Yesterday... after I'd come back from Mr. Braun's house...
Nothing... Not so much as car backfiring.
Up to that point...
The thirteenth had always been D-day.
I think telling myself not to follow Suzuha
got us close enough to the one percent...
Do not give in to your assistant's threats. Follow Suzuha!
Maybe... Hopefully... Just please...
Please let this be the one where...
Oh no!
I just wound you a while ago.
Don't tell me your broken...
So not fair.
I've taken extra special care of you and everything.
Even the number of several billion heartbeats
suujuuoku mo no kodou no kazu sae
anata ni wa matataki teido no saji na toukyuu
is basic research with little glamor for you
anata ni wa matataki teido no saji na toukyuu
kako ni torawarete mirai wo nageku mo
Even locked in the past and lamenting the future
kako ni torawarete mirai wo nageku mo
chiri hitotsu gosan wo yurusanu hitsuzen
it's an inevitability that won't forgive miscalculating one speck of dust
chiri hitotsu gosan wo yurusanu hitsuzen
mugen ni hirogaru yume mo egaku mirai mo
The dreams that stretch out forever and the future we imagine
mugen ni hirogaru yume mo egaku mirai mo
bokutachi ni yurusareta kyoei no genri
are a vain theory we allowed
bokutachi ni yurusareta kyoei no genri
yuugen sore wa futatsu no hari ga shimesu
Finity, that's what the two hands of the clock point out
yuugen sore wa futatsu no hari ga shimesu
zankoku na yakujou to sentaku e hacking to the gate
towards a cruel agreement and choice
zankoku na yakujou to sentaku e hacking to the gate
Hacking to the Gate
zankoku na yakujou to sentaku e hacking to the gate
dakara ima ichibyou goto ni sekaisen wo koete
That's why I want to cross world lines with each passing second
dakara ima ichibyou goto ni sekaisen wo koete
kimi no sono egao mamoritai no sa
and protect your smile
kimi no sono egao mamoritai no sa
soshite mata kanashimi no nai jikan no loop e to
And once again, into a time loop that contains no sadness
soshite mata kanashimi no nai jikan no loop e to
nomikomareteyuku kodoku no kansokusha
A swallowed solitary observer
nomikomareteyuku kodoku no kansokusha
Okay. You've got my attention...
Why are you brooding?
Help me...
She's going to die - in two hours?!
Wait... Hold on a second...
You've been time-leaping like a madman to trying to stop it...
haven't you?
Must've been horrible.
Alright, help me think... What have we got...?
We know that Suzuha feels we can spare Mayuri
by shifting the alpha attractor field we're currently
in to a beta world-line.
'Course, to do that...
We'd need to hack into SERN's database
and delete every shred of intel they have on the laboratory,
which means we'd need the IBN.
That's the thing...
It'd been in storage at the Yanabayashi Shrine
before Moeka's D-mail...
Now though? Needle in a haystack.
Just bear with me for a sec:
A whopping total of five D-mails started all of this...
Hououin Kyouma
No Subject
The lottery one; Kiryuu's; Ruka's; Faris'...
Buy Lotto 6
You'll win!
The one about Suzuha...
Do not give in to your assistant's threats. Follow Suzuha!
Apparently undoing that last one gave you a little wiggle room...
It postponed the lab raid by twenty hours...
Pretty significant, yeah?
I mean, it's enough to have me wonder
whether or not undoing all the texts in reverse order...
might pop us back
to a world-line where the IBN's accounted for...
I'm just shooting in the dark...
But hey, for a working hypothesis
we could do a lot worse.
Made in
Complex
Yes we could.
If there's even the ghost of chance...
I feel like I shouldn't let you do this...
You're a gauge-twitch from meltdown as it is...
I've no illusions about the risk to my mental health...
But I have to do what I have to do.
Just be careful.
Don't read into that!
Your brain simply represents
a specimen totally invaluable to our...
to mankind's understanding of time travel's neurological...
