That idiot...
Look what happens when you get distracted.
If it's Ilie, she's fine.
They won't kill her.
Did you withdraw last time because Ilie was there?
What does it matter to you?
That's the insect cage's key.
If you wanna see Ilie, come to 07.
I'm Acht.
The name of the punishment that steals humanity.
This can't be...
Commander!
Hadi... Aisha...
What happened?
Commander refused to follow the order to neutralize the Bazaar and...
The culprit behind this is Area E Inspector-General Harb Adham.
At this point in time, we will be taking over the self-governing rights of E-05.
Bazaar Overseer,
from here on, I will have you follow Salif Bakar's orders.
You're saying you will break the nonaggression pact?
Even if you hide behind a high wall,
the disease that haunts our kind infects from within.
Cagaster...
Even if we have to commit an unforgivable sin,
now's the time for us to take back the human world.
For the foundation of my homeland, E-07!
So, it's begun...
Come on!
-Dang! -What are you doing?
I was wondering if there were any clues to what happened to little Ilie.
I searched through the stuff that we picked up along with her and found that.
There was a memory chip between the pages,
but I don't know the password.
The hint is, "From this point, give up your humanity."
Isn't it just "Cagaster"?
I tried that ages ago!
"Give up your humanity"...
I'm Acht.
The name of the punishment that steals humanity.
Reichs Acht?
The punishment to steal human rights...
Kidow! Bingo!
Franz...
I'm heading over to see you now.
To the place where you and Tania are.
If I don't make it there,
please...
listen to this as a friend's last will.
Nice to meet you. I've been newly transferred to 07...
It's going to rain.
-And you are? -Yes...
I'm your new assistant, Griffith,
Dr. Franz Chilio.
Franz is fine.
I was just about to have lunch.
-Would you like to join? -What?
Do you like it?
Yes!
I think it's a magnificent research lab.
If I study here,
maybe we can find a way to heal cagasterized people...
-I was talking about my duck. -What?
-Oh, yes. It's tasty! -Glad to hear that.
Cagaster Biological Laboratory.
Within Area E,
it was the largest research lab with the latest technology
and an enormous budget.
Cagasters for military use?
Didn't you know?
I did hear there was a project like that in the Far East.
We're continuing that research here.
Well, they failed in the Far East
and blew up with the entire frontline base, though.
Despite being 21 years of age,
you inherited the studies of your father, Emeth Chilio,
and completed the basis of Cagaster research,
"Evolution to the Headless."
Griffith!
In our next budget, can we request enough to extend the pond?
Please do that with your own salary.
How much was my salary again?
With you being younger than me,
at some point,
I started to think of you as my little brother.
Griffith lost his bet.
I'm sorry to see you again.
Why did you bring me here?
Take me back!
You turned two people into bugs.
Do you really think things will stay the way they were before?
Why did I forget...?
I'm home...
Mom...
Franz!
You'll be late for the meeting!
What?
Franz?
I'm sorry,
I completely forgot the higher-ups were coming.
Who's that girl?
My little sister, Tania.
You have a little sister?
Isn't she beautiful?
Don't worry, Griffith is a nice guy.
Nice to meet you, Tania.
The queen of the bugs still hasn't been born?
Because the biology of Cagasters isn't completely clear yet.
You said that you'd make our wish come true.
His Excellency didn't pick up and raise you and Tania out of charity.
Picked up?
Seven years ago, when the frontline base in the Far East blew up in an accident,
General Adham was the one who took Tania and me in.
Are you seriously trying to make Cagasters into a weapon, too?
Of course not!
My dad only wished for the Cagaster's raw truth.
I want to find out what is breaking
within the human body and what is trying to be born.
You said you wanted to know the truth.
After hearing those words, I made up my mind...
to walk beside you.
Looking back now,
I shudder at the horrifying things I've done.
What Emeth Chilio found out was
that Cagasters were just like ants and bees.
That they were controlled by a queen.
If we could create the queen with our hands,
we could stop the bugs from attacking humans.
That's what we thought.
That's why we took numerous eggs of the bugs...
No, not bugs.
We desecrated human eggs,
and threw out the deformed lives as we created them.
Without realizing at all what this experiment would bring in the end...
The deterioration of my morality
was enough to nearly put out the fire within me.
Why not quit if you don't like it?
Tania, you hate me, don't you?
I don't exactly hate you.
