Scarlet (果てしなきスカーレット)

In this place,

life and death coexist.

They stand side by side.

Time is no different.

Here, in the Otherworld, both past and future...

are all woven together.

Is this Heaven...?

You there.

Hey, you.

Where do you think this is?

This place is...

The Otherworld.

That's right. I died.

I failed to exact revenge against my sworn enemy

and died.

END OF THE 16TH CENTURY KINGDOM OF DENMARK

WHERE THE STORY BEGINS

Father!

Scarlet!

Mother! Father has returned.

Father!

- Scarlet! - I missed you!

Your prayers assured our safe return.

Deploy your troops, Amleth.

Claudius...

It's them or us.

Calm yourself, Brother.

War benefits neither side.

We shall seek balance through negotiation,

building trust, not hostility.

This is the way of our survival.

You are a fool!

Our King Amleth is a good ruler.

Adored by his people

and trusted by neighboring countries.

Scarlet. What is important?

Friendship over enmity.

I'll be the princess you want me to be!

Before a princess, you are a young girl.

You must grow up without fear.

Finished!

I look so handsome. I'm glad.

Mother, I'm going to be...

What filthy hands...

My husband loves his daughter...

He is a coward wearing the guise of virtue.

My husband has everything, and you have nothing.

- Are you not brothers? - Indeed.

I have long dreamed of pouring poison into his ears.

I will not let him make a mockery of me.

Mark my words.

I belong to the one who will be king.

If your resolve to be king is true, show me.

Grave news!

Traitors in the castle!

Capture them! They must not escape!

Heed me well! Do not let them get away!

Whoa, there.

Up you go.

Amleth, my brother.

To conspire with a neighboring nation and betray your country.

Brother, can you not see?

Your insatiable thirst for power

will turn you into a murderer.

Silence!

Oh, loyal subjects!

The traitor must be punished!

Only then,

by God's will, I shall be the new king!

The king would never betray us!

This is a mistake!

Execute him!

- Father! - Scarlet!

This cannot be...!

What did you say?

What?! What did you say?!

Wait!

Father!

May God bless the new king.

Glory to our King Claudius!

May glory be!

Deploy an army and quell their rebellion.

- Hurry up. Move it! - Don't be so slow.

Supposedly these measures are to stop the rebellion...

But they torture people who have nothing to do with it.

A message for the princess.

Your subjects are dying of starvation.

Yet the king will not send aid.

Princess. Why not cease your studies abroad in Wittenberg

and delight our eyes with your beauty.

Princess.

Did you not consider the possibility of being poisoned?

As naïve as an infant.

You'll pay!

Mark my words!

Princess?

It can't be! Princess?

What should we do? Princess!

If this is the afterlife,

will I be reunited with my father?

You will not.

Who are you?

Your father has already become nothingness.

Nothingness?

You will share his fate, if you're weak.

My life was one of nothing but regret.

I want to disappear this instant.

I lived a meaningless life.

Uncle Claudius lives...

And Father will not be avenged.

Wait.

- Claudius is here in the Otherworld. - What?

He has not become nothingness. He is somewhere, laughing.

I swear...

I will find him

and avenge my father!

How very foolish humans are.

You bear the crest of Elsinore.

Where is Claudius?

Don't kill me!

- Where is he?! - I don't want to die!

They are already dead,

yet they still wish to live.

- Please. Please wait! - Huh?

We are allies, Your Highness.

What?

You may rest assured and follow us.

Their will to hate...

and kill each other prevails, even in the Otherworld.

Is Claudius really here?

So much for allies!

A grubby princess...

...deserves no salvation!

Capture her!

I may now enter the Infinite Land!

She's hellbent on revenge.

Frailty, thy name is woman.

Wh-What was that?!

She's gone!? Find her!

Look.

See her brimming with vitality!

As if she were yet in the land of the living!

So what is it to be human?!

What is it to die?!

To live?!

Ow...

I can't do this...

Oh!

Uh.

You're hurt all over...!

Stop it!

Don't touch me!

What happened?

- Are you a monk? - I'm a paramedic.

- Get thee to a monastery! - I said I'm a paramedic.

You know?

We nurse people back to health.

Yet you're dead?

- I'm not dead. - You're wrong.

I'll die someday, sure. But I even have a pulse.

Then, you wouldn't be here.

And where is "here"?

A whistling arrow...

Was this a battleground?

"Abandon hope, all ye who enter here."

"The gates of Hell"?

This is Hell? Don't make me laugh.

Disappointed you're not in Heaven?

That's some confidence.

Everyone thinks we go to Heaven or Hell when we die.

But we all come here without exception.

It's not the afterlife we imagined.

Hold up a sec!

I swear I didn't die.

We received an emergency call...

So, I left the hospital and...

Am I dreaming?

If I'm alive, why am I here?

This must be a mistake!

How did I get here?

I'm a medic, for crying out loud!

Who knows.

Wait, does that mean you're also dead?

That's right.

Did you really die?

Yes.

You don't look it.

Injured, maybe...

Anyways, I'm going home.

I'm still on the clock!

Which way do I go?

- What's that? - Quiet.

Whoa...

Ooh.

Huh?

Hey.

Hey!

Wh...?

What the...?!

Strong...!