# Season 2
# 25 - The Last Day (August 31)
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GRVNZK5PY/a-certain-magical-index)
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**[00:50] ---**
Ah, damn it, already!
**[00:54] ---**
Prerequisites for the
ESP Card experiment?
**[00:57] ---**
Don't go thinking that Level 0
Kamijo knows something like that.
**[01:08] ---**
Imagine Breaker--the marvelous
power that resides in my right hand.
**[01:13] ---**
Apparently, it is able to cancel
out any other extraordinary power
**[01:16] ---**
with a single touch.
**[01:19] ---**
But a fantastic power like this
**[01:21] ---**
doesn't have any effect on my
summer vacation homework problems.
**[01:26] ---**
What's more, on this day, of all days,
**[01:29] ---**
Misaka Mikoto pressured me
into pretending to be her boyfriend,
**[01:32] ---**
not to mention, I was chased
around by an Aztecan magician,
**[01:35] ---**
as one crazy incident
after another piled up on me.
**[01:39] ---**
The practical upshot of all of this being...
**[01:42] ---**
...that I haven't finished
most of my homework.
**[01:48] ---**
I get it. Magical Powered
Kanamin takes the Parts of Ether
**[01:51] ---**
the lotus staff for the Elementals,
**[01:54] ---**
and reproduces them in plastic, right?
**[01:57] ---**
--How wonderfully Japanese-styled that is!
**[01:58] ---**
--Listen, Miss Index...
--How wonderfully Japanese-styled that is!
**[02:00] ---**
I'm not going to tell you not to watch TV,
**[02:04] ---**
but as for the volume, at least...
**[02:05] ---**
Toma, you never do anything fun with me.
**[02:09] ---**
That's why I'm escaping
into the world of television!
**[02:19] ---**
Ow...
**[02:20] ---**
Ah, man! Why is it that now,
when I have no time,
**[02:23] ---**
you come up with more things
for me to do?! Huh? Hold on...
**[02:26] ---**
Where's that worksheet that
I was only half-way done with?
**[02:28] ---**
Or Classical Japanese problem set?
Or my math reference book?
**[02:32] ---**
Ah, Toma!
**[02:33] ---**
Oh, did you find something?
**[02:35] ---**
It's after 3 o'clock.
**[02:37] ---**
Huh?
**[02:41] ---**
I'd sure like a snack.
**[02:45] ---**
Just my luck.
**[02:51] ---**
Index Librorum Prohibitorum...
**[02:56] ---**
The List of Prohibited Books, huh?
**[03:16] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[03:20] ---**
*I gazed at the coin I had flipped*
**[03:25] ---**
*If it's heads I go, tails I stay*
**[03:29] ---**
*Let me know your answer first*
**[03:35] ---**
*"Please, won't you tell me?"*
**[03:40] ---**
*But the angel continued to smile in discernment*
**[03:51] ---**
*Wander on! There's nobody
to lead you by the hand*
**[03:56] ---**
*The answer handed down
from God is one of woe*
**[04:01] ---**
*Yes, that is what your gift from God is*
**[04:07] ---**
*Once you overcome it, you'll start to see, so right now...
(Look for it by oneself, no buts about it)*
**[04:14] ---**
*No buts!*
**[04:32] ---**
Wow, it sure was a lot of trouble,
**[04:34] ---**
locating this worksheet
among the pile of manga it was in.
**[04:38] ---**
Tell me, Toma, am I great, or am I great?
**[04:42] ---**
Don't you have anything
to say to me? Well? Well?
**[04:46] ---**
So, what is it you're
trying to say to me?
**[04:49] ---**
I did a lot of work for you,
so I want a reward deserving of it.
**[04:53] ---**
Meaning that I want to eat something.
**[04:54] ---**
You just finished *my* half
of the pudding, too, didn't you?!
**[04:57] ---**
Oh, maybe that would be good.
**[04:59] ---**
"Hirayama Rami's 5-hour Cooking!"
"How to Make Tofu Hamburger"
**[04:59] ---**
Today we'll cover "How to Make 5-hour Tofu Hamburger."
**[05:02] ---**
I told you, I don't have time
to make something like that!
**[05:05] ---**
It's just after 5:00 pm now,
**[05:07] ---**
leaving about seven
hours before the date changes,
**[05:09] ---**
so even if I'm ready
to work through the night,
**[05:11] ---**
there's less than fifteen more
hours before I have to go to school!
**[05:13] ---**
--And in just that much time...
--Toma...
**[05:16] ---**
It's not good to push yourself so hard.
**[05:19] ---**
Your brain has to work even
harder when you're so on-edge.
**[05:23] ---**
Don't overexert yourself.
**[05:24] ---**
You're the *last* person
I want to hear that from!
**[05:31] ---**
This is it.
**[05:39] ---**
Wind Magic Bowstring!
**[05:53] ---**
Striking Bowstring!
**[06:08] ---**
Not here?
**[06:10] ---**
I just had a nasty feeling...
**[06:13] ---**
Toma! Toma!
**[06:14] ---**
Can I order anything from here?
**[06:17] ---**
What? What do you want?
**[06:19] ---**
Okay, then...
The most expensive thing!
**[06:23] ---**
All right, ¥2000 worth of raw eggs...
**[06:26] ---**
Toma!
**[06:28] ---**
I, Kamijo Toma, together with Index,
**[06:30] ---**
decided to go to a family
restaurant for a change of pace.
**[06:33] ---**
I was busy plugging away
**[06:35] ---**
at what was left of my
summer vacation homework.
**[06:43] ---**
Thank you for waiting--
**[06:54] ---**
There you are.
**[06:57] ---**
And now, to battle.
**[07:01] ---**
My survey report on
the development of abilities...
**[07:04] ---**
Excuse me! I will bring something
to wipe this up with right away!
**[07:07] ---**
--Th-Then again, Toma,
you can still make out the letters,
**[07:08] ---**
--Three pages.
--Th-Then again, Toma, you can still make out the letters,
**[07:10] ---**
--I'd already written three pages.
--so if you copy it down exactly to a new manuscript sheet,
**[07:13] ---**
you can still use it.
**[07:15] ---**
When you consider that you don't
have to think everything up again,
**[07:18] ---**
just think of all the trouble you'll save!
**[07:27] ---**
The starting shot to war is raised!
**[07:29] ---**
Sunder Magic Bowstring!
**[07:43] ---**
Why, you...!
**[07:44] ---**
What the hell are you--
**[07:47] ---**
Over here.
**[07:49] ---**
I did not anticipate this outcome.
**[07:52] ---**
It would please me if we
can limit any wanton loss of life.
**[07:55] ---**
If you will surrender yourself,
I will take no action against you.
**[07:58] ---**
So long as I obtain my objective...
**[08:03] ---**
M-My...
**[08:04] ---**
My homework has turned into confetti...
**[08:07] ---**
Hey! You there! You did this,
so you have to make it right!
**[08:12] ---**
You have to do my homework again!
**[08:14] ---**
None of my concern.
**[08:20] ---**
Okay, Kamijo is feeling
just a little bit violent today.
**[08:25] ---**
Wait, huh?
**[08:28] ---**
I will be brief.
**[08:30] ---**
I am not interested in childish games.
**[08:33] ---**
What do you think you're doing?
What are you going to do to Index?!
**[08:36] ---**
I'm sure you know,
**[08:38] ---**
if you are aware that this
is the List of Prohibited Books
**[08:41] ---**
who has memorized the 103,000 volumes...
**[08:44] ---**
Are you a magician?
**[08:46] ---**
Indeed I am.
**[08:48] ---**
Transparent Magic Bowstring!
**[08:50] ---**
Hold it, you bastard!
**[08:54] ---**
There's something small and soft right here!
**[08:56] ---**
Is that you there, Index?
**[09:02] ---**
W-What...?
**[09:08] ---**
Damn, he got me!
**[09:10] ---**
Excuse me, sir...
**[09:18] ---**
I didn't make her carry a cell phone
with her for times like this, but...
**[09:21] ---**
No reason why she would answer. Damn!
**[09:24] ---**
Just where am I supposed to look for her?
**[09:28] ---**
Hey!
**[09:30] ---**
Hey! Where are you going, Sphinx?!
**[09:32] ---**
Wait up!
**[09:36] ---**
A hotel?
**[09:37] ---**
Don't tell me Index is in there!
**[09:40] ---**
Is that where she is, Sphinx?!
**[09:47] ---**
In there?!
**[09:49] ---**
Index!
**[09:52] ---**
Hey, you! Don't you have any
sense of obligation to your master?!
**[09:56] ---**
Index *is* the one who took you in,
you know, if only temporarily!
**[10:00] ---**
Come on, let's go
look for her, right away!
**[10:29] ---**
I'm surprised.
**[10:31] ---**
In just this short time,
you've already untied two knots.
**[10:35] ---**
Japan may have given rise to its
own unique culture of rope tortures,
**[10:38] ---**
but I will not talk
under such rough measures.
**[10:42] ---**
I told you, torturing
you is not my objective.
**[10:47] ---**
I wish to obtain one of
the grimoires that is inside you.
**[10:56] ---**
Now...
**[10:58] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[10:58] ---**
I must first raise a magical field for amplification purposes...
**[11:06] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[11:10] ---**
What is that magician
planning to do to Index?
**[11:14] ---**
Damn it! Where am
I supposed to look?!
**[11:18] ---**
Whoa-oa-oa...
**[11:20] ---**
S-Sorry!
**[11:31] ---**
Hey, you! What are you doing here?!
**[11:35] ---**
Geez, it seems like you're
always running around somewhere.
**[11:39] ---**
If everything's all right,
then call me and say it's all right!
**[11:43] ---**
Oh, come to think of it,
you don't know my number, do you?
**[11:48] ---**
H-Huh? Eh?!
**[11:58] ---**
For Pete's sake!
**[11:59] ---**
You're *always* doing this!
Stop messing around with me! Huh?
**[12:04] ---**
How come you look like
you're about to cry, for real?
**[12:07] ---**
I'm in a hurry here, as much as I can be!
**[12:09] ---**
What with the homework,
the kidnapping
**[12:10] ---**
and the commotion
at the family restaurant...!
**[12:11] ---**
So tell me, what do *you* want?!
**[12:14] ---**
Eh? W-What do...
**[12:15] ---**
Oh, well... I was simply upset
that you didn't spend time with me,
**[12:21] ---**
but I don't have anything
that I *want* from you, especially...
**[12:25] ---**
Not that there *would* be...
**[12:28] ---**
Sorry!
**[12:30] ---**
Hey, hold on! Are you seriously
going to leave me here?!
**[12:34] ---**
Hey, I said!
**[12:39] ---**
Is this a Kagura stage?
**[12:41] ---**
Nothing so elaborate as that.
At the end of the day,
**[12:44] ---**
it's closer to a Bon
festival dance grounds.
**[12:48] ---**
And you prepared this to
have me possessed by something?
**[12:53] ---**
Oh, the real reason
I raised the magical field
**[12:56] ---**
was to try to increase the
force of this thing.
**[13:00] ---**
Your Azusa Yumi bow? A ceremonial
item used in Japanese Shinto?
**[13:04] ---**
Magnificent. So your
magical library also covers
**[13:09] ---**
my cultural background, does it?
**[13:11] ---**
--This thing's normal power is, at most,
--Index? Index!
**[13:13] ---**
--only enough to shock the mind,
or to rectify any imbalances.
**[13:13] ---**
--Hey, you hear me? Where are you?!
**[13:18] ---**
However, with all the
right conditions in place,
**[13:21] ---**
it can read the details
within another's mind.
**[13:25] ---**
Yes, even reveal the 103,000 volumes
**[13:29] ---**
that you are hiding so
desperately within your heart.
**[13:33] ---**
N-No!
**[13:34] ---**
Even you must know what would
happen if anyone other than me
**[13:37] ---**
were to touch the grimoires!
**[13:40] ---**
Of course.
**[13:41] ---**
I am well aware.
**[13:46] ---**
What was that?
**[13:57] ---**
That's the hotel from earlier, isn't it?!
**[14:00] ---**
Damn!
**[14:42] ---**
That's the Baopiaozi--
**[14:44] ---**
the grimoire dealing with immortal youth
**[14:46] ---**
and becoming a sage in Chinese culture.
**[14:48] ---**
It contains alchemy to create an elixir
**[14:50] ---**
that can cure any
manner of disease or curse.
**[14:58] ---**
I thought I could do anything
once I became a magician.
**[15:02] ---**
It is because I didn't
want any more setbacks
**[15:06] ---**
that I took the oath
to become a magician.
**[15:10] ---**
At the very least, it was not for this.
**[15:17] ---**
There was a woman who
was dying from some kind of curse.
**[15:22] ---**
A powerless, nobody of a person,
who could do nothing but smile
**[15:27] ---**
while she watched
death close in around her.
**[15:32] ---**
If I couldn't even
help this nobody of a person,
**[15:35] ---**
then there was no "can do
anything" or "not want any setbacks."
**[15:42] ---**
So for this nobody of a woman,
how could I bring any harm to the dream
**[15:46] ---**
that I had been so
carefully fostering up until now?
**[15:58] ---**
Surely it was not for
that nobody of a woman.
**[16:01] ---**
By no means was it because
of that nobody of a woman!
**[16:05] ---**
You're wrong.
**[16:07] ---**
I can tell. Your Azusa Yumi bow's
power has been amplified too much,
**[16:12] ---**
and your mind is
slipping back within me.
**[16:15] ---**
That's why I know.
**[16:17] ---**
You were simply
in love with that woman.
**[16:21] ---**
That's precisely why you
risked your life to save her.
**[16:25] ---**
You hurt others and had to commit
that sin in order to save her.
**[16:30] ---**
That's why you didn't want
to put the blame on that woman.
**[16:34] ---**
That's why you
must not meet this fate!
**[16:37] ---**
Relying on some
grimy grimoire is not the way!
**[16:46] ---**
Toma!
**[16:57] ---**
Toma! Toma!
**[16:59] ---**
Geez, you really had me worried.
**[17:01] ---**
Toma, I'm hungry!
**[17:03] ---**
I'll feed you until you're full later on.
**[17:05] ---**
Toma!
**[17:06] ---**
Is this wrong?
**[17:08] ---**
Is wanting to protect someone,
even in exchange for my own life,
**[17:14] ---**
something that is wrong?!
**[17:24] ---**
Well of course it's wrong.
**[17:32] ---**
You know, don't you,
**[17:34] ---**
how painful it is to have
someone dear to you die on you?
**[17:38] ---**
To have someone suffer,
and be in pain, right before your eyes,
**[17:42] ---**
but there's nothing you can do.
**[17:46] ---**
You know the grief of being
powerless to do anything, don't you?
**[17:51] ---**
You had to have panicked.
It had to have pained you.
**[17:54] ---**
It had to have grieved you.
It had to have hurt you.
**[17:56] ---**
It had to have scared you.
It had to have shaken you.
**[17:58] ---**
It had to have made you scream.
It had to have made you shed tears.
**[18:01] ---**
Which is why it's wrong!
**[18:02] ---**
An intense shock like that
**[18:04] ---**
is not something you
can push on someone else!
**[18:19] ---**
Of all the...
**[18:22] ---**
After reading just
one volume, look at me...
**[18:25] ---**
It's no wonder that a tiny vessel
such as myself found it impossible
**[18:29] ---**
to obtain even a single
volume of the original text.
**[18:36] ---**
My life has been nothing but
a series of setbacks.
**[18:39] ---**
Three times now,
I've given up on my life.
**[18:44] ---**
But even so, there was
something I couldn't give up on.
**[18:49] ---**
It was all for the sake of one thing...
**[19:11] ---**
Ow! Ow!
**[19:12] ---**
What makes you think you can
bring a tidy end to the matter like that?
**[19:16] ---**
That's for my summer vacation homework.
**[19:19] ---**
Sheesh, thanks to you,
my homework is beyond hope now!
**[19:23] ---**
Now then, where is this
person who's so dear to you?
**[19:29] ---**
What?
**[19:30] ---**
We can manage something without
using the List of Prohibited Books.
**[19:36] ---**
Huh?
**[19:37] ---**
You saw my right hand, didn't you?
**[19:39] ---**
I'm not a magician,
so I don't know how bad a curse is,
**[19:44] ---**
but by using this, that curse
will vanish in one shot, won't it?
**[19:49] ---**
Th-That's... ridiculous...
**[19:52] ---**
I'm not so sure, myself,
but that's the way my right hand is.
**[19:59] ---**
Now then, why don't you show us the way?
**[20:03] ---**
I promise you,
we'll help this person you love.
**[20:06] ---**
For that to happen,
we'll need your cooperation.
**[20:09] ---**
So whatever it takes,
you're going to help us.
**[20:12] ---**
You want to help her, don't you?
With your own two hands?
**[20:22] ---**
For crying out loud, now I'm
at the mercy of a magical curse,
**[20:25] ---**
something I don't know anything about.
**[20:28] ---**
Let's all go there together,
**[20:31] ---**
and kill that good-for-nothing fantasy!
**[20:34] ---**
*I can change even the
destiny that entwines me*
**[20:41] ---**
*so I have everything in my hand!*
**[20:58] ---**
*If I lack the power to
not be outdone by anyone*
**[21:05] ---**
*I can always destroy that illusion*
**[21:10] ---**
*The laid out system
backup install is okay*
**[21:16] ---**
*Fields unknown even
to God become opened*
**[21:22] ---**
*It's a "living form" that not even data*
**[21:27] ---**
*from 100,000 memories
in a moment's miracle can infer*
**[21:34] ---**
*In a Magic∞world exciting
time or space there's no limit*
**[21:40] ---**
*I want the power it
takes to protect somebody*
**[21:45] ---**
*I can change even
the destiny that entwines me*
**[21:53] ---**
*so I have everything in my hand!*
**[22:38] ---**
"little sister"
**[22:45] ---**
Do you even know...
**[22:48] ---**
...just who it is... that you attacked...?
**[22:56] ---**
For Pete's sake...
**[22:57] ---**
Imagine, England's vaunted knighthood,
**[23:00] ---**
brought down like this.
**[23:03] ---**
Did you come to stop me?
**[23:05] ---**
I was never told to stop you, personally,
**[23:09] ---**
and I have my own task to take care of.
**[23:11] ---**
That would be on whose orders,
**[23:13] ---**
the English Puritan Church,
or Academy City?
**[23:16] ---**
Good question.
**[23:18] ---**
Well, if you use your common sense,
I think you'd know right away.
**[23:21] ---**
That is, if you consider whose spy I am,
you'd know right away.
**[23:30] ---**
I'm leaving now. If you wish to
report to your superiors, feel free.
**[23:35] ---**
Oh, yeah? Ah, I'll just retrieve this bunch.
**[23:38] ---**
I owe you one.
**[23:41] ---**
So anyway, what did you come
all the way here from England for?
**[23:49] ---**
Good question.
**[23:55] ---**
"Preview"
**[23:55] ---**
Index is suddenly taken away.
**[23:57] ---**
A giant conspiracy is being
carried on outside Academy City.
**[24:00] ---**
What is the true purpose of
the group targeting Orsola Aquinas?
**[24:04] ---**
Next time, "The Book of the Law."
**[24:05] ---**
When science and magic cross
paths, the story begins.
**[24:09] ---**
# 26 - The Book of Law
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GRVNZK5PY/a-certain-magical-index)
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**[00:34] ---**
Archbishop!
**[00:36] ---**
I told you...
**[00:37] ---**
...call me not by that name.
**[00:41] ---**
In a place like this, without an escort?
**[00:44] ---**
If you wish to speak, can we
not do it at St. George's Cathedral?
**[00:48] ---**
I shall not e'er be confined
within that old minster.
**[00:53] ---**
We shall speak as we walk.
**[00:56] ---**
Well, I suppose that will do.
**[00:59] ---**
Such a wee lad, are you, Stiyl?
**[01:01] ---**
Or perchance you cannot indulge
yourself to walk alongside me?
**[01:07] ---**
Laura Stuart, may I ask you a question?
**[01:10] ---**
How rigid of you. What is it?
**[01:12] ---**
Why is it that you speak in
such a ridiculous manner as you do?
**[01:18] ---**
Eh?
**[01:20] ---**
Uh, huh? Is it strange?
**[01:23] ---**
I even went and checked
with an actual Japanese person!
**[01:26] ---**
And who exactly would that be?
**[01:29] ---**
Someone named Tsuchimikado Motoharu.
**[01:32] ---**
Please, don't take him to
be a standard Japanese person.
**[01:43] ---**
A communications talisman?
**[01:45] ---**
You know of the name
"The Book of the Law" right?
**[01:48] ---**
The grimoire name?
Its author, as I recall,
**[01:52] ---**
is Edward Alexander.
The original text is said to be
**[01:55] ---**
in the Roman Orthodox
Church's Vatican Library.
**[01:59] ---**
However, it is said
that no one can decipher it.
**[02:02] ---**
Not even the List of Prohibited Books,
**[02:05] ---**
who has memorized the 103,000 volumes.
**[02:08] ---**
What if someone who can decipher
"The Book of the Law" came forward?
**[02:12] ---**
What?!
**[02:16] ---**
Shh!
**[02:18] ---**
This person is said to be a Roman
Orthodox nun, named Orsola Aquinas.
**[02:24] ---**
You mean, "The Book of the Law"
**[02:26] ---**
has become an instrument
in the power struggle?
**[02:27] ---**
It's all right. Not yet, at least.
**[02:33] ---**
"The Book of the Law" and Orsola Aquinas--
**[02:36] ---**
the two of them have reportedly
been made off with together.
**[02:40] ---**
Shall we discuss the matter
in greater detail inside?
**[03:03] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[03:07] ---**
*Yubi de hajiku koin mitsumeta*
**[03:12] ---**
*Omote nara GO Ura wa STAY*
**[03:16] ---**
*Mazu kotae wo kikasete*
**[03:22] ---**
*"Douka oshiete kuremasen ka?"*
**[03:27] ---**
*Tenshi wa misadameru egao no mama*
**[03:38] ---**
*Mayoe! Sono te wo hiku mono nado inai*
**[03:43] ---**
*Kami ga kudasu sono kotae wa fukou datta*
**[03:48] ---**
*Sou sore koso kami kara no okurimono*
**[03:54] ---**
*Norikoetara miete kuru sa dakara ima sugu
(Look for it by oneself, no buts about it)*
**[04:01] ---**
*No buts!*
**[04:16] ---**
"#02 The Book of the Law"
**[04:19] ---**
Second term is a busy one.
**[04:22] ---**
With the Daihasei Festival,
the Ichihanaran Festival,
**[04:25] ---**
the Arts Appreciation Festival,
and the Field Trip Festival,
**[04:27] ---**
it's a festival-apalooza, you know?
**[04:31] ---**
Ah! Sphinx, are you okay?
**[04:34] ---**
Still, I've got nothing to do!
I'm bored! It's no fun!
**[04:37] ---**
Toma doesn't ever play with me!
**[04:40] ---**
Kamijo Toma must have
Kamijo Toma's own reasons.
**[04:44] ---**
It's not as though he's tied up
with school because he wants to be.
**[04:49] ---**
Maika, how come *you're
*not tied up with school?
**[04:54] ---**
I'm the exception.
**[04:56] ---**
The fundamentals of a maid's
studies are practical, after all.
**[05:00] ---**
Well, I'll become a maid, too!
**[05:03] ---**
Then maybe I'll go visit Toma's class.
**[05:07] ---**
Hmm... a maid has a tough road to follow.
**[05:10] ---**
It's too hard for a girl who
has zero housekeeping skills.
**[05:15] ---**
Ah! Then, I'll make Toma a maid!
**[05:20] ---**
Then, maybe I'll have Toma come visit!
**[05:23] ---**
You'd be kind not to say
what you just said to Kamijo Toma.
**[05:30] ---**
Mm-hmm, you're right.
**[05:36] ---**
I'm sorry,
**[05:39] ---**
but there's no time
for you to become a maid,
**[05:41] ---**
nor for you to make him a maid.
**[05:47] ---**
"The Daihasei Festival is coming soon"
**[05:49] ---**
"The Daihasei Festival--
**[05:51] ---**
a giant field day that all of
Academy City's schools take part in.
**[05:55] ---**
Its purpose is to observe the
large-scale interaction of espers.
**[06:00] ---**
It is the one day that the
full-strength use of abilities is urged."
**[06:12] ---**
I, Kamijo Toma,
**[06:14] ---**
have lost my memories
due to certain circumstances...
**[06:18] ---**
...and I do not even remember
an event as big as this one.
**[06:35] ---**
Now then,
**[06:36] ---**
what should we have for dinner?
**[06:38] ---**
K-K-Kamijo Toma!
**[06:46] ---**
It's an emergency!
**[06:48] ---**
The silver-haired Sister
has been taken away by someone!
**[06:52] ---**
Huh?
**[06:52] ---**
I'm telling you, kidnapping! Abduction!
**[06:56] ---**
Just a second. What do you mean?
**[06:58] ---**
The kidnapper gave me
this for when you came home.
**[07:05] ---**
"Kamijo Toma...
**[07:07] ---**
...If you value her life,
**[07:10] ---**
come to the site of the abandoned
playhouse "Twilight Theater"
**[07:12] ---**
outside of Academy City
tonight at 7:00. Come alone."
**[07:17] ---**
So then, tell me what
this dumbass looked like.
**[07:20] ---**
Uh... first of all,
he was over 180cm tall.
**[07:24] ---**
His hair was a deep red, and he
had a barcode under his right eye.
**[07:29] ---**
He had a cigarette in his mouth,
and lots of piercings in his ears.
**[07:32] ---**
Uh, it's okay, Maika.
**[07:34] ---**
This criminal is someone
Index and I both know.
**[07:36] ---**
The criminal is someone you know?!
**[07:38] ---**
Is love gone wrong the motive?!
**[07:41] ---**
Uh, no... not the way you mean.
**[07:46] ---**
"Exit Pass"
**[07:48] ---**
An exit... pass?
**[07:53] ---**
I believe you understand
the situation now.
**[07:57] ---**
Mm-hmm. "The Book of the Law"
has been taken away by someone,
**[08:01] ---**
and the one who can decipher it,
Orsola Aquinas, has been taken, too.
**[08:06] ---**
The culprit appears
to be the Amakusa Church.
**[08:12] ---**
How did they get it out of
the drum-tight Vatican Library?
**[08:17] ---**
The Roman Orthodox Church
was moving the Book of the Law
**[08:20] ---**
to a museum in Japan.
**[08:22] ---**
This is absurd!
Something as dangerous as that?!
**[08:26] ---**
So, is the Roman Orthodox
Church sounding out
**[08:29] ---**
the English Puritan Church for assistance?
**[08:32] ---**
No. More importantly,
something unpleasant has come up.
**[08:36] ---**
What is it?
**[08:39] ---**
We cannot reach Kanzaki Kaori.
**[08:43] ---**
Kanzaki was once the
head of the Amakusa Church.
**[08:47] ---**
If she finds out that Amakusa
**[08:48] ---**
is at odds with the
Roman Orthodox Church...
**[08:51] ---**
I would like to have this resolved
before Kanzaki steps in it.
**[08:57] ---**
I do not care what methods you use.
**[09:01] ---**
Kanzaki is one of not even
twenty saints in the whole world.
**[09:07] ---**
You don't mean,
**[09:08] ---**
you want me to fight Kanzaki?
**[09:10] ---**
If the situation calls for it.
**[09:13] ---**
Go contact Academy City for me.
**[09:18] ---**
Stiyl, take this with you.
**[09:26] ---**
What is this?
**[09:27] ---**
I suppose you might call it
a modest little gift for Orsola.
**[09:34] ---**
The List of Prohibited Books...
**[09:37] ---**
We're going to need a specialist, right?
**[09:44] ---**
Why are you dragging Toma into this?
**[09:47] ---**
I don't know. Why should
I have to deal with that guy?
**[09:51] ---**
So then, are we going to
the Amakusa's main headquarters?
**[09:54] ---**
No, the situation has changed somewhat.
**[10:08] ---**
Damn...
**[10:10] ---**
Where is this "Twilight Theater"?
**[10:15] ---**
I don't know anywhere
outside of Academy City.
**[10:24] ---**
A Sister...?
**[10:27] ---**
She couldn't be someone
who knows Index, could she?
**[10:32] ---**
Pardon me...
**[10:34] ---**
Yes? What is it?
**[10:36] ---**
Is this the right bus to get
on if I'm headed to Academy City?
**[10:42] ---**
Academy City?
**[10:43] ---**
No, there are no buses
going to Academy City.
**[10:47] ---**
Huh?
**[10:48] ---**
And not just buses.
**[10:50] ---**
All modes of transportation
from outside have been discontinued.
**[10:52] ---**
There's a gate over there,
so if you'll walk over to it...
**[10:59] ---**
Thank you for taking
the trouble to help me out.
**[11:02] ---**
I said not to get on the bus!
**[11:04] ---**
Oh, right. So you did.
**[11:08] ---**
Like I said, walk over there
and go in through the gate. Got it?
**[11:13] ---**
I am sorry to have bothered you.
**[11:16] ---**
Y-Yeah... Huh?
**[11:19] ---**
Hey, you! You just smiled at
me and pretended to listen, huh?!
**[11:29] ---**
You look like there
is something upsetting you.
**[11:33] ---**
Oh, no, it's nothing.
**[11:38] ---**
Pardon me for saying so,
but you are sweating an awful lot.
**[11:43] ---**
Th-Thank you! B-By the way,
why do you want to go to Academy City?
**[11:51] ---**
Well, as it happens, I...
**[11:55] ---**
...am being pursued.
**[11:57] ---**
Huh? Pursued?
**[12:01] ---**
The situation is a mess.
**[12:04] ---**
Our information is
becoming snarled, too.
**[12:06] ---**
We don't even know whether or
not the Book of the Law is secure.
**[12:10] ---**
I should introduce myself first.
**[12:12] ---**
I am Agnese Sanctis,
of the Roman Orthodox Church.
**[12:17] ---**
Indeed. So, how is the
Amakusa group proceeding?
**[12:23] ---**
Actually, we haven't
precisely analyzed it ourselves.
**[12:27] ---**
One of Amakusa's distinctive
features is their secrecy.
**[12:31] ---**
Amakusa doesn't use overt
incantations or magical arrays.
**[12:35] ---**
All of their rituals and processes
**[12:37] ---**
are concealed within
normal mannerisms or behaviors,
**[12:41] ---**
so not even a professional
magician can tell who they are.
**[12:47] ---**
Hmph, troublesome bunch.
**[12:49] ---**
Ah, it's Toma!
**[12:55] ---**
Orsola Aquinas?!
**[12:55] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[13:00] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[13:04] ---**
What's the big idea?!
**[13:05] ---**
Why did you pretend to kidnap her?
**[13:08] ---**
Oh, the secret's out?
**[13:11] ---**
You see, we needed your help to
find someone who has gone missing.
**[13:15] ---**
Find someone?
**[13:16] ---**
Yeah, it's all right, it's all right.
**[13:19] ---**
If you'll just turn the Sister
standing next to you over to us...
**[13:23] ---**
Huh?
**[13:24] ---**
You see...
**[13:26] ---**
...that Sister there is our
missing person, Orsola Aquinas.
**[13:31] ---**
Right then, good work.
You're free to go now.
**[13:36] ---**
Um, what do I get for
walking around out in the sun?
**[13:41] ---**
I told you, you did good work, didn't I?
**[13:43] ---**
What, do you want me to buy
you a shaved ice, or something?
**[13:47] ---**
Look, up to now,
**[13:49] ---**
I've tried to get along with you,
even knowing we don't hit it off.
**[13:54] ---**
Yeah, right up until this moment!
**[13:58] ---**
By any chance, are you
asking for more attention?
**[14:01] ---**
Unfortunately, I can't soothe
your loneliness, nor do I want to.
**[14:06] ---**
Now turn over Orsola to Agnese at once.
**[14:10] ---**
Come to think of it, you said you
were being pursued by someone.
**[14:14] ---**
What's the matter, Orsola?
**[14:16] ---**
Oh, no, I can't have you
handing her over so easily.
**[14:21] ---**
Orsola Aquinas,
**[14:23] ---**
rather than returning to
the Roman Orthodox Church,
**[14:26] ---**
you will live a more meaningful
life with us among the Amakusa.
**[14:31] ---**
Amakusa?!
**[14:35] ---**
Orsola!
**[14:37] ---**
You can't, Toma!
**[14:41] ---**
In my hand, flame.
**[14:44] ---**
Its form, a sword. Its purpose...
**[14:49] ---**
Looks like I'm too late.
**[14:57] ---**
Hey, Stiyl, you're going to
explain all this from the top, right?
**[15:01] ---**
An explanation?
**[15:03] ---**
That's something I wish *I* had.
**[15:10] ---**
"Theater of the Arts"
"Twilight Theater"
**[15:11] ---**
The Book of the Law
**[15:13] ---**
is a grimoire written in a code
that no one in the world can break.
**[15:17] ---**
It's said that if it ever were deciphered,
**[15:20] ---**
one could obtain absolute power.
**[15:23] ---**
Tell me...
**[15:25] ---**
...is it really all that valuable?
**[15:27] ---**
They even say that if it is ever used,
**[15:29] ---**
it would mean the end of the world
**[15:32] ---**
ruled by the church of the cross as it is now.
**[15:34] ---**
Why not just burn the book?
**[15:36] ---**
Grimoires are books that cannot be burned.
**[15:39] ---**
It's all that can be done
just to keep them sealed.
**[15:48] ---**
Oh, um... I'd like to
explain what is going on,
**[15:53] ---**
so if you're ready--
**[15:57] ---**
Toma!
**[16:13] ---**
Hey! No! Stop! Get away!
**[16:16] ---**
Toma!
**[16:17] ---**
I think that goes beyond mere teasing!
**[16:21] ---**
Stop getting frisky while we're working!
**[16:26] ---**
At present, Orsola Aquinas
is definitely in Amakusa hands.
**[16:33] ---**
It is estimated that the number
of Amakusa involved in this incident
**[16:36] ---**
is less than fifty.
**[16:38] ---**
There is also the possibility
that they are now above ground.
**[16:41] ---**
In other words,
we don't know anything, do we?
**[16:44] ---**
Going from the traces of
magical power left,
**[16:46] ---**
we are tracking
Amakusa's tendencies...
**[16:49] ---**
Amakusa is a group that
specializes in hiding and fleeing.
**[16:53] ---**
It will not be easy to catch them.
**[16:55] ---**
Still, there is no way
they can break out of our net.
**[16:59] ---**
Their specialized transfer technique,
**[17:01] ---**
"Microcosmic Pilgrimage."
**[17:04] ---**
It's a process that is limited
to use within Japan, though.
**[17:07] ---**
Put simply, using map magic,
**[17:09] ---**
there are forty-seven specialized
vortices across Japan,
**[17:12] ---**
and they can freely
come and go between them.
**[17:16] ---**
If they send her through
a vortex, it's all over.
**[17:19] ---**
What are we just standing around for?!
**[17:21] ---**
Because there is no need to hurry.
**[17:23] ---**
Huh?
**[17:24] ---**
Microcosmic Pilgrimages are greatly
affected by the movement of stars.
**[17:29] ---**
They can only use their
specialized movement at certain times.
**[17:33] ---**
The restriction on their
use of the transport technique
**[17:36] ---**
won't be lifted until just after midnight,
**[17:38] ---**
so we still have about four
and a half hours to work with.
**[17:41] ---**
Also... Toma, can I borrow
your gizmo with the map?
**[17:45] ---**
Oh, sure...
**[17:50] ---**
There.
**[17:52] ---**
There is only one vortex
they can use within our network.
**[17:57] ---**
Right here.
**[18:04] ---**
Well then...
**[18:06] ---**
...is there anything I can do to help?
**[18:09] ---**
And after I deliberately told you
**[18:12] ---**
to check and double-check!
**[18:14] ---**
Right, I'm sorry.
**[18:16] ---**
Looks like Sisters
have their troubles, too.
**[18:23] ---**
This must be Index's tent.
**[18:27] ---**
Huh? She's not here.
**[18:29] ---**
Geez, where did she go--
**[18:33] ---**
Over there?!
**[18:35] ---**
Damn it!
**[18:37] ---**
Index!
**[18:39] ---**
The Amakusa!
**[18:46] ---**
H-Hang on...
**[18:48] ---**
Over there, over there...
**[18:53] ---**
Oh, it's just a slug, isn't it?
**[18:57] ---**
A-A slug...?
**[18:59] ---**
H-Hey!
**[19:00] ---**
Get hold of yourself!
**[19:02] ---**
Toma?
**[19:12] ---**
N-No, I... was sure that the
Amakusa were attacking... and...
**[19:24] ---**
Eh?
**[19:25] ---**
H-Hold on! Take it easy, Index!
**[19:32] ---**
This isn't like you!
**[19:35] ---**
Normally, this isn't
what you'd do, right?
**[19:38] ---**
You usually just go ahead and...
**[19:46] ---**
Hey, Stiyl...
**[19:49] ---**
What? I'm extremely irritated right now.
**[19:53] ---**
Got any girls that you like?
**[19:56] ---**
Well, Stiyl?
**[19:59] ---**
I have respect
for Queen Elizabeth I,
**[20:02] ---**
and my taste in women
is along the lines of St. Martha.
**[20:07] ---**
The Amakusa Church is that one, right?
**[20:10] ---**
The one Kanzaki Kaori was in before?
**[20:12] ---**
Who told you that? Tsuchimikado?
**[20:15] ---**
If that's so, then the
Amakusa are friends of Kanzaki's right?
**[20:20] ---**
Even so, you're gonna fight them?
**[20:24] ---**
Yes, I am.
**[20:26] ---**
You see, I've made up my mind
to do anything to protect that girl.
**[20:31] ---**
As such, I will kill
anyone. I'll burn them alive.
**[20:35] ---**
And I'll keep burning up their corpse.
**[20:38] ---**
I swore that a long time ago.
**[20:41] ---**
Even supposing she
has forgotten everything,
**[20:44] ---**
I haven't forgotten a single thing.
**[20:46] ---**
"I will live and die for you."
**[20:52] ---**
Go to sleep now.
**[21:02] ---**
Stiyl?
**[21:04] ---**
No, it isn't, which means...
**[21:07] ---**
H-Hey, hold on, Index...!
**[21:11] ---**
What, Toma?
**[21:14] ---**
Huh? Agnese?!
**[21:17] ---**
Papa...
**[21:18] ---**
Papa?
**[21:25] ---**
It's a dream...
**[21:27] ---**
This is a dream, so no matter
how much I bite Toma, it's okay...
**[21:32] ---**
I can work out all of the
day's displeasures, and it's okay...!
**[21:37] ---**
J-Just a minute, Index.
This is without any doubt real life!
**[21:42] ---**
Just my luck!
**[21:59] ---**
Your Holiness...
**[22:02] ---**
All preparations for the
Microcosmic Pilgrimage are complete.
**[22:06] ---**
Now then...
**[22:10] ---**
Kanzaki Kaori,
let me show you something--
**[22:14] ---**
the current shape of
the multilateral compound
**[22:19] ---**
integrated church of
the cross, the Amakusa Church!
**[22:25] ---**
*Karamatta unmei mo kaete ikeru kara*
**[22:32] ---**
*subete wa kono te no naka ni aru!*
**[22:49] ---**
*Dare nimo makenai chikara ga koko ni nai nara*
**[22:55] ---**
*imajin nante kowashite shimaeba ii*
**[23:01] ---**
*Harimeguru shisutemu bakkappu insutooru wa OK*
**[23:07] ---**
*Kami sae mo shirienai fiirudo ga hiraku*
**[23:13] ---**
*Juuman no deeta mo isshun no mirakuru sae*
**[23:18] ---**
*suisoku fukanou na "ikite'ru katachi" dakara*
**[23:25] ---**
*In a Magic∞world exciting
time or space there's no limit*
**[23:30] ---**
*Dareka wo mamoreru chikara ga hoshii*
**[23:36] ---**
*Karamatta unmei mo kaete ikeru kara*
**[23:44] ---**
*subete wa kono te no naka ni aru!*
**[23:55] ---**
"Preview"
**[23:55] ---**
We head to the vortex, together with the Roman Orthodox Church.
**[23:58] ---**
After a fierce fight,
Tatemiya Saiji reveals a bombshell truth.
**[24:02] ---**
And as for Orsola...
**[24:04] ---**
Next time, "The Amakusa Church."
**[24:06] ---**
When science and magic cross
paths, the story begins.
**[24:09] ---**
# 27 - The Amakusa Church
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GRVNZK5PY/a-certain-magical-index)
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**[00:35] ---**
We located the main Amakusa
force in Parallel Sweets Park.
**[00:40] ---**
However, we were unable to find
the Book of the Law, or Orsola.
**[00:44] ---**
You don't think that Orsola has been...
**[00:48] ---**
The Amakusa's first objective
**[00:50] ---**
is to have Orsola tell them how
to decipher the Book of the Law.
**[00:53] ---**
As long as they are fixated
on the Book of the Law,
**[00:56] ---**
Orsola will conversely be safe.
**[00:58] ---**
Okay.
**[01:00] ---**
We will act as a decoy,
and charge the Amakusa head-on.
**[01:04] ---**
Meanwhile, you will
search inside the park,
**[01:07] ---**
and if you're able to identify
the Book of the Law or Orsola,
**[01:10] ---**
please take them into custody.
**[01:12] ---**
Unless we destroy the vortex
for their special transport method,
**[01:15] ---**
they may be able
to get away with Orsola.
**[01:17] ---**
We cannot destroy the vortex
itself until it opens at 00:00 hours.
**[01:22] ---**
The vortex's effective time,
which is to say, our time limit,
**[01:25] ---**
is only five minutes, right?
**[01:27] ---**
Mm-hmm.
**[01:28] ---**
If 00:05 hours passes,
and you haven't found them,
**[01:31] ---**
please get out of there.
**[01:33] ---**
After we have neutralized the Amakusa,
**[01:36] ---**
we will personally search the park ourselves.
**[01:39] ---**
Searching for the Book of the Law,
Orsola, and destroying the vortex...
**[01:44] ---**
Sounds like we'll be
on quite a tight schedule.
**[02:01] ---**
This is unforgivable.
**[02:03] ---**
The church of the
cross's original purpose
**[02:06] ---**
was to help others,
and that is how it spread.
**[02:09] ---**
But to turn that around, and use
force to do something like this...
**[02:34] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[02:38] ---**
*I gazed at the coin I had flipped*
**[02:43] ---**
*If it's heads I go, tails I stay*
**[02:47] ---**
*Let me know your answer first*
**[02:53] ---**
*"Please, won't you tell me?"*
**[02:58] ---**
*But the angel continued to smile in discernment*
**[03:09] ---**
*Wander on! There's nobody
to lead you by the hand*
**[03:14] ---**
*The answer handed down
from God is one of woe*
**[03:19] ---**
*Yes, that is what your gift from God is*
**[03:25] ---**
*Once you overcome it, you'll start to see, so right now...
(Look for it by oneself, no buts about it)*
**[03:32] ---**
*No buts!*
**[03:52] ---**
Hey, Stiyl...
**[03:54] ---**
What?
**[03:55] ---**
Do you think we can really finish
our whole job in the time we have?
**[04:00] ---**
Honestly, it will be tight.
**[04:04] ---**
The truth is, there's one piece
of information that I did not give
**[04:06] ---**
to the Roman Orthodox Church.
**[04:08] ---**
Huh?
**[04:10] ---**
Kanzaki Kaori is supposed to
be in England, but she vanished.
**[04:13] ---**
Kanzaki?
**[04:15] ---**
She's probably acting out of concern
**[04:17] ---**
for her one-time subordinates--
I mean, colleagues.
**[04:20] ---**
If Amakusa is trying
to inflict critical damage,
**[04:24] ---**
that saint of theirs
may come attacking.
**[04:27] ---**
So don't go believing we will
successfully finish our whole job.
**[04:30] ---**
Then...
**[04:33] ---**
Then, Orsola is our top priority?
**[04:37] ---**
It doesn't make any difference.
Without someone to decode it,
**[04:41] ---**
the Book of the Law
is of no worldly use.
**[04:44] ---**
I think that works, too.
**[04:46] ---**
I've decided to barge in, too,
even if you say I can't come, Toma.
**[04:50] ---**
There's already so few of us as it is,
**[04:52] ---**
so we're going to
have to stick together, huh?
**[04:55] ---**
All right.
**[04:57] ---**
Thanks, man.
**[04:59] ---**
Don't say anything
so disgustingly dispiriting
**[05:01] ---**
just before we charge in there!
**[05:05] ---**
The diversion has begun.
**[05:06] ---**
Let's go.
**[05:19] ---**
Get down!
**[05:27] ---**
Kamijo Toma!
**[05:29] ---**
Take this!
**[05:31] ---**
What is it?
**[05:32] ---**
If you want to stay alive,
carry that on your person!
**[05:34] ---**
Huh? Whoa!
**[05:36] ---**
Toma!
**[05:44] ---**
Stiyl! Index!
**[05:46] ---**
Wait, if we're running away,
**[05:48] ---**
don't we usually need
to decide on a signal first?
**[05:51] ---**
What, have I ended
up as the decoy again?!
**[06:12] ---**
Why would Stiyl give me this?
**[06:49] ---**
Are Index and Stiyl all right?
**[06:52] ---**
Where on earth is Orsola?
**[07:07] ---**
Orsola?
**[07:14] ---**
Ah! You are the one
I met at the bus stop.
**[07:18] ---**
Why are you someplace
as dangerous as this?
**[07:21] ---**
Because I came
to rescue you, of course.
**[07:23] ---**
Huh? Um, are you really here to
rescue a complete stranger like me?
**[07:29] ---**
Yeah.
**[07:31] ---**
Without any regard
for the Book of the Law?
**[07:33] ---**
I don't care what happens
to that information.
**[07:36] ---**
That is, do I look like
the sort of curiosity seeker
**[07:39] ---**
who would come to a place
like this for some old book?
**[07:42] ---**
Oh... then thank you for your kindness.
**[07:47] ---**
Be that as it may,
what are *you* doing here?
**[07:50] ---**
Oh, yes...
**[07:52] ---**
I took advantage of the confusion
and managed to slip out somehow.
**[07:57] ---**
Hmm...
**[08:05] ---**
Th-Thank you very much.
But how did you do that?
**[08:11] ---**
Hmm, that's just
the sort of ability I have...
**[08:16] ---**
It will just complicate things,
so I'll skip the awkward explanation.
**[08:23] ---**
She couldn't have gotten far. Find her.
**[08:31] ---**
It sounds like they're looking for you.
**[08:33] ---**
Uh-huh.
**[08:35] ---**
Word is that they can't use
their special transport method
**[08:38] ---**
before 12:05, so I guess we
can hang out here until time is up.
**[08:42] ---**
Oh my...
**[08:47] ---**
You could catch
yourself a summer cold.
**[08:51] ---**
Oh, yeah...
**[08:54] ---**
Incidentally, are you involved
with the Roman Orthodox Church?
**[08:58] ---**
Well, I do have a
friend who's English Puritan.
**[09:02] ---**
Then you are saying that
you are not Roman Orthodox,
**[09:05] ---**
but are tied to the
English Puritans instead?
**[09:08] ---**
N-No, I wouldn't say that.
**[09:14] ---**
Yes, indeed. A gentleman such
as yourself is obviously better off
**[09:21] ---**
not being involved in
the church world, like we are.
**[09:25] ---**
Hmm... I guess I couldn't help
but carry something like this, though.
**[09:31] ---**
My! Did you get that
from your English Puritan friend?
**[09:35] ---**
Mm-hmm. You can
hold onto it, if you'd like.
**[09:38] ---**
I don't know what it's worth, myself.
**[09:41] ---**
Are you sure about this?
**[09:43] ---**
Yeah.
**[09:46] ---**
I have just one favor to ask of you!
**[09:48] ---**
W-What?
**[09:50] ---**
Would you mind personally
placing this around my neck?
**[09:55] ---**
N-No, I don't mind.
**[10:10] ---**
Whatever is the matter?
**[10:12] ---**
N-Nothing at all.
**[10:33] ---**
Come to think of it, I hear you know
how to read the Book of the Law.
**[10:38] ---**
Not so much how to read it as
how to decipher its cryptography--
**[10:43] ---**
Huh? Oh, no, no!
**[10:45] ---**
I was just wondering why you
were investigating the Book of the Law.
**[10:49] ---**
It's a pretty dangerous book, right?
**[10:53] ---**
It is because I wanted power.
That much is without a doubt.
**[10:58] ---**
But the power of a grimoire
brings happiness to no one.
**[11:03] ---**
The only thing it gives rise
to is the conflict concerning it.
**[11:10] ---**
As such, I wanted to investigate
the grimoire's workings,
**[11:13] ---**
so that I would know how to destroy it.
**[11:23] ---**
Stiyl!
**[11:25] ---**
What are you... doing...?
**[11:27] ---**
Hurry... and get out of here...!
**[11:33] ---**
What are you doing,
English Puritan priest?
**[11:38] ---**
Well? Where has your
British gentleman's pride gone?
**[11:42] ---**
Let me, Tatemiya Saiji, see it.
**[11:44] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[11:50] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[11:53] ---**
That won't do. The way you fight,
**[11:56] ---**
you can't even defend a single girl.
**[12:06] ---**
You were protecting Index?
**[12:08] ---**
Don't make too much out of it.
**[12:11] ---**
Orsola Aquinas is
in custody. And, like always,
**[12:15] ---**
it's hard to judge whether
your luck is a blessing or not.
**[12:19] ---**
Like I've explained
to you again and again,
**[12:22] ---**
Orsola Aquinas, we have no
intention of bringing harm to you.
**[12:27] ---**
Indeed, I am aware that
your words were filled with hope.
**[12:33] ---**
I do not believe in
a peace that is professed
**[12:37] ---**
while weapons are being brandished.
**[12:39] ---**
What a shame.
**[12:41] ---**
You have little choice but to return
to the Roman Orthodox Church.
**[12:47] ---**
Hmph, unarmed, are you?
**[12:50] ---**
Did you take that sword from Uragami?
**[12:54] ---**
If you mean your subordinate,
she's lying over there.
**[12:57] ---**
The back of her head was
protected, so she's not dead.
**[13:00] ---**
Merely not being dead isn't enough.
Are you mocking me?!
**[13:06] ---**
If you're the sort of person who
is still there fighting for someone,
**[13:10] ---**
then would you put your sword away?
**[13:12] ---**
If possible, I don't want to
have to fight someone like you.
**[13:16] ---**
I wish like crazy that I could do that.
**[13:19] ---**
Our enemy is the Roman Orthodox
Church, but if you have ties to them,
**[13:25] ---**
then I cannot turn a blind
eye to the English Puritans!
**[13:28] ---**
Don't think it will be that easy.
**[13:30] ---**
You're gonna make me unhappy,
looking down at me like that, you know.
**[13:34] ---**
But if we must fight,
there's no other choice.
**[13:38] ---**
Today is your last day to live!
**[13:52] ---**
He vanished?!
**[13:58] ---**
Magic, huh? In that case...
**[13:59] ---**
No! You're wrong,
Toma! It's not magic--
**[14:03] ---**
Stay back, Index!
**[14:05] ---**
Primordial flame, whose meaning
is light, give me your sword,
**[14:08] ---**
whose gentle warmth protects,
and who bestows fierce judgment!
**[14:15] ---**
He moved?! Then it is magic!
**[14:20] ---**
Toma!
**[14:25] ---**
Do it!
**[14:27] ---**
Do it with me here, Stiyl!
**[14:37] ---**
My basic antishock
methods are already in place.
**[14:40] ---**
All I need to be
wary of is the flame sword.
**[14:43] ---**
Now to compose my technique...
**[15:26] ---**
Toma, Toma, are you all right?
**[15:28] ---**
You're not hurt anywhere?
Do you feel pain anywhere?
**[15:31] ---**
No, not really.
**[15:34] ---**
Really? Is it really nothing serious?
**[15:36] ---**
I'm fine. I'm fine, I say!
**[15:41] ---**
Okay, good.
**[15:43] ---**
That means...
**[15:44] ---**
Eh?
**[15:45] ---**
Now I can bite your
head as much as I like.
**[15:52] ---**
--Just who do you think you are, Toma?!
--Wait! Wait! All right!
**[15:54] ---**
--Going after a genuine magician with a huge sword...
--This time, I admit that I, Kamijo Toma,
**[15:57] ---**
--Going after a genuine magician with a huge sword...
--was wrong on all counts! Ee-yow!
**[16:04] ---**
Toma, you idiot. You daredevil.
**[16:06] ---**
U-Um, Miss Index...?
**[16:10] ---**
It's quiet, huh?
**[16:13] ---**
It's hard to believe that so many
people are running wild, isn't it?
**[16:17] ---**
You're right.
**[16:18] ---**
Hey...
**[16:19] ---**
I hate to ask, but could you take these off?
**[16:23] ---**
I can't just leave her by herself like this.
**[16:27] ---**
Huh? What are you saying?
**[16:29] ---**
Tell me, do you know what kind of treatment
**[16:32] ---**
she is going to get
from them after this is over?
**[16:35] ---**
Huh?
**[16:36] ---**
No, Toma, don't listen to him.
This man uses words as weapons.
**[16:41] ---**
She's gonna be killed!
**[16:45] ---**
Listen, do not turn her over
to the Roman Orthodox Church.
**[16:49] ---**
The Roman Orthodox Church's
true purpose is to kill her, you know.
**[16:53] ---**
You're the ones
who carried Orsola off, right?
**[16:56] ---**
Not to mention stole the Book of the Law!
**[16:58] ---**
We did not steal the Book of the Law.
**[17:01] ---**
Huh?
**[17:03] ---**
If the power of the
Book of the Law is used,
**[17:05] ---**
the age of the church of the
cross's rule will end that very day.
