Fire Force (2019–…): Season 1, Episode 22 - A Brother's Determination - full transcript
As Shinra and Sho continue to share their Adolla Link, Shinra learns a startling truth about the origin of his Adolla Burst flame.
A long time ago, mankind was
touched by the planet's anger,
and the world was engulfed in flames.
It was the Day of the Cataclysm.
The flames burned ferociously,
with an intensity threatening to
incinerate the places mankind lived,
the languages they spoke,
and the culture they had built up.
This is Yona.
Yes, that's right.
The crewmen from the
8th have been split up.
At the moment, the two of them
are still quiet. It's just getting started.
Shinra Kusakabe and
Commander Sho's second contact.
All as the Evangelist has declared. Látom.
Now then,
I'm concerned about what's happening.
Off to where Commander Sho and Shinra are.
I'm here.
Don't sneak up and stand behind others
like that, Haumea! You startled me!
Commander Sho and I are not the only ones
who possess an Adolla Burst.
It seems like it's about to happen.
"Evangelist's Subordinate: Haumea"
It has been 198 years since
the Solar calendar was instituted.
The Evangelist is pleased.
The Adolla Burst is the primordial flame.
It is called the Flame of Perdition,
and is still considered a mystery.
But you are now seeing this
via Adolla Link, aren't you?
This unusual land, with its black ground
and countless flames rising from it.
This is the Adolla Burst.
Then, Adolla Bursts are flames
from this other dimension?
How do I, ostensibly still on Earth,
have something from this other dimension?
Because it is an energy that
can affect all other things.
So then, what? You're saying that
spontaneous human combustion
is caused by this strange world
we're looking at now?
The Adolla Link... What
exactly is this place?
This is the underworld of Adolla.
Those who witnessed
this land anciently called it...
..."Hell."
Do you see who is behind me?
This is the Evangelist.
You're the Evangelist?
You're the one who's using Sho
to carry out human combustion?!
It vanished...?
Shinra-kun, are you okay? What's going on?
Is something the matter?
Through the grace of the Evangelist,
I can affect all things.
Your Adolla Burst cannot measure up.
Yes, Commander Sho's ability...
It allows him to mess with the
thermal expansion of the universe,
and stop time!
You can do that with an Adolla Burst?
He is correct. I steal the heat
of expansion and stop time.
I don't care how fast you've gotten,
Shinra,
if the benchmark of time itself is stopped,
you'll never catch up to him!
Well, screw that.
It doesn't mean that I can just give up!
Damn it!
No matter how hard you struggle,
you look like you're standing still to me.
You little brat...
It's no use! You can't beat him!
It is beyond you. You cannot catch me.
What was that?
You cannot beat me.
"You cannot this," "you cannot that."
Put a sock in it.
You're a real sassy little kid.
What you can do is just once,
be nice and call me "Big Brother"!
Aw, man, now I'm angry!
Just you watch! I'm going to
catch you, right now!
Good luck, "Big Brother"!
Knock that off!
Now, let's continue our game of tag.
After all, you couldn't even
toddle around 12 years ago.
This is pointless. A waste of time.
Go on, start running, Sho.
Your brother is "it,"
and he's going to catch you.
You've never played tag, have you?
Hitting the person who's "it"
is against the rules.
I have no intention of playing along
with your tomfoolery.
You really are a stuck-up brat!
I didn't come here just for the fun of it!
Sho, Big Brother is going to play with you!
He forced a Link with me...?
Shinra-kun, have you gotten even faster
since we came down here?
So close. I went faster than I thought,
and my timing was off.
What did you just...?
The reason why Sho's ability is so strong
must be because he has such a high-grade
connection to the Adolla world.
An Adolla Link, huh? When my feet tingled,
my speed increased.
Is that another effect of the Adolla Link?
The Evangelist... Who is it?
Are they even human, like us?
My Adolla burst will get stronger
if I receive the Evangelist's
"grace" or whatever.
But how...?
Damn it...
I've had a number of Adolla Link
experiences happen to me already.
There's no reason why I can't do it!
The way this is going,
I can't hold out forever.
Severed Universe.
It's only a matter of
time before you collapse.
Twice now, other people's emotions
have found their way inside me.
Lieutenant Konro's plea for help...
...and Dr. Giovanni's bloodlust.
Those... must have been
due to an Adolla Link.
Up to now, I've only been
on the receiving end...
...but this time, I'm going to be
the one charging in!
I'm telling you, an Adolla Burst
without grace will do you no good.
I know!
Shinra-kun, you should get out of here!
You're going to get killed like this!
Why, when you know it won't work,
do you just keep coming toward me?
