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[Novoland: Eagle Flag]

[Based on a fiction by Jiang Nan]

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[Episode 45]

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Ji Ye

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What took you so long?

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I'm late.

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What do you mean late?

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It's good that you're here.

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Come in quickly.

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Old man, look who's here.

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How'd he get this way?

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How did you find your way here?

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I just arrived on land, and ran into some Feather soldiers killing people.

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Killing people?

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Were they killed the well dressed nobles?

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No, they're all girls about the same age as you.

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What's he going to do with all those girls?

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I saved them, and they old me you're living here.

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He said that one of these girls

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is the chosen Valkyrie.

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What are you doing getting up? Take it slowly.

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If that's the case,

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Princess, your situation right now is very dangerous.

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What does it have to do with Yu Ran?

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Because Her Highness is likely the one Bo Mingke

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wants to kill, the Valkyrie.

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No, we need to find more people to help us.

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We need helpers. I'll look for my old colleagues.

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You should sit down.

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Look at you, how can you go find your old colleagues?

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Your main job now is to recuperate. If it's just looking for your old colleagues,

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We'll go tomorrow.

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Drink this.

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If you don't drink it, I won't go looking for help.

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Are you going to drink it or not?

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Lie down. Lie down for a bit.

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Don't worry. Tomorrow Ji Ye and I

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will go out first thing in the morning, okay?

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Remember, you have to go quickly.

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I know it.

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Stupid buffalo, what are you thinking about?

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I was afraid you wouldn't receive my letter.

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I'm sorry, I should have come look for you sooner.

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Yi Tianzhan said you are some Valkyrie. Is that true?

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I don't know.

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A lot of things happened while you were gone.

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I am not sure what's real and what's not anymore.

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I'm by your side now, and that is real.

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What about Asule and Little Zhou?

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They are at Shangyang Pass. They are fine. Don't worry.

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Little Zhou is a good person, Asule is

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lucky to have her by his side.

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I'm sorry, Yu Ran. At the mountain village, I didn't protect you well.

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If we weren't separated then,

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maybe things would have been different.

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What nonsense are you saying?

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Don't I look fine? I just came home.

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I have finally found you.

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No matter what happens in the future,

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I will never leave your side again.

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Really?

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Yes.

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I will also not leave your side.

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Wait.

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Miss is a kind person.

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Old mister... you-

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This spear seems to belong to your friend.

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How did you get this spear?

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Who are you?

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Like what the young miss is seeing,

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I am only a wanderer without a home.

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You know the owner of this spear?

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No, I found this spear

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while I was in the shrine the other day. This is a good spear.

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It must be looking for its owner.

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It hasn't completed what it's destined to do

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so it can not be forgotten.

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Mister, are you also a Feather Tribesman?

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No.

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I wanted to go to the Wan Province from the Shang Province,

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but my boat was hit by a storm while at sea,

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Luckily I didn't die. I held on to the mast and floated over here.

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Mister wandered here by mistake,

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but it seems like you are also not in a hurry to leave.

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The journey is long, there's no reason to hurry.

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Old mister, are you aware of the current situation in the Qing Province?

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I think what's happening around here is no different than what'd happened in Eastland.

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Are those feather people used to it?

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Qing Province right now

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is indeed not too different from the Hua Tribe in Eastland.

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It's because of Bo Minkei's authoritarian rule. It's just as you said,

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they eat Eastland's food and use Eastland's tools.

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Those Feather Tribesmen that can't adapt to it have died.

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Why didn't anyone resist?

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You saw it when you landed at Qing Province.

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That's how those resisters ended.

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I saw people with huge wounds on shoulder blades.

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What are those people?

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Those used to be their wings.

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Bo Minkei thinks any Feather Tribesman who can grow wings are evil,

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so they must be killed.

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There were some that tried to beg but

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they were enslaved

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After they finish their hard work every day,

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they can live an extra day.

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As I have said,

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dust to dust, earth to earth,

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we will eventually come to

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the end of this long journey.

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My guards told me

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Your Highness has seen how the regular folks live now.

