Original subtitles

[KAIJU NO. 10] Target sighted.

[thumping]

I will have you for my prey.

[gasps]

[explosion]

[ground rumbling]

[KONOMI] It's strong.

[HOSHINA] But more than that.

This thing...

...is enjoying the fight.

[KAIJU NO. 10] A head-to-head battle against an opponent

whose strength rivals my own!

Rivals.

Rivals!

Rivals.

Rivals!

[HOSHINA] You got a pretty small core, big fella.

♪

[GROUP] Gotcha!

[MALE WHITE COAT 9A] Wreck that thing, Vice Captain!

- [HOSHINA] Not yet! - [grunting]

♪

[HOSHINA] It's turning giant.

[KONOMI] Its Fortitude is rising

as it discharges the heat.

Estimating...

Current Fortitude...

...nine-point-oh!

[roaring]

[ground rumbling]

[concerned background chatter]

[MALE WHITE COAT 9A] Ah, it's massive.

♪

A giant-class.

It's too big for the Vice-Captain to take down

on his own.

[growls]

♪

[roaring]

[grunting]

[KAFKA] Vice-captain.

[AKARI] You okay, Kafka?

♪

[grunts]

[roaring]

♪

Technique Number Three...

Return Slasher!

[grunts]

[blood splashing]

♪

[blood splashing]

♪

[roaring]

♪

[KAIJU NO. 10 (TRANSFORMED)] Your speed won't save you!

[grunts]

[growls]

[grunting]

♪

[sword slashing]

Even now, he's fighting as hard as he can!

But still...

[HOSHINA] This is why the big ones suck.

I can't cut all the way through!

♪

No choice but to use my speed and reach the core on its back.

That's my only chance.

[gasps]

[MALE GEAR VOICE 3A] Operational limit exceeded.

Cancel maximum release immediately.

[gasps] [HOSHINA] I'm overheating?

It's already been ten minutes since your maximum release!

You have to shut it down!

[roaring]

[gasps]

[HOSHINA] One more minute's the best I can hope for.

[explosion]

[trembling]

[HOSHINA] Self-destruction?

♪

Using its minions as living missiles.

Exactly the kind of cold-blooded tactics

I'd expect from a Kaiju.

On the up-side, gives me a nice smoke screen.

[running footsteps]

♪

Technique Number Six!

♪

[gasps]

♪

[gasping]

[ground rumbling]

[MALE GEAR VOICE 3A] Limit exceeded.

Canceling maximum release.

Immediate medical treatment is advised.

♪

No, please Vice-Captain.

[gasps] [KONOMI] Vice-Captain!

♪

[HOSHINA'S DAD] In the Edo period,

you would have been lauded as a prodigy,

but the era of the blade has long since passed.

♪

You understand that, right, Soshiro?

♪

Give up on joining the Defense Force.

♪

[KONOMI] Vice-Captain.

Come in, Vice-Captain!

Sir, please respond!

Sorry, Okonogi, you ain't rid of me yet.

[gasping]

[sighing]

[HOSHINA] My shields were all the way up.

Thing hits like a damn truck.

[sighs]

[grunting]

♪

Plus, I lost my maximum release.

So what now?

What can I do?

♪

[grunting]

[HOSHINA] How's it lookin outside?

[deep breath]

[KONOMI] The civilian evacuation is almost complete.

We've been holding our own against the Yoju as well.

♪

[thudding]

[ground rumbling]

[HOSHINA] Yeah?

Glad to hear it.

In that case...

I suppose I better finish the job out here.

[KONOMI] Sir, you're in no condition to fight!

[roaring]

[HOSHINA] Hoshina-Style.

Sword-Slay Technique Number One.

Air Slasher!

♪

[blood splashing]

[thudding]

[KAIJU NO. 10 (TRANSFORMED)] I'm onto you now.

Those blades of yours won't be enough to defeat me.

♪

[HOSHINA] You just got that? I've known that from the start!

♪

[screams]

[HOSHINA'S DAD] Give up, Soshiro.

Your unleashed combat power with guns is low.

In this day and age, that simply won't do.

[MALE OFFICER 10A] I'm sorry, Hoshina, but give it up.

For years now, Kaiju have been trending more and more

toward Giant-class.

If you can't use a gun, a quick death will be

the best you can hope for.

[grunting]

[deep breath]

I've been hearing that same crap since I was a kid!

[grunts]

Only one person ever told me different.

