Isola: As you can see, they've created another deutera zone. We can retard or even prevent the growth of existing zones, but we still can't prevent new ones from being formed. Until we find a way to destroy the Gardsorm orbital base, we're helpless.
Minato: Yes, commander. They're about to activate the light armor nullifier.
Shima: Right there! Amplify the video feed data.
Minato: Oh, my god! It looks just like a Zega!
Lu-Shen: Yes, the very image.
Shizuno: This is the most lethal anti-Zegapain weapon the Gardsorm have ever developed. They, they were coming after me.
Lu-Shen: How can you be so sure?
Dita: Transmission failure. Her meta-body data has been lost. Ryoko Kaminagi has been destroyed.
Minato: Are we going to watch it again?
Shima: Not now. Set the air defense warning systems at maximum! Repairing the Altair takes top priority! Furthermore, all hands will analyze our data on the enemy's weapon! It's vital that we know how it works. Assume there are no trivial details! It's a luxury we cannot afford.
Kyo: At that moment... everything they said was just a string of meaningless sounds passing me by. And it didn't end with words. My surroundings, time itself. The world kept stumbling forward and I watched it as it left.
Kaminagi: Kyo?
Kyo: Kaminagi had vanished. There was no question that she was gone. And yet... I couldn't wrap my brain around it.
Tomigai: Kaminagi? You know I haven't seen her around lately. Besides, if you don't know where she might be, what makes you think I have any idea? Huh? Sogoru, wait! Don't you at least want an umbrella? You're gonna get soaked!
Mizuki: Oh, Ryoko? No, I haven't hung out with her lately. No time now that summer break's ending and I've got a play coming up. I'll see her when things calm down.
Kyo: It's like something out of a movie. Having lost his love, the hero wanders aimlessly through the old haunts, consumed with grief. The thing is, grief isn't what I'm feeling.
Kaminagi: Whatcha doing, Kyo?
Kyo: Even now, I can't shake this feeling like she's about to jump on my back again. Hey, there, Koji. Are you doing okay?
Koji: Don't bother. Nobody ever uses that room.
Kyo: Koji, it's your sister's room.
Koji: Well, I'm not supposed to go in there.
Kyo: Mm, what do you mean, you're not... You've erased his memories, stolen his sister. Are you proud of yourself? I know you're watching.
Minato: What should we do? Should I erase the room as well?
Dita: Pardon me, I've established contact with the commanders of the other carriers.
Shima: On my way. Kyo will get through this. If not, we'll force him to. Cruel? Perhaps. But we do what we must.
Kyo: Knock, knock. Kaminagi. The Day the World Ended. A movie to remember. Isn't that Maihama? What's this?
Kaminagi: Let's see...
Kyo: Huh?
Kaminagi: This footage is of a summer day at the end of the world, shot by an older student.
Kaminagi: It's similar to the city we live in, which exists preserved as data.
Kaminagi: But it's not the same. The real one is gone. And now, now that the world is gone, I understand how precious it was. Living things shine with the light all their own.
Kyo: Like you always did.
Kaminagi: We take life for granted while we're living it. I know I have. We aren't thankful. You don't even know how lucky we are, aren't we?
Kyo: Kaminagi!
Kaminagi: But I guess that's human nature.
Kyo: KAMINAGI!
Koji: What are you crying about? What is it about? Is it because the world was destroyed? Why were we humans annihilated in the first place? Why do we have to fight and die in the Zegas? Please, tell me. And the Gardsorm. What about them?
Minato: Why do the Gardsorm attack us? What'll we do to them?
Tarbo: I know that she is trying to work Kyo through his grief. But don't you think her methods go beyond the scope of what's decent?
Lemures: No. He wants a reason why Ryoko Kaminagi died. And he's damn well gonna get one. Giving him that reason will turn his grief into anger, into hatred. He'll have an external target for the pain that's tearing him apart. It's human psychology at its most basic. She's just helping it along.
