According to rumors amongst Bearded Ones,
when it's 5550 minutes,
Lady Yasako will take them to the promised land.
Oh no!
I can't take it any more!
Now I can't hold my head up high in front of Fumie, either!
My life is on the verge of a total breakdown!
It'll only keep on going lower and lower!
All I can do
is to await death by freezing at the South Pole!
Why the South Pole?
It's the lowest place in the entire world, isn't it?
If I keep going lower, I'll eventually reach the South Pole, right?
Poop!
I'm poop!
I'm completely useless!
That's not true!
I'm sure you can succeed, Daichi!
Do you really think so?
I'm sure of it!
Hey, I think I can now!
Anyway, I wanna try it once more.
I'll capture an Illegal.
Let's stop messing with the Illegals!
What do you mean, "messing with"?
It's a computer virus!
If you're going to mess with Illegals, I'm not going to help you!
But what about the metabugs?
We can just scoop them up off the ground!
Good day!
All right!
I won't mess with Illegals.
So please, don't go.
How odd...
I'm sure they were here before.
I think I've figured it out.
I think that those things
usually hang around in places where errors tend to occur, like an obsolete Space.
Yet all those places are deleted by Satchii.
I see...
So why do you think that Illegals used to be here?
It's because it's a shrine!
Oh, I get it now!
What do you mean?
Satchiis can't enter shrines, right?
We'll just have to search all the shrines thoroughly for obsolete Spaces.
Hey!
Oh geez, we ended up back at the station.
So Satchii really deleted them all...
But I'm sure there must be some left somewhere.
Yeah, let's search for them again tomorrow.
Anyway, why the hell does Yasako's sister have to follow us?
Let go of—!
Why the hell am I carrying this kid?
Yes?
Oh, it's you, Daichi.
Here.
Ah, Kyoko...
No way, Daichi!
Don't tell me you kidnapped her?
Y-You're so mean!
And I brought her back even though she tagged along without our permission!
Is that true, Denpa?
Yup, it's true.
If you say so, it must be true.
Bye-bye.
She's very unpleasant.
Ah, that was such a good bath.
You're next.
Note: in Japan, every evening, each member of the family takes a bath in the same water, in a specific order.
Can't you see I'm eating?
Don't show me that dirty stuff!
Idiot! This is what a family is.
A family where you can't walk around naked is not a real family!
Being family means being naked; being naked means being family!
Dad, you're so stupid.
So you say! But you were the one who was always running around butt-naked at home!
Honey, beer, beer!
I'm not that kid any more!
I'm an adult now!
But you haven't even sprouted a single hair yet!
At your age,
I was really hairy!
You have to grow 'em like crazy!
I'm in high spirits today!
Yeah!
Why the hell are you here again?!
Let's go! Yeah!
It's just a standard glitch in the Space.
Why the hell am I carrying her again?
We had no luck today, either.
Yeah...
I pity the Illegals; their habitats are diminishing.
Yes?
Oh, it's you, Daichi.
Here.
Again?
I told you, it's not what you think!
She keeps tagging along without our permission!
D-Daichi!
Don't you dare come near Kyoko ever again!
W-Wait!
I'm the victim here!
She stole my first kiss!
Y-Yasako, don't tell anyone about this!
Absolutely no one!
It's not growing yet...
Or maybe they grow here first?
What... Oh, a call.
Hello, Denpa?
Eh? You can't come tomorrow?
Okay, then the day after.
Eh? Yasako's sister?
Well, I'll try to—
Hello? Daichi?
What's wrong, Daichi?
Bri...
Bristly...
What's that?
What's bristly?
Daichi?
Hello?
Kyoko!
What are you doing?
Let's go home.
Poop!
What am I going to do with you?
Yes. I see.
Daichi isn't even answering the phone.
I wonder if he's planning some kind of prank?
Who knows...
As a matter of fact, he called me once.
What did he say?
Well, he asked me
with a really exhausted voice, "Have you grown any yet?"
Oh?
Anyway, we'll probably find out tomorrow.
Why?
Because tomorrow's a school day.
Don't tell me you forgot?
