4 - King of Gears

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[00:01] Narrator
    Mankind discovered
    a new source of energy, magic.
[00:05] Narrator
    And with it, conventional science
    and technology declined.
[00:09] Narrator
    This new magic-based civilization
    gave rise to superhumans
[00:12] Narrator
    capable of wielding magic.
[00:14] Narrator
    They came to be known as Sorcerers.
[00:17] Narrator
    But magical technology also
    gave birth to a forbidden weapon:
[00:21] Narrator
    The living weapons known as Gears.
[00:22] Narrator
    Created by modifying existing organisms
    and transplanting Gear cells into them,
[00:27] Narrator
    these Gears eventually rose up against
    humanity. Thus began the Crusades.
[00:33] Narrator
    Among them was a man who had been
    turned into a Gear, Sol Badguy.
[00:37] Narrator
    Though a Gear himself, he fought alongside
    the Sacred Order of Holy Knights,
[00:41] Narrator
    and led them to victory.
[00:43] Narrator
    Over a decade has passed since then...
[00:45] Narrator
    Yet the wounds in people's hearts
    remain unhealed.
[02:29] Unika
    Listen to me!
[02:31] Unika
    If you keep defending the Gears,
    another Crusade will happen!
[02:35] Sin
    I said stop!
[02:37] Unika
    You still don't get it, do you?!
[02:39] Unika
    In the future...
    humanity won't be the victors!
[02:41] Sin
    The Crusade... I'll...
[02:45] Sin
    I'll stop it!
[02:46] Unika
    Who... is this?!
[02:48] Unika
    What...
[02:50] Unika
    can you possibly do?!
[02:53] Unika
    Who are you?!
[02:57] Sin
    Just stop already... okay?
[03:19] Bridget
    Still hurts, huh?
[03:22] Bridget
    Um... I stitched this up for you.
[03:36] Unika
    Do you know who I am?
[03:39] Bridget
    I was at the End-of-War
    Commemoration Festival.
[03:43] Unika
    Then why help me?
[03:45] Bridget
    You were hurt.
    Of course I treated your wounds.
[03:47] Bridget
    Isn't that just... the right thing to do?
[03:49] Bridget
    Here.
[04:06] Unika
    It's good.
[04:07] Bridget
    I'm glad you like it.
[04:38] (Flashback) Sin
    You want to stop the Crusade, don't you?
[04:40] (Flashback) Sin
    But this...
[04:42] (Flashback) Sin
    This isn't how you do it!
[04:45] (Flashback) Unika
    There's no other way...
[04:47] (Flashback) Unika
    There isn't!
[04:48] (Flashback) Sin
    If we all worked together...
[04:50] (Flashback) Sin
    We might actually have a shot!
[04:53] (Flashback) Sin
    You don't have to do this alone!
[04:57] (Flashback) Young Unika
    Mom... Dad...
[05:00] (Flashback) Nervil
    Your life is worth more than theirs.
[05:04] (Flashback) Unika
    Father...
[05:06] (Flashback) Nervil
    Unika... You are my precious daughter.
[05:09] Unika
    I... I...
[05:11] (Flashback) Sin
    Unika!
[05:12] (Flashback) Unika
    I'm not alone!
[05:22] Vernon
    We've received news. The attempt
    to retrieve the access key has failed.
[05:26] Leo
    The evacuations are going
    to take longer than we thought.
[05:28] Leo
    What could they possibly gain
    by making enemies of the
[05:31] Leo
    United States
    and the United Kingdoms of Illyria?
[05:33] Erica
    The terrorist identifying herself as Unika.
[05:35] Erica
    From here on, we'll refer to her as Agent U.
[05:38] Erica
    Agent U first appeared
    at the wedding of Ky and Dizzy.
[05:42] Erica
    There, she demonstrated
    overwhelming combat ability.
[05:45] Erica
    In order to minimize collateral damage,
    former king Ky Kiske deployed a barrier,
[05:51] Erica
    and sealed both himself and Dizzy within it.
[05:53] Vernon
    First off, it makes no sense that we know
    nothing about this agent's background.
[05:57] Leo
    There are plenty of lone wolf
    magic wielders out there,
[06:00] Leo
    but they usually
    leave some rumors behind.
[06:02] Erica
    This suggests deliberate concealment
    by a powerful organization.
[06:05] Vernon
    One that exceeds even our
    intelligence capabilities...
