# 46 - A Dream of Butterflies
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**[00:00] [SONG] Text**
Thou Shalt Not Die
**[00:05] Francis**
A transaction.
**[00:06] Francis**
Use the healing ability for me.
**[00:09] Francis**
In exchange, I'll provide information that
will lead to the Agency's restoration.
**[00:13] Francis**
*We'll meet in twenty minutes.*
**[00:14] Francis**
*At Goban Street.*
**[00:16] Kenji**
Information that'll lead to
the Agency's restoration!
**[00:19] Tanizaki**
Now we have some hope.
**[00:20] Ougai**
Odd.
**[00:22] Ougai**
How did he discover this hideout?
**[00:25] Tanizaki**
He must have used his
Eyes of God or whatever, right?
**[00:28] Ougai**
That's the thing.
**[00:30] Ougai**
If he was able to discover this hideout,
**[00:32] Ougai**
he might as well have done business
with the Military Police instead.
**[00:35] Ougai**
It would have been more profitable to
do the formidable Hunting Dogs a favor,
**[00:39] Ougai**
as opposed to the weakened Detective Agency.
**[00:42] Ougai**
The Francis I know always sides with
the stronger, more bullish side.
**[00:48] Ougai**
This transaction may be a trap.
**[02:30] Tanizaki**
Yosano-san, where are you going?
**[02:33] Tanizaki**
To complete the transaction?
**[02:36] Tanizaki**
It might be a trap.
**[02:38] Tanizaki**
Why?
**[02:41] Tanizaki**
Are you that reluctant
to join the Port Mafia?
**[02:49] (Flashback) Yosano**
Don't give me that bullshit!
**[02:50] (Flashback) Yosano**
You can't help us prove
the Agency's innocence?
**[02:54] (Flashback) Ougai**
That is correct.
**[02:55] (Flashback) Ougai**
The agreement with Fukuzawa-dono
**[02:57] (Flashback) Ougai**
was that we would only help the Agency
**[03:00] (Flashback) Ougai**
in exchange for transferring one
of its members to the Mafia.
**[03:04] (Flashback) Yosano**
Transfer a member of the Agency?
**[03:06] (Flashback) Yosano**
Do you think you're funny?
**[03:07] (Flashback) Yosano**
All you really want is for me
to join the Mafia, don't you?
**[03:13] Tanizaki**
In that case, I'll join the Mafia.
**[03:16] Tanizaki**
My ability, Light Snow,
ought to be useful to them.
**[03:21] Tanizaki**
So please, tell me why.
**[03:23] Tanizaki**
What happened between
you and the Mafia boss?
**[03:27] Tanizaki**
Does it have something to
do with the "angel of death"
**[03:31] Tanizaki**
that the Hunting Dogs were talking about?
**[03:36] Yosano**
I guess I shouldn't trouble you any more.
**[03:40] Yosano**
Fine.
**[03:41] Yosano**
I'll tell you as we walk.
**[03:46] Yosano**
A long time ago, the boss and Mori-sensei
**[03:49] Yosano**
were close allies in the
tripartite framework.
**[03:52] Yosano**
Now, though, they're enemies.
**[03:54] Yosano**
Why do you think that is?
**[03:56] Tanizaki**
Come to think of it...
***SIGN*** Episode 46
***SIGN*** A Dream of Butterflies
**[04:05] Yosano**
It's because of me.
***SIGN*** Fourteen years ago
Near the end of the great war
**[04:13] Yosano**
An island, Tokoyamijima, appeared
out of nowhere in the Pacific.
**[04:16] Yosano**
An unclaimed island where
it was only ever night,
**[04:21] Yosano**
it became the main battleground
towards the end of the great war.
**[04:24] Yosano**
Electromagnetic waves from the aurora
destroyed electronic equipment,
**[04:28] Yosano**
resulting in pre-modern
close-quarters combat.
