Mr. Kafka Hibino
Huh? Toku-san, didn't he say he couldn't come?
But knowing Kafka, he might just show up out of the blue, right?
It looks bad to have an empty seat, though.
We'll put this here, then.
Wait! That's way worse!
You think?
Father of the bride, over here, please!
Oh, right!
He's so nervous.
Well, he was a single dad and now he's marrying off his daughter.
Chieko!
Why are you more nervous than me?!
Get it together!
Now, let the bride enter.
Come on, let's go.
Dad.
Thanks for everything.
This is the emergency contact center.
Is this about a Kaiju?
Sumida Ward, right?
We will request a Defense Force team immediately...
Calls from all over Tokyo?
What is this?
Setagaya Ward, Wakabayashi
Taito Ward, Asakusa
Hachioji City, Mt. Takao
Minato Ward, Shibakoen 4th Avenue
What do we do about this?
There's too many for us to handle...
I'll get you patched up at the shelter!
So wake up! Don't leave Chieko alone!
Are you okay?
No...
Stop it!
Over here!
You can smell the blood, right?
Eat me, not her!
Over here! Eat me!
No!
Reporting.
We've arrived at the scene in Sumida Ward.
Captain Narumi...
Get medical attention for the wounded.
Roger!
We'll move to start taking them down.
Ashiro, you've got yours nailed down too, of course?
Stupid question.
Don't worry about anyone but yourself.
Okay. Well done, for you.
Let's go.
Japan Defense Force...
It's time to get to work.
No officers are showing abnormalities with their new suit nerve connections.
Episode 22 Cataclysms
Unleash combat power.
Hasegawa, sitrep.
I have good news and bad news.
We'll start with the good news.
The First and Third Divisions are deployed all over Tokyo.
Evacuation points for the civilians are being secured at an unprecedented rate.
How about reinforcements from the other divisions?
That's the bad news.
Hyogo Prefecture, Himeji
Soshiro was right.
They're hittin' the whole country.
Sixth Division Captain Hoshina Soichiro
We can't send reinforcements to the east like this.
And if we can't defend Himeji Castle after they just repaired it,
they'll be really mad at us.
Just imagining it makes my head hurt.
Let's go!
And it's not just Hyogo.
We're getting reports from Osaka, Kanazawa,
Matsumoto, Sendai,
and from Hakodate, too.
And there's probably more coming.
So this is happening all over the country?
Major cities. Power plants.
Communications towers, government buildings, and major interchanges.
It looks like they're clearly targeting facilities important to humanity.
This isn't something we've seen with Kaiju before, ever.
Yup. Which means it's out there.
Plotting this whole thing.
We've never seen this many Kaiju before,
and we can't count on reinforcements.
What do we do?
We slaughter them all ourselves, of course.
That's what we've been preparing for.
Hasegawa, have it brought out.
Ariake Maritame Base, Northern Area
It's been decades since we've used this thing.
Yes.
Not since Hikari-kun was vice-captain of the First Division.
Numbers Weapon 4 Electromagnetic Launcher Device
Are you watching, Isao?
It's really like Hikari-kun has come back to us.
Number 4
Vitals stable. Course calculations complete.
Launch preparations complete.
Numbers Weapon 4.
I may not be able to take my mom's place yet,
but I promise I'll be a worthy master for you.
So help me.
Shinomiya Kikoru, heading out.
Electric and magnetic fields stable.
Initiating countdown!
Five, four, three, two, one!
Fire!
Launch successful.
Internal pressure within permitted values.
Arriving above target point in seconds.
Purging pod!
Deploying shield and preparing to unleash!
No. 4 uniorgan all green.
Numbers Weapon 4, activating!
Amazing... She reached the neutralization area instantly with it.
The fastest Numbers Weapon... and the only one that can fly.
That's why Hikari-kun had a higher kill count than any captain in history.
Cease fire! Here it comes!
That's Director Shinomiya's daughter...
Kikoru Shinomiya?
You've got ten minutes.
Clean the place up, my idiot student.
Five minutes is plenty, my idiot teacher.
All platoons, move to Phase 2!
Back up Officer Shinomiya!
She's fast! If we try to support her with burst rounds, we'll just get in her way!
Switch to freeze rounds, everyone!
Focus on pinning down the target!
