Original subtitles

We must be fools...

Look at the traces of our former dreams.

No more days of innocence.

FAFNER

We give in to the flow as we become adults.

Does it mean we become dirty little by little?

Like fruits, ripe ones are chosen...

cut up by a knife...

and swallowed, but before that...

We aimed at Shangri-La...

Unable to suppress our desire.

We desired the freedom, but could it be just our imagination?

Now we can say that this is the paradise.

No more days of innocence.

Return him! Return Soshi!

Return him!

Soshi!

Episode 24 MIR (Conversation)

Why...

...am I here... Why...

I see... At last... I have antagonized Mir...

I have to go.

Pottery Store

With the past six days' repair work...

...70% of all CDC functions are expected to be restored soon.

Most of N bloc is still destroyed...

...but restoring the main facilities and hangars is smoothly under way.

I see...

How about Neo U.N.'s...

...simultaneous bipolar open operations?

Yes... about implanting the system in Fafners...

As I expected, the adjustment is not going well...

That's why you dragged this old woman out here?

Mr. Kodate...

Makabe... Let me do... the system adjustment... Please.

Please.

I am going to make Festum suffer...

...the same agony Mamoru and Chisato went through!

Tamotsu...

The children are not tools for revenge.

It's my fault... Chisato... and Tezuka too...

Because I wasn't there...

He promised... not to die.

He said he would keep the promise at any cost...

Yumiko...

Kenji... I... came to get you...

If you don't want to fight, it's all right...

I will do what Ayano wanted to do.

I... I was scared...

That's why... Instead... Mom...

Before, when I touched the mountain, I felt like I was on my dad's back.

But... I don't feel that anymore.

I heard my dad might have died, but... it doesn't feel real...

Perhaps I won't climb here any more.

I see...

Kazuki, why do you like it here?

It's not me, but my mom seemed to like it here.

Is it true there is an enemy at the North Pole?

I'll go and check it out.

You can stay on the island like this.

Can't you do that, Maya?

No... if you are going, I am going too, Kazuki.

Snow...?

Sorry... it doesn't cover you well enough.

No... thank you.

It's warm.

Maya... I want you to live.

After all, I don't know what to say to Kazuki... Michio.

Oh.

Kenji... ls he going to stay with you? Mrs. Kaname?

Yes... I discussed it with Kenji and have decided now.

Kenji.

You stay there.

No one has to die any more.

Kazuki, f... f... fight me!

Fight...

Kenji, Kazuki's body is...

We received a message from a Neo U.N. Patrol plane.

It is demanding the response to the operations.

Tell them that we are willing to join and demand the certification code.

Yes.

Then, I can ride the Nothung Model, can't I?

Yes... the factor transplanted in your body is fixed.

I'm glad.

Mom... check my body.

Hey, cancel joining such an operation, Makabe.

The enemy is trying to surround us on the scale of the entire earth.

Mitsuhiro was right... Now we have no choice but to fight.

Who cares! We will be the shield and protect the children.

Kazuki... is planning to go even if he is alone. To avenge Soshi Minashiro.

He... can't live long. He can't wait for Dr. Tomi's research.

You can use the remaining time for many other things!

What would you say to Akane if she was here, Makabe!

I don't know any other way!

We can't even provide a reason for them to come back alive...

Damn it!

Damn!

Kaname Style

Kazuki!

He is all right.

I'm sure Sakura would be surprised if she saw the last one...

Sakura told me. She is not interested in a weak man.

Sakura's type is a man like her dad...

Kazuki, do you think I can become strong like Mamoru?

Yeah. You can...

Ugh!

I... I'm going too!

The target has begun approaching the island.

It is determined to be Sphinx-type! It could very possibly be a new kind!

Maintain the camouflage mirror surface.

We are ready to deploy Welle Shield.

All pilots, stand by! Generate Welle Shield at maximum power!

At the same time as contacting the enemy...

...separate the eastern part of Takeru Island and start Fenrir.

Give part of the island to those bastards.

An additional enemy's appearance is confirmed...

...at the direction of two o'clock.

The first one is a decoy?

The newly appeared enemy is flying toward the earlier target.

What?

The image has arrived. I will project it on the main monitor.

Wh... what is this?

