# 12 - The Curse Known as Fate
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**[00:03] Chrono**
Ibuki!
**[00:06] Chrono**
Ibuki!
**[00:10] Chrono**
Ibuki!
**[01:47] Tokoha**
Kazuma!
**[01:48] Tokoha**
Taiyou!
**[01:50] Tokoha**
I heard Chrono disappeared! What happened?!
**[01:53] Kazuma**
I don't know.
**[01:55] Kazuma**
He just vanished, right in front of my eyes.
**[01:57] Taiyou**
It looked like a spatial distortion.
**[01:59] Taiyou**
It was similar to falling into Relics.
**[02:02] Shion**
This is the place where Chrono fell into Relics.
**[02:05] Shion**
Its effect may still be lingering.
**[02:09] Shion**
And Chrono had that crest on his hand, right?
**[02:15] Shion**
So the possibility still exists
of him being turned into a vessel for Gyze?
**[02:19] Taiyou**
Um, right before Relics was destroyed,
**[02:24] Taiyou**
it looked like the crest on Chrono's hand
was complete for just a moment.
**[02:29] Shion**
What?!
**[02:30] Taiyou**
Sorry. That's been
bothering me ever since, but...
**[02:35] Kazuma**
If only I'd taken you more seriously back then...
**[02:38] Kazuma**
Darn it!
**[02:39] Tokoha**
Stop!
**[02:41] Tokoha**
Anyway, let's contact my brother
and the others, then meet up.
**[02:46] Tokoha**
Rather than focusing on
"what I was thinking then,"
**[02:48] Tokoha**
the priority is searching for Chrono!
**[02:50] Shion**
Right.
**[02:52] Kazuma**
Yeah.
***SIGN*** Turn 12 The Curse Known as Fate
**[03:02] Arute**
Gear Chronicle's Singularity...
**[03:06] Chrono**
Hey! Get ahold of yourself!
**[03:10] Chrono**
Did you do this to Ibuki?!
**[03:11] Arute**
Welcome to my curse space.
**[03:15] Arute**
As he takes damage in the fight,
his life is whittled away.
**[03:20] Arute**
I alone, the one diffriding this body,
**[03:24] Arute**
have been bequeathed my master's power.
**[03:27] Arute**
It is a curse to destroy Messiah.
**[03:33] Chrono**
No!
**[03:34] Arute**
Now the life of Messiah's vanguard
is in a precarious state.
**[03:39] Arute**
And Messiah on the planet Cray
is losing power hand in hand with that.
**[03:44] Arute**
We have reached the day of destruction!
**[03:47] Ibuki**
Not gonna happen!
**[03:51] Chrono**
Don't overexert yourself!
**[03:53] Chrono**
He won't die if he wins, right?
**[03:55] Arute**
That's if his life holds out until the end.
**[04:02] Chrono**
I'll do it!
**[04:03] Arute**
What?
**[04:04] Arute**
You?
**[04:06] Arute**
Fight in his stead?
**[04:08] Chrono**
Yeah!
**[04:09] Arute**
Are you sure?
**[04:11] Arute**
If you lose, he'll die.
**[04:17] Ibuki**
Chrono...
**[04:19] Ibuki**
I'm leaving it to you...
**[04:21] Chrono**
Ibuki!
**[04:25] Arute**
Fine.
**[04:30] Chrono (M)**
The damage is 3 to 5.
**[04:34] Chrono (M)**
They've each done one stride.
**[04:37] Chrono (M)**
When I see your cards,
I understand how you've fought up to now,
**[04:42] Chrono (M)**
and the kind of fight you've pictured.
**[04:48] Ibuki**
Everything about a person
is displayed in a fight.
**[04:55] Chrono**
I know how he fights better than anybody!
**[04:58] Chrono**
I'm gonna win and get us both home!
**[05:00] Ibuki**
Right. I'm counting on you!
**[05:05] Chrono**
Here I go!
**[05:06] Chrono**
Stride Generation!
**[05:10] Chrono**
Genesis Dragon, Basaltis Messiah!
**[05:20] Chrono**
Ideal Ego Messiah's stride skill!
**[05:23] Chrono**
I put one card from my hand
into a locked state!
**[05:28] Chrono**
I draw one card!
**[05:29] Chrono**
My Vanguard gets +5000 power!
**[05:32] Chrono**
Call!
**[05:33] Chrono**
Arrester Messiah!
**[05:35] Chrono**
With its skill, it gets +2000 power!
