Bye Bye, Earth (ばいばい、アース)

I... I want to know my roots!

I appeared from one of these rocks as a child.

Can I not cut anything anymore?

Did you find what you were seeking?

I can feel the woman in me going to sleep.

I won't die.

And I won't let you either!

This is my curse.

Knock on the door of journeys with me!

Your father's sword is in my care.

Save Belle!

The divine tree is eating solists.

But it won't work...

Not yet.

I knew things would turn out this way!

We haven't fallen for each other yet.

Who else would ever see you as a woman?!

We need someone to doubt reason.

Don't tell me the girl of reason is the gods'...

Dear me. You're more theatrical than I could ever be.

The form of my curse makes me that way.

Because I, too, have been sent to appraise reason...

Tell me, can reason amount to hope in the face of doubt?

We cannot return the bird to her cage without questioning the world's reason.

Not until her homesickness shatters this world.

Sir, you are a dangerous fellow.

For your own hope, you would sacrifice much

and approve the murder of hope itself.

You should have died.

You should have died when the girl of reason cut you down.

I have nothing left to say to you.

I'll take the Ashes of the Tried next time we meet.

Oh?

Where... am I?

What am I doing here?

Can you?

Can you cut me?

I can't.

Who's there?

It's Bennett, Belle.

I came to check on you.

Would you mind letting me in?

Can you cut me?

Sure I can.

Belle?

Stop.

Stop it, Benedictine!

Why should we have to go that far?

This is a mermaid's fate, Bennett!

The real Belle has sunk somewhere deep below.

And she'll drown if she stays there.

Have you ever thought about how mermaids' physical wounds link to mental ones,

and to your male and female selves?

The light...

Not even sacred ashes can cure me now.

Why should I care?!

What have I gotten stronger for?

For this!

If it doesn't help now, in this moment, then my strength...

means nothing!

Belle.

Who's there?

It's me. You know.

Open up already!

Do you realize I came here just to see how you're doing?

Benedictine!

Your eye...

You look frightful.

Why are you here?

What have you done to this place?

No wonder I can't stand get-well visits!

I thought you died.

Your hair's a mess, and so is the rest of you.

What, are you showing off for someone?

When your male version showed up, I figured you must be...

I haven't paid you back yet.

You cut down Gordon and set my heart free.

I owe you this.

Take proper care of yourself.

You have hair like silk thread.

Here. I know you like Meissen tea.

Of course, Demitasse is more in season now.

You didn't do anything wrong.

I couldn't understand his pain.

But I tried to make him understand me.

I tried to fill him up with myself.

The same goes for him, doesn't it?

And he was a whole lot worse about it.

I like the strong Adonis.

Seeing Adonis weak makes me nervous.

A weak Adonis won't help me.

I know I'll lose the strong Adonis if I come to understand his weakness.

So I didn't want to.

I didn't want to understand.

I would have sooner killed him.

And what were you hoping for from this big, strong Adonis of yours?

Grumpy coward that he is.

I like the weak you, too.

I get to think a heartfelt "serves you right."

It feels wonderful.

It's dawned on me why I've been dying to see a menace like you all this time.

I feel like even I could be a decent woman when I'm with you.

Hey! What's that supposed to mean?

I mean I'm just another woman around you.

You look beyond my tribe, somewhere bigger and deeper.

You're pretty, you know?

Huh?

You're free.

Each tribe has its standards of beauty and ugliness,

but you aren't fettered by all that.

You're light and free.

Strength and weakness, beauty and ugliness all lie inside you.

Everyone's dying to touch them.

But like a flower, you bloom as you please,

as though you couldn't care less how we feel.

I couldn't live with myself if I didn't at least get a look at you wilting.

I don't know what I'm supposed to do with that...

I asked Adonis to leave on a journey with me.

Because I felt lonely.

I wanted to run away from that, and I tried to sacrifice him for it.

That's not true.

It is.

If we had gone journeying, I know I would have ended up dominating and killing him.

He was looking for help,

and I...

So what if you did?

Are you trying to say it's all your fault?

Nonsense.

You just said it yourself, remember?

The real reason.

The real reason?

Yes.

Why did you want to go on a journey with him?

I...

I'm lonely.

I'm so lonely I could go crazy and die!

I'm scared! It's so hard!

I'm all alone!

I mean, no one will help me!

You'd think I could get at least one shoulder to lean on.

You'd think someone would save me.

Why am I so alone?

Why can I never... never...

do anything about my homesickness?!

Someone somewhere told me at some point...

I love my homeland and long for utopia.

I can't love myself or where I am.

I just keep wandering.

It's not your fault.

The door of journeys still won't open.

I'll just wind up even more alone when it does.

Why does trying to learn about myself

always leave me so utterly on my own?

It's not your fault.

It...

Go ahead. Say it.

It's...

Come on.

It's not... my fault?

Yes, that's right.

Now say it clearly.

It's not my fault.

It's not my fault!

It's not!

That's right.

Yes, I couldn't agree more.

And where are you trying to go?

I'm going... to find out why I'm really here.

Right.

To do something about my homesickness.

Exactly.