"then." "please." "Niimi-san?" "I will relay Tomiko-sama's message to Kaburagi Shisei." "Please remain calm." "There is nothing to be afraid of." "I will protect everyone." "Terror paralyzes the mind." "That is their goal." "everyone." "The queerats have devised numerous devilish designs to aid in their rebellion against us." "now is the time to stand united!" "Yes!" "United!" "Death to the queerats!" "Death to the queerats!" "Death to the queerats!" "Death to the queerats!" "Death to the queerats!" "Death to the queerats!" "Death to the queerats!" "Death to the queerats!" "210)\cH4C51A7}Episode Twenty-One 427)}Fires of the Apocalypse" "Let's run!" "But I must speak to Shisei-san!" "That's hopeless!" "Look at what's happening." "I couldn't save everyone..." "I am deeply ashamed." "Now it shall be we who retaliate." "Witness these cursed and ugly creatures." "from the archipelago of Japan!" "Your tenaciousness is quite admirable." "you stand powerless before me!" "Where is your supreme commander?" "Tell me." "Or else..." "S-Stop..." "A fiend!" "A fiend has come!" "A fiend?" "No..." "Impossible!" "...ria?" "Are you truly a fiend?" "But why?" "Who are you?" "You're wasting your time." "It's easy to predict your simple tricks." "Try to do this!" "Saki!" "Satoru!" "I'm so glad!" "You're unhurt!" "We have to run!" "The outcome here is obvious!" "What?" "Shisei-san's bluff may be keeping him at bay for now but he'll understand it sooner or later." "Understand what?" "due to attack inhibition and death feedback!" "But that doesn't apply to him !" "right?" "Shisei-san can just deflect any attack." "No." "It's simple for the fiend." "Subconscious..." "Cantus leakage?" "Run!" "We have no time!" "Saki?" "Are you okay?" "Yeah." "Niimi-san?" "I'm okay." "Quick!" "This way!" "This place smells terrible." "Careful." "They might not be dead." "Maybe he can talk." "I'll make your death painless." "you're really biting the bullet here." "Why do you want to rebel so badly?" "I don't understand what's going through your heads." "don't you?" "Don't pretend you don't." "There is no need to deceive you." "I see." "Then tell me." "Where is Yakomaru?" "Yakomaru is lying to you all." "Why don't you understand that?" "He doesn't value the lives of you soldiers at all!" "Please." "The lives of individuals are meaningless before the greater cause." "The greater cause?" "The liberation of our entire species from your tyranny." "What?" "Tyranny?" "I don't think we've ever treated you badly." "We are an intelligent species." "We ought to be treated as your equal." "you have robbed us of our dignity and treat us like animals." "The only way we can restore our pride now is to wipe you out from the face of the Earth." "Do you really believe you can do that?" "You killed many of us with your cowardly sneak attacks." "But a single survivor would be enough to slaughter you all!" "That will not happen." "What?" "and the messiah that heaven has sent us!" "Messiah?" "The fiend?" "Fiend?" "You are the fiends!" "Damn it!" "He jumped at us so we'd kill him." "Let's go." "This isn't the time to linger." "I must fulfill the final task that Tomiko-sama left me." "Quick." "You need to go to the Temple of Purity." "Emergency announcement." "Emergency announcement." "A fiend has appeared." "A fiend has appeared." "Its name and type are unknown but it is suspected to be a Klogius Type 1 or Type 2 variant." "The fiend has attacked Hayring and claimed many casualties." "Please make your escape with all haste." "All presently in the core villages should evacuate immediately while those near the border should flee from the wider area." "Niimi-san?" "No." "I have to go to the town hall." "Those were Tomiko-sama's orders." "But isn't it too late to send out a warning now?" "Most people in Hayring have already been..." "I don't know whether it's too late or not." "it will not be in vain." "...while those near the border should flee from the wider area." "We have to go home once we hear Going Home..." "Seems like Niimi-san managed to escape too." "Yeah." "Niimi-san's still—" "I pray for your safety." "It pains me to ask this of you in your exhaustion but please come with me to the main hall." "Asahina Satoru-san and Watanabe Saki-san are here." "Thank you for coming." "I hope Tomiko-sama is well." "Have my parents come here?" "They have." "Where are they?" "They talked with Head Priest Mushin and Priest Gyousha and thereafter returned to the villages." "But..." "They said the fiend needs to be stopped regardless of the sacrifices necessary." "they were going to free all the tainted cats in the villages and set them on the fiend." "I have something they asked me to give you upon your arrival here." "You may see it later." "please." "Very well." "I shall bring it right away." "there is someone who wishes to see you both." "I see." "Inui-san!" "Watanabe-san." "I'm so glad to see you're unhurt." "Asahina-san." "I'm glad you're fine as well." "I am ashamed to admit that not only did I fail in my mission but that all I could do was run away with my tail between my legs." "No." "Your opponent was