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The year was 21 48...

...and there was supposed to have been peace.

Festum, the enemy from far distant skies...

Even after the decisive battle against them at the North Pole,

human armies continued fighting.

Further battle was the last thing many people wanted.

And yet nonetheless, factions from around the world set plans in motion

to wipe out the enemy completely.

That became the beginning of a new battle.

"Fafner"

Here I go!

"Today's Lunch: Kazuki Curry (with Kazuki Cake)"

Thank you for waiting. Here's your Kazuki Curry.

--It looks delicious! --May I take your order?

Um...

--Two lunches ready for Table B! --We've got an order for two more.

What?!

Two more Kazuki Curry lunches!

Mr. Mizoguchi, please stop naming foods after me.

You're this place's main draw, kid.

Delivery order, Mr. Mizoguchi. To Alvis.

What?!

"Paradise"

As if tonight's festival weren't enough to deal with...

"Tatsumiya High School Student Council Minutes" "U Project Program"

There have been a few changes in the Bon dance this year.

But before we get into that...

Melon soda and Kazuki Cake.

Lemon tea and Kazuki Flan!

The Kazuki Curry meal, with bancha tea!

Don't all order at once.

We're busy today! You should just do this at school.

It's the student council custom to hold meetings here.

Kondo isn't even here.

As the vice president, I've been entrusted with running the proceedings.

Our president's at the usual place.

I've got my hands full keeping up with all the secretarial work!

Praise me, please, Tomi-senpai.

You're so responsible, Rina.

Akira.

What's your order?

He'll have the same as me.

"Espresso"

You can take your coffee black? What an adult.

Moron.

Shall I give you something too, Chocolat?

Boss! Festival prep's already started!

You said you wouldn't drink!

Naw, Kenji, I'm not drinkin'.

That Tamotsu has been a drunkard ever since repairing the Fafners!

But it's thanks to Mr. Kodate that, except for the four retired numbers,

we can deploy all the units up through the thirteenth.

Even Mark Fünf is running perfectly now, and it took such heavy damage.

It's the unit his son piloted. He would have done anything to restore it.

Tsubaki Minashiro...

There must be another path than hatred.

Help him search for it.

Please, Fumihiko.

Commander Makabe?

Systems operation proficiency has also reached stipulated values for all staff,

including we former Human Force troops.

The issue is the Brunhilde System, then?

Yes. Our core, which is essentially our environmental management system,

has entered her growth stage.

Because the core is pouring energy into her own growth,

I predict disturbances in the ecosystem, the food system,

the health of the island's inhabitants--the entire island.

Meanwhile, there are signs of a response from Solomon.

We destroyed the Mir at the North Pole, which was the backbone of the enemy...

How can they continue their activities?

Perhaps the enemy Mir has changed forms.

Just as our Mir became the island's air.

You're saying something akin to a core was born to our enemy, too?

That's an unknown. Continue the Solomon analysis, please.

For now, let's pray that this peace continues.

Ta-da! Here's this morning's catch!

Prosopocoilus inclinatus, Lucanus maculifemoratus,

and Xylotrechus chinensis!

Everyone's waiting for you, Tsubaki.

Let's talk lots, okay? I'll tell you about all kinds of things.

"Closed"

Everything's finally put away!

Go on and head home, Tomi. You have to get ready, right?

What about you?

All I have to do is wait for Mr. Mizoguchi.

And I can see pretty well in places with lots of light.

Okay, got it.

Tomi.

Thanks for all you do.

Nah. Okay, I'll see you later, Kazuki.

Hope has been trampled on. They are filled with suffering and hatred.

I'm sorry, Kazuki.

This is a gamble. I promise to tell you what our last resort will be.

If something goes wrong, take Door Eleven.

Okay, Soshi.

I will come back to where you are.

I swear it.

I will wait for you. Forever.

Kazuki, is someone here?

No... Was I saying something?

Look!

It's a big, big boat!

Wow! You're great artist, Miwa.

There's an even bigger boat and a mountain, you know!

Really? I wonder what they look like.

A really big thing is riding on top of it! And it's bright white!

Miwa! It's time to change clothes--

No. Not Miwa... please!

A big boat is coming!

"Nishio General Store"

Grandma's already gone, you know.

Aren't you coming to the festival?

Talk!

I said talk!

Fine, be that way! Moron!

"Hazama"

I'm home, Mom.

Welcome home. Everything's ready.

"Shoko Hazama"

Sakura.

You're late!

Sorry, sorry. You okay to stand like that?

