Zone of the Enders
What do you want? You show me!
Shibireru youna, touchdown!
Don't! You can't beat me!
Kamisama datte, I don't know!
Asu no koto nado, no problem, atsui kodou wa, burning blood
Oh! Let's go, osoreru mono wa
No way! Get off my way!
Know where we are going?
Zone of the Enders
Danger! Craving for the danger! Saegiru subete
Give me! Give me more danger! Buchikowasu dake
Kurakura kuru hodo yabai toki demo ai to ikari de kattsuru o hirake!
Missy!
Yes!
Dad, what should I do?
The ship's controls aren't working any more!
One right after another. Only trouble keeps coming.
Noel, emergency repairs for the left engine!
I don't care if you do the rest later.
Okay!
Leon, don't worry about the width of the space too much.
Think only about heading for Mars.
Yeah.
As if we could die here?!
We're all going to Mars together!
. . .and so the Links family overcame the hardships one by one,
Lost in Space . . .and so the Links family overcame the hardships one by one,
in perfect unity and agreement as they headed towards Mars.
The end.
A household family . . .
Yes, yes, this Links family is starting to be like a family.
All that's left is you, Rachel.
Why in the world did you send that Missy to me?
Oh, is it time already?
"A family should have dinner together as often as possible."
Yep! That's it.
Leon! Noel!
Oops!
That's right.
When I left home, I sent them back to Papa.
Pete, what should I do with these books?
Hey, Noel?
Knock when you come into a lady's room!
Really! No delicacy!
"Just because you were rejected,
you must not give in to a short temper or give up."
Okay!
Noel, it's time for dinner.
Why don't you have dinner with Dad?
No.
What?
Maybe you're on a diet now?
Impossible diets are poison to your body, you know.
For a while now, it's been thought that women are better a little meaty. . .
Noel?
It's just that I don't want to see your face, Papa!
Noel, what do you mean by that?! Open this up!
Noel?
I feel the same as Noel.
But when we escaped from Zarugasu,
we were in such perfect unity and agreement and. . .
Because we didn't want to die.
Everyone listened to Papa's orders and. . .
You didn't order us much, did you?
Even if you hadn't told us, we would have done that much!
Don't you want to see Mama?
Of course I want to see her, if she's alive.
Then. . .
There had to be a different way!
Three days ago, the Links family escaped from
the vicinity of Zarugasu towards Mars.
According to investigations since then,
the possibility that they were involved in smuggling has become apparent.
In addition, it seems the investigation will be continued. . .
That's all Ron's doing! In addition, it seems the investigation will be continued. . .
All the bad things are being attributed to us.
But that's. . .
It's the worst-case scenario.
If we all pull together, then we'll get through this somehow.
It's because of that optimistic principle that we're in this situation!
I don't want to be with you any more, Dad!
I don't even want to see your face!
Get out, would you?!
Do whatever you want then!
No, no! Don't come near me!
Why is it?
Why do I get so strange when I get near another orbital frame?
It's almost as if the other me. . .
No one's coming today, are they?
Oh! There he is!
"When a misunderstanding is born, you must thoroughly discuss it.
That is the first step."
Yes, yes, we'll talk.
There's time before we get to Mars. I'll talk to them anytime.
Uncle! Uncle!
Yo, Missy! You doing well?
Come over here and pour me some,
but I guess that's an impossible request.
Well, if you're free, could you give me some advice?
Sorry, but I have to read this book another hundred times
to become a good father.
Is that so? Then, I'll see you later.
The same book, one hundred times?
Is reading a book that fun?
Well. . .
Book. . . book. . .
There aren't any.
Not any.
Oh, what perfect timing.
Say, Pete, do you know of any books? Books.
That's no good because Uncle is reading it.
I want to read a different book.
Hey! Dad!
Wow!
It's so pretty!
What?
No fair! No fair!
Yay! Did it!
Books are wonderful!
Thank you, Pete!
Books are such fun, beautiful, and wonderful things, aren't they?
Oh, won't someone come and cast a spell over me?
