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| First appearance | Episode 7 |
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| Gender | male |
The dead soldier is encountered by Filicia in Episode 7. His remains lie beneath a battlefield at the Binnenland front. Filicia called him an "old era soldier". She identified him as such based on his weapon, a Howa Type 89, a type of weapon no longer used in the time Sora no Woto takes place in.
The soldier left a message behind before he died. Filicia wasn't able to read it and it is unknown what it said.
After she had found him, the dead soldier eventually started talking to Filicia. But it's highly likely that it was a hallucination based on her state of shock and inner conflict, since her entire platoon was killed not long before. In their conversation, the soldier apologized for having lost the war long before Filicia was born. He continues to claim that the world is already dead and that the current fighting is completely meaningless. If he was a hallucination, this would coincide with the fact that Filicia had previously thought about the meaning of the world.
In a flashback he fought besides black Takemikazuchi-like Spidertanks against an enemy that was not shown directly, however the reflection was visible and it appeared to be some sort of large bird.
Speculation[]
- May be a ghost
- The lantern in Episode 7 explicitly read "Quelque chose comme Dupont" which means "something like Dupont." Filicia doesn't know the soldier's name, so she calls him a common surname
- Nihilist
- Possibly indicative of the series' timeplace considering his weaponry (Apocalyptic event happened at the earliest 1989, the year the Type 89 was introduced. Given the Takemikazuchi and holographic characters found by Kanata, it is more likely the event happened in the fist half of the 21st century)