# E9 - Millions Knives
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**[01:10] (Flashback) Younger Conrad**
I got what you asked for.
**[01:13] (Flashback) Younger Conrad**
What are you trying to do?
**[01:23] (Flashback) Younger Conrad**
What's that?
**[01:46] [SONG] OP Lyrics**
My tears scattered like bits of paper
**[01:50] [SONG] OP Lyrics**
Scared of the unknowable tomorrow
**[01:53] [SONG] OP Lyrics**
I lived the same day over and over,
back and forth
**[01:57] [SONG] OP Lyrics**
But a new morning never came
**[02:01] [SONG] OP Lyrics**
All the reasons to calm down
**[02:03] [SONG] OP Lyrics**
Are just some moments until the crash
**[02:08] [SONG] OP Lyrics**
I'm no longer the one that everyone knows
**[02:11] [SONG] OP Lyrics**
Took off the fragile armor
**[02:15] [SONG] OP Lyrics**
I don't want to lose any more love
**[02:23] [SONG] OP Lyrics**
I don't want to lose any more love
**[02:30] [SONG] OP Lyrics**
There's still no line
between today and tomorrow
**[02:33] [SONG] OP Lyrics**
My waking nightmare doesn't end
**[02:37] [SONG] OP Lyrics**
And yet I won't lose hope
**[02:41] [SONG] OP Lyrics**
And yet there's no night that doesn't end
**[02:47] [SONG] OP Lyrics**
Not here, not here
**[03:11] (Flashback) Teenage Nai**
What is this?
**[03:13] (Flashback) Younger Conrad**
We've hit the production limit.
**[03:16] (Flashback) Younger Conrad**
They put too great a load on the plants.
**[03:20] (Flashback) Younger Conrad**
It cut them off from the higher dimension.
**[03:23] (Flashback) Younger Conrad**
They can't maintain their bodies.
**[03:27] (Flashback) Younger Conrad**
They're already in the terminal stage...
**[03:39] (Flashback) Researcher A**
What are you doing?
**[03:40] (Flashback) Researcher A**
This area is off-limits.
**[03:43] (Flashback) Younger Conrad**
What are you doing?! Why did you continue
to overload them beyond the threshold?
**[03:47] (Flashback) Younger Conrad**
As if they're disposable?!
**[03:48] (Flashback) Researcher A**
Isn't it obvious?
To speed up the reconstruction.
**[03:51] (Flashback) Researcher B**
It's the only way we can hope
to prosper on this planet.
**[03:55] (Flashback) Researcher A**
Now leave. Their Last Run will start soon.
**[03:58] (Flashback) Teenage Nai**
"Last Run"?
**[04:00] (Flashback) Younger Conrad**
Let's go.
**[04:02] (Flashback) Teenage Nai**
Heal them.
**[04:04] (Flashback) Teenage Nai**
Heal them now, Doctor!
**[04:07] (Flashback) Younger Conrad**
It's too late...
**[04:13] (Flashback) Researcher A**
This is it.
**[04:16] (Flashback) Researcher A**
The Last Run...
**[04:18] (Flashback) Researcher A**
When you force a plant that's reached its
production limit to go out of control,
**[04:23] (Flashback) Researcher A**
it uses up all of its remaining energy.
**[04:25] (Flashback) Researcher A**
One final harvest.
**[04:50] (Flashback) Younger Conrad**
I'm sorry. Please forgive us...
**[04:54] (Flashback) Younger Conrad**
Forgive us humans.
**[05:01] (Flashback) Teenage Vash**
Nai...
**[05:20] (Flashback) Teenage Vash**
I knew you were alive.
**[05:23] (Flashback) Teenage Nai**
Vash, you must have heard them.
**[05:27] (Flashback) Teenage Nai**
Their screams.
**[05:30] (Flashback) Teenage Nai**
Now you know.
*This* is the true nature of humanity.
**[05:36] (Flashback) Researcher A**
They're born to serve us humans.
**[05:39] (Flashback) Researcher A**
I'm sure they were happy to be useful.
**[05:43] (Flashback) Researcher A**
Now, we're busy here.
