# E4 - Babel Brigade - Combat Begins
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GYP5Q95QY/babel-brigadecombat-begins)
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**[00:03] ---**
Asuka-san...
**[00:05] ---**
Is school fun?
**[00:09] ---**
Yeah.
**[00:10] ---**
I think it is.
**[00:13] ---**
That's why I don't want
to be a Magical Girl anymore.
**[00:16] ---**
I don't want to lose any more
of the people close to me.
**[00:35] ---**
Now we have all the cards we need.
***SIGN*** I can't wait to see the movie.
**[00:49] ---**
*Not *fighting because
you have things you care about...
**[00:53] ---**
* You're supposed to do the*
* opposite, Asuka-san.*
**[02:49] (Flashback) ---**
Francine!
**[02:51] (Flashback) ---**
Francine!
**[02:53] (Flashback) ---**
I'll bring Kurumi over right away!
**[02:55] (Flashback) ---**
It's hopeless.
**[02:58] (Flashback) ---**
There isn't time.
**[03:01] (Flashback) ---**
Francine...
**[03:03] (Flashback) ---**
Asuka, you must be our next leader.
**[03:07] (Flashback) ---**
No!
**[03:08] (Flashback) ---**
Don't die!
**[03:10] (Flashback) ---**
Protect this world.
**[03:13] (Flashback) ---**
It has a lot of problems,
**[03:15] (Flashback) ---**
but lots of beautiful things, too.
**[03:23] (Flashback) ---**
Things worth protecting...
**[03:26] (Flashback) ---**
Things worth fighting for...
**[03:30] (Flashback) ---**
I'm counting on you, Asuka.
**[03:52] ---**
Francine...
**[03:59] ---**
The things that make this
world worth protecting...
***SIGN*** Iizuka-san
***SIGN*** Incoming Call
**[04:08] ---**
Iizuka-san?
***SIGN*** Babel Brigade—Combat Begins
**[04:19] ---**
Nozomi...
**[04:20] ---**
Were you really kidnapped?
**[04:24] ---**
There's been no info from the JSDF.
**[04:30] ---**
Makino-san...
**[04:32] ---**
The Chief of Police received a message
and a photo from the East Asia United Front.
**[04:36] ---**
What are their demands?
**[04:37] ---**
No demands.
**[04:39] ---**
They simply say they want revenge.
**[04:42] ---**
Make Kim Kanth tell us where
they'd be likely to hide her.
**[04:46] ---**
I'll let you do the interrogation.
**[04:49] ---**
What will you do?
**[04:50] ---**
I'm off to talk with Commissioner Miura
about a rescue operation.
**[05:04] ---**
It's grilling up great!
**[05:06] ---**
Do you like grilled meat?
**[05:11] ---**
I do!
**[05:13] ---**
Charcoal really roasts the meat
with far-infrared radiation.
**[05:19] ---**
I think it's about done.
**[05:24] ---**
These scissors are so great.
**[05:26] ---**
At first I was surprised.
**[05:29] ---**
I didn't think you could
cut meat with scissors.
**[05:33] ---**
They're really sharp.
**[05:37] ---**
Then you just roast the leftover bones
on the coals until they're nice and crisp,
**[05:42] ---**
and then eat the meat
around the bones.
**[05:45] ---**
I love grilled meat.
**[05:49] ---**
I hope you start to love it, too.
**[05:52] ---**
Grilled... meat...
**[06:00] ---**
Don't worry. Don't worry.
**[06:01] ---**
I haven't turned the camera on yet.
**[06:04] ---**
Now, let's eat.
**[06:07] ---**
Or the meat's going to get burnt.
**[06:17] ---**
Did they discover my identity
and go after her?
**[06:20] ---**
No.
**[06:22] ---**
This is retaliation for Kim Kanth.
**[06:24] ---**
Retaliation?
**[06:25] ---**
Why Nozomi?
**[06:27] ---**
Her father works for the Public Safety
Department's Foreign Affairs Section.
**[06:31] ---**
What are they doing
for a rescue operation?
**[06:33] ---**
We made Kim tell us the
location of their base in the city.
**[06:37] ---**
Public Safety is going
to send agents there.
**[06:40] ---**
Or they were, at least.
***SIGN*** Kasumigahara National Police Agency
**[06:47] ---**
"Stay out of this?"
**[06:48] ---**
What do you mean?
**[06:50] ---**
In the last battle,
**[06:51] ---**
the East Asia United Front used a
Halloween-class Magic Biological Weapon.
