Let's gather up the tears and give them back to the night sky
Scatter only love that never wavers, stardust
On nights when I've stopped knowing whether or not I'm alive
I get swallowed up by the starless night sky
"Don't disappear, light!" My uncertain heart cries out
I just want to see you!
Sprinting with all my might through illusions, delusions, daydreams
A miracle wakes all throughout my body
Don't forget, you're not alone
We're always just a dreamer
Take love, get all love, get back love in our hands
Scatter only love that never wavers, stardust
What kind of tomorrow shall I dream about tonight?
Ban, where are you?
Where are you?!
Ban!
My desire throbs, it aches.
This arm throbs. It says to defeat you!
Oh? Well, if your heart stops, maybe that throbbing will stop too.
Do you know what that is, Midou?
That's my arm that you destroyed.
Look, it's become nothing but bones.
Pretty soon you'll be the same way.
I guess that gimmick in your left arm won't turn to bones even if you die.
You're the one that's going to die.
First, I'll destroy both your arms and both your legs,
and make it so you can't move.
After that, I'll take your life.
Not just once. I'll give you all possible pain, over and over.
And over and over and over!
I won't let you off with just once.
Even if your heart stops, I'll make it beat again, and then I'll make you die again.
Until your body's experienced limitless pain,
until the desire of the great Takuma Fudou is satisfied.
Scream out your dying agony for me over and over!
I can see it, Midou!
I can see your next second!
This is fun, Midou!
This is how fighting should be.
Be glad, Midou.
I chose a battleground suited to us.
Come on, let's get this thing started.
The real death match!
So next, it's the colosseum of the ancient Romans?
Gramps!
They're here, huh?
Mr. Kazuki!
Kazuki!
We know the situation. Quickly, bring him inside.
Right...
Kazuki?!
I'm fine. Never mind me; help Juubei.
Kazuki! Hey, Kazuki!
Ren! Hurry and prepare!
Got it!
He's a stupid bastard.
Even if he did do it to settle accounts, he didn't have to.
And when Kazuki wasn't even wishing for anything like that.
Can he be saved?
Is it hopeless?
No, it's not.
It's not that.
But this is amazing.
All of his vital points, both blood vessels and organs, were missed by a hair's breadth.
Could this be the God of the Limitless Fortress's doing too?
Even that death match?
Was it in the hands of Buddha too?
How much do you know, Makubex?!
Just what is it you're really after?!
Gramps!
What is it?
This...
Where is that place, Ren?
It's...
Mr. Ginji!
Shuu...
What are you doing?
Mr. Ginji, let's play together.
Shuu, why?
What are you talking about?
Come on, come over here!
Gorou and Ryuuren and the others are here too.
Oh, Mr. Ginji!
Mr. Ginji!
Come here, Mr. Ginji!
Everyone...
Is everyone really here?
What are you talking about?
Come here, Mr. Ginji!
Hurry, hurry!
Let's play!
Okay...
Mr. Ginji!
Ginji...
Come here,
with us.
Come, come here.
Let me go.
Stop.
Stop!
Dammit! The feeling is coming back more and more.
The Lightning Emperor... My other self is filling my body.
No, this is an illusion.
Like that time when I multiplied.
What's wrong, Ginji?
You?
You're... you're...
What's your name, boy?
Ginji, Ginji Amano.
Teshimine...
Takeru Teshimine?
I've got you!
That feeling just now... Ginji?
So you sensed your partner, and now you're worried and can't fight well enough?
Your mind's really wandering, isn't it?
Did you think I wouldn't notice?
And when you're all broken too.
I'm right, aren't I?
Your shoulder is messed up from our battle.
Your right hand's power is down by half, you know.
Quit worrying about little things and look at me, Midou!
I've been longing for this moment for a long time.
For the time when I would take revenge for this left arm you destroyed!
I can hardly sense Ginji, that bastard.
Something happened, didn't it.
Damn it!
It's okay, Ban.
'Cause we're the Get Backers!
So you really want to see me serious that badly, Fudou?
No help for it.
Then I guess I'll be nice and fight you for real.
Now, in return don't regret it later.
Two Seconds!
