Could that be...
the Death Omen Star?!
According to the Legend of the North Star,
only those fated to die can see it.
If you see it, you don't have much time left.
That's why nobody wants to see it before going into battle.
One might say that it's the symbol of the Angel of Death.
Hey, Kon!
What's up?
Ah, whatever!
There's no way this world has a Death Omen Star.
All right, we have a war to stop!
I've had it up to here with my DT!
Won't you help me lose my DT (lose my DT)
I want to return home as a real man
(Can I help?)
The treasure I've kept my whole life is too saddening to bear (saddening to bear)
I've long since hoped to give it up to you
Since I crossed worlds and met you, we've hardly been apart
I dream every night, but not always soundly
I toss and turn as my Hyperion bursts into flames
How can I cool my fevered aura?
The closer we become, and the further we clash,
the more my Alma Gear rises for battle
Won't you help me lose my DT (lose my DT)
My right hand has served me faithfully, but now we must part (Farewell!)
It is decided; we shall no longer be apart (no longer be apart)
I won't let you go until our score is settled
(Tonight's the night!)
I will fight to lose what is mine
Having declared war, Jugglaburk's army begins its march toward St. Piria.
Kon and the others move to prevent the war, but before they can, Kon trips a death flag!
Run for it!
It's no use!
I had no idea they had amassed such a force.
It's over!
Yeah, idiot!
If you stop now, it's over.
We may have turned into Hyperions,
but the four of us can't do this!
I never thought I'd meet you here!
I'm going to send you to the other side myself.
Who are you?
It's me.
Big brother!
What?
We're under attack!
Run!
Why did this happen?
I'm fine with going to tell Nabakov to stop the war because we were screwed by the Order.
Even the part about the nose hair being planted,
being screwed by that nose hair,
that the nose hair snaked out...
Enough about the nose hair!
I told you that we should go covertly, but this old buffoon here...
We're Hyperions!
We're forcing our way through!
Who knew there would be an army sitting here?
It's not just Jugglaburk's forces,
but also all the mercenaries and anti-empire forces in the area.
They're really going to strike back at the empire.
We can't hope to persuade them.
My big brother is a mercenary for Jugglaburk.
I can't fight my own brother.
Hey, hey!
If you go all soft like that, you're dead!
Let's keep our eyes forward and think about our next step.
We must stop the empire.
I'll do the talking.
Let's go!
It's no use!
You dare stand in my way?
I am Ecarlate Juptris St. Piria.
I am a princess of the empire!
Stand aside!
You shall not pass.
Ecarlate.
You have become a hindrance.
Brother?
What?
This is an excellent chance to annex the Jugglaburk Territorium.
It is time for you to disappear, Ecarlate!
Retreat!
I can't win against my big brother.
Hey, it's not like you to give up so easily.
I suppose the empire sees this war as an opportunity.
This is general mobilization.
They really are preparing for war.
At this rate, everything will go according to the archbishop's plan.
What if we eliminate the archbishop himself?
That's the only thing we can do.
I never thought the cult's forces would be this strong!
We've got to break through!
That again?
I didn't think I'd be meeting you here.
I'm going to finish you off myself!
Bro!
What?
Retreat!
My own big brother...
Look, man, I know it's called trial and error!
I know you have to fail before you can get better, but god damn!
If we fail a couple more times,
we're gonna die!
We're so dead!
Big brother.
Bro.
Brother.
I told you to knock that off!
You're just attracting all the negative vibes!
We've got to think positive and look ahead!
If we stop this war, we won't have to fight any of them!
I'm very low in the line of succession.
It would probably be faster to count my place from the end.
I guess that's true.
But I still want to stop the empire from collapsing, if I can.
It doesn't matter what my older siblings are plotting.
Yeah, that's the spirit!
Kon, I will now release you from your duties as my servant.
What?
Why now?
You will fight by my side as my friend.
Hang on!
In my world, what you're doing right now is a surefire way to attract bad luck.
You're setting yourself up for the Sleggar end!
Just keep me as your servant.
Don't say things like that.
Are you sure?
I am!
So, let's see that smile!
I don't want to see any more people getting hurt fighting.
And the war will be so much worse.
We've got to stop it.
That's it!
Hey, Kon.
If we ever put a stop to this war—
Mar!
That phrase is taboo!
I want you to go tell my brother...
I'm currently not accepting any requests.
Especially not deliveries or messages. There will be death.
Tell my brother that my very existence has vanished from the surface of this world.
Mar, you've blown right past taboo phrases into death cues!
Promise me.
I won't!
Promises before battles are never good!
I won't go for the top!
No?
No.
Your existence will not disappear.
It will continue.
It'll continue, huh?
The ones that suffer the most in war are always the common folk.
Old man!
Damn it, old man!
Peace is the most important thing.
Exactly, that's it!
I come from the grain belt in the southern part of the empire.
During the harvest season, the view is absolutely spectacular.
The harvest festival that follows is just wonderful.
I haven't been back in years.
Oh, how I miss it so.
You know, maybe I'll just go back there for a bit and—
Stop!
