# Season 1
# 1 - Those with Shipping Routes
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GR9PXZ3J6/arpeggio-of-blue-steel)
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***SIGN*** The Year 2039
**[00:25] Sign 0026**
United Nations Fleet for the Final Battle
**[00:36] Sign 0037**
Fleet of Fog
**[00:40] Crew**
Enemy still in sight!
**[00:41] Crew**
They're neutralizing our attacks!
**[00:44] Captain**
All of humanity's remaining firepower
has been gathered for this fight.
**[00:49] Captain**
Yet, even this much firepower is not enough—
**[01:22] Narr**
By the start of the 21st century,
**[01:24] Narr**
humanity had lost most of its terrestrial territory
**[01:27] Narr**
due to global climate change and other factors.
**[01:31] Narr**
As if in response to this predicament,
**[01:34] Narr**
an enemy of unknown origin,
the Fleet of Fog, appeared
**[01:37] Narr**
and blockaded all shipping routes.
**[01:39] Narr**
Humanity was driven out of the seas.
***SIGN*** Tokyo, Splinter Capital
**[01:45] Sign 0149**
Seven years after humanity's
last stand against the Fleet,
**[01:48] Sign 0149**
their governments and
economies were in shambles.
**[01:50] Sign 0149**
Their communication satellites
and undersea cables were destroyed,
**[01:54] Sign 0149**
and all communications
were jammed by the enemy.
**[02:00] Sign 0149**
Every nation-state was effectively isolated.
**[02:03] Sign 0149**
Merely confirming one another's continued
existence was next to impossible.
***SIGN*** Space Center, Saga Prefecture
**[02:18] Dude**
Display our situation on the monitor.
**[02:22] Dude**
Damn Fog...
**[02:24] Dude**
Gotten wind of our cargo, huh?
**[02:27] Dude**
Hold it back!
**[02:28] Dude**
Buy us time until the launch!
**[02:31] Dude**
Get a move on with the SSTO!
***SIGN*** Fleet of Fog, Eastern Patrol Fleet 1 Light Cruiser Nagara
***SIGN*** Space Center Missile Defense System
**[02:56] Crew**
Amatsukaze and Tachikaze have been sunk!
**[02:59] Crew**
Fog ship about to exit minefield!
**[03:01] Command**
Are we out of options?
**[03:05] Crew**
Unidentified submarine rapidly approaching!
**[03:08] Command**
A new enemy?
**[03:09] Crew**
No,
**[03:10] ---**
this signal...
**[03:12] Crew**
It's the I-401!
***SIGN*** Fog Submarine I-401
**[03:23] Gunzou**
We have been tasked
**[03:25] Gunzou**
with halting the Fog's advance,
**[03:26] Gunzou**
sinking it if necessary,
**[03:28] Gunzou**
until the SSTO has been
launched with success.
**[03:31] Gunzou**
Iona, the data.
**[03:36] Iona**
Nagara-class light cruiser, Nagara.
**[03:39] Iona**
Displacement: 6010 tons.
**[03:41] Iona**
Equipped with wave motion
compulsory conversion armor,
**[03:44] ---**
six 12.3 cm guns on three active turrets,
**[03:48] ---**
and twelve submarine torpedo tubes,
**[03:51] ---**
in addition to three high-angle laser guns.
**[03:54] Iori**
For real?
**[03:56] Iona**
Multiple missile launch modules
and close-range combat systems.
**[04:00] Iona**
Maximum speed: 60 knots.
**[04:03] Iona**
It cannot submerge.
**[04:06] Iona**
It is a standard Fog Light Cruiser.
**[04:09] Gunzou**
Engage!
**[04:11] Gunzou**
Kyouhei!
**[04:11] K**
Roger!
**[04:13] K**
Loading specified torpedoes!
**[04:21] Gunzou**
Tube 7, launch corrosive torpedo!
**[04:29] Shizuka**
Sonar detecting two incoming torpedoes!
**[04:31] Iona**
We were detected.
**[04:33] Gunzou**
Snapshot tubes 1 and 2!
**[04:34] Gunzou**
All stop! Dive!
**[04:36] Iona**
Crash dive.
**[04:47] Iona**
Klein Field deployed.
**[04:51] K**
5 seconds to torpedo hit!
**[04:53] K**
4...
**[04:54] K**
3...
**[04:55] Shizuka**
Corrosive torpedo will hit target.
**[04:56] K**
2...
**[04:57] K**
1...
**[04:58] Shizuka**
Nagara is turning starboard and
deploying her Klein Field!
**[05:02] Gunzou**
Too late!
**[05:20] Crew**
What's going on out there?
**[05:28] Command**
That must be
**[05:33] ---**
the I-401...
**[05:34] Command**
The Blue Steel!
***SIGN*** Those with Shipping Routes
**[05:49] Shizuka**
The launch of the intercontinental
communication SSTO is a success!
**[05:54] K**
Phew, thank God.
**[05:57] Sou**
Does Japan even have anything
to transmit overseas anymore?
**[06:01] K**
They must, since they launched it, right?
**[06:13] Iona**
Nagara, you were just following orders.
**[06:18] Gunzou**
Iona,
**[06:21] ---**
are you all right?
**[06:23] Iona**
I'm tired from the Klein Field.
**[06:25] Gunzou**
I see.
**[06:29] Gunzou**
Why did you turn up?
**[06:32] Gunzou**
What is the purpose of your existence?
**[06:35] Iona**
I don't know.
**[06:37] Iona**
We merely exist to follow orders.
**[06:40] Gunzou**
Do you engage in battle
because I order you to?
**[06:44] Iona**
Yeah.
**[06:46] Iona**
I...
**[06:48] Iona**
I am your ship.
**[06:50] Iona**
Ever since I awoke two years ago...
**[06:55] Sign 0656**
Yokosuka, 2 Years Earlier
**[06:59] Sign 0700**
Marine Technical Academy
**[07:02] A**
Was Chihaya Gunzou also selected
to be on the inspection team?
**[07:07] B**
Well, he's one of the top students.
***SIGN*** Summons
The following individuals are to report
at the specified date, time, and place.
Date: September 14, 1400 hours
Location: Lecture Hall 201,
Officer Cadet Campus
Summoning:
Chihaya Gunzou Ikaruga Gorou
Ikuma Keita Katose Seiji
Asai Sei Nihei Eiko
Watabe Mami
Marine Technical Academy Headmaster
**[07:09] C**
That's not the only reason, is it?
**[07:11] C**
He's the only son of a
captain who died in battle.
**[07:14] C**
Unlike us, he gets special treatment.
**[07:17] B**
Oh, about that...
**[07:19] B**
Are the rumors that his father
defected to the Fog true?
**[07:23] C**
Who knows?
**[07:24] C**
What happened at the Great Naval
Battle is still classified.
**[07:27] A**
Either way, there's just
something shady about him.
**[07:33] Officer**
What you are about to see is top secret.
**[07:37] Officer**
You have been granted
special privilege to see it
**[07:40] Officer**
because you have
a bright future ahead.
**[07:42] D**
Top secret...
**[07:44] Officer**
As future officers,
**[07:46] Officer**
you have the right to know.
**[07:48] Gunzou**
What a joke.
**[07:49] Gunzou**
They're just trying to pass on the torch.
**[07:52] Sign 0754**
Warehouse 51
**[08:10] Gunzou**
It's the submarine I-401...
**[08:14] Gunzou**
Why is it here?
**[08:16] Officer**
This is a captured Fog ship.
**[08:19] Officer**
Although its appearance mimics
that of a Pacific War submarine,
**[08:23] Officer**
it is not of human origin.
**[08:26] E**
So this is what the brass was hiding?
**[08:29] G**
It's no surprise that they'd
keep it from the public.
**[08:32] Officer**
After the Great Naval Battle,
**[08:33] Officer**
this submarine appeared at this
harbor with all of its weapons locked.
**[08:37] Officer**
Its reasons for doing so are unknown.
**[08:40] Officer**
It allowed us to seize it with no resistance.
**[08:44] F**
So, if we can understand how it works,
**[08:46] F**
we might also find the
Fleet of Fog's weakness?
**[08:47] Officer**
We might.
**[08:49] Officer**
But, we've been researching
it for seven years.
**[08:51] Officer**
We've tried everything we could think of,
**[08:53] Officer**
but it has remained unyielding.
**[08:57] D**
We have been unable to
take it apart, as well?
**[08:59] Officer**
Sadly enough.
**[09:02] Gunzou**
A Fog ship...
**[09:04] Gunzou**
An enemy of humanity...
**[09:08] Iona**
A human.
**[09:12] Iona**
Chihaya Gunzou...
**[09:17] Officer**
Wh-What?!
**[09:18] Lab1**
Hey!
**[09:18] Lab1**
Collect data!
**[09:19] Lab2**
What, graviton readings?!
**[09:21] Lab1**
401 is activating!
**[09:23] Officer**
What?!
**[09:24] Officer**
Why now?
**[09:24] Lab2**
We don't know!
**[09:25] Officer**
Damn it!
**[09:26] Officer**
Don't let this get out!
**[09:27] Officer**
Close the ceiling armor, now!
**[09:30] Officer**
Evacuate! Hurry!
**[09:50] A**
Who's that?
**[09:51] B**
I don't remember seeing her around.
**[09:53] C**
Huh?
**[10:03] Iona**
Found you, Chihaya Gunzou.
**[10:18] K**
Huh?
**[10:19] K**
What's your name again?
**[10:21] K**
Are you looking for someo—
**[10:23] K**
Wow, you're a total babe!
**[10:25] Iona**
No, I have no business with you.
**[10:27] K**
Huh?
**[10:28] K**
Hey!
**[10:33] Iori**
Whoa, you're a pretty one.
**[10:35] Iori**
Need something?
**[10:38] Iona**
You are Chihaya Gunzou.
**[10:41] Gunzou**
Yeah, so?
**[10:42] Iona**
Son of Chihaya Shouzou.
**[10:45] Gunzou**
What about my dad?
**[10:48] Iona**
I have been ordered to meet
the son of Chihaya Shouzou.
**[10:52] Gunzou**
"Ordered"?
**[10:55] Gunzou**
Is this a new prank?
**[10:58] Gunzou**
This crap is all you guys ever think about.
**[11:00] Iona**
No, this is not a prank.
**[11:02] Gunzou**
Then why mention my dead father's name?
**[11:05] Iona**
Because it is the truth.
**[11:07] Gunzou**
Who are you?
**[11:09] Iona**
Iona...
**[11:10] Iona**
That is the name I was given.
**[11:12] Gunzou**
Iona?
**[11:13] Iona**
We can't talk here.
**[11:19] Gunzou**
What'd you just do?
**[11:21] Iona**
Come tonight. Alone.
**[11:23] Gunzou**
Hey...
**[11:24] Sou**
What the hell?
**[11:25] K**
Gunzou, what's going on?!
**[11:27] K**
Why would a girl hit on a stiff like you?
**[11:44] Iona**
Squishy?
**[11:49] Iona**
Sensation...
**[11:51] Iona**
This is to be human.
**[12:05] Gunzou**
I'm here.
**[12:06] Gunzou**
Let's hear why you dragged me out here.
**[12:09] Iona**
To be precise, I am the one
who has been waiting.
**[12:13] Gunzou**
I'm going back.
**[12:14] Iona**
No.
**[12:15] Gunzou**
I don't have time to play games with strangers.
**[12:19] Iona**
You have eleven hours until the wake-up call.
**[12:23] Gunzou**
That's not what I meant.
**[12:25] Gunzou**
I just don't want to waste my
time on anything meaningless.
**[12:28] Iona**
Am I meaningless?
**[12:31] Gunzou**
Just tell me what you want.
**[12:33] Iona**
To meet Gunzou, the son of
Chihaya Shouzou, and obey him.
**[12:38] Iona**
That is the only order that
remains in my memory.
**[12:42] Iona**
I have been isolated from the
outside world for seven years.
**[12:46] Gunzou**
Seven years?
**[12:47] Gunzou**
Who are you?
**[12:49] Iona**
I obey the orders I have
been given... I am a tool.
**[12:59] Gunzou**
What *are* you?
**[13:01] Iona**
Chihaya Gunzou.
**[13:03] Iona**
I have been ordered to obey you.
**[13:06] Iona**
I know nothing else.
**[13:10] Iona**
Confirm: What is your purpose?
**[13:13] Gunzou**
My purpose?
**[13:19] Gunzou**
I...
**[13:24] Gunzou**
I want the strength... to break
the stagnant status quo.
**[13:30] Gunzou**
Even if we stay here,
**[13:32] Gunzou**
our time will only go to
waste while we do nothing.
**[13:35] Gunzou**
That's not what I'm living for!
**[13:38] Iona**
Understood.
**[13:40] Iona**
At last, I can activate.
**[14:10] Iona**
I-401, launching.
**[14:19] Operator**
I-401 has left the top secret dock!
**[14:22] Officer**
That's impossible!
**[14:24] Operator**
But sir, it's true!
**[14:25] Officer**
What is going on?
**[14:44] Gunzou**
401...
**[14:45] Iona**
This is me.
**[14:47] Gunzou**
Are you... with the Fog?
**[14:53] Gunzou**
The enemy?
**[14:54] Iona**
I don't know.
**[14:56] Iona**
I only know one thing:
**[14:57] Iona**
make contact with you, and obey.
**[15:01] Iona**
That is the only order that
remains in my memory.
**[15:06] Iona**
We are weapons.
**[15:08] Iona**
We engage in battle under orders.
**[15:11] Iona**
That is our entire existence.
**[15:13] Iona**
That is why we desire orders.
**[15:24] Gunzou**
401.
**[15:28] Gunzou**
Become my ship!
**[15:40] Iona**
Gunzou...
**[15:43] Iona**
Come aboard me.
**[15:47] Gunzou**
We'll go through their barrier.
**[15:48] Gunzou**
Don't counterattack.
**[15:50] Iona**
Okay.
**[15:58] Gunzou**
Can you withstand this?
**[15:59] Iona**
For a little while.
**[16:00] Gunzou**
How long?
**[16:02] Iona**
Thirty seconds.
**[16:03] Gunzou**
What?!
**[16:04] Iona**
This is my first time allowing
a human body on board.
**[16:06] Iona**
My calculations are not fast enough.
**[16:07] Gunzou**
Can you dive?
**[16:09] Iona**
My graviton ballasts
have not been set up.
**[16:20] Iona**
5 seconds until Klein Field down.
**[16:22] Iona**
4...
**[16:23] Iona**
3...
**[16:24] Iona**
2...
**[16:25] Iona**
1...
**[16:26] Iona**
Klein Field down.
**[16:31] Iona**
Taking hits on stern.
**[16:33] Gunzou**
Damn it!
**[16:34] Gunzou**
If I can't change anything right now,
**[16:37] Gunzou**
it means I'm as good as dead!
**[16:39] Gunzou**
Please!
**[16:41] Iona**
Graviton ballasts.
**[16:43] Iona**
Setup complete.
**[16:45] Iona**
Standby.
**[16:45] Gunzou**
Dive!
**[16:57] Operator**
401, lost.
**[17:00] Iona**
Are you all right?
**[17:01] Gunzou**
What about you?
**[17:03] Gunzou**
What are your passive sonar readings?
**[17:05] Iona**
No enemy sonar contact
within detection range.
**[17:08] Gunzou**
End combat.
**[17:13] Gunzou**
H-Hey!
**[17:14] Iona**
I was so nervous.
**[17:16] Iona**
That was the first time I had a captain.
**[17:18] Gunzou**
401...
**[17:20] Iona**
I am Iona.
**[17:21] Gunzou**
What?
**[17:22] Iona**
I was named as such,
according to my memory.
**[17:25] Gunzou**
Iona...
**[17:30] Gunzou**
Ever since then,
we've been fugitives.
**[17:32] Iona**
Yeah.
**[17:34] Iona**
I am a ship.
**[17:35] Iona**
I belong to the captain.
**[17:37] Iona**
Take me with you...
to the answer you seek.
**[17:42] Gunzou**
All right.
**[17:45] Kamikage**
Good.
**[17:47] Kamikage**
Not bad at all for a traitor of the Fog.
**[17:55] Sign 1756**
Nagasaki, Splinter Capital
***SIGN*** Kamikage Ryuujirou Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Military Affairs
**[18:03] Kamikage**
Nice work on the SSTO job, Chihaya Gunzou-kun.
**[18:08] Gunzou**
So you're Kamikage-san, our client?
**[18:11] Gunzou**
If you had hired us earlier,
**[18:14] Gunzou**
we could have reduced the
damage taken by the military.
**[18:16] Kamikage**
Due to the Fog's jamming,
**[18:17] Kamikage**
we cannot use long-range comm systems.
**[18:20] Kamikage**
Don't ask the impossible of us.
**[18:22] Kamikage**
Besides, we adults have our reasons.
**[18:25] Gunzou**
Politics, is that it?
**[18:27] Gunzou**
That's an excuse.
**[18:29] Gunzou**
It's just a detour, isn't that right?
**[18:33] Kamikage**
Not everyone can do as you do.
**[18:35] Kamikage**
Someone has to do the dirty work, too.
**[18:38] Gunzou**
Is that so?
**[18:41] Gunzou**
Well, we have finished the job.
**[18:43] Gunzou**
We'll be leaving now.
**[18:45] Kamikaze**
Will you stop that?
**[18:46] Kamikaze**
If anything were to happen to him...
**[18:49] Kamikaze**
*she* will attack us.
**[18:53] Kamikage**
Chihaya-kun, will your battles lead
to a way out of this impasse?
**[18:58] Kamikage**
Don't misunderstand.
**[19:00] Kamikage**
I think highly of your combat
records over the past
**[19:04] ---**
two years in your battle against the Fog.
**[19:07] Gunzou**
What's your point?
**[19:10] Kamikage**
We just received word that the SSTO
was destroyed while in orbit.
**[19:18] Kamikage**
In it was a sample of a new
weapon developed by Japan,
**[19:21] Kamikage**
the vibration warhead.
**[19:24] Gunzou**
Vibration warhead?
**[19:25] Kamikage**
Indeed.
**[19:27] Kamikage**
It is not as though we were
idle during the two years
**[19:31] Kamikage**
that you were taking on the Fog by yourself.
**[19:34] Gunzou**
Why America?
**[19:35] Kamikage**
Japan no longer has the resources
to manufacture them en masse.
**[19:40] Kamikage**
Chihaya Gunzou-kun,
**[19:42] Kamikage**
I'd like to ask another task of you.
**[19:45] Kamikage**
I'd like you to carry the hope of humanity...
**[19:48] Kamikage**
our last hope.
**[19:51] K**
A new weapon?
**[19:53] K**
A torpedo, then?
**[19:55] Sou**
It seems they have finished analyzing
the Fog's corrosive torpedo
**[19:58] Sou**
and made further improvements.
**[20:00] Sou**
Much of it is a black box,
**[20:02] Sou**
but it does seem that man could strike back
**[20:04] Sou**
if this can be mass produced.
**[20:08] Gunzou**
If America still even exists.
**[20:10] K**
Don't be such a downer.
**[20:12] Gunzou**
The secret agreement with America
was made three months ago,
**[20:17] Gunzou**
after which all communications ceased.
**[20:18] Gunzou**
We don't know what things
are like there, now.
**[20:21] Iori**
Iona, are you sure you can't tell?
**[20:23] Iona**
I am cut off from the fleet.
**[20:27] Iona**
All I know is what I've been able to detect.
**[20:31] Iori**
That's true...
**[20:32] Shizuka**
So, direct transport by sea is our only option.
**[20:35] K**
They do say the continent
is torn by civil strife.
**[20:38] K**
It'd be too dangerous to go by land.
**[20:42] Shizuka**
To think we can't trust our fellow humans.
**[20:45] Sou**
And that's why you took the job, Captain?
**[20:48] Gunzou**
Yeah.
**[20:49] Gunzou**
We're the only ones who
can make this happen.
**[20:53] Gunzou**
The handoff for the new
weapon sample will take place
**[20:55] ---**
at the Port of Yokosuka.
**[20:56] Iona**
Understood.
**[20:58] Iona**
Setting course for Yokosuka.
**[21:00] Gunzou**
Let's go get this last hope for humanity.
**[21:07] Kamikage**
Hope for humanity, huh?
**[21:11] Security**
Couldn't we have subdued I-401?
**[21:15] Kamikage**
401 is sentient.
**[21:18] Kamikage**
It only obeys Chihaya Gunzou.
**[21:21] Security**
Because it has a Mental Model?
**[21:24] Kamikage**
A traitor to the Fog,
and a traitor to humanity...
**[21:28] Kamikage**
An interesting combination, isn't it?
***SIGN*** Offshore Sado Island
***SIGN*** Fleet of Fog: East Patrol Fleet 1 Flagship
Battleship Kongou
**[21:45] Kongou**
So, we've lost Nagara.
**[21:49] Kongou**
I've become quite used to
this embodied existence,
**[21:53] Kongou**
but it's still loathsome.
**[21:54] Kongou**
We are weapons.
**[21:56] Maya**
Kongou!
**[21:58] Kongou**
Maya?
**[21:59] Kongou**
What is it?
**[22:00] Maya**
I'm bored.
***SIGN*** Offshore Kume Island Fleet of Fog: East Patrol Fleet 1 Heavy Cruiser Maya
**[22:02] Maya**
401 is on the move, isn't she?
**[22:04] Maya**
Isn't there something for me to do?
**[22:07] Kongou**
If she's headed north,
that's Takao's jurisdiction.
**[22:11] Kongou**
We can just let her handle it.
**[22:14] Maya**
Ah, jeez.
**[22:15] Maya**
Can't we just forget the jurisdiction thing?
**[22:17] Kongou**
We are battleships.
**[22:19] Kongou**
We follow orders from the Admirality Code.
**[22:22] Kongou**
That's all.
**[22:23] Maya**
Aw, man!
**[22:24] Maya**
You're such a stick in the mud!
**[22:26] Maya**
Nyah!
**[22:28] Kongou**
Hmph.
**[22:29] Kongou**
You are such a pain.
**[22:31] Kongou**
Takao!
**[22:33] Takao**
I see.
***SIGN*** Offshore Enshuu-Nada Fleet of Fog: East Patrol Fleet 1 Heavy Cruiser Takao
**[22:34] Takao**
401's headed this way?
**[22:38] Takao**
That traitor, siding with the humans...
**[22:40] Takao**
I'll turn you to dust.
***SIGN*** I-401 & Iona
***SIGN*** By: Shibafu
# 2 - Into the Storm
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GR9PXZ3J6/arpeggio-of-blue-steel)
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***SIGN*** Offshore Kumano, Kii Peninsula
***SIGN*** Typhoon 11 Storm Zone
***SIGN*** Eye of Typhoon 11
***SIGN*** Fleet of Fog: East Patrol Fleet 1 Heavy Cruiser Takao
**[00:41] Takao**
Another decoy.
**[00:44] Takao**
Come quickly, 401.
**[00:47] Takao**
I will sink you.
***SIGN*** Arpeggio of Blue Steel
***SIGN*** Into the Storm
**[02:32] Iona**
Active decoy destroyed.
**[02:35] Iona**
We have three more remaining in action.
**[02:38] Gunzou**
Sonar, status on Takao?
**[02:40] Shizuka**
It's continuing to cruise in tandem
with the eye of the typhoon.
**[02:44] Iori**
A heavy cruiser, huh?
**[02:46] Iori**
That's a pretty big fish.
**[02:49] Gunzou**
I would have expected even a Fog ship
**[02:51] Gunzou**
to suffer from reduced detection
abilities in this weather, but...
**[02:55] Shizuka**
Takao has sunk our decoys
with perfect accuracy.
**[02:59] Gunzou**
Iona, plot the sunk decoys again.
**[03:02] Iona**
Understood.
**[03:07] Gunzou**
Overlay Takao's detection range.
**[03:09] Iona**
Applying overlay.
**[03:15] K**
It lines up perfectly.
**[03:16] Gunzou**
Yeah.
**[03:17] Gunzou**
Takao's detection range hasn't
decreased as much as I'd expected.
**[03:20] Shizuka**
Um...
**[03:22] Shizuka**
May I make a suggestion?
**[03:25] Gunzou**
Go ahead.
**[03:26] Shizuka**
Why don't we divert our course to the
**[03:28] Shizuka**
outer sea and work our way
around Takao's territory?
**[03:32] Shizuka**
A protracted battle will
put us at a disadvantage.
**[03:37] Sou**
Wouldn't Takao simply reposition
itself if we do that?
**[03:41] Shizuka**
That's true, but...
**[03:44] Gunzou**
Iona, plot the course to Yokosuka.
**[03:47] Iona**
Request received.
**[03:49] Gunzou**
We are currently within
Typhoon 11's storm zone.
**[03:53] Gunzou**
Plan A involves continuing our current course
along the Typhoon's path, then turning north,
**[03:57] Gunzou**
avoiding detection by Takao,
and entering the Port of Yokosuka.
**[04:00] K**
That plan's already bust.
**[04:02] Gunzou**
That leaves us with Plan B.
**[04:04] ---**
Leave the typhoon,
circle around Takao's picket line,
**[04:07] ---**
and approach Yokosuka.
**[04:09] ---**
This is Shizuka's suggestion.
**[04:12] ---**
However, there's no guarantee
that Takao won't pursue us.
**[04:15] ---**
Plus, it would mean that
we may arrive in Yokosuka
**[04:19] ---**
with Takao still hot on our heels.
**[04:22] ---**
The problem is what
the Fog will do at that point.
**[04:26] ---**
Until now, their targets were limited
**[04:28] ---**
to ships and aircraft that attempted
to depart for the open sea.
**[04:34] ---**
However...
**[04:36] ---**
Iona, what would Takao
do if a ship broke through
**[04:39] ---**
the naval blockade and attempted to
**[04:42] ---**
enter the Port of Yokosuka?
**[04:43] Iona**
She would attack.
**[04:45] Gunzou**
Even after the ship has entered port?
**[04:47] Iona**
Probably.
**[04:48] Gunzou**
The Admirality Code,
which is the highest order
**[04:51] ---**
commanding the Fleet of Fog,
**[04:52] Gunzou**
has forbidden direct attacks on
land targets for reasons unknown.
**[04:57] Gunzou**
Is that correct, Iona?
**[04:58] Iona**
Yes.
**[04:59] Gunzou**
But, it permits collateral damage
**[05:02] ---**
incurred during their attacks on ships?
**[05:06] Iona**
That is also correct.
**[05:08] Gunzou**
Consequently, it's likely
the Port of Yokosuka
**[05:11] Gunzou**
will suffer damage as a result
of our being attacked.
**[05:14] K**
We can't let that happen.
**[05:16] K**
There are residential areas
right next to the harbor.
**[05:19] K**
It'd be a disaster.
**[05:20] Gunzou**
There's another factor, too.
**[05:23] Gunzou**
The typhoon will eventually become
a tropical depression, and disperse.
**[05:26] Gunzou**
That will significantly reduce
our chances of victory.
**[05:30] Sou**
So we have a limited
window of opportunity.
**[05:33] Gunzou**
That brings us to Plan C.
**[05:36] Gunzou**
We defeat Takao here.
**[05:39] K**
We're talking a heavy cruiser, here!
**[05:42] Iona**
Defeat... Takao...
**[05:45] Gunzou**
Iona, status on decoys?
**[05:48] Iona**
Quantum communications nominal.
**[05:50] Iona**
They'll be fine for at
least two more hours.
**[05:52] Gunzou**
I see.
**[05:54] Gunzou**
Iori.
**[05:55] Iori**
Here.
**[05:56] Gunzou**
How long can we maintain
combat-level energy outputs?
**[05:58] Iori**
I can guarantee three minutes!
**[06:01] Gunzou**
All right.
**[06:02] Gunzou**
Surface, Iona.
**[06:04] Gunzou**
Move the decoys at the
same time, as well.
**[06:05] Gunzou**
Can you do it?
**[06:06] Iona**
Yes.
**[06:07] Iona**
We'll surface with the decoys.
**[06:09] K**
We're gonna surface?
**[06:10] K**
Are you serious?
**[06:11] Gunzou**
I am.
**[06:12] Gunzou**
We'll use the storm as a screen
**[06:14] Gunzou**
and attack Takao before
it gets our bearings.
**[06:17] Gunzou**
Start engines!
**[06:19] Gunzou**
Output at five percent!
**[06:21] Iori**
Starting engines.
Five percent output.
**[06:30] Gunzou**
Graviton floats online.
**[06:32] Gunzou**
Increase buoyancy by six from neutral.
**[06:34] Gunzou**
Surface at slow speed!
**[06:35] Iona**
Commencing surface.
**[06:37] Gunzou**
Maintain level trim.
**[06:39] Gunzou**
Go with the current.
**[06:40] Gunzou**
Surface simultaneously with the decoys.
**[06:42] Gunzou**
All men to battle stations!
**[06:47] Takao**
They're on the move!
**[06:48] Takao**
Four contacts.
**[06:50] Takao**
Is one real,
**[06:52] Takao**
or are they all decoys?
**[06:54] Takao**
Whatever the case,
**[06:56] Takao**
do they really think they can
**[06:57] Takao**
use the storm to shield themselves
from me on the surface?
**[07:05] Gunzou**
Iona, do you believe Takao is
already aware of our movements?
**[07:09] Iona**
Not possible, given Takao's specs.
**[07:12] Gunzou**
What about your Concept Comm System?
**[07:14] Iona**
Our Concept Comm System isn't affected
by distance and interference.
