It's open.
The bird sings on the finger. I repeat.
For no reason, I always thought that...
the people of the Class could come back above-ground if we really wanted to.
Because we are the people who should, by right, live above-ground.
My job to take you here is done.
I thought texhnolyzation was the very means for mankind...
to evolve into the next species.
But while we were struggling desperately underground...
the people above-ground had long given up on surviving.
This is a place for dead people.
No one is alive here.
They just sit comfortably and...
wait as the human species moves through its final days.
You're right. This is Hades.
I'm going back.
What about you?
I'm already one of the dead.
Sakimura-san.
I heard you're going underground.
I wish I was.
I've been applying for it for a long time.
Yoshii-kun.
I'll get there one day.
No matter what.
Sakimura-san, why didn't you decline?
I thought nobody but I would want to go underground.
Initially, I didn't.
38, 39, 40. I repeat twice.
Listen carefully.
The widow's veil is the sun's lunch.
I repeat. The widow's veil is the sun's lunch.
Look, that's a very clear ghost.
You're the ones who are ghosts.
This is a surprise. You're alive.
What about you?
Well, I wonder.
If sitting here day after day...
only reminiscing about the past can be called living...
then I guess we are.
If we, who barely hold onto our sanity...
by having our ghosts walk around can be called "living humans".
Do you want to die now?
Oh, Sakimura-san.
You look like a completely different man.
You've become so muscular.
I was doing physical labor.
How lucky of you.
What kind of work?
Train engineer.
I see. A train engineer.
Um...
Yes?
It seems that a train is coming up from Lukuss, via the underground.
Who's coming?
Probably a force of armed Texhnolyze soldiers.
Oh? What are they coming here for?
I think to capture us as the vanguard of their invasion.
I see, I see. Well, thank you for the report.
Anything else?
No.
What's your name?
Ichise.
And your last name?
Don't have one.
Oh? That's good.
Every human being is on his own.
No point being bound by a name.
Your parents must be much younger than me...
to have such a young son as you.
They're gone.
Both my mother and my father.
You won't have to wait much longer. Be patient.
I'll make us some coffee.
You can't now, but...
Hmm, what's that?
You should come to Lukuss some day.
The people of Lukuss are at least alive.
You're right.
Thanks.
I'm going now.
Oh, you are.
Ichise-kun.
I just thought if you would stay here forever...
Well, it was just a thought. The empty dream of a ghost.
To the station.
Goodbye, Lukuss.
What are they doing?
They can't...
The sky is much higher.
But that's about the only difference.
I just got here. You could give me a moment to rest.
I'm going back.
Go back and do what? Is there anyone waiting for you?
The Seer from Gabe, perhaps? She should've been captured by now.
Kano-san wanted her.
Oh, Onishi?
I thought he was a little smarter than he actually was.
He crawled under the Obelisk.
He must be dead by now.
With the tunnel destroyed...
Kano-san won't be able to send his soldiers up here for some time.
You and I can't go back, either.
I bear no hatred towards you.
I rather like you.
That's why I want to kill you.
I see.
Same goes for me.
What attracted me to Ichise was his eyes.
His eyes are the eyes of our parents' parents.
What the first immigrants to Lukuss all had.
That's why they were driven underground.
I never had enough courage to go through proper testing...
but I knew for sure early on...
that I lacked the ability to produce offspring.
I was hoping to see how much power Ichise's texhnolyzed limbs...
would gain from the addition of my cells cultivating the bio-circuit.
But it's no longer possible now.
I'm having a great time.
I feel very fortunate that we can sincerely try to kill each other like this.
Thanks, Brother.
I'm glad I came.
It's you.
The reason your people were isolated underground was...
to protect us, the Theonormal.
But I suspect there may have been another reason.
As you can see...
we, the Theonormal, as a species are on the verge of extinction.
Despite our best efforts to eliminate dangerous elements...
we weren't able to delay our annihilation.
No miracle happened that would evolve us into the next species.
Maybe our parents' parents' generation pinned their hopes on your people.
Although that's nothing more than my speculation.
How selfish of you and your parents.
We destroyed the staircase in the airshaft.
The people underground won't be able to come up here anymore.
Neither will you.
I'd like you to stay here. I know it's a selfish request.
The staircase is destroyed, but the air shaft itself isn't blocked.
Good enough.
You...
I have to apologize to you.
For a long time...
ever since Mother died...
I thought it was you who killed her.
I thought you became corrupted by worthless things, like money.
I never even imagined that you had been framed...
by some filthy bastards.
I'm sorry...
Father.
A brilliantly white T-shirt
kagayaita masshiro na T-shatsu
A rainbow on a splash of water
mizushibuki ni ukabu niji
To have nothing, that was the happiness only you and I shared
nanimonai koto ga futaridake no shiawase datta
Deeper than any other, I lost myself in you, heart and all
dare yori mo fukaku kokoro made oboreta
And I'm still here, looking only at you
ima mo kono basho de kimi dake wo mitsumete
If it's a dream forever lost, destroy it for me please
nido to modoranai yume naraba kowashite
I can't forget you
wasurerarenakute
I want to see you again
mou ichido aitai