Ludwig II Part One: Translated by Tae-chan aka Tokimaru % thoughts /actions/ Lots of stuff was hard with this one, so please forgive the mistakes ^^; Especially with place names. My knowledge of history is less than exemplary, so it makes it harder. I must assume that Baierun is the japanese for Bavaria, and Puroisen is Prussia. If someone knows to the contrary, please let me know!! Thankyuuuuu! ^^ "nii-san" means "older brother". I've kept it in Japanese because it sounds strange translated into English. ~*~ Special thanks ~*~ to Sandi Dee, an Austrian Higuri fan who helped me with the correct translations for many names of people and places! *hearts* Thanks heaps, Sandi! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Page 3 Requiem’s bird Page 5 Woman: Lord… Page 6 One stormy evening ------ Woman: Please… Lord… let his soul rest in peace…. My---- Page 7 Eagle has died… Expressed in the rain, he was floating in the lake… Page 8 My cousin 7 years my junior, the two of us were likened to birds…. Bavaria kingdom’s King Ludwig II Austria’s Empress Elizabeth. While it was a status that controls people, we were nothing more than children yearning for wings of freedom… Page 9 We couldn’t live without being corrupted… The sin was continuing to dream… He wanted a pure ideal and continued to build his castle of dreams, like a mountain eagle. I had a heart which could not be satisfied and was a seagull that wandered from island to island ---- We were accomplices licking wounded hearts. Page 10 At a please deeper than the soul, we were one. Now that I have lost you, I cannot fly anymore. Page 12 I don’t know how it was reflected in other people’s eyes, but that emotion wasn’t love. It was only that we were honest to ourselves. Ludwig: Will you do me the honour of dancing with me? Lady: Look at poor Sofie – even though she’s head over heels for the king. Page 13 “Lady Elizabeth is on all accounts the Austrian Empress.” “She has a husband, and is shameless.” “Queen and King.” It was fun being with him, so I did. I wanted to dance, so I danced. That was a simple – very simple matter of fact. Elizabeth: The chattering sparrows are noisy. Ludwig: Just ignore them. Tonight you are the only one worth dancing with. Elizabeth: Ludwig, what do you think of Sofie? Ludwig: Sofie? Why? Page 14 Elizabeth: That girl is in love with you. Ludwig: As for me, Elizabeth, if I were to love a female, Ludwig: then this sort of woman made out of white stone will do. Ludwig: Stone is fine, because I do not wish for anything. His interests were man made moons that moved by mechanical axes. The east room painted sparkling gold in an Arabian style. Wind-up birds. He would play by himself in the room that blocked out day or night. Page 15 The illusion that he loved was his own beautiful self. Many young men who resembled himself. Page 16 His castle of dreams was Wagner’s mythological world. And I who reflected him… He became a prisoner of a fantasy world so people called him “The Mad King”… People who had been alienated from him, hated him. They thought he should stay away from that purity. And he was shut away as a lunatic… Page 17 But Ludwig, you went away, didn’t you… nobody could shut you away… To the world of freedom, to the kingdom of dreams ---- To your world in the depths of the lake ----- Page 18 The king bewitched by the moon’s purity. A perilous soul----- Your eyes were always straying to the sky; you never looked at the ground. Page 19 Your pain was understandable to me, but the world continued to be swept by the waves of a barbarous age ----- The mystery’s darkness was trampled down and dispersed by people who didn’t know it’s worth. You were too beautiful for this real world that you lost interest in…! Page 20 But finally you’ve been liberated from this torture. Congratulations, Ludwig! Even though I am a seagull who has lost it’s wings, I shall tread on with strong legs --- Don’t worry. I am more cunning than you are… The Mad King of the Blue Moon Shadow Page 23 “When I consent to this loathsome