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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

Why...

Why did Elenore have to die?

Why did she die?

She said she'd stay with me forever.

But they're not here.

Not Vanessa, and not Elenore.

I'm alone.

Welcome, Madlax.

Did you bring the page from Secondari for me?

You cause sorrow.

Because of you, more and more precious things are stolen.

Interesting.

I didn't expect to hear something like that from you, a killer.

You're contradictory.

That's because this world is warped.

It's enshrouded in an invisible veil.

I know.

It can't see the Essence.

What's wrong with that?

Do you mean to live in a world of lies?

There's truth even there.

The truth of Margaret Burton: That's Madlax.

Sacred Blood

Don't kill him. Don't kill Father!

Margaret Burton...

Are you going to kill Father again?

Margaret...

I won't allow that.

Die.

Now everything has been brought together.

Come, Margaret, let's go.

Okay.

Elenore, make pasta for dinner today, okay?

Yeah, pasta.

Madlax...

Don't get involved.

That place is holy now.

Only those with the Gift are allowed to enter it.

All we can do is watch it to the end.

Watch me to the end.

Is this...

Is this what you wanted, then, Madlax?!

This is not the end.

It's just beginning now.

So we'll watch it to the end.

I will watch this through to the end.

The changing of the eras.

You'll watch my moment through to the end?

Yes.

The truth is pain.

Pain is sorrow.

Sorrow is a spiral.

The spiral is the human fate.

Margaret Burton's fate.

Madlax's fate.

And my fate.

That door will be opened.

The door of truth!

We'll return to twelve years ago. We're returning!

Time is rewinding.

The era was supposed to change then.

You thwarted my desires...

Madlax.

When I was shot then, I lost the eye to open the door.

There certainly is such a thing as "fate."

Our lives are connected like a spiral.

Isn't that right, Madlax?

After all, your daughter is going to give me what I desire.

Now, show me, Margaret.

Your past so true it approaches the human Essence.

Your crime.

That melody.

Here.

Thanks!

That's me?

Now, let's get back to our seats.

Mother, when will we get to see Father?

Soon. We'll get to see him before long.

And Mother...

We'll get to see Father soon.

Isn't that great, Laetitia?

I can hear...

Mother!

Mother!

Mother!

Mother!

Mother!

Let's go.

Here you go.

Mother died here, without saying anything.

And I...

You should understand, Colonel Burton.

Or should I say "Madlax"?

Friday Monday...

You should understand this, this is what humanity really is.

Friday Monday, you're in the grip of madness.

The people are not seeking your ideal.

That thought itself is something made in this false world.

I'll protect my daughter!

Does your Essence desire that, I wonder?

Madlax!

"Madlax"?

Madlax...

Madlax!

"Madlax"?

No! Wait! You mustn't go over there!

Father!

Stop!

God won't forgive a lie like this

Poupee! Poupee! God won't forgive a lie like this

God won't forgive a lie like this

Hang on! God won't forgive a lie like this

God won't forgive a lie like this

The light of the moon seen through glass

I... You... The light of the moon seen through glass

The light of the moon seen through glass

Because I committed the sin of being untrue to my memories

Margaret. Because I committed the sin of being untrue to my memories

Because I committed the sin of being untrue to my memories

Father... Because I committed the sin of being untrue to my memories

Father... I become unable to see even yesterday

I become unable to see even yesterday

Margaret! I become unable to see even yesterday

I become unable to see even yesterday

I'm here

I missed you, Father! I'm here

I'm here

Father!

That must've been a mistake from the beginning

Elda taluta! That must've been a mistake from the beginning

Elda taluta!

And sadness was fixed in place then too

Sarks sark! And sadness was fixed in place then too

Sarks sark!

