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THE KINGDOM OF AQUAFA.

THE REALM WAS ONCE RAVAGED BY THE MILITARY STRENGTH OF THE EMPIRE OF ZOL.

HOWEVER...

FRIGHTENED BY AN OUTBREAK OF THE MYSTERIOUS BLACK WOLF FEVER,

ZOL CALLED OFF ITS IMMINENT INVASION OF AQUAFA'S SACRED FIRE HORSE VILLAGE.

DESPITE COUNTLESS LATER SKIRMISHES, THE VILLAGE NEVER FELL.

AT PRESENT, THE TWO REALMS HAVE BEEN LOOSELY MERGED TOGETHER.

TODAY, THE FEVER IS THOUGHT TO BE NO MORE...

Work as if Death spared you! That is why we let you live!

Be quick about it!

What did I just tell you?!

Keep it down! Silence that brat!

No rest, worm! On your feet!

I said get up!

H-How dare you!

What the...?!

Ossam dogs!

Stay back!

No!

Husband, dear.

Safe travels.

Don't go...

The sun...

I've survived yet again...

Mama?

Mama...

That way!

A pyuika...

THE DEER KING

What a tragic sight.

They say Aquafa loyalists did this?

We Aquafaese yielded to the Empire of Zol 10 years ago.

Our loyalty to you remains steadfast.

I am aware.

He has arrived.

Tohlim, I hear you once supervised this salt mine?

Indeed.

I want you to guide someone.

Halt, halt! Entry is forbidden!

Insolent fool! Do you not know who he is?! This is...

Enough, Makokan. Do not make a scene.

Who are you?!

- This is... - Don't make that face...

Stand down!

Lord Yotalu...

Thank you for coming. Please lift your heads.

This is Tohlim. The King of Aquafa's right-hand man.

I am Hohsalle Yuguraul. Pleasure to meet you.

To meet Sir Hohsalle, one of the sacred doctors,

is a great honor.

The honor is mine.

Your ever-reliable political acumen is most impressive.

Sarcasm, perhaps?

Heavens, no.

Lord Yotalu, please hold off on cremating the bodies.

What for?

I'd like to inspect as many as I can.

That is why I came all this way.

S-Stop! That boundary is sacred!

Bring the mikimu.

So that's Sir Hohsalle?

The priest-doctors lose out to Zol's physician.

Especially after he saved Lord Yotalu's mother.

The second empress... That would win trust.

Sir Hohsalle.

- Yeah, bring them here. - Yes, sir.

Please look.

Ossam dogs like those that attacked the falconry party?

Yes. Along with such bite marks,

I have patients who also bear these lesions.

You mean to say my elder brother suffers from the same disease, do you?

I kept quiet as I'd lacked clear evidence...

But this is black wolf fever. The mittsual.

The mittsual?!

The dead are all Zolians?

Zolian condemned criminals, I'm told.

This place is sacred to Aquafaese,

so I saw to it that they do not work here.

The stench is mild. Seems the bodies below are in better condition.

May I take some back to the capital?

The priest-doctors will surely object...

But, very well. I'll see to it.

Fear not. She is with us. I asked her to inspect the place first.

Well?

Someone made it out alive.

Could a human smash through this?

Seems he was bitten on the arm by a dog.

He collapsed here, then rose, broke out, and went that way.

Hey! I asked you if...

Quiet, Makokan.

A chain was dragged here.

There are bloodstains...

but the footprints suggest he was not dragged out by the ossam dog.

He left on his own feet.

Are you sure this man was bitten by a dog?

There was a large pool of blood here. Judging by its shape, it's likely...

Meaning what?

If he was bitten yet still survives,

it is likely he has antibodies against the mittsual.

So if we had him, we could find a cure?

To be precise, if we had his blood, and luck on our side...

Get the name of the slave from this cell!

Yes, sir.

The same mittsual that wiped out

the once-invincible Zolian army in mere days, eh?

We found the escapee's name.

Van, of the Gansa clan.

Van? Where was he taken prisoner?

At the Revolt of Kashuna Lake.

"Broken Antler" Van... of the Lone Antlers!

Lord Yotalu!

Where is he?! Lord Yotalu!

So, he lives...

An Aquafaese was down there?

That woman will find him. She is the best tracker in the land.

Can you?

- Surely. - Be sure to capture him alive.

As you wish.

