E7 - Banquet of Fire

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SIGN    Banquet of Fire
[00:05] A
    Are you Auctioneer?
[00:08] Au
    Indeed I am.
[00:10] A
    Wait, Alma. Where's Alma?!
[00:12] Au
    She's fine. We picked her up for you.
[00:15] A
    Who's "we"?
[00:18] A
    Number 11?
[00:20] A
    Are you Beta?
[00:22] Au
    No. Sorry to say that
    I am not the "Beta" you seek.
[00:26] A
    Then why do you have that?
[00:28] Au
    I can't tell you any more
    as long as you remain a police pawn.
[00:33] Au
    The cops have control of your little body.
[00:36] Au
    They have the power to turn you back
    into just a brain-in-a-box.
[00:41] A
    So what?
[00:43] Au
    I can rescue you from them.
[00:49] Au
    But in return, you must give me your word
[00:53] Au
    that you will cut all ties with them
    and side with me instead.
[00:58] Au
    Oh, and that you'll stay away
    from Jinkoku-sha, too.
[01:01] A
    What?
[01:03] Au
    The Counter EX-ARM squad is a thorn in my side.
    You in particular, Natsume Akira.
SIGN    Tokyo Bay Megafloat - A Stage
[01:15] Kon
    They won't find us here.
[01:18] Miy
    How's the president doing?
[01:21] Mid
    He's sleeping after taking his medication.
[01:24] Kon
    How's the search?
[01:26] Min
    Can't find anything.
[01:28] Min
    Alma's coordinates aren't showing up at all.
[01:32] Chi
    And Akira's connection is still
    blocked off after the hack.
[01:36] Chi
    We'll have to unplug his mains.
[01:42] A
    Why do you care about Jinkoku-sha?
[01:44] Au
    I've teamed up with Al Jarde
    in order to further my goals.
[01:47] Au
    His terms were to isolate Jinkoku-sha.
[01:50] A
    Wait. He was the one out to get them?
[01:53] Au
    Forget about Jinkoku-sha and work with me.
[01:57] Au
    You want to go back
    to being human, don't you?
[01:59] A
    Man, you already know
    there's no way I'd accept, right?
[02:06] A
    And, well, congrats! My answer is no!
[02:09] Au
    I did indeed expect this
    from you, Natsume Akira.
[02:14] Au
    But you will join me eventually.
    And that's not a prediction. It's a spoiler.
[02:21] Au
    That is your destiny
    as EX-ARM Number 00 Alpha.
[02:27] A
    What's that supposed to mean?
[02:28] Au
    Neither the police
    nor Jinkoku-sha deserve your help.
[02:31] Au
    Look into the Water Purification Plant terror
    attack in Berdeen, and you'll know why.
[04:13] A
    Huh? I'm back?
[04:15] Chi
    Akira! You're okay!
SIGN    Counter EX-ARM Squad HQ
[04:17] A
    What's that damn Auctioneer playing at?
[04:21] Chi
    Wait. You met Auctioneer?
[04:24] A
    Yeah. He's in cahoots with Al Jarde.
[04:28] A
    Al Jarde was the one out to get Jinkoku-sha!
[04:31] A
    Alisa, tell me something.
[04:33] A
    What's this Berdeen plant terror attack?
[04:36] Ar
    Must be the 2023 bombing
    of the water purification plant
[04:40] Ar
    that local and Japanese firms were building.
[04:44] Chi
    Do you think there could be a link
    between that and this auction?
[04:47] Ar
    The case file can't be accessed.
    It's classified.
[04:51] Mid
    I'm fairly certain that
    Grandfather was part of the project.
[04:54] Kon
    What?
[04:57] Chi
    Wait, Al Jarde is a citizen
    of the Berdeen Republic.
[05:00] Chi
    So if he's trying to take out Jinkoku-sha,
    that must mean...
[05:03] Kon
    Shit's getting complicated again.
[05:14] So
    We haven't figured out
    where Jinkoku-sha ran off to yet.
[05:19] AJ
    They can run and hide all they want,
    but we will find them.
[05:22] AJ
    And exact our revenge.
[05:27] AJ
    What is it?
[05:28] So
    I'm detecting some unusual activity nearby.
[05:31] So
    I'll go check it out.
[05:33] AJ
    Do that.
[05:46] (Flashback) So
    Happy birthday, Sis.
[05:51] (Flashback) So
    It's a set.
[05:54] (Flashback) Mi
    Thanks, Soma!
[05:56] (Flashback) Mi
    I'll keep this with me forever!
[06:06] Miy
    Keeping watch? Thank you.
[06:09] Miy
    Uh, may I ask you something?
[06:13] Miy
    Why didn't you answer the question
    about the plant earlier?