**[04:42] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
Don't just lie there, you lousy soldiers!
**[04:45] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
Special ability: Thou Shalt Not Die.
**[04:47] (Flashback) Text**
Thou Shalt Not Die
**[05:01] (Flashback) Guy A**
It doesn't hurt!
**[05:02] (Flashback) Guy B**
I can see!
**[05:03] (Flashback) Guy B**
My eyes are working!
**[05:05] (Flashback) Guy C**
My leg...
**[05:06] (Flashback) Guy C**
I have my leg!
**[05:07] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
You get hurt because you're weak.
**[05:09] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
Get back to the damn front!
***SIGN*** National Guard Infantry Unit 356
**[05:12] Sign**
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**[05:12] [SONG] Sign**
Sponsored
Student
Medic
Yosano Akiko
(11 years old)
***SIGN*** National Guard Infantry Unit 356
**[05:17] Sign**
m 0 0 l 100 0 100 290 0 290
**[05:17] [SONG] Sign**
Unit Chief
Medic Adjutant
***SIGN*** Mori Ougai (26 years old)
**[05:23] (Flashback) Guy D**
Amazing! It's a miracle.
**[05:25] (Flashback) Guy E**
You are our god!
**[05:27] (Flashback) Guy F**
Our savior!
**[05:28] (Flashback) Guy G**
Let us use your likeness as our emblem!
**[05:30] (Flashback) Guy H**
Please! Let us worship you!
**[05:33] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
Go away!
**[05:33] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
Piss off!
**[05:36] (Flashback) Mori**
Are you that enamored with my Yosano-kun?
**[05:40] (Flashback) Guy A**
Ch-Chief Mori...
**[05:42] (Flashback) Guy A**
We would never...
**[05:44] (Flashback) Guy B**
Oh, shit... He's gonna kill us!
**[05:46] (Flashback) Guy C**
He's going to pickle our organs.
**[05:48] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
"Your" Yosano-kun?
**[05:50] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
Since when was I yours, Mori-sensei?
**[05:54] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
I'll bite your ears off.
**[05:56] (Flashback) Mori**
I'm your superior, am I not?
**[05:58] (Flashback) Mori**
I have the right to correct your
attitude and language, too.
**[06:02] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
I don't care about military policy.
**[06:05] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
I was working at a candy
shop until last week,
**[06:08] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
when you dragged me out
here against my will.
**[06:18] (Flashback) Mori**
She's so strong willed...
**[06:19] (Flashback) Mori**
I like!
**[06:28] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
Reading a novel?
Right after you nearly died?
**[06:32] (Flashback) Guy**
It's not a novel.
**[06:34] (Flashback) Guy**
It's a poetry collection.
**[06:37] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
Unbelievable.
**[06:38] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
I'm not telling you to
thank me with tears of joy,
**[06:41] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
but don't you have any intention
of hurrying back to the front,
**[06:45] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
now that you're all better?
**[06:47] (Flashback) Guy**
I thank you, for sure.
**[06:49] (Flashback) Guy**
That's why I want you to have this.
**[06:54] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
My butterfly.
**[06:58] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
*No.*
**[07:00] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
*It's...*
**[07:01] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
*Metal?*
**[07:03] (Flashback) Guy**
Thank you, angel.
**[07:07] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
A-Angel?!
**[07:13] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
But how did you do that just now?
**[07:16] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
Was that your special ability?
**[07:19] (Flashback) Guy**
It's not much of an ability.
**[07:21] (Flashback) Guy**
It's not going to change
the world, like yours can.
**[07:25] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
Me? Change the world?
**[07:26] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
You're joking.
**[07:29] (Flashback) Guy**
There are some things you notice
because you're just a private.
**[07:32] (Flashback) Guy**
The Special Ability Doctrine.
**[07:35] (Flashback) Guy**
The great powers of Europe
that started the Gifted wars
**[07:38] (Flashback) Guy**
are changing the very concept of war.