a fiend." "You had no choice." "the casualties..." "Inui-san... right?" "What happened after that?" "We headed to our destination in accordance with the Security Council's orders." "the Robber Fly army had already gone into hiding by then." "For three days we searched fruitlessly." "we discovered traces of a night camp." "we found a small troop of queerats." "Who are you?" "What are you doin—" "I decided to return home after sundown but the queerats combed the area restlessly." "They knew that the "gods of death" always worked in teams of five." "and escaping was impossible." "yesterday the entire queerat army suddenly moved out." "I headed for the villages after the sun had set." "I realized I had to warn the village of the queerats and—especially—the fiend." "When I finally arrived at the village of Outlook not a single soul could be seen." "The Summer Festival..." "Yes." "Everyone had left." "But..." "I thought that someone would have to be at the hospital or the nursery." "I should not have been shocked that they would do this." "We saw it happen every time an intercolonial war ended." "At that time we simply considered it a tradition of inferior creatures." "But that they would do it to humans..." "Just a moment!" "Did the queerats..." "Yes." "As despicable as it is they came for the human infants!" "What are those?" "They are nestlings birthed by the Feral Spider queen." "Nestlings?" "Babies?" "They are treasured spoils of war." "They shall be the workforce for a brighter future for our colony." "The queen would be executed and we would work as slaves until we die." "We would be treated like scum while we live and our corpses would be left in the hills to fertilize the earth." "So Yakomaru's true goal was to abduct infants..." "They're not just looking to double their investment." "They started with Mamoru and Maria's child." "He grew into a fiend and killed Shisei-san." "When the children they abducted with this victory also awaken to their Cantus in ten years..." "I finally understood it myself." "This was the grand design which Yakomaru had nurtured in secret." "he would take control of Kamisu's 66th district with only a single fiend." "he would only need to hold out for another ten years." "once the children they took from the nursery turn into fiends themselves under the queerats' care not a single community in Japan would be able to stand in their way anymore." "he could capture even more children and form an entire unit of fiends." "From Japan he could expand to the rest of the Far East and the entirety of Eurasia." "World conquest would not be out of the question." "It would be the birth of a great queerat empire." "224.4)}ＵＴＷ 160.8)}Presents" "453.867)}SHINSEKAI 503.867)}YORI" "224.4)}ＵＴＷ 160.8)}Presents" "453.867)}SHINSEKAI 503.867)}YORI" "340)}Nani mo iranai 340)}Nani mo iranai" "340)}何もいらない 340)}何もいらない" "340)}I need nothing else 340)}I need nothing else" "340)}Anata ga ireba ii 340)}Anata ga ireba ii" "340)}あなたがいればいい 340)}あなたがいればいい" "340)}When you are by my side 340)}When you are by my side" "340)}Sotto yokogao iki wo korosu 340)}Sotto yokogao iki wo korosu" "340)}そっと横顔 息を殺す 340)}そっと横顔 息を殺す" "340)}I look at you in profile and hold my breath 340)}I look at you in profile and hold my breath" "340)}Mabataki sureba kieteshimaisou de 340)}Mabataki sureba kieteshimaisou de" "340)}まばたきすれば消えてしまいそうで 340)}まばたきすれば消えてしまいそうで" "340)}I'm afraid it might vanish like an illusion if I blink now 340)}I'm afraid it might vanish like an illusion if I blink now" "340)}Mitsumesasete suki da yo 340)}Mitsumesasete suki da yo" "340)}凝視めさせて好きだよ 340)}凝視めさせて好きだよ" "I love you" "I love you 340)}Ah klgl ga furue furidashita yuki" "340)}Ah klgl ga furue furidashita yuki 340)}ああ 木々が震え 降り出した雪" "340)}ああ 木々が震え 降り出した雪 340)}The trees shake in the wind and snow gathers on the ground" "340)}The trees shake in the wind and snow gathers on the ground 340)}Ashiato futatsu shiroku" "340)}Ashiato futatsu shiroku 340)}足跡 ふたつ 白く" "340)}足跡 ふたつ 白く 340)}Two lines of white footprints show" "340)}Two lines of white footprints show 340)}Toki yo tsumore" "340)}Toki yo tsumore 340)}時よ 積もれ" "340)}時よ 積もれ gather gather" "340)}Kami ni mune ni futari dake no yume ni 340)}Kami ni mune ni futari dake no yume ni" "340)}髪に 胸に ふたりだけの夢に 340)}髪に 胸に ふたりだけの夢に our dream our dream" "340)}Sakenai hana no 340)}Sakenai hana no" "340)}咲けない花の 340)}咲けない花の" "340)}This flower cannot bloom 340)}This flower cannot bloom" "340)}Tane wa yuki ni dakare 340)}Tane wa yuki ni dakare" "340)}種は雪に抱かれ 340)}種は雪に抱かれ" "340)}And the snow embraces its seeds 340)}And the snow embraces its seeds" "340)}Yorisou no 340)}Yorisou no" "340)}寄り添うの 340)}寄り添うの" "340)}As they huddle together 340)}As they huddle together" "340)}Shizuka ni wasureraretai 340)}Shizuka ni wasureraretai" "340)}静かに忘れられたい 340)}静かに忘れられたい" "340)}Quietly they wish to be able to forget 340)}Quietly they wish to be able to forget" "358)}FROM THE NEW WORLD" "Don't forget that you were chosen by Tomiko-sama." "This is uncalled for!" "At least unchain him!" "This is a problem." "Why would you do something like that?" "We've got no time." "We have to go."