Chris: Am I seeing things?
May-Yen: Really. You shouldn't be so hard on yourself. That said, I'm not picking up a quantum weapon reaction.
Chris: Now I feel like the boy who cried wolf.
May-Yen: It's fine. After all this is our job.
Lu-Shen: Greetings, Hraesvelg, I'll take over from you.
Chris: Any particular reason you got here early?
Lu-Shen: The truth of it is, I have a favor to ask of you, Chris.
Chris: What is it?
Lu-Shen: It's for Kyo Sogoru... Help him through this.
Chris: I'll help him by saying no. He's lost the one he loved just like I did. So, what you want me to do, lick his wounds for him?
Lu-Shen: No.
Chris: You can't just lick them closed. They run too deep. They bleed like a son of a bitch, so you clench your teeth and bear the pain. And eventually, you conquer it. You know, maybe you should try clenching your teeth sometime!
Lu-Shen: Fine. I'll talk to him.
May-Yu: Lu-Shen!
Lu-Shen: Clench your teeth until you conquer the pain? Sorry, Chris, but I don't agree.
May-Yu: The death of even one person can cast a long shadow, huh? Even Shizuno feels it.
Fosetta: There are some traces which explain the destruction of the light armor.
Shizuno: Tell me something I don't know!
Fosetta: I... I'm sorry.
Shizuno: You need look harder! Check it again. All the combat data!
Fosetta: Hm.
Kyo: "Toward Infinite Evolution." "The Seven Days Program." What the hell is this? There it is! The reason humanity was destroyed. Something called the Orm virus?
Shima: Anti-Zega. As the name suggests, it renders the Zegapain's shields useless.
Isola: The greatest weapon our holonic loaders have is the photonic transmission technology which allows them to engage in combat. With it we can sculpt high-density photonic streams into indestructible light armor and produce a lance that can pierce any target. The Zegapain is a warrior of light, clad in an unbreakable armor.
Shima: Until now, when this thing appeared. Imagine, the creature of darkness, cracking light apart as though it were rotting.
Isola: I propose that, from here on out, it be code named Anti-Zega Coatlicue.
Minato: Commander Shima!
Shima: Yes, what is it?
Minato: Look.
Shima: This should do the trick.
Kyo: I'm supposed to believe that humanity was wiped out by a global virus? That's impossible... "The Threat of the Orm Virus." "Data Preservation Recommendation." by Naga... This was written by that Naga guy, too? Come on, I don't even know who the hell Naga is.
Lu-Shen: Kyo. I've been trying to call you. I wanted to talk.
Kyo: Yeah, well maybe I don't feel like talking right now.
Lu-Shen: When we awaken, we always ask why we fight. We wonder who are these Gardsorm whose goals we'll fight and die to prevent. That's the question you have come to, isn't it?
Kyo: Tell Shima that spare me his deep thoughts.
Lu-Shen: Shima's a mystery unto himself. Forget it. I'll tell you as much as I know. It's the least I can do. It will save you hours of reading if nothing else.
Kyo: So why wouldn't you tell me before?
Lu-Shen: Until you decided that you wanted to know the truth of our situation, the facts would have carried no value. And also, maybe I wasn't ready to tell you myself.
Kyo: Hey. Advanced payment on my tuition.
Lu-Shen: A man called Naga, it all started and ended with this one researcher, the genius who made quantum computers a reality. The I.A.L. Corporation... Originally an information technology company, they ended up branching out into many other industries. They put a special focus into the bio-tech and military sectors, and grew until I.A.L was a huge worldwide super-conglomerate. And their CEO... was Naga. A single one of the quantum computers he invented contained as much processing power as all the other computers on the planet, combined. Suddenly the dream of housing cities, peoples' memories, even human consciousness within virtual space was a reality. Naga proposed humans could achieve infinite evolution within those quantum servers.
