Then I'll be the one to stop you.
Just try to stop me.
Let's settle the score.
You can predict your opponent's movements? What a clever move.
It's not like I can do it with anyone. It's only because it's you.
What?
You're the same as me. That's why I can tell.
I am not you.
You are me!
That power of yours must work well against the Dead End.
However...
My evolution is a power that's only meant... to kill!
You sought salvation. I sought death.
That's the difference between us!
It looks like it's begun...
Encounter: Our Future
So you've run away.
I can hear both of their emotions.
Just like their two hearts, a beautiful coda.
The final battle...
Yeah.
If you want to fight, I can take you on.
You're a feisty little boy.
Looks like things are getting interesting.
O-Olga...
Wh-What should we do?
What should we do, you say?
Excuse me, everyone...
Both sides, retreat!
You idiots! Don't fight just because it feels like what you're supposed to do!
If you want to fight even after you've lost your reason to do so, come to me!
I'll fight as much as you want!
What an old geezer.
Our nemesis the Timekeepers have fallen.
I wouldn't like to see any more humans dying.
I'll agree to that.
Then are you going to leave those two alone?
I don't care whether you do or not.
I do believe in Lord Tohru.
It's only fitting that we entrust the future to the young ones.
Exactly. Hey, you guys, we'll entrust the battle to those two.
That's fine, right?
Yup.
Yes.
- Yeah! - Yes.
Well, yeah.
Right.
That's fine.
- Good with me. - Yeah.
All right, it's a unanimous decision!
No grudges held, no matter which side wins!
I'll hold a grudge!
Don't force everything onto Tohru!
There's no way I can just leave Tohru alone like that!
- Stupid Big Brother! - Stupid Big Brother!
Do whatever you want...
This is—
This must be our destiny. It's the same place we were before.
It's not the same!
Your gun handling has gotten decent, huh?
You're that strong, but you still seek power?
Of course! I need it to change the world!
That's too dangerous. That's the power that creates the Dead End!
Because it's dangerous, it needs to be controlled.
I'll make that happen!
That's arrogance! What would happen if you were to die?
It'll be fine as long as I don't die.
That train of thought is what creates the Dead End!
You're just going to cower from danger and disregard all the possibilities?
That's not it!
What's wrong with wishing for evolution?
Is living naked inside a cave your ideal?
That's not it!
If you want to change the world, just change it one day at a time.
You should be able to evolve, even without powers like that!
You're telling me to wait...
That's right, I am!
Even if things don't change this second, we can change the future a little bit at a time.
If we do, someday—
Shut up!
Remy died!
Even now, children are starving, getting sick, and dying!
You're telling me to just sit and watch that happen?
That's not what I mean...
You guys are living in wealth!
You guys can afford to wait decades and centuries!
But still—
However, that's not the case for us!
But still... that's better than everything turning into dust and disappearing!
You coward!
You stubborn fool!
What would you know?
If you don't have power, you can't save anyone at all!
I will protect Tohru!
Tohru isn't the type of man that needs someone to protect him!
Our Tohru is very kind!
Maybe you're overprotective and making him indecisive?
What do you know about Tohru?
Tohru's strong! That's why I fight together with him!
His feelings and his courage...
By trading blows, they enter into me.
He's just like me. He has things he wants to protect, too.
You might handle it well...
But we...
We can't hand over our future to anyone else!
In order to survive, I have to believe in myself.
Tohru!
Kyoka...
Shields activated.
Tohru.
I told you, this time we're enemies.
Drop your gun.
Kyoka, shoot!
Shoot!
Tohru!
Don't you hate me?
I do hate you.
You're the one that took Sidune.
Then shoot.
Never.
If you don't shoot, the war will continue.
Hating each another... killing each other, what does that create?
I'm going to end it all.
Stop it...
Both killing and being killed.
Without it, you can't return to the future either!
So what?
He really did it.
The chrono-potential is rapidly changing.
Wh-What in the world is going on?
This is... The two histories are separating from each other!
Oh, this is beautiful.
It's the end already? How boring.
Everything is fading away, I see.
