E18.5 - If There's Something Worth Dying For
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[00:01] Narr - Frederica
The Eighty-Six.
[00:03] Narr - Frederica
Branded "less than human" by our neighbors,
the Republic of San Magnolia,
[00:08] Narr - Frederica
they were forced to fight on the front lines
against the unmanned weapons of the Legion.
[00:15] Narr - Frederica
It all goes back to when their war ended,
[00:18] Narr - Frederica
and they found themselves in the Federacy.
[00:23] Narr - Frederica
Their burdens are heavy
and will never disappear.
[00:44] (Flashback) Flashback - Ernst
I know.
I just want to chat a little.
[00:49] (Flashback) Flashback - Ernst
Oh, the generals were all really worried,
so they made me wear this biohazard suit.
[00:58] (Flashback) Flashback - Ernst
My name is Ernst.
[01:01] (Flashback) Flashback - Ernst
And you?
[01:03] (Flashback) Flashback - Shinei
Shinei Nouzen.
[01:06] Narr - Frederica
The Giad Federacy brought five child soldiers
who'd been found on the western front
[01:12] Narr - Frederica
and made them citizens.
[01:16] (Flashback) Flashback - Giad Officer
The safest thing for the Federacy
would be to eliminate them.
[01:21] (Flashback) Flashback - Ernst
If they've fought for so long,
they should be given peace.
[01:26] (Flashback) Flashback - Ernst
Especially if their homeland
refuses to do it.
[01:31] (Flashback) Flashback - Ernst
I want the Federacy to be just, at least.
[01:34] (Flashback) Flashback - Ernst
Because...
[01:35] (Flashback) Flashback - Ernst
that is the ideal of mankind.
[03:11] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
Welcome, poor souls who were banished
from your country!
[03:17] Narr - Frederica
They were soon brought to Ernst's mansion.
[03:20] (Flashback) Flashback - Ernst
Oh, no.
She's not my daughter.
[03:22] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
Do you really think I'm the daughter
of this lowly bureaucrat?
[03:25] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
I'm—
[03:26] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
Frederica Rosenfort.
[03:28] (Flashback) Flashback - Ernst
Some things happened,
and now she's staying here.
[03:32] (Flashback) Flashback - Ernst
So I'd appreciate it if you'd think of her
as a slightly naïve little sister.
[03:39] (Flashback) Flashback - Raiden
"Little sister," huh?
[03:43] Narr - Frederica
One month passed from when they
came to the capital, Sankt Jeder.
[03:48] Narr - Frederica
They all seemed to feel out of place
in this peaceful city.
[03:54] Narr - Frederica
And then Shinei met a certain boy.
[03:59] (Flashback) Flashback - Eugene
Sorry for just talking
to you out of nowhere.
[04:00] (Flashback) Flashback - Eugene
I'm Eugene Rantz.
[04:02] (Flashback) Flashback - Eugene
Nice to meet you.
[04:04] (Flashback) Flashback - Shinei
Shinei Nouzen.
[04:05] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
Frederica Rosenfort!
[04:07] (Flashback) Flashback - Nina
Nina Rantz.
[04:09] (Flashback) Flashback - Shinei
What are you doing?
[04:11] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
I read her a book,
and she took a liking to me.
[04:15] Narr - Frederica
He said he was enlisting to earn a living
and support his little sister.
[04:21] Narr - Frederica
Yes, the battle with the Legion wasn't over.
[04:29] (Flashback) Flashback - Kaie
I know it's an awful thing to ask.
[04:33] (Flashback) Flashback - Kaie
It still hurts.
[04:36] (Flashback) Flashback - Kaie
Staying here hurts.
[04:39] (Flashback) Flashback - Kaie
I'm dead. I want to go home.
[04:43] (Flashback) Flashback - Kaie
So... Shin.
[04:46] (Flashback) Flashback - Kaie
Our Reaper...
[04:52] (Flashback) Flashback - Kaie
Please, save us.
[04:56] Narr - Frederica
They decided this place wasn't for them
[05:00] Narr - Frederica
and chose to go back to the battlefield.
[05:03] (Flashback) Flashback - Ernst
Why?
[05:05] (Flashback) Flashback - Theo
"Why?"
[05:06] (Flashback) Flashback - Raiden
We're sorry for being suspicious at first.
[05:09] (Flashback) Flashback - Raiden
This is a good place.
