TAKEMICHI: It can't be!
(ominous music playing)
Mitsuya is... dead.
(Takemichi panting)
It can't be. It can't!
There's absolutely no way that Mitsuya could be dead.
(breathing shakily)
(sorrowful music playing)
(panting)
-TOKYO MANJI GANG OFFICER FOUND STRANGLED -BODY IDENTIFIED AS TAKASHI MITSUYA
(breathes heavily)
There's no way.
TAKEMICHI: There must be some mistake.
How could this happen?
(sharp breath)
(gasps)
HINATA TACHIBANA DIES IN POSSIBLE GANG-RELATED CAR ACCIDENT
Hina's... dead too?
It's the same as before.
Nothing...
Nothing's changed at all, damn it!
What the hell is going on?
(panting)
(grunts)
(groans)
(breathing heavily)
TAKEMICHI: Damn it!
Damn it! Damn it!
(shouts) Chifuyu!
Naoto!
Where the hell have you all gone?
(sobs, breathes heavily)
A key?
This is the key to the rundown apartment...
where I used to live.
It smells like my place.
So, this is where I live.
Instead of a high-rise condo,
I'm back here again.
But why?
(soft gasp)
(gasps, grunts)
(gasps)
It's the last photo I took of us as a group.
NAOTO: So here you are.
Huh?
NAOTO: I've been looking for you.
(gasps)
My memories were overwritten,
so I knew you'd returned.
Naoto!
I'm coming in.
Takemichi.
TAKEMICHI: What...
What the heck's happening, Naoto?
NAOTO: Until now, you've traveled back to the past several times
to save my sister.
But this timeline is the worst one yet.
The worst one yet?
NAOTO: That's right.
Not only has my sister not been saved,
but all the major members of Tokyo Manji Gang...
have been murdered.
What?
(theme music playing)
NAOTO: Chifuyu Matsuno, shot and killed.
Hakkai Shiba, burned to death.
Takashi Mitsuya, strangled to death.
Ken Ryuguji, stabbed to death.
Kazutora Hanemiya, Haruki Hayashida, and all the others have been murdered too.
Even Kisaki's been murdered.
Even Kisaki?
TAKEMICHI: They're... all dead.
(gasps)
How... is this possible?
We haven't caught the culprit.
We don't even have a lead as to where they are.
(gasps) What about Mikey?
Don't tell me Mikey's been murdered too!
Brace yourself for this, Takemichi.
Huh?
NAOTO: At present,
-the person wanted for these murders is... -(gasps)
Manjiro Sano.
What?
You've got a sick sense of humor, you bastard.
That's impossible!
TAKEMICHI: There's no way in hell that Mikey would kill all those guys.
(shouts) Hey!
Takemichi, I also want to know the truth.
I want to meet Manjiro Sano and talk to him.
But you're the only one who can do that.
Though you're an officer in Tokyo Manji Gang,
you're the only one who hasn't been murdered.
(gasps)
Mikey...
TAKEMICHI: The Mikey that I know,
would he really kill all the guys...
in Toman?
Naoto...
Was it really Mikey who did it?
Can you think of anything that might point to why he did it?
TAKEMICHI: Huh?
The last time you traveled back in time,
you must have learned something that can help us.
One thing's for sure.
Something you did in the past has made a big difference in this timeline.
Something I did?
Are you saying I screwed up?
TAKEMICHI: Me and the other guys...
We eliminated the two things that ruined Toman.
We crushed BLACK DRAGON
and Kisaki was kicked out of Toman.
Everything went perfectly!
Takemichi...
TAKEMICHI: What went wrong?
Was it wrong for me to tell Mikey that he could handle things on his own?
The only other thing I did...
was take this photo.
Takemichi, where was that photo?
TAKEMICHI: Where?
On this table.
(Takemichi grunts)
A letter.
The photo must have been in here with this.
NAOTO: Let me see that letter.
Oh, sure.
NAOTO: This isn't a Japanese postmark.
It's from the Philippines.
TAKEMICHI: The Philippines?
MEET ME ON JANUARY 20TH AT THE PLACE I TOLD YOU ABOUT.
Who sent this letter?
(soft grunt)
TAKEMICHI: Whose writing is this?
And what's the "place I told you about"?
TAKEMICHI: Hmm?
Oh...
MIKEY: My brother found them when he was traveling to buy parts.
It was in some town in the Philippines.
TAKEMICHI: It's from Mikey.
(airplane engine rumbles)
(indistinct chatter)
This is the address that was written on the envelope.
It's pretty big.
Let's split up.
Please be very careful.
Okay.
TAKEMICHI: There's no guarantee he's here.
But if I do meet him, it'll be the first time
that I meet the future Mikey.
I wonder what he's like.
Is he still the same?
What'll we talk about when we meet?
These ruins are huge.
Is he the same?
No, he must have changed.
I mean, he's probably murdered all those guys.
The Mikey here isn't the Mikey that I knew.
After 12 years, Mikey could be totally different.
I impulsively came here,
but when I think about it, I could be in danger.
He might kill me as soon as he sees me.
In fact, he could have led me here just to murder me.
(Takemichi grunts)
Should I go back?
Oh.
TAKEMICHI: What's that?
MIKEY: The sky was a suffocating gray.
In an abandoned building with a broken roof.
(grunts)
(clanking, rattling)
TAKEMICHI: "The place I told you about."
This is it!
This is the place where Mikey's brother found the CB250T engines.
This is... kind of moving.
-MALE VOICE: Takemitchy. -(gasps)
Huh?
(gasps)
TAKEMICHI: Mikey...
Mikey.
