WEBVTT 00:06.050 --> 00:08.860 Good evening, Prince Theodore. 00:10.340 --> 00:13.530 Good evening, my lovely older sister. 00:13.530 --> 00:15.260 Impressive. 00:15.260 --> 00:18.030 From your demeanor, I take it you knew it would be me? 00:18.940 --> 00:21.790 If you would like to speak, I ask that it be brief. 00:22.950 --> 00:24.640 Continuing from this morning, 00:24.640 --> 00:27.670 you don't know my older brother very well yet, do you? 00:29.450 --> 00:31.880 So I'll tell you about him. 00:33.150 --> 00:37.340 My older brother thinks nothing of killing people. 00:37.340 --> 00:38.930 That's the kind of person he is. 00:39.800 --> 00:41.560 I know that. 00:41.560 --> 00:44.620 Arnold Hein committed massacres in other countries... 00:44.620 --> 00:47.560 and invaded every nation in the world. 00:47.810 --> 00:51.820 And, of course, I'm not speaking of times of war. 00:51.820 --> 00:53.450 What do you mean? 00:56.040 --> 00:57.540 You see, my brother... 00:58.040 --> 01:00.450 killed his own mother. 01:01.410 --> 01:03.450 A horrifying story, isn't it? 01:03.450 --> 01:05.890 Striking down his own mother? 01:05.890 --> 01:07.830 There's nothing decent about that, is there? 01:08.760 --> 01:11.620 And one day, you'll be killed, too. 01:12.090 --> 01:13.960 Is there something wrong with that? 01:15.370 --> 01:16.510 For my part... 01:16.970 --> 01:21.090 I am fully aware of the facts, and I choose to become Prince Arnold's bride. 02:53.640 --> 02:56.570 Did you hear what I said? 02:56.570 --> 02:58.620 I'm not surprised. 02:58.620 --> 03:02.820 He's the person who will one day kill his father and usurp the throne. 03:02.820 --> 03:04.980 You don't understand anything! 03:04.980 --> 03:07.960 My brother is a heartless man who neither cries nor bleeds! 03:06.630 --> 03:10.450 It seems our talk is at an end. You should continue this conversation with your brother. 03:14.880 --> 03:16.030 Brother... 03:18.960 --> 03:21.140 Why is my brother here? 03:21.140 --> 03:24.150 This is a misunderstanding! What I said just now isn't what I really think! 03:24.150 --> 03:25.700 It's all a misunderstanding! 03:26.760 --> 03:28.100 Theodore. 03:29.580 --> 03:32.380 I believe I ordered you to stay away from Rishe. 03:37.880 --> 03:39.640 I'm sorry, brother. 03:39.640 --> 03:41.020 Let's go, Rishe. 03:42.110 --> 03:45.550 Please wait, Your Highness. Speak with your brother for a moment or two. 03:45.550 --> 03:46.600 There's no need. 03:46.600 --> 03:47.200 But... 03:47.400 --> 03:48.380 Rishe. 03:51.240 --> 03:52.070 Yes, Your Highness. 03:59.330 --> 04:03.410 It truly is just as I thought, my sister. 04:06.260 --> 04:08.910 I'm really sorry, brother. 04:08.910 --> 04:12.320 I won't say anything mean to your dear bride any more. 04:14.840 --> 04:16.310 Good night. 04:16.310 --> 04:19.850 It's been a while since I've seen you up close like this. It made me happy. 04:27.430 --> 04:29.330 And I believe I told you as well. 04:29.530 --> 04:34.580 Since your name was used to call me here, Prince Arnold, I couldn't simply ignore it. 04:34.580 --> 04:37.140 Though, I did take a bit of a gamble on your coming here. 04:39.460 --> 04:42.500 I received a reply to a letter I never sent. 04:42.500 --> 04:48.300 Thank you for your invitation. I will go to the chapel alone at half-past twelve as specified. 04:42.870 --> 04:45.450 I would have been crazy to sit back and relax after that. 04:45.450 --> 04:48.300 Thank you for coming for me. 04:51.800 --> 04:52.930 What's wrong? 04:53.860 --> 04:57.810 Why do people say you're a cruel person? 04:58.920 --> 05:01.190 Probably because it's the truth. 05:01.460 --> 05:05.540 In the last war, Your Highness took many lives, 05:05.540 --> 05:11.090 but from what I've seen of you in this country, you are a considerate, kind person. 05:12.190 --> 05:15.010 It seems I've looked after you too well. 05:18.700 --> 05:23.950 If you wish to survive in this palace, discard that naïve mindset immediately. 05:25.320 --> 05:28.380 I trust what I've seen. 05:28.380 --> 05:31.850 You've never seen me on the battlefield. You don't know what you're saying. 