Signs: Leidenschaftlich Army Department
Default: Excuse me.
Default: Want a drink?
Default: Not now, thank you.
Default: Is that so?
Default: Well, I suppose you're not military anymore. You're a private entrepreneur now.
Default: Business is booming, I hear?
Default: Thankfully.
Default: But what if another war breaks out?
Default: With the north?
Default: That's right.
Default: There are some powers within the Northern League led by the Gardariki Empire
Default: who haven't come to terms with the peace yet.
Default: I assume you've heard of Drossel's public love letters?
Default: Drossel? The kingdom that's part of our Southern Federation?
Default: Yes.
Default: Drossel and Flugel, two enemy nations, will be entering a marriage of happy convenience.
Default: This ceremony has the distinct aim of proclaiming the end of the War to the neighboring countries.
Default: I'll be on my way, Boss.
Signs: The Kingdom of Drossel
Default: Violet.
Default: I know this is no easy task,
Default: but you've completed a great many jobs over the past few months.
Default: Believe in yourself. You can do this.
Default: This is the royal palace.
Default: Goodbye.
Default: May you write a fine letter.
Default: This is Miss Violet Evergarden from C.H. Postal,
Default: requesting an audience with Princess Charlotte Abelfreyja Drossel.
Default: It is a pleasure to meet you.
Default: If a client requests it, we shall go anywhere.
Default: Representing the Auto Memoir Doll service, I am Violet Evergarden.
Default: Your Highness?
Default: Your Highness,
Default: I believe I told you that you had an appointment today.
Default: What, is the ghostwriter here?
Default: It is a pleasure to meet you.
Default: Representing the Auto Memoir Doll service, I am Violet Evergarden.
Default: I am Charlotte Abelfreyja Drossel,
Default: arranged to marry Prince Damian Baldur Flugel of the neighboring Kingdom of Flugel.
Default: I have need of you to write me a public love letter to him.
Default: Your Highness...
Default: Your current slovenly appearance entirely undermines the refinement in your speech.
Default: Our public love letters are defined by how beautifully they express one's love
Default: and establish the wedding in people's minds as something to celebrate.
Default: It all rides on your skill, ghostwriter.
Default: I am perfectly aware.
Default: I won't betray your expectations.
Default: Why do I feel like I'm not speaking to another person?
Default: You really are like a doll.
Default: By the way, ghostwriter, how old are you?
Default: I'm sorry to say that, as an orphan, I do not know the precise year of my birth.
Default: However, I have been told that I should be around fourteen.
Default: Sorry about that.
Default: Would you please accept my apology, ghostwriter?
Default: You needn't apologize.
Default: If I may ask, is there a problem with my age?
Default: Not at all. I simply wish to hear the opinion of someone close to me in years.
Default: Er...
Default: How much older can a man be and still be kosher?
Default: Kosher?
Default: Her Highness refers to suitability as a romantic partner.
Default: I have never been involved in romance.
Default: But through reading a wide variety of literature,
Default: I have been able to compile a statistical analysis.
Default: My conclusion
Default: is that there are many examples of couples with a substantial age difference.
Default: Socially speaking, age is no barrier.
Default: Even if there is a ten-year gap?
Default: Prince Damian is twenty-four.
Default: I don't believe that would be a problem.
Default: Even if there is no love?
Default: Well?
Default: "Love"...
Default: That is a concept which has been weighing on my mind.
Default: Be it love,
Default: or a loveless marriage,
Default: I do not possess sufficient knowledge or understanding of the topic
Default: to answer your query.
Default: What is with you? What sort of life have you led?
Default: You can hardly call this a conversation!
Default: It's making me more worried about your future than mine!
Default: Also, could you please show some kind of emotion?
Default: Please give me a moment.
Default: It is complete.
Default: "Dear Damian Baldur Flugel,
Default: If I were to say that simply saying your name out loud, or writing it out like so,
Default: makes my heart race, how would that make you feel?
Default: Every happening in this city of flowers reminds me of you,
Default: leaving me to spend every day sighing endlessly.
Default: One such example is when I gaze up at the moon in the night sky.
Default: The waning moon strikes me as much like a petal swaying in the wind.
Signs: The Kingdom of Flugel
Default: Which then brings me to my next thought:
Default: how do you feel when you gaze upon that same moon?
Default: You've written about flowers and the moon as instructed.
Default: Wow...
Default: You're really good at writing love letters!
Default: Hey!
Default: Yes?
Default: Oh, "The Wedding Draws Near," huh?
Default: Looks like things might work out.
Default: "Dear Charlotte Abelfreyja Drossel, the beautiful princess of White Camellia Castle,
Default: You are my love story, the object of my passion, and I can hardly contain my desire for you.
Default: How dreamy.
Default: My dear, I want to touch you as soon as I can."
Default: Excuse me.
