Gavin...
Please...
Please answer... Gavin!
I can't connect to the net. What's up with that?
Probably a service outage. It's been happening a lot lately.
The customer you are trying to reach is currently unavailable.
Please leave a message after the tone.
Gavin!
Don't go to room 404 at the Greenwood Hotel!
It's dangerous!
I'll explain the details later, so just wait for me at the entrance of the hotel!
The world was rapidly changing its shape.
I still didn't know anything,
but it's possible that part of me realized...
that the one at the center of everything going on
was none other than me.
"It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place."
~The Red Queen Hypothesis~
"Queen."
The one who possesses her genes
can bless those who have special powers, Evolvers,
with even greater power, clearing a path to the future.
When the Queen truly awakens,
will the world achieve further evolution, or...
Mr. Love: Queen's Choice
"Room 404"
There isn't one?
What do you mean?
I'm very sorry. Our hotel does not have a room 404.
Is it possible you had one before, but it's gone now?
Or that there are plans to build one?
Unfortunately, no...
Pardon me for asking,
but is it possible you've mistaken our hotel for a different one?
Would you mind if I took a look at your fourth floor?
Access to our guest floors is limited to those staying with us.
I'll stay here, then!
Do you have a room available on the fourth floor?
The Greenwood Hotel doesn't have a room 404.
If that's true, then... was all that just an illusion?
I never imagined you'd show up instead of Gavin.
You're...
The one who'd gone missing...
A Black Swan agent, Jay's little sister.
I think her name was...
Josie.
Why are you here?
Where is Gavin?
I suppose this is good, in its own way.
Before killing Gavin...
I'll kill you first.
I'll show you the despair
of losing someone dear to you.
This is one of several places in the world
where a different space-time was born from variations in cosmic energy.
Seventeen years ago, my family wandered into this place.
The only ones who made it back to our world were Jay-niisan and me.
But now my brother is gone, too...
He was killed! Because of you and Gavin!
If it weren't for you two...
Your death will not be swift.
I'll make sure you feel the same agony my brother and I experienced.
Stay calm.
At least this way...
That future will have changed.
All that's left is to somehow help her...
Are you here because you were ordered by Black Swan?
Those people used us to their hearts' content, and in the end...
they never helped us.
Then... Gavin and the Evolver Anti-Crime Task Force...
They take Evolvers like you under their protection to save them!
Protection?
You don't know anything, do you?
And you're supposed to be the Queen.
Another service outage.
There've been intermittent service outages
around Loveland City over the past few days.
The service providers have been handling them,
but the cause is unknown.
There's been intel that Black Swan has initiated action on a large-scale plan.
It's doubtful that it's related...
But the only lead is Black Swan Agent Jay's younger sister, Josie.
She was reported missing, but in the last few days,
she's been frequently sighted in the vicinity of the Greenwood Hotel.
I will protect you. No matter what.
Both you... and this city.
Litton...
Thanks for coming here.
Where have you been all this time?
All Commander Leto would tell me is that you went missing during a mission.
I just assumed you were...
What happened?
You've been looking into the whereabouts of the Evolvers that
the Task Force has taken into protection, right?
A few of the people you interviewed had connections to me.
That's why I got in touch... so I could tell you the truth.
A part of you already knows, though, right?
All the Evolvers that the Task Force has taken in have been killed.
It didn't matter if they'd done harm
or if they'd simply been caught up in events.
All of them.
They made me carry out that "work" for them.
I couldn't take it anymore, so I ran away.
All we are is executioners.
Further whereabouts unknown
whereabouts unknown
For what reason...
Why would the Task Force do something like that?
I don't know.
It's all done according to Commander Leto's judgement.
Gavin, be careful.
He's vigilant and meticulous.
If he notices what you're doing, he'll...
Litton!
Stay with me, Litton!
You two were both outstanding investigators.
It is unfortunate that we find ourselves in this situation.
Commander Leto...
Why?
We're supposed to protect people.
Why hurt Evolvers... and the people who fight alongside us?
Where is the justice in this?!
It is our job to defend order in this world, using whatever means necessary.
Though you may not be able to understand yet.
I don't want to understand.
Litton! I'll help you.
Go...
The clues...
Black Swan... this town... the people...
Fire!
Where'd he go?
After him!
You okay?
Yeah.
The result may be the same anyway.
Mr. Love: Queen's Choice
Yes.
I have seen this guest several times.