**[17:10] ---**
As such, do you think
we of the Amakusa church,
**[17:14] ---**
who are specialists in remaining hidden,
**[17:15] ---**
would want to obtain
such a conspicuous power?
**[17:19] ---**
The Roman Orthodox Church would.
**[17:21] ---**
You wouldn't think that they,
**[17:22] ---**
the largest sect of
the church of the cross,
**[17:24] ---**
would want the church of the
cross to come to an end, would you?
**[17:28] ---**
They have secretly decided
to eliminate Orsola Aquinas.
**[17:32] ---**
She also became aware of that,
and came to the Amakusa for help.
**[17:37] ---**
In other words,
the Book of the Law being stolen
**[17:40] ---**
is all just an act being put
on by the Roman Orthodox Church.
**[17:44] ---**
No. I still don't believe you.
**[17:47] ---**
Why not?
**[17:49] ---**
Supposing that everything
you told me is true,
**[17:52] ---**
then why did Orsola
run away from you?
**[18:01] ---**
You're the same.
**[18:02] ---**
The same?
**[18:04] ---**
Right up to the very end,
she wasn't able to believe us, either.
**[18:10] ---**
She said that we would seek the method
**[18:12] ---**
of decoding the Book
of the Law as a quid pro quo.
**[18:15] ---**
Then, for what reason
would you help Orsola?
**[18:18] ---**
There is no reason.
**[18:20] ---**
There was never one to begin with.
**[18:23] ---**
There was no reason?
**[18:26] ---**
We've gazed at the Priestess--
at *her* for a long time now.
**[18:32] ---**
Which is precisely why
we haven't strayed from the path,
**[18:35] ---**
haven't been mistaken in
the use of our force,
**[18:38] ---**
and have been led in the right direction.
**[18:42] ---**
Priestess? You mean Kanzaki?
**[18:44] ---**
Yeah. However,
**[18:47] ---**
we have destroyed all of her ways.
**[19:05] ---**
Our deaths--our immaturity
grieved the Priestess.
**[19:11] ---**
We must offer her a return to her place.
**[19:17] ---**
That is why we extended our hand
to Orsola Aquinas as she sought help.
**[19:25] ---**
Or... sola...
**[19:28] ---**
Did you say that
you were entrusting her
**[19:30] ---**
to the Roman Orthodox Church?
**[19:32] ---**
Not being Roman Orthodox,
she put her trust in you, didn't she?
**[19:38] ---**
Damn!
**[19:39] ---**
Don't be hasty!
**[19:42] ---**
The Roman Orthodox Church
cannot kill Orsola here and now.
**[19:47] ---**
What?
**[19:48] ---**
Given our situation,
I will no longer ask
**[19:52] ---**
whether or not you believe us.
**[19:54] ---**
Promise me that you
will take Orsola Aquinas
**[19:57] ---**
back from the Roman Orthodox Church,
**[19:59] ---**
and lead her someplace where
neither they nor we can reach her.
**[20:12] ---**
We are here to take charge of
the heretic mastermind.
**[20:16] ---**
Are you the enemy of God?
**[20:19] ---**
Hey, just a second.
**[20:22] ---**
What is it?
**[20:23] ---**
I want to see Orsola's face one more time.
**[20:27] ---**
Unfortunately, I must decline.
**[20:30] ---**
That scream a moment ago--that
was Orsola's voice, wasn't it?
**[20:33] ---**
Where's Agnese? She's over there, right?
**[20:38] ---**
Toma!
**[20:46] ---**
S-Sister Lucia!
**[20:48] ---**
We were told not to have
any casual contact with the guests!
**[20:51] ---**
Keep quiet, Sister Angelene!
**[20:53] ---**
Damn you heathen, placing your
festering hand on my shoulder...
**[20:56] ---**
my shoulder... my shoulder...
my shoulder!
**[20:59] ---**
Nothing feels worse!
Shall I say the Amakusa there resisted,
**[21:03] ---**
and have him
end up killing the rest of you?
**[21:05] ---**
In the meantime, once
we silence the other Amakusa...
**[21:11] ---**
Toma!
**[21:14] ---**
Sister Angelene...
**[21:16] ---**
R-Right!
**[21:18] ---**
Come forth, one
of the twelve Apostles,
**[21:20] ---**
publican, smiter of magicians,
and humble servant!
**[21:28] ---**
Index!
**[21:30] ---**
Damn!
**[21:31] ---**
You should worry more about yourself!
**[21:34] ---**
Worry that you will be
called home without any pain!
**[21:39] ---**
Sister Angelene! Are you...
**[21:42] ---**
N-No! It wasn't me!
**[21:45] ---**
CTRTTOP, AO!
**[21:55] ---**
Pretty sloppy! You don't
pay any mind to external matters,
**[21:59] ---**
which makes it easy to take control!
**[22:01] ---**
Spell Intercept?!
**[22:04] ---**
The order to retreat?
**[22:06] ---**
Sister Angelene!
**[22:09] ---**
R-Right!
**[22:14] ---**
Now you see, right?
**[22:16] ---**
This is how the greatest sect
in the church of the cross,
**[22:19] ---**
the Roman Orthodox Church,
acts behind the scenes!
**[22:25] ---**
*I can change even the
destiny that entwines me*
**[22:32] ---**
*so I have everything in my hand!*
**[22:49] ---**
*If I lack the power to
not be outdone by anyone*
**[22:55] ---**
*I can always destroy that illusion*
**[23:01] ---**
*The laid out system
backup install is okay*
**[23:07] ---**
*Fields unknown even
to God become opened*
**[23:13] ---**
*It's a "living form" that not even data*
**[23:18] ---**
*from 100,000 memories
in a moment's miracle can infer*
**[23:25] ---**
*In a Magic∞world exciting
time or space there's no limit*
**[23:31] ---**
*I want the power it
takes to protect somebody*
**[23:36] ---**
*I can change even
the destiny that entwines me*
**[23:44] ---**
*so I have everything in my hand!*
**[23:55] ---**
"Preview"
**[23:55] ---**
Enemy of God? Magicians' issues?
**[23:58] ---**
Are those any reasons to give up?
**[24:00] ---**
No matter what--no matter what,
I will help Orsola out.
**[24:04] ---**
Next time, "Sheol Fear."
**[24:06] ---**
When science and magic cross
paths, the story begins.
**[24:09] ---**
# 28 - Sheol Fear (Voice of the Magicbane)
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**[00:30] ---**
Toma!
**[00:33] ---**
Come forth, one of the twelve Apostles,
**[00:35] ---**
publican, smiter of magicians,
and humble servant!
**[00:42] ---**
Index!
**[00:44] ---**
Damn!
**[00:49] ---**
Sister Angelene! Are you...
**[00:51] ---**
N-No! It wasn't me!
**[00:54] ---**
CTRTTOP, AO!
**[01:04] ---**
Pretty sloppy! You don't
pay any mind to external matters,
**[01:08] ---**
which makes it easy to take control!
**[01:10] ---**
Spell Intercept?!
**[01:13] ---**
The order to retreat?
**[01:16] ---**
Sister Angelene!
**[01:18] ---**
R-Right!
**[01:23] ---**
Now you see, right?
**[01:25] ---**
This is how the greatest sect
in the church of the cross,
**[01:28] ---**
the Roman Orthodox Church,
acts behind the scenes!
**[01:48] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[01:52] ---**
*Yubi de hajiku koin mitsumeta*
**[01:57] ---**
*Omote nara GO Ura wa STAY*
**[02:01] ---**
*Mazu kotae wo kikasete*
**[02:07] ---**
*"Douka oshiete kuremasen ka?"*
**[02:12] ---**
*Tenshi wa misadameru egao no mama*
**[02:23] ---**
*Mayoe! Sono te wo hiku mono nado inai*
**[02:28] ---**
*Kami ga kudasu sono kotae wa fukou datta*
**[02:33] ---**
*Sou sore koso kami kara no okurimono*
**[02:39] ---**
*Norikoetara miete kuru sa dakara ima sugu
(Look for it by oneself, no buts about it)*
**[02:46] ---**
*No buts!*
**[03:01] ---**
"#04 Sheol Fear (Voice of the Magicbane)"
**[03:04] ---**
Even if everything the man says is true,
**[03:08] ---**
they are unlikely to kill
Orsola Aquinas right away.
**[03:12] ---**
They have their own
circumstances to deal with.
**[03:15] ---**
Circumstances such as what?
**[03:17] ---**
The deciphering
of the Book of the Law
**[03:19] ---**
poses a threat to
the Roman Orthodox Church,
**[03:21] ---**
but Orsola Aquinas
is not guilty of anything.
**[03:24] ---**
"Thou shalt not kill those
who believe the teachings of God."
**[03:28] ---**
Then, why were the Amakusa trying
to prevent Orsola's assassination?
**[03:33] ---**
Because there is an exception.
**[03:35] ---**
"Thou shalt not kill those
who believe the teachings of God."
**[03:39] ---**
If they conform to this rule,
**[03:41] ---**
it becomes okay to kill a person
who is expelled from the church,
**[03:45] ---**
as someone who does not
believe the teachings of God.
**[03:49] ---**
In other words, she's going to
be labeled as an enemy of God.
**[03:56] ---**
The power of a grimoire
brings happiness to no one.
**[04:01] ---**
The only thing it gives rise
to is the conflict concerning it.
**[04:08] ---**
Screw that!
**[04:09] ---**
Unfortunately, it's already over.
There's nothing more we can do.
**[04:15] ---**
What does that mean?!
What do you take a person's life for?!
**[04:19] ---**
This is nothing more than
the Roman Orthodox Church
**[04:22] ---**
trying a case that happened
among them by their own rules.
**[04:25] ---**
Or would you like to start
a war in order to save her?
**[04:32] ---**
Well...
**[04:34] ---**
Ah, young man,
don't be so depressed.
**[04:38] ---**
Even if the English Puritans have
no reason to fight, we have plenty.
**[04:43] ---**
I'll just drop on
over at those guys' base,
**[04:46] ---**
and as long as I'm
rescuing my own numbskulls,
**[04:48] ---**
I can save Sister Orsola, as well.
**[04:50] ---**
Don't tell me you're thinking of going alone.
**[04:55] ---**
If that's my only choice,
then that's what I'll do.
**[05:08] ---**
I guess that settles that.
**[05:11] ---**
Let's split up and go into hiding, too.
**[05:14] ---**
You take Index with you back to Academy City.
**[05:17] ---**
All right.
**[05:18] ---**
Oh...
**[05:20] ---**
Also, there's one
thing I wanted to ask you.
**[05:23] ---**
What's that?
**[05:24] ---**
That crucifix that I gave you before--
**[05:27] ---**
you don't appear to have it now, do you?
**[05:30] ---**
Oh, sorry. I let Orsola
hold it, and she still has it.
**[05:34] ---**
I hope it wasn't too expensive.
**[05:38] ---**
No, its value was
in having you carry it.
**[05:42] ---**
But it's okay. After all,
it's nothing you need right now.
**[05:49] ---**
Let's go.
**[05:50] ---**
Y-Yeah.
**[06:04] ---**
What am I supposed to do now?
**[06:07] ---**
Wasn't there anything
that I could have done, too?
**[06:12] ---**
These are all magicians' issues,
**[06:14] ---**
so you don't have to
impose yourself into them, Toma.
**[06:17] ---**
Maybe.
**[06:18] ---**
Everything else up to
now has been exceptional.
**[06:21] ---**
Nobody can solve every problem
**[06:23] ---**
that happens to occur in
front of them by themselves.
**[06:29] ---**
I guess.
**[06:43] ---**
Oh, right...
**[06:45] ---**
Our refrigerator is empty.
**[06:48] ---**
I'll go find a convenience store,
and buy us something or other.
**[06:51] ---**
If you're going to the store,
maybe we should all go together.
**[06:55] ---**
Do you know where it is?
**[06:57] ---**
Not really. If I run around there,
I should find it, though.
**[07:20] ---**
Orsola's Church?
**[07:21] ---**
Yes. Orsola Aquinas was successful
in spreading God's teachings
**[07:25] ---**
in three different heathen lands,
**[07:28] ---**
so she received special permission
to build a church bearing her name.
**[07:33] ---**
I'm sure it's around here someplace.
**[07:49] ---**
Sheesh. You know you
shouldn't make this difficult for us.
**[07:54] ---**
Unfortunately, we don't
have time for your fun and games.
**[07:58] ---**
Understand that, and take
your punishment without any trouble--
**[08:02] ---**
Are you listening to me?!
I said, are you listening to me?! Hey!
**[08:11] ---**
I must say, you don't have
many friends you can rely on, do you?
**[08:16] ---**
Imagine, seeking the
cooperation of the Amakusa
**[08:19] ---**
just as soon as you met with them!
**[08:22] ---**
The Amakusa, the English Puritans--
**[08:24] ---**
it's presumptuous for them to
even claim to be the church of the cross.
**[08:29] ---**
This is what you get for
trying to turn over your precious life
**[08:33] ---**
to the likes of them.
After just a little conciliation,
**[08:36] ---**
they were easily taken in, and good
enough to bring us our quarry.
**[08:40] ---**
Taken... in...?
**[08:43] ---**
You mean...
that you deceived... the others...?
**[08:49] ---**
Yeah.
**[08:50] ---**
Then it is not that... they worked
with you... You tricked them?
**[08:56] ---**
It doesn't matter either way, does it?!
**[08:59] ---**
When you personally deliver
the one you're supposed to protect
**[09:01] ---**
into the hands of the enemy,
you're beyond any hope!
**[09:08] ---**
Is that a fact?
**[09:10] ---**
W-What are you smiling about?!
**[09:13] ---**
Is that right? Right now, I...
**[09:19] ---**
...am smiling, aren't I?
**[09:22] ---**
I have more or less learned my lesson...
**[09:26] ---**
...about what the true nature
of the Roman Orthodox Church is.
**[09:31] ---**
Huh?
**[09:33] ---**
They act as a result
of what they believe.
**[09:38] ---**
By believing a person,
believing a thought, believing a feeling,
**[09:43] ---**
they will come flocking
to you anywhere you go.
**[09:48] ---**
By contrast, all we can do
is act based on what we doubt.
**[09:54] ---**
And what an ugly thing that is.
**[09:59] ---**
If you want to die so badly,
then please, do whatever you like!
**[10:05] ---**
You can go ahead and die,
**[10:08] ---**
thoroughly blaming the
fools who put you through this!
**[10:12] ---**
And just...
**[10:13] ---**
...what should I blame them for?
**[10:17] ---**
What?
**[10:18] ---**
They never... had any
reason to fight in the first place.
**[10:25] ---**
But even so, they came rushing
to help me, a complete stranger.
**[10:34] ---**
Tell me, can there be any
more alluring a gift than this,
**[10:38] ---**
anywhere in the entire world?
**[10:42] ---**
For what reason am
I to blame the people...
**[10:47] ---**
...who gave me...
such a magnificent gift as this?
**[11:01] ---**
Don't tell me our
barrier has been breached!
**[11:03] ---**
Damn! What organization is it?
**[11:21] ---**
Hmph, how could a mere
amateur do that... or so I wondered.
**[11:27] ---**
But you possess something
**[11:28] ---**
with an absolute power
against our barrier, is that it?
**[11:33] ---**
Just so I know, tell me,
are you planning to hoodwink me anymore?
**[11:37] ---**
Hoodwink? How so? After seeing
what is going on, can you not tell?
**[11:42] ---**
Geez, it would seem that
the English Puritans have run away,
**[11:47] ---**
but what exactly is it that you want?
**[11:49] ---**
Come now, this is your last chance.
**[11:52] ---**
You must know what it is
that you ought to be doing, right?
**[11:57] ---**
Yeah, you're right.
**[11:58] ---**
This is indeed my last chance.
**[12:01] ---**
I know that quite well.
**[12:03] ---**
In that case...
**[12:11] ---**
W-Why, you...!
What do you think you're doing?!
**[12:15] ---**
What I ought to be doing, you say?
I'll teach you to mess with me!
**[12:20] ---**
I'm here to save her, of course!
**[12:23] ---**
You are a fascinating one.
**[12:26] ---**
How much do you think you alone can do,
under these circumstances?
**[12:30] ---**
Why don't you go ahead and show us?!
**[12:43] ---**
For crying out loud.
**[12:45] ---**
I wish you wouldn't start without me.
**[12:47] ---**
Stiyl!
**[12:48] ---**
Th-The English Puritans!
**[12:50] ---**
Impossible! This is a matter for
the Roman Orthodox Church alone!
**[12:54] ---**
Don't you see that you are
interfering in our internal affairs?!
**[12:58] ---**
Yeah. Unfortunately,
that does not apply here.
**[13:02] ---**
Look at Orsola Aquinas' chest.
**[13:05] ---**
There is an English Puritan
crucifix hanging there, right?
**[13:10] ---**
The act itself of having it
placed there by someone means
**[13:13] ---**
the acceptance of English Puritan
protection. In other words,
**[13:18] ---**
Orsola Aquinas
is not Roman Orthodox,
**[13:21] ---**
but a member of the
English Puritan Church now.
**[13:26] ---**
I see. So then...
**[13:29] ---**
Do you really think that
sophistry is going to work here?!
**[13:32] ---**
No, I don't. However, if you
Roman Orthodox are going to submit her
**[13:37] ---**
to your own exclusive inquisition...
**[13:43] ---**
...then the English Puritan Church
cannot stand by and say nothing.
**[13:49] ---**
As such, how dare you
turn your blades against her.
**[13:54] ---**
Do you really think I am
such a sweet, kindhearted man
**[13:57] ---**
that I would just look on and do nothing?
**[14:00] ---**
So what if just one of
you has now become two?
**[14:02] ---**
Don't go thinking
it's just the two of them.
**[14:08] ---**
You don't have to bother asking
**[14:10] ---**
what my reason for
having to fight is, do you?
**[14:14] ---**
Tatemiya...
**[14:16] ---**
And here I thought I had discussed
this with the English Puritans,
**[14:20] ---**
and arranged to settle this before
you could make your move...
**[14:26] ---**
You're an even bigger fool than I imagined.
**[14:29] ---**
But then, who can dislike
a fool that's fun to watch?
**[14:33] ---**
You know...
**[14:34] ---**
I said I would take care of this, Toma,
**[14:37] ---**
so you didn't have to concern yourself.
**[14:40] ---**
Index...
**[14:41] ---**
However, now that it's come
to this, I guess there's no choice.
**[14:45] ---**
Toma, let's save Orsola Aquinas,
**[14:48] ---**
and do it together.
**[14:50] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[14:52] ---**
Yeah!
**[14:56] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[15:12] ---**
Kill them!
**[15:19] ---**
Orsola, are you all right?
**[15:21] ---**
Yes. This is no problem whatsoever.
**[15:28] ---**
What is this?
**[15:29] ---**
If I needed a reason to fight,
**[15:31] ---**
I've got one right here,
plain as day, don't I?
**[15:50] ---**
Th-Thank you.
**[15:58] ---**
Nya-ha! Is this a lofty
elevation of appreciation,
**[16:01] ---**
inspiration, and exhilaration,
Miss Kanzaki?
**[16:04] ---**
Tsuchimikado...
**[16:06] ---**
Ah, thank goodness--finding
out that my one-time pals
**[16:09] ---**
didn't kidnap Orsola to
use the Book of the Law
**[16:11] ---**
for their own personal interests, am I right?
**[16:15] ---**
Are you finished?
**[16:18] ---**
More than likely, you were
contriving to use this opportunity
**[16:21] ---**
to snatch the original Book of
the Law text out from under them.
**[16:26] ---**
You pretty much know
all the particulars, right?
**[16:29] ---**
The Amakusa did not
steal the Book of the Law.
**[16:33] ---**
It was a false charge fabricated by
the Roman Orthodox Church.
**[16:36] ---**
Which means, there was never
any need to bring the Book of the Law
**[16:40] ---**
all the way here to Japan.
**[16:42] ---**
The Book of the Law
brought into Japan is a fake,
**[16:45] ---**
while the original text is, even
now, deep in the Vatican Library.
**[16:50] ---**
So, are you satisfied now?
**[16:55] ---**
Yes. As long as he's here,
**[16:57] ---**
then the Amakusa will follow
the right path, even without me.
**[17:39] ---**
A-Are you all right?
**[17:41] ---**
Y-Yeah...
**[17:52] ---**
Damn!
**[18:20] ---**
Huh?
**[18:30] ---**
Don't go showing me such
a no-account sight as that!
**[18:34] ---**
Stop!
**[18:38] ---**
Don't get too close to
her so indiscreetly right now.
**[18:41] ---**
If we get too close, we'll be taking
her strength away from her.
**[18:52] ---**
W-What was that?
**[19:02] ---**
That is a song which
uses all the knowledge
**[19:05] ---**
from the 103,000 volumes,
and thoroughly denounces
**[19:08] ---**
the contradictions in
those doctrines-- "Sheol Fear."
**[19:13] ---**
For people who act on and
follow doctrines as their own OS,
**[19:16] ---**
it is indeed fair to call
it their "natural enemy."
**[19:19] ---**
Upon hearing it,
**[19:20] ---**
their personalities collapse
like a puzzle, albeit temporarily.
**[19:25] ---**
Grimoires are not
simply things to be read.
**[19:28] ---**
Even without any magical power,
she has mastered the grimoires.
**[19:34] ---**
I doubt there is
any better person than her
**[19:36] ---**
to serve as the grimoires' librarian.
**[19:40] ---**
Then again, if she had
that kind of trick up her sleeve,
**[19:43] ---**
why didn't she use it to begin with?
**[19:47] ---**
This attack...
**[19:48] ---**
...works on what's
called the "group mind,"
**[19:51] ---**
and breaks down the mental barriers.
**[19:53] ---**
As such, the purity of
that group mind is an issue.
**[20:02] ---**
When we were fighting you guys,
Kamijo Toma and I were in the way,
**[20:06] ---**
and the purity was diminished,
so it would have performed poorly.
**[20:09] ---**
If we'd run into that, it would
have been no laughing matter.
**[20:17] ---**
--This could be bad.
--What do we do?
**[20:20] ---**
--Can we run away?
--Y-Y-Yes!
**[20:22] ---**
Stop making such a fuss!
**[20:25] ---**
It makes you look like fools!
**[20:27] ---**
Especially you, Sister Angelene!
**[20:29] ---**
B-But Sister Agnese,
**[20:32] ---**
it has been more than ten minutes
since the fighting started.
**[20:35] ---**
Even counting Orsola, there
is such a great difference in numbers.
**[20:39] ---**
This is not normal.
**[20:42] ---**
Y-You see?
**[20:44] ---**
Which side caused
that explosion just now?
**[20:47] ---**
There is a chance that they
have started taking the offensive!
**[20:51] ---**
W-We should act, too!
They can use all the help they can get!
**[20:58] ---**
In that case, I release
you from my bodyguard detail.
**[21:02] ---**
Go ahead and join the battle lines.
**[21:04] ---**
R-Right! There is no
way we will let them get away!
**[21:16] ---**
They can't get away.
**[21:18] ---**
There is no way they can escape.
**[21:21] ---**
Such is the way this filthy,
cursed world has been put together.
**[21:41] ---**
Focus on attack!
**[21:42] ---**
Forget about defense!
**[21:44] ---**
Do the honorable thing, as we
annihilate the enemies of the Lord!
**[21:54] ---**
Some kind of magical attack?
**[22:09] ---**
Th-They wouldn't...
**[22:12] ---**
Just to avoid the Sheol Fear...?
**[22:25] ---**
*Karamatta unmei mo kaete ikeru kara*
**[22:32] ---**
*subete wa kono te no naka ni aru!*
**[22:49] ---**
*Dare nimo makenai chikara ga koko ni nai nara*
**[22:56] ---**
*imajin nante kowashite shimaeba ii*
**[23:01] ---**
*Harimeguru shisutemu bakkappu insutooru wa OK*
**[23:07] ---**
*Kami sae mo shirienai fiirudo ga hiraku*
**[23:13] ---**
*Juuman no deeta mo isshun no mirakuru sae*
**[23:18] ---**
*suisoku fukanou na "ikite'ru katachi" dakara*
**[23:25] ---**
*In a Magic∞world exciting
time or space there's no limit*
**[23:31] ---**
*Dareka wo mamoreru chikara ga hoshii*
**[23:36] ---**
*Karamatta unmei mo kaete ikeru kara*
**[23:44] ---**
*subete wa kono te no naka ni aru!*
**[23:55] ---**
"Preview"
**[23:56] ---**
The final battle has begun.
**[23:58] ---**
We are boxed in by the
continuous stream of attacks.
**[24:01] ---**
Is there any way for us to prevail?
**[24:03] ---**
Next time, "Lotus Wand."
**[24:05] ---**
When science and magic
cross paths, the story begins.
**[24:08] ---**
# 29 - Lotus Wand
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**[00:30] ---**
I'd gone to save Orsola,
**[00:31] ---**
who had been captured by the
Roman Orthodox Church, by myself...
**[00:35] ---**
...or so I thought I had, but Stiyl?
**[00:38] ---**
Tatemiya?
**[00:39] ---**
And even Index?!
**[00:41] ---**
Then I guess that means that none of us
**[00:45] ---**
meant to allow this incident to
end with such a lousy outcome, huh?
**[01:07] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[01:11] ---**
*I gazed at the coin I had flipped*
**[01:16] ---**
*If it's heads I go, tails I stay*
**[01:20] ---**
*Let me know your answer first*
**[01:26] ---**
*"Please, won't you tell me?"*
**[01:31] ---**
*But the angel continued to smile in discernment*
**[01:42] ---**
*Wander on! There's nobody
to lead you by the hand*
**[01:47] ---**
*The answer handed down
from God is one of woe*
**[01:52] ---**
*Yes, that is what your gift from God is*
**[01:58] ---**
*Once you overcome it, you'll start to see, so right now...
(Look for it by oneself, no buts about it)*
**[02:05] ---**
*No buts!*
**[02:20] ---**
Focus on attack!
**[02:20] ---**
"#05 Lotus Wand"
**[02:22] ---**
Forget about defense!
**[02:23] ---**
Do the honorable thing, as we annihilate the enemies of the Lord!
**[02:39] ---**
Th-They wouldn't...
**[02:41] ---**
Just to avoid the Sheol Fear...?
**[02:44] ---**
Damn!
**[03:03] ---**
Damn...
**[03:04] ---**
Is there no end to them?
**[03:05] ---**
This way!
**[03:08] ---**
Toma!
**[03:10] ---**
Hurry!
**[03:21] ---**
For the moment,
it looks like we're all safe.
**[03:24] ---**
Can you walk, Orsola?
**[03:28] ---**
You are the worrying type, aren't you?
**[03:31] ---**
I have not been injured that severely.
**[03:37] ---**
W-What do we do?
**[03:38] ---**
I-I don't think my Sheol Fear
will have any effect on them
**[03:42] ---**
with their ears punctured like that.
**[03:44] ---**
And I can only use Spell Intercept
against one person at a time.
**[03:49] ---**
My men seem to be holding their own,
**[03:51] ---**
but when people start
launching suicide attacks like this,
**[03:54] ---**
nothing scares me more.
**[03:58] ---**
If...
**[04:01] ---**
If I had the Book of the Law here,
**[04:04] ---**
I might be able to find us a way out of this.
**[04:08] ---**
Indeed, just by declaring
that the seal had been broken
**[04:12] ---**
on the Book of the Law's angel techniques,
**[04:14] ---**
we could use it to negotiate.
**[04:16] ---**
However, the Book of the
Law supposedly being stolen
**[04:19] ---**
was a ruse on
their part to ensnare us.
**[04:22] ---**
Thus, even having the text
here in Japan at all would be strange.
**[04:26] ---**
--Oh, it is!
--Oh, it is!
**[04:28] ---**
It's true that not even you
can decipher the Book of the Law.
**[04:32] ---**
Meaning you had to at least
view it, in order to have read it.
**[04:37] ---**
And if so, it would be odd if
the Book of the Law's original text
**[04:39] ---**
were not stored intact somewhere
within your memory, right?
**[04:42] ---**
Mm-hmm. It's in there, left alone,
without me deciphering its code--
**[04:46] ---**
No way! If you do that,
**[04:49] ---**
she will remember the
content of the Book of the Law!
**[04:52] ---**
If that happens, she'll be
stuck with even more magicians
**[04:54] ---**
coming after her than there already are!
**[04:57] ---**
Huh? Are you worried about me?
**[05:03] ---**
Kamijo Toma!
**[05:04] ---**
W-What?!
**[05:05] ---**
You have to become stronger!
If this incident carries over
**[05:08] ---**
and she gets done in,
I'll burn you, body and soul,
**[05:10] ---**
until there aren't even any ashes left!
**[05:15] ---**
Damn...
**[05:19] ---**
So, tell me, what does
the decryption process
**[05:22] ---**
for the Book of the Law involve?
**[05:24] ---**
Oh, right...
**[05:25] ---**
Well then, I will now tell you.
**[05:30] ---**
We will not actually make any
use of the Book of the Law's power.
**[05:35] ---**
We just have to indicate our
willingness to use it at any time.
**[05:40] ---**
It is based upon Temurah,
which is to say, letter substitution,
**[05:44] ---**
but there is an irregular rule
**[05:46] ---**
that is deeply connected
to the number of lines.
**[05:48] ---**
First, the twenty-two Hebrew letters
are placed into two lines.
**[05:53] ---**
taking note of the line number above them...
**[05:55] ---**
Huh?
**[05:56] ---**
It's all right.
I pretty much get all of it now.
**[05:59] ---**
Um, what is it that you have "gotten"?
**[06:03] ---**
This is not the correct way to decipher it.
**[06:06] ---**
It is a dummy solution,
set up as a trap.
**[06:09] ---**
The frightening thing
about the Book of the Law
**[06:11] ---**
is that there are more than
100 methods of decoding it.
**[06:14] ---**
What's more, for every method,
it forms different sentences,
**[06:18] ---**
each of which are also dummies.
**[06:20] ---**
It's not that nobody can
read the Book of the Law--
**[06:23] ---**
it is a grimoire that everyone can read,
**[06:24] ---**
but everyone is induced
into deciphering incorrectly.
**[06:28] ---**
It can't be...
**[06:30] ---**
Depending on how you think of it,
you might have just been saved.
**[06:34] ---**
Say, if we tell them now that we
really don't know how to decode it,
**[06:39] ---**
do you think they'll let us off the hook?
**[06:41] ---**
Probably not, huh?
**[06:43] ---**
Now that they've seen this much
of the darkness, they can't back down.
**[06:52] ---**
There must be a back door somewhere!
**[07:22] ---**
No matter how I look at it,
**[07:24] ---**
I doubt that while taking
on that great a number,
**[07:26] ---**
you could move freely about the premises.
**[07:30] ---**
I've come up with
a bit of strategy, you see.
**[07:34] ---**
Strategy? Ah, I see.
So that's what this is.
**[07:39] ---**
Oh... so after you came
strutting in here like the hero,
**[07:44] ---**
you're now using your friends
as decoys to get this far, are you?
**[07:49] ---**
Orsola Aquinas said something
about you acting based on trust,
**[07:53] ---**
not because of any deception.
**[07:57] ---**
That is absolutely laughable, isn't it?
**[07:59] ---**
Here the reason you're still breathing
**[08:02] ---**
is because you tricked
someone into being your decoy.
**[08:05] ---**
No...
**[08:06] ---**
I do trust them. If possible,
I'd be glad if they would trust me--
**[08:12] ---**
that I can settle my problems myself.
**[08:16] ---**
You think that by
eliminating me, the commander,
**[08:18] ---**
you can stop all the attacks?
**[08:20] ---**
Well, all right. I was just
starting to grow bored myself.
**[08:25] ---**
I think I'll just occupy myself
by shattering your fantasy!
**[08:30] ---**
All things in harmony.
Fifth of the Five Elements,
**[08:33] ---**
symbolizing peace and order...
**[08:35] ---**
...deploy this crosier!
**[08:36] ---**
Icon one, in accordance with the laws
of the Son of God and the cross,
**[08:40] ---**
join that which is at odds
with he who is at odds!
**[08:54] ---**
A coordinate attack?
Teleportation?
**[09:04] ---**
That staff...!
**[09:06] ---**
I see you finally figured it out.
**[09:09] ---**
When you do harm to this, it in
turn does harm to something else.
**[09:13] ---**
Kind of like this!
**[09:17] ---**
D-Damn!
**[09:19] ---**
Just where are
those attacks coming from?
**[09:24] ---**
Yikes!
**[09:48] ---**
Don't think you can evade
me forever in the same fashion.
**[09:51] ---**
Once I anticipate your move
and set up the space to attack from,
**[09:55] ---**
you charge into it all on your own.
**[10:01] ---**
This is unforgivable.
**[10:04] ---**
The church of the cross's original purpose
**[10:05] ---**
was to help others,
and that is how it spread.
**[10:09] ---**
But to turn that around,
and use force to do something like this...
**[10:20] ---**
You're "using force to do something
like this" to bash away at me.
**[10:25] ---**
Do you take offense at being beaten?
**[10:28] ---**
The bishop's crosier
is an alteration of the mace,
**[10:31] ---**
once used to smash
through an enemy's armor.
**[10:34] ---**
What is wrong with using something
for beating to beat something with?
**[10:41] ---**
Modern western magic
has had a dimension
**[10:44] ---**
of church-of-the-cross trickery
about it from the start.
**[10:48] ---**
The fact that anyone besides us
uses it is what is unusual.
**[10:53] ---**
Ultimately, dogma outside of Roman Orthodoxy
**[10:55] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[10:56] ---**
is no dogma at all!
**[11:01] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[11:04] ---**
Anyhow, you're in my way!
**[11:06] ---**
No more whining,
**[11:08] ---**
just die in our assembly
line already, if you please!
**[11:15] ---**
That's the attack
I've been waiting for!
**[11:52] ---**
It can't be...
**[11:53] ---**
I'm going back...
**[11:55] ---**
...to that place... once again?
**[11:59] ---**
No!
**[12:03] ---**
I'm not about to go back!
**[12:06] ---**
I'm not about to go back!
**[12:08] ---**
No way!
**[12:23] ---**
I hate to do this to you
while you're trying so hard,
**[12:27] ---**
but it looks like it's all over.
**[12:31] ---**
It's gone quiet outside.
**[12:33] ---**
It sounds like your plan was
to defeat me and make some deal
**[12:36] ---**
while they were holding
their own outside as decoys,
**[12:40] ---**
but all too easily, the fantasy
appears to have come to an end.
**[12:46] ---**
Yeah.
**[12:47] ---**
Exactly right.
**[12:51] ---**
Your fantasy is over,
Agnese Sanctis!
**[12:55] ---**
Huh?
**[13:06] ---**
I used 4300 cards for this.
**[13:09] ---**
We may not be much in
the way of numbers, but still...
**[13:11] ---**
...the Amakusa are not
a bunch to be trifled with.
**[13:16] ---**
I mean, by using the
placement of the rune cards,
**[13:18] ---**
to construct an even greater figure,
**[13:20] ---**
thereby turning the entire church
itself into a giant magic array...
**[13:25] ---**
...they employed everything around
us to form multicomponent magic arrays.
**[13:29] ---**
It's a sneaky trick
I couldn't have come up with.
**[13:36] ---**
I told you, we had a strategy.
**[13:40] ---**
These guys weren't
running around to act as decoys;
**[13:43] ---**
they were just placing
these cards around the premises.
**[13:46] ---**
Hmph! We still have
you beaten in sheer numbers.
**[13:50] ---**
If we all come crushing down
on you at once...
**[13:55] ---**
What are you all waiting for?! Go at once!
**[13:59] ---**
Th-They're wavering...
**[14:02] ---**
Even though if we push
en masse, we can beat them.
**[14:06] ---**
They act as a result
of what they believe.
**[14:12] ---**
This should be good, shouldn't it?
**[14:16] ---**
What do I do?
**[14:18] ---**
What am I supposed to do?
**[14:20] ---**
What method?
**[14:21] ---**
What timing?
**[14:22] ---**
What weapon?
**[14:24] ---**
How do I choose?
**[14:26] ---**
It's over, Agnese.
**[14:30] ---**
You must realize it yourself by now.
**[14:33] ---**
Your illusion of self-confidence
died a long time ago.
**[15:29] ---**
Toma!
**[15:32] ---**
Toma! Wake up! Toma!
**[15:53] ---**
A-Are you awake?
**[15:56] ---**
Kanzaki?
**[15:58] ---**
I had planned on leaving directly, but...
**[16:02] ---**
What's that?
**[16:03] ---**
A note card?
**[16:07] ---**
I-It was nothing, really.
**[16:09] ---**
After all, I have the chance
to speak to you directly.
**[16:12] ---**
There is no need for this note.
**[16:17] ---**
Call it an after-action report--
**[16:18] ---**
I came to keep you
updated on Orsola Aquinas.
**[16:23] ---**
Should I have left
you alone, instead?
**[16:26] ---**
I'm listening! Please!
**[16:29] ---**
Orsola Aquinas,
as well as the Amakusa,
**[16:32] ---**
have arranged to become
affiliated with the English Puritans.
**[16:36] ---**
Avoiding Roman Orthodox
retaliation and assassination
**[16:39] ---**
appears to have
played a large role in this.
**[16:41] ---**
Which means that Orsola being
in danger remains unchanged?
**[16:47] ---**
No. The English Puritan
Church disclosed
**[16:49] ---**
the false decryption
method that Orsola possessed.
**[16:53] ---**
They figure that if her
erroneous interpretation is known,
**[16:55] ---**
any concerns about her regarding
the Book of the Law will disappear.
**[16:58] ---**
Hmm? But you said the
Amakusa were affiliating themselves
**[17:02] ---**
with the English Puritans, too, right?
**[17:04] ---**
Yes. It seems there
was a segment of them
**[17:06] ---**
that had been hoping
for this development.
**[17:09] ---**
And after I gave them a strict
order not to follow after me, too.
**[17:14] ---**
Oh, right. You're a member
of the English Puritans too, huh?
**[17:18] ---**
Of all the...
**[17:27] ---**
So um, I mean...
I apologize, for all of this!
**[17:30] ---**
Huh? For what?
**[17:32] ---**
You know, how um... that is,
for my own personal reasons,
**[17:37] ---**
I put you to all sorts of trouble
over all of this, you could say...
**[17:40] ---**
Yo, Kami!
**[17:42] ---**
I came to see you!
**[17:44] ---**
I brought you some deluxe
convenience store pudding
**[17:46] ---**
topped with melon to snack on!
Huh? What's up, missy?
**[17:50] ---**
Looks like the time has finally
come for you to apologize to Kami.
**[17:54] ---**
And doing it all clichéd
and royal at that, like,
**[17:56] ---**
"I will pay you back for all
the trouble I caused you," or,
**[17:59] ---**
"please, ask anything
you want of me," I'll bet,
**[18:01] ---**
with you offering suggestions!
**[18:06] ---**
Man, it's like
"The Grateful Yet Horny Crane."
**[18:09] ---**
I-It is not!
**[18:10] ---**
Then again, missy, you were
gonna strip down eventually, right?
**[18:12] ---**
I-I was not! And what
do you mean, "eventually"?!
**[18:16] ---**
Huh? Then,
you were gonna apologize
**[18:18] ---**
by wearing whatever
he wanted you to?
**[18:20] ---**
Aren't you the service-minded one!
**[18:22] ---**
Just shut up and get out of here!
**[18:28] ---**
Okay, okay.
Third wheel getting out of the way.
**[18:31] ---**
Who are you calling a third wheel?!
**[18:33] ---**
U-Um...
**[18:35] ---**
I-I know I must have this straight, but...
**[18:38] ---**
...you paying me back, or owing me,
or anything as ridiculous as that
**[18:41] ---**
is only something that
Tsuchimikado is joking about, right?
**[18:46] ---**
Well, I ask you, what else
would you have me do?
**[18:49] ---**
I am always placing such an
unbearable weight upon your shoulders.
**[18:54] ---**
And this time,
the matter was ours, to boot.
**[18:57] ---**
We are way past the point
where I can just bow down
**[19:00] ---**
and have you forgive me.
**[19:01] ---**
Hmm... There's really nothing
to worry about, is there?
**[19:05] ---**
We've gotten through our
problems safely for the time being.
**[19:09] ---**
"Our"?
**[19:10] ---**
Huh? Me and the Amakusa. Ah, and the
English Puritans, too, I guess.
**[19:16] ---**
Not to mention Orsola, Index, Stiyl...
**[19:20] ---**
...as well as yourself.
**[19:22] ---**
As of now, that's who "we" are, right?
**[19:26] ---**
As far as the English and the Romans,
**[19:28] ---**
things must be pretty tangled up for you,
**[19:30] ---**
but for an amateur like me,
honestly, I can't tell them apart.
**[19:34] ---**
It's not really as
though I've taken the side
**[19:37] ---**
of the English Puritans,
which Index is a part of.
**[19:40] ---**
For now, I'm just taking
the side of the English Puritans
**[19:43] ---**
*Because* Index is a part of them.
**[19:47] ---**
It's likely that if Agnese came
asking for my help, I'd go help her.
**[19:52] ---**
She may have been on the
wrong side of things this time,
**[19:55] ---**
but there's no rule anywhere
saying that she has to *stay*
**[19:58] ---**
on the wrong side, you know.
**[20:04] ---**
The Roman Orthodox Church
intends to settle this up
**[20:08] ---**
as a case of a rogue militant
faction led by Agnese Sanctis.
**[20:14] ---**
The Roman Orthodox Church
itself wishes to explain themselves
**[20:17] ---**
by saying that they never
meant to assassinate Orsola.
**[20:20] ---**
They still have to answer for
not keeping a tight rein on their men,
**[20:23] ---**
if they want bygones to be bygones.
**[20:26] ---**
Looking back,
you seemed to be fully aware
**[20:28] ---**
of the Roman Orthodoxy's true intentions.
**[20:30] ---**
So then, why didn't you tell
me to save Orsola from the start?
**[20:36] ---**
It's so complicated.
**[20:37] ---**
No, not fully.
**[20:39] ---**
Who knew that Orsola's
decryption method was incorrect?
**[20:43] ---**
But for my part,
it worked out either way.
**[20:48] ---**
Let's suppose, Stiyl...
**[20:50] ---**
...that if we had failed to
rescue Orsola in this instance,
**[20:54] ---**
would anything,
in fact, have changed?
**[20:57] ---**
If she had been taken back
to the Roman Orthodox Church,
**[21:00] ---**
her subsequent execution
would be waiting for her regardless.
**[21:04] ---**
Either way, the Book of the Law
would never have been deciphered.
**[21:08] ---**
In that case, Archbishop,
why did you personally request
**[21:11] ---**
that the crucifix got to Orsola?
**[21:13] ---**
Say what you will,
**[21:15] ---**
but you fully meant to save
her from the start, did you not?
**[21:18] ---**
I-I did not! The only
reason I ever butted in
**[21:22] ---**
was in the interest of
the English Puritan Church!
**[21:26] ---**
And that interest would be...?
**[21:28] ---**
Kanzaki Kaori.
**[21:31] ---**
Becausae Kanzaki
possesses tremendous power,
**[21:33] ---**
and a well-developed sense of justice,
**[21:35] ---**
she is someone who
is likely to act on her own.
**[21:38] ---**
She ventured awfully close
to peril in this instance.
**[21:43] ---**
You've received the
reports on what happened
**[21:45] ---**
to those fools in
the knight's order, right?
**[21:48] ---**
Yes.
**[21:49] ---**
Henceforth, we're going to require
some new leg-irons for her.
**[21:53] ---**
Not some negative leg-irons, like,
**[21:55] ---**
"We will do harm unless
you do as you are told,"
**[21:58] ---**
but more like "do as you are told,
**[22:00] ---**
and we will protect the Amakusa
from the Roman Orthodox Church."
**[22:06] ---**
See? There is no finer interest, is there?
**[22:19] ---**
Why, that little vixen...
**[22:25] ---**
*I can change even the
destiny that entwines me*
**[22:32] ---**
*so I have everything in my hand!*
**[22:49] ---**
*If I lack the power to
not be outdone by anyone*
**[22:55] ---**
*I can always destroy that illusion*
**[23:01] ---**
*The laid out system
backup install is okay*
**[23:07] ---**
*Fields unknown even
to God become opened*
**[23:13] ---**
*It's a "living form" that not even data*
**[23:18] ---**
*from 100,000 memories
in a moment's miracle can infer*
**[23:25] ---**
*In a Magic∞world exciting
time or space there's no limit*
**[23:30] ---**
*I want the power it
takes to protect somebody*
**[23:36] ---**
*I can change even
the destiny that entwines me*
**[23:44] ---**
*so I have everything in my hand!*
**[23:55] ---**
"Preview"
**[23:55] ---**
A stolen travel case lies hidden in the darkness of Academy City.
**[23:59] ---**
When Shirai Kuroko comes
into contact with a part of it,
**[24:01] ---**
she learns a terrifying truth.
**[24:03] ---**
Next time, "Remnant."
**[24:05] ---**
When science and magic
cross paths, the story begins.
**[24:09] ---**
# 30 - Remnant (Wreckage)
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**[00:32] ---**
And now, the weather
**[00:33] ---**
for tomorrow, September 14th.
**[00:36] ---**
Things look clear across
the country tomorrow,
**[00:39] ---**
but expect increasing rain on
and off in the evening and overnight.
**[00:43] ---**
--Toma! Toma!
**[00:43] ---**
--Clouds will accompany a front
approaching from the Sea of Japan,
**[00:45] ---**
--Huh? What is it?
**[00:46] ---**
It looks like growth rings
have been drawn on this map,
**[00:49] ---**
but how does that show
what tomorrow's weather will be?
**[00:52] ---**
Oh, those are isobaric lines.
**[00:54] ---**
I guess they look at the peaks
and valleys of pressure to determine it.
**[01:01] ---**
Oh! Do you mean, Academy City
is now using artificial means
**[01:04] ---**
to make feng shui readings come true?
**[01:06] ---**
Okay, time for a taste test.
**[01:08] ---**
It's right off the stove,
so it will be hot. Be careful--
**[01:16] ---**
Toma!!
**[01:22] ---**
No fair! No fair, Toma! You always
get mad when I snitch food early!
**[01:27] ---**
If I take my eyes off of you,
you'll eat everything there!
**[01:30] ---**
Hmm? But Toma...
**[01:32] ---**
Huh?
**[01:33] ---**
The weather girl sometimes
says the wrong things.
**[01:39] ---**
Is being scatterbrained
a selling point?
**[01:41] ---**
It just means that weather
forecasts aren't perfect.
**[01:44] ---**
Though they were perfect
until a little while ago...
**[01:50] ---**
This is Shuttle 258.
**[01:52] ---**
Now retrieving the Remnant.
**[02:14] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[02:17] ---**
*Yubi de hajiku koin mitsumeta*
**[02:22] ---**
*Omote nara GO Ura wa STAY*
**[02:26] ---**
*Mazu kotae wo kikasete*
**[02:32] ---**
*"Douka oshiete kuremasen ka?"*
**[02:38] ---**
*Tenshi wa misadameru egao no mama*
**[02:48] ---**
*Mayoe! Sono te wo hiku mono nado inai*
**[02:53] ---**
*Kami ga kudasu sono kotae wa fukou datta*
**[02:58] ---**
*Sou sore koso kami kara no okurimono*
**[03:04] ---**
*Norikoetara miete kuru sa dakara ima sugu
(Look for it by oneself, no buts about it)*
**[03:11] ---**
*No buts!*
**[03:26] ---**
"#06 Remnant (Wreckage)"
**[03:28] ---**
Geez, I can't put up with this, you know?
**[03:32] ---**
I don't care if the Daihasei
Festival *is* coming up,
**[03:34] ---**
they can't have the whole school
doing gym all the time like this.
**[03:38] ---**
What else can they do?
**[03:40] ---**
Huh?
**[03:40] ---**
At last year's Daihasei Festival,
**[03:42] ---**
Tokiwadai Middle School
took a humiliating 2nd place.
**[03:45] ---**
They are eager to ensure
that this is our year.
**[03:48] ---**
By the way, Sissy,
**[03:49] ---**
do you have any
plans after school today?
**[03:52] ---**
Why?
**[03:53] ---**
Oh, just that once in a while,
I would like to go shopping with you,
**[03:58] ---**
or get something
sweet to eat with you.
**[04:01] ---**
We seem to be passing
each other by a lot lately.
**[04:05] ---**
I am busy with
Judgment, and Sissy,
**[04:08] ---**
you have your accessories that
you are always looking for all over.
**[04:11] ---**
To be honest, I have been
a bit lonesome recently.
**[04:16] ---**
Kuroko...
**[04:19] ---**
How commendable!
Today I am laying on the admirableness!
**[04:22] ---**
And, while she will deny it, in fact,
**[04:25] ---**
Sissy is debating whether
or not to welcome me
**[04:28] ---**
into her wide-open,
protective arms to snuggle me!
**[04:33] ---**
Something sweet?
**[04:34] ---**
You keep stuffing your face with
sweets after your Judgment work,
**[04:38] ---**
so you never end up
feeling hungry, do you--
**[04:43] ---**
Sissy!!
**[04:54] ---**
"US Space Shuttle
successfully launches"
**[04:59] ---**
Sissy? There have
been a lot lately, huh?
**[05:03] ---**
As I recall, France, Russia,
and last week, Spain, also launched.
**[05:07] ---**
Sissy, is something the matter?
**[05:09] ---**
Huh?
**[05:11] ---**
You seem to be
upset about something.
**[05:14] ---**
O-Of course I am!
**[05:15] ---**
You did a buck-naked
drop-kick on me out of nowhere,
**[05:17] ---**
exposing me to the most
absurd sight, right before my eyes!
**[05:20] ---**
So hurry up and
finish doing your shopping!
**[05:23] ---**
It's pretty embarrassing hanging
around with you, given your tastes.
**[05:26] ---**
Sissy, you should take this
chance to find something to wear
**[05:28] ---**
worthy of Tokiwadai's Ace!
**[05:31] ---**
Like this...
**[05:32] ---**
...or this...
**[05:34] ---**
...or something like this...
**[05:40] ---**
A bra pad?! Sissy, I never knew
you were interested in these!
**[05:45] ---**
Do not tell me you have a
boyfriend in mind.
**[05:47] ---**
I-It's not that!
**[05:49] ---**
No, of course not. Sissy, you would
not get carried away with a boy--
**[05:56] ---**
Come to think of it,
the last day of summer vacation...
**[06:01] ---**
No, that would be the
last thing you would do...
**[06:04] ---**
Right, Sissy--?
**[06:08] ---**
What sort of fumbling reaction is this?!
**[06:12] ---**
Sissy could not be--could not
really be with that troglodyte!
**[06:17] ---**
I-It's not like that!
I'm not interested!
**[06:20] ---**
After all, when you wear them,
**[06:22] ---**
you eventually get found
out when you take them off.
**[06:27] ---**
Sissy... you already have future
plans that far ahead in mind...!
**[06:31] ---**
No, not like that! I meant gym!
When changing for gym class!
**[06:37] ---**
Hey, your cell is ringing.
**[06:39] ---**
Geez, this is not the time!
**[06:43] ---**
Hello? Uiharu?
**[06:46] ---**
A robbery?
Let Antiskill take care of it...
**[06:50] ---**
School District 23? The one dealing
with aerospace development?
**[06:58] ---**
I am so sorry, Sissy.
**[07:00] ---**
And after you were kind
enough to come with me, too...
**[07:02] ---**
It's okay, it's okay.
**[07:03] ---**
But just be sure to
come back early tonight.
**[07:06] ---**
The weather might turn
bad come evening, after all.
**[07:09] ---**
Oh... okay...
**[07:16] ---**
Ah, Miss Shirai!
**[07:18] ---**
Is it just you, Uiharu?
**[07:20] ---**
Everyone else just went out.
Oh, I'll put on some tea.
**[07:24] ---**
I appreciate it,
but I will pass right now.
**[07:28] ---**
Oh, no! I just wanted
to feel a little ladylike.
**[07:33] ---**
If you would like to
practice feminine etiquette,
**[07:35] ---**
I can show you some other time.
**[07:37] ---**
Right now, give me
an overview of this case.
**[07:40] ---**
This is it.
**[07:43] ---**
What is this?
**[07:52] ---**
That is not a cell; it is a radio.
**[07:55] ---**
The victims seem
fairly suspect, as well.
**[07:58] ---**
What's more, there's this...
**[08:01] ---**
School District 23's emblem.
**[08:04] ---**
I've isolated the model number.
**[08:06] ---**
This travel case is specially
made to be highly airtight,
**[08:10] ---**
as well as to counter all
kinds of cosmic radiation.
**[08:13] ---**
You do not suppose they
were taking it into space, do you?
**[08:16] ---**
Or instead,
they were bringing it back.
**[08:19] ---**
Hmph, the quickest way to find
out seems to be to secure the robbers.
**[08:24] ---**
What was their escape route?
**[08:25] ---**
They abandoned the
car and went underground.
**[08:28] ---**
Huh?
**[08:28] ---**
There was a traffic jam
due to some signal trouble.
**[08:32] ---**
This doesn't happen too often, either.
**[08:35] ---**
Actually, it works to our favor.
**[08:36] ---**
Huh?
**[08:37] ---**
Uiharu, you run
down the men who ran away.
**[08:39] ---**
Miss Shirai!
**[08:43] ---**
Hurry!
**[08:48] ---**
I beg your pardon.
**[08:52] ---**
What?!
**[08:54] ---**
A teleporter!
**[08:55] ---**
Over here!
**[08:57] ---**
Judgment! Do I have to
explain to you why I am here?
**[09:16] ---**
Damn!
**[09:21] ---**
A low-tech handgun...
Are they outsiders?
**[09:29] ---**
Hello, Uiharu?
**[09:31] ---**
Uh, Kuroko...
**[09:32] ---**
Sissy!
**[09:33] ---**
I need a little favor
from you. Where are you?
**[09:37] ---**
Oh, well...
