This is my other self from the Frontier world...
Doctor Odhner.
That's right. We decided to join forces to stop you guys from running rampant.
You're an intelligent boy.
You're aware of which choice is the most beneficial, yes?
Don't do it, Kazasumi!
Kumi!
Please escape!
He's never been satisfied with Kyohma being in charge.
Let's stop the doctor. First, we have to get everyone together.
Now, I leave everything up to you, Tohru...
Kyoka!
All we need to do is wait...
...for all of you to reach the Dead End.
Counterattack: The Destination of Emotions
The coast looks clear.
Yeah...
Are you all right?
Yeah. I think I overexerted myself a bit.
Hi you two!
You were waiting for us?
That's...
Lyudmila's?
What... happened?
I've already avenged her.
What is this place?
A hitman for hire is often betrayed by their sponsors.
A professional always has one or two safehouses ready to use.
Thank you for saving us.
Guiding the students is part of a teacher's job.
Though, it might become "former" teacher before too long.
Are you planning to start a war or something?
Don't forget... they're the ones that instigated this.
Anyway, is the princess all right?
Kyoka!
I'm fine.
You're not fine! Your face is so pale!
She looks tired.
There's a bedroom past that staircase. Make sure she rests.
Got it.
Let's go. Can you stand?
Don't you two engage in any "tiring activities," okay?
We won't!
Really... You're always surprising me.
Chief... Chief... Chief!
Chief! I've been looking for you!
The results of the biomolecular motor adsorption experiments are in.
I guess it's time for that already. What's the fluctuation on the Galvanic waves?
From #1 to #50, the margin of error is within 0.001 percent.
In the Simulacra tests, there was zero percent error.
So is that the prodigy from the nano-biomechanical engineering lab?
Is that so? This is the first I've seen her.
I want a thorough investigation of the data immediately.
She's usually cooped up in a lab and hardly ever comes out.
The discovery of the Energy Cube,
and the miraculous advances in scientific technology that followed...
...gave us the means to traverse time and space.
The discovery of another world, exactly like our own...
However, that was a very unfortunate encounter.
In the long, harsh war, I lost my parents as well.
In the midst of that, I was researching a technology in order to save the people.
A bio-nanomachine that can analyze genetic data and recreate lost body parts...
With our technology advanced by the Energy Cubes,
I was able to complete that research.
Are these that girl's memories?
What is this?
What's the meaning of this? I wasn't told anything!
Medical technology is easily adapted for military purposes.
That was the Dead End...
The beginning of the death that guides everything to its end.
It didn't take long until the humans who turned into nano-machines
engulfed the entire world.
All of these people too...
Hurry! They're coming!
Understood!
I'm sorry to make you do this for me...
Doctor, you are humanity's last hope. We must find a means to combat them at any cost...
I devoted myself to a resistance organization.
I'll stop them, no matter what!
It all started with our mistake.
But...
See that girl over there? Someone like her...
HELP
Help me.
It's you!
The future...
Your voice, to me, is the same as the Timekeepers.
It's meaningless noise with nothing to back it up.
My voice isn't reaching anyone.
Someone, help... me, and the future...
It's all right!
Tohru has the power to change the future. So, you should believe in him, too!
Let's stop the Timekeepers.
Please go to that place.
That place?
Morning, Kyoka.
Morning, Tohru.
So Aaron and the others are safe as well?
Yes. I heard from Kumi's group as well. Apparently your brother is with them, too.
He really is impossible to kill.
Where is the rendezvous point?
Let's see... it should be coming up about now.
Just now... that was Kumi's doing?
Yes. She was basically responsible for setting up all of the security for that lab,
so this is like her backyard as well.
This is a shelter that was abandoned during the civil war.
Melchizedek requisitioned it and equipped it with a maintenance module.
Tohru, and Kyoka too!
Kyoka!
I'm glad! You really are alive!
Yeah... it's good to see you again, Remy.
Geez, I told you that you can't eat or drink in this room.
Sorry, but I got hungry.
We were devoting all our time to removing the control mechanisms that were on the guns.
But doesn't it smell delicious?
It's frozen food that was stockpiled here.
There's still plenty left in that freezer over there.
I'm glad that you guys managed to stay safe.
But... Lyudmila...
My sister!
As I just explained, our current situation is such that if the Timekeepers aren't stopped,
world history will no doubt be shaped exactly to their liking.
So combat is inevitable.
For now, there are two things we can do.
One, defeat the Timekeepers and remove all of their interference.
At the same time, we need to get rid of Dr. Odhner and destroy the time machine.
If we're going to destroy the time machine, how are we going to go to the past?
I've got a good lead for that.
Do we have a specific method to defeat the Timekeepers?
We do.
I'll explain that right now.
We're ready over here.
Please hold on for just a moment.
I'm going to run a few more dummy processes first.
Is it really all right for just the two of you to go?
I left a lot of presents behind at the lab, so I'm sure we can get in somehow.
To be honest, I'm overwhelmed by the desire to run away from all this,
but there are things that only I can do.