05:31.850 --> 05:36.480 The person who has shown me such care and consideration was also undeniably you, wasn't it? 05:36.760 --> 05:38.240 Don't be ridiculous. 05:38.240 --> 05:41.270 I brought you here to use you. 05:41.270 --> 05:46.170 Even so, I can't think of you as a cruel person... 05:47.850 --> 05:49.020 my husband. 05:57.620 --> 06:01.440 What is this resolve you carry within you? 06:01.440 --> 06:03.160 Resolve? 06:03.570 --> 06:05.880 I see it in your eyes sometimes. 06:06.390 --> 06:08.880 They're the eyes of someone standing on a battlefield. 06:08.880 --> 06:13.490 "If it means that I can stay true to my convictions, then I don't care if I die here." 06:13.490 --> 06:16.270 You have the eyes of someone with that sort of resolve. 06:16.920 --> 06:19.710 Even then, you haven't given up on surviving. 06:19.710 --> 06:22.660 You will fight until the very last. 06:22.660 --> 06:27.080 The moments when I had to kill such a person... 06:27.080 --> 06:29.650 were the most terrifying moments of the war. 06:30.320 --> 06:33.650 He has things that frighten him, too? 06:36.620 --> 06:41.270 I have dreams where I am killed. 06:41.270 --> 06:44.790 When I wake, I know that I'm alive, here and now. 06:45.220 --> 06:48.370 But sometimes, I feel very afraid. 06:48.370 --> 06:49.300 Afraid? 06:49.670 --> 06:55.350 I worry that the truth is I've died and that the world I'm living in now 06:55.350 --> 06:58.990 is just a long dream I'm having after my death. 06:59.680 --> 07:03.200 I didn't realize I had these feelings inside me. 07:03.840 --> 07:06.700 Pay it no mind. What does it matter if I'm scared? 07:07.910 --> 07:10.930 Even so, I've made up my mind. 07:10.930 --> 07:15.570 No matter how this life may end, I don't want to run away. 07:15.770 --> 07:19.920 What I carry within me now is the resolve to live as your wife. 07:19.920 --> 07:21.530 No more than that. 07:49.050 --> 07:50.100 You fool. 07:52.060 --> 07:55.940 The resolve to be my wife? There's no need for that. 08:27.970 --> 08:30.340 What was that yesterday? 08:33.500 --> 08:34.700 And... 08:35.180 --> 08:39.040 The resolve to be my wife? There's no need for that. 08:40.060 --> 08:42.340 What did those words mean? 08:44.870 --> 08:48.420 Lady Rishe, did you not sleep again last night? 08:48.420 --> 08:49.950 Elsie. 08:49.950 --> 08:52.160 You've been working too hard the past few days. 08:52.160 --> 08:54.420 I'm all right. No need to worry. 08:54.830 --> 08:58.260 I say that, but I think I've finally reached my limits. 09:04.960 --> 09:07.530 So sparkly and smooth... 09:09.120 --> 09:11.950 This is the merchandise I'm proposing to Chief Tully. 09:11.950 --> 09:13.280 And what perfect timing! 09:13.680 --> 09:15.340 Will you sit there for me? 09:16.700 --> 09:21.290 In the east, they have a custom of staining their nails with dyes made from flowers. 09:21.290 --> 09:25.790 I used that as a hint and tried adding color to nail-strengthening medicine. 09:25.790 --> 09:30.260 I thought that this way, you could enjoy being stylish even while scrubbing and washing. 09:30.260 --> 09:32.680 This will make my nails stronger? 09:32.680 --> 09:35.300 Mine always split right away. 09:35.300 --> 09:37.800 This should make them less likely to split. 09:38.270 --> 09:41.890 But the most important thing is to eat meat or fish. 09:41.890 --> 09:44.060 Meat. Fish. 09:44.790 --> 09:46.040 I'll remember that. 09:46.040 --> 09:48.560 From now on, I'll be able to use my pay to get some. 09:49.050 --> 09:51.140 Elsie, if I remember correctly, your family is... 09:51.140 --> 09:53.720 Yes, my family is poor. 09:53.720 --> 09:57.320 It's all I can do to feed my younger brother and sister. 09:58.500 --> 10:02.070 So this nation has a deeply rooted poverty problem, too. 10:02.950 --> 10:05.700 There are households like Elsie's here. 10:13.420 --> 10:15.160 It's so beautiful. 10:15.830 --> 10:19.340 I've never seen anything so sparkly. 10:19.770 --> 10:21.660 Elsie, do you have a favorite color? 10:22.100 --> 10:23.470 I'd like to give you a present. 