The idea of living my life dressed the same as someone else makes me shiver.
A herd of sheep, all dressed alike, will only become food for wolves and tigers.
I will not become one of the sheep.
I'll become a wolf, and instead of being eaten, I'll be one who does the eating.
Damn it!
Even if that meant going to the other world and invading it...
I will plunder.
I will steal the future... a tomorrow where all of my comrades can eat until they're full.
Ready to go?
That's right.
No matter how dirty our hands get, we need the future.
Showdown: At the End of Time
A hundred years, huh...
Looking at the spacetime waves, I'm sure our Frontier selves are here, too.
Each of you, spread out and deal with them!
Is that you, Tohru Kazasumi? Stop it!
"Stop it," you say?
There's a huge treasure floating right in front of me.
What reason do I have not to fight?
This has nothing to do with the Timekeepers.
We, from Frontier S, will take the Energy Cubes from you...
...and steal your future!
What's wrong with you? Take up your weapons!
No matter how easy you had it growing up, you're still me, right?
Looks like it's begun.
Let's hurry!
What I want, I grab with my own hands!
What stands in my way, I'll shoot with my guns!
Aren't those the rules of this world?
Aren't you mistaken about what you're supposed to shoot, Tohru Kazasumi?
What was that?
Our enemy is supposed to be the Timekeepers.
He just keeps running around...
A smokescreen? What's the meaning of this?
I'll go take a look.
Seriously, are you even going to fight for real?
Don't get me wrong.
The ceasefire from before was just so we could survive.
We're forced to fight each other because of the Timekeepers
so that we create the future where they, the Dead End, are born.
That's right.
That's why, with that Cube, we're going to rid ourselves of the Timekeepers.
But we can't win that way.
What?
I have a plan.
It should be a lot more effective than blindly fighting each other.
What nonsense.
Tohru, we have an emergency!
An unknown time dome has been created. A spacetime storm is coming!
Is this your doing?
We used our Energy Cube to surround Shibuya.
The interference waves of the time dome are activating that giant Energy Cube.
I see. So this was what you were after from the beginning.
That gate leads to the temporal axis where the Timekeepers are located.
But we still don't have enough.
What we're currently using is the Energy Cube from our world.
Without using the Cube from your world as well,
we can't pass through the gate to the Timekeepers' temporal axis.
You want me to entrust our Cube to you?
How do I know you won't eradicate all of us immediately afterwards?
I understand.
That's why we'll entrust you with control of the Energy Cubes.
Are you serious?
This battle only has two endings: either we win, or the Dead End wins.
Are you saying that you'd give up if we refuse to cooperate with you?
No.
In that case, we'll kill you all so we can procure the Cube and open the gate.
But we don't want to do that.
Fine. But there's no need to give us control.
We force our Cubes to resonate and crash into their place. That's enough.
I won't owe you anything.
What's so funny?
No, I thought that's what you'd say...
Shut up.
Field creation confirmed.
Tachyons are stable. Catching psyche waves.
Boson values increasing.
To think we'd team up with you guys again.
We've always decided our own destinies ourselves.
That's all.
Yeah.
Trapping weak bosons and gluons.
Confirmed 97% congruency with theoretical values.
OK, you're good to go.
Are you ready?
It's all we can do to send the two of you through this gate.
If you can send the two of us, that's good enough.
Let's go. Lend me your strength.
Yeah, I don't think you could handle this alone.
Damn it!
Why must you resist so strongly?
In the end, the two worlds will be lead to destruction via the war.
Those are your words!
Humans die in due time.
We control all time.
There is no life, there is no death. We release humankind from all pain.
So you want us to live in a convenient lie?
That's what's necessary for man to evolve.
No matter the era, the scenery is unchanging.
The sins that humans create.
The point where it gets decided. A war where a world fights another world.
Destiny can never be changed.
That's why...
This is...
Kenji! Kenji! You can't die!
That is your past self.
You couldn't protect anyone. Violence never resolved anything.
That's not true. I...
Why didn't you save me?
Remy?
