# 22 - The Cat Bares Claws
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**[00:19] ---**
You've come to?
**[00:22] ---**
Annette...
**[00:23] ---**
How's Sven?
**[00:25] ---**
His injuries aren't serious.
**[00:27] ---**
But... it looks like
he's taking this pretty hard.
**[00:34] ---**
Princess!
**[00:37] ---**
*That's how it always starts...*
**[00:39] ---**
*under the azure sky*
**[00:42] ---**
*After making a vow,*
**[00:46] ---**
*I now set off*
**[01:02] ---**
*Yeah, the desert glitters with a golden hue*
**[01:07] ---**
*(The wind is scorching)*
**[01:09] ---**
*I'm searching for a diamond flower*
**[01:13] ---**
*(I keep on wandering)*
**[01:15] ---**
*Now, for the first time in my life,*
**[01:21] ---**
*I live for someone else*
**[01:28] ---**
*There's something I wanna protect*
**[01:34] ---**
*I'll never, ever lose it again*
**[01:40] ---**
*Resound, my heartbeat!*
**[01:47] ---**
*A heartbeat smaller and fragile,
but tougher than anyone's.*
**[02:07] ---**
"The Cat Bares Claws"
**[02:26] ---**
Eve, your journey that began
in a tank at Bioberg
**[02:30] ---**
has come to an end.
**[02:33] ---**
The life of people, the joys and sorrows...
**[02:36] ---**
the wisdom to live, and battle...
**[02:38] ---**
You have obtained all
the knowledge you require.
**[02:43] ---**
Rejoice!
**[02:44] ---**
You have been given the
right to live in paradise.
**[02:48] ---**
Pa... ra... dise...
**[02:52] ---**
Yes, the paradise called Eden.
**[02:55] ---**
E... den...
**[03:09] ---**
From this moment, you
will become one with Eden!
**[03:12] ---**
And you will live in paradise for eternity!
**[03:15] ---**
Magnificent!
**[03:33] ---**
Eve!
**[03:43] ---**
You're going to get Eve back?
**[03:45] ---**
Of course!
**[03:46] ---**
You don't even know where she is...
**[03:48] ---**
and in that condition, what can you do?!
**[03:49] ---**
You expect me to lie still in bed?!
**[03:52] ---**
How can I?!
Eve's been kidnapped!
**[03:56] ---**
If I don't save her, who will?!
**[04:00] ---**
Don't act like no one else cares but you!
**[04:03] ---**
Even to me, Princess
is a precious comrade!
**[04:10] ---**
Remember, you once punched me?
**[04:14] ---**
I seem to recall something like that.
**[04:17] ---**
You said yourself...
**[04:19] ---**
to rely on your comrades more.
**[04:23] ---**
So leave the rest to me.
**[04:26] ---**
You sure talk cool!
**[04:31] ---**
Annette is checking on
Mason's movements right now.
**[04:34] ---**
That old man?
**[04:36] ---**
Mason was the oldest member of Chronos,
**[04:38] ---**
and the only member of the
Numbers to experience the Itairiku War.
**[04:42] ---**
Sephiria depended on him a lot, too.
**[04:44] ---**
But why would someone like him...?
**[04:46] ---**
The problem is that Mason
is the one who took Eve.
**[04:52] ---**
Anyway, take it easy and recover.
**[04:55] ---**
Hey! Where are you going?!
**[04:57] ---**
Mason is quite a schemer.
**[05:00] ---**
I've gotta be prepared for him.
**[05:03] ---**
Drink that and heal quickly.
**[05:05] ---**
Be seeing you!
**[05:08] ---**
Is this his only way of showing kindness?
**[05:16] ---**
The three elders have been assassinated.
**[05:19] ---**
As I expected...
**[05:21] ---**
I see it was Mason's doing?
**[05:23] ---**
We were totally had.
**[05:26] ---**
The branches around the
world are in a state of turmoil.
**[05:29] ---**
A plot 20 years in the making...
**[05:32] ---**
When we faced Mason,
he used Tao techniques.
**[05:36] ---**
When did he gain such power?
**[05:39] ---**
Probably in the Itairiku War...
**[05:40] ---**
So he made an alliance
with Taoists back then.