world ---- that is when the ideal flame inside me disappears. ---- If so, then I put everything down and I want to break the enigma of forever… To strangers ----- and to myself… “ Bavaria kingdom’s Ludwig II. Page 27 1886 Bavaria’s capital Munich Woman: Get away, Fritz! You’re always full of big talk. Fritz: It ain’t just talk. Fritz: I’m really getting into a lot of money right now. Page 28 Woman: How? Since your only talent is sweet-talking women! Fritz: You said it. I won’t hold Henrietta anymore. Woman: Wishful thinking! Fritz: % That’s it, all right… I’m gonna ditch this stingy job…! Hornig: nii-san!? Hornig: Fritz nii-san! Fritz: It’s been a while hasn’t it Hornig. Hornig: They were saying there was an interviewee so I was wondering who it was… When did you get to Munich!? Page 29 Fritz: I was surprised when I heard you were working at the palace. Fritz: Following in the old man’s footsteps huh. Hornig: Well, you say the palace but it’s really just the stables though. Fritz: Even so, it’s so cool! There’s a wide difference between us. Fritz: You couldn’t think we were twins! Hornig: What have you been doing up till now, nii-san? Fritz: Me?… I’m just working by the day for some easy money! I’ve been wandering to battlefields here and there. Fritz: I was miserable in Duppel… Fritz: Ha, that’s enough for all the bad business talk. It’s been so long since we’ve met, so let’s go drink tonight! Page 30 Man: It seems that Prussia’s Bismark has the intention of somehow picking a war with Austria. The Gastain agreement was a trap that Prussia elaborately prepared. When that happens, Bavaria won’t be able to be neutral either. Fritz: Aaaah, I wonder if there isn’t a quick and easy profit opportunity. Serving woman: Wow, you two are exactly alike! Fritz: I wonder if I should be a robber or something. Fritz: Hey, you can enter and leave the palace can’t you. Fritz: I wonder if you can steal the key to the treasure house. Hornig: What are you thinking, niisan, don’t say such stupid things. Hornig: I’m working there seriously. Fritz: Serious… seriously huh. But the Bavaria king just fritters away money like it’s hot water. Fritz: We’re hard up. It can’t be done at all! Page 31 Houenroe: We have urgent news for the King! Houenroe: This is first lieutenant Zauwa. Young man: What is it, Houenroue. Houenroe: I’ll make it quick. Where is the king? Young man: I’m sorry but he’s not here anymore. Young man: He hates irksome military exercises. Page 32 Houenroe: He ran away again huh… Taxsis: That sweet joy, only god bestows upon us, Taxsis: The reality of noble love, while the partners having never met each other, what they have felt is love’s premonition. Taxsis: Your eyes are the purity of that. Taxsis: With that look giving me orders, I shall serve you. Page 33 Taxsis: Ah, Elsa, my beloved woman… You are the only one to imbibe that lovely smell deep into your heart together with me. Taxsis: Is not this smell dearly agreeable… Young man : You can’t do that, Houenroue-sama. The king does not wish to see…. Houenroue: Your Majesty, this cannot go on any more! Houenroue: Your Majesty…! Page 34 Houenroue: Your Majesty... Houenroue: What is this appearance… and Lieutenant Taxsis too. Ludwig: You can’t tell by looking? It’s King Heinrich and Loengrin. Ludwig: You’re a tactless person ---- what do you want? Your prosaic face has dispelled the medieval flavour that we were at pains to create. Houenroe: Th… this isn’t the time to be playing. Please return to Munich urgently. Page 35 Houenroe: Now that Bismark has Rauenbrook in their hands, it is time to decide whether to side with Prussia or Austria! Houenroe: Please look to reality, Your Majesty! Ludwig: Isn’t there also not liking anything and entering into war? Ludwig: Reality… what is the worth in such a thing? Ludwig: Especially since lovely poetry sparkling in my dreams is my heart’s reality…! Houenroe: % --- This foolish king…! Houenroe: But even so, Your Majesty… you have a duty as the king. Taxsis: King, we’re bothering the official