# 24 - The Will to Aspire to the Heavens
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GY24KV85R/gad-guard)
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**[01:50] ---**
Don't die... Don't die!
**[01:59] ---**
Dad...
**[02:02] ---**
Hajiki...
**[02:06] ---**
You dumb bastard!
**[02:07] ---**
Don't die... Don't die!
**[02:11] ---**
Please don't die.
**[02:12] ---**
You dumb bastard! You piece of shit!
**[02:15] ---**
Like hell... Like hell I'll let him die!
**[02:21] ---**
What's this?
**[02:23] ---**
Bob, is this what I think it is?
**[02:25] ---**
This is where I live.
**[02:27] ---**
And it's our graveyard.
**[02:35] ---**
Dad, don't die!
**[02:40] ---**
The Will to Aspire to the Heavens
**[02:58] ---**
I did everything I could.
**[03:01] ---**
But...
**[03:02] ---**
Yujiro.
**[03:05] ---**
He's a Techode.
**[03:08] ---**
If he dies, he'll disappear.
**[03:21] ---**
There are so many things I want to ask you.
**[03:24] ---**
Please open your eyes...
**[03:28] ---**
Dad.
**[03:35] ---**
Hajiki!
**[03:40] ---**
Bob!
**[03:41] ---**
That's right!
**[03:42] ---**
Yujiro isn't dead yet!
**[03:46] ---**
Good afternoon.
**[03:47] ---**
W-Who are you?
**[03:49] ---**
Sayuri?
**[03:50] ---**
What's wrong with that guy?
**[03:53] ---**
Sayuri!
**[03:58] ---**
How did you get here?
**[03:59] ---**
Is Katana here with you?
**[04:02] ---**
Katana's dead.
**[04:27] ---**
Get lost.
**[04:29] ---**
Help me!
**[04:32] ---**
Sayuri...
**[04:34] ---**
Did you say Katana's dead?
**[04:36] ---**
Probably. There was a
big fight in the city.
**[04:41] ---**
He's dead?
**[04:44] ---**
Mister...
**[04:46] ---**
You poor thing.
**[04:59] ---**
Please, I want you to
tell me about my father.
**[05:08] ---**
I am going home...
**[05:12] ---**
I will continue to fly...
**[05:16] ---**
high into the sky.
**[05:19] ---**
I will fly to the end of the sky.
**[05:25] ---**
Yeah, Mister. Let's go home to space.
**[05:30] ---**
To space...
**[05:43] ---**
How did Sayuri get all the way
to this faraway island by herself?
**[05:52] ---**
Do you suppose...
**[05:56] ---**
Maybe you're thinking about it too hard.
**[05:59] ---**
Do you think so?
**[06:02] ---**
Is that man your father?
**[06:07] ---**
That's a Techode.
**[06:09] ---**
So his eyes are the same as my dad's.
**[06:12] ---**
Hajiki...
**[06:14] ---**
You guys seem to have a
lot of involvement...
**[06:26] ---**
The last stop for life.
**[06:29] ---**
That's what everyone likes
to call this island.
**[06:31] ---**
Last stop?
**[06:38] ---**
Bob.
**[06:40] ---**
This is work.
**[06:42] ---**
I had to look after it,
or it really would be useless.
**[06:53] ---**
The man is okay now.
**[06:56] ---**
I see.
**[06:58] ---**
I have a favor to ask.
**[07:00] ---**
Sure.
**[07:01] ---**
What is it?
**[07:04] ---**
Help me go to space.
**[07:11] ---**
Okay.
**[07:12] ---**
Hajiki, what does she mean?
**[07:17] ---**
Space, huh?
**[07:19] ---**
Hajiki...
**[07:31] ---**
Sayuri!
**[07:34] ---**
Katana...
**[07:49] ---**
You bastard.
**[07:55] ---**
It's starting to give up the fight.
**[07:57] ---**
I guess we're both getting old...
**[08:00] ---**
Bob, is your job...
**[08:03] ---**
I maintain the electromagnetic catapult.
**[08:07] ---**
That's my job.
**[08:10] ---**
This is a rocket launch platform, isn't it?
**[08:13] ---**
Yeah.
**[08:14] ---**
It's still working.
**[08:16] ---**
Yeah, but it'll only
hold together for two...
**[08:19] ---**
No, one more try.
**[08:22] ---**
There's only one shot
left for both it and me.
**[08:35] ---**
Tunis Space Memorial Company?
**[08:38] ---**
There was a market in launching
the ashes of the dead into space.
**[08:42] ---**
This island was a rocket
launch site for that purpose.
**[08:49] ---**
Our catch phrase was
"Become a Shooting Star."
**[08:53] ---**
That's called a space burial, isn't it?
**[08:57] ---**
So you're saying those rockets...
**[09:00] ---**
They're the most expensive
coffins money can buy.
**[09:03] ---**
Is that why you hate rockets so much, Bob?
