Long time no see, Neko.
Who... are you?
Oh. So you don't remember me...
Are you Valkyria?
I have a name and it's "Mako", so would you not call me that?
You're—?
#1107, Takatori Kotori, come with us.
Huh?!
Kotori is #1107?
See? She's here just like I said. Tell me how good I am, Chisato!
#1107, I won't let you get away.
Your life is mine.
Hexenjagd
This is bad. We're screwed.
All that's left to try... is this.
Murakami!
Huh? Murakami?
I need to talk to you!
So you're the one who's been putting ideas into the witches' heads.
I'm begging you! Please don't kill me!
I just took pity on them and helped them out. I have nothing to do with this!
What's with this guy?
So please don't kill me!
I see... Well, I'm too nice, too. I could just run away.
But if I can hang up Valkyria...
It's do-or-die!
The heck is this?! Where do I push?
Hatsuna!
Shit...
How the hell are you here? I thought I killed you.
This one won't die unless she's ejected.
So can we eject her, then?
Sure. It'll cause problems if we let her live.
Please wait!
Hatsuna, I'm sorry. You could have run, but you came to save us.
Why? All these girls want to do is live. Why won't you let them?!
Because there's no reason to.
And just by being alive, they present a latent threat.
That's just your one-sided view!
Have you ever thought about the feelings of the witches who get killed?
Do you think about the feelings of each bug you kill?
That's not what I'm talking about! Witches aren't bugs. They're humans like us!
So you're saying all human lives are equally sacred?
Each life has its standing. The only sacred life is one's own.
No! You're wrong!
It's pointless to keep talking. Go ahead and kill everyone except #1107.
What? But you said I didn't have to kill Neko...
You didn't hear my order?
But!
Don't make me say it again.
...Understood.
No!
Everyone, run while you can!
Don't get uppity. Just shut up and follow us.
Let Kotori go!
What are you doing, Chisato?
Please, just leave!
Neko...
She's in our way. Hurry up and do it.
Neko, I'm sorry.
Murakami...?
Murakami!
Don't lump me in with you.
To me... there is a life more precious than my own.
Murakami! Murakami!
Murakami!
Murakami...
I'm sorry... I couldn't save you all.
Don't talk like that, Murakami!
Murakami!
Murakami! Murakami!
Murakami.
N... Nanami?
Hello.
What are you talking about? "Nanami"?
Nanami?
I'm a vision etched into your memory.
I made it so I would appear when you thought all was lost.
Well, it certainly does seem all is lost...
Oh no! He's lost so much blood, he's hallucinating!
Don't speak. You can talk to me just by thinking.
Okay.
By reading the memories of our supervisors, I learned which witches the lab fears.
Which ones they fear?
Yes. One of them is #1107, Takatori Kotori.
Another is Kuroha Neko.
Kuroha?
She is more powerful than even Valkyria.
But her power is unstable. No one could control it.
So they sealed it up.
I'll tell you how to unleash her power.
However, the way Neko is now, there is a 99.9% chance that it will fail and she will die.
Still, the only way to overcome this crisis is to take that risk...
Oh no... I'm losing consciousness...
Wait, Nanami!
Murakami, hang in there!
Damn you, how could you do this to him?!
Kazumi!
Dammit!
It doesn't matter how many times you use your power. You can only break objects.
Now you can't even use your gimpy magic.
None of us wanted to be witches.
You just made us into them!
Why do we have to lose everything important to us?
Kazumi...
If only I had some power...
You... do.
Kuroha, you're more powerful than Valkyria.
Murakami, what are you talking about?
Nanami told me...
...how to undo the seal on your magic.
All we have to do is press the top button of your harnest.
Go ahead and push it. She'll just melt and die.
No... I can't do it.
I can't push the button that has...
...a 99.9% chance of killing you.
That's enough of this. Do it.
Valkyria!
Neko, I don't want to, but...
...I can't disobey Chisato.
Don't!
...Goodbye.
Huh?
I can't use my magic!
It can't be...
Oh, it can. Been a while, Ichijiku Chisato.
How did you know we were here?
We followed the GPS data.
The device was turned on.
So? How does it feel to lose those powers you're so proud of?
How?!
The Initializer. In his presence, all magic is neutralized.
Now then, if you'll just hand over #1107...
He vanished?
Dammit. #1107 is gone, too!
Kotori?
Jeez, you were only grazed. How can you be so useless?
Shut up! I still neutralized the attack!
You never told me they could teleport.
Miki, it's your fault for not researching well enough!
Hey! Don't go blaming me!
Murakami!
Murakami, hold on!
Murakami!
Wake up, Murakami!
His heart's... stopped...
What?
What the heck? Now everything's meaningless.
What's the point of me living if Murakami is gone?
Murakami...
You said you'd remember everything, even if I forgot.
I was fine with dying, as long as you survived...
Murakami... this sucks. Murakami!
Don't worry. We still have a chance.
Huh?
Hatsuna, you're already healed up?
It's just that his heart stopped, right? We should still be able to save him.
Really? Then please hurry and save him!
But if I use this power, I'll melt.