**[05:46] (Flashback) Researcher A**
I'll have to ask you outsiders to leave.
**[05:50] (Flashback) Researcher E**
Hurry it up.
**[05:51] (Flashback) Younger Conrad**
Stop! Don't touch him!
**[05:56] (Flashback) Teenage Nai**
Didn't you hear them?
**[05:58] (Flashback) Teenage Nai**
Their dying cries?!
**[06:05] (Flashback) Teenage Nai**
If so, there's no need for words...
**[06:11] (Flashback) Teenage Nai**
Just let me hear your screams.
**[06:16] (Flashback) Researcher C**
Shit!
**[06:21] (Flashback) Teenage Vash**
Stop this, Nai!
**[06:26] (Flashback) Teenage Nai**
"Nai," huh?
**[06:29] (Flashback) Teenage Nai**
I haven't heard that name in a long time.
**[06:32] (Flashback) Teenage Nai**
I now represent my myriad of brethren
spread across the planet.
**[06:37] (Flashback) Teenage Nai**
I shall cut down humanity in their stead.
**[06:41] (Flashback) Teenage Nai**
I am Millions Knives.
**[06:55] (Flashback) Teenage Vash**
Why? Why did you kill them?
**[06:59] (Flashback) Teenage Vash**
Rem sacrificed herself to save these people!
**[07:01] (Flashback) Teenage Nai**
That's right. If it weren't for her meddling,
**[07:06] (Flashback) Teenage Nai**
every ship other than the plant carriers
would've been rubble.
**[07:12] (Flashback) Teenage Nai**
After all the work I did to swap out
the navigation data for every single ship...
**[07:21] (Flashback) Researcher A**
Get them!
**[07:23] (Flashback) Researcher F**
Don't move!
**[07:25] (Flashback) Teenage Nai**
Vash... Let's build a paradise together.
**[07:29] (Flashback) Teenage Nai**
Free our brethren from the foul humans.
**[07:34] (Flashback) Teenage Vash**
Plants can't survive without
humans to take care of them.
**[07:38] (Flashback) Teenage Vash**
Remember what Rem said?
**[07:40] (Flashback) Teenage Vash**
Outside of human control, plants use up
all their energy in one burst and die.
**[07:46] (Flashback) Teenage Nai**
So you bought into that nonsense...
**[07:50] (Flashback) Teenage Nai**
No matter how comfortable,
chains are still chains.
**[07:54] (Flashback) Teenage Nai**
But we're different.
**[07:56] (Flashback) Teenage Nai**
You and I have our own will,
and we walk freely.
**[07:59] (Flashback) Teenage Nai**
*This* is power!
**[08:08] (Flashback) Researcher A**
We had to do this to survive—
**[08:26] (Flashback) Teenage Nai**
An evil weapon of the Sinners,
taking lives easily from afar
**[08:30] (Flashback) Teenage Nai**
with the twitch of a finger...
**[08:34] (Flashback) Teenage Nai**
A fitting arm for a human-lover like you.
**[08:39] (Flashback) Teenage Nai**
The plants are the ones who need power.
**[08:43] (Flashback) Teenage Nai**
I have what we need.
Now all you and I need to do is proceed.
**[08:49] (Flashback) Teenage Vash**
What are you planning?
**[08:53] (Flashback) Luida**
Vash!
**[08:55] (Flashback) Younger Conrad**
Luida!
**[08:57] (Flashback) Teenage Vash**
What are you doing here?
**[08:59] (Flashback) Luida**
I came to get you. Let's go home together.
**[09:05] (Flashback) Teenage Nai**
What a great opportunity. Take aim, Vash.
**[09:08] (Flashback) Teenage Nai**
Kill her as your first step.
**[09:12] (Flashback) Luida**
Everyone's waiting for you.
**[09:15] (Flashback) Luida**
Vash!
**[09:17] (Flashback) Teenage Nai**
What's wrong? Do it already.
**[09:27] (Flashback) Teenage Nai**
You really can't do anything without me.
**[09:39] (Flashback) Teenage Vash**
Nai!
**[09:46] (Flashback) Teenage Vash**
Until the bitter end,
all I did was let Rem protect me!
