Now, a miracle is about to be created upon this planet.
Did you sleep well?
So where are we now?
We just left Ashiya, so we should get into Sannomiya soon.
Yeah?
Sorry for making you leave your bike.
It’s all right.
I’ll get my dad to buy me a new one.
Hey. That’s not right.
The break in the oil is the break in the bonds.
All bonds will eventually break.
That’s how…
“That’s how everything revolves.”
Hey, hey.
That old man on the mountain get to you?
Huh?
Come to think of it…
…we were with him for four days, but we didn’t even get his name.
“A name shall have nothing to do with how things stand.”
I think the old man got to you, too.
Earth Maiden Arjuna
Episode 5: The Small Voices
What’s that smell?
How is the city?
Can you bear the way you are now?
What’s that Chris snooping around for?
Let’s go.
Where’re you going, Tokio?
Can’t go home yet.
I haven’t been in touch with home for almost a week, you know.
Juna?
I knew it was Juna! And Tokio, too!
Sayuri?
Commander Onizuka.
It’s you.
This must be water from Okusaga.
Don’t you think water containing chlorine and nitrogen oxide…
…would be too inelegant?
About the information on that infectious disease…
…which causes total paralysis.
Apparently, the Australian Branch of S.E.E.D. leaked it intentionally.
Do you think it’s related to genetically modified foods?
It appears to be a new type of virulent intestinal bacteria…
…similar to the Botulinus toxin.
Nothing else is known.
Already in Kobe, Osaka and Gifu…
…there have been outbreaks in various cities in western Japan.
That TI-2 girl…
Juna, was it?
Can we use her?
She hasn’t completely awakened yet.
I see.
That means we can only count on Chris, the TI-1.
Look, if you don’t eat, we’ll have to hook you up to the IV.
Please, Chris.
What’s so funny?
Well…
…there’s another one who’s having difficulty eating.
Here goes!
I swear I dreamed of this taste.
You going to eat that?
Huh?
I was thinking about something the old man was saying.
That this is going to become a part of me.
No, no…
If you start thinking like that…
…you won’t be able to eat anything in the city.
Sorry. I got tied up with something.
Sorry to keep you waiting.
There.
You found something cool.
Where’d you find it? Moto-Koh?
Oh! Th-This?
Well…
Hey, what happened to your glasses?
Look a little different, huh?
I have to buy another pair because I need a new prescription.
You look better without glasses.
You think?!
I’m happy even if that’s a lie!
It’s true! It’s true! It’s great!
What is this?
What is this?!
Mr. Tanabe, the vice principal, asked me about you.
But I said it’s between you guys, after all…
Oh, don’t worry.
I didn’t tell him anything weird.
So it’s become a rumor, huh?
That’s not really true.
But where did you two go, anyway?
Just a little trip.
To help work in the fields.
Yeah, right!
I can’t imagine you doing any physical labor.
You’re some rich boy from Tokyo, after all.
– Is it true? – It’s true.
– I swear it’s true. – Liar.
– It’s a lie.
How is the city?
Can you bear the way you are now?
I got my hands all dirty and I worked hard.
Yeah, yeah. I’ll go along with your story.
Oh, right!
The goodwill match against 3rd High was amazing!
That girl who came in second at the Inter High games…
…you should’ve seen her archery.
It’s like she casts her soul onto the target.
Even coach was saying that…
…that’s the kind of talent you see only once in 20 years.
Juna?
What’s the matter?
Juna. Hey, Juna?
Hey, are you not feeling well?
What’s the matter?
You all right?
Hang on a second.
What are you sulking about?
I’m not sulking.
Yeah, but…
What could I have done?
People would’ve thought you were in mourning or something.
So…
I don’t really understand you anymore.
Here I thought you ran away and eloped with Tokio…
…but you two are just an awkward couple who haven’t even kissed.
I just want you two to get along. You understand?
You too, Oshima.
The pavement feels like it’s moving…
Oshima?!
Tokio!
Mom! Mom! Open the door!
Juna?
Is that Juna?
Juna! Where have you been? I’ve been worried sick!
I’m sorry, Mom.
Could you please call an ambulance?!
Oshima’s very sick!
Yes. That’s right.
The name is Ariyoshi.
Yes, please hurry up.
So, rather than simply vomiting, he’s having convulsions…
…and his respiration is also unsteady?
That’s right. He’s suffering so much.
I understand.
I’ll be sending an ambulance there right away.
And do as the ambulance medics tell you.
Don’t worry, Tokio.
The ambulance will be here right away.
Oshima! Drink this!
Come on. Open up.
Open your mouth!
Now, just take it easy.
