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I have committed my voice to this messenger bird

to express my gratitude for the other day

Messenger Bird

by inviting you all to the coming ball at the castle.

Sherry...

Wh-What is this thing?

One of my favorite dresses!

It suits you to a T.

Thanks...

Look! Isn't this lovely?

This ring goes perfectly.

You have such pretty hair.

A little silver would really give it some pop.

O-Okay.

Bye Bye, Earth

Bye Bye, Earth

Ballroom

My, so that's the hero of the Katakombe.

I had heard she was positively beastly...

Why, she's such a little thing!

Adonis and the guys are here too, right?

You must be the mighty solist I've heard so much about.

You look scrawnier than they say.

If you touch me, you'd best be prepared to lose an arm.

Oh, Belle!

What beastly manners, and in such a beautiful dress, no less!

Who cares? The hero of the Katakombe shouldn't take any guff.

Bennett, Gwyn!

You seriously came in your uniforms from the Katakombe?

We'd stand out like sore thumbs at a ball anyway.

So we decided to make a joke of it.

We figured we'd let people treat us like brutes and get a taste of what you go through.

Adonis...

Are you drunk?

Mmm. Looks delicious.

Adonis.

Well, now. Not half bad.

Huh?

Ugh! What was that about?

Glory be!

May this exalted sword and scales enjoy eternal glory at our god's hand!

So this is what you wanted to show me...

I bet you won't stay that way anymore, though.

You've changed since then.

You sound happy, sublime, and fulfilled.

You've done great, Sherry.

I guess I'd better step up...

so we can stay on equal footing, even if we stand in different places.

You look ready to leave, my dear.

You always pop up without warning, Kitty the All.

Good evening, Belle Lablac.

You look simply radiant.

In Denari Land, we call ones such as you "empty."

Empty

What's that supposed to mean?

If you wish to know, may I suggest you join me in a dance?

Me?

Even flowers dance. Surely beasts do as well.

So why should my beloved deny herself the pleasure?

So, what did you mean by "empty"?

Free as the air.

To know one's roots and one's place but not be bound by them.

It refers to those who seek to escape all bonds

and ultimately transcend escape itself.

That's "empty"?

The steps are fortuitous

and yet inevitable.

Put no foot forward, and naught will come of it.

Step forward, and you step toward death.

All is empty.

All things will be set free to simply move and flow.

You broke Tiziano's sword in the first place, didn't you?

They looked like they wanted me to.

Because you wouldn't take them to bed?

That's right.

Although rumor painted the two of you rather close as well.

Tiz was just lonely.

We could never comprehend their sorrow.

Is that what you wanted to talk about?

No, but it is related.

In the Katakombe, I crossed swords with your father, Tom Collins,

and slew him.

I know.

A raven brought me the news.

I see.

That's the way he would've wanted to go, defending the Katakombe.

What's this really about?

Your father's sword is in my care.

What do you want from me?

If you want his sword,

return all the blades you've stolen from the fallen.

That's your judgment as lead solist?

It is.

In that case...

As a solist, I challenge you to a duel!

Why, Adonis?

Bamboo!

Let's keep the guests entertained.

Lead solist, I want you to take up your sword like the rest of us.

I will not grant you battle here and now.

What's this, gentlemen? A duel?

You would fight here?

You have no audience. No witnesses.

What a waste.

Kir...

It's nothing like that, Kir.

But Adonis holds his sword drawn.

That doesn't mean I'll draw mine!

You won't draw your sword?

Then die.

Lord Gaff!

Their chains came undone?!

So our god commands us...

to strike him down!

Pathetic.

A magnificent sword, is it not?

It was rather a struggle to master it so well.

Oh, Kir...

What have you done?!

The rest, I leave to you.

Kill him however you please.

Child's play.

W-Wait!

Belle Lablac awaits me.

I couldn't have done this without you, Adonis.

Without you, this sword would never have been.

No...

Let my voice relay a message from our god.

Heed well. A Nidhogg, one who gnaws at the divine tree's roots,

came into this world with a fiendish sword.

