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An elf-like woman with wings of a butterfly walks on the deserted
surface of Moon. Suddenly the ground she steps on become a hole but, as
if she knew it, she calmly floats down to the bottom of the hole, where
a giant structure like a gate stands. She jumps onto its central panel,
which immediately reacts in an attempt to exclude her. She clings to it
with all her might and traces with her finger the runes inscribed on
it. Eventually the system repels her but it is just too late. She has
finished her job and the panel breaks off from the gate. She approaches
the panel, now lying on the ground, and sees a small stone..., no a
small mask of a human face, at its center. The mask speaks to her,
"You, who have been guided here and share the spirit with me, give
your power to me." The girl wants to know what he wants to
achieve, having been through such an ordeal because of his defiance
against the gods. The mask simply answers, "You must know as we
share the spirit." The girl gently picks the mask up and goes up
back to the surface of Moon, where the beautiful earth can be seen in
the dark space.
It's a fine spring morning in Nekomi City. Keiichi is looking for
Belldandy in the house without success while the TV news reports
observation of unusual emission of light on Moon last night. He gives
up searching within and goes out. He walks into the wood behind the
house and hears a beautiful song by her. Enchanted, he follows the
voice and finds her singing to a big withered tree in a small sunny
opening in the woods. Her angel, Holy Bell, is also singing in unison.
Keiichi soon finds out he is not the only audience. Skuld and Urd are
also enjoying their sister's song.
By the time Belldandy finishes her songs, a few sprouts miraculously
have come out of the dead tree. Keiichi admires her divine act but the
goddess thinks it differently. "I heard the tree's voice, saying
it wants to live a little longer with the other trees and their
dwellers. The tree revived itself with its own passion. I merely help
it a little."
Urd reminds the impressed man of why he came here. He wanted to tell
Belldandy that he is leaving for the college early today. As Belldandy
heads for home, she suggests Skuld to practice singing together later.
She tells to her jubilant sister that affection to those you sing for
is more important than the singing skill.
When Belldandy gets on the sidecar of Keiichi's bike, he tells her
that Skuld looked very happy. Belldandy says that, when she was young
herself, there was someone near her to guide and lead her. So she
wants to help Skuld like him. Keiichi is impressed and says without
thinking, "I want to meet him." "Sure!"
They ride to the college. The town is in the charm of the spring.
Keiichi savors this beautiful moment with his girl, to whom it is the
third spring in this world.
Spring is the beginning of the school year and NIT is full of energy
of new students. This is also time for various clubs to catch the new
comers. Keiichi is busy putting up the posters of his Motor Club but
isn't too sure how effective they will be. They feature cars and
motor bikes with half-naked Tamiya and Ootaki in the background. He
knows it cannot be helped and moves on to put up more. Soon after he
leaves the place, a girl in a red coat appears before the poster and
keenly looks at it.
Sora speaks to the freshmen in front of the clubhouse and explains to
them their ideal and activity. Introduced by her, some of the club's
vehicles come to the site. The climax of their performance is the
racing kneeler which will enter a forthcoming competition in
Shizuoka with the help of Whirlwind. The performance by the driver
and partner stuns the audience and the beauty of the partner, who
takes off her helmet, impresses them even more.
To the jubilance of Sora, the girl in the red coat comes forward to
show she wants to join the class. This triggers an avalanche of
people who also wish to join. But the joy of Sora is short-lived.
Tamiya and Ootaki appear on the balcony of the clubhouse and begin
to preach what they want to achieve with the club through the loud
speaker. Of course this is enough to scare most of the potential
applicants.
A little later in the clubhouse Chihiro reproaches Tamiya and
Ootaki for what they have done. Belldandy pleads for the poor men by
saying their act happened to select those who really love the club
from all the applicants. Indeed there are three freshmen in the room
who still want to join the club in spite of the scary performance
and, not surprisingly, the girl in the red coat, Morgan, is one of
them. The two postgraduates are cheeky enough to claim they have
done something good on purpose and declare the start of the welcome
party.
The party soon degrades into a karaoke party. While everyone seems
to be enjoying themselves, Keiichi finds Morgan sitting a little
away from the people with a sober face. He talks to her, hoping to
make her feel at home. But, before he can make any progress,
Tamiya, who thinks Keiichi needs no more girls than Belldandy,
stops him.
Keiichi retreats to the kitchen, where Belldandy is preparing more
food for the party. He recollects how tense and uneasy he was when
he first joined the club. The goddess assures him that all the
three newcomers have the power to convert various events into
happy memories.
Then Sora, heavily drunk, comes to the kitchen. She wants
Belldandy to sing and hands a microphone to her. Belldandy accepts
her request and Keiichi sits down to listen to her song. Sora, who
sits next to him, starts to tell him what a wonderful lady
Belldandy is. Megumi, who is also drunk, joins the admiration and
gives her brother a hug, "You must take a good care of
her!" While Megumi doesn't him let go, Sora goes even further.
