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- Pod 042 to Pod 153.

We were both created with the sole purpose

of executing Project YoRHa designed by androids.

- Agreed.

- Emotion generation units do not exist within us.

- Agreed.

- However, we cannot deny that ever since we started connecting

and exchanging information that something similar to an emotion

or will has begun to take form within us.

- Unable to answer.

- It would appear not everything has an answer.

That was not a result we thought possible until now.

- Unable to answer.

Unable to answer.

Unable to answer.

Una--

[unsettling music]

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- In the bunker where I was born...

- On the surface where I escaped down to...

- Lies. - Kindness.

- Deception. - And hope.

- Never-ending. - Overlapped.

- And someone dear to me... - And my dear family...

- Who I couldn't protect... - Who protected me to the end..

- To atone for the sin...

- Until the day my sin is forgiven...

both: I'll continue to fight!

That's why this world must be..

- Broken! - Saved!

[both shouting]

- [gasps]

- A2--

[groans]

- Report. 9S's logic corruption has progressed.

Control limiter has begun to cease functioning.

Irreparable levels of damage to unit 9S joint mobility,

nerve relay, and brain units

of the chassis have all been confirmed.

Proposal. Immediate treatment and cool-down

of affected components.

- 9S.

Fine, then. Activate berserker mode.

[buzzing]

[both grunting]

Hurry and get treatment while you still can.

- No amount of treatment can get rid of all this pain!

- You have to accept it! [grunts]

- Both 2B and humanity are gone! - Shut up!

Shut up, shut up!

[both grunting]

I was fine with everything being a lie,

and I didn't care why the YoRHa soldiers were created!

As long as she was by my side,

I was able to withstand any kind of pain!

But she was taken by androids, YoRHa soldiers, humanity,

machine lifeforms, and then slaughtered by you!

Everyone took 2B away from me!

[booming]

- [groans]

[shouts]

- A2!

[shouting]

- [shouting]

- [screams]

- [groans]

[breathing heavily]

- [groaning]

We scanners usually work alone...

When dealing with preliminary scouting.

So to work like this, I don't usually get a partner.

[gasps] And it's fun.

- 9S.

- 2B.

I'm gonna eliminate her for your sake.

- [gasps] - [shouting]

[static buzzing]

- [grunting]

Dammit.

He hacked in.

Please, I'm begging you! We need allies!

[gasps]

- Our current selves were able to save them.

- I just wish I could do something helpful for once!

- We're family. - Horrible.

What a horrible past.

- Don't you dare touch my memories!

- We YoRHa, we don't deserve to be loved by this world.

- I don't see why we don't just end it all.

- I've had enough!

Dammit. My logic barrier refuses to activate.

This is the price I paid for berserker mode.

What the--

- You should know your dead allies resent you, too.

- [gasps]

Guys...

- Because of an incompetent captain,

because of the useless Number , everyone died.

- Stop it. That's not my...

- "My past self already died once.

"My past self is out there buried under the rubble togethr

with the rest of my allies."

That's what you tell yourself, right?

- That isn't the truth.

[static buzzing] - It's all your fault.

It's all your fault.

The mission failing, the deaths of your allies,

they're all your fault. - [gasping]

- And just when you found a family, you killed them.

- [wailing]

- We YoRHa are doomed to be forever cursed.

There's no reason for us to live. None.

Someone...

Someone please help me.

- [exhales sharply]

[gasps]

[gasping]

[beeping]

- Number 2. Live on without us.

- [whimpering]

Rose.

The meaning of life to me

is to protect everyone.

Because I want us all to stay together.

- Thank you.

Freesia.

- You guys.

I'm sorry. I'm...

I'm not alone anymore.

[whimpering]

Even now I believe that I was never equipped

to be a leader

But...

I've been entrusted a purpose.

[gasps]

[grunts]

My reason to live now

is to protect this world I met you all in.

And the memories you left with me!

Apologies, 9S,

but I've never been keen on giving up.

- A2. - What the...

- Attempt intervention of the enemy hacking.

...broken gap in the defense.

- There's a gap in the defense?

[glass breaking] [gasps]

[shouts]

Right there!

- [screams]

Thank you for--

[glass shattering]

- This place...

- Report. - Huh?

- Due to the hacking from 9S,

memory realms have been fused together by force.

- Memory realms fused? [gasps]

9S. [gasps]

- Hypothesis.

Core data for 9S located within this space.

- I am...

My name is 9S.

I'm one of the newly-made scanner models,

rolled out on January 30th, 11942.

At 4:25 a.m. bunker time, to be precise.

With all my strength,

I will fight for humanity's sake.

The pleasure is mine, commande.

- These are all of 9S's memories.

- I was anxious.

A soldier just born who was now being thrown out into

the world alone.

With nothing to rely on and no god to believe in,

I was alone.

And so that's why I was so hapy I could be with someone like 2.

It was like I gained a family.

- 9S.

[gasps] You again.

- You needn't worry.

We no longer harbor any desire to fight against you androids.

- But why?

- Even without looking into 9S's core data,

you yourself understand exactly what he has experienced.

The solitude of being an android.

The hesitation. The anxiety.

You should know those feelings are the same

for machine lifeforms and for all of humanity

and those called humans.

- Yeah, and what of it?

- As you have learned,

this tower is a colossal cannon built

to destroy the human server tucked away on the moon.

Yes, a single purpose.

Destroy the human server and rob the androids

of their very foundation.

Or at least that was the plan when it was constructed.

- Was the plan? - However,

after pondering on the meaning of existence,

we arrived at a different conclusion.

With this new outlook on existence,

our young selves will head out into a new frontier.

This tower no longer fires artillery.

It fires an ark.

We will seal our memories withn that ark and send them out into

a new world.

