You're that old guy?
February 10th 07:30 Sakuradamon Grid Pillar of Heaven
The rescue of Her Highness Houko Hoshinomiya has the highest priority!
All units, advance!
Akihabara Grid Time until Yatsukahagi restarts:
About 21 Hours
Time until the Tall Wand is launched:
About 7 hours
Connected the bypass to block C21.
Readjusting the AOS5022 gear's rotational speed and increasing it...
by 1/15th of a second.
Acknowledged, readjustment complete.
Please connect the HT shaft to the deceleration gear.
Yes!
Hey, you seem busy.
Here, enjoy this kiss from your goddess to cheer you up.
Quit fooling around. Shut up, and come with me, kid.
Oh, going out?
The army is getting antsy, so we're going to go play with them a bit.
I'm sorry, but I'll need you to buy us as much time as possible.
Of course.
Naoto Miura.
Y-You mean me?
May I have a word?
Episode 11 Theory of Y
Are you wanting to retaliate against the giant weapon
because the automata dear to you were hurt?
Not quite.
I mean, they forced AnchoR to do something truly vile.
And on top of that, they hurt RyuZU.
I just want them to pay for that.
Then why did you assume the risk of overtaking the Pillar of Heaven?
Would it not have been quicker to simply purge the Akihabara Grid?
It seems to me that would've been the most efficient way to achieving your goals.
No, I mean the people who aren't behind that giant weapon have nothing to do with this.
I see.
I understand now.
I see that you truly cannot be trusted.
What? How did you arrive at that?
You are a very fair person.
RyuZU?
To be frank, I'm astonished.
I never expected to find
another human besides Master Naoto who wasn't completely blind.
I am honored to receive your praise.
Let me ask you this, young man.
Have you never felt like giving up on this world,
when it keeps obstructing the path of humanity?
Don't be so full of yourself, old man.
Why do you think you get to speak for all humanity?
We will never lose hope!
There was someone who stole away all the theories humanity had come up with.
That person then created this grotesque thing, this clockwork planet.
If he had been a god or demon, I could have accepted it.
I thought to myself that I could resign with the knowledge that there is obviously
no way for our mediocre people to go against a superior being.
Until I met that boy.
Gentlemen!
Thank you for your hard work thus far.
Now, you may rest.
Your Excellency! What is the meaning of this?!
We're—
Now I shall challenge you one more time,
you monster who pretends to be Y.
13:30 Sakuradamon Grid Pillar of Heaven
You shitheads! Go down!
And here come more.
Even if I'm peerless, I can't go on forever.
Kid, less talking, more fighting.
Easier said than done. I'm totally spent. I can't squeeze anything else out.
Princess, can you make something happen soon, please?
Thirty minutes until the Tall Wand is launched.
This is the home stretch, everyone!
Roger!
If I was able to do work like that, too...
Master Naoto?
You've gotta be kidding me.
This is like that time when...
What's wrong? We've almost completed the bypass to take full control.
Marie! Gather all the clouds to the south of here, right now!
Initiate weather control on the exterior of Floor 20, six o'clock!
Crap, we won't make it!
Everyone run!
Shit! What the hell's happening?!
They shot it.
What?
Can't you see? The main cannon of the thing that destroyed Akihabara!
No way! We were supposed to have another 15 hours!
I thought they were trying to stage a coup d'état!
If they destroy the Pillar of Heaven, they'll all go down with Tokyo, too!
How should I know?!
I never imagined they'd do that, either!
That was the appropriate countermeasure against a microwave maser cannon.
What's more,
you did that without even understanding the underlying principles behind it.
Right, Naoto Miura?
You're the old man from before?
I haven't introduced myself yet.
My name is Gennai Hirayama.
Naoto, who is this?
We met him in the deep underground before.
He's a recluse who thinks he's given up on the world.
I was never interested in a coup d'état.
What the hell?!
The bypass was disconnected?
With that one shot?
We have to get back to work right now!
We just received an emergency transmission from Karasawa.
They moved the launch time of the Tall Wand forward.
No way.
I don't intend to let this end easily, Y.
Y?
Stop me.
Taste the resolve of the commoners who crawl on the ground,
you monster.
Naoto, come on. Let's rearrange those gears.
See, we need to rework this part here one more ti—
Marie, do you even know what you're talking about?
How am I supposed to hear the sound of gears that have disappeared?
That thing diverted all energy to charge its main cannon,
so it was able to fire a lot faster than anticipated.
How long until it can shoot again?
It fired multiple times, so 72 minutes.
It won't be sooner than that.
Hey, Princess! Are you safe? What's going on over there?
And how long are we supposed to defend here?
These guys are pounding us hard from the front and the rear!
Meister Marie, do you remember Kyoto?
When everybody had given up, you were the only one who—
That's not true.
Since then, all I've done is rely on a miracle.
One called Naoto Miura.
Naoto, can't you destroy that weapon with AnchoR and RyuZU?
If that's our last resort, I'd rather Japan, or the entire world itself, go under.
But...
Father...
Please give me the order.
No, I'll never do that!
But at this rate...
I know. I get it!
I'll figure it out!
I'll come up with something...
I'm sorry, I can't obey that order.
AnchoR!
RyuZU, please go and bring her back immediately!
I cannot stop her once she's fully powered.
In that case, tell her this:
"Wait 70 minutes."
Give me until then to work something out!
Understood.
