Ricerca: The scan of Ryoko Kaminagi's meta-body data is now complete. Dita: These results are unlike anything I've ever seen. Dita: The lost and damaged areas have been almost perfectly filled in. Chris: That is impossible! Lu-Shen: Data can't be reconstructed. Lu-Shen: Once it's been lost, it's lost. Dita: I never said that it matched up with the raw data. Dita: I believe the repaired areas of Dita: Ryoko's meta-body came from none other than Sin herself. Shima: Well then... Shima: Does this present any threat to us? Ricerca: There don't appear to be any malignant programs or codes buried in her, sir. Kyo: Then, that means Kaminagi is back to normal, right? Fosseta: Negative. Fosseta: The data clusters that comprise Kaminagi's emotions are still trapped within the Altair's meta-body buffer. Fosseta: Thus, Fosseta: they can only be reintegrated with her during entanglement with the Altair. Kyo: Oh, I see. Minato: Wait, so then, Minato: all it did was randomly fill in the holes. Shima: Enough. Shima: Continue work on the repairs to the Oceanus. Shima: Make especially sure we're not carrying any foreign objects. Fosseta: Aye, sir. May-Yen: Still though, May-Yen: Why on earth would Sin bother to heal Ryoko? Fosseta: Answer unknown. Fosseta: But it may have been an act of good will on Sin's part. May-Yu: Good will? May-Yu: From a Reconstructant? Chris: Damn things aren't even human. Chris: Like hell are they interested in doing us favors. Kyo: Kaminagi... Kurashige: All right then, my jaded teenagers. Kurashige: I'd like to introduce our newest transfer student. Kurashige: Miss Shizuno Misaki. Shizuno: Thank you. Kurashige: I know you'll all make her feel welcome. Mizuki: Hey, Mizuki: you're really into movies, aren't you? Mizuki: Yeah, Mizuki: you're reading a collection of screenplays again. Mizuki: I always see you with one of them. Kaminagi: Yes. Mizuki: My name's Mizuki. Mizuki: Mizuki Tachibana. Mizuki: So, what kind of movies do you like? Kaminagi: Like? Mizuki: "Last Year at Marienbad" is my favorite! Girl: Mizuki, come on. Kaminagi: Hm? Girl: We're waiting on you to start the match. Kaminagi: I'm coming, okay? Kaminagi: Keep your shirt on. Mizuki: How would the tennis club survive without me? Mizuki: See you later, Kaminagi! Girl: Hurry! Kyo: Kaminagi. Kaminagi: Huh? Kyo: Time to go. Kyo: Um... Kyo: Yeah, so anyway... Kyo: You're good as new again, Kaminagi! Kyo: Isn't that awesome? Kaminagi: Yes. Kyo: I know Sin's the enemy and all, Kyo: but that was pretty cool. Kyo: I'm just saying... Kaminagi: Right. Kyo: I know! Kyo: Kaminagi, Kyo: you feel like going and having some fun? Kyo: I know the Maihama server's kinda on the small side, Kyo: but I bet there's at least a few new places we haven't been yet! Kyo: Let's celebrate together! Kaminagi: It won't work. Kyo: Huh? Kaminagi: How I am now, Kaminagi: I can't feel anything. Kyo: Not yet... Kaminagi: I have my memories and I'm awake. Kaminagi: Behaving logically will get me through my days. Kaminagi: I feel nothing. Kaminagi: That part is gone. Kaminagi: So please, Kaminagi: stop. Kyo: Kaminagi... Kyo: I'm not forcing myself to do anything! Kyo: Of course, you know I want to go out and have fun with you. Kyo: Come on, Kaminagi! Kyo: What do you say? Kyo: Anywhere you want to go. Kyo: Just say the word. Kaminagi: It doesn't matter. Kyo: Huh? Kyo: Now you're just being stubborn. Kyo: Doesn't anything sound like fun? Kyo: Anything. Cat: You can hear the big news! Cat: What's up? Cat: The town's only market just run out of ??? Cat: What ??? There has to be! Cat: This is terrible. Cat: [Yes, she's done before.] Koji: I'm going to bed now. Koji: Good night, you guys. Kyo: Yeah, get some sleep, Koji. Kyo: Oh, and remember to brush. Kyo: Ah, is it over? Kyo: So, um, Kyo: D'you like movies? Kaminagi: I don't know. Kaminagi: But, Kaminagi: I think that I enjoyed watching them. Kyo: That's good. Kaminagi: You don't have to do this. Kyo: I'm not forcing myself! Kyo: I'm watching movies with you because I want to, okay, Kaminagi? Actress: No. He's coming after me! Actress: I've gotta get out of here, now! Kyo: What was she? Kyo: Why'd she come? Actress: ??? NO!!! Kyo: She goes through all the trouble infiltrating the Oceanus, Kyo: just to wander around asking weird questions. Sin: And you! Why do you fight, Sin: when you have no future? Kaminagi: She wanted to know. Kaminagi: Honestly. Kaminagi: She wanted to know why we keep fighting them. Kyo: You actually talk to