The love which ends with the first light
Streaming in on the dreamy morning
Starting tomorrow, we go our separate ways
So abruptly, we can't prepare our hearts
Was there something
We knew which could not wither away?
Cherry blossoms falling everywhere
Saying with your voice
Goodbye, fall in love
Cherry blossom, cherry blossom
Forget all your tears
Starting now, fall in love
Does the message reach you now?
Renton, what's wrong?
Sis!
It's my sister.
Sis!
Renton!
Where have you been for all this time?!
I was worried! And so was Grandpa!
No! Don't go there!
Sis! Sis! Sis!
Sis! SIS!
Sis! Sis!
Sis...
It's been a while, Renton.
Sis!
You've grown so much in the short time I've been away.
Where did you run off to, Sis?
I thought I'd never see you again!
I'm sorry. I made you worry, didn't I?
But from now on, we'll always be together.
Really?
Really.
Sis!
Where is this? Where's Eureka?
Huh? Nirvash?
Everyone's gone.
You needn't worry. They're all fine.
But...
Don't worry. This is Eureka's real home.
This library is?
I'm showing it to you in the form of a library...
to make it easy for you to understand how the scubs think, Renton.
You guys have made it all the way here.
To the center of all scub corals. To the control cluster.
What should I?
That's right. I have to deliver this book.
Sis?
What?
This is the center of the scub coral, right?
Yes.
Sis, why are you here?
If this library isn't real...
If it's just an image the scubs are showing me, then...
Then what are you, Sis?
Sis, are you a scub coral, too?
Renton, do you think that you're a scub coral because you're here?
Well...
It's the same with me.
As I followed in our father's footsteps and started researching the scub coral...
before I knew it I was here, talking to all sorts of people.
Everything that I didn't understand back on land all linked together,
and became easy for me to understand.
About the trapars, the Compac Drive...
This planet, the universe...
Mankind... And the scub coral.
Here, the information that each individual owns is all shared together.
And so lies don't exist here.
Not one person here thinks that death is unfortunate.
Everyone stays here because they choose to.
But, if you and all the people here are humans,
what are the scub coral?
The scub coral are living beings.
Living beings?
Yes.
The theory proposed by our father Adroc Thurston was the truth.
You know that this is the Earth, right?
10,000 years ago, the scub coral touched the Earth for the very first time.
What their origin was, whether by artificial means...
or by natural processes, even the scub coral do not know.
However, when they first gained consciousness, they were in the ocean.
They swallowed up all sorts of creatures...
living in the ocean and fused with them.
Fused?
To become one.
It's the only way that the scub coral know how to communicate with others.
In the beginning, it was small.
However, as they repeatedly communicated, forgetting about time,
they became much larger than any other life form on Earth.
Humans began to fear the scub coral.
However, to the newborn scub coral, it was not meant as a threat at all.
Instead, their attempts at communication...
by their own means grew more and more aggressive.
The more aggressive they grew, the more the humans feared them.
And finally, humans left the Earth.
That was what happened 10,000 years ago.
After humans left, the scub coral fused together with...
every creature left on Earth to become one life form.
And when they became as large as the Earth itself,
the scub corals began to realize...
that there was nobody around them at all.
They couldn't fuse with anyone, and no one was calling out to them, either.
For decades, centuries, millennia...
The vastness of space taught them how important it was...
to have something other than themselves exist in this world.
Humans came back to this planet after that, didn't they?
Yes. It was something that made the scub coral very happy.
Happy?
Yes.
They were that lonely?
It was because the scub coral saw humans as...
the only intelligent life form that showed a possibility for communication.
That's why, when the humans returned, the scub coral were very cautious.
They already understood that humans feared them.
They wanted to communicate,
and if possible, to walk down the path of life together.
But they had no means to convey their thoughts aside from fusion.
How should they go about coexisting with humans?
Was it even possible to coexist with humans at all?
With those thoughts in mind, they created Sakuya... and Eureka.
I think I understand a little of what the scub coral were thinking.
Of course, I know that I don't really understand everything about it.
But... But I'm here now, and I realize that I understand that much.
Yes.
I know that the scubs have a question that they can't get an answer to.
The same goes for humans.
So why don't we think together?
Humans and scub coral. Both sides together.
For that, I'll do anything!
I mean... I've fallen in love with a Coralian girl.
Sis?
Naturally, the scub coral won't deny your proposition, Renton.
It's what they had hoped for.
But...
What is it? Don't beat around the bush.
This place will soon be attacked.
The Question Limitation will be reached.
Where is this? Where's Mama and Renton?
C'mon, don't cry. You promised...
But...
It's all right. Mama will be here.
And Renton will be sure to save us.
Wait a minute.
What do you mean we'll reach the Question Limitation?
Most of the scub coral are sleeping now.
To prevent triggering the Question Limitation.
However, the destruction of the control cluster...
will awaken every scub coral on Earth simultaneously.
What happens if the scubs wake up and Question Limitation is triggered?
The universe will tear apart.
And what happens to the universe if it's torn apart?
Everything will be consumed.
Including the Earth?
Yes.
No!
But there is a chance.
Before the control cluster is destroyed,
the scub coral and humans need to fuse together.
Fuse with the scubs?
Right. By fusing with the scub coral,
humans can exist as beings of pure thought.
Just like you are now, Sis?
There's no other way.
But, you said that we'll reach the Question Limitation.
3,000 years ago, the scub coral experienced the Question Limitation once.
