Five Years Ago
The girl they brought with them acted like a wounded animal.
Fuck! Get your hands off me!
Let me go!
This is the girl covered in our report.
She's Amou Kanade, 14 years of age.
The Noise attacked her.
She's from Minakamiyama, Nagano.
She is the only one alive potentially compatible with the relic.
We believe that she was spending the holiday with her family
when they were attacked.
You people are fighting the Noise, right?
Give a weapon for God's sake!
Let me slaughter them all!
You've had it tough.
Can you tell me what happened when the Noise attacked you?
We will avenge your family.
You've got to be fucking kidding me!
I'm the only one who can avenge them!
Let me kill the fuckers!
Even if it will plunge you into the depths of hell?
Such would be my wish if that's what it takes.
She wished to fight against the Noise,
and had to endure seemingly endless training and medication
so that her compatibility with the third relic, Gungnir, could be examined.
Even now, after so much, she isn't compatible.
Nothing is ever simple.
Don't!
Don't be absurd. We've come so far.
Let's get this party started, Ryoko.
Compatibility levels are going through the roof...
Breaking through phases one and two.
Is she on level three now?
What are you waiting for? Help her!
Don't stand around! Keep her alive!
Hurry up!
I got it.
This is the power I can fight them with!
This is my Symphogear!
The power she held did not come by accident, like it did for me.
She wished for it, and coughing up blood as she sung, she got it.
We became warriors to combat the Noise,
clad in Symphogear.
Die!
Are you okay?
Thanks.
Even though there were tons of rubble above us, we could hear your song.
We never gave up.
Hey, Tsubasa.
Having people listen to your song is much nicer than I thought, you know?
What brought this on?
Just a whim.
Nothing, really.
I just want to sing together with you forever.
And so
we started singing together as Zwei Wing.
Shedding Tears
This...
Seal off the site!
Do whatever it takes to contain the armor.
The Nehushtan armor?
Do you know who's wearing it too?
I would never forget what was taken from me when my guard was down two years ago!
Do you think I could forget the lives lost because of my failure?!
Look at my seething heart
I erased all my hesitation
What a twist of fate that what took Kanade's life
Now it's a flame that devotes all to the ones I'm close to
and the shards of Gungnir are both here.
This is extremely cruel,
Without a single prayer on my lips
I slash apart what I see before me
but I couldn't imagine a better time.
Don't do it, Tsubasa!
She's human!
She's human like we are!
Have you lost your marbles?
We get along so well, don't we?
Let's have some fun!
Blue Flash
Is this the potential of an unbroken relic?
Don't underestimate the power of Nehushtan, will you?
This is far from my best game!
Tsubasa!
Don't worry.
I'll keep you entertained.
Those are Noise!
She summoned them!
Damn!
Forgot about me when you were busy?
Get off your high horse!
Don't get your hopes up, you beast!
Nobody'd miss you!
You seem to think you're the main character here. You're wrong.
The goal was abducting her from the beginning.
Is this all you can do to protect your comrades and your armor?
Do you think I'll just watch?
I swore I wouldn't!
Shedding Tears
Right! My weapon!
If I want to replace Kanade, I need a weapon too!
I need it!
Appear!
My weapon!
Why won't it appear?
I'm just so lost...
She's not just teasing me.
Her power is real.
Do you really have time for philosophy?
You don't!
You gotta be kidding me!
Tsubasa!
We done here yet?
I must admit
that I was done for.
Although I see myself as nothing more than a weapon with a human shell,
it shames me to admit I survived back then.
A human weapon has come to know shame.
But that will be dust on the wind.
I will cleanse the stain off my name
by taking Nehushtan back!
Oh, really?
Give it your best shot.
What?
Shadow Weaving
How dare you stop me?!
Are you planning to...
Let's finish this while the moon is out.
Are you going to sing your swan song?
Tsubasa!
I will show you the extent of my determination!
Burn it into your memory!
Tsubasa... will sing, won't she?
I won't let you do whatever you want!
Tsubasa!
Are you all right, Tsubasa?!
I failed to do what it takes to protect mankind.
I failed
to make a difference as a weapon.
Tsubasa!
We managed to save her life with great difficulty.
She needs rest until her condition stabilizes.
This is crucial.
As you say.
We have to trace the armor after she escaped.
Do whatever you must!
This isn't your burden to bear.
She chose to sing on her own.
Mr. Ogawa...