[05:11] (Flashback) Flashback - Raiden
So we stayed here a little too long.
[05:14] (Flashback) Flashback - Shinei
We were lucky, that's all.
[05:17] (Flashback) Flashback - Shinei
If we use that as an excuse
to stay here,
[05:20] (Flashback) Flashback - Shinei
what can we say to those
who died fighting until the end?
[05:23] (Flashback) Flashback - Shinei
Even if we're going to die either way,
we can choose how.
[05:28] (Flashback) Flashback - Shinei
If we're going to die someday, we will
fight till the end. That's the life we chose.
[05:33] (Flashback) Flashback - Shinei
Please don't take that from us.
[05:36] Narr - Frederica
And when I saw that,
[05:39] Narr - Frederica
I revealed that I was the
last Empress of the Giad Empire —
[05:43] Narr - Frederica
the ones who had released the
Legion onto the continent —
[05:46] Narr - Frederica
and I begged them to fulfill my wish.
[05:49] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
If you're going back to the battlefield,
[05:52] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
take me with you!
[05:55] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
And help me destroy my knight's ghost!
[05:59] (Flashback) Flashback - Shinei
He was taken by the Legion?
[06:01] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
Yes. The Legion who attacked you
just before you reached this country.
[06:07] (Flashback) Flashback - Shinei
How do you know?
[06:09] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
The power of the blood
I inherited allows me
[06:12] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
to see glimpses of the present
and past of those I meet.
[06:16] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
But seeing is all I can do!
[06:19] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
I can't save Kiriya alone!
[06:22] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
So please... help me!
[06:25] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
Like the brother you saved,
and who saved you in turn...
[06:29] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
Save my knight!
[06:35] Narr - Frederica
After becoming official members
of the Giad military,
[06:41] Narr - Frederica
they were taken to the place
their comrades had reached in the end.
[06:45] (Flashback) Flashback - Grethe
We decided the names
of your comrades on the plate,
[06:48] (Flashback) Flashback - Grethe
all 575 of them,
should be recorded here.
[06:52] (Flashback) Flashback - Grethe
So we did this.
[06:54] (Flashback) Flashback - Gretehe
I am Lt. Colonel Grethe Wenzel,
commander of the 1028th Test Unit.
[06:59] (Flashback) Flashback - Grethe
Glad to be working with you all.
[07:01] (Flashback) Flashback - Shinei
Thank you.
[07:03] Narr - Frederica
And I had a surprise for them, too!
[07:05] Narr - Frederica
Though Shinei realized it immediately.
[07:12] (Flashback) Flashback - Shinei
Fido?
[07:14] (Flashback) Flashback - Anju
What are you saying, Shin?
[07:16] (Flashback) Flashback - Raiden
Do you name all your pets
the same thing?
[07:20] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
No, this is Fido.
[07:22] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
The one who was with you.
[07:26] (Flashback) Flashback - Shinei
You are the proof that we made it here.
[07:30] (Flashback) Flashback - Shinei
Perform your mission until you rust away.
[07:35] (Flashback) Flashback - Shinei
Want to go home together, once more?
[07:43] (Flashback) Flashback - Theo
Saw that coming.
[07:44] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
Shouldn't you be a little worried?
[07:49] (Flashback) Flashback - Grethe
So he does know how to smile, huh?
[07:56] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
By the way, Shinei.
[07:57] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
I have another surprise for you.
[08:02] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
It's important to you, isn't it?
[08:10] (Flashback) Flashback - Shinei
Yeah.
[08:15] Narr - Frederica
The five were assigned
to Nordlicht Squadron,
[08:18] Narr - Frederica
a test unit for a new type of
high-mobility Feldreß called the "Reginleif."
[08:23] Narr - Frederica
But their incredible combat abilities
caused others around them to fear them.
[08:26] Flashback - Officer 1
Who killed them, I wonder?
[08:28] Flashback - Officer 3
The headless skeleton,
possessed by a Reaper.
[08:30] Narr - Frederica
Then Shinei met the boy he'd first
encountered at the library, Eugene Rantz.
[08:37] Narr - Frederica
But...
[08:39] (Flashback) Flashback - Eugene
She became a mascot, huh?
[08:42] (Flashback) Flashback - Shinei
Yeah.
[08:43] (Flashback) Flashback - Eugene
Nobody even likes that old custom anymore.
