ADEL, MY QUEEN. COME HERE. RIGHT NOW.
THAT DAMN PROPHECY. DID YOU THINK I'D LET SOMETHING LIKE THAT CONTROL ME?
THAT BASTARD... THE BATTLEFIELD...
ADELHEID, I'M REALLY NOT IN A GOOD MOOD TODAY.
AS I WISH? HAHA, MY QUEEN TRULY IS A COLD WOMAN.
DO AS YOU WISH, MY KING.
PLEASE PUT DOWN THE SWORD. I'M SCARED. I'M SCARED, YOUR MAJESTY.
WHY... WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?
YOUR MAJESTY, DID YOU GIVE A SPECIAL ORDER TO THE HANDMAIDENS?
IT'S JUST... THEY'RE IGNORING WHAT I SAY.
THEN FROM WHOM SHOULD I COLLECT THE PRICE OF YOUR LIFE?
THIS IS THE MOUNTAIN OF TIME.
THEN PERHAPS THIS IS THE MOUNTAIN'S WAY OF RECLAIMING ALL THE TIME I'VE REPEATED.
HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I DIED NOW?
CAN I REACH THE SUMMIT BEFORE I GIVE BACK ALL THOSE YEARS?
I CAN'T JUST STAY LIKE THIS.
I HAVE TO MOVE WHILE I'M STILL YOUNG!
EVEN IF I TELL YOU TO KILL YOUR OLDER BROTHER AGAIN?
IT'S A MEDICINE THAT MAKES YOU BARREN.
TAKE IT FAITHFULLY. RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME.
COUNTLESS LIFETIMES CRASH OVER ME, THEN PULL AWAY.
WELL, IT'S BECAUSE YOU DO NOTHING. I AM BORED.
ADEL, COME QUICKLY.
AS I WISH?
HAHA, MY QUEEN TRULY IS A COLD WOMAN.
IN EVERY LIFETIME, THE KING'S VOICE RELENTLESSLY ECHOES IN MY EARS.
ADELHEID, I'M REALLY NOT IN A GOOD MOOD TODAY.
ADEL, MY QUEEN.
MY QUEEN.
ADEL.
MY QUEEN.
ADEL, HURRY.
ADELHEID! ADEL, IF YOU WON'T COME, THEN I'LL HAVE TO GO TO YOU.
ADELHEID, I...
MY QUEEN.
MY QUEEN.
MY QUEEN, COULD YOU REALLY STAB ME?
ADELHEID.
DELHEID.
RIGHT AS MORE THAN THIRTY LIFETIMES OF TIME RUSHED PAST ME—
ADEL!
MY POOR QUEEN.
ADELHEID.
I SENSED INTUITIVELY THAT THIS LIFETIME WOULD BE MY LAST.
COULD YOU TELL ME THE STORY OF HOW YOU SLEW THE DRAGON?
...IT ISN'T A VERY DRAMATIC TALE.
THE DRAGON WAS ASLEEP. I KILLED THE SLEEPING DRAGON, CARVED OUT ITS HEART, AND SHATTERED IT.
I CROSSED THE MOUNTAIN OF THE WESTERN PALACE STRAIGHT AWAY. THAT WAS ALL.
LOOKING BACK NOW, I WAS SO NAIVE TO HAVE BELIEVED THAT WORD FOR WORD.
HUMANS CANNOT SPEAK OF THE MOUNTAIN OF TIME OUTSIDE OF IT, AFTER ALL.
STILL, SAYING 'THE DRAGONS WERE SLEEPING'...
...WAS HIS OWN WAY OF TRYING TO DESCRIBE THE TRUTH AS CLOSELY AS HE COULD.
THE DRAGONS' TIME STOPPED AT THE EXACT MOMENT OF THEIR DEATH.
GUH...
COUGH, COUGH...
I CAN'T JUST SIT HERE STARING.
I TRULY DON'T HAVE MUCH TIME LEFT NOW.
I HAVE TO DESTROY THE DRAGON'S HEART.
UGH...
NGH...
WHY...!
WHY HERE?
