"Shun!" "Why?" "Shun..." "Are you all right?" "It is good that we have reunited." "Where is Inui-san?" "I..." "Shun..." "Where is Satoru?" "He is in a cave nearby." "so I left alone to find you and Inui-san." "Injured?" "It is nothing grave." "How did he get injured?" "a piece of rock hit him from above." "There are far fewer bats now." "Let us hurry." "353)}UTW 394)}Presents" "259)}ＳＨＩＮＳＥＫＡＩ 395)}ＹＯＲＩ" "353)}UTW 394)}Presents" "259)}ＳＨＩＮＳＥＫＡＩ 395)}ＹＯＲＩ" "454)}Episode Twenty-Four 523)}The Bonfires in the Darkness" "Saki!" "I'm so glad you're okay." "I was worried." "Where's Inui-san?" "He died." "A giant ragworm attacked him." "He would have survived on his own." "But he tried to protect me..." "Saki." "I found it." "It wouldn't have been possible without Inui-san." "You found it?" "Do you mean... look." "Careful." "We're doomed if it breaks." "I think it's enough if we smash it open in his path when the time comes." "Okay." "No." "You're injured." "I'll carry it." "I'm not injured so badly that I can't smash this open." "But I can do the job too." "then." "I'll go first." "Lingering too long is dangerous." "Let us move out." "What do we do now?" "we have fulfilled our main objective." "Withdrawing for the time being seems sound to me." "this might be an incredibly rare opportunity." "has only a weak escort and is close to our position." "There is another advantage to this." "The enemy believes they are hunting us but in their dazed pursuit they will not realize until the end that they have become the hunted." "they do not know that we have obtained the Psychobuster." "Should we really pass up this chance?" "The stink is terrible." "It is bat guano." "but for some reason I do not seem to evoke much fascination." "Why?" "I guess they are not very interested in me to begin with." "even if left to my own devices." "Kiroumaru dealt them a serious blow." "Maybe they want to keep their distance." "He took out seven of them." "That many?" "This is not good." "It has begun to rain." "Let us make haste." "We can only wager it all on one push now." "This tunnel goes on for a kilometer before reaching the surface." "It helps greatly that there are hardly any junctions for the length of the tunnel." "Why does that help?" "It means we can only escape in one direction." "The enemy can only come from one direction as well." "We can easily keep them at a distance." "There are many curves and bends along the tunnel so you will not be in view of the Fiend until he has caught up with you." "we should not get lost." "Is this really such a smart idea?" "There is no better place for our purposes." "The main advantage is the breeze here." "huh?" "You're right." "This is a bad omen." "The rain is heavier than I had expected." "but it has become quite unreliable." "Well then." "I shall lead them in." "I pray for your safety." "The footing here is better than expected." "You okay?" "Remember the way back?" "I only get lost when there are junctions." "There's only one way to go here." "Shouldn't I carry that?" "Your arms are injured." "This is no big deal." "I'm good at throwing things." "But..." "We'd be in big trouble if you stumbled and crushed this." "Will it all work out?" "We're trying to kill a human being." "Stop it." "Don't think about it." "We're only going to smash this open in his path." "The Fiend won't die immediately either." "Sorry." "I shouldn't have said that." "Don't worry." "We just have to fulfill our mission." "Let's ignore everything else." "Okay." "But is Maria's and Mamoru's child really a Fiend?" "That again?" "You know how many villagers he's slaughtered!" "How can he not be a Fiend?" "I saw it too." "We can think about it all once we've stopped him." "I just can't shake off the feeling..." "Cut it out!" "Why do you keep saying things that make it so complicated?" "!" "Sorry!" "But listen!" "I can't help but feel that maybe he just doesn't know that he's human!" "So?" "We have to stop him anyway!" "Everyone in the villages is going to die if we don't!" "I know that!" "I know!" "But it's Maria's child!" "Shouldn't we at least give him a chance?" "A chance?" "Are you out of your mind?" "What if there's a way to