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Protect the forest.

Shinra, are you okay?

Judging by your reaction, has it happened again?

Yes. There was a voice.

Protect the forest.

It said, "Protect the forest."

A voice? So is it really an Adolla Link?

Does the voice belong to the leader of the bandits?

Well, I don't know exactly what it is.

I heard it coming from the direction of the Tabernacle though.

Don't tell me

it was coming from in there...

If you heard it coming from the Tabernacle,

does that mean that it uses an Adolla Burst too?

Then again, the Tabernacle is an inorganic object.

Can it even perform a Link?

There, you see?

Those guys attacked us unprovoked.

There's no talking to them!

Schop,

can you tell me more about the Tabernacle?

How long has it been there?

The Tabernacle is something that was here before us,

which our benefactor fixed.

"Benefactor"?

It was shortly after the Great Cataclysm devastated the world 250 years ago.

One day, a lone traveler appeared.

It was a human woman, wrapped in a pitch-black robe.

This woman preached to us, animals,

who were just waiting for death in this wasteland,

and taught us how to speak.

Why have you come here, lady?

I came from beyond the spatial rift to once again recreate this world.

Now,

you must be hungry, right?

Warm yourselves with this flame.

The flame that she produced was very warm,

and we soon noticed that our hunger was gone,

and our lives have been extended.

But then, one day...

That woman revived the abandoned Tabernacle

and then disappeared.

It is because of the Tabernacle that this Oasis came about,

and we are still alive.

Yes.

She is our benefactor.

She may come back here someday.

Until then, we must keep the Tabernacle safe.

Where did this woman go?

No one has seen her since that day.

Still, we cannot turn over to them the place where she will return!

Protect the forest.

The voice probably belongs to her.

Yes, it is possible.

It's safe to say that the spot we singled out

to investigate is the Tabernacle.

What on earth is the story there?

It's them!

A person?

A former person.

There are Infernals here too?

Licht!

-Help me! -It's a trap!

-Shinra, go help Inspector Licht! -Yes, sir!

Licht!

He's dead!

Licht!

Are you all right?

What? I thought I was dead.

Thank goodness! Lieutenant Pan's Defensive Buff was on time.

I don't even have a scratch.

That's incredible.

-He has friends. -This time we're dead for sure!

Shinra, take Licht and get him back!

Right.

-The prayer! -Yes!

Flames are the breaths of souls.

And smoke is the souls' release.

Yoruba Spears!

Excalibur!

Latom.

Stay away! I don't taste good!

Damn, there are quite a few of them, huh?

How dare you defile our friends and the Oasis!

Give us back our Oasis!

Give us back the Tabernacle!

Are you guys okay?

Humans...

Who are you?

They can talk?

Well, if moles can talk, why not?

Don't you even see us, animals, here?

Hey! You can hear me, right?

We've seen an Infernal that can talk once before...

Why won't you look at me?

Stop ignoring animals like us!

Get them.

You guys need the creative energy of the Tabernacle?

If so, wouldn't you consider living in harmony with the animals?

You say that thing

has the power of creation?

Don't be ridiculous.

It was built

to destroy the world.

It is there to destroy.

Destroy.

-Destroy. -The Tabernacle

-is a weapon built to destroy the world? -Destroy.

But Amaterasu in Tokyo isn't, right?

No, it does make some sense.

Dr. Giovani went to Vulcan's workshop to find the key to Amaterasu.

The objective of Dr. Giovanni and the White-Clad

is to once again trigger a Great Cataclysm.

I'm not sure what it is they're after,

but they're out to destroy the world again.

And to achieve that goal, they'll need Amaterasu, right?

Then is it true that it's a weapon of destruction?

No!

The Tabernacle that woman created is no such thing!

Just look at this forest! This is all because of the Tabernacle!

Sure, she may have had a creepy face.

She would smile this eerie, devilish smile.

But when we were doomed to perish, she gave us language and life.

She gave us the Oasis.

Yes, the voice I heard over the Adolla Link

didn't sound like an evil one.

I believe what Schop is telling us.

Shinra!

