# 9 - The Coupling System
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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!
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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."