# 18 - Life After God
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**[00:42] ---**
You could have waited inside.
**[00:45] ---**
I want to see this myself.
**[00:47] ---**
It's the end of our journey.
**[00:51] ---**
We're finally here, huh?
**[00:54] ---**
Right.
**[00:57] ---**
I'm positive we'll find out what you are.
**[01:05] ---**
You're not the only one who's anxious.
**[01:08] ---**
Re-l...
**[01:18] ---**
Take the helm!
**[01:43] ---**
We're in Mosk.
**[03:50] ---**
It's empty.
**[03:51] ---**
This goes beyond anything I've ever seen.
**[03:57] ---**
Mosk was destroyed during
the invasion by Romdo.
**[04:02] ---**
I wonder if Vincent
would hold a grudge if he knew.
**[04:05] ---**
The light...
**[04:07] ---**
maybe it was the light
that burned Mosk to the ground...
**[04:11] ---**
in order to wipe out my past.
**[04:14] ---**
The place wasn't destroyed yesterday.
**[04:20] ---**
That's right.
**[04:22] ---**
Did my grandfather send the light as well?
**[04:25] ---**
Why now?
**[04:28] ---**
Is he trying to capture another Proxy?
**[04:32] ---**
What's happening in Romdo?
**[04:35] ---**
Vince.
**[04:35] ---**
Cheer up!
**[04:38] ---**
Yeah.
**[04:39] ---**
We only just got here.
**[04:43] ---**
You're right.
**[04:47] ---**
Sign of the End
**[04:52] ---**
Citizen Number 039666. Raul Creed.
**[04:58] ---**
Present.
**[05:00] ---**
How could a model fellow citizen
have created such a mess?
**[05:05] ---**
You completely overestimated
your abilities.
**[05:08] ---**
To have taken such
liberties with the system.
**[05:11] ---**
If only you hadn't made this mistake.
**[05:14] ---**
Mistake?
**[05:16] ---**
It's the same for you, isn't it?
**[05:21] ---**
Are you unable to face
up to your own crime as well?
**[05:24] ---**
Shifting the blame.
**[05:26] ---**
A typical defensive response.
**[05:29] ---**
If it weren't a mistake,
**[05:31] ---**
then there would be no need to
atone for accepting the immigrants.
**[05:35] ---**
It is a fellow citizen's duty to
reach out to the weak.
**[05:39] ---**
That lack of resolve is
what led us to this predicament.
**[05:43] ---**
This entire tragedy began with the
admittance of that man, Vincent Law.
**[05:49] ---**
Am I wrong?
**[05:56] ---**
Are you all right?
**[05:58] ---**
Yes...
**[05:59] ---**
This looks like it was the city's center.
**[06:02] ---**
I don't know.
**[06:04] ---**
Were you too lowly a citizen to
even know where the city's center was?
**[06:07] ---**
I don't know.
**[06:11] ---**
That's a joke.
**[06:13] ---**
I know.
**[06:15] ---**
Vince?
**[06:16] ---**
Something you ate or someone you met,
**[06:19] ---**
anything you remember might help.
**[06:21] ---**
Nothing's coming to me. Nothing.
**[06:24] ---**
Take your time.
**[06:26] ---**
There's no need to blame your present self.
**[06:30] ---**
Come on. Let's go.
**[06:32] ---**
Could you leave me alone for a little bit?
**[06:37] ---**
Vincent?
**[06:40] ---**
If you're not feeling well,
go back to the ship.
**[06:44] ---**
If I find any clues I'll come back too.
**[06:47] ---**
Right.
**[06:51] ---**
Using Rapture was not a crime.
**[06:54] ---**
Not only did you invent
the erroneous name "Rapture"
**[06:58] ---**
for a simple thermonuclear bomb,
you sealed it away for future use.
**[07:03] ---**
Those are the true crimes worthy
of condemnation.
**[07:05] ---**
It is the repeating of past
mistakes which is your crime.
**[07:10] ---**
Your former selves sought
God and were betrayed.
**[07:14] ---**
Not me.
**[07:15] ---**
I don't seek some God who won't save us.
**[07:18] ---**
I simply destroy.
**[07:20] ---**
You seek further destruction?
**[07:22] ---**
How will bringing further death and
confusion to this world change anything?
**[07:27] ---**
There is a victor,
therefore there must also be a loser.
