Do you hate tattoos?
Yes.
I could never like something that took everything from me.
But I can't escape tattoos now.
I have no choice but to stay involved.
I wish these things would just disappear from this world.
Creator
As long as the nanomachines I created
hold off the erosion of your source,
BB, you can fight with all your strength.
I must say goodbye.
We will do what we must do.
Izzy, stay back.
Traitors must be punished.
For the wages of sin is death!
Blood!
You get the brat!
Blood...
Don't get full of yourself!
He's lost so much blood...
Hey... He's...
Burns, the colonel is down! He needs immediate help!
You take command for now!
Roger.
Why is BB here?
This is Major Burns.
I'm taking over command for Brigadier General Sanders.
Kurz 23, give me a report.
Kurz 23 here.
Our unit is down to...
Eleven... No, ten!
Retreat! Order all troops to retreat!
Retreat?
Survivors, withdraw via our route!
Helicopters, relocate to point α-2!
Retrieve our men!
The living take priority, but gather as many of the dead as you can!
I'll take Seigi back.
Major Burns!
Tom-san!
Tom, can you run? You can, right?
Take this girl and retreat!
R-Roger!
Let's go, Touko-chan.
B-But Seigi is...
We can count on the lieutenant to handle Seigi-kun!
Seigi...
You find it strange that you can't use Void Maker, yes?
It's because my own Void Maker
is preventing your power from activating.
What?
There's no way you can—
You do not understand the original objective of the triggerless tattoo.
Its original objective?
But I'm not going to tell you.
You are no more than a key,
so you don't need to know.
I thought you were more of a realist.
I can't believe you're still avoiding physical contact with the void.
"Let the enemy cut your flesh while you cut their bones," as they say.
Not that you actually cut me.
You haven't cut my bones, either.
Seigi...
No! I have to be with Seigi!
Touko-chan, not that way! It's dangero—
D-Damn... Of all the times for my tattoo to wear off...
My trigger...
Huh?
God damn!
What is that thing?
I'll hold it off.
Burns...
You take the opportunity to run.
Don't be stupid, Leo.
You won't last five minutes alone.
When we die, we die together,
my soulmate.
No matter how big you are, you're still just a cat!
We're gonna cuddle you until you're meowing like one!
Your absolute boundary reflects all abilities, and all matter...
But there's one thing it doesn't reflect.
This is the second time I've cut your katana.
I won't give you a chance to rest.
If there's something I cannot have, I will destroy it myself.
By killing and being killed,
let you and I be forever bound to one another!
Gas to solid, solid to liquid...
Come on, let me hear you meow!
Meow, meow!
Did that get it?
When did...
She can still use her
transmissive power, even in that form?
Leo!
What was that for?
I'm sorry...
But I at least want you to live, Lisa!
Leo!
Seigi, you promised, right?
That we'd stay together...
If you don't keep that promise,
I'll never forgive you!
I don't like the idea of killing a kid, but...
Sorry!
Humans cannot give up on fighting.
They quarrel, they clash,
they hurt and kill each other.
This has gone on throughout history for thousands of years.
What is this?
Humans, with their high intelligence and social nature,
have wished to escape fighting,
but have never been successful at doing so.
And that's because...
BB!
Blood!
I am Aegis Armadillo.
You may not cross that boundary!
Blood...
You bastard... I know you can hear me.
Five minutes.
At least lend me strength
in my final moments, damn it!
Captain Ajita was no more than a human weapon.
In truth, the strongest one in Brahman
was you, Cal.
Civilization created by humans rejects natural selection,
hindering the species' evolution
and forcing it into a dead end.
So long as humans are human, war will never go away.
We will never move forward.
As far as living things go, humans are a failure.
What are you talking about?
So I thought...
"Why don't I rebuild everything?"
Rebuild...
the human race?
Y-You're...
Rewriting the world as she sees fit...
The reason wasn't that simple at all.
She plans...
to use the power of tattoos to become a god!
Hey, you! Are you okay with this?
She intends to wipe out every human besides herself!
Absurd. We of Brahman endorse the princess,
and have sworn our fealty to her.
We have long since steeled our resolve.
The way of the samurai is found in death!