You heard him. Bring the man back alive.

That will not be so easy.

He is a surviving member of the elusive Lone Antlers...

Wait! Come back!

Hey, you! How can you ride my pyuika?!

Wow. I'd never seen anybody ride one before.

Talk about a shock.

A pack of ossam dogs came flooding out from deep in the forest.

That pyuika slipped its reins and ran,

and my cart flipped over on me to boot.

Anyway...at least the ossam didn't eat that beast.

The Zolian army's offering good money for pyuika, you see.

I'm trying to breed 'em,

but it sure ain't easy.

Mine are wild, and won't obey me at all.

Why do the Zolians want such ornery critters?

Yum!

It's fahmu. Zolian food.

My wife baked them. Good, right?

Well, guess it's ’cause in the last war

the Zolians couldn't cope with Aquafaese pyuika riders.

Ya know, you're really somethin'.

I thought buyin' a female would calm the ones I have down,

so I spent what little I had on that one...

She is already with child.

- Really?! - Really.

Pyuika are a mystery to me.

Guess I had a lucky break. Or is it thanks to this little goddess?

- Yunacha! - Yunacha?

Yuna.

That is her name.

Call me Tohma!

I am Van.

Yuna and Van, huh? Mighty obliged!

Speaking of ossam, you hear some recently attacked the Zolian lord's falconry party?

Whatever's happening, it doesn't bode well.

Is it true? They are all dead?

Slaves and soldiers, 600 in total.

Killed by lowly ossam dogs?

According to Sir Hohsalle...

...it was the mittsual.

The Aquafaese curse.

In my grandfather's era,

Zolian troops who stormed this land fell prey to the disease.

It's said to be the retribution of the Aquafaese they killed.

Is it mere coincidence it has returned before the Emperor's Eyes' Visit?

This talk of a curse is archaic superstition.

We Aquafaese pledged loyalty 10 years ago. We would never...

What of Aquafaese?

Did any die in the salt mine?

- Well... - None did. But, Brother...

Tohlim...

Loyal servant of Aquafa's king.

Lick my wound.

Prove there is no curse by contracting the mittsual as an Aquafaese.

If you so wish...

Brother!

Sir Hohsalle!

Herbs will not help at this point.

What can?

Anti-poison made from the diluted blood of the fallen.

No! His imperial blood must not be sullied by a commoner's!

Leave his survival to fate!

Bodies are mere vessels!

Tainting his soul would be...

- ...absurd! - I need nothing!

I shall heal myself without such things!

Well said! It is imperative that your soul remains pure.

I shall not die... I shall not die!

Is it true that only Zolians contract the mittsual and not Aquafaese?

Well, some books do say that...

Something wrong?

Tohlim seemed strangely calm.

Well, surely diseases do not target countries.

This Emperor's Eyes' Visit business is overblown.

Fire Horse Village may be sacred, but why must the emperor personally travel so far?

The mittsual once forced them to retreat from there.

They must wish to reshape history and dispel fear of the disease.

Even so, the timing of the mittsual's return is ironic.

The Emperor's Eyes' Visit may be the cause.

How so?

Use your head, retired swordsman.

The falconry and salt mine incidents went according to plan.

If Yotalu succeeds him, Zol will be easier to control.

This augurs well.

Nevertheless, we should not rush our next move.

Are you afraid?

The Emperor's Eyes’ Visit will reach my Fire Horse Village by spring.

Be patient.

An Aquafaese was in the mine.

We must maintain secrecy. Proceed cautiously.

I take no orders from minions of Zol.

Ohfan, is there a reason for your impatience?

This is concerning.

Will he truly act according to our wishes?

He and his village are merely our pawns.

The mittsual is their last lifeline. They cannot act rashly.

What of the salt mine survivor?

A tracker is on his tail.

To what end?

Leave the matter to me.

An Aquafaese's life or the future of this land. What will you choose, my King?

Checkmate.

Naturally, I choose the future of this land.

As you wish.

I think he had a small child with him.

Oh, and a young man with an accent, too.

Ah, the guy with the pyuika!

Hey!

Hey, I'm back!

Tohma!

Kiya!

Hm? Yeah.

They thank you for saving me.

Sorry. They can't speak till they've drank with you.

Yeah! Good idea!

If ya work here, we'll supply food and shelter.

Good, it's a deal! Van knows pyuika well.