I'm feeling good. I bet I can walk today.

No pushing yourself too hard. Come on, get in.

Yeah, yeah.

Huh?

Sakura, have you gained weight?

I'll walk after all.

I was joking! Joking!

"Kohama-cho"

Now this looks mighty fine!

Tamotsu directed everything.

"Cotton Candy"

"Mamoru Kodate"

"Shoko Hazama"

All lanterns are now riding the tide.

Partially lifting the shield.

I wonder if our names will be recorded like that too one day...

B-Body in motion detected inside our shield!

What?!

There! It's coming from the west!

This is a gamble, Kazuki.

Kazuki?

Kazuki... But he can't see!

Kazuki! Wait!

Stay away from there, Missy! Canon!

Soshi?

What did you say?

Is this... a core?

Door Eleven.

Kazuki?!

Data verified. It's a Human Force B-29 military transport submarine.

Zero response to our scan.

What's this data about?

Misao Kurusu?

I'll do it, if it's what you want.

Soshi...

What's happening to the sky?

Look.

They're on standby for interception?! You don't think it's a...

Festum.

Are you there?

The enemy is Sphinx type A.

I want the Fafners on standby, pronto!

The Brunhilde System is malfunctioning!

We're losing the shield-- they're going to breach it!

Did they deliberately target the core's growth stage?

Mark Sein standing by to sortie!

Kazuki?

The enemy is invading Tatsumiya Island's mainland!

Mark Sein, take off!

Opening Neidhöhle gates one through six. Launch gates all clear.

Why is it you?

Why isn't it Soshi?!

Is... that a Festum?

It used a human weapon...?!

I-It's displaying a fundamentally different chemical reaction!

Assimilation phenomenon rapidly overtaking the pilot!

Get the Fafner reinforcements out there now!

Commander Makabe?!

It's still alive.

Why does it have to be right in front of me?!

Eat this!

E-Enemy terminated...

You can keep resting, Kazuki.

The siren...

It's not the enemy. The island's about to move.

Shield in place. Disengaging the camouflage mirror.

Entering course data.

Two minutes until we set sail on autopilot.

Commander Makabe...

Attention all islanders. Tatsumiya Island is about to leave her anchorage

and attempt to escape from the phenomenon in the skies.

We must also put the island on a war footing as soon as possible

and prepare for further enemy attacks.

Oh, no...

I'm counting on all of you to be reasonable and work hard.

Listen up. What makes Fafners special is that you don't need to maneuver them.

Become one with your machine.

You need to accept your altered state of consciousness, the change in your psyche.

You hear that, Mark Fünf?

Y-Yeah!

Call each other by the names of your units.

You're the Fafners, and the Fafners are you.

You got that, right, Mark Neun?

Y-Yes.

Mark Zehn.

Tomi... Senpai...

Akira?

C-C... Can you... hear me?

Yeah. I can hear you.

No way...

Mark Zwölf.

Akira? What? Did you speak?!

Zwölf, respond.

Yes!

Maintain your crossing with each other.

Shoulder all the pain and fear as a team.

One more thing. The longer you pilot a Fafner,

the more you're stricken with assimilation.

But hey, unlike in the past, your Fafner probably won't just stop moving.

Okay, then, bring it on!

Pilot aptitude verified.

I'll determine the most suitable equipment given their current characteristics.

This feels great!

Sakura...

Why would you choose to...?!

Kiyomi...

I never thought I'd have to feel like this again.

Mom!

In this building, I'm a member of the maintenance crew and an instructor.

I-I apologize, Ms. Hazama.

This way, Canon.

Mark Dreizehn.

No one's ever piloted it before. The thirteenth unit is all yours.

A machine that's all mine...

Who attacks by head-butting?!

Did her altered state of consciousness make her do it?

If so, she's going to need equipment I didn't plan on.

Crossing?

Yes. I've determined that Kazuki is in a constant state of crossing.

You're saying Kazuki has stayed connected for two full years

to Soshi Minashiro in the enemy's camp?

We're not sure who's on the other end,

but this appears to be linked with a different heavy strain...

A "different strain"? Something to do with Sein?

Probably. That machine might as well be a walking assimilation phenomenon.

And it's so idiosyncratic none of the other pilots can operate it...

We can't let Kazuki pilot it under any circumstances.

He's guaranteed to die from a fierce assimilation phenomenon like that.

Talk to me about the unmanned ship.

Solomon affirms that the existence discovered inside it is a Sphinx type.