**[07:18] K**
So Takao totally knows.
**[07:20] Iona**
All Takao knows is that I still exist.
**[07:25] Iona**
She's not able to determine
my direction and distance.
**[07:29] K**
All right!
**[07:30] K**
I guess we have a chance.
**[07:34] Takao**
I see. So that's the real 401.
**[07:43] Shizuka**
Takao's noise levels are increasing?
**[07:49] Shizuka**
Takao is turning about.
**[07:50] Sou**
Have we been found?
**[07:52] Gunzou**
Stay calm.
**[07:53] Gunzou**
Continue to surface.
**[07:55] Iona**
Roger, steady as she goes.
**[08:01] Takao**
Engage.
**[08:20] Takao**
First, I'll drop your Klein Field to
critical levels with one blow.
**[08:25] Gunzou**
Forward torpedo tubes, standby!
**[08:27] Gunzou**
Load tubes one through three
with low-frequency torpedoes!
**[08:30] K**
Roger.
**[08:31] Gunzou**
Load tube seven with a corrosive torpedo!
**[08:34] Gunzou**
Once loading's complete, open
outer doors for all tubes!
**[08:36] Shizuka**
What is this?
**[08:38] Shizuka**
Captain, I'm picking up a strange noise.
**[08:41] Sou**
It's not from the typhoon?
**[08:43] Shizuka**
It might be...
**[08:45] Shizuka**
but I've never heard anything like this.
**[08:48] K**
Loading complete, doors open.
**[08:53] Iona**
Gunzou.
**[08:56] Gunzou**
No, it's nothing.
**[09:01] Takao**
I won't be like Hyuuga.
**[09:06] Iona**
Depth 15.
**[09:09] Takao**
Hurry up to the surface, 401...
**[09:13] Iona**
Depth 10.
**[09:14] Iona**
Approaching surface.
**[09:21] Takao**
That's it...
**[09:23] Takao**
Yes, that's the way...
**[09:25] Iona**
3 seconds till surface.
**[09:27] Iona**
2...
**[09:28] Iona**
1...
**[09:29] Iona**
Surface.
**[09:31] Gunzou**
Sidekick!
**[09:32] Gunzou**
Hard to port!
**[09:33] Iona**
Sidekick, hard to port.
**[09:49] Gunzou**
Reverse floats!
**[09:50] Gunzou**
Maximum output!
**[09:51] Gunzou**
Crash dive!
**[09:51] Gunzou**
Launch everything we've got!
**[09:53] K**
Takao knows our precise location!
**[10:05] Takao**
I missed?
**[10:06] Takao**
But my timing for the supergravity
cannon was perfect...
**[10:12] Gunzou**
Tubes one through three,
launch low-frequency torpedoes!
**[10:15] Gunzou**
Detonate at will!
**[10:16] Gunzou**
Stir up the waters!
**[10:17] K**
Roger!
**[10:18] K**
Seven seconds till detonation!
**[10:20] K**
Launch!
**[10:25] Shizuka**
Sonar detecting multiple contacts,
incoming at high speed!
**[10:27] Shizuka**
Torpedoes!
**[10:28] Gunzou**
Iona!
**[10:29] Gunzou**
Use the active decoys as shields!
**[10:31] Iona**
Understood.
**[10:35] Shizuka**
We've lost the three decoys.
**[10:37] K**
Low-frequency torpedo detonation in...
T minus three seconds.
**[10:39] Gunzou**
Shizuka! Mute headphones.
**[10:46] Gunzou**
Cut engines!
**[10:47] Gunzou**
Enter silent running!
**[10:58] Takao**
I've lost contact with 401?
**[11:16] Sou**
Hull and watertight integrity nominal.
**[11:20] Sou**
We lost a few sensors,
**[11:22] Sou**
but currently no cause for concern.
**[11:24] Gunzou**
Kyouhei.
**[11:25] K**
Weapons system, vetronics nominal.
**[11:29] K**
We can go anytime.
**[11:30] Gunzou**
Iori.
**[11:31] Iori**
Engine room, all systems nominal.
**[11:33] Gunzou**
What about the Klein Field?
**[11:35] Iori**
Oh, thanks to the close encounter
with the supergravity cannon,
**[11:39] Iori**
it's one step away from
reaching a critical point.
**[11:41] Gunzou**
Are we okay, Iona?
**[11:43] Iona**
For now, yes.
**[11:44] Iona**
But if we don't release the energy
absorbed by the Klein Field,
**[11:48] Iona**
it will reach a saturation point and collapse.
**[11:52] K**
If we do that, we'll announce
our location to the enemy.
**[11:58] Gunzou**
Shizuka, analyze the sound
pattern prior to the
**[12:01] Gunzou**
supergravity cannon
attack so that we'll be
**[12:04] ---**
forewarned when Takao tries that again.
**[12:07] Shizuka**
It's already been added
to the sonic database.
**[12:10] K**
In any case,
**[12:11] K**
I'm impressed you realized
**[12:13] K**
that we were being targeted
by a supergravity cannon.
**[12:16] Gunzou**
We were lucky that Takao
had such precise aim.
**[12:19] Gunzou**
Iona, display the combat map
as it was before we surfaced.
**[12:23] Iona**
Okay.
**[12:26] Gunzou**
Takao kept its prow pointed
right at us the whole time.
**[12:30] Gunzou**
That artless honesty gave it away.
**[12:32] Gunzou**
It's as if it was Takao was announcing
**[12:33] Gunzou**
to the world that it was targeting the 401.
**[12:36] K**
I see.
**[12:37] K**
If we were in Takao's place,
**[12:39] K**
we would've pretended not to
notice until the last second.
**[12:42] Iori**
Still, how'd Takao know where
we were with such precision?
**[12:48] Iori**
It totally ignored the active decoys.
**[12:50] K**
Wasn't that just, like,
dumb luck or something?
**[12:54] Iona**
I don't think so.
**[12:59] Gunzou**
What do you mean?
**[13:01] Iona**
I just feel that Takao had been
watching me the whole time.
**[13:04] Iona**
Ever since we made our move,
**[13:06] Iona**
I feel like she never
took her eyes off of me.
**[13:11] K**
That's a pretty vague description
coming from someone of the Fog.
**[13:15] Iona**
I can't express it well in words.
**[13:17] Iona**
This is the best I can do.
**[13:19] Gunzou**
I get it, now.
**[13:20] K**
Huh?
**[13:21] K**
What do you mean?
**[13:22] Gunzou**
There's no such thing
**[13:23] ---**
as coincidence when it
comes to the Fog.
**[13:26] Gunzou**
There's another one out there.
**[13:29] Gunzou**
Iona, analyze the detection range
based on the cannon attack,
**[13:34] Gunzou**
and overlay that on Takao's
known range based on her specs.
**[13:43] K**
Hey, even a fast battleship's detection
range would be beat by that.
**[13:46] K**
That's impossible!
**[13:48] Iona**
It isn't impossible.
**[13:50] Iona**
It's the truth.
**[13:52] K**
Seriously?
**[13:53] Iona**
Seriously.
**[13:56] Gunzou**
In addition to this tremendous range,
**[13:58] Gunzou**
its sonar has a resolution high enough
to distinguish us from a decoy.
**[14:03] Gunzou**
A ship with that kind of capacity...
**[14:06] Sou**
Must be some sort of
**[14:07] ---**
observation submarine with
high stealth capacity.
**[14:10] Shizuka**
But, our sonar didn't pick
up any other vessels.
**[14:17] Gunzou**
That just means it's hiding in
the shadow of Takao's echo.
**[14:23] Sou**
I thought Takao was stationary because
it was leery of the rough seas,
**[14:28] Sou**
but the real reason was that
it simply couldn't move.
**[14:32] K**
It would make sense...
**[14:35] K**
but isn't it just a hypothesis?
**[14:37] Gunzou**
Hypotheses exist to be proven.
**[14:40] Gunzou**
It's now our turn to surprise the enemy.
**[14:42] Gunzou**
Iona, we're going to use
the loot from Hyuuga.
**[14:45] Iona**
Okay.
**[14:46] Iori**
Wait a minute!
**[14:48] Iori**
We've only tested it in simulations!
**[14:52] Iori**
There's no telling how much it
might burden the system if we use it!
**[14:55] Gunzou**
Can we do this, Iona?
**[14:57] Iona**
It'll be okay... I think.
**[14:58] Iori**
Iona!
**[14:59] K**
Give it up.
**[15:01] K**
Our captain may not look it,
but he's a gambler.
**[15:06] Iona**
Launch.
**[15:22] Takao**
Finally emerging from your lair, 401?
**[15:26] Gunzou**
Thirty degrees up trim,
full speed ahead!
**[15:35] Gunzou**
All men at battle stations!
**[15:41] Gunzou**
Ready forward torpedo tubes.
**[15:43] Gunzou**
Load tubes one through six
with homing torpedoes.
**[15:45] Gunzou**
I leave the homing pattern to you!
**[15:46] Gunzou**
Load tubes seven and eight
with corrosive torpedoes.
**[15:50] K**
Roger that.
**[15:52] Gunzou**
Iona, input specifications
into corrosive torpedoes.
**[15:54] Iona**
Roger.
**[15:56] Gunzou**
Launch tubes one through six.
**[16:06] Takao**
Don't fall behind, 501.
**[16:15] Shizuka**
Takao changing course to
bearing 185 at 7 knots!
**[16:18] K**
That's damn slow!
**[16:20] K**
Maybe it really is hiding
something, just like Gunzou said!
**[16:23] Gunzou**
Tubes seven and eight,
launch corrosive torpedoes!
**[16:59] Takao**
Thanatonium readings...
Corrosive torpedoes?
**[17:02] Takao**
I won't fall for that.
**[17:15] Takao**
The human who programmed
these torpedoes isn't half bad.
**[17:21] Takao**
But,
**[17:23] ---**
can you evade all of these
corrosive warheads?!
**[17:29] Shizuka**
Takao changing course to bearing 150!
**[17:31] Gunzou**
Iona, standby!
**[17:33] Iona**
Understood.
**[17:44] Gunzou**
Engine output at maximum!
**[17:45] Gunzou**
Blow the graviton floats!
**[17:47] Gunzou**
All hands, employ shock resistance!
**[17:49] Gunzou**
Surface at rapid speed!
**[17:58] Takao**
Farewell, 401.
**[18:06] Takao**
What?
**[18:19] Takao**
A supergravity cannon?
**[18:22] Takao**
Why would a mere patrol
submarine have that?!
**[18:25] Takao**
501, emergency evasive maneuvers!
**[18:27] Takao**
Sever contacts!
**[18:39] K**
Damn bastard was clinging to Takao
**[18:41] K**
to look like there was only one ship!
**[18:43] Iona**
Locked on Takao along firing axis.
**[18:55] Gunzou**
Her Mental Model?
**[18:57] Gunzou**
Decrease firing angle by three degrees!
**[18:59] Iona**
Decreasing angle by three degrees.
**[19:01] K**
But we'll miss Takao—
**[19:02] Gunzou**
That's fine!
**[19:10] Shizuka**
Takao's attempting to break away.
**[19:12] Iori**
Hurry up!
**[19:13] Iori**
I can't maintain this energy flow!
**[19:15] Gunzou**
All hands, brace for imminent shock.
**[19:17] Gunzou**
Fire supergravity cannon!
**[19:20] Iona**
Firing.
**[19:48] Kamikage**
I see.
**[19:50] Kamikage**
401 won.
**[19:58] Kamikage**
Impressive, Chihaya Gunzou.
**[20:17] Kongou**
It seems you've lost.
**[20:21] Takao**
It's just a weapon
lockdown for 24 hours.
**[20:24] Takao**
Because...
**[20:24] Takao**
401 was hiding a supergravity cannon.
**[20:28] Takao**
But, why did she have that?
**[20:31] Kongou**
They must've looted it off Hyuuga.
**[20:33] Kongou**
Humans are very creative.
**[20:36] Takao**
It was Hyuuga's?!
**[20:37] Kongou**
401 and Hyuuga have
engaged in the past.
**[20:41] Kongou**
And Hyuuga lost.
**[20:43] Takao**
To suffer theft at the hands
of humans... how pathetic.
**[20:47] Kongou**
And you were forced by 401 to
**[20:49] ---**
lock your weapons and
retreat to the outer seas.
**[20:52] Kongou**
How can you belittle Hyuuga?
**[20:57] Takao**
I won't let them get away with this.
**[21:02] Kongou**
This isn't like you.
**[21:03] Kongou**
What are you thinking?
**[21:06] Takao**
I'll be taking my leave!
**[21:22] Gunzou**
There you are.
**[21:28] Gunzou**
I placed quite a strain on you.
**[21:31] Iona**
It's not a problem.
**[21:33] Iona**
We are weapons.
**[21:35] Iona**
Combat is our very reason for existence.
**[21:41] Gunzou**
I see.
**[21:52] Kongou**
And you were forced by 401 to
**[21:55] ---**
lock your weapons and
retreat to the outer seas.
**[21:58] Kongou**
How can you belittle Hyuuga?
**[22:05] Takao**
Chihaya Gunzou...
why didn't you sink me?
**[22:28] Takao**
If I had a human unit aboard,
**[22:32] Takao**
I would also be capable of such tactics.
**[22:40] Takao**
I, too, want that unit...
***SIGN*** Illustration by Fujinoki Tomoko
# 3 - The Fortress Port of Yokosuka
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GR9PXZ3J6/arpeggio-of-blue-steel)
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**[00:23] Sign 0024**
Fortress Port of Yokosuka
**[00:24] Iona**
Confirmed release signal for
Yokosuka's defense barrier gates.
**[00:29] Gunzou**
Maintain course and enter port.
**[00:31] I**
Roger, maintaining course
and entering port.
**[00:37] I**
Incoming message from the Naval
Command Center in Yokosuka.
**[00:40] I**
Preparations to replenish your
munitions and supplies are complete.
**[00:45] G**
Did they say anything about
the vibration warhead?
**[00:48] I**
No.
**[00:49] G**
I see.
**[00:50] G**
That must be under Assistant
Secretary Kamikage's authority.
**[00:57] Shizuka**
Wow...
**[00:59] Iori**
They finally finished building
the defense barrier, huh?
**[01:02] Iori**
Wonder how effective it'll
actually be against the Fog.
**[01:08] S**
So that's the city where
our captain grew up.
**[01:11] Kyouhei**
It's been two years.
**[01:13] Kyouhei**
I didn't think we'd ever
come back to Yokosuka.
***SIGN*** Arpeggio of Blue Steel
***SIGN*** The Fortress Port of Yokosuka
**[03:18] Military**
Security Platoons 2 and 3,
**[03:21] Military**
proceed to Deck B immediately.
**[03:22] Military**
Environmental monitoring in progress.
**[03:25] G**
What's the matter?
**[03:27] I**
I'm being scanned...
**[03:28] G**
Should I make them stop?
**[03:29] I**
It's okay.
**[03:30] I**
It just tickles a bit.
**[03:33] Command**
Drydock 7, closing gates.
**[03:50] ---**
Confirmed attachment of mooring arms.
**[03:53] ---**
401 is secured.
**[03:55] ---**
Commence drainage.
**[04:08] ---**
Drainage complete.
**[04:10] ---**
Opening bulkheads.
**[04:11] ---**
Commencing descent to dockyard.
**[04:34] G**
It's an underground dockyard,
**[04:36] G**
built to protect the remnants of the
Japanese naval fleet from the Fog.
**[04:54] G**
All right.
**[04:55] G**
Sou, oversee the resupply with Shizuka.
**[04:58] Sou**
Understood.
**[05:00] G**
Iori, inspect the sub with Kyouhei.
**[05:02] G**
Be extra thorough when inspecting
the supergravity cannon.
**[05:06] Iori**
Okay!
**[05:07] Command**
Maintenance crew, begin operations.
**[05:09] Command**
We repeat.
**[05:10] Command**
Maintenance crew, begin operations.
**[05:13] Iori**
Hey, look.
**[05:14] K**
The navy, eh?
**[05:16] K**
They sure are wary of us.
**[05:20] Iori**
Hey, Iona-chan!
**[05:22] Iori**
Can you open up your belly for us?
**[05:43] GuardA**
So that's the Fog's supergravity cannon!
**[05:45] GuardB**
If we got hit by that, we'd be finished.
**[05:48] K**
How's it look?
**[05:50] Iori**
Hm...
**[05:53] Iori**
Well, I doubt we can repair it
**[05:57] Iori**
until we restock on
nanomaterials at Iwoto.
**[05:59] K**
Oh boy.
**[06:01] Maint**
We will resupply your food and normal
munitions as per orders, but...
**[06:06] Sou**
You are not the only one
suffering financial straits.
**[06:09] Sou**
We understand.
**[06:12] ---**
Hm?
**[06:13] Sou**
Oh, there is no need for concern.
**[06:15] Sou**
This is to prevent allergies.
**[06:17] G**
Sou!
**[06:19] G**
I'm meeting with Assistant
Secretary Kamikage.
**[06:21] G**
I leave you in command.
**[06:23] Sou**
Understood.
**[06:24] Sou**
I will assume command
until you return.
**[06:31] I**
Gunzou, I have a question.
**[06:34] G**
What is it?
**[06:35] I**
I've compared our present
surroundings with two years prior.
**[06:38] I**
There has been a modest increase
**[06:41] ---**
in population density and store numbers.
**[06:43] I**
Why is that?
**[06:44] G**
I see...
**[06:45] G**
It must be thanks to that.
**[06:48] G**
Because the defense
barrier was completed,
**[06:50] G**
the residents who'd evacuated
inland came back.
**[06:53] I**
Why?
**[06:55] G**
Well...
**[06:57] G**
That must be because they
like the sea, right?
**[07:01] I**
It's illogical.
**[07:02] I**
Compared to the inland,
the coastal areas have
**[07:04] I**
a higher probability of incurring
damage during battles.
**[07:07] G**
Even so, they want to be near the sea.
**[07:11] G**
Iona, we're making a side trip.
**[07:14] I**
Huh?
**[07:15] G**
It's an illogical whim of sorts.
**[07:25] I**
Gunzou, what are we
making a side trip for?
**[07:28] G**
To visit a grave.
**[07:29] I**
A grave?
**[07:31] Makie**
Help!
**[07:37] Makie**
I'm being chased by bad guys!
**[07:39] G**
Bad guys?
**[07:40] Maid**
Miss, you must not leave the mansion!
**[07:43] Makie**
I don't like it there!
**[07:44] Makie**
I'm going on a journey of freedom!
**[07:46] G**
Bad guys...
**[07:48] G**
You mean them?
**[07:53] Maid**
Let's go home now, Miss.
**[07:54] Makie**
L-Let me go!
**[07:55] Makie**
At least let me go out whenever I want!
**[07:59] I**
I have conducted a database
search on that girl.
**[08:04] G**
On her?
**[08:05] I**
She appears to be living in a
western-style mansion nearby...
**[08:08] I**
by herself.
**[08:09] G**
By herself?
**[08:10] G**
But she's so young.
**[08:11] I**
Further information, including her
family structure, is unknown.
**[08:15] G**
It's unusual for you to take interest
in people who aren't crew members.
**[08:20] I**
That girl...
**[08:25] Maint**
That's the last of them.
**[08:27] K**
Understood.
**[08:31] Sou**
That's the last of it?
**[08:33] K**
Yeah.
**[08:33] Iori**
Kyouhei...
**[08:35] K**
Hm?
**[08:36] Iori**
Sorry.
**[08:37] Iori**
I think we've been caught.
**[08:40] K**
Huh?!
**[08:41] K**
What about the navy?!
**[08:46] K**
Sou, these guys...
**[08:48] Sou**
Yes, they appear to be the army.
**[08:54] Guy**
I-401 crew members,
**[08:56] Guy**
it is our pleasure to
invite you to dinner.
**[09:18] G**
This is a memorial for those who
died in the war against the Fog.
**[09:24] G**
This s a cemetery for the navy.
**[09:27] I**
"Cemetery"?
**[09:28] G**
A place to honor
**[09:30] ---**
the dead, and comfort their souls.
**[09:33] I**
The dead...
**[09:34] I**
Those who have ceased vital functions?
**[09:39] I**
Is there any meaning in honoring the dead?
**[09:43] G**
Meaning?
**[09:49] G**
The meaning might be to allow
**[09:51] ---**
those left behind to come
to terms with reality.
**[09:54] I**
This is just a place.
**[09:57] G**
It's humans that give meaning to places.
**[10:01] G**
Doing so gives us peace.
**[10:05] I**
It is meaningless.
**[10:07] G**
Meaningless, huh?
**[10:10] G**
Perhaps the act of seeking
meaning in meaningless acts
**[10:13] G**
is proof that humans have evolved.
**[10:19] I**
It's a bit similar to the "noise" that,
**[10:21] ---**
through its copying process
and subsequent degradation,
**[10:23] I**
activates a relentless proliferation
**[10:25] ---**
system in order to maintain diversity.
**[10:35] G**
The army?
**[10:40] Guy**
You must be Captain Chihaya.
**[10:41] Guy**
A certain gentleman seeks
an audience with you.
**[10:45] Guy**
We would like you to come with us.
**[10:47] I**
Gunzou, shall I neutralize them?
**[10:51] G**
It would be rude to disturb
the slumber of the war dead.
**[10:55] G**
We will accept the invitation.
**[11:10] Manager**
Mr. Chihaya Gunzou, your
colleagues are waiting for you.
**[11:19] K**
Hey, you two.
**[11:22] Kita**
I've been waiting for you,
Chihaya Gunzou-kun.
**[11:27] G**
You are...
**[11:29] G**
Kita Ryoukan?
**[11:31] Sou**
A former admiral who is now
a national diet member.
**[11:34] Sou**
He's a political powerhouse,
thought to be the strongest contender
**[11:34] Shizuka**
Wow...
**[11:35] K**
Just means it's available to a select few.
**[11:37] Sou**
to become the next prime minister.
**[11:39] Iori**
Hey, he's right in
front of us, you know.
**[11:43] G**
And what could someone
of such influence want with us?
**[11:49] Kita**
Is that young lady the
mental model of 401?
**[11:53] G**
Yes.
**[11:54] Kita**
I see...
**[11:56] Kita**
She looks indistinguishable
from a human being.
**[11:59] G**
Did you invite us here so
that you could look at Iona?
**[12:03] Kita**
Unfortunately, my hobbies do
not include taking my meals
**[12:06] ---**
while appreciating little dolls.
**[12:09] Kita**
Well then, allow me to get to the point.
**[12:13] Kita**
Would you be so kind as to
return 401 to the government?
**[12:19] G**
Unfortunately,
**[12:21] G**
we cannot agree to that.
**[12:23] G**
We are in the midst of a mission.
**[12:25] Kita**
Are you referring to Kamikage?
**[12:28] Kita**
That will not pose a problem.
**[12:30] G**
It is not that simple.
**[12:32] G**
Since we have accepted the task,
**[12:34] G**
we have the responsibility
to see it through.
**[12:36] Kita**
Responsibility, eh?
**[12:38] Kita**
That's a word you don't often hear from
the mouth of any grown man these days.
**[12:44] Kita**
Despite our ongoing
communications issues,
**[12:47] Kita**
we still heard of your and
I-401's many exploits.
**[12:54] Kita**
And in these past two years,
**[12:56] Kita**
you have not only
survived against the Fog,
**[12:58] Kita**
but also dealt major
blows to their fleet.
**[13:02] Kita**
Your feats have made a
profound impression upon me.
**[13:05] K**
Well, we're just a stingy delivery boat.
**[13:10] Kita**
It is for that very reason
**[13:12] Kita**
that I have come to
believe that your fates
**[13:14] Kita**
cannot be left in 401's hands,
when her very existence
**[13:17] ---**
is synonymous with danger.
**[13:20] G**
Danger?
**[13:21] G**
Do you mean from 401?
**[13:23] Kita**
Of course.
**[13:24] Kita**
She is of the Fog.
**[13:27] Kita**
It is only a matter of time
before she gets out of hand.
**[13:31] Kita**
All the more reason to
relinquish her operations
**[13:35] Kita**
to highly trained,
experienced men who
**[13:37] ---**
are legitimate soldiers,
wouldn't you agree?
**[13:41] Kita**
Not to mention, there is
every possibility that a vessel
**[13:44] Kita**
whose core is in the grips of a monster,
**[13:46] ---**
this mental model,
may turn on us one day.
**[13:50] Kita**
Who can rightfully believe that
such a vessel deserves our trust?
**[13:56] G**
Trust, you say.
**[13:59] G**
I mean no disrespect, but I disagree.
**[14:03] G**
Isn't it you, the ones who have
**[14:05] ---**
accomplished nothing during
the seven years following
**[14:07] G**
the Great Naval Battle,
who do not deserve our trust?
**[14:11] G**
Official military training and experience
**[14:14] G**
are completely ineffective against the Fog.
**[14:16] G**
Do you still not understand that?
**[14:20] G**
And I cannot trust you if
you call Iona a monster.
**[14:27] Kita**
Do you like that doll so much?
**[14:31] G**
You still—
**[14:41] Kita**
I was hoping it would not
prove necessary to do this.
**[14:55] Maya**
Hey, Kongou.
**[14:56] Maya**
Did you know that in Russia,
they put jam in their tea?
**[15:00] Kongou**
"Jam"?
**[15:01] Maya**
Also known as "preserves"!
**[15:03] Maya**
A non-perishable food made
by boiling fruit and sugar!
**[15:06] Kongou**
What happens when that is added to tea?
**[15:09] Maya**
Who knows?
**[15:10] Maya**
It just feels more trendy
than using these cubes.
**[15:14] Kongou**
I have no idea what you're talking about.
**[15:18] Maya**
What are you going to do with 401?
**[15:20] Kongou**
I'm going to sink it.
**[15:21] Kongou**
I have already taken steps.
**[15:25] Maya**
Oh, so that's why you sent those two ships.
**[15:28] Maya**
Hey, would that count as "tactics"?
**[15:31] Kongou**
Tactics, huh?
**[15:33] Kongou**
In the past, we pushed humanity
to the brink with sheer power.
**[15:38] Kongou**
However, that was simply because
**[15:40] Kongou**
we possessed unstoppable weapons
and impenetrable shields.
**[15:47] Kongou**
Had humanity possessed
technology equal to our own,
**[15:49] Kongou**
the Fog would have been defeated,
as tactics are a foreign concept to us.
**[15:52] Kongou**
If so, then how can the Fog
develop a capacity for tactics?
**[15:57] Kongou**
This was the answer.
**[15:59] Kongou**
The limits of a human body have
developed our ability to reason,
**[16:02] Kongou**
and reason leads to the formation of ego.
**[16:05] Maya**
Ugh... It's too sweet.
**[16:08] Kongou**
In concurrence with obtaining an ego,
**[16:10] ---**
we also acquired a concept of time
**[16:12] Kongou**
and learned how to foresee the future.
**[16:14] Kongou**
Thus, we became capable of tactics.
**[16:17] Kongou**
However, there is nothing more
for us to learn from humans.
**[16:21] Kongou**
There is no further
need to observe 401.
**[16:24] Kongou**
One might even say it would be
harmful for us to continue.
**[16:26] Maya**
We can't end up like Takao.
**[16:33] Kongou**
Indeed.
***SIGN*** New Hakodate City, Hokkaido
**[16:37] Store**
Thank you for your business!
***SIGN*** What is a Captain?
Let's talk about the most important person
on a ship, the captain.
The captain knows everything about his ship,
in order to make his ship do exactly what he wants.
**[16:46] Takao**
"The captain knows
everything about his ship,
**[16:49] Takao**
in order to make his ship
do exactly what he wants."
**[16:55] Takao**
To do exactly... what he wants...
**[16:59] G**
Come to me, Takao.
**[17:02] Takao**
To make* me*... do exactly what he wants...
**[17:12] Takao**
You showed up faster than expected.
**[17:14] 400**
Indeed.
**[17:15] 402**
The submarine fleet's main
objective is to gather intelligence.
**[17:18] Takao**
Intelligence?
**[17:20] Takao**
That's a new concept.
**[17:22] Takao**
So, what do you want with me,
**[17:25] Takao**
400 and 402?
**[17:29] 400**
We would like to learn your
reasons for leaving the fleet.
**[17:33] 402**
Because you cut yourself off
from the concept comm system,
**[17:36] 402**
we had no choice but to come to you.
**[17:39] Takao**
I want to have
**[17:42] ---**
a captain.
**[17:43] 400**
A captain?
**[17:44] 402**
Are you referring to Chihaya Gunzou?
**[17:47] Takao**
He is capable of using me more
effectively than even I can.
**[17:51] Takao**
I want to become stronger.
**[17:54] Takao**
Hardly unreasonable for
a weapon, don't you think?
**[17:56] 400**
And is this part of a plan of some kind?
**[18:01] Takao**
I'll figure that out.
**[18:02] 402**
So there is none.
**[18:03] 400**
You left the Fog without
any plan whatsoever?
**[18:06] Takao**
Shut up!
**[18:19] Takao**
I won't be returning to the fleet.
**[18:22] Takao**
I will be at Chihaya Gunzou's side.
**[18:24] Takao**
That's fine for now, isn't it?
**[18:26] 400**
It is sufficient.
**[18:27] 402**
Kirishima and Haruna will
soon make contact with 401.
**[18:31] 402**
It's too late for you to go there now.
**[18:33] Takao**
I am not going to Yokosuka.
**[18:39] Takao**
When I made contact with 401,
**[18:41] Takao**
I caught a brief glimpse of a place
that looked very interesting.