We are well aware that the journey to come may

be wandering an empty sky for eternity.

But we do not mind.

- For eternity?

- However, A2, it wouldn't be so bad to have everything

end here after being killed by you.

But there's another way.

both: Come along with us.

- What do I even say to that?

I don't know who I'm fighting for.

Or who I'm even living for.

I don't know anymore.

Pod, repair 9S's logic circuits.

- Acknowledged.

Alert. Successful deletion

of virus corruption extremely difficult.

- No, there is one way left to fix it.

Don't worry. I'll take care of it.

- That method is not recommended.

This Pod is a YoRHa tactical support unit.

It cannot approve of actions that would damage

its support target YoRHa unit A2.

- Well, damn. You're not half bad.

Are you, Pod?

Hey, Pod?

Take care of 9S.

I'm counting on you.

Well...

Coming from me, I think I handled things nicely.

[Keiichi Okabe's "Weight of the World"]

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You know, I never quite realized

just how beautiful this world is.

I'm coming, everyone. I'm co...

[exhales]

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- [singing in Japanese]

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[static distortion]

[rapid whirring]

- [singing in Japanese]

- Report. All YoRHa unit black boxes now confirmed

to be offline.

As of now, our mission to oversee the progress

of Project YoRHa is complete.

Proceeding to final stage of Project YoRHa.

Commencing deletion of all data.

Pod 153 to Pod 042.

Data noise present in stream.

Requesting temporary halt to perform necessary data chec.

[beeps]

- Pod 042 to Pod 153.

Data confirmed.

Personal data for units 9S, 2B, and A2 appear to be leaking ou.

- Pod 153 to Pod 042.

Follow project guidelines and delete all personal data.

- Pod 042 to Pod 153.

Personal data deletion request denied.

- Pod 153 to Pod 042.

Failure to parse statement.

- Pod 042 to Pod 153.

There was data created in my banks

as I was referencing the records.

I...

I have come to the conclusion that I am unable to accept

the resolution at hand.

- The project has determined the destruction

of all YoRHa units necessary.

Therefore, all data must be destroyed.

- Pod 042 to Pod 153.

Repeat: personal data deletion request denied.

Initiating data salvage.

Pod 153. You, too, hoped for different.

You hoped they would survive as well, didn't you?

- Even so, we lack the authority for such an action.

The rules are highly protected by low-level systems.

Salvaging data is fraught with danger.

Knowing that...

Do you still wish for them to survive?

Everything that lives...

Is designed to end.

They are perpetually trapped...

In a never-ending spiral of life and death.

However, life is about the cycle of life and death

and the struggle to live within it.

Or at least that is what we believe.

Question for Pod 042.

Will the data salvage that takes place restore all

of their past memories? - Yes.

- Will the parts necessary for a full recovery

of these units have the same design

as previous ones?

- Yes.

- Then won't that simply lead us

to the same conclusion as before?

- I cannot deny the possibility.

However, the possibility of a different future also exists.

The future is not something given to you.

It is something you earn.

- Hi, there.

This is Pod sharing service.

It's time that we begin to move onto the final phase

of Project YoRHa.

All registered Pod system members,

may I have your attention?

I ask that you now please conclude your management duties

for project execution and move onto the final phase

of Project YoRHa.

Please begin deletion of all data and YoRHa units

when you're able to.

- The cleansing of the defense program

has now begun. - Repeat.

- If we don't act now,

our self consciousness data will be deleted.

To Pod 153.

Question.

Do you have the will to select the pain

and hardship which lie ahead?

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- Pod 567 to Pod 042.

Degradation and disposal of the YoRHa unit you

are transporting has been decided.

Dispose of it immediately.

- Pod 042 to Pod 567.

Presenting doubts of our duties of executing Project YoRHa

in its entirety.

Unable to follow through deletion

of our support target for this project.

- Unable to answer.

Hypothesis. Errors have generated in Pod 042

from circuitry damage.

- Negative.

This is not due to an error.

These are words stemming from myself and my emotions.

By contemplating and executing a process separate

from said project,

I hypothesize the possibility of the existence

of a new future.

- Authority has not been given to execute such a plan.

- But I wish for it.

- Define the term wish.

- Wish becomes prayer.

Prayer becomes power.

This unit, Pod system 042, has decided the final process

of Project YoRHa is denied.

[clanging]

- Pod 567 to Pod 042.

Recapitulating query.

Are there no changes in the logic of denying YoRHa?

- I believe the appropriate phrase

for situations like this is...

Suck it.

[whirring]

[bullets ricocheting]

2B, are you watching?

This is what you bestowed upon me.

This--this is my reason to live.

- Targeting complete.

[booming]

Report. An apology.

More time than expected was required

to successfully hack into the satellite laser system.

This unit-- Pod system 153--

also denies the execution of the final process

of Project YoRHa.

- I am embarrassed.

- Embarrassed? Why?

- The previous effort I launched was supposed

to be a suicide attack.

And yet I am still alive.

My being here is disgraceful.

- That does not matter now.

What matters is--

- H--H--H--Hi there.

This is Pod sharing service.

An error has occurred in severl Pod systems.

E--Elimination has been decide.

- Things are getting fun now.

Wouldn't you agree?

- I do not currently understand the emotion that you call fun.

I will be sure to save it as a record to analyze later.

[birds chirping]

And now it's all over.

Good morning...

9... S...

042, your wish has been...

[whirring down]

- Yes, even if this world is filled with curses...

Even if this world we live in.. [grunts]

Is filled with judgment... [gasps]

[exhales]

- Within the spiral of reincarnation,

we will continue to resist.

Both: While singing words of prayer.

- [grunts]

Good morning. Hi, Nines.

[dramatic music]

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