Thank you, Kurisu.
You just called me by my name...
That's certainly a first... So...
You're suddenly nice when I'm about to forget everything.
What?
Nothing.
Back to front. What's the next one that needs to be undone?
The one we allowed Faris to send.
Wassabi?
Look, don't freak out:
I need to know where you think Faris would be right now.
I know where she is right now.
Yeah...? Go on, then!
Well, the last match of the Rai-Net ABGC just wrapped,
so smart money says she's at the UPX Building.
ABGC?
Ugh! You're killin' me, old man...
Stands for Access Battler's Grand Championship?
Collective Rai-Netter throw-down
for every qualifier in the country?
Which Our Lady of the Immaculate Cat Ears just won,
I should add.
Just focus on the task at hand...
And remember:... You don't know what her text said...
Only that it transformed Akihabara
from a Moe cultural Mecca to... well, to this.
Kyouma!
What in the hell?! Faris!
'Fraid she's latched on some douche bag in lab coat.
Cat's outta the bag, huh...?
Oh well. Bitch can run, but she can't hide.
'Cause nobody--nobody... wrangles free of the Cid.
Who are these chodes?
They call themselves Viral Attackers.
Okay, then...
Look the least you need to know is that
they're a gang of hardcore Rai-Netters
who'd sooner drown a puppy
than lose a tournament to me.
They've been waiting in ambush
since they got booted out of the championship.
Surely they can be reasoned with...?
Over here!
The hell'd they go?
They're not ninjas. They're here somewhere.
Gotcha.
C'mon.
Oh yeah... since we're here: what'd you call me for earlier?
Oh, yes...! I need to know what your D-mail said.
My what?
The text we let you send back in time.
Oh, baby doll... Did you fall on your head?
Wait, of course.
The Faris of this world-line
hasn't the first clue what D-mail is.
I... That is to say...
Got 'em!
Okay, speaking hypothetically,
if I'd told you we'd invented a time machine,
would you believe me?
Duh, you know your word is law with me!
Really?!
I just put the finishing touches on a
kickass inter-dimensional transporter myself...
Right, starting over. Imagine Akihabara as a MOE hotspot.
Huh?
Let's... just... suppose you used a time machine
to create the silicon gulch it's become.
How would you have accomplished that?
Is this like prisoner's base or something?
Don't over-think it, just tell me!
Um... I have no idea what I could've done...
If this town was brimming with moe,
I probably wouldn't have changed it.
You'll laugh...
But back in the day I wanted to open a maid cafe...
I begged daddy till I was blue in the face...
even told him I'd finance it...
Ah, but you know the drill: no little girl of his, right?
Yes, Queen May's...
How'd you know what I wanted to call it?
I never even told dad!
Because it really existed! Right here in downtown...!
This city used to be the Canterbury for otakus!
It had all that stuff!
It what??
Believe me when I say no one loved this place
more than you...!
But every corner of it changed the moment
we let you send that text into the past!
What on Earth did it say?!
Please...! It's a matter of life...!
Guys! This way!
What are you looking at?
Ramen
Take it in... Queen May's was located on this very spot...
This is where your dream became a reality.
What?
You didn't just run the place.
You lived it; breathed it.
Mayuri, too!
Wild horses couldn't keep Daru away.
Matter of fact... This is where we first met.
Welcome home, Meow-ster!
Iced coffee, please.
Coming up in two shakes of a kitten's tail!
The competition for the Faris Cup is about to begin...
Special codename...
Bitchin'!
K. B. O. O. M!
Otherwise known as KAH-BOOM!
Faris!
I'm okay.
Tell me what's at stake if you can't undo the text.
Someone's life. ...Mayuri's.
You're kidding me... You're just making all this up!
Mayushii couldn't be killed over some stupid random text!
Damn it, what was in the message you sent?!
I have to know! If I don't undo it, she's dead!
I can't tell you.