The image of your face when
you were little haunts me...
What is the significance
of blood relations?
There is no connection
at all between you and me.
I've been treated warmly by
the superiors who are around me.
In that case, we have no choice
but to believe it, as well.
We're going to form our
strategy around the premise
that Shinra's brother is still alive.
Things had been weird
ever since you got back.
The other companies ought not
interfere with the 8th's matters.
I'm going to track down the Evangelist,
too. Let me work with you.
Until you find something that's truly
important to you, I'll count on you.
He's the only family you have.
Make sure to keep him safe.
Rubbish.
And now, I'm going to
hook you up with that kindness.
Look, Sho, to you, I'm nothing more than
a guy who showed up out of nowhere.
But to me, you're...
After I lost you and Mom,
I never thought I'd see you again.
"Just once again... If only
I could see them once again..."
I've lived my whole life
up to now thinking that.
I'm not just going to collapse that easily.
I can't afford to give up now!
Sho, thank you for still being alive.
You're like a miracle to me.
All I can do is keep going faster!
And nothing else!
What?
This is the motionless world.
Impossible.
He disappeared?
Another earthquake?
There sure have been a lot of them lately.
I'm getting a case of nerves in my nerves.
I hope the 8th is all right.
Keep the chatter to yourselves.
"Lieutenant Priest"
"Third-generation pyrokinetic"
"Onyango"
Right.
I beg your pardon, Lieutenant Onyango.
Sorry to call you out of retirement.
What choice did you have,
after Rekka went off?
Old soldiers can't
afford to just fade away.
Is your right eye okay?
Could this rash of earthquakes mean...?
I didn't want Shinra Kusakabe
to find his way here.
Where did you go?
Do I return time to its normal speed?
No... It's too dangerous to go back
without identifying his actions.
But I'm at my limit.
What?
O-Ouch... That was pretty fast.
I went right by you, huh?
When did you... How did you
move all the way over there?
Maybe I'm getting awfully
close to your speed.
Our game of tag isn't over yet.
I promise you, I'm going to catch you.
Sho, what should we play today?
That image just now... was
that an Adolla Link?
Tell me,
how did you vanish a moment ago?
Hell if I know. I was
just trying to go faster.
Shinra-kun disappeared from
his world of stopped time.
He just tried to increase his speed,
and disappeared?
When a body exceeds a certain speed,
it can no longer withstand the shock...
...and self-destructs.
If it travels at ultra-high speed,
the body could break down
into the invisible particle level...
But no, once a person splits apart,
how would they come back together?
But then, Commander Sho is
doing something as ridiculous
as cooling the universe, isn't he?
If they can affect all things,
then returning a divided body back
the way it was is theoretically...
Who is this Evangelist who can
make these things happen?!
Here I come.
I'll dilate the universe before he moves...
I haven't quite got control
of this down yet, huh?
Commander Sho didn't react.
Could Shinra-kun have moved at him
faster than the speed of light?
If a body exceeds the speed of light,
it would send time backward.
Maybe after he splits,
his hyper speed reverts his
own body back to before it split?
But if he moves about at that speed,
it would create a black hole!
And if that happened, forget the Nether,
all of the Tokyo Empire would be wiped out!
Should I tell him?
Of course Shinra-kun isn't aware of this.
No... I'll be able to witness it.
This is a scientist's dream!
I'm starting to get the hang of this.
You'd better dodge this one,
or you'll be "it."
As long as I stop you before
you move, it's not a problem.
I'm a bit surprised that you
could force an Adolla Link,
but it isn't a big deal.
You've managed to let me
stave off some boredom.
He's entered the motionless world.
Oh, I hit you!
How can this be? How did he
come into a stopped world?
And with an Adolla Burst that
lacks the Evangelist's grace?
It's the same as those times with
Lieutenant Konro and Dr. Giovanni.
If my feelings are strong enough,
I can connect with you, Sho.
You and the Evangelist are connected,
right?
So, once I connect to you,
I'm connected to the Evangelist, too.
You're saying you attained
the Evangelist's grace through me?
It's finally happening, Haumea!
Mm-hmm.
The stirring of the Adolla Burst
via an Adolla Link with the Evangelist.
One might call it... the awakening
of a fourth generation.
While Commander Sho can control the
universe's thermal expansion to stop time,
Shinra-kun stops time by moving
at faster-than-light speed.
So our times are the same?
Bring it on.
I'm keeping my promise to Mom.
I'm going to bring Sho back.
I've finally met up with him.
I am going to catch him!
I haven't got a clue what's happening.
Haumea, can you see?
Hmm... more or less.