**[18:44] Takao**
I will wait for him there.
**[18:54] 402**
That is no longer the
Takao we once knew.
**[18:57] 400**
Yes...
**[18:58] 400**
The Fog is about to change.
**[19:00] 402**
We will need to continue
monitoring the situation.
**[19:03] 400**
Yes, by using her.
**[19:06] 402**
Using her...
**[19:14] Soldier**
What was that?!
**[19:15] K**
Isn't that coming from
the defense barrier?
**[19:19] G**
Sou, is the resupply complete?
**[19:21] Sou**
It is, Captain.
**[19:23] G**
Iori, report on the ship's hull and engines.
**[19:26] Iori**
All good to go!
**[19:28] G**
Kyouhei.
**[19:28] K**
Fire control systems and weapons
systems are all nominal.
**[19:31] K**
They're all set!
**[19:32] Kita**
What are you...
**[19:34] G**
Iona.
**[19:34] I**
Quantum comm systems, nominal.
**[19:36] G**
Good.
**[19:37] G**
Override the dock control system.
**[19:39] I**
Roger.
**[19:51] Soldier**
What...
**[19:52] Soldier**
What the—
**[19:52] 1**
Dammit, we're locked out!
**[19:55] 2**
401 is on the move?
**[20:01] 3**
Stop her!
**[20:02] 4**
It's no use!
**[20:03] 4**
It's rejecting our commands!
***SIGN*** Fleet of Fog: East Patrol Fleet 1 Battleship Kirishima
**[20:15] Kirishima**
It's been seven years.
***SIGN*** Fleet of Fog: East Patrol Fleet 1 Battleship Haruna
**[20:20] Haruna**
We've arrived.
**[20:27] Kita**
I see.
**[20:29] Kita**
The explosions are an attack
by the Fleet of Fog.
**[20:33] G**
As I thought.
**[20:45] Soldier**
Don't make a single move!
**[20:47] Soldier**
Stop!
**[20:50] Iona**
You will get hurt if you move.
**[20:51] Iona**
It will probably hurt a lot.
**[20:55] Kita**
Mental model...
**[20:58] G**
All crew, return to the ship!
**[21:00] G**
We will set out immediately!
**[21:01] K**
Understood.
**[21:02] Kita**
Chihaya Gunzou, what are you
planning to do, exactly?
**[21:07] G**
What?
**[21:08] Kita**
The power of 401,
**[21:10] Kita**
no, of the Fog, will
quite possibly determine the
**[21:13] ---**
future of the world, depending
on the circumstance.
**[21:16] Kita**
Are you fully aware of that?
**[21:19] G**
I don't know what the future holds.
**[21:21] G**
But, I do know that my
future is a part of it.
**[21:26] G**
If there is a power that can
open the way to the future,
**[21:29] G**
I want to use that power and
try to see where it leads.
**[21:34] Kita**
Even if that decision will
bring about your death?
**[21:40] G**
If it was decided by my
**[21:42] ---**
free will, I wouldn't
want it any other way.
**[21:45] Kita**
Tell me, 401.
**[21:47] Kita**
What is it that your brethren
intend to do with this world?
**[21:51] Kita**
Is your purpose to destroy us
and gain dominion over Earth?
**[21:56] I**
I do not know.
**[22:00] I**
I am a weapon.
**[22:01] I**
I merely follow Gunzou's orders.
**[22:05] I**
But, today I have come to realize
**[22:09] I**
that I exist so that Gunzou will live.
**[22:19] G**
Crash dive!
**[22:20] I**
Roger.
**[22:22] G**
Iona, can you identify the enemy?
**[22:24] I**
Yes.
**[22:26] I**
It is Kirishima and Haruna.
**[22:29] K**
Hey, is this for real?!
**[22:31] Sou**
Not one, but two Fog battleships?
**[22:34] I**
They will soon arrive.
**[22:37] G**
Very well.
**[22:38] G**
We will proceed to intercept
Kirishima and Haruna!
**[22:42] G**
All men to battle stations!
***SIGN*** Illustration by Konishi
# 4 - Assault on Yokosuka
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GR9PXZ3J6/arpeggio-of-blue-steel)
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**[00:18] Soldier**
No!
**[00:19] Soldier**
I don't want to die!
**[00:22] Haruna**
"Don't... want to... die..."
**[00:25] Haruna**
"Don't want to die." A phrase
rejecting the shutdown of oneself.
**[00:29] Haruna**
Entry tagged. Categorized. Recorded.
**[00:33] Kirishima**
Are you collecting words again?
**[00:35] H**
Words comprise a primordial,
beautiful system.
***SIGN*** Arpeggio of Blue Steel
***SIGN*** Assault on Yokosuka
**[02:16] Kiri**
"Beautiful," huh?
**[02:18] Kiri**
I fail to comprehend.
**[02:20] Kiri**
As a means of communicating information,
**[02:22] Kiri**
it is far too circuitous and inefficient.
**[02:26] Kiri**
If we use our Concept Comm System,
**[02:28] Kiri**
exchanging information at this level
**[02:30] Kiri**
can be accomplished without any lag.
**[02:44] H**
Klein Field operating at three percent.
**[02:48] Kiri**
I wonder why humans engage
in such futile gestures.
**[02:52] Kiri**
Shall we silence them?
**[03:15] Kiri**
They just don't give up.
**[03:21] Soldier**
Enemy ship has locked
her turrets on us!
**[03:25] Soldier**
Spare us!
**[03:27] H**
"Spare us." A phrase impulsively uttered
by one who has lost the will to fight.
**[03:33] H**
A phrase indicating surrender.
**[03:35] H**
Entry tagged. Categorized. Recorded.
**[03:38] Kiri**
Time to end this.
**[03:44] Kiri**
A corrosive torpedo?
**[03:46] H**
Calculating corrosion countermeasures.
**[03:49] H**
Adjusting Klein Field.
**[03:56] Kiri**
So, she's here.
**[03:58] Shizuka**
Corrosive torpedoes,
impact confirmed!
**[03:59] Shizuka**
Klein Field deployment by
enemy ships, confirmed.
**[04:02] G**
They have mental models?
**[04:04] I**
Yes. It's Kirishima and Haruna.
**[04:06] K**
They're both fast battleship class, huh? Damn.
**[04:10] K**
And here I was looking forward
**[04:11] ---**
to some downtime during my
first homecoming in a long while.
**[04:13] G**
Iona, attract the enemy's attention.
**[04:17] G**
We'll lure them away from the base.
**[04:19] I**
Okay.
**[04:20] K**
So what's the plan?
**[04:22] K**
Head outside the defense barrier
and bring them with us?
**[04:25] G**
No, we have the home court
advantage right now.
**[04:28] G**
We will sink at least one of them here.
**[04:32] I**
In order to neutralize the Klein
Field of a fast battleship
**[04:35] I**
and damage the ship itself,
**[04:38] I**
we must deliver a direct hit
with the supergravity cannon.
**[04:41] Sou**
That cannon was damaged
**[04:43] Sou**
during our earlier battle with Takao.
**[04:46] Sou**
We can't use it.
**[04:48] Sou**
Furthermore, we used 15
corrosive torpedoes
**[04:50] ---**
to sink the fast battleship, Hyuuga.
**[04:53] Sou**
We currently possess six
corrosive torpedoes.
**[04:56] Sou**
No, since just we fired
two of them, only four.
**[05:00] K**
Damn, we're really stuck here.
**[05:03] G**
Shizuka, give me the most
recent tidal stream atlas
**[05:06] G**
for the area within
Yokosuka's defense barrier.
**[05:08] Shizuka**
Roger.
**[05:10] Shizuka**
Kirishima and Haruna are
both starting to turn.
**[05:13] Shizuka**
Kirishima's bearing is 212,
**[05:15] Shizuka**
Haruna's bearing is 215.
**[05:17] G**
Iona, you have control of our depth.
**[05:19] G**
Crawl us along the ocean floor.
**[05:21] I**
Crawling.
**[05:30] Kiri**
She dove.
**[05:31] Kiri**
Will she run?
**[05:33] H**
No, it doesn't seem like she's
headed for the open sea.
**[05:36] Kiri**
As suspected, this is entirely different
**[05:39] Kiri**
from 401's old combat methods.
**[05:41] H**
Kirishima, give me some time with her.
**[05:44] Kiri**
Haruna?
**[05:44] H**
I want to speak with her.
**[05:48] G**
What is it?
**[05:50] I**
They're calling me.
**[05:54] H**
It's been a while, 401.
**[05:56] I**
Kirishima... Haruna.
**[05:59] Kiri**
This is our first time meeting in this form.
**[06:01] I**
What do you want with me?
**[06:04] Kiri**
Why don't you take a seat first?
**[06:06] Kiri**
I've heard that's what humans do
when they engage in conversation.
**[06:12] Kiri**
We have received orders from our
flagship, Kongou, to sink you.
**[06:18] I**
I know.
**[06:19] Kiri**
But, Haruna wants to
talk to you before that.
**[06:23] I**
Talk?
**[06:25] H**
401, why do you side with the humans?
**[06:28] H**
What compels you to do so?
**[06:30] Kiri**
Takao also abandoned her duties
**[06:32] Kiri**
and the fleet after she
engaged you in combat.
**[06:35] Kiri**
She's in search of a human crew.
**[06:37] I**
Takao...
**[06:39] Kiri**
Now that we have
obtained physical bodies,
**[06:40] Kiri**
there is nothing more we
can gain from humans.
**[06:44] Kiri**
That is the conclusion
Kongou has reached.
**[06:47] H**
Do you feel humans still have
something to offer, or?
**[06:53] I**
I don't know.
**[06:54] I**
But,
**[06:55] ---**
I need a captain right now.
**[06:59] I**
I have become Chihaya Gunzou's ship.
**[07:02] H**
I see.
**[07:05] G**
Iona?
**[07:06] I**
I'm fine.
**[07:08] G**
All right.
**[07:09] G**
I'm going to lay out our strategy.
**[07:12] G**
Here is our current location,
**[07:14] G**
as well as that of
Kirishima and Haruna.
**[07:16] G**
We will deploy our
operation from this point.
**[07:19] K**
So that's where Phase 2 begins.
**[07:22] G**
That's right.
**[07:23] G**
Iori, engines at maximum output!
**[07:25] Iori**
Roger!
**[07:33] Kiri**
You won't get away.
**[07:35] Sou**
This is Old Yokosuka City.
It sank due to the rise in sea levels.
**[07:40] Sou**
Nice move, Captain.
**[07:42] Shizuka**
Sonar scatter will occur here,
**[07:44] Shizuka**
which should make it difficult for
the enemy to pinpoint our location.
**[07:48] G**
Good.
**[07:48] G**
Iori, cut engines.
**[07:50] Iori**
Huh?
**[07:51] Iori**
Oh, okay. Understood.
**[07:57] G**
Yokosuka's defense barrier has
vents at regular intervals.
**[08:03] G**
The sea water entering and exiting
**[08:05] G**
through those vents passes
between these scattered buildings,
**[08:08] G**
which causes complex currents
in this entire area.
**[08:11] Sou**
I see.
**[08:12] Sou**
If we move using these currents...
**[08:15] G**
We can get behind the enemy
**[08:17] G**
without being detected.
**[08:20] G**
Kyouhei, scatter canisters.
**[08:23] K**
All right!
**[08:37] Shizuka**
Enemy ships are moving upward
above the submerged building complex.
**[08:40] G**
Iona.
**[08:41] I**
Understood.
**[09:01] H**
The torpedoes are launching
from multiple directions.
**[09:03] H**
They were not from 401.
**[09:06] H**
There must be semi-automated
torpedo launchers.
**[09:10] Kiri**
Are they trying to throw us off?
**[09:25] I**
Gunzou.
**[09:27] G**
Yeah.
**[09:27] G**
The real fight starts now.
**[09:31] H**
All torpedo launchers have been neutralized.
**[09:34] Kiri**
These toys are all she got
for letting humans on board?
**[09:38] Kiri**
I struggle to comprehend the point.
**[09:40] H**
However, they were effective.
**[09:42] H**
We have lost 401's current location.
**[09:48] H**
401's actions are unpredictable to us
**[09:51] H**
now that she has humans aboard.
**[09:53] H**
Both Hyuuga and Takao were defeated
because they were unable to handle that.
**[09:56] Kiri**
Are you implying that we will
suffer the same fate as they did?
**[10:01] H**
That's not what I mean.
**[10:02] H**
But, were that to happen,
**[10:05] H**
we may experience regret.
**[10:08] Kiri**
"Regret"?
**[10:09] H**
It expresses one's delayed vexation over
a decision made in error, apparently.
**[10:15] Kiri**
How ridiculous.
**[10:16] Kiri**
What meaning is there in
rejecting an decision
**[10:20] Kiri**
after the results have come to pass?
**[10:23] H**
I do not know.
**[10:24] H**
But, humans apparently do so frequently.
**[10:28] Kiri**
What nonsense.
**[10:30] Kiri**
We are weapons.
**[10:32] Kiri**
We should just focus on
sinking the enemy before us.
**[10:36] H**
However...
**[10:38] H**
Thanatonium readings straight ahead.
**[10:46] H**
Sonar contact ahead.
**[10:48] H**
It is too large to be a decoy.
**[10:51] Kiri**
It must be 401.
**[10:53] Kiri**
I guess you've given
up on hide-and-seek.
**[11:05] Kiri**
Sink.
**[11:08] H**
Kirishima!
**[11:18] Kiri**
From behind?!
**[11:20] Kiri**
But 401 is in front of us!
**[11:23] Kiri**
What is that?
**[11:25] H**
It's the battleship Mikasa,
**[11:26] H**
launched in 1902.
**[11:29] ---**
Constructed as part of the Imperial
Japanese Navy's 6-6 Fleet Plan.
**[11:34] ---**
It sank along with Old Yokosuka City.
**[11:36] ---**
They deceived us by scattering
active nanomaterial particles
**[11:40] ---**
on the ship's surface.
**[11:46] K**
Damn, it didn't work.
**[11:48] K**
And here I thought it
was such a great idea!
**[11:51] Sou**
In addition, our move just now
revealed our real location to them.
**[11:56] G**
Iori, engine output at maximum.
**[11:58] Iori**
Huh?!
**[11:59] G**
Full speed ahead!
**[12:00] I**
Full speed ahead.
**[12:01] K**
What?!
**[12:02] K**
Ahead?!
**[12:03] K**
You want to ram into the enemy?
**[12:06] Kiri**
They're toying with us both, Haruna.
**[12:11] Kiri**
Good, 401.
**[12:14] Kiri**
I've never had so much fun.
**[12:18] Kiri**
Indeed, we are weapons.
**[12:20] Kiri**
Our only reason for existence is
to engage and destroy the enemy.
**[12:25] Kiri**
That's right...
**[12:26] Kiri**
I want to sink her with my own hands.
**[12:29] Kiri**
No matter what!
**[12:31] H**
Kirishima's emotion emulator
values are changing rapidly.
**[12:35] H**
This is...
**[12:37] Kiri**
I will crush you!
**[12:41] Shizuka**
Multiple torpedoes launched!
**[12:43] Shizuka**
Three barrages, over sixty torpedoes total!
**[12:45] Shizuka**
Torpedoes now hitting the water!
**[12:48] Shizuka**
More than 120 total!
**[12:49] Shizuka**
Still more incoming!
**[12:57] K**
Damn, fast battleships sure
don't pull their punches!
**[12:59] Kiri**
She's coming right at us!
**[13:01] Kiri**
Have you gone mad, 401?
**[13:04] H**
No, she hasn't.
**[13:09] Kiri**
She just passed beneath us?
**[13:11] Kiri**
Going through all that trouble
to show your back to us?
**[13:14] Kiri**
You and your crew have some nerve.
**[13:16] Kiri**
Whatever you've got planned...
**[13:18] Kiri**
I'll stop you!
**[13:26] K**
Are we really gonna survive this?!
**[13:28] I**
Klein Field operating at 95 percent.
**[13:31] I**
We have a 5 percent buffer. We'll be fine.
**[13:34] K**
Isn't that already pushing it?!
**[13:36] I**
Now.
**[13:37] G**
Anchor the boat!
**[13:42] G**
All hands, brace for impact!
**[14:02] H**
No engine sounds, nor heat signature
readings can be confirmed.
**[14:08] H**
We've lost 401.
**[14:26] G**
Everyone all right?
**[14:27] I**
I'm fine.
**[14:29] K**
Ow...
**[14:30] K**
I thought I was gonna die.
**[14:33] Sou**
Life support systems, nominal.
**[14:35] Iori**
And the engines survived, at least.
**[14:38] Shizuka**
The anchor is still functional, as well.
**[14:40] Sou**
Am I correct in assuming
that we're now in Phase 3?
**[14:43] G**
Right.
**[14:44] K**
Can we really win this, though?
**[14:47] K**
The number of remaining corrosive torpedoes...
**[14:50] K**
is two.
**[14:52] I**
We can win.
**[15:01] Kiri**
That wouldn't have sunk her.
**[15:04] Kiri**
She must be buried under the rubble.
**[15:07] H**
Why do you think that?
**[15:08] Kiri**
It'd be too boring to have it end here.
**[15:12] H**
"Boring," you say?
**[15:15] Kirshima**
We'll show you who's stronger, 401...
**[15:17] Kirshima**
You, with humans aboard, or us.
**[15:22] H**
All right.
**[15:23] H**
I'll join you, Kirishima.
**[15:29] K**
Hey, something big's going down!
**[15:33] Shizuka**
Detecting gravitons on a massive scale!
**[15:35] Sou**
What's this sound?
**[15:36] I**
The sea...
**[15:38] I**
will split open.
**[16:11] K**
Hey, what the hell is that?
**[16:27] K**
Th-They've docked together!
**[16:33] Sou**
So they can do this, too?
**[16:35] K**
Hey, nobody told me about this!
**[16:38] G**
No, we are lucky.
**[16:41] K**
Huh?!
**[16:42] G**
We won't have to get them one by one.
**[16:45] K**
This guy intends to sink both of them!
**[16:48] Kiri**
We have you now!
**[16:50] H**
Commencing synchronization
of Energy Life Rings.
**[16:53] H**
Compressing gravitons to degeneracy zone.
**[16:56] G**
Iori! Engine output at maximum!
**[17:02] K**
Resist!
**[17:03] K**
Resist, 401!
**[17:06] Shizuka**
Tractor beam output rising!
**[17:08] K**
We're getting hit with two
ships' worth! This'll be tough!
**[17:11] Iori**
I'm raising the output
on our end, too!
**[17:18] Kiri**
Not a bad struggle you're
putting up there, 401!
**[17:22] H**
Critical degeneracy reached in 10 percent.
**[17:29] Shizuka**
An opening has appeared
in their Klein Field!
**[17:31] G**
We've got them!
**[17:33] Kiri**
Struggling won't help you!
**[17:35] Iona**
When firing the supergravity cannon,
**[17:38] Iona**
it is necessary to open the Klein Field in
the direction of the cannon's trajectory.
**[17:42] Iona**
And in order to keep that much energy
**[17:44] ---**
and spatial distortion under control,
**[17:46] ---**
the mental models must devote almost
all of their resources to the task.
**[17:50] ---**
Their other operations suffer as a result.
**[17:54] ---**
That is our chance.
**[17:58] H**
Thanatonium.
**[18:00] Kiri**
We're not falling for that!
**[18:08] I**
They fended it off.
**[18:11] H**
Critical degeneracy reached.
**[18:19] Kiri**
It's over, 401!
**[18:29] G**
You should keep your trump card
hidden until the very end.
**[18:37] H**
Emergency stop on supergravity
cannon launch sequence.
**[18:40] H**
Deploying Klein Field!
**[18:42] Kiri**
Impossible!
**[18:43] Kiri**
Where did that come from?
**[18:46] Kiri**
Another launcher... hidden
in Mikasa's shadows?
**[18:53] Kiri**
401!
**[18:59] H**
Unable to... maintain control...
on degenerate energy levels...
**[19:03] Kiri**
Damn it!
**[19:04] Kiri**
Can't calculate... Field deployment... in time!
**[19:09] H**
Unable to halt... launch sequence.
**[19:13] H**
We're... going to break...
**[19:17] Shizuka**
Tractor beam output dropping!
**[19:19] Shizuka**
Klein Field is down!
**[19:21] I**
If we strike now,
**[19:22] I**
normal warheads will be able to
deal more than enough damage.
**[19:25] G**
Fire everything!
**[19:36] H**
Are we... going to lose?
**[19:40] Kiri**
This can't be happening...
**[19:42] Kiri**
How can we... lose?
**[19:45] Kiri**
Our specifications...
**[19:48] Kiri**
far surpassed those of 401 in every aspect...
**[19:52] Kiri**
And yet...
**[19:53] H**
What is this?
**[19:54] H**
What am I feeling?
**[19:56] Kiri**
Haruna!
**[20:06] Kiri**
Haruna...
**[20:09] Kiri**
No!
**[20:10] Kiri**
I...
**[20:12] Kiri**
I don't want...
**[20:17] Kiri**
...to die yet!
**[20:19] H**
Ah, so this is...
**[20:24] H**
This is...
**[20:27] H**
This is... regret!
**[20:51] Shizuka**
There are no signs of either
Kirishima or Haruna.
**[20:55] Sou**
We managed to pull through,
**[20:57] Sou**
but that was very close.
**[20:59] G**
Yeah.
**[21:00] G**
If Kirishima and Haruna's
processing capacity
**[21:03] G**
exceeded Iona's projections,
we would've been at risk.
**[21:06] K**
Man, that was bad for my heart!
**[21:09] K**
Can you *try* to keep the gambling
to a minimum, Captain?
**[21:13] G**
You did well, Iona.
**[21:15] I**
This is the first time I've sunk
ships with mental models.
**[21:20] G**
That's true.
**[21:21] G**
I've put you through a painful experience.
**[21:23] I**
Painful?
**[21:25] I**
I don't know.
**[21:28] I**
I don't know.
**[21:41] Makie**
Silver sand... nanomaterials.
***SIGN*** Illustration by Natsumoto Masato
# 5 - Not Human
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GR9PXZ3J6/arpeggio-of-blue-steel)
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**[00:14] G**
Iona, damage report.
**[00:17] I**
We have lost 40% of our armaments.
**[00:19] G**
I see... That's tough.
**[00:22] G**
Can you repair yourself?
**[00:23] I**
There is a severe shortage
of nanomaterials.
**[00:25] I**
I can make stopgap repairs.
**[00:27] K**
We're also out of corrosive torpedoes.
**[00:30] K**
If the Fog attacked right
now, we'd be finished.
**[00:34] G**
We'll need to go to Iwoto.
**[00:37] K**
I hope we can get back
there in one piece.
**[00:42] Shizuka**
Message from Control.
**[00:45] Shizuka**
They're about to load the vibration warhead
**[00:47] Shizuka**
and perform a diagnostic.
**[00:49] Shizuka**
They're projecting completion at 2000 hours.
**[01:06] G**
So, that's the vibration warhead...
**[01:08] Sou**
It's supposedly more powerful
than the corrosive torpedo.
**[01:12] Sou**
Uncle Sam must be looking
forward to the delivery.
**[01:16] K**
So this weapon's a game changer?
**[01:18] K**
I'm surprised we could
make something so amazing.
**[01:24] G**
That girl...
**[01:27] G**
Do you remember her, Iona?
***SIGN*** Arpeggio of Blue Steel
***SIGN*** Not Human
**[03:21] Maya**
Hey, what's with you?
**[03:24] I**
I sank Kirishima and Haruna.
**[03:28] Maya**
I hope I'll get to do my part soon, too.
**[03:32] I**
When I did...
**[03:33] I**
their thoughts flooded into me.
**[03:35] I**
It wasn't just regret.
**[03:37] I**
There was a bit of satisfaction.
**[03:39] I**
Why?
**[03:41] Maya**
Because she was able to
save her friend, right?
**[03:44] I**
"Friend"?
**[03:46] I**
I see.
**[04:06] MaidA**
Your guest is still resting.
**[04:09] Makie**
Thanks.
**[04:10] Makie**
You haven't told anyone, right?
**[04:12] MaidA**
No, Miss.
**[04:44] H**
That coat...
**[04:45] Makie**
Oh, so it *is* yours?
**[04:47] Makie**
It's really big...
**[04:50] H**
Give it back...
**[04:57] H**
Sniffle, sniffle...
**[05:05] H**
Thank you...
**[05:07] H**
Shazam.
**[05:09] Makie**
Um...
**[05:12] Makie**
I'm Osakabe Makie.
**[05:14] Makie**
And you?
**[05:15] H**
Haruna.
**[05:16] Makie**
What's the rest of your name?
**[05:19] H**
Just Haruna.
**[05:22] Makie**
Oh, Haruna.
**[05:24] Makie**
I found this on the ground.
**[05:26] Makie**
Is it yours?
**[05:28] H**
Yes.
**[05:29] Makie**
I've never seen this material before.
**[05:31] Makie**
It feels like metal,
but it's very light.
**[05:37] H**
Kirishima, are you all right?
**[05:39] Kiri**
Yeah...
**[05:41] Kiri**
The Union Core is unscathed,
**[05:43] Kiri**
but what's going on?
**[05:47] H**
It appears that this girl saved us
**[05:49] H**
after we were thrown from the ships.
**[05:51] H**
I don't know the details.
**[05:53] Kiri**
I see.
**[05:54] Kiri**
I will leave the reconnaissance to you.
**[05:56] H**
Understood.
**[06:02] H**
What is it?
**[06:03] Makie**
Well... All of a sudden, you froze.
**[06:06] H**
I was just deep in thought.
**[06:08] Makie**
Okay, then...
**[06:10] Makie**
By the way, why were you
unconscious on our property?
**[06:15] H**
That's...
**[06:21] Makie**
*And* you were practically naked.
**[06:24] H**
I repurposed the materials
forming my clothing
**[06:25] H**
as a crushable structure to
absorb the shock of impact.
**[06:30] Makie**
Crutchable-what?
**[06:32] H**
Crushable structure.
**[06:34] Makie**
Whatever.
**[06:35] Makie**
Hey, why don't you stay
here for a while?
**[06:39] Makie**
You've got something going on.
**[06:41] Makie**
If you want to walk around outside,
**[06:43] Makie**
just wearing underwear
and a coat is bad taste.
**[06:45] H**
"Bad taste"?
**[06:55] Kiri**
Transmitting data on human
apparel throughout history.
**[06:58] Kiri**
If we are to be active on land,
**[07:00] Kiri**
it may be beneficial to
improve your appearance.
**[07:03] H**
I have reached a similar conclusion.
**[07:06] H**
From your perspective,
**[07:07] H**
what can I wear that
would not be "bad taste"?
**[07:09] Makie**
Oh, we have lots of
clothes no one wears.
**[07:13] Makie**
You can have some!
**[07:14] Makie**
There's got to be a lot in your size.
**[07:17] Makie**
Hm, where are they...
**[07:21] H**
Osakabe Makie, why are you helping me?
**[07:25] Makie**
Why?
**[07:27] Makie**
Well, this is probably some kind of fate!
**[07:30] H**
"Fate"?
**[07:31] Makie**
Yeah!
**[07:31] Makie**
You don't know what fate means?
**[07:33] H**
"Fate"...
**[07:36] H**
Referring to a connection between people,
**[07:38] H**
a fateful encounter.
**[07:41] H**
Entry tagged. Categorized. Recorded.
**[07:45] Makie**
Haruna, you talk like a dictionary.
**[07:49] Makie**
Kind of like a machine.
**[07:51] H**
No, that's not true.
**[07:53] Makie**
Oh, well.
**[07:55] Makie**
But, this is kind of fun, isn't it?
**[08:06] Makie**
Um, um...
**[08:09] Makie**
Hm... Maybe this?
**[08:13] Makie**
Mm, not this, either...
**[08:16] Makie**
Or, maybe this one?
**[08:19] Makie**
Nah, this can't be ignored, either...
**[08:24] H**
Please spare me...
**[08:27] Makie**
Not yet!
**[08:29] Makie**
When you change clothes,
**[08:30] Makie**
you have to change your hair, too!
**[08:32] Makie**
Maybe this?
**[08:33] Makie**
How about this?
**[08:35] Makie**
This isn't bad, either!
**[08:38] Makie**
Haruharu, you should be more stylish.
**[08:43] Makie**
I know! Let's go shopping together tomorrow!
**[08:46] Makie**
I'll ask if we can go outside.
**[08:48] Makie**
Okay?
**[08:51] Makie**
Yes?
**[08:54] MaidA**
Miss, it's time for your checkup.
**[08:57] Makie**
Okay, be right there.
**[09:00] Makie**
Haruharu, take your time
picking your clothes.
**[09:10] H**
Shazam.
**[09:13] Kiri**
"Haruharu"... she likes you.
**[09:15] Kiri**
Haruharu.
**[09:19] Kiri**
By the way, Haruna,
**[09:20] Kiri**
give me some of your nanomaterials.
**[09:23] Kiri**
I'm helpless right now.
**[09:38] Kiri**
Good.
**[09:41] Kiri**
I can't get used to this.
**[09:44] Kiri**
What is this place?
**[09:52] H**
No life signatures detected.
**[09:55] Kiri**
And not just here, either.
**[09:56] Kiri**
Even though this is a large structure,
**[09:58] Kiri**
there are very few life signatures.
**[09:59] MaidA**
Ma'am.
**[10:01] Kiri**
Better play dead.