You can't do that, old man!
You're not allowed to talk about that kind of stuff!
I'm trying not to think about my home too!
It's a bad idea!
If you talk about stuff like that, you're going to die!
Is that how it works?
That's right, captain!
Now, pick yourselves up!
If we kill more time here,
we'll really be playing right into the archbishop's hands!
We, the Ulga Religious Order, will do everything we can to support the empire.
We, the Ulga Religious Order, will do everything we can to support the anti-empire forces.
Everything is going according to plan, archbishop.
However, those people are making some strange moves.
You mean Ecarlate and the Hyperions?
It seems that they appeared before the empire's forces,
the anti-empire forces, and our own forces.
Ixion is trying to meddle.
We shall not let it stand.
Send the Ulbrion squad for them.
Yes, sir.
War's coming.
I hope we won't get involved.
You can't fight on an empty stomach!
We may be in the middle of preventing a war, but we can spare a second for a meal!
Go ahead and eat until you're stuffed, drink until you drown, and get better!
We've got to do it,
or we won't get to do it!
Yes, Kon's right.
To think a servant could cheer me up.
Okay, let's eat!
But what are we going to do?
The one thing that's abundantly clear is that we're up against way too many.
If we face those huge armies head on or try to force our way through, we won't live to see tomorrow.
We need another plan.
What did you have in mind?
I don't care if the historians will call us cowardly or cheap.
If we're gonna stop the war, we're gonna have to do this sneakily.
You guys are going to stop the war?
That's the plan.
Please, okay?
Leave it to us!
It's a promise!
Now the need to end this feels all the more real.
Huh?
Was that a promise?
Nah, I'm sure that didn't count.
Ah, my sandal strap!
Why are you wearing that anyway?
That's not even funny!
Okay, I see how it is.
The whole world is against me, huh?
Trying to make me fade away on the battlefield while I still have my DT?
That's so lucky, Kon.
A lucky omen.
What great luck!
We got a black kitty on our way to battle!
Huh?
So it's the opposite here?
Well, I guess when in Rome...
All right, I guess we got lucky.
Is that dog poop?
Oh well, I guess I'll just say the good luck's sticking to me.
Begone!
What are you doing?
You dare get dog poop on your hands before battle?!
It's an ill omen!
So that's the way it is here?
Begone!
Is that some sort of ward or something?
Really?
It's just dog poop.
We're about to go into b-battle!
You wiped the dog poop from your hand off on the ground?!
You basically doubled your bad luck!
What the hell, really?
Begone!
Enough already.
That's just superstition!
A legend!
This is the story of the hero Eguas Gur
who was on his way to the battle of Ulkruks, 800 years ago.
Is that supposed to be the origin?
Eguas Gur rushed to the battle of Ulkruks with an army of 1000 men.
Everybody was certain of his victory,
but due to the enemy's trap, he was defeated.
He had no other choice but to retreat,
but during this retreat, he and his men kept having terrible luck.
After losing 800 men,
he realized that this horrible luck could not be normal and went to a truthseer.
There he found out that all this bad luck
stemmed from the fact that he touched dog poop and wiped it on the ground before battle.
It is said that Eguas Gur immediately rid himself of the curse, saving his life.
Yeah, that might be what happened to Eduas, but that doesn't mean I—
I'm so sorry!
I hope you're not hurt!
Don't worry.
It's his fault for having bad luck.
How did Eduas rid himself of that curse?!
To do so, you need to wash your hand with pure water.
But that water...
Hey, I got it for you.
Put out your hands.
It has to be water that a pure maiden has drawn herself.
Hey, Marian...
My heart is that of a maiden.
But Mar, you have a pair!
So what if I do?!
Do you want me to cut them off?!
Uh, I'm not really in a situation to discuss that.
Besides, that's not the problem here!
Did the cure work or not?
Looks like it got even worse.
Where did this even come from?!
It's Olvidia!
That's a poisonous spider!
We have to get you an antidote right away!
Why is there a poisonous spider here?
You made your bad luck even worse.
Looks like you're going to be dead before you even get to the battle.
I'm being swallowed by this horrible flow of things.
I can see the end.
What should I do?
How can I escape this bad luck?
This is a story of the hero,
Kobayashi Geru, who set off for the Trogauger sea battle 800 years ago.
If you're gonna start ranting, can I get the cure first, please?
Kon, hang in there!
This is bad!
Special Unit Incognito, Captain Erecpyle Dukakis.
I wish to speak to Archbishop Taulepton.
The archbishop is currently not in the headquarters.
Where is he?
That's confidential, so I...
Confidential?!
We're a special unit under his direct command!
Connect me!
It's me.
Reporting in.
Ecarlate and her subordinates have begun their effort to stop the war.
What are your orders?
You may leave that to us.
But wasn't our order of knights founded to deal with problems of this nature?
Incognito will stand by until further orders are issued.
Stand by?
That's an order from your archbishop.
Do not forget that you are not to intervene whatsoever.
Sir Erec!
I don't understand what the Order wants.
Do they want to cut us knights off?
They probably do.
Variation!
