23 - Those Who Return

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[00:11] ---
    What's wrong?
[00:13] ---
    Has your strength failed you?
[00:15] ---
    I'm fine.
[00:17] ---
    If I go with you, the Ruin will stop...
[00:21] ---
    Right, Braiking Boss?
[00:25] ---
    I...
[00:31] ---
    I'll...
[00:35] ---
    never dig someone's grave again.
[00:41] ---
    That's what I decided.
[00:52] ---
    Hey, for what reason were we born?
[00:56] ---
    Hey, for what reason did our lives cross?
[01:00] ---
    I'm scared because I don't know,
    so I take your hand
[01:05] ---
    Right now, I want you to
    firmly squeeze mine back
[01:18] ---
    I try to escape this harrowing reality
[01:22] ---
    Everything I hoped for in my life
    turned out to be an illusion
[01:29] ---
    A flood of emotions,
    struggles that lead me astray...
[01:33] ---
    I just want to cling onto them
    and move forward, forward!
[01:36] ---
    On these shattered hills,
    under a sky of rust,
[01:40] ---
    you and I are fraught with
    life like azure flowers
[01:45] ---
    We dream that we're bubbles,
    nestled together,
[01:49] ---
    and yet I'm not ready to wither yet!
[01:53] ---
    Hey, for what reason were we born?
[01:57] ---
    Hey, for what reason did our lives cross?
[02:01] ---
    I'm scared because I don't know,
    so I take your hand
[02:06] ---
    Right now, I want you to
    firmly squeeze mine back
[02:41] ---
    If you deny Luna... if you deny survival...
[02:45] ---
    Then why do you fight?
[02:50] ---
    You should be paying attention, Casshern!
[03:00] ---
    Casshern...
[03:02] ---
    Where did Dio take him?
[03:10] ---
    It's Ringo!
[03:13] ---
    Ringo's gone!
[03:22] ---
    Lady Luna...
    Lady Luna...
[03:35] ---
    I shall heal you all.
[03:39] ---
    "Those Who Return"
[03:46] ---
    Why do I fight?
[04:07] ---
    There is meaning in the fight I wage now!
[04:20] ---
    Dio lives by fighting.
[04:23] ---
    In this moment, I'm sure of it!
[04:37] ---
    And I do, too...
[05:05] ---
    Don't cry.
[05:08] ---
    Mom's here.
[05:13] ---
    There's a good child...
    There's a good child...
[05:39] ---
    How dare you do this?!
[05:44] ---
    Luna!
[07:09] ---
    Does it hurt?
[07:13] ---
    Here?
[07:41] ---
    You're...
[07:53] ---
    You're...
[08:05] ---
    Leda?
[08:10] ---
    Ringo!
[08:12] ---
    Ohji!
[08:17] ---
    They say Luna's healing has begun again.
[08:21] ---
    So I ran.
[08:23] ---
    But I guess I got lost.
[08:28] ---
    Ringo, why were you with them?
[08:32] ---
    I was hiding there, and Luna's
    robots were thrown away.
[08:39] ---
    Hey, that person...
[08:43] ---
    What's wrong, Ringo?
[08:47] ---
    You know, she...
[08:50] ---
    She was crying.
[08:58] ---
    What's happening?
[09:09] ---
    Luna!
[09:17] ---
    The scent of Ruin is too strong here.
[09:30] ---
    Luna...
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    Casshern, I will...!
[10:33] ---
    I won.
[10:40] ---
    I beat... Casshern!
[10:47] ---
    Dio...
[11:04] ---
    Luna, I'll never forgive you!
[11:12] ---
    You alone!
[11:18] ---
    I bring Ruin unto you!
[11:38] ---
    And I'd just given you eternal life.
[11:42] ---
    You smell only of Ruin.
[11:46] ---
    I can only grant you death.
[11:53] ---
    It wasn't me who did that.
[11:58] ---
    I, too... Life...
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    Ruin and death are ugly things.
[12:05] ---
    We don't need them here.
[12:08] ---
    I, too, tried to bring forth new life!
[12:26] ---
    Stop it, Luna.
[12:32] ---
    Casshern...
[12:39] ---
    I'm so glad he's safe.
[12:43] ---
    Casshern!
[12:57] ---
    Stop it.
[12:59] ---
    Why? She tried to kill you.
[13:05] ---
    Dio said...
[13:08] ---
    he wanted me to save you.
[13:11] ---
    Dio said that? Why?
[13:15] ---
    Dio didn't fight you?
