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We've started our advance again.

According to that boy with the strange powers, the Morpho has stopped on the

tracks in Southern Legion -held territory.

The Federacy's main force, as well as the Alliance, will advance and take the

area around the tracks.

Meanwhile, the United Kingdom will be working in tandem with another smaller

Federacy unit to take tracks on the north side. It should work well.

So the United Kingdom volunteered to be a diversion.

But if the Federacy's main army advances...

There's not a chance in hell the Legion will miss that.

What's our plan then?

For the Alliance to employ a new prototype anti -radar weapon.

It disperses clouds of particulate metal into the air, effectively jamming all

communications with the Legion.

If they use everything they have, they can buy enough time for the Legion to

identify the United Kingdom's forces as the big one.

In other words, they're going all in.

The Legion is a quick study when it comes to tactical operations.

So we have to make sure the first time we do it is the only time.

If we lose this battle, it's over. What else could they possibly do?

The Federacy's the same.

Everyone is forced to do whatever it takes.

Thank you.

Oh

Thank you.

They're active.

The Legion, you mean?

Yeah, they fell for the diversion to the north, hook, line, and sinker. So it's

a double fake. Nice.

The guys to the north and south are desperate, aren't they?

That means the main force will finally move too.

I guess we won't be that far away after all.

Exactly. The Federacy's main force will be doing an all -night march.

That should get them closer, but... Yeah, I guess that's true.

I don't care if they can't catch up, but... Shin,

you take Frederica and go back.

But why?

Come on, you know why.

Somebody needs to get her past all those Legion without being discovered.

And you know you're the only one who can do that.

And our pursuit?

Well, if he's only using the train tracks, we can probably track him just

talking through Pararate.

Luckily, much unlike the last time... We don't have to worry about creating a

distraction because someone else is doing it for us.

To deal with the diversion of the main unit, will the Legion have to use all

their forces?

You know from the last time we entered Legion space that fighting immediately

leads to a brutal elimination.

The way you are now, it'd be better than having you lead us.

You know you've always been a little bit of a lunatic, but that last fight was

just too much.

Something had control of you.

I don't know if it's this ghost night of Frederica's you've never met before,

but what's gotten into you?

Not a thing.

How gullible do you think I am?

Spare me.

What do you mean?

We've known each other a really long time. I can see a few things about you

you can't. You're such a mess that you can barely stand up.

So you're back to the same old you when we first met.

Closed off, sullen, you know, just like that charming nickname everyone has for

you. The Reaper.

Fine then.

Why don't the rest of you take her and get out of here?

Rather than take someone who'll just slow me down, I can follow it myself.

What did you say?

If this is a one -way mission, it's better I go myself.

If you're ultimately intending to go home, then it makes no sense to follow a

path of no return.

Hey, wait!

Listen up.

Don't think that by doing this you can keep everybody else alive.

What do you mean, one -way mission? Don't you dare talk to me like you're

coming back. You hear me?

I'm not planning to die.

Oh, how convenient.

But let's be honest.

You had no intentions of coming back alive, either!

I have to know. Why did you kill your brother?

Wasn't it so you could keep going forward, or not?

You didn't survive all that just to kill your brother, did you?

How on earth do you not get that?

Then...

then I don't understand why.

Why did... Why did I...

I

don't want to die.

End of story.

And I believe that reason is good enough.

Also, I'm pretty sure the others feel the same way.

It's your path to walk.

You decide.

And just know, we're all traveling the same road together.

You know that no matter what, we've got your back.

If you're tired, take a rest.

So, don't try to win this war by yourself.

Not gonna lie, I'm feeling a little left out.

Almost like...

They forgot that I'm one of the guys, too.

They've known each other a long time.

Supposedly a lot happened before we met them.

Is that how it is?

Stop squirming! You kept trying to run over there and interrupt their talk.

one is on you.

Yeah, like an unleashed puppy.

Even if you did manage to insert yourself into the mix, you just make

more complicated. So be quiet and stay put.

That's not fair or true!

What Raiden said before, about something having control of him, is probably

true. For real.

Shin's been acting weird for a while.

Thinking back, he's been weird ever since that day.

Before, he'd never do anything that meant certain death.

Nor would he let anyone else do the same.

Stop it! Shin's fine!

I know he wouldn't dare leave us.

I think you should at least try to accept Shin as he really is.

And not just see him as an ideal in your head.