**[09:38] ---**
Oh, you're still at work?
Sorry, sorry, I didn't mean to bother you.
**[09:42] ---**
Oh, no. So what is the favor?
**[09:45] ---**
Mm, I heard from
one of the underclassmen
**[09:49] ---**
that there's going to be
a surprise room inspection.
**[09:50] ---**
I was hoping you could
hide some of my personal things.
**[09:54] ---**
Sissy, you are still out, too?
**[09:56] ---**
Well, that's okay.
I'll try asking someone else.
**[09:59] ---**
You should get back soon, too.
**[10:02] ---**
Word is it's supposed to rain starting
tonight and all day tomorrow. Bye!
**[10:06] ---**
S-Sissy!
**[10:09] ---**
I will not allow Sissy to turn
to anyone other than me for a favor!
**[10:14] ---**
This calls for me to teleport
right back to the student dorms--
**[10:23] ---**
Huh?
**[10:35] ---**
Who are you?
**[10:45] ---**
A teleporter?
**[10:46] ---**
My, you figured that out already?
**[10:48] ---**
Leave it to the same type of
esper to understand so quickly.
**[10:52] ---**
My power is Move Point.
Unlike you, who can't do so,
**[10:56] ---**
I do not need to touch
the objects with my hands.
**[10:59] ---**
Well? Don't you think that's amazing,
**[11:02] ---**
Judgment Branch 177's
Miss Shirai Kuroko?
**[11:09] ---**
It will take more than that!
**[11:19] ---**
Like I said,
it will take more than that!
**[11:34] ---**
I told you.
**[11:35] ---**
I don't need to put my hands
on the objects.
**[11:39] ---**
It's too bad.
**[11:41] ---**
Even if she is backed into a corner,
**[11:43] ---**
I did not think her to be
someone to drag an underclassman
**[11:45] ---**
into one of her personal affairs--
**[11:48] ---**
Misaka Mikoto, that is.
**[11:51] ---**
Why would you bring up Sissy's name just now?
**[11:54] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[12:00] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[12:03] ---**
Why would you bring
up Sissy's name just now?
**[12:06] ---**
Oh, you didn't know?
**[12:09] ---**
But then, it doesn't seem like she
would use you without you knowing.
**[12:13] ---**
The Railgun of Tokiwadai
is quite noble-minded, and all.
**[12:17] ---**
You didn't think it was awfully convenient
**[12:20] ---**
that my people were
caught up in that traffic jam?
**[12:23] ---**
You can't tell me that you
don't know what kind of esper
**[12:26] ---**
that Tokiwadai's Ace is,
now can you?
**[12:29] ---**
What are you going on about?
**[12:31] ---**
The Remnant--though you wouldn't
know what that means, huh?
**[12:35] ---**
Is "silicorundum" too much for you, too?
**[12:38] ---**
I know. You'd understand if I said the
wreckage of Tree Diagram, right?
**[12:43] ---**
The supercomputer that's said
to be the brains of Academy City?
**[12:47] ---**
And though derelict,
its computational core
**[12:50] ---**
still has tremendous
potential remaining within it.
**[12:52] ---**
Ridiculous.
It is still in its satellite orbit.
**[12:57] ---**
This is an attachment to the
report about it being shot down.
**[13:01] ---**
Quite rare, you know.
**[13:02] ---**
Tree Diagram was
destroyed quite some time ago.
**[13:07] ---**
That is why the whole world
wants its wreckage--the Remnant.
**[13:12] ---**
It must be rough for Misaka Mikoto.
**[13:14] ---**
Thanks to someone destroying
Tree Diagram for her,
**[13:18] ---**
her nightmare would have been over.
**[13:20] ---**
If it can be restored,
the experiments will be held again.
**[13:25] ---**
I can understand why she
would be trying to resist that.
**[13:28] ---**
Experiments?
**[13:30] ---**
You still don't get it?
You really are out of the loop, huh?
**[13:34] ---**
August 21st.
**[13:37] ---**
If you've managed to make it this far,
**[13:40] ---**
you and I might have become friends.
**[13:45] ---**
Splash!
**[13:47] ---**
...goes Misaka Misaka,
jumping into the bathtub!
**[13:50] ---**
Then, splashy splashy splashy,
**[13:52] ---**
kicks her feet with
a sense of freedom!
**[13:55] ---**
You know,
**[13:56] ---**
just because you're small,
don't go indulging yourself
**[13:59] ---**
by acting like this cramped
bathroom is spacious--
**[14:03] ---**
"Must be inconvenient,
not being able to use your Reflection,"
**[14:06] ---**
says Misaka Misaka with a look of pity.
**[14:09] ---**
"Also, what's the deal with an
esper brought to tears by shampoo,"
**[14:14] ---**
wonders Misaka Misaka in shock!
**[14:16] ---**
These aren't tears!
**[14:17] ---**
And if I could use your network
to calculate my Reflection, I'd--
**[14:22] ---**
Yomikawa! Why do I have to
take care of this dirty little brat?!
**[14:26] ---**
What choice is there?
**[14:28] ---**
Man, that Kikyo! Dumping
her problems on me yet again...
**[14:33] ---**
Well, these kids don't seem to
require *that* much care, though.
**[14:38] ---**
Yomikawa!!
**[14:41] ---**
I've determined the name of
the esper you fought, Miss Shirai.
**[14:45] ---**
Musujime Awaki. She's a 2nd-Year from
Kirigaoka Girls' School, and a Level 4.
**[14:50] ---**
Her ability is called Move Point,
**[14:53] ---**
and as you reported, she is able
to relocate objects at a distance--
**[14:57] ---**
or in other words, spatial
replacement from coordinate A to B.
**[15:01] ---**
Did you... find anything else out?
**[15:04] ---**
Well, she flunked blocking
other espers of the same type.
**[15:08] ---**
Also, she seems to have second
thoughts about teleporting herself.
**[15:12] ---**
Presumably because she was
badly injured doing so two years ago.
**[15:15] ---**
And another thing,
though this is unconfirmed--
**[15:18] ---**
she is supposed to be one of the "Guides."
**[15:20] ---**
Guides?
**[15:22] ---**
To the building without doors or windows.
**[15:25] ---**
The Academy City Governing
Board Director's home office?
**[15:28] ---**
But that is just an urban legend--
**[15:32] ---**
Miss Shirai? Are you all right?
**[15:34] ---**
Never mind, just keep going.
**[15:37] ---**
Right. According to Antiskill's intel,
**[15:40] ---**
the black-suited men
who were attacked are secure.
**[15:42] ---**
As for their identity,
**[15:43] ---**
it says they are couriers who
were hired by School District 23.
**[15:47] ---**
A psychometrist read their memories,
**[15:50] ---**
but they knew nothing
about what was inside the case.
**[15:53] ---**
So in short, while School District 23
was delivering the contents
**[15:57] ---**
of that travel case to
some other research facility,
**[16:00] ---**
they had it stolen from
them by Musujime's group.
**[16:04] ---**
Remnant... Tree Diagram...
**[16:09] ---**
It must be rough for Misaka Mikoto.
**[16:12] ---**
Her nightmare would have been over.
**[16:13] ---**
But just be sure to come back early tonight.
**[16:16] ---**
The weather might turn
bad come evening, after all.
**[16:21] ---**
Miss Shirai?
**[16:23] ---**
Um, why don't you let
Antiskill take over this case already?
**[16:28] ---**
Somehow, it seems like
it's more than we can handle.
**[16:34] ---**
I have to go.
**[16:35] ---**
Huh?
**[16:43] ---**
Kuroko?
**[16:44] ---**
What is it, Sissy?
**[16:48] ---**
You're in the bathroom? If you're home,
at least turn the room light on.
**[16:53] ---**
J-Just conserving energy.
**[16:57] ---**
I am a girl who is kind to the earth.
**[17:01] ---**
Hmm... But Academy City is
mainly powered by wind energy,
**[17:06] ---**
and CO2 isn't even a factor, is it?
**[17:08] ---**
Oh, Sissy, you tease.
**[17:12] ---**
I was thinking of using it as a pretext to
invite you into some lowered mood lighting.
**[17:19] ---**
What's the big idea?
**[17:21] ---**
Sissy, where have you been?
**[17:24] ---**
Oh, I guess you could say
I've been out collecting accessories
**[17:27] ---**
that I haven't been
able to buy up to now.
**[17:29] ---**
I just can't seem to find them.
**[17:32] ---**
I just came back to
get something I'd forgotten.
**[17:35] ---**
I'll be heading out for a bit again.
**[17:40] ---**
I hope you do not get rained on.
**[17:43] ---**
You cannot rely on the
weather forecasts these days.
**[17:49] ---**
Yeah. Thanks for worrying about me.
**[17:52] ---**
I'll try to be home
again as soon as I can.
**[18:01] ---**
Sissy...
**[18:05] ---**
August 21st...
**[18:08] ---**
That evening, an unexplained
windstorm swept through,
**[18:12] ---**
a rail switchyard in
School District 17 was devastated,
**[18:16] ---**
and the next day...
**[18:36] ---**
Uiharu...
**[18:37] ---**
Musujime's group is mixed up with an
organization outside of Academy City.
**[18:43] ---**
Can you run a simulation
of the escape route?
**[18:46] ---**
I am sorry, Sissy.
**[18:50] ---**
You bear a distress deeper
than the rest of us can only imagine.
**[18:57] ---**
You are trying to keep us
from becoming involved in it.
**[19:00] ---**
That is why I will
apologize now, upfront...
**[19:03] ---**
...for putting a stop to the
nightmare that Musujime mentioned
**[19:06] ---**
by sticking my nose into your
business in my own humble way!
**[19:13] ---**
Sissy!
**[19:26] ---**
Come on out of there, you coward!
**[19:29] ---**
How long do you plan to sneak around?!
**[19:43] ---**
Sissy...
**[19:46] ---**
You're in quite the
hurry today, aren't you?
**[19:49] ---**
Are you that afraid of the
Remnant being reintegrated?
**[19:52] ---**
Or is it that the experiments
will be restarted, I wonder.
**[19:55] ---**
You be quiet!
**[19:57] ---**
Hmph, you could just leave them alone.
**[19:59] ---**
They were created for
the experiments to begin with.
**[20:03] ---**
Why not let them be destroyed,
like they were meant to be?
**[20:05] ---**
Do you really mean that?
**[20:06] ---**
In the end, you're fighting
for your sake, aren't you?
**[20:11] ---**
Your regrets,
your misery, and your anger...
**[20:15] ---**
All for your own petty self-satisfaction.
**[20:18] ---**
You're right...
**[20:20] ---**
I *am* aggravated.
**[20:22] ---**
So aggravated that I could
burst the veins in my head.
**[20:26] ---**
That idiot...!
**[20:28] ---**
Did she really think
I wouldn't notice?
**[20:31] ---**
Just hearing her voice
through the door was so...
**[20:35] ---**
...was so terrible...
**[20:37] ---**
Yeah, I am aggravated.
**[20:40] ---**
At my over-perfect,
ridiculous underclassman,
**[20:43] ---**
the scum sitting in front of me,
**[20:44] ---**
and more than anything,
the one who created this situation--
**[20:47] ---**
which would be me!
**[20:49] ---**
You're so bighearted,
it's sickeningly sweet.
**[20:52] ---**
If you had complained that you were the
victim, we wouldn't have to fight now.
**[20:57] ---**
In any case, I cannot allow
myself to be caught right now.
**[21:00] ---**
I am going to make my way out
of here, no matter what I have to do.
**[21:03] ---**
Do you really think you can get away?
**[21:05] ---**
I already know everything
you've got up your sleeve!
**[21:11] ---**
Your shield is too flimsy!
**[21:13] ---**
A question for you--
**[21:16] ---**
How many ordinary people
who have nothing to do with this
**[21:19] ---**
are mixed up in here?
**[21:32] ---**
It looks like it is now my turn.
**[21:38] ---**
Well, here you go, Shirai Kuroko.
**[21:43] ---**
Into the very heart of the battlefield,
**[21:45] ---**
to make sure you make it back.
**[21:53] ---**
"If this is true, then I must hurry,"
**[21:57] ---**
says Misaka, tipping
up her own set of priorities.
**[22:02] ---**
"It is already past curfew,
but I cannot just remain here,"
**[22:07] ---**
says Misaka, invoking her
emergency excuse on herself.
**[22:15] ---**
"Even at this very moment,
matters are rapidly going downhill,"
**[22:21] ---**
says Misaka...
**[22:25] ---**
*Karamatta unmei mo kaete ikeru kara*
**[22:32] ---**
*subete wa kono te no naka ni aru!*
**[22:50] ---**
*Dare nimo makenai chikara ga koko ni nai nara*
**[22:56] ---**
*imajin nante kowashite shimaeba ii*
**[23:01] ---**
*Harimeguru shisutemu bakkappu insutooru wa OK*
**[23:07] ---**
*Kami sae mo shirienai fiirudo ga hiraku*
**[23:13] ---**
*Juuman no deeta mo isshun no mirakuru sae*
**[23:18] ---**
*suisoku fukanou na "ikite'ru katachi" dakara*
**[23:25] ---**
*In a Magic∞world exciting
time or space there's no limit*
**[23:31] ---**
*Dareka wo mamoreru chikara ga hoshii*
**[23:36] ---**
*Karamatta unmei mo kaete ikeru kara*
**[23:44] ---**
*subete wa kono te no naka ni aru!*
**[23:55] ---**
"Preview"
**[23:55] ---**
Shirai Kuroko and Musujime Awaki--
**[23:57] ---**
a battle between teleporters has begun.
**[23:59] ---**
The Sisters also set
out after the Remnant.
**[24:02] ---**
And also, *her*...
**[24:04] ---**
Next time, "Move Point."
**[24:05] ---**
When science and magic
cross paths, the story begins.
**[24:09] ---**
# 31 - Move Point (Coordinate Relocation)
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GRVNZK5PY/a-certain-magical-index)
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**[00:31] ---**
Just as tranquility had supposedly
returned to Misaka Mikoto's life,
**[00:34] ---**
darkness once again looms over her.
**[00:36] ---**
A mysterious organization operates in secret
**[00:37] ---**
concerning the wreckage of Tree Diagram.
**[00:39] ---**
A Level 4 esper, Musujime Awaki,
uses the technique Move Point.
**[00:43] ---**
And as for Shirai Kuroko,
**[00:45] ---**
who has caught a glimpse of
Misaka as she continues to
**[00:47] ---**
wage her lone secret battle...
**[01:08] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[01:11] ---**
*I gazed at the coin I had flipped*
**[01:16] ---**
*If it's heads I go, tails I stay*
**[01:20] ---**
*Let me know your answer first*
**[01:27] ---**
*"Please, won't you tell me?"*
**[01:32] ---**
*But the angel continued
to smile in discernment*
**[01:42] ---**
*Wander on! There's nobody
to lead you by the hand*
**[01:47] ---**
*The answer handed down
from God is one of woe*
**[01:53] ---**
*Yes, that is what your gift from God is*
**[01:58] ---**
*Once you overcome it, you'll start to see, so right now...
(Look for it by oneself, no buts about it)*
**[02:05] ---**
*No buts!*
**[02:20] ---**
"#07 Move Point (Coordinate Relocation)"
**[02:30] ---**
What is this?
**[02:32] ---**
There aren't any civilians
in here, are there?
**[02:52] ---**
It looks like you might
have underestimated me,
**[02:55] ---**
assuming I wouldn't
teleport myself, huh?
**[03:01] ---**
I can do it anytime, if I want to.
**[03:03] ---**
As long as I really want to,
the trauma isn't...
**[03:13] ---**
Do they not call it "trauma" because
it is not so easy to overcome?
**[03:18] ---**
Two years ago, you teleported
yourself, and were seriously injured.
**[03:24] ---**
You probably miscalculated
your coordinates,
**[03:26] ---**
and ran into a wall
or something, did you not?
**[03:28] ---**
Oh, my, what a poor show.
**[03:35] ---**
There is no need to panic.
I avoided anything vital.
**[03:40] ---**
Although, all I have done is
pay you back for where you got me.
**[03:45] ---**
Here is some styptic gel.
It works quite well.
**[03:51] ---**
Now, please, go ahead
and crawl around on the floor
**[03:54] ---**
while you treat your injuries.
**[03:56] ---**
Do that, and we will finally be even.
**[04:01] ---**
You are quite concerned about
your Tokiwadai Ace, aren't you?
**[04:05] ---**
But is she really worth
doing all this to protect?
**[04:08] ---**
The selfish, sentimental, fantasy
world that only Railgun dreams of?
**[04:15] ---**
Well of course I want to protect it.
**[04:18] ---**
However selfish she may be,
Sissy desires something--
**[04:23] ---**
the circumstances where
you and I do not have to do this.
**[04:28] ---**
If she wanted to, with a single coin,
**[04:30] ---**
she could blow everything to little pieces.
**[04:33] ---**
Even so, Sissy is someone
who can say with a serious face,
**[04:37] ---**
amid any amount of despair,
that she does not wish us to fight.
**[04:40] ---**
Do you think that I am going
to give the boot to such a wish?!
**[04:45] ---**
I am now going to have you
return her to her day-to-day life.
**[04:49] ---**
Just as somebody somewhere wishes,
and to which I am sympathetic.
**[04:54] ---**
In that case,
**[04:55] ---**
what if I trample on those wishes?
**[04:58] ---**
I guess I would win, huh?
**[05:11] ---**
I don't fall for the same trick twice!
**[05:33] ---**
I can't teleport!
**[05:49] ---**
What's the matter? In so much
pain that you couldn't teleport?
**[05:55] ---**
Tell me, have you heard this story?
**[05:59] ---**
Once upon a time, in some place,
**[06:01] ---**
there was a powerful esper and organization.
**[06:07] ---**
The organization thought that
by increasing their number of espers,
**[06:11] ---**
they could obtain a great deal of power,
**[06:14] ---**
so they manufactured many clones.
**[06:17] ---**
However, they ended up with a real mess.
**[06:19] ---**
The poor little sheep that they got
**[06:22] ---**
were colossal failures,
not even 1% as adequate as the Original.
**[06:29] ---**
"Okay then,
**[06:31] ---**
we will organize all the
information we have so far,"
**[06:33] ---**
asks Misaka 10032 over the Network
to an unspecified number of units.
**[06:40] ---**
"Currently, the only Remnant that
can possibly re-establish Tree Diagram
**[06:44] ---**
is somewhere in Academy City.
**[06:46] ---**
The name of the organization
that is after it is the Science Society.
**[06:50] ---**
There is no question about that, right?"
**[06:52] ---**
confirms Misaka 10032 once again.
**[06:58] ---**
"There is no question," affirms Misaka 10044.
**[07:04] ---**
"However, 10032,
**[07:06] ---**
you, of all the units out there,
suffered especially severe damage,
**[07:10] ---**
so shouldn't you concentrate on healing?"
**[07:12] ---**
says Misaka 10744, expressing apprehension.
**[07:21] ---**
"It doesn't matter,"
replies Misaka 10032 immediately.
**[07:27] ---**
"The reintegration of Tree Diagram
**[07:29] ---**
is something that
absolutely must be stopped,"
**[07:31] ---**
says Misaka 10032,
remembering the faces of that boy and girl,
**[07:36] ---**
renewing her determination.
**[07:39] ---**
"Acknowledged.
We will leave it to you,"
**[07:42] ---**
says Misaka 14458, nodding her head.
**[07:47] ---**
"If you would be so kind,"
says Misaka 19002 in support.
**[07:53] ---**
"Misaka asks you as well,"
says Misaka Misaka by way of request.
**[07:58] ---**
In fact, Misaka wants to do something, too!
**[08:00] ---**
Sitting around doing nothing is
not something Misaka Misaka can--
**[08:03] ---**
Hey!
**[08:05] ---**
Pipe down. What are
you babbling about over there?
**[08:11] ---**
"Nothing at all," says Misaka
Misaka, hands over her mouth.
**[08:21] ---**
Tell me, Miss Shirai,
**[08:23] ---**
despite having a perfect copy
of the genetics of the Original,
**[08:26] ---**
as well as the undergoing
the exact same ability development,
**[08:29] ---**
how is it that the clones can't
reach the same level as the Original?
**[08:34] ---**
Could it be...
**[08:35] ---**
...that there is something else
involved besides brain composition?
**[08:39] ---**
Once that gets identified,
do you think that non-humans
**[08:42] ---**
will be able to master abilities, as well?
**[08:44] ---**
Something with a brain comparable
to or even superior to people?
**[08:48] ---**
They could be a lot closer than you'd expect.
**[08:51] ---**
What are you talking about?
**[08:54] ---**
You cannot mean machines
that possess abilities!
**[08:58] ---**
A machine is just a machine.
However, they can make predictions.
**[09:02] ---**
If there were a machine that
could perfectly simulate any phenomenon...
**[09:08] ---**
I could ask it about any possibility.
**[09:11] ---**
Whether or not there are things
**[09:13] ---**
that could use abilities
in place of humans.
**[09:17] ---**
For example, dolphins
are called humans of the sea,
**[09:21] ---**
and ant societies have
strict rules of order and discipline.
**[09:24] ---**
Esper abilities cannot just
be the privilege of mankind.
**[09:28] ---**
But if so, why don't any
non-humans have them?
**[09:32] ---**
That... is what I want to know.
**[09:35] ---**
And to that end, I...
**[09:38] ---**
...will build a new Tree Diagram
from this Remnant!
**[09:43] ---**
Ee-yow!
**[09:45] ---**
Why would you suddenly do
that for no reason?! Come on! Let go!
**[09:49] ---**
I mean... I'm sorry.
Please let go, Miss Index!
**[09:57] ---**
You're so mean, Toma!
**[09:59] ---**
Eh?
**[10:01] ---**
After I took the trouble to think
up a neat tongue-twister for you!
**[10:06] ---**
Now, look, how does "Toma takes
in tofu too far away, the tomfool,"
**[10:11] ---**
not make fun of me,
no matter how you look at it?!
**[10:15] ---**
Er, I didn't mean that.
**[10:24] ---**
Misaka...?
**[10:26] ---**
"I have a favor to ask..."
**[10:29] ---**
says Misaka looking
directly at your face,
**[10:32] ---**
while pouring out her heart.
**[10:35] ---**
Please come save Misaka
and Misaka's sisters' lives.
**[10:43] ---**
I won't allow it.
**[10:48] ---**
Not those experiments.
**[10:54] ---**
I can't let them start them up
again, no matter what.
**[11:00] ---**
"Antiskill Case Response Record"
**[11:02] ---**
"Property damage to an Area F restaurant,
**[11:04] ---**
in what appears to be
a skirmish between espers."
**[11:09] ---**
That idiot!
**[11:18] ---**
I've been looking for you, Zapper.
**[11:22] ---**
Been looking for me? Why?
**[11:27] ---**
Why are you doing this again?
**[11:29] ---**
Hey...
**[11:32] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[11:33] ---**
Let's go, Zapper.
**[11:38] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[11:42] ---**
That is why you collaborated
with an outside organization?
**[11:45] ---**
Yes.
**[11:46] ---**
Even if I do possess
this valuable Remnant,
**[11:49] ---**
I can't restore the thing by myself.
**[11:52] ---**
That's why I needed an outfit
**[11:54] ---**
with technical skill, intelligence,
as well as a purpose.
**[11:57] ---**
Miss Shirai, tell me, how did it feel?
**[12:01] ---**
When you first obtained *your* ability?
**[12:04] ---**
To be honest, I was afraid.
**[12:07] ---**
Possessing this kind of
power was scarier than anything.
**[12:12] ---**
If it didn't have to be a person--
If it didn't have to be me,
**[12:17] ---**
then why is it that
I have this kind of power?
**[12:20] ---**
The ones I am with
also bear the same concerns.
**[12:25] ---**
They all curse their own abilities,
and have been seeking answers.
**[12:30] ---**
That is why they're working with me,
**[12:32] ---**
and were even willing to shield me.
**[12:35] ---**
It's happened to you, too, right?
**[12:37] ---**
You used your ability,
and ended up hurting someone?
**[12:42] ---**
I know what it's like.
You are a lot like me.
**[12:46] ---**
How about it, Miss Shirai?
**[12:48] ---**
If you'd like to learn the truth together,
**[12:51] ---**
then I would be glad to invite you in.
**[12:57] ---**
I must decline.
**[12:59] ---**
Did you think that you could
win over me, Shirai Kuroko,
**[13:02] ---**
with your own self-fascinated prose?
**[13:05] ---**
I guess villains really
are full of empty talk after all.
**[13:08] ---**
Don't you get it? We espers may
have avoided becoming monsters!
**[13:14] ---**
--These dangerous abilities are--
--Ridiculous!
**[13:16] ---**
Abilities are just abilities,
no matter how far they are carried.
**[13:19] ---**
How the power is
used depends on the person.
**[13:22] ---**
You are a fool if you have not
realized something so obvious!
**[13:28] ---**
You are afraid of power?
**[13:30] ---**
You don't want it because it hurts others?
**[13:33] ---**
Please, do not make me laugh.
**[13:36] ---**
Whether or not you have power,
**[13:38] ---**
it does not change the fact that
you are someone who hurts others!
**[13:43] ---**
It turns out that your way of
talking is nothing more
**[13:45] ---**
than a sneaky evasion of
your openly condescending attitude,
**[13:49] ---**
in which you think you are special,
and those around you are average!
**[13:53] ---**
And right now, I am going
to take that cankered nature...
**[13:57] ---**
...and beat it out of you!
**[14:00] ---**
No...
**[14:02] ---**
No, stay back...!
**[15:14] ---**
I'll kill you.
**[15:16] ---**
How dare you make me crack like that.
**[15:19] ---**
If it weren't for you...
**[15:21] ---**
I still could have been somebody!
**[15:28] ---**
My Move Point can move
a maximum of 4520 kilograms.
**[15:33] ---**
I can hit this place,
even from far away.
**[15:36] ---**
You, to say nothing of
this building, will be destroyed!
**[15:40] ---**
Oh, did you still need that case?
**[15:47] ---**
I'm gonna destroy you!
**[15:50] ---**
Because you're the
one who destroyed me.
**[15:52] ---**
I have to get you back in full for that!
**[16:02] ---**
Sissy...
**[16:18] ---**
4520... kilograms...
**[16:31] ---**
That light!
**[16:33] ---**
Sissy!
**[16:36] ---**
You must not come up here, Sissy!
**[16:40] ---**
Kuroko!
**[17:20] ---**
Just who... are you...?
**[17:36] ---**
This is A001 calling M000.
**[17:39] ---**
Status report to follow code confirmation...
**[17:44] ---**
You've got some nerve, swindling a kid,
**[17:48] ---**
then watching from a safe distance!
**[17:55] ---**
What do I do?
**[17:57] ---**
What do I do now?
**[18:10] ---**
I gotta say...
**[18:11] ---**
...here I am, going to more
than a bit of trouble to get out...
**[18:16] ---**
...and what do I find but
some foolhardy third-string?
**[18:20] ---**
It can't be...
**[18:22] ---**
Accelerator? The one not
even Railgun could deal with?
**[18:26] ---**
The greatest Level 5
in all of Academy City?
**[18:30] ---**
He's too much!
**[18:31] ---**
There's no way...
**[18:33] ---**
There's no way I can
go up against someone like--
**[18:39] ---**
I know!
**[18:40] ---**
Huh?
**[18:41] ---**
I know you lost your power on August 31st!
**[18:45] ---**
Yeah... You don't have
the ability to calculate anymore!
**[18:50] ---**
You no longer have the power you once did!
**[18:55] ---**
I feel bad for you.
**[18:57] ---**
If you actually
mean what you're saying,
**[18:59] ---**
then I feel so bad for
you I could just hug you.
**[19:02] ---**
It's true enough that on that day,
I suffered some brain damage.
**[19:06] ---**
Nowadays, I outsource my calculating.
**[19:09] ---**
However, while I may have become weaker,
**[19:13] ---**
it doesn't necessarily mean
you've gotten any stronger, does it?
**[19:18] ---**
Huh?!
**[19:37] ---**
Sorry,
**[19:38] ---**
but the way ahead goes only "One-Way!"
**[19:41] ---**
Now tearfully tuck tail like a good girl,
**[19:43] ---**
and go on back to wherever
you came from in disgrace!
**[20:01] ---**
But then,
**[20:04] ---**
it's true, in the shape I'm in,
**[20:06] ---**
I may have to step down
as Academy City's top dog.
**[20:10] ---**
But even so...
**[20:14] ---**
I've decided to keep acting
the top dog in front of that kid.
**[20:20] ---**
Damn it all.
**[20:26] ---**
Look, look, Toma! I finally mastered
the method of buying drinks!
**[20:32] ---**
Yeah.
**[20:33] ---**
Hmm? What's the matter, Toma?
**[20:36] ---**
Tell me what *isn't* the matter!
**[20:39] ---**
I came to pay my respects to Shirai...
**[20:44] ---**
There was nothing I could do,
**[20:46] ---**
so I went to visit Misaka's sister, when...
**[20:53] ---**
It's just my luck.
**[20:54] ---**
So, what did the Remnant turn out to be?
**[20:57] ---**
You heroically walked
out with that naked girl,
**[21:00] ---**
but after that,
you didn't yield anything, right?
**[21:02] ---**
Yeah. The girl behind it all
had been beaten up by someone,
**[21:07] ---**
and the contents of
the case were strewn all over.
**[21:09] ---**
Man, there's no telling
who might have gotten to her.
**[21:13] ---**
So as it turns out,
**[21:14] ---**
Yomikawa says she was off
smashing up the "Science Society."
**[21:18] ---**
"Word is that they also
had contact with Amai Ao,"
**[21:21] ---**
reports Misaka Misaka.
**[21:24] ---**
Oh, yeah?
**[21:25] ---**
"Hey, why are you blowing
it off like it's nothing?!"
**[21:29] ---**
--asks Misaka Misaka--
--Put a sock in it!
**[21:31] ---**
Show me a little gratitude by
just sitting there quietly for a bit.
**[21:39] ---**
The weather forecast
did not get it right, did it?
**[21:43] ---**
Hmm, you're right.
**[21:45] ---**
Sissy, I found something out.
**[21:49] ---**
That place is the world in which you fight.
**[21:53] ---**
Kuroko...
**[21:56] ---**
Everything that happened
was due to my inexperience.
**[22:01] ---**
As such, Sissy, please smile, okay?
**[22:06] ---**
I will look to that smile to
get me back on my feet again.
**[22:13] ---**
Mm-hmm.
**[22:19] ---**
Thanks... Kuroko.
**[22:25] ---**
*I can change even the
destiny that entwines me*
**[22:32] ---**
*so I have everything in my hand!*
**[22:49] ---**
*If I lack the power to
not be outdone by anyone*
**[22:55] ---**
*I can always destroy that illusion*
**[23:01] ---**
*The laid out system
backup install is okay*
**[23:07] ---**
*Fields unknown even
to God become opened*
**[23:13] ---**
*It's a "living form" that not even data*
**[23:18] ---**
*from 100,000 memories
in a moment's miracle can infer*
**[23:25] ---**
*In a Magic∞world exciting
time or space there's no limit*
**[23:31] ---**
*I want the power it
takes to protect somebody*
**[23:36] ---**
*I can change even
the destiny that entwines me*
**[23:44] ---**
*so I have everything in my hand!*
**[23:55] ---**
"Preview"
**[23:55] ---**
The Daihasei Festival, Academy
City's greatest event,
**[23:58] ---**
that all of students get fired up for.
**[23:59] ---**
A new magician uses the occasion
to sneak in. But what is her aim?
**[24:04] ---**
Next time, "The Daihasei Festival."
**[24:06] ---**
When science and magic cross
paths, the story begins.
**[24:09] ---**
# 32 - The Daihasei Festival
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GRVNZK5PY/a-certain-magical-index)
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**[00:32] ---**
In just a few minutes,
**[00:34] ---**
the Daihasei Festival's
opening ceremony will begin.
**[00:37] ---**
Here in Academy City,
**[00:38] ---**
the place is filled with
students' families and spectators!
**[00:42] ---**
Get your Maid Bento lunches!
**[00:44] ---**
Who wants one of Academy City's
famous Maid Bento lunches?
**[00:48] ---**
Get your Ryoran Household Arts
School's Maid Bento lunches--
**[00:51] ---**
or more precisely,
Probationary Maid Lunches here!
**[00:55] ---**
My, my, Academy City sure
does have a lot of schools, doesn't it?
**[00:59] ---**
Y-Yeah. It's a place where
educational organizations
**[01:03] ---**
from around the world are all
concentrated into one location.
**[01:06] ---**
E-Excuse me!
**[01:07] ---**
No, I should apologize.
**[01:10] ---**
Um, would you happen to know
where Tokiwadai Middle School is?
**[01:15] ---**
Huh? Oh, just a moment, please.
**[01:18] ---**
Tokiwadai... Tokiwadai...
**[01:21] ---**
It's not here.
Perhaps it's not open to the public?
**[01:25] ---**
Huh? Are you sure?
Then where could Mikoto be?!
**[01:29] ---**
I-Is this Mikoto your
younger sister, or someone?
**[01:33] ---**
My, my...
**[01:35] ---**
Not again, Toya.
**[01:38] ---**
--Gah! It really isn't on here! What do I do?
--Again, you say, Mom?
**[01:42] ---**
Oh, isn't that Toma over there?
**[01:44] ---**
Yeah, okay! If I happen to lose
to you, I'll play your penalty game.
**[01:49] ---**
I'll do whatever you tell me to do.
**[01:52] ---**
All right, I'm in.
Anything I say, right? Anything.
**[01:55] ---**
In return, if you lose,
you get the penalty game, too.
**[01:59] ---**
Wha--? S-So then, you mean,
a-anything *you* say...?
**[02:04] ---**
Oh, dear, given the way you were
shooting your mouth off just now,
**[02:08] ---**
is that really all the
confidence you've got?
**[02:11] ---**
Okay, fine. Let's do this, why don't we?
**[02:14] ---**
But don't come crying to me later!
**[02:17] ---**
My, my...
**[02:20] ---**
Looks like Mikoto is doing well.
**[02:40] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[02:43] ---**
*Yubi de hajiku koin mitsumeta*
**[02:48] ---**
*Omote nara GO Ura wa STAY*
**[02:52] ---**
*Mazu kotae wo kikasete*
**[02:58] ---**
*"Douka oshiete kuremasen ka?"*
**[03:03] ---**
*Tenshi wa misadameru egao no mama*
**[03:14] ---**
*Mayoe! Sono te wo hiku mono nado inai*
**[03:19] ---**
*Kami ga kudasu sono kotae wa fukou datta*
**[03:24] ---**
*Sou sore koso kami kara no okurimono*
**[03:30] ---**
*Norikoetara miete kuru sa dakara ima sugu
(Look for it by oneself, no buts about it)*
**[03:37] ---**
*No buts!*
**[03:54] ---**
The Daihasei Festival opening
ceremony is about to start, right?
**[03:58] ---**
I would think a word of greeting
would be necessary, would it not?
**[04:02] ---**
Do you think that I go
out in public looking like I do?
**[04:06] ---**
Then let us proceed
with our discussion unabated.
**[04:08] ---**
Concerning the magician who
has made her way inside Academy City?
**[04:13] ---**
Through security measures
that have become lax.
**[04:16] ---**
There are two of them that
we have identified as of right now.
**[04:19] ---**
An officer of the Roman Orthodox
Church, and a courier in her employ.
**[04:24] ---**
Their objective is said to be
a transaction for a certain item.
**[04:28] ---**
A certain item?
**[04:31] ---**
Up you go...
**[04:33] ---**
A sword?
**[04:35] ---**
This is a replica,
**[04:37] ---**
but it's the "Stab Sword."
**[04:39] ---**
It is even claimed to be the sword that
pierced a dragon, binding it to the ground.
**[04:43] ---**
If it were to end up in the wrong hands,
the English Puritan Church
**[04:46] ---**
could find itself quickly
placed in a dire predicament.
**[04:49] ---**
Then you might call it a
tactical weapon among your world.
**[04:53] ---**
Our greatest problem is that
the transaction for the Stab Sword
**[04:57] ---**
is being held there
within Academy City.
**[05:01] ---**
Which would mean that that young man
**[05:04] ---**
must be appointed as a traveling guide.
**[05:10] ---**
Toma! Toma!
**[05:11] ---**
I think I might be hungry!
**[05:13] ---**
Huh? You just barely
ate breakfast, didn't you?
**[05:15] ---**
But the most indescribable aromas
are floating around me everywhere,
**[05:19] ---**
and it doesn't make any difference!
**[05:21] ---**
Ah, Japanese cuisine may be a
mass of temptation called appetite!
**[05:26] ---**
Yeah, all right, all right.
I'll take you around later on.
**[05:30] ---**
Later on?
**[05:31] ---**
Yeah. The first event is about to start.
**[05:34] ---**
The events that I'm taking
part in today are marked in there.
**[05:38] ---**
Let's go, Index.
**[05:40] ---**
T-Toma seems like he's
incredibly no-nonsense today.
**[05:51] ---**
Ugh... I *so* don't wanna do this.
**[05:54] ---**
Guys, what's with all this
down-and-out spirit, on the first day?
**[05:57] ---**
We've been arguing over how
we're going to beat the other schools,
**[06:01] ---**
and our already limited strength has
been reduced to near zero. What of it?
**[06:05] ---**
You put the cart before
the horse, you know!
**[06:07] ---**
That's just how competition
between students is.
**[06:10] ---**
Just my luck.
**[06:12] ---**
What's the deal with this lack of energy?!
**[06:18] ---**
Let me guess, Kamijo!
You're so inappropriately lazy,
**[06:21] ---**
now it's spreading to all the others!
**[06:23] ---**
I just barely got here, myself!
**[06:25] ---**
So in other words, you showed up late,
**[06:27] ---**
sucking out the enthusiasm from the others!
**[06:29] ---**
Fukiyose, *you* got here later than I did!
**[06:32] ---**
I was on steering
committee business, you idiot!
**[06:35] ---**
Just leave me alone.
**[06:36] ---**
Kamijo, face-to-face
with his unfortunate reality,
**[06:39] ---**
is finding it difficult
to rise to his feet.
**[06:42] ---**
That's just a little anemia.
**[06:44] ---**
Here, top yourself
off with this sports drink!
**[06:47] ---**
I happen to not like folks
who use bad luck or misfortune
**[06:50] ---**
as an excuse to cut corners
as they live their lives!
**[06:53] ---**
When you slack off, the enthusiasm
of those around you also dries up!
**[06:55] ---**
So snap to, already, snap to!
**[07:03] ---**
U-Um...
**[07:06] ---**
Th-That is...
**[07:11] ---**
Have you got something to say?
**[07:13] ---**
N-No, I do not! No!
**[07:22] ---**
This is no time for
anyone to be tower toppling.
**[07:25] ---**
It really could be hopeless.
**[07:26] ---**
Like I said,
you have to acknowledge
**[07:28] ---**
that there are deficiencies
in our facilities!
**[07:30] ---**
But that is in no way a
reflection on the students!
**[07:33] ---**
It's because your students
are of such poor quality
**[07:35] ---**
that you don't receive more money
from the governing board, right?
**[07:38] ---**
Ha! It must make work extra hard,
being saddled with rejects, huh?
**[07:43] ---**
Th-The students are neither
successes nor failures!
**[07:47] ---**
The only thing they
are is their own individuals!
**[07:49] ---**
That's quite the dreamlike
opinion you have of them,
**[07:52] ---**
but I will see your
left-behinds crushed to pieces
**[07:55] ---**
in the tower topple
that is about to start.
**[08:02] ---**
No you won't.
**[08:04] ---**
They are not all left-behinds,
after all, are they?
**[08:13] ---**
Hey, guys... I'm gonna
ask you one more time...
**[08:19] ---**
Are you really not up for this?!
**[08:21] ---**
The first event is the tower topple.
**[08:23] ---**
The schools are now taking the field.
**[08:26] ---**
He's so reckless. There's no
way they're going to beat our school.
**[08:30] ---**
Oh...
**[08:32] ---**
I'm so hungry...
**[08:36] ---**
She doesn't have
heatstroke or anything, right?
**[08:44] ---**
You really are
just hungry, aren't you?
**[08:47] ---**
What are you doing here,
short-hair? Cheering on Toma?
**[08:51] ---**
W-Why would I have
to be cheering that guy on?
**[08:55] ---**
I mean, we've got a bet as
to which team is going to win.
**[08:58] ---**
And I'm obviously
the one who's going to win...
**[09:01] ---**
Huh? What do I do when I win?
**[09:05] ---**
He said he would
do whatever I tell him to...
**[09:06] ---**
Ah! It's Toma!
**[09:15] ---**
What on earth is he ready for?
**[09:17] ---**
D-Don't tell me he
seriously means to win this!
**[09:20] ---**
What is he planning
to demand of me if he wins?!
**[09:23] ---**
Ready... begin!
**[09:42] ---**
W-What's going on, everyone,
to make you try that hard out there?
**[09:47] ---**
Even if you won,
**[09:49] ---**
seeing you worn ragged
like that makes me... makes me...
**[09:56] ---**
Hey, Index!
**[10:00] ---**
Geez, what am
I going to do with her?
**[10:02] ---**
Ah, my cell... is in my bag.
**[10:35] ---**
I-I'm just here to get my cell phone,
**[10:37] ---**
so I can meet up with a lost child.
**[10:40] ---**
In no way did I mean
anything improper by this...
**[10:47] ---**
Huh?
**[10:50] ---**
There you are! Toma!
**[10:52] ---**
Huh? Toma,
why are your eyes watering?
**[10:56] ---**
Where is your cell phone?
**[10:58] ---**
It's right here!
**[10:59] ---**
Then why don't you answer it?!
**[11:02] ---**
The battery's dead.
**[11:04] ---**
Never mind that, I'm hungry.
Give me something to eat, Toma.
**[11:09] ---**
Ugh... If we go to the booth area,
they'll have tons of food there.
**[11:13] ---**
Tons of it!
**[11:14] ---**
"Notice-- No thoroughfare"
**[11:17] ---**
Oh, sorry. The parade
through here is starting soon.
**[11:22] ---**
Um, we'd like to cross over to there.
**[11:25] ---**
There's an underground mall
about three kilometers
**[11:27] ---**
to the west where you can get across.
**[11:29] ---**
Three kilometers?
**[11:30] ---**
I can almost reach out and touch it, but...
**[11:33] ---**
Yeah... Just tough it out
until the giant ball roll is over.
**[11:38] ---**
To... ma...
**[11:40] ---**
Huh? Why are you...
**[11:43] ---**
Hold on!
**[11:48] ---**
Yeah! I caught you!
You're going to ensure my victory!
**[11:56] ---**
First place in the scavenger hunt
goes to Tokiwadai Middle School
**[11:59] ---**
contestant Misaka Mikoto!
**[12:03] ---**
The scavenger hunt?
**[12:04] ---**
Yep. "A high school student
who competed in the first event."
**[12:08] ---**
You happen to fit that bill, right?
**[12:11] ---**
Ah... There are any number of
other guys who meet that condition--
**[12:17] ---**
Hey, what are you doing!
**[12:24] ---**
Oh, geez. Here, drink some of this.
**[12:30] ---**
In fact, what the heck, you can have it!
**[12:39] ---**
Wow...
**[12:41] ---**
While the rest of us were
out toiling under the blazing sun
**[12:44] ---**
and I thought about how
you have to rest, Miss Shirai,
**[12:47] ---**
I just couldn't stand it anymore,
**[12:50] ---**
so I wanted you to
come give us a hand at work.
**[12:55] ---**
Thanks for the overly
charming sense of friendship.
**[12:58] ---**
So, have any problems come up?
**[13:01] ---**
Not at the moment.
**[13:02] ---**
Securing first prize,
contestant Misaka Mikoto
**[13:05] ---**
maintains her posture
even after reaching the goal,
**[13:07] ---**
and shows off how
much energy she still has to spare.
**[13:10] ---**
"Live" "Z Studio"
"Daihasei Festival Digest"
**[13:11] ---**
Sissy! Ah, my beautiful Sissy!
**[13:15] ---**
The sight of her caring for the
fellow contributor who ran with her
**[13:18] ---**
was also impressive.
**[13:21] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[13:23] ---**
I'll kill him!
**[13:27] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[13:30] ---**
"Marching band parade now in progress!!"
**[13:37] ---**
She's been out of my sight for
a while now. I hope Index is okay.
**[13:48] ---**
What's he...
**[13:57] ---**
Security around Academy City
has been softened these days,
**[14:00] ---**
to be more welcoming to
general public spectators, right?
**[14:02] ---**
Some magicians have taken
advantage of that fact to sneak in.
**[14:07] ---**
At present, we have
identified two of them.
**[14:10] ---**
Lidvia Lorenzetti,
of the Roman Orthodox Church,
**[14:13] ---**
and the courier she
has hired, Oriana Thomson.
**[14:16] ---**
Courier?
**[14:17] ---**
They are here in the city attempting
to conduct a transaction
**[14:19] ---**
for a relic that has been
handed down through the church.
**[14:22] ---**
Why would they do that here?
**[14:24] ---**
Academy City is the place that
has the least to do with the occult.
**[14:26] ---**
All the more reason.
**[14:29] ---**
This is where the Academy City
side and the magic side
**[14:31] ---**
will both have
trouble interfering with them.
**[14:34] ---**
The only one who can act is your
acquaintance, who has come to Academy City.
**[14:39] ---**
Well, what about Kanzaki?
She's a saint or something, as I recall.
**[14:43] ---**
Kanzaki cannot be used. Especially for this.
**[14:47] ---**
After all, the relic being
traded is this relic.
**[14:49] ---**
Huh? What does that mean?
**[14:52] ---**
Kami, this relic's name is the "Stab Sword."
**[14:57] ---**
Word is, it's something that
can spell instant death for any saint.
**[15:01] ---**
Look out!
**[15:03] ---**
Yikes!
**[15:03] ---**
Huh? What for?
**[15:08] ---**
What do you think
you're doing, Kamijo Toma?!
**[15:14] ---**
Do you know how the
"Son of God" who was crucified
**[15:18] ---**
was actually killed, Kami?
**[15:20] ---**
I believe... he died on the cross.
**[15:23] ---**
He was speared to death.
**[15:25] ---**
The Stab Sword is a
**[15:27] ---**
relic that distills the
religious significance of the
**[15:30] ---**
execution and spearing, and amplifies,
condenses, and focuses it to the extreme.
**[15:35] ---**
It has no effect on a regular person,
**[15:37] ---**
but if a saint is involved, it boasts
the power to kill them in one strike.
**[15:41] ---**
What are the magicians planning,
dealing for something like that?
**[15:46] ---**
A war, of course. In the world of magic,
**[15:49] ---**
saints amount to the same
thing as tactical weapons.
**[15:52] ---**
But there are still plenty of
magicians who aren't saints, right?
**[15:56] ---**
I get the feeling that you
could fight even without Kanzaki.
**[15:59] ---**
That's not what the problem is.
**[16:03] ---**
It's not about whether
or not one can actually win,
**[16:06] ---**
it's when the illusion is provided
that one might be able to win
**[16:09] ---**
that wars tend to break out.
**[16:13] ---**
But, if the problem is that serious,
**[16:15] ---**
shouldn't we be enlisting
Index's cooperation?
**[16:18] ---**
No can do. We can't use the
List of Prohibited Books for this one.
**[16:23] ---**
We can't let her get
anywhere near the site,
**[16:25] ---**
nor can we tell her any
information about this incident.
**[16:30] ---**
Why not?
**[16:31] ---**
Because outside magicians
will concentrate their search on her,
**[16:34] ---**
thinking that if anything happens,
she'll be at the center of it.
**[16:38] ---**
If she makes any moves,
any magicians who take notice
**[16:41] ---**
will unanimously come swarming in on her.
**[16:45] ---**
"S-71 Central Gymnasium Rear"
**[16:45] ---**
In other words, you're saying
we have to do everything we can
**[16:49] ---**
to keep Index from noticing any magic.
**[16:55] ---**
When I came running
after Miss Yomikawa called me,
**[16:58] ---**
you were as limp as
unsold vegetables still on the shelf,
**[17:00] ---**
so I really was shocked.
**[17:06] ---**
Thank you, that was delicious!
**[17:09] ---**
I have to wonder, though,
where did Toma go off to?
**[17:12] ---**
It's almost time for lunch.
**[17:15] ---**
U-Um, wasn't this just lunch?
**[17:18] ---**
I...
**[17:21] ---**
...have been like this all day.
**[17:23] ---**
Am I growing apart from Toma?
**[17:27] ---**
Hmm... Yes, you're right.
I'm sure you would like to enjoy
**[17:31] ---**
the Daihasei Festival
together with Kamijo, Sister.
**[17:35] ---**
It's all right!
**[17:37] ---**
There is something that
you can participate in, too, Sister!
**[17:40] ---**
Huh?
**[17:43] ---**
She's not here.
Has she really become a lost child?
**[17:48] ---**
Why have you
had that look on your face,
**[17:51] ---**
like you're about to
begin a final boss battle?
**[17:54] ---**
You look like you're ready to
die at any moment.
**[17:57] ---**
If you're hungry,
how about eating a Bento lunch?
**[17:59] ---**
Never mind me, have you seen
Index around anywhere?
**[18:04] ---**
If you mean the Sister,
she was walking around over there.
**[18:06] ---**
Thanks!
**[18:08] ---**
It looked like she was being
led by the hand, by that famous
**[18:12] ---**
mini-sized teacher from your school.
**[18:19] ---**
Index?
**[18:26] ---**
It's just you, huh? Where's Index?
**[18:31] ---**
I'm so sorry.
**[18:33] ---**
I really hate to have to
make you change clothes here.
**[18:46] ---**
Toma! Maybe you should
count how many times this makes!
**[18:54] ---**
I-In--
**[18:54] ---**
W-Wah!
**[18:59] ---**
Er, um, Miss Index...?
**[19:02] ---**
It's all right. It was just an accident.
**[19:04] ---**
You don't have to take it so seriously.
**[19:08] ---**
--Uh-oh...
--Kamijo!
**[19:09] ---**
Here I am, on steering committee
business, looking for Miss Tsukuyomi,
**[19:12] ---**
and what do I see?
**[19:23] ---**
...you big traitor!
**[19:28] ---**
For crying out loud,
can't you put a little effort
**[19:31] ---**
into making the tournament a success?
**[19:33] ---**
Just which event is
our school competing in now?
**[19:36] ---**
Why can't you even remember that much?!
**[19:39] ---**
I get it! You aren't getting
enough nutrients to the brain,
**[19:41] ---**
so start ingesting a little more sugar!
**[19:43] ---**
D-Doing so won't do
anything to fix Kamijo's stupidity!
**[19:47] ---**
Doesn't it even pain you to say it yourself?
**[19:50] ---**
It's the 2nd-Year girls' tug of war
**[19:51] ---**
and the 3rd-Year boys' all-star triathlon.
**[19:54] ---**
Which should you be rooting for?
It's gotta be the girls.
**[19:57] ---**
Yeah, of course, you are Kamijo, after all.
**[19:59] ---**
Just don't grab the collar anymore!
**[20:02] ---**
Okay, here.
**[20:05] ---**
Come on, hurry up!
**[20:13] ---**
Hey, Kamijo, do you find
the Daihasei Festival boring?
**[20:16] ---**
Huh?
**[20:17] ---**
You seem a little erratic,
like your mind is on something else.
**[20:23] ---**
And if you feel like today has been boring,
**[20:26] ---**
it means that as a member
of the steering committee,
**[20:29] ---**
who got all of this ready,
something I did was inadequate.
**[20:32] ---**
No, I don't particularly think it's boring.
**[20:34] ---**
Sure, as someone
who put together the planning
**[20:36] ---**
and worked hard on it up to today,
**[20:38] ---**
I'm going to want to make sure
everyone has a good time, you know?
**[20:43] ---**
Maybe that's a little selfish of me.
**[20:50] ---**
It looks like it's no use,
since your mind is elsewhere, huh?!
**[20:53] ---**
No, it's not!
**[20:54] ---**
Oh, I'm sorry!
**[21:01] ---**
Get away from me, Kamijo Toma!
**[21:06] ---**
Oh, my...
**[21:10] ---**
Sorry. I'm not quite accustomed
to having so many people around.
**[21:13] ---**
--Not at all...
--Whoa...
**[21:15] ---**
Are you all right? Does it hurt anywhere?
**[21:18] ---**
Your forehead is turning red.
**[21:21] ---**
No, I...
**[21:23] ---**
To apologize for running into you.
**[21:26] ---**
Or would you prefer a kiss?
**[21:27] ---**
Yes! A kiss would be--
**[21:29] ---**
Ee-yow...
**[21:32] ---**
Well then...
**[21:37] ---**
I have to be getting back to work. Bye, now.
**[21:51] ---**
Hello? This is Oriana Thomson.
**[21:54] ---**
Can you hear me?
**[21:55] ---**
Refrain from using your real name.
**[21:57] ---**
Everyone around you
can hear your voice, can't they?
**[22:00] ---**
Never mind about that,
I've run into a little trouble.
**[22:03] ---**
It looks like that spell
you used on me has been broken.
**[22:07] ---**
What was the cause?
**[22:08] ---**
I don't know.
**[22:11] ---**
It's kind of a turn-on.
**[22:13] ---**
Watch those indecent expressions.
Can you take any countermeasures?
**[22:17] ---**
Let's see... First of all,
**[22:19] ---**
I'll have to give this
boy behind me the slip.
