19 - Scratching the Surface

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[01:22] ---
    "Sunabouzu - Desert Punk"
[01:44] ---
    Goodbye.
[01:47] ---
    Looks like we might never meet again.
[01:50] ---
    Junko!
[01:56] ---
    I did manage to survive, thanks to you.
[02:00] ---
    But I wound up arrested by
    the Oasis government instead...
[02:05] ---
    I'm not blaming you, though.
[02:08] ---
    I know very well you did
    everything you possibly could!
[02:12] ---
    This is just your limit.
[02:16] ---
    Oh, yes.
[02:17] ---
    I said to win me over if
    you really wanted me...
[02:23] ---
    But I'd never fall for the likes of you.
[02:28] ---
    The likes of you... Never...
[02:33] ---
    Goodbye!
[02:34] ---
    No!
[02:36] ---
    "Above and Below"
[02:52] ---
    Master!
[02:54] ---
    Will you pull yourself together already?!
[02:57] ---
    It's already been a week!
[02:59] ---
    That woman's a goner, I tell you!
[03:03] ---
    She got hauled off by a
    heartless intelligence agency!
[03:06] ---
    She's probably died a heroic death
    after being horribly tortured!
[03:15] ---
    Uhh, Master?
[03:17] ---
    You've been jittery day and night...
[03:20] ---
    We got nothin', yet you're wasting
    batteries burrowing everywhere!
[03:24] ---
    B-but there's no telling when the
    authorities will come to arrest us...
[03:29] ---
    If that woman rats us out!
[03:35] ---
    Moron.
[03:37] ---
    If they felt so inclined,
[03:39] ---
    we could flail all we want
    and still not survive.
[03:42] ---
    They tear up contracts, you know.
[03:45] ---
    West Oasis government contracts
    are absolute in this region.
[03:50] ---
    Which is why we can even
    put our lives on the line.
[03:54] ---
    And yet... he just tore it up like
    that to suit the government's needs!
[04:01] ---
    We're just insignificant nothings...
[04:04] ---
    We eat and shit in the palm
    of the government's hand...
[04:07] ---
    The government does operate
    those food transport and vacuum cars...
[04:14] ---
    Whatever the case, there's no point
    in kicking and screaming now.
[04:18] ---
    Well, we will kick and scream plenty
    when the time comes, though!
[04:30] ---
    Chinoike Archaeology Team?
[04:33] ---
    I'm the captain, Chinoike.
[04:35] ---
    Is our job to excavate the ruins?
[04:38] ---
    No, actually...
[04:41] ---
    ...it's to find someone.
[04:43] ---
    What're you excavating for?
    These ruins've been dug completely dry...
[04:47] ---
    The treasure may be gone, but there's
    still academic value to be had...
[04:51] ---
    So, who're we lookin' for?
[04:55] ---
    Think you can start talking to us?
[04:58] ---
    Well... It's a soldier.
[05:02] ---
    Soldier?
[05:03] ---
    For the West Oasis government?
[05:05] ---
    Yes.
[05:06] ---
    Excavating has its dangers,
[05:09] ---
    so I needed someone to protect the team...
[05:12] ---
    Some weird guys suddenly attacked,
    and many of my men were killed!
[05:18] ---
    And that soldier-
[05:19] ---
    Get down!
[05:28] ---
    You?!
[05:29] ---
    K- Kanta?!
[05:32] ---
    Oh?
[05:33] ---
    It's Kanta?!
[05:36] ---
    I'm on a job.
[05:39] ---
    What the hell are you doing here?
[05:45] ---
    Q-quit crying! Hey!
[05:48] ---
    Natsuko... is missing...
[05:55] ---
    She was on a secret mission,
[05:57] ---
    so she's not "officially" missing!
[06:01] ---
    So they haven't even started
    to search for her yet!
[06:06] ---
    It'd seem your guys' goal is
    the same as this here fellow's.
[06:12] ---
    These guys are brothers of the
    General Kawaguchi you're lookin' for.
[06:17] ---
    Eh?
[06:17] ---
    --Huh?
[06:17] ---
    --Huh?
[06:21] ---
    --Eh?!
[06:21] ---
    --Eh?!
[06:24] ---
    Well, then...
[06:25] ---
    If we're after the same thing,
    then it's simple.
[06:29] ---
    Let's work together to find Natsuko.
[06:31] ---
    --You'll help?!
[06:31] ---
    --My bones!
[06:34] ---
    Say, were you looking around this town?
[06:37] ---
    Yeah.
[06:38] ---
    Must've been one lousy tipster!
[06:40] ---
    What?! What do you mean?!
[06:43] ---
    What do you mean, lousy?!
[06:45] ---
    No... You don't understand...