[MINA] Soshiro Hoshina.

I'm told that you're a blade specialist.

Yes, that is correct.

[sighs]

[HOSHINA] Let me guess, "just give up."

[MINA] Exactly what I'm looking for.

So, would you be willing to join my force, Hoshina?

♪

We can't ignore the emergence of powerful threats

in the smaller classes.

Furthermore, I'm no threat to anyone but myself

with a bladed weapon.

I wouldn't trust me with a kitchen knife.

[gasps]

♪

So, when I need to shoot a foe,

can I trust you to slice open a path for me?

♪

[HOSHINA] She left me in charge of this base.

[ground rumbling]

[HOSHINA] I'll protect it if it kills me!

♪

[ground rumbling]

Number Two: Cross Slasher!

[screaming]

Number Three: Return Slasher!

[sword slashing]

[blood splatters]

♪

Number Four: Wild Slasher!

[blood splashing]

Number Five: Mist Slasher!

[sword slashing]

Number Six, Eight...

[grunting]

[KAFKA] Vice-Captain!

[growling]

[trembling]

[seething]

[grunting]

[coughing]

- I gotta do it! - [gasps]

- Wait, sir! - [panting]

[RENO] If he transforms here, there really will be no escape!

Please, sir, you can't!

[panting] [KAFKA] I'm sorry, Ichikawa,

but the lives of my squadmates are worth more!

[grunting]

[MINA] Good job holding down the fort, everyone.

[gasping]

Wait, was that?

Well, Kaiju.

[growls]

Looks like you lose.

[explosion]

[screaming]

[ground rumbling]

[gasps]

♪

I am the Vice-Captain of the Third Division.

[gun cocking]

[HOSHINA] My job is to pass the baton on to her.

[MINA] Okonogi, no time to waste on procedure.

[KONOMI] Yes, ma'am!

♪

I'm blasting this thing.

[growls]

[roaring]

[gun firing]

[screams]

[roaring]

[explosion]

[rumbling]

[MALE WHITE COAT 9A] Honju is regenerating fast!

Captain, its core is in its back!

[KONOMI] Located somewhere around the fourth

to sixth thoracic vertebrae!

Right!

[panting]

[grunts]

♪

Dammit!

[growls]

♪

Yeah, shoulda known it wouldn't be that easy.

Fine, then.

Guess I'll give it one final push!

[running footsteps]

[MALE GEAR VOICE 3A] Unleashed combat power,

sixty-three percent.

Number Four: Wild Slasher!

[sword clanking]

[blood splashing]

[HOSHINA] At least I can make it an easier target.

Number Two: Cross Slasher!

You have to stop.

You've already pushed your suit past its limit!

♪

[blood splashing]

It didn't take.

[grunting]

♪

[HOSHINA] Output's too low.

What do I do?

[gasping]

- [growling] - [HOSHINA] Shinomiya?

Water Skimmer!

[sword clanging]

[grunts]

Damn it, I'm not strong enough.

I can't even scratch it!

[HOSHINA] Keep it up, Shinomiya.

I'll go and open up its shell for you,

then you smash that thing into its wound!

[growls]

[sword slashing]

[growling]

[screaming]

[gasps]

[KIKORU] It worked!

[grunting]

[RENO] Shinomiya?

[thudding]

[panting]

[gasps]

[machine beeping]

[HOSHINA] Overheated?

But that's fine, you did great.

[ground rumbling]

[explosion]

[screaming]

♪

[KONOMI] Core exposed!

[gun cocking]

You've got one round remaining, Captain!

♪

[guns firing]

[NAKANOSHIMA] Cover Captain Ashiro!

[guns firing]

♪

[explosions]

[guns firing]

♪

Vice-Captain, sorry we took so long!

Lay it on!

Do not give it a chance to regenerate!

♪

[running footsteps]

♪

[sword slashing]

[screaming]

[guns firing]

[sword slashing]

[HOSHINA] Keep moving.

Keep moving!

[grunting]

[roaring]

[HOSHINA] Don't lose focus!

♪

Just five more seconds.

Damn you, body, keep moving!

[roaring]

[guns firing]

♪

[HOSHINA] Just slice, and slice.

Slice her a path!

[growling]

That's the only way I leave a mark on this battlefield!

♪

[ground rumbling]

[MINA] Thank you, Hoshina.

I was right to make you my Vice-Captain.