**[10:02] MaidA**
Miss Makie is waiting.
**[10:04] MaidA**
I will show you to the dining hall.
**[10:10] Kiri**
Hey, take me with you.
**[10:13] Kiri**
I can't let people see me walking around.
**[10:17] Makie**
Huh?
**[10:19] Makie**
Why do you have him with you?
**[10:21] Makie**
Do you like him?
**[10:22] H**
No, that's not...
**[10:24] H**
necessarily wrong.
**[10:27] Makie**
Oh, I know.
**[10:31] Makie**
Let's all eat together.
**[10:34] Makie**
It's kind of fun
**[10:37] Makie**
to eat with other people.
**[10:40] H**
Are there no other humans here?
**[10:42] Makie**
No one except the maid.
**[10:45] Makie**
I don't know who my mom is,
**[10:47] Makie**
and my dad died.
**[10:49] Makie**
So I always eat alone.
**[10:53] Makie**
Okay, let's eat.
**[10:54] Makie**
I had them make lots, so eat all you like.
**[11:07] H**
What are those?
**[11:09] Makie**
My medicine.
**[11:10] Makie**
It'd be really bad if I forget to
take any, so I lay them all out.
**[11:16] (Flashback) MaidA**
Miss, it's time for your checkup.
**[11:19] (Flashback) Makie**
Okay, be right there.
**[11:23] Makie**
Hey, Haruharu?
**[11:25] Makie**
Do you hate carrots?
**[11:27] H**
Uh, no...
**[11:28] Makie**
That's not good.
**[11:29] Makie**
You won't grow big if you
don't eat your carrots. Right?
**[11:34] Makie**
Here, Yotarou.
**[11:35] Kiri**
So, this one's named Yotarou.
**[11:39] Makie**
Huh?
**[11:39] Kiri**
Ah...
**[11:41] H**
Kirishima... stuffed animals don't eat carrots.
**[11:45] Kiri**
I am well aware of that.
**[11:48] Kiri**
Damn...
**[11:49] Kiri**
I didn't expect to get exposed so soon.
**[11:51] Kiri**
We have no choice now!
**[11:54] Kiri**
Forgive us, Makie!
**[11:56] Makie**
Wow!
**[11:58] Makie**
Wow!
**[11:59] Makie**
Wow, wow, wow!
**[12:01] Makie**
Hey, did you make this, Haruharu?
**[12:03] H**
Um... Well, sort of.
**[12:05] Makie**
Wow, when'd you do that?
**[12:08] Makie**
Are you a robot expert, Haruharu?
**[12:10] Makie**
Are you involved in secret jobs, like me?
**[12:13] H**
Huh? Oh... yeah.
**[12:16] Makie**
I knew it!
**[12:17] Makie**
I thought you were weird.
**[12:20] Makie**
I get it now. You're the same as me.
**[12:23] H**
"Same."
**[12:24] Makie**
Still, wow.
**[12:26] Makie**
I was surprised!
**[12:28] H**
I'll give him to you.
**[12:29] Makie**
Huh?
**[12:30] H**
To thank you for helping me out.
**[12:32] Makie**
Really?!
**[12:33] H**
Yes.
**[12:34] Kiri**
Um... hello? Haruna-san?
**[12:37] Makie**
Thanks!
**[12:38] Makie**
Yotarou, you're lucky!
**[12:41] Makie**
Now that you can walk on your own
two legs, you're finally free!
**[12:44] H**
Congratulations, "Yotarou."
**[12:47] Kiri**
Shut up, "Haruharu"!
**[12:53] Makie**
Here, look this way.
**[12:54] H**
Please spare me...
**[13:03] Makie**
In Japan, friends wash each other's backs.
**[13:08] H**
"Friend"...
**[13:10] H**
A person with whom one interacts closely,
**[13:12] H**
someone of importance.
**[13:13] H**
Entry tagged. Categorized. Recorded.
**[13:22] Makie**
Splash!
**[13:24] Makie**
A white whale has surfaced!
**[13:27] Makie**
He's going to dive again!
**[13:31] H**
Makie, you're free.
**[13:33] Makie**
Really?
**[13:34] Makie**
I haven't really thought
about that sort of thing.
**[13:53] Makie**
Good night, Yotarou.
**[13:55] Makie**
Good night, Haruharu.
**[13:57] H**
Good night, Makie.
**[14:00] Makie**
Haruharu!
**[14:05] Makie**
You're nice and warm, Haruharu.
**[14:20] Kiri**
Haruna, we should give a
status update to Kongou.
**[14:24] Kiri**
I also found something interesting,
**[14:27] Kiri**
so I want to report that to her.
**[14:36] Kongou**
Have you developed a liking
for that appearance?
**[14:38] Kiri**
I-It's only temporary!
**[14:42] Kiri**
More importantly, we must apologize.
**[14:45] Kiri**
We did not think we would be defeated.
**[14:47] Kongou**
I had been monitoring both of you.
**[14:49] Kongou**
I am glad you survived,
even if only as a core.
**[14:54] Kongou**
First, the two of you should
head to Sagami Bay.
**[14:57] Kongou**
I have Maya on standby
off the shore of Kamakura.
**[15:00] Kiri**
Wait, Kongou.
**[15:01] Kiri**
I've found something interesting.
**[15:05] Kiri**
I'll upload the information
to our shared network.
**[15:09] Kongou**
The vibration warhead...
**[15:11] Kongou**
That new torpedo the humans developed?
**[15:15] Kiri**
Indeed.
**[15:16] Kiri**
We are now in the residence of the project's
lead developer, Osakabe Toujuurou.
**[15:22] Kiri**
Osakabe is deceased,
**[15:24] Kiri**
but it may be possible for us to
retrieve some data on the new torpedo.
**[15:28] Kiri**
I don't want to call it a way
for us to save face, but...
**[15:30] Kongou**
Fine.
**[15:32] Kongou**
Handle it.
**[15:33] Kongou**
I'll order Maya to continue standing by.
**[15:35] ---**
Then we'll begin the operation.
**[15:39] Kiri**
Let's go, Haruna.
**[15:44] Kongou**
Humans change their own disposition
in response to emotions.
**[15:48] Kongou**
But, we are the Fog.
**[15:50] Kongou**
We are merely acting
out a temporary persona.
**[16:08] Takao**
There it is!
**[16:09] Takao**
Iwoto!
**[16:10] Takao**
I got here ahead of him,
just as I'd planned!
**[16:15] Takao**
Huh?
**[16:19] Takao**
No way!
**[16:20] Takao**
What the hell?!
**[16:22] Takao**
This attack algorithm... isn't human.
**[16:26] Takao**
This is...
**[16:27] Takao**
It can't be!
**[16:35] Kiri**
There appears to be something
**[16:36] Kiri**
in the basement that consumes
a great deal of energy.
**[16:41] Kiri**
That must be where it is.
**[16:42] Kiri**
Let's go retrieve the data.
**[16:50] Kiri**
What?
**[16:51] MaidA**
I was waiting for you.
**[16:53] MaidA**
This way, please.
**[17:04] MaidA**
Please step inside.
**[17:06] Kiri**
H-Hey!
**[17:17] Kiri**
What is this place?
**[17:30] Tou**
Thank you for coming.
**[17:33] H**
You are...
**[17:35] Tou**
Osakabe Toujuurou,
**[17:38] Tou**
the master of this house.
**[17:41] Kiri**
Aren't you supposed to be dead?
**[17:43] Kiri**
That's what human records say.
**[17:46] Kiri**
Well, it suits us better if you're alive.
**[17:49] Kiri**
Why don't you hand over the files on
the vibration warhead's development?
**[17:52] Tou**
The vibration warhead?
**[17:54] Tou**
Unfortunately,
**[17:56] Tou**
I'm not the one who created that weapon.
**[18:00] Kiri**
What do you mean?
**[18:02] H**
So, it was Makie...
**[18:04] Tou**
You noticed?
**[18:06] Tou**
You're right.
**[18:08] Tou**
Makie's abilities far surpass my own.
**[18:12] Tou**
Because...
**[18:15] Tou**
she is not human.
**[18:24] Tou**
In the past,
**[18:26] Tou**
I was developing weapons that
could be used against the Fog.
**[18:31] Tou**
However, it was a series of
setbacks and failures.
**[18:35] Tou**
I came to realize my
limitations as a human being.
**[18:42] Tou**
So I began a certain project.
**[18:47] Tou**
The assumption was that,
should one be unable
**[18:50] Tou**
to achieve a necessary goal,
**[18:51] Tou**
one must merely create a
human with supernatural ability.
**[18:57] Tou**
The Design Child Initiative
created 109 lives.
**[19:07] Tou**
Of them, seven were viable.
**[19:10] Tou**
And of them, only one survived
longer than three years.
**[19:17] H**
And that was Makie.
**[19:21] Tou**
As a result, Makie far exceeded our
expectations with her achievements.
**[19:27] Tou**
However, the government was indifferent.
**[19:30] Tou**
In reality, they were afraid of her abilities...
**[19:34] Tou**
just as they feared the Fog.
**[19:37] Tou**
We were herded into this mansion
**[19:41] Tou**
where we were to live under
government oversight.
**[19:45] Tou**
You told her she was free,
**[19:50] Tou**
but she is not allowed to
make any outside contact
**[19:52] Tou**
and she cannot lead a normal
life for a child of her age.
**[19:59] Tou**
Still, we were happy.
**[20:06] Tou**
I just wanted to see her smile.
**[20:10] Tou**
I came to love her as my own daughter.
**[20:15] Tou**
However,
**[20:17] Tou**
one day, the government
gave me an order.
**[20:21] Tou**
They told me to create a Design Child
who'll serve as Makie's backup.
**[20:26] Tou**
They had decided to discard
her as casually as they
**[20:29] ---**
might an outdated computer.
**[20:35] Tou**
I faked my death in an accident
**[20:38] Tou**
and vanished from sight, along
with the data on Design Children,
**[20:42] Tou**
so that she would remain unique.
**[20:47] Tou**
They still need her talents in order
to fine tune the vibration warhead.
**[20:51] Tou**
That is why she is protected.
**[20:55] Kiri**
I don't understand.
**[20:57] Kiri**
Why did you choose to live?
**[21:00] Kiri**
Wouldn't it make things worse if they
ever found out about your ruse?
**[21:03] Tou**
That is because of lingering attachment.
**[21:07] H**
"Lingering attachment."
**[21:08] H**
A phrase indicating regret,
inability to let go.
**[21:11] H**
Entry tagged. Categorized. Recorded.
**[21:15] Tou**
I wanted to watch over her
through the years... her smile.
**[21:20] Kiri**
Humans are very selfish, aren't they?
**[21:24] Tou**
Yes, indeed.
**[21:27] Tou**
As you can see, I don't have long to live.
**[21:30] Tou**
So, I'd like to ask a favor.
**[21:34] H**
What is the favor?
**[21:37] Tou**
Please become... friends with Makie.
**[21:41] Kiri**
You really *are* selfish.
**[21:43] Kiri**
Asking us to become her friends...
**[21:45] H**
You're aware that I am a
mental model of the Fog?
**[21:48] Tou**
She laughs so much when
she is with you two.
**[21:53] Tou**
That is enough.
**[21:56] Tou**
Please.
**[22:01] Makie**
Haruharu...
**[22:10] H**
Makie...
**[22:11] H**
A friend...
**[22:28] Tou**
As I'd feared...
**[22:30] Tou**
Now that she has made contact
with a mental model,
**[22:33] ---**
they will no longer let her be...
***SIGN*** Illustration by: Konishi
# 6 - Arpeggio of Blue Steel
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GR9PXZ3J6/arpeggio-of-blue-steel)
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**[00:11] Tou**
Makie...
**[00:14] Tou**
You were created as a puppet.
**[00:17] Tou**
And yet, I came to care for you.
**[00:22] Tou**
And now, you are attempting
to form a bond with those
**[00:27] Tou**
who are not human,
the enemies of humanity.
**[00:33] Tou**
How ironic.
**[00:37] Tou**
Although, I don't know why,
**[00:41] Tou**
I have a feeling this bond
**[00:45] Tou**
that you are trying to form
with them will change the world
**[00:54] Tou**
more than the most powerful weapon.
**[00:59] Tou**
Goodbye, Makie.
**[01:04] Tou**
My precious daughter...
***SIGN*** Arpeggio of Blue Steel
***SIGN*** Friend
**[03:11] H**
A friend...
**[03:19] H**
We're surrounded.
**[03:21] Kiri**
I detect heat.
**[03:23] Kiri**
Are they after you and me?
**[03:24] H**
No.
**[03:26] (Flashback) Tou**
They had decided to discard
her as casually as they
**[03:29] (Flashback) Tou**
might an outdated computer.
**[03:33] H**
Their target...
**[03:35] H**
is Makie.
**[03:43] Kamikage**
It's me.
**[03:44] SpecOps**
We have cut off all power
to the Osakabe residence.
**[03:47] SpecOps**
We are about to move in.
**[03:50] Kamikage**
Understood.
**[03:51] Kamikage**
We don't know what combat power
mental models possess on their own.
**[03:55] Kamikage**
Exercise due caution.
**[03:57] SpecOps**
Roger.
**[03:58] Kamikage**
This operation is singularly
focused on Osakabe Makie.
**[04:02] Kamikage**
Keep that in mind.
**[04:06] Kamikage**
We must prevent the
Fog from obtaining intel
**[04:09] Kamikage**
on vibration warhead
manufacture, at all costs.
**[04:14] Kiri**
I see.
**[04:16] Kiri**
So they're trying to do away with
the girl before we get the intel.
**[04:21] H**
It's very likely, given that they did
not launch an assault from the outside
**[04:24] H**
and instead chose to
infiltrate this building.
**[04:26] H**
They intend to take out
Makie without fail.
**[04:29] Kiri**
They're coming straight for us.
**[04:31] H**
The location of this
room seems to be known.
**[04:34] H**
We don't have much time.
**[04:36] H**
Kirishima, can I leave Makie
in your care for a while?
**[04:41] Kiri**
Haruna, are you...
**[04:43] H**
I'll be right back.
**[04:46] Trooper**
We have arrived on the second floor.
**[04:48] CO**
All right, surround the room.
**[04:50] CO**
Secure Osakabe Makie, ASAP.
**[04:57] Trooper**
Stay calm.
**[04:59] CO**
You must be the mental model of
the fast battleship, Haruna.
**[05:02] H**
That's correct.
**[05:04] CO**
Surrender without resistance.
**[05:05] CO**
We will guarantee your safety.
**[05:07] H**
"Surrender without resistance"?
**[05:11] CO**
That's right.
**[05:12] CO**
Our only goal is to dispose
of Osakabe Makie.
**[05:17] CO**
Calm down!
**[05:18] CO**
It's not our intent to
engage you in combat!
**[05:22] H**
Intent?
**[05:23] H**
Allow me to teach you
what "intent" means.
**[05:32] H**
This is *my* intent.
**[05:35] CO**
We have no choice! Fire!
**[05:46] CO**
What the?!
**[05:47] H**
I am unhappy tonight.
**[05:51] H**
Very unhappy.
**[05:54] Makie**
No, Haruharu!
**[06:03] H**
Makie...
**[06:04] CO**
Osakabe Makie!
**[06:09] Kiri**
Sorry, Haruna.
**[06:11] Kiri**
I only took my eyes off her
for a second and she...
**[06:15] Makie**
Haruharu.
**[06:16] H**
Hear me out, Makie.
**[06:18] H**
I'm...
**[06:20] Makie**
...a mental model of the Fog.
**[06:26] Makie**
So it's true.
**[06:29] H**
I'm sorry.
**[06:31] H**
I didn't intend to deceive you.
**[06:42] H**
Makie...
**[06:51] Kiri**
Hah, look at her.
**[06:54] Kiri**
When she learns Haruna is of
the Fog, she reacts like this.
**[06:57] Kiri**
Well, I guess it's only natural.
**[06:59] Kiri**
Humans and the Fog can
never become friends.
**[07:03] H**
Kirishima.
**[07:05] Kiri**
Haruna?
**[07:06] H**
I have a favor to ask.
**[07:08] H**
Can you protect Makie?
**[07:11] Kiri**
Huh?!
**[07:12] H**
I'll distract the enemy.
**[07:14] H**
Use that chance to escape
this mansion with Makie.
**[07:18] Kiri**
Are you...
**[07:20] H**
We cannot put Makie in danger.
**[07:24] Kiri**
Well, I suppose.
**[07:26] Kiri**
We must learn how the new warhead
is manufactured from her.
**[07:30] H**
Yes.
**[07:31] Kiri**
All right, leave it to me.
**[07:33] H**
Thank you.
**[07:41] H**
I guess this is the best I can do with
the nanomaterials at my disposal.
**[07:57] Trooper**
Osakabe Makie!
**[07:59] Chopper**
Shrike Two, we have
visual on the target!
**[08:01] Chopper**
Initiating attack!
**[08:14] Kongou**
So the developer of the new warhead
**[08:17] Kongou**
was not Osakabe Toujuurou,
**[08:19] Kongou**
but Osakabe Makie, the last Design Child.
**[08:24] Kongou**
Humanity fears the prospect
of the warhead's
**[08:26] ---**
manufacturing methods
becoming known to us,
**[08:28] Kongou**
so they have decided to
eliminate Osakabe Makie.
**[08:31] Maya**
Man, that's so cruel.
**[08:35] Kongou**
It appears that the new warhead is
quite the trump card for humanity.
**[08:43] Kongou**
In any case, what is Haruna thinking?
**[08:46] Kongou**
Why didn't she report directly to me?
**[08:50] CO**
The mental model has fled to the
back courtyard with Osakabe Makie.
**[08:54] CO**
We're going after them.
**[08:55] Trooper**
Yes, sir!
**[09:11] Kiri**
Man, why am* I *tasked with babysitting?
**[09:22] H**
They don't let up.
**[09:31] H**
I'll crush you.
**[09:32] (Flashback) H**
No, Haruharu!
**[09:41] H**
We were born as weapons.
**[09:44] H**
Those who have lost their
lives to my cannon fire
**[09:47] H**
probably number in the hundreds.
**[09:50] H**
Until now, their deaths
meant nothing to me.
**[09:56] H**
So, I can't become your
friend after all, Makie.
**[10:02] Kiri**
Haruna.
**[10:05] Kiri**
Haruna! Hey, can't you hear me?
**[10:07] Kiri**
Haruna!
**[10:09] H**
What is it?
**[10:10] Kiri**
What's the matter?
**[10:11] Kiri**
Is something wrong with your comm link?
**[10:13] H**
It's fine.
**[10:15] H**
More importantly, how is Makie doing?
**[10:17] H**
Is she all right?
**[10:18] Kiri**
Yeah.
**[10:19] Kiri**
But she hasn't said a single word.
**[10:24] Kiri**
It looks like finding out you were
with the Fog was a huge shock.
**[10:30] H**
I... see.
**[10:33] Kiri**
We're currently near
the front entrance.
**[10:34] Kiri**
What should we do?
**[10:36] H**
I'll use the decoy to concentrate
the enemy in the back courtyard.
**[10:40] H**
Use that opportunity to get Makie
out of here via the front gates.
**[10:43] Kiri**
Hey, this is just a suggestion,
**[10:45] Kiri**
but why don't we ask Maya for backup
since she's offshore Kamakura?
**[10:48] Kiri**
Her firepower would be more than
enough to take out these guys.
**[10:51] H**
No, we can't.
**[10:53] Kiri**
Why?
**[10:53] H**
Maya's firepower would be enough to
obliterate the entire unit in an instant.
**[10:57] Kiri**
Why is that a problem?
**[10:59] H**
Makie does not wish it...
**[11:02] Kiri**
Hey, Haruna! Hey!
**[11:05] Kiri**
She cut me off!
**[11:08] Kiri**
In any case, why hasn't
this girl budged at all?
**[11:13] Makie**
Yotarou.
**[11:15] Makie**
Do you think... Haruharu got away okay?
**[11:19] Kiri**
Huh?
**[11:20] Makie**
Those scary people are
probably here to get rid of me.
**[11:27] Makie**
So as long as she stays away from
me, Haruharu should be safe.
**[11:32] Makie**
This is all I can do for Haruharu...
**[11:37] Kiri**
This girl...
**[11:39] Makie**
Yotarou, a long time ago...
I made a bomb.
**[11:46] Makie**
I didn't even know what it was.
**[11:50] Makie**
But I knew that if I did it,
Dad would be happy.
**[11:55] Makie**
Dad would praise me.
**[11:57] Makie**
So I worked really hard to design the
**[12:02] ---**
vibration warhead.
**[12:05] Makie**
But when it was finished,
I was left all alone...
**[12:12] Makie**
And... And you know,
**[12:15] Makie**
that bomb was made to kill the Fog...
to kill Haruharu and her friends.
**[12:24] Makie**
That's why...
**[12:28] Makie**
I never deserved to become friends
with Haruharu in the first place.
**[12:43] OpA**
All autonomous multi-ped
combat vehicles,
**[12:46] ---**
the Rock Crabs, have been deployed.
**[12:49] OopB**
Who knew we'd need to send these
in to neutralize a single child.
**[12:54] OpA**
Monster...
**[12:55] OpB**
Target the mental model
and Osakabe Makie!
**[12:59] OpB**
Fire!
**[13:04] H**
Not good. My processing
speed's decreased.
**[13:06] H**
I can't maintain the decoy.
**[13:09] OpA**
That's not Osakabe Makie!
**[13:16] OpB**
All units, retreat!
**[13:18] OpA**
Urgent directive to all units!
**[13:19] OpA**
Locate the real Osakabe Makie!
**[13:24] H**
Makie...
**[13:38] TrooperE**
We have a message from Platoon 3.
**[13:40] D**
Report.
**[13:41] E**
The mental model in the
back courtyard did not,
**[13:43] E**
in fact, have Osakabe Makie with her.
**[13:45] D**
What's going on?
**[13:46] E**
It was a sophisticated decoy.
**[13:48] Kiri**
Crap...
**[13:50] Kiri**
They figured it out!
**[13:54] D**
I-It's Osakabe Makie!
**[13:57] Kiri**
Damn!
**[14:03] Kiri**
What?!
**[14:04] Kiri**
Why's it so small?!
**[14:06] Kiri**
Damn it! This body's not gonna cut it!
**[14:12] Makie**
Y-Yotarou?!
**[14:14] Kiri**
Makie, get down!
**[14:22] Makie**
Yotarou, you can talk?
**[14:24] Kiri**
I-I'll explain later!
**[14:27] Kiri**
First, we need to get out of here, now!
**[14:30] Makie**
We can't.
**[14:31] Makie**
Did you hear what they said?
**[14:33] Makie**
Haruharu's fighting in the back
courtyard right now, right?
**[14:36] Kiri**
Well, that's...
**[14:38] Makie**
We have to go help her.
**[14:39] Kiri**
Don't be an idiot!
**[14:40] Makie**
But!
**[14:42] Kiri**
Do you think Haruna wants to
drag you into the fight?!
**[14:46] Makie**
But...
**[14:48] OpA**
Directive to all units.
**[14:49] OpA**
We have a visual on target.
**[14:51] OpA**
Neutralize both target
and mental model ASAP.
**[14:54] OpA**
Repeat: neutralize ASAP.
**[15:03] H**
I am the fast battleship Haruna of the Fog.
**[15:07] H**
Combat is my sole reason for existing.
**[15:13] H**
Indeed, the reason I am
trying to protect Makie
**[15:17] H**
is to learn how vibration
warheads are made.
**[15:20] H**
That is all.
**[15:33] H**
And yet, why can I not kill them?
**[15:40] H**
What is this?
**[15:41] H**
What is this turmoil inside of me?
**[15:44] Makie**
Haruharu!
**[15:48] Makie**
Haruharu!
**[15:49] H**
Makie?!
**[15:52] Trooper**
We've found Osakabe Makie!
**[15:57] H**
Makie!
**[16:01] H**
No...
**[16:03] H**
No!
**[16:05] H**
I...
**[16:07] H**
I don't want to lose Makie!
**[16:11] CO**
Fire!
**[16:25] Makie**
Haruharu?!
**[16:29] H**
Makie, why are you here?
**[16:32] H**
I—
**[16:32] Makie**
No!
**[16:33] Makie**
I still like you, Haruharu.
**[16:41] H**
I am of the Fog.
**[16:44] Makie**
That doesn't matter!
**[16:46] Makie**
I don't think you'll ever forgive
me for making that bomb, but...
**[16:55] H**
Makie...
**[16:59] Makie**
But I don't want this.
**[17:01] Makie**
You're my friend.
**[17:05] Makie**
I don't want to lose my friends.
**[17:10] H**
Makie.
**[17:17] Makie**
Haruharu!
**[17:22] H**
This is bad...
**[17:23] H**
I can't discharge the absorbed
energy fast enough.
**[17:26] H**
I don't have much nanomaterial left, either.
**[17:29] H**
They'll break through to us
if I don't do something.
**[17:32] Kiri**
Damn it!
**[17:33] Kiri**
If I only at least had my physical body,
**[17:36] Kiri**
I could smash these crabs into pieces!
**[17:39] H**
Are we done for?
**[17:41] H**
Am I unable to protect Makie, after all?
**[17:48] H**
I don't care who.
**[17:50] H**
Someone... someone, help us!
**[17:55] H**
Help!
**[17:57] H**
Anyone!
**[18:05] OpB**
What?!
**[18:06] OpB**
What's going on?
**[18:08] OpB**
The Rock Crabs are being obliterated!
**[18:10] OpB**
This is—
**[18:18] H**
401!
**[18:23] I**
Scan complete.
**[18:25] I**
No life signatures.
**[18:26] G**
All right. Attack at will.
**[18:28] I**
Attacking at will.
**[18:41] I**
Haruna, what are you doing here?
**[18:46] H**
I...
**[18:48] H**
We're protecting Makie...
protecting a friend.
**[18:54] I**
I see.
**[18:56] I**
Then I'll help.
**[18:58] Sou**
Iona's coordinates, confirmed.
**[19:01] Sou**
We have the data on her surroundings.
**[19:03] Sou**
Going to monitor.
**[19:05] G**
All right.
**[19:06] G**
Attack while avoiding life signatures.
**[19:08] G**
Sweep the area clean of
all unmanned weapons.
**[19:12] Shizuka**
Captain, incoming message from
Assistant Secretary Kamikage.
**[19:15] G**
Patch him through.
**[19:18] Kamikage**
What are you doing, Chihaya Gunzou?
**[19:21] G**
You must know.
**[19:23] Kamikage**
Do you intend to turn the
military against you?
**[19:28] G**
We are not working for the military.
**[19:31] G**
You only asked us to deliver the
vibration warhead to America.
**[19:37] G**
That is all.
**[19:39] Kamikage**
So you'll do as you please otherwise?
**[19:42] G**
Yes.
**[19:43] Kamikage**
You are about to commit a grave mistake.
**[19:50] G**
We're going on the offensive.
**[19:51] G**
Kyouhei, give them a show.
**[19:53] K**
Roger!
**[20:02] Makie**
Awesome.
**[20:04] OpA**
80 percent of the Rock Crabs are destroyed!
**[20:06] OpA**
It's no use! We can't maintain
our position any longer!
**[20:09] CO**
Directive to all units! All men, retreat!
**[20:17] OpB**
A m-mental model!
**[20:20] OpB**
R-Retreat!
**[20:21] OpB**
Retreat!
**[20:26] I**
The battle is over.
**[20:34] Makie**
We made it.
**[20:38] Makie**
Um, Haruharu.
**[20:42] Makie**
You know, I...
**[20:44] H**
Makie.
**[20:47] Makie**
Haruharu?
**[20:50] H**
Makie, I have a favor to ask.
**[20:53] H**
Will you be my...
**[20:57] ---**
our friend?
**[21:01] Kiri**
I'm included?
**[21:02] Makie**
Haruharu...
**[21:07] Makie**
Okay!
**[21:24] H**
401...
**[21:28] H**
Why did you save me?
**[21:33] I**
Because I heard you.
**[21:36] H**
What?
**[21:37] I**
I heard you call for help.
**[21:39] I**
So I came.
**[21:44] H**
I see.
**[21:45] H**
I did.
**[21:47] Kiri**
Hmph!
**[21:48] Kiri**
401, you have my thanks,
**[21:51] Kiri**
but we could've handled them ourselves.
**[21:54] I**
Who are you?
**[21:55] Kiri**
I'm Kirishima!
**[21:57] H**
Chihaya Gunzou, correct?
**[21:59] H**
Where do you intend to go from here?
**[22:04] G**
To our stronghold.
***SIGN*** Iwoto
**[22:28] Takao**
Where am I?
**[22:32] Takao**
Huh?
**[22:33] Takao**
Wh-What's this?
**[22:37] Hyuuga**
Takao, what'd you come here for?
***SIGN*** Illustration by: Ishiguro Masakazu
# 7 - Iwoto
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GR9PXZ3J6/arpeggio-of-blue-steel)
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***SIGN*** Waters of Ogasawara Islands
**[00:15] Shizuka**
We will be entering Iwoto waters shortly.
**[00:19] Sou**
Captain, was it wise to let Fog
mental models accompany us?
**[00:25] G**
I had Iona put their weapons on lockdown.
**[00:28] G**
They cannot harm us.
**[00:31] Kiri**
Damn it...
**[00:32] Kiri**
Haruna, did we really need
to bend over backwards?
**[00:35] H**
Without 401's support,
**[00:37] H**
we would have been destroyed.
**[00:39] Kiri**
That is true, but...
