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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. Of course, he once infiltrated the Sea Clan as a
00:25spy all on his own. It'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 as you once swore other vow?
00:48What did you say?
01:02Do you remember what you said, kneeling 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.
01:21You 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.
01:34But first, let me show you how he stole my entire world.
01:52Please. Hunters are after me.
01:56I'm not one of them. I'm who they want to kill. Please.
02:01Hold on.
02:26You're safe here. My name is Vesper.
02:29Vesper.
02:30Vesper. You saved my life.
02:36Your injuries were too severe. Any later and I couldn't have helped.
02:45General.
02:49The intelligence about the Siren Clan is all confirmed.
02:53Her voice can heal fatal wounds. One song can bring a dying man back to his feet.
02:58If 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.
03:07Give me time.
03:08I 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.
03:23But his other hand was holding a needle.
03:26The western wall stands roughly 40 feet high.
03:29With a gap.
03:30Passable 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.
03:47Father.
03:47He's different from the others.
03:51I hope you're right.
04:04Just one piece missing.
04:06Where 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.
04:19It's too dangerous out there.
04:21Hunters 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.
05:30I 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.
05:45Come inside.
05:51My God.
06:02This is the source of our tribe's voice.
06:05As long as it endures, we endure.
06:07General, I found it.
06:09A thousand times larger than I imagined.
06:12This isn't a weapon.
06:13It's an entire sea.
06:15If we control it, no force in the world will stand against us.
06:18Come further.
06:20There's more.
06:21A 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.
06:34They'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.
07:31Seal her voice.
07:32Bring her back.
07:32A siren without a voice is more useful than a dead one.
07:36Now is the moment.
07:38She won't wake.
07:39One drop is enough.
07:53Tomorrow.
08:16Princess! Hunters! Coming from the sea! They've sealed every entrance!
08:36Father!
08:43Caius! You're still here! Come, help me get father out.
08:51Vesper.
09:04You promised me! You said with your life!
09:08I said many things. You chose to believe all of them.
09:14Did you ever love me? Even for one second?
09:18Your kingdom was beautiful. Your voice was useful. You're asking the wrong question.
09:54You're asking the wrong question. You're asking the wrong question.
10:16Vesper. Don't sing. They're waiting for you to open your throat. The moment you do they'll know you're still alive.
10:22You are the last voice of the Siren people.
10:26Father.
10:26Live. Take your voice away, you. Someday.
10:31Aver.
10:32Aver.
10:36Aver.
10:43Aver.
10:47Aver.
10:49Aver.
11:17My lord, the entire searing royal family is confirmed dead.
11:21Princess Vesa is on the list.
11:22Was her body found?
11:24Swept away by the wave, but given her injuries...
11:28Keep looking.
12:18I can't wait.
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, no!
13:21No whore singing, no!
13:31Princess, you're alive.
13:36Princess, you're alive.
13:43How many are there?
13:45Seventeen here.
13:47A few more in the western of this.
13:49Perhaps...
13:50Thirty?
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, 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?
14:17Three years.
14:18No more meeting.
14:21Caius, you said I was asking the wrong question.
14:25Fine.
14:26Now it's your turn to answer mine.
14:28One by one.
14:31One 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!
14:56You 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.
15:52My lord, your hand is shaking.
15:55Is the palace too cold?
16:00A little.
16:03Lyra is the person I trust most.
16:05I'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.
16:25Now!
16:25I want everything before tomorrow.
16:27My lord, she's only the princess's cousin.
16:28I said now!
16:38First one.
16:40You're Seraphine's cousin?
16:42You walk like a fisherman's daughter.
16:43Whatever you wear as it looks borrowed.
16:45I was the one who introduced Lord Caius to this court.
16:48Seraphine 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.
17:04Then 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?
17:23My 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.
17:43I 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...
18:05She didn't come back to kill me.
18:06She came to destroy everything I own,
18:08one piece at a time,
18:09right before my eyes.
18:11And I can't tell anyone who she is,
18:13because that would mean confessing
18:14that six years ago,
18:15I slaughtered an entire people.
18:20Sir.
18:21Just got word.
18:22The patrol caught 17 stray Syrians
18:24near 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.
18:42Lock it down.
18:44No one in the palace is to know.
18:47Even...
18:48Lady Lyra.
18:49I said...
18:51No one.
18:53After those deep sea beasts were wiped out,
18:55the shipping lanes became ten times safer.
18:58All thanks to Lord Caius.
19:02I...