The hell do you mean...?! Faris, please...!
She's your friend! Don't you care if she dies?!
Of course I care...! It's just...
It's just what?!
I don't want to lose my daddy again...
He died ten years ago...
The message you let me send saved his life.
Kyouma!
Oh god, no...
Not the badass you thought you were, huh dude?
Sorry, princess. This jackass can't help you.
Let go of me! Kyouma...! No!
Cat's in the cradle, boss.
Excellent!!!
Again the tingling 'round...
Hear that? He's excited... What do you say we celebrate?
Stop this...
...will soon be eating pureed humble pie through a straw!
Lookie here.
Let her go.
Kyouma!
Oh, I see... We're still on, huh?
Well, I'm game if you are.
No...! Stop it...! Please! Stop!!!
Oh shit!
Abort! Abort! Abort!
Daddy!
Hold it, punks! What were you up to here?!
Wait. Where'd you guys go? The hell...
Shit. That the cops?
Ah... well... Son of a bitch.
Thank heavens...
Seems I made it just in time.
Daddy... Thank you...
I rushed to the center when I heard you'd won the tournament,
but you'd already taken off.
And then you weren't answering your phone...
Next time, young lady,
I expect you to be a little easier for me to get a hold of.
And you, son...
Well frankly, I'm having trouble finding the words to thank you.
Please, sir; I was less than useless.
You're too modest, Okabe,
but I'm afraid the fact is,
my not being there put both of you in harm's way...
Oh stop... Don't talk like that.
You had work; you couldn't help it.
It's okay, Rumiho...
An old 5100, you say?
Yes... I heard you gave one away some time ago...
Any idea where it is...?
I mean, could you by chance get it back?
Life had other ideas...
I never meant to break my promise to Hashida...
Hashida...? But surely you don't mean Suzuha!
You knew her...?
I came by the 5100 to begin with because of that woman.
That IBN 5100 is as good as mine--you'll see...!
I'll make sure it gets to you guys in one piece.
How 'bout that... She did it... She really came through...
It's okay... You can tell him the whole story.
You sure, sweetheart...?
Daddy, he totally put his life on the line for me.
Rumiho... was kidnapped when she was a girl.
My little empire wasn't the behemoth it is now, you see...
The ransom demanded far exceeded my means...
Then out of the blue...
Someone offered to take the IBN
off my hands at an exorbitant sum
and I wasn't about to look a gift horse in the mouth.
Understandable... So of course you sold it?
You bet I did. The money gave me back my daughter.
Since then...
I've made it a personal rule never to renege on a promise
I've made to my little girl... Not for all the tea in China...
Never ever.
Oh, daddy...
Rumiho
Papa
I don't want to lose my daddy again...
He died ten years ago...
The message you let me send saved his life.
How can I ask her to do such a thing...?
It's just inhuman.
Please don't send another one, Okarin...!
If you press that button,
it's like none of this was ever real!
If I... If I don't... then Mayuri will...
May I come in?
Yeah, sure.
Faris, I...
Hey... Thanks for stickin' up for me...
Those people were terrifying...
I'm not sure what they would've done if you hadn't been there,
but I'm sure it would've been unpleasant. You're a hero.
Oh, come now...
I'm sure their bark was worse than their bite.
Don't blow me off,
I'm trying to be serious for a minute here.
Sorry.
Listen, Faris... What I said...
I think it'd be better if you call me Rumiho.
Kyouma... or... maybe I should call you Okabe now...
You probably saved my life out there.
Don't get all real on me...
Call me what you always do.
Look, whatever okay...?
Thank you for what you did...
You're my... knight in shining armor.
Ah...! No pressure...!
Trust me... I'm no knight.
Lunatic perhaps; but knight? I think not.
Level with me.
Does Mayushii's life really hang in the balance?
Yeah.
When I was eight... I wanted to celebrate my birthday...
I made daddy promise to drop everything
and come home to join the party...
