Is that 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 will most definitely die,
which is why it is a star you
must never see before going into battle.
You could call it the symbol of the Angel of Death.
Hey! Kon, what's up?
Just kidding!
There's no way this world is going to have the Death Omen Star.
Well, then! We've got a war to stop!
Run, run!
It's no use!
I didn't think 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 face 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?
The part where we wanted to go tell Nabokov to stop the war
because we were all screwed by the Ulga Sorority was fine.
Even the part about the nose hair being planted,
being screwed by that nose hair,
that nose hair that snaked out...
Stop saying nose hair!
I told you that we should go covertly, but this old idiot here...
We're Hyperions!
We're forcing our way through!
I never thought that an army like that would be here.
It's not just Jugglaburk's forces, but also
all the anti-empire forces from the surrounding lands
and mercenaries, as well.
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.
Run, run!
It's no use!
You dare stand in my way?
I am Ecarlate Juptris St. Piria.
I am a princess of the empire!
Get out of the way!
I cannot let you pass, Ecarlate.
You have become a hindrance.
Big brother?
What?
This is an excellent chance to annex the Jugglaburk Territorium.
And now you will disappear, Ecarlate!
Retreat!
I can't win against my big brother.
Hey, being all weak isn't like you.
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!
Big brother!
What?
Retreat!
My own big brother...
Hey, I know it's called trial and error for a reason.
I know that success can be born out of failure, but come on!
If we keep failing like this...
We're going to die! We're seriously going to die!
Big brother...
My brother...
Big 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.
No matter what my older siblings are plotting.
There you go! That's the spirit!
Kon, I will now release you from your duties as my servant.
What, out of the blue?
After all, you're my friend who will be fighting by my side.
Hang on!
In my world, what you're doing right now
is a surefire way to attract bad luck.
That'll lead to a Sleggar situation.
Just keep me as your servant.
Don't say things like that.
Are you sure?
I am!
So just get back your normal energy.
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...
Sis!
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'll be death.
Tell my brother that my very existence
has vanished from the surface of this world.
Sis, you've blown right past the taboo phrase
and gone to the death phrase!
Promise me.
I won't!
Promises before battles are never good!
I won't go for the top!
No?
Nope! Your very existence won't vanish. It'll continue...
It'll continue, huh?
The ones that suffer the most in war are always the common folk.
Hey! Old man! What's happening?!
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, but it's so nostalgic...
You know, maybe I'll just go back there for a bit and—
Stop!
Old man, that's no good!
You can't talk about stuff like that!
I'm also trying to not remember my home right now, it's bad news!
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, then we'll
really be playing right into the archbishop's hands!
We, the Ulga Sorority, will do everything we can to support the empire.
We, the Ulga Sorority, 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...
Well, let's not leave it unchecked. Send the Ulbrion squad for them.
Yes, sir.
There'll be war.
I hope we won't get involved.
You can't fight on an empty stomach.
Well, we're trying to prevent the fighting, but let's eat anyway.
So, eat! Eat! Drink! Drink! Recover!
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 few.
If we face those huge armies head on,
or try to force our way through, we'll just die, die, die.
So we have to think of some other way.
What way did you have in mind?
I don't care if the historians will call us cowards or cheap.
We're going to stop the war with methods that are not clean.
You guys are going to stop the war?
That's our intention.
Please stop it.
Leave it to us!
Please!
Now the need to stop it is even more real.
Huh? Was that a promise?
Naw, I'm sure that didn't count.
Ah, my geta strap!
Why are you wearing that anyway?
That's not even funny!
I get it! Is that it?
Is this bad atmosphere trying to subdue me?
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! A black cat before going into battle!
Huh? That's how it is here? The opposite?
Well, I guess when in Rome...
All right, I guess we got lucky.
What? Dog poop?
Oh well, I guess I'll just say the good luck's sticking to me.
Be gone!
What are you doing?
Getting dog poop on your hand before battle?!
A bad omen!
Huh? That's how it is over here?
Be gone!
Is that some sort of ward or something? Really?
It's just dog poop.
We're about to go into b-battle!
And you wiped the dog poop from your hand off on the ground?!
You basically doubled your bad luck!
What? That's what happens here?
Be gone!
Enough already. That's just superstition, a folk tale.
This is the story of the hero Eguas Gur
who was on his way to the battle of Ulkruks, 800 years ago.
What? The origin of that superstition?
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,
Eguas Gur, touched dog poop and
wiped it on the ground before battle.
Right away, Eguas Gur performed the steps to rid himself
of that curse, and is said to have saved his life that way.
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, that was the fault of his bad luck.
So how did that 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 Sis, you've got one!
So what if I do?!
Or what, you think I should cut it off?!
Uh, I'm not really in a situation to discuss that,
and that's not the problem here!
The question is if that cure worked 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.
At this rate you'll die before you even head for the battle.
I'm being swallowed by this horrible flow of things.
I can clearly see it myself.
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 it's a long story, just tell me the cure, 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.
Here's our report: Ecarlate and her subordinates
have begun their effort to stop the war.
How should we deal with it?
Leave that issue to us.
But wasn't our order of knights founded
to deal with problems of this nature?
I want Incognito to stand by until you receive further orders.
Stand by?
That's an order from your archbishop.
Remember that I will not allow any intervention from you.
Erec-sama!
I don't understand what the sorority wants.
Could they be intending to cut us knights off?
They probably are.
Variation!
You're badly wounded.
Who did this?
Ulbrion...
The sorority has revived an ancient technology
and has created the Ulbrion, essentially man-made Hyperions.
So they've already got a replacement for us.
Variation!
The sorority is fanning the flames in
both the pro- and anti-empire camps
and trying to gather the armies in Sarisariñama.
The archbishop still has something hidden up his sleeve.
Enough. Don't speak anymore, Variation.
Please listen, Erec-sama!
The sorority'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 were you until now?!
You know already, a hostess club.
Since the preparations for the war have begun, they've all been shut down.
Spit it out, 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.
As a knight, I can't tell them
that I was trying to negotiate for
an extension directly with 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. Why were you there?
Why? Isn't that obvious?
I'm also...
...a woman!
Huh?!
Oh, I knew.
Huh?!
Well, I thought maybe you were hiding it.
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...
Erec-sama, let me dry you off.
Oh, thank you.
Erec-sama, let me wash your back.
Oh, thank you.
Erec-sama, let me warm you.
Oh, thank you.
But...
Emilia!
I'll fulfill your wish.
Really? 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?
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.
But we're not omnipotent like gods.
Still, we are responsible for this world.
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.
Be gone!
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 Sis, 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 up there.
Where is that holy water?
Let's begin.
So this is the purifying water?
Lift it! Purify him!
It's warm. That feels good.
This bath is great.
Ouch. It's getting a bit hot.
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!
Be gone!
All the 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! You're great!
Shh. What's important is how he feels.
All right! Goodbye, bad luck!
Now nothing stands between me and the battle!
Be gone!
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 Sorority'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?!