Act 24 [The Prince and the Raven]
~Danse Macabre~
24. AKT
~Danse Macabre~
Once upon a time...
...a man died.
What the man wrote was...
...a story about a happy prince who loved everyone and was loved by everyone.
The people fought amongst themselves, each wanting to be the only one loved...
...and the evil ravens pecked at their hearts.
The more the people loved the prince and wanted to save him...
...the better their feelings tasted to the ravens.
Finally, the ravens thought...
...they would like to eat the heart of the prince, more delicious than any other.
Tutu Thank you.
Fakir Hey!
Aotoa What happened?
What is that girl?
Why did the story...
Fakir I won't allow the story to go backwards any longer.
Aotoa Fakir...
What are you trying to do?
You aren't thinking about rewriting the story that's controlling this town, are you?
Fakir I just want the power to protect people.
Aotoa, can I ask you something?
Aotoa What?
Fakir Can my power really turn stories into reality?
Isn't it just recording what happens in reality?
Aotoa Those things are the same power.
If your power is inexperienced...
...naturally it will be pulled towards reality.
But if your power is strong...
...reality should start to follow your story.
And thus, freely manipulating every person's fate would be a simple task.
Fakir The power to protect, huh?
Did I really use my own power then...
...to write a story to save her?
Or was I made to write it?
Fakir Her feelings for Mytho...
...are being transferred into my hands...
...and flowing out!
Fakir Even though I couldn't write a single word of Mytho's story...
...the story to save her just flew out of me.
But the story I have to write is Mytho's story.
Ahiru Fakir's house?
The script then...
He wrote it for me?
Uzura-chan!
Uzura-chan, you were able to make it back too, huh?
Fakir?
You're awake? You'll eat, right?
Ahiru Yeah.
Is that the story you wrote, Fakir?
Fakir That story is finished now.
Ahiru My story that Fakir wrote for me...
I kind of wanted to read it...
But I'm glad you're able to write stories now.
And then, when I said that I thought the last five pieces were hidden away in the gates...
...he said "Congratulations!"
Fakir So that means that those pieces must be sealing away the monster raven.
Ahiru Now we can finally collect them all, right?
Fakir But that will resurrect the raven.
Calm down.
It's a path that we'll have to take someday.
If we don't hurry, Mytho may never be able to return to normal.
Ahiru I guess you're right.
Besides, even if the monster raven is reborn...
...it shouldn't be a problem with your power to write stories, right?
Fakir Do your best.
Ahiru That's right.
Mytho has Fakir fighting for him.
He has princess Tutu fighting for him.
He won't lose to the monster raven!
I'm sure Rue-chan will be able to return to normal too...
Rue-chan?
Rue Good morning, prince.
Ahiru Prince?
Rue Prince, you're hungry, right?
Mytho Hi, Kraehe.
I sure am hungry.
Rue Stop it!
Mytho What are you doing?
You love me, right?
You don't love me?
Rue My love has only managed to transform you into this form.
I don't deserve to love you.
Ahiru That's... Mytho?
Rue Let's dance...
...prince.
Mytho Absolutely.
Rue Prince...
Ahiru This is the first time I've seen Rue-chan dance with such pain.
Rue Do you remember?
All the pas de deux we danced together...
Kraehe You're my prince, you know.
Mytho Am I?
Kraehe You are. After all, father told me that.
Raven The prince! He is my hated enemy who sealed me away!
But for you, Kraehe...
For you, he is the only prince to whom you must be bound.
Kraehe What?
Raven If he is a prince that loves all things...
He must be able to love even you, my daughter.
Kraehe Really?
Raven Yes, really.
Rue Only when I was with you...
...was I...
...truly happy.
Fakir Mytho! Mytho!
Rue I wanted you to always look only at me.
I wanted never to be separated from you.
Kraehe Hey, look! Am I pretty?
Mytho Yeah.
I had better be getting back.
To where Fakir is.
Kraehe What? Wait, stay...
