At the end of the pain you bear
A possibility you'd lost track of is waiting
You'll soon forget even your tears
And be drowned in a new pleasure
The story of history, striving towards its destruction
If I'm with you, it's not that scary
Even now, the hopeless world
Seems like it'll end, but it isn't ending
I'm sure the scene you've half given up on
Will look rose-colored if we're together too
As always, your cooking sucks, Himiko.
What'd you do that for?!
What's your problem? If you've got a complaint, you don't have to eat!
Yamato?
What, are you fighting again?
You guys are hopeless.
You know, Ban...
The fact that we met you might have been destiny.
Welcome!
Welcome.
Where are they?
We've been waiting for you.
Long time no see, Himiko!
Yo.
These are the clients, the Nagano's.
My name is Yuuichirou Nagano.
I'm his wife, Maki.
So, what is it you want us to recover?
Ban, watch it!
Please! Please get back our child, our son.
We beg you!
Huh? What do you mean? The thing you want us to recover is a child?
Yes, this child.
He's cute.
Was this boy kidnapped?
Yes!
Then this is a job for the police. Report it right away and...
We know who did it.
It's my father.
Before I was married, my name was Yuuichirou Kiyokawa.
My father is Takao Kiyokawa.
He's the head of the Kiyokawa family financial enterprises.
Kiyokawa family financial enterprises?
That's that diverse business that earns its money
handling everything from daily commodities to airplanes.
It's Japan's leading big-time family financial enterprise
with several dozen subsidiary companies.
Wow, he's really rich, huh?
But then why did he commit a kidnapping?
My father has a very keen business sense,
but his methods are aggressive, and...
I just couldn't understand my father's way of thinking,
and we clashed over all kinds of things.
And then I met her, and I made up my mind.
I won't allow something so selfish!
No matter what you say, Father, I'm going to marry Maki.
You're the heir of the Kiyokawa family!
Since you were born into this family, you must marry a girl of suitable parentage
and expand the Kiyokawa family's enterprises even more!
And yet you choose a girl like this.
Father!
I'm different than you, Father!
I'll throw away the family name rather than marry for convenience
to someone I don't even like!
Yuuichirou, wait!
And so I married her, and we had a son.
We lived a modest life, but we were happy.
But...
I'm home.
Maki!
Yuuichirou...
People who said they worked for your father came.
We tried to contact him right away, calling him and even intruding on his companies,
but we were ignored, and we aren't even able to meet with him.
My father carried off my son in place of me,
in order to raise an heir that will do what he says this time.
That's cruel, separating a baby from his parents!
Himiko?
Are you okay?
I'll take that assignment.
Really?
You pass on this one, Himiko.
Ban...
We don't need you this time.
We Get Backers are enough for this one.
Hold it, Ban! You're dealing with a baby!
Even assuming you two could recover him, if I left it to just you guys,
do you think you could transport him back safely?
That's right.
We don't know anything about babies, for one thing.
This is a case for a transporter.
Can you keep your cool doing this job?
It's not this boy's fault he was born into a family like that.
Even if you try to stop me, I'm going.
Well, that's the deal.
We've taken on this assignment for sure.
Hey, Ban.
What?
Himiko was acting kind of strange back there, wasn't she?
And you too.
She can't keep her cool on jobs where kids are involved.
Why not?
Because she was a stolen kid too.
Since you have the Jagan, you've probably heard of the Last Children, right?
Himiko and I are shouldering that cursed fate.
And the curse continues even now,
inside this body.
Ban, what does that mean?
Well, she said she'd do it.
Let's let her do what she wants and see what happens.
The estate is as nice as you'd expect, huh?
Let's go.
Hey...
Perfect!
Geez, why do I have to do so much?
The recovery is your job, isn't it?
Don't be so stingy.
What's wrong with using what we've got?
Oh, you're always like that.
Even back then, my big brother...
Let's go.
You really don't change.
So, I still don't understand why things happened like that.
What happened then?
You don't make any excuses and you don't give any explanations.
Ban, you...
Himiko Kudou
Ban Midou
Wow, there's lots of toys!
This really cost money.
It's this boy, right? He's cute, huh?
I'll get you back to your parents, no matter what.
Let's go.
Sir, it's an emergency! Baby Kouichi is...
What?
They haven't gotten very far. Make sure you catch them!
Take care not to injure Kouichi.
Or the criminals either, if possible.
Yes, Sir!
Oh, it's started.
We'll hold them off here,
so you go on ahead of us and deliver the baby, okay Himiko?
You guys find a good place to break it off and come too.
Our opponents are just guards.
They're no match for us.
Leave it to us.
I hope you're right.
You be careful too, Himiko.
Mind your own business.
What are you laughing at?
Oh, I was just thinking you really got along.
You guys were like that when you were together before too, I bet.
Who knows.
Here they come.
Whoops, you can't go through here.
Who are you guys? Are you with the criminals?!
Sorry, but it's just for a little while.
Don't fool around!
If you don't get out of the way right now...
