Netero: Wait.
Exchanging words?
Hey, king...
Would you like to know your name?
King: How is it that you have come into possession of my name?
Netero: Simple, really.
My subordinates were present at your mother’s deathbed.
She uttered your name with her dying breath.
I bet i’m the only one
who knows now those same subordinates probably died
fighting your royal guard.
( Wind blowing )
Are you interested in fighting me now?
I’ll make you a deal.
If you can force me to admit defeat,
i’ll tell you your name.
King: Force you?
But without killing you?
( Scoffs )
♪
So i’ll be playing without a rook and bishop.
Fine, then.
I’ll checkmate you shortly.
♪
( Singing in Japanese )
♪
Narrator: As the king and netero prepared
for what they were both certain would be their final battle...
♪
Ikalgo continued to cry deep beneath the palace,
devastated he had failed to finish off bloster
even as he lay unconscious.
( Ikalgo weeping )
( Softly crying )
This is the best option.
There’s no one else to help me.
I have to do this.
I have to!
( Gags )
This is no time for tears.
I have to find palm.
( Gasps )
The door to the warehouse area is open.
So’s the door to the garage.
Why?
Welfin: Don’t move!
( Ikalgo gasps )
Welfin: If you do, i’ll attack.
Ikalgo: Welfin.
Welfin: I’ve got a lot of questions I wanna ask you,
but if you try anything funny,
you’re dead.
Ikalgo: I’ve got a pretty good idea
about what he wants to know--
the number of my allies,
their roles, and their abilities.
And he’ll use any means necessary to find out.
If I start leaking information, people could die.
But if he’s a manipulator,
he can obtain the information against my will.
Welfin: Huh? Stop right there.
I really will kill you!
Ikalgo: Kill me, then.
That’s what I want.
Welfin: Stop now!
Ikalgo: I won’t betray my friends,
but i’ll take you with me!
( Welfin wails )
Now you’ve done it, you bastard!
Damn it!
Fine.
Missileman!
( Ikalgo winces )
( Groans )
Hey, i’m not dead.
I didn’t sustain any damage.
What was that attack?
Welfin: Ah, damn it.
That really hurts.
Why, you little punk.
You’ll pay for this.
That bastard.
How did a wimp like that figure out my weakness?
Missileman needs questions and answer to work.
If an enemy attacks before I can ask a question,
it’s null and void.
The wound isn’t deep.
( Laughs )
I’ll take my time beating him to a pulp.
( Ikalgo groaning )
( Welfin chuckles )
Ikalgo: Wait. He planted something living inside me?
- ( Crunch ) - ( Groans )
Welfin: You see that?
The creatures I placed in you
are black centipedes created by nen.
They grow by feeding on your defiance, so get ready.
( Ikalgo groaning )
Welfin: If you disobey my orders
or if you try to harm me in any way,
they will inflict on you the most excruciating pain,
then burst through your body, killing you!
( Ikalgo groans )
Welfin: Huh?
Hey, what are you doing, idiot?!
Didn’t you listen to a word I just said?!
If you try what I think you’re going to try...
( Ikalgo groaning )
( Welfin gasping )
Ikalgo: All that’s fine by me.
And if I die, so be it.
( Inhales )
Welfin: Ahh! No!
No, stop!
( Thinking ) Wait a minute.
If he wanted to kill me,
that’s the ultimate form of resistance.
Now it’ll take no time at all
for the black centipedes to grow large enough to kill him.
( Screams )
Ikalgo: Oh, don’t worry.
I won’t kill you.
I just need to make sure you stay put.
I still have ammunition.
♪
Welfin: Don’t mess with me, bastard!
You are so dead.
I’ll kill you, you hear me!
- ( Ikalgo inhales ) - ( Welfin screaming )
( Screaming )
( Ikalgo groaning )
( Centipedes clattering )
( Ikalgo laughing )
Welfin: Huh?
Ikalgo: It’s so easy.
Pulling the trigger is a breeze...
When the only price is my life.
♪
( Centipedes rustling )
( Welfin whimpers )
( Ikalgo inhaling )
♪
Welfin: I get it, okay?!
Look, I won’t go anywhere! I promise!
I give up, so, please, don’t shoot.
Ikalgo: The pain is going away.
The creatures inside me are in agony?
Welfin: Damn it. You win.
I can’t move anymore.
Ikalgo: I wonder if it’s because welfin admitted defeat?
Welfin: I saw it coming.
I just had a feeling this would happen eventually.
But, still, I had no idea I was this weak.
I didn’t think it’d be so scary to fight someone
who didn’t have any regard for their own life.
Ikalgo: Welfin.
Welfin: What?
Ikalgo: The pain’s completely subsided,
so do you think you could get rid of all these bugs now?
