Act 22 [Crown of Stone]
~The Great Gate of Kiev~
22. AKT
~Das große Tor von Kiew~
Once upon a time, there was a princess who was raised with much care.
One day, the princess stole past the eyes of the gate watcher...
...and snuck out of the castle for the first time.
However, no matter how far she walked...
...outside the castle, a pitch black forest stretched on endlessly.
Before she knew it, the princess was no longer able to escape the forest or return to the castle.
In that world, the inside of the castle was all that existed.
Ahiru Fakir threw away his sword...
...and found something that only he could do.
Fakir I want to protect him...
Ahiru Because he wants to save Mytho.
Fakir Mytho, pure and dangerous...
Ahiru No matter how much it hurt him...
He wouldn't give up.
He surmounted all the painful memories he wanted to forget.
Fakir is strong.
Even without wielding a sword...
Fakir is Mytho's knight.
Uzura What's Fakir doing-zura?
Ahiru He's talking with the oak tree.
In order to write a story to protect someone important to him...
Fakir may really be able to protect Mytho with only his own power.
Mytho And you still can say that you love me?!
Ahiru Rue-chan!
Is Mytho's heart becoming more and more drenched in the raven's blood?
Is that why he'd do such a thing to Rue-chan, even?
Rue-chan...
I really am worried about her.
Although I can't do anything for her...
Uzura Ahiru...
Will you be all right-zura?
Ahiru Are you worried about me?
Thanks! But I'll be all right!
Uzura That's good-zura!
I thought you might get scolded by your teacher-zura.
Ahiru's absent from school with Fakir-zura!
Ahiru I just thought I'd look in and see how Fakir was doing on my way to school...
...and now it's this late-
A-Ah, sorry!
Let's go, Uzura-chan!
Okay, Uzura-chan, see you later!
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?!
What is this?
Rue-chan! Why?
Uzura Rue-chan?
Ahiru It's open?
Rue-chan!
Rue Tutu...
Ahiru W... were you crying?
Rue Of course I wasn't. Why are you here?
Ahiru Why? Well, you kind of seemed strange...
...and it's kind of dangerous up here...
Rue Dangerous?
What's dangerous here? I'm Kraehe.
Ahiru Rue-chan!
Rue-chan, you're Rue-chan, right?
I think that's true!
So...
Ah, that scared me...
Rue You're the one in danger here, Ahiru!
Ahiru Ah, it seems that way...
Rue I...
Kraehe I am princess Kraehe.
Ahiru Rue-chan.
P&L Ahiru!
Pique Where did you go?
Lilie Terrible news!
Ahiru Huh? What?
Lilie Poor little Ahiru!
Pique Being late for our en pointe lesson...!
Ahiru Ah, well, that was...
Lilie He's coming. He's coming, you know!
Don't be scared!
Ahiru Scary!
Pique Ahiru, you'll just have to try and make it through this.
You have no other choice!
Ahiru Huh? What...?
Pique He's here!
Lilie He's here, isn't he?
Neko Ahiru-san.
Can we talk for a bit?
Pique F-Finally...
Lilie A proposal?
I'll take your textbook for you!
Ahiru Th-thanks...
Pique Just try and make it through this!
Ahiru G... Got it.
Neko Ahiru-san.
Ahiru Y-Yes?!
Neko Everyone has times in their life when they feel that they can't reach their dreams.
Ahiru What?
Neko But deciding that there's absolutely no way you can do something...
...is merely a way of consoling yourself.
Are you not deceiving yourself about your own feelings?
As to what the most important thing to you is?
Ahiru I...
I became a girl for Mytho...
I became princess Tutu for Mytho...
And yet at some point I decided that there was nothing I could do.
Am I running away?
From the most important thing?
Neko So if your dream, Ahiru-san, is of marriage to me...
...and because of that you are worrying and skipping lessons...
...we should be engaged at once in the ceremonial hall...
Ahiru Thank you very much, Neko-sensei!
Goodbye!
Neko Goodbye...
Pique Ah! She seems to have escaped somehow!
Lilie A big shock for Neko-sensei!
Ahiru It can't go on this way.
