Now, then.
Go to the Temple of Purity, please.
What about you, Niimi-san?
I will relay Tomiko-sama's message to Kaburagi Shisei.
"Please remain calm."
"There is nothing to be afraid of."
"I will protect everyone."
Terror paralyzes the mind.
That is their goal.
Please stay calm, everyone.
The queerats have devised numerous devilish designs to aid in their rebellion against us.
Though we grieve for our countless dead, now is the time to stand united!
Yes!
United!
Death to the queerats!
Episode Twenty-One
Fires of the Apocalypse
Let's run!
But I must speak to Shisei-san!
That's hopeless!
Look at what's happening.
I couldn't save everyone...
I am deeply ashamed.
Now it shall be we who retaliate.
Witness these cursed and ugly creatures.
Let us vow to eradicate the queerat race from the land of the gods, from the archipelago of Japan!
Your tenaciousness is quite admirable.
But, in the end, you stand powerless before me!
Where is your supreme commander?
Tell me.
Or else...
S-Stop...
A fiend!
A fiend has come!
A fiend?
No... Impossible!
...ria?
Are you truly a fiend?
But why?
Who are you?
You're wasting your time.
It's easy to predict your simple tricks.
Try to do this!
Saki!
Satoru!
I'm so glad!
You're unhurt!
We have to run!
The outcome here is obvious!
What?
Shisei-san's bluff may be keeping him at bay for now,
but he'll understand it sooner or later.
Understand what?
That Shisei-san can't kill another human, even a fiend, due to attack inhibition and death feedback!
But that doesn't apply to him !
It's not like the fiend can defeat Shisei-san, right?
Shisei-san can just deflect any attack.
No. It's simple for the fiend.
Subconscious... Cantus leakage?
Run!
We have no time!
Saki?
Are you okay?
Yeah.
How are you, Niimi-san?
I'm okay.
Quick!
This way!
This place smells terrible.
Careful.
They might not be dead.
Maybe he can talk.
If you answer me honestly, I'll make your death painless.
Man, you're really biting the bullet here.
Why do you want to rebel so badly?
I don't understand what's going through your heads.
What is it? You speak our tongue, don't you?
Don't pretend you don't.
There is no need to deceive you.
I see.
Then tell me.
Where is Yakomaru?
Yakomaru is lying to you all.
Why don't you understand that?
He doesn't value the lives of you soldiers at all!
Please.
The lives of individuals are meaningless before the greater cause.
The greater cause?
The liberation of our entire species from your tyranny.
What? Tyranny?
I don't think we've ever treated you badly.
We are an intelligent species.
We ought to be treated as your equal.
Yet, with your devilish powers, you have robbed us of our dignity and treat us like animals.
The only way we can restore our pride now is to wipe you out from the face of the Earth.
Do you really believe you can do that?
You killed many of us with your cowardly sneak attacks.
But a single survivor would be enough to slaughter you all!
That will not happen.
What?
You stand no chance while we have Squealer, the hero of our liberation, and the messiah that heaven has sent us!
Messiah? The fiend?
Fiend?
You are the fiends!
Damn it!
He jumped at us so we'd kill him.
Let's go.
This isn't the time to linger.
I must fulfill the final task that Tomiko-sama left me.
Quick. You need to go to the Temple of Purity.
Emergency announcement. Emergency announcement.
A fiend has appeared. A fiend has appeared.
Its name and type are unknown,
but it is suspected to be a Klogius Type 1 or Type 2 variant.
The fiend has attacked Hayring and claimed many casualties.
Please make your escape with all haste.
All presently in the core villages should evacuate immediately,
while those near the border should flee from the wider area.
Why don't you come with us, Niimi-san?
No. I have to go to the town hall.
Those were Tomiko-sama's orders.
But isn't it too late to send out a warning now?
Most people in Hayring have already been...
I don't know whether it's too late or not.
But if my warning can save but one extra life, it will not be in vain.
...while those near the border should flee from the wider area.
We have to go home once we hear Going Home...
Seems like Niimi-san managed to escape too.
Yeah.
Niimi-san's still—
I pray for your safety.
It pains me to ask this of you in your exhaustion,
but please come with me to the main hall.
Asahina Satoru-san and Watanabe Saki-san are here.
Thank you for coming.
I hope Tomiko-sama is well.
Have my parents come here?
They have.
Where are they?
They talked with Head Priest Mushin and Priest Gyousha
and thereafter returned to the villages.
But...
They said the fiend needs to be stopped regardless of the sacrifices necessary.
