Karakuri Circus EP36 - The Curtain Falls

Masaru pleads with Faceless/Bai Jin for the cure to Zonapha, but he refuses and produces a new version of Arlequin which attacks Masaru's Jack-O-Lantern. Faceless accuses Masaru of loving Éléonore, and prepares to kill him out of jealousy. Suddenly, Diamantina arrives and destroys all the Francine automata and then demands that Faceless admits that he loves her. He refuses and dismantles her instead, but as she grinds to a halt, she stabs him and sets of a series of explosions within the space station which begins to head earthward. Faceless surprisingly agrees to help Masaru redirect the falling complex away from inhabited areas by combining the remnants of Arelquin and Jack-O-Lantern to redirect a thrust engine. For a moment, Faceless feels like a big brother helping a younger sibling, just as Bai Yin did for him. Masaru again pleads with Faceless for the cure. As he begins bleeds badly from his stab wound, Faceless reveals that Éléonore’s singing changes the Zonapha bugs' deadly mode into becoming a cure. Éléonore begins singing and Masaru returns to Earth's surface an escape shuttle, leaving Faceless and his creation Guri-pon which decides to stay with him. With Éléonore’s song, humanity is saved. Six years later, Narumi and Éléonore take their own small circus to war-torn areas of Earth, and an older Masaru saves a pair of children from criminals while wearing a bear suit.