Festum is fighting Festum.

It destroyed the core with one blow.

Awesome...

We lost the remaining Festum! It does not respond to the search by its mass.

Welle Shield is being released automatically.

What!

We have a contact. It is in Japanese.

What?

Read it.

Y... yes.

"They will come again."

"I want to talk. I will wait at the mountain. Akane Makabe."

Akane...

This is...

Welcome home.

The material this place is composed of is not related to me.

But I could have been led by the previous memory.

I knew it... You already understand what human memories are like.

The person you want to see is coming.

Festum... what do you think you are doing?

What are you up to? It is impossible for Festum to fight each other.

Solomon determined that it is a master-type.

Master-type... human-shaped... Festum...

Are you telling me that Festum are split inside?

If you consider the situation at an extreme, that answer is possible.

But this will bring us an unknown result.

Unknown result?

After assimilating with humans...

...we form a personality in extremely rare cases.

It is usually standardized among the whole immediately.

But only the existence that used to be Akane Makabe...

...kept forming its own resonant core somehow.

That was just a small change.

It took almost ten years for it to be able to influence the whole.

No.

A certain kind of time was born within us...

...because many factors resonated with her.

To us, time is just one of the gravities that form the world.

But the existence that used to be Akane Makabe...

...resonated with many cores, and formed a place within us...

...where time is the absolute axis.

Why only Akane?

How many million people do you think became victims?

Even now, we are still searching for the answer to that.

But at the extreme level, the answer is "a phenomenon".

That means... Akane Makabe herself hoped to be assimilated.

Say it again!

Of course, it was an unexpected situation to Akane Makabe.

But the moment she contacted us, she welcomed us and blessed us.

Blessing?

To express our dimension according to your existence, that is the word.

Our assimilation action and destruction...

...are a blessing to those who exist in space.

Akane Makabe reversed them.

Reversed? What do you mean?!

She was the first human to understand us.

Substantiated Festum is entirely formed with silicon type material.

The most plentiful material that exists in space...

In other words, it is just soil.

While Minashiro and others are desperately analyzing Mir...

...Captain Makabe, you are playing with soil...

...trying to understand Festum?

I... just want to talk to them...

Mr. Asagi, try this.

Keep touching the soil.

And someday you may be able to understand Festum's feelings.

Why... did you come here?

Because I have a favor to ask you, whose existence is similar to mine.

Favor?

The most important core related to me...

...is the resonant core of Akane Makabe...

...and the way to all questions.

But because of that reason, it was captured by the Mir...

...that embodied in the North Pole and faces extinction.

I want you to save the core.

Are you telling me that you are going to eliminate your colleagues?

Originally, we are one existence as a whole.

In other words, we are nothing. We don't exist anywhere.

Therefore, neither diversion nor mutual extinction is possible.

But Akane Makabe reversed us and gave us one wound.

Wound?

Everything began when Akane Makabe understood us.

She blessed us, who weren't supposed to exist anywhere.

As a result, I antagonized Mir and became one existence.

Existence... you weren't supposed to exist anywhere...

Right... I exist here as the one who inherits Akane Makabe's will.

But at this rate, I have to disappear, as if I didn't exist from the beginning...

...with the extinction of the core that is left inside the Mir.

Akane... is still talking to Festum now?

She became lots of resonance and keeps resonating.

Before the human race and Mir destroy each other...

...I want you to contact my core.

I'm sure I can give you what you need.

Festum is going to give to us?

Are you telling me you are going to return the lives you took away?

That... is impossible... Even we can't control time.

But if it is the future where time gravity hasn't reached...

...you and I can share what we want.

Show them in data. I'm sure they will understand.

We don't have a concept of data.

It's all right. You can do it.

We received data. It is an enormous amount!

It's too much to save. Forward them to the main server.

It is automatically doing it.

What is happening...

This... is the defense method...

...to protect the machines from Festum's attack...?

It's Yoji Hino.

Instead of defeating as many enemies as possible...

...prolong the lives of as many soldiers as possible.

That is Yoji Hino's design idea.

The united pattern of human body and Festum...

From the genetic level to conscious level... including the internal organs...

Akane... do you really co-exist with Festum...?

This is all I can hand to you now.

