♪
( Menthuthuyoupi grunts )
Wait a second.
I saw him on the stairs before.
Did he do it?
Killua: Sorry, but i’m a little pissed off right now,
so i’m just gonna take it all out on you.
♪
( Singing in Japanese )
( Electricity crackling, humming )
Menthuthuyoupi: Huh? He’s gone?
( Screaming )
( Groans )
( Growls )
♪
Killua: Godspeed.
Narrator: With no time whatsoever
to roar or transform,
killua easily incapacitated youpi.
Such was the disparity in initiative.
Killua’s godspeed electrified his entire body,
allowing him to reach speeds so high that they transcended
even the broadest limits of his physical potential.
As it turned out,
killua had divided this power into two core functions.
The first was called speed of lightning
and gave him control at superhuman speed.
The second let him respond automatically to his opponent
and was called whirlwind
in a previous fight, he’d used the latter
to stop his opponent’s fish dart in its tracks.
It was a preprogrammed response
to what was clearly malevolent intent in his enemy’s aura.
A reflex that actually served to bypass
the comparatively slow human brain,
it proved more than sufficient
in surpassing the enemy’s physical speed.
Menthuthuyoupi: What in the hell is going on here?
These attacks, in terms of sheer power,
they’re all less than a tenth of my own strength.
This doesn’t make any sense.
I can’t do a thing against him.
Killua: Whirlwind.
Menthuthuyoupi: Unreal.
This aura stuff is really intense.
( Chuckles )
This is getting kinda interesting.
Before my explosion, I never would have enjoyed
fighting an uphill battle.
Narrator: This change in attitude
would lead youpi to a surprising choice.
However, this would not happen until later.
( Menthuthuyoupi chuckles )
( Killua gasps )
Oops.
Damn. I used it up already.
Menthuthuyoupi: Hold it!
You’re never getting away from me, you brat!
You and I are gonna see this through to the end,
when you die!
Huh?
He disappeared? Again?
That little jerk just vanished like he never existed.
That’s it.
At least one of them must have the ability
to appear and disappear at will.
That’s the only way at all that any of this makes sense!
♪
Bloster: Huh?
Computer: Please enter your code number.
Bloster: Aw, damn it. I don’t have a code number.
Um...
( Beeps )
Computer: Your code and data do not match.
Please reenter your code number.
A second input error will result in your immediate restraint.
Ikalgo: Don’t tell me. Did he really come down here
without knowing about the code system?
Bloster: Okay, that didn’t work.
Guess i’ll just have to get out.
Computer: The door has been locked.
Please enter your code number.
Ikalgo: This is it. I have two options.
The elevator will eventually fill with sleeping gas.
Once he’s asleep, i’ll have to decide.
One, I just leave bloster there in the elevator,
and then I head for the surface using the freight entrance.
That way, when he wakes up,
he’ll still be stuck in the elevator.
But there’s a high risk
that someone upstairs will notice something’s wrong.
Two, I move bloster somewhere else
while he’s knocked out.
There are plenty of parked cars around,
and the warehouse doors
need a code to open them from the inside.
He won’t be able to open them when he wakes up.
Plus, I want to avoid running into anyone if I can.
If I go upstairs using the freight elevator,
there’s much less of a chance that’ll happen.
No! That’ll never work.
I have to kill bloster while he’s asleep.
That’s the safest way.
Then i’ll have to take control of bloster’s corpse
and use it to take out the other squadron leaders.
It’s the least I could do.
I’ll stick the barrel of my gun through the gap in his armor,
and then i’ll open fire!
Narrator: Although ikalgo’s ability
allowed him to control corpses,
he had never actually killed anyone before.
Computer: Enter your code number immediately.
If an authorized code number
is not entered within the next 30 seconds,
you will be taken into custody.
( Bloster grumbles )
Ikalgo: The surveillance room in the guard station.
There should be a feed
from the security camera in the elevator
and a control to open the doors.
( Keypad beeping )
- ( Gasps ) - ( Automatic gunfire )
( Bloster grunts )
Well, i’m out, but it’s too bad
I had to completely destroy the elevator
so I could get free.
Now, are there any other exits?
♪
Ikalgo: I was naive.
I didn’t think he’d shoot up the door.
What now? Do I wait for him to lower his guard,
then sneak out the freight entrance?
Or should I be patient and wait for him to leave?
Either way, if he goes back upstairs...
( Grunting )
No! That’s not good enough.
That’s weak.
But if he goes back up to the surface
and tells the others that flutter’s dead,
i’ll be able to move around without fear.
Idiot!
If I let an enemy return to the surface,
the danger increases for everyone.
I can’t.
Bloster: Huh?
( Groans )
( Grumbles )
Man, that one is pretty thick.
♪
Huh?
( Grumbles )
Ikalgo: I can’t let him go back upstairs.
If I can’t stop him, I have no right to be here.
( Bloster grumbles )
Ikalgo: Come on. Come on.
Right into my trap.
Almost there.
Wait ’til he’s a little farther from it.
♪
( Bloster gasps )
Ikalgo: Now!
Agh!
Bloster: So there really was someone besides flutter.
If I didn’t know better,
i’d think you were trying to lure me in there.
- ( Ikalgo groans ) - ( Bloster chuckles )
Too bad for you.
