02x24 - Signs of Upheaval

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Causes of death are many and varied.

Old age, illness, su1c1de. But out of that long,

morbid list, there's one end that people

fear above all others.

Death by fire.

So hot.

Where did you go? Captain Sheneman. You can't leave us here.

No. Better. I think he's forgotten.. All about us.

Uh.

Oh,

come on. We came here

to train and learn about hysterical strength,

but the only thing you've done is t*rture

us all day and night. Captain,

what the hell's the point of this?

If you don't mind me asking. What

is the point of this, captain?

I don't know. Proto nationalist hazing, really?

But to tap into the hysterical strength of a fire scene,

you have to go beyond your limits.

So this kind of training is a part

of overcoming the limits of one's own strength.

Conroe did the same to me when I was young.

Hey.

Hysterical strength is invaluable at a fire scene.

I'll say this When somebody can freely

use this power at will they become the pinnacle of Akashi,

the captain of the eighth. For example.

He's practically the embodiment of hysterical strength.

I believe he is. Whatever he keshi

on the force should strive to be..

Our own Captain Obi. Even though he may technically be unpowered,

no one does what he can. Hey, I don't think this is help.

What is? Please stop. The point. We stop.

Please stop. Please stop. Please stop.

We've been roasted over a fire, smoked

on a cross, dragged by a wagon,

dipped naked into water headfirst, spun around.

So tell me, what's the point of it all?

To reach your hysterical strength, you have

to go far beyond your furthest limits. Right?

Carneiro said the same thing back then. And then what?

Hmm. There's got to be some reason for all this.

I never actually found out, though.

Okay, let's do this.

There really wasn't a point to all that, was there, Captain?

Oh, come on. Does every small thing get to you

in a campaign to get you down?

Could be the hazing, but you have a lot of pent up anger.

That's good. I can actually feel the breath

of life in every one of your att*cks.

I can sense that you're really trying to k*ll me. Of course.

The captain freaking hates.. Me right now.

Fruit. That's too much.

Anger just begets more anger. If you've turned your bloodlust on someone,

then you've guaranteed it'll come right back on you. Woof.

I taught both of you about the breath

of life and the value of your

friends and even your enemies lives.

They're all important, but you still don't get it.

Facing the fury of a raging inferno

is like throwing yourselves into the purifying

flames of the immovable Lord. The wisdom King. Acala.

Fight or flight? Let down your guard and you die.

Your precious breath of life instantly snuffed out by a caller's flames.

What you feel next? What's beyond the breath of life is.

You had better look alive or Akela will strike you dead.

He's faster than my rapid. How?

He took them both down so easily.

Is that what hysterical strength does for you?

Hey.

I'm not done.

Not. Yet. They've been going for five hours.

I think they've used up all of their oxygen.

You're both starting to black out. If they don't stop right now.

They're going to get to process. You got overheated, did you?

Excuse me,

Captain Sheneman, but isn't that enough for one day?

Enough. We haven't even started yet.

Huh? Get up. Your training begins now.

Lieutenant Conroe. You hear what? It's a captain of the fifth.

Is Walker supposed to be training you today, too?

Don't be ridiculous. A researcher like me doesn't engage in such foolishness.

I was hoping you'd be gracious enough

to elaborate further on that demon encounter you had mentioned yesterday. Oh.

You're here to talk to me? That doppelganger business?

Yes, that's correct. I'd like to know

more about it, if you don't mind sharing.

You came all the way to hear the story.

Honestly, I really don't know what else to say about it.

Anyway, why don't you come in?

If you're short on words, we can

learn more another way. Go ahead and enter.

You brought someone else with you. I'm

with Special Fire Force Company six Captain

Kyoko Huang. Captain Hwang. That's our man.

I'll start with palpation. What are they going to do to me?

Hey, I said get up. So get up.

You haven't even started training them yet.

But won't it make them get to process

if you push them too far?

The entire point of my training is to push

them beyond their limits. Now get up.

I was never going to quit. No, sir. No way in hell.

That just sounds like a bunch of tough talk to me.

At least quitting is doing something. Both

of you are just standing there.

What the hell is wrong with you?

You move or else you die. Your enemy won't wait around.

I'm well aware, sir. Move or die.

I've used up all my oxygen. I can't breathe.

I can feel. My life. Burning away.

Everything's going dark. I'm feeding.

A fire.

The purifying flame of Ocala.

I'm at the scene of a fire. Right in the middle of it.

Shinra.

Shinra.

I'm back at home. But I was in Asakusa.

So.

It's time to do or die or else I'm going to lose them again.

Life is precious. It's irreplaceable. Once it's gone.

You'll never get it back.

My body is..

Paralyzed with fear. I can't move. But if I don't, I'll die.

And then it's too late. That's the end of my story.

It's all over. Am I a coward?

The kind of person who just let it in without fighting.

What choice do I have? What can I do?

I've used up everything. There's nothing left.

So what can I do?

Survival in.

My nerves. The press of death is.

