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Squeezed by the KIng of Limes
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00:15Oh
00:31You've just overwhelmed a $3,000 suit
00:40I don't accept apologies
00:43I accept payment
00:47Your sweetness will repay my bitterness
01:21This room, temperature controlled to 6 degrees Celsius
01:25The humidity is maintained at exactly 32%
01:28Every drop of juice here is pure, untouched perfection
01:46Starting today, this palace is your workplace
01:50You'll serve me
01:52You'll obey my rules
01:54You'll exist in my world
01:56Your sweetness
01:58I'm going to study it
02:00Refine it
02:01Make it matter
02:16Put it on
02:24Why
02:26Why this dress
02:28Because I decide what you wear
02:31Because I'm reshaping you
02:52Adequant
02:54Adequant
03:20You're too gentle
03:22Citrus demands power
03:33Like this
03:35Purposeful
03:37Controlled
03:39Why this dress
03:44You're too cute
03:45I'm couldn't
03:50I don't know
03:50But I do
03:51You know
03:54You're too
03:55It should be
03:55Blimey
03:56You're too
03:57You're too
03:57You're too
03:58I'm done
03:59You're too
04:00You're too
04:00You're too
04:01Normally
04:07I'm done
04:07Any��
04:08Your sweetness, it's contaminating my cold clarity.
04:26I can smell it, right now. It's invasive.
04:33I can leave?
04:36Hmm.
04:39No, you won't.
04:56Posture, shoulders back, chin higher.
05:00When you walk, every movement should reflect purpose. You're not scurrying. You're becoming.
05:08Becoming what?
05:09Mine. Exclusively mine.
05:16Why are you doing this? The suit was just a suit. Why not just fire me?
05:21Because perfection cannot be bought. It must be cultivated. You're a raw material with potential. I'm the architect. And what
05:31I'm building will be extraordinary.
05:35Huh.
05:37Huh.
05:43Huh.
05:49these are the most valuable things i own i collected this five years ago
05:55the finest strawberry essence ever produced i've never used it why
06:05i was waiting i was waiting for someone worthy enough someone who could understand that every
06:14element every drop has a purpose i was waiting for you
06:28some secrets once revealed change everything
06:46i need you to come with me to the vault now why
07:03how long will we be down here
07:07as long as it takes
07:28stay close to me
07:41this form it's already losing moisture the heat outside is overwhelm everything i've built
07:48we should try the door no i need you to understand something
07:55when everything fails when the palace crumbles
07:59when the empire dissolves there's only one thing that matters
08:21your sweetness it's the only thing that cuts through the bitterness
08:25it's the only thing that's ever mattered
08:38let me teach you something how to extract without overwhelm
08:54pressure without aggression intention without violence
08:59this is precision
09:03taste your own kind
09:27your heart it's faster than any adraxumption process faster than any machinery we have
09:32i can't control it
09:38i know
09:40that's what i find so fascinating
09:44you understand now don't you every moment with me has been calculated
09:50every touch has been intentional every word has had a purpose
09:56you planned this
09:59from the moment your juice touched my suit i knew
10:02you were either going to overwhelm me or save me
10:05nothing in between was possible and now you understand the power you hold over me
10:12that's the real trap
10:26i don't remember scheduling anything for today
10:29and you're about to have a very unpleasant surprise
10:35this the new entertainment a strawberry lime your taste is decidedly
10:40pedestrian what do you want to expand the empire and if you refuse
10:47this little fruit goes to the industrial process facility canned goods production how fitting
11:05lime
11:06lime thinks he's chosen love he's chosen poverty instead
11:13i don't understand
11:17his refusal to align with me means surrendering half his holdings the palace the business everything
11:24unless he comes to his senses you'll be his financial ruin and he never stand with thee
11:29and when he realizes you're the reason when the weight of that hits him how long do you think
11:35his love will last love doesn't survive poverty little strawberry
11:44the processing facility is waiting very efficient very thorough you'd be useful at least
12:06this is my fault
12:08this is my fault
12:10no
12:12this is my choice yes and i'd do it again
12:15how can you say that so calmly you just lost everything i lost nothing that mattered my family