**[05:44] ---**
Nanotech and Tao...
**[05:46] ---**
This is quite a problem.
**[05:48] ---**
Ultimate peace...
he said something like that...
**[05:52] ---**
That's sheer nonsense.
We must stop them at all costs.
**[05:55] ---**
But Sephiria...
**[05:57] ---**
do we have the power at this time,
to confront Mason?
**[06:01] ---**
The reality is that world governments are
calling to cancel their financial support.
**[06:07] ---**
Still, we must do it.
**[06:12] ---**
What a creepy moon.
**[06:15] ---**
It's an ominous color.
**[06:17] ---**
Where're you guys headed from here?
**[06:20] ---**
I'm taking off for a while. I'm exhausted.
**[06:23] ---**
I have work.
**[06:26] ---**
So we're all going our separate ways.
**[06:29] ---**
Wanna come with me?
**[06:30] ---**
If you're by yourself, you get lost
even in your own room, don't you?
**[06:33] ---**
What?! D-Don't insult me!
**[06:35] ---**
I was at least able to find
my way back from the john!
**[06:57] ---**
Smooch, smooch, smooch...
**[06:59] ---**
Kuro-*sama*...
**[07:11] ---**
I guess no one's here anymore...
**[07:15] ---**
Who's there?
**[07:18] ---**
Quit standing there like a stick!
**[07:20] ---**
If this were a real bullet, you'd be dead!
**[07:23] ---**
Tim...
**[07:26] ---**
Leon...
**[07:34] ---**
Layla...
**[07:38] ---**
We thought you were dead, Leon!
**[07:46] ---**
Welcome home, Leon.
**[07:53] ---**
It's good to be back.
**[08:06] ---**
No data at all on those Zero Numbers?
**[08:10] ---**
Like the number says... zero.
**[08:12] ---**
Any word from Train?
**[08:14] ---**
He just left!
**[08:18] ---**
Hey...
**[08:19] ---**
What's the use of sitting there and
punching away at the keyboard?!
**[08:22] ---**
Shut up!
**[08:24] ---**
I'm contacting the information brokers and
the sweepers around the country right now!
**[08:29] ---**
I'll go walking for rehabilitation.
**[08:37] ---**
Sven?
**[08:39] ---**
R-Rins?!
**[08:41] ---**
You're alive?
**[08:43] ---**
Well, I saw the netherworld
for a second just now...
**[08:45] ---**
Never mind that.
What're you doing here?
**[08:48] ---**
I heard about Eve from Annette.
**[08:50] ---**
So I brought someone
who may have some leads.
**[08:53] ---**
Leads?
**[08:59] ---**
Sh-She's...
**[09:01] ---**
Eve!
**[09:03] ---**
Tearju Lunatique.
**[09:05] ---**
Eve's creator.
**[09:08] ---**
Amnesia?
**[09:10] ---**
Then she can't give us any leads!
**[09:13] ---**
But I'm sure she knows something.
**[09:15] ---**
That may be so, but...
**[09:18] ---**
In any case, they really look alike!
Are they blood-related?
**[09:22] ---**
I'm almost positive Eve's her clone.
**[09:24] ---**
Clone?! Hey!
**[09:27] ---**
Tearju is one of the top scientists not only
in nanomachines but also in clone science.
**[09:32] ---**
In other words, she was
experimenting on her own clone?
**[09:37] ---**
What was she thinking?!
**[09:39] ---**
Scientists live in a different world.
**[09:44] ---**
Rins, give me your cell phone!
**[09:46] ---**
Huh?!
**[09:46] ---**
You took Eve's picture
with it before, didn't you?
**[09:48] ---**
So?
**[09:49] ---**
If we show it to her,
it may jog her memory!
**[09:52] ---**
Hey, you're right!
**[09:55] ---**
Here it is. This is Eve.
**[09:58] ---**
E... ve?
**[10:00] ---**
Well? You recognize her, don't you?
**[10:05] ---**
Tearju?
**[10:23] ---**
Eve!
**[10:24] ---**
Hey lady, calm down!
**[10:26] ---**
Eve! I must stop Eve!
**[10:29] ---**
What? Do what to Eve?!
