"As Your Majesty has ordered," "I have recovered him." "Looking up at the door of reminiscence" "The faraway whispering I was listening to" "Guide me, labyrinth of the soul" "To the path of the flakes of light" "The pain that pierces me is an innocent trick" "I want to believe that I'm not alone" "This place is a paradise of wandering" "With wings that dye the heart white" "If I can reach your eyes" "Embrace me with a smile" "Know the meaning behind being born" "Gazing at one another, the destiny legend begins" "Say, Ferris." "This is the fourth day I've been working in here nonstop." "Any longer, and I think I'll die from some disaster in this mountain of documents." "What would you think of something like that?" "Ryner!" "Don't fall asleep, Ryner!" "No, I'm tired now." "Sorry, Ferris." "No!" "Don't do it, Ryner!" "Didn't we take a vow together, to get married after we made it off the mountain?" "Oh, is that how this story develops?" "Okay, I'll go with..." "I-I wanted... to be happy... together with you..." "R-Ryner!" " Open your eyes!" " Ow!" "Ow!" "Ryner, Ferris." "Listen to me." "There's a bit of trouble with..." "Sion!" "This isn't the time!" "Just now, Ryner stopped breathing!" "The causes were unexplained strong blows to the face, and overwork." "Can we move past that, Ryner?" "There's a job that needs handling right away..." "I died just now." "I can't hear a thing anymore!" "Please find someone else!" "Nope." "He turned that down quick." "Please, Ryner." "If these aren't handled within a week, there will be serious trouble." "If this keeps up, there could be a birthday celebration." "A birthday?" "Whose?" " Mine." " Yours?" ""Quiz Contest Concerning Torture and Punishment in the Roland Empire."" "If we can spread understanding of how harshly this nation punishes those who commit crimes, it could lead to a reduction of crime rates." "I like it." "But would this proposition be entertaining as an event at the king of Roland's birthday celebration?" "Still, this year I must ensure a successful celebration of our great king's day of birth!" "Eight hundred and forty three, eight hundred and forty four... aw, crap!" "My arm's starting to go out of control!" "I won't give in!" "Yeesh." "You're still recovering, and look at what a musclehead you're being!" "Who are you calling a musclehead?" "!" "If you keep pushing your limits, I'm telling Miss Noa!" "Hey, that's not fair!" "Wow, instant results!" "You really are crazy about Miss Noa." "Then maybe I should tell Eslina everything?" "About your thing with Lord Pearl's wife, or the thing with the widower Fazia?" "Hey, hold on!" "It was just pleasantries!" "Nothing really happened!" " Pleasantries, huh?" " That's right!" "Your heads are both filled with spring colors, as always." "It makes me envious." "Here comes the gloomy one." "Are you making fun of us?" "Not at all." "It's a compliment." "On that note, I wish to consult with you." "You two have succeeded in minimizing the content in your heads." "I have just the job in mind for you both." "I'm gonna kill him, Calne." "All right, sir!" "Goodness gracious." "I'm begging you, Ryner!" "Beg all you want, you made me work all day yesterday and even more before that!" "Damn it!" "Fine then, you rest!" "Rest and get some sleep!" "You haven't slept this whole time either, have you?" "!" "Hold on, Ryner!" "Go to sleep forever, right now!" "Damn it." "I'm not sticking around for more of that!" "I'm going back to the inn and getting some sleep." "Ryner, what are you doing in a place like this?" "That Sion just thinks way too seriously!" "He should just sit back and let others celebrate his birthday." "Y-Yeah, he should." "I know, right?" "Everyone says they want to celebrate it..." "Birthday?" "Birthday!" "Oh, yeah..." "Sorry." "I totally ditched your birthday party." "You remembered!" "Well, er..." "I'm really sorry." "It's okay!" "A lot happened after that, and I wasn't in much of a position to have a party." "Just knowing that you remembered makes me happy, okay?" "Is it that late already?" "Sorry, Ryner." "I'd better get back." " Sure." " See you, Ryner!" "Get lots of rest!" "If you let that pretty-on-the-outside woman trick you into doing anything funny," "I'll never forgive you, okay?" "Hey!" "Don't say weird stuff like that!" "Truly, such a wonderful girl!" "Even after having her birthday party canceled at the last minute," "Captain Milk behaves so gallantly!" "Compared to that, some certain taboo breaker would be..." "Trash, yes!" "You're responsible for that to begin with!" "Yes, of course!" "That's why we are in the process of considering