She bitterly complains that people tease her about her child look.
"But I've got decent breasts!!" She insists Keiichi
should see them and, although he manages to prevent her from
undressing herself, she starts rubbing her body against his while
Megumi happily keeps him in her arm.
Suddenly bottles in the room explode. Jealousy has let Belldandy's
power run out of her control. She soon realises what she has done
and runs out of the clubhouse. Keiichi quickly runs after her
everyone else in the room is jubilant to see this.
Keiichi finds his goddess standing in the darkness. She apologizes
for what she has done. Keiichi doesn't blame her and quickly
changes the subject. Looking up the beautiful cherry blossoms over
them, he tells "Another spring is going." Belldandy
shares the sentiment and says she wants to meet spring for as many
years as possible with him.
Then they hear someone walking towards them. As soon as the man
comes out of the darkness, Belldandy recognises and runs to him,
leaving bewildered Keiichi behind.
In the meantime, Urd at home receives a phone call from Peorth.
She tells her that a criminal sentenced to life in prison has
escaped from the prison on Moon and may come to Earth. Urd doesn't
wait for Peorth to finish her sentence and runs out of the house.
She flies up high in the sky on her bloom in search of
Belldandy.
"Celestin!!" Belldandy runs in tears to the man, who is
obviously from Heaven rather than Earth. He gently replies
"You are still a crybaby but has become much more beautiful
than you used to be." She introduces him to Keiichi as her
tutor when she was young and Keiichi greets him without a smile.
She then tells Celestin, as she blushes, "This is Morisato
Keiichi-san, who I am living with on Earth." Belldandy wants
to know what has brought him here. He suddenly disappeared from
Heaven years ago. As she speaks on, her emotion overwhelms her
and she bursts into tears. He doesn't answer her question but
calmly says, "I knew you don't remember anything. I've come
here to take you with me..." Then Urd arrives at the scene
and immediately mounts an attack on him, "How dare you show
yourself before us again!!" Unlike Belldandy, Urd has no
intention to cherish reunion with him. Belldandy tries to stop
her sister but Celestin's next move surprises everyone; he
kisses her. Belldandy loses her consciousness and falls down. As
Keiichi runs to her, Celestin tells him, "I know you're
really fond of her. But I want to give her another chance to
choose her way." Celestin barely escapes Urd's attack and
vanishes into air. Belldandy remains unconscious.
Heaven is in panic. Operators report to Peorth that a virus has
intruded into the system and is causing havoc. Peorth remains
calms and tells the operators what to do. She knows the man who
has escaped prison is behind it but has no idea what he is doing
this for.
Belldandy is brought back home but remains unconscious. Urd
thinks Celestin cast some spell over her and summons Holy Bell.
The angel is also unconscious and a number of blue crystals are
grown out of her body. Urd tries to cure her but Celestin's
spell repels her power. Keiichi wants to know what Celestin is
but she gives no answer. She leaves the room to ring up Heaven
but, before she can, the phone rings; another call from Peorth.
The call is a very noisy one to show the critical condition of
the system. Peorth tells her a virus has intruded the system via
Belldandy's network. Urd replies the escapee has made contact
with Belldandy probably to send the virus. Peorth tells her that
the connection between Belldandy and Heaven has been cut and
they are only managing to keep the system running. That is, they
cannot accept Belldandy to Heaven for treatment or send help to
Earth. She wants Urd and others to capture the escapee while
they are trying to restore the system.
When Urd comes back to Belldandy's room, Skuld runs out in
return, "I'll go and fetch someone from Heaven!" As
she hears a scream of Skuld, who has dived into the bath
without knowing the gate is closed, Urd explains to Keiichi that
the situation is beyond their control. They even cannot tell
what the spell has done to her until she wakes up.
In her dream, Belldandy is looking for Celestin. Keiichi
appears before her but vanishes like a mist when she approaches
him. Then a number of Keiichi surround her and vanish in the
same way.
Suddenly the emblem on the Belldandy's forehead changes its
shape rapidly and her body rises into the air, surrounded by a
whirlwind. She stops at about a meter high and now starts to
emit light. Skuld realises that her sister's costume will
change and puts her hands before Keiichi's eyes so that he
cannot see her sister naked. The whirlwind eventually eases and
Belldandy comes down to the ground and stands up straight. She
opens her eyes and gently speaks to Keiichi, "My name is
Belldandy from The Merciful Goddess Office. I've come here to
make your wish come true. Only one wish, though." Then she
notices her sisters in the room and wants to know why they are
here in "Mr Morisato's room." It is clear she has
lost all the memory regarding Keiichi. He tries to be clever
and says "What if I say my wish is for you to recover your
memory?" She doesn't realise that she has lost her memory
but tries to answer his request. But, because she is
disconnected from the system of Heaven, her magic is not
powerful enough to break the spell.