[06:17] Miy
    Didn't you lose your family in that incident?
[06:22] Min
    How do you know that?
[06:23] Miy
    Because it's my job to know.
[06:27] Min
    I haven't really come to terms with it yet.
[06:31] Miy
    I suppose we still don't know
    who was behind it.
[06:35] Miy
    But wait. Given what Al Jarde's doing now,
    maybe he was the one behind it?
[06:40] Min
    Wait, what?
[06:41] Miy
    Oh, uh, I was just thinking aloud!
[06:44] Miy
    Public Safety doesn't have
    any intel on it, either!
[06:48] Miy
    Where are you going, Minami?
[06:51] Miy
    Please don't tell me
    you're going to see Al Jarde.
[06:55] Miy
    Did you forget we're here on a mission?
[06:58] Min
    Sorry, I have to go.
[07:01] Miy
    Minami!
[07:08] Ar
    Minami ran off by herself?
    Why didn't you stop her?
[07:11] Miy
    I-I'm sorry! If you saw the look
    in her eyes, you'd know why!
[07:16] Kon
    She's probably going to see Al Jarde!
[07:18] Ar
    You good to go, Akira?
[07:20] A
    Yeah!
[07:23] A
    Man, what the hell is Minami thinking?
SIGN    Tokyo Bay Megafloat
[07:31] Ngu
    I'll let the Spiritus duo handle Jinkoku-sha,
[07:35] Ngu
    and Bathala will take care of Al Jarde.
[07:39] Gi
    Y'know, the way you talk gets on my nerves.
[07:42] Gi
    I'm not gonna destroy Jinkoku-sha on your orders.
    I'm doing it because I want to.
[07:46] Gi
    Let's go, Aristarif.
[07:49] BL
    You're up, Ivo.
[07:51] Iv
    Yikes, yikes, yikes!
[07:57] BL
    He's in the penthouse.
[08:07] Min
    Akira?
[08:08] A
    You trying a solo raid?
    Who do you think you are?
[08:12] Min
    I know it's stupid.
    But I need to talk to Al Jarde.
[08:16] A
    Wait, what?
[08:24] AJ
    It's you!
[08:28] Min
    I'm here to ask you something.
[08:30] Min
    Tell me about the Berdeen
    plant terror attack.
[08:34] A
    Minami?
[08:37] AJ
    Are you sure you want to know,
[08:38] AJ
    Uezono Minami?
[08:41] A
    How do you know her name?
[08:43] AJ
    You were a victim of that attack.
[08:47] A
    Minami... a victim?!
[08:50] Min
    Why did I have to lose my family?
[08:53] Min
    You know the reason. I know you do!
[08:57] AJ
    Eight years ago, the long reign of religious
    fanatics over Berdeen finally ended.
[09:06] AJ
    As head of the reinstated emirate family,
[09:09] AJ
    I hoped to rebuild the nation
    from the ground up.
[09:12] AJ
    At the time, I was working on the joint
    plant project with the Japanese firms.
[09:19] AJ
    I had a wife, Lamia, and a son, Arim.
[09:23] AJ
    They both had luckily survived the civil war,
[09:26] AJ
    and we were soon blessed
    with a daughter, Malaika.
[09:29] AJ
    Our country was abound with poverty.
[09:32] AJ
    I saw it as my duty
    to lead it to better days,
[09:35] AJ
    to ensure a brighter future
    for the generations to come.
[09:38] AJ
    But all it took was one missile
    from an unidentified drone—
[09:43] AJ
    one moment—to take everything
    away from me.
[09:51] AJ
    And I swore to myself
[09:55] AJ
    that I would do whatever it takes
    to find who was responsible
[09:59] AJ
    and make them pay with their own blood.
[10:02] A
    So, did you find them?
[10:05] AJ
    It was Hayama Gaho.
[10:09] AJ
    The man you're guarding.
    The leader of Jinkoku-sha.
[10:13] Min
    No!
[10:14] AJ
    He killed my uncle, who was against
    the inflow of foreign capital,
[10:18] AJ
    and took over the entire plant project.
[10:21] Min
    So...
[10:28] Min
    You attacked the plant as payback?
[10:38] A
    He killed your family?
[10:44] AJ
    The one behind that attack was...
[10:49] A
    His voice just cut out.
    No, all sound just dropped out!
[11:08] BL
    Ivo, move on to stage two.
[11:10] BL
    Enjoy his magic field,
    where nobody can see or hear anything!
[11:20] A
    This is trouble.
[11:21] A
    I've got my night-vision mode,
    but these two...
[11:25] A
    Wait, is she planning to fight in the dark?
[11:28] A
    Minami! Behind you!