Miss Marie, may I say something?
You're right.
Huh?
Like Master Naoto.
And at the same time, you're wrong.
Right and wrong?
Please, use every bit of your insufficient brain. Excuse me.
Let's do this, Marie!
Do what?
There isn't anything we can do.
Then we'll just have to figure something out!
You can't hear the sound of the gears that have disappeared, right?
And yet you want to make something happen?
That sort of convenient miracle doesn't exist!
Yeah, I have no freaking clue what to do!
But you know what?!
You're different!
You're someone who never thinks something is impossible!
It seriously disgusts me, but you're a genius, aren't you?!
Wasn't it your talent that turned my random power into something useful all this time?!
You have all this knowledge and skill.
How can you so easily say that nothing can be done?!
If you're not going to use it, give it to me! Give me your talent!
Come on!
Talent? Did you say talent?
Why are you making that face?
To think that you're envious of my talent.
Stop! You idiot, you're breaking it!
Something's came out!
Everything that comes out of your mouth is nonsense!
Ah, jeez!
I'm done agonizing. It's over, done, thanks for playing!
First of all, why does someone as noble as I
have to rely on someone as stupid and perverted as him?
I'm so angry at myself and everything else!
You shit!
Everybody get on your knees before me!
On your knees!
You bitch!
Anyway, if Naoto had my skill,
or if I had Naoto's senses, we could construct a new bypass.
But the important parts and gears have disappeared.
We can do it. If it's Naoto and me!
Wait.
Please don't stop me, Sister.
I can't do anything but destroy.
You don't understand...
Why you were given the name AnchoR.
Why?
Believe in Master Naoto.
While you're at it, in Miss Marie, too.
Father and Mother?
First of all, your senses were telling the truth.
Which means that what's wrong is the original clocksmith technology itself.
Do you even know what you're saying there?
Yes.
We clocksmiths, the 1,000 years of research...
All of it was wrong.
Unbelievable.
You know the "answer."
The "answer"?
I, Marie Bell Breguet, am not going to give you a special lesson,
since no text book or blueprint can help you.
Analyze it in your head. That's it.
What?
You can hear the orchestra before the performance has even begun.
But once it does begin, you get disappointed at the terrible sound.
So you listen to each instrument one by one to locate the problem,
let it play again, until it's a different song.
What you're seeing is music and transitions.
In other words, flow.
You don't have to think about repairs or construction.
All you need to do is analyze and climb.
N-Now it's your turn to teach me!
I think you already understand.
Huh?
You can already do it.
Since you connected Halter's brain.
What are you talking about? I just knew the blueprint, so—
Really? You could do a modification you had never done before,
in such a short time, without thinking?
You can see it, Marie.
The result.
The future you're supposed to reel in.
No, that's not—
I see. You and I, we're opposites.
Opposites?
Naoto constructs the situation from the answer.
I arrive at the answer from the situation.
Tell me everything you heard at the Pillar of Heaven.
I'm going to decode everything, memorize it all, and make it my own!
Fine, but I'm not confident I can properly verbalize it.
Carefully listen to what I'm going to tell you now, then forget it.
Huh?
You don't have to memorize it, but don't forget it.
Listen to everything and to nothing.
Think without thinking.
Everything is right. Everything is wrong.
Contradictions make sense. Right is left.
Nothing exists, and everything exists.
You don't know, but you know.
You know, but you don't know.
You don't remember, but you remember.
Let's go.
Wait!
One last thing.
If clockwork is something that doesn't work if a single gear is missing...
...then how is this planet still working?!
Marie...
Marie?
All right, you're awake. Did you memorize it?
Huh, what?
All right, good. You memorized it.
Wait, I have no clue what you said at all.
You remember.
Marie, you said this, right?
Don't tell me you have all of the world's weapons' blueprints—
Yup, memorized. Of course I do.
If you didn't know, I'll tell you.
That's impossible.
Unless you're you.
It's fine. Believe.
I'll leave you behind if you don't come.
Who are you talking to?
Let's go!
Let's do it!
Here, everything is right, and everything is wrong.
Contradictions make sense, and right is left.
Nothing exists, and everything exists.
I am a genius, after all.
New gears are...
...being born!
See? There's no way that you can't do it if I can do it.
Of course!
I'm a genius who makes the impossible possible and the woman who's going to crush you!
Marie!
Listen to the carving sound of the coaxial!
The locking corner is worn, and it's not going deep enough!
I know!
I'll push in the HIM 0331 and... See? It made it!
Focus, Naoto!
You, too! Don't give up anymore!
You two...
I wonder how far they intend to go.
It's time.
I don't want this to get dirty or broken, so please hold on to it.
I shall keep it safe.
Mother's and my matching music box.
I'll be off, now.
AnchoR, promise to come back.
Announcing classification, Initial-Y series, Unit 4, "One who annihilates," AnchoR.
Differential ring number 13, initiate self-destruct sequence.
Beginning imaginary output through the Limitless Engine—
Perpetual Gear, materializing now.
Final maneuver, Steel Weight!
AnchoR recklessly attacks the giant weapon all by herself.
In order to save Akihabara and AnchoR,
the two geniuses Marie and Naoto continue to repair the destroyed Pillar of Heaven.
Will the gears of fate bring hope or despair?
Next time, "Steel Weight."
If I can't even destroy this thing, why did you make me?
Episode 12 Steel Weight