Who's that guy in the stripes?!
It seems he's not from JP's.
Hibiki.
Yamato's cell phone...
got a dead-face clip of me?
Yes.
Going forward, the fight against the Septentrion will intensify.
You are a weapon.
Nothing more.
Did you think you could stop me?
Foolish.
Yamato, you're so obstinate.
I don't follow you.
Good thing, huh Yamato?
What are you trying to say?
If you hadn't made it in time, Hibiki would be dead.
If nothing is done, the dead-face clip is sure to come true.
"Sure to"?
Drivel.
The notion of set fate is ridiculous.
Cause and effect can be bent through strength.
I see you haven't changed.
"Strength"?
What do YOU think?
What will you do?
It's an important decision.
Will you stay here?
Or will you go with Yamato?
Wednesday of Transformations - I
I...
I want to use this power for good.
Hibiki! If you go back, they'll just use you again!
Ronaldo Kuruki, of the resistance that would oppose Yamato.
Is that right?
Right now, the decision lies with him.
Would you mind please being quiet?
You seem to know what's going on, too.
Can't you fill me in?
You were told not to interfere, human.
It spoke!
This is the demon that serves you?
Bifrons, you mustn't make any moves now.
"Now"? What do you mean?
You'll see soon.
Alcor.
Why do you side with the humans?
I couldn't care what happens to the puny creatures.
Demon!
You all totally gutted Nagoya, didn't you?!
You got the wrong idea, girl.
You okay?
Why you--!
Don't bother.
You can't call your demons right now, can you?
You little runt!
"Runt"?
Now you've done it!
I'm gonna burn you for real!
No, Bifrons.
I've said it twice now.
I-I'm just kidding.
That man isn't using a cell phone.
Huh?
If he's not a Summoner,
standing there next to a demon is just strange.
Are you a demon?
I see. That's what you think?
I get it.
I am Alcor. The Anguished One.
Nothing more, nothing less.
"Anguished One"?
Who am I?
Even I'D like to know that.
At the very least, I don't intend to be your enemy.
Don't skirt the issue.
I wasn't trying to.
I have yet to prepare an answer that will satisfy you.
Huh.
You've assembled this many
humans able to use the summoning app?
We're taking you into custody.
Don't try making a fuss, either.
Bifrons.
Gotcha.
Bunch of pissants, ain't ya?
Stop it!
Ronaldo, have everyone fall back.
I'LL take him on.
Oh, that's right.
About your summoning app...
I was the one who gave it to you all.
What was that?
Who are they?
They seem to be demons,
but there's no digital summoning signature.
Sir... Is there something you still haven't opened up to me about?
What do you mean, YOU gave us the summoning app?
You humans are weak.
You'd be helpless before a Septentrion attack.
That's pretty terrible, isn't it?
So I made the Nicaea site and gave you these tools...
The choice to fight for life.
He's the creator of the summoning app?
That man... made the dead-face site?
Thanks to that, I was able to find a new Sparkling One.
Sparkling One...
No such concept exists.
One is either gifted or incompetent.
That is all that's needed to understand humans.
Will you take Hibiki back with you?
Hibiki. Will you stay here?
Hibiki...
Septentrion will appear tomorrow.
At the same time in three different locations.
According to the unbroken covenant.
Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka.
The next Septentrion will be Trinity,
a difficult type that will attack three barriers at once.
That's right. Your trials grow more difficult.
Going forward, only Byakko-class demons will be capable of fighting.
Normal Summoners won't have enough firepower.
Just like the chief said, huh?
Hibiki. I entrust Osaka to you.
Yamato!
And why not just say that at the start?
Blabbermouth.
Yamato.
I... I don't intend to be one of your pawns.
Hibiki. What's this "correctness" of which you speak?
I won't entrust my power to others anymore.
I will fight to protect people of my own will.
I see. Irrelevant.
The goal is eliminating the Septentrion.
That's all.
On top of that...
I'll defeat all the enemies.
And after that, if you try to make some misguided future...
I'll stop you.
You will stop me?
Hibiki! Is that your choice?
It's something only I can do.
Hibiki...
Interesting.
If you can survive till the end, that is.
I'll survive.
I look forward to it.
This day you defeat all the enemies.
Mr. former detective.
You stay here and maintain command.
Sir!
You're saying I should obey you?!
That's right.
Your careless actions have left the
Nagoya Branch with little remaining firepower.
