Shigure
"...The you standing before me now doesn't seem like the Blue-Haired Duke that people speak of."

Nikako
"I won't ask what rumours you've heard, but tonight, look at the real me, not the me of the rumours."

Nikako
"For your sake, I would prepare such a feast every night."

Shigure
"Every night...you would do so much for me...?"

Nikako
"I swear to give you all of myself. Once again, will you be my wife, Elemia?”

Shigure
"...Yes, Blue-Haired Duke."

Business Partner
Oh...did you see that, Fudeshima-san? Your daughter's performance?

Shigure's Father
Y-Yes...

Business Partner
The caution in Elmeria's expression transformed, as if enchanted, as she was drawn to the Blue-Haired Duke...!

Shigure's Father
(...I knew nothing...I knew nothing at all...!)

Shigure's Father
(When you stand on that stage, you show such richness of expression...Shigure...)

Shigure
"Come off...! Please...stain on the key, come off...!"

Shigure
"It's not blood...what's on this key is just a stain...! Just a stain...and yet...!"

Shigure
"Why...why won't it come off...!"

Daikoku
"...It can't come off."

Shigure
"W-Who's there...!? Where are you...!?"

Iruru
"We are...who you once were...that dark red stain is the mark of 'one who has seen'..."

Shigure
"N-No...! I didn't see anything...!"

Daikoku
"We said the same thing back then...but..."

Iruru
"We believed we were loved...and yet..."

Daikoku
"...That key led you to that room."

Iruru
"And it will lead him here too..."

Shigure
"Ah...the Blue-Haired Duke has come back...God, please...help me..."

Nikako
"Elmeria...what are you doing?"

Shigure
"Eek-"

Shigure
"..."

Shigure
"P-Please, Duke...! I beg your forgiveness...!"

Nikako
"Forgiveness? For what? You haven't done anything that warrants blame, have you?"

Shigure
"...B-But...I opened the key to that room..."

Nikako
"Yes, you saw it, didn't you? I am the sinner. Not you."

Nikako
"But we are husband and wife, sworn in love. Let us bear this sin together."

Hatsumi
"Stop! Release my sister at once, Blue-Haired Duke!"

Shigure
"Brother...!"

Nikako
"Sheathe your sword, tasteless dragoon. I will not allow anyone to come between my beloved and me."

Hatsumi
"Such nonsense...! What you offer her is no love!"

Nikako
"It is unmistakable love. Let me show you its proof. Come, my seventh wife. A kiss-"

Shigure
"...!?"

Nikako
"Love cannot be torn asunder...no matter what force divides it..."

Daikoku
"...I heard it. Those words..."

Nikako
"...What!?"

Iruru
"Love cannot be torn asunder...no matter how powerfully we are separated..."

Shigure
"The people who were sleeping in the small room...!?"

Hatsumi
"What...what is happening!?"

Nikako
"Oh...ohhh...my beloved wives...! Why are you here...!?"

Daikoku
"You...guided us..."

Iruru
"You...bound us to you..."

Daikoku
"So...come...let us go."

Iruru
"With us...to the same place..."

Nikako
"No...impossible...! Release me!"

Daikoku
"I will not...forever..."

Iruru
"We cannot be torn apart...eternally..."

Daikoku and Iruru
"For what binds us is...love itself..."

Nikako
"N-No. This is not the love I desired...! Ahhhhh...!"

Shigure
"The Blue-Haired Duke falls...for the love he spoke of with his own lips..."

German Judge A
...Wonderful. So this is Eden's new interpretation of 'Bluebeard'.

German Judge B
The violence and twisted love inherent in that tale, reinterpreted with spiritual and symbolic depth-a superb arrangement...!

German Judge C
Yes, and the actors and direction that expressed it all so brilliantly were magnificent.

Hibari
(It was the right choice to come see this after all. This is the reborn, new Eden...!)

Business Partner
Magnificent. I was completely absorbed. Your daughter's performance was incredible too, Fudeshima-san!

Shigure's Father
Y-Yes...

Shigure's Father
(Shigure, you...all this time, you were doing something like this without my knowing...!)

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Pub: 26 Jun 2026 14:54 UTC

Edit: 27 Jun 2026 18:58 UTC

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