I'd like to investigate the places she stopped by.
Would you mind showing me right now?
Just a moment, please.
Her rage at the murder of her older brother, Jay,
may have led her to enact some kind of extreme plan.
I have to stop her before it gets serious...
You have one message.
Today at 4:05 P.M.
Gavin!
Don't go to room 404 at the Greenwood Hotel!
It's dangerous!
I'll explain the details later, so just wait for me at the entrance of the hotel!
Excuse me.
I'd like to investigate room 404. Is there a guest staying there?
Well... Our hotel does not have a room 404.
It doesn't exist?
That's correct.
Although another guest, who reserved a room earlier,
was also asking whether we had a room 404.
Mom!
If you were at all competent,
you would have been able to save your mother.
You killed your mother.
You should never have been born.
Right now, I need to gather whatever information I can
and find my chance to escape from here.
What is this "Queen"?
What do you people hope to achieve
by just doing these same things over and over?
"It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place."
The Red Queen hypothesis...
You know of it?
Species that give up on progressing toward the future
are fated to go extinct through natural selection.
Humanity is no exception.
Accomplishing further evolution and achieving greater existence
is the only way to remain at the apex of the natural world.
Black Swan believes that Evolvers are the end result of this evolution,
and thus has continued to study them.
Then they discovered an entirely unique gene.
A being that awakens Evolvers and grants them even greater powers,
guiding the way to further evolution...
The Queen.
My power went out of control.
Even considering my highly emotional state, that has never happened.
A life in peril will struggle with all its might
to increase its chance of survival by even the smallest margin.
That struggle will awaken a new power.
That's why you're after my life...
If you die, that's the end.
But if you survive, and I manage to awaken your true power...
Everything that's happened...
It was all to make me the Queen?
That's right. It's all your fault.
It's because of you that everyone else got caught up in it.
Your father, too!
It's all because you have the Queen's genes!
Once, you were the one person here I could call a rival.
As you are now, you disappoint me.
My plan has already reached the execution stage.
The Queen's genes will allow humanity to reach new heights,
and the one standing at the peak will be...
You're saying you have such power?
You'll see in time.
You can stand there and watch from the sidelines, biting your nails with envy.
My preference...
is to obliterate thieves, you know.
I'm quite narrow-minded, you see.
We went to a lot of pains for this creation. We can't let it lie unused, can we?
I've created a magnum opus.
I'm not like I was back then. Not anymore!
Wait for me!
This is the Queen?
For someone like this, my brother was...
This is the end!
And I'll send Gavin to you soon, too!
You can cry, "I'm sorry for getting you caught up in this,"
all you want in the afterlife!
I won't...
let you do that!
Q-Queen!
Gavin!
Because of you...
Because of both of you,
my brother is...
Your rage is justified.
The justice we believed in was a lie.
But I have things I must protect.
I won't let them be taken from me again!
Leave now.
Gavin...
"A family of four who should have been at their home suddenly disappeared,
and they were found in the mountains a few dozen kilometers away."
Follow the sound of the waterfall!
We might be able to find a way out there.
This is...
This is the truth behind the incident Papa had been chasing, isn't it?
Gavin...
There's something Josie said...
about the Evolver Anti-Crime Task Force and Jay...
Yes. It's true.
It's all right.
You don't have to worry about anything.
But...
I'm all right.
What was that?
Gavin?
Stay back!
I don't want you... getting caught up in this...
There is no need to feel remorse,
for this is the beginning,
O she who carries the Queen's genes.
With the Queen's awakening, humanity greets its moment of evolution.
But it is also a time of culling.
Those who cannot adapt to the new world
have no choice but to perish as the vanquished.
That is the rule of nature.
That is exactly the way, Queen.
Keep running!
Those steps are what shall change the world.
My name is Hades.
Until the day you truly awaken...
Really?
Kiro, are you all right?
It's nothing. I'm fine.
Kiro... My Kiro...
Kiro belongs to me!
You there! Stop!
Don't make me laugh! He belongs to me!
Get back!
I can't make it... stop...
I-It's not like that, Ares. I just...
I just wanted to avenge my brother.
I never meant to get in your way!
Don't... Anything but that!
Don't send me there, pl—
Quite an offense to the ears.
The anxiety that grows within me...
Butterflies use their wings to fly away,
no matter how you try to tie them down.
Episode nine,
"Monochrome."
"Monochrome"