Clockwork Planet (クロックワーク・プラネット)

You're that old guy?

February 10th 07:30 Sakuradamon Grid Pillar of Heaven

The rescue of Her Highness Houko Hoshinomiya has the highest priority!

All units, advance!

Akihabara Grid Time until Yatsukahagi restarts:

About 21 Hours

Time until the Tall Wand is launched:

About 7 hours

Connected the bypass to block C21.

Readjusting the AOS5022 gear's rotational speed and increasing it...

by 1/15th of a second.

Acknowledged, readjustment complete.

Please connect the HT shaft to the deceleration gear.

Yes!

Hey, you seem busy.

Here, enjoy this kiss from your goddess to cheer you up.

Quit fooling around. Shut up, and come with me, kid.

Oh, going out?

The army is getting antsy, so we're going to go play with them a bit.

I'm sorry, but I'll need you to buy us as much time as possible.

Of course.

Naoto Miura.

Y-You mean me?

May I have a word?

Episode 11 Theory of Y

Are you wanting to retaliate against the giant weapon

because the automata dear to you were hurt?

Not quite.

I mean, they forced AnchoR to do something truly vile.

And on top of that, they hurt RyuZU.

I just want them to pay for that.

Then why did you assume the risk of overtaking the Pillar of Heaven?

Would it not have been quicker to simply purge the Akihabara Grid?

It seems to me that would've been the most efficient way to achieving your goals.

No, I mean the people who aren't behind that giant weapon have nothing to do with this.

I see.

I understand now.

I see that you truly cannot be trusted.

What? How did you arrive at that?

You are a very fair person.

RyuZU?

To be frank, I'm astonished.

I never expected to find

another human besides Master Naoto who wasn't completely blind.

I am honored to receive your praise.

Let me ask you this, young man.

Have you never felt like giving up on this world,

when it keeps obstructing the path of humanity?

Don't be so full of yourself, old man.

Why do you think you get to speak for all humanity?

We will never lose hope!

There was someone who stole away all the theories humanity had come up with.

That person then created this grotesque thing, this clockwork planet.

If he had been a god or demon, I could have accepted it.

I thought to myself that I could resign with the knowledge that there is obviously

no way for our mediocre people to go against a superior being.

Until I met that boy.

Gentlemen!

Thank you for your hard work thus far.

Now, you may rest.

Your Excellency! What is the meaning of this?!

We're—

Now I shall challenge you one more time,

you monster who pretends to be Y.

13:30 Sakuradamon Grid Pillar of Heaven

You shitheads! Go down!

And here come more.

Even if I'm peerless, I can't go on forever.

Kid, less talking, more fighting.

Easier said than done. I'm totally spent. I can't squeeze anything else out.

Princess, can you make something happen soon, please?

Thirty minutes until the Tall Wand is launched.

This is the home stretch, everyone!

Roger!

If I was able to do work like that, too...

Master Naoto?

You've gotta be kidding me.

This is like that time when...

What's wrong? We've almost completed the bypass to take full control.

Marie! Gather all the clouds to the south of here, right now!

Initiate weather control on the exterior of Floor 20, six o'clock!

Crap, we won't make it!

Everyone run!

Shit! What the hell's happening?!

They shot it.

What?

Can't you see? The main cannon of the thing that destroyed Akihabara!

No way! We were supposed to have another 15 hours!

I thought they were trying to stage a coup d'état!

If they destroy the Pillar of Heaven, they'll all go down with Tokyo, too!

How should I know?!

I never imagined they'd do that, either!

That was the appropriate countermeasure against a microwave maser cannon.

What's more,

you did that without even understanding the underlying principles behind it.

Right, Naoto Miura?

You're the old man from before?

I haven't introduced myself yet.

My name is Gennai Hirayama.

Naoto, who is this?

We met him in the deep underground before.

He's a recluse who thinks he's given up on the world.

I was never interested in a coup d'état.

What the hell?!

The bypass was disconnected?

With that one shot?

We have to get back to work right now!

We just received an emergency transmission from Karasawa.

They moved the launch time of the Tall Wand forward.

No way.

I don't intend to let this end easily, Y.

Y?

Stop me.

Taste the resolve of the commoners who crawl on the ground,

you monster.

Naoto, come on. Let's rearrange those gears.

See, we need to rework this part here one more ti—

Marie, do you even know what you're talking about?

How am I supposed to hear the sound of gears that have disappeared?

That thing diverted all energy to charge its main cannon,

so it was able to fire a lot faster than anticipated.

How long until it can shoot again?

It fired multiple times, so 72 minutes.

It won't be sooner than that.

Hey, Princess! Are you safe? What's going on over there?

And how long are we supposed to defend here?

These guys are pounding us hard from the front and the rear!

Meister Marie, do you remember Kyoto?

When everybody had given up, you were the only one who—

That's not true.

Since then, all I've done is rely on a miracle.

One called Naoto Miura.

Naoto, can't you destroy that weapon with AnchoR and RyuZU?

If that's our last resort, I'd rather Japan, or the entire world itself, go under.

But...

Father...

Please give me the order.

No, I'll never do that!

But at this rate...

I know. I get it!

I'll figure it out!

I'll come up with something...

I'm sorry, I can't obey that order.

AnchoR!

AnchoR!

AnchoR!

RyuZU, please go and bring her back immediately!

I cannot stop her once she's fully powered.

In that case, tell her this:

"Wait 70 minutes."

Give me until then to work something out!

Understood.

Miss Marie, may I say something?

You're right.

Huh?

Like Master Naoto.

And at the same time, you're wrong.