Episode Title:
Savior
Episode Description:
As Haito and Jubei are being treated for their injuries, Toya offers to help Kitazuka fight the Forest of Greats, but he flatly turns him down. While he claims humanity must defeat the Returners with their own power, Kitazuka in reality is secretly testing Toya's resolve. Unsure of what to do next, Toya remembers Neumann once warning him not to turn on his phone if it has no network connection. He does exactly that, and discovers Neumann secretly implanted AI copies of herself in the Greats' phones as a failsafe feature. The AI Neumann, Neumann Mark-II, agrees to help Toya, and determines that the original Neumann is actually resisting Nightingale's control, since there's no other reason for her giving a three month grace period unless it's to buy time for humanity. Kitazuka then starts receiving reports of Returners appearing all over the world and engaging in combat with human militaries. Neumann Mark-II points out that there are many neutral Returners who see the Forest of the Greats' declaration of war as an opportunity to reveal themselves. Toya then volunteers to confront a Returner who has been kidnapping Kitazuka's men, and correctly deduces that it is Ein, who survived being attacked by Newton.