[06:08] Erica
    The next incident involved an attack
    on the barrier that sealed the couple.
[06:13] Erica
    That attack was repelled
    by Ramlethal and Elphelt.
[06:18] Vernon
    They were reportedly equipped
    with specialized anti-barrier tools.
[06:21] Vernon
    Given how quickly they responded, it's likely
    they're part of the same faction as Unika.
[06:26] Erica
    Next, Agent U appeared at the
    End-of-War Commemoration Festival.
[06:30] Erica
    There, she issued a declaration of
    intent to exterminate all Gears
[06:33] Erica
    and seized the access key
    to the magic weapon.
[06:36] Leo
    We recovered it quickly...
[06:39] Leo
    Could she really have
    duplicated it in that brief window?
[06:41] Vernon
    Current technology says
    that should be impossible.
[06:44] Erica
    After acquiring the access key,
    Agent U issued another statement,
[06:48] Erica
    declaring a direct assault on Illyria.
[06:50] Leo
    So now Agent U is
    a sworn enemy of our nation...
[06:55] Leo
    Yet, something doesn't add up.
[06:56] Leo
    I understand interfering with Dizzy and Ky's
    wedding, a union between human and Gear.
[07:01] Leo
    But this? This puts her at odds
    with the entire population.
[07:04] Leo
    Was it truly worth making
    an enemy of the world?
[07:07] Vernon
    I agree.
[07:09] Erica
    In the most recent battle, Sin Kiske
    attempted to reason with Agent U
[07:12] Erica
    but was attacked and injured in the process.
[07:16] Leo
    I see... Ky's son.
[07:18] Erica
    Both Sin and Agent U were knocked off the
    rooftop by Sol's attack during the clash.
[07:22] Erica
    At that moment, Sin activated a dormant Gear.
[07:26] Vernon
    And to make matters worse,
    there was a team nearby filming it all.
[07:30] Leo
    What?!
[07:31] Vernon
    Had that footage been released,
[07:33] Vernon
    it could have ignited anti-Gear
    movements across the globe.
[07:37] Leo
    Was that Agent U's objective?
[07:39] Vernon
    No. The Gear's activation
    seems to have been a coincidence.
[07:43] Vernon
    Most likely, they intended
    to capture a confrontation
[07:46] Vernon
    between civilians and the military.
[07:48] Leo
    Soldiers opening fire on civilians, huh...
    That would certainly be scandalous.
[07:53] Leo
    But it's not enough.
[07:55] Vernon
    Agreed. It's far too small a payoff
[07:58] Vernon
    for provoking both the United States
    and the Illyria Federation.
[08:01] Erica
    There's been a noticeable uptick
    in anti-Gear activity around the world.
[08:04] Erica
    But nothing unified or coordinated.
[08:06] Leo
    So, in short... we still have no idea
    what their true objective is.
[08:10] Vernon
    Agent U's organization clearly possesses
[08:12] Vernon
    advanced firepower,
    technology, and coordination.
[08:17] Vernon
    Yet their true goal remains unknown.
[08:21] Leo
    We need something to go on.
[08:23] Leo
    President Vernon... do you have any leads?
[09:01] Bridget
    Still hurting?
    I've got some medicine if you need it.
[09:08] Unika
    I'm fine...
[09:10] Unika
    It's just... right here.
[09:14] Unika
    Feels tight... because I failed.
[09:18] Bridget
    I see...
[09:20] Bridget
    I mess up all the time. Especially
    when I first started bounty hunting.
[09:26] Unika
    Is that so?
[09:27] Bridget
    Yep.
[09:28] Bridget
    I heard there was this super
    dangerous bounty out there,
[09:31] Bridget
    so I went all over trying to track him down.
[09:33] Bridget
    Turns out he'd been caught ages ago.
[09:36] Bridget
    And later I found out...
    he wasn't even a bad person.
[09:40] Bridget
    Ah... uh, what I mean is...
[09:43] Bridget
    Everyone makes mistakes.
    What matters is what you do after.
[09:48] Unika
    I don't know what I'm supposed to do.
[09:52] Unika
    I need to report to my father
    as soon as I can.
[09:58] Unika
    But...
[10:06] (Flashback) Sin
    Unika!
[10:13] (Flashback) Sin
    Old Man!
[10:22] Sin
    Illyria is...
[10:23] Sin
    Oww...
[10:25] Johnny
    Relax...