a means of atonement!" "Atonement?" "Yes, atonement." "Right, atonement!" "I see." "Sion's birthday, huh?" "Come to think of it, last year, he had a really dull celebration." "That's because Sion utterly despises luxury." "We must not allow such a dull ceremony to come to pass again this year." "For the sake of Roland's future, I would like to ask you two for help." "All right!" "You can count on us, Gloomy!" "Then, we'd better give it a little thought." "All right, it's meeting time!" "We should hear the women's opinions, too." "Hey, yeah, good idea!" " That's something Gloomy would never think of." " Let there be..." "Ah, better not..." "Better get Noa in on this!" "Can I bring Eslina, too?" "I don't think it's a bad idea, though..." "The Torture and Assassination Festival." "We can build a stage in the plaza in front of the royal palace..." "How about some stalls?" "We've got to give it more flair, more flash." "Make it like a festival." "How did they do that in Estabul?" "Let's see." "When they held festivals, they'd have a lot of fireworks." "Fireworks, huh?" "Those are the big things that get fired up into the sky, right?" "Eslina?" "I've never seen the really big ones!" "I'd love to see them just once." "What do you think, sir?" "Why not?" "They'd add a lot of flair, and everyone could enjoy them." "That's true!" "Okay, let's make fireworks the main event." "Really?" "!" "One moment." "It takes quite a bit of time to prepare major fireworks." " The bigger ones can take half a year." " Half a year?" "!" "Since this is Lord Astal's birthday celebration, we can't have shabby ones." "Starting to prepare now would be..." "I guess that wouldn't work, then." "No, we're going to do fireworks." "Eh?" "But..." "We know just the guy for it, right?" "Ryner." "Don't you consider that attitude to be rude to the dango?" "I'm at my limit, you know." "I've got all kinds of trouble." "Ah, so a woman you tricked long ago demands punitive damages from you, and to pay her off, you try to trick another woman so you can steal her money, then your last moments are spent getting stabbed and dying in a ditch." "Do I have it about right?" "Sure, whatever, we'll call it right." "But right now, it's dango time." "Forget all those troublesome things and focus on the dango." "Right." "Well?" "Mm, delicious." "I've been made to eat dango from all over the place, thanks to you, but there's no comparison to Wynnit." "Is that right?" "Is this a new recipe?" "It tastes different from usual, but it's pretty darn good." " What is it?" " Nothing..." "Oh, it looks like it's scored high marks with your partner!" "Good for you, little Ferris!" "Shopkeep!" "That dango is a new recipe little Ferris came up with and made!" "You made this?" "Yeah." "Little Ferris dreams of running a dango shop of her own one day!" "A dango shop?" "!" "You, huh?" "Well, I guess you're always serious when it comes to dango." "Of course I am!" "Those who don't contend with dango seriously are punished by the Dango God!" "What's this Dango God stuff?" "The Dango God is the god of dango." "He is the one absolute god who reigns over the world!" "Hey!" "There he is, the man who's perpetually napping!" "Huh?" "!" "Excuse us, there's a job we'd really like for you to do..." "C'mon, let's go." "Hey!" "What are you doing?" "!" "Wait, let me go!" "Get up and walk!" "I can't walk the way you're holding me!" "So your misdeeds are revealed, and the time has come for you to be thrown into the ditch." "Hey, wait!" "Let me go!" "Stay in sound health, Ryner." "Can't you go any faster?" "I can't!" "Any faster would be..." "Damn." "All the preparations were supposed to be in place!" "Give it up." "There's no escape for you." "Finally!" "Finally, this day has come!" "Ever since that red-haired musclehead dragged me into his idiotic plan," "I've been stuck working day and night!" "So what's the big idea running off, you ass?" "!" "You jerk!" "Hurry it up!" "Come on, men." "Take him and go!" "Hold on..." "Come on, you dogs, carry him!" " I've got work to do!" "Area inspections..." " Bring him to the castle, put your back in it!" " Yeah!" " I'm counting on you!" " One-two!" "One-two!" "One-two!" " Move it!" "Three cheers for Lord Sion!" " Brother Sion!" " Your Majesty!" "Your Majesty, everyone's waiting eagerly." "It's a bit sudden, but I would ask you to ignite the fireworks." "Fireworks?" "We prepared them just for you." "But something this large-scale wasn't accounted for in the budget..." "Come on!" "Look!" "Everyone in this nation is celebrating for you." "Please, answer their calls." "Thank you, everyone." "Please