Please, tell me how to cure ZONAPHA.
You took Éléonore away from me.
And you come to me now?
No way, you moron.
You could at least try to torture me into saying it.
Fine.
You asked for it.
Ooh, you're scaring me.
You can't kill me, though, or the secret will be lost.
Arlequin!
Arlequin?
Am I destined to lose my way?
All I want is to have fun in my life
All I want is to be with those I love
Ready or not Here I come
I don't care anymore
I just don't know anymore
I wish everything would just disappear
There are days when I think like that
But everything is precious to me
And so I fight on
Today was a tough day
I almost gave up hope
But the truth is I don't want to lose anything anymore
I wish everything would just disappear
There are days when I think like that
But everything is precious to me
And so I must fight
#36 The curtain falls
Surprised? It's stronger than the one my brother Yin made.
-Grim Reaper! -Blade of Saint George!
This is getting interesting.
Oh yes, I wanted to ask you something.
Why did you give Éléonore up to Narumi?
Go, Kato.
I'll go up to space.
You thought of her first as a mother, nay, a sister.
But once you hit puberty, you began to see Éléonore as a beautiful female.
Shut up! Shirogane isn't like that!
That's not what she is to me.
Maybe not to a normal boy, but I was partially downloaded into you.
Your brain knows how men and women fall in love.
Master is no match for him.
And so you realized what you felt in your heart.
At Mont Saint-Michel.
"Oh, how I love Shirogane," you thought.
Admit it, Masaru. Swirling Tiger!
You bound the legs, nice move.
Are you okay, Master? You're getting all beaten up.
Will you tell me the truth now?
You love Éléonore, don't you?
Love...
What is love?
But maybe you're right.
You finally realized it?
Then why did you let Narumi have her?
Éléonore ages 5 times slower than you.
You would've caught up to her. You could've been her boyfriend.
What?
Because...
-Because...! -Give it up.
Futile!
Say it! Why did you give the girl up?
Because!
Narumi was the one that fell in love with her first!
I fell in love with Francine first.
You can't take her from me.
You can't.
Brother.
This is Fou. Any contact from Masaru yet?
Oh, shut up. I'll go ask Lord Faceless for you.
He fell in love with her first?
You should've ignored him and taken her for yourself.
But then...
would I have been happy?
Besides, Shirogane loves Narumi too.
Isn't that what matters most?
That's enough about me.
So come on, tell me how to cure ZONAPHA.
Wrong!
Nothing is more important than yourself.
You make the girl you want fall in love with you.
Then...
you'll never be loved by anyone.
If you can only embrace yourself...
who would ever embrace you?
Forget it, I'm done with you.
I got my answer, now die.
Why...?
Lord Faceless!
You don't need these girls anymore.
Ta-da! I'm here to be by your side now.
Why are you here?
None of your business.
What is it?
I came because I wanted to ask you something.
Lord Faceless, do you love me?
Because can you believe what Colombine said to me?
Lord Faceless loves you.
But only as a useful tool.
I won't have that. I'm no tool.
Lord Faceless, tell me that I'm your girlfriend.
Say that you love me.
Yeah, I love you Diamantina.
Yay! I knew it.
But here's what I really want you to say.
That you love me more than Éléonore.
No, more than the girl Éléonore was modeled after.
Say you love me more than Francine.
Master, now's our chance to run!
No, I have to ask how to stop ZONAPHA.
Don't bother us. Can't you see we're busy?
They'll all explode at my signal.
Don't move. There's more strolling around this space station.
Lord Faceless.
Say you'll love me forever. Me and only me.
Why can't it be me? Please, love me.
You take after your creator.
But...
I have the freedom to love whomever I want.
Dismantle!
That's what you've been trying to say, right?
Lord Faceless!
How cruel...
I love you so much...
But... you won't love me back...
Too bad, huh.
Alert.
Due to multiple explosions, Space Station Alpha cannot maintain orbit.
This station will crash-land within 40 km of Russia's Bodny Cosmodrome.
Bodny? No...
Splendid. We'll take Éléonore down with us as our final curtain falls.
Tell me how to cure ZONAPHA!
-Never, you fool. -Then at least!
How do I make this space station fall where there's no one?
Another request?
Tell me this. Tell me that.
I'm your enemy, remember?
Don't you have any pride in that empty skull?
You're so stupid and worthless.
I'm tired of talking to you.
Alpha, you answer him.
I will answer you.
The attitude control actuator is inoperable due to the explosions.
The point of impact cannot be altered.
Is that it?
That thing has to face more upward.
I'll go out there in a space suit.
