Karin!
Karin! Hey!
Karin! Can you hear me?
Karin! Are you okay?
Karin! Hey!
What's the big idea, you old bag?! Show yourself!
Where'd you go?! Fight me!
Hey! Let's see you try that again!
Any ideas, Yukimaru?
Fight me!
And with that, Colonel, the White Marginal has been delivered as promised.
- What reward can I expect this time— - Get out.
Huh?
I thought I told you she was to be unharmed.
- Those scratches hardly count as— - Did you not hear me?
Get. Out.
Sis? Wait for me! Sis, are you listening?
- Stand aside, you wooden-headed lubber! - Stand aside!
I beg your forgiveness. It would appear that my orders were not sufficiently clear.
I had no intention of causing you harm.
You're lovely.
Er, I'm sorry... I'm a little confused...
We meet at last,
...Fena Houtman.
I've been searching for you for ten long years,
...my princess.
No luck here.
Crap!
If we'd known this was gonna happen, we should've killed 'em in Bar-Baral!
We don't harm women or children.
That's the rule, so what else could we do?
Hey, now! Is this okay? Is it cute? Do I look cute?
- Be honest! - I-I think you look cute.
- Do I? You aren't lying, are you? - Sure...
- Why did you look away just now? - I didn't look away.
What is Yukimaru doing?
Looking for explosives.
If you set off a mishmash of charges like that, some always fail to go off.
There's a crack in the ceiling.
We're beneath the river. Water is heavy.
If an explosion goes off in here, nature will take its course.
Oh, I follow you.
And we also have two monkeys capable of climbing up there.
"Two monkeys"
- Huh? - Huh?
Okay, Shitan.
This.
You're the same pygmy you've always been. Nothing has changed.
Let's see how you like it!
Shitan.
Found one.
N-Now what?!
Hey! Are you guys okay?
What happened in there?!
If its aroma isn't to your liking, I can brew something else.
N-No, the tea is fine.
- Look, I— - La Pucelle.
H-How do you know that word?
I knew your honored mother.
"Honored mother"?
You knew my mother?
She was a lovely person.
Eyes of a deep blue like that of the South Seas.
White skin more beautiful than freshly-fallen snow.
Platinum hair that would shine like burnished steel.
A smile that would bring happiness to all who met her.
You truly are the very image of her.
I... I don't know anything about my mother.
Yes, I know.
I hope there will come a time when I will be able to tell you all about her.
But there is something else that I must inform you of first.
Do you know who they really are?
Who "they" are? You mean Yukimaru and the others?
"The goblins will come to snatch you away..."
Have you heard that before?
I've... heard it.
They kill women and children without hesitation.
Where they have passed by, nothing but poppies grow.
Devils who came from the East.
Murderers who drift wherever the wind takes them.
When I was young, I, too, was told stories about them.
Those tales are no mere legend.
The Goblin Knights actually exist.
Fena, you
...have been living under the same roof as those devils.
Where do you think you're going?
- We're gonna rescue Fena! - We don't have time to relax!
Forget it!
Karin. You memorized those numbers, I take it?
Yeah, sure.
"Upon obtaining either the coordinates or a map, return at once."
Those are our orders from Yukihisa.
Huh?
I thought our job was to protect Fena!
Or isn't it?
Our ancestors were given a vital mission by the Imperial Court of the day
and set out from our homeland.
They are searching for a legendary treasure that was hidden centuries ago.
A legendary treasure?
It's a mythical treasure that was snuck out of the country at the end of the 3rd Century
and hidden somewhere.
It's said to be capable of founding a nation.
One of Japan's three sacred treasures, long since lost.
The sword Kusanagi.
"Locate it using any means necessary and bring it back home."
That is the sacred mission that was entrusted to our clan.
And as for the place where the sword lies hidden,
its name is...
- ...Eden. - Eden.
Go to Eden!
A lost land that the powers that be
have frantically searched for over the centuries.
A vast temple which conceals a treasure that can rule the world.
There are some who call it the Vault of the Earth.
In short, the treasures spoken of in legends from around the globe
all lie hidden in this place.
That is what Eden is.
"In Eden, King Solomon lies sleeping.
Three paces to the king's left,
he concealed the blade of the gods."
That report came from Yajiro during his travels with Xavier.
So Eden is where we begin.
Our first order of business is to reach it.
And then there are the Houtmans, a bloodline with deep ties to Eden.
Hey, wait a minute!
You're saying the reason we've served the Houtmans is—
The shipwreck was an accident.
But over the course of serving the Houtmans,
we learned that they had some sort of connection to Eden.
And then came the Hope incident ten years ago.
Franz shouted it out in front of Fena and Yukimaru:
"Go to Eden!"
Franz is no longer with us.
The only clues we have left that might lead us to Eden
lie hidden in Fena's memories.
You are being used by them to serve their ends.
You're wrong! F-For one thing, Yukimaru saved my life!
