# E23 - DARLING in the FRANXX
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G68DVQ446/darling-in-the-franxx)
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**[00:04] Kokoro (556)**
*"This will surely be our last battle."*
**[00:09] Kokoro (556)**
*That's what everyone believed.*
**[00:12] Kokoro (556)**
* But while the rest had those thoughts*
* running through their heads,*
**[00:16] Kokoro (556)**
* a different emotion had*
* begun lurking inside me,*
**[00:20] Kokoro (556)**
*and I didn't know what to do with it.*
**[00:23] (Flashback) Mitsuru (326)**
I'm going to stay behind.
**[00:26] (Flashback) Hiro (016)**
Mitsuru...
**[00:29] (Flashback) Hiro (016)**
You've chosen this battlefield, huh?
**[00:39] Kokoro (556)**
Why did you stay behind?
**[00:41] Kokoro (556)**
You could've found another
partner and gone with them.
**[00:48] Mitsuru (326)**
I stayed because I wanted to.
**[00:50] Mitsuru (326)**
It's my responsibility to see this through.
**[00:52] Kokoro (556)**
Responsibility?
**[00:54] Kokoro (556)**
When you don't remember a thing?
**[00:58] Kokoro (556)**
I told you, I don't expect anything from you.
**[01:03] Kokoro (556)**
So don't mind me.
***SIGN*** Grand Klaxosaur Fleet
Mothership Klaxosaur
**[02:55] Miku (390)**
You okay, Zorome?
**[02:57] Zorome (666)**
These are some crazy Gs! My guts
feel like they're crumpling up!
**[03:00] Goro (056)**
* And this is after the G-Canceler's*
* abating a lot of it, apparently.*
**[03:04] Zorome (666)**
Seriously?
**[03:06] Ikuno (196)**
I don't know why, but this
feels just right somehow.
**[03:09] Ikuno (196)**
I can move a lot more freely.
**[03:11] Miku (390)**
Yeah. Fighting in space
should be no problem at all.
**[03:14] Futoshi (214)**
And check out these weapons.
**[03:15] Futoshi (214)**
After all this time,
we get identical loadouts?
**[03:17] Futoshi (214)**
*It's like we're a real team now.*
**[03:20] Zorome (666)**
*We've always been a real team, you dope.*
**[03:24] Futoshi (214)**
*Have we?*
**[03:27] Goro (056)**
We're really in space, huh?
**[03:30] Ichigo (015)**
Yeah. So far from home.
**[03:34] Nana**
New space equipment for the FRANXX,
**[03:37] Nana**
and all these provisions on the ship.
**[03:39] Nana**
What if Hiro was right, and the klaxosaurs
really did leave all of this for us?
**[03:45] Hachi**
That would mean humanity has been allowed
to join the fight to defend Earth.
**[03:50] Nana**
Do we really have the right to?
**[03:54] Hachi**
If we want to ensure humanity's survival,
all we can do is believe.
**[04:03] Hiro (016)**
We really connected...
**[04:06] Nine Alpha**
Like I said, we Nines can
be both stamens and pistils.
**[04:11] Nine Alpha**
Besides, you put too much
strain on your partner.
**[04:14] Nine Alpha**
No ordinary pistil could handle it.
**[04:17] Nana**
*You're not exactly in the best shape, either.*
**[04:19] Nana**
*Don't push yourself.*
**[04:21] Nine Alpha**
Gee, thanks for the timely warning.
**[04:23] Nine Alpha**
Anyway, give me a taste of what you can do!
**[04:29] Nine Alpha**
You want to go see Iota, don't you?
**[04:31] Hiro (016)**
Wait, this feels almost like...
**[04:34] Nine Alpha**
Of course it does.
**[04:36] Nine Alpha**
We're Iota's clones.
**[04:38] Nine Alpha**
It's funny how my final partner is a human.
**[04:44] Hachi**
*All FRANXX, return to ship.*
**[04:47] Hachi**
We'll be accelerating to
cruising speed shortly.
**[04:50] Ichigo (015)**
Roger.
**[05:05] Kokoro (556)**
What do your eyes see?
**[05:09] Kokoro (556)**
Everyone's out fighting in space,
**[05:12] Kokoro (556)**
but I've lost the ability to fight with them.
**[05:17] Kokoro (556)**
I'm not a parasite anymore.
**[05:27] Nana**
You understand this?
**[05:28] Hachi**
Somewhat.
**[05:30] Nana**
How are the controls so similar?
