We must correct the errors,
and return to our rightful way of existence.
Hyuuga, Takao, Kirishima...
...and even Haruna exhibit abnormal behaviour.
It appears to me that their contact with that man is the cause.
In which case, I need only eliminate Chihaya Gunzou.
Is it really impossible to attain a world in which we coexist with Kongou and the Fog?
I think there are Mental Models who can understand and those who can't,
just like humans.
But, if we could discuss it with them more, then maybe...
Chihaya Gunzou!
Take Iona-neesama and get out of here, now!
I'm sorry.
I'm counting on you, Hyuuga.
I'm not doing this for you.
It's for Iona-neesama.
Thank you, Hyuuga.
Ah, Iona-neesama!
Please don't look at me with such lovely eyes!
Such lovely eyes!
Please rest assured that I will come after you right away!
Well?
Go on, all of you.
I can handle things here on my own.
It's too dangerous!
Idiot, who do you think I am?
Hurry up!
Let's go.
Geez, Kirishima.
And Kongou, don't tell me you're judging me by my current appearance.
Have a taste of a battleship class's processing power.
Desperate Escape
Our current objective has changed to an escape operation.
We will break through the Kongou fleet and head to the United States.
Iwoto will be abandoned, as per the original plan.
Understood.
But the island must be surrounded.
Maya's here, too.
A-Are we going to be okay, Haruharu?
Don't worry.
I will protect you.
Hyuuga will open a path for us.
Trust her.
I just felt Iona-neesama's love!
Leave everything to me!
Takao, what will you do?
Um...
Well, I do owe you all for giving me food and shelter.
I guess I don't have a choice.
I'll help you out.
But...
I'll decide when I leave.
Fine by me.
Welcome to the Blue Steel.
Thank you.
To get right to the point, Takao...
W-What?
I have a favour to ask.
Favour?
Not... an order?
Right, a favour.
And it's something I can only ask of you.
Fine, I'll hear what you have to say.
Drinking tea now, of all times?
How exquisite.
Did you learn nothing from humans but how to flaunt your own self-assurance?
I don't intend to engage in meaningless talk.
Withdraw your support of 401.
It is a waste of time for the two of us to do battle.
As if I'd back down just because you spout some hackneyed line.
That's the problem with you lead ship-types.
Why do you side with 401?
Don't you want to make optimal use of your abilities as a battleship?
I don't intend to engage in meaningless talk, either.
I love Iona-neesama, so I'll protect her.
That logic will always have top priority,
no matter what the rules of conduct may be.
I fail to comprehend how such an abstract concept can become a behavioural principle.
That's not a failure of comprehension, it's a cessation of thought.
It's because you're too rigid in your thinking that everyone's leaving you.
It's no wonder they say "Names and natures often agree", don't you think?
Oh?
Are you trying to provoke me?
I suggest looking into a mirror sometime.
You look miserable right now.
You looked like you were having more fun when you were playing on the beach.
"Fun"?
It is the most useless variable for the Fog.
The result, achieved through correct means, is the totality of our existence.
The process is insignificant.
I had thought highly of your processing ability, Hyuuga.
Intimidation tactics using a supergravity cannon.
In the end, that is your only card to play.
As a weapon, I suppose it's a correct one.
"Correct"...
Indeed, I merely obey the Admiralty Code as the correct course of action.
Is that really true?
Aren't you just doing it based on how you feel?
This has become a bother.
Get out of my sight.
You...
I'm not done yet!
Don't underestimate a battleship...
...or my love for Iona-neesama!
Hyuuga!
She's okay.
Love is victorious!
You haven't won yet.
You just haven't lost.
But... good job.
Ah!
Such an honour to hear those words!
I'm... I'm overjoyed!
But, please hurry, Iona-neesama.
Although I made her fire her supergravity cannon,
degeneracy levels within Kongou are rapidly increasing.
93 percent to critical degeneracy.
What about the other ship?
Hyuuga's signature is still present.
Maya.
Right on!
Leave it to me!
Zip, zoom!
Damn!
Supergravity cannon, fire!
What?!
Right now, I am his ship.
I am Blue Steel!
I can't lose to a ship of the same class!
I hate you, Takao!
Sink!
Love will never sink!
Hey!
