It was served hard from the left!
- Let's go home. - Sure.
Hey, Miu, want to go to the arcade on the way home?
Lookie! Lookie! A new series came out!
There's a trick to playing it, and I scored this yesterday.
C'mon, I'll show you how to do it. I promise you'll catch one.
- Come on, let's go! - Let's go. Let's go!
Sorry, I have to go somewhere after this.
- What do you mean?
- You're a lousy friend.
- Don't you want Geba?
- Miu!
We won't hang out with you anymore!
Aw, she left.
They are too active.
Then...
Yeah, it's unchanged.
It's been 4 weeks since it happened.
Who knows what she's dreaming about?
If I have a smile today...
If I have your smile today...
When I ran out of breath and turned around...
...you were always there
smiling at me.
Sure footsteps echoing in my heart...
...as I near despair.
In the blue sky, the birds fly
flapping their wings to shake off...
...their sadness.
Now, there is hope.
There is hope in my heart.
This time, let's open...
...the gate to tomorrow.
Now, I have courage.
I have passionate courage.
So, let's stand up smiling.
Get up, my heart!
Now, fly towards the future...
...my heart!
MIU
Um...
The sunset is pretty from here, isn't it.
Do you like this city?
Huh?
Yes.
She didn't like it much.
Actually, she hated it.
Do you mean Isuzu?
Maybe it's to be expected.
This city is full of lies and deceit.
Speed limits are only for show and protect no one.
It's been decades since prostitution was banned.
And who knows what happens in private rooms in the Red Light district?
Pachinko hasn't been approved as public gambling,
but who knows what is exchanged behind those parlors?
Somewhere again today, construction is underway only to consume funding.
TV and newspapers have no scruples. Cooking up words and phrases to ban from
public broadcast one after the next, afraid of legal claims.
These are things everyone knows, but no one will say.
Indifference makes the lies and deceit even uglier.
Come to think of it, there was a man who referred to these people as "maggots."
Do you mean like insects?
The enemies are maggots who have forsaken their humanity.
They are in no way monsters.
They are the very visage of humans with twisted hearts.
Aren't you stupid?
If only you had lived honestly, you wouldn't have turned into that.
But you guys gave it up, didn't you?
Your humanity.
Oh, well. It's easier that way.
You don't have to act concerned or show restraint.
Today is your lucky day, guys. I'll make life even easier for you!
Here!
Next.
Yes. We exterminate the maggots who have turned into invaders.
To paraphrase, we are murderers.
You have every reason to be afraid.
These are...
I thought that we might find a way to turn them back.
We haven't found a hint of how to do it yet.
The probability of finding a way is faint.
Our efforts won't even spell redemption.
She collected a large percentage of these.
If she truly loathed this city and the maggot-like humans living here,
she should have crushed them all.
Not small ones again.
It looks like 200,000 yen in all.
Still, there are too many of them recently.
I smelled your maggot stench a mile away.
It won't be long now. It won't be long.
Until the time we all gather...
For all her hate,
she continued to fight and collect their crystals for several years.
Can you guess why?
I found that answer for her.
I'm sure it will please her, too.
Ayane!
Original Invader S-07P.
Stay away from Ayane! Why are you here?
I was beckoned by her voice.
She is like me. That's why I know. I know what she wants.
You're a fool to come here only to be sent to oblivion by me.
I will be sent to oblivion?
Even original invaders cannot escape from the Minus Gate,
the black gate that spawned them!
Gate Open!
Stay back!
Why? Why isn't she being absorbed?
You are the fool.
You aren't an Invader.
You're human!
Gate Open.
She erased space!
That's right. You and I are the same.
Ayane!
Isuzu!
- I'm taking these children back.
- What?
It won't be long now. Soon the age of mankind will end.
U-Um, we should look after that.
Don't worry, this arm is artificial.
What?
Not just my arm, but my right leg and several organs, also.
At one time, they were consumed by my gate.
In the past, most Gate Keepers came from unhappy households,
because what's necessary for happiness was consumed by their gates.
That can't be.
Among them are those like Yukino Hojo, whose very time was consumed.
Yukino?
If she uses her power a few more times,
her flesh will be fully consumed by the gate like that girl.
Do you mean the girl who was just here was...
I suspect she is a mere residual spirit trapped in this world.
"Ghost Girl" is a good name for her.
Now over half of the human race have become potential Invaders.
Even the gates, once the last hope of mankind,
are only doors leading to despair...
consuming the flesh of those who open them.
Our resistance is meaningless.
At this stage, there is no such thing as hope.
