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Who is this vision I see floating before my eyes? Dare ga miteiru VISUAL? Me no mae no

Rushing water runs back over my body Kyuu na mizu ga karada wo sakasa ni kakemeguru

Now, the two of us think about... Ima futari wa

the meaning of our having met Deatta imi omou

Even though we must be swimming... Kitto dareka no kioku no naka

Within someone's memories Oyoideiru dakedemo

The wings of light upon your back Kimi no senaka

Spread out towards the sky Hikari no hane ga sora e hirogaru

No matter the place, no matter the past Donna basho mo donna kako sae mo

A single wish... Tadahitotsu no negai ga

Will surpass it all Norikoete yuku yo

They've created another deutera zone.

We can stop their growth,

but we still can't prevent their formation.

MEMORIES OF DESTRUCTION So long as the destruction of the Gardsorm orbital base...

MEMORIES OF DESTRUCTION remains out of our reach, we're helpless.

Leave me the hell alone!

Altair's mission, complete. Activating recovery sequence.

From this point.

The light armor canceller is about to be activated.

Right here!

Reconstruct the video data.

What the hell is that?! It looks just like a Zega!

A black Zega...

A new anti-Zegapain weapon developed by the Gardsorm.

They were after me.

Why are you so certain of that?

Transmission failure. Her meta-body data has been lost.

Ryoko Kaminagi... has been destroyed.

Are we going to watch it again?

Enough.

Set air defense warning systems to maximum level!

Repair of the Altair has top priority!

I also want all hands to thoroughly analyze the data we have on the enemy's weapon!

Any clue will be helpful!

Recheck even the most trivial things!

At that moment...

a bunch of words were flying over my head.

Not just words.

The scenery, even the passage of time...

Everything around me just seemed to pass by.

Kyo?

Kaminagi had vanished.

There was no question that she'd disappeared.

And yet...

I just couldn't understand it.

Kaminagi?

I haven't seen her lately.

Besides, if you don't know where she is,

how should I know?

Hey! Sogoru!

You need an umbrella! You're gonna get soaked!

Ryoko?

No, I haven't hung out with her lately.

Look, now that summer break's ending, we've got the play coming up soon.

I'm kinda busy on my end, too.

VIDEO CLUB

It's kinda like a movie, isn't it?

The hero, having lost his lover, wanders aimlessly, consumed with grief.

AFTER ETUDE IN SCHOOL... THE MIST The hero, having lost his lover, wanders aimlessly, consumed with grief.

The hero, having lost his lover, wanders aimlessly, consumed with grief.

The thing is, I don't feel grief.

Whatcha doing?

Even now, I feel like Kaminagi...

is going to jump on my back at any moment.

You okay, Koji?

Nobody uses that room.

It's your sister's room.

I'm not supposed to go in there.

Koji, did they?!

You've erased them. His memories.

I know you're watching me, Mr. President!

What should we do? Should I erase the room, too?

Commander, I've opened lines to all the carrier commanders.

I'll be right there.

We'll have Kyo get through this.

Or rather, we'll make him get through it.

And towards that objective... We'll use whatever we need to.

I'm coming in.

That girl...

THE DAY THE WORLD ENDED

"The Day the World Ended."

And so, the end of the world drew close.

A movie to remember things.

Isn't that Maihama?

Let's see...

This footage is of a summer day...

at the end of the world, shot by an older student.

It's similar to the current city, which exists preserved as data.

But it's different in some ways.

It's vanished.

And now I understand how precious the world was now that it's been lost.

Living things seem to shine.

Kaminagi...

We take life for granted while we're living it.

We aren't thankful for it. We aren't glad for it, are we?

Kaminagi!

I guess that's just how things are.

KAMINAGI!

What are you crying about?

Why?

Because the world was destroyed?

Why was humanity destroyed?

Why do we have to fight in the Zegas?

Please, tell me why.

What are the Gardsorm?

Why do the Gardsorm attack us?

Don't you think she's pushing things a little too far?

I know it's to make him work through his grief, but still...

No.

He wants a reason for why Ryoko Kaminagi died.

Telling him will change his grief to anger and hatred.

He'll have a target to focus his resentment on.

It's a psychological process which all humans go through.

Did I imagine it?

You shouldn't push yourself too hard.

I can't confirm a quantum weapon reaction anywhere.

Sorry to drag you out here.

Oh, that's okay. It's our duty, right?

