E11.5 - The Poppies Bloom Red on the Battlefield

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[00:00] Lena
    Stellar Year 2148.
SIGN    Stellar Year 2148, Republic of San Magnolia
[00:03] Lena
    The Republic of San Magnolia was
     under fierce invasion by the Legion,
[00:05] Lena
    unmanned, autonomous combat machines
    created by their neighbor to the East,
[00:11] Lena
    and the northern part of the continent's
    largest superpower, the Giadian Empire.
[00:18] Lena
    To fight them, the Republic developed
    their own autonomous machines, the Juggernauts.
[00:25] Lena
    The Juggernauts kept the threat at bay,
    without any risk of casualties.
[00:29] Lena
    At least, that's what the public was told.
SIGN    San Magnolia Military Headquarters
[00:36] Lena
    Military HQ forced others
    to do the actual fighting,
[00:37] Man
    Morning, Major!
[00:41] Lena
    while they drowned themselves
    in a false peace.
[00:41] Sanders
    Those pigs sure were crying
    their heads off yesterday.
[00:46] (Flashback) Lena
    Listen, you—
[00:47] (Flashback) Anette
    Morning.
[00:48] (Flashback) Lena
    Morning, Annette.
[00:50] (Flashback) Annette
    This isn't the battlefield.
[00:51] (Flashback) Annette
    We're inside the Gran Mur.
[00:53] (Flashback) Annette
    And the enemy will be gone in two years.
[00:55] (Flashback) Annette
    If anything, you're the weirdo
    for taking it seriously.
[01:01] Lena
    These tiny control rooms
[01:03] Lena
    were the only battlefields left inside the 85 districts of the Republic.
[01:09] (Flashback) Lena
    Activate Para-RAID.
    Synchronization target: Pleiades Processor.
[01:18] (Flashback) Lena
    What's wrong, Pleiades?
[01:20] (Flashback) Lena
    Come in!
[01:21] (Flashback) Lena
    What's wrong?
[01:23] (Flashback) Lena
    Handler One to Pleiades!
[01:25] Voice
    Stop...
[01:27] Voice
    He's dead!
[01:35] Lena
    But it wasn't true that no one was dying.
[01:39] Lena
    I wanted to fix this country's mistake.
[01:43] Lena
    That was my job as a Republic soldier.
[01:47] (Flashback) Kujo
    It hurts...
[01:50] (Flashback) Kujo
    Damn it all!
[01:51] (Flashback) Kujo
    Damn it!
[01:58] Lena
    One day, I was assigned to take
    command of Spearhead Squadron,
[01:59] Lena
    You're changing my assigned unit,
    General Karlstahl?
[02:03] Lena
    one of the best units made up of Eighty-Six.
[02:06] (Flashback) Karlstahl
    It's comprised of veterans
    from all across the eastern theater.
[02:09] (Flashback) Karlstahl
    An ace unit, you could say.
[02:12] Lena
    They were young men and women my age.
[02:15] Kaie
    They're having a good time over there, huh?
[02:18] Lena
    But their lives were very different from ours.
[02:19] Lecca
    Hey, help me!
[02:22] Theo
    Coming.
[02:27] Lena
    The Eighty-Six.
[02:29] Lena
    Young men and women who lived
    outside the 85 districts of the Republic
[02:35] Lena
    and were branded "humanoid pigs."
[02:39] Lena
    They spent their days and nights fighting
    inside these supposedly "unmanned" units.
[02:46] Lena
    In this battle,
    I would witness the astonishing power
[02:51] Lena
    of Spearhead Squadron's
    combat commander, Undertaker.
[03:19] Lena
    So this is... Undertaker?
[03:25] Lena
    Two weeks after becoming their Handler,
[03:29] Lena
    I was calling them on the Para-RAID
    every night to get to know them better.
[03:36] Lena
    One of them, named Kaie,
[03:39] Lena
    said something that reminded me
    of an incident from my childhood.
[03:45] Kaie
    Why do you care about us so much?
[03:52] (Flashback) Lena
    Well...
[03:54] (Flashback) Lena
    A long time ago, I was saved
    on the battlefield by a Processor.