**[10:30] ---**
Eve! Turn back to dust!
**[10:33] ---**
Eve!
**[10:39] ---**
--Tearju!
**[10:39] ---**
--Tearju!
**[11:15] ---**
You're awake, Eve?
**[11:19] ---**
Where am I?
**[11:22] ---**
Eden... the paradise
at the center of the world.
**[11:26] ---**
Who are you?
**[11:28] ---**
I'm Adam. I've been
waiting for you a long time.
**[11:41] ---**
I was lonely all by myself,
**[11:43] ---**
so I'm really happy that you've come.
**[11:46] ---**
I... can't remember anything.
**[11:50] ---**
You don't have to remember anything.
**[11:52] ---**
You have been reborn, so...
**[11:57] ---**
Reborn?
**[12:01] ---**
Anxiety doesn't suit Eden.
**[12:03] ---**
Now smile!
**[12:10] ---**
There is no fighting...
no illness... no unhappiness in Eden.
**[12:15] ---**
Even food can be...
**[12:16] ---**
Look...
**[12:20] ---**
Like this, we can eat
all we want whenever we want.
**[12:23] ---**
There's no hunger here either.
**[12:28] ---**
An apple...
**[12:30] ---**
Take a bite.
**[12:38] ---**
Hypnotized yourself?
**[12:39] ---**
To react when you see Eve's face?
**[12:43] ---**
That's why you reacted
in front of the mirror...
**[12:46] ---**
Why'd you do such a thing?
**[12:49] ---**
I didn't want them to use me...
**[12:52] ---**
Huh?
**[12:53] ---**
Or my research... or Eve.
**[12:55] ---**
That's why when Torneo attacked
the research lab at Bioberg...
**[13:00] ---**
I tried to destroy everything.
**[13:02] ---**
But I didn't have enough time.
**[13:05] ---**
Kanzaki, my assistant, was
already in cahoots with Mason, so...
**[13:08] ---**
Kanzaki?
**[13:09] ---**
At the lab, we called him Doctor.
**[13:13] ---**
It's this man.
**[13:15] ---**
That's...
**[13:16] ---**
He may not look it,
**[13:17] ---**
but he was an ambitious man
who was determined to take my place.
**[13:20] ---**
And he fell victim to his ambition
and was ensnared by Mason.
**[13:24] ---**
I can't forgive him!
**[13:26] ---**
He stole the research that
I poured my heart and soul into!
**[13:29] ---**
Now, now...
**[13:31] ---**
So tell us, what was
this research of yours about?
**[13:35] ---**
It was the Eden Project, wasn't it?
**[13:38] ---**
What is that?
**[13:40] ---**
A frightening plan... to bring
about ultimate peace to the world.
**[13:44] ---**
Peace? Nothing wrong with peace.
**[13:47] ---**
Even if humans stop being humans?
**[13:51] ---**
Infect people with nanomachines
**[13:53] ---**
and centrally control
them using the power of Tao.
**[13:56] ---**
That is the outline of the Eden Project.
**[13:59] ---**
Well, that certainly would
put an end to wars...
**[14:02] ---**
But that's quite an outrageous plan.
**[14:05] ---**
But what does Eve have to do with it?
**[14:08] ---**
Eve will activate Eden.
**[14:09] ---**
Eden?
**[14:11] ---**
The mechanical life
form which I invented.
**[14:14] ---**
Once activated, it will spread
nanomachines throughout the world
**[14:18] ---**
and control the people of the world...
**[14:20] ---**
And using their life
energy as the driving force,
**[14:22] ---**
its life will become immortal.
**[14:24] ---**
And you're saying that Eve
will be the pilot for this?
**[14:26] ---**
Yes...
**[14:28] ---**
Eve will be set in the center of Eden.
**[14:31] ---**
Eve was developed to serve
as Eden's consciousness.
**[14:35] ---**
Her role as a "bio-weapon" was just a ruse.
**[14:40] ---**
That's why I must destroy Eve!
**[14:42] ---**
Before Eden is activated!
**[14:44] ---**
That is my duty as her creator!
**[14:47] ---**
Don't be so selfish!!
**[14:49] ---**
She may be a clone or
whatever, but... Eve is Eve!!
