01x09 - Gakuen no kodomo-tachi

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TENGOKU-DAIMAKYO

Push Start!

TENGOKU-DAIMAKYO

What? It floats into the sky

and shoots out light?

What kind of face does it have?

Don't ask me everything.

Imagine for yourself, Kona.

Close your eyes,

and focus on what comes to mind.

Look at it closely.

It might be something you think

you saw out of the corner of your eye,

or an optical illusion.

But let it fill your senses. Follow it.

Did you see something?

A sword of light?

- Michika?

- Blood.

What's happened?

- Michika suddenly started bleeding.

- Get the teacher!

It's a deep cut.

No one even touched Michika.

It came out of nowhere.

Michika, please stay still.

It's not perfect, so please rest, okay?

Kona? Kona.

What? Asura?

When did you come in?

- Oh, no!

- A power outage?

No, wait. It's just the camera monitors.

Restart them!

CAMERAS ARE NOT RESPONDING

Now I understand why I was born.

So I have come to say goodbye.

What?

Asura?

Asura!

Asura, where are you?

Asura.

Asura!

The adults are on their way.

Go back to your room, Kona.

Asura, don't go!

I'll be all alone!

You are not alone.

You have Anzu, Tokio and Mimihime.

Even Nanaki, Iwa and the others.

You will find more and more friends.

Kona, find someone that you love.

But I love you, Asura!

It's a different kind of love.

An even more special feeling.

Open your heart to it.

Kona seems lonely.

Kona is the only one left in his year now.

I'll be right back.

Tokio!

What is it, Tokio?

It's nothing important

but I just thought I'd come over here.

You're so good at drawing.

Thank you.

Whoever k*lled Asura,

is coming to take Tokio away next.

CHILDREN OF THE NURSERY

That was so close.

They are the group of 14-year-olds.

That's great.

Tokio? Could it be?

And a group of 15 five-year-olds

will join the nursery.

They will probably be the last.

Oh, Miss Aoshima, what are you doing?

I need you to interpret.

Sorry.

Usami was holding this button.

It has the same logo as Kiru-Beam.

It can't just be a coincidence.

Since you only have a vague idea

of where you're trying to go,

I think tracking down this logo

is a good idea.

So the next place we need to go is--

The town where Usami used to live?

That's the one.

I thought we'd be going that way

with Usami,

so I didn't see

where he pointed on the map.

Everyone else went off that way.

Yeah, but if they turned off

here or there

If they did that,

then there are endless possibilities.

Don't make it sound like a good thing.

Well, either way,

we've just got to try to get there.

Oh, and by the way, look.

The tooth that fell out.

It's growing back.

What's going on with your body?

- An earthquake.

- It's a big one.

Whoa!

Careful! If the ground swallows you up,

you're done for.

There hasn't been an earthquake in ages.

That must be a building falling nearby.

- Let's go.

- What for?

When a building falls down,

you can get into any room.

It's a total jackpot.

If it's near the town we're looking for,

resource collectors might show up.

You wanna grab anything worth stealing

before those guys?

You idiot. They can take us

to the place we're looking for.

It didn't collapse completely.

It'll be dangerous.

We can get in this way.

Give it up. If it caves in, we'll die.

What the hell? Someone's living in there!

Oh, wow, are you okay?

You did well to survive.

No, no. I don't live there.

I came to have a look

to see if there are any resources.

Looks like you beat us to it.

Sorry.

I couldn't get in at all,

and I don't have anything either.

Can you let it slide?

What are you so nervous for?

Well, from the look of you,

aren't you guys bandits?

Who you calling bandits?

You stink of bandits way more than us!

I-I'm sorr

I'm sorry for taking up your time.

Please excuse me

for calling you here so suddenly.

It's okay. I've been anxious

about my health recently too.

Thank you for checking up on me.

Everything seems perfectly okay,

so no need to worry.

For now, just try not to catch a chill.

And don't do any strenuous activity.

Okay. I won't.

Mimihime.

You made me jump.

Don't sneak up on me like that.

You're always

looking at something up there.