I have to search through the town for the pieces of his heart!
That's what I can do right now, for Mytho!
Uzura Are you the Rue-chan we're worrying about-zura?
Rue What?
Uzura That's what Ahiru said-zura.
Rue Ahiru said?
I told you, there is no Rue!
Ahiru I just can't believe that.
Because I feel that Rue-chan is Rue-chan.
Rue-chan!
Uzura Have I met you before-zura?
Rue What are you talking about? You're just a...
You...
Who are you?
Uzura Uzura... is Uzura-zura.
Rue Do you know about me?
Am I really a raven's...
What nonsense.
I don't have time to be doing this.
Aotoa This is some sort of mistake!
When I did the genealogical investigation, he was definitely connected to Drosselmeyer.
But I had to tell him everything he knew about it!
I know what it is that you people are.
I want you to recognize that I am qualified for this!
By those who can stop the story...
By those of the books...
Furuhon There are no qualifications other than those to be someone who is alive.
Aotoa That's not what I'm talking about!
Is this world not being controlled by Drosselmeyer's story?
Although we cannot realize it ourselves...
I want to know that mystery!
Furuhon There are things that are good and bad to know.
Go back!
Aotoa Damn it.
Kagyaku Let us cut off his hands!
Just like Drosselmeyer's...
We should get rid of him before he starts writing.
Furuhon Wait.
That which we of the books must fight...
...is not someone who could only write false stories.
Kagyaku Then, perhaps that person who exchanges words with the oak tree...
Rue What am I doing?
Father is searching for a heart...
Aotoa Damn it! So he's the one?
Then why was I born into this world?!
Rue Cold...
Aotoa What's wrong?
You... from the ballet school...
Rue?
Ahiru There has to be one...
Somewhere, there must be!
A piece of his heart...
Quack!
Mytho Who's there?
Ahiru Just now, Mytho's shadow looked like a raven...
Drossel You'd better be careful, Ahiru-chan!
To those who can stop the story...
...cutting off a little duck's head would be an easy task.
I'm afraid that that is all for today.
Is a fun story awaiting us?
A sad story?
Or maybe...
Now, let us continue our interrupted story.
Is what is waiting for us a happy ending?
A cruel ending?
Or maybe...?
Ahiru What should I do?
All right!
Quack-quack-quack-quack-quack-quack-qua...
Mytho Hey, what happened to the rest of the birds?
When I'm around they always stay away.
Ahiru Mytho?
Mytho Strange, isn't it?
Even though I love everything, and want to protect them.
Ahiru The prince's heart!
Mytho But I want to make all of the love in the world mine as well.
Which is the real me?
I want to love...
But I only want to be loved...
I don't know.
My heart is wandering in the darkness...
I have to defeat the raven!
As a prideful prince!
And then, I have to protect everything in this world myself...
I want to get all of my heart back soon.
Ahiru Mytho...
Mytho When I have all of my heart back...
Ahiru I'm sorry, Mytho.
Even though I swore to get all of your heart back for you...
I'm sorry.
I'll try my hardest!
They have to be somewhere in this town!
I'll make sure to find them!
Without fail!
Absolutely, absolutely, absolutely!
Absolutely, absolutely, absolutely!
Because that's the only thing I can do!
Rue It's beating so quickly...
Your heart...
Why?
Aotoa Because you...
This beautiful scent...
Rue Come with me.
Aotoa Okay.
Fakir Who are you people?
Furuhon We are those of the books.
If you are trying to spin a story using Drosselmeyer's power...
...we must stop you.
Fakir Those of the books?
Furuhon Our ancestors were the ones who cut off Drosselmeyer's hands...
...so that he could never write again.
If one of his descendants is going to try and spin a new story...
...we must bestow the same fate upon him.
That is the role passed down to us through generations.
Fakir Are you saying you're going to try and cut off my hands?
Furuhon Dangerous stories must not be born.
Those stories that are born must have their conclusions buried away...
They must be stopped.
Fakir Are you people the ones who ripped out the conclusions to those stories?!
Furuhon Come.
Ahiru I'm still not going to give up!
Huh? A piece of heart!