WHY DID IT HAVE TO BE HERE?!
THE DRAGONS ARE RIGHT BEFORE MY EYES,
AND THE DRAGON'S HEART IS RIGHT THERE.
IF I CAN JUST DESTROY THAT THEN THIS DREADFUL CURSE WILL END!
WHY...?
MUST I FACE DEATH YET AGAIN?
WHY MUST I DIE HERE?
IS THERE REALLY NO OTHER CHOICE NOW?
...I WANT TO LIVE.
ADELHEID!
BY ROYAL AUTHORITY, I OPENED THE GATE.
FOR A KING SO EARLY IN HIS REIGN, ACTING LIKE THIS...
...WILL SURELY CAUSE UNREST AMONG THE NOBILITY.
YET DOES ANY OF THAT MATTER RIGHT NOW?
1 MUST REACH ADEL AND DO WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE,
AND 1 STILL HAVE WORDS LEFT UNSAID TO HER.
UNLIKE BEFORE, THE MOUNTAIN OF TIME WAS UTTERLY SILENT—
AND FELT SOMEHOW WARPED.
A STRANGE FEELING, AS IF WALKING BACKWARD THROUGH TIME.
IN SUCH A PLACE—
I SAW SOMEONE.
HOW MANY TIMES DID 1 WATCH HER BEING CUT DOWN BY ANTON'S SWORD?
I'LL ONLY RETURN TO THE DAY HENBURG FELL.
I FINALLY UNDERSTOOD WHAT SHE MEANT.
IN THOSE REPEATED LIVES, ADEL DIED,
PLEASE SPARE ME. PLEASE SPARE MY LIFE.
I'LL DO ANYTHING...!
THIS IS A DRUG THAT CAUSES INFERTILITY.
TAKE IT FAITHFULLY. RIGHT BEFORE MY EYES.
LIVED,
ADELHEID, WHERE WERE YOU? I CAME ALL THIS WAY, AND YOU LOOK LIKE THIS?
DEMEANED HERSELF,
I... I WAS IN THE STUDY.
IF YOU HAD SENT A WORD, I WOULD HAVE PREPARED...
WHY ARE YOU HERE? YOUR PLACE IS NOT IN THE STUDY, IS IT?
AND SUFFERED DESPERATELY.
DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT YOU'VE DONE, WENCH?
WHY DID YOU DO IT? DID THE HENBURG ROYALTY BEAR A GRUDGE... WAS THAT WHY YOU COMMITTED REGICIDE?
YOU'LL BE EXECUTED ANYWAY. ANSWER PROPERLY IF YOU WANT A CLEAN DEATH.
I KILLED HIM BECAUSE HE WAS A BASTARD.
HE WAS A BASTARD. I WANTED HIM DEAD, SO I KILLED HIM.
JUST EXECUTE ME ALREADY.
ENDLESSLY KILLED BY THE KING, COMMITTING REGICIDE AGAINST THE KING...
AND AGAIN, ADELHEID—
CAPTAIN LEGENON, YOU'VE HEARD, HAVEN'T YOU?
HOW MANY MEN MY QUEEN HAS SMILED UPON...
...AND WHAT BECAME OF THOSE MEN.
I TRUST MY CHERISHED KNIGHT WON'T DO THE SAME.
THE BLAME LIES WITH ADEL, WOULDN'T YOU SAY?
SHALL I TELL YOU HOW YOU LOOKED WHILE WATCHING ME DIE?
YOU WERE EXPRESSIONLESS.
AS IF YOU WERE LOOKING AT NOTHING AT ALL.
SO CAPTAIN... DOMINIC LEGENON.
DON'T DO THAT IN THIS LIFE.
I DON'T THINK I CAN ENDURE IT AGAIN.
Enraged by the prophecy, the King frightens Adelheid with his sword and demands that she drink the sterilizing potion before his eyes. Adel realizes she has relived more than thirty lives on the Mountain of Time, dying every time. The story of slaying the dragon and the desire to destroy the dragon's heart come to the fore. Using royal authority to open the door, the narrator wants to reach Adel and tell her not to look at him expressionlessly.
