STILL NOT TALKING, EVEN AFTER ALL THAT?
STUBBORN BASTARD.
MY BODY FEELS LIKE IT'S ON FIRE.
IT FEELS HOT.
IT HURTS.
NO...
I MUST LIVE.
TO GET BACK TO PADANIA, I MUST ENDURE...
ANNETTE ROZENBERG.
YOU’D HAVE NO IDEA WHAT’S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.
WHILE I’M SLOWLY BEING TORTURED TO DEATH...
...YOU’RE PROBABLY JUST SITTING THERE, PLAYING THE PIANO...
...LANGUISHING OVER A BAD PERFORMANCE.
BUT...
I GUESS IT’S NOT YOUR FAULT.
YOU WERE NOBLE FROM BIRTH.
IT’S ONLY NATURAL YOU DON’T KNOW ANYTHING.
BECAUSE NO ONE TOLD YOU.
BUT IF YOU EVER FIND OUT, YOU’D BE OUTRAGED AND SAD.
BECAUSE I KNOW YOUR SOUL IS AS NOBLE AND PURE AS YOUR PERFORMANCE...
BECAUSE YOU WOULD...
...EMBRACE EVEN A POOR SOUL LIKE ME...
Episode 27
WHILE I WAS IN THE PRISON IN FRANZE, THE SEASON CHANGED.
A WAR AROSE AFTER LATLAND DEMANDED INDEPENDENCE FROM FRANZE.
THE PRISON FELL, AND ALL THE PRISONERS ESCAPED.
THERE WERE A FEW SURVIVING AGENTS...
...BUT DUE TO THE GRAVENESS OF THE SITUATION, THEY WERE ELIMINATED.
ALL THAT REMAINED...
HUFF...
HEINER?
OH...
OF COURSE... I FORGOT...
I LEAKED CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION...
...AND TRAITORS MUST BE DEALT WITH.
DO IT QUICKLY.
IT'S WHAT WE WERE TOLD TO DO.
ANNE IS RIGHT.
TRAITORS MUST BE DEALT WITH.
THERE'S NO POINT IN HOLDING OUT.
I'D RATHER JUST DIE SOONER THAN LATER.
TRAITORS MUST DIE.
BUT...
WHERE IS OUR HOMELAND?
WHERE IS OUR COUNTRY?
WHO DOES PADANIA SERVE?
WHAT IS RIGHT?
WHAT AM I DOING?
I...
I JUST...
...NEED TO SURVIVE.
I MUST RETURN ALIVE.
I MUST LEAVE EVERYONE BEHIND AND RETURN HOME ALONE.
HEINER. WHAT ABOUT YOU?
WHAT'S PRECIOUS TO YOU?
TO PADANIA, WHERE THE ONE I HOLD DEAR IS...
FOR THAT ONE AND ONLY PERSON.
SPRING, YEAR 714 AU. ROZENBERG MANSION.
BWAHAHAHAHA!!
HERE!
CHEERS TO THE RETURN OF OUR HERO, HEINER WALDEMAR!
CHEERS!
CHEERS!!!
SAINT MARIANNE...
LOOKING AT IT AGAIN LIKE THIS...
IT SEEMS SO PLAIN...
HAHAHA!
YOU’D NEVER KNOW WHO THIS BANQUET IS MEANT FOR...
CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR PROMOTION, HEINER!
THE REGALIA OF OUR ARMY SUITS YOU WELL.
YOU LOOK GREAT!
THANK YOU.
I THOUGHT OPERATION BÜNNICHEN WAS A TOTAL BUST.
WHO KNEW YOU'D RETURN WITH FRANZE'S TOP SECRETS!
IT'S REALLY SOLIDIFIED MY POSITION.
I KNOW HOW HARD YOU WORK...
SO IN RECOGNITION OF YOUR SERVICE, YOU'LL BE PROMOTED TO LIEUTENANT.
IT'S AN HONOR TO HAVE BEEN OF HELP, SIR.
I KNEW YOU WERE DESTINED FOR BIG THINGS SINCE YOU WERE A TRAINEE.
YOU'VE BEEN OF MUCH USE...
YOU WERE ONLY A THIRD YEAR WHEN YOU KILLED FOUR SENIORS, WEREN'T YOU?
I HEARD YOU DIDN'T GET ALONG WELL WITH THEM.
NO, SIR. IT'S ONLY BECAUSE THEY ATTACKED ME...
THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I MEAN!
YOU'RE NOT VERY SOCIAL, ARE YOU?
HOW WERE THINGS WITH YOUR COLLEAGUES ON THE MISSION?
WE WEREN'T MORE THAN ACQUAINTANCES.
THAT'S GOOD. YOU SHOULD NEVER BE TOO CORDIAL.
I WOULD SAY IT'S A WEAKNESS OF MINE.
I WAS VERY UPSET TO HEAR THAT YOU WERE ALL CAUGHT IN BÜNNICHEN...
BUT I GUESS DIAMONDS ARE MADE UNDER PRESSURE.
SOME OF MY MEN SUGGESTED A PRISONER EXCHANGE...
...BUT IF THEY WERE MEANT TO LIVE, THEY WOULD HAVE MADE IT OUT WITH YOU, NO?
WHY WASTE RESOURCES FOR NOTHING?
TSK... SUCH TRAGIC DEATHS...
THOSE EVIL FRANZEANS...!
BUT IT'S AN HONOR THAT THEY DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY!
OTHERWISE, THEY WOULD'VE BEEN USELESS CORPSES ON THE STREETS!
ISN'T THAT RIGHT?
YES, SIR.
IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A GREAT HONOR FOR THEM.
HAA...
PHEW...
MARQUESS ROZENBERG.
...HAD NO INTENTION OF DOING ANYTHING ABOUT IT.
WHETHER IT WAS A PRISONER EXCHANGE OR A RESCUE TEAM...
THOSE WHO CROSSED INTO ENEMY TERRITORY AND ENDURED TORTURE FOR THEIR COUNTRY...
WE WHO WERE LOYAL TO HIM EVEN WITH OUR LIVES ON THE LINE...
WE HAD BEEN ABANDONED FROM THE START.
WITH NOT A SINGLE GRAVE OR EVEN A SMALL HEADSTONE...
...THEY CRUMBLED AWAY NAMELESSLY IN A DISTANT LAND.
IN ANY CASE, THE OPERATION WAS SUCCESSFUL.
MY ACHIEVEMENT BROUGHT THE MARQUESS IMMEASURABLE POWER.
IT’S ALL OVER NOW.
OVER...
JUST WHAT AM I DOING?
A tortured agent resists speaking, clinging to life through the pain in his body to return to Padania, thinking of Annette Rozenberg. The seasons change in the Franze prison; with Latland's declaration of independence, war breaks out and the prison falls. The scene then returns to the banquet at Rozenberg Manor in the spring of 714 AU: while Heiner Waldemar's return and promotion to lieutenant are celebrated, it is revealed that the Marquis has abandoned his captive agents.