As I believe you are well aware, Tsubasa was in a duo before.
Zwei Wing, right?
Her partner was Amo Kanade,
bearer of the Gungnir Symphogear,
whose fragments are still burrowed in your chest.
Two years ago,
so that devastation from the Noise attack on their show would be minimal,
Kanade sang her swan song.
Swan song?
Tsubasa used that term too.
The swan song amplifies the power of the Symphogear beyond its contraints
without regard to the effect it may have on the user.
The Noise were annihilated, but Kanade's life was burnt away with them.
Did she do it to save me?
Kanade died and Zwei Wing was broken up.
Tsubasa was left alone, and to sweep away the gloom Kanade's death left in her heart,
she fought with savage fury.
She lost a friend who was her own age, and to drive away the sorrow,
she lived as a mindless sword with no heed for love or games.
And today, prepared to fulfill her duty as a sword,
she sang fully expecting to die for it.
It's awkward, isn't it?
But that's Kazanari Tsubasa's way of life.
That's such a cruel fate.
It must have hurt to hear me want to fight with her.
How could I ever replace Kanade...
I don't believe you could or should replace Kanade.
I don't believe so. No one believes so.
I have only one thing to ask of you, Hibiki.
Don't hate Tsubasa.
Let her feel that there are others in the world.
I will.
One wing is enough to fly!
I'll show you I can climb to any height!
Just smile! Please, Kanade!
Replace... Kanade...?
What worries me is that the girl in the Nehushtan armor was targeting Hibiki.
Whatever we are to make of that.
Obvious.
If she knows about her, she must know about the second branch as well.
So she has an informant?
What does this mean?
It's my fault.
It's all my fault.
Two years ago was my fault, and now this is my fault.
She's in intensive care because I was uselessly weak.
Symphogear might hold great power,
but I'm not enough to wield it.
Tsubasa cried...
She didn't hang on out of strength.
She held on against her own sadness as well.
She shed more tears of determination and despair than anyone else.
All she tried to be was a model sword.
She was alone all the time...
I have people I want to protect!
Therefore—
Hibiki!
Miku?
You've gone on a solitary streak lately.
Really? Are you sure about that?
I'm no good on my own.
Remember that I only enrolled here because you were going to?
You know, isn't the tuition surprisingly cheap around here?
I thought I wouldn't have to sponge off my mom and my granny as much!
I can't hide it from you, can I?
Don't put yourself through this, Hibiki.
Please give me some breathing room, though.
I have to think this through alone.
Okay.
Thanks, Miku.
You know, Hibiki...
Whatever you decide to do next, be sure to remain true to yourself.
Remain true to myself?
Yeah.
You don't have to change.
Just go on being yourself.
I will support you.
You're irreplaceable, you know.
I don't want you gone.
Is it okay for me to remain true to myself?
You shouldn't try be someone you aren't!
I have people I want to protect!
Therefore—
Thank you, Miku.
I feel I can take steps forward as I am.
Oh, right.
Want to watch the Lyra meteor shower?
I've got a video of it.
It's all black.
Yeah, it was night and all.
No way!
Oh man, I can't stop crying.
Let's make sure we both see it next time.
A promise it is, okay?
Let's make this one a promise for real.
I have people to protect as well!
It might be just a tiny promise or my bland everyday life,
but I want to become stronger to protect them and still be myself!
Master!
What is it?
Kazanari
Please teach me how to fight!
Me? Teach you?
Exactly!
I figured you know some amazing martial arts!
Soon I won't be able to gaze at it anymore
I want to burn it into my memory
My training is rather harsh.
your laughter like a sunrise
That's okay!
By the way, Hibiki, are you into action movies?
Can I walk some more with you?
What?
Is the future I believe in an illusion?
Tachibana
I'm sure my wishes will be granted
I'm sure they won't simply vanish
I won't be afraid to fight
And even my experiences of injustice
will be full of love
Let us try the dreams we hold out
We have no time to shed tears
so because we have things we need to protect
our mortal lives make contact with war
My heartbeat will usher in a new age
Hey, Miku, show me that meteor shower video again!
But there's nothing there.
You're a weirdo, Hibiki.
You're the bigger weirdo for calling me out.
Listen, Hibiki.
What?
It was hard to keep that video a secret.
I don't want to hide anything from you, of all people.
I wouldn't hide...
anything from you either.
The Swan
Songs
of the
Valkyries
To be
continued