Original subtitles

Who is this vision I see floating before my eyes? Dare ga miteiru VISUAL? Me no mae no

Rushing water runs back over my body Kyuu na mizu ga karada wo sakasa ni kakemeguru

Now, the two of us think about... Ima futari wa

the meaning of our having met Deatta imi omou

Even though we must be swimming... Kitto dareka no kioku no naka

Within someone's memories Oyoideiru dakedemo

The wings of light upon your back Kimi no senaka

Spread out towards the sky Hikari no hane ga sora e hirogaru

No matter the place, no matter the past Donna basho mo donna kako sae mo

A single wish... Tadahitotsu no negai ga

Will surpass it all Norikoete yuku yo

Warning!

An Aanval... No!

Hu... man?

The destroyer of countless Cerebrants.

The demon soldier of the Gardsorm.

Abyss.

What the hell is this?

What are you doing, Kyo?!

Lu-shen!

Trying to run?!

Be careful!

This guy's stronger than any enemy you've faced yet.

Kyo?

Is it true?

That this is reality... And the Gardsorm are...

human?

They're not human.

They're artificial.

We're the only humans here!

META-BODY

Artificial?

That guy?

Yes.

Yes. Zegapain Garuda under fire. Q.L. Consumption, critical.

Zegapain Garuda under fire. Q.L. Consumption, critical.

The Garuda's having a tough time. Kyo, move towards them. Zegapain Garuda under fire. Q.L. Consumption, critical.

Zegapain Garuda under fire. Q.L. Consumption, critical.

Q.L., insufficient.

Why, you!

Quit smashin' my house!

I'm from Chiba-ken, pal, so don't mess with me!

This guy's superstrong!

Main generator, damaged!

Weapon chamber coil, off-line!

I can't form our holonic armor, either!

Damn you, Abyss... Leg-section signal transduction level now 15%!

It looks like he's after the Zega's- Leg-section signal transduction level now 15%!

It looks like he's after the Zega's-

Looks like it. May-yen!

Roger!

Activating Banishment Mode!

Activating Banishment Mode. Transmission commencing.

Shizuno, be careful! There's more than one of... Emergency transmission, commencing.

It self-destructed?

We're only lightly damaged. No problem.

Kyo, we should retreat as well.

Run from them? Why?!

Because the enemy objective from the start was...

These guys bust up my place and you expect me to leave them alone?!

Kyo!

Where is he?!

Thermal reaction, behind the building!

What are you, a cockroach?!

Sorry, my mistake.

Sin was hiding in Abyss's shadow! There's two of them!

Hah! Trying to flank me, huh?

So, on the other side must be!

Wha?

Kobral 2, lost.

No! Above us! Kobral 2, lost.

No! Above us! Performing omnidirection scan and probable-

Performing omnidirection scan and probable-

No way! Performing omnidirection scan and probable-

Warning! Mecha Q.L. -

Warning!

Kyo! On our left!

You... son... of a... BITCH!!!

Cockpit and left side of chest seriously damaged.

Shit! We hit each other! Cockpit and left side of chest seriously damaged.

No. We've lost, Kyo. Cockpit and left side of chest seriously damaged.

No. We've lost, Kyo. Severe damage inflicted to Wizard.

Severe damage inflicted to Wizard.

Don't look!

They've already stolen it.

Now the Zega's program data is in the Gardsorm's hands.

S... Sempai...

Go to hell, Sin!

So, that's how it is?

Does this look like a game to you? Like an artificial world?

Like, am I really alive or not? Stuff like that.

Personally, it doesn't matter to me which is which.

Maybe both worlds are an illusion.

However, if one world is reality,

then it follows that the other must be fiction.

DON'T BELIEVE THE WORLD YOU SEE.

My place...

What the hell?

It has to be.

This is reality.

If those ruins are reality, then what the hell am I looking at now?

A construct.

Wh- What are you doing here, Fosetta?

Oh, come on! You called us here, didn't you, Kyo?

To answer your questions.

Oh. Is that what I did?

Okay, then answer me. This is reality, right? It is, isn't it?

It could be defined as reality,

but as an objective world which is changeable by thought or action, then no, it is not.

What? It's not?

But, my hand! In the other world, something happened to it that should be impossible!

What was that?!

Because everything is a fabrication.

