Hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop...
Captain!
Say ''cheese!'' Are you all right? Hey, did you get shot down?
No, I'm still hanging in there.
Then, would you mind me taking another one?
And another one!
Now the two of us! And another one!
Now the two of us!
Sure thing!
Shall we?
Captain! This way, this way!
THIS WAY, THIS WAY!
What did you say? Moad Special?
Yeah! Speed King said to call it that.
Aren't there any cooler names than that?
Here's where I step in! How about something like this:
''White Express,'' ''White Super Beagle,''
''White Full-Head-of-Hair Ship,'' ''White Mach Speedster!''
Hey, you with the full head of hair! Help out over here!
We're short on hands!
Yes, yes, yes! Yes, yes, yes!
Hey, Cook, gimme your wok!
What? No way!
Yes way! We need to plug this hole.
Yes! We must plug it.
This here is the wok passed down from my great-grandfather when he used to be head chef!
It has a history!
It's perfect!
Stop crying!
Okay! The anti-lock system, and the limited slip def are somewhat usable now.
Gentleman! Start your engine!
Thanks a lot!
I'm gonna die...
We did it! We did it!
Well, did you come up with a name?
We'll call it the Ahab-a-Go-Go!
I think it's a good name.
Let's just say we'll put that issue on hold for now.
Agreed!
Anyway, let's temporarily return to headquarters!
We need to lend a hand to Lucky's bro and his people!
But what are we going to do about Dew and Sara?!
Yeah! Dew and Sara were kicked out of headquarters!
We'll put that issue on hold for now.
On hold? What do you mean on hold?!
Putting things ''on hold'' is mankind's greatest wisdom!
If you didn't have your ''on hold'' and your ''for the time being,''
no matter how many lives you had, they wouldn't be enough!
''Oh, I am on hold!
waiting for my beloved
it starts to drizzle.''
''I'm worried she will be soaked
it worries my hair.''
Huh?
Hey! Wait for me!
The enemy's full-scale attack has begun.
With everything still half-finished, we wander.
There's not much time left until the day Moad is destroyed.
''For the time being'' and ''put things on hold...''
Is Captain Ahab really thinking that way?
''I'm worried she will be soaked...''
Episode 24
The Beginning of a Legend... Wandering
Doko e nagaretsuku no ka
Dare ga shitte iru no ka
Kurayami no naka mo akiramenakereba
Hikari wa kitto kurun da
Kodoku to ai ga tatakatte iru
Kaze to yuku tatoe tookute mo
Yume ga aru kagiri
Ikite yuku nani ga atte mo
Kimi ga iru kagiri
Hold on a sec, Speed, Aca!
Huh?
Head to the west!
What? But that's the opposite way from headquarters!
Just go! I have a good idea!
A good idea?
Captain,
it's not really much fun getting orders based on casual ideas and ''for the time beings!''
Don't be foolish!
I've lived a long life on casual ideas, ''for the time beings''
and ''it'll work out somehows!''
Take this!
To the west? But, Ahab, what's in the west?
The west shore.
Lady Whisker sank a bit offshore.
You're telling me you want to fly the Lady again?
No matter how much of a bungler you are, you read into things at least three moves ahead.
What does that mean?
Just think about it like this:
You're in the endgame, and the other guy has forked your king and gold general.
If you move your king to 8-VII,
then by moving their promoted pawn to 8-VI, they've got checkmate!
So you read ahead and run with your king to 7-VII.
That's how it's done.
I've always disliked you, but man, I don't like you.
No, wait. I guess that would be king to 7-IX...
In the end, no matter how you read it, it's all about Moby Dick.
If we don't fight him, nothing will get resolved.
And when that time comes,
no matter how you look at it, what will be most useful to us is our Lady Whisker.
Sorry to say this, Captain, but it's impossible to revive the Lady!
The engine was totaled, and she's been in seawater for months now!
Just go anyway!
On my computer, there is no ''impossible'' key.
What's that?!
Mr. President!
Yeah?
We have found former Presidential Assistant Officer, Jean Ohara!
This is the same woman wanted for murdering your son, General Ho!
What should we do, Sir?
Shoot her where she stands. Then freeze her and send her to Earth.
Understood, Sir!
Dew!
Lead me to where Shiro Tokisada is.
If you do that for me,
then I will revive your lover's life program.
I can't go back. They've exiled me.
But I need Shiro and his organization!
I must join forces with Shiro and use his organization.
That's the only way to pay back the Federation Government that kicked me out.
Madam Special Assistant...
Let's go, Murato.
Let's go, Dew!
We have orders!
Shoot anything that moves, got it?!
Do it, Murato! Show them your new power!
139 degrees east longitude, 35 degrees north latitude.
We have concluded that 500 meters underground at this coordinate
are Shiro Tokisada's headquarters.
We will drop 30 megatons of air bombs on the ground,
and then have the main force storm the underground!
What about Ohara?!
Sir, I haven't received a report yet!
Hey, Mika, I'm happy you're making a midnight snack for us and all...
But I don't think this is the time for that.
Isn't it obvious?
These rice balls are for the enemy to eat!
Huh?
I see!
Eat that, you bastards! Bastards! Bastards!
And that's Mika's special Moad Oil Rice Balls á la Gun Powder!
Nice!
HOLD IT RIGHT THERE!
Look at that! There!
It's Dew and Miss Sara!
That's right!
It's been too long!
Long time no see!
You guys are always hanging all over each other!
Jeez, I'm jealous!
Dew, what's going on? What's wrong with Miss Sara?
Her activity's been suspended.
Suspended? But...
