E6.5 - War Report

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[00:02] Narrator
    Being X...
[00:06] Narrator
    How does it feel to fight the entire world?
[00:12] Narrator
    So it was his doing, after all...
[00:15] Narrator
    Why...
[00:16] Narrator
    Why did this happen?
[00:18] Narrator
    Damn it!
[00:19] Narrator
    It all went wrong back then.
[00:21] Narrator
    Yes, that's when it all started.
SIGN    Episode 6.5 War Report
SIGN    2013 AD, Tokyo
[00:32] Narrator
    What reason does the company have
    to continue employing you?
[00:37] Narrator
    W-Wait a second... Please!
SIGN    Improve Your Skills More Than Ever
    Career Support Book
    What You Need To Work the Way Only You Can
[00:39] Narrator
    Please leave.
[00:41] Man
    I'm aware of my deficiencies as a human.
[00:45] Man
    My personality is twisted in various ways,
    and I have every complex imaginable.
[00:50] Narrator
    But...
[00:51] Narrator
    Obeying company rules is
    the easiest thing in the world.
[00:55] Narrator
    I can ride the rails right to
    the department chief's chair.
[00:58] Narrator
    And life will become nice and easy.
[01:07] Narrator
    At least, that was the plan...
[01:12] Narrator
    What?
[01:14] Narrator
    What happened?
[01:17] Narrator
    Apparently, you lack faith.
[01:20] Narrator
    And not a trace of faith in the Creator.
[01:24] Narrator
    The Creator?
[01:26] Narrator
    I'm sorry to say this,
[01:28] Narrator
    but I reject God's existence, from both
    realistic and rational perspectives.
[01:34] Narrator
    In a world with advanced science,
    where one's needs are met,
[01:37] Narrator
    there will be no faith.
[01:39] Narrator
    Only the weak, when they're in
    dire straits, cling to someone.
[01:45] Narrator
    So, basically,
[01:46] Narrator
    if I put you
[01:46] Narrator
    into the "dire straits"
[01:48] Narrator
    you speak of,
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    your faith
[01:50] Narrator
    will awaken?
[01:51] Narrator
    C-Calm down!
[01:54] Narrator
    Try to live as long as you can.
[01:57] Narrator
    If you die again,
[01:59] Narrator
    there will be no second reincarnation.
[02:03] Narrator
    W-Wait—
[02:15] Narrator
    As a result of my absurd
    reincarnation by Being X,
SIGN    Unified Year 1913, Outskirts of Imperial Capital Berun
[02:19] Narrator
    I was abandoned in a poor nunnery
    in another world.
[02:23] Narrator
    And the country was gripped with
    the madness that precedes war.
SIGN    Destroy the Enemies of the Fatherland
[02:29] Narrator
    In a time when war seemed unavoidable,
[02:33] Narrator
    I'd thought it would be impossible for
    a poor, powerless girl to survive.
[02:38] Narrator
    But in that world,
    the power of magic did exist.
[02:43] Narrator
    And during the orphanage's physical,
[02:46] Narrator
    my magical aptitude was noted.
[02:49] Narrator
    The army always conscripted
    those with aptitude as mages.
SIGN    Tanya Degurechaff Magical Aptitude A
[02:56] Narrator
    And if I were going to be
    conscripted someday,
[02:58] Narrator
    it made more sense to volunteer,
    receive officer training,
[03:01] Narrator
    and attempt to get onto a career path.
[03:08] Narrator
    New soldiers, welcome to hell.
[03:11] Narrator
    The Imperial military was a
    champion of meritocracy,
[03:14] Narrator
    and in less than a year,
[03:16] Narrator
    I was entrusted with training
    the second-class students.
[03:19] Narrator
    I don't expect anything from you maggots.
[03:22] Narrator
    But at least don't drive me to despair!
[03:25] Narrator
    You little brat—
[03:30] Narrator
    There were minor issues.
[03:32] Narrator
    But afterward, I finished my training.
SIGN    Northern Theater Force Garrison
[03:35] Narrator
    The only thing missing before
    graduation was to finish
[03:38] Narrator
    my training deployment in the North.
[03:43] Narrator
    But it was there that I learned...
[03:45] Narrator
    The unexpected can happen in any world.
[03:51] Narrator
    Emission signatures!
[03:52] Narrator
    Enemy mage group detected!
[03:55] Narrator
    Only scratched her, huh?
[03:56] Narrator
    Permission to leave battlefield immediately.
[03:58] Narrator
    Unfortunately, we can't permit that.
[04:00] Narrator
    Delay the enemy.