Hraesvelg, I'm here to relieve you.

You're here early.

The truth is... I have a favor to ask.

What?

Kyo Sogoru...

Help him through this.

Sorry, but I won't.

Like me, he's lost the one he loves.

You want me to lick his wounds for him?

No.

You can't just lick those wounds closed.

The more they bleed, the more you clench your teeth and bear the pain.

You just have to conquer them!

You should try clenching your teeth sometime!

I'll go talk to him.

Lu-shen!

Bear the pain and work through it, huh?

I don't agree.

The death of one person can cast a large shadow, can't it?

Even she's desperate now...

There are some traces which explain the destruction of the light armor.

Tell me something I don't know!

I... I'm sorry.

Look harder!

Go back over all the combat data!

Right!

"Toward Infinite Evolution." "The Seven Days Program."

What the hell is this?

SUBJECT CONTROL CODE TITLE

SUBJECT CONTROL CODE TITLE

SUBJECT CONTROL CODE TITLE

SUBJECT CONTROL CODE TITLE

"Collection Search Corner"

"Collection Search Corner" There it is! The reason humanity was destroyed.

"Collection Search Corner"

Orm virus?

The Anti-Zega.

As its name suggests, it renders the Zegapain's defenses useless.

The greatest weapon our holonic loaders have...

is their photonic transmission technology.

It lets us form high-density photonic streams into indestructible light armor,

producing a lance of light which can penetrate anything.

The Zegapain was a warrior of light which couldn't be wounded.

However...

This thing has turned all that around.

A warrior of darkness which cracks light apart and rots it away!

I propose that, from here on, it be code named Anti-Zega Coatlicue.

Commander Shima!

What?

Look.

Very well.

Humanity was destroyed by a virus that spread all over the world?

Impossible...

"The Threat of the Orm Virus."

"Data Preservation Recommendation." Naga...

This was also written by that Naga guy?

So who the hell is Naga?!

Kyo.

I've been trying to call you.

I'm not in the mood to take any calls.

When we awaken, we always ask why we fight.

We wonder who are these Gardsorm that we fight against.

That's the question you've come to, isn't it?

Did Shima send you?

His existence is also a puzzle.

Forget it.

I'll tell you as much as I know.

It'll be faster than your reading all that stuff.

Why tell me now?

Because until you decided that you wanted to know,

the information would have been meaningless.

Besides, I also want to sort it out in my own head.

Hey.

Advance payment on my tuition.

It all started with a lone researcher named Naga.

The man who made the quantum computer a reality.

The I.A.L. Corporation...

Originally established as an information technology company,

they ended up branching out into many other industries.

They especially moved into the bio-tech and military sectors,

eventually becoming a gigantic worldwide super-conglomerate.

And their CEO... was Naga.

The specs of the quantum computer he created...

made it equal by itself to the combined processing power...

of all the other computers in the world.

It was capable of housing cities, peoples' memories,

even human consciousness, within virtual space.

Naga proposed that humans could achieve...

infinite evolution within these quantum servers.

"Infinite evolution?" What's that supposed to mean?

To become nearly immortal meta-bodies...

and in a speeded up time-frame...

quest for endless evolutionary development.

In short, to create a Utopia for humanity.

Are you serious?!

It's possible, thanks to the quantum computer.

Will you excuse me?

I understand.

Naga's ideals spread as the world was electrified by his invention.

It became a part of running the world of finance and nations themselves.

And then disaster struck.

The Orm virus.

Exactly.

The Orm virus raced around the world with a 98% fatality rate.

It was a monstrous virus, completely destroying...

the genetic information of the few infected people it left alive.

It couldn't be stopped?

It was concluded that the virus...

would completely exterminate the human race in three years.

Because of this, humanity was left with no other option to survive...

than as meta-bodies within quantum computers.

In other words, becoming meta-bodies was the only way to save ourselves.

But, for ideological or religious reasons,

many people objected to meta-body transfer.

The world fell into chaos.

Furthermore, as suspicions mounted that the Orm virus was actually a bio-weapon,

the nations of the world became paranoid...

and war broke out across the globe.

You gotta be kidding me!

While it didn't develop into a full-scale nuclear war,

in only one year, we lost seven and a half billion people.

The human population dwindled to what it was in the early 18th century.

In the end, it took only two years for mankind to vanish from the Earth's surface.

