# 23 - Those Who Return
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GYNQEDGGY/casshern-sins)
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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...
**[09:42] ---**
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...
**[12:01] ---**
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.
**[14:00] ---**
That's all I need.
**[14:03] ---**
Dio...
**[14:16] ---**
Save her.
**[14:31] ---**
Dio... Dio said that?
**[14:38] ---**
Dio...
**[14:52] ---**
It truly is ugly.
**[14:56] ---**
Casshern...
**[14:57] ---**
You now understand the ugliness of Ruin,
**[15:00] ---**
the foolishness of death, yes?
**[15:06] ---**
Those like you, who are
overflowing with life,
**[15:10] ---**
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...
**[15:32] ---**
Why?
**[15:35] ---**
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,
**[15:48] ---**
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...
**[16:32] ---**
Yes, it was like they were burning.
**[16:47] ---**
Dio...
**[16:53] ---**
They were like flames,
flames of life burning bright!
**[16:59] ---**
But flames will someday burn out.
**[17:03] ---**
I think that's why they
were strong and beautiful.
**[17:15] ---**
But even if I, who cannot die,
tell you this, it won't persuade you.
**[17:23] ---**
And...
**[17:27] ---**
Though I cannot die, I cannot live either!
**[17:34] ---**
Casshern...
**[17:44] ---**
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.
**[18:00] ---**
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.
**[18:22] ---**
And I was released from death.
**[18:28] ---**
As were you.
**[18:31] ---**
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,
**[18:43] ---**
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] ---**