Family secrets, painful betrayal, and a powerful comeback drive this emotional and addictive short drama.
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00:00I am the last princess of the Siren people. Six years ago, I saved a human man. I loved him,
00:06and I gave him my kingdom secrets.
00:08He repaid me by sealing my voice with a poisoned needle, then led his army to slaughter all 3,000
00:14of my people. He thought I was dead. He was wrong.
00:19Lord Caius crushed four kingdoms before he even turned 30.
00:22Of course, he once infiltrated the Sea Clan as a spy all on his own. It's because of him that
00:27our kingdom is this powerful.
00:28That's why Serafina had to marry him.
00:35Today, we gather here to bind two souls together.
00:39Do you swear upon your life to guard her kingdom as you once swore other vow?
00:48What did you say?
01:02Do you remember what you said?
01:06Kneeling before me.
01:08You said, if your kingdom ever falls, it will only be because I died first.
01:14You didn't die, but my kingdom fell. My people died. My father died.
01:20You owe my people their lives, Caius. I'm here to collect.
01:24His crown, his alliances, his woman, his reputation. Six years ago, he took everything from me.
01:30Now I want him to watch as it all shatters piece by piece. But first, let me show you how
01:37he stole my entire world.
01:53Please. Hunters are after me. I'm not one of them. I'm who they want to kill. Please.
02:00Hold on.
02:22Eve.
02:26You're safe here. My name is Vesper.
02:31Vesper. You saved my life.
02:36Your injuries were too severe. Any later and I couldn't have helped.
02:46General.
02:49The intelligence about the Siren Clan is all confirmed. Her voice can heal fatal wounds. One song can bring a
02:56dying man back to his feet.
02:59If we obtain this power, battlefield casualties will cease to exist. An entire army will be impervious to blades and
03:05arrows.
03:06Coordinates to follow. Give me time. I will obtain everything.
03:12Sleep. You're safe here.
03:15That was the first time I touched his face.
03:18I thought the heavens had sent him to me.
03:21He touched my face too later. But his other hand was holding a needle.
03:25The western wall stands roughly forty feet high. With a gap. Passable at low tide.
03:34The tribe numbers approximately three thousand. No standing army. Absolute trust in outsiders. No defenses.
03:43That human. You trust him too much.
03:47Father. He's different from the others.
03:51I hope you're right.
03:52Father.
03:54Father.
03:55Father.
04:03Father.
04:04One piece missing. Where is the Forbidden Place?
04:10This is my home. I've never brought anyone here before.
04:13I don't even know why I brought you.
04:17Because you trust me.
04:19It's too dangerous out there. Hunters everywhere, I'm afraid.
04:22If hunters ever find this place, if your kingdom ever falls,
04:26it will only be because I died first.
04:30Vesper, I swear it.
04:33I believe you.
04:37One kiss, one location.
04:40Next step, she brings me there herself.
04:43Not hard, she already believes everything.
04:48Caius, come on!
04:51He said he'd protect me with his life. I believed him.
04:55Then he asked me to open the door I had never let any outsider see.
04:59I opened it.
05:05What lies behind this door?
05:08Only my father and I have ever entered.
05:13Caius!
05:14Three hunter's ships have been spotted beyond the coastline.
05:19Three of them.
05:20Vesper, listen to me.
05:22If they find your tribe's source of power, they will destroy it first.
05:27Let me see it.
05:30I need to know how to defend it.
05:32Those three ships were his doing.
05:36He manufactured the fear, then pretended to be the only way out.
05:45Come inside.
05:51My God.
05:54My God.
06:02This is the source of our tribe's voice.
06:05As long as it endures, we endure.
06:07General.
06:08I found it.
06:09A thousand times larger than I imagined.
06:12This isn't a weapon.
06:13It's an entire sea.
06:14If we control it, no force in the world will stand against us.
06:18Come further.
06:20There's more.
06:22A tracking stone.
06:24The general's sorcerers will sense it.
06:26From this moment on, they know the location.
06:31Caius?
06:32I was looking at the patterns.
06:34They're beautiful.
06:35Show me more.
06:44With you here, I'm not afraid.
06:48That was the last time I felt safe.
06:58Will you stay?
07:02Caius?
07:04Caius?
07:05Yes.
07:07I'll always stay.
07:10Do you swear?
07:14I swear.
