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Betrayed by the Prince, Crowned by the Sea
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00:00I am the last princess of the Siren people.
00:02Six years ago, I saved a human man.
00:05I loved him, and I gave him my kingdom secrets.
00:08He repaid me by sealing my voice with a poisoned needle,
00:11then led his army to slaughter all 3,000 of my people.
00:15He thought I was dead.
00:16He was wrong.
00:18Lord Caius crushed four kingdoms before he even turned 30.
00:22Of course, he once infiltrated the Sea Clan as a spy all on his own.
00:26It's because of him that our kingdom is this powerful.
00:28That's why Serafina had to marry him.
00:35Today, we gather here to bind two souls together.
00:39Do you swear upon your life to guard her kingdom?
00:45As you once swore other vow.
00:48What did you say?
01:02Do you remember what you said?
01:06Kneeling before me.
01:08You said, if your kingdom ever falls, it will only be because I died first.
01:13You didn't die.
01:15But my kingdom fell.
01:17My people died.
01:19My father died.
01:20You owe my people their lives, Caius.
01:22I'm here to collect.
01:24His crown.
01:25His alliances.
01:26His woman.
01:27His reputation.
01:28Six years ago, he took everything from me.
01:30Now I want him to watch as it all shatters piece by piece.
01:34But first, let me show you how he stole my entire world.
01:51Please.
01:52Hunters are after me.
01:56I'm not one of them.
01:57I'm who they want to kill.
01:59Please.
02:01Hold on.
02:25You're safe here.
02:27My name is Vesper.
02:29Vesper.
02:31Vesper.
02:31You saved my life.
02:36Your injuries were too severe.
02:38Any later and I couldn't have helped.
02:45General.
02:49The intelligence about the Siren Clan is all confirmed.
02:52Her voice can heal fatal wounds.
02:55One song can bring a dying man back to his feet.
02:58And if we obtain this power, battlefield casualties will cease to exist.
03:02An entire army will be impervious to blades and arrows.
03:06Coordinates to follow.
03:07Coordinates to follow.
03:07Give me time.
03:08I will obtain everything.
03:12Sleep.
03:13You're safe here.
03:15That was the first time I touched his face.
03:18I thought the heavens had sent him to me.
03:21I thought the heavens had sent him to me.
03:21He touched my face too later, but his other hand was holding a needle.
03:25The western wall stands roughly 40 feet high, with a gap passable at low tide.
03:33The tribe number is approximately 3,000.
03:37No standing army.
03:39Absolute trust in outsiders.
03:42No defenses.
03:43That human.
03:44You trust him too much.
03:46Father.
03:47He's different from the others.
03:51I hope you're right.
03:59I hope you're right.
04:03Just one piece missing.
04:05Where is the forbidden place?
04:09This is my home.
04:11I've never brought anyone here before.
04:13I don't even know why I brought you.
04:17Because you trust me.
04:18It's too dangerous out there.
04:20Hunters everywhere.
04:21I'm afraid.
04:22If hunters ever find this place.
04:24If your kingdom ever falls.
04:26It will only be because I died first.
04:30Vesper.
04:30I swear it.
04:33I believe you.
04:37One kiss.
04:38One location.
04:40Next step.
04:41She brings me there herself.
04:43Not hard.
04:44She already believes everything.
04:48Caius.
04:49Come on.
04:51He said he'd protect me with his life.
04:54I believed him.
04:55Then he asked me to open the door I had never let any outsider see.
04:59I opened it.
05:05What lies behind this door?
05:08Only my father and I have ever entered.
05:12Caius.
05:14Three hunter ships have been spotted beyond the coastline.
05:19Three of them.
05:20Vesper.
05:21Vesper.
05:21Listen to me.
05:22If they find your tribe's source of power, they will destroy it first.
05:27Let me see it.
05:29I need to know how to defend it.
05:32Those three ships were his doing.
05:36He manufactured the fear, then pretended to be the only way out.
05:46Come inside.
05:51My god.
06:00My god.
06:02This is the source of our tribe's voice.
06:05As long as it endures, we endure.
06:07General.
06:08I found it.
06:09A thousand times larger than I imagined.