Just take it easy.
Right.
What’s the matter?
You just took the medicine!
Tokio!
Tokio.
What?!
Juna!
Earth Maiden Arjuna
Kaine, where are you right now?
Kaine! Your sister’s in trouble!
Huh? You’re going for a drive with your friends?
What are you talking about?
– Juna’s your sister! – Does he really have to be isolated?
Now, come on!
– We must prevent it from spreading. – Just come here!
We must take emergency precautions.
TI-2. Confirming bio field reaction.
Bio field sensor calibrated.
TI-2 response.
Traveling from the duodenum to the small intestine.
Until we can determine the toxic substance or virus…
…do not administer any antibiotics to the boy.
If there is any resistance to the medicine…
…we won’t be able to deal with it.
Oops. Big trouble.
There’s a micro Raaja response within the body of TI-2, too.
The Raaja’s spread to Juna, I mean, to TI-2 as well?!
If it gets worse and she were to die for us…
…we’ll have a chance to track down where the TI Spirit Body…
…will end up after the body dies.
TI-2 has arrived in the patient’s large intestine.
What?
Don’t tell me I’m in Tokio’s body!
The beneficial bifidobacteria and enterococcus…
…and the bad clostridium perfringens and E. coli…
…all of the growth in bacterial flora has fallen.
His immunity has decreased to about 10 percent of normal.
Because his normal intestinal bacteria has been weakened…
…it must have allowed in the Bacterio Raaja.
Lymph has been secreted from the walls of the large intestine.
Bacterio Raaja from the bacteria…
…and the lymph secretion.
It’s causing a disturbance in the intestine.
Raaja response has spread to the rectum.
Patient’s respiratory capability now affected.
He can’t take much more.
Medical section.
Administer antibiotics to the patient.
No use!
After analysis of the patient’s lymph gland…
…there’re an analgesic drug, insecticide…
…preservative compounds…
…and there’s also livestock growth hormones.
And…
Antibodies used in meat…
Chemicals or food additives seem to be having a negative effect.
It’s getting him from all sides!
Damn you!
You fool.
No, Chris.
You’ll die if you go in such a weak state!
There’s another TI Spirit Body response in addition to the TI-2.
It’s Chris.
Why do you fight?
Chris!
Why?! The Raaja’s here!
If I don’t fight it, Tokio’s going to die!
What did you learn up in the mountain?
What?
What does this have to do with the mountain?!
You must sense its true form.
On your own.
Huh?
Let’s go.
TI-1 and TI-2 responses have moved to the body of TI-2.
What?!
You don’t seem to know anything about what’s in your own body.
What? We’re in my stomach?
It’s gross.
Is it dirty? Is it gross?
Can you not even accept your own body?
Even your own body…
Try to remember.
The mountain showed its true face to you.
How about those fields?
Mountain? Fields?
Try to remember.
The sacred mountain…
…and the fields brimming with the life of insects and grasses.
The true nature of all those tiny life forms.
The insects and weeds…
…are not the enemy.
They all have roles to play.
Is the stomach the same as the land?
That TI-2 girl is pretty impressive.
The amount of intestinal bacteria she has is no small quantity.
Her experience on the mountain…
…must have increased the amount of bacteria in her body…
…which had the effect of suppressing the Raaja in her.
– It’s coming. – Huh?
The Raaja?!
That’s right.
It’s spread to you as well.
Me, too?
It’s my own body…
…but I didn’t even realize it.
And so…
…what do you intend on doing?
What are you going to do?
Two more victims of the infection in the Tohoku area.
We’ve stopped the water supply…
What now…?
Mrs. Ariyoshi?
She finally came home, after all.
I thought I’d make her her favorite kushikatsu.
What do you mean?
You must be hungry, too.
You’ve got to get a hold of yourself.
If something were to happen to that girl…
…what am I going to say to her dearly departed grandmother?
My grandmother once told me that…
…when you’re really ill…
…drink a potion made from your umbilical cord.
HQ!
I heard that.
Well? What do you think?
I’m doing it.
This might actually work.
Hormone from the umbilical cord.
An enzyme from when the body was a fetus.
Well, the umbilical cord is like a storehouse of bacteria.
It might be able to hold off the Raaja for a while.
Huh? It just moved.
Hey, Kaine.
Can you hear me?
Oh, come on, dear. She’s not even born yet.
We figured out a name for her.
We might as well start using it.
This isn’t Juna’s.
It’s Kaine’s.
Kaine, come on out soon.
Once you’re born…
…we’ll go from just being a couple to becoming a family.
It’s warm.
A warm light.
A light I felt a long, long time ago.