He'll be a big help.

Well, enough with the formalities. Let's drink!

That hit the spot! Drink up! No point in sticking to tradition.

Cute little tyke. You don't look much alike. She take after your wife?

Oh my!

Say, where is your wife?

Oh, tender subject?

Coming to me?

Ah, of course. You like Daddy's lap.

Dada?

Hey, hey. No milk from Daddy's chest!

Give her your finger.

You want milk now too, son?

Shall we eat?

His fever's back. Also, his breathing is shallow...

What is it? Herbs are not filling enough?

Please save me, merciful gods...

Are you alright?

Yeah.

"To learn of countries, ourselves, and diseases"...

We Yugurauls have long served leaders with our medical expertise.

Caught between Aquafa and Zol, what can I possibly learn of the disease?

Boy, I'm starving!

Let's go have some nice rabbit.

L-Lord Utalu is...

Lord Yotalu, should we postpone the Emperor's Eyes' Visit?

We reported my brother's death,

but the emperor had already crossed the border.

What must I learn about the mittsual?

The man in the mine.

Hey, where's Dada?

Hmm, haven't seen him for a while.

Found some.

Asshimi.

- Father! - Dada!

You...

I found you!

Why are you here?

Because I can see you, Dada.

It's so pretty.

Pretty? The asshimi?

Yeah. It's pretty.

What's the point of erecting this? Pyuika can leap it easily.

Hey! It isn't safe here!

I'll help!

Doing this will leave the scent of asshimi.

That's Olaha. It means "born at daybreak."

An old and stubborn one. Too hard to handle!

Hey, that's dangerous!

Surely he won't...

He's amazing, ain't he?

He'll bring us that sweet Zolian army money!

You greedy fool...

My leg!

Van! It went that way!

Dada!

Well done, Van! Mighty impressive!

Wow!

Now what?

I'm gonna drink it!

You can drink that?

You've got talent.

Yeah!

I always did it for Mama.

You don't say?

Pyuika milk? Just like old times.

When I was a child, I fought my siblings over it.

I'd completely forgotten.

Years ago, the Zolian army ran riot here too,

and we never saw pyuika again.

Even just the mention of Zol sent us into hiding.

Then about 10 years ago, pyuika riders called the Lone Antlers

became Aquafa's guardians and battled the fierce Zolians.

Thanks to them, Zol entered a treaty with us,

and now our wonderful Zolian wives bake fahmu for us.

For you, lady!

None for me, thank you.

Drinking beasts' milk turns you into a beast, say the Zolians.

Long ago, while hunting, I saw a herd of pyuika attacked by wolves.

One fawn was not quick enough, and got left in front of the wolves.

Then an old buck leapt forward, and stomped around to provoke them.

An act befitting the Deer King.

Did saving the fawn and vanishing into the forest injured make that buck a hero?

Or was it simply strong-legged, and did what was required of it?

It seemed so to me.

The men of the Lone Antlers all died, I hear.

Will you leave alone?

Yuna. Want to ride?

Yeah!

Giddy-up!

What are those?

Pasque flowers.

And that?

A bush cricket.

And that?

A white-tailed eagle.

Well then... What's this?

Dada!

And what's this?

Yuna.

You know everything!

You like it here?

Here?

You like Tohma and his people?

I do! The lady too!

I see...

I like you too!

I'll make you a deer whistle.

A pyuika? How rare.

He's gonna make me a deer whistle!

He is?

Yuna, we must go.

Okay.

Where are you headed?

May this realm become safe for orphans too.

Found you.

Heave-ho!

Quick, quick! Van'll get ahead of us!

Huh, that's unusual. A Zolian.

Stop!

What is it?!

Dogs...

Black dogs...

What's up?

Stay back!

The mittsual hit another Zolian village?

And?

No inquest at all.

The priest-doctors burned the bodies and prayed for three days and nights.

It cannot be a curse.

Think, Hohsalle. Why does it distinguish between Zol and Aquafa?

Sir Hohsalle! S-Success at last!

Hey, we're in a library. A mittsual cure has been found?

Yes! Er, no.

The Lone Antler... The salt mine escapee was!

What?!

That tracker woman sent word. Tohlim took troops to catch him.

Tohlim himself has gone?

Prepare! We shall chase the old man.

Yes, sir?

This bodes badly...