Default: An exquisite letter, as you would expect.
Default: Is she feeling overwhelmed by the letter?
Default: No.
Default: It wasn't that kind of tears.
Default: That's how she cries when things don't go the way she wants.
Default: I can tell because I've known the princess ever since she was still in the queen's womb.
Default: Your Highness, hiding is futile. I can find you in a heartbeat.
Default: Your Highness.
Default: If I were your future mother-in-law, this would lower my opinion of you.
Default: You have a bad habit of forgetting who you are when you get too emotional.
Default: Once you marry into Flugel, you won't have me by your side.
Default: How could you say that, Alberta?
Default: I am a court maid.
Default: I serve the royal family, not you.
Default: No, you're mine!
Default: You brought me out of my mother's womb!
Default: You raised me!
Default: If nothing else, I'm yours!
Default: First the letter, and now you.
Default: Why is everything going wrong?
Default: Get out!
Default: I said get out!
Default: No.
Default: I shall stay right by your side.
Default: Princess Charlotte, how would you like the next letter?
Default: I don't really care anymore, to be honest.
Default: Write whatever you want.
Default: I bet a Doll's writing his letters too, anyway.
Default: And Prince Damian is a busy man. He likely isn't even reading these.
Default: It doesn't matter what we write.
Default: You aren't satisfied with his replies?
Default: That's not it.
Default: It's just...
Default: I've met Prince Damian once, and he wasn't the kind of man who would speak like that.
Default: Say, may I put the Princess of Drossel thing aside, just for now?
Default: And Violet, could you also forget about being a Doll
Default: and listen to me as the person you are?
Default: Just hearing me out would be enough.
Default: Sure.
Default: The day I turned ten,
Default: Drossel threw a grand party to celebrate.
Default: For royalty, marriage arrangements officially begin when we turn ten.
Default: Every single person I was made to meet was a prospective husband.
Default: It felt like nobody was there to celebrate my birthday.
Default: My own feelings didn't matter.
Default: Or so everyone seemed to think.
Default: Hey.
Default: Did no one come looking for you?
Default: Go on and cry.
Default: Cry all you want.
Default: I'm trying to stop crying here!
Default: Don't say that!
Default: Back at the party, you came across as a sassy little brat,
Default: so it's a relief to see you can cry too.
Default: That was the worst birthday bash I could imagine.
Default: Even I had to hightail it out of there.
Default: Of course the birthday girl would want to cry.
Default: See you.
Default: He spoke to me plainly, from the heart.
Default: That's all it was.
Default: But it left an impression on me.
Default: It made me really happy.
Default: Soon after, the War grew in scale, putting all the marriage talks on the backburner.
Default: But as soon as it ended, I received a proposal out of nowhere.
Default: I didn't want to let this chance go to waste,
Default: so I studied up on all the benefits a marriage between our countries would bring to Drossel.
Default: I also laid the groundwork with my father and the cabinet.
Default: And while I don't know if that was the direct cause,
Default: Drossel chose Flugel.
Default: I'm incredibly happy about this marriage.
Default: But what about him?
Default: Maybe he has someone else he loves?
Default: And we're ten whole years apart.
Default: We might not click with each other.
Default: I mean...
Default: I'm nothing but a crybaby.
Default: I'll be in a new country without Alberta by my side.
Default: What if I do something to make him hate me?
Default: That letter was all hogwash.
Default: It had no heart.
Default: I want to know how he truly feels.
Default: You want to know how he truly feels...
Default: Princess Charlotte.
Default: Violet?
Default: We Auto Memoir Dolls are our clients' ghostwriters, and nothing more.
Default: We don't do anything that they don't ask for.
Default: So please understand that what I'm about to do is out of line,
Default: and that C.H. Postal will not be held responsible.
Default: What are you thinking?
Default: I want to stop your tears.
Default: You see, I recognize his Doll's prose somewhat.
Default: Violet...
Default: What is she going to do?
Default: Your Highness.
Default: "Dear Charlotte Abelfreyja Drossel,
Default: do you remember meeting me that moonlit night in the White Camellia Castle's garden?"
Default: Hey, that letter's handwritten!
Default: And is that all? What the heck?
Default: This is unprecedented. What's going on?
Default: Violet!
Default: I met with Prince Damian's Doll and laid out a plan for future letters.
Default: Now, you write a letter
Default: in your own words.
Default: Dear Damian Baldur Flugel,
Default: I remember you very well.
Default: You laughed when you saw me crying.
Default: That really got on my nerves.
Default: But I can never forget your voice as you told me to cry,
Default: nor the kindness you showed me back then.
Default: I laughed because it was cute to see you finally act your age.
Default: I didn't mean to offend you. Forgive me.
Default: I may be a prince in name, but I'm not the kind of guy everyone wanted me to be.
Default: Don't expect me to be a mature man.