[04:00] (Flashback) Lena
    He said to me,
[04:02] (Flashback) Lena
    "We are members of the Republic.
    We were born here and grew up here."
[04:06] (Flashback) Lena
    "It's a citizen's duty to protect his country.
    I'm proud to do it."
[04:09] (Flashback) Lena
    "That's why we fight."
[04:17] Lena
    I'd built a relationship of trust with them...
[04:21] Lena
    or so I thought.
[04:24] Kaie
    Leukosia. I'll hit it from the left.
[04:27] Kaie
    Back me up.
[04:28] Mikuri
    Roger, Kirschblüte.
[04:32] (Flashback) Lena
    Not that way! Kirschblüte!
[04:35] Kaie
    Wetlands? Here?
[04:37] Kaie
    I can't move.
[04:41] Kaie
    No.
[04:43] Kaie
    I don't want to die.
[04:50] Lena
    I caused Kaie's death.
[04:54] Lena
    I thought I was treating her like a human.
[05:01] Theo
    Or what, did you think we don't care
    when one of our own dies?
[05:04] Theo
    Yeah, maybe you're right!
[05:06] Theo
    After all, we're not
    high-minded humans like you.
[05:09] Theo
    We're pigs, less than human!
[05:11] (Flashback) Lena
    N-No! I didn't—
[05:13] (Flashback) Theo
    You think that if you just act nice
    and talk to us every day,
[05:16] (Flashback) Theo
    that counts as treating us
    as human, don't you?
[05:20] (Flashback) Theo
    You've never even asked us
    for our real names!
[05:28] Lena
    I thought I was fighting alongside them.
[05:33] Lena
    That's what I thought,
    but I was wrong.
[05:40] Lena
    They were right. I didn't know.
[05:44] Lena
    I'd never asked their names.
[05:48] (Flashback) Lena
    Henrietta Penrose.
[05:49] (Flashback) Annette
    What?
[05:51] (Flashback) Lena
    That's your name.
[05:53] (Flashback) Lena
    I know your name. We're friends.
[05:57] (Flashback) Annette
    So what?
[05:59] (Flashback) Lena
    A name is who you are.
[06:02] (Flashback) Lena
    And I didn't even think of that.
[06:04] (Flashback) Lena
    Not that way! Kirschblüte!
[06:07] (Flashback) Annette
    Before you regret it.
[06:08] (Flashback) Kaie
    I don't want to die.
[06:10] (Flashback) Lena
    Para-RAID, activate!
[06:12] (Flashback) Lena
    Synchronization target:
[06:15] (Flashback) Lena
    Undertaker!
[06:19] Lena
    Treating another human like that
    was unforgivable.
[06:24] Lena
    Cowardly.
[06:26] Lena
    So I...
[06:29] (Flashback) Lena
    So please, tell me your names.
    Your real names!
[06:39] Shin
    Kirschblüte, the girl who died yesterday,
    was Kaie Taniya.
[06:43] Shin
    Wehrwolf, our XO, is Raiden Shuga.
[06:46] Shin
    Laughing Fox is Theoto Rikka.
[06:49] Shin
    Snow Witch, Anju Emma.
[06:51] Shin
    Gunslinger, Kurena Kukumila.
[06:55] Shin
    Black Dog...
[06:56] Lena
    They weren't "unmanned units."
[06:58] Lena
    They were human beings, alive in this world.
[07:07] Lena
    I haven't heard your name.
[07:11] (Flashback) Shin
    Shinei Nouzen.
[07:12] Lena
    "Nouzen"?
[07:13] (Flashback) Shin
    Is something wrong?
[07:14] Lena
    Do you know someone named "Shourei Nouzen"?
[07:19] Lena
    His personal name was Dullahan,
    and his mark was a headless knight.
[07:33] (Flashback) Shin
    He's my brother.
[07:35] (Flashback) Rei
    Colonel Milizé!
[07:43] Lena
    The brother of Spearhead's commander, Shin,
    had saved my life in the past.
[07:54] (Flashback) Rei
    You okay?
[08:01] (Flashback) Rei
    But if I don't fight, I can't survive.
[08:04] (Flashback) Rei
    So I won't die. I can't.
[08:08] (Flashback) Rei
    I have to go back to my brother.