**[14:52] ---**
You think I'd let you erase
her just to suit your whims?!
**[14:57] ---**
Tearju...
**[14:59] ---**
I want to save Eve, too.
**[15:03] ---**
But if Eden is activated,
**[15:05] ---**
it will mean the end of this world.
**[15:10] ---**
Hasn't Eden been activated yet?
**[15:12] ---**
Eden's operation circuit is
trying to link up with Eve.
**[15:16] ---**
Once that is complete...
**[15:20] ---**
Aren't you going to eat? It's good.
**[15:25] ---**
It tastes wonderful... something
you've never tasted before in your life.
**[15:29] ---**
Now, hurry...
**[15:32] ---**
What will happen when Eden is activated?
**[15:35] ---**
Eden will cover the sky and make it rain.
**[15:38] ---**
Rain?
**[15:39] ---**
Nanomachine rain.
**[15:41] ---**
It will seep into humans...
and cause a transformation.
**[15:45] ---**
Even I don't know what the result will be.
**[15:49] ---**
Can't we tell Eve not to do that?
**[15:51] ---**
The Eve that you know will be erased
**[15:53] ---**
and she'll become one with Eden.
**[15:56] ---**
She probably won't
remember anyone by that time.
**[16:00] ---**
That's ridiculous!
**[16:02] ---**
Eve will become Eden's consciousness.
**[16:05] ---**
Only after that happens
**[16:07] ---**
will Eden be able to recognize and control humans.
**[16:11] ---**
So Eve will no longer be Eve...
**[16:17] ---**
A giant nebula which
has absorbed all humans...
**[16:21] ---**
Some people may call it god.
**[16:25] ---**
Or... demon...
**[16:29] ---**
Eat it.
**[16:32] ---**
Eat... this...
**[16:47] ---**
That's wonderful, Eve.
**[16:50] ---**
You will nurture paradise...
**[16:52] ---**
and paradise will continue to grow...
**[16:55] ---**
and soon cover everything on this planet!
**[17:02] ---**
Ohhhh!
**[17:05] ---**
The moment has arrived!
**[17:07] ---**
The day I have waited for...
**[17:09] ---**
for so long!
**[17:14] ---**
Creed...
**[17:17] ---**
Creed!
**[17:30] ---**
Oops, I drank too much again.
**[17:32] ---**
We had drinks... at the
wedding party... for a toast.
**[17:35] ---**
Huh?
**[17:39] ---**
Oh, the sunset?
**[17:41] ---**
How pretty!
**[17:43] ---**
But why a sunset in broad daylight?
**[17:49] ---**
Pretty...
**[17:50] ---**
Yeah...
**[17:52] ---**
The cloud is spreading in this direction...
**[17:56] ---**
So Mason is on the move now...
**[17:58] ---**
The location is the desert in the
northwest... near Kashmir City.
**[18:02] ---**
Just what is he up to?
**[18:04] ---**
That is not our concern.
**[18:06] ---**
Order an attack immediately.
**[18:08] ---**
The communication with our
Kashmir branch has been lost.
**[18:12] ---**
So nothing is left on our side...
**[18:16] ---**
Even if it's just us alone!
**[18:17] ---**
With just the few of us,
we cannot hope for victory.
**[18:22] ---**
Hey, hey... why so depressed?
**[18:25] ---**
I really don't want to
see you guys despondent.
**[18:29] ---**
Heartnet!
**[18:33] ---**
And you still call yourselves Numbers?
**[18:35] ---**
You're going to take
old Mason's antics lying down?
**[18:39] ---**
Since you left Chronos,
it's none of your business.
**[18:43] ---**
Or... will you return to Chronos?
**[18:46] ---**
Eve was kidnapped by Mason.
**[18:48] ---**
Eve? That bio-weapon?
**[18:51] ---**
Eve is my comrade!
**[18:54] ---**
What do you expect us to do?
**[18:56] ---**
It's simple. I'm gonna rescue Eve.
**[18:59] ---**
You're coming too, right?
**[19:02] ---**
Whatever happened to the Numbers' pride?
**[19:04] ---**
That insufferable pride?!
**[19:10] ---**
All right.
