Questions and Answers

Dimitri
Professor. Do you think Edelgard will show up?

Dimitri
Edelgard. I did not think you would actually accept my request.

Edelgard
Call it a whim. Well then? What did you want to talk about?

Dimitri
I will get straight to the point. Why did you start this war?

Dimitri
There had to be a way to change things in your territory without the need for so many senseless casualties.

Edelgard
It may be hard to believe, but this is the way that leads to the fewest casualties in the end. Don't you see?

Dimitri
How could I? Countless people have already lost their lives in this conflict.

Edelgard
The longer we took to revolt, the more victims this crooked world would have claimed.

Edelgard
I weighed the victims of war against the victims of the world as it is now, and I chose the former.

Edelgard
I believe that I have chosen the best path, the only path.

Dimitri
Even after seeing the faces of those who have suffered the ravages of war, you would still force them to throw their lives away for the future?

Dimitri
You are obsessively devoted to this war and deaf to the screams of its victims.

Dimitri
You cannot change the cycle of the strong dominating the weak with a method like that.

Edelgard
You're wrong. That very cycle is exactly what I have devoted my life and my power to destroying.

Edelgard
If after all of this you believe the weak will still be weak, that is only because they are too used to relying on others instead of on themselves.

Dimitri
Yes. Perhaps someone as strong as you are can claim something like that.

Dimitri
But you cannot force that belief onto others. People aren't as strong as you think they are.

Dimitri
There are those who cannot live without their faith... and those who cannot go on once they have lost their reason for living.

Dimitri
Your path will not be able to save them. It is the path of the strong, and so, it could only benefit the strong.

Edelgard
Heh, so you consider me strong, do you?

Edelgard
Even if one clings to their faith, the goddess will never answer them. Countless souls will be lost that way. Living without purpose.

Edelgard
And I can be counted among those who have died that way as well.

Edelgard
But that's why I must change this world, on behalf of the silent and weak!

Dimitri
And do you intend to become a goddess yourself? Will you steal the power to take action from the broken-hearted masses you claim to defend?

Dimitri
The ones who can truly change the way of the world are not the rulers, but the people.

Dimitri
Pushing your own sense of justice and your own ideals onto even one other person is nothing more than self-righteousness.

Edelgard
Maybe it is self-righteousness, but it doesn't matter. Someone has to take action and put a stop to this world's endless, blood-stained history!

Dimitri
Do you not believe in the power of the people to join together and rise up?

Dimitri
Humans are weak creatures. But they are also creatures who help each other, support each other, and together, find the right path.

Dimitri
I have learned that humans are capable of all that from the professor...and from everyone in my life.

Edelgard
I doubt a highborn person like yourself could know how the poor feel or what motivates them.

Edelgard
This is nonsense. Though, I'm finally starting to understand how you feel.

Edelgard
But that makes it even clearer to me that we can never fully understand each other.

Dimitri
I feel the same. I finally understand...what you believe is right.

Edelgard
Good-bye, Dimitri.

Dimitri
Wait, Edelgard. There is something I must give you.

Dimitri
This is for you. Use it to cut a path to the future you wish for. And I will rise up to meet you there...El.

Edelgard
...

Dimitri
El! So it's true... You're really going away? Going back home?

Edelgard
There's nothing I can do about it. It's all happening so fast... I'm as surprised as you are.

Dimitri
El...

Dimitri
Um... Here. I want you to have this.

Dimitri
El, listen to me. No matter how hard things get, you can't give in, OK? You've got to cut a path to the future you wish for, no matter what.

Edelgard
It's...a dagger? Why would you give me something like this?

Dimitri
Oh, um... I'm sorry. I couldn't think of anything better to give you.

Lord Arundel
Edelgard! What are you doing? It's time to go. Hurry and get in the carriage.

Edelgard
Oh! I... I'm sorry, Uncle!

Edelgard
I have to go now...

Edelgard
I...I remember now. You gave me a dagger, all those years ago.

Dimitri
Heh, I'm still sorry about that. I should have given you something that would've made you happier.

Edelgard
Perhaps. At the time, I was quite flustered by such a dangerous gift.

Edelgard
I left without giving you a proper response...and that was the last time we saw each other.

Dimitri
True. It is a sweet memory with a bitter ending.

Edelgard
I'm afraid it will do no good to reminisce, Dimitri. That girl you knew back then is gone. As good as dead.

Edelgard
But...I'll tell you now what I wasn't able to tell you back then.

Edelgard
Thank you. My dear, forgotten friend...because of you, I never lost my heart.

Edelgard
As for the future...that will be decided in battle.

Edelgard
King of Faerghus. As the emperor, I shall await your arrival in Enbarr.

Dimitri
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