Now, where we end up... will it be our world, or will it be Hell?
Can you not hear it?
This beautiful madrigal... what a majestic calando!
Is this the end of it all?
No, this is where it begins.
Hold on, what in the world is this?
Fretting won't get you anywhere.
Jonathan, you...
Matsurika!
Listen! That guy there... don't you ever let him go!
I-I know that!
'Til the very end, he was an infuriating bastard.
As much as you can...
I wonder if we did the right thing.
I don't know.
But since you were here with me, I was able to make it this far.
Yup. We'll be together forever, right?
Kyoka...
Tohru...
"We'll see each other again..." I did say that, right?
Yeah.
Were we able to change the future?
Yes. My future was supposed to have been completely swallowed up by the Dead End.
Tohru, you changed the future.
That's a relief.
It is... right?
Is something wrong?
Thanks to you, Tohru, my future has been saved.
But that was a selfish wish I had made.
Perhaps there might have been a different path... a better path.
If you weren't around, we would've only had the future with the Dead End.
But, for instance, if you had used that Energy Cube,
you might have been able to create a real time machine.
Tohru, you might have been able to see your parents that way, too...
A real time machine, huh?
Memories are important, but Dad and Mom gave me the future.
That's why I need to move forward.
This is goodbye, then?
Yeah, thank you for everything until now.
No, I should be the one...
Will we see each other again?
Yes. If you are moving forward to the future, Tohru, I'm sure we will.
I'm glad.
Oh, right.
I've been meaning to ask you... what's your name?
Actually... I don't remember.
I lost many things when I came back to the past.
I see, then what should I call you the next time I see you?
If you don't mind... Tohru, come up with something for me.
A name for you?
Miki...
How about using the character for "future" and reading it as "miki"?
Because you were far ahead of me and showed me infinite possibilities...
Miki...
Thank you very much.
I'll see you again, Miki.
Yes. I'll see you again.
The strange disease where human bodies disappear like sand...
Does the Desert Syndrome really exist?
Or is it merely a hallucinogen attack created by terrorists fighting against the regime?
The truth will be revealed right after this!
I don't dislike my school uniform.
It's not unpleasant to have lots of comrades.
Though we wear the same clothes, who we are inside varies.
And, despite the differences, we all walk the same paths together.
We're all on the same planet...
...and we walk towards the same future.
Tohru!
Morning!
Morning, Kyoka.
We returned back here.
It feels like we made quite a long detour.
Damn you, Tohru, you bast—
Stupid Big Brother.
Let's go, Tohru.
Sure.
Our everyday life basically went back to what it used to be.
What?
A love triangle?
What's wrong?
Nothing. Let's go.
Are you thinking about the Degradation?
You could tell, huh?
According to Big Brother, there are a lot fewer cases now, you know?
That means that the future where the Dead End is created isn't completely gone yet, I guess.
“What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know."
We have to do something about it, a little bit at a time.
Right.
Then let's get married!
You're going to try to become the president, right?
Y-Yeah.
Then marry me, shove Big Brother aside and take control of the Katagiri Group!
You can leave all the information warfare to Kumi,
and you can contact Ms. Olga and Aaron to expand your forces.
You can conquer Eurasia within seven years, and then—
Kyoka, that's not being the president of the world, that's world domination!
Close enough!
How about a future like that?
Yeah, sounds good.
Tohru!
Did the future really change?
Or will it change from here on?
Hi! It's been a while.
Really? Yes...
I'm pretty expensive, you know?
In the end, what is time?
I still don't know.
Even if we don't know, we move forward.
One day at a time, then one more day at a time.
It may not be a very simple path,
but no matter how hard it is,
if you're together with me, I can keep walking on.
Believing that someday, I will meet that girl at the far end of the path...
Here goes!
Bring it!
Oh, sorry!
Where were you throwing that?
Memorial of Peace Gifted by the First President of the World
Excuse me!
Thank you very much!
Miki.
Grandpa!
Shall we go?
Yeah!
You know, Miki...
What is it?
We got to meet again, didn't we?
Hey!
Sorry!