**[09:51] (Flashback) Teenage Vash**
Because of that, I lost her!
**[09:54] (Flashback) Teenage Vash**
So I won't let you take
anyone else away from me!
**[09:59] (Flashback) Teenage Nai**
Vash!
**[10:05] (Flashback) Teenage Nai**
You witch...
**[10:08] (Flashback) Teenage Nai**
How many times?
**[10:10] (Flashback) Teenage Nai**
How many times will you steal him from me?
**[10:18] (Flashback) Teenage Vash**
Stop...
**[10:22] (Flashback) Teenage Vash**
Stop this.
**[10:27] (Flashback) Younger Conrad**
Wh-What's that?!
**[10:35] (Flashback) Teenage Vash**
What...
**[10:38] (Flashback) Teenage Vash**
is this?
**[10:50] (Flashback) Teenage Nai**
You fool!
**[10:52] (Flashback) Younger Conrad**
Is that... a gate?
**[11:16] (Flashback) Luida**
Vash!
**[11:17] (Flashback) Teenage Nai**
Don't touch him!
**[11:20] (Flashback) Teenage Nai**
Don't touch Vash!
**[11:37] (Flashback) Teenage Nai**
Just wait for a short while...
A mere century or so.
**[11:43] (Flashback) Teenage Nai**
I promise I'll build a world of plants.
**[11:56] (Flashback) Luida**
Vash! Vash!
**[12:00] (Flashback) Luida**
Vash!
**[12:20] Brad**
Hey, Vash. Heard you busted your arm again.
**[12:23] Vash**
Brad...
**[12:26] Brad**
Every time you come back,
you've messed up my masterpiece.
**[12:30] Vash**
I, uh... don't have anything
to say for myself.
**[12:32] Brad**
Come on. Show it to me.
**[12:37] Vash**
You never change, Brad.
**[12:39] Brad**
Look who's talking.
**[12:41] Brad**
Forever young... I'm jealous.
**[12:46] Brad**
Come on. Stay still.
**[12:53] Luida**
Welcome back.
**[12:57] Vash**
I'm home.
**[12:59] Vash**
What about the others?
**[13:00] Luida**
They're safe. Everyone from the Sand Steamer,
the orphanage, and your friends.
**[13:06] Vash**
My friends?
**[13:09] Meryl**
Vash!
**[13:11] Roberto**
Sheesh.
**[13:12] Wolfwood**
Who said anything about being friends?
**[13:15] Vash**
Thank you.
**[13:16] Vash**
You're the reason we managed to stop the ship.
**[13:19] Wolfwood**
Who'd've thought there was a spaceship
hiding here in the sandstorm, though?
**[13:25] Roberto**
Think of it as a form of camouflage.
**[13:28] Meryl**
You folks really saved us.
**[13:31] Meryl**
Have you two known Vash for a long time?
**[13:35] Brad**
Yeah, you could say that.
About 150 years, I guess.
**[13:39] Meryl**
What?!
**[13:40] Roberto**
A century and a half?!
**[13:42] Luida**
Cold sleep.
**[13:44] Brad**
We don't age during that time.
**[13:48] Luida**
We have to maintain this ship
for as long as possible.
**[13:54] Luida**
To that end, many of
the passengers are still asleep.
**[13:59] Wolfwood**
Oh. So it's not eternal life.
**[14:02] Luida**
Of course not.
**[14:04] Luida**
We're only human. Although we have
a little help from technology.
**[14:09] Meryl**
And from plants?
**[14:17] Luida**
Let me show you something.
**[14:24] Meryl**
Wow!
**[14:33] Meryl**
Incredible... What is this place?
**[14:40] Meryl**
So much beautiful green!
**[14:43] Roberto**
Well, color me surprised.
**[14:45] Meryl**
Roberto! Come here, come here!
**[14:49] Roberto**
Now, now...
**[14:51] Meryl**
Ouch...
**[14:54] Meryl**
What are these?
**[14:56] Luida**
These are flora.
**[14:58] Meryl**
Flora?
**[15:00] Luida**
They grow using photosynthesis and multiply.
