The Year 2039
United Nations Fleet for the Final Battle
Fleet of Fog
Enemy still in sight!
They're neutralising our attacks!
All of humanity's remaining firepower has been gathered for this fight.
Yet, even this much firepower is not enough-
By the start of the 21st century,
humanity had lost most of its terrestrial territory due to global climate change and other factors.
As if in response to this predicament,
an enemy of unknown origin, the Fleet of Fog,
appeared and blockaded all shipping routes.
Humanity was driven out of the seas.
- Splinter Capital, Tokyo -
Seven years after humanity's last stand against the Fleet,
their governments and economies were in shambles.
Their communication satellites and undersea cables were destroyed,
and all communications were jammed by the enemy.
Every nation-state was effectively isolated.
Merely confirming one another's continued existence was next to impossible.
- Saga Prefecture, Space Centre -
Display our situation on the monitor.
Damn Fog...
Gotten wind of our cargo, huh?
Hold it back!
Buy us time until the launch!
Get a move on with the SSTO!
Fleet of Fog: Eastern Patrol Fleet 1, Light Cruiser Nagara
- Space Centre, Missile Defence System -
Amatsukaze and Tachikaze have been sunk!
Fog ship about to exit minefield!
Are we out of options?
Unidentified submarine rapidly approaching!
A new enemy?
No,
this signal...
It's the I-401!
Fog Submarine I-401
We have been tasked with halting the Fog's advance,
sinking it if necessary,
until the SSTO has been launched with success.
Iona, the data.
Nagara-class light cruiser, Nagara.
Displacement: 6010 tons.
Equipped with wave motion compulsory conversion armour,
six 12.3 cm guns on three active turrets,
and twelve submarine torpedo tubes,
in addition to three high-angle laser guns.
For real?
Multiple missile launch modules and close-range combat systems.
Maximum speed: 60 knots.
It cannot submerge.
It is a standard Fog Light Cruiser.
Engage!
Kyouhei!
Roger!
Loading specified torpedoes!
Tube 7, launch corrosive torpedo!
Sonar detecting two incoming torpedoes!
We were detected.
Snapshot tubes 1 and 2!
All stop!
Dive!
Crash dive.
Klein Field deployed.
Five seconds to torpedo hit!
4...
3...
Corrosive torpedo will hit target.
2...
1...
Nagara is turning starboard and deploying her Klein Field!
Too late!
What's going on out there?
That must be...
the I-401...
The Blue Steel!
Those with Shipping Routes
The launch of the intercontinental communication SSTO is a success!
Phew, thank God.
Does Japan even have anything to transmit overseas anymore?
They must, since they launched it, right?
Nagara, you were just following orders.
Iona,
are you all right?
I'm tired from the Klein Field.
I see.
Why did you turn up?
What is the purpose of your existence?
I don't know.
We merely exist to follow orders.
Do you engage in battle because I order you to?
Yeah.
I...
I am your ship.
Ever since I awoke two years ago...
- 2 Years Earlier, Yokosuka -
- Marine Technical Academy -
Was Chihaya Gunzou also selected to be on the inspection team?
Summons
The following individuals are to report at the specified date, time, and place:
Date: September 14, 1400 hours
Location: Lecture Hall 201, Officer Cadet Campus
Summoning:
Chihaya Gunzou
Ikaruga Gorou
Ikuma Keita
Katose Seiji
Asai Sei
Nihei Eiko
Watabe Mami
Marine Technical Academy Headmaster
Well, he's one of the top students.
That's not the only reason, is it?
He's the only son of a captain who died in battle.
Unlike us, he gets special treatment.
Oh, about that...
Are the rumours that his father defected to the Fog true?
Who knows?
What happened at the Great Naval Battle is still classified.
Either way, there's just something shady about him.
What you are about to see is top secret.
You have been granted special privilege to see it because you have a bright future ahead.
Top secret...
As future officers, you have the right to know.
What a joke.
They're just trying to pass on the torch.
- Warehouse 51 -
It's the submarine I-401...
Why is it here?
This is a captured Fog ship.
Although its appearance mimics that of a Pacific War submarine,
it is not of human origin.
So this is what the brass was hiding?
It's no surprise that they'd keep it from the public.
After the Great Naval Battle,
this submarine appeared at this harbour with all of its weapons locked.
Its reasons for doing so are unknown.
It allowed us to seize it with no resistance.
So, if we can understand how it works,
we might also find the Fleet of Fog's weakness?
