Narrator: Before the battle of the Nest
N: Lo Po Bia Mothership
Lo Po Bia Traumerai: It's been a while, Zahard. /// It's Gustang, isn't it?
Zahard: Yes.
LPBT: I heard the gist of it. // I heard he said there will be a divide.
Z: That's a declaration of war. /// I heard from reports he's collecting the core of his troops at his mothership. /// It seems that Gustang thinks the Irregular that entered the Tower will be someone special like us. /// Traumerei, what do you think?
LPBT: ... I don't know. // But the moment I learned of the existance of that boy, my nightmares started again. /// I want to test him. /// But if you don't like that, Zahard...
Z: No. // Test him. /// But Traumerei, // I would prefer it if this doesn't end up becoming a conflict bewtween the Zahard and the Po Bidau faumily. Then again, this incident is too big to move the Khun Family, Arie Family, or the Ha Family over for...
LPBT: Got it. /// My family will face the Po Bidau family. // That's what you wanted, rigt? /// But I do have one condition.
Z: Condition?
LPBT: I want to see the Irregular for myself. /// I want to test the Irregular // and if I can verify he really does have potential to become a being like us, ///
Z: If you verify?
LPBT: I will take that Irregular- /// and use him for war against Gustang. /// I will wed him with the most fitting member of my family, // Make him my successor, /// And I will use him as a Thorn that isn't pointed against you but against him. /// That is my way.
Z: Sure. Do as you please. /// But tell me more about your nightmares. // Do you still not remember?
LPBT: I can't. // I know it's a nightmare, but when I wake up, I can't remember the details. /// It's definitely a memory completely I fed to Leviathan, /// I wonder why they're resurfacing and making things difficult for me. /// I just don't know... /// What kind of a memory is it // that I'm suffering like this from it?
Season 3 - Declaration of War
N: The Prison where Khun and the others are in.
Khun AA: ... You're out here again.
Hwaryeon: You're here again? // Did someone come to see you or something? /// Did you actually have any contact on the Po Bidau side?
KAA: I saw Rachel.
HR: ... Ah... // Why is she here?
KAA: I don't know. // It seems she found herself a pretty reliable sponsor here. /// She offtered to get me out of here. /// What about the others?
HR: Of course stuck in their rooms. // In this prison, the people in each cell can come out in rotations three hours a day // just 30 minutes, alone, in to the living room.
KAA: ... I don't know what sorcery you're using, but you seem to be out here whenever you want.
HR: Well, I am a guide. /// So why is Rachel offering to free you?
Khun: I don't know. She's not telling me anything, just offering to let me go. // I don't know what she's thinking... /// I'll have to get out to find out.
HR: Isn't that a good thing? // Once you get out, isn't it easy for you to deal with her?
KAA: ... No. For some reason, // I got a bad feeling about this.
N: The Next Day
KAA: He's glaring at me so hard // His glare might break through those glasses.
Po Bidau Bellerir: Hey kitty! /// Congrats on being a free man now! /// Now, shall we get going?
KAA: I really was freed. // Looks like this nutjob's got some connections.
Rachel: Where should we go during the down time?
PBB: Hmm... Well, we should get him dressed up. // Get him some perfume. /// He needs to look the part.
Rachel: Alright then. Let's go to the shop first.
KAA: Hmm? /// "No War?" /// (Grafitti artists drawing on the wall) /// Is the war Ascencio was talking real? // Looks like the news is all over the mothership.... /// Of coruse they would be afraid, if they're hearing about the breakout of a war of a size they never experienced. /// Even for a family head, this would be pretty difficult to deal with...
N: The Suit Shop
Rachel: Woah...! /// What do you think?
PBB: Perfect! /// The clean look really suits him.
KAA: What are they playing at here...
N: Outskirts of the Po Bidau Mothership /// A mansion of a family upper class member.
KAA: This looks like the house of some bigwig /// Why bring me here? // You even bought me a tux for the occasion. /// Shouldn't you guys tell me what's going on now?
PBB: It's a Book Recital
KAA: What?
PBB: You'll be reciting a book here tonight.
PBB: Right now it's the Book recital season, so those who want to read a book but doesn't want to themselves // get handsome guys like you to recite a book in fancy mansions like this. // It's something those in the family with a lot of Suspendium to throw around like to do.
KAA: The Po Bidau Family Book recitals I know isn't known for being this fancy. // Held at a place free of distractions where one can clear their mind and focus on the book, // isn't that what the recitals are supposed to be like?
PBB: That's why you get Book Recitals like these too. // Since there's boring rules like that in place, people end up wanting to break those rules. // Also, this recital is fun for another reason. // The book you'll be reciting today, at least in our family, /// Is a banned book.
KAA: What...?
KAA: What's this...? All these people are in masks... // Is this like a masquarade or something? /// And you want me to read this book to them? /// The book is about... /// Prince of Zahard...? // ...Icarus. /// This is...
(Khun slams the book.)
KAA: Hey, you nasty boomers.
(random Po Bidau lady: Oh my! How dashing and bold!
KAA: Sorry to say /// I can't read this disgusting delusional drivel. /// So if you really want to read this stuff, why don't you find a dark corner at read it yourselves. /// Who do you think I am, trying to get me to read this nonsense. /// Rachel!!