That's because
...he learned that you are the key to their reaching Eden.
Saved your life?
They cut you, a mere child, adrift into a stormy sea.
It wasn't your life that was of vital importance to them.
They only did it because they feared Fena Houtman falling into the hands of their enemies.
That's not true!
Princess Fena.
The thing about the truth... It is never the ideal we pictured in our heads.
Who gives a damn about that?!
I don't care about her memories!
Doesn't that just mean that Yukihisa's been lying to us all this time?
Fena would never lie to us!
Yeah! What he said!
Shitan, we can't just turn our backs on Fena.
She is one of us now.
Let's go rescue her.
There's no time for that.
I've reported that we have obtained the coordinates.
If we don't return to the island now, we would be breaking the law.
That's just a formality!
- We'll just not tell them, same as— - We can't!
He's... on his way.
Huh?
We didn't catch that!
Kei is on his way here.
Why... would he send Kei?
He's not...
He's not coming to kill us, is he?
Think it through.
If we let our emotions get the better of us and we go off to rescue Fena,
we'll be seen as rebels who disobeyed a direct order.
In other words, we would become fugitives.
You know what happens to such people.
We'll be hunted to the ends of the earth and executed.
We have no other choice but to return to the island.
Yukimaru, wait!
Yukimaru!
- Let's head back for now! - Yeah! Then we can get Yukihisa's blessing!
We'll still have time to save her!
The rest of you, go back to the island.
No one else needs to be a fugitive.
Don't be stupid!
How many people do you think you'll be going up against?! That's a pirate ship!
If you go in alone, you'd be committing suicide!
And even if you manage to get her out, Kei would—
Don't go.
Fena is a witch.
She steals the heart of everyone she meets.
And she leads all those she's bewitched to their doom.
Yukimaru. Come to your senses.
Let's all go back to the island.
For ten long years...
...I could never get it out of my head.
Her voice, shouting out my name amid all the fire and terror.
Her trembling hand.
Her eyes, filled with despair and sadness as she drifted away.
The emptiness that descended on me afterwards.
I'll never let go of her hand again.
It doesn't matter to me who she is.
I'm going to go save Fena.
If anyone tries to get in my way, no matter who they are,
I'll kill them without mercy!
Should we have let him go?
Guys...
Yukimaru...
Y-Yes?
Pardon the intrusion. I've brought a change of clothes.
Er, um...
I'll leave them here.
Hey, wait a minute!
- Yes? - Are you busy?
Can we talk? I've been dying to have someone to talk to.
- I don't have time to— - Sit over there!
- C'mon, hurry! - Fine...
What's your name?
Our paths have finally crossed...
I had an appointed task as well, Helena.
At long last, I will be able to see you.
Pirate Ship: Rumble Rose
Sis, got a minute?
- I'm busy. Go away. - "Busy," my butt.
The White Marginal had this around her neck.
Mind if I keep it? It's kinda cute, don't you think?
- What's your name? - It's Cody.
- You don't strike me as a soldier. - I'm here through the kindness of Lord Abel.
His kindness?
I was born the child of a slave on a Maxiver plantation.
Hang on, you mean that spoiled rich kid?
When I was five, I was sold to a brothel on Shangri La,
and Lord Abel saved me from a fate of working there.
You lived on Shangri La?
- I was there, too! - I'm well aware.
- Why? - This may be none of my business,
but it's impossible
to obtain both blue water and storm clouds.
Which wilt thou choose? Blue water? Or storm clouds?
If what you want is the truth,
there is only one path for you to choose.
Is that little girl in that cabin?
Please turn around and leave.
This is a ship, but it is English territory.
We can't have you roaming around without permission.
Stand aside!
I said to stand aside, runt.
No, you stand aside. Go back to your own filthy ship.
You don't deserve to set foot on this one.
Cody?!
Where did you get your grubby mitts on this?
This is a pendant that I gave to Abel.
Wait, that's—
Little girl, how far back do you and Abel go?
- Answer me! - Stop... Keep your hands off—
Cody!
Stupid kid.
Why is Abel so obsessed with you?
What are you scheming?
If you don't want to get hurt, you'd better come clean to me about everything.
I don't... I don't have anything to say to you!
Nothing at all—
I don't think you're taking me seriously.
All right.
Let's see how tough you really are.
Let... Let me go!
You don't have the guts to—
I think you already know this,
but hiding behind her won't do you any good.
At this distance, I can shoot the wings off a fly.
You have until the count of three to release her.
One.
Two.
Three—
Abel?
A-Abel...
It's not El Dorado that those coordinates
point the way to, is it?
Get out of my sight.
Sis?
Are you sure?
We have the coordinates.
But isn't it supposed to be impossible to reach them without that girl?
Sis! Are we just gonna run away with our tail between our legs?!
- To hell with that! - Sis!
Hard to port! Stand ready on the cannons!
Helena des Armoises.
This is
...your mother.