I hear lots about the resentment of Zol lately. It is said the gods sent the ossam

and Lord Utalu's death was punishment for scorning Aquafa.

There is no Aquafa or Zol. We're all one family.

Indeed.

This is our home.

We chose to live on this land.

What is it?

Watch Yuna.

What?

Listen, I forced you to shelter me. Tell them that.

Wait! Van!

Van of the Lone Antlers?

These people know nothing.

If you spare them, I shall surrender.

Very well.

The Lone Antlers...?

Dada?

Where's Dada?!

Dada!

Stay there.

You scoundrel!

Dada!

Van! What's this Lone Antlers stuff?!

What have you done, Van?!

It...briefly turned into a tree...

Dada!

Come quietly!

When'll you be back?

Dada, when'll you be back?

Got you...

Dogs!

We're surrounded!

What in the world?!

Fear not! Aquafaese are immune to the mittsual!

Ohfan...

Why fight it? Give in to it.

- Dada! - No!

Da...da?

Yuna...

Yuna!

Van!

- Yuna! - Fool!

Zol...

Tohma! For Van!

I'm countin' on ya!

- What was that?! - Any casualties?

He's in the forest! After him!

Let's go! Get the horses!

Get a grip, Van...

I know...

...who I am!

Yu...na...

Outta my way.

For Aquafa!

Yuna...

Stop there.

Halt!

Hey! Halt, I said!

No! Sir Hohsalle! Step away!

Good grief, what's with this guy?

Makokan, lead Tohlim's men away.

They must not kill him. You can see that!

But... I cannot see that, but I shall see to it!

Do not take unnecessary risks!

You're home!

My dear husband.

Why fight it?

Give in to it.

Do you not feel the wind howl?

The grass and flowers? Birds? Beasts?

You now feel all forms of life, and are at one with them.

That is Inside Out.

Inside Out?

Yes. The power you now possess.

Yuna!

Come.

Come to me. My name is Kenoi.

Tohlim wants rid of that man's blood?

He believes Aquafaese are immune to the mittsual.

I suspect he has a hand in the outbreak.

Like 80 years ago, the mittsual must be being used to repel Zol

and give Aquafa hope of gaining independence,

but there is no guarantee it will remain an ally.

Zolians killed my family.

The disease is retribution.

So killing that man is justified?

Desist!

Stop. You're too hurt to be moving around.

See? With your wounds, moving around is impossible.

I am a doctor. Lie down for now.

Forget that woman.

Listen! We need you alive.

Thank you. You bandaged me?

Do not thank me. I only want your blood.

I made a promise.

Wait!

I must find Yuna...

I am Hohsalle Yuguraul!

Let us make a deal. I shall accompany you.

I will tend to your wounds. You have lost too much precious blood.

However, once you achieve your aim, you shall let me take some.

Fair?

Tracker! You are needed too, to find the girl called Yuna.

All is settled. Van, I shall redress your wounds.

Get down.

Let's see your shoulder. I shall treat it too.

And so, I came to travel with the man who holds the key.

Strange as it is, the woman who wants his head

has become our navigator...

Shall we rest?

Not until the next forest.

This is avalanche country.

Amazing.

His wounds have closed.

I shall hunt for food. Find firewood, sir.

Me?

That won't do.

Damp wood burns poorly.

We need branches from trees.

Will this do, my teacher?

You want my blood?

Yes.

Why?

Well...

A disease called mittsual plagues this land.

It is spread by ossam dogs.

One bit you in the salt mine, right?

As you have survived, your blood may provide a cure.

My blood, curing a disease?

Take snakebites for example.

We dilute blood of the previously bitten and transfuse patients with it.

That blood remembers how to fight the poison,

and weakens the snakebite's effect.

In other words, your blood, which defeated the mittsual,

will become a powerful weapon to fight it.

I wish to wield that weapon against the disease.

I have indeed survived.

But I did not defeat it. The disease still lives within me.

Or rather, the disease may be what is keeping me alive.

"Keeping me alive"...

What an odd thing to say.

I have seen the mittsual take many lives.

What face has it adopted while living within this man?

I felt an urge to look upon that face.

Van.

This Yuna you risk your life for is your wife?

My wife died in an epidemic. My son as well.

Then Yuna is...

My daughter.

He heals remarkably fast. The Lone Antlers' strength?

Or perhaps the mittsual?