**[05:32] Hachi**
Perhaps klaxo sapiens weren't
all that different from humans.
**[05:38] Hachi**
That said, most of the navigation
system is automated.
**[05:42] Hachi**
We're only tagging along
for the ride, basically.
**[05:45] Nana**
What is this route leading to?
**[05:47] Nana**
What are we going to find in Mars orbit?
**[05:50] Hachi**
Who knows?
**[05:52] Hachi**
But Apus is heading there as we speak.
**[05:57] Nana**
Looks like getting there won't be easy.
**[06:00] Nana**
For some reason, I don't want those
kids to hurt themselves any more.
**[06:07] Nana**
Isn't that weird?
**[06:09] Nana**
I mean, I watched over them
as tools of warfare for so long.
**[06:15] Hachi**
Is feeling that way really so wrong?
**[06:19] Hachi**
The children's sole purpose
in life was to fight.
**[06:22] Hachi**
If this truly is their final battle,
**[06:24] Hachi**
don't you think they'll need someone
like you in their lives ahead?
**[06:31] Goro (056)**
Yo.
**[06:32] Ichigo (015)**
Hey.
**[06:33] Hiro (016)**
Goro... Ichigo...
**[06:36] Goro (056)**
We've always been attached at the hip,
and now we're even in space together.
**[06:39] Ichigo (015)**
Let's get to Zero Two, no matter what.
**[06:43] Hiro (016)**
Yeah.
**[06:46] Ichigo (015)**
C'mon, Goro. Don't you have something to say?
**[06:51] Goro (056)**
Uh... Sorry I hit you.
**[06:57] Hiro (016)**
What the heck?
**[06:58] Hiro (016)**
Forget it.
**[06:59] Ichigo (015)**
If you're gonna apologize, you shouldn't
have done it in the first place.
**[07:03] Goro (056)**
Oh, shut it.
**[07:08] Hachi**
Detecting what seems to be a VIRM fleet.
**[07:10] Hachi**
All FRANXX, prepare for combat!
**[07:15] Nana**
It's not slowing down?!
**[07:17] Hachi**
Is it going to plow through to where Apus is?
**[07:33] Hachi**
*The VIRM are trying to surround Apus.*
**[07:35] Hachi**
* The klaxosaurs are forming a*
* defensive line around it, too.*
**[07:40] Goro (056)**
And we're charging right in there?
**[07:43] Zorome (666)**
Damn it!
**[07:44] Zorome (666)**
Aren't we gonna fight back?
**[07:46] Hachi**
All the energy output is
focused on the shield.
**[07:49] Hachi**
The ship's going to ignore the enemy
**[07:50] Hachi**
*and head straight for Apus!*
**[07:52] Futoshi (214)**
Over there!
**[07:54] Ikuno (196)**
We can see it now.
**[07:55] Miku (390)**
Strelitzia Apus!
**[08:00] Ichigo (015)**
Hiro?!
**[08:06] Hachi**
*All units, follow Alpha's lead!*
**[08:09] All**
Roger!
**[08:11] Ichigo (015)**
Here we go, guys!
**[08:13] Nana**
* There's a huge number*
* of VIRM units near Apus.*
**[08:16] Nana**
*Be careful.*
**[08:22] Zorome (666)**
Why isn't Apus firing that huge laser?
**[08:25] Nine Alpha**
If it could, it would've already.
**[08:29] Nine Alpha**
Maybe it really isn't fully
operational without a stamen.
**[08:37] Goro (056)**
Incoming!
**[08:38] Ichigo (015)**
Scatter and take them out!
**[08:50] Goro (056)**
Hiro!
**[08:51] Goro (056)**
Ignore the enemy and head to Apus!
**[08:54] Goro (056)**
*Zorome!*
**[08:55] Zorome (666)**
Right on!
**[08:57] Zorome (666)**
Follow me!
**[08:58] Miku (390)**
Leave the enemies in front to us!
**[09:00] Zorome (666)**
Eat that!
**[09:02] Ichigo (015)**
Chlorophytum!
**[09:04] Ikuno (196)**
We've got your backs!
**[09:23] Zorome (666)**
What the...
**[09:25] Nine Gamma**
Don't forget about us.
**[09:27] Nine Beta**
Get back and relax.
**[09:29] Zorome (666)**
Hah! Like I'd let you hospital
runaways do all the work!
**[09:35] Ichigo (015)**
Look!
**[09:38] Futoshi (214)**
They're trying to keep us away from Apus.