Then I'd be invited to the ball at the castle.
And of course, the prince would be. . .
Uncle!
Oh, dear!
But I, can I even dance a dance?
That's it!
What do you think? Does it look good on me?
Something like this, you think? Yes?
Start the music!
Beautiful lady, your name?
I am called Dolores.
Oh, Dolores.
Tonight let us revel in dance until the morn.
Yes. . .
It's too confined to dance here, isn't it?
It's all right, isn't it? It won't affect the cruise, will it?
I'm so glad. It's not much damage at all.
What?
The left fuel transmission circuit is barely heating up.
What?!
Almost half the fuel has been consumed already!
Checking the remaining cruise distance.
Checking estimated fuel consumption.
Oh, my gosh! At this rate, we can't reach Mars!
Uncle! Uncle!
Please wake up, Uncle!
There is countless micron level damage to the left engine.
Probably, the container hit it when you cut it free.
We overdid it to reach the correct acceleration in this condition,
so we consumed an excessive amount of fuel.
Why didn't you notice this when you did the emergency repairs?
It's not the kind of damage you notice until you do a microscan.
There's no way I could have known! What about you?
If you would have thought of fuel efficiency and inputted the course,
then you would have noticed right away.
At the time, it was all I could do to set the course to Mars!
I've never been a sailor on a space ship!
I've never repaired a space ship either!
You've done site management before, right?
Isn't using computers and stuff your forte?
Just because I can hack, I can do course calculation too?
Then it's the same for me!
If you can build a building, you can build a space ship?!
Let's see you do it then? It's all the same building.
Don't say the impossible!
It's just like Cinderella's older sisters.
Hey, but who is it? The one who's most to blame?
It's Dad! It's Papa!
This is the current position of the Ender.
I have a feeling Mars is a lot closer though.
It just looks that way because of the space compression effect.
The Uhlenbeck catapult compresses space like this.
Is that so?
The closer to the starting point the higher the compression ratio?
That's why, according to the space coordinates, it's here,
but from the first cruise plan we haven't even gone a third of the way.
If we head towards Mars according to our estimates like this, decelerating,
the fuel will be insufficient and we'll overshoot Mars.
If we decelerate earlier, when we reach Mars' revolving orbital path,
it will be after Mars has long past.
If we overshoot Mars, the chances that we'll be saved is zero.
But if we drift along the orbital path, some day someone might find us.
Like the army guys who were following us, right?
Then, if our luck is good, we can live at the penitentiary until we die.
The worst of choices.
Wait! Wait!
There's a choice three too.
Papa, at a time like this!
It's a toast, a toast. I found a way we'll be saved.
Don't pay attention to him, Noel.
It's a useless conversation anyway.
If it's about space,
then I'm ten thousands of times more knowledgeable than you guys.
This is?
It's Kudoshu, an asteroid meant to aid the development of the army.
Fifty years ago development was halted,
but there should be at least space ship repair facilities left, right?
And fuel too.
Then. . .
We should barely be able to get there with the fuel we have.
Papa!
Leon, re-input the course right away.
We'll head for the small planet, Kudoshu.
Roger.
". . . but the happy time did not last long.
The time for the magic to end had come."
What? You can't find Kudoshu?
I've had all the detection equipment at full capacity,
but I can't even find a piece of it!
Maybe it was destroyed along with the halt of development?
There's no way they'd expend that much effort on one resource planet.
It couldn't be!
The army was developing it, right?
What? What does that mean?
They made it appear like a resource satellite to the outside,
but there's the possibility that it was a secret army base?
If it were a secret base, then they would have it securely camouflaged.
Quit talking and look for it!
Kudoshu should be somewhere around there!
There's no way we can find it "around here!"
There's no way sensors on a civilian ship can pick up an army base!
You should know, Dad! You were a soldier!
Oh, Uncle!
This is my hundredth time reading this book too!
Uncle?
It would've been better if I hadn't believed Dad's words!
Everything he does and tries, it's all a mistake!
Uncle, what's wrong?
Missy . . .
Yes?
That song, could you let me listen to it?
