# 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