Its body composition resembles a Core type,

but it has no chromosomes.

You could call it a replica human.

Does that mean he's the same as the enemy who attacked the island?

There are no abnormalities in the ship itself.

According to its autopilot record, it was coming straight for us.

In other words, it didn't just happen to drift here...

Most of the data we recovered

involved the Human Force's analysis of a new type of enemy.

It has powerful assimilation abilities and weapons that imitate human ones.

The Human Force named it the "Eurus" type,

after a god who summons storms.

So, what, they're saying "You're gonna be fighting these, so study up?"

We've discovered other odd data, too.

There's a recommendation that we publicly disclose SC code level intel

to this unidentified craft.

SC code?

It's telling us to disclose info on our island's core or the Mir to someone?

Or on something akin to a Mir. Do we know what it is?

No. I assume that was unknown to whoever created the data, too.

The phenomenon occurring in the island's airspace, the enemy attack,

and the auto-piloted ship.

Do whatever it takes to figure out the connection between those things.

I didn't think Kondo-senpai would be so weak.

He's not. He lost on purpose, to give us courage.

You can talk, then.

I always figured I'd be able to talk again if I piloted a Fafner.

I want to try riding in the one Mom and Dad were piloting when they disappeared.

The Zero Fafner.

You'd just get in the way no matter what you piloted.

I'll do it, so you just resign.

You know I can't do that.

You know what you are? A jerk who thinks whatever's convenient for him!

Man, that hurt!

Good work playing the loser's role, Mr. President.

And?

None of them help each other. They'll all get killed like that.

I'm telling you, we won't let them.

Hey...

You don't have to--

I'm piloting a Fafner.

Jeez, you're already looking after Mr. Kodate and me as it is.

You're always worrying about people.

It's not about "looking after" you or whatever, okay?

It's not your fault that Mamoru died.

And what happened to my body isn't anyone's fault, either.

But I do get why you feel responsible.

So...

I'm telling you to let me share the burden.

You can't die.

I know.

You have to survive, no matter what.

It's long-term damage from when I fought against humans...

From when my hometown went up in atom-bomb flames, isn't it?

The island's Mir had been suppressing your symptoms all this time,

but the enemy attack now, while our core is in its growth stage,

has weakened its biosphere functions.

If the core finishes its growth period...

No, I swear I'll find some way to cure you even before that!

So this island has allowed me to live...

I've been truly blessed.

"Closed Due to the War"

"Daily Schedule for Year 2, Star Class"

Air strikes, naval strikes...

Are they laying the groundwork for a landing force?

They're attacking like humans would...

In that case we've got plenty of strategies up our sleeve, Festum!

Roger.

Reinforcement Fafners making their sortie!

Nibelung System up and running.

--Boresight error values inputted. --Siegfried System connected.

Goubain!

They're beautiful...

I'm alive...

It's a Nothung model that's been continually improved.

It's not going to go down easily.

It's coming! Hold it off!

No, no, no!

You're fine.

Calm down.

The Mir cores in your crafts resist the enemy's power!

Believe in yourself and your craft, and fight!

There's one over there! It's all yours!

Roger.

Wh-What? Is it trying to say something?

--That's good. Keep it up. --Right!

He's about to wake up.

Solomon's responding!

There's a Festum inside Alvis!

Our guest is awake.

Air...

Life.

The pain is multiplying.

It's sad.

Tears?

Go home, everyone. Give me time to talk.

The enemy is... leaving?

Does this mean we won?

W-Won? Hey, we won!

You can't win. Surrender, Kazuki.

How do you know my name?

H-Help me, Kazuki! Help me!

I told you not to fight alone!

Someone's going to die because of you!

I'm going to fight just like Mamoru-senpai did!

Hey... The poor things were trying to say something, I just know it.

What should I do?! When I think about it, I can't fight them!

They're the enemy; it's obvious what they're saying.

They're just talking about hating us or whatever.

Take them down before they start talking!

Tsubaki would never say that!

Tsubaki is gone!

H-How could you say something like that?!

What's wrong with everyone?

They're worked up because it's their first fight, that's all.

I defeated four of them!

I could have gotten more if they hadn't run away, too...

I see.

It would be nice if lots more came next time, wouldn't it?

So you're having fun?

I'm tougher than Kenji-senpai!

Just listen to that.

I'm giving them a piece of my mind when we get back.

You compliment them, got it? Carrot and stick.

More importantly, do you think we won?

We haven't been called back to base. Something is up.