But... He ended up canceling for a business trip.
It wasn't his fault... but I was so upset...
I thought he loved his job more than me, you know...?
I was so mad, I told him I wished he was dead...
And when he heard how upset I was,
Died in the crash...
he caugh an early flight back.
Japanese passenger, Akiha Yukitaka...
And I never saw him again.
We have your daughter. Ransom is 100 million yen. Take the Shinkansen.
Your D-mail kept him from getting on that plane...
And the city transformed because he lived
to shoot down your maid cafe idea...
You sacrificed it all just to have your dad see you grow up.
It was pretty nice, you know...? While it lasted.
Faris. Rumihio...
I'll undo it... Okay?
Dad died ten years ago in a plane crash...
That's the reality...
Every father-daughter moment we've shared since
has been on borrowed time...
Not that I wouldn't move heaven and earth
to keep the lie going...
But there's always a price for this kind of thing.
And I can't let Mayuri pay it.
Are you... Are you sure?
No I'm not sure... How could I be?
I feel like I'm going to be sick;
it's like two worlds are all tangled up in my head...
It's crazy...!
I can remember all these details from both sides of the change.
They all feel so real and so unreal at the same time...
How do I do this...? How do I do this?!
Damn it, look... I can't let you go through with this, okay...?
I'll talk to Kurisu; she's bound to know an alternative!
No! No one's jumping through any more stupid hoops because me...!
It's not fair to any of us!
It's time... I have to accept life as it is...
I... owe it to myself, right?
Just give me a minute to be weak, though... Okay?
Of course.
So, did she...?
Yes. She was very brave.
Are we set?
Meow meow...! Oh, my...
Somebody's mister sad-face right now.
What's wrong with you?
The kidnapping was just a joke. I love you, Daddy. See you soon.
So, uh... When we jump back to the prior world-line,
am I gonna lose my memories of this one?
I don't know...
You said earlier you had memories of things
from both sides of the change, right...?
So you'll probably keep them.
That's a relief.
Don't take this weird...
But this whole thing between us...?
I wanna keep hold of it.
I'm sure you will.
We're fired up... Go for it!
Good-bye... Daddy.
Kyouma!
Please tell me you've seen my cell phone lying around.
Faris...
Mayushii has no idea, so by process of elimination,
I figure you have to know where it is, right?
You rascal...!
You've been poring over my private texts...!
Have you no decency...?!
Does the fairer sex's privacy account for so little to a man?
Come on, Kyouma!
Don't just stand there and take it, fire back...!
Ask me what a lady might have to hide... Ugh!
Oh, Faris...
Hey, hey! Hands off the girl, Casanova!
You don't get to manhandle every female
who wanders into your lab.
It's just camaraderie.
In another life we battled darkness most sinister
to arise arm-in-arm from the ashes
of a peril beyond mortal reckoning!
You must be some warrior.
Oh, Faris honey. You're as loony as he is. Wow.
I'm sorry...
Faris' ordeal was pointless... The IBN is still missing.
She stored it at the shrine ten years ago, as before.
And up until a year back it was still there, but now...
Now there's no telling where it is.
kisei sareta shikai mujihi naru
Our vision, controlled by someone, fills with cruelty
juuni no shihai nogarerarenai
We can't escape the twelve rules
ansoku no asu wo negatta
We wished for a tomorrow full of rest
te no naka no toutoi jishou no chihei he
to be given to the precious event horizon in our hands
toraware shi meiyaku arawareta gishou no rinkaku
In the promise we made in captivity appeared the contours of a lie
seimei no tenchi wa moumoku na jikan wo kizanda
The realm of life recorded a time of blindness
habatake butterfly
Fly, butterfly
kiseki no butterfly
O, miraculous butterfly
anata he sasagu
I will sacrifice to you
namida no butterfly
Butterflies of tears
mabushii butterfly
Dazzling butterflies
subete ga ima kakikaerareru
Everything is being rewritten