Casshern Page #4

A paradise.

People with the same aspirations as you

are dying.

But did a single one of them listen to us?

While we were making our way to this castle,

was there anyone who came to our aid?

Who listened to our desire merely to live?

Midori was the only one.

Midori and no-one else.

You abducted her.

No!

It was Mother who saved us!

That's a lie!

Whatever are you fighting for?

Will your struggle be over

once you've destroyed us?

Will people then be able to lead lives in peace?

Do you really think

you will be able to live in such a world?

Someone like you reborn in non-human form?

A futile dream!

For so long as they remain human.

Do you really think that a world in which humans

can live happily will ever emerge?

Human history and religion prove it.

What does good mean to you?

What is evil?

Fight on my side!

Let's recreate this world together!

Youre the only ally left to me.

Never forget!

Youre no longer a human yourself.

Mother...

Can I have been wrong?

Did I just fight so as to have no regrets?

I fought so that the sadness

would never be repeated.

But did I really just do it for my own

self-satisfaction?

Just as he said,

I don't know who was right and who was wrong.

One can feel hatred.

But one's enemy feels the same way.

When you realise this,

you're left impotent.

Tetsunya,

No individual is always right,

and no individual is always wrong.

We munst all search together

for the path to co-existence.

Don't give up!

Bring the fighting to an end!

I still can't see it.

Any of what you say you saw.

Is this proof of being alive?

Is this what living means?

What have you done?

What have you done?

We did nothing.

know

But hatred just bears forth more hatred.

Is that not just too sad?

Youn surely weren't born in this world to hate.

Those who have died so far

would surely not want any more hatred.

How can you be so kind to people?

I'm sure you can, too.

Midori...

Forgive me.

Lunna...

know

This is the last time I'll leave you alone.

Goodbye!

Where's Midori?

Target the enemy headquarters!

But your son's inside.

I don't care. Fire!

Yukio!

I too have tried to rule the nation

in my own manner.

Prepare to fire again.

That's enough!

Surely that's enough.

They may be Neoroids to you.

But inside they're human.

I'll tell you something.

Just as she says, you're plain human beings.

Eurasia, Zone Seven.

One of the rebel tribe who were massacred

in one of our clean-up operations.

Unfortunately, your creator, Azunma

established the theory for creating new-cells

but his research failed.

But we did find out about

the existence of original humans.

Yes, the race that lies

at the origin of all human beings.

That's right.

I'm reluctant to admit it, but studies have shown

that you in Zone Seven belong to this race.

Naito then began to provide the corpses of

prisoners on your side to conduct experiments.

It should have been possible

to create neo-cells in this way.

But the research couldnt be completed.

There weren't enough bodies to experiment on.

So they came up with the idea of

getting hold of bodies to experiment on

as a matter of government policy.

In other words, you were ordinary human beings

who were carved up into little pieces

for the benefit of industry

and to extend my father's life.

It's like a bad joke.

Our nation started to go crazy

to realise the absurd goal of extending life.

Your justifications are meaningless.

It's a sad business.

Youve been reborn merely to hate.

Simply to hate human beings.

And without even knowing

that you are yourselves human.

Stop!

I'm not a contemptible human being like you!

It's odious that vermin such as you

are our ancestors.

Youve been created by our race,

and you'll now have your reckoning!

Murderer.

My daughters foe...feel the pain.

I can't see anything.

I can see nothing.

Forgive me.

Father!

Father!

Where are you going?

I'm going home.

To my and Midori's house.

I know you hate me,

so I won't ask you to come with us.

But your mother's different.

She needs medical treatment.

Mother's dead.

But you came back to life.

Have you seen nothing?

Have you no idea of how many people have

suffered and died due to us being reborn?

Are you telling me I was wrong?

That's not it!

It's not enough for just one person to be happy.

Youn think that's justification

for letting someone you love die?

Anybody who has loved someone deeply

and accepts the responsibilities involved

would agree with me.

Don't stand in the way

of my and Midori's happiness.

What are you doing?

Give her to me.

Give her back!

I won't.

Do you know what it is to love someone?

She'll soon come back to life.

Mother!

I wasn't able to stop the fighting.

Not only that

but I averted my gaze from all suffering.

Why, oh, why,

why was I born?

Why, oh, why,

why was I reborn?

Mother!

Tetsunya!

Get away!

This isn't the real me.

I can't help what I'm doing.

I want to let you

forget the hatred,

to forget everything.

I want to make a new beginning.

know

Let's end the hatred here.

I didn't want to cause more pain

but it came to this all over again.

But you'll never have to feel lonely again.

From now on I'll be with you always.

Just the two of us from now on.

Now at last I understand.

We harm something through our very existence.

That's what living is all about.

It's about harming something or other.

We needed to be tolerant to one another.

Tolerant of the fact that

we live together in the same world.

Those who presume to judge!

Youn err.

We do more than just exist:

we have the strength to dream of living together.

It may start from something small,

it may even seem impossible.

But this is where we munst start from.

But it really isn't that hard.

Hope.

That's the child born of Lunna and me.

Directed by Kazunaki Kiriya

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