her?! Kaminagi: I told her there was something irreplaceable. Kaminagi: And I didn't want to lose it. Kaminagi: I have to protect it. Kaminagi: And when I said that, Kaminagi: she finally understood. Kaminagi: Hey, Kyo? Kaminagi: So, how's the swim club? Kaminagi: Is the club okay? Kaminagi: I know that... Kaminagi: that Shizuno transferred to our school today. Kyo: Yeah. Kyo: It wasn't a dream. Kyo: Shizuno Misaki led me to that place, Kyo: we rode in that shining robot. Kyo: And then... Kyo: a passionate kiss from her... Kyo: Man, could this movie get any more lame? Kyo: Huh. How about we watch another one! Kyo: Hey. Kyo: I've heard good things about this one. Kyo: Let's give it a whirl. Kyo: Let's get rid of this old crappy thing. Kyo: Okay. Kyo: Oh, so this one's about Robin Hood, huh? Kyo: Hm, that's the dude in the tights, Kyo: shoots an apple on some guy's head, right? Kyo: Alright, let's get started! Kyo: Oh, hey, Kaminagi, Kyo: you want some chips? Kyo: Kyo, Kaminagi: a moment ago. Kyo: Ah, yeah, that. Kyo: That was nothing, it's nothing at all... Kyo: Ah, just forget about it, okay? Kaminagi: But I know the truth, Kyo. Kaminagi: It was William Tell who shot an apple. Minato: Commander? Commander! Minato: I didn't mean to startle you. Minato: It looked like you were having a nightmare. Minato: Here. Minato: I guess even commanders are allowed to have the occasional bad dream. Shima: Round and round it goes. Shima: Unsubstantial is any dream. Shima: We have dreams too. Shima: Perhaps, Shima: the people in our dreams have dreams of their own. Shima: And why shouldn't they. Minato: That could be. Minato: And maybe we're just dreams someone else is having. Shizuno: That may be truer than you think. Shizuno: [Perhaps the only purpose we serve is to fill what'd pass for the servers' brains as they sleep.] Shima: Minato, Shima: would you please wait outside? Minato: Yes. Shizuno: How's it look? Shima: Time marches on. Shima: And faster than we'd anticipated. Shizuno: I see. Shima: I wanted our position to be more secure before we tried it, but... Shizuno: Do we have a chance? Shima: That depends on you and Kyo. Shima: How is he? Shizuno: He has the combat skills, of course. Shizuno: It all depends on his state of mind. Shima: So long as Kyo will fight, Shima: his private life isn't my concern. Kaminagi: Oceanus, Kaminagi: this is the Altair. Kaminagi: Romeo sector is empty. Kaminagi: Patrol duty is complete. Kaminagi: Requesting clearance for return transmission. Dita: Altair, this is the Oceanus. Dita: You're clear for return transmission. Kaminagi: Transmission preparations, complete. Kaminagi: Q.L. level at two minutes to return limit. Kyo: It's already over? Kaminagi: Yeah. Kyo: Feels short. Kaminagi: Yeah, I know it does. Kaminagi: It's because you're a bird. Kaminagi: As long as you have strength in your wings, Kaminagi: you should fly free. Kaminagi: But once in a while, Kaminagi: you should come back to the tree, Kaminagi: if you still feel like it. Kaminagi: 'Cause I'll always be right here, Kaminagi: waiting for you. Kyo: Really? Kaminagi: Cheesy. Kaminagi: It's a line from that movie. Kaminagi: Don't tell me you've forgotten it already, Kyo. Kyo: Huh? Kyo: Yeah, I've forgotten it. Kyo: I mean, we only watched like a million of them at once. Kaminagi: So, how come? Kyo: So, how come what? Kaminagi: How come you didn't just go for it? Kyo: Go for what? Kaminagi: The smooch. Kyo: Wha?! Kyo: What the hell are you talking about? There's no way I was trying to-- Kaminagi: I wouldn't have minded. Kyo: You're crazy. I was just reaching for a movie! Kaminagi: Oooh, is somebody blushing up there? Kyo: I am not! Kaminagi: But seriously, thank you. Kaminagi: For being with me. Kyo: My pleasure. Kaminagi: One minute of Q.L. remaining. Kyo: Begin transmission. A.I.: Entangle, time out. Kyo: Kyo? Kaminagi: Until next time. Mizuki: Go Maihama Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Mizuki: Ah! Ryoko! Mizuki: You gotta help me! Kaminagi: What a... Mizuki: Shhh! Girl: Did you find her yet? Girl: No! Girl: Did you? Girl: Oh... Where'd Mizuki run off to? Girl: Let's check out that hallway! Girl: Right! Ricerca: Whew! Sorry about that. Mizuki: Hanging out with them in practice is okay, Mizuki: but now they want me go to their away matches, too! Mizuki: Like any member of the drama club has time for all that. Mizuki: Oh! Mizuki: You started writing a screenplay? Kaminagi: Yeah. Mizuki: So, which is the real