Which Memories Do You Regret?

**Which Memories Do You Regret?** (思い残した記憶って、なに？, *Omoinoko shita kioku tte, nani?*) is the tenth episode of *SSSS.DYNAZENON*.

Monster of the week: **Garnix** (ガルニクス, *Garunikusu*)

## Synopsis

An unprecedentedly great power attack the city. Yomogi takes hold of Dynasoldier to confront the root of it all.

## Summary

The episode begins with Dynazenon pilots discussing about the drop of kaiju's numbers as of late during a sunny day when Gauma is bewildered by the sight of a kite. Kaiju Eugenicists have managed to find their next kaiju near an abandoned restaurant called 24-Hour Yomotsu Food Service. While Juuga states the kaiju looked a bit different than ones they encountered, Shizumu is too eager to care. Mujina steps in to try to control it, but as soon as she uses Instance Domination on it, something goes wrong; without warning, Kaiju Eugenicists members disappear one by one with Shizumu being the last, but not before ominously declares that everyone can be free at long last.

The out-of-control kaiju's power begins to reach Dynazenon pilots with Yume being the first to disappear, shocking and confusing Yomogi who finds nothing but an inert shadow in her place. As Yume finds herself seemingly back to her childhood moments starting from the afternoon where she, Kano, and their parents drove back home together, the group in real world find the kaiju responsible at the city, but are unable to form Dynazenon without their missing friend. Gridknight Alliance who managed to escape the beast's range of influence show up with Knight offers to deal it on their stead, but unceremoniously disappears before he could do anything.

Hastily distancing themselves from the kaiju while Knight involuntarily relieves his past as Akane's creation, Gauma informs everyone that he has managed to pinpoint Yume's whereabouts through her Dynawing, revealing that she is currently trapped inside the beast as with everyone else – to reach them, they must hop into its mouth somehow. Yomogi, Gauma, and Koyomi make haste to one of nearby buildings which happened to be in kaiju's path to do so, though only Yomogi who makes it in the end out of three as the evacuating Nidaime and Chise watch before leaving with Goldburn. Thanks to Dynasoldier in his possession, Yomogi manages to neutralize the kaiju's power over him before setting out to find his friends.

Goldburn's force field it encapsulated them within and the golden kaiju/Assist Weapon itself is immune to their enemy's power. Nidaime states that it's all depends on the group and Knight now.

Yomogi manages to find Yume, but is unable to reach her because they are separated by sort of TV screen-like barrier and worse, he finds Dynawing in pieces at the same time. His desperate cries eventually reach his crush through the left piece of Dynawing, but that alone was not enough. Recalling Kano's death as the root of his crush's troubles, Yomogi furiously punches through the barrier, pouring his feelings into power that energized his fist with aid of Dynasoldier after attempts and attempts before it failed. Reaching Yume at last, Yomogi persuades her to jump back in time right for mere moments before Kano's fateful death at the floodgate where her body later found.

Finding Kano who is dangerously standing on the edge of the floodgate's rooftop, Yume cries out for her older sister to stop, stating that she knows the latter got bullied at the school and had a break-up with Futaba Senda which drove her so suicidal. Contrary to her fears however, Kano is surprisingly in best mood as she comforts her little sister despite her initial surprise to see the latter already grown taller for some reasons. This turns out to be true to Futaba Senda's claim of Kano died from accident and that Yume got blinded by his disillusionment over their ill-fated love life all along. Using the restored Dynawing as sort of communicator, Yume asks Yomogi to give her some more time with Kano despite their situation. Granting his crush her request knowing Yume now out of harm's way and needs that, Yomogi sets out to free the others.

Breaking into Koyomi's barrier, Yomogi snaps him from the kaiju's influence over him after he took a different path while relieving his past (joining Inamoto in spending the bag of money she found instead of running away). His presence both restores the damaged Dynastriker and ruins Koyomi's illusion to the point of the latter gradually realizes the whole thing was fake. Disheartened at first, Koyomi joins Yomogi to find their friends who still trapped.

