# Season 1
# 1 - Encounter
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GYE5Z94VR/buddy-complex)
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**[00:25] ---**
Singularity of unknown origin
has appeared at coordinates
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one-two-five, negative nine-seven-nine.
It is beginning to expand.
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Gravitational anomaly detected.
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Internal mass increasing
at a geometric rate.
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Retreat! Retreat!
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Propulsion problem on
Proto-Valiancer Unit 2.
**[00:38] ---**
He will get pulled in at his
current rate of acceleration.
**[00:42] ---**
What's wrong, Unit 2?! Accelerate!
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D-Damn it!
**[00:58] ---**
*Beat your wings*
**[01:00] ---**
* See the light of hope*
* in the sky you have yet to see*
**[01:05] ---**
* And don't ever give in*
* to the weight of sorrow*
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*Echo unto eternity, UNISONIA*
**[01:18] ---**
*That world you see before your eyes*
**[01:23] ---**
*What colors is it made up of?*
**[01:28] ---**
*Measure feeling match*
**[01:30] ---**
*The pain of loss isn't something*
**[01:33] ---**
*You want to get used to, and yet*
**[01:36] ---**
* Even on a night like this,*
* the stars are beautiful*
**[01:42] ---**
* Like a tarnished coin spilling*
* from the palm of your hand*
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*Can't go back*
**[01:49] ---**
*Want to go home*
**[01:51] ---**
*The two, back-to-back*
**[01:54] ---**
*Break through*
**[01:56] ---**
* Turning unfading emotions*
* into a lasting bond*
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*Like painting over a colorless world*
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*Let this sympathy reach*
**[02:07] ---**
*Growing the wing*
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* Let's build the*
* future that we envision*
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*We can change even fate*
**[02:16] ---**
*Transcending time, UNISONIA*
**[02:25] ---**
"Encounter"
**[02:41] ---**
Wake up, Aoba Watase!
**[02:44] ---**
Okay, okay.
**[02:54] ---**
"Zogilia to Mine New Natural Resource"
"Milk"
**[02:58] ---**
Honestly! Aren't you going to be late?
And the new term just started!
**[03:02] ---**
I'll be fine as long as
I make the train at twelve past.
**[03:05] ---**
I swear! Are you sure?
**[03:09] ---**
Thanks for breakfast.
**[03:12] ---**
High school kids sure have it
rough with their commute.
**[03:14] ---**
Quiet, middle-schooler.
**[03:16] ---**
Tsubasa, hurry up and get ready.
**[03:19] ---**
Okay.
**[03:21] ---**
Well, I'm going.
**[03:23] ---**
"Fire Dept"
**[03:23] ---**
See you later!
**[03:25] ---**
Be careful!
**[03:30] ---**
I might've cut it a little close.
**[03:38] ---**
"Press Button to Cross"
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"Local Sobu Line 07:12 Mitaka 6"
"Local Sobu Line 07:15 Nakano 6"
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I made it somehow.
**[03:49] ---**
Aoba.
**[03:50] ---**
Over here.
**[03:51] ---**
Hey, long time no see!
**[03:53] ---**
What did you do over the summer?
**[03:55] ---**
Hawaii.
**[03:55] ---**
For real?
**[04:03] ---**
Morning.
**[04:08] ---**
"Seio High School"
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No, I'm telling you it's for real.
**[04:11] ---**
Morning!
**[04:12] ---**
For real?
**[04:12] ---**
Morning!
**[04:13] ---**
Yo.
**[04:14] ---**
Yo.
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We got new seats.
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"Ozaki, Abe, Azuma, Imaki, Todoroki, Shiba"
**[04:19] ---**
Whoa, I'm in the front row.
**[04:21] ---**
I'm in the back. I'm so lucky!
**[04:24] ---**
Let's see...
**[04:29] ---**
Aoba, you're next to Yumihara.
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Ooh.
**[04:38] ---**
Morning, Yumihara.
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M-Morning, A-A... Aoba.
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Nice to see you.
**[04:45] ---**
Uh, nice to see you...
**[04:48] ---**
"Off the Coast of Hachijo Island"
**[04:56] ---**
Since this is the first
day of the second term,
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I'm going to go over the schedule.
**[05:01] ---**
First, the midterms are in October...
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Hina Yumihara.
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She's a returnee from abroad,
**[05:07] ---**
who came back to Japan in April
and enrolled at this high school.
**[05:10] ---**
That's about all I know,
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but she keeps acting kind of cold
towards me, or maybe stiff and formal.
**[05:17] ---**
Did I do something to her?
**[05:26] ---**
Got it.
**[05:27] ---**
What?
**[05:28] ---**
Here.
**[05:35] ---**
You okay?
**[05:37] ---**
I-I...
**[05:38] ---**
I'm fine!
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Thank you.
**[05:41] ---**
Uh, sure...
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Or actually, why are you
so stiff and formal...
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Watase! Yumihara!
**[05:46] ---**
What are you doing?
**[05:48] ---**
Oh, no... We're not really...
**[05:50] ---**
It's nothing.
**[05:51] ---**
So sorry about that.
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Oh, damn it!
**[06:09] ---**
So, Aoba wins again?
**[06:11] ---**
He's a merciless bastard.
**[06:13] ---**
All right! Then it's my turn next.
**[06:16] ---**
Sure.
**[06:18] ---**
Aoba, did you do something
to that returnee from abroad?
**[06:21] ---**
Huh? You mean Yumihara?
**[06:22] ---**
Yup. It's Hina, isn't it?
**[06:25] ---**
She's cute, huh?
**[06:26] ---**
I'm jealous, Aoba.
**[06:28] ---**
Huh? You're not making any sense.
**[06:30] ---**
I haven't done anything.
**[06:32] ---**
But you know, ever since
the entrance ceremony,
**[06:35] ---**
it's like she's been
watching you and only you.
**[06:42] ---**
I was talking. That's no fair.
**[06:44] ---**
There's no rule that says I have to wait.
**[07:03] ---**
He's good at basketball, don't you think?
**[07:08] ---**
In middle school, we were
both on the basketball team.
**[07:11] ---**
But I ended up getting injured.
**[07:15] ---**
I'm the one who picked this high school.
**[07:18] ---**
Because it's close to the hospital
where I get physical therapy.
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And then Aoba got it
in his head to come here, too.
**[07:26] ---**
It's not even like my injury
was because of him.
**[07:31] ---**
It made me happy.
**[07:32] ---**
Because I was nervous about going to
a separate high school all by myself,
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on top of being injured.
**[07:39] ---**
Isn't he a great guy?
**[07:46] ---**
Hey, Yumihara.
**[07:48] ---**
What is it about Aoba that you like?
**[07:51] ---**
It's not like I...
**[07:59] ---**
"Off the Coast of Hachijo Island"
**[08:18] ---**
What just happened?
**[08:21] ---**
Where am I?
**[08:23] ---**
What are my coordinates?
**[08:27] ---**
Is the clock out of whack?
**[08:31] ---**
It's the year 2014?!
**[08:34] ---**
It can't be...
**[08:38] ---**
I've traveled across time?
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In other words, this is the past?
**[08:45] ---**
If that's true...
**[08:50] ---**
I'm definitely in the past.
**[08:52] ---**
What's up with this sieve-like security?
**[08:58] ---**
"Aoba Watase, Tokyo
Prefectural Seio High School"
**[08:59] ---**
That's right!
**[09:00] ---**
That's definitely you, Aoba Watase!
**[09:04] ---**
To think I'd run into
you even in this place!
**[09:10] ---**
I'm coming for you.
**[09:17] ---**
"Anomaly Detected"
**[09:23] ---**
What's this?
**[09:25] ---**
What's wrong?
**[09:26] ---**
I got a disaster advisory.
**[09:27] ---**
Feel the shake?
**[09:28] ---**
Nope. Maybe it's a false alarm?
**[09:31] ---**
Yeah, maybe.
**[09:33] ---**
A-Aoba... Everyone...
**[09:35] ---**
Hm? What is it?
**[09:37] ---**
Hey, look at that.
**[09:47] ---**
What the heck is this thing?
**[09:49] ---**
So you did come.
**[09:51] ---**
What is that thing?
**[09:52] ---**
It's huge.
**[10:01] ---**
What a stupid look you've got
on your face, Aoba Watase!
**[10:04] ---**
It's a look that says you never even
dreamed that I'd ever show up here!
**[10:08] ---**
But this is no dream!
**[10:20] ---**
Run!
**[10:33] ---**
Damn it!
**[10:38] ---**
What the hell is going on?!
**[10:39] ---**
This way!
**[10:43] ---**
Ryutaro! Junichi!
**[10:50] ---**
So it's after me?!
**[10:52] ---**
I can't hit him! Why not?!
**[10:57] ---**
The targeting information
isn't precise enough?!
**[11:00] ---**
So it requires line of sight!
**[11:08] ---**
Damn! I'm out of ammo?!
**[11:13] ---**
Why is that thing after Aoba?!
**[11:15] ---**
Junichi, I'm borrowing this!
**[11:17] ---**
Borrowing what?!
**[11:19] ---**
This is the end!
**[11:28] ---**
What?!
**[11:36] ---**
If it's me you're after, follow me!
**[11:38] ---**
Don't mess with me!
**[11:53] ---**
Hey, there's something flying this way!
**[11:55] ---**
That's a robot, isn't it?
**[11:56] ---**
Everybody, run!
**[11:58] ---**
What's with everybody?!
**[12:08] ---**
Scurrying around all these tight places...
**[12:12] ---**
You think you can escape me?!
**[12:18] ---**
Where'd it go?
**[12:22] ---**
Yumihara?!
**[12:23] ---**
Follow me!
**[12:25] ---**
Why?!
**[12:26] ---**
Why would you...
**[12:26] ---**
There's no time! Hurry!
**[12:29] ---**
H-Hey!
**[12:30] ---**
Damn it!
**[12:44] ---**
Damn it!
**[12:50] ---**
CVP-014A, boot up!
**[12:58] ---**
That's far!
**[13:03] ---**
It's over!
**[13:07] ---**
What?
**[13:09] ---**
What the?!
**[13:13] ---**
Another one?!
**[13:16] ---**
Boot-up process, all green.
I made it in time!
**[13:19] ---**
That's...!
**[13:32] ---**
Wait!
**[13:34] ---**
Huh?
**[13:36] ---**
Get in!
**[13:37] ---**
Yumihara!
**[13:38] ---**
Hurry!
**[13:43] ---**
It can't be...
**[13:47] ---**
It can't be...
**[13:51] ---**
Are you really the Yumihara I know?
**[13:55] ---**
Be quiet.
**[13:56] ---**
Why?
**[13:58] ---**
Why in hell?
**[14:01] ---**
Why?!
**[14:09] ---**
Hina, why?!
**[14:18] ---**
Tell me why, Hina!
**[14:22] ---**
I know. I just need this one time.
**[14:37] ---**
Goodbye.
**[14:51] ---**
Amazing...
**[15:01] ---**
Remaining rounds of ammo, two.
**[15:03] ---**
Enemy energy reading, terminated.
**[15:04] ---**
You defeated him?
**[15:06] ---**
Yes.
**[15:08] ---**
Wh-What are you looking at?
**[15:11] ---**
You okay?
**[15:13] ---**
I'm fine!
**[15:15] ---**
Can I ask you about this?
**[15:16] ---**
About what?
**[15:17] ---**
All of it.
**[15:21] ---**
All right.
**[15:26] ---**
I think you'll find it hard to believe,
**[15:28] ---**
but I came to this world
from the same future
**[15:31] ---**
as the person who was piloting that robot.
**[15:33] ---**
What? You mean...
**[15:35] ---**
It means we're future people.
**[15:37] ---**
I am...
**[15:40] ---**
And so was he.
**[15:44] ---**
Then, what about this thing?
This robot, too?
**[15:47] ---**
That's right. It came from the same future.
**[15:50] ---**
It's getting rickety in
all sorts of places now, though.
**[15:56] ---**
All this time, ever since I came to
this era, I've been watching over you.
**[16:01] ---**
Over me?
**[16:02] ---**
Yes, over Aoba Watase, all this time...
**[16:06] ---**
The Aoba from before I
met him, meaning you.
**[16:11] ---**
"Watase, Yumihara, Tanabe, Miyano, Fujii"
**[16:12] ---**
Today, when we ended up seated next to each other,
**[16:15] ---**
I was really surprised.
**[16:16] ---**
Because I'd never imagined,
even in my wildest dreams,
**[16:20] ---**
that there'd come a time when
we'd be sitting next to each other.
**[16:28] ---**
You seem mystified.
**[16:29] ---**
But I couldn't afford to be apart from you.
**[16:34] ---**
Because I knew that he was
going to come kill you someday.
**[16:40] ---**
How?
**[16:41] ---**
That's because...
**[16:44] ---**
I heard it from you.
**[16:46] ---**
Huh?
**[16:48] ---**
"Metropolitan Police Department"
**[16:53] ---**
Whoa, hey, things are
about to get crazy here!
**[16:56] ---**
Aoba, get off.
**[16:58] ---**
Wh-What?
**[16:59] ---**
My job here is done.
**[17:00] ---**
I was able to defeat the enemy
who wanted you dead.
**[17:03] ---**
You go back to your life here again.
**[17:06] ---**
You can forget about this story
of people from the future.
**[17:09] ---**
Hold on, Yumihara.
What are you going to do?
**[17:12] ---**
I'm going to run.
**[17:13] ---**
I don't want to get caught, after all.
**[17:16] ---**
You're going back... to the future?
**[17:18] ---**
I don't know any way to do that.
**[17:21] ---**
I'm just going to run, that's all.
**[17:22] ---**
Just run? But where are you going to go?
**[17:24] ---**
With a giant robot like this,
once you've been spotted...
**[17:27] ---**
I know that!
**[17:29] ---**
But right now, I don't have
any other choice, do I?!
**[17:34] ---**
I know!
**[17:48] ---**
Hina, even after that beating,
**[17:50] ---**
even in death, there's
still something I can do!
**[17:55] ---**
Don't tell me he plans to self-destruct?!
**[17:57] ---**
What?!
**[17:58] ---**
Eject!
**[18:00] ---**
It won't open!
**[18:12] ---**
Hey, we're taking damage!
**[18:14] ---**
It's falling apart due
to lack of maintenance!
**[18:19] ---**
I never imagined that
you were over here, Hina.
**[18:23] ---**
I knew that you would be coming.
**[18:26] ---**
I see.
**[18:27] ---**
In that case, do you know
what happens after this, too?
**[18:31] ---**
You're going to die,
along with Aoba Watase, and me!
**[18:42] ---**
This is...
**[18:43] ---**
The singularity...
**[18:46] ---**
I see. So that's it.
**[18:49] ---**
Huh?
**[18:50] ---**
Hang on tight.
**[18:55] ---**
Hina, what are you planning to do?!
**[18:57] ---**
What are you thinking?!
**[19:00] ---**
I finally understand.
**[19:02] ---**
So, this is how it was fated to be.
**[19:03] ---**
Fated?
**[19:05] ---**
I'd always wondered...
**[19:07] ---**
Why you'd appeared before me...
**[19:10] ---**
Why I've been unable to forget you...
**[19:13] ---**
Yumihara...
**[19:15] ---**
It's Hina.
**[19:17] ---**
Hina?
**[19:19] ---**
Aoba, trust me.
**[19:23] ---**
All right, Hina.
**[19:26] ---**
You're so trusting!
**[19:30] ---**
You plan to leap in there?!
**[19:34] ---**
It's starting to close!
**[19:48] ---**
Here we go!
**[20:13] ---**
Aoba.
**[20:17] ---**
This is goodbye.
**[20:18] ---**
What?
**[20:19] ---**
Goodbye?
**[20:22] ---**
You're going to the future now.
**[20:24] ---**
To the future?
**[20:26] ---**
What about you?
**[20:29] ---**
Dio is waiting.
**[20:31] ---**
What?
**[20:32] ---**
Who's that?
**[20:40] ---**
Wait!
**[20:41] ---**
What's going on?
**[20:43] ---**
Hina?!
**[20:44] ---**
What is this?!
**[20:46] ---**
What in the world is this?!
**[20:48] ---**
Dio is waiting, Aoba.
**[20:52] ---**
Hina... Hina!
**[21:01] ---**
Dio?
**[21:02] ---**
Dio!
**[21:06] ---**
Dio!
**[21:08] ---**
Dio, do you read?!
**[21:10] ---**
This is Dio. I have two on my tail.
Things are getting hairy!
**[21:13] ---**
Sorry! I've got my hands full here, too!
**[21:15] ---**
Sorry, me, too, Dio!
**[21:17] ---**
I'll handle it somehow!
**[21:19] ---**
Dio?
**[21:21] ---**
Dio?!
**[21:39] ---**
Concentrate your firepower!
**[21:41] ---**
Company, get them under
effective fire, stat!
**[21:42] ---**
Targets are moving too fast!
**[21:44] ---**
Retreat! All vehicles, retreat!
**[21:46] ---**
1st Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion
is no longer combat-worthy!
**[21:48] ---**
This is bad! We probably don't
have much left down there, do we?!
**[21:52] ---**
So, we have to fight these
guys with no cover fire!
**[21:58] ---**
What is all this?!
**[22:02] ---**
The Luxon's Feeling Match number is rising!
**[22:05] ---**
What are you saying, Petty Officer Nasu?!
**[22:06] ---**
Wait, Mayuka, there's
no one aboard that one, right?
**[22:09] ---**
But the reading...
**[22:11] ---**
And the Matching with Dio is incredible!
**[22:14] ---**
Who the hell is it that's
Matching with me?!
**[22:17] ---**
Where the heck am I?
**[22:19] ---**
Where's Hina?!
**[22:23] ---**
Nice Coupling.
**[22:27] ---**
*With my heart, I call out*
**[22:31] ---**
*To the far side, mutually drawn*
**[22:35] ---**
*Forgetting even the reason I ache*
**[22:40] ---**
*Just for now, please*
**[22:44] ---**
*I know you*
**[22:49] ---**
*I'm looking for you*
**[22:53] ---**
* Softly pressing my lips to the bright*
* afterimage I can't keep from leaving*
**[23:02] ---**
* If hesitation is what gives way*
* to the slightest of hopes*
**[23:11] ---**
* To as many gentle mornings*
* as the times I have wandered*
**[23:20] ---**
* In the future that*
* leads back to that sky,*
**[23:24] ---**
* I want to save you,*
* I want to protect you*
**[23:29] ---**
*In the future that arrives at that dream*
**[23:33] ---**
*Wait for me*
**[23:36] ---**
*The love we'll surely find*
**[23:41] ---**
*I want you to reach out for it*
**[23:48] ---**
Next time on Buddy Complex.
**[23:48] ---**
"Next Time 'Nice Coupling'"
**[23:51] ---**
"Nice Coupling."
# 2 - Nice Coupling
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**[00:15] ---**
You're going to the future now.
**[00:18] ---**
To the future?
**[00:20] ---**
What about you?
**[00:21] ---**
Dio is waiting, Aoba.
**[00:25] ---**
Hina... Hina!
**[00:34] ---**
*Beat your wings*
**[00:36] ---**
* See the light of hope*
* in the sky you have yet to see*
**[00:41] ---**
* And don't ever give in*
* to the weight of sorrow*
**[00:44] ---**
*Echo unto eternity, UNISONIA*
**[00:54] ---**
*That world you see before your eyes*
**[00:59] ---**
*What colors is it made up of?*
**[01:04] ---**
*Measure feeling match*
**[01:07] ---**
*The pain of loss isn't something*
**[01:10] ---**
*You want to get used to, and yet*
**[01:12] ---**
* Even on a night like this,*
* the stars are beautiful*
**[01:18] ---**
* Like a tarnished coin spilling*
* from the palm of your hand*
**[01:24] ---**
*Can't go back*
**[01:26] ---**
*Want to go home*
**[01:27] ---**
*The two, back-to-back*
**[01:30] ---**
*Break through*
**[01:32] ---**
* Turning unfading emotions*
* into a lasting bond*
**[01:37] ---**
*Like painting over a colorless world*
**[01:40] ---**
*Let this sympathy reach*
**[01:43] ---**
*Growing the wing*
**[01:45] ---**
* Let's build the*
* future that we envision*
**[01:49] ---**
*We can change even fate*
**[01:52] ---**
*Transcending time, UNISONIA*
**[02:01] ---**
"Nice Coupling"
**[02:07] ---**
"Advanced Tactical System"
"Research and Development Laboratory"
**[02:09] ---**
Enemy Zogilia force
composed of six Valiancers.
**[02:11] ---**
Garrison Team and assault
aeroship Zuihou are returning fire,
**[02:13] ---**
but taking heavy casualties!
**[02:19] ---**
Leave the materials ranked
C or lower untillater!
**[02:20] ---**
Top priority goes to fuel, ammo, and food!
**[02:21] ---**
What a pretty pickle to get into.
**[02:23] ---**
We just had to come under
attack while loading up cargo.
**[02:25] ---**
How much longer until we can take off?
**[02:27] ---**
Resupply, 3 Gauge remaining!
**[02:29] ---**
Cygnus Valiancer Team,
please prepare to sortie.
**[02:32] ---**
Lieutenant Conrad here, requesting
permission to mobilize Dio's Bradyon.
**[02:36] ---**
Captain?
**[02:40] ---**
We can't even request to
mobilize the Luxon, though.
**[02:43] ---**
Dio, you okay?
**[02:45] ---**
Yes.
**[02:46] ---**
This is payback for Marcus.
**[02:48] ---**
With three Valiancers,
we might have a chance.
**[02:50] ---**
The enemy is probably
after Dio's Valiancer, right?
**[02:52] ---**
Will the brass go for it?
**[02:54] ---**
Lieutenant, permission to mobilize
the Bradyon has been granted.
**[02:57] ---**
The Captain asks that you do your utmost
to keep it from falling into enemy hands.
**[03:00] ---**
More unreasonable demands
for you to live up to, Dio Weinberg.
**[03:03] ---**
Stow the chitchat, Jarl.
**[03:05] ---**
You'll be sitting ducks
if you go up straight.
**[03:07] ---**
If you don't want to die, follow me.
**[03:09] ---**
Here we go!
**[03:10] ---**
Roger.
**[03:11] ---**
Roger!
**[03:17] ---**
Is this their idea of putting up a fight?
**[03:20] ---**
I'm laughing it up here, Bizon.
**[03:22] ---**
Tarjim, our objective is
not to defeat the enemy.
**[03:26] ---**
Keep your eyes peeled for any and
all suspicious facilities or equipment!
**[03:28] ---**
Bizon, reinforcements.
**[03:32] ---**
You three above me, come with me!
**[03:34] ---**
Roger!
**[03:41] ---**
Once we're out of the smoke,
we take a pass at the enemy.
**[03:43] ---**
We'll break away before
they can return fire.
**[03:45] ---**
Roger.
**[03:47] ---**
Enemy craft!
**[03:48] ---**
What?!
**[03:49] ---**
You called it, Bizon.
**[03:52] ---**
No existing data. It's
probably a new model.
**[03:54] ---**
So that's the jackpot.
**[03:56] ---**
Benesh and Passo, you take the Beryls.
**[03:57] ---**
Lasha and Mikhailov, take the new model.
**[03:59] ---**
Tarjim and I will take the aeroship.
**[04:02] ---**
Don't let your guards down!
**[04:04] ---**
Roger!
**[04:16] ---**
How does it look, Lasha?
**[04:17] ---**
It's tougher than a Beryl,
but I think we can handle it.
**[04:21] ---**
If you can capture it, do it.
**[04:22] ---**
Roger!
**[04:27] ---**
I can't shake them.
**[04:37] ---**
Who's that?!
**[04:44] ---**
Nice Coupling.
**[04:46] ---**
The Luxon is showing a
Nice Coupling reading for Dio's Bradyon!
**[04:50] ---**
What?
**[04:51] ---**
What did you say?!
**[04:54] ---**
That's impossible!
**[04:55] ---**
M-Maybe the pilot Marcus is on board?
**[04:58] ---**
But Marcus's vitals ceased
to register 20 minutes ago.
**[05:03] ---**
And anyway, the hatch was supposed
to have been buried under rubble.
**[05:06] ---**
Can we see inside?
**[05:07] ---**
The internal camera is broken,
so we have no visuals.
**[05:10] ---**
This is Lieutenant
Commander Lene Kleinbeck.
**[05:12] ---**
State your name and affiliation.
**[05:14] ---**
Who's that?
**[05:15] ---**
Hina?
**[05:16] ---**
Where's her voice coming from?
**[05:18] ---**
Hina?
**[05:19] ---**
Is that you, Hina? Where the heck am I?
**[05:22] ---**
Your name and affiliation!
**[05:24] ---**
That's not Hina?
**[05:26] ---**
Uh, well, Aoba Watase,
a first year at Seio High School.
**[05:30] ---**
Aoba Watase?
**[05:32] ---**
Someone from the lab?
**[05:34] ---**
At any rate, it's dangerous there.
**[05:36] ---**
Move it in front of the cargo elevator.
**[05:38] ---**
You tell me to move it, but...
**[05:40] ---**
Don't tell me you don't
even have a Category A?!
**[05:42] ---**
Piloting without a license is
against military regulations!
**[05:45] ---**
Get off the craft at once!
**[05:46] ---**
Get off? But how do I do that?
**[05:49] ---**
You will face disciplinary
action once combat is over!
**[05:51] ---**
Sit tight until then!
**[05:58] ---**
NECTTAR Gun 3 has been hit!
**[05:59] ---**
Only three guns capable
of deploying Curtains remain!
**[06:01] ---**
What about the Valiancers?
**[06:02] ---**
Two on the Bradyon.
One each on Beryls A and C.
**[06:05] ---**
Still engaging the enemy.
**[06:08] ---**
Mayu, what was it that you said earlier?
**[06:11] ---**
Um, that the Luxon showed a
Nice Coupling reading for the Bradyon...
**[06:15] ---**
Right.
**[06:17] ---**
Let's have the two conduct the Coupling.
**[06:19] ---**
What?!
**[06:20] ---**
Captain?!
**[06:21] ---**
The battle isn't going well for us.
**[06:23] ---**
At this rate, the Luxon will be
captured by the enemy without a fight.
**[06:27] ---**
If he can share Dio's abilities,
**[06:29] ---**
even a beginner could at least
move to the elevator, right?
**[06:32] ---**
You intend to have Dio conduct a Coupling
with someone we know nothing about?!
**[06:36] ---**
The reading is green, right?
**[06:38] ---**
Yes...
**[06:39] ---**
But sir...
**[06:41] ---**
There are issues with maintaining
classified information as well!
**[06:43] ---**
I'm fine with taking
responsibility on that score.
**[06:45] ---**
If we leave things as they stand,
**[06:47] ---**
not only will they be in
jeopardy, but so will we.
**[06:50] ---**
Besides, it's not in my nature
to take a beating lying down.
**[06:53] ---**
You know that, don't you, Lt. Commander?
**[07:01] ---**
Luxon, Bradyon, initiate
the Coupling process!
**[07:04] ---**
Roger!
**[07:10] ---**
But XO!
**[07:11] ---**
CO's orders.
**[07:13] ---**
Roger.
**[07:15] ---**
Do you hear me?!
**[07:17] ---**
I'm going to conduct a
Coupling with you now.
**[07:19] ---**
What? A Coupling?
**[07:21] ---**
You just have to do what I tell you!
**[07:28] ---**
What the heck?
**[07:37] ---**
Is this for real?
**[07:47] ---**
I'd say we just have a little more to go.
**[07:51] ---**
Hey, there's another one!
**[07:53] ---**
I'll go!
**[07:54] ---**
Wait.
**[07:55] ---**
Mikhailov, you go.
**[07:57] ---**
Tarjim, you come back.
**[07:59] ---**
Roger.
**[08:02] ---**
That's no fun, Bizon.
**[08:04] ---**
Are they onto us?!
**[08:05] ---**
Damn it! I won't let you go over there!
**[08:08] ---**
Do you hear me?!
**[08:09] ---**
Call out, "Connective, Dio!"
**[08:11] ---**
Bradyon in range to
receive the Seventh Code!
**[08:14] ---**
Roger!
**[08:18] ---**
I should go back him up.
**[08:21] ---**
C-Connective...
**[08:23] ---**
"Connective!" That's "Connective, Dio!"
**[08:26] ---**
Dio?
**[08:28] ---**
Dio is waiting.
**[08:29] ---**
That's right! "Connective, Dio!"
**[08:31] ---**
You're Dio?!
**[08:32] ---**
What?!
**[08:38] ---**
Dio, I'm Aoba Watase!
**[08:41] ---**
Hina said you'd be waiting!
**[08:51] ---**
Dio, what's going on?
You're going to move out of range!
**[08:54] ---**
Hurry up and conduct the Proposing!
**[08:56] ---**
Aoba Watase, just do what I tell you!
**[09:00] ---**
All right.
**[09:03] ---**
He's headed towards the same place?
**[09:05] ---**
Mikhailov, just fire from where you are!
**[09:07] ---**
Roger!
**[09:14] ---**
You hear me?
**[09:15] ---**
It's "Connective, Dio!"
**[09:18] ---**
Connective, Dio!
**[09:21] ---**
Acception!
**[09:22] ---**
Linkage commencing!
**[09:24] ---**
First Proposing!
**[10:02] ---**
Did I get him?!
**[10:07] ---**
What?!
**[10:15] ---**
What the hell is that?!
**[10:16] ---**
They transformed?!
**[10:24] ---**
Coupling...
**[10:25] ---**
It's a success!
**[10:27] ---**
The Match is optimal!
**[10:40] ---**
He's coming!
**[10:48] ---**
What?!
**[10:49] ---**
He's fast!
**[10:58] ---**
So, the Coupling was a success.
**[11:00] ---**
For real?!
**[11:01] ---**
Incredible...
**[11:03] ---**
For him to be this compatible with me...
**[11:08] ---**
Did I just... take control of a robot?
**[11:11] ---**
That's right.
**[11:12] ---**
With the Coupling established,
you now share Dio's piloting knowledge.
**[11:16] ---**
Share?
**[11:17] ---**
You already know how
to control Valiancers now.
**[11:21] ---**
Enemy incoming!
**[11:22] ---**
Enemy?!
**[11:33] ---**
This is...
**[11:41] ---**
What the heck is this?
**[11:46] ---**
He's almost on me already!
**[11:56] ---**
It moved!
**[12:06] ---**
Damn it!
**[12:07] ---**
Why you!
**[12:10] ---**
How powerful is this thing?!
**[12:11] ---**
The Bradyon is at double
its usual power output!
**[12:14] ---**
The Coupling is living
up to our expectations?
**[12:16] ---**
More importantly, never mind walking,
**[12:18] ---**
that guy over there has
gone straight into combat.
**[12:21] ---**
Is that the Coupling, too?
**[12:23] ---**
No, he's not normal.
**[12:25] ---**
He rated high, but for
him to be at this level!
**[12:29] ---**
You're nothing but a
Confederation Valiancer!
**[12:42] ---**
Damn it!
**[12:50] ---**
I'm flying?!
**[12:52] ---**
You're not getting away!
**[12:55] ---**
He's coming!
**[12:59] ---**
There it is again!
**[13:04] ---**
All right!
**[13:19] ---**
Mikhailov!
**[13:20] ---**
He got him?!
**[13:21] ---**
How dare you?!
**[13:24] ---**
You're not going anywhere!
**[13:25] ---**
Damn it!
**[13:26] ---**
Arm 2 severed! Only close
quarter combat blade left on hand!
**[13:29] ---**
Damn.
**[13:30] ---**
All mission craft, retreat!
**[13:33] ---**
We've ferreted out the new model.
**[13:34] ---**
Taking further losses would be pointless.
**[13:37] ---**
Roger.
**[13:38] ---**
Hey, man, are you serious, Bizon?
**[13:47] ---**
I just finished this guy off.
**[13:49] ---**
Move it, Tarjim! Or we're
leaving you behind!
**[13:52] ---**
Roger!
**[13:57] ---**
Enemy force retreating!
**[13:59] ---**
Valiancer Team, return to base.
**[14:07] ---**
If the enemy came from the south,
**[14:09] ---**
there's the possibility of a second wave.
**[14:11] ---**
It looks like we're in for a hectic time.
**[14:13] ---**
Captain, what shall we do with
the person on board the Luxon?
**[14:17] ---**
I don't think we have much of a choice.
**[14:20] ---**
This secret base is finished, anyway.
**[14:22] ---**
Mayu, come with me!
**[14:23] ---**
Yes, ma'am!
**[14:34] ---**
Is it over?
**[14:42] ---**
Decoupling.
**[14:51] ---**
What's happening?
**[15:11] ---**
Rush order issued for all personnel.
**[15:11] ---**
Quickly secure everything
that's been brought in!
**[15:13] ---**
Soft reboot good on all craft!
**[15:21] ---**
He still hasn't come out?
**[15:23] ---**
Maybe he doesn't even
know the basic controls?
**[15:25] ---**
Hey, what's the matter?!
**[15:29] ---**
Dio?
**[15:31] ---**
What do I have to do to get it to open?
**[15:34] ---**
Maybe it's down here...
**[15:41] ---**
It opened!
**[15:43] ---**
Thank goodness...
**[15:47] ---**
Who are you?
**[15:49] ---**
So, using an out-of-the-way
laboratory location came back to bite us.
**[15:54] ---**
And to have one of the Couplers die...
**[15:57] ---**
I believe we ought to evacuate immediately.
**[16:00] ---**
Agreed.
**[16:01] ---**
We can't make your
existence publicly known,
**[16:04] ---**
so openly sending reinforcements
is out of the question.
**[16:06] ---**
Head for the main base immediately.
**[16:09] ---**
Furthermore, make sure you
leave no trace of our experiments.
**[16:12] ---**
Yes, sir.
**[16:13] ---**
By the way, with regards to
the new qualifier in my report...
**[16:16] ---**
I told you, leave no trace.
**[16:19] ---**
Understood, sir.
**[16:24] ---**
The year... 2088?
**[16:27] ---**
That's right.
**[16:29] ---**
This war... What's going on?
**[16:31] ---**
What do you mean?
**[16:32] ---**
Uh, well...
**[16:35] ---**
Where do I even begin?
**[16:40] ---**
Currently, the nation of Japan is allied
with the Liberty Treaty Confederation
**[16:44] ---**
and this ship is also a Confederation ship.
**[16:46] ---**
The Confederation has been at
war with the Republic of Great Zogilia
**[16:49] ---**
since the year before last, and as you
saw, the fighting has been intense.
**[16:53] ---**
Well? Do you understand now?
**[16:55] ---**
Is this really... the future?
**[16:58] ---**
Huh?
**[16:59] ---**
XO, this guy keeps insisting
that he's from the past.
**[17:03] ---**
It's the truth, Dio!
**[17:06] ---**
Don't address me by name so familiarly.
**[17:08] ---**
But you're Dio, right?!
**[17:09] ---**
I have no reason to let you call me that.
**[17:11] ---**
But Hina said...
**[17:13] ---**
Put the gun away already!
**[17:15] ---**
Not until you reveal your true identity.
**[17:18] ---**
None of this crap about
coming from 70 years ago!
**[17:20] ---**
Like I said, I'm not lying!
**[17:22] ---**
Both of you, that's enough.
**[17:23] ---**
Dio, put your gun away.
**[17:27] ---**
XO, message from the Captain.
**[17:29] ---**
You're asked to come to the Captain's office
along with Officer Hill and Ensign Weinberg.
**[17:33] ---**
Understood. Thank you.
**[17:35] ---**
Ensign Weinberg.
**[17:37] ---**
Yes, ma'am.
**[17:38] ---**
Hold on a second!
**[17:40] ---**
Hey, Dio!
**[17:42] ---**
Her name is Hina Yumihara!
**[17:43] ---**
She's a girl with long hair and
she was wearing this hair clip!
**[17:50] ---**
She said that you...
**[17:52] ---**
I know nothing of this.
**[18:04] ---**
Mikhailov's ultimate sacrifice has
brought us one step closer to victory.
**[18:09] ---**
We received word that the
Liberty Treaty Confederation
**[18:11] ---**
had a new Valiancer that had acquired
tactical capabilities not so long ago.
**[18:14] ---**
With all the numerous
dummies that they'd deployed,
**[18:17] ---**
it seems you did a magnificent
job hitting the jackpot.
**[18:20] ---**
The Adminburo back home
is urgently demanding a sample specimen.
**[18:25] ---**
You will capture one
immediately, I presume,
**[18:28] ---**
Commander Gallant?
**[18:30] ---**
Of course, Madam Special Officer.
**[18:33] ---**
I look forward to seeing results.
**[18:35] ---**
Slava Zogilia.
**[18:39] ---**
So, what about his claim?
**[18:41] ---**
Everything he had on him were
things that existed about 70 years ago.
**[18:45] ---**
Having said that,
many of the items can be faked,
**[18:48] ---**
so it's a real stretch
to take him at his word.
**[18:50] ---**
We're talking about time
travel here, after all.
**[18:53] ---**
Well, that sounds like a normal response.
**[18:55] ---**
How shall we deal with him?
**[18:57] ---**
He's the hero who saved us, but...
**[19:00] ---**
We can't have him leaking
our secrets, either.
**[19:03] ---**
I'd say we have to have him
come with us to the main base.
**[19:05] ---**
I believe that is a sound decision.
**[19:07] ---**
Where is he now?
**[19:08] ---**
Lieutenant Conrad invited
him to his own cabin
**[19:10] ---**
until we passed the verdict on his fate.
**[19:12] ---**
There goes Lee again, taking liberties...
**[19:14] ---**
No, it's inside the ship
**[19:17] ---**
and we also have a tracer on him,
so there's no need to restrain him.
**[19:20] ---**
Throwing him straight into a cell
would only serve to foster bitterness.
**[19:24] ---**
Captain, do you intend to
make use of him again?
**[19:27] ---**
Don't like that idea?
**[19:29] ---**
He's still technically the Buddy
you conducted a Coupling with, right?
**[19:31] ---**
That was an act of necessity.
**[19:33] ---**
With a bastard like him? Never again.
**[19:36] ---**
Well, let's pray that such
an occasion never arises again.
**[19:39] ---**
As soon as we're ready,
**[19:41] ---**
the Cygnus will take off
for the North America Base.
**[19:43] ---**
Roger.