It's been a long time, Ginji.
Mr. Teshimine...
Mr. Teshimine!
No! It can't be.
For Mr. Teshimine to be in a place like this...
Do you remember, Ginji?
I brought you here to play all the time when you were a kid.
Now, around the time we first met, you cried day in and day out.
I remember you caused me a lot of trouble.
But in time you made friends too.
You got more and more cheerful.
And before we knew it,
I remember it got so there were all kinds of friends gathered around you.
In a hellish place like this.
The area around you was always filled with smiling faces.
Around you and around your friends.
Why did you betray those friends?
When I took you in and raised you,
I thought I taught you to follow one rule: Don't betray your friends.
Did you forget, Ginji?
I haven't betrayed them!
Then why did you let them die?
Shuu and Gorou...
Ryuuren...
Mr. Ginji!
No!
You let them die again.
No! This is an illusion!
You, and everyone else!
They all died a long time ago! They were killed,
by the guys from the Midfloors. Right in front of me.
Everyone died because of me. Everyone!
When people die do they disappear and become nonexistent?
They don't, do they Ginji?
Here in the Limitless Fortress, at least, common sense doesn't work.
You, a child of the Limitless Fortress, ought to know that.
You should be sensing somewhere inside you
that Shuu and the others who appeared in front of you weren't illusions.
No.
Admit it, Ginji.
You let your friends die.
No!
You pushed those irreplaceable friends to the bottom of the abyss.
No.
You abandoned them and left the Limitless Fortress,
and tried to make things easier for you and you only.
No.
You sacrificed others so that you could survive.
Everyone wanted to be happy, but only you betrayed.
You're wrong!
You let them die.
Everyone died because of you.
No, no, no.
Mr. Ginji! Mr. Ginji!
Mr. Ginji!
It hurts. It hurts, Mr. Ginji!
Mr. Ginji! Mr. Ginji!
No, no, no.
No... No! No!
No!
Ginji Amano
Ban Midou
Lightning struck the Limitless Fortress again.
You know what that is, Natsumi?
It's calling the thunderbolts.
The Lightning Emperor's anger is, I mean.
Don't you think so?
Maybe it is.
Is that so?
Ginji's in the Limitless Fortress now.
I see. That's impressive speed.
If I didn't have this gimmick,
that might've decided things, huh?
I told you this arm suited my personality better, didn't I?
If my Enlightenment tells me how you'll move for the next two seconds,
speed doesn't matter!
I'll skewer you easily with this!
With that arm, you can't use the Snakebite anymore, can you?
High talk for Makubex's dog!
Whatever Makubex does, it's got nothing to do with me!
As payment for this arm, I take my chance to get revenge against you!
That's the contract between me and him!
Don't make me laugh!
If I've got you, I don't need anything else!
Come on, stop it for me, Midou.
Stop this arm's throbbing desire!
Ginji?!
That's absurd!
Never mind me, the Jagan user, his lightning shouldn't reach this far.
Ginji, you aren't?
Where are you looking, Midou?!
Look at me.
At me, Takuma Fudou!
Why, Mr. Teshimine?
Why would you say something like that?!
At this rate, I'll stop being able to be myself.
I'll get so I can't stop myself!
This makes me remember the first time I saw you like that, Ginji.
When your friends were killed like insects right in front of you
by the bastards from the Midfloors.
Their real aim was you from the beginning.
We don't know why.
Maybe there wasn't any reason at all.
But that was when you awoke.
Ginji! Where are you, Ginji?!
Gin...
It was a split second.
In just a split second, all of the close to thirty monsters from the Midfloors were wiped out.
It was the advent of the Lightning Emperor.
I was shocked then. I shouldn't have let you go.
Instead of letting you make a thing like VOLTS,
I should've kept you under my thumb.
I was entranced by that abnormal power of yours.
And I raised you so that I could use it.
So that I could use your power to become ruler of this Limitless Fortress.
You see, you were my tool.
But right when your power had been awakened just as I'd planned,
you teamed up with some punk brats and betrayed me.
Lie. That's a lie!
Mr. Teshimine isn't like that!
