Chapter 10 Episode 20: Unforgettable Future 2

Yasuyori starts narrating about how his orb has brotherhood written on it. He defines brotherhood as one of the three bonds of Confucianism, offering one’s body to serve one’s superiors. He then talks about how he’s always thought that he could only live by serving someone else. He doesn’t choose, he just lives in the only way permitted to him. But in seeing the pillar of light, he’s remembered something.

 

Yasuyori then plays flashbacks of what the other Yoyogi people have said to him at some point when he talked to them about his worries. When Gunzou was asked if Yasuyori was okay to stay even though he’s been hiding his differences, Gunzou says he thinks everyone is like that. He starts to refer to Legion before he backtracks from the point to deny they exist.

 

Kyuuma points out that he’s the talentless hack in a school full of super high school level athletes. He also points out that baseball needs nine people to a team, so he’ll try to make it with his individuality and guts. Durga freely cops to having many parts of herself that aren’t in common with the people at school, though she shares the same attitude in making first place.

 

Taurus Mask Daisuke also admits to hiding things about himself from the people around, and that he’s had to work up some courage at things. He doubts that this is a thing that people need to be told about, and that you should say what’s on your mind if you want to. Daisuke says it’s okay to have a place to belong that isn’t the school, and that it’s okay to make the choices you like to make. He then starts to ask Yasuyori about some comment he often makes about needing to be restrained by the rules when the transition cuts him off.

 

Ashigara was also consulted and calls Yasuyori’s worries daft. He seems kinda insulted about Yasuyori thinking he had to be a stickler for the rules, so he decides to be direct with him. Ashigara suggests that Yasuyori just likes being subservient because that’s how he is.

 

Yasuyori talks about remembering what everyone said and wonders why he forgot all that. He feels that if he were alone, he’d never have realized what a coward he is. He lied to himself and to others around him, and he believed he had to be in the prison school, and all of this was him pushing his own will onto someone/someplace else. It was a lie that he has nowhere else to go, and it was a lie he couldn’t go there.

 

Yasuyori admits that maybe he was given uneven memories. At the same time though, they felt real and he made his choices based off them. If he wanted to leave the prison school, he supposedly has the power to do so whenever he wants. He reaffirmed that he chose to stay, that he thought it would be best to there when war repeats itself in Tokyo.

 

Yasuyori has his doubts though. Say the war could be stopped. He’d have to confirm things for himself, and at that point, he’ll make his own choices based on his own will. He’ll decide what he’d sacrifice himself for and who he’ll serve.

 

Back to the present, the intruder alarm is sounding. Some of the prisoners who saw Jacob’s pillar of light decided to run off as they are in terror. Some decided to cling to the mirror and shudder in the corner of their rooms. And some, including some squad that’s been reduced to just three members, decided to continue serving the prison school and go out to fight. Chaos ensues over the choices.

 

Over at Tezcatlipoca’s office, some wrestlers are reporting the escapes and soldiers who aren’t listening to orders are appearing one after another. Another reports that a scout team has found out that the intruders are trying to meet up at the underground training room. Then he hears that battles are breaking out and asks Tiger Man for directions.

 

Tiger Man orders Team 2 to hold the line and says he’ll be coming to help with Team 1. As he runs out, Tezcatlipoca is quiet while looking at his mirror. He cancelled his memory displaying network himself before it was too late. Tezcatlipoca says that System El Dorado is founded on two major premises, and that one of them is now collapsed.

 

Narration says that one of those premises is the shared belief that war will inevitably continue to happen. The second premise is that by giving people biased memories they are unable to recognize anything, even the world, outside of the battlefield. By flooding someone with war memories they become unable to think of anything else.

 

Narration then talks about how all of the true big three guilds use the past loop memories as strategic materials even if their methods differ. They never show everything, because otherwise they’d lose their head start. They limit the memories, falsify them, or monopolize them to control the situation.

 

Should everyone receive all their memories, the prison school as it is would be unable to manage things probably. It works by making people believe that it and war are the only places people will find worth, trapping them with their sense of guilt. They look for approval within that framework, offering themselves to the war. Should they be cognizant of the world outside, this tiny society of mutual appreciation will lose its cornerstone.

 

Now however the soldiers already know. They remember the precious meetings and the happy memories. However, Tezcatlipoca starts laughing as he’s already planned for this to happen. He already knew Jacob could do this, so he deliberately sent him into the mirror. He laughs in irrepressible glee.

 

Tezcatlipoca starts talking at you, saying the time for his one wish to be granted has finally come. He only ever had one wish to begin with, which is to have the worst ever war together with you. He starts scoffing at the wars that have happened already in Tokyo as not being real wars. To him, war holds no salvation for anyone and is to be hell for everyone. Everyone else is a fool for not understanding this.

 

Tezcatlipoca says that he still needs to thank his colleague for sharing the same sentiments even if they didn’t understand the principle of the thing. He specifically thinks about his accomplice Balor, who like him is both exiler and exiled. That’s probably why he thinks that a real war must be the worst quagmire where anyone could lose. Since they agreed on that, they joined forces at the prison school, scheming to drag the prearranged harmonious war to an all encompassing quandary.

 

Tezcatlipoca starts wondering what’s happening at the frontline with the south. Some giant is shown falling over before the scene tunes over to Kita Ward, the Ouji area. Michael is shocked to hear reports from his spies that Eden’s World Pillar has been sighted at the prison school, and narration notes that it’s currently an intermission after drafting the ceasefire from earlier.

 

Michael wonders why it’s showing up now of all times when it never revealed itself until now. He tries to keep calm and think when Koropokkur and Horus show up to give him more things to freak out about. Koropokkur didn’t hear his earlier outburst but notes they have an emergency on their hands. Horus prompts him to look at the ruling his artifact made, saying it seems like the Warmongers and Invaders are duking it out to his disbelief.