Kyo: "Infinite evolution?" Now what in the hell does that mean?
Lu-Shen: It means to become nearly immortal meta-bodies, speed up the passage of time, and subject ourselves to endless upgrading. In short, to create the perfect human for his perfect world.
Kyo: You can't be serious!
Lu-Shen: I'm deadly serious. And the quantum computers could have done it.
Minato: Will you please excuse me?
Lemures: Yes, go right ahead.
Lu-Shen: Naga's breakthrough electrified the world and his ideals about our evolution gained popularity. Finance, nation craft, his computers kept it all going. And then the floor dropped out from under us.
Kyo: Er, 'cause of the Orm virus, right?
Lu-Shen: Exactly. It crossed the globe, blazing thorough us with a 98% fatality rate. It was a monstrous disease, annihilating the genetic information of the few infected people it deigned to leave alive.
Kyo: Nobody could stop it spread?
Lu-Shen: The virus would die out naturally within three years. Because by then mankind would be extinct. We had to choose. Survive as meta-bodies within quantum servers or face oblivion. To put it more simply, becoming meta-bodies was the only way to save ourselves. But, people said no. Many objected to it on religious or ideological grounds. Entire world fell into chaos. Further, as suspicions grew that the Orm virus was a biological weapon, the nations of Earth grew paranoid. War broke out across the globe.
Kyo: Hey, you've gotta be kidding me!
Lu-Shen: The war never went nuclear, but it didn't matter. In only one year, we lost seven and a half billion people. Our numbers were at pre-18th century level. In the end, it took only two years for mankind to vanish from the Earth's surface. All that remained were those who'd become meta-body data within the servers located in each country. However, it was none other than Naga himself who created the Orm virus. There isn't any proof. However, it is clearly specified in Cerebrum database.
Kyo: What are you getting at? If what you're telling me is true, why did Naga release the virus? What was the point in killing everyone?
Lu-Shen: He wanted to create the Utopia he had been advocating. To trap humanity inside of the quantum servers for his experiments in infinite evolution.
Kyo: Naga went that far?! That bustard! So whatever happened to Mr. Mad Scientist CEO?
Lu-Shen: If we knew that, our lives would be much easier. Probably a meta-body himself, living in a protected server someplace or ...
Kyo: And the Gardsorm! Are they, they're Naga's own private army, is that it?!
Lu-Shen: Ah. Correct. Once humans no longer walked the Earth, I.A.L.'s production machines activated and went to work. Their task: convert the entire planet into a test site. Even now, they continue to chip away at it, expanding and creating new deutera zones. Given enough time and no opposition, they'll eventually swallow the entire world.
Kyo: Damn him.
Lu-Shen: But there is opposition, isn't there? One day the lab rats decided they were going to fight back. We haven't lost our sense of self-preservation. We can still think for ourselves. Every community has its rebels. Even quantum servers. Here. we are those rebels. And so, the Cerebrants were born.
Kyo: The Cerebrants.
Lu-Shen: We live and die as warriors. But that's a choice each of us freely makes. Don't you think so?
Kyo: Yeah, but... Kaminagi wasn't some rebel or warrior! And I swore... I swore that I would protect her from all of this!
Lu-Shen: Kaminagi was a warrior, when it mattered.
Kaminagi: Holonic field, forming! Holonic blade, right hand!
Kyo: Good job, Kaminagi! You kicked ass.
Kaminagi: So did you, Kyo.
Kyo: It's different. She wasn't another Arque!
Lu-Shen: You wanted to be with the girl you loved more than anything. And ultimately, didn't you get your wish in the end?
Kyo: Oh, yeah, what the hell do you know about it?! You can't just gloss over what happened to her out there!
Chris: Real smooth, buddy. We both made jackasses out of ourselves today.
May-Yu: Lu-Shen expects an awful lot out of Kyo.
Chris: And why is that?