**[19:45] ---**
It seems you've been allowed to keep these.
**[19:47] ---**
Thank you.
**[19:51] ---**
Um, are you all right?
**[19:56] ---**
You don't look too all right.
**[19:59] ---**
Here.
**[20:00] ---**
What?
**[20:00] ---**
Eat a little something and unwind.
**[20:02] ---**
Thanks.
**[20:04] ---**
Fifteen minutes to takeoff.
**[20:06] ---**
I have to go back.
**[20:11] ---**
Hey.
**[20:13] ---**
The door will open if you press here.
**[20:16] ---**
But it's a big place,
so be careful not to get lost.
**[20:19] ---**
Okay.
**[20:19] ---**
See you later.
**[20:23] ---**
What's going on?
**[20:27] ---**
Have I really traveled to the future?
**[20:31] ---**
Hina, is it really like you said?
**[20:35] ---**
You're going to the future now.
**[20:37] ---**
Dio is waiting.
**[20:41] ---**
He totally wasn't waiting...
**[20:49] ---**
Ogi, how's it look?
**[20:51] ---**
Main engine almost at critical threshold.
**[20:53] ---**
Sensor range, all clear of hostiles.
**[20:59] ---**
There are a lot of unknowns
about the new model's capabilities.
**[21:01] ---**
Don't let your guards down.
**[21:02] ---**
Roger!
**[21:07] ---**
Engine, ready!
**[21:08] ---**
Navigation, good to go!
**[21:10] ---**
Information, fusion complete!
**[21:12] ---**
FCS, all green!
**[21:15] ---**
Captain.
**[21:16] ---**
Mm.
**[21:18] ---**
Cygnus, lift off.
**[21:28] ---**
What's going on?
**[21:29] ---**
We're moving?
**[22:14] ---**
I pray that this mission is successful.
**[22:16] ---**
Death to the foes of Zogilia.
**[22:18] ---**
Death to the foes of Zogilia.
**[22:20] ---**
Death to the foes of Zogilia.
**[22:22] ---**
Death to the foes of Zogilia.
**[22:24] ---**
Death to the foes of Zogilia.
**[22:27] ---**
*With my heart, I call out*
**[22:31] ---**
*To the far side, mutually drawn*
**[22:35] ---**
*Forgetting even the reason I ache*
**[22:40] ---**
*Just for now, please*
**[22:44] ---**
*I know you*
**[22:49] ---**
*I'm looking for you*
**[22:53] ---**
* Softly pressing my lips to the bright*
* afterimage I can't keep from leaving*
**[23:02] ---**
* If hesitation is what gives way*
* to the slightest of hopes*
**[23:11] ---**
* To as many gentle mornings*
* as the times I have wandered*
**[23:20] ---**
* In the future that*
* leads back to that sky,*
**[23:24] ---**
* I want to save you,*
* I want to protect you*
**[23:29] ---**
*In the future that arrives at that dream*
**[23:33] ---**
*Wait for me*
**[23:36] ---**
*The love we'll surely find*
**[23:41] ---**
*I want you to reach out for it*
**[23:48] ---**
Next time on Buddy Complex.
**[23:48] ---**
"Next Time 'Meeting Again'"
**[23:51] ---**
"Meeting Again."
# 3 - Meeting Again
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GYE5Z94VR/buddy-complex)
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**[00:14] ---**
Discovered in the first
half of the 21st century,
**[00:17] ---**
the revolutionary energy
source called Nectoribium
**[00:20] ---**
shook up the world order.
**[00:24] ---**
In possession of vast deposits,
Zogilia, a global powerhouse,
**[00:28] ---**
swallowed up its neighboring
countries and continued to expand.
**[00:31] ---**
Soon, countries
in opposition to Zogilia
**[00:35] ---**
formed the Liberty
Treaty Confederation
**[00:37] ---**
and war broke
out on a global scale.
**[00:47] ---**
Over the course
of several great wars,
**[00:49] ---**
the Confederation found
itself driven to disadvantage
**[00:52] ---**
and they began developing
a radical new combat system.
**[00:55] ---**
And that was the Coupling System.
**[00:59] ---**
However, there was a flaw
in the System at the time
**[01:02] ---**
and development was halted due
to the high number of casualities.
**[01:08] ---**
That brings us
**[01:09] ---**
to the Third Far Eastern War,
which has been going on since last year.
**[01:12] ---**
During that time, development
work was done in secret
**[01:15] ---**
and the flaw was overcome in this...
**[01:17] ---**
Wait...
**[01:18] ---**
Aoba...?
**[01:25] ---**
Please wake up!
**[01:32] ---**
*Beat your wings*
**[01:34] ---**
* See the light of hope*
* in the sky you have yet to see*
**[01:39] ---**
* And don't ever give in*
* to the weight of sorrow*
**[01:42] ---**
*Echo unto eternity, UNISONIA*
**[01:52] ---**
*That world you see before your eyes*
**[01:57] ---**
*What colors is it made up of?*
**[02:02] ---**
*Measure feeling match*
**[02:05] ---**
*The pain of loss isn't something*
**[02:08] ---**
*You want to get used to, and yet*
**[02:10] ---**
* Even on a night like this,*
* the stars are beautiful*
**[02:16] ---**
* Like a tarnished coin spilling*
* from the palm of your hand*
**[02:22] ---**
*Can't go back*
**[02:24] ---**
*Want to go home*
**[02:25] ---**
*The two, back-to-back*
**[02:28] ---**
*Break through*
**[02:30] ---**
* Turning unfading emotions*
* into a lasting bond*
**[02:35] ---**
*Like painting over a colorless world*
**[02:38] ---**
*Let this sympathy reach*
**[02:41] ---**
*Growing the wing*
**[02:43] ---**
* Let's build the*
* future that we envision*
**[02:47] ---**
*We can change even fate*
**[02:50] ---**
*Transcending time, UNISONIA*
**[02:59] ---**
FL350, at Level 1 cruising altitude.
**[03:01] ---**
"Meeting Again"
**[03:03] ---**
Switching engines, output
at critical threshold.
**[03:05] ---**
At the ready to go to maximum battle speed.
**[03:07] ---**
It seems he's very good
at dozing off during class.
**[03:10] ---**
Captain, your behavior
is less than commendable.
**[03:12] ---**
But I'm doing this because
I'm worried about Mayu.
**[03:16] ---**
The Coupling System is
as top secret as they come.
**[03:19] ---**
Whether he's a time
traveler from the past
**[03:22] ---**
or he's just an unregistered civilian,
he needs to be kept under surveillance.
**[03:26] ---**
Petty Officer Nasu has excellent
marks in self-defense training as well.
**[03:30] ---**
Please rest easy.
**[03:31] ---**
But I mean...
**[03:32] ---**
Captain.
**[03:33] ---**
Very well, Lieutenant
Commander Kleinbeck.
**[03:36] ---**
Sorry about that, um...
**[03:38] ---**
I am Mayuka Nasu.
**[03:40] ---**
I was giving that lecture because you
said you didn't know anything.
**[03:43] ---**
I may not look it, but I'm the Coupling
Engineer and I'm busy, you know.
**[03:47] ---**
You're that important
around here, Mayuka?
**[03:50] ---**
Oh, no...
**[03:51] ---**
I'm actually assistant to Elvira,
who's the Engineering Officer.
**[03:55] ---**
I'm sorry!
**[03:56] ---**
I was tired.
**[03:57] ---**
Getting attacked out of
the blue and running for my life,
**[04:00] ---**
and then piloting that robot...
I've been through a lot.
**[04:03] ---**
It was a Valiancer.
**[04:04] ---**
Right, a Valiancer.
**[04:06] ---**
But there shouldn't have been
any Valiancers seventy years ago.
**[04:10] ---**
No, so like,
it came from the future.
**[04:12] ---**
That's what Hina said, too.
**[04:14] ---**
Hina?
**[04:15] ---**
My classmate, Hina Yumihara.
**[04:18] ---**
She came from
the future to save me
**[04:20] ---**
and she's the girl
who sent me to this era.
**[04:22] ---**
I wonder what happened
to her after that...
**[04:27] ---**
If we were to assume
that you aren't lying...
**[04:31] ---**
If you assumed that...?
**[04:32] ---**
The most likely explanation...
**[04:35] ---**
would be a dream, I suppose.
**[04:36] ---**
What?
**[04:38] ---**
So you don't believe me.
**[04:40] ---**
Oh, we're here.
**[04:43] ---**
This is it.
**[04:46] ---**
This is the Valiancer
that you piloted, the Luxon.
**[04:51] ---**
The Luxon...
**[04:57] ---**
It was just a short while ago that
I was definitely in there with Hina...
**[05:03] ---**
Valiancers and wars...
**[05:05] ---**
I've really come
to the future, haven't I?
**[05:09] ---**
Huh?
**[05:10] ---**
Its shape is completely different
from the Valiancer I got on in my time.
**[05:13] ---**
That's because this is a prototype.
**[05:16] ---**
There's none other like it.
**[05:18] ---**
Right now, Elvira
is rewriting the data for you.
**[05:22] ---**
The data? For me?
**[05:25] ---**
Valiancers made for Coupling are
fundamentally adjusted for each pilot.
**[05:30] ---**
The next time you pilot it,
**[05:31] ---**
I believe you'll find the fit
to be much better than before.
**[05:34] ---**
What?! Uh...
**[05:35] ---**
I'm... piloting this thing again?!
**[05:36] ---**
You're not?
**[05:38] ---**
Huh? But then, why did the Captain
direct us to make the adjustments?
**[05:42] ---**
Me? In combat again?
**[05:45] ---**
What are you doing?
**[05:47] ---**
It's him...
**[05:49] ---**
You better not pull a
gun on me again, Dio.
**[05:52] ---**
I thought I told you
not to call me by name.
**[05:54] ---**
Petty Officer Nasu,
**[05:55] ---**
this ship is designated top secret
by Joint Command Headquarters.
**[05:59] ---**
No civilian should have permission
to freely wander aboard this ship.
**[06:03] ---**
Um, Elvira asked me to,
so I'm showing Aoba around the ship...
**[06:07] ---**
Mayuka's not at fault here!
**[06:09] ---**
Why don't you talk directly to me?!
**[06:11] ---**
I will not demand that you
observe military regulations
**[06:13] ---**
when you are not a soldier.
**[06:14] ---**
And lashing out at a girl
is something a soldier does?!
**[06:17] ---**
Petty Officer Nasu is also a soldier.
**[06:19] ---**
Um, you two...
**[06:23] ---**
The alert to get to battle stations!
**[06:25] ---**
Oh, no!
**[06:26] ---**
Oh, hey!
**[06:27] ---**
Aoba, I'm sorry!
Please go back to your room!
**[06:30] ---**
Wait! Mayuka?!
**[06:35] ---**
Where was my room again?
**[06:38] ---**
Hostile Valiancers
have breached Perimeter 3.
**[06:41] ---**
Two minutes to contact!
**[06:43] ---**
Engine to threshold in five minutes.
**[06:44] ---**
We'll have to buy ourselves
at least three minutes.
**[06:47] ---**
All hands, prepare for interception!
**[06:48] ---**
Pardon me for being late!
**[06:49] ---**
It's done.
**[06:50] ---**
Help me with the rewrite.
**[06:52] ---**
Yes, ma'am.
**[06:53] ---**
Valiancer Team,
you are asked to maintain air cover
**[06:55] ---**
until output reaches the
critical threshold.
**[06:58] ---**
Roger that.
**[06:59] ---**
Enemy Valiancer team
**[07:00] ---**
consists of the same units that
attacked earlier. Three Valiancers.
**[07:04] ---**
That's fewer than before.
**[07:05] ---**
I approve of this trend!
**[07:07] ---**
Valiancer Team, taking off!
**[07:17] ---**
All Valiancers have cleared the deck!
**[07:19] ---**
All right! Make sure
we prep for their landing, too!
**[07:22] ---**
Yes, sir!
**[07:22] ---**
Roger!
**[07:23] ---**
So? What the heck are you doing?
**[07:27] ---**
Amazing...
**[07:31] ---**
That ship's silhouette isn't one
that matches any existing data we have.
**[07:34] ---**
So this one's a new model, too.
**[07:36] ---**
It's like a swan or something.
**[07:38] ---**
Enemy ship's engine output is increasing.
**[07:40] ---**
I wonder if they mean
to break away from us.
**[07:42] ---**
We're being intercepted.
**[07:44] ---**
Don't go down before the main show!
**[07:47] ---**
The goal is to buy time! Don't push it!
**[07:53] ---**
Valiancer Team has made contact!
**[07:56] ---**
Deploying NECTTAR Shield!
**[07:59] ---**
Seven Sequences until main
engine reaches threshold!
**[08:06] ---**
Dio, take the guy with the red crest!
**[08:08] ---**
Roger.
**[08:11] ---**
Is that all?!
**[08:12] ---**
Did we give you too much credit earlier?!
**[08:15] ---**
I'm yawning here!
**[08:17] ---**
It looks like the white new
model hasn't shown up yet!
**[08:23] ---**
So, it's begun.
**[08:25] ---**
Main engine, moments to threshold!
**[08:26] ---**
Valiancer Team,
return to base at once!
**[08:29] ---**
All units, please return to base!
**[08:31] ---**
Let's get out of here!
**[08:32] ---**
Roger.
**[08:32] ---**
About time!
**[08:41] ---**
Right on schedule, I guess?
**[08:43] ---**
We'll retreat, too.
**[08:44] ---**
Damn, I don't like this.
**[08:46] ---**
Hostile Valiancers are pulling away.
**[08:48] ---**
Main engine at threshold!
**[08:50] ---**
Valiancers are heading inside the Curtain.
**[08:53] ---**
Scheduled to be stowed upon arrival.
**[08:55] ---**
Cygnus, accelerate to top speed...
**[08:57] ---**
High energy transmission
source at 6 o'clock!
**[08:59] ---**
Evasive action!
**[09:00] ---**
Taking evasive action!
**[09:08] ---**
Rear propulsion block has suffered
a direct hit from a NECTTAR Gun!
**[09:11] ---**
A NECTTAR Gun?
**[09:13] ---**
I thought there were
no such vessels in the vicinity!
**[09:16] ---**
We have a composite image!
**[09:18] ---**
A Valiancer?!
**[09:20] ---**
That unit!
**[09:21] ---**
Don't tell me that's Zogilia's...
**[09:23] ---**
Alfried Gallant!
**[09:25] ---**
So, it was his team that's
been doggedly coming after us.
**[09:34] ---**
Left wing engine nacelle has been hit!
**[09:36] ---**
This is a NECTTAR Rifle.
**[09:39] ---**
A NECTTAR Gun that can be carried
by a Valiancer deployed to the front line?
**[09:43] ---**
So, firing twice back-to-back is the limit.
**[09:46] ---**
The star of Zogilia's
National Defense Force
**[09:48] ---**
coming out here,
equipped with a new weapon...
**[09:50] ---**
This isn't our day.
**[09:52] ---**
Unable to restore top speed capabilities!
We can't break away!
**[09:55] ---**
Valiancer Team, intercept him!
**[09:57] ---**
You don't have to tell us!
We're on our way!
**[10:02] ---**
What the?!
**[10:05] ---**
They hadn't fled?!
**[10:08] ---**
That was a good feint, Bizon.
**[10:10] ---**
A matter of course for something like this.
**[10:12] ---**
The fruits of this battle
are still to come!
**[10:14] ---**
Here we go!
**[10:14] ---**
Roger!
**[10:15] ---**
At this rate, the Cygnus will be in danger!
**[10:17] ---**
We'll hold those guys off!
**[10:19] ---**
Dio, can I leave Alfried to you?!
**[10:22] ---**
Of course, sir.
**[10:31] ---**
So that's it.
**[10:32] ---**
At this speed, it must
be pre-transformation.
**[10:35] ---**
That's good for us.
**[10:38] ---**
Are you running?!
**[10:40] ---**
Hurry it up!
**[10:41] ---**
Make it quick or we're goners!
**[10:43] ---**
We got hit again?
**[10:45] ---**
Yeah.
**[10:46] ---**
Well, this is war, after all.
**[10:49] ---**
War...
**[10:50] ---**
Not only that, but our opponent's
a formidable one this time.
**[10:53] ---**
We might be in for another scuffle.
**[10:56] ---**
Can you swim?
**[10:57] ---**
What?
**[10:58] ---**
We're over the ocean here,
**[11:00] ---**
so if we crash, that might help
to extend your life a tad.
**[11:06] ---**
Don. Aoba. There's a little
something I'd like to discuss with you.
**[11:09] ---**
Hey, Captain.
**[11:11] ---**
Me, too?
**[11:12] ---**
Enemy Valiancer approaching
the limits of our perimeter!
**[11:15] ---**
Be careful, Dio!
**[11:16] ---**
Just a little farther!
**[11:20] ---**
There he is!
**[11:29] ---**
Why isn't he returning fire?
**[11:33] ---**
This is where the real show starts.
**[11:42] ---**
So, I was being lured out here!
**[11:44] ---**
Close quarter combat would
be rough for me with this equipment.
**[11:47] ---**
I'll back you up as soon as it's charged.
**[11:49] ---**
Capture the new model.
**[11:50] ---**
Roger!
**[11:59] ---**
Close quarter combat?
**[12:06] ---**
Go down, foe of Zogilia!
**[12:12] ---**
That's Hina for you.
**[12:14] ---**
She's not Lieutenant Commander
Ryazan's pride and joy for nothing.
**[12:30] ---**
This is the Bradyon. I'm surrounded
by three enemy units!
**[12:43] ---**
Is this the best the Confederation's
new Valiancer can do?!
**[12:45] ---**
This one is strong!
**[12:48] ---**
Damn it!
**[12:48] ---**
I can't go anywhere, either!
**[12:50] ---**
So, the enemy's goal
was to capture the Bradyon?!
**[12:53] ---**
Can we provide cover fire?
**[12:54] ---**
He's outside of our effective range.
**[12:56] ---**
Dio...
**[12:57] ---**
I guess this means we played
right into Alfried's hands.
**[13:03] ---**
Everything's ready.
**[13:04] ---**
The Luxon's good to fly at any time.
**[13:06] ---**
Wha?! The Luxon?!
**[13:10] ---**
Aoba!
**[13:14] ---**
Him!
**[13:18] ---**
I'm really sorry to have to end up
relying on you, a civilian, once more.
**[13:22] ---**
Having said that,
we're in no position to be picky.
**[13:26] ---**
In order to save our ship, we have
no choice but to send you into combat.
**[13:30] ---**
Not at all. There's no way I'm
dying out here if I can help it, either.
**[13:34] ---**
Please let me go!
**[13:37] ---**
But man, this is still scary.
**[13:39] ---**
Are you ready to take off?
**[13:41] ---**
Yeah!
**[13:42] ---**
You already shared Dio's
piloting knowledge in the last Coupling.
**[13:47] ---**
You should have no problems flying.
**[13:48] ---**
Brace against the impact of the launch.
**[13:51] ---**
Just fly towards the red Valiancer.
**[13:53] ---**
We'll direct the timing
of the Coupling on our end.
**[13:56] ---**
The timing is tricky for
Coupling in combat airspace.
**[14:00] ---**
Be careful, Aoba.
**[14:01] ---**
If you don't want to do this,
you can call it quits.
**[14:04] ---**
Like hell I'm calling it quits!
**[14:06] ---**
What's with him?!
**[14:08] ---**
Luxon here, send me out!
**[14:17] ---**
Commander, it's the other new model!
**[14:19] ---**
I see it.
**[14:21] ---**
Hina.
**[14:21] ---**
You heard him.
**[14:23] ---**
Don't let your guard down.
**[14:24] ---**
Roger!
**[14:26] ---**
Fifteen seconds to Coupling zone.
**[14:29] ---**
So in the end, I'm with him again.
**[14:34] ---**
What?!
**[14:38] ---**
Is he trying to flee?!
**[14:43] ---**
Here goes, Dio!
**[14:45] ---**
The Luxon has entered
Seventh Code Coverage area!
**[14:48] ---**
Proposing!
**[14:49] ---**
Connective, Dio!
**[14:51] ---**
Acception!
**[14:57] ---**
Approach Ring, deployed!
**[14:59] ---**
Estifitguide, commencing navigation.
**[15:02] ---**
Approach Ring, accepted.
Commencing Linkage.
**[15:05] ---**
Forceveil, open.
**[15:08] ---**
Emphatier Level increasing.
**[15:10] ---**
Consultation, commencing.
**[15:11] ---**
Estifit, out!
**[15:18] ---**
Coupling, complete!
**[15:21] ---**
They got the Coupling done!
**[15:23] ---**
Bizon, the enemy!
**[15:24] ---**
Leave it to the Commander.
**[15:27] ---**
So, this is...
**[15:31] ---**
What?!
**[15:32] ---**
That's...
**[15:34] ---**
I'll leave things here to you!
**[15:35] ---**
Things here?! Where's "here"?!
**[15:41] ---**
There it is again.
**[15:45] ---**
Could this be...?
**[15:49] ---**
This is Dio's...!
**[15:54] ---**
Be gone, foes of Zogilia!
**[15:58] ---**
If you can last just one minute, I can...
**[16:00] ---**
I see.
**[16:02] ---**
With speed like this, it's like
a different Valiancer than before.
**[16:05] ---**
However, if all you have
is speed, you're just a target.
**[16:15] ---**
Did you think you could hit me?!
**[16:17] ---**
He saw it and evaded it?
**[16:18] ---**
Impossible!
**[16:22] ---**
Go down!
**[16:24] ---**
I must have missed!
**[16:26] ---**
Commander!
**[16:27] ---**
Sorry, Passo. I have to regroup.
**[16:29] ---**
Roger that, sir!
**[16:30] ---**
You're not getting away!
**[16:32] ---**
The Commander?!
**[16:34] ---**
Commander!
**[16:40] ---**
Why you!
**[16:41] ---**
Dio left this to me, after all.
**[16:44] ---**
Out of my way!
**[16:49] ---**
A Confederation Valiancer has
Alfried of Zogilia on the run!
**[16:53] ---**
The Luxon's putting up a good fight, too.
**[16:55] ---**
In Coupling Valiancers,
it's only to be expected.
**[17:00] ---**
The two units share their full potential,
including that of their pilots.
**[17:05] ---**
That is the Coupling System.
**[17:07] ---**
Via the Linkage,
**[17:09] ---**
the pilots share not just their
minds, but all sensations
**[17:12] ---**
with zero latency and zero degradation,
**[17:14] ---**
improving the performance of
each other's Valiancer geometrically.
**[17:19] ---**
Zogilia's pilots are
currently facing Valiancers,
**[17:21] ---**
which far surpass the
usual technological limitations.
**[17:27] ---**
This speed! This power!
**[17:29] ---**
Did we misjudge the
Confederation's Valiancer technology?
**[17:32] ---**
Or else...
**[17:34] ---**
Commander, I'll stop him for you!
**[17:36] ---**
No! Don't be rash!
**[17:40] ---**
What?!
**[17:42] ---**
You thought you could hit me like that?!
**[17:49] ---**
Passo!
**[17:54] ---**
If only I had the specs for combat...
**[17:58] ---**
I'm heading over
to the Commander's aid.
**[17:59] ---**
We're counting on you!
**[18:00] ---**
Got it!
**[18:03] ---**
Its mobility is unbelievable!
**[18:04] ---**
I'm starting to get the hang of this.
**[18:06] ---**
I've stopped seeing what
looks like Dio's hands, though...
**[18:16] ---**
What was with that movement just now?!
**[18:20] ---**
Don't mess with me!
**[18:21] ---**
What?!
**[18:34] ---**
I did it!
**[18:43] ---**
The enemy pilot?
**[18:45] ---**
What?
**[18:53] ---**
Hina...
**[18:55] ---**
Hina!
**[18:58] ---**
Hina? Isn't that...?
**[19:00] ---**
Emphatier Level dropping!
**[19:02] ---**
This is dangerous! Maintain levels!
**[19:04] ---**
I'm working on...
**[19:06] ---**
The Link is about to be forcibly severed!
**[19:08] ---**
Why?!
**[19:10] ---**
The Luxon's cockpit
release is being engaged!
**[19:13] ---**
Huh?
**[19:13] ---**
What?!
**[19:14] ---**
You bastard! What are you
doing in the middle of combat?!
**[19:17] ---**
It's Hina! Hina's here!
**[19:22] ---**
That bastard...
**[19:23] ---**
Dio, brace for impact!
**[19:26] ---**
No!
**[19:29] ---**
A forcible Decoupling...
**[19:36] ---**
The Bradyon has decelerated!
**[19:38] ---**
Dio, increase altitude!
**[19:40] ---**
R-Roger...
**[19:51] ---**
Please wake up, Hina!
**[19:53] ---**
Showing mercy to the enemy...
**[19:55] ---**
I don't know about that.
**[19:57] ---**
Maybe he doesn't
think she's the enemy.
**[20:11] ---**
A Confederation... pilot?
**[20:14] ---**
Hina, you're awake?!
**[20:16] ---**
You okay?
**[20:18] ---**
How do you know my name?
**[20:20] ---**
It's me! It's Aoba Watase!
**[20:22] ---**
Aoba?
**[20:23] ---**
That's right! Aoba!
**[20:25] ---**
I'm coming over there.
**[20:29] ---**
What is he... doing?!
**[20:31] ---**
Does he mean to take her prisoner?
**[20:33] ---**
Bastard!
**[20:34] ---**
Get away from Hina!
**[20:37] ---**
Bizon!
**[20:46] ---**
I made it in time!
**[20:47] ---**
Out of my way!
**[20:49] ---**
Aoba, get back inside your cockpit!
**[20:51] ---**
Lee? But Hina is...
**[20:53] ---**
I don't care who she is!
Bring her with you if you want!
**[20:56] ---**
All right.
**[20:59] ---**
Stay away!
**[21:00] ---**
You are a foe of Zogilia!
**[21:02] ---**
Hold on!
**[21:06] ---**
Survival priority system activated.
**[21:12] ---**
Hina!
**[21:17] ---**
Hina! You okay?!
**[21:18] ---**
Bizon!
**[21:19] ---**
Take cover!
**[21:29] ---**
Lee!
**[21:31] ---**
Lee?
**[21:32] ---**
Lieutenant Conrad, please respond!
**[21:35] ---**
The enemy?!
**[21:36] ---**
It looks like they can't
take much more, either.
**[21:38] ---**
All units, retreat.
**[21:40] ---**
Lasha, roger.
**[21:41] ---**
Tarjim, roger.
**[21:43] ---**
Bizon, I've secured the Fortuna.
**[21:45] ---**
That was a fiasco, Commander.
**[21:47] ---**
I am aware of that,
Madam Special Officer.
**[21:50] ---**
A second failure will not be
permitted, Alfried Gallant.
**[22:03] ---**
Lieutenant Junior Grade Duran,
what damages has the Beryl C sustained?!
**[22:06] ---**
The left arm got blown off,
but it looks like the cockpit's untouched.
**[22:10] ---**
Opening Hatch 2.
**[22:11] ---**
Come in for immediate landing.
**[22:13] ---**
Roger.
**[22:13] ---**
Hina was there.
**[22:13] ---**
Also, can you verify the Luxon's status?
**[22:16] ---**
I can't tell. I don't see
any external damage, though.
**[22:20] ---**
Hina, was it?
**[22:27] ---**
*With my heart, I call out*
**[22:31] ---**
*To the far side, mutually drawn*
**[22:35] ---**
*Forgetting even the reason I ache*
**[22:40] ---**
*Just for now, please*
**[22:44] ---**
*I know you*
**[22:49] ---**
*I'm looking for you*
**[22:53] ---**
* Softly pressing my lips to the bright*
* afterimage I can't keep from leaving*
**[23:02] ---**
* If hesitation is what gives way*
* to the slightest of hopes*
**[23:11] ---**
* To as many gentle mornings*
* as the times I have wandered*
**[23:20] ---**
* In the future that*
* leads back to that sky,*
**[23:24] ---**
* I want to save you,*
* I want to protect you*
**[23:29] ---**
*In the future that arrives at that dream*
**[23:33] ---**
*Wait for me*
**[23:36] ---**
*The love we'll surely find*
**[23:41] ---**
*I want you to reach out for it*
**[23:48] ---**
Next time on Buddy Complex.
**[23:48] ---**
"Next Time 'The Time for Resolve'"
**[23:51] ---**
"The Time for Resolve."
# 4 - The Time for Resolve
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GYE5Z94VR/buddy-complex)
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**[00:15] ---**
Do you get it?!
**[00:17] ---**
You almost got Lieutenant Conrad killed!
**[00:21] ---**
All right, careful now.
**[00:23] ---**
You'll be fine. You're not going to die.
**[00:26] ---**
Lee...
**[00:27] ---**
You opened your cockpit during combat
**[00:29] ---**
and on top of that, you tried to
make contact with an enemy pilot?!
**[00:32] ---**
What were you thinking?!
**[00:33] ---**
Hina was there...
**[00:38] ---**
Like hell it matters who was there!
**[00:40] ---**
Zogilia is the enemy!
**[00:42] ---**
Can't you even tell the difference
**[00:43] ---**
between who you should fight
and who you should protect?!
**[00:45] ---**
Hina isn't the enemy! She kept me safe!
**[00:48] ---**
You're still saying that?!
**[00:50] ---**
Leave it at that, Dio.
**[00:52] ---**
You're in rough shape from
the forcible Decoupling, right?
**[00:55] ---**
But...
**[00:56] ---**
It isn't like you to get so riled up
when the guy has no training.
**[00:59] ---**
I agree.
**[01:00] ---**
He may be able to pilot a Valiancer,
but he's still a civilian.
**[01:05] ---**
You can't go measuring him against
the pride and discipline of a soldier.
**[01:09] ---**
Understood.
**[01:11] ---**
Come on.
**[01:13] ---**
You saved me from having to go for a swim.
**[01:19] ---**
Lee!
**[01:28] ---**
There. Go on.
**[01:33] ---**
Aoba...
**[01:35] ---**
Lee...
**[01:37] ---**
Hey, you're okay.
**[01:41] ---**
Yes.
**[01:42] ---**
Um...
**[01:43] ---**
If you hadn't been there, we might've
wound up dead both of these times.
**[01:50] ---**
Ow...
**[01:51] ---**
Hey now, lay off the chatter.
**[01:54] ---**
You're our savior.
**[01:57] ---**
Don't let this get to you.
Because I'm fine.
**[02:02] ---**
I told you not to talk. Come on, off we go.
**[02:09] ---**
The Cygnus will now head for the Narashino
Base for repairs and for supplies.
**[02:15] ---**
All hands stay at Patrol Station One
and keep a strict watch.
**[02:24] ---**
"Convertible Interception Carrier, Trident"
**[02:27] ---**
Please wait, Madam Special Officer O'Keefe.
**[02:30] ---**
I cannot agree with Ensign
Ryazan being sent to the brig.
**[02:30] ---**
"The Time for Resolve"
**[02:34] ---**
It was only the enemy pilot who
recklessly sought contact with her
**[02:37] ---**
and I do not believe that was
due to any oversight on her part.
**[02:40] ---**
According to the records,
**[02:41] ---**
that enemy pilot called
out the ensign's name.
**[02:45] ---**
How do you explain this fact?
**[02:47] ---**
If it is a crime to have your
name known to the enemy,
**[02:51] ---**
then I am also guilty of this.
**[02:52] ---**
Her greatest crime
**[02:55] ---**
is that she has given
me cause to doubt her.
**[03:00] ---**
Commander.
**[03:01] ---**
There is no way that Ryazan...
that Hina is consorting with the enemy.
**[03:05] ---**
I know.
**[03:06] ---**
But sir, Hina is currently...
**[03:08] ---**
I will do everything I can to get
her released as soon as possible.
**[03:13] ---**
Yes, sir.
**[03:19] ---**
"Narashino Base"
**[03:27] ---**
Are you really sure it was all right to
grant him permission to disembark?
**[03:31] ---**
I don't see why not.
**[03:32] ---**
He said he's originally
from Narashino, right?
**[03:35] ---**
That is exactly why.
**[03:37] ---**
And it seems he was once acquainted
with a Zogilian pilot as well.
**[03:40] ---**
Considering the need to maintain secrecy...
**[03:41] ---**
It'll be fine. I'll be sure to put
him under surveillance as well.
**[03:54] ---**
Come on out, Mayuka.
**[03:57] ---**
I already know you're there.
**[04:00] ---**
I didn't know I'd been made.
**[04:02] ---**
You don't have to worry.
I won't run away or anything.
**[04:05] ---**
Oh, no. This is part of my duties.
**[04:07] ---**
Right. You're a soldier, too...
**[04:12] ---**
Oh...
**[04:14] ---**
Um, where are you trying to get to?
**[04:17] ---**
There's no point to me sneaking
around anymore, so I'll be your guide.
**[04:21] ---**
You don't need to do that.
I've lived in this town since birth.
**[04:25] ---**
Though, that was 70 years ago.
**[04:30] ---**
You're still sticking to that story?
**[04:32] ---**
Because, it's the truth.
**[04:34] ---**
If that's the case,
you'll need me even more.
**[04:37] ---**
Because the city has changed an awful lot.
**[04:40] ---**
Right...
**[04:41] ---**
That's right!
**[04:43] ---**
I wonder if Mayuka will be okay.
**[04:45] ---**
I never imagined that
she'd volunteer for the duty.
**[04:49] ---**
I was a little surprised that
her tastes ran in that direction.
**[04:52] ---**
Is that what this is about?
**[04:53] ---**
What? But...
**[04:55] ---**
I am going to be stepping out,
so I will leave the rest to you.
**[04:59] ---**
Yes, ma'am!
**[05:07] ---**
This... is my house?
**[05:10] ---**
Yes, if the address you gave me
is correct, this is definitely it.
**[05:15] ---**
This area was appropriated
in order to expand the Narashino Base,
**[05:20] ---**
but due to subsequent changes
in the military situation,
**[05:23] ---**
it seems the land has remained unused.
**[05:26] ---**
What happened to my family?
**[05:29] ---**
Tsubasa should at least...
**[05:31] ---**
Tsubasa?
**[05:32] ---**
My little sister. Even if this is
the world 74 years later, she'd still...
**[05:39] ---**
I guess she'd be 88 years old...
**[05:41] ---**
Unfortunately,
**[05:43] ---**
I don't see any data on a resident
by the name of Ms. Tsubasa Watase.
**[05:47] ---**
There are a lot of holes in the
database due to the chaos of war.
**[05:50] ---**
I'm sorry I can't be of any help.
**[05:54] ---**
How about we get going?
**[05:56] ---**
All right.
**[06:16] ---**
"For Pedestrians and Bicyclists"
**[06:23] ---**
It's like a completely different city.
**[06:25] ---**
I guess it's been 70 years.
**[06:29] ---**
"Seio Tokyo Metropolitan"
**[06:31] ---**
Thank you very much.
**[06:33] ---**
"Do Not Enter"
**[06:33] ---**
lt looks like this place has changed, too.
**[06:37] ---**
Oh, please wait for me!
**[06:57] ---**
Here.
What?
**[06:58] ---**
Grab on.
**[06:59] ---**
Oh, okay.
**[07:03] ---**
Up we go. Be careful there.
**[07:05] ---**
You okay?
**[07:06] ---**
Y-Yes.
**[07:10] ---**
Thank you very much.
**[07:20] ---**
The Second Far Eastern War
started eight years ago
**[07:22] ---**
and that seems to be when
it sustained this damage.
**[07:25] ---**
It looks like it's been closed ever since.
**[07:29] ---**
I see.
**[07:37] ---**
War...
**[07:39] ---**
That's...
**[07:40] ---**
Aoba?
**[07:52] ---**
So, I guess this place survived...
**[07:58] ---**
Do you know? That thing's
called a basketball.
**[08:02] ---**
Sure, I know. Because I used
to be on the basketball team.
**[08:05] ---**
What? Basketball's been
around since that long ago?
**[08:10] ---**
Long ago, huh?
**[08:11] ---**
Oh...
**[08:13] ---**
Oh, it's fine. It's the truth.
**[08:20] ---**
Yes!
**[08:21] ---**
Damn it! You got me!
**[08:22] ---**
You seriously show no mercy.
**[08:30] ---**
Yumihara...
**[08:32] ---**
It's Hina.
**[08:34] ---**
Hina?
**[08:36] ---**
Aoba, trust me.
**[08:40] ---**
Stay away!
**[08:41] ---**
You are a foe of Zogilia!
**[08:45] ---**
It was like she was a different person.
**[08:48] ---**
But that was definitely Hina.
**[08:54] ---**
Both my home and my school are gone.
**[08:56] ---**
What's a guy to do?
**[08:58] ---**
Aoba...
**[09:00] ---**
There's no swirl of light.
**[09:03] ---**
Swirl of light?
**[09:04] ---**
Yup. When we went into it,
there was this flash of light
**[09:08] ---**
and before I knew it, I
was here in this world.
**[09:11] ---**
But the thing isn't here.
**[09:14] ---**
I wonder why it was there...
**[09:22] ---**
Not many cars passing by, are there?
**[09:24] ---**
There should still be a decent number
of people left around here, though.
**[09:30] ---**
You're going to the future now.
**[09:33] ---**
Dio is waiting.
**[09:36] ---**
Mayuka.
**[09:37] ---**
Yes?
**[09:38] ---**
Zogilia is far, right?
**[09:40] ---**
What?
**[09:41] ---**
W-Well, yes, it's far. It's on the
other side of the ocean, after all.
**[09:46] ---**
Why do you ask?
**[09:47] ---**
I'm thinking that I have no choice
but to see Hina and ask her in person.
**[09:50] ---**
Hina? As in...
**[09:53] ---**
You're talking about going to Zogilia?!
**[09:55] ---**
Would that be impossible?
I guess it'd be dangerous?
**[09:57] ---**
Of course, it would!
**[09:59] ---**
Zogilia is an enemy nation!
**[10:01] ---**
Besides, they may have seen your face
during the previous engagement.
**[10:06] ---**
If they know your face, you may
be detained and killed, you know.
**[10:10] ---**
I see... You're right.
There's a war going on, after all.
**[10:15] ---**
Of course.
**[10:17] ---**
What the heck am I saying?
**[10:20] ---**
Aoba...
**[10:29] ---**
Thank you very much.
**[10:49] ---**
What's the matter?