 

Michael doesn’t doubt him for a second because Horus must be right if he’s saying so. “That” whatever it is cannot be wrong. Anyways Michael says he understands and says it’s only natural after thinking about it. He calls the World Representatives in those factions savage fools, and that the Rule Makers were wrong to think that their words got through to them.

 

Time skips a little bit as the camera focuses on Tanetomo now, who asks a report to be repeated as he reacts in shock. This report is also about the battle between Balor and the Invaders, and in brief, all rules of war from the past have been broken. These were all rules meant to facilitate the competition happening between the true big three guilds and to prevent danger from happening before the endgame. They also involved how to treat prisoners of war and invasions of Portals.

 

Tanetomo asks who decided to dispatch Balor before figuring it must be Tezcatlipoca. He goes into the psycho calm look for a second as he comes to an understanding and figures that was planned from the start. He bites into his fan, and narration says that Balor’s army was destroyed. This is likely to lead to all rules from before being dumped out.

 

Tanetomo figures out Tezcatlipoca’s true intentions, though on further reflection he remembers Tezcatlipoca never hid his goal. He has always been talking about dragging everything into the worst kind of war, but Tanetomo realizes he and most of the other Representatives had understood everything to mean something else than what Tezcatlipoca did.

 

Tanetomo thinks that the Rule Makers must have already noticed by now, and that they’ll take probably be pursuing the same actions as the Invaders. They have Horus with them after all. He tries to call up Yasuyori on the phone to come up with a new plan going forward since the prison school is a powder keg waiting to explode now. But all he can hear is the sounds of gunfire and confusion.

 

Back at said school, Suzuka activates her NP to beat down some giants standing in the way. Tetsuya opens up another cell with some rando Kabukicho people and tells them they came to help. However, everyone they find is too frightened to do much. He comments they won’t be ready to help fight soon and wonders if they were tortured. Suzuka is outraged over this and tells Tetsuya to come with her. He spares a comment about how the Summoners must be having it rough too as he sighs.

 

Scene shifts outside where Shirou is calling R-19 and asks for his position. R-19 responds and sends his coordinates to Shirou, who thanks him and says they’ll be coming as the first thing on the plan. Shirou also tells R-19 that the Outlaws are going into the prison to release people, though people aren’t likely to be of any help in battle soon due to their state of shock. Then wrestlers come by to interrupt by apparently throwing grenades at him.

 

Moritaka jumps in to protect him, and when Shirou is about to call out to him, he sees Breke jump in calling out his NP to deal with the mobs. Breke notes that the mobs are pro soldiers before asking if Shirou and Moritaka are okay. Moritaka is amazed at his sword skills and asks where he learned them. Shirou is surprised and asks why Breke didn’t leave and more importantly, why he’s helping them.

 

Breke says he doesn’t need a reason to save people because that’s what he was taught here. Shirou is speechless, but Moritaka is touched and thinks this is the compassion of a warrior, then thanks him. Shirou decides to tell Breke that they have friends waiting for help and asks if Breke will assist.

 

Breke expresses a mild wistfulness over having friends that people want to see. He starts remembering you, then smiles and agrees to help. He’s a pro soldier too and all. He then takes charge of the formation saying he and Moritaka should take the front while Shirou takes the rear.

 

Camera then tunes back to your end of things as you and the current party are holding off against the giants coming in to attack. The Berserkers and Outlaws are in no condition to help any time soon, and as Jacob tries to hold his part of the line, he calls out to you asking how your arm is. You apologize and say you can’t move it yet. You wonder if this is the backlash from using Dual Heaven Dragon and note that Solomon isn’t showing up either.

 

Shennong notices something and tells you to look behind you. Yasuyori stands up to face you, and for the first time he starts addressing you with an honorific. You are surprised by him getting up but you don’t immediately sense hostility from him. Yasuyori says he has something he wants to ask you before he does anything else.

 

When you prompt him for the question or wait for him to go on, he brings up that you said you’d stop the repeating war. You acknowledge this, so Yasuyori asks if you think you can really do so. You say you do, answer that you can say so because you think you can, or just give one big nod. Yasuyori is momentarily surprised before he says you need to show him you have the power and determination to make it happen.

 

You start to ask if he’s getting at fighting, and Yasuyori says that if you can’t stop him, then you’re just talking big. He also won’t be holding back even if you’re effectively one armed at the moment. Yasuyori says he swore to serve as one of Tezcatlipoca’s subordinates, so he has to bring his full power against his enemies. You either accept the challenge or worry you can’t win.

 

A voice calls out asking that the match wait a bit, and you recognize the voice. A bunch of mobs are struck down, and Moritaka apologizes for making you wait but hey good timing. He declares his name and his status as a Hakkenshi. Yasuyori is surprised at his presence before deciding he needs to follow suit. Both Moritaka’s and Yasuyori’s birthmarks and orbs glow brightly in resonance. Moritaka comments on Yasuyori being a Hakkenshi, and Yasuyori says it’s time to fight as they start attacking.

 

Back outside, Xolotl has reached the prison school along with the guard mobs from the auction house. He’s panting for breath while one of the mobs say that they already need to help with some fights happening inside, mentioning that they’re up against you and two others. The mobs run off, and Xolotl takes a moment to piece together that your presence here means he’s at the prison school.

 

Xolotl follows along with the mobs, rechecking his mission while trying to keep his surprise under wraps. Xolotl is here to give you the information the Agents have collected on Tezcatlipoca and the Hakkenshi with the Warmongers. Specifically he has to hand over a scroll he’s been keeping in his pockets. And there ends the episode.