Sarks sark! And yet I'm still crying

And yet I'm still crying

Longing to be clasped to that breast

Ark arks. Longing to be clasped to that breast

Longing to be clasped to that breast

I want to communicate my feelings just one more time

Father... I want to communicate my feelings just one more time

I want to communicate my feelings just one more time

Inside a dream, all remnants of warmth are disappearing

Father! Inside a dream, all remnants of warmth are disappearing

Inside a dream, all remnants of warmth are disappearing

Yes. That's the Essence! Inside a dream, all remnants of warmth are disappearing

Inside a dream, all remnants of warmth are disappearing

It's all right if you're the only one

I want you to hold me

Telling me you're here, always, always

What's wrong? Telling me you're here, always, always

Telling me you're here, always, always

A moonlit night

Gentle sighs

Atoning fingertips

Father... Atoning fingertips

Father... I'm waiting

I'm waiting

I'm here

Why? I'm here

I'm here

Stop. Why are you doing this?

Don't come any closer.

I believed in God when I was a child

I don't want to die. I don't want to die! I believed in God when I was a child

I believed in God when I was a child

If I don't shoot Dad, I'll die.

If I don't shoot Dad, I'll die. The light of the moon seen through glass

But I can't shoot Father! The light of the moon seen through glass

The light of the moon seen through glass

But... The light of the moon seen through glass

But...

But... I just believed I'd fall in love with one person

I just believed I'd fall in love with one person

And that we'd comfort each other

You were here

It's all right if you're the only one

I want you to be here

I'm sure I can be happy, I'm sure

Like clasping my arms around this disconsolate heart

Cold fingertips, always, always

It's all right if you're the only one

I want you to hold me

Telling me you're here

I'm waiting

I'm Laetitia. I'm waiting

Your beloved doll. I'm waiting

Your beloved doll. I'm here

I'm here

Margaret Burton, this is the truth. I'm here

Margaret Burton, this is the truth.

The truth?

I'm a doll. The urge of a moment.

The point where you two parted ways.

And the truth that will never disappear.

So your reason, the part of you that didn't want to kill your father,

and the urge that was your desire to survive

received power from this place and physically separated?

Separated?

That's quite amusing.

You killed your own father, but you sealed off those memories

and you've been living life wanting for nothing.

You've believed you were normal.

Normal, eh? There's no such thing anywhere in this world.

People seek fame and fortune,

and protect their own meager self-esteem by ridiculing others.

They've lived twelve full years of false time, believing that half-assed state was normal.

You've seen what kind of situation that's brought about. Haven't you?

You mustn't run from the truth.

And you mustn't deny your own actions, either.

That's because you aren't special.

Everyone is the same as you.

They're aware of the contradiction that is their existence,

but they can't find its essence, that's all.

Now, let's show it to them, Margaret Burton.

We'll show all living creatures the Essence.

Living within the Essence...

That's the normal world that I seek.

You mustn't.

I can hear it. I can hear the melody.

Margaret Burton is seeking the Essence of human nature.

This... She's been seeking this!

Hey, what's wrong?

Elda taluta.

Huh?

Sarks sark.

No...

No!

Ark arks.

Why...

This is... This feeling is...

So the change has begun?

Time is beginning to move.

My time, which has been frozen for twelve years,

has finally begun to move!

Father.

Vanessa.

Elenore.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

Because I was running away from the truth, I...

I...

That's right...

Someone using that name would get in my way.

Just like it happened twelve years ago.

Let me hear you talk about the soul

Look at me without averting your eyes

You think I'm nowhere to be found

Madlax. You think I'm nowhere to be found

You think I'm nowhere to be found

If you're going to run to somewhere you can't see

Madlax. The other me... If you're going to run to somewhere you can't see

Madlax. The other me... Shake off all your unnecessary adornments

Madlax. The other me... Even if you lay your heart bare, the baggage is too heavy

Even if you lay your heart bare, the baggage is too heavy

Yes. I am Margaret Burton's crime. Even if you lay your heart bare, the baggage is too heavy

An existence born at the far reaches of sorrow. Even if you lay your heart bare, the baggage is too heavy

An existence born at the far reaches of sorrow.

The dreams that seem like they'll fly away if I blow at them

You're... The dreams that seem like they'll fly away if I blow at them

Pandora's jewels. The dreams that seem like they'll fly away if I blow at them

Pandora's jewels.

You're...

You're... Are all that's binding the two of us together

A kind killer. Are all that's binding the two of us together

Yes. That's Madlax.

I am the pain of truth.

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