They spend whole night to try to recover her memory with
Skuld's machines. As expected, all her 26 machines turn out to
be useless. Keiichi decides to go to the college to cancel
their entry to the sidecar race. Belldandy wants to come with
him to see his college. She innocently continues, "My
teacher was really great, too. But he's gone far away. I wish I
could see him once more."
Peorth appears before the Council of Heaven to report the
current situation. The virus has spread over the system and
caused 8% decrease in its performance. Her plan is to repair
Yggdrasil while preventing further invasion of the virus by a
firewall in a dummy system. As soon as the main system is
restored, she will link the dummy system with Belldandy to
delete the source of the virus. Her plan is approved but the
chairman hints that they will not hesitate to use
"Vaccine" in the worst case. Before she leaves the
room, Peorth asks them to give information about the escapee,
which gets granted as a special case. She sees images of young
Belldandy.
Keiichi and Belldandy are on their way to the college while
Skuld closely follows them on Banpei-kun. Belldandy's formal
costume as a goddess attracts a lot of curious eyes. Naturally
it continues to do so in the college, too. Keiichi finally
asks her to change her costume into a less conspicuous one.
She thinks it is too trivial as the wish and does it
voluntarily. Keiichi and Skuld barely stop her from undressing
herself in public.
They take the innocent goddess into a gap between the
buildings. Keiichi tells her not to use her divine power in
public. This is not his wish but a definite rule. Now that
they have come to a deserted place, she can change her costume.
Skuld, of course, does not forget to force him to turn back.
When Belldandy finally changes her costume, both Keiichi and
Skuld are shocked to see her. She is now in a sailor uniform!
While Keiichi is having a hard time to explain to Belldandy
what ordinary clothes for a college student is like, two people
have been watching them from the top of nearby buildings; Urd
and Morgan. Urd seems to be satisfied to see her sister back in
the college and flies away from there. On the other hand,
Morgan remains there and keeps watching Keiichi and
Belldandy.
The news of Belldandy's amnesia shocks the members of the motor
club, including Chihiro. The sidecar race is only six days from
now and they have to find someone to replace her. As it is a
"mixed" race, it must be female, too. Sora is an
obvious candidate but everyone knows her talent, or lack of it.
Then, to Chihiro's surprise, Morgan volunteers to take part.
They come out of the clubhouse to see how Morgan handles the
task. When Keiichi tries to explain what to do, she curtly
answers that she knows roughly what to do as she saw
Belldandy's performance the other day. Keiichi says the joy of
the sidecar race is to trust each other to achieve best. This
seems to surprise Morgan a little, "Do you mean you trust
me, too?" Belldandy comes to hand a helmet to Keiichi but
again her innocent words sadden him, "I'm looking forward
to the performance of you two. I'm sure it'll be
wonderful." Yet when she sees Morgan stepping on the
kneeler, Belldandy feels something, probably a hint of her
lost memory, but is not sure what it is.
Anyway Keiichi and Morgan go out for the test drive within the
campus and Morgan's fine performance impresses Chihiro and the
others. Chihiro says to Morgan, "You'll perform even
better if you find a nice partner, like Morisato-kun to
Bell-chan."
Morgan takes a shower in the clubhouse and talks to Celestin,
who is now in the shape of the small stone buried on her
chest. She asks why he wants her to be with the couple.
Celestin does not give her a clear answer and only repeats it
is important to achieve the goal of his and hers.
Keiichi and Belldandy are on their way home on their sidecar.
As they go on the hilly winding night road, Keiichi gets
gradually excited and decides he can turn a corner at a very
high speed. But, without a help of Belldandy as the partner,
he fails and the machine crashes into a guard fence. Belldandy
is just in time to use her holy power to save him from the
accident. Keiichi apologises to her in a very low voice.
Seeing the bike cannot be started gain, he begins to push it
along the road in silence. His dejection troubles Belldandy a
lot. But without a word she pushes the bike with him and then
bravely says, "this will be repaired all right?"
Keiichi replies in a slightly brighter tone, "Yes, it
will.".
In Heaven, the operators working under Peorth are struggling
against the virus. One of them, Ere, reports the virus
activity pattern shows similarity to Belldandy's
"wavelength," which, she suspects, is the key to
break the deadlock. She asks her boss if she knows who the
perpetrator is. Peorth answers, "Yes, they told me but
with a protection set on me." Ere is bright enough to
infer that it is someone very close to Belldandy and so
important that the identity must be kept secret. Peorth, of
course, cannot affirm or deny it.
Next morning Keiichi is at home and repairing his bike
while Urd tries to console him in her own way. Their
conversation gets interrupted by a smell of food. It is a
breakfast Belldandy has cooked. Maybe she has lost memories
about her beloved boy, but she has not forgot cooking. Her
dishes looks wonderful as they usually do but the amount
and shocks everyone. Skuld is quick to tease Keiichi by
saying, "Unless you eat all of this, she may never
recover memory of you." He hesitates at the daunting
task but Belldandy, who seems to understand she has done
something extraordinary again, shyly murmurs, "If
you're not feeling hungry..." Her blushed face is
more than he can endure and Keiichi immediately makes up
his mind, "Oh, it happens that I'm really
starving!"
