I'll give you ten seconds!
Ten!
Nine!
Eight!
Seven!
Six!
Five!
--I'll just have to go out! --Four!
No, I changed my mind.
"Episode 8 One-Man Force"
Nami!
I feel it! Your anger!
Your urge to kill me is filling every corner of the jungle!
It's like the air itself is quivering, Sousuke Sagara!
Kurama!
If you don't come out, that's fine!
Just keep hiding in this backwoods shithole!
I'll just leave you with this, though.
I'm going to treat that precious girl of yours the same way!
Chidori?!
That's right! I know where she is!
After this, I'm going back there to drill some holes in your woman
the way I did to this destitute-looking girl!
How dare you...!
H-He's not coming.
Yeah. Let's go.
Get down!
Enemy attack!
Seven... Eight of them or more!
Who are they?
No, who cares!
Kurama!
Son of a--
Damn it!
Don't shoot, Sousuke.
Lemon!
What's going on here?
That can wait.
We were too late.
Oh, God...
Oh, God...!
M-My troops got wiped out!
What's the meaning of this? Did that Sagara guy have backup?
I'm not so sure. They didn't look like they were coordinating.
It's probably some separate group.
Th-Th-Then who?!
How should I know?
Could it have been a trap from the start?!
Y-Yes! It had to be a trap!
Thanks to faulty information on your end,
my troops got slaughtered!
Shut up.
C-Can't breathe...
Listen closely. I am pissed.
Your watchdogs are useless, and that brat is still alive.
Shooting the girl was the worst, too.
Maybe that gave a pervert like you a hard-on, but not me.
I feel horrible.
A-About that...
Why kill her? And in such a... wasteful manner.
It was enough.
If I did that, he'd be sure to come after me.
I doubt he can stop himself from strangling me to death.
I'll ambush him in the city. And you're going to help. Got it?
Mr. Kurama! This treatment is over the line!
I do my part for the organization, and I oversee Namsac!
Yet you treat me this way!
Sorry about that. Your voice gets on my nerves.
Also...
You should be careful when you talk to a man who's quit smoking.
He's far more irritated than you'd imagine by the look of him.
Will those temporary repairs get it moving again?
For a while.
I'm amazed. I'd heard it was a tough model, but still.
I'm done.
Okay.
You're going, then?
Yeah.
All right.
Go get yourself killed, then!
I'm done, too.
Thanks, and sorry.
Apologize to Nami, not me.
Sousuke.
You're not going to ask about my identity?
I've already guessed. You're probably a DGSE agent. From France.
Looks like I'm right.
Your buddies must be an Action Division 29 special forces team.
You were trying to get information on Amalgam, weren't you?
Yeah.
Sousuke Sagara. You're a Mithril soldier?
I was with Mithril. Not anymore.
How about we join forces and capture that Amalgam guy alive?
Alive? Are you aware of what he's done?!
But he's a valuable source of information.
Kurama is mine. I won't take orders from you guys.
I understand how you feel.
But you can't possibly go after those guys on your own.
Even so, I have to try.
But...
I don't know what else to do.
Sousuke! We're going to proceed with our own operation!
Do what you want.
Here goes.
Callin' us out here in the middle of the night.
That damn police chief.
Don't feel so bad. I hear we're gonna make bank.
Your attention!
What I'm asking of you gentlemen is combat.
Combat?
We think an AS is going to show up here in Namsac shortly.
The operator is a dangerous terrorist,
and he's also in the grip of a drug-fueled paranoia.
So we just need to kill the guy?
Indeed. I want you to bring down that terrorist
before harm comes to the good people of this city.
Be sure to kill him.
Just one guy?
That's right.
Who the hell is he?
He's Sousuke Sagara.
What? Sagara?!
And! I'll pay $30,000 to whoever does kill him.
Yahoo!
That's awfully appealing... but ain't it a little too generous?
I bet there's more to this.
There's no need to be concerned, gentlemen.
I'll give you all the support you need.
Wow, that's the latest model Oerlikon.
OTO Melara, Mauser, Bofors... Talk about the works.
A-A white Savage apparently passed near a farming village 15km to the north.
He wants a fight after all.
I told you.
But I have my doubts about whether those punks will be of any use.
Oh, hardly. Those are ten fully-armed ASes. Surely, this time...
I hope you're right. I might as well prepare, too.
Prepare?
Prepare the finish line. This place right here.
Kurama...
A welcoming committee, huh?
He's still here in this city.
Halt!
Here they come.
Sagara's just up ahead. Apparently, he's practically unarmed.
I'm in luck. That $30,000 is all mine.
Hey, it's a 50-50 split! You got that, right?!
Behind us!
You son of a bitch!
Talk. How many more mechs are there?
You--
Stop! Stop!
There are eight! Eight!
Did you see a man in a black coat?
He's Asian, with a large build.
I saw him! At the arena with the police chief!
There he is!
Open fire!
Wait!
The arena...
Is this Sagara's handiwork? What a rampage.
He's still fighting even now, over there.
Get out of my way!
Fire! Fire!
What are you doing?!
Sagara!
Dao!
I realize you can't
Die, Sagara!
Friggin' die!
Turn back time
Even if the feelings I want to believe in are betrayed
And the wings in my heart are torn
Ah! that blue sky I once flew in
Is filled with an unchanging radiance
The mech's systems...!
If you want to take it, just take it
Go to hell!
I'll laugh it off that that's foolishness
Just move a little more!
For now, I bite my lip hard, that my dream won't die
Die!
No matter how many times I fall
I can't depend on anyone in a desolate world
It's my fervent hopeful soul that I'll set ablaze
Time merely passes
It doesn't come back
Nami... This mech was the best.
Where are you?
Up those stairs?!
Still higher up!
He keeps retreating. Is this a trap?
In that case!
Don't mo--
Fall back! Fall back!
Where's Kaname Chidori?!
What will you do if I tell you?
Rescue her!
Are you stupid?
Say it!
No, thanks. You can die in frustration.
Tell me!
I don't get it. You and I... gunned each other down?
How?
Because of her!
What, the "power of love"?
Don't make me laugh.
What's wrong with that?!
San Carlos. Or else Niquero, or Granada...
Any others?!
How should I know?
I never should have quit smo...
...king...
San Carlos... Niquero... Grana--
Sousuke!
Bring an intubation set!
And some epinephrine and atropine!
Nami...
No...
Chidori...
I miss you...
I feel cold...
That tomorrow you dreamed of
Is already starting to fade into the darkness
I reach out toward the faint light
But before I grasp it my wings are plucked away
The days of fleeting happiness run through my mind
I don't want to believe
The foreboding whisper that I'll lose them
Even if it's pitiful resistance
My wish for a miracle remained
Right on time. Now that's integrity.
Were you followed?
I wouldn't have come here, had I been.
But of course. Well then, the cargo.
This is it?
Yes.
I'm impressed you managed to recover it.
The police were distracted by all the chaos.
Getting it out of Japan was the hard part.
Since you're here, care to see our cargo before you go?
Although it's unfinished, of course.
What's its name?
It apparently doesn't have one.
Seems this project never existed in the first place.
But, well, if I had to give it a number,
it's the ARX-8.
"Episode 9 The Fallen Witch"
Next time: "The Fallen Witch."