No!
I don't want to die!
"Don't... want to... die..."
"Don't want to die." A phrase rejecting the shutdown of oneself.
Entry tagged.
Categorised.
Recorded.
Are you collecting words again?
Words comprise a primordial, beautiful system.
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
Assault on Yokosuka
"Beautiful," huh?
I fail to comprehend.
As a means of communicating information,
it is far too circuitous and inefficient.
If we use our Concept Comm System,
exchanging information at this level can be accomplished without any lag.
Klein Field operating at three percent.
I wonder why humans engage in such futile gestures.
Shall we silence them?
They just don't give up.
Enemy ship has locked her turrets on us!
Spare us!
"Spare us." A phrase impulsively uttered by one who has lost the will to fight.
A phrase indicating surrender.
Entry tagged.
Categorised.
Recorded.
Time to end this.
An erosion torpedo?
Calculating erosion countermeasures.
Adjusting Klein Field.
So, she's here.
Erosion torpedoes, impact confirmed!
Klein Field deployment by enemy ships, confirmed.
They have mental models?
Yes.
It's Kirishima and Haruna.
They're both fast battleship class, huh?
Damn.
And here I was, looking forward to some downtime during my first homecoming in a long while.
Iona, attract the enemy's attention.
We'll lure them away from the base.
Okay.
So what's the plan?
Head outside the defence barrier and bring them with us?
No, we have the home court advantage right now.
We will sink at least one of them here.
In order to neutralise the Klein Field of a fast battleship and damage the ship itself,
we must deliver a direct hit with the supergravity-cannon.
That cannon was damaged during our earlier battle with Takao.
We can't use it.
Furthermore,
we used 15 erosion torpedoes to sink the fast battleship, Hyuuga.
We currently possess six erosion torpedoes.
No, since just we fired two of them, only four.
Damn, we're really stuck here.
Shizuka, give me the most recent tidal stream atlas for the area within Yokosuka's defence barrier.
Roger.
Kirishima and Haruna are both starting to turn.
Kirishima's bearing is 212,
Haruna's bearing is 215.
Iona, you have control of our depth.
Crawl us along the ocean floor.
Crawling.
She dove.
Will she run?
No, it doesn't seem like she's headed for the open sea.
As suspected,
this is entirely different from 401's old combat methods.
Kirishima, give me some time with her.
Haruna?
I want to speak with her.
What is it?
They're calling me.
It's been a while, 401.
Kirishima... Haruna.
This is our first time meeting in this form.
What do you want with me?
Why don't you take a seat first?
I've heard that's what humans do, when they engage in conversation.
We have received orders from our flagship, Kongou, to sink you.
I know.
But, Haruna wants to talk to you before that.
Talk?
401, why do you side with the humans?
What compels you to do so?
Takao also abandoned her duties and the fleet, after she engaged you in combat.
She's in search of a human crew.
Takao...
Now that we have obtained physical bodies,
there is nothing more we can gain from humans.
That is the conclusion Kongou has reached.
Do you feel humans still have something to offer, or?
I don't know.
But,
I need a captain right now.
I have become Chihaya Gunzou's ship.
I see.
Iona?
I'm fine.
All right.
I'm going to lay out our strategy.
Here is our current location,
as well as that of Kirishima and Haruna.
We will deploy our operation from this point.
So, that's where Phase 2 begins.
That's right.
Iori, engines at maximum output!
Roger!
You won't get away.
This is Old Yokosuka City.
It sank due to the rise in sea levels.
Nice move, Captain.
Sonar scatter will occur here,
which should make it difficult for the enemy to pinpoint our location.
Good.
Iori, cut engines.
Huh?
Oh, okay.
Understood.
Yokosuka's defence barrier has vents at regular intervals.
The sea water entering and exiting through those vents passes between these scattered buildings,
which causes complex currents in this entire area.
I see.
If we move using these currents...
We can get behind the enemy without being detected.
Kyouhei, scatter canisters.
All right!
Enemy ships are moving upward above the submerged building complex.
Iona.
Understood.
The torpedoes are launching from multiple directions.
They were not from 401.
There must be semi-automated torpedo launchers.
Are they trying to throw us off?
Gunzou.
Yeah.
The real fight starts now.
All torpedo launchers have been neutralised.
These toys are all she got for letting humans on board?
I struggle to comprehend the point.
However, they were effective.
We have lost 401's current location.
401's actions are unpredictable to us, now that she has humans aboard.
Both Hyuuga and Takao were defeated, because they were unable to handle that.
Are you implying that we will suffer the same fate as they did?
That's not what I mean.
But, were that to happen, we may experience regret.
"Regret"?
It expresses one's delayed vexation over a decision made in error, apparently.
How ridiculous.
What meaning is there in rejecting a decision after the results have come to pass?
I do not know.
But, humans apparently do so frequently.
What nonsense.
We are weapons.
We should just focus on sinking the enemy before us.
However...
Thanatonium readings straight ahead.
Sonar contact ahead.
It is too large to be a decoy.
It must be 401.
I guess you've given up on hide-and-seek.
Sink.
Kirishima!
From behind?!
But 401 is in front of us!
What is that?
It's the battleship Mikasa,
launched in 1902.
Constructed as part of the Imperial Japanese Navy's 6-6 Fleet Plan.
It sank along with Old Yokosuka City.
They deceived us by scattering active nanomaterial particles on the ship's surface.
Damn, it didn't work.
And here I thought it was such a great idea!
In addition, our move just now revealed our real location to them.