**[07:31] ---**
Even if our downfall is inevitable,
**[07:33] ---**
Romdo will not perish as long as we resist.
**[07:37] ---**
Such idiocy.
**[07:38] ---**
There is no way to escape this path.
**[07:41] ---**
Seeing the road to ruin as
inexorable is tantamount to death?
**[07:46] ---**
To wait and see is to commit slow suicide.
**[07:49] ---**
It's easy to drown in
the soothing waters of despair...
**[07:53] ---**
however, we have to change!
**[07:56] ---**
We must be able to
do without God from now on!
**[08:00] ---**
I do not know despair.
**[08:10] ---**
Resist, therefore Romdo is. Is that it?
**[08:21] ---**
In that case, go ahead. Try it your way.
**[08:25] ---**
You're sparing me, aren't you?
**[08:28] ---**
So I can suffer with you.
**[08:34] ---**
Let's go.
**[08:35] ---**
Yes, sir, Chief.
**[08:42] ---**
Raul...
**[08:44] ---**
you will soon know...
**[08:46] ---**
Our even deeper...
**[08:48] ---**
Our even sadder...
**[08:51] ---**
Our true despair.
**[08:56] ---**
The city's been wiped out...
**[08:59] ---**
just like my memory.
**[09:01] ---**
It's the place where I was born...
**[09:04] ---**
where I became who I am.
**[09:06] ---**
And yet, even so,
I can't remember anything.
**[09:12] ---**
I wonder if I'd be able
to remember if I turned into him.
**[09:25] ---**
Don't fall.
**[09:27] ---**
I'm fine!
**[09:30] ---**
Hey, Vince!
**[09:32] ---**
Hey!
**[09:35] ---**
Vince!
**[09:37] ---**
I can't believe you're
able to see him from this far.
**[09:39] ---**
Hey!
**[09:41] ---**
Let's leave him alone.
**[09:43] ---**
OK.
**[09:48] ---**
What can you see up there?
**[09:51] ---**
It must be the egg.
**[09:53] ---**
The egg?
**[09:54] ---**
Yeah.
**[09:55] ---**
And inside there's supposed
to be lots of precious round things...
**[09:59] ---**
like children, or food, or dreams.
**[10:03] ---**
That's from the picture book, right?
**[10:05] ---**
Uh-huh. This is the first
time I've seen it.
**[10:09] ---**
It was important enough to have
been protected with all these shields.
**[10:13] ---**
We called it the Monad Proxy.
**[10:18] ---**
Monad?
**[10:20] ---**
It was something we
plundered from the Mosk Dome.
**[10:26] ---**
Perhaps the Monad Proxy
was located inside there.
**[10:38] ---**
Do I not have memories?
**[10:41] ---**
If not, can I even say I'm me?
**[10:50] ---**
There's something here.
**[10:53] ---**
Don't worry.
**[10:55] ---**
This place is scary.
**[10:57] ---**
For some reason, the place
brings back memories for me.
**[11:01] ---**
It reminds me of my grandfather's room.
**[11:05] ---**
I was always nervous
whenever I was summoned there,
**[11:08] ---**
but now I feel nostalgic.
**[11:11] ---**
Did your grandfather praise you?
**[11:13] ---**
No.
**[11:14] ---**
Poor Re-l.
**[11:25] ---**
Was the Proxy here?
**[11:32] ---**
Romdo invaded Mosk and seized
the Monad Proxy by force.
**[11:48] ---**
Why can't we live without a Proxy?
**[11:53] ---**
Why did Romdo have to get
a Proxy from someplace else?
**[12:00] ---**
What did the Proxy look out upon from here?
**[12:17] ---**
Pulse...!
**[12:20] ---**
Why did Vince forget?
**[12:23] ---**
I wouldn't have forgotten.
**[12:25] ---**
We'd lose our minds if
we remembered everything.
**[12:29] ---**
Vince had a hard time, didn't he?
**[12:33] ---**
Maybe forgetting was his mind's
instinctive way of protecting itself.
**[12:38] ---**
But if his memory holds the truth...
**[12:43] ---**
If only the power supply
were still working.
**[12:46] ---**
Power?
**[12:47] ---**
Some place we could charge your battery.
**[12:50] ---**
That's here.
**[12:52] ---**
What?
**[12:53] ---**
There's power here.
**[12:55] ---**
Why didn't you say so earlier?
**[12:56] ---**
Why didn't you ask earlier?