a bit. Ludwig: So we are, Taxsis. As you say. Page 36 Ludwig: Through conquest concealed under the beautiful name of unification, the good old age was destroyed. If we must join either Prussia or Austria, then I would take Austria…! Houenroe: We of Bavaria are a country situated in the south… Prussia’s treacherous ambitions are decided upon the north. Right now, making an instant decision here is rash. Taxsis: Ha! You were obviously in the New Prussia faction, Houenroue. Houenroe: What do you mean by that, Lieutenant Taxsis? Ludwig: Please stop provoking him Taxsis! Page 37 Ludwig: It looks as though I don’t know how far Prussia’s…. Bismark’s ambitions go… because I can’t think that they’ll be satisfied with the domination of Germany only in the north. Don’t you think so, Houenroe. Houenroe: % --- For once at least he can speak about straight matters can he?…. Ludwig: If we cannot avoid war, at the very least I am not on the offensive. Austria is better. Houenroe: Elizabeth is the daughter-in-law of Austria isn’t she. Page 38 Ludwig: That’s right. Ludwig: There is that viewpoint. Ludwig: % Elizabeth, we are tied together I guess… my cousin, the only companion who can understand myself and my soul which cannot live anywhere except the world of dreams. Ludwig: After all… Ludwig: Prussia will probably win… Bismark is a man who doesn’t do hopeless things. Houenroe: Your majesty, in that case…! Ludwig: No. Bavaria must avoid surrendering into becoming Prussia’s country. If we accomplish only giving noncommital dignity to Austria… that will be fine. Houenroe: % ---- You spineless….! Page 39 Ludwig: % Bad dreams… Rebellion of body and soul. Ludwig: % This is reality… the form of truth that I’ve grown completely sick of….. Ludwig: Ah… ahhh Page 40 Ludwig: Taxsis…! Ludwig: % Having a lofty soul in front of this natural expression ---- is pretty meaningless. Houenroe: Your Majesty! Houenroe: Secretary-Minister, couldn’t you find the King for me? Until just now he was in his office, but… Secretary-Minister: I know where he is all right, Master Hoenroe. Just now he has gone out! Houenroe: What!? Where the hell to!? SM: I don’t know that! SM: He flew off when I told him that a military conference would be convened urgently! (What’s with that!) Houenroe: % Again?! Page 41 Ludwig: Of course. I refuse any more of the irksome stuff. Ludwig: My horse! Ludwig: You are? You’re a face I haven’t seen before. What happened to Folk? Hornig: I am Master Folk’s successor and the arrived new stableman. Page 42 Ludwig: ….. give me your details. Hornig: Yessir. Ludwig: Your name? Hornig: Hornig… I am called Hornig Richard, your highness… Ludwig: ….. Hornig: ! Your majesty!? Page 43 Hornig: ----!? Ludwig: They’re a beautiful colour. This blue is the same colour as Bavaria’s flag. Ludwig: Look. You’re eyes are also the same colour. Ludwig: Hornig. Page 44 Ludwig: Attend me. Hornig: Y… yes sir. Right away… Fritz: Hey, Richard. Richard. Page 45 Hornig: Nii-san!? Fritz: Shh. Hornig: Why on earth? Fritz: I heard that you became the king’s attendant. Fritz: You never told me about that. Hornig: Sorry. I had heaps of work so I couldn’t send you any word. But you shouldn’t be doing this! Sneaking into the residence ---- if you were found… Fritz: Heh. Fritz: With meeting my cute younger brother, you were able to get every sort of approval? Hey, Richard, do you remember what I said at the bar? Page 46 Fritz: With the status that you have now, it isn’t something we can’t do, is it? Fritz: Look for a moment when the king is unguarded and take the key to the treasure vault. Later, leave it all to me. If it goes well, we’ll go fifty-fifty. Fritz: You like the idea, don’t you. Hornig: That’s stupid! Even if it’s you, nii-san… Fritz: Don’t speak so lofty to me! Keep quiet and obey me! Fritz: If you don’t wanna get hurt. Page 47 Woman: Look, it’s the king. The king is passing through. Crowd person: The spineless king! Crowd person2: I heard that thanks to him breaking the appointment for the military meeting, it was over 