Disgaea
Ai no tameiki ni shibarareteru mitai.
Donna jumon de mo hodokenai no yo.
Urei wo hisometa shizuka na hitomi ga...
...yokei ni kokoro kakimidashiteku.
Sunao ja nai watashi yori motto...
...sunao ja nai anata ga itoshii.
Anata ga ii no, akuma de mo ii.
Ah, ima meguriaeta kiseki.
Kienai kizu mo, fukai karuma mo.
Ah aishitageru,
doko ni ite mo nando demo.
Aishitageru.
Fire Astro Particle Cannon!
Impossible, he shattered the Astro Particle Cannon's beam!
Now I'm going to teach you what happens when you anger me, humans!
Just a minute, Prince! I'm coming, too!
Wait for me, Jennifer!
The Defender of Tomorrow is You!
Wow, they're really going at it out there.
Jennifer, please tell me everything that you know.
The Earth Defense Force was originally founded with the simple goal of saving humanity.
As you all know, Earth is faced with a terrible crisis!
Explosive population growth! Skyrocketing violent crime!
The destruction of the environment! Severe food shortages!
If something is not done, humanity will likely perish!
Our mission is to save the human race!
We formulated a plan in which humanity would migrate into space.
But then...
We don't need to go to all that trouble. All we need to do is take over the Netherworld.
What?! The Netherworld?!
If we can invade the Netherworld and exterminate the demons,
...we'll be killing two birds with one stone.
Don't you agree?
Wow, your old man is more demonic than any demon I know.
Why did your father suddenly change plans?
I honestly don't know.
Celestia has to be involved in this somehow...
JENNIFER, THE COMMANDER WISHES TO SEE YOU.
Jennifer...
I'll make my father see that this isn't the right way to save humanity.
Jennifer!
Those are the "you-know-whats" that you talked about earlier!
Don't thank me yet! Let's get moving!
Man, this ship is huge! How much farther to the exit?
Flonne?
Hey, what are you doing?
Where do you think you're going?
Aw, that's not fair!
Don't change the subject.
Anyway, I have to go up here and see what's...
Hold it!
Keep climbing! That's it, nice and slow...
I said freeze! Take one step, and we'll open fire!
Fine, fine, we're freezing!
Please let me through! There's something that I have to have to make sure of!
I HAVE BROUGHT HER, SIR.
Well done.
Father, there is something that I need to discuss with you.
It can wait until later.
For now, you should watch over how our forces are comporting themselves in battle.
After all, you will be the next Supreme Commander of the Earth Defense Force.
If this is what it means to be Supreme Commander, I want no part of it.
What was that?
I'm saying that I don't want to become like you, Father!
Jennifer!
It's wrong to think that we're justified in doing anything so long as it saves humanity, Father!
All right, I understand. There's no need to get so emotional about it.
You just want me to hear you out, right?
Let's talk about this outside.
Just as I thought, even a man like you can be swayed by your daughter.
I still have one last job for Jennifer to carry out for me.
Etna...
Prinny Squad! C'mon!
What's with all these penguins?!
They aren't penguins, they're Prinnies!
I'm touched that they'd come all this way for us!
Listen up, you bums! We're gonna smash this place 'til there's nothing left!
Aye aye, dood!
I knew it...
Father... What happened to me?
You passed out all of a sudden. You must be exhausted.
You should rest for a while.
That's a...
That's my daughter. You recognized what this is right away.
No, stop!
Let me go!
Please! Stop using me as your pawn!
Father!
Angel Cannon power at 120%.
Ready to fire!
Two bogies closing in from dead ahead!
So, you want another taste of that beam, do you, demon?
We're the Prinny Squad, doods!
Don't mind us, doods!
"Prinny Squad"?
That's the way! Destroy anything you can get your flippers on!
Destroy everything, eh? Thursday, finish these things!
ROGER! CHANGING TO ROBO ATTACK.
Where's Jennifer?
Highness!
Laharl! Mr. Gordon!
I'm surprised to see you.
Where's Jennifer?!
The Commander is busy modifying her at the moment.
Modifying her?!
"Modifying"?
This I've gotta see!
I'm kinda morbidly curious about this myself...
What do you mean, the Commander is modifying Jennifer?!
Come now, it's hardly unheard-of these days.