May-Yu: Because there's something he lacks inside. Kyo possesses something inside him. Lu-Shen barely understands. He wants to know that thing and have it himself.
Chris: Makes sense to me. That was my basic take on it, too.
May-Yu: But that's not the real reason. The truth is much simpler. He really likes Kyo. Just as a friend, of course.
Lu-Shen: Now you know. But I wonder what you'll do with it? The enemies who stole your girlfriend away aren't a mystery anymore, are they?
Kyo: And that's what's pissing me off! All the thoughts I'm burdened with, all the pain... they're nothing more than triggers in my head, designed to make me fight?! We're all just reacting as programmed?
Lu-Shen: Even if we are, I want to know what you're going to do about it.
Kyo: God damn, I don't know what to do, okay?
Lu-Shen: So we can't work through the pain completely with someone else, huh, Chris? I'm sorry but I cannot believe that.
Kyo: Kaminagi! You weren't just data stuck in here to react with everyone as programmed. This much I know. I know that you... that you were truly alive in this world! KAMINAGI!!!
Kaminagi: KYO!
Shizuno: What is this?!
Fosetta: It's the meta-body buffer.
Shizuno: Find out if there's a backup system in that memory area.
Fosetta: No, I don't believe so.
Shizuno: Then what's this, the compressed file here?
Fosetta: It must be crash data. Though I can't decode it. Ah, Shizuno? Shizuno, you can't do it.
Kaminagi: Help me!
Shizuno: I found you, Ryoko.
Fosetta: It's Ryoko! We found the compressed data from Ryoko in Altair's memory area! She, she's still alive!
Kyo: Kaminagi?
Shizuno: Time betrays us, and the world which charges forward now freezes. These rich and peaceful days shatter as though our happy memories were trampled underfoot. We're occupied by Ryoko's resurrection, but there are still things we must hurry to do now. The Anti-Zega has come again! Fire it, Oceanus! The G.A.S.P.R. Cannon!
Next time, on Zegapain: "Reincarnation." My pain, never to be forgotten.
Kyo: Leave me the hell alone!
Ricerca: Altair's mission complete. Activating recovery sequence.
Shima: Here. This is where it happened.
Minato: Yes, commander. They're about to activate the light armor nullifier.
Shima: Right there! Amplify the video feed data.
Minato: Oh, my god! It looks just like a Zega!
Lu-Shen: Yes, the very image.
Shizuno: This is the most lethal anti-Zegapain weapon the Gardsorm have ever developed. They, they were coming after me.
Lu-Shen: How can you be so sure?
Dita: Transmission failure. Her meta-body data has been lost. Ryoko Kaminagi has been destroyed.
Minato: Are we going to watch it again?
Shima: Not now. Set the air defense warning systems at maximum! Repairing the Altair takes top priority! Furthermore, all hands will analyze our data on the enemy's weapon! It's vital that we know how it works. Assume there are no trivial details! It's a luxury we cannot afford.
Kyo: At that moment... everything they said was just a string of meaningless sounds passing me by. And it didn't end with words. My surroundings, time itself. The world kept stumbling forward and I watched it as it left.
Kaminagi: Kyo?
Kyo: Kaminagi had vanished. There was no question that she was gone. And yet... I couldn't wrap my brain around it.
Tomigai: Kaminagi? You know I haven't seen her around lately. Besides, if you don't know where she might be, what makes you think I have any idea? Huh? Sogoru, wait! Don't you at least want an umbrella? You're gonna get soaked!
Mizuki: Oh, Ryoko? No, I haven't hung out with her lately. No time now that summer break's ending and I've got a play coming up. I'll see her when things calm down.
Kyo: It's like something out of a movie. Having lost his love, the hero wanders aimlessly through the old haunts, consumed with grief. The thing is, grief isn't what I'm feeling.
Kaminagi: Whatcha doing, Kyo?
Kyo: Even now, I can't shake this feeling like she's about to jump on my back again. Hey, there, Koji. Are you doing okay?