But I don't like you, either.
You only like your brother, huh?
I don't hate him.
As long as I continue to have Franz, I don't need anything else.
You sure do love your brother. You'll never get a boyfriend.
Franz isn't my brother.
Emeth Chilio found a nearly cagasterized woman's corpse.
There was a child in her stomach.
That child was me.
I was born from a dead Cagaster's stomach.
That's why I'm not related by blood to Franz.
Why didn't you tell me?!
Why...?
Tania, what'd you do that for?
He bullied you, Franz.
Bully?
When anyone finds out about her birth, they get creeped out and stay away.
I thought it'd be sad if you reacted that way, too.
I wouldn't judge people based on something like that.
I think of you guys as friends.
-Friends... -What are friends?
It means that I'm on your side.
Two years later,
if I'm reminiscing about those days,
does that mean my senses are still numb till this day?
With only the genetic information from Tania's unfertilized egg,
we were able to finally get here.
The first ever Cagaster we have given birth to.
Specimen No. 8, huh?
Let's give it a name.
That sounds nice.
The one who appears human,
yet cannot be bestowed human rights.
We named that child...
"Acht."
It's been a while.
You won't show me your face?
Most of the human parts aren't left.
The only ones who know this face are Franz and your Exterminator.
You worried about him?
Did you think things would end nicely if you just came quietly?
If that's the case, it had the opposite effect.
You'll be able to see hell soon.
What do you think a human who's guaranteed
never to have a Cagaster outbreak would want next?
I hear the girl has sniffed out two bugs already.
If the power grows by each generation,
maybe your father's argument wasn't exactly wrong.
"Whoever believes in their own innocence is cruel against another's crime."
I remember talking about that with a friend long ago.
Griffith, eh?
However, this is my fate as well as my mission.
Once Salif takes over E-05's control tower,
we'll begin the "Trial."
Deep sea fish?
Fish that can only live at the bottom of the sea.
They die if they come near the surface.
Normally, they're creatures that we'd never meet.
Acht,
my twin with whom I've shared my genes.
You must be suffering.
Just like me...
He won't get attacked?
Cagasters do not attack their own kind.
It must have identified him as one of them.
Can it be used as the queen?
Unfortunately, he is a boy.
If he can't control the bugs, then there's no point.
Happy Birthday, Acht!
What's this?
The story of the shepherd, Bo Peep.
Little Bo Peep
Has lost her sheep
Hey, hey!
Research finally began to progress thanks to Acht,
who had inherited Tania's genes.
Tania's strange birth...
Her mother, who had a Cagaster outbreak while pregnant,
ending up brain dead...
What Emeth Chilio unraveled
and whether or not he closed in on the truth...
If only I knew all that at the time...
You're getting married?
Tania says she wants to as well.
Besides, I'm already 27 now, you know?
I'm over 30 and still single here.
Well, I'm really glad. Congrats!
Thank you.
Soon after,
Tania gave birth to a girl.
She had silver hair
and purple-gray eyes just like Franz.
That child was named after the counterpart of Cagaster,
Iliaster, which means the origin of life.
She was named Ilie.
Acht, she's your little sister!
-No, she isn't. -No, she isn't.
Don't you both deny it so coldly.
Can I ask you one thing?
If you can't tell me, that's fine.
You two tied the knot
because you both wanted that, right?
You are truly on our side, huh?
I was afraid of you.
Franz always seemed like he was having fun when he was with you,
so I thought you'd take him away from me one day.
I wouldn't take him.
I'm a guy!
When we got around to talking about children,
I wished for Franz.
I thought that he would become mine that way...
But that wasn't good enough.
I had put Franz into a box
and destroyed his life.
Right when you opened the doors and showed him the world outside.
Tania...
Please remember this...
I'm a monster born from a Cagaster,
but when I wished for this child,
I was just a selfish and jealous woman.
This child's mother was definitely human.
Looks like he's using his little sister for the experiment.
That's his wife now, right? He's gonna make that his guinea pig?
What a true academic.
There's a spare queen now.
Looks like you're useless, then.
How do you feel, slowly turning into a bug?
You are indeed a failure!
Are you serious?
We couldn't create a queen in the end.
That's why we'll use Tania like how my dad used
-the queen that gave birth to her... -You're gonna sacrifice Tania?!
I don't mind.
If that's what Franz wants.