**[10:52] ---**
Would it be all right if I didn't
pilot the Valiancer anymore?
**[10:56] ---**
What?
**[10:57] ---**
Right now, the Cygnus is the
only place I have to go back to,
**[11:02] ---**
but if I go back there,
**[11:04] ---**
that means I might be piloting
the Valiancer again, right?
**[11:08] ---**
But if I do,
**[11:11] ---**
I wonder if someone might get
hurt again because of me...
**[11:15] ---**
Like Lee...
**[11:17] ---**
That's not...
**[11:18] ---**
That's not something I...
**[11:25] ---**
Aoba.
**[11:27] ---**
I'm really glad that you appeared, Aoba.
**[11:32] ---**
What?
**[11:33] ---**
You had that Matching with Dio out of the
blue, and even though it was your first time,
**[11:37] ---**
the Emphatier Level of that
Coupling was unbelievable,
**[11:40] ---**
and you saved us. Twice.
**[11:45] ---**
You are...
**[11:47] ---**
I think that you... might be our savior!
**[11:53] ---**
Mayuka...
**[11:54] ---**
I feel wrong asking you this
when you're not a soldier,
**[12:00] ---**
but won't you please come with us?
**[12:02] ---**
Please pilot the Valiancer again.
**[12:04] ---**
We need you, Aoba!
**[12:08] ---**
We have no choice but
to send you into combat.
**[12:10] ---**
You saved me from having to go for a swim.
**[12:12] ---**
You're our savior.
**[12:22] ---**
All right.
**[12:24] ---**
Let's go back to the Cygnus.
**[12:28] ---**
Okay!
**[12:31] ---**
You want to continue to fight on the Luxon?
**[12:33] ---**
Yes.
**[12:35] ---**
I can't go back to the past, and both
my home and my family are gone,
**[12:38] ---**
but there are people here
who make me feel needed.
**[12:42] ---**
I'd like to help out here.
**[12:44] ---**
I see.
**[12:45] ---**
And besides...
**[12:47] ---**
By piloting the Luxon and fighting,
I may get to see Hina again.
**[12:51] ---**
I want to see her and ask her for
the truth about various things.
**[12:54] ---**
If she stands in your way as your enemy,
**[12:57] ---**
what do you intend to do?
**[12:59] ---**
I don't know.
**[13:00] ---**
Wha?!
**[13:01] ---**
But I will trust Hina!
**[13:05] ---**
Well, I think that's fine.
**[13:07] ---**
Captain?!
**[13:09] ---**
A bastard like that... No...
**[13:11] ---**
Nothing, sir.
**[13:13] ---**
"The boy from the past."
Kind of has a nice ring to it.
**[13:17] ---**
Elvira, as the Special Duty Officer
in charge of the Coupling System,
**[13:21] ---**
what's your opinion?
**[13:25] ---**
His Emphatier Level with
Dio is outstanding.
**[13:29] ---**
I believe there is no one else as
qualified as he to pilot the Luxon.
**[13:40] ---**
In that case, with regards
to your position...
**[13:44] ---**
Hey, that looks pretty good on you.
**[13:47] ---**
But to think... you, an ensign, huh?
**[13:50] ---**
Accurately speaking,
I'm called a reserve ensign
**[13:52] ---**
and it's a wartime something or other.
**[13:54] ---**
Um, forget about me. How are you?
**[13:57] ---**
Oh, nothing wrong with
my bones or my brain.
**[14:00] ---**
I'm told that I'll get better
with some bed rest.
**[14:02] ---**
Ruggedly built, aren't I?
**[14:04] ---**
I'm glad...
**[14:05] ---**
But!
**[14:07] ---**
Just don't forget this one thing.
**[14:08] ---**
I was able to come back alive
this time because I was lucky.
**[14:12] ---**
So don't ever do something like that again.
**[14:14] ---**
Like hell I'm ever going
through this again!
**[14:18] ---**
I won't! I am so sorry about this!
**[14:20] ---**
Also, no more forcibly
severing the Coupling.
**[14:24] ---**
What?
**[14:26] ---**
In order to dramatically improve
the abilities of the Linked Buddies,
**[14:29] ---**
the Coupling System makes your minds
resonate to amplify one another.
**[14:33] ---**
Forcibly severing that connection
is an incredibly dangerous act
**[14:36] ---**
that could very well cause
a mental breakdown!
**[14:42] ---**
Why don't you say something?
**[14:44] ---**
Elvira, are you saying this
out of concern for me?
**[14:47] ---**
Of course!
**[14:49] ---**
Honestly! You pilots!
**[14:52] ---**
I guess the newly appointed
ensign still can't understand
**[14:55] ---**
the workings of a woman's mind.
**[14:56] ---**
That includes you!
**[14:58] ---**
You're killing me!
**[14:58] ---**
I swear!
**[14:59] ---**
Ow, that hurt. You're totally killing me.
**[15:00] ---**
See if I care anymore!
**[15:04] ---**
I'm glad our classified
information was kept safe.
**[15:07] ---**
If it's thanks, please
say it to Aoba Watase.
**[15:10] ---**
He's the one who resolved to return.
**[15:13] ---**
That's true.
**[15:15] ---**
Thanks to that, we didn't have to
see a demonstration of your skills.
**[15:20] ---**
If he had plotted to make his escape,
would you have shot him?
**[15:24] ---**
You are the one who ordered me to do so.
**[15:27] ---**
Well, that's true, but...
**[15:29] ---**
How are things with the ship?
**[15:31] ---**
As we suspected, the left wing engine
nacelle will require serious repairs.
**[15:36] ---**
Oh, dear.
**[15:37] ---**
We have received word that the
Chitose Base could accommodate us.
**[15:40] ---**
Chitose, huh?
**[15:42] ---**
That's out of our way,
but there's no helping it.
**[15:44] ---**
Let's depart as soon as the
emergency repairs are done.
**[15:47] ---**
Roger that, sir.
**[16:06] ---**
What's going on?
**[16:08] ---**
We have received an SOS
from a civilian vessel.
**[16:10] ---**
Accident?
**[16:11] ---**
No, they say they are
surrounded by Zogilian forces.
**[16:14] ---**
Currently, for the enemy forces,
**[16:17] ---**
we have one Flamberg
and eight Kugels confirmed.
**[16:19] ---**
Dio, Aoba, can you hear me?
**[16:22] ---**
Yeah, I hear you.
**[16:24] ---**
Please conduct the Coupling just
before you enter combat airspace.
**[16:28] ---**
We will direct the timing on our end.
**[16:30] ---**
What? Why?
**[16:31] ---**
Because currently,
**[16:33] ---**
the two of you can only maintain the
Coupling for a maximum of 300 seconds.
**[16:36] ---**
Do you understand?
**[16:37] ---**
Got it.
**[16:39] ---**
Dio?
**[16:41] ---**
Roger.
**[16:48] ---**
I never imagined we'd run
across such big game out here.
**[16:52] ---**
Bogeys approaching, 8 o'clock!
**[16:55] ---**
"666th Independent Hybrid Battalion"
**[16:55] ---**
IDed as Confederation.
**[16:56] ---**
"Lieutenant Commander Bonner"
**[16:56] ---**
They're enemy Valiancers!
**[16:57] ---**
They're enemy Valiancers!
**[16:57] ---**
From the south?
**[16:59] ---**
Identify the units.
**[17:00] ---**
One is a Beryl, but the
remaining two are unknown.
**[17:03] ---**
New models?
**[17:05] ---**
Valiancer Team, prepare to intercept them.
**[17:07] ---**
You will shortly be arriving in
combat air space. Are you ready?
**[17:11] ---**
Yeah!
**[17:11] ---**
Commencing Coupling in 3, 2, 1...
**[17:16] ---**
Proposing!
**[17:17] ---**
Connective, Dio!
**[17:19] ---**
Acception!
**[17:24] ---**
Approach Ring, deployed!
**[17:26] ---**
Estifitguide, commencing navigation.
**[17:29] ---**
Approach Ring, accepted.
Commencing Linkage.
**[17:32] ---**
Forceveil, open.
**[17:34] ---**
Emphatier Level increasing...
**[17:36] ---**
No, it won't stabilize!
**[17:37] ---**
Wh-What's happening?!
**[17:39] ---**
Damn it!
**[17:40] ---**
What's going on?
**[17:42] ---**
Coupling requires the
two to be of one mind.
**[17:45] ---**
In order for that to happen,
they must trust and accept one another,
**[17:50] ---**
but there are many factors
that can hinder that process.
**[17:53] ---**
The greatest of which is emotion.
**[17:55] ---**
Did something happen?
**[17:57] ---**
I reported this to you, remember?
**[17:58] ---**
They're still at odds with each other?
**[18:00] ---**
It appears so.
**[18:03] ---**
Valiancer Team entering combat air space!
**[18:05] ---**
No choice. We'll go in as is.
**[18:08] ---**
All right, me, too.
**[18:10] ---**
For real?!
**[18:30] ---**
Enemy ship closing in on civilian vessel!
**[18:35] ---**
Don't tell me they plan to board?!
**[18:37] ---**
How barbaric...
**[18:39] ---**
Can we target only the Flamberg?!
**[18:40] ---**
Impossible!
**[18:41] ---**
Stuck together like that, the civilian
vessel will take damage, too!
**[18:52] ---**
That crest!
**[18:54] ---**
I see. No wonder the enemy
is so intent on getting them.
**[18:58] ---**
What do you think you're doing, Dio?!
**[19:00] ---**
You're crazy to be
charging in there by yourself!
**[19:05] ---**
Damn it!
**[19:06] ---**
Dio?
**[19:07] ---**
Aoba, can you hear me?
**[19:09] ---**
Oh, yes.
**[19:10] ---**
About that ship. It seems it's a ship
that belongs to Dio's family.
**[19:14] ---**
Dio's?! Then...
**[19:16] ---**
Yeah, there's a possibility
that Dio's family is on board.
**[19:20] ---**
No, they probably are.
**[19:22] ---**
Even within the Confederation,
the Weinbergs are an illustrious family.
**[19:25] ---**
Taking them hostage would open
the door to all kinds of negotiations.
**[19:28] ---**
That's what the enemy's after.
**[19:30] ---**
So that's it.
**[19:31] ---**
But even for Dio, they're not
an opponent he can handle alone.
**[19:37] ---**
I understand.
**[19:43] ---**
Dio, are you listening?
**[19:46] ---**
I may never get to see my family again.
**[19:49] ---**
Being in that position now,
**[19:50] ---**
I can really understand how
desperate you must feel!
**[19:53] ---**
Your family... people we should
protect are in there, right?!
**[19:57] ---**
Let me help you protect them!
**[19:59] ---**
Dio, let's conduct the
Coupling one more time!
**[20:03] ---**
Roger that.
**[20:06] ---**
Connective, Dio!
**[20:09] ---**
Acception.
**[20:12] ---**
Emphatier Level increasing!
**[20:14] ---**
Level has reached a point
where Coupling is possible!
**[20:20] ---**
Coupling, complete!
**[20:22] ---**
Ah, to be young.
**[20:34] ---**
Wow...
**[20:35] ---**
Impossible! What was
that movement just now?!
**[20:38] ---**
Civilian vessel is breaking away!
**[20:40] ---**
R-Retreat!
**[20:43] ---**
You're not getting away!
**[20:48] ---**
I'm coming, too!
**[20:54] ---**
Civilian vessel breaking away!
Moving outside blast range!
**[20:57] ---**
Fire!
**[21:10] ---**
Dio. Aoba. Can you hear me?
**[21:13] ---**
Oh, yes.
Yes, sir.
**[21:14] ---**
You guys stay out there to
escort the civilian vessel
**[21:17] ---**
and make port at Chitose.
**[21:20] ---**
I understand.
**[21:21] ---**
Roger.
**[21:28] ---**
So that's the Chitose Base.
**[21:36] ---**
That's...
**[21:40] ---**
"Chitose Base"
**[21:47] ---**
Hey, Dio.
**[21:53] ---**
Stand back! Have you forgotten
the face of Dio Weinberg?!
**[22:02] ---**
Dio!
**[22:03] ---**
Fiona! You're all right!
**[22:05] ---**
So that Valiancer really was you, Dio!
**[22:09] ---**
Yeah!
**[22:09] ---**
Younger sister?
**[22:11] ---**
What are you doing, Dio?
**[22:14] ---**
Father...
**[22:16] ---**
The things you ought to be doing
**[22:18] ---**
should not include frittering
your time away here.
**[22:25] ---**
His father?
**[22:27] ---**
*With my heart, I call out*
**[22:31] ---**
*To the far side, mutually drawn*
**[22:35] ---**
*Forgetting even the reason I ache*
**[22:40] ---**
*Just for now, please*
**[22:44] ---**
*I know you*
**[22:49] ---**
*I'm looking for you*
**[22:53] ---**
* Softly pressing my lips to the bright*
* afterimage I can't keep from leaving*
**[23:02] ---**
* If hesitation is what gives way*
* to the slightest of hopes*
**[23:11] ---**
* To as many gentle mornings*
* as the times I have wandered*
**[23:20] ---**
* In the future that*
* leads back to that sky,*
**[23:24] ---**
* I want to save you,*
* I want to protect you*
**[23:29] ---**
*In the future that arrives at that dream*
**[23:33] ---**
*Wait for me*
**[23:36] ---**
*The love we'll surely find*
**[23:41] ---**
*I want you to reach out for it*
**[23:48] ---**
Next time on Buddy Complex.
**[23:48] ---**
"Next Time 'Scars'"
**[23:48] ---**
"Scars."
# 5 - Scars
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**[00:17] ---**
"501st Mobile Company,
193rd U-boat Brigade"
**[00:34] ---**
"Special Officer O'Keefe"
**[00:35] ---**
I will now go over the offensive operation
**[00:38] ---**
"National Security Committee
Administration Bureau"
**[00:38] ---**
that we will shortly be
committing our forces to.
**[00:42] ---**
"Chitose Base"
**[00:57] ---**
The things you ought to be doing
**[00:59] ---**
should not include frittering
your time away here.
**[01:02] ---**
I wonder what that
was about yesterday.
**[01:05] ---**
Crewman Aoba Watase.
**[01:07] ---**
Crewman?
**[01:08] ---**
For Crewman Aoba Watase's
new recruit training today,
**[01:12] ---**
I, Ensign Saburota Ogisaka,
am to serve as head instructor.
**[01:16] ---**
I am his assistant,
Petty Officer Mayuka Nasu.
**[01:20] ---**
Huh?
**[01:25] ---**
*Beat your wings*
**[01:27] ---**
* See the light of hope*
* in the sky you have yet to see*
**[01:32] ---**
* And don't ever give in*
* to the weight of sorrow*
**[01:35] ---**
*Echo unto eternity, UNISONIA*
**[01:45] ---**
*That world you see before your eyes*
**[01:50] ---**
*What colors is it made up of?*
**[01:55] ---**
*Measure feeling match*
**[01:58] ---**
*The pain of loss isn't something*
**[02:01] ---**
*You want to get used to, and yet*
**[02:03] ---**
* Even on a night like this,*
* the stars are beautiful*
**[02:09] ---**
* Like a tarnished coin spilling*
* from the palm of your hand*
**[02:15] ---**
*Can't go back*
**[02:16] ---**
*Want to go home*
**[02:18] ---**
*The two, back-to-back*
**[02:21] ---**
*Break through*
**[02:23] ---**
* Turning unfading emotions*
* into a lasting bond*
**[02:28] ---**
*Like painting over a colorless world*
**[02:31] ---**
*Let this sympathy reach*
**[02:34] ---**
*Growing the wing*
**[02:35] ---**
* Let's build the*
* future that we envision*
**[02:40] ---**
*We can change even fate*
**[02:43] ---**
*Transcending time, UNISONIA*
**[02:52] ---**
"Scars"
**[02:53] ---**
This is the form requesting
use of the Chitose Base.
**[02:55] ---**
The form requesting
supplies, a list of goods,
**[02:58] ---**
"11th Aerial Expeditionary Strike Force"
**[02:58] ---**
"1st Navy Special Squadron Captain Kuramitsu"
**[02:58] ---**
and a combat report concerning
the earlier engagement.
**[03:01] ---**
Please look through them all and sign them.
**[03:03] ---**
Can't we just take care of this by
calling these extralegal measures?
**[03:07] ---**
No, we cannot.
**[03:08] ---**
We deal with top secret
classified material, after all.
**[03:12] ---**
Isn't that precisely why we need
to go through these formalities?
**[03:15] ---**
Your words leave me
no room for argument.
**[03:17] ---**
The repairs to the ship are
scheduled to be completed shortly.
**[03:20] ---**
I have also received word that
Lieutenant Conrad is recovering well.
**[03:24] ---**
I'm glad to hear that.
**[03:26] ---**
What are our two most essential
classified military pilots up to?
**[03:30] ---**
Shall I summon them?
**[03:31] ---**
Nope, just making small talk.
**[03:33] ---**
Ensign Weinberg is checking on
his Valiancer and doing physical training.
**[03:38] ---**
As for Ensign Watase, Ensign Ogisaka
and Petty Officer Nasu are...
**[03:41] ---**
Are they doing that?
**[03:43] ---**
Yes, that.
**[03:45] ---**
I wish you wouldn't make that face.
**[03:48] ---**
This is our tradition, after all.
**[03:50] ---**
The military is founded on the basis
**[03:52] ---**
of high morale,
the will to observe regulations,
**[03:54] ---**
and daily training in
preparation for extreme situations!
**[03:58] ---**
What is this?
**[03:59] ---**
It is exactly as he said.
We have the Captain's permission as well.
**[04:03] ---**
Oh, no, I mean...
**[04:04] ---**
We've got the Captain's
permission, too, Crewman Watase!
**[04:09] ---**
Now listen up!
**[04:10] ---**
Right now, you are less than human!
**[04:12] ---**
When you survive my training,
then and only then will you be a soldier!
**[04:16] ---**
Until then, the only words you will
speak are "Yes, sir!" and "No, sir!"
**[04:20] ---**
Got it, you piece of human trash?!
**[04:24] ---**
I'm leaving!
**[04:24] ---**
Oh, please wait!
**[04:26] ---**
Y-You see, you received
your commission just yesterday,
**[04:31] ---**
and you're still new to this ship,
**[04:32] ---**
so we thought to show you around the ship
**[04:34] ---**
in the form of new recruit training.
**[04:39] ---**
All right, fine.
**[04:40] ---**
When this training is over,
**[04:42] ---**
you will be formally
commissioned as a reserve ensign.
**[04:44] ---**
Now, arm yourself with your
weapons, Crewman Aoba Watase!
**[04:48] ---**
Weapons?
**[04:51] ---**
No laughing and
no crying will be permitted!
**[04:53] ---**
You are a cleaning machine!
**[04:55] ---**
If you can't clean,
your existence is worthless!
**[04:58] ---**
No slacking off! Are you making
a play for sympathy by acting tired?!
**[05:02] ---**
You defeatist piece of
trash heap scum!
**[05:05] ---**
If you want to hate me,
go ahead and hate me!
**[05:07] ---**
It'll fuel you and make you stronger!
**[05:09] ---**
But never forget this.
**[05:11] ---**
Orders from your
superior officers are absolute!
**[05:16] ---**
With that in mind,
**[05:17] ---**
you will place this hospital urinal
between Lieutenant Conrad's legs,
**[05:20] ---**
Crewman Watase.
**[05:21] ---**
Get real!
**[05:27] ---**
Ensign Ryazan, returning to duty, sir.
**[05:31] ---**
I have been told that I owe my return
**[05:33] ---**
to you putting in a good
word for me, Commander.
**[05:36] ---**
"Commander Gallant"
**[05:36] ---**
"501st Mobile Company, 193rd U-boat Brigade"
**[05:36] ---**
Thank you very much, sir.
**[05:37] ---**
lt's nothing you need to thank me for.
**[05:39] ---**
And besides, you don't seem satisfied.
**[05:42] ---**
It is not as if I have been
cleared of all suspicion, so...
**[05:47] ---**
Prove your innocence
through your own actions.
**[05:52] ---**
However, don't get too fired up
and lose sight of our mission objectives.
**[05:56] ---**
Yes, sir!
**[06:00] ---**
Hina.
**[06:02] ---**
Bizon!
**[06:03] ---**
Are you all right?
**[06:05] ---**
I'm all right.
**[06:06] ---**
It's just the Madam Special Officer
doing what she always does.
**[06:16] ---**
Seriously?
**[06:18] ---**
They expect me to clean
this huge area all by myself?!
**[06:21] ---**
Well, then, we have
other work to attend to.
**[06:25] ---**
When you're done, come to
the bridge. No goofing off now.
**[06:30] ---**
Like hell I'm doing this!
**[06:38] ---**
Isn't that...?
**[06:41] ---**
Those without authorization are
not allowed entry beyond this point.
**[06:44] ---**
The regulations forbid it.
**[06:46] ---**
But...
**[06:47] ---**
It's regulations, ma'am.
**[06:49] ---**
Mistress Fiona...
**[06:51] ---**
It's fine. Let's just leave.
**[06:59] ---**
Excuse me!
**[07:01] ---**
Hey, I thought I recognized you!
**[07:04] ---**
Oh, you're the one from...
**[07:06] ---**
Aoba Watase. I'm the Luxon's pilot.
**[07:09] ---**
You're Dio's...?
**[07:11] ---**
Younger sister.
My name is Fiona Weinberg.
**[07:14] ---**
Want me to go get him?
**[07:16] ---**
You came to see Dio, right?
**[07:18] ---**
No, it's fine.
**[07:20] ---**
After what our father said to him,
I don't think he'll want to see me.
**[07:25] ---**
What do you mean?
**[07:26] ---**
Dio feels guilty.
**[07:29] ---**
Towards me.
**[07:30] ---**
Or rather, towards our family.
**[07:33] ---**
Guilty?
**[07:34] ---**
Yes.
**[07:53] ---**
The enemy's numbers are too great!
**[07:55] ---**
7th Platoon, we're retreating!
**[07:56] ---**
Commander?!
**[07:57] ---**
They've breached our line of defense!
**[07:59] ---**
The 1st and 2nd Companies
have both retreated!
**[08:02] ---**
It will serve no purpose to
stay here any longer!
**[08:04] ---**
But...
**[08:05] ---**
Mom and Fiona are still there!
**[08:09] ---**
Let me go! I still...
**[08:21] ---**
Mom! Fiona!
**[08:28] ---**
Our mother died in that attack,
and my legs were also...
**[08:34] ---**
I had no idea...
**[08:36] ---**
The enemy's forces were massive.
**[08:38] ---**
So it's not anyone's fault.
**[08:41] ---**
But our father blamed Dio
**[08:44] ---**
and Dio has blamed himself for
what happened to our mother and me.
**[08:47] ---**
I'm worried about how
Dio is handling things.
**[08:53] ---**
All right. I understand.
**[08:55] ---**
What?
**[09:02] ---**
What's wrong?!
**[09:04] ---**
M-My stomach suddenly...
**[09:06] ---**
Owowowow...
**[09:07] ---**
Hang in there. I'll call the medic
team right away.
**[09:09] ---**
Th-That's okay.
I think it'll pass soon...
**[09:12] ---**
Probably...
**[09:14] ---**
Hey, are you really okay?
**[09:18] ---**
Maybe we'd better call
the medic team, after all?
**[09:21] ---**
I-I'll be okay.
**[09:23] ---**
But you...
**[09:26] ---**
Um, was it really okay?
**[09:29] ---**
Was what okay?
**[09:30] ---**
Won't you get yelled at for this later?
**[09:32] ---**
You don't need to get
permission just to see family.
**[09:35] ---**
Besides, if there's
someone you want to talk to,
**[09:37] ---**
I think you should talk to them
when you want to talk to them.
**[09:41] ---**
But where the heck is Dio anyway?
**[09:44] ---**
Maybe we can find
out if we go to the bridge.
**[09:50] ---**
"Man From the Past! Welcome!"
**[09:51] ---**
Welcome to the Cygnus!
**[09:53] ---**
Wait. Huh?
**[09:54] ---**
Who's this girl?
**[09:56] ---**
Oh, yeah. This is Dio's younger sister.
**[09:58] ---**
And her attendant.
**[10:00] ---**
Or actually...
**[10:00] ---**
"Man From the Past! Welcome!"
**[10:01] ---**
What is this?
**[10:03] ---**
This is a welcome party for you, Aoba.
**[10:05] ---**
We always do this
when we get someone new.
**[10:08] ---**
It's our tradition.
**[10:09] ---**
They pulled this on me on the last ship.
**[10:12] ---**
They called it new recruit training
and made me clean all over the ship.
**[10:15] ---**
Then, that was...
**[10:17] ---**
Don't hold it against me.
**[10:19] ---**
Everyone asked me to,
so I had no choice but to do it.
**[10:21] ---**
Had no choice?
**[10:22] ---**
More like, you were totally into it.
**[10:24] ---**
You watch too many movies.
**[10:25] ---**
Shut up!
**[10:27] ---**
Come on now, hurry up and put this on.
**[10:29] ---**
This is part of the tradition, after all.
**[10:33] ---**
Thank you very much, Aoba.
**[10:35] ---**
I'm very happy to know what
kind of people Dio is surrounded by.
**[10:42] ---**
Then, should we invite Dio, too?
**[10:44] ---**
When I told him it
was a welcome party for Aoba,
**[10:46] ---**
he declined to attend, though...
**[10:48] ---**
Hey! Wh-What's his problem?!
**[10:59] ---**
Yes. Training room.
**[11:02] ---**
Dio.
**[11:03] ---**
Fiona?! What are you doing here?!
**[11:05] ---**
I brought her here.
**[11:07] ---**
Why would you be...
**[11:08] ---**
Come to the bridge.
**[11:10] ---**
You don't have to
come to my welcome party,
**[11:12] ---**
but you could at
least talk to Fiona, right?
**[11:16] ---**
Dio?
**[11:26] ---**
"15th Aerial Strike Force"
**[11:35] ---**
"Pacific Fleet, Zogilian
National Defense Force"
**[11:40] ---**
Emergency dispatch
**[11:41] ---**
from our defensive force
deployed in the Otaru region.
**[11:43] ---**
Zogilian force invading from
across the Sea of Japan.
**[11:46] ---**
Currently engaged in hostilities.
**[11:47] ---**
They outnumber us nearly two-to-one.
**[11:50] ---**
Send reinforcements
from Misawa and Chitose.
**[11:52] ---**
Chitose, especially. I don't
care if we leave the base empty.
**[11:55] ---**
What shall we do about that one ship?
**[11:57] ---**
Mobilize it, of course.
**[11:58] ---**
"Vice Admiral Richardson, Pacific
Fleet Acting Commander"
**[11:58] ---**
What good are new models
**[12:01] ---**
if they're of no use at a time like this?
**[12:03] ---**
What?! They expect us to mobilize, too?!
**[12:06] ---**
Our engines aren't even at 100% yet!
**[12:08] ---**
Are they sure about this?
**[12:09] ---**
I thought this ship and the Coupling
System were supposed to be secrets.
**[12:12] ---**
But this is an order, right?
**[12:14] ---**
Yes, sir. Officially issued from
Joint Command Headquarters.
**[12:17] ---**
Then we have no choice.
**[12:19] ---**
The Cygnus will now depart for
Otaru with all due haste.
**[12:24] ---**
Our objective:
**[12:25] ---**
to bolster our defensive force,
who is currently engaged in hostilities,
**[12:27] ---**
and to halt the advance
of the invading enemy forces.
**[12:30] ---**
Valiancer Team,
quickly prepare to move out.
**[12:32] ---**
See ya out there.
**[12:32] ---**
All units, launch once we're afloat.
See ya out there.
**[12:35] ---**
Fly ahead, rendezvous
with our defensive force,
**[12:37] ---**
and hold the front until
the Cygnus arrives.
**[12:41] ---**
Dio.
**[12:42] ---**
Fiona! Why are you still there?!
**[12:44] ---**
I'm sorry. There was something
I wanted to say to you, no matter what.
**[12:49] ---**
What is it?
**[12:51] ---**
Dio, you did nothing wrong.
**[12:55] ---**
Even if someone were to blame you,
**[12:58] ---**
I forgive you.
**[13:01] ---**
Mistress Fiona, we must hurry.
**[13:03] ---**
See you later, Dio.
**[13:12] ---**
Ship 1, Ship 2, take off in order.
**[13:15] ---**
After taking off, proceed
at Battle Speed II and...
**[13:21] ---**
What's that?!
**[13:23] ---**
Multiple bogeys approaching from 6 o'clock!
**[13:25] ---**
They're Zogilian Valiancers!
**[13:27] ---**
You're not sending any
reinforcements to Otaru.
**[13:30] ---**
Our unit's mission
**[13:32] ---**
is to coordinate with our main force
invading from across the Sea of Japan
**[13:35] ---**
to launch a surprise attack on the
Chitose Base and take control of it.
**[13:39] ---**
Don't you so much as
scratch the civilian vessels.
**[13:42] ---**
Like hell I'd do anything so disgraceful!
**[13:44] ---**
With no reinforcements showing up,
**[13:46] ---**
I wonder how well their defensive
force will hold up against our attack.
**[13:49] ---**
Chitose is going down.
**[14:21] ---**
Nicely played, Alfried Gallant.
**[14:23] ---**
What would you like for us to do, Captain?
**[14:25] ---**
There is no choice here for us.
**[14:27] ---**
Let's take everything we've
got and tackle the enemy in front of us.
**[14:31] ---**
Propose this change
of plans to Base Command.
**[14:33] ---**
Cygnus, emergency takeoff.
**[14:39] ---**
All hands, Battle Station One.
**[14:41] ---**
Once we change course,
the Valiancer Team will...
**[14:43] ---**
Where's Fiona?!
**[14:44] ---**
We received word earlier that
she made it safely to the Weinbergs' ship.
**[14:50] ---**
I see.
**[14:52] ---**
Thank goodness.
**[14:52] ---**
You guys are totally in synch.
**[14:55] ---**
Bradyon, launching!
**[15:03] ---**
If Fiona and the rest
are safe, we can go all-out!
**[15:06] ---**
Idiot! Don't rush in!
**[15:13] ---**
Found you, white one!
**[15:16] ---**
That Valiancer!
**[15:17] ---**
Hina!
**[15:21] ---**
Aoba?!
**[15:22] ---**
That bastard...
**[15:27] ---**
Hina, don't go on your own!
It's too dangerous!
**[15:30] ---**
Let her continue
this course of action.
**[15:32] ---**
If she can capture
the new model now,
**[15:34] ---**
she will be cleared of all suspicion.
**[15:36] ---**
It is also in line with
our nation's strategic plans.
**[15:38] ---**
So she's still under suspicion?!
**[15:42] ---**
Because of you, I have
come under needless suspicion!
**[15:45] ---**
Hina, it's me! It's Aoba!
Don't you remember me?!
**[15:48] ---**
Death to the foes of Zogilia!
**[15:57] ---**
Dio...
**[15:59] ---**
Aoba...
**[16:02] ---**
That bastard...
**[16:04] ---**
Go on ahead if you're worried, Dio.
**[16:06] ---**
But right now, we have
to hold this front...
**[16:08] ---**
You're so not honest with yourself.
**[16:10] ---**
Dio, orders from the Captain.
**[16:12] ---**
Please conduct the Coupling
with Aoba to overturn this situation.
**[16:16] ---**
Hey, you heard her!
**[16:24] ---**
Don't get in their way!
**[16:25] ---**
You're all such insensitive bastards!
**[16:32] ---**
Multiple bogeys at 6 o'clock!
Deploying rear NECTTAR Curtain!
**[16:35] ---**
Engine output, stable!
Damage to ship, negligible!
**[16:38] ---**
Where's Dio?
**[16:39] ---**
He hasn't arrived within the
Seventh Code Coverage area yet!
**[16:44] ---**
What is it?!
**[16:45] ---**
Multiple bogeys approaching from behind!
**[16:47] ---**
Verifying the data!
**[16:48] ---**
It's a Zogilian force!
**[16:50] ---**
Curtana Class, 11! Flamberg
Class, 25! Numerous Valiancers!
**[16:53] ---**
Approximately five minutes
out from the Chitose Base!
**[16:57] ---**
So they broke through
our defensive force.
**[16:59] ---**
Hold on, sir!
**[17:00] ---**
The silhouette of the ship up ahead...
**[17:06] ---**
That's...!
**[17:17] ---**
Is that even fair?!
**[17:19] ---**
We'll take you out in one fell swoop.
**[17:25] ---**
Hey, is this...
**[17:27] ---**
One of those "caught between
a rock and a hard place" scenarios?!
**[17:30] ---**
Captain, it is impossible
to continue to defend the base!
**[17:33] ---**
Caught from the front and back,
even we cannot withstand this!
**[17:40] ---**
All right.
**[17:42] ---**
We'll abandon the Chitose Base.
**[17:44] ---**
The Cygnus will now
break away from this airspace.
**[17:46] ---**
But how?
**[17:48] ---**
If we use that, we just may...
**[17:50] ---**
The way those
two are now, it might work.
**[17:52] ---**
Captain!
**[17:55] ---**
Stop this, Hina! Stop!
**[17:57] ---**
You brought me here, remember?!
**[17:59] ---**
So why?!
**[18:00] ---**
You won't attack me?!
Make a fool of me, will you?!
**[18:07] ---**
Go down!
**[18:12] ---**
What?!
**[18:15] ---**
Dio!
**[18:22] ---**
I can't get close!
**[18:25] ---**
Wait a minute!
Hina's in that Valiancer!
**[18:28] ---**
That's enough already!
**[18:29] ---**
You seriously won't attack her?!
Are you an idiot?!
**[18:31] ---**
But Hina is...
**[18:32] ---**
Dio. Aoba. Listen.
**[18:34] ---**
The Cygnus is going to
abandon the Chitose Base
**[18:36] ---**
and break away from this airspace.
**[18:38] ---**
Hey, now, are you sure about that?
**[18:40] ---**
It seems we have approval
from Joint Command Headquarters.
**[18:42] ---**
Then let's get the hell outta here.
**[18:46] ---**
They're not coming after me?
**[18:48] ---**
But for this to work,
**[18:50] ---**
it's absolutely essential for the Buddies
**[18:51] ---**
to work as a unit and
to have Coupling alignment.
**[18:53] ---**
Not only that, but the Aeroscales
won't be able to withstand the load,
**[18:56] ---**
so we'll only be able to do this
once for a limited amount of time!
**[18:59] ---**
You heard her. There's no time
to be fixating on that Valiancer!
**[19:03] ---**
All right.
**[19:06] ---**
Then I'll bring the fight to you!
**[19:08] ---**
Connective, Dio!
**[19:09] ---**
Acception!
**[19:13] ---**
That's...!
**[19:15] ---**
Damn them!
**[19:18] ---**
They fled?!
**[19:20] ---**
How dare you mock me?!
**[19:26] ---**
They're too fast! I can't catch up!
**[19:48] ---**
The Luxon and the Bradyon have
arrived at their designated positions.
**[19:52] ---**
Thirty seconds, all right?
That's the limit.
**[19:54] ---**
Be careful, both of you.
**[19:56] ---**
Main engine has reached critical threshold!
**[19:58] ---**
Cygnus, advance straight ahead
behind the Luxon and the Bradyon.
**[20:01] ---**
Maximum battle speed!
**[20:06] ---**
Code T2Rise, activate!
**[20:08] ---**
Here we go!
**[20:09] ---**
Right!
**[20:17] ---**
They're coming straight at us?
**[20:19] ---**
A bold tactic.
**[20:20] ---**
What are they trying to do?
Let me test them.
**[20:26] ---**
What?!
**[20:27] ---**
They deflected it?!
**[20:45] ---**
Don't go crashing into me or anything!
**[20:47] ---**
I'm doing what I'm supposed to, aren't I?!
**[20:49] ---**
If you want me to back
you up, be honest and say so!
**[20:51] ---**
The hell kind of thing to say is that?!
**[20:57] ---**
It's time!
**[21:07] ---**
Fire!
**[21:28] ---**
What are you doing?!
After them! After them!
**[21:31] ---**
It's no use.
**[21:32] ---**
We've achieved our objective.
**[21:34] ---**
Moving to take control of the Chitose Base.
**[21:45] ---**
Father, Dio protected us, you know.
**[21:49] ---**
He's surrounded by
incredibly wonderful people.
**[21:57] ---**
How did you like
them engine handling skills?!
**[22:00] ---**
Irrelevant, right?
**[22:01] ---**
What?!
**[22:04] ---**
I'll leave the rest to you,
Lieutenant Commander.
**[22:06] ---**
Yes, sir.
**[22:11] ---**
I swear, talk about being reckless.
**[22:13] ---**
Get your butt down here already!
**[22:19] ---**
I appreciate what you did
for my sister, Aoba.
**[22:27] ---**
*With my heart, I call out*
**[22:31] ---**
*To the far side, mutually drawn*
**[22:35] ---**
*Forgetting even the reason I ache*
**[22:40] ---**
*Just for now, please*
**[22:44] ---**
*I know you*
**[22:49] ---**
*I'm looking for you*
**[22:53] ---**
* Softly pressing my lips to the bright*
* afterimage I can't keep from leaving*
**[23:02] ---**
* If hesitation is what gives way*
* to the slightest of hopes*
**[23:11] ---**
* To as many gentle mornings*
* as the times I have wandered*
**[23:20] ---**
* In the future that*
* leads back to that sky,*
**[23:24] ---**
* I want to save you,*
* I want to protect you*
**[23:29] ---**
*In the future that arrives at that dream*
**[23:33] ---**
*Wait for me*
**[23:36] ---**
*The love we'll surely find*
**[23:41] ---**
*I want you to reach out for it*
**[23:48] ---**
Next time on Buddy Complex.
**[23:48] ---**
"Next Time 'The Other Coupler'"
**[23:50] ---**
"The Other Coupler."
# 6 - The Other Coupler
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GYE5Z94VR/buddy-complex)
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**[00:13] ---**
Is the report that the Coupling
System was used in Chitose true?!
**[00:18] ---**
Wasn't development on that
supposed to have been banned?!
**[00:20] ---**
Where have they been
getting their funding from?!
**[00:22] ---**
After their repeated failures,
they still haven't had enough?!
**[00:26] ---**
We may be at war, but this is outrageous! Do
they think that they can get away with this?!