Default: We only met once, on that night, so I don't know you well. What kind of girl are you?
Default: Oh my god!
Default: It's like a real love letter!
Default: I'm a crybaby with a short temper,
Default: not the kind of girl who would make you go crazy.
Default: That's not true!
Default: Put her at ease, prince!
Default: I have a little sister, so I'm used to crybaby girls.
Default: I'm not much of a great guy myself.
Default: I can't make you go crazy for me either.
Default: What are you even saying?
Default: If you're a man, be one and tell her to walk with you!
Default: You're wrong. I'm already crazy for you!
Default: Because of the first letter I sent?
Default: A first-rate Doll wrote that one.
Default: I don't mean the person in that letter.
Default: I mean the one who patted my head on that moonlit night four years ago!
Default: Why? All I did was give you a shoulder to cry on one time.
Default: To me, that one time has been a precious memory, a shining jewel in my life.
Default: I'm a thoughtless guy who doesn't understand women.
Default: I'll go on hunts and stuff and leave you behind.
Default: I know I'll disappoint you.
Default: I'm sure you'll find a much better, far more wonderful man as you grow up—
Default: If I may ask, what makes a wonderful man?
Default: Looks? Riches?
Default: In my mind, a wonderful man is one who is willing to be himself with me.
Default: Among all the men putting on airs,
Default: you are the only one I know who says he's not a great guy.
Default: That's more than enough! That's what I want!
Default: If you go hunting, I'll go with you!
Default: Don't make light of a Drossel princess!
Default: I've had the education to be a fine match for any man!
Default: I'm confident I'll be a faster rider than you!
Default: I never should've written those things!
Default: He must think for sure I'm a rebellious, sassy brat now!
Default: If I'd known this would happen, I would've made you write everything!
Default: Alberta should've stopped me too!
Default: Princess Charlotte...
Default: You have a reply.
Default: What does it say?
Default: "I'll be waiting in the moonlit garden tonight."
Default: Hey.
Default: Prince Damian?
Default: I brought you my reply.
Default: It seems my future bride is a smart, tough, and intriguing person.
Default: You'll be an amazing wife.
Default: Let's get married, Charlotte.
Default: Will you marry me?
Default: Yes.
Default: Their love came true.
Default: Your Highness?
Default: It's time to get ready.
Default: Rise and shine.
Default: Your Highness?
Default: Alberta.
Default: I'm over here, Alberta.
Default: Good morning.
Default: Your Highness, you mustn't poke fun at grownups.
Default: Oh, but I'm all grown up too.
Default: Come.
Default: It's time to get ready, Princess Charlotte.
Default: Say, Alberta.
Default: Where do you think Violet is right now?
Default: She must have left the country already.
Default: You're beautiful.
miniED: Your voice is my guiding light
miniED: anata no koe ga michishirube
Default: I wish I could've showed Violet this wedding dress too.
Default: Are you not worried anymore?
Default: I am worried. Of course I'm worried.
Default: Even now, I'm this close to crying.
Default: You mustn't.
Default: Not on this auspicious day.
miniED: A sparrow cries out
miniED: ichiwa no tori ga naiteiru
Default: I'm happy about marrying Prince Damian.
Default: Right.
Default: But leaving the country makes me sad.
Default: Right.
Default: But forget everybody else. What really makes me sad is leaving you,
miniED: Looking for me within a nameless sky
miniED: namae no nai sora ni watashi wo sagashite
Default: Alberta.
Default: Princess...
miniED: I will head for tomorrow in this cradle woven from kindness
miniED: yasashisa de amitsuzuketa yurikago de asu e yukou
miniED: Be it a day of rain or a day of sunshine
miniED: hare no hi mo ame no hi ni mo
Default: I wish you all the happiness in the world,
Default: Princess Charlotte.
Default: Alberta...
miniED: I will be there to protect you
miniED: anata wo mamoru tame ni
miniED: A treasure more valuable than all
miniED: kakegae no nai takaramono
miniED: A nameless flower
miniED: namae no nai hana wa
miniED: Lies in peace
miniED: shizuka ni nemuru yo
Default: You owe me one, Violet.
Default: Convincing Prince Damian was hell.
Default: I'm truly grateful.
Default: I could go for some meat.
Default: Is that how I should pay you back?
Default: Precisely.
Default: Roger.
Default: It's a truly beautiful day, don't you think?
Default: Yes.
Default: It's the perfect day for a wedding.
Signs: Port Leiden, Leidenschaftlich
Default: You...
Default: Naval Captain Dietfried Bougainvillea...
Default: It seems the rumors were true. You really have become an Auto Memoir Doll, huh?
Default: You, of all people?
Default: You, who killed so many of my men,
Default: are writing letters?
Default: With your bloodstained hands that have taken countless lives,
Default: you write letters that bring people together?
Signs: "You Write Letters That Bring People Together?"