**[07:40] (Flashback) Guy**
If we are to prevail, we must prove this
to the military brass as fast as possible.
**[07:47] (Flashback) Guy**
That's why Chief Mori
brought you into the unit.
**[07:53] (Flashback) Guy**
Isn't that right, Chief Mori?
**[07:57] (Flashback) Mori**
I see you've read my
Immortal Regiment paper.
**[08:02] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
What are you talking about?!
**[08:04] (Flashback) Mori**
I was certain that was a
classified military document.
**[08:07] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
Military brass? Immortal?
What the hell are you talking about?
**[08:10] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
I just came here to save people's lives!
**[08:13] (Flashback) Mori**
Let's go, Yosano.
**[08:15] (Flashback) Mori**
There are more patients waiting.
**[08:18] (Flashback) Mori**
Elise-chan, the next chart, please.
**[08:22] (Flashback) Elise**
Yes, master.
**[08:28] (Flashback) Soldier B**
Dammit...
**[08:29] (Flashback) Soldier B**
Those assholes have set up camp so close.
**[08:32] (Flashback) Soldier B**
They don't think we're a threat.
**[08:34] (Flashback) Soldier C**
I hate to admit it, but we aren't.
**[08:36] (Flashback) Soldier C**
We don't even have weapons
that can reach that far.
**[08:39] (Flashback) Soldier D**
We're way outgunned and outnumbered.
**[08:43] (Flashback) Soldier D**
Unless something changes...
**[08:45] (Flashback) Soldier A**
We'll take them down!
**[08:46] (Flashback) Soldier A**
We have an angel on our side.
**[08:49] (Flashback) Soldier C**
You're right.
**[08:58] (Flashback) Soldier**
Shit!
**[09:00] (Flashback) Soldier**
Everyone, get down!
**[09:27] (Flashback) Soldier**
I have my right arm.
**[09:29] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
Are you feeling all right?
**[09:38] (Flashback) Soldier**
You look pretty exhausted yourself.
**[09:40] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
Of course I do.
**[09:42] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
I treated 80 people all at once.
**[09:45] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
The worst one had half his body blown off.
**[09:49] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
I could heal his wounds with my ability,
but I couldn't heal his mind.
**[09:54] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
He can't even say his name.
**[09:57] (Flashback) Soldier**
What about everyone else?
**[09:58] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
The ones who didn't die
went back to the front.
**[10:01] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
They're lacking men.
**[10:06] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
"Angel," my ass.
**[10:08] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
I'm basically healing them
just for them to die again.
**[10:12] (Flashback) Soldier**
You're wrong.
**[10:19] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
What's that?
**[10:20] (Flashback) Soldier**
I'm keeping count.
**[10:23] (Flashback) Soldier**
Of the number of times you've saved my life.
**[10:26] (Flashback) Soldier**
Today makes the fifth time.
**[10:28] (Flashback) Soldier**
I happen to like tallying with
the character for "true."
**[10:32] (Flashback) Soldier**
Every time I count something
and I finish writing "true,"
**[10:36] (Flashback) Soldier**
I get the sense that something
*just* was created in the world.
**[10:40] (Flashback) Soldier**
This is your justness.
**[10:42] (Flashback) Soldier**
If it weren't for you,
**[10:44] (Flashback) Soldier**
I would never have had a chance to
meet my parents and brother again.
**[10:48] (Flashback) Soldier**
I'm glad you're here.
**[10:54] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
Thanks.
**[10:56] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
Actually, I...
**[10:59] (Flashback) Senior Officer A**
Hey, private first-class!
**[11:01] (Flashback) Senior Officer A**
The front is in a dire situation.
**[11:03] (Flashback) Senior Officer A**
You're all better, so get back out there!
**[11:05] (Flashback) Soldier**
Yes, sir.
**[11:12] Yosano**
But as if to laugh in the face of our efforts,
the situation continued to worsen.
