Fire Force (炎炎ノ消防隊)

Arthur-kun's light is extinguishing the flames of the Great Cataclysm!

Arthur must've beaten Dragon!

Well done, Arthur!

The hope that Dragon saw is exorcising the despair.

Dragon, renowned as a calamity...

That kid showed the Great Wyrm of Despair hope?

Has the Cataclysm died down?

Are we safe now?

But the despair will not end!

Because I,

Great Cataclysm Execution Officer Faerie, will not allow it to end!

Fire Force

Chapter 3

Episode 22 "Hero Resurrected"

For now, it looks like the Great Cataclysm has stopped,

but will it really wrap up like this?

I'd like to think so, but I can't imagine it'll end this way.

Arthur will come back to us, won't he?

Of course he will.

Vulcan, isn't there any way for us to look for Arthur's location from here?

Space is too vast. I can't capture all of it.

Licht!

Something of insane mass is approaching from a high altitude!

Mass

It can't be.

This is...

Haijima Industries

What's wrong, Kurono?

There's gonna be a replacement here.

I, the fake, am gonna replace you!

Is this... how people see me?

Huh?

You're like a psycho from a third-rate writer's script.

This is the image that people have of us.

There are two differences between you and me.

The first is that no matter how much power I may possess,

I don't plan to use that power to stray from the path of being human.

And the other...

I am an honest, virtuous salaryman.

I am not a psycho!

What are you talking about?

You torment children!

I am only doing so in the form of work.

I have received the company's permission to pick on the child called Takkun.

You're just gonna bully him until you kill him, right?

Even I would be forgiven for swapping places with you!

I'll bust your guts wide open!

I'll fweet your fweet and fweet with it!

Loud laughter followed by a violent statement.

What's wrong with you?

You started to sound like Pan from the 4th in the middle there.

Is this really what the people around me think of me?

That's how it goes.

If you're not close to someone,

they'll sloppily categorize you and then feel like they understand you. That's all.

Still... a cliché psycho like that?

Since it affects salary assessments, even I worry about how others judge me.

Stop licking that blade all the time.

You're scum that bullies the weak!

I am the image of you that reflects exactly that.

And since I have no interest in my social standing,

I know no restraint, so I'm strong!

Is that so?

If you seemed too strong, I thought I'd give up my social standing and run away.

But that doesn't seem to be the case.

Don't try to act tough, original!

I am not acting tough.

You and I are fundamentally completely different.

Tell me how we're so different!

I am self-centered, but I don't fight alone.

And that's the reason you're stronger?

My strength doesn't come from insane psychopathy.

I am a professional. A salaryman.

Section Chief Oguro, your orders.

Get him.

Understood.

I can push the responsibility onto my boss. That's why I can fight.

You can only act on your boss's orders! Such a restrictive way to live!

I'll set you free!

You're desperately copying me. Trying to replace me...

But if that's true,

then the one you need permission from is the person in charge, me.

Do you like me?

Of course I don't.

I just want the benefits that come from replacing you.

I see.

Then we'll just say that it wasn't meant to be this time.

I ask that you leave this world.

So this guy is people's image of me?

Seriously, what a nuisance.

What kind of monster do people think I am?

You know that only despair lies ahead for you.

Why are you fighting it?

I'm an observer.

I can't die until the very, very end.

Really? You're standing up?

That image doesn't fit my image, though.

What do I do?

Oh, come on. Are you serious?

Already out of cards to play?

I can't possibly take on two of you.

I give up...

Burns.

All this time, I've seen Adolla through your eyes.

Though, with just one eye, I guess I can't try to show off.

Your eye and mine were separate but the same.

I'm glad I got to see you again here at the end.

If you're the one who kills me,

it's the best thing that could happen in the worst situation.

Do it.

You thought I was a doppelganger?

Burns...

Are you still the same Burns?

I haven't seen you since Fuchu, right, Five-Two?

But how? I'm certain that your doppelganger...

Back then, I was dragged into Adolla, but I suppressed my doppelganger,

and I was able to merge with it while maintaining my own consciousness.

You're one tough, stubborn old geezer.

At last, it seems he's appeared.

Yeah. I can tell, too.

He's up against the strongest.

If he can't handle it, it's game over.

Hey.

Hey!

If we're gonna do this thing, let's hurry up and do it, Original.

Isn't it a little too soon to decide which of us is the real deal?

The one to lead Asakusa has to be the absolute strongest.

The one who wins is the real original.

This has gotten crazy.

Waka, who's stronger than anyone,

and Waka's fake, who's stronger than anyone, are fighting.

Who do you think will win?

How should I know?

What those of us here in Asakusa and those guys throughout the Empire

think of as "the strongest" has taken physical form.

That's the real King of Destruction.

But no one can beat Waka!

Of course not!

Waka won't lose!

Are you stupid?

If you guys believe in Waka, won't that just make the fake stronger?

But you know, Hina, Waka won't ever lose!

This really is a pickle!

This has turned into a real tale of wit.

You hate stuff that takes too much effort, don't you?

If you're gonna blow me away, some half-hearted attack isn't gonna cut it.

I know that better than anyone!

Hey, now.

Hey, Mister Provisional Original!

Your Nichirin is a sham of a copy!

I'm gonna take this whole planet and blow it all away with a kaboom!

Now this is the real Nichirin!

What's that?

This is Shinmon Benimaru's once-in-a-lifetime great firework!

Farewell, Original!

It only took a second! Yeah!

You fake! Come back never, you hear me?

Seriously. He didn't even give us time to worry.

Don't go getting cocky just because it's Waka!

Waka's the strongest in everything but gambling!

Oh, come on. What's going on here?

I'm the image of "the strongest" built by everyone in the Empire.

Just look at that lot down in Asakusa...

I am the manifestation of all of that unshakable belief, so why...

Hmm.

I guess more people think of me as weak than I thought.

Hey, you goons!

Why was that guy so weak?

You really had me fooled. Don't you dare look down on me!

W-We're sorry!