let him know he's human?" "This—" "The hunt..." "It has begun." "That's Kiroumaru!" "What do you mean?" "The rain will wash away our scent trail." "We need to goad them into attacking us before they can consider the situation." "We need a better bait... a more obvious bait for that." "Hold on." "What do you mean?" "even if it is only for a moment." "the Fiend should lose his composure and pursue you." "Are you crazy?" "You're telling us to play Tag with the Fiend?" "We're done for if we get in his line of sight." "Impossible." "We can't possibly do that." "Impossible?" "What do you mean?" "But..." "We..." "How many do you think have been sacrificed to get you this far?" "They all died so you could have this one moment this one chance to defeat the Fiend." "Did they not trust you enough that they were willing to pay the ultimate price?" "you're right." "with one goal in mind." "I cannot force you." "I would be no more than a worm crushed by your wrath should I invoke your ire." "The decision is yours to make." "They're coming!" "Saki." "Saki!" "It's okay." "They seem to be moving slowly." "This is strange." "Shun?" "This is strange." "Don't you agree?" "Strange?" "What's strange?" "Can't you hear it?" "Watch out!" "It's a trap!" "Why?" "Don't you see?" "You aren't being chased by the Fiend." "Saki... this is a trap." "What are you talking about?" "The Fiend isn't coming after us." "Any idea why?" "Hell if I know!" "We need to get going or they'll catch up!" "Let's go back." "Go back where?" "The direction we came from." "But the Fiend's there!" "he isn't." "Don't you get it?" "This was a trap." "Yakomaru predicted which way we'd run and made the tunnel collapse." "Is Kiroumaru in on it too?" "I don't know." "it's suicide to keep on going." "The enemy's lying in ambush." "We've been played!" "Let's run." "What's wrong?" "I'll try what you suggested!" "If he realizes what he is..." "That boy was raised by the queerats so he thinks he's a queerat himself." "What do you think will happen when he looks into a mirror?" "A mirror?" "from what I've seen." "but what if he realizes he looks like his human enemies?" "Look closely." "You're human." "You're Maria and Mamoru's child." "Watch out!" "Run!" "Satoru!" "run!" "I'll end it here." "No!" "Stop!" "Take this!" "This would put an end to it all." "Our mission would finally be over." "No matter what became of us the Fiend would go down." "and peace and order would be restored." "No." "the Psychobuster will infect both Satoru and the Fiend." "I've lost my loved ones." "My sister." "Shun." "Then Maria and Mamoru." "I'll be all alone." "I'll be the only one left from Group One." "Is this truly the will of the gods?" "No!" "Run!" "Saki..." "Just hurry up!" "Kiroumaru?" "That way!" "He still has not come after us." "They might be treating his burns first." "Where are we going now?" "I do not know." "Let us put some distance between ourselves and the Fiend for now." "I'm sorry." "It's my fault that the Psychobuster went to waste." "There is no time to lament that." "Concentrate on the path ahead." "Yakomaru's soldiers might be lying in ambush." "I smell the Fiend." "They have finally caught up to us." "It seems they know that we are here." "We're finished." "the Psychobuster." "This is the end." "It might be too early to give up." "You've got an idea?" "No." "I do not believe there is a way out." "Yakomaru appears to have no immediate solution for this either." "We still have our last resort." "If you can accept being buried alive along with the enemy you can collapse the cave using your Cantus." "Is that Yakomaru's fear?" "Is that why he's not attacking us?" "He might be having trouble coming up with his final move." "Let us negotiate." "Yakomaru." "Shall we try to avoid more unnecessary bloodshed?" "What a load of crap." "Please answer me." "but we are of similar intelligence." "but surely negotiations can overcome them." "Engaging in dialogue would be the first step." "Don't answer him." "They wish to use our voices to locate us." "Satoru." "I was a fool." "I was afraid you'd be infected too..." "It's okay." "I understand." "I ruined our chance to deal with the Fiend." "I'm