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This can't be happening.

Takumi... Why?

You're in the way. Get back to your car.

Don't you dare touch him!

Do as you're told.

Unless you want to end up like him.

Do it, then!

Go ahead and kill all of us until your hands are soaked with blood!

Kajika!

Let's go, Sahari.

Let them clean this up.

Okay.

Let's go home, Takumi.

Burning Life

Are you human or a Kabane?!

I'm neither! I'm a Kabaneri!

I will remember that day

Losing myself

In steam

Countless mistakes are made

When I can't see anything ahead

You said

"Ask your own burning blood"

Answer my beat

KABANERI OF THE IRON FORTRESS

Stand up

And slam everything onto the ground

My soul is devoted to my friend

Burn your life

Change the world

My father was a cowardly man.

Secret feuds surrounding the Shogunate's throne.

Which is why it wasn't the first time the lights were turned off suddenly.

No, it wasn't me.

It was fear that did this!

After that,

my father would only fear me, continuing to alienate me.

I couldn't forgive my father.

But you said you would help me and my father mend our relationship.

Your kindness is your weakness.

Come, Mumei.

I will destroy that coward's fortress.

Your strong claws are what will end everything.

Soon.

Goodbye, Mumei.

Kongokaku

Listen, men of Kongokaku!

The Iwato's gate, a key defense for our capital, has been destroyed.

And not by the Kabane, but by other men!

The man behind it is the lord commander of the Karikatashu:

Biba Amatori.

-What?! -Insurrection?

So the hero has finally revealed his true self.

Could it be resentment against the Shogun?

But there is nothing to fear.

Kongokaku is an impregnable fortress.

We are the soaring birds.

The divine bird cannot be broken!

The divine bird cannot be broken!

Lord Shogun.

Should we still not tell them about the black smoke?

You mean, the monster that destroyed Iwato's gate?

Yes. I think we should inform everyone.

Are you the only communications operator who knows of this?

Yes.

Lord Shogun...

Excessive information creates needless fear.

Help.

Help!

Mumei!

I...

It's my fault

that Takumi's dead.

I never should've let him fight with me.

No.

I never should've gotten involved in the first place.

Even Mumei, if she...

had never met me...

Even my promise to turn her human again...

She doesn't remember anymore.

A Kabane!

Lord Shogun, the Kotetsujyo has arrived at Platform 4!

The Kotetsujyo?

-Don't you mean, the Kokujyo? -No, sir.

They say they've captured the men who destroyed Iwato's gate.

I am Ayame, heir to the Yomokawa family.

I have brought you my captive, Biba Amatori.

Do not forget that we have hostages.

I promise to follow your script.

Lady Ayame.

Uncle! It has been a long time.

How you have grown.

And your father?

He was taken by the Kabane.

I see. That is truly unfortunate.

That should be sufficient greetings.

So you claim to have captured Biba?

Everyone on the Kotetsujyo worked together to capture him.

Everyone is tired from the long journey after losing their homes.

I beg that Kongokaku take them in.

Kongokaku's inspection requires everyone to be jailed for three days,

regardless of the existence of bite marks.

So I was told.

You two will come to meet the Lord Shogun.

Is that you, Ikoma?

Kurusu?

What are you doing here?

Where's Ayame-sama?

Where's everyone else?

They've been captured by Biba.

What?!

Takumi's been killed.

Mumei's been turned into an enemy and attacked me.

And so you ran away with your tail tucked between your legs?!

I couldn't do anything!

There was nothing I could do!

Don't give me that!

Are you quite finished?

So you're alive, Wild Kabaneri.

I see a sword mark next to your heart.

Did Mumei do this?

Get up, Ikoma.

We're going after the Kotetsujyo.

No, I can't.

I'm better off dead.

Fine.

You can go ahead and die, then.

It seems that I was wrong about you.

It's been a long time, Biba.

Yes, Father.

You can drop the act.

I know that you're up to something.

