04x09 - A Dream of Butterflies

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A transaction, you use the healing ability for me.

In exchange, I provide information that will

lead to the agency's restoration. Let's meet in minutes.

Gabon street information leading to the agency's

restoration. Now we have some hope.

It is hard, though. How did Francis

discover the location of this Port Mafia hideout?

I suppose he must have used his eyes of God or whatever.

That's the thing. If he was able to discover this hideout,

he might as well have done business

with the m*llitary police instead of us.

It would have been more profitable to do

the formidable hunting dogs of favor,

as opposed to the weakened detective agency of Francis,

who I know will always side with the stronger, more aggressive group.

This transaction might be some kind of a trap.

You also know where are you going to complete that transaction.

You think it might be a trap, right?

Is that the reason you won't join the Port Mafia?

Don't give me that bullshit. I know

you can help prove our innocence.

You just don't want to until we've heard your terms.

Correct. The agreement with President Fukuzawa was

that we would only help the agency

in exchange for transferring one of its members to the Port Mafia.

Transfer a member of the agency. You think you're being funny?

You just want me back in the Mafia?

Isn't that really what's behind all this?

I can go. I'll join the Mafia instead.

My ability of light snow ought to

be useful enough to satisfy them.

But please tell me what's going on.

What happened between you and the Mafia boss?

Does it have to do with the Angel

of death that the hunting dogs were talking about?

Huh? All right, then. I guess you two deserve an explanation.

Fine. I'll tell you as we walk.

A long time ago, the boss and Mr.

Mori were close allies in the three party framework.

As you know, they wound up as enemies.

Why do you think that is? Well, come to think of it.

It's because of me.

The island Tokoyami

jima appeared out of nowhere in the Pacific.

An unclaimed island, where it was only ever night,

became the main battleground at the end of the Great w*r.

Electromagnetic waves from the Aurora destroyed electronic equipment,

resulting in pre-modern close quarters combat.

Uh, still. I have your medicine right here.

Oh, I'm going to wrap your bandage.

How's that feel? Don't just lie there, you lousy soldiers.

Special ability. Thou shalt not die.

Oh, I can see.. My eyes are working.

It doesn't hurt. I'm completely healed. My leg.

I have my leg again. You get hurt because you're weak.

Now stop loafing and get.. Back to the damn front.

Oh. Thank you. It's a. Our God, our Savior.

Let us use your likeness as our emblem.

Please let us worship you. Oh, wait. It's off. Oh.

Are you that enamored with my Yosano?

That you're willing to lose your life over her?

She's mori. We would never disrespect her like that.

Oh, sh*t. He's going to k*ll us.

Oh, he's going to pickle our organs.

Since when am I your yosano? Did

you buy me at an auction I wasn't aware of.

Chief Mori, how'd you like your ears bitten off?

I'm your superior officer, am I not?

I have the right to correct your

attitude and language whenever I feel they need correcting.

I don't care about m*llitary policy. I was working

at a candy shop until last week

when you dragged me out here against my will.

She's so strong willed. I love it. Oh.

Reading a novel after you nearly d*ed.

No, it's not a novel. It's a collection of poems. Huh?

Unbelievable. I'm not telling you to thank

me with tears of joy or anything,

but don't you have any intention of hurrying back to the front?

You know, now that you're all better.

I want to thank you for sure.

Which is why I'd like to present you with this gift.

Huh? Is that one of my butterflies?

No. It's metal. Thank you so much, my angel.

Angel?

But how? How did you do that just

now? Was that your special ability?

It's nothing that's going to change the world.

Certainly not in the way that your

ability is going to impact people.

I'm going to change the world. Your head must still be injured.

There are some things you notice when you're nothing but a private.

The special ability Doctrine. The great powers

of Europe that first started the gifted wars.

They're all changing the very concept of w*r.

If we are to prevail as victors,

we must prove this to the m*llitary brass.

We have to do so as quickly as possible.

That's why Chief Mori brought you into this unit.

That right? Chief Maury. I can see that you've been reading

my immortal Regiment paper without the proper authority.

What are you talking about? I was

certain that was a classified m*llitary document.

I don't know what the hell you're

going on about with all this immortal stuff.

I just came here to save as many soldiers lives as I can.

Let's go. U.S.A.. There are more patients

waiting for your ability. Elise. The next chart, please.

Yes, Master Maury.

Damn it! Those assholes

have set up camp so close they don't think we're a thr*at.

I hate to agree with..

Them, but we.. Aren't. We don't even have weapons.

None that will reach that far anyway.

We're way outgunned and outnumbered. Unless something changes.

Relax. We'll take them down. After all,

we have an angel on our side.

You're right. Yeah. That's right. She's magic.

Pretty lucky at that, huh? Absolutely. Yeah. Shut! Get down!

I still have my right arm. How are you feeling? All right.

Just tired. And you're looking pretty tired yourself.

Of course I look tired. I treated people all at once.

The worst one had half his body blown off in battle.

I could heal his wounds with my ability,

but I couldn't heal his mind.

He can't even say his own name anymore.

What about everyone else? The ones who

didn't die went back to the front. They don't have enough men.

Angel, my ass. I'm basically healing them

just for them to die again. You're wrong. Ha!

What's that? Something I'm using to keep count.

It's the number of times that you've saved my life.

Today makes the fifth time I like

to keep tally with this character.

It's the character that stands for true.

Every time I count something and finish writing true,

I get the sense something just was created in the world.

This is your impact. If it weren't for you,

I would never have had a chance

to see my brother and my parents again.

I'm glad you're here. Ha!