♪

[MALE GEAR VOICE 3A] Unleashed combat power,

ninety-six percent.

Now it's time for me to eliminate this threat!

[HOSHINA] I told ya.

Throwing down with us was a dumb move,

and this is how it ends.

[explosion]

[blood splatters]

[screaming]

[ground rumbling]

♪

[KONOMI] Th-the Honju is down!

[shocked background chatter]

[smiles]

[relieved background chatter]

- Job well done. - Likewise.

Get wrecked!

♪

[relieved background chatter]

♪

[footfall]

[KIKORU] Ah?

♪

[grunting]

♪

[sobbing]

[RENO] Captain Ashiro's something else, huh?

I was right from the very beginning, dude.

[KAFKA] This is everything I've wanted

since I was a little kid.

Look at the people we work with.

They're all so friggin' cool!

And maybe someday, I'll stand in that circle too.

[crying]

[RENO] Your face is an absolute mess right now.

[gasps]

Why you gotta pinch off a one-liner

all over my emotional moment?

Have you no heart?

♪

You know this is just the beginning, right?

So let's give it our all.

[sniffles]

[smiles] Yeah.

Rest up while the Captain and I clear out the remaining Yoju.

[grunts]

Slow down, you need to rest, too.

[NAKANOSHIMA] Uhhh, so do you, Captain.

- [smiles] - [KONOMI] She's right, Ma'am.

[KONOMI] You were pushing your suit's limits.

You're one percent shy of overheat, yourself.

You fired off a bunch of rounds in a short time.

Would you please let the platoon leaders

handle all the cleanup.

I'm perfectly fine.

[growls] [rumbling]

[laughs]

- [rumbling] - Huh?

[roaring]

- Huh? - Huh?

♪

[RENO] What is that?

♪

It's all the Yoju.

So that last scream it let out wasn't just a death rattle?

[KONOMI] Its energy levels are increasing.

They're forming an ultra-massive Yoju bomb!

Estimated explosive yield based on current readings,

twenty kilotons!

[MALE WHITE COAT 9A] That's equivalent to a nuclear bomb!

[gunshots]

Don't shoot, cease fire!

[explosion]

[grunting]

All units, evacuate!

[HOSHINA] We can't.

There's no time.

If that thing hits the ground.

[KAIJU NO. 10 (TRANSFORMED)] Human.

[growls]

I believe this...

is what you call a "draw."

[trembling]

- [gasps] - Wait, sir, come back!

♪

[HOSHINA] Kafka?

Stay back!

What do you think you're gonna do?

♪

Wait. How did he get so fast?

That's not what one percent combat power looks like.

[roars]

[panting]

[grunts]

♪

[gasps]

Daikaiju-level reading detected over the training ground!

[ground rumbling]

[KONOMI] Fortitude, nine point eight!

[KONOMI] This reading...

it's Kaiju Number Eight!

[growling exhale]

♪

[HOSHINA] I knew something was off about him.

But even so.

I couldn't help rooting for the guy.

There was a part of me that refused to accept it

as a possibility.

[growling exhale]

It wouldn't kill me to put one percent of my faith in you.

[KAFKA] Vice Captain Hoshina.

I'm sorry.

Spare me your groveling.

You saved my life, so I'm willing

to keep your secret for now.

[KAFKA] Forgive me, Kikoru.

You kept your promise to the very end.

Forgive me, everyone, for deceiving you.

Don't take any unnecessary risks.

[KAFKA] Sorry, Ichikawa, but I'm pretty sure

this one is necessary.

You're a long way from fighting by my side.

This is just your first step.

[KAFKA] Mina, I...

I...

- [growls] - Kafka!

There's no coming back from this.

You know that, don't you?

[gasps]

[roars]

♪

[KAFKA] Everyone here, every one of my comrades

put their lives on the line!

I won't be the only one trying to save his own skin!

♪

I'm part of the Defense Force.

An officer of the Third Division!

[growls]

[KAFKA (KAIJU)] Now it's my turn!

[screams]

[wind gusting]

[thudding]

Everyone, set shields to max and hit the deck now!

[explosion]

[explosions]

[ground rumbling]

[explosions]

♪

[KAFKA] Man.

I screwed up bad, huh?

My limbs feel like they're gonna fall off.

♪

This old body can't handle these kinda stunts.

♪

[MINA] Kafka Hibino.

♪

Damn it.

♪

Kaiju Number Eight.

♪

I'm taking you into custody.

♪