Original subtitles

I saw on the news that there's a new smartphone out,

and people are lining up at the shops to get it.

That's weird, isn't it?

It's a smartphone,

but that isn't smart at all.

They should be able to put together some kind of

online reservation system so you don't have to stand in line.

But the fact that they didn't do that

means that the stores want lines!

They're deliberately making their customers waste time standing in lines.

Like, is it really worth it just for the free advertising?

Those moments where you can just tell what somebody's thinking ruin everything.

So?

So I thought up an idea.

A way to keep yourself in the news while not making people stand in line.

An amazing idea!

Get this...

You sell virtual tickets in virtual reality,

and make them stand in a virtual line!

Well, that was a waste of five minutes.

I feel stupid for listening for that.

The hell you say?

I want a new phone...

Once things calm down.

Calm down?

Oh, hey, girls!

What will you do when this battle is over?

After we defeat the enemy Disas Beast!

If This Battle Ever Ends

Sacchuu's lucky.

All he has to do is float in the air while he eats junk food.

He doesn't need to write reports.

Chu!

I sent a report to the Spirit World's Multidimensional Observation Army, chu!

I heard that fairy reports are just a few paw prints on a piece of paper.

That's racist, chu!

I mean, you're right, chu...

I am?

I'm gonna make some coffee, chu!

He ran.

Lucky him.

You're almost done.

Hang in there.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

That's from a Kubrick film, isn't it?

The firepower a Magical Girl generates

isn't the kind of thing an individual would ordinarily be allowed to possess.

And then there's the fact that magical combat itself is an underdeveloped field.

After action reports are extremely important.

I understand.

Those reports are used to analyze the enemy's forces,

and find their weak points.

They save lives.

I know that.

I do...

But it's still exhausting, huh?

It's a mental exhaustion,

not a physical one.

I've got the perfect medicine for that!

It makes all that exhaustion just disappear.

Stop it.

You guys get less than most of us, you know.

I'm done.

I've got a lot to go.

Should I help?

I'm fine.

You can go home.

I see...

Sorry.

Resting when you can is part of a soldier's job.

Sorry for making you write the report.

It's fine.

They all look basically the same no matter who writes them.

Hey,

that corpse that was turned into a cube...

Dr. Greenburg.

While you were fighting in Okinawa,

I went through all of his things,

and his data that still remained in the cloud.

Find anything?

No solid leads.

But enough to form a hypothesis.

Which is?

He was being forced to calculate something.

What is the Babel Brigade?

They made him calculate something,

then started committing terrorist acts all over the world

and gathering magic items.

Magic is like physics in their world.

It seems strange to us,

but it has its rules and laws.

If what Greenburg was calculating was some kind of equation

involving the Disas and their world...

Some new way to commit terrorism,

or maybe summoning magic?

It'd be nice to have more information, regardless.

Okay, I'm heading to the hotel.

I'll be there soon.

That hotel...

It's got a glass-walled shower room that's really naughty!

Why do you say stuff like that?

I was talking like Francine.

You're going to torture me?

Make it hurt.

I'm used to it.

Sorry.

I don't think you know anything.

But I need to torture you at least once to be sure you're not lying.

First,

a drug to sharpen your senses.

I'll inject it directly into your brain.

I told you in Okinawa that I'd kill you, right?

That was wrong.

I let my feelings get the best of me.

Your torture and pleasure are about to begin.

You may want to die.

You may try to bite your tongue off,

or hang yourself.

You may try lots of things.

But I won't let you die.

I'll heal any injuries you have.

Hey,

have you ever seen the movie Red Scorpion?

I always replay the torture scene from that movie over and over again.

Well done, Tamara.

Thank you.

Your sister is happy as well.

I have returned, Sister.

I'm so happy...

that you'd say that about me.

Shanghai

Okay.

All the security cameras in the area are under my control.

The target for this job is in the back room on the restaurant's third floor.

Got it, my astrologer.

Once this is over,

I hope you and I can go have some fun!

Your "fun" always ends up being something involving sex.

And you know you love it!

Dummy!

Shuang Tou Long Peipei of the Magical Five.

Right now she uses the alias "Liu Lang Zhe" in her job

as a freelance mercenary and assassin.

Die for my wallet's sake!

Bangkok, Thailand

This is what you used to look like, Peipei?

I remember that old photo.

You've changed a lot.

I think I like your old hairstyle better.

Aw...

I didn't change my face because I wanted to.

I see.

You've got a lot going on, huh?

Sorry.

Everyone...

I brought a doggy.

Woof! Woof!

When you make a naughty girl see the error of her ways,

she can end up being pretty cute.

Eventually, this little doggy will help us in our fights.

Fights?

Magical Girls are rare and precious.

Without a certain level of latent magic,

you can't synchronize properly with the fairies.

There are about 30 Magical Girls in the world

designated as weapons by the UN Magical Security Council.

But several terrorist groups that use illegal Magical Girls,

like the Babel Brigade, have been confirmed as well.

Some speculate that there may be over 300 of us out there.

I see...

I'm one of those illegal Magical Girls too, aren't I?

But 300 is the high-end estimate.

There are far fewer of them than there are special forces or jet pilots.

It would be a waste to completely break your mind here.

Um...

Hmm?

Aah! I'm sorry!

But there's something I want to tell her!

Well, fine.

Um...

No matter what state you're in, I think it's important that you're alive.

You can kinda see the shape I'm in now,

but this is my punishment for doing bad things.

And...

I feel a lot more relaxed now than I did when I belonged to a criminal gang.

I...

I suffer so much just being alive.

I thought I finally found hope, and...

It was fake.

I can't go on!