-Bring it here. -Yes, sir.

I found something very nostalgic amongst your belongings.

It is the only thing I ever received from you.

I thought I would return it to you.

Father, if you pity me,

please at least kill me with your own hands.

Very well.

Father, there's something I would like to tell you before this is over.

I would like to tell you how I was able to survive fighting the Kabane all this time.

The biggest threat from the Kabane is their ability to hide amongst people.

Even at this moment, they are increasing in numbers.

And I am able to tell them apart.

That's how I was able to survive.

Do you mean, the bite marks?

That's why we perform the inspections!

You can't find the Kabane with your inspections!

As proof of that, they are amongst you here and now.

Take a good look!

If you find one, kill it before it kills you!

Or else you will become a Kabane next.

How dare you aim your gun at me!

Look! It is the sign of the Kabane!

Lord Shogun!

Keep shooting!

One shot is not enough to pierce a Kabane's heart!

Biba!

It was not me who killed you.

It was fear.

The Lord Shogun has...

It is not over yet!

The Shogun himself was a Kabane.

There are bound to be many more hidden among you!

-Give it to me! -Let go!

-You bastard! -He's a Kabane too!

Stop! Everyone lower your weapons!

Lady Ayame, you should leave.

Are you a Kabane too?! Are you?!

Watch out, or you might get bitten from behind!

The Lord Shogun was a Kabane?!

Which means, we've been infiltrated by the Kabane!

By the Kabane?!

Is Ayame-sama safe?!

Calm down! There is no way there are any Kabane here!

We've carefully performed inspections.

You have nothing to fear!

Well said.

But the Kabane aren't your only enemy.

Their nightmare is about to become reality.

Fight, my Kongokaku brothers.

It's the Kabane!

They're already here!

Biba! This was all your doing, wasn't it?

You turned the Lord Shogun into a Kabane with this!

Congratulations.

Here is your gift for figuring it out.

You bastard! This is all your fault!

Hurry up, kid!

We need to get to Kongokaku right away,

or I'll miss Mumei's Nue transformation!

Mumei's what?

I told you to hurry!

He's already given up on life. He's no different from the Kabane.

He's no use to us now.

I will be the one who decides that.

Let me tell you one thing before we go.

Why do you think you are alive now?

The stab wound Mumei gave you...

is just barely to the right of your heart, protected by the steel membrane.

One slight deviation and it would have been fatal.

What are you saying?

Judging from the location, angle and force,

it required precise aim.

Are you saying Mumei saved me?

She's still somewhere in there?

But that's over now.

That's because they should be turning Mumei into black smoke right now.

Wait!

I need you...

to tell me more about that!

The butterflies?

That's right.

When someone dies, they come to take their souls away.

The butterflies beckoned him too.

They've all...

They've all been beckoned by the butterflies.

I couldn't save anyone.

I'm sorry.

I can't turn back now.

They've...

beckoned me now.

Mother...

I'm coming to join you soon.

What do you mean, it's going to end?!

The Kabaneri who becomes the Nue's heart...

loses their soul and their life.

Is there any way to save her?!

If you inject her heart with white plasma,

you'll be able to fuse the Kabane's steel membrane.

It should be possible to pull Mumei out from the Nue then.

-Give me the thing from before. -What?

Not that one.

I already told you.

The black blood is an accelerant.

It will stimulate the virus and amplify it.

Just like the other Kabaneri.

Do you mean, Horobi? That's right.

But you won't become a Nue because you're a man.

You'll just become a Kabane burning through his life force.

I need that power.

It will be brief, like the last light of a dying candle.

I don't care.

I'm going to kill Biba and save Mumei.

That's all I have to live for.

Ikoma, you...!

Remove your restraint, Kabaneri.

Or you won't be able to realize your true power.

Ikoma!

This is the moment...

that I...

That I...

become the man I can be proud of!

That's right, Mumei.

Destroy it all.

Fear, sadness, love...

Destroy it all.