**[22:25] ---**
*Karamatta unmei mo kaete ikeru kara*
**[22:32] ---**
*subete wa kono te no naka ni aru!*
**[22:49] ---**
*Dare nimo makenai chikara ga koko ni nai nara*
**[22:55] ---**
*imajin nante kowashite shimaeba ii*
**[23:01] ---**
*Harimeguru shisutemu bakkappu insutooru wa OK*
**[23:07] ---**
*Kami sae mo shirienai fiirudo ga hiraku*
**[23:13] ---**
*Juuman no deeta mo isshun no mirakuru sae*
**[23:18] ---**
*suisoku fukanou na "ikite'ru katachi" dakara*
**[23:25] ---**
*In a Magic∞world exciting
time or space there's no limit*
**[23:31] ---**
*Dareka wo mamoreru chikara ga hoshii*
**[23:36] ---**
*Karamatta unmei mo kaete ikeru kara*
**[23:44] ---**
*subete wa kono te no naka ni aru!*
**[23:55] ---**
"Preview"
**[23:55] ---**
We are made fools of as
Oriana runs away from us.
**[23:57] ---**
Stiyl risks his life to
research the spell that she casts.
**[24:01] ---**
And then, the place that we locate...
**[24:03] ---**
Next time, "Route Disturb."
**[24:05] ---**
When science and
magic cross paths, the story begins.
**[24:08] ---**
# 33 - Route Disturb (Pursuit Inhibited)
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GRVNZK5PY/a-certain-magical-index)
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**[00:31] ---**
Academy City is bustling over
the Daihasei Festival.
**[00:34] ---**
Taking advantage of that fact,
a transaction for the Stab Sword,
**[00:37] ---**
a relic capable of killing a
saint in one blow, is to be held.
**[00:40] ---**
Their courier's name
is Oriana Thomson.
**[00:44] ---**
And by chance, I just came in contact
with someone who might be her.
**[01:08] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[01:11] ---**
*I gazed at the coin I had flipped*
**[01:16] ---**
*If it's heads I go, tails I stay*
**[01:20] ---**
*Let me know your answer first*
**[01:26] ---**
*"Please, won't you tell me?"*
**[01:32] ---**
*But the angel continued
to smile in discernment*
**[01:42] ---**
*Wander on! There's nobody
to lead you by the hand*
**[01:47] ---**
*The answer handed down
from God is one of woe*
**[01:53] ---**
*Yes, that is what your gift from God is*
**[01:58] ---**
*Once you overcome it, you'll start to see, so right now...
(Look for it by oneself, no buts about it)*
**[02:05] ---**
*No buts!*
**[02:30] ---**
Hey there, Kami.
**[02:33] ---**
I've currently got eyes on a spot
**[02:34] ---**
that Oriana is likely to use for the deal--
**[02:36] ---**
Tsuchimikado...
**[02:37] ---**
I just shook hands with
someone, and at that moment,
**[02:40] ---**
my Imagine Breaker
broke something down.
**[02:43] ---**
I don't know what it is, exactly,
**[02:45] ---**
but she doesn't strike me
as a student, you might say.
**[02:48] ---**
Did she happen to be
carrying a large package?
**[02:51] ---**
Yeah. She's carrying
what looks to be a signboard.
**[02:53] ---**
Kami, where are you right now?
**[02:57] ---**
Right now, I'm following her.
**[02:59] ---**
I'm sending you my GPS codes,
so you can search for me that way.
**[03:08] ---**
She spotted me!
**[03:22] ---**
Whoa!
**[03:30] ---**
Which one, Kami?
**[03:31] ---**
The blond woman wearing the work uniform.
**[03:42] ---**
Those two are pros, huh?
**[03:44] ---**
My instructions were
not to engage anyone in town,
**[03:47] ---**
but they won't make it easy.
**[04:00] ---**
Something's off about
her pattern of behavior.
**[04:03] ---**
Has she changed her mind?
**[04:09] ---**
A bus terminal?
**[04:11] ---**
A servicing station for the auto-buses.
**[04:19] ---**
A trap?! Get down, Kami!
**[04:20] ---**
You're up.
**[04:26] ---**
Stop screwing around!
**[04:28] ---**
No, that was some nice
team play, if I do say so myself.
**[04:31] ---**
Having a clear division of
labor will make it easier for us to act.
**[04:36] ---**
Look, you...
**[04:37] ---**
So go ahead and complete your job.
**[04:43] ---**
Like I said, hold on!
**[04:46] ---**
Hey!
**[04:53] ---**
Stiyl, you post your runes
around and stand by here.
**[04:57] ---**
I'll pin down the courier.
**[04:59] ---**
Roger that.
**[05:01] ---**
So, Kami, what are you gonna do?
**[05:04] ---**
I think it's safer for you to stay here.
**[05:07] ---**
I'll...
**[05:08] ---**
I also think it's safer
for you to remain here.
**[05:12] ---**
I'm talking my safety, though, not yours.
**[05:25] ---**
These are decoys, meant to buy time!
**[05:27] ---**
If you take every last one of
them on, she's gonna get away!
**[05:30] ---**
That's easy for you to say!
**[05:39] ---**
There she is!
**[05:45] ---**
Kami, if you would!
**[05:46] ---**
Huh? If I would what?!
**[06:26] ---**
Oriana "Route Disturb" Thomson, huh?
Now she's messing with us!
**[06:35] ---**
E-Excuse me!
**[06:37] ---**
Are you all right--
**[06:39] ---**
Oh, no, I should be
the one to say I'm sorry.
**[06:44] ---**
This spell is called
"Four Ways to Truth."
**[06:47] ---**
Using this, we will
search out Oriana's location.
**[06:50] ---**
You shouldn't be using magic, should you?
**[06:53] ---**
Which is why I'm going to get some help.
**[07:03] ---**
Traveling on the wind, conveying
not air, but will to the location.
**[07:32] ---**
"Traveling on the wind, conveying
not air, but will to the location."
**[07:37] ---**
Right?
**[07:44] ---**
Stiyl!
**[07:45] ---**
Kami!
**[07:46] ---**
Go give Stiyl a slug!
**[07:58] ---**
What was that just now?
**[08:00] ---**
Some form of trace
prevention spell, or something?
**[08:05] ---**
Nope, there's no sign of that.
**[08:08] ---**
There's probably some kind
of interception spell set up
**[08:11] ---**
that is triggered to react automatically
to Stiyl's magic individually.
**[08:16] ---**
What do you mean?
**[08:17] ---**
That Stiyl can no longer
use any magic directed at Oriana?
**[08:21] ---**
Oh, man, that's a devil
of a thing to have in there.
**[08:26] ---**
For one person to be able
to pull off detecting a life force,
**[08:30] ---**
analyze it, trace it back,
and then apply a counterattack...
**[08:34] ---**
I guess that's Route Disturb for you.
**[08:37] ---**
Route Disturb?
**[08:39] ---**
Oriana Thomson's other name.
**[08:42] ---**
Be that as it may, there's something
about her impersonal methods
**[08:45] ---**
that strikes me as being
familiar. But it couldn't be.
**[08:49] ---**
I can't believe that she
would be in possession of one.
**[08:52] ---**
Well, Stiyl, I was thinking
the exact same thing.
**[08:57] ---**
Are you serious? But if that's true,
**[08:59] ---**
that wouldn't make her
a magician, but a sorceress.
**[09:03] ---**
What are you
talking about? What is it she has?
**[09:06] ---**
Something that is packed with
magical knowledge,
**[09:09] ---**
itself activating as its own
magical array,
**[09:12] ---**
independent of the magician's will--
**[09:15] ---**
an original grimoire text.
**[09:16] ---**
But to create a grimoire to fit
these circumstances would be...
**[09:21] ---**
The original text could be
just a scribbled note.
**[09:24] ---**
It would have a limited
effectiveness,
**[09:26] ---**
and should break down soon.
**[09:29] ---**
"Shorthand," you might call it.
**[09:31] ---**
So then, what does
that mean we should do?
**[09:34] ---**
First, we take out the
automatic intercept spell,
**[09:38] ---**
so we can use Stiyl's magic.
**[09:40] ---**
What are the chances of her fleeing
the search area while we do so?
**[09:45] ---**
If she was sure she
could get away clean,
**[09:48] ---**
I don't think she would take the trouble
**[09:49] ---**
to set up an intercept spell, do you?
**[09:51] ---**
Hmm...
**[09:52] ---**
Stiyl, use your magic, on anything you like.
**[09:59] ---**
A divination circle.
**[10:01] ---**
A yet-unused magical array,
which doesn't employ anyone's magic.
**[10:05] ---**
This will activate in response
to the magic of the intercept spell,
**[10:08] ---**
providing us with
direction and distance.
**[10:11] ---**
Now then...
**[10:12] ---**
Hey, Tsuchimikado,
**[10:14] ---**
in order to make that work,
won't Stiyl have to once again...?
**[10:17] ---**
*Once* again?
**[10:19] ---**
Who said anything about that?
**[10:21] ---**
If we don't find the
location of the Shorthand,
**[10:23] ---**
we'll have no choice but
to keep trying over and over.
**[10:26] ---**
Why, you...
**[10:27] ---**
Kami, you seem to have forgotten,
so let me remind you of something.
**[10:31] ---**
Lives are at stake in this battle.
**[10:33] ---**
Enough so that it could steer
nations or the world into decline.
**[10:38] ---**
Let's do it.
**[10:40] ---**
But you'll...!
**[10:41] ---**
Don't get so chummy, Kamijo Toma.
**[10:44] ---**
If it will bring an end to all of this,
then there is no problem.
**[10:47] ---**
In return, you pinpoint the location
of the intercept spell, no matter what.
**[10:51] ---**
Okay. We will make
certain to preserve the life
**[10:54] ---**
that Index leads for
herself in Academy City.
**[10:56] ---**
That was your condition, right?
**[11:02] ---**
Kamijo Toma...
**[11:03] ---**
I do not appreciate the
fact that you are here right now.
**[11:08] ---**
Why are you not at her side?
**[11:10] ---**
If her face grows somber because of this,
**[11:13] ---**
it will all be your fault.
**[11:19] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[11:34] ---**
Here I wanted to change
clothes to show off to Toma,
**[11:38] ---**
but it looks like he took
off somewhere on his own.
**[11:41] ---**
S-Sister, don't be
so disheartened about it.
**[11:45] ---**
I'm sure that Kamijo had
some important reason for doing so.
**[11:54] ---**
Ooh, that Kamijo Toma...
**[11:55] ---**
Geez, I take my eyes off of him
for a second, and he disappears.
**[12:00] ---**
Teacher!
**[12:02] ---**
Fukiyose!
**[12:04] ---**
What are you doing
out here, in the public view?
**[12:08] ---**
If she's feeling a little delirious,
**[12:10] ---**
a stimulant like this capsicum
will turn her thoughts back outward.
**[12:14] ---**
N-No...
**[12:15] ---**
That's all right.
Everything is all right, Fukiyose.
**[12:19] ---**
It is?
**[12:22] ---**
Where's Toma?
**[12:24] ---**
Where could Toma have gone?
**[12:30] ---**
Here it comes.
**[12:32] ---**
The divination circle
is responding. Hey, Kami!
**[12:35] ---**
You have a map, don't you?
**[12:38] ---**
Yeah, you've got that
GPS map on your cell phone.
**[12:41] ---**
In that case, bring it here.
**[12:43] ---**
Tsuchimikado!
**[12:45] ---**
How can you be so coldhearted?!
**[12:48] ---**
Who do you think Stiyl
has deliberately gotten hurt for?!
**[12:51] ---**
Kami, he *is* a professional magician.
**[12:54] ---**
He has at least enough attack
resistance to handle this spell.
**[12:59] ---**
Tsuchimikado, are you...?
**[13:02] ---**
The divination circle responds
to the magic power of incoming spells
**[13:06] ---**
to tell us their distance and direction.
**[13:08] ---**
There's no way such a handy little item
**[13:11] ---**
can be activated without
using some magic power, right?
**[13:16] ---**
If I were able to
use more decent magic,
**[13:19] ---**
Stiyl wouldn't have
had to go through this.
**[13:21] ---**
I'll admit that. So go ahead and
blame me as much as you want.
**[13:25] ---**
However, I will make sure that
I find that Shorthand and destroy it.
**[13:30] ---**
Then, I will catch Oriana,
**[13:32] ---**
and personally see to it that
the Stab Sword deal is off for good.
**[13:36] ---**
Kami, your map.
**[13:39] ---**
I want to know what
there is at the position
**[13:41] ---**
302 meters northwest of here.
I'm sure that's where the Shorthand is.
**[13:45] ---**
Y-Yeah...
**[13:52] ---**
It's...
**[13:55] ---**
A middle school?!
**[13:57] ---**
"10 minutes until the middle
school ball toss competition"
**[14:00] ---**
It's at an event grounds?
**[14:02] ---**
And it's about to start, too.
**[14:04] ---**
The spectators and
cameras are already there.
**[14:07] ---**
We can't just sneak
our way around this time.
**[14:09] ---**
Then, what do we do?
We can't just not do anything, right?
**[14:13] ---**
All we can do is
slip in there as contestants.
**[14:15] ---**
Are you serious?
We're high-schoolers!
**[14:19] ---**
Blending in as middle-schoolers won't work--
**[14:23] ---**
Damn!
**[14:25] ---**
There's a risk that the intercept
spell might turn on others, too.
**[14:30] ---**
Huh?
**[14:31] ---**
Do you know what the simplest
magic ritual in the world is?
**[14:35] ---**
It's touching.
**[14:37] ---**
A regular person with
no knowledge of magic
**[14:39] ---**
still has a chance of activating
the intercept spell by touching it.
**[14:42] ---**
If that happens, not having
the kind of defenses a magician has,
**[14:46] ---**
they will be in quite a bit of danger.
**[14:48] ---**
At any rate, Kami,
**[14:50] ---**
we're going to handle that
intercept spell before it hurts anyone.
**[14:53] ---**
All right!
**[14:54] ---**
And with that in mind...!
**[15:04] ---**
Kami!
**[15:09] ---**
Excuse me...
**[15:11] ---**
We have to compete in this event,
**[15:13] ---**
but do we really have
to enter, looking like *this*?
**[15:17] ---**
There will be cameras,
and everything...
**[15:19] ---**
You take the cake.
**[15:21] ---**
I don't suppose you
have a change of gym clothes?
**[15:23] ---**
Ah, yes we do!
But they're in the club room.
**[15:27] ---**
Uh-huh. Well, hurry up and change.
**[15:30] ---**
Rules are still rules,
though, so I need to check your IDs.
**[15:36] ---**
--Tsuchimika--
--Okay, okay!
**[15:38] ---**
I'll slap that right down!
**[15:41] ---**
Gah! Hey! Can't you wipe
your hand off before using it?!
**[15:45] ---**
Never mind, go ahead.
They don't allow late entrants.
**[15:49] ---**
Thank you very much!
**[15:54] ---**
Hey, we can't blend into
the competition looking like this!
**[15:57] ---**
Oh, I'm guessing there
are some changes of clothes
**[16:00] ---**
in the nurse's office.
**[16:03] ---**
The next event will be 200 students
from Minamizawa Middle School
**[16:08] ---**
versus 20 students from
Tokiwadai Middle School,
**[16:09] ---**
"Five minutes until the middle
school ball toss competition"
**[16:12] ---**
in the ball toss competition.
**[16:26] ---**
The smell of defeat on
them is strong. Ah, stinky, stinky!
**[16:34] ---**
Just what is the meaning of this?
**[16:37] ---**
What are you doing over there?! Huh?!
**[16:43] ---**
Eh? Tokiwadai Middle School?!
**[16:45] ---**
They have some
fearsome espers over there.
**[16:48] ---**
Yeah, well, let's watch
out for stray shots then, Kami.
**[16:54] ---**
If the Shorthand is
set up here, then where is it?
**[16:57] ---**
The baskets are the most likely place.
**[16:59] ---**
There are probably baskets
that are borrowed from elsewhere,
**[17:01] ---**
so they could have been
rigged outside beforehand.
**[17:05] ---**
I'll check out each pole basket in order.
**[17:08] ---**
Kami, your work begins
once I find the Shorthand.
**[17:16] ---**
"Daihasei Festival Steering Committee"
**[17:16] ---**
Take your positions, get set...
**[17:19] ---**
...and begin!
**[17:26] ---**
Don't flinch at that! Charge in, Kami!
**[17:29] ---**
Y-Yeah!
**[17:44] ---**
Tsuchimikado?
**[17:45] ---**
Not this one, Kami. Onto the next one!
**[17:56] ---**
Kami, not this one either!
**[17:58] ---**
--Come on!
--A little more!
**[18:00] ---**
--Don't let them get you!
--Hang in there!
**[18:03] ---**
--Hey, don't push!
--Ow! Stop it!
**[18:05] ---**
--Yikes!
--It's falling over!
**[18:14] ---**
Watch out!
**[18:16] ---**
Kami, use my back!
**[18:25] ---**
Hurry and get out of here!
**[18:47] ---**
I can't believe you...
**[18:49] ---**
You'd go this far...
**[18:52] ---**
...just to make me play
your penalty game, will you?!
**[19:04] ---**
Sheesh!
**[19:05] ---**
I didn't have much choice,
what with you being in danger, did I?
**[19:10] ---**
Misaka!
**[19:12] ---**
Wait, Misaka!
**[19:14] ---**
W-What?
**[19:17] ---**
Listen to me, Misaka.
I'll explain everything later,
**[19:20] ---**
but move away from there!
**[19:22] ---**
Huh? What are you talking about now?
**[19:25] ---**
And what are you even doing here?
You explain yourself first, or I--
**[19:34] ---**
You stay out of this!
**[19:38] ---**
Misaka, don't argue, just come over here.
**[19:41] ---**
Huh?
**[19:42] ---**
You're in danger there!
**[19:46] ---**
D-Don't be silly! I didn't need
to have you helping me like that,
**[19:52] ---**
I could have done it myself!
**[19:54] ---**
And what is it you want to tell me?
**[19:56] ---**
I told you, I'll tell you later!
**[19:58] ---**
That spot is dangerous!
**[20:00] ---**
I don't want you to get hurt!
**[20:05] ---**
What are you, dumb?
**[20:07] ---**
Y-You don't have to worry about me...
**[20:09] ---**
...over a competition such as this...
**[20:15] ---**
Geez, don't go startling me,
and making me blurt stuff out...
**[20:21] ---**
Huh? What?!
**[20:30] ---**
Keep quiet, and hold still for a second.
**[20:33] ---**
Huh? U-Um...
**[20:38] ---**
It can't be!
**[20:40] ---**
Damn! Does it hurt that much,
Misaka? Do you have a fever?
**[20:44] ---**
I-It's nothing at all, really!
**[20:47] ---**
Tsuchimikado! Over on this pole!
**[20:50] ---**
"Property of Nogi Middle School"
**[20:51] ---**
I was wrong?
**[20:55] ---**
Kamijo Toma! What are you doing here?!
**[20:59] ---**
I was wondering why you
ran off in such a hurry earlier,
**[21:01] ---**
but what are you doing *here*?
**[21:03] ---**
In any case, we have to
start the whole event over!
**[21:14] ---**
Fukiyose!
**[21:16] ---**
W-What?
**[21:21] ---**
Kami, go hit Fukiyose! She's not a magician!
**[21:24] ---**
She won't be able to take any more of this!
**[21:35] ---**
Fukiyose, are you okay?
**[21:38] ---**
Fukiyose!
**[22:00] ---**
Okay, fine, Oriana Thomson...
**[22:06] ---**
If this is the way you're going to play it...
**[22:09] ---**
After you so ruthlessly
drag innocent bystanders in,
**[22:12] ---**
if you're just going to watch
on and feel nothing about it...
**[22:17] ---**
...then I'll take your screwed-up fantasy...
**[22:20] ---**
...and personally dispatch
it until there's nothing left!
**[22:25] ---**
*I can change even the
destiny that entwines me*
**[22:32] ---**
*so I have everything in my hand!*
**[22:49] ---**
*If I lack the power to
not be outdone by anyone*
**[22:55] ---**
*I can always destroy that illusion*
**[23:01] ---**
*The laid out system
backup install is okay*
**[23:06] ---**
*Fields unknown even
to God become opened*
**[23:13] ---**
*It's a "living form" that not even data*
**[23:18] ---**
*from 100,000 memories
in a moment's miracle can infer*
**[23:25] ---**
*In a Magic∞world exciting
time or space there's no limit*
**[23:30] ---**
*I want the power it
takes to protect somebody*
**[23:36] ---**
*I can change even
the destiny that entwines me*
**[23:44] ---**
*so I have everything in my hand!*
**[23:55] ---**
"Preview"
**[23:55] ---**
Fukiyose has collapsed.
**[23:56] ---**
Plus there's Stiyl and Tsuchimikado.
**[23:59] ---**
If the reason behind this
whole conflict is the Stab Sword,
**[24:02] ---**
then I swear I will smash the thing!
**[24:04] ---**
Next time, "Shorthand."
**[24:06] ---**
When science and magic
cross paths, the story begins.
**[24:09] ---**
# 34 - Shorthand (Stenographic Sourcebook)
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GRVNZK5PY/a-certain-magical-index)
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**[00:31] ---**
How is the critical-care patient?
**[00:32] ---**
She still hasn't regained consciousness.
**[00:34] ---**
Could it be heat stroke?
**[00:37] ---**
Heat stroke?
**[00:39] ---**
Oh, right, I collapsed.
**[00:42] ---**
Why is that? I made sure to
hydrate, and got plenty of sleep...
**[00:50] ---**
It seems ridiculous.
**[00:52] ---**
Fukiyose, are you okay?
**[00:55] ---**
Fukiyose!
**[00:58] ---**
Is he going to look at
me like that from now on?
**[01:04] ---**
I hope not.
**[01:05] ---**
And I worked so hard to make sure
that everyone had an enjoyable time.
**[01:20] ---**
Am I... going to live...?
**[01:27] ---**
Who do you take me for?
**[01:48] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[01:56] ---**
*Omote nara GO Ura wa STAY*
**[02:00] ---**
*Mazu kotae wo kikasete*
**[02:07] ---**
*"Douka oshiete kuremasen ka?"*
**[02:12] ---**
*Tenshi wa misadameru egao no mama*
**[02:22] ---**
*Mayoe! Sono te wo hiku mono nado inai*
**[02:27] ---**
*Kami ga kudasu sono kotae wa fukou datta*
**[02:33] ---**
*Sou sore koso kami kara no okurimono*
**[02:38] ---**
*Norikoetara miete kuru sa dakara ima sugu
(Look for it by oneself, no buts about it)*
**[02:45] ---**
*No buts!*
**[03:00] ---**
"#10 Shorthand (Stenographic Sourcebook)"
**[03:10] ---**
I lose just a bit of my edge,
and this is what happens to me?
**[03:18] ---**
Kami has destroyed Oriana's Shorthand.
**[03:22] ---**
Notice any difference
in the shape you're in?
**[03:27] ---**
I'm in business.
There doesn't seem to be any problem.
**[03:30] ---**
Oh, yeah?
**[03:31] ---**
In that case, could you cast the
"Four Ways to Truth" search spell?
**[03:35] ---**
It should still be where I set it up before.
**[03:38] ---**
You know how to use it, right?
**[03:40] ---**
Give me a little credit.
**[03:42] ---**
Are you okay on your end?
**[03:44] ---**
Oriana's intercept spell was
supposed to be on an event ground.
**[03:48] ---**
Not a problem.
**[03:50] ---**
But one of the students did get taken out.
**[03:53] ---**
We took advantage of the commotion
to make our way out of there.
**[03:57] ---**
I see.
**[04:01] ---**
Is Kamijo Toma keeping it together?
**[04:03] ---**
If you're squared away, get to it.
**[04:06] ---**
Otherwise, we'll never make
it up to the student who collapsed.
**[04:15] ---**
It's not as though anyone is perfect.
**[04:17] ---**
Which is precisely why I regret
being so unseasoned... I guess.
**[04:27] ---**
"Ball toss event has been delayed"
**[04:30] ---**
This is an unexpected turn of events.
**[04:35] ---**
I've identified Oriana Thomson's location.
**[04:37] ---**
School District 7, near
Futsuka Subway Station.
**[04:40] ---**
Kami, Futsuka Station!
**[04:42] ---**
Futsuka Station? We've gone too far!
**[04:48] ---**
She's moving northward.
**[04:50] ---**
The street divides three ways...
**[04:53] ---**
There she is. You ready? She's up ahead...
**[04:57] ---**
We've spotted her!
**[05:16] ---**
--Tch!
--A bus?!
**[05:23] ---**
Damn!
**[05:24] ---**
Hey, Kami, did the bus have
any passengers besides Oriana?
**[05:29] ---**
It doesn't really matter, does it?!
**[05:30] ---**
Kami!
**[05:32] ---**
No, there weren't!
No passengers or driver!
**[05:35] ---**
In that case, that's a relief.
**[05:36] ---**
Stiyl, number 514457.
**[05:48] ---**
It still had the rune that Stiyl
stuck on it at the service center.
**[06:03] ---**
You can't warm this young
lady up using physical flames.
**[06:10] ---**
But then, I have gotten a bit
damp from the rushing around.
**[06:14] ---**
Want to see?
**[06:16] ---**
Even my undies are soaking.
**[06:19] ---**
A completely uninvolved person collapsed
**[06:21] ---**
because of the spell that you cast.
**[06:23] ---**
In your view, did it look like
she had anything to do with magic?
**[06:28] ---**
There are no uninvolved people in the world.
**[06:32] ---**
If I want to, I can involve anyone.
**[06:36] ---**
Then you do know about her.
**[06:38] ---**
I truly did not want for
that girl to be hurt.
**[06:41] ---**
Which makes that unlike this.
**[06:48] ---**
Tsuchimikado!
**[06:50] ---**
Oh, my...
**[06:52] ---**
Then you weren't the
one who was hurt, were you?
**[06:55] ---**
There sure are some unusual
kids assembled here in Academy City.
**[07:00] ---**
What did you do to Tsuchimikado?!
**[07:03] ---**
I just cancelled out his flame attribute,
**[07:05] ---**
the symbol of regeneration
and restoration, with blue lettering.
**[07:09] ---**
It's a spell that knocks out a person
**[07:10] ---**
who has been injured any
more than a certain amount.
**[07:14] ---**
Tsuchimikado!
**[07:16] ---**
Damn!
**[07:18] ---**
I guess I have to destroy that card.
**[07:22] ---**
If you want to save him,
**[07:24] ---**
you'll have to defeat
me as quick as you can.
**[07:28] ---**
But will he be able
to hold out that long?
**[07:31] ---**
His time may be surprisingly short.
**[07:34] ---**
Why, you...
**[07:37] ---**
I don't know what that
Stab Sword thing is worth.
**[07:40] ---**
I don't know whether it can
alter the course of history that much...
**[07:44] ---**
...or how it might influence the
rest of the world, but...
**[07:49] ---**
...it's wrong for anyone to
get hurt over something so stupid!
**[07:54] ---**
If it only brings
about results as lousy as this...
**[07:58] ---**
...then I'm going to smash
it to pieces with my own hands!
**[08:02] ---**
Saying I had no choice because it's my job
**[08:05] ---**
would be unmannerly to my employer, right?
**[08:07] ---**
It was left up to me how
I should carry this out, after all.
**[08:12] ---**
Stop toying with peoples' lives!
**[08:24] ---**
Where are you?!
**[08:30] ---**
This is bad! If she uses
that earlier spell on me...!
**[08:33] ---**
Next will be the Shadow Sword.
**[08:36] ---**
I don't want you getting bored.
**[08:45] ---**
Why doesn't she
ever use the same attack?
**[08:49] ---**
I don't lean toward using the
same spell over and over again.
**[09:06] ---**
You're a real mess, huh?
**[09:08] ---**
This is just a little foreplay;
have you already had enough?
**[09:13] ---**
Damn...
**[09:27] ---**
Once she uses a spell,
she doesn't use it again,
**[09:31] ---**
so how does she
have so many combinations?
**[09:34] ---**
Next will be Blade Crater.
**[09:36] ---**
Sweetie...
**[09:38] ---**
...if you move from there, you will die.
**[09:48] ---**
If I move, I die...
**[09:54] ---**
So what's the big deal?
**[09:57] ---**
The Daihasei Festival,
**[09:58] ---**
which Fukiyose worked her
butt off getting ready for today,
**[10:01] ---**
looks like it might
be completely ruined.
**[10:05] ---**
Are you just going to let that happen?
**[10:08] ---**
There's no way you can be happy
with that, can you, Kamijo Toma?!
**[10:10] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[10:16] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[10:37] ---**
Y-You fool!
**[10:46] ---**
His right hand...
It's *that* powerful? Then...
**[10:50] ---**
Drop Rest!
**[11:20] ---**
Tsuchimikado!
**[11:23] ---**
Are you okay, Tsuchimikado?
**[11:30] ---**
You're so violent...
**[11:33] ---**
Look, my button came off.
**[11:37] ---**
That was well done, for an
amateur punch, I suppose I could say.
**[11:43] ---**
However, I am accustomed
to having my attacks countered
**[11:47] ---**
and then being struck back at...
**[11:49] ---**
...though not at this
increasingly frustrating level...
**[11:57] ---**
But, as for now...
**[11:59] ---**
I'll leave that with
you for the time being.
**[12:04] ---**
But don't think
the game is over just yet.
**[12:07] ---**
Things are just starting to heat up.
**[12:11] ---**
Wait! What about Tsuchimikado?!
**[12:13] ---**
The spell only works for
twenty minutes. It will be over soon,
**[12:16] ---**
my anxious little esper.
**[12:26] ---**
All right,
**[12:27] ---**
then destroy the Stab Sword.
**[12:30] ---**
Your right hand should be
able to handle it with no problem.
**[12:33] ---**
But are you
sure I should destroy it?
**[12:36] ---**
If Academy City gets attacked by them...
**[12:39] ---**
If they do, it will be the
women who are surrounded.
**[12:44] ---**
This is Academy City.
**[12:47] ---**
For all magical forces, this is
the center of enemy territory.
**[12:50] ---**
They will likely pull out, and then come up
with a rational strategy to deal with it.
**[12:54] ---**
All right.
**[12:55] ---**
Hurry it up.
**[12:57] ---**
I'll see about figuring out our next move.
**[13:00] ---**
Okay.
**[13:02] ---**
Well, then...
**[13:12] ---**
What is this?
**[13:15] ---**
What's going on?
**[13:17] ---**
What the hell is going on?!
**[13:21] ---**
Well, there were some hiccups,
**[13:24] ---**
but for now, all the necessary
checkpoints have been cleared,
**[13:27] ---**
so please rest at ease.
**[13:30] ---**
What kind of hiccups?
**[13:32] ---**
Oh, you just let me worry about that.
**[13:36] ---**
Oh, right--they have
retrieved the signboard,
**[13:40] ---**
so they've probably found out
about the Stab Sword, as well.
**[13:47] ---**
Oh, it's all right!
This isn't anything serious enough
**[13:51] ---**
to influence the deal itself.
**[13:53] ---**
I won't let anyone interfere,
and nobody *can* interfere.
**[13:59] ---**
Especially not if this deal
will make everyone happy, right?
**[14:07] ---**
"The original Stab Sword doesn't exist,
**[14:10] ---**
and only peoples' speculations
concerning it remain, as folklore."
**[14:15] ---**
Ho...
**[14:17] ---**
Could what is written
here be true, Charles Conder?
**[14:22] ---**
I am terribly sorry.
**[14:23] ---**
Even the British Museum
was unaware of this until just today.
**[14:28] ---**
Then what exactly is it?
**[14:32] ---**
Ma'am, as a result of the lore
crisscrossing and snowballing,
**[14:36] ---**
there is no conclusive evidence...
**[14:39] ---**
...but this is not a sword.
**[14:42] ---**
What?
**[14:44] ---**
Called "Croce di Pietro" locally,
**[14:47] ---**
the item is called in our
language the "Cross of Peter."
**[14:52] ---**
The Cross of Peter?!
**[14:56] ---**
In that case, the reason for
the "deal" they are negotiating
**[14:59] ---**
has become something entirely different.
**[15:03] ---**
The conclusion of this "deal"
will be the demise of Academy City.
**[15:08] ---**
No--it could be something
even more serious.
**[15:13] ---**
Man, what a number this is!
**[15:15] ---**
So I guess it must be
something dangerous, right?
**[15:19] ---**
"Croce di Pietero,"
the Cross of Peter, they said.
**[15:25] ---**
Long ago, the Vatican, which is the main
basilica of the Roman Orthodox Church,
**[15:28] ---**
is said to have been built
where the body of Peter was buried,
**[15:31] ---**
and a crucifix erected,
over a vast expanse of land.
**[15:34] ---**
But the reverse is also true.
**[15:36] ---**
The reverse?
**[15:37] ---**
Any space where the
Croce di Pietero is planted
**[15:40] ---**
comes under exclusive
Roman Orthodox control.
**[15:43] ---**
Even if that place is Academy City.
**[15:46] ---**
Control?
**[15:46] ---**
Everything will play out in a way
**[15:48] ---**
that serves the Roman Orthodox Church,
**[15:51] ---**
and everyone will go along,
not sensing anything out of place.
**[15:55] ---**
It means that no matter
how outrageous the demand,
**[15:58] ---**
or how unreasonable
the load one is made to carry,
**[16:01] ---**
the world will be such that no
one feels anything but happiness.
**[16:05] ---**
Oh, man...
**[16:06] ---**
If Academy City fortuitously slips
under Roman Orthodox control,
**[16:11] ---**
then the world as we now know it,
**[16:14] ---**
with science and magical
sides kept in a 50-50 balance,
**[16:17] ---**
would tip to an overconcentration
of the Roman Orthodox Church.
**[16:20] ---**
Then, this whole transaction is...
**[16:22] ---**
Yeah, for dominion over Academy City,
and the rest of the world.
**[16:38] ---**
We're going to stop this deal.
**[16:41] ---**
Otherwise, the world will face
a state more dire than just collapse.
**[16:54] ---**
Toma!
**[16:56] ---**
--A world where everyone
can only feel happiness?
**[16:57] ---**
--Toma! Toma!
**[17:00] ---**
Toma!
**[17:06] ---**
Ungh, even thinking
about it, I don't get it.
**[17:09] ---**
Toma!
**[17:15] ---**
Nuh-uh, there's no way
Index could be wearing that outfit.
**[17:18] ---**
Toma!
**[17:22] ---**
Why wouldn't you even look at me?!
**[17:27] ---**
I've got to ask, what's with that getup?
**[17:30] ---**
Come to think of it...
**[17:35] ---**
Toma, Toma,
**[17:37] ---**
you were just trying to remember
some off-color scene, weren't you?
**[17:41] ---**
It looks to me like you have
a very pleased look on your face.
**[17:46] ---**
I do not, I do not!
**[17:49] ---**
I mean, where is your usual nun's habit?
**[17:52] ---**
Hmph, I'm letting Komoe hang onto it.
**[17:55] ---**
U-Um, what are you so upset about?
**[18:00] ---**
Oh, I know! You're hungry, right?
**[18:03] ---**
We're about to meet up with
my mom and dad to have lunch,
**[18:07] ---**
so just hold on a bit longer, and...
**[18:11] ---**
Um... Miss Index...?
**[18:14] ---**
Ow!
**[18:15] ---**
It's not that, Toma, you dummy!
**[18:17] ---**
Then what is it?
**[18:19] ---**
I specifically changed clothes
so I could cheer for you,
**[18:23] ---**
so where were you when I was going to?!
**[18:26] ---**
Oh, uh, you see...
**[18:29] ---**
I tried so hard, thinking I could
be together with you, Toma...
**[18:33] ---**
...but then you went off
on your own somewhere.
**[18:36] ---**
What was I supposed to do then?
**[18:39] ---**
Oh, sorry.
**[18:41] ---**
I just thought you were cranky
from being hungry, like always--
**[18:45] ---**
--I am not! I'm angry because
you never pay attention to me!
**[18:46] ---**
--Ow! Ow! Ow!
**[18:49] ---**
--And as for being cranky because I'm hungry,
**[18:49] ---**
--Ow! Index!
**[18:52] ---**
--as a Sister, I am free
of such feelings, Toma!
**[18:52] ---**
--What happened to biting me, like always?
**[18:55] ---**
Er, I mean, you don't
need to go out of your way to...
**[19:03] ---**
Toma, you sicko.
**[19:04] ---**
Wha--?!
**[19:05] ---**
No! Up to now, you were
always the one who bit *me*!
**[19:09] ---**
So if anyone's a sicko, it's you--
**[19:11] ---**
Ee-yow!
**[19:15] ---**
It seems to me like we haven't
seen very much of Toma around.
**[19:20] ---**
Well, with all of the people here,
there are times when you won't see him.
**[19:24] ---**
Ah!
**[19:28] ---**
Hello. We meet again, huh?
**[19:31] ---**
Ah, from this morning...
**[19:33] ---**
Yes. Thank you very much for this morning.
**[19:36] ---**
Thanks to you, as you can see...
**[19:42] ---**
Who are they? Someone you know?
**[19:46] ---**
They're the parents of that
boy you're interested in, Mikoto.
**[19:52] ---**
Nice to meet you. The name's Kamijo.
**[19:54] ---**
Hello.
**[19:57] ---**
Er, that is...
**[19:58] ---**
Come on, charm them, charm them.
**[20:01] ---**
I-It's not like that!
What are you talking about?!
**[20:03] ---**
Ah, come to think of it,
have you had lunch yet?
**[20:06] ---**
No, not yet.
**[20:08] ---**
If you'd care to,
would you like to join us?
**[20:11] ---**
I know a great spot.
**[20:13] ---**
Are you sure? We would be glad to.
**[20:16] ---**
A-Are you all right?
**[20:19] ---**
Oh, no...
**[20:21] ---**
Sorry. I'm not quite accustomed
to having so many people around.
**[20:24] ---**
N-No, I was too inattentive...
**[20:27] ---**
Well, if you'll excuse me...
**[20:29] ---**
S-Sure...
**[20:31] ---**
My, my...
**[20:32] ---**
Not again, Toya...
**[20:34] ---**
No, Mom, it's not like that!
**[20:37] ---**
I wasn't staring or anything,
I was just, you know...
**[20:41] ---**
I am so sorry!
**[20:44] ---**
That's his father, all right.
**[20:49] ---**
Hey, Toma!
**[20:51] ---**
Over here! Over here!
**[20:54] ---**
I'm surprised you found this place.
**[20:57] ---**
Oh, well, she's the one who showed us.
**[21:00] ---**
The name's Misaka.
**[21:01] ---**
Is that right? Thank you very much.
**[21:05] ---**
Ah, I am starving!
**[21:08] ---**
Hey, you...
**[21:09] ---**
Why is it I'm the only one who
never gets any search hits from you?
**[21:14] ---**
Well, I figured we'd naturally
end up stuck like this somehow.
**[21:17] ---**
We're not "stuck" like anything!
**[21:19] ---**
As if there's anything natural
about what flows anywhere near you!
**[21:22] ---**
And who is this girl who's always
with you and where does she live?
**[21:27] ---**
Hm?
**[21:28] ---**
Who is she? Well...
**[21:30] ---**
She's right, Toma.
Come to mention it, who is that girl?
**[21:35] ---**
When we took that overnight trip
to the beach, she was with you, too.
**[21:38] ---**
Th-The beach?!
**[21:40] ---**
O-Overnight trip to the beach...?
**[21:43] ---**
What about you, short-hair?
Who are you and where do *you* live?
**[21:46] ---**
Are you Toma's girlfriend, or something?
**[21:48] ---**
Huh? N-No, I'm not really...
**[21:53] ---**
You came to cheer on
Toma's school, didn't you?
**[21:56] ---**
The tower topple, as I remember.
**[21:59] ---**
I did not!
**[22:00] ---**
Look, you be quiet!
**[22:03] ---**
Now, now. Why don't
we all get something to eat?
**[22:07] ---**
So um, Kamijo Toma, is it?
**[22:10] ---**
Yes, it is, but... Are you Misaka's
older sister, or something?
**[22:15] ---**
Mm-mm.
**[22:17] ---**
I'm Misaka Misuzu,
Mikoto's mother. Nice to meet you.
**[22:21] ---**
Mother?!
**[22:25] ---**
*Karamatta unmei mo kaete ikeru kara*
**[22:32] ---**
*subete wa kono te no naka ni aru!*
**[22:50] ---**
*Dare nimo makenai chikara ga koko ni nai nara*
**[22:55] ---**
*imajin nante kowashite shimaeba ii*
**[23:01] ---**
*Harimeguru shisutemu bakkappu insutooru wa OK*
**[23:07] ---**
*Kami sae mo shirienai fiirudo ga hiraku*
**[23:13] ---**
*Juuman no deeta mo isshun no mirakuru sae*
**[23:18] ---**
*suisoku fukanou na "ikite'ru katachi" dakara*
**[23:25] ---**
*In a Magic∞world exciting
time or space there's no limit*
**[23:31] ---**
*Dareka wo mamoreru chikara ga hoshii*
**[23:36] ---**
*Karamatta unmei mo kaete ikeru kara*
**[23:44] ---**
*subete wa kono te no naka ni aru!*
**[23:55] ---**
"Preview"
**[23:55] ---**
Solving hidden riddles, one step at a time,
**[23:58] ---**
we draw closer to their objective.
**[24:00] ---**
But then, something happens
when by chance, we run into Himegami...
**[24:04] ---**
Next time, "Stab Sword."
**[24:06] ---**
When science and magic
cross paths, the story begins.
**[24:09] ---**
# 35 - Stab Sword
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GRVNZK5PY/a-certain-magical-index)
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**[00:31] ---**
Her mother?
**[00:33] ---**
Didn't you say something
about college earlier?
**[00:35] ---**
Yes. I've gone back to school.
It's all kinds of stimulating.
**[00:41] ---**
What do you think, Toma?
**[00:44] ---**
What do I think?
Well, it's nothing we couldn't...
**[00:47] ---**
Hmm?
**[00:49] ---**
Obviously, there's
something not right here!
**[00:51] ---**
There are so many unnaturally
young adults all around Toma!
**[00:55] ---**
Ordinarily, this sort of
thing would be unthinkable!
**[00:57] ---**
Let's put that aside and eat something.
**[00:59] ---**
I brought along some lunch,
just like a mother would.
**[01:03] ---**
Ta-da!
**[01:05] ---**
On today's menu is cheese fondue!
**[01:07] ---**
Stop sneaking hazardous
materials into Academy City!
**[01:10] ---**
Oh, but...
**[01:12] ---**
...nibbling away on a tiny box lunch
**[01:14] ---**
won't deliver the nourishment
to the places that need developing.
**[01:20] ---**
What are you talking about, "develop"?!
**[01:21] ---**
Oh, yes, what *could* I be talking about?
**[01:27] ---**
My, my...
**[01:28] ---**
Are we at it again, Toya?
**[01:31] ---**
Huh? N-No...
**[01:34] ---**
Eat lots to grow bigger, huh?
**[01:38] ---**
Toma!
**[01:43] ---**
Toma!
**[01:52] ---**
I may hate being bitten,
but this is painful, too, in its own way.
**[02:15] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[02:18] ---**
*I gazed at the coin I had flipped*
**[02:23] ---**
*If it's heads I go, tails I stay*
**[02:27] ---**
*Let me know your answer first*
**[02:33] ---**
*"Please, won't you tell me?"*
**[02:38] ---**
*But the angel continued
to smile in discernment*
**[02:49] ---**
*Wander on! There's nobody
to lead you by the hand*
**[02:54] ---**
*The answer handed down
from God is one of woe*
**[02:59] ---**
*Yes, that is what your gift from God is*
**[03:05] ---**
*Once you overcome it, you'll start to see, so right now...
(Look for it by oneself, no buts about it)*
**[03:12] ---**
*No buts!*
**[03:27] ---**
Stab Sword
**[03:33] ---**
Here.
**[03:35] ---**
Thank you!
**[03:37] ---**
Bye!
**[03:40] ---**
I thought I told you...
**[03:42] ---**
...to avoid contact with private
citizens as much as possible.
**[03:49] ---**
And I *am* avoiding it,
as much as possible, aren't I?
**[03:53] ---**
How are things on your end?
**[03:54] ---**
No one has found you yet, right?
**[03:56] ---**
Rest at ease.
**[03:58] ---**
Right now, I am sitting perfectly still.
**[04:00] ---**
How comfortable for you.
**[04:02] ---**
I'd sure like to take it easy.
A hotel workout would be nice, too.
**[04:07] ---**
I've asked you to refrain
from such indecent expressions.
**[04:09] ---**
Oh, my, you're reading too much into that.
**[04:13] ---**
Whoo, Lidvia's got a dirty mind!
**[04:21] ---**
I have to admit, though,
**[04:23] ---**
I do understand that
the waiting can be tough, too.
**[04:28] ---**
Toma! Toma! I think I'd like to try
**[04:31] ---**
some of the fruit juice
they're selling over there!
**[04:33] ---**
Look, you,
**[04:35] ---**
we just barely got
done eating lunch, right?
**[04:37] ---**
If you keep eating and drinking
like this, you're going to get fat.
**[04:40] ---**
I-I will not!
**[04:42] ---**
Oh, no? I'll bet you've
upped your armor class,
**[04:45] ---**
and you're just not aware of it.
**[04:48] ---**
If you don't believe me, then you
can always measure my stomach!
**[04:53] ---**
It's not like I walk around
with a measuring tape, right?
**[04:55] ---**
You don't need one!
**[04:57] ---**
Huh?
**[04:59] ---**
Sissy!
**[05:03] ---**
Sissy!
**[05:10] ---**
I-It is not nice to step
aside at the last moment.
**[05:13] ---**
Sorry, sorry. I'm in a hurry right now.
**[05:16] ---**
W-W-What is the matter, Sissy?!
**[05:20] ---**
Do not tell me you are
going to that gentleman--
**[05:22] ---**
I mean, troglodyte, to cheer him on!
**[05:24] ---**
N-No way! I forgot to tell my
mom about a change to the program.
**[05:29] ---**
Is that right? Even though
he is, in fact, right there...?
**[05:33] ---**
Eh?!
**[05:41] ---**
Do you suppose they are expecting?
**[05:44] ---**
Can they already tell
that the baby is kicking?
**[05:46] ---**
Why, that...
**[05:50] ---**
Drop dead, you sick creep!
**[06:00] ---**
Huh...?
**[06:09] ---**
J--
**[06:11] ---**
Just my luck!
**[06:15] ---**
Orsola! I told you, you can't
eat muffins inside the library!
**[06:19] ---**
But these were made by the Amakusa for me.
**[06:24] ---**
Stop getting crumbs everywhere!
**[06:26] ---**
You two are well acquainted
with the current situation, aren't you?
**[06:30] ---**
Thanks to you, yes.
**[06:33] ---**
I am, after all, a cryptology specialist.
**[06:37] ---**
Dealing with large amounts
of data is a piece of cake for me.
**[06:40] ---**
Miss Sherry, I am quite
adept at decoding, myself.
**[06:45] ---**
Anyhow, we'll get to the report data later--
**[06:47] ---**
You idiot! I told you,
stop spilling crumbs!
**[06:51] ---**
Geez... When did Necessarius
get to be so mellow?
**[06:58] ---**
Hey, you!
**[07:00] ---**
The walkways of Academy City
are no-smoking areas at all times!
**[07:04] ---**
Have you never heard of
the term "secondhand smoke"?
**[07:08] ---**
Of course I have.
**[07:11] ---**
Then why are you lighting
up another cigarette?!
**[07:15] ---**
Hey! Please, listen to me! Look at me!
**[07:19] ---**
Miss Komoe?
**[07:26] ---**
Whoo, I guess I managed
to get away somehow.
**[07:28] ---**
I found you.
**[07:31] ---**
And just in time.
**[07:32] ---**
Himegami?
**[07:34] ---**
We've got a bit of a problem.
**[07:37] ---**
Come on.
**[07:37] ---**
O-Okay...
**[07:43] ---**
U-Um...
**[07:45] ---**
Is something the matter?
**[07:46] ---**
Er, well, Himegami...
**[07:48] ---**
I guess it doesn't bother you too much, huh?
**[07:59] ---**
Come on! I have to confiscate those!
**[08:03] ---**
Please give them to
me and don't make trouble!
**[08:06] ---**
--I said give them to me, please! Come on!
**[08:07] ---**
--There's no need to stop that.
**[08:09] ---**
--But...
**[08:11] ---**
Hello?
**[08:12] ---**
Kami, she's on the move.
**[08:14] ---**
About three minutes ago,
I spotted Oriana
**[08:16] ---**
at the Seibusan subway station,
in School District 5.
**[08:20] ---**
Where's Stiyl?
**[08:21] ---**
Yeah, he's right here.
**[08:23] ---**
Then bring him with
you and come to the station.
**[08:26] ---**
All right.
**[08:31] ---**
Ah! Hold on!
I'm not done talking to you!
**[08:35] ---**
Himegami, you take it from here!
**[08:37] ---**
Yoink.
**[08:38] ---**
Hey! What do you think
you're doing, Himegami?!
**[08:49] ---**
Have to avoid any frivolous holdups.
**[08:52] ---**
Hurry it up, Stiyl!
**[08:58] ---**
Two more stops.
**[09:01] ---**
Hmm? What are you looking at?
**[09:03] ---**
Material from the British Library
about the Croce di Pietro.
**[09:07] ---**
Have you found out anything?
**[09:09] ---**
It'd be too much trouble
to tell you verbally.
**[09:11] ---**
I'll forward the data to your cell.
**[09:14] ---**
O-Okay.
**[09:18] ---**
How am I supposed to read this?!
**[09:24] ---**
Where's Tsuchimikado?
**[09:27] ---**
Where are you now?
**[09:28] ---**
Yeah, sorry.
**[09:30] ---**
The autobus I'm on has been held up.
**[09:33] ---**
How far away are you?
**[09:34] ---**
I could probably run there in ten minutes.
**[09:36] ---**
If he's that far away,
she could get out of the search perimeter.
**[09:40] ---**
I know.
**[09:41] ---**
Stiyl, if I send instructions to
draw a Four Ways
**[09:44] ---**
to Truth pattern to your
cell phone, could you do it?
**[09:46] ---**
No way. I don't know
anything about eastern spells.
**[09:50] ---**
Then, can you do a
search with a western one?
**[09:53] ---**
If I could, would I be asking you?
It's completely out of my expertise.
**[09:57] ---**
All right. I'll invoke a
Four Ways to Truth array here.
**[10:01] ---**
I'll send the results to your cell,
so you take it from there.
**[10:04] ---**
Hold on!
**[10:05] ---**
Are you going to be okay
if you use any more magic?
**[10:11] ---**
You're sure?
**[10:13] ---**
I am a magician. A specialist is
only as good as the magic he uses.
**[10:29] ---**
Oh, you really want to
know where I am that badly, huh?
**[10:34] ---**
Well, then...
**[10:36] ---**
...what should my next move be?
**[10:36] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[10:42] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[10:52] ---**
Himegami?
**[10:54] ---**
Is there something that's troubling you?
**[10:57] ---**
No, it's not that.
**[10:59] ---**
I was just thinking,
Kamijo was acting strangely.
**[11:03] ---**
Mm-hmm, he may have
simply been feeling the pressure
**[11:06] ---**
of the next competition
bearing down on him.
**[11:09] ---**
But he seemed a little odd.
**[11:11] ---**
He seemed to be on edge...
**[11:15] ---**
...like that one time...
**[11:18] ---**
But I don't think he would
get that way over a competition.
**[11:23] ---**
So what you're saying, Himegami,
**[11:25] ---**
is that you have an interest in Kamijo?
**[11:29] ---**
I think I'd prefer if
you didn't say it like that.
**[11:32] ---**
Kamijo and I aren't even that close,
**[11:36] ---**
and if there is any misunderstanding,
**[11:37] ---**
Kamijo will be the one put out by it.
**[11:40] ---**
Himegami, please have a look at this.
**[11:45] ---**
The night parade?
**[11:47] ---**
The nighttime Academy City will be lit up
**[11:49] ---**
with lighting and laser beams,
and it will be very, very pretty.
**[11:54] ---**
What if you were to invite Kamijo to it?
**[11:57] ---**
I couldn't.
**[11:59] ---**
Even if I were to
invite him out of the blue,
**[12:03] ---**
I'm sure that Kamijo
would just be taken aback.
**[12:06] ---**
It's not his style.
**[12:08] ---**
Th-That's not true!
**[12:10] ---**
Himegami, if you invite
Kamijo to something you think is fun,
**[12:14] ---**
I'm sure he will be delighted.
**[12:16] ---**
That's the kind of boy Kamijo is.
**[12:24] ---**
I said I wouldn't invite him,
and there's no way I will.
**[12:26] ---**
Hmph, why are you being so obstinate?
**[12:30] ---**
I'm just not going to invite him.
**[12:33] ---**
She's caught on to us.
**[12:35] ---**
She suddenly changed direction.
Now she's heading northwest.
**[12:39] ---**
You can't use your Red Spell?
**[12:42] ---**
No, I can't.
**[12:43] ---**
I'd have to interrupt the
Four Ways to Truth spell to do that.
**[12:46] ---**
If I do that, I couldn't
track Oriana's location anymore.
**[12:50] ---**
She's still heading northwest.
**[12:52] ---**
It looks like she's trying
to shake us off linearly.
**[12:55] ---**
Hurry. It's only 1700 meters
until she's out of our effective range.
**[12:59] ---**
You don't have to remind me.
**[13:01] ---**
Wait, she suddenly changed direction!
**[13:03] ---**
What is this? She sped up all of a sudden!
**[13:07] ---**
Tsuchimikado!
**[13:11] ---**
He's had it.
**[13:12] ---**
From what?
**[13:13] ---**
Oriana wouldn't know
how far she would have to go
**[13:17] ---**
to escape the effective range
of the Four Ways to Truth spell.
**[13:19] ---**
So what would she do?
**[13:21] ---**
You don't mean...
**[13:22] ---**
Yes, she would take out Tsuchimikado, the
one at the exact center of the spell.
**[13:27] ---**
We have to hurry, too!
**[13:28] ---**
Where to?
**[13:29] ---**
To wherever Tsuchimikado is, of course!
**[13:31] ---**
And I'm asking you, where is that?!