I wonder, for every word
or two that we exchange,
how much are they fighting?
Not even I, who isn't human, can tell.
Which one of us was the
last one to touch the other?
What are you talking about?
Our game of tag. Which one of us is "it"?
What nonsense.
Why are you so obsessed with me?!
I am not your little brother!
What are you getting so
agitated for? Rebellious phase?
Don't you show up out of nowhere
and play at being my brother!
Hey, you, over here!
Follow the sound of my clapping!
Oh, has your speed started to drop off?
Shut up. I can keep going.
Looks like you're close
to being overheated.
It's over. You're coming with me to
the Evangelist. Your flame is needed.
Damn...
Shinra-kun! This is bad!
Don't fight him anymore! Stop!
If you get overheated while using your
ability, there's no undoing the damage!
Listen to me, Shinra-kun! Every time
you stop time, you split your body apart!
In other words, you're dead!
Dead, you say?
Your ability uses your flames to accelerate
you to light speed, and stop time.
The shock of that happening breaks
your body down to subatomic particles!
Accelerating even more,
beyond the speed of light,
causes time to run backward!
Then your body goes back to the way it was!
If you get overheated
in the middle of that,
you'll atomize and die,
and might not be able to come back!
I won't be able to come back?
What's so funny? You're turning my stomach.
Back off. It's a nervous tic.
No, it's not. I'm not smiling out of fear.
I'm happy to be playing with you, Sho.
Stop coming in like it's nothing.
It disgusts me.
No, Shinra-kun! You won't be
able to come back this time!
Yes I will!
I'm not leaving Sho by himself anymore!
If I leave and leave Sho behind again,
then I'm a failure as a brother!
"Episode 22:
A Brother's Determination"
"To be continued"
Look at the imaginations in my head
and I'll go back to myself
Forcing right decisions on me
is like a devil that eats me up
He that used his claws on me
Uses the same claws to defend someone else
Weapons turn into both wounds and shields
Isn't that what life's about?
A secret known to none
For so long almost seems to disappear
but never does
Been holding on to it
While spending a night in the fire
The more they're attracted,
the more the ignorant laugh
What used to make up the universe
until yesterday takes the helm
The entire range of emotions that breathes
Don't want to take away
what I haven't even experienced
Look at the imaginations in my head
and I'll go back to myself
Forcing right decisions on me
is like a devil that eats me up
Don't get in my way anymore
I won't be killed by your ideals
"Next time"
"Episode 23: Smiles"
touched by the planet's anger,
and the world was engulfed in flames.
It was the Day of the Cataclysm.
The flames burned ferociously,
with an intensity threatening to
incinerate the places mankind lived,
the languages they spoke,
and the culture they had built up.
This is Yona.
Yes, that's right.
The crewmen from the
8th have been split up.
At the moment, the two of them
are still quiet. It's just getting started.
Shinra Kusakabe and
Commander Sho's second contact.
All as the Evangelist has declared. Látom.
Now then,
I'm concerned about what's happening.
Off to where Commander Sho and Shinra are.
I'm here.
Don't sneak up and stand behind others
like that, Haumea! You startled me!
Commander Sho and I are not the only ones
who possess an Adolla Burst.
It seems like it's about to happen.
"Evangelist's Subordinate: Haumea"
It has been 198 years since
the Solar calendar was instituted.
The Evangelist is pleased.
The Adolla Burst is the primordial flame.
It is called the Flame of Perdition,
and is still considered a mystery.
But you are now seeing this
via Adolla Link, aren't you?
This unusual land, with its black ground
and countless flames rising from it.
This is the Adolla Burst.
Then, Adolla Bursts are flames
from this other dimension?
How do I, ostensibly still on Earth,
have something from this other dimension?
Because it is an energy that
can affect all other things.
So then, what? You're saying that
spontaneous human combustion
is caused by this strange world
we're looking at now?
The Adolla Link... What
exactly is this place?
This is the underworld of Adolla.
Those who witnessed
this land anciently called it...
..."Hell."
Do you see who is behind me?
This is the Evangelist.
You're the Evangelist?
You're the one who's using Sho
to carry out human combustion?!
It vanished...?
Shinra-kun, are you okay? What's going on?
Is something the matter?
Through the grace of the Evangelist,
I can affect all things.
Your Adolla Burst cannot measure up.
Yes, Commander Sho's ability...
It allows him to mess with the
thermal expansion of the universe,
and stop time!
You can do that with an Adolla Burst?
He is correct. I steal the heat
of expansion and stop time.
I don't care how fast you've gotten,
Shinra,
if the benchmark of time itself is stopped,
you'll never catch up to him!
Well, screw that.