**[13:07] ---**
All right!
**[13:12] ---**
I guess not.
**[13:15] ---**
I got it! It's all in Pino's head now.
**[13:30] ---**
The one who's permitted to open the door...
**[13:34] ---**
of course, I remember.
**[13:36] ---**
I've been waiting for you...
**[13:40] ---**
my honored guest.
**[13:52] ---**
What did you gain from erasing
your memory and leaving here?
**[13:57] ---**
You didn't gain anything, did you?
**[14:01] ---**
That's why you came back.
**[14:04] ---**
Oh my...
**[14:06] ---**
With your permission,
**[14:08] ---**
the one you assigned to be your
memory keeper for this very occasion.
**[14:14] ---**
I am Amnesia.
**[14:17] ---**
Surely you haven't forgotten that?
**[14:23] ---**
All right.
**[14:26] ---**
Now, then...
**[14:28] ---**
that which is divided must become one.
**[14:33] ---**
The precious memories
you entrusted me with, master.
**[14:38] ---**
I was afraid they'd become indistinct,
so I wrote them down like this.
**[14:42] ---**
Simply wait and tell.
**[14:44] ---**
If I were just a machine,
it would be an easy job.
**[14:52] ---**
Those with independent
minds lose their memory
**[14:56] ---**
as a safeguard to preserve their sanity.
**[14:59] ---**
Madness or amnesia,
which would come first?
**[15:02] ---**
Thank goodness we
met before it ever came to that.
**[15:06] ---**
I know.
**[15:08] ---**
Please bear with me for a moment.
**[15:19] ---**
Yes.
**[15:20] ---**
This part tells of the
time when you met her.
**[15:27] ---**
Now then, without further ado.
**[15:33] ---**
No, no. Don't worry.
**[15:36] ---**
I would never, ever allow anything to
**[15:39] ---**
harm the precious memories
you left with me.
**[15:43] ---**
Something's strange.
**[15:44] ---**
I wrote it all down precisely,
so nothing would be forgotten.
**[15:48] ---**
No, no, not to worry.
**[15:50] ---**
I don't know how
many nights I stayed up writing...
**[15:56] ---**
What are you doing?!
**[15:57] ---**
These are your memories!
**[16:01] ---**
Why did you come back?
Why did I have to keep them safe?
**[16:06] ---**
Why?
**[16:08] ---**
Why?!
**[16:15] ---**
Why?!
**[16:38] ---**
Vince.
**[16:40] ---**
Pino...
**[16:42] ---**
Re-l!
**[16:43] ---**
Vince is awake!
**[16:50] ---**
How are you feeling?
**[16:52] ---**
I'm all right now.
**[16:54] ---**
We found a lead.
**[16:56] ---**
I got it. It's all in my head.
**[16:58] ---**
There's a power plant
operating underneath the facility.
**[17:02] ---**
Are you up for going?
**[17:03] ---**
How long was I out?
**[17:08] ---**
Let's go.
**[17:13] ---**
I want you to make this your top priority.
**[17:17] ---**
Even more important than
reviving the Proxy?
**[17:20] ---**
We don't need God.
**[17:24] ---**
We can't do anything if you're scared.
**[17:26] ---**
Killing God won't change anything.
**[17:29] ---**
Exactly, it doesn't change anything.
**[17:33] ---**
So, then we should change
at the cellular level.
**[17:36] ---**
You can pull it off.
**[17:38] ---**
I'm not the only one who has faith in you.
**[17:42] ---**
You're funny.
**[17:44] ---**
Going to such lengths.
**[17:46] ---**
We're going to change, literally.
**[17:49] ---**
You're going to transform us
into what we were supposed to be.
**[17:53] ---**
As you wish.
**[17:55] ---**
If there's anything you
need from Romdo, I'll take care of it.
**[18:14] ---**
Red string?
**[18:20] ---**
Give it back please!
**[18:23] ---**
Sure.
**[18:24] ---**
It's very important.
**[18:27] ---**
Really?
**[18:32] ---**
Sorry I made you wait.
**[18:35] ---**
What's this?
**[18:36] ---**
A replacement for Re-l Mayer?
**[18:39] ---**
Replacement?
**[18:41] ---**
This is the real Real Mayer.
**[18:44] ---**
Shall we go, Real?
**[18:57] ---**
He's starting to lose it.
**[19:01] ---**
This way!