If only one path remains,
it’s just too good to be true. Anyone would be suspicious.
Well, now I know you exist, so that’s something.
( Laughs )
And I bet you’re hiding in the surveillance room
to observe me, you chicken!
Ikalgo: Damn it. I was so close
to having him completely trapped in that corridor,
but there’s no way out from where he is now.
He’s still trapped.
Sleeping gas will fill the room eventually,
and when it does...
( Gasps ) No! He isn’t trapped!
There’s still a way out!
Bloster: I should probably get out of here.
I’m willing to bet that’s sleeping gas.
Ikalgo: I have to do something before he figures it out.
Wait. The armored vehicles in the garage.
With those, I could at least lock him in,
but then i’ll have no way to get back upstairs.
Think. Is there anything here I can use?
I’ve gotta think of a plan fast!
Bloster: Looks like i’m gonna have to blow through this bulkhead.
Man, this is really getting to be a pain in the rear.
Ikalgo: I’ve gotta do it!
Bloster: Damn. All that, and I barely scorched the surface?
I guess i’m just gonna have to come up
with something else then.
I know!
The bulkhead controls are in the monitor room,
so I can go over there to open the bulkheads.
Now we’re talkin’.
Wait. I have to go through a bulkhead
to reach the monitor room.
Damn it all.
Looks like i’m still gonna have to destroy this one
if I want any chance of getting back upstairs.
Hang on.
I wonder. There might be a way to escape
without busting down a bulkhead.
Huh?
It’s opening?
Is that a tank? ( Scoffs )
That’s exactly the kind of thing
a gutless chicken would use.
But the bulkhead behind it’s still shut,
and the door to the monitor room is just beyond it.
Okay, that can only mean one thing.
First, he closed the front bulkhead,
and then he parked the vehicle there.
Then he returned to the monitor room
and started raising the front bulkhead
and lowering the back one.
Once he did, he raced back to the vehicle.
Doesn’t that mean that he’s trapped, too?
He blocked off his only escape route
just to force a showdown?
Hah! You’re kidding.
Seriously? Come on.
( Laughs )
So I guess there must be someone else around here,
and they must be sitting up in the control room
watching me. How dare they?!
Well, watch this, you peeping Tom,
because i’m about to drag your little buddy
out of this tank and rip him to shreds!
Ikalgo: I’m the only one here,
and i’m gonna have to take care of this.
Bloster: Man, that armor’s tough.
( Ikalgo grunts )
( Bloster gulps )
Ikalgo: I did it.
Bloster: Ah, damn it.
The bastard blocked the elevator.
If he hadn’t done that,
I could have blown a hole in the ceiling
and climbed up the cable.
♪
Ikalgo: I’ve blocked his escape route.
First hurdle cleared.
Bloster: Hmm? Man, you’ve got a lot of nerve,
you know that, buddy?
I’m gonna pump you full of bullets.
Hmm?
Smoke, huh?
So is he dead?
Did he already lose?
Either way, there’s no way to move this thing.
The gap’s only a few centimeters.
The entrance is completely blocked.
( Roars )
( Groans )
Now come out!
Your friend is gonna burn to death!
If you act now, i’m willing to spare you!
Open the damned bulkhead! You hear me?
Ikalgo: Being an octopus,
I only need a few centimeters to squeeze through.
Second hurdle cleared.
Bloster: Hey!
Open the bulkhead!
( Coughing )
Ikalgo: Now I just have to wait
for the sleeping gas to fill the room.
( Bloster coughing )
( Groaning, coughing )
Ikalgo: I can hold my breath,
but I don’t want to waste any more time.
I’ve gotta wait for the right moment.
( Bloster coughing )
( Ikalgo grunts )
♪
Third hurdle cleared.
Don’t rush.
Nice and slow.
This is the final hurdle.
( Gags )
Just pull the trigger, and i’m done.
( Heart beating )
( Grunting )
This is the best option.
If I can take control of his corpse,
it’ll be a lot safer upstairs,
so i’ve gotta do this!
There’s-- there’s nobody else here.
There’s no one else to help me!
I have to do this!
I have to!
( Gagging )
( Sobbing )
There’s no way. I can’t do it...
Because i’m a coward!
( Sobbing )
Narrator: Meanwhile, as ikalgo was lamenting his weakness,
morel was within the shifted central tower
facing off against pouf’s pupa, but in addition
to the physical fight that would soon begin,
morel was battling serious doubts of his own.
Morel: Hold on. What if...
Menthuthuyoupi: Pitou, pouf, are you there?! Answer me!
Morel: What if no one responded to youpi’s call
not because they chose to,
but because they weren’t able to?
The pupa should just be a goopy mess right now,
not a fully-formed creature.
If he’s utterly defenseless while he changes forms,
this is the best chance i’m gonna get.
Time to attack!
He made a mistake, a fatal one.
How could he have done that in this situation?
It’s not possible. This has to be a trap.
There’s no doubt in my mind.
The only question now
is whether it’s a trap that’s already been activated
without me doing anything to trigger it,
or whether it’ll be activated as soon as I attack.
Which is it?
Shaiapouf: You are having these doubts,
because you are exceptional.
However, that’s all there is to it.
♪
Morel: So should I attack or not?
What do I do?
( Singing in Japanese )