**[13:36] ---**
We do not know where he is.
**[13:46] ---**
You have to give me all you've got.
**[13:49] ---**
When you sense out wherever my location is,
**[13:52] ---**
it means that I can sense you, too.
**[13:55] ---**
You're the most resourceful
and dangerous one,
**[13:58] ---**
so I came to put you down.
**[14:01] ---**
"Fallere 825." Remember that.
It's my magic name.
**[14:06] ---**
Hmph. My name is "Basis 104."
**[14:10] ---**
And now that I've stated it,
I'll make sure that I win.
**[14:38] ---**
I don't find that violent
youthfulness to be unlikeable.
**[14:48] ---**
Is your style to use your
magic as little as possible?
**[14:53] ---**
If so, you're going to die.
**[14:57] ---**
I do have means such that
I raised a barrier around us.
**[15:02] ---**
You don't have any help coming.
**[15:10] ---**
You rotten fools who
have grown lazy in peacetime,
**[15:12] ---**
unless you wanna die, time to wake up!
**[15:14] ---**
You're too late.
**[15:28] ---**
It's all over, huh?
**[15:34] ---**
It can't be...
**[15:35] ---**
The barrier has been disrupted?
**[15:37] ---**
It looks like even *I* was able
to bring down your barrier, huh?
**[15:42] ---**
I guess you can handle a tougher
workout than your looks let on.
**[15:46] ---**
I have to make sure word of
what's happening here gets out, you see.
**[15:50] ---**
Hmph, silly boy. Even if those
two who were chasing me get here...
**[15:54] ---**
I don't mean them.
**[15:56] ---**
What did you say?
**[15:58] ---**
What are you, dense?
**[16:00] ---**
How many members of
Necessarius do you think there are?
**[16:04] ---**
Do you expect me to believe you?
**[16:08] ---**
Tsukebumi Tamazusa--
**[16:10] ---**
originally an accessory used
to make its target see illusions,
**[16:13] ---**
but depending on how it's used...
**[16:15] ---**
A communications spell?
**[16:17] ---**
Now that we know you
don't have the Stab Sword,
**[16:20] ---**
there's no reason for us
to have her sit out anymore.
**[16:25] ---**
Yes--Kanzaki Kaori!
**[16:28] ---**
Did you not consider the possibility
that there'd be a saint in Japan?
**[16:31] ---**
Moreover, Kanzaki has some personal
friends here in Academy City.
**[16:36] ---**
Even if, by chance, word gets out,
it won't be any big deal.
**[16:45] ---**
Why won't you go quietly?
**[16:49] ---**
Well, for the moment,
I've destroyed your search spell.
**[16:54] ---**
It would be foolish
to stay here any longer,
**[16:56] ---**
letting myself get hurt
by a wounded little boy like you.
**[17:05] ---**
Damn it all...
**[17:07] ---**
Kanzaki Kaori's grand entrance...
**[17:10] ---**
It would have been great
if it had actually happened. Still,
**[17:15] ---**
this Tsukebumi Tamazusa was a fakeout.
**[17:17] ---**
I'm surprised she believed it.
**[17:20] ---**
Now then...
**[17:24] ---**
Looks like using the Four Ways
to Truth is out of the question.
**[17:32] ---**
Tsuchimikado?
**[17:33] ---**
Oriana should be trying to
get herself away from here now.
**[17:37] ---**
That's because I made a teeny little bluff.
**[17:41] ---**
The closest thing to the underground
mall where Tsuchimikado is would be the subway.
**[17:53] ---**
I don't seem to have any tails.
**[17:56] ---**
The Croce di Pietro
preparations are still a ways off.
**[17:59] ---**
Whatever shall I do?
**[18:02] ---**
Planning some spells to
use against a saint might be fun.
**[18:07] ---**
Himegami, we have to take
a shortcut, or we'll miss the next--
**[18:13] ---**
Oh, Miss Komoe...
**[18:15] ---**
Now you've gone and done it.
**[18:18] ---**
I-I am so sorry!
**[18:20] ---**
Ah, and are you all right over here?
**[18:23] ---**
Y-Yes, I'm fine.
**[18:25] ---**
I'd be more concerned about her.
**[18:30] ---**
Ah! Himegami, you're all
soaking wet and showing through!
**[18:34] ---**
Miss Komoe, you're getting
pointy around the chest, yourself.
**[18:39] ---**
A Celtic cross... Necessarius?!
**[18:49] ---**
Himegami?
**[18:50] ---**
What's the matter, Himegami?
**[19:00] ---**
The closest transfer point from here is...
**[19:02] ---**
...an autobus stop 300 meters north.
**[19:05] ---**
300, huh?
**[19:12] ---**
That smell...
**[19:17] ---**
Miss Komoe!
**[19:18] ---**
K-Kamijo!
**[19:20] ---**
Teacher, what exactly is...
**[19:26] ---**
Teacher, what happened here?
**[19:28] ---**
We bumped into this woman...
**[19:31] ---**
Suddenly, she made
this scary face, and then...
**[19:36] ---**
Oriana.
**[19:37] ---**
Why would she? What's her
reason for attacking Himegami?
**[19:40] ---**
Right there.
**[19:42] ---**
That "Walking Church"
accessory is a special item.
**[19:46] ---**
She took her to be a
List-of-Prohibited-Books-class magician,
**[19:50] ---**
and concluded that she was chasing her.
**[19:52] ---**
It was a mistake?
**[19:53] ---**
She did all this to Himegami,
just because of a simple mistake?
**[20:02] ---**
T-P-I-M-I-M-S-P-F-T.
**[20:10] ---**
An ambulance has been called, yes?
**[20:12] ---**
You should wait for
them at the path entrance.
**[20:14] ---**
They won't be able to spot you here.
**[20:18] ---**
Hold on!
**[20:19] ---**
What?
**[20:20] ---**
She got caught up in this because of us!
**[20:22] ---**
You're just going to
leave her here like this?!
**[20:24] ---**
What else can you do for her?
**[20:28] ---**
Don't get too full
of yourself, ride-along!
**[20:30] ---**
There isn't a thing
you can do for this injured girl.
**[20:34] ---**
Right now, the only thing
we can do is go after Oriana.
**[20:41] ---**
If you really intend to defend
anyone, then clench your fists.
**[20:44] ---**
The only power that right hand
of yours has is to destroy illusions.
**[20:48] ---**
Tell me, where is there
any power to protect illusions?!
**[20:54] ---**
Son of a bitch!
**[20:56] ---**
Don't go thinking that
anger belongs to you alone.
**[21:04] ---**
What are you doing?
**[21:06] ---**
When I was with the
Sister, doing this helped somehow.
**[21:10] ---**
No way! Are you...
**[21:20] ---**
Why isn't Himegami getting better?
**[21:24] ---**
We were just talking about
the night parade a few moments ago.
**[21:28] ---**
And now...
**[21:29] ---**
No, you've got it wrong.
**[21:32] ---**
Just like scooping up seawater in a bucket,
**[21:34] ---**
you first have to mark off the
area of your miniature landscape.
**[21:38] ---**
Kamijo Toma, you go after Oriana.
**[21:41] ---**
Hold on a second. Don't tell me you're...
**[21:43] ---**
Don't expect much. This is
outside my area of expertise, too.
**[21:47] ---**
Making use of the knowledge from
the List of Prohibited Books she has,
**[21:51] ---**
we're just going to do some first aid.
**[21:53] ---**
If you want this to
be resolved in its entirety,
**[21:55] ---**
then leave us behind and go, Kamijo Toma.
**[21:59] ---**
All right.
**[22:00] ---**
Stiyl, take care of Himegami.
**[22:04] ---**
I'm sorry, Himegami.
I'll come back to your hospital room
**[22:08] ---**
before the night parade begins.
**[22:10] ---**
So make sure to sit tight for me.
**[22:25] ---**
*I can change even the
destiny that entwines me*
**[22:32] ---**
*so I have everything in my hand!*
**[22:50] ---**
*If I lack the power to
not be outdone by anyone*
**[22:55] ---**
*I can always destroy that illusion*
**[23:01] ---**
*The laid out system
backup install is okay*
**[23:07] ---**
*Fields unknown even
to God become opened*
**[23:13] ---**
*It's a "living form" that not even data*
**[23:18] ---**
*from 100,000 memories
in a moment's miracle can infer*
**[23:25] ---**
*In a Magic∞world exciting
time or space there's no limit*
**[23:31] ---**
*I want the power it
takes to protect somebody*
**[23:36] ---**
*I can change even
the destiny that entwines me*
**[23:44] ---**
*so I have everything in my hand!*
**[23:55] ---**
"Preview"
**[23:55] ---**
I've found out the secret
of the Croce di Pietro.
**[23:57] ---**
The place where it will be
used must be where Oriana is, too.
**[24:01] ---**
But where exactly is that?!
**[24:03] ---**
Next time, "Belvedere."
**[24:05] ---**
When science and magic
cross paths, the story begins.
**[24:08] ---**
# 36 - Belvedere (The Observatory)
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GRVNZK5PY/a-certain-magical-index)
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**[00:31] ---**
In the midst of
the Daihasei Festival,
**[00:32] ---**
Oriana Thomson continues her
flight across Academy City.
**[00:35] ---**
As myself and Stiyl give chase,
we're shown up by her,
**[00:38] ---**
while Tsuchimikado is picked off.
**[00:41] ---**
Even Himegami, who just happened
to be standing there, was set upon.
**[00:45] ---**
Damn it! Oriana,
I swear, you'll pay for this!
**[01:08] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[01:16] ---**
*Omote nara GO Ura wa STAY*
**[01:20] ---**
*Mazu kotae wo kikasete*
**[01:27] ---**
*"Douka oshiete kuremasen ka?"*
**[01:32] ---**
*Tenshi wa misadameru egao no mama*
**[01:42] ---**
*Mayoe! Sono te wo hiku mono nado inai*
**[01:47] ---**
*Kami ga kudasu sono kotae wa fukou datta*
**[01:53] ---**
*Sou sore koso kami kara no okurimono*
**[01:58] ---**
*Norikoetara miete kuru sa dakara ima sugu
(Look for it by oneself, no buts about it)*
**[02:05] ---**
*No buts!*
**[02:20] ---**
Belvedere (The Observatory)
**[02:29] ---**
Damn it!
**[02:35] ---**
Tsuchimikado? Sorry,
but I lost sight of Oriana.
**[02:38] ---**
Do you have any idea where
she might have been headed?
**[02:43] ---**
This bus appears to circle
around School District 7,
**[02:46] ---**
but where she might
get off is... hold on a sec.
**[02:49] ---**
What is it, Kami?
**[02:53] ---**
Say, why is Oriana
walking around town?
**[02:57] ---**
Huh? Well, because
we keep chasing after her--
**[02:59] ---**
No, before that.
**[03:01] ---**
If there's no deal for the Croce di Pietro,
**[03:04] ---**
then it isn't to meet anyone, right?
**[03:06] ---**
So then, her strolling around the city
**[03:08] ---**
is just going to increase her risk, isn't it?
**[03:10] ---**
If that's the case,
**[03:12] ---**
it means that there's a reason
why Oriana is acting all by herself.
**[03:16] ---**
What reason?
**[03:17] ---**
I don't know that much,
but she may have been searching
**[03:21] ---**
for the conditions they
need to use the Croce di Pietro.
**[03:24] ---**
Conditions?
**[03:25] ---**
There has to be some special
circumstance, or they can't use it?
**[03:28] ---**
I asked Stiyl to check into that for us.
**[03:31] ---**
Now that you mention it,
he forwarded me an email from Orsola.
**[03:34] ---**
I'll send it to you, too.
**[03:48] ---**
I read it, Kami. It appears
to be a record dealing with
**[03:53] ---**
the cleaning of the vault
the Croce di Pietro was in.
**[03:55] ---**
So, what did it say?
**[03:58] ---**
When the Croce di Pietro was stored,
**[04:00] ---**
they were neurotically sensitive
about not letting any light hit it.
**[04:04] ---**
Light?
**[04:05] ---**
They must have been trying to
keep it from inadvertently activating.
**[04:09] ---**
Which would mean that
it activates when the sun hits it?
**[04:11] ---**
If that's true, then she
would have already done so.
**[04:15] ---**
Also, it says to finish the
cleaning during the daytime.
**[04:19] ---**
So then, time doesn't enter into it.
**[04:21] ---**
Nope.
**[04:22] ---**
However, there was apparently a
problem with the caretakers.
**[04:26] ---**
They would use horoscopes to
do astrology while on duty.
**[04:31] ---**
Astrology? If they did their
cleaning during the daytime,
**[04:35] ---**
it was nighttime light they were wary of.
**[04:37] ---**
In other words, it was the stars.
**[04:40] ---**
Indeed. By enlisting the figures
in the night sky into magical arrays,
**[04:45] ---**
they could obtain an
enormous amount of power.
**[05:04] ---**
If the Croce di Pietro acts like an antenna
to collect the light of the night sky,
**[05:10] ---**
that would mean Oriana is
out looking for the optimum spot
**[05:13] ---**
in which to set up an antenna.
**[05:15] ---**
But Peter died on June 29th.
**[05:20] ---**
Moreover, Japan's latitude and longitude
**[05:22] ---**
isn't the same as the Vatican's.
**[05:24] ---**
If they can't overcome those problems,
**[05:26] ---**
it rules out the constellation use theory.
**[05:29] ---**
But, we don't have any
more time to think about it.
**[05:33] ---**
Let's just get moving.
**[05:35] ---**
If we work under the assumption
that they *are* using constellations,
**[05:37] ---**
then our time limit would have to be...
**[05:39] ---**
Sundown? Well, what should I do?
**[05:43] ---**
Toma!
**[05:48] ---**
What are you doing up here?
**[05:51] ---**
I-Index?!
**[06:01] ---**
It looks like Kanzaki Kaori
isn't here after all.
**[06:15] ---**
Lidvia...
**[06:16] ---**
I know what you're going to say.
**[06:18] ---**
The girl that you engaged
was an ordinary civilian.
**[06:23] ---**
Her name is Himegami Aisa.
**[06:26] ---**
Despite possessing an
extremely significant power,
**[06:29] ---**
she is not particularly a magician.
**[06:32] ---**
That Celtic cross was nothing more
**[06:33] ---**
than an accessory to keep
her power under wraps,
**[06:36] ---**
and she is not the least bit aggressive.
**[06:40] ---**
How awful...
**[06:42] ---**
Truly awful, indeed.
**[06:44] ---**
We have struck out at a civilian
**[06:46] ---**
who had nothing to do with this operation.
**[06:48] ---**
And this makes it twice.
**[06:50] ---**
They are sinners who stray,
do wrong, and seek salvation,
**[06:54] ---**
who we are to protect.
**[06:57] ---**
We must not make any more mistakes.
**[07:00] ---**
For her sake, we must
use the Croce di Pietro,
**[07:05] ---**
and bring Academy City under our control.
**[07:09] ---**
I'm not so sure everything
is going to work out.
**[07:12] ---**
By placing Academy City
within our hands,
**[07:15] ---**
will all of everyone's problems
really be solved?
**[07:19] ---**
Toma, why aren't you
with everyone else in your class?
**[07:23] ---**
You haven't competed in any
events all afternoon, huh? Why not?
**[07:26] ---**
O-Oh, I was helping out
with the steering committee.
**[07:30] ---**
That's weird. I sent a text
out to the guys in my class.
**[07:34] ---**
A text?
**[07:35] ---**
Maybe I didn't have any service.
**[07:37] ---**
Or maybe the signal
didn't reach the service center.
**[07:41] ---**
I-In any case, Index,
you go back to where the others are.
**[07:45] ---**
Toma, Toma, they said
next up is group gymnastics.
**[07:49] ---**
Will you be there?
**[07:51] ---**
Yes, I will. I'll finish up my
assistance as quick as I can.
**[07:55] ---**
I'm gonna be there. So will
you wait for me there, Index?
**[08:02] ---**
Mm-hmm!
**[08:08] ---**
Sorry about that, Kami.
**[08:13] ---**
Let's finish up our assistance quick.
**[08:19] ---**
On the other hand,
**[08:20] ---**
with this many people around...
**[08:22] ---**
"Wait up!"
**[08:24] ---**
says Misaka Misaka, catching up.
**[08:27] ---**
Hmm?
**[08:28] ---**
"What's the problem? Misaka was
only looking at the souvenirs!"
**[08:32] ---**
says Misaka Misaka by way of protest.
**[08:35] ---**
Misaka?
**[08:39] ---**
Hello? Stiyl?
**[08:42] ---**
I've finished treating the schoolgirl.
**[08:44] ---**
How is Himegami?!
**[08:45] ---**
I don't even want to
have to use that spell again.
**[08:49] ---**
For the time being,
we've kept her from going into shock.
**[08:52] ---**
It's the doctor's job from here on, though.
**[08:55] ---**
Hey, man...
**[08:56] ---**
Huh? What's with the wussified voice?
**[08:59] ---**
I have no intention
of getting chummy with--
**[09:03] ---**
I still haven't told you thank you.
**[09:07] ---**
If you hadn't been here, Himegami
would've... Himegami would've...
**[09:14] ---**
Stop that. We're still not certain
that she's going to survive.
**[09:17] ---**
Even so, I... I...
**[09:20] ---**
Sounds like you're busy,
so I'll catch you later.
**[09:22] ---**
Call Tsuchimikado!
**[09:25] ---**
It sounds like he's onto something.
I'm heading there, too,
**[09:28] ---**
once I can get away from this lady!
**[09:39] ---**
Looks like I was right after all.
**[09:42] ---**
In which case, what do
we do with this discrepancy?
**[09:52] ---**
Ah, Fukiyose?
**[09:54] ---**
Are you feeling any better?
**[09:56] ---**
I'm doing fine.
**[09:58] ---**
But never mind me, are there
any problems at the Daihasei Festival?
**[10:01] ---**
As it happens, Himegami is in a real fix.
**[10:04] ---**
Don't tell me those idiots
did something again!
**[10:07] ---**
Actually, she was attacked
by someone, and taken to the hospital.
**[10:11] ---**
Attacked?!
**[10:13] ---**
If Kamijo and his
friend hadn't been there,
**[10:15] ---**
things may have turned out a lot worse.
**[10:19] ---**
Ah, the priest just went by!
**[10:21] ---**
Mr. Priest!
**[10:23] ---**
Huh? A priest?
**[10:29] ---**
What exactly is going on in this city?
**[10:34] ---**
Okay...
**[10:35] ---**
So sure enough, the constellations
hold the key to activating it.
**[10:39] ---**
Yeah, but, it was summer when
the Croce di Pietro was used before.
**[10:44] ---**
I doubt they can substitute the
autumn constellations.
**[10:48] ---**
There's something else here.
Some gimmick that we haven't figured out.
**[10:53] ---**
But we don't have any
more time to kick it around.
**[11:00] ---**
The English Puritan Church?
**[11:02] ---**
Am I reaching the cell phone
of Mr. Stiyl Magnus?
**[11:06] ---**
A wrong number?!
**[11:07] ---**
I am so terribly sorry!
**[11:09] ---**
Wait, that voice--is that you, Orsola?
**[11:12] ---**
Oh, my, then you must be...
**[11:15] ---**
Thank you for all your help earlier.
**[11:17] ---**
Thanks to you, I am fitting
right in around here--
**[11:20] ---**
Say, if you have something
to report, could you hurry it up?
**[11:25] ---**
Why, yes, the other day,
**[11:26] ---**
Miss Kanzaki showed me where
this delicious Japanese restaurant is--
**[11:30] ---**
I mean, tell us whatever
information you've discovered already!
**[11:33] ---**
Right. I have learned more
about the conditions needed
**[11:37] ---**
to use the Croce di Pietro.
**[11:40] ---**
It is said to be some
kind of large-scale fixture
**[11:43] ---**
for using the power of the constellations.
**[11:45] ---**
Sorry, but we already knew that.
**[11:48] ---**
Oh, is that right?
**[11:50] ---**
Well then, you must also know that
**[11:52] ---**
it can freely activate anywhere
in the world, regardless of season.
**[11:58] ---**
When I found that together with Miss Sherry,
**[12:01] ---**
I thought we at long last had something.
**[12:02] ---**
Just a second.
What are you talking about?
**[12:06] ---**
In order to use the Croce di Pietro,
**[12:08] ---**
one must have a firm grasp of
the area where it will be employed,
**[12:11] ---**
and then select the most fitting
of eighty-eight constellations for that area,
**[12:16] ---**
before the conditions
to activate it can be achieved.
**[12:20] ---**
Which would mean...
**[12:22] ---**
Yes, while there are various restrictions,
**[12:26] ---**
practically speaking, control by the
**[12:29] ---**
Roman Orthodox Church is possible
anywhere in the entire world.
**[12:32] ---**
Wha--?
**[12:33] ---**
We're starting to get it. You mean
that Peter allows a lot of latitude
**[12:37] ---**
in the location of his martyrdom.
**[12:39] ---**
But even if they chose a location,
what about the time?
**[12:43] ---**
St. Peter was put to death on June 29th.
**[12:47] ---**
That is the precise
date when the Croce di Pietro
**[12:49] ---**
was used at the Vatican.
**[12:52] ---**
You mean they intentionally
took it on that date?
**[12:55] ---**
They were prepared to die for it.
**[12:57] ---**
It's not such an impossible tale.
**[12:59] ---**
So, Orsola, have you found
out at what location they would use
**[13:03] ---**
the Croce di Pietro in
Japan today, September 19th?
**[13:08] ---**
Yes.
**[13:08] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[13:09] ---**
But of course I have found that out.
**[13:14] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[13:18] ---**
Wow! Look, look, Mikoto!
**[13:20] ---**
A quasi-five-dimensional kaleidoscope!
**[13:23] ---**
Heh, how fascinating!
**[13:25] ---**
Stay away from those shady goods.
**[13:27] ---**
Pick something that will be more memorable.
**[13:30] ---**
Oh, you are being so girly.
**[13:33] ---**
Y-You be quiet, you dumb mother!
**[13:37] ---**
I-I know the clammy feel of that gaze...
**[13:41] ---**
S-Sissy, is that lady
a member of your family?
**[13:49] ---**
Wow! What is this...?
**[13:51] ---**
This... hyperinflated version
of Sissy's aura...?
**[13:56] ---**
D-Damn it, if that is how it is,
then I will psych myself up,
**[14:01] ---**
and have the both of you bring it on!
**[14:05] ---**
Whoa, Kuroko, are you...?
**[14:08] ---**
Mikoto, does your girliness
swing that way, as well?
**[14:11] ---**
Huh? N-No!
**[14:14] ---**
Come on, Kuroko! Hurry and
snap back to reality!
**[14:18] ---**
--Geez, wake up, you!
--S-Sissy!
**[14:20] ---**
Good morning! Good morning!
**[14:25] ---**
Oh, that boy...
**[14:27] ---**
So, the reason why
Oriana was walking around
**[14:30] ---**
was because she was seeing
whether that location would work?
**[14:33] ---**
Yeah. Everywhere we've been up to now
**[14:36] ---**
has had buildings or roadside
trees blocking out the sky.
**[14:39] ---**
That leaves only one point.
**[14:41] ---**
I'm sure she will be going there.
**[14:44] ---**
The experimental airport
in School District 23?
**[14:46] ---**
There won't be anything to
obscure the sky there.
**[14:51] ---**
Sorry to take so long.
**[14:53] ---**
Man, what is the deal with that lady?
**[14:56] ---**
Every time I used a repel spell,
as soon as I left the affected area,
**[14:59] ---**
she would catch up to me again.
**[15:02] ---**
Forget about that, what do we do?
**[15:03] ---**
School District 23 is
under incredibly tight security.
**[15:07] ---**
Are we going to be able to get in?
**[15:10] ---**
That's no problem.
**[15:11] ---**
I'll just use the "Just-this-once"
prerogative that only I have.
**[15:16] ---**
Prerogative?
**[15:23] ---**
This is strange.
**[15:26] ---**
It's about time for final preparations.
**[15:28] ---**
Isn't there still a short
while before the appointed time?
**[15:30] ---**
The security situation is changing strangely.
**[15:33] ---**
It looks like they've
caught on that I'm nearby.
**[15:36] ---**
In that case, the location
of our belvedere...
**[15:40] ---**
Probably. But it seems
to be the most practical place.
**[15:44] ---**
We won't involve any
more civilians here, either.
**[15:48] ---**
In that case...
**[15:49] ---**
Yes. You get ready, as well.
**[15:53] ---**
Let's now bring Academy City
under our control.
**[15:58] ---**
Just like pushing a maiden of light,
**[16:00] ---**
unaware of anything
before now, into the mud.
**[16:06] ---**
I had them alter the security
status of School District 23 a bit.
**[16:09] ---**
We'll take advantage of that confusion.
**[16:12] ---**
The Croce di Pietro will
be activated just after sundown.
**[16:15] ---**
Probably between the hours of 6 and 7.
**[16:17] ---**
It's ten minutes to the
District 23 terminal station.
**[16:20] ---**
That means once we get there,
**[16:21] ---**
we'll only have twenty-five
minutes before time is up.
**[16:25] ---**
Just to be clear on the matter,
**[16:27] ---**
you intend to face
Oriana in your condition?
**[16:31] ---**
I wish like crazy I could get some rest.
**[16:34] ---**
But District 23's security is not so lax
**[16:36] ---**
that the two of you can break in alone.
**[16:39] ---**
All right.
**[16:55] ---**
Once we get on this train,
there's no turning back.
**[16:58] ---**
Killing will be all that awaits us.
**[17:01] ---**
Are you ready for this, Kamijo Toma?
**[17:05] ---**
Yeah. We're going to
put a stop to all of this.
**[17:09] ---**
And one other thing...
**[17:10] ---**
What?
**[17:12] ---**
Remember this: I have no
intention of ending this with killing.
**[17:25] ---**
Toma isn't here?
**[17:26] ---**
U-Um...
**[17:28] ---**
Um, how do you mean...
**[17:30] ---**
I am terribly sorry.
**[17:31] ---**
Here you have entrusted
your precious son to me,
**[17:34] ---**
and I cannot account for his actions.
**[17:38] ---**
There is just one
thing we'd like to ask you.
**[17:40] ---**
Yes, what is it?
**[17:42] ---**
Toma is acting voluntarily, right?
**[17:45] ---**
He isn't being dragged
around by someone else?
**[17:48] ---**
Oh, yes. That is correct.
**[17:54] ---**
Then, it's something that means
more to Toma than competing.
**[18:00] ---**
I can't come up with any
reason to stop him, can you?
**[18:04] ---**
No.
**[18:23] ---**
Turning the skies of
heaven to our housetop,
**[18:26] ---**
in order to establish
peace in this land,
**[18:29] ---**
I now call on the blessing
of the Holy 12 Apostles.
**[18:36] ---**
The security around
here is focused on the skies.
**[18:39] ---**
There aren't that many
places to hide here, after all.
**[18:42] ---**
Then, how is Oriana
getting into the airport?
**[18:45] ---**
She must have
already done whatever it is.
**[18:47] ---**
Tsuchimikado, we're running out of time.
**[18:50] ---**
Ah, we'll just use that.
**[18:56] ---**
We're near the public airport.
The skies are crowded with both
**[19:00] ---**
passenger planes
and experimental craft.
**[19:02] ---**
The monitoring crafts have
to alter their patrol routes regularly,
**[19:07] ---**
to prevent mid-air collisions.
**[19:09] ---**
If we sneak in under their blind spots,
we should be able to manage.
**[19:27] ---**
Wait! Tsuchimikado!
**[19:28] ---**
What, Kami?
**[19:31] ---**
Tsuchimikado!
**[19:32] ---**
Are you okay, Tsuchimikado?!
**[19:34] ---**
Go on... Kami...!
**[19:37] ---**
Destroy that page...
and the two of you go on...!
**[19:40] ---**
What about you?!
**[19:42] ---**
Stiyl, can't you
heal him with your magic?
**[19:46] ---**
You think she's going to wait for that?!
**[19:50] ---**
Kamijo Toma!
**[20:08] ---**
Flame to my hand!
**[20:10] ---**
Its form, a sword;
its purpose, conviction!
**[20:17] ---**
Hurry!
**[20:19] ---**
So the saint isn't
coming after all, huh?
**[20:22] ---**
Which means,
I guess it's just the three of you.
**[20:28] ---**
A barrier?
She's cut off all communication.
**[20:36] ---**
Stiyl!
**[20:42] ---**
Oh, my!
**[20:43] ---**
I'm not so responsive that
I can get my satisfaction on the side.
**[20:50] ---**
Break apart!
**[20:58] ---**
I see you guys still cave all too quickly.
**[21:02] ---**
I will stop you, right here.
**[21:04] ---**
I am not letting you
use the Croce di Pietro.
**[21:07] ---**
If you mean to mess up Academy City,
and ruin the Daihasei Festival,
**[21:11] ---**
then I swear, I will stop you!
**[21:15] ---**
How unkind to call it "messing up."
**[21:17] ---**
The Croce di Pietro removes
the wall between magic and science,
**[21:21] ---**
and might just lead the
people of the world to happiness.
**[21:25] ---**
Happiness?
**[21:28] ---**
How nice. I can kind of see
how those words might sound nice.
**[21:34] ---**
However, the problem I have with it
**[21:37] ---**
is that by you using the
Croce di Pietro right here and now,
**[21:41] ---**
you're going to wreck the Daihasei Festival!
**[21:45] ---**
So many people treasure
the Daihasei Festival.
**[21:50] ---**
I don't care how great the religion
that you settle down with is,
**[21:53] ---**
there's no way you have the
right to deprive them of those feelings!
**[21:58] ---**
Do you think that much of
an emotionally-charged argument
**[22:00] ---**
is going to sway me?
**[22:03] ---**
If that's all it takes to hurt you,
**[22:05] ---**
then you're out of order to begin with.
**[22:07] ---**
Can you say the same thing
**[22:09] ---**
in front of Fukiyose and
Himegami, the ones you injured?
**[22:14] ---**
Ultimately, that's all I
wanted to say. Except...
**[22:18] ---**
If you're still thinking of
doing anything in my town,
**[22:20] ---**
I will wipe out any illusions of it,
till there are no traces left!
**[22:25] ---**
*Karamatta unmei mo kaete ikeru kara*
**[22:32] ---**
*subete wa kono te no naka ni aru!*
**[22:50] ---**
*Dare nimo makenai chikara ga koko ni nai nara*
**[22:56] ---**
*imajin nante kowashite shimaeba ii*
**[23:01] ---**
*Harimeguru shisutemu bakkappu insutooru wa OK*
**[23:07] ---**
*Kami sae mo shirienai fiirudo ga hiraku*
**[23:13] ---**
*Juuman no deeta mo isshun no mirakuru sae*
**[23:18] ---**
*suisoku fukanou na "ikite'ru katachi" dakara*
**[23:25] ---**
*In a Magic∞world exciting
time or space there's no limit*
**[23:31] ---**
*Dareka wo mamoreru chikara ga hoshii*
**[23:36] ---**
*Karamatta unmei mo kaete ikeru kara*
**[23:44] ---**
*subete wa kono te no naka ni aru!*
**[23:55] ---**
"Preview"
**[23:55] ---**
I don't care how lofty your goal is--
**[23:57] ---**
I don't care how admirable your cause is--
**[23:59] ---**
by no means will I let you do as you please!
**[24:01] ---**
I won't let it end like this!
**[24:04] ---**
Next time, "Croce di Pietro."
**[24:06] ---**
When science and magic
cross paths, the story begins.
**[24:09] ---**
# 37 - Croce di Pietro (Apostolic Cross)
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GRVNZK5PY/a-certain-magical-index)
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**[00:34] ---**
The Croce di Pietro
is a nasty piece of work
**[00:36] ---**
that can be used without
regard to location or season.
**[00:39] ---**
Unless we do something,
**[00:41] ---**
Academy City will fall under
Roman Orthodox control at sundown.
**[00:45] ---**
There's no way I'm letting that happen!
**[01:07] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[01:11] ---**
*I gazed at the coin I had flipped*
**[01:16] ---**
*If it's heads I go, tails I stay*
**[01:20] ---**
*Let me know your answer first*
**[01:26] ---**
*"Please, won't you tell me?"*
**[01:31] ---**
*But the angel continued
to smile in discernment*
**[01:42] ---**
*Wander on! There's nobody
to lead you by the hand*
**[01:47] ---**
*The answer handed down
from God is one of woe*
**[01:52] ---**
*Yes, that is what your gift from God is*
**[01:58] ---**
*Once you overcome it, you'll start to see, so right now...
(Look for it by oneself, no buts about it)*
**[02:05] ---**
*No buts!*
**[02:21] ---**
"#13 Croce di Pietro (Apostolic Cross)"
**[02:35] ---**
Oh, my, what a fine
place for your head to be!
**[02:47] ---**
Damn...
**[03:00] ---**
It's starting to get dark around here.
**[03:03] ---**
Tell me, isn't it about
time you were getting home?
**[03:06] ---**
Or would you rather spend a
somewhat stimulating evening with me?
**[03:13] ---**
One more...
**[03:17] ---**
If there was just one
more thing... One more...
**[03:34] ---**
Its name is flame; its purpose, a sword...
**[03:38] ---**
Manifest! Feed on my
body to gain your power...
**[03:42] ---**
Innocentius!
**[03:56] ---**
Let's go, Innocentius. Fortis 931.
**[04:01] ---**
Prove to us now the reason
why my name is the greatest!
**[04:08] ---**
Die with me!
**[04:11] ---**
Watch out, you idiot!
**[04:15] ---**
Whoops--
**[04:18] ---**
Ashes to ashes; dust to dust!
**[04:21] ---**
Vampire Killer Crimson Cross!
**[04:22] ---**
Oh, no!
**[04:28] ---**
Go home, you klutzy magician!
**[04:30] ---**
You shut up, ride-along!
**[04:40] ---**
Innocentius!
**[04:46] ---**
Out of my way, you idiot!
**[04:47] ---**
You stay out of *my* way!
**[04:49] ---**
What's going on here? I can't
predict their next move like this.
**[05:05] ---**
A reference point...
I need an absolute reference point...
**[05:11] ---**
A clear rule...
whereby everyone is happy,
**[05:15] ---**
and nobody gets
dragged into any tragedies
**[05:17] ---**
brought about by
conflicting sets of values...
**[05:20] ---**
The ultimate world...
**[05:23] ---**
That is why I will win. I will win,
and create my own answer.
**[05:28] ---**
I am... My name is Basis 104!
**[05:34] ---**
Get down, ride-along!
**[05:46] ---**
Stiyl!
**[05:47] ---**
Where are you going?
**[05:49] ---**
You're taking *me* on, aren't you?
**[05:55] ---**
That's enough out of you.
**[05:57] ---**
How many people are you going
to hurt before you've had enough?
**[06:00] ---**
I don't want to hurt anyone, myself.
**[06:04] ---**
But I have my objective.
**[06:07] ---**
Now, get over here. Once I crush you,
my purpose will be at an end.
**[06:13] ---**
All that's left will be
for the Croce di Pietro--
**[06:15] ---**
for the Roman Orthodox Church to
create the world that I desire.
**[06:20] ---**
Objective my eye. Stop talking
like you're such a bigshot,
**[06:25] ---**
when you're allowing others
to determine what your future is.
**[06:27] ---**
Letting others determine?
**[06:30] ---**
Yes, and I don't even care who they are.
**[06:35] ---**
As long as they're
someone who can bring into line
**[06:37] ---**
all the principles and policies
scattered about the world.
**[06:40] ---**
And I will categorically
defend that reference point.
**[06:45] ---**
That's your objective, is it?
**[06:48] ---**
I don't get all the
little details. However,
**[06:52] ---**
I cannot accept the ridiculous proposal
**[06:54] ---**
that we turn over everyone
who lives in Academy City.
**[06:59] ---**
You can talk like that
because you don't understand.
**[07:03] ---**
You've never seen the expression
of someone who could do nothing
**[07:07] ---**
but stand there transfixed by
the circumstances they fell victim to.
**[07:10] ---**
You've simply never
heard the word "frustrated."
**[07:14] ---**
Even if I haven't,
that doesn't make it right for you
**[07:16] ---**
to attack Academy City as you like.
**[07:19] ---**
You can't use the pretext that
it's okay to do good for someone
**[07:23] ---**
if it's on the back of someone else.
**[07:26] ---**
No way!
**[07:31] ---**
The problems you're confronting
are something felt by everyone.
**[07:36] ---**
Everyone stumbles
and makes mistakes at times.
**[07:39] ---**
However, when you
fall down, you get back up.
**[07:42] ---**
No matter how awkward and
badly things turn out, you get back up!
**[07:47] ---**
You don't go tossing aside
other peoples' lives along the way!
**[07:51] ---**
Which do you choose, Oriana Thomson--
**[07:55] ---**
To leave everything up to someone else,
**[07:57] ---**
just because you messed up once?
**[07:59] ---**
Or to extend a hand to those
who have failed, despite those failures?
**[08:12] ---**
This is how we'll settle this.
**[08:16] ---**
I call upon all the ability
dwelling within me.
**[08:20] ---**
Unleash my whole soul,
and strike the foe before me.
**[08:51] ---**
Damn it...
**[08:53] ---**
For crying out loud,
can't you put a little effort
**[08:56] ---**
into making the tournament a success?
**[08:59] ---**
We've got a bit of a problem.
**[09:02] ---**
Come on.
**[09:05] ---**
Don't expect much. This is
outside my area of expertise, too.
**[09:09] ---**
Go on... Kami...!
**[09:11] ---**
Guys... you who tried
to preserve the present...
**[09:16] ---**
I'll come back to your hospital
room before the night parade begins.
**[09:19] ---**
So make sure to sit tight for me.
**[09:21] ---**
That was an expression of my readiness...
**[09:26] ---**
I am not... about to let that
be for nothing... at this point!
**[09:46] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[09:52] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[09:58] ---**
Stiyl!
**[10:00] ---**
Never mind me,
worry about the Croce di Pietro...!
**[10:05] ---**
Get Oriana to tell you where it is.
**[10:08] ---**
We have to keep that relic from activating...
**[10:11] ---**
There is no need for concern.
It will all be over soon.
**[10:16] ---**
Lidvia Lorenzetti...
**[10:21] ---**
Shortly, the Croce di Pietro
will initiate its effects,
**[10:25] ---**
and Academy City will be
converted to Roman Orthodoxy.
**[10:30] ---**
Are you saying that those who
get in the way, like us, will be purged?
**[10:35] ---**
I am just declaring that
we will care for your injuries,
**[10:37] ---**
and see that you are healed.
That is, of course, if it can be judged
**[10:42] ---**
to be beneficial to the
Roman Orthodox Church.
**[10:45] ---**
What?!
**[10:46] ---**
Don't listen to what
she says, Kamijo Toma...
**[10:50] ---**
Lidvia must be
around here somewhere...
**[10:53] ---**
The relic will be with her, too...
**[10:54] ---**
To avoid any misunderstanding,
allow me to say,
**[10:57] ---**
the Croce di Pietro is
not currently in Academy City.
**[11:01] ---**
What...?
**[11:03] ---**
The Roman Apostolic State that
was created by the Croce di Pietro
**[11:07] ---**
was, at its peak,
47,000 square kilometers.
**[11:11] ---**
Even if I release it
outside of Academy City,
**[11:13] ---**
it will easily cover
the entirety of the city.
**[11:17] ---**
We've been had... Oriana was a decoy...
**[11:20] ---**
It is a shame that she was defeated,
**[11:24] ---**
but the Croce di Pietro will
turn even that to a proper outcome.
**[11:29] ---**
The only thing that is important to us
**[11:31] ---**
is the fact that science
will bow to religion.
**[11:34] ---**
By denying science
and showing off our power,
**[11:38] ---**
we can restore the Lord's authority.
**[11:42] ---**
Seek and destroy...
**[11:44] ---**
It's too much to ask Tsuchimikado
to use magic twice at this point.
**[11:48] ---**
Damn! Then what are we supposed to do?!
**[11:51] ---**
We are not conducting
the destruction of Academy City.
**[11:54] ---**
Once we have you renounce
the heresy of science,
**[11:57] ---**
we will embrace you
as our beloved comrades.
**[11:59] ---**
Call Tsuchimikado.
**[12:01] ---**
If we can use a divination
circle to derive Lidvia's location,
**[12:04] ---**
then use my communication
magic to reach our outside forces...
**[12:09] ---**
That won't be possible.
**[12:10] ---**
The world will be converted
by the Croce di Pietro...
**[12:15] ---**
...in another 107 seconds.
**[12:17] ---**
Checkmate.
**[12:20] ---**
Don't we have anything?
**[12:22] ---**
Some final trump card that
will turn the situation around?
**[12:26] ---**
Magic that uses the
constellations in the night sky...
**[12:29] ---**
...whose starlight is
collected here on the ground...
**[12:38] ---**
Tsuchimikado, how many places
outside of Academy City are there
**[12:41] ---**
that could still draw
all of Academy City in
**[12:43] ---**
if the Croce di Pietro were used there?
**[12:45] ---**
What did you say?
**[12:46] ---**
Just shut up and answer me!
**[12:48] ---**
With those conditions,
what would the farthest point be?
**[12:51] ---**
Academy City's northern
perimeter, by about 1,700 meters.
**[12:55] ---**
What about it?
**[13:02] ---**
"Daihasei Festival Schedule"
**[13:05] ---**
There's only...
**[13:06] ---**
Twenty seconds left.
**[13:13] ---**
It is all over.
**[13:19] ---**
It is indeed over, all right.
**[13:22] ---**
And with things finishing like this,
it's definitely the end for me.
**[13:28] ---**
That *is* what you think, isn't it, Lidvia?
**[13:31] ---**
I don't care how much I could
have laid waste to your fantasies,
**[13:35] ---**
if I can't even keep a promise
to one of my classmates...
**[13:37] ---**
Huh? What is this?
**[13:57] ---**
W-What...?
**[13:59] ---**
The time is now exactly
6:30 p.m. Didn't you know?
**[14:06] ---**
That's the time when
the night parade starts.
**[14:09] ---**
With this much light,
it should blot out the stars well enough.
**[14:14] ---**
No matter where you might be.
**[14:19] ---**
You've been beaten by the light created
**[14:22] ---**
by everyone observing the Daihasei Festival.
**[14:25] ---**
You should have looked into who
the stars of the Daihasei Festival are.
**[14:30] ---**
What will it be? If you agree
to destroy the Croce di Pietro,
**[14:35] ---**
and to never again
mess with Academy City,
**[14:39] ---**
that's good enough for me.
**[14:41] ---**
Are you serious? Have you forgotten
**[14:44] ---**
that I am a devout believer
of the Roman Orthodox Church?
**[14:48] ---**
I see.
**[14:54] ---**
In that case,
**[14:56] ---**
let's keep playing tag with one
another, like the field day this is,
**[14:59] ---**
Lidvia Lorenzetti.
**[15:11] ---**
So, without saying a word to me,
Toma, you ended up getting pounded
**[15:14] ---**
by participating in a magic battle
for the fate of Academy City
**[15:19] ---**
and the whole world, and had to
be taken to the hospital, is that it?
**[15:22] ---**
Yeah, but Miss Index,
whenever magic comes up,
**[15:25] ---**
you come traipsing right
into the middle of the incident.
**[15:29] ---**
Toma! The way you say that
very much makes me sound foolish!
**[15:33] ---**
Bzzt! The fact that you
haven't figured it out before
**[15:36] ---**
means that you really are--
**[15:40] ---**
Oh, dear, what a pleasant sight, yet again.
**[15:47] ---**
We were just having a serious talk,
so don't butt in, short-hair!
**[15:52] ---**
Kuroko...
**[15:54] ---**
It's okay for the general public
**[15:57] ---**
to assist in Judgment's
security duties, right?
**[16:01] ---**
Sissy, not inside
a hospital, of all places.
**[16:05] ---**
Damn.
**[16:07] ---**
Okay, fine. Did you
see today's final results?
**[16:10] ---**
Our school slipped easily past
your school to come out on top!
**[16:15] ---**
Don't you go forgetting
about the penalty game.
**[16:18] ---**
W-Well, as far as the penalty game,
**[16:20] ---**
I can't participate in
anything in my condition, so...
**[16:22] ---**
Hmm? Well...
**[16:25] ---**
...what if your life depended on it?
**[16:36] ---**
Ah, that poor Oriana Thomson.
**[16:40] ---**
I must save all those lost,
captive sinners, personally.
**[16:45] ---**
♪ Ah-ah ♪ Attention, please.
**[16:49] ---**
This is Laura Stuart, archbishop
of the English Puritan Church--
**[16:53] ---**
but you're not going
to say something cold,
**[16:56] ---**
like I have to identify myself,
are you, Miss Lidvia?
**[17:00] ---**
Why, here in this private jet...?
**[17:04] ---**
When you stopped at Haneda,
**[17:06] ---**
I had something pasted
to the wall of your fuselage.
**[17:10] ---**
As creepy as ever, I see.
**[17:12] ---**
The more backed into a corner you get,
the more apt you are to cackle.
**[17:17] ---**
I wonder if there's anything
to be done about that.
**[17:20] ---**
The more difficult the situation is,
**[17:22] ---**
the greater the joy I feel
when I break free of it.
**[17:25] ---**
I must give thanks to the Lord.
**[17:33] ---**
What is it?
**[17:34] ---**
The higher the obstacle is,
**[17:36] ---**
the greater the thrill at the
moment you overcome it, you say?
**[17:42] ---**
I was just thinking,
there is some truth to that,
**[17:46] ---**
you swine facing a steep cliff.
**[18:09] ---**
Lidvia, if you renounce the Roman
teachings and come kiss at my feet,
**[18:14] ---**
I would be willing to save you.
**[18:16] ---**
What an absurd thing to say!
**[18:18] ---**
I see.
**[18:19] ---**
In that case, go ahead and make
a crater, together with that thing.
**[18:24] ---**
The Croce di Pietro!
**[18:27] ---**
I won't allow it!
**[18:31] ---**
At this speed, I can make it.
No, I *must* make it!
**[18:35] ---**
It will be right down to the wire,
**[18:37] ---**
which makes it all the more thrilling!
**[18:43] ---**
Well now, Lidvia, which will you choose?
**[18:47] ---**
The world's greatest relic,
or a poor, lost lamb?
**[19:01] ---**
The greater the difficulty,
**[19:04] ---**
the greater your joy
will be when you overcome it,
**[19:08] ---**
for getting to walk all over me,
the one who placed you in it, right?
**[19:12] ---**
Walk all over you?
**[19:14] ---**
To rub your proud face in it...
as much as I like...?
**[19:37] ---**
We are reeling quite thoroughly
after this, aren't we?
**[19:42] ---**
The development of the Imagine Breaker,
**[19:44] ---**
who is to be our key, is as yet unstable.
**[19:48] ---**
I am unsure whether
or not this will be feasible.
**[19:52] ---**
I may have to consider the possibility
**[19:55] ---**
that I myself will have to go forth.
**[20:11] ---**
What are you doing here?
**[20:14] ---**
I was sleeping on the
bench in the waiting room,
**[20:17] ---**
but come morning,
they said I couldn't stay there,
**[20:21] ---**
so I came to your comfortable bed.
**[20:25] ---**
Are you all better now?
**[20:27] ---**
Mm-hmm. From what
the frog doctor told me,
**[20:30] ---**
I should be able to
get out today or tomorrow.
**[20:33] ---**
Aisa, you seem a little
bit lonely to me. How come?
**[20:41] ---**
Did he go and do something
crazy again this time?
**[20:45] ---**
Mm-hmm, that's right.
**[20:47] ---**
Oh, yeah. I haven't
heard all the details yet,
**[20:51] ---**
but apparently, some
Roman Orthodox magicians
**[20:54] ---**
were using the "Daihasei Festival"
thing to launch an attack.
**[20:57] ---**
So then, Toma once again went
off without saying anything to me,
**[21:02] ---**
and after running off
helter-skelter by himself,
**[21:05] ---**
only told me about it like he
was making an after-incident report!
**[21:10] ---**
Oh... Then it could have been anyone.
**[21:14] ---**
He helps anyone who
is in trouble, and not just me.
**[21:21] ---**
Perhaps I really shouldn't
have had him help me.
**[21:27] ---**
I may be nothing more than
a bother to everyone else, huh?
**[21:31] ---**
No, that's not true!
**[21:33] ---**
Huh?
**[21:36] ---**
I mean, Toma seems to enjoy
himself when he's with you, Aisa.
**[21:42] ---**
Hey, Fukiyose, what's the big idea,
**[21:45] ---**
coming into my
hospital room and slapping me?
**[21:47] ---**
You hush! Anyone would be startled
when they suddenly see a guy naked!
**[21:52] ---**
You're the one who came in while
I was changing my clothes, right?
**[21:54] ---**
What did you say?!
**[21:55] ---**
Say, do you know why
he fights like he does?
**[22:00] ---**
Nah.
**[22:01] ---**
When I asked him once,
he said it was for himself.
**[22:05] ---**
Maybe for Toma,
it's what makes him happy.
**[22:10] ---**
Huh?
**[22:25] ---**
*I can change even the
destiny that entwines me*
**[22:32] ---**
*so I have everything in my hand!*
**[22:49] ---**
*If I lack the power to
not be outdone by anyone*
**[22:55] ---**
*I can always destroy that illusion*
**[23:01] ---**
*The laid out system
backup install is okay*
**[23:06] ---**
*Fields unknown even
to God become opened*
**[23:13] ---**
*It's a "living form" that not even data*
**[23:18] ---**
*from 100,000 memories
in a moment's miracle can infer*
**[23:25] ---**
*In a Magic∞world exciting
time or space there's no limit*
**[23:30] ---**
*I want the power it
takes to protect somebody*
**[23:36] ---**
*I can change even
the destiny that entwines me*
**[23:44] ---**
*so I have everything in my hand!*
**[23:55] ---**
"Preview"
**[23:55] ---**
For good or ill, Index and
I are suddenly off to Italy.
**[23:58] ---**
And now that we're here,
let's relax and do some sightseeing!
**[24:01] ---**
Wait, Orsola? And the Amakusa?
**[24:04] ---**
Next time, "City of Water."
**[24:06] ---**
When science and magic
cross paths, the story begins.
# 38 - City of Water
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GRVNZK5PY/a-certain-magical-index)
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**[00:31] ---**
I, Kamijo Toma,
am an unlucky person.
**[00:36] ---**
Just look back over the last seven
days of the Daihasei Festival,
**[00:39] ---**
and you'll be able to tell.
**[00:41] ---**
Even having cleared up the
outrageous problem from the first day,
**[00:44] ---**
from the second day onward,
**[00:46] ---**
I accidentally witnessed
Miss Komoe changing...
**[00:50] ---**
...immediately got head-butted by a
completely recovered Fukiyose Seiri...
**[00:55] ---**
...was hit by a gumball from the
wheelchair Himegami Aisa was in...
**[00:59] ---**
...and right as I was being forced
to do a folk dance with Misaka Mikoto...
**[01:04] ---**
I took a dropkick to the back of
the head from Shirai Kuroko.
**[01:07] ---**
For some reason,
I feel run pretty ragged now.
**[01:13] ---**
To repeat, I, Kamijo Toma,
am an unlucky--
**[01:18] ---**
Congratulations!
**[01:19] ---**
In the Spectator Numbers game,
held on the last day of the Daihasei Festival,
**[01:23] ---**
the number you
selected took first place!
**[01:26] ---**
Your prize is... a 7-day, 5-night
trip for two to Northern Italy!
**[01:27] ---**
"1st Place: Northern Italy
(7-day, 5-night trip for two)"
**[01:31] ---**
"Spectator Numbers"
**[01:34] ---**
Huh? A trip to Italy?
**[01:55] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[01:59] ---**
*I gazed at the coin I had flipped*
**[02:04] ---**
*If it's heads I go, tails I stay*
**[02:08] ---**
*Let me know your answer first*
**[02:14] ---**
*"Please, won't you tell me?"*
**[02:19] ---**
*But the angel continued
to smile in discernment*
**[02:30] ---**
*Wander on! There's nobody
to lead you by the hand*
**[02:35] ---**
*The answer handed down
from God is one of woe*
**[02:40] ---**
*Yes, that is what your gift from God is*
**[02:46] ---**
*Once you overcome it, you'll start to see, so right now...
(Look for it by oneself, no buts about it)*
**[02:53] ---**
*No buts!*
**[03:08] ---**
#14 City of Water
**[03:09] ---**
Not to keep harping on it, but I,
Kamijo Toma, am an unlucky person.
**[03:14] ---**
I don't have a passport, do I?!
**[03:16] ---**
Hmm? What's a passport?
**[03:20] ---**
I knew it, all right. I knew
this would happen from the start.
**[03:24] ---**
And it's only two days to the trip.
**[03:26] ---**
Even if I requested
a passport today-- Huh?
**[03:35] ---**
Well if it isn't my passport!
**[03:38] ---**
What do you know?
Have I ever gone overseas?
**[03:41] ---**
Toma! Toma!
I've got something a lot like that!
**[03:50] ---**
Hey, you don't have any
stamps or writing in here, you know!
**[03:55] ---**
Just how did you manage to
get all the way here?
**[03:58] ---**
So anyway, Toma,
**[03:59] ---**
if I've got one of those,
**[04:01] ---**
does that mean I can go
on your trip together with you?
**[04:06] ---**
Er... Huh?
**[04:08] ---**
Right now, I get the
feeling it would be okay.
**[04:10] ---**
Despite the fact that
I'm an unlucky person.
**[04:13] ---**
"International Airport"
**[04:14] ---**
You haven't forgotten anything, right?
**[04:16] ---**
Your wallet, your passport,
your plane ticket,
**[04:19] ---**
your necessary documents,
something to change into...
**[04:21] ---**
Eh, what else?
**[04:22] ---**
Toma! Toma! Why are you
being such a worrywart over this?
**[04:26] ---**
Y-Yeah, you're right.