going to die regretting it." "there is a saying that goes complain to the grave worms when you are lying next to them." "You are too fond of giving up." "Our kind seeks to find a way to turn the tables until our dying moments." "we lose nothing by trying." "There's something I've wanted to ask you." "Go on." "Why did you come to Tokyo all this time ago?" "I suppose I can tell you now." "We came to find weapons of mass destruction left behind by the ancient civilization." "With them we could have replaced humans as the dominant species on the planet." "I thought we were allies." "What are allies?" "We swore loyalty to mankind and served you." "That was the only way to ensure our survival." "But we had no way of telling when the winds of fortune would change." "A number of colonies have been wiped out for entirely obscure reasons." "You wanted to destroy mankind?" "We might have tried if there was a reasonable hope of success." "But we could not find anything here." "We were not trying to oppose mankind out of mere whim nor were we driven by a lust for conquest." "All we wished for was the survival and prosperity of our colony." "Interesting." "Kiroumaru may be the key to resolving this situation." "That's not a Fiend." "And if that's the case... don't you?" "up on the surface." "What happened to it?" "Saki?" "I think—" "He is coming." "The Fiend is coming." "He is two or three meters away." "He has passed by." "He must have joined Yakomaru and the others." "What's going on?" "Why didn't he attack?" "They might be afraid we might launch a suicide attack against Yakomaru." "you could kill them all." "we can retreat that way." "It might be an attempt to force our hand." "We should escape even if it's a trap." "There won't be another chance." "Wait." "That's not a Fiend." "Saki?" "We were so ignorant." "yet we simply folded our arms let them all slip away." "What do you mean?" "We might still have a chance." "but..." "Well..." "We can still turn it all around." "Saki?" "try to make some sense." "We can do it." "We can defeat him." "340)}Nani mo iranai 340)}Nani mo iranai" "340)}何もいらない 340)}何もいらない" "340)}I need nothing else 340)}I need nothing else" "340)}Anata ga ireba ii 340)}Anata ga ireba ii" "340)}あなたがいればいい 340)}あなたがいればいい" "340)}When you are by my side 340)}When you are by my side" "340)}Sotto yokogao iki wo korosu 340)}Sotto yokogao iki wo korosu" "340)}そっと横顔 息を殺す 340)}そっと横顔 息を殺す" "340)}I look at you in profile and hold my breath 340)}I look at you in profile and hold my breath" "340)}Mabataki sureba kieteshimaisou de 340)}Mabataki sureba kieteshimaisou de" "340)}まばたきすれば消えてしまいそうで 340)}まばたきすれば消えてしまいそうで" "340)}I'm afraid it might vanish like an illusion if I blink now 340)}I'm afraid it might vanish like an illusion if I blink now" "340)}Mitsumesasete suki da yo 340)}Mitsumesasete suki da yo" "340)}凝視めさせて好きだよ 340)}凝視めさせて好きだよ" "I love you" "I love you 340)}Ah klgl ga furue furidashita yuki" "340)}Ah klgl ga furue furidashita yuki 340)}ああ 木々が震え 降り出した雪" "340)}ああ 木々が震え 降り出した雪 340)}The trees shake in the wind and snow gathers on the ground" "340)}The trees shake in the wind and snow gathers on the ground 340)}Ashiato futatsu shiroku" "340)}Ashiato futatsu shiroku 340)}足跡 ふたつ 白く" "340)}足跡 ふたつ 白く 340)}Two lines of white footprints show" "340)}Two lines of white footprints show 340)}Toki yo tsumore" "340)}Toki yo tsumore 340)}時よ 積もれ" "340)}時よ 積もれ gather gather" "340)}Kami ni mune ni futari dake no yume ni 340)}Kami ni mune ni futari dake no yume ni" "340)}髪に 胸に ふたりだけの夢に 340)}髪に 胸に ふたりだけの夢に our dream our dream" "340)}Sakenai hana no 340)}Sakenai hana no" "340)}咲けない花の 340)}咲けない花の" "340)}This flower cannot bloom 340)}This flower cannot bloom" "340)}Tane wa yuki ni dakare 340)}Tane wa yuki ni dakare" "340)}種は雪に抱かれ 340)}種は雪に抱かれ" "340)}And the snow embraces its seeds 340)}And the snow embraces its seeds" "340)}Yorisou no 340)}Yorisou no" "340)}寄り添うの 340)}寄り添うの" "340)}As they huddle together 340)}As they huddle together" "340)}Shizuka ni wasureraretai 340)}Shizuka ni wasureraretai" "340)}静かに忘れられたい 340)}静かに忘れられたい" "340)}Quietly they wish to be able to forget 340)}Quietly they wish to be able to forget" "358)}FROM THE NEW WORLD"