05x11 - Twilight Goodbye

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Fall!

Fall!

Fall!

Fall!

Fall!

Fall!

Fall!

You're joking...

No...

It won't come out.

Do not blame yourself.

This is but our fate.

Bungo Stray Dogs

Final trajectory confirmation complete.

Impact in T- seconds.

Targeting million cities. No amendments.

The world's ending.

Oh, God...

Why...

It was for neither a lack of courage nor a lack of ability.

You did nothing wrong.

Just a lack of weight.

Nothing more.

Now I'm certain of something.

There is a way to save everyone.

What?

I told you.

I'm a hero of justice. Nothing is impossible for me.

It's right here.

There's something heavier than the desk right here.

Wait...

Later, Bra-chan.

Twilight Goodbye

All units, att*ck!

I've been waiting...

This is the moment.

There's a slight opening in Gen'ichiro's sword.

A weakness that only I know.

What I need is bloodlust...

For the death of my friend.

Prepare yourself!

Tatsumi-ryu style kata:

Ichinotachi!

I knew you would try!

The only way you'll cease to be invincible

is if you let go of your sword!

This is Fukuzawa's best distance.

Grabbing my arm for an over-back throw?

No!

The dagger on the ground!

Wrong!

All units!

Cease your att*ck!

My, look at this.

A perfect starry night, befitting Dazai-kun's end.

Goal!

Fyodor makes it to the finish line in first place!

Absolutely fantastic!

My very best friend, everyone! So damn awesome!

Save the acclamations, please.

The thing.

The thing?

You mean this?

But first!

May I ask you something?

Dazai-kun was using his pulse to encode his messages to the outside.

How were you communicating?

It's simple.

Using them.

I see.

You had accomplices within the Mersault security forces.

Now, it's yours.

Indeed.

Aren't you taking the antidote?

I'll take it in the helicopter.

He was able to cause me harm.

Dazai-kun was most definitely my greatest foe since that man.

Though...

This slight injury cost him his life.

I suppose he never amounted to much.

I can't pilot the helicopter with my injuries.

Please take the stick.

By the way, what became of Sigma-kun?

He was brave.

He'll never awaken again, though.

Those who oppose you always meet an untimely demise.

What about you?

What will you do, once you're out of here?

Just as you said.

For starters, you tried to k*ll me, so I'll erase you.

I like it.

It's the beginning of a new game.

Oh, dear.

Do you really want to be treating the antidote like that?

Fyodor-kun?

How did this happen?!

What a shame.

I was so close to dying.

But you see...

You can't k*ll me.

I'm... alive?

Why are you here?

I ordered him here.

Bra-chan!

Your body!

Thanks to your selfless efforts to remove the sword.

I am lord and count.

But in this moment, I am your knight.

Invading armies have surrendered!

They're retreating!

All missiles disabled and descending.

Wake up.

Rampo-san!

It's done.

Everything.

Dazai-kun...

How...

Unlike you, I don't have control over all things.

My hand was full of uncertain cards.

But you had one weakness:

You don't trust anything you can't manipulate.

Allies.

Bram took back his special ability at the airport.

Rampo-san negotiated with him and had him take over the vampire piloting the helicopter.

It wasn't anything we could have planned ahead of time,

but I trusted that's what Rampo-san would do.

But you were sh*t in the head!

Oh, this?

Yeah, that hurt.

That dumbass was supposed to go easy.

Who are you calling a dumbass?

I see.

Chuuya was never a vampire to begin with.

All units! Cease your att*ck!

I repeat!

He'll try to take the sword and change the past!

You will not!

Free of thought, free of mind, free of need, free of self.

Tatsumi-Ryu Style Kata

Tatsumi-ryu style kata:

Ninotachi!

It was the most flawless strike of my life.

Thus, there was no stopping midway.

The moment I saw the look on my friend's face,

I understood the truth, and my own error.

But my sword had already cut him down.

Gen'ichiro!

Poe's notebook!

It was stolen?

Freaking hell, it's not coming out.

Wretched boss glued it in!

It was all an act.

I was only able to get out of the elevator

because Chuuya manipulated gravity.

And then, Chuuya sh**t me in the head.

The b*llet stops at my skull.

We used to do this all the time, remember?

Suck it!

You couldn't see how fast the b*llet was traveling through the security camera.

Also, the water att*ck was only to distract you from my actual goals, you see.

Your actual goal?

That wound.

With your hand injured, you'd have no choice but to let the vampire take the cockpit.

And...

Wait!

Goodbye, Fyodor.

Eli, Eli, lama sabachtani?

Good memories.

We're in Poe's novel space.

I've done all I ought to have done.

Yeah.

You win, Gen'ichiro.

Today is the day UN Security Council Resolution will be voted on.

It will have a special amendment such that a command structure is formed

overriding the command of each nation's militaries,

so as to prevent incidents like today's.

The commander in chief will hold the One Order.

A single individual will take command over all the world's forces.

That's right.

But it won't be to dominate the world.