My name is Misao Kurusu.

Isn't he...?!

I can't believe he's broadcasting this to the whole island.

Won't that fan everyone's fears?

That's Makabe's style. He's free with information to a fault.

And the thing is, it's pretty effective.

Misao Kurusu...

Is that the name of a human you assimilated?

No. It looks like when I use Soshi Minashiro's knowledge

to put my existence into your language, it comes out like that.

I need a name to talk to your kind, right?

Did Soshi Minashiro put you on that boat?

It was my desire, you see. He wanted to tell you something.

His words are on the boat, right?

You're saying that data came from Soshi Minashiro?

Why doesn't he come to the island?

Because of the big fire.

You humans set it.

My people are suffering because of it.

Do you mean the nuclear strike by the Human Force?

Yes. There was much pain, so our Mir didn't want to be reborn.

Maybe that's why I was born instead?

"Instead"? So your Mir wasn't annihilated, I take it.

I wonder if Mr. Makabe's sick...

Right. Mir split into pieces, though some of them did disappear.

Say, can I ask a question, too?

What would you like to know?

Listen, have you ever thought that the sky was beautiful?

The sky?

Yeah.

I knew it! I really can understand your kind!

"Understand"? Aren't you using your mind-reading powers to follow our thoughts?

Oh, we are. We can't understand them too well, though.

But I'm happy that you think the sky is beautiful!

What is it you're after?

I want to make the fighting stop. I don't want the pain to multiply.

So you're seeking peace, then?

Yes.

Let me assimilate your core.

Excuse me?

That way, our Mir can assimilate your Mir without any fighting.

After all, it's this island that gave us pain and the fear of death.

You mean to erase your pain and us along with it?

I don't want to erase you. Fight with me.

Fight? With whom?

Humans, and other groups of us.

We'll take away everyone's ability to fight, so that they can't anymore.

That way everyone will have peace, right?

Do you expect me to accept that immediately?

Your answer can wait. I know your people decide as a group.

But hurry. The others will come back here, and at this rate your core will die.

How do you know?

Our Mir stole your sky. It will kill the core.

But it looks like you might die even sooner.

Will it be possible to continue discussions with you?

Yeah.

Do you have any other questions?

What's "Kazuki Curry"?

He sought dialogue, and he spoke of a united front, disarmament,

and even peacekeeping operations.

It's truly impressive.

Although his plan will turn the whole world against us and lead to our destruction.

The kid told us to fight other Festum groups, too.

Does that mean the only Festum attacking the island

are that special group of "Eurus" or whatever they're called?

So the enemy is divided into multiple groups?

How much of this is true?

There's no way to verify that Soshi is the creator of that data.

Now that the enemy knows the state of our core,

what could he mean by publicizing SC code level info?

It's clear that the phenomenon in the sky was caused by the enemy,

but as for the sky killing our core...

That's probably the truth.

The sky plus the strain of enemy attacks are definitely a deadly threat.

We need a decision from the whole island.

Festum returning to the soil?

Their bodies are made of silicon--which is soil, right?

Makes me wonder if they're looking for a place to come home to, too.

No way!

I found one, you know. Even if I did lose it for a while...

With you.

Did you tell Mr. Mizoguchi that you were sick?

Yeah. Who told you about it?

Tomi said you looked like you weren't feeling well.

I'm sorry.

You don't have to apologize.

We'll protect the island.

So you just do what you want, Dad.

What are you suggesting?

Maybe living here... with Dr. Tomi.

Huh?

That wasn't the time to laugh!

And where will you be?

I don't really need...

Gonna get on board Mark Sein?

Sure, whenever I need to.

My wish...

...is for this house to always be somewhere you can come home to.

Mm-hmm.

I can't leave the island to you just yet. I'm sorry.

That wasn't the time to apologize!

What do you think of that "Misao Kurusu"?

I don't know. He's an enemy... but I can feel it.

Soshi is gambling something on him.

Soshi had that boat come to this island in order to protect us--

That's what you feel?

Yeah.

I don't know... but I know.

There's more to fighting than expending lives.

Go have a dialogue with that creature.

Use the time we have left to find a way to save this island.

What is this?

The bastards came to kill our island!

They're protecting their own?

Mark Zehn!

--Let's take out their shields! --Roger.

You and Soshi are here.

I've been wanting to come here, to the place Soshi Minashiro lived.

Because I want to understand him more.

Is that why you wear Soshi's clothes?

They fit me perfectly, after all.

Where is Soshi?

Within nothingness.