**[06:58] ---**
Kim Kanth's statements indicate
that it's likely they possess more.
**[07:06] ---**
That was your report, right?
**[07:09] ---**
Sending any amount of agents
up against a Magic Biological Weapon
**[07:12] ---**
achieves nothing but the creation
of a pile of dead bodies.
**[07:15] ---**
Then...
**[07:15] ---**
But this is too small an incident
for us to go begging the JSDF
**[07:21] ---**
to send in a magical warfare unit.
**[07:24] ---**
So you're telling me to just let her die?
**[07:26] ---**
We police are...
**[07:28] ---**
Of course.
**[07:28] ---**
The largest user of organized
violence in Japan.
**[07:31] ---**
If we allow one of our own to be hurt,
**[07:34] ---**
it's a challenge to the
authority of our badge.
**[07:36] ---**
And a challenge to the
authority of Japan itself.
**[07:40] ---**
Then why...
**[07:41] ---**
If we sacrifice her,
**[07:43] ---**
we can get a huge
budget to go after them.
**[07:47] ---**
Your daughter will be a valuable sacrifice.
**[07:50] ---**
Once they send us her body,
**[07:53] ---**
we can make the
East Asian United Front pay. Dearly.
**[08:00] ---**
And that's the brass's decision?
**[08:06] ---**
If a Magical Girl just showed up on her own,
**[08:08] ---**
like what happened at Iidabashi,
**[08:11] ---**
that would change things.
**[08:17] ---**
Public Safety's not going to act?
**[08:20] ---**
It seems they've come to the decision
**[08:22] ---**
that they're no match for a
Magic Biological Weapon.
**[08:27] ---**
Then what about Spec-Ops?
**[08:29] ---**
What about M Squad?
**[08:31] ---**
The JGSDF can only intervene when
a magical battle actually occurs.
**[08:36] ---**
We can't go in without
a request from the police.
**[08:41] ---**
Then no one can do anything.
**[08:44] ---**
Since the war,
**[08:45] ---**
things have been tense
between us and the police.
**[08:49] ---**
And the police don't
like being in our debt.
**[08:54] ---**
So they'll just let her die?
**[09:04] ---**
Someone who can move quietly,
**[09:05] ---**
and who can handle a
Halloween-class if it shows up...
**[09:11] ---**
A Magical Girl, right?
**[09:13] ---**
Iizuka-san called me.
**[09:16] ---**
I'll go, too.
**[09:17] ---**
Me, too!
**[09:20] ---**
Kurumi...
**[09:24] ---**
Even if she's been horribly tortured,
**[09:26] ---**
I can heal her right then and there.
**[09:29] ---**
But...
**[09:30] ---**
Are you sure?
**[09:31] ---**
You're officially with the JSDF now.
**[09:34] ---**
If I can't help you with
what you want to do,
**[09:38] ---**
I'll gladly quit the JSDF.
**[09:42] ---**
I'll send the information Kim Kanth
gave us to your cell, Asuka.
**[09:47] ---**
Thanks.
**[09:49] ---**
The one thing I can do
**[09:51] ---**
is call the local police
and have the area sealed off.
**[09:54] ---**
And if the battle gets intense,
**[09:56] ---**
I can send in M Squad as reinforcements.
**[09:58] ---**
No.
**[10:00] ---**
We won't need reinforcements.
**[10:06] ---**
Are you sure about this, Chief?
**[10:08] ---**
We can't control what
the Magical Girls do.
**[10:12] ---**
We'll do our job as adults.
**[10:15] ---**
Then...
**[10:16] ---**
Get loaded up with A-2
equipment and prepare to roll out.
**[10:19] ---**
I'll explain the details soon.
**[10:21] ---**
Roger!
**[10:23] ---**
*My claws can cut through anything.*
**[10:27] ---**
*You're going to find out what happens...*
**[10:37] ---**
* When you do something*
* bad where I can reach you.*
**[10:52] ---**
We're grateful to M Squad
for their quick report.
**[10:56] ---**
If the Magical Girls are acting
of their own volition,
**[11:00] ---**
then there's nothing we can do about it.
**[11:02] ---**
We don't control them.
***SIGN*** Yakiniku
Gyumaden
***SIGN*** Domestic Kalbi Domestic Liver Domestic Beef Tongue
**[11:21] ---**
You look great!
**[11:51] ---**
Make sure you don't kill her, okay, Povar?