Moving on for Gauma next, the two find him relieving the darker turn of his previous life as well as his last moments in it; during his time as the member of Kaiju Eugenicists, he and his compatriots had a bloody fallout over the motives the ancient kingdom whose princess he fell in love with enlisted them to its cause. Juuga, Onija, Mujina, and Shizumu grew paranoid toward said kingdom that they believed it would be a matter of time before the kingdom decided to dispose them while Gauma, who cared more to the kingdom's princess because she had taught him something important, believed what his fellow Kaiju Eugenicists intended to do being wrong. The fallout culminated to Gauma slew his former comrades as the kaiju under his control destroyed theirs, but Gauma himself eventually succumbs to his own injuries. The horrified Yomogi cries out to Gauma not to die yet as his former comrades have been revived just like him and are trying to erase their world as he speaks, thus it's up to them to stop his former compatriots. Regaining his resolve, Gauma returns to his feet as he reclaims the restored Dynadiver, thanking Yomogi for saving him as before and rallies the two to their present.

The last person to be saved is Knight just as he relieved the moment when Akane discarded him and told him to carve his own path, much to his chagrin as he only able to remark that he doesn't need their help before joining the group regardless.

Back to Kano and Yume, Kano reveals that she chose to practice her singing at the floodgate out of being embarrassed to do so at home and she was admittedly envious toward her little sister who proved to be a better person than she'd ever been, being more agreeable among other things. She did attempt to change to better on her own and joined the chorus club to do so, meeting Futaba who became her boyfriend in process. It is then Kano reveals Futaba being kinder than he let on — the real reason why he dumped her was because she was too distant and therefore pleads to Yume not to judge him harshly, allowing Yume to understand Futaba Senda's unexpected aloof reaction when she brought up the topic about her sister back then and that he was still hurt by it. Afterwards, Kano blesses her little sister as she hesitantly returns to the present. Just then, Yume manages to solve Kano's ankh puzzle only to see everything around her begins to fall apart, but nonetheless attained positive notes regarding Kano as she thanks her older sister before setting out to catch up with her friends.

With Yume now on their side, the reinvigorated group form Dynazenon to break free from the still-rampaging kaiju by punching their way out through a dimensional rift, hitting the beast in the process as they emerge right next to it. Knight turns into Gridknight to topple the beast for a good measure where by that point, the whole city and much part of the world has been erased, leaving nothing but a wasteland and Goldburn who protects Nidaime and Chise with its force-field. Yomogi reminds his friends that there are many more who still trapped inside it, but Nidaime reassures that defeating the beast and neutralizing its power at the same time will restore everything back to normal.The kaiju then unveils its ability to move at accelerated speed to dismantle Dynazenon, but its pilots are more than ready to face it for real. Alongside Gridknight and Goldburn, they form Kaiser Gridman to combat it, but their opponent moves around them at insane pace. In response of this, Kaiser Gridman resorts to perform an unorthodox technique called Kaiser Knight Circular (stronger version of Gridknight Circular) where they form a ring of energy which grows in diameter, covering up a large radius until it reaches the accelerating kaiju and cleaves the beast into half, detonating it and restoring everything back to normal.

A while later, Yomogi and Gauma discuss about the latter's past which revealed by the defeated kaiju, though he barely remembered whether he and his former compatriots were indeed betrayed and used by the very country the served. The group then set out to find something to eat when they notice Yume is not with them – she is singing at the floodgate where her sister died, though this time she has found her well-deserved closure. Hilariously, by the time she joins them, Gauma collapses from hunger, surprising Yomogi who reveals to his friends that similar thing happened when they first met, much to his mild annoyance that he begins to playfully chase them while Gridknight Alliance followed from behind.

The episode ends with Gauma reminiscing about the last moments of his previous life...

## Voice Drama

* **10.01:** As a Kaiju User **(怪獣使いとして, *Kaijū tsukai to shite*)**

## References

1. ↑ https://www.dynazenon.net/story/#/10
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/SSSS\_PROJECT/status/1400831387066793987
3. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZm\_bEkZ8FI