I hope he can get back his existence.

Let's talk. I'm happy I can talk with you.

You're making the island... making everyone here suffer,

and yet you think talking is fun?

Do you feel hatred for me, Kazuki?

No. I got angry, that's all.

I don't really understand hatred or anger.

If you don't want to suffer, just do what I say.

If you're going to steal our core, why not do it now?

Because I don't want to fight with your people.

Then stop your Mir!

That's impossible. I don't have that kind of power.

You've already stopped it once!

They only went home while I explained our objective.

My existence is sort of like what your kind might call a "finger."

Your fingers don't give you orders.

Right?

Where do they "go home" to?

The ship.

It's like my island.

Is your Mir aboard that ship?

Did you just think about attacking the ship?

If that would protect our island, I will.

Did Soshi Minashiro tell you to do that?

What?

Can you still hear his voice?

I can't hear it anymore.

It takes everything I have

just to make sure his existence doesn't disappear for real!

You... protected Soshi...

Finish it off!

Enemy confirmed dead!

I have a report that the matter formed during the enemy attacks

is seriously straining our system.

So these enemies are core-killers, eh?

Let her talk to them.

Create a path together, Fumihiko.

"Her"...?

Makabe!

SC code... An existence akin to Mir's...

Life allowed by the island...

Ms. Kaname?!

I'm okay... Just a little dizzy...

Mom!

--Somebody call the medical team, now! --Got it!

Medical team to the hangar, stat!

The past Mir, the nuclear contamination...

I predict that most of the islanders will become symptomatic soon.

This medicine is designed to help pilots integrate with Fafners

by deliberately accelerating the assimilation phenomenon.

I... have no other way of controlling your symptoms right now.

Please go ahead, Chizuru.

I know I mustn't let myself think we should just do what that Festum says

if it means you can live...

But I can't help it.

I'm sure there's hope. Let's follow the guidance of our core.

We're going to live at Alvis?

Yep! It's too dangerous here now.

Mama, why do I have to go to the hospital? I don't hurt anywhere.

I don't know, honey.

Why would you save Soshi?

I'd been looking forever

for another existence who thought the sky was beautiful.

And then there he was.

You think that, then? That the sky is pretty?

Mm-hmm. Don't you think so, too?

I can't see the sky anymore.

Pretty soon I won't be able to see anything.

My fingers tell me what's around me instead.

I've asked myself over and over what it could be that Soshi wants from you.

Don't you think maybe it's for you to tell your Mir?

"Tell"? Tell what?

Your kind can't build peace.

You run from your pain, make everything someone else's fault...

You're not really thinking about a way to erase the pain.

What I want is to let you choose!

What do you choose?

Are you there?

Are you okay, Seri?!

I finally figured out what they're saying...

Seri...

"It hurts. Help me."

"It hurts. Help me!"

Then put them out of their misery!

Come on, don't cry...

I want to see a blue sky!

All my information is being passed on to Mir.

What more are you asking me to tell?

Have you told Mir your feelings-- that you don't want to fight?

I can't. To me, Mir is like what you people call a "god."

You can't go against a god, right?

Listen... your core will die.

We won't fight people.

We don't want to fight the whole world with you.

If I did something like that, I wouldn't be me anymore.

Well, if I did what you said, I wouldn't be me anymore either.

You surprise me.

I know people who've wanted to talk with the enemy,

but you're the first one I've seen who's made graves for them.

Tsubaki tried to tell the enemy how sad we all felt.

But I couldn't do anything...

This is weird, isn't it?

No.

We can carry the burden of our allies' deaths.

But all we can do with enemy deaths is engrave them in our memory...

...forever.

Commander Makabe...

You've fought humans, too, haven't you?

Yes.

Did you come here to talk to me about something?

It's something I believe only you can do.

I'm not scared, Tsubaki.

A substitute can only relieve the strain on the core for a few weeks.

Multiple enemy groups joining together, mostly of Eurus type.

I presume they've taken into their command

many individuals that weren't previously involved in the war.

You're saying they've even rounded up their own civilians?!

So that's the true nature of the Eurus type:

they use those around them for their battle as well.

Can we win against an army this big?

Even if we do, the next group of them will come.

Our only choice is to take down the enemy Mir.

We have a proposal.

From the data on the boat and what Misao Kurusu says,

there's a large possibility that this craft at sea is the enemy Mir.

But the problem is our fighting strength and means of attack!

I've heard that an operation called the L Project

was once carried out to protect this island.