[06:47] ---
    General Kawaguchi was
    attacked down below!
[06:51] ---
    --Below?!
[06:51] ---
    --Below?!
[07:03] ---
    I never would've guessed!
[07:05] ---
    No wonder we couldn't find her!
[07:07] ---
    Listen.
[07:09] ---
    The existence of this entrance is
    top-secret even within the government.
[07:13] ---
    Should you ever leak
    its location, you'll-
[07:14] ---
    Shut up!
[07:15] ---
    Quit with the advertisement
    and just lead the way!
[07:18] ---
    How horrible!
[07:20] ---
    OK! Let's go!
[07:22] ---
    Master!
[07:27] ---
    We're coming, Natsuko!
[07:29] ---
    Hang in there!
[07:40] ---
    Sawada-san. The heat sources
    have disappeared.
[07:43] ---
    Pursuit is not possible.
[07:45] ---
    As if humans can just disappear!
[07:48] ---
    You good-for-nothing puppets!
    Listen and learn!
[07:51] ---
    People don't suddenly disappear!
[07:54] ---
    They either have
    heat-concealing equipment
[07:55] ---
    or they've gone somewhere
    our sensors can't penetrate!
[07:58] ---
    Understood.
[07:59] ---
    It has been noted.
[08:04] ---
    Let's go after 'em.
[08:09] ---
    What is this huge space?!
[08:11] ---
    I never imagined this
    was beneath the ruins!
[08:15] ---
    Incredible, isn't it? Not even the
    government's top men know about it.
[08:19] ---
    It's our little secret.
[08:23] ---
    It's a legendary Dark Age city,
    3000 meters underground.
[08:27] ---
    Legendary, indeed...
[08:29] ---
    But it sure is incredible...
[08:31] ---
    There's metal and plastic everywhere!
[08:34] ---
    Even stuff I've never seen before.
[08:42] ---
    I could live the big-life 10 times over
    just off of the stuff I see here!
[08:47] ---
    This is nothing at all!
[08:50] ---
    All the other ruins out there've
    been dug dry, but not these!
[08:54] ---
    Yeah! The guys in town'd be
    so happy if they knew!
[08:58] ---
    Master! Look at this.
[09:02] ---
    What, now?
[09:04] ---
    --What is it?
    - -This...
[09:07] ---
    "December 15, 3026- Matsushita Ken'ichi"
[09:08] ---
    "December 15, 3026- Matsushita Ken'ichi"
    December 15, 3026?
[09:11] ---
    "December 15, 3026- Matsushita Ken'ichi"
    It's a message.
[09:13] ---
    It's a message.
[09:13] ---
    Meant to tell surviving friends
    and family that one was still all right.
[09:18] ---
    They're all over the place.
[09:20] ---
    Mothers looking for their children...
[09:23] ---
    Prayers for the safety of loved ones...
[09:27] ---
    Looks like it's been
    carved over scorch marks...
[09:31] ---
    The ceiling also has scorch marks.
[09:34] ---
    It seems the entire tunnel
    was enveloped in flames.
[09:39] ---
    W-what do you think happened?!
[09:41] ---
    Who knows. Buncha people
    probably died, though...
[09:45] ---
    Books say the Dark Age had
    a super-advanced civilization
[09:48] ---
    that even went to
    the world of the stars...
[09:52] ---
    For it to fall,
    something really big must've happened...
[09:58] ---
    Do you suppose
    Matsushita-san found his companion?
[10:01] ---
    Who knows. It was hundreds of years ago.
[10:08] ---
    W-Wait for me!
[10:10] ---
    "South Entrance"
[10:16] ---
    I know this! I saw it in a book!
[10:19] ---
    Let me think!
[10:22] ---
    A "train"!
[10:28] ---
    It's so awesome!
[10:30] ---
    Sweet!
[10:31] ---
    So cool!
[10:37] ---
    Hey, does this thing mean
[10:40] ---
    the underground city was insanely huge?!
[10:44] ---
    I've studied the underground city
    for many years now...
[10:49] ---
    Apparently, it stretched
    across the entire Kanto Plain
[10:52] ---
    around the end of the Dark Age.
[10:55] ---
    Meaning it goes all beneath
    the Great Kanto Desert?!
[10:58] ---
    Yes. Most of it caved in, though.
[11:02] ---
    It seems this was the only place
    to flee to when the Dark Age ended.
[11:08] ---
    What a drag.
[11:11] ---
    Looks like they dug their own
    giant grave for themselves.
[11:17] ---
    So, what's the deal with Natsuko?
[11:21] ---
    Come with me!
[12:05] ---
    Sunabozu-san...
[12:07] ---
    Have you ever been to the Oasis?