19:03I hid the Siren Pearls
19:05I looted in the dry well
19:06in the western suburbs.
19:08I tore them off a Siren Child
19:10who wasn't even dead yet!
19:13I lied!
19:15I staged that riot
19:17to swiddle more military fuck!
19:20Help me!
19:22Why can't I...
19:24What did you do to him?
19:26My man.
19:27I died.
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
19:36aren't all dead yet,
19:38my lord.
19:39What are you afraid of?
19:41I'm afraid you'll throw away
19:42your own life in the end.
19:43My life.
19:44It died that night,
19:46six years ago.
19:56Father and brother wrote again.
19:57Every letter asks
19:59when Caius will send their funds.
20:00Not a word about how I'm doing.
20:05Liar.
20:06Do you think there's anyone left
20:07in this world worth trusting?
20:10There is.
20:11As long as that person
20:12has never lied to you.
20:14What about you?
20:16Have you lied to me?
20:18I will never hurt you,
20:19your highness.
20:21My lord.
20:21The order for Elias.
20:22The court is already
20:23pressing for it.
20:24Keep him.
20:25But yesterday he admitted
20:26in public,
20:27embezzling military funds,
20:28staging the riot.
20:29He's stolen goods.
20:30But stolen goods
20:31can be more useful
20:32than clean men.
20:33Once this storm at sea passes,
20:34let him take the fall.
20:35You're saying
20:37among Princess Seraphina's cousins
20:39there's no woman called Lyra?
20:40Yes, my lord.
20:42According to records,
20:42that distant branch died out
20:43in the plague ten years ago.
20:44This Lyra,
20:45her identity is a mystery.
20:46So even her identity
20:47is borrowed.
20:48She's using Seraphine.
20:52Liar.
20:53This officer would like
20:54to ask you a few questions
20:55about your hometown.
20:56For instance,
20:57how did that plague begin?
20:59The plague?
21:00I only remember
21:01seeing the officer
21:02at the coast three years ago.
21:03You were with your men,
21:05hunting down
21:05escaped operations.
21:07So my lord never gave up
21:08hunting the sirens.
21:10Is it because six years ago
21:11you didn't kill cleanly enough?
21:12Afraid they'll come back
21:13for your life.
21:14What nonsense
21:14are you spouting?
21:15People in the palace are talking.
21:17Our hero Sen's been living
21:18in fear all along.
21:19Why else send so many men
21:20to guard the post of Forbiddenza?
21:23Enough.
21:24Get out.
21:31Six years ago today,
21:34we wiped out
21:35the threat from the seas.
21:37Three thousand sirens executed
21:39and we secured
21:40a century of maritime power
21:42for the empire.
21:45To the final eration
21:47of those three thousand souls.
21:49Drink!
21:50Drink!
21:57My apologies.
21:59I didn't grip it tight enough.
22:01This colour,
22:02it really does resemble
22:03the seawater you described
22:04that night, my lord.
22:10Continue.
22:11I need to change.
22:12I need to change.
22:23My lord,
22:25this 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,
22:39watching the monument you built,
22:42rotting inch by inch.
22:45Lyra?
22:47If you don't let go,
22:50Seraphine will see.
22:51Lyra!
22:52Lyra!
22:59Caius!
23:00You look pale.
23:01Are you too tired?
23:03It's nothing.
23:04The wine was too strong.
23:34Something's wrong.
23:36The elder would never miss a meeting.
23:44Myra,
23:46where are you?
23:49Where are you?
23:59They're all at the Sinning Sea.
24:02If you knew,
24:03you'd want to tear me apart right now,
24:05wouldn't you?
24:18Lyra?
24:19Lyra,
24:19last night I heard Caius arguing with his officer.
24:22They mentioned the Sinning Sea.
24:23Said they'd caught important war prisoners.
24:27It's not a royal forbidden zone.
24:29What kind of people would be locked up there?
24:33Your Highness,
24:35I 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.
25:03Seventeen of them.
25:03All captured.
25:04And the elders.
25:07Understood.
25:09Hide in the woods outside the city.
25:10Wait for me.
25:15Myra.
25:17It's Myra.
25:21Wait for me
25:27Where 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? Can you tell me?