We former Human Force members will take the auto-piloted craft,

draw away the enemy, and wipe out their Mir.

How, exactly?

We'll evacuate as many personnel as possible and then use the ship's Fenrir.

We'll blow the enemy away along with it.

There's no way you'll be able to evacuate surrounded by the enemy.

But why you?

The Human Force's attack created that enemy!

It's our duty.

This island once saved our lives

after our army made us sacrificial pawns. We'll happily die for it.

I'll grant you permission to use that boat.

Makabe!

But I'm not doing it to sacrifice you.

The L Project must never be repeated.

This time it's our turn to seek dialogue.

The first natural conception on this island...

The first child born after the Mir learned of life and death

from Tsubaki Minashiro.

She's an existence akin to Mir, an unknown even to Soshi Minashiro.

Miwa is in a constant state of crossing, too.

What's more, she's crossing with the island's Mir itself.

Mama.

Please let me talk to them, okay?

Miwa...

Go!

Please, surrender! Or everyone will be gone!

You make them stop fighting.

Mir would never listen to my voice!

You thought the sky was beautiful, didn't you?!

You weren't ordered to--you just thought it, like a human, right?

Teach your god what it means to have that taken from you!

Even Mama's mama can't fix it?

You... understand our language?

If you stay with me, you can talk.

She is our hope, Commander Makabe.

So... shi...?

A silent voice when our hearts connected

I thought I heard it say "I'll protect you"

Do we steal because we're young?

Return to the soil, to the sea

The sky's beauty, life's evanescence

Is belief what makes us strong?

Smile when we say goodbye, at least

Yes, I know it might be the last time

If we grasp the "joy of giving"

We can find contentment without worry for a time

Come on, smile so I won't get lost

Come on, take the baton of life I'm passing

We all protect the place we all live, and that's how I can be there!

Did you protect Soshi on Mir's orders?!

No.

I just didn't want him to disappear...

It's no good... Mir's calling me!

Defy your god, Kurusu!

Mark Nicht?!

This is why I was given human form...

Kazuki!

I can talk more, you know.

Let's go. You're the only one who can do this.

--Stop! --Halt!

Where do you intend to take Miwa?

Don't steal Miwa away from me!

That's right... you and I have kept it sealed away together all this time...

...Soshi.

I'll do it. If it's what you want.

--Synchronize the support fluid with the core, stat! --Yes, Ma'am!

This is... hatred...

This is...

Stop... please, stop!

Why do you choose that?!

Why won't you defy a god who only multiplies the pain?!

Plug the leaks! Fast!

Kenji-senpai!

Don't you dare let go of that. Go back up Canon.

And I thought I told you to call us by the names of our units!

Kenji-senpai, you did the same-- Wait, what about you?

My work ain't over yet!

Go! Protect our friends!

Right!

The assimilation... phenomenon...

Boot authentication for Fenrir.

To continue, please enter the authentication key.

Continue?

Not yet.

I'm... still here!

Akira!

Senpai... you have to stay away...

This is the enemy's assimilation phenomenon?

My heart is fading...

Dad... Mom... Rina...

Don't do it!

What?

Mark Vier...

Koyo?!

This girl is the possibility that was born among my people.

She's the hope for both our kinds, Festum!

You boarded your Fafner, Kazuki?!

Kazuki...

Don't go, Canon!

You stay here.

No one but me needs to leave.

Stop! You'll be gone!

What?

Why let me escape the fight?!

You're the only ones who want to fight!

You could have stopped it, Kurusu!

Kazuki!

I didn't want your people... to disappear...

But there's still nothing being born.

I've finished my duty.

You can hold me here, but it won't generate any new possibility.

But you know how to fight.

I gave up the means to battle.

That Mir's condition isn't the possibility truly sought.

There's nothing but multiplying pain!

I wish... I could shoulder everyone else's pain...

I wonder if Soshi Minashiro could have done it...

I'm sorry.

Pain is Soshi Minashiro's blessing.

Life is Tsubaki Minashiro's blessing.

How will you bless the world?

Why are you asking me that?!

You are the first individual to desire existence while Mir was absent.

Why are you there?

I just... wanted to watch the sky...

But now I'm only sad... I can't bear my existence anymore!

Once I've erased everyone's pain,

I'll erase Soshi Minashiro, and Kazuki... and my existence too.

I... saw the Festum's nothingness.

It was just like when Mom and Dad disappeared.

I thought they'd be somewhere, but...

...they weren't anywhere.

Well duh, you moron!

