Act 7 [Raven Princess]
~On the beautiful blue Danube~
7. AKT
~An der schönen blauen Donau~
Once upon a time...
...there lived a child.
To the child, the world...
...was full of mysterious things.
"What for?"
"Why?"
"How?"
Whenever one puzzle was solved...
...two more appeared.
Whenever two puzzles were solved...
...four more appeared.
Whenever four puzzles were solved...
...countless more...
Before he knew it, the child...
...was swallowed up by the puzzles.
Mytho Stop!
I'm begging you! Don't come near me!
Tutu...
Ahiru That's not right!
I didn't mean to hurt him!
He said that he didn't understand love, happiness, or any other feelings...
I just felt sorry for him!
That's why...
Quack! Quack quack quack quack!
Quack quack quack quack quack!
QUACK!
Ahiru That's not what I meant to do!
Pique Ahiru! We're going on ahead!
Lilie If you don't hurry, you'll turn back into "apprentice class Ahiru!"
Ahiru I know!
Mytho hasn't come to school since that day...
Tutu Now, go back.
Back to Mytho.
Fakir What are you scared of?
Mytho I'm scared of princess Tutu!
Ahiru It's my fault!
Student Hey, I wonder if Mytho-sama really is okay...
Chiwawa Mytho'll have been gone for a week pretty soon!
Student Fakir, too.
Student What are those two thinking?
Chiwawa Well, you never could tell what Mytho was thinking anyway!
Neko I have your reports on last week's performance of Sleeping Beauty by Eleki Troupe.
Everyone did quite well.
Especially you, Rue-san. Your insights were wonderful.
Just as expected from you.
Rue Thank you very much.
Neko And then, this seems to be Ahiru-san's report.
It was good.
That is...
It was wonderful in its brevity.
Just as expected from you.
Ahiru Thank you very much.
Neko I wasn't praising you.
Ahiru Is that right?
Neko If you keep this up, you will fall back to the apprentice class again...
And you will have to marry-
Ahiru That's fine.
p&l No way!
Neko Fine, you say...
Do you mean falling to the apprentice class?
Or maybe...
M-M-M...
Pique Oh no! She has a terrible fever!
Lilie And she's covered in goose bumps!
Pique We have to go to the medical office!
Lilie Sorry to disturb class!
Neko Wait right there!!
If you really do want to marry me...
Let us meet after school is out.
Perhaps we can go-
Pique What's wrong? You haven't been very energetic recently...
Lilie It pains me when you're like that, Ahiru!
Pique Ahiru, forgetting things right away and cheering back up is one of your best points!
Lilie That's right! Just like a little bird!
Ah, what's wrong? Pull yourself together!
Pique This is your fault.
Lilie Liar!
Ahiru I don't know... I just don't understand anymore...
Pique Understand what?
Lilie No worries there!
You never understood anything about school anyway!
Ahiru Not that.
What I want to do...
Or just everything...
Pique Seems like a serious illness.
Lilie Could it be...
Pique Because Mytho has been absent for so long?
P&L As I thought!
Pique At times like this, why don't you go to the bridge of riddles?
Ahiru Bridge of riddles?
Lilie Yeah, the bridge of riddles.
You haven't heard of it?
It's the old bridge over the river to the north.
Pique If you talk about the worries in your heart while you're on the bridge...
They say a voice will appear, asking, "Why? How?"
Ahiru That's a scary story...
Lilie It's not scary.
While you're answering the questions, you can get your feelings in order.
Ahiru Why are you saying that in a scary voice?
Pique But, you know... that's not all.
Lilie That's right, if you can't answer a question...
P&L You'll be plunged into the river!
Or something like that.
Pique That's the tale that's been handed down.
Lilie It's a story from a long time ago!
Ahiru Ah, then what about now?
P&L That's right. Right now, such a thing...
...wouldn't happen, right?
Ahiru If it wouldn't happen, say it normally!
Pique But there are a lot of people who have heard the voice.
Lilie It's there for you to discover, so why don't you give it a try?
Ahiru Ah, I guess that's right.
Lilie That's our Ahiru!
Pique Well then!
P&L Be careful!
Ahiru It's not scary! It's not scary!
I'm only going so that I can figure out what I should do!
Figure it out...
And do what?