Besides, Shin's not going to be our personal reaper forever, right?

You were always worried about that, weren't you, Anju?

Well, we are very much alike.

I know a little something about how a child feels when their family tells them

they're not needed.

They start to believe that being rejected is actually their fault.

They might know intellectually that it isn't.

But they still find a way to blame themselves.

Especially since Shen wasn't told that just by his brother, but by other people

too.

You can't really get past things like that alone.

You need help.

So does that mean that our just being there for him isn't enough now?

All we've been able to do is ask him to stay with us until we die. No big deal,

right?

We were just relying on him, but also intending to leave him someday.

Ironic.

Well, I'm completely sure that was the first time he said he'd go on ahead.

They said the Republic isn't responding to radio calls.

At least not yet.

Essentially, the country must have ceased to exist.

Probably.

So they were wiped out after all.

The Major wasn't able to catch up with us, huh?

Not good.

Just so you know, this is your big chance, Karina.

They say it's easier to take advantage of someone when they're depressed.

Huh? And just so you know, Theo, the only kind of girls who would do that are

mean girls.

That isn't Karina's style.

Yeah, I suppose so.

No, hang on!

It's not exactly like that.

Fine, you got me. Do you think Shin has any idea?

I would wager he's long since figured it out, but considers it more of a

childish admiration and possessiveness? Would that be accurate?

I said what I said. He seems to see you as a little sister who is particularly

difficult and high -strung. I don't think he sees you as a woman at all, to

honest.

Well,

at least you're someone he can count on.

You know that's got to be worth something, right?

Yeah.

Oh, I just thought of something. I'm an excellent sniper.

That has to make me useful.

You

can

stop shadowing me.

I'm not going to run off all by myself.

Maybe if I did, I'd feel a hell of a lot better.

General, it's time to wake up. Let's go.

What are the 86 doing?

We were finally able to get totally synchronized with them.

And not a moment too soon.

This Republic technology is brilliant.

So you've finally connected?

It routes through your consciousness.

If you're asleep, however, you can't be contacted.

I can't believe a mere five -man force is able to get any slumber, let alone so

deep in enemy territory.

Being on the battlefield is like any other day for them, isn't it?

Where do you think they are now?

They're 120 kilometers west of the old border.

We could march all night and still not catch up to them.

Honestly, it's a little frustrating.

That's surprising.

I thought your objective was to ensure they didn't survive this battle, or was

wrong?

You seem to misunderstand me. It's merely that I believe a sharp blade

used as its maker intended, that's all.

And if the blade's durable, then so much the better.

It would be disastrous if the Legion took them.

We need to get them back right away.

We're starting our march before dawn.

Hey, you guys.

Roger, Pencil. We're ready to go whenever.

Take a look. We're not packing that much gear.

Only the valued essentials.

Are you worried about them, Sergeant?

That's funny.

How about I ask you the same question?

We have done all we can up to this point. Now we just have to believe.

You may be saying that, but just in case you brought extra Reagan Leafs, ammo,

and a repair crew all the way from the front lines.

What's more revealing, you've enforced the chief of staff to authorize their

transport by air, so... And I suggested you go back to the front lines and you

refused. What else was I to do?

What kind of a man would that make me if I did?

After catching their centipede, if the kids come back, and all the old men are

sitting around on their asses drinking, they'd mock us till the day we croaked.

You know those little brats would.

Not good.

Can you get it out, Neo?

I don't think so, but I'll try.

It's not making any movement.

I'm gonna purge it.

So Laughing Fox was damaged as well, huh?

We're taking more hits than we expected.

I got some shrapnel the other day, and when they blasted you back, the impact

took out one of your machine guns.

It looks like only Undertaker's safe, huh?

He's out of spare blades, though.

Well, my engine hasn't been working right since yesterday.

I think I overstressed it during the first battle.

Man, you haven't fixed your bad habit of destroying the Reagan Leaf's legs yet.

I think I can patch it with temp repairs.

At the very least, it's not so bad I can't move.

But if you put too much stress on it, it'll still break.

Don't get too crazy.

Given our supply of ammo and energy packs we have left on hand, tomorrow

the last day of the pursuit.

We'll probably catch up to it before that.

It would be a smart idea to ensure we make it until then.

Until we catch up to it, huh?

Roger.

Just like the ocean.

Have any of you ever seen the ocean before?

