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00:00I am the last princess of the Siren people. Six years ago, I saved a human man. I loved him,
00:06and I gave him my kingdom secrets.
00:08He repaid me by sealing my voice with a poisoned needle, then led his army to slaughter all 3,000
00:14of my people. He thought I was dead. He was wrong.
00:19Lord 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. It's because of him that
00:27our 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 as 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.
01:14You didn't die, but my kingdom fell. My people died. My father died.
01:20You owe my people their lives, Caius. I'm here to collect.
01:24His crown, his alliances, his woman, his reputation. Six years ago, he took everything from me.
01:30Now I want him to watch as it all shatters piece by piece. But first, let me show you how
01:37he stole my entire world.
01:53Please. Hunters are after me. I'm not one of them. I'm who they want to kill. Please.
02:00Hold on.
02:22Eve.
02:26You're safe here. My name is Vesper.
02:31Vesper. You saved my life.
02:36Your injuries were too severe. Any later and I couldn't have helped.
02:46General.
02:49The intelligence about the Siren Clan is all confirmed. Her voice can heal fatal wounds. One song can bring a
02:56dying man back to his feet.
02:59If we obtain this power, battlefield casualties will cease to exist. An entire army will be impervious to blades and
03:05arrows.
03:06Coordinates to follow. Give me time. I will obtain everything.
03:12Sleep. You're safe here.
03:15That was the first time I touched his face.
03:18I 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 forty feet high. With a gap. Passable at low tide.
03:34The tribe numbers approximately three thousand. No standing army. Absolute trust in outsiders. No defenses.
03:43That human. You trust him too much.
03:47Father. He's different from the others.
03:51I hope you're right.
03:52I hope you're right.
03:53I hope you're right.
04:04Just one piece missing. Where is the forbidden place.
04:09This is my home. I've never brought anyone here before. I don't even know why I brought you.
04:17because you trust me it's too dangerous out there hunters everywhere I'm afraid if hunters ever find
04:24this place if your kingdom ever falls it will only be because I died first Vesper I swear it
04:33I believe you one kiss one location next step she brings me there herself not hard
04:44she already believes everything
04:48Caius come on he said he'd protect me with his life I believed him then he asked me to open
04:56the
04:57door I had never let any outsider see I opened it what lies behind this door only my father and
05:10I
05:10have ever entered Caius three hunter ships have been spotted beyond the coastline three of them
05:20Vesper listen to me if they find your tribe source of power they will destroy it first let me see
05:29it
05:29I need to know how to defend it those three ships were his doing
05:36he manufactured the fear then pretended to be the only way out
05:46come inside
06:02this is the source of our tribe's voice as long as it endures we endure general I found it a
06:10thousand times larger than I imagined this isn't a weapon it's an entire sea if we control it no force
06:16in
06:16the world will stand against us come further there's more a tracking stone the general sorcerers will
06:25sense it from this moment on they know the location Caius I was looking at the patterns they're beautiful
06:35show me more
06:42thank you with you here I'm not afraid
06:48that was the last time I felt safe
06:51that was the last time I felt safe
06:59will you stay
07:03Caius? Caius?
07:05Caius?
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 and a siren's vocal cords are sealed permanently
07:28the general's orders capture her alive seal her voice bring her back
07:32a siren without a voice is more useful than a dead one
07:35now is the moment she won't wake one drop is enough
07:53tomorrow
08:17princess hunters coming from the sea they've sealed every entrance
08:36father
08:37father
08:43Caius
08:44you're still here
08:47come
08:49help me get father out
08:51vesper
08:58vesper
09:03you
09:04you 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
09:48you're asking the wrong question
09:49die
09:49mi
09:49all
09:49like
09:49ey
09:49u
09:54park
09:54e
09:58maroon
09:59it i
10:02о
10:03fort
10:03l
10:16Vesper, don't sing.
10:18They're waiting for you to open your throat.
10:20The moment you do, they'll know you're still alive.
