Futakoi Alternative
Run at once towards a dream.
Let's laugh and break though the troubled yesterday.
Even when our memories are hurt,
directly face your wounds with pride.
I can feel it in the wind.
The hot beat is shining,
especially now...
surely, always, you'll be by my side.
Keep on running the way to the future.
More and more, no matter what happens,
half our tears become double smiles
forever.
October 25th, 1945.
Translator's note: GHQ = General Headquarters of the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers. Zaibatsu = Japanese financial cartel.
The GHQ's Supreme Commander of the allied forces, MacArthur, ordered the Japanese Zaibatsu to be dismantled.
And, to enforce restrictions on production, he ordered all concerned parties to report the details of their businesses.
There was a GHQ memorandum concerning the top financial institutions and manufacturers.
It was the so-called "dismantlement of the Zaibatsu."
However, the leaders of the Zaibatsu hid their assets underground and created a top secret research facility.
It was named the Wadatsumi Facility.
Backed by abundant capital, it controlled both politics and the economy from the shadows during the postwar period,
and continued its forbidden research.
That research was called the "Ikaros Project."
Any outsiders who knew of its existence lost their lives.
The Ikaros Project was surrounded by murder and conspiracy.
Secret postwar records indicate heretical research, including experiments on living people.
It was an ingenious program to manipulate the psyche of the general public,
and its ultimate result was the combination of human and squid DNA - an evil new humanoid.
It was the birth of Ika Fire.
IKA!
The shopping district!
Rentarou!!
Damn! That squid!
EPISODE 11 - BURNING NIKOTAMAGAWA
To all those who are watching on TV!
This is not a movie!
This... is not a movie!
I won't let ya do whatever ya want!!
Yoohoo...
You bastard!!
I've come to kick the crap out of ya!
There! There! There!
There, there, there, there, there!!!
Ika... What did you do?
Does it hurt? Is it painful?
You can't hit me!
COME ON!
I'm gonna whoop you all the way back to Saga Prefecture Naruko Town!
[Saga Prefecture Naruko Town!]
[Specialty Products] [Squid and Wood Dolls]
Take this puh-lease!
He...
He did it!
Its bark is worse than its bite.
No...
...way!
Geez, you just went and overdid it.
And now...
Se-Senpai!
Whoops.
Another spirited blockhead.
But I'm more interested in that guy over there.
It's not that I have any grudge against you personally,
but I've got a beef with you father.
I won't kill you right away.
I'll burn everything that is important to you.
The office, the bath house person, then the meat shop lady,
then the ladies and gent working in the shopping district, and finally...
...the girl.
Squid... The squid's gone!
Calling all squads.
The squid is heading in the direction of the city.
Those forming the barrier should enter high alert status.
H-Hey! Rentarou!
That squid... Soujyu... and all the people of the shopping street...
Give it up!
He's not an opponent that we can just take on, even with our best efforts.
Even if you don't go, no one will speak badly of you.
Err, no... They won't be albe to.
Soujyu will...
That squid bastard... He's gonna... Soujyu...
It's impossible!
What can you do against a monster that can't be hurt with guns or bombs?!
It's not something where you can just do your best and expect it to be fine!
It's impossible! Just forget it...
I've already let something precious slip away once.
There's no way I can let the same thing happen again.
Rentarou!
A man who doesn't measure up will use violence to lash out at things when opportunity arises.
You'll take responsibility and protect her?
How are you going to do that?
How long are you going to continue what you're going?
Ten years? Twenty years? Until something tangible happens?
The savings accounts?
The insurance?
I don't have any.
But hey...
Are you really living to the fullest?
I am!
The creature that we had believed to be destroyed is flying eastward.
We are currently showing you the site where the fight between the squid and the police took place.
The police force has been annihilated.
Trashed police bikes are scattered all over the place.
Ah, there's one policeman!
We'll get staff onsite who can confirm all this.
Studio! Studio!
I'm reporting from the Nikotama main highway.
There's movement!
It seems like that police bike is chasing after the squid!
It's a... civilian...
It's a civilian!
He's currently recklessly pursuing the squid!
I-Isn't that Nidaime?
Nidaime?
The man on the police bike has taken out a mobile phone.
Who is he trying to call?
Rentarou!
Soujyu? It's me!
Are you all right?
Y-Yes.
Thank goodness.
I'm watching you on the television right now.
This is way too dangerous.
Please stop.
Come back. If you were to disappear, I...
I... don't want to be all alone.
I'm scared, Rentarou.
Let's go somewhere together... We'll have fun with just the two of us... Okay?
Just... please come back.
We're not two.
What?
We're not two, are we?
We are three!
If we aren't three, then it's no good!
Isn't that right? Isn't that right, Soujyu?
Yes.
So, believe in me and wait for me!
Yes!
Let's go to the bath house,
take a stroll,
wait for a phone call that will never come,
and chase after a UFO!
Yeah.
Found ya!
Run all you want.
Don't underestimate me!
The squid is approaching you.
The plan is to fire at will.
Fire at will once the squid reaches the barricade.
It's coming!
I'll take care of you.
The Wrath of Nature!
DAAAAAAAMN!
Go! Go! Ika Fire!
You won't get away!
The man on the police bike!
The man on the police bike has gone past the barricade and is chasing after the squid!
Rentarou...
You're trying hard...
It's finally getting interesting.
If you're able to overtake me, then I'll eat peanuts through my nose.