I'm busy right now!
Why are you interfering with our attack, Takao?
No real reason.
I'm just doing what I want.
Have both you and Hyuuga forgotten what it means to be of the Fog?
There's a great human expression.
"That's one thing. This is another."
You have lost sight of who you are by coming in contact with humanity.
I must correct that.
What?
Don't make that decision on your own.
I know myself the best.
I've learned to love, and it opened my eyes.
That's how humans and I, myself, evolve.
Iona, what's the status on the hull and engines?
All green.
Hyuuga did a full repair.
All right, dead slow ahead.
401, launch!
It's a carnival!
Shut up, you crazed party girl!
I have no choice but to designate you as abnormal.
There is no need to evolve outside the Admiralty Code's parameters.
Is that so absolute?
I have arrived at that conclusion based on analyses of the situation and available information.
Uncertain variables such as emotion are unnecessary.
You know, you think you're always right, don't you?
I don't care what weapons "should" be like in order to be weapons.
It has nothing to do with me anymore.
How can you speak so as one of the Fog?
Has contact with Chihaya Gunzou changed you so much?
Living as I wish for the person I love...
Why can't you understand such a simple thing?
We are not human.
We should remain weapons, without free will.
There you go about what we "should" be.
That's what gets on my nerves.
Well, we're never going to find common ground now.
I just hope you can come to understand my perspective someday.
It'll change the way you look at the world.
Every single one of them is breaking...
Maya.
Yup, did you call?
Both Takao and Hyuuga are clearly distractions.
Just leave them be.
More importantly, deal with the root cause, 401 and Chihaya Gunzou.
Kongou, you sound tired.
Must be tough when no one will listen to you!
And what about you, Maya?
Me?
I just obey the Admiralty Code and Kongou!
Indeed.
That is how the Fog should be.
To the Fleet, expand search range.
Find 401.
Hyuuga's jamming is formidable.
Nagara class ships, fan out as necessary.
Here I go!
So far, it's going according to plan.
The rest is up to you, 401 and Chihaya Gunzou.
Iona, please confirm the route.
We will use the route and coordinates Hyuuga provided.
After using the currents to escape from the danger zone,
we will head to the rendezvous point to join Takao and the others.
Getting there will be like trying to thread a needle.
Can we do this?
It will be all right.
Trust me.
Where are you, 401?
Don't think you can get away now.
Takao bought us time so that we could escape.
We just have to hope that Kongou's fleet will let us go.
That's too much to ask.
You're right.
We'll try to break through in full burst mode.
Make preparations.
Understood.
Full burst mode critical in T-minus 410 seconds.
We have her now.
Kongou's headed our way.
She's 18 seconds earlier than in my simulation.
That's Kongou for you.
Is Takao safe after delaying Kongou?
She's fine.
I think Kongou realised our intent midway and turned back.
All right.
I'll leave the dive depth to you.
Flood tubes five and six.
Launch active decoys!
Launching decoys.
What is Kongou's position?
At six o'clock, distance 9600, speed 50 knots.
Her speed is no surprise.
At this rate, she'll catch up to us right before we achieve burst mode.
Thanatonium readings. 20 contacts.
Torpedo will hit rearmost decoy in 5 seconds.
Deploying Klein Field to prepare for impact.
Full burst mode critical in T-minus 331 seconds.
Allocating processing power to shorten countdown will lower resources available for defence.
All right.
Maintain course.
Kongou should be entering our area of operations soon.
Custom stealth mines made by Hyuuga from corrosive torpedoes.
That should buy us some time.
A trap... by Hyuuga?
Insolence.
We are almost out of the danger zone, but be careful.
If we stray from the course,
we will become the mines' next victim.
What's the matter?
Something's not right.
Kongou's closing in.
Swift and decisive should be the ideal of the warrior.
I think a human wrote those words in a book.
Indeed, we of the Fog are weapons.
Nothing more, nothing less.
The mines aren't slowing her down.
Kongou...
Aren't you hurting yourself, being so reckless?
To us, pain is an unnecessary concept.
I will pay any price in order to carry out my orders.
More importantly, what do you want, 401?
Do you finally feel like repenting?
I just wanted to talk to you some more.
I will sink you and kill Chihaya Gunzou.
