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Squeezed by the KIng of Limes
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00:03You
00:31You've just overwhelmed a $3,000 suit.
00:41I don't accept apologies. I accept payment.
00:47Your sweetness will repay my bitterness.
01:21This room, temperature controlled to 6 degrees Celsius.
01:25The humidity is maintained at exactly 32%.
01:28Every drop of juice here is pure, untouched perfection.
01:46Starting today, this palace is your workplace.
01:51You'll serve me. You'll obey my rules.
01:54You'll exist in my world.
01:56Your sweetness. I'm going to study it, refine it, make it matter.
02:16Put it on.
02:24Why?
02:27Why this dress?
02:29Because I decide what you wear.
02:31Because I'm reshaping you.
02:53Adequant.
02:54Adequant.
03:20You're too gentle. Citrus demands power.
03:34Like this.
03:36Purposeful. Controlled.
03:40Can cream water...
03:47Can you smokeère...
03:49Pode sambal.
03:51What you do?
03:52Why this dress is just me, I don't know.
03:52Maybe I should stay 것Yeah.
03:54I can't arrange his darling fairness to me.
03:54I fear I have the ruin to all très breaks.
03:54Fun and get in my mind.
03:54I can only 왤 up, but put it on my door.
03:55and dob dove in.
03:56Oops.
03:57Maybe you can too much.
03:58Are you going to sleep so recale?
04:08Your sweetness, it's
04:10contaminating my cold clarity
04:12I can smell it
04:27Right now, it's invasive
04:33I can leave?
04:38No, you won't
04:56Posture, shoulders back
04:58Chin higher
05:00When you walk, every movement should reflect purpose
05:04You're not scurrying, you're becoming
05:08Becoming what?
05:10Mine, exclusively mine
05:16Why are you doing this?
05:18The suit was just a suit
05:20Why not just fire me?
05:22Because perfection cannot be bought
05:24It must be cultivated
05:26You're a raw material with potential
05:28I'm the architect
05:30And what I'm building
05:32Will be extraordinary
05:49These are the most valuable things I own
05:52I collected this five years ago
05:55The finest strawberry essence ever produced
05:57I've never used it
05:59Why?
06:06I was waiting
06:07I was waiting for someone worthy enough
06:10Someone who could understand
06:12That every element
06:14Every drop
06:16Has a purpose
06:17I was waiting for you
06:28Some secrets
06:30Once revealed
06:32Change everything
06:47I need you to come with me
06:48To the vault
06:49Now
06:51Why?
07:03How long will we be down here?
07:07As long as it takes
07:28Stay close to me
07:41This form
07:42It's already losing moisture
07:44The heat outside
07:46Is overwhelm everything I've built
07:48We should try the door
07:49No
07:50I need you to understand something
07:54When everything fails
07:56When the palace crumbles
07:59When the empire dissolves
08:01There's only one thing that matters
08:06What?
08:07You
08:21Your sweetness
08:22It's the only thing that cuts through the bitterness
08:25It's the only thing that's ever mattered
08:39Let me teach you something
08:41How to extract without overwhelm
08:54Pressure without aggression
08:56Intention without violence
08:59This is precision
09:03Taste your own kind
09:27Your heart
09:28It's faster than any Adraxumption process
09:30Faster than any machinery we have
09:32I can't
09:34Control it
09:38I know
09:39That's what I find
09:41So fascinating
09:44You understand now
09:46Don't you?
09:46Every moment with me
09:48Has been calculated
09:49Every touch
09:51Has been intentional
09:52Every word
09:54Has had a purpose
09:56You
09:58Planned this?
09:59From the moment your juice
10:01Touched my suit
10:02I knew
10:02You were either going to overwhelm me
10:04Or save me
10:05Nothing in between was possible
10:07And now you understand
10:10The power you hold over me
10:12That's the real trap
10:26I don't remember scheduling anything for today
10:29And you're about to have a very unpleasant surprise
10:35This the new entertainment?
10:37A strawberry?
10:38Lime
10:39Your taste is decidedly
10:41Pedestrial
10:41What do you want?
10:42To expand the empire
10:44And if you refuse
10:46This little fruit goes to the industrial process facility
10:50Canned goods production
10:52How fitting
11:06Lime thinks he's chosen love
11:08He's chosen poverty instead
11:13I don't understand
11:17His refusal to align with me means surrendering half his holdings
11:21The palace
11:22The business
11:23Everything
11:24Unless he comes to his senses
11:26You'll be his financial ruin
11:28And he never stand with thee
11:29And when he realizes
11:31You're the reason
11:32When the weight of that hits him
11:34How long do you think his love will last?