10:23.470 --> 10:25.770 I-I couldn't possibly! 10:25.770 --> 10:28.750 If I accepted something as wonderful as this... 10:28.750 --> 10:32.050 I believe I should restrain myself. 10:32.050 --> 10:36.230 Not at all! Elsie, your using this would make me happy, too. 10:38.680 --> 10:40.240 What color would you like? 10:40.610 --> 10:44.190 Any color would suit you very well. Won't you tell me? 10:50.560 --> 10:51.600 Elsie? 10:54.270 --> 10:56.970 Wh-What's wrong? Does something hurt? 10:58.840 --> 11:01.090 I'm... happy. 11:01.760 --> 11:06.190 I don't know how to thank you. 11:07.660 --> 11:10.750 I'm just... so very happy. 11:12.000 --> 11:13.100 Elsie. 11:16.950 --> 11:20.460 My family is very poor, and our clothes are always in tatters. 11:20.460 --> 11:22.630 We could never dress fashionably. 11:23.460 --> 11:27.520 And now, I've not only become your maid, Lady Rishe, 11:27.520 --> 11:30.270 I'm to be given something so beautiful... 11:30.920 --> 11:32.530 I'm just so happy! 11:35.540 --> 11:37.630 That's amazing! It's so pretty! 11:42.380 --> 11:45.390 There are other girls in this country doing what Elsie did, 11:45.390 --> 11:49.730 suppressing their own longings and dreams for the sake of their families. 11:52.530 --> 11:53.420 That's right. 11:53.890 --> 11:56.110 Right now, I'm not a merchant. 11:57.560 --> 11:59.120 Right now, I am... 12:06.830 --> 12:11.040 Most of the people coming in and out of the capital are working men in their prime. 12:11.400 --> 12:13.790 So, I thought this would make the perfect souvenir. 12:14.060 --> 12:16.170 And it's a small bottle, so it won't be unwieldy. 12:23.370 --> 12:25.070 Magnificent! 12:25.070 --> 12:28.220 What genius conceived of these wares? 12:28.220 --> 12:31.250 I'm certain that many women will want it. 12:31.250 --> 12:34.140 Please allow our trading company to handle the sales. 12:34.140 --> 12:36.840 All right! Let's start promoting it to our clients right away! 12:36.840 --> 12:37.940 Now, just wait. 12:38.880 --> 12:42.120 If this product were entrusted to us right now, 12:42.120 --> 12:45.620 we'd sell it as a highly priced product intended for nobles. 12:46.180 --> 12:50.550 But it seems that Lady Rishe has a different idea. 12:51.540 --> 12:55.210 Yes. This is where our business discussion begins. 12:57.290 --> 13:03.090 Three years ago, Prince Arnold established a minimum wage in this country. 13:03.090 --> 13:06.800 I see. So, that policy was the crown prince's? 13:07.220 --> 13:13.970 However, this boon is granted only to those who can find employment, I believe. 13:14.220 --> 13:15.260 Yes. 13:15.260 --> 13:20.590 This item isn't costly or difficult to make. 13:20.590 --> 13:23.360 However, it will require a lot of manpower to create large amounts. 13:23.720 --> 13:25.640 I have a suggestion in that area. 13:25.640 --> 13:27.610 Please allow me to hear it. 13:28.310 --> 13:31.370 Large scale hiring from the slums. 13:34.300 --> 13:36.970 If you promise me that this will be done, and only if you promise, 13:36.970 --> 13:39.550 then I will provide you the technique to create this item. 13:39.550 --> 13:42.500 What a magnificent idea! 13:44.080 --> 13:45.310 However... 13:51.500 --> 13:54.760 I'm disappointed in you, Miss Rishe. 13:54.760 --> 13:57.560 Kaine Tully, how dare you be so insolent! 13:57.560 --> 13:58.670 It's all right. 13:59.590 --> 14:01.220 If you wish to perform charitable acts, 14:01.220 --> 14:04.980 please feel free to wait until I change professions and become a clergyman. 14:05.240 --> 14:08.240 Chief, this is a business proposal. 14:09.930 --> 14:15.360 After the war, Galkhein created a number of policies to benefit its people. 14:15.360 --> 14:20.460 And thanks to those, people's income increased, and their lives became more extravagant? 14:20.460 --> 14:24.750 Yes. However, there are people who don't receive these benefits. 14:25.250 --> 14:29.260 Unless some method is provided for them to access these means, the economy will stagnate, 14:29.590 --> 14:32.760 and one day, it will lead to a drop in tax revenue. 