred\nwhich will never fade.

Why, Franz?

You promised me that you wouldn't go away\nanymore without telling me, didn't you?

Franz... I couldn't bring myself to go to\nyour funeral no matter how hard I tried.

How could I? Right up until yesterday,\nyou were by my side.

You were always there for me\nwhen I needed you.

But now, all I have\nis this letter...

Why did it have to be you? Why was it you instead of me?!

C'mon, Franz, answer me... Just like you always do.

Say something... Say anything, Franz...

Act 19: Even if I Should Stop Being Me

Queen to F3.

Pawn, C7 to C6.

Danglars Bank stocks have posted\ntrading limit highs for several days now.

Knight to E4.

Queen, B6 to C7.

Every stock in his investment portfolio\nis on an explosive growth trend.

That Andrea kid did his job\na lot better than I expected.

Very well. We will start flooding\nhis investments with sell-offs.

The Paris market goes without saying,\nbut the Eastern,

...Kingdom, and Frontier\nmarkets, as well.

Keep flooding all of them with sell-offs\nin succession until each market closes.

Understood.

Pawn to C4.

By the way, Excellency...

Knight, D5 to E7.

Haidee wishes to speak\nwith you.

Count, I love you more\nthan I did my father.

I cannot bear to see you\nchange any further.

Please, continuing to do this would be...

Knight, E4 to G5.

Unnecessary pawns are to be\nsacrificed without mercy!

Knight to C8.

Everything that stands between me\nand my revenge! Without mercy!

Bertuccio! Take Haidee away!

Very good, Excellency.

Count! Did you only save me so that you\ncould use me as a tool for revenge?

You are not\nthat sort of man!

Count, I have faith in you! Count!

Count!

Pawn to C5.

The game is yours.

The end is almost\nupon us...

Just take a look at today's\nstock prices, Andrea!

I can't wipe the smile\nfrom my face!

I'm glad to hear it.

I owe my success to you. I'm in your debt.

Not at all.

More importantly, about the\nwedding ceremony...

She's being stubborn.

Something about a friend dying suddenly,\nso she can't get married anytime soon.

Honestly, I have no idea where that girl\ngets her stubborn streak from.

If that's the case, it's\nquite understandable.

That reminds me, how is\nher mother doing?

She's been bedridden for quite some time. Perhaps if I went and offered her my best...

Of course! If you were to keep her company, I'm sure it would take her mind off things!

I certainly hope that\nyou are right.

How much longer will our bank's assets\ncontinue to multiply like this? Right, Michelle?

Indeed.

Open the display!

Every last one of my stocks\nis humming along smoothly.

Albert.

Albert, listen to me. I'm thinking of leaving Paris.

Come with me\nto my home town.

Admittedly, life there won't be as\nextravagant as we're used to here.

If it's just the two of us, I have enough\nsaved away to at least keep us fed.

What about Father?

You're a real opportunist,\naren't you, Mother?

Albert!

I've had all I can take!

When you get right down to it, it's you and\nyour old friends' fault that this happened.

I got caught in the middle of you and\nyour old lovers' sick love triangle.

Who gives a damn about Edmond Dantes?!

Why are my friends and l... Why did Franz, of all people, have to die?!

Albert, where are\nyou going?

Beats me. Nowhere in particular.

It doesn't matter what\nhappens to me.

Everybody would be better off\nif I had died.

If you want to blame me for what happened,\ngo ahead and blame me for the rest of your life.

But you shouldn't... You shouldn't\nthink so little of yourself.

Permit, please.

I don't have one. They always\nlet me pass through.

You know, you really shouldn't go around\nthinking you're still an aristocrat.

Your ID number's already been revoked. You can't come and go as you please anymore.

What's going on here?!

What it looks like.

Like they say, a stupid father is gonna\nhave nothing but stupid kids.

Go get yourself\na permit.

That's assuming that they'll\neven give you one.

Good point.

You punk!

You fraudulent\npiece of crap!