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Tell me, do you still think I'm the tyrannical maniac?

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Qing Province has changed a lot,

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but it's still ruins everywhere.

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Thank you for keeping this room as it is for me.

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But don't be mistaken that we have formed a partnership.

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We are not in the same camp after all.

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Feather Emperor, I have a military report.

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Speak.

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We've been searching for girls born on the 14th of the Winter Month in the fifth year of Feather Blaze dynasty.

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The several tens of them found in Stark City have all been executed.

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Very well.

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Bo Minkei, what are you doing?

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Why did you kill those girls?

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Your Highness, think for my sake.

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Feather Blaze dynasty's fifth year, the 14th of Winter Month,

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what date is that?

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Do you remember now?

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Eighteen years ago?

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Blaze Feather dynasty's fifth year...

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I don't have much recollection anymore.

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Blaze Feather dynasty's fourth year, the 14th of Winter Month,

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something big happened at that time.

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That is Yu Ran's birth date.

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Are you telling the truth, Your Highness?

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Do you think I would lie about this?

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I believe you.

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Don't you want to know why I execute the girls born on that day?

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So do you want to tell me or not?

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You are my most trusted so I don't mind telling you.

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The real killer of the emperor

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is actually me.

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You came to the palace as a hostage. On the surface, the Feather Emperor raised you with kindness.

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Actually, it was his way to control the Gong family.

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In the palace, you hardly saw each other a few times, not to mention raising you.

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Before the Feather Emperor died, he told me

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the most beautiful dancer in the world will kill me.

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You know too,

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what is meant by the most beautiful dancer is Valkyrie.

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And the most likely person to become Valkyrie

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is from the Feather Emperor's bloodline.

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Do you mean Yu Ran?

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I've lived with her over a dozen years,

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she doesn't know how to dance. It's impossible that she is Valkyrie.

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I will find out if she really is Valkyrie.

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You don't have to rush to refute it.

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I do have a question for you.

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What if someday your closest relative is no longer close to you

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and actually become your stumbling block, what would you do?

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I don't understand what you mean.

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Come, let me show you something.

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Back then, you were severely scolded just

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for putting on a fake crown of flowers.

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Now it won't happen.

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I will officially and openly put the real floral crown on you.

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Do you know why I choose you?

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The reason that I invited you here

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is because the youthful love inside me is still alive.

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This love has never changed after all these years.

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The reason that I'm telling you the truth, and have invited you after everything has been prepared,

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is because I want you to jointly rule Qing Province

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and make you the Empress of Qing Province.

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Your Highness has been living in South Huai many years, but you are not a Lower Tang person.

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Baili Jinghong is using you as his State Preceptor.

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But I'm different from Baili Jinghong.

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You strategized for him to rule the world,

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but I will share the world with you.

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Reporting, My Lord.

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Ever since Ying Wuyi returned to Li State,

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Thunder Calvary has not made any movement.

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Reporting, My Lord.

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There have been refugees continuing coming from Qing Province across the Tiantuo sea.

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Qing Province is far and there is scant news.

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Reporting, My Lord.

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The fifty officials from Lower Tang

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have entered the royal court to hold ministerial positions.

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Now your command is communicated smoothly, all the departments and ministries are under control.

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You can all leave.

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We shall take our leave.

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Old Man. Old Man.

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Look at what I've brought back for you?

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However, we haven't found any of your old colleagues.

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Perhaps they've all been killed by Bo Minkei.

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Old Man, how are you feeling now?

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Look, we've found the spear for you.

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You should get well soon.

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Old Man, do you remember that you previously told me

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the Snow Cranes only listen to Valkyrie.

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Then is there a way for Valkyrie

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to save the fossilized Snow Cranes?

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Do you remember, in the mountain village,

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the dance you danced during the wedding?

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When you accidentally danced those moves,

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I was sure you are Valkyrie.

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That dance is called Taigelise's dance.

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According the the legend, when the real Valkyrie dances inside the Taigelise's Divine Temple

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at a spot that's closes to the moon,

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even the Feather Tribesmen without wings

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will suddenly grow wings and fly.