10:23You are the last voice of the Siren people.
10:26Father.
10:26Live.
10:28Take your voice away, you.
10:31Someday.
10:33Someday.
11:03Someday.
11:17My lord, the entire Siren royal family is confirmed dead.
11:21Princess Vessa is on the list.
11:22Was her body found?
11:24Swept away by the wave, but given her injuries...
11:28Keep looking.
12:05Or a dream.
12:14Of course.
12:18You're a slave eyes, tears, tears, tears, tears and tears.
12:20Dermotors will dieisin' right.
12:21Even so...
12:24I want you to follow...
12:24I have a burger image.
12:24One of them already spilled food.
12:51If your kingdom ever falls, it will only be because I died first.
12:56Vesper, I swear it.
13:01You chose to believe all of them.
13:07Liv, take your voice away, you.
13:16No whore singing.
13:30Princess, you're alive.
13:35Princess, you're alive.
13:38Princess, you're alive.
13:43How many are low?
13:45Seventeen here.
13:47A few more in the western of this.
13:49Perhaps, thirty?
13:52The children.
13:53She hasn't spoken since that day.
13:55Not because she can't.
13:58Because she doesn't dare.
14:00I know.
14:01I didn't dare you, but it took me two years before I dared to open my mouth again.
14:07But we have to open our mouths.
14:09Not to sing.
14:10To make the ones who did this hear us.
14:13Princess, how long have you been waiting here?
14:17Three years.
14:19No more waiting.
14:22Caius, you said I was asking the wrong question.
14:25Fine.
14:26Now it's your turn to answer mine, one by one.
14:43I spent three months.
14:45Princess Seraphine, his future queen.
14:47She trusts anyone who is kind to her.
14:49Exactly like me.
14:50Six years ago.
14:55Lyra, you saved my life.
14:59My lord, Princess Seraphine has arrived.
15:03She brought a cousin with her, named of Lyra.
15:06A cousin?
15:10A distant relative.
15:12Very quiet.
15:13Insists on personally attending the princess.
15:24Caius, you've finally come.
15:32Hello, my name is Lyra.
15:37Hello, my name is Lyra.
15:40Impossible.
15:42You're dead.
15:44You should be dead.
15:45I personally.
15:53My lord, your hand is shaking.
15:55Is the palace too cold?
16:00A little.
16:03Lyra 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.
16:19And I didn't need him to say it out loud.
16:21I only needed him to be afraid.
16:23That woman!
16:24Investigate her.
16:25Now!
16:25I want everything before tomorrow.
16:27My lord, she's only the princess's cousin.
16:29I said now!
16:38First one.
16:40You're Seraphine's cousin?
16:42You walk like a fisherman's daughter.
16:43Whatever you wear, it looks borrowed.
16:45I was the one who introduced Lord Caius to this court.
16:48Seraphine is marrying him because of me.
16:50Everyone in this palace owes me something.
16:52Including you.
16:53Remember your place.
16:55Yes, my lady.
17:00She said she introduced Caius to this court.
17:04And she must know a great deal.
17:09Lyra, 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 poisoned my husband.
17:37Three years ago.
17:39He wanted to leave me.
17:42I put poison in his wine.
17:44I 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...
18:05She 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.
18:27Get out.
18:44Get out.
18:46Get out.
18:46Get out.
18:47Even Lady Lyra, I said, no one.
18:53After those deep sea beasts were wiped out, the shipping lanes became ten times safer.
18:58All thanks to Lord Caius.
19:03I hid the siren pearls I looted in the dry well in the western suburbs.
19:08I tore them off a siren child who wasn't even dead yet.
19:14I lied!
19:15I staged that riot to swiddle more military fun!
19:20Help me!
19:22Why can't I...
19:24What did you do to him?
19:26My man.
19:28I only poured a cup of tea.
19:30He wanted to confess.
19:32Play this trick once.
19:33That's enough.