Hey, hey!
You're gonna be late!
What's this?
What are you doing here, traitor?
Where's Daichi?
I don't know a thing about that guy.
I wonder where Daichi's gone off to...?
Oh, Daichi!
What happened? What's with that long face?
BE—
BEARD!
You look kinda...
An Illegal?
South Pole...
Where did he get this?
I have no idea.
Anyway, let's get to the bottom of this.
And I thought that he was still a child!
But my, he's already come of age.
Cut it out!
I told you, it's because of an Illegal.
An ultra high-powered, super-magnifying cybermicroscope!
Take a look!
Times two...
If we zoom in more...
Young hair is so lovely!
K-Knock it off...
Don't move.
It's all an obsolete Space: from the surface of the skin to the tips of the hairs.
So that beard is an Illegal?
This boy is changing what's around him into an obsolete Space.
So maybe,
one day, he'll be covered in fog...
S-Scary.
Let's try to see the borders this time.
It's moving!
Let's zoom in some more.
Eyes!
They're living...
They're living Illegals!
They're talking.
Sis.
Kyoko, not now.
We have a big prob—
A BEARD!
W-Why does Kyoko have a beard?!
Contagious...
The beard is contagious!
K-Kyoko!
Don't come any closer!
T-That's right!
If you kiss someone, it'll be big trouble—
Big trouble?
Kiss—!
We have to stop her!
I invoke the right of a preemptive self-defensive strike!
POOP!
If this fixes it,
two years' otoshidama would be cheap at the price.
I hope that's all it takes.
What do you mean?
Why?
The autorestore also restores the partition that holds personal information.
Maybe the beard is part of that domain.
We lost two years' otoshidama...
The hair has started to grow on him, too.
But it's only been an hour!
The epidemic's strength has increased!
Hmm, how mysterious.
It appears that the beard only grows near the mouth, just like a real one.
So, no kiss, no infection.
Great! I'm so glad we didn't get infected.
O-On her finger...
...there's hair growing!
Look, look!
Even Densuke is growing some!
You have no defenses at all!
I can't become a bride any more!
Don't give up, Yasako!
Don't worry, Yasako!
We'll beat this somehow.
You can speak so casually about this because you're a man!
B-But I'm...
I touched Kyoko's mouth with my finger.
Anyway, at this rate,
we can't do anything but wait for Megabaa's vaccine.
Hello, everyone!
There's some barley tea, so help yourselves.
Good.
We can't infect people who don't wear glasses.
It's ready!
Is the vaccine ready?
Where, where?
It's not the vaccine that's ready.
But something interesting came out.
Since they have a language, I thought that perhaps they could also...
Are these...?
Houses!
Wh-What?
All right, young'uns. Watch this.
They've started to develop a means of transportation.
A city?
Not only that.
This.
A moxibustion?
Moxibustion is an acupuncture-like therapy that burns moxa (mug wort) to stimulate the flow of blood and ki.
Do you seriously think that moxibustion is gonna work?
I was able to tap into their conversations!
Wh-What?!
What's more, it's compatible with an old translation server...
so I created a translation device!
Stop creating useless things!
Anyway, if we come into contact with anyone, we shouldn't infect them.
Yeah.
Bye.
It's crazy.
They even have their own language.
What's this?
"No parking there!"
That must be a traffic cop...
"Don't cry just because you tripped on the floor."
It must be a parent-child conversation.
The most common one is "I'm hungry".
The second one is "my back hurts".
Do they even have backs?
Chat?
Don't tell me—
It worked!
They talk just to talk.
Just like humans.
How cute.
Oh no!
At this rate, they'll crash!
Stop!
I'm so glad!
What?
He wanted to die?
"Knock it off."
"There's always hope."
Oh no!
A volcano is going to erupt!
"Everyone, run away."
Good!
It went well.
What?
"A lot of us were saved thanks to you."
"You just saved our lives."
"Please, tell us your name."
Well then.
"My name is Yasako."
So in the end, I was awake all night long.
And they've built altars everywhere!
Eh? The vaccine?
What's that?
It doesn't look like it's ready yet.