Iori, engine output at maximum.
Huh?!
Full speed ahead!
Full speed ahead.
What?!
Ahead?!
You want to ram into the enemy?
They're toying with us both, Haruna.
Good, 401.
I've never had so much fun.
Indeed, we are weapons.
Our only reason for existence is to engage and destroy the enemy.
That's right...
I want to sink her, with my own hands.
No matter what!
Kirishima's emotion emulator values are changing rapidly.
This is...
I will crush you!
Multiple torpedoes launched!
Three barrages, over sixty torpedoes total!
Torpedoes now hitting the water!
More than 120 total!
Still more incoming!
Damn, fast battleships sure don't pull their punches!
She's coming right at us!
Have you gone mad, 401?
No, she hasn't.
She just passed beneath us?
Going through all that trouble to show your back to us?
You and your crew have some nerve.
Whatever you've got planned...
I'll stop you!
Are we really gonna survive this?!
Klein Field operating at 95 percent.
We have a 5 percent buffer.
We'll be fine.
Isn't that already pushing it?!
Now.
Anchor the boat!
All hands, brace for impact!
No engine sounds, nor heat signature readings can be confirmed.
We've lost 401.
Everyone all right?
I'm fine.
Ow...
I thought I was gonna die.
Life support systems, nominal.
And the engines survived, at least.
The anchor is still functional, as well.
Am I correct in assuming that we're now in Phase 3?
Right.
Can we really win this, though?
The number of remaining erosion torpedoes...
is two.
We can win.
That wouldn't have sunk her.
She must be buried under the rubble.
Why do you think that?
It'd be too boring to have it end here.
"Boring," you say?
We'll show you who's stronger, 401...
You, with humans aboard, or us.
All right.
I'll join you, Kirishima.
Hey, something big's going down!
Detecting gravitons on a massive scale!
What's this sound?
The sea...
will split open.
Hey, what the hell is that?
T-They've docked together!
So they can do this, too?
Hey, nobody told me about this!
No, we are lucky.
Huh?!
We won't have to get them one by one.
This guy intends to sink both of them!
We got you now!
Commencing synchronisation of Energy Life Rings.
Compressing gravitons to degeneracy zone.
Iori!
Engine output at maximum!
Resist!
Resist, 401!
Tractor beam output rising!
We're getting hit with two ships' worth!
This'll be tough!
I'm raising the output on our end, too!
Not a bad struggle you're putting up there, 401!
Critical degeneracy reached in 10 percent.
An opening has appeared in their Klein Field!
We've got them!
Struggling won't help you!
When firing the supergravity-cannon,
it is necessary to open the Klein Field in the direction of the cannon's trajectory.
And in order to keep that much energy
and spatial distortion under control,
the mental models must devote almost all of their resources to the task.
Their other operations suffer as a result.
That is our chance.
Thanatonium.
We're not falling for that!
They fended it off.
Critical degeneracy reached.
It's over, 401!
You should keep your trump card hidden until the very end.
Emergency stop on supergravity-cannon launch sequence.
Deploying Klein Field!
Impossible!
Where did that come from?
Another launcher... hidden in Mikasa's shadows?
401!
Unable to... maintain control... on degenerate energy levels...
Damn it!
Can't calculate... Field deployment... in time!
Unable to halt... launch sequence.
We're... going to break...
Tractor beam output dropping!
Klein Field is down!
If we strike now,
normal warheads will be able to deal more than enough damage.
Fire everything!
Are we... going to lose?
This can't be happening...
How can we... lose?
Our specifications...
far surpassed those of 401 in every aspect...
And yet...
What is this?
What am I feeling?
Haruna!
Haruna...
No!
I...
I don't want...
...to die yet!
Ah, so this is...
This is...
This is... regret!
There are no signs of either Kirishima or Haruna.
We managed to pull through,
but that was very close.
Yeah.
If Kirishima and Haruna's processing capacity exceeded Iona's projections, we would've been at risk.
Man, that was bad for my heart!
Can you try to keep the gambling to a minimum, Captain?
You did well, Iona.
This is the first time I've sunk ships with mental models.
That's true.
I've put you through a painful experience.
Painful?
I don't know.
Silver sand... nanomaterials.
hitotsu, hitotsu, kamishime teru
一つ、一つ、噛みしめてる
One, one, clenching onto
kimi to no kaiwa to ki oku
キミとの会話と記億
The conversations and memories with you
futatsu, mittsu, to kasanete ku kotoba
二つ、三つ、と重ねてく言葉
Two, three, the words overlap
nande henna no? kanjou
なんでヘンなの？感情
Why are they strange those feelings?
totemo mabushikute
とても眩しくて
It's truly too bright
dakedo setsunakute
だけど切なくて
But also saddening
aoku sumikitta mizu no you
青く澄み切った水のよう
Like crystal clear blue water
All I see
nan demonai kono sekai ga
なんでもないこの世界が
In this world that has nothing
ima, ai no imi motome teru
今、愛の意味求めてる
Now, you seek the meaning of love
tsuyoi kaze ni mune wa furuete iru
強い風に胸は震えている
My heart is now shaking in this strong wind
All I see
magire mo naku kono kokoro ga erabu
紛れも無くこの心が選ぶ
If the route this heart has undeniably chosen
ruuto o shinjitsu to yobunara
ルートを真実と呼ぶなら
Is what is called the truth
ano mirai wa tabun hora mata
あの未来は多分 ほらまた
Then probably that future is... see,
ai de mitasareru
愛で満たされる
It's being filled up with love again