[10:26] Johnny
    It's safe. For now.
[10:31] Sin
    What about the old man?
[10:32] Johnny
    He stepped out.
[10:36] Sin
    Hey... What kind of face did he have?
[10:40] Johnny
    I don't make a habit
    of memorizing a guy's expressions.
[10:44] Johnny
    Why?
[10:46] Sin
    He's probably mad at me...
[10:49] Sin
    I didn't understand a damn thing.
[10:52] (Flashback) Sin
    But like... If another Crusade was about to
    start, I could just tell them to stop, right?
[10:57] (Flashback) Sin
    Then why not just tell Unika
    and that politician guy?!
[11:01] Sin
    But the old man knew...
    He knew it wasn't that simple.
[11:08] Sin
    If I'd messed up,
    everyone in Illyria... Mom, Dad...
[11:11] Sin
    the whole city... they could've
    all been burned to ashes.
[11:16] Sin
    And even so...
[11:17] Sin
    I really thought that
    if we just met face-to-face,
[11:20] Sin
    we could talk it out...
    understand each other...
[11:26] Sin
    But I was wrong.
[11:28] Sin
    That's why the old man... That's why he...
[11:31] Sin
    Unika...
[11:37] Sin
    It's all my fault.
[11:41] Sin
    All of it... mine...
[11:47] Johnny
    Here we go!
[11:50] Sin
    Wha?! Owwww...
[11:54] Sin
    What the hell was that for?!
[11:56] Johnny
    A young guy like you shouldn't be
    moping around lookin' all gloomy.
[11:59] Sin
    Gloomy?!
[12:01] Johnny
    Yeah, yeah... "I screwed up."
    "It's all my fault."
[12:03] Johnny
    "I can't even face my old man."
     That's what's running through your head, right?
[12:07] Johnny
    Nothing goes perfectly from the start.
[12:11] Johnny
    You gotta have guts. Especially
    when you're trying to win over a girl.
[12:14] Sin
    W-Win over?!
[12:16] Johnny
    You were trying to win Unika over, weren't you?
[12:18] Sin
    I-I wasn't hitting on her!
[12:19] Johnny
    It isn't always easy, is it?
[12:21] Johnny
    Point is, your words did get through to her.
[12:25] Sin
    How would you even know that?
[12:27] Johnny
    Because Illyria's not in flames right now.
[12:30] Johnny
    That means she's hesitating.
[12:33] Sin
    Huh?
[12:34] Johnny
    Back at the wedding, despite what she's done,
[12:36] Johnny
    she made sure not to hurt any of the guests.
[12:41] Johnny
    You think a woman like that would
     be okay with torching a whole city?
[12:46] Sin
    Yeah, you're right.
[12:48] Johnny
    You good now?
[12:50] Sin
    Yeah.
[12:51] Johnny
    Feeling fired up?
[12:53] Sin
    Yeah.
[12:55] Johnny
    You ready to face Sol?
[12:57] Sin
    Y-Yeah...
[13:00] Johnny
    He had that same gloomy look too, y'know.
[13:04] Johnny
    Like he was thinking, "If only I had..."
    "Did I push him too far?"
[13:10] Johnny
    Go on already.
[13:12] Sin
    Got it.
[13:16] Johnny
    Those two are a real handful.
[13:24] Sin
    Old Man!
[13:28] Sol
    What's up?
[13:31] Sin
    I...
[13:33] Sin
    I'm doing fine!
[13:35] Sol
    Yeah? You're doing fine, huh?
[13:39] Sin
    I messed up this time,
[13:44] Sin
    but next time, I'll get it right!
[13:46] Sol
    That's good. Don't try to carry
    everything on your own.
[13:49] Sin
    You either, Old Man.
[13:57] Sin
    Hey... back then, when you fired at her...
[14:00] Sin
    It was to protect Dad, Mom,
    and everyone in Illyria... right?
[14:04] Sol
    Idiot.
[14:06] Sol
    I fired because I was trying
    to protect you, obviously.
[14:14] Johnny
    Welcome back. Your package came in.
[14:18] Johnny
    Later.
[14:19] Sin
    Thanks, man.
[14:22] Sol
    Sin.
[14:23] Sol
    Have you told someone where we are?
[14:26] Sin
    I just woke up, remember?
[14:42] Paradigm
    Put that dangerous thing away, would you?!
[14:45] Sin
    Hey, it's the bird guy!