07:16Then I have nothing to fear.
07:22Venom from a deep sea jellyfish.
07:24One drop.
07:25And a siren's vocal cords are sealed permanently.
07:28The general's orders.
07:29Capture her alive.
07:31Seal her voice.
07:32Bring her back.
07:32A siren without a voice is more useful than a dead one.
07:36Now is the moment.
07:38She won't wake.
07:39One drop is enough.
07:54Tomorrow.
08:17Princess!
08:18Hunters!
08:19Coming from the sea!
08:20They've sealed every entrance!
08:23They've sealed every entrance!
08:36Father!
08:43Caius!
08:44You're still here!
08:46Come.
08:49Help me get farther out.
08:51Vesper.
09:04You...
09:04You promised me!
09:06You said with your life!
09:08I said many things.
09:10You chose to believe all of them.
09:14Did you ever love me?
09:17Even for one second?
09:19Your kingdom was beautiful.
09:21Your voice was useful.
09:24You're asking the wrong question.
09:36tree groanarts.
09:38Don't break down!
09:38Where are you today?
09:44We might walk when you're close.
09:45Don't we stop as such as it's over the land.
09:45Don't we?
09:47I did it no other way.
09:48All of us.
09:52And you've spared a body of life.
09:52What's left?
09:52He'll be baptized?
09:55Gentleman has its jongens?
10:16Vesper, don't sing.
10:18They're waiting for you to open your throat.
10:20The moment you do, they'll know you're still alive.
10:22You are the last voice of the Siren people.
10:25Father.
10:26Live.
10:27Take your voice away, you.
10:30Someday.
11:17My lord, the entire Siren royal family is confirmed dead.
11:21Princess Vesper is on the list.
11:22Was her body found?
11:24Swept away by the wave, but given her injuries...
11:28Keep looking.
11:43Swept away by the Siren.
11:45I'm sorry.
11:45I'm sorry.
11:45I'm sorry.
11:46I'm sorry.
11:47I'm sorry.
11:50I'm sorry.
11:54I'm sorry.
12:12Theч is right over here.
12:12He was in the ring.
12:13Okay?
12:13Yes!
12:51If your kingdom ever falls, it will only be because I died first.
12:56Vesper, I swear it.
13:01You chose to believe all of them.
13:06Live. Take your voice away, you.
13:16No whore singing.
13:19No!
13:25No whore singing.
13:30Princess, you're alive.
13:35Princess, you're alive.
13:38Princess, you're alive.
13:43How many are low?
13:45Seventeen here.
13:47A few more in the western place.
13:49Perhaps...
13:50Thirty?
13:52The children.
13:53She hasn't spoken since that day.
13:55Not because she can't.
13:58Because she doesn't dare.
14:00I know. I didn't dare you, though.
14:04It took me two years before I dared to open my mouth again.
14:07But we have to open our mouths.
14:08Not to sing.
14:10To make the ones who did this hear us.
14:14How long have you been waiting here?
14:17Three years.
14:19No more waiting.
14:22Caius, you said I was asking the wrong question.
14:25Fine.
14:26Now it's your turn to answer mine.
14:28One by one.
14:43I spent three months.
14:45Princess Seraphine, his future queen.
14:47She trusts anyone who is kind to her.
14:49Exactly like me.
14:50Six years ago.
14:55Lyra!
14:56You saved my life!
14:59My lord.
15:01Princess Seraphine has arrived.
15:03She brought a cousin with her.
15:04Named of Lyra.
15:06A cousin?
15:10A distant relative.
15:12Very quiet.
15:13Insists on personally attending the princess.
15:24Caius.
15:25You've finally come.
15:32Hello.
15:34My name is Lyra.
15:37Hello.
15:38My name is Lyra.
15:40Impossible.
15:42You're dead.
15:44You should be dead.
15:45I personally...
15:53My lord, your hand is shaking.
15:55Is the palace too cold?
16:00A little.
16:03Lyra is the person I trust most.
16:05I'm sure you'll like her too.
16:11He knew it was me.
16:12I knew he knew.
16:13But he couldn't say so because that would mean explaining how he recognizes a siren princess
16:17who died.
16:19And I didn't need him to say it out loud.
16:21I only needed him to be afraid.
16:23That woman!
16:24Investigate her.
16:25Now!
16:25I want everything before tomorrow.