12:22taught me that business is survival that loyalty is weakness that love is a luxury fruit can't afford
12:28but standing here with you i understand for the first time i was wrong about everything
12:39you're going to hate me you're going to hate me when this settles
12:45never what i feel for you transcends logic it transcends survival
13:08what's happening
13:09what's happening i'm losing moisture the stress the conflict the emotional expenditure it's consuming
13:15my reserves faster than i can replenish we can fix this we'll call a doctor we'll
13:23there's no doctor for this i'm literally drying out from the inside
13:30i spent everything to protect you every reserve of strength every ounce of resilience there has to be
13:38something anything i can't lose you then come with me to the vault one more time i want you to
13:45see something
13:54this is what i've been waiting for this essence it's the only thing that can save me now
13:59no absolutely not
14:04the only way
14:07i won't i'd rather watch you you asked what you could do this is it
14:15i prepared this for years knowing one day i might need it knowing one day i might meet someone worth
14:21everything
14:27you can't me do this i don't have to when the moment comes you'll choose to because you love me
14:34and that's the terrible beautiful truth we both understand now say goodbye to the man i was
14:42wait for who i'll become
14:54you finally understand your essence your nature concentrated and preserved just waiting for this
15:03moment all this time all this time you knew you planned for this i didn't plan it
15:10i recognize the inevitability you were always going to be the only salvation possible if i do this
15:19we'll be something new something that's never existed yes we'll be together in a way that transcends
15:27separation forever
15:41i want you to listen to what i'm saying really listen
15:46you once told me my sweetness would repay your bitterness you were right not like this not as debt or
15:53obligation but as completion i'm choosing this not because you demanded it not because i'm afraid but
15:59because the alternative is a world without you and that's not a world i want to live in
16:07everything i am is in here everything i've ever felt everything i'll ever want to feel
16:17so
16:19I don't know.
16:53We did it.
17:10You're still here.
17:12I can feel you.
17:13I know.
17:26No.
17:28No, this isn't how it ends.
17:31I'm still here.
17:33Can you feel me?
17:34I won't lose you.
17:36I won't.
17:37There has to be...
17:37There's nothing else.
17:39This was always the Endyne.
17:40But that's okay.
17:42Because we're not separate anymore.
17:52Find her.
17:53Scan the essence, the energy, anything.
17:56She has to be.
18:00Sir, there's no biological presence to recover.
18:02It's as if she's become part of something else.
18:04Part of you.
18:25You feel me, right?
18:27I'm not gone.
18:29I'm...
18:31You're different.
18:33You're...
18:34We're different.
18:35We're what comes after everything.
18:37After separation.
18:38After sacrifice.
18:39The scientists are saying the combination of our S's crumphing that transcends biology.
18:43A new form.
18:44A new existence.
18:44We're together now.
18:46Forever.
18:47Not as they defined it.
18:48But as we chose it.
18:50Then let's stop intense confrontation what we've become.
18:54And just be it.
19:05I need to tell you something.
19:07What?
19:09From the beginning.
19:11When you spilled juice on my suit.
19:13I knew.
19:14Somehow, I knew you were the only one who could save me.
19:17Save you from what?
19:20Myself.
19:21My self.
19:22My belief that love was weakness.
19:25Every touch.
19:26Every command.
19:28Maybe I could control how much you hurt me.
19:33But you couldn't.
19:35No.
19:36Because you were never controllable.
19:38You were always the predator.
19:41And the most terrifying part?
19:43I wanted to be consumed.
19:47I wanted to dissolve completely into whatever we're becoming.
20:03You finally accepted our terms?
20:05You'll marry into our family.
20:07Abandon this.
20:08I'm here to make a statement.
20:10I'm severing all ties to the family.
20:13All associations.
20:14All obligations.
20:17You can't be serious.
20:18You'll be ruined.
20:20No.
20:21I'll be free.
20:23For the first time in my life, I'll be free from the lie that love is weakness.
20:29She taught me that true power isn't found in control.
20:33You'll regret this.
20:35The only regret I have is that it took nearly losing everything.
20:39The empire is yours.
20:41I choose something richer.
20:44I choose her.
20:54I thought we could create something new.
20:56Together.