11:37Love doesn't survive poverty
11:38Little strawberry
11:44The processing facility is waiting
11:46Very efficient
11:46Very thorough
11:47You'd be useful
11:49At least
12:06This is my fault
12:10No
12:12This is my choice
12:13Yes
12:14And I'd do it again
12:15How can you say that so calmly?
12:18You just lost everything
12:19I lost nothing that mattered
12:21My family taught me that business is survival
12:24That loyalty is weakness
12:26That love is a luxury fruit can't afford
12:28But standing here with you
12:30I understand for the first time
12:33I was wrong
12:34About everything
12:39You're going to hate me
12:41When this settles
12:45Never
12:46What I feel for you
12:48Transcends logic
12:49It transcends survival
13:08What's happening?
13:09I'm losing moisture
13:11The stress
13:12The conflict
13:12The emotional expenditure
13:14It's consuming my reserves
13:16Faster than I can replenish
13:17We can fix this
13:19We'll call a doctor
13:21We'll
13:23There's no doctor for this
13:24I'm literally drying out from the inside
13:30I spent everything to protect you
13:32Every reserve of strength
13:35Every ounce of resilience
13:37There has to be something
13:40Anything
13:41I can't lose you
13:42Then come with me to the vault one more time
13:44I want you to see something
13:54This is what I've been waiting for
13:56This essence
13:57It's the only thing that can save me now
13:59No
14:01Absolutely not
14:04The only way
14:07I won't
14:08I'd rather watch you
14:09You asked what you could do
14:11This is it
14:16I prepared this for years
14:17Knowing one day I might need it
14:19Knowing one day I might meet someone worth everything
14:27You can't me do this
14:28I don't have to
14:29When the moment comes
14:31You'll choose to
14:32Because you love me
14:33And that's the terrible
14:35Beautiful
14:36Truth
14:37We both understand now
14:39Say goodbye to the man I was
14:42Wait for who I'll become
14:54You finally understand
14:56Your essence
14:58Your nature
14:59Concentrated and preserved
15:01Just waiting for this moment
15:03All this time
15:05You knew
15:06You planned for this
15:08I didn't plan it
15:09I recognize the inevitability
15:13You were always going to be
15:15The only salvation
15:16Possible
15:17If I do this
15:19We'll be something new
15:21Something that's never existed
15:23Yes
15:24We'll be together in a way that
15:26Transcends separation
15:28Forever
15:41I want you to listen to what I'm saying
15:44Really listen
15:47You once told me my sweetness would repay your bitterness
15:49You were right
15:50Not like this
15:51Not as debt or obligation
15:53But as completion
15:54I'm choosing this
15:56Not because you demanded it
15:58Not because I'm afraid
15:59But because the alternative is a world without you
16:01And that's not a world I want to live in
16:07Everything I am is in here
16:08Everything I've ever felt
16:11Everything I'll ever want to feel
16:23Of course
16:25Thank you
16:39Hmm.
16:54We did it.
17:10You're still here. I can feel you.
17:13I know.
17:28No. No, this isn't how it ends.
17:31I'm still here. Can you feel me?
17:34I won't lose you. I won't. There has to be-
17:37There's nothing else. This was always the Endyne, but that's okay. Because we're not separate anymore.
17:52Find her! Scan the essence, the energy, anything! She has to be!
18:00Sir, there's no biological presence to recover. It's as if she's become part of something else. Part of you.
18:26You feel me, right? I'm not gone. I'm-
18:31You're different. You're-
18:34We're different. We're what comes after everything. After separation. After sacrifice.
18:40The scientists are saying the combination of our S is crumping that transcends biology. A new form. A new existence.
18:44We're together now. Forever. Not as they defined it. But as we chose it. Then let's stop intense confrontation what
18:53we've become. And just be it.
19:04I need to tell you something.
19:07What?
19:09From the beginning. When you spilled juice on my suit. I knew. Somehow, I knew you were the only one
19:16who could save me.
19:17Save you from what?
19:18My self. My bitterness. My belief that love was weakness. Every touch. Every command. Maybe I could control how much
19:31you hurt me.
19:33But you couldn't. No. Because you were never controllable. You were always the predator. And the most terrifying part? I
19:44wanted to be consumed. I wanted to dissolve completely into whatever we're becoming.
20:03You finally accepted our terms? You'll marry into our family. Abandon this-
20:08I'm here to make a statement. I'm severing all ties to the family. All associations. All obligations.
