"When are we born?" "When do we die?" "Why are we born?" "Why do we die?" "This world has been destroyed and reborn time and again, being resurrected each time as Paradise." "It has happened before, and will happen again." "The endless cycle of life and death." "This world is a Paradise which someone opened." "This era is almost at an end." "We have acquired the means to live longer than our natural spans, but little did we suspect that this world has an end." "I have despaired at the ending world." "My fate has fallen and scattered like the flower petals." "And as if by a sandstorm, it simply wears down and weathers away." "As if to be purified, the world will be encased in ice so that it may be returned to the beginning." "Paradise is a world which someone opens." "This was the place, all right..." "Hige..." "I gave her my word." "I promised Blue." "I said that I'd make it back no matter what, so she should wait for me here." "The situation's changed." "With all that's happened, I bet even Blue had no choice but to make a run for it." "Or maybe she didn't believe what you said?" "Hige made things right!" "Let's just drop it..." "Kiba..." "You must all go to Paradise." "The true Paradise meant for all of you." "Cheza..." "I'm... okay." "I'm feeling a lot better..." "You must go there." "Kiba!" "That's enough, make her stop!" "Take her." "Grab on." "Aren't you going to say anything?" "Like how Jaguara and I..." "You told me this once." "Pride doesn't count for much if you're dead." "We've been trying to reach Paradise from the very beginning." "Together." "That hasn't changed, not even now." "That's all that matters." "How long are you gonna keep following me?" "There's no need for you to stay with me." "Let's go back to where I found you." "The guys are waiting." "If we went back, I know we could find them." "I'm okay..." "I'm hungry, that's all." "Have you..." "Have you hated me all this time?" "Hated you?" "Why?" "You're telling me that you've forgiven me for hating wolves and trying to kill every last one of them?" "As if that would ever happen." "I never knew that I had some wolf in me." "It was only after I met Cheza and the guys..." "the wolves... that I finally realized it." "If I had known that I can talk like this..." "I only wish I could've done this sooner." "Wait!" "Stop!" "Pops!" "Pops!" "What is it?" "Forget it." "It's nothing." "I've got a bad feeling about this." "I can't believe I've gotten the chance to walk with my arm around your shoulder again." "How can you be so nonchalant?" "It's best to think of pleasant things at times like these." "How forward-looking of you." "Because there's nothing to see behind us." "A car?" "I'll go take a look." "Hubb?" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Hello?" "!" "Is anybody there?" "!" "They had a falling out, huh?" "Go and check the back." "They sure were relaxed about all this." "What were they planning to celebrate, anyway?" "No luck at all." "There's nothing useful back there." "There isn't all that much fuel, either." "Still, we can move forward for now." "Cher..." "Where should the two of us go?" "I smell Blue, all right..." "Hige!" "What a stink..." "This is human blood." "This is Blue's old man!" "Maybe Blue is with him." "If she's gone back to her old master, maybe she's better off this way." "That's not for you to decide!" "She's just a half-assed wolf." "Do you seriously think she can get to Paradise with the rest of us?" "Drop it." "Do we have time to spare to keep making these detours?" "Hige..." "Son of a bitch..." "With all this blowing snow, I can't see my hand in front of my face..." "It's stopped snowing, Pops." "Have you always called me that...?" "It ain't like I'm your parent or anything like that..." "I know that." "But you're like a father to me, so what else can I do?" "I wanted to stay with you for my whole life." "It ain't like I believed what you told me..." "I ain't like I trust wolves now..." "But I know this for sure." "I know that wolves would never do something that cruel." "For one thing..." "Pops?" "Pops!" "Snap out of it!" "Pops!" "Don't fall asleep!" "Hang in there!" "Stay awake!" "If we keep moving on, I'm sure we'll run into the others..." "If we run into them, I know we'll..." "Mr. Yaiden?" "Can you see me?" "Mr. Yaiden!" "His eyes seem to be working." "He doesn't seem to have any major fractures, but I'm not sure about his brain." "Is Pops gonna die?" "It's all right." "It'll take a little time for him to regain his strength, though." "Oh..." "I saw Paradise." "I saw it." "I saw the Paradise that the Nobles tried to open up." "The Nobles' Paradise?" "Yeah." "A false Paradise." "Now I know." "Paradise is something that wolves have to open." "There is only one place that can be called Paradise." "There should only be one." "This cigar was meant to celebrate the opening of Paradise, huh?" "Can we go to their Paradise, too?" "No." "I doubt it." "What are we supposed to do, then?" "All we can do is die out." "Why?" "!" "Because it would become a distorted world." "But in a new world created by wolves, I'm certain that new humans will be created, too." "So we're just pawns to be thrown away, huh?" "Suits me fine." "I think I understand now why we could never have children." "On some level, we had sensed that the world was ending." "It seemed like we had found something else to obsess over, but the fact is that we had given up on the future." "That's the reason why we could never get pregnant." "Do you still feel that way?" "What sort of hope am I supposed to have in a situation like this?" "Right now, I'm here with you." "Something that I had given up on has come true." "No matter what happens to the world, right now, I want to have faith in the future." "You've changed, you know that?" "Stop!" "Stop the car!" "Hige!" "Hang in there!" "Hige!" "Hige!" "Hige!" "Cheza!" "It certainly seems like this world is really heading towards destruction." "Is escaping to some other world the only way out?" "If we could fly through the sky and reach some other world somewhere..." "Why?" "Why do humans do nothing but look at the sky?" "Why do you want to fly even though you don't have wings?" "As for us, we run." "We keep running on our own legs no matter how far we have to go." "Where is Kiba?" "And the others?" "It's all right." "They're following us." "Say, Hubb?" "Have you noticed?" "Noticed what?" "You've stopped sneezing." "Hey, you're right!" "Were my allergies overloaded or something?" "Maybe I built up a tolerance by being around wolves all this time." "I don't think immunities work that way." "Maybe you did." "I'm surrounded by all sorts of things that I didn't think were possible." "Yeah." "That's for sure." "And the most impossible thing of all is that you came to look for me." "What the...?" " Are you okay?" " Somehow." " Hubb, take Cheza." " Sure." "Cher..." "Cher!" "Cher!" "Cher..." "I can hear you, Hubb..." "You've turned into a real man..." "Yeah. 'Cause I have to look out for you." "We can start over from scratch." "Let's have..." "Let's have kids." "We'll bake bread, and..." "I know, let's get a little bird, too..." "It'll all work out this time." "Everything will work out." "Cher...?" "Cher?" "Cher..." "CHER!" "CHER!" "CHER!" "Cher...!" "Cher..." "You're going to keep moving on, right?" "Yeah." "I'll escort you." "I don't know how far I'll be able to go, but I'll make sure you get to where you're going, no matter what." "Where the Soul Goes" "Next Time" "Next Time  Partings are always sudden." "Partings are always sudden." "It doesn't matter if you're sitting around shivering, or sleeping, or in the middle of eating, they always sneak up on you when you least expect it." "That reminds me, I'm hungry..." "When was the last time we ate?" "Gunshot of Remorse  That reminds me, I'm hungry..." "When was the last time we ate?" "Gunshot of Remorse"