**[05:38] Chrono**
Arrester attacks your Vanguard!
**[05:42] Arute**
Intercept.
**[05:44] Chrono**
Arrester's skill!
**[05:45] Chrono**
It locks itself!
**[05:47] Chrono**
I lock Wackstum Vampir!
**[05:50] Ibuki**
All right.
**[05:51] Arute**
You handle that
as if it were your own deck.
**[05:55] Chrono**
That's because we've
known each other for a long time.
**[05:59] Chrono**
And I owe him big-time.
**[06:03] Ibuki**
I'm entrusting you... with the future.
**[06:08] Chrono**
I'm gonna repay you for what you did for me!
**[06:12] Chrono**
This time for sure!
**[06:17] Chrono**
Basaltis's skill!
**[06:19] Chrono**
I lock Glanzend Vampir and Revolting Bolt!
**[06:22] Chrono**
On top of that, I unlock Vlastos,
Arrester, and Sacrifice!
**[06:27] Chrono**
I draw one card!
**[06:29] Chrono**
Vlastos's skill!
**[06:30] Chrono**
When it's unlocked, it gets +4000 power!
**[06:34] Arute**
No guard.
**[06:37] Chrono**
Triple drive!
**[06:40] Chrono**
First check!
**[06:41] Chrono**
Critical trigger!
**[06:42] Chrono**
I give the power to Vlastos
and the extra critical to Basaltis!
**[06:46] Chrono**
Second check! Third check!
**[06:50] Chrono**
Heal trigger!
**[06:51] Chrono**
I give the power to Vlastos,
and heal 1 damage point!
**[07:08] Chrono**
I swear I'm gonna win this fight!
**[07:12] Chrono**
Arrester Messiah!
**[07:14] Arute**
Guard.
**[07:16] Chrono**
Vlastos attacks your Vanguard!
**[07:19] Arute**
Generation Guard!
**[07:21] Arute**
Accumulated Attachment, Druj Nasu!
**[07:24] Chrono**
I'm not done!
**[07:26] Chrono**
Vlastos's skill!
**[07:29] Chrono**
Soulcharge!
**[07:30] Chrono**
Dunamis Messiah's skill!
**[07:33] Chrono**
I unlock the locked Vlastos.
**[07:35] Chrono**
+4000 power!
**[07:37] Chrono**
Vlastos's skill!
**[07:39] Chrono**
When it's unlocked, it gets +4000 power!
**[07:42] Chrono**
Sacrifice's skill!
**[07:44] Chrono**
Lock!
**[07:45] Chrono**
Countercharge!
**[07:47] Chrono**
Vlastos gets +3000 power!
**[07:51] Arute**
Punish, release allies,
and attain power.
**[07:56] Arute**
Messiah's usual trick...
**[07:59] Chrono**
Go!
**[08:01] Arute**
But it won't reach me.
**[08:09] Chrono**
I couldn't clinch it!
**[08:10] Ibuki**
But one row is locked.
**[08:14] Ibuki**
Still, next, Zeroth Dragon will...
**[08:21] Arute**
It's all for Gyze.
**[08:24] Arute**
It is all as Gyze wills.
**[08:47] Arute**
I never imagined a day like this would come.
**[08:56] Arute**
Long ago, when we suffered defeat
during the Cataclysm,
**[09:03] Arute**
the Zeroth Dragons were
sealed away in another world,
**[09:06] Arute**
and so I thought Gyze's return
was impossible.
**[09:11] Arute**
I thought the only thing I could do
was pray for Messiah to be cursed.
**[09:19] Arute**
But what a quirk of fate!
**[09:23] Arute**
This world was linked to ours.
**[09:28] Arute**
By Gear Chronicle's Singularity!
**[09:31] Arute**
Coming to this world, which I'd thought
impossible, became possible!
**[09:37] Arute**
Can you understand how I feel,
Chrono Shindou?
**[09:43] Arute**
My gratitude towards you knows no bounds.
**[09:47] Arute**
It's all fate.
**[09:49] Arute**
From birth to death, the inhabitants
of this world struggle, fight,
**[09:55] Arute**
and hurt each other,
all so they can survive.
**[09:58] Arute**
I've seen my fill of it.
**[10:01] Arute**
The world wishes to be destroyed!
**[10:04] Arute**
People want to be released
from the drudgery of their empty lives!
**[10:07] Arute**
From the foolish, empty deeds
that they perform again and again!
**[10:11] Arute**
From their meaningless, unbroken misery!
