"Will she awaken?" "She received quite a shock." "Ceres will awaken." "Because we have the robe." "What about Aya?" "I don't know." "It's bad that... the Progenitor has learned that the robe has been restored." "According to Wei, he briefly returned to being Aki." "Did the shock of killing Toya awaken him?" "I just wanted to solve the mystery of the legend." "Then I was drawn to the Chief's belief that we could benefit mankind." "Aki, please come back." "Give me the answers I'm searching for." "Ceres!" "It's Ceres!" "She's nearby!" "She's my woman!" "What's this?" "!" "Who tied me up?" "!" "Kagami!" "Now that you have the robe..." "I'm just a burden to you?" "!" "I'll kill every one of you except my woman!" "Drug him!" "It's no good." "Day in and day out, the machinery and the drugs..." "The Progenitor is going mad." "If Aki isn't able to awaken, they will both be destroyed." "So you are the one who awakened, Ceres." "You've been asleep for three days." "My name is Gladys Smithson." "I'll show you around the facility." "Your children want to see you." "These are your children." "You are the original mother, Ceres!" "You awakened the blood of our ancestors that flows within us." "Don't you mind...?" "Locked up in a place like this." "Giving birth to children whose fathers are unknown to you." "Locked up?" "We are being protected!" "It's so peaceful here." "The outside world is dirty." "We are special." "We have intelligence and beauty." "Our duty is to give birth to the children of the selected men." "These children will build a new world." "A beautiful new world." "Much better than being the partner of some useless man." "We'll abandon the dirty lower world." "We're going up into the skies!" "Once the robe is reconstructed, we'll each get our own!" "Don't you want to return?" "You can come with us." "Okay?" "Come with us!" " What's the matter?" " Are you okay?" "Is she all right?" "Calm down, everyone." "I will go and see how she is." "Ceres!" "Are you all right?" "I'll call someone from the medical staff." "Where is the celestial robe?" "Take me there." "Doctor Howell, please take a look." "Where am I?" "What is this?" "Doctor, all the wounds have disappeared." "Alec!" "Aki?" "Is that really you, Aki?" "Alec..." "what's happening to me?" "!" "Release him!" "Are you all right?" "Hang on to me." "Thank you." "Fool!" "As if I'd give this body back to that kid so easily." "Where is Ceres?" "!" "Put security on alert." "If you can capture him alive I'll permit the use of guns." "This is terrible!" "I can't take it!" "I've had it!" "I didn't take this job to..." "You knew what you were getting into." "In order to make this project succeed... you would have to become the devil himself." "I'm neither devil nor god!" "I'm just a man!" "And so are you, Chief!" "In here?" "Ceres, it's useless to try anything." "My I.D. will only get us beyond the next door." "Get in." "I finally got you, Ceres!" "Master!" "You have led me on a merry chase." "Reconstructing the robe?" "!" "Ridiculous!" "Is it inside that chamber?" "!" "They're outside the chamber where the robe is?" "Do not hurt Ceres in any way!" "Use extreme caution in capturing her." "Get them on the monitor." "A shield?" "Celestial powers are ineffective in this laboratory." "I gave you the power." "It's no use." "Why look at me with such eyes?" "I heard... you told a lie that I forced you to become my wife." "You came to me as my bride of your own free will!" "You want me to say I loved you?" "What?" "You are such a fool." "All right." "I will speak the truth." "I just wanted your seed." "The goal of celestial beings is to procreate and leave descendants." "Ever wonder why we look like this?" "It's bait." "Men believe that we are ideal women." "They fall in love with just one glance." "Men are such simple and stupid creatures." "I'm sorry... but you were just one of many men..." "Why you...!" "I didn't accept every man." "I chose the best of you." "My celestial robe had the power to seek out such men." "I just waited for that man." "I gave you some of my powers... because I wanted a better man... so that I could create superior progeny." "But my robe failed me and my life." "Shut up!" "You killed Toya?" "Toya?" "What about him?" "Do you plan on transforming into Aya and getting his seed...?" "You already...?" "!" "He was a good man." "Much better than you." "Why you bitch!" "You can't use your powers here, yet you dare to...!" "Please wait!" " Master!" "Ceres!" " Shut up!" "Stop!" "The celestial maiden is our ideal!" "Ideal!" "?" "Nonsense!" "Get away!" "Only wanted my seed?" "!" "How dare you... sleep with another man!" "Why you...!" "Gladys... you protected Ceres