14:33.460 --> 14:40.080 In other words, we share a common destiny within this cyclical loop known as the economy. 14:40.740 --> 14:43.020 So basically, this is what you're trying to say... 14:43.460 --> 14:47.340 Keeping riches isolated in one place won't create abundance. 14:47.340 --> 14:50.040 In which case, we should share them with the poor. 14:50.040 --> 14:51.030 Is that right? 14:52.340 --> 14:55.540 A long time ago, someone said this to me... 14:56.620 --> 15:00.290 "First-class merchants can choose their customers." 15:02.610 --> 15:04.380 But, Chief... 15:06.130 --> 15:08.720 instead of choosing our customers, 15:08.720 --> 15:11.060 why don't we produce them ourselves? 15:20.640 --> 15:22.820 I see! I like it! 15:22.820 --> 15:27.020 So, what you're saying is, "Don't choose your customers, cultivate them yourself"! 15:28.450 --> 15:29.920 What's that mean? 15:30.620 --> 15:35.570 If the people of the slums can earn an income, they'll become our customers. 15:35.570 --> 15:39.960 As their number increases, merchants' sales will increase as a result. 15:39.960 --> 15:41.980 That's the hidden motivation here. 15:41.980 --> 15:44.920 All of your company's wares are splendid. 15:44.920 --> 15:48.740 The ones who will see the greatest profits in this market of newly created customers 15:48.740 --> 15:50.920 will be the Aria Trading Company. 15:50.920 --> 15:52.470 So that's what you mean! 15:51.560 --> 15:53.700 So their lives aren't only about having enough to eat 15:52.470 --> 15:53.700 Sounds good, doesn't it, Chief? 15:53.700 --> 15:55.670 and so they don't have to give up their dreams, 15:53.700 --> 15:55.670 Creating our own market... 15:55.670 --> 15:59.070 I think it's an intriguing idea. I'd like to be a part of that! 15:56.180 --> 16:00.210 I want this country to become one that turns the despair of the slums into hope. 16:00.210 --> 16:03.590 Honestly, you're both getting ahead of yourselves. 16:01.180 --> 16:03.590 Right now, what I should be doing as the crown princess 16:03.590 --> 16:08.140 is creating businesses that will bring prosperity to the people of this country. 16:09.680 --> 16:13.570 This is one of the few proposals I can offer you in my current circumstances. 16:13.570 --> 16:15.520 Not bad. 16:15.520 --> 16:19.950 You seemed to have seen through me, right to my convictions, so this has been entertaining. 16:20.690 --> 16:24.210 But, Miss Rishe, you're still immature. 16:25.130 --> 16:27.770 Your behavior is much too earnest. 16:27.770 --> 16:30.460 It seems you really want to work with our company. 16:30.910 --> 16:37.340 I could use that fixation of yours to wring you dry. I've already started plotting how. 16:37.340 --> 16:39.350 Chief, you're going too far. 16:39.350 --> 16:44.280 Now, shall I begin finding faults in your proposal? 16:44.280 --> 16:46.170 A proposal made by the likes of me? 16:46.170 --> 16:48.980 I never believed that you'd unreservedly approve of it. 16:48.980 --> 16:52.360 Really? We've only met a handful of times. 16:52.360 --> 16:55.360 It makes me happy that you already understand me so well. 16:56.520 --> 17:00.430 I wanted to avoid using this if possible, but... 17:03.440 --> 17:07.250 Well! What will appear from your bag of tricks next— 17:12.040 --> 17:12.980 Chief? 17:16.820 --> 17:17.700 How? 17:18.940 --> 17:21.010 How do you have this? 17:21.850 --> 17:23.580 I'm very sorry. 17:23.580 --> 17:27.770 I used a rather special method to look into this. 17:28.760 --> 17:32.770 And into your younger sister, Aria Tully's, illness. 17:35.460 --> 17:39.280 There's nothing strange about word of Aria leaking. 17:39.750 --> 17:42.840 After all, I've gone around speaking to different doctors about her. 17:44.200 --> 17:47.960 At the moment, I am cultivating a number of medicinal plants. 17:48.680 --> 17:51.960 Compounding the plants according to the method written there 17:52.420 --> 17:56.580 will create a medicine from the large eastern country of Renhua... 17:57.850 --> 18:00.720 a medicine effective against Miss Aria's illness. 