Not just the city, but the people, too.

May I keep asking you questions?

Sure, but we're blocked from discussing any more of the subject we've been talking about.

If you have any questions about the weather or diet tips, we're available 24 hours a day.

What do you mean?!

Miss Shizuno is responsible for your case.

We'd need to get her decision first.

Sempai...

That's right! How is she?!

Miss Shizuno needs a bit more time to recover.

The dry damage she suffered was substantial.

We were late arriving here.

If only we could have gotten there sooner.

Look at her, after days of regeneration.

Pitiful, huh?

Well, it's a sight I've gotten used to.

Chris...

Oh, sorry! I never know when to keep my mouth shut, huh?

Forgive me, Arque.

If I may point out,

in these conditions, there is no difference between humans and us A.I.s.

You don't know when to zip it, either, Tarbo.

Forgive me.

So, this is Shizuno...

Meta... body?

Literally, a "phantom body."

That's what all the humans in this world are called.

So, you're saying I'm a phantom? Does that mean I don't exist?!

Then what's this "me" that's here now?!

That depends on your definition of existence.

Where am I?

I'm afraid there are limits on what I may tell you as well.

Am I a phantom? Answer me, Lemures!

Cogito ergo sum.

"I think, therefore, I am."

Don't go throwing Descartes in my face here!

"To exist is to be perceived."

Berkeley's out of date, too! Now cut it out!

I'm glad. Our conversations were always spirited like this.

I'm possessed by a dead man.

I feel like a ghost lecturing on the immortality of the soul.

"Ghost" is an excellent way to put it.

A bit literary, but a good definition of a meta-body.

Kyo Sogoru.

You skipped over the dialectic process to reach a deeper understanding.

Do you understand why?

Because I'm not learning anything, just remembering things I've forgotten.

If you understand that, then why are you asking questions?

Because normally, this is impossible!

And yet you already understand that the situation is far from normal.

But it's impossible!

Knowledge is unhappiness. The man who knows much knows a terrible truth,

and he cannot turn away from it.

Pascal, now?

And him... What was he, then?

That guy Abyss.

A Gardsorm Reconstructant.

"Reconstructant?" What's that?!

The enemy.

All right, I'll answer any questions within available parameters.

Correct. The empty apartments were once occupied by many Cerebrants.

However, more than half have been killed in the battle with the Gardsorm.

Why don't you ever see your mother? Well...

WORKING LATE AGAIN. DINNER'S IN THE OVEN. - MOM Why don't you ever see your mother? Well...

Why don't you ever see your mother? Well...

Not seeing her doesn't really affect your life, does it?

It's here, in this world.

Thank you. It's here, in this world.

Thank you.

STUDENT COUNCIL

STUDENT COUNCIL Commander Shima? No, he won't come. Everyone's on the Oceanus.

Commander Shima? No, he won't come. Everyone's on the Oceanus.

Fine with me. I don't want to have anything to do with him.

You'll be having your first end of term exam soon, but it won't be different from middle school.

Let's just relax for this one.

Okay, let's hit the basics today.

Ghosts. Phantoms. Everyone's artificial.

Kurage, too.

Them, too.

Even Kaminagi?

Not bad, Mizuki. I wish you would join the swim club.

I'm not that serious about it.

Didn't you see before?

See what?

There's something weird about that Sogoru guy.

He was walking along with a scary look on his face.

Really? He was normal this morning.

Maybe he puts on an act in front of you, Ryoko.

Why?

You know...

Oh! It's Kaori! There she goes!

Kyo, you son of a!

Don't mess with me today!

There it is. Blood...

Of course it is.

Naturally, because I'm human.

What's with him? He's not himself.

Hm? Yeah...

It's not at the same level as when he fights about the swim club.

July 9th, 1943.

At Aktan Island in the Aleutians...

the U.S. Navy sighted a Type-21 Zero, till then an unbeatable fighter wrapped in a veil of mystery,

making an emergency landing.

After thoroughly testing and analyzing it,

they discovered numerous techniques to counter the Zero in combat.

Destroying the legend of its invincibility.

Well, that's basically why an enemy tries to steal data on anything.

I figured that.

I've got a bad feeling about this.

You do?

But, there's no scene like that in the Zega game...

Wha?! What's up?