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Why haven't you told me already?

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If I had known it,

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I would just go to the divine temple

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and dance that dance.

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We'll see if we can wake up the Snow Cranes.

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If that dance can really work,

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the price you'd have to pay is too high.

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What is the price?

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Snow Cranes and all the Feather Tribesmen in Qing Province

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will kneel to Your Highness,

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at that moment, you can only become Valkyrie.

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There will be no other choice.

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What does no other choice mean?

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She will stay alone all her life

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and live in a sacred temple inside the forest,

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never to marry,

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never to have a son or daughter,

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and devote yourself to Heaven.

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All of Feather Tribe

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will worship you as a Goddess

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who will live all alone in the forest for the rest of your life.

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This is just a legend, right?

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Has there ever been a Valkyrie?

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Behind the divine temple is the forest where Valkyrie has lived.

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In there, is also where the past Valkyries

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were buried.

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It's because that I know

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the price to pay to become Valkyrie,

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when I stepped on Qing Province's land, I decided

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that I wouldn't tell you the truth.

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Yu Ran, I need to tell you something.

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Auntie.

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What's the matter?

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Nothing. You haven't come see me for many days now. Don't you miss me?

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Come. Sit.

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I need to tell you something.

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What is it?

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I will be marrying Bo Minkei.

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He promised me that we will jointly rule Qing Province.

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It's a condition he made.

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Auntie, are you crazy?

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How can you marry that evil person?

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I am very clear-headed.

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Then what about Lord Baili?

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I am just marrying him.

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It doesn't mean that I love him.

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But don't you want to marry someone you love?

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Yu Ran, why are you still so childish like you were in South Huai?

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You haven't matured after these years.

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I took you to Lower Tang and lived as guests.

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It's for this moment.

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The moment when we can restore our country.

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The opportunity has arrived.

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How can I not take it?

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But, Auntie, don't you remember he's the one that fossilized Snow Cranes?

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What kind of person he is

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doesn't matter to me at all.

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As long as he can give me what I want, it's enough.

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The ancestors of Feather Tribe could only live in the forest.

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When war arises, they had to escape and hide.

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Bo Minke rules Qing Provinces with Eatland's culture.

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We can pick up heavy swards again.

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I think it's quite good.

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What about those Feather Tribesmen?

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Their wings got cut.

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They're forced to change their way of life.

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Don't you find any of it not right?

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Auntie, don't forget.

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You are also a Feather Tribesperson who has wings.

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Then I will be

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the last winged person of Feather Tribe.

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I've prepared a ship.

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You and Ji Ye

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can return to Eastland together.

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Don't come back. It's best you go as far as you can.

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From now on you can live a peaceful life.

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Since you like her, take her away.

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The farther it is, the better. Qing Province isn't hers.

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It has nothing to do with you, either.

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Yu Ran, leave as soon as you can.

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Yu Ran.

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Why are you up? Why don't you rest inside.

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Ji Ye, I want to chat with you.

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I owe you an explanation about what happened at the mountain village.

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I've made many mistakes in my life.

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The rebellion failed, I was captured.

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After I went to South Huai, I took a lot of effort

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to get the Blue Cloud Ancient Tooth sword.

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Later, I went to the capital city.

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It was also my own greed

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that hurt Chief Leader.

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into dying in that chaos.

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And now, I've hurt Princess and led her into a quagmire.

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You deserve to die many times for these mistakes.

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If you weren't severely injured, I would have counted each one with you.

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You don't need to waste your time.

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I won't live much longer.

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I am sure.

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I've made so many mistakes,

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but there is only one choice

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that I will never regret even when I die.

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That is becoming a Heavenly Samurai.

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Persisting in the conviction to carry a torch in a strong opposing wind,

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safeguard all the people in peace and harmony.

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Many people view Heavenly Samurai as old-fashioned

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and even stubborn to a fault,

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but our ideal

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never changes,

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and we have never give it up.

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Ideal?

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Ideal.