Then what are you going to do?
Play with us for a little while.
What?
It got away!
A helicopter? Do people usually go that far?
Sheesh, "Leave it to us," he says.
Their plans are always so slipshod!
But you've got me.
You, at least, I'll definitely...
If you leave it to them, it'll be all right.
That's right.
Because they have a hundred percent recovery rate, the Get Backers!
Although they don't make any money.
Even if they've got no luck with money, they really are good at their jobs!
Yes, it's really okay!
A capable transporter is with them too, after all!
Right...
Honey...
I wonder if this was really the right thing to do?
Maybe we should've talked to your father.
It would be no use. Father wouldn't lend an ear to anything we said.
Don't cry.
You've got me, so you don't have to cry.
Don't cry.
The sacrifices have escaped! Search for them!
Those are the precious Last Children we finally found!
It's okay. I'll save you for sure.
Don't cry, Himiko.
Don't think you can get away!
Even if the spell isn't completed, the Last Children's curse will never go away!
Someday the curse will destroy you two.
Big brother...
This really is the right way, right?
Yeah, the helicopter guys are saying so.
Ow...
I won't hand you over.
Just like my big brother protected me,
this time...
What are you doing, Himiko?
Ban?!
We told you to leave it to us, didn't we?
I thought you'd have gotten there a long time ago,
and here you are in a place like this.
Ban saw the sidecar stopped, and he searched for you like crazy.
Don't talk about things that aren't your business!
Well, this is all because you guys can't be relied on!
Yeah, yeah. Come on, let's go.
Ginji!
Okay!
All right, now's our chance!
Huh? Hey, wait!
I don't know how much time we have left.
Not when the curse will be invoked, or even what form it will take.
What about ways to break the spell?
I've been looking for one forever.
Ever since I was a kid, when I took Himiko and ran away from those guys.
I'll help too.
Thanks.
If the worst should happen to me, take care of Himiko.
Don't say that, it'll bring bad luck.
I'm only talking about the off chance.
Yamato!
I'm done for.
The curse...
I can't stop it.
Wait right there, I'll...
It's no use!
Kill me.
What?
That's the only way.
While I'm still in my right mind.
Ban!
Ban, please, Himiko...
Himiko...
Hey, thanks for coming to meet us.
We got back your baby!
Here...
Oh, Kouichi!
It's bad, this time Mr. Yuuichirou has...
What?
It's true.
I don't know how they found out, but they sent a car over here to get him.
You're not saying he got in the car, are you?
He said he would talk to his father so that nothing like this would ever happen again.
For the love of...
So then, this time are we going to go recover the dad?
I can't deal with this.
I've got no intention of barging in on a family fight!
But the job of transporting this child isn't over.
What?! Why not?
The assignment was to transport this child to his parents.
We have to let him see his father too.
Yeah, you're right!
Yeah, you want to see your dad too, right?
See, Ban? He says he does!
We'll do our job right.
That's what the Get Backers do.
Why do you do things like that, Father?!
Just carrying off Kouichi!
I've heard about your so-called lifestyle.
It's so low-class no one would believe you're the Kiyokawa heir.
I don't have anything to do with the Kiyokawas any more!
How long do you intend to be this stubborn?
At this rate, you can't even give Kouichi a satisfactory lifestyle.
Even if we are poor, we're happy!
Please don't interfere with that!
Okay, okay. How about breaking off the family fight there?
Why are you here?
Who are you?
Hey, it's an intruder!
Sorry, I sort of put your security system out of order.
If you say you still want to continue the fight...
I don't really care if you guys fight or if you hate each other.
Himiko?
But this boy's fate is something he decides for himself,
and no one else has a right to steal it!
Kouichi...
Father...
I thought maybe if I took Kouichi with me, you would break down and come back.
I wanted you all to come back.
Father, this is Kouichi.
Families are better together.
Because both the fun things and the painful things become memories.
Ban...
It's because she's got no place to go home to anymore.
But...
See you later, recovery service.
Yeah, let's work together again.
Next time we might be enemies.
It's all right if I don't understand right now, isn't it?
Big brother...
I'll keep my promise, Yamato.
When that time someday comes.
The clouds are full of puddles
The sky looks like it's about to cry
In the midst of the drowning day-to-day
The backs of my eyelids are cold
I got through the long night alone
I erased morning's sounds with a sigh
It can't be taken back
The time that's slipped by can't be rewound
Mr. Déjà Vu, you aren't here
The days became illusions
I noticed, you aren't here
The hands on the clock don't move
Speak to me
Don't leave me alone without saying goodbye
Even if there's no such thing as eternity
I want to keep believing in the red threads that connect us
We're going, Ginji!
Let's give them a look at our magnificent recovery tactics!
Hey, Ginji?
Hey! I'm over here! Ban, swim with me!
I mean, we've come all the way to the ocean after all!
We came to do a job, a job!
You say that, but you're wearing a bathing suit, aren't you?!
Sometime, let's go have some fun!
Right!
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