I'll make him read it...
I'll deliver Nello's suffering heart to the traitor who abandoned him, Jiggy Pepper!
The Letter to Jiggy Pepper
I wonder if Harry has reached Jiggy yet?
That's the gate to Bifrost!
Why?
Where is Bifrost?
Where is the bridge?
The government has in its grasp all information concerning those who cross the bridge.
I am the gate keeper, Signal.
I verify the identity of each one who crosses this bridge with the smoke from this quartz pipe.
What are you talking about?
Look!
This is a real crossing pass, right here!
The first puff could not identify you as Lag Seeing.
Therefore I must take appropriate measures.
Thank you for your understanding.
Nelli!
What is that?
Niche!
Say "Niche, my dingo!"
Niche!
Niche, Steak!
Nelli!
Hurry, run this way!
Lag?
The letter!
Nello's letter!
Lag, you are a letter. A letter that holds all your feelings and wishes and dreams and heart...
I must protect the letter.
I must protect those precious wishes and heart!
Nelli, being a Bee isn't the kind of job you think it is.
Bees are...
The Letter Bees that I look up to...
T-That's...
...are people that put their lives on the line to deliver those letters!
Something came out?
I shot a shindan... from my hand?
Jiggy.
Nello...
You're my hero, Jiggy.
Nello.
I can't leave you all behind and go to Yuusari by myself.
That's not the Jiggy I know.
The Jiggy I know is a man who chases after his dreams!
A man who tosses away everything from yesterday and lives only for tomorrow!
The man that turned the Dead-End town into the town of beginnings!
And that's our Jiggy Pepper! The coolest guy I know.
Nello...
Stay that cool Jiggy forever.
Forever and ever...
Don't worry, Jiggy...
I'll do my best to get well, and become a man just like you, Jiggy!
And one day, I'll become a man strong enough to protect my sister.
I understand.
Take care of Nelli for me, Nello.
Jiggy, I'm sorry, Jiggy...
I can't keep my promise...
It pains me...
It pains me, Jiggy!
I can't do a thing to protect my sister anymore!
So Jiggy, I beg of you.
Please protect my sister, Nelli.
To my hero, Jiggy Pepper.
Nello wasn't suffering because Jiggy left...
He was suffering because he was dying and wasn't able to become a man who could protect you.
So he wrote to the one person he could rely on, Jiggy...
It was a letter wishing you happiness from the bottom of his heart...
Nello, you dummy...
Didn't I say that I'd protect you?
That we'd always be together?
That you shouldn't think about anything except getting better?
Didn't I tell you?
But why did a shindan fly out of my hand?
In order to see Nello's heart in that letter...
That's because it was your shindan, I suspect.
Boy...
You're... the traveling rare animal collector!
Rare animal?
Shindan are created using the power that's within Spirit Amber; Heart shaped into a bullet.
The gun is merely a tool used to help form that heart into the proper bullet shape.
You, who have amber in your body, became the gun yourself and shot that shindan.
Then what about the pictures we saw after it hit the letter?
Just as no two humans exist with the same heart,
there are various different types of shindan.
Perhaps your shindan has the ability to peer into the heart stored within things.
The heart stored within things?
Of course, it probably only works on things stuffed with a lot of this "heart" you are so receptive to.
The church...
That big church was started to be built right after you left, Jiggy.
Sis got a job, and we had bread we could eat.
We could even buy medicine.
But I was thinking, Jiggy...
You said once that you wanted to build a big church in this town one day...
Where children could learn how to read, and give them a place to sleep.
You said it was sure to change this town.
Jiggy, could it be that that church is...
So then the person that built that church is Jiggy?
As if he would.
I'm not going to forgive Jiggy for leaving to satisfy his own ambition.
Here, Lag. You can have this back.
Nelli.
Go on to Yuusari already.
You're gonna be a Bee, right Lag?
Sure must be nice to sell your soul for a living.
Just like Jiggy did.
Then let's find out!
Let's find out how Jiggy really feels!
What? Lag, where are we going?
We're leaving, Steak.
You!
Hey, Camus.
Do not call me by my old name.