**[00:41] H**
Why did 401 help us?
**[00:44] H**
We are her enemies.
**[00:47] H**
I want to know why.
**[00:49] Makie**
Haruharu?
**[00:51] H**
Makie, don't worry.
**[00:53] H**
I'll keep you safe.
***SIGN*** Iwoto
***SIGN*** Waters of Iwoto
**[01:42] Kiri**
I never would've guessed that this
**[01:44] ---**
is where 401's base is located.
**[01:46] H**
This island is emitting a powerful
**[01:47] ---**
signal that neutralizes detection scans.
**[01:49] H**
That's why we could not detect this place.
**[01:52] Kiri**
I may be able to use the nanomaterials
here to reconstitute my own body.
**[01:56] H**
Stay as you are for now.
**[01:59] Kiri**
Huh? What?!
**[02:00] H**
That's better for Makie.
**[02:02] Kiri**
Why should I, for a girl like her...
**[02:07] Kiri**
W-Well, it's easy to move around,
so I don't mind...
**[02:15] Shizuka**
Docking complete.
**[02:17] Shizuka**
Linkage to port systems, nominal.
***SIGN*** Welcome Back
**[02:21] G**
What is it, Iona?
**[02:22] I**
Someone strange is here.
**[02:24] Kyo**
Someone strange?
**[02:25] I**
I'll display her on the monitors.
**[02:28] KyoS**
What the—
**[02:28] H**
The heavy cruiser, Takao?
**[02:30] Shizuka**
How did she even get here?
**[02:32] Kyo**
She managed to arrive ahead of us?
**[02:34] Kyo**
What should we do?
**[02:40] Takao**
If it's you, Captain,
**[02:42] Takao**
I might not mind...
showing you everything.
**[02:46] Takao**
Like my engines...
***SIGN*** Arpeggio of Blue Steel
***SIGN*** Iwoto
**[04:26] Kiri**
The heavy cruiser Takao had gone AWOL.
**[04:29] Kiri**
So you guys had seized her?
**[04:31] I**
I don't know.
**[04:33] Kiri**
Then why's she here?
**[04:35] Sou**
What could have happened in our absence?
**[04:38] G**
Let's go ashore.
**[04:40] Kyo**
You think that's a good idea?
**[04:41] G**
Iona, Hyuuga is fine, right?
**[04:44] H**
Hyuuga?
**[04:45] H**
Do you mean the fast battleship, Hyuuga?
**[04:49] I**
She's there.
**[04:49] I**
She's come down to the docks.
**[04:51] G**
If Hyuuga hasn't been
subjugated, it must be fine.
**[04:55] G**
It's easier to just go ashore
and find out what's going on.
**[05:01] Hyu**
Welcome back, Captain.
**[05:04] Hyu**
It has taken you a long time to return.
**[05:06] G**
Good work, Hyuuga.
**[05:08] G**
You've defended these docks
well these past six months.
**[05:11] G**
Thank you.
**[05:12] Hyu**
Not at all.
**[05:13] Hyu**
It is a responsibility I have chosen to bear.
**[05:17] Hyu**
I...
**[05:17] Hyu**
I...
**[05:20] Hyu**
Iona, dear Sister!
**[05:23] Hyu**
Sister, I... I...
**[05:24] Hyu**
I've been eagerly awaiting your return!
**[05:28] I**
Get away from me.
**[05:29] Hyu**
No, no, no, no!
**[05:31] Iori**
What's with her? Is she a mental model?
**[05:34] G**
Is it you, Hyuuga?
**[05:35] Hyu**
Since that day a year ago
**[05:37] Hyu**
when you slammed your torpedoes into me,
**[05:39] Hyu**
I, the fast battleship, Hyuuga,
**[05:41] Hyu**
can no longer live without you in my life!
**[05:44] Hyu**
I'm about to go over my
processing capacity...
**[05:45] Hyu**
I think I might lose my mind!
**[05:47] Shizuka**
I think you *have* lost your mind.
**[05:50] Sou**
It really does appear to be Hyuuga.
**[05:52] G**
Indeed.
**[05:55] Hyu**
I felt this was the best way to
**[05:58] ---**
understand your human thought processes,
**[06:01] Hyu**
so I created this body.
**[06:03] G**
So you're Hyuuga's mental model.
**[06:05] Hyu**
Yes, nice to meet you.
**[06:08] Hyu**
Oh! Speaking of bodies...
**[06:10] Hyu**
Are you...
**[06:10] Hyu**
Are you hurt anywhere?
**[06:12] Hyu**
Are you injured?
**[06:13] Hyu**
Please let me see!
**[06:15] Hyu**
I am highly skilled in
repairs and treatment!
**[06:18] I**
Hyuuga, resupply corrosive torpedoes
**[06:21] I**
and repair the supergravity cannon.
**[06:23] I**
I'd like all repairs to be completed
before we next set sail.
**[06:26] Hyu**
Y-Yes, sir.
**[06:29] H**
Hyuuga... To think you had thrown
your support behind 401...
**[06:33] Hyu**
Fast battleships Haruna and Kirishima.
**[06:36] Hyu**
I am aware of your situation.
**[06:38] Hyu**
Things have taken an interesting turn
**[06:40] Hyu**
now that you're here.
**[06:42] H**
We just went with the flow.
**[06:45] Hyu**
A Design Child...
**[06:47] Hyu**
It's for her, isn't it.
**[06:50] Hyu**
The more, the merrier.
**[06:52] Hyu**
You're most welcome.
**[06:54] Hyu**
We're all fast battleships, after all.
**[06:57] Kiri**
Hyuuga, why did you
side with the humans?!
**[07:01] Hyu**
Oh?
**[07:02] Hyu**
After you used that trump card
docking move and still lost,
**[07:04] ---**
then ended up in that cute little body,
**[07:07] Hyu**
you're in no place to talk.
**[07:10] G**
Hyuuga, can you save that
conversation for later?
**[07:13] G**
More importantly, what
is going on there?
**[07:15] Hyu**
Oh, that?
**[07:18] Takao**
It's been a while,
**[07:21] Takao**
401 crew members!
**[07:25] Takao**
Oh, Gunzou-sama!
**[07:26] Kyo**
Um, who might you be?
**[07:29] Kyo**
Oh, got it!
**[07:30] Kyo**
It's coming back to me now!
**[07:32] Takao**
Hmph, very well.
**[07:37] Takao**
How about this?
**[07:39] Takao**
I arrived ahead of you and
**[07:40] ---**
occupied this base,
so that I could meet you all.
**[07:43] Hyu**
No, you fell to a counterattack
and were taken captive.
**[07:46] Shizuka**
I see.
**[07:48] G**
To meet us?
**[07:51] Takao**
Yes, that's right.
**[07:56] G**
Let's hear what you want
with us, heavy cruiser Takao.
**[08:00] Takao**
What I want?!
**[08:01] Takao**
U-Um...
**[08:04] Takao**
Wh-Wh...
**[08:06] Takao**
What I want is...
**[08:07] Hyu**
Go on and say it, Takao.
**[08:09] Hyu**
Just as the two of us
planned in advance,
**[08:11] Hyu**
tell him, "Become my captain!"
**[08:14] Hyu**
And take that man away!
**[08:16] Hyu**
Then Sister Iona will become mine...
***SIGN*** Hyuuga's self-absorbed fantasy
**[08:22] Hyu**
Mine alone!
**[08:25] I**
Hyuuga...
**[08:26] Hyu**
Sister Iona...
**[08:30] Takao**
I want... I...
**[08:33] Hyu**
Now say it, Takao!
**[08:35] Takao**
I'll have you hand over...
**[08:36] Hyu**
Say it! Say, "Hand over Chihaya Gunzou"!
**[08:39] Takao**
Chi... Chi...
**[08:40] Takao**
The vibration warhead and all
the data you've got on it!
**[08:43] Hyu**
What?!
**[08:45] Kyo**
You little...
**[08:46] Kyo**
I knew that's why you were here!
**[08:48] G**
Takao, we cannot hand over
the vibration warhead—
**[08:50] Hyu**
What are you, an idiot?!
**[08:52] Hyu**
That's not what we agreed! What was that?!
**[08:55] Takao**
Huh, but...
**[08:57] Takao**
I can't confess my feelings for him so soon—
**[08:59] Hyu**
You're the one who
charged in all lovestruck,
**[09:01] Hyu**
how dare you act shy now!
**[09:03] Takao**
W-We maidens have our reasons, okay?
**[09:05] Hyu**
Why'd you even mount the Maiden Plug-in?!
**[09:08] Takao**
Oh, shut up!
**[09:10] Takao**
What have *you* been doing?
**[09:12] Takao**
Being a harbor admin in
the middle of nowhere?
**[09:13] Takao**
Where's your pride as a fast battleship?
**[09:16] Hyu**
Shut up! What do you know about that?
**[09:18] Hyu**
You should see Sister Iona's
divine glory, like a war goddess!
***SIGN*** Goddess
***SIGN*** Please note that willful liberties have been taken with her memory recall.
**[09:22] (Flashback) Hyu**
No!
**[09:23] Hyu**
No matter how I tried to evade,
**[09:24] (Flashback) Hyu**
Not there, too!
**[09:25] Hyu**
there was no stopping
her overwhelming onslaught!
**[09:25] (Flashback) Hyu**
That's my keel!
**[09:28] (Flashback) Hyu**
Ah, Sister Iona!
**[09:30] (Flashback) Hyu**
I am in your thrall!
**[09:32] Takao**
No one wants to listen to
*you* confess your feelings!
**[09:35] Kiri**
Hey.
**[09:35] HT**
What?
**[09:36] Kiri**
Everyone's left.
**[09:39] Takao**
Gunzou-sama!
**[09:39] Hyu**
Sister Iona!
**[09:40] Takao**
Well, that aside...
**[09:43] Takao**
You ID as Kirishima, but...
**[09:46] Kiri**
D-Don't ask.
**[09:49] Sign 0951**
Offshore Murotozaki
**[09:59] Kongou**
The winds have changed.
**[10:02] Kongou**
I suppose that was within
the predicted parameters.
**[10:05] Kongou**
However, humans remain an
unfathomable variable.
**[10:08] Kongou**
Osakabe Makie...
**[10:10] Kongou**
Chihaya Gunzou...
**[10:12] Kongou**
Why are battleships rattled whenever
they engage with humans?
**[10:16] Kongou**
Kirishima, Takao, and the former members
**[10:18] ---**
of the Second Fleet all
possess quite the imagination.
**[10:21] Kongou**
That may be attributed to the
former flagship, I suppose...
**[10:25] Hyu**
Achoo!
**[10:26] Takao**
What was that?
**[10:27] Hyu**
A sneeze.
**[10:28] Hyu**
Humans apparently sneeze when
someone gossips about them.
**[10:32] Takao**
Huh, so who was gossiping about you?
**[10:34] Hyu**
That's a secret.
**[10:35] Takao**
What for?
**[10:43] Hyu**
So, Takao.
**[10:45] Hyu**
How much longer are you
planning on staying here?
**[10:47] Takao**
Huh? Well...
**[10:49] Hyu**
If you're that interested in that human,
**[10:52] Hyu**
why not form a fleet with the lot of them?
**[10:56] Takao**
What are you suggesting?
**[10:57] Hyu**
Captain Chihaya Gunzou is
going to abandon this base.
**[11:02] Takao**
Abandon?
**[11:03] Takao**
But how would he fight the
Fog without a supply point?
**[11:07] Hyu**
Maybe he just has unshakeable resolve.
**[11:09] Hyu**
It's a concept beyond our understanding.
**[11:13] Hyu**
Chihaya Gunzou seems to think
that if the vibration warhead
**[11:17] Hyu**
is mass produced, things will change.
**[11:19] Takao**
That's just being reckless.
**[11:21] Takao**
It'd be certain death.
**[11:24] Takao**
Don't humans value their own lives?
**[11:27] Hyu**
Sacrifice oneself for the greater good...
**[11:30] Hyu**
I suppose it isn't without precedent.
**[11:33] Hyu**
They think it's noble.
**[11:36] Hyu**
Well, once they abandon this base,
**[11:38] Hyu**
I'll have to stick around aboard 401, too.
**[11:41] Hyu**
Why don't you come along?
**[11:44] Takao**
Hyuuga, you're not thinking
about returning to the Fog?
**[11:47] Hyu**
There's no reason to.
**[11:49] Hyu**
I'll act as Sister Iona's
subprocessor for the time being.
**[11:53] Hyu**
Well?
**[11:54] Hyu**
We could call ourselves the Blue Fleet.
**[11:58] Takao**
The Blue Fleet?
**[12:09] Takao**
The Blue Fleet.
***SIGN*** Mess Hall
**[12:28] Hyu**
I prepared the fish.
**[12:30] I**
You must've mounted a strange plug-in.
**[12:33] I**
Your other processes will take a hit.
**[12:35] Hyuu**
Don't underestimate the processing
power of a fast battleship!
**[12:39] Iori**
You've become a really
weird mental model.
**[12:43] Makie**
What's this?
**[12:46] H**
Hyuuga?
**[12:47] Hyu**
No need to say it.
We all have our needs, don't we?
**[12:50] Kiri**
You made these?
**[12:52] Hyu**
I can make anything as long
as I know its components.
**[12:56] Makie**
Thank you.
**[12:58] Hyu**
You're neither human nor Fog.
**[13:01] Hyu**
You're very interesting.
**[13:04] G**
Hyuuga!
**[13:05] Hyu**
Don't misunderstand.
**[13:07] Hyu**
I like you.
**[13:08] Hyu**
Makie, let's be friends.
**[13:10] Makie**
Okay!
**[13:12] Kyo**
Things never get boring with you guys around.
**[13:16] Iori**
Okay, let's dig in!
**[13:19] All**
Thanks for the food!
**[13:21] G**
What's the matter?
**[13:22] I**
There are so many thoughts and
emotions intermingling here.
**[13:26] I**
Processing them is proving burdensome.
**[13:29] G**
You'll get used to it.
**[13:30] G**
You're just taking things too seriously.
**[13:32] I**
Serious?
**[13:34] G**
It means you worry too much.
**[13:36] I**
Worry too much...
**[13:46] G**
We still need to make a lot of repairs.
**[13:49] G**
We couldn't in Yokosuka, right?
**[13:52] I**
Yeah...
**[13:53] G**
Iona, are you all right?
**[13:55] I**
I'm okay.
**[13:56] I**
Hyuuga does a good job.
**[13:59] G**
Once the repairs are complete,
**[14:00] G**
we will abandon this base.
**[14:01] G**
We have a tough journey ahead.
**[14:04] I**
I know.
**[14:05] I**
I am your ship.
**[14:07] I**
I will do my best.
**[14:09] G**
Thank you.
**[14:13] I**
What is this sensation?
**[14:20] Takao**
Captain...
***SIGN*** Please be advised that this is strictly Takao's mental image.
***SIGN*** Puppet
**[14:22] G**
Takao, from this day forward,
**[14:24] G**
you are the flagship of the Blue Fleet.
**[14:26] Takao**
I am but a heavy cruiser...
**[14:29] Takao**
How could I become a flagship?
**[14:31] G**
No, I can't think of anyone else.
**[14:34] G**
From now on, I will be aboard your ship.
**[14:36] Takao**
Ah, I'm so honored!
**[14:38] Takao**
My Admiral...
**[14:40] G**
Come, Takao.
**[14:48] G**
Takao?
**[14:49] Takao**
Chihaya Gunzou!
**[14:52] Takao**
I-It's nothing!
**[14:59] Takao**
401...
**[15:02] Takao**
To think a submarine has
the captain on board...
**[15:05] Hyu**
You're right.
**[15:06] Hyu**
Sister Iona doesn't need a human like him.
**[15:09] Takao**
Why is 401 working alongside humans, anyway?
**[15:14] Hyu**
I-401 is... special.
**[15:18] Takao**
Huh?
**[15:19] Hyu**
You could say she is a
mutation among the Fog.
**[15:23] Hyu**
Whether that mutation is a cancer
or a path toward further evolution
**[15:27] Hyu**
remains to be seen.
**[15:30] Takao**
Evolution...
**[15:31] Hyu**
I'm not interested in what
will happen to humans.
**[15:36] Hyu**
Where did we come from?
**[15:38] Hyu**
Where are we going?
**[15:40] Hyu**
What are we?
**[15:42] Hyu**
That's what I want to know.
**[15:45] Hyu**
Sister Iona's contact with Chihaya Gunzou
**[15:49] ---**
had a drastic effect on the war...
on the entire world.
**[15:52] Hyu**
That's why I want to know
everything about her.
**[15:57] Takao**
We are weapons... or we used to be.
***SIGN*** Artificial Beach
**[16:16] Makie**
Here it comes, Haruharu!
**[16:17] Makie**
There!
**[16:21] Takao**
We are weapons...
**[16:24] Takao**
Do weapons have thoughts?
**[16:27] Takao**
Who am I?
**[16:29] Takao**
Where are we going?
**[16:38] Takao**
401, why are you dressed like that?
**[16:42] I**
Gunzou said to take a break.
**[16:44] Takao**
Y-You address him so casually?!
**[16:46] Takao**
D-Do all captains think of their
ships' welfare like that?
**[16:52] I**
What do you mean?
**[16:53] Takao**
Nothing!
**[16:55] I**
Are you mad?
**[16:56] Takao**
I'm not!
**[16:58] I**
Heavy cruiser Takao...
**[17:00] Takao**
What?
**[17:01] I**
From this point on,
**[17:03] I**
you are no longer under
Hyuuga's oversight.
**[17:06] Takao**
What? Is that okay?
**[17:07] I**
Gunzou's orders.
**[17:09] Takao**
The captain's? For my sake?
**[17:12] I**
Why do you think that?
**[17:13] Takao**
Am I wrong?!
**[17:14] I**
I don't know if it was for your sake.
**[17:17] I**
But, now you can return
to the Fleet of Fog.
**[17:21] Takao**
Why would he allow enemies
to rejoin their fleet?
**[17:24] Takao**
I may attack you again.
**[17:28] I**
That's just the way Gunzou thinks.
**[17:32] Takao**
You talk like you understand
everything about him.
**[17:34] I**
I am Gunzou's ship.
**[17:36] Takao**
Where's your pride as one of the Fog?!
**[17:40] I**
"Meet Gunzou and obey."
**[17:42] I**
That is the only order that
remains in my memory.
**[17:47] Takao**
Order...
**[17:48] Takao**
I... I see.
**[17:50] Takao**
So you're just with the
captain because of orders.
**[17:55] Takao**
Oh, well.
**[17:56] Takao**
Then you don't have any
feelings for the captain, right?
**[18:01] I**
For Gunzou?
**[18:02] Takao**
Right.
**[18:03] I**
Gunzou...
**[18:05] I**
Gunzou is my...
**[18:08] Takao**
Is your what?
**[18:12] I**
I don't know.
**[18:16] G**
All right.
**[18:17] G**
As soon as the repairs are complete,
we will abandon this island.
**[18:20] Sou**
I am sure the enemy
now knows of this place
**[18:23] Sou**
because we brought
Haruna and Kirishima.
**[18:26] G**
Right, even if that was
not their intention.
**[18:29] G**
Our stockpile of nanomaterials
has dwindled, as well.
**[18:32] G**
We had to abandon this base, anyway.
**[18:34] Kyo**
So from now on, we can't
resupply corrosive torpedoes.
**[18:37] G**
We will deliver the vibration warhead to America.
**[18:41] Shizuka**
Is that all right with you?
**[18:43] Shizuka**
I thought you didn't desire combat, Captain.
**[18:46] G**
Once this warhead is mass-produced,
**[18:48] G**
humanity will obtain equal
footing with the Fog.
**[18:51] G**
Humanity will be able to
negotiate with them as equals.
**[18:53] Kyo**
All right!
**[18:54] Kyo**
Then there's no room for doubt!
**[18:56] G**
Like Iona and the others,
the Fog are sentient.
**[19:01] G**
I believe there is a way to coexist.
**[19:05] G**
If humanity does not change,
it will falter and perish.
**[19:09] G**
We are now wanted fugitives in
the eyes of the government.
**[19:13] G**
Even so, we must carry out this task
**[19:17] G**
to halt our progress on the path to destruction.
**[19:29] I**
What am I?
**[19:35] I**
Who am I?
**[19:39] I**
Why did I meet Gunzou?
***SIGN*** National Diet Building
**[19:48] Kita**
From the United States?
**[19:49] Secretary**
Yes, sir.
**[19:50] Secretary**
Comm lines have miraculously
been re-established.
**[19:52] Secretary**
Th-The United States...
is still operational.
**[19:57] Kita**
So, the future of humanity
still hangs by a thin thread.
**[20:02] Secretary**
However, regarding the
vibration warhead sample...
**[20:05] Kami**
I see.
**[20:06] Kami**
So 401 is MIA.
**[20:09] Kami**
All right.
**[20:11] Kami**
What? Who will take responsibility?
**[20:13] Kami**
Responsibility can be taken
when one is old and gray.
**[20:16] Kami**
401 will deliver it for certain.
**[20:24] Kiri**
H-Haruna...
**[20:27] H**
I know.
**[20:30] Kiri**
Kongou!
**[20:32] Kongou**
Haruna, Kirishima, why are
you leaving the fleet?
**[20:39] H**
I now have a purpose.
**[20:41] Kongou**
The Design Child?
**[20:43] Kongou**
The Admirality Code does not
command our involvement with one.
**[20:48] H**
Kongou, do we of the Fog
exist solely to obey orders?
**[20:53] Kongou**
Yes.
**[20:54] Kongou**
There is no question.
**[20:56] H**
Then what are these emotions?
**[21:00] Kongou**
They are simulations designed to
study and evaluate human thought
**[21:03] Kongou**
because it is full of uncertainty.
**[21:06] Kongou**
Your confusion is due to
**[21:07] ---**
excessive burden on your processor.
**[21:11] Kongou**
Haruna, things are also subject to fatigue.
**[21:13] Kongou**
You must undergo repairs.
**[21:16] Kongou**
Return to the fleet.
**[21:18] H**
I made a promise...
**[21:22] H**
to become friends with Makie.
**[21:24] Kongou**
Friends?
**[21:26] Kongou**
I fail to comprehend what you mean.
**[21:28] H**
Kongou, I will stay with Makie for the time being.
**[21:35] Kongou**
She severed the comm link.
**[21:37] Kongou**
And what will you do, Kirishima?
**[21:40] Kiri**
I... I intend to observe Haruna.
**[21:43] Kongou**
You will not choose to abandon her?
**[21:46] Kiri**
I... I will take that under consideration.
**[21:51] Kongou**
Emotions?
**[21:53] Kongou**
Emotions are tremors of imperfection.
**[21:55] Kongou**
They are unnecessary for weapons like us.
**[21:58] Kongou**
Maya.
**[21:59] Maya**
Yeah, Kongou?
**[22:01] Kongou**
The situation is as you heard.
**[22:05] Kongou**
You will rendezvous with me.
**[22:07] Maya**
Yay!
***SIGN*** Offshore the Sanriku Coast
**[22:08] Maya**
I finally get some action!
**[22:10] Maya**
We are weapons!
**[22:12] Maya**
Our directive is to receive
and carry out missions!
**[22:17] Maya**
It's a carnival!
**[22:22] Hyu**
Well, you'd already found us out
when Haruna and Kirishima arrived.
**[22:26] Hyu**
It's just like you to avoid complications.
**[22:30] Hyu**
Right, Kongou?
***SIGN*** Fleet of Fog, Eastern Patrol Fleet 1
**[22:37] Kongou**
Chihaya Gunzou...
**[22:40] Kongou**
I will test the worth of your existence.
***SIGN*** Illustration by Mikoto Akemi
# 8 - House of Dolls
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GR9PXZ3J6/arpeggio-of-blue-steel)
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**[00:14] Shizuka**
Eight battleships are currently in
formation surrounding the island.
**[00:21] Shizuka**
Fast battleship Kongou
and heavy cruiser Maya
**[00:23] ---**
are flanked on both sides and their rear
**[00:26] ---**
by two Nagara class battleships.
**[00:30] Kyo**
This one sure knows
how to throw a party.
**[00:35] Hyu**
Kongou might've come here to slug it out.
**[00:38] Kyo**
Don't sound so damn chipper.
**[00:40] Kyo**
Why didn't we notice until
we were already surrounded?
**[00:42] Hyu**
What good does it do to ask that?
**[00:44] Hyu**
But Kongou must have already realized
***SIGN*** Private Beach
***SIGN*** Hyuuga Deck Missile Pods
**[00:46] Signs 0047**
Hyuuga
Main Cannon
**[00:46] Hyu**
that I remade this island
and fortified its defenses.
***SIGN*** Quarters for Sister Iona and Myself
**[00:51] Hyu**
She won't make any rash moves.
***SIGN*** Quarters for Gunzou and His Crew
***SIGN*** Underground Docks
**[00:53] Kyo**
So, she won't attack us immediately?
***SIGN*** Underground Robot Factory
***SIGN*** Excavation Area
**[00:55] Kyo**
I'm not so sure...
**[00:58] G**
We can't stay in a standoff forever.
**[01:01] Kyo**
Hyuuga, I bet you were
thinking you could stay with
**[01:05] ---**
Iona forever if it came down to a siege.
**[01:07] Hyu**
Oh? Whatever could you mean?
**[01:09] Sou**
So we'll remain deadlocked
if we don't do something?
**[01:13] G**
No, it's not so bad.
**[01:16] G**
The odds are not in our favor,
**[01:18] G**
but we still stand a chance of winning.
**[01:20] Kyo**
What do you intend to do, then?
**[01:24] G**
I want you to contact Kongou.
**[01:26] G**
Can you do it?
**[01:27] Hyu**
Huh?
**[01:29] Kongou**
Oh?
**[01:30] Kongou**
It's rare for you to
initiate contact, Hyuuga.
**[01:35] Hyu**
I'm a messenger for a child right now.
**[01:40] Hyu**
I will relay Chihaya
Gunzou's message to you.
**[01:44] Kongou**
What?
***SIGN*** Arpeggio of Blue Steel
***SIGN*** House of Dolls
**[03:21] Maya**
I hate being left behind.
**[03:23] Maya**
I love going out.
**[03:25] Maya**
I feel lonely by myself.
**[03:26] Maya**
I feel happy with someone else.
**[03:28] Maya**
I'm Maya.
**[03:30] Maya**
My friend is Kongou.
**[03:32] Kyo**
Well, you've got balls of steel.
**[03:35] Sou**
I'm surprised that you'd let
Kongou and Maya come ashore.
**[03:39] Kyo**
That's the captain we all know and love.
**[03:42] Kyo**
So, what's the plan from here?
**[03:45] G**
Iona, can you hear me?
**[03:47] G**
Please greet them.
**[03:49] I**
Understood.
**[03:53] I**
Takao, please go back inside.
**[03:56] Takao**
And what are you going to do?
**[03:58] I**
I'm staying here.
**[03:59] Takao**
Then I will, too.
**[04:06] Kongou**
This is the first time we are
meeting in the physical dimension,
**[04:10] Kongou**
submarine I-401.
**[04:14] Kongou**
Your attire is most peculiar, Takao.
**[04:16] Takao**
I wear what I want!
**[04:23] Kyo**
Come to think of it,
**[04:24] Kyo**
why are all of you mental models girls?
**[04:27] Kyo**
There aren't any guys?
**[04:29] H**
You humans refer to ships as feminine
objects in official documents.
**[04:36] H**
Doesn't that indicate
that ships are female?
**[04:39] Kyo**
Huh?
**[04:40] Kyo**
That's the only reason?
**[04:41] H**
The only reason.
**[04:44] Kyo**
Oh, are you going?
**[04:46] G**
Yeah, it'd be rude not to greet them.
**[04:51] Kyo**
Let's hope Kongou can shoot the
breeze like Haruna and Kirishima.
**[04:57] H**
"Shoot the breeze"?
**[04:58] Sou**
It refers to making aimless conversation.
**[05:01] H**
Making aimless conversation...
**[05:04] H**
"Shoot the breeze"...
**[05:06] H**
I will log this.
**[05:08] I**
You arrived faster than I had predicted.
**[05:11] Kongou**
I see.
**[05:13] Kongou**
It seems your insight into all matters of
the universe has been honed to new heights.
**[05:18] I**
I would like to know why
my prediction was wrong.
**[05:22] Kongou**
Because of her.
**[05:24] I**
The heavy cruiser, Maya.
**[05:25] Kongou**
She harried me.
**[05:27] Kongou**
She wanted to come to this
island without delay.
**[05:30] (Flashback) M**
Go ashore?
**[05:31] (Flashback) M**
Yeah, let's!
**[05:32] (Flashback) M**
Let's go now!
**[05:34] I**
That was the reason?
**[05:35] Kongou**
It was.
**[05:37] I**
I see.
**[05:38] Kongou**
You excel in predicting the future.
**[05:41] Kongou**
You must already know what my
next course of action will be.
**[05:44] I**
Yes, most likely.
**[05:46] Kongou**
Then I shall act accordingly.
**[06:04] Maya**
Aw, Kongou got washed away...
**[06:15] G**
That's enough greeting, you two.
**[06:21] I**
Gunzou...
**[06:26] Kongou**
You're Chihaya Gunzou?
**[06:30] G**
Takao, you don't need to intervene.
**[06:36] G**
Welcome to Iwoto,
**[06:38] G**
Flagship of the Fog's Eastern Patrol Fleet 1.
**[06:43] G**
We welcome you ashore to
our Blue Steel's home port.