I was wondering.

I don't think so.

I remember that. I thought I saw it once on a transport between combat

districts. I'm looking back. I may have been wrong. I never saw the ocean.

But there was a big lake near me growing up.

I'd go there to play a lot. My elementary school once planned a beach

for us.

But the war started before we got to go.

I've never seen it.

I've never seen anything like this before.

There's so much I don't know.

I want to see it.

I want to be able to go swimming in the ocean.

I bet it would be so much fun.

Go swimming?

That'd be fun.

How about a tropical island? The coral, the coconut palm trees, white sand

beaches.

I've always wanted to see an ocean of ice they have up in the north, too.

They say when it's cold enough, it's frozen so solid you can walk across it.

Wow!

Where did you hear that?

I saw it in the travel agency brochure.

Great!

Then let's all go together when the war's over.

Fido?

I ordered you to switch to standby mode until I wake you up tomorrow.

Okay, fine.

If that's what you want.

I thought it was weird to hear you talking to yourself.

You've been talking to Fido.

What's going on?

Well, I felt like I finally understood what you're all about a little today.

The whole time, I looked at the landscape around us.

It was so beautiful.

If you lived your whole life surrounded by that beauty, then I felt maybe I

could understand what drives you.

It's starting to make so much sense now. The whole reason you're so completely

unconcerned with the survival of humanity, or even saving your own lives.

That beauty exists only because there are no humans here to ruin it.

Maybe that landscape is what the Legion have been pursuing all this time.

I don't know.

They may not actually want anything.

All they really are is ghosts.

Ghosts are not supposed to have any earthly desires.

Oh? How do you know?

Because I'm the same as them.

On that night, I failed to die.

Except, I know I'm still dead inside.

Ever since then, I'm incapable of want.

I don't want to see the ocean like you guys.

There's nothing I want to do or any place where I want to go.

It hasn't really been a problem for me.

But I kind of understand now that not even having one tiny little thing you

to do...

Like our conversation at dusk is bizarre.

But last fall was fun, don't you think so?

When you left the 86th District, it was the first time you could decide all for

yourself. In fact, the first time you had any freedom, right?

Yeah, it was fun.

Because I thought it would be over soon.

I thought we'd be dead, and they'd never know why.

But then, sadly, we survived.

I was supposed to die.

The future is too long for someone like me.

I'm sorry, but I am not your knight.

I already knew that, but still.

I'm really sorry for using your knight as an excuse.

I'm still planning on going as far as I can, you see.

But I well know my brother isn't there anymore.

So I found another objective that would take his place for a while.

That's not the whole story and you know it.

I think you should know this. What you're seeing in your reflection might

little distorted.

You're not nearly as cold and shut down as you think you are if you keep trying

so hard to be.

You're a softie, Reaper.

At the end of the day, the reality is I can finally release Carrie because you

agreed to help me.

It was so sad, seeing him crying and trapped deep within the battlefield.

I wanted to set him free.

I wanted to be freed from being forced to see his constant misery.

But... The thing I'm always most afraid of about Cary is if he dies.

I'm so terrified of losing him.

The feathery seed doesn't need a child like me in the way.

It's a republic now.

Just by being alive, I could potentially start a war, and then what?

It's better for everyone if I'm not here.

But I thought in order to put an end to my night's life, I had one job and one

job only, to stay alive.

But when Kiri dies, that excuse will cease to exist.

And that terrifies me.

The reason you're so afraid of proceeding any further right now...

Is that you actually tried to see the future for what it truly holds for us.

Because you tried to look directly at the dark, untrodden path.

No.

You realize it's nothing to be ashamed of.

And while you're doing it, at least you let those who are with you support you.

And anyway, that's what friends and companions are for.

That's why it's so important that we all come together.

Raiden said the same thing earlier.

Then why don't you just admit he was right?

Dammit, I'm not like them.

Not having any wishes is the same as not wanting to be alive.

And I'm the only one who's not truly alive.

I'm just the Reaper, that's all.

And the ones who call me that will someday move on and go ahead with their

and leave me behind.

A tail rider from NoFace commencing combat operation.

NoFace, roger. There is new information to share from the wide area network.

We've found traces of an enemy unit within the bounds of our territory.

From the available intel, it appears that you're in their direct line of

pursuit. The orders are to begin searching for them in the vicinity of

operations area.

Roger.

All that's left.