**[09:40] Goro (056)**
*Did they realize Hiro's with us?*
**[09:43] Ikuno (196)**
It'll be bad news if they block us off.
**[09:46] Ichigo (015)**
Hiro, use your FRANXX's speed to cut through.
**[09:49] Ichigo (015)**
We'll cover you.
**[09:50] Hiro (016)**
Got it.
**[09:59] Hiro (016)**
Zorome! Miku!
**[10:00] Hiro (016)**
Don't push it!
**[10:01] Zorome (666)**
If we don't push ourselves now...
**[10:03] Miku (390)**
...then when will we?!
**[10:09] Both**
Go!
**[10:11] Both**
Hiro!
**[10:18] Hiro (016)**
We caught up!
**[10:21] Nine Alpha**
Look there.
**[10:22] Nine Alpha**
It's the entrance.
**[10:24] Hiro (016)**
All right!
**[10:28] Nine Alpha**
What?
**[10:33] Hiro (016)**
Why, you!
**[10:41] Hiro (016)**
If that's not gonna work...
**[10:50] Nine Alpha**
Well, this is not good.
**[10:55] Nine Alpha**
Looks like this is as far as I go with you.
**[11:07] Nine Alpha**
Meeting you guys helped me learn
a little about being human.
**[11:12] Nine Alpha**
But my home is the battlefield,
and nowhere else.
**[11:17] Nine Alpha**
Say hi to Iota for me.
**[11:19] Hiro (016)**
Alpha!
**[11:22] Nine Alpha**
It's been kinda fun, I guess.
***SIGN*** Mars Orbit
**[11:38] Hiro (016)**
* Zero Two, why'd you leave*
* me and run off alone?*
**[11:45] Hiro (016)**
*Together, we are one.*
**[11:48] Hiro (016)**
*We'll always be together.*
**[11:51] Hiro (016)**
*Didn't we promise each other that?*
**[11:55] Hiro (016)**
*Answer me, Zero Two.*
**[12:03] Kokoro (556)**
No!
**[12:04] Kokoro (556)**
You can't. What's the matter?
**[12:08] Kokoro (556)**
Zero Two!
**[12:17] Kokoro (556)**
What is happening to you?
**[12:24] Kokoro (556)**
No!
**[12:38] Hiro (016)**
Zero Two...
**[12:40] Hiro (016)**
Is that you?
**[12:44] Hiro (016)**
If it is,
**[12:49] Hiro (016)**
then please...
**[12:53] Hiro (016)**
Eat me.
**[13:03] Hiro (016)**
Is this the picture book in Zero Two's mind?
**[13:08] Zero Two (002)**
Stay away.
**[13:14] Zero Two (002)**
Why'd you come?
**[13:15] Hiro (016)**
To see you.
**[13:20] Hiro (016)**
Why'd you leave?
**[13:23] Zero Two (002)**
I want you to remain human.
**[13:27] Hiro (016)**
I want to be with you.
**[13:31] Zero Two (002)**
I can't be with you.
**[13:34] Hiro (016)**
Why?
**[13:35] Zero Two (002)**
I just can't.
**[13:49] Futoshi (214)**
The ship!
**[13:51] Zorome (666)**
Hey, look!
**[13:58] Goro (056)**
Crap!
**[14:01] Ichigo (015)**
Let's go provide backup, guys!
**[14:04] Ikuno (196)**
Not letting us go without a fight, huh?
**[14:08] Nine Gamma**
We'll distract them!
**[14:10] Nine Beta**
Go!
**[14:14] Zorome (666)**
Thanks!
**[14:15] Nine Gamma**
*Shall we go out in a blaze of glory, then?*
**[14:18] Nine Beta**
Not a bad idea.
**[14:28] Nana**
Let's move to another ship!
**[14:38] Hachi**
This is it, huh...
**[14:39] Hachi**
Leave me and go.
**[14:41] Nana**
You don't get to tell me
that after keeping me alive.
**[14:44] Nana**
To hell with that!
**[14:46] Nana**
It's your duty to watch
over their futures, too!
**[15:06] Hachi**
What's that?
**[15:08] Nana**
That ship was equipped with a bomb?
**[15:11] Chief**
*Cease your resistance.*
**[15:14] Hachi**
That voice...