We are not going to let these guys

use the Tabernacle as a weapon of destruction!

The remaining tablets.

You have gathered them all?

Now we can initialize the weapon of destruction.

Good! The day of our souls' release draws near!

Let us face the time of our end together!

At last, we will be freed from the suffering of these flames.

Lord Tempe!

Lord Tempe!

We have human intruders!

What did you say? Humans, all the way out here?

All of you, the time has come for you to do one last labor for me!

We will not allow anyone to interfere.

I will only grant unto those who served me in this life

repose and glory in the world after death!

Labor!

Kill those who stand in our way

and demonstrate your devotion to me.

Labor for me, kneel down before me, and bow down your heads to me!

That is the path to salvation!

That is the only means of being released from these burning bodies!

-For thee! -For thee!

Return to the raging flames.

Latom.

Let's take a moment to sort this out.

According to our investigation so far,

they appear to want to use the Tabernacle to destroy the world.

But since they haven't actually executed their plan,

it's possible that there is something else that they require.

Schop, is there anything else you can tell us? Anything might help.

Let's see...

Come to think of it, I saw them collecting those stone tablets.

Oh, I saw that too.

Stone tablets?

They have gathered a number of them, huh?

They probably have quite a considerable number by now.

Are these tablets some sort of key that will activate the Tabernacle's power?

Who knows? But I can tell you for sure

that the Infernals' leader instructed them to collect the tablets.

The guy has terrifying horns growing out of his head like this.

-He has horns? -There's a Demon Infernal here?

"Demon"?

If there's a Demon here, that changes things an awful lot.

TRANSLATION: THINKING

What? Are they that bad?

I read the reports.

It takes a ridiculous amount of firepower to put one to rest, right?

It's impossible for us to put one to rest with our numbers.

I guess all we can do now is turn back.

If there's a Demon here, it will be impossible to take control here.

However, we can't ignore the fact that they're trying to trigger a Cataclysm

by blowing up the Tabernacle.

Licht, do you have any ideas about how to defeat this Demon?

Last time, it was a miracle that we got enough personnel in one place

and all worked together to finally put that one to rest.

In any event, it would take enough firepower to blow this whole forest away.

What? That can't happen!

Just a minute. I thought we were here to survey the Tabernacle, right?

Why are we talking about putting this Demon to rest?

But we have to put a stop to their plans!

Besides, even if we can't put him to rest, we can at least slow him down.

We'll keep the Demon occupied,

and the rest of you can survey the Tabernacle.

Disrupting things is my strong point.

I'll lay out the mission.

A team will go inside the Tabernacle,

while Shinra and Ogun will use their mobility

to divert the Demon's attention.

Arthur, Tamaki, and Juggernaut, you'll stand guard.

-Yes, sir. -Yes, sir.

Meanwhile, Inspector Licht and I will investigate the Tabernacle.

You're sure you can't drive them off?

We've already come this far.

We'll put a stop to the Infernals' plans.

But we can't defeat the Demon.

Defeating a Demon is too hard.

Don't worry, Schop.

I'll take back the Oasis for you.

Shinra.

I'll also defeat that Demon for you.

I'm a hero after all!

A hero!

There's the entrance to the Tabernacle.

There's nobody around.

All right, we're going in now while we can.

Well?

We had a quick look around, but there's no sign of the Demon or other Infernals.

Things were quiet all the way into the inner chambers.

They were? That works just fine for me. Change of plans.

Shinra, Ogun, Tamaki, and Juggernaut, you stand guard outside.

Arthur, come with us, just in case anything happens here.

-Roger. -Roger.

All right, split up.

Idiot!

Sorry, the force of habit.

The state of things inside is incredibly good.

You wouldn't think this place is more than 250 years old.

Of course, dummy. We've been keeping it clean this whole time.

These must be the tablets you mentioned.

What are these numbers?

It's a trap?

Hey.

They're behind us too.

We're surrounded.

You fell for it. You must be the humans who are intruding.

These Infernals set a trap for us?

Do they really have that much intelligence?

Shinra, over there!

-Horns. -A Demon.

What do we do? We have to run!

