A murdered fortune-teller...
An invitation addressed to Roxane...
The Miniature Garden Box Evening...
We came here on a whim...
but I'm not so sure it was a good idea.
Even the person who led us here disappeared right before the ship left port.
H-Hey, Victorique!
What is it, Kujō?
It's no fair you're the only one eating!
I'm hungry, too!
We came here...
using Roxane's invitation.
There's only enough dinner for one.
Forget it.
I'll find something else to eat.
Didn't you bring snacks?
My brain calculated all of the materials we would need.
Snacks were among them.
A set of emergency provisions, too.
But they were all left behind at the academy...
Victims of your quibbling.
You have only yourself to blame.
So you're telling me I quibble?!
Have a roll, quibbler.
It's good.
Zutto mae kara kimatteita youna
ずっと前から決まっていたような
It's like it was predestined
Tooi mukashi kara wakatteta youna
遠い昔からわかってたような
It's like I've known it since the distant past
Mienai sen no ue wo tadoru youni
見えない線の 上をたどるように
Like following atop invisible wires,
Michibikare deai kousasuru Saison
導かれ出逢い 交差する Saison
we're guided to our meeting where the seasons intersect
Senakaawase no hikari to kage no youni
背中合わせの 光と影のように
Like the co-existant light and shadow,
Tsuyoku hikareru Mystification
強く引かれる Mystification
Mystification is strongly drawn to us
Mimimoto de sasayaki yobu koe ni furimukeba
耳元で囁き呼ぶ声に振り向けば
When I turn to the voice whispering into my ear,
Kizukanu uchi hirakareteita tobira
気付かぬうち 開かれていたトビラ
the door had already been opened
Sukoshi no guuzen to hitsuzen wo tsunagu youni
少しの偶然と 必然をつなぐように
Like joining a little coincidence with inevitability
Ugokihajimeta futatsu no Histoire Ah
動き始めた二つの Histoire Ah
Two stories began
Zutto hatenaku tsuzuiteyuku
ずっと果てなく続いて行く
And they'll go on forevermore
Kazuya!
Stand up! Kazuya!
A real Japanese man must acquire the strength to protect the weak!
You're the third son of an imperial soldier!
Wake up!
Kazuya!
Hey, you.
Constantly bickering exchange student.
Wake up.
You don't have to tell me, I'd get up anyway!
Huh?
Where are we?
It seems the food was drugged.
I woke up here in the lounge, moved like everyone else.
Where...?
Where are we?
The door won't open!
Geez!
What is this?!
Ouch!
What the hell?!
Kujō, there's something strange here.
What is it?
There were nine other people in the dining room earlier.
Including us, that makes eleven.
But now there are twelve people here.
Huh?
We've gained a person.
Episode 2
A Shipwreck is Raised by the
Souls of the Departed
You're right, there are twelve.
In other words, someone who wasn't in the dining room is among us.
It's the person who moved us here while we were sleeping.
How do you know that?
The miniature garden box...
So it would seem.
Then the hares are those children?
What's that?
The Queen Berry?
Now where have I seen that before?
Don't touch that!
So this ship really is...
Yes... There's no mistake!
Are you okay, Kujō?
I remembered.
I read about it in the library.
The ghost story!
The Queen Berry sunk ten years ago.
The souls of the departed raise it up on stormy nights.
They lure in the living as sacrifices...
and then sink back down!
W-What's that reaction for?!
I thought you were joking, so I did you a favor and laughed.
Look, I'm being serious—
A blackout?!
What's happening?!
V-Victorique!
Hey, the lights!
Hurry and get the lights back on!
Victorique, where are you?!
Victorique!
What are you doing?
Uh, I just... um...
What's that?
Th-These words...
They weren't there before!
"It was ten years ago,
but it seems like yesterday.
This time, it's your turn.
The box has been prepared.
Now,
hares...
Run!"
The Miniature Garden Box Evening...
The hares!
We aren't here to enjoy the running of the hares...
We are the hares themselves!
They're going to kill us!
Those children are going to kill us!
It's pointless!
Those doors are locked!
Th-That door is safe now!
L-Let's get out of here!
The trap has been sprung!
Let's go!
Hurry!
The boat's going to kill us!
You two!
You'd better hurry up!
R-Right!
I-It's all right, Victorique.
Stand behind... me...
Victorique?
It's like she thinks nothing of having a corpse on the floor right in front of her.
W-Wait!
Can we use the lifeboat?!
You're gonna take a boat out when the sea's this rough?!
You'll kill yourselves!