After the breakfast, Keiichi continues to work on his bike
but comes to a conclusion that a new valve is needed. He
decides to ask Chihiro if she has one. In the meantime,
while Belldandy tidies up Keiichi's room, she finds an
album full of photographs of herself, happily smiling next
to Keiichi.
On their way to the college on train, Belldandy tells him
how she feels now. "Now I know I've been living in
this world. Those happy smiling faces of you and me in
the album have made me realise your smile now looks a
little sorrowful. If our duty is to make people happy,
this is a very sad thing. So I'll do my best to see your
happy smile. If you and I in the album were what we used
to be, I want to know about you much more."
Keiichi and Belldandy are in Chihiro's shop. Having heard
about the accident last night, Chihiro suggests him to
cancel the race and he agrees. But Belldandy doesn't. She
wants to enter the race with him if they let her. Keiichi
is jubilant to hear this and Chihiro seems to be the
same.
Morgan is looking for Keiichi in the campus and
eventually comes to a lecture theatre where Keiichi and
Belldandy are taking a German lecture. Ignoring the
stunned lecturer and other students, she drags him out of
the theatre. Belldandy only can follow them in
bewilderment with his belongings in her arms. Morgan
tells him that she wants to enter the race herself. She
thinks Belldandy is no good as she is now. As Keiichi
remains adamant, she challenges Belldandy to prove who is
better.
The race is held in a small temporary course in the
campus. Megumi is called in to pair with Morgan. The race
turns out to be a tight one and Keiichi and Belldandy win
by a whisker. But more importantly, crossing the control
line reminds Belldandy of bits of her lost memory. Yes,
she did win a race like this in the past. She was
celebrated by the members of the club. And the rider next
to her was Keiichi! While she explains what has happened
to her, Megumi tries to console Morgan, who doesn't want
to be consoled.
Morgan angrily walks down in the campus, "I don't
want to be with them any longer." Celestin's voice
calmly replies, "Why are you feeling so
jealous?" Morgan denies it but doesn't know what
irritates her so badly. Celestin tells her that the sense
of love in Belldandy is necessary to open the door to a
new world. The goddess is already feeling it, just like
Morgan's heart is disturbed by jealousy.
That night, Belldandy looks over the town of Nekomi from
the top of the main building of Tarikihonganji and
recollects what happened to her today. She did certainly
feel the past when she lived with Keiichi. Although most
of her memory are still in the mist, the tiny bit she has
regained is enough to make her yearn for more.
When she comes back in the house, she accidentally hears
Keiichi and Urd talking about her condition. Urd doesn't
know what really has happened to her sister but thinks
her memory hasn't been "erased." There are very
few people who can do such a thing even in Heaven. She is
sure Celestin isn't powerful enough. This shocks
Belldandy immensely. "No! Celestin has made me forget
about Morisato-san!? Why!?" She runs out of the house
into the garden where a small lighting object comes to
her. It flies around her as if trying to provoke her.
Naturally she flies up into the air to chase it.
Belldandy comes to a big hall near the sea where Celestin
welcomes him. She wants to know why he sealed her memory.
He says he almost gave up all the hope when he was jailed.
Her presence on the blue planet he could see was the only
reason he didn't. He declares he is going to break the
seal which suppresses Belldandy's memory about what
happened to him and her. He wants her to remember what he
tried to achieve years ago.
Celestin and Belldandy go back along the stream of time to
the days when he was her tutor. One day he takes his
student to out an big stone gate in a wasteland. She
thinks it is the gate on which the legend of the Gate of
Judgement is based but Celestin tells her it is not a
legend but the real thing. If two people who belong to
different worlds fall in love, they are forced to come
here to test their love. They must go through the gate
together and, if there is any doubt or suspicion in their
mind, they will be separated forever. If not, they will
be blessed by God. As he explains, an image of a couple
appears and are obviously going to enter the gate.
Celestin bitterly adds one more sentence, "But no one
ever has gone through the gate successfully." He
thinks the gate is there to test people and prevent
various worlds to merge. Belldandy is horrified to hear
this and looks with a terrified look at the couple, who
are about to pass under the gate. Unfortunately her fear
materialises. Only Morgan comes out of the gate... the man
she loves has vanished. Celestin continues; "Gods has
created a system where everyone is assigned to a certain
role in a certain world, ignoring the pain they
suffer." He wants to eliminate this discrimination,
and creating a totally new order is the only way to
achieve it.
Then he destroys the Gate of Judgement with his holy power.