one? Kaminagi: Huh? Mizuki: These titles. Kaminagi: I haven't decided yet. Kaminagi: I might go with something entirely different. Kaminagi: I'm not sure. Girl: Oh! There she is! Mizuki: Agh! Girl: Mizuki! Mizuki: Come on, guys! Mizuki: Gimme a break already! Mizuki: Can't you find anybody else? Mizuki: I'm really busy with my drama stuff. Kyo: It's a manufactured world. Kyo: Great. Tomigai: Sogoru! Tomigai: Hey! Tomigai: Here you are! Tomigai: I've been looking all over for you! Tomigai: Why haven't you been coming to school lately, huh? Tomigai: Mr. Kurashige said he hadn't heard anything from you. Tomigai: He said he was worried. Tomigai: You haven't been showing up to the swim club, either. Tomigai: Are you feeling sick? Tomigai: Well, are you? Kyo: Who cares. Kyo: Does it matter? Tomigai: Well, I do. Kyo: Tomigai! Tomigai: Yeah? Kyo: Yaki soba rolls! Tomigai: Now you're talking! Ushio: Well, well. Ushio: Look who's still alive, you guys. Hayase: Too cool for school. Hayase: Is that the idea? Ushio: Finally give up on your dinky little swim club? Hayase: Good job, quitter. Hayase: That didn't take long. Hayase: Though I figured you would crash and burn with you in charge. Ushio: Yeah. Ushio: The swim club deserved to crash and burn. Ushio: I mean, Ushio: look at the coward who's running it. Kawaguchi: Hey, Kawaguchi: you think you can just ignore us like that? Kyo: Pretty much. Kawaguchi: What'd you say? Kawaguchi: Bring it on! Kawaguchi: Don't run away. Kawaguchi: What're you? Kawaguchi: Chickenshit or something? Kyo: Today, Kyo: Okita from the ping-pong club sprained his ankle in PE. Kawaguchi: Huh? Kyo: All the tropical fish Kurage was keeping died, Kyo: and he was really down about it. Kyo: And tomorrow, Kyo: Omizu is going to bring in some neon tetras from home, Kyo: and let him have a couple. Kyo: Our lives are fake! Kyo: Nothing but an illusion. Kyo: Same shit, different day. Kawaguchi: Nothing but an illusion, huh? Kawaguchi: You're not only a coward but an idiot, too. Kyo: All of us are just... Kawaguchi: Go ahead then, we're all just what? Kawaguchi: Agh, yeah, that's right. Kawaguchi: You got nothing to say, you big liar! Kyo: I'm just telling you the truth. Kawaguchi: Are you giving up on the swim club?! Kawaguchi: Why are you being such a god damned loser! Kyo: You son of a bitch! Kaminagi: Kyo, you shouldn't be getting into fights with them. Kaminagi: Those three guys are your friends. Remember? Kyo: Doesn't matter, anyway. Kyo: In five months, they won't remember Kyo: a single damn thing I said or done. Kaminagi: Even so, Kaminagi: try to be nice. Kyo: Why should I? Kaminagi: Because Kaminagi: why bite them over and over again when you can choose to be happy instead. Kaminagi: Make sense? Kyo: Sure. Kaminagi: Oh! Look at that! Kaminagi: Kyo, take us down there, okay? Kaminagi: Wow! Kaminagi: They're so beautiful. Kaminagi: Come on, Kyo. Kaminagi: Let's go look at them! Shima: What's our status? Minato: Commander. Minato: The ship is currently traveling south above off of Australia's western coast. Minato: The Altair is patrolling the area behind us. Minato: There's no sign of Gardsorm forces anywhere nearby. Shima: Once the Altair is transferred back to us, set a new heading for Japan. Lu-Shen: Japan? Shima: Our new destination is the Maihama server. Lu-Shen: Commander Shima! Shima: Lu-Shen? Lu-Shen: With all due respect, I'd like to ask why we're returning to the Maihama server. Shima: This troubles you somehow? Chris: Anytime the Oceanus gets near it, Chris: the odds of the enemy waltzing in behind us and finding it go way up. Chris: Shouldn't we be avoiding the server like the plague unless we absolutely have to get close? Lu-Shen: What's more, this ship was recently infiltrated by the enemy. Lu-Shen: Don't you think this is a bad time for us to take a needless risk? Shizuno: Maintenance. Shizuno: We need to inspect the server's quantum transmission system. Shizuno: Fosetta. Fosseta: Yes. Fosseta: For as of late, the server's error rate has been increasing. Fosseta: The increase is slight, but it's growing steadily. Fosseta: I believe that fixing the server now Fosseta: before a major malfunction Fosseta: would prove to be the least risky scenario. Shima: There you have it. Shima: I trust that will suffice. Fosseta: Something wrong? Lu-Shen: No. Lu-Shen: It's nothing at all. Kaminagi: Beautiful. Kaminagi: Kyo, have you heard this one? Kaminagi: Once upon a time, Kaminagi: two lovers were forced