Kado.
Shindo-san!
For some reason, Yaha-kui zaShunina wants to meet you.
It may be due to some mental state he's acquired while being in this universe.
He will approach you defenseless, I'm sure,
with no awareness of the Fregonics generator
and Fregonics nullifier that you're wearing.
You just have to do it once.
Just take one hit from him,
and pierce his shields a single time.
And then...
I wonder if I'll be able to surprise him.
He left me down here to make zaShunina less cautious.
This is all an attempt to surprise him.
Shindo, what shall we talk about?
There are many things I want to talk about,
but the vital topics now are probably...
The universe and humanity...
The anisotropic and the anisotropic beings.
In other words, you and me.
Can we get through?
Satellite communications are totally offline.
Surface communications are gradually coming back online.
From Tokyo to Yamanashi, Shizuoka...
In other words, Kado's spread that far.
We'll turn to the government for orders.
As soon as they respond,
we'll start evacuating civilians and securing the area.
Yes, sir!
Can we really get out?
As of this moment, I am declaring a national state of disaster.
I request that the SDF roll out its disaster response teams.
Can we get in touch with Shindo Kojiro?
He's been missing for 17 minutes.
And we can't get a hold of Yaha-kui zaShunina, either.
I always thought that the "universe,"
the information cocoon, had incredibly few dimensions,
and was composed of a very small number of information units,
which in total would never match the anisotropic.
But humanity, a singularity,
created more information than the universe's processing power should allow.
So it was illogical, then?
What is it that makes humanity unique?
I had a theory regarding that.
This is a copy of you.
When created, it was completely identical to you, information-wise.
But this is not Shindo.
And...
This is a copy of me that I just made.
It is completely identical to me, information-wise,
and the exact same as me, or at least should be.
But this wasn't the same, either.
I thought to myself that this must be the nature of the singularity.
The power to assign different values to the exact same thing.
The power to give a thing that is only "one" information amounting to more than one.
That is the unprecedented power humanity has created.
And its source seems to be
you and me.
It comes from within us.
Gonno-san, what does the anisotropic being want to do with us?
If it was humanity's enemy all along,
then all the stuff we've reported...
Listen to me.
What's important isn't if it's good or bad.
There's only one thing we should be reporting.
The truth!
Start recording.
Record everything that's happening!
That is our right answer!
Shindo, will you come to the anisotropic and help me
learn more about this special power?
Even in this tiny universe, humanity has created incredible amounts of information.
So if humanity reaches the anisotropic,
how many miracles will they show me?
I'll make your anisotropic transformation successful!
I promise!
So, Shindo...
Come to the anisotropic with me!
I can't.
zaShunina, I can't go to the anisotropic.
Why?
I'm not saying that I don't like the anisotropic.
An unknown world...
A dimension beyond the universe.
As a human, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't interested.
But more than that...
I love this universe, and the world I was born in.
There are things here that are precious to me.
You are trying to sacrifice humanity and the universe to fill a void in yourself.
Even if that's what humanity was originally made for...
Even if the anisotropic beings were humanity's creators, I...
refuse to accept that!
Even if humanity doesn't want it,
I can achieve the anisotropic transformation by force.
You people can't stop me!
Shindo, I can...
take you to the anisotropic by force!
zaShunina!
You understand, don't you?
That what you're saying is the wrong answer.
Shindo...
You are you.
No one can replace you.
A singularity that possesses information beyond its calculation limits...
An irreplaceable individual.
Transforming you by force would be meaningless.
If I do that,
it will destroy your heart!
It will destroy the way of living that is Shindo Kojiro!
I don't want that!
zaShunina...
I understand now.
I can't take you to the anisotropic.
What will you do, then?
It's strange...
This conclusion came from within me, not the universe or the anisotropic.
You really have become like a human.
I will end you...
With my own hands.
Perfect.
I've been meaning to punch you myself.
Why?
Because you're being stupid.
So I'll stop you, even if it means I have to punch you.
Because you're
my friend.
Friend?
zaShunina!
How...
A Fregonics nullifier.
And a Fregonics generator.
Splendid.
Humanity's technology has come so far.
But they cannot function if their power source is broken.
The device is covered in Fregonics.