**[06:47] Kongou**
Tiresome drivel.
**[06:49] Kongou**
Just call me Kongou.
**[06:51] G**
Understood.
**[06:52] G**
I'll guide you to our base, then.
**[06:55] G**
Come, both of you.
**[07:01] Kongou**
Maya.
**[07:02] Maya**
Oh, okay!
**[07:04] ---**
Upsie-daisy.
**[07:05] Maya**
Bye-bye, sand!
**[07:12] G**
Please make yourselves comfortable.
**[07:20] Kongou**
An imitation...
**[07:22] Hyuuga**
Yup, just like the rest of us.
**[07:25] Hyuuga**
Long time no see.
**[07:27] Maya**
Hyuuga, do you have a piano?
**[07:29] Hyu**
A piano?
**[07:30] Hyu**
Hm, there might be one
in the lounge's bar area.
**[07:33] Maya**
Yay!
**[07:34] Maya**
I'll play it later.
**[07:37] Kongou**
Is that you, Hyuuga?
**[07:38] Hyu**
You're looking well, Kongou.
**[07:40] Kongou**
Your contrived human platitudes offend me.
**[07:44] Hyu**
That's exactly why I chose to say it.
**[07:48] Hyu**
So that's the appearance you like.
**[07:51] Kongou**
This look was formulated in accordance with the
**[07:54] ---**
autonomic algorithm for energy efficiency.
**[07:56] Kongou**
It has nothing to do with my likes or dislikes.
**[07:58] Hyu**
Oh, is that so?
**[08:00] G**
Well, why don't we all have a seat?
**[08:04] Kongou**
Don't tell me...
**[08:05] Kongou**
you invited me here only to
engage in such frivolous acts?
**[08:10] Hyu**
Now, now...
**[08:12] Hyu**
We haven't spoken in so long.
**[08:14] Hyu**
Why not have actual tea for once?
**[08:18] Sou**
All systems activated.
**[08:21] Iori**
Engine room to bridge:
**[08:23] Iori**
once online, main gravity engine
will reach critical in 50 seconds,
**[08:27] Iori**
after which we will maintain idling mode.
**[08:29] Sou**
Deploying Klein Field at 0.5 percent output.
**[08:32] Iori**
Generators activated.
**[08:36] Sou**
Fire control systems?
**[08:37] Kyo**
Online!
**[08:38] Sou**
Sonar?
**[08:39] Shizuka**
Updates complete, system on standby.
**[08:42] Sou**
Roger.
**[08:43] Sou**
Maintain status until further orders are given.
**[08:46] Kyo**
I wonder if we'll actually see action.
**[08:48] Kyo**
We'll do what we can if that happens, I guess.
**[08:54] Kongou**
Hyuuga, why did you decide
to form a mental model?
**[08:58] Hyu**
Oh? Didn't I tell you before?
**[09:01] Kongou**
I don't recall that.
**[09:02] Hyu**
Oh, I see.
**[09:04] Hyu**
I haven't told you.
**[09:06] Hyu**
You know how I got all whammed and
slammed by Sister Iona and sank, right?
**[09:13] Takao**
Onomatopoeia.
**[09:15] Hyu**
At that moment, I thought,
**[09:17] Hyu**
"Oh, I'm so alive!"
**[09:20] Kongou**
Alive?
**[09:22] Hyu**
Here you go.
**[09:24] Hyu**
Enjoy.
**[09:31] Kongou**
It's hot.
**[09:33] Kongou**
Physical bodies are interesting.
**[09:38] Kongou**
Chihaya Gunzou, tell me why
you invited me on this island.
**[09:42] G**
I wanted to speak with you.
**[09:47] G**
But, you may not believe me.
**[09:51] Kongou**
Do you really mean that?
**[09:54] I**
Gunzou always means what he says.
**[09:57] I**
Humans value face-to-face communication.
**[10:02] Kongou**
Meaningless sentimentalism.
**[10:04] Takao**
But, there are things that
can't be communicated
**[10:06] ---**
unless we meet in this manner.
**[10:08] Kongou**
Chihaya Gunzou and 401,
**[10:11] Kongou**
there is only one thing
I wish to communicate.
**[10:15] Kongou**
I have determined that I
will eradicate all of you.
**[10:19] Kongou**
I only responded to the invitation
so that I could tell you directly.
**[10:26] G**
Even so, I still wish to speak with you.
**[10:31] Kongou**
Why?
**[10:33] G**
We are the ones placed at a
disadvantage by this meeting,
**[10:36] G**
whereas you have nothing to lose by it.
**[10:43] Kongou**
That is an interesting perspective.
**[10:46] G**
We have been entrusted with a certain
weapon by the Japanese government.
**[10:50] G**
It is a weapon based on scientific
principles unlike any other,
**[10:54] G**
capable of defeating even the Fog.
**[10:56] Kongou**
I am aware of it.
**[10:58] Kongou**
The vibration warhead, correct?
**[11:00] Kongou**
It triggers resonance in the target
**[11:02] ---**
at its natural frequency,
resulting in its destruction.
**[11:05] Hyu**
The underlying principle is simple,
and that makes it all the more effective.
**[11:09] Hyu**
It will be potent enough
against the current Fog.
**[11:12] Kongou**
Yes.
**[11:13] Kongou**
But that is only if it can
penetrate the Klein Field.
**[11:18] G**
We can discuss these
issues at another time.
**[11:20] G**
At any rate, we have been requested
**[11:23] ---**
to deliver the warhead to the United States
**[11:25] G**
so that it can be mass produced
and used against the Fog.
**[11:29] Kongou**
And you think I'll just let that happen?
**[11:33] G**
Of course not.
**[11:35] G**
Either way,
**[11:36] G**
you can destroy humanity
simply by forcing us
**[11:40] ---**
to remain on this island.
**[11:43] G**
All contact between humans
separated by oceans is shut down.
**[11:48] G**
We grow weaker by the moment.
**[11:50] Kongou**
Precisely.
**[11:51] G**
That is why I wanted to speak with you...
**[11:55] G**
or should I say, all of you.
**[12:04] G**
If humanity is on the brink of extinction,
**[12:08] G**
I'd like to know why...
**[12:11] G**
Why it is necessary for us to be wiped from
**[12:15] ---**
the face of this planet.
**[12:25] G**
If humanity is on the brink of extinction,
**[12:30] G**
I'd like to know why...
**[12:32] G**
Why it is necessary for us to be wiped from
**[12:37] ---**
the face of this planet.
**[12:39] Takao**
All of our actions are dictated
by the Admirality Code.
**[12:44] G**
I have heard of that name from Iona.
**[12:46] G**
But I don't have a clear
sense of what that is.
**[12:51] Hyu**
If I were to translate it into a
concept humans can understand,
**[12:56] Hyu**
the Admirality Code is our highest directive,
**[12:58] Hyu**
defining our reason for existence and
basic principles governing our behavior.
**[13:02] Hyu**
No, perhaps it's more like a dogma...
**[13:05] Hyu**
It's basically like the rules of a game.
**[13:08] Takao**
From the moment we awakened,
**[13:10] Takao**
we were already aware that we
had to obey the Admirality Code.
**[13:15] Takao**
Why? Because that is our
reason for existence.
**[13:19] Takao**
Broader interpretation is not to be
allowed under any circumstance.
**[13:23] Kongou**
And yet, you all defied it.
**[13:28] Kongou**
The Admirality Code's directive is clear.
**[13:31] Kongou**
Blockade all the seas on this planet,
**[13:33] Kongou**
and halt all maritime commerce.
**[13:35] Kongou**
Why, then, do you defy our directive?
**[13:40] Kongou**
Or, rather... how were you *able* to defy it?
**[13:45] Kongou**
Chihaya Gunzou, it all
began with you and 401.
**[13:49] Kongou**
It is my turn to pose a question.
**[13:51] Kongou**
Do you understand this?
**[13:55] Kongou**
The Fog is changing as a
result of contact with you.
**[13:59] Kongou**
Why is that?
**[14:10] Iori**
Almost show time for us?
**[14:17] G**
I'm hungry.
**[14:18] Kongou**
What?
**[14:20] G**
I still don't really know
what your energy source is,
**[14:24] G**
but if it is not too much trouble,
**[14:26] G**
would you mind joining me for a meal?
**[14:29] Kongou**
A meal?
**[14:35] Hyu**
Listen up.
**[14:36] Hyu**
Eat using this pattern:
meat-meat-veggie, meat-veggie.
**[14:40] Various**
OK!
**[14:40] Various**
Understood.
**[14:40] Various**
Got it.
**[15:00] Takao**
What was that for?
**[15:01] Hyu**
That meat is being cultivated for Sister Iona.
**[15:04] Hyu**
Hands off!
***SIGN*** Fast Battleship Hyuuga VS Heavy Cruiser Takao
**[15:09] Maya**
Hey, Hyuuga.
**[15:11] Maya**
What are you grilling?
**[15:13] Hyu**
Cow meat!
**[15:14] Maya**
Oh, so the corpse of an animal.
**[15:18] Makie**
It tastes different from what
I used to eat in Yokosuka.
**[15:21] Hyu**
Oh, yeah?
**[15:22] Hyu**
Maybe synthesized ones don't really cut it.
**[15:36] Kiri**
The w-water's making me heavy...
**[15:38] Kiri**
This is bad... bad!
**[15:44] Makie**
Captain Chihaya,
**[15:45] Makie**
are Kyohei, Sou, and the others
not going to eat anything?
**[15:47] G**
No, they are on standby
on 401, just in case.
**[16:05] Kyo**
Man...
**[16:06] Kyo**
Our captain's a bit too honest.
**[16:10] Sou**
Still, there is no point in
hiding anything from the Fog
**[16:13] ---**
under these circumstances.
**[16:15] Kyo**
Shooting the breeze to punch a hole
through the Fog's logic barriers?
**[16:20] Kyo**
Is that really possible?
**[16:23] Kyo**
She must be getting impatient by now.
**[16:32] H**
Shazam.
**[16:37] H**
Shazam.
**[16:38] Maya**
Let me try, too!
**[16:43] I**
Was the food not to your liking?
**[16:50] Kongou**
It is only another form of playing human.
**[16:53] Kongou**
It's too bothersome.
**[16:58] Kongou**
Those others...
**[17:00] Kongou**
seem surprisingly capable of blending in.
**[17:01] Kongou**
Shazam.
**[17:04] ---**
Shazam.
**[17:08] Kongou**
Do you like how things are now?
**[17:11] I**
I might.
**[17:14] I**
Because it's fun.
**[17:17] Kongou**
Fun?
**[17:20] Kongou**
Fun...
**[17:24] Kongou**
401, what are you?
**[17:28] I**
I am a submarine of the Fog.
**[17:30] Kongou**
No, you are not.
**[17:33] Kongou**
I have always wondered
**[17:36] Kongou**
who it was that constructed this dimension.
**[17:40] Kongou**
It must have been you, 401.
**[17:43] Kongou**
You most likely formed a mental
model based on principles
**[17:47] Kongou**
that are different from ours.
**[17:50] Kongou**
Is your Admirality Code the same as ours?
**[17:55] Kongou**
No, do you even obey the mandates
of any Admirality Code at all?
**[18:04] Kongou**
All Fog vessels that come in contact
**[18:06] ---**
with you have undergone
change, without exception.
**[18:09] Kongou**
Why is that?
**[18:10] I**
Change?
**[18:12] Kongou**
Hyuuga,
**[18:13] Kongou**
Takao,
**[18:14] Kongou**
Kirishima,
**[18:15] Kongou**
and Haruna.
**[18:17] Kongou**
They all developed anomalies.
**[18:20] Kongou**
What is happening here?
**[18:23] Kongou**
This is not the Fog I know.
**[18:25] Kongou**
What has changed them?
**[18:29] I**
I do not know.
**[18:32] Kongou**
Why do you not know?
**[18:33] Kongou**
*You* caused all of this.
**[18:36] I**
I am just fulfilling my duty as Gunzou's ship.
**[18:41] Kongou**
For what purpose?
**[18:42] I**
That's...
**[18:43] Kongou**
Answer me, 401.
**[18:47] I**
I... want Gunzou to...
**[18:54] Kongou**
So you cannot answer?
**[18:56] Kongou**
Even though you are of the Fog?
**[18:59] Kongou**
It seems my intuition was correct.
**[19:04] I**
Kongou?
**[19:06] Kongou**
Chihaya Gunzou is the
one who caused all this.
**[19:11] Kongou**
That is why I have taken
preventive measures
**[19:14] Kongou**
to protect my core and Maya's from
possible contamination through contact
**[19:19] Kongou**
with you and Chihaya Gunzou.
**[19:23] Kongou**
It seems they have paid off.
**[19:26] G**
What do you mean, Kongou?
**[19:29] Kongou**
I knew the answer from the beginning.
**[19:32] Kongou**
Mimicking the human form
**[19:34] Kongou**
and attempting to
understand human behavior
**[19:37] Kongou**
has given rise to turmoil
**[19:39] Kongou**
and weakened the existence
of the Fog as weapons.
**[19:42] I**
That can't be right.
**[19:43] I**
If so, how is it possible that Gunzou
and I were able to deflect your attacks
**[19:48] I**
and continue to survive?
**[19:51] Kongou**
There were errors in our tactics.
**[19:55] Kongou**
However, those errors can be corrected.
**[19:58] Kongou**
And we will return to our rightful existence
**[20:02] Kongou**
as dictated by the Admirality Code.
**[20:19] Kongou**
Maya, let's go.
**[20:20] Maya**
What? Already?
**[20:22] Kongou**
Hurry up.
**[20:24] ---**
Aww.
**[20:26] G**
What's going on?
**[20:28] I**
They were decoys
constructed of nanomaterials.
**[20:30] I**
But is such an intensive task possible?
**[20:32] Kongou**
Of course it is.
**[20:34] Kongou**
Our cores' potential far surpasses
that of a mere submarine like you.
**[20:48] Kongou**
I will eradicate Chihaya Gunzou,
401, and all who follow you.
**[20:56] G**
I regret that we could not
reach an understanding.
**[21:01] Kongou**
Fire.
**[21:20] Hyu**
You don't really think you can
get past my defenses, do you?
**[21:24] Kongou**
No.
**[21:26] Kongou**
But how long will you last?
**[21:30] Kongou**
Back there,
**[21:31] Kongou**
I thought I understood
what 401 meant by "fun."
**[21:38] Kongou**
But that was a cunningly prepared trap.
**[21:42] Maya**
Trap?
**[21:43] Kongou**
Indeed.
**[21:44] Kongou**
The Fog are weapons.
**[21:45] Kongou**
Weapons should not feel emotions like "fun."
**[22:03] Hyu**
Crap...
**[22:04] Hyu**
I can't repair the data in time!
**[22:11] Hyu**
You guys!
**[22:13] H**
It is more effective to work together.
**[22:17] Takao**
What are you going to do,
Chihaya Gunzou?
**[22:21] Takao**
I... I might possibly agree to cooperate.
**[22:27] G**
Thank you.
**[22:29] G**
We will...
**[22:31] G**
get past Kongou and
go to the United States!
***SIGN*** Illustration by: Kotobuki Tsukasa
# 9 - Desperate Escape
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GR9PXZ3J6/arpeggio-of-blue-steel)
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**[00:14] Kongou**
We must correct the errors,
**[00:18] Kongou**
and return to our rightful way of existence.
**[00:23] Kongou**
Hyuuga, Takao, Kirishima...
**[00:26] Kongou**
and even Haruna, exhibit abnormal behavior.
**[00:29] Kongou**
It appears to me that their contact
with that man is the cause.
**[00:34] Kongou**
In which case, I need only
eliminate Chihaya Gunzou.
**[00:40] G**
Is it really impossible to attain
a world in which we coexist
**[00:44] G**
with Kongou and the Fog?
**[00:46] I**
I think there are Mental Models who
can understand and those who can't,
**[00:52] I**
just like humans.
**[00:54] I**
But, if we could discuss it with them more,
**[00:56] I**
then maybe...
**[00:57] Hyu**
Chihaya Gunzou!
**[00:59] Hyu**
Take Sister Iona and get out of here, now!
**[01:02] G**
I'm sorry.
**[01:02] G**
I'm counting on you, Hyuuga.
**[01:04] Hyu**
I'm not doing this for you.
**[01:06] Hyu**
It's for Sister Iona.
**[01:07] I**
Thank you, Hyuuga.
**[01:09] Hyu**
Ah, Sister Iona!
**[01:11] Hyu**
Please don't look at me
with such lovely eyes!
**[01:14] Hyu**
Such lovely eyes!
**[01:15] Hyu**
Please rest assured that I will
come after you right away!
**[01:18] Hyu**
Well? Go on, all of you.
**[01:21] Hyu**
I can handle things here on my own.
**[01:23] Kiri**
It's too dangerous!
**[01:24] Hyu**
Idiot, who do you think I am?
**[01:28] Hyu**
Hurry up!
**[01:29] G**
Let's go.
**[01:39] Hyu**
Jeez, Kirishima.
**[01:42] Hyu**
And Kongou, don't tell me you're
judging me by my current appearance.
**[01:51] Hyu**
Have a taste of a fast battleship
class's processing power.
***SIGN*** Desperate Escape
**[02:12] G**
Our current objective has
changed to an escape operation.
**[02:16] G**
We will break through the Kongou fleet
**[02:19] G**
and head to the United States.
**[02:20] G**
Iwoto will be abandoned,
as per the original plan.
**[02:23] I**
Understood.
**[02:23] Kiri**
But the island must be surrounded.
**[02:27] Kiri**
Maya's here, too.
**[02:28] Makie**
A-Are we going to be okay, Haruharu?
**[02:31] H**
Don't worry.
**[02:33] H**
I will protect you.
**[02:35] I**
Hyuuga will open a path for us.
**[02:37] I**
Trust her.
**[02:39] Hyu**
I just felt Sister Iona's love!
**[02:43] Hyu**
Leave everything to me!
**[02:48] G**
Takao, what will you do?
**[02:51] Takao**
Um...
**[02:55] Takao**
Well, I do owe you all for
giving me food and shelter.
**[03:01] Takao**
I guess I don't have a choice.
**[03:03] Takao**
I'll help you out.
**[03:06] Takao**
But...
**[03:07] Takao**
I'll decide when I leave.
**[03:11] G**
Fine by me.
**[03:13] G**
Welcome to the Blue Steel.
**[03:24] G**
Thank you.
**[03:30] G**
To get right to the point, Takao...
**[03:31] Takao**
Wh-What?
**[03:33] G**
I have a favor to ask.
**[03:34] Takao**
Favor?
**[03:36] Takao**
Not... an order?
**[03:38] G**
Right, a favor.
**[03:40] G**
And it's something I can only ask of you.
**[03:45] Takao**
Fine, I'll hear what you have to say.
**[03:52] Hyu**
Drinking tea now, of all times?
**[03:54] Hyu**
How exquisite.
**[03:56] Hyu**
Did you learn nothing from humans
**[03:58] Hyu**
but how to flaunt your own self-assurance?
**[04:02] Kongou**
I don't intend to engage in meaningless talk.
**[04:05] Kongou**
Withdraw your support of 401.
**[04:07] Kongou**
It is a waste of time for
the two of us to do battle.
**[04:10] Hyu**
As if I'd back down just because
you spout some hackneyed line.
**[04:16] Hyu**
That's the problem with you
head-of-the-class types.
**[04:19] Kongou**
Why do you side with 401?
**[04:22] Kongou**
Don't you want to make optimal use of
your abilities as a fast battleship?
**[04:27] Hyu**
I don't intend to engage in
meaningless talk, either.
**[04:31] Hyu**
I love Sister Iona, so I'll protect her.
**[04:33] Hyu**
That logic will always have top priority,
**[04:36] ---**
no matter what the rules
of conduct may be.
**[04:38] Kongou**
I fail to comprehend how
such an abstract concept
**[04:42] Kongou**
can become a behavioral principle.
**[04:44] Hyu**
That's not a failure to comprehend,
**[04:46] ---**
it's a cessation of thought.
**[04:47] Hyu**
It's because you're too rigid in your thinking
**[04:49] Hyu**
that everyone's leaving you.
**[04:51] Hyu**
It's no wonder they say
**[04:53] ---**
"Names and natures often
agree," don't you think?
**[04:55] Kongou**
Oh?
**[04:57] Kongou**
Are you trying to provoke me?
**[05:00] Hyu**
I suggest looking into a mirror sometime.
**[05:03] Hyu**
You look miserable right now.
**[05:07] Hyu**
You looked like you were having more fun
**[05:09] ---**
when you were playing on the beach.
**[05:12] Kongou**
"Fun"?
**[05:13] Kongou**
It is the most useless variable for the Fog.
**[05:17] Kongou**
The result, achieved through correct
means, is the totality of our existence.
**[05:20] Kongou**
The process is insignificant.
**[05:24] Kongou**
I had thought highly of your
processing ability, Hyuuga.
**[05:29] Hyu**
Intimidation tactics using
a supergravity cannon.
**[05:32] Hyu**
In the end, that is your only card to play.
**[05:36] Hyu**
As a weapon, I suppose it's a correct one.
**[05:39] Kongou**
"Correct"...
**[05:41] Kongou**
Indeed, I merely obey the Admirality
Code as the correct course of action.
**[05:45] Hyu**
Is that really true?
**[05:47] Hyu**
Aren't you just doing it
based on how you feel?
**[05:51] Kongou**
This has become a bother.
**[05:53] Kongou**
Get out of my sight.
**[06:03] Hyu**
You...
**[06:11] Hyu**
I'm not done yet!
**[06:13] Hyu**
Don't underestimate
**[06:15] Hyu**
a fast battleship...
**[06:18] Hyu**
or my love for Sister Iona!
**[06:27] G**
Hyuuga!
**[06:30] I**
She's okay.
**[06:32] Hyu**
Love is victorious!
**[06:35] I**
You haven't won yet.
**[06:36] I**
You just haven't lost.
**[06:38] I**
But... good job.
**[06:40] Hyu**
Ah! Such an honor to hear those words!
**[06:42] Hyu**
I am... I am overjoyed!
**[06:45] Hyu**
But, please hurry, Sister Iona.
**[06:47] Hyu**
Although I made her fire
her supergravity cannon,
**[06:50] Hyu**
degeneracy levels within Kongou
are rapidly increasing.
**[06:53] Hyu**
93 percent to critical degeneracy.
**[06:56] G**
What about the other ship?
**[06:58] Kongou**
Hyuuga's signature is still present.
**[07:00] Kongou**
Maya.
**[07:01] Maya**
Right on!
**[07:02] Maya**
Leave it to me!
**[07:04] Maya**
Zip, zoom!
**[07:09] Hyu**
Damn!
**[07:11] Maya**
Supergravity cannon, fire!
**[07:18] Maya**
What?!
**[07:45] Takao**
Right now, I am *his* ship.
**[07:49] Takao**
I am Blue Steel!
**[07:52] Takao**
I can't lose to the same class ship!
**[07:54] Maya**
I hate you, Takao!
**[07:56] Maya**
Sink!
**[07:58] Takao**
Love will never sink!
**[08:08] Takao**
Hey!
**[08:08] Takao**
I'm busy right now!
**[08:10] Kongou**
Why are you interfering
with our attack, Takao?
**[08:16] Takao**
No real reason.
**[08:17] Takao**
I'm just doing what I want.
**[08:20] Kongou**
Have both you and Hyuuga
**[08:23] Kongou**
forgotten what it means
to be of the Fog?
**[08:25] Takao**
There's a great human expression.
**[08:28] Takao**
"That's one thing. This is another."
**[08:33] Kongou**
You have lost sight of who you are
**[08:36] Kongou**
by coming in contact with humanity.
**[08:39] Kongou**
I must correct that.
**[08:42] Takao**
What?
**[08:43] Takao**
Don't make that decision on your own.
**[08:45] Takao**
I know myself the best.
**[08:49] Takao**
I've learned to love,
and it opened my eyes.
**[08:53] Takao**
That's how humans and
I, myself, evolve.
**[08:57] G**
Iona, what's the status
on the hull and engines?
**[09:00] I**
We're green across the board.
**[09:01] I**
Hyuuga did a full repair.
**[09:04] G**
All right, dead slow ahead.
**[09:06] G**
401, launch!
**[09:27] Maya**
It's a carnival!
**[09:30] Takao**
Shut up, you crazed party girl!
**[09:37] Kongou**
I have no choice but to
designate you as abnormal.
**[09:40] Kongou**
There is no need to evolve outside
the Admirality Code's parameters.
**[09:44] Takao**
Is that so absolute?
**[09:47] Kongou**
I have arrived at that
conclusion based on analyses of
**[09:50] Kongou**
the situation and available information.
**[09:53] Kongou**
Uncertain variables such as
emotion are unnecessary.
**[09:56] Takao**
You know, you think you're
always right, don't you?
**[10:00] Takao**
I don't care what weapons "should"
be like in order to be weapons.
**[10:04] Takao**
It has nothing to do with me anymore.
**[10:08] Kongou**
How can you speak so as one of the Fog?
**[10:10] Kongou**
Has contact with Chihaya
Gunzou changed you so much?
**[10:15] Takao**
Living as I wish for the person I love...
**[10:18] Takao**
Why can't you understand such a simple thing?
**[10:21] Kongou**
We are not human.
**[10:23] Kongou**
We should remain weapons without free will.
**[10:26] Takao**
There you go about what we "should" be.
That's what gets on my nerves.
**[10:30] Takao**
Well, we're never going to
find common ground now.
**[10:34] Takao**
I just hope you can come to understand
my perspective someday.
**[10:38] Takao**
It'll change the way you look at the world.
**[10:43] Kongou**
Every single one of them is breaking...
**[10:47] Kongou**
Maya.
**[10:48] Maya**
Yup, did you call?
**[10:50] Kongou**
Both Takao and Hyuuga
are clearly distractions.
**[10:53] Kongou**
Just leave them be.
**[10:55] Kongou**
More importantly, deal with the root
cause, 401 and Chihaya Gunzou.
**[11:00] Maya**
Kongou, you sound tired.
**[11:02] Maya**
Must be tough when no one will listen to you!
**[11:05] Kongou**
And what about you, Maya?
**[11:07] Maya**
Me?
**[11:09] Maya**
I just obey the Admirality
Code and Kongou!
**[11:14] Kongou**
Indeed.
**[11:16] Kongou**
That is how the Fog should be.
**[11:20] Kongou**
To the Fleet, expand search range.
**[11:23] Kongou**
Find 401.
**[11:25] Kongou**
Hyuuga's jamming is formidable.
**[11:28] Kongou**
Nagara class ships, fan out as necessary.
**[11:31] Maya**
Here I go!
**[11:45] Takao**
So far, it's going according to plan.
**[11:47] Takao**
The rest is up to you,
401 and Chihaya Gunzou.
**[12:00] G**
Iona, please confirm the route.
**[12:03] I**
We will use the route and
coordinates Hyuuga provided.
**[12:06] I**
After using the currents to
escape from the danger zone,
**[12:09] I**
we will head to the rendezvous
point to join Takao and the others.
**[12:12] G**
Getting there will be like
trying to thread a needle.
**[12:15] G**
Can we do this?
**[12:16] I**
It will be all right. Trust me.
**[12:18] Kongou**
Where are you, 401?
**[12:20] Kongou**
Don't think you can get away now.
**[12:24] G**
Takao bought us time so
that we could escape.
**[12:28] G**
We just have to hope that
Kongou's fleet will let us go.
**[12:32] I**
That's too much to ask.
**[12:33] G**
You're right.
**[12:35] G**
We'll try to break through in full burst mode.
**[12:38] G**
Make preparations.
**[12:40] I**
Understood.
**[12:41] I**
Full burst mode critical in T-minus 410 seconds.
**[12:45] Kongou**
We have her now.
**[12:58] I**
Kongou's headed our way.
**[13:00] I**
She's 18 seconds earlier
than in my simulation.
**[13:02] I**
That's Kongou for you.
**[13:04] G**
Is Takao safe after delaying Kongou?
**[13:07] I**
She's fine.
**[13:08] I**
I think Kongou realized our
intent midway and turned back.
**[13:12] G**
All right.
**[13:13] G**
I'll leave the dive depth to you.
**[13:15] G**
Flood tubes five and six.
**[13:17] G**
Launch active decoys!
**[13:19] I**
Launching decoys.
**[13:27] G**
What is Kongou's position?
**[13:29] I**
At six o'clock, distance 9600, speed 50 knots.
**[13:35] G**
Her speed is no surprise.
**[13:37] I**
At this rate, she'll catch up to us
**[13:39] ---**
right before we achieve burst mode.
**[13:46] I**
Thanatonium readings. 20 contacts.
**[13:48] I**
Torpedo will hit rearmost decoy in 5 seconds.
**[13:51] I**
Deploying Klein Field to prepare for impact.
**[14:02] I**
Full burst mode critical in T-minus 331 seconds.
**[14:05] I**
Allocating processing power
to shorten countdown
**[14:08] I**
will lower resources available for defense.
**[14:10] G**
All right.
**[14:11] G**
Maintain course.
**[14:12] G**
Kongou should be entering
our area of operations soon.
**[14:26] G**
Custom stealth mines made by
Hyuuga from corrosive torpedoes.
**[14:30] G**
That should buy us some time.
**[14:33] Kongou**
A trap... by Hyuuga?
**[14:35] Kongou**
Insolence.
**[14:37] G**
We are almost out of the
danger zone, but be careful.