Mytho Sorry.
Kraehe Stay and watch me more!
I practiced with all my heart!
Rue But you...
Raven Kraehe, as my human daughter, you will go above ground and make the prince's love your own!
Kraehe Yes, father.
Raven And if you happen to be able to attain the prince's heart...
...bring him to me.
I have something that I must do before we can hold your wedding ceremony.
Kraehe Yes!
Neko Today, as our first lesson for this elementary class...
...I will lecture on ballet and marriage.
Ballet and marriage have an inseparable relationship.
Mytho Hello, Rue.
Rue Now we can see each other every day, prince.
Fakir Mytho!
If you call Mytho "prince" again, you'll pay for it.
Rue Then, in return, don't get in my way.
Because I didn't want to think about my being a raven, I sealed away my memories.
Raven My beloved daughter!
Rue I believed that I was his daughter!
How stupid of me.
A puppet like me would never be bound to the prince of the story!
Ahiru Rue-chan wasn't Kraehe after all!
Mytho Let's dance, Kraehe.
Ahiru Rue-chan.
Rue Ahiru?
Ahiru Why did Mytho have that form?
Rue You saw?
Ahiru Ah, yes.
Rue That's right, it's my fault!
You can laugh at how stupid I was to be fooled by the raven.
Ahiru I wasn't going to laugh!
Rue Liar! You were thinking that this serves me right!
Ahiru I wasn't thinking that!
Rue Leave me alone!
Ahiru Rue-chan, the pieces of heart sealing away the monster raven are in the five gates to this town.
If we return those to him, I'm sure that Mytho will return to normal!
Rue Sealing away the monster raven...
You can't do that!
If the raven is reborn and the prince's heart is completely returned to him...
The prince will sacrifice his heart to the raven.
Ahiru But if the prince returns to normal...
Rue What will you do if he doesn't return to normal?!
The monster raven wanted the prince to sacrifice his heart to him!
From the beginning!
Ahiru That's... but...!
Rue Don't do any more than you have already!
Ahiru Rue-chan...
Rue Please, stop!
I won't let princess Tutu return his heart!
Ahiru That can't...
Then what can I do?
Drossel Too bad, isn't it, Ahiru-chan?
The story won't end that easily!
There hasn't been enough tragedy, anyway!
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 can I...
Quack!
Qua...
Uzura What's wrong with Ahiru-zura?
Edel Ahiru doesn't know.
Uzura The puppet me's voice-zura.
Edel She doesn't know that.
Uzura That?
Edel The truth that must be revealed now that the prince's heart has been taken away by the raven.
Aotoa The prince of "The Prince and the Raven" in reality...?
I see.
And then, the monster raven became real and is now about to be reborn...
This town really is being controlled by the story!
My hypothesis was correct!
Fakir I am the knight cursed with the fate of dying in vain.
So I can't protect the prince with my sword.
Aotoa And so you will write?
Fakir That's right.
Aotoa Truthfully, it will be impossible to rewrite Drosselmeyer's story with your power.
Since you are being written in the story...
...turning your story into reality cannot be possible.
Fakir I know that!
That's why I want you to help me, Aotoa.
Aotoa Why should I help you...
Fakir I have need of your knowledge!
Aotoa So why should I...
Ahiru Qua...
Mytho...
Mytho, what do you want me to do?
Quack.
Uzura-chan...
Uzura Ahiru will stop being Ahiru-zura.
Ahiru Quack?
Uzura Me-san told me-zura.
Ahiru Me-san?
Quack!
Quack-quack-quack...
Quack-quack-quack...
Quack!
Qua...
Uzura Me-san is inside of Uzura-zura.
Ahiru The sound of Uzura-chan's heart...
This music...
Edel-san!
Edel It has been a while, Ahiru.
Ahiru Edel-san!
Edel Ahiru, you don't know.
About that thing...
Your pendant.
Ahiru Pendant?
Edel Yes. That pendant is the last piece of the prince's heart.