06:11This isn't a weapon.
06:13It's an entire sea.
06:15If we control it, no force in the world will stand against us.
06:17Come further.
06:20There's more.
06:22A tracking stone.
06:23The general's sorcerers will sense it.
06:26From this moment on, they know the location.
06:31Caius?
06:32I was looking at the patterns.
06:33They're beautiful.
06:35Show me more.
06:44With you here, I'm not afraid.
06:48That was the last time I felt safe.
06:58Will you stay?
07:02Caius?
07:04Caius?
07:05Yes.
07:07I'll always stay.
07:10Do you swear?
07:14I swear.
07:16Then I have nothing to fear.
07:22Venom from a deep sea jellyfish.
07:24One drop.
07:25And a siren's vocal cords are sealed permanently.
07:28The general's orders.
07:29Capture her alive.
07:30Seal her voice.
07:31Bring her back.
07:32A siren without a voice is more useful than a dead one.
07:36Now is the moment.
07:37She won't wake.
07:39One drop is enough.
07:40Two menu combos and a rock.
07:53Three.
07:54Tomorrow.
07:55Three.
08:00Two.
08:01Two.
08:03Two.
08:07Two.
08:09Three.
08:16Princess! Hunters!
08:19They're coming from the sea!
08:21They've sealed every entrance!
08:36Father!
08:40Oh, my God!
08:43Caius!
08:44You're still here!
08:46Come.
08:48Help me get farther out.
08:51Vesper.
09:03You promised me.
09:06You said with your life.
09:08I said many things.
09:10You chose to believe all of them.
09:14Did you ever love me?
09:17Even for one second?
09:19Your kingdom was beautiful.
09:21Your voice was useful.
09:24You're asking the wrong question.
09:33Oh, my God.
09:36Oh, let's go.
10:16Vesper, don't sing.
10:17They're waiting for you to open your throat.
10:19The moment you do, they'll know you're still alive.
10:22You are the last voice of the Siren people.
10:25Father...
10:26Live.
10:27Take your voice away, you.
10:31Someday...
11:16My lord, the entire Siren royal family is confirmed dead.
11:20Princess Vesper is on the list.
11:22Was her body found?
11:23Swept away by the wave, but given her injuries...
11:28Keep looking.
11:59Let's see.
13:25No more singing.
13:30Princess, you're alive.
13:35Princess, you're alive.
13:43Princess, you're alive.
13:44Princess, you're alive.
13:45Princess, you're alive.
13:46Princess, you're alive.
13:48Princess, you're alive.
13:49Princess, you're alive.
13:49Princess, you're alive.
13:50Princess, you're alive.
13:51Princess, you're alive.
13:54Princess, you're alive.
13:54Princess, you're alive.
13:55Princess, you're alive.
13:55Princess, you're alive.
13:58Princess, you're alive.
14:00I know. I didn't dare you, though.
14:04It took me two years before I dared to open my mouth again.
14:06But we have to open our mouths.
14:08Not to sing.
14:10To make the ones who did this hear us.
14:14How long have you been waiting here?
14:16Three years.
14:18No more waiting.
14:22Caius, you said I was asking the wrong question.
14:25Fine. Now it's your turn to answer mine, one by one.
14:43I spent three months. Princess Seraphine, his future queen.
14:46She trusts anyone who is kind to her.
14:48Exactly like me. Six years ago.
14:55Lyra! You saved my life!
14:59My lord, Princess Seraphine has arrived.
15:02She brought a cousin with her, named of Lyra.
15:05A cousin?
15:09A distant relative. Very quiet.
15:13Insists on personally attending the princess.
15:23Caius, you've finally come.
15:32Hello. My name is Lyra.
15:37Hello. My name is Lyra.
15:41Impossible.
15:41Impossible.
15:42You're dead.
15:44You should be dead. I personally...
15:53My lord, your hand is shaking.
15:55Is the palace too cold?
16:00A little.
16:02Lyra is the person I trust most.
16:04I'm sure you'll like her too.
16:11He knew it was me.
16:12I knew he knew.
16:13But he couldn't say so because that would mean explaining how he recognizes a siren princess who died.
16:18And I didn't need him to say it out loud.