Mom…
What happened? What is this?
This is the sound one hears when still in the mother’s womb.
The memory of the fetus in the sea of the womb.
Detecting Earth Sympathy Reaction.
No enemies, no friends…
You tiny creatures so bonded together…
…come together and now show that you are alive.
The beneficial bacteria within TI-2 is growing dramatically.
It’s growing at an unbelievable rate!
No way…
Even with the umbilical cord, how could it work so quickly?
No.
This is probably her brainwaves.
No, her spirit.
The Raaja responses are disappearing.
Her spirit moved the lives of the small creatures.
What?
TI-2 is doing something very strange.
What do you mean?
Juna?
What’s going on?
Tokio…
Huh?
The patient’s brainwaves have synchronized with that of TI-2.
That’s incredible.
Even the intestinal bacteria within the boy is growing.
Chris…
Juna… Juna…
Juna!
You really worried me…
Mom…
Don’t go anywhere anymore.
I beg you.
I’m sorry. I made you worry.
Tokio?
What about Tokio?
They say Tokio’s gotten over the worst of it.
There’s nothing to worry about.
What?
The doctor said that he’ll be fine once he rests up for a while.
Thank goodness.
And it was so nice of Sayuri to stay here the whole time.
That girl is so considerate.
Sayuri…
Juna? Are you all right?
Mom, my stomach…
Is it hurting again?
I’m hungry.
You just wait there.
I’ll make you some rice porridge.
Earth Maiden Arjuna
Yesterday’s rains came Kinou no ame wa higashi no machi ni
Bringing cold stars to the east city Tsumetai hoshi wo furaseta
Quietly and sadly Kanashii kimi wa hitori de shizuka ni
You hum my favorite song Atashi no daisuki na uta wo kuchizusamu
I have to go, or no one will save Ikanakucha fukai kurayami ni
The boy who wandered Mayoikonda kare wo
Into the deep darkness Daremo tasukete kurenai
With love alone, I will go Atashi nara itoshisa dake de
No matter where you are Donna basho e demo
I will go running straight to you Mayowanai de hashitte yukeru
So, in a loud voice Dakara ooki na koe de
Call out my name again and again Nandomo atashi no namae wo yonde
Epilogue
I wonder if human beings, like the soil in a field…
…don’t get eaten up by bugs or sick if they’re healthy.
It’s not like that, Juna.
Huh?
I mean, look at it.
Even the old man’s garden was full of bugs.
Yeah, but…
Yes, there are a lot.
A lot of bugs.
But…
…because there are all kinds of grasses and plants growing…
…there’re many different kinds of bugs.
If there are insects that eat vegetables…
…there are other insects that eat those insects.
And if there are insects that will eat the remains of those insects…
…there are other insects that will bury the waste into the soil.
So…
…even if there are a lot of bugs…
…vegetables and rice can grow?
Then, why?
Why doesn’t everybody do like you do at your place?
You don’t have to till the soil…
…and you don’t have to give it fertilizer.
If you don’t have to do anything with it, it sure seems easier.
You’re right.
But people have a hard time getting out of a habit…
…they’re used to.
People fear doing something out of the ordinary…
…and have it not turn out right.
But the crops here are turning out well.
Well…
…you can’t say that you don’t have to do anything.
When the rice plants and vegetables are still young…
…we need to take away the grasses and weeds around them a little.
Even when I started here, everything would get…
…eaten up by insects. It was quite tough.
Huh?
Even at your place?
The land has been quite weakened.
It might take a lot of years before the grasses and the insects…
…can make the soil healthy again.
They make the soil healthy themselves?
They’re so cute.
Even in the same spot…
…the weeds and grasses that grow every year are of different types…
…and the characteristics of the soil change along with it.
It gets soft and puffy.
Puffy and warm…
But who can wait years for that to happen?
On top of that, all the vegetables here…
…are of different shapes and sizes.
You couldn’t sell them at markets or convenience stores.
Oh, so they won’t sell in the end, huh?
No wonder nobody wants to go to the trouble.
They’re all different shapes and sizes probably for a reason.
Huh? Really?
It’s just the hobby of an old man.
Even so…
…this old man’s hobby can still…
…easily come up with enough food to feed ten or twenty people.
Yeah, well. That’s not good enough.
I mean, there’re over six billion people on Earth now.
Being able to feed ten or twenty people isn’t even a drop in the bucket.
It’s true.
That’s just an old man’s hobby.
Hey, Tokio.
Hm? What?
Yeah, but…
…that means if only one person in ten does it as a hobby…
…everybody can be fed, right?
Only one in ten…?
Episode 6: The First One