I died... but on their side, I'm still alive. Why?
I wanted to protect all of you...
But you couldn't protect them.
Humans continue to live in a cycle of death and destruction.
Guns can't change anything.
It merely creates an infinite chain of hatred and retribution.
That's why I'm going to seize that Energy Cube.
With that power, I won't repeat the same mistakes.
Mistakes?
That's right.
I'll never lose someone dear to me again.
That's the mistake that my past self made due to his weakness.
But if you accept the Dead End,
my death, and everyone else's, will never have happened!
If you want to atone for your mistake, isn't that what you should do?
Don't say it's disgusting!
You want it too, don't you? My sweet candy.
But too bad, this one is for my dear sister.
No, that's not it, Remy!
You died. The people that died all stay alive within my heart.
That's just a delusion.
That's right.
And this world of the Dead End must be nothing more than a well-constructed delusion too!
It doesn't look like you're one of the Timekeepers.
Right.
Go.
You should settle the score with them.
All of the temporal energy is collected in your Cube. Drive that thing in.
Got it.
That's enough.
Bring it! I'll take all of you on!
Why must you resist so firmly?
Our desires should be the same.
We want to save humans from pain and sadness...
That may be true!
But that's a world where you decide how we live!
A world where only the things we can already imagine will happen!
Isn't that exactly what goes on in the Management District you live in?
It isn't!
I've met many people and learned about many things.
That's how our world keeps expanding!
Pain, suffering, sadness...
We all accept it, and that's why we can move forward!
We fail. We make mistakes.
But each time we do, I think we become stronger.
That's why I— we will defeat you and seize our future.
We don't care if we get hurt. We'll seize a future where we can live as humans!
However, unless you can pinpoint the temporal axis where we're located,
you can't make any attacks against us.
We'll see about that.
A boson increase!
I've confirmed the entrapment of the temporal axis where the Timekeepers are located!
Synchronizing the temporal axes of both worlds.
Quantum entanglement, okay! System booting!
Impossible! Are you directly interfering with our temporal axis?
Both we and they have been investigating you for a long time.
And back when you meddled with me,
we discovered that our Cube was linked to your temporal axis.
Impossible! You had the potential to develop such a technology from such limited information!?
You were rushing too much.
Me... rushing?
You feared us. You feared the possibility of the unknown.
We've surpassed your expectations, Timekeeper!
Go!
Do you know what it is you're doing right now?
We know.
It's something stupid.
They don't teach us this at school.
I don't even know if this is the right answer.
We're doing something stupid!
You must reconsider.
It's possible your actions will become a singularity on the timeline.
All futures will lose wave function convergence and become an unpredictable fog.
That's fine. Nobody can predict the future!
That's why there's despair, but there's also hope!
This is the last of the energy!
That can't be... it's not enough even though we've come this far?
It looks like you miscalculated!
You guys failed to draw out one last little bit of power from the Energy Cube!
The quantum entanglement convergence is dropping!
I can't fully contain the Timekeepers!
Damn it! What the hell is Tohru doing?
That is the limit of hastily prepared technology.
The resonation phenomenon from the fields is now ending.
You will both disappear along with this spacetime.
We'll see about that!
You're...
That's impossible!
"You should be dead!", right?
I will survive.
If I lose to your shallow dream,
then I won't be able to face those that have died.
Timekeeper!
I'm relieved.
You weren't an omnipotent god at all.
You're merely human, just like us!
No!
Thank you for protecting the future.
Oh... yeah.
I guess we made it back.
Yeah.
Now, let's begin. It's time for the final showdown.
Stop it. If we use the powers of the Cube, that will call on the Dead End once again.
Technology is a human creation.
I'll control it without fail and seize hold of our future.
Then I'll be the one to stop you.
Victory feels so fruitless.
Th-That's...
A loop-bomb that rewinds everything!
Are you serious?
A loop is the ultimate way of keeping the status quo!
That's the ideal negativity!
Next episode: "Encounter."
ENCOUNTER OUR FUTURE
"Our Future."
Thanks for everything.