[08:14] Lena
    It felt like fate.
[08:17] Lena
    But then I learned something else.
[08:23] Voices
    Mom.
[08:24] Voices
    Help me.
[08:25] (Flashback) Lena
    No!
[08:27] (Flashback) Lena
    No!
[08:28] Shin
    Major!
[08:29] Shin
    Major Milizé!
[08:32] Kaie
    I don't want to die.
[08:35] Lena
    Captain...
[08:37] Lena
    Those voices I heard during the battle...
[08:40] Lena
    What are they?
[08:42] (Flashback) Shin
    Once, I almost died...
[08:46] (Flashback) Shin
    Actually, I think I did die.
[08:52] (Flashback) Shin
    So that's why I can hear them.
[08:54] (Flashback) Shin
    The voices of the ghosts
    who died as I did, but are still here.
[09:00] (Flashback) Shin
    The Republic government predicts
    the war will end in two years, right?
[09:05] Lena
    Yes.
[09:07] Lena
    The Legion's central processing unit
    is modeled after a human brain.
[09:10] Lena
    That design will cause it
    to stop functioning in two years.
[09:13] (Flashback) Shin
    If that design won't work,
[09:16] (Flashback) Shin
    they just need to replace it
    with another beforehand.
[09:19] (Flashback) Shin
    Using materials that are readily available
    on the battlefield where they live.
[09:22] Lena
    You can't mean...
[09:25] (Flashback) Shin
    Human brains.
[09:28] Lena
    He told me about the Black Sheep.
    Legion whose brains were copies of humans'.
[09:33] Lena
    And his own strange ability,
    which let him hear their voices.
[09:38] Lena
    He was carrying a burden
    far greater than I'd imagined.
[09:50] (Flashback) Shin
    I'll be going soon,
[09:52] (Flashback) Shin
    Brother.
[09:56] Lena
    Undertaker.
[09:57] Lena
    The personal name that was most beloved—
    and most hated—on the battlefield.
[10:04] Lena
    He had killed his own friends
    to keep the Legion from taking them.
[10:10] (Flashback) Raiden
    Until you make a grave for that...
[10:11] (Flashback) Raiden
    For your brother, huh?
[10:15] (Flashback) Shin
    It's all I can do.
[10:17] (Flashback) Shin
    My brother hasn't forgiven me.
[10:19] (Flashback) Shin
    He still blames me. So...
[10:23] (Flashback) Raiden
    He's obsessed with his brother's head.
[10:28] (Flashback) Raiden
    I guess you really are a Reaper
    in search of a missing head.
[10:35] (Flashback) Rei
    Shin.
[10:39] (Flashback) Rei
    It's your fault.
[10:42] (Flashback) Rei
    Everything. It's all your fault!
[10:47] (Flashback) Rei
    That Mom and Dad died.
[10:50] (Flashback) Rei
    The fact that I'm about to die.
[10:52] (Flashback) Rei
    It's all...
[10:55] (Flashback) Rei
    All because of your sin!
[10:57] (Flashback) Rei
    Shin!
SIGN    The Poppies Bloom Red on the Battlefield
[11:07] Lena
    The night of the Revolution Festival,
    I sent them a present.
[11:14] Lena
    The night sky was dark.
    The air clear.
[11:17] Lena
    And those watching looked up at them in awe.
[11:23] Lena
    They must have been beautiful.
[11:31] Shin
    You remember my brother, right?
[11:36] Shin
    That made me happy.
[11:38] Shin
    Because I wasn't able to remember him.
[11:43] (Flashback) Lena
    Captain Nouzen...
[11:48] Shin
    Will you remember us as well, Major?
[11:57] Lena
    No matter how strong they were,
    no matter how many battles they survived...
[12:02] Lena
    But...
[12:02] Lena
    Death was still so close to them.
[12:07] (Flashback) Lena
    Before that, I won't let you die.
[12:11] (Flashback) Lena
    I won't let anyone else die.
[12:29] (Flashback) Raiden
    Major, that's enough.
[12:31] (Flashback) Raiden
    Nothing you do will change a thing.
[12:34] (Flashback) Shin
    We're going to be wiped out.
[12:36] (Flashback) Shin
    This unit is an execution ground.
