Don't tell me you intend to sacrifice them for that!
What's wrong with it?
If we combine my implant network theory and the Vajra's zero-time fold communcations, we can change the world, you know!
But...
I don't understand, Ranshe.
Why are you defending that thing even though it's made you so sick?
I wonder what's wrong with Mommy and Grace...
Yeah, even though they're always telling us not to fight.
Huh... Uh... Who are you...
What're you talking about,
Ranka...
We're about to arrive, Ranka.
Okay.
That was...
This is...
...the Vajra... planet...
Again... we abandon two more islands...
This will push Frontier's environmental equilibrium curve past the point of self-renewability.
In the short-term, it is an effective measure.
It's a stopgap survival measure, nothing more!
Your Excellency, don't you think we should request aid from the New U.N. government?
You're saying we should end our journey and give up?!
That's one option to consider.
SMS' desertion is starting to go around the rumor mill, as well.
Saying they're like rats fleeing a sinking ship-
Our journey will surely end soon.
So...
Not by giving up, but with the greatest...
No, with a goal even greater than that.
It's a fragile thing...
Cramped... Stuffy...
I used to think of it as a cage you could never escape from, but now...
Squad Leader, can I ask you one question?
Shoot.
Are you like really dating Sheryl?
What's this all of a sudden?!
That's the rumor.
And that that's the reason you didn't join the SMS desertion.
Private questions are rejected!
Don't you know the Valkyrie Pilot Jinx?
If you tease someone about a woman during operations, you'll suddenly be shot dow-
Maruyama?!
Sheryl-san...
Huh?
Well, well.
Ahhh! Squad Leader, please get her autograph for me later!
Announcement from the Frontier Government.
Currently, the partial pressure of oxygen within the convoy is in decline.
Please carry an oxygen mask at all times when going outdoors.
I had a hell of a time making something up, you know.
Oh?
So being with me is something you have to make up an explanation for?
That's not what I meant...
That's why I told you to stay out of the kitchen.
Well, it's frustrating.
I am, you know... a girl, after all.
Don't worry. Take a seat.
Note: This meal is presented in the style of Japanese aristocratic cuisine. That Alto can prepare it likely means he received extensive training from his mother.
These're fresh ingredients like you can hardly get in this day and age.
Hey, a toast. Let's toast.
To what?
To whatever.
I just want to have a toast.
Fine, fine, I get it.
Cheers!
Hey, hey, chugging? Seriously?
I always dreamed about this kind of thing.
Huh?
Just talking to myself.
Come on, let's eat.
With gratitude, I partake!
Oh no way, it's delicious!
Geez, you're cheeky for a lowly Alto.
Hey now, even if that isn't alcohol, it's...
...as I predicted.
Fhutup!
Lowly Alto.
Geez, you're incorrigible...
You can't leave.
I demand you stay by my side the whole time.
Yeah.
Suddenly becoming all giddy and fawning for attention...
It's not like you.
"Can't be helped"... huh?
Thank you, Brera-san.
For going along with my selfishness and coming way out here.
For a cyborg with no memory, orders are absolute.
Executing them was the meaning of my existence.
But when I heard your song, something overflowed inside me.
Even though I was supposed to be a fighting machine...
This is to give thanks for that.
So don't worry about it.
Brera-san...
Can I ask you one more time...
...about that song?
It is a memory.
The only one left within my empty insides.
Does that mean-
It's the Vajra defense corps.
Are you sure this will work?
Yup.
I'm sure it will reach them.
After all, it's worked so far.
Aimo, aimo, nete lhushe
Noynar milia ehndel protea
Photow mih
koko wa attaka na umi da yo
This is a warm sea...
ここは温かな海だよ
This is...
It is Ranka-san's song!
Now comes the moment of truth.
Yes, sir.
Monica, route the feed here, too.
I'll assist in monitoring.
I'm counting on you guys.
The enemy will make a move for sure.
Lhuley
Lhuleyah
This takes me back...
Noynar milia ehndel protea
That's right...
We were together often like this...
Brera-san...
This harmonica...
A protector.
To ensure your wish is heard.
Lieutenant Junior Grade Alto Saotome, entering.
Sorry for calling you all this way.
No problem, sir.
I had him call you, Alto-kun.
Did I startle you?
That's the expression you've got.
A short time ago, a probe detected a faint fold wave.
It was determined to be Ranka-kun's song.
That's right.
It's finally been found.
The location of the Vajra's home planet.
Why tell me, sir?
Because I expect big things from you.
In the fight we have to conduct now,
I want you to be able to do your job without any reservations.
I do not mind fighting.
That is what I stayed for.
However,
there is one thing I would like to ask before that.
What is it?
Is the purpose of this fight to obtain fold quartz?
I see.
They do show a behavior of going around to collect the raw materials for fold quartz from interstellar substances and fixed stars.
But above all, we must first survive.
And we must exterminate the Vajra.
For the sake of Humanity's future.
Humanity's future?