I may be a vaunted sacred doctor,

but here I eat parasite-laden meat...

May I borrow that?

My daughter.

Woman! Where is Van?

Grazing his pyuika.

Humans cannot see within their bodies.

But now you are Inside Out, you have become aware.

Souls and bodies are separate things.

All living creatures are at one with each other.

Your body is merely an anchoring vessel.

Having been bitten by a dog, what did you see?

Do not fear the light.

You are a free being.

Van.

What is it? Your wounds aching?

No. Sometimes I hear the voice of the man who took Yuna.

His voice is somehow reassuring. That frightens me.

Come. Yuna is waiting.

Okay.

In the west here, anti-Zol sentiment remains strong.

So, you are from the west?

Are you sure you will not greet His Majesty the Emperor?

Quite sure. He has no interest in me now.

Come. I shall fulfill my duty as an imperial prince.

A decree for us to join their military campaign?

We also need to prevent rebellion, per our treaty.

How dastardly...

Who said that Yotalu would make Zol easier to control?

My apologies.

What should we do?

Obey the decree.

We must avoid falling foul of the emperor.

Drat and blast. How did this happen to us?

I have no excuse to offer.

However, even if we lose Fire Horse Village,

if we can just keep the ossam alive, then one day...

That day is far away.

A love of country nurtures hope for the future.

What about Hohsalle?

If he finds a cure, that future will also vanish.

The key to all of this is that man from the salt mine.

If we could remove him from the equation...

Rumors of the mittsual's return

have reignited smoldering anger at

the resumption of the Emperor's Eyes' Visit.

This was originally Aquafa's land. Zol deserves punishment.

The lord and his wife were truly good and kind.

Our village prospered thanks to them. This is foolishness...

Hey, where's my mother?

An Aquafaese curse...

Many say it is divine punishment for Zol...

Time to go.

I pray another war does not break out.

Why did I survive?

The mittsual...

...kills Zolians but not Aquafaese for a reason, I'm sure.

Destiny plays no part.

If we look closely, we find hidden threads of causality.

Following those threads will save many lives.

Trusting in that is the basis of the medical arts.

Van.

There also must be a reason why you survived.

Do your medical arts save the body? Or the soul?

Saving the body saves the soul.

My soul was saved by Yuna.

His soul...

The soul he speaks of

sounds different to that which the priest-doctors mention.

A guide for the emperor's balloon.

The Emperor's Eyes' Visit?

Then we are near...

Yes. Fire Horse Village lies ahead.

Once sacred, it was protected by the mittsual.

Is this...another thread of causality?

I can no longer hear their voices.

Those youths got bitten again?

Yes. It seems they snuck into the precincts at night.

And yet they are incapable of receiving the power...

They wished to repay you, Chief Ohfan.

Fools...

They wanted to be king.

Dismount now.

Stilt-walker!

Upper left!

Why?! We are fellow Aquafaese! Why attack us?!

Fear and hate blind people.

I was the same once.

Actually, years ago, I encountered "Broken Antler" Van.

A mere six Lone Antlers had decimated my squadron.

Lucky you survived.

Well, he would not kill a boy, as I was.

Apologies for resting here. It is not doctorly of me.

Van, may I ask a question?

This Yuna you seek. What is she like?

Well, Yuna is...

Her hands are small, soft, and clingy.

Her cheeks are rosy, round, and warm.

Her hair is slightly unruly.

Yes. Tying it into pigtails makes her smile with delight.

She loves to smile. She is fond of animals.

Insects? Perhaps not.

She loves pyuika milk and milks them well.

She makes meat taste better.

She cannot chew well, but she fills her mouth and smiles.

When sleeping, she sometimes clings to my back.

So tightly that it hurts a little.

I thought I would never be a father again...

I want to show her many things.

I want to see her grow, find a man she loves,

marry him, and...

I want to keep watching over her.

A deer whistle?

Yes.

She is not your child.

Thank you.

She is an orphan who was given to an insane woman in the salt mine.

Yeah.

But blood ties matter not.

She is my daughter.

You say things a tracker could never see.

Go northwest of this hot-spring region, and follow the valley.

Fire Horse Village lies beyond. The ossam will be there...

With your daughter.

Why bring us this far?

She also survived the mittsual.

I was going to kill you both.

Leaving?

You left a good village. Take her back.

