Chapter 9 Episode 13: My Unsavory Ideal 2

Instead of picking right from where we left off, the story decides to cut away to Yoyogi Academy in Shibuya. Daisuke is confused about not seeing his coach anywhere despite it being time for practice. Ashigara also happens to be nearby looking for someone who is supposed to be around for club practice too.

Both boys notice each other and run up to talk, then ask each other if they’ve seen who they’re looking for at the same time. Daisuke is looking for Avarga while Ashigara is looking for Yasuyori. Both are surprised speechless, then Ashigara starts talking about Avarga. He’s the wrestling coach. Daisuke talks about Yasuyori and gives the full name of Inuta Kobungo Yasuyori, saying he’s also a third year student and covered with scars.

Ashigara says there’s no other Yasuyori at the school, and despite looking for him earlier he says he quit the sumo team and went off somewhere. Daisuke mentions having not seen him around lately and wonders what it is he went off to do. Ashigara doesn’t know anything about that though.

Ashigara then asks if Daisuke noticed anything changing recently. Both cross their arms as they start thinking, and soon Daisuke remembers seeing Yasuyori brood and talk to themselves, saying something about remembering. Ashigara says he feels like he heard the same thing recently.

He yells when he does remember, surprising Daisuke before mentioning Avarga did the same. He also says Avarga was talking about a war. Daisuke is reminded that he heard that Avarga was part of an army one time, but both of the boys have no idea what any of it means.

Scene then shifts into a locker room at Yoyogi where Mineaki is standing at for some reason. When he starts talking, he mentions that the development happening after this will involve everyone and that the current peace will fall apart. The “war that has been decided will happen beforehand” and the “war that never ends” will once again break out.

It will be the beginning of the end and affect all of Tokyo, and Yoyogi will be no exception. He then addresses whoever he’s with and asks what they’ll choose to do when everyone they love will fight each other. And it turns out he’s talking to Wakan Tanka.

Mineaki mentions that as people remember the grief of attacking their neighbors and the hatred of being attacked by their neighbors at one point, Wakan Tanka is a Pillar himself, only able to remember all the joys of living up to this point.

Mineaki asks if that’s correct, before backtracking and saying that Wakan is a Pillar that supports only the sky but does not root itself in the netherworld depths. He is Wakan Tanka, one of the World Pillars of Great Spirits and divine vessel/buffalo that descends upon the great lands.

Scene then shifts back to Yoyogi to focus on Oz and Kurogane. Kurogane thanks the rocket and says he got some good data. It turns out the rocket Kurogane made is about the size of a big drink bottle, and Kurogane is petting its broken pieces. Oz figures it breaking like that means the test is a failure, but Kurogane says it isn’t.

When Oz is confused, Kurogane explains that when building rockets, its destruction pushes progress. You can figure what went wrong and see what was a mistake. By building upon that, engineering develops step by step by step. Kurogane feels that a real failure is giving up and stopping your advancement.

He repeats that something breaking isn’t a failure, it’s the beginning for something new. Oz finds this speech moving and calls him truly brave, though he’s saying this more to himself than actually talking to Kurogane. Kurogane asks if he said something as he picks up the broken pieces, and Oz says that he can’t find courage like his no matter where he went.

Oz says he’s afraid of moving forward and welp them’s the breaks. Hurting others and being hurt also terrifies him, and he’s always pushed what scared him onto someone else. He’s never been able to change that even after coming to Tokyo, but he wants to change. He wants to be helpful to his student council president, who he describes as always looking cloudy and sad.

Oz thinks that if he goes over the rainbow and further beyond, somewhere high up where you can always see the sun... Kurogane is confused and tries asking what he’s talking about. The conversation is hijacked by a giant explosion sound coming from the workshop that shocks Oz.

Since the noise came from the workshop Kurogane doesn’t see any cause for alarm. He says it happens all the time and figures someone is doing a developmental test. Oz asks if it’s really okay not to go check on it since it seems like there’s a lot going on over there, but Kurogane is sure someone just came back and started something, not looking over. Oz then points out that the place is on fire and that said flames are colorful. This part is what alarms Kurogane.

Scene then shifts back to your end of things as Hephaestus is in a panic upon noticing the abnormal events unfolding behind him. You start yelling in pain, and Hephaestus is in disbelief that an Exception seems to be occurring as the light of concepts is going rampant. He then says it isn’t a result of clashing concepts causing a logic error, but a wild unleashing of all the many concepts accumulated until now.

He stops what he’s doing because if it goes on it’ll end badly for you to say the least. He picks up a console and uses it to activate a bunch of different systems, then orders Talos and the troopers to stop you. They acknowledge the order as the sounds of them booting up fills the room, and the episode battle starts.