**[09:07] ---**
I merely hate people who
come clamoring to rockets.
**[09:11] ---**
My father was a rocket pilot.
**[09:15] ---**
I want to go to space.
**[09:16] ---**
I want to fly.
**[09:21] ---**
Kid, look at this.
**[09:26] ---**
What is this?
**[09:28] ---**
It looks really big.
**[09:30] ---**
They kept launching without
plotting orbit courses right,
**[09:32] ---**
and this is what happened.
**[09:35] ---**
They never became shooting stars.
**[09:37] ---**
They never went into space.
**[09:39] ---**
They just cluttered together
and became a huge mass of metal.
**[09:43] ---**
This was once called "the rocket dump,"
**[09:46] ---**
but if I were to rename it,
I'd call it the rocket graveyard.
**[09:51] ---**
Does he know about this?
**[09:53] ---**
Yeah, he's known for a long time.
**[09:57] ---**
Oh, come to mention it,
Yujiro looked at the rocket dump
**[10:02] ---**
and said, "I wonder what
happened to Lightning?"
**[10:05] ---**
Lightning?
**[10:08] ---**
Is something wrong?
**[10:10] ---**
Lightning is the name of Dad's rocket.
**[10:17] ---**
Hajiki...
**[10:38] ---**
Sayuri...
**[10:44] ---**
I wonder what's on the
other side of the sky?
**[10:48] ---**
My homeland.
**[10:51] ---**
Your homeland?
**[10:55] ---**
Yeah, but it sure is huge.
**[10:58] ---**
You know, this path that leads to space.
**[11:03] ---**
Sayuri, why do you want to go to space?
**[11:07] ---**
I'm going home.
Going home?
**[11:09] ---**
You could die, you know.
**[11:12] ---**
I want to go home to space.
**[11:16] ---**
The Gad homeland.
**[11:19] ---**
The path to the stars, huh?
**[11:22] ---**
I can't wait to see Lightning.
**[11:29] ---**
I totally forgot about them.
**[11:40] ---**
Lightning...
**[11:48] ---**
Hey! Lightning!
**[11:58] ---**
Did it move all by itself?
**[12:00] ---**
That can't be.
**[12:02] ---**
That's true...
**[12:03] ---**
Lightning!
**[12:05] ---**
Hajiki!
**[12:07] ---**
Over there.
**[12:12] ---**
Lightning!
**[12:18] ---**
Lightning...
**[12:30] ---**
Lightning!
**[12:36] ---**
What's wrong with you, Lightning?
**[12:40] ---**
Lightning!
**[12:52] ---**
Do you care that strongly?
**[12:59] ---**
Lightning...
**[13:00] ---**
That's true. Let's go to space!
**[13:21] ---**
The forecast at nine said Tunis'
atmosphere will become steady...
**[13:26] ---**
and tomorrow will likely be sunny.
**[13:28] ---**
Now please enjoy this music.
**[14:06] ---**
Let's take a little break, Lightning.
**[14:27] ---**
Hajiki, I brought you lunch!
**[14:32] ---**
Thanks...
**[14:36] ---**
I'm starving!
**[14:37] ---**
Here.
Oh, thanks.
**[14:43] ---**
You're ready to make someone
a husband anytime, seriously.
**[14:48] ---**
Here.
**[14:54] ---**
I thought I was gonna die.
**[14:58] ---**
You aren't going, right, Hajiki?
**[15:01] ---**
Yeah, that's true.
**[15:04] ---**
I'm not going to help.
**[15:06] ---**
I know.
**[15:10] ---**
I've gotta get going.
**[15:12] ---**
Lightning's waiting for me.
**[15:14] ---**
But still, I'm amazed.
**[15:16] ---**
You're great at making food.
**[15:18] ---**
You'll really make an awesome wife.
**[15:20] ---**
Bye.
**[15:21] ---**
Idiot.
**[15:36] ---**
Hey, there might be a part for you to play.
**[15:45] ---**
That's right.
**[15:46] ---**
This city is mine.
**[15:49] ---**
Thanks for your trouble.
**[15:51] ---**
Now get lost.
**[15:52] ---**
What did you say Gad?
**[15:55] ---**
I don't need any Gad!
**[15:57] ---**
Zero, get him.
**[16:00] ---**
Boom!
**[16:02] ---**
Hajiki, I brought you dinner!
**[16:09] ---**
Wow, that smells great!
**[16:11] ---**
I think that I'm glad I left home.
**[16:14] ---**
Ow, hot...
**[16:16] ---**
Because I met you.
**[16:19] ---**
It was the first time
I acted on my own decision.
**[16:23] ---**
I see.
**[16:25] ---**
Hajiki.
**[16:27] ---**
What's up?
**[16:29] ---**
I think you're the type of person
who lives by his own ideals.
**[16:33] ---**
Shinozuka...