**[00:28] ---**
I demand a satisfactory explanation! It
happened at a good time, wouldn't you say?
**[00:31] ---**
To end the impasse
we've reached in this war,
**[00:33] ---**
we would've had to let our prize
fighter out of the cage eventually.
**[00:38] ---**
"Rear Admiral Green, 1st Navy
Special Squadron Commander"
**[00:38] ---**
No matter what the Council says,
**[00:40] ---**
there are millions who will support us.
**[00:44] ---**
You mean to get
the people on your side?
**[00:47] ---**
I've made the arrangements.
**[00:50] ---**
"Cygnus"
"Mobile Strike Aeroship"
**[00:54] ---**
Me?! In a swimsuit?!
**[00:56] ---**
Just saying that it's a possibility.
**[00:58] ---**
It seems they'll mainly be filming
the Luxon and the Bradyon,
**[01:02] ---**
but they said they want footage
from around the ship and of the crew.
**[01:05] ---**
Please hold on a second.
**[01:06] ---**
So, not only has the brass sent
us out into this airspace with no cover,
**[01:10] ---**
without even a flight formation,
to head for the Hawaii Base on our own,
**[01:14] ---**
but now they expect us
to pretend like we're actors?!
**[01:16] ---**
If that will get us off the hook,
it might be a small price to pay.
**[01:20] ---**
That may be true, but...
**[01:22] ---**
Carriage coming in for approach.
**[01:31] ---**
A promotional video...
**[01:33] ---**
They have time to be making
stuff like that during a war, Jarl?
**[01:36] ---**
They're making it because we're at war.
**[01:38] ---**
It's for things like recruiting
more troops and raising funds.
**[01:42] ---**
Well, it's all kinds of complicated.
**[01:44] ---**
Unlike what goes on in your head.
**[01:46] ---**
What's that supposed to mean?
**[01:48] ---**
More like, do you even get it?
**[01:50] ---**
If they're making a promotional
video on the Coupling System,
**[01:52] ---**
the stars of it will be Dio... and you.
**[01:55] ---**
What?! Me?!
**[01:56] ---**
Depending on how photogenic you are,
**[01:58] ---**
it just might decide whether
the Confederation wins or loses.
**[02:01] ---**
Whoa! Wait! This is too sudden!
**[02:04] ---**
Ooh! So these are the Luxon
and the Bradyon?! That's great!
**[02:08] ---**
Whoa! Ensign Weinberg!
**[02:11] ---**
The rumors that you're the
best-looking pilot in the Confederation
**[02:13] ---**
sure are well-earned!
**[02:15] ---**
And you're Aoba Watase?
**[02:17] ---**
I-I'm new, but I'll do my best to...
**[02:19] ---**
Sorry, but you won't
have any scenes in this video.
**[02:23] ---**
Huh?
**[02:24] ---**
Because we've brought in a Coupler
**[02:25] ---**
who'll be a good match
for Dio, visually speaking.
**[02:28] ---**
That's a Beryl Explorer.
**[02:31] ---**
Long time no see, Dio!
**[02:33] ---**
You're...!
**[02:35] ---**
Fromm!
**[02:36] ---**
Hey, how've you been?
**[02:40] ---**
Ensign Fromm Vantarhei,
**[02:41] ---**
here as a Coupler for the purpose
of shooting the promotional video.
**[02:44] ---**
Hey, I'm Jarl Duran.
**[02:47] ---**
Aoba, I'm sorry about this.
**[02:49] ---**
What?
**[02:50] ---**
I'll be borrowing your
Luxon just for a little while.
**[02:54] ---**
Since my Beryl can't conduct a Coupling.
**[02:57] ---**
R-Right.
**[02:58] ---**
I heard!
**[02:59] ---**
You put out a Nice Coupling
reading with Dio
**[03:01] ---**
without even any
preliminary adjustments?
**[03:04] ---**
That's amazing.
**[03:04] ---**
Y-You think so?
**[03:07] ---**
I want you to tell
me all about yourself later.
**[03:09] ---**
About me?
**[03:11] ---**
Yup. You've got an
unusual background, right?
**[03:13] ---**
Oh, uh... I guess.
**[03:20] ---**
*Beat your wings*
**[03:22] ---**
* See the light of hope*
* in the sky you have yet to see*
**[03:27] ---**
* And don't ever give in*
* to the weight of sorrow*
**[03:30] ---**
*Echo unto eternity, UNISONIA*
**[03:40] ---**
*That world you see before your eyes*
**[03:45] ---**
*What colors is it made up of?*
**[03:50] ---**
*Measure feeling match*
**[03:53] ---**
*The pain of loss isn't something*
**[03:55] ---**
*You want to get used to, and yet*
**[03:58] ---**
* Even on a night like this,*
* the stars are beautiful*
**[04:04] ---**
* Like a tarnished coin spilling*
* from the palm of your hand*
**[04:10] ---**
*Can't go back*
**[04:11] ---**
*Want to go home*
**[04:13] ---**
*The two, back-to-back*
**[04:16] ---**
*Break through*
**[04:18] ---**
* Turning unfading emotions*
* into a lasting bond*
**[04:23] ---**
*Like painting over a colorless world*
**[04:26] ---**
*Let this sympathy reach*
**[04:29] ---**
*Growing the wing*
**[04:30] ---**
* Let's build the*
* future that we envision*
**[04:35] ---**
*We can change even fate*
**[04:38] ---**
*Transcending time, UNISONIA*
**[04:47] ---**
Red doors lead to dangerous compartments.
**[04:47] ---**
"The Other Coupler"
**[04:49] ---**
doors are related to classified matters
**[04:52] ---**
and you will be prohibited
from entering either.
**[04:54] ---**
Incidentally, this aeroship...
**[04:56] ---**
What is it?
**[04:57] ---**
Just thinking that the
crew of the Cygnus is fortunate.
**[05:01] ---**
To be sharing their fate with
such an alluring superior officer.
**[05:05] ---**
Huh?
**[05:11] ---**
Now, this aeroship is
currently on active duty,
**[05:14] ---**
so we may become engaged
in battle at any time...
**[05:16] ---**
I couldn't have asked for better news!
**[05:18] ---**
It's in honest-to-goodness
life-and-death battles
**[05:21] ---**
that you always get the best footage!
**[05:24] ---**
I'm counting on you, Fromm!
And you, too, Dio!
**[05:26] ---**
I'm happy to get
to fly with you again.
**[05:28] ---**
Yeah, I suppose.
**[05:32] ---**
Did you hear?
**[05:33] ---**
The pilot that came to shoot the
Coupling System promotional video
**[05:36] ---**
is supposed to be super good-looking!
**[05:38] ---**
I heard!
**[05:38] ---**
Wow, I'm surprised.
**[05:39] ---**
I didn't think you were the sort
of girl who was interested in this stuff.
**[05:43] ---**
That's not true.
**[05:44] ---**
I'm curious to know things
like what his brainwaves are like
**[05:47] ---**
or what his Sympathy Specter
deviation levels are like.
**[05:51] ---**
I see.
**[05:53] ---**
Well, I guess you've got Aoba Watase.
**[05:56] ---**
What?
**[05:56] ---**
All right!
**[05:58] ---**
Let's go!
**[05:59] ---**
Huh? Go where?
**[06:02] ---**
To feast our eyes!
**[06:05] ---**
Before we start shooting, I want
to scout for locations on the aeroship.
**[06:08] ---**
Can we get authorization for that?
**[06:11] ---**
He's gorgeous!
**[06:13] ---**
Then I will have one
of our soldiers guide you...
**[06:15] ---**
Me!
**[06:16] ---**
Please allow me!
**[06:17] ---**
Petty Officer?!
**[06:18] ---**
I'm Anessa Rossetti!
**[06:20] ---**
Don't just think of me as your guide!
**[06:21] ---**
If there's anything
I can help with! Anything at all!
**[06:23] ---**
We're so lucky to have
such a sweet girl looking after us!
**[06:28] ---**
Honestly...
**[06:29] ---**
I know!
**[06:31] ---**
How about we ask her to serve
as the host in the promotional video?
**[06:34] ---**
Great idea, Fromm! Let's go with that!
**[06:37] ---**
Do you mind?
**[06:38] ---**
Of course not!
**[06:39] ---**
Dio...
**[06:39] ---**
It's settled then.
**[06:41] ---**
Oh, Dio.
**[06:42] ---**
I'll see you later.
**[06:46] ---**
Then, where would you like to go first?
**[06:48] ---**
How about the bridge?
**[06:53] ---**
You know him, right?
**[06:55] ---**
That guy... Fromm, was it?
**[06:58] ---**
Yeah.
**[06:59] ---**
What's he like?
**[07:04] ---**
Lake Louise?
**[07:06] ---**
A training facility for Couplers.
**[07:08] ---**
We were in the same class there.
**[07:10] ---**
I see.
**[07:12] ---**
On paper or in practice,
in simulators or in real Valiancers,
**[07:16] ---**
he made excellent marks.
**[07:18] ---**
I had no idea.
**[07:20] ---**
And he seems kind of like a good guy, too.
**[07:23] ---**
He's a likeable guy.
**[07:25] ---**
It seemed like he always had
people around keeping him company.
**[07:29] ---**
The exact opposite of you, huh?
**[07:32] ---**
It's a quality that's
unnecessary in a soldier.
**[07:35] ---**
But he was really good, right?
**[07:40] ---**
I have a problem with guys
who don't take things seriously.
**[07:44] ---**
And with busybodies, too.
**[07:48] ---**
You mean, me?!
**[07:50] ---**
At this point,
**[07:51] ---**
we've seen no sign of any units taking
off to pursue us from the Chitose Base.
**[07:55] ---**
Taking control of enemy
territory is no simple thing.
**[08:00] ---**
I'd say they've got their
hands full just getting things in order.
**[08:09] ---**
About the rendezvous at the Hawaii Base...
**[08:11] ---**
Wait, what are you doing?
**[08:13] ---**
N-Nothing, please don't mind me, sir.
**[08:16] ---**
"Chitose Base"
**[08:18] ---**
The Vajra?
**[08:19] ---**
Its outfitting and deployment
tests were completed just last week.
**[08:23] ---**
It will be arriving here shortly.
**[08:25] ---**
Such a cutting-edge aeroship is
to be assigned to my unit?
**[08:28] ---**
You fought bravely to bring down Chitose,
**[08:28] ---**
"Senior Admiral Konev"
**[08:28] ---**
"National Defense Force
Siberian Front Commander"
**[08:31] ---**
and National Defense Force Central
Command was extremely impressed.
**[08:34] ---**
They feel you've lived up to the
name you've made for yourself.
**[08:37] ---**
I am deeply awed to hear it.
**[08:39] ---**
Well, given your
distinguished military service,
**[08:41] ---**
I doubt even the Adminburo
will be complaining.
**[08:44] ---**
Be that as it may,
**[08:46] ---**
I cannot believe they will be
content to merely look on in envy.
**[08:50] ---**
If they would even just stay
out of our way, I would be grateful...
**[09:05] ---**
I wasn't able to clear their suspicions.
**[09:09] ---**
Why didn't that new model fight back?
**[09:13] ---**
It's me! It's Aoba Watase!
**[09:16] ---**
That pilot...
**[09:18] ---**
What in the world...?
**[09:21] ---**
Hina, you there?
**[09:23] ---**
Lasha?
**[09:27] ---**
Quick! Come!
**[09:30] ---**
Oh, good. They're still here.
**[09:34] ---**
Cute, aren't they?
**[09:37] ---**
Yeah.
**[09:40] ---**
Yeah, deer are great.
**[09:43] ---**
The fawn in particular would
taste great stewed in tomatoes.
**[09:46] ---**
What?!
**[09:47] ---**
All right. Then I guess I'll make
a quick trip back to borrow a rifle.
**[09:51] ---**
Oh! You can't do that, Tarjim!
That's not what this was about!
**[09:58] ---**
I'm glad to see you've cheered up.
**[10:04] ---**
Here goes the real take!
**[10:05] ---**
Ready!
**[10:08] ---**
Over here we have the
Coupling Valiancers, the Luxon
**[10:12] ---**
and the Bradyon.
**[10:14] ---**
Now, let's have a word with
Senior Chief Petty Officer Don Naher,
**[10:16] ---**
who is in charge of their maintenance.
**[10:20] ---**
Do you run into any problems with them
**[10:22] ---**
that you don't with normal Valiancers?
**[10:23] ---**
Let me think.
**[10:25] ---**
I'd say it's having
some happy-go-lucky idiots
**[10:27] ---**
pulling me away from important work.
**[10:30] ---**
I-I see.
**[10:32] ---**
I imagine you must put a lot
of care into the nutritional balance
**[10:36] ---**
of the meals for the
Coupling Valiancer pilots, right?
**[10:39] ---**
I like to think I put a
lot of care into every meal,
**[10:41] ---**
no matter which serviceman it's for.
**[10:43] ---**
O-Of course, you do!
**[10:46] ---**
Taking a little break
between all that hard work!
**[10:48] ---**
Recharging both mentally and
physically in the best possible spot!
**[10:52] ---**
That's great! That's great!
Love that sexiness!
**[10:55] ---**
You're awesome!
**[10:56] ---**
Oh, my!
**[10:59] ---**
This is absurd!
**[11:04] ---**
Then, the Protection Division?
**[11:05] ---**
lt will allow the people of Zogilia
**[11:06] ---**
"Undersecretary Malekov"
**[11:06] ---**
"National Security Committee
Administration Bureau"
**[11:07] ---**
to see the power of the Adminburo,
and at the same time, it will serve
**[11:10] ---**
to get the better of the military,
who have been growing big-headed.
**[11:13] ---**
Two birds with one stone.
**[11:14] ---**
Truly brilliant,
Undersecretary Gile Malekov.
**[11:16] ---**
All the data you sent
**[11:18] ---**
on the engagements between
Alfried Gallant's team and those bastards
**[11:22] ---**
has already been
forwarded to the Gáe Bulg.
**[11:25] ---**
When a successful
outcome has been achieved,
**[11:27] ---**
you, too, will receive what you are due.
**[11:30] ---**
Slava Zogilia.
**[11:39] ---**
"Gáe Bulg" "Protection
Division Tactical Assault Aeroship"
**[11:43] ---**
Now is the time to make manifest
**[11:45] ---**
the power of the Adminburo's
Protection Division!
**[11:48] ---**
The foolish Confederation's new weapon
**[11:50] ---**
is nothing to fear
before what we bring to bear!
**[11:53] ---**
We are ready to mobilize, Your Excellency!
**[11:55] ---**
Good.
**[11:56] ---**
"Dorzhiev, 1st Airborne Division Commander"
**[11:57] ---**
Then here we go!
**[11:58] ---**
Yes, sir!
**[12:15] ---**
Their Emphatier Level won't
stabilize at the prescribed value?
**[12:18] ---**
Could it be that this means Dio
and Fromm can't conduct a Coupling?
**[12:22] ---**
It's almost to the point
where we can't authorize it.
**[12:24] ---**
Please wait!
**[12:24] ---**
What?!
**[12:25] ---**
In the tests at Lake Louise,
**[12:27] ---**
I believe Fromm and I produced
a Nice Coupling reading.
**[12:30] ---**
Even among the Coupler candidates,
**[12:33] ---**
we were the most compatible, remember?
**[12:34] ---**
Dio, your Emphatier Waveform
has altered compared to before.
**[12:39] ---**
My waveform has altered?
**[12:42] ---**
That's right.
**[12:42] ---**
It's beginning to stray
from the standard waveform.
**[12:45] ---**
That can't be...
**[12:46] ---**
The cause?
**[12:47] ---**
There's no knowing at this point.
**[12:49] ---**
Could it be because he's
experienced active combat?
**[12:52] ---**
I can't deny that as a possibility.
**[12:55] ---**
I don't really care,
but what about the shoot?!
**[12:57] ---**
Um, I have a suggestion.
**[13:00] ---**
What is it?
**[13:03] ---**
One minute, you're a debuting actor,
and the next, you're a cameraman!
**[13:05] ---**
That's quite the promotion, boy!
**[13:08] ---**
Don't you give me that, too, Don.
**[13:10] ---**
Ensign Watase, report to
the testing room immediately.
**[13:13] ---**
I repeat. Ensign Watase...
**[13:27] ---**
This can't be!
**[13:29] ---**
Amazing... What's with these numbers?
**[13:32] ---**
Their first Coupling test ever,
and to get a Matching on this order...
**[13:35] ---**
Yes...
**[13:36] ---**
So, how is it? Will it work? Or won't it?
**[13:40] ---**
Elvira?
**[13:41] ---**
In terms of the numbers,
there are no problems.
**[13:46] ---**
I will authorize it.
**[13:46] ---**
In that case, we'll swap in Dio later
for the footage inside the cockpit.
**[13:51] ---**
We'll go with Aoba for
the Coupling with Fromm!
**[13:54] ---**
Huh? What?
**[13:56] ---**
Looking forward to it.
**[13:58] ---**
Looking forward to it?
**[14:00] ---**
What do you mean?
**[14:06] ---**
All Valiancers now taking off
are in the service of the PR Division.
**[14:10] ---**
I repeat, they are in
the service of the PR Division.
**[14:13] ---**
Furthermore, due to
the swapping in of a Coupler,
**[14:16] ---**
some changes have
been made to the roster of pilots.
**[14:18] ---**
Aboard the Luxon will
be Ensign Aoba Watase.
**[14:21] ---**
All right!
**[14:22] ---**
Aboard the Bradyon,
in place of Ensign Dio Weinberg,
**[14:25] ---**
will be Ensign Fromm Vanterhei.
**[14:27] ---**
This may be our first time as Buddies,
but I won't be going easy on you.
**[14:30] ---**
Sure! You can count on me!
**[14:32] ---**
Furthermore, Ensign Weinberg
will be piloting a Beryl.
**[14:38] ---**
Active combat experience, huh?
**[14:40] ---**
That impacted my Emphatier
Waveform? That's ridiculous...
**[14:44] ---**
If that's true, then why only me?
**[14:47] ---**
Cheer up, Dio.
**[14:49] ---**
Days like this happen.
**[14:51] ---**
Yeah, that's right! Nothing
to worry about, cameraman!
**[14:54] ---**
Don't get cocky.
**[15:00] ---**
That's great! That's great, Luxon!
**[15:02] ---**
I'm expecting some
slam-dunk footage here!
**[15:16] ---**
Then let's begin, Aoba.
**[15:18] ---**
Sure! Here goes!
**[15:21] ---**
Connective, Fromm!
**[15:23] ---**
Acception!
**[15:29] ---**
This is...
**[15:31] ---**
Even compared to when Aoba
and Dio conducted their first Coupling...
**[15:34] ---**
It is...
**[15:59] ---**
Aoba really is amazing.
**[16:01] ---**
What?
**[16:02] ---**
He can do that without even having
taken the Coupling training course.
**[16:12] ---**
Their speed is incredible.
**[16:23] ---**
If it had only been with me,
it might've passed for a fluke.
**[16:26] ---**
But to even pull it off with
Fromm on their first meeting...
**[16:30] ---**
What in the world is he...
**[16:36] ---**
Break!
**[16:42] ---**
More bogeys on radar!
Targets are Valiancers!
**[16:45] ---**
Send Lieutenant Junior
Grade Duran out immediately!
**[16:47] ---**
Yes, ma'am!
**[16:48] ---**
Are they from Chitose,
as we've been expecting?
**[16:50] ---**
There are no signs of
any troops taking off from there!
**[16:52] ---**
Then, where in the world...?
**[16:55] ---**
Visual coming in from the Beryl E!
**[16:57] ---**
Those Valiancers!
**[17:02] ---**
So that's the new model that brought
our Protection Division all this way.
**[17:07] ---**
We'll proceed as briefed.
**[17:08] ---**
Keep the Swan distracted!
**[17:10] ---**
Yes, sir!
**[17:15] ---**
Be careful!
**[17:16] ---**
They're an elite unit
from the Zogilian motherland!
**[17:19] ---**
For real?!
**[17:20] ---**
It looks like they're making a serious
bid to crush the Coupling System.
**[17:30] ---**
Damn it!
**[17:31] ---**
Taking these guys on with a Beryl is...
**[17:36] ---**
This is the protection corps!
**[17:38] ---**
We've really got targets on
our backs now, huh?!
**[17:40] ---**
Give me a break!
**[17:44] ---**
Damn it!
**[17:58] ---**
You're not getting away!
**[18:01] ---**
What?!
**[18:03] ---**
As might be expected of
a first-time Coupling,
**[18:05] ---**
they can't fight as well as they'd like...
**[18:07] ---**
Their Emphatier Level is staggering.
**[18:10] ---**
If they're still struggling, it means
they're up against tough opponents.
**[18:21] ---**
Damn it! That's the
protection corps for you.
**[18:23] ---**
I don't see any openings at all!
**[18:32] ---**
Floating mines!
**[18:33] ---**
What route should I take?!
**[18:36] ---**
I can't move well.
**[18:40] ---**
Damn it! I can't get out!
**[18:43] ---**
Oh, this way!
**[18:47] ---**
This is the only spot!
**[18:48] ---**
If I can keep going and break through...
**[18:59] ---**
Don't tell me...!
**[19:00] ---**
They're herding the Luxon?!
**[19:02] ---**
I can't go to his assist!
**[19:07] ---**
Aoba!
**[19:10] ---**
Damn it!
**[19:11] ---**
Hah! Beaten so easily!
**[19:19] ---**
Did you think you could win against
us with just speed and mobility?!
**[19:24] ---**
They plan to lure him into
the line of fire of their guns!
**[19:27] ---**
Not so fast!
**[19:36] ---**
What?!
**[19:49] ---**
What the hell?!
**[20:02] ---**
Thwarted by a mere mass-produced
Confederation Valiancer...
**[20:05] ---**
Shall we pursue?
**[20:06] ---**
Now that they've broken
our encircling formation,
**[20:08] ---**
we'll need to rethink our strategy.
**[20:14] ---**
Hostiles are pulling out!
**[20:16] ---**
That was great!
I got the most awesome footage!
**[20:19] ---**
Awesome! Just awesome!
**[20:22] ---**
I'd say we haven't
seen the last of them.
**[20:24] ---**
Yes, sir.
**[20:25] ---**
We will keep a sharp lookout.
**[20:37] ---**
Pulling off what you did in a Beryl?
**[20:40] ---**
You really are something else.
**[20:41] ---**
Thanks, man. You saved me.
**[20:43] ---**
You really are amazing.
**[20:47] ---**
It was my duty, after all.
**[20:49] ---**
There you are! There you are!
**[20:51] ---**
There's really nothing
more visually powerful
**[20:53] ---**
than combat when lives are at stake!
**[20:55] ---**
So, this will be our last scene.
**[21:06] ---**
Okay, are we ready?
**[21:08] ---**
Then here goes the real take!
**[21:11] ---**
Five... Four... Three...
**[21:17] ---**
Now, come join us and...
**[21:19] ---**
Let's conduct a Coupling!
**[21:22] ---**
Okay, that was good!
**[21:23] ---**
Good work, you two!
**[21:25] ---**
That was great!
**[21:27] ---**
Did we get enough material?
**[21:28] ---**
Then let's go back and
get right to editing.
**[21:34] ---**
As soon as we get resupplied
and maintenance is done,
**[21:36] ---**
we remobilize immediately.
**[21:37] ---**
Don't give them any time to rest!
**[21:40] ---**
Yes, sir!
**[21:42] ---**
I see.
**[21:43] ---**
It's no surprise that Alfried
Gallant had trouble with them.
**[21:46] ---**
But things won't go
the same again next time.
**[21:50] ---**
The Confederation's new Valiancer...
**[21:52] ---**
I see what to do now!
**[21:54] ---**
There they go.
**[21:57] ---**
I had no idea you had
it in you to look like that.
**[21:59] ---**
Look like what?
**[22:00] ---**
"Let's conduct a Coupling!"
**[22:03] ---**
It was my duty, after all.
**[22:05] ---**
He was a good guy, wasn't he?
**[22:08] ---**
It would've been nice if he could've
stayed a little longer, don't you think?
**[22:11] ---**
Not really.
**[22:12] ---**
Don't say that, Dio.
**[22:14] ---**
Huh?
**[22:15] ---**
But everyone on the film crew just...
**[22:18] ---**
Fromm, is it true that you're staying
on to be assigned to the Cygnus?!
**[22:23] ---**
What?!
**[22:24] ---**
Oh? Didn't I tell you?
**[22:27] ---**
*With my heart, I call out*
**[22:31] ---**
*To the far side, mutually drawn*
**[22:35] ---**
*Forgetting even the reason I ache*
**[22:40] ---**
*Just for now, please*
**[22:44] ---**
*I know you*
**[22:49] ---**
*I'm looking for you*
**[22:53] ---**
* Softly pressing my lips to the bright*
* afterimage I can't keep from leaving*
**[23:02] ---**
* If hesitation is what gives way*
* to the slightest of hopes*
**[23:11] ---**
* To as many gentle mornings*
* as the times I have wandered*
**[23:20] ---**
* In the future that*
* leads back to that sky,*
**[23:24] ---**
* I want to save you,*
* I want to protect you*
**[23:29] ---**
*In the future that arrives at that dream*
**[23:33] ---**
*Wait for me*
**[23:36] ---**
*The love we'll surely find*
**[23:41] ---**
*I want you to reach out for it*
**[23:48] ---**
Next time on Buddy Complex.
**[23:48] ---**
"Next Time 'Buddy'"
**[23:51] ---**
"Buddy."
# 7 - Buddy
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GYE5Z94VR/buddy-complex)
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**[00:14] ---**
"Lake Louise Special Operations School"
**[00:14] ---**
Men, this team that you've
all been assigned to
**[00:17] ---**
is one whose very existence
is being kept under wraps.
**[00:19] ---**
However, Valiancers
that utilize the Coupling theory
**[00:23] ---**
will be what decide the
outcome of our war with Zogilia.
**[00:26] ---**
Once Coupling Valiancers are deployed
to all Confederation tactical units,
**[00:31] ---**
you will be the ones who
make up the core of our military.
**[00:34] ---**
I want you to keep that in
mind as you undergo training.
**[00:39] ---**
I will now introduce
the members of our team.
**[00:41] ---**
First, the proponent
of this theory, Doctor Fermi.
**[00:48] ---**
Hey. You're Dio Weinberg?
**[00:50] ---**
Yeah.
**[00:52] ---**
I'm Fromm.
**[00:53] ---**
The two of us are apparently
the youngest on the team.
**[00:56] ---**
It's nice to meet you, Dio.
**[00:58] ---**
Nice to meet you.
**[01:01] ---**
Wow, so you volunteered for this
after being deployed on the front line.
**[01:05] ---**
Was there some reason for that?
**[01:13] ---**
Because Fiona...
**[01:14] ---**
What?
**[01:17] ---**
I just want the power
to defeat the enemy, that's all.
**[01:22] ---**
Dio, the front line, where were you?
**[01:24] ---**
The Omura Base.
**[01:26] ---**
Omura, as in...
**[01:28] ---**
The place that got bombed recently?!
**[01:37] ---**
*Beat your wings*
**[01:39] ---**
* See the light of hope*
* in the sky you have yet to see*
**[01:44] ---**
* And don't ever give in*
* to the weight of sorrow*
**[01:47] ---**
*Echo unto eternity, UNISONIA*
**[01:57] ---**
*That world you see before your eyes*
**[02:02] ---**
*What colors is it made up of?*
**[02:07] ---**
*Measure feeling match*
**[02:09] ---**
*The pain of loss isn't something*
**[02:12] ---**
*You want to get used to, and yet*
**[02:15] ---**
* Even on a night like this,*
* the stars are beautiful*
**[02:21] ---**
* Like a tarnished coin spilling*
* from the palm of your hand*
**[02:27] ---**
*Can't go back*
**[02:28] ---**
*Want to go home*
**[02:30] ---**
*The two, back-to-back*
**[02:33] ---**
*Break through*
**[02:35] ---**
* Turning unfading emotions*
* into a lasting bond*
**[02:40] ---**
*Like painting over a colorless world*
**[02:43] ---**
*Let this sympathy reach*
**[02:46] ---**
*Growing the wing*
**[02:47] ---**
* Let's build the*
* future that we envision*
**[02:52] ---**
*We can change even fate*
**[02:55] ---**
*Transcending time, UNISONIA*
**[03:04] ---**
"Cygnus" "Mobile Strike Aeroship"
**[03:05] ---**
Zogilia aired a piece of their own?
**[03:07] ---**
lt was by coincidence, but it seems
**[03:07] ---**
"Buddy"
**[03:09] ---**
the enemy had propaganda in mind as well.
**[03:11] ---**
The music is so grandiose.
**[03:14] ---**
At this rate, they'll be coming
at us again with all they've got.
**[03:17] ---**
"Captain Kuramitsu, 11th Aerial Expeditionary
Strike Force"
**[03:17] ---**
"1st Navy Special Squadron"
**[03:17] ---**
Quickly prepare to come under attack!
**[03:19] ---**
Roger!
**[03:20] ---**
"Chitose Base"
**[03:22] ---**
It's your fault for
pointing a gun at them.
**[03:25] ---**
How else was I supposed to bring them down?
**[03:27] ---**
I already told you, that wasn't the point!
**[03:34] ---**
It's here.
**[03:35] ---**
That's...
**[03:37] ---**
Our new ship.
**[03:43] ---**
"Gáe Bulg, Protection Division
Tactical Assault Aeroship"
**[03:45] ---**
The National Defense Force's new ship
**[03:47] ---**
mobilized from Chitose?
**[03:48] ---**
Ostensibly, the memo states
that their mission is to block
**[03:51] ---**
the gathering of Confederation
forces at the Hawaii Base,
**[03:54] ---**
but their flight path
runs through our battlefield.
**[03:56] ---**
"Dorzhiev, 1st Airborne Division Commander"
**[03:57] ---**
lt's already too late.
**[03:58] ---**
By the time they arrive,
**[04:00] ---**
the enemy's new ship will be
at the bottom of the ocean.
**[04:05] ---**
We can no longer detect the enemy!
**[04:06] ---**
What?
**[04:07] ---**
In rough seas, a low-flying
object can be hard to detect.
**[04:12] ---**
As if an aeroship that size
would disappear among the waves!
**[04:16] ---**
Search everywhere!
**[04:18] ---**
Detecting multiple objects...
**[04:20] ---**
Islands!
**[04:25] ---**
Enemy ship detected.
**[04:26] ---**
It's the Protective Division's
flagship, the Gáe Bulg.
**[04:29] ---**
That's an annoying
one to be finding out here.
**[04:31] ---**
Enemy ship has
commenced reconnoitering.
**[04:34] ---**
They probably lost track of us.
**[04:36] ---**
At full speed,
**[04:38] ---**
we're less than two hours away
from the Confederation Hawaii Base...
**[04:41] ---**
They said they don't have a single
ship to spare to send to our aid.
**[04:44] ---**
We'll just have to handle it on our own.
**[04:47] ---**
We are a freshly
commissioned state-of-the-art ship.
**[04:50] ---**
In electronic warfare,
**[04:52] ---**
it's certainly possible that we
stand a chance against the Gáe Bulg.
**[04:54] ---**
There's no need to evade them completely.
**[04:57] ---**
Time is on our side.
**[05:03] ---**
A storm?
**[05:04] ---**
With maximum wind speeds
of sixty meters per second.
**[05:07] ---**
At its current pace, it will reach
these waters in another hour.
**[05:11] ---**
Are you saying a mere storm
could bring down the Gáe Bulg?
**[05:14] ---**
No, sir.
**[05:15] ---**
However, at these wind speeds,
**[05:17] ---**
it won't be feasible to
send out the Valiancers.
**[05:19] ---**
I believe the enemy also hopes
to dodge an encounter with us.
**[05:24] ---**
Waste no time in finding the enemy ship!
**[05:28] ---**
Enemy ship, initiating a scan!
**[05:30] ---**
Electronic jamming!
**[05:31] ---**
Jamming signal!
**[05:38] ---**
Opting for an evasive
strategy at this point, huh?
**[05:41] ---**
Our captain might not look like much,
**[05:43] ---**
but starting with an assault aeroship,
he's commanded six vessels,
**[05:45] ---**
and he's apparently never been sunk.
**[05:47] ---**
Is bringing the fight
to them not an option?
**[05:50] ---**
There's a chance they've
stocked up on even more Valiancers
**[05:52] ---**
than what they sent out
last time, you know.
**[05:54] ---**
Gack.
**[05:55] ---**
In contrast,
we've got a grand total of four.
**[05:58] ---**
Five, just barely.
**[06:01] ---**
Lee!
**[06:02] ---**
Lieutenant!
**[06:03] ---**
Lee!
**[06:04] ---**
What? You've recovered from
those massive injuries already?
**[06:07] ---**
For injuries like that,
**[06:09] ---**
three days is normally more
than enough to make a full recovery,
**[06:11] ---**
Boy From the Past.
**[06:13] ---**
That's amazing...
**[06:14] ---**
Not "fully" recovered. "Nearly," right?
**[06:17] ---**
The doctor said I'm good,
so it's as good as a full recovery, right?
**[06:22] ---**
Lieutenant.
**[06:23] ---**
I've been assigned
to the Cygnus as of today.
**[06:26] ---**
Ensign Fromm Vantarhei, sir.
**[06:28] ---**
My apologies for not coming
by to offer my greetings earlier.
**[06:31] ---**
Yeah, I heard.
**[06:33] ---**
I'm Lee Conrad. Good to meet you.
**[06:35] ---**
Lee.
**[06:37] ---**
Oh, my bad.
**[06:40] ---**
Fromm. And Aoba and Dio.
**[06:42] ---**
Elvira wants to talk to you.
**[06:44] ---**
To us?
**[06:51] ---**
Forty minutes until
the storm zone reaches us.
**[06:54] ---**
360 degree active search signal!
**[06:56] ---**
Excellency!
**[06:57] ---**
That will completely
pinpoint the location of our ship!
**[07:01] ---**
The Gáe Bulg will not be
brought down by that puny Swan!
**[07:04] ---**
360 degree active search signal!
**[07:07] ---**
360 degree active search signal, incoming!
**[07:09] ---**
No regard for their own security, huh?
**[07:12] ---**
Neutralize the frequency, stat!
**[07:13] ---**
Neutralizing frequency!
**[07:16] ---**
Frequency neutralized.
**[07:21] ---**
This is the standard Emphatier
Waveform of a Coupling pilot.
**[07:25] ---**
What is this?
Is it basically brainwaves?
**[07:27] ---**
It's the waveform necessary
to conduct a Coupling.
**[07:31] ---**
The old Coupling System was flawed,
**[07:34] ---**
and you know that that
resulted in many casualties, right?
**[07:36] ---**
Yeah.
**[07:37] ---**
So, in order to avoid
repeating the same mistakes,
**[07:40] ---**
our team did two things.
**[07:44] ---**
One, the development
of the cutting-edge cockpit
**[07:47] ---**
that reduces signal delay
and degradation to nearly zero.
**[07:50] ---**
That cockpit...
**[07:52] ---**
Yes. Elvira developed that, you know.
**[07:55] ---**
Wow, I had no idea.
**[07:57] ---**
And two, assembling people with potential
**[08:00] ---**
and putting them through Coupler training.
**[08:02] ---**
Every Coupler has
undergone rigorous training
**[08:04] ---**
to conform each of their Emphatier
Waveforms to the standard waveform,
**[08:10] ---**
to the point that they're
all almost completely identical.
**[08:13] ---**
Thanks to that, our experiments
were met with success this time.
**[08:16] ---**
That's amazing...
**[08:18] ---**
Our greatest miscalculation was you, Aoba.
**[08:21] ---**
What?
**[08:21] ---**
Take a look at the next screen.
**[08:23] ---**
You appeared out of the blue,
**[08:25] ---**
synched with Couplers we had trained,
**[08:28] ---**
and conducted perfect Couplings.
This is your waveform.
**[08:33] ---**
Wow...
**[08:34] ---**
Aoba, your waveform matches up
perfectly with the standard waveform.
**[08:39] ---**
If it's a coincidence, the odds
of this happening are astronomical.
**[08:43] ---**
But this is where the problem starts.
**[08:45] ---**
This is Dio's latest waveform.
**[08:48] ---**
What?
**[08:49] ---**
It's off?
**[08:50] ---**
How?
**[08:52] ---**
During the several dozen
tests he conducted with Marcus,
**[08:55] ---**
he was nearly aligned
with the standard waveform,
**[08:57] ---**
but after only a
few Couplings with Aoba,
**[09:00] ---**
this is what happened to Dio's waveform.
**[09:03] ---**
So that's why he didn't
match up with me anymore.
**[09:06] ---**
You talk as if it's not your problem.
**[09:08] ---**
Don't tell me...
**[09:09] ---**
This is your waveform after the
one Coupling you conducted with Aoba.
**[09:15] ---**
Me, too?!
**[09:16] ---**
But with Aoba...
**[09:18] ---**
it works.
**[09:20] ---**
What?
**[09:21] ---**
It does.
**[09:23] ---**
On top of that, the Emphatier
Level that indicates your compatibility
**[09:26] ---**
is even gradually going up.
**[09:28] ---**
What's going on?
**[09:30] ---**
We don't know the details yet.
**[09:32] ---**
But the reason you
can conduct Couplings
**[09:34] ---**
even with a misaligned waveform
**[09:36] ---**
is because Aoba naturally
has the standard waveform,
**[09:39] ---**
which allows his Buddy
a greater margin of error.
**[09:42] ---**
Greater margin?
**[09:43] ---**
Meaning,
you can conduct Couplings,
**[09:45] ---**
even with someone who has an
extremely nonstandard waveform.
**[09:48] ---**
All the more true for a
Coupler who's received training.
**[09:51] ---**
But that permits your
Buddy's waveform to diverge.
**[09:55] ---**
What do you mean?
**[09:57] ---**
Is there some problem?
**[09:59] ---**
Ordinarily, a Buddy who diverges
too far from the standard waveform
**[10:02] ---**
ceases to be able to conduct Couplings.
**[10:05] ---**
In other words, at this rate,
**[10:07] ---**
Dio and Fromm may no longer be
able to conduct Couplings except with you.
**[10:14] ---**
The ultimate goal of the Coupling Project
**[10:16] ---**
is to have the trained
Couplers be able to Buddy up at will,
**[10:19] ---**
conduct Couplings,
and fight on every battlefield.