**[11:55] ---**
Abigail,
**[11:56] ---**
when we kill her, Storozh will do it.
**[11:59] ---**
We can't recycle her otherwise.
**[12:03] ---**
But we need to make
her suffer a bit more,
**[12:07] ---**
or the guys from the EAUF
won't be satisfied.
**[12:12] ---**
Let me handle the rest.
**[12:23] ---**
Russian legends say that the
souls of young women who drown
**[12:28] ---**
become spirits known as rusalka.
**[12:35] ---**
Don't hurt me...
**[12:37] ---**
The rusalka was just an old legend.
**[12:41] ---**
But...
**[12:43] ---**
Please... stop...
**[12:51] ---**
The magic of the spirits has revived
the rusalka in the modern era.
**[13:05] ---**
Masters of the rusalka can
command water to do as they will.
**[13:11] ---**
I am the watcher at the waterside.
**[13:13] ---**
That is why they call me Storozh, "Watchman."
**[13:17] ---**
And I am Povar.
**[13:20] ---**
"Chef."
**[13:22] ---**
As for why they call me a chef...
**[13:26] ---**
You'll find out later.
**[13:30] ---**
No, stop...
**[13:32] ---**
Don't hurt me!
**[13:34] ---**
I don't know anything!
**[13:35] ---**
I'll do anything!
**[13:36] ---**
So please...
**[13:37] ---**
Stop it!
**[13:40] ---**
You don't need to do anything.
**[13:44] ---**
Did you know your dad worked
for Public Safety?
**[13:49] ---**
Public Safety?
**[13:51] ---**
We're going to send a video
of you being tortured to Public Safety
**[13:55] ---**
and set a trap.
**[13:57] ---**
They'll analyze the
video to find this place,
**[14:02] ---**
and send in Magical Girls like they did at
**[14:05] ---**
Iidabashi and Shinjuku 3rd Avenue.
**[14:08] ---**
Magical Girls?
**[14:10] ---**
Yes.
**[14:12] ---**
Magical Girls, defenders of love and justice.
**[14:16] ---**
They're worried about
Magic Biological Weapons.
**[14:21] ---**
But they don't know that we have
sorcerer mercenaries from Russia.
**[14:25] ---**
We can ambush them.
**[14:28] ---**
Anyway, get back to it.
**[14:30] ---**
But this time make sure
you're not on the video.
**[14:33] ---**
I don't want them to know
what we've got planned.
**[14:36] ---**
That will be more difficult.
**[14:37] ---**
Yes.
**[14:39] ---**
Please,
**[14:40] ---**
stop...
**[14:51] ---**
Well done!
**[14:53] ---**
Hey, I've been wondering...
**[14:57] ---**
What?
**[14:58] ---**
What do you gain from
capturing a Magical Girl alive?
**[15:05] ---**
The development of a Girl of Mass Destruction!
**[15:13] ---**
It's all part of the queen's plan.
**[15:18] ---**
Well,
**[15:19] ---**
as long as we're paid,
**[15:21] ---**
we don't care.
**[15:38] ---**
*Gobu.*
**[15:43] ---**
I see.
**[15:45] ---**
Got it.
**[15:47] ---**
You were a lot faster than I thought you'd be,
**[15:50] ---**
Magical Girls...
**[16:02] ---**
Acid.
**[16:03] ---**
Roger.
**[16:09] ---**
*The local police have sealed off the block.*
**[16:12] ---**
*The citizens have been evacuated.*
**[16:13] ---**
*Give 'em hell.*
**[16:15] ---**
Roger.
**[16:21] ---**
A trap.
**[16:22] ---**
Sensors?
**[16:24] ---**
A primitive wire trap.
**[16:26] ---**
Sacchuu.
**[16:27] ---**
Sacchuu!
**[16:32] ---**
It's been a while since we've done this.
**[16:36] ---**
Indoors CQC was Mia's specialty, right?
**[16:41] ---**
Just like it was mine.
**[16:55] ---**
Kurumi...
**[16:56] ---**
Right!
**[16:57] ---**
Magical Truth Serum!
**[17:05] ---**
Magical Girl Trivia!
**[17:07] ---**
Magical Truth Serum is
**[17:09] ---**
a magically-enhanced
barbiturate truth serum, chu!
**[17:13] ---**
It clouds the subject's mind
**[17:16] ---**
and makes them tell you what
you need to know, chu!
**[17:21] ---**
You're a terrorist from the
East Asia United Front, right?