Hey, old man!
L-Let go of me!
If we stay on this ship, we'll become the hares!
I'm taking it down!
H-Hey! Wait for me!
Don't leave me behind!!
How can they be so reckless?!
Idiots!
You idiots!!!
I warned them.
So it's over.
Huh?
Even with all these people dead...
Victorique is...
I remember...
Victorique in the botanical garden...
Victorique, looking like a doll...
The mysterious...
enigmatic...
Victorique.
Are you...?
Huey!
I'm sorry.
He's gone.
Please, enough!
What the...?!
All this changed during the short time we were on deck?!
Hey!
Where's the corpse?
It's gone!
The ghosts!
It's them!
The hares have come back!
Are you okay?!
Here.
Thank you.
I lost my composure for a minute there.
I am Maurice.
I work for the Sauville Foreign Ministry.
Who are you?
Julie Guile.
My occupation is...
nothing.
My father owns a coal mine.
I'm Ned Baxter.
I'm a stage actor in England.
Funny story, but in a show next month...
I play a murderer.
D-Don't tell me you...?!
Of course not!
U-Um...
My name is Kujō Kazuya and I'm from Japan.
Uh, this is...
This is Victorique.
Victorique?
Excuse me, but have we met somewhere before?
Maurice.
Shouldn't you explain everything to the young people on board this ship?
W-What do you mean by...?
That model.
When my companion was about to touch the model, you warned him.
How did you know about the trap?
That's right.
I know this boat.
For it's the very same ship that sunk in this Mediterranean Sea ten years ago, in 1914...
the Queen Berry itself!
Once, a group of children given the name "hares" were brought on board.
The color of their hair, the color of their eyes...
Even the languages that they spoke were all different.
Eleven boys and girls of different nationalities,
chosen by adults with a certain purpose to spend the night on board this ship, the Queen Berry.
At daybreak, I was ordered by my superior to examine the ship.
And when I did...
What happened to the children?
They were dead.
They murdered each other.
And just what was that "certain purpose"?!
Why were children gathered up?!
All I did was collect the bodies!
I don't know any details!
Still, what would prompt kids to kill each other?
I don't know that either.
The ship continued to rapidly take in water and sank,
leaving any evidence on the bottom of the sea.
This is where the ghost story you know comes from, Kujō.
Huh?!
The ghost ship Queen Berry.
The shipwreck raised by the souls of the departed.
Exactly ten years have passed.
The adults that caused their death were gathered here like this and killed.
It's over.
We're going to die, too!
That laugh again?!
W-What?! What's so funny?!
I'm just laughing at your joke for you like I did earlier.
Joke?! I'm...
Do you believe...
that a ghost can write an invitation?
Now that you bring it up...
B-But this ship undoubtedly sank to the ocean floor!
Everyone, could you put your noses to work?
This smell...
The smell of... wet paint?!
And this wine.
According to the label, it's of an 1890 vintage.
A Sauville-produced wine, fermented more than 30 years ago.
But its shade is clear and it still smells young.
What does it mean?
The place where this wine was fermented,
burned to the ground in the summer of 1914, during the outbreak of the Great War.
You can't get this wine anymore.
Then the label is...
Probably from a different bottle.
Why would anyone go through all that trouble?
It's obvious.
To turn this ship into a perfect replica.
B-But what about the red words on the wall?!
And this flooded lounge?!
Where did the corpse disappear to?!
Instead of a series of words, I'll make you see by reconstructing the chaos.
When we returned from the deck, we entered this room as a matter of course, but why?
Well, the door was open.
All the doors to the other rooms were closed.
Exactly.
All right, Kujō, try to open that door.
What's wrong?
Hey, there's another lounge in there.
This is the room we were in at first.
This was a simple trick.
And these words on the wall, too...
The answer that I was led to from the reconstructed chaos...
is right here.
Wallpaper?!
What?!
The duration of that blackout was plenty of time in which to rip off a long piece of wallpaper
covering the wall that already had the words written on it, don't you agree?
Really? It's so simple when you know how it was done.
Wow...
You're amazing, Victorique!
The sound of water...
We're flooding!
Huh?!
Let's go to the radio room and call for help!
What are you just standing around for?!
Do you want to go down with the ship?!
If this ship is the Queen Berry, we have to go one deck below to head for the radio room!
Why is this ship so badly designed?!
The elevator!
Stop!
Let's look for the stairs!
Victorique!
Here!
What's that?
Well, this place is dangerous.
Take it.
Kujō, let me tell you something!
