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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.
00:03Six 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.
00:17He 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.
00:29That'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, kneeling before me?
01:08You said, if your kingdom ever falls, it will only be because I died first.
01:13You didn't die, but 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, his alliances, his woman, his 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.
01:53Hunters are after me.
01:56I'm not one of them.
01:57I'm who they want to kill.
01:59Please.
02:00Hold on.
02:25You're safe here.
02:27My name is Vesper.
02:29Vesper.
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.
02:58But 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.
03:07Give me time.
03:08Give me time.
03:09I 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.
03:21He touched my face too later.
03:23But his other hand was holding a needle.
03:25The Western Wall stands roughly 40 feet high.
03:28With a gap.
03:30Passable at low tide.
03:33The tribe numbers 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.
03:50I hope you're right.
04:03Just 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.
04:20Hunters 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.
04:57I 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's ships have been spotted beyond the coastline.
05:19Three of them.
05:20Three of them.
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.
05:46Come inside.
05:51My God.
05:53My God.
06:01This is the source of our tribe's voice.
06:04As long as it endures, we endure.
06:07General, I found it.
06:09A thousand times larger than I imagined.
06:11This isn't a weapon.
06:13It's an entire sea.
06:14If we control it, no force in the world will stand against us.
06:18Come 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.
07:31Seal her voice.
07:32Bring her back.
07:32A siren without a voice is more useful than a dead one.
07:36Now is the moment.
07:37She won't wake.
07:39One drop is enough.
07:53Tomorrow.
07:54Tomorrow.
07:56Tomorrow.
08:16Princess! Hunters! They're 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?
09:19Your kingdom was beautiful. Your voice was useful. You're asking the wrong question.
09:34What?
09:36What?
09:37What?
09:38What?
09:53What?
09:54What?
09:55What?
10:07What?
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.
10:25Father.
10:26Live. Take your voice away, you. Someday.
10:31Oh God!
10:32Oh...
10:35Oh God.
10:50Oh God!
10:53Oh God!
10:53To be continued...
11:23...swept away by the wave, but given her injuries...
11:28Keep looking.
12:21To be continued...
12:36To be continued...
12:51If your kingdom ever falls, it will only be because I died first.
12:55Vesper, I swear it.
13:01You chose to believe all of them.
13:06Live.
13:08Take your voice away, you.
13:16No whore singing, no!
13:25No more singing.
13:31Princess, you're alive.
13:35Princess, you're alive.
13:38Why?
13:43How many are there?
13:45Seventeen here.
13:46A few more in the western of this.
13:49Perhaps...
13:50Thirty?
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.
14:02I know.
14:03I didn't dare.
14:03Took me two years before I dared to open my mouth again.
14:06But we have to open our mouths.
14:08Not to sing.
14:09To make the ones who did this hear us.
14:14How long have you been waiting here?
14:16Three years.
14:19No more meeting.
14:22Caius, you said I was asking the wrong question.
14:25Fine.
14:25Now it's your turn to answer mine.
14:28One by one.
14:43I spent three months.
14:45Princess Seraphine, his future queen, she trusts anyone who is kind to her.
14:48Exactly like me.
14:50Six years ago.
14:54Lyra.
14:56You saved my life.
14:59My lord.
15:01Princess Seraphine has arrived.
15:03She brought a cousin with her.
15:04Named of Lyra.
15:06A cousin?
15:10A distant relative.
15:11Very quiet.
15:13Insists on personally attending the princess.
15:18которую.
15:24Caius, you finally come.
15:32Hello.
15:34My name is Lyra
15:37Hello.
15:38Hello. My name is Lyra.
15:41Impossible. You're dead. You should be dead. I personally...
15:53My lord, your hand is shaking. Is the palace too cold?
16:00A little.
16:02Lyra is the person I trust most. I'm sure you'll like her too.
16:11He knew it was me. I knew he knew. But he couldn't say so because that would mean explaining how
16:16he recognizes a siren princess who died.
16:18And I didn't need him to say it out loud. I only needed him to be afraid.
16:23That woman! Investigate her. Now! I want everything before tomorrow.
16:27My lord, she's only the princess's cousin. I said now!
16:38First one.
16:40You're Seraphine's cousin? You walk like a fisherman's daughter. Whatever you wear, it looks borrowed.
16:44I was the one who introduced Lord Caius to this court. Seraphine is marrying him because of me.
16:50Everyone in this palace owes me something. Including you. Remember 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? Of course.
17:12Look at these hands.
17:14How many dishes have you washed to make them look like that?
17:23My lady is right. I can't really sing. Only just a little.
17:33I poisoned my husband three years ago. He wanted to leave me.
17:42I put poison in his wine. I watched him die.
17:46I don't know why I'm saying this. I can't stop.
17:50Lyra, I'm frightened.
17:53Don't be afraid, Your Highness. I'm here.
17:59She's doing exactly what I did. Step by step.
18:02Get close. Earn their trust. And 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.
18:20Sir, just got word. The patrol caught seventeen 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.
18:42Lock it down.
18:43No 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, the shipping lanes became ten times safer.
18:58All thanks to Lord Caius.
19:02I...