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    It was me versus an entire enemy company.
[04:09] ---
    Faced with the enemy, I had to choose
    between flight, honorable death, or...
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    Gotcha.
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    Get away!
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    Making it seem you fought hard,
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    while leaving the battlefield
    in a natural way.
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    That is the best way to protect
    yourself and survive...
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    Second Lieutenant Tanya Degurechaff.
SIGN    Medical Room
[04:37] ---
    During the battle with the Entente Alliance,
[04:39] ---
    Not good...
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    you detained the enemy until
    reinforcements arrived.
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    I didn't think they'd be so impressed.
[04:45] ---
    They're treating me like an ace.
[04:49] ---
    We award you the Silver Wings Assault Badge.
[04:56] ---
    But I hope they don't use this as an excuse
    to send me to the front lines.
SIGN    Commander's Office
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    Second Lieutenant Degurechaff,
    here are your deployment orders.
[05:04] ---
    Head to the General Supply Staff.
[05:07] ---
    Is this for technology testing?
[05:11] ---
    Yes, they need you to test
    a new type of computation jewel.
[05:15] ---
    I understand.
[05:18] ---
    My long-held dream of a safe,
    rear-echelon deployment...
[05:22] ---
    No, there wasn't going to be
    any problem at all.
[05:26] ---
    Elenium Type-95?
[05:28] ---
    By synchronizing four computation jewel cores,
[05:31] ---
    this prototype grants revolutionary abilities.
[05:34] ---
    It uses tremendous magical energy,
[05:36] ---
    but with the amount you have,
    that shouldn't be a problem.
[05:39] ---
    There are all kinds of problems!
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    These crystals aren't stable at all.
[05:43] ---
    If this keeps up, they'll explode again!
[05:44] ---
    If this keeps up, they'll explode again!
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    Can't you go any higher?!
[05:48] ---
    Doctor?!
[05:50] ---
    Theoretically, you should be able
    to reach 18,000 meters!
[05:54] ---
    A standard computation jewel's
    maximum altitude is 6,000!
[05:57] ---
    The load is within acceptable parameters!
[05:59] ---
    Those are theoretical numbers!
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    For use as military-grade items,
    keep durability in mind!
[06:05] ---
    What are you talking about?
[06:06] ---
    That would ruin the jewel's
    optimized synchronization!
[06:09] ---
    I don't know when this
    defective junk will explode!
[06:19] ---
    I am done with this crap!
[06:20] ---
    This thing's as defective as
    an Italian Red Devil!
[06:25] ---
    And after ten years,
    I was reunited with Being X.
[06:32] ---
    This is a serious problem.
[06:35] ---
    You haven't developed even
    the tiniest bit of faith.
[06:38] ---
    B-Being X...
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    Indeed.
[06:42] ---
    Your attitude is as unacceptable as ever.
[06:45] ---
    Perhaps I should give you a blessing.
[06:49] ---
    A blessing?
[06:53] ---
    A miracle.
[06:54] ---
    Miracles are illusions caused by
    insufficient observation and understanding.
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    Glorious misunderstandings.
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    I don't know about that.
[07:17] ---
    In the last experiment before my transfer,
[07:20] ---
    he got me again!
[07:24] ---
    Lieutenant, are you ready?
[07:28] ---
    Second Lieutenant Tanya
    Degurechaff, taking off!
[07:39] ---
    The jewel's synchronization is unstable.
[07:41] ---
    It's going to explode!
[07:43] ---
    Irregularity in energy coefficients.
    They're going out of control.
[07:45] ---
    Is this...
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    This is a good opportunity, right?
[07:50] ---
    Let us both pray to God!
[07:54] ---
    You set me up, Being X!
[08:05] ---
    I have blessed your computation jewel
[08:07] ---
    and performed a miracle.
[08:09] ---
    A miracle?
[08:10] ---
    You call strapping a bomb to me a miracle?!
[08:14] ---
    Now, you must pray to God
[08:16] ---
    each time you use your computation jewel.
[08:20] ---
    You vile piece of shit!
[08:22] ---
    Go now,
[08:24] ---
    and spread the name of God.
[08:29] ---
    God's miracles are great.
[08:32] ---
    Praise the Lord
[08:34] ---
    and his worthy name.
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    What did I...
[09:04] ---
    Did I just pray?
[09:06] ---
    To that thing?!
[09:07] ---
    I never thought it would actually work.
[09:09] ---
    I knew it... God is real.