For some reason, nothing infuriates me more than you trying to manage me!
I-I'm just worried about you!
You don't have to talk to me like that!
You stubborn sore loser!
Excuse me?!
Whew!
Who would've thought there'd be a trap here, too?!
Hey, everyone!
We found the stairs just ahead!
You're a nice boy.
Just before, you protected her with all your heart.
I-I didn't do anything special...
Boys will be boys.
I thought you didn't want to hold my hand...
Let's go, Kujō.
Uh... Sure.
It's over.
It's all over.
Come on, let's go now!
We should still make it if we hurry!
Now!
G-Get on!
Just do it!
We're in a hurry!
Victorique, y-you're choking me!
Endure it.
No way! I'll die!
You shouldered this heavy burden of your own free will.
Heavy burden?
Far from it.
You're much easier to carry than a suitcase.
Are all girls this light?
Victorique...
Are you...?
Are you scared of...?
What?
Nothing.
That's right.
No matter how smart she is...
No matter how stubborn...
Victorique is a girl.
Small...
So small...
I'm the one who took her on this trip in the first place.
And yet...
A real Japanese man must acquire the strength to protect the weak!
Look!
It looks like we can get out from the front of the ship!
No!
At this rate, we'll become hares!
Get a hold of yourself.
We're going to the radio room so that won't happen, remember?
What are we going to do if help doesn't come?!
I'll kill you before letting myself die!
What was that about?!
Hold it!
Old man, that's enough!
H-Hey!
There are a lot of weapons hidden on this ship!
In drawers...
In vases...
Under carpets!
Here, there, everywhere!
For what?!
To kill each other!
The hares are stirred up by the hunting dog.
They lose trust in one another.
They find weapons and hurt each other!
Hunting dog?!
So... who's the hare?
The hares are dead, you know that!
Shut up!
There were survivors, too.
Right now, they'd be just about your age!
But I don't know who's who and what's what anymore!
So I'm going to kill all of you and escape from this ship alone!
Mr. Maurice!
Victorique has nothing to do with this!
Nothing?
That doesn't matter to me!
Fool...
I-I won't let you!
I-I swear... I won't let you hurt her!
Kujō?
What are you doing?
You're here because of me.
As the third son of an imperial soldier,
I have to bring you back home alive, Victorique!
I have that responsibility!
I see! I see!
You're the hare, huh?
Then die!
Loneliness
Fighting back again
Seems to be like it never ends
Give us hope through the love of peaceful shine on me
Tsuyoku furiyamanu ame ni egao wasureta mama
強く降り止まぬ雨に 笑顔忘れたまま
While I stood in the heavy, never-ending rain, I forgot how to smile...
Tsuyoku furiyamanu ame ni egao wasureta mama
強く降り止まぬ雨に 笑顔忘れたまま
While I stood in the heavy, never-ending rain, I forgot how to smile...
Kurushimi surechigau sekai
苦しみ すれ違う世界
and suffered in this world that doesn't understand me
Kurushimi surechigau sekai
苦しみ すれ違う世界
and suffered in this world that doesn't understand me
Arasoi to itsuwari no naka de
争いと偽りの中で
And if, from the strife and lies,
Arasoi to itsuwari no naka de
争いと偽りの中で
And if, from the strife and lies,
Kokoro karasu no nara
心 枯らすのなら
my heart, turns to stone—
Kokoro karasu no nara
心 枯らすのなら
my heart, turns to stone—
Arekuruu nami ni ukabu hana no you ni
荒れ狂う波に 浮かぶ花のように
Like a flower floating on the raging waves,
Arekuruu nami ni ukabu hana no you ni
荒れ狂う波に 浮かぶ花のように
Like a flower floating on the raging waves,
Lead the way Arashi wo norikoete
嵐を乗り越えて
I will rise above the storm and lead the way
Lead the way Arashi wo norikoete
嵐を乗り越えて
I will rise above the storm and lead the way
Kareyuku daichi wo fumishimeru you ni
枯れ行く大地を 踏みしめるように
So that I can step firmly on the withering earth...
Kareyuku daichi wo fumishimeru you ni
枯れ行く大地を 踏みしめるように
So that I can step firmly on the withering earth...
Go ahead Massugu ayumidaseru
まっすぐ歩みだせる
I'll be able to start walking straight
Go ahead Massugu ayumidaseru
まっすぐ歩みだせる
I'll be able to start walking straight
Hares and a hunting dog?
Ugh, I don't get it!
I don't get you, Kujō.
It's the same thing.
Why would you do that for me when we've just met?
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