Um... Are you here for the bridge of riddles?
Rue Bridge of riddles?
Ahiru Ahh, that's right.
Do you also have things that you're uncertain about, Rue-chan?
About Mytho?
Rue That's why I came, but I changed my mind.
Ahiru I see.
I'm sure he'll come back to school soon!
Rue Why do you think that?
Ahiru Just somehow...
Sorry for just trying to fit that in...
Rue See you.
Ahiru Umm, Rue-chan!
You know about Mytho having no heart, don't you?
Rue Of course.
Ahiru And so, do you think...
...it would be better if he had a heart?
Rue It doesn't matter to me.
I've always looked only at Mytho.
Whether or not he has a heart won't change the fact that I love him.
And that will continue forever.
You still don't love him enough!
Ahiru Rue-chan... She said she loved Mytho.
I...
I'm just a bird, so that...
Fakir Get a hold of yourself, Mytho!
Mytho...
What's wrong?
Mytho Fakir...
I had a dream.
Someone big and dark... took me and...
Fakir Don't let it bother you.
Mytho Who was that?
Fakir You don't need to know anything.
Got it?
Mytho Where is Tutu?
Fakir Relax.
No one knows that we're here.
Mytho I can't meet Tutu?
Fakir That's right.
As long as you don't leave this place, you'll soon forget everything.
Then you won't be confused by these worthless feelings, either.
This is all for your own sake.
Ahiru I said I'd figure out my feelings, but...
Rue-chan and Fakir both say he doesn't need a heart!
Mytho is in pain as well...
Well then, there isn't anything I need to figure out...
A piece of heart!
Princess Tutu...
There's no meaning to it!
Even if I stop...
Drossel That's...
Ahiru I'll return this... Although, then I'd turn back into a duck...
If I just stay as a girl...
But that would kind of be unfair.
It would be unfair, after all.
Let's end this.
Drossel What is this?!
The story will be canceled at this rate!
No, no, no!
It can't end here!
Characters in a story wouldn't just try to end it here!
Really, these people in reality...
Since it has come to this...
I'll have to use the loophole in time...
It's an old thing...
I wonder just how many times it's been used...
Ahiru From the start, there wasn't anything I could really do!
Just going and liking him...
Just going and assuming things...
Drossel It's been a while, Ahiru-chan.
Now, now...
Have you forgotten?
It's Drosselmeyer.
Ahiru But they said that Drosselmeyer-san had already died!
Drossel I died...
I am quite dead, which is why I can only meet you like this, Ahiru-chan.
I've come all this way to tell you that you shouldn't stop being princess Tutu.
Now then, you have to return the prince's heart to him!
Ahiru All I've managed to return to him are terror and tears...
Drossel That's good! That's good!
If you turn back into a duck, you'll never be able to see the prince again!
Ahiru Drosselmeyer-san!
Drossel What is it?
Ahiru Why did you make me into princess Tutu?
Drossel That's obvious.
Ahiru What?
Drossel Because it was interesting!
Ahiru Interesting?
Drossel Yes, and because there was no one but you, Ahiru-chan.
Ahiru Only me?
Drossel That's right.
To put everything on the line for the prince, and yet remain unconnected to him...
That is princess Tutu's fate!
How cruel!
What an unpleasant duty!
No one else, no one else.
Ahiru And on top of that, now the prince hates me...
Drossel Yes, yes, how splendid!
So do you understand now?
If you don't do it, Ahiru, who would?
You can't!
Ahiru I don't care anymore!
Drossel What have... you done?
Ahiru Quack!
Quack! Quack quack quack quack, quack!
Drossel Ahiru-chan!
Wait!
I'll leave the rest to you!
Eyecatch
Mytho Princess... Tutu...
What is this feeling I have when I think of princess Tutu?
If what I felt in the dream was terror...
This is different from that feeling.
Who is it?
Fakir?
Is it Tutu?
Tutu?
Feeling Who is Tutu?
What kind of person?
Mytho A scary person.
Feeling She's scary, but you're searching for her?
How strange. Why is that?
Mytho Why is that, I wonder...
Feeling Why is she scary?
Mytho Because she's giving me back my heart.
Feeling You have no heart?
Mytho Yes.
Feeling Is it better not to have one?
Mytho Yes.