Your goal...

Was to rid the world of w*r.

Please be careful.

The drug is still in your system.

Weren't we..

We were att*cked by Fukuchi from behind.

Your wounds have already been treated.

This device was set so that

you would be brought back without your injuries once it was unplugged.

This is the weight of years.

Thirty-six years later.

One day, I received a message through the Amenogozen.

It was a prophecy of a world w*r that would happen in years.

It said it would be sparked by a multinational conflict,

and advanced autonomous weapons and bioweapons would take million lives.

Fukuzawa...

What would you do?

So, is that anemic jackass dead?

Yeah.

Fyodor's no doubt dead.

I see.

Congrats, Nikolai.

You wanted to k*ll him, didn't you?

Yeah.

I certainly did.

No, I didn't.

No...

You're right.

I never exchanged many words with Fyodor-kun.

But my life since I met him felt nothing like it did prior.

Fyodor-kun was right.

I fought so I could lose myself.

Now, I...

What happened to your usual snark?

Nah.

Not today.

I got the antidote, too.

Fukuzawa...

Why does w*r happen?

The reason for w*r?

Yeah.

Long ago, in the warring states period,

domains warred with each other and people k*lled one another.

But is there any chance that one prefecture would go to w*r with another in modern times?

Not at all.

Long ago, each domain was sovereign, with separate powers from the rest.

They were .

But adjacent prefectures can intermingle, and are peer organizations.

Map of Japan

Each is a .

You're saying that wars can only ever happen between a .

Thus, in the far future, with the development of communication and transportation,

all people will become a , and w*r will fade away on its own.

But I can't wait that long.

Even if only by a year sooner, I want to cleanse this world of w*r—of the hell that it is.

Thus, I chose to make all of humanity a .

Your "destruction of the state."

I remember you had stolen those kintons.

You ate them, too. You're equally guilty.

You coward.

You served it with hojicha tea.

How could I resist?

Listen, Gen'ichiro...

Uniting humanity is impossible.

You can't turn hundreds of nations into one overnight.

The need for integrity is a limiting factor.

I have no doubt you're aware of that.

Then let me ask you, Fukuzawa. What is a state?

In crude terms, a state is an entity that has a right to v*olence.

Invariably, the state authorizes any necessary v*olence.

You, in the Detective Agency, carry g*ns, too, do you not?

If the leader of the Army of Mankind uses the One Order,

every nation in the world loses its foundation of sovereignty.

With every army under the umbrella of the Army of Mankind, there will be no w*r.

And thus the terror plot!

All to make the Army of Mankind and the One Order your own.

The world will soon form a supernation, a federation of humanity,

headed by the chief commander of the Army of Mankind.

With those preparations complete, the page will take effect.

Reality will be amended, and none will question the need to unify humanity.

w*r itself will cease to exist.

Forever.

Gen'ichiro...

That's never going to happen.

Even with w*r gone, all that remains is the dictatorship of one.

And as history has demonstrated, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

That's right.

That's why I had to make you use it.

All units!

Cease your att*ck!

Do you know why the One Order obeyed you?

Cut down my head.

Become the chief commander of the Army of Mankind

and the hero who stops the terror att*ck.

It was always configured to respond to my voice?

I placed a certain condition on the terror plot.

I would sacrifice no more than lives.

Five hundred!

That is the cost of peace.

The price to pay to save the million lives that would be lost in the coming w*r.

Would you call that a bad deal?

The proposal was Fyodor's.

No one else could have done it.

That's it.

You must be aware of how evil he is.

That's why I had him stay in prison.

Not even he could have managed to meddle from the other side of the planet.

Fukuzawa...

k*ll me!

You are to become the chief commander of the Army of Mankind.

There is no other way to save the Detective Agency.

My life, or the Detective Agency.

Choose!

We've left the novel world.

Good.

The moment of evil's beheading must be witnessed.

Any regrets?

None.

Say, Fukuzawa, if you could have just one wish granted, what would you wish for?

Let's see...

I would wish for the strength to protect those closest to me.

You?

I would wish for world peace.

I'm sorry.

I can't do it.

It's fine.

I suspected as much.

I'm sorry, Teruko-kun.

You're a coward!

This isn't fair!

You knew how I felt!

You k*lled him. That's your line.

Otherwise, I'll make you regret it!

Fukuzawa...

Are you there?

Boss!

Boss!

Stay back, kid!

Don't look at him!

But...

Please don't do this to him.

I'm a little tired.

Rest up.

I would wish for world peace.

Was there no other way?

When the Armed Detective Agency was formed,

the first guest at our celebration was this man.

He must be a little lonely, now that I've found my own path.

That must not be all.

You ought to decide what happens to this, boss.

Yes.

You can't destroy it.

That, Fukuzawa-san, is the curse that the old man placed on you.

Two hours later

Akutagawa!

We're concluding this story started by Fukuchi Ouchi.

Just the two of us?

Do we need any more?

Let's go, Akutagawa!

To Be Continued