well." "We will save your life without fail." "What is it, Gladys?" "The ideal woman..." "She is our ideal." "Chief, you're just a mortal, too!" "Did she die?" "If the robe had been completed... perhaps we could have saved her." "According to legend... the celestial robe allows the maiden to fly into the heavens." "But you are able to fly without it." "So the robe must have a deeper purpose." "In Japan, it's just known as the celestial maiden's robe." "But in other countries it takes on various shapes." "In Poland, it's a white robe." "In Scotland, it's the hide of a seal." "In China, it's a fur coat." "In many countries, the maiden is a swan... or a mermaid, or even a wolf... or a white cat." "In Niigata, the maidens could transform into fish." "In other words, the thing called, "the celestial robe"... is a system that allows instantaneous cell transformation." "That's why you can change your appearance." "Change and adapt to this earth." "Where are you from?" "I do not know." "I really do not know where I come from... or where I am going." "I don't even know if this is my actual appearance." "We exist only to leave descendants." "That is all." "I'm tired." "Very tired." "Please let me rest." "Ceres!" "Ceres!" "Aya, you're awake?" "What's going on?" "!" "Weren't you taken by force?" "Tell me." "What happened between you and the Progenitor?" "Did you see that?" "Over there... there's something down there." "I see nothing." "I'm going home." "What's this?" "I found it in the woods." "Is it yours?" "Yes." "Did you find it?" "That is the mana, my life itself." "According to my people's law..." "I must give myself to the man who finds it." "Will you have me?" "The man's name was Mikagi." "His family welcomed me and accepted me... as a daughter of the gods." "Flowers were presented to me daily." "Mikagi was the first to ever do that." "Looking back, perhaps it was a courtship custom." "And one night, after a month had passed, he gave me... earrings fashioned after the shape of the mana." "It's strange... none of the flowers have wilted yet." "Is it because of your presence?" "But the most beautiful flower... is you Ceres." "I want you to bloom for an eternity." "I want to be the only one for you." "If you will become one with me..." "I will give you my life." "I had never felt that way before." "Until then, men were simply sources of the "seed."" "But now, I thought of spending the rest of my life with him." "However..." "Mikagi!" "I'm disgusted with myself!" "If I had even a fraction of your power..." "Please don't blame yourself." "I will give you some of this power." "So that my kind-hearted Mikagi can never be hurt again." "For your protection." "How is the Progenitor?" "His life's not in danger." "But..." "Stop it!" "Don't torment Aya any more!" "Aki!" "Shut up, kid!" " I won't lose again!" " Shut up!" "I came back only to see my wife!" "Where is Ceres?" "!" "Mikagi!" "I saw them." "And killed them." "I killed them all!" "I will become strong just for you!" "Stronger and stronger!" "From that day, my husband changed." "As if only to display his power, he attacked strong warriors." "People feared him and warriors came seeking to serve him." "The tribe grew ever larger." "Please, stop!" "You're not this kind of man!" "Mikagi!" "It's all for you!" "I'll give you the most luxurious life!" "With my own power!" "You aren't to go outside!" "No man must even look at you!" "He feared losing his powers." "Each day, his obsession with me grew." "When I moved to another dwelling for the birth of my third child..." "Mikagi, give back my mana!" "The mana is my life!" "Without it..." "Our child is one month old tonight." "Don't spoil the celebration!" "Please return it!" " Otherwise, I will...!" " Silence!" "Someday, that thing will take you away from me!" "You are mine alone!" "You are my woman!" "Forever!" "Where did he go?" "The man who once loved me?" "Perhaps he never loved me." "Maybe he never did." "Mother, hurry!" "Before Father comes home!" "Where do you intend to go?" "Father, Mother is growing weak!" "Please return the mana to her!" "Otherwise, Mother will...!" "I won't forgive anyone who tries to steal my wife from me." "Not even my child." "Still... somewhere in my heart I believed in him." "Someday... he would..." "But..." "Why?" "In the end, men are just vehicles to provide "seed."" "What was the purpose in letting go of my heart?" "I was such a fool." "We were meant simply to leave progeny." "Don't lie!" "You were in love!" "You wanted to be loved!" "Isn't that so, Ceres?" "Answer me!" "All right, Shuro." "Let's go with a test run." "Okay." "The only thing left for me to do is to sing." "To put an end to everything!"