Most of the answers are still captured inside the Mir.

It's enough to make everyone understand, isn't it, Fumihiko?

If we rescue your core, can the pilots be saved?

The assimilation phenomenon of their bodies is just the first step.

The resonant core of Akane Makabe...

...has produced many answers beyond that.

But how are we going to reach the Mir located in the fierce battlefield?

I have already sent you the optimum method.

Follow that and approach the Mir.

And my core will lead you the rest of the way.

If everything goes well...

...you can take back one thing that's been taken away.

One thing?

The one you call Siegfried System.

What?

The Mir tried to take your power, but we can't use that.

Therefore the Mir is still keeping the human who can use that alive.

Are you talking about the person who is in the system?

That's right. A human named Soshi Minashiro.

Soshi... is alive.

They have come... Now instead of assimilating with you...

...they are going to destroy you along with me.

What?

Detecting large number of gravity source response!

Ten... twenty... still increasing.

Send the children of Alvis to the Mir. We will protect this island.

We?

Here he comes.

Koyo.

Did you order him to come here?

No. He chose to fight with the existence that is similar to his.

Everyone... Thank you.

- Koyo. - Koyo.

- Koyo.

Good-bye.

Koyo...

For the island's sake only... I will accept your offer.

That is enough. I'm sure each of us will progress.

Why... did you use Akane's name?

Because it was the optimum method.

No...

...maybe I wanted to see you.

That's right... I wanted to tell you...

Thank you... Fumihiko.

For raising Kazuki.

The situation!

The gravity source response is disappearing one after another.

Uh...

Akane taught us this palliative for the assimilation phenomenon.

I'm administering this to Sakura too, and her condition is improving.

We were able to divide the prototype of Siegfried System...

...and build each in four Fafners.

With this, everyone can cross and understand each other.

The feared load to the pilots too...

...thanks to the data that master-type gave us, is resolved.

We should all thank Akane Makabe.

But this equipment has two drawbacks.

One is that everyone will share each other's pain.

Soshi has felt all of our pains.

We can endure them too.

The other is, losing just one Fafner will hinder the system.

No one can die. All right?

We are not going there to die.

We will all come back alive.

Then I am going to check the machine code and pilot.

Mark Sein, Kazuki Makabe.

Yes.

Mark Acht, Kenji Kondo.

Y... Yes.

Mark Sieben, Maya Tomi.

Yes.

Mark Drei, Canon Memphis.

Am I riding Sakura's machine...

That's right. Complete the fine-tuning within ten hours.

Roger.

Take advantage of the general attack to the North Pole Mir...

...contact the specified core, and obtain the data.

At the same time, we will recover Soshi Minashiro.

These are the objectives of this operation.

What are we going to name the operation?

Neo U.N. Calls it Heaven's Door...

...since it demands the exit to the outside of the atmosphere.

How inauspicious. Going to heaven with Devil Ray.

Then why don't we call it The Sky?

The weather on the operations day is expected to be fine.

Then, how about Azure?

Azure...?

What does it mean?

It means blue and big sky.

Cool.

So it is.

We will begin Operation Azure 16 hours from now.

Then I will wait for you at the hangar.

Um...

What is it?

If... I come back alive... can I call you Mom?

Yes... I am waiting for your return, Canon.

Sis, is it true?

Yeah.

The first natural conception in 30 years.

Michio-san's...

...child.

He kept the promise... this way...

You tell my child that there is still a way, that there is hope.

Dad, I want you to teach me something when I return.

What is it?

How to use clay to bake plates...

Yeah. I'll teach you the things I learned from your mother.

Thank you... Dad.

Everyone, give me your arms.

Arm?

Yeah.

Here. Next. Kenji.

Some kind of spell?

Those are the coordinates of Tatsumiya Island.

Right! The letters of promise to come back for sure.

Canon, you too.

Yeah. Please.

Thank you.

Maya.

Let me write yours.

Yeah. Please.

Let's go... and let's come back.

Preview

The white battlefield.

Individual justice.

Go back to the island alive.

Next Fafner episode number twenty-five.

Episode 25 SYMBIOSIS (The Final Battle)

Episode 25 SYMBIOSIS (The Final Battle) Symbiosis.

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