We might.
But, we've been researching it for seven years.
We've tried everything we could think of,
but it has remained unyielding.
We have been unable to take it apart, as well?
Sadly enough.
A Fog ship...
An enemy of humanity...
A human.
Chihaya Gunzou...
W-What?!
Hey!
Collect data!
What, graviton readings?!
401 is activating!
What?!
Why now?
We don't know!
Damn it!
Don't let this get out!
Close the ceiling armour, now!
Evacuate!
Hurry!
Who's that?
I don't remember seeing her around.
Huh?
Found you, Chihaya Gunzou.
Huh?
What's your name again?
Are you looking for someo-
Wow, you're a total babe!
No, I have no business with you.
Huh?
Hey!
Whoa, you're a pretty one.
Need something?
You are Chihaya Gunzou.
Yeah, so?
Son of Chihaya Shouzou.
What about my dad?
I have been ordered to meet the son of Chihaya Shouzou.
"Ordered"?
Is this a new prank?
This crap is all you guys ever think about.
No, this is not a prank.
Then why mention my dead father's name?
Because it is the truth.
Who are you?
Iona...
That is the name I was given.
Iona?
We can't talk here.
What'd you just do?
Come tonight. Alone.
Hey...
What the hell?
Gunzou, what's going on?!
Why would a girl hit on a stiff like you?
Squishy?
Sensation...
This is to be human.
I'm here.
Let's hear why you dragged me out here.
To be precise, I am the one who has been waiting.
I'm going back.
No.
I don't have time to play games with strangers.
You have eleven hours until the wake-up call.
That's not what I meant.
I just don't want to waste my time on anything meaningless.
Am I meaningless?
Just tell me what you want.
To meet Gunzou, the son of Chihaya Shouzou, and obey him.
That is the only order that remains in my memory.
I have been isolated from the outside world for seven years.
Seven years?
Who are you?
I obey the orders I have been given... I am a tool.
What are you?
Chihaya Gunzou.
I have been ordered to obey you.
I know nothing else.
Confirm: What is your purpose?
My purpose?
I...
I want the strength... to break the stagnant status quo.
Even if we stay here,
our time will only go to waste while we do nothing.
That's not what I'm living for!
Understood.
At last, I can activate.
I-401, launching.
I-401 has left the top secret dock!
That's impossible!
But sir, it's true!
What is going on?
401...
This is me.
Are you... with the Fog?
The enemy?
I don't know.
I only know one thing:
Make contact with you, and obey.
That is the only order that remains in my memory.
We are weapons.
We engage in battle under orders.
That is our entire existence.
That is why we desire orders.
401.
Become my ship!
Gunzou...
Come aboard me.
We'll go through their barrier.
Don't counterattack.
Okay.
Can you withstand this?
For a little while.
How long?
Thirty seconds.
What?!
This is my first time allowing a human body on board.
My calculations are not fast enough.
Can you dive?
My graviton ballasts have not been set up.
5 seconds until Klein Field down.
4...
3...
2...
1...
Klein Field down.
Taking hits on stern.
Damn it!
If I can't change anything right now,
it means I'm as good as dead!
Please!
Graviton ballasts.
Setup complete.
Standby.
Dive!
401, lost.
Are you all right?
What about you?
What are your passive sonar readings?
No enemy sonar contact within detection range.
End combat.
H-Hey!
I was so nervous.
That was the first time I had a captain.
401...
I am Iona.
What?
I was named as such, according to my memory.
Iona...
Ever since then, we've been fugitives.
Yeah.
I am a ship.
I belong to the captain.
Take me with you... to the answer you seek.
All right.
Good.
Not bad at all for a traitor of the Fog.
- Splinter Capital, Nagasaki -
Ministry of Military Affairs Assistant Secretary, Kamikage Ryuujirou
Nice work on the SSTO job, Chihaya Gunzou-kun.
So you're Kamikage-san, our client?
If you had hired us earlier,
we could have reduced the damage taken by the military.
Due to the Fog's jamming,
we cannot use long-range comm systems.
Don't ask the impossible of us.
Besides, we adults have our reasons.
Politics, is that it?
That's an excuse.
It's just a detour, isn't that right?
Not everyone can do as you do.
Someone has to do the dirty work, too.
Is that so?
Well, we have finished the job.
We'll be leaving now.
Will you stop that?
If anything were to happen to him...
she will attack us.
