# Arpeggio of Blue Steel
In the year 2039, global warming has caused a sudden rise in sea level, leading mankind to lose a great deal of land territory. At the same time, a fleet of mysterious warships clad in mist, known as the "Fleet of Fog," begin to appear throughout the world's seas, attacking humanity's warships with their powerful superweapons. Humanity threw all the military strength it possessed at the Fleet of Fog in a decisive battle, but was crushed by the fleet's overwhelming might...
# 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