**[15:03] Luida**
They're a life-form that is
neither human nor Worm.
**[15:07] Meryl**
They're alive?
**[15:09] Luida**
They're made of not just water,
but nutrients as well.
**[15:14] Meryl**
So if we just make more of these...
**[15:18] Roberto**
Is it that simple?
**[15:20] Roberto**
This dome must be supported by plants.
**[15:24] Roberto**
And not just one or two.
**[15:27] Luida**
But the flora can lessen
the load on the plants.
**[15:32] Luida**
Given time, we can spread the
greenery across the entire planet.
**[15:36] Roberto**
Yeah? And how long is that going to take?
Decades? Centuries?
**[15:41] Luida**
No matter how long it takes,
I want to follow the right path.
**[15:47] Luida**
I don't want to justify
wrongdoing just to survive.
**[15:53] Roberto**
You sound like Vash.
**[15:55] Roberto**
"The right path"? Jeez...
**[15:58] Roberto**
There's no place for niceties on this planet.
**[16:03] Roberto**
I don't care for your way of thinking.
**[16:07] Roberto**
But you're free to go your own way.
**[16:11] Roberto**
And I'll go mine.
**[16:12] Roberto**
I just hope we're headed for the same goal.
**[16:16] Luida**
There's one thing I need to tell you.
**[16:18] Roberto**
What?
**[16:20] Luida**
No smoking on the ship.
**[16:24] Meryl**
Right after he sounded so cool for once...
**[16:27] Roberto**
Meryl! Go find somewhere I can smoke!
**[16:31] Meryl**
Yeah, yeah. Or you could do it yourself—
**[16:38] Meryl**
Roberto! Did you just call me "Meryl"?
**[16:42] Meryl**
You finally said my name!
**[16:43] Roberto**
Huh? Did I?
**[16:45] Meryl**
You did!
**[16:46] Roberto**
I don't believe it.
**[16:47] Meryl**
What do you mean? You just said it!
**[16:50] Roberto**
Didn't happen.
**[16:51] Meryl**
Come on! Say it again!
**[16:52] Roberto**
Didn't happen! Didn't happen! Didn't happen!
**[16:56] Wolfwood**
Okay, Needle-noggin...
I got something to ask you.
**[17:01] Vash**
Hm?
**[17:03] Wolfwood**
You don't, by any chance,
**[17:04] Wolfwood**
think you can make up with
Millions Knives, do you?
**[17:12] Wolfwood**
C'mon, Needle-noggin...
**[17:14] Vash**
I won't kill.
**[17:16] Vash**
I will never kill anyone again.
**[17:20] Vash**
I'll find a way to save them all...
**[17:23] Vash**
The humans, the plants, and Nai.
**[17:28] Wolfwood**
More empty words.
**[17:31] Wolfwood**
I swear to you the day will come
when you have to pick between them.
**[17:36] Brad**
You're just like how I used to be.
**[17:38] Wolfwood**
Huh?
**[17:39] Brad**
Trying to bite Vash's head off,
thinking everything's all black and white.
**[17:44] Brad**
I was like that as a young one.
**[17:47] Wolfwood**
Big talk, old man.
**[17:51] Brad**
Vash is tough.
**[17:53] Brad**
You'll learn that yourself if you hang around.
**[17:58] Vash**
Luida!
**[18:00] Luida**
A swarm of Worms...
**[18:06] Vash**
Is this...
**[18:08] Luida**
Look.
**[18:11] Wolfwood**
It's Zazie. No doubt about it.
**[18:25] Meryl**
Where are we?
**[18:30] Meryl**
Roberto! Wake up, Roberto!
**[18:37] Roberto**
Hm? It's night already?
**[18:40] Meryl**
Are you okay?
**[18:42] Roberto**
Hey there, newbie. You good?
**[18:46] Roberto**
So... where are we?
**[18:50] Meryl**
I don't know.
**[18:52] Roberto**
A smoking area, maybe?
**[18:54] Meryl**
Keep dreaming.
**[18:56] Zazie**
Welcome to the third of the seven cities.
**[19:00] Zazie**
This is JuLai, a crashed plant carrier.
