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Watch Saber Marionette J online: Episode 25 You'll Always Be There

As the Marionettes, aboard JaponesGar, approach the Mesopotamia and missiles begin to explode all around them, Luche feels the Mesopotamia's feelings - love for Lorelei, anger at those that would take her away - resonating in her otome kairo and Lime hears Lorelei's voice again, telling her to flee while she can. But then, the computer's chattering mind suddenly stops, and as the attack on the surface of Terratoo continues, JaponesGar punches through the Mesopotamia's hull. Once inside, it doesn't take Luche long to ascertain the location of the heart of the Mesopotamia's computer. Though the Mesopotamia's interior defenses are more than adequate, they're no match for the Marionettes and Saberdolls. In fact, one of the rockets launched at the Marionettes is quickly put to a most unintended use, as the girls turn it around and ride it down the dark corridor, laughing all the way. Bells on bobtails ring, making spirits bright, and Luche wonders at this behavior - how can the girls laugh and sing, Lime especially, since they'll probably die tonight? To answer this question, one must journey deep into Lime's memory, to a sunny afternoon when she and Otaru weren't doing anything in particular. Contemplating a vast grassy field, Lime asks Otaru about the nature of happiness. Otaru's view: happiness derives from the fact that the sky is blue, the clouds are white, the grass and forest are green. In other words, happiness is the fact that it's great to be alive. Thus did Otaru teach the Marionettes the nature of happiness - it's the beauty of the world and the smiles of loved ones and the very fact of being alive. As they rocket along on the rocket, Lime, Cherry and Bloodberry remember every happy moment they've spent with Otaru, and feel as if he were there on the rocket with them. Before they know it, our robotic protagonists have come to the vast, dark chamber housing the central computer. The motif is Creepy Biomechanical, and Ieyasu and Hikozaemon distract the mechanical tentacles as best they can, and the Marionettes and Luche approach the place where Lorelei is frozen, encased in solid carbonite. Cherry cries out that humans are meant for humans, and machines for machines, and that may the Mesopotamia accept the otome kairo in place of Lorelei and forgive the inhabitants of Terratoo. The girls are carried up on beams of light and slot their kairo into the computer console, and Lorelei is given up. The Marionettes' bodies seem to merge, and are absorbed and disappear. Much, much later, Hanagata has become the schoolmaster of the Otaru Elementary School, and is proving less than equal to the task of discipling and managing his class. Otaru, who still lives in the next room, reproves Hanagata for his temper, and when Yumeji suggests that they forget the education and attend the grand opening of the rebuilt Japones Pioneer Museum, Otaru agrees, though the place still harbors painful memories. The new museum is built in the style of a colonial mansion, and Lorelei is on the balcony. She proclaims peace to the massed onlookers, assures them that the cloned human females will soon mature and be at large in Terratoo society. However, one must not forget the valiant Marionettes that, for 300 years, held what was by any logic a doomed society together by filling as best they could the roles would normally be taken by women. In particular, three especially human Marionettes, whose names shall resonate through history as Lime, Cherry and Bloodberry, must never be forgotten - to that end, a heroic statue of them is unveiled. Otaru listens politely, then leaves silently. That night, Lorelei finds him and begs his forgiveness on behalf of Faust and Ieyasu for the enormitous labour and pain Otaru has been put through. Ieyasu needed someone to love the otome kairo in order to grow them, but completely failed to consider the effect that such a love would have on the giver. Otaru assures her that no apology is needed - what's over is over. However, later still, something is ejected from the Mesopotamia and falls to Earth. The next day, Otaru is cooking and cooking, and Hanagata, puzzled at first, realizes that Otaru is merely doing this to make himself feel better. But who will eat the food? The answer arrives soon enough, in the form of three young girls who act as if they never left...

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