This is his declaration of his defiance against the current
system of Heaven. He wants Belldandy to join him. With her
help, he can save the weak and discriminated. But six balls
of light suddenly appear around him and try to capture him.
Danger of her respected master triggers a burst of
Belldandy's emotion and immense power, which saves him. But
the fact she has killed the six guards now horrifies her.
Celestin calmly tells her that now the only choice she has
is come with him. But he was wrong. A sphere of a strong
magic shield appears around her to cut her off from the
world while two more powerful guards captures Celestin.
The Council strongly condemns Celestin for trying to
overthrow the current system and has caused the metal
destruction of the guardian goddess of time. He is
sentenced to suspension of the body formation power and
confinement in a "17th grade non-life form" on
the moon.
Then Urd is summoned and the Council gives her a bottle of
magic medicine. The case is closed and will be sealed as
the top secret because Belldandy is too important for them
to lose.
Urd comes to see her sister in a house arrest, who now
shows no sign of emotion or will. Urd shows the bottle and
tells Belldandy that, if she drinks it, she will forget
all the bad memory. Seeing her sister still show no
emotion at all, Urd snatches the bottle and puts the
portion into he mouth. Then she forces Belldandy to drink
it from her mouth. As she drinks it without resisting,
tears roll down on Belldandy's cheeks. Next morning a
servant informs Belldandy that Celestin has left for an
urgent task.
Urd comes to the seaside hall through a big TV screen and
confronts Celestin, "Are you going to repeat the
fault?" Celestin, who knows Urd's origin, suspects
she wants the same things as he does but Urd denies it
strongly. Urd tries to attack him but Belldandy,
controlled by Celestin, covers him. The old image of
Celestin attacked by the guards in her memory triggers an
uncontrolled burst of emotion and Belldandy starts
attacking her sister. Now a fierce battle starts between
the two pair of goddess and her angel.
In the mean time Skuld appears through the fountain
before the hall. She has carried Keiichi here, too, who
loses no time to run into the hall to help his goddess.
Skuld warns him that, being a human, he won't be any help.
But Keiichi isn't discouraged. "I may be a mere human
but there must be something I can do!"
The battle of the goddesses are going in favour of
Belldandy because Urd cannot really attack her sister. She
tries to attack Celestin but Belldandy quickly guards him.
Urd shouts at her, "Wake up! He'll only hurt you. You
should know it now!" Her voice seems to reach
Belldandy's heart to some extent and Belldandy holds her
heads in agony. Her power runs uncontrolled and causes a
havoc when Keiichi comes to the scene,
"Belldandy!" She recognises him but it was too
late. She loses control of her power completely and a huge
explosion happens.
Belldandy comes to the imaginary world of water. Young
Belldandy holds her knees in her arms on the surface and
the adult goddess appears form the water. She gently
speaks to the young girl, "I was conquered by sorrow
and confined you deep in my heart. Give your sorrow to me.
I'll give everything I have now to you. Let's walk to the
future." The young Belldandy rests in the gentle arms
of the mature goddess.
Skuld is the first one to recover her consciousness and
finds Celestin standing near her unconscious sister. She
lets her anger go wild and unleashes her special attack
"You idiot!!" But, to her own surprise, unlike
her usual one which only marks the word on her enemy's
face, it causes a strong flux of power and blows Celestin
away. The flux also destroys the wall behind him to cause
a flood. Keiichi wakes up just in time to save Belldandy
from the burst of water, at the cost of his own safety.
The goddess finds "Morisato-san" knocked down
unconscious.
Morgan, who has now back to her real shape from Celestin,
escapes the hall and comes to the top of a nearby
building. Celestin on her chest seems satisfied.
"Now the gods will do the rest of the job for
us." Morgan sounds rather relieved to hear this,
"So it's all over now?" But Celestin corrects
her, "No. This is the beginning."
Keiichi and the goddesses are back home, where they treat
him with their holy power. Urd declares the treatment is
successful and Skuld says, as if trying to ease the mood,
"He's a fortunate man to have three goddesses to
treat him." Belldandy apologises to her elder sister
for causing troubles. Urd returns gentle words and leaves
the room. It is now Skuld's time to make an apology,
"I'm sorry I shouldn't have used such a
power..." Belldandy doesn't blame her but says
something Skuld has never dreamed of. "When
everything is over, let's return to Heaven
together." Belldandy cries her heart out and
bitterly blames herself for not being any help to him.
Skuld thinks otherwise; "I think Keiichi is ready to
accept everything. I'm sure you were the same before you
forgot about him. Ever since I came down to Earth, many
things have happened and I've met many people. Keiichi
has been always by you and you two were always smiling.
Don't give up. If you fully recover your memory,
everything will go back as what it used to be." Her
heartfelt words console her dejected sister successfully.
Belldandy promises her that she won't give up and then
falls unconscious. "Don't worry. She's just too
tired after using too much power," says Urd, who
comes back to the room, with a bottle of sake and ice
cream in her hands.