**[11:20] Yosano**
I was treating soldiers
once every three days.
**[11:24] Yosano**
Then once every day.
**[11:26] Yosano**
Soon, three times a day.
**[11:29] Yosano**
It was no longer correct
to even call it a war.
**[11:34] Yosano**
We were just standing there,
being brutalized.
**[11:37] Yosano**
A normal unit would have given
up and retreated long ago,
**[11:42] Yosano**
but that never happened.
**[11:45] Yosano**
Because I was there.
**[11:48] (Flashback) Soldier F**
It hurts... It hurts...
**[11:50] (Flashback) Soldier G**
My leg... My leg!
**[11:53] (Flashback) Soldier H**
I can't fight anymore...
**[11:54] (Flashback) Soldier H**
Spare me...
**[11:55] (Flashback) Soldier I**
No more...
**[11:56] (Flashback) Soldier I**
I don't want to go to the front anymore...
**[11:59] (Flashback) Mori**
That's a fracture of the right radius.
**[12:03] (Flashback) Mori**
Treatment.
**[12:04] (Flashback) Soldier**
Dad... Mom...
**[12:07] (Flashback) Soldier**
I'll be home soon...
**[12:12] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
I don't want to fix them.
**[12:14] (Flashback) Mori**
You're going to abandon his wounds?
**[12:16] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
Yeah. That's right.
**[12:18] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
Let him fall back and get
treatment on his own!
**[12:22] (Flashback) Mori**
I see.
**[12:24] (Flashback) Mori**
You want to free him from the battlefield.
**[12:29] (Flashback) Mori**
What a conundrum.
**[12:31] (Flashback) Mori**
I'm obliged to give you orders,
**[12:35] (Flashback) Mori**
but I have a hard time saying
no to a girl's wishes...
**[12:38] (Flashback) Mori**
Not yours, though.
**[12:40] (Flashback) Mori**
Do it.
**[12:43] (Flashback) Mori**
You know of the samurai, don't you?
**[12:46] (Flashback) Mori**
They failed to understand war by
gun and cannon, and perished.
**[12:52] (Flashback) Mori**
In the war after, the nation that recognized
tanks as beasts that could ravage
**[12:56] (Flashback) Mori**
enemy territory, not as simple turrets,
massacred the enemy.
**[13:02] (Flashback) Mori**
In naval battles, the nation
that failed to realize
**[13:05] (Flashback) Mori**
that planes would be the masters
of the sea was the one to fall.
**[13:08] (Flashback) Mori**
And now, special abilities are changing war.
**[13:12] (Flashback) Mori**
Your role is to make the
military understand change.
**[13:16] (Flashback) Mori**
Do it.
**[13:17] (Flashback) Mori**
Or else the nation will fall.
**[13:19] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
I refuse!
**[13:20] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
I just want to save the
lives in front of me!
**[13:27] (Flashback) Mori**
Very well.
**[13:34] (Flashback) Mori**
There.
**[13:35] (Flashback) Mori**
He's dying.
**[13:37] (Flashback) Mori**
Fix him.
**[13:44] Yosano**
No one could leave the battlefield.
**[13:49] Yosano**
The soldier who drew a picture of me,
**[13:52] Yosano**
the soldier who pat my head,
saying I reminded him of his sister,
**[13:55] Yosano**
the soldier who made me delicious coffee...
**[13:58] Yosano**
They all died.
**[14:00] Yosano**
If it weren't for me, they could
have left with mere injuries.
**[14:06] Yosano**
Do you know the word "annihilation"?
**[14:09] Yosano**
It's used when half of a
unit is incapacitated.
**[14:13] Yosano**
Not when half of the unit is *dead*.
**[14:16] Yosano**
In other words, if half of an army is hurt,
it retreats and the battle ends.
**[14:22] Yosano**
But as long as I was there,
there was no retreat.