**[10:14] Arute**
They beg for it to be ended quickly.
**[10:17] Arute**
For that sake...
**[10:19] Arute**
...you were born!
**[10:22] Arute**
Gear Chronicle's Singularity.
**[10:24] Arute**
Your very existence is a grand manifestation
of the world's quest for destruction!
**[10:30] Arute**
A divine revelation!
**[10:32] Arute**
That's right! It's too late!
**[10:35] Arute**
No one, not even I, can stop this fate!
**[10:40] Arute**
And now, in place of the Messiah's Vanguard,
you're fighting me.
**[10:47] Arute**
That too is fate.
**[10:51] Chrono**
So what?
**[10:54] Chrono**
What about it?!
**[10:56] Chrono**
Is that all you wanted to say?!
**[10:58] Arute**
What?
**[10:59] Chrono**
I hate to admit it, but I know
all too well how strong this guy is.
**[11:05] Ibuki**
I believe you can handle this.
**[11:07] Chrono**
Yeah. And if I fight the way he pictured it,
there's no way I'm gonna lose.
**[11:14] Arute**
I see.
**[11:15] Arute**
Is that what you call a "bond"?
**[11:19] Arute**
Fine.
**[11:21] Arute**
How much of Gyze's power
can that bond withstand?!
**[11:27] Arute**
I look forward to finding out.
**[11:30] Arute**
With the cost the same card as my Vanguard,
**[11:33] Arute**
I put my future possibilities on the line.
**[11:36] Arute**
The blessing of destruction
for all living things...
**[11:40] Arute**
If I lose the fight,
**[11:41] Arute**
all of the cards in my Generation Zone
will never return!
**[11:45] Arute**
On the other hand!
**[11:46] Arute**
If I win, Kouji Ibuki,
the person you're playing for, will die,
**[11:51] Arute**
and Messiah will lose its power.
**[11:54] Arute**
And then, Chrono Shindou,
**[11:57] Arute**
you will become Gyze!
**[12:01] Arute**
You are on the verge of becoming the vessel.
**[12:04] Arute**
In this world, you are the one most suitable
to serve as host to my master!
**[12:12] Arute**
Now you just need to be baptized.
**[12:18] Arute**
Once that happens,
you will arrive in this world as Gyze,
**[12:23] Arute**
and with those hands, deliver the world's
long-awaited downfall and destruction!
**[12:29] Arute**
Devour my future and manifest!
**[12:33] Arute**
Dark Zone's Zeroth Dragon!
**[12:36] Arute**
Ultimate Stride!
**[12:40] Arute**
Zeroth Dragon of End of the World, Dust!
**[12:49] Arute**
Dust's skill!
**[12:52] Arute**
All of your units lose their abilities,
and their grade and power fall to 1.
**[12:58] Chrono**
What?! I can't use skills?!
**[13:00] Ibuki (M)**
With the cards all at power 1,
he'll need a ton of them to fight.
**[13:04] Chrono**
And if my Vanguard becomes grade 1,
I can't guard with grade 2 and up!
**[13:09] Chrono**
I can't intercept
or use Generation Guard, either!
**[13:13] Arute**
Moreover, your Vanguard takes 1 damage.
**[13:21] Chrono**
Ibuki!
**[13:24] Ibuki**
This is nothing... Keep going!
**[13:29] Chrono**
But...
**[13:30] Ibuki**
Continue!
**[13:34] Chrono**
Ibuki!
**[13:36] Chrono**
You jerk...
**[13:38] Chrono**
I'm gonna make you pay!
**[13:40] Arute**
Call!
**[13:42] Arute**
Hysteric Shirley's skill.
**[13:45] Arute**
Soulcharge.
**[13:46] Arute**
Again, I call.
**[13:48] Arute**
Gastille's Darkness.
**[13:50] Arute**
I choose up to two grade 2 units from the Soul
**[13:53] Arute**
and put them in the Drop Zone.
**[13:55] Arute**
During this turn, I get
all of the abilities that they possess.
**[14:00] Arute**
Demonted Executioner's skill,
which Gastille acquired.
**[14:05] Arute**
I look at the top seven cards of my deck,
**[14:07] Arute**
and put one card that has
Darkness in the name into my Soul.
**[14:10] Arute**
Then...
**[14:11] Arute**
Demonted Executioner's Darkness,
which Gastille acquired.
**[14:16] Arute**
When there are ten or more cards
in the Soul, it gets +5000 power!
**[14:21] Arute**
Observe!