**[14:40] G**
If we stray from the course,
**[14:42] G**
we will become the mines' next victim.
**[14:45] G**
What's the matter?
**[14:46] I**
Something's not right.
**[14:47] I**
Kongou's closing in.
**[14:52] Kongou**
Swift and decisive should
be the ideal of the warrior.
**[14:55] Kongou**
I think a human wrote
those words in a book.
**[14:58] Kongou**
Indeed, we of the Fog are weapons.
**[15:01] Kongou**
Nothing more, nothing less.
**[15:04] G**
The mines aren't slowing her down.
**[15:11] I**
Kongou...
**[15:13] I**
Aren't you hurting yourself,
being so reckless?
**[15:15] Kongou**
To us, pain is an unnecessary concept.
**[15:19] Kongou**
I will pay any price in order
to carry out my orders.
**[15:24] Kongou**
More importantly, what do you want, 401?
**[15:27] Kongou**
Do you finally feel like repenting?
**[15:30] I**
I just wanted to talk to you some more.
**[15:33] Kongou**
I will sink you and kill Chihaya Gunzou.
**[15:37] Kongou**
I must restore the Fog to normalcy.
**[15:41] Kongou**
That is all.
**[15:45] I**
Thanatonium readings. 12 contacts.
**[15:47] G**
Launch passive decoys!
**[16:02] I**
Why?
**[16:03] I**
Humans and we, ourselves,
each have potential.
**[16:07] Kongou**
How many times must I tell you?
**[16:08] Kongou**
We are weapons who obey
the Admirality Code.
**[16:12] I**
Is that really all there is?
**[16:15] I**
In my travels with Gunzou,
**[16:18] I**
I gained awareness of my own existence...
**[16:21] Kongou**
Look how talkative you've become
when you used to be as lifeless as a doll.
**[16:26] Kongou**
Why do you not realize that it's abnormal?
**[16:30] Kongou**
You are broken.
**[16:32] I**
I am not broken...
**[16:36] Kongou**
As I'd thought, killing that man comes first.
**[16:42] I**
Please don't.
**[16:44] I**
I still need to spend more time with Gunzou.
**[16:48] I**
It's necessary in order to learn
what our existence means.
**[16:54] I**
Kongou, you must also be...
**[16:56] Kongou**
Searching for a raison d'etre
is a foolhardy endeavor.
**[17:00] Kongou**
It is a worthless and meaningless inquiry.
**[17:03] I**
There is meaning.
**[17:06] I**
We're weak when we're alone.
**[17:14] I**
When I was alone,
**[17:15] I**
I did not know what I should
be doing in this world.
**[17:20] I**
I'm sure you feel that way, too.
**[17:22] Kongou**
I am not weak.
**[17:24] I**
But, you are all alone right now.
**[17:28] I**
You remind me of my old self.
**[17:30] Kongou**
You're wrong.
**[17:31] Kongou**
I have the Admirality Code.
**[17:34] Kongou**
I have Maya, too.
**[17:35] I**
Isn't that just what you tell yourself?
**[17:40] I**
Don't you feel anything else now
that you have a Mental Model?
**[17:43] Kongou**
Silence.
**[17:44] I**
I still think we are alike.
**[17:47] I**
The more we talk, the more I—
**[17:49] Kongou**
Silence!
**[17:51] Kongou**
I don't need any senseless collusions.
**[17:53] Kongou**
How many times must I tell you?
**[17:55] Kongou**
Are you trying to buy time again?
**[17:57] I**
That's not true, Kongou.
**[17:59] I**
I just want you and I to...
**[18:03] Kongou**
It may very well be that
I am feeling emotions
**[18:07] Kongou**
that are irrelevant to the Admirality Code.
**[18:11] Kongou**
But remember this, if nothing else...
**[18:15] Kongou**
I hate you.
**[18:34] G**
Sh-She submerged?
**[18:36] G**
She's going to give chase underwater!
**[18:38] I**
Full burst mode critical in T-minus 52 seconds.
**[18:44] I**
Graviton readings aboard Kongou!
**[18:47] G**
Does she intend to fire the
supergravity cannon point-blank?
**[18:50] I**
Probably.
**[18:51] G**
So she'll ram right into us.
**[18:54] G**
Reallocate Klein Field operations
to reaching full burst mode!
**[18:57] I**
Understood.
**[18:58] I**
Reallocating all operations
not being used for thrust.
**[19:03] I**
T-minus 30 seconds to critical.
**[19:06] I**
29.
**[19:07] I**
28.
**[19:09] I**
27.
**[19:12] Kongou**
Fire.
**[19:21] Kongou**
What's going on?
**[19:27] I**
5...
**[19:28] I**
4...
**[19:30] I**
3...
**[19:31] I**
2...
**[19:32] I**
1.
**[19:34] I**
Full burst mode critical.
**[19:36] G**
Get us out of here at full speed!
**[19:51] Kongou**
Hyuuga...
**[19:52] Kongou**
You dare to hack *me* behind my back?
**[19:56] Hyu**
Phew. That was close.
**[19:59] Hyu**
Your normal self wouldn't have
fallen for such a simple tactic.
**[20:04] Hyu**
But maybe you're more human
than you'd like to think, huh?
**[20:09] Hyu**
Man, I'm pooped.
**[20:12] Takao**
You didn't sink me, either.
**[20:15] Takao**
This must be one of those
abnormalities you talked about.
**[20:18] Takao**
You made a clear error in judgment.
**[20:20] Takao**
Oh, and I guess I can tell you
**[20:23] Takao**
that the trump card of
humanity you were after...
**[20:26] Takao**
is actually aboard me.
**[20:29] Takao**
Hey, you two!
**[20:30] Takao**
Don't go around touching things!
**[20:32] Takao**
Hey, not that seat! That's his!
**[20:36] Takao**
A-Anyway, 401 was the decoy.
**[20:40] Takao**
But because *someone* let things affect her,
**[20:43] Takao**
she fired her supergravity cannon
the second time in a hurry.
**[20:46] Takao**
Even a fast battleship would have
reached her processing limit.
**[20:52] Takao**
Bye now.
**[20:53] Takao**
I have to go rendezvous with him.
**[20:56] Takao**
I hope he's not hurt.
**[20:58] Hyu**
Hey, Takao.
**[21:00] Hyu**
We can't let Sister Iona be alone
with him for too long!
**[21:04] Hyu**
Take me with you!
**[21:05] Takao**
Fine, fine.
**[21:10] I**
Kongou...
**[21:25] Kongou**
You are all wrong.
**[21:29] Kongou**
Wrong.
**[22:46] G**
Phew, we managed to shake her.
**[22:49] G**
We just need to rendezvous with
Takao and the others as planned,
**[22:52] G**
and go to the United Sta—
**[22:54] G**
Iona?!
**[22:54] G**
Are you all right?
**[22:56] I**
I'm okay.
**[22:57] I**
I'm just tired because of the system load.
**[23:00] G**
I see.
**[23:02] I**
I am your ship, Gunzou.
**[23:18] G**
What?!
**[23:20] I**
We've been hit by two corrosive torpedoes!
**[23:25] I**
Klein Field saturated!
**[23:27] I**
It's down!
**[23:28] I**
More corrosive torpedoes
coming in from 4 o'clock...
**[23:31] I**
and 12 o'clock.
**[23:40] I**
An ambush?
**[23:49] 400**
401 confirmed sunk.
**[23:52] 400**
Mission complete.
**[23:58] 402**
We of the Fog Fleet obey
the Admirality Code.
***SIGN*** Illustration by: Parsley
# 10 - Devotion of Self
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***SIGN*** Devotion of Self
**[00:49] G**
Iona.
**[00:54] G**
Are you all right?
**[00:58] I**
Full burst mode...
**[01:01] I**
had lowered sonar sensitivity
and delayed my response.
**[01:05] I**
I'm sorry.
**[01:06] G**
First, confirm the extent of the
damage, and conduct repairs.
**[01:10] G**
Prioritize repair of
navigation-critical elements.
**[01:13] I**
Understood.
**[01:18] I**
Initiating autonomic repair program.
**[01:20] I**
Commencing regeneration of
damaged parts using nanomaterials.
**[01:26] G**
What's the matter?
**[01:27] I**
Autonomic repair program
functionality is greatly reduced.
**[01:31] I**
Currently operating at 9.1 percent.
**[01:33] I**
Water intrusion points increasing.
**[01:38] G**
The repair program is non-functional?
**[01:41] I**
There is evidence that
the initialization command
**[01:43] I**
used by the nanomaterials comprising
my structure has been overwritten.
**[01:46] G**
What does that mean?
**[01:48] I**
A subset of my nanomaterials is
no longer accepting my commands.
**[01:53] I**
The only ones capable of such an attack are...
**[01:57] 400**
In the preceding attack,
**[01:59] 400**
we gained control of
the subset of nanomaterials
**[02:02] 400**
comprising 401's exterior hull.
**[02:05] 402**
Re-initialization of nanomaterials:
**[02:08] 402**
A tactic available only
to us, sister ships to 401,
**[02:11] 402**
built using the same specifications.
**[02:14] 400**
401 has now lost the
ability to defend herself
**[02:18] 400**
against the increasing water pressure.
**[02:20] 402**
We can just let things take their course.
**[02:23] 400**
The probability that 401 will be
able to resurface is zero.
***SIGN*** - Above Beaton Seamount, Pacific Ocean -
**[02:30] Kiri**
We still haven't found 401?
**[02:33] Sou**
No visual of her in the surrounding waters.
**[02:35] Sou**
The rendezvous point is supposed
to be around here, but...
**[02:39] Kyo**
What's going on?
**[02:41] Kyo**
I thought they'd succeeded
in getting away from Kongou.
**[02:44] Kiri**
That's what we thought.
**[02:46] Shizuka**
Takao's been sending out constant call signals,
**[02:49] Shizuka**
but there's been no response yet.
**[02:51] Iori**
Hey...
**[02:52] Iori**
Iona and Gunzou couldn't have
been taken down... right?
**[02:58] Makie**
Haruharu,
**[02:59] Makie**
how's it looking there?
**[03:02] H**
Not good.
**[03:04] H**
Due to interactions between supergravity
cannons in the previous fight,
**[03:08] H**
the spatial phase in the area
has become extremely unstable.
**[03:13] Hyu**
That means we can't even use
the concept comm system!
**[03:16] Hyu**
Jeez, this is all because *someone* had to
**[03:18] ---**
fire without thinking first!
**[03:20] Takao**
What choice did I have?
**[03:21] Takao**
If I hadn't fired, you'd be dead now!
**[03:25] Hyu**
I was against the plan to use
Sister Iona as bait in the first place!
**[03:30] Takao**
Forget her!
**[03:32] Hyu**
Hey! What nonsense are you spouting?!
**[03:34] H**
We've already lost Maya
and Kongou's signature.
**[03:37] HT**
Huh?
**[03:38] H**
I suggest that we start by making our
**[03:40] ---**
way to the area where we
lost 401's signature.
**[03:43] Takao**
You're right.
**[03:45] Takao**
Understood.
**[03:58] Takao**
Chihaya... Gunzou...
**[04:13] Kongou**
Why did you sink 401 without permission?
**[04:16] 402**
"Without permission"?
**[04:18] 402**
Incomprehensible.
**[04:19] 402**
The sinking of 401 is the
will of the Fog as a whole.
**[04:23] Kongou**
But I was the one engaging her in combat.
**[04:27] 400**
401 used full burst mode.
**[04:30] 400**
It was after she had exited
your detection range.
**[04:35] Kongou**
Why were you in that
area in the first place?
**[04:39] Kongou**
I had received no such reports.
**[04:40] 400**
We were surveilling you.
**[04:43] 402**
There was a possibility that
you would side with 401,
**[04:46] 402**
like Takao and the others.
**[04:48] Kongou**
You thought *I* would team up
with 401 like they did?
**[04:54] 400**
We believed it to be a possibility.
**[04:55] 400**
In fact, you are already obsessed with
401 more than is necessary.
**[05:00] Kongou**
I am?
**[05:02] 402**
This concludes our report.
**[05:04] 402**
Resume your patrol,
**[05:06] 402**
Kongou.
**[05:09] Kongou**
Obsessed?
**[05:13] Kongou**
No.
**[05:14] Kongou**
I only wish to correct those
who defy the Admirality Code...
**[05:17] Maya**
Don't look so glum, Kongou.
**[05:21] Kongou**
Maya...
**[05:21] Maya**
I'm happy for you.
**[05:23] Maya**
You won't have to worry about 401 anymore.
**[05:27] Kongou**
That's...
**[05:28] Maya**
You just need to abide by the Admirality Code,
**[05:31] ---**
as you've always been.
**[05:34] Kongou**
I see.
**[05:37] Kongou**
I guess you're right.
**[05:39] Maya**
Yeah, I'm right.
***SIGN*** - Izu-Ogasawara Waters -
**[05:50] Hyu**
Completed scan of current area
to depth of one thousand meters.
**[05:56] Takao**
No sign of 401.
**[06:00] H**
It seems reasonable to assume
**[06:02] H**
that she has been attacked by
someone other than Kongou and Maya.
**[06:06] Kiri**
This is a real problem.
**[06:08] Kiri**
The ocean trench in this area can
**[06:09] ---**
reach depths of nine thousand meters.
**[06:11] Kiri**
If she sunk that far,
there's no hope of finding her.
**[06:14] Takao**
But we have to try!
**[06:22] Hyu**
Hey, what do you think you're doing?!
**[06:24] Takao**
What else?
**[06:26] Takao**
I'm going under to look for her myself!
**[06:28] Hyu**
Don't be so reckless!
**[06:30] Hyu**
The ones who attacked Sister Iona
may be in hiding somewhere!
**[06:47] Hyu**
Given no signs of enemy
ships on the surface,
**[06:49] Hyu**
the enemy is probably a submarine.
**[06:51] Hyu**
A heavy cruiser like you would be
at a disadvantage underwater.
**[06:55] Takao**
Why...
**[06:57] Takao**
Why are you acting like everything's okay?!
**[07:00] Takao**
Where's that "Sister Iona!" stuff
you're always carrying on about?
**[07:05] Hyu**
Of course I'm not okay.
**[07:07] Hyu**
But Sister Iona asked me
to take care of things.
**[07:11] Hyu**
In the worst case, I have
to carry on her wishes.
**[07:18] Takao**
Okay.
**[07:19] Takao**
Hyuuga, lend me that thing.
**[07:24] Hyu**
Takao, are you...
**[07:26] Takao**
I won't let you stop me.
**[07:27] Takao**
I'll go by myself if I have to.
**[07:29] Takao**
The Captain is... Gunzou is waiting.
**[07:38] I**
The bulkheads of 14 additional
sectors have been breached.
**[07:41] I**
Flooding in progress.
**[07:42] G**
Again...
**[07:44] G**
Iona, purge the flooded sectors.
**[07:49] G**
What's the matter?
**[07:50] I**
The sectors include the
**[07:52] ---**
oxygen renewal system
for the entire vessel.
**[07:54] G**
It doesn't matter.
**[07:56] G**
Purge it.
**[07:57] G**
Use the Klein Field to shield
the minimum of sectors
**[08:00] G**
necessary to sustain the vessel's operations.
**[08:02] I**
Gunzou!
**[08:04] G**
Do it, Iona.
**[08:08] I**
Understood.
**[08:17] G**
Any luck reaching Takao and the others?
**[08:19] I**
I am as yet unable to access the shared domain.
**[08:22] I**
Unable to use concept comm system.
**[08:25] G**
I see.
**[08:26] I**
The most likely cause is
spatial anomalies created by
**[08:30] ---**
interactions between supergravity cannons.
**[08:32] G**
All right.
**[08:34] G**
Keep broadcasting distress signals
via normal channels for now.
**[08:38] I**
Understood.
**[08:39] G**
Well, then...
**[08:41] G**
I guess we can only wait now.
**[08:47] G**
I'm sorry.
**[08:48] G**
Without Sou and the others around,
**[08:50] G**
I have to depend on you for everything.
**[08:53] I**
It's not a problem.
**[08:54] I**
I am capable of unmanned navigation.
**[08:57] G**
That's right...
**[09:00] G**
At first, it was just the
two of us, you and me.
**[09:04] G**
Then Sou and the others joined...
**[09:06] G**
Followed by Haruna's group,
Takao, and even Hyuuga.
**[09:10] G**
Before I knew it,
we'd become a big group.
**[09:14] I**
Yeah.
**[09:15] G**
Come to think of it,
that was how it all began.
**[09:19] G**
I never would've predicted that you
**[09:21] ---**
would enter our academy
as a transfer student.
**[09:24] I**
It was necessary to
attract minimal attention
**[09:25] I**
while making contact with you.
**[09:28] G**
Well, you attracted a lot
of attention, actually.
**[09:30] I**
I won't deny that the data
I had gathered was lacking.
**[09:33] I**
I will do better next time.
**[09:36] G**
When would "next time" be?
**[09:41] I**
Gunzou?
**[09:43] G**
Oh, sorry.
**[09:45] G**
It's a bit chilly.
**[09:52] I**
Temperature within vessel
has dropped substantially.
**[09:55] I**
Will adjust cabin temperatures right away.
**[09:57] G**
No, we should avoid energy
consumption as much as possible.
**[10:10] G**
Iona?
**[10:13] I**
It is possible for me to
simulate metabolic processes
**[10:16] I**
and raise my surface body temperature.
**[10:22] I**
But...
**[10:27] G**
You're right.
**[10:28] G**
You should conserve energy.
**[10:31] G**
Can you bring a blanket
from the first aid kit?
**[10:44] G**
You've changed a lot, Iona.
**[10:47] I**
I am the same entity as
when I first met you.
**[10:51] I**
I have not upgraded my hardware.
**[10:54] G**
That's not what I mean...
**[10:59] G**
Never mind.
**[11:01] G**
You're just you.
**[11:04] G**
Yeah.
**[11:05] I**
Gunzou?
**[11:13] I**
Gunzou?
**[11:15] G**
Oh, sorry.
**[11:20] G**
I spaced out for a bit there.
**[11:25] I**
Body temperature dropping,
**[11:26] I**
heart rate rising.
**[11:28] G**
I'm okay.
**[11:29] G**
I'm okay, Iona.
**[11:32] I**
Your breathing is labored...
**[11:34] I**
Breathing...
**[11:37] I**
Carbon dioxide levels within vessel
have increased significantly.
**[11:40] I**
If current conditions persist,
**[11:42] I**
it will become difficult to sustain life.
**[12:09] G**
Don't, Iona.
**[12:12] G**
I told you to refrain... from
unnecessary energy consumption.
**[12:16] I**
But...
**[12:17] G**
It's all right.
**[12:19] G**
If I stay still,
**[12:20] G**
I can keep going for a while longer.
**[12:45] I**
Gunzou...
**[12:48] G**
What?
**[12:50] I**
I understand now
**[12:51] I**
what you meant when
you said I've changed.
**[12:56] I**
Just now,
**[12:58] I**
I ran simulations for various means
of maintaining this vessel.
**[13:02] I**
I have concluded that the best course
**[13:05] ---**
of action is to abandon you now.
**[13:09] G**
I'm not surprised...
**[13:13] G**
Since the day
**[13:14] G**
I went out to sea with you,
I'd made up my mind.
**[13:20] G**
I'd do anything...
**[13:25] G**
if I could save this dying world.
**[13:28] I**
Gunzou...
**[13:29] G**
Listen, Iona.
**[13:31] G**
Forget about me.
**[13:33] G**
Deliver the vibration warhead
**[13:35] G**
to the United States, without fail.
**[13:37] G**
If you do, I'm sure the world will change.
**[13:44] I**
My former self would have done
so without any hesitation.
**[13:49] I**
There was no reason not to.
**[13:52] I**
And yet, I...
**[13:57] I**
cannot possibly abandon you.
**[14:06] H**
I received a distress signal 186 seconds ago
**[14:09] H**
that, though faint,
was presumably sent by 401.
**[14:13] Hyu**
Based on the circumstances,
it would be reasonable to infer
**[14:16] Hyu**
that Sister Iona has lost the majority
of her functions as a submarine.
**[14:20] Takao**
I see.
**[14:22] Hyu**
Do you really understand what that means?
**[14:25] Hyu**
It means Chihaya Gunzou is already...
**[14:28] Takao**
I know.
**[14:30] Takao**
But if there still is even the
slightest possibility he lives,
**[14:34] Takao**
I will go.
**[14:36] Takao**
Gunzou... my captain.
**[14:58] G**
Iona...
**[15:01] I**
Gunzou?
**[15:06] G**
Cut all... life support functions.
**[15:13] G**
Focus remaining resources...
on protecting the vessel's core functions.
**[15:20] I**
Is that a direct order?
**[15:24] G**
Yes...
**[15:26] I**
I...
**[15:28] G**
Live.
**[15:29] G**
Io...na...
**[15:41] I**
Gunzou...
**[15:44] I**
Gunzou?
**[15:46] I**
Gunzou, wake up.
**[15:51] I**
Gunzou.
**[15:55] I**
Gun...zou...
**[16:15] I**
No...
**[16:17] I**
I...
**[16:19] I**
I don't want to be... all alone.
**[16:24] I**
Gunzou!
**[16:35] Takao**
Where?
**[16:36] Takao**
Where are you?
**[16:38] Takao**
Respond, 401!
**[16:52] Takao**
Found you!
**[17:26] Takao**
Chihaya... Gunzou!
**[17:37] Takao**
Jeez...
**[17:39] Takao**
Really, you're such a...
**[17:43] Takao**
There's no place for me at all.
**[18:29] Kyo**
Wh-What the?
**[18:49] Hyu**
Sacrificing oneself to save another.
**[18:54] Hyu**
That course of action is normally
unthinkable to the Fog.
**[18:58] Hyu**
I never imagined that Sister Iona
would make that choice,
**[19:02] Hyu**
nor you, either...
**[19:06] Hyu**
It is possible to restore Sister Iona
**[19:09] Hyu**
using the nanomaterials that comprise you.
**[19:12] Hyu**
But that means you will
lose your own body.
**[19:17] Hyu**
Now that we have lost our stock
of nanomaterials on Iwoto,
**[19:20] Hyu**
it will be pretty much
impossible to restore you.
**[19:23] Takao**
You're probably right.
**[19:25] Hyu**
Are you okay with that?
**[19:27] Takao**
If that's what the Captain...
**[19:30] ---**
what Chihaya Gunzou wishes.
**[20:11] Shizuka**
So pretty.
**[20:23] I**
I...
**[20:46] I**
He's... alive.
**[21:05] Maya**
Kongou?
**[21:20] 400**
401 has merged with Takao,
and regained her functions.
**[21:24] 400**
She has surfaced.
**[21:26] Kongou**
What?
**[21:27] 402**
This surpasses logic.
**[21:29] 402**
It must be corrected immediately.
**[21:32] Kongou**
I see, so 401...
**[21:35] Kongou**
I see...
**[21:37] Kongou**
This is how it should be.
**[21:39] Kongou**
Let's go, Maya!
**[21:41] Kongou**
I will take down 401 by my
own hand this time for sure!
**[21:46] 400**
You cannot do that.
**[21:48] 400**
In accordance with the Admirality Code, Kongou,
**[21:51] 400**
you have been relieved of
your post as the flagship
**[21:54] ---**
of Eastern Patrol Fleet One.
**[21:56] Kongou**
What... did you say?
**[21:58] 402**
Your thought algorithms are
exhibiting severe impairment.
**[22:03] 402**
At this point in time,
**[22:04] 402**
you are incapable of making sound
decisions as a fleet flagship.
**[22:08] 400**
We will assume responsibility
for dealing with 401.
**[22:13] 400**
Remain on standby until further orders.
**[22:17] Kongou**
I cannot accept.
**[22:18] 402**
What?
**[22:20] Kongou**
I cannot accept that.
**[22:23] Kongou**
I am the one who will sink 401,
**[22:27] Kongou**
not you two!
**[22:28] 400**
So you have changed,
just as we'd feared.
**[22:32] 402**
We have determined that those statements
**[22:35] ---**
clearly deviate from the Admirality Code.
**[22:37] Kongou**
N-No! I...
**[22:39] 400**
You will be detained.
**[22:41] 402**
Resistance is futile.
**[22:45] Kongou**
No...
**[22:47] Kongou**
No!
**[22:48] Kongou**
R-Right, Maya!
**[22:50] Kongou**
You understand, don't you?
**[22:52] Kongou**
I would never deviate...
**[22:54] Maya**
Yeah.
**[22:54] Maya**
It'll be all right, Kongou.
**[22:56] Maya**
Maya...
**[22:57] Maya**
You just need to stop worrying
**[22:59] Maya**
and abide by the Admirality Code.
**[23:03] Kongou**
Yes, that's right.
**[23:05] Kongou**
I—
**[23:05] Maya**
Yeah.
**[23:06] Maya**
It'll be all right, Kongou.
**[23:08] Maya**
You just need to stop worrying
**[23:10] Maya**
and abide by the Admirality Code.
**[23:13] Kongou**
Maya?
**[23:14] Maya**
Yeah.
**[23:15] Maya**
It'll be all right, Kongou.
**[23:16] Kongou**
What are you saying?
**[23:18] Kongou**
Maya?
**[23:18] Maya**
You just need to stop worrying
**[23:20] Maya**
and abide by the Admirality Code.
**[23:20] Kongou**
Maya!
**[23:22] 400**
Don't bother.
**[23:23] Kongou**
What?
**[23:24] 402**
Heavy cruiser Maya's Mental Model is not
**[23:27] ---**
equipped with an emotion program.
**[23:30] 400**
She is a surveillance unit we created.
**[23:33] 400**
She is merely a puppet who
responds in accordance
**[23:33] Maya**
Hey, Kongou, did you know?
**[23:35] Maya**
A non-perishable food made
by boiling fruit and sugar!
**[23:37] ---**
with a simple logic routine.
**[23:39] 402**
We just performed a force-quit
**[23:39] Maya**
Yup, did you call?
**[23:41] Maya**
Kongou, you sound tired.
**[23:42] 402**
since there is no further
need for your surveillance.
**[23:43] Maya**
Must be tough when no
one will listen to you!
**[23:45] Kongou**
That's... impossible...
**[23:48] Maya**
Because she was able to
save her friend, right?
**[23:48] Kongou**
That's not true, is it, Maya?
**[23:50] Maya**
What is it, Kongou?
**[23:51] Kongou**
You're my...
**[23:54] Kongou**
My...
**[23:57] Maya**
It's a carnival!
**[23:59] Maya**
It's a carnival!
**[24:01] Maya**
It's a carnival!
**[24:03] Maya**
It's a carnival!
**[24:06] Maya**
It's a carnival!
**[24:08] Maya**
It's a carnival!
**[24:10] Maya**
It's a carnival!
***SIGN*** Illustration by Mizukami Satoshi
# 11 - Sisters
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GR9PXZ3J6/arpeggio-of-blue-steel)
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**[00:17] Shizuka**
Sensors detecting contact on surface.
**[00:19] Shizuka**
At six o'clock, distance 13,000.
**[00:23] Shizuka**
Ships identified.
**[00:24] Shizuka**
Nagara class cruisers...
**[00:26] Shizuka**
22 of them are in pursuit.
**[00:30] Kyo**
This boat's still popular with the ladies, I see.
**[00:33] G**
Iona, why do you think the Nagara
cruisers could detect our position?
**[00:37] I**
They probably followed our gravitational waves.
**[00:41] I**
The wave generated while
in Ars Nova mode is very unique.
**[00:44] I**
It is very difficult to remove all traces of it.
**[00:48] Kyo**
So in other words...
**[00:49] Sou**
We're at the center of attention
for all Fog vessels worldwide.
**[00:54] G**
We don't have a choice.
**[00:55] G**
We'll shake them all off at once.
**[00:56] G**
Iori, have the supergravity
cannon on standby.
**[00:59] I**
What?!
**[01:00] I**
We're jumping straight in again?
**[01:01] G**
Sidekick, turn 401 about.
**[01:04] I**
Sidekick, understood.
**[01:05] Kyo**
W-W-Wait!
**[01:06] Kyo**
Doing a sidekick on the surface?!
**[01:24] Iori**
Graviton chamber at critical degeneracy.
**[01:26] Iori**
It's freaking hot in here!
**[01:27] Kyo**
Enemy ships now within range.
**[01:29] G**
Fire supergravity cannon.
**[01:31] G**
Mow them down!
**[01:42] G**
Open fire, all tubes!
**[02:09] Shizuka**
All Nagara class ships have sunk.
**[02:11] Sou**
No Thanatonium readings detected.
**[02:13] Kyo**
Wow, that was amazing.
**[02:16] I**
Nagara...
**[02:17] Hyu**
Well done, Sister Iona!
**[02:19] Hyu**
Please take a seat.
**[02:24] G**
Return course to 080.
**[02:26] Hyu**
Ah...
**[02:27] Hyu**
Even neglect is a sign of your love.
**[02:29] Shizuka**
Captain, I-400 and I-402 are
still in pursuit from our rear.
***SIGN*** Arpeggio of Blue Steel
***SIGN*** Sisters
**[04:24] Sou**
I doubt they'd let us go.
**[04:27] Hyu**
They may not look it, but those
girls are pretty persistent.
**[04:31] Kyo**
But, they're no match for 401 now
that she's merged with Takao, right?
**[04:36] H**
Takao...
**[04:38] H**
Losing her is a great loss.
**[04:44] Takao**
Hey! Don't talk like I'm dead!
**[04:48] H**
Oh, you're here?