**[14:25] Yosano**
That's why they couldn't lose.
**[14:28] Yosano**
To lose is a human right,
**[14:30] Yosano**
but I took that from them.
**[14:34] Yosano**
Deprived of the ability to lose,
there's only one place a military can go.
**[14:39] (Flashback) Soldier F**
Stop him!
**[14:40] (Flashback) Soldier G**
Take his dagger!
**[14:41] (Flashback) Soldier H**
Everyone's going to die
because of that bitch!
**[14:43] (Flashback) Soldier H**
This isn't a war!
**[14:46] (Flashback) Soldier H**
Let me go, asshole!
**[14:47] (Flashback) Soldier H**
Let me go! Let me go!
**[14:51] (Flashback) Yosano**
It happened on the day a soldier
I was close to tried to kill me.
**[15:04] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
My hair ornament's missing.
**[15:07] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
I must have dropped it somewhere.
**[15:10] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
I can't lose it after he gave it to me.
**[15:13] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
I have to find it.
**[15:16] (Flashback) Soldier**
Yosano-san,
**[15:18] (Flashback) Soldier**
I'd like to ask you to deliver a message.
**[15:21] (Flashback) Yosano (young)**
That voice...
**[15:23] (Flashback) Soldier**
I promised I'd endure...
**[15:25] (Flashback) Soldier**
But your ability, the justness
of it, has taught me...
**[15:30] (Flashback) Soldier**
Everyone has their limits.
**[15:34] (Flashback) Soldier**
Remember how I called you an angel?
**[15:38] (Flashback) Soldier**
You're more than that.
**[15:41] (Flashback) Soldier**
You've descended on the battlefield
**[15:43] (Flashback) Soldier**
as an angel of death.
**[15:46] (Flashback) Soldier**
Please tell my family that I said goodbye.
***SIGN*** You are too just
***SIGN*** You are too just
***SIGN*** You are too just
**[16:43] Yosano**
My memory after that
point is honestly vague.
**[16:48] Yosano**
From what I've heard,
**[16:49] Yosano**
I was arrested for setting explosives
to try to blow up the carrier.
**[16:55] Yosano**
Even after the war, I was kept
in isolation in a facility.
**[16:59] Yosano**
Not that I imagine I would have left,
even if the door was open.
**[17:04] Tanizaki**
So it was the Agency that rescued you?
**[17:09] Yosano**
If only that were the case.
**[17:12] Yosano**
It was the worst person imaginable who did.
**[17:16] Yosano**
It was three years after the war ended.
**[17:29] (Flashback) Mori**
I finally found you.
**[17:36] (Flashback) Mori**
I need your ability again.
**[17:49] (Flashback) Fukuzawa**
You would drag her back into hell again?!
**[17:52] (Flashback) Fukuzawa**
Are you playing the part
of a devil, Mori-sensei?!
**[17:55] (Flashback) Mori**
She is the very pillar of the
tripartite framework, of the city's peace.
**[18:00] (Flashback) Mori**
An immortal army, led by Yosano-kun,
**[18:03] (Flashback) Mori**
is best suited to defeating
the formidable Port Mafia boss!
**[18:09] (Flashback) Fukuzawa**
"Best suited," my ass!
**[18:11] (Flashback) Fukuzawa**
Your reasoning lacks humanity!
**[18:14] (Flashback) Mori**
Humanity?!
**[18:16] (Flashback) Mori**
War is a game in which the first to
take humanity into account loses!
**[18:20] (Flashback) Fukuzawa**
Then our alliance ends today!
**[18:24] (Flashback) Mori**
In fact, it's your life that ends today!
**[18:34] (Flashback) Rampo**
Sheesh, nasty.
**[18:36] (Flashback) Rampo**
Grown-up fights are always so pompous.
**[18:40] (Flashback) Rampo**
Oh, this?
**[18:42] (Flashback) Rampo**
I'm freeing you while the boss is fighting.