**[15:15] Vice Chairman**
*Is there any point at all to this warfare?*
**[15:20] Chief**
*All lifeforms will eventually merge with us.*
**[15:25] Vice Chairman**
* Surrender yourself to the gentle,*
* perpetual pleasure we offer.*
**[15:29] Chief**
* Our utopia is free of all hatred*
* and discrimination between species.*
**[15:33] Vice Chairman**
*Klaxosaurs? Humanity?*
**[15:36] Vice Chairman**
*Such distinctions won't matter anymore.*
**[15:38] Vice Chairman**
*Equality for all!*
**[15:40] Chief**
* And beyond it all, we will attain*
* an endless and peaceful slumber,*
**[15:46] Chief**
* and at the same time,*
* endless and relentless evolution.*
**[15:50] Vice Chairman**
* Rejecting that to march toward your*
* destruction is far too foolish.*
**[15:57] Chief**
*Now, become one with us.*
**[16:00] Hachi**
To the adults, that may well
have sounded like utopia.
**[16:05] Nana**
But that isn't where the children belong.
**[16:09] Nana**
The flames of their lives will never
burn as bright in perpetual tranquility!
**[16:14] Hachi**
It isn't a matter of right or wrong.
**[16:17] Hachi**
This is simply the path that the children,
and humanity, have chosen!
**[16:26] Miku (390)**
This is pretty rough.
**[16:28] Zorome (666)**
How much longer is Hiro gonna take?
**[16:29] Goro (056)**
Don't worry. He's always pulled through.
**[16:33] Ichigo (015)**
And we're not the only ones.
**[16:35] Futoshi (214)**
Yeah! Those two must be
fighting back on Earth, too!
**[16:39] Ikuno (196)**
Right!
**[16:44] Mitsuru (326)**
Kokoro!
**[16:46] Mitsuru (326)**
It's not safe here! Get inside!
**[16:47] Kokoro (556)**
Leave us be!
**[16:49] Kokoro (556)**
She wants to stay right here!
**[16:52] Mitsuru (326)**
But it's not good for your body!
**[16:54] Kokoro (556)**
I'm going to protect her!
**[16:57] Kokoro (556)**
I'm not a parasite anymore.
I have nothing left.
**[17:01] Kokoro (556)**
There's nothing I can do!
**[17:03] Kokoro (556)**
So I want to at least be by her side!
**[17:06] Kokoro (556)**
So please let me stay.
**[17:10] Mitsuru (326)**
Then I'll stay right here with you two!
**[17:13] Kokoro (556)**
Leave me alone!
**[17:14] Kokoro (556)**
I've told you so many times,
you don't need to feel responsib—
**[17:17] Mitsuru (326)**
It's not about responsibility!
**[17:20] Mitsuru (326)**
Please don't say you have nothing.
**[17:23] Mitsuru (326)**
If you don't have anything,
then neither do I!
**[17:27] Mitsuru (326)**
But I've found my reason to live.
**[17:32] Mitsuru (326)**
I want to protect you and that baby's future.
**[17:36] Mitsuru (326)**
I'm a weakling!
**[17:38] Mitsuru (326)**
And I don't really understand
what love is, either.
**[17:42] Mitsuru (326)**
But I can keep walking if I'm with you.
**[17:47] Mitsuru (326)**
That's what I've come to believe.
**[17:52] Kokoro (556)**
Why do you still have that?
**[17:56] Kokoro (556)**
Why do you say my name,
even though it hurts you?
**[18:00] Mitsuru (326)**
Even without our memories,
**[18:03] Mitsuru (326)**
we can start all over again.
**[18:05] Mitsuru (326)**
I'll call your name as many times as you want!
**[18:08] Mitsuru (326)**
That is our battle.
**[18:15] Kokoro (556)**
Mitsuru... Mitsuru...
**[18:20] Kokoro (556)**
Mitsuru!
**[18:21] Mitsuru (326)**
Kokoro... Kokoro...
**[18:25] Mitsuru (326)**
Kokoro!
**[18:26] Kokoro (556)**
Mitsuru!
**[18:32] Zero Two (002)**
I was always a monster, so whatever.
**[18:34] Zero Two (002)**
But you? I want you to live as a human.
**[18:37] Zero Two (002)**
That's why I can't be with you.
**[18:41] Hiro (016)**
We promised we'd always be together.
**[18:43] Zero Two (002)**
Stay away.
**[18:45] Zero Two (002)**
I'm fine by myself.
**[18:47] Hiro (016)**
Liar.
**[18:49] Hiro (016)**
If you really are, then why
is your last page left blank?
**[18:55] Hiro (016)**
Don't fly off alone.
**[18:57] Hiro (016)**
Let me stay with you.
**[19:00] Hiro (016)**
Let's rewrite that story's ending together.