In her dream, Belldandy thinks Celestin has reminded of
what she used to be. She wished for happiness of people.
But what is her wish now?
Keiichi wakes up to find her goddess sleeping next to
him. He carefully gets up so that he won't wake her up.
Sora phones him up; Chihiro has found the valve for his
bike and she's got it with her now. So he decides to go
to the college to get it. As Sora hands the valve, she
asks one question to Keiichi, "Even if she has
lost her memory, you two won't be affected, right?"
Keiichi assures her that they won't.
Belldandy wakes up at home at last. She finds a note
from Keiichi and decides to follow him to the
college.
Keiichi drops in at the clubhouse and finds blood on the
floor. It's Morgan's, who sits in the room quietly. She
is injured but is more concerned with Keiichi's
well-being. She gently says, "I'm glad to see
you're all right." Keiichi doesn't realise what she
means and tries to take her to the medical room. But she
seems indifferent to her injury and says, "Are you
interested in me?"
As he treats her in the medical room, he is surprised to
see her injury is quiet serious. Morgan suddenly starts
talking about herself to Keiichi. Once she fell in love
with someone but was forcibly separated from him.
Keiichi and Belldandy make her jealous as they seem to
achieve something she couldn't. Yet what she is doing
now seems to help them, rather than sabotaging them. She
is not sure why she's doing it at all. Keiichi doesn't
reply to any of her words and continues the treatment.
But even he cannot ignore what she says next, "When
this world gets changed, will you love me? Could you
make my dream come true?" Keiichi seems disturbed
but calmly answers, "It is not superficial
relationship that you want, right?" But his gentle
words only irritate her. "Belldandy will be
Celestin's anyway. You'll become alone." Keiichi
cannot understand what she is saying. "The world
will change soon. That's what I've come here for. And
this is my new form." She holds and kisses him
passionately.
Belldandy sees them kissing it through the door and runs a
way. Keiichi now knows Morgan is the one who suppressed
Belldandy's memory. Morgan reveals her true figure of an
elf and floats up into the sky. Before Keiichi can say
anything more, she vanishes into the air.
As if Morgan's action was a trigger, the virus in the
heavenly system gets activated and intrudes deep into it.
The operators conclude that the virus will cause a severe
damage to the system as it is and that it is impossible to
stop it as long as Belldandy is linked to the system.
Peorth decides to use her last resort, the vaccination of
Belldandy. The decision is informed to Urd over the
phone.
When Keiichi comes back home, Skuld has been protesting
hard against her sister's decision. The probability of
successful vaccination is only 16%. If failed, Belldandy
will lose all her memories. "I can't accept it!"
Skuld bursts into tears. The high risk of the vaccine is
also known the operators on Heaven and Urd, who explains
it to Keiichi.
Keiichi sits down at the engawa with Belldandy. He tells
that Morgan has been helping Celestin and may know how to
revive Belldandy's memory. But Belldandy insists she will
take the vaccine. "She kissed you, didn't she?"
The fact she saw it shocks Keiichi but she is not blaming
him in any means. At that time, she couldn't stand
negative feelings growing in herself and ran away from
them. She came to Earth to make him happy but now she
knows there is also an ugly side of her, who want him to
love her only. Belldandy rests her head on his shoulder
and asks, "Would you still love me for all
that?" Keiichi tells her he loves her as she is. His
love is enough to give her the courage to take the
vaccine. In fact Keiichi's love is even deeper than she
thinks. He calmly says to her, "Even if all the
memories between us are lost, even if we are forced
separated far away, I'll find you and start it all again,
however many times and however many years it may
take." Belldandy is so touched and can only say,
"Thank you very much."
They come to the main building of the temple, where Urd
and Skuld has already created a complicated magic circle
on the floor. In Heaven, the vaccine is ready and Peorth
starts her spell. The spell is echoed by Belldandy on
the ground and the vaccination process starts.
Belldandy's costume disappears around her waist like a
digital image then her waist itself vanishes to reveal
a shining ball in her body, the virus core. The vaccine
makes the contact with it but, to the operators'
surprise, the virus converts the vaccine program into
something else. Peorth immediately realises in regret
that she has walked into the enemy's trap. On the
ground, Keiichi suffers sudden and severe headache and,
before Urd can do anything, the emblem of Celestin
appears on his forehead. He walks into the magic circle
and holds the virus in the Belldandy's body.
The modified vaccine spreads over the main system of
Heaven, cracking the firewalls one after another. It
heads for and reaches the highest security region and
finally reaches it. Celestin has been waiting for this
very moment, he pulls something from Belldandy's body.
It's literally a string of illuminating words. Urd
understands what he has done. He used Belldandy's love
to Keiichi and the vaccine to break the firewalls of
Yggdrasil. As he waves the string around, the magic
circle on the floor changes its form and spreads over
rapidly. The sensor of Heaven detects a huge mass and
energy appearing beneath the temple. A three huge
trees in a triple helix appears from the ground. It
is Yggdrasil itself.