**[18:45] (Flashback) Rampo**
That's the plan.
**[18:47] (Flashback) Yosano**
Take me back.
**[18:50] (Flashback) Yosano**
Take me back.
**[18:51] (Flashback) Yosano**
I can't go outside.
**[18:54] (Flashback) Rampo**
Why not?
**[18:55] (Flashback) Yosano**
My special ability makes
it too easy to save lives.
**[19:00] (Flashback) Yosano**
I make the lives of everyone
around me seem cheap.
**[19:04] (Flashback) Yosano**
I can't be allowed to live.
**[19:09] (Flashback) Rampo**
That's so stupid.
**[19:11] (Flashback) Rampo**
I don't give a crap.
**[19:14] (Flashback) Rampo**
Why don't you give up using
your special ability, then?
**[19:17] (Flashback) Yosano**
If I could do that...
**[19:19] (Flashback) Rampo**
You're saying you can't?
**[19:21] (Flashback) Rampo**
Why not?
**[19:22] (Flashback) Rampo**
Because you have a crazy healing ability?
**[19:25] (Flashback) Rampo**
Because everyone tried to use your ability?
**[19:30] (Flashback) Rampo**
Nope.
**[19:31] (Flashback) Rampo**
My superhuman deduction is the
best special ability in the world.
**[19:34] (Flashback) Rampo**
No other ability matters.
**[19:37] (Flashback) Rampo**
With me on your side,
I can solve all your problems!
**[19:41] (Flashback) Rampo**
If you doubt my abilities,
I can prove it to you.
**[19:57] (Flashback) Yosano**
It's...
**[19:59] (Flashback) Yosano**
How?
**[20:01] (Flashback) Yosano**
I never told anyone about this!
**[20:04] (Flashback) Rampo**
I found it on an old carrier.
**[20:07] (Flashback) Rampo**
See?
**[20:08] (Flashback) Rampo**
I know everything.
**[20:10] (Flashback) Rampo**
Try asking me a question.
**[20:12] (Flashback) Rampo**
I'll answer anything..
**[20:15] (Flashback) Yosano**
Then... What should I do now?
**[20:20] (Flashback) Yosano**
The people I cared about died because of me.
**[20:23] (Flashback) Yosano**
That's how it's always going to be.
**[20:26] (Flashback) Yosano**
There will always be people who want
to use my ability against my will.
***SIGN*** You are too just
***SIGN*** You are too just
**[20:32] (Flashback) Yosano**
Is there really anywhere
I can be allowed to live?
**[20:36] (Flashback) Rampo**
There is.
**[20:40] (Flashback) Rampo**
There's just one place in the
world that doesn't need you.
**[20:46] (Flashback) Rampo**
Join the Armed Detective Agency.
**[20:49] (Flashback) Rampo**
We don't want your special ability.
**[20:52] (Flashback) Rampo**
We want that kindness of yours.
**[20:54] (Flashback) Rampo**
You didn't want anyone to die, did you?
**[20:57] (Flashback) Rampo**
That's why you're in so much pain.
**[21:00] (Flashback) Rampo**
I want to invite you because
you have such kindness.
**[21:04] (Flashback) Rampo**
I don't care about your ability.
**[21:06] (Flashback) Rampo**
It's your kindness that means something.
**[21:21] Tanizaki**
Yosano-san, what's wrong?
**[21:26] Yosano**
Nothing.
**[21:29] Yosano**
Let's go.
**[21:30] Yosano**
The transaction takes place
through the door.
**[21:35] Yosano**
I'm saving the Agency, no matter what.
**[21:39] (Flashback) Rampo**
There's just one place in the
world that doesn't need you.
**[21:50] Yosano**
* The Agency is the one place in the*
* world where I can be allowed to live.*
***SIGN*** Next Episode: 47
***SIGN*** In Lament of
My Wingless Body