Stop that! Get off my bike! Get your hands off it!

Hey!

You're fighting ME,\nremember?!

Don't think that you can still\nboss us around! Got it?!

This state is most unbecoming a\nbeautiful lady such as yourself.

It doesn't matter. I'm always alone.

Don't say such things.

Seeing you sad simply\ntears my heart in two.

Men always say things like that\nto try to make me feel better.

I will always be by your side. Mother.

Andrea...

Please, just for today... Just for now... Call me Victoria.

Victoria, then.

Punk!

Are you okay, Albert?

Franz? Franz, is that you?!

What's gotten into you? Are you okay?

Franz!

Hey, cut it out!

Thank goodness!

I'm so glad\nyou're all right...

Is this any time for you to be\nworrying about someone else?

C'mon, let's go home.

Albert! Happy birthday! Albert! Happy birthday!

Congratulations, Monsieur Albert.

Congratulations. What kept you?

What have you been up to? She's been waiting for you for ages!

Who do you mean?

Eugenie!

Albert, congratulations\non turning sixteen.

They're going at it\nin broad daylight!

Save that stuff for when you're\nin private, will ya?!

Ladies and gentlemen, allow me\nto introduce the man...

...without whom this party\nwould not be complete!

The man who saved Albert's life on Luna,\nthe Count of Monte Cristo!

Franz, we can't! We can't\ninvite this man to Paris!

Why not? We both insisted\nthat he come visit, remember?

Look. Everybody says that they're\ndying to meet the Count.

You can't! He's a demon who's come back\nto Paris to get revenge on us all!

Darling, why don't you introduce yourself first?

Father! Mother! Run!

Eugenie and Franz! You, too! Hurry!

I'm feeling a little shy.

Hurry! Get as far away from him\nas you can!

Count!

Thank you for your kind invitation.

Don't do it!

Don't do it, Franz! He's the man who killed you!

"My, how fascinating."

Please, I'm begging you...

This is for Franz!

Um, Albert?

You were the one\nwho killed me.

Albert, when you think about it,\nit was you who killed me, right?

It was you.

No!

I wanted to save you!

You only think of yourself,\nand you know it.

Every time I tried to tell you something,\nyou never listened.

No! Franz, it wasn't\nlike that!

I'll hate you. I'll hate you\nfor as long as I live.

Ow... It hurts...

It hurts...

Franz!

Franz!

It hurts...

Franz!

Franz, I'm sorry! Franz!

Franz?

No, Franz! Don't die!

Please don't die!

There's something that I have to tell you!

So don't leave me!

No! Franz, don't die!

Franz!

FRANZ!

Hey, Albert, are you okay? Snap out of it!

Hey! Albert!

Hey!

Franz!

I guess there's nothing to worry about\nif you can still move like that.

Renaud?

Where am I?

By coincidence, I spotted\na guy riding your bike.

Relax, your bike is safe. The evildoers have been punished!

Sorry about that.

What're you talking about? Everybody needs\na tool-loving, bike-loving friend, you know?

Admittedly, I pushed her so hard to get here\nthat she's in pretty bad shape now.

Do you have any idea how badly I've been waiting for today to arrive?!

I looked everywhere for rare parts,\nendured setback after setback,

...and finally got her\nin working order!

Chest swelled with anticipation, I set out in high\nspirits for a long drive, and what happens?

"Hm? Why, that's Albert's bike! But who's that on it?!"

So I pull up to him, planning to\nask him what's going on, and...

Gimme that ratchet.

Here.

My baby's showing signs\nof a recovery!

Aren't you being\noverly dramatic?

"Overly dramatic," nothing! There's no sadder\nsight than a machine that can't be fixed!

I had the same problem that night we\nrescued Valentine. That was so terrible...

That was YOUR car?

It sure was... You have no idea how\nbad my heart was broken that day.

How can you talk like that? Valentine was about to die!

Don't get me wrong!

I volunteered my car because they said\nthey were gonna go rescue Valentine.