SIGN    Unified Year 1924, Rhine Theater
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    With the double-edged sword called
    the Elenium-95 and a bunch of raw recruits,
[09:31] ---
    I was sent west to fight on
    the Rhine Theater's front lines.
[09:38] ---
    A mage?
[09:44] ---
    What are you doing, Visha?
[09:48] ---
    We can't provide air support anymore!
[09:58] ---
    An explosion spell...
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    How much longer will reinforcements take?
[10:04] ---
    The 205th Mage Company is en route.
[10:07] ---
    Company Commander,
    we only have one platoon.
[10:10] ---
    We can't fight a whole company.
[10:13] ---
    Our enemy is on an exhausting,
    long-range mission.
[10:16] ---
    There's a good chance we can win.
[10:20] ---
    But I guess losing new troops already
    would hurt my promotion chances.
[10:27] ---
    You are to provide support.
[10:29] ---
    I'll go ahead and destroy three platoons.
[10:32] ---
    Man, it's rough being a salaryman.
[10:35] ---
    S-Salary...?
[10:38] ---
    I pray unto God.
[10:41] ---
    Lord, save my Fatherland.
[10:50] ---
    As the documents you see on
    Second Lieutenant Degurechaff state...
[10:54] ---
    After contributing to development
    of a new computation jewel,
[10:56] ---
    she was sent on emergency deployment
    to the Rhine theater.
[10:59] ---
    While in the Rhine theater, she wiped out
    an entire enemy mage company on her own.
[11:03] ---
    And she's still carrying out
    assault missions there?
[11:09] ---
    She's the ideal soldier.
[11:15] Tanya
    "Second Lieutenant Degurechaff,
    you are hereby promoted to First Lieutenant
[11:19] ---
    and are to attend the military academy."
[11:22] ---
    This is the second time I can remember
    that I've been to university...
[11:26] ---
    I'll get a nice easy job studying at the rear!
[11:31] ---
    Be seated.
[11:33] ---
    Yes, sir. Excuse me.
[11:36] ---
    Actually, I wanted to ask you something.
[11:40] ---
    What do you think the next
    developments in the war will be?
[11:44] ---
    I'm certain that this war
    will grow into a world war.
[11:50] ---
    A world war?
[11:51] ---
    A global war.
[11:53] ---
    An interesting opinion.
[11:55] ---
    How would you handle it?
[11:56] ---
    By limiting our losses while
    shedding enemy blood,
[11:59] ---
    I believe the Empire would
    win in the long run.
[12:03] ---
    Do you have a practical plan?
[12:05] ---
    I would suggest a combination
[12:07] ---
    of defensive infantry tactics and
    offensive strategies with mages.
[12:10] ---
    Mages are powerful,
    but there aren't many of them.
[12:15] ---
    I agree.
[12:16] ---
    Mages excel in firepower and agility.
[12:18] ---
    They're ideal for hunting enemy forces.
[12:21] ---
    In the sense that you win the battle
    while limiting your losses,
[12:26] ---
    I believe this may be the best use of mages.
[12:31] ---
    Interesting.
[12:33] ---
    I'll look into it.
SIGN    Imperial Strategic Headquarters, Conference Room 1
[12:36] Narrator
    Things kept going in the worst possible
    direction, as if someone had set them up.
[12:41] Narrator
    I never expected that chat to spell my doom.
SIGN    Imperial Strategic Headquarters, Dining Room
[12:50] Narrator
    Thank you so much for inviting me today.
[12:54] Narrator
    We've asked you here to discuss
    your post-graduation deployment.
[12:59] Narrator
    First Lieutenant Degurechaff,
[13:01] Narrator
    I intend to put you in charge of
    a new rapid-response mage battalion.
[13:07] Narrator
    A battalion?!
[13:10] Narrator
    Leading a rapid-response battalion is
    a bigger risk than the front lines!
[13:14] Narrator
    B-But I'm only a first lieutenant.
[13:17] Narrator
    I'm not qualified to command a battalion.
[13:20] Narrator
    Don't worry. Everything's been arranged.
[13:31] Narrator
    That's a very enticing offer.
[13:33] Narrator
    Why?
[13:35] Narrator
    Why did this happen?
[13:37] Narrator
    Damn it!
[13:39] Narrator
    I'll have to take as much time as possible
    with the selection process
[13:42] Narrator
    and delay our shipping out.
SIGN    Imperial Strategic HQ External Bureau
[13:47] Narrator
    What is this?
SIGN    Organizer Section
[13:49] Narrator
    I only sent out that
    recruitment notice last week!
[13:52] Narrator
    Mages are the elite, aren't they?
