00:00I raised my sword, ready to knight the first islander I had encountered upon landing; I believed she was
00:07I would kneel and thank her for my generosity, but I was wrong; my servant fell dead before her sword. I couldn't believe that she
00:15If he dared to challenge me, in the next instant, his sword came towards me; only then did I finally understand that my
00:22The title of king meant nothing here, but a few minutes later, I got up from the sand completely unharmed.
00:28My servant also came back to life; it seems I too am immortal. I thought this was a privilege.
00:35real, until the islander revealed the truth to me, on this eternal island, no one can die, but neither can anyone
00:42to leave, but what I heard had an even greater meaning: I would rule this island forever, but my servant...
00:49He recalled that our army had already been lost in the storm, and only the two of us could barely conquer this place.
00:57My solution was simple: we just had to defeat the king here, and the others would naturally submit.
01:04The king of the island seemed pleased with my arrival, because finally there was something new to break the monotony, evidently.
01:15Many before me had arrived with the same idea, but all had failed, on an island where no one can
01:21die,
01:21Whoever becomes king must be the strongest of all, but immortality gave me the courage to
01:27I kept challenging him, I lost time and time again, but I refused to give up. Eventually, the king began to show
01:33signs of impatience,
01:35I knew I couldn't beat him in combat, so I proposed settling it with a game of chess, but I still lost.
01:49I tried to challenge him in every way possible, and I lost 10 times in a row. An islander who was watching asked my servant,
01:56How on earth did this man become king, my servant explained, that the crown had always been hereditary,
02:10That truth completely shattered me; my whole life without ever having lost anything turned out to be just because everyone...
02:17They had let me win on purpose, I couldn't accept this, the humiliation made me take out my anger on my servant.
02:23Defeating the king became my obsession; I went to the dark temple on the other side of the island.
02:29And I offered parts of my body in exchange for power; after countless resurrections, I amassed a set
02:35I was fully equipped with dark gear, then I challenged him again, but this time, nobody even lent me any.
02:41Attention, my attacks didn't even seem to exist, small as a grain of dust,
02:51The king effortlessly stripped me of all my equipment and threw the crown to the ground; you don't deserve to be king.
02:57You're nothing but a child who never grew up; at that moment, I felt completely lost.
03:03Because that was not the victory I truly desired, my servant extended his hand towards me,
03:09trying to guide me, we can start again, that's what eternity means,
03:14to give second chances, but my mind was only thinking about the crown, I didn't see the disappointment in the
03:19Through my servant's eyes, I didn't even notice the chest the king had opened, filled with countless crowns,
03:25I took the crown and ran to the seashore, just to admire how I looked wearing it.
03:31But at that moment, I realized that wasn't what I really wanted; only then
03:36I realized that I had lost something much more important: my dignity, a crown bestowed by
03:41What a pity, a king whom no one respected all this time, who had deceived himself,
03:46It was me, then, I took the crown back to the island where I first met that woman,
03:51And I asked her for help, but she rejected me, so I began to change, I humbly asked,
03:56To become his apprentice blacksmith, the training would take a long time, but the
04:01Time was what I had the most of; finally, with my own hands, I transformed that crown into
04:08something new, and I gave it to my servant, and the crown on my head lost its physical form in
04:27At that moment, instead, a crown sculpted in light and shadow floated peacefully above me
04:32head, until that moment, I finally understood, the true meaning of being a king, the sunlight
04:38It fell upon me, as if the whole world were crowning me king.