[08:45] (Flashback) Flashback - Shinei
Even someone like her,
if she's there, we have to protect her.
[08:50] (Flashback) Flashback - Shinei
How's your sister? Is she doing well?
[08:53] (Flashback) Flashback - Eugene
Yeah, I think.
[08:56] (Flashback) Flashback - Shin
Then you really shouldn't have
joined the military, right?
[08:59] (Flashback) Flashback - Shin
The war's not going well.
[09:01] (Flashback) Flashback - Shin
And I don't think that's going to change.
[09:03] (Flashback) Flashback - Eugene
Yes. My unit lost fifteen
people just yesterday.
[09:08] (Flashback) Flashback - Eugene
But then what about you?
[09:18] (Flashback) Flashback - Shinei
Again? They never give up.
[09:21] (Flashback) Flashback - Eugene
I bet girls don't like them.
[09:26] (Flashback) Flashback - Eugene
Okay, see you later.
[09:48] (Flashback) Flashback - Eugene
Please...
[09:54] (Flashback) Flashback - Eugene
Thank you.
[10:09] (Flashback) Flashback - Ernst
But why go back to the battlefield?
[10:11] (Flashback) Flashback - Marcel
Why didn't you save him?
[10:13] (Flashback) Flashback - Officer
It's not too late.
[10:14] (Flashback) Flashback - Officer
Leave the army and live happily.
[10:17] Narr - Frederica
Everyone asked, "Why?"
[10:20] Narr - Frederica
without realizing that
it was an insult to them.
[10:24] Narr - Frederica
They were the Eighty-Six.
SIGN If There's Something Worth Dying For
[10:31] Narr - Frederica
We all met up again at the main camp.
[10:36] (Flashback) Flashback - Grethe
Welcome back!
[10:38] Narr - Frederica
There was news of an
upcoming Legion attack.
[10:43] Narr - Frederica
A major battle was approaching.
[10:46] Narr - Frederica
He could already hear their voice, even then.
[10:52] Narr - Frederica
Then I decided to tell him
about my knight, Kiriya.
[10:58] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
My knight, Kiriya Nouzen, was a member
of the Nouzen clan like you.
[11:03] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
But he was four years
older than you...
[11:06] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
So when I saw him last,
he looked how you do now.
[11:10] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
The Giad Empire used the Legion
to attack our neighbors.
[11:16] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
But after that, the people rebelled,
[11:19] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
and the Imperial family was chased
to a border fortress.
[11:23] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
And Kiriya had to fight to protect me...
[11:29] Frederica
Kiri fought and fought to protect me...
Killing so many people...
[11:38] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
I turned him into that monster.
[11:44] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
And in the end...
the Empire fell, and many died.
[11:50] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
And only the Legion were left.
[11:52] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
You all have a future,
and that cannot be taken from you.
[11:57] (Flashback) Flashback - Shinei
A future?
[11:59] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
Your next leave.
[12:00] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
Where you want to go.
[12:02] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
What you want to do someday.
[12:03] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
Anything like that will do.
[12:06] Flashback - Lena
Is there something you want to do?
Somewhere you want to go, or want to see?
[12:17] (Flashback) Flashback - Raiden
But... are you okay?
[12:20] (Flashback) Flashback - Shinei
What do you mean?
[12:21] (Flashback) Flashback - Raiden
You're not thinking of anything
you don't need to be, are you?
[12:25] (Flashback) Flashback - Shin
The future?
[12:27] (Flashback) Flashback - Shin
I never have.
[12:30] (Flashback) Flashback - Shin
I've never needed to.
[12:33] (Flashback) Flashback - Raiden
It was always about this time of day,
wasn't it?
[12:36] (Flashback) Flashback - Raiden
You think the Major's doing okay?
[12:43] Flashback - Raiden
How many?
[12:44] Flashback - NShinei
I don't want to even try to count.
[12:46] Narr - Frederica
And then the Legion launched
their all-out attack.
[12:58] (Flashback) Flashback - Soldier 2
Are those all...
[13:00] (Flashback) Flashback - Soldier 2
There are so many!
[13:09] (Flashback) Flashback - Grethe
No... So every area in the theater
is under large-scale assault?
[13:15] Flashback - Shinei
Ma'am.
[13:16] (Flashback) Flashback - Grethe
Lieutenant Nouzen, what's the situation?
[13:18] (Flashback) Flashback - Grethe
When will you be ready to go?