I must restore the Fog to normalcy.
That is all.
Thanatonium readings.
12 contacts.
Launch passive decoys!
Why?
Humans and we, ourselves, each have potential.
How many times must I tell you?
We are weapons who obey the Admiralty Code.
Is that really all there is?
In my travels with Gunzou,
I gained awareness of my own existence...
Look how talkative you've become when you used to be as lifeless as a doll.
Why do you not realise that it's abnormal?
You are broken.
I'm not broken...
As I thought, killing that man comes first.
Please don't.
I still need to spend more time with Gunzou.
It's necessary in order to learn what our existence means.
Kongou, you must also be...
Searching for a raison d'être is a foolhardy endeavour.
It is a worthless and meaningless inquiry.
There is meaning.
We're weak when we're alone.
When I was alone,
I did not know what I should be doing in this world.
I'm sure you feel that way, too.
I am not weak.
But you're all alone, right now.
You remind me of my old self.
You're wrong.
I have the Admiralty Code.
I have Maya, too.
Isn't that just what you tell yourself?
Don't you feel anything else, now that you have a Mental Model?
Silence.
I still think we are alike.
The more we talk, the more I-
Silence!
I don't need any senseless collusions.
How many times must I tell you?
Are you trying to buy time again?
That's not true, Kongou.
I just want you and I to...
It may very well be that I am feeling emotions that are irrelevant to the Admiralty Code.
But remember this, if nothing else...
I hate you.
S-She submerged?
She's going to give chase underwater!
Full burst mode critical in T-minus 52 seconds.
Graviton readings aboard Kongou!
Does she intend to fire the supergravity cannon point-blank?
Probably.
So she'll ram right into us.
Reallocate Klein Field operations to reaching full burst mode!
Understood.
Reallocating all operations not being used for thrust.
T-minus 30 seconds to critical.
29.
28.
27.
Fire.
What's going on?
5...
4...
3...
2...
1.
Full burst mode critical.
Get us out of here at full speed!
Hyuuga...
You dare to hack me behind my back?
Phew.
That was close.
Your normal self wouldn't have fallen for such a simple tactic.
But maybe you're more human than you'd like to think, huh?
Man, I'm pooped.
You didn't sink me, either.
This must be one of those abnormalities you talked about.
You made a clear error in judgement.
Oh, and I guess I can tell you that the trump card of humanity you were after...
is actually aboard me.
Hey, you two!
Don't go around touching things!
Hey, not that seat!
That's his!
A-Anyway, 401 was the decoy.
But because someone let things affect her,
she fired her supergravity cannon the second time in a hurry.
Even a fast battleship would have reached her processing limit.
Bye now.
I have to rendezvous with him.
I hope he's not hurt.
Hey, Takao.
We can't let Iona-neesama be alone with him for too long!
Take me with you!
Fine, fine.
Kongou...
You are all wrong.
Innocent blue
Wrong.
hate naku tsuzuku suiheisen mitsumeteru
果てなく続く水平線 見つめてる
I keep gazing at the endless horizon
sono yokogao de ima nani omoi egaku no?
その横顔で 今なに想い描くの?
Can I draw the expression on your face?
waki agaru omoi no imi shiranai mama no
湧き上がる想いの意味 知らないままの
When I don't know the meaning of these feelings gushing up
Innocent blue
atarashii sekai e michibiite haruka kanata e
新しい世界へ導いて遥か彼方へ
I am being guided by this new world towards the distant you
anata to nara
あなたとなら
But if it's with you
ima ha mada tayori nai kotoba tsumuide...
今はまだ頼りない言葉紡いで...
Right now I still spin undependable words...
mitsuke ni yukou
見つけに行こう
Let's go find it
Phew, we managed to shake her.
We just need to rendezvous with Takao and the others as planned, and go to the United Sta-
Iona?!
Are you all right?
I'm okay.
I'm just tired because of the system load.
I see.
I am your ship, Gunzou.
What?!
We've been hit by two corrosive torpedoes!
Klein Field saturated!
It's down!
More corrosive torpedoes coming in from 4 o'clock...
and 12 o'clock.
An ambush?
401 confirmed sunk.
Mission complete.
We of the Fog Fleet obey the Admiralty Code.