Fire Force (炎炎ノ消防隊)

What is with this guy? There's no stopping him.

Juggernaut!

Juggernaut...

I have to stop the bleeding.

We need to move, fast, before more Infernals come.

Kotatsu-san, you should get away by yourself...

I don't think I can stand up anymore...

I can't feel my left leg...

I think it's probably...

There's no way I'm leaving you here!

You should get away from here, quickly...

If you try... to carry a big lug like me with you... it'll slow you down...

It feels like now, at the end, I was as big a man on the inside as on the outside...

Yeah, you were amazing! You defeated a White-Clad all by yourself!

It's all thanks to you... that I was able to avenge Hajiki-senpai...

You gave me courage...

You made me a man...

That's why I have no regrets...

I would like to have seen my potato fields back home one last time, though...

But having you watch over me... that seems like asking too much...

I couldn't ask for more than to pass in the Nether... like a potato...

You dummy! You dug your potatoes up, didn't you?!

Potatoes have to last until they're above ground!

Juggernaut...?

I swear I will take Juggernaut back to the surface!

"Episode 21: Enemy Contact"

We're dead! Damn it!

Fire! Fire! He's already dead!

This is the doing of the Evangelist's men.

--Maki was fighting people as dangerous as this? --Not you, too! No!

I assume you had Maki safely supporting the rest of you from the rear?

We had her on the front line as a meat shield, naturally.

You used my sister as a meat shield?!

We're on the battlefield. Please pay attention.

You just told me the most outrageous--

It's just one thing after another.

Now what?

I am Iron, Knight of the Purple Haze! I will burn away you surface scum!

He's a White-Clad.

To announce himself on the battlefield like that,

he must be Arthur levels of stupid.

Hmm? Were those mosquito bites or something?

My gun had no effect. What's going on here?

I have a lot more questions to ask you about Maki. Stay behind me.

Wishful thinking! You cannot even scratch my steely body with that thing!

The squad has gone into complete panic mode.

How many are dead? Lives are being lost way too easily.

Concentrate. Feel the life around you.

Who's there?!

Long time, Shinra Kusakabe.

Dr. Giovanni!

What are you scheming down here in the Nether?!

Was the lab that Detective Oze discovered one of yours?!

How many have you killed?! What are you trying to do?! Answer me!

The lab was nothing more than chum in the water.

And the Fire Force fell for the trap, hook, line, and sinker.

What?!

And now, Shinra Kusakabe,

you will come and join us, along with your brother.

Where is Sho?!

I came customized for combat. Not like anything you've seen before.

What was that?!

I told you, I'm not like anything you've seen before.

This body has an increased affinity with the Insects.

Affinity? What did you...

...do to your body?

I hear the 2nd and the 8th

are conducting a joint large-scale investigation in the Nether.

Are we finally going to find out who the White-Clad are?

Not the Nether again...

Crewman Kusakabe, are you all right?!

Stay out of this.

What do you take people for? What have you done to your body?!

Insect legs?

Damn it, now we're up against monsters?!

Fire! Fire!

Get back, please! I'll take this one!

Evacuating the wounded takes first priority.

I have to draw Dr. Giovanni away.

You insist on protecting the wounded?

Our objective here is you. Why don't you worry about yourself?

If I use my speed to close the distance in a flash and hammer him--

No matter how much faith you place in your speed,

you have to do better than just charge into me.

How did he know what I was thinking?

Hair-pencils.

Organs that only male moths possess, which utilize pheromones.

They are able to release and detect pheromones.

I took this capability, expanded upon it,

and developed the ability to read human emotional and psychological states.

I know what you're thinking. You might say a little bug told me.

What is it with you and Insects? What are those things?!

I'm sure you've heard the theory, right?

About how Insects are an extraterrestrial life form

who landed here as eggs attached to a meteor? Just as that theory states,

the Insects are not of this world.

They are creatures from Adolla.

I have been performing experiments to prove that if you fuse an Adollan Insect

with a human being, they can get closer to Adolla.

You mean you experimented on yourself

to alter your compatibility with Insects and Adolla?!

No need to be impatient; I will show you the results of my experiments!

This is a time for the Knight King himself to bring up the rear.

Take the wounded and find an exit to the surface at once.

Thanks a million.

In battle, I am a one-man army! My sword possessed with a divine frenzy!

He left us.

What does he think bringing up the rear means?

He missed one of them!

Fall back! Fall back!

I won't let you get away with this!

What are you talking about? You're all caught in our trap.

The plasma user...?

Arthur! What are you doing here? What happened to your squad?

The Knight King brought up their rear to let them get away.

Are you sure the "rear" is supposed to come way up here?

Hmph, what does a fool like you know about the rear guard, anyway?

There are now two of you? No matter.

I was just wondering what I was going to do with all these legs.

Please stay behind me! This one is dangerous!

No, you stay behind me!

"Martensite"

He repelled them?

Sergeant, are you sure you even hit him?!

I'm beginning to have doubts about your marksmanship!

You lured Maki over to the Fire Force, when she's not cut out for that work.

Your eye for judging people is as off the mark as your aim.

That steam is out of this world.

He must be a type of third generation pyrokinetic

who uses his pyrokinesis within his body.

That won't work! That won't work!

My steely body is as hard as nails!

Martensite!

Are you kidding me?! What is up with this guy's body?!

His body can repel bullets and smash through pillars.

His body is exceptionally hardened.

Ironclad reasoning! You are correct!

You've heard of the tempering that takes place with metal, right?

By heating metal to a high temperature,

and then rapidly cooling it,

the metal forms an extremely tough martensite structure.