BB!
Blood...
How can I be so powerless at a time like this?
Why did I even join the army?
What is my tattoo even for?
Seigi! Break your bonds with Void Maker!
You're the only one who can save Blood now!
I know that.
It's because of her that I can't use Void Maker.
So if I had a power that could surpass that...
You hear me, don't you, my source?
Give me strength...
The strength to surpass the princess!
You really are a crazy little bastard...
Allow me to perform your last rites!
Good job, Seigi!
Th-This is...
He did it... BB won!
Blood!
Seigi, consume me!
What are you saying?
Weren't you and I gonna defeat the princess?!
My role is now fulfilled.
I'm leaving the rest to you.
You must be joking! You're incredible!
You can get through anything, no matter how insane it is!
It can't be over now...
That doesn't m-make any sense!
There's no more time! Do it!
I know you can hear me, Seigi's source!
This is...
my source?
Fool! You think I'm going to give it to you?!
If the ruins must fall into the Kingdom's hands, just destroy them.
Blow them to smithereens!
You musclebound fool!
Stop!
Sorry for being...
selfish to the very end, Izzy.
No... Wait!
Wait, Blood!
But I'm still going to keep my promise.
And, Seigi...
You will become a true hero of justice.
They intend to defy me?
Mere antiques with the nerve to have senseless wills of their own...
Well, no matter. I have no further business here.
I told you before, boy...
that I would give you despair and hatred.
Seigi!
Touko...
This is my prediction.
You will make your way back to me soon enough,
carrying those two keys in your hand.
Il, what sort of story do you think people desire the most?
A revenge story?
Indeed.
The pitiful hero loses his livelihood and his reason,
left with only burning hatred
as he races for vengeance...
Such stories will touch anyone's heart.
Ah, how exciting...
I simply can't wait.
The soul of a Sealed is his fuel.
All tattoos link with the ruins, the origin of that fuel,
taking energy from the souls of their Sealed
and supplying it to the ruins in order to activate.
And in return,
the Sealed can use its power.
But each time a Sealed uses that power,
he is corroded by the tattoo,
until he's completely assimilated by it.
In this last battle, Schrödinger's Cat was able to
make her source manifest without giving up her soul
because she had the princess's help.
When a Sealed exhausts his soul,
either he's overtaken by the source
or he becomes an invalid.
So BB wanted you to take him in
before that could
happen to him.
Hello. We meet again.
The guy who gave me the tattoo...
Seigi-kun, BB entrusted you with the future.
But you've fallen into despair at your own powerlessness
and lost sight of the path you need to take.
I was the one who pulled you into his world.
Allow me to atone for that.
That's right.
You need to be punished.
I was looking for Seigi,
but I never expected to find you here,
Professor Wiseman.
Izzy...
You are a strong woman, as always.
Even after losing BB and your left arm.
But you won't hand me over to the US Army,
because I have inherited BB's wish.
I was the one who supported BB here in Japan.
And now that he's gone,
I intend to make his wish my own and act on it.
So would the two of you
have faith and follow me?
What was Blood's wish?
The destruction of all tattoos on Earth.
I'll erase them.
Humans did not gain such high intelligence and free will
solely through the evolution of the cerebrum,
but through the higher-order structure gained in the evolutionary process—
in other words, the reciprocal function of the soul and brain.
And tattoos were made
through the processing of that soul.
So it wouldn't be unheard of for a tattoo to take on a will of its own.
You're saying...
Yes. That's what the source is.
BB was overtaken by his source because he overused his power.
That means it'll happen to me, too.
Well, I guess that's fine.
An ending like that would suit me.
Seigi-kun.
What you need now is to mature psychologically.
What the hell?!
Are you saying Touko and BB will come back to life if I just grow up?!
And tattoos will disappear, and Izzy will get her left arm back?!
I believe you learned during that battle
how powerless, foolish,
and young you are.
But the path you must take lies beyond that.
A fragment of BB's soul remains inside you.
I'm going to use this machine
to show you BB's memories.
BB's memories?
It is the past,
as well as your future.
BB, you should join Brahman as of today.
If you betray me,
I will take back the triggerless tattoo
in exchange for your death.
The Past