Now having lost most of the Hakkeshu to Zeorymer...
Yuratei has abandoned her plan to recapture it...
and has sent the remaining Hakkeshu out...
to engage in one great blow of destruction.
However, unlike their previous encounters...
Zeorymer has not appeared to stop them.
Project IV EXTINCTION
Burstone, with its 500 missiles...
Dinodilos, with its ability to...
activate any magma layer with its wave-motion transmitter...
and Omzack, whose Nuclear Disintegrator cannon...
can stand up to Zeorymer.
Japan will be where we construct our underworld.
And even if Zeorymer appears...
the three of them should be able to handle him.
You fool!
We are to turn the entire WORLD into our domain!
All who choose not to join us will be destroyed.
To that end, we can cause the IEB network...
throughout the world to self-destruct!
Yes, you can do exactly as you say.
The IEB network controls nuclear weapons sites...
as well as atomic power stations.
You can reduce the world to a lifeless wasteland...
for the next ten thousand years!
If I desire it, I will carry out that level of destruction!
Do those words REALLY come from you?
What is it?
I want to destroy the world...
and yet when I say it, I feel a pain in my heart.
As though this desire wasn't really my own.
Why?
Taiha... You would have understood.
Damn you, Oki.
Just when we really need it, he can't launch that thing.
Sir!
Time to be humble again.
What the devil?!
You can take your nukes and go to hell!
With Japan unable to resist, not even America's trump card...
its tactical nuclear weapons, are any match for the Hakkeshu.
Please! You have to go out in Zeorymer!
How do you propose to make me go?
It's a hopeless battle.
Why are you doing this?
Surely you stole Zeorymer because you knew...
Hau Dragon was going to do this...
and you wanted to stop them, right?
Do I really look like such a philanthropist to you?
I only stole Zeorymer for insurance!
Insurance?
Insurance... for being master of the underworld!
You're headed for Mt. Fuji? Saiga! What are you up to?!
What's wrong? Are you afraid of Zeorymer, you stubborn fool?
What was that?!
There has to be a reason Zeorymer...
hasn't tried to stop our destroying this nation.
They may be upgrading it as we speak.
If so, isn't now the best time for the three of us to attack?
We can destroy Japan any time we want.
But Yuratei ordered us to stay away from Last Guardian.
No.
Saiga DOES have a point.
Unless we destroy Zeorymer, we have no chance of winning.
Set course for Mt. Fuji, Gisou!
Rockfell. If you're going, then I'll go as well.
It's decided, then.
That growth memory silicon worked better than I expected.
And aside from your pretensions, that sentient Al system works well.
But in the end, you're just a wind-up doll!
You made me what I am.
Exactly. I knew very well that I'd be killed...
after I escaped from Hau Dragon.
They wanted to take Zeorymer away from me.
And so I arranged for my own resurrection!
You're just a piece of trash with the ability to grow!
Stop it, please!
I calculated that either the Japanese government...
or perhaps even Hau Dragon itself...
would take control of the world after my death.
And then calculated on which side my seed was to survive.
So, we have the robot and the pilot egg. As for Kihara...
But he's the project's creator!
That robot will be our nation's insurance...
in case relations with the Soviet Union deteriorate.
Insurance?
As long as Kihara lives, he might try to go back.
And I'd rather not have to keep him prisoner.
The Japanese government or Hau Dragon. Whichever side won...
it would be controlled by one of my clones!
Do you understand? That's why I won't launch out.
As long as I rule in the end...
the Hakkeshu can reduce the world to ashes.
Actually, even if I was defeated...
the other "me" in Hau Dragon would become ruler instantly!
In effect, I'm gambling with myself for the entire world!
That's what the game has been until now.
And who is the other clone in Hau Dragon?
A puppet has no need to know that!
Masato?
Don't touch me!
Damn it.
What's the meaning of this, Lurahn?
They've cut out their monitor systems. I can't contact them.
I think they're planning to regroup at Mt. Fuji.
You're responsible for their insubordination!
If they're defeated by Zeorymer...
I'll carry out the Final Project for real next time!
Is that clear, Lurahn?!
Masato. Sorry, I mean Masaki.
In the name of the Japanese government, I must ask you again.
Go out in Zeorymer!
And if I say no?
There are options beyond brainwashing to try.
Gonna kill me AGAIN, Oki?
Masaki Kihara?
This is the encoded zygote.
It'll take 15 years for it to grow to full maturity.
You discovered Miku...
and had the zygote raised by those hired parents.
But you never realized that the key element to Zeorymer...
its dimensional coupler system, was Miku herself!
This is another application of the dimensional coupler system.
Hau Dragon.
Yes, Rockfell! Lay the base open!
You're late, Gisou!
Saiga! Shouldn't we at least report in to Yuratei?
Are you still going on about that?
Her Highness won't be angry when we finally defeat Zeorymer.
Rockfell.
Just one more should do it. Go to it, Rockfell!
Roger.
Defense systems?
Well, how much do they think a mountain forest can take?