[12:42] Lena
    The last mission given to Spearhead
    wasn't a mission, or recon.
[12:51] Lena
    It was to advance until they died.
[12:55] (Flashback) Raiden
    We'll all die here.
[12:58] Lena
    That... That's impossible!
[13:02] (Flashback) Raiden
    Even if you know
    you're going to the gallows,
[13:04] (Flashback) Raiden
    you can choose
    how you're going to climb up there.
[13:07] (Flashback) Raiden
    We've made our choice.
[13:10] (Flashback) Raiden
    All we have to do now is survive.
[13:19] Shin
    Either way, the new one's
     still silent, for now.
[13:21] Lena
    At last, Shin found the Legion holding
     the voice of his brother, Shourei Nouzen.
[13:22] Raiden
    You can tell?
[13:23] Shin
    I memorized its voice.
[13:24] Shin
    And I doubt the enemy commander
     will let them use it.
[13:29] Shin
    I found him.
[13:31] Raiden
    Your brother?!
[13:32] Shin
    He found me, too.
[13:34] Shin
    What will you do?
[13:35] Lena
    He'd risked his life through countless battles in order to bring rest to his brother.
[13:36] Shin
    Hang yourself tonight,
    before you die tomorrow?
[13:40] Raiden
    Not a chance in hell.
[13:42] (Flashback) Raiden
    We'll follow you to the end, Reaper.
[13:49] Shin
    We're going to be wiped out.
[13:50] Shin
    This unit is an execution ground.
[13:55] Lena
    Special orders...
[13:57] (Flashback) Lena
    Please, help me!
[13:59] (Flashback) Lena
    I need to do something!
[14:00] (Flashback) Annette
    Nothing we do matters, so just—
[14:03] (Flashback) Lena
    Stop it!
[14:05] (Flashback) Lena
    Stop pretending to be a bad person
    just to have an excuse to do nothing!
[14:09] (Flashback) Annette
    You're the one who needs to stop!
[14:12] (Flashback) Annette
    Stop...
[14:14] (Flashback) Annette
    I mean it.
[14:16] (Flashback) Annette
    There's nothing we can do!
[14:18] (Flashback) Annette
    We can't do a thing to save them!
[14:23] (Flashback) Karlstahl
    The Eighty-Six all need to die.
[14:27] (Flashback) Karlstahl
    That's what's best for the country,
[14:30] (Flashback) Karlstahl
    according to its government,
    and indirectly, its people.
[14:33] (Flashback) Karlstahl
    That's the will of the nation.
[14:37] (Flashback) Lena
    The Eighty-Six are part of the Republic as well!
[14:40] (Flashback) Lena
    The Republican ideals that Saint Magnolia
     expounded should protect them, too!
[14:44] (Flashback) Lena
    If they aren't, how can this
    be the will of the Republic?!
[14:50] (Flashback) Karlstahl
    It's a country full of fools and villains,
[14:52] (Flashback) Karlstahl
    who executed Saint Magnolia for the
    sake of their own wealth and greed.
[14:57] (Flashback) Karlstahl
    What can you expect of them?!
[15:01] (Flashback) Karlstahl
    You're free to speak of your hopes and ideals,
[15:04] (Flashback) Karlstahl
    but you won't persuade anyone.
[15:07] (Flashback) Lena
    There's no need
    to obey these ridiculous orders.
[15:11] (Flashback) Lena
    Run away.
[15:14] Shin
    Major, we're not going to die.
[15:21] Shin
    We're finally following the path
    we wanted to follow,
[15:24] Shin
    to the place we wanted to go.
[15:28] Shin
    We can finally be free.
[15:30] Shin
    I would prefer you didn't disparage that.
[15:33] (Flashback) Lena
    Then... Then at least don't fight any more.
[15:37] Shin
    I have to.
[15:38] Shin
    We need to fight to go forward.
[15:41] Shin
    We've known it from the start.
[15:47] (Flashback) Raiden
    Shin.
[15:50] (Flashback) Shin
    Let's go.
[15:52] Rei
    I wanted to protect you.
[15:56] Rei
    That was how it was supposed to be, but...
[15:59] Rei
    Shin.