Yeah, it's okay to enjoy this, isn't it?
**[04:31] ---**
Okay! For these seven days
and five nights in Northern Italy,
**[04:34] ---**
I'm going to relish some happiness
**[04:35] ---**
for the first time in a long, long while!
**[04:38] ---**
Yeah!
**[04:44] ---**
U-Uh, is something wrong?
**[04:46] ---**
What is this?
**[04:47] ---**
Huh?
**[04:50] ---**
Damn! We have to run, Index!
You need something more proper to wear,
**[04:53] ---**
or they won't let us on the plane!
**[04:55] ---**
Huh? What, Toma?
You're going to buy me some clothes?
**[04:58] ---**
The shopping area is
another 1.5 kilometers ahead.
**[05:00] ---**
We only have twenty-eight minutes
before the plane takes off!
**[05:03] ---**
Damn it! I knew this would be my luck!
**[05:19] ---**
Man, we sure are close to the sea, huh?
**[05:21] ---**
It would be more accurate
to say the sea surrounds us
**[05:24] ---**
than to say we're close to it.
The center of Chioggia here
**[05:27] ---**
is an island city in the Adriatic Sea.
**[05:30] ---**
Oh, yeah?
**[05:43] ---**
Whoo... after running around
buying a ton of safety pins
**[05:46] ---**
after getting to the airport and
having our guide leave us behind,
**[05:50] ---**
I was worried there for a
second what would happen,
**[05:53] ---**
but we finally made it here.
**[05:54] ---**
For you to survive in an
international society nowadays, Toma,
**[05:58] ---**
you should speak
at least three languages.
**[06:00] ---**
Ungh, having a crazy Sister
like you talking to me about
**[06:03] ---**
"nowadays" and "at leasts" is too much.
**[06:13] ---**
We can eat after we
drop off our luggage at the hotel.
**[06:16] ---**
I know! You don't have
to come out and say so!
**[06:22] ---**
Listen, the food is fine and all,
**[06:22] ---**
Is that authentic squid ink gelato?
**[06:24] ---**
but once we finish checking in,
**[06:25] ---**
let's go into Venice!
**[06:27] ---**
I've always wanted to ride in a gondola!
**[06:32] ---**
Huh?
**[06:34] ---**
Hey! Index!
**[06:38] ---**
Index!
**[06:40] ---**
Hey! Index!
**[06:44] ---**
If I keep this up,
*I'm* the one who'll end up lost.
**[06:47] ---**
[speaking Italian]
**[06:51] ---**
Huh?
**[06:52] ---**
[speaking Italian]
**[06:59] ---**
"H-Hallo." No, that's not it. What is it?
**[07:03] ---**
[speaking Italian]
**[07:11] ---**
[speaking Italian]
**[07:15] ---**
Oh, should I not
have done that just now?
**[07:19] ---**
It looked to me like you
were at a loss as to what to do.
**[07:23] ---**
O-Orsola?
**[07:26] ---**
Yes.
**[07:28] ---**
What are you doing in a place like this?
**[07:31] ---**
Oh, I kind of won a 7-day,
5-night trip to Northern Italy.
**[07:35] ---**
For that matter, Orsola,
why are you here?
**[07:37] ---**
I thought you were in London.
**[07:39] ---**
I still kept a residence
here until just the other day.
**[07:43] ---**
When I, you know, moved
from the Roman Orthodox Church
**[07:46] ---**
to the English Puritan Church,
it was a bit of a commotion.
**[07:50] ---**
I still have some
things remaining here,
**[07:53] ---**
but the Amakusa are kind enough
to help out, just like movers.
**[07:58] ---**
Wait, the Amakusa?
You mean *those* Amakusa?
**[08:03] ---**
By the way, were you out shopping?
**[08:06] ---**
Huh? Oh, no, actually,
**[08:08] ---**
while I'm glad to have come
here together with Index,
**[08:11] ---**
she up and disappeared somewhere.
**[08:13] ---**
Then our meeting
here is a turn of fate.
**[08:16] ---**
This works out perfectly. Can I ask
you to help me move my things?
**[08:22] ---**
Huh?
**[08:22] ---**
Well, like I said,
I have to find Index, so...
**[08:26] ---**
Oh, if you are looking for Miss Index...
**[08:29] ---**
Huh?
**[08:30] ---**
Toma! Toma! Toma!
**[08:32] ---**
Toma! As delicious as the gelato is here,
**[08:36] ---**
this is still the discount,
economy size!
**[08:40] ---**
Yum!
**[08:43] ---**
...I saw her pressed up against
the window of a storefront
**[08:46] ---**
specializing in gelato
a short while ago,
**[08:49] ---**
so I asked a friend of mine to
invite her back to my residence.
**[08:55] ---**
And you left me behind...
**[08:58] ---**
Ah, Orsola, is lunch ready yet?
**[09:01] ---**
Yes, it is almost time.
**[09:03] ---**
Hooray!
**[09:05] ---**
Just my luck.
**[09:07] ---**
That is the man who is a
respected colleague of His Holiness?
**[09:10] ---**
But then, how powerful can he be?
**[09:13] ---**
You only question as much
**[09:14] ---**
because you did not assist
in rescuing Sister Orsola.
**[09:18] ---**
That is the gentleman
who went up against
**[09:20] ---**
the Roman Orthodox
Warrior Sisters unarmed,
**[09:22] ---**
and declared war
against them all by himself.
**[09:26] ---**
He has also witnessed
the Priestess in the altogether,
**[09:28] ---**
and despite being belted by
her Shichiten Shichito sword's sheath,
**[09:31] ---**
he did not even
need bandaging afterward.
**[09:35] ---**
He's a monster.
**[09:37] ---**
What kind of screwed-up
appraisal is that?
**[09:42] ---**
Wow! This looks delicious!
**[09:42] ---**
Wow! This looks delicious!
**[09:45] ---**
But are you sure? We haven't
helped out with moving at all yet.
**[09:50] ---**
The offering of my hospitality
to you two comes first.
**[09:55] ---**
Well, don't mind if we do.
**[10:01] ---**
Would you like to use this?
**[10:06] ---**
Thanks.
**[10:07] ---**
Not at all.
**[10:11] ---**
Itsuwa, how do you feel your
wet towel operation went?
**[10:14] ---**
You dummy, it's too
soon to see any results.
**[10:17] ---**
Let things run their course.
**[10:19] ---**
Isn't this kind of taking the long way?
**[10:20] ---**
Aren't they going to eat with us?
**[10:23] ---**
They said that they
are in training or something,
**[10:25] ---**
and that they must
observe a set meal etiquette.
**[10:27] ---**
Toma!
**[10:29] ---**
Go ahead, please,
before your food becomes cold.
**[10:33] ---**
Okay, then--
**[10:34] ---**
Thank you for this meal!
**[10:34] ---**
Thank you for this meal!
**[10:42] ---**
Yum!
**[10:42] ---**
Yum!
**[10:43] ---**
What is this? Can pasta
really be this delicious?
**[10:46] ---**
This tastes about 500 times better
than what you always make, Toma.
**[10:49] ---**
You've got no right to complain,
**[10:51] ---**
but this really is good,
so who cares? Yum!
**[10:54] ---**
Yum! Yum!
**[10:55] ---**
By the way, is the purpose
of your trip to see Venice?
**[11:00] ---**
Well, yeah it is, but we
can't seem to reach our tour guide.
**[11:05] ---**
I would love for you to see Venice.
**[11:09] ---**
"The City of Water,"
"The Queen of the Adriatic,"
**[11:12] ---**
it is expressed in many
ways, so beautiful the city is.
**[11:17] ---**
Well then, I guess
we'll go have a look. Index...
**[11:19] ---**
(As long as I have this food,
I could stay here forever)
**[11:24] ---**
What are you even saying?
**[11:32] ---**
All righty...
**[11:47] ---**
I guess packing the dishes is next.
**[11:50] ---**
Orsola! Where did you say
your stock of newspaper is?
**[11:54] ---**
It is right over here.
**[12:08] ---**
The pairing of that voice
and the sound of water means...
**[12:11] ---**
Wah! Toma!
**[12:13] ---**
I'm starting to get all dirty.
**[12:16] ---**
If you like, you are
welcome to take a shower.
**[12:19] ---**
You must be worn
out from your long trip.
**[12:22] ---**
Whoa-ho! It's the
old bathroom trap, is it?
**[12:26] ---**
Whew, I almost fell for it, too--
**[12:31] ---**
A voice coming from here, too?
**[12:33] ---**
What is this?
What the hell is going on?
**[12:44] ---**
It's a fundamental premise
that there are not two bathrooms.
**[12:47] ---**
One of them will be,
the other one won't be.
**[12:50] ---**
Damn, what kind of choice
between two extremes is this?!
**[12:53] ---**
Right... no, left... No, wait!
**[12:56] ---**
The shower sounds
are only coming from the left,
**[12:58] ---**
so the correct answer is... the right!
**[13:01] ---**
I figured it out!
**[13:05] ---**
At that moment, I wondered to myself,
**[13:08] ---**
why didn't I think of the simple solution
**[13:10] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[13:11] ---**
of knocking first to make
sure what was inside?
**[13:16] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[13:23] ---**
Huh?
**[13:35] ---**
U-Um...
**[13:37] ---**
Wah! This way's the bathroom?!
**[13:39] ---**
I-I'm sorry, Orsola!
**[13:41] ---**
Gah!
**[13:42] ---**
Th-There's a stifling breeze coming
out of this stick with a roar--!
**[13:55] ---**
Wait, a bathroom
on the right *and* the left?!
**[13:58] ---**
There are *two* bathrooms in this house?!
**[14:00] ---**
Y-Yes. One for daily use,
**[14:04] ---**
and the second one
was put in for religious use.
**[14:09] ---**
Now, because of the move,
**[14:10] ---**
its function as a baptistery
has been discontinued.
**[14:13] ---**
This is outrageous! I call foul!
**[14:16] ---**
Toma...
**[14:18] ---**
Why are you here to begin with, Toma?
**[14:21] ---**
And why, after seeing us naked,
do I not hear you saying you're sorry?
**[14:25] ---**
W-Well, you see, Miss Index,
I needed some newspaper, so--
**[14:31] ---**
Just my luck!
**[14:34] ---**
Oh, my goodness.
**[14:41] ---**
All right, if you would be so kind...
**[14:50] ---**
Thank you for all
you have done, both of you.
**[14:54] ---**
I am so sorry to keep
you occupied for so long.
**[14:58] ---**
What are you going to do now, Orsola?
**[15:00] ---**
Would you like to go around
seeing the sights with us?
**[15:03] ---**
Oh, no, not at all. Are you asking
me to follow along after you,
**[15:07] ---**
with the two of you heading to your hotel?
**[15:10] ---**
I mean, three's a crowd...
**[15:14] ---**
What? Three's a crowd?
**[15:15] ---**
No need to ask, and no need
to know what she means, Index!
**[15:20] ---**
Besides, I would like to go around
Chioggia and say my goodbyes.
**[15:26] ---**
I have lived in the city
for a long time, after all.
**[15:31] ---**
That is something
I don't exactly want you to see.
**[15:35] ---**
I may develop a
less-than-dignified look on my face.
**[15:39] ---**
Okay.
**[15:43] ---**
Well, I will be leaving.
If you ever get the chance,
**[15:47] ---**
I will invite you to my
apartment in London, as well.
**[15:50] ---**
Yeah, same here.
If you ever get to Japan again...
**[15:54] ---**
But before that happens,
Toma may need to clean the place up.
**[15:59] ---**
No, this can't be...
**[16:01] ---**
Everyone, get down!
**[16:03] ---**
AATR.
**[16:10] ---**
Orsola!
**[16:11] ---**
Huh?
**[16:12] ---**
If Index was disturbed
by this, it means...
**[16:15] ---**
Magic!
**[16:16] ---**
Huh?
**[16:23] ---**
Where's it coming from?
Who's doing it?
**[16:30] ---**
Toma!
**[16:39] ---**
ISICBI.
**[17:06] ---**
What about the sniper?!
**[17:07] ---**
It's all right. It's already dealt with.
**[17:10] ---**
Dealt with? What did you do?
**[17:12] ---**
If they are aiming at us from a distance,
**[17:15] ---**
then the situation here is being
carefully relayed to the enemy.
**[17:19] ---**
Which means that no matter where they are,
**[17:21] ---**
they have to be taking
in my spell intercept.
**[17:32] ---**
Is that the sniper?!
**[17:44] ---**
W-What the...?
**[18:32] ---**
Damn, this is crazy!
**[18:34] ---**
How can something like
this pop up out of the canal?
**[18:38] ---**
Orsola, let's just get in the boat!
**[18:40] ---**
R-Right.
**[18:46] ---**
This is glass... no, is it ice?
**[18:59] ---**
Toma! Are you okay?! Toma!
**[19:03] ---**
Why is a huge ship like
this going down the canal?
**[19:29] ---**
It looks like we are headed away from land.
**[19:32] ---**
Yeah. Just where are
they planning on heading?
**[19:44] ---**
What should we do?
They appear to be searching for us.
**[19:49] ---**
I know. But...
**[19:52] ---**
...we can't really jump off to get away.
**[19:55] ---**
Let's just hide for now,
and wait for our chance to escape.
**[20:07] ---**
Toma...
**[20:14] ---**
Damn, what is going on here?
**[20:22] ---**
Let's go.
**[20:30] ---**
Please excuse the intrusion.
**[20:46] ---**
Why would they go so far as to
use something as outrageous as this
**[20:49] ---**
to come and attack me?
**[20:51] ---**
The robes they were wearing
looked a lot like your habit, Orsola.
**[20:55] ---**
Yes, it is reasonable that
you would take them to be members
**[20:59] ---**
of the Roman Orthodox Church.
**[21:01] ---**
Which means that this must
concern the Book of the Law, all right.
**[21:05] ---**
That whole incident
should have been settled
**[21:08] ---**
by my going over to
the English Puritan Church.
**[21:36] ---**
This ship is not the enemy's stronghold;
**[21:39] ---**
one might say that it is
just one part of the larger whole.
**[21:42] ---**
I guess Chioggia is too small
a place for all of them to deploy.
**[21:47] ---**
Do you think Index is okay?
**[21:50] ---**
I can still use my cell phone,
**[21:52] ---**
but damn it, sure enough,
she didn't charge hers.
**[21:55] ---**
Then again, will the signal
reach out at sea?
**[21:58] ---**
I am not sure.
**[22:02] ---**
Th-The door!
**[22:05] ---**
This is bad! Hide someplace, Orsola!
**[22:07] ---**
But where, exactly?
**[22:10] ---**
Hell, right here!
**[22:12] ---**
First thing to do is to close the door--
**[22:22] ---**
Agnese...?
**[22:47] ---**
*At a certain world's center,*
**[22:50] ---**
*I whispered that it
was okay to be alone*
**[22:53] ---**
*I bent back the hands on the clock*
**[22:55] ---**
*and kept my eyes closed*
**[23:03] ---**
*You can't turn back time that has passed*
**[23:09] ---**
*but on that day, you showed me*
**[23:12] ---**
*that that's how it should be*
**[23:17] ---**
*The miracle of you being
there as the seasons roll around*
**[23:22] ---**
*makes even the
broken clock start up again*
**[23:28] ---**
*Right now, yeah, I may
be a helpless piece of junk*
**[23:34] ---**
*but it's funny how
I feel like I can change that*
**[23:39] ---**
*All because your voice is still here*
**[23:44] ---**
*for me, even now*
**[23:55] ---**
"Preview"
**[23:55] ---**
An outrageous operation
that involves Agnese...
**[23:58] ---**
A secret organization,
called the Queen of the Adriatic...
**[24:00] ---**
And Tatemiya?!
You and the Amakusa, too?!
**[24:04] ---**
Next time, "Queen's Fleet."
**[24:05] ---**
When science and magic
cross paths, the story begins.
# 39 - Queen's Fleet
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GRVNZK5PY/a-certain-magical-index)
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**[00:35] ---**
Agnese...?
**[00:39] ---**
Wait!
**[00:40] ---**
I wish you would wait just a moment!
**[00:43] ---**
What are you two doing around
the Queen of the Adriatic Sea?
**[00:47] ---**
Oh... we just happened to
end up on the ship by chance.
**[00:51] ---**
Is the "Queen of the Adriatic Sea"
the name of this ice fleet?
**[00:57] ---**
The fleet's name
is the "Queen's Fleet."
**[00:59] ---**
This ship is one
of the escort vessels.
**[01:02] ---**
Apparently, you really
don't know anything, do you?
**[01:04] ---**
What exactly are you doing here?
**[01:08] ---**
I'm helping to
search for intruders.
**[01:11] ---**
However, I never imagined the
intruders would be you two.
**[01:16] ---**
I might be able to take
advantage of this.
**[01:18] ---**
We just barely got roped into all of this.
**[01:20] ---**
If you're going to keep
yammering like that, I'll scream.
**[01:23] ---**
You'd best not get on my bad
side if you want to get out of here.
**[01:30] ---**
For now, we have
no choice but to obey her.
**[01:33] ---**
Just what is in it for you
if you allow us to escape?
**[01:38] ---**
Compensation. As long
as I get that, we'll be fine.
**[02:03] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[02:07] ---**
*Yubi de hajiku koin mitsumeta*
**[02:12] ---**
*Omote nara GO Ura wa STAY*
**[02:16] ---**
*Mazu kotae wo kikasete*
**[02:22] ---**
*"Douka oshiete kuremasen ka?"*
**[02:27] ---**
*Tenshi wa misadameru egao no mama*
**[02:38] ---**
*Mayoe! Sono te wo hiku mono nado inai*
**[02:43] ---**
*Kami ga kudasu sono kotae wa fukou datta*
**[02:48] ---**
*Sou sore koso kami kara no okurimono*
**[02:54] ---**
*Norikoetara miete kuru sa dakara ima sugu
(Look for it by oneself, no buts about it)*
**[03:01] ---**
*No buts!*
**[03:16] ---**
#15 Queen's Fleet
**[03:17] ---**
What exactly is this "Queen's
Fleet" in the first place?
**[03:21] ---**
Well, it's a fleet built to
patrol the Adriatic Sea.
**[03:27] ---**
I had never heard of it before.
**[03:30] ---**
There are only a very few
departments that do know about it.
**[03:35] ---**
We were attacked out of nowhere
by the guys on this boat.
**[03:39] ---**
Are you sure this fleet
was instituted just for patrolling?
**[03:42] ---**
Maybe you literally got
caught by one of the patrols.
**[03:46] ---**
Hmm?
**[03:47] ---**
You are the people who ruined
the Roman Orthodox Church's project.
**[03:51] ---**
Moreover, one of you is here
from Japan, and the other from London.
**[03:56] ---**
Well, all pretense aside,
this is actually a kind of labor camp.
**[04:01] ---**
It's where they gather offenders like me,
**[04:04] ---**
and have us work off the
losses that we have incurred.
**[04:07] ---**
That's why about the only ones
on this ship are my squad--
**[04:09] ---**
or rather, my former
squad of Sisters.
**[04:13] ---**
Anyway, to get to the point,
**[04:15] ---**
in return for letting you two get away,
**[04:18] ---**
I want you to find
Sister Lucia and Sister Angelene,
**[04:20] ---**
and rescue the two
of them from this place.
**[04:23] ---**
By rescue, you mean...
**[04:25] ---**
Those two used a
magic spell to outfox the scouts,
**[04:29] ---**
and broke out of the lockup.
**[04:31] ---**
The two of them were
apparently planning to rescue us,
**[04:34] ---**
once they had
their preparations in place.
**[04:43] ---**
So, the two of them were brought back,
**[04:46] ---**
and had the book thrown at them?
**[04:48] ---**
Preventing their
breakout spell must come first.
**[04:51] ---**
They'll probably be processed to
keep them from using the spell again.
**[04:55] ---**
Processed?
**[04:56] ---**
Are you talking about having
their powers of thought taken from them?
**[05:00] ---**
Meaning, the violation
of their brain structure?
**[05:04] ---**
I want you to rescue them before
that happens. That's my request.
**[05:09] ---**
Doing so will also give
you the spell to escape, right?
**[05:12] ---**
Yes, but isn't the spell already
known to the Roman Orthodoxy?
**[05:17] ---**
The Queen's Fleet has a
major operation ahead of them.
**[05:20] ---**
They can't afford to be distracted
by a couple of people breaking out.
**[05:24] ---**
I will head to the
flagship as a diversion.
**[05:28] ---**
While I'm gone,
please come up with something.
**[05:30] ---**
Are you saying you're helping us?
**[05:32] ---**
Not helping you, just using you.
**[05:34] ---**
But you're caught too, right?
Run away with us.
**[05:38] ---**
What the overseers are afraid
of is an uprising by the laborers.
**[05:42] ---**
I'm something of a mental safety
device to guard against that,
**[05:46] ---**
if you can call it that.
**[05:47] ---**
I have the authority to walk
around freely aboard the ship,
**[05:50] ---**
and am also exempt from the labor.
**[05:53] ---**
It's surprisingly comfortable
living aboard here.
**[05:56] ---**
Sisters Lucia and Angelene have
nowhere to go, though.
**[06:00] ---**
They should have just gotten away themselves.
**[06:05] ---**
If you are lucky enough to get out of here,
**[06:06] ---**
be sure not to get involved with
the Roman Orthodox Church again.
**[06:10] ---**
I know. But now that
we're so vastly outnumbered,
**[06:13] ---**
I'm not so sure
we're getting out of this.
**[06:15] ---**
Oh? Is that something the
guy who earlier went up against
**[06:18] ---**
so many Sisters
singlehandedly would say?
**[06:24] ---**
Th-Thanks.
**[06:34] ---**
Your habit--
**[06:36] ---**
it was specially adorned to provide
**[06:39] ---**
a magical restraining effect, was it?
**[06:44] ---**
Shh!
**[06:47] ---**
If that is the Queen's Fleet,
**[06:50] ---**
then it won't do any
good for me to go alone.
**[06:56] ---**
There is no one here, is there?
**[06:58] ---**
No. Agnese did say
it was mostly unmanned.
**[07:03] ---**
That's the room where
Lucia and Angelene are.
**[07:08] ---**
What's that?
**[07:09] ---**
Is something the matter?
**[07:13] ---**
Stand back, Orsola!
**[07:24] ---**
This suit of armor is like a
robot that runs on magic, is it?
**[07:28] ---**
Yes. It appears to be part
of this ship, in an altered form.
**[07:40] ---**
Don't move!
**[07:43] ---**
How do you think we destroyed that?
**[07:46] ---**
Whoops, I spoke in
Japanese without thinking,
**[07:50] ---**
but you still understand me, right?
**[07:51] ---**
If you choose not to heed my warning,
**[07:53] ---**
I will just have to use this.
**[07:58] ---**
We have come to rescue you.
**[08:00] ---**
Do you really think we
will believe what you say?
**[08:04] ---**
Well, you see...
**[08:06] ---**
As far as what Agnese told us,
**[08:08] ---**
you guys can perform the magic
we need to get us out of here.
**[08:11] ---**
So she told us to rescue you
and get you to cooperate with us.
**[08:14] ---**
S-Sister Agnese, you say?
**[08:17] ---**
Consider for a moment
the possibility that this is a trap!
**[08:20] ---**
This is the enemy stronghold.
**[08:22] ---**
I cannot imagine any
reason why we would go so far
**[08:25] ---**
as to even use Sister Agnese's
name just to rescue you.
**[08:30] ---**
Sister Lucia...
**[08:35] ---**
All right. There is some
logic to what you're saying.
**[08:40] ---**
By the way, how is it that we escape?
**[08:43] ---**
It would take too long to explain.
**[08:44] ---**
Sister Angelene...
**[08:46] ---**
Oh, um...
**[08:54] ---**
Awesome!
**[08:56] ---**
A subclass of the magic
that uses ice to build ships
**[08:58] ---**
can open up voids within them.
**[09:00] ---**
By taking advantage of this,
we can solidify seawater
**[09:03] ---**
to create seabed coasters.
**[09:07] ---**
What's wrong?!
**[09:08] ---**
I-It looks like our restraint
clothing is also equipped
**[09:11] ---**
with a kind of
countermeasure spell.
**[09:14] ---**
If we follow the right procedure
and break apart the seams,
**[09:16] ---**
we can disrupt part of
the restraint functionality.
**[09:18] ---**
Disrupt?
**[09:21] ---**
Then look, there's a
quicker way for me to--
**[09:25] ---**
Now, now, don't tell me you
mean to strip *them* bare naked, too.
**[09:50] ---**
What's going to happen to us now?
**[09:53] ---**
More importantly...
**[09:55] ---**
...there's something about
tonight's supper that bothers me.
**[09:58] ---**
What do you mean?
**[10:00] ---**
Nothing in this world is
more important than the Lord.
**[10:02] ---**
I-It bothered me, too.
**[10:05] ---**
Three days in a row now,
they used olives as the secret ingredient.
**[10:08] ---**
Oh, and the baths
are a little too hot, too, huh?
**[10:11] ---**
Secret ingredients
don't make any difference!
**[10:13] ---**
And also, the baths
are lukewarm, if anything!
**[10:16] ---**
Y-You think so?
**[10:18] ---**
It's true, the grown-ups do not
seem to pay it too much mind...
**[10:22] ---**
Which would mean...
**[10:26] ---**
Is something the matter?
**[10:27] ---**
I-If you're going to have a word
with them, I'll come with you.
**[10:31] ---**
Yes, indeed...
**[10:32] ---**
That might not be a bad idea.
**[10:38] ---**
When can we join
up with Sister Agnese?
**[10:42] ---**
Sorry.
**[10:44] ---**
Agnese probably won't be coming.
**[10:47] ---**
She said she would act as a
diversion so you could be rescued.
**[10:51] ---**
It sounds like she went
to the Queen's Fleet's flagship.
**[10:54] ---**
You've got to be kidding!
**[10:55] ---**
The Queen's Fleet
has some large-scale magic,
**[10:58] ---**
meant to protect the Queen
of the Adriatic Sea ritual grounds!
**[11:01] ---**
Queen of the Adriatic Sea?
**[11:02] ---**
All I know is, it's held on
the flagship of the same name.
**[11:06] ---**
The key to activating it involves
a spell of a different name,
**[11:10] ---**
known as the Rosary
of the Appointed Time.
**[11:12] ---**
Also, Sister Agnese is used for
the Rosary of the Appointed Time.
**[11:17] ---**
W-What's going to happen to Agnese?
**[11:21] ---**
Not even we know all the details.
**[11:23] ---**
However, at the least,
her brain will certainly be destroyed,
**[11:27] ---**
and she will be left so
that only her heart is beating.
**[11:32] ---**
The Queen's Fleet has a
major operation ahead of them.
**[11:35] ---**
They can't afford to be distracted
by a couple of people breaking out.
**[11:42] ---**
A-An attack! But from where?
**[11:47] ---**
It can't be.
From one of their own ships?
**[11:57] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[12:03] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[12:09] ---**
The holy cannon fire of Saint Barbara?
**[12:11] ---**
Just what are they aiming at?
**[12:13] ---**
You don't know, Sister Agnese?
**[12:18] ---**
Bishop Biagio...
**[12:21] ---**
Ship number 37 has been sunk.
**[12:24] ---**
Any further fire may
be interference from land.
**[12:27] ---**
Let another department
deal with any public attention.
**[12:30] ---**
That is beyond my purview.
**[12:34] ---**
If anything were to happen to you,
there would be no undoing the harm.
**[12:38] ---**
How ironic.
**[12:40] ---**
The Rosary of the Appointed Time...
**[12:42] ---**
Imagine, an apostate like you,
**[12:44] ---**
being the only
one appropriate for this spell.
**[12:49] ---**
Bishop Biagio,
we have an emergency!
**[12:51] ---**
What?
**[12:52] ---**
We are reading a giant
structure underneath Ship number 37!
**[12:56] ---**
It appears to be retrieving the wreckage!
**[12:59] ---**
A submersible spell...
**[13:09] ---**
Orsola and the others...
**[13:12] ---**
This isn't good...
**[13:16] ---**
I really... could die here...
**[13:26] ---**
Toma!
**[13:29] ---**
Index...
**[13:30] ---**
Do you feel okay, Toma?
**[13:33] ---**
Yeah...
**[13:41] ---**
T-Tatemiya Saiji?
**[13:43] ---**
Yeah, deputy pope
of the Amakusa Church.
**[13:47] ---**
Although nowadays, we tack
on "of the English Puritan Church."
**[13:51] ---**
Here.
**[13:54] ---**
Oh, thanks.
**[13:55] ---**
Not at all.
**[14:01] ---**
Wait, what am I doing here?!
Where are Orsola and the others?!
**[14:04] ---**
Oh, we managed to take all of you in.
**[14:07] ---**
We're speaking with the
men elsewhere, however.
**[14:11] ---**
I see. So, is this something
like an Amakusa secret base?
**[14:17] ---**
This isn't a building.
**[14:19] ---**
Huh? You don't mean...!
**[14:24] ---**
I'd like to say you're aboard a submarine,
**[14:28] ---**
but it's not quite as
high-performance as that.
**[14:30] ---**
At best, you could say
it's close to being a wooden ship
**[14:32] ---**
that is equipped with submersible
capability. It's a diving boat.
**[14:36] ---**
You bring along something
like this to help with a move?
**[14:41] ---**
It's only natural that we'd
have a weapon close at hand.
**[14:44] ---**
Besides, naval warfare
is what we excel at most.
**[14:48] ---**
Paper is made from wood,
and wood is what boats are made from, too.
**[14:57] ---**
Agnese...
**[14:59] ---**
W-What?
**[15:00] ---**
Nothing. Whatever you're going to do next,
**[15:02] ---**
you first have to
tell me what it is, in detail.
**[15:05] ---**
In that case, shouldn't you
be talking to Lucia and Angelene?
**[15:09] ---**
Huh...?
**[15:14] ---**
Looks like you made
it out safely, too. Hmm?
**[15:17] ---**
Oh, you do not
have to embarrass them so.
**[15:21] ---**
Huh?
**[15:22] ---**
The habits these two were
wearing were restraint clothing,
**[15:24] ---**
provided by the
Roman Orthodox Church, you see.
**[15:27] ---**
Yeah?
**[15:27] ---**
In order to destroy them,
**[15:29] ---**
they had to use your right
hand while you were unconscious.
**[15:33] ---**
Eh?
**[15:37] ---**
So you're saying...
**[15:39] ---**
Yes, that's what I'm saying.
**[15:44] ---**
Toma...!
**[15:46] ---**
F-For you to be upset by that...
**[15:49] ---**
...isn't reasonable!
**[15:51] ---**
Oh, that's right! This is
no time to just be standing around!
**[15:55] ---**
U-Um, Sister Agnese is still--
**[15:57] ---**
We still have an objective to carry out.
**[16:13] ---**
Itsuwa, now's your chance! Do it!
**[16:15] ---**
Give him a smooch right on the earlobe!
**[16:17] ---**
Could you tell them what's going on?!
**[16:19] ---**
Oh, my...
**[16:19] ---**
This is starting to get interesting.
**[16:21] ---**
Please, just listen to me!
**[16:25] ---**
Pay attention!
**[16:36] ---**
S-Sister Angelene...!
**[16:38] ---**
I-It was always like
this in our squad, wasn't it?
**[16:42] ---**
So, um, I did what I always do.
**[16:46] ---**
Always?
**[16:48] ---**
Rather than coffee or tea,
I'd like to have *cioccolata con panna*.
**[16:53] ---**
What's that?
**[16:54] ---**
You pour lots of fresh
cream over a chocolate drink--
**[16:58] ---**
Sister Angelene, a follower of
the cross does not obsess about food.
**[17:01] ---**
Now, now...
**[17:02] ---**
Um... here.
**[17:06] ---**
Oh, thanks.
**[17:08] ---**
Not at all.
**[17:12] ---**
Again with the wet
towel operation, Itsuwa?
**[17:14] ---**
Wow, you're sure taking your time.
**[17:15] ---**
No, not making too much headway
is one of Itsuwa's charms, isn't it?
**[17:21] ---**
So then, how did the Queen of
the Adriatic become the spell's name?
**[17:25] ---**
Long ago, Venice and
the Roman Orthodox Church
**[17:28] ---**
were on fairly poor terms.
**[17:32] ---**
The Queen of the Adriatic
was the thing that they prepared
**[17:36] ---**
to bury Venice with one strike.
**[17:39] ---**
Bury? Is it like a bomb or something?
**[17:42] ---**
It doesn't just destroy;
**[17:44] ---**
it even steals all of the town's
culture and history, as well.
**[17:48] ---**
All of it?
**[17:49] ---**
I'm sure Sister Agnese
doesn't know any of this.
**[17:53] ---**
If she knew, there's no way she
would just stand by doing nothing.
**[17:56] ---**
So in short, we're saying
to bring back Agnese Sanctis
**[18:00] ---**
before this magic can be activated.
**[18:03] ---**
Anyhow, it's an awful can of worms.
**[18:07] ---**
Even so, we have to go.
**[18:09] ---**
Unless we do something,
Sister Agnese will be crippled.
**[18:13] ---**
Would you have us just
sit back and watch it happen?!
**[18:15] ---**
I was always being helped
out by Sister Agnese,
**[18:20] ---**
so there is no way I can say
goodbye to her without paying her back!
**[18:23] ---**
But our enemy is a real problem.
**[18:25] ---**
If we surround them with seabed coasters,
**[18:27] ---**
we might be able to stop the fleet!
**[18:29] ---**
You don't think that all
it takes to deal with them
**[18:31] ---**
is to stop them from moving, do you?
**[18:33] ---**
W-Well, I...
**[18:36] ---**
Look, Tatemiya,
you've said enough, haven't you?
**[18:40] ---**
Huh?
**[18:41] ---**
What we should be arguing over
**[18:43] ---**
isn't just about whether or not
we want to rescue Agnese, is it?
**[18:49] ---**
She deliberately threw
away her own chance to be saved,
**[18:52] ---**
to let her friends get away instead.
**[18:54] ---**
If we don't do something,
her mind is going to be destroyed
**[18:57] ---**
with her feelings still exploited.
**[18:59] ---**
The question is,
why wouldn't we rescue her?
**[19:01] ---**
Doing so would
prevent the destruction of Venice,
**[19:03] ---**
and everything else, right?
**[19:06] ---**
In that case, there's
only one thing to do, isn't there?
**[19:09] ---**
Don't you want to rescue her?
**[19:11] ---**
If not, I'm going there alone!
**[19:15] ---**
Geez, for our part,
we were past that from the word go.
**[19:19] ---**
We've had a plan ready to go to begin with.
**[19:22] ---**
Eh?
**[19:22] ---**
I just wanted to hear if
you were ready for this or not.
**[19:27] ---**
Tatemiya...
**[19:29] ---**
Listen up!
**[19:30] ---**
Now that we're heading
off to the battlefield,
**[19:32] ---**
let's be sure to come back alive!
**[19:34] ---**
What teaching did we
receive from the Priestess?
**[19:37] ---**
The hand of redemption
to the irredeemable!
**[19:45] ---**
Here, for you.
**[19:47] ---**
Oh, my.
**[19:48] ---**
I can't use it,
so maybe you'd better hold onto it.
**[19:54] ---**
W-What is it, Index?
**[19:57] ---**
Nothing.
**[20:00] ---**
All right, let's get started.
**[20:06] ---**
Bishop Biagio!
**[20:08] ---**
Reading between
thirty and fourty craft approaching!
**[20:11] ---**
They're just under fifty seconds
from the ship's coordinates.
**[20:13] ---**
Can you sink them?
**[20:15] ---**
Acknowledged.
**[20:24] ---**
They haven't fired a
single shot. You don't mean...
**[20:27] ---**
All hands, defensive positions!
**[20:31] ---**
What's happening?
**[20:32] ---**
They're fire ships!
**[20:33] ---**
It's an unmanned fleet,
designed to self-destruct!
**[20:40] ---**
Giant structure at
a depth of forty meters!
**[20:42] ---**
Probably a submarine!
**[20:48] ---**
Confirmed hit on the submarine!
**[20:50] ---**
Enemy forces on Ship number 29!
**[20:52] ---**
It's the Amakusa!
**[20:53] ---**
It couldn't be!
The submarine was a decoy?!
**[20:56] ---**
Don't think about taking over each ship!
**[20:58] ---**
All you have to do is think
about crushing their main force!
**[21:01] ---**
You guys head toward
the Queen of the Adriatic Sea.
**[21:04] ---**
Yeah!
**[21:08] ---**
Hurry!
**[21:10] ---**
Index!
**[21:27] ---**
This way!
**[21:28] ---**
All right!
**[21:30] ---**
You idiots!
**[21:31] ---**
Why aren't you helping
to rescue Sister Agnese?!
**[21:40] ---**
They're starting to shoot!
**[21:41] ---**
They are planning to
sink us along with the ship!
**[21:44] ---**
They're aiming directly at us!
**[21:46] ---**
They wouldn't!
**[21:47] ---**
Come forth, one of the 12 Apostles,
**[21:49] ---**
publican, smiter of magicians,
and humble servant!
**[22:00] ---**
Not good!
**[22:06] ---**
Come forth, one of the 12 Apostles--
**[22:10] ---**
Look out!
**[22:18] ---**
Sister Angelene!
**[22:19] ---**
Sister Angelene!
**[22:47] ---**
*Hitori de ii to tsubuyaita*
**[22:50] ---**
*to aru sekai no chuushin de*
**[22:53] ---**
*Tokei no hari wo orimagete*
**[22:55] ---**
*hitomi tojite'ta*
**[23:03] ---**
*Sugisatta toki wa modosenai kedo*
**[23:09] ---**
*ano hi oshiete kureta yo ne*
**[23:12] ---**
*sore de ii n' da to*
**[23:17] ---**
*Megurimeguru kisetsu ni kimi ga ita kiseki*
**[23:22] ---**
*kowarete'ta tokei sae ugokidasu kara*
**[23:28] ---**
*Ima wa sou muryoku na garakuta da kedo*
**[23:34] ---**
*fushigi da ne kaerareru sonna ki ga suru*
**[23:39] ---**
*Kimi no koe ga ima mo mada*
**[23:44] ---**
*koko ni aru kara*
**[23:55] ---**
"Preview"
**[23:55] ---**
To keep the Queen of the Adriatic Sea from activating,
**[23:58] ---**
we storm the flagship.
**[24:00] ---**
As more and more new mysteries
are revealed, Index steps up.
**[24:03] ---**
Next time, "Rosary of the
Appointed Time."
**[24:05] ---**
When science and magic cross
paths, the story begins.
# 40 - Rosary of the Appointed Time
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GRVNZK5PY/a-certain-magical-index)
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**[00:46] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[00:51] ---**
*I gazed at the coin I had flipped*
**[00:56] ---**
*If it's heads I go, tails I stay*
**[01:00] ---**
*Let me know your answer first*
**[01:06] ---**
*"Please, won't you tell me?"*
**[01:11] ---**
*But the angel continued
to smile in discernment*
**[01:22] ---**
*Wander on! There's nobody
to lead you by the hand*
**[01:27] ---**
*The answer handed down
from God is one of woe*
**[01:32] ---**
*Yes, that is what your gift from God is*
**[01:38] ---**
*Once you overcome it, you'll start to see, so right now...
(Look for it by oneself, no buts about it)*
**[01:45] ---**
*No buts!*
**[02:01] ---**
Come forth,
one of the 12 Apostles--
**[02:06] ---**
Look out!
**[02:13] ---**
Sister Angelene!
**[02:15] ---**
Sister Angelene!
**[02:19] ---**
Sheesh...
**[02:20] ---**
Don't go showing the depths
of your heart to be so worthless!
**[02:25] ---**
Here, use this.
**[02:28] ---**
What is it?
**[02:29] ---**
It's a getaway dive boat.
**[02:31] ---**
It beats being right in the
middle of enemy territory, right?
**[02:37] ---**
Sister Lucia...
your hand is trembling...
**[02:41] ---**
Well of course it is.
**[02:43] ---**
Oh, no... There's no way
I'm going to die here...
**[02:47] ---**
We're all going
back together, right...?
**[02:50] ---**
With Sister Agnese... and
the people over there fighting...
**[02:56] ---**
We're all together,
in the true sense...
**[02:59] ---**
And so, I will not die...
**[03:02] ---**
So please...
**[03:04] ---**
...will you fight together with
them, to protect everyone...?
**[03:17] ---**
Say something to her, Lucia.
**[03:19] ---**
If I can be of help,
**[03:21] ---**
I'll smash any number of these
damned two-bit illusions for you.
**[03:25] ---**
So go ahead and tell
her whatever will assure her
**[03:28] ---**
that she ought
to have been here!
**[03:31] ---**
Whatever will make her believe
that it was worth gritting her teeth!
**[03:36] ---**
Right.
**[03:37] ---**
I swear,
I will protect the others.
**[03:40] ---**
So please,
you fight with yourself.
**[03:54] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[03:59] ---**
#16 Rosary of the Appointed Time
**[04:01] ---**
They still haven't sunk them yet?
**[04:03] ---**
For Heaven's sake,
we can reduce a whole city to rubble,
**[04:06] ---**
and they're giving
us this much trouble?
**[04:10] ---**
Hmph, that face...
**[04:13] ---**
I can't take it. After everything
that's happened,
**[04:16] ---**
you still have the impudent look
of one who is expecting another.
**[04:19] ---**
What did you
say I was relying on?!
**[04:21] ---**
Ha. I'm about
to shatter your hopes.
**[04:26] ---**
There's no need for
spare parts to have feelings.
**[04:31] ---**
Go!
**[04:32] ---**
No matter what happens,
bring that girl back here!
**[04:36] ---**
Let's go, Index and Orsola!
**[04:46] ---**
There does not seem
to be anyone here.
**[04:48] ---**
This ship is probably the
magical centralized control
**[04:52] ---**
for all of the other ships.
**[04:53] ---**
Is that why the other
Sisters aren't pursuing us?
**[04:56] ---**
Hold on a minute.
I'm going to try to unlock it.
**[05:01] ---**
I'm starting to feel like thinking
about everything is becoming a pain!
**[05:08] ---**
What is this?
**[05:10] ---**
It's constructed in blocks.
Maybe, unlike the escort craft,
**[05:13] ---**
it's possible that the whole
ship has magical significance.
**[05:19] ---**
Those suits of
armor from before.
**[05:21] ---**
Damn!
**[05:22] ---**
Inside!
**[05:22] ---**
Huh? H-Hey, hold on!
**[05:31] ---**
You two go on ahead!
**[05:34] ---**
Toma!
**[05:40] ---**
Sister Angelene, are you okay?
**[05:43] ---**
Yes, I am all right.
**[05:46] ---**
Now, how do I get past them?
**[05:50] ---**
Sheesh!
**[05:51] ---**
How petty!
**[05:54] ---**
Don't go messing
around with the wounded.
**[05:57] ---**
Damn, a dead end?!
**[06:09] ---**
What is this place?
**[06:13] ---**
Whoa, here they come again!
**[06:23] ---**
Is that all of them?
**[06:28] ---**
I have gotten through!
**[06:30] ---**
Orsola?
**[06:31] ---**
Toma, is it true that
one of the conditions
**[06:33] ---**
to activate the Queen of the
Adriatic Sea is that another spell,
**[06:36] ---**
called the Rosary of the
Appointed Time, is required?
**[06:38] ---**
That's what they said.
**[06:40] ---**
There isn't a single description in
any of my 103,000 volumes
**[06:43] ---**
that says it's necessary.
**[06:45] ---**
Then, just what
kind of spell is it?
**[06:48] ---**
I think it's the
name of an operation
**[06:50] ---**
used only within the
Roman Orthodox Church.
**[07:05] ---**
That right hand of yours...
**[07:10] ---**
Ha, are you jealous of it?
**[07:12] ---**
It is unacceptable.
**[07:15] ---**
It rejects the Lord's blessings.
**[07:17] ---**
And even more than its nature,
the way you brandish it like a weapon
**[07:22] ---**
is beyond the pale.
**[07:24] ---**
If you have even
once heard the good word,
**[07:28] ---**
you would make the
effort to receive His blessings,
**[07:30] ---**
even if it meant tearing off
that arm forthwith,
**[07:34] ---**
but then, I guess my words will
not get through to a heathen monkey.
**[07:39] ---**
In which case, I, Biagio Buzoni,
**[07:41] ---**
will bring the final word
to this enemy of the Lord.
**[07:45] ---**
You're Biagio, are you? Then you
know where Agnese is, don't you?
**[07:49] ---**
Knowing and telling you are
two completely different things.
**[07:55] ---**
The cross demonstrates
the denial of the evil nature.
**[08:08] ---**
Oof...
**[08:09] ---**
Abolishing outward enemies, and
creating an inner safe zone,
**[08:14] ---**
is the purpose
held by the cross.
**[08:16] ---**
Kind of like this.
**[08:22] ---**
On the other hand,
it is the nature of the cross,
**[08:24] ---**
via the weight thereof,
that corrects one's haughtiness.
**[08:28] ---**
Once again, kind of like this.
**[08:38] ---**
What is this place?
**[08:40] ---**
Hey, now, stop
destroying things so much.
**[08:43] ---**
It affects the degree of
completion on the other end.
**[08:47] ---**
The other end?
**[08:48] ---**
The Rosary of
the Appointed Time.
**[08:50] ---**
At this point, you can't tell
me you don't know about it.
**[08:54] ---**
In any case, once I crush you
**[08:56] ---**
and pull Agnese
out of here, it's all over.
**[08:59] ---**
Demonstrating the will to
defy the intentions of the Lord
**[09:02] ---**
are words of evil. And my
crosses deny your evil nature!
**[09:11] ---**
Damn it all!
**[09:12] ---**
Do you really think
you have the authority
**[09:16] ---**
to do anything to Venice?
**[09:17] ---**
That is not what I am after.
**[09:20] ---**
What was that?
**[09:21] ---**
It is far more interesting than
whatever you are thinking, at least.
**[09:27] ---**
To the church of the cross, what do
you think is the most important,
**[09:30] ---**
oldest application there is?
**[09:33] ---**
Huh?
**[09:35] ---**
The instrument of execution.
**[09:38] ---**
Simon bears the
cross of the Son of God.
**[09:43] ---**
What the...?
**[09:45] ---**
The cross demonstrates
the denial of the evil nature.
**[10:00] ---**
What is this?
**[10:02] ---**
There is a defensive
spell set up here.
**[10:11] ---**
CAH.
**[10:14] ---**
You go find Agnese.
**[10:16] ---**
I'll lead them away from here!
**[10:18] ---**
Miss Index!
**[10:33] ---**
Orsola Aquinas?
**[10:35] ---**
Thank goodness you are all right.
**[10:37] ---**
But why?!
**[10:38] ---**
You wanted so badly to get away
from the Queen's Fleet, didn't you?!
**[10:42] ---**
You know all about what the
current situation is, don't you?!
**[10:47] ---**
Once we did find out, no one
said that they wanted to run away.
**[10:52] ---**
They refused
to leave you behind,
**[10:53] ---**
when you held your tongue to
allow them to be rescued.
**[10:58] ---**
It's not right.
**[10:59] ---**
You remember what I did concerning
the Book of the Law, right?
**[11:03] ---**
As badly as they were hurt, how can
it all be water under the bridge?!
**[11:07] ---**
I do not have the answer to that.
**[11:10] ---**
However, at the very least,
**[11:12] ---**
Sisters Lucia and Angelene
declared that they wanted to rescue you.
**[11:17] ---**
No matter how desperate
a situation they would face,
**[11:21] ---**
or the countless blades
that would be thrust their way,
**[11:24] ---**
when they said that they wanted
to all smile together once again,
**[11:29] ---**
do you still think it is not enough?
**[11:34] ---**
We cannot have this, Sister Agnese.
**[11:38] ---**
Even if you were to die here,
the project will not be interrupted.
**[11:42] ---**
However, finding another suitable
candidate would be such a nuisance.
**[11:48] ---**
And I do so hate nuisances.
**[11:49] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[11:55] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[11:58] ---**
That blood...
**[12:00] ---**
I did say I hated nuisances, didn't I?
**[12:02] ---**
So I crushed one
of them with all haste.
**[12:07] ---**
I hope we can avoid that here.
**[12:10] ---**
We cannot have you
being injured so easily, you see.
**[12:14] ---**
This large-scale
anti-Venetian spell of yours--
**[12:17] ---**
why make use of it *now*?
**[12:19] ---**
What we are about to perform here
**[12:21] ---**
is not the use of an attack
spell against a state.
**[12:25] ---**
It is what comes next.
**[12:28] ---**
The Queen of the
Adriatic Sea is a spell
**[12:30] ---**
created solely
for use against Venice.
**[12:33] ---**
However charming the
power it may boast, it is moot,
**[12:36] ---**
so as long as the targeting
restrictions are in place.
**[12:40] ---**
Then why--
**[12:42] ---**
Yes, you've figured it out.
**[12:45] ---**
Freeing the Queen of the
Adriatic Sea's targeting restrictions--
**[12:49] ---**
*That* is what the Rosary
of the Appointed Time is for.
**[12:52] ---**
Are you telling me
**[12:54] ---**
that you are going to destroy
a city that you feel is in your way?
**[12:58] ---**
The Queen of the
Adriatic Sea will destroy
**[13:01] ---**
*everything* that involves that city!
**[13:04] ---**
If we unleashed the same thing
against a city that controls
**[13:08] ---**
a whole world that is hostile to us,
what do you think will happen?
**[13:11] ---**
You don't mean Academy City!
**[13:14] ---**
All science and technology
are influenced by Academy City.
**[13:19] ---**
If all of that were destroyed,
then damnable though it might be,
**[13:24] ---**
we could root out the
side that encompasses
**[13:27] ---**
half of the world, overnight.
**[13:31] ---**
And you think that will bring
happiness to everyone?
**[13:34] ---**
I do not! There are those who
do harm on the magical side, as well.
**[13:39] ---**
However, they may continue.
In time, the impure will be purged.
**[13:43] ---**
You are saying...!
**[13:44] ---**
Such is the earnest wish
of the Roman Orthodox Church.
**[13:49] ---**
The cross demonstrates
the denial of the evil nature!
**[13:57] ---**
Ha-ha, give it up, Sister Orsola.
**[14:00] ---**
The cross, via the weight thereof,
corrects one's haughtiness!
**[14:08] ---**
Now then, it is a little early,
but let's begin, Sister Agnese.
**[14:13] ---**
Rejoice! You will receive the honor
**[14:15] ---**
of killing the greatest number of enemies
**[14:17] ---**
in the history of the church of the cross!
**[14:22] ---**
Among these... enemies that you speak of,
**[14:26] ---**
Sister Agnese is included, is she not?
**[14:29] ---**
You truly are a member of the
English Puritan Church now, huh?
**[14:33] ---**
That's why you are panicking.
**[14:35] ---**
You really do only act according
to your skepticism, don't you?
**[14:40] ---**
You cannot understand
people acting on their feelings.
**[14:44] ---**
No--you can understand it,
but you cannot believe it.
**[14:47] ---**
Please, stand aside.
**[14:49] ---**
Whatever you do, you cannot stop Biagio.
**[14:53] ---**
As long as you do not resist,
I'm sure you will make it through alive.
**[14:56] ---**
There is no way I could do that, you know!
**[14:59] ---**
It's over, Sister Orsola.
**[15:02] ---**
Smile, Sister Agnese.
Watch on as your dream is shattered.
**[15:15] ---**
What are you trying to pull?
**[15:17] ---**
All things in harmony.
Fifth of the Five Elements,
**[15:20] ---**
symbolizing peace
and order, deploy this crosier!
**[15:25] ---**
Sister Agnese! I asked
you what you're trying to pull!
**[15:30] ---**
Ha! It's just as you suspected!
**[15:33] ---**
If you believe that
I still think I'd like to look after
**[15:36] ---**
Sister Lucia and Sister Angelene,
then you're mistaken.
**[15:42] ---**
When I think about you
sending those Sisters off to fight
**[15:45] ---**
with your grimy orders,
it enrages me!
**[15:51] ---**
Don't you mouth
off to me, you sinner!
**[15:55] ---**
Simon bears the
cross of the Son of God!
**[16:12] ---**
As I recall, the Son of God...
**[16:14] ---**
...did not have enough physical
strength left to bear the cross.
**[16:17] ---**
Instead, Simon carried his cross
to the hill where he was crucified.
**[16:22] ---**
Am I wrong?
**[16:24] ---**
You noticed that?
**[16:25] ---**
Making someone else shoulder
the weight of the equipment...
**[16:29] ---**
That's what this attack really is!
**[16:32] ---**
Most likely, you collected
the weight of the equipment
**[16:34] ---**
of everyone working here,
and turned it into an attack.
**[16:39] ---**
Is that about the size of it?
**[16:42] ---**
Your hands are so weak.
**[16:44] ---**
If you're going to go against me,
you'll need more sturdy arms.
**[16:48] ---**
Is that right?
**[16:51] ---**
Then, will my right hand do?
**[16:55] ---**
Why, you... You heathen monkey!
**[17:00] ---**
At least check the body, you idiot.
**[17:03] ---**
My right hand is not as
feeble as you seem to think!
**[17:11] ---**
Too slow!
**[17:15] ---**
I won't fall for that again!
**[17:27] ---**
Agnese...
**[17:28] ---**
Y-Yes?
**[17:31] ---**
Thanks.
**[17:33] ---**
If you hadn't protected Orsola for me,
**[17:35] ---**
I'm sure something terrible
would have happened.
**[17:39] ---**
Aw, geez...
**[17:43] ---**
So...
**[17:45] ---**
...what do I have to do to destroy
the whole Queen of the Adriatic Sea?
**[17:49] ---**
Well, he said that this room,
at least, was irreplaceable.
**[17:53] ---**
If you completely demolish
the function of this place,
**[17:55] ---**
they can never again--
**[17:58] ---**
Agnese!
**[18:05] ---**
Agnese! What's the matter?!
