Edit And Syne Mehedi Hassan
This can't be happening.
Takumi...
Why?
You're in the way.
Get back to your car!
Don't you dare touch him!
Do as you're told.
Unless you're keen to join him.
Do it, then!
Go ahead and kill all of us until your hands are soaked with blood!
Kajika!
Let's go, Sahari.
Let them clean this up.
Fine.
Let's go home, Takumi.
Burning
Life
Episode
Eleven
Burning
Life
Episode
Eleven
Are you a human or a Kabane!?
Neither! I'm a Kabaneri!
My father was a cowardly man.
Feuds, hidden in the shadows, encircled the Shogunate's throne.
Which is why it wasn't the first time the lights were turned off suddenly.
No...
It wasn't me.
This was fear's doing.
From then onwards,
my father feared me, and chose to alienate me further.
I couldn't forgive my father.
But you said you would help me and my father mend our relationship.
Your compassion is your weakness.
Come, Mumei.
I will destroy that coward's fortress.
Your claws will be the ones to bring an end to this story.
Just a little longer.
Goodbye, Mumei.
Kongoukaku
Heed, men of Kongoukaku!
Iwato's gate, a key line of defense for our capital, has fallen.
And this was not the doing of Kabane,
but of our fellow man!
The man responsible is the lord commander of the Hunters:
Amatori Biba!
What!?
An insurrection?
So the hero has finally revealed his true colors.
So this was born of resentment against the Shogun?
But there is nothing to fear.
For Kongoukaku is an impregnable fortress.
We are the birds that soar through the heavens!
The divine bird cannot be broken!
Lord Shogun.
Should we still not tell them about the Smog?
You refer to the monster that destroyed Iwano's gate?
Yes.
I believe it best to inform everyone.
Are you the only communications operator who knows of this?
Yes.
L-Lord Shogun...
Excessive information breeds needless fear.
Help me...
Mumei!
I...
It's all my fault...
that Takumi's dead.
I never should've let him fight with me.
No.
I never should've gotten involved in the first place.
Even Mumei, if she...
If she had never met me...
Even my promise to turn her human again...
She doesn't remember anymore.
A Kabane!
Sir, reporting!
The Iron Fortress has arrived at Platform 4!
The Iron Fortress?
Surely you mean the Triumphant Fortress.
No, sir.
They claim to have captured the men who destroyed Iwato's gate.
I am Ayame, heir to the Yomogawa family.
I have brought you my captive, Amatori Biba.
Do not forget that we have hostages.
I promise to follow your script.
Lady Ayame.
Uncle!
It has been a long time.
My, how you've grown.
How is your father?
He was lost to the Kabane.
I see. That is truly unfortunate.
That should suffice for greetings.
So you claim to have captured Biba?
Everyone on the Iron Fortress cooperated in order to capture him.
Everyone is tired from the long journey after losing their homes.
I humbly request that Kongoukaku take them in.
Kongoukaku's inspection requires everyone to be jailed for three days,
regardless of the existence of bite marks.
So I was told.
You two will come to meet the Lord Shogun.
Is that you, Ikoma?
Kurusu?
What are you doing here?
Where's Lady Ayame?
Where's everyone else?
They've been captured by Biba.
What!?
Takumi's been killed.
Mumei's been turned into an enemy and attacked me.
And so you decided to flee with your tail tucked between your legs!?
I couldn't do anything!
There was nothing I could do!
Don't give me that!
Are you all quite finished?
So you're alive, my stray Kabaneri.
I see a sword wound next to your heart.
Was this perhaps Mumei's doing?
Get up, Ikoma.
We're going after the Iron Fortress.
No, I can't.
I'm better off dead.
Suit yourself then.
Lie here and die.
It seems that I was wrong about you.
KABANERI OF THE IRON FORTRESS
It's been a long time, Biba.
It has, Father.
You can drop the act.
I know you're scheming something.
Bring it here.
Yes, sir.
I found something very nostalgic amongst your belongings.