[14:47] Paradigm
    I'm not a bird. I'm a dragon!
[14:50] Narrator
    Dr. Paradigm.
[14:51] Narrator
    One of the rare few sentient Gears who
    avoided being sealed away after the Crusades.
[14:56] Narrator
    A top-class scholar with
    a deep understanding of magic.
[15:01] Sol
    What the hell are you doing here?
[15:03] Paradigm
    Isn't it obvious? I'm here to meet
    with the new King of the Gears.
[15:07] Sin
    King of the Gears?
[15:09] Paradigm
    Precisely...
[15:15] Elphelt
    Elphelt Valentine,
    reporting back safe and sound!
[15:19] Narrator
    The magic weapon from the
    heavens that struck Elphelt...
[15:21] Narrator
    Its flames devoured everything in sight...
[15:26] Narrator
    But a little fire like that was nowhere
    near enough to take her down!
[15:32] Jack-O’
    I'm so glad you're okay.
[15:34] Jack-O’
    So, did you find anything?
[15:35] Elphelt
    Oh, did I ever!
[15:37] Elphelt
    Still analyzing it, but it looks like they
    were working on bioweapons.
[15:41] Jack-O’
    I dug into it too.
[15:42] Jack-O’
    Seems to be a facility from the
    Crusades... but officially, it doesn't exist.
[15:45] Elphelt
    A secret weapon from the Crusades?
    Maybe a bioweapon targeting Gears?
[15:50] Jack-O’
    Hard to say. Gears originate
    from all kinds of different lifeforms.
[15:54] Jack-O’
    So making a virus that affects
    all of them doesn't seem practical.
[15:58] Jack-O’
    It might work on a specific Gear,
     but would that really be worth developing?
[16:03] Elphelt
    If it was a secret weapon from the Crusades,
    that'd make it triple-S classified!
[16:07] Elphelt
    Should I try breaking into the White House?
[16:10] Jack-O’
    I've got a better idea.
[16:14] Paradigm
    With your mother, Dizzy, now sealed away...
[16:17] Paradigm
    Sin Kiske, you're the only
    Command-Type Gear left in the world.
[16:22] Sin
    Yeah, no thanks. I'll pass.
[16:24] Paradigm
    How utterly irresponsible!
    This is why humanoids are so frustrating!
[16:28] Sin
    Hey, I just screwed up doing that whole
    Command Gear thing, remember?
[16:33] Paradigm
    You mean when you let Unika slip away?
[16:36] Paradigm
    That's exactly why I'm here.
[16:39] Paradigm
    Right now, we Gears survive
    by staying out of humanity's sight.
[16:44] Paradigm
    But if anti-Gear sentiment continues to rise,
    even that fragile peace will be at risk.
[16:51] Paradigm
    That's why Unika's actions and the movement
    she's sparked cannot be ignored.
[16:56] Sin
    I get that.
[16:57] Paradigm
    But Unika is only the spark.
[17:00] Paradigm
    The real issue is that the human race
    as a species cannot be trusted.
[17:07] Sin
    T-That's not true...
[17:15] Paradigm
    Whether we Gears rise or fall...
    that decision lies with you.
[17:19] Paradigm
    The one who holds the title of King of the Gears.
[17:21] Sin
    You can't just dump that on me
    out of nowhere...
[17:23] Paradigm
    You have three options.
[17:26] Paradigm
    One: Lead the Gears, negotiate with humanity,
[17:29] Paradigm
    and demand official recognition
    of our right to exist.
[17:32] Sin
    Hold on. If we do that suddenly...
[17:35] Paradigm
    There would be blood.
[17:38] Paradigm
    But better a struggle for survival
    than silent extinction.
[17:41] Sin
    But still...
[17:43] Paradigm
    If you so choose, you could command
    all Gears to take their own lives.
[17:48] Paradigm
    That would erase the Gear problem entirely.
[17:53] Paradigm
    Or: We sever ties with humanity
    and leave this world behind.
[17:58] Paradigm
    Leaving for space or another dimension.
[18:01] Paradigm
    If we unite every Gear's power,
    it might just be possible.
[18:05] Sol
    Cut the crap.
[18:06] Paradigm
    S-Stop that, Frederick!
[18:09] Sol
    You drop this crap on him
     like it's a sales pitch.
[18:11] Sol
    What are you, a con artist?!