**[14:23] Arute**
This is the destruction my master brings!
**[14:26] Arute**
Its driving force is the power
of the Zeroth Dragons!
**[14:31] Arute**
Behold the final spectacle!
**[14:34] Chrono**
Guard!
**[14:36] Arute**
Triple drive!
**[14:38] Arute**
First check.
**[14:40] Arute**
Second check. Third check.
**[14:42] Arute**
Critical trigger!
**[14:44] Arute**
I give all of the effects
to my rear-guard Gastille.
**[14:47] Arute**
Gastille attacks your Vanguard!
**[14:49] Arute**
Baleful Repressor's skill,
which Gastille acquired.
**[14:53] Arute**
When there are eight or more cards
in the Soul, it gets +10000 power!
**[14:57] Arute**
You can't guard with grade 0 units!
**[14:59] Chrono**
What?!
**[15:00] Arute**
Farewell, Messiah's Vanguard.
**[15:03] Arute**
And thank you,
Gear Chronicle's Singularity.
**[15:08] Arute**
Now, be filled, vessel!
**[15:11] Arute**
Downfall and destruction
will soothe the world!
**[15:15] Chrono**
Perfect guard!
**[15:18] Chrono**
It's my fault these two worlds are connected.
**[15:23] Chrono**
If you're saying that it's because of that...
**[15:27] Chrono**
...that he's goin' through this,
**[15:31] Chrono**
then it's all the more reason
I can't afford to lose!
**[15:34] Chrono**
With all my might, I'm gonna...
**[15:37] Chrono**
...protect his life and our future!
**[15:41] Ibuki**
Don't style that sophistry of yours as fate!
**[15:47] Ibuki**
True fate is grasped with one's own hands!
**[15:54] Arute**
Even with no cards in hand?
**[15:56] Chrono**
Stand and draw!
**[16:00] Ibuki**
All right!
**[16:02] Chrono**
Here I go!
**[16:03] Chrono**
Stride Generation!
**[16:09] Chrono**
Genesis Dragon, Harmonics Neo Messiah!
**[16:17] Chrono**
Prayer Child of Steady State Cosmo's skill.
**[16:19] Chrono**
I lock two rear-guard units!
**[16:22] Chrono**
I draw one card!
**[16:25] Chrono**
Sacrifice's skill!
**[16:27] Chrono**
Lock! Countercharge.
**[16:29] Chrono**
Harmonics Neo Messiah gets +3000 power!
**[16:33] Chrono**
I call Ideal Ego!
**[16:35] Chrono**
Vlastos's skill!
**[16:37] Chrono**
Lock! Soulcharge!
**[16:40] Chrono**
My rear-guard Ideal Ego attacks your Vanguard!
**[16:43] Arute**
Guard!
**[16:44] Chrono**
Ideal Ego's skill!
**[16:46] Chrono**
It locks itself.
**[16:49] Chrono**
Here I go!
**[16:55] The Two**
I attack your Vanguard!
**[17:00] The Two**
Harmonics Neo Messiah's
Generation Break Three!
**[17:04] Chrono**
All locked units are unlocked!
**[17:07] Chrono**
All unlocked units get +5000 power!
**[17:13] Ibuki**
Harmonics Neo Messiah gets +25000 power!
**[17:18] Chrono**
I unlocked five or more units, so you
can't guard with grade 1 units or higher!
**[17:22] Ibuki**
Vlastos's skill!
**[17:24] Ibuki**
+4000 power!
**[17:26] Chrono**
Neon Messiah Aurion's skill!
**[17:28] Chrono**
I draw one card!
**[17:30] Chrono**
+5000 power!
**[17:34] Chrono**
I won't let you die!
**[17:36] Ibuki**
I won't let you become a vessel.
**[17:40] The Two**
Go!
**[18:02] Chrono**
You okay?
**[18:03] Ibuki**
Yeah. Thanks to you.
**[18:16] Arute**
I see.
**[18:18] Arute**
In short, I'm a pawn whose role ends here.
**[18:22] Arute**
Already...
**[18:23] Arute**
Even without me in this world...
**[18:27] Arute**
...it will be destroyed.
**[18:31] Arute**
Like an actor who is out of lines,
I will be a good sport and exit stage right.
**[18:37] Arute**
However, no matter how you resist it
henceforth, there is no escaping fate!
**[18:44] Arute**
Gear Chronicle's Singularity...
**[18:47] Arute**
Chrono Shindou!