Where is it? Where?!
Could it be on the other side of this?
Huh?
It won't open!
It won't open.
I wonder if there's another exit somewhere...
Sai We finally made it, huh?
Musuko Yeah!
Sai This is Kinkan Town.
Musuko Huh? Was mom always a rhinoceros?
Now that you mention it, before we got to this town...
Well of course that couldn't be!
Of course not!
Sai Hey, I'm gonna leave you two behind!
Musuko Right!
Ahiru Just now, the gate didn't open, did it?
They just seemed to appear in front of the gate...
Edel The story was suddenly born.
Its beginning was a coincidence.
Ahiru They were suddenly born from the gate?
Aotoa Yes, the story must be controlling this town.
But we cannot realize that fact.
No matter what strange things happen...
We are made to believe that things have always been this way.
I'm the only one that can solve this mystery!
So I'm also the one with the qualifications to change this world!
Rue You're right.
You can change the world.
Aotoa Yes!
Just as I imagined, you think so as well?
Rue Because you will become meat and blood for the one who will change the world.
Aotoa What an amazing girl you are.
Rue This way.
Aotoa Wait up, Rue!
Where are you taking me?
Ahiru Somewhere...
It must be somewhere!
Another exit...
No good.
Again?
What does this mean?
What is on the other side of this gate?
It shined, just as I thought!
Again!
There must be a piece of heart outside of the gate.
Tutu Piece of heart, where are you?
Huh? A wall?
Fakir What is this?!
Furuhon The man who toyed with people's lives and broke down the wall between stories and reality...
...this is that man's grave.
Fakir This is Drosselmeyer's grave?
Furuhon We will cut off your hands and seal them away here.
Tutu The only thing outside of Kinkan Town is a wall?
Fakir Stop it!
I have to write!
Tutu Stop it!
Furuhon Princess Tutu!
This is...
Fakir Thank you.
Tutu Thank goodness.
Huh? What is this?
Fakir What? What's going on?
Drossel It's dangerous to show everything to those abominations, princess Tutu!
Fakir Is that you, Drosselmeyer?
Aotoa After all, everyone is a marionette.
Right now, I'm lost.
Somehow I've come to think of you...
This must have been decided by the story as well.
It seems that I've come to love you!
Rue Love me?
Aotoa Yes.
Rue Enough to throw away your life?
Aotoa Yes, if it was for you...
Rue Of course that couldn't be!
Aotoa It's not a lie! I...
Rue Stop it!
Aotoa I can't live any longer without loving you.
Rue Go back.
Aotoa This feeling isn't something made-up.
Rue I'm sorry, father.
It's no good like this.
But I just couldn't do it.
Fakir You're... from the used bookstore?
Furuhon Before Drosselmeyer lost his arms...
...he had built a mechanism to allow him to continue to knit his stories even after his death.
This town is controlled by the story using that mechanism...
...but we cannot even tell what is story and what is reality.
However, in Drosselmeyer's story, princess Tutu, a role that no one should have taken...
...appeared, and tried to protect you.
And now princess Tutu has been captured by Drosselmeyer.
The story may now be at a stage where we should not try to stop it.
If so, the one who will fight is he who shares the same blood.
Fakir Are you saying that the enemy I'm to fight is not the monster raven...
...but Drosselmeyer's story itself?
Furuhon Can we believe that you are not someone who would manipulate the story?
Fakir But there is still something lacking within me.
Without knowing what I am lacking, I can't even begin writing!
Furuhon That is something we cannot do anything about.
It is a wall that you must scale yourself.
If you start to take the story in an abominable direction...
...we will have to fulfill our role once more.
You should remember that.
Fakir Drosselmeyer...
The man playing with Mytho's life, and everyone else's...
But do I really have the power to fight him?
Can I save Mytho?
Can I bring Tutu back?
Drossel Fight with me, you say?
You, from inside my story?
Maybe it would be best for you [to] get torn in two as soon as possible.
Oh my, it finally stopped.
Oh well, I guess that there's no helping it with princess Tutu gone.
No good, no good!
Tutu This is...
Is anyone there?!
Where is this?