[18:12] Sin
    W-Whoa! Old Man, chill!
[18:15] Sol
    Tch...
[18:18] Paradigm
    Whether he wants it or not, those
    with power must take responsibility.
[18:23] Paradigm
    The fate of all Gears on Earth
    now rests on your shoulders.
[18:29] Sin
    The fate... of all Gears...
[18:34] Leo
    Who is that?
[18:35] Vernon
    This line is supposed to be secure.
[18:38] Jack-O’
    Pardon the intrusion, Mr. President.
[18:40] Vernon
    Jack-O'...
[18:41] Jack-O’
    I borrowed this number from Frederick.
[18:45] Vernon
    A secret weapon from the Crusade?
[18:47] Jack-O’
    Yes. According to Elphelt's investigation,
[18:50] Jack-O’
    it appears to be a research facility
    for bioweapons.
[18:52] Vernon
    But as far as we know, no bioweapons
    were deployed during the Crusades.
[19:01] Vernon
    So then... what you found
    was just an outdated failure?
[19:05] Jack-O’
    Or was it? I think it's worth looking into.
[19:09] Jack-O’
    I'm sending you the access code.
[19:12] Erica
    The data's already been erased.
[19:14] Leo
    They got ahead of us...
[19:16] Erica
    Judging from residual evidence,
[19:17] Erica
    it was likely a wide-area
    anti-Gear extermination weapon.
[19:20] Erica
    Details are unrecoverable.
    Only the cancellation records remain.
[19:24] Erica
    The project lead was...
[19:27] Erica
    Nerville.
[19:30] Erica
    Nerville Hammer.
[19:35] Jack-O’
    Hey, Frederick! How's it going?
[19:38] Sol
    Lousy. Thanks to that damn bird.
[19:41] Jack-O’
    I don't really get what that means,
[19:43] Jack-O’
    but good news: I found a lead
    on the one pulling the strings.
[19:47] Sin
    Wait, Nerville?! That politician guy?!
[19:51] Sol
    That's not the part that matters.
[19:53] Jack-O’
    Exactly. What we need to ask is, how did
    some ordinary politician gain the power
[19:58] Jack-O’
    to stand against both
    the United States and Illyria?
[20:01] Jack-O’
    We've got advanced tech
    that shouldn't exist in this era,
[20:04] Jack-O’
    and Agent Unika, who has no traceable past.
[20:06] Jack-O’
    As crazy as it sounds... The only explanation
    is that Nerville knows the future.
[20:11] Jack-O’
    And Unika came from the future.
    That's the only explanation.
[20:18] Sin
    I believe it.
    Unika told me she saw the future.
[20:22] Jack-O’
    What?! Why am I only hearing
    about this now?!
[20:24] Sol
    Didn't we already mention that?
[20:26] Jack-O’
    Frederick, ever heard of "share, report, consult"?
[20:31] Sin
    So that means Unika
    is with Nerville right now...
[22:12] Bridget
    Unika-san... Do you know
    what shape you have?
[22:16] Unika
    My... shape?
[22:19] Bridget
    Yeah.
[22:20] Bridget
    It's not easy to really know your
    own shape or who you really are.
[22:25] Bridget
    When I was little, everyone in my village
    used to tell me how cute I was.
[22:30] Bridget
    At first, I thought that "cute" was my shape.
[22:34] Bridget
    But that "cute" wasn't really me.
[22:37] Bridget
    The real me was a lot more
    rough around the edges.
[22:42] Unika
    You're saying... you're not cute?
[22:44] Bridget
    Oh, I am cute.
[22:47] Bridget
    But it's not the kind of cute
    everyone else was talking about.
[22:51] Bridget
    It's my kind of cute.
[22:53] Unika
    That's... your shape?
[22:57] Bridget
    Yep.
[22:59] Bridget
    There was a time I tried to be
    strong and cool, not cute at all,
[23:02] Bridget
    just for my mom and dad.
[23:06] Bridget
    But that didn't feel right either.
[23:08] Bridget
    I tried different things,
    figured myself out...
[23:11] Bridget
    And that's how I became who I am now.
[23:13] Unika
    You... went against your father?
[23:16] Bridget
    I love my dad. We're still close.
[23:20] Bridget
    But... Your shape, your true self...
    It's something you have to find.
[23:25] Bridget
    That's how it was for me.
[23:28] Unika
    I see...
[23:35] Unika
    My... shape...