Really?
Over here, it looks like the end of the world.
It's infected people all over town!
Eh, why?!
That's what I want to know!
Satchii is on the prowl.
It's all thanks to you.
You again...
I can't take it any more!
I'm filing a complaint against you!
Wait! We're creating a vaccine!
Really?
R-Really!
Bring it to me immediately once it's completed!
For free, of course!
Pochi, stop!
If we go outside, Satchii will shoot us in the face!
But if we did that, we would heal.
We may as well consider it a last resort for recovery.
This is fun!
I feel like I've become their god!
Hey you!
Stop slacking, and get back to work!
It'll be complete in three turns.
That looks fun.
What's that fight?
Don't destroy the fields I've just created!
Give it back to me, quickly!
You promised you'd only be a little while!
But it's my turn next, right?
Respect our turn order!
Everybody's being drawn to it...
I can't take my eyes off it!
You know, they were able to make a plane fly!
It appears that everyone has made great progress.
I'm already making plans for outer space!
It appears that they've managed to communicate with Kyoko's hairs,
so now it's a SF boom!
Enough! Stop fighting!
The dam will collapse!
War is so futile.
In the end, the only thing you have left is your pride.
I always tell them, "don't fight", but...
The most advanced hair is Yasako's.
What are they up to now?
A little longer and they'll probably make a rocket!
Really?
If only they didn't fight,
they'd soon launch their first spaceship—
They did it!
It's their first flight outside the atmosphere!
What a historic moment!
Congratulations, Yasako!
D-Don't tell me it's...
A nuclear war?!
"From the Book of Okonogi.
Revelation #835.
So saith Lady Yasako:
'And thus, 'tis the end of the world.
An armageddon will occur.'
So, that frightening prophecy was about this.
'Where did we come from?
What are we heading towards?'"
Don't give up, people!
I'll run out of mega-be!
Me too!
Stop it, now!
If you damage my face, I'll self-destruct!
Even though you're their goddess,
why won't they listen to you?
Well, it's been total chaos recently.
Some philosopher said:
"Yasako is dead."
Oh!
A reply!
"If we were to stop the war,
we'd be destroyed by the enemy."
"But to wage war is stupid."
Another reply!
"So, Lady Yasako, do you and your friends never fight?"
"Just because you're friends,
does that mean you're always at peace?"
Let's just let them fight like this.
Fumie!
It's better if they kill themselves off!
B-But how can you...
You're so mean, Fumie!
Oh? The missiles stopped.
Oh, it's true!
Maybe I convinced them!
No...
You see? Look!
Let's abandon them to their fate.
An interplanetary war!
S-Stop it!
The civil war on her face has stopped, but...
War is such nonsense.
Where...
Where did I go wrong?
My poor hairs!
Oh? What's this?
They're trying to talk to me.
"After paying with a large number of victims,
we've finally understood the futility of war."
Great! They've finally understood!
What else?
"All the various planets have communicated
and pieced the situation together."
"Because of the numerous wars,
our civilization has returned to that of a bygone era."
"We beg you, Lady Yasako,
to somehow show us, with your power, our fate."
So in the end, it's just a prayer to God.
Only when it's convenient, huh.
Yeah, just like us humans.
But there isn't a spot on the head where Satchii won't attack...
There is one.
Only one!
A new haven for us!
Thank you, Lady Yasako!
"The time is 5760 minutes.
Thanks to the advice of Lady Yasako,
the race of the bearded ones has arrived safely, and has colonized the promised land."
Mr. Tome
always hides that area when he goes out.
So, Satchii won't be able to find it, right?
I'd like them to live in peace there.
But, a few days later,
we went to see the situation of the bearded ones after some time.
We found a message written there.
We found these words in the message:
"Nor was this the place for us to live.
We just wanted to get to the adults' civilization quickly,
but we really were too young for that.
We decided to leave on a journey to find our promised land.
We thought that the promised land
might as well be the one we were born in.
We wonder whether there's no war at all in that place.
Or at least, so we hope."
Next time on Dennou Coil:
The Last Plesiosaur.
See you next time!