Original subtitles

Anata dake ni aitakute ima demo zutto

Ame no hi ni wa omoidasu negai hitotsu dake

Anata no mune ni wasureta watashi no kakera

Mada soko ni aru?

Tojita hon no naka nemutteru

Omoide to iu na no Pandora no houseki

Toiki shinobaseta tamerai de

ltsumademo mite ita

Kakeochita watashi no hitomi wa ltsumademo mite ita

Kakeochita watashi no hitomi wa

Mikazuki no katachi ni kowareta kuootsu

Mune wo mitasu no wa anata dake

ltsumademo matteru

Here in the rain

It's a fork in the path of the destiny people weave together.

The point where the era changes. The door of truth.

Many people come to this place and try to open the "Door of the Era"

that's hidden deep within the truth.

Some people love battle.

Some people are blinded by greed.

And some people seek peace.

My name is Quanzitta Marison.

The onlooker who watches the eras.

An existence only permitted to go on watching

and to hand down the story in the time to come.

I can see the truth.

The era will change.

Even if as a result...

Even if destruction awaits.

Even if the existence that is "me" were to disappear.

Shards

Twelve years ago, Dad heard you chant the mystic words from the books.

He certainly awakened to the truth.

He tried to kill Margaret Burton, his own daughter.

That was what he sought.

All I did was give him the words that triggered him to act.

In order to live, Margaret picked up a gun.

And that moment came.

No, I... I...

I know.

You didn't want to kill him, right?

But you didn't want to die, either.

Even if you had to kill your father.

The desire not to die...

I am Margaret Burton's crime.

The desire to live.

I am Margaret Burton's urges.

You're me.

I'm a shard of Margaret Burton's heart.

A shard of my heart...

And I'm what was born in the moment you split into two,

what stayed in that place.

That's Laetitia.

The tie of truth that binds the two of you.

Margaret Burton, this is the truth.

Laetitia...

Congratulations, Margaret Burton.

The consciousnesses you yourself cut away have appeared in front of you once more.

The time has come for you to become one again.

Once you've become one, you'll be even closer to the Essence...

Don't interfere.

This is the crime on my conscience.

The act that can never be forgiven.

I'm a killer.

Madlax...

Decide, Margaret.

Decide whether to accept me or erase me.

Laetitia too, of course.

Erase?

What will happen when we go back to being one?

You're the one who will open the Door of the Era.

The "Door of the Era"?

If you open the Door, what you desire will come to pass.

What I desire?

Decide, Margaret.

But this is too sudden.

Decide.

I don't want to. I'm scared.

I mean, if we become one,

I'll go back to being the me who killed Father.

What kind of girl will I become?

It's because you're frozen in place like that without deciding anything

that I've had to stay in this place for twelve whole years.

Even Poupee isn't here anymore.

I don't want to be alone anymore.

Margaret, if you're scared then shoot me. Erase me.

It's fine, I won't mind.

Why?

Because my friend, Vanessa Rene, wanted it...

And Elenore Baker did, too.

Margaret.

Miss.

It's okay, you can run from the truth.

That's fine.

But you'll disappear, you know.

You'll die!

I don't mind. Because I can still exist even then.

Because I have people who care about me.

Madlax!

I exist within her.

She'll keep on watching me.

So I'm okay with disappearing.

Madlax...

Please become part of me.

Why?

Because you're Madlax.

If I become part of you, you'll end up suffering forever.

You'll live with a crime on your conscience.

I don't want to run away.

Because I ran away from the truth, Vanessa and Elenore...

So I don't want to run away anymore.

I'm a killer, you know.

But that's another part of me.

I might eat at your heart.

I don't want to make you bear that sorrow by yourself.

Please give me the truth that is Madlax.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry all I did was run away.

I'm sorry for passing off all the things I didn't like onto you.

Will you become one with me?

If that's really what you desire.

Thank you.

Now the Door of the Era will open.

Wonderful! Magnificent!

Are you awake, Margaret Burton?

How does it feel to have returned to your true self?

My true self...

Like a great work of art, you've taken back yourself and your essence.

The truth is, I knew.

Father tried to kill me that day.

So I pulled the trigger.

You haven't done anything wrong.

What's wrong is this warped world.

And that's the reason your father was warped too.

People just don't realize it, that's all.

I haven't done anything wrong?

Let's tell that to the whole world, shall we?

There's no need to raise your voice.

You can just tell them softly, as if you're whispering.

None of them understand?

It's not that they don't understand. It's just that they don't realize.

Then I have to help that realization along.

Right, Laetitia?

That's right, that's good.

Oh, now is the time when my wish will come true!

Margaret Burton, you killed your own father?

Yes, I killed him.

Because I wanted to live.

That's okay, right? It's something everybody's doing.

You can kill someone without a thing like this.

That's right, you can kill them easily even just with words or letters.

Tell everyone that for me, Margaret.

That's right, I have to tell.

I have to tell about how this world is warped.

And about living in it.

Yes. I want to tell that...

to Madlax.

So you point a gun at me?

Is that your essence?

Yes. This is Margaret Burton.

Do you desire to kill me?

Or do you hate humanity itself?

Either way, that action is close to the Essence.

This is the way I should desire you to be?

It's not like that.

What?

I'd realized that this world was warped.

And that people had malice inside of them.

I think everybody else probably realizes too.

There's no need to go out of your way to tell them.

But there's just one person who doesn't get it.

So I want to let Madlax know...

Let her know that she doesn't have to be so kind.

Right now, I can kill you for her, out of the malice inside me.

To have a crime on my conscience.

A crime?

What's criminal about it?

The very word "crime" is an illusion created by human morality.

You mustn't be led astray by this warped world.