16:21I only needed him to be afraid.
16:22That woman!
16:24Investigate her.
16:24Now!
16:25I want everything before tomorrow.
16:27My lord, she's only the princess's cousin.
16:28I said no!
16:38First one.
16:40You're Seraphine's cousin?
16:41You walk like a fisherman's daughter.
16:43Whatever you wear, it looks borrowed.
16:44I was the one who introduced Lord Caius to this court.
16:47Seraphine is marrying him because of me.
16:49Everyone in this palace owes me something.
16:52Including you.
16:53Remember your place.
16:55Yes, my lady.
16:59She said she introduced Caius to this court.
17:04And she must know a great deal.
17:08Lyra, sing us a song.
17:10You can't?
17:11Of course.
17:12Look at these hands.
17:14How many dishes have you washed to make them look like that?
17:24My lady is right.
17:25I can't really sing.
17:27Only just a little.
17:33I...
17:33I poisoned...
17:35My husband.
17:37Three years ago.
17:39He wanted to leave me.
17:42I put poison in his wine.
17:43I watched him die.
17:46I don't know why I'm saying this.
17:47I can't stop.
17:50Lyra...
17:51I'm frightened.
17:53Don't be afraid, your highness.
17:55I'm here.
17:59She's doing exactly what I did.
18:01Step by step.
18:02Get close.
18:03Earn their trust.
18:04And then...
18:04She didn't come back to kill me.
18:06She came to destroy everything I own, one piece at a time, right before my eyes.
18:11And I can't tell anyone who she is, because that would mean confessing that six years ago I slaughtered an
18:16entire people.
18:21I don't know.
18:22The patrol caught 17 stray Syrians near the entrance to the Singing Sea.
18:27Who's leading them?
18:29An old man with a broken tail.
18:31They seemed to be waiting for someone.
18:35We've put them all in the underground sea prison.
18:40sealed their mouths lock it down no one in the palace is to know
18:47even lady lyra i said no one after those deep sea beasts were wiped out the shipping lanes
18:56became ten times safer all thanks to lord caius i i i hid the siren pearls i looted in the
19:06dry well
19:06in the western suburbs i tore them off a siren child who wasn't even dead yet
19:13i lied i staged that riot to swiddle more military fuck help me why can't i
19:24what did you do to him my man i only poured a cup of tea he wanted to confess play
19:32this trick once
19:33that's enough stop the names on the list aren't all dead yet my lord what are you afraid of i'm
19:41afraid you'll throw away your own life in the end my life it died that night six years ago
19:55father and brother wrote again every letter asks when caius will send their funds not a word about
20:00how i'm doing liar do you think there's anyone left in this world worth trusting
20:09there is as long as that person has never lied to you what about you have you lied to me
20:17i will never hurt you your highness my lord the order for elias the court is already pressing for
20:24it keep him but yesterday he admitted in public embezzling military funds staging the riot
20:29he's stolen goods but stolen goods can be more useful than clean men once this storm at sea
20:33passes let him take the fall you're saying
20:37among princess seraphina's cousins there's no woman called lyra
20:40yes my lord according to records that distant branch died out in the plague ten years ago
20:44this lyra her identity is a mystery so even her identity is borrowed she's using seraphina
20:53lyra this officer would like to ask you a few questions about your hometown
20:55for instance how did that plague begin the plague i only remember seeing the officer at the coast
21:02three years ago you were with your men hunting down escaped operations so my lord never gave up
21:08hunting the sirens is it because six years ago you didn't kill cleanly enough afraid they'll come
21:12back for your life what nonsense are you spouting people in the palace are talking our hero sends been
21:18living in fear all along why else send so many men to guard the postal forbiddens it enough get out
21:31six years ago today we wiped out the threat from the seas three thousand sirens executed
21:39and we secured a century of maritime power for the empire
21:45to the final eration of those three thousand souls drink
21:57my apologies i didn't grip it tight enough
22:01this color it really does resemble the seawater you described that night my lord
22:10continue i need to change
22:23my lord this is the glory you wanted how does it taste what is it you want to kill me
22:30then do it
22:30death would be too kind
22:36i want you fully awake watching the monument you built
22:41rotting inch by inch
22:45lyra
22:47if you don't let go
22:49seraphine will see
22:50lyra
22:51lyra
22:59kyas
22:59you look pale are you too tired
23:02it's nothing the wine was too strong
23:34Something's wrong.