And you're always looking at me.

Is it the ceiling?

It's something floating

in front of the ceiling.

Dust?

If you're talking about

specks of light floating about,

they're particles

in your eyes' vitreous fluid.

Anyway, let's go. Class is about to start.

I see.

Just as I thought.

I'm the only one who can see it.

It's creepy.

Really? Can no one else see that?

Is everyone present?

Tokio isn't here yet.

Before class begins,

I need to inform you

of something about Tokio.

-You may not see Tokio for some time.

- What?

But, of course, you will meet again.

Please don't worry.

Let's begin the class.

There.

Must be nice to have a car that works.

It's not as useful as you might think,

when the roads are such a mess.

Well, I'm all set then.

Isn't it dangerous by yourself?

Worst-case scenario, I've got this.

You had something that dangerous

hidden under your raincoat?

Well, isn't that a g*n?

Something like that.

Hey, is there a town somewhere round here?

Information is a commodity, you know.

If it's money you want, we'll pay.

In any case,

do either of these guys, this logo,

or the word "heaven" mean anything to you?

Wait there a minute.

I just need to move the car a bit.

Can you step back?

A bit further! A bit more!

There. Now we can talk properly.

I get the feeling

I might know where that logo comes from.

Oh, really?

I'll tell you in exchange for the g*n.

It's not for sale.

In that case, money will do.

That was easy.

Well, there's no point complaining

and getting myself k*lled.

But it may

take me a little while to remember.

I make a living

selling the information I have.

I'm sure once I get talking

it'll jog my memory.

This guy is really milking it.

Just tell us

whichever one you think is best.

Good evening, everyone.

I have returned once more.

I, Juichi, am here to tell you

stories that may have really happened.

It's still daytime.

There are various rumors

about what caused the Great Disaster.

But why does the cause remain so unclear?

Because the subsequent earthquakes,

the abnormally long winters,

the famine and disease, led humanity

towards the edge of extinction,

making it impossible to trace back

to what originally happened.

These three theories persist.

1 ASTEROID IMPAC

2 ALIEN INVASION - 3 w*r THEORY

First is the asteroid impact theory.

Before the Great Disaster,

people were making a lot of noise

about the discovery

of an asteroid drawing closer to Earth.

The sheer scale of the disaster

makes this theory a strong one.

Next, the alien invasion theory.

It may seem absurd at first,

but some people think

that those man-eating life-forms

came to Earth from space.

Before the Great Disaster occurred,

many people witnessed

mysterious figures floating in the sky.

I managed to get hold

of this precious image from back then.

That's a bird.

Finally, the w*r theory.

There is a rumor

that before the Great Disaster,

there was a t*rror1st attack

somewhere in Japan.

The theory goes that

this caused an outbreak of w*r

and the use

of some sort of special weapon.

So, how was the story?

Well, let's meet again sometime

for another story.

See you. Bye-bye.

It's not "See you. Bye-bye"!

Did you remember anything

about the logo or not?

Oops. Maybe if I keep talking

it'll come back to me.

I knew you'd say that!

Cool it, Sis.

Let's just hear one more, at least.

MENU - GREAT DISASTER

TRUE GHOST STORIES

Tell us one of the true ghost stories.

"The Walled Town."

Thank you.

Then let's get back to it.

This story is one of my own,

experienced firsthand.

For ten years, from the age of 12,

I was shut up in a school

surrounded by walls.

I apologize for calling

an emergency meeting with everyone.

Mina will send out meeting minutes

to the departments who cannot attend.

First, in regards to the ongoing

search for an assistant director,

I would like to ask Miss Aoshima

to take up the position.

Miss Aoshima will be given

level-four access rights.

Hold on one second.

Why is Aoshima being promoted?

Because Miss Aoshima

is the one I can trust the most.

But Dr. Sawatari was supposed to be

the most likely future director.

This is not going to go down well.

Madame Takeuchi too.

That town was a place where women ruled.

There were around 30 women,

mostly between the ages of 20 and 40.

The school was their stronghold,

and they barricaded it in.

