[Soon as Stoat said it... something odd happened, the entire scene rewinds to the start, but instead of being by himself, a teenage boy with messy blond hair and a magenta jacket is with him.

When the enemy appears, the boy is clearly nervous and back himself up against Harlock]

Don't shoot yet, wait...

[A memory within a memory plays, the sound of music on a harmonica down halls that look familiar, Harlock follows it to the boy's room. The boy was playing a song that his father taught him.

As the young man trembles, Harlock started humming the song and it seem to work, as the blond exhales, his trembling slowly ceases]

Stay with me, we'll get through this...