We can't keep up at all!
She's basically captain class!
She always had her father's attack power.
Now she has her mother's mobility.
I know I just said she was just like Hikari-kun,
but I take it back, Isao.
She's just like...
the both of you.
Shinomiya has taken down three targets!
Area combat situation moving to Stage A!
That'll do, I guess.
What about the Chofu area?
I've arranged someone to take care of that.
Form assimilation complete.
Kaiju muscle fibers and uniorgan operating normally.
Vitals stable.
Prepared for synchronization.
Numbers Weapon 10 is activating.
The day is finally here.
Now let me go wild, Hoshina.
I told you, I'm in charge.
Shut up and let me use you.
And Okonogi-chan,
what's the point of having the suit talk?
It makes this really hard to deal with!
He's aggravating.
It's history's first sentient Kaiju weapon...
Since nerve synchronization is difficult,
communication by voice is the only alternative.
And it's still a prototype. To be honest...
It's too soon to be using it in actual combat.
I know.
But if we're going to surprise No. 9, we need a gamble like this.
I do like you.
Well, I don't like you.
Stop talking from my chest!
We never succeeded in a full unleash during training.
Because you move on your own, we split up and can't synchronize our minds.
Just do what I tell you to.
If you screw up today, I'll die and you'll be thrown in the garbage.
I know.
Now let's go.
The bottom of the helicopter!
He doesn't get it at all!
Hey! I haven't told you the plan!
It's more fun to have no plan at all!
This is bad! He's all alone in a dense pack of enemies!
I knew it was too soon for real combat!
Fine. We can have the lecture later.
I'll make you understand who's in charge here.
Let's go.
The left side has fewer of them, so I'll start by picking them off.
First... Left!
First... right!
What the hell?
Of course we target the weaker flank!
That would be boring!
Together, we could destroy the larger numbers on the right.
They're fast!
I'll go beneath them, get behind and strike...
I want to see how much power they have.
We'll take the hit.
Direct hit!
Vice-Captain!
Now what?!
We're surrounded!
Now it's getting fun!
This is bad.
They're not working together at all!
Mental synchronization isn't working.
Unleashed combat power has dropped from 51% to 41%!
This is worse than anything we saw during training!
Vice-Captain!
Fall back and equip a normal suit!
These guys are fast. I can't get away from them with a percentage like that.
We'll synchronize and take them down.
Unleashed combat power has dropped even further to 34%!
Any lower and he won't be able to fully block their attacks!
No. 10, this is the last chance, for both of us. Do as you're told!
Use the planes in here as cover while we take them out one by one!
Stand strong!
We'll hit them all head-on!
Vice-Captain!
Vital signs coming in from Numbers Weapon 10!
He's okay!
That Kaiju knew what I was going to do and hit me with a plane.
Freezing in place meant you avoided a direct hit.
My decision saved you.
Idiot!
If you'd done what I told you to, we wouldn't be in this mess to begin with!
No...
I was wrong to expect you to ever obey orders.
Why do I always end up dealing with stubborn idiots
who'd rather die than change their ways?
No. 10, your inability to obey orders is a fatal flaw as a weapon.
You're going to be thrown in the garbage at this rate.
But I can't die here.
Today, I'll go along with you.
Mental synchronization beginning!
Unleashed combat power rising!
That's just what I wanted to hear.
We break through the front.
Try and keep up, even if it kills you!
Unleashed combat power still rising!
First, the one in the front!
Two of them, next?
The weak ones we'll fight all at once, and enjoy being at a disadvantage.
Well? Remember what I said, Hoshina.
We can win even at a disadvantage!
Go head-on and overwhelm!
Overwhelm! Overwhelm! Overwhelm!
This is what a battle should be!
Now, let me go wild!
We'll tear apart the last one!
Too late, No. 10.
Way ahead of you.
Remember what I said?
Keep up, even if it kills you.
What?
That's what I said.
Next, we'll clean up the runways.
His unleashed combat power is still rising!
Sixty-seven percent!
That's the highest we've ever seen from Numbers Weapon 10!
Hoshina-style Sword-Slay Technique Number Two - Cross Slasher!
He's fast.
We can't dodge this.
Block it on your own.
Very well.
Well?
You fail.
I got hit with some fragments.
