Video ut volo.

Where has your own grief gone!?

Details 6:21
Chapter
Saltatio Beneath the Shifting Moon
Duration
6:21
Release
Nov 17
Characters
Doloris / Uika Misumi , Mortis / Mutsumi Wakaba , Timoris / Umiri Yahata , Amoris / Nyamu Yūtenji , and Oblivionis / Sakiko Togawa

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Performance Day

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Dressing Room

Oh, these cookies! Aren't these from that shop that's trending right now?
They look so good~
You're going to eat them?
And after all the care you usually take with your looks.
It's okay, it's before the performance.
Let's eat~
Would you like one as well, Misumi-san?
The catering today is quite substantial.
Sure, maybe I'll have one.
Want some too, Saki-chan?
I am quite all right.
Please, help yourself.
You've gotta get some calories in you or you won't make it, y'know?
I mean, you're performing a play that big.
There is no need for concern.
I simply wish to concentrate on the performance.
Sakiko, you were like that during rehearsals too.
Like anything other than the play comes second.
Well, as long as that's enough to entertain the guests, I guess it's fine.
If each of us does her very best, the results should follow on their own, I would think.
Mm.
Let's pull this off together.
We have to win back Ave Mujica's reputation.

The Performance

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...I do not understand... I do not understand...
I no longer understand you at all...!
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The image of you each knight spoke of was wholly unlike the others...
and utterly unlike the Princess I know...!
Please answer me, Princess!
Which one is the real you!?
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And so the Princess stood before the window and began to dance,
twirling round and round.
The crescent moon peering in through the window
swelled dizzily as the Princess danced,
turned to a half moon, and then—
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changed into a full moon.
—You are just like the moon...
You change your shape with each passing hour...
And whoever looks upon you sees you however they wish to see you.
...Perhaps you have never had
a true self of your own at all!?
Are you saying you only ever did it because someone asked it of you,
each and every time!?
Then why did you set those trials at all!?
Was that not your own will?
Do you mean to tell me that even that was only what they wished for...!?
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It is true that they wished to outdo the others,
to win and claim you for themselves...!
Even so, they lost their lives!
And still you feel nothing!?
Where has your own grief gone!?
I had one once, but it was worn away until nothing remained.
If you wish for me to grieve...
then that is simply what I do.
Surely not...
Has she truly granted even the wishes of a servant like me...?
Ah... ah...
How loathsome—!
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Church

...Sister.
And so it is that I ran away and came here.
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The one I thought of as the Princess, the one I grew up with like a childhood friend...
I no longer know who she was.
She is terrifying...
this woman who seemed never to have possessed a heart of her own from the very beginning.
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But...
the truly loathsome one is... me...
If the Princess has granted even my wishes...
then the one who wished for the knights' deaths... was me...
I do not mourn their deaths in the least...
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Rather, I could not bear the thought of the Princess belonging to anyone,
and I even wished them dead...
And the ugliness of my own heart is what frightens me most...
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Nun
...Please lift your head.
Nun
I understand well what you mean to say.
Now, then—
—Now then...
What is it you wish to do from here?
Even knowing the truth...
will you still stay by my side?