Causes of death are many and varied. Old age, suicide, illness...
But the cause of death that scares the most people in this day and age...
is death by fire.
I...
took damage this heavy?
You did well, Ogun!
You too, Hinawa!
I'm sorry!
Given that I had to avoid hitting Ogun,
I couldn't finish him with one shot!
A-An Insect!
Yu!
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Episode 18 "Incantation of Destruction"
What's that noise?
The battle has begun outside.
We should hurry, too.
Yeah.
Since I'm finally here at my legacy, I'd like to take a good look around,
but I don't think we have that kind of time.
Vul, do you know what the key is?
There's no doubt that it's the starter that kicks off the Great Cataclysm.
And there's that string of numbers.
This technology is incredible.
Yeah, it is, but from what I can see,
this area is all just support systems for the generator.
Looking at the data from the Tabernacle on the continent,
the hole for the key should be in the core section.
But according to the map we got from Joker,
Amaterasu's structure is a lot more complicated.
Careful you don't get lost, okay?
Don't get separated from us, Arthur-san!
There is no need to have such worries for a knight.
Stare...
Arthur!
Arthur-san!
Whoa! Hey! It's pitch black!
Are you serious? It's completely broken.
I can't believe something that Vulcan built could break.
Should I use my flames for light?
No, it's too enclosed here.
It'd be bad if any combustible gases caught fire.
The core isn't far from here.
I'll take the lead.
Use the lights on our fireproof suits as markers and stay close.
Understood.
All right. Let's go.
According to the map, it's just up ahead...
on the other side of these doors.
There isn't any power, is there?
How are we gonna open them?
Those doors look pretty big.
This, here. Yu.
Yes, sir.
I made sure to bring it.
The Ultra External Battery!
All right. Now they'll open!
This is the core my ancestor built for Amaterasu.
Thank you for opening that for me.
Feeler!
Everyone is guarding the entrance!
How did you get in here?
Insects can creep in from anywhere before you even realize it, right?
Arthur, I'll leave him to you! The rest of us will support...
What? Where did he go?
Did Arthur-san get separated from us?
Come on, are you serious?
This is a will o' the wisp.
Where have Vulcan and the others disappeared to?
I see. Companions abducted by the Demon King.
An abyssal dungeon.
This must be a rescue event!
As a knight, it was naïve of me to attempt to skip a rescue event
in order to battle Dragon King Dracon.
The Knight King, Arthur Boyle, shall overcome this trial without fail!
Vulcan, what do we do?
Arthur isn't here. We just have to handle it ourselves!
Are you okay, Yu?
Yes! I am feeling very grateful!
To you, Vulcan, and to Lisa-san for saving me back then, of course!
But also to Shinra-san and Arthur-san, to the sister,
and to everyone in the 8th who looked after me.
I know that I'm alive now thanks to all of you!
There's all the doctors and nurses who performed procedures on me, too!
This world is just overflowing with so much love!
I was able to realize that once more
thanks to the wound that sent me to the brink of death!
Thank you so much, Giovanni-san!
Thank you for shooting me!
Okay. Now stand back.
Yes, sir.
It is I who wishes to express gratitude.
For over 250 years, you've kept it safe.
Our key to Amaterasu, that is.
That's my ancestor's key!
Then do you know what this is?
Yeah. I have a guess as to what's inside.
It's pi, right?
Indeed it is.
In ancient times, the Evangelist implanted pi as the incantation of destruction.
Incantation?
Humanity has continued to chant this incantation of destruction.
And now that the image of that destruction has been established,
the computation of pi is finally complete.
The computation of pi is complete? You idiot.
Pi continues infinitely.
It can't be completed!
That was true before the previous Great Cataclysm.
Whether it's then or now, it doesn't affect pi!
Didn't you see the moon and stars in the night sky?
The physical laws of this world have changed.
Just as the last Great Cataclysm turned human combustion into a mainstream event,
pi has now become completable.
And now that pi has been solved,
humanity is finally straining to reach the end of its evolution.
The end?
There is a theory that the end of an organism's evolution is destruction,
and that theory is correct.
While striving for the destruction that lies at the end of evolution,
humanity has conjured an image of a wish for death.
That image is the Great Cataclysm, as well as their goal
to return to the flames and to go home to the sun!
Why the sun?
How are dying and the sun related?
Long ago, the star that we now refer to as the sun
saw the essence of its image transform
to conform with destruction, and it became a star of flames.
This planet, in the coming Great Cataclysm,
will become a second sun!
All of the human pillars who have disappeared
are now in Adolla, fulfilling their roles.
It can't be. I don't believe it!
The moon has that face now.
Right now, we don't know what might happen.
Licht. Licht!
Vulcan-kun, I heard everything.
What he said is very difficult to believe,
but considering everything the 8th has investigated up to now,
it's hard to definitively call it a lie!
We've got our hands full with the situation out here,
but we'll find a way to head to you!
You have to hold out until then!
Now, this lecture is over.
I have work to do.
Get out of my way!
I won't let you!
Vulcan's ancestor built Amaterasu!
I won't let you use it as a weapon of destruction!
You won't let me? What a ridiculous thing to say.
From the beginning,
Amaterasu was built to trigger the Great Cataclysm as a destructive device!
Then why did my ancestor hide the key?
Two hundred and fifty years ago,
your Joseph family participated in the construction of Amaterasu with us.
"With us"? Just who are you?
During the construction of Amaterasu,
there was a team that would later lead the founding members of Haijima.
My ancestors were engineers on that team alongside you Josephs.