The same move again?
Same pattern again?!
Really? Then...
What about peptide glucan?
Peptide glucan (immunoreactive reactant)
Bringing you healthy days...
I'll vaporize you!
The squid has taken down the youth on the bike.
All that's left on the surface now is a sea of flames.
Will no one be able to stop that squid?
That brat...
It's all just a sea of flames everywhere on the surface.
Show us Nidaime! Nidaime!
Emergency countermeasures.
Just now, at the parliament, they've started the ninth countermeasure.
In addition, an order has been given to douse the fires 100 kilometres around the direction the squid's attack.
This is terrible.
He's not here.
Over there?
I can't see him either.
I see.
There!
Thank goodness! Nidaime is alive!
Nidaime!
Are you all right?
Let's go to the hospital, quickly...
It's enough, Nidaime.
You did well.
Not yet.
Forward... I need to move forward...
Why are you pushing yourself like that?
They aren't showing Nidaime.
Just what happened?
Nidaime...
He might have died...
What are you saying?
She's worried...
You might be scared to find out about Nidaime's well-being, but...
What about calling him?
I believe...
I believe that he's definitely coming back.
He'll defeat the squid, and come back.
And then we'll three again, with Sara-chan...
That's why I'll wait.
I'll believe, and wait!
Nidaime!
Let's come from behind, like in baseball.
It's a good time to show that you're a man.
Let's go, Kinoshita!
Freakin' yeah!
The squid's attacking like cannon.
He's firing like cannon!
We are outside of his range. Will things be okay at this rate?
You're depressing!
Now let's go to that guy's woman.
Ah, run away, run away, run away!!
The legendary head biker!
A one night carnival!
We saw you on TV!
We're come to back you up!
Everyone! Let's make it hot!
Yeah!
16 years old
The 16-year-old me.
The excessively self-conscious and totally conceited me.
W-W-What?
Senpai! Win this thing!
Yeah!
Rentarou!
Go!
Nidaime, GO!
Darnit!
I hate my old self.
I hate the me from before, who ran away from my old self.
The hesitating me, the me who thought he knew everything -- I hate them both.
But despite them, there's a me that I love.
I love the me who was together with Sara and Soujyu.
I love the me who honestly thinks that...
the three of us doing detective work, the three of us eating meals, the three of us dozing off...
that the whole of our time together was invaluable.
Rentarou.
Soujyu...
Rentarou.
Sara!
Rentarou.
Rentarou!
Yes.
Yes. Understood.
Right.
It's all right.
Yes.
Rentarou, it was a customer.
Right.
Soujyu, I'm thirsty.
Shall I make some fresh juice?
Some warm coffee would be good.
With lots of sugar in it.
Okay!
When I woke up, I was in bed at the hospital.
That squid bastard spat out a bunch of ink and vanished from the scene.
Is it because it lost the match fair and square?
Or, did it not find a way to eat peanuts through its nose?
In the end, not only was squid unharmed...
but I also these wounds... was there any point?
I also thought that way for a while.
Geez.
What meaningless wounds.
October 25th, 1945.
The GHQ's Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, MacArthur,
dismantled the Japanese Zaibatsu.
And to enforce restrictions on production, he ordered all concerned parties to report the details of their businesses.
There was a GHQ memorandum concerning the top baking institutions and manufacturers.
It was the so-called "dismantlement of the Zaibatsu."
We'll come soon, Sara-chan.
Ika Fire is the military weapon that the Wadatsumi Facility developed.
Ika Fire?
That bastard squid you were fighting against.
A-ah, I see...
Even Kimihiko-sama and Sara-sama's wedding,
was somehow brought about by the power of Wadatsumi.
Wasn't it the will...
Kimihiko-sama believes that it was.
For the wedding ceremony, Kimihiko-sama and Sara-sama have journeyed to a distant country.
Why are you telling me this?
I wanted to become a baseball player.
But I am not a fool.
Such a dream just can't come true.
I thought about employment, bank accounts and pensions, and I gave up.
I can deal with it.
Do you think that my dream might still come true?
Of course,
if you pursue it with all you might.
The three that are made up of one man and two women living under one roof.
Society may have some things to say about that.
But you guys are a trio.
I will allow it.
Of course, me too!
I approve as well!
Me too.
Three people living together?
Well, I'd say that's fine.
Go Nidaime!
And bring her back!
Thank you very much.
HOLD ON!
You!
I did not run away frightened!
I had my hands full looking for a way to eat peanuts through my nose, that's enough of that!
I'll burn you to death right here!
Get with it!
Your turn is over already!
You're just bluffing, you pissant!
Do you think that you would defeat me, with my indestructible body...?
SAY WHAAATTT?!?!?!?!
Ta-da!
I heard that if you get with this, you won't be able to regenerate.
W-Why... Why do you have that...
I got it as a reward.
Kick his ass, Nidaime.
Well, this good, Ruru-chan.
It's good, Rara-chan.
Be sure to come back with Sara-chan!
When you come back, it'll be the three of you!
Nidaime! Nidaime! Nidaime! Nidaime!
Nidaime, do your best!
Destination... Germany!
Inside my memories,
there was a happy moment
within the light.
It overflowed in this place.
For example,3 years later,
would you be able
to remember our time?
Ah*c the days gone by
always wrench my heart.
Hey, more than before,
understand the feeling of love.
I won't say goodbye. Always from now on,
the days of no return
will leave your heart behind.
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