The only ones left were the humans who'd become meta-body data...

within the servers established in each country.

But it's said that Naga was the one who created the Orm virus.

There's no proof.

However, it's clearly specified in Cerebrum's database.

What do you mean?

If that really is the truth, then...

Then why did Naga spread the virus?!

To create the Utopia which he advocated.

To trap humanity inside of the quantum servers...

as the subjects for his experiments in infinite evolution.

He'd go that far?!

Naga...

So what happened to this Naga guy?!

If we knew that, we wouldn't be having such a hard time.

He's probably a meta-body himself, living in a server somewhere...

And the Gardsorm are the army he now leads, is that it?!

Yeah.

Once humanity was gone from the Earth's surface,

I.A.L.'s production machines began to activate.

It was to monopolize the Earth completely as a test site.

Even now, they continue to wear away at it, expanding their test zones.

At the rate they're going, they'll eventually swallow the entire world.

Damn him.

But then the battle began.

The lab rats began to fight back.

Even data humans can think. And we have defensive instincts.

Rebellious elements who lived as meta-bodies within the server.

People like us. In short...

The Cerebrants were born.

Cerebrants.

We live as warriors,

but we also live by our own free will!

Don't you think so, Kyo?

But...

Kaminagi wasn't a warrior!

I swore...

I swore that I'd protect her!

She was a warrior. At the very end...

Holonic field, forming! Holonic blade, right hand!

You did great, Kaminagi!

You too, Kyo.

Kaminagi wasn't like Arque!

You wanted to be with the one you loved.

Didn't you get your wish in the end?

What the hell do you know about it?!

You can't gloss over what happened out there!

For crying out loud.

I came off sounding as conceited as he did.

Lu-shen also has high expectations for Kyo.

About what?

Because there's something he lacks inside.

Because Kyo has something that Lu-shen barely understands.

He hopes that something inside him will change.

I get you.

I can see that, too.

But the truth is, that's not the real reason.

He just likes him.

Maybe that's all it is.

But I wonder what will you do now?

The guys who stole your girlfriend away aren't a mystery anymore, are they?

And that's what's pissing me off!

All the pain I'm burdened with, my thoughts...

They're all just obstacles designed to get me to fight?!

This is all some preestablished harmony?!

Even if it is... I want to know what you'll do about it.

And I'm telling you, I don't know!

He can't work through the pain completely with someone else, huh?

No, I just don't agree with it.

Kaminagi!

You weren't just some data stuck in here to act as a preestablished harmony!

I'm sure of it! I know that you...

That you were alive in this world!

KAMINAGI!!!

KYO!

What is this?!

The meta-body buffer.

Is there a backup in that memory area?

No, I don't think so.

Then what's this compressed file?

It's crash data. I can't decode it, though.

Shizuno?

Shizuno, you're not?!

Help me!

I finally found her.

It's Ryoko!

We found compressed data from Ryoko in the Altair's memory area!

She's still alive!

Kiss me and say goodbye KISS shite GOODBYE

To everything there is Ari to Arayurumono

And in the endless loop of time Meguriyuku toki ni

You'll come back to me again Megurikuru anata ni

Kaminagi? You'll come back to me again Megurikuru anata ni

You'll come back to me again Megurikuru anata ni

On the edges of memory Kioku no fuchi de

Time repeats itself Toki wa kurikaesu

As I imagined once IMAGE wo mita

As I wish to imagine again IMAGE wo mitakute

On the edges of memory Kioku no fuchi de

Time repeats itself Toki wa kurikaesu

As I imagined once IMAGE wo mita

As I wish to imagine again IMAGE wo mitakute

Kiss me goodnight KISS shite GOOD NIGHT

I won't sleep anymore Mou nemuranai

On this night of falling stars Hoshi no furu yoru wa

Time goes by

NEXT EPISODE

NEXT EPISODE Time betrays us, and the world which charges forward now freezes.

Time betrays us, and the world which charges forward now freezes.

As though trampling everyone's memories underfoot,

these rich and peaceful days now shatter.

As we're occupied by Ryoko's resurrection,

there are things we must hurry to do now.

The Anti-Zega has come again!

Fire it, Oceanus! The G.A.S.P.R. Cannon!

Next time, on Zegapain: "Reincarnation."

REINCARNATION Next time, on Zegapain: "Reincarnation."

REINCARNATION My pain, never to be forgotten.

REINCARNATION