They evaded the situation then by forcing themselves into hibernation.
Later, they learned that another universe...
existed on the other side of the tear in our universe.
We have no time left.
If the control cluster is destroyed,
it will trigger the Question Limitation across the entire world.
If that happens, then the humans...
Not one living being on the entire planet will be spared.
And you're just going to give up?
Haven't we finally gotten to where...
we can acknowledge each other and communicate?!
I was thinking while I was listening to your story, Sis.
That both Eureka and I were born on the same planet, Earth.
Let's tell everyone that!
That the scubs are alive,
and we've been living on the same planet for the past 10,000 years!
Right now, there's a hatred between both sides.
But it's never too late. We can still make it in time.
Eureka isn't human. I know that very well.
Most likely, if I took Eureka as she looks now to Bell Forest,
even Gramps would be totally shocked.
Maybe he wouldn't be able to accept Eureka as she is now.
I know that. But still...
I want to take Eureka back with me!
I want to introduce Eureka to everyone.
I want to show Eureka, the three kids, and everyone in Gekkostate...
the town where you and I grew up, Sis.
That town where there's nothing to do, not even a decent Lifting spot!
Don't you want to live together with us, Sis?
Enough with the scub coral's opinion! I understand!
I want to hear what your opinion is, Sis!
Sis!
"If you believe, we'll see each other again."
Sis, you told me that once.
Not once did I ever forget about you, Sis.
I was sure that I'd see you again. That's what I've believed all this time.
And that's why I'm standing in front of you now, Sis.
I believe!
That Eureka chose me!
That she chose to live together with me on this planet!
No matter what happens, we've decided we'll overcome it...
together!
I decided, too!
Me, too!
We all decided together.
That the entire family will join forces and live on.
There were many good things and many bad things in the world up above.
Honestly, there were lots of things so cruel that I wanted to run away.
But because Renton and the children...
saved me, I somehow managed to get by.
I'm able to be here now because I was able to encounter Eureka in this world.
And I want to live together with everyone else on this planet.
Eureka, the kids, Gramps, Sis, everyone in Gekkostate... together!
I'm afraid that's impossible.
Sis.
Unless they fuse with the scub coral now,
there's no way for the humans to survive.
The Earth is going to disappear!
I'm going to stop the attack on the control cluster.
How?
With Eureka.
With Renton.
Riding the Nirvash together.
Hey! Renton!
Where have you been?
I'm glad. I'm so glad.
Renton...
I'll never, ever let you go again! Ever!
It's all right. I won't go anywhere.
I'll be here with everyone, forever.
Really?
Really!
Eureka!
What, you think you're the only one who gets to hug Mama?
Yeah! We were all worried about you too, Renton!
He was just lonely because he hadn't seen Mama in a while.
Oh, yeah. That must be it.
Dad...
"If you believe, we'll see each other again."
The control cluster has decided to wait...
for you two to stop the attacks up on the surface.
Then...
Hurry.
Nirvash!
Nirvash is telling us to go back.
Renton, don't forget.
We're always with you.
Thank you, Dad... Sis.
Let's go back. To where we should be.
EPISODE 47 ACPERIENCE-4
Anyone watching this broadcast, please listen to the following announcement.
This is news concerning the Second Summer of Love,
announced moments ago by the defense department press office.
It is still unconfirmed as to whether or not it will happen within the next 72 hours.
Gustav One, Two, Three. All units have completed final adjustments.
How is Gustav Four?
Currently rotating the light collection mirror.
Rotation complete.
Confirm microwave radiation.
Energy buildup to Oratorio #8 is good.
Commencing countdown.
I am Dewey Novac, the Supreme Commander of the United Federations Force.
Please remain calm as you listen to the following announcement.
The planet we live on right now is actually our mother planet, Earth.
The same Earth where nature and civilization...
were controlled by humans 10,000 years ago.
However, this planet has since been controlled by the scub coral,
an aggressive unknown life form.
For what reason have we humans returned to this planet?
Was it to bow down and live in fear of the scub coral?
I would like you to remember once again the reason why...
the human race had to leave our mother planet in the first place.
Soon the Second Summer of Love will take place.
It will come from the final attack of the scub coral...
who wish to annihilate the human race.
Our hero Adroc is no longer alive,
and the Sages who were supposed to guide us have all fallen as well.
However, as a soldier, as a human,
I cannot just sit and wait for everything to happen.
And now, with the survival of the human race at risk,
we will attempt to rebel against the scub coral!
I am sure that this operation will be a success. And then...
I will make sure that we will retake our mother planet, the Earth!
Oratorio #8... FIRE!
TO BE CONTINUED
To be continued!
Trying to escape the same old thing
You set out, walking all alone
Thinking that if you just spread out the map clutched in your hand
You'd be sure to reach your destination
But you were mistaken
You thought you'd be stronger on your own
You discovered your own weakness and the path was hazy
But then the light fell on you and you remembered all their faces
So you kept getting up, moving forward, no matter how many times you fell
Because you knew inside that everyone has a place to call "home"
Always relying on those bonds every time
Hands in the air, with a yell that carries on in your heart
Always looking back to where you've been
Because there are some places that never change
No matter what adversities or fears you overcome
You advance down this unknown endless road
Always looking back to where you've been
Because there are some places that never change
No matter what adversities or fears you overcome
You advance down this unknown endless road
Always looking back to where you've been
Trails of light bringing death scorch heaven and earth.
Amidst such a tragedy, what will the one named "The End" dance?
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