16:27My lord, she's only the princess's cousin.
16:28I said now!
16:38First one.
16:40You're Seraphine's cousin?
16:42You walk like a fisherman's daughter.
16:43Whatever you wear as it looks borrowed.
16:45I was the one who introduced Lord Caius to this court.
16:48Seraphine is marrying him because of me.
16:50Everyone in this palace owes me something.
16:52Including you.
16:53Remember your place.
16:55Yes, my lady.
16:59She said she introduced Caius to this court.
17:04And she must know a great deal.
17:09Lyra, sing us a song.
17:10You can't?
17:11Of course.
17:12Look at these hands.
17:14How many dishes have you washed to make them look like that?
17:24My lady is right.
17:25I can't really sing.
17:27Only just a little.
17:34I poisoned my husband.
17:37Three years ago.
17:39He wanted to leave me.
17:42I put poison in his wine.
17:44I watched him die.
17:46I don't know why I'm saying this.
17:47I can't stop.
17:50Lyra.
17:51I'm frightened.
17:53Don't be afraid, your highness.
17:55I'm here.
17:59She's doing exactly what I did.
18:01Step by step.
18:02Get close.
18:03Earn their trust.
18:04And then...
18:05She didn't come back to kill me.
18:06She came to destroy everything I own.
18:08One piece at a time.
18:10Right before my eyes.
18:10And I can't tell anyone who she is, because that would mean confessing that six years ago I slaughtered an
18:16entire people.
18:20Sir, just got word.
18:22The patrol caught 17 stray Syrians near the entrance to the Singing Sea.
18:27Who's leading them?
18:28An old man with a broken tail.
18:31They seemed to be waiting for someone.
18:35We've put them all in the underground sea prison.
18:40Sealed their mouths.
18:42Lock it down.
18:44No one in the palace is to know.
18:47Even Lady Lyra.
18:49I said, no one.
18:53After those deep sea beasts were wiped out, the shipping lanes became ten times safer.
18:58All thanks to Lord Caius.
19:02I...
19:03I hid the siren pearls I looted in the dry well in the western suburbs.
19:08I tore them off a siren child who wasn't even dead yet.
19:13I lied!
19:15I staged that riot to swiddle more military fun!
19:20Help me!
19:22Why can't I...
19:24What did you do to him?
19:26My man.
19:28I only poured a cup of tea.
19:30He wanted to confess.
19:32Play this trick once.
19:33That's enough.
19:35Stop!
19:35The names on the list aren't all dead yet, my lord.
19:39What are you afraid of?
19:41I'm afraid you'll throw away your own life in the end.
19:44My life.
19:44It died that night, six years ago.
19:56Father and brother wrote again.
19:58Every letter asks when Caius will send their funds.
20:00Not a word about how I'm doing.
20:05Lyra.
20:06Do you think there's anyone left in this world worth trusting?
20:10There is.
20:11As long as that person has never lied to you.
20:14What about you?
20:16Have you lied to me?
20:18I will never hurt you, your highness.
20:20My lord.
20:21The order for Elias.
20:22The court is already pressing for it.
20:24Keep him.
20:25But yesterday he admitted in public.
20:27Embezzling military funds.
20:28Staging the riot.
20:29He's stolen goods.
20:30But stolen goods can be more useful than clean men.
20:33Once this storm at sea passes, let him take the fall.
20:35You're saying among Princess Seraphina's cousins, there's no woman called Lyra?
20:40Yes, my lord.
20:41According to records, that distant branch died out in the plague ten years ago.
20:45This Lyra, her identity is a mystery.
20:46So even her identity is borrowed.
20:48She's using Seraphina.
20:52Lyra.
20:53This officer would like to ask you a few questions about your hometown.
20:56For instance, how did that plague begin?
20:59The plague?
21:00I only remember seeing the officer at the coast three years ago.
21:03You were with your men.
21:05Hunting down escaped operations.
21:07So my lord never gave up hunting the sirens.
21:10Is it because six years ago you didn't kill cleanly enough?
21:12Afraid they'll come back for your life?
21:14What nonsense are you spouting?
21:15People in the palace are talking.
21:17Our hero sends been living in fear all along.
21:19Why else send so many men to guard the post of Forbiddinsa?
21:23Enough.
21:24Get out.