[11:39] A
    Where'd he go?
[12:00] BL
    Sound is back. Turn on the lights.
[12:05] Ngu
    Truly a shame.
[12:07] Ngu
    Bathala will be dropping out
    of this race, I take it?
[12:11] BL
    Damn it!
[12:13] Ivo
    Why? Whywhywhy... Why?!
[12:16] AJ
    Because I am a man of the desert.
[12:18] AJ
    The sands hold no scents.
[12:20] AJ
    That makes us sensitive
    to the scents in the air.
[12:24] AJ
    The faint smell of blood splatters on you
    told me exactly where you were.
[12:30] A
    But how'd you evade his attacks?
[12:33] AJ
    Simple.
[12:34] AJ
    All I had to do was
    feel the touch of his knife on my body
[12:37] AJ
    and avoid it before it pierced me through.
[12:40] A
    Ah, yes, like taking candy from a baby.
[12:42] Chi
    We've got trouble!
[12:44] Chi
    Somebody's leaked the location
    of Jinkoku-sha's hideout!
[12:46] Chi
    We don't know who it is!
[12:48] Chi
    It's probably been sent
    to all the groups in the auction!
[12:56] Gi
    Looks like we strike first.
[13:01] Gi
    Do your thing, Aristarif. Fight well for me.
SIGN    Illustration by Komi Shinya
[13:13] Miy
    W-Well, didn't take them long to get here.
[13:16] Kon
    Spiritus, eh?
[13:18] Kon
    Bah, fine. I'll hold them off.
[13:20] Miy
    Hold them off? You want to go out there?!
[13:22] Kon
    We can't just sit around when they're
    right there. It's do-or-die, bucko.
[13:26] Miy
    That's not ideal!
[13:27] Kon
    Get your bossman on the line.
[13:29] Miy
    Huh? O-Okay.
[13:32] Kon
    I think it's about time
    you filled us in, bro.
[13:35] Kon
    Who's the brains behind this operation?
    What exactly are we guarding here?
[13:41] Wani
    Well...
[13:43] BB
    Go ahead.
[13:45] Wani
    It's the Restoration Bloc.
[13:50] Mid
    Officially called the Japanese Restoration Bloc,
[13:54] Mid
    it was a group formed after the Tokyo Attack
    to rebuild the city and Japan.
[13:58] Mid
    Allowed to take extralegal measures,
[14:00] Mid
    it's filled with people
    key to Japan's revival.
[14:04] Mid
    Grandfather is one of its members, as well.
[14:09] Kon
    Hah. I get it now.
[14:11] BB
    We're fine with things as they stand.
    Put us through to Ichigaya.
[14:15] Wani
    Sir!
[14:19] Mid
    Please wait!
[14:21] Mid
    My grandfather and I don't deserve
    to be protected with your life.
[14:24] Mid
    We can stop them by turning ourselves in.
[14:27] Miy
    I'm afraid that's not an option!
[14:28] Kon
    If you feel you don't deserve our protection,
    just become someone who does.
[14:34] Kon
    Miyabe, handle things here.
[14:37] Miy
    Got it! I'll keep her safe, no matter what!
[14:42] Mid
    Please be safe.
SIGN    Tokyo Bay Megafloat - D Stage
[14:48] AJ
    I wasn't behind the plant attack.
[14:52] AJ
    It was the remnants of the fanatical terrorists.
[14:54] AJ
    By the time I got there,
    it was all too late.
[14:58] AJ
    Except for you two.
[15:01] Min
    "You two"?
[15:02] Min
    So he really is...
[15:05] So
    That's right, Sis.
[15:08] So
    I'm Soma, your little brother.
[15:12] A
    Minami's bro?!
[15:15] Min
    It really is you. Soma...
[15:22] Min
    I'm so glad you're alive!
[15:25] A
    I'm happy for you, Minami.
[15:29] Min
    Soma? What happened to your body?
[15:32] AJ
    Soma was on the brink of death
    when I got there.
[15:38] AJ
    Everything but his head
    had to be fitted with cybernetics.
[15:41] AJ
    That, of course, is a surgery banned by law.
[15:44] AJ
    If he underwent it,
    he could never go home to Japan,
[15:47] AJ
    but I put his life first.
[15:50] Min
    No...
[15:51] So
    Sis, please.
[15:54] So
    Quit guarding Jinkoku-sha
    and leave this island.
[15:59] Min
    What are you saying? Why would you...
[16:01] So
    The two of us swore to ourselves to make
    Hayama Gaho suffer more than we did.
[16:08] AJ
    We will kill all of his family
    and friends, every last one of them.
[16:12] AJ
    We'll kill his granddaughter before his eyes,
    and then kill him!