Mr. Teshimine is... Mr. Teshimine is...
Of course it's not a lie!
Without an ulterior motive who would raise a good-for-nothing like you?
You're a monster.
That's why you were abandoned in this Limitless Fortress.
It's a lie! It's a lie!
It's a lie!
That's right, get angry!
Hate, Ginji!
Anger makes you strong!
Hatred awakens you!
As the tyrant of the Limitless Fortress,
the Lightning Emperor Amano Ginji!
What?
What the hell?
It's the Lightning Emperor.
Ginji's gone and turned back into the Lightning Emperor.
This is bad. If that's the Lightning Emperor we know, it's too late.
When Mister Ginji's like that, nobody can stop him.
No! No!
The Gin I know is an idiot, and a sap, and a scatterbrain,
but he's kinder than anyone else.
That's not Gin.
That's not anything like Gin!
Old man, I'll leave the rest to you.
Shido! Have you forgotten how powerful the Lightning Emperor is?!
With our power, we can't stop him anymore.
He can't sit back and watch a friend getting hurt.
He's not afraid of getting hurt, and he won't give way to anything that's wrong.
Both back then and now. He hasn't changed a bit.
I like that about him.
So I'm going. That's all.
Everyone's being so cool.
A man like me can't even imagine what's happening in that bottomless labyrinth,
but maybe you know.
The Limitless Fortress is a world of fear and carnage, and that's all.
Given that, I wonder why people aim for it?
That place doesn't suit Ginji.
That's fine. That's fine, Ginji!
That's your true form!
Three Seconds!
This is the first time I've seen you looking so pathetic, Midou.
I botched it.
I had no idea this guy had gotten this strong.
I can see your next three seconds as clearly as if I could reach out and touch them.
When my Enlightenment sees you turn completely to flesh and bones,
that's the end of you.
Hey, Midou, is that all the power you have?
It isn't, is it?
Show me more of it, more of that speed from before.
If you don't, my desire won't be satisfied.
More, more, more, more!
More!
Make me bleed!
Until my desire is satisfied,
keep closing in on me, right to the brink of death!
Midou!
Damn! I can't concentrate through the pain.
Heh, how's that, old woman? My grip's over a 200 kilogram-force!
I see. You're a good-for-nothing, but in things to do with fighting you might be a genius.
But...
How's that?
It's all I can do to crack an egg, but if I have the Serpent Bearer's power I can do this.
Remember this, Ban.
Nothing in this world is unconnected to the movement of the stars in the sky.
Therefore invoke the constellation of your fate when you have something you truly desire,
something you don't want to lose.
Damn, I went and remembered something I didn't want to.
First I'll crush that disgusting right hand of yours for you.
You should taste my pain too!
What?!
The lightning blew out the VR!
Ginji, you're different, aren't you?
It's here! It's here, it's here, it's here, it's here!
I can see it!
I can see it, I can see it, I can see it!
I can see you dying, covered in blood!
Even now at thy right hand, until this cursed fate is spent,
is the one who houses the Serpent Bearer, Asclepius,
who descends from the Milky Way on high.
Therefore I invoke thee.
Ginji, you're not like that. Therefore I invoke thee.
Ginji, you're not like that. Feed, with your fangs of poison!
You're not me. Feed, with your fangs of poison!
Ginji!
Get out of my way!
It's no small-time, once-in-a-thousand-years love
The sky and earth were moving for the two of us
In those days we had the power of Buddha, come back
The friendship bracelet I threw into the midwinter sea
Disappeared without making a sound
In the afternoon, the breakwater flames bright red
The waves are beautiful like spangles, aren't they?
They're this beautiful, so smile like that
Don't look back
All right, here I go
Embraced by the storm, jump from your dreams!
An island eternity crashes against like waves
Seeking an endless clear sky
The injured sea gull flies away too
A hurricane of tears
Dammit, this isn't the time to be doing things like this. Hey, Ginji!
What was it that I was fighting for?
Can't you hear me, Ginji?!
That's right, I'm the ruler of Lower Town.
Get a grip, you stupid bastard!
Don't just let Akabane provoke you!
I don't want to hear anything anymore.
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