Thank you.

Actually I private first class. The front remains dire.

If you're better, then get out there. Yes, sir.

But as if to laugh in the face of our efforts,

the situation continued to get worse and worse.

I was treating soldiers once every three days. I'll repeat customers.

Then it became once a day. Soon three times a day.

It was no longer appropriate to even call it a w*r.

We were just standing there, being brutalized.

A normal unit would have given up and retreated

long ago, but that never happened. Because I was there.

What earth?

Say no more. I don't want to go to the front anymore.

That's a fracture of the right radius. Please treat him.

Father! Mother! I'll be home soon.

I don't want to fix them.

So you're just going to abandon his wounds? Yeah.

That's right. Let him fold back and get dreamin on his own.

I see you want to free him

from his obligations on the b*ttlefield as a soldier.

Oh, quite the conundrum. As your superior officer,

I'm obliged to dole out your orders.

But for some reason, I have a hard

time saying no to a young girl's wishes.

Not your wishes, though. Do it.

You know what happened to the samurai, don't you?

They fail to understand warfare, using g*ns and cannons, and they perished.

In the w*r that followed. The nation,

which recognized tanks as beasts that could ravage enemy territory,

was able to m*ssacre and completely annihilate its enemy.

In naval battles. The nation which failed

to realize airplanes would be the masters

of the sea was the one to fall,

and now special abilities are changing w*r.

Once again. Your role is to make

the m*llitary understand this change is needed.

Do it or else the nation will crumble, I refuse.

I just want to save the lives

of the people in front of me who need it.

Very well.

Up there. He's dying now. Fix him.

No one could leave the b*ttlefield after that.

The soldier who drew a picture of me.

The soldier who pat my head saying

I reminded him of his sister.

The soldier who made me delicious coffee.

They all d*ed. If it weren't for me,

they could have left with mere injuries.

Do you know the word annihilation? It's

used when half a fighting unit of soldiers becomes incapacitated.

Not when half of the unit is dead.

In other words, if half of an army is hurt,

it retreats and the battle ends. But as long as I was there.

There was no retreat. That's why they couldn't lose.

To lose is a human right. But

I took that right away from them.

Deprived of that opportunity. There's only one place..

A m*llitary can go. Stop her. Take his dagger.

Everyone's going to die.. Because of that bitch.

This isn't w*r! Let me go, assh*le! Let me go!

Let me go! Let me go! It happened on the day a soldier

I was close to tried to k*ll me.

My hair ornaments missing. I must have dropped it somewhere.

I can't lose it after he gave it to me. I have to find it.

Yes or no. I'd like to ask

you to deliver a message. I know that voice.

I promised I didn't do her. But your ability,

the truth of it has taught me.

Every person in this world has their limits.

I remember how I called you an angel.

You're so much more than that. You've

descended on the b*ttlefield.. As an angel of death.

We can tell my family that I said goodbye.

My memory after that is vague. From

what I've heard, I went crazy.

I was arrested for setting off a series of expl*sives.

Something about trying to blow up an aircraft carrier.

Oh. Even after the w*r, I was

kept in isolation and under guard in a mental facility.

Not that I imagine I would have

left even if the door was open.

So someone must have rescued you from there. Was it the agency?

If only that were the case. I was rescued

by the worst person there is.

It was three years after the w*r had ended.

I finally found you.

Huh?

Come with me. I need your ability again.

Yes.

You would willingly drag her back into hell again.

Have you decided you're not the devil? Maury.

She is the very pillar of the three

part framework of the city's peace,

an immortal army led by Yosano's special ability.

She's the key to defeating the formidable Port Mafia boss.

Do you really think she's the key?

Your reasoning lacks all sense of humanity.

Humanity. w*r is a game in which

the first to take humanity into account.

In that case. Our alliance ends today.

Oh, it's your life that is today.

Ah, sheesh. Grown up fights are always so pretentious.

Oh. About this. I'm freeing you while my boss

is fighting your old boss. That's my plan anyway.

Take me back. Huh? Take me back.

I can't go outside again. Why not?

My special ability makes it too easy to save lives.

I make the lives of everyone around me

seem like they're cheap and valueless.

Take me back. I can't be allowed to live anymore.

Ah, that's so stupid. I don't give a crap.

Why don't you give up using your special ability then?

If I could do that. You're saying that you can't.

Why not? Because you have a crazy healing ability.

Because everyone tried to take advantage of that ability.

That's not it. My ultra deduction is the best special ability.

None of the others matter at all.

With me on your side, I can solve any problem you have.

If you doubt me, I can prove it to you.

Huh? It's. But how? I never told

anyone about this hair ornament before.

I found it on an old aircraft carrier.

See, I know everything. Try asking me a question. I'll answer anything.

Then tell me, what should I do with my life now?

The people I cared about.. d*ed because of me.

That's how it's always going to be.

There will always be people who want

to exploit my special abilities against my will.

There isn't one single place in this

whole world where I should be allowed to live.

Wrong. Ha ha ha. There is one.

Just one place in the world that doesn't need you.

Ha ha. That one place is the armed Detective Agency.

We don't want your special ability. We want

that kindness of yours that goes with it.

You didn't want anyone to die, did you?

That's why you're in so much pain.

I invite you to join us because you feel that way.

I don't care about your ability. It's

your kindness.. That means something.

Yosano. What's wrong? Oh.

Nothing.

It's time to go.

The transaction takes place through the door.

I'm saving the agency no matter what happens to me.

There is one. Just one place in

the world that doesn't need you.

The agency is the one place in the world

where I can be allowed to live.