23:36The Elder would never miss a meeting.
23:45Meera, where are you?
23:58They're all at the Sinning Sea.
24:01If you knew, you'd want to tear me apart right now, wouldn't you?
24:18Lyra, last night I heard Caius arguing with his officer.
24:21They mentioned the Sinning Sea.
24:23Said they caught important war prisoners.
24:27Isn't that a royal forbidden zone?
24:29What kind of people would be locked up there?
24:33Your Highness, I think I need to leave the palace for a while.
24:38Now?
24:38Well, but we're supposed to go pray at the temple this afternoon.
24:45I lost something very important.
24:48I have to find it.
24:51It's me.
24:52I'm Vesper.
24:53What happened?
24:56Where's Meera?
24:57Did Meera send you to find me?
25:01Seventeen of them.
25:03All captured.
25:04And the elders?
25:07Understood.
25:08Hide in the woods outside the city.
25:10Wait for me.
25:15Meera.
25:16It's Meera.
25:18It's Meera.
25:21Wait for me.
25:26Where did you go?
25:31I went to see an old friend.
25:34It's dangerous out there.
25:36Lyra.
25:38Do you have a secret?
25:39Can you tell me?
25:40Your Highness.
25:42Some secrets will cost a life.
25:55That's the water channel we used to use.
25:58They've welded shut.
26:03Only three guards inside.
26:05Follow me.
26:06Meera should be inside.
26:14Princess.
26:16You shouldn't have come.
26:22Move.
26:23Now.
26:30I've been waiting for you.
26:32There's no way out.
26:34Vesper.
26:35Stay.
26:39Attack!
26:50Princess.
26:52Go to the sea.
27:01Lyra!
27:10Princess, here am I.
27:14Ooh.
27:21Too few names.
27:23What I want to judge
27:25is the lie of the entire palace city.
27:31We can't save them.
27:33Meera's gone too.
27:35He didn't slaughter the past us.
27:38He's slaughtering the us of now.
27:40And the us of now
27:42still has a voice.
27:50I sent them back to the dungeon.
27:52I sent them back to the dungeon.
27:52Come back with me.
27:54I promise they live.
27:55Your promise?
27:56Is it those 3,000 graves from six years ago?
28:02Tell me what you want.
28:04Anything.
28:05What I want.
28:06You can't give.
28:08You already owe.
28:123,000 lives.
28:14How will you pay?
28:15To do it!
28:32To do it!
28:37To do it!
28:39We will be there!
28:41To do it!
28:42Find him!
28:51It's the princess.
29:36My lord, the flagship is lost.
29:38No survivors, and the messengers sent to deliver the execution order to the singing sea.
29:42Where are the messengers?
29:43All three messenger boats were capsized by huge waves less than a mile from shore.
29:47Carrier pigeons crashed into the sea the moment they flew out.
29:49We've lost all contact with the garrison.
29:52The sea I conquered for six years.
29:54Now it's becoming a wall.
29:56That's not something an ordinary person can do.
30:01I can't move a single soldier to the coast.
30:05My lord, this venom, it's from back then.
30:08Her voice can destroy everything.
30:10Only this can silence her one more time.
30:12But the entrance to the singing sea is already controlled by her people.
30:15We can't get it in.
30:16No need to send it in.
30:17The underground water pipes are still ours.
30:19Pour it into the upstream source, that's enough.
30:21My lord, that will kill every siren's held there.
30:24I know.
30:30It's the venom in the water.
30:32That's how they killed the princess's voice back then.
30:42He wants to take my voice away.
30:44One more time.
30:45I've heard the lord can't hold the sirens back anymore.
30:47The whole sea is full of their songs.
30:49That so-called hero of the sea back then, wasn't it a borrowed reputation?
30:52She's stripping away every honor I lived on.
30:55Just as I stripped away her people.
30:59The ancient blood awakens.
31:04Break the chains.
31:07Return to the sea.