If you all don't fight tomorrow, Nagoya will be destroyed.
Ronaldo...
You have no choice.
We'll slay the enemy.
But I won't let mankind's future play out how you want!
Again, "If you can survive," that is.
Survive...
Survive.
We'll survive. For sure.
Jeez, what the heck?!
So, that was JP's chief?
Yes. And who are you?
Airi Ban. And that's Jungo, who was scouted with me.
I'm Jungo.
Who's that guy in the stripes?
He's...
Huh? He's gone.
The Anguished One...
Yeah, but still...
Wasn't giving them the demon-summoning app going too far?
I'm surprised by my own actions.
I... What am I, I wonder?
Huh?
O Anguished One.
You won't overturn the Purge, will you?
I don't care what happens to the humans.
Perhaps I don't want to think the humans are already a lost cause.
You mean, the Sparkling One?
Yamato may have spurned me, but...
Over such a triviality.
3 Years Earlier
What are those clothes?
That's enough out of you.
I'm not coming back to this mansion.
I see. How fast. You're an adult now, eh?
It's begun.
I will create the world of my ideals.
"Might makes right," is that it?
Those with true abilities should guide others.
It will be a splendid world.
So there's no other choice?
No. I shall bear humanity's fate.
That's why I was born, why I've lived thus far.
The Purge of Polaris is without mercy.
Can you survive till the final day, Yamato?
Of course I'll survive.
I see. Well then, Yamato...
I certainly wish you'd been the Sparkling One.
Yamato came to rescue me?
Sparkling Ones... Friends...
It's all so complicated.
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Transport Terminal operation is stable.
Transport beginning in 5... 4... 3... 2... 1...
Beginning transport!
Phase field is stable.
Material composition of biodata is in the clear.
Magnetite consumption is within normal levels.
Transport is complete.
Prof. Kanno.
Please stop using yourself for your transport tests.
"Tests"? It's functioning normally.
My adjustments are perfect.
There's a more than 99% chance I won't fail.
Not 100%?
In science, 100% is impossible.
I am neither God nor the devil.
You finished adjusting the transport Terminal yesterday
and the chief was delivered unharmed.
Even without the Terminal,
the chief could have used his magic to fly there.
But who knows if his body could withstand it.
That's frightening.
Yes.
Failure, though improbable, was a possibility.
Is this Hibiki kid that important?
Sakocchi?
Yes. At this point, Hibiki Kuze has become an important...
weapon.
Huh.
Well, fine.
Say, Fumi.
What, Sakocchi?
Why do we have to do
physical checkups for all staff at a time like this?
Ah. Don't worry about that.
They're just checking things out.
JP's Nagoya Branch
Temporary Men's Changing Room
Why a checkup all of a sudden?
Because even JP's is an organization?
What does that mean?
Like, managing the staff.
You have to do things by the rules or you'll get in trouble, right?
But why at a time like this?
The government is just a façade.
The government, huh?
That adult stuff is such a pain.
Not that we'd know.
Say, Hibiki...
Uh, no. It's nothing.
Yesterday, if you and Nitta hadn't come...
I would've been in trouble.
Daichi, thank you.
Idiot! No one's talkin' about that!
But if not for the two of you,
who knows what would've happened when faced with Yamato.
O-Oh. So it's a good thing we came. I knew it!
You can count on me. We're friends!
There are four enemies to beat, right?
Let's POW! get 'em!
Yeah.
How nice. He has close friends.
Yes. Hibiki and Shijima are childhood friends.
I meant you too, Io.
If you two hadn't come yesterday,
I'm sure Hibiki would have had a tough time.
Okay, hold your breath.
JP's is a strict organization.
The truth is, people like you all shouldn't be involved.
Okay, fold your thumb in and make a fist.
Why did you join JP's, Miss Otome?
This needle will sting a bit.
I was a doctor in Osaka. A normal one.
Okay.
One day, some people saying they were from the government came.
They asked me, and I became a doctor exclusively for JP's.
That kind of thing actually happens?
It looks like the government knew I was well suited to
becoming a demonic Summoner.
I had no idea myself, though.
The government is scary, huh?
They know personal information
that even the person in question doesn't.
Still, the pay is a heck of a lot better here,
and my daughter is safe, thank goodness.
Huh? You have a daughter?!
This is her.
She's very cute.
I'm a mysterious woman, aren't I?
Huh? No, I was just a little surprised.
I respect you.