(A distinct lack of Rachel)
KAA: ... Huh? /// She's not here?! /// Could it be...?!
Extra1: Kyaaaaaaaaaaa!!
Extra2: They're here!! /// Everyone put your hands up where we can see them!! /// This is the Public Order Task Force!!
AA: What!?
Extra2: This is an unauthorized Book Recital!! /// Arrest them all!!
AA: This... this is a trap!!
Extra2: Get them!!
AA: Damn it. // If I get mistaken as the reader for a book like that // even as a member of the 10 families, I'll be done for!!
Extra2: Get them!!
AA: Rachel!! // You sly bitch!!
N: The next day // In the Po Bidau Family mothership // Public Order Task Force Prison
???: The name's Khun Aguero Agnis.
AA: Damn it...
???: He brought out a forbidden book from his light house // held a secret book recital where he would recite a forbidden book, saw the POTF /// Tried to run before getting caught.
AA: I had a feeling Rachel released me only to fuck with me, // but I didn't know this was the direction she would have taken.
???: Continues to deny that he brought the forbidden book.
AA: This is trouble... // Even if I'm a member of the 10 families, if I get framed for reading that crazy banned book /// I could get executed.
???: Any objections to what I have so far?
AA: I've been keep telling you!! I'm not the one who brought the forbidden book!! // It was already there when I got there!!
???2: Hard at work I see!
Po Bidau Bellerir: What do you think? // Just as I told you, right?
AA: YOU!!
Bellerir: I told you once we released him he'd show his true colors.
AA: What?
Bellerir: I'd made a proposal, you see. Let's release you first and see what kind of a person you are. /// We have very little information on what kind of people you are other than the fact that you were brought over from the Lo Po Bia by the our Family Head. // I thought you had some reason why you would seek an audience with him. // Right on the dot. /// You brought a banned book into our mothership...
AA: This bastard...
Bellerir: Is that what you wanted to approach our family head for? How bold. /// The rest of the Lo Po Bia family lackeys from the warp ship, they're in on this too, aren't they?
AA: They're not just here to fuck me over.
Bellerir: Those Lo Po Bia bastards // How long were they into the banned books for?
AA: They want to use me, someone that came over from the Lo Po Bia Mothership // to create an animosity against the Lo Po Bia family...!
Bellerir: Make sure to pass along the book to the Family Head as well.
???: Yes sir.
Bellerir: Those Lo Po Bia are out of their minds...
AA: So they could justify this war...!
N: A few days later
Rachel: After all I went through for you, you still ended up in prison again.
AA: Rachel..!!
Rachel: You've been questioned for a few days now, but I hear you haven't said anything after the first day. /// If you really are innocent, you'd say something, no?
AA: Why should I? // They only asked the formalities, didn't torture or threaten anything. They just have me sit here all they and then send me to my room. /// The food here's great too. /// Since they already have a conclusion, and this is just a formality. Why should I bother clamoring I'm innocent, laying out all of my information? /// It's their family head that brought us here in the first place // If it's the family head that allowed you guys to pull this // There's nothing I can do anyway, right?
Rachel: You know well.
AA: Why me? // Sorry to say, but I'm not really related to the Lo Po Bia family, and I'm a child abandoned by the Khun Family. // It's pointless to use someone like me for this kind of a job.
Rachel: "Why me" you ask... // Aren't you just being full of yourself?
AA: What?
Rachel: I pulled this last minute just to mess with you. // Even if it wasn't you, we would have had someone sitting there anyway. // You really are full of self love, aren't you? /// This is all just for show. Just some literary set up for a future book recital. // Since you ended up coming over here from the Lo Po Bia family // You were the one who ended up in that seat. // There's no specific reason why it had to be you.
AA: SO what's with the book? // A prince of Zahard... And the ten families. // It didn't look made up last minute. // The sentences were refined and detailed. /// Did you find that book?
Rachel: Beats me. // A prince of Zahard, like that exists... // Must be nonsense. // Any other questions?
AA: How did you get in here?
Rachel: It was all a coincidence. Somehow I met the family head here, and after that I was introduced to the vice commander of the ship, and I've been helping him since.
AA: Helpting him start a war?
Rachel: I'm not that that great of a person, but maybe close? // And since I'm answering your questions, let me ask you one too.
Rachel: Where is Baam? /// I heard he disappeared after the Battle of the Nest.
AA: I don't know. // I know he's alive, so don't worry about that. // But I really don't know.
Rachel: You're all talk except when it matters. // Well, anyway. The word about you reciting a forbidden book's now spread across the mothership. // Since a Warpship came over from the Lo Po Bia family at perfect timing // The family head doesn't have a reason to particularly care about the public opinion // but at least he wants a war that his people will support. // The mood is set, and he will soon personally hold a book recital. // He canceled the last one out of the blue, so they're only starting it up again now. // Anyway, in that important book recital where the family head is going to read a book personally, // The family head, as everyone in the Mothership is watching // Will declare total war against the Lo Po Bia family. // an official declaration of war.
AA: ... Declaration of War! // Are we really having a war between the Ten Families?