His identity: solist Kir Royale.

I hereby order battle.

Vanquish Kir Royale and bring him death.

To take up arms in this fight, I name...

Belle Lablac, she who knocks on the door of journeys,

and none other!

Princess!

Sherry!

Run!

Run, Belle!

Where are you, Belle Lablac?!

Lablac!

The way our god tells it,

I don't get to fight you.

Whelps.

This must be the "Nidhogg" mentioned in the divine summons.

Yeah. That sword is trying to consume Kir.

It's just like...

Kir!

I'm right here!

Come, my formulae!

Lablac!

Astounding! He cut my calculations.

Where is your sword?!

Do you expect me to kill you unarmed?!

Look at his arm...

Is that sword consuming its wielder?

I've made my peace with what happened to Tiz.

What gives?

Belle! The divine summons called upon you!

This is your last duty before you can go journeying!

Runding, this is our final trial!

What?

I feel like I'm meeting you for the first time.

My friend...

I get it now.

I'm the one who's changed.

Let's do this, partner.

Our audience is waiting on the edge of their seats.

Get back, Kitty the All!

He's mine to fight!

So you finally take up your sword, Lablac.

Belle! Beware his fang!

What?!

His sword is imbued with the power of Restau Rant.

No shield can block a blade that cuts through dimensions!

Thanks, Kitty.

This is a duel. I trust you understand that.

Kir.

We clashed, and I broke your sword. If we'd never met...

The rain of sorrow will freeze and starve you.

I understand, all right!

Incredible!

My beloved can cleave even the dimension-tearing of that blade!

This is the sword you're so proud of?!

I liked your old one a hell of a lot better!

Look at what you've become!

Did you feed that thing your solist spirit, too?!

That does it!

Solists aren't for you to feed on!

Looks like I can cut you.

Lablac!

Someone save her!

Please!

Save Belle!

You, a priestess, would flaunt a divine order

and sully our battle by begging for her life?!

Sherry!

Belle!

Goodness.

I'm fine, Sherry.

You sang like you were having a blast.

It's not the sword...

The divine tree is eating solists.

This is a god?

This is the god of Schwert Land?

The divine tree still won't look at me.

Birds bring messages of death...

Are Nidhoggs just the divine tree's messenger birds?

If so, then what is it saying? And to who?

Maybe Nidhoggs gnaw at the divine tree...

because it has no one to talk to but itself!

You... are strong.

Have no regrets.

This tree doesn't look at anyone except itself.

How long are you gonna stay cooped up in Bamboo, Adonis?

What happened to you?

I have so much to talk about with you.

You must have heard the news from Gaff.

Tomorrow's the day.

The king will prepare the key to the door of journeys.

That'll start the final trial.

And then...

we can go journeying together.

I won't begin the trial until you show yourself, got that?

Serves you right, you oaf.

I'll hack you to pieces if you peek!

You said you wanted to sleep with me, remember?

You haven't even fallen for me.

Adonis.

I'm a partial corpse.

I live with these hands that spread rot,

only living because I'm not yet dead, waiting until total death sets me free.

I wonder what I'd have to do to be as alive as you are.

Then be reborn.

I'll give birth to you myself if that's what it takes.

So...

let's set out on a journey together.

I still need to figure some things out.

I can't make any promises until I do.

You'll come tomorrow, right?

Aren't you going to ask what I'm doing here?

You seem more at home in any room than I do.

Yeah?

You really are an idiot.

If you say so, then I guess I must be.

At least come tomorrow. No matter what.

I'll be there.

But don't wait for me. Just go.

Dumbass!

I don't need you to tell me that.

Don't get full of yourself.

Sorry, Belle.

I'm so stupid.

A total fool.

Eighth Movement

A Ball Shaking Before the Fiend Flower

I'll become a nomad.

What are sacred ashes?

I'll go on a journey.

What do you die for?

I wasn't wrong.

I knew things would turn out this way.

I'll be waiting in your room.

Ninth Movement

Silence of Keys Unplayed