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
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    I'm no longer the one that everyone knows
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    Took off the fragile armor
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    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?
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    Your light...
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    If that light never changes
[22:38] [SONG] ED Lyrics
    And continues to shine high above the sky
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    Even when I'm lost,
    even when I'm struggling
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    I'll continue to search for you
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    Even on days of sickness or sadness
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    I'll open the window to a new morning
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    I'm moving forward, I'm standing still
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    Tell the people who are praying
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    But today this flower
    before me is praising you
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    My song is a song of joy and wishes
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    Yes, I'm reaching out
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    But you're too high up
    in the evening stars
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    But today this flower
    before me is praising you
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    My song is a song of joy and wishes
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    Yes, I try to reach out
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    But you're too high up
    in the evening stars