Welcome!
Yun Yun?
You folks don't look like mantou fans to me.
Oh, bread!
You probably like bread better, huh?
Aiya, how high-collar of you.
Look, over there!
That over there's a bakery.
You should really give them a try.
But gosh, what a bummer.
It's a pity that you like bread...
W-Well then, I need to get going!
I see.
So they like bread, huh?
What a pity.
Hop in.
And we'll take six mantous;
one's for you.
Thank you for your patronage.
Pardon me.
How is everything?
Yes.
It seems that Miss Liang-qi paid a visit to the Factory.
So?
O-Oh, yes.
I was just awaiting further instructions regarding that matter, Miss Alphard.
I thought I told you to throw her to the wolves.
Then should we just leave things be?
Don't get me wrong.
I told you to "throw her to the wolves;"
I want you to kill Liang, Cummings.
Fine, I'll go there myself.
Miss Alphard!
One plus one is two.
Five plus six is eleven.
Me plus Nee-sama is...?
Shut up!
Why are you still not here?
Didn't you say you'd bring her to me?
Hurry up and bring that bitch—
Bring Canaan to me!
U-Um...
W-Well...
I...
I know.
But I don't want to stay there any more,
and I figured if I'm alive just so I can get killed someday, I might as well do it myself—
I figured I might as well do it myself...
Calm down, Hakko!
I can't make out what she's saying!
You were from that village too, weren't you?
Yeah.
"You can't survive without the medicine we're giving you."
That's what escaping from the organization means to us.
It's a world you don't understand, young lady.
That can't be—
But couldn't you perhaps get it from someone else?
Nope.
Borners need medicine that's tailored to their individual symptoms.
They have the only one that's right for me.
Why did you come here?
I thought I'd spend my last days in the village where I grew up.
There's really nothing there.
I figured I'd pass on in a good mood,
while not doing or thinking about anything.
That's where I wanted to spend my last—
You're all in a violent mood today, aren't you?
You dummy!
You big dummy!
You can't die, Yun Yun!
No, if we get to the Factory, we might be able to...
You can't!
I don't really like the sound of that either.
If you die, Maria will be sad.
And I think I'd be sad too.
I don't really like the idea of giving up your own life.
Yun Yun!
I don't want to give it up either!
After all, my life...
My life is—
Canaan!
Canaan, don't!
Don't shoot him!
All this time, she's been fighting under the assumption that her synesthesia would guide her.
It must be like fighting in pitch black for her right now.
Don't kill him!
Don't kill that guy!
What's going on?
He's a carpet merchant who used to live behind my house.
He's an Unbloom.
An Unbloom?
A seed that will never flower.
He's a failure.
Thank you for everything.
Osawa, take a picture of him.
No, I don't want to!
I...
Okay.
You're sweating like a pig.
Unfortunately, I don't carry around any luxuries such as a handkerchief with me.
T-Thank you.
T-Thanks for your hard work.
Actually, I meant to say...
"A woman feels better on a full stomach
and if that fails, make funny faces..."
is what my editor-in-chief taught me.
Actually, I guess there's more at stake here than how you feel right now.
But still, I'm sorry.
I wish I could say something better...
What did you say?
Since you've been making a big deal about it the whole time,
could you please tell me what this place is, now?
Yeah.
This is where Hakko was born.
You said Hakko hasn't forgiven you, right?
Yeah.
Hakko hasn't...
I used to work for Langley.
For the CIA?
We were able to confirm the possibility
of an unknown infectious virus spreading through this town.
Under the guise of "pre-emptive prevention,"
we posed as the CDC
and sprayed the whole town with a decontaminant—
a decontaminant known as the Ua virus, that is.
We were trying to test the effectiveness of an antiviral drug we developed.
We gathered all the infected villagers
and administered the antiviral drug right away.
Being foolish,
I didn't question anything
since I believed that everything was being done for the collective well-being of the US.
But, I finally found out.
The town was ground zero for Operation Flower Garden,
which was an experiment carried out to observe the effectiveness of Creature creation,
a side effect of the Ua virus.
Impossible!
Are you telling me that America is in league with Snake?
It's Langley that's in cahoots with them.
I can still hear the cries of those children
deep inside my ears.
