If only... if only I hadn't gone looking for that ghost, this never would've happened!
Shut up!
Don't spit on Sidune's resolve.
This time it isn't the usual free-for-all. Another victory condition has been given.
There is a gate set up at this point.
The side that reaches it first
will receive five times as many Energy Cubes as we've been given previously.
That is what the Timekeepers have told us.
As for the forward members...
Please let me do it!
I want to make up for Sidune's death.
I'll fight for that cause!
Then, never look back.
I've got your back!
It's not like her...
She missed the vitals.
There it is!
Stop.
Continuing combat any further will be a violation of the rules.
This game is already over.
Come.
I'll give you your reward for winning the game.
It can't be....
Sidune?
Revelation: Two Histories
Are you a Timekeeper?
Yes, that's correct.
But the way you look...
I've borrowed this image from your conscious mind to enable us to understand one another.
It appears you spent the entire battle thinking about this individual.
Congratulations. This is your reward for reaching the goal.
It was originally intended for one person, but both of you arrived simultaneously.
Because we reached the goal at the same time, you're giving them to both of us.
How generous of you.
I didn't come here for something like this.
What in the world are you Timekeepers?
The fact that you made the effort to take that form means you intend to tell us, right?
Very well. I believe you're aware of this, but we Timekeepers are from the future.
We've come to save you.
Looks like the kid made it to the goal.
So do we just retreat now?
It'd be nice if the other side lets us go quietly, master.
Of course, that won't happen.
Looks like there's still a job left for us. Though, that's to be expected.
Since defeating the other team gives us additional energy cubes besides those from the race,
there's no reason to hold back.
Let's retreat. The rest is up to Tohru.
All right.
Pull this off, Tohru.
I hope you're not thinking you can get away so easily!
And you’re gonna pay for this!
Kyoka...
Staying here will gradually wear us down. What should we do?
We have no choice.
I'll rush in and drive them out, so cover me.
H-Hold on! There's no way I can let someone younger than me do that!
If anyone's going, it'll be me.
But...
Oh, you caught me!
I guess I'll just have to fight you with everything I have!
I've already predicted your movements!
Let us bring an end to the battle!
Someone from the future... So it's just like what Remy told me.
From the future?
You came to save us?
Then why are you making us fight like this?
Because that's the best way to minimize the damage.
Minimize the damage?
Ten years from their current times, both of your worlds will successfully develop time-warp technology.
Time-warp technology? You mean the time machine?
No.
Compared to what's to be created 10 years from your current time,
your "time machine" is merely a toy.
A toy?
The time-warp technology that's to be created would even allow travel between your two worlds.
But what does that time-warp tech from 10 years in the future
have to do with making us fight?
With the completion of time-warp technology, the gap between your worlds is bridged.
This leads to war.
And during that war, both of your worlds destroy each other.
Shields activated.
You... where'd you get that gear?
It's the power I gained to protect Tohru.
You don't have it?
Damn you!
I won't let you!
Aaron!
Looks like they outnumber us now...
If we get greedy, they might wipe us all out.
You're right. Let's split up and retreat.
Understood. Best of luck to you.
Damn you!
What? Hold on, Remy!
Kyoka! Leave that to me.
I'm more used to this than you are.
But—
You go ahead and retreat.
Take care of Remy for me, okay?
What's the situation?
They're retreating, but continuing combat nonetheless.
Perhaps it's a warrior's instinct to fight.
It would be wonderful if we could decrease their number here, but...
However, combat in a situation different than normal is dangerous.
You say that,
but if there's an enemy in front of them, they've no choice but to fight.
Anyone who isn't your ally is your enemy. That's how it is.
And if shot at, people will shoot back.
Warriors can't stop the unending cycle of warfare. It's a barbaric thing.
Barbaric?
Yes. It's barbarism.
Power must be controlled by wisdom, but it's a difficult task.
Why would there be war just because we'd be able to go
back and forth between our worlds?
It's happened many times throughout history.
Resources, territory, wealth...
Humans fight each other in order to gain something they don't have.
It can't be that simple...
It is simple.
How can you be concerned with the lives of others when you're about to starve to death?
But—
Exactly.
Your worlds will fight one another, kill each other, and, in the end, both will be destroyed.