**[19:05] Zero Two (002)**
Darling...
**[19:14] Kokoro (556)**
Zero Two?
**[19:21] Mitsuru (326)**
Wh-What's going on?
**[19:40] Hiro (016)**
I hereby vow to never let you go.
**[19:43] Zero Two (002)**
Okay.
***SIGN*** Strelitzia
True Apus
**[20:09] All**
Zero Two!
**[20:44] Ichigo (015)**
I'm so glad Hiro got to see her.
**[20:47] Goro (056)**
Wait, what?
***SIGN*** Satellite
Phobos
***SIGN*** Satellite
Deimos
**[21:06] Hachi**
That's...
**[21:07] Miku (390)**
What the heck is that?
**[21:09] Zero Two (002)**
A warp gate.
**[21:12] Ikuno (196)**
A warp gate?
**[21:14] Zero Two (002)**
Yeah. The klaxo sapiens
built it a long time ago.
**[21:18] Hiro (016)**
Listen up, guys.
**[21:20] Hiro (016)**
Zero Two and I are going to go through
that gate and leave the Solar System.
**[21:26] Ikuno (196)**
Leave the Solar System?
**[21:28] Futoshi (214)**
What? Now?
**[21:31] Goro (056)**
Don't tell me...
**[21:32] Zorome (666)**
*Whoa, wait up! What are you talking about?*
**[21:34] Zorome (666)**
* You met up with Zero Two,*
* so why not head back to Earth?*
**[21:37] Hiro (016)**
Apus and the gate's system are linked.
**[21:40] Hiro (016)**
Neither Zero Two nor I
can stop the process now.
**[21:44] Hiro (016)**
Besides, the gate will close soon.
**[21:49] Miku (390)**
You're kidding me.
**[21:50] Zorome (666)**
This can't be happening.
**[21:52] Ichigo (015)**
But why?
**[21:55] Ichigo (015)**
Why do you two have to go?
**[21:57] Zero Two (002)**
To put an end to this war.
**[22:05] Hachi**
So that's what the bomb was for, huh?
**[22:11] Ichigo (015)**
Then let's all go!
**[22:13] Hiro (016)**
You can't.
**[22:14] Hiro (016)**
Only Apus can withstand
going through the gate.
**[22:17] Futoshi (214)**
But what are you gonna do all by yourselves?
**[22:21] Ikuno (196)**
The enemy's main force will be
much larger than this one, right?
**[22:24] Hiro (016)**
Yeah. That's why we have
to take them by surprise.
**[22:28] Goro (056)**
You will come back, right?
**[22:33] Miku (390)**
No...
**[22:35] Ichigo (015)**
I won't let you go!
**[22:36] Ichigo (015)**
If that's your answer,
I'm not letting you go!
**[22:38] Ichigo (015)**
Leader's orders!
**[22:40] Ichigo (015)**
Come back alive, both of you!
**[22:42] Hiro (016)**
Ichigo...
**[22:43] Goro (056)**
Exactly! I won't stand for it, either!
**[22:46] Goro (056)**
Come back to us, Hiro!
**[22:48] Zorome (666)**
*I'm not gonna accept a goodbye like this!*
**[22:50] Miku (390)**
* Yeah! Squad 13 isn't complete*
* without the two of you!*
**[22:54] Futoshi (214)**
*So come back with Zero Two!*
**[22:57] Ikuno (196)**
*Right.*
**[22:58] Zero Two (002)**
You guys...
**[23:00] Ichigo (015)**
Zero Two.
**[23:01] Ichigo (015)**
It doesn't matter how long it takes.
Make sure you come back with Hiro.
**[23:05] Ichigo (015)**
We'll build a home and wait for you!
**[23:10] Zero Two (002)**
You're always so bossy.
**[23:14] Zero Two (002)**
I promise I'll come back to you.
**[23:17] Zero Two (002)**
Together with my darling.
**[23:23] Kokoro (556)**
*Everyone has their own feelings and desires.*
**[23:26] Kokoro (556)**
*We're all looking for somewhere we belong.*
**[23:30] Kokoro (556)**
* Strelitzia looked so beautiful*
* at that moment,*
**[23:33] Kokoro (556)**
* or so everyone who saw*
* it would tell us later.*
**[23:39] Kokoro (556)**
*Right now, all we can do is pray*
**[23:43] Kokoro (556)**
*that what awaits those two*
**[23:45] Kokoro (556)**
*is a happy ending.*
***SIGN*** Episode 23
***SIGN*** DARLING in the FRANXX