[16:16] AJ
    He'll know what it means
    to pay with his blood!
[16:20] Min
    N-No, you can't! Please listen to me, Soma!
[16:25] A
    You finally got to see your long-lost
    brother, so why is this happening?
[16:32] So
    We're ready to move out.
[16:34] AJ
    Let's go.
[16:35] A
    Go where? To kill Hayama Gaho?!
[16:38] AJ
    Do you really need me to spell it out?
[16:40] Min
    Our mom and dad never asked for this!
[16:44] So
    You didn't watch them die before your eyes.
[16:49] So
    That's why you can spout this bullshit.
[16:51] So
    I'll get my revenge on everyone who
    put me through this, by any means necessary.
[16:58] Min
    Soma...
[17:04] Gi
    Aristarif's EX-ARM lets him control
    the oscillation of iron atoms.
[17:08] Gi
    Surely you don't think
    you can beat him all by yourself.
[17:18] Miy
    Gah! Kondo!
[17:23] Mid
    After the Tokyo Attack,
[17:25] Mid
    Jinkoku-sha pulled the strings behind
    military projects, domestic and international
[17:30] Mid
    to attain the influence we wield today.
[17:33] Mid
    While we did it to rebuild our nation,
[17:36] Mid
    the fact remains that we caused untold
    amounts of tragedy across the world.
[17:42] Mid
    Having been raised by that blood money,
[17:46] Mid
    I am practically clad head-to-toe
    in my grandfather's sins.
[17:51] Mid
    It's only natural that I'm just as much
    a target of hate as Jinkoku-sha is.
[17:57] (Flashback) Kon
    If you feel you don't deserve our protection,
    just become someone who does.
[18:27] Kon
    Your ability works only on iron!
[18:31] Kon
    But I'm all flesh and bone!
    It can't do shit to me!
[18:38] Gi
    Aristarif!
[18:46] Ygg
    These bees get a B-minus in discipline!
[18:51] Kon
    Wait... Yggdrasil?!
[18:54] Ygg
    Please, call me "Ygg."
[18:56] Kon
    We met your avatar in the VR world,
    and now you're out here?!
[19:01] Ygg
    Please be okay, Akira.
[19:05] Min
    Soma!
[19:07] Min
    A quest for revenge? I won't let you!
[19:10] AJ
    Can you really shoot your own brother?
[19:15] Min
    I don't want to.
[19:17] Min
    So please, just stop!
[19:21] So
    Alma.
[19:27] Al
    Put your gun down, Minami.
[19:30] A
    Alma?
[19:31] Al
    At this range, I can neutralize you
    faster than you can fire.
[19:37] Min
    Wait. What are you saying, Alma?
[19:40] Al
    I won't let you shoot my master.
[19:42] A
    Did they mess with her AI?!
[19:45] So
    As I said, by any means necessary.
[19:50] Min
    What? Not Alma...
[19:53] A
    I know! My quantum network!
[19:56] Al
    No point, Akira. We've already cut it off.
[20:01] So
    We're going to do it, Sis.
[20:04] So
    We'll be on opposing sides next time we meet.
[20:06] So
    Alma and I won't show any mercy.
[20:11] Min
    No!
[20:11] Min
    Soma!
[20:22] So
    You really fired, Sis.
[20:24] So
    This makes us enemies for real.
[20:30] Min
    I... I fired my gun at Soma.
[20:36] Min
    I finally got to see him again.
    How did things end up like this?
[20:41] Min
    Soma!
[20:51] A
    What?!
[20:53] B
    What's all this dwama about?
[20:57] B
    Did you all forget why you're here?
[21:01] B
    A reunion between long-wost sibwings?
[21:05] B
    A revenge pwot decades in the making?
[21:09] B
    A hero protecting his pwincess?
[21:12] B
    You certainly don't look
    very heroic right now.
[21:15] Kon
    What in the blue hell?
[21:17] B
    I went through all that twouble
    to tell y'all where Jinkoku-sha was,
[21:22] B
    but you wouldn't do anything,
    so I went and ahead and captured them myself.
[21:26] B
    See?
[21:29] A
    You...
[21:31] A
    Who the hell are you?
[21:33] B
    Who, me?
[21:35] B
    I'm Beta.
[21:38] A
    Beta...?
[21:40] B
    I told you we'd meet again.
[21:44] A
    Beta...
[21:46] A
    You're going down!
[23:25] B
    Hewwo! Who am I, you ask?
[23:27] B
    Y'all swacked off too hard!
[23:30] B
    So I'm taking over and making things hype!
[23:33] A
    Next time, on EX-ARM:
    "Battle 008 - Beta."
SIGN    Beta
[23:36] B
    Let's begin! It's time to partay!