Chihaya-kun, will your battles lead to a way out of this impasse?
Don't misunderstand.
I think highly of your combat records over the past two years in your battle against the Fog.
What's your point?
We just received word that the SSTO was destroyed while in orbit.
In it was a sample of a new weapon developed by Japan,
the vibration warhead.
Vibration warhead?
Indeed.
It is not as though we were idle during the two years that you were taking on the Fog by yourself.
Why America?
Japan no longer has the resources to manufacture them en masse.
Chihaya Gunzou-kun,
I'd like to ask another task of you.
I'd like you to carry the hope of humanity...
our last hope.
A new weapon?
A torpedo, then?
It seems they have finished analysing the Fog's corrosive torpedo and made further improvements.
Much of it is a black box,
but it does seem that man could strike back if this can be mass produced.
If America still even exists.
Don't be such a downer.
The secret agreement with America was made three months ago,
after which all communications ceased.
We don't know what things are like there, now.
Iona, are you sure you can't tell?
I am cut off from the fleet.
All I know is what I've been able to detect.
That's true...
So, direct transport by sea is our only option.
They do say the continent is torn by civil strife.
It'd be too dangerous to go by land.
To think we can't trust our fellow humans.
And that's why you took the job, Captain?
Yeah.
We're the only ones who can make this happen.
The handoff for the new weapon sample will take place at the Port of Yokosuka.
Understood.
Setting course for Yokosuka.
Let's go get this last hope for humanity.
Hope for humanity, huh?
Couldn't we have subdued I-401?
401 is sentient.
It only obeys Chihaya Gunzou.
Because it has a Mental Model?
A traitor to the Fog, and a traitor to humanity...
An interesting combination, isn't it?
- Offshore Sado Island -
Fleet of Fog: Eastern Patrol Fleet 1, Flagship Battleship Kongou
So, we've lost Nagara.
I've become quite used to this embodied existence,
but it's still loathsome.
We are weapons.
Kongou!
Maya?
What is it?
I'm bored.
Offshore Kume Island
Fleet of Fog: Eastern Patrol Fleet 1, Heavy Cruiser Maya
401 is on the move, isn't she?
Isn't there something for me to do?
If she's headed north, that's Takao's jurisdiction.
We can just let her handle it.
Ah, geez.
Can't we just forget the jurisdiction thing?
We are battleships.
We follow orders from the Admirality Code.
That's all.
Aw, man!
You're such a stick in the mud!
Nyah!
Hmph.
You are such a pain.
Takao!
I see.
Offshore Enshuu-Nada
Fleet of Fog: Eastern Patrol Fleet 1, Heavy Cruiser Takao
401's headed this way?
That traitor, siding with the humans...
I'll turn you to dust.
I look across the raging war and feel the steady beating of my heart
arashi no mae no shizu kesa ni
嵐の前の静けさに
As if drowning before a storm
yaiba o furioroshite ikunda
刃を振り下ろしていくんだ
I swing my blade down
kurikaeshi a memory fading ima mo
繰り返し a memory fading 今も
A repeating memory keeps fading, even now
jidai o koete I tell a story hibiku
時代を超えて I tell a story 響く
I tell a story resonating and crossing time
sensen fukoku no uta zankoku ni somaru kono chikai o
宣戦布告の詩 残酷に染まる この誓いを
A song of declaration of war gets stained with cruelty. We swear this:
We’ll fight until the bitter end
togireta iki no ne o
途切れた息の根を、
Interrupted route of life
kegareta sekai o tsungagitomete
汚れた世界を繋ぎ止めて
To bind this corrupted world together
bokura no haguruma o it's time to stop and rewind (stop and rewind)
僕らの歯車を it's time to stop & rewind (stop & rewind)
It's time to stop and rewind our gears (stop and rewind)
ushinatta kibou o
失った冀望を、
The hope we had lost
kowareta jikan no pisu o atsumete
壊れた時間のピースを集めて
Gathering the pieces of broken time
torimodosu tame ni you need to fall and unwind (fall and unwind)
取り戻す為に you need to fall & unwind (fall & unwind)
In order to regain it you need to fall and unwind (fall and unwind)
hashiridasu kodou sae mo
走り出す鼓動さえも
As we start running on impulse
kagirinai itsukushimi o
限りない慈しみを
The arpeggio leads us
michibikidasu arpeggio
導き出すアルペジオ
To dreams that weren't even able to become true
Saviour of Song
A Saviour of Song