Izzy
Incoming Call
Izzy.
That voice...
Been a while.
Is that... Blood?
I'm borrowing your little brat.
I'll return him by morning.
Blood? Wait...
Blood is... in Japan?
Reunion
Why'd you bring me here?
This is the Aryabhata Higher-Order Physics Lab,
the Kingdom's base for tattoo research in Japan.
They're studying the noise canceler system, per the princess's orders.
Noise canceler?
It's a gods-be-damned system that uses the
human brain to render a tattoo ineffective.
They've made guinea pigs of dozens of people here to study it.
Unforgivable...
Well, time to go.
Go?
I'm BB, formerly of Brahman.
Since my departure, I've opposed the Kingdom.
I've wanted to ruin this place for a long time.
Are you being serious?
You be the judge of that.
I'm going, too!
You should probably think a bit more before you act.
Your tattoo is the same as mine, isn't it?
And the Kingdom's princess, too...
Just how many of this tattoo are there?
Izzy didn't tell you?
Izzy? You know her?
Four.
The same as the number of ruins.
Ruins?
Tattoo ruins exist in four places worldwide.
America controls one,
and the Kingdom has control of two.
That's why America is so desperate.
Where's the fourth one?
The objective of the Brahman members in Japan
is to uncover the fourth ruins.
It's in Japan?
That way.
Good.
I-It's so deep...
What's wrong, Il? Are you cold?
Then I'll warm you up.
Y-You mustn't, Princess... Not here...
You'll anger the vice-captain...
Princess!
Please be aware of where you are!
Being a slave to lust all the time sets a bad example for your people!
Cal, you're such a prude.
Once you've done it the first time, it goes in so easy...
Wh-Wh-What are you saying, Princess?!
Th-Th-There's no man I have feelings for...
Oh, so there is? That's a surprise.
Let's move on!
Innocent as a newborn babe.
Stop.
Learn to sense your enemy's bloodlust.
On the battlefield, if you can't do that, you're dead.
Let's hurry.
R-Right...
Incredible... He didn't even use the void at all.
What's this place?
Welcome!
BB the traitor!
Welcome to the garden of geniuses!
Yeah, long time no see.
What? You know him?
He's a mad scientist in a different sense.
You can just call me Mr. Genius!
What is intelligence?!
Mr. Genius!
What is research?!
Mr. Genius!
What is truth?!
Mr. Genius!
What is a genius?!
Mr. Genius.
That's right!
I am a genius!
That's rich, coming from a second-rate scientist who was relegated to Japan.
I knew you would come here.
You and your little friend, the third!
What?
All is as our divine queen wills it,
as she desires it.
You will die like a wretched little mouse here
and fulfill your destiny as a key, BB!
Now, behold the proof of my genius!
Come forth, my genius forces!
This is the culmination of all my research!
Despite being a copy, it has
physical prowess equal to that of an original Sealed...
Perfect berserkers with no egos whatsoever!
Of course, it's made up of guinea pigs gathered right here in Japan.
Karam...
What did you do to these guys?
Forced assimilation of their sources, naturally.
Even copy tattoos possess traces of source...
A mold, you might say.
Source? What is "source"?
Oh, my. It appears the third has not studied well.
Manisha-kun, explain it to him.
Yes, sir.
The source is the nucleus of a tattoo, and is vital in manifesting its power.
The nucleus?
In secular terms,
you might call it the "soul" or "spirit."
Have you never heard the word "source" before?
I forgot to mention one thing.
When these guys lose consciousness,
bombs inside their bodies explode!
If you want to save them,
then just be still and let them kill you!
Bastard!
Here's a question for you, brat.
What's the correct choice for a hero of justice to make in this situation?
That's...
I would save all of them.
Get them!
Punish the traitors to our queen with death!
If we're supposed to go easy so they don't lose consciousness...
We won't get anywhere unless we do something about the bombs!
Director Karam, if we should lose,
the boy is one thing, but...
A few little bombs won't kill BB, you say?
No need to worry, Manisha-kun.
BB is no longer able to use his power on a large scale.
To be precise, the moment he does, he'll be devoured.
You were already near your limit the instant you left the Kingdom.
I see...
So you met him?
He may be fully aware of it,
but he is acting in accordance with my plans.
It is my duty to kill that man,
as the vice-captain of Brahman.
The judgment awaiting traitors is death.
Could she be any more dependable?
Is that even possible?!
Brat...
I'll teach you what it means to be a hero of justice.
That's... the source?
That's the power that knocked me unconscious...
But that means...
You created fluctuations in space using the void?
You never fail to impress, BB!
However!
Why? Why?
Why aren't they exploding?!
What the hell is...
Don't worry.
I got rid of the bombs.
Impossible! This cannot be!
He located each of the bombs in the middle of battle
and used Void Maker to erase them without harming their organs?!
And why isn't the noise canceler working?!
This is why you're just second-rate.
You may have wiped out their egos,
but that's exactly why your noise canceler didn't work.
I won't let you kill Karam!
BB, don't!
W-Wait!
I don't care what happens to me,
but don't hurt her!
Please, don't hurt Manisha!