**[19:12] ---**
Just this one time...
**[19:15] ---**
We, Chronos, will lend you a hand, Heartnet!
**[19:19] ---**
Now that's more like it!
**[19:28] ---**
Oh?! What's going on?
**[19:32] ---**
Oh, it's rain.
**[19:40] ---**
Peace... peace is coming.
**[19:45] ---**
Huh? Maybe I drank too much?
**[19:49] ---**
Oh?
**[19:53] ---**
Oh, yeah! It's begun!
**[19:55] ---**
--Hey, sit down! I can't see!
**[19:56] ---**
--Go!
**[19:57] ---**
--I know I'm getting too old for this,
**[19:58] ---**
--but I always get excited
when I see something like this.
**[19:59] ---**
--Death Blow Beam!
**[20:01] ---**
--Hey, I've seen this program before.
**[20:01] ---**
--Ahhhh!
**[20:06] ---**
We interrupt this program
for important news.
**[20:07] ---**
Kashmir City in the
northwestern region of the continent
**[20:10] ---**
is under attack
from a strange flying object.
**[20:12] ---**
We will bring you more news
as it becomes available.
**[20:21] ---**
Say, what'll you order?
I'm having a fruit parfait.
**[20:24] ---**
Sweet bean soup for me.
**[20:25] ---**
Grilled octopus in batter for me!
**[20:26] ---**
A sweet shop wouldn't have that, you know!
**[20:27] ---**
Oh, really?
**[20:29] ---**
Oh? What's wrong, Kyoko?
**[20:33] ---**
Hey, Kyoko!
**[20:35] ---**
--Kashmir...
**[20:36] ---**
--Hey, what's that?
**[20:37] ---**
--The city where I dated Little Kuro-*sama*?!
**[20:38] ---**
--Oh... I'm scared!
**[20:45] ---**
Splendid...
**[20:50] ---**
Look! Man has abandoned
his ego and become one!
**[20:54] ---**
This is indeed Utopia!
**[20:56] ---**
Now we will absorb people into Eden.
**[21:00] ---**
They will become
the flesh and blood of Eden,
**[21:02] ---**
and become the source of Tao power.
**[21:16] ---**
What is this?!
**[21:24] ---**
Tearju, you really
created something terrible.
**[21:28] ---**
People are being sucked in!
**[21:31] ---**
It seems it's designed not only to merge
human minds, but their bodies as well.
**[21:36] ---**
Designed?! Can't you do something?!
**[21:39] ---**
As the one responsible for its development,
**[21:41] ---**
I will take responsibility
until the very end.
**[21:43] ---**
But how?
**[21:46] ---**
Oh! Is it over for mankind?!
**[21:49] ---**
Quit your whining!
**[21:51] ---**
I'm sorry... Huh?
**[21:53] ---**
Bro!
**[21:54] ---**
Yo! Sorry to keep you waiting.
**[21:56] ---**
Train, you're so late!
**[22:08] ---**
These guys are pretty
dependable, wouldn't you say?
**[22:10] ---**
Huh? Yeah...
**[22:12] ---**
Awright! Let's go, Sven!
**[22:15] ---**
Princess must be tired of waiting!
**[22:29] ---**
*Since your new black
boots caused a blister,*
**[22:36] ---**
*you rest your right foot*
**[22:43] ---**
*We'll keep walking along
with our own rhythm, without rushing*
**[22:56] ---**
*Don't say anything*
**[23:04] ---**
*because we'll soon understand each other*
**[23:11] ---**
*I'm just holding you now to keep you warm*
**[23:25] ---**
*I'm completely wrapped around you, so...*
**[23:35] ---**
*Quietly the powder-like
snow is building up...*
**[23:55] ---**
"Next Episode"
**[23:56] ---**
*Eve... what are you thinking?*
**[23:59] ---**
*You're not remembering the past, are you?*
**[24:03] ---**
*Stop this nonsense.
You are here in paradise now.*
**[24:07] ---**
*Look at this peaceful scenery
filled with happiness.*
**[24:12] ---**
*If you are still haunted
by the ghosts of the past...*
**[24:17] ---**
*I know a way to deal with that.*
**[24:17] ---**
"The Cat’s Paradise"