**[18:11] ---**
The Rosary of the Appointed Time!
**[18:13] ---**
You mean, this is it?!
**[18:14] ---**
You are doing something
to Agnese through that charm!
**[18:19] ---**
No, I can't. Not until
it has been adjusted.
**[18:23] ---**
But as far as power goes,
I already have it right here.
**[18:27] ---**
The Roman Orthodox Church
feared that someone would steal this
**[18:30] ---**
and turn it back against them,
so they took all sorts of measures.
**[18:36] ---**
And so, what do you think
they prepared as a final measure,
**[18:40] ---**
in case it were to fall into enemy hands?
**[18:43] ---**
A self-destruct?!
**[18:57] ---**
This is a large-scale magical device,
**[19:01] ---**
supplied hermetically
by the sinners among the fleet.
**[19:06] ---**
Don't go thinking you can stop
it by breaking the walls or the floor.
**[19:11] ---**
Once the spell is activated,
the explosive force alone
**[19:13] ---**
will devastate anything
within a 10-kilometer radius!
**[19:15] ---**
If that happens, there will
be casualties beyond the lagoon!
**[19:19] ---**
Agnese!
**[19:23] ---**
Orsola, take Agnese and go on without me.
**[19:26] ---**
Take the Amakusa group
and withdraw from here.
**[19:28] ---**
But what about you?
**[19:30] ---**
I've got to stop him, right?
**[19:32] ---**
I'll be sure to join up with
you later. So get going, Orsola!
**[19:36] ---**
But...!
**[19:42] ---**
You make sure.
**[19:43] ---**
You make absolutely sure!
**[19:49] ---**
Those bastards...
**[19:51] ---**
A noble cause that will go down
in Roman Orthodox history, they said.
**[19:55] ---**
I told them, it was too soon for this.
**[20:00] ---**
I'm done for now.
**[20:02] ---**
Is that why you're dragging
everyone else down with you?
**[20:05] ---**
Ultimately, you're just
seeking solace, aren't you?
**[20:08] ---**
Nobody gets into things this deep
and doesn't feel a sense of doom.
**[20:12] ---**
This is the menace of
the Roman Orthodox Church.
**[20:15] ---**
Anyone would go along with my decision.
**[20:19] ---**
This is just the final icing on the cake.
**[20:22] ---**
To this end, they can have the Adriatic Sea.
**[20:26] ---**
Biagio...!
**[20:27] ---**
That's the face! It's that
tenacity that is our menace!
**[20:31] ---**
Which is why I must be
sure to stamp it out right here!
**[20:35] ---**
Such is the final attack that
I offer the Roman Orthodox Church!
**[20:40] ---**
Biagio!
**[20:43] ---**
The cross demonstrates
the denial of the evil nature!
**[20:49] ---**
The cross, via the weight thereof,
corrects one's haughtiness!
**[20:55] ---**
The cross demonstrates
the denial of the evil nature!
**[21:02] ---**
Is Sister Agnese by herself
really that meaningful a reward to you?
**[21:07] ---**
There is no longer any place
around that will welcome her.
**[21:11] ---**
Why can't you understand that,
you heathen monkey?!
**[21:16] ---**
Like I *could* understand that!
**[21:18] ---**
You dirty bastard!
**[21:19] ---**
The cross demonstrates
the denial of the evil nature!
**[21:22] ---**
Biagio!
**[21:26] ---**
Your left hand?!
**[21:29] ---**
You're using my attack against me!
**[21:39] ---**
I'll fight you.
**[21:42] ---**
If you come after
Agnese and the others again,
**[21:46] ---**
then I'll stand against you,
again and again.
**[22:21] ---**
Toma! Toma!
**[22:22] ---**
Huh?
**[22:23] ---**
Are you coming around?
The Adriatic Sea isn't that cold, huh?
**[22:29] ---**
What are you so happy about?
**[22:32] ---**
Don't tell me it's because I didn't
leave you behind this time.
**[22:36] ---**
I-I'm not in that great a mood!
**[22:40] ---**
Toma, you have a phone call.
**[22:43] ---**
Hey there, come back
to Academy City at once.
**[22:47] ---**
Huh?
**[22:48] ---**
Having an outside hospital
checking over that body of yours
**[22:50] ---**
may not be a good idea, you know.
**[22:52] ---**
There should be an Academy City-built
**[22:54] ---**
supersonic passenger
plane at the airport there.
**[22:57] ---**
I-I haven't even been
in Italy for a whole day yet--
**[22:59] ---**
Oh, yes...
**[23:00] ---**
I have a message from
a girl who asked to see you
**[23:03] ---**
that she wanted
very much for me to pass on.
**[23:06] ---**
She said "Make sure
you're ready for the penalty game
**[23:08] ---**
from the Daihasei
Festival when you get back."
**[23:11] ---**
Misaka Mikoto?!
**[23:13] ---**
Hey, let me go!
I don't want to go back!
**[23:17] ---**
I see. Good work.
**[23:20] ---**
Yeah, you know, if you
wanted a debriefing report,
**[23:23] ---**
*At a certain world's center,*
**[23:23] ---**
you should ask the Amakusa.
**[23:25] ---**
I'm not a member of the Amakusa anymore.
**[23:25] ---**
*I whispered that it was okay to be alone
*
**[23:29] ---**
Be that as it may, you once again
caused Kami a lot of trouble, yeah?
**[23:29] ---**
*I bent back the hands on the clock
*
**[23:31] ---**
*and kept my eyes closed
*
**[23:34] ---**
You're at the point now
where even a whole day
**[23:36] ---**
waiting on him in a maid outfit
still wouldn't cover it.
**[23:39] ---**
*but on that day, you showed me
*
**[23:39] ---**
I know! I could lend you the fallen
angel maid set that I have!
**[23:43] ---**
You could go all-out in that!
**[23:44] ---**
*that that's how it should be
*
**[23:45] ---**
H-How far are you going
to carry this nonsense?!
**[23:47] ---**
And do you really own something like that?!
**[23:48] ---**
*The miracle of you being there as the seasons roll around
*
**[23:50] ---**
Huh? Even as someone who is one of
less than twenty saints in the world,
**[23:52] ---**
*makes even the broken clock start up again*
**[23:55] ---**
you still have to be
ready to meet your fate--
**[23:58] ---**
*Right now, yeah, I may be
a helpless piece of junk*
**[24:04] ---**
*but it's funny how I feel
like I can change that*
**[24:09] ---**
*All because your voice is still here*
**[24:14] ---**
...and that's that, Toma.
**[24:15] ---**
*for me, even now*
**[24:21] ---**
I-I am home now.
**[24:24] ---**
Uh-huh...
**[24:25] ---**
As it happens, I picked up some
extra baggage along the way.
**[24:37] ---**
I must say,
that was a little too hasty.
**[24:41] ---**
Who do you think you're talking to?
**[24:44] ---**
And you--are you aware of
with whom you are taking that tone?
**[24:49] ---**
The Roman pope, right?
So what if you are?
**[24:53] ---**
If you direct any
ill will at me, you will die!
**[24:57] ---**
The Right Seat of God...
Not even a pope rattles you, huh?
**[25:03] ---**
Look this over and sign it.
**[25:05] ---**
Are you giving me an order?
**[25:09] ---**
Wait, this document is...
**[25:10] ---**
You were thinking of ordering
it yourself, in time, right?
**[25:25] ---**
"Preview"
**[25:26] ---**
Academy City calmly enters autumn.
**[25:28] ---**
But one promise tears through
the otherwise peaceful days.
**[25:31] ---**
Just what is about to happen?
**[25:34] ---**
Next time, "Penalty Game."
**[25:35] ---**
When science and magic
cross paths, the story begins.
# 41 - Penalty Game
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GRVNZK5PY/a-certain-magical-index)
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**[00:44] ---**
It's a penalty game,
so you have to do whatever I say...
**[00:48] ---**
Ngah! This is bugging me!
**[00:51] ---**
She has been like this day and
night since the Daihasei Festival!
**[00:54] ---**
Sissy, just who
is it you are talking to
**[00:57] ---**
in such a sweet, enticing voice?
**[01:01] ---**
What should I have you do first...?
**[01:05] ---**
A-A cheek rub?
Sissy, who is... who is...
**[01:10] ---**
...just who is that fluffy
pillow standing in for?!
**[01:17] ---**
*I'm always running after you*
**[01:22] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[01:22] ---**
*I'm always running after you*
**[01:23] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[01:23] ---**
*You are my ideal*
**[01:27] ---**
*You are me*
**[01:30] ---**
*There was a bird that could
not fly any farther than this*
**[01:35] ---**
*It rebuked the blue skies
on fine, flawless wings*
**[01:41] ---**
*This place is not that bad*
**[01:43] ---**
*That sky is not that high*
**[01:46] ---**
*This place is not that good*
**[01:53] ---**
*Afraid of the speed
it would feel in its body*
**[01:58] ---**
*Everybody has a chance,*
**[02:01] ---**
*but they cannot go any farther*
**[02:04] ---**
*The truth is they
cannot take flight*
**[02:07] ---**
*The truth is they
want to take flight*
**[02:10] ---**
*Right now, beyond the wish
I want to make come true*
**[02:16] ---**
*you shine*
**[02:17] ---**
*In my eyes I picture you*
**[02:23] ---**
*"Standing in the future,
always strong,"*
**[02:26] ---**
*and that "you" is me*
**[02:29] ---**
*You are still blindingly bright*
**[02:35] ---**
*but in the same spirit,
I reach out my hand*
**[02:38] ---**
*and the "I" who I am will
someday grab hold to become*
**[02:42] ---**
*the you that I will be*
**[02:47] ---**
#17 Penalty Game
**[02:55] ---**
"Look! Look!
**[02:56] ---**
While Misaka was in the hospital,
everyone's clothes changed,"
**[03:00] ---**
says Misaka Misaka--waah!
**[03:03] ---**
Your clothes keep
you too cool, dummy.
**[03:06] ---**
For that matter, don't go
crawling over the lap of someone
**[03:08] ---**
who still isn't well,
and just got discharged
**[03:10] ---**
to look outside, you dirty little brat.
**[03:11] ---**
"How mean! Misaka
still isn't well, either, you know,"
**[03:15] ---**
--says Misaka Misaka--
**[03:15] ---**
Okay, okay, that's enough!
**[03:18] ---**
You can finish your
heartwarming squabble
**[03:20] ---**
once we arrive at our
new residence, if you please.
**[03:22] ---**
So, where is this new residence?
**[03:25] ---**
For the time being,
it's with a friend of mine.
**[03:29] ---**
You're dropping out of
the school you're in now, right?
**[03:32] ---**
I'm through with anything having
to do with that Level 6 business.
**[03:37] ---**
The person I'm setting you
up with is not in the research field.
**[03:40] ---**
I'm sure she's someone who
will take your side.
**[03:44] ---**
Hmph...
**[03:45] ---**
So now there's one
more of these idiots, huh?
**[03:51] ---**
I want to meet someone...
**[03:56] ---**
What did you do that for?!
**[03:57] ---**
Oh, when you say it,
Kami, it just sounds sarcastic.
**[04:01] ---**
When you set off a request like that,
**[04:03] ---**
all the weird girls in
the area start popping up.
**[04:07] ---**
Oh, yeah. Knowing you, Kami,
**[04:10] ---**
we'll have everything
from super-computer robot girls
**[04:12] ---**
to hot spring fairy girls who
end up doing heaven only knows what.
**[04:16] ---**
That being said, take a look at this.
**[04:19] ---**
"Stiff shoulder holder."
**[04:20] ---**
Appearances to the contrary,
my shoulders are terribly stiff.
**[04:24] ---**
I'm absolutely sure this will help,
but what do you think, Kami?
**[04:28] ---**
Ha! That thing
is obviously a scam!
**[04:31] ---**
You'll call later to complain, and...
**[04:32] ---**
That's why having a pretty
girl rub my shoulders would be best.
**[04:36] ---**
And I know exactly what you're gonna say!
**[04:38] ---**
In that case, try coming up
with anything better than a pretty girl
**[04:41] ---**
to treat your stiff shoulders.
**[04:42] ---**
How many times do I have to
tell you, the "stiff shoulder holder"?!
**[04:45] ---**
You know, I know just the right person.
**[04:49] ---**
Someone who is always
suffering from being tense,
**[04:51] ---**
and yet is a sucker for
these kinds of mail order products.
**[04:55] ---**
What I'm saying is
that world peace, you see...
**[04:58] ---**
Mm-hmm...
**[05:00] ---**
Fukiyose, are you here?!
**[05:02] ---**
Huh?
**[05:05] ---**
It's our life's wish!
Let us massage you, Fukiyose?!
**[05:17] ---**
Now then, everyone,
next up is our chemistry class.
**[05:23] ---**
My relaxed classroom has turned into
**[05:26] ---**
a lawless battle arena for delinquents!
**[05:29] ---**
It's for the sake of world peace.
**[05:31] ---**
All right, starting today,
**[05:33] ---**
you will all begin a little
rehab therapy of your own.
**[05:36] ---**
Is everyone okay with wearing
Tokiwadai Middle School's
**[05:39] ---**
winter uniform for your street clothes?
**[05:40] ---**
"No problem," replies Misaka 10032.
**[05:45] ---**
The four of you are the same size.
**[05:47] ---**
"We are all identical; you
need not even measure us,"
**[05:50] ---**
replies Misaka 13577 swiftly.
**[05:54] ---**
"There has been no time to
allow for any difference in sizes,"
**[05:57] ---**
adds Misaka 10039.
**[06:01] ---**
"Mi..."
**[06:03] ---**
"Misaka..."
**[06:04] ---**
"Is something the matter,
19090?" asks Misaka... Huh?
**[06:11] ---**
"There is enough room for
me to fit two fingers in here!"
**[06:13] ---**
reports Misaka 10032 immediately.
**[06:17] ---**
"But all of us Misakas are
supposed to be the same,"
**[06:19] ---**
says Misaka 13577,
registering her dismay.
**[06:24] ---**
"What about
her bust, and elsewhere?"
**[06:27] ---**
asks Misaka 10039,
proposing a thorough physical.
**[06:30] ---**
Now, individual differences
will arise, due to diet and exercise.
**[06:34] ---**
"In other words, without
telling the other Misakas,
**[06:37] ---**
have you been engaging
in what is popularly called a diet?"
**[06:40] ---**
says Misaka 10032,
continuing the cross-examination.
**[06:43] ---**
"Now that you mention it, I have seen 19090
**[06:46] ---**
with her nose buried in a
weekly women's magazine before,"
**[06:49] ---**
Misaka 13577 suddenly remembers.
**[06:53] ---**
"At that time, she obtained
top-secret information
**[06:56] ---**
that if one places a ring
received from a boy one likes
**[06:59] ---**
on the left ring finger,
one is a winner,"
**[07:02] ---**
says Misaka 10039, seizing
the opportunity to spill the beans.
**[07:06] ---**
Ring... Winner...
**[07:08] ---**
M-Misaka was...
**[07:11] ---**
If you all do the same
thing that Miss 19090 here did,
**[07:15] ---**
you can undergo the same
change that she did, can't you?
**[07:19] ---**
"M-Misaka will follow her crisis
management functions and flee!"
**[07:23] ---**
says Misaka--
**[07:26] ---**
There, there, there you are!
**[07:29] ---**
Hmm?
**[07:31] ---**
This calls for, yeah, *that*.
**[07:34] ---**
"Just my luck."
**[07:36] ---**
What's the big idea, responding
like that after seeing me?!
**[07:39] ---**
So, did you need something
from me, Zapper?
**[07:42] ---**
Are you sure you can take that
kind of attitude with me right now?
**[07:46] ---**
Huh?
**[07:47] ---**
The penalty game!
**[07:49] ---**
Huh? Oh...
**[07:52] ---**
You mean I'm still on the hook for that?
**[07:54] ---**
Don't go thinking you
can blow it off on your own!
**[07:57] ---**
Anyhow, you still have
to do anything I tell you.
**[08:01] ---**
But then, I know that anything
an average Joe like you can do
**[08:04] ---**
won't amount to very much.
Though as far as that goes,
**[08:07] ---**
how about you still give me your best?
**[08:12] ---**
Huh?
**[08:14] ---**
All right.
**[08:16] ---**
Very well! In that case,
you may ask anything you wish of me!
**[08:20] ---**
Huh?
**[08:23] ---**
Milady, let me first provide
a comfortable environment.
**[08:26] ---**
I, Kamijo Toma, incompetent as I am,
**[08:30] ---**
beg you to please
forgive my shortcomings!
**[08:33] ---**
Hey, you dummy! Stop blowing up
my skirt as hard as you can!
**[08:36] ---**
Sissy...?
**[08:38] ---**
K-Kuroko!
**[08:42] ---**
W-What a well-tempered
hardball posture of servitude!
**[08:46] ---**
This troglodyte is not to
be underestimated. However...
**[08:51] ---**
That role is supposed to be mine!
**[08:53] ---**
Stop that, you idiots!
What kind of ritual is this?!
**[08:57] ---**
What am I, some kind of cult leader?!
**[09:00] ---**
This is the woman who
will be looking after you now.
**[09:06] ---**
What the hell?
**[09:07] ---**
Hey, now, you haven't forgotten
my face already, have you?
**[09:11] ---**
I don't mean you! What I meant was,
**[09:13] ---**
this unexplainable little creature, here!
**[09:16] ---**
W-What do you mean, unexplainable?!
**[09:19] ---**
Despite how I might look, I am a teacher!
**[09:22] ---**
Tch! So the research to
control the effects of cell aging
**[09:25] ---**
has already been perfected, has it?
**[09:27] ---**
U-Um... It isn't like that.
**[09:31] ---**
"You poor thing!
**[09:32] ---**
Huh?
**[09:33] ---**
I'm sure you've been
through nothing but experiments,
**[09:35] ---**
and haven't had
any free time for yourself,"
**[09:38] ---**
says Misaka Misaka, softly dabbing
her eyes with a handkerchief.
**[09:41] ---**
Please, listen to what I'm saying!
**[09:44] ---**
Ha-ha! Wow, they've
really got your number, huh?
**[09:47] ---**
Geez, did you bring
them here to get "my number"?!
**[09:50] ---**
I'll show you up to my apartment right away.
**[09:54] ---**
I'll just go bring the car around.
**[09:58] ---**
Are you sure about this?
**[09:59] ---**
Letting me crash at your place?
**[10:02] ---**
"No problem." I've got
an extra room, so it's no--
**[10:05] ---**
I don't mean that.
**[10:07] ---**
I mean sheltering me like
this is like you're asking to take on
**[10:10] ---**
the whole damn ugly
Academy City underworld.
**[10:14] ---**
Which is why I'm doing it.
**[10:16] ---**
Have you forgotten my line of work?
**[10:19] ---**
I don't think there are many
folks who would openly come out
**[10:21] ---**
and attack the residence
of an Antiskill officer.
**[10:26] ---**
Don't say I didn't
warn you, after you're dead.
**[10:28] ---**
It's all right.
**[10:29] ---**
Your name could be written
on one of those crowds' lists!
**[10:34] ---**
And it's my job to revise those lists.
**[10:39] ---**
If it's all the same, I'm glad.
**[10:41] ---**
It looks like helping you
will be a lot simpler than I'd heard.
**[10:46] ---**
Do you really mean that?
**[10:47] ---**
I mean, won't it?
Say whatever you will,
**[10:51] ---**
but you're trying to eliminate
your landlady's risks.
**[10:53] ---**
Which is to say, you're trying
your hardest to protect us, right?
**[11:03] ---**
Tch, this is why idiots like
her are so hard to manage.
**[11:03] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[11:09] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[11:17] ---**
He's late! What is he up to?!
**[11:20] ---**
Seventh Mist at exactly 1:00!
**[11:22] ---**
If you're even one second late,
you know what will happen!
**[11:26] ---**
Sheesh.
**[11:29] ---**
He's making me
look like an idiot, isn't he?
**[11:32] ---**
Somen noodles again today.
**[11:33] ---**
No way! Why are we
having nothing but this lately?!
**[11:38] ---**
What is this? Some sort of
magic to regulate our insides,
**[11:41] ---**
using the culture of cuisine?
**[11:43] ---**
We just happen to have been
given a lot of it as a present!
**[11:45] ---**
Try putting yourself in my shoes,
**[11:47] ---**
having to come up with
original ideas day after day,
**[11:49] ---**
like salad-style, pasta-style,
and *udon*-noodle-style!
**[11:58] ---**
Tsuchimikado Maika...
**[12:00] ---**
I have to share
this joy with somebody!
**[12:03] ---**
Huh?
**[12:03] ---**
Huh?
**[12:04] ---**
These! These! Maids generally
aren't allowed to stand out too much.
**[12:09] ---**
But by fussing around
with my sleeves and collar,
**[12:12] ---**
I can secretly express my individuality.
**[12:14] ---**
I am in a very good mood right now,
**[12:17] ---**
so if you have anything on your mind,
I'd be willing to hear about it.
**[12:22] ---**
We'd like to learn some new
ways to eat somen noodles!
**[12:29] ---**
I thought the salaries of public servants
**[12:31] ---**
were supposed to
be getting trimmed back.
**[12:33] ---**
This building also serves
**[12:35] ---**
as a structural
engineering field test site,
**[12:37] ---**
so part of the rent is
paid for by the university.
**[12:40] ---**
Ah, I see.
**[12:42] ---**
"Amazing! Amazing!
There isn't a speck of dust,"
**[12:44] ---**
says Misaka Misaka offering
her praise while jumping on the sofa!
**[12:48] ---**
You had to write
another formal apology, huh?
**[12:50] ---**
A-Ah-ha... Whatever do you mean?
**[12:53] ---**
Huh?
**[12:54] ---**
She has a habit of
straightening up her room
**[12:56] ---**
whenever she has
a problem come up.
**[12:59] ---**
She does it without
thinking of the consequences,
**[13:01] ---**
so she often loses
her keys and whatnot.
**[13:03] ---**
I-Is that any way to talk about someone
**[13:06] ---**
who is looking for your
next job together with you?
**[13:09] ---**
Which means that the kitchen
will be the same as always, right?
**[13:12] ---**
Hey, now! Kikyo,
you eat the food I cook
**[13:14] ---**
as if it tastes
good enough, don't you?
**[13:16] ---**
As long as I don't know how it's made.
**[13:18] ---**
"Wow! Why are there so many rice cookers?"
**[13:22] ---**
asks Misaka Misaka, counting them all.
**[13:24] ---**
A rice cooker is a miracle
appliance that can do anything.
**[13:28] ---**
He's not coming.
**[13:31] ---**
Miss Misaka!
**[13:33] ---**
Oh, Miss Uiharu.
**[13:34] ---**
Um, I think Miss Shirai will be
coming by to pick up some things.
**[13:39] ---**
Oh, mm-hmm.
**[13:40] ---**
Miss Shirai offloaded her
Judgment workload onto me--
**[13:44] ---**
I-I mean, she is awfully busy at work,
**[13:48] ---**
so I've come in her place.
**[13:49] ---**
Oh, you don't say.
**[13:51] ---**
I guess that's Tokiwadai
Middle School for you.
**[13:54] ---**
It's amazing you can
learn the violin in class, huh?
**[13:57] ---**
You're overblowing things.
Do you want to give it a try?
**[14:00] ---**
That's it, support the instrument
with your collarbone and jaw.
**[14:04] ---**
Gently hold the
neck with your left hand.
**[14:07] ---**
Hold the bow so the strings
are perpendicular, and then slowly...
**[14:13] ---**
See? Simple, right?
**[14:15] ---**
Miss Misaka,
it's almost like I'm in a dream!
**[14:21] ---**
What's the matter?
**[14:24] ---**
U... i... ha... ru!!
**[14:30] ---**
What are you wasting time around here for?
**[14:34] ---**
Hey, sorry, sorry.
**[14:36] ---**
Now, listen,
**[14:37] ---**
*I'm* the one who won the contest
with a penalty game at stake!
**[14:41] ---**
So why should *I* have to be kept
waiting here for over an hour?!
**[14:45] ---**
W-Well, it's nothing too profound...
**[14:49] ---**
H-Huh? I'm sure
we agreed on 1:00, right?
**[14:53] ---**
Were you here thirty minutes before that?
**[14:55] ---**
Well then, I am sorry.
**[14:57] ---**
I-It's not as though I started
waiting *exactly* an hour ago...
**[15:02] ---**
Misaka, did you...
**[15:04] ---**
So... that is...
**[15:07] ---**
Did you want to make me suffer
through this penalty game *that* badly?
**[15:10] ---**
Eh?
**[15:10] ---**
You really are pretty insidious.
**[15:16] ---**
Bulls-eye?
**[15:18] ---**
Stop being so defiant!
*You're* the one that lost back there!
**[15:22] ---**
You're going to do whatever I say, right?!
**[15:24] ---**
W-When you say "whatever,"
within the bounds of possibility...
**[15:27] ---**
You. Will. Do. It. Right?
**[15:30] ---**
Come with me!
**[15:31] ---**
Wait, where?!
**[15:32] ---**
I'm telling you to
shut up and come with me!
**[15:34] ---**
That is the first penalty!
**[15:35] ---**
You mean there's not just one?!
**[15:40] ---**
"Handy Antenna Campaign"
**[15:41] ---**
Handy Antenna service?
**[15:44] ---**
Ah, something to replace the
antenna base on your cell phone.
**[15:49] ---**
Yes. Subscribers can construct
their own network with them.
**[15:52] ---**
Also, if you sign a pair contract,
the calling rate becomes cheaper.
**[15:57] ---**
Pair contract?
**[15:58] ---**
And, right now, everyone
who agrees to a set contract
**[16:01] ---**
will receive a
Lovely Mitten Gekota strap!
**[16:04] ---**
Eh?
**[16:05] ---**
Which is why you're signing up with me.
**[16:09] ---**
So you're just after the strap, then?
**[16:11] ---**
And as far as frogs go, you've already got--
**[16:13] ---**
You're. Signing. Up. With. Me.
**[16:17] ---**
Yeah, but, pair contracts
are what boyfriends and girlfriends
**[16:21] ---**
sign up for together, aren't they?
**[16:22] ---**
Y-You dummy!
What conclusion are you jumping to?!
**[16:26] ---**
It says it's limited to male-female,
**[16:27] ---**
but i-it doesn't have to
be boyfriend-girlfriend, right?!
**[16:30] ---**
Like, say, a married
couple would be fine, too.
**[16:33] ---**
Hello in there.
**[16:34] ---**
You've gotten far more serious
than boyfriend-girlfriend, Miss Misaka.
**[16:36] ---**
Huh? I-It's a penalty game, so don't
say anything and come with me!
**[16:44] ---**
Now, we'll need a photo
to complete the paperwork.
**[16:48] ---**
Like a picture ID?
**[16:50] ---**
No, something that
lets us know you two are a pair.
**[16:53] ---**
You can even use your cell phone
to take a two-shot of both of you.
**[16:56] ---**
A two-shot?!
**[16:59] ---**
How about it? Want to make do
with my cell phone camera right off?
**[17:03] ---**
Y-Yeah, okay...
**[17:05] ---**
Okay, here it goes.
**[17:08] ---**
Let me just make sure, here.
You told me you wanted this, right?
**[17:13] ---**
I-I know I did!
**[17:19] ---**
Just you wait, Gekota!
**[17:22] ---**
H-Here goes.
**[17:24] ---**
Okay! Whenever you're ready!
**[17:28] ---**
It looks like you're pulling a face, Misaka.
**[17:31] ---**
Why are you looking the other way?
**[17:33] ---**
I don't think this
is what a pair looks like.
**[17:35] ---**
L-Let's try taking it again.
**[17:40] ---**
What's with the forced
expression again, Misaka?!
**[17:43] ---**
Why are you distancing yourself from me?!
**[17:46] ---**
Look, for this two-shot,
**[17:48] ---**
we just have to make
it look like we're in love, right?
**[17:50] ---**
Come on, do it like this!
**[17:52] ---**
Smile, Misaka! This photo is
for the paperwork, right?
**[17:55] ---**
As long as we think of it in
that way, this won't be a problem.
**[17:58] ---**
Y-Yeah... Well, you're right.
**[18:01] ---**
We're just taking a picture that
makes it *look* that way, aren't we?
**[18:04] ---**
Yeah, yeah, we're just taking a picture!
**[18:05] ---**
Here goes!
**[18:06] ---**
Yes!
**[18:14] ---**
Good grief. It was a mistake for
me to underestimate him
**[18:17] ---**
as just a Johnny-come-lately thrall of yours.
**[18:20] ---**
Sissy, you've been going around
everywhere splurging with him.
**[18:23] ---**
D-Don't go getting the wrong idea!
**[18:26] ---**
I just wanted to get a Gekota strap...
**[18:29] ---**
...so I needed a photo for a pair contract...
**[18:33] ---**
In that case, you need not
have lowered yourself to this boy;
**[18:35] ---**
if you and I had become a pair,
there would not be any problem!
**[18:40] ---**
Now, let us take some pictures.
We will just slam them through.
**[18:40] ---**
Wait... Hey! Kuroko!
**[18:43] ---**
We will make memories to last a lifetime!
**[18:45] ---**
Hey, where are you taking me, Kuroko?!
**[18:48] ---**
If everything's okay,
then can I go home now?
**[18:52] ---**
I told you,
it has to be male-female!
**[18:56] ---**
Hitotsui Hajime, you are
primarily busy with your concerts,
**[19:00] ---**
but recently, you announced
you would be appearing in a movie.
**[19:04] ---**
Moreover, it's a Hollywood
picture, of all things.
**[19:04] ---**
I fell asleep, huh?
**[19:07] ---**
Did you have anything
especially trying happen to you?
**[19:08] ---**
Tch, you're letting yourself
become sloppy, you idiot.
**[19:11] ---**
Even with this thing on, it's all
you can do to fight for fifteen minutes.
**[19:16] ---**
"Hitotsui Hajime to star in his
first Hollywood production!!"
**[19:17] ---**
The direction I got was just
right for me, being Japanese.
**[19:20] ---**
Did he not have any pretense?
**[19:23] ---**
As for the others, did they show
a particularly suitable understanding
**[19:27] ---**
of me as being a
contemporary Japanese man?
**[19:30] ---**
The words themselves
are spoken in native US English,
**[19:34] ---**
so using just gestures,
manners, and attitude,
**[19:36] ---**
Nobody's here, huh?
**[19:36] ---**
being told to show us that this
guy is Japanese was something--
**[19:38] ---**
Oh well, guess I'll grab a shower.
**[19:43] ---**
Oh my.
**[19:45] ---**
"W-Why are you just barging in
here without any advance warning,"
**[19:50] ---**
asks Misaka Misaka, reaching for
a bath towel after it's too late!
**[19:53] ---**
Why didn't you lock the door?
**[19:55] ---**
Sorry, sorry. I've lived by
myself up to now, and I just forgot.
**[19:59] ---**
Aiho, hurry and
wrap yourself up in this.
**[20:01] ---**
"You two don't care that
you've been seen naked, huh?"
**[20:04] ---**
says Misaka Misaka,
asking a simple question.
**[20:07] ---**
Hmm, it's not really anything
to make a fuss over, is it?
**[20:10] ---**
He's a child, and we're adults.
**[20:13] ---**
"I would say more like biddies
than adults," says Misaka--
**[20:17] ---**
Ow-w-w-w! Now they're suddenly
both giving Misaka's head noogies!
**[20:18] ---**
I'm just saying, be more wary.
**[20:23] ---**
"And that's what happened,"
**[20:25] ---**
says Misaka Misaka,
giving an incident report.
**[20:27] ---**
"In that case, it has already
gone out over the network,
**[20:31] ---**
so there is no reason to repeat
it all again verbally, is there?"
**[20:34] ---**
Misaka rationally points out.
**[20:37] ---**
"I want to say it verbally
as much as it takes,"
**[20:39] ---**
says Misaka Misaka, finding
the outrageousness inexcusable!
**[20:42] ---**
"And now, being shut out
due to the apartment's auto-lock
**[20:45] ---**
makes your situation
seem even foolish, huh?
**[20:48] ---**
If Misaka hadn't been passing by,
**[20:50] ---**
you would have been
all alone for a long time,"
**[20:52] ---**
says Misaka,
secretly laughing on the inside.
**[20:56] ---**
"It isn't Misaka's fault!
It's the auto-lock's!"
**[20:59] ---**
says Misaka Misaka in exasperation!
**[21:03] ---**
Hmm?
**[21:04] ---**
Hey, where did that little brat go?
**[21:08] ---**
Now that you mention it...
**[21:10] ---**
"You mean this?" asks Misaka,
to verify the unexpected question.
**[21:15] ---**
"All of the other Misakas have those,
**[21:17] ---**
but Misaka is the only one who doesn't,"
**[21:20] ---**
says Misaka Misaka, gazing enviously at it.
**[21:22] ---**
"That Misaka is that Misaka,
while this Misaka is this Misaka."
**[21:27] ---**
says Misaka, intimating
that you should give up.
**[21:30] ---**
"Aww! Misaka wants one, too!"
**[21:33] ---**
says Misaka Misaka,
using her small appearance to its fullest,
**[21:37] ---**
to exercise some
spoiled-brat negotiation skills.
**[21:39] ---**
"You may be going for endearing antics,
**[21:43] ---**
but it's upsetting when used on
those of the same sex, and backfires,"
**[21:46] ---**
says Misaka, offering a kindly explanation.
**[21:52] ---**
"Say, 10032, would you bow for me?"
**[21:56] ---**
says Misaka Misaka, asking a favor.
**[22:00] ---**
"You fell for it!"
**[22:01] ---**
says Misaka Misaka,
her mugging plan a success!
**[22:05] ---**
"Nyah! If you want them
back, try and take them!"
**[22:07] ---**
says Misaka Misaka,
basking in the afterglow of victory
**[22:10] ---**
while making a mad dash!
**[22:18] ---**
"The time for revolution has come,"
**[22:21] ---**
Misaka 10032 hereby declares.
**[22:47] ---**
*At a certain world's center,*
**[22:50] ---**
*I whispered that it
was okay to be alone*
**[22:52] ---**
*I bent back the hands on the clock*
**[22:55] ---**
*and kept my eyes closed*
**[23:03] ---**
*You can't turn back time that has passed*
**[23:09] ---**
*but on that day, you showed me*
**[23:12] ---**
*that that's how it should be*
**[23:17] ---**
*The miracle of you being
there as the seasons roll around*
**[23:22] ---**
*makes even the
broken clock start up again*
**[23:28] ---**
*Right now, yeah, I may
be a helpless piece of junk*
**[23:34] ---**
*but it's funny how
I feel like I can change that*
**[23:39] ---**
*All because your voice is still here*
**[23:44] ---**
*for me, even now*
**[23:55] ---**
"Preview"
**[23:55] ---**
First Misaka Mikoto, now Misaka's Sister?!
**[23:57] ---**
And now there's
even a pint-sized Misaka.
**[23:59] ---**
Hey, don't go running amok here!
**[24:01] ---**
Wait, Index,
if you're with them, then...
**[24:04] ---**
Next time, "Serial Number."
**[24:05] ---**
When science and magic
cross paths, the story begins.
# 42 - Serial Number (Specimen Number)
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GRVNZK5PY/a-certain-magical-index)
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**[00:43] ---**
Archbishop!
**[00:46] ---**
W-What?!
**[00:49] ---**
Ow-w-w...
**[00:52] ---**
Is the item written in this report true?
**[00:56] ---**
They do say that the
world moves at your word.
**[01:01] ---**
How dare you suddenly set
foot into a lady's bathroom, Stiyl!
**[01:06] ---**
It's most inappropriate
for a clergyman!
**[01:09] ---**
Whatever, just answer me!
**[01:18] ---**
Now,
**[01:20] ---**
please fill in the details. Now!
**[01:25] ---**
My vestments are clinging to me,
**[01:27] ---**
immodestly revealing my extremities...
**[01:29] ---**
This is wrong! Look away, Stiyl!
**[01:33] ---**
I do not mean to let anyone
who pleases see my body!
**[01:39] ---**
*I'm always running after you*
**[01:44] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[01:44] ---**
*I'm always running after you*
**[01:45] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[01:45] ---**
*You are my ideal*
**[01:49] ---**
*You are me*
**[01:51] ---**
*Kore ijou tooku made
tobenai tori ga ita*
**[01:57] ---**
*Kizu mo nai rippa na
hane de aozora wo najitta*
**[02:03] ---**
*Kono basho mo warukunai*
**[02:05] ---**
*Ano sora wa takakunai*
**[02:08] ---**
*Kono basho mo yoku wa nai*
**[02:15] ---**
*Karada de kanjiru sokudo wo osorete'ru*
**[02:21] ---**
*Dare ni demo chansu wa moteru*
**[02:23] ---**
*sono saki e yukenai*
**[02:26] ---**
*Hontou wa tobitatenai*
**[02:29] ---**
*Hontou wa tobitachitai*
**[02:32] ---**
*Ima kanaetai negai
no mukou de kagayaku*
**[02:38] ---**
*kimi ga iru*
**[02:39] ---**
*Hitomi ni utsusu*
**[02:45] ---**
*"Mirai ni tatte itsumo tsuyokute"*
**[02:48] ---**
*sonna kimi ga boku sa*
**[02:51] ---**
*Kimi wa mada mabushii kedo*
**[02:57] ---**
*onaji kimochi de kono te nobashite*
**[03:00] ---**
*itsuka tsukamu genjitsu no boku ga*
**[03:04] ---**
*kimi ni naru yo*
**[03:09] ---**
#18 Serial Number (Specimen Number)
**[03:13] ---**
Why would the archbishop
buy us such a complicated,
**[03:16] ---**
problematic device as this?
**[03:20] ---**
For Pete's sake,
**[03:21] ---**
you can just do your laundry
down at the river, right?
**[03:24] ---**
The river would be
going too far.
**[03:26] ---**
Mm-hmm, apparently, you are
supposed to press this button.
**[03:35] ---**
Are you sure you won't
give in and wash by hand?
**[03:37] ---**
Let's try to press on a little longer.
**[03:40] ---**
Our dream fully-automated
washing machine is right in front of us.
**[03:43] ---**
Didn't you already
finish today's wash this evening?
**[03:47] ---**
That's right. Since
we don't have any laundry...
**[03:50] ---**
No...
**[03:51] ---**
We have laundry right here.
**[03:53] ---**
You don't need to take your
clothes off to make more laundry!
**[03:56] ---**
And don't you two copy her!
**[03:58] ---**
I do have to say, a Japanese *yukata*
**[04:01] ---**
seems put together to
make it very easy to take off.
**[04:08] ---**
H-Hey!
**[04:10] ---**
Oh... Miss Kanzaki, you are
one of those who forgoes underwear.
**[04:15] ---**
This is the way
you wear a *yukata*!
**[04:21] ---**
It really is quiet.
**[04:24] ---**
I only wanted to see one work.
**[04:27] ---**
Hey, Far East denomination...
**[04:29] ---**
I am a retired
ninja now, but what is it?
**[04:32] ---**
In the manual here,
**[04:34] ---**
it says "please separate
non-colorfast items."
**[04:37] ---**
Is that dyed sash
of yours gonna be all right?
**[04:44] ---**
C-Cancel! Where
is the cancel button?!
**[04:58] ---**
You really are not
wearing underwear, huh?
**[05:04] ---**
Oh...! Gekota!
Gekota! Gekota! Gekota!
**[05:08] ---**
Ugh, good grief.
**[05:15] ---**
Did you finish the paperwork?
**[05:17] ---**
Wait, huh?
**[05:19] ---**
Eh?! I can get a Pyonko
together with my Gekota?!
**[05:23] ---**
All right!!
**[05:25] ---**
I guess that means...
you're Misaka's sister?
**[05:29] ---**
"Yes," affirms Misaka,
**[05:32] ---**
including her serial number,
10032, just in case.
**[05:36] ---**
I didn't recognize you
without your goggles on.
**[05:40] ---**
"Have you seen a
Misaka about this height?"
**[05:42] ---**
asks Misaka, indicating a level
slightly lower than her chest.
**[05:47] ---**
Have you guys come up
with a way to change your sizes?
**[05:50] ---**
"Judging by your response,
you apparently have not,"
**[05:53] ---**
says Misaka, disappointed
by your failure to be of any help.
**[05:58] ---**
"Misaka had her
goggles stolen from her.
**[06:01] ---**
They must be recovered at once,"
**[06:04] ---**
says Misaka, implicitly appealing
for help through upturned eyes.
**[06:08] ---**
N-Now, it's kind of
hard for me to tell you apart.
**[06:12] ---**
Maybe you could start by
taking off your blazer, or something.
**[06:15] ---**
Hey, what are you
pulling your skirt down for?!
**[06:18] ---**
Forget it, forget it!
Don't take anything off!
**[06:22] ---**
I know. If you wore some kind
of accessory, I could tell you apart.
**[06:26] ---**
Accessory?
**[06:28] ---**
Like, say, a ring maybe.
**[06:30] ---**
A ring?
**[06:31] ---**
"At that time, she obtained
top-secret information
**[06:34] ---**
that if one places a ring
received from a boy one likes
**[06:36] ---**
on the left ring finger,
one is a winner."
**[06:39] ---**
Nah, a ring wouldn't work.
It doesn't stand out enough.
**[06:43] ---**
Something I can tell at a glance...
**[06:47] ---**
"Right now, Misaka is playing
tag with one of the lower-number units,"
**[06:50] ---**
says Misaka Misaka,
offering a status report.
**[06:54] ---**
"I can't come home right now,
but I hope you'll make me dinner,"
**[06:57] ---**
says Misaka Misaka,
placing her order.
**[07:02] ---**
Why that dirty brat!
**[07:07] ---**
Maybe I shouldn't have opened
my home to all three of you.
**[07:10] ---**
If only she had called my cell phone,
**[07:12] ---**
I could have found out where she is.
**[07:14] ---**
Hey, let go of me! Let me go!
**[07:17] ---**
Whoa...!
**[07:19] ---**
Well, Kikyo,
it's your turn to stay here.
**[07:23] ---**
We're going out to look for her, right?
**[07:26] ---**
If I can analyze the
sounds in the background,
**[07:29] ---**
I can narrow her location down.
**[07:31] ---**
Now, you just let
Big Sister Yomikawa handle that.
**[07:35] ---**
Isn't that abusing your authority?
**[07:37] ---**
Finding lost children is *part* of my job!
**[07:40] ---**
Okay, let's go.
**[07:48] ---**
A ring...
**[07:49] ---**
...on Misaka's left ring finger...
**[07:51] ---**
Listen, if you don't like that one,
should we take it back?
**[07:55] ---**
"Please, do not take anything
else away from Misaka,"
**[07:58] ---**
says Misaka in an
earnest, lowered voice.
**[08:05] ---**
"Animal Donuts"?
**[08:08] ---**
Oh, these look yummy!
**[08:09] ---**
Don't mind if I do!
**[08:11] ---**
Tweet-tweet-tweet-tweet-tweet...
**[08:13] ---**
"These chicks are smart, not to bite,"
**[08:15] ---**
utters Misaka in a voice of wonder.
**[08:22] ---**
They said there were still in
the experimental prototype phase,
**[08:25] ---**
but these are pretty good.
**[08:27] ---**
They may be experimental...
**[08:30] ---**
...but Misaka respects
the lives of these chicks...
**[08:33] ---**
W-What are you sparking for?
**[08:35] ---**
Hey, you guys, what are you doing?
**[08:38] ---**
M-Misaka...
**[08:40] ---**
"M-Misaka just came here
**[08:43] ---**
to get back the goggles that
were taken from me," says Misaka...
**[08:50] ---**
"And there was more,
but now, I am fixated on these frogs,"
**[08:55] ---**
says Misaka, changing the subject.
**[08:57] ---**
Hey, now!
**[08:59] ---**
Explain yourself better!
I mean, if you're down here...
**[09:04] ---**
What are those? Let me see them!
**[09:06] ---**
"Sissy, you can just
stay engrossed in your frogs,"
**[09:10] ---**
states Misaka with cold assertion.
**[09:13] ---**
It won't hurt to look, will it?
**[09:15] ---**
"If you want them so badly,
**[09:16] ---**
you can have him buy them from
that person over there, like Misaka did,"
**[09:19] ---**
says Misaka, pointing out the right man.
**[09:22] ---**
The right man?
**[09:25] ---**
Remember how you lost our bet,
**[09:28] ---**
and have to do whatever
I say as part of our penalty game?
**[09:34] ---**
Yet here we are, in the
middle of our penalty game...
**[09:37] ---**
and you're trying to
make time with everyone else!
**[09:39] ---**
You really like the sound of
my sister that much?!
**[09:43] ---**
"Incidentally, what
are you doing here, Sissy?"
**[09:46] ---**
asks Misaka, beginning to
collect information.
**[09:49] ---**
Well, we had a contest over
the Daihasei Festival, you see.
**[09:53] ---**
Anyhow, I won the bet,
**[09:55] ---**
and as part of the penalty game,
I get to drag him around, that's all.
**[09:58] ---**
So, like, you see...
**[10:00] ---**
"In other words, Sissy,
you cannot be honest with him?"
**[10:02] ---**
asks Misaka, analyzing the data.
**[10:05] ---**
Huh?!
**[10:06] ---**
W-What are you analyzing to figure *that*?!
**[10:09] ---**
I don't have anything
to hide! For one thing,
**[10:11] ---**
what's the point of being
honest with a guy like this?!
**[10:15] ---**
You don't say.
**[10:17] ---**
Well then, Misaka will take
a different route than the Original.
**[10:21] ---**
Huh?
**[10:26] ---**
"Check this,"
**[10:27] ---**
says Misaka, casually
showing off to the Original
**[10:29] ---**
the accessory that he bought for her.
**[10:33] ---**
"Misaka also hugs him from the other side!"
**[10:36] ---**
says Misaka Misaka,
blending herself in with the amusement!
**[10:40] ---**
"Misaka"? You mean, this sister's sister?!
**[10:43] ---**
Serial number 20001.
**[10:45] ---**
"You have some nerve,
strolling up beside Misaka like this,"
**[10:49] ---**
says Misaka, switching to
serious mode before she realizes it.
**[10:54] ---**
"Misaka is tired of playing that game now,"
**[10:57] ---**
says Misaka Misaka, embarking
on her next spot of entertainment.
**[11:02] ---**
"Do you think you're
getting away from me?"
**[11:04] ---**
says Misaka, pulling a rifle out of her bag.
**[11:07] ---**
"If that's what you
call serious, it's laughable!"
**[11:10] ---**
says Misaka Misaka, poking fun.
**[11:12] ---**
"The real fun is just getting started,"
**[11:14] ---**
says Misaka, making the
final transition to Misaka Full Boost.
**[11:19] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[11:21] ---**
What the...?
**[11:25] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[11:28] ---**
The underground mall?
**[11:30] ---**
We detected some low
frequencies from the call we traced
**[11:33] ---**
from the message
on the answering machine.
**[11:36] ---**
So, she's in Area U, which
is to say, the underground mall.
**[11:41] ---**
Then, you're telling me to go there?
**[11:44] ---**
For now, yeah.
**[11:47] ---**
Then again, there's no telling
whether a girl as quick as she is
**[11:50] ---**
will still be in the same place now.
**[11:52] ---**
Listen, Accelerator...
**[11:54] ---**
What?
**[11:56] ---**
Are you that afraid to
direct any good will toward others?
**[11:59] ---**
What'd you say?
**[12:00] ---**
You seem to accept the good
will shown to you by Last Order,
**[12:04] ---**
but you refuse to show any
good will from yourself toward her.
**[12:07] ---**
It's because you're afraid
it will backfire on you,
**[12:09] ---**
and there will be no undoing it.
**[12:11] ---**
You're lecturing me?
**[12:13] ---**
Well, I don't think someone like
me could understand your gloom.
**[12:17] ---**
Not considering
the place you used to be in.
**[12:22] ---**
X-S Institute, right?
**[12:24] ---**
Exceptional Esper Multi-Modification
Technical Research Institute.
**[12:28] ---**
I was dumped in that place until I was 9.
**[12:32] ---**
The place was a trash heap
where they'd dispose of living people.
**[12:36] ---**
You must have at
least heard the stories, right?
**[12:38] ---**
It was my squad that
neutralized and dismantled them.
**[12:42] ---**
Thanks for that.
**[12:44] ---**
I saw it, too--what was lying on
the other side of those heavy doors.
**[12:49] ---**
And I was a monster that not
even the X-S Institute could handle.
**[12:54] ---**
You heard about
it from Yoshikawa, right?
**[12:56] ---**
About what I did
in those "experiments"?
**[12:59] ---**
It's impossible for
me to express good will.
**[13:02] ---**
Even so, you still hate
yourself for that. Am I wrong?
**[13:07] ---**
There's a little rule
that I impose on myself.
**[13:11] ---**
I will not turn a weapon on a child.
**[13:14] ---**
Even if they are an esper.
Do you know why?
**[13:21] ---**
Yeah, that's why. Sure, maybe
it doesn't compare to your situation.
**[13:26] ---**
But it doesn't change the
fact that we are both indebted.
**[13:30] ---**
Which means that no matter
how flat-footed it leaves us,
**[13:32] ---**
we have to keep paying it back.
**[13:34] ---**
Besides, unlike me, you have power.
**[13:38] ---**
There are any number of
ways you can do it.
**[13:42] ---**
What if I had used my
power to stop the experiments...?
**[13:45] ---**
What if I could have held them back
**[13:46] ---**
from pushing their way
down a path to their deaths...?
**[13:49] ---**
What if even now, it's not too late...?
**[13:54] ---**
What if...?
**[13:59] ---**
This is bullcrap.
**[14:00] ---**
It's by socking away this bullcrap
that we pay back our debts.
**[14:09] ---**
Damn it all.
**[14:21] ---**
This is what was in the report, is it?
**[14:23] ---**
It's a well-made 3D image, huh?
**[14:26] ---**
For heaven's sake,
what a complicated bit of mischief.
**[14:29] ---**
Let's contact headquarters
and start checking out
**[14:31] ---**
the espers who could do this.
**[14:34] ---**
Geez...
**[14:35] ---**
What was all that, exactly?
**[14:37] ---**
That stupid jerk!
**[14:41] ---**
What does he think
the promise he made *me* is?!
**[14:47] ---**
"1st place today" "1st place all-time"
**[14:51] ---**
I don't get it. I don't get it, but...
**[14:54] ---**
...it's just my luck.
**[14:56] ---**
"How come your shoulders are
drooping like you're worn out?"
**[14:59] ---**
asks Misaka Misaka...
**[15:03] ---**
...grabbing you from behind
like a soothing mascot.
**[15:07] ---**
Hey...!
**[15:10] ---**
Are you that Mini-Misaka from earlier?
**[15:22] ---**
Toma...
**[15:24] ---**
Huh?
**[15:25] ---**
What do we have here?
**[15:31] ---**
So anyway, I'm out looking for Toma,
**[15:33] ---**
but along the way, I got hungry, and then...
**[15:36] ---**
You can eat, or you can talk; pick one.
**[15:39] ---**
Now then, didn't you have
something you wanted to tell me?
**[15:45] ---**
Mm-hmm. Thanks.
**[15:47] ---**
Just one word, huh?
**[15:48] ---**
You know what? My name is Index.
**[15:52] ---**
Don't introduce yourself
when your face is dirty.
**[16:02] ---**
Have you ever seen this kid?
**[16:04] ---**
Nope.
**[16:06] ---**
Take your time, would you?
**[16:07] ---**
I never forget the faces of people I see.
**[16:11] ---**
Ah, this is great!
**[16:12] ---**
Now I can look for Toma
without worrying about my stomach.
**[16:16] ---**
Though now that my stomach is full,
**[16:18] ---**
I don't think my reason
for finding Toma is as pressing.
**[16:21] ---**
Yeah, you don't say. I'm not
helping you look. Ask someone else.
**[16:25] ---**
Are you busy?
**[16:27] ---**
Yeah, unfortunately, I'm very busy.
**[16:32] ---**
So what you're saying is,
**[16:34] ---**
you're like a host computer
with all the Sisters tied into you?
**[16:37] ---**
"Probably closer to a console than a host,"
**[16:40] ---**
says Misaka Misaka by way of correction.
**[16:43] ---**
"The Misakas have
no central point anywhere,
**[16:45] ---**
so it doesn't really mean anything
for there to be a specific individual
**[16:49] ---**
acting as the network's 'core,'"
**[16:50] ---**
brags Misaka Misaka,
head held high while lecturing!
**[16:54] ---**
Huh...
**[16:56] ---**
Huh?
**[16:57] ---**
"Listen, you helped out
Misaka during the 'experiments,'
**[17:01] ---**
so I came to say thank you,"
**[17:02] ---**
says Misaka Misaka, citing
a Grateful Crane-like development!
**[17:07] ---**
So, what is it you're really up to?
**[17:10] ---**
"You don't believe me for an instant!"
**[17:12] ---**
says Misaka Misaka, stamping her feet,
**[17:16] ---**
and swinging her arms as hard as she can!
**[17:18] ---**
Sorry! Sorry! My bad! Look...
**[17:21] ---**
I'll buy you some of that
if you'll forgive me! Okay?
**[17:24] ---**
"D-Do you think you can
sway a girl's delicate feelings
**[17:27] ---**
by buying her food?"
**[17:29] ---**
says Misaka Misaka indignantly.
**[17:34] ---**
So anyway, Toma is always
going off somewhere, leaving me behind.
**[17:39] ---**
It could be a kind of wanderlust--
**[17:41] ---**
like he's someone who goes
off on a journey before he realizes it.
**[17:46] ---**
By the way, what are you doing down here?
**[17:49] ---**
Looking for someone.
**[17:50] ---**
The girl on your cell phone?
**[17:52] ---**
What if I am?
**[17:53] ---**
You know, I still
haven't thanked you, huh?
**[17:55] ---**
It's okay, just be quiet and go away, kid.