**[16:36] ---**
The meat will get burned.
**[16:39] ---**
Idiot.
**[16:43] ---**
Yujiro...
**[16:45] ---**
Your son is really something.
**[16:47] ---**
He looked me right in
the eye and told me...
**[16:51] ---**
that this was no last stop for life.
**[16:55] ---**
Alley-oop.
**[16:58] ---**
You made me promise, right?
**[16:59] ---**
That if you dug up a
rocket, I would launch it.
**[17:05] ---**
Your son just might make
that wish come true.
**[17:18] ---**
Katana...
**[17:19] ---**
Why are you here?
**[17:22] ---**
Is Hajiki with you?
**[17:23] ---**
Katana, you're alive...
**[17:26] ---**
What?
**[17:28] ---**
You met Sayuri, didn't you.
**[17:30] ---**
I...
**[17:31] ---**
Where is she?
**[17:33] ---**
If you saw her, what would you do?
**[17:35] ---**
Take her home.
**[17:37] ---**
Sayuri is going into space.
**[17:39] ---**
Shut up! Where is she?
**[17:44] ---**
Can you understand how she feels?
**[17:46] ---**
How she feels?
**[17:49] ---**
Sayuri belongs to me!
**[17:51] ---**
Katana, you idiot!
**[17:57] ---**
Sayuri!
**[18:07] ---**
All right...
**[18:23] ---**
Ow...
**[18:26] ---**
Ouch.
**[18:27] ---**
Where am I?
**[18:30] ---**
Hey, Lightning!
**[18:39] ---**
All right, the Bucking Bronco is running.
**[18:43] ---**
I'm going to get one
more launch out of you.
**[18:51] ---**
Lightning, go!
**[19:01] ---**
Let's go home to space.
**[19:04] ---**
Yeah.
**[19:14] ---**
Bob!
**[19:15] ---**
I found it!
**[19:17] ---**
Bob! Shinozuka!
**[19:19] ---**
Whoa, he really found it.
**[19:23] ---**
Wow, unbelievable.
**[19:25] ---**
Now things are gonna get busy.
**[19:28] ---**
Hey, Yujiro!
**[19:30] ---**
Hajiki...
**[19:32] ---**
This is amazing, Hajiki.
You really found a rocket.
**[19:35] ---**
Thanks, Shinozuka.
**[19:38] ---**
Bob!
**[19:41] ---**
But I...
**[19:45] ---**
Bucking Bronco...
**[19:47] ---**
you're going to be seeing
stars for the first time in decades.
**[19:53] ---**
I ran into Katana.
**[19:57] ---**
When?
**[20:03] ---**
Last night in the forest.
**[20:06] ---**
What'd he say?
**[20:07] ---**
He said he was going to
take Sayuri back with him.
**[20:11] ---**
He's serious.
**[20:13] ---**
What are you going to do?
**[20:15] ---**
I'll do everything I can do.
**[20:21] ---**
Okay, on the honsen.
**[20:22] ---**
Now all we have to do is
walk it to the launch position.
**[20:26] ---**
Bob,
**[20:28] ---**
I'll give you all the
maintenance system controls.
**[20:31] ---**
Roger!
**[20:34] ---**
Okay, I got 'em.
**[20:38] ---**
Arashi.
**[20:39] ---**
Sayuri...
**[20:41] ---**
I guess this is goodbye.
**[20:43] ---**
Yesterday, I...
**[20:47] ---**
Take care of Hajiki.
**[20:49] ---**
I...
**[20:59] ---**
Katana...
**[21:04] ---**
Katana...
**[21:06] ---**
Hey, what's happening, Hajiki?
**[21:09] ---**
Sayuri, we're going home.
**[21:13] ---**
I'm going to the sky.
**[21:15] ---**
Sayuri...
**[21:16] ---**
stay with me.
**[21:19] ---**
Do what I want you to do.
**[21:23] ---**
But you're going to die, aren't you?
**[21:26] ---**
That's why you don't need me anymore.
**[21:30] ---**
Goodbye, Katana.
**[21:34] ---**
I won't let you go.
**[21:38] ---**
Katana!
**[21:41] ---**
Zero!
**[21:46] ---**
Hajiki!
**[21:48] ---**
Don't get in my way!
**[21:49] ---**
Can't you understand what she wants?
**[21:53] ---**
Can't you understand others' feelings?
**[21:55] ---**
Others' feelings?
**[21:56] ---**
Things like that only get in the way!
**[22:03] ---**
You destroy your home,
run away from the city...
**[22:06] ---**
This time, you're running
away into space, Hajiki?
**[22:12] ---**
I'm not running away.
**[22:14] ---**
I'm going forward, ever forward!
**[22:17] ---**
I'm going to space!
**[22:21] ---**
Hajiki...
**[22:22] ---**
Don't go...
**[22:24] ---**
Hajiki!
**[22:25] ---**