**[19:03] ---**
Did they build this section
**[19:05] ---**
so they would still
have energy in an emergency?
**[19:09] ---**
This place...
**[19:11] ---**
Do you know something?
**[19:13] ---**
No, it's just...
**[19:15] ---**
I feel like I've been
here before for some reason.
**[19:22] ---**
Is all this scrawling on
the wall some kind of language?
**[19:25] ---**
Can you read them?
**[19:26] ---**
No.
**[19:31] ---**
Let's not.
**[19:32] ---**
There might be something inside.
**[19:34] ---**
Look here!
**[19:36] ---**
It's your thing!
**[19:38] ---**
It's the same shape as your pendant.
**[19:41] ---**
I don't believe it.
**[19:49] ---**
It opened!
**[19:51] ---**
Was that a key?
**[19:57] ---**
What is this room?
**[20:00] ---**
And what's it doing here like this?
**[20:02] ---**
Who are you?
**[20:04] ---**
Leave it alone. It's broken.
**[20:07] ---**
Is he dead?
**[20:12] ---**
What happened?
**[20:14] ---**
Must become one.
That which is divided must become one.
**[20:20] ---**
That which is divided?
**[20:22] ---**
That which is divided must become one.
**[20:25] ---**
Like I thought, it's broken.
**[20:27] ---**
What's it mean?
**[20:34] ---**
Vincent!
**[20:36] ---**
That's...
**[20:41] ---**
Re-l, is that...?
That which is divided...
**[20:43] ---**
Re-l, is that...?
To Romdo... To Romdo... To Romdo...
**[20:46] ---**
To... Ro... m... do...
**[20:49] ---**
He said Romdo!
**[20:50] ---**
Hey, what do you mean? Hey!
**[20:53] ---**
Say something!
**[20:58] ---**
It's...
**[21:00] ---**
What is it?
**[21:09] ---**
They match!
**[21:18] ---**
You truly are the mystery of the world.
**[21:22] ---**
You mustn't show that smile to other men.
**[21:35] ---**
Beautiful...
**[21:39] ---**
You're here again?
**[21:43] ---**
I thought you'd been wiped out.
**[21:46] ---**
Then you're a symbol of
what I'm up against?
**[21:50] ---**
That's fine.
**[21:51] ---**
I will annihilate you.
**[21:54] ---**
You don't scare me.
**[22:00] ---**
Maybe it was a
message for you from Monad.
**[22:04] ---**
Monad...
**[22:06] ---**
Then it was Monad.
**[22:08] ---**
You must have transferred
your memories to her.
**[22:11] ---**
Because she loved you, didn't she?
**[22:15] ---**
It turns out even this
place was a dead end.
**[22:18] ---**
No.
**[22:19] ---**
We found where we're supposed to go.
**[22:22] ---**
I saw the same message back in Romdo.
**[22:28] ---**
The night I first met you as a Proxy.
**[22:39] ---**
That's why...
**[22:41] ---**
That's Romdo.
**[22:44] ---**
Can we make it back?
**[22:46] ---**
We have to.
**[22:48] ---**
Vincent Law...
**[22:50] ---**
what the hell are you?
**[22:53] ---**
Another pendant.
**[22:55] ---**
What is the same pendant doing here?
**[22:59] ---**
That which is
divided must become one.
**[23:03] ---**
I wonder if that
refers to Vincent and Ergo.
**[23:08] ---**
If that were the case,
whoever killed the AutoReiv
**[23:10] ---**
and stole the memory evidence was...
**[23:16] ---**
Let's go back to Romdo.
**[23:21] ---**
Right.
**[23:26] ---**
I guess we're going back there.
**[23:31] ---**
The last stop on our journey.
**[23:34] ---**
We ran into many Proxies...
**[23:37] ---**
but it wasn't any of them.
**[23:39] ---**
The message and the
thread linking the two pendants.
**[23:46] ---**
Monad was responsible for everything.
**[23:49] ---**
The link between Monad and Vincent...
**[23:52] ---**
and with the Proxy...
**[23:55] ---**
The answer is there. I know it.
**[25:31] ---**
Smile Land.
**[25:33] ---**
It's the kingdom of eternal smiles.
**[25:36] ---**
All who come are taken into
the world of dreams...
**[25:39] ---**
The Girl with a Smile
**[25:41] ---**
until all sense of time is lost.
**[25:43] ---**