You're all right just as you are.

Mother and Father, and Vanessa, and Elenore...

A lot of people have died.

So I hate you.

Wanting to kill you is my crime.

I'm not seeking that kind of way of thinking or that kind of world!

Don't avert your gaze because of insincere kindness or antiquated conscience!

Look only at the Essence!

Let me hear you talk about the soul

I am looking at it. Let me hear you talk about the soul

Let me hear you talk about the soul

No, you're not! Let me hear you talk about the soul

No, you're not! Look at me without averting your eyes

Look at me without averting your eyes

You think I'm nowhere to be found

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

What I couldn't do twelve years ago, If you're going to run to somewhere you can't see

What I couldn't do twelve years ago, Shake off all your unnecessary adornments

what I ran away from... Shake off all your unnecessary adornments

what I ran away from... Even if you lay your heart bare, the baggage is too heavy

I can do it now. Even if you lay your heart bare, the baggage is too heavy

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

And that's to kill someone out of malice. Even if you lay your heart bare, the baggage is too heavy

And that's to kill someone out of malice.

And that's to kill someone out of malice. The dreams that seem like they'll fly away if I blow at them

To kill someone with her kindness. The dreams that seem like they'll fly away if I blow at them

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

Margaret Burton...

I'm a bad girl.

I'm a bad girl. Are all that's binding the two of us together

Are all that's binding the two of us together

Why?

The girl who was so close to my ideal...

Why did she do that?

Did that woman change her? The same existence...

More than the comfort you only want now

More than the dry, fashionable laughter

Why? There's no way you should exist in this world. More than the dry, fashionable laughter

Why? There's no way you should exist in this world. I want to see the center of you

I want to see the center of you

Why are you here? I want to see the center of you

Why are you here?

I told you I was going to kill you, didn't I?

That's incomprehensible.

You should have been assimilated into Margaret Burton.

But I'm here.

Madlax...

That alone is the truth.

And I'm going to erase your existence from this reality.

And I'm going to erase your existence from this reality. The stars that show us everything

And I'm going to erase your existence from this reality. The true me and the true you The stars that show us everything

The true me and the true you The stars that show us everything

The true me and the true you Guide me to a kind tomorrow

Should be able to get to the place where we can meet, I'm sure Guide me to a kind tomorrow

Should be able to get to the place where we can meet, I'm sure I'm going towards an even brighter future than that

Rebelling against fate, shedding tears I'm going towards an even brighter future than that

Even so I want to see you I'm going towards an even brighter future than that

We will reach to nowhere land I'm going towards an even brighter future than that

Take me to the nowhere land I'm going towards an even brighter future than that

Let me hear you talk about the soul

Look at me without averting your eyes

Madlax, you are so... You are just so...

Madlax, you are so... You are just so... The yellow loneliness of flower petals

The yellow loneliness of flower petals

How far are we thinking of going without looking back on that?

Don't be cruel. In the end, your existence is the same as mine. How far are we thinking of going without looking back on that?

Don't be cruel. In the end, your existence is the same as mine. Rebelling against the guidance of the stars that show us everything

Rebelling against the guidance of the stars that show us everything

Isn't it? Rebelling against the guidance of the stars that show us everything

Rebelling against the guidance of the stars that show us everything

I'll run straight up to the door in the sky

Rebelling against a kindly smiling destiny

I love Margaret Burton. Rebelling against a kindly smiling destiny

I love Margaret Burton. If you have the courage to search for me

If you have the courage to search for me

The woman who cut you out and threw you away? If you have the courage to search for me

If you have the courage to search for me

I am everywhere

I'm Madlax. That's the pain of of the truth.

This is the Essence?

What I desired?

That's the truth?!

No, this is reality.

What I was seeking was...

My...

Right there, right in front of you there's lies...

There's falsity, and yet... why?!

Why can't you see?

Why don't you try to learn the truth?

When it's right here...

in front of you...

Friday Monday.

I have been watching existences like yours, as have my predecessors.

Existences that disappear into history.

There will be a new era soon.

I predict Margaret Burton will open the Door of the Era of her own will.

Please let me watch over you just a little longer, Margaret Burton.

The Door of the Era.

What I desire...

Sorry I'm paying such an unexpected visit, Margaret.

And to have you feed me dinner, even.

The two of us are eating less again, Miss.

Margaret Burton, flowers are best the way they are.

What I desire...

what I desire from the era...

That's a given.

Madlax...

Margaret Burton...

Why?

When we became one, I understood.

It's not true that you've been killing people without thinking anything of it.

All along, every time you killed a person you wailed with pain.

You kept on suffering.

Your pain is your own kindness.

You're a kind killer.

There's no need for us to become one.

I mean, the time that you lived as Madlax

was unmistakably your time and no one else's.

I'm fine with staying this way.

Knowing the truth, and feeling my crime...

Staying that way is something I'm okay with.

Yes, this world is definitely warped.

Just like there's both good will and bad will inside me...

But I want to try living in this warped world.

You feel your crime?

Yeah.

Aren't you sad?

Thank you.

I'm sorry.

Want to go with me?

Me?

Will you be my little sister?

Can I? I mean, I'm...

That's what I want.

Yeah, I will!

Lady Quanzitta...

I'm going to keep on watching you.

You're stupid.

Am I?

Yes, you're stupid.

What do you mean to do from now on?

I don't really know exactly.

But for right now...

For right now, what?

For right now, I'd like pasta.

Yeah, pasta.

Madlax...

Madlax, I'll get right to the point. I want to contract you for a job.

We haven't spoken in so long, and you jump right into the business talk?

Was there ever more of a connection between us than that?

There is one. I'm sure of it.

Because there's part of me inside of you.