The thing is, I used to have\na thing for Valentine...

Really? You never said\na word about it.

Say, Albert... Do you remember\nwhen we came out here on a drive?

Yeah...

It was just a little while ago, but\nit feels like a distant memory.

That quiche that Valentine shared\nwith us was great, wasn't it?

Albert...

Sorry, I was just remembering\nthat day.

Franz is a lucky guy.

You're always\nthinking about him.

I only have machines to soothe\nmy troubled heart now!

Renaud...

C'mon, let's head back\nand grab something to eat.

Sure.

Hey! Michelle! We're being swamped with sell-offs!

What are you doing?

I am trying as best I can to prop up the prices,\nbut I am unable to keep up with the volume.

Sink all the money we have\ninto it to stop the slide!

It isn't just our bank stocks or those of\nour business group that are crashing.

Every stock that we have invested in\nis in a nosedive.

Why is this happening?

I am unable to determine\nthe cause.

"Unable to determine\nthe cause"?!

Pull it together, damn it! If this keeps up, I'll go bankrupt!

Infection by unknown\nvirus detec... ted...

Michelle?

...ted...

The Eastern market\nis open now.

...ted...

Pull out our shares! Sell off everything\nbut our bank stocks!

...ted...

Convert it to cash!

Today's weather in Paris\nis sunny... sunny.

Current temperature is 22 Celsi... sunny... with\nless than a 10% chance of precipita... sunny.

Hey!

It is shaping up to be\na pleasant day... sunny.

Hey! Michelle! Snap out of it!

Michelle!

Sunny, sunny, sunny, sunny...

The Eastern market...

The Paris market closed today with prices\nconsiderably lower than yesterday's... sunny.

Michelle, start running these\nnumbers immediately!

The prevailing opinion is that the market\nturned against overextended businesses...

I can't keep up with it by myself!

The prevailing opinion is that the market\nturned against overextended businesses...

...as a result of the sudden sell-off\nof Danglars Group stocks.

Michelle...

Sunny, sunny, sunny,\nsunny, sunny...

Michelle!

At the outbreak of this market run...\nsunny, sunny, sunny...

...the influx of capital from\nouter space sources was... Michelle!

Father? What's the matter? Why are you barging in like this?

Eugenie, dear daughter of mine... I have something to tell you.

Something to tell me?

Yes. Something wonderful.

The thing is, your wedding with Andrea\nhas been set for the day after tomorrow.

Why did you do that?! I told that you I can't\nget married so soon after Franz died!

That's all right.

Father!

Shut your mouth!

Are you saying that you don't care\nif l... no, this entire family...

...dies penniless in a ditch somewhere\nthanks to your self-centeredness?!

Father, calm down.

Calm down?! How am I supposed to calm down?!

My stocks have taken a nosedive! They aren't\nworth the paper they're printed on now!

Give up on this worthless\npiano nonsense of yours!

You're not serious...

You're the only one\nwho can save this family.

You've got to marry Andrea\nright away!

But what about\nmy feelings?

They don't matter.

All that matters to me\nis that I get my money back.

Thanks to this, Andrea's fortune\nwill be mine!

Eugenie, at this moment, you're the\nmost precious thing in the world to me.

Franz is still here\nwith us.

That's the way I see it.

I get the feeling that he's showing us\nwhat path we have to take.

Renaud...

And where might you be going\nat this late hour?

No! Stop it!

Let go!

No!

No!

Even the daughter\nof an aristocrat...

...would be ruined for life if something\nlike this is done to her, wouldn't she?

Wouldn't she?!

The day after tomorrow,\nyou're going to belong to me.

The main course will\nhave to wait until then...

Albert, save me...

Albert!

Don't give up\non your future.

No matter the time, no matter the place,\nyou're never alone.

Next time on Gankutsuou, The Count of Monte Cristo, act 20...

Act 20: Farewell, Eugenie

..."Farewell, Eugenie."

Bide your time,\nand hold out hope!