31:08What is this monster power?
31:26The sea returns to its masters.
31:32Princess!
31:34Drown the whole palace city!
31:35Let them taste what extinction feels like!
31:37Their children shouldn't pay for their father's debts.
31:42The sea!
31:43It's falling from the sky!
31:49The power I schemed for six years ago.
31:56Now.
31:58I can do nothing.
32:32The sea!
32:33The sea has eyes!
32:35Look.
32:36Who is that?
32:53My man!
32:55Order the mage towers now!
32:57The water is flooding in!
32:59It's already destroyed the memorial and the statue!
33:02The statue!
33:05It's useless.
33:08This is her roll call.
33:17Please!
33:19No!
33:20No!
33:23Gods.
33:25I was on the shore then.
33:27I thought they were just beasts.
33:29Shhh!
33:31The sound!
33:33It carries across the entire coast!
33:43This melody.
33:45It's exactly the same as my motherland's morning song.
33:48The sound!
34:17It carries across the mountain.
34:46This is the Royal Seal.
34:48This is the Military Teller.
34:49This is the Imperial Decree Seal.
34:52He used these three things to kill my father and brother.
34:55Today they leave with me.
35:00My lord, her highness is gone.
35:03And the rosewood chest in the hidden compartment of your study, it's empty too.
35:15She didn't just leave.
35:16She took every token I needed to command this empire.
35:24Did you think I married you out of obedience?
35:26Six years ago, while you slaughtered the sirens, you also wiped out my motherland's royal family.
35:32You used my father's and brother's lives to force me into being your queen.
35:36Every day I looked at you.
35:38I was counting down to when you would die.
35:41Now the sea has come back.
35:42And I should take back what belongs to me.
35:45I don't forgive you.
35:46Not ever.
35:47The alliance I was proud of.
35:49It was built on her blood-stoked hatred.
35:51The safe woman I protected.
35:53She wanted to kill me with her own hands.
35:56All of it...
35:57was a lie.
36:06Come.
36:07Your majesty, still waiting for your army?
36:11They've already thrown their armor into the sea outside the city, begging for forgiveness.
36:17Elias, you should run too.
36:22Run!
36:23I knelt under this throne for six years!
36:26Your so-called hero of the sea name!
36:29I built it for you with severed heads!
36:32Now the sea is back.
36:34You can't hold it down and you want us to die with you?
36:37Hand over the royal seal and the treasury order!
36:40You're not the king anymore!
36:42You're a cursed disaster.
36:44This seat belongs to someone who can keep the land alive!
36:47Give it to you, Elias.
36:49Listen to what's outside.
36:55The sea doesn't want the royal seal.
36:57Sit then.
36:58If you think you can survive the night in that chair.
37:05This is what I traded three 3,000 lives for.
37:263,000 lives!
37:293,000 children you've dumped into the sea trench!
37:33Ah!
37:34Princess!
37:35Let me kill him!
37:36My son!
37:37They were on that beach that night!
37:39Let me kill him!
37:41We don't use his way.
37:43Why?
37:44He's a monster!
37:45He slaughtered our whole people!
37:47If today we kill a man kneeling for death, then this sea will no longer be the singing sea.
37:52It will be another land filled with hate.
37:54Go back.
37:55The sea is waiting for you.
37:56Not your death here.
37:59Why save me?
38:01Kill me.
38:02Please.
38:02Killing would be too easy.
38:04Live.
38:04Watch this sea.
38:05Remember every life.
38:06This is the rest of your existence.
38:08Every time you close your eyes, I want you to dream of those 3,000 voices.
38:14Don't leave me alone!
38:15Don't make me carry these memories by myself!
38:19The sea doesn't want me.
38:21The land won't let me return.
38:33Stop.
38:34Stop!
38:35The sea doesn't want me anymore!
38:37No!
38:43No!
38:44No!
38:44No!
38:45No!
38:46No!
38:47No!
38:48No!
38:49No!
38:51No!
38:52No!
38:53No!
38:53No!
38:55No!
38:56No!
38:57No!
39:26Every time I try to move, the sea pushes me back.
39:31This is the rest of my existence.
39:35This is the rest of my life.
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