[13:31] ---
    I won.
[13:39] ---
    I beat Casshern.
[13:51] ---
    My own fate matters not.
[13:57] ---
    I defeated you.
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    That's all I need.
[14:03] ---
    Dio...
[14:16] ---
    Save her.
[14:31] ---
    Dio... Dio said that?
[14:38] ---
    Dio...
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    It truly is ugly.
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    Casshern...
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    You now understand the ugliness of Ruin,
[15:00] ---
    the foolishness of death, yes?
[15:06] ---
    Those like you, who are
    overflowing with life,
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    have no choice but to stay with me.
[15:15] ---
    You are fit to be the king.
[15:18] ---
    Let us make an eternal country here.
[15:23] ---
    Together with me...
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    Why?
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    There is nothing here but life.
[15:39] ---
    What is wrong with that?
[15:41] ---
    You can live forever.
[15:44] ---
    No, even if there's life,
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    no one is living it.
[15:55] ---
    I don't understand what you're saying.
[16:00] ---
    Life overflows and spills
    out of you like a spring.
[16:05] ---
    And everyone is merely drinking from it.
[16:11] ---
    But Dio and the robots and
    humans I met weren't like that!
[16:18] ---
    They were more...
[16:27] ---
    More...
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    Yes, it was like they were burning.
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    Dio...
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    They were like flames,
    flames of life burning bright!
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    But flames will someday burn out.
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    I think that's why they
    were strong and beautiful.
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    But even if I, who cannot die,
    tell you this, it won't persuade you.
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    And...
[17:27] ---
    Though I cannot die, I cannot live either!
[17:34] ---
    Casshern...
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    I cannot find the meaning in
    the battles I've fought so far here.
[17:50] ---
    Nor in you.
[17:53] ---
    I see.
[17:55] ---
    I can see nothing in you either.
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    You were so beautiful
    the day you came to kill me.
[18:14] ---
    That day, the death that was
    inside me flowed out into the world.
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    And I was released from death.
[18:28] ---
    As were you.
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    If I knew that would happen, I...
[18:36] ---
    No, at the time, I would've done it anyway.
[18:41] ---
    If I was liberated from anything,
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    it may have been a heart that could regret.
[18:48] ---
    You speak of yourself as a sinner.
[18:53] ---
    I think I probably am.
[19:01] ---
    Goodbye, Luna.
[19:16] ---
    I don't want to take
    anyone's life, ever again.
[19:25] ---
    I'll never fight again.
[19:35] ---
    Casshern!
[19:37] ---
    Ringo...
[19:41] ---
    We'll go with you.
[19:44] ---
    But you...
[19:49] ---
    It's to live.
[19:51] ---
    To live our lives as a burning flame.
[19:55] ---
    Right?
[20:06] ---
    Ohji?
[20:08] ---
    If you can smile, that's
    proof that I'm alive.
[20:14] ---
    We'll be together forever, Ringo!
[20:24] ---
    That's right.
[20:25] ---
    Goodbye, Casshern.
[20:28] ---
    I'll await a new king.
[20:37] ---
    Dio said...
[20:41] ---
    I want you to save Leda.
[21:19] ---
    And you are?
[21:26] ---
    Braiking Boss.
[21:34] ---
    I've come to end the Ruin...
    with your healing.
[21:41] ---
    I've been awaiting you, Braiking Boss.
[21:45] ---
    Together, let us make an eternal kingdom.
[21:50] ---
    Yes.
[21:51] ---
    Once again, a robot empire...
[21:59] ---
    I'll never see you again
[22:05] ---
    I've already said my goodbyes
[22:11] ---
    But I'm sure I'll look back sometimes
[22:18] ---
    I'm still struggling someplace
[22:23] ---
    And your voice will always echo about me,
[22:29] ---
    guiding me and calming my doubts
[22:35] ---
    Will I always travel
    alone, from here on out?
[22:42] ---
    Oh Lord, do you hear my prayers?
[22:49] ---
    I want to be happy
[22:52] ---
    I want to be unhappy
[22:55] ---
    I don't want to feel alone
[22:58] ---
    I want to feel isolated
[23:02] ---
    I want to stay the way I am
[23:05] ---
    I don't want to be the way I am
[23:08] ---
    For the living contradiction that I am...
[23:20] ---
    Please forgive me
[23:30] ---
    When the world twists and warps anew,
[23:34] ---
    he shall come!
[23:37] ---
    Next time: "To the Wandering,
    Blooming Flowers."
[23:40] ---