[12:10] ---
    Yeah, my old man took me
    there once when I was a kid.
[12:14] ---
    Only saw the entrance, though...
[12:32] ---
    I remember it clearly...
[12:34] ---
    That gigantic, intimidating entrance...
[12:39] ---
    It was so big, I about lost my lunch...
[12:43] ---
    I recall the whole area
    being packed with people
[12:45] ---
    hoping to get scraps
    from the government...
[12:49] ---
    So it's a town full of purveying
    salesmen and branch offices?
[12:55] ---
    It's a central water station
    and grimy town for government flunkies.
[13:00] ---
    I happen to live in that town...
[13:04] ---
    That so?
[13:06] ---
    Never mind.
[13:08] ---
    But do you know
    what it's like on the inside?
[13:11] ---
    Well, from what I've heard,
[13:14] ---
    it's a really huge underground city that-
[13:16] ---
    Underground city?!
[13:18] ---
    An amazing underground city.
    Too big even for the government.
[13:23] ---
    But it comes as no surprise;
[13:25] ---
    the government is housed inside
    ultra-enormous underground ruins...
[13:29] ---
    A giant structure
    extending 3000 meters down.
[13:32] ---
    The government doesn't
    use even half of it.
[13:35] ---
    There are still many unknown parts to it.
[13:38] ---
    Incredible, isn't it?
[13:39] ---
    No...
[13:41] ---
    I just get a really bad
    feeling about this all...
[13:46] ---
    It happened some 10 years ago...
[13:49] ---
    A survey engineer went missing
    in the deepest part of the West Oasis.
[13:54] ---
    It's a veritable maze down there;
[13:57] ---
    once you've wandered in,
    there's little hope of survival.
[14:01] ---
    However, the engineer was
    discovered one week later...
[14:06] ---
    In a completely different location,
[14:09] ---
    50 kilometers from the West Oasis.
[14:13] ---
    In short, he wound up in
    the ruins we're in now?!
[14:18] ---
    Impressive, Sunabozu-san!
    Being so quick saves me trouble!
[14:23] ---
    Basically, it's the back door
    to the West Oasis?!
[14:28] ---
    10 years ago, I came to explore the ruins
[14:32] ---
    and learned of it from his final words...
[14:36] ---
    Learned of this underground city...
[14:40] ---
    The man died?
[14:44] ---
    Yes...
[14:45] ---
    After being subjected to a week of
    terror and despair in total darkness...
[14:51] ---
    We gave him a nice burial with miners
    who had died in an accident.
[15:00] ---
    I see. So you didn't
    hand him over to his family...
[15:06] ---
    Nope.
[15:08] ---
    If word about him got out, so would
    word about this huge discovery.
[15:18] ---
    Shit!
[15:19] ---
    What the hell?! This is way too much!
[15:23] ---
    How can you just do this to people?!
[15:26] ---
    Whoa, what're you talking about, Kanta?!
[15:28] ---
    Don't you get it yet?!
[15:30] ---
    We're prowling around
    a back door to the Oasis
[15:31] ---
    that the government doesn't know about!
[15:34] ---
    This is big-time terrorism!
[15:38] ---
    We've been caught in
    an anti-government movement!
[15:46] ---
    I do live in the center
    and work for the government,
[15:50] ---
    but I'm from the desert too, you know.
[15:54] ---
    Anti-government movement?!
    That makes you Natsuko's enemy!
[15:58] ---
    Is it 'cause of your friends
    that Natsuko's unit is missing?!
[16:02] ---
    N-no-
[16:05] ---
    Ow...
[16:06] ---
    M-my gun!
[16:08] ---
    W-what are you-
[16:11] ---
    S-stop!
[16:20] ---
    Alright! Get the hell out here!
[16:26] ---
    How did he know we were here?! We're...
[16:31] ---
    Ascertainment.
[16:32] ---
    Condition... Minor damage.
[16:35] ---
    We have not been instructed how
    to react to a preemptive attack.
[16:38] ---
    Please issue your command.
[16:40] ---
    Damn it!
[16:41] ---
    Do I have to tell you everything?!
[16:43] ---
    Wait, I do.
[16:47] ---
    Your pursuit has failed,
    so take drastic measures!
[16:50] ---
    Capture the appropriate guy
    and force 'im to talk!
[16:53] ---
    I don't think so.
[16:57] ---
    W-when did they-
[17:01] ---
    Can't have you leaving
    with info on this place...
[17:05] ---
    Fire.
[17:10] ---
    What?!
[17:16] ---
    Huh?! Looks like something
    unexpected's just started...
[17:21] ---
    What's goin' on?!
[17:28] ---
    You've been followed, brothers.