20:17You can't be serious. You'll be ruined. No. I'll be free. For the first time in my life, I'll be
20:26free from the lie that love is weakness.
20:29She taught me that true power isn't found in control. You'll regret this.
20:35The only regret I have is that it took nearly losing everything. The empire is yours. I choose something richer.
20:44I choose her.
20:48The future. The future. I thought we could create something new. Together.
20:58The future. I want to take everything we've learned—the bitter and the sweet, the control and the surrender—and create something
21:07that heals people.
21:08A juice. Our juice.
21:12Not just juice. A story.
21:16A testament to what happens when two incompatible things choose to merge.
21:39I asked my best designer to re-imagine this.
21:42To transform it from a symbol of subjugation to a symbol of chimbalos and devotion.
21:54Do you remember when this dress represented my power over you?
21:58When it meant you had no choice?
22:00I remember.
22:01Now it means something different.
22:04It means you choose to stand with me.
22:06It means surrender has become collaboration.
22:14You know what's strange?
22:15I feel more powerful wearing this now than I did when I wasn't wearing it at all.
22:20Because power isn't about freedom from choice.
22:22It's about the courage to choose.
22:28I stand before you to declare something I never thought I'd say.
22:32Something that contradicts everything my family taught me.
22:43This woman saved me, not from destruction, but from the far worse fate of living without meaning, without love, without
22:50the sweetness that makes bitterness bearable.
22:52She is not my servant.
22:53She is not my possession.
22:55She is my equal, my partner, my reason for being.
22:58I'm officially declaring her my queen.
23:01Not in services, but in shared reign.
23:03Not as possession, but as purpose.
23:06Will you marry me?
23:07Will you continue building this life?
23:09Will you let me spend every day honoring the choice you made?
23:12Yes!
23:13A thousand times yes!
23:18No.
23:19Strawberry?
23:20What do you mean no?
23:21We're making juice.
23:22You're not working, not anymore, not if you don't want to.
23:25But I want to.
23:27You spent months serving me, grinding, extracting, following my commands.
23:33That debt was paid the moment you saved my life.
23:37Now, I serve you.
23:41Every element of this juice was created from the sacrifice we made together.
23:45From the love we chose.
23:46That means I treat it, treat you, with reverence.
23:49You're doing the work.
23:50I'm honoring what you gave me.
23:54Every day, for the rest of my life, I'll be doing this.
23:57Because I never want you to forget, the debt was always mine.
24:01The obligation is always mine.
24:03The honor is always yours.
24:12You're the most valuable thing I've ever held.
24:15Do you know what I see when I look at you?
24:19I see the girl who could have escaped.
24:21I see the woman who chose to stay.
24:24I see the soul who gave everything and became eternal.
24:27I'm afraid sometimes, that I'll wake up and this will have been a dream.
24:32Dreams fade.
24:33This is permanent.
24:35Your permanent.
24:42Let me spend the rest of eternity ensuring you never question whether this is real.
24:47Let me make you so certain of your value that you can never doubt it.
24:51I'm going to spend every day proving that giving you everything is the only choice I'd ever make.
25:09Every person who drinks this juice will taste our story.
25:13They'll taste sacrifice.
25:15They'll taste transformation.
25:17They'll taste proof that love is alchemical.
25:24I was wrong.
25:25There's no payment.
25:26There's no transaction.
25:27There's only fusion.
25:28Only completion.
25:29Only the understanding that some things were always meant to merge.
25:31The eternal blend.
25:32The story of two incompatible truths becoming one perfect truth.
25:35Every person who drinks this juice will taste our story.
25:38They'll taste sacrifice.
25:40They'll taste transformation.
25:42They'll taste proof that love is alchemical.
25:57Three years ago, a man walked into this bar believing love was weakness.
26:01He was so stupid.
26:04Profoundly stupid.
26:05And then this absolutely careless girl spilled juice on him.
26:09The best accident of my life.
26:14What are the odds?
26:15Maybe some moments are meant to repeat.
26:17Maybe some transformations are meant to ripple outward forever.
26:20I never thanked you.
26:21For what?
26:21For choosing surrender.
26:23For becoming eternal.
26:24For saving me so completely that I no longer know where I end and you begin.
26:28Thank you for making surrender feel like victory.
26:30Some stories don't end.
26:32They transform.
26:33They evolve.
26:34They become eternal.
26:35This is the story of a bitter beginning and a sweet transformation.
26:38Of two compatible elements learning that opposition isn't defeat.
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