Gisou, wait!
We can finally be certain of finishing Zeorymer!
Hitting it before it could launch was YOUR idea, Saiga! Wasn't it?!
Shoot!
It's over.
Saiga, I don't know what you were up to, but it's all over.
Where? Where is it?!
Whatever you're looking for is probably in ruins by now.
SHUT UP!
Saiga.
Zeorymer!
No matter how many of you gather to take me on...
Zeorymer will never be defeated!
Like hell, Masato Akitsu!
Saiga. Why?!
Masato Akitsu, I wish to make a proposal.
Omzack's Proton Thunder is...
the only thing equal to Zeorymer's power.
So?
So if you were to join me...
no power on Earth could stand in our way.
Saiga! Is that what your plan was all along?!
What are you going to do?
After using up all your missiles, you're easy prey for Omzack!
Very well. See the sincerity of my words, Masato Akitsu!
What's...
Burstone of the Mountain's trump card.
Nuclear warheads that can annihilate the entire area.
Your move, Saiga!
I find your scheming and evil nature disgusting!
The devil take you, Gisou! PROTON THUNDER, FIRE!
SHOOT!
Stop it, Gisou! You'll have to shoot me to get at him!
You love that bastard?! He's only using you!
I don't care!
Rockfell, I...
Can't say it, Gisou?
"I love you, Rockfell."
I can say it as much as I please. "I love you!"
STOP IT!!!
Stop it. Stop it!
Love?! What do any of you know about it?
You're all just clones, genetically engineered by me!
All derived from the same zygote!
You're all just different aspects of the same person!
I am your creator. Rightful master of the coming underworld!
And what difference does any of that make?
Even if you did create me, I'm a living person!
And in the emptiness of my life, I discovered Saiga.
I respected him as a warrior, and now I love him!
I did that on my own!
You can't take that away from me!
All of it was just part of your programming!
Rockfell...
Cease your resistance, or you'll wind up like her!
MASAKI!
You'll pay for this, Zeorymer!
You dare turn against your creator?!
Masato. Masato?
I... I...
A dimensional coupler system.
Capable of tapping limitless energy from...
contiguous dimensions in a crisis situation.
Masaki. I didn't think you could pull it off!
Masato? It IS you, isn't it?
I'm neither Masato nor Masaki.
Masato.
I understand. I finally understand.
I'm neither of them.
Neither side controls me anymore.
I'm a clone of Masaki Kihara.
And Kihara's memories and personality...
were programmed into me from Zeorymer.
Once I'd taken those in, I thought I would be Kihara.
That's what I thought.
But then... Masato Akitsu wouldn't disappear.
The personality of that ordinary 15-year-old boy was still there.
What remains of him, who resists the seduction of...
Kihara's ambitions screaming within, stands before you now.
Masato.
Who am I?
You can't push it.
A person with a gentle nature like yours...
can't possibly want to destroy the world!
What... What do you know, Lurahn?!
That every move you make...
is directed by the ghost of Masaki Kihara!
Miku, kill me now.
As long as Zeorymer exists, I could turn back into Kihara.
Kill me, before that happens!
Miku, you're a good girl. Not just you.
All the members of the Hakkeshu were pure inside.
Why did I create such good people...
and yet I'm so filthy inside?!
You're not! The part of you that's pure produced them.
Come away from Zeorymer.
I know the old Masato will come back!
Why, Lurahn?!
If you knew I was created from Kihara's cells...
that I was acting as his agent...
Why did you let me live until now?!
I wanted to see Masaki's attempt at rebirth fail.
But, you've been helping me all along.
You are so beautiful.
Everything I've done has been according to Kihara's will.
He implanted all these false ambitions within me.
Taiha... Why did you have to die?
Masato Akitsu. I'm sure you know everything by now.
Yeah.
Whichever one of us wins is the true master of our underworld.
I'm about to throw a switch that will destroy the world.
If you can stop me, then come.
Masato!
I can't run from this.
I have to settle this with that other me...
to erase the hatred of one man.
I'm going with you!
I don't need you!
It only has to be me, now.
Masato.
Mr. Oki. You're okay.
Masato, isn't there anything I can do?
You can try to erase my destiny.
I have the memory of the location...
of Tekkoryu's fortress within me.
If we follow it, we can fly straight there.
Please. Take me with you.
Let's go, Miku!
Roger.
Hades Project ZEORYMER
THE END
I was searching for whatever was coming next.
Just listening to my own footsteps.
Kept seeing the time we met, playing in my mind.
Something seemed to be missing inside.
Thoughts I couldn't let out...
disappeared into my heart.
But you're my love. Yes, you're the only one.
Just the one for me.
I want to hold you with all my strength.
Goodbye, my love, even if I couldn't say it.
I'll never forget this feeling...
that I love you.
But you're my love. Yes, you're the only one.
Just the one for me.
I want to hold you with all my strength.
I'll be so sad, while I try to force a smile.
I can't hide this feeling...
that I love you.