19:02I hid the siren pearls I looted in the dry well in the western suburbs.
19:07I tore them off a siren child who wasn't even dead yet!
19:11No!
19:14I lied!
19:15I staged that riot!
19:17To swiddle more military funds!
19:20Help me!
19:22Why can't I...
19:24What did you do, Tim?
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.
19:43My life.
19:44It died that night, six years ago.
19:55Father and brother wrote again.
19:58Every letter asks when Caius will send their funds.
20:00Not a word about how I'm doing.
20:04Liar.
20:06Do you think there's anyone left in this world worth trusting?
20:09There 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.
20:27Embezzling military funds.
20:28Staging 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 fall.
20:35You're saying?
20:37Among Princess Seraphina's cousins, there's no woman called Lyra?
20:40Yes, my lord.
20:41According to records, that distant branch died out in the plague ten years ago.
20:44This Lyra, her identity is a mystery.
20:46So even her identity is borrowed.
20:48She's using Seraphina.
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.
21:09Is it because six years ago you didn't kill cleanly enough?
21:12Afraid they'll come back for your life?
21:13What nonsense are you spouting?
21:15People in the palace are talking.
21:17Our hero Sen's been living in fear all along.
21:19Why else send so many men to guard the coast of Forbiddenza?
21:23Enough.
21:24Get out.
21:31Six years ago today, we wiped out the threat from the seas.
21:37Three 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!
21:49Drink!
21:57My apologies.
21:59I didn't grip it tight enough.
22:01This colour, it really does resemble the sea water 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!
22:33Death 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,
22:49Seraphine 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.
23:11It's nothing.
23:12I'm full of!
23:12She's alive!
23:12It's nothing's back.
23:23There's nothing!
23:25Oh no, there are...
23:28physicalMAN мой!焦點
23:34You're dying!
23:37I'm dying!
23:39You're dying!
23:41I'm dying! I'm
23:46Meera, where 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?
24:18Lyra, last night I heard Caius arguing with his officer.
24:21They mentioned the singing sea.
24:23Said they'd caught important war prisoners.
24:27Isn't that a royal forbidden zone?
24:29What kind of people would be locked up there?
24:33Your 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 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.
25:17It's Meera.
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.
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.
26:21Move.
26:23Now.
26:23Now.
26:30I've been waiting for you.
26:32There's no way out.
26:34Vesper.
26:35Stay.
26:38I'm dead.
26:40No.
26:48I'm dead.
26:49No.
26:50I'm dead.
26:52Go to the sea.
26:53The sea.
26:56The sea.
27:00Now.
27:09We must be.
27:11There's no way out there.
27:14No.
27:16The sea.
27:21The sea.
27:22few names what I want to judge is the lie of the entire palace city we can't
27:32save them here it's gone too he didn't slaughter the past us he's slaughtering
27:39the us of now and the us of now still has a voice
27:50I sent them back to the dungeon come back with me I promise they live your promise
27:56is it those three thousand graves from six years ago
28:02tell me what you want anything what I want you can't give you already owe
28:12three thousand lives how will you pay
28:51it's the princess
29:36my lord the flagship is lost no survivors
29:39and the messengers sent to deliver the execution order to the singing sea
29:42where are the messengers all three messenger boats were capsized by huge
29:45waves less than a mile from shore carrier pigeons crashed into the sea the
29:48moment they flew out we we've lost all contact with the garrison
29:52the sea I conquered for six years now 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 her voice can destroy everything only this can
30:11silence her one more time but the entrance to the singing sea is already controlled by
30:14her people we can't get it in no need to send it in the underground water pipes are still
30:18ours pour it into the upstream source that's enough my lord that will kill every syrens held
30:23there I know
30:30it's the venom in the water that'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 the whole sea is full of their songs
30:48that so-called hero of the sea back then wasn't it a borrowed reputation
30:52she's stripping away every honor I lived on just as I stripped away her people
30:59the ancient blood awakens
31:04break the chains return to the sea
31:08what is this monster power
31:26the sea returns to its masters
31:32princess drown the whole palace city let them taste what extinction feels like
31:37their children shouldn't pay for their father's debts
31:41the sea it's falling from the sky
31:50the power I schemed for six years ago
31:56now
31:59I can do nothing
32:31the sea
32:33the sea has eyes
32:35look
32:36who is that
32:53my man
32:54order the mage towers now
32:56the water is flooding in
32:58it's already destroyed the memorial and the statue
33:05it's useless
33:08this is her roll call
33:18please
33:18no
33:23gods
33:25I was on the shore then
33:26I thought they were just beasts
33:31this sound
33:32it carries across the entire coast
33:44this melody
33:45it's exactly the same as my motherland's morning song
33:49thanks for today
33:49I seen
34:18I just saw
34:18is that you
34:46This 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.
35:16She 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 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!
36:24I 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!
37:34Princess, 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?
37:44He'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.
37:56Not your death here.
38:00Why 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,
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.
38:24The sea belongs there!
38:32Stop!
38:34Stop!
38:43Live.
38:45Take your voice away you.
39:27Every time I try to move, the sea pushes me back. This is the rest of my existence.
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