The Vajra are trying to wipe out humans.
Using Ranka-kun as a foothold.
So in the end, we are incompatible lifeforms...
That's not true!
Because-
Keep your mouth closed!
They're coming!
We cogitate with our brains.
And no matter how strange our opponent is,
if it is a lifeform with a brain, at the very least, we can comprehend the logic of its actions.
But the Vajra are different.
It's finally been explained.
...how they, without brains, are able to function as a lifeform.
Using their intestines, or more accurately, a network of intestinal germs that emit fold waves, they transmit information.
Furthermore, that network is expanded among the entire Vajra swarm,
and each individual is positioned as a single synapse.
Yes, the Vajra have no such concepts as "individual" or "self".
The entire swarm,
the entire race, they behave as one creature.
That way, language...
No, even the concept of communication with an "other" is useless.
A network lifeform sustained by fold waves...
That is the Vajra.
But Ranka... Her song was working against the Vajra!
Then...
Have you ever thought about why such a thing is possible?
That germ can never inhabit our intestines.
Far from it, it attacks the brain...
...and brings death!
If she is the exception, it is because she was infected before birth in the mother's uterus and chose symbiosis with the Vajra.
And for their part, the Vajra also tried to use her.
I cannot imagine any other explanation.
That is why the Vajra target Ranka-kun.
She will connect Humanity and the Vajra, and then...
...become the vanguard of our destruction!
Don't worry.
Even if it costs me my life, I will protect you no matter what.
But!
But that's not enough.
I want to stop it somehow...
I want to make it so that we don't have to fight...
That's why I came!
They found us?!
Ai-kun!
Wait, Ranka!
Please, Ai-kun, tell them.
I want to tell you all someth-
Ranka!!!
Broth...er...
Brother!!!
Ranka!!!
You bastards...
Outta the way!
Dammit!
You've done well, Brera.
Simply cutting your tracer...
...can't break the bond between you and me.
Captain...
It seems the Vajra have noticed us.
Those damn insects really piss me off.
Did you have fun eloping with your baby sister?
Baby sister...
Ranka is?!
That's right.
But magic time is over.
The midnight bell tolls.
Even if it's only a symptom suppressant, it has the effect of slowing the progression!
So why-
What do you care at this point?
Since I've stopped taking the medicine, my power's increased, hasn't it?!
If you're going to use someone as a tool, then you'd better be cold as ice right to the end.
Sheryl-san...
Being kind is a sin.
Even if I know it's condescending sympathy,
I'll want to take advantage...
Alto-san.
Dad really is small, isn't he?
If he appears so, it is because you have changed.
This is my final plea.
Please return.
Now, the Master will surely hear what you have to say.
You know I can't.
I'm a military pilot.
If we don't fight, everyone'll die.
Is that really the path you desire?
To fight and kill?
Alto-san, as I see it, you are fighting only because you have been swept up in the events around you.
Would you have become a pilot whether or not there was an enemy?!
You are an actor through and through.
You perform the role expected of you at each moment.
You are able to perform it.
Think carefully one more time.
About your desires, about what you seek and why...
Ranka...
I...
Alto...
I'm sorry...
...Brother.
Noynar milia ehndel protea
Everyone... because of me...
We've been waiting...
...for this moment.
I can hear her...
...the Little Queen.
Now... we...
The door to faith... is opening...
I got a notification, too.
About Ranka.
What are you going to do?
So far...
I feel like I've come a huge distance.
Even though it feels like just the other day that I joined SMS.
Lieutenant Klan,
why did you join SMS?
Joining the service is a tradition in my family.
So I didn't have any questions about becoming a soldier.
I thought that was how things worked.
I...
...thought the same thing.
Thought I was going to be an actor.
But...
longing for a sky, I left home.
Aiming to be a pilot.
And then...
...I met her.
I chose to join SMS to protect her.
To fight.
To protect.
Ever since then...
Reminiscing all of a sudden?
It's true,
I might've been running away this whole time.
...pretending not to notice a lot of things.
But...
...that's over now.
It's a puny world that could be destroyed by the slightest imbalance...
But everyone's living here.
They're hoping to keep on living.
So if Ranka's being made into a tool for the Vajra...
If her song is trying to destroy us...
I'll...
...kill Ranka.
Alto...
Is that... your love?
I always knew.
But just for now...
Just a little longer...
It is still in the optical analysis stage,
but we presume it to be a class-A habitable planet.
Distance is thirty light-years.
If we expend all of our energy reserves, it is possible to jump.
All right.
Notice to all ships.
As of this moment, Macross Frontier will conduct an emergency jump to the Vajra homeworld.
Announcement from Frontier Government.
A short-distance fold of thirty light-years will be executed shortly.
It's finally come.
Yeah.
That very planet is our promised land.
Let us begin the sacred battle.
Humanity and the Vajra collide.
The journey of Alto and company will at last enter its final act.
Next time,
Last Frontier.
Song of the Final Battle, echo throughout the Galaxy.