**[17:25] ---**
Y-Yes.
**[17:27] ---**
Where is the hostage?
**[17:29] ---**
The basement.
**[17:30] ---**
They're filming a torture video.
**[17:33] ---**
How many are with you?
**[17:35] ---**
Ten.
**[17:37] ---**
Do any of them use magic?
**[17:39] ---**
Three...
**[17:41] ---**
Storozh, Povar,
**[17:44] ---**
and Abigail.
**[17:50] ---**
They never stay awake long.
**[17:52] ---**
I'm sorry.
**[17:54] ---**
It's difficult to fine-tune magical drugs.
**[17:58] ---**
Let's hurry to the basement.
**[18:00] ---**
Yes.
**[18:06] ---**
They're here!
**[18:28] ---**
Help me...
**[18:31] ---**
Nozomi!
**[18:32] ---**
How could they do this!
**[18:34] ---**
Thanks for coming!
**[18:36] ---**
Glad to have you.
**[18:37] ---**
Rapture...
**[18:38] ---**
War Nurse.
**[18:40] ---**
Why did you kidnap that girl?
**[18:43] ---**
She's just bait.
**[18:45] ---**
Bait to lure you out.
**[18:48] ---**
A good little Magical Girl
**[18:51] ---**
couldn't leave a hostage behind, right?
**[18:54] ---**
So this is some elaborate suicide
attempt on your part, then?
**[19:01] ---**
That's funny!
**[19:02] ---**
You're not worried at all, huh?
**[19:04] ---**
Wait!
**[19:06] ---**
What do you mean,
you wanted to lure us out?
**[19:09] ---**
It's all for my queen.
**[19:12] ---**
Your queen?
**[19:14] ---**
I want your help with
achieving my queen's ambition.
**[19:19] ---**
If you just come with me,
**[19:21] ---**
I'll let the hostage go.
**[19:23] ---**
Shut up.
**[19:25] ---**
That's right!
**[19:27] ---**
We can't do that.
**[19:27] ---**
So...
**[19:29] ---**
Will you kill us, then,
**[19:32] ---**
and just write her off
as collateral damage?
**[19:35] ---**
Let the hostage go.
**[19:38] ---**
Do it now, and I won't kill you.
**[19:40] ---**
Oh, wow!
**[19:41] ---**
That's so nice of you!
**[19:43] ---**
Okay!
**[19:44] ---**
I'll let her go!
**[19:53] ---**
Oops!
**[19:55] ---**
I meant to cut the chain, but I missed!
**[19:58] ---**
You bitch!
**[20:00] ---**
Throw down your weapons now.
**[20:02] ---**
This time, I'll kill her for real.
**[20:58] ---**
Damn it...
**[20:59] ---**
Damn it!
**[21:00] ---**
Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you!
**[21:02] ---**
You'll pay for this!
**[21:04] ---**
Rapture! War Nurse!
**[21:07] ---**
Take Nozomi and get out of here.
**[21:10] ---**
There's no way that
was enough to kill them.
**[21:13] ---**
I'll buy time.
**[21:14] ---**
Okay!
**[21:27] ---**
*He blocked my karambit!*
**[21:32] ---**
This ax was forged by the Eternal Ironworks'
Magic Blacksmith, Ilmarinen.
**[21:37] ---**
It's a match for even
a Magical Girl's weapon.
**[21:40] ---**
Where'd you find an antique like that?
**[21:48] ---**
I'll follow War Nurse.
**[21:51] ---**
You two handle Rapture.
**[21:53] ---**
Roger.
**[21:58] ---**
I won't let you!
**[22:05] ---**
*The way he's breathing, is that...*
**[22:08] ---**
* Systema? The martial arts used*
* by Russian special forces?*
**[22:12] ---**
He's using the power of a dead spirit
and human martial arts together, chu!
**[22:18] ---**
Zloy dukh Systema.
**[22:24] ---**
We need to work hard enough
to justify our salaries.
**[22:28] ---**
Let's play, Magical Girl.
**[24:12] ---**
Urban warfare against magic mercenaries
and a JSDF Spec-Ops group!
**[24:16] ---**
Things just keep getting
crazier and crazier, chu!
**[24:19] ---**
Next time, "A Very Realistic Way
of Dealing with a Problem."
***SIGN*** A Very Realistic Way of Dealing with a Problem
**[24:21] ---**
Time for Sacchuu to join the fight!
**[24:23] ---**
Let me get my magical
brass knuckles, chu!