5 days late. Crowd person3: It’s the king. Crowd person4: Look, an example… the hugely expensive Wagner’s capital… Crowd person4: He went to see a sympathiser… Hehehehe. Wagner is the king’s friend, I heard. Policeman: Stop--- Crowd man: They say the beautiful young king is only interested in men. Page 48 Ludwig: God… Page 49 Ludwig: What are you doing there. Hornig: Y… your majesty! Page 50 Hornig: I… er, that is… Ludwig muttering: I had to go to Lutsuerun. I went to see Zakks. I was able to discard being king. Ludwig: I won’t forgive them… I won’t forgive them… those who were ridiculing me. Ludwig: They’re this nation’s people! Ludwig: The punishment of being dismissed is incalculable. Ludwig: I also don’t need police administration who can’t govern the people. The king is the absolute ruler…! Hornig: He’s being strange…! Ludwig: The demon of the flesh will destroy the soul. Hornig: Your majesty… Hornig: What are..! Hornig: % --- Chloroform!? Hornig: % ---- my energy is…. Page 51 Hornig: % ---- slipping away… %A bird of the faraway tropic’s voice is heard. %A dream vision of the orient. %This is the famous man-constructed Wintergarden. %Am I… dreaming?… % If so Hornig: A… aah Page 52 %This is… a bad dream. %A bad dream the vision of the orient is inviting…! Ludwig: Am I frightening? ---- I probably am. Ludwig: I’m terrible to myself! Ludwig: There is lunatic blood flowing through this body. The accursed lunatic blood of the Vittelbach! Page 53 Ludwig: It isn’t strange that I should go crazy someday. Or probably I’m already crazy. Ludwig: I have thought about the terror of that thought that risks my soul day and night. Ludwig: It seems as though I’m steadily becoming uglier. Ugliness… is unendurable…! Page 54 Ludwig: Beautiful things are my truth. Ludwig: In the light of the moon I steadily pile up deceit upon deceit. The gods’ banquet fades faster into the distance. Hornig: ---- Your Majesty… Ludwig: Hornig… Ludwig: I’m sorry. Page 55 Ludwig: I can’t expect your forgiveness. It was your first time. Hornig: To speak of forgiveness and such, your majesty… Hornig: % ---- I tried to betray you… Hornig: I am your servant. There is no reason for you to mind about me. Ludwig: Your hand… what happened? Ludwig: Show me. Hornig: It’s not a big deal!! Ludwig: Show me. Hornig: Ack--- Page 56 Ludwig: From before… huh? Hornig: Your majesty! Ludwig: I swear by your blue eyes… I will never treat you like that again! Page 57 Newspaper boy: Extra! Extra! Moustached man: What! So Austria has joined the Commonwealth’s Mobilisation Order Issue! Moustached man: It’s going to enter upon war with Prussia more and more. Other: But did you hear? They say our Bavaria King declined the position of the army’s supreme commander. Moustached man: Can’t be helped so a doddering old man was elected! Page 58 Moustached man: There is nothing but supporting Wagner in our king’s mind. Moustached man: That swindler! Blond man: They say he bedded his student’s wife. Moustached man: Aah, another girl on the list. Buurou’s wife, right? Blond man: But the king doesn’t believe that at all. Older blond: Right now he believes in the single highest music house. Older blond: Perhaps our king Older blond: I won’t say it, I won’t say it. Older blond: Come what may, saying stupid and stuff…. Fritz: Did you know? It seems that king Ludwig ran away to Berk’s holiday house. Young blond: Hoowahh. Fritz: It’s said that at a time when cannonfire is echoing over a battlefield, he is making the sounds of fireworks ring out in a lake almost like every day. Page 59 Young blond: Is that true!? You really seem to know a lot. Fritz: I have a bit of a connection. Fritz: So you’re a fan of the royal family too? Young blond: Yes I am. Our king is Europe’s leading beauty. Fritz: Huh. I really hate that guy! Fritz: For us, day after day is a fight. But that guy just runs away all the time! Fritz: I don’t want a guy who runs away saying ‘I don’t like fighting’! Even though we’re grovelling in the mud, we have to live like wharf rats. Young