Koji: Don't bother. Nobody ever uses that room.
Kyo: Koji, it's your sister's room.
Koji: Well, I'm not supposed to go in there.
Kyo: Mm, what do you mean, you're not... You've erased his memories, stolen his sister. Are you proud of yourself? I know you're watching.
Minato: What should we do? Should I erase the room as well?
Dita: Pardon me, I've established contact with the commanders of the other carriers.
Shima: On my way. Kyo will get through this. If not, we'll force him to. Cruel? Perhaps. But we do what we must.
Kyo: Knock, knock. Kaminagi. The Day the World Ended. A movie to remember. Isn't that Maihama? What's this?
Kaminagi: Let's see...
Kyo: Huh?
Kaminagi: This footage is of a summer day at the end of the world, shot by an older student.
Kaminagi: It's similar to the city we live in, which exists preserved as data.
Kaminagi: But it's not the same. The real one is gone. And now, now that the world is gone, I understand how precious it was. Living things shine with the light all their own.
Kyo: Like you always did.
Kaminagi: We take life for granted while we're living it. I know I have. We aren't thankful. You don't even know how lucky we are, aren't we?
Kyo: Kaminagi!
Kaminagi: But I guess that's human nature.
Kyo: KAMINAGI!
Koji: What are you crying about? What is it about? Is it because the world was destroyed? Why were we humans annihilated in the first place? Why do we have to fight and die in the Zegas? Please, tell me. And the Gardsorm. What about them?
Minato: Why do the Gardsorm attack us? What'll we do to them?
Tarbo: I know that she is trying to work Kyo through his grief. But don't you think her methods go beyond the scope of what's decent?
Lemures: No. He wants a reason why Ryoko Kaminagi died. And he's damn well gonna get one. Giving him that reason will turn his grief into anger, into hatred. He'll have an external target for the pain that's tearing him apart. It's human psychology at its most basic. She's just helping it along.
Chris: Am I seeing things?
May-Yen: Really. You shouldn't be so hard on yourself. That said, I'm not picking up a quantum weapon reaction.
Chris: Now I feel like the boy who cried wolf.
May-Yen: It's fine. After all this is our job.
Lu-Shen: Greetings, Hraesvelg, I'll take over from you.
Chris: Any particular reason you got here early?
Lu-Shen: The truth of it is, I have a favor to ask of you, Chris.
Chris: What is it?
Lu-Shen: It's for Kyo Sogoru... Help him through this.
Chris: I'll help him by saying no. He's lost the one he loved just like I did. So, what you want me to do, lick his wounds for him?
Lu-Shen: No.
Chris: You can't just lick them closed. They run too deep. They bleed like a son of a bitch, so you clench your teeth and bear the pain. And eventually, you conquer it. You know, maybe you should try clenching your teeth sometime!
Lu-Shen: Fine. I'll talk to him.
May-Yu: Lu-Shen!
Lu-Shen: Clench your teeth until you conquer the pain? Sorry, Chris, but I don't agree.
May-Yu: The death of even one person can cast a long shadow, huh? Even Shizuno feels it.
Fosetta: There are some traces which explain the destruction of the light armor.
Shizuno: Tell me something I don't know!
Fosetta: I... I'm sorry.
Shizuno: You need look harder! Check it again. All the combat data!
Fosetta: Hm.
Kyo: "Toward Infinite Evolution." "The Seven Days Program." What the hell is this? There it is! The reason humanity was destroyed. Something called the Orm virus?
Shima: Anti-Zega. As the name suggests, it renders the Zegapain's shields useless.
Isola: The greatest weapon our holonic loaders have is the photonic transmission technology which allows them to engage in combat. With it we can sculpt high-density photonic streams into indestructible light armor and produce a lance that can pierce any target. The Zegapain is a warrior of light, clad in an unbreakable armor.