Any man who accidentally approached it

would be k*lled.

However, in rare cases,

if they thought the man was healthy

and liked his face,

they would imprison him in the town,

keeping him as a "breeding pig."

I spent ten years

in that town, as Boar #11.

The breeding pigs would perform tasks

and provide the women with sperm.

When it was my turn,

one couple kept asking for me.

Eventually, one of them fell pregnant.

If a girl was born, she would be accepted

into the town as a human.

But if it was a boy,

he would be taken from his mother

and raised by us as a breeding pig.

It was a boy.

One night, about six months later,

that couple hatched a plan.

The four of us

would flee the town together.

Yeah! Good for you!

But they found us

and only I barely managed to escape.

The next day,

the couple's slaughtered corpses

had been strung up outside the town walls.

About one year has passed since then.

That such a terrifying place

can even exist in this world, is

So let's meet again sometime

for another story.

See you. Bye-bye.

It's not "See you. Bye bye"!

What happened to the baby?

I don't know.

What a gruesome story.

Sis, can't you go check somehow?

To see if the baby is at least alive?

If the story is even true

I suppose you did tell us a story,

so I won't take the money back.

But you better get lost before I k*ll you.

I-I'm sorry!

What was that for?

He didn't tell us about the logo yet.

He didn't need to.

That guy was acting really strange.

Even though

the driver's seat is on the right,

he went to the effort

to repark his car to the right.

In the first place,

why park your car so close to the wall,

when there's no one around here?

There was a reason

he needed to move it so quickly.

He spotted something

that he wanted to hide.

2F - TAKA

TAKAHARA ACADEMY

It's the logo on the Kiru-Beam.

We nearly wasted all our time

and money on that endless storytelling.

But we found it.

The origin of the symbol.

TAKAHARA ACADEMY

That box!

You found it.

You really are an odd-job girl.

We found the Kiru-Beam logo,

but if this is heaven,

isn't it really just a normal building?

Let's look around some more.

Someone's already

scavenged through all this stuff.

"Welcome message from the Director.

At Takahara Academy, there is a space

where you can rest both body and mind.

There is time

to immerse yourself in your hobbies,

and people who will listen to you

in times of stress."

HELL OF PATIENCE

Just one more thing I don't understand

about life before the Great Disaster.

Seems like an orphanage you can go to

even if you have a family and home

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

TAKAHARA ACADEMY

and it's also a cram school?

The heaven-like civilization

of that period sounds like hard work.

Well, maybe not all that bad.

With a few friends,

maybe I'd have the patience for it.

Sis! Will you come here?

TAKAHARA ACADEMY

Was this floor

part of Takahara Academy too?

Over here.

Another weird bird mark.

But it just looks like someone

made a graffiti version of the other one.

I bet bandits lived here at some point.

I'm not sure how,

but I get the feeling this place

isn't the one I've been searching for.

And there's no one here who looks like me.

I got all excited after we traced the logo

on the g*n to this place,

but there's also the possibility

that the g*n and the place I'm looking for

never had any connection.

What's this?

It seems that Takahara Academy

was some kind of orphanage.

And in that guide, it describes the world

as a "Hell of Patience."

And what's the opposite of hell, Maru?

Heaven.

So if the symbol

and this academy are related to heaven,

I still think

it's worth following this lead.

CONTACT NUMBERS

According to the leaflet,

Takahara Academy has two facilities

and 18 branches.

I guess the other branches

could be similar to this one.

I'm more curious about the two facilities.

Ibaraki and Nara?

It seems like an okay place to sleep.

Should we stay here tonight?

No. Let's find somewhere else.

This place gives me the shivers.

Let's get onto the main topic.

We have discovered that Tokio is pregnant.

- What?

- B-B-But that's outrageous!

At that young age!

That's not the issue.

The real question is the father!

- Who is the father?

- Director?

It's under investigation!

We never taught them the concept of sex,

or the distinction

between male and female.

And now, in these crucial final moments

This could shake up

the entire Takahara Academy!

We are in a state of crisis!