[13:20] Flashback - Shinei
Whenever.
[13:21] Flashback - Shinei
Nordlicht squadron is all ready to go.
[13:24] (Flashback) Flashback - Grethe
Maintain our combat lines
until the other units
[13:26] Flashback - Grethe
are ready to go, no matter the cost!
[13:29] (Flashback) Flashback - Shin
Roger.
[13:43] (Flashback) Flashback - Soldier 8
A Reginleif...
[13:50] (Flashback) Flashback - Soldier 8
So this is Nordlicht squadron...
[13:54] Flashback - Shinei
Withdraw and regroup, please.
[13:57] Flashback - Shinei
We'll buy you time.
[14:01] (Flashback) Flashback - Anju
Okay... Let's get to work.
[14:08] (Flashback) Flashback - Kurena
I'll start with their commanders.
[14:10] (Flashback) Flashback - Kurena
I'll be changing places, so back me up.
[14:14] (Flashback) Flashback - Raiden
Roger, Kurena.
[14:15] (Flashback) Flashback - Raiden
Leave the little ones to me.
[14:33] Narr - Frederica
I don't have the power
to go to the battlefield,
[14:37] Narr - Frederica
but if I could use this power to see,
I could help them!
[14:57] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
There!
[14:59] (Flashback) Flashback - Operator
The second wave is being held off
in all combat areas!
[15:03] (Flashback) Flashback - Operator
Nordlicht squadron has begun advancing
on the enemy's main formation!
[15:07] (Flashback) Flashback - Operator
They're still fighting on the front lines!
[15:18] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
What are you doing, Shinei?
[15:29] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
Shinei!
[15:44] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
You...
[15:51] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
You mustn't keep fighting like that!
[16:26] Flashback - Grethe
Command to all members
of Nordlicht squadron.
[16:29] Flashback - Grethe
Good work.
[16:31] Flashback - Grethe
The Legion are falling back.
[16:34] Flashback - Grethe
Return to base.
[16:39] (Flashback) Flashback - Shinei
Roger.
[16:43] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
Shinei, you fool.
[16:47] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
You're just like Kiri.
[16:53] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
You huge fool!
[17:05] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
On that day,
Kiri attacked the Republic.
[17:09] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
What I saw was a shattered wall
and a burning five-color flag.
[17:15] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
And a huge Legion...
[17:20] (Flashback) Flashback - Kiri
I'll kill you!
[17:21] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
Get down! Kiri is...!
[17:28] Narr - Frederica
The railgun-equipped Legion named "Morpho"
[17:32] Narr - Frederica
was the one that absorbed Kiri.
[17:37] Narr - Frederica
Kiri destroyed the Federacy's front lines,
and the Republic as well.
[17:42] Narr - Frederica
The military leaders decided to launch
an attack to take it out directly.
[17:48] (Flashback) Flashback - General 3
Whatever unit we choose
to eliminate it will die.
[17:51] (Flashback) Flashback - General 2
That's why we should choose those
who are most likely to succeed,
[17:54] (Flashback) Flashback - General 2
and least likely to be missed.
[18:06] (Flashback) Flashback - Nina
Why did you abandon him?
[18:08] (Flashback) Flashback - Nina
Why didn't you save my brother?
[18:14] (Flashback) Flashback - Nina
You killed him, right?
[18:17] (Flashback) Flashback - Nina
Give my brother back!
[18:20] (Flashback) Flashback - Man 1
If you'd died instead of him...
[18:24] Flashback - Lena
I won't forget!
[18:27] (Flashback) Flashback - Shinei
Major...
[18:30] (Flashback) Flashback - Grethe
Lieutenant Nouzen,
General Richard wants to speak with you.
[18:34] Narr - Frederica
The Division Commander for the Western Forces
made the decision
[18:37] Narr - Frederica
to go with a plan which used Shinei's power
to destroy the Morpho.
[18:41] Narr - Frederica
It would involve sacrificing Shinei
and the other Eighty-Six.
[18:47] Narr - Frederica
Yes. Just as his old country had done.
[18:53] (Flashback) Flashback- Shinei
I'm left behind... always.
[18:59] (Flashback) Flashback - Lena
I won't let you die.
[19:05] (Flashback) Flashback - Lena
I won't forget.
[19:10] (Flashback) Flashback - Shinei
Goodbye.