[13:54] Narrator
    Shouldn't they want
    the best jobs they can get?
[13:57] Narrator
    I made it clear in the notice
    that this would be a terrible job...
SIGN    Mages Wanted. Extremely Difficult Battle, Little Pay
SIGN    Spend your days in combat and unfathomable danger.
    If you return alive, you'll receive honor and glory.
[14:02] Narrator
    Why would all these people sign up
    for a one-way ticket to hell?
[14:05] Narrator
    I can't go through all this
    stuff by myself, anyway.
[14:10] Narrator
    Excuse me.
[14:15] Narrator
    What are you doing here?
[14:18] Narrator
    It's been a while, Captain Degurechaff!
[14:21] Narrator
    You're my assistant?
[14:24] Narrator
    Yes.
[14:25] Narrator
    It seems I was assigned this post because
    I already knew you, and we're both women.
[14:30] Narrator
    Gee, the brass sure is being
    awfully considerate.
[14:33] Narrator
    Actually, Strategic HQ just sent a demand
    that we speed up the selection.
[14:39] Narrator
    Only twelve people have passed.
[14:42] Narrator
    That's only enough for a company.
[14:44] Narrator
    You'll have to lower
    the standards for passing.
[14:47] Narrator
    Then I'll need time for reeducation and
    to devise an acceptable new standard.
[14:53] Narrator
    How long, exactly?
[14:56] Narrator
    A month.
[14:58] Narrator
    Only a month?
[15:00] Narrator
    Training a new soldier takes two years.
[15:03] Narrator
    I don't care.
[15:04] Narrator
    Reeducate them, even if you
    have to get a little rough.
SIGN    Imperial Army Zugspitsche Training Grounds
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    Now that it's come to this,
    I'll push them to the absolute limit
[15:15] ---
    and make them give up for sure!
[15:19] ---
    It's so cold...
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    I figured this would happen.
[15:24] ---
    Retreat! Retreat!
[15:28] ---
    Now you're napping during training, huh?
[15:33] ---
    Want to face a firing squad
    for dereliction of duty?
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    Hang in there!
[15:36] ---
    Hey!
[15:37] ---
    Are you okay? Breathe!
[15:39] ---
    Hey!
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    C-Captain, that's going too far!
[15:50] ---
    H-He came back to life?
[15:53] ---
    I can't believe it.
[15:54] ---
    That isn't human...
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    If I try and drop out,
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    I'll meet a fate worse than death.
[16:03] ---
    If you're going to quit, then now is—
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    I will continue the training!
[16:13] ---
    Me, too.
[16:13] ---
    Leave it to me.
[16:14] ---
    And me.
[16:15] ---
    I can keep going.
[16:16] ---
    Let me do it.
[16:17] ---
    Hurry!
[16:18] ---
    We'll finish the march!
SIGN    One Month Later
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    But they endured hell...
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    Today, you are Imperial mages.
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    Most of you will go to the war zone.
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    Some of you will not come back.
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    But always remember this:
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    Imperial soldiers die.
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    That's what we're here for.
[16:47] ---
    But the Empire lives forever.
[16:50] ---
    And that means you live forever!
[16:54] ---
    Thus, the Empire expects you
    to fight forever for it!
[17:01] ---
    Sir, yes, sir!
SIGN    Imperial Strategic HQ External Bureau
[17:05] ---
    How did this happen?
[17:07] ---
    Why did I do that?
[17:09] ---
    I don't even remember.
SIGN    Organization Department
[17:11] ---
    Maybe it's because I used
    the Type-95 too much in training.
[17:15] ---
    A military communiqué from Strategic HQ.
[17:17] ---
    Understood.
[17:22] ---
    A message from the battalion commander!
[17:25] ---
    It is time for war, everyone.
[17:29] ---
    No, something merely similar to war.
[17:33] ---
    We've been given a bunch of targets
    for a live-fire training exercise.
[17:36] ---
    You may choose to shoot them
[17:39] ---
    or to destroy them with spells.
[17:42] ---
    Very well, gentlemen.
[17:43] ---
    It's time for some sports!
[17:58] ---
    A live-fire exercise is
    an apt way to describe this.
[18:02] ---
    It's basically a bunch of scarecrows.
[18:04] ---
    If we miss, we'll be a laughingstock.
[18:06] ---
    Penetrating spells... Fire!
[18:11] ---
    Drop grenades!
[18:17] ---
    Then we'll let our allies annihilate
    the enemy, and we'll advance.
[18:21] ---
    Where will we go?
[18:22] ---
    The capital.