Kurtis, your arm...
And now he's revealed that he's a cyborg!
Flonne, you've got WAY too many interests.
In other words, she'll geek out over anything.
It happened in that incident five years ago. I lost everything that day.
Geez, they've started reminiscing about the old days...
Should we blindside him while he's distracted?
Shh! We have to hear him out!
A rival is always burdened with some tragic incident in the past!
It happened five years ago this very day.
A radical group opposed to space research carried out...
...a bombing attack on the World Space Research Institute today!
The death toll has reached 350 so far, and...
I lost my wife and daughter in that attack, and 70% of my body was mechanized.
I had no idea! Your family was among the victims of that bombing?!
What good is the Defender of Earth if he can't save the lives of innocent people?
A true Defender of Earth would stop at nothing to save as many people as he could!
You're wrong!
Invading the Netherworld might save humanity, I'll give you that.
But doing so will cost countless lives! Is that what you want?
Do you really think that that's what's best for humanity?
It's naive thinking like that that cost me my family!
I swore an oath that day that if the Defender of Earth couldn't do his job...
...then I would defeat him and become the TRUE Defender of Earth!
That is the only path that's left to me now!
You mustn't!
You don't care if you create more innocent victims like your wife and daughter?
What?
Demons have families, too!
It's wrong to think that anything is justified if it might save humanity!
Not when you should know the pain of losing a loved one better than anyone!
She's right! What would your wife and daughter think of you up in heaven if they saw you now?
Shut up! SHUT UP!
Kurtis!
Dood, sabotage activities have been completed!
Kurtis!
Don't come complaining to me when Flonne gives you an earful...
...for sneaking out in the middle of that guy's speech, Highness.
We don't have time to hang around and listen to those two reminisce.
The first order of business is to take down that uppity bastard.
Yessir...
Kurtis!
Kurtis! Hurry! This way!
Forget about me... Get going!
But I can't...
Jennifer is in #13 medical room. If you go now, you might get there in time!
Kurtis!
Get going, Defender of Earth!
You should hurry, too.
But...
If you go, you might find the answers that you're looking for.
But I can't...
Hey, wait! Put me down!
Disgaea
Give Jennifer back to me!
Very well, if you insist. Jennifer!
What in the world?!
Come on, you call THIS "modified"?
All he did was stick some weird doohickey on her head.
I was expecting to see something more amazing, too...
You three don't seem to understand just how amazing this device really is.
Isn't that right, Jennifer?
Yes, Father.
Is it just me, or she acting kinda funny?
It's mind control!
Mind control?
He's using that device to control Jennifer's mind.
Go, Jennifer! Kill them!
Yes, Father.
As the sidekick of the Defender of Earth, you must...
Listen to what your heart is telling you!
What is right?! What you ought to believe in?!
And what you ought to do right now!
What she ought to do? YOU are the one who doesn't understand, Gordon.
To execute our Netherworld Invasion Project, what we needed more than anything...
...was for someone to scout ahead and investigate the Netherworld.
And you fulfilled that role beautifully. Well done.
Now, Jennifer, put him out of his misery.
Yes, Father.
Oh, no! Gordon's in trouble!
I swear, that bozo can't do anything right!
Don't interfere! This is something that he has to do himself!
What a sorry sight this is, Gordon!
What happened to that true spirit of a defender that you showed me on the bridge?
And now we're at the climax of the battle!
You traitor! How dare you interfere?!
Get down, everyone!
Kurtis?!
Gordon, I wanted to be a true Defender of Earth, just like you...
Kurtis!
Kurtis?
Kurtis... You will be forever known as the 38th Defender of Earth!
Kurtis! He's dead because of me!
Hey, she's back to normal!
Shh! Don't talk during a touching moment!
You know, this almost makes it look like they're the stars of the show all of a sudden.
Are you okay with that?
They can have the spotlight this one time.
It's always so sad when the rival lays down his life, isn't it?
Hey, where'd the old dude with the mustache go?
You don't know when to give up, do you, Father?
Stand aside, Jennifer! Or have you forgotten who raised you?
I always had faith in you. I even loved you...
But your only goal was to use me for your own ends!
You've lost the right to be called father by me!
Give yourself up, Carter!
Now this is what I call divine protection!