( Welfin groans )
Shut the hell up.
I’m in too much pain to think about that right now.
Ikalgo: Hmm?
( Groans )
Welfin: Uh...
Ikalgo: Hurry up, will you?
Welfin: Just give me a minute.
Damn, I don’t have a way to deactivate missileman,
but if I tell him the truth, i’m in real trouble.
How am I gonna get out of this?
♪
I need to buy some time.
I just need to come up with a good idea.
( Moans )
Uhh! Pain!
I feel so...( Moans )
Very faint.
- ( Centipedes rustling ) - ( Ikalgo growls )
( Welfin winces )
( Moans )
( Gasps ) Whahh!
Hold on! I was kidding!
I’m sorry! ( Winces )
Ikalgo: Then hurry up, and get rid of these things.
( Welfin chuckles )
Well, I, um...
Ikalgo: Hmm?
( Welfin groans )
Ikalgo: Oh, well. Forget it.
Welfin: No, wait! Hold on a minute!
I can’t remove them now, not once they’ve been activated.
Sorry, but it’s true.
I’m not lying! You gotta believe me!
I swear i’m not trying to trick you!
Ikalgo: The insects are in pain again.
Is it because he’s telling the truth?
Welfin: Can you really blame me?
Thing is, I only attack to kill someone,
and screw what happens next.
I never gave a single thought
to what happened to my enemy afterwards.
( Chuckles ) Nen abilities are really something, huh?
My personality is reflected in my ability.
Ikalgo: "My personality"?
As in his true intentions?
Welfin.
Welfin: Huh?
Ikalgo: What do I ask him?
What do I want to know?
Welfin: Huh?
Ikalgo: I once knew someone just like him.
I’m curious.
Do you have any memories from when you were human?
Welfin: Eh? Why do you wanna know that?
I can’t remember anything.
( Centipedes rustling )
Ikalgo: You’re lying.
( Welfin yells )
What are you talking about?
Hold on! Let’s just talk this over, all right?
Ikalgo: If you don’t tell me the truth right now, i’ll shoot.
( Welfin gasps )
( Groans )
♪
Fine. You win.
When I woke up, my first thought was...
( Ikalgo sighs )
Welfin: Aw, damn it.
I still remember it like it was yesterday.
( Automatic weapons firing )
Those monster bugs killed me in the ngl.
I’m sure of it.
( Yunju slurps )
Welfin: I was fed to the queen.
And soon I was reborn as something new.
Even now I can still remember the one thing that--
that I most wanted to forget...
The sight of my father strangling me
and the woman behind him just watching.
In the beginning, I only had little flashbacks of it,
but over time, I remembered everything that happened.
My little brother saved me...
Even though we weren’t related by blood.
I remember now!
He looked just like...
Gyro does!
( Ikalgo gasps ) Gyro?
Welfin: You know him as the king.
We used to fight about whose life was worse.
When I had to laugh to keep from crying,
he was always there.
We were both empty,
and I guess, looking back,
that’s why we had nothing to hide.
( Sighs )
Sometimes I wonder what he’s doing.
I just wish I...
Could see him again.
( Sighs )
That’s it.
All I want now is to see gyro.
I don’t care about ants,
humans, cash, or countries,
not anymore.
♪
Just go.
The centipedes are gone.
Don’t you still have stuff to do?
Ikalgo: First I wanna know why you opened those two doors.
Welfin: Hmm?
Oh. Those weaklings wanted the treasure in the back,
so I let them in.
Don’t worry. They’re not a threat.
I was watching you and blo on the monitor,
and I told them to pass while you were on the way back.
( Ikalgo sobbing )
I’m a coward! ( Sobbing )
Welfin: That’s all.
Once I saw that you couldn’t finish blo,
I figured you’d be an easy target,
but now I see I was wrong.
( Sighs )
You go ahead.
I’m way too tired.
Ikalgo: One last question.
Welfin: Huh?
Ikalgo: Did you see a woman in the palace?
Welfin: A woman?
Well, might not be her,
but the guards caught one,
a human woman they put inside a cocoon.
( Ikalgo gasps ) Do you know where she is now?
Welfin: Just take the elevator up, and turn left.
It’ll be the room at the end.
They called it number one.
( Ikalgo sighs )
Thanks a lot!
( Welfin laughs )
Ikalgo: What’s so funny?
( Welfin laughs )
I was just thinking, I didn’t know
that telling the truth felt so good.
Ikalgo: Hmm.
Narrator: Welfin had spent his life
unable to trust himself or others.
Telling ikalgo the location of the woman he was searching for
was the first time he had ever opened up to someone,
spoken from the heart, and told the truth.
( Fluid sloshing)
♪
( Singing in Japanese )