Alien Nine: Destroyer
Operation Ex0: Prologue—End of Eras
—Heisei 27—
"To save the world is
the simplest thing in the world. All one has to do is think."
"To fight the
unbeatable foe
To bear with unbearable sorrow
To run where the
brave dare not go."
At the time, way back
when, scholars and Buddhist monks designated the year 1052, at the
end of the Heian, to be the start of mappo—the end of eras.
A time of darkness when men would forget the dharma and would be
unable to achieve enlightenment. An era when the truth would be
known to only a few and no one would believe them when they spoke it.
Well, 1052 came and went. I figured mappo to be a myth, and if it
wasn't a myth, then it would be like the Second Coming—something
never happening in my lifetime. Well, I finally realized.
We're living in mappo, the end of eras. It started in 1998.
—Jun'ko Shinosaki