Huh?
Well, I owe him for that time on the broadcast tower,
and I can't get pills without him, so...
I'll give it a shot. If I can heal him before I completely melt, that's good enough.
His wound is closing up.
Ahh, this is bad. His wound is almost completely healed...
...but his heart won't beat.
No way. I've never hung up before.
Hatsuna!
Did I just die for no reason?
Hatsuna!
No way! Not only was Murakami not revived... Hatsuna melted...
Kazumi!
Don't just stand there! Give him a cardiac massage!
R-Right!
Murakami, please. Breathe!
Murakami!
Murakami?
Murakami!
Thank God. Thank God!
I... Did I pass out?
No! You were dead!
Huh?!
Hatsuna gave her life... to save you.
Hatsuna? Why would you do that?!
Why would you die in my place?
It doesn't matter one way or the other.
We'll be killing the witches now.
Who are you people?
We're Hexenjagd.
We're the resistance working to stop the lab.
Why do you want to kill the witches? They haven't done anything!
As long as the witches are alive,
the drasils inside their harnests continue to grow.
Drasils? You mean those slime creatures?
Someday they will hatch,
devour the witches' bodies, and become perfect horrors.
They are monsters that live only to eat people.
No way...
We'll turn... into monsters?
But the most terrifying one is not any of you here.
It's #1107.
Rena.
Where am I?
Why won't you appear before me, Rena?
Who's Rena?
"All life is equally meaningless." That's what I thought.
Until Rena got sick and died.
Rena's body was damaged goods,
but her brain, her mind, was intact.
She didn't need a body. If I could just supply her brain with oxygen and nutrients...
But why wouldn't she revive? Why wasn't her soul there?
How could I bring life back to her?
What is life?
Our objective is to create the race of humans who are the true rulers of this planet.
And to make that perfect life form,
we need grane, which appear at a rate of one in every several thousand drasils...
...cultured inside a witch's body.
Who is Rena? I'm Takatori Kotori.
Your original body was.
"Original body"? Then what am I?
The humans on Earth were all created by aliens.
Huh?!
That's what we determined upon studying their ruins.
Furthermore, the aliens built a way to reset Earth into humanity's genes.
"Reset Earth"?
The switch to kill all humans...
...is you.
Kotori?
If the grane inside Takatori Kotori hatches,
the cells of all living things will melt, and Earth will become a planet devoid of life.
That's pretty hard to believe...
We were originally part of the lab.
Then we learned their aims.
So we raided their transport vehicles to kill Takatori Kotori.
But we failed.
Other vehicles besides the one Kotori was in got caught up in the accident...
...so on top of losing track of Kotori, we also lost one of our comrades.
I get it. If this is all true, we should be killed.
Don't be stupid!
In the first place, it's not like it's going to hatch right this second.
Maybe not. It might be a year or two off.
But it could also be tomorrow!
Are you fricking kidding me? If these girls don't get pills, they've only got a week left!
Screw your resistance! You're not doing anything different from Ichijiku!
I refuse to abandon hope, so don't you guys give up, either!
Actually, there's pretty much no chance it would hatch this week.
We can leave them alone and they'll die. It's more important to go after #1107.
I know that, but where is Ichijiku hiding out?
Don't worry.
Huh?
We can figure out where Ichijiku is. Kazumi!
Can you do it, Kazumi?
Of course! I'll hack the lab and pinpoint his location.
So here's the deal.
In exchange for us finding Ichijiku's location, you'll take us with you.
Don't be ridiculous. Do you think we haven't tried hacking?
There was a magic barrier...
Don't assume we're at the same level!
How about it?
We have no choice. Okay.
Kazumi!
Okay! Leave it to me.
Ichijiku's data has been erased.
I see... so it's the work of a witch on their end?
Don't underestimate me.
She's restoring the data.
Wow, this might...!
Yeah. I don't care if you guys come with us.
But we're still going to kill #1107.
Kazumi!
Near the lake... where we fought Kikako.
Ichijiku has a summer home in his mother's name...
Nice work, Kazumi.
We leave at once! There's a helicopter waiting outside.
Kana, wait here.
Right. I'm counting on you to rescue Kotori!
Yep. We'll make sure to bring her back.
Thanks, Hatsuna. I won't waste this life you gave me.
I fed Rena's brain to the grane in your spine.
That should have made it so her consciousness inhabited it.
But it doesn't seem to have worked, so I'll move the grane to a new host.
That means I'll...
You'll die.
I see...
Lives besides my own are all equally meaningless.
All except Rena's.
I'll revive Rena's consciousness, no matter how many lives it takes.
Is Valkyria's life also meaningless?
Yes. Of course.
But it seems like she loves you.
I saved her life one time. It seems she feels indebted to me for that,
but I only saved her because I needed her for my plan.
I have no feelings for her.
I knew it.
But I love him!
It can't be! It's going to hatch?!
Nooooo!
What's that?
Look!
Ain Soph Aur... The light that rules life.
When it covers the Earth, all life will perish.
We were too late...
But we've got it better than the billions of people...
...who face their deaths without knowing why.
Kotori...