blond: What you’re saying isn’t moderate, don’t go that far. You’ll have the police noticing you. Page 60 Fritz: It’s not living making a dream work! Fritz: % Richard, why aren’t you coming to tell me anything---! Hornig: Then I’ll leave the horse’s arrangement to you. Stableboy: Sure thing. Fritz: Yo, Richard. You seem real busy. Hornig: …! Nii-san. Fritz: It’s been a while. Page 61 Hornig : …. I went to Hanberk and served to inspect the front-line soldiers. Fritz: I heard it. That spineless king didn’t see the guns and start to cry, did he? Hornig: The king isn’t as society says he is! Fritz: A terrible effort to put forth. So servitude goes as far as renting out your ass? The favoured Hornig-chan. Hornig: /blushes/ Fritz: Haah, I see. That’s it! Hornig: You tricked me!? Page 62 Fritz: Don’t scream. I’m not gonna get you to do anything anymore, I’ll do it myself! Hornig: Nii-… Fritz: And then I’m gonna fucking kill that guy. It’s past the age of the royal family. Fritz: Liberal thought is striding. That guy is the remains of the previous age! Fritz: He makes me sick! Fritz: Be good and stay there for the while. Afterwards I’ll come and save you. When everything is over! Page 63 Fritz: Happily we look very similar. Hornig: % ---- nii-san…! Hornig: % The king… he’s not the kind of opponent you can handle---- Fritz: Well, we’re twins, so obviously. Ludwig: Wagner’s music is an enchantment. It seduces you to a dream of unworldly transience. Ludwig: That I was born into the same age as him is really a happiness…! Page 64 Ludwig: …. But then what is he holding, this great artist’s soul ---- Can I doubt! Ludwig: A dirty slander! Raw dirt before this sweetly beautiful sound…! A soul rising upwards towards God shamed by scum! His art driven away!! Ludwig: Barbarians… Barbarians… Bar…! Ludwig: …! That’s enough, Von Byuurou, thankyou. Ludwig: You may retire. Page 65 Fritz: Damnit all! Fritz: I heard from the maids that he keeps all his important things shut in here, but… Fritz: Shit. Ludwig: It seems that wasting my desk is in vogue. Ludwig: Who Ludwig: are you I wonder? Fritz: ---- Damn…! Page 66 Fritz: % Somehow I’ll have to deceive him…! Fritz: What are you saying, it’s Hornig… Hornig Richard. Fritz: Have you forgotten, your majesty… Ludwig: No, that’s not right. You are not him. Fritz: % ---- !! But all the court people were deceived…! Ludwig: Where did you put my Hornig… Fritz: But as I said I… Ludwig: % Those eyes --- are not honest…! Ludwig: Where. Is. Hornig. Page 67 Fritz: % Good! Page 68 Fritz: Don’t get any closer! Be good and hand over the key to the treasure vault! Fritz: And guide me there! Ludwig: Key? What key did you say? Fritz: Don’t be a smartass. The key to the room where the Vittelbach’s treasure sleeps. I know there is one in this palace. Ludwig: The Vittelbach’s treasure hall isn’t a place that plebeians can get close to though. Fitz: Shuttup. Fritz: So sorry that I’m a plebeian!! Page 69 Fritz: That’s right. To you aristocrats we are like insects I bet! Fritz: But, y’know, we are really living. With all our hearts! Fritz: There is no place to escape to anywhere in the world! Fritz: Anywhere! Fritz: Are you listening to me? Huh!? Ludwig: The noble king’s blood is flowing… blood… the royal family’s blood. Ludwig: Evidence of the unpurified, present-world body… Page 70 Fritz: How the hell far are we walking. Fritz: Get yourself into the mood to steal. I’ll shoot. Fritz: I’m serious y’know! Fritz: Stairs in this sorta place!? Page 71 Ludwig: This is the secret passageway that only the lineage of Bavaria kings are told of… truthfully an ingenious device mechanism. Ludwig: What’s wrong? Won’t you come? Fritz: Oh wow Page 72 Fritz: Wh… what is this!? Ludwig: Holy Georg’s holy inheritance… One of Vittelbach’s treasures. Ludwig: Are you interested in it? Page 73 Fritz: Shit – you’re making a fool outta me! Fritz: I don’t need a long dead priest’s bones or rags. What I want is gold and silver assets! Fritz: So hurry up and go to where the real treasure is. If you