**[10:23] ---**
That's why you
underwent that rigorous training.
**[10:27] ---**
Conducting Couplings
with Aoba is a double-edged sword.
**[10:31] ---**
How much time will
it require to restore waveforms
**[10:34] ---**
that have grown grossly
misaligned due to those Couplings?
**[10:36] ---**
Or even if they can be
restored with retraining...
**[10:39] ---**
At this stage, we don't know.
**[10:41] ---**
Are Dio and I no longer capable
of conducting Couplings, after all?
**[10:45] ---**
We could give it another try.
**[10:48] ---**
Then...
**[10:51] ---**
They found us.
**[10:52] ---**
The enemy ship has detected us!
**[10:54] ---**
I guess we couldn't dodge them.
**[10:56] ---**
It's a state-of-the-art search signal!
**[10:58] ---**
It's not from the Gáe Bulg!
**[11:01] ---**
What's that?!
**[11:03] ---**
lt doesn't match any of the known ships!
**[11:04] ---**
"Vajra" "Heavy Attack Cruiser Aeroship"
**[11:05] ---**
lt's a new Zogilian ship!
**[11:08] ---**
Identified! The enemy is the Swan!
**[11:11] ---**
"Commander Gallant, Lieutenant
Commander Sirojanko"
**[11:11] ---**
This new aeroship certainly is something.
**[11:13] ---**
Kind of you to say so.
**[11:15] ---**
Valiancer Team ready to move out.
**[11:18] ---**
Commander.
**[11:19] ---**
Send this intel to His Excellency,
Commander Dorzhiev, immediately.
**[11:22] ---**
Commander!
**[11:27] ---**
Will the Protection Division
**[11:29] ---**
graciously accept information
from the National Defense Force?
**[11:33] ---**
It is a given that we inform
those who can be trusted.
**[11:37] ---**
"National Security Committee Administration
Bureau"
**[11:37] ---**
"Special Officer O'Keefe"
**[11:37] ---**
Or will you defy my instructions?
**[11:42] ---**
You must be joking,
Madam Special Officer.
**[11:46] ---**
Captain, transmit the location
of the Swan to the Gáe Bulg.
**[11:49] ---**
Also, let them know that we will
send reinforcements should they request it.
**[11:53] ---**
Roger that, sir.
**[11:54] ---**
Hina, don't be discouraged.
**[11:56] ---**
There will be other
chances to redeem your honor.
**[12:03] ---**
The National Defense Force
has its uses now and then.
**[12:06] ---**
Commander Gallant sends word
**[12:08] ---**
that if there is a request for
reinforcements, he will send them.
**[12:11] ---**
No need.
**[12:12] ---**
Tell him to pay close heed to how we fight!
**[12:15] ---**
Gáe Bulg, full speed ahead!
**[12:16] ---**
Full speed ahead!
Target, the new enemy ship!
**[12:37] ---**
The new enemy ship isn't approaching us.
**[12:40] ---**
The only one approaching is the Gáe Bulg?
**[12:42] ---**
Zogilia's National Defense
Force and Protection Division
**[12:44] ---**
have different chains of
command, after all...
**[12:47] ---**
If they don't both attack us at
the same time, we still have hope.
**[12:51] ---**
Prepare to intercept them!
**[12:52] ---**
Valiancer Team, prepare to launch!
**[12:57] ---**
We'll have to decide, here and now.
**[12:59] ---**
What?
**[12:59] ---**
On this sortie...
**[13:00] ---**
No, from now on,
who will Buddy up with whom.
**[13:05] ---**
All right.
**[13:06] ---**
Then let's decide on three.
**[13:14] ---**
All right.
**[13:19] ---**
One!
**[13:20] ---**
Two!
**[13:21] ---**
Three!
**[13:25] ---**
It's decided. You two will be Buddies.
**[13:27] ---**
Dio...
**[13:30] ---**
I don't want to waste all that training.
**[13:33] ---**
You understand, right, Dio?
**[13:35] ---**
I suppose.
**[13:39] ---**
Dio.
**[13:41] ---**
You're fine with this?
**[13:44] ---**
I'll definitely hate to
see the training go to waste.
**[13:47] ---**
But the uncertain Coupling with Fromm
**[13:50] ---**
isn't something we can
afford to test on the battlefield.
**[13:52] ---**
Dio...
**[13:56] ---**
It's not as if we know for sure
that retraining won't restore things.
**[14:00] ---**
Besides, putting you
in a Beryl all by yourself
**[14:02] ---**
won't add to our fighting strength.
**[14:04] ---**
What?
**[14:05] ---**
Let's go. There's no time.
**[14:06] ---**
H-Hey! Wait, Dio!
**[14:09] ---**
What did you mean by that?!
**[14:10] ---**
Exactly that!
**[14:15] ---**
The storm is close! Be careful!
**[14:17] ---**
Roger!
**[14:20] ---**
Rewrite the CMS for me.
**[14:22] ---**
It's done already.
**[14:24] ---**
I kind of had a feeling this would happen.
**[14:27] ---**
I see.
**[14:28] ---**
What are you talking about?
**[14:29] ---**
It doesn't matter!
**[14:31] ---**
Bradyon, ready to take off!
**[14:33] ---**
What the heck?
**[14:35] ---**
Luxon, ready!
**[14:40] ---**
The enemy's two new
Valiancers have been launched.
**[14:42] ---**
All right. Stick to the plan.
**[14:44] ---**
Yes, sir!
**[14:46] ---**
Alfried Gallant.
**[14:48] ---**
Watch from over there
while I emerge victorious!
**[14:50] ---**
Enemy Valiancer team
is splitting into two groups!
**[14:54] ---**
How many are out?
**[14:55] ---**
Five Valiancers to a group.
**[14:56] ---**
One group is headed for us.
**[14:58] ---**
We'll have to split up, too.
**[15:00] ---**
Valiancer Team, send one
group to defend the Cygnus.
**[15:03] ---**
If the Coupling Valiancers
are their target,
**[15:05] ---**
the group attacking the
Cygnus should be the diversion.
**[15:07] ---**
Let's switch it up and take care
of them with the Luxon and the Bradyon.
**[15:10] ---**
Roger!
**[15:12] ---**
We'll stop the rest!
**[15:14] ---**
Roger!
**[15:15] ---**
That's tough enough already, Lee!
**[15:17] ---**
No whining!
**[15:20] ---**
That white one isn't here.
**[15:22] ---**
Wait, their movement is strange!
**[15:25] ---**
Are they planning to get us?
**[15:27] ---**
Did we fall for their trap?!
**[15:28] ---**
Don't tell me...!
**[15:30] ---**
They're attacking us from both sides!
**[15:33] ---**
You see, when it comes to combat,
**[15:34] ---**
if you have plenty of troops in reserve,
**[15:36] ---**
you can handle things
in any number of ways!
**[15:38] ---**
Damn it!
**[15:39] ---**
Get them!
**[15:43] ---**
The Luxon and the Bradyon
are surrounded by ten enemy Valiancers!
**[15:46] ---**
The difference in fighting
strength is too great.
**[15:50] ---**
Damn it!
They got reinforcements!
**[15:52] ---**
So they think five is enough to handle us?!
**[15:54] ---**
They're actually right!
**[15:57] ---**
Their fighting strength
is something else.
**[15:59] ---**
I once heard that
Protection Division ships
**[16:01] ---**
receive more supplies
than is their allotted share.
**[16:04] ---**
I could not be more envious.
**[16:07] ---**
At this rate, it'll be
like last time all over again!
**[16:09] ---**
We're going to break
out before we get surrounded!
**[16:11] ---**
Got it!
**[16:12] ---**
Connective, Dio!
**[16:14] ---**
Acception!
**[16:19] ---**
I'll clear the way!
**[16:21] ---**
Watch out!
**[16:25] ---**
Damn.
**[16:26] ---**
So their encirclement is already complete?
**[16:28] ---**
It was like this the last time, too.
**[16:29] ---**
Before I even knew I was being surrounded,
**[16:32] ---**
they'd already limited where I could go.
**[16:37] ---**
We're blocked in every direction!
**[16:40] ---**
This way!
**[16:42] ---**
I can't get through!
**[16:46] ---**
Does it look like
I might be able to get through?
**[16:48] ---**
Can I make it?!
**[16:49] ---**
What?!
**[16:51] ---**
No good?!
**[16:53] ---**
During our earlier encounter,
**[16:55] ---**
I gained a good grasp
of how your Valiancers perform.
**[16:57] ---**
There will be absolutely
no escape for you this time!
**[16:59] ---**
Damn it!
**[17:01] ---**
We've got no more moves to make, Dio!
**[17:02] ---**
No, there's something we haven't tried.
**[17:05] ---**
You don't mean...
**[17:07] ---**
It'll be harder than last time.
**[17:08] ---**
And you! You better not slow me down!
**[17:16] ---**
If the two are going to move together,
capturing them will be easy.
**[17:18] ---**
Surround them!
**[17:19] ---**
Roger!
**[17:21] ---**
Valiancers are accelerating!
**[17:23] ---**
Their Emphatier Level is rising!
**[17:25] ---**
No, you can't be! Are you
two doing the Code T2Rise?!
**[17:29] ---**
Oh yes we can be!
**[17:30] ---**
Here we go!
**[17:38] ---**
What is that?
**[17:39] ---**
This reportedly happened
once in Chitose!
**[17:41] ---**
Keep them surrounded.
I will take them down.
**[17:47] ---**
We're going on the offensive, too!
**[17:49] ---**
Okay!
**[17:56] ---**
Amazing!
**[17:57] ---**
They're even going on the
attack while maintaining that state!
**[18:00] ---**
By conducting Couplings with Aoba,
**[18:03] ---**
Dio's waveform had
diverged from the standard,
**[18:05] ---**
but conversely,
his potential had increased.
**[18:07] ---**
Then...
**[18:08] ---**
Sometimes, a double-edged sword
can in fact grow stronger in battle.
**[18:14] ---**
The effectiveness of their Coupling
**[18:16] ---**
is on the verge of exceeding
anything I'd ever imagined!
**[18:25] ---**
H-How can they possibly do this?!
**[18:29] ---**
This is the end!
**[18:37] ---**
Impossible...
**[18:39] ---**
The plan was supposed
to have been perfect...
**[18:45] ---**
Your Excellency!
**[18:52] ---**
Time for us to strike back, too!
**[18:53] ---**
Wh-What are our orders?!
**[18:56] ---**
Retreat!
**[18:57] ---**
Hey, don't retreat without orders!
**[19:04] ---**
Decoupling.
**[19:09] ---**
Dio, let's go help them over there!
**[19:14] ---**
Disengagement of Coupling confirmed.
**[19:16] ---**
Valiancer Team, move out.
**[19:18] ---**
Roger.
**[19:19] ---**
Full speed ahead
with the storm at our back.
**[19:21] ---**
Assist the Protection Division.
**[19:23] ---**
Roger that, sir!
**[19:24] ---**
According to our military researcher,
**[19:27] ---**
once disengaged, it apparently
takes time to restore the Coupling.
**[19:31] ---**
I can't have them saying later
on that the National Defense Force
**[19:34] ---**
stood by and left the
Protection Division to its fate, after all.
**[19:36] ---**
Retreat! Make it quick!
**[19:42] ---**
Damn it!
**[19:43] ---**
Now they come?!
**[19:47] ---**
Don't get caught in the storm!
**[19:49] ---**
The National Defense Force's
new ship has begun to take action!
**[19:51] ---**
Prepare to intercept them!
**[19:53] ---**
No.
**[19:54] ---**
We're in no position
to take them on right now.
**[19:56] ---**
Let's flee into the storm.
**[19:58] ---**
Into the storm?!
**[20:00] ---**
Roger.
**[20:01] ---**
Bring the Valiancer Team in! Quickly!
**[20:07] ---**
I could've gone for a little longer.
**[20:09] ---**
You’ll get penned in by the fresh troops.
**[20:11] ---**
Move it! I want us back
on the ship in under two minutes!
**[20:13] ---**
Roger!
**[20:14] ---**
Dio! Aoba! You guys hurry, too!
**[20:16] ---**
Roger.
**[20:16] ---**
Dio, enemy units!
**[20:19] ---**
This time, for sure!
**[20:21] ---**
That's Hina's...!
**[20:22] ---**
It just had to be now!
**[20:32] ---**
So they mean to flee into the storm.
**[20:34] ---**
It appears the remnants
of the Protection Division
**[20:36] ---**
have completed their withdrawal.
**[20:38] ---**
Shall we reverse course in pursuit?
**[20:40] ---**
If they'd intercepted us head-on,
we could've taken them down, but...
**[20:44] ---**
We are here to be
a part of the next operation.
**[20:47] ---**
We should avoid incurring
unnecessary losses.
**[20:50] ---**
Roger that, sir.
**[20:51] ---**
Maintain course and keep us moving!
**[20:53] ---**
Valiancer Team, don't chase them too far.
**[20:55] ---**
Roger.
**[20:56] ---**
If we keep going, we'll end
up in the middle of the storm.
**[20:59] ---**
Return to base!
**[20:59] ---**
Roger!
**[21:03] ---**
Bizon, it's Hina!
**[21:04] ---**
What?
**[21:05] ---**
What are you doing, Hina?!
**[21:07] ---**
I'll follow orders.
After I've defeated the enemy!
**[21:10] ---**
Damn it.
**[21:11] ---**
I'm turning back!
**[21:12] ---**
Hina, come back!
**[21:13] ---**
That kind of thing is my job!
**[21:19] ---**
The three Beryls have landed.
**[21:21] ---**
What about the Luxon and the Bradyon?
**[21:23] ---**
We'll be bringing them in soon.
**[21:25] ---**
Bradyon, coming in for landing.
**[21:29] ---**
Luxon, coming in for landing.
**[21:34] ---**
Foe of Zogilia!
**[21:36] ---**
Hina, stop this!
**[21:39] ---**
What are you doing?! Fight back!
**[21:41] ---**
But this is Hina's...!
**[21:43] ---**
If only...
**[21:44] ---**
If only you had never appeared...!
**[21:46] ---**
Hina, retreat!
**[21:49] ---**
Damn it!
**[21:52] ---**
Hina!
**[21:56] ---**
Closing hatch!
**[21:58] ---**
It's too dangerous!
**[21:59] ---**
Is everyone back yet?!
**[22:01] ---**
It's the Luxon!
**[22:03] ---**
Stop this, Hina!
**[22:05] ---**
Let go!
**[22:13] ---**
Hurry, Aoba!
**[22:17] ---**
Watch out!
**[22:23] ---**
Aoba!
**[22:27] ---**
*With my heart, I call out*
**[22:31] ---**
*To the far side, mutually drawn*
**[22:35] ---**
*Forgetting even the reason I ache*
**[22:40] ---**
*Just for now, please*
**[22:44] ---**
*I know you*
**[22:49] ---**
*I'm looking for you*
**[22:53] ---**
* Softly pressing my lips to the bright*
* afterimage I can't keep from leaving*
**[23:02] ---**
* If hesitation is what gives way*
* to the slightest of hopes*
**[23:11] ---**
* To as many gentle mornings*
* as the times I have wandered*
**[23:20] ---**
* In the future that*
* leads back to that sky,*
**[23:24] ---**
* I want to save you,*
* I want to protect you*
**[23:29] ---**
*In the future that arrives at that dream*
**[23:33] ---**
*Wait for me*
**[23:36] ---**
*The love we'll surely find*
**[23:41] ---**
*I want you to reach out for it*
**[23:48] ---**
Next time on Buddy Complex.
**[23:48] ---**
"Next Time 'Stormy Night'"
**[23:51] ---**
"Stormy Night."
# 8 - Stormy Night
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GYE5Z94VR/buddy-complex)
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**[00:30] ---**
Wh-Where am I?!
**[00:32] ---**
I... What the heck happened?
**[00:37] ---**
No good, huh?
**[00:48] ---**
What is this place?
**[00:50] ---**
Did I crash?
**[01:07] ---**
So it's an island...
**[01:11] ---**
That's...
**[01:22] ---**
Hina!
**[01:27] ---**
I-It won't open...
**[01:30] ---**
Hina!
**[01:31] ---**
Hina! Wake up, Hina!
**[01:33] ---**
Hina!
**[01:35] ---**
Hina!
**[01:41] ---**
*Beat your wings*
**[01:43] ---**
* See the light of hope*
* in the sky you have yet to see*
**[01:48] ---**
* And don't ever give in*
* to the weight of sorrow*
**[01:51] ---**
*Echo unto eternity, UNISONIA*
**[02:01] ---**
*That world you see before your eyes*
**[02:06] ---**
*What colors is it made up of?*
**[02:11] ---**
*Measure feeling match*
**[02:14] ---**
*The pain of loss isn't something*
**[02:17] ---**
*You want to get used to, and yet*
**[02:19] ---**
* Even on a night like this,*
* the stars are beautiful*
**[02:25] ---**
* Like a tarnished coin spilling*
* from the palm of your hand*
**[02:31] ---**
*Can't go back*
**[02:32] ---**
*Want to go home*
**[02:34] ---**
*The two, back-to-back*
**[02:37] ---**
*Break through*
**[02:39] ---**
* Turning unfading emotions*
* into a lasting bond*
**[02:44] ---**
*Like painting over a colorless world*
**[02:47] ---**
*Let this sympathy reach*
**[02:50] ---**
*Growing the wing*
**[02:52] ---**
* Let's build the*
* future that we envision*
**[02:56] ---**
*We can change even fate*
**[02:59] ---**
*Transcending time, UNISONIA*
**[03:08] ---**
"Stormy Night"
**[03:13] ---**
"Vajra, Heavy Attack Cruiser Aeroship"
**[03:15] ---**
Why not?!
**[03:16] ---**
Why will you not approve a
search for Ensign Ryazan?!
**[03:20] ---**
What point is there in searching
for a low-level officer?
**[03:23] ---**
Wha?!
**[03:23] ---**
"Special Officer O'Keefe"
**[03:23] ---**
"National Security Committee Administration
Bureau"
**[03:24] ---**
Searching for His Excellency,
Commander Dorzhiev,
**[03:26] ---**
comes first.
**[03:27] ---**
And we do not even know
**[03:28] ---**
where he might have crashed.
**[03:30] ---**
Don't you mean,
"where he might've been shot down"?
**[03:34] ---**
Tarjim!
**[03:36] ---**
As soon as your Valiancers
are repaired and refueled,
**[03:38] ---**
you will rendezvous with
the search team immediately.
**[03:40] ---**
This is an order.
**[03:43] ---**
Yes, ma'am.
**[03:44] ---**
"Commander Gallant" "501st Mobile
Company, 193rd U-boat Brigade"
**[03:48] ---**
Still currying favor,
even with a dead man.
**[03:52] ---**
"Cygnus"
"Mobile Strike Aeroship"
**[03:56] ---**
No.
**[03:58] ---**
"Captain Kuramitsu"
**[03:58] ---**
No. I can't approve a search for Aoba.
**[04:01] ---**
Wh-Why not? There's
a storm going on out there.
**[04:04] ---**
If we don't find Aoba quickly...
**[04:07] ---**
That's why.
**[04:08] ---**
In addition to the bad weather,
**[04:10] ---**
while we've withdrawn from combat,
the enemy may still be nearby.
**[04:15] ---**
Neither the Cygnus nor our Valiancers
have come away unscathed.
**[04:18] ---**
With the situation as it stands,
**[04:19] ---**
I've based my decision on giving
top priority to the safety of the crew.
**[04:23] ---**
Am I wrong to do so, Lee?
**[04:26] ---**
No, sir.
**[04:26] ---**
But with Coupling Valiancers,
only when we have a set of two are they...
**[04:30] ---**
I've weighed all sides
to come to this decision.
**[04:35] ---**
The Cygnus will remain here
and maintain a state of alertness.
**[04:39] ---**
Once the storm
has passed, we'll start to move.
**[04:43] ---**
Just to be safe,
**[04:44] ---**
the Valiancer Team will be on standby,
ready to mobilize at any time.
**[04:47] ---**
Roger.
**[04:48] ---**
Roger.
**[04:49] ---**
Roger.
**[04:50] ---**
Roger that, sir.
**[04:59] ---**
I swear, he's like a child.
**[05:01] ---**
Sir?
**[05:02] ---**
The sort who feels motivated to
do something when he's told not to.
**[05:06] ---**
So true.
**[05:12] ---**
Thank goodness! You're awake!
**[05:17] ---**
Wh-Whoa, whoa! Hold on!
**[05:19] ---**
I haven't done anything.
**[05:20] ---**
I forced open your cockpit
because you were sinking
**[05:23] ---**
and I pulled you out to bring you...
**[05:27] ---**
Ow...
**[05:29] ---**
I'll take you prisoner
and prove my innocence!
**[05:37] ---**
I guess there's no
way to get it working like this.
**[05:40] ---**
And it looks like my
pack got washed away, too.
**[05:44] ---**
I'm going to check your Valiancer, too!
**[05:47] ---**
Sure.
**[05:52] ---**
So this is a Coupling Valiancer...
**[05:57] ---**
This one is no good, either...
**[05:58] ---**
I told you, didn't I?
**[06:00] ---**
That it looks like it's broken.
**[06:02] ---**
Well, that's all right.
**[06:03] ---**
I've got my hands on a survival pack now.
**[06:06] ---**
And at worst, if I could
just get the radio working...
**[06:09] ---**
I'll look into it more
closely once it gets light.
**[06:11] ---**
Are you lacking in a
sense of gratitude or what?
**[06:22] ---**
I finally get to see you,
and you treat me like this?
**[06:25] ---**
Save your breath, prisoner of war.
**[06:27] ---**
Put that down!
**[06:28] ---**
It's mine to begin with anyway!
**[06:30] ---**
Allowing your pack to be stolen from you?
You're a failure of a soldier.
**[06:32] ---**
I'm not a soldier!
**[06:34] ---**
Uh, I mean, I'm a soldier now, but...
**[06:37] ---**
What is a man like you
doing piloting a new Valiancer?
**[06:40] ---**
Because you brought me here.
**[06:42] ---**
Huh?
**[06:43] ---**
A Valiancer suddenly
came after me at school
**[06:47] ---**
and you saved me, remember?
**[06:51] ---**
Then, you said something
about how Dio was waiting
**[06:54] ---**
and you sent me over here.
**[06:57] ---**
To this world seventy years later...
**[07:01] ---**
To have a man like you
piloting their new Valiancer...
**[07:04] ---**
The Confederation must
be really short on able personnel.
**[07:08] ---**
You don't remember?
**[07:10] ---**
What are you talking about?
**[07:11] ---**
Hina!
**[07:12] ---**
Do not address me so familiarly by name!
**[07:14] ---**
And why do you even
know my name to begin with?!
**[07:17] ---**
Like I said, you were my classmate!
**[07:20] ---**
Your name is Hina Yumihara!
**[07:21] ---**
And when that Valiancer
attacked me, you saved me...
**[07:24] ---**
Enough.
**[07:25] ---**
Your classmate? Saved you?
**[07:27] ---**
Going on and on about
things that don't make sense!
**[07:30] ---**
Hina...
**[07:31] ---**
I will say this much.
**[07:33] ---**
No matter how much this
Hina of yours resembles me,
**[07:37] ---**
that Hina is not me.
**[07:39] ---**
My father is a lieutenant commander
of the Zogilian military,
**[07:42] ---**
assigned to the 101st
Independent Reconnaissance Brigade,
**[07:44] ---**
Viktor Ryazan.
**[07:46] ---**
At the age of ten, I was enrolled in
the 11th Military Preparatory Academy
**[07:50] ---**
and after graduation,
I served at the Lipetsk Base
**[07:53] ---**
and then was assigned
to the 501st Mobile Company.
**[07:55] ---**
It's impossible that
I ever had contact with you!
**[07:57] ---**
Quit joking around!
What the hell is this?!
**[07:59] ---**
All this time, I've been
trying to see you and...
**[08:05] ---**
Any further talk is unnecessary.
**[08:08] ---**
The military's Investigations Division
will interrogate you for the rest.
**[08:11] ---**
Hina...
**[08:23] ---**
Where are you going?
**[08:25] ---**
We're outside the storm zone.
It's possible to fly now.
**[08:28] ---**
That's not an answer.
**[08:30] ---**
We can't afford to lose the Luxon.
**[08:33] ---**
I figured you'd say that.
**[08:38] ---**
A message from the Captain.
**[08:41] ---**
He said that three hours is the limit.
**[08:44] ---**
And he wants you back after that.
**[08:48] ---**
Why are you following me?
**[08:50] ---**
It'd be a problem if you went missing, too.
**[08:53] ---**
Also, that saying about a mummy
collector becoming mummified.
**[08:56] ---**
Do whatever you want.
**[08:57] ---**
Oh, and one other message.
**[08:59] ---**
From Elvira.
**[09:01] ---**
She said that with a Coupling Machine
**[09:03] ---**
there just may be
something that could be done.
**[09:10] ---**
Have you still not found
His Excellency, Commander Dorzhiev?!
**[09:13] ---**
We are searching for him, but nothing yet.
**[09:15] ---**
There's no way we're going to find him.
**[09:17] ---**
One shot-down Valiancer
in this vast ocean...
**[09:20] ---**
Th-That's not true. Right, Bizon?
**[09:23] ---**
What?
**[09:24] ---**
Oh, no, no. I wasn't
talking about the Fortuna.
**[09:27] ---**
I mean, all she did is crash.
**[09:29] ---**
Yeah, you're right.
**[09:33] ---**
Watch your words, Tarjim.
**[09:35] ---**
Unlike us,
Bizon's known Hina since they were little.
**[09:39] ---**
All right.
**[09:41] ---**
Damn, what a pain.
**[10:00] ---**
I was in the same class with Hina,
but I'd barely spoken to her before.
**[10:07] ---**
The first time was
practically when she saved me.
**[10:10] ---**
I really don't know what
kind of girl she is
**[10:12] ---**
or even what sorts of things she likes.
**[10:15] ---**
When I saw her, I'd planned
on asking her all sorts of things.
**[10:19] ---**
Like, why did she save me?
**[10:22] ---**
Or like, how can
I get back to my own time?
**[10:26] ---**
But here I thought
I'd finally gotten to see her
**[10:29] ---**
and you tell me you're not her...
**[10:33] ---**
If that's true, then where did she go?
**[10:36] ---**
Is it really not possible for
me to return to my own time?
**[10:50] ---**
Hina?
**[10:51] ---**
Shh!
**[10:57] ---**
Wh-What's that?!
**[10:58] ---**
This is...!
**[11:12] ---**
What was that just now?!
**[11:13] ---**
What happened?!
**[11:15] ---**
We can't see anything if
you put out the fire!
**[11:17] ---**
Hurry!
**[11:18] ---**
Shut up! Quiet!
**[11:19] ---**
It wasn't me!
**[11:20] ---**
The wind blew it out!
**[11:22] ---**
I'm pretty sure the pack had...
**[11:26] ---**
It's been completely blocked.
**[11:31] ---**
For real?
**[11:32] ---**
It might actually have
been good that the fire went out.
**[11:35] ---**
Without air circulating,
we'll eventually run out of oxygen.
**[11:39] ---**
R-Right...
**[11:45] ---**
H-Hey...
**[11:48] ---**
What are you doing?
**[11:49] ---**
Can't you tell by looking?
I'm digging us out of the landslide!
**[11:52] ---**
I'll be damned if I die for nothing
in this place with the enemy!
**[11:56] ---**
Then I'll help, too.
**[11:59] ---**
It'll go faster if there's
two of us instead of one, right?
**[12:02] ---**
Come on, hurry up and cut this thing.
**[12:06] ---**
I'm not going to do anything,
especially not now.
**[12:08] ---**
I'm not interested in
dying in a place like this, either.
**[12:12] ---**
All right.
**[12:20] ---**
I can finally be more comfortable.
**[12:22] ---**
If you show even the slightest
sign of doing anything funny...
**[12:24] ---**
You don't have to worry.
I won't do anything like that.
**[12:59] ---**
Man... How much do we have
to dig until we reach the outside?
**[13:03] ---**
And no matter how much we dig,
it just keeps caving in from above.
**[13:14] ---**
All right! Break's over!
**[13:17] ---**
Don't underestimate a former
basketball player's endurance!
**[13:32] ---**
Th-The landslide came from above.
**[13:36] ---**
What?
**[13:37] ---**
There might be less
rubble closer to the ceiling.
**[13:43] ---**
Yeah, you're right.
**[14:20] ---**
Looks like it really is the
Protection Division Commander's Valiancer.
**[14:24] ---**
Well, it turned out
exactly like we expected.
**[14:29] ---**
Bizon?
**[14:30] ---**
Hey...
**[14:32] ---**
Hey, what the hell are you doing?!
**[14:35] ---**
The search is complete.
**[14:36] ---**
What did you say?!
**[14:38] ---**
Our company will take independent
action from here on out.
**[14:42] ---**
What are you...?!
**[14:42] ---**
The Division Commander's death
in action has been confirmed.
**[14:46] ---**
I believe we have fulfilled our mission.
**[14:49] ---**
In that case...
**[14:50] ---**
Roger that!
**[14:55] ---**
Hina...
**[15:01] ---**
Still can't find him?
**[15:03] ---**
It's going to have been three hours soon...
**[15:05] ---**
Could he have been carried away
by the ocean currents?
**[15:08] ---**
If that's the case, we'll have
to recalculate the search area.
**[15:11] ---**
If you're alive, at least get a
distress signal out already.
**[15:29] ---**
Damn it, this is bad. It's starting
to get harder to breathe.
**[15:33] ---**
At this rate...
**[15:38] ---**
Hina?!
**[15:40] ---**
Hina! Hey, hang in there!
**[15:43] ---**
Hina!
**[15:44] ---**
Don't tell me we're
running out of oxygen?!
**[16:00] ---**
I won't let you die!
**[16:01] ---**
I won't let you die, no matter what!
**[16:12] ---**
I... I...
**[16:17] ---**
What the?
**[16:32] ---**
Oh... it's over...
**[16:43] ---**
Am I... going to die?
**[16:48] ---**
Like this?
**[16:50] ---**
In this place?
**[17:04] ---**
You okay, Hina?!
**[17:08] ---**
I'll get you up on land soon.
**[17:20] ---**
You okay? You're not hurt anywhere?
**[17:24] ---**
I'm so glad. Seriously...
**[17:28] ---**
The pack's been washed away.
**[17:30] ---**
We really don't have anything now.
**[17:33] ---**
And the cave is under water, too.
**[17:36] ---**
I guess we have no choice
but to wait out the storm here.
**[17:39] ---**
If...
**[17:40] ---**
What?
**[17:41] ---**
If things stay this way...
**[17:52] ---**
What? No way...
**[17:57] ---**
ba. Ao...
**[17:59] ---**
can hear... respond...
**[18:02] ---**
Aoba!
**[18:03] ---**
Dio?!
**[18:04] ---**
All right. I got you.
**[18:06] ---**
Okay. I'm glad.
**[18:09] ---**
A message from Dio!
**[18:10] ---**
They found Aoba! He's all right!
**[18:15] ---**
I'm glad. I'm so glad.
**[18:21] ---**
Anyway, the Coupling System
sure is incredible.
**[18:25] ---**
By expanding the
Coupling range many times over,
**[18:29] ---**
you can do things like pinpoint
the location of a Buddy's Valiancer
**[18:31] ---**
and do a remote boot-up.
**[18:34] ---**
Just what's the principle behind all that?
**[18:36] ---**
It's love.
**[18:37] ---**
That's fantastic!
**[18:38] ---**
What? Love? Huh?
**[18:40] ---**
You dummy! They're joking, of course.
**[18:43] ---**
But this mode requires
a lot of energy, so...
**[18:48] ---**
I told them three hours,
but they didn't come back.
**[18:51] ---**
I will have a stern word with them later.
**[18:54] ---**
Go easy on them, okay?
**[18:56] ---**
We did find him, after all,
so all's well that ends well.
**[19:06] ---**
Report your status.
What's going on over there?
**[19:08] ---**
What about the enemy?
**[19:09] ---**
What? Th-The enemy...
**[19:11] ---**
Um, well...
**[19:15] ---**
What's wrong? Hurry up and report!
**[19:18] ---**
Um, so like...
**[19:20] ---**
Oh! The signal quality just suddenly...!
**[19:23] ---**
What?! Aoba!
**[19:26] ---**
Hina!
**[19:27] ---**
What's Zogilia's communication frequency?
**[19:29] ---**
What?
**[19:30] ---**
You're going to contact them!
To tell Zogilia that you're here!
**[19:46] ---**
Hina?!
**[19:47] ---**
Did you find her?
**[19:48] ---**
Yeah, I got her.
**[19:50] ---**
Let's hurry!
**[20:05] ---**
Beautiful, isn't it?
**[20:06] ---**
Even after seventy years,
I guess sunrise is still the same.
**[20:10] ---**
Why?
**[20:13] ---**
Why did you have me contact Zogilia?
**[20:16] ---**
Because otherwise, you'd have
become our prisoner of war, right?
**[20:20] ---**
I kind of didn't like
the idea of that, so...
**[20:24] ---**
You're a failure of a soldier.
**[20:26] ---**
Agreed.
**[20:33] ---**
Looks like Dio's here.
**[20:34] ---**
Someone will be
coming for you, too, right?
**[20:37] ---**
Yes.
**[20:38] ---**
Okay, then you'd
better hurry up and hide.
**[20:41] ---**
Y-You're right.
**[20:44] ---**
Oh, wait!
**[20:48] ---**
Here.
**[20:49] ---**
Huh? What is this?
**[20:51] ---**
It's your hairpin.
**[20:53] ---**
When we got sent over here,
it looks like you had it with you.
**[20:57] ---**
I'm returning it.
**[20:58] ---**
But I'm not that Hina...
**[21:00] ---**
I know that.
**[21:02] ---**
But I want you to have it.
**[21:07] ---**
Here.
**[21:10] ---**
Sorry, you can go now.
**[21:14] ---**
Uh, um...
**[21:15] ---**
I'm Aoba Watase.
**[21:17] ---**
I-I'm...
**[21:18] ---**
I know.
**[21:20] ---**
Bye.
**[21:31] ---**
Well, hello, hello.
Thanks for coming to get me!
**[21:33] ---**
You bastard. What the hell were
you thinking, cutting off communications?
**[21:37] ---**
It can't be helped, right?
**[21:38] ---**
The signal quality suddenly
took a turn for the worse.
**[21:41] ---**
A ridiculous story like that...
**[21:43] ---**
Well, it's okay, right?
**[21:44] ---**
Since we've got Aoba back,
safe and sound now.
**[21:47] ---**
Yeah, that's right.
**[21:48] ---**
I'll make it a problem later.
**[21:50] ---**
Oh? Are you in any position to talk, Dio?
**[21:53] ---**
Huh? What are you talking about?
**[21:55] ---**
The truth is...
**[21:56] ---**
Fromm, we're retrieving this
thing and getting out of here!
**[21:59] ---**
H-Hey! Wait! I'm not on board yet!
**[22:15] ---**
Aoba... Watase...
**[22:27] ---**
*With my heart, I call out*
**[22:31] ---**
*To the far side, mutually drawn*
**[22:35] ---**
*Forgetting even the reason I ache*
**[22:40] ---**
*Just for now, please*
**[22:44] ---**
*I know you*
**[22:49] ---**
*I'm looking for you*
**[22:53] ---**
* Softly pressing my lips to the bright*
* afterimage I can't keep from leaving*
**[23:02] ---**
* If hesitation is what gives way*
* to the slightest of hopes*
**[23:11] ---**
* To as many gentle mornings*
* as the times I have wandered*
**[23:20] ---**
* In the future that*
* leads back to that sky,*
**[23:24] ---**
* I want to save you,*
* I want to protect you*
**[23:29] ---**
*In the future that arrives at that dream*
**[23:33] ---**
*Wait for me*
**[23:36] ---**
*The love we'll surely find*
**[23:41] ---**
*I want you to reach out for it*
**[23:48] ---**
Next time on Buddy Complex.
**[23:48] ---**
"Next Time 'The Coupling System'"
**[23:51] ---**
"The Coupling System."
# 9 - The Coupling System
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GYE5Z94VR/buddy-complex)
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**[00:20] ---**
Do not address me
so familiarly by name!
**[00:23] ---**
No matter how much
this Hina of yours resembles me,
**[00:26] ---**
that Hina is not me.
**[00:28] ---**
And now, I have no other leads to go on.
**[00:32] ---**
I guess I really can't go back...
**[00:35] ---**
So I'm stuck living here...
**[00:45] ---**
*Beat your wings*
**[00:47] ---**
* See the light of hope*
* in the sky you have yet to see*
**[00:52] ---**
* And don't ever give in*
* to the weight of sorrow*
**[00:55] ---**
*Echo unto eternity, UNISONIA*
**[01:05] ---**
*That world you see before your eyes*
**[01:10] ---**
*What colors is it made up of?*
**[01:15] ---**
*Measure feeling match*
**[01:18] ---**
*The pain of loss isn't something*
**[01:21] ---**
*You want to get used to, and yet*
**[01:23] ---**
* Even on a night like this,*
* the stars are beautiful*
**[01:29] ---**
* Like a tarnished coin spilling*
* from the palm of your hand*
**[01:35] ---**
*Can't go back*
**[01:37] ---**
*Want to go home*
**[01:38] ---**
*The two, back-to-back*
**[01:41] ---**
*Break through*
**[01:43] ---**
* Turning unfading emotions*
* into a lasting bond*
**[01:48] ---**
*Like painting over a colorless world*
**[01:51] ---**
*Let this sympathy reach*
**[01:54] ---**
*Growing the wing*
**[01:56] ---**
* Let's build the*
* future that we envision*
**[02:00] ---**
*We can change even fate*
**[02:04] ---**
*Transcending time, UNISONIA*
**[02:12] ---**
"Cygnus"
"Mobile Strike Aeroship"
**[02:15] ---**
My apologies for not reporting
in sooner, Vice Admiral Richardson.
**[02:18] ---**
"Vice Admiral Richardson, Pacific
Fleet Acting Commander"
**[02:19] ---**
lt seems your arrival has
been greatly delayed.
**[02:22] ---**
I am sorry about that.
**[02:22] ---**
"Captain Kuramitsu"
**[02:23] ---**
We ran into Zogilia's
Protection Division along the way.
