Platinum End (2021) s01e24 Episode Script

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So this is heaven?
You may think of it as a parallel world
that exists alongside the human world.
But time passes a little slower here.
It did seem fishy that God could die.
Still, this feels disgusting.
The creature is living off my body.
I'm just the creature
that wears the face of Shuji Nakaumi.
Apples that taste like oranges are simply
oranges wearing an apple's skin.
Nakaumi speaks like a god!
He's not Nakaumi, he's God!
The consciousness of the creature
exists within my mind.
Will both my body and thoughts be invaded?
Even with two different consciousnesses,
the consciousness you had as Shuji Nakaumi
will be the one to control God,
and eventually the two will merge.
Merge? How long will that take?
That is something we don't know.
We preserve every human's appearance
at their time of death.
Why preserve the way they appeared
at their time of death?
If God does not know, how can we?
You don't know?
Because I created humans.
It's my duty
to preserve their last moment.
This has been done since the beginning.
Who is this?
I'm God, the one who entered your body.
God?
The creature?
It's the creature who created humans?
No way.
It was humans who created God.
That might be correct too.
I was also created.
I, who was created,
went on to create humans.
What are you talking about, creature?
That's right. I don't know
who it was that created me.
God, are you okay?
I'm fine. I just feel a little tired.
Can you leave me alone?
As your attendant,
I shall remain by your side.
Other angels, you may leave.
If the angels don't understand
what God doesn't,
I'll have to figure it out myself.
At least so I can tell Professor Yoneda
which came first, the creature or humans.
Temari, are you observing the reactions?
I'm observing,
but there's not been any reaction.
I also have no idea what it is
you're even researching.
You might have no idea, but it's something
you have been longing for.
Something I have been longing for?
Love?
That's right.
I was right?
So you long for love.
I thought you were more the material type.
I thought you were into extravagance.
Back when I had no money,
I wanted brand stuff more than anything.
But the pay here at the lab is so good.
Now I feel happier saving money.
Quite normal from the
perspective of human psychology.
Any record of the god election
has been erased from this world.
Things have returned to how they were.
It was a thoughtful move
to let me keep my Red Arrows.
Left with a thing like this,
there's no way I wouldn't research it.
By the way, Temari.
Yes?
I heard that you don't remember how
you came here from your previous company.
Yes.
You'd better get a thorough check-up.
But everything's completely fine now.
There's no guarantee you don't have
brain damage, or a brain tumor.
If so, we must act before it's too late.
When you put it that way
I'll personally perform
a thorough check from head to toe.
Professor, are you thinking
of doing something improper?
No. Definitely not.
I simply hope that I can use you
as my guinea pig.
As if I'd choose to interact with
another person's body for no reason.
Professor,
There's all sorts of things
stuck to my body.
I thought you were just checking my brain?
Let's get started then, Naoi.
Okay.
Her heartbeat has suddenly changed.
What's going on
with her hormone secretion?
All her readings exceed standard levels.
This proves that she is in love.
I know it's because I hit her
with a Red Arrow, but that's all I know.
It's serious.
Based on my calculations, you require
immediate hospitalization lasting 33 days.
What? No way.
No. I want to stay in the lab with you.
Don't worry. I'll visit you every day.
Really?
Yes.
Only to observe and collect data though.
Really? You started
working part-time, Kakehashi?
-Yup.
-Where are you working?
At the florist.
The florist?
Because we've promised
to open a florist together in the future.
-What?
-What?
A florist that also sells
four-leaf clovers.
So, you two decided to get married too?
-Yup.
-Really?
I was surprised
when I heard you two were dating,
but I didn't think it had come this far.
I want to be honest with myself
and live with purpose.
I can tell how serious you are.
I can only envy the two of you.
Maiko, do you want to date me?
Why should I date you?
Well, we're both single.
-That hurts!
-We're not the same!
I was only asking.
Good thing it didn't leave a scar, huh?
It's all thanks to God.
Temari, congratulations on your discharge.
It just feels like
I've gotten over a bout of lovesickness.
That's normal.
In the end, I didn't find any hints
for understanding the Red Arrow.
Nakaumi.
It's Meyza's turn.
You needn't have come all this way.
We already know.
That's right.
We even wanted to visit you first
to ask you to marry Saki.
Oh, there's no need for that
Your parents in Heaven
must be delighted too.
Yes.
Okay, the pleasantries are now over.
You mean the rest is
up to you youngsters, huh?