19:34Stop!
19:35The names on the list aren't all dead yet, my lord.
19:39What are you afraid of?
19:41I'm afraid you'll throw away your own life in the end.
19:44My life.
19:45It died that night, six years ago.
19:56Father and brother wrote again.
19:58Every letter asks when Caius will send their funds.
20:00Not a word about how I'm doing.
20:05Liar.
20:06Do you think there's anyone left in this world worth trusting?
20:10There is.
20:11As long as that person has never lied to you.
20:14What about you?
20:16Have you lied to me?
20:18I will never hurt you, your highness.
20:20My lord.
20:21The order for Elias.
20:22The court is already pressing for it.
20:24Keep him.
20:25But yesterday he admitted in public, embezzling military funds, staging the riot.
20:29He's stolen goods.
20:30But stolen goods can be more useful than clean men.
20:33Once this storm at sea passes, let him take the form.
20:35You're saying?
20:37Among Princess Serafina's cousins, there's no woman called Lyra?
20:41Yes, my lord.
20:42According to records, that distant branch died out in the plague ten years ago.
20:45This Lyra, her identity is a mystery.
20:46So even her identity is borrowed.
20:48She's using Serafina.
20:52Lyra.
20:53This officer would like to ask you a few questions about your hometown.
20:56For instance, how did that plague begin?
20:59The plague?
21:00I only remember seeing the officer at the coast three years ago.
21:03You were with your men.
21:05Hunting down escaped operations.
21:07So my lord never gave up hunting the sirens.
21:10Is it because six years ago you didn't kill cleanly enough?
21:12Afraid they'll come back for your life?
21:14What nonsense are you spouting?
21:15People in the palace are talking.
21:17Our hero Senn's been living in fear all along.
21:19Why else send so many men to guard the post of Forbiddenza?
21:23Enough.
21:24Get out.
21:32Six years ago today, we wiped out the threat from the seas.
21:37Three thousand sirens executed, and we secured a century of maritime power for the Empire.
21:45To the final erasure of those three thousand souls.
21:49Drink!
21:57My apologies.
21:59I didn't grip it tight enough.
22:01This color, it really does resemble the seawater you described that night, my lord.
22:10Continue.
22:11I need to change.
22:23My lord, this is the glory you wanted.
22:26How does it taste?
22:28What is it you want?
22:29To kill me?
22:30Then do it!
22:31Now!
22:34Death would be too kind.
22:36I want you fully awake, watching the monument you built, rotting inch by inch.
22:45Lyra?
22:47If you don't let go, Seraphine will see.
22:51Lyra!
22:52Lyra!
22:53Lyra!
22:59Caius!
23:00You look pale.
23:01Are you too tired?
23:03It's nothing.
23:04The wine was too strong.
23:07The wine was too strong.
23:34Something's wrong.
23:36The Elder would never miss a meeting.
23:44Lyra.
23:46Where are you?
23:59They're all at the singing sea.
24:02If you knew, you'd want to tear me apart right now, wouldn't you?
24:06I don't know.
24:18Lyra.
24:19Last night, I heard Caius arguing with his officer.
24:22They mentioned the singing sea.
24:24Said they'd caught important war prisoners.
24:27Isn't that a royal forbidden zone?
24:29What kind of people would be locked up there?
24:34Your Highness, I think I need to leave the palace for a while.
24:38Now?
24:39But 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 Myra?
24:57Did Myra send you to find me?
25:01Seventeen of them.
25:03All captured.
25:04And the Elders.
25:07Understood.
25:09Hide in the woods outside the city.
25:10Wait for me.
25:15Mira.
25:17It's Mira.
25:20Wait for me.
25:27Where did you go?
25:31I went to see an old friend.
25:34It's dangerous out there.
25:36Lyra, do you have a secret?
25:39Can you tell me?
25:40Your Highness.
25:41It's a mess.
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. Follow me. Meera should be inside.
26:15Princess, you shouldn't have come.