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What is your ideal?

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When I was young, my ideal

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was to achieve merit , establish fame,

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- and defeat all those people that looked down at me.

- Then have you thought about

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someday, when you have achieved honors and fame,

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even become a noble or king,

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but you suddenly realize there isn't anyone around you that you could share your deepest thoughts,

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wouldn't it be sad?

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Actually, I see my own shadow in you.

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That's why I taught you how to use the spear.

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However, I don't want you

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to become such a stubborn person like me.

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I am about to die.

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I want to tell you, an ideal isn't about

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you taking your spear to conquer the whole world.

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It's about using your spear

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to help the one you want to help.

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Your Highness.

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I thought you were visiting the people in Qing Province.

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You actually went to see your niece.

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She is my niece, of course I care about her safety.

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Have I violated your rules?

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Of course not.

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I've told you, you are free here.

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Free?

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Then why have you assigned people to monitor me?

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Ever since I've come to Qing Province, it's been you making demands upon me.

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Today, I'm here to offer a condition.

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Please say it, Your Highness.

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I agree to marry you right away.

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But Yu Ran isn't any Valkyrie.

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Let her go.

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I guarantee that she won't step on Qing Province again.

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All of you can leave.

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Yes.

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Why are you here?

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I want your despicable life.

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Have your wounds recovered?

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Sir Gumo, why do you always overestimate yourself?

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All these years, you keep wanting to vindicate yourself.

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But why don't you look at yourself?

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You killed the previous Feather Emperor, and now you want to kill me?

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Sure.

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Take it.

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Take it. Take it.

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You can't even pick up the spear.

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How can you kill me?

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A Feather Tribesman would rather die than suffer the humiliation.

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Go ahead and do it.

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Are you still a Feather Tribesman?

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You can't grow wings.

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You can't hold the spear. How are you different from a disabled person?

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I know.

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You want to have an honored end like the Snow Cranes.

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I'll tell you, you don't deserve it.

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You only deserve to die a lowly death in earth.

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I beg you, kill me.

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I won't kill you.

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I want you to stay alive.

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Your Highness.

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Please announce for me. I want to see Gong Yuyi.

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Only you can enter.

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No one else is allowed to enter.

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Just wait for me here.

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I'll be back very soon.

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Welcome, Princess.

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What are you doing here? Where is my aunt?

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Follow me.

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What are you doing?

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You should understand what I want to do.

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You just need to open your eyes wide to watch a good show.

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Let go of them!

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What are you doing?

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They were saved by your friend from Eastland.

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But Qing Province is my land. Where can they hide?

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You...

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Why did you kill them?

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It's all because of you.

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My sister.

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I am not your sister.

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My mother was a commoner girl in the Feather Tribe.

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After she gave birth to me,

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Feather Emperor refused to acknowledge her and bestowed death to her.

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Feather Emperor kept me by his side to be a Snow Crane.

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It was just to humiliate me.

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How could someone who can't grow wings become a Snow Crane?

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So, tell me, shouldn't such a terrible person

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deserve to die?

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Do you want to know why I don't kill you?

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- What are you doing?

- Come here!

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Come here!

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Look! Look!

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No!

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- No!

- Look!

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No!

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I want you to remember that they died because of you.

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No!

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Not me!

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Not me!

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Not me!

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Before Feather Emperor died, he said something stupid.

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He said that the future Valkyrie will personally end my life.

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Not me!

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And you, my sister,

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is the mos likely to become that.

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So, anyone who is born on your birth date

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must die.

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Not me!

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Not me!

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Not me!

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My sister.

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Can you feel my pain now?

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”Feed the Horse” by Ayanga

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♫ The scars in the world number one person's life burn the armor in the sunset ♫

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♫ There is no more worry in my heart ♫

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♫ What should I sacrifice my precious life to? ♫

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♫ I want to defend for your strength of character and revere our luxuriant homeland ♫

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♫ I want to defend for your smooth future ♫

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♫ We are brothers in life or death ♫

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♫ I want to defend for your tears and dance with you in this mundane world ♫