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You're the only one I'm longing to see, now and always

There's only one wish I remember on rainy days

The shard of me that I left forgotten in your heart

Is it still there?

Sleeping inside a closed book

Pandora's jewels called "memories"

In a hesitation hiding a sigh

I was always watching

My eyes cracked and fell to the ground I was always watching

My eyes cracked and fell to the ground

They are quartz fractured into crescents

You're the only one who satisfies my heart

I'll always be waiting

Here in the rain

You're Miss Margaret Burton, aren't you?

Yes. Did you want to talk to me?

My name is Doon.

Carrossea Doon.

You're...

The area ahead of you is off-limits to the public.

Good afternoon...

No, perhaps it's good evening.

I see, so you were the girl from that day.

Um...

I've come at the request of Eric Gillain.

Eric?

Yes. Eric Gillain, the bibliodetective.

He told me about your picture book.

And I've seen the writing in that book before.

Cry of Awakening

Have you really seen the writing in that book before?

Yes.

Where?

In Gazth-Sonika.

Gazth-Sonika...

Please excuse me for asking,

but can you read the writing in that book, Margaret?

I thought not.

It's a script called "Elies" that was discovered over ten years ago in Gazth-Sonika.

Eric showed me photos of your book.

Its title is "Sarks Sark."

Sarks...

Sark.

It's a pretty title, isn't it?

Is something wrong?

No, nothing.

Secondari...

You can take off the blindfold.

This is your... but why did I have to wear a blindfold?

Because I can't let you know where this is.

Am I that untrustworthy?

In your country, do you tell strangers where you live right away?

You're saying it's best to take precautions?

Yep.

What's that? I've never seen letters like that before.

Just a good-luck charm.

It's one of the things I've had for as long as I can remember.

What does it say?

I don't know. I can't read it.

That cake we had the other day was really good, wasn't it?

Yeah, let's go there again!

What's the book about?

I don't know that. But if I look at it, I may be able to tell something.

Would you show it to me?

I'm not pushing you to.

If you're not interested, I'll take my leave now.

Wait.

Will you give it back?

Yes, of course.

Secondari...

Can you tell anything?

Please give me a moment.

There's a page torn out.

Yes. I wanted a complete one, so I asked Eric...

Who did such a thing?

It was like that from the beginning.

This is horrible.

Oh, nothing.

Stop... it...

Stop it!

Are you all right?

Um...

Oh, I'm sorry. It's nothing.

Margaret.

Yes?

You've looked at this picture book many times, haven't you?

Yes.

You've touched it many times.

Yes.

Who are you?

I'm Margaret.

I'm Margaret Burton.

Do you really mean to go public with that data?

Yes. Although before I do that I have to confirm what's in it.

I don't get why you're going so far.

Will you tell me?

That's right, it's rude to get you involved this deeply

and then not tell you anything, isn't it?

My parents were tricked by Gazth-Sonika.

By Gazth-Sonika?

Yes. My father was a diplomat in Nafrece, you see, and at the time that the threat of

civil war here was coming to a peak, he was in charge of relations with Gazth-Sonika.

And the civil war broke out,

and my parents were detained by the Gazth-Sonika army

under suspicion of inciting the war.

But my father never did any such thing.

The truth was consigned to darkness.

And that's why you're...

Yes. I even joined Bookwald's international division

specifically because it was closely tied to Gazth-Sonika.

And your parents?

They're probably dead, aren't they?

But I want to seek the truth.

And what my father set out to do, I'll...

I have a faint memory.

He's somewhere in this country.

My father is.

You... so that's why you're here?

I'd never told anyone until now.

You're the first one.

I don't really understand why myself, but I wanted to say it.

I'm honored, Madlax.

You're welcome, Vanessa Rene.

You can call me Vanessa.

Eat up, Vanessa.

Sure.

What? Is it bad?

No, it's good.

And it tastes a lot like the pasta someone else I know makes.

It's far past time for her to be home.

Miss...

Rain.

I'm sorry. I've taken up more of your time than I thought I would.

It's okay.

May I ask you something?

Yes.

Where did you get that picture book?

It was in my house.

I think my father gave it to me as a present when I was very little.

You think he did?

I don't have any memories from when I was little.

You don't have any memories?

No. I can't even remember what my father's face looked like.