It doesn't mean that I can just give up!
Damn it!
No matter how hard you struggle,
you look like you're standing still to me.
You little brat...
It's no use! You can't beat him!
It is beyond you. You cannot catch me.
What was that?
You cannot beat me.
"You cannot this," "you cannot that."
Put a sock in it.
You're a real sassy little kid.
What you can do is just once,
be nice and call me "Big Brother"!
Aw, man, now I'm angry!
Just you watch! I'm going to
catch you, right now!
Good luck, "Big Brother"!
Knock that off!
Now, let's continue our game of tag.
After all, you couldn't even
toddle around 12 years ago.
This is pointless. A waste of time.
Go on, start running, Sho.
Your brother is "it,"
and he's going to catch you.
You've never played tag, have you?
Hitting the person who's "it"
is against the rules.
I have no intention of playing along
with your tomfoolery.
You really are a stuck-up brat!
I didn't come here just for the fun of it!
Sho, Big Brother is going to play with you!
He forced a Link with me...?
Shinra-kun, have you gotten even faster
since we came down here?
So close. I went faster than I thought,
and my timing was off.
What did you just...?
The reason why Sho's ability is so strong
must be because he has such a high-grade
connection to the Adolla world.
An Adolla Link, huh? When my feet tingled,
my speed increased.
Is that another effect of the Adolla Link?
The Evangelist... Who is it?
Are they even human, like us?
My Adolla burst will get stronger
if I receive the Evangelist's
"grace" or whatever.
But how...?
Damn it...
I've had a number of Adolla Link
experiences happen to me already.
There's no reason why I can't do it!
The way this is going,
I can't hold out forever.
Severed Universe.
It's only a matter of
time before you collapse.
Twice now, other people's emotions
have found their way inside me.
Lieutenant Konro's plea for help...
...and Dr. Giovanni's bloodlust.
Those... must have been
due to an Adolla Link.
Up to now, I've only been
on the receiving end...
...but this time, I'm going to be
the one charging in!
I'm telling you, an Adolla Burst
without grace will do you no good.
I know!
Shinra-kun, you should get out of here!
You're going to get killed like this!
Why, when you know it won't work,
do you just keep coming toward me?
The image of your face when
you were little haunts me...
What is the significance
of blood relations?
There is no connection
at all between you and me.
I've been treated warmly by
the superiors who are around me.
In that case, we have no choice
but to believe it, as well.
We're going to form our
strategy around the premise
that Shinra's brother is still alive.
Things had been weird
ever since you got back.
The other companies ought not
interfere with the 8th's matters.
I'm going to track down the Evangelist,
too. Let me work with you.
Until you find something that's truly
important to you, I'll count on you.
He's the only family you have.
Make sure to keep him safe.
Rubbish.
And now, I'm going to
hook you up with that kindness.
Look, Sho, to you, I'm nothing more than
a guy who showed up out of nowhere.
But to me, you're...
After I lost you and Mom,
I never thought I'd see you again.
"Just once again... If only
I could see them once again..."
I've lived my whole life
up to now thinking that.
I'm not just going to collapse that easily.
I can't afford to give up now!
Sho, thank you for still being alive.
You're like a miracle to me.
All I can do is keep going faster!
And nothing else!
What?
This is the motionless world.
Impossible.
He disappeared?
Another earthquake?
There sure have been a lot of them lately.
I'm getting a case of nerves in my nerves.
I hope the 8th is all right.
Keep the chatter to yourselves.
"Lieutenant Priest"
"Third-generation pyrokinetic"
"Onyango"
Right.
I beg your pardon, Lieutenant Onyango.
Sorry to call you out of retirement.
What choice did you have,
after Rekka went off?
Old soldiers can't
afford to just fade away.
Is your right eye okay?
Could this rash of earthquakes mean...?
I didn't want Shinra Kusakabe
to find his way here.
Where did you go?
Do I return time to its normal speed?
No... It's too dangerous to go back
without identifying his actions.
But I'm at my limit.
What?
O-Ouch... That was pretty fast.
I went right by you, huh?
When did you... How did you
move all the way over there?
Maybe I'm getting awfully
close to your speed.
Our game of tag isn't over yet.
I promise you, I'm going to catch you.
Sho, what should we play today?
That image just now... was
that an Adolla Link?
Tell me,
how did you vanish a moment ago?
Hell if I know. I was
just trying to go faster.
Shinra-kun disappeared from
his world of stopped time.
He just tried to increase his speed,
and disappeared?
When a body exceeds a certain speed,
it can no longer withstand the shock...
...and self-destructs.