to be apart. Kaminagi: the woman was so sad in by this Kaminagi: that her body transformed Kaminagi: and she turned into the lily. Kyo: Yeah. Kyo: That's an old legend from the Caucasus, right? Kaminagi: Wow. Kaminagi: I wouldn't expect you to know that. Kaminagi: I mean, Kaminagi: you are the guy who got Robin Hood wrong! Kyo: You know there's a bit more to that legend. Kyo: In order to ensure that the girl who'd become the lily Kyo: would always have enough water, Kyo: the Gods transformed her lover into a rain cloud. Kyo: In order to be together, Kyo: they both gave up being human. Kyo: Kaminagi. Kyo: Are the two of us even human anymore? Kaminagi: What? Kyo: Between us Cerebrants, Kyo: looking at this real scenery, Kyo: and the guys living in the artificial world of the Maihama server, Kyo: which of us are real? Kaminagi: I don't know... Kyo: I don't... Kyo: I don't hurt anymore. Kyo: When Kawaguchi punched me, Kyo: I really wanted to hit him back. Kyo: But then the urge just died. Kyo: It pissed me off, Kyo: because, no matter how hard he hit me, Kyo: it didn't hurt. And... Kyo: I thought I was able to take it because everything is fake. Kyo: That's not the reason. Kyo: I just can't feel anything. Kyo: Even if I manage to make up with them in five months, Kyo: when the reset comes, I'll have to start all over again! Kyo: Fight and make up, fight and make up, it's never ending. Kyo: There's just no point to it. Kyo: But even though it's pointless, Kyo: they go through it like it matters. Kyo: Even in that fake world, they live their lives with meaning! Kyo: I'm starting to wonder Kyo: if all those people in the server are more real than me! Kaminagi: None of the above, Kyo. Kaminagi: All meta-bodies are fake. Kyo: What're you... Kaminagi: A real person can actually touch these beautiful flowers around us. Kaminagi: Real people can... Kaminagi: Real people can live in this world and truly be a part of it! Kyo: Truly be a part of this world? Kaminagi: Yeah, like that girl Sin I met before. Kyo: I hate these goddamn flowers. Kyo: Why can't I touch them?! Why? Kaminagi: Kyo, I... Kyo: Why? Kyo: So, what the hell are we? Kyo: What good are we if we can't even do this? Kyo: It's an ambush. Dita: The Altair has made contact with the enemy! Dita: Preparing to engage them! Shima: Garuda! Hraesvelg! Scramble and attack! Kyo: Stay out of this! Kyo: This isn't your fight. A.I.: Zegapain Altair, starting up. Kyo: These bastards are mine! Kyo: No! It's a lie! Kyo: All of it's a big lie! Kyo: I don't believe it. Kyo: I refuse to accept it! Kyo: We're all fakes? Kyo: That's the story? Kyo: We're all just illusions?! Kyo: Why? Because our bodies were destroyed?! Kyo: 'Cause we can't touch some stupid fucking flowers?! Kyo: That's impossible, okay?! Kyo: And I don't care what sort of shit you throw at me! Kyo: I will not believe Kyo: that you things are more real than me! Kaminagi: The flowers... Kaminagi: They're burning. Kyo: I'm sorry. Kyo: I know you like them. Kaminagi: We can't even... Kaminagi: We can't even die like flowers, can we? Kyo: It isn't true. Kyo: It... it can't be true. Kyo: But even if it's true right now, Kyo: we will be real again. Kyo: We will be human again! Kaminagi: I believe you. Kyo: We will. Kyo: I swear it to you. Kyo: We'll stand here again. Kyo: We'll touch these flowers! Lu-Shen: Someone has transmitted the location of the Maihama server to the Gardsorm. Lu-Shen: The Anti-Zega Coatlicue is now coming to destroy it! Lu-Shen: Why isn't Shima trying to defend it? Lu-Shen: I have a feeling I know who gave them the server's coordinates. Lu-Shen: And why do you look like your duties have gotten the better of you? Lu-Shen: After all, Lu-Shen: you made your bet, Shizuno. Lu-Shen: Now you have no choice but to lie in it. Lu-Shen: Next time, on Zegapain: Lu-Shen: Last Supper. Lu-Shen: My pain, never to be forgotten.
Dita: These results are unlike anything I've ever seen.
Dita: The lost and damaged areas have been almost perfectly filled in.
Chris: That is impossible!
Lu-Shen: Data can't be reconstructed.
Lu-Shen: Once it's been lost, it's lost.
Dita: I never said that it matched up with the raw data.
Dita: I believe the repaired areas of
Dita: Ryoko's meta-body came from none other than Sin herself.
Shima: Well then...
Shima: Does this present any threat to us?
Ricerca: There don't appear to be any malignant programs or codes buried in her, sir.
Kyo: Then, that means Kaminagi is back to normal, right?