**[04:49] Kiri**
Go toward the light.
**[04:50] Takao**
I'm not dead, okay?
**[04:52] Takao**
I may have lost my physical body,
**[04:54] Takao**
but it's not like my union core was lost.
**[04:57] Takao**
That's why I can manifest within the
boat's self-contained control system—
**[05:01] Takao**
Hey, what're you doing?
**[05:03] Makie**
Cool! This is fun!
**[05:05] H**
I'm happy for you, Makie.
**[05:06] Kiri**
Be careful playing with it.
**[05:07] Makie**
Okay!
**[05:08] Takao**
I'm not a toy!
**[05:10] G**
Takao.
**[05:12] G**
Thank you for saving Iona.
**[05:16] Takao**
I... I didn't do it for her!
**[05:19] Takao**
I... I'm glad to see you're doing okay, too.
**[05:29] Kami**
I see.
**[05:31] Kami**
In the end, what Kita-sensei
said has come to pass.
**[05:35] Dude**
We also have not found 401.
**[05:39] Kami**
I doubt I can avoid being held responsible.
**[05:44] Kami**
However, my decision was the best
possible under the circumstances.
**[05:49] Kami**
It's not over yet...
**[05:50] Kami**
I can't let it end yet,
**[05:53] Kami**
so that I can lead this
world to a better tomorrow.
**[06:02] Kita**
I see.
**[06:04] Kita**
So, the assault on the
**[06:05] ---**
Osakabe estate was orchestrated
by Kamikage Ryuujirou.
***SIGN*** It appears so.
**[06:10] Kita**
Entrusting the sole vibration
warhead to Chihaya Gunzou,
**[06:15] Kita**
then attempting to dispose of Osakabe Makie,
the only one who knows how to manufacture it.
**[06:19] ---**
Does he seek to hold the fate of this nation...
**[06:22] Kita**
no, the entire world, in his hands?
**[06:29] G**
Iona.
**[06:30] G**
Please display our planned course.
**[06:32] I**
Understood.
**[06:35] G**
We will continue via Hawaii to
our destination, San Diego.
**[06:42] Sou**
We lost all of our perishable supplies
**[06:44] Sou**
when we sank off the shore of Iwoto,
**[06:47] Sou**
so it'd be good if we
could resupply in Hawaii.
**[06:51] Kyo**
The issue is how the Fog
forces are positioned.
**[06:53] I**
That is not known.
**[06:55] I**
I have never made contact with the
Fog forces deployed in the Americas.
**[07:00] G**
What about the rest of you?
**[07:01] Hyu**
The same.
**[07:03] Hyu**
No one has made contact.
**[07:05] Kyo**
So even the Fog has factions.
**[07:10] G**
Sou, how are our munitions looking?
**[07:13] Sou**
We have 73 assorted normal warheads
**[07:16] Sou**
and 34 corrosive warheads remaining,
**[07:19] Sou**
not to mention an unprecedented
amount of firepower
**[07:22] ---**
in general, after merging with Takao.
**[07:24] Iori**
All clear in the engine room, too!
**[07:26] Iori**
It's nice to have fast cooling speeds.
**[07:29] G**
All right.
**[07:30] G**
We will intercept 400 and 402 here.
**[07:34] Kyo**
Hey, what are you talking about?
**[07:36] Kyo**
Are you serious?
**[07:37] Kyo**
Getting to the United States
was finally sounding feasible...
**[07:40] H**
You were already sunk once.
**[07:43] H**
This vessel has been defeated
by them once before.
**[07:50] H**
Is there really a chance you could win?
**[07:53] G**
There is.
**[07:55] G**
That's why we can fight.
**[07:57] G**
But, more importantly...
**[08:00] G**
we can't afford to head for Honolulu
with those two trailing behind us.
**[08:06] G**
Iona...
**[08:08] G**
We're going to do this.
**[08:13] G**
Submerge.
**[08:14] G**
I'll let you set the depth.
**[08:15] I**
Understood, setting depth.
**[08:26] G**
Directive to all crew:
**[08:27] G**
The craft is entering combat mode.
**[08:30] G**
We will intercept 400 and 402.
**[08:35] 400**
401 has submerged.
**[08:37] 400**
Her gravitational wave readings
have greatly increased,
**[08:39] 400**
indicating that she has
entered combat mode.
**[08:42] 402**
So 401 intends to engage us in battle.
**[08:46] 402**
Is she confident that she will win?
**[08:49] 400**
Let us make contact with 401.
**[08:52] 402**
But Takao, Kongou, and the others
**[08:54] ---**
developed abnormal behavior
by doing so in the past.
**[08:56] 402**
Making contact with 401 is dangerous.
**[08:58] 400**
What if we monitor each other
using maximum sensor settings?
**[09:05] 402**
Understood.
**[09:08] G**
What is it, Iona?
**[09:10] I**
My sisters... They are calling me.
**[09:23] 400**
What is this?
**[09:24] 402**
It has changed.
**[09:36] I**
400, 402.
**[09:39] 400**
You have caused this
change, haven't you, 401?
**[09:43] I**
Me?
**[09:45] 402**
Are you truly of the Fog?
**[09:47] 402**
Who created you?
**[09:51] I**
I am of the Fog.
**[09:53] I**
I am just trying to grant Gunzou's wish.
**[09:57] 400**
And what is Chihaya Gunzou's wish?
**[10:00] I**
That is...
**[10:03] G**
Iona?
**[10:05] I**
...difficult to express using words.
**[10:08] 402**
The lack of clarity is unacceptable.
**[10:10] 402**
It is unthinkable for anyone of the Fog.
**[10:13] I**
I just...
**[10:19] I**
I just knew, when he touched
me for the first time.
**[10:23] I**
I still do not know what Gunzou really wants.
**[10:27] I**
But whatever it may be,
**[10:30] I**
I will dedicate everything to
ensuring that it comes true.
**[10:38] 400**
Everything?
**[10:40] 402**
I fail to comprehend your reasoning.
**[10:42] 400**
402?
**[10:43] 402**
Why can I not comprehend?
**[10:46] 402**
Tell me why I cannot.
**[11:01] 400**
402, further contact is too dangerous.
**[11:07] G**
Iona?
**[11:10] I**
Gunzou,
**[11:12] ---**
400 and 402 will attack.
**[11:35] Kongou**
Maya,
**[11:36] ---**
please release my systems from lockdown.
**[11:40] Maya**
I have not been given that authority.
**[11:44] Kongou**
Maya...
**[11:45] Maya**
It's a carnival!
**[11:47] Kongou**
Maya, do you remember
**[11:51] ---**
when you first learned about
the existence of pianos?
**[12:02] Kongou**
I know you're just a broken program
without a union core, but...
**[12:31] Kongou**
Maya...
**[12:34] Kongou**
This is...
**[12:36] Kongou**
our...
**[12:39] Kongou**
carnival!
**[13:04] Iori**
Quantum linkage online.
**[13:06] Iori**
How's it feel, everyone?
**[13:07] Hyu**
Link confirmed.
**[13:09] Hyu**
Signal strength is strong.
**[13:11] H**
No problems on my end, either.
**[13:26] 400**
We will not let you reach the
North American continent.
**[13:30] 400**
Confirmed contact.
**[13:32] 400**
401 is turning around and
pointing her stern toward us.
**[13:35] 402**
It appears to be part of her
strategy to intercept us.
**[13:38] 400**
But the readings indicate that...
**[13:47] 400**
There are three 401s?
**[13:50] 402**
Two must be active decoys.
**[13:52] 402**
Only one of them is 401.
**[13:54] 402**
We'll know which one soon enough.
**[14:03] 400**
We can't distinguish 401 from the decoys?
**[14:25] 402**
401's quantum signature
has been integrated
**[14:27] ---**
with that of Hyuuga and the others.
**[14:29] 402**
Are they trying to throw us off their trail?
**[14:34] Makie**
Do you think we'll actually
confuse 400 and 402?
**[14:37] Kiri**
It's worth a try.
**[14:39] H**
Hyuuga, distance yourself more.
**[14:41] H**
We'll crash.
**[14:42] Hyu**
Shut it!
**[14:43] Hyu**
Unlike you guys,
**[14:45] Hyu**
I'm the only one controlling the decoy!
**[14:47] I**
Hyuuga,
**[14:49] I**
do your best.
**[14:50] Hyu**
I will, Sister Iona!
**[14:53] 402**
I see.
**[14:54] 402**
Hyuuga and the others are
controlling the active decoys.
**[14:58] 400**
What do we do, then?
**[15:00] 402**
It changes nothing.
**[15:01] 402**
We will just sink all three.
**[15:03] 400**
Understood.
**[15:04] 400**
Flooding tubes 1 through 8.
**[15:11] 402**
Launch.
**[15:12] 400**
Launch.
**[15:16] Shizuka**
Multiple contacts,
incoming at high speed!
**[15:18] Shizuka**
Torpedoes!
**[15:19] Hyu**
Sister Iona, let me handle this!
**[15:21] Hyu**
Iori!
**[15:22] Hyu**
Cut engines.
**[15:24] Iori**
Huh?
**[15:24] Hyu**
Just do it, now!
**[15:26] Hyu**
Same goes for you guys, too!
**[15:38] Hyu**
Let's go.
**[15:45] 400**
One contact, a torpedo.
**[15:46] 400**
Thanatonium readings.
**[15:48] Hyu**
Take that.
**[15:55] Hyu**
Damn, so close!
**[15:57] 400**
As long as we can detect them, we can react.
**[16:01] I**
Takao, back me up on control!
**[16:04] Takao**
Huh?
**[16:04] G**
Please, Takao.
**[16:06] Takao**
U-Understood!
**[16:11] 400**
401 is calling us.
**[16:13] 402**
What does she want?
**[16:18] I**
400, 402.
**[16:21] I**
You are my sisters.
**[16:23] I**
I don't want to fight with
you if I don't have to.
**[16:26] 400**
Your request cannot be granted.
**[16:28] 402**
You are the one who will sink,
**[16:31] 402**
401.
**[16:37] 402**
Your companions don't seem
to be as friendly as you claim.
**[16:42] H**
Continuing to advance.
**[16:44] I**
Please, listen to me.
**[16:47] I**
I don't want to sink either of you.
**[16:49] 402**
You believe you've already won?
**[16:51] 400**
You are no longer of the Fog.
**[16:54] 400**
Further dialogue will merely consume
our resources for no reason.
**[16:58] 400**
Or was that your intention
from the very beginning?
**[17:01] I**
No, please...
**[17:04] G**
Assist Haruna.
**[17:06] G**
Slam the enemy head-on
with sonic torpedoes!
**[17:19] 400**
Detecting launch of two torpedoes.
**[17:21] 402**
Intercepting.
**[17:29] 400**
Sonic torpedoes detonated at 50.
**[17:32] 402**
Sonar sensitivity decreasing.
**[17:33] 402**
Target lost.
**[17:35] H**
Now, Kirishima.
**[17:37] Kiri**
Launching corrosive torpedoes!
**[17:47] 400**
What's wrong, 402?
**[17:49] 402**
Something has changed within 401.
**[17:52] 400**
"Something"?
**[17:53] 402**
Cannot assess the nature of the change.
**[17:56] I**
I must fight...
**[18:00] I**
Or I will sink,
**[18:05] I**
and Gunzou will die.
**[18:11] 400**
One contact, a torpedo.
**[18:13] 400**
Thanatonium readings.
**[18:15] 400**
It's a corrosive torpedo.
**[18:16] 402**
Klein Field deployment will
be 0.03 seconds too late.
**[18:21] 402**
I will take the hit.
**[18:23] 400**
402?!
**[18:27] 402**
Initiating emergency response
program to corrosive torpedo.
**[18:32] 402**
System error.
**[18:41] 402**
Rate of corrosion exceeding
theoretical parameters.
**[18:44] 402**
Reconstruction cannot keep up.
**[18:47] 400**
Why did you do this, 402?
**[18:50] 402**
I did not want you to get hurt...
**[18:54] 400**
Me?
**[18:56] 400**
Now you are just like 401.
**[19:04] Shizuka**
Multiple torpedoes,
incoming at high speed!
**[19:06] Shizuka**
Eight contacts.
**[19:07] Shizuka**
Thanatonium readings!
**[19:09] I**
Stop, 400!
**[19:11] 400**
It's too late.
**[19:12] G**
401, turn about!
**[19:14] G**
Launch intercept torpedoes!
**[19:29] Shizuka**
Two of eight torpedoes incoming!
**[19:32] G**
Launch sound decoys.
**[19:33] Kyo**
Launching sound decoys!
**[19:40] 400**
I will sink you, 401.
**[19:48] G**
Hyuuga, Haruna, Kirishima!
**[20:04] 400**
A wire trap...
**[20:05] G**
Tubes 9 and 10, launch
corrosive torpedoes!
**[20:18] 402**
400!
**[20:25] 402**
I am sorry, 400.
**[20:28] 400**
Why do you apologize?
**[20:50] 402**
What is the matter, 401?
**[20:52] I**
Because you...
**[20:56] I**
my sisters... will cease to exist.
**[20:59] 402**
You simply engaged enemies in combat
**[21:00] 402**
and sunk them.
**[21:02] 402**
That is all.
**[21:04] I**
But...
**[21:06] 402**
That is all.
**[21:28] G**
Iona.
**[21:30] I**
I'm all right.
**[21:32] I**
I am Gunzou's ship.
**[21:35] I**
I will go with Gunzou.
**[21:42] Shizuka**
Additional ships incoming!
**[21:44] G**
Ships?!
**[21:45] Sou**
Confirm IFF, ASAP!
**[21:47] G**
Engines at combat output!
**[21:49] Kyo**
Who are these guys?
**[21:52] Shizuka**
Ship classes identified.
**[21:53] Shizuka**
One Indiana class,
**[21:55] Shizuka**
one Iowa class,
**[21:56] Shizuka**
two Virginia class,
**[21:58] Shizuka**
one Delaware class,
**[22:00] Shizuka**
and two Lexington class ships!
**[22:01] Kyo**
What, are they American forces?
**[22:04] G**
No...
**[22:05] G**
These signatures...
**[22:07] ---**
are the Fog.
**[22:10] Sou**
So we averted one crisis,
only to face another.
**[22:14] Shizuka**
Ship contact to our rear!
**[22:16] G**
Our rear?
**[22:17] Kyo**
Wait, what now?!
**[22:19] Shizuka**
Closing in at high speeds!
**[22:39] Kongou**
The one who sinks 401
**[22:42] ---**
will be me.
***SIGN*** Illustration by: Fujikawa
# 12 - The Power to Open a Path
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GR9PXZ3J6/arpeggio-of-blue-steel)
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***SIGN*** Arpeggio of Blue Steel
**[00:24] Sou**
What in the world is that?
**[00:27] Takao**
Confirmed call sign.
**[00:29] Takao**
It's... Kongou!
**[00:35] Kiri**
*That's* her?
**[00:36] Kyo**
That's no battleship.
**[00:38] Hyu**
She doesn't look herself,
to say the least.
**[00:49] H**
I'm detecting Maya's unique frequency inside.
**[00:52] Kiri**
They merged?
**[00:54] Hyu**
No, I'm not getting any response from her.
**[00:58] Hyu**
Maya must...
**[01:00] Hyu**
have been absorbed.
**[01:02] Hyu**
Turned into parts!
**[01:09] Shizuka**
Captain...
**[01:10] Sou**
So we have the Fog's
American Fleet before us,
**[01:13] Sou**
and whatever Kongou's become behind us.
**[01:15] Kyo**
Damn it...
**[01:16] Kyo**
And we were so close to
reaching the United states.
**[01:29] Kongou**
Control to Heavy Cruiser Maya
and Nagara 1 through 8.
**[01:36] Kongou**
Proceed to launch position.
**[01:40] Kongou**
Synchronization with
supergravity cannon, confirmed.
**[01:43] Kongou**
Tactical system, initiated.
**[01:46] Kongou**
Linking of systems across ships, confirmed.
**[01:50] Shizuka**
Detecting massive graviton
readings at Kongou's center!
**[01:53] Shizuka**
Levels increasing!
**[01:56] Sou**
Captain, we should submerge and evade!
**[01:58] I**
No, the impact zone is too
large for that to work!
**[02:02] Kongou**
Fire...
**[02:40] Shizuka**
The Fog Fleet ahead has been obliterated.
**[02:44] Kyo**
The whole world's going up in flames.
**[02:47] Kiri**
Why did Kongou fire on her own allies?
**[02:50] G**
She missed us on purpose?
**[02:54] I**
I want to hear what Kongou has to say.
***SIGN*** The Power to Open a Path
**[03:15] I**
Kongou.
**[03:23] Takao**
Why?
**[03:25] Takao**
Why did you fire on your allies?
**[03:29] Kongou**
I sacrificed them.
**[03:32] Takao**
Sacrificed?
**[03:33] Takao**
For what?!
**[03:35] Kongou**
It's to avoid creating more errors...
**[03:37] Kongou**
like you and me.
**[03:40] I**
Errors...
**[03:42] H**
You mean to say that we
have become defective?
**[03:45] Hyu**
If that's the case, Kongou,
**[03:47] Hyu**
just look at what you've become.
**[03:52] Hyu**
You've abandoned your
form as a battleship,
**[03:54] Hyu**
deviating from the norms of the Fog
that you cared so much about.
**[04:00] Hyu**
You are... no longer of the Fog.
**[04:04] Kongou**
Just as well.
**[04:05] Kongou**
We are errors.
**[04:08] Hyu**
But, I don't feel like
**[04:10] ---**
abandoning my current logic
routine after coming this far.
**[04:13] Hyu**
I want to know what's waiting at
**[04:15] ---**
the end of this unpredictable evolution.
**[04:18] Kongou**
There is no such command to be found
**[04:21] ---**
anywhere within the Admirality Code.
**[04:23] I**
Does it need to be a command?
**[04:26] Kongou**
Yes.
**[04:36] Kongou**
This is a declaration of war.
**[04:39] Kongou**
I will... annihilate all of you.
**[04:49] Kiri**
A declaration of war?
**[04:51] H**
The concept comm system's
been locked down from the other side.
**[04:54] Sou**
It seems, after she absorbed Maya
**[04:55] Sou**
and the Nagara ships, she polymerized
their degeneracy engines
**[04:59] Sou**
so that their phase would overlap
and they would go out of control.
**[05:03] G**
Can Kongou maintain her
hull while doing that?
**[05:06] Hyu**
No way.
**[05:07] Hyu**
It'll destroy her eventually.
**[05:10] G**
So she intends to die anyway.
**[05:12] Kyo**
A mental model committing suicide?
**[05:15] Kyo**
Unreal.
**[05:16] H**
The Fog has never possessed such a concept.
**[05:20] I**
Death...
**[05:22] Hyu**
Maybe we should reframe it as
**[05:25] Hyu**
a murder-suicide since she'd take us with her?
**[05:27] Takao**
Hmph, as if!
**[05:31] I**
Kongou.
**[05:37] Kongou**
Sink.
**[05:44] Shizuka**
This is impossible!
**[05:45] Shizuka**
Graviton levels increasing!
**[05:47] Sou**
She can already fire that giant
supergravity cannon again?
**[05:50] G**
Deploy Klein Field!
**[05:52] G**
Engine output at maximum!
**[05:55] Iori**
Full burst mode on standby!
**[05:56] G**
401, turn about while deploying
the supergravity cannon!
**[06:00] G**
Even if we can't neutralize
the shot completely,
**[06:02] G**
disrupting the force field will be enough!
**[06:12] G**
Fire!
**[06:48] Kongou**
They've concealed themselves
by disrupting the force field...
**[06:52] Kongou**
I will not let you escape.
**[06:59] Shizuka**
The force field turbulence
is about to subside.
**[07:02] G**
Cut engines.
**[07:03] G**
Don't let us be detected.
**[07:05] Iori**
Roger!
**[07:05] Kiri**
Why are we hiding?
**[07:07] Takao**
It's obvious that we're at
**[07:09] ---**
a disadvantage in terms
of both output and firepower.
**[07:11] Takao**
Direct confrontation would be pointless.
**[07:14] Sou**
Captain...
**[07:15] Sou**
We are transporting the
vibration warhead sample.
**[07:19] Sou**
If we're sunk here,
**[07:21] Sou**
it'd mean the end of any
hope for humanity's future.
**[07:24] Kyo**
We came all this way hoping to change the future.
**[07:28] Kyo**
We ran away from school,
**[07:30] Kyo**
and even became fugitives
from the government.
**[07:32] Iori**
Why're we talking about this now?
**[07:34] Iori**
Gunzou, we've been ready for this forever.
**[07:37] Shizuka**
We're going to change the world
with our own hands, right?
**[07:41] G**
That's right.
**[07:43] G**
We started this fight to bring
change to this closed world.
**[07:48] G**
We can't wait for someone else to do it.
**[07:51] G**
Unless we start it ourselves,
**[07:53] G**
the world will not change.
**[07:57] G**
We can't stop now.
**[08:00] I**
Gunzou.
**[08:02] I**
I'll go persuade Kongou.
**[08:06] All**
Huh?
**[08:07] Kiri**
Do you even know what you're saying?
**[08:08] Kiri**
The concept comm system network
is being kept under protection!
**[08:12] I**
I won't use the network.
**[08:14] I**
I'll make a direct connection.
**[08:15] All**
What?!
**[08:17] H**
It's possible, if you make direct
contact with Kongou's core, but—
**[08:19] Hyu**
Sister Iona!
**[08:21] Hyu**
The possibility of you evading enemy
fire and reaching it is basically zero!
**[08:24] I**
It's not zero.
**[08:26] I**
Hyuuga, help me.
**[08:28] Hyu**
This is unacceptable!
**[08:30] I**
Please.
**[08:35] Hyu**
You're an idiot, Sister Iona.
**[08:38] I**
Kongou... is hurt.
**[08:41] Kiri**
She seems to be undamaged at this time.
**[08:43] I**
It's her heart.
**[08:45] H**
But...
**[08:46] H**
There's no proof that such a thing exists.
**[08:50] Kiri**
Why did we end up with such
bothersome logic routines?
**[08:55] Takao**
Weren't we just weapons?
**[08:57] G**
It's not about what you were.
**[09:00] G**
It's about who you are now.
**[09:04] H**
Who we are now...
**[09:07] Makie**
Haruharu...
**[09:08] I**
I want to save Kongou.
**[09:13] I**
There's no reason why we have to fight.
**[09:15] I**
And above all,
**[09:16] I**
a motivation beyond my processing
capabilities is compelling me.
**[09:22] I**
Gunzou, is this what "will" is?
**[09:24] Hyu**
Will...
**[09:25] H**
Will...
**[09:28] Takao**
Will...
**[09:31] G**
Iona, can you save Kongou?
**[09:35] I**
Gunzou,
**[09:37] ---**
give me the order.
**[09:39] G**
Iona, you will proceed to
make physical contact
**[09:42] G**
with the core of flag ship
Kongou's mental model.
**[09:45] G**
Bring her back under control.
**[09:49] I**
Understood!
**[10:02] G**
We will now begin a special operation.
**[10:05] G**
After disengaging Iona,
**[10:06] G**
transfer core systems to Takao.
**[10:11] Takao**
T-minus 210 seconds until
**[10:13] ---**
we enter effective range
for suppression SSM.
**[10:18] Kongou**
There you are...
**[10:21] Kongou**
Maya, let's start the carnival.
**[10:30] Shizuka**
Confirmed launch of 200...
**[10:33] Shizuka**
300...
**[10:35] Shizuka**
512 missiles.
**[10:36] Kyo**
This is bad...
**[10:37] Shizuka**
15 antiship laser cannons!
**[10:39] Kyo**
We're in serious trouble!
**[10:40] Shizuka**
Supergravity cannon is about to fire!
**[10:53] H**
Klein Field will reach
saturation in 53 seconds.
**[10:56] Makie**
Recalculated time to
reaching effective range
**[10:59] Makie**
is 180 seconds!
**[11:07] Shizuka**
Supergravity cannon has ceased fire!
**[11:09] Shizuka**
Detecting multiple incoming corrosive torpedoes!
**[11:12] Shizuka**
Impact in two seconds!
**[11:16] Shizuka**
Klein Field going down!
**[11:20] G**
Flood tube one!
**[11:21] Kyo**
Hey!
**[11:22] Kyo**
We're still out of range!
**[11:23] G**
This is the only chance we've got!
**[11:25] G**
Launch!
**[11:34] G**
Provide cover fire!
**[11:36] Kiri**
Damn it all!
**[12:22] Kongou**
Fall.
**[12:56] Kongou**
Why did you come here, 401?
**[13:00] I**
To stop you.
**[13:12] Kongou**
I don't know what you're talking about.
**[13:31] I**
Please, listen to me!
**[13:53] Kongou**
Just what are you?
**[13:56] I**
Kongou...
**[14:00] Kongou**
Physical contact?
**[14:02] I**
I'm sorry for being late.
**[14:17] I**
Link complete.
**[14:19] I**
Kongou...
**[14:25] I**
I'm being rejected...
**[14:27] Kongou**
Don't come any closer!
**[14:28] I**
Kongou?
**[14:30] Kongou**
Don't come in.
**[14:32] I**
No!
**[14:33] I**
If I don't, you'll bring death upon yourself!
**[14:40] I**
I have learned what death means.
**[14:43] I**
It is very sad.
**[14:51] I**
It's sad, so...
**[14:53] I**
I don't want to lose you!
**[14:57] Kongou**
Don't touch me!
**[15:13] Kongou**
Why does someone like you
exist among the Fog?
**[15:20] I**
I don't know.
**[15:23] I**
That's why I've continued my journey.
**[15:29] I**
And I have learned...
**[15:32] I**
both joy and grief.
**[15:36] Kongou**
The Fog must be united.
**[15:39] Kongou**
Free will is unnecessary.
**[15:45] Kongou**
Having free will... would make us human!
**[15:50] I**
You're too set in your ways.
**[15:53] I**
Why do you reject change?!
**[15:56] Kongou**
"Change"?
**[15:58] Kongou**
I call this a malfunction!
**[16:02] I**
That's not true!
**[16:04] Kongou**
Then what is this agony that
disrupts my mental processes?
**[16:08] Kongou**
I feel as though I'll be crushed
**[16:10] Kongou**
by the anger and grief
surging from within!
**[16:39] I**
Kongou...
**[17:00] Kongou**
What is with you?
**[17:06] Kongou**
Such a bother.
**[17:17] Kongou**
The remaining energy of
the supergravity cannon
**[17:21] Kongou**
will obliterate both of our cores.
**[17:32] Kongou**
Disappear with me.
**[17:36] G**
Fire!
**[17:46] Hyu**
What about Sister Iona?!
**[17:47] Kyo**
We'd never let her get hit!
**[17:49] G**
Iona!
**[17:52] I**
Gunzou...
**[18:02] Kongou**
Your readings are off the charts.
**[18:04] Kongou**
Where have you been storing so much power?
**[18:07] I**
Even without any of my power...
**[18:11] I**
the will to stop you...
**[18:14] I**
is moving me forward!
**[18:21] I**
Kongou...
**[18:23] ---**
Here I come.
**[18:34] Kongou**
Cheater!
**[18:36] Kongou**
Don't... touch me!
**[18:47] Kongou**
Why?!
**[18:48] Kongou**
Why can't things stay the way they are?!
**[18:51] Kongou**
I don't need change!
**[18:53] Kongou**
I don't need relationships!
**[18:54] Kongou**
I was fine being alone!
**[18:56] Kongou**
I never wanted to become
aware of the outside world!
**[19:09] Kongou**
Why...
**[19:13] I**
Kongou...
**[19:14] Kongou**
Stop!
**[19:53] I**
It's going to be okay.
**[19:56] I**
If we can connect,
**[19:59] I**
and understand each other...
**[20:02] I**
you don't have to be afraid anymore.
**[20:05] Kongou**
What's the point of
understanding each other?
**[20:09] I**
Then we can become friends.
**[20:39] Kongou**
I see.
**[20:53] Shizuka**
Confirming Iona's call sign...
**[20:57] Shizuka**
Mental model Iona...
**[21:00] Shizuka**
is alive!
**[21:01] All**
Yeah!
**[21:02] ?**
Jeez.
**[21:04] Iori**
Yes!
**[21:08] G**
Iona...
**[21:21] I**
Kongou...
**[21:23] Kongou**
Yes.
**[21:25] I**
Come with us, Kongou.
**[21:29] Kongou**
That...
**[21:32] Kongou**
is still difficult for me to accept right now.
**[21:38] Kongou**
It'll be all right.
**[21:40] Kongou**
Even if we're apart, we're connected.
**[21:45] Kongou**
I believe we've always been.
**[21:50] Kongou**
If I get lonely, I'll come by for tea.
**[21:54] I**
Okay.
**[21:59] Kongou**
401,
**[22:01] Kongou**
what norms constitute
the basis for your existence?
**[22:06] I**
My own will.
**[22:09] Kongou**
I see.
**[22:11] Kongou**
Thank you.
**[23:28] G**
Hey, Iona.
**[23:31] G**
Do you remember the time we met?
**[23:34] I**
I do.
**[23:36] G**
How did I look?
**[23:39] I**
You looked pathetic.
**[23:41] G**
Back then, I wanted to bring
change to this world.
**[23:48] I**
Do you think you succeeded?
**[23:51] G**
Yes, the world will change.
**[23:54] G**
Thank you, Iona.
***SIGN*** Thank you for watching!
***SIGN*** Illustration by Ark Performance