[16:03] Rei
    I'm coming for you.
[16:05] Rei
    Without my fragile human body.
[16:10] Rei
    This time,
    your brother will protect you forever.
[16:14] Rei
    So...
[16:17] Rei
    Come see me, Shin!
[16:22] Lena
    At last, Shin faced off with his brother.
[16:25] Raiden
    I guess we're dealing
    with every single Legion in the area.
[16:37] (Flashback) Shin
    Anything I shoot won't get through.
[16:40] Voices
    Help me!
[16:41] Voices
    Help me! Help me!
[16:48] Lena
    Lieutenant Shuga,
    I'm borrowing your left eye!
[16:52] Lena
    They would finally be free, Shin had said.
[16:53] Lena
    Here they are.
[16:56] Lena
    Prepare for impact!
[16:58] Lena
    The only thing I could do for them
    was clear their path as best I could,
[17:04] Lena
    to keep them going
    even a single second longer.
[17:07] Lena
    Where's Captain Nouzen?
[17:11] (Flashback) Raiden
    Fighting his brother.
[17:19] Lena
    Captain Nouzen! Come in!
[17:24] Lena
    I don't want to let him die, either.
[17:38] (Flashback) Rei
    The rounds are duds?
[17:41] Raiden
    Shin! Wake up, you fool!
[17:43] All
    Stop messing around!
[17:45] Lena
    You're going to give him his rest, right?
[17:49] Lena
    Shin!
[18:04] Rei
    I...
[18:07] Rei
    I wanted you to...
[18:22] (Flashback) Shin
    Goodbye, brother.
[18:33] Rei
    I get it now.
[18:36] Rei
    You don't need me to hold your hand.
[18:48] Rei
    I'm sorry.
[18:55] Lena
    I have a duty to see
    everything that happens.
[18:59] Lena
    No matter how much pain
    and sadness there is...
[19:02] Lena
    Because I am Spearhead's Handler.
[19:10] Raiden
    Let's get to work, then.
[19:13] Raiden
    Talk to you later, Major.
[19:15] Raiden
    Hope you can do this
    with the next ones, too.
[19:18] Lena
    Wait... Wait!
[19:20] Lena
    Don't leave me!
[19:22] Raiden
    Yeah, I like that.
[19:23] Lena
    They're finally going to the place
    they want to go.
[19:24] Raiden
    We're not being chased.
[19:29] Lena
    To the East. To the unexplored battlefield
    where the Legion wait.
[19:29] Raiden
    We're going on our own,
    as far as we can go.
[19:34] Shin
    We finally made it here.
[19:37] Shin
    We've finally arrived.
[19:39] Shin
    Outside District 86,
[19:41] Shin
    the battlefield where we lived.
[19:45] Shin
    Major...
[19:48] Shin
    We're going on ahead, Major.
[20:15] Lena
    I was placed under house arrest,
[20:18] Lena
    and then I traveled to the Spearhead base.
[20:23] Lena
    There I saw...
[20:42] Raiden
    If you actually went to the
    trouble of finding this,
[20:45] Raiden
    you're one crazy dumb ass.
[20:48] Raiden
    Raiden Shuga.
[20:51] Theo
    I'll put everyone's names down.
[20:52] Theo
    I bet you'd cry because you didn't know
    who was who, otherwise.
[20:57] Theo
    Theoto Rikka.
[21:05] Lena
    I thought I could hear their laughter.
[21:09] Lena
    Knowing that in the end,
    they could leave nothing behind at all,
[21:13] Lena
    they still lived as best they could
    until the day came.
[21:17] Lena
    The laughter of those boys and girls...
[21:20] Shin
    If, one day, you make it
    to our final destination,
[21:24] Shin
    would you please leave flowers?
[21:28] Shin
    Shinei Nouzen.
[21:32] Lena
    I can keep walking, too.
[21:36] Lena
    They believed that about me,
    until the very end.
[21:49] (Flashback) Lena
    Let's go.
[21:51] (Flashback) Lena
    What should I call you?
[21:54] (Flashback) Lena
    I'll fight...
[21:56] (Flashback) Lena
    until the moment
    when fate finally comes for me.
SIGN    Season 2
    Coming This October