Listen good, brat.
Punishing these two would be our own justice.
These two lowlifes trying to save each other is their own justice.
If one person insists on carrying out their own justice,
someone else is going to get the short end of the stick.
However, heroes are, invariably, egoists.
There are countless fictional heroes who charge in without thinking
and save everyone with nothing but some half-assed amazing power.
But imagine if those self-absorbed morons actually existed in reality.
They'd be the ultimate nuisance.
What a true hero of justice needs
is the almighty power to make his own ideals into reality
and the resolve to force his own justice on others.
You didn't kill them, right?
What reason is there to kill them?
Killing goes against my idea of justice.
He's the real deal.
He's not a fake, or imaginary.
He's an actual hero of justice.
Well, I suppose it's time to begin.
I'll need you to stand guard for a while.
You can count on me, Princess.
Akatsuka Seigi, Blood Blackstone...
I'm sure the underside
of this world will gently embrace you.
The triggerless tattoo's restorative power
never ceases to amaze me.
It's fundamentally different from the way living things heal their wounds.
You basically have an immortal body,
but can't live long...
It's hardly a joke you can laugh at.
I won't die.
That's what the kid is for.
Here's the data I got from the lab.
I actually felt grateful to you this time.
What an honor.
But that doesn't mean
you no longer bear the responsibility for it, Wiseman.
I know that.
Now that I know what her goal is,
I can't afford to not help you.
And you will make my wish come true.
We have two options...
To spend eternity in servitude,
or to fight back now.
That one was pretty good, right?
You learn quickly.
To fill in the space that the rock creates in the water,
the surrounding water presses in,
collides, and spreads outward, forming ripples.
The logic is the same.
I didn't realize Void Maker could be used this way.
Make the particles even smaller.
Just by grazing their nerves,
you can put an enemy in a wheelchair for life.
You're fully aware that this ability is dangerous, right?
How small should I make them?
At the least...
about this size.
Wow...
Can I even do that?
I'll teach you how.
Really?
But why do all this for me?
Good question. You'll find out soon enough.
Aww, what the heck?
You want to get stronger, don't you?
Blood.
The oscillator?
He's got a long way to go, too.
Seigi trusts me.
I really didn't want to do this...
You knew, right?
There's no way you wouldn't notice the oscillator.
Blood Blackstone, former US Army major.
Tell me. Why did you go to the Kingdom?
Tell me everything!
You never change.
You're just like back then.
Don't dodge the subject!
I'm only doing what I want.
I won't make the brat do anything bad.
Don't worry.
That's not...
That's not what I'm asking!
After you left...
Do you know how much I...
I see you still have my coat.
Don't treat me like a child.
To be honest, I had no intention of seeing you before all this was over.
Listen to me, Izzy.
The situation is grave.
It's not even in the same dimension as
developing tattoos into weapons anymore.
What do you mean?
The ruins aren't just places to store tattoos.
The ruins are the main engines for
rewriting the world using the power of tattoos.
Rewriting the world?
For that, you need all four of the ruins.
The princess has already claimed two for the Kingdom,
and has probably made contact with the third.
The disease that results in death is despair.
Kierkegaard...
What are you plotting, BB?
Does one who shouldn't even be alive still have some kind of hope?
Absorbed? You can't mean...
Yes. Her true goal is the alteration of the world through the ruins.
It's probably too late to get to the fourth ruins in Japan.
Protect the third ruins in the Grand Canyon.
I'll stop Arya.
You never change...
You're still antisocial, selfish,
always making decisions on your own
and taking everything upon yourself.
Does my opinion mean nothing?
Contradicting yourself?
Pathetic.
Blood!
Power changes people.
Keep an eye on that brat to make sure he doesn't stray down the wrong path.
Wait, Blood!
You haven't changed...
In that case,
I can believe in you.
The nanomachine inside that capsule,
along with this device,
will interfere with your cerebrum from the inside and out
to access the source code for your tattoo.
The code can't be rewritten,
but we should be able to add to it.
Will it actually work?
That depends on you.
Leave it to me.
Hi, Grandpa!
Where's Seigi?
Oh, Touko-chan. Seigi's passed out in the dojo.
Thanks!
Seigi! I brought a watermelon!
Let's eat it... together...
To ignore a man offering himself...
is a woman's shame!
Huh? Touko?
G-Guten Morgen...
What the?
You've had Izzy-san, your grandpa,
and now that guy named BB training you lately, right?
You're going to wear yourself out.
BB is so amazing.
No matter what's going on, he stays true to his own logic.
I want to become like him as soon as I can.
This was the right thing to do, wasn't it?
What was?
This thing on me.
It lets me exist in your world and see what you see.
Of course, I don't like when things are dangerous or scary,
but as long as I'm with you, I don't mind.
Touko...
Will you stay with me from now on?
Actually, is it
okay if I stay with you?
Yeah...
I guess it's okay if we can be together.
I'm gonna kick the Kingdom's ass.
I just found Brahman.
Pleasure to meet you.
I am Cal Shekhar, vice-captain of Brahman.
It's no use pleading for your life now.
I need you to fulfill your destiny as a key.
Storm