Just as Emeth Chilio did,
we cut open Tania.
For the Cagaster's truth
and for the salvation of the human world.
That's what we said and...
Don't eat that.
That's not food.
That's a flower.
What's a flower?
What?
Mom! Mom!
What's a flower?
"Forget-me-not."
"A flower is an organ of plants
that attracts insects as catalysts in passing their seeds on," she says.
When is Mom coming out?
I want her to read me a book!
That's not possible.
If Tania leaves this place...
Then I'll go in, too!
Mom, let me in! Mom!
-Ilie will go in, too! -Stop!
Mom, let me in, too!
Acht, if you haven't decided where you are going,
please take my place for her for a little while.
That year,
Tania entered the cocoon in a state of sleep...
never to awaken again.
And in return for her sacrifice,
we were able to fulfill our greatest desire.
Could this be...
"Stand back and bow down."
We gave out an order by adjusting a constant wave flowing from Tania.
Saying that this, here, is your queen.
Well done.
"There she espied their tails side by side,
-all hung on a tree to dry." -Tania,
we can control the Cagasters thanks to you.
"And over the hillocks went rambling...
Neither your daughter nor your twin
-will get hurt anymore. -...to tack each again to its lambkin."
Even if that should come to pass,
I swear I'll protect them.
-Hey, hey, read it one more time! -Not knowing anything,
that's what my stupid self swore at that moment.
That's right.
I didn't know a thing.
I didn't know how terrifying it would be.
Thirty years have passed since the outbreak of Cagasters.
We have finally reached the day when this is no longer a problem.
Stop, Franz!
Do you know what that's going to start?!
Of course.
The origin of insect cages will be exposed here today.
The project to create the queen
will be completed with this success.
Franz, I thought that I could save the world
from Cagasters if I came close to the truth that you spoke of.
But I was a fool.
Cancel the project!
It's too late.
The latent Cagaster genes
within people will respond and wake up to the queen's voice.
Now, you will all witness the future of mankind!
It's time for the trial.
From a different standpoint, people are sorted into "the evolved"
or "food" with the birth of the queen,
giving order to society.
My dad proved this in the Far East
and the city was completely devoured by bugs.
Adham intends on controlling the bugs better this time.
A world with only sorted people,
who have no fear of turning into bugs.
That is Adham's true goal.
But there's no guarantee children born later won't become bugs!
That's why we prepared a spare queen.
"A spare," you say?
That's your daughter!
Griffith!
Read me a book!
I can't find Acht today.
You sacrificed Tania...
for this witch hunt?!
Neither me nor my dad was chosen for the future.
That day,
my dad was disappointed that he couldn't become a bug...
and he gave himself up to them.
This is goodbye, Franz.
I won't let you make Ilie into a tool, too.
It'll get lonely.
Did you actually love Tania?
People use love as an excuse to stop thinking.
It's almost as stupid as talking about God.
But...
because I had Tania, I was able to survive these 20 years.
What were you gonna do if I had a Cagaster outbreak in this spot?
I thought that wouldn't be bad, either.
If I could become my friend's flesh and blood,
I'd feel like my life was worth something.
Goodbye, Griffith.
Let me warn you.
The people who know they won't become bugs
will fear others...
and despise them.
Griffith. You're the same.
Whoever believes in their own innocence
is cruel against another's crime.
You can't turn back anymore.
Acht!
Come here! Come with us!
Acht!
What are you doing there?!
You wanted a monster, right, human?
Then I'll live up to it.
I'm a predator that preys on you!
Acht...
Ilie...
Little Bo Peep
Has lost her sheep
And can't tell where
To find them
Where did you learn that song?
Acht taught me!
Little Bo Peep
Has lost her sheep
And can't tell where
To find them
In the village where we hid,
young Ilie gradually forgot her longing for her mom and Acht.
The father-daughter role-play soon became the truth inside Ilie.
I was happy.
I had dreams of living here with you guys numerous times.
But that ends here.
Today, Ilie turned a human
into a bug.
It was just like you said, Franz.
I had feared others up to this day.
After saying that I'd save the world from Cagasters,
I couldn't do anything
and triggered the worst scenario ever.
If she can't live as a human, at least...
At least...
I must kill her with my own hands...
But she calls me "Dad."
The way she laughs is exactly the same as you.
I'll take any punishment,
so I beg you please, Franz!
Save our daughter!