Chapter Text
The scene I’ve seen before is dyed in sepia / sepia iro ni somaru miobe no aru koukei
The scene shows a young Yuya happily holding a wishing star in his hands
Unfortunately for him, his wishing star was dissolving into sand as a pair of black hands covered his eyes, were a single tear flowed out from his covered eyes
Showing how, until Zarc came into his life, Yuya always wore a fake smile for the sake of making everyone else happy regardless of how he himself felt
However, the dark hands covering his vision and the wishing star dissolving symbolizes how Yuya is unaware of the danger he is in
With the hands representing Zarc and the dissolving wishing star showing all the previous moralities he had before, all turning into dust right before his eyes but with him not knowing it
Too deep into Zarc’s darkness to even notice
As I look up into the boring sky / taikutsuna sora miagetewa
I can’t help but sigh again and again on the afternoon / tameiki majiri no gogo
The scene now shows a close up of Yuto’s solemn face as he sighs and closes his eyes
Panning out, we see that Yuto was sitting on top of the rubble of what was once Heartland, with the moon and the starry night sky providing background
And with his black ragged cape having a black smoke coming out from it
Giving Yuto a wing-like figure
Symbolizing how Yuto truly is saddened about the fate of his home, however the fact that he’s standing on top of all the rubble and the wing-like black smoke coming out from him shows that he thinks only him can make things better now
Only him can rebuild Heartland into a brighter future, hence why the moon is behind him and giving him this sort of angelic glow
And the starry night behind him shows that he had found true happiness with Yuya, whose usually associated with stars
I’d be crushed by loneliness and go crazy / kodoku oshitsuburase kurutteshimaisou
Even the memory, lies and truths I was deprived of / ubawareta kioku mo uso mo shinjitsu mo
The scene changes into an off screen Yugo holding a single white feather on his gloves gently
However, this feather soon turns black before Yugo crushes it into his hand and it dissolves into nothingness
The feather symbolizes Yugo’s initial desire to be free and to not be tormented any longer, just like a bird on the sky
But with the feather turning black and later Yugo crushing it shows how his desires had been corrupted by Zarc
Now, he believes that he could only acquire true freedom if he crushes all that made him feel inferior
Sinking my thoughts, time passes cruelly / omoi shizume zankokuni sugisaru jikan
Without even knowing why I’m here now / naze koko ni iru no ka sae shirazu ni
The scene changes into Yuri taking a stroll through the Academia courtyard but stopping when he sees a lonely pink rose resting on the street
He picks it up, but as soon as he does, the flower quickly withers away and dies
Yuri, with the same neutral expression as before, simply closes his eyes momentarily and let’s the dead petals of the flowers be taken away by the wind
The flower is an allegory of how Yuri sees his life, even if he doesn’t want to admit it
He’s a beautiful rose but he can only be appreciated distantly. Because if anyone were to touch him, he would once again be used by their nefarious plans
Hence why the rose withers away, because Yuri’s initial beauty and innocence were killed as soon as he became Leo’s ward
And Yuri letting the petals be flown away is him trying to let go of all those ‘unnecessary' feelings
There’s no time for weakness or insecurities in Academia, after all
Melting the heart broken into pieces without having feelings / kanjou no nai mama barabara no kokoro wo tokashiteiku
I can’t recall something, someone precious / omoidasenai taisetsuna mono wo
The scene changes into Zarc with an unreadable expression on his face with Ray behind him, looking at him
Eventually, Ray turns away and she’s also dissolves into nothingness
Zarc closes his eyes with a hardened expression before going back to his neutrality
The scene changes into focusing on Zarc’s back where he extends his dragon wings as a bright white light completely consumes his figure
This shows how into becoming the Supreme Dragon King, Zarc had to let go of everything that made him human
With Ray disappearing shows both him cutting ties with his past life, as well as the mutual betray both felt by one another
Remember!
