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Oroka de iinodarou

Miwatasu yume no ato

Sayonara Aoki hibi yo

FAFNER

Nagare ni mi wo makase

Itsuka otona ni natte yuku

Sukoshi zutsu yogorete yuku koto nano?

Jukushita kajitsu dake erabarete

Naifu de sakarete

Nomikomareru mae ni

Bokura wa mezashita Shangri-La

Yokubo wa osae kirezu ni

Kuusou ni mamiretajiyuu wo motome tsuzuketa

Ima nara ieru darou

Koko ga sou rakuen sa

Sayonara Aoki hibi yo

Come to think of it, Michio...

...you used to wet your bed when you were little, didn't you?

F-Fool! What are you saying?

I don't remember such an old thing.

Sakura!

Episode 22 POWER (Protection)

Prepare the brain scan and radiation deterrent. Hurry!

Solomon has responded.

In the direction of four o'clock, at a distance of 80.

Three new enemies have appeared.

I am deploying number one and number two Welle Shields.

They keep the same pattern, but their pace is up.

Commander Makabe, as a matter of fact...

Attention each Fafner. We are changing a part of the formation.

Cope with it according to the training.

What do you mean by changing a part?

Canon is taking Sakura's position?

Why?

Where is Sakura? Did anything happen?

Sakura...

...is fighting at a different place.

Tsubaki.

It's dangerous to stay there...

What...?

Everything is dead...

Why...

Festum's disappearance is confirmed.

All pilots are all right.

All Fafners are returning.

Commander Makabe.

What is it?

I will gather the pilots in the medical room.

I understand. Then please take care of them.

Where is Tsubaki Minashiro?

Gather in the medical room... I wonder why...

Kazuki, do you know anything?

No, nothing.

Soshi...

What happened, Soshi?

Kenji... don't get upset when you go inside.

Kenji!

W-What is this...

What is this!

Even the tree is almost dead.

Why...

I would like to know, too.

C-Commander Makabe?

This is the first time... for you to come see me, isn't it, Fumihiko?

Tell me...

The existence of Mark Sein...

...abnormal phenomena of nature, the enemy's attack patterns...

...and the assimilation phenomenon of the pilot...

Are they all related?

The fact that I woke up, too.

The fact that you let Koyo Kasugai out, too?

Right... For North Pole Mir and our Mir to feel life...

Life?

A long time ago, Mir in Japan...

...took the power for you to become parents away...

...because it could not understand what it's like to be born.

That's why it tried to protect humans from death and took life away.

But now, Mir is learning life.

Do you mean it is learning the concept of life and death?

That's why it made the flowers on the island bloom?

Right... And it wants to learn a lot more.

Did you come outside during the battles in order to teach that?

Did you tell the enemy our information?

You run a risk of destroying the island.

You don't think of the island residents' sacrifice...

Doesn't this island's core even feel sorrow?!

H-How could you say she doesn't feel sorrow!

Tsubaki too wanted to meet her father and mother...

She doesn't feel sad about people dying?

Why do you say such a thing?

Today, many insects died and many flowers died.

Fumihiko, do you feel sad?

Are you saying... our lives are the same as those of insects and flowers?

No. Insects and flowers don't feel sad about themselves.

Animals don't really know what sad is.

But why do only humans feel sad...

Humans have the potential to come up with the answer.

The answer... to sorrow...

The more we ride Fafner, the closer we are to death. Right?

It is not death.

It is the crystallization of the body due to the chromosomal change.

Can you call that alive!?

Maya's father was right.

We are the batteries to move Fafners.

Sakura... ran out of power...

If Dr. Tohmi's research progresses...

...we can prevent the assimilation phenomenon.

But Sakura is already...

What are you doing!?

We are going home...

Now Sakura, let's go home with Mom.

You can't! If you move her now, her life will...

Sakura fought enough!

Please... let her rest in peace.

Peace...

Kiyomi!

Kiyomi! Please! Listen to me!

Let go!

Kiyomi. Kiyomi!

Sakura...

Ken... ji...

Sakura...