That's right.
I told you not to wear a suit.
I wanted to wear one.
Let's go to the supermarket.
I'll make dinner.
Saki, you must be tired.
I want to make dinner.
What is happiness to you?
Happiness? Being healthy and able to work.
To become rich!
Fool. Happiness can't be bought
with money.
Obviously happiness is
eating something delicious.
"What is happiness?"
How do I answer a question
with no real answer?
I guess I'm still searching for happiness.
-I'm happiest when I play with my dog.
-On payday!
What is happiness to you?
It's rude to point chopsticks like that.
Never mind that. What is happiness?
For real?
Yes, for real.
The meaning of life, maybe.
Happiness is the meaning of life?
I don't understand at all.
What were humans born for?
What are we living for?
I think we all think about it once.
The reason we're born and live
is to find happiness.
My mom told me that
when I became old enough to understand.
That feeling has never changed for me.
Of course, it's not just
about my own happiness.
I know that I have to make
the people around me happy too.
It would be great if our own happiness
brings happiness to others too.
Right.
What does happiness mean to you then?
God's divine protection.
God?
We witnessed Nakaumi
ascend to heaven after all.
If the angels didn't save us back then,
we wouldn't have this happiness now.
You're right.
That's why I join my hands in prayer
before the sky every day
and ask God for world peace.
Maybe I'll start doing that too.
Okay, the last question.
Another question?
I have yet to ask
the most important question.
When do you feel happiest?
You just want to make me say it.
It seems you've seen through me,
so just say it.
Is it when eating a meal
cooked by your fiancée?
Can I be serious,
and say something a bit pretentious?
Um, go ahead.
It's whenever your smile
reflects in my eyes.
Can I stay over today?
No way.
I only just paid my respects today.
If you've already paid your respects
then surely it's fine!
If I call my parents now,
they will definitely let me.
It's not happening.
That just leaves Nasse then?
Yes.
Before I ask Nasse,
I'd like to ask you something.
What is it?
During the god election,
I heard that Nasse is a special angel.
It is a fact that
only Nasse can touch humans.
This greatly influenced the god election.
Why is the
special-rank angel Nasse special?
What exactly is she?
When I first descended to
what ought to have been a lifeless Earth,
one tiny life did exist there.
That was Nasse.
What kind of life? A microorganism?
Bacteria? That I don't know.
Nasse entered my body.
I hurriedly cut her out.
If Nasse did hold on to
a tiny amount of my cells,
I hoped that would compel her
to act in my interest as God.
But she seems to understand nothing.
We swear to love and support each other,
in times of both sickness and in health,
till death do us part.
I swear.
I'm so happy
I wouldn't even mind dying right now.
Me too.
She just said
she wouldn't mind dying, right?
It means she's very happy now.
Well, I'm super satisfied!
This is the end then.
What?
The end? What does she mean?
Nasse, God is calling for you.
Why?
He has questions for special-rank angels.
What was I before I became an angel?
I have no idea.
More importantly,
Saki joins her hands in prayer
for world peace every day, you know.
Even Mirai said he might do the same.
You always look so afflicted.
The angels are worried about you.
We're worried you might
have lost your spirit,
or that you might no longer be God.
Nasse.
Well, good luck, God.
Is she trying to tell me to focus more on
the human world and do something godlike?
Please don't take
what Nasse says to heart.
Still, I never thought
those god candidates
would be willing to worship
Shuji Nakaumi as God.
KAKEHASHI'S FLORIS
Alright, I'm off
to make our first ever delivery.
Okay. Be careful.
How long has passed in the human world?
It has been six years and one day
since you Shuji Nakaumi became God.
Six years.
I did hear that time passes faster
in the human world.
HONORARY PROFESSOR YONEDA
LABORATORY ONE
I can now suspend it in an open space.
Professor! There's a package for you.
It's huge!
It's from your friend and his wife.
Friend?
What could it be? Open it and have a look.
Such beautiful flowers!
There's a card too.
TO OUR DEAREST PROFESSOR
So you do have friends!
When did you make them?
How do you know the Kakehashis?
I don't have any friends.
If an association must be made between us,
I'd say we're comrades.
Comrades? Was there a war or something?
Now they've sent me a gift,
I have to send them something too.
This is why
I don't like getting involved with people.
It will eat into my research time.
Professor, is that a little smirk?
No it certainly isn't.
I see. Nasse is right.
How are the others doing?