Can I ask one thing?
I can understand the reason for Kumi to defect to our side.
What's the reasoning behind your switch?
Let's see...
How about because they're disrespecting my little sister's death?
I find it hard to believe you've got that kind of heart, you homicidal maniac.
How rude...
Well, let's leave it at that for now.
Tohru!
Hey, you haven't eaten yet, right?
Kyoka...
I found a good spot. Why don't we check it out?
There's still time left before the operation starts.
It's fine; go ahead.
Come on! This way, this way!
Hold on!
Hurry, hurry!
She's gonna have him on a leash before too long.
Ta-da! Isn't this amazing?
Kumi told me about this place.
She said this was an evacuation shelter.
Maybe even after escaping into a place like this, they wanted to live the same as they did aboveground.
They don't look like fake flowers. They seem so real.
Oh, a bee...
Just kidding.
Geez!
It feels like so much time has passed since back then.
It hasn't even been a month, right?
We used to talk at school, or make little stops on the way home,
but we never went out to have fun by ourselves like this.
You're right.
But it's always fun to be with you. Even now...
Tohru, you suddenly got good at dealing with girls.
Fess up! Where did you acquire those skills?
Where, you ask?
Okay, that expression gives you away! Whose face did you think of just now?
Well, um, it was technically your face.
That's the look you have when you lie!
Tell me!
Hold—
This is kind of weird, isn't it?
What is?
The last battle to decide the fate of the world is coming up soon, right? But...
We're on a date, and arguing with each other...
This is amazing. I'm on a date with Tohru right now.
Is where you were shot okay?
Yeah, I'm fine now.
I'm apparently going to end up with a small scar, though.
I'm sorry.
I'll protect you this time.
Thank you.
In return, I'll protect you too, Tohru.
Hey, you're still worried about something, aren't you?
You can tell?
I can tell.
You have that look on your face when you're worried about things.
I just can't stop myself from thinking about it.
Just as Kyohma and the others said: we fight, and we win, but that's not the end.
If what happened to Remy is what's going to happen to the world... what can I do?
Tohru, you went to the other world and saw it for yourself, right?
Was it completely different from here?
Yeah. Everything was in ruins, and it was a very difficult place to survive...
But some things were the same.
And everyone there was trying as hard as they could to survive.
I see...
Personally, I don't think we need to change the entire future ourselves.
If we can just make it so things go just a little bit differently...
I'm sure that the people of the future will do their best, too.
You think so?
Besides, I've met my other self as well.
Our other selves are the result of history turning out a different way,
which means mankind has infinite possibilities!
You're right...
You really are right.
Besides, I told you before, right?
"You should just become the president or something, Tohru, and change the world!"
I love you.
I love you too.
Please keep caring for me.
Please do so too.
What happened to the partition? Can't you just cut off this sector?
No good. The security has been compromised!
Have those that went after Katagiri's group return to the lab!
And now it's certain. They are enemies of the whole world.
We must get rid of every time-transfer eligible person and eradicate them from history, or our future...
Maybe so.
You!
It's not that I dislike men whose egos have grown to be enormous...
...but, I'm sorry.
It's an intruder! Restrain her!
What are you doing! Olga Janetine is right he—
I suppose it's not like me to do something like this, Sidune...
We're much obliged to you, Brian Odhner.
But I'll choose the future that I believe in.
Was this the right thing to do?
You're going to walk down this path with me, right?
Tohru, your future is my future.
HELP
What can you tell?
I feel an immense power, just like what was inside the time machine.
This is... an expanded version of the Penrose equation? This is the basic theory behind time travel!
Are we good to go?
It's fine. I'm sure that it's the 21st century on the other side.
Come to think of it, there's something I've been forgetting to ask.
What is it?
How are we getting back?
We're not coming back.
Just kidding.
If we can get that huge Energy Cube,
I'm sure we can somehow make a time machine even if this hole collapses.
Or so we hope...
Basically, we just have to win.
Yeah.
Okay, we'll go first!
Don't be late!
Oh, brother. Guess I'll go, too.
See you later, comrades.
Me, too!
Hold it! Don't leave me behind!
All right, I'm going, too.
Grit your teeth!
We'll call it even for now.
But it's not like I approve of you just yet.
You saw us?
Prove to me that you're a man worthy of Kyoka.
You don't have to tell me that.
If another me was born somewhere else, and had led a different life, how would he feel?
If there was another version of myself somewhere on the other side of the ocean,
what would happen if I were able to meet him?
Would I be able to be his friend?
Or would the differences in our upbringing be something that I couldn't overcome?
Can I understand him because he is me?
Or will he be impossible to understand because he's me?
Even then, I...
I'll do as much as I can do!
Since the story is nearing its climax, we should fight as well to settle the score once and for all!
The feeling that this day would come at some point... was not really in my mind.
The mascot that wins will acquire his ideal future!
It's too troublesome. I'm okay with how it is now.
Next episode: "Showdown."
SHOWDOWN AT THE END OF TIME
"At the End of Time."