Why have the Celestial hosts come to protect him?
What in the world is going on?!
That clinches it, Celestia is definitely working in cahoots with the human world.
It can't be!
Prepare to die, demons!
Berry Barrier Balidaire!
What have I done?
You people must have a death wish to dare to attack me!
You have to believe me! I'm innocent!
I don't care how advanced human science and technology is.
You shouldn't have been able to come in here as easily as you did...
...without help from someone who's familiar with the Netherworld.
Answer me, human. Who's pulling your strings?
It's...
Spill it!
I-It's a man who had white wings!
White wings?
I knew it, Celestia is behind this.
He told me that if Celestia and the human world joined forces to wipe out the demons,
...the safety of the human race would be assured!
Sounds like a big, fat lie to me.
I was only trying to protect...
Mr. Carter, there's something that I want to ask you.
Like what?
Prinny!
Here you go...
Did you get this from the same man?
That's right. He said if we used its energy, it would have a devastating effect on any demon.
He did?
It's no wonder that this knocked you for a loop, Highness.
This is the same kind of stone as Flonne's necklace!
How could I have been so careless?!
Sooner or later, the Netherworld will be ours.
What a fool you are...
W-Who's there?!
You aren't capable of saving the Earth.
How can you expect to save anyone else when you can't even save your own daughter?
That ought to do the trick!
What did he mean by that?
Was it that angel who said that? Have I been betrayed?
Surely fate's hand is at work here! Let's agree to a noninterference treaty between our peoples!
Very well.
I'm glad we met you, everyone. Take care.
- GOODBYE. GOODBYE. - Goodbye!
Hey, why aren't you going home in this behemoth?
We have no more use for it. Feel free to use it for yourselves!
I don't need your stupid...
You really mean it?! I don't need your stupid...
I've always wanted one of these! Thank you so much!
What're you gonna do with a spaceship?
This is goodbye, my friends! Now, take off for Earth!
Goodbye!
This means that the human world effectively belongs to me, too.
Way to go, Highness! Is that what you were after when you agreed to that treaty?
You sly devil, you!
Don't go overboard with the compliments.
I'm leaving, too. For Celestia.
Huh? How come?
Something is happening in Celestia.
That's the only conclusion that I can come to.
I think I'll be able to find some answers if I go to see Seraph Lamington.
Laharl, Etna, I really appreciate everything that you've done for me.
Thank you very much.
Flonne?
Take care, you two.
Are you sure you want to let Flonne go all by herself?
Hold it! I'm coming, too.
I knew it, you were worried about her!
You stinker!
As if!
This is the perfect opportunity for me to take over Celestia!
- To take over Celestia?! - To take over Celestia?!
I've taken control of the Netherworld.
For all intents and purposes, the human world now belongs to me, too.
All that's left is Celestia, and thanks to what happened today,
...I now have the means to invade THEM fair and square!
It's only a matter of time before Celestia falls into my clutches, too!
What a Prince-ish thing to say. Right?
It sure is. That's Laharl all over.
Hey! How come I'm the one who has to pilot this stupid thing?!
Are we ready to set sail, everyone?
All right, set course for Celestia! Take off!
If I don't do something, they'll ruin all my plans...
You have done enough.
Seraph Lamington!
You have served me well, Vulcanus.
Ow... We're there already?
No, we're not.
A red moon?
Aoi hiru ga meguru hoshi de toki no ruupu mezametara,
chigau kokoro motta mono atsumareba nanika ga okiru yo.
Yokubou de umeru no ka? Ai wa hito no tame ni ugoko no ka?
Dotchi datte kamawanai yo, suki ni yaru dake.
Hikari to kage kono sekai de subete ga imi aru egoisuto.
Hitotsu hitotsu no kakera wa sou baransu wo ninai ikiteru.
Omou no mama, kokoro no mama ni ima wa onaji sora no shita...
...hikari to kage wa kurikaesu.
Chain react.
The next episode of Disgaea is chock full of love, Highness!
Stop it, you're grossing me out.
It's inevitable that hot tears of profound emotion will crawl down your cheek!
Humph! You wish.
You'd better have your hankies at the ready, everybody!
See, what did I tell you? Flonne's already turned on the waterworks!
Yikes, seeing her face without any makeup scares even ME...
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