Nakaumi, take a rest!
Okay!
Excuse me.
Did you call, Superintendent?
Report the status of your investigation.
It's this part here
Let me have a look. Oh, this bit.
I have no idea either.
Get a grip!
It's great that everyone looks happy.
But I should be watching over
those who want to die.
Just how many people
are killing themselves?
Those who really wish to die
keep on dying, even without my help.
I didn't know the half of it.
Shuji Nakaumi could only see
a few people around him who wanted to die.
Now I see the whole world, I want
to save them, not just help them die.
What on earth is going on with the world?
Some humans live in towers
that overlook the clouds.
Yet some are homeless,
squatting on the ground, enduring hunger.
Some humans have so much food
that they throw away what they don't eat.
Yet some don't even have a glass of water.
Some humans dominate the weak.
Yet some are killed by others.
And hundreds of millions of people
pray to God.
This is the world.
What had the previous God been doing?
Watching.
God's duty is to create life on Earth.
That life will multiply
even without any interference.
You don't have to do anything.
Don't have to do anything?
Leave it to the humans and do nothing?
Is that the right way?
In that case they don't need God.
No. This God was
a false one in the first place.
The professor wrote about it in his book.
God exists only in imagination,
so nobody would know if they died.
But God won't die as long as
humans still believe in God.
Besides, Shuji Nakaumi didn't
become God because he wanted to.
Wasn't he just a middle school student
who sought death?
Without me,
Heaven can't function properly.
But the Red Arrow I left
with the professor will disappear.
If it disappears, the professor
will know that the creature is gone.
Are you okay?
I'm fine.
I just figured something out.
I must find a way to inform the professor.
Now bring me the first-rank angels.
But there are thousands of them.
Then call all the angels
selected for the god election
besides Muni, Meyza and Nasse.
Understood.
Penema, Baret, Revel.
I won't be able
to cause trouble to anyone here.
Stop it. No.
No way.
What's going on? Hey, Revel!
The angels are vanishing. Does this mean
God!
Oh no. I only turned my back for a second.
God is committing suicide?
This wouldn't be happening
if they had fully merged already.
I'd been keeping watch at all times!
Shuji Nakaumi's strong consciousness
slowed down the merge.
Heaven is done for.
Muni, congratulations.
You've successfully destroyed Heaven.
I'll vanish too.
Because I'm an angel.
Bye-bye.
My Red Arrows have gone.
The flowers
What?
Has anyone seen my child?
He suddenly vanished!
Mari
The school students vanished.
Both of them.
All living things are vanishing.
They're clearly vanishing
starting from the younger ages.
The Red Arrows vanished,
which means the angels are gone.
Could this be a message from Nakaumi?
Don't be afraid.
Ogaro has once said that God
has the power to end humanity.
So, that means we too
This must be Nakaumi's decision.
Saki.
Mirai.
Death will arrive no matter what.
It's just that it's happening now.
If it weren't for Nasse and Revel
saving our lives,
we'd have been dead long ago.
So, I'm grateful.
Thanks to them, we gained such happiness.
Besides, it must be so hard
watching those you love die first.
If I can die with you
I'm happy.
So am I.
Thank you.
Nasse.
There was someone in Heaven who could
create and destroy all life on Earth.
That person was God.
That must be his message.
Was my theory wrong?
No. I am not wrong!
No matter what anyone says,
God is but a figment of human imagination.
Professor!
If the creature can cancel out all life,
then Heaven, the angels, and the creature
are all weapons for human destruction.
The creature's purpose is to take lives.
That's a much more realistic way
to think about it.
The only mistake of my theory
is in its structure.
No. it's the energy.
Indeed, it's the science!
The science I've yet to master.
In other words
the nature of the creature.
GIVE UP ON THAT PLANET.
THE LIFE THAT CAN KILL US
WILL NOT BE BORN THERE.
WHAT IF WE TRY CREATING MORE GODS?
IDENTIFYING OUR CREATOR MIGHT BE QUICKER
THAT WAY OF THINKING
CREATORS CREATING CREATORS? IT'S ENDLESS
THAT TAKES US FARTHER FROM DEATH
WHAT WE DESIRE IS DEATH
THAT'S WHAT WE ARE AFTER
HOW BORING AND EMPTY IT IS WITHOUT DEATH
WE'RE JEALOUS
DEATH COMES FOR US ALL
LIVE LIFE TO THE FULLES
BURN BRIGHTLY