21:31Six years ago today, we wiped out the threat from the seas.
21:37Three thousand sirens executed.
21:39And we secured a century of maritime power for the empire.
21:45To the final erration of those three thousand souls.
21:49Drink!
21:57My apologies.
21:59I didn't grip it tight enough.
22:01This color, it really does resemble the seawater you described that night, my lord.
22:10Continue.
22:11I need to change.
22:23My lord.
22:24This is the glory you wanted.
22:26How does it taste?
22:28What is it you want?
22:29To kill me?
22:30Then do it.
22:31Now!
22:34Death would be too kind.
22:37I want you fully awake.
22:39Watching the monument you built.
22:42Rotting inch by inch.
22:46Lyra?
22:47If you don't let go,
22:50Seraphine will see.
22:51Lyra!
22:52Lyra!
22:54I want you to see.
22:59Caius!
23:00You look pale.
23:01Are you too tired?
23:03It's nothing.
23:04The wine was too strong.
23:33Something's wrong.
23:36The Elder would never miss a meeting.
23:46Mira, where are you?
23:59They're all at the Singing Sea.
24:02If you knew, you'd want to tear me apart right now, wouldn't you?
24:18Mira, last night I heard Caius arguing with his officer.
24:22They mentioned the Singing Sea.
24:23Said they'd caught important war prisoners.
24:27Isn't that a royal forbidden zone?
24:29What kind of people would be locked up there?
24:34Your Highness, I think I need to leave the palace for a while.
24:38Now?
24:39But we're supposed to go pray at the temple this afternoon.
24:45I lost something very important.
24:48I have to find it.
24:51It's me.
24:52I'm Vesper.
24:53What happened?
24:56Where's Mira?
24:57Did Mira send you to find me?
25:01Seventeen of them.
25:03All captured.
25:04And the Elders?
25:07Understood.
25:09Hide in the woods outside the city.
25:10Wait for me.
25:15Mira.
25:17It's Mira.
25:20Wait for me.
25:27Where did you go?
25:31I went to see an old friend.
25:34It's dangerous out there.
25:37Mira.
25:38Do you have a secret?
25:39Can you tell me?
25:40Your Highness.
25:42Some secrets will cost a life.
25:55That's the water channel we used to use.
25:58They've welded shut.
26:03Only three guards inside.
26:05Follow me.
26:06Mira should be inside.
26:14Princess.
26:16You shouldn't have come.
26:22Move.
26:23Now.
26:30I've been waiting for you.
26:32There's no way out.
26:34Vesper.
26:35Stay.
26:39Attack!
26:50Princess.
26:52Go to the sea.
27:00Mira!
27:10Princess.
27:11Here am I.
27:14Hmm.
27:21Too few names.
27:23What I want to judge
27:24is the lie of the entire palace city.
27:31We can't save them.
27:33Mira's gone too.
27:35He didn't slaughter the past us.
27:38He's slaughtering the us of now.
27:40And the us of now
27:42still has a voice.
27:50I sent them back to the dungeon.
27:52Come back with me.
27:54I promise they live.
27:55Your promise?
27:56Is it those 3,000 graves
27:58from six years ago?
28:02Tell me what you want.
28:04Anything.
28:05What I want
28:06you can't give.
28:08You already owe.
28:123,000 lives.
28:14How will you pay?
28:33Oh my God!
28:34I'll die.
28:34I'll die.
28:34I'll die.
28:51It's the princess.
29:36My lord, the flagship is lost.
29:38No survivors, and the messengers sent to deliver the execution order to the singing sea.
29:43Where are the messengers?
29:44All three messenger boats were capsized by huge waves less than a mile from shore.
29:47Carrier pigeons crashed into the sea the moment they flew out.
29:50We've lost all contact with the garrison.
29:52The sea I conquered for six years, now it's becoming a war.
29:56That's not something an ordinary person can do.
30:01I can't move a single soldier to the coast.
30:05My lord, this venom, it's from back then?
30:08Her voice can destroy everything.
30:10Only this can silence her one more time.
30:12But the entrance to the singing sea is already controlled by her people.
30:15We can't get it in.
30:16No need to send it in.
30:17The underground water pipes are still ours.
30:19Pour it into the upstream source, that's enough.
30:21My lord, that will kill every syrens held there.
30:24I know.
30:30It's the venom in the water.