Feeling Why?
Mytho I don't know.
Ahiru Quack...
Well, I don't have to worry about falling back to the apprentice class anymore.
Edel-san!
Edel Would you like a jewel?
A duck's world...
A girl's world...
A story's world...
The real world...
A jewel that links two worlds together...
Will you close that link?
After you went through the trouble of connecting them...
Ahiru Quack!
I don't care anymore!
Feeling What a mysterious person.
Hey, will you come with me?
To a place to which no one will come...
Mytho A place to which no one will come...
Feeling Yes.
I'd like to know more about you.
I want to know.
I want to know more!
Ahiru Quack...
Mytho!
Quack!
Oh no! Quack!
Quack! quack...
Quack!
What is this? Quack!
I can't catch him!
What should I do?
Feeling How long have you had no heart?
Mytho Who knows...?
Feeling How did you lose it?
Mytho How...?
I get the feeling that something happened that I should know about.
Feeling What is that?
Mytho I don't know.
Feeling I want to know.
Don't you want to know?
Mytho No.
Feeling Really?
Mytho Probably.
Feeling Why don't you want to know?
Mytho When I try to find out, it hurts!
Feeling How mysterious.
You're a lot like me.
I don't know what I am.
Yet, you're the opposite of me!
I want to know... so much...
...that it hurts.
Mytho Could you be...?
Ahiru This is no good!
Just once more...
If I could become princess Tutu just one more time...!
Drossel It's come to this...
You don't have to say "once more." You can do it anytime!
Mytho Princess Tutu...
Feeling Princess Tutu, the scary person?
Tutu Don't be scared of me.
Let us dance together.
Feeling You're princess Tutu.
Why are you returning his heart to him?
Tutu That's...
That's...
I thought it was for Mytho's sake.
Sadness and loneliness...
There are painful feelings as well, but...
There are warm feelings as well, such as warmth and happiness.
I just thought that I wanted to return those feelings to him.
I thought that would make him happy.
I didn't think that it would cause him so much pain!
Mytho Tutu...
Don't cry, Tutu.
I'll go back with you.
Feeling Why?
You're scared, but you're going along with her?
Strange...
Fakir Mytho!
Where did he go?
Tutu Ah, umm, I'm sorry.
But this will be the last time...
I won't appear before you again, so rest easy.
Goodbye!
Mytho Wait!
I can understand this feeling I have now, just a bit.
This is... a feeling of loneliness and...
A feeling of sadness.
I don't want it.
Not being able to meet again...
Tutu But... I brought you pain!
Mytho I don't mind.
Even if it's painful, when I think of you...
In my breast, I can tell that a small light is born.
Tutu Think of me...?
Mytho I get the feeling that if you leave, that light will disappear as well.
I'm scared of that!
Return my heart to me.
Tutu...
The thing in this river...
It must be my feeling of curiosity.
Return it to my heart.
Tutu But...
Feeling Yes!
You're the person I once was.
Tutu Are you sure it's okay?
Mytho Yes.
Tutu Your heart...
Who are you?
Kraehe Princess Kraehe.
Tutu Princess Kreahe?
Kraehe What is this?
Tutu Give it back!
Kraehe I won't.
I will give you nothing.
I will let you do nothing.
Don't get close to the prince!
Who?
Who am I?
Tutu Mytho?
Mytho!
Mytho...
Mytho!
Fakir Mytho...
Hey, Mytho!
Hang on!
Mytho.
I see...
So this means that she's finally appeared, huh?
Drossel Good, good.
The seeds of a new disaster have been planted...
...the mysteries have deepened...
...and you, Ahiru, who have chosen a path of trials and tragic expectations...
I generously applaud you.
Preview
Pique A confession by the window!
Ahiru, how bold!
Lilie It was like a reverse Romeo and Juliet!
Ahiru Somehow... he didn't seem like the usual Fakir.
Rue Look, prince.
That's the person who causes you pain: princess Tutu!
Mytho Princess Tutu, I want to know how you feel about me.
Ahiru Me? I...
Fakir I'll break apart your heart for you once again.
Drossel Children who love stories, come over here!
New music for Act 7
Johann Strauss, Jr. "On the Beautiful Blue Danube"
Edward Satie, "Gymnopedie" No. 1