You really are a nice guy.

No way you're a ghost or a phantom.

Oh!

What?

Don't look over here!

Your cheek looks really bad.

Ugh...

Will you fight?

Even when the world suddenly crumbles before your eyes?

This is the true story of what happened 40 years later.

Welcome, to the future of the world.

Something really is wrong with him...

Ugh...

Kaminagi. Wanna go for a walk?

Uh... Sure! Let me get ready!

The unidentified armed vehicles which attacked the United Nations vehicles yesterday...

were later determined to have been trying to steal military secrets.

Security forces have taken countermeasures and are in pursuit of them.

Exactly!

There's a very direct link between this world and the other one.

You don't see them because you don't need to see them.

For those who do need to see them,

the shop keeper and the customers exist.

I'll just leave the money here.

Sorry for the wait.

Hm? Right...

Does your cheek still hurt?

Nah.

It's so quiet.

Tell me, Kaminagi...

You really are "you," aren't you?

Aren't you?

What the hell am I saying?

Screw this!

Look! You can see Tokyo!

Of course you can see it. It's right next to us.

Tokyo!

I was thinking... Next semester...

I promised Mizuki I'd go hang out with her in Shibuya.

I suppose we could go on summer break,

but for some reason, I feel like I won't be able to go then.

We'd take that train there.

Let's go now!

You idiot!

Let's go!

Wait!

No, we shouldn't! It's late! We'll do it next time!

What's with you? We're not little kids!

We'll come right back!

But... I get the feeling we shouldn't go there!

Don't go!

Never mind. I'll go by myself.

Kyo!

As far as I remember, I haven't left Maihama since I entered high school.

I'll go see it. I'll see the city from outside.

And when I do, it'll all become clear!

I'll see we're not phantoms! Not constructs! That we aren't ghosts!

Kaminagi...

It's impossible...

It's impossible... All of this...

It's no use.

Shizuno-sempai!

You can't go "outside the city."

It just doesn't exist.

The world we inhabit is a closed world of only "here" and "now."

That's a lie!

Is that what you want me to say?!

It's true!

Maihama city is a virtual world that exists only within a quantum computer server!

And we live within the quantum servers as meta-bodies because we've lost our physical bodies!

Personality and memory data constructs.

The human race was destroyed by the Gardsorm.

Not a single living human is left on Earth!

Hold on here!

All of us are living in a phantom city that's inside a machine!

The memories of a dead human race!

That was mean of me.

If what you just told me is true...

Then when I open my eyes, all these false things will!

No, don't!

It'll all disappear!

Are "here" and "now" the only things that we can accept?

Are "here" and "now" the only things that we can accept? If time should turn back

If time should turn back

WORKING LATE AGAIN. DINNER'S IN THE OVEN. - MOM If time should turn back

WORKING LATE AGAIN. DINNER'S IN THE OVEN. - MOM

WORKING LATE AGAIN. DINNER'S IN THE OVEN. - MOM If time should turn back

If time should turn back

If time should turn back

CALL ME WHEN YOU'RE BACK!! - RYOKO

CALL ME WHEN YOU'RE BACK!! - RYOKO Kiss me and say goodbye

Kiss me and say goodbye

To everything there is

Oh man, Kaminagi... To everything there is

You and me both... To everything there is

You and me both... And in the endless loop of time

We're just phantoms. And in the endless loop of time

And in the endless loop of time

You'll come back to me again Megurikuru anata ni

On the edges of memory Kioku no fuchi de

Time repeats itself Toki wa kurikaesu

As I imagined once IMAGE wo mita

As I wish to imagine again IMAGE wo mitakute

Kiss me goodnight KISS shite GOODNIGHT

I won't sleep anymore Mou nemuranai

On this night of falling stars Hoshi no furu yoru wa

Time goes by

NEXT EPISODE

NEXT EPISODE Kyo really seems sad lately.

Kyo really seems sad lately.

It's like he's covering something up.

You don't think Shizuno-sempai rejected him, do you?!

It's so hard, seeing Kyo so sad.

How can I just stand by and watch?

I know! Kyo, come location hunting with me!

A date will get you cheered up again!

Next time, on Zegapain: "Lost Souls."

LOST SOULS

LOST SOULS My thoughts, never to be erased.

LOST SOULS