What?
Yes!
So, I'm not good enough after all?
Until now, I've walked the road I'd believed was right.
At least I intended to.
Even letting you leave the house, even myself leaving the army;
it was because I thought that was right.
And these are the results.
Dragging my two children with me, drifting lost in space.
This is the first time I've ever thought Mars was so far.
Well, Uncle?
If it were only you, Uncle,
I might be able to take you all the way to Mars.
What did you say?
You can do something like that?
Yes, from here, probably.
Is that so?
Missy, I have something to ask you.
Really! He doesn't give up, does he?
What do you want this time, Papa?
He probably just thought of another way to put us in a pinch.
Hey, here he comes. Let's hear your great idea then.
You guys, put on some space suits and then get in here.
It's been decided that Missy will see you to Mars.
Dolores will?
Really? All the way to Mars?
Yes. . .
The preparations have already been made.
All that's left is for you two to get in.
Well, it might be a little small, but. . .
Two?
Yeah. You can take Pete too.
It's not about Pete.
What are you going to do, Dad?
What am I going to do?
Only two can ride,
so there's nothing to do but have someone stay behind, right?
Stay, you mean?
Do you know what you're saying?
If you drift, lost in space like this, you're going to die!
How could you decide something so important by yourself?
Dad, that's why you. . .
Shut up. Do you guys intend on dying before your parents?
That is, you know,
the most horrible thing you can do to your parents in this world!
The both of you, hurry up with your preparations.
If you meet Mom, give her my best, okay?
So selfish. . .
Dad is too selfish.
He's the one who wants to see Mama the most, isn't he?!
Dolores, you really wanted to save Papa, didn't you?
But. . .
Because Uncle said it's his last wish, so. . .
Really, he's trying too hard to look good.
That's why Mama ran out on him.
Pete, what are you holding.
I left that back on the ship.
Cinderella?
It's a birthday present Papa sent me a long time ago.
When I got this, I was fifteen, you know.
A picture book? What was he thinking?
He's selfish.
He can only think of things within his own system of values.
Well. . .
There was something that really bothered me when I read that book,
What?
Why didn't the glass slipper turn back to normal when Cinderella left?
All the other things turned back to
the original pumpkins, mice, and stuff after midnight.
Come to think of it, that's true.
I've thought about that before too.
That is, you know, the Prince's magic.
The Prince's?
That's right.
His strong feeling that he wanted to see Cinderella once more,
became magic and worked on the glass slipper.
That's why the glass slipper didn't ever turn back.
Or so I thought.
That you were thinking such romantic thoughts, Noel. . .
When I was fifteen, I was a naive young girl.
People's feelings. . .
People's feelings can exert that kind of power, can't they?
I want to use magic like the Prince!
If I could use magic, I might be able to save Uncle.
If the Prince's feelings turned into magic,
then I would like my feelings turned into magic too!
This is. . .
Uncle,
one more time, I want to see you one more time, Uncle!
"And even then, when it escalates into a fight, take one step back.
It's also important to show the magnitude of a parent's magnanimity."
Is that so?!
I should of used this that time.
It was really a big failure, right?
What's this?
This is. . .
A guidance laser? Who?
Uncle! Uncle!
Missy? Is that you?!
Yes! I found it!
Kudoshu! I found it!
Uncle?
My life, why doesn't it ever go as planned?
Sora kakeru fune, tabi no yume samete
Azay akana hikari no naka, yomigaeru kioku
Yasashii kaze ni, tsutsumareta toki
Itetsuita hitomi tokashi, tokiga ugokidasu
Kane wa hibikuyo, ring on, ring on
Inochi mezameru kono daichi
Soshite kagay akuyo, ring on, ring on
Ring on, ring on the world
Next Episode
The soul of an older man and the autumn sky.
How fickle people's souls are.
I'm trying so hard and Uncle calls me trouble!
Oh, no, no!
Is my destiny not to be joined with Uncle after all?
Next Zone of the Enders: Dolores:
"Total Recall"
If this happens, I'll stray from the path of righteousness!