**[18:50] Arute**
The curtain will rise on the tragic finale.
**[18:54] Arute**
I leave the rest to you, Valeos.
**[19:07] Chris**
Certainly, there are still residual effects
of the spatial distortion caused by Relics.
**[19:14] Chris**
Unfortunately, I haven't found
where those two disappeared to.
**[19:26] Mamoru**
Ibuki?!
**[19:29] Mamoru**
Chrono?!
**[19:31] Mamoru**
Are you okay?!
**[19:32] Mamoru**
Where's Ibuki?!
**[19:34] Chrono**
With me.
**[19:35] Chrono**
Sorry to make you worry.
**[19:37] Kamui**
Right! Right! They're both safe!
**[19:40] Kamui**
They're back!
**[19:41] Trinity**
Yes!
**[19:44] Tsuneto**
I knew Chrono could do it!
**[19:47] Tsuneto**
Great! Let's get back to the Christmas party!
**[19:49] Carl**
Good idea!
**[19:50] Kei**
It's Christmas again!
**[19:55] Chrono**
Hey!
**[19:57] Chrono**
Are you okay?
**[19:58] Ibuki**
Yeah...
**[19:59] Chrono**
I said not to overdo it!
**[20:00] Ibuki**
Don't treat me like an elderly man!
**[20:04] Ibuki**
More importantly, here's your Christmas present.
**[20:09] Chrono**
I haven't gotten a present
from you in a long time.
**[20:15] Chrono**
Hey! This is my Christmas present?!
**[20:18] Ibuki**
You don't like it?
**[20:20] Chrono**
No, I mean...
**[20:22] Chrono**
Are you sure it's okay for me to have?
**[20:26] Ibuki**
Yeah. I'm leaving it to you to use it
in a way that won't destroy the world.
**[20:34] Ibuki**
Show me that Gastille's talk about fate
was an outrageous lie.
**[20:40] Tsuneto**
He's late! Darn you, Chrono!
**[20:42] Carl**
When he gets back,
he better give us another present.
**[20:46] Kei**
Come to think of it, what about Santa?
**[20:49] Carl**
He's probably coming soon!
**[20:51] Trinity**
Yay!
**[20:53] Trinity**
Santa! Santa!
**[20:57] Chrono**
Hey, why would you go this far
to protect Vanguard?
**[21:04] Ibuki**
Where did that come from?
**[21:06] Chrono**
Everything about a person
is displayed in a fight.
**[21:10] Chrono**
When I fought in your place today,
**[21:12] Chrono**
it reminded me of all the fights
we've had up to now.
**[21:16] Ibuki**
Okay. One day, when you become
an old man, I'll answer your question.
**[21:25] Ibuki**
Although it's not even a good story
to tell while drinking...
**[21:28] Chrono**
Hold on! Are you tellin' me
I've gotta wait 'til I'm 20 to hear it?
**[21:32] Ibuki**
Yeah, that's right.
**[21:35] Chrono**
You never change.
**[21:39] Chrono**
Always the miser...
**[23:19] Ruuga**
Darkface...
**[23:20] Darkface**
You!
**[23:23] Darkface**
How could you?!
**[23:25] Ruuga**
Chaos Breaker...
**[23:26] Noa**
Team Q4 sure played you.
**[23:30] Darkface**
And whose fault was that?!
**[23:32] Noa**
You wanna crush them, don't you?
**[23:34] Noa**
I'll help you.
**[23:35] Darkface**
I don't want your help!
**[23:37] Ruuga**
Free time is over.
**[23:40] Ruuga**
The time has come.
**[23:42] Ruuga**
The time to carry out our final order.
**[23:57] Chrono**
You sure you're okay?
**[23:59] Ibuki**
Yeah. Stop asking.
**[24:01] Chrono**
Okay. Then let's go back
to the Christmas party.
**[24:05] Chrono**
They said Santa's supposed to show up soon.
**[24:07] Ibuki**
Huh?
**[24:08] Ibuki**
Guh... my heart...
**[24:09] Ibuki**
I really don't feel up to it.
**[24:11] Ibuki**
I think I'll just go home.
**[24:12] Chrono**
Hey, you all right?!
**[24:14] Chrono**
Is there something you left behind?
**[24:16] Chrono**
I seem to recall...
seeing a red outfit in a paper bag...
***SIGN*** Turn 13
The Vessel of Gyze
**[24:20] Ibuki**
Never mind!
**[24:21] Ibuki**
Urgh... my heart...