Even you shouldn't be able to alter it from the inside...
I can't.
To affect what's inside a Fregonics barrier,
one must first destroy it.
But if you were inside it from the start,
that isn't necessarily true.
Then...
I taught Shinawa Kanata how to make a new Wam.
These Wam are connected to hyperspace.
I predicted that, with her capabilities,
she would be able to make a device that nullified Fregonics.
And that you would use it.
All of it...
Yes, unfortunately, I was exactly right.
I'm sorry, Shindo.
I'm really sorry...
So am I.
I couldn't surprise you.
Shindo...
zaShunina.
No!
Kado.
The transformation will begin soon.
Humanity will reach the only answer,
the right answer,
when I send a single human to the anisotropic.
But, Shindo...
I'll be lonely.
Yaha-kui zaShunina.
Kojiro-san's plan just reached successful completion.
What are you talking about?
A car? Here?
Two things were required.
First, to make you think that all our plans had failed.
Don't you dare get between me and Shindo,
you lower dimensions!
And the other...
To give you more information than you've ever seen.
I see.
Shun-kun was exactly right about you.
That can't be...
We used the Nanomis-hein to alter relative time.
In a very specific area,
in this very short time,
sixteen years have passed.
Hey, zaShunina.
Shindo!
I'll introduce you.
This is Saraka-san's and my daughter.
She is the universe's new answer, one superior to both
humanity and the anisotropic.
Shindo Yukika.
Impossible!
A child born between humanity and an anisotropic being?
Well, zaShunina?
Was that enough to surprise you?
Shindo!
She's stopping it?
Without any Fregonics?
How?
You seem to be under a misapprehension.
Fregonics are not a perfect barrier.
Fregonics are simply a misunderstanding created when
the boundaries of the anisotropic and the universe are forcibly connected.
They appear because you're bad at manifesting in the universe.
So if one's understanding of the universe and anisotropic is complete,
there is no need for Fregonics.
Kado!
Impossible!
She can't be better at controlling the anisotropic than an anisotropic being!
I don't have time to come up with a better method.
I'll destroy the universe to get rid—
I am a singularity created by humanity and the anisotropic.
I am a higher-dimensional being than you.
But you know, I'm not the ending.
Yaha-kui zaShunina,
do you know what it means to advance?
It's to think of yourself as being on the way to somewhere else.
Somewhere else...
Yes.
Humanity, the anisotropic,
me, and you...
We're all on the way to somewhere.
So I'm on my way somewhere...
I'm just like you, aren't I, Shindo?
Shindo!
Farewell, Yaha-kui zaShunina.
Is that...
Kado is...
...disappearing?
Shindo-kun...
What happened?
Stay focused!
Our job hasn't changed.
Find out exactly what's going on,
and keep our citizens safe!
Shindo-san!
Yeah.
Yukika.
That's right, Dad.
Something that goes beyond information...
He wasn't that bad a guy.
Yukika
One Month Later
It's been exactly one month since the anisotropic being and Kado disappeared.
There has been no further contact from Yaha-kui zaShunina, the anisotropic being.
And with the disappearance of Kado,
all the Wam in the world have lost their power,
the sense of the anisotropic that was granted by the Sansa was lost,
and the Nanomis-hein suddenly disappeared.
The three treasures given to us by the anisotropic have been lost.
So everything the anisotropic gave us has been reset, huh?
Everyone...
Was it thanks to you?
I don't have that power anymore.
I had her do it all.
Amazing, right?
She's my daughter, you know!
She's Shindo-kun's daughter.
She's Shindo's daughter.
I raised her!
It was really, really hard!
She never listens to me!
And where is she?
Who knows?
"Who knows?"
She left before we really had a chance to talk.
Well, maybe telling her to stay here would have been unreasonable.
Because she, and we as her family,
are all on our way to somewhere.
However, not all was lost.
There is one great thing, the greatest thing,
that is left to us.
It is...
Anisotropic
the knowledge that the anisotropic exists.
We have learned of the higher-dimensional world known as the anisotropic,
Back Later
and of the frontier of advancement that stretches out before us.
So don't you think it's time that humanity went to see
Yaha-kui zaShunina on our own two legs?
Preparing to Open
That which goes beyond information...