have a look at the mountains up ahead." "Fire an Izuchi in the direction of that small light." "Roger that." "What I seek is thunder." "Izuchi!" " Amazing!" " Cool!" "Here goes!" "Happy birthday!" "Thank you!" "How's this?" "Looks delicious, doesn't it?" ""Happy Birthday."" "Thank you!" "Huh?" "Captain Milk." "Your attention, please!" "Okay, here goes." " Five!" " Four!" " Three!" " Two!" "One!" "Hm?" "Was that Sir Sion?" "Sorry, I won't drink anymore." "You're going?" "Your Majesty?" "Is something the matter?" "I'd like to take the carriage out." "Could you get it ready?" "I'll call a coachman immediately." "No, I'll go alone." "That would be..." "I have someone to pick up." "Him." "I want to come for him." "Who would've expected it to start raining?" "Ugh, cold!" "Better get back quick..." "Huh?" "You're a lifesaver, Sion." "Thanks, Ryner." "Huh?" "For what?" "The fireworks." "You're the one who fired them off." "Yeah, sure." "The rain's letting up." "There's a place I'd like to stop off at, if you don't mind?" "I don't mind." "All right, then." "This is where you wanted to stop?" "This place sure brings back some memories." "Yes, it's the place where I first raised a toast with you." " Ryner..." " Huh?" "Thank you for today." "I mean it." "Huh?" "Well, gotta be nice sometimes, I guess." "But after this, I'm gonna get one hell of a nap." "Not yet." "Actually, there's still work left that needs to be done quickly." "Aw, cut it out." "Any more of this, and I'd be dead for real." "I guess working nonstop for over a tenday is pretty rough." "You know, it'd have been nice if you'd realized that by the second day, or even the third day." "I suppose so." "Shall we get back and get some sleep, then?" "Yeah!" "I'll head back to the inn." "I'll send a carriage for you when you wake up, so we can pick up where we left off." "No way." "I'll come for you in three hours." "Huh?" "!" "What the hell?" "!" "That barely gives me any time to sleep!" "Okay, how many hours should it wait?" "How about three hundred hours?" "Okay." "Then we'll meet in the middle and say four hours." "How is that the middle?" "!" "Besides, you should get some sleep!" "You probably haven't gotten any real sleep in ages!" "Right?" "It can't be helped." "To completely change this country, we still need widespread education, improved medical care, tax reform, technological advancement, and, let's see..." "Seriously, how much of a workaholic are you?" "Oh, yeah, Sion." "Sion..." "I'm sorry." "Back then, I thought the things you said were just empty dreams." ""I'll become king of this land." "I'll change everything." "I'll make the world you once desired."" "It wasn't an empty dream." "This country has changed." "You've changed it." "To a world where everyone can live without crying." "A world where everyone can live with a smile." "It's an empty dream." "How many friends have died for it?" "How many people do you think have died for the sake of my ideal?" "How much was sacrificed for the world as it is now?" "Even so, without you, this country would have remained dark forever." "It's... enough." "You're working plenty hard." "I know that." "So don't work yourself to the bone trying to punish yourself." "This country has changed." "Even if you take it easy a little now, it won't go back to the way it was." "There's no more need to be constantly afraid that what you're doing is wrong, that you could be doing it better." "Don't you have plenty of people now?" "Like that red-haired idiot, or the taboo breaker squadron guys." "Or Ferris... or me." "You don't have to bear everything by yourself anymore." "This country is definitely changing, in a good way." "Is it?" "It is." "If that was really true it would be so nice." "But it's all an empty dream." "Vestiges of that day I had forgotten" "Faint in the direction of the sky" "Faint in the direction of the sky What I seek is thunder!" "What I seek is thunder!" "Our hearts should have been connected" "Our hearts should have been connected Izuchi!" "Our hearts should have been connected" "The trembling eyes don't answer" "No matter how much I believe" "No matter how much I want to convey" "This voice won't reach" "Filaments of light" "Carve everything into my body" "From here where I set out walking" "Memory segments" "Untie the strings of fate that now bind me" "I want to grow strong" "So that when we meet again" "I can give you more protection" "For crying out loud!" "Why do things have to suck this much?" "!" "But, Sion, I said I wouldn't give up!" "So I'll give it all that I have!" "But this really, really, seriously sucks!"