don’t…! Ludwig: I wonder what, little fake. Ludwig: Even though I was going to give you the glory of sleeping forever together with a holy man. Page 74 Fritz: D… don’t get any closer! Fritz: I—I’ll shoot! Don’t treat me so lightly, I’m serious! Ludwig. Try it. Fritz: What the hell is this! Ludwig: /snicker/ Page 75 Ludwig: It works pretty well don’t you think? Truthfully, there is an excellent technician in Bavaria. Ludwig: He makes various interesting things for me. Fritz: Shit. Ludwig: So… then. Ludwig: What shall I do, I wonder. Page 76 Fritz: Your maje….! Page 77 Ludwig: You were okay, Hornig…? Ludwig: I worried about you. Hornig: Your majesty… Page 78 Hornig: /gasp/ Hornig: My brother… What happened to my older brother!? He must have gone to where you were. Ludwig: Older brother!? Ludwig: That man was your older brother…? He’s not very much like you so I didn’t know. Hornig: It’s the first time… someone has said that… Ludwig: I wonder why? You don’t resemble each other at all, do you. Ludwig: If you do resemble each other, it’s only as far as your outer skin. Hornig: % --- Does this person… suddenly see completely into a person’s inner self…! Hornig: My brother didn’t do offensive work against you, did he? Where is he now!? Page 79 Ludwig: Shut up about all this brother, brother stuff! I don’t want to hear stuff like that. Hornig: Please, for Goodness’s sake ---- Even though he was a rogue like that, he was my blood. Please, your majesty…! Ludwig: In that case, I’ll tell you. Ludwig: That man is not in this world any more. I killed him! Ludwig: Deep inside a treasure hall that no one can get to, he’ll secretly rot away. Ludwig: Soon he’ll become an innocent skull. Page 80 Fritz: ---- Is that… so… Ludwig: Raise your head, Hornig. Ludwig: What, are you sad! Ludwig: If you are sad, then cry. Hornig, do you hate me!? But I was almost killed by that man. Page 81 Hornig: I understand… your majesty. Hornig: Why shall I be able to hate you. I am your servant… Ludwig: % ---- Hornig… Hornig: I’m glad you are safe. Hornig: But… for a little Hornig: Please allow me just to cry for my brother… for my brother who was my only relative…. Page 82 Hornig: % ---- nii-san… you were opposed to the king… but more than that, you had a close spirit to him. Therefore, you hated him. That was just earnest, pure --- Hornig: % ---!? Ludwig: Please have this, Hornig. Hornig: …What is this? Page 83 Ludwig: It’s a key that gives access to the basement tunnel of the palace… Ludwig: I’ll give it to you. Hornig: Your majesty? Ludwig: I’ve lost to you. Ludwig: Go, if you like. Your brother is alive. He’s only sleeping. Page 84 Ludwig: If he was left like that he would die sometime I guess… Ludwig: ---- I do not have any guns. Ludwig: Because I’m a bad shot. Hornig: % ---- Your majesty…! Page 85 Hornig: % I dedicate to you eternal faithfulness…! Page 86 Secretary-Minister: I have urgent news for the king! Hornig: The king will not see anyone. Please step away, cabinet minister Pufolten. Secretary-Minister: I have come with emergency information! Please inform his majesty quickly! Presently, as Ludwig had foreseen, at the battle of Sadowa, Prussia had an overwhelming victory---- Ministers: Please your majesty, your majesty~~~~ (It’s henceforth starting for Bavaria~~~) It was decided to put an end to the war in North and South Germany. At the news of Prussia’s victory at Sadowa, for a moment the people of Bavaria turned pale, but When they learned that the compensation demand from Bismark was not that bad, they became relieved. Page 87 Fritz: % Other than these thoughts, Light Treatment Woman: Long time no see, Fritz. How’ve you been!? Fritz: % Is Bismark’s evaluation of that spineless king’s noncommital strategy…. Fritz: % So he was anticipating that all along…! Woman: What are you laughing about? Fritz: Ha… Fritz: % --- I lost! Fritz: % Munich’s Bavarian Goddess of victory Page 88 Fritz: % Is wrapped in the scent of roses. While listening to Wagner, you grasped victory, didn’t you ---- King of Bavaria! [1]