But even so...
I'm sorry. I didn't know anything about you,
but I called you a ghost the first time we met. I'm really sorry.
There. All finished.
You've been alone at the school all this time,
so I thought you should have a school uniform.
Hey, Yukino.
I wonder why Isuzu is fighting.
She was collecting crystals of people who turned into Invaders.
She didn't tell me anything.
Maybe I'm not really her friend...
This...
Thank you.
Actually, I got my mother to help me sew it.
- Your mother?
- Yeah!
Father and mother stroke a warbler's combed head into disarray,
to convey her a forget-me-not.
You use difficult words, don't you?
She is always crying.
Almost like a young child.
Miu Manazuru of Homeroom 2B.
Please report to the faculty room.
What the heck did yesterday's Invader mean before he died?
I'll make her help, whether she likes it or not.
Sorry. Is Miu Manazuru here?
Huh? Miu?
I don't think she's here now.
I'm impressed with your speed at running away, Miu Manazuru!
Manazuru!
Don't toy with me! Are you telling me this isn't you in the picture?
Are you mocking the police?
It-It's true. I, um, I...
I don't know anything.
Why, you...
Look here, I want the truth! I didn't come here for your lies!
The outbreak of inexplicable accidents since the beginning of the year
is the work of these people, the ones you guys are fighting, isn't it?
Who the heck are they?
Answer me! You have to know!
But I...
Listen closely, because I won't repeat myself!
I only want to hear the truth!
I will do whatever it takes to get it!
If I have to, I'll whip up a charge and haul you off to jail!
O-Officer?
Now cough up the truth! I want the tr...
I w... I w...
What?
Everyone acted exactly as I calculated.
Kikai Shogun and Akuma Hakushaku
have turned into these, thanks to the girls' hard work.
So, it is as I wanted.
Y-You idiot! Do you want to die, you brat? Get the hell out of my way!
Everyone...
Good-bye!
Open the gate.
Now, come in.
It has begun.
This can't be!
Naoko, Chinami!
The enemy we are fighting
is the very visage of humans with twisted hearts.
To paraphrase, we are murderers.
Chinami! Naoko!
Manazuru!
Azaki! Takashina!
Why? What happened?
Everyone suddenly turned into weird people!
Calm down. It's ok now.
But...
Can you tell me where Chinami and Naoko are?
I don't know. I don't know!
I think they were still in the classroom.
Ok. Hurry, Azaki, Takashina.
Naoko! Chinami!
- Miu.
- You're alive.
Oh, I'm glad you're both alright.
Come on, Takashina, Azaki. Let's get out of here.
Get out to where?
Huh?
It's too late now. We're all doomed.
That's not true. If we pull together, I'm sure we can do something.
- No, we can't.
- After all...
It's already
too late for us.
No.
I can't take it anymore!
- It's the end.
- The beginning.
Everyone is coming... to our world.
This isn't real. Chinami, Naoko.
You, too, will come to our world.
Come. You will come.
Knock it off, you guys. This isn't funny anymore.
Come on, let's get out of here.
Come on, hurry.
We have to go to the arcade to get Geba, remember? Come on.
We had a barbecue by the riverside during summer break, remember?
I want to do that again, so come on.
You, too, will come
to our world.
Chinami, Naoko.
Come... to our world.
Chinami, Naoko...
You idiot!
Get your damned head out of the clouds.
Is being killed by your friends the way you want to go?
Don't forget.
We're Gate Keepers.
All right. See you there.
Damn. Now the base is toast.
Um, what happened?
Oh. Yukino Hojo opened her Gate of Ice.
Yukino used her gate?
She's the one who asked me...
to save you.
You're here, Yukino Hojo.
Yes, as promised.
This is the second time you fought with us.
And the last time.
Yeah.
It looks...
that way.
Well, it looks like the really big one is here.
I think I'll go rake in some major cash!
So what are you going to do?
The Invaders are still multiplying.
It's full of unprecedented IPW for a radius of 40 kilometers.
Well, take good care of yourself... as you run away.
Use your Gate of Flight to get yourself to the safest place imaginable.
Go to a world without strife or something.
Winged sounds in deep night...
Are the echo of distant days...
...of young girlhood.
The boat of the moon...
...softly drops a tear.
Call me...
...the name of faraway summer.
Time passes...
Everyone is gone...
The dawn is so pretty...
...it's sad.
Eventually, as hope changes into despair...
The girls face the jet black sky and only stare into flapping wings.
The final episode of Gate Keepers 21 is...
"SOUND OF FEATHERS"