26:22Move. Now.
26:30I've been waiting for you. There's no way out. Vesper, stay.
26:51Princess, go to the sea.
26:59No!
27:01Vida!
27:10Princess, you're a lie.
27:21Too few names. What I want to judge is the lie of the entire palace city.
27:31We can't save them. Meera's gone too.
27:35He didn't slaughter the past us. He's slaughtering the us of now. And the us of now still has a
27:43voice.
27:50I sent them back to the dungeon. Come back with me. I promise they live.
27:55Your promise? Is it those 3,000 graves from six years ago?
28:02Tell me what you want. Anything.
28:05What I want, you can't give. You already owe.
28:123,000 lives. How will you pay?
28:165,000 lives.
28:182,000 lives.
28:215,000 lives.
28:466,000 lives.
28:51It's the princess.
29:37My lord, the flagship is lost.
29:38No survivors, and the messengers sent to deliver the execution order to the singing sea.
29:43Where are the messengers?
29:44All 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.
29:50We've lost all contact with the garrison.
29:52The sea I conquered for six years, now it's becoming a war.
29:56That's not something an ordinary person can do.
30:02I 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 syrens 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 syrens 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?
30:53She's stripping away every honor I lived on, just as I stripped away her people.
30:59The ancient blood awakens.
31:05Break the chains.
31:07Return to the sea.
31:09What is this monster power?
31:27The sea returns to its masters.
31:33Princess!
31:34Drown the whole palace city!
31:35Let them taste what extinction feels like!
31:38Their children shouldn't pay for their father's debts.
31:42The sea!
31:43It's falling from the sky!
31:50The power I schemed for six years ago.
31:56Now,
31:59I can do nothing.
32:32The sea!
32:33The sea has eyes!
32:35Look! Who is that?
32:53My man! Order the Mage Towers now!
32:57The water is flooding in!
32:59It's already destroyed the memorial and the statue!
33:05It's useless.
33:08This is her roll call.
33:18Please!
33:19No!
33:24Gods!
33:25I was on the shore then.
33:27I thought they were just beasts.
33:29Shush!
33:31The sound!
33:33It carries across the entire coast!
33:44This melody...
33:45It's exactly the same as my motherland's morning song.
33:48tell me,
34:18If it enough,
34:47This is the Royal Seal.
34:48This is the Military Teller.
34:50This 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.
35:17She took every token I needed to command this empire.
35:24Did you think I married you out of obedience?
35:27Six years ago, while you slaughtered the Silas, you also wiped out my motherland's royal family.
35:32You used my father's and brother's lives to force me to be your queen.
35:37Every 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. Not ever.
35:47The alliance I was proud of, it was built on her blood-stoked hatred.
35:52The safe woman I protected, she wanted to kill me with her own hands.
35:55All of it was 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.
36:18Elias, you should run too.
36:23Run!
36:24I knelt under this throne for six years.
36:26Your so-called Hero of the Sea name, I 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, if 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, Trent!
37:34Princess, let 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? He's a monster!
37:45He slaughtered our whole people!
37:47If today we kill a man kneeling for death,
37:49then 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.
37:57Not your death here.
38:00Why save me? Kill me?
38:02Please.
38:02Killing would be too easy.
38:04Live. Watch this sea.
38:05Remember every life.
38:06This is the rest of your existence.
38:08Every time you close your eyes,
38:10I 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.
38:44Live.
38:45Take your voice away, you.
38:57Take your voice away, you.
39:01Take your voice away, you.
39:05Take your voice away, you.
39:07Take your voice away, you.
39:07Take your voice away, you.
39:07Take your voice away, you.
39:08Take your voice away, you.
39:08Take your voice away, you.
39:08Take your voice away, you.
39:09Take your voice away, you.
39:11Take your voice away, you.
39:12Take your voice away, you.
39:27Every time I try to move, the sea pushes me back.
39:32This is the rest of my existence.
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