You're badly wounded.
Who did this?
Ulbrion...
The Order has revived an ancient technology and created the Ulbrion.
They're man-made Hyperions.
They don't need us anymore.
Variation!
The Order is fanning the flames in both the pro- and anti-empire camps.
They're trying to gather the armies in Sarisariñama.
The archbishop still has something hidden up his sleeve.
Don't speak anymore, Variation!
Please listen, Sir Erec!
The Order's real ambition isn't to rule the world.
It's to destroy it...
Variation!
Revive!
Variation!
Gustave, you...
You know, I just did it based on a hunch, but I guess it worked.
Where have you been?!
You know I've been at a hostess club.
All the hostess clubs have been shut down since the preparations for war have begun.
Out with it, Gustave.
Where have you been and what have you been doing?
Were you maybe leaking information about us to someone?
Come on now, Leon.
Answer us!
I...
can't tell you.
My pride as a knight won't let me tell them I've been begging for an extension from the lawyer
because the child support payments to my wife,
who left me due to my hostess club addiction, were late.
So basically, Gustave left to try to do something about the child support payments to his ex-wife.
Why are you telling them, damn it?!
I was in the same boarding school as Caroline.
She came to talk to me.
Wait a second.
My wife went to a girls' school.
What were you doing there?
Why?
Isn't that obvious?
I'm also...
a woman!
Huh?!
Yeah, I know.
Huh?!
Well, it kinda seemed like you didn't want anyone to know.
I mean, when you get drunk, you're totally a chick.
Even I, as the resident muscle-for-brains, kind of knew.
But why did you pretend to be a guy anyway?
I wanted to be accepted.
As a member of Incognito, as one of you...
KT, you've been one of us from the beginning.
But...
A woman...
But...
Sir Erec, let me dry you off.
Oh, thank you.
Sir Erec, let me wash your back.
Oh, thank you.
Sir Erec, let me warm you.
Oh, thank you.
But...
Emilia!
I'll fulfill your wish.
Whoa, are you sure?
Yes.
But I haven't stopped the war.
I haven't fulfilled your wish yet.
If I don't fulfill your wish now, you'll die.
Huh?
No...
I won't die.
A dream?
Talk about bad omens. I guess my streak of bad luck isn't over.
Don't move.
I'll save you.
You're my hope.
You are my hope, as well... Actually, my wish.
Being Ixion means to be like a god on some level.
You are my goddess.
We're not omnipotent like gods,
yet the world still remains in our hands. That's why I called you.
Don't worry. I'm the type of guy who takes responsibility.
It's done.
Ah, yes. Thank you.
Begone!
What?! You, too?
I removed the poison, but your bad luck persists.
What should I do?
Your friends are preparing for that outside.
What is that?
A tool for curing you.
You've basically been cursed multiple times.
You'll need a ritual of a certain caliber to lift those curses.
I built it in a flash, but it turned out pretty well, huh?
First, the holy water from a pure maiden.
But Mar, you're not a maiden.
I'll be doing it.
Being a divorcée doesn't have any influence on that?
Don't be like that.
Get on up there.
Where is that holy water?
Let's begin.
So this is the purifying water?
Lift it! Purify him!
Oh, it's warm.
That's nice.
This bath is great.
Okay, okay, it's getting a bit toasty in here.
Looks like the purification ritual is in the final stage now.
Now all we can do is watch.
Hey, it's hot!
Kon, you have to flip over the pot by yourself!
What?!
You need to pour the holy water onto the holy flames!
That'll conclude the ritual!
This is impossible! Help! Ow!
If we help you, the ritual will fail.
Come on!
Begone!
All the friggin' rituals in this world are like this!
I'm going back to Mitaka, no matter what!
Oh crap, I said it!
The ritual isn't over yet?
It's up to him.
We don't even have an hour to spare now.
If we don't stop it, the war will begin soon.
But Kon is still...
We don't even have an hour to spare now.
Did I do it?
Yes, you did it!
Good job!
Shh. What's important is how he feels.
All right!
Goodbye, bad luck!
Now nothing stands between me and the battle!
Begone!
Stand up! ED, stand up!
Brush away your depression and stand up again!
Not all goes as planned in life
What on Earth has happened, you ask? You know
I didn't harbor the seed of life for long before it was taken from me
It won't return, alas
I used to have an unbendable will of steel
That's the kind of straight-laced badass I was
Those days hold the glory of the past now
Far up, so very hot
Burn with fury, my sun
Stand up! ED, stand up!
Brush away your depression and go!
Stand up! Look up!
I'll write my story from page one again now, like I dreamed
The fire of my blood will continue to course through my veins
Be a giant, be a man, hell yeah!
Yay!
Next Time
The armies of Jugglaburk and St. Piria are amassing in Sarisariñama.
We're trying to stop the war,
but our path is blocked by the Ulga Religious Order's Ulbrion troops.
Oh no! At this rate the war will begin!
Will they be able to prevent the war? And will Kon get his "ultimate wish"?
The story is finally progressing in "Ixion Saga DT." Actually, there are only two episodes left. Say what?!