Bye Bye, Earth (ばいばい、アース)

Hit your limit, have you?

I'll take the fang that is you into the jaw that is me.

Rest in peace.

Let's go.

We're almost at god's heart.

Bye Bye, Earth

Bye Bye, Earth

So this is god's fiery blood.

In the ancient age of gods, this place supplied divine power to the whole world.

It almost feels as though I'm touching our god for the first time.

The font of the shadowy pack you lead came from here, didn't it?

That's right.

It once lay within god, but now it has been exiled for eternity.

The will to destroy.

I feel it. I sense god's shuddering and unendurable terror of destruction

as well as a desire for it.

But why?

Does our god's hunger extend to god's own demise?

There is no divine love for the people here.

Yet just as the shadows of ruin were cast out

and became the Army of Insatiable Emptiness,

perhaps god's love has taken some other form and manifested in the world outside.

And if so, it must lie with what Belle and her friends seek.

Belle will come.

The Army is what discovers a new form of life in the midst of destruction.

Are you trying to free our god from its earthly shell?

Is that why you wish to welcome me as a person with a shadow

and make me sing?

Sing a song of pure destruction?

We do welcome you.

Nowhere...

So you can burn shadows?

I have to hand it to you!

You really are a child of god!

But that only makes the Army want you more as one of its fangs!

Wolf, depart this holy ground

and return to your wilderness!

Those aren't your own words!

Your god makes you say them!

Why does god fear the sword of the Army of Insatiable Emptiness?

Here's your answer!

The Army's darkness swallows everything totally and equally!

Don't try to fight it, child of god!

If you resist, I'll carve a spell of lament into you with this sword!

Adonis, you doofus.

Belle!

Hey there, Sherry.

Hi.

I've been waiting for you, girl of reason.

I'm going to cut you.

You are a light not even the Army's darkness can swallow completely

and also a darkness not even divine light can banish.

By consuming you, the Army will achieve a darkness truly absolute!

Always with you and the excuses.

If you want to take me on, just say so.

Dear me. That's egg on your face.

I know you!

You should've stayed dead, Rabbitia.

Kitty, take Sherry and go.

Of course.

Your song is more decisive than you realize!

We need it to lay bare what god hungers for!

Hey, Sherry. Remember how you sang at my place one time?

Would you sing for me again?

Yes!

It's a promise, Belle!

Not so fast!

I see you still don't know how to treat a woman.

I knew I should've taken you out first,

girl of reason!

I am Belle Lablac!

Finally, a good look at your face.

You look like you're doing well.

I'm always a crucible of regret

every time I think of making you the key to ruin.

Bullshit.

I gave up on you a long time ago.

Yeah, I bet you did.

Dummy.

Do you honestly get it?

Go on. Try calling to me.

I'll carve you up!

So you've transcended its shell?

You've got my hopes up, girl of reason!

Nowhere...

Oh, hey. You do have plenty of friends.

Stay back!

I will be the one to make a fang of reason!

Don't worry. They will not return you to nothingness.

It's just that you have yet to be sufficiently tried.

What do you mean, Dram?!

What?

Who are you?

Oh, of course.

This is my final responsibility as your Enola.

Why?

Why are you saying that to someone who isn't me?

Those are my words! You said them to me!

What?

Damn it!

He's... teaching swordplay? To Adonis?

Why?

Who are you?

You made Runding!

The future will soon appear.

You and the child of darkness will bring it.

Wait just a little longer, girl of reason.

Who the hell...

do you all take me for?

Will Belle be all right?

Her peril is dire.

But as it happens, you are the one who holds the key to this battle,

Princess Sherry.

M-Me?

We will never abandon our swords!

If we discard anything,

it should be our desire to belong to god!

Conductor Gwyn, do you mean to defy

not only my commands, but god's as well?!

God is a primal spell, passed down since the age of legend.

But the people saw god in the gears of a machine and began worshiping it.

It is Deus Ex Machina!

Deus Ex Machina The God Machine

You dare call our god gears?!

God is a supreme being who casts us in our roles and harmonizes us all!

Stop clinging to god!

Now is the time! We must create order with our own hands!

If we don't,

we'll live out our lives as clockwork toys for all eternity!

Do you still not realize what Adonis despaired of?

Why he wished for absolute destruction?!

Would you take after the Army and swallow ruin?!

From the Katakombe!

We'll enshrine the key to journeys in the Katakombe as a symbol of neutrality!

I see now... You lot plan to serve the Katakombe!

The Katakombe is our hope! It shows a new mode of existence for the people!

No Topdogs or Underdogs!

Eventually, no outside or inside either!

Have you no shame?

You leave me no choice but to end your ravings with my blade!

The victor in this clash will determine your people's future mode of being.

Belle is fighting because she believes that.

As one who has touched the pulse of god, you must take your place among them.

Very well.

Will you intensify the conflict?

Or overturn its very foundations?

It all depends on you.

I understand.

I know my role.

But all I can do is sing.

Indeed.

Just as Belle merely swings her sword.

I will take my place upon the stage.