It is the only thing I ever received from you.
I thought I would return it to you.
Father, if you pity me,
please, at the very least, kill me with your own hands.
As you wish.
Father,
there's something I would like to tell you before this is over.
I would like to tell you how I was able to survive fighting the Kabane all this time.
The biggest threat from the Kabane is their ability to hide amongst people.
Even at this very moment, their numbers are increasing.
I am able to tell them apart.
That is how I was able to survive.
You mean the bite marks?
That's why we perform the inspections!
Your inspections are useless for finding Kabane!
As proof of that, they are amongst you here and now.
Take a good look!
If you find one, kill it before it kills you!
Or else you will be next in line to become a Kabane.
How dare you aim your gun at me!
Look before you!
The sign of a Kabane!
Lord Shogun!
Keep shooting!
One shot is not enough to pierce a Kabane's heart!
S-Stop!
Biba!
It was not me who took your life.
It was fear.
Th-The Lord Shogun has...
The crisis is far from over!
The Shogun himself was a Kabane.
There are bound to be many more hidden amongst you!
Give it to me!
Let go!
You bastard!
He's a Kabane too!
Stop! Everyone, lower your weapons!
Lady Ayame, you must leave!
Are you a Kabane too!?
Are you!?
Watch yourself carefully, lest you are bitten from behind!
The Lord Shogun was a Kabane!?
Which means, we've been infiltrated by the Kabane!
By the Kabane!?
Is Lady Ayame safe!?
Calm down!
It is impossible for any Kabane to be here!
We've performed inspections tirelessly!
You have nothing to fear!
Well said.
But the Kabane aren't your only enemy.
Their nightmare is about to become reality.
Fight, my Kongoukaku brethren.
It's the Kabane!
They're already here!?
Biba!
You turned the Lord Shogun into a Kabane with this!
Congratulations.
Here is your reward for figuring it out.
You bastard!
This is all your fault!
Hurry up, kid!
We need to get to Kongoukaku right away,
or I'll miss Mumei's transformation into a Chimera!
Mumei's what?
I told you to hurry!
He's already given up on life.
He's no different from a Kabane.
He's no use to us now.
I will be the one who decides that.
Let me tell you one thing before we go.
Why do you think you are alive now?
The stab wound Mumei gave you...
is just barely to the right of your heart, protected by the steel membrane.
A fraction of an inch either way, and you would not be alive.
What are you saying?
Judging from the location, angle and force,
it required precise aim.
Are you saying Mumei saved me?
She's still somewhere in there?
But that's over now.
Because they should be turning Mumei into the Smog right now.
Wait!
I need you...
to tell me more about that!
The butterflies?
That's right.
When someone dies, they come to take their souls away.
The butterflies beckoned him too.
They've all...
They've all been beckoned by the butterflies...
I couldn't save anyone.
I'm sorry.
I can't turn back now.
I can...
feel them beckoning me now.
Mother...
I'll be coming to join you soon.
What do you mean it's going to end!?
The Kabaneri that becomes the Chimera's heart...
loses both their life and their soul.
Is there any way to save her!?
If you inject her heart with white plasma,
you'll be able to fuse the Kabane's steel membrane.
Do that, and it should be possible to pull Mumei out from the Chimera.
Give me the thing from before.
The thing from before?
Not that one.
I already told you.
The black blood is an accelerant.
It will stimulate the virus and amplify it.
Just like the other Kabaneri.
Do you mean, Horobi?
That's right.
But you won't become a Chimera because you're a man.
You'll just become a Kabane burning through his life force.
I need that power.
It will be brief, like the last light of a dying candle.
I don't care.
I'm going to kill Biba and save Mumei.
That's my sole purpose for living now.
Ikoma, you...!
Remove your restraint, Kabaneri.
Or you'll never unleash your true power.
Ikoma!
This is the moment...
I can...
finally become a man I can be proud of!
That's the way, Mumei.
Destroy it all.
Fear, sadness, love...
Destroy all of it.