Don't worry. It's no different from sleeping.
I see... So that's all!
She's okay then! We don't have to worry, right?!
Jacobs...
Why you, Murato! So you survived?!
All right then!
Barba!
You, no die. Barba, no die.
But Barba, win!
This, all Tattoo Clan knows! Kin tan!
Barba, send you flying!
We are in a hurry. Make way!
Move, move!
Retreat! Retreat!
Is everyone here?
Sound off!
Wan!
Two!
Three!
Four!
Five! Four!
Five!
Six!
Seven!
Eight!
Nine!
Barba!
Old man!
We're all here!
Hey, Dew! Why don't you ride with us?
Step on the brakes, the brakes!
We can't stop on a dime even if he does step on them!
''We're falling, we are
You and I have a catchphrase
between our two selves:''
''Falling in love goes quickly
but nurturing it takes time!''
Yoshiko!
2501 hours Moad time.
We have begun the air raid on Shiro Tokisada's army's main base.
All operations are on time. It's going according to plan.
Fire! Fire! Fire!
Priest Shiro! Please run!
The enemy's air raid has already destroyed everything as deep as 300 meters underground!
They will reach our headquarters any moment now!
Miss Lisa!
May there be... divine protection over you... Priest Shiro...
Cheers for freedom, for independence... and for love...
Mamma! Mamma!
Mamma!
O God that is the Universe...
We fight because we have love.
We love the people, and we love ourselves.
I will not fear being judged a fool because of it.
Because it was in order that he should love that man was allowed to exist in this universe!
And so, hatred is also...
proof of that love!
Sachiko...
Under, deep under the Moad Desert, here we go, go, oh splashing about!
Splish splash! Splish splash! What a great feeling!
Splish splash...
Splish splash, splish splash.
Sachiko... Splish splash, splish splash.
Here we go, splish splash...
What's wrong? What are you crying about, Lucky?
Oh, I get it! Are you hungry?
Come to think of it, we haven't had a proper dinner yet, have we?
I don't know. My tears are just coming out by themselves.
Sachiko, I give you my love.
Something's happened!
My brother is calling me!
Big brother!
Brother Shiro!
Big brother!
Where are you going, Lucky?!
I'm going back to where my big brother is!
Hey, Speed! Aca!
Yes, Sir!
Change directions! We're going this way!
What?!
Just a minute, Ahab, you can't do that!
First we went way, way over that way, then we went way, way over this way!
And now you're telling us to go way, way over there?!
Try putting yourself in our shoes, trying to keep up with your unreliability!
What are you telling me?!
You saying that you can't put up with my fickleness?!
Silence...
Don't joke with me!
Unreliability and fickleness is something you're born with if you're a stalwart whale hunter!
Everyone to the edges of the universe knows this as a fact!
Tomorrow brings tomorrow's wind, and yesterday passed on yesterday!
Hey, fellows!
If you want to know where I'm going, go ask a shooting star!
He's so dreamy!
See ya!
Lucky! Wait up!
He's always like this.
He's hopeless.
Here we go...
Really, it's so strange.
If you hadn't showed up at King Kuron,
I wouldn't have been reminded of my fateful ties to Moby Dick,
nor would I have come to Moad.
Do you regret it?
Of course I do.
I'm sorry.
My precious ship, Lady Whisker went kaput and is now sitting at the bottom of the sea.
The Ahab Whale Hunter Company used to be number one in the industry
but for all intents and purposes our business has been suspended.
I'm sorry, but I...
I'm not done yet!
This kid, even though he seemed a bit frail,
I was hoping to raise him as a first-class harpooneer,
and I was even entertaining the thought that it could be fun to make him ''Ahab Junior.''
But that kid, Lucky Luck, turned out to be a girl.
That... That's something you promised you wouldn't mention!
I mean, I...
Not yet, not yet, I'm not done yet!
All right! You win! Go ahead and spit it all out!
It's all my fault after all, right?!
Unluckily, after we left King Kuron, it was one fun trip after another.
What?
Those rule-breaking, thuggish, garbage-picking, penniless hooligans you can't do a thing about...
For some strange reason, they seem to be having lots of fun.
Honestly, I thought most of them would leave me midway, but they've stuck with me this far.
On top of that, I've made a bunch of new friends too.
You're one of them.
So are Dew and Sara.
So are Marie, Mika, also Kiyoshi.
Even your big brother, Shiro.
I can't say we're getting along smoothly now,
but I do more or less feel like we can be friends eventually.
Even so, you still regret it?
That's why I'm regretting it.
I'm wondering if it's all right to be lulled into complacence by so many happy things.
I'm wondering if it'll be all right.
''Hey, Ahab! Are you all right?!'' Like that.
In the end, it's one shot.
That's when this will be decided, at the end of everything.
I want to carry as little baggage as possible.
I can't get my prey with baggage.
Bare naked, with nothing to lose...
That was always how I did it.
That was Ahab.
I want to do it that way this time too.
Of course, I knew what the Captain was seeing beyond the darkness at that moment.
There was very little time left until the day Moad was to be destroyed.
That legend of Captain Ahab and his crew was about to begin!
That legend of miracles, love and...
sadness!
Nakanaide ne
Watashi ga itsumo mamotteru sugu soba de
Yakusoku da yo
Tsurai toki koso akaruku ne waratte ne
Maioriru kanashimi sae
Kirei de shiroi omoide ni kieru
Watashi no yorokobi wa anata no tame ni
Utaitsuzukeru koto wasurenaide
Tooku ni hagurete mo mimi wo sumaseba
Kitto kikoeru hazu watashi no koe ga