Mr. President!
And that future destruction has an effect on your current selves.
Effect?
What you call Degradation in your world, the phenomenon that turns people to sand...
is occuring because your worlds don't have a future.
We have no future?
The war between the two worlds
has caused the spacetime continuum itself to become unstable.
The degradation is a result of that.
Just like you pictured in your conscious mind, everything will turn to sand and disappear.
People, the world, everything.
So what? Our worlds have no future, and that affects us in the past and turns us into sand?
Whether you believe it or not, it's true.
If the situation is left unaltered, everything will be destroyed.
However, there is still a way.
There's a way?
There's a way to not be destroyed?
What do we need to do? Tell us!
It's not difficult.
If, at this rate, both worlds are going to be destroyed,
the way to fix that is to destroy one of them first.
You underestimate us!
This is to avenge Kyohma!
You're the one that's underestimating us!
"This is to avenge Kyohma," huh?
So you must've been buddies with me on the other side.
But you know, you're the ones that killed Sidune.
I'll settle the score once and for all!
Big Brother!
Are you all right? We're gonna make a run for it.
Th-Thank you so much!
I know it's the same person, but I can't believe I'd mistake her voice for Kyoka's...
It's useless.
She's evolved her weapon with Energy Cubes quite a bit!
I won't let you get away!
Unfortunately for you,
I'm equipped with three sensors for sonar waves, electromagnetic pulses, and gravitational pulses.
Trying to blind me with something like this is pointless.
Why don't you give up right about now?
No way!
I see.
All right!
Impossible... he can fool the gravitational pulse sensor?
You fell for it!
Another dummy!
An irregularity like this...
How irritating. She just kept getting in my way.
It was the first time I had to deal with a weapon that was so evolved.
It had tremendous firepower.
At this rate, my psychic powers won't be able to keep up with the enemy's evolution.
Dammit...
One of us has to destroy the other first?
It makes more sense for one world to be destroyed than two, yes?
I see. And if so, who gets to decide which world is doomed?
Is that what you Timekeepers do?
Indeed. We believe you should decide. Don't you?
What do you mean?
The game we're holding right now.
That's what these duels in 2015, between those capable of spacetime transfer, are for.
Why do you make us fight in the past? What is the significance of the year 2015?
Because it's a temporal axis that's equidistant from both of your worlds.
Equidistant...
Yes. The year 2015 is the fairest battleground for both sides.
We can't give either side an advantage.
And only people like us are capable of coming here?
What happens to the losers?
The Timekeepers will "take care" of us?
No, all we do is give the winners Energy Cubes.
As long as they have that power, the winner's universe will continue to exist naturally.
We must keep our involvement to an absolute minimum.
Otherwise, we couldn't call this a fair game, could we?
Game...
Life is awarded to the winner, and the world of the loser will be destroyed.
That will be the end of this game.
Hurry up and get inside! We've already started preparing for the transfer!
You go in first!
What about the others?
Everyone alive has already gone back. We're the only ones left. Let's go.
All clear on our side, master!
Yeah, I'll be right over!
Master!
Stay back!
W-Wait a minute!
I know! I know!
Commencing transfer.
A game, huh?
A game, with the survival of our worlds on the line.
The winner takes all, and the loser dies.
That's absurd! There must be some way for us to work it out!
The future hasn't been determined yet.
Maybe that's why they're so fuzzy.
The future hasn't been determined yet.
Your future is not necessarily our future!
And those words mean?
We'll decide our future.
The future of war you're talking about, where we pillage each other...
There must be a way to prevent it from happening!
You're too naive.
Humans can only live by stealing what they don't have from others.
If there's no future, we just take the future from others.
Why are you so stubborn? You're me!
And you're me. Why don't you understand?
What's this?
What's going on?
I believe I said that the game has concluded.
But this seems like a good opportunity.
Let us move the hands of time forward.
W-Wait!
Work has been really hard lately.
At times like that, you go to the countryside to refresh yourself!
City kids have the dumbest ideas. There's nothing in the countryside.
The amusement is that there's nothing there! You can pretend it's a world where civilization's collapsed!
Next episode: "Castaway"
Castaway The Other World
"The Other World"