Shima: Until now, when this thing appeared. Imagine, the creature of darkness, cracking light apart as though it were rotting.
Isola: I propose that, from here on out, it be code named Anti-Zega Coatlicue.
Minato: Commander Shima!
Shima: Yes, what is it?
Minato: Look.
Shima: This should do the trick.
Kyo: I'm supposed to believe that humanity was wiped out by a global virus? That's impossible... "The Threat of the Orm Virus." "Data Preservation Recommendation." by Naga... This was written by that Naga guy, too? Come on, I don't even know who the hell Naga is.
Lu-Shen: Kyo. I've been trying to call you. I wanted to talk.
Kyo: Yeah, well maybe I don't feel like talking right now.
Lu-Shen: When we awaken, we always ask why we fight. We wonder who are these Gardsorm whose goals we'll fight and die to prevent. That's the question you have come to, isn't it?
Kyo: Tell Shima that spare me his deep thoughts.
Lu-Shen: Shima's a mystery unto himself. Forget it. I'll tell you as much as I know. It's the least I can do. It will save you hours of reading if nothing else.
Kyo: So why wouldn't you tell me before?
Lu-Shen: Until you decided that you wanted to know the truth of our situation, the facts would have carried no value. And also, maybe I wasn't ready to tell you myself.
Kyo: Hey. Advanced payment on my tuition.
Lu-Shen: A man called Naga, it all started and ended with this one researcher, the genius who made quantum computers a reality. The I.A.L. Corporation... Originally an information technology company, they ended up branching out into many other industries. They put a special focus into the bio-tech and military sectors, and grew until I.A.L was a huge worldwide super-conglomerate. And their CEO... was Naga. A single one of the quantum computers he invented contained as much processing power as all the other computers on the planet, combined. Suddenly the dream of housing cities, peoples' memories, even human consciousness within virtual space was a reality. Naga proposed humans could achieve infinite evolution within those quantum servers.
Kyo: "Infinite evolution?" Now what in the hell does that mean?
Lu-Shen: It means to become nearly immortal meta-bodies, speed up the passage of time, and subject ourselves to endless upgrading. In short, to create the perfect human for his perfect world.
Kyo: You can't be serious!
Lu-Shen: I'm deadly serious. And the quantum computers could have done it.
Minato: Will you please excuse me?
Lemures: Yes, go right ahead.
Lu-Shen: Naga's breakthrough electrified the world and his ideals about our evolution gained popularity. Finance, nation craft, his computers kept it all going. And then the floor dropped out from under us.
Kyo: Er, 'cause of the Orm virus, right?
Lu-Shen: Exactly. It crossed the globe, blazing thorough us with a 98% fatality rate. It was a monstrous disease, annihilating the genetic information of the few infected people it deigned to leave alive.
Kyo: Nobody could stop it spread?
Lu-Shen: The virus would die out naturally within three years. Because by then mankind would be extinct. We had to choose. Survive as meta-bodies within quantum servers or face oblivion. To put it more simply, becoming meta-bodies was the only way to save ourselves. But, people said no. Many objected to it on religious or ideological grounds. Entire world fell into chaos. Further, as suspicions grew that the Orm virus was a biological weapon, the nations of Earth grew paranoid. War broke out across the globe.
Kyo: Hey, you've gotta be kidding me!
Lu-Shen: The war never went nuclear, but it didn't matter. In only one year, we lost seven and a half billion people. Our numbers were at pre-18th century level. In the end, it took only two years for mankind to vanish from the Earth's surface. All that remained were those who'd become meta-body data within the servers located in each country. However, it was none other than Naga himself who created the Orm virus. There isn't any proof. However, it is clearly specified in Cerebrum database.
Kyo: What are you getting at? If what you're telling me is true, why did Naga release the virus? What was the point in killing everyone?
Lu-Shen: He wanted to create the Utopia he had been advocating. To trap humanity inside of the quantum servers for his experiments in infinite evolution.
