God Child ch 5- Scold's bridle 1

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Woman: Help me..! Help me...! My face...!!
My face...
It's hot! My face is burning!! I want that medicine!! Help me!!
Mask: Your face is hot? Hotter than this mask?
But it's too sad to go on living with a face like that
F/X blood spurts from the woman's face

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Voice: Thank you. Your eyes will be put to good use- Lindy the third.
2nd Voice: In this fog-wrapped city
Do not hope for pity from anyone
O purified soul, breathe out this smoke. In the prison of your martyrdom
I will dye your holy scriptures in the deepest red

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It is well to smile as you meet your end with the empty kiss of Death
Scold's Bridle part 1

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Voice: No-one ever looked at me. You're the only one who ever looked at me.
Who ever loved me.
So I'll become a beautiful young girl worthy of you. Soon, very soon, so please wait for me
When I have the eyes of three more girls, I'll be reborn in beauty.
Scold's Bridle
Voice: Wait... Woman: Oh my- another young girl found murdered on Westminster bridge?
This is the third one. And they say her eyes were taken as well.

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Woman 1: She's said to have been beautiful, like the other two girls. And her face had become all festered. They said she ran mad.
And after that someone took out her eyes...
Woman 2: Oh, stop! I feel ill...
Woman 3: It's more and more terrifying. A girl's face is her life itself. And to do *that* to it...
Cain: Beauty is a woman's life itself...?
That's why she squeezes herself so tightly in a corset that her organs are damaged, and buys mummy dust and such beauty aids from suspect merchants?
Merry: You wouldn't understand, Cain nii-sama. You were born beautiful.
But for women it's a serious problem!
For instance, look at Miss Drew Benjamin there.

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Merry: By her birth she should rank pretty high among those people there
But she's got such a thing about how she looks that she doesn't have the self-confidence ever to join in the conversation
Drew: Ahh- I- I've just ordered a dress too- pompadour style cloth and ribbons.
Girl: How nice to be one of the nobility. They wouldn't do mine because they said they had too many orders.
But don't you think it mightn't be too beautiful for your plain looks?
Girl 2: Oh yes!!
Girl 3: Right, right! The fashionable spring colors and slender shapes won't do for you! You'd need something bigger and splashier to make *your* shape look gorgeous! Hahaha!!
F/X Merryweather furious

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Merry: Drew! How lucky! Come and talk to my brother!
F/X: grab
Drew: M-merryweather-san?
Your brother?? You- you don't mean Cain-sama? Why do you only want me...
C-Cain-sama...
Cain: How nice to see you again. I hope your family is all well?
F/X stunned

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Cain: Drew? Are you alr--
F/X shoves him away
Drew: NO!!
Cain: (thinks) What's the matter with *her*?
Merry: O-nii-sama! You go on ahead!
Cain: Hey- wait--
Merry: I know how you feel about my brother, but if you run away like that how will you ever tell him yourself?
Drew: It's useless! Someone like me can never--

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Drew: When he looked at me with his green-gold eyes and that beautiful face like an angel in a painting, I remembered right away what I look like! I couldn't say anything!
Merry: Drew...
Drew: Me with my dull thick eyes and my dry red hair...!
If I was... just a little prettier... I'd have more confidence...!
Girl's voice: What?! A medicine to make you more beautiful...?!! The one everyone's talking about?
Girl: Now you mention it, your pimples have gone and your skin is like a china doll's. I thought you were someone else!
Girl 2: It's true. And your eyes sparkle...
Girl 2: I heard you could get it by prescription from a private hospital

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Girl: I heard if you take this elixir for a while, your skin gets clear, your eyes sparkle, and your hair shines. Tell us! Where's the secret club where you can get it?
Girl: I can't tell you! It *is* a secret. The doctor at the hospital is strange. He only lets people he likes into the club. It's no good asking.
Girl 2: Oh tell us! C'mon, Karen!
F/X wind blows card at Merry's feet
Karen: No! Anyway, if you haven't got a members' card it's no good.
Merry: What's this...
A member's card for the hospital!? She must have dropped it without realizing it!
F/X Drew grabs Merry's arm

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Merry: Drew?
Drew: Please.. Please, Merry-san!! Give it to me!!
I want to be the kind of girl who's worthy of Cain-sama, no matter what it costs.
I want that medicine that will make me beautiful!
Merry: Drew!
Cain: Merryweather went into town with Miss Drew?
Rif: Should I have stopped her?

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Cain: One can't just turn down an invitation from the daughter of the Benjamins. Merry's getting good at getting her own way.
Cain: Evidently... But it gives me a chance to tell you something not suitable for children.
Cain: That business?
Rif: After the March Hare murders, the doctor who'd been directing Baron Mayfield disappeared without a trace. All we know is that he was using the name Gene Sweeney, and that the few witnesses say he was a doctor in his 20's, tall, with ash-blond hair
Cain: (thinks) Ash-blond... long... a doctor...

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Cain: 'Sweeney'- that was the name on a letter that came to him when he was our family doctor
Rif: So it's as we thought
Cain: (thinks) Dr. Jezebel Disraeli...
The mad doctor who pulled the strings to cause those bizarre incidents that happened all around me
He was the executioner of the criminal secret society Delilah. Someone contracted him to use all his magic and his devilish physician's arts against me
And furthermore
Furthermore, it seems he's my father's foster son. That's why he hates me and pursues me.

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So it follows that my father who seemed to have died in Cornwall is actually alive. He said my father was the head of Delilah!!
When I think that my father is standing in that man's shadow...
When I think... that the Doctor is somewhere near me...
Drew: Ne, Merry-san, I'm sorry I dragged you along with me
Merry: It's alright. Now we're both in this together. I'm suspicious about this drug that makes you beautiful.