25:40Your Highness
25:42Some secrets will cost a life
25:55That's the water channel we used to use
25:57They've welded shut
26:03Only three guards inside
26:05Follow me, Myra should be inside
26:14Princess
26:16You shouldn't have come
26:21Move
26:23Now
26:29I've been waiting for you
26:32There's no way out
26:33Vesper
26:34Stay
26:38Attack
26:50Princess
26:51Princess
26:51Go to the sea
27:00Nero
27:09Princess
27:11Princess
27:11Irrimae
27:14Too few names
27:23What I want to judge
27:24What I want to judge
27:25Is the lie of the entire palace city
27:31We can't save them
27:32Myra's gone too
27:35He didn't slaughter the past us
27:37He's slaughtering the us of now
27:40And the us of now
27:42And the us of now
27:42Still has a voice
27:49I 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 6 years ago?
28:02Tell me what you want
28:03Anything
28:05What I want
28:06You can't give
28:08You already owe
28:123,000 lives
28:14How will you pay?
28:33How will you pay?
28:51It's the princess
29:14It's the princess
29:36My lord
29:37The flagship is lost
29:38No survivors
29:39And the messengers sent to deliver the execution order to the singing sea
29:42Where 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 6 years
29:54Now it's becoming a wall
29:55That's not something an ordinary person can do
30:01I can't move a single soldier to the coast
30:05My lord
30:06This venom
30:07It'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
30:20That's enough
30:21My lord
30:22That will kill every siren's held there
30:24I know
30:31It'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
30:45Heard the lord can't hold the sirens back anymore
30:47The whole sea is full of their songs
30:48That so-called hero of the sea back then
30:51Wasn't it a borrowed reputation?
30:53She's stripping away every honor I lived on
30:55Just as I stripped away her people
30:59The ancient blood awakens
31:05Break the chains
31:06Return to the sea
31:08What 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
31:39Shouldn't pay for their father's debts
31:41The 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!
32:37Who is that?
32:39Who 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!
33:05It's useless
33:08This is her roll call
33:18Please!
33:19No!
33:21No!
33:24Gods
33:24I was on the shore then
33:27I thought they were just beasts
33:31This sound
33:32This sound
33:33It carries across the entire coast
33:44This melody
33:45It's exactly the same as my motherland's morning song
33:48This sound
33:50This sound
33:50I was on the shore then
33:51This
33:57This sound
34:01This sound
34:03It's not
34:07It's just the same
34:08This sound
34:08It's on the shore then
34:11It's not
34:12The wind
34:12It's a
34:12It's not
34:13It's not
34:14It's not
34:16It's not
34:17I don't know.
34:47This is the Royal Seal. This is the Military Teller. This is the Imperial Decree Seal. He used these three
34:53things to kill my father and brother. Today 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. She took every token I needed to command this empire.
35:24Did you think I married you out of obedience? Six years ago, while you slaughtered the Silas, you also wiped
35:30out my motherland's royal family.
35:32You used my father's and brother's lives to force me into being your queen.
35:37Every day I looked at you. I was counting down to when you would die.
35:40Now the sea has come back, and I should take back what belongs to me. I don't forgive you. Not
35:47ever.
35:48The Alliance I was proud of, it was built on her blood-stoked hatred.
35:51The safe woman I protected, she wanted to kill me with her own hands.
35:55All of it, all of it, all of it, was a lie.
36:06Come.
36:08Your 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.
36:23Run! I knelt under this throne for six years. Your so-called hero of the sea name, I built it
36:30for you with severed heads.
36:32Now the sea is back. You can't hold it down, and you want us to die with you?
36:37Hand over the royal seal and the treasury order. You're not the king anymore.
36:42You're a cursed disaster. This seat belongs to someone who can keep the land alive.
36:47Give it to you, Elias. Listen to what's outside.
36:55The sea doesn't want the royal seal. Sit then, if you think you can survive the night in that chair.
37:05This is what I traded three 3,000 lives for.
37:273,000 lives! 3,000 children you've dumped into the sea, Trench!
37:34Princess, let me kill him. My son.
37:37They were on that beach that night. Let me kill him!
37:41We don't use his way.
37:43Why? He's a monster! He slaughtered our whole people!
37:47If today we kill a man kneeling for death, then this sea will no longer be the Singing Sea. It
37:52will be another land filled with hate.
37:54Go back. The sea is waiting for you. Not your death here.
38:00Why save me? Kill me? Please!
38:02Killing would be too easy. Live. Watch this sea. Remember every life.
38:06This is the rest of your existence. Every time you close your eyes, I want you to dream of those
38:113,000 voices.
38:14Don't leave me alone! Don't make me carry these memories by myself!
38:19The sea doesn't want me. The land won't let me return.
38:23Run!
38:33Stop!
38:34Stop!
38:43Live.
38:45Take 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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