THE SOLDIERS AREN'T SHOWING ANY SIGNS OF ACTIVITY YET.
AND CAPTAIN SIDOW IS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND...
MY BODY FEELS SO STIFF...
WHEW.
DO YOU NEED SOMETHING?
DO YOU WANT TO COME HERE?
IF I COULD AT LEAST GET YOU OUT OF HERE...
WHY DON'T YOU SIT HERE? THE FLOOR IS COLD.
THE ADULTS STARTED THIS WAR OUT OF GREED, AND YET YOU ARE THE ONE PAYING THE PRICE.
HEINER WOULD'VE BEEN LIKE THIS BOY WHEN HE STARTED TRAINING AT SUTHERLANE,
SO YOUNG AND INNOCENT.
HAVE YOU PLAYED THE PIANO BEFORE?
YOU PLAY IT LIKE THIS.
I TOO, WAS LIKE THIS BOY.
THERE WAS A TIME WHEN I ALSO WANTED TO BE COMFORTED FOR THE SMALLEST SORROWS.
I'M NOT AT A PRESTIGIOUS CONCERT HALL, TRYING TO WIN A COMPETITION.
THERE ARE NO WELL-DRESSED PEOPLE IN THE AUDIENCE, NO EXQUISITE FLOWER BOUQUETS...
...AND NO BRIGHT CAMERA FLASHES.
I CAN'T PLAY THE PIANO ANYMORE.
AND YET, HOW IS IT THAT...
MY HANDS ARE MOVING...
WITHOUT ME EVEN REALIZING?
CAN THIS MELODY BRING COMFORT?
CAN I COMFORT SOMEONE?
CAN I COMFORT SOMEONE WHO...
...IS LIVING THROUGH THIS COLD REALITY?
CAN I COMFORT YOU?
I WISH THIS MELODY REACHES ANYONE IN THIS WORLD...
...WHO IS HURT AND LONELY.
I HOPE THAT MY FEELING HAS BEEN CONVEYED...
EVEN A LITTLE.
Episode 56
AAAH...!
UGH...
NO... I CAN'T LET THE BOY SEE THIS...
PLEASE... DON'T WAKE UP...
WHAT, WHAT SHOULD I DO...
HEY, CUT IT OUT.*
* spoken in franzean.
WHY, ALL OF A SUDDEN?!
...IMMEDIATELY IN THE MORNING...
...QUICKLY BEFORE THAT...!!!
EX-EXCUSE ME...!!
PLEASE, AT LEAST LET THE CHILD GO...
AT LEAST THE CHILD...!!
IS THERE REALLY... NO OTHER WAY...?
IS EVERYONE REALLY GOING TO...
THE DAWN CAME SOON AFTER THAT.
As the soldiers wait motionless, Captain Sidow disappears. Waking with her body held on the cold floor, the narrator calls the small child beside her over and comforts him with the piano. She thinks about how the child is paying the price for a war started by adults' greed, and remembers Heiner's childhood in Sutherlane. Without prestigious halls, she wishes for a comforting melody with hands that play unconsciously. The night is broken by panic and pleading; as she asks for the child to be released, dawn breaks.
