Elfen Lied (エルフェンリート)

Os iusti meditabitur sapientiam

The mouth of the just shall meditate wisdom

Et lingua eius loquetur indicium

And his tongue shall speak judgment

Beatus vir qui suffert tentationem

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation

Quoniam cum probatus fuerit accipient coronam vitae

For when he hath been proved, he shall receive a crown of life

Kyrie, ignis divine, eleison

Lord, fire divine, have mercy

O quam sancta, quam serena

Oh how holy, how serene

Quam benigma, quam amoena

How benign, how pleasant

O castitatis lilium

Oh lily of purity

No, it's not what you're thinking!

Her clothes were wet and Nyu couldn't change by herself.

So...

This is the key to the house.

I'll leave it here.

I'm glad that Nyu seems to be doing fine.

Yuka, well, this is...

Since it looks like I interrupted something, I'm going home.

What're you saying?!

Hold on. Hey, listen to what I have to say!

Like I said, you misunderstood.

Hey, Kohta.

Do you remember the festival we went to together when we were kids?

A festival?

Where'd that come from?

That doesn't matter right now, does it?

You jerk!

Yuka...

I... all along...

all along...

Yuka...

You're such a jerk!

Hold on, Yuka!

What was that all about?

My back feels chilly.

I wonder if I'm catching a cold.

Nyu...

It's you, Papa.

Papa!

Nana, I have a favor to ask.

Deep Feelings

Oh, it cracked!

Boy, you suck at this.

Then let me see you do it, Kohta!

Sure.

Here you go. It's done!

Wow...

Wow!

It's no big deal. There's nothing special about it.

It cracked again!

That's too tough for you.

If you can do it, I'll do whatever you want.

You talk like you're so cool!

Just you wait and see.

By the next time we meet, I'll definitely be able to do it right.

Well, do what you can and practice it, anyway.

If I can, I'm really gonna ask you to do whatever I want!

It's a promise!

I'll remember it well.

I'm stupid.

What do you want me to do?

If it's your wish, I'll do whatever you want me to.

What does she mean by "Papa"?

She isn't really Chief Kurama's daughter, is she?

Of course not.

She's been restrained in here since birth.

She's been undergoing experiments almost like torture all this time.

To live in that situation, she probably needed some sort of support.

Then you mean that support was Chief Kurama?

By believing that Chief was her father,

and by trying to live up to that father's expectations,

she's been able to bear things up until now.

Otherwise, I think she would have had a mental breakdown long ago.

#7 has an obedient personality and has never turned her vectors toward humans, either.

Well, she's a unique case.

I want you to kill one person.

I can't kill a person.

The target is a Diclonius, just like you, Nana.

A Diclonius has escaped.

Diclonius have an ability to sense each other.

You should be able to find her.

I think I can do it,

but I can't kill her.

Then just confining her will do.

I'll set it up so that you can contact me once you find her.

Papa...

Is this person someone who causes you trouble?

Yeah, I have no choice but to rely on you, Nana.

Really? Really?

Then, I'll try my best!

Please prepare for #7 to go out by tomorrow.

39 degrees.

Darn.

Nyu...

Don't worry. I'll be fine if I stay in bed.

Instead of worrying about that, please wear some underwear.

Nyu?

It's already morning?

I wonder what time it is?

Nyu! Nyu!

Water...

Nyu?

Would you bring me some water?

Nyu?

I said water. Water...

Just as I thought, she doesn't understand.

Wa... ter?

Right. Would you bring some water here?

Nyu!

Nyu!

Thanks.

I appreciate the thought, anyway.

Nyu!

It's not that I came to see you, Kohta!

I just brought some clothes for Nyu...

Water! Water!

What's the matter?

Shouldn't you go to a hospital?

No, I'm not going to a hospital.

Kohta...

In any case, what are those?

Some kind of charm?

Yuka...

You were talking about the festival yesterday, right?

It doesn't really matter any more.

I don't remember much about that festival day,

the day I said goodbye to you for the last time.

Just around that time, my dad died in a car accident.

And Kanae got sick.

There were a series of shocking events, so...

I wonder if that's the reason.

What's the matter?

But on that day both uncle and Kanae were on the train you took home.

What? I can't hear you very well.

Nothing.

It's nothing.

Yuka?

Nyu?

I'll go and change the water.

I see.

Kohta doesn't remember anything about that day.

That's why...

Don't give me that bullshit!

Who'd take castration surgery, you dumb-ass!

You think I'm some cat in heat?

I sympathize, but if you don't like it, you'll have to die here.

What'd you say?!

I barely came back with my life and now you're giving me this shit?!

If we don't do it, mankind will be destroyed.

Are you retarded?!

What do my balls have to do with the fall of mankind?!

And first off, just who in the hell is that horned bitch?!

What are those hands?

Tell me. What the hell did I lose against?

We call them Diclonius.

Diclo?

A human in a mutated form. A mutant.

A human? That bitch is?

The characteristics are, as you know,

a pair of protrusions that are sticking out from the temporal area.

And what's the most crucial is that they don't have just two hands.

You gotta be kiddin' me.

So are you saying that they're equipped with those crazy weapons from birth?

Those are vectors, also called receptors,

and a detailed analysis of them hasn't been done yet.

They show abnormal abilities such as rapid movement

and the ability to cut using high frequency micro-vibration.

But essentially, they aren't weapons and have another purpose.

Huh?

Commonly, an individual born with this kind of abnormal gene

either dies right after birth

or dies off within one generation.

But she alone doesn't have any problem with her adaptability to the environment

and reproductive ability.

And it's also possible for her to reproduce in a different way than normal human beings.

What do you mean?

Her gene infects humans through those vectors.

What?! Then I was...

She will, in order to evolve mankind,

destroy all of mankind that currently exists.