My ancestors as well as yours were in charge of the power source.
However, you Josephs...
Amaterasu
Wh...
Who's there...
Hel...
Amaterasu
Help...
me...
Foolishly, he put a lock on Amaterasu's true powers,
sealing them away.
Which is why my family has continued to monitor the Joseph family
while waiting for the right time to come.
Monitor?
You turned Gramps and my old man into Infernals and killed them!
They were fools who turned their backs on the will of Adolla.
I merely granted them the release of the flames.
You...
You monster!
I granted you the power of my research,
yet you foolishly choose to turn on me?
Lisa!
Are you okay?
Somehow, yeah.
What's going on with that body of his?
It's all Insects.
All of that writhing black...
It's all a mass of Insects.
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It's all right. I'm here with you.
He's using some kind of power to control the Insects, right?
I have a plan.
We'll get through this together.
Yu! That thing I asked for!
Yes, sir!
Found it!
Feeler!
Do you remember, Feeler?
V-Vulcan!
Lisa! Put your tentacles through here!
How absurd.
We've researched how to deal with Insects!
Insects use organs that humans don't have to see the flow
of magnetic fields and act based on them!
What?
Wh-What is this?
We used Lisa's ability to disrupt the magnetic fields and disperse the Insects.
So that's your real body.
How pathetic.
Me? Pathetic?
I will strike and strike and strike a stone bridge
because I am too cautious to cross it otherwise.
Your finish is too weak, Vulcan.
As a reward for what you've done for me,
I shall give you the gift of terror in return.
A-An Insect!
Yu!
It can't be!
Captain! What was that?
This is an emergency!
Bring the line of defense back and send aid inside!
Go! I will handle this alone!
Counting on you!
Hang in there, Vulcan!
You...
will not pass!
Out of the way!
If that door is blocked...
So you've finally realized it?
The ones who have been delayed here aren't us.
Maki-san, what was that?
I made them after getting support for materials from Haijima.
They're a new style of barrel.
Before, when he used Velocity Rampage, he'd only get one shot.
But with these barrels...
She's been hearing it ever since she was born!
Humanity's despair!
Connected to Adolla,
she continued to observe it until she broke down!
Humanity's filthy, dark, deep psyches
packed tightly together into the collective unconscious!
She's heard it ever since she was a child who should've cried
and been coddled by her mama!
Do you think she wants to keep living a life like that?
I will trigger the Great Cataclysm...
and I will free Haumea from this hell!
The Great Cataclysm will purify this planet!
It will end this hell!
Yu!
No... Please, stop it!
Vulcan-kun. Vulcan-kun!
Yu...
What's happened? Please respond! Vulcan-kun!
Yu was persistent in coming to the workshop over and over again.
Every time, he smiled and asked me to make him my apprentice.
And he always held his toy like it was precious to him.
I always thought he must be some well-born boy who came by for a laugh.
But one day, when I went into town to do some shopping...
I found Yu on the street, wrapped in a blanket.
When I asked, he said his parents had died in a fire.
After losing everyone, the thing that had supported him
was that junky toy that he'd carried so carefully.
That's why Yu wanted to become an engineer who could make things from junk,
and why he'd come to my workshop.
I'd already decided I wasn't taking apprentices.
So I brought Yu in as a member of my family.
I still remember
how Yu smiled in that moment.
After a while, Lisa showed up, too,
and it was the three of us living together.
As their older brother, I swore that I'd protect Yu and Lisa, no matter what.
Yay!
I was only an engineer in a tiny workshop, but I was going to make them happy!
Vulcan-kun!
An Insect got Yu.
What?
I can't let Yu turn into an Infernal like this!
Help him, Licht! I need knowledge!
Is there some method besides magnetic fields that can control the Insects?
Leave it to me! That's why I'm here!
Are you listening, Vulcan-kun?
Methods by which Insects control their fellows...
Given your circumstances, there are two possibilities!
The first is to use the magnetic fields
that you disrupted to control their sense of direction.
The other is the specific,
unique dance of the honeybees!
It's highly likely that Doctor Giovanni is using that dance to control the Insects!
Please stop the individual bug that is dancing!
Lisa!
I understand.
I'll never forgive him.
We're stopping him, no matter what!
Whatever it takes, I'm gonna slaughter him!
Lisa!
He modified a type of Insect so that it wouldn't be affected by magnetism,
and now it's dancing to control the rest of the swarm?
No. He's cautious enough to repeatedly strike a stone bridge before crossing.
I can't imagine he'd use an Insect with greater chances of irregularities arising.
He's an engineer, too.
He wouldn't have used Insects.
To control them, he'd have built Insect mechs!
If it's a mech, then its heat source and movement should be different!
In this giant swarm of Insects,
I will find the mechs that are controlling them all!
Where? Where are they?
Vulcan!
Not yet!
There!
Lisa! There are seven of them!
Vul!
I marked them!
Let's end this!
Leave it to me!
I crushed all the mechs!
All that's left...
is Giovanni!
Help... Help me...
Help...
Yu!
Yu?
I'm right here, Vulcan.
Yu...
Your finish is weak, Vulcan.
I used an Insect to make my way into his body.
The solution to pi is here.
It's time to compare answers.
The Great Cataclysm is about to begin.
To Be Continued
Fire Force Chapter 3
Now, let's move forward...
Next Time
toward the end of this tale.
Despair is nothing special.
Despair doesn't suit us in the 8th!
Next time, "Those Who Fight Back."
Episode 19
Those Who Fight Back
Return to the great flame of fire. Látom.