[17:39] ---
    --Natsuko!
[17:39] ---
    --Natsu-ne!
[17:44] ---
    That's... right...
[17:47] ---
    Natsuko! We heard you
    were attacked, so we-
[17:50] ---
    You're not hurt?!
[17:52] ---
    Of course not.
[17:54] ---
    This was all made up.
[17:58] ---
    I finally get it!
[18:00] ---
    It looked like you were playing
    a damned-serious government dog,
[18:03] ---
    but you're actually an anti-government
    factionist like him, Natsuko!
[18:11] ---
    Let's just say I'm from the desert, too.
[18:14] ---
    Listen!
[18:15] ---
    I don't care if you wipe out all
    the soldiers! This is your debut!
[18:20] ---
    Try out the combat techniques taught
    to you to your hearts' content!
[18:24] ---
    Understood.
[18:27] ---
    What?!
[18:30] ---
    But capture the commander alive!
[18:37] ---
    I want to learn the details!
[18:41] ---
    What the hell is he?!
[18:43] ---
    I have a query.
[18:48] ---
    How does one distinguish
    between commander and soldier?
[18:53] ---
    I gotta spell that out for you, too?!
[18:56] ---
    The commander's the guy who's
    surrounded by soldiers and acts big!
[19:01] ---
    If you can't tell, just seize 'em all!
[19:03] ---
    Why'd you guys cook up a
    roundabout job to get me involved?!
[19:08] ---
    Yes, I know I'm famous
    in the Kanto for my skill!
[19:12] ---
    So I fully understand
    why you'd want me to join you!
[19:17] ---
    Why'd you show me your
    trump card of a tunnel
[19:20] ---
    before you knew what I was gonna do?!
[19:23] ---
    What are you thinking?!
[19:25] ---
    I agree.
[19:26] ---
    What?!
[19:28] ---
    I don't trust you either,
    and I'm against having you join, too.
[19:32] ---
    But there's someone who wants you.
[19:35] ---
    What, now?!
[19:36] ---
    What's there to gain by this?!
    Who is this connoisseur?!
[19:41] ---
    You'll find out soon enough.
[19:43] ---
    But let me make this clear.
[19:46] ---
    We did not form this group
    for self-interest.
[19:49] ---
    We want to make the desert
    a slightly better place.
[19:54] ---
    A place where the people
    of the desert can unite
[19:57] ---
    and where even the poor
    and weak can live in peace...
[20:01] ---
    We wish to make such a world!
[20:04] ---
    He just said what Master hates most...
[20:07] ---
    His funeral!
[20:10] ---
    What'd you say?!
[20:14] ---
    Himuro! Respond! Shiozaki!
    How's the right flank holding?!
[20:18] ---
    This is Shiozaki! I'm the
    only one in Squad ♪2 still-
[20:24] ---
    --Seize them all... Seize them all...
[20:24] ---
    --Seize them all... Seize them all...
[20:27] ---
    --Seize them all... Seize them all...
[20:27] ---
    --Seize them all... Seize them all...
[20:30] ---
    No question about it! The damn
    government has invested in 'em!
[20:35] ---
    General Kawaguchi! We're pulling out!
[20:38] ---
    Roger. The Sunabozu has been secured.
[20:42] ---
    Where's Kanta?!
[20:45] ---
    Master! We're going
    to abandon Natsuko-san?!
[20:48] ---
    Dumbass! We don't owe the government
    or the factionists anything!
[20:53] ---
    We ain't gonna get involved!
[20:54] ---
    Y-yes, but...
[20:56] ---
    Let's go!
[20:58] ---
    Master!
[21:14] ---
    The same kind as him?!
[21:27] ---
    He fell for the trap!
[21:30] ---
    Too bright!
[21:32] ---
    Damn! How can you fall for such tricks?!
[21:35] ---
    Samesuga! Damage?!
[21:41] ---
    Minor. No problem posed
    to continuance of operation.
[21:47] ---
    How can they be so damn strong,
    yet so damn stupid?!
[21:51] ---
    Same goes for you.
[21:54] ---
    N- Natsuko-san!
[21:58] ---
    I'd greatly appreciate it if you'd
    follow me with your own two legs...
[22:08] ---
    Of course.
[23:56] ---
    Hey! Fine Man of the Desert,
    Kaido Masaru here!
[23:58] ---
    Sunabozu! We'll never
    forget your bravery!
[24:00] ---
    Hey! Don't say such ominous crap!
[24:02] ---
    If you say so.
[24:03] ---
    And thus Master became
    a blue shooting star...
[24:06] ---
    Next episode- "Reverse and Handy"
[24:07] ---
    Miss it and you'll be punished heavily!
[24:09] ---
    You're serious?!