I left the CIA.
But I came back to find out exactly what had happened here.
The mission of our NGO
is to unravel the sins committed by the CIA.
At least that's what it is on the outside.
In the end, we use that to blackmail the CIA.
That's all there is to it.
There was no hesitation in it at all.
We have a saying back where I was born:
"He who giveth is mine lord."
That pretty much described who I was.
And because Santana and I felt the same way,
we decided to investigate what happened in the village together
and also the place where the corpses were taken.
Daddy used to sit here.
My big brother used to sit here.
We'd all sit around the table and say, "thank you for the food."
Mommy used to make the best shish kebabs.
And then one day...
I was taken away.
That facility was created by Snake.
Alphard...
What's wrong?
It's nothing.
I didn't think she was someone who'd do something like that.
S-Sorry.
I'm so sorry!
I have no place talking about things I know nothing about.
I've never met Alphard either, actually.
A heinous sadist called Liang-qi used to bully me instead.
But us Borners still had it good.
Borner,
as you know, refers to people like Yun Yun and Hakko,
who were given special bodies as a side effect of the Ua virus.
But that man just now...
You called him an "Unbloom," I think.
Yeah.
They're the ones who couldn't become Borners.
Snake keeps them around to try to find out why they failed.
This is like a child's nightmare.
You said it.
We're living inside a cruel and extreme nightmare.
However,
I have a score to settle with my past.
If anything were to happen to me...
Wait.
What are you planning to—
...free her from this nightmare.
That's because it's love!
There you are!
I can't have you die on me, so I came out all the way here to greet you.
You better be thankful!
Run!
Canaan!
What are you doing?
Hurry!
Canaan!
Take this blast of love!
Canaan!
Wait!
Nee-sama is...
Nee-sama is trying to kill me.
She's trying to kill me and not Canaan.
I'm scared...
It's as if my tongue...
and my teeth are being pulled out one by one...
And then my neck is slowly ripped off...
My arms are torn and my intestines turned inside out....
Cummings, hand me more ammo.
Cummings!
So you plan to kill Miss Liang-qi, right?
And what if I am?
Prepare yourself!
A BB...
I switched yours out with an air soft gun.
I guess you didn't notice.
I'll let you say one last thing before you die.
Lo...
Lo?
Love!
How many times are you going to fall for this?
I changed my mind.
Those who are willing to throw away their lives for a cause
like you and Liang-qi...
I'm interested in what drives people to do that.
Now, show me.
Because it's "love," right?
I'll be waiting for you, Nee-sama!
At Flower Garden, where our love blooms like a flower!
This is...
just like that one time.
Why are you here?
Why are you surprised?
Surely you would have been able to see that I was coming.
Wait,
can you no longer see my color?
I'm sure you still remember what happened on that day.
That day?
Yeah, on the train in the desert.
We boarded the train to complete a fake job that was ordered by you.
It was Siam's last journey.
You killed Siam!
Siam!
That's right.
And you told me that day
that this is proof that you have a family;
so long as you have this, you'll never forget what Siam taught you.
Siam was my light!
"Was"?
Using the past tense, I see.
I have a new light now.
My feelings—
Then don't die.
All you've done so far is gotten kicked around by me.
When will you show me your true power?
Don't die until you do.
What a strange color.
You can sense colors again?
You're giving off a strange color.
What color is it?
Tell me.
No.
Tell me.
A light brown.
The same one Siam used to emit.
Canaan!
You're making a huge mistake
if you think that you were Siam's hope.
There only needs to be one Canaan.
Canaan!
Alphard!
Don't worry.
She's just unconscious.
I see you managed to get some people together.
I see some interesting faces here too.
Wait, Hakko.
I'll do it.
I wouldn't if I were you.
I'm going to the Factory.
I'm going to destroy everything
so that corrupt flowers will never bloom there again.
If you're trying to accomplish the same thing,
then it'd be in your best interest to let me go.
Tell her this when she wakes up:
her real name is...
"despair."
Canaan!
I guess our next stage is set.
The accursed garden.
Episode Nine
Past Flower
Loss.
Taken by memories.
Taken by you.
Loss.
Where?
Where is it?
It's here.
Loss.