I'm the same.

I don't have any memories either.

Which means...

we're birds of a feather, aren't we?

You're mysterious.

I'm telling you, I want to get in touch with Vanessa Rene.

There are a lot of things that only she'll know!

Please, connect me with her!

Or is there some reason you can't?

Hello? Hello?

Dammit, he hung up!

Say, Madlax, what was your father like?

I hardly remember anything.

Just the sight of his back walking away.

I follow him.

No matter how hard I run, I can't catch up to him.

What else?

He was wearing an army uniform.

He might have been one of this country's soldiers.

Judging by your looks, you don't seem like a Gazth-Sonika native.

I hear that a lot.

Then he might have been in a corps of foreigners.

Or been a mercenary.

Maybe.

Have you tried investigating? That's right, what about his dog tags?

With the shape they're in, it's no good.

What about the Army database?

If I knew, I wouldn't be here.

I guess not.

I want to know.

Why I'm in this country, why I can't catch up to my father.

And...

who I am.

I'm sure you'll be able to meet him.

You're just trying to make me feel better.

Even if I am, it's better than nothing, right?

Yes, you're right.

Thank you for bringing me home.

No, I'm the one that asked you to come with me.

Margaret, could I...

No.

This picture book is mine. So you can't take it.

How did you...

Somehow I just knew.

I'm no match for you. But...

Miss!

Miss Margaret!

Elenore.

Miss, what were you doing out until so late?

We were talking a little.

Hello.

Miss, you're wet from the rain.

Please hurry to your room and change your clothes.

Okay.

Thank you, um...

Carrossea.

Thank you, Carrossea.

Of course.

My name is Carrossea Doon.

My name is Elenore Baker. I am in the service of Miss Margaret.

Thank you for bringing her home, Mr. Doon.

It was nothing.

Um...

Yes?

Margaret said she had no memories of when she was small. Is that true?

Yes.

When Miss Margaret returned to her estate after being missing,

she didn't remember language, let alone anything else.

All she remembered was just one word.

"Madlax."

"Madlax." She was mumbling that word.

Now, please excuse me.

Madlax...

Miss, what is your relationship to the man who was just here?

He and I...

might be birds of a feather.

Maybe.

What am I doing?

This picture book is mine. So you can't take it.

The girl who possesses Secondari...

a girl who's unruffled by the Essence.

Margaret Burton.

The woman who seeks to know Enfant's secrets: Vanessa Rene.

The agent acting with Vanessa: Madlax.

"Madlax"...

the one word Margaret, who had no other memories, remembered.

All of it is connected.

Yes. Even me...

The bloodstain on the pages of Secondari...

That was my blood.

It was certainly my blood.

I'm trying to get it back.

No, I will get it back, and then I will return to that boundless place.

It's me.

Give me the situation.

We're up against the number-one agent in Gazth-Sonika.

She won't give herself away so easily.

I see...

I wanted to meet her once, but time is up.

Time is up?

You don't... you don't mean to use those words, do you?

Use them?

Of course I'll use them.

I wonder if this "Madlax" will be able to withstand it...

the Essence that I will send forth.

SSS? What is it?

The assignment is still...

It's not that. Rumor has it that you stole top-secret data from Enfant.

Is that true?

Things just panned out that way.

Then be careful. Sometimes Enfant sets traps in its data.

Traps?

I don't know any details. But...

What's this?! I don't know any details. But...

What's this?!

The data!

What was that for, Madlax?

Madlax?

Madlax...

Elda...

Taluta.

Dad, what is this?

Dad?

Dad?

Dad...

I...

I...

I...

I...

No. You can't have this.

If you take it,

I'll kill you.

I'll kill you.

The moon is...

going to change.

That's surely an old song someone was playing on a water-colored lute

Deep inside your heart, inside your pain

Drifting in daybreak's sleepiness on the street corners Deep inside your heart, inside your pain

Drifting in daybreak's sleepiness on the street corners

When you were called by that singing voice

You were still in the middle of your journey

Following the tracks that loneliness left behind

I wonder if you can go it all alone

And get to the other hill on the other side

Watching the retreating back of a goodbye And get to the other hill on the other side

Watching the retreating back of a goodbye

The story told so that you can meet yourself

Now quietly begins