Celestin speaks to Belldandy, who remains unconscious.
Their soul, and Keiichi's, go back to the day when
Celestin first met Belldandy.
Keiichi finds himself in a beautiful garden where a
house maid takes Celestin to his new student. The
small girl is in the shrub of the garden and has been
crying over a dead bird. To her amazement, when he put
his hand over the bird, it comes back to live. She
thanks him passionately and he vows to be a good
teacher in return. Happy days of the teacher and
student passes by. One day Belldandy asks him to cure
an old tree which seems ill to her. He tells her to do
it herself by singing for it. So she starts singing
for the tree wholeheartedly.
Then Keiichi is brought to a high place where
adolescent Belldandy is singing to the world. He
speaks to her but obviously he is invisible to her and
she runs to her tutor. Celestin wishes her to grow up
early.
And she has. Belldandy is now the heroine at a
ceremony, probably celebrating her receiving the
status of a first class goddess. Now that she has
grown up, the ceremony means the last day for Celestin
as her tutor. She will join the Merciful Goddess Office
to see the various worlds from now on. The idea of
"pure" Belldandy merges with earthy worlds
torments Celestin. He comes to a conclusion, the world
must be reborn.
Back in the real world, Belldandy regains her
consciousness partly. She finds Keiichi before her and
says, as if whispering, to him "Morisato-san, I
will recover my memory about you at any cost."
Celestin speaks to her, "Do you recognise
me?" Belldandy now comes to her full
consciousness and is horrified to see Yggdrasil on
Earth. Celestin says, thanks to her, the energy within
the tree is going to bestow him the power to break the
all between Heaven and Earth. Belldandy isn't
impressed. She is sure lives on Earth, who have
survived many difficulties for a long time do not wish
for such a thing. She believes struggle to survive is
the meaning of live and Celestin's idea of
"growth" is just putting clock forward.
Celestin is unrepentant and tries to proceed as
planned. Belldandy tries to stop him physically but
Morgan comes in her way, "You never understand
how I felt that time! Someday the Gate of Judgement
will appear before you. Are you confident that you can
go through!?" Belldandy is not daunted, "If
we can believe each other..."
While Morgan torments Belldandy, Celestin summons the
final program, Thor. The system of Heaven is useless
now, to Peorth's dismay but Urd hasn't given up. She
changes into her combat costume to attack Thor and
Skuld follows her lead.
Now that Celestin and Morgan are high up in the air to
control Thor, Belldandy pulls herself up and repeats
to herself her belief in the lives of this world,
including Keiichi. To save their dignity and honour,
now she will stop Celestin at her pride as a first
class goddess. She pulls out one of her earrings and
converts it to a battle stick and flies up into the
sky after Celestin.
Urd knows no ordinary attack will be effective to
Thor. She starts her spell, which surprises her sister
and the sensor of Heaven detects a powerful magic
field is formed around Urd. She unleashes her most
powerful attack, the annihilating thunder. This,
however, turns out ineffective to Thor, which is
equipped with a magic elimination program. Then Morgan
comes to attack Urd. She wants to know why she helps a
criminal like Celestin. "Gods always think of
themselves only. Don't rob me of hope any more!!"
This angers Urd, "What you're trying to open is
Pandora's Box without hope. Don't think you are the
only one in agony!!"
In the meantime, Thor produces an axe and starts
chopping Yggdrasil. Golden powders leaks out of the
tree through the cut. It's hyper-energy of Heaven.
Chrono warns Peorth, if the energy keeps leaking, the
lives of the ground will be exposed to an enormous
amount of high dimension energy and will no be able to
sustain their current form.
Looking up the heavenly tree, Celestin repeats his
belief, "Gods should not give ordeals to people
but guide them to better life." Belldandy comes
to Celestin to stop. She thinks his aim might be right
but his method is definitely not. What he is doing
will harm the lives which exists on Earth now.
Celestin is unrepentant and tells this is the only way
he can change the world.
In Heaven Chrono reports the amount of the energy leak
is increasing and there is still some time before
Yggdrasil recovers while Skuld has been throwing her
bombs at Thor in vain on Earth.
Celestin tries to persuade Belldandy by using
Keiichi's voice. "If the world remains as it is,
the Gate of Judgement will eventually appear before
you. If the trust between you and him are less than
perfect, you will lose him. There is no such worry in
the new world and I need you there with me as a
symbol to guide new lives." But Belldandy isn't
moved.
Peorth and her crew are losing the battle against the
virus and Thor. The energy leak cannot be stopped.
Peorth orders to shut down all the connections and
programs currently running. She orders to Yggdrasil to
activate Gungnil and aim Celestin.
Urd and Skuld see the gate to Heaven open in the sky.