Fosseta: Negative.
Fosseta: The data clusters that comprise Kaminagi's emotions are still trapped within the Altair's meta-body buffer.
Fosseta: Thus,
Fosseta: they can only be reintegrated with her during entanglement with the Altair.
Kyo: Oh, I see.
Minato: Wait, so then,
Minato: all it did was randomly fill in the holes.
Shima: Enough.
Shima: Continue work on the repairs to the Oceanus.
Shima: Make especially sure we're not carrying any foreign objects.
Fosseta: Aye, sir.
May-Yen: Still though,
May-Yen: Why on earth would Sin bother to heal Ryoko?
Fosseta: Answer unknown.
Fosseta: But it may have been an act of good will on Sin's part.
May-Yu: Good will?
May-Yu: From a Reconstructant?
Chris: Damn things aren't even human.
Chris: Like hell are they interested in doing us favors.
Kyo: Kaminagi...
Kurashige: All right then, my jaded teenagers.
Kurashige: I'd like to introduce our newest transfer student.
Kurashige: Miss Shizuno Misaki.
Shizuno: Thank you.
Kurashige: I know you'll all make her feel welcome.
Mizuki: Hey,
Mizuki: you're really into movies, aren't you?
Mizuki: Yeah,
Mizuki: you're reading a collection of screenplays again.
Mizuki: I always see you with one of them.
Kaminagi: Yes.
Mizuki: My name's Mizuki.
Mizuki: Mizuki Tachibana.
Mizuki: So, what kind of movies do you like?
Kaminagi: Like?
Mizuki: "Last Year at Marienbad" is my favorite!
Girl: Mizuki, come on.
Kaminagi: Hm?
Girl: We're waiting on you to start the match.
Kaminagi: I'm coming, okay?
Kaminagi: Keep your shirt on.
Mizuki: How would the tennis club survive without me?
Mizuki: See you later, Kaminagi!
Girl: Hurry!
Kyo: Kaminagi.
Kaminagi: Huh?
Kyo: Time to go.
Kyo: Um...
Kyo: Yeah, so anyway...
Kyo: You're good as new again, Kaminagi!
Kyo: Isn't that awesome?
Kaminagi: Yes.
Kyo: I know Sin's the enemy and all,
Kyo: but that was pretty cool.
Kyo: I'm just saying...
Kaminagi: Right.
Kyo: I know!
Kyo: Kaminagi,
Kyo: you feel like going and having some fun?
Kyo: I know the Maihama server's kinda on the small side,
Kyo: but I bet there's at least a few new places we haven't been yet!
Kyo: Let's celebrate together!
Kaminagi: It won't work.
Kyo: Huh?
Kaminagi: How I am now,
Kaminagi: I can't feel anything.
Kyo: Not yet...
Kaminagi: I have my memories and I'm awake.
Kaminagi: Behaving logically will get me through my days.
Kaminagi: I feel nothing.
Kaminagi: That part is gone.
Kaminagi: So please,
Kaminagi: stop.
Kyo: Kaminagi...
Kyo: I'm not forcing myself to do anything!
Kyo: Of course, you know I want to go out and have fun with you.
Kyo: Come on, Kaminagi!
Kyo: What do you say?
Kyo: Anywhere you want to go.
Kyo: Just say the word.
Kaminagi: It doesn't matter.
Kyo: Huh?
Kyo: Now you're just being stubborn.
Kyo: Doesn't anything sound like fun?
Kyo: Anything.
Cat: You can hear the big news!
Cat: What's up?
Cat: The town's only market just run out of ???
Cat: What ??? There has to be!
Cat: This is terrible.
Cat: [Yes, she's done before.]
Koji: I'm going to bed now.
Koji: Good night, you guys.
Kyo: Yeah, get some sleep, Koji.
Kyo: Oh, and remember to brush.
Kyo: Ah, is it over?
Kyo: So, um,
Kyo: D'you like movies?
Kaminagi: I don't know.
Kaminagi: But,
Kaminagi: I think that I enjoyed watching them.
Kyo: That's good.
Kaminagi: You don't have to do this.
Kyo: I'm not forcing myself!
Kyo: I'm watching movies with you because I want to, okay, Kaminagi?
Actress: No. He's coming after me!
Actress: I've gotta get out of here, now!
Kyo: What was she?
Kyo: Why'd she come?
Actress: ??? NO!!!
Kyo: She goes through all the trouble infiltrating the Oceanus,
Kyo: just to wander around asking weird questions.
Sin: And you! Why do you fight,
Sin: when you have no future?
Kaminagi: She wanted to know.
Kaminagi: Honestly.
Kaminagi: She wanted to know why we keep fighting them.
Kyo: You actually talk to her?!
Kaminagi: I told her there was something irreplaceable.
Kaminagi: And I didn't want to lose it.
Kaminagi: I have to protect it.
Kaminagi: And when I said that,
Kaminagi: she finally understood.
Kaminagi: Hey, Kyo?
