00:00Ren, for 12 years, you stood at that gate before dawn.
00:08You handed me every report.
00:13You fastened my armor.
00:18You never needed to be told.
00:25Ren. Ren, come here.
00:30Where are you?
00:38Ren!
00:42No.
00:51Ren!
00:53For 12 years, this place was never empty.
01:03Lady Aki was called to the Lord's Chamber.
01:06Again? It's the third time this week.
01:11You don't get to feel this.
01:14Something changed.
01:17Some decisions are made in silence.
01:25Where are you?
01:29For the first time, Lord Takeru was the one.
01:34Waiting.
01:35Still good on her head, now.
01:54Ren is present in the barracks, my lord.
01:59Not ill, not injured.
02:04What did I do?
02:19Wren, I swear, on every god that watches this domain, I have never touched Aki.
02:27If this oath is false, punish me.
02:36Some truths cannot be explained, they can only be sworn.
02:50By every god that watches this domain, by the blade I have carried for fifteen years,
02:55by every drop of blood I have spent for this land, I have never touched Aki,
03:00never looked at her as you fear.
03:02If this oath is false, let heaven punish me.
03:15I wanted to believe you.
03:16Perhaps I never stopped.
03:18But belief cannot restore what was broken.
03:23Belief changes nothing.
03:25Said you believed me, yet wrote me a resignation.
03:34Some things cannot be delegated.
03:42The abandoned training yard.
03:44Where is it?
03:56You would leave.
03:58I have served for twelve years, my lord.
04:01That is not an abandonment.
04:04It is a completion.
04:07Then say what you actually mean.
04:11The letter tells me what you didn't do.
04:14It says nothing about what you feel.
04:18If I am only a servant, my leaving should not matter.
04:23But if I am something else...
04:27Say it.
04:29Out loud.
04:32Here.
04:36This is not about that.
04:38Then what is it about?
04:44How am I supposed to fight for this land?
04:47If the person I most want to protect...
04:50Is the one walking away from it.
04:53That.
04:54He is a surrender.
04:56How am I supposed to fight for this land?
04:59If the person I most want to protect...
05:01Is the one walking away from it.
05:06If you can say that again...
05:08When you don't need anything from me...
05:12Then I will consider staying.
05:18Tomorrow morning...
05:20I will come.
05:29I know him.
05:31He won't come.
05:33That was a lie.
05:46I want you to stay.
05:54Twelve years.
05:56Don't leave.
05:58Please.
06:00Please.
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