The Lieutenant and the others are still inside!

Do you want to leave them there?

You are barbarians, violating our sacred ground.

The only thing we can do is buy some time.

We can't let them inside, no matter what!

Kill those who stand in our way!

Why are so many coming after me?

This is our sacred ground!

We will not allow all of you to violate it!

"Violate"?

This place was the animals' Oasis!

You don't get to say anything when you've encroached on this place first!

Couldn't you have coexisted?

Coexist, you say?

What you call the Tabernacle is a weapon of destruction!

There is no point in re-growing this forest!

I will burn all of it down!

Why are you trying to destroy everything?

So that I can go to Heaven!

Don't ruin the forest!

Sorry!

So you can go to Heaven?

What do you mean by that?

In the 250 years since the Great Cataclysm,

I have wandered, unable to die.

I want to die!

I need the firepower that is enough to blow up the Tabernacle for me to die.

And with a being such as myself dying,

I will require those in Heaven who will look after my needs.

Now, the aftershock from the explosion may also blow away your seaport,

but I will let those who live there serve me in the afterlife as well.

-Lord Tempe! -Lord Tempe!

-We will follow you anywhere! -We will follow you anywhere!

Will you join me in going to the afterlife?

I can save a position for you to serve me in the afterlife.

Lord Tempe, all I can do is grow potatoes.

You want to serve him?

You're trying to drag all of this down with you just so you can die?

Screw you, man! You go ahead and die on your own!

No, it's no easy matter for him to die.

What?

He's right. It's going to take at least as much firepower to kill a Demon

as it would take to blow up this whole forest.

Oh, no. So you're saying we have to lose the forest?

What should we do with a Demon that we can't put to rest?

There's nothing else we can do with him!

We have no choice but to fight!

What do you think you are doing?

Tempe's Sacred Light!

-For thee! -For thee!

-For thee! -For thee!

This is the blessing of light granted to those who perish with me!

Shinra!

That Demon is too much for us to defeat on our own!

All we can do is buy time as we planned!

Just buying time isn't good enough! If we don't stop him here,

he's going to use the Tabernacle and we'll all wind up dead!

The town will be blown up too!

Yes! The potato fields will be turned into hot potatoes!

There are bigger things to worry about than potatoes!

Yes, but still...

Survey the Tabernacle and put this Demon to rest.

Those are the only things that we have to do.

Guys, let's pour all of the firepower we have right now into this guy!

-Yes. -You got it!

If you oppose me, your status in Heaven will drop.

Who cares?

Still,

how are we going to put him to rest with the people we have right now?

What can we do to produce the level of firepower Captain Shinmon did?

The Adolla Link. If I can gain the Evangelist's Grace,

that might be enough to put this Demon to rest.

No, the Evangelist is our enemy.

Besides, there's no way I can get any Grace out here in this frontier land.

Moreover, Lieutenant Pan and the others might be returning at any minute.

Once they do, I can get a Power-up Buff...

What is it, Kusakabe?

Was that an Adolla Link?

What do we do?

My Excalibur can get us out of here in no time.

We're letting Shinra and the others handle things outside.

We need to continue our investigation.

You're right.

I have to say, I'm not sure what exactly these number sequences represent.

They keep going on that way.

Could it be some kind of code?

No. If it were a code, there would be some degree of regularity to them.

But from what I can see, this number sequence is all but irregular.

We've seen these before too. They don't mean anything, do they?

Even if they don't mean anything to us,

it's safe to say that they meant something to whoever made these.

There are numbers up there too.

They're all over the place.

Random number sequences.

-It will be difficult -44929917 means,

-to figure out. -"Yoshiro, eat some meat."

87788990 means "Hurry and give me a banana"

34102515 means "Snacks by twos and ones."

This is pi, right?

-What? -What?

NEXT EPISODE PREVIEW

Arthur and the others inside the Tabernacle

finally arrive at the central core.

There, they hear an eerie pulse echoing.

This sound is a little bit scary.

Is there something alive inside?

Next time on Fire Force Season 2, Episode 9,

"The Core."

Return to the raging flames.

Latom.