Kaminagi: So, how's the swim club?
Kaminagi: Is the club okay?
Kaminagi: I know that...
Kaminagi: that Shizuno transferred to our school today.
Kyo: Yeah.
Kyo: It wasn't a dream.
Kyo: Shizuno Misaki led me to that place,
Kyo: we rode in that shining robot.
Kyo: And then...
Kyo: a passionate kiss from her...
Kyo: Man, could this movie get any more lame?
Kyo: Huh. How about we watch another one!
Kyo: Hey.
Kyo: I've heard good things about this one.
Kyo: Let's give it a whirl.
Kyo: Let's get rid of this old crappy thing.
Kyo: Okay.
Kyo: Oh, so this one's about Robin Hood, huh?
Kyo: Hm, that's the dude in the tights,
Kyo: shoots an apple on some guy's head, right?
Kyo: Alright, let's get started!
Kyo: Oh, hey, Kaminagi,
Kyo: you want some chips?
Kyo: Kyo,
Kaminagi: a moment ago.
Kyo: Ah, yeah, that.
Kyo: That was nothing, it's nothing at all...
Kyo: Ah, just forget about it, okay?
Kaminagi: But I know the truth, Kyo.
Kaminagi: It was William Tell who shot an apple.
Minato: Commander? Commander!
Minato: I didn't mean to startle you.
Minato: It looked like you were having a nightmare.
Minato: Here.
Minato: I guess even commanders are allowed to have the occasional bad dream.
Shima: Round and round it goes.
Shima: Unsubstantial is any dream.
Shima: We have dreams too.
Shima: Perhaps,
Shima: the people in our dreams have dreams of their own.
Shima: And why shouldn't they.
Minato: That could be.
Minato: And maybe we're just dreams someone else is having.
Shizuno: That may be truer than you think.
Shizuno: [Perhaps the only purpose we serve is to fill what'd pass for the servers' brains as they sleep.]
Shima: Minato,
Shima: would you please wait outside?
Minato: Yes.
Shizuno: How's it look?
Shima: Time marches on.
Shima: And faster than we'd anticipated.
Shizuno: I see.
Shima: I wanted our position to be more secure before we tried it, but...
Shizuno: Do we have a chance?
Shima: That depends on you and Kyo.
Shima: How is he?
Shizuno: He has the combat skills, of course.
Shizuno: It all depends on his state of mind.
Shima: So long as Kyo will fight,
Shima: his private life isn't my concern.
Kaminagi: Oceanus,
Kaminagi: this is the Altair.
Kaminagi: Romeo sector is empty.
Kaminagi: Patrol duty is complete.
Kaminagi: Requesting clearance for return transmission.
Dita: Altair, this is the Oceanus.
Dita: You're clear for return transmission.
Kaminagi: Transmission preparations, complete.
Kaminagi: Q.L. level at two minutes to return limit.
Kyo: It's already over?
Kaminagi: Yeah.
Kyo: Feels short.
Kaminagi: Yeah, I know it does.
Kaminagi: It's because you're a bird.
Kaminagi: As long as you have strength in your wings,
Kaminagi: you should fly free.
Kaminagi: But once in a while,
Kaminagi: you should come back to the tree,
Kaminagi: if you still feel like it.
Kaminagi: 'Cause I'll always be right here,
Kaminagi: waiting for you.
Kyo: Really?
Kaminagi: Cheesy.
Kaminagi: It's a line from that movie.
Kaminagi: Don't tell me you've forgotten it already, Kyo.
Kyo: Huh?
Kyo: Yeah, I've forgotten it.
Kyo: I mean, we only watched like a million of them at once.
Kaminagi: So, how come?
Kyo: So, how come what?
Kaminagi: How come you didn't just go for it?
Kyo: Go for what?
Kaminagi: The smooch.
Kyo: Wha?!
Kyo: What the hell are you talking about? There's no way I was trying to--
Kaminagi: I wouldn't have minded.
Kyo: You're crazy. I was just reaching for a movie!
Kaminagi: Oooh, is somebody blushing up there?
Kyo: I am not!
Kaminagi: But seriously, thank you.
Kaminagi: For being with me.
Kyo: My pleasure.
Kaminagi: One minute of Q.L. remaining.
Kyo: Begin transmission.
A.I.: Entangle, time out.
Kyo: Kyo?
Kaminagi: Until next time.
Mizuki: Go Maihama Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go!
Mizuki: Ah! Ryoko!
Mizuki: You gotta help me!
Kaminagi: What a...
Mizuki: Shhh!
Girl: Did you find her yet?
Girl: No!
Girl: Did you?
Girl: Oh... Where'd Mizuki run off to?
Girl: Let's check out that hallway!
Girl: Right!
Ricerca: Whew! Sorry about that.
Mizuki: Hanging out with them in practice is okay,
Mizuki: but now they want me go to their away matches, too!
Mizuki: Like any member of the drama club has time for all that.
Mizuki: Oh!