[18:24] ---
    This is our chance. Let's attack.
[18:26] ---
    Second Lieutenant,
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    we aren't the kind of barbarians
    who'd ignore international wartime law.
[18:32] ---
    In adherence to the laws the ethicists made,
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    we must destroy nothing but the enemy factory
    and warn them to evacuate.
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    We swear that we will conduct a fair war,
[18:47] ---
    in accordance with international law!
[18:52] ---
    We warn you now!
[18:54] ---
    The Imperial Army is about to launch
    an attack on your military facility!
[18:59] ---
    Wonderful!
[19:01] ---
    They seem to think it's a kid's prank!
[19:04] ---
    Now, everyone,
[19:05] ---
    we have fulfilled our duty
    under international law.
[19:08] ---
    Let's get to work.
[19:11] ---
    In God's name, bring down his wrath on
    all who would violate the Fatherland.
[19:18] ---
    Manifest the miracles of God on Earth.
[19:22] ---
    Open fire!
[19:33] ---
    Now, let's head back, my battalion.
SIGN    Imperial Army Southeastern Theater, Military Garrison 5
[19:44] ---
    The 203rd has received a transfer order.
[19:49] ---
    We're heading north, to Norden.
[19:52] ---
    And I headed back to Norden once more.
[19:56] ---
    Enemy mage unit at altitude 6,500.
[19:58] ---
    Forward forces are regiment-sized.
[20:00] ---
    Two companies to the rear.
[20:02] ---
    Companies 2 through 4 will
    hit the forward units.
[20:05] ---
    We'll take out the rear units and bombers.
[20:08] ---
    Then we'll launch a pincer
    attack from the rear.
[20:11] ---
    However, while your job is to delay them,
[20:14] ---
    there isn't any need to wait for me.
[20:16] ---
    Feel free to defeat them all.
[20:20] ---
    Yes, ma'am!
[20:23] ---
    Now, Company 1, gain altitude.
[20:26] ---
    We'll go around and knock out
    the two rear companies.
[20:37] ---
    Prepare for close-quarters combat!
[20:39] ---
    We'll wipe out the enemy's forward units!
[20:48] ---
    The enemy's computation jewels
    are better than expected.
[20:51] ---
    Don't get cocky!
[21:00] ---
    They're fast.
[21:05] ---
    They can hit accurately with
    this altitude difference?
[21:08] ---
    Seems like it's those foreign mages.
[21:11] ---
    They're tougher than we'd thought.
[21:13] ---
    So, everyone, how are you
    enjoying a real war?
[21:18] ---
    The other day's battle against Dakia
    was just a live-fire exercise.
[21:21] ---
    I want to let you fight to your
    heart's content this time,
[21:24] ---
    so I turned down reinforcements.
[21:27] ---
    Be proud. You've been given a chance
    to pass a trial of iron and fire.
[21:33] ---
    It's them! The bombers!
[21:36] ---
    They're finally here, huh?
[21:39] ---
    Guess I'll work enough to earn my salary.
[21:48] ---
    Bring down the hammer of
    your wrath from Heaven.
[22:02] ---
    Mayday! Mayday!
[22:03] ---
    This is—
[22:15] ---
    Pixie 01 to all units.
[22:17] ---
    Begin your pincer attack
    on the remaining mages.
[22:20] ---
    I'm going to recover prisoners
    from the prey I shot down.
[22:27] ---
    I wanted to get some information from them,
[22:29] ---
    but I can't just cut out their brain
    and take it.
[22:36] ---
    It's a joyous thing.
[22:41] ---
    Everyone in this world is out for
    your blood, you of so little faith.
[22:47] ---
    A great crusade to punish
    the blasphemer has begun.
[22:52] ---
    Being X...
[22:54] ---
    I knew you were screwing with me!
[22:56] ---
    How does it feel to fight the entire world?
[23:05] ---
    Damn it!
[23:06] ---
    I'll show you!
SIGN    Imperial Army
    Northern Theater Forces Command
[23:09] ---
    I'm always sent to the war's front lines.
[23:13] ---
    Always desperate situations where safe,
    rear-echelon deployments are a pipe dream.
[23:20] ---
    Damn you, Being X!
[23:24] ---
    Not only the Entente Alliance,
    but the Republic and the Allied Kingdom...
[23:28] ---
    And anyone else who wants to meddle...
[23:31] ---
    I'll teach them all a lesson.
SIGN    Next Time The Battle of Fjord
SIGN    This program is fiction. All persons, groups, places, laws, and names appearing in it have no relation to the real world.