Don't make him mad!
The synchronization will collapse again!
Unleashed combat power rising?
It's broken 70%!
Why?!
Shut up!
There were only fragments because you haven't drawn out my full power!
Huh? We're over 70% and you can't even shut down an attack from these wimps?
I expected better.
What?
On to the next!
Next time, I'll show you!
They're arguing with each other, but the numbers keep going up!
I don't know what's going on!
I can see it.
The dark one in the back is their boss.
We'll rush in headlong.
Show me you can block all their attacks.
Very well.
I really don't like this.
Fighting like a musclehead...
It's not my thing.
Absurd.
Hoshina-style Sword-Slay Technique Number One...
Air Slicer!
They're coming in from behind.
No need to tell me. I see.
Technique Number Three - Return Slasher!
This time, it was perfect.
That was just the first one.
I told you, don't let a single hit through.
It feels strange...
This is the first time someone's opened the path for me.
Let's end this.
Technique Number Six.
That, huh?
What is this?
My muscles feel like they're about to burst...
There's so much power in my body!
I knew it... I love fighting with you.
Eightfold Slasher.
Runways are clear!
The terminal's all that's left!
The vice-captain, huh?
He's much more of a monster than the Kaiju.
Okay, let's go clear out the Kaiju outside.
Next, the soldiers!
We'll go wipe out the Defense Force, Hoshina!
Idiot! Why would we attack our own guys?
I'm bored of fighting those Kaiju.
I want to fight something else.
Are you a little kid?
We have to fight the ones outside! Let's go!
I want to fight something else.
Don't stab your tail into the ground.
Look, they're all bunched up.
Way to ruin the aftertaste...
Some of the operators call them the comedy duo suit.
But... with 77% unleashed combat power,
they already rival the vice-captain in his normal suit.
If they can get their unleashed combat power above 90%...
How powerful will they become?
Report from the Third Division!
Chofu Airport has been cleared by Vice-Captain Hoshina!
I can see the smirk on bowl cut's face.
The Ooizumi area's all that's left.
Who's in charge there?
Two companies, led by the Shinonome and Tachibana platoons.
The traffic jams mean their room to fight is limited, but...
Six supermassive Kaiju...
They're making this situation worse.
There are too many.
Even dealing with a single one is difficult.
It's the first time in history we've had six of that size in one area.
Platoon Leader Shinonome, let me go to the front lines!
I've never fought any that size,
but I'll handle it!
I can't allow that. Continue your rear support mission.
You're our ace against No. 9.
In Shinagawa, it detected your partial transformation and appeared.
If you transform, there's a risk it'll find your location.
Your role's limited to the most critical phase, the battle against No. 9 itself.
But then how...
The massive Kaiju are changing form!
Their internal temperature is rising!
How are you going to deal with this?
Bearing west-southwest.
Prepare for impact.
This voice...
I'll handle this.
Soshiro Hoshina's "Hoshi Night Japan"!
Bowl-cut! What's wrong with this show?
Oh? You're back, Captain Narumi?
But listeners aren't allowed in the studio.
I am not a listener!
Radio name "Treasure of Japan IN Ariake."
"The Miracle of Ariake."
"Look Up Genius in the Dictionary and Find Me."
"Captain Narumi Is the Coolest".
You've got guts bringing that up, Hoshina!
Why aren't you reading my messages?
I tried, but I ended up respecting my guest's wishes that they not be read.
Hasegawa!
I didn't raise you to be a vice-captain who doesn't read his captain's messages!
Knock it off!
You didn't raise me at all.
Since you've come all this way, if you want me to read one, that's fine.
Etiquette, dress, hard work, dignity...
I seek none of these things from the radio.
I just want one thing.
Read my messages!
You need to show overwhelming power for that.
It doesn't matter how good it actually is.
And I'm sure our tongue-twister was popular online.
Stop looking yourself up online!
Captain Narumi, this radio program doesn't need anybody polite.
Good messages will always get read, right?
Then do a gag corner to show off my strength.
For instance...
I'd love to, but it looks like we're out of time.
What?
And this is the last episode of Hoshi Night Japan.
I'm sorry the last episode ended up like this, Soshiro.
What do you mean "like this"?
Thank you!
See you again someday on Hoshi Night Japan!
The End