**[02:27] ---**
"The Coupling System"
**[02:27] ---**
I hear you almost lost one
of the new Valiancers.
**[02:30] ---**
Well, not that its loss would affect anything
**[02:31] ---**
in the big scheme of things.
**[02:35] ---**
Your ship is set to take
part in the upcoming operation.
**[02:38] ---**
Do your best not to get in the way.
**[02:41] ---**
Good morning, everybody!
**[02:44] ---**
Huh?
**[02:44] ---**
What?
**[02:45] ---**
D-Doctor!
**[02:48] ---**
Hold on a second!
**[02:49] ---**
This line is secure on the highest level!
How did you hack into it?!
**[02:52] ---**
Hmm, you're annoying.
**[02:55] ---**
Huh? Wha...
**[02:56] ---**
"Alessandro Fermi"
**[02:56] ---**
"Pacific Rim Neuroscience Research
Laboratory Director"
**[02:57] ---**
Now, let me start over.
**[02:59] ---**
How are you all doing,
**[03:00] ---**
my friends aboard the Cygnus?
**[03:02] ---**
You seem to be the
same as ever, Doctor Fermi.
**[03:06] ---**
Captain, there is a ship
approaching us from up ahead.
**[03:09] ---**
It's the Crane, the
Coupling System Research Ship.
**[03:11] ---**
"Crane, Coupling Research Ship"
**[03:23] ---**
Welcome to the Cygnus.
We are happy to have you aboard.
**[03:26] ---**
Yes, thank you,
beautiful young lady.
**[03:29] ---**
I'm glad to see you
looking so well, Doctor.
**[03:32] ---**
Thank you.
**[03:34] ---**
As for you... I think you may have
gained a few more fine wrinkles.
**[03:39] ---**
Oh, you and your jokes, Doctor.
**[03:41] ---**
Well, I know I only just got here, but...
**[03:43] ---**
A demonstration of the Coupling System?
**[03:46] ---**
That's right.
We'd like you to show Doctor Fermi.
**[03:50] ---**
Thanks in advance!
**[03:51] ---**
It seems he came all this
way from Hawaii just for this.
**[03:54] ---**
From Hawaii?
**[03:55] ---**
Yup. From Hawaii,
where we should be arriving soon.
**[04:00] ---**
I guess he couldn't wait.
**[04:02] ---**
But right now, the Luxon is...
**[04:04] ---**
Fortunately, the cockpit
block didn't take any damage.
**[04:07] ---**
It'll be possible to conduct a Coupling.
**[04:11] ---**
Huh. So that old man is the one
who developed the Coupling System.
**[04:16] ---**
Precisely speaking,
**[04:17] ---**
I should say that he's the
leader of the development team.
**[04:20] ---**
What do you mean?
**[04:21] ---**
Certainly, it was Doctor Fermi
who proposed the Coupling theory
**[04:26] ---**
and the core work of developing
the System was done at the Doctor's lab...
**[04:31] ---**
but what finally made the practical
application of his theory possible
**[04:34] ---**
was the cockpit designed by Elvira,
who was one of his staff members.
**[04:37] ---**
In other words,
that makes me the inept master
**[04:40] ---**
whose disciple snatched
away his moment of glory.
**[04:43] ---**
D-Doctor...
**[04:45] ---**
But that's fine, isn't it?
Being the inept master?
**[04:48] ---**
What?
**[04:49] ---**
You see, it was under Elvira's grandfather
**[04:52] ---**
that I began my research into the
fundamentals of the Coupling theory.
**[04:55] ---**
So I've known her since she was in diapers.
**[04:59] ---**
I had no idea!
**[05:01] ---**
It took her a long time
to get out of those diapers.
**[05:03] ---**
It had us worried.
**[05:04] ---**
Doctor!
**[05:07] ---**
But well...
**[05:08] ---**
Now, that little girl is a researcher
who is even more accomplished than me.
**[05:12] ---**
How could I possibly be unhappy about that?
**[05:15] ---**
That's a nice story.
**[05:17] ---**
Enough with the chitchat
already. We're going to begin!
**[05:20] ---**
Ensign Watase!
**[05:22] ---**
Connective, Dio.
**[05:23] ---**
Acception.
**[05:31] ---**
Emphatier Level, frequency is stable.
**[05:33] ---**
I had no idea the Enharmonic Controls
had been perfected to this degree.
**[05:37] ---**
Beautiful!
**[05:39] ---**
How long does the
Coupling connection last?
**[05:41] ---**
The operational limit of 300 seconds.
**[05:43] ---**
Perfect.
**[05:53] ---**
Ten seconds to Decoupling.
**[05:56] ---**
Five, four, three, two, one.
**[06:02] ---**
Decoupling.
**[06:07] ---**
The System and the
pilots are both in good shape.
**[06:11] ---**
Thanks for your cooperation, Aoba, Dio.
**[06:13] ---**
Sure.
**[06:25] ---**
What do you want?
**[06:26] ---**
Maybe you can fool some machines,
but don't think you can fool me.
**[06:30] ---**
What do you mean "fool"?
**[06:32] ---**
You saw her, didn't you?
**[06:33] ---**
On that island?
That woman named Hina or whatever?
**[06:36] ---**
No.
**[06:37] ---**
Don't tell me such a transparent lie.
**[06:39] ---**
It's true. That's not the Hina I know.
**[06:43] ---**
What?
**[06:44] ---**
Here... In this world seventy
years later, Hina doesn't exist.
**[06:50] ---**
The Hina Yumihara,
who saved me and sent me into the future,
**[06:53] ---**
doesn't exist anymore.
**[06:56] ---**
I see. So that's why you're depressed.
**[06:59] ---**
I'm not depressed!
**[07:00] ---**
You're a more sensitive
soul than I'd thought.
**[07:02] ---**
I told you, I'm not depressed!
**[07:05] ---**
This idea that an enemy pilot
would know how to return to the past...
**[07:09] ---**
Where did you get that from anyway?
**[07:11] ---**
Even a child in grade school
would come up with a better story.
**[07:14] ---**
It's not a story!
**[07:16] ---**
I thought it was the only possibility.
**[07:19] ---**
I won't bring it up anymore.
**[07:27] ---**
What was that for?!
**[07:28] ---**
Are your eyes open now?!
**[07:30] ---**
How long do you plan to
keep sniveling for?!
**[07:32] ---**
The Luxon's repairs will be done soon!
**[07:34] ---**
Even a guy like you is better than noth...
**[07:36] ---**
The one who's being sniveling...
**[07:38] ---**
is you, isn't it?!
**[07:43] ---**
Just until the other day,
you were brooding about your sister!
**[07:46] ---**
Quit lecturing me like
you're so much better than me!
**[07:48] ---**
Why you...
**[07:52] ---**
Fiona has nothing to do with this!
**[07:55] ---**
You sissy's boy!
**[07:57] ---**
Shut up, you dithering fool!
**[08:02] ---**
Hey...
**[08:04] ---**
You bastard!
**[08:06] ---**
What the hell are you guys doing?!
**[08:08] ---**
Stop this, Dio!
**[08:09] ---**
Let go!
**[08:11] ---**
Hey! I said, let go!
**[08:12] ---**
I'm going to make
this idiot come to his senses!
**[08:14] ---**
Shut up!
**[08:18] ---**
I swear! You guys are so much trouble!
**[08:20] ---**
You two took it a little too far.
**[08:23] ---**
The Captain said to
cool your heads here for a while.
**[08:26] ---**
See you later.
**[08:27] ---**
Don't make us needlessly
exert ourselves. Sheesh.
**[08:37] ---**
Ah, to be young!
**[08:41] ---**
Oh?
**[08:42] ---**
Where's Doctor Fermi?
**[08:43] ---**
What?
**[08:45] ---**
Oh, now that you mention it...
**[08:49] ---**
Hey, there you are.
**[08:51] ---**
I hear that you're from the past?
**[08:53] ---**
From seventy years ago, I think it was?
**[08:55] ---**
You don't believe me anyway, right?
**[08:59] ---**
How much do you know
about the Coupling System?
**[09:03] ---**
What?
**[09:04] ---**
You see, to put it simply,
**[09:07] ---**
that device connects
the two pilots' brains in parallel
**[09:10] ---**
to dramatically increase processing power.
**[09:14] ---**
I see...
**[09:16] ---**
The key to this system
**[09:18] ---**
lies in relaying the two
pilots' thoughts without any delays.
**[09:21] ---**
Because a time lag
would be a hindrance in combat.
**[09:25] ---**
Relay thoughts without delay?
**[09:27] ---**
You can explain all you want.
You're wasting your time on that idiot.
**[09:30] ---**
The hell was that, you bastard?!
**[09:32] ---**
Yes, yes.
**[09:34] ---**
Right now, you're only separated by a wall,
**[09:36] ---**
so you can make
yourself understood in this way.
**[09:38] ---**
But on the battlefield,
it doesn't work that way.
**[09:41] ---**
The farther apart
you are, the greater the lag.
**[09:45] ---**
Even delays on
the order of nanoseconds
**[09:47] ---**
are more than enough to prevent
you from conducting a Coupling.
**[09:51] ---**
Then, how are we
conducting these Couplings?
**[09:56] ---**
Time-leaps.
**[09:57] ---**
What?
**[09:58] ---**
If there's going to be a one
nanosecond lag in relaying thought,
**[10:03] ---**
you just send the thought
one nanosecond into the future
**[10:06] ---**
and the problem is solved.
**[10:07] ---**
Is that even possible?
**[10:09] ---**
On the level of elementary particles, yes.
**[10:12] ---**
On the level of elementary particles?
**[10:15] ---**
What's so funny?
**[10:16] ---**
It means that, in the end,
the Doctor doesn't believe your story.
**[10:21] ---**
What did you say?!
**[10:23] ---**
You two seem to get along great.
**[10:25] ---**
Most excellent.
**[10:35] ---**
The new line of Valiancers is to
be equipped with Coupling Systems?
**[10:38] ---**
You hadn't heard?
**[10:40] ---**
It's going to be rolling out soon.
**[10:41] ---**
It's just two Valiancers for now, though.
**[10:43] ---**
Those hard-headed higher-ups
must be relenting a little.
**[10:47] ---**
Then, are you saying we are close
to mass producing Coupling Valiancers?
**[10:51] ---**
Unfortunately, we're not to that point yet.
**[10:53] ---**
The Confederation doesn't put
much stock in Coupling Valiancers.
**[10:57] ---**
Even though the enemy
has become fixated on them.
**[10:59] ---**
Zogilia's got him, after all.
**[11:02] ---**
Him?
**[11:03] ---**
A researcher, who was
at the Doctor's lab, like me.
**[11:07] ---**
He defected to Zogilia.
**[11:09] ---**
He was excellent at what he did,
**[11:11] ---**
so he must have a good appreciation
for the importance of Elvira's cockpit.
**[11:16] ---**
What is the name of this man?
**[11:19] ---**
Hahn. His name is Wilhelm Hahn.
**[11:19] ---**
"Wilhelm Hahn"
**[11:19] ---**
"Zogilian Science Academy Test Laboratory 2 Director"
**[11:22] ---**
I do think this is quite
an interesting operation.
**[11:25] ---**
Very well.
**[11:27] ---**
I will speak to the
Adminburo on your behalf.
**[11:30] ---**
"Commander Gallant,
Special Officer O'Keefe"
**[11:30] ---**
Thank you very much, Doctor Hahn.
**[11:33] ---**
Please do your best,
Special Officer O'Keefe.
**[11:36] ---**
I imagine that for you,
this will be your final chance.
**[11:41] ---**
I wish you luck.
**[11:43] ---**
Slava Zogilia.
**[11:47] ---**
"Vajra"
"Heavy Attack Cruiser Aeroship"
**[11:50] ---**
And that sums up
our upcoming operation.
**[11:53] ---**
Any questions?
**[11:54] ---**
Commander, just who in
the world is this Doctor Hahn?
**[11:59] ---**
He's just some scientist and
he's got pull with the Adminburo?
**[12:03] ---**
That's not normal.
**[12:04] ---**
That is not for you to know.
**[12:10] ---**
I will be leading the team
and taking command today.
**[12:16] ---**
Are you fine with this, Commander?
**[12:18] ---**
We'll let her have her way.
**[12:27] ---**
It's me! It's Aoba Watase!
**[12:29] ---**
I'll get you up on land soon.
**[12:31] ---**
But I want you to have it.
**[12:33] ---**
Aoba Watase...
**[12:35] ---**
Hina.
**[12:38] ---**
Bizon!
**[12:39] ---**
What's wrong? You look upset.
**[12:42] ---**
Hina, how did you get
a signal out from that island?
**[12:48] ---**
Not much time should've passed
**[12:50] ---**
between us receiving the
signal and us arriving there.
**[12:53] ---**
But the Fortuna's cockpit was
already submerged in the ocean.
**[13:00] ---**
From the Confederation's new Valiancer.
**[13:01] ---**
What?! Then you...!
**[13:03] ---**
No!
**[13:04] ---**
I found it in the woods
**[13:06] ---**
and I was about to take
it when the enemy came back.
**[13:08] ---**
So I just sent out the
distress signal and...
**[13:11] ---**
I was unarmed, so...
**[13:13] ---**
But there were no Valiancers
on that island other than the Fortuna.
**[13:17] ---**
It left before you all arrived.
**[13:20] ---**
I was hiding,
so I didn't get a good look, though.
**[13:25] ---**
No one would ever believe that, right?
**[13:27] ---**
It's too convenient...
**[13:30] ---**
Have you told the Commander about this?
**[13:33] ---**
Not yet.
**[13:34] ---**
Tell the Commander.
**[13:36] ---**
It'll be troublesome if the
Special Officer notices it first.
**[13:40] ---**
You're right.
**[13:42] ---**
From now on,
you tell me these things earlier.
**[13:45] ---**
I'm the only one who'll believe
you no matter what happens.
**[13:48] ---**
All right.
**[13:51] ---**
Bizon.
**[13:52] ---**
There's no time.
Go get in your cockpit quick.
**[13:55] ---**
Roger.
**[14:11] ---**
Enemy Valiancers approaching.
**[14:13] ---**
Ten minutes until we make contact.
**[14:15] ---**
All hands, prepare for air-to-air combat!
**[14:19] ---**
Out! We're mobilizing!
**[14:30] ---**
Are we sure about this? Sending those
two out in their current state...
**[14:33] ---**
What? They've always been
like that from the very beginning.
**[14:37] ---**
That is true, but...
**[14:40] ---**
Here they come!
**[14:41] ---**
Spread out and prepare to engage!
**[14:43] ---**
Roger!
**[14:45] ---**
Don't think about anything
else right now. Focus on fighting.
**[14:48] ---**
I know that!
**[14:50] ---**
Aoba. Dio. Please commence
conducting the Coupling.
**[14:53] ---**
Roger.
**[14:54] ---**
Roger.
**[14:56] ---**
Connective, Dio.
**[14:57] ---**
Acception.
**[15:04] ---**
Multiple heat signatures approaching!
**[15:06] ---**
Zogilian cruise missiles!
**[15:08] ---**
Deploy the NECTTAR Curtain!
**[15:14] ---**
Damage?!
**[15:15] ---**
All negligible. No problems here.
**[15:17] ---**
Second wave, incoming!
**[15:19] ---**
The Cygnus won't have the
NECTTAR Curtain charged up in time!
**[15:22] ---**
All Valiancers, take down
as many missiles as you can!
**[15:24] ---**
Roger!
**[15:31] ---**
Wha?!
**[15:32] ---**
There's no time to be surprised!
**[15:38] ---**
I can do that, too!
**[15:41] ---**
Just wait, Hina!
**[15:43] ---**
I'll take this bastard down!
**[15:45] ---**
Aoba!
**[15:47] ---**
Wha?!
**[15:49] ---**
Commander, you will provide cover!
**[15:50] ---**
Roger that.
**[15:52] ---**
Him again!
**[15:55] ---**
Pesky bastard!
**[16:04] ---**
Damn it!
**[16:06] ---**
It got past me?!
**[16:10] ---**
The Crane has been hit!
**[16:11] ---**
Lieutenant Conrad, take down all
missiles headed for the Crane as well!
**[16:15] ---**
Don't allow any more to find their marks!
**[16:17] ---**
There's no need for that.
**[16:19] ---**
Doctor!
**[16:20] ---**
I'm all right.
**[16:22] ---**
And the Crane won't go down so easily.
**[16:24] ---**
But...
**[16:26] ---**
Elvira, I've taught you everything
I learned from your grandfather.
**[16:31] ---**
It's time you graduated.
**[16:34] ---**
I will entrust the future to you all.
**[16:39] ---**
Can we even take down this many?
**[16:41] ---**
Quit your whining!
Do what you're here to do!
**[16:48] ---**
Amazing...
**[16:49] ---**
That's Aoba and Dio for you.
**[16:52] ---**
Now, if we just wait for the enemy
to exhaust their supply of missiles...
**[16:55] ---**
Let's just hope they do
exhaust their supply.
**[17:01] ---**
More missiles still incoming!
**[17:03] ---**
Just how many did
they come prepared with?!
**[17:05] ---**
Don't tell me...!
**[17:06] ---**
They're aiming to wait
out the Coupling time limit.
**[17:09] ---**
According to Doctor Hahn's prediction,
**[17:12] ---**
those new Valiancers can maintain
their Coupling for 300 seconds.
**[17:15] ---**
In other words, they have 90 seconds left.
**[17:19] ---**
Once the Decoupling happens,
these numbers will be totally impossible.
**[17:23] ---**
Keep at it!
**[17:24] ---**
There's still more missiles coming!
**[17:26] ---**
But the Coupling is already...
**[17:28] ---**
Don't give up, Aoba Watase!
**[17:31] ---**
Didn't you resolve to
remain on the Cygnus and fight?!
**[17:35] ---**
You're an idiot!
And a hopeless one at that!
**[17:38] ---**
But once you've made up your mind,
you stay the course, no matter what!
**[17:41] ---**
Isn't that the kind of man that you are?!
**[17:44] ---**
Right now, the Cygnus
is in need of strength!
**[17:46] ---**
And you have the strength
to meet that need!
**[17:50] ---**
Fight! For the people who need you!
**[17:55] ---**
Hurry up, Snivels!
**[18:00] ---**
Oh, no! I let one slip by!
**[18:05] ---**
I told you that I'm not sniveling!
**[18:07] ---**
What?!
**[18:08] ---**
Quit lecturing me like you're so
much better than me, you sissy's boy!
**[18:13] ---**
What was that?! You're the
one who was down in the dumps!
**[18:18] ---**
I was just copying you!
**[18:20] ---**
Bastard! Of all the things
you could've said...
**[18:23] ---**
Amazing!
**[18:24] ---**
Those two are arguing and still...
**[18:27] ---**
All those missiles...
**[18:28] ---**
But the time is already...
**[18:31] ---**
Ten seconds until the Decoupling.
**[18:33] ---**
Nine...
**[18:34] ---**
Eight...
**[18:35] ---**
Seven...
**[18:36] ---**
Six...
**[18:37] ---**
Five...
**[18:38] ---**
Four...
**[18:39] ---**
Three...
**[18:40] ---**
Two...
**[18:41] ---**
One...
**[18:42] ---**
It's time.
**[18:48] ---**
Not yet!
**[18:53] ---**
The Coupling is being maintained!
**[18:55] ---**
What?!
**[18:58] ---**
Impossible...
**[18:59] ---**
Madam Special Officer, your orders.
**[19:02] ---**
K-Keep firing those missiles!
**[19:05] ---**
There may have been a miscalculation,
**[19:06] ---**
but the Coupling can't last for long!
**[19:09] ---**
Fire! Fire! Fire!
**[19:16] ---**
We're going out there, too!
**[19:17] ---**
Roger!
**[19:18] ---**
The duration of the Coupling has
exceeded 400 seconds!
**[19:21] ---**
I can't believe it...
**[19:30] ---**
All missiles have been intercepted!
**[19:32] ---**
Th-That can't be...
**[19:50] ---**
E-Eject!
**[19:53] ---**
Open! Open up!
**[19:56] ---**
I am not someone who
deserves to die in such a place!
**[19:59] ---**
N-No!
**[20:03] ---**
Are you all right, Madam Special Officer?
**[20:05] ---**
That voice... Alfried Gallant...
**[20:08] ---**
The operation has ended in failure.
All Valiancers returning to base.
**[20:12] ---**
Y-Yes...
**[20:24] ---**
Hey, Snivels, you're
good when you put your mind to it.
**[20:27] ---**
Shut up, sissy's boy.
**[20:31] ---**
The duration of this
Coupling was 429 seconds.
**[20:35] ---**
I can't believe it.
**[20:37] ---**
For it to greatly
exceed even our ideal value...
**[20:40] ---**
Elvira.
**[20:41] ---**
Yes?
**[20:42] ---**
That was a Nice Coupling.
**[20:45] ---**
Doctor?!
**[20:46] ---**
Doctor!
**[20:47] ---**
What's wrong, Doctor?!
**[20:50] ---**
Doctor!
**[21:19] ---**
Unfortunately, it seems the
Adminburo has decided to replace you.
**[21:24] ---**
You should receive word soon.
**[21:27] ---**
Why not take it easy until then?
**[21:29] ---**
I envy you!
**[21:31] ---**
I don't even know how many years
it's been since I've had time off.
**[21:34] ---**
Doctor Hahn.
**[21:36] ---**
What is it, Commander Gallant?
**[21:39] ---**
Now that the Swan has arrived in Hawaii,
**[21:41] ---**
conventional tactics
will no longer be effective.
**[21:43] ---**
Therefore, I would like to execute
the operation I had proposed earlier.
**[21:48] ---**
Proposed?! When?!
**[21:50] ---**
I have already contacted
the appropriate parties.
**[21:54] ---**
You can rendezvous with the tactical
unit in question straight away.
**[21:57] ---**
I expect good things, Commander Gallant.
**[22:00] ---**
Slava Zogilia.
**[22:10] ---**
Reinforcements at a time like this?
**[22:12] ---**
Who the heck are these people?
**[22:13] ---**
Tarjim!
**[22:18] ---**
It is very good of you to come,
Lieutenant Commander Ryazan.
**[22:21] ---**
What?
**[22:22] ---**
Have you been well, Hina?
**[22:24] ---**
Father!
**[22:27] ---**
*With my heart, I call out*
**[22:31] ---**
*To the far side, mutually drawn*
**[22:36] ---**
*Forgetting even the reason I ache*
**[22:40] ---**
*Just for now, please*
**[22:44] ---**
*I know you*
**[22:49] ---**
*I'm looking for you*
**[22:53] ---**
* Softly pressing my lips to the bright*
* afterimage I can't keep from leaving*
**[23:02] ---**
* If hesitation is what gives way*
* to the slightest of hopes*
**[23:11] ---**
* To as many gentle mornings*
* as the times I have wandered*
**[23:20] ---**
* In the future that*
* leads back to that sky,*
**[23:24] ---**
* I want to save you,*
* I want to protect you*
**[23:29] ---**
*In the future that arrives at that dream*
**[23:33] ---**
*Wait for me*
**[23:36] ---**
*The love we'll surely find*
**[23:41] ---**
*I want you to reach out for it*
**[23:48] ---**
"Next Time 'Father and Child'"
**[23:48] ---**
Next time on Buddy Complex.
**[23:51] ---**
"Father and Child."
# 10 - Father and Child
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GYE5Z94VR/buddy-complex)
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**[00:26] ---**
Doctor Fermi...
**[00:33] ---**
What's he doing here?
**[00:37] ---**
Isn't that...
**[00:47] ---**
*Beat your wings*
**[00:49] ---**
* See the light of hope*
* in the sky you have yet to see*
**[00:54] ---**
* And don't ever give in*
* to the weight of sorrow*
**[00:57] ---**
*Echo unto eternity, UNISONIA*
**[01:07] ---**
*That world you see before your eyes*
**[01:12] ---**
*What colors is it made up of?*
**[01:17] ---**
*Measure feeling match*
**[01:20] ---**
*The pain of loss isn't something*
**[01:23] ---**
*You want to get used to, and yet*
**[01:25] ---**
* Even on a night like this,*
* the stars are beautiful*
**[01:31] ---**
* Like a tarnished coin spilling*
* from the palm of your hand*
**[01:37] ---**
*Can't go back*
**[01:39] ---**
*Want to go home*
**[01:40] ---**
*The two, back-to-back*
**[01:43] ---**
*Break through*
**[01:45] ---**
* Turning unfading emotions*
* into a lasting bond*
**[01:50] ---**
*Like painting over a colorless world*
**[01:53] ---**
*Let this sympathy reach*
**[01:56] ---**
*Growing the wing*
**[01:58] ---**
* Let's build the*
* future that we envision*
**[02:02] ---**
*We can change even fate*
**[02:06] ---**
*Transcending time, UNISONIA*
**[02:14] ---**
"Hawaii Base"
**[02:17] ---**
Weinberg. Watase. You two ensigns,
**[02:17] ---**
"Father and Child"
**[02:19] ---**
as well as Petty Officer Nasu,
**[02:21] ---**
will be granted half-watch shore leave.
**[02:21] ---**
as well as Petty Officer Nasu,
**[02:23] ---**
You three are to remain
together as much as possible.
**[02:26] ---**
That is all.
**[02:27] ---**
Yes, ma'am.
**[02:28] ---**
Come on, Doctor Fermi
hates doom and gloom.
**[02:31] ---**
You know it, too, Mayu.
**[02:33] ---**
Yes...
**[02:35] ---**
Okay, then, here's my shopping list.
**[02:37] ---**
What? You, too, Elvira?
**[02:40] ---**
What do you mean "too"?
**[02:44] ---**
I also got one from Anessa.
**[02:47] ---**
I see.
**[02:48] ---**
That's long.
**[02:51] ---**
Say, that was your old man
at the church earlier, right?
**[02:57] ---**
Yeah.
**[02:58] ---**
Was it okay? That you
didn't go say hi or anything?
**[03:01] ---**
It's no big deal. It's fine.
**[03:04] ---**
I heard from Fiona.
**[03:05] ---**
That things aren't so hot
between you and your old man?
**[03:10] ---**
It's none of your business, is it?
**[03:12] ---**
But I mean...
**[03:13] ---**
I am so sorry to keep you waiting!
**[03:19] ---**
I had a hard time deciding what to wear.
**[03:22] ---**
We haven't been waiting at all.
Hurry up and get in.
**[03:24] ---**
Oh, all right.
**[03:26] ---**
A change of outfit makes
you look so different than normal.
**[03:29] ---**
I'm not used to wearing this,
so I wasn't sure about it...
**[03:33] ---**
It looks good on her, doesn't it?
**[03:36] ---**
Sure.
**[03:36] ---**
Don't give such a noncommittal response.
**[03:38] ---**
Nav, take us to Ala Moana.
**[03:40] ---**
Hey, don't ignore me!
**[03:47] ---**
A military exercise?
**[03:49] ---**
The experience of having
**[03:51] ---**
the Coupling System
operating within a task fleet
**[03:54] ---**
will be recorded
in a computer simulation.
**[03:57] ---**
Then, has Joint Command Headquarters
**[03:59] ---**
given their stamp of approval
on its practical application?
**[04:01] ---**
"Rear Admiral Green"
**[04:01] ---**
"1st Navy Special Squadron Commander"
**[04:01] ---**
They're all but there, I'd say.
**[04:04] ---**
The complacent cagey old bastards back home
**[04:08] ---**
are being indecisive and holding
back from taking that final step.
**[04:11] ---**
Then, this military exercise is also...?
**[04:14] ---**
That's right.
**[04:16] ---**
I want you to get them all fired up.
**[04:19] ---**
Especially with the pressure coming
from political and financial circles
**[04:21] ---**
starting to grow more overt.
**[04:24] ---**
We shall fight furiously so as
to live up to your expectations.
**[04:29] ---**
Aw, man, it would've
been nice to go shopping.
**[04:33] ---**
So you're also in
the group staying behind.
**[04:36] ---**
Fromm!
**[04:37] ---**
Here we are in Hawaii, too.
It's too bad, isn't it?
**[04:39] ---**
No way, I'm totally okay with it!
**[04:41] ---**
I asked Mayuka to do my shopping for me.
**[04:44] ---**
Mind if I sit next to you?
**[04:46] ---**
Sure.
**[04:47] ---**
Let's eat together.
**[04:51] ---**
That should do it for Anessa's cosmetics.
**[04:55] ---**
That leaves...
**[04:56] ---**
Say, Dio.
**[04:58] ---**
What is it?
**[04:58] ---**
Want me to try talking
to your old man for you?
**[05:01] ---**
You?! What kind of idiotic talk is this?
**[05:04] ---**
Because, I mean,
he won't listen to you, right?
**[05:07] ---**
Like there's any way he'd
listen to what you have to say!
**[05:10] ---**
But at this rate,
don't you feel bad for Fiona?
**[05:14] ---**
Think of how much she's
worrying about you and your old man.
**[05:17] ---**
I told you that it was
none of your business, didn't I?
**[05:20] ---**
But you...
**[05:21] ---**
Shut up! No more!
**[05:22] ---**
Please stop this, both of you.
**[05:28] ---**
Nav, stop the car.
**[05:32] ---**
H-Hey, what are you doing?
**[05:34] ---**
Wait, Dio?
**[05:35] ---**
I'm going off on my own.
**[05:37] ---**
They told us to stick together, remember?
**[05:39] ---**
"As much as possible," she said.
**[05:40] ---**
Dio!
Hey, come back!
**[05:42] ---**
Dio! Hey!
**[05:44] ---**
Hey!
**[05:46] ---**
The hell is his problem?
**[05:47] ---**
Let's go, Mayuka.
**[05:50] ---**
What? But...
**[05:51] ---**
It's fine. Forget that guy.
**[06:02] ---**
The things you ought to be doing
**[06:04] ---**
should not include frittering
your time away here.
**[06:07] ---**
Even if someone were to blame you,
**[06:10] ---**
I forgive you.
**[06:14] ---**
Could it be that
you are Young Master Dio?
**[06:18] ---**
It is you!
**[06:20] ---**
Paul...
**[06:30] ---**
See, my old man was a firefighter.
**[06:35] ---**
He was a passionate guy
with a strong sense of justice.
**[06:39] ---**
He often told me that it was
the man's job to protect his family.
**[06:45] ---**
So when my old man passed away, I thought,
**[06:48] ---**
from now on, I'm going
to protect my family on my own.
**[06:54] ---**
But you know...
**[06:55] ---**
I got into middle school,
joined the basketball team and stuff,
**[06:58] ---**
and forgot about
ever having those thoughts.
**[07:01] ---**
By the time I'd realized,
it was already...
**[07:04] ---**
It's not like I could've done anything,
**[07:06] ---**
even though I talk
about protecting my family, but...
**[07:09] ---**
If you're both alive
and living in the same era,
**[07:12] ---**
it's a shame to be on bad terms...
**[07:15] ---**
Aoba...
**[07:21] ---**
Isn't that...
**[07:24] ---**
Fiona!
**[07:26] ---**
Aoba!
**[07:31] ---**
What did you want to talk about?
**[07:33] ---**
Considering how Zogilia approached
their last engagement with us,
**[07:36] ---**
I really have to think that
Hahn is seriously becoming involved.
**[07:41] ---**
Hahn?
**[07:42] ---**
You mean, your colleague from
the lab that Doctor Fermi mentioned?
**[07:46] ---**
Yes.
**[07:48] ---**
I suspect he's in a position to have
a say in detailed tactical matters.
**[07:53] ---**
In which case...
**[07:55] ---**
By about our next encounter,
things will get dicey...
**[07:57] ---**
Yes.
**[07:59] ---**
What kind of man is he?
**[08:00] ---**
He's incredibly good at what he does.
**[08:03] ---**
I almost wish I didn't
remember just how good.
**[08:07] ---**
Elvira?
**[08:08] ---**
Oh, she was an excellent engineer.
**[08:11] ---**
Second to me, that is.
**[08:13] ---**
"Wilhelm Hahn"
**[08:13] ---**
"Zogilian Science Academy Test Laboratory 2 Director"
**[08:13] ---**
The magic
key that she created is the cockpit.
**[08:17] ---**
All you have to do is bring that back.
**[08:19] ---**
Because as far as the Valiancer frame goes,
**[08:21] ---**
ours is superior in terms of performance.
**[08:25] ---**
"Vajra"
"Heavy Attack Cruiser Aeroship"
**[08:28] ---**
She's a girl of age that
even I found to be a handful
**[08:32] ---**
and you've tamed her quite nicely.
**[08:33] ---**
"Lieutenant Commander Ryazan"
**[08:34] ---**
You really are something
else, Commander Gallant.
**[08:37] ---**
Her hard work has
been of great help to me.
**[08:41] ---**
Lieutenant Commander Ryazan,
I am most happy to see you looking well.
**[08:44] ---**
And you, Commander,
your skin tone is looking awfully fine.
**[08:47] ---**
You hardly look like the officer
**[08:49] ---**
who failed to safeguard the
Protection Division Commander.
**[08:52] ---**
As scathing as ever.
**[08:57] ---**
Those Confederation Valiancers?
**[09:00] ---**
Yes, we'll infiltrate the
Hawaii Base and seize them.
**[09:04] ---**
Is it possible?
**[09:05] ---**
Of course. That's what we're here for.
**[09:08] ---**
I see.
**[09:10] ---**
How would you like something to drink?
**[09:13] ---**
Milk? Or grape juice?
**[09:16] ---**
Stop that. I'm not a child anymore.
**[09:19] ---**
That is so true.
**[09:21] ---**
You've become all grown up in
the short while we haven't seen you.
**[09:24] ---**
What kind of stupid thing to say is that?
**[09:29] ---**
L-Lieutenant Commander!
**[09:30] ---**
I-I was joking!
**[09:32] ---**
You're going naked
on this upcoming operation.
**[09:35] ---**
Oh, come on!
**[09:36] ---**
Ensign.
**[09:37] ---**
Y-Yes, sir.
**[09:39] ---**
You will be participating in
this operation as well.
**[09:41] ---**
What?
**[09:42] ---**
Commander Alfried suggested it.
**[09:45] ---**
It seems you've laid your hands
**[09:46] ---**
on the interface of one
of these new Valiancers.
**[09:49] ---**
You will be there to help the
operation go smoothly. Understood?
**[09:53] ---**
Yes, sir.
**[09:57] ---**
I hear you're especially
gung-ho about getting that white one,
**[10:01] ---**
so the Commander must have
seen fit to give you this opportunity.
**[10:03] ---**
Lieutenant Commander,
please allow me to participate as well.
**[10:07] ---**
You, too, Lieutenant Junior Grade Gerafil?
**[10:08] ---**
It is my understanding
**[10:09] ---**
that it takes a pair of the new
Valiancers to be an operational unit.
**[10:12] ---**
Having been on a lot of missions with her,
**[10:14] ---**
I believe I would be a
good fit to accompany her.
**[10:16] ---**
Hm, and I could entrust
you to keep Hina safe as well...
**[10:21] ---**
I'll be counting on you, Bizon.
**[10:23] ---**
Yes, sir!
**[10:25] ---**
I'll propose your inclusion
to the Commander.
**[10:29] ---**
Get one complete outfit for each of them.
**[10:30] ---**
Roger.
**[10:31] ---**
And also, a teddy bear for Hina.
**[10:42] ---**
Wow, so you guys have
a vacation home over here.
**[10:45] ---**
Yes. I had no idea
all of you were here as well.
**[10:49] ---**
How is Dio doing?
**[10:51] ---**
What?
**[10:51] ---**
Oh... Oh, he's doing well.
**[10:54] ---**
I see.
**[11:00] ---**
With your father?
**[11:03] ---**
Yes.
**[11:04] ---**
We were in the middle of lunch, but...
**[11:07] ---**
I have been telling my father that
he should have a good long talk with Dio,
**[11:13] ---**
but he was having none of it...
**[11:16] ---**
It made me so unbearably sad...
**[11:19] ---**
So you ended up leaving the
restaurant without even meaning to.
**[11:22] ---**
Yes.
**[11:23] ---**
I swear! Father and
son are both so stubborn!
**[11:26] ---**
Aoba!
**[11:27] ---**
Did something happen with Dio?
**[11:29] ---**
What? Oh, no, nothing happened.
**[11:33] ---**
All right! Let's go back!
**[11:34] ---**
What?
**[11:35] ---**
I'll talk to your old man, after all.
**[11:37] ---**
I'll give it to him good!
**[11:39] ---**
What?!
**[11:40] ---**
Uh, um, I don't think that will work.
**[11:42] ---**
Why not?
**[11:43] ---**
I hardly think my father will listen
to someone he has only just met
**[11:47] ---**
and besides, I don't even know
if he'll see you based on my word...
**[11:51] ---**
But I mean...
**[11:52] ---**
I appreciate the thought, but I'm sorry.
**[11:58] ---**
Then, do you want to come shopping
with us to take your mind off things?
**[12:02] ---**
What? You wouldn't mind my coming along?
**[12:06] ---**
Of course not.
**[12:07] ---**
But aren't you in the middle of a date?
**[12:09] ---**
What?
**[12:10] ---**
No, no, it's nothing like that at all.
**[12:13] ---**
Right?
**[12:14] ---**
What?
**[12:15] ---**
R-Right.
**[12:16] ---**
Then I would love to!
**[12:17] ---**
Okay, it's settled!
**[12:19] ---**
On a date...
**[12:19] ---**
Is there anywhere you want to go?
**[12:20] ---**
Let me think...
**[12:23] ---**
You came along at the perfect time.
**[12:26] ---**
Mistress Fiona was
here as well just earlier, but...
**[12:29] ---**
Fiona was?
**[12:33] ---**
Please excuse me.
**[12:46] ---**
But at this rate,
don't you feel bad for Fiona?
**[13:58] ---**
I've heard that you live
next to each other?
**[14:00] ---**
They moved in next door
when I was about ten years old.
**[14:03] ---**
Back then, I'd never even dreamed
**[14:05] ---**
that the brave and famous
Lieutenant Commander Ryazan
**[14:07] ---**
would move in next door.
**[14:09] ---**
Come to think of it,
where were you before you moved there?
**[14:12] ---**
Hm? Well, various places.
**[14:15] ---**
With Hina?
**[14:17] ---**
That would be the case.
**[14:19] ---**
Come to think of it,
until we moved in next to Bizon, I...