If it travels at ultra-high speed,
the body could break down
into the invisible particle level...
But no, once a person splits apart,
how would they come back together?
But then, Commander Sho is
doing something as ridiculous
as cooling the universe, isn't he?
If they can affect all things,
then returning a divided body back
the way it was is theoretically...
Who is this Evangelist who can
make these things happen?!
Here I come.
I'll dilate the universe before he moves...
I haven't quite got control
of this down yet, huh?
Commander Sho didn't react.
Could Shinra-kun have moved at him
faster than the speed of light?
If a body exceeds the speed of light,
it would send time backward.
Maybe after he splits,
his hyper speed reverts his
own body back to before it split?
But if he moves about at that speed,
it would create a black hole!
And if that happened, forget the Nether,
all of the Tokyo Empire would be wiped out!
Should I tell him?
Of course Shinra-kun isn't aware of this.
No... I'll be able to witness it.
This is a scientist's dream!
I'm starting to get the hang of this.
You'd better dodge this one,
or you'll be "it."
As long as I stop you before
you move, it's not a problem.
I'm a bit surprised that you
could force an Adolla Link,
but it isn't a big deal.
You've managed to let me
stave off some boredom.
He's entered the motionless world.
Oh, I hit you!
How can this be? How did he
come into a stopped world?
And with an Adolla Burst that
lacks the Evangelist's grace?
It's the same as those times with
Lieutenant Konro and Dr. Giovanni.
If my feelings are strong enough,
I can connect with you, Sho.
You and the Evangelist are connected,
right?
So, once I connect to you,
I'm connected to the Evangelist, too.
You're saying you attained
the Evangelist's grace through me?
It's finally happening, Haumea!
Mm-hmm.
The stirring of the Adolla Burst
via an Adolla Link with the Evangelist.
One might call it... the awakening
of a fourth generation.
While Commander Sho can control the
universe's thermal expansion to stop time,
Shinra-kun stops time by moving
at faster-than-light speed.
So our times are the same?
Bring it on.
I'm keeping my promise to Mom.
I'm going to bring Sho back.
I've finally met up with him.
I am going to catch him!
I haven't got a clue what's happening.
Haumea, can you see?
Hmm... more or less.
I wonder, for every word
or two that we exchange,
how much are they fighting?
Not even I, who isn't human, can tell.
Which one of us was the
last one to touch the other?
What are you talking about?
Our game of tag. Which one of us is "it"?
What nonsense.
Why are you so obsessed with me?!
I am not your little brother!
What are you getting so
agitated for? Rebellious phase?
Don't you show up out of nowhere
and play at being my brother!
Hey, you, over here!
Follow the sound of my clapping!
Oh, has your speed started to drop off?
Shut up. I can keep going.
Looks like you're close
to being overheated.
It's over. You're coming with me to
the Evangelist. Your flame is needed.
Damn...
Shinra-kun! This is bad!
Don't fight him anymore! Stop!
If you get overheated while using your
ability, there's no undoing the damage!
Listen to me, Shinra-kun! Every time
you stop time, you split your body apart!
In other words, you're dead!
Dead, you say?
Your ability uses your flames to accelerate
you to light speed, and stop time.
The shock of that happening breaks
your body down to subatomic particles!
Accelerating even more,
beyond the speed of light,
causes time to run backward!
Then your body goes back to the way it was!
If you get overheated
in the middle of that,
you'll atomize and die,
and might not be able to come back!
I won't be able to come back?
What's so funny? You're turning my stomach.
Back off. It's a nervous tic.
No, it's not. I'm not smiling out of fear.
I'm happy to be playing with you, Sho.
Stop coming in like it's nothing.
It disgusts me.
No, Shinra-kun! You won't be
able to come back this time!
Yes I will!
I'm not leaving Sho by himself anymore!
If I leave and leave Sho behind again,
then I'm a failure as a brother!
"Episode 22:
A Brother's Determination"
"To be continued"
Look at the imaginations in my head
and I'll go back to myself
Forcing right decisions on me
is like a devil that eats me up
He that used his claws on me
Uses the same claws to defend someone else
Weapons turn into both wounds and shields
Isn't that what life's about?
A secret known to none
For so long almost seems to disappear
but never does
Been holding on to it
While spending a night in the fire
The more they're attracted,
the more the ignorant laugh
What used to make up the universe
until yesterday takes the helm
The entire range of emotions that breathes
Don't want to take away
what I haven't even experienced
Look at the imaginations in my head
and I'll go back to myself
Forcing right decisions on me
is like a devil that eats me up
Don't get in my way anymore
I won't be killed by your ideals
"Next time"
"Episode 23: Smiles"