It is too late. The suit takes 3 hours to put on.
Dammit.
You sure are stupid.
I don't care, I have to save them.
Even if you'll be dead in 45 minutes?
Yes, even if.
I can't watch this.
8 minutes until ignition. After 8 minutes, it will be too late.
I know. Okay, let's do it.
But why are you helping me?
You think I'm up to something?
I'm not. I just feel like it.
You do the legs. Go slowly now.
Watch it. Jack's toes are really complex to control.
Sorry, I'll be careful.
-What? -Nothing.
I was just thinking this must be what it's like to be a big brother.
Little brothers can't do anything alone. Always relying on their brothers.
That's what you feel like.
Yeah, so?
Yeah, that's how little brothers talk back.
But him...
he always waited for his little brother.
Okay, push it up.
Hmm, I remember doing something like this.
With him.
Yes, that's it.
Yeah, I remember now.
I'm just like you.
You're just wasting your life.
I won't tell you how to cure ZONAPHA.
That means your death is meaningless.
You won't even get the woman that you wanted.
In the end, you're the same as me.
You're wrong.
I have a memory of the smiles of the person I love.
Smiles are really fragile.
They break so easily at the littlest things.
But I believe.
That I was able to protect her smile because of my sacrifice.
So you and I are different.
I'm not going empty-handed.
Sacrifice, huh?
That's just being complacent. A sweet illusion.
I crushed her smile.
Okay Alpha, ignite.
Jack...
Time of descent reduced. 6 minutes until atmospheric entry.
Target, the Sea of Okhotsk.
Whew, we made it in time.
That's where Diamantina stabbed you.
Why did you help me?
I told you. I was bored.
Please, tell me how to cure ZONAPHA.
You can save the entire world.
Do something good and go to heaven!
If I went to heaven, I'd meet her again.
I guess I could carry her off one more time.
Come on, Faceless!
The Francine dolls and Diamantina are gone now, too.
Yeah, there's nobody left here to watch you.
Your bad deeds don't entertain anybody anymore.
No, there's one more left. You.
I better put on a good show for you.
The finale is near.
Approaching the atmosphere.
No...
Mr. Masaru had gone up in space...
I never imagined he was that chimney sweep...
Mr. Fou, Mr. Fou!
Mr. Fou, can you hear me?
-Masaru! -Mr. Masaru!
Shirogane, sing!
Sing?
My darling child
My beloved child
Just like the leaves
That dance in the wind
Your little bed...
Her singing changes the ZONAPHA bugs' operative mode
from making people sick to curing people's sicknesses.
We've entered the atmosphere.
I'm sorry. You would've lived if you'd stayed behind.
It's nothing. I'm your companion, after all.
Besides, there'd be no place for us automata on Earth anyways.
I don't want to become a freak show, either.
Same for me.
There never was a place for me on Earth to begin with.
I'm bored with you all now.
Go out the back door.
There's an emergency return shuttle.
Yay, we can go home!
We can go home? Really?
Then you're coming with me.
We have to live on.
We have to keep the circus going.
Join me in the Nakamachi Circus. We could do a puppet show.
People will love it.
I'm sick of seeing your face.
You go on ahead.
Why did you stay behind?
You're the one that made me.
I guess I'll stick with you.
Come on, hurry. We have to go.
Sorry Master, I'm staying with Faceless.
No, you're my precious friend!
I'm glad to hear that.
You'll make the gears in my eyes all rusty, Masaru.
You just seemed so alone, I couldn't...
Yeah, I hate being alone.
It's so lonely.
Why did you let Master go?
We could do a puppet show, you and me. People will love it.
So stupid.
He was nothing but a tiny gear in my grand master plan.
And he wrecked it all up.
But you know what?
It's a big brother's job to look out for his little brother after all.
Yin, my brother...
I was wrong.
6 YEARS LATER
You're going to Egmun?
You've got to be kidding, that's no place for a circus.
It's a battlefield out there.
Thank you for your warning.
But there are kids out there waiting for us.
-How's your arm? -Perfect.
Who'd have thought Masaru and Ashihana had sent my arm to be preserved
by a cryonics company in the US?
Yes, Mr. Masaru was so full of surprises.
Thanks to him, I can do this with my real arm.
Oh, you.
Let's get this show on the road.
Roll up, roll up! The circus is in town!
-There they are! -That way!
Somebody, help!
Here you go, little girl.
-Stop! -Help!
We've got you now.
Dammit!
Thanks...
You're really strong.
Are you okay?
I want to be strong like you.
Do you think I can?
Sure. Even stronger than me.