Kyo: Naga went that far?! That bustard! So whatever happened to Mr. Mad Scientist CEO?
Lu-Shen: If we knew that, our lives would be much easier. Probably a meta-body himself, living in a protected server someplace or ...
Kyo: And the Gardsorm! Are they, they're Naga's own private army, is that it?!
Lu-Shen: Ah. Correct. Once humans no longer walked the Earth, I.A.L.'s production machines activated and went to work. Their task: convert the entire planet into a test site. Even now, they continue to chip away at it, expanding and creating new deutera zones. Given enough time and no opposition, they'll eventually swallow the entire world.
Kyo: Damn him.
Lu-Shen: But there is opposition, isn't there? One day the lab rats decided they were going to fight back. We haven't lost our sense of self-preservation. We can still think for ourselves. Every community has its rebels. Even quantum servers. Here. we are those rebels. And so, the Cerebrants were born.
Kyo: The Cerebrants.
Lu-Shen: We live and die as warriors. But that's a choice each of us freely makes. Don't you think so?
Kyo: Yeah, but... Kaminagi wasn't some rebel or warrior! And I swore... I swore that I would protect her from all of this!
Lu-Shen: Kaminagi was a warrior, when it mattered.
Kaminagi: Holonic field, forming! Holonic blade, right hand!
Kyo: Good job, Kaminagi! You kicked ass.
Kaminagi: So did you, Kyo.
Kyo: It's different. She wasn't another Arque!
Lu-Shen: You wanted to be with the girl you loved more than anything. And ultimately, didn't you get your wish in the end?
Kyo: Oh, yeah, what the hell do you know about it?! You can't just gloss over what happened to her out there!
Chris: Real smooth, buddy. We both made jackasses out of ourselves today.
May-Yu: Lu-Shen expects an awful lot out of Kyo.
Chris: And why is that?
May-Yu: Because there's something he lacks inside. Kyo possesses something inside him. Lu-Shen barely understands. He wants to know that thing and have it himself.
Chris: Makes sense to me. That was my basic take on it, too.
May-Yu: But that's not the real reason. The truth is much simpler. He really likes Kyo. Just as a friend, of course.
Lu-Shen: Now you know. But I wonder what you'll do with it? The enemies who stole your girlfriend away aren't a mystery anymore, are they?
Kyo: And that's what's pissing me off! All the thoughts I'm burdened with, all the pain... they're nothing more than triggers in my head, designed to make me fight?! We're all just reacting as programmed?
Lu-Shen: Even if we are, I want to know what you're going to do about it.
Kyo: God damn, I don't know what to do, okay?
Lu-Shen: So we can't work through the pain completely with someone else, huh, Chris? I'm sorry but I cannot believe that.
Kyo: Kaminagi! You weren't just data stuck in here to react with everyone as programmed. This much I know. I know that you... that you were truly alive in this world! KAMINAGI!!!
Kaminagi: KYO!
Shizuno: What is this?!
Fosetta: It's the meta-body buffer.
Shizuno: Find out if there's a backup system in that memory area.
Fosetta: No, I don't believe so.
Shizuno: Then what's this, the compressed file here?
Fosetta: It must be crash data. Though I can't decode it. Ah, Shizuno? Shizuno, you can't do it.
Kaminagi: Help me!
Shizuno: I found you, Ryoko.
Fosetta: It's Ryoko! We found the compressed data from Ryoko in Altair's memory area! She, she's still alive!
Kyo: Kaminagi?
Shizuno: Time betrays us, and the world which charges forward now freezes. These rich and peaceful days shatter as though our happy memories were trampled underfoot. We're occupied by Ryoko's resurrection, but there are still things we must hurry to do now. The Anti-Zega has come again! Fire it, Oceanus! The G.A.S.P.R. Cannon!
Next time, on Zegapain: "Reincarnation." My pain, never to be forgotten.