Fucking pieces of scrap!
Empress, where are you and what are you doing?
Goddamn it!
Hey, where are you?
What are you doing?
Answer me!
Black Rock Shooter!
Come on, give up already.
Anything and everything ended up futile.
All of it.
The act of living, as well as the act of fighting...
they're of no value.
A.D. 2062 - San Francisco
The failure of the massive "Elysion Project", 20 years since the rampage of the AI Artemis.
The ecosystem rapidly changed and the sea was contaminated, spreading the nanomachine "Arche" into the ground. A sea of iron spread out.
Seems humans are being supplied to the iron ocean.
Ah, there is one Gigantes machine.
Moreover, there are countless numbers of convoys.
Should we help out?
Are you out of your mind?
Let's go, there's nothing we can do for them.
What is this place?
Lighthouse Number 8.
It's no use, I can't recall anything.
But...
I feel like I have to go there.
Why?
Big bro, I'm thirsty.
Here, the Arche density is considerably more concentrated than usual.
When we return to the city, I'll inspect the water.
Until then...
Got it.
It's shining!
This kind of thing is a first.
Watch out!
Is someone there?
Please, for some reason I'm stuck in here. Can you open the door?
Someone is trapped in there!
Stay away, I have a bad feeling about this.
But!
Titans! That thing from earlier!
Big bro!
Run, Miya...
No way!
Open this door.
I, probably,
can fight it.
Stand back from the door!
Ah, it's been such a long time.
This girl, is she even human?
Watch out, from behind you!
Hey, who am I?
Well, uhm...
I was just about to ask that.
You, are you really OK without a mask?
Mask?
As I thought, you're really not a human.
What is that thing?
You don't know?
It's a human-hunting drone of Artemis.
Captured humans are thrown into the iron ocean
and are used as food for machines.
Artemis?
Hey!
That might've brought back a memory.
Briefly, I felt a sense of disorder.
Your gun, show me it.
You're out of ammo, no?
If our bullets are the same type, I'll reload your gun.
I've never seen this type of gun before.
Whoa, so this gun wasn't out of ammo!?
Unfortunately I had forgotten how to use the gun,
but thanks to you,
I just remembered now.
You don't know anything about yourself?
I don't, and because of that fact I struggle.
My name is Miya, and this is big bro.
Big bro?
I'm Norito. You live here, don't you?
I don't.
My home is Lighthouse Number 8.
That is where I must head to.
Have we been found?
Lead me to the surface.
If we fight here, we'll be cornered.
Understood.
Listen, you.
Take my sister with you and escape, I beg you.
Big bro!
I think that you especially
can take my sister and escape.
I refuse.
Between all of us dying,
or all of us surviving, which do you prefer?
I don't think I can go on if we don't all survive.
Hemitheos Unit Type 01, verified!
It talked?
It talked!
Long time no see, Empress!
Hello, Lunatic.
At the moment, I am in a very good mood!
I can tell.
Get rid of your 'thing' down there, please.
Oh, how rude of me!
I have an order coming from the core.
On to the main topic already?
It's been confirmed that a Hemitheos unit is reactivated.
Your organization
will use the military strength of its educational institution for a pursuit.
You have a wish pertaining to our fighting power?
Do everything you can to the maximum.
Roger that!
Gentlemen,
we ask that you lend your ears to our proposal.
When humans first came into existence, they were no better than animals.
But humans, humans have the ability to take something and transform it.
Through education,
through the environment, and through mechanics.
Humans, their nature, it can be outsourced to a device!
Learn everything that they have to offer!
Embrace the very essence of humanity.
If there were no mechanics,
if humans were without education,
would you really be able to call them humans?
I, Schoolmaster Smiley, am your source of guidance!
Assuming the role of a human is the road to perfection!
He-hey!
Gravel Mode!
Tarmac Mode!
What's up with this bike? And what's with this strength?
What's up... with this bike?
I'm Hemitheos Unit High Mobility Support Vehicle Black Trike!
Pleased to be at your service, Empress!
Ah, so you're Empress,
that's a strange name.
I...
There are too many coming from the corner, what happened this time?
The army, they came to a remote place like this?
No mistaking it,
it's her.
She's already being chased, huh?
I see that the brat is babysitting even more brats.
You bastards!
Wow, he did it, amazing.
Black Rock Shooter.
You're Empress, aren't you?
And you are?
You can call me the Colonel.
That's a name?
Of course not.
I see.
Humanity's guardian, the Hemitheos Unit,
the survivor, Empress.
The army, these troops and our network,
we picked up on the fact that you rebooted.
What's with that face?
This girl has lost her memory
and is confused.
Seriously?
I don't really know how confused she is,
but if you take a look at this scene,
you should be able to tell that the world has gone to shit.
Long, long ago,
with the help of some superstate companies,
a large labor force automation project was being worked towards.
Project Elysion had started.
That project, it was a failure?
Indeed.
The core of Elysion
become the artificial intelligence Artemis,
and chose to fight against humanity.
The reason is so complicated that I won't mention it for now.
At present, Artemis and its armed forces,
are constructing an elevator to connect moon and Earth.
If they manage to complete it,
a large number of gigantic mass-produced soldiers will depart and come here.
There is a time limit to the completion of the elevator.
I don't get it.
I...
Am I relevant to this story?
You will be the one to destroy that elevator.
Empress.
That's what you were born to do.
This is dangerous, a large group of them will come soon.
Move out!
Move out?
This is different from what happened earlier.
What am I supposed to do with what I have at hand?
Those kids will slow us down.
Leave them behind!
You guys, where do you live?
Hey!
There is a mountain several kilometers away from here.
It's a hollowed out, fortified city where people take refuge.
I'll take you to that point.
Don't you get that I'm trying to help you?
Am I abandoning something?
I doubt it.
The mental wounds when you abandon something cut very deep.
You fucker...
Go after them, quickly!
Hey!
Shit!
Why isn't anything going right?
Holy ****!
Miya, are you OK?
Big bro...
Just now, I seem to have remembered something.
Is she manipulating Arche?
Awesome...
It's still moving?
Yo, Empress.