To this end, they were going to free all the tainted cats in the villages and set them on the fiend.
I have something they asked me to give you upon your arrival here.
You may see it later.
Let me see it now, please.
Very well. I shall bring it right away.
However, there is someone who wishes to see you both.
I see.
Inui-san!
Watanabe-san. I'm so glad to see you're unhurt.
You too, Asahina-san.
I'm glad you're fine as well.
I am ashamed to admit that not only did I fail in my mission,
but that all I could do was run away with my tail between my legs.
No. Your opponent was a fiend.
You had no choice.
No. If only I had been able to give notice to the villages a little sooner, the casualties...
Inui-san...
You left to annihilate the Robber Fly colony a week ago, right?
What happened after that?
We headed to our destination in accordance with the Security Council's orders.
However, the Robber Fly army had already gone into hiding by then.
For three days we searched fruitlessly.
Finally, on the fourth day, we discovered traces of a night camp.
After about an hour of tracking them, we found a small troop of queerats.
Who are you? What are you doin—
I decided to return home after sundown,
but the queerats combed the area restlessly.
They knew that the "gods of death" always worked in teams of five.
It took all my skill to avoid being discovered, and escaping was impossible.
Then, on the fourth day, yesterday,
the entire queerat army suddenly moved out.
I headed for the villages after the sun had set.
I realized I had to warn the village of the queerats and—especially—the fiend.
When I finally arrived at the village of Outlook,
not a single soul could be seen.
The Summer Festival...
Yes.
Everyone had left.
But...
I thought that someone would have to be at the hospital or the nursery.
I should not have been shocked that they would do this.
We saw it happen every time an intercolonial war ended.
At that time we simply considered it a tradition of inferior creatures.
But that they would do it to humans...
Just a moment!
Did the queerats...
Yes.
As despicable as it is,
they came for the human infants!
What are those?
They are nestlings birthed by the Feral Spider queen.
Nestlings?
Babies?
They are treasured spoils of war.
They shall be the workforce for a brighter future for our colony.
The queen would be executed
and we would work as slaves until we die.
We would be treated like scum while we live,
and our corpses would be left in the hills to fertilize the earth.
So Yakomaru's true goal was to abduct infants...
They're not just looking to double their investment.
They started with Mamoru and Maria's child.
He grew into a fiend and killed Shisei-san.
When the children they abducted with this victory also awaken to their Cantus in ten years...
I finally understood it myself.
This was the grand design which Yakomaru had nurtured in secret.
Ideally, he would take control of Kamisu's 66th district with only a single fiend.
But even if absolute victory escaped him, he would only need to hold out for another ten years.
Then, once the children they took from the nursery turn into fiends themselves under the queerats' care,
not a single community in Japan would be able to stand in their way anymore.
That way, he could capture even more children and form an entire unit of fiends.
From Japan he could expand to the rest of the Far East and the entirety of Eurasia.
World conquest would not be out of the question.
It would be the birth of a great queerat empire.
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Presents
SHINSEKAI
YORI
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Presents
SHINSEKAI
YORI
Nani mo iranai
何もいらない
I need nothing else
Anata ga ireba ii
あなたがいればいい
When you are by my side
Sotto yokogao iki wo korosu
そっと横顔 息を殺す
I look at you in profile and hold my breath
Mabataki sureba kieteshimaisou de
まばたきすれば消えてしまいそうで
I'm afraid it might vanish like an illusion if I blink now
Mitsumesasete suki da yo
凝視めさせて好きだよ
Let me look at you, I love you
Ah kigi ga furue furidashita yuki
ああ 木々が震え 降り出した雪
The trees shake in the wind and snow gathers on the ground
Ashiato futatsu shiroku
足跡 ふたつ 白く
Two lines of white footprints show
Toki yo tsumore
時よ 積もれ
Snowflakes of time, gather
Kami ni mune ni futari dake no yume ni
髪に 胸に ふたりだけの夢に
In our hair, our hearts, our dream
Sakenai hana no
咲けない花の
This flower cannot bloom
Tane wa yuki ni dakare
種は雪に抱かれ
And the snow embraces its seeds
Yorisou no
寄り添うの
As they huddle together
Shizuka ni wasureraretai
静かに忘れられたい
Quietly they wish to be able to forget
FROM THE NEW WORLD
Don't forget that you were chosen by Tomiko-sama.
This is uncalled for! At least unchain him!
This is a problem.
Why would you do something like that?
We've got no time. We have to go.