TAKEMICHI: When I met Mikey for the first time in the present,
his eyes were the same as they were back then.
Uh, so...
-How have you been? -At last, I've found him.
Good.
-At last... At last... -Uhm...
I've found... Mikey.
Uhm...
(sobbing)
-I'm sorry. -(Mikey chuckles)
Still a crybaby, I see.
(sobbing continues)
MIKEY: I called you all the way here because I have a favor to ask.
Huh?
TAKEMICHI: A favor?
When I came here and thought about my brother,
all kinds of memories came rushing back.
I fought lots of guys when I was a kid.
I made friends, and I laughed...
and cried with them.
I realized that's how Toman grew.
I felt nostalgic.
Oh.
Mikey.
TAKEMICHI: Now that I've seen him, I'm sure.
Mikey is still Mikey.
There's no way he murdered Mitsuya or the others.
The Mikey of Toman could never kill them.
(wind blowing)
MIKEY: Toman changed.
Huh?
MIKEY: Takemitchy.
(gasps)
Why did you leave Toman?
Huh?
MIKEY: I wanted you to stay with me.
I wanted you to scold me like my brother did.
(Takemichi grunts)
MIKEY: I did my best on my own.
But I couldn't hold it back.
I couldn't stop from losing myself.
(grunts)
Mikey, what do you mean by that?
When I tried to stop you from leaving Toman,
this is what Draken told me.
Don't, Mikey.
Huh?
You trying to order me around?
I agree with Draken.
Mitsuya.
He's not suited for what Toman's becoming.
DRAKEN: Mikey...
The path you've chosen is one of violence.
Mitsuya and I entrust our lives to you on this path.
We've made up our minds.
But Mikey...
We're indebted to Takemitchy.
I don't want him to turn out like us.
Leave him out of this.
(sobs)
(wind gusting)
Those two said those things?
Yeah.
They're the best, don't you think?
But it was those guys...
that I killed.
What?
Takemitchy.
-(breathing shakily) -MIKEY: Toman isn't like it was back then.
Those guys, every last one of them...
(wind gusting)
I killed them all.
(gasps)
MIKEY: That's why I'm asking you.
I want you to end it all.
(rattles)
(grunts)
MIKEY: Takemitchy.
Kill me.
-(wind blows) -(Takemichi sobs)
I want to end it all here.
End my dream.
What are you talking about, Mikey?
Don't say that. It doesn't make any sense.
TAKEMICHI: As soon as I find you, you tell me to kill you?
I only came here because I wanted to see you.
Because you wanted to see me?
Hakkai said something similar just before he died.
(gasps)
(fire crackling)
Mikey...
I wanted all of us to have a blast with Takemitchy one last time.
Just before Hakkai died?
(sighs)
MIKEY: It's not easy to achieve a dream.
I said I'd build a new era for hoodlums.
Toman was supposed to be advancing toward that goal.
But before I knew it, things had turned out like this.
Like what?
MIKEY: The first time I killed someone...
I didn't feel a thing.
Then I realized something.
Pretty much all the troubles in life can be easily solved by killing someone.
I can just kill anyone who gets in my way.
(breathes shakily, grunts angrily)
(shouts) You're wrong, Mikey!
You haven't changed, Mikey!
You're the same as you were then!
Cut it out, Takemitchy.
I can tell when I look into your eyes.
You haven't changed at all.
Stop it.
You haven't changed.
So please, please, stop all this killing!
(grunting)
(groans)
What the hell are you?
(groaning)
(Mikey gasps softly)
Got any last words, Chifuyu?
Do you remember Takemichi Hanagaki?
Someday, he'll come looking for you, Mikey.
When he finds you,
he'll be like he was back then as if he'd traveled through time.
(soft grunt)
Look closely into his eyes.
His eyes never lie.
Please...
Trust him.
(sighs)
(gunshot)
Quit looking at me that way.
(somber music playing)
TAKEMICHI: Mikey.
MIKEY: Pick up the gun, Takemitchy.
Either you kill me...
or you die.
(somber music continues playing)
(Takemichi grunts)
MIKEY: We can't return to the past.
(groans)
(gunshot)
-(gasps) -(thuds)
(birds' wings flapping)
(breathes shakily)
Are you all right, Takemichi?
Naoto... (grunts)
(gasps)
TAKEMICHI: Mikey...
Mikey!
Takemichi, stay away from him!
(gasps)
NAOTO: The safety's on.
He wasn't going to kill him?
Mikey! Mikey!
(sobbing)
(shouts desperately) Mikey!
MIKEY: Is that you, Naoto Tachibana?
Huh?
Thank you.
I doubt Takemitchy could have done it.
Mikey!
At last, it's over.
(voice breaking) My life was nothing but suffering.
TAKEMICHI: Don't talk like that, Mikey. (sobbing)
I can change things.
Takemichi.
I can travel back to the past.
I can do things over.
TAKEMICHI: I'll do whatever it takes to make sure this isn't our future.
I swear that I'll never give up.
So don't say such depressing things.
(somber music playing)
MIKEY: Thank you, Takemitchy.
Huh?
MIKEY: You're trying to comfort me.
Even if it's a lie, it makes me happy.
Takemitchy.
TAKEMICHI: Yeah?
MIKEY: Your hand...
It's so warm.
TAKEMICHI (sobbing): Mikey...
This can't be real.
Answer me.
Please, Mikey!
(sobbing continues)
Takemitchy...
Starting today, we're friends. Okay?
I'm going to build a new era for hoodlums.
Boo!
You're tough, Takemitchy.
(pensive music playing)
Takemichi...
(closing theme music playing)