The reason that it responds to other pieces of his heart...
...is that it is a piece itself.
That piece awakens princess Tutu...
The only one who can return the prince's heart to him, princess Tutu.
Ahiru I see.
So the will to return the prince's heart is his own, from before it was broken apart.
That's right, isn't it?
Edel But it is your own will to decide whether you will return that piece of his heart, Ahiru.
Ahiru Edel-san...
My will is the same as Mytho's.
Quack.
Uzura It looks like you cheered up a little-zura.
Ahiru Quack.
Uzura Will you return the pendant to the prince-zura?
Ahiru Yes.
Uzura And then you'll turn back into a duck-zura?
Ahiru Yes.
Uzura And then you won't be able to talk anymore-zura?
Ahiru Yes.
Uzura And then...
And then...
Even if we pour water on you, you won't return to normal-zura?
Ahiru Yes.
But that is the true me.
Uzura The true Ahiru?
Ahiru Yes.
So don't cry.
Uzura Okay-zura.
Drossel Uzura? Oh, Edel, How unnecessary.
The last piece of his heart was a secret, too!
Well, they won't be able to escape tragedy with just that.
Ahiru Mytho?
Mytho Will you dance with me?
Why are you scared of me?!
Ahiru Just now, I thought that Mytho was scary!
Mytho That's enough!
Rue Prince!
Mytho Kraehe, dance with me.
When I'm not dancing with anyone...
...I'm so anxious, lonely, and pained...
It won't stop.
Rue Prince.
I'm sorry, prince.
You're in pain because of the raven's blood.
The raven's heart hurts people.
Even those that you love...
The more you love them...
The more it hurts them!
I've taken your heart that loves everyone...
...and made a complete mess of it!
Everything is my fault!
Because I tried to make your love belong only to me!
I'm sorry!
Tutu Rue-chan.
Rue Tutu.
Tutu This pendant that turns me into princess Tutu is a piece of the prince's heart.
So it is the prince's own will to get all of his heart back.
I will obey the prince's wish.
Let's believe in the prince.
Rue I understand.
Tutu Pieces, please respond to me.
I'm right here.
Feeling What is that form?!
How pathetic, if that is the prince.
Tutu What?
Feeling Is it not too late already?
Right now we have no choice but to return to the original heart.
Let us prepare.
Yes. The monster raven will be reborn.
Let this be decided.
Princess Tutu, thank you.
But if the raven's curse is not broken even after we have returned to his heart...
Please don't return the final piece.
Tutu B... But...
Feeling If that happens, please hurry and find another way to break the curse.
Tutu That's...
Feeling There is not a moment to spare.
Now...
Tutu If that is the will of the prince...
Rue Prince!
Raven Prince!
We finally meet again.
Tutu This is the monster raven?!
Raven Kraehe! Bring the prince to me.
Rue No!
Raven What?
You don't mind losing my love?
Rue My father was no raven! You liar!
Raven So you figured it out, huh?
I've had you drink of my sublime blood from when you were just a baby...
But originally, you were the daughter of some pathetic human!
You never were able to steal the heart of the prince as my blood commanded you...
But for my blood's command to lose to your love for the prince...!
Rue I don't need your raven blood!
When I was Rue...
I was the happiest when I was Rue!
Tutu Rue-chan!
Raven Worthless!
Now, prince. Come here of your own accord.
Give your heart to me!
Rue You can't!
Mytho Move!
Rue You can't!
Mytho Kraehe!
Rue Please, don't go!
Don't go!
Prince!
Tutu Wait, prince!
Rue Don't go, prince!
Don't eat the prince's heart!
Eat my heart instead!
I've always loved you!
Ever since I was a child!
I'll always love you!
Mytho This feeling...
Raven That was unnecessary.
Mytho This helpless love...
I...
I have to protect it.
Tutu.
Tutu, are you the one who saved me...?
Raven To think that you loved him enough to throw away your own life...
My always foolish daughter.