With a desperate look, Peorth says, "This is the
only method left to us now" and Heaven's deadly
cannon is finally fired. Seeing the final weapon
heading to him, he shouts at Heaven, "Why do you
stop me when the new world you wished for is about to
come? Why do we have to wait? Even Belldandy will be
another victim of it!" Then he lowers his voice
with a resigned look, "Look, you are trying to
protect this world also by force."
But Belldandy throws herself between him and Gungnil.
"Why!? Both Heaven and Celestin try to solve
problems with force!? I believe we have our power to
save those we love!! Even if my body perishes, even if
my life is lost...!!" Her voice of soul reaches
Keiichi, suppressed by Celestin. "Belldandy, I'm
not wise enough to tell what is right. But, whatever
the new world be, if Belldandy isn't there, it is just
meaningless. And, Celestin, you must feel the
same!" Belldandy is fighting the losing battle.
Gungnil's power is more than she can sustain can
sustain. But, just when she is about to lose it,
Keiichi, who regains the control of his body from
Celestin, comes to help "I'll protect you even if
that put God against me." A huge explosion
happens around them and Ere reports Peorth that
Gungnil has been vanished.
Keiichi and Belldandy find themselves in the wasteland
before the Gate of Judgement. Belldandy, who knows
what it is, looks up at it in terror. But Keiichi, who
also knows it, takes it positively, "We've come
this far, haven't we?" His calm and firm words
ease her mind and she replies with a smile, "Yes,
we have, Keiichi-san." There is another one
before the gate, who cannot take it so calmly. Morgan
is bewildered to find herself here again. Now that she
has no one to love, why has she been brought here!?
Her confusion becomes only deeper to see Keiichi and
Belldandy walking to the gate hand in hand. Morgan and
Celestin warn them but Keiichi is very sure what they
are doing. "I admit both she and I have some
anxiety but yet I don't want to let her hand go. I want
to live on with her."
They go through the gate to see a completely different
world before them. A beautiful land covered with
forests, with high snowy mountains in the distance; a
world full of life. Belldandy says "Isn't this
enough as the answer? Humans have a power to break the
wall they may face, I can tell you." Morgan
answers with a sad look, "I knew I couldn't trust
myself completely. Even without the Gate, I was afraid
that we would be separated someday. But what is
important is to love now and to believe in the
future." She approaches to Keiichi, "If it
was you... No, I've been seeing my past in you."
She is about to cross the gate into the new world but
stops. She says she will remain here to tell about
Keiichi and Belldandy to those couples who may come to
the Gate in the future.
In the real world, Skuld is horrified to see Thor cut
the last of the three trunks, "This is the end of
it!" Keiichi, who has come back to the world, is
also worried. But Belldandy gently tells him,
"You said you won't give up until the last
moment." She kisses him and then flies up to the
sky, "I'll be back!"
Urd and Skuld are jubilant to see her sister back
safely but neither of them thinks it will make the
situation better. Belldandy is, however, confident.
"This world isn't that feeble. It is filled with
energy to live energy to proceed to the future. All we
have to do is just help them. Affection to those we
love is the power of goddesses."
The three goddesses change into the formal costume
from the battle one and surround Thor. They, along with
their angels, start singing a paean of life. The
operators of Heaven are surprised to see an
unidentified program, in a shape of a winged wand, has
been booted to deal with the virus. Peorth is the first
one to realise what it is and loses no time to sing
along with them, with her angel, Gorgeous Rose. Soon
all the operators follow her lead. The heavenly chorus
works a wonder and the golden flakes of energy enclose
Thor like an egg. Then the golden egg changes its shape
into a phoenix, which soars up to Heaven, with its
three long tail re-forming the tree trunks of
Yggdrasil.
The worst is over. Peorth sits back on her chair with a
relieved look but has to put herself up again to remind
of their work the operators, who are already talking
about their next holiday.
Belldandy and Keiichi are at the edge of the woods
where they can see the city in the peaceful morning
light. Celestin, now back in the shape of the small
stone, is in the air before them. Belldandy tells him,
"Many people may be hurt and suffer in the future.
But we are the same." She continues to say,
"The fact Heaven lets me to stay here with
Keiichi-san, I feel, brings us closer to the entrance
of the world you wish for." Celestin now
understands and appreciates her view. It's time for him
to leave. "Maybe I wasn't a good teacher but the
world has guided you to become a wonderful
goddess." His praise brings tears in Belldandy's
eyes. "If you think so, it is because of you,
Keiichi-san and many many other people I met!"
Celestin slowly soars up and vanishes.
There remains one problem unresolved. Her contract with
Keiichi has been canceled because of the system
trouble. Now she can make another wish of his come
true. Keiichi replies with a smile, "Why do you
ask such a thing?" Belldandy jumps on to him in
joy. Urd and Skuld are watching the happy couple from
the top of a tree nearby. Although neither tries to
disturb the couple today, they soon start quarreling.
Yes, the world is back in its norm.
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