You always leave the front lights on in case Mom and Dad come home...

And you never want to float lanterns for them...

Grandma's getting old, too. If you go, I'll be all alone, you know!

In a house nobody comes home to!

I'm sorry.

Moron...

I can't believe it. Data is being broadcast from the unit's core

even though there's no one on board.

This thing has no core.

A certain moron snatched it to make Mark Nicht with.

A core moved the machine...

The pilot ID is still Koyo's.

Koyo Kasugai has come home.

He made himself into the unit's core to do it, so he could protect the island.

We talked lots.

What did you "talk" about?

They say they all hurt.

What you did was what any mother would do.

That's not what she says.

But she does know that you were trying to protect her.

Miwa said something about Kazuki.

That he didn't really disappear-- that he can still come home.

I believe that, too.

How long will this go on?

Do we live on this island just to be stolen from?

I won't let them rob us. Not even if it costs me my life.

See, there's a girl holding a baby.

They wonder how hurt and sad she was.

I should talk to them!

I have no clue what that means.

She's talking about telling their Mir about the experiences

of Tsubaki Minashiro and our Mir.

Did she really send away the enemy?

Solomon confirms a massive data exchange via crossing

in the span of just a few minutes.

It's extremely complex information that employs an unknown type of infinite number.

The human race doesn't know all the numbers that exist in this universe yet.

This is one we don't.

Miwa Hino learned it as naturally and easily as learning a parent's words.

And she displayed an influence over them that even Tsubaki Minashiro couldn't.

If Solomon's developer were here, she'd probably be jumping for joy.

In other words, she figured out the enemy's chain of command

and overwrote the orders the Eurus types gave?

I imagine the concepts of "order" and "information" don't capture what's happening.

She insists on calling it "talking."

It's as though she's appealing to their sensibilities.

Festum emotions completely different from ours...

You're saying that's an alternative to annihilating the enemy?

Yes. In this operation that will be everything.

So we'll use that auto-piloted ship to penetrate the enemy's stronghold

during our defense of the island, eh?

What's more, our objective is...

...to have Miwa Hino engage in dialogue with the enemy Mir.

Mizoguchi will take command of the island, and I'll command the ship.

What does Yumiko think about this?

She agreed that both of them would go on the boat, mother and child.

I... believe that everyone will return.

If the enemy keeps attacking, our core will eventually die,

and our island will be stolen.

This is our last, best hope.

You're a great man, Tamotsu. Because you didn't run away from the Fafners.

Ma'am...

This thing erased my daughter and son-in-law from this world,

and I've avoided it ever since.

Logarithm Spiral Model... started successfully.

This is something their mother and father left behind for them.

I'm sure it will protect them for me.

Let's go over the team selection for this mission.

Mobile force: Kenji Kondo, Sakura Kaname, Rina Nishio, Akira Nishio.

Defense force: Maya Tomi, Canon Hazama, Hiroto Doma...

...and Koyo Kasugai.

The mobile force will leave the island as soon as the enemy arrives

and launch a surprise attack on their headquarters.

We only have one shot at this.

Let's pray we all survive to meet again.

Let's go erase the pain.

Mark Vier is requesting permission to sortie.

Open the gate.

Mark Vier... is going out.

Now beginning the second Operation Azure!

Keep the camouflage mirror up in roam mode.

Start up the control program!

All units, intercept!

He's here.

No sign of the enemy at our destination...

Why?

If our course is wrong, the island will...!

Prepare for torpedo fire.

Commander Makabe?!

This is information Soshi Makabe entrusted to us.

There's definitely something there.

Craft identified as the Human Force aircraft carrier Bollearios!

A camouflage mirror and Welle Shields?!

It's copied Tatsumiya's defense system...

So they learned from us as they became aggressors.

Maintain the current course! Prepare the Fafners for a sortie!

Distance to enemy shield is 200!

Zero Fafner, take off!

It won't break! Tune in to the shield's wavelength!

I know my job!

Enemy shield breached!

Mark Drei, take off!

Launch T-1 through T-3! Get me torpedo cover!

Mark Acht, take off! Torpedo cover!

Picking up a field appearing above the aircraft carrier

that must originate from the enemy Mir.

Call the Hino family, please.

Our island...?!

So much hatred...

Stop, Mir!

Don't make me carry a burden like that!

Eat this!

Enemy field approaching from above!

It wants to eat up the island!

Release all our remaining shields! Take this island full speed ahead!

Dodge it!

I'm not scared, Tsubaki.