I've been respected.
Being a mother is great!
She's not my real daughter, though.
Okay, can you open up in front?
But being "real" or not doesn't matter.
Because I love her.
She drives me to keep going.
Is that strange?
No, I think it's right.
Thank you. I think you're right too, Io.
Giving your all for your friends, the person you like,
is definitely right.
Yes...
Huh?! You said, someone I "like"?!
You're so cute, Io.
Hey!
To do it at a time like THIS...
What do you think's going on?
What's this? What're you lookin' at?
Joe!
That's bad, ain't it?
But I get it.
Io is pretty all right.
What are you talking about Nitta for?
So I'm right, young man.
Well, if it was me,
I'd act like I'd made a mistake, throw open the door and--
Joe!
What is it, Daichi?
Hibiki! It's nothin'!
Hibiki, this here is a scientific investigation.
H-Hibiki?!
Oh. Uh, no, I didn't!
That's right. This is Joe's fault!
He took off!
Being a peeping tom is...
The worst!
That was terrible, Daichi.
She'll want nothing to do with us.
It's a misunderstanding!
I never thought Nitta was really there.
How nice. The bloom of youth.
Joe, you took off too fast!
I said, that's how it gets when you're me, didn't I?
You all.
Hey, Kurikki.
Kuri...?
Ronaldo, you're doing an examination, too?
That's right. If I have my comrades do it,
I can't very well not do it myself.
Huh.
You didn't have any doubts?
I thoroughly examined the medicine and equipment ahead of time.
Oh, jeez.
Also...
This may be an unprecedented
time in human history, but that doesn't change things.
We can't have our bodies falling ill.
You've thought things through that far?
I have now.
See you.
I really don't care for that guy.
Really?
Kurikki's trying his hardest.
Everyone is.
YOU don't seem to be, Joe.
Daichi, that stings!
Ah! There you are, you dirty peepers!
You sick perverts!
We weren't peeping or anything.
You're making excuses?!
Call them excuses if you like,
but it's not like you knew where we were!
How could I NOT know?!
Idiot! Pervert! Molester!
You have the wrong idea!
There's nothing wrong about it!
How should I go about erasing your memories?!
H-H-Hey!
Oh, speaking of...
You have a cute bellybutton.
You spied on her?
It was an accident.
I see.
Don't accept this!
Chiyoda Ward National Diet
It seems there was some trouble at the Nagoya Branch.
Is everything all right?
Yes. Not to worry.
Yamato, it seems you left here yesterday, didn't you?
You must protect Tokyo, isn't that right?
Is that not what the Hotsuin, what JP's is for?
We cannot have anything happen to us.
That would set a bad example to our constituents.
Worthless garbage.
Simultaneous manifestation readings in Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya!
They're all in the ocean.
The readings are still faint.
The ocean, huh?
At this rate, a land attack will be no use.
The plan was in consideration of the
maximum casualty limit for the cities,
with the water stopping the Septentrion from coming on land.
Hurry and plot their landing point.
Ma'am!
Also, evacuate the civilians from
the Septentrion's projected route, just in case.
Evacuate? For what reason?
Irrelevant. Command of this plan rests with me.
You're losing your cool.
Think you can do this?
Destroying the enemy takes precedence. Right?
Got an incoming from Tokyo. Here goes.
Whoa, she's a hottie!
Makoto Sako.
It's been a while, Ronaldo Kuriki.
He knows her?
Looks like something happened between 'em, huh?
I'll explain the plan's outline.
The three Megrez are connected as one via phase space.
Unless we stop all three of them at once,
any damage rendered will be useless.
A simultaneous attack, huh?
Most of you at Nagoya Branch are civilians,
but you have more firepower than a normal JP's squad.
We must win, no matter what.
Please.
You don't have to tell us twice.
We WILL defeat the enemy.
Hibiki Kuze. You all will protect Osaka.
What is this? It's scary!
Makoto.
We're no longer members of JP's.
I know that.
We place our hopes in you as our friend.
Very well.
Huh? Speaking of, who's handling Tokyo?
I alone will be plenty.
JP's Osaka Main Bureau
Hibiki.
Hinako!
You'll all right?!
Who said I was dead?
Thank goodness!
I thought... both you and Keita...
Welcome back. You've been through a lot.
Fumi. What are you doing. You're supposed to be on standby.
I've found it.
Found what?
The sacrifice to present to Lugh.
What?
Sacrifice?