The impure and sinful love / kegareta tsumibukaki ai
The scene changes to a close up of Yuya who was holding a yuzu fruit gently on his hand, before he took a hard bite on it
His fangs being shown as he did
Symbolizing his relationship with Yuzu
On the surface, he cares about her and still loves her. But the harsh bite he takes and his fangs being shown shows that love has been corrupted by Zarc once more
She’s now his Treasure, less than an object for him to chew open whenever he desires
And just like a fruit can’t complain when it’s being eaten, Yuzu is unable to say anything about her new treatment
If I could turn back time / jikan ga moshi modoserunara
The scene changes into Yuto on his dragon form gently holding a cute bird on his sharp talons
He lets the bird fly off, before holding a almandrite heart on his other talon
Just like Yuya before him, Yuto takes a harsh bite of the almandrite heart, cracking it
The symbolism is the same
The bird playing an allegory to Ruri and how Yuto supposedly treats her well, letting her fly and all that in comparison to what Academia made her go through
But him cracking the almandrite heart and waiting on the bird is gone shows how he views her now
Whenever Ruri is not around or unaware of it, he takes the advantage to play with her heart
Making her do things she would otherwise never do
I wanted to know the bright season I spend with you once more / anata to sugoshita azayakana kitsestu wo mou ichido shiritai
The scene now shows some of the shards of the cracked heart becoming ice shards
A delicate hand grabs the longest of them all, that almost looks like a stake
It’s later revealed that the one who grabbed the ice stake was none other than Rin, who had an intense snowfall as a background
Rin slowly turns around with the ice shard still close to her heart, and it’s revealed that she was looking at Yugo
Yugo had a pleasing look on his face as he slowly extends her hand at her, dragon form in tow
This symbolizes how, unlike his brothers, Yugo probably won’t use any underhanded methods against Rin when making her his Treasure
Having no one but Rin, Yuto would obviously want to gain her trust first
Which is why he has that pleading look and expecting hand, he wants Rin to agree because he knows what could happen to her if she doesn’t
Which is why his dragon form is still out
But the violent snowfall and the ice shard she has that was created upon the cracked shard of the almandrite heart is a reflection of how Rin would probably put more of a fight than the other Bracelet Girls
She knows what happened to Ruri, which is why her ice shard was born upon the cements of her cracked heart and why she doesn’t want to end up like her
Rin keeping that shard close to her heart is her conflicting with herself in wether she should accept or liberate Yugo from what he has become
Remember!
Tell me, though it’s still blank / oshiete kuuhaku no mama
Why do tears roll down? / doushite namida wa koboreru?
The scene changes into Yuri watching the night sky before him
He slowly raises his hand, as if trying to grab the glowing full moon above him
Unfortunately, the full moon and the night sky suddenly turn both a carmine red, and Yuri’s hand flinches away
This scene has two different meanings
One would be obviously the corruption of Serena, with her being symbolized by the moon and how it turned red
But it also plays another part of Yuri’s psyche
He wants desperately to be free, to reach the beautiful night sky above all
But with the moon and the sky turning red and with his hand flinching and moving away shows that the only 'freedom’ he could get is to be corrupted by Zarc like all others
A final side note could also be that Yuri flinches away of the red moon because he didn’t played a part on Serena’s eventual corruption
Rushing through times to the place / toki wo kakemeguri ano basho e
Where is the reason for the pain I can’t get rid of? / nukenai itami no wake wa doko ni?
The penultimate scene shows Yuya soundly sleeping on a pure white bed, with some red blood rose petals accompanying him
Yuya is gently awaken by a hand from an unknown person, in which he still half-asleep kisses it
This is a small show of symbolism
The pure white sheets show Yuya’s innocent nature, but the rose petals accompanying him shows something darker lurking inside
After untying the wet hair / nureta kami wo hodoki
And exchanging kisses / kawashita kuchizuke no ato
The last scene shows four lights floating around, before turning into pendulums
One sapphire, another amethyst, the other peridot and the last one rose quartz
The four floating pendulums are then engulfed in darkness to reveal Zarc’s face
You were cruelly silent / zankokuni mukuchina anata no
By the depths of your eyes / hitomi no oku ni
The scene darkens as Zarc’s golden eyes glow and his pupils turn to slits
Before everyone cuts to pitch black…