Episode 7

**Driveshaft** is the seventh episode of the *Deca-Dence* anime series.

## **Plot**

The Solid Quake corporation continues its strategy of creating more battles with the Gadoll. This time, a group of Gadoll pour through a breach in the Deca-dence armor and attack the Tankers. Kaburagi, Kurenai, Natsume and other fighters rush to their aid and manage to kill all the Gadoll. Later, Kaburagi questions Minato about the incident and he admits that it is just part of the game plan to reduce the expanding population of human Tankers. Unable to idly await another Gadoll attack, Natsume tries to enlist the aid of the Tankers to repair the gaping hole Deca-dence. Although they are afraid of further Gadoll attacks, her persistence pays off and they eventually agree to help. Kaburagi seeks out Natsume who does not recognise him in his false identity, but again she impresses him with her determination to achieve her goals. He resolves to stop the endless cycle of Gadoll battles and returns to prison where he convinces Donatello to help him destroy the Gadoll factory.

## **Summary**

Kaburagi logs into a new game, but its surprised that there is a quest involving battle. He realizes its an incursion and heads into the Tanker, where he sees a whole in the Tanker and Gadolls coming in. Kurenai fights them at the hole, but some manage to get inside. Kaburagi chases and kills one, while Natsume shows up and kills another. They proceed and manage to stop the Gadoll attack, but suffer many Tanker casualties.

Minato goes for a smoke, where Kaburagi finds him and thanks him, guessing he was the reason he wasn't scrapped. Minato is surprised that Kaburagi managed to log into the game, and wonders how, but Kaburagi doesn't answer. Kaburagi asks him about the hole and Minato explains its stagecraft as the Tankers population is rising and doing quests like this manages to lower their numbers. Jill warns Kaburagi that he mustn't stay logged for long and ask him to logout at sunset.

The armor repairers explain it will take them some time to fix the big hole in the wall and a Gadoll attack could happen at any moment. Natsume suggests they use the house repairs kits the Tankers have and wants to involve the Tankers to help them. They tell her they won't agree, but he heads out planning to asks some of her friends to help and convince the people. Natsume goes to the butchery workers asking them for help, but they refuse. She sees Fei, who explain that as Gadoll can attack at any moment, people are afraid and won't risk their lives, especially when the Gears will save them. Before leaving, Natsume asks her if she has extra repair kits to bring them to the cafeteria. Natsume continues to ask people, but all refuse. Returning to the cafeteria, she is surprised to see the others managed to gather some repair kits and then sees the butchery workers coming and bringing more repair kits and agree to help. They start repairing the whole and Minato is notified of it, but decides to leave them be.

Kaburagi goes to see Natsume, acting like a man who knows Kaburagi. Pipe recognizes him and jumps on him, seeing that, Natsume is reminded of Kaburagi. After speaking with her and seeing her cry of how hard she needs to push herself in order to keep living, Kaburagi decides to tear it all down. Kaburagi logs out and goes to Donatello, he tells him he will make a big party and invites him as he plans on destroying the Gadoll factory.

## **Character**

* Minato
* Jill
* Sou
* Kurenai
* Ryouku
* Fei
* Linmei
* Natsume
* Mindy
* Mundy
* Mendy
* Fennel