Not after so long.
Yes, fine... Gate Keeper Signal.
That boy from before was Lag Seeing, was he not?
I was not informed that he had a Spirit Amber as his left eye.
I did not know, either.
Please make a note of it in your report.
But...
A boy who tamed the Child of Maka; who has a Spirit Amber inside his body...
Will you be returning to the Yuusari Head Post Office, Master Lloyd?
What? You're going to shoot the church?
If Jiggy really did have this church built, then his true feelings should be contained within it.
Let's go!
W-Wait, Lag!
The bullet I shoot is a fragment of my heart.
Shindan, loaded!
Red needle!
Nothing happened.
Red needle?
Well, the shindan of a guy named Gauche was called "black needle,"
so I figured I'd name mine after the color of my amber, too.
Anyway, it seems I can shoot my shindan.
Lag!
Shindan, loaded!
Red needle!
Shindan, loaded!
Red needle!
Red ne-
Red keel over?!
Lag, hey!
Are you okay?
Don't touch Lag!
I hate you.
The next time you harm Lag, I'll kill you.
Niche...
Niche, you mustn't.
You mustn't hurt people.
And don't use words like that ever again, either.
Lag, you get more exhausted each time you shoot one of those, don't you?
I still can't control it very well.
Then quit it already, this is stupid!
It's not your problem!
What do you care about Jiggy or...
It's because I feel sorry for him...
You feel sorry?
The Letter Bee I met, Gauche, was fighting for his little sister's happiness.
He wanted to cure his sister's paralyzed legs, so he was aiming to become Head Bee.
And though he didn't want to, he left his only sister there, alone.
He traveled to Akatsuki for her sake.
I can't think of Jiggy as a bad person.
I felt Nello's heart.
Gauche felt that way. Jiggy must too! And Nello!
I'm sure he was trying to fight for those he loved!
To have the very person you want to be happy holding a grudge against you...
To be trapped by your past...
If it were me, how lonely and painful would I feel, I wonder?
If Jiggy's heart is really contained here...
Nelli, I want to deliver it to you.
And for Nello, who wished for your happiness.
The bell.
The materials for the church were mostly sent from Yodoka.
But the bell was transported completed from Yuusari.
The bell...
Shindan, loaded!
Red needle!
This guy's a piece of work!
Make a bell for the largest church in all of Amberground?
Lad, how much do you think that'll cost you, eh?
Even if you're a Bee, you'd be paying for it the rest of your life, get it?
Fine.
Even if that's so, make it.
Look at this! You've got to be crazy trying to transport this thing to Kyrie by horse!
So, Jiggy... Why'd you want this huge thing built anyway?
To draw people's eyes.
With a bell like this, you can't help but to look up at it, together with the stars.
Even if you try to grab them, you just can't seem to get them in your grasp,
and yet, if you look up at them and simply stretch out your arm, the sins that pollute you are wiped clean.
And one day, my little brother and sister will grab a hold of those stars.
Nelli and Nello, I know they can do it.
Jiggy...
Jiggy!
The medicine!
The medicine is here, Doctor!
He'll be okay now, right?
My little brother will live, right?
Thank goodness!
The next city for delivery is Credo.
And I have a pickup from the Master, I see.
But I doubt it's a real job.
Destroy this.
A bell?
Always...
Stay that cool Jiggy forever!
Stay a man that shines like those stars.
And then one day me and Nelli will stand there beside you, shining as well, just you see.
Calm down. I'm not going to do anything to you and Lag anymore.
If someone like you can actually become a Bee, then maybe I shouldn't give up on them, either.
Is it really okay that I don't take that letter to Jiggy?
Yeah. I'm going to work hard and buy the stamps myself.
There's still work in this town, so I'll try my best on my own.
It's annoying that Jiggy gets to hog all the coolness.
And one day I want to shine as brightly as Jiggy does.
Like... you, Lag.
Become a Letter Bee for sure, Lag.
Right!
I will! And then I'll make sure to come see you again, okay?
Farewell!
Farewell, Nelli!
Lag Seeing...
Thank you for delivering that letter.
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