**[14:24] ---**
Here we are! I've brought it!
**[14:27] ---**
I've been waiting for this!
**[14:29] ---**
All right! Pass out the glasses.
**[14:34] ---**
A toast to the success of our operation
**[14:36] ---**
and ever greater prosperity
for our motherland.
**[14:39] ---**
Here you are.
**[14:41] ---**
I'm still...
**[14:42] ---**
You're all grown up, right?
**[14:46] ---**
To the goddess of luck in battle.
**[14:49] ---**
Slava Zogilia!
**[14:51] ---**
Slava Zogilia!
**[15:02] ---**
Grape juice?!
**[15:25] ---**
You were of assistance to us in Chitose.
**[15:28] ---**
My thanks.
**[15:29] ---**
Please. It was my duty.
**[15:35] ---**
Why were you at Doctor Fermi's funeral?
**[15:38] ---**
I was well acquainted with the Doctor.
**[15:41] ---**
My company was one
**[15:43] ---**
that had the privilege of supporting
his research in no small way.
**[15:47] ---**
I didn't know.
**[15:49] ---**
Thanks to that, all kinds
of information comes my way...
**[15:52] ---**
It seems you're paired
up with quite a unique Buddy.
**[15:56] ---**
Someone named Aoba Watase, is it?
**[15:59] ---**
Yes.
**[16:01] ---**
I hear that when you
conduct Couplings with him,
**[16:03] ---**
it causes your Emphatier
Waveform to diverge
**[16:05] ---**
and makes you unable to conduct
Couplings with other Couplers.
**[16:09] ---**
If I go through training again,
**[16:11] ---**
there is the possibility that it
will restore my original waveform.
**[16:14] ---**
Is that confirmed?
**[16:16] ---**
No.
**[16:20] ---**
What did you say
when you joined the military?
**[16:24] ---**
That I wanted to protect
our family... to protect everyone.
**[16:27] ---**
Is becoming a Coupler
who cannot choose his Buddy
**[16:31] ---**
your idea of being a soldier?
**[16:35] ---**
This man was a
civilian until just recently.
**[16:38] ---**
He'll likely be shot down in no time.
**[16:41] ---**
Once that happens, all that
will be left is one good-for-nothing.
**[16:45] ---**
One soldier, who couldn't
even protect his family.
**[16:50] ---**
It's still not too late.
**[16:52] ---**
Quit the military.
**[16:54] ---**
Going to the front line isn't the
only way to protect your country.
**[17:00] ---**
That guy...
**[17:02] ---**
is not a man who
will be shot down so easily.
**[17:04] ---**
How can you possibly assert that?!
**[17:06] ---**
This is war!
**[17:08] ---**
You know well how unforgiving it is!
**[17:11] ---**
It's true that he's lacking
in resolve as a soldier
**[17:16] ---**
and he's the sort of person who
easily makes contact with the enemy...
**[17:20] ---**
And he's stupid and
insensitive and irresponsible,
**[17:24] ---**
and an annoying busybody
**[17:27] ---**
who doesn't think twice about
getting personal with you, but...
**[17:33] ---**
But him...
**[17:34] ---**
Knowing him...
**[17:35] ---**
What are you saying
that man is capable of?!
**[17:38] ---**
Your words are nothing more than
an admission of your own inadequacy!
**[17:44] ---**
That's enough. I understand.
**[17:47] ---**
Go back.
**[17:54] ---**
I'm glad that we
were able to talk today.
**[17:57] ---**
Your show of concern for me made me happy.
**[18:02] ---**
Please excuse me now.
**[18:09] ---**
You've changed.
**[18:12] ---**
Come home once in a while.
**[18:15] ---**
It'll make Fiona happy.
**[18:18] ---**
Yes, sir.
**[18:25] ---**
Man, that sure was fun!
**[18:28] ---**
Yes, it was!
**[18:29] ---**
Feel better?
**[18:31] ---**
Yes.
**[18:31] ---**
Then, shall we head back soon?
**[18:34] ---**
What?
**[18:35] ---**
Your father must be worried, right?
**[18:37] ---**
I think it'd be better
if you went back now.
**[18:40] ---**
Don't worry! I won't let your
old man say one word against you!
**[18:44] ---**
Aoba!
**[18:47] ---**
You're right. I'll go back.
**[18:53] ---**
Is it this restaurant?
**[18:54] ---**
Yes.
**[18:56] ---**
Isn't this right around where Dio got off?
**[19:00] ---**
What? He was with you?
**[19:02] ---**
H-He was. I'm sorry we didn't tell you.
**[19:06] ---**
Oh, it's Dio.
**[19:10] ---**
So he went to eat.
**[19:13] ---**
Don't tell me!
**[19:15] ---**
Fiona?
**[19:17] ---**
What are you doing with Aoba and her?
**[19:19] ---**
I ran into them and they
invited me to go shopping with them.
**[19:22] ---**
Were you eating here, Dio?
**[19:24] ---**
Yeah.
**[19:25] ---**
By any chance...
**[19:28] ---**
With Dad.
**[19:29] ---**
What?
**[19:29] ---**
You did!
**[19:38] ---**
What's with him? It looks like he
was able to have a proper conversation.
**[19:42] ---**
Look what he can do
when he puts his mind to it.
**[19:44] ---**
I'm sure your words pushed
him in the right direction.
**[19:49] ---**
After he was so against it, too.
He's so not honest with himself.
**[20:06] ---**
Aoba.
**[20:09] ---**
Do you want to go back?
**[20:12] ---**
To your own time?
**[20:13] ---**
What?
**[20:15] ---**
Will this time not do?
**[20:22] ---**
I'm sorry. I don't know.
**[20:25] ---**
I see.
**[20:28] ---**
Petty Officer Nasu.
**[20:30] ---**
Thank you for all you did for Fiona.
**[20:32] ---**
Oh, no, please.
**[20:33] ---**
Fiona, you'll catch his stupidity
if you hang out with him,
**[20:36] ---**
so stay away from now on.
**[20:37] ---**
The hell was that, you bastard?
**[20:40] ---**
I understand, Dio.
**[20:42] ---**
Oh, hey! You, too, Fiona?!
**[20:44] ---**
Man, that's so mean.
**[20:47] ---**
I bet you told her some
messed up story, didn't you?!
**[20:49] ---**
Maybe, maybe not.
**[20:52] ---**
We will now begin
the military exercise.
**[20:55] ---**
Activating Coupling Mode.
Duration is 300 seconds.
**[20:59] ---**
Hostiles entering effective range.
Commencing to intercept Group One.
**[21:00] ---**
Target Alpha One, firing NECTTAR Guns.
Luxon and Bradyon countering enemy fire.
**[21:03] ---**
Group One, Group Two,
destruction of all units confirmed.
**[21:05] ---**
Target Alpha One,
taking more and more damage.
**[21:07] ---**
Twenty Valiancers
and two assault aeroships...
**[21:09] ---**
"Vice Admiral Richardson,
Pacific Fleet Acting Commander"
**[21:12] ---**
So this is the Coupling System...
**[21:15] ---**
Mission objective has been achieved.
**[21:17] ---**
Units on this side will immediately...
**[21:18] ---**
"Maintenance Building 7, Hawaii Base"
**[21:27] ---**
Aoba! Dio! Thanks for your hard work!
**[21:30] ---**
Elvira says the military
exercise went beautifully!
**[21:34] ---**
You're rushing the start of
Code T2Rise by about 0.2!
**[21:37] ---**
You're the one who's slow, right?!
Maybe you're not fired up enough!
**[21:41] ---**
Thanks to you pushing too far ahead,
**[21:43] ---**
we missed at least three
that we could've shot down!
**[21:45] ---**
That's not true!
Don't exaggerate things!
**[21:48] ---**
I wasn't exaggerating!
**[21:48] ---**
Honestly...
**[21:49] ---**
It's your idiocy that...
**[21:58] ---**
Commencing operation.
**[22:27] ---**
*With my heart, I call out*
**[22:31] ---**
*To the far side, mutually drawn*
**[22:35] ---**
*Forgetting even the reason I ache*
**[22:40] ---**
*Just for now, please*
**[22:44] ---**
*I know you*
**[22:49] ---**
*I'm looking for you*
**[22:53] ---**
* Softly pressing my lips to the bright*
* afterimage I can't keep from leaving*
**[23:02] ---**
* If hesitation is what gives way*
* to the slightest of hopes*
**[23:11] ---**
* To as many gentle mornings*
* as the times I have wandered*
**[23:20] ---**
* In the future that*
* leads back to that sky,*
**[23:24] ---**
* I want to save you,*
* I want to protect you*
**[23:29] ---**
*In the future that arrives at that dream*
**[23:33] ---**
*Wait for me*
**[23:36] ---**
*The love we'll surely find*
**[23:41] ---**
*I want you to reach out for it*
**[23:48] ---**
Next time on Buddy Complex.
**[23:48] ---**
"Next Time 'The Truth'"
**[23:51] ---**
"The Truth.”
**[23:52] ---**
# 11 - The Truth
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GYE5Z94VR/buddy-complex)
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**[00:15] ---**
These are the first R&D
models, Prototype 0.
**[00:18] ---**
The Skyknight and the Firebrand.
**[00:21] ---**
The ones that produced numerous casualties.
**[00:23] ---**
The previous generation of machines
to the Luxon and the Bradyon.
**[00:26] ---**
Wow...
**[00:27] ---**
Do they work?
**[00:28] ---**
That's hard to say.
**[00:29] ---**
They apparently still do regular
maintenance work on them, though.
**[00:33] ---**
But what are these things
doing here at the Hawaii Base?
**[00:36] ---**
They're technically here to be studied,
**[00:39] ---**
but they're more like
archival research material.
**[00:42] ---**
The new Valiancers being
developed will be complete soon.
**[00:46] ---**
These will never take to the skies again.
**[00:49] ---**
The machines that Doctor
Fermi engineered...
**[00:51] ---**
It's sad, but...
**[00:56] ---**
Mayday! Mayday! This is
Transport Airline Flight 507!
**[01:01] ---**
Left engine on fire! Requesting
emergency landing at the Hawaii Base!
**[01:04] ---**
Roger that. Use Runway 2.
**[01:04] ---**
"Hawaii Base"
**[01:06] ---**
Fire Services Team, get moving!
**[01:18] ---**
What's that about?
**[01:19] ---**
Looks like a civilian ship.
**[01:21] ---**
Do you think everything's all right?
**[01:22] ---**
The alarms aren't even
going off, so I wouldn't worry.
**[01:27] ---**
"Gate 5, Hawaii Base"
**[01:35] ---**
"Vajra"
"Heavy Attack Cruiser Aeroship"
**[01:37] ---**
It's time.
**[01:44] ---**
Wh-What was that?!
**[01:45] ---**
Explosions?!
**[01:51] ---**
V-Valiancers?!
**[01:56] ---**
Emergency alert! Emergency alert!
**[01:58] ---**
Enemy Valiancers have appeared on base!
**[02:00] ---**
Enemy operatives seem
to have infiltrated as well!
**[02:03] ---**
All tactical units...
**[02:05] ---**
They're in a panic.
**[02:06] ---**
It's almost comical.
**[02:08] ---**
You should pretend to be
a little panicked, too.
**[02:11] ---**
Don't count on it, sir.
**[02:16] ---**
Now, let's go help ourselves to the prize.
**[02:24] ---**
*Beat your wings*
**[02:26] ---**
* See the light of hope*
* in the sky you have yet to see*
**[02:31] ---**
* And don't ever give in*
* to the weight of sorrow*
**[02:34] ---**
*Echo unto eternity, UNISONIA*
**[02:44] ---**
*That world you see before your eyes*
**[02:49] ---**
*What colors is it made up of?*
**[02:54] ---**
*Measure feeling match*
**[02:57] ---**
*The pain of loss isn't something*
**[03:00] ---**
*You want to get used to, and yet*
**[03:02] ---**
* Even on a night like this,*
* the stars are beautiful*
**[03:08] ---**
* Like a tarnished coin spilling*
* from the palm of your hand*
**[03:14] ---**
*Can't go back*
**[03:15] ---**
*Want to go home*
**[03:17] ---**
*The two, back-to-back*
**[03:20] ---**
*Break through*
**[03:22] ---**
* Turning unfading emotions*
* into a lasting bond*
**[03:27] ---**
*Like painting over a colorless world*
**[03:30] ---**
*Let this sympathy reach*
**[03:33] ---**
*Growing the wing*
**[03:35] ---**
* Let's build the*
* future that we envision*
**[03:39] ---**
*We can change even fate*
**[03:42] ---**
*Transcending time, UNISONIA*
**[03:51] ---**
"The Truth"
**[03:54] ---**
Father.
**[03:56] ---**
This is your face, Father.
**[03:59] ---**
I drew it in class at school.
**[04:05] ---**
The teacher praised me
for drawing well, too.
**[04:08] ---**
Is that right?
**[04:10] ---**
That's great.
**[04:12] ---**
Yup!
**[04:15] ---**
The military academy?
**[04:17] ---**
Yes, sir.
**[04:18] ---**
That is what I have decided.
**[04:20] ---**
That I will become a soldier,
who guards the motherland of Zogilia
**[04:23] ---**
and protects the people
living in this country.
**[04:27] ---**
Like you, Father.
**[04:37] ---**
Hina.
**[04:39] ---**
It's almost time.
**[04:40] ---**
Yes, sir.
**[04:41] ---**
"Maintenance Building 7, Hawaii Base"
**[04:48] ---**
Here we go.
**[04:54] ---**
What's the situation?
**[04:56] ---**
Give us details on what's going on.
**[04:57] ---**
It's just like you heard on the broadcast.
**[04:59] ---**
We currently have enemy troops on the
base wreaking havoc at various locations.
**[05:04] ---**
Eight Valiancers have been confirmed.
**[05:06] ---**
Tarjim, it's about time.
**[05:08] ---**
Damn. I could've gone for
more, but I guess not.
**[05:12] ---**
Of which, two broke away
and took to the air.
**[05:15] ---**
A firefight seems to have
broken out on the tarmac, but...
**[05:18] ---**
But?
**[05:19] ---**
I can't figure out what the enemy's after.
**[05:22] ---**
I mean, only eight Valiancers
to take on a base of this size?
**[05:26] ---**
I asked Command how we should respond,
**[05:29] ---**
but all I got was, "Take out
the enemy! Protect the base!"
**[05:32] ---**
So, what should we do?
**[05:34] ---**
Yeah, so given all that, I'm thinking
we want to take independent action.
**[05:39] ---**
Elvira and Mayu, quickly
make your way back to the ship.
**[05:42] ---**
Yes, sir.
**[05:43] ---**
Aoba and Dio, go retrieve
the Luxon and the Bradyon,
**[05:46] ---**
which we sent over to the
base's Maintenance Building 7.
**[05:49] ---**
Fromm, you'll be their escort.
**[05:51] ---**
Aye-aye, sir.
**[05:52] ---**
Now, let's begin.
**[05:56] ---**
There's no knowing where
the enemy might be lurking.
**[05:59] ---**
If you don't want to die, defend yourself.
**[06:02] ---**
For real?
**[06:47] ---**
The hatches have been left open.
**[06:49] ---**
That's convenient.
**[06:53] ---**
How does it look? Will it work?
**[06:55] ---**
Yes, sir! It'll be no problem!
**[06:57] ---**
It looks like it'll take a while, though.
**[07:00] ---**
Make it as quick as you can.
**[07:02] ---**
Roger!
**[07:03] ---**
How are things on the other end?
**[07:04] ---**
They're reportedly engaged in combat,
**[07:06] ---**
but they'll likely be able to hold out.
**[07:08] ---**
All right.
**[07:09] ---**
As soon as they circumvent the
boot-up security, we'll start retreating.
**[07:13] ---**
Roger.
**[07:17] ---**
You're going to contact them!
To tell Zogilia that you're here!
**[07:22] ---**
Because at that rate, you'd have
become our prisoner of war, right?
**[07:27] ---**
I kind of didn't like
the idea of that, so...
**[07:37] ---**
Hina!
**[07:44] ---**
Father!
**[07:45] ---**
Lieutenant Commander!
**[07:46] ---**
Father!
**[07:52] ---**
They're on to us!
**[07:53] ---**
They sure are reckless,
and this is their own base! Sheesh!
**[07:58] ---**
Quick! This way!
**[07:59] ---**
Father!
**[08:00] ---**
I'm fine...
**[08:05] ---**
Hina! Lieutenant Commander!
**[08:11] ---**
Miss, you treat the
Lieutenant Commander's wound.
**[08:14] ---**
We'll rendezvous with another detachment
and secure a line of retreat.
**[08:17] ---**
I understand.
**[08:18] ---**
Well, then.
**[08:22] ---**
We need to stop the bleeding fast!
**[08:25] ---**
Father?
**[08:27] ---**
H-Hina... there's something...
I need to tell you.
**[08:32] ---**
Don't talk! You'll exacerbate the wound!
**[08:34] ---**
Listen...
**[08:36] ---**
Listen to me!
**[08:41] ---**
Hina... You...
**[08:44] ---**
are not... my real daughter.
**[08:48] ---**
What?!
**[08:58] ---**
Aoba!
**[08:59] ---**
I-I'm okay!
**[09:01] ---**
We've gotten split up.
**[09:03] ---**
We'll head to the target location
using the corridor on this side.
**[09:06] ---**
You find a way around
and head over as well!
**[09:08] ---**
Don't die!
**[09:09] ---**
What? Wait...
**[09:13] ---**
What?
**[09:17] ---**
It was ten years ago now...
**[09:23] ---**
I was stationed in
fiercely contested Zagreb,
**[09:28] ---**
and it was amidst the burned-out ruins
of the battlefield that I met you.
**[09:35] ---**
Back then, you were dressed in tattered clothes,
could barely speak, and had no memories.
**[09:44] ---**
The only thing that you
remembered was the name "Hina."
**[09:51] ---**
I took you in as a war orphan
**[09:54] ---**
and thus, you and I became family.
**[10:01] ---**
You can't...
**[10:03] ---**
You can't suddenly tell me
this and expect me to...
**[10:07] ---**
Can't believe it?
**[10:10] ---**
No one at death's door would
joke about something like this.
**[10:18] ---**
Hurry!
**[10:19] ---**
Don't let Zogilia get away with
any more than they already have!
**[10:23] ---**
Go, Hina.
**[10:25] ---**
What?
**[10:26] ---**
Get away from here before the enemy comes.
**[10:29] ---**
Then you come with me!
**[10:32] ---**
I'm beyond saving already. Leave me behind.
**[10:35] ---**
I don't want to!
**[10:37] ---**
Hina...
**[10:38] ---**
No!
**[10:39] ---**
Hina!
**[10:41] ---**
Let me at least play
the heroic father in the end.
**[10:46] ---**
But... But...
**[10:50] ---**
Go, Hina.
**[10:54] ---**
Father...
**[10:58] ---**
Go!
**[11:19] ---**
What about him?
**[11:20] ---**
Is he dead?
**[11:22] ---**
Guess I'll put a bullet
in him just to be safe.
**[11:24] ---**
How boorish.
**[11:27] ---**
Right when I was pleasantly lost
in memories of my daughter...
**[11:30] ---**
I swear...
**[11:32] ---**
I'll take you to hell with me.
**[11:39] ---**
Another explosion?
**[11:41] ---**
Man! I'm just a kid in high school!
**[11:45] ---**
Like hell I can shoot this thing
just because you suddenly tell me to!
**[11:47] ---**
Or more like, where the heck am I?
**[11:57] ---**
Father...
**[12:00] ---**
You...
**[12:02] ---**
are not... my real daughter.
**[12:06] ---**
The only thing that you
remembered was the name "Hina."
**[12:11] ---**
I... I...
**[12:16] ---**
Because you brought me here.
**[12:18] ---**
Like I said, you were my classmate!
**[12:21] ---**
Your name is Hina Yumihara!
**[12:23] ---**
If that's true, then where did she go?
**[12:35] ---**
Hina...
**[12:40] ---**
Hina, what are you doing here?
**[12:43] ---**
Don't tell me the enemy soldiers
who infiltrated the base were...
**[12:46] ---**
I turned out... not to be me...
**[12:50] ---**
What?
**[12:51] ---**
Who in the world am I?! Am I the
Hina that you were talking about?!
**[12:56] ---**
Answer me...
**[12:58] ---**
Hina...
**[13:04] ---**
The Lieutenant Commander?!
**[13:05] ---**
Yeah, while I was away.
**[13:08] ---**
What about Hina?
**[13:09] ---**
I don't know.
**[13:11] ---**
It doesn't look like she was
caught in the blast, though.
**[13:14] ---**
Hey, cover me!
**[13:16] ---**
What?
**[13:17] ---**
Wait! Where do you think you're going?!
**[13:19] ---**
What about our work?!
**[13:20] ---**
It'll finish the rest of the way on auto!
**[13:22] ---**
I'm going to go look for Hina!
**[13:24] ---**
H-Hey!
**[13:37] ---**
I see. So, Lieutenant
Commander Ryazan is...
**[13:40] ---**
Yes, sir.
**[13:42] ---**
Is it possible to continue
with the operation?
**[13:44] ---**
We are slightly behind schedule,
**[13:46] ---**
but within the range of
what we anticipated.
**[13:47] ---**
All right. Then as of now, I place
you in command of things on site.
**[13:52] ---**
We will set things
in motion on our end as well.
**[13:54] ---**
Yes, sir.
**[13:55] ---**
Commander.
**[13:57] ---**
This will not be a problem.
**[13:58] ---**
Right now, let us make the success
of this operation our top priority.
**[14:08] ---**
I see, so that's how it was.
**[14:11] ---**
Yeah.
**[14:12] ---**
It just may be that I'm the
Hina that you were talking about.
**[14:17] ---**
If I am, the memory loss and
stuff would kind of make sense...
**[14:22] ---**
I'm not sure how that all works out, but...
**[14:25] ---**
Hina...
**[14:27] ---**
Seriously, what's going on with me?
**[14:30] ---**
Tell me, what's going on?
**[14:35] ---**
Come to our side, Hina!
**[14:37] ---**
What?
**[14:38] ---**
Come join us aboard the Cygnus!
**[14:41] ---**
Wh-What are you say...
**[14:43] ---**
It'll be okay.
**[14:44] ---**
They accepted me, and
I'm from 70 years ago.
**[14:47] ---**
You may be the enemy,
**[14:48] ---**
but they'll understand
once we explain it to them.
**[14:51] ---**
And there's a guy I trust, too.
**[14:53] ---**
His name is Dio and he can be a
little insufferable sometimes, but...
**[14:57] ---**
Anyway, it'll be all right!
You have my word!
**[15:00] ---**
B-But I...
**[15:04] ---**
I don't even know exactly who I am...
**[15:09] ---**
You're you, right?
**[15:11] ---**
I don't care if you're Hina,
who's lived here her whole life,
**[15:14] ---**
or Hina, who was my classmate.
**[15:16] ---**
You're you.
**[15:17] ---**
I accept it all.
**[15:19] ---**
So...
**[15:21] ---**
Okay?
**[15:25] ---**
Th-Thank you...
**[15:28] ---**
But...
**[15:29] ---**
Hina!
**[15:31] ---**
Get away from him!
**[15:32] ---**
Bizon!
**[15:33] ---**
Hurry!
**[15:35] ---**
You're...
**[15:40] ---**
From the new Valiancer...
**[15:41] ---**
Hina, so you really are...!
**[15:43] ---**
No, you're wrong! You're wrong!
**[15:44] ---**
Then why defend him?!
**[15:46] ---**
That man is the enemy!
**[15:47] ---**
That's because...
**[15:48] ---**
Hold on! Listen to what...
**[15:49] ---**
Shut up!
**[15:50] ---**
Hina, aren't you our comrade
and a soldier of Zogilia?
**[15:55] ---**
All this time, you've
fought alongside us, so why?!
**[15:58] ---**
I-I'm...
**[16:00] ---**
Lieutenant Commander Ryazan
didn't die so you could do this!
**[16:05] ---**
Do you mean to betray even your father?!
**[16:08] ---**
That's not...
**[16:12] ---**
Damn it... Damn it...
**[16:16] ---**
Damn it!
**[16:21] ---**
Bizon!
**[16:27] ---**
Aoba!
**[16:28] ---**
Damn!
**[16:30] ---**
Hina!
**[16:30] ---**
Don't!
**[16:31] ---**
But!
**[16:33] ---**
Fromm, get that idiot out of the way!
**[16:36] ---**
You got it!
**[16:37] ---**
Come on, just hurry up
and take cover already!
**[16:39] ---**
We'll talk later.
**[16:40] ---**
We'll be done circumventing
the security soon.
**[16:43] ---**
Our mission is to seize the
Confederation's new Valiancers.
**[16:46] ---**
Got that?
**[16:51] ---**
All right. Let's go.
**[16:57] ---**
Aoba!
**[16:58] ---**
Aoba...
**[17:06] ---**
Looks like things are
settling down on the ground.
**[17:09] ---**
We're going to take out the two in the air!
**[17:11] ---**
Damn straight!
**[17:12] ---**
Gotta make sure they pay for raiding us!
**[17:16] ---**
What?!
**[17:17] ---**
The radar's picking up something!
**[17:18] ---**
Multiple heat signatures!
**[17:19] ---**
Missiles!
**[17:21] ---**
Deploy NECTTAR Curtain!
**[17:23] ---**
Spread it out as far as you can!
**[17:24] ---**
Don't let them come down on the base!
**[17:32] ---**
Honestly! What in the world are they up to?
**[17:35] ---**
Do they plan on destroying
the base instead of occupying it?
**[18:02] ---**
Dio! Aoba!
**[18:04] ---**
So you finally made it out of there!
**[18:06] ---**
No!
**[18:07] ---**
The enemy is piloting them!
**[18:09] ---**
They've been taken!
**[18:10] ---**
What?!
**[18:11] ---**
Captain?!
**[18:12] ---**
Mm.
**[18:15] ---**
Let's shoot them down.
**[18:16] ---**
Wha?! B-But, sir...
**[18:18] ---**
Better than letting the enemy have them.
**[18:21] ---**
Please don't!
**[18:22] ---**
Hina's on one of them!
And you want to shoot them down?!
**[18:25] ---**
That's enough already!
**[18:26] ---**
Don't you understand what's going on here?
**[18:29] ---**
It's not something Hina did willingly!
**[18:31] ---**
What?
**[18:32] ---**
Hina's struggling right now!
**[18:34] ---**
Her father passed away and she
doesn't know who she is anymore!
**[18:38] ---**
She's not in any state to do these things!
**[18:40] ---**
But those Coupling Valiancers
have in fact been...
**[18:42] ---**
I can't shoot down Hina
when she's like that!
**[18:45] ---**
And I won't let you!
**[18:55] ---**
Aoba and Dio are...!
**[18:57] ---**
This is...!
**[19:00] ---**
They can't use the Coupling System.
**[19:03] ---**
We're settling this in one go!
**[19:04] ---**
Right!
**[19:05] ---**
Don't do this!
**[19:06] ---**
Those Valiancers are dangerous!
**[19:08] ---**
Come back to base immediately!
**[19:10] ---**
I'm sorry, Elvira.
**[19:13] ---**
Give me the Remote Access Priority
to those two Valiancers over here.
**[19:16] ---**
I have to make it so they
can't conduct a Coupling!
**[19:18] ---**
Y-Yes, ma'am!
**[19:19] ---**
You understand, right?
**[19:21] ---**
Our goal is to recover the Luxon
and the Bradyon! Nothing more!
**[19:24] ---**
Yeah, I know!
**[19:26] ---**
Here we go! Connective, Dio!
**[19:28] ---**
Acception!
**[19:51] ---**
The Skyknight and the Firebrand
have successfully conducted a Coupling!
**[19:54] ---**
That's impossible! How could
they succeed with these settings?!
**[20:15] ---**
Damn it.
**[20:16] ---**
I had no idea a different cockpit
would make piloting so much harder.
**[20:19] ---**
Bizon, hostiles headed your way!
**[20:28] ---**
Damn it! These bastards...
**[20:30] ---**
Hina, you're on that Valiancer, right?!
**[20:32] ---**
This voice!
**[20:32] ---**
Stop this! It's not too
late if you stop now!
**[20:36] ---**
Aoba...
**[20:39] ---**
Get away from Hina!
**[20:44] ---**
Aoba!
**[20:45] ---**
You! You, I'm taking out right here!
**[20:48] ---**
Damn it! Don't get in my way!
**[20:51] ---**
Let Aoba go!
**[20:53] ---**
Why you!
**[20:57] ---**
Their Emphatier Waveforms!
**[20:59] ---**
This is...?!
**[21:25] ---**
Bizon!
**[21:29] ---**
What was that... just now?
**[21:35] ---**
We have achieved the
objective of this mission.
**[21:37] ---**
We are bringing everyone back in.
**[21:39] ---**
All units, depart for the rendezvous point.
**[21:41] ---**
B-But, sir...
**[21:43] ---**
Engaging them any further
would be pointless.
**[21:47] ---**
Let's go, Bizon.
**[22:00] ---**
Damn it!
Whoa!
**[22:03] ---**
Don't run away, you idiots!
**[22:15] ---**
Wh-What was that just now?
**[22:23] ---**
Aoba... you...
**[22:27] ---**
*With my heart, I call out*
**[22:31] ---**
*To the far side, mutually drawn*
**[22:36] ---**
*Forgetting even the reason I ache*
**[22:40] ---**
*Just for now, please*
**[22:44] ---**
*I know you*
**[22:49] ---**
*I'm looking for you*
**[22:53] ---**
* Softly pressing my lips to the bright*
* afterimage I can't keep from leaving*
**[23:02] ---**
* If hesitation is what gives way*
* to the slightest of hopes*
**[23:11] ---**
* To as many gentle mornings*
* as the times I have wandered*
**[23:20] ---**
* In the future that*
* leads back to that sky,*
**[23:24] ---**
* I want to save you,*
* I want to protect you*
**[23:29] ---**
*In the future that arrives at that dream*
**[23:33] ---**
*Wait for me*
**[23:36] ---**
*The love we'll surely find*
**[23:41] ---**
*I want you to reach out for it*
**[23:48] ---**
Next time on Buddy Complex.
**[23:48] ---**
"Next Time 'The Bond Between Them'"
**[23:51] ---**
"The Bond Between Them."
# 12 - The Bond Between Them
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**[00:13] ---**
"Hawaii Base"
**[00:19] ---**
Honestly!
**[00:20] ---**
After I explained the dangers
of the old Coupling Valiancers
**[00:23] ---**
over and over to them!
**[00:24] ---**
This is the problem with pilots!
**[00:29] ---**
It just may be that I'm the
Hina that you were talking about.
**[00:33] ---**
Come join us aboard the Cygnus!
**[00:36] ---**
Th-Thank you...
**[00:37] ---**
But...
**[00:44] ---**
There are no anomalies to be
seen in either of their brainwaves.
**[00:46] ---**
I see. Thank goodness.
**[00:48] ---**
But Dio's Emphatier Waveform
has diverged further.
**[00:52] ---**
What about the Emphatier Level?
**[00:53] ---**
Um...
**[00:54] ---**
No way! Up 15%?!
**[00:57] ---**
I thought it might be.
**[00:59] ---**
That time, I calibrated the settings
to make a Coupling impossible,
**[01:03] ---**
but they broke through even
that to connect with each other.
**[01:07] ---**
The bond they share is already
far beyond anything I'd imagined.
**[01:17] ---**
Dio...
**[01:18] ---**
What's up?
**[01:20] ---**
Are you... really from the past?
**[01:23] ---**
What?
**[01:29] ---**
*Beat your wings*
**[01:31] ---**
* See the light of hope*
* in the sky you have yet to see*
**[01:36] ---**
* And don't ever give in*
* to the weight of sorrow*
**[01:39] ---**
*Echo unto eternity, UNISONIA*
**[01:49] ---**
*That world you see before your eyes*
**[01:54] ---**
*What colors is it made up of?*
**[01:59] ---**
*Measure feeling match*
**[02:02] ---**
*The pain of loss isn't something*
**[02:04] ---**
*You want to get used to, and yet*
**[02:07] ---**
* Even on a night like this,*
* the stars are beautiful*
**[02:13] ---**
* Like a tarnished coin spilling*
* from the palm of your hand*
**[02:19] ---**
*Can't go back*
**[02:20] ---**
*Want to go home*
**[02:22] ---**
*The two, back-to-back*
**[02:25] ---**
*Break through*
**[02:27] ---**
* Turning unfading emotions*
* into a lasting bond*
**[02:32] ---**
*Like painting over a colorless world*
**[02:35] ---**
*Let this sympathy reach*
**[02:38] ---**
*Growing the wing*
**[02:39] ---**
* Let's build the*
* future that we envision*
**[02:44] ---**
*We can change even fate*
**[02:47] ---**
*Transcending time, UNISONIA*
**[02:56] ---**
"Military Cemetery, Alaska"
**[03:00] ---**
"The Bond Between Them"
**[03:20] ---**
Who the hell is he?
**[03:23] ---**
Who do you mean?
**[03:24] ---**
The man who was next
to you when your father died.
**[03:28] ---**
Aoba Watase, the pilot of one of
the Confederation's new Valiancers.
**[03:32] ---**
I'm asking you what
your relationship is with him.
**[03:34] ---**
There's no real relationship!
**[03:37] ---**
Then why did you defend him?!
**[03:40] ---**
You met him on that
island, too, didn't you?! Well?!
**[03:46] ---**
You!
**[03:47] ---**
It's not like that! I
haven't turned traitor!
**[03:50] ---**
The island was the
first time I ever talked to him!
**[03:51] ---**
You really expect me to believe that?!
**[03:54] ---**
I...!
**[03:55] ---**
I turned out not
to be my father's child.
**[03:59] ---**
What?
**[04:01] ---**
I was a war orphan, who could
only remember the name "Hina."
**[04:06] ---**
Father said he took me in
and raised me as his daughter.
**[04:11] ---**
He told me just before he died.
**[04:17] ---**
When I met him on the island,
he... Aoba Watase...
**[04:22] ---**
said that I came from the past.
**[04:25] ---**
The past?
**[04:26] ---**
Yes.
**[04:28] ---**
He said that the person who saved
him in a world seventy years ago
**[04:31] ---**
and sent him to this world was me.
**[04:35] ---**
What kind of nonsense is that?
**[04:37] ---**
You're right. It's ridiculous, isn't it?
**[04:40] ---**
But...
**[04:42] ---**
We'd never met,
and yet, he knew about me.
**[04:47] ---**
If my lack of childhood
memories could also be explained
**[04:50] ---**
as shock due to
traveling here from the past...
**[04:52] ---**
Knock it off already!
**[04:54] ---**
That's just BS they came up
with to confuse you, of course!
**[04:58] ---**
But he said that this belonged to me!
**[05:01] ---**
Get real!
**[05:06] ---**
Listen to me!
**[05:07] ---**
No matter what you say,
**[05:09] ---**
it won't change the fact that
you were with a Confederation pilot!
**[05:12] ---**
If I were to report that,
**[05:14] ---**
I doubt even Commander Gallant
would be forgiving then!
**[05:17] ---**
I'm the only one who
can forgive you these things!
**[05:20] ---**
Don't think about anything else!
Just do what I say and don't make waves!
**[05:24] ---**
Got that?!
**[05:25] ---**
All right.
**[05:30] ---**
Don't!
**[05:56] ---**
"Alaska Base"
**[06:04] ---**
The Estifit Parameter
still isn't stabilizing.
**[06:07] ---**
Coupling fitness is D+.
**[06:09] ---**
Thus, it's gotten the better of
**[06:09] ---**
"Wilhelm Hahn"
**[06:11] ---**
every last one of the pilots at this base.
**[06:13] ---**
Except for her.
**[06:16] ---**
Putting up these numbers
on her first synchronization test...
**[06:20] ---**
You are the angel
**[06:21] ---**
who holds the promise of a
brilliant future for Zogilia and me,
**[06:26] ---**
Hina Ryazan.
**[06:28] ---**
You are telling me to
pilot a Coupling Valiancer, sir?
**[06:32] ---**
Indeed.
**[06:33] ---**
You have the makings of a Coupler.
**[06:35] ---**
You want to avenge
your father's death, don't you?
**[06:38] ---**
With my Valiancer,
which will far surpass the performance
**[06:41] ---**
of any Coupling Valiancer
that has come before it,
**[06:44] ---**
that will be possible.
**[06:45] ---**
Even the Confederation folk
who drove your father to his death
**[06:48] ---**
should be easy pickings for you.
**[06:51] ---**
You're you, right?
**[06:55] ---**
Please give me time to think about it.
**[06:57] ---**
Wha...
**[06:58] ---**
Of course.
Take your time and think it over.
**[07:03] ---**
What is that?
**[07:04] ---**
Your brainwaves
are in disarray after the test
**[07:06] ---**
and this accelerating
agent will help restore them.
**[07:10] ---**
Come, give me your arm.
**[07:12] ---**
Yes, sir.
**[07:18] ---**
You saw Aoba's memories?
**[07:21] ---**
Yes.
**[07:22] ---**
Just before the Decoupling
happened with the Skyknight,
**[07:25] ---**
numerous images
came flowing into my mind.
**[07:28] ---**
I can only believe that
they were Aoba's memories.
**[07:32] ---**
Is that even possible?
**[07:34] ---**
With the prototype Coupling Valiancers,
**[07:36] ---**
the connection between
the Couplers is strong,
**[07:38] ---**
so they sometimes end up sharing,
**[07:40] ---**
not only their thoughts, but their
memories and consciousness as well.
**[07:43] ---**
Then, what I saw was...
**[07:45] ---**
My memories, probably.
**[07:48] ---**
Due to that strong mental
connection that the prototypes forge,
**[07:53] ---**
the effect of the Coupling is
greater than in our current model.
**[07:56] ---**
Isn't that a good thing?
**[07:58] ---**
If it could be controlled, yes.
**[08:01] ---**
Strengthening the mental bond
**[08:04] ---**
is tantamount to blurring the
boundary between the self and others.
**[08:07] ---**
If one were to continue conducting
Couplings in such a state,
**[08:11] ---**
in time, it would become difficult
to maintain one's sense of self,
**[08:13] ---**
putting a great strain on the mind.
**[08:16] ---**
In such a case,
at worst, it can lead to death.