The assimilation... has begun...

Why can't I save anyone?!

I'm going to be--a protector!

Give back Kazuki!

"Go outside"?

Yeah! I can't talk like this.

Miwa!

I-It's too dangerous!

Still...

It's our only way to break through.

Contain them with the Fafners, and get me torpedo cover.

We're going to surface behind the enemy.

Open up a path for dialogue!

Kazuki's mom?

Synchronize me with the Mir.

I will keep the core alive.

Akane! Why are you--

Because this is my final possibility.

No... It's because the former core told me...

...that this island was where I ought to come home to.

No sign of any enemy in the vicinity.

Take us up!

Commander Makabe!

Look: I'm still here!

What?

You put up a good fight.

Can you keep going?

Yes!

Why aren't you stopping anything? Why are you giving up?!

You're just going to erase everything you don't like?!

Mir was supposed to be reborn!

The fire you humans made changed everything!

Then you change it again!

Soshi staked everything on your presence!

He sent you to meet us!

He did it to change your kind!

My choice has already been forced!

I hurt your kind... How can I change after that?!

I... hurt Soshi, too.

I was always making him bear pain.

But he still believed in me.

You are me.

I am you.

Kazuki?!

You choose. As many times as you have to.

Don't give up just because you're sad!

Keep choosing to be there.

No, Kazuki, don't disappear!

Mir...

I don't want to fight anymore!

The sky...

See? The sky is beautiful.

I'm happy I was born, too.

Human Force bombers--Enola 51 2s, and they're maintaining their course!

They've rejected all communication channels. They won't respond!

So they want to wipe them out, and us with them...

You asshats... We're humans, too...

...and we're right here!

Mama, I'm scared!

Miwa!

Don't erase her, Mir!

Yeah. I think it's beautiful too.

Let's be born... together.

It's really goodbye now, huh, Seri?

Mama!

Miwa!

They stopped the humans' fire...

"It hurts. Help me..."

The core... has finished its growth period.

Akane...

The shield output and biosphere functions haven't fallen

and there are no signs of radioactive contamination!

I can't believe...!

The island protected us to the very last.

The pain is fading.

The Mir... has become air.

They're leaving!

Do you think a new enemy was born today?

That's only one of the options.

All that's certain is that this planet just became their homeland.

It's a blue sky, Seri.

Kazuki.

Kurusu... is that you?

I wanted to at least erase the thing that kept you from seeing the sky...

Sorry for doing it without asking.

But I'm happy you get to see the sky.

He's gone.

One day you might come to the place where he'll be born anew.

If you can't see the sky then, he'll be sad.

That was his last thought.

Is it you...?

He was protecting my existence that whole time.

He struggled against Mir even as he obeyed it,

and led us not to assimilation, but to coexistence in harmony.

I can see you... I can see you!

The broken fragments scatter, scatter, scatter everywhere

As my soul changes shape

Let me go into you

Wish, come true

Boundless pain that fills our world.

Does it all have someplace to go home to?

Right now, I want to believe

that supreme serenity awaits us when we finally make it home...

...and that that's why we're here.

It's not something as simple as "win or lose"

It's so many different maturities, and sections clashing with one another

There are echoes in my ears; I haven't forgotten anyone's voice

Before "fear" turns to "madness"

Even if you don't say too much, I understand

Your pulse wrings my heart

You're tormented by too many sacrificed lives

It's all right; I'll return there no matter what

Overcome with emotion, "people" scream and cry

Letting it loose must make them haggard

None of us are adult enough to bear this

The broken fragments scatter, scatter, scatter everywhere

It's just as if my soul is melting into the air

"Unrest" makes you uneasy

I've got no evidence, but trust me, trust you

Where is the azure?

If "death" means returning to the soil

Then we might as well be standing on a mound of the "dead"

Those days of being annoyed by our inexperience--

Those days when the blue before our eyes was so deep--

We hold them in common, so we're connected

It's all right; I'll return there no matter what

You can't fight until you've set your mark

You're so human when you're afraid

My heart goes out to you and I want to hold you

Are you there?

The lives born into this world twinkle, twinkle, twinkle brightly

I could almost take them for our last ray of hope

But "sentiment" is a trap that clouds your "judgment"

I've got no evidence, but trust me, trust you

Where is...

The fragments scatter, scatter, scatter everywhere

It's just as if my soul is melting into the air

"Unrest" makes you uneasy

Where is the azure?

Overcome with emotion, set your mark

Excitement rising, set your mark