Chapter 10 Episode 19: Unforgettable Future 1

Narration starts off talking about Yasuyori, saying that in his past, he once killed someone with his own hands he was fighting with due to his emotions. He swore to never do it again and chose to call himself Yasuyori (obedience) over it. He believed himself to be a stray dog who could not be allowed freedom, someone who had to be tamed by another.

 

Narration then talks about how brotherhood, loyalty, and devotion are the three primary virtues for subordinates, those who always serve their superiors. Yasuyori thought that he had to serve someone and live as a soldier following his orders. He thought he had to martyr himself for brotherhood. Yasuyori saw himself as someone different from everyone else, so he felt that he had to be caged away, isolated from the outside world. His bead called, as if searching for something it lacked.

 

Narration steps out of the narration zone and starts describing how Yasuyori is wandering around in the inescapable war zone memory. He kills those like him and thinks “this really is the place I can relax.” The only ones in this space with him are the abnormal ones like him, the people who chose to turn their fangs against one another to devour each other. He’s given up, choosing to live in this state and feeling that this would be best.

 

Despite thinking this, a part of him cries out asking why Ashigara came after him. He can’t understand why, given that the lives they lived were different to begin with. As he kills more memory mobs, he says he needs to remember his own self more. He darkens as he says he can’t waver like he is now, that he needs to remember more of the battlefield.

 

Yasuyori’s vision darkens and closes off, and he quickly loses sight of what it is he’s fighting against anymore. He just has to attack whatever is in front of him, which at this point turns out to be that Shadow giant. The giant calls for help, at which point you jump in between them and call to Yasuyori to stop.

 

Your sword glows once again, and the light that cleaves the sealed sky rises. A momentary break is formed, so Shennong asks Jacob to aim for the gap and summon the Pillar of Light like he did before. Jacob understands the idea and agrees to do so. R-19 is quiet, though Jacob asks him for help saying he has something he wants people to hear.

 

R-19 agrees and narrates aloud about starting up the spare D power for Plan B, coexistence with the network of System El Dorado. He starts propping up Jacob’s arms with both his hands, helping him face the comm hijack point. Then he starts connecting to the nearby mirror terminals to broadcast Jacob’s message.

 

Jacob asks if people can hear him and asks them to listen. He introduces himself as the former Aoyama Missionaries guildmaster and gives his name. You take a moment to remark on this in confusion, and Jacob talks about wandering Tokyo for the longest time. He talks about also having the memories of the repeating war carved into him as well, which shocks Yasuyori into stopping.

 

Jacob continues by saying that it’s true many people have been saddened by this. And just like the historical memories of war, there are times when people have split off into different factions from the ones they loved, then fought. Jacob however says that despite all that, he feels there’s plenty of love in there. Just as there was the pain of parting, he believes there was the joy in meeting one another.

 

Jacob says if those feelings didn’t exist, then the loops would never have happened to begin with. The loops occur because the Other People Living There Want It. Jacob suggests it’s because people wanted to change the ends that lead to people dying in the war, and he feels there should be people who feel that way now. Those are the people who wanted to redo the ends where they ended up hurting the ones they opened up to, the people who wished that there was another way.

 

Jacob says people might have hurt someone somewhere, but that doesn’t make up the entirety of a person. People have strengths and weaknesses. People are kind and strict. Some are fashionable, some are boorish. Some like mountains, some like the seas. Some came to an understanding with others, and some didn’t. All these selves exist within people, and Jacob repeats his belief that people are not just the part of themselves who threw themselves into war.

 

Jacob starts activating his power, then asks that everyone watching who feels they are trapped on the battlefield looks up to the sky and remember their joys in meeting people again. Through that he asks that people remember the infinite possibilities within themselves, then he calls out his NP. Yasuyori starts crying out at the light.

 

Scene shifts back outside, where Shirou and the others have quickly broken through the prison entrance after releasing all the innocents on the transport. They’ve all changed back into their regular clothes, then start keeping themselves out of sight. Suzuka comments on expecting more guards on duty and asks why they’re all staring up at the sky.

 

A bunch of giants are looking up with expressions of bewilderment on their faces. Tetsuya suggests that either some trouble is happening or that it could be a trap, but they’ll have to gamble on it either way. Suzuka agrees and hopes the other Outlaws will wait just a bit longer for them.

 

As those two head in, Moritaka stops as he notices his orb reacting, resonating stronger than before. Shirou asks what’s going on and prompts him to hurry up, so they start moving along too. Breke is there watching quietly.

 

Back to your side of things, the pillar rises through the cracks you opened up and R-19’s guidance of Jacob’s fists. Everyone watching starts remembering memories of times with people from another loop and the times they met, laughed, cried, and bonded with. You react and can maybe start crying over the memories of the welfare units, and narration talks about these forgotten meetings and forgotten lives.

 

All these people smiled, cried, sometimes got angry, and worked hard. Jacob asks if you saw anything, so you tell him that you met a lot of people way back from before you remember anything. He asks if they’re good memories, and you can either answer back gently, just cry, or nod strongly.

 

You think again over all these memories. If it turned out that they all ended with painful partings... Jacob talks to you again, and you thank him and resolve to end things this time, choosing to move forward.

 

Back in Tezcatlipoca’s office, he decides to compliment you on your way of thinking. That said, he asks if you remember how things ended when you did this earlier. He declares the hierarchy is absolute, so he’ll snuff out the light with his smoke. Tezcatlipoca starts activating something as he talks about how your war with him will be with full force clashing, that it has to be the most appalling deathmatch.

 

Jacob senses the light being sealed off as Tezcatlipoca’s smoke comes in. R-19 confirms that it’s happening, saying a higher ranking power has added itself to the sequence, so the broadcast will be shut off soon. Narration brings up that Surtr once talked about hierarchies being set by the old worlds. You have Yggdrasil’s exile Freyr’s memories in you, which means you can’t win against Surtr. When you fought him directly, your sword lost its power. So long as the 23 exiles in you are ranked below the World Representatives, you can never win against them.

 

The same thing is happening now with Tezcatlipoca covering up your light with his smoke, but you say you already know about this and call out to Solomon. He appears and asks if it’s time to do the thing. Shennong is baffled and asks what you’re doing. You think back to what Musashi told you as you put your ringed hand on Solomon and draw him out from Beyond.

 

You think back to your match with Musashi and your connection with Solomon. Solomon overlays on your arm, doing the same with both rings and hexagrams, becoming the shadow of your sword in your other hand. The power of two dragons and two powers of rending, though this is the stuff you’ve already tried out in that sparring match. It is simply dual wielding, and now you’re going to use the two sword style that Musashi taught you, but you call it something else. You call out your new move Dual Heaven Dragon and bang both swords against each other.

 

Shennong is shocked by what he sees, and when you cause two powers to clash against each other, you get dropped outside of the mirror world. Jacob asks where you guys are, and Shennong recognizes the room you all got sent to as an underground training room in the prison school. He asks in surprise if that means you guys got out of the mirror, and he looks over to see a bunch of other Transients sprawled out on the ground.

 

The Berserkers and Outlaws are barely alert as they stand up one by one. Shennong asks what it is you’ve done. You’re about to say something when you react with pain as your arm with the ring on it feels intense pain. That arm is currently unable to move, and the episode ends with Yasuyori getting up.