18:03.150 --> 18:05.900 If she takes this medicine for a year, 18:05.900 --> 18:08.060 she should make a profound recovery. 18:09.070 --> 18:11.250 And you think I'd believe you? 18:11.250 --> 18:13.840 You're not a doctor. No matter what you say, I— 18:12.970 --> 18:17.110 Did the medicine I gave you the other day help all of you? 18:18.750 --> 18:22.260 When everyone wakes, please have them drink this medicine. 18:23.210 --> 18:25.920 It did. I had a horrible hangover, 18:25.920 --> 18:28.200 but after I drank that, I felt better right away. 18:28.560 --> 18:30.910 That was something I concocted myself. 18:36.340 --> 18:39.080 "Become a merchant who can choose your own customers." 18:39.520 --> 18:43.120 That's what I've told my subordinates all this time. 18:44.500 --> 18:47.470 You've turned the tables on me, Miss Rishe. 18:48.330 --> 18:52.990 Up until now, this maneuvering was all about whether I'd choose you or not. 18:52.990 --> 18:56.860 But now, it's about whether you'll choose me. 18:56.860 --> 18:57.940 Chief... 19:00.190 --> 19:04.240 I'm begging you. I'll give you everything I own. 19:04.670 --> 19:06.670 Please, give this medicine to— 19:06.670 --> 19:09.230 Please don't misunderstand me. 19:09.790 --> 19:13.410 I'll give you the method and the medicinal herbs needed without any conditions. 19:14.090 --> 19:16.960 I have no intention of using your sister to my advantage. 19:17.660 --> 19:20.800 But I would like for you to understand. 19:20.800 --> 19:25.600 The people of the slums care about their families, too. 19:26.410 --> 19:29.220 To make sure their younger siblings don't fall ill... 19:29.220 --> 19:30.840 to make sure that they can feed them... 19:30.840 --> 19:36.110 so many older brothers and sisters sacrifice their own dreams. 19:36.570 --> 19:41.860 This clumsy method was the only way I could bring my proposal to you. 19:42.420 --> 19:45.870 I don't believe that the tables have turned. 19:47.010 --> 19:50.780 Please, will you help me, Chief Tully? 19:52.780 --> 19:56.900 Won't you please enter into business with me? 20:13.240 --> 20:15.900 Please, lift your head, Lady Rishe. 20:15.900 --> 20:18.520 Chief Tully! Please don't do that! 20:18.520 --> 20:23.270 Trade is meant to bring abundance to everyone involved, 20:23.920 --> 20:26.120 but I thought to choose my customers. 20:26.850 --> 20:28.660 It is I who am truly immature here. 20:29.240 --> 20:31.730 Until now, the fates of people in the slums 20:31.730 --> 20:35.160 have never meant anything to me. That's the honest truth. 20:35.380 --> 20:39.980 But there are many children like my sister living there. 20:40.610 --> 20:48.050 Your business idea is worth far more than anything someone like me could think up. 20:49.510 --> 20:54.900 Even aside from the matter of my sister's medicine, I feel ashamed of my own arrogance. 20:55.890 --> 20:57.060 Then, Chief, you'll... 21:01.690 --> 21:06.230 From this moment on, the Aria Trading Company, in the name of Kaine Tully, 21:06.230 --> 21:09.290 will prepare everything you have asked for. 21:11.250 --> 21:13.480 Thank you so much! 21:21.630 --> 21:23.600 It was like walking a tightrope. 21:23.600 --> 21:25.300 I'm so glad it all turned out well. 21:26.130 --> 21:29.470 But I can't just sit here pleased with myself. 21:29.470 --> 21:30.960 I must prepare for what comes next. 21:34.050 --> 21:34.680 Lady Rishe! 21:34.680 --> 21:35.400 Are you all right? 21:35.400 --> 21:36.940 Are you feeling unwell? 21:37.930 --> 21:39.230 I'm sorry. 21:42.460 --> 21:45.490 Could you call Elsie back for me please? 21:46.560 --> 21:47.490 Yes, my lady! 21:49.110 --> 21:50.620 How is Lady Rishe faring? 21:50.890 --> 21:52.830 Her condition seems very poor. 21:52.830 --> 21:55.700 Kamil and her maid Elsie are seeing to her now. 21:57.200 --> 21:58.240 Lady Rishe! 22:12.750 --> 22:14.720 We've awaited your arrival. 22:16.510 --> 22:19.730 It's just so perfect for us that she became indisposed and collapsed! 22:20.660 --> 22:23.740 Thank you, Kamil, Elsie... 22:28.450 --> 22:31.820 for abducting the future crown princess for me.