**[19:04] Meryl**
You there... Have we met?
**[19:06] Zazie**
Oh, right, you haven't seen me
in this outfit before.
**[19:11] Roberto**
Did Knives send you?
**[19:13] Meryl**
Huh?
**[19:14] Zazie**
Let's talk about something more interesting.
**[19:17] Zazie**
This planet you call Noman's Land
now stands at a crossroads.
**[19:24] Zazie**
So I want to find out...
**[19:26] Zazie**
Who do we Worms side with?
You humans? Or the plants?
**[19:36] Zazie**
It's no use.
**[19:38] Zazie**
This body is just a conduit.
**[19:41] Roberto**
Who are you to make such a grand judgment?
**[19:46] Zazie**
This is *our* planet.
**[19:49] Zazie**
We were here long before you came.
**[19:52] Zazie**
Besides, you're repeat offenders.
**[19:56] Meryl**
"Repeat offenders"?
**[20:05] Zazie**
You humans messed up your
home planet, Earth, right?
**[20:10] Zazie**
That's why you sent colony ships
to this new planet.
**[20:14] Meryl**
What? That can't be...
**[20:17] Zazie**
It's true.
**[20:33] Zazie**
Earth used to be a lush place
of bountiful resources.
**[20:38] Zazie**
It was full of life, and not just human.
**[20:43] Zazie**
But...
**[20:47] Zazie**
You humans gobbled it all up.
**[20:54] Meryl**
That's a lie.
**[20:57] Zazie**
Why do you think the colony ships crashed?
**[21:00] Zazie**
Those twins did it.
**[21:02] Meryl**
Twins?
**[21:03] Roberto**
That's crazy talk.
**[21:05] Meryl**
Do you mean Vash?
**[21:08] Meryl**
What has he been doing in the
century and a half since the crash?
**[21:14] Zazie**
Maybe for plants,
a century and a half is nothing.
**[21:32] Meryl**
These are...
**[21:33] Zazie**
Knives brought them here from all over.
**[21:36] Roberto**
Knives did?
**[21:38] Conrad**
What are you doing?
**[21:41] Zazie**
Whoops, he's discovered us.
**[21:44] Conrad**
So it's you, the Beast.
**[21:47] Conrad**
Why did you bring them here?
**[21:49] Zazie**
I don't take orders from you.
**[21:51] Zazie**
Knives accepted me as a guest.
**[21:55] Meryl**
Please tell me!
**[21:57] Meryl**
Why collect the red plants?
**[22:00] Conrad**
You don't need to know.
**[22:03] Zazie**
I'll tell you.
But you have to tell me in return...
**[22:09] Zazie**
Who will benefit this planet more? Humans?
**[22:12] Zazie**
Or plants?
**[22:16] Zazie**
Which do you think?
**[22:20] [SONG] ED Lyrics**
Your light...
**[22:34] [SONG] ED Lyrics**
If that light never changes
**[22:38] [SONG] ED Lyrics**
And continues to shine high above the sky
**[22:42] [SONG] ED Lyrics**
Even when I'm lost,
even when I'm struggling
**[22:47] [SONG] ED Lyrics**
I'll continue to search for you
**[22:51] [SONG] ED Lyrics**
Even on days of sickness or sadness
**[22:55] [SONG] ED Lyrics**
I'll open the window to a new morning
**[23:00] [SONG] ED Lyrics**
I'm moving forward, I'm standing still
**[23:04] [SONG] ED Lyrics**
Tell the people who are praying
**[23:07] [SONG] ED Lyrics**
But today this flower
before me is praising you
**[23:13] [SONG] ED Lyrics**
My song is a song of joy and wishes
**[23:16] [SONG] ED Lyrics**
Yes, I'm reaching out
**[23:19] [SONG] ED Lyrics**
But you're too high up
in the evening stars
**[23:24] [SONG] ED Lyrics**
But today this flower
before me is praising you
**[23:30] [SONG] ED Lyrics**
My song is a song of joy and wishes
**[23:33] [SONG] ED Lyrics**
Yes, I try to reach out
**[23:36] [SONG] ED Lyrics**
But you're too high up
in the evening stars