Kenji...

We haven't settled the fight yet.

If you feel sad that the world is filled only with battles...

What do you think is the best way to erase the sorrow?

It is to teach Festum... our sorrow.

Right.

Akane Makabe was the first one in the world to come up with it.

It is a very simple and a very difficult way.

You don't say... Are you telling me that you are trying that during the battle?

Otherwise... I'm sure they will choose the wrong feeling.

Another feeling born from having a life.

The hatred...

How can I believe the enemy has understood us that much?

Because...

...I am here.

Just like Akane Makabe gave them the enemies' lives...

...my mother gave this island's Mir a life.

It is not impossible... Fumihiko.

Because if this island's Mir didn't understand life...

...I would not have been born.

Are we... making the right progress?

We created the island and used the enemy's power for our posterity.

After all, in order for ourselves to survive...

...we are sacrificing the children.

To search for the right "power", the right path...

You are the kind of person who can do that.

Coming to see me is the proof.

The path lies within you... Fumihiko.

I see... Sakura did...

Um, I want to ask you something.

What is it?

Shoko... is not your real child, Yoko?

No...

But they recognized that I am capable of raising a child.

I received Shoko from Albericht Organization and raised her.

Are Kazuki and Maya the same?

No.

Shoko and Kasugai are the only ones...

...who are not connected genetically to their parents.

But... Everyone has the Festum factor, don't they?

Originally it is to protect the genes from being polluted by Mir.

If you don't ride Fafner, the factor is not dangerous.

I don't have that factor.

Eh?

That's why my crossing with Siegfried System is incomplete...

...and I can't ride Nothung Model.

Canon.

I want to be the same as everyone else...

This...

...is all.

I wonder what happened to the rest...

I'm sure this will have a happy ending.

Because I'm fighting for that.

Mark Sein's whole body just resonates with the core.

It is not the same quality as Festum's.

Then can we apply the power-gain release to other machines?

No. In the simulation, the pilot's feelings couldn't keep up with it at all.

The sense elements buried like filament...

...in the Silicon Nanofilms body...

...change their numbers, shapes, and location freely...

...with the assimilation phenomenon.

That is why the whole body feels like melted rubber.

Why is Kazuki all right?

I can only guess the pilot's mind adapted itself...

Higher self-consciousness...

...which desires oneself to be better for the other...

...is working strongly between Kazuki and Soshi.

Perhaps that is thought to be the biggest cause.

Kazuki alone couldn't progress to that level...

Then that means Mark Sein is still unknown in the remote operations...

...that are far away from Siegfried System, doesn't it?

Remote location... You don't say! Are we joining the Neo U.N.'s operations?

If the enemy repeats the intentional war of attrition at this rate...

...it is possible as a way out.

Even if we were to join them, there are many problems...

...such as the island's defense during that time...

...or the chain of command on the spot.

Soshi Minashiro is planning to do so.

Eh?

He asked me if we could build Siegfried System inside Fafner...

...if we were to join the general attack on North Pole Mir.

S-Siegfried System inside Fafner?

That's absurd. Why does he think we split those two?

If he rides stuff like that...

...he will certainly be attacked by the assimilation phenomenon.

I told him so, too.

Did he ask your advice, too, Dr. Tomi?

Yes.

He wanted to know the estimated time...

...until he loses consciousness completely.

My time... seems to be running out.

What are you going to do, Soshi?

I am prepared for the worst.

I see...

We couldn't become normal brother and sister till the end, could we?

Ten years ago, Dad took me to see you for the first time.

I know.

Ever since then, I have visited you many times.

I know.

I live to protect you and the island.

I thought so.

Till you were hurt by Kazuki, didn't you?

Tell me what you want to do, Soshi.

In case we join the Neo U.N.'s final battle operations...

...I want to fight with Kazuki and the others.

I want the core's permission for me to leave this island.

You already left me a long time ago.

But... you can't be with everyone for a long time.

Even if the double loads of Siegfried System and Fafner are placed on me...

...I can operate for 18 hours.

Is that the happy time you can spend with the most important people?