Just kill me!

I'm not going to kill you,

you stupid bitch.

Even if you go through 99 painful things,

you can keep going as long as there's one fun thing.

You gather those things up,

and carry them with you throughout your life like precious jewels.

As long as you're alive,

the pain will continue.

But in exchange,

there'll always be at least one fun thing out there.

I...

killed people.

I hurt so many people.

So you'll just have to save that many lives, then, won't you?

Magical Girls don't die so easily.

This is such a happy ending, woof!

You want Public Safety's Foreign Affairs section to help you?

Yes.

The JSDF has groups that gather information from overseas,

but the Foreign Affairs section has more connections and has had far more past success.

So you want Public Safety to cooperate unofficially with a JSDF special forces group.

What's in it for us to justify the danger?

Commissioner Miura,

I understand your goal is to establish a magical artillery platoon

within the Metropolitan Police Special Assault Team unit.

I have a suggestion as to who you might want to hire.

One Week Later

That choker contains a magical drug.

I'm letting you go,

but if you plan to escape or betray us,

the choker will pick it up immediately,

and give you such intense pain, you won't be able to move.

Remember that.

Liar.

Let's go to a maid café!

Why?

We got that business card from them during the festival!

Maid Cafe Mitsuya

Those idiots.

I'll make it clear before we start.

This place is expensive and the food is bad.

Well, we can't do anything about it being bad,

but don't you think they'll give us a discount 'cause they know us?

Maybe.

Yeah.

We've never paid, have we?

See?

We have to go, then!

They say nothing's more expensive than free, you know.

Welcome.

You...

They're our new employees.

Is that a good idea?

Yeah.

They say they've changed their ways.

Thank you for what you did for me.

What?

Did I do something?

Actually,

I was the one who referred them here.

I feel like we've met.

You're probably mistaken.

I get that a lot.

This really is bad.

They said they could make it taste worse.

Wow.

I have no idea what that means!

Well, the ice was cold, so I guess that's something!

It would be hard for it to be anything else.

It's really hot outside now.

Actually...

Did you two get tans?

I don't know...

I've got delicate skin,

so even when we were in Okinawa, I put sunscreen on.

Okinawa, huh?

In Okinawa...

The Magical Girl you met in Okinawa...

What was she like?

Well...

She was strong. Noble.

But she was still in pain.

She was willing to put her life at risk fighting for people she'd never met.

And it wasn't just because she was a Magical Girl.

In our world,

there are always people like that out there somewhere.

People who can risk their lives in battle for people they've never met.

And I think that's the only reason we can have something like peace,

or a normal life.

I'm sorry for talking so much!

No...

I'm sure if they heard that,

the Magical Girls would say it was all worth it.

Yeah.

My queen! My queen!

We've got all we need.

Now all that's left is the vessel.

For an even greater war...

Abby,

do you know what you need for a war?

Umm...

Soldiers and weapons?

The answer is...

an enemy.

Without an enemy, you can't start a war.

And a big war needs a strong enemy.

We need the Magical Girls to get a little stronger.

It's about time for summer break, huh?

And after that,

it's time to get ready for cultural festival.

It's hard to believe we were ever at war.

Sometimes it's the other way around.

And it's hard to believe that our daily life ever existed.

Asuka-san...

What you said to me in the last battle...

That everyone who died would be mad.

That hurt.

It felt like it woke me up.

Thanks to Sayako and Nozomi,

I can finally understand what it was that everybody protected.

The ones who died...

What they all protected wasn't "peace" or "humanity,"

or anything big and important like that.

Having a normal life...

A tomorrow that always comes...

What really matters is keeping the things we consider ordinary going.

This war might never end.

I'm sorry, Kurumi.

I turned your life into something terrible.

That's not...

Let's keep fighting forever.

Wherever!

Incoming Call

Iizuka-san

Yes.

Calm down?

Oh, hey, girls!

What will you do when this battle is over?

After we defeat the enemy Disas Beast!

You see scenes like that in all the war movies.

The guys who talk about the future are always the first to die.

"When this battle's over, I'm getting married!"

Something like that, chu!

That's not what I meant.

Who cares?

There's nothing wrong with tempting fate.

Francine...

Without a future, there's nothing worth fighting for.

Yeah, that's true.

Once the war's over, huh?

Well, there'll still be a war going on somewhere,

so I'll be a soldier.

Your father was a soldier too, right?

Yeah.

He died in a terrorist attack, but I want to follow in his footsteps.

I want to go back home and find success there.

How, exactly?

I've fought for humanity's sake.

Now I want to fight for money's sake. For money!

I'm thinking of joining a PLA Special Forces unit.

Tamara, you're...

joining the Russian army, of course.

Yes.

A foolish question.

What about you, Kurumi?

I...

When it's all over,

I'm thinking of falling in love, maybe?

No time like the present!

Let's lock ourselves in a room

and go at it like animals for three days straight.

I just bought lots of lube.

If you keep talking like that,

I'll mess with your brain and destroy your libido.

I wouldn't mind having a cute girl operate on my brain.

Well, you should.

So what about you, Asuka?

I can't think about that now.

I don't mind fighting,

but I don't know what I'll do when the war's over.

It feels like I don't have anything left to do but fight.

Just keep trying things.

People can change.

I'm sure you'll be fine.

Here we go!

Three years ago,

we defeated the leader of the enemies that were trying to wipe out humanity.

Usually, that would be the happy ending.

But there are no endings in the real world.

Even after we defeated the last boss,

the world wasn't at peace.

Our new battlefield is...

international crime,

terrorism,

civil war,

and other conflicts.

The battles of the Magical Girls...

will never end.