30:32That's how they killed the princess's voice back then.
30:42He wants to take my voice away.
30:44One more time.
30:45I've heard the lord can't hold the syrens back anymore.
30:47The whole sea is full of their songs.
30:49That so-called hero of the sea back then, wasn't it a borrowed reputation?
30:53She's stripping away every honor I lived on, just as I stripped away her people.
30:59The ancient blood awakens.
31:05Break the chains.
31:07Return to the sea.
31:09What is this monster power?
31:27The sea returns to its masters.
31:33Princess!
31:34Drown the whole palace city!
31:35Let them taste what extinction feels like!
31:38Their children shouldn't pay for their father's debts.
31:42The sea!
31:43It's falling from the sky!
31:50The power I schemed for six years ago.
31:56Now,
31:59I can do nothing.
32:32The sea!
32:33The sea has eyes!
32:35Look!
32:37Who is that?
32:53My man!
32:55Order the mage towers now!
32:57The water is flooding in!
32:59It's already destroyed the memorial and the statue!
33:05It's useless.
33:08This is her roll call.
33:18Please!
33:19No!
33:24Gods!
33:24I was on the shore, then.
33:27I thought they were just beasts.
33:32The sound!
33:33It carries across the entire coast.
33:44This melody.
33:45It's exactly the same as my motherland's morning song.
33:48Oh, Jesus!
34:15For those of us,
34:47This is the Royal Seal.
34:48This is the Military Teller.
34:50This is the Imperial Decree Seal.
34:52He used these three things to kill my father and brother.
34:55Today they leave with me.
35:00My lord, her highness is gone.
35:03And the rosewood chest in the hidden compartment of your study, it's empty too.
35:15She didn't just leave.
35:17She took every token I needed to command this empire.
35:24Did you think I married you out of obedience?
35:27Six years ago, while you slaughtered the Silas, you also wiped out my motherland's royal family.
35:32You used my father's and brother's lives to force me to be your queen.
35:37Every day I looked at you.
35:38I was counting down to when you would die.
35:41Now the sea has come back.
35:42And I should take back what belongs to me.
35:45I don't forgive you. Not ever.
35:47The alliance I was proud of, it was built on her blood-stoked hatred.
35:52The safe woman I protected, she wanted to kill me with her own hands.
35:55All of it was a lie.
36:06Come.
36:07Your majesty, still waiting for your army?
36:11They've already thrown their armor into the sea outside the city, begging for forgiveness.
36:18Elias, you should run too.
36:23Run!
36:24I knelt under this throne for six years.
36:26Your so-called Hero of the Sea name, I built it for you with severed heads.
36:32Now the sea is back.
36:34You can't hold it down and you want us to die with you?
36:37Hand over the royal seal and the treasury order.
36:40You're not the king anymore.
36:42You're a cursed disaster.
36:44This seat belongs to someone who can keep the land alive.
36:47Give it to you, Elias.
36:49Listen to what's outside.
36:55The sea doesn't want the royal seal.
36:57Sit then, if you think you can survive the night in that chair.
37:05This is what I traded three 3,000 lives for.
37:26You've jumped into the sea trench.
37:27Three thousand lives!
37:29Three thousand children you've dumped into the sea trench!
37:34Princess.
37:35Let me kill him.
37:36My son.
37:37They were on that beach that night.
37:39Let me kill him!
37:41We don't use his way.
37:43Why? He's a monster!
37:45He slaughtered our whole people!
37:47If today we kill a man kneeling for death,
37:49then this sea will no longer be the singing sea.
37:52It will be another land filled with hate.
37:54Go back.
37:55The sea is waiting for you.
37:57Not your death here.
38:00Why save me? Kill me?
38:02Please.
38:02Killing would be too easy.
38:04Live. Watch this sea.
38:05Remember every life.
38:07This is the rest of your existence.
38:08Every time you close your eyes,
38:10I want you to dream of those 3,000 voices.
38:14Don't leave me alone!
38:15Don't make me carry these memories by myself!
38:19The sea doesn't want me.
38:21The land won't let me return.
38:33Stop.
38:34Stop!
38:43Live.
38:45Take your voice away, you.
38:48Live.
38:58Take your voice away, you.
39:27Every time I try to move, the sea pushes me back.
39:31This is the rest of my existence.
39:34This is the rest of my existence.