That was ''resonance.''
I'll teach you about it.
You're my enemy...
and it's time you reveal yourself...
because my left arm commands it!
Don't be ridiculous!
Like my arm could ever be like yours!
Katsumi...
Bastard... Who are you?!
The battlefield took my name, along with both my arms... See?
The name is ''Claw,'' if you please.
Shingu Hayato...
Already you have eliminated five of my allies.
I shall thank you for that in time.
For now, however...
I shall deal with your kin, Takatsuki Ryo!
''Kin''...?!
Oh, dear... Didn't you know?
He is an ''ARMS,'' just like yourself.
A child who possesses the arm of a god.
Oughtn't you have known that from the sympathetic vibrations...?
I've got no idea what it is you're talking about...
but you let Katsumi go, right now!
If you'll promise to be a very, very good boy...
I promise not to kill you...and I may even release the girl!
maybe.
I can put up with a lot, but...
That's it! I've had enough!!
If that's how you want it...
that's what you'll get!
Katsumi...!
Why're you...?
Well?! Pull your thumbs from your asses and go!
I got you both into this, so...
you just leave him to me!
Go on, get out of here!
Katsumi... You go on ahead.
I gotta go back and help him.
Are you insane ?!
I don't care how good you are, you're no match for that monster!
Those claws...you saw them, right?
They're weapons, meant to kill!
He's not like you and me!
It's like he's from a totally different planet or something!
Ryo? Did you hear me?
We've gotta get out of here, call the police--
I think it's too late for that.
See for yourself.
See what?
They look like regular cops, but they're not.
Look again, more closely.
What's going on here?
Looks like the building's surrounded.
What is all this...?
Poor little fellow...
Your friends up and running like that.
Not that it matters, of course; either way, there's no escape.
You shut up!
It's a fine thing, to be young and reckless.
Although...
one mustn't discount age and experience.
Hard to believe you're the same Shingu Hayato...
who's got the place running scared, from top to bottom.
Not that this isn't interesting...
But I did say you might get hurt.
Takatsuki...
This time, it's me you're facing.
I'm ready whenever you are.
You little pissant--!
I thought he'd ran away, but he'd come back to help his friend.
Wait...
I don't understand.
How could that kid think to trap me with such a thing...
without even activating ''ARMS''...?
This isn't a nightmare, is it.
It's really happening, isn't it.
And you, look how calm you are.
With everything that's happening, you stay calm and in control.
But me...
Me, I'm totally useless.
I don't know about that. It's just...
My dad used to say, ''Take your time; look around; think it through.
''The minute you lose control...
''the situation controls you.''
Like this. Who'd have thought there was a bow and arrow in there, huh?
It's like he knew all along, someday I'd need to know that kinda stuff.
Katsumi! Quick, move away!
Take this--!
You've mocked me for the last time.
You insist on attacking me with toys, instead of activating ''ARMS.''
But this is where it all ends.
You've tried my patience to its limit.
If I had my way, I'd rip you to shreds with these claws right now...
but, I cannot.
Katsumi!
I'm under orders to capture you ''ARMS'' alive.
Therefore...
my anger must find another outlet.
Damn you.
What shall I do...?
Tell me, Takatsuki Ryo!
Perhaps I know already.
''Hero'' types like yourself, you're good at hiding your own pain...
but when it comes to the pain of others...
The scar I shall leave with this girl...
will remain for the rest of her life.
Takatsuki Ryo...
Blame yourself.
A dream...
Don't do it...!!
What is this...?!
Katsumi...
Our reality... Where has it gone?!
Come back...
Come ba-a-a-ck...!!
So even if you do activate ''ARMS,'' you're unable to control it!
And you're in the most elementary stage of it, too!
What're you talking about?!
Never you mind.
Once you're captured and that chip inside you is removed...
you'll be of no more use to we Egrigori.
Damn you...
Damn you for laughing.
My hand... It's acting on its own!
It can't!
It's too early, there can't be this much power!
Stop...
Stop it...
Stop it now!
Please, make it stop!!
Ryo...
Ryo!
You're okay!
Your face, it looks...terrible.
So you've finally gotten around to switching on your ''ARMS,'' huh?
And what a mess you made, too.
Way more than me and my first time.
I know how you feel.
When my ''ARMS'' first activated...
I felt no longer human.
But, it's the real deal.
And the thing about the real deal is, you got nothin' to do but deal with it.
Struggle all you like...
but, in the end, we Egrigori will claim you.
You're...not dead.
On the battlefield, I've escaped far worse situations than this.
I don't die that easily.
But when I'm done, you'll--
Cut it out!!
Don't kill him.
But, hey...
Didn't he just try to do us?
Two smooth-faced boys, suckled on the teats of peace and prosperity...
What can you know of the violence that pursues you even now?
Aside from you, there are two more ''ARMS''...
making four in all.
Four of us?!
Find the other ''ARMS'' before we do and learn to fight together.
Otherwise, you've no chance at all.
Assuming you can get out of here, of course.
It can't be helped...
We'll have to fight our way out.
Don't be stupid!
Why are you so bloodthirsty all the time...?
Fine, what do you suggest?!
I don't know. But give me a minute to think, and I will.
You've made a mess, all right.
Still, though, I can hardly believe...
that some ''Egrigori'' tried to kidnap you, never mind that your right arm...
did all this. I mean, come on.
That detective.
He didn't believe a word of it, did he.
Why would he?
We were there, and we hardly believe it.
We told them everything we know, right?
We have to leave it to them now. The police will--
...will do squat, if you ask me.
Hayato...
And don't I know it, too.
You said your family and friends were murdered.
Any connection?
Abumisawa, the place I was born. All of it, destroyed by the Egrigori.
A ''forest fire'' is what the police and the media decided to call it...
and of course, no matter how hard I tried, no one would listen otherwise.
What are they, these ''Egrigori.''
I'm not sure myself. What they're after, who they are...
All I know is, I will never forget...
what they did on that day.
Not even ten years ago, it was.
It was terrible.
Hayato! Hayato, over here.
Don't you worry.
You stay in your hiding place.
You listen to me. You are my one and only son.
I'll protect you, no matter what.
You godless bastard...
KEITH!!
''Keith.''
Like I could ever forget that name.
What happened next, I've no idea.
When I came out of it, I was with Grandfather. Only...
the arm he'd cut off, it was back.
It had been reborn, as ''ARMS.''
Grandfather knew nothing about the Egrigori, or about Keith.
He did know a lot about my left arm, though.
Like how to control it.
What it could do.
That it was made of tiny robots, smaller than any cell in your body.
In other words, a collection of nanomachines.
''Nanomachines.''
Exactly. And when you meet someone who's got them...
they ''go off'' like a resonance.
You can always tell.
That's how I'll find Keith!
And what of the other ''ARMS,'' our potential allies...?
The ones Claw talked about, when he said there were four ''ARMS''...?
I'll do it.
Maybe if we find them, they'll help.
Like I give a rat's ass if they help us or not. I'll fight alone, as always.
Nobody's buying it, man.
Excuseme?!
You're the one who started all this. Now it's my turn to lead.
I don't know much...
but I do know one thing:
You and me, we're already comrades in ''ARMS.''