**[08:20] ---**
This time, it was because
your Emphatier Level was so high
**[08:24] ---**
that you only suffered
the sharing of some memories.
**[08:26] ---**
You should count yourselves lucky!
**[08:28] ---**
Yes, ma'am.
**[08:29] ---**
By the way, Dio,
**[08:31] ---**
about these memories
of Aoba's that you said you saw...
**[08:34] ---**
What was in them?
**[08:37] ---**
It's hard to believe, but...
**[08:39] ---**
I saw scenes that exactly
matched the things Aoba said
**[08:42] ---**
when he first arrived aboard the Luxon.
**[08:46] ---**
It may be true that he came from the past.
**[08:50] ---**
Dio...
**[08:51] ---**
That's just...
**[08:52] ---**
Surely not...
**[08:54] ---**
It sounds too good to be true.
**[08:56] ---**
Captain! Do you mean to believe him?
**[08:58] ---**
Hmm, I can't really say.
**[09:01] ---**
But either way, it doesn't
change anything, does it?
**[09:04] ---**
Th-That's right!
**[09:07] ---**
No matter what happened,
Aoba is still Aoba!
**[09:09] ---**
He is the Man From the Past,
just as he's always been!
**[09:12] ---**
Mayuka...
**[09:14] ---**
Isn't that right, Elvira?
**[09:16] ---**
That's true, but...
**[09:18] ---**
It is true! It changes nothing!
**[09:20] ---**
Just how was it that you
came to this era again, Aoba?
**[09:24] ---**
That was something Hina did to...
**[09:26] ---**
That Zogilian pilot again?
**[09:29] ---**
Why do you suppose
the enemy would save you
**[09:31] ---**
and send you to this era?
**[09:33] ---**
That's easy for you to ask, but...
**[09:35] ---**
What about you, Dio?
**[09:37] ---**
I couldn't say why. However...
**[09:40] ---**
You're going to the future now.
**[09:42] ---**
Trust me.
**[09:44] ---**
There is no doubt that Hina
Yumihara holds the key to it all.
**[09:51] ---**
As of 1300 today,
**[09:53] ---**
Hina Ryazan has been transferred
to Bureau 5 of the Adminburo.
**[09:59] ---**
That's ridiculous! Right now, Hina...
**[10:01] ---**
Are you sure this is not some mistake?
**[10:04] ---**
Doctor Hahn,
**[10:05] ---**
Ensign Ryazan has submitted
a request for a leave of absence.
**[10:08] ---**
That is sure to be some mistake.
**[10:11] ---**
She volunteered herself
to become a Coupler.
**[10:15] ---**
Volunteered?
**[10:16] ---**
Yes.
**[10:17] ---**
That must be how badly
she wishes to avenge her father.
**[10:21] ---**
A touching story, don't you think?
**[10:23] ---**
Furthermore, from here on out,
**[10:25] ---**
the military, to say
nothing of you, Commander,
**[10:27] ---**
has no right to interfere in her affairs.
**[10:30] ---**
Please do not forget that.
**[10:33] ---**
What the hell are you thinking, Hina?!
**[10:36] ---**
I am avenging my father's death.
**[10:38] ---**
I told you not to make any waves!
**[10:41] ---**
If you wanted, I'd do anything...
**[10:44] ---**
Hina?
**[10:45] ---**
Slava Zogilia.
**[10:50] ---**
Do you know, Bizon Gerafil?
**[10:53] ---**
Doctor Hahn.
**[10:55] ---**
Ordinarily, Couplers
need to spend a long time
**[10:58] ---**
becoming synchronized with
the System and with their Buddies.
**[11:02] ---**
Luckily, in her case, she is almost
perfectly synched with the System,
**[11:08] ---**
but she has no Buddy, you see.
**[11:12] ---**
Then it's simple.
**[11:14] ---**
I'll become her Buddy.
**[11:16] ---**
Unfortunately,
your Emphatier Waveform
**[11:19] ---**
is not a good match
for either the System or her.
**[11:22] ---**
Wha?!
**[11:24] ---**
Having said that, it isn't
as if there's anyone else suitable.
**[11:28] ---**
Want to give it a go?
**[11:30] ---**
Synchronizing in a short amount
of time will be a little rough, though.
**[11:33] ---**
Like I care!
**[11:34] ---**
If it means I can be there for Hina,
I'll brave even the fires of Hell!
**[11:39] ---**
A good attitude.
**[11:52] ---**
Just wait, Hina!
**[11:54] ---**
For you, I'll... I'll...!
**[12:03] ---**
The Cygnus will now be joining
the Confederation Pacific Fleet
**[12:08] ---**
to capture a Zogilian military stronghold.
**[12:11] ---**
We only made port
in Hawaii a short while ago
**[12:13] ---**
and I am fully aware that none
of us have gotten enough rest.
**[12:17] ---**
However, this upcoming
battle is a crucial one
**[12:19] ---**
with the potential to overturn
our deteriorating situation in this war.
**[12:23] ---**
I expect you to fight with
greater ferocity than ever before.
**[12:24] ---**
"Liberty Treaty Confederation
Pacific Fleet"
**[12:30] ---**
Having said that, it's still sudden.
**[12:32] ---**
Now that the Luxon and
the Bradyon have been taken,
**[12:35] ---**
there is a need to rush this operation.
**[12:36] ---**
Well, sure.
**[12:38] ---**
Once they train up some Couplers,
**[12:40] ---**
we'll be stuck warring
against Coupling Valiancers.
**[12:43] ---**
If we're going to strike,
the sooner the better.
**[12:46] ---**
But still...
**[12:47] ---**
Yes.
**[12:48] ---**
Up until now, the brass was reluctant
**[12:50] ---**
to acknowledge the capabilities
of Coupling Valiancers.
**[12:52] ---**
But the moment they fall into
enemy hands, they tremble in such fear.
**[12:55] ---**
I have mixed feelings about that.
**[12:57] ---**
Captain, Rear Admiral Green is on the line.
**[13:00] ---**
I feel bad about springing
this operation on you, Kuramitsu.
**[13:03] ---**
Not at all.
**[13:04] ---**
How are things going with
those new Coupling Valiancers?
**[13:08] ---**
Not to worry.
**[13:10] ---**
The transport ship with the Valiancers
has already left the mainland.
**[13:13] ---**
You'll be able to rendezvous
with it at the scheduled location.
**[13:16] ---**
The problem is that rendezvous point.
**[13:18] ---**
It's smack in the middle
of the battlefield.
**[13:21] ---**
It seems overly rash...
**[13:23] ---**
I have heard that the
Cygnus's Couplers are excellent.
**[13:26] ---**
I expect good results.
**[13:28] ---**
What's up with that?
Talk about irresponsible or what?!
**[13:31] ---**
They're not about to leave
the valuable Couplers idle, huh?
**[13:35] ---**
I can appreciate the sentiment, but...
**[13:37] ---**
I'm fine with that.
**[13:38] ---**
As long as there is a Valiancer
for me to pilot, I'll go out there.
**[13:41] ---**
Or more like, where
are we headed right now?
**[13:44] ---**
Hmm? Alaska.
**[13:46] ---**
Alaska?
**[13:47] ---**
Yup.
**[13:48] ---**
Captain!
**[13:50] ---**
What does it matter?
**[13:51] ---**
It's information that'll be released
in another thirty minutes anyway.
**[13:56] ---**
What is this?
**[13:57] ---**
It's a gigantic NECTTAR
Cannon that's 420 meters long.
**[14:01] ---**
We call it the Gorgon.
**[14:04] ---**
Zogilia was constructing it in secret,
**[14:07] ---**
but at this size, it's hardly something
they can keep hidden away.
**[14:10] ---**
The Confederation
knew they were constructing it.
**[14:13] ---**
The thing is, we thought
it'd be a while longer
**[14:15] ---**
before it was completed, but...
**[14:18] ---**
This morning, the cannon
started getting powered up.
**[14:22] ---**
Does that mean it's complete?
**[14:25] ---**
Probably.
**[14:26] ---**
I hear all hell broke loose at
the General Staff Office thanks to that.
**[14:31] ---**
Its power is estimated
to be fifty megatons.
**[14:34] ---**
That's enough to wipe out an entire city.
**[14:37] ---**
Wha...
**[14:37] ---**
Holy cow...
**[14:39] ---**
We are now going
**[14:40] ---**
to take out the Gorgon, which is
at the Zogilian military's Alaska Base.
**[14:47] ---**
Let's see...
**[14:48] ---**
Fiona got in touch with me.
**[14:50] ---**
Oh, what'd she say?
**[14:52] ---**
She asked me to give you her best.
**[14:55] ---**
I see. Is she doing well?
**[14:57] ---**
Yeah, it seems she heard through our father
**[15:00] ---**
that a large-scale operation
was in the works.
**[15:02] ---**
The Confederation's oversight
of top secret intel sure is shoddy.
**[15:05] ---**
Hmm. I wonder if she's
getting along with your old man.
**[15:12] ---**
Looks like you've
found your resolve.
**[15:14] ---**
What?
**[15:16] ---**
Yeah, I'll protect the Cygnus.
**[15:19] ---**
What will you do if Hina shows up?
**[15:25] ---**
I doubt I'll be able to fight her.
**[15:29] ---**
That time...
**[15:30] ---**
I accept it all.
**[15:33] ---**
Th-Thank you...
**[15:35] ---**
But...
**[15:36] ---**
Hina!
**[15:38] ---**
That time...
**[15:39] ---**
If I'd pulled Hina to me,
even by force...
**[15:41] ---**
Are you saying you
could've saved her then?
**[15:44] ---**
Oh, it's nothing that grandiose.
**[15:47] ---**
It's just that she was struggling
all by herself and I couldn't ignore that.
**[15:53] ---**
Do you realize just how dangerous
what you tried to do could have been?
**[15:58] ---**
Yeah, I know.
**[16:00] ---**
But even then, I...
**[16:05] ---**
Well, try doing things the way you want.
**[16:08] ---**
What?
**[16:09] ---**
Knowing you,
you're not going to listen anyway.
**[16:13] ---**
Besides...
**[16:15] ---**
Dio is waiting.
**[16:21] ---**
Dio?
**[16:22] ---**
Here's the thing.
**[16:23] ---**
Just as you care about Hina,
there are things I have to protect, too.
**[16:29] ---**
If those things are endangered,
I'll choose them over Hina, all right?
**[16:34] ---**
Yeah, I understand.
**[16:36] ---**
Thanks, Dio.
**[16:38] ---**
Looks like I've caught your stupidity.
**[16:46] ---**
Enemy units detected.
**[16:48] ---**
Twenty heavy combatant ships.
Forty assault ships.
**[16:50] ---**
On approach vector to this base!
**[16:52] ---**
Those incompetent
Intelligence Division bastards!
**[16:55] ---**
I thought the Confederation
was supposed to go recapture Chitose!
**[16:58] ---**
Thanks to that, there's barely
any troops left to fight here!
**[16:58] ---**
"Vice Admiral Kagan"
**[16:58] ---**
"3rd Alaskan Unit
Commander, Siberian Front"
**[17:04] ---**
What business brings you here,
Madam Special Officer O'Keefe?
**[17:07] ---**
I have no time to be cleaning up
the Adminburo's messes right now.
**[17:11] ---**
There is something I wish to show you.
**[17:13] ---**
Take a look at this.
**[17:17] ---**
A plan for an operation?
**[17:19] ---**
Wha?! What kind of
idiotic operation is this?!
**[17:22] ---**
Then, do you mean to say
you have a better strategy in mind,
**[17:25] ---**
Base Commander, sir?
**[17:29] ---**
I made him agree to the operation,
**[17:29] ---**
"Vajra, Heavy Attack Cruiser Aeroship"
**[17:31] ---**
just as you told me to, Commander Gallant.
**[17:34] ---**
I am glad to hear it.
**[17:36] ---**
We are at an overwhelming
disadvantage in this defensive battle
**[17:39] ---**
and if we emerge victorious, being
credited with proposing this operation
**[17:44] ---**
should allow you to regain
your voice within the Adminburo.
**[17:48] ---**
I will not thank you.
**[17:50] ---**
I am fine with that.
**[17:51] ---**
I merely used you in order to give
myself an advantage in my own battle,
**[17:55] ---**
nothing more.
**[17:58] ---**
Well, then.
**[18:07] ---**
Hina!
**[18:10] ---**
Bizon.
**[18:12] ---**
Surprised? I don't blame you.
**[18:14] ---**
But this is all part of
being worthy of your Buddy.
**[18:18] ---**
I am going to avenge my father.
**[18:21] ---**
That's right.
**[18:22] ---**
Let's avenge Lieutenant Commander
Ryazan's death, the two of us.
**[18:25] ---**
Slava Zogilia.
**[18:28] ---**
Hina.
**[18:30] ---**
Come, let's go!
**[18:32] ---**
We'll kill Aoba Watase together!
**[18:34] ---**
Yes.
**[18:36] ---**
That's right. That's right!
**[18:55] ---**
"Super Long Range Heavy
Tactical Fixed Artillery Gun, Gala Puska"
**[19:03] ---**
Aw, man.
**[19:04] ---**
We only have three operational Valiancers
**[19:06] ---**
and yet, here we
are being sent into battle.
**[19:09] ---**
That's why we're here, standing
by in the rear, remember?
**[19:11] ---**
Once Dio and Aoba's Valiancers arrive,
**[19:14] ---**
we'll be ordered
to the front line, I'm sure.
**[19:17] ---**
Ugh! It's disgusting!
**[19:18] ---**
Suddenly changing their tune
**[19:20] ---**
the moment they realize
Coupling Valiancers are useful.
**[19:24] ---**
Message from transport ship.
**[19:26] ---**
They expect to arrive on schedule.
**[19:27] ---**
Roger.
**[19:28] ---**
High energy reading
coming from enemy base!
**[19:31] ---**
Energy within the Gorgon
is rapidly increasing!
**[19:34] ---**
So they've decided to fire off
at least one round before we get them?!
**[19:37] ---**
Keep it together!
**[19:38] ---**
It'll take them at least half a
day to supply it with enough energy
**[19:42] ---**
to reach Confederation territory.
**[19:43] ---**
XO!
**[19:44] ---**
What is it?
**[19:45] ---**
The Gorgon is...
**[19:46] ---**
moving!
**[19:48] ---**
Don't tell me they're
targeting this fleet?!
**[19:51] ---**
That's ridiculous!
**[19:52] ---**
Because, I mean,
between us and that cannon...
**[19:56] ---**
is a mountain!
**[19:58] ---**
Entry of firing data complete.
**[20:00] ---**
Nectoribium at critical threshold.
**[20:03] ---**
There's no turning back now.
**[20:06] ---**
Yes.
**[20:07] ---**
Fire the Gala Puska!
**[20:16] ---**
Here it comes!
**[20:17] ---**
Evasive action!
**[20:28] ---**
51% of enemy fleet has
been immobilized or destroyed!
**[20:32] ---**
We did it... We did it!
**[20:35] ---**
Commander,
**[20:36] ---**
Valiancer Team mobilizing
to mop up surviving enemy units.
**[20:40] ---**
All right. Permission granted!
**[20:43] ---**
Orders from flagship to
continue with the operation!
**[20:45] ---**
Ships in the vanguard are to take
up their designated operational roles.
**[20:49] ---**
U-Understood.
**[20:59] ---**
"Fleet under 3rd Alaskan
Unit, Siberian Front"
**[21:02] ---**
Pay no attention to ships that
will go down on their own.
**[21:05] ---**
Same with any ships that flee.
**[21:07] ---**
Roger!
**[21:11] ---**
Here they come.
**[21:12] ---**
Spread out and intercept.
**[21:26] ---**
You two there,
you're too far forward.
**[21:29] ---**
You'll be surrounded.
**[21:30] ---**
Commander, it's me.
**[21:32] ---**
Is that you, Bizon?
**[21:34] ---**
That thing you're in...
**[21:35] ---**
I am belated in reporting this to you,
**[21:37] ---**
but like Hina, I, too, have
been transferred to the Adminburo.
**[21:41] ---**
Therefore, we will be acting
at our own discretion here.
**[21:44] ---**
Which means that Valiancer is Hina?
**[22:01] ---**
Bizon... Hina...
**[22:04] ---**
How long do you plan to keep us waiting?!
**[22:06] ---**
We're checking on
the battle situation right now.
**[22:08] ---**
Please wait just a little longer!
**[22:09] ---**
Everyone's going to get
shot down while you're doing that!
**[22:13] ---**
Are our Valiancers all right?!
**[22:15] ---**
They should have
been outside the line of fire,
**[22:17] ---**
but we haven't been able to
ascertain the ship in this chaos.
**[22:20] ---**
No...
**[22:21] ---**
I'll contact you as soon
as we have confirmation.
**[22:23] ---**
Stand by until then.
**[22:27] ---**
*With my heart, I call out*
**[22:31] ---**
*To the far side, mutually drawn*
**[22:35] ---**
*Forgetting even the reason I ache*
**[22:40] ---**
*Just for now, please*
**[22:44] ---**
*I know you*
**[22:49] ---**
*I'm looking for you*
**[22:53] ---**
* Softly pressing my lips to the bright*
* afterimage I can't keep from leaving*
**[23:02] ---**
* If hesitation is what gives way*
* to the slightest of hopes*
**[23:11] ---**
* To as many gentle mornings*
* as the times I have wandered*
**[23:20] ---**
* In the future that*
* leads back to that sky,*
**[23:24] ---**
* I want to save you,*
* I want to protect you*
**[23:29] ---**
*In the future that arrives at that dream*
**[23:33] ---**
*Wait for me*
**[23:36] ---**
*The love we'll surely find*
**[23:41] ---**
*I want you to reach out for it*
**[23:48] ---**
Next time on Buddy Complex.
**[23:48] ---**
"Next Time 'Acception'"
**[23:51] ---**
"Acception."
# 13 - Acception
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**[00:16] ---**
Fire the Gala Puska!
**[00:23] ---**
51% of enemy fleet has
been immobilized or destroyed!
**[00:26] ---**
We did it... We did it!
**[00:29] ---**
What in the world is going on?
**[00:31] ---**
We are going to mop
up the surviving enemy units!
**[00:34] ---**
Follow my lead!
**[00:44] ---**
Let's go, Hina!
**[00:45] ---**
We're going to kill Aoba Watase!
**[00:47] ---**
Slava Zogilia.
**[00:54] ---**
"Acception"
**[01:02] ---**
Strike team has broken
through the enemy's front lines!
**[01:05] ---**
Gala Puska,
prepare to fire a second round!
**[01:08] ---**
A second round?
**[01:09] ---**
I do not believe that was
in the operation I proposed!
**[01:11] ---**
I am the commanding officer.
**[01:15] ---**
Enemy forces have
broken through our front lines!
**[01:17] ---**
Focus our remaining forces!
**[01:19] ---**
Our forces should still
have the upper hand here!
**[01:22] ---**
Don't let them fire
that cannon ever again!
**[01:26] ---**
Message from the fleet flagship.
**[01:28] ---**
Reserve forces are ordered
to incapacitate the Gorgon.
**[01:31] ---**
They want us to rush the enemy
base under these circumstances?
**[01:34] ---**
What would you like to do?
**[01:37] ---**
Orders are orders.
We have no choice but to do it.
**[01:40] ---**
Roger that, sir.
**[01:42] ---**
Full speed ahead!
**[01:45] ---**
You'll be the ones to determine
the outcome of this battle.
**[01:48] ---**
I'm counting on you, Dio, Aoba.
**[01:50] ---**
But absolutely no conducting
Couplings in these Valiancers.
**[01:54] ---**
I'll send your
adjustment data on ahead.
**[01:57] ---**
They're different Valiancers,
but the cockpits will be the same.
**[02:00] ---**
Good luck.
**[02:01] ---**
Follow me!
**[02:02] ---**
Don't fall behind!
**[02:03] ---**
Roger!
**[02:10] ---**
Fire a second round?
**[02:11] ---**
We have been informed
it will be in fifteen minutes.
**[02:13] ---**
The fool. Has this unfamiliar
success in battle gone to his head?
**[02:16] ---**
But if we can hit them again,
it will decide the course of this battle.
**[02:20] ---**
That weapon can
destroy cities and wipe out fleets.
**[02:23] ---**
You think it can be fired without limit?
**[02:27] ---**
The Gala Puska draws
its energy directly from Nectoribium.
**[02:31] ---**
Just to fire that thing once,
the amount of Nectoribium it expends
**[02:36] ---**
equals the amount
that Zogilia mines in a year.
**[02:38] ---**
Seriously?
**[02:39] ---**
A year's worth? It can't be...
**[02:42] ---**
Winning the war would be
meaningless if there is no country left.
**[02:45] ---**
But the one who urged them to use
that weapon is you, Alfried Gallant.
**[02:51] ---**
Commander?
**[02:52] ---**
Let's go!
**[02:54] ---**
We'll take advantage
of the enemy's confusion
**[02:55] ---**
and we will decide
the outcome of this battle!
**[02:57] ---**
Roger!
Roger.
**[03:14] ---**
Slava Zogilia.
**[03:21] ---**
We've been caught up in the
fighting against Zogilia's vanguard!
**[03:23] ---**
We can forget about
the Gorgon at this rate.
**[03:26] ---**
Valiancer Team, move out!
**[03:28] ---**
Dropping us right
in the thick of it, huh?
**[03:31] ---**
Cut the chitchat, Jarl!
**[03:33] ---**
Here we go!
**[03:33] ---**
Roger.
Yeah, yeah.
**[03:45] ---**
Damn it! I can't move forward!
**[03:47] ---**
There's suddenly
a whole lot more of them!
**[03:49] ---**
I'm going to create
an opening! Follow me!
**[03:52] ---**
There's no need for that, Commander.
**[03:54] ---**
Bizon?
**[03:55] ---**
Hina and I will do away with the enemy.
**[03:58] ---**
Hina, come, let's conduct a Coupling.
**[04:01] ---**
Roger.
**[04:02] ---**
Doctor, if you please.
**[04:04] ---**
All processes are green.
**[04:08] ---**
Connective, Hina!
**[04:09] ---**
Acce...
**[04:12] ---**
What are you doing, Hina? "Accept," right?
**[04:17] ---**
What a troublesome child.
**[04:22] ---**
I'm sorry. It looks like there
was an oversight on my part.
**[04:25] ---**
I've removed the impediment.
It should be fine now.
**[04:29] ---**
Be careful! What if something
were to happen to my Hina?!
**[04:33] ---**
Sorry about that.
**[04:34] ---**
Here we go!
**[04:35] ---**
Connective, Hina!
**[04:43] ---**
Hina!
**[04:59] ---**
Now, go show them.
**[05:03] ---**
Slava Zogilia.
**[05:20] ---**
Indefatigable and Inflexible's
Valiancer teams have been wiped out!
**[05:24] ---**
Codewave detected from
the two enemy Valiancers!
**[05:27] ---**
They're Coupling Valiancers!
**[05:28] ---**
What?!
**[05:29] ---**
I had no idea they
had Couplers over there...
**[05:34] ---**
Look, Hina!
**[05:36] ---**
This is what the
two of us are capable of!
**[05:40] ---**
What's gotten into Bizon?
**[05:42] ---**
But this is amazing...
**[05:44] ---**
Don't let this chance slip by! Let's go!
**[05:51] ---**
There's the Swan, Hina!
**[05:52] ---**
Aoba's come all this way for us!
**[05:57] ---**
You're in my way! Move it!
**[06:00] ---**
They're too fast!
**[06:02] ---**
There's no way we can go
up against Coupling Valiancers!
**[06:04] ---**
Oh, no! The Cygnus!
**[06:09] ---**
Left NECTTAR Gun has been hit!
**[06:16] ---**
Right engine nacelle has been hit!
**[06:18] ---**
Output down by 40%!
**[06:20] ---**
T-minus thirty seconds until
NECTTAR Curtain is charged up again!
**[06:23] ---**
Be gone!
**[06:31] ---**
What the?!
**[06:36] ---**
It's the Luxon Next and the Bradyon Next!
**[06:39] ---**
Aoba!
**[06:40] ---**
Good grief. Finally!
**[06:42] ---**
A NECTTAR Rifle?!
**[06:44] ---**
We cannot ID those Valiancers.
**[06:46] ---**
A new model, then?
**[06:47] ---**
Let's do this, Dio!
**[06:48] ---**
Don't order me around!
**[06:50] ---**
Connective, Dio!
**[06:52] ---**
Acception.
**[07:01] ---**
Enter the heroes.
**[07:03] ---**
You two took forever!
**[07:05] ---**
No kidding.
**[07:17] ---**
Coupling Valiancers?
**[07:18] ---**
They're the Confederation's
new Coupling Valiancers.
**[07:21] ---**
The pilot is probably...
**[07:24] ---**
Aoba Watase!
**[07:26] ---**
Aoba...
**[07:30] ---**
Those Valiancers...
**[07:32] ---**
Are they the ones you saw in the past?
**[07:34] ---**
Yeah, the one that came to
kill me and the one Hina was on...
**[07:38] ---**
Don't tell me...
**[07:39] ---**
Here we go, Hina!
**[07:43] ---**
Is it Hina piloting that one?!
**[07:45] ---**
Here they come!
**[07:53] ---**
What's with those new Valiancers?!
**[07:54] ---**
Amazing...
**[07:56] ---**
So that's what combat looks
like between Coupling Valiancers...
**[08:00] ---**
Emphatier Level at 90%!
**[08:02] ---**
It's the greatest Match we've ever seen!
**[08:04] ---**
I never imagined
**[08:05] ---**
that we'd be seeing combat
between Coupling Valiancers so soon...
**[08:09] ---**
This should yield some valuable data.
**[08:11] ---**
This is...
**[08:13] ---**
Elvira, please look.
**[08:15] ---**
What is this?
**[08:16] ---**
At any rate, this means the enemy's
overwhelming advantage is gone.
**[08:21] ---**
Attack with everything we've got!
**[08:23] ---**
This is the crucial turning point!
**[08:31] ---**
Our troops are taking losses.
**[08:33] ---**
So we've lost the advantage of surprise.
**[08:36] ---**
To think we've been reduced to
relying on Coupling Valiancers, too.
**[08:40] ---**
Damn it! They're strong!
**[08:42] ---**
Aoba, if you don't fight like
you're going to take them down,
**[08:44] ---**
you're going to get killed!
**[08:46] ---**
I know that, but...
**[08:48] ---**
Both of you, listen!
**[08:49] ---**
There was some weird
signal noise, so we analyzed it.
**[08:52] ---**
There's something strained
about the Coupling on the enemy side.
**[08:55] ---**
They might be
forcing something somewhere.
**[08:58] ---**
If that's true, it's an opening
we can take advantage of.
**[09:01] ---**
So I have an idea.
**[09:06] ---**
I see.
**[09:07] ---**
This is a gamble. And one
with pretty bad odds at that.
**[09:10] ---**
Let me do it. I'm sure
Hina's got to be on that thing.
**[09:13] ---**
All right.
**[09:19] ---**
Here we go, Aoba!
**[09:20] ---**
Right!
**[09:21] ---**
Decoupling!
**[09:25] ---**
They dissolved their Coupling?!
**[09:36] ---**
Hina, can you hear me?!
**[09:38] ---**
It's me!
**[09:39] ---**
What?
**[09:40] ---**
What the?! Damn it!
**[09:42] ---**
The cockpit had this
kind of functionality?!
**[09:46] ---**
Wh... at?
**[09:48] ---**
Hina! It's Aoba!
**[09:51] ---**
Ao... ba...
**[09:52] ---**
That's right! Aoba!
**[09:57] ---**
Aoba...
**[09:59] ---**
It's me! It's Aoba Watase!
**[10:01] ---**
You're you, right?
**[10:09] ---**
Aoba!
**[10:11] ---**
Hina!
**[10:22] ---**
There's the forcible Decoupling!
**[10:23] ---**
Now!
**[10:24] ---**
All right!
**[10:34] ---**
Why you! What did you do, Aoba?!
**[10:40] ---**
Dio. Aoba.
**[10:42] ---**
It looks like the Gorgon has begun
to power up to fire a second time.
**[10:45] ---**
T-minus four minutes until
estimated time of firing.
**[10:47] ---**
There's no time.
**[10:48] ---**
Understood.
**[10:49] ---**
Let's go, Aoba!
**[10:51] ---**
Roger!
**[10:57] ---**
T-minus three minutes to firing.
**[10:59] ---**
Please wait! We still have
friendlies on the battlefield!
**[11:01] ---**
They have all been notified.
We will fire as planned.
**[11:06] ---**
Understood.
**[11:08] ---**
Three Valiancers rapidly approaching!
**[11:15] ---**
Are you awake, Hina?
**[11:17] ---**
Aoba...
**[11:19] ---**
I had no idea that you were a Coupler.
**[11:22] ---**
I don't really understand.
**[11:23] ---**
I thought I declined Doctor Hahn's
request that I be a pilot...
**[11:27] ---**
What do you mean?
**[11:29] ---**
I couldn't speak to the details,
**[11:31] ---**
but knowing him,
I imagine he'd use any means.
**[11:34] ---**
That's my Hina!
**[11:42] ---**
Hina! You okay?!
**[11:44] ---**
Let's conduct a
Coupling one more time!
**[11:45] ---**
Stop it, Bizon!
**[11:47] ---**
They're coming! We have to hurry!
**[11:50] ---**
Connective, Hina!
**[11:55] ---**
No!
**[11:57] ---**
What's wrong, Hina?! Are you okay?!
**[11:59] ---**
Answer me, Hina!
**[12:00] ---**
Hina!
**[12:01] ---**
Stop!
**[12:04] ---**
The enemy Valiancer
is emitting Force Consultors!
**[12:06] ---**
I knew it...
**[12:07] ---**
Hahn, you've made it
possible to conduct Couplings
**[12:10] ---**
that ignore the will of
the Couplers, haven't you?!
**[12:12] ---**
The mistake lies in being
shackled by preconceptions.
**[12:16] ---**
At this rate, the enemy
will forcibly conduct a Coupling!
**[12:22] ---**
Hina, the two of us are
going to conduct a Coupling now!
**[12:26] ---**
What?
**[12:26] ---**
It'll be fine, Hina! Trust me!
**[12:30] ---**
Aoba...
**[12:32] ---**
Hina!
**[12:33] ---**
Connective, Hina!
**[12:35] ---**
Do it, Aoba!
**[12:38] ---**
Connective, Hina!
**[12:47] ---**
Emphatier Level is rising!
**[12:49] ---**
It's still going up and up and up!
**[12:50] ---**
What's going on, Aoba?!
**[12:53] ---**
Ensign Ryazan...
**[13:06] ---**
Aoba.
**[13:08] ---**
Hina.
**[13:11] ---**
In the beginning, I hated you.
**[13:15] ---**
That's true.
**[13:17] ---**
But you continued to
place your trust in me all this time.
**[13:25] ---**
This time, I'll place
my trust in you, Aoba.
**[13:32] ---**
Acception.
**[13:45] ---**
Aoba...
**[13:49] ---**
Why, Hina?! Tell me why!
**[13:54] ---**
What's going on? What is that light?!
**[13:57] ---**
U-Unknown!
**[13:59] ---**
Darn it! Fire the Gala Puska!
**[14:35] ---**
Singularity of unknown origin
has appeared at coordinates 125, -979.
**[14:40] ---**
It is beginning to expand.
**[14:41] ---**
Gravitational anomaly detected.
**[14:42] ---**
Internal mass increasing
at a geometric rate.
**[14:44] ---**
Retreat! Retreat!
**[14:47] ---**
Propulsion problem
on Proto-Valiancer Unit 2.
**[14:49] ---**
He will get pulled in at
his current rate of acceleration.
**[14:53] ---**
What's wrong, Unit 2?! Accelerate!
**[14:55] ---**
D-Damn it!
**[15:10] ---**
Bizon...
**[15:11] ---**
I'm pretty sure that's
the thing from when...
**[15:13] ---**
What is it?
**[15:14] ---**
I told you before, remember?
**[15:15] ---**
I went into that thing
and came to this era.
**[15:20] ---**
A time tunnel...
**[15:22] ---**
A time tunnel?!
**[15:23] ---**
I see, so that's the
thing you were talking about...
**[15:26] ---**
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it looked like that.
**[15:29] ---**
It can't be...
**[15:31] ---**
Why you!
**[15:33] ---**
You won't get away with this,
**[15:35] ---**
Aoba Watase!
**[15:38] ---**
Because you brought me here.
**[15:40] ---**
A Valiancer suddenly
came after me at school
**[15:44] ---**
and you saved me, remember?
**[15:48] ---**
Aoba will be... attacked...?
**[15:53] ---**
A time... tunnel...
**[16:00] ---**
I get it now!
**[16:02] ---**
Hina!
**[16:03] ---**
What's wrong?!
**[16:04] ---**
Aoba, it's exactly like you said.
**[16:07] ---**
What?
**[16:08] ---**
This time, I'll be the one to save you!
**[16:13] ---**
Wait, Hina!
**[16:15] ---**
Don't, Aoba! It's dangerous!
**[16:17] ---**
Out of my way, Dio! If I don't go now...!
**[16:20] ---**
Hina!
**[16:26] ---**
Accelerate, damn you!
**[16:33] ---**
See you later, Aoba.
**[16:43] ---**
Hina!
**[17:05] ---**
I...
**[17:17] ---**
I wonder when this is...
**[17:26] ---**
It'll be fine.
**[17:28] ---**
I have time. I'm sure of it.
**[17:44] ---**
Wait for me, Aoba.
**[17:49] ---**
I see, so Hina...
**[17:52] ---**
Hina alone...
**[17:55] ---**
has been going back and
forth across the same time all along...
**[17:58] ---**
to make sure I...
**[18:11] ---**
I...
**[18:14] ---**
Who... am I?
**[18:18] ---**
Hina has been doing the
same thing over and over again,
**[18:22] ---**
and I've never been able to stop her...
**[18:26] ---**
Hina...
**[18:28] ---**
Hina!
**[18:34] ---**
Aoba, it's exactly like you said.
**[18:37] ---**
What?
**[18:38] ---**
This time, I'll be the one to save you!
**[18:40] ---**
Wait, Hina!
**[18:50] ---**
Aoba, hurry!
**[18:51] ---**
What?
**[18:52] ---**
What's wrong?
**[18:53] ---**
You're not going to stop me?
**[18:55] ---**
Why would I stop you? She's Hina, right?
**[18:57] ---**
The one who saved your life?
**[19:00] ---**
Oh, yeah, that's right.
**[19:03] ---**
You know, don't you?
**[19:09] ---**
See you later, Aoba.
**[19:13] ---**
Hina, don't go!
**[19:15] ---**
Aoba?! Why?!
**[19:17] ---**
It's time to put an end to
doing this over and over again!
**[19:19] ---**
What are you saying?!
**[19:20] ---**
If I don't go, Bizon will come to kill you!
**[19:23] ---**
I know!
**[19:26] ---**
It's no use saying
anything to him right now.
**[19:28] ---**
You got this, Aoba? Don't miss!
**[19:31] ---**
Right.
**[19:34] ---**
What are you bastards doing?
**[19:38] ---**
So long.
**[19:44] ---**
Why you!
**[19:46] ---**
Aoba!
**[19:47] ---**
Hina!
**[20:13] ---**
Evacuate! Evacuate!
**[20:20] ---**
What happened to Bizon?
**[20:22] ---**
The Alaska Base...
**[20:23] ---**
It's not as if this war is over.
**[20:26] ---**
Is this the punishment meted
out to those who have succumbed
**[20:29] ---**
to the siren song of Nectoribium?
**[20:32] ---**
The Zogilian forces are withdrawing!
**[20:37] ---**
So, we managed
to survive somehow.
**[20:39] ---**
This is Dio. Rendezvousing shortly.
**[20:42] ---**
Aoba, likewise.
**[20:43] ---**
Aoba!
**[20:46] ---**
The heroes return.
**[20:50] ---**
Aoba, why did you stop me?
**[20:54] ---**
Why? Because...
**[20:56] ---**
I didn't want to let you go. That's all.
**[20:59] ---**
That was your chance
to go back to the past. So why...
**[21:04] ---**
That's...
**[21:06] ---**
This guy doesn't think.
**[21:08] ---**
The hell was that?!
**[21:09] ---**
There might still be other chances, right?!
**[21:12] ---**
Talk about optimistic.
**[21:13] ---**
But it's true, isn't it?
**[21:15] ---**
No one knows the future, after all.
**[21:18] ---**
Aoba...
**[21:20] ---**
Besides, there's a
guy who'd miss me if I left.
**[21:26] ---**
Are you talking about me?!
**[21:27] ---**
Who else would I be talking about?
**[21:29] ---**
You're more dense than I thought.
**[21:31] ---**
Dense...! I don't want
to hear that from you!
**[21:32] ---**
You're right. No one can know the future.
**[21:33] ---**
And like there's any way I'd miss you!
**[21:40] ---**
Bradyon Next. Luxon Next.
Plus one captured Valiancer.
**[21:44] ---**
Coming in for landing shortly.
**[21:45] ---**
Roger.
**[21:46] ---**
Ready to receive Valiancer Team!
**[21:50] ---**
*With my heart, I call out*
**[21:54] ---**
*To the far side, mutually drawn*
**[21:59] ---**
*Forgetting even the reason I ache*
**[22:03] ---**
*Just for now, please*
**[22:07] ---**
*I know you*
**[22:12] ---**
*I'm looking for you*
**[22:16] ---**
* Softly pressing my lips to the bright*
* afterimage I can't keep from leaving*
**[22:25] ---**
* If hesitation is what gives way*
* to the slightest of hopes*
**[22:34] ---**
* To as many gentle mornings*
* as the times I have wandered*
**[22:43] ---**
* In the future that*
* leads back to that sky,*
**[22:47] ---**
* I want to save you,*
* I want to protect you*
**[22:52] ---**
*In the future that arrives at that dream*
**[22:56] ---**
*Wait for me*
**[22:59] ---**
*The love we'll surely find*
**[23:04] ---**
*I want you to reach out for it*
**[23:12] ---**
"Central Committee Political
Administration Bureau of Zogilia"
**[23:39] ---**
So, this moment has finally arrived...
**[23:42] ---**
There is no such
thing as a future for you.
**[23:45] ---**
You will enjoy the full brunt of my wrath,
**[23:49] ---**
Aoba Watase.