21:01I want to take everything we've learned, the bitter and the sweet, the control and the surrender,
21:06and create something that heals people.
21:08A juice.
21:10Our juice.
21:12Not just juice.
21:14A story.
21:16A testament to what happens when two incompatible things choose to merge.
21:39I asked my best designer to reimagine this, to transform it from a symbol of subjugation to a symbol of
21:45Chimbalosan devotion.
21:54Do you remember when this dress represented my power over you, when it meant you had no choice?
22:00I remember.
22:01Now it means something different.
22:04It means you choose to stand with me.
22:07It means surrender has become collaboration.
22:13You know what's strange?
22:15I feel more powerful wearing this now than I did when I wasn't wearing it at all.
22:19Because power isn't about freedom from choice.
22:22It's about the courage to choose.
22:28I stand before you to declare something I never thought I'd say.
22:32Something that contricts everything my family taught me.
22:43This woman saved me, not from destruction, but from the far worse fate of living without meaning, without love, without
22:50the sweetness that makes bitterness bearable.
22:52She is not my servant.
22:53She is not my possession.
22:55She is my equal, my partner, my reason for being.
22:58I'm officially declaring her my queen, not in services, but in shared reign.
23:03Not as possession, but as purpose.
23:06Will you marry me?
23:07Will you continue building this life?
23:09Will you let me spend every day honoring the choice you made?
23:12Yes.
23:13A thousand times yes.
23:18No.
23:19Strawberry?
23:20What do you mean no?
23:21We're making juice.
23:22You're not working.
23:23Not anymore.
23:24Not if you don't want to.
23:25But I want to.
23:26You spent months serving me.
23:29Grinding.
23:30Extracting.
23:31Following my commands.
23:33That debt was paid the moment you saved my life.
23:37Now, I serve you.
23:41Every element of this juice was created from the sacrifice we made together.
23:45From the love we chose.
23:46That means I treat it.
23:47Treat you.
23:48With reverence.
23:49You're doing the work.
23:50I'm honoring what you gave me.
23:54Every day, for the rest of my life, I'll be doing this.
23:57Because I never want you to forget, the debt was always mine.
24:01The obligation is always mine.
24:03The honor is always yours.
24:12You're the most valuable thing I've ever held.
24:15Do you know what I see when I look at you?
24:19I see the girl who could have escaped.
24:21I see the woman who chose to stay.
24:24I see the soul who gave everything and became eternal.
24:27I'm afraid sometimes.
24:29That I'll wake up and this will have been a dream.
24:32Dreams fade.
24:33This is permanent.
24:34You're permanent.
24:42Let me spend the rest of eternity ensuring you never question whether this is real.
24:47Let me make you so certain of your value that you can never doubt it.
24:51I'm going to spend every day proving that giving you everything is the only choice I'd ever make.
25:09Every person who drinks this juice will taste our story.
25:13They'll taste sacrifice.
25:15They'll taste transformation.
25:17They'll taste proof that love is alchemical.
25:24I was wrong.
25:25There's no payment.
25:26There's no transaction.
25:27There's only fusion.
25:28Only completion.
25:29Only the understanding that some things were always meant to merge.
25:31The eternal blend.
25:32The story of two incompatible truths becoming one perfect truth.
25:35Every person who drinks this juice will taste our story.
25:38They'll taste sacrifice.
25:40They'll taste transformation.
25:42They'll taste proof that love is alchemical.
25:57Three years ago, a man walked into this bar believing love was weakness.
26:01He was so stupid.
26:04Profoundly stupid.
26:05And then this absolutely careless girl spilled juice on him.
26:09The best accident of my life.
26:13What are the odds?
26:15Maybe some moments are meant to repeat.
26:17Maybe some transformations are meant to ripple outward forever.
26:19I never thanked you.
26:21For what?
26:21For choosing surrender.
26:22For becoming eternal.
26:24For saving me so completely that I no longer know where I end and you begin.
26:28Thank you for making surrender feel like victory.
26:30Some stories don't end.
26:32They transform.
26:33They evolve.
26:34They become eternal.
26:35This is the story of a bitter beginning and a sweet transformation.
26:39Of two compatible elements learning that opposition isn't defeat.