A pinch of energy. What does the fear of death give me?

And here come those flames. Yeah. Now we're getting somewhere.

You learn anything new? No, not really.

And your flame? It's no different from that of other pyro kinetics.

And if your flame has no unique characteristic,

something else must be triggering the Idola link.

Lieutenant Conro. Both you and Captain Ogoo

from the fourth experienced your idola links during the Great Fire.

A massive conflagration, large scale loss of human life.

Perhaps one of those served as the catalyst.

Captain Huang, to springboard off what you said

about his flame not being unusual from firsthand experience,

is there something tangibly different about an

adolla burst that sets it apart?

Mm.

Is something wrong? It's nothing anyway.

I'll need to check with others who have had an odola link.

I know that Captain Agu carries a stigma as well.

Meeting with him might reveal something.

I've got this holy scar. The white clad came after me.

Are we sure Captain Agu will be safe? Let's hurry.

Oh. That's so good. So good. You

know exactly how to do it. What a touch. Who are you? One

of the white clad, I presume.

You who bear a stigma. I have come for you.

You have a lovely golden arm.

Who?

But how are you? Behind me.

There is nothing behind you. You should know

the evangelist has more than protectors at

her disposal. Who are..

You? Or rather, what are you? A destroyer.

A fire. Soldiers sacred duty is to protect

both human lives and their property.

But never forget the life you must

value and protect above all else is your own.

For when your life has been snuffed out,

it's no longer possible to save those of others.

LatAm. LatAm.

Losing a man is never easy.

p*rn Always think rationally, Always act sensibly.

And always treat your own life with the greatest care.

Fire soldiers are not mythical heroes. We are human.

Exactly like the victims of those fires.

Mythical hero. Wish you were one. Good question.

I think it would be a wonderful

thing if such beings exist beyond our understanding.

Help me get him down from there. Yes, sir.

No signs of a break in or struggle.

Is it possible the captain committed su1c1de?

I don't believe so. Although the Great Fire changed the captain profoundly.

He'd never willingly throw away his own life.

So you're saying. I'm saying Captain Agar

was m*rder*d without any chance at all

of fighting back. By an extremely dangerous foe.

Never seen a flame like this one. So quiet and unbelievably hot.

He's getting the hang of it now.

Captain Hogg. And a dollar like.

I'm not done yet.

I'm not done yet. Not done yet. Not yet. Not yet.

Not yet. So this is what it's like to die.

Is this hysterical strength. I can't die yet. I'm not done.

It, Captain Schumann. Did they just. They did.

They found the flame beyond their furthest limits.

They're doing it, huh? All right, that's enough, guys.

Very good work.

Now you need to be able

to call that up at any time. What the hell?

Why did I just do? Looks like the training

is running right on schedule for day one.

What's wrong? Shinra? That was the press of death.

Is Captain Hogg really dead?

Due to Captain Haggard's history of masochism,

his death was determined to be the result of self-inflicted wounds.

But the scene was so gruesome and his

body was pierced head to toe with all those stakes.

The su1c1de ruling makes no sense.

All right, then.

Walker Captain OG. Those

white clad bastards are going to come around here again.

Don't go off on your own without telling me.

Shinra and others have been saying it's

time for the Empire to unite as one. So.

As long as it's good for both Asakusa

and the eighth, I don't really care.

The flame is the soul's breath. The

black smoke is the soul's release.

Ashes thou wert and art. May thy

soul return to the great flame of fire. Lathom.

Looks like Captain Agu was fatally k*lled in the line of duty.

You have a stigma as well, Captain Burns, so please be careful.

Perhaps you should take on a security detail.

What we face as a trial presented to us by the Almighty.

Therefore, the first must set an example.

One for all devotees of the Holy Sol Temple to follow.

Through our conduct and discipline, we must

demonstrate that we will never back down

from such cowardly acts of terrorism.

May the divine flame of soul be with us..

For just a sorts of God.. To dispel the darkness.

Let us go forth and take back this empire.

A while since you felt the breeze.

On the cusp of something wonderful, a new era for humanity.

Shinra Arthur Tamaki. It sounds like you're

training in Asakusa. Went well. I'm proud.

We appreciate it, sir. Listen up. Thanks to our previous operations,

we now have significant partnerships with each of the other companies.

After the incident with.. Nataku,

the eighth and Haijima have managed to find some common goals.

Incredible. When we started, the eighth was fighting our battles alone.

But we kept going and gained all

these wonderful allies along the way.

Our enemy is powerful and still a mystery.

But we have a lot of friends

we can rely on and allies who will stand with us.

So let's go. It's time to join

forces and take down those white clad punks for good.

My mind. Hey, evangelist. Are you ready? We're coming for you.

We'll protect the Tokyo Empire. That's why we're doing this.

The special fire force is uniting to kick your ass.

You to buy small ones and.

More.

Did you get?

I can't see.. It. It's all flooding in

the world. Illuminated by a new sun.

At last, the empire will finally become, as it should rightfully be.