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."
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