Mizuki: You started writing a screenplay?
Kaminagi: Yeah.
Mizuki: So, which is the real one?
Kaminagi: Huh?
Mizuki: These titles.
Kaminagi: I haven't decided yet.
Kaminagi: I might go with something entirely different.
Kaminagi: I'm not sure.
Girl: Oh! There she is!
Mizuki: Agh!
Girl: Mizuki!
Mizuki: Come on, guys!
Mizuki: Gimme a break already!
Mizuki: Can't you find anybody else?
Mizuki: I'm really busy with my drama stuff.
Kyo: It's a manufactured world.
Kyo: Great.
Tomigai: Sogoru!
Tomigai: Hey!
Tomigai: Here you are!
Tomigai: I've been looking all over for you!
Tomigai: Why haven't you been coming to school lately, huh?
Tomigai: Mr. Kurashige said he hadn't heard anything from you.
Tomigai: He said he was worried.
Tomigai: You haven't been showing up to the swim club, either.
Tomigai: Are you feeling sick?
Tomigai: Well, are you?
Kyo: Who cares.
Kyo: Does it matter?
Tomigai: Well, I do.
Kyo: Tomigai!
Tomigai: Yeah?
Kyo: Yaki soba rolls!
Tomigai: Now you're talking!
Ushio: Well, well.
Ushio: Look who's still alive, you guys.
Hayase: Too cool for school.
Hayase: Is that the idea?
Ushio: Finally give up on your dinky little swim club?
Hayase: Good job, quitter.
Hayase: That didn't take long.
Hayase: Though I figured you would crash and burn with you in charge.
Ushio: Yeah.
Ushio: The swim club deserved to crash and burn.
Ushio: I mean,
Ushio: look at the coward who's running it.
Kawaguchi: Hey,
Kawaguchi: you think you can just ignore us like that?
Kyo: Pretty much.
Kawaguchi: What'd you say?
Kawaguchi: Bring it on!
Kawaguchi: Don't run away.
Kawaguchi: What're you?
Kawaguchi: Chickenshit or something?
Kyo: Today,
Kyo: Okita from the ping-pong club sprained his ankle in PE.
Kawaguchi: Huh?
Kyo: All the tropical fish Kurage was keeping died,
Kyo: and he was really down about it.
Kyo: And tomorrow,
Kyo: Omizu is going to bring in some neon tetras from home,
Kyo: and let him have a couple.
Kyo: Our lives are fake!
Kyo: Nothing but an illusion.
Kyo: Same shit, different day.
Kawaguchi: Nothing but an illusion, huh?
Kawaguchi: You're not only a coward but an idiot, too.
Kyo: All of us are just...
Kawaguchi: Go ahead then, we're all just what?
Kawaguchi: Agh, yeah, that's right.
Kawaguchi: You got nothing to say, you big liar!
Kyo: I'm just telling you the truth.
Kawaguchi: Are you giving up on the swim club?!
Kawaguchi: Why are you being such a god damned loser!
Kyo: You son of a bitch!
Kaminagi: Kyo, you shouldn't be getting into fights with them.
Kaminagi: Those three guys are your friends. Remember?
Kyo: Doesn't matter, anyway.
Kyo: In five months, they won't remember
Kyo: a single damn thing I said or done.
Kaminagi: Even so,
Kaminagi: try to be nice.
Kyo: Why should I?
Kaminagi: Because
Kaminagi: why bite them over and over again when you can choose to be happy instead.
Kaminagi: Make sense?
Kyo: Sure.
Kaminagi: Oh! Look at that!
Kaminagi: Kyo, take us down there, okay?
Kaminagi: Wow!
Kaminagi: They're so beautiful.
Kaminagi: Come on, Kyo.
Kaminagi: Let's go look at them!
Shima: What's our status?
Minato: Commander.
Minato: The ship is currently traveling south above off of Australia's western coast.
Minato: The Altair is patrolling the area behind us.
Minato: There's no sign of Gardsorm forces anywhere nearby.
Shima: Once the Altair is transferred back to us, set a new heading for Japan.
Lu-Shen: Japan?
Shima: Our new destination is the Maihama server.
Lu-Shen: Commander Shima!
Shima: Lu-Shen?
Lu-Shen: With all due respect, I'd like to ask why we're returning to the Maihama server.
Shima: This troubles you somehow?
Chris: Anytime the Oceanus gets near it,
Chris: the odds of the enemy waltzing in behind us and finding it go way up.
Chris: Shouldn't we be avoiding the server like the plague unless we absolutely have to get close?
Lu-Shen: What's more, this ship was recently infiltrated by the enemy.
Lu-Shen: Don't you think this is a bad time for us to take a needless risk?
Shizuno: Maintenance.
Shizuno: We need to inspect the server's quantum transmission system.
Shizuno: Fosetta.
Fosseta: Yes.
Fosseta: For as of late, the server's error rate has been increasing.
Fosseta: The increase is slight, but it's growing steadily.