I am Sae. The next time we meet, call me by that name.

When I awoke, the woman was gone.

Van said I need not follow him, but I refused, still wanting his blood.

What in the world did I see the night before?

Van. Please let me hear the sound that whistle makes.

Not quite what I expected.

Yuna awaits beyond.

Yes...

The land deeply tied to the mittsual...

Hey! Wait for me!

You have come at last, Van. I have been waiting.

With your power, become one with the village's remaining ossam.

They are our very future.

Come, Van. You shall be my successor...

Rest easy. I shall treat the doctor as my guest.

I worried you would not make it, "Broken Antler" Van...

leader of the Lone Antlers.

I am Ohfan, chief of Fire Horse Village.

Where is Yuna?

Follow me.

Chief Ohfan!

Zolians are encamped on the Nagori plain.

I see.

Rest up for tomorrow. Tell the others.

Yes, sir!

My people have gone into hiding elsewhere.

Tomorrow, the Zolian army will swarm in.

This view will be gone.

H-Hey!

What is it, Olaha?

Did you know pyuika have fire horse blood?

We forgot about them - even how to breed them - yet they gather here.

This land is sacred to them too.

What say you? Why not reclaim this realm with me?

Van? Van!

Pretty, right?

Right?

Who are you?

Pretty, right?

Pretty?

They're glowing!

The asshimi?

You are...

...Yuna?!

Ossam?!

You cannot enter those precincts.

We meet again, Sir Hohsalle.

We studied together in Otawalle. I am Shikan.

I need your help.

Last autumn,

the King of Aquafa's right-hand man visited this village.

He said Emperor Natalu would resume the Emperor's Eyes' Visit.

They no longer feared the mittsual that protected this village.

That is why Kenoi chose to lead the ossam again...

to remind the Zolians why they should be afraid.

Unfortunately, the Dog King is elderly, and his power wanes...

A successor must take up his mantle.

It cannot be me. The mittsual chose...you, Van!

Is this...the mittsual's doing?

- Yes. - But these are Aquafaese, no?

They are. They should be immune, but they have been infected.

Why?

I do not know.

They are former captives of Zol, raised in their villages.

Could that be the reason? Or has the disease mutated?

The ossam bit them?

Yes.

Ohfan freed them, so they tried to repay him, getting bitten voluntarily...

Voluntarily? Why get bitten on purpose?

To receive the Dog King's power.

The Dog King...?

Ossam can only be led by a human who is bitten

and survives upon receiving a special power.

Why did I survive?

You mean, Van?!

Yes.

A successor has been found?

We were not worthy...

I see... A successor...

Congratulations, Chief Ohfan...

- Boil water. - What?

Do you have ikimi?

A little...

An alternative also exists. Get it!

On it!

Damn! Where is Van now?

Hey! Move it, newcomer!

That woman...

Hey! The pot!

You disobeyed my order?

I did.

Letting that man live will nullify the mittsual's threat.

You know very well what that will mean.

You have failed me. Take her away!

Yes, sir!

Get up.

Is that the tracker woman?

Yes. She lost the salt mine escapee.

She what?

Now we can only watch as the Emperor's Eyes' Visit proceeds.

I shall silence Ohfan.

And abandon the village?

Yes.

We must gaze at the emperor's smiling face?

We shall sacrifice too much.

Woman! Where is he?!

What are you...?!

Where is Sir Hohsalle?!

Stop that!

Move! I need to ask that woman!

H-Help!

Sir Hohsalle and Van are at Fire Horse Village.

Follow the cliffs three leagues north.

There is a secret path to the village.

Dawn has broken.

Pyuika milk. It will nourish you.

The villagers here drink it. All Aquafaese once drank it.

Being captives of Zol made these youths hate the smell.

I wish I could nourish them...

Chief Ohfan!

Van!

You the sacred doctor?

Know this. The mittsual sent

former Lone Antlers' leader Van to this land as its new king.

It is the gods' will.

The disease only lets the chosen ones live.

No! It is a mere disease. Not the gods' will.

Van's blood can save those youths!

I see... So you also seek this man?

Very well.

All can be decided when he becomes the Dog King.

Go! Kenoi awaits you. Your daughter is with him.

No. Do not go, Van!

It is true that the disease seems godly.

It is unclear when or why it will infect, or why it kills some and spares others.

It is far beyond our grasp.