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Maid: Please come in
Drew: Oh-- yes--
Drew: Stay here whatever happens, ok, Merry?
Merry: Umm-hmm
Drew: Oh!
F/X bumping into doorframe
Merry (thinks): I hope she'll be alright...
(eyes watching Merry)
Voice: Beautiful... a beautiful girl...
I want... gold hair like that...

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Jezebel: I see. You have an introduction from Karen-sama. I'm a physician here. My name's Blanchett.
But I'm afraid the medicine you mention is not for sale. I can only give it to certain patients.
Besides, you're a young girl. Even without using this medicine...
Drew: No! It's not like that at all!
Ever since I was little I've hated my freckles and these horrible thick glasses and my dry red hair!
Jezebel: Is being beautiful so important to you?
Drew: Of course! You don't know how many things I haven't had just because I'm not pretty

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Drew: No-one would be able to ignore me any more... If I was only beautiful everything would be the way I want it to be...
(thinks) And I know he'd turn to me then!
I'd do anything to be beautiful!
F/X sound of bells ringing

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F/X bells ring
Drew: What's that?!
Jezebel: Congratulations. You pass the test.
That's the way our head signifies his approval
Drew: Huh? But where did--
Jezebel: Drink this liquid every night before you go to bed
It's the water of beauty, 'Drops of Acelsius'

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Drew: Merry-san! I've got it!
Merry: Drew!
I hope it's alright? Taking medicine you got in a place like this... There's something funny about this hospital. (water with pink drops in it...?)
Jezebel: Take care
F/X Merryweather shock

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Viola: Doctor
F/X door creaking open
Viola: What was there about her that you liked? I hadn't thought she'd be to your taste...
That girl... Drew... she thinks beauty is the only thing that matters in the world...! And she thinks *she's* ugly...!
Just because of her freckles and her red hair...! What's that, compared to me...!
I was born with an ugly and deformed face... My own parents couldn't look at me but hid me from the world
Doctor, you were the only one who ever looked at me

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Viola: All my other tutors and doctors were repelled by what I looked like, but you weren't. You touched my face without even lifting an eyebrow
Jezebel: My beautiful Viola, haven't I told you? People's outward beauty is but for a moment
Viola: But I want to be beautiful!
I want to be a woman worthy of you!
That's why I do what you told me- I've gathered the eyes of young girls that I take from their heads at the full moon. It's the sign that the ones who've drunk that elixir are sacrificial victims.
Look- when I've taken them from the girl who was just here, I'll only need two more people.
When I have the eyes of six people, I'll be beautiful

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Viola: I don't care what you are, a demon or whatever. I'll be beautiful even if I have to sacrifice the lives of those lovely young girls
Jezebel: Viola...
If that's how you feel, why not make your last victim the girl who came here with Drew?
Viola: Yes, of course. She was so lovely!
But do you know where she lives?
Jezebel: Oh yes. I know it very well. That cursed noble family... and the young master with his beautiful eyes...
If his sister Merryweather that he loves so much dies a hideous death...

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Jezebel: (thinks) How much will you scream and suffer for me then, Cain?
Maria: Cain-sama, won't you come and see the hot-house too?
Friend: Oh. No fair, Maria!
Drew: What bad manners. Cain-sama will be embarrassed. All of you are acting like cats in heat
Girl 1: What- what was that! How impudent!
Girl 2: That voice- it can't be Drew---
What?? It's Drew??!!

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Girl: What happened? We don't see you for a while and now- your freckles are gone and your hair's gone lighter... and your skin is white as ivory...! (And that pompadour style dress...)
Just losing weight can't have changed her that much! Even her attitude is so majestic...
But wouldn't you say there's something unhealthy in her beauty?
Merry: Drew- please stop taking that medicine.
I know your eyes have gotten better and you don't need glasses, but there's something odd about the light in them.
Maybe you've gotten thin and lovely in a very short time, but it's a bit too much. It's strange how your hair has lost its color.
Drew: Ah, Merryweather. You've come with your brother?

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Drew: I know you're jealous of how beautiful I am, but I won't give you any of the elixir. I'm not going back to being the pathetic person I was.
And the color of my hair is just the first sign of it turning into a lovely gold
F/X brush pulls through hair
Drew: Here, look
F/X and pulls it out
Merry: Oh!
Drew: What- what is it?! My face-- My face is on fire!!
My face--!!!

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F/X: Scream!!!
Father: It's from my daughter's room!
Cain: (thinks) That was Merry's voice!
Oh no-!!
NO--!

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(Jezebel standing over Drew's body)

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Jezebel: I trust you are well, my beautiful count?
Cain: (thinks) Dr. Jezebel Disraeli!!!
Merry: O-nii-sama!! Drew-- she--!!
Drew--!!

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Merry: Blood started spurting from her eyes... She was raging with pain... She thrust her face onto the mirror and died!
And then he suddenly came through the window!!
And he-- he took out her eyes!!!
Jezebel: (hand over Merry's mouth) You talk too much, little girl
Cain: Doctor, stop!

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Voice: The fate which our cursed blood draws upon us
Jezebel: I look forward to seeing you screaming in despair and remorse, when your sister meets the same fate as Drew at my hand, Cain
Cain: Merryweather!!!
Voice: Once again raises the curtain on a tragedy of madness and love.
Alexis: (chuckles)

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Cain: (thinks) Dr Jezebel Disraeli- executioner for the secret society Delilah, who has shaken all London with his demonic medical arts
The mad doctor whom my father adopted, and who hates me for being his real son
Jezebel: I want to see how you scream when this little girl dies
Even just imagining it gives me a lovely thrill.
Cain: Wait! Give Merry back to me!!

Ch. 5 Scold's Bridle 2

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