That's right.

Don't worry about me. Go ahead.

I hope I can still stay outside and see you off.

I'm sorry...

Thank you, Tsubaki.

Now you have no choice but to fight.

But don't forget that you can choose a different way some day.

Yeah.

Don't forget that I was here, too.

Yeah...

I promise.

Canon Memphis?

Yes. She demanded the factor transplant.

She says she won't even go out for a battle if her demand is not met.

And she locked herself in the medical room...

She mistook someone's words as an order...

Or...

Without knowing the reason...

...I can't transplant the factor.

Canon, tell us.

Who told you to do such a thing?

Uh...

If you tell us the truth, we will inject this into you.

So tell us.

Sis... You can't...

Kazuki told me.

Eh?

What? When?

When I tried to disappear along with this island...

He told me to make my own choice.

You can't...

Yoko too...

Yoko said the same thing. That I had to live without orders.

Wait, Canon. I didn't mean that...

I lived without orders.

I thought many times.

There was... only one answer.

I want to choose to be here...

I want to choose to be on this island.

I... am going.

I'm going, too...

...Sakura.

It is approaching from a distance of 120.

There is no sign of others' appearance. There is only one.

It is determined to be Scarabee-type. But it could be a new kind.

Only one. As soon as Sakura collapsed, they changed the pattern.

There is no doubt.

The previous over 200 enemies were a sacrifice to exhaust the pilots...

...and to promote the assimilation phenomena.

Destroy the enemy with full force!

Do not let it recognize the effectiveness of the war of attrition.

I'm sorry I'm late.

You...

I'm all right now.

Number one and number two Welle Shields are ready to be deployed.

I only fought in the simulation...

Me too.

Don't worry.

Mamoru Sempai...

I will defeat all enemies.

Oh... that's right.

This. I'll give you this.

I'm sure it will protect you.

Mark Sieben, look for the enemy's defense method...

...and check if it is a new kind.

Mark Acht, Funf, and Babylon will come in contact with the enemy.

While determining the enemy's attack method...

...Megaselion and Mark Sein will capture the enemy from behind.

Do not break this formation.

The Denial Defense Line is about to be crossed.

Mark Sieben, begin your attack!

Roger.

Eh?

Eject the cockpit bloc!

What! What happened!

Mark Funf, retreat.

Babylon and Mark Acht...

...keep the distance and intercept from both wings!

W-What!?

Pain Block does not work!?

Data does not show damage anywhere...

Canon!

Leave it to me!

Good. Pain Block works.

Why...

...doesn't it attack?

The enemy just bounces back our attack?

It does not destroy or assimilate? You don't say...!

Right... It understood our pain.

Mark Funf, open all Aegis equipment and hold the enemy.

Roger!

Here I go!

Mark Sein, go behind the enemy and stop its movement.

I'll try.

Good. Crush it like that.

Kazuki?

Assimilation... phenomenon...

The enemy started to spread the roots.

Soshi...

The enemy has reached Keel Block.

What!

Impossible. Was it trying to take the system from the beginning...?

It started to assimilate with Siegfried System!

Pull the enemy's main body off the roots!

You bastard!

Soshi...

Ask Kazuki... if he can lend a hand...

Kazuki!

Can you move just a hand?

Good!

I won't let anyone feel sad any longer...

I... I am going to protect them!

Make it in time!

Atashi ikanakucha

Toki wa tomaru hazu mo naku

negai wa kaze ni kesare te

nodo wa kawaiteru

Kono saki niwa nani ga aru no? Futari wa heikousen

Furimukanai kimi wa tsuyoi Mou majiwaranai

Tachitsukusu machi wa yugami Kimi ga ita kioku dake

Mune no naka ni afure dashite

Fukai umi wo tsukuri Boku wa soko ni oboreru

Preview

The lost power.

The hope that's been taken away.

Yumi... ko...

Next Fafner episode number twenty-three.

Episode 23 DECOY (Pillage)

Episode 23 DECOY (Pillage) A Decoy.

Episode 23 DECOY (Pillage)

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