[19:17] Narr - Frederica
A massive transport constructed
by the former Imperial Military: the Nachzehrer.
[19:22] Narr - Frederica
This craft flew just above the ground
[19:25] Narr - Frederica
and would take their Reginleifs
into enemy territory.
[19:30] Narr - Frederica
There was no guarantee they'd return.
[19:38] (Flashback) Flashback - Shinei
Frederica.
[19:39] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
I'm not leaving.
[19:41] (Flashback) Flashback - Shinei
I came because I heard you were
throwing a tantrum about not leaving.
[19:45] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
It's not a tantrum.
[19:46] (Flashback) Flashback - Shinei
Why are you so insistent on sending us
back to the rear?
[19:51] (Flashback) Flashback - Shinei
Didn't you want us to kill your knight?
[19:57] Narr - Frederica
No. No, Shinei!
[20:01] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
You regret not telling your brother
not to go, right?
[20:05] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
You still regret that he went to his death
without you saying anything!
[20:09] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
So why are you trying
to do the same thing he did?
[20:14] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
Why are you trying to make me suffer,
[20:16] (Flashback) Flashback - Frederica
as your brother made you suffer?
[20:21] (Flashback) Flashback
Frederica...
[20:22] Narr - Frederica
You understand that if the battle takes you,
[20:28] Narr - Frederica
you'll become a ghost like Kiriya.
[20:31] Narr - Frederica
You can't go. You can't die.
[20:35] Narr - Frederica
Shinei...
[20:36] Flashback - Grethe
The country you finally reached
is far from a utopia.
[20:41] Flashback - Grethe
Not one person in this country
wants you to die in battle.
[20:46] Flashback - Grethe
We want you to stay alive.
[20:49] Flashback - Grethe
That goes for me, the Division Commander,
and the rest of the unit.
[20:55] Flashback - Ernst
And me, too.
[20:58] Flashback - Ernst
Nordlicht's success in this mission will determine
the fate of the Federacy,
[21:04] Flashback - Ernst
the surrounding countries, and humanity.
[21:06] Flashback - Ernst
Keep that in mind.
And make sure you destroy the Morpho.
[21:12] Flashback - Ernst
And one more thing.
[21:14] Flashback - Ernst
This is your highest-priority mission.
[21:18] Flashback - Ernst
Come back alive.
All of you.
[21:28] (Flashback) Flashback - Ernst
That's right.
[21:30] (Flashback) Flashback - Ernst
Come back, no matter what.
[21:33] (Flashback) Flashback - Ernst
Let's get started.
[21:36] (Flashback) Flashback - Ernst
Attention, comrades!
[21:40] (Flashback) Flashback - Ernst
The Western Theater forces will begin
an all-out march into Legion-held territory.
[21:46] (Flashback) Flashback - Ernst
You are the mighty shield
that defends your homeland,
[21:51] (Flashback) Flashback - Ernst
and the sharp sword
that cuts open a future for humanity!
[21:56] (Flashback) Flashback - Ernst
We will be a symbol of justice
for the world!
[21:59] (Flashback) Flashback - Ernst
Keep our successful battles
close to your heart
[22:02] (Flashback) Flashback - Ernst
and advance, bravely, valiantly!
[22:08] (Flashback) Flashback - Ernst
Begin the mission.
[22:11] Flashback - Operator 3
Opening canopy. Deploying catapult rails.
[22:17] Flashback - Operator 1
All joint locks deployed.
[22:22] Flashback - Operator 3
Nachzehrer, ready for takeoff!
[22:39] Flashback - Anju
Th-This is scarier than I thought.
[22:43] Flashback - Theo
Is the person who came up with this crazy?
[22:45] Flashback - Grethe
Oh, it's an honor to have you say that!
I thought nothing scared you!
[22:50] Flashback - Grethe
It's a little over 1000 km to our goal.
[22:53] Flashback - Grethe
Enjoy our nine minutes or so
in the sky!
[22:56] Flashback - Operator 4
Nachzehrer has taken off successfully
[23:00] Flashback - Operator 4
and is proceeding as planned!
[23:07] Flashback - Kurena
If we take out the Morpho, we win, right?
[23:11] Flashback - Raiden
We have to live up to their expectations.
[23:13] Flashback - Theo
Yeah, if they're working that hard.
[23:16] Flashback - Anju
Yeah.
[23:18] Voices
Save me! Save me!