Even so... does that justify giving up?!

It may seem to be destiny,

but resisting destiny is how we survive, is it not?!

I am satisfied with my destiny.

Natalu, Emperor of Zol... I'd gladly give my life to end his.

Answer me. Are you willing, Van?

Amid darkness, the mittsual found you.

Use it as the Dog King to remake our world!

As your soul surely desires.

After losing my wife and child, I groveled in darkness.

But Yuna brought me back from the abyss.

My soul was saved by that child.

Yuna!

This girl is favored by the ossam.

She also gained the power to become their queen.

This is the answer you seek.

Give in to it, Van!

No.

This is no place for her to live.

To live on with her, I shall continue to resist!

I shall not be the Dog King!

Why not?!

If you shall not, why do you possess that power?!

Dada?

You're back.

Sir Hohsalle!

At last, I found you!

How did you...?

Hurry! This is our chance to escape!

Er, where is that Van fellow?

Van!

Yuna.

Worry not.

Indeed, I mean no harm.

I brought this just in case. Is it useful?

How thoughtful! And unlike you. Well done.

Get the sickest youth's blood.

On it.

Diluted poison for the rest.

Relax. I shall take only a little.

It's pretty!

She said the same about asshimi...

She was bitten too?!

Kenoi...

Mount up!

Succeed...me...

What is going on?

Makokan! Stand down.

Sir Hohsalle!

Stop this, Van.

The mittsual must not perish...

- My husband. - Father.

- My husband. - Father.

Be strong.

Remember who you are.

My family...

I have no choice!

Sir Hohsalle!

Forgive me.

Yuna!

It can't be...

Sir Hohsalle! The youths are...

Olaha!

The lightning did no damage to our forces.

Line up!

Assume battle formation, and when the time comes,

blast open the valley...

What the...?!

It is not yet time!

Alright! This youth first.

This one next.

Think, Hohsalle.

What must I learn?

Huh? An attack?!

Foolish followers of Zol!

We shall bring you to your senses!

Now, let them taste our loyalty to the emperor!

The dogs are not with you... A wise choice, Ohfan.

Pray for the future they beget... from the next world!

Tohlim!

Yuna...

The king! Defend the king!

Who's a right-hand man now?

M-My allies!

Dogs?! He brought them? That fool!

So be it!

Onward! Take the head of Emperor Natalu!

So you are the new queen...

- Draw arms! - Dogs!

Wretched dogs!

- The mittsual! - The Aquafaese curse!

Anything to drink... Oh! Thank goodness!

What is this?!

Pyuika milk.

She loves pyuika milk, and milks them well.

All Aquafaese once drank it. These youths hate the smell.

Before being occupied by Zol, Aquafaese drank pyuika milk.

Van and Yuna too...

Zolians never did.

Aquafaese under Zolian rule abandoned the custom.

They're glowing!

Glowing asshimi. Van's blood. Linked by pyuika milk...

Van's glowing blood has mittsual antibodies...

That's it!

Asshimi enables the production of mittsual antibodies!

Hold your fire!

Come with me, Yuna.

Yuna.

Dada?

Enough. I am more than ready to die.

Go, my queen.

Run through the forest, and however long it takes,

use the disease to kill every last Zolian!

Send the horses!

Van...

No escape! Hunt down those dogs!

Shoot that man.

What?

The pyuika rider. Do it now.

Y-Yes, sire.

That woman?!

Why help that man escape?!

Where are you going?! The battlefield is not our place...

Not again!

Olaha, I beg you! Dig deep!

Yuna!

Dada!

I found you!

I like you too!

Dada?

Yuna, thank you.

Dada?

Return to the village. They await you.

Tohma and the others?

I promised you this.

You will go on to meet many people.

Your place is with them.

And you, Dada?

Dada?

Wait!

No! I'll go with you!

Take me! I'll go back with you!

Where's Dada?

When will Dada come back?

Wh-What was that?

Dr. Hohsalle Yuguraul, of the Otawalle Academy!

He has returned with a cure for the mittsual!

Hey, hey! Don't make that face.

Is it true that you have found a cure?

Yes. But if troops push on into Fire Horse Village,

it will be lost to us.

Retreat, you say?

Even if you do, the Emperor's Eyes' Visit will not end in defeat.

Please believe in me...

and that man named Van.

THE DEER KING

Additional Translation Jake Jung