Fosseta: I believe that fixing the server now
Fosseta: before a major malfunction
Fosseta: would prove to be the least risky scenario.
Shima: There you have it.
Shima: I trust that will suffice.
Fosseta: Something wrong?
Lu-Shen: No.
Lu-Shen: It's nothing at all.
Kaminagi: Beautiful.
Kaminagi: Kyo, have you heard this one?
Kaminagi: Once upon a time,
Kaminagi: two lovers were forced to be apart.
Kaminagi: the woman was so sad in by this
Kaminagi: that her body transformed
Kaminagi: and she turned into the lily.
Kyo: Yeah.
Kyo: That's an old legend from the Caucasus, right?
Kaminagi: Wow.
Kaminagi: I wouldn't expect you to know that.
Kaminagi: I mean,
Kaminagi: you are the guy who got Robin Hood wrong!
Kyo: You know there's a bit more to that legend.
Kyo: In order to ensure that the girl who'd become the lily
Kyo: would always have enough water,
Kyo: the Gods transformed her lover into a rain cloud.
Kyo: In order to be together,
Kyo: they both gave up being human.
Kyo: Kaminagi.
Kyo: Are the two of us even human anymore?
Kaminagi: What?
Kyo: Between us Cerebrants,
Kyo: looking at this real scenery,
Kyo: and the guys living in the artificial world of the Maihama server,
Kyo: which of us are real?
Kaminagi: I don't know...
Kyo: I don't...
Kyo: I don't hurt anymore.
Kyo: When Kawaguchi punched me,
Kyo: I really wanted to hit him back.
Kyo: But then the urge just died.
Kyo: It pissed me off,
Kyo: because, no matter how hard he hit me,
Kyo: it didn't hurt. And...
Kyo: I thought I was able to take it because everything is fake.
Kyo: That's not the reason.
Kyo: I just can't feel anything.
Kyo: Even if I manage to make up with them in five months,
Kyo: when the reset comes, I'll have to start all over again!
Kyo: Fight and make up, fight and make up, it's never ending.
Kyo: There's just no point to it.
Kyo: But even though it's pointless,
Kyo: they go through it like it matters.
Kyo: Even in that fake world, they live their lives with meaning!
Kyo: I'm starting to wonder
Kyo: if all those people in the server are more real than me!
Kaminagi: None of the above, Kyo.
Kaminagi: All meta-bodies are fake.
Kyo: What're you...
Kaminagi: A real person can actually touch these beautiful flowers around us.
Kaminagi: Real people can...
Kaminagi: Real people can live in this world and truly be a part of it!
Kyo: Truly be a part of this world?
Kaminagi: Yeah, like that girl Sin I met before.
Kyo: I hate these goddamn flowers.
Kyo: Why can't I touch them?! Why?
Kaminagi: Kyo, I...
Kyo: Why?
Kyo: So, what the hell are we?
Kyo: What good are we if we can't even do this?
Kyo: It's an ambush.
Dita: The Altair has made contact with the enemy!
Dita: Preparing to engage them!
Shima: Garuda! Hraesvelg! Scramble and attack!
Kyo: Stay out of this!
Kyo: This isn't your fight.
A.I.: Zegapain Altair, starting up.
Kyo: These bastards are mine!
Kyo: No! It's a lie!
Kyo: All of it's a big lie!
Kyo: I don't believe it.
Kyo: I refuse to accept it!
Kyo: We're all fakes?
Kyo: That's the story?
Kyo: We're all just illusions?!
Kyo: Why? Because our bodies were destroyed?!
Kyo: 'Cause we can't touch some stupid fucking flowers?!
Kyo: That's impossible, okay?!
Kyo: And I don't care what sort of shit you throw at me!
Kyo: I will not believe
Kyo: that you things are more real than me!
Kaminagi: The flowers...
Kaminagi: They're burning.
Kyo: I'm sorry.
Kyo: I know you like them.
Kaminagi: We can't even...
Kaminagi: We can't even die like flowers, can we?
Kyo: It isn't true.
Kyo: It... it can't be true.
Kyo: But even if it's true right now,
Kyo: we will be real again.
Kyo: We will be human again!
Kaminagi: I believe you.
Kyo: We will.
Kyo: I swear it to you.
Kyo: We'll stand here again.
Kyo: We'll touch these flowers!
Lu-Shen: Someone has transmitted the location of the Maihama server to the Gardsorm.
Lu-Shen: The Anti-Zega Coatlicue is now coming to destroy it!
Lu-Shen: Why isn't Shima trying to defend it?
Lu-Shen: I have a feeling I know who gave them the server's coordinates.
Lu-Shen: And why do you look like your duties have gotten the better of you?
Lu-Shen: After all,
Lu-Shen: you made your bet, Shizuno.
Lu-Shen: Now you have no choice but to lie in it.
Lu-Shen: Next time, on Zegapain:
Lu-Shen: Last Supper.
Lu-Shen: My pain, never to be forgotten.