**[17:58] ---**
I still haven't thanked you, huh?
**[18:00] ---**
Hey, don't just ignore what I'm saying!
**[18:02] ---**
It's that one girl, right?
**[18:05] ---**
I can help look for her
together with you until I find Toma.
**[18:08] ---**
Huh?
**[18:10] ---**
'kay?
**[18:12] ---**
Damn it all...
**[18:18] ---**
You know what?
**[18:21] ---**
"Misaka snatched these from someone,"
**[18:23] ---**
says Misaka Misaka,
bragging about her trophy.
**[18:26] ---**
What's this? I'm just
starting to feel relieved,
**[18:29] ---**
and now you're
declaring yourself to be a bandit?
**[18:31] ---**
Wait, those goggles...
**[18:33] ---**
Misaka's sister was looking for those.
**[18:35] ---**
"But these weren't made to fit Misaka,
so she can't wear them right,"
**[18:42] ---**
says Misaka Misaka, a little ruefully.
**[18:45] ---**
You know, you could just
adjust the length of the band, right?
**[18:54] ---**
Huh...?
**[18:58] ---**
A-Are you okay?
**[19:03] ---**
It seems like I've seen her before,
**[19:05] ---**
but she's too small to have been her.
**[19:08] ---**
Uh-uh, I don't recognize her, all right.
**[19:11] ---**
Then give that back!
You good-for-nothing little brat!
**[19:17] ---**
There, all done.
**[19:20] ---**
"Now Misaka can see perfectly, too!"
**[19:22] ---**
says Misaka Misaka delightedly!
**[19:25] ---**
"But what it cost me is
by no means a small price,"
**[19:28] ---**
remembers Misaka Misaka,
**[19:30] ---**
while nonetheless demonstrating
her joy throughout her whole body!
**[19:34] ---**
Yeah, yeah.
**[19:37] ---**
"Listen, Misaka has
to be going home soon,"
**[19:41] ---**
says Misaka Misaka,
delivering some bad news.
**[19:45] ---**
Yeah, it is getting late, after all.
**[19:50] ---**
"I really do wish we
could stay together longer,"
**[19:52] ---**
says Misaka Misaka... despondently.
**[19:57] ---**
"Our meeting like this
was just a coincidence,
**[19:59] ---**
but the part about wanting
to thank you was the truth,"
**[20:02] ---**
says Misaka Misaka,
pouring out her heart.
**[20:06] ---**
But I think he's going to be worried.
**[20:09] ---**
"He"?
**[20:11] ---**
"If Misaka is too late,
he may come looking for her.
**[20:15] ---**
Misaka doesn't want
to be a bother or anything,"
**[20:18] ---**
says Misaka Misaka with a smile.
**[20:21] ---**
Hmm, sounds like a nice guy, doesn't he?
**[20:26] ---**
"He's weak. He's been hurt an awful lot,
**[20:30] ---**
since not only could he
not protect what he had in hand,
**[20:33] ---**
but now the same hands that
scooped them up are in shambles.
**[20:37] ---**
So she doesn't want
to burden him any further.
**[20:40] ---**
Now Misaka is going to protect him!"
**[20:43] ---**
says Misaka Misaka unburdening herself.
**[20:46] ---**
Okay.
**[20:53] ---**
Ah, it's Toma!
**[20:56] ---**
The guy you're looking for?
**[20:58] ---**
Mm-hmm!
**[21:03] ---**
Tch... Go ahead.
**[21:05] ---**
Huh? But what about your friend?
**[21:08] ---**
Don't worry. I just found mine, too.
**[21:12] ---**
Okay then, I'll be going. Thanks.
**[21:18] ---**
Last Order!
**[21:26] ---**
Toma!
**[21:30] ---**
"I'm back!"
**[21:31] ---**
says Misaka Misaka,
offering the standard greeting--
**[21:34] ---**
Ow!
**[21:35] ---**
"Hey, why do you keep chopping
me without saying anything?"
**[21:38] ---**
says Misaka Misaka,
holding her head and faking crying.
**[21:42] ---**
For that matter, what
have you been doing up to now?
**[21:47] ---**
"Playing with someone,"
**[21:48] ---**
says Misaka Misaka, answering honestly.
**[21:52] ---**
Huh?!
**[21:53] ---**
Toma! Toma! I finally found you!
**[21:57] ---**
What are you doing down here?
**[21:59] ---**
You know what? You know what?
I had that man help me out of a jam.
**[22:05] ---**
Wait, which man?
**[22:08] ---**
Accelerator!
**[22:10] ---**
Come quick, or you'll be left behind!
**[22:13] ---**
Tch, pipe down, you dirty brat.
**[22:47] ---**
*Hitori de ii to tsubuyaita*
**[22:50] ---**
*to aru sekai no chuushin de*
**[22:53] ---**
*Tokei no hari wo orimagete*
**[22:55] ---**
*hitomi tojite'ta*
**[23:03] ---**
*Sugisatta toki wa modosenai kedo*
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*ano hi oshiete kureta yo ne*
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*sore de ii n' da to*
**[23:17] ---**
*Megurimeguru kisetsu ni kimi ga ita kiseki*
**[23:22] ---**
*kowarete'ta tokei sae ugokidasu kara*
**[23:28] ---**
*Ima wa sou muryoku na garakuta da kedo*
**[23:34] ---**
*fushigi da ne kaerareru sonna ki ga suru*
**[23:39] ---**
*Kimi no koe ga ima mo mada*
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*koko ni aru kara*
**[23:55] ---**
"Preview"
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A man in a white coat appears.
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The city is suddenly
awash in the scent of danger.
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And then, even someone
from the Right Seat of God shows up.
**[24:04] ---**
Next time, "The Researcher."
**[24:05] ---**
When science and magic cross
paths, the story begins.
# 43 - The Researcher (Amata Kihara)
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GRVNZK5PY/a-certain-magical-index)
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"Precautions for when angels
descend into human form.
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The greatest incident of
telesma habitation in this world
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was, needless to say,
at the time of the Annunciation.
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To pass the total volume
of the Son of God, which is to say,
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enough telesma to support
and guide the world, into the womb,
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took an unmistakably--"
**[00:50] ---**
Sasha!
**[00:53] ---**
Oh, are you reading
these musty old books again?
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Have you still not identified
what went wrong with your body?
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If not, I could give
you a physical exam--
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Sasha, I see you still
don't know your own strength, huh?
**[01:09] ---**
Question one, if I may:
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Which do you prefer,
hammers or screwdrivers?
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That's not the kind of question you
ask after hitting someone.
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Sasha, the telesma dwelling
within you is that of Gabriel, right?
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Normally, that would be unthinkable.
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If things go wrong, the amount
could be greater than the 12 Apostles'.
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Question two: So what if it is?
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This power of God comes from
the angel who saw to the Annunciation.
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Moreover, having a power
greater than that of the 12 Apostles
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squeezed into the body of one girl means...
**[01:46] ---**
There's a chance
that your tummy will swell up--
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Sorry, sorry. You're right.
**[01:52] ---**
Wearing such heavy, restrictive
clothing on a regular basis, Sasha,
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you couldn't endure
breeding without the fun of it, huh?
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Question three:
Stop sullying even a single page
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of the holy New Testament, you filthy jerk.
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You know that I was forcibly
made to wear these restrictive clothes
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by you, as my superior,
as an abuse of your power.
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Oh, you really
dislike them that much? Then,
**[02:16] ---**
let's change your outfit.
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I've been looking into
Academy City lately, you know?
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They have their
own particular culture there.
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Tell me, Sasha,
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have you ever heard of
Magical Powered Kanamin?
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Ah, come on, Sasha...
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*I'm always running after you*
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"A Certain Magical Index II"
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*You are my ideal*
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"A Certain Magical Index II"
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*You are me*
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*There was a bird that could
not fly any farther than this*
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*It rebuked the blue skies
on fine, flawless wings*
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*This place is not that bad*
**[03:06] ---**
*That sky is not that high*
**[03:10] ---**
*This place is not that good*
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*Afraid of the speed
it would feel in its body*
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*Everybody has a chance,*
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*but they cannot go any farther*
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*The truth is they
cannot take flight*
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*The truth is they
want to take flight*
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*Right now, beyond the wish
I want to make come true*
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*you shine*
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*In my eyes I picture you*
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*"Standing in the future,
always strong,"*
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*and that "you" is me*
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*You are still blindingly bright*
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*but in the same spirit,
I reach out my hand*
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*and the "I" who I am will
someday grab hold to become*
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*the you that I will be*
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#19 The Researcher (Amata Kihara)
**[04:16] ---**
"It's raining!" says Misaka
Misaka, looking up at the night sky!
**[04:20] ---**
Sheesh, you're bugging me.
Hold still where you are.
**[04:24] ---**
"Misaka wanted to
see the moon, though,"
**[04:27] ---**
she says, dancing but
still somewhat despondent.
**[04:29] ---**
Hey!
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I told you to stop scampering
around, right? You dirty brat.
**[04:34] ---**
"Misaka came this far without
being overprotected, and she's fine,"
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says Misaka Misaka,
seeking freedom and liberation.
**[04:41] ---**
What kind of frontier-spirit
nonsense are you going on about?
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And I'm not being protective.
**[04:47] ---**
"There you go again.
You don't have to be so bashful,"
**[04:51] ---**
says Misaka Misaka,
jabbing with her index finger.
**[04:54] ---**
"Why are you making
such a tight fist now?"
**[04:58] ---**
asks Misaka Misaka, putting on
a temper-alleviating bright smile!
**[05:08] ---**
"Rain, rain, fall down,
fall down, and fall down some more!"
**[05:11] ---**
calls out Misaka Misaka to the night sky!
**[05:16] ---**
Are you that afraid to
direct any good will toward others?
**[05:19] ---**
You seem to accept the good
will shown to you by Last Order,
**[05:23] ---**
but you refuse to show any
good will from yourself toward her.
**[05:27] ---**
It's because you're
afraid it will backfire on you,
**[05:29] ---**
and there will be no undoing it.
**[05:32] ---**
Ee-yow!
**[05:34] ---**
"She fell down," reports
Misaka Misaka, sitting on the ground.
**[05:39] ---**
Sheesh, I told you so.
**[05:41] ---**
"I may need some disinfectant,"
**[05:44] ---**
says Misaka Misaka,
her eyes welling up a little.
**[05:50] ---**
Rub some saliva into it.
**[05:52] ---**
"I may need some disinfectant,"
**[05:55] ---**
says Misaka Misaka,
repeating the last thing she said.
**[05:58] ---**
Look, let's just get
back to Yomikawa's place.
**[06:03] ---**
"All right,"
**[06:04] ---**
says Misaka Misaka,
accepting the situation.
**[06:08] ---**
"It hurts now,
but I'll try to put up with it,"
**[06:10] ---**
says Misaka Misaka,
plodding along, following after you.
**[06:34] ---**
"Wah!"
**[06:36] ---**
says Misaka Misaka--
**[06:39] ---**
Wait right here. If you move
without permission, I'll squash you.
**[06:54] ---**
This is just stupid.
**[07:10] ---**
It's by socking away this bullcrap
that we pay back our debts.
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Tch, damn it all.
**[07:29] ---**
Huh?
**[07:31] ---**
You know, I thought some idiots
like you would be coming along.
**[07:35] ---**
I don't know whether you're here
because you have a beef with me,
**[07:40] ---**
or you're just trying to use me,
**[07:42] ---**
but I'm gonna kill you.
**[07:57] ---**
Ah, this is fun!
**[08:00] ---**
You're up the creek!
**[08:02] ---**
You've got me off my
chain now, you son of a bitch!
**[08:14] ---**
Huh?
**[08:19] ---**
Ugh, this is tedious.
**[08:29] ---**
Thanks for the show!
**[08:31] ---**
Be grateful I'm laying
waste to you so spectacularly!
**[08:35] ---**
I told them so, didn't I?
**[08:39] ---**
You can't bring the kid down in
such a watered-down fashion as this.
**[08:43] ---**
It's gonna take me, all right.
**[08:48] ---**
Hey, Kihara!
**[08:51] ---**
What kind of a coy entrance is that?
**[08:54] ---**
I can't believe you're
the same intellectual-type
**[08:57] ---**
who was too spooked
to look a person in the eye.
**[09:01] ---**
I was against meeting
up with you again, myself.
**[09:05] ---**
Higher-ups' orders.
What can you do?
**[09:08] ---**
They said it was an emergency,
**[09:10] ---**
and didn't have the luxury of
being choosy about their methods.
**[09:13] ---**
So you see, I hate to ask,
but would you let me destroy you here?
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After all, who do you think it is
that developed that power of yours?
**[09:21] ---**
Huh? What? What did you say?
Are we brimming with duty and sentiment?
**[09:27] ---**
You're not, by chance, expecting
me to return the favor, are you?
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Man, you're hopeless. But then,
**[09:34] ---**
if you're gonna go crazy, do it alone.
**[09:37] ---**
It would take more than both my hands
**[09:39] ---**
to count the researchers
who monkeyed around with my body.
**[09:43] ---**
Do you think I'm gonna keep
around every last memory of you guys?!
**[09:48] ---**
You know, you really
are a galling little punk.
**[09:52] ---**
Yeah, I'd love to kill you.
I'd love to kill you so bad.
**[09:56] ---**
I knew I should have killed
you way back then. My goof, my goof.
**[10:01] ---**
What did I think I was doing?
**[10:04] ---**
That's why I'm gonna
kill you, you little punk!
**[10:10] ---**
What are you thinking,
you idiot? Now, how should I--
**[10:19] ---**
My reflection... didn't work?!
**[10:21] ---**
Hey, little punk, I'll ask it again.
**[10:25] ---**
Who do you think it was that
gave you that two-bit power of yours?
**[10:30] ---**
Come on, do you remember now?!
**[10:37] ---**
Huh?
**[10:41] ---**
That ain't like you.
**[10:43] ---**
Well, we're gonna
keep her in our care,
**[10:47] ---**
so don't you worry about her.
**[10:48] ---**
You can get beat here and become
a stain on the wall, or whatever.
**[10:52] ---**
That'd be more like you, anyway.
**[10:58] ---**
Don't you... mock me... you...
**[11:02] ---**
...third-string!
**[11:05] ---**
This ain't gonna do it.
**[11:17] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[11:23] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[11:29] ---**
Don't tell me... you... developed
an esper power... in yourself...!
**[11:36] ---**
Huh?
**[11:40] ---**
No, no, that's not it.
**[11:43] ---**
That's a job for lab rats, you know.
**[11:46] ---**
I won't have any trouble crushing you
**[11:49] ---**
without having to resort to
using that kind of ridiculous power.
**[11:53] ---**
These guys are
really in the zone tonight.
**[12:00] ---**
Time for you to become
a corpse, you son of a bitch!
**[12:05] ---**
I get it, I get it,
**[12:06] ---**
you thought the secret to my
power is in these gloves, did you?
**[12:10] ---**
But actually, it's not!
**[12:16] ---**
How long are you gonna
pretend you're the strongest,
**[12:18] ---**
you piece of scrap!
**[12:24] ---**
Your reflection is not some kind
of absolute wall, you know.
**[12:28] ---**
It only alters the vectors of
power directed at it the other way.
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Which makes it simple.
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All I have to do is yank back
my fist a second before a direct hit.
**[12:38] ---**
Call it knowing how to stop short.
**[12:41] ---**
In other words, you end
up purposely slugging yourself.
**[12:46] ---**
You understand now,
my little masochist?
**[12:50] ---**
Maybe that's too hard
for a little kid to understand.
**[12:55] ---**
It's like that wind you made earlier.
**[12:58] ---**
Your ability comes about
as a result of vector formulas.
**[13:02] ---**
So all I have to do is disrupt them.
**[13:06] ---**
I can jam everything using
special sound waves and whatnot!
**[13:10] ---**
I've got a firm handle on
your characteristics, your formulas,
**[13:13] ---**
even your own Personal Reality!
**[13:17] ---**
I didn't develop this
power of yours for nothing!
**[13:23] ---**
Tell me, Accelerator,
do you understand what she means?
**[13:28] ---**
I mean, for Project Radio Noise,
the 3rd-ranked Railgun was used.
**[13:32] ---**
Why wasn't it you, when you're 1st-ranked?
**[13:36] ---**
There's something there.
Something you don't have the first clue about.
**[13:41] ---**
Damn you...
**[13:43] ---**
How poignant. Look.
She's quite thrilled about it herself.
**[13:53] ---**
Recovery complete,
I guess you would say.
**[13:55] ---**
Aww, they made it clear
that we were to take the prize alive,
**[13:59] ---**
but can she really be, like that?
**[14:01] ---**
No way am *I* writing
an apology letter for this.
**[14:05] ---**
She's still alive.
**[14:07] ---**
If she were dead, my sister's
proxy calculations would be affected.
**[14:12] ---**
I've got no positive proof... but...
**[14:16] ---**
...if I don't do something,
I'll never see her again...
**[14:21] ---**
Last Order!
**[14:39] ---**
Aww, man...
She's not a golf ball, you know.
**[14:43] ---**
Don't go blasting people away
for distances best measured in yards.
**[14:46] ---**
Sheesh, just who does he
think is gonna recover her now?
**[14:49] ---**
Because it's not gonna be me.
**[14:51] ---**
What should we do?
**[14:53] ---**
Oh, you know what?
Split up into three squads.
**[14:56] ---**
One of you, go after the prize.
**[14:58] ---**
The other two, stay with me.
**[15:00] ---**
But our first priority
is to recover Last Order.
**[15:03] ---**
Oh?
**[15:05] ---**
You're the one who was
recently assigned to Hound Dog, right?
**[15:09] ---**
Er, no, I...
**[15:10] ---**
Oh, it's okay, it's okay. It's not
like I'm doing a background check.
**[15:15] ---**
But you don't seem to know
the rules, so let me educate you.
**[15:18] ---**
You guys are a collection of scum.
You've got no human rights.
**[15:23] ---**
And scum can be
replaced as often as it takes.
**[15:26] ---**
If you interfere with
my precious, precious mission,
**[15:29] ---**
then I have no qualms about
killing you. You understand me?
**[15:33] ---**
You're already dead once over.
**[15:35] ---**
Just to confirm, do you understand?
**[15:40] ---**
All right, then we're clear.
**[15:42] ---**
Search the rivers, reservoirs,
and any other waterfronts out there.
**[15:47] ---**
He wouldn't have blown the kid away
**[15:50] ---**
without calculating where she would land.
**[15:52] ---**
What are we going to do? Recover him?
**[15:55] ---**
No, kill him. There's no
reason to capture him.
**[15:59] ---**
Looking at this guy, after all
the effort he went to, is irritating me.
**[16:03] ---**
Safer to kill the moody,
self-satisfied punk right here.
**[16:08] ---**
Shut up.
**[16:11] ---**
Damn you... You'll never
get it as long as you live.
**[16:15] ---**
Ha, oh yeah?
**[16:18] ---**
Well, I'm killing you now.
**[16:20] ---**
You're okay with those
being your last words, right?
**[16:23] ---**
Damn it, somebody...
**[16:26] ---**
It's time for some luck.
If you want the credit, it's yours.
**[16:30] ---**
I don't even care if you trample
on me and laugh while you do it.
**[16:34] ---**
Somebody... anybody...
**[16:37] ---**
...save the kid...
**[16:40] ---**
What are you doing over there?
**[16:52] ---**
Good grief, Index...
**[16:54] ---**
No sooner do I run into you than
you disappear again immediately.
**[16:57] ---**
Toma, you're lacking in consideration.
**[17:00] ---**
The white-haired boy I met before
I got here bought me a hamburger
**[17:03] ---**
without even asking
what my circumstances were.
**[17:06] ---**
Toma, you have to
be more like that nice boy.
**[17:10] ---**
Yeah, yeah. It's not like I've
got nothing at all to do with this guy.
**[17:15] ---**
For that matter, did you remember
to say thank you to him?
**[17:18] ---**
I'm someone who
makes sure to thank others! Oh...
**[17:21] ---**
Hmm? What's wrong?
**[17:23] ---**
Come to think of it...
**[17:25] ---**
...he let me borrow these.
**[17:26] ---**
They're just pocket tissues.
**[17:28] ---**
Oh, but if he doesn't have
this cutting-edge, daily use product,
**[17:32] ---**
won't he be bothered if he needs them?
**[17:34] ---**
Toma, I have to go return these to him now.
**[17:38] ---**
He'll be bothered if you do
return them, won't he?
**[17:41] ---**
H-Hey!
**[17:44] ---**
Sheesh, she's always, always like this.
**[17:50] ---**
Uh-oh, it's raining.
**[17:52] ---**
Come to think of it,
Index didn't have an umbrella.
**[18:02] ---**
Seems to be more Antiskill
out than there normally is.
**[18:05] ---**
I hope I can find Index quick,
before there's any trouble--
**[18:16] ---**
I-Is something the matter?
Excuse me! Excuse me!
**[18:27] ---**
Whoa...
**[18:29] ---**
What's going on here?
**[18:36] ---**
It doesn't seem to be life-threatening.
**[18:38] ---**
But what just happened here?
**[18:44] ---**
...in the metro area. Repeat,
**[18:46] ---**
gate destruction confirmed.
Intruders in the metro area.
**[18:50] ---**
We're under attack
of an unknown nature--
**[18:54] ---**
Intruders?
**[18:56] ---**
Index!
**[19:02] ---**
Y-You...
**[19:04] ---**
"Help!
**[19:05] ---**
Please, you've got to help him,"
**[19:09] ---**
asks Misaka Misaka, begging!
**[19:26] ---**
Hi! Aleister?
**[19:29] ---**
I know you secretly listen in
on regular lines like this one, right?
**[19:35] ---**
It sure would delight me if
you'd hurry up and engage me.
**[19:41] ---**
What do you want?
**[19:44] ---**
I just got done disgracing three
members of the governing board.
**[19:49] ---**
Yet you still put up with it?
**[19:51] ---**
They can be replaced,
as often as it takes.
**[19:55] ---**
Ha, I'd guessed
that you were hiding
**[19:58] ---**
the entire governing board's
consensus behind your views,
**[20:02] ---**
but it looks like my
expectations were off. Oh well.
**[20:05] ---**
You know my identity, don't you?
**[20:08] ---**
I'm afraid not.
**[20:10] ---**
The Right Seat of God.
**[20:12] ---**
If you want to play
dumb, that's okay, too.
**[20:15] ---**
Just so there are no regrets later.
**[20:18] ---**
Aren't you underestimating this city?
**[20:21] ---**
Oh, imagine that. You don't
even know the status of your own city.
**[20:26] ---**
Antiskill and Judgment, was it?
**[20:29] ---**
You've ended up with
your head in a noose so easily
**[20:31] ---**
because you relied on those
rinky-dink outfits to protect you.
**[20:33] ---**
You have to at least know
that you are finished, right?
**[20:39] ---**
If you think that's all it takes
**[20:40] ---**
to bring down Academy City's
defense network,
**[20:44] ---**
then you are a hopeless idiot.
**[20:47] ---**
You have absolutely no
idea what this city's true form is.
**[20:52] ---**
Oh, yeah?
**[20:53] ---**
I'm saying, you aren't the only
one with tricks up your sleeves.
**[20:57] ---**
But then, you will likely be brought
down before you realize that.
**[21:02] ---**
Whatever you say, I will
crush anything that opposes me.
**[21:07] ---**
This has been written in stone
from the moment I was born.
**[21:12] ---**
I am Vento of the Front,
the final weapon from among
**[21:16] ---**
the Roman Orthodox
Church's two billion faithful!
**[21:19] ---**
I will crush everything in one night!
**[21:22] ---**
That goes for you, Academy City,
**[21:24] ---**
Imagine Breaker, the List of
Prohibited Books--all of you!
**[21:32] ---**
Interesting.
**[21:34] ---**
It looks like a chance to
finally use *that* has come along.
**[21:39] ---**
It may be too soon, but with
the situation being tied to the plan,
**[21:43] ---**
irregularities are
the greatest amusement.
**[21:47] ---**
Hound Dog, Kihara Amata...
**[21:51] ---**
This is Kihara.
**[21:53] ---**
Imaginary Number School
District, Five-Element Agency,
**[21:55] ---**
the AIM diffusion field.
It may be a bit early,
**[21:59] ---**
but we will crush
them using Fuse=KAZAKIRI.
**[22:03] ---**
Once you have captured
the escaped #20001,
**[22:06] ---**
bring her to the designated point.
**[22:10] ---**
Do it swiftly, but courteously.
**[22:13] ---**
Acknowledged.
**[22:16] ---**
Now then...
**[22:18] ---**
...for a long-awaited enjoyable showtime...
**[22:47] ---**
*At a certain world's center,*
**[22:50] ---**
*I whispered that it
was okay to be alone*
**[22:52] ---**
*I bent back the hands on the clock*
**[22:55] ---**
*and kept my eyes closed*
**[23:03] ---**
*You can't turn back time that has passed*
**[23:09] ---**
*but on that day, you showed me*
**[23:12] ---**
*that that's how it should be*
**[23:17] ---**
*The miracle of you being
there as the seasons roll around*
**[23:22] ---**
*makes even the
broken clock start up again*
**[23:28] ---**
*Right now, yeah, I may
be a helpless piece of junk*
**[23:34] ---**
*but it's funny how
I feel like I can change that*
**[23:39] ---**
*All because your voice is still here*
**[23:44] ---**
*for me, even now*
**[23:55] ---**
"Preview"
**[23:56] ---**
A running battle for Last Order had begun.
**[23:58] ---**
One will stand alone against
them, all to protect one girl.
**[24:03] ---**
Next time, "Hound Dog."
**[24:05] ---**
When science and magic cross
paths, the story begins.
# 44 - Hound Dog (Hound Squad)
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GRVNZK5PY/a-certain-magical-index)
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**[00:30] ---**
Kihara Amata of Hound Dog
overpowers Accelerator.
**[00:34] ---**
However, his objective is the
recovery of Last Order.
**[00:37] ---**
Accelerator allows
Last Order to escape,
**[00:39] ---**
but has no means
of fighting back. And then...
**[00:42] ---**
What are you doing over there?
**[00:43] ---**
Huh?
**[00:50] ---**
*I'm always running after you*
**[00:55] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[00:56] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[00:56] ---**
*You are my ideal*
**[00:59] ---**
*You are me*
**[01:02] ---**
*Kore ijou tooku made
tobenai tori ga ita*
**[01:08] ---**
*Kizu mo nai rippa na
hane de aozora wo najitta*
**[01:14] ---**
*Kono basho mo warukunai*
**[01:16] ---**
*Ano sora wa takakunai*
**[01:19] ---**
*Kono basho mo yoku wa nai*
**[01:26] ---**
*Karada de kanjiru sokudo wo osorete'ru*
**[01:31] ---**
*Dare ni demo chansu wa moteru*
**[01:34] ---**
*sono saki e yukenai*
**[01:37] ---**
*Hontou wa tobitatenai*
**[01:40] ---**
*Hontou wa tobitachitai*
**[01:43] ---**
*Ima kanaetai negai
no mukou de kagayaku*
**[01:49] ---**
*kimi ga iru*
**[01:50] ---**
*Hitomi ni utsusu*
**[01:56] ---**
*"Mirai ni tatte itsumo tsuyokute"*
**[01:59] ---**
*sonna kimi ga boku sa*
**[02:02] ---**
*Kimi wa mada mabushii kedo*
**[02:08] ---**
*onaji kimochi de kono te nobashite*
**[02:11] ---**
*itsuka tsukamu genjitsu no boku ga*
**[02:15] ---**
*kimi ni naru yo*
**[02:20] ---**
#20 Hound Dog (Hound Squad)
**[02:26] ---**
Huh?
**[02:30] ---**
What do we do?
**[02:32] ---**
Huh?
**[02:33] ---**
You wanna know what to do?
**[02:35] ---**
We've gotta eliminate her, right?
**[02:50] ---**
Get going. If you don't
get to a hospital right away,
**[02:53] ---**
it'll be too late.
**[02:58] ---**
Hey, what are you waiting for!?
Hurry up and shoot!
**[03:00] ---**
Y-Yes, sir!
**[03:06] ---**
Don't make a fuss.
**[03:08] ---**
Just keep going forward.
**[03:09] ---**
Time is running out
for the both of us, right?
**[03:12] ---**
W-Where to?
**[03:14] ---**
I know a good doctor.
**[03:16] ---**
Aww... That one thing!
Bring me that thing!
**[03:22] ---**
Wishful thinking.
**[03:23] ---**
If you use a car,
you're all but telling me
**[03:26] ---**
that you can't use
your wind control, aren't you?
**[03:29] ---**
Adios, scumbag.
**[03:32] ---**
Huh?
**[03:35] ---**
Geez...
**[03:50] ---**
Nice city, huh?
**[03:52] ---**
I was sure the erosion
would be a lot further along, though.
**[03:56] ---**
Who are you?
**[03:58] ---**
A rival of yours in the killing trade.
**[04:02] ---**
Kill her.
**[04:06] ---**
You... bear no hostility, huh?
**[04:08] ---**
If that's what you want,
try being more adequate.
**[04:17] ---**
Well now, he really
turned up his nose at me.
**[04:20] ---**
I wonder if you'll
be of any use, though.
**[04:35] ---**
"These are the people
who attacked him,"
**[04:37] ---**
says Misaka Misaka, telling the truth.
**[04:40] ---**
Yeah, but is this
what your friend did to them?
**[04:44] ---**
"I don't think so.
**[04:46] ---**
He is short-tempered, and quick to fight,
**[04:49] ---**
so it seems unthinkable that
his retaliation would be so minor,"
**[04:52] ---**
says Misaka Misaka,
making a simple assumption.
**[04:56] ---**
In any case, we have to report this.
**[05:00] ---**
"They are here!"
**[05:02] ---**
reports Misaka Misaka
while taking cover behind the car.
**[05:07] ---**
"They"?
**[05:27] ---**
Oh, what have we here?
**[05:30] ---**
Oh, that's an osmatic sensor.
**[05:32] ---**
We use them to track down targets.
**[05:35] ---**
So it's a mechanical police dog, is it?
**[05:38] ---**
You know, there's
something about this quietness.
**[05:41] ---**
This wouldn't be more of
Kihara's big production, would it?
**[05:47] ---**
What the hell were
you doing back there?
**[05:50] ---**
Hmm? I came to give back
something I borrowed from you.
**[05:54] ---**
Here! This cutting-edge
daily-use product.
**[05:57] ---**
What are you, dense?
Those things are disposable.
**[06:05] ---**
Mm-hmm... "And so the ugly duck,
who had been told she was no good,
**[06:10] ---**
turned out to actually
be a super sexy-hot swan.
**[06:13] ---**
The end."
**[06:14] ---**
Say, what does "sexy-hot" mean?
**[06:17] ---**
That's not what
"The Ugly Duckling" is about.
**[06:20] ---**
Then, what *is* it about?
**[06:21] ---**
Huh? What was it again...?
**[06:25] ---**
From what the kid said, the swan
who wanted to get along with the ducks,
**[06:31] ---**
was actually happy to
be confronted with the fact,
**[06:35] ---**
that she wasn't part
of their circle, or something.
**[06:39] ---**
By "the kid," do you mean
the lost girl you were looking for?
**[06:43] ---**
In fact, as circumstances would
have it, I'm still looking for her.
**[06:46] ---**
You got separated again?
**[06:48] ---**
Yeah, that's right. That's why
we have to part ways here.
**[06:52] ---**
I'll look with you!
**[06:54] ---**
I mean, I can tell that
you're bothered by this.
**[06:57] ---**
I think if it were Toma,
he'd say the same thing.
**[07:02] ---**
Pull over somewhere around here.
**[07:06] ---**
There's a huge hospital in this area.
**[07:08] ---**
Go there, and find a doctor
whose face looks a lot like a frog.
**[07:13] ---**
When you find the doctor,
tell him to get a battery ready
**[07:16] ---**
for the Misaka Network connection
electrode. He'll know what it means.
**[07:20] ---**
Mm-hmm, all right.
**[07:22] ---**
"A Misaka Network connection
electrode battery," right?
**[07:29] ---**
You sit tight.
**[07:31] ---**
Huh?
**[07:31] ---**
You have to wait
right here until I get back.
**[07:36] ---**
All right. Just get going, already.
**[07:42] ---**
Start driving.
**[07:44] ---**
Aren't you going to let me go yet?
**[07:47] ---**
Live or die, you decide.
**[08:01] ---**
You still alive, Last Order?!
**[08:14] ---**
No good. It's locked.
**[08:16] ---**
There may be a way to unlock it.
**[08:27] ---**
Let's just go someplace
with a lot of people.
**[08:30] ---**
They're not going
to want to make a scene.
**[08:34] ---**
"Are we really going to
be able to help him like this?"
**[08:38] ---**
asks Misaka Misaka,
lamenting over how powerless she is.
**[08:42] ---**
Who can say? Still,
**[08:45] ---**
there's no way we can
help him if we don't survive this.
**[08:48] ---**
If you want to save him,
make sure you don't die first.
**[08:52] ---**
"Mm-hmm," says Misaka Misaka,
nodding her head forward.
**[08:56] ---**
Okay, let's stay alive.
**[09:08] ---**
What's going on here?
**[09:10] ---**
Let's just get outside--
**[09:29] ---**
What do you need at this hour?
**[09:32] ---**
There's trouble. Major trouble.
**[09:35] ---**
I heard the general situation
from one of the Misaka sisters.
**[09:40] ---**
They perform a kind
of information exchange
**[09:43] ---**
across their electrical network, you see.
**[09:46] ---**
That speeds things up.
What's happened to the kid?
**[09:51] ---**
It appears that she is being pursued
by a separate Hound Dog unit.
**[09:56] ---**
Word is that she is with a bystander
who happened to be with her.
**[10:00] ---**
Tch, where are they?
**[10:01] ---**
She does not know that, herself.
**[10:04] ---**
Did a kid wearing a
white nun's habit arrive there yet?
**[10:08] ---**
How does she know
about your proxy calculator?
**[10:12] ---**
That's none of your concern.
**[10:15] ---**
Just keep her there with you.
**[10:17] ---**
Hmm... Good grief.
How far are you planning to take this?
**[10:23] ---**
I'm killing Kihara.
**[10:24] ---**
I'm bringing down Hound Dog, too.
**[10:26] ---**
Then, I'm saving the kid, unharmed.
**[10:29] ---**
Not possible.
Under the circumstances,
**[10:33] ---**
you are undertaking
too many courses of action.
**[10:37] ---**
There is no way you
will accomplish them all.
**[10:39] ---**
Don't be such a know-it-all!
Since when do doctors--
**[10:42] ---**
I've seen hells
that were worse than yours.
**[10:45] ---**
Which is why I can
say this to you. Accelerator,
**[10:48] ---**
do not bite off more than you can chew;
**[10:52] ---**
make saving Last Order's
life your only priority.
**[10:56] ---**
If you bring her back to me alive,
I will definitely heal her.
**[10:59] ---**
Measuring up to those
expectations is what a doctor does.
**[11:04] ---**
That's fine with me.
**[11:09] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[11:15] ---**
The Right Seat of God, huh?
**[11:18] ---**
I didn't think they'd go this far.
**[11:36] ---**
This is Yomikawa calling Headquarters.
**[11:39] ---**
Requesting details on call 334.
**[11:46] ---**
This girl...
**[11:49] ---**
W-What the...?
**[12:02] ---**
Renewable Resource
Treatment Plant #3, huh?
**[12:04] ---**
The target's scent
continues on into there.
**[12:07] ---**
You're absolutely sure of that, right?
**[12:14] ---**
If you want to get out of here safely,
**[12:16] ---**
you'll just sit still there.
**[12:19] ---**
A cleaning agent. That'll do it.
**[12:23] ---**
Now to wash away my smell,
and get myself out of here. Hmm?
**[12:28] ---**
Damn them. They're here earlier
than expected, aren't they?
**[12:34] ---**
All they have are the small ones, huh?
**[12:39] ---**
Sissy!
**[12:42] ---**
What do you want, Kuroko?
**[12:43] ---**
I cannot get back home
because of my Judgment work,
**[12:46] ---**
so I need you to get in touch
with our nagging head resident
**[12:49] ---**
to ask for a curfew extension.
I know it is already past curfew--
**[12:52] ---**
Um...
**[12:53] ---**
I'm at the convenience
store right now, so...
**[12:55] ---**
Gah?!
**[12:58] ---**
How can Sissy still be out, as well?
**[13:01] ---**
We are going to get some
demerits, no questions asked.
**[13:05] ---**
Why would Miss Misaka
be breaking curfew today?
**[13:10] ---**
I-It cannot be!
**[13:12] ---**
My Sissy, on an evening
date with that rotten troglodyte?!
**[13:16] ---**
Why that lousy jerk!
Enjoying the evening view in the rain!
**[13:20] ---**
That is a rather elegant choice!
**[13:22] ---**
I cannot just stand around here.
**[13:24] ---**
I, Shirai Kuroko, have a
duty to preserve Sissy's virtue!
**[13:27] ---**
No, you can't.
**[13:28] ---**
Look, this mountain of paperwork
**[13:31] ---**
and accounting documents
is nowhere near being done, right?
**[13:40] ---**
What's happening out there?
**[13:42] ---**
Why aren't they coming in?
**[13:45] ---**
Hi!!
**[13:48] ---**
Did I startle you?
**[13:50] ---**
Don't be scared; come on out.
I have my own issues to deal with.
**[13:56] ---**
If you won't do as I say,
**[13:59] ---**
I'll turn you into a lump of goo.
**[14:06] ---**
Who are you?
**[14:09] ---**
One of the Right Seat
of God, Vento of the Front.
**[14:14] ---**
Target located.
And with that out of the way,
**[14:17] ---**
it's time to get
yourself killed, Kamijo Toma!
**[14:28] ---**
Rod, what does
the osmatic sensor say?
**[14:30] ---**
Hang on, it's just finishing.
**[14:57] ---**
You don't have to be so nervous.
**[14:59] ---**
You won't have
enough time to feel any pain.
**[15:04] ---**
Hide somewhere, Last Order!
**[15:10] ---**
Ha-ha! There's the right hand
I've heard so much about!
**[15:13] ---**
Way to keep up with me here!
**[15:16] ---**
From above!
**[15:20] ---**
What fun! I see, I see!
**[15:24] ---**
It looks like your right
hand is extremely effective,
**[15:26] ---**
just like it said in the report!
**[15:28] ---**
My favorite attack,
striking from every which way,
**[15:31] ---**
has absolutely no effect!
**[15:33] ---**
Your favorite?
**[15:34] ---**
Then again,
I don't really understand it.
**[15:37] ---**
All right, let's try this.
**[15:38] ---**
Why, you...!
**[15:41] ---**
Ha, so that does *that*, huh?
Sorry 'bout that.
**[15:46] ---**
Seems as though
there not being enough time
**[15:48] ---**
to feel any pain is too much to ask.
**[15:51] ---**
So, if you want to find happiness,
you'll have to become a masochist.
**[15:56] ---**
These attacks haven't been
following the movement of her hammer.
**[16:00] ---**
You mean, it's the cross?!
**[16:03] ---**
Oh, my secret's out, is it?
**[16:05] ---**
Damn!
**[16:06] ---**
Uh-oh. This is kind of starting
to become a nuisance. Here!
**[16:14] ---**
Run!
**[16:19] ---**
Go on! Please, call for help!
**[16:25] ---**
Leave it!
**[16:29] ---**
You're pretty cruel, huh?
How can you make that little girl
**[16:33] ---**
keep running away
into the darkness like that?
**[16:36] ---**
Wouldn't she be happier
if she were killed alongside you?
**[16:40] ---**
As long as I go pick
her up, there's no problem.
**[16:43] ---**
That's why I won't die.
**[16:44] ---**
Oh, how fun. On the other hand,
will you be able to say the same,
**[16:49] ---**
once I turn your
internal organs to fleshy juice?
**[16:52] ---**
Well, *you* are my target, after all.
**[16:55] ---**
So long as you don't run,
that will really help me out!
**[17:14] ---**
Y-You're joking, right...?
**[17:16] ---**
Joking? Yeah, of course.
**[17:19] ---**
Trying out some new material.
**[17:26] ---**
Sorry about that. Do you even
know who you've made an enemy of?
**[17:41] ---**
Isn't that nice of you?
**[17:43] ---**
Are you sure you shouldn't
be worrying about yourself?
**[17:47] ---**
Why, you...
**[17:50] ---**
What's the point of
getting all heated up *now*?
**[17:53] ---**
You *do* know what's going
on in Academy City now, right?
**[17:56] ---**
Get a clue as
to how valuable you are!
**[17:59] ---**
My only objective is you,
Kamijo Toma.
**[18:02] ---**
Anything else is icing on the cake.
**[18:04] ---**
Even the List of Prohibited Books
is insignificant compared to you.
**[18:09] ---**
You are without a doubt an enemy
of the Roman Orthodox Church now.
**[18:12] ---**
And we use whatever means
are necessary to defeat our enemies.
**[18:16] ---**
Even if it means wiping
out the entire nation of Japan.
**[18:20] ---**
As you can see, it is personally
signed by the Roman pope himself.
**[18:24] ---**
What are you talking about?
**[18:25] ---**
Did it sound like
I was kidding? Well then,
**[18:28] ---**
I will now kill every
single person in this shop!
**[18:32] ---**
Stop!
**[18:33] ---**
And away it goes!
**[18:37] ---**
This is Vera.
**[18:38] ---**
Status report, over.
**[18:43] ---**
Damn.
**[18:53] ---**
Nancy!
**[19:09] ---**
Damn...
**[19:14] ---**
What's that?
A side effect of the magic?
**[19:27] ---**
Miss Shirai!
**[19:28] ---**
Which bento box do you want?
**[19:31] ---**
There's Chinese *donburi* or fish here.
**[19:32] ---**
Right about now, Sissy and that rotten troglodyte
**[19:36] ---**
are enjoying the
city nightlife together...
**[19:39] ---**
Oh! It's time for
"Sudden Variety." The TV, the TV...
**[19:44] ---**
Who cares?!
**[19:45] ---**
"Intruder Disturbance in Academy City"
**[19:46] ---**
Currently, there is word of an intruder disturbance in Academy City.
**[19:50] ---**
Accompanying this is word
**[19:50] ---**
"Intruder Disturbance in Academy City"
**[19:51] ---**
that there has been damage extending all across Academy City.
**[19:55] ---**
Ah, we are receiving footage now.
**[19:55] ---**
"Intruder Disturbance Strikes Academy City"
**[19:59] ---**
"One moment please"
**[20:00] ---**
Did we get any reports
about what we just saw?
**[20:04] ---**
Then again, if one person really
did overpower Antiskill,
**[20:08] ---**
that intruder has a
considerable risk factor.
**[20:12] ---**
If it really does get out of hand,
Antiskill will request backup.
**[20:16] ---**
Until then, we'll work
on as much paperwork as--
**[20:20] ---**
Uiharu?
**[20:27] ---**
That ought to shake
off their sense of smell.
**[20:47] ---**
Him, huh?
**[20:52] ---**
Help me! Take me into protective custody!
**[20:56] ---**
In your face! I'm saved!
**[20:59] ---**
If you try anything, your relationship
**[21:01] ---**
with that brat you tried so
hard to protect will be through!
**[21:14] ---**
W-What?!
**[21:17] ---**
Wait! Wait a second, Accelerator!
**[21:20] ---**
Spare me--
**[21:24] ---**
G-Get away from that man!
**[21:38] ---**
This is a real scene of carnage.
**[21:45] ---**
So that's it.
**[21:46] ---**
This is how they were planning
to attack Academy City, is it?
**[21:51] ---**
They're going to impale each
and every incapacitated person.
**[22:01] ---**
That's no good, huh?
**[22:06] ---**
Aiho!
**[22:08] ---**
School District 5,
**[22:10] ---**
based on testimony at the
scene and databank cross-referencing,
**[22:14] ---**
the following person is wanted
as the primary person of interest
**[22:16] ---**
in a case of attempted murder.
**[23:55] ---**
"Preview"
**[23:55] ---**
People are collapsing left and right.
**[23:57] ---**
Accelerator roars at the unrest
spreading through Academy City.
**[24:00] ---**
And then, giant wings
dance across the skies.
**[24:02] ---**
Could those actually be...?
**[24:04] ---**
Next time, "Testament."
**[24:06] ---**
When science and magic
cross paths, the story begins.
# 45 - Testament (Learning Device)
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GRVNZK5PY/a-certain-magical-index)
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**[00:30] ---**
Three is for heaven, four is for earth,
**[00:33] ---**
and twelve represents the whole world.
**[00:36] ---**
By attaching meaning to specific numbers,
**[00:38] ---**
you yield units on
a grand scale, is that it?
**[00:42] ---**
It's a clever procedure, but it
is not from the church of the cross.
**[00:46] ---**
The theory is from ancient Greece,
BCE, from the Pythagorean order.
**[00:50] ---**
Since when did
you guys ever acknowledge
**[00:52] ---**
the world before
the Son of God was born?
**[01:06] ---**
A drawn-out battle
is not to my advantage.
**[01:18] ---**
It's such a shame!
**[01:20] ---**
Whenever I see such a fine-spun spell,
**[01:23] ---**
I hate to have to destroy it!
**[01:29] ---**
*I'm always running after you*
**[01:35] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[01:35] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[01:35] ---**
*You are my ideal*
**[01:38] ---**
*You are me*
**[01:42] ---**
*There was a bird that could
not fly any farther than this*
**[01:47] ---**
*It rebuked the blue skies
on fine, flawless wings*
**[01:53] ---**
*This place is not that bad*
**[01:55] ---**
*That sky is not that high*
**[01:58] ---**
*This place is not that good*
**[02:05] ---**
*Afraid of the speed
it would feel in its body*
**[02:10] ---**
*Everybody has a chance,*
**[02:13] ---**
*but they cannot go any farther*
**[02:16] ---**
*The truth is they
cannot take flight*
**[02:19] ---**
*The truth is they
want to take flight*
**[02:22] ---**
*Right now, beyond the wish
I want to make come true*
**[02:28] ---**
*you shine*
**[02:29] ---**
*In my eyes I picture you*
**[02:35] ---**
*"Standing in the future,
always strong,"*
**[02:38] ---**
*and that "you" is me*
**[02:41] ---**
*You are still blindingly bright*
**[02:47] ---**
*but in the same spirit,
I reach out my hand*
**[02:50] ---**
*and the "I" who I am will
someday grab hold to become*
**[02:54] ---**
*the you that I will be*
**[02:59] ---**
#21 Testament (Learning Device)
**[03:05] ---**
If those guys show up again...
**[03:10] ---**
I have less than four
minutes of ability mode left.
**[03:22] ---**
I'm at least gonna bring
that kid out of the darkness.
**[03:30] ---**
The whole building is clear.
There's nobody here.
**[03:34] ---**
According to the report,
due to the threat of terrorist activity,
**[03:37] ---**
they had the staff and
patients temporarily evacuate.
**[03:41] ---**
They're onto us, huh?
**[03:43] ---**
That's not good.
**[03:49] ---**
Any chance it's a trap?
**[03:51] ---**
No, I can't spot any wires or infrared.
**[04:02] ---**
Took you long enough, didn't it?
**[04:05] ---**
Heaven Canceller?
**[04:07] ---**
There's no time, so I'll keep this brief.
**[04:09] ---**
Leave Kihara behind,
and get yourselves out of there.
**[04:12] ---**
Otherwise,
your lives will be in danger.
**[04:15] ---**
Are you serious?
**[04:17] ---**
Accelerator is
going to come down on you.
**[04:20] ---**
Right now, he is
not holding back one bit.
**[04:23] ---**
You must not run
into Accelerator. That is all.
**[04:27] ---**
Ha, you're talking nonsense.
**[04:31] ---**
I see. Then, don't get killed.
**[04:34] ---**
As long as you
don't die, I'll save you.
**[04:46] ---**
Currently, we are receiving
reports from all over the country
**[04:50] ---**
of people suddenly
losing consciousness.
**[04:52] ---**
According to police,
they are hurrying to identify the cause,
**[04:56] ---**
but this is not just happening in Japan,
as there are reports of cases overseas, as well.
**[04:59] ---**
Which means it's spreading
over there, as well.
**[05:02] ---**
As long as Academy City came under
our control, that's all we needed.
**[05:14] ---**
Last Order?! No, is it Kihara?
**[05:20] ---**
Thank goodness! I finally got through!
**[05:23] ---**
I've heard this voice before somewhere.
**[05:25] ---**
I've just been dialing all of the
numbers in Last Order's cell phone.
**[05:30] ---**
You're the only one who answered.
**[05:32] ---**
Maybe you don't know what
the situation is, but I need your help.
**[05:35] ---**
She's in danger!
**[05:38] ---**
What *is* the situation?
**[05:41] ---**
You got split up
at the restaurant, right?
**[05:43] ---**
I'll take over recovering her now.
You get rid of that cell phone,
**[05:47] ---**
and go back to being a regular guy.
**[05:49] ---**
What are you talking about?!
I'm helping out with this, of course!
**[05:54] ---**
You go to that huge
bridge in School District 7.
**[05:57] ---**
We set that up as a rendezvous
point in case anything happened.
**[06:01] ---**
If she's still on
the run, she'll go there.
**[06:03] ---**
Yeah, all right!
**[06:05] ---**
Things are kind of off
here in Academy City today.
**[06:08] ---**
We've got weirdos
coming in from outside the city,
**[06:11] ---**
while Antiskill and others in
the city are dropping like flies.
**[06:15] ---**
This attack is fairly indiscriminate,
so you watch out, too!
**[06:19] ---**
Tch, what a pain.
**[06:23] ---**
Sorry about this.
**[06:25] ---**
I never should have let her go alone.
**[06:29] ---**
I could say the same.
I left the kid alone, myself.
**[06:34] ---**
We've lost contact
with multiple other squads.
**[06:37] ---**
It's possible that...
**[06:38] ---**
They either ran away,
or they're dead.
**[06:41] ---**
Either way, I'll have to
collect their hearts afterward.
**[06:44] ---**
Have you recovered the
group we sent out as decoys
**[06:47] ---**
when that woman got in our way?
**[06:49] ---**
Yes, sir.
**[06:50] ---**
There was some kind of power at work,
**[06:52] ---**
and the oxygen levels inside
their bodies had dropped extremely low.
**[06:55] ---**
Artificially-induced asphyxia?
Tsk, this is that woman's doing.
**[07:02] ---**
Damn it, it's because of her that our...
**[07:08] ---**
Hey!
**[07:09] ---**
It can't be!
**[07:11] ---**
That creep. How the hell is she targeting?
**[07:15] ---**
No, it couldn't be. Unscientifically?
**[07:19] ---**
Enough! We're still
gonna do what we're gonna do.
**[07:23] ---**
Is the Testament rig ready?
**[07:25] ---**
Yes, sir.
**[07:28] ---**
Right here.
**[07:38] ---**
That... belongs to her...!
**[07:48] ---**
How you doing, Accelerator?
**[07:52] ---**
What do you want, Kihara?
**[07:56] ---**
Tell me, did a snippet of
the kid's shirt drop around there?
**[08:00] ---**
If not, keep looking for it.
I left it there on purpose.
**[08:05] ---**
I've gotta say, though,
Testament is really something else, huh?
**[08:09] ---**
It ain't normal to cram a
virus right into a person's head.
**[08:16] ---**
So, what kind of reaction
are you expecting from me?
**[08:19] ---**
Huh?
**[08:20] ---**
Is holding my sides
and laughing the right answer,
**[08:23] ---**
my little masochist?
**[08:25] ---**
Hey, you, have you lost the
capacity to evaluate the situation?
**[08:29] ---**
What about you?
Why don't you kill the kid?
**[08:33] ---**
I mean, the folks who
hired you didn't give you some
**[08:37] ---**
tear-jerking line about
recovering her unharmed, right?
**[08:41] ---**
And yet all the same,
what is it with you quaking in your boots,
**[08:44] ---**
unable to lay a finger on her?
**[08:47] ---**
I'll kill her.
**[08:49] ---**
Yeah, sure.
**[08:52] ---**
Given that bastard's personality,
after everything I said to him,
**[08:55] ---**
he'd have plucked one
of her eyes out, at least.
**[08:59] ---**
But since he hasn't, that means...
**[09:02] ---**
Well, well, that clinches
it--he's a full-fledged errand boy.
**[09:07] ---**
A backer powerful enough
to keep even Kihara in check.
**[09:10] ---**
It couldn't be...
Academy City itself?
**[09:13] ---**
If so, it's the governing board.
If I look into them... Ha!
**[09:18] ---**
Hey, now, this is awesome.
Just like that, I'm making headway.
**[09:26] ---**
Don't you screw with me!
**[09:29] ---**
Take *me* lightly, will you?!
**[10:07] ---**
Hmm... There seems to be
some kind of commotion out front.
**[10:12] ---**
The deployment of the
Imaginary Number School District,
**[10:15] ---**
Five-Element Agency, employing
AIM diffusion fields, is complete.
**[10:19] ---**
If any magic is invoked
here within Academy City,
**[10:23] ---**
that magician will run
out of control and self-destruct.
**[10:27] ---**
Vento of the Front, was it?
You are no exception to that.
**[10:33] ---**
At our current output, we are
unable to envelop the whole world.
**[10:38] ---**
But, with the inclusion
of Fuse=KAZAKIRI,
**[10:41] ---**
the shoe will soon be on the other foot.
**[10:55] ---**
What exactly is this?
**[10:57] ---**
I've started sensing
some unidentified presence.
**[11:00] ---**
And it's still expanding.
**[11:07] ---**
Why, you...
**[11:08] ---**
What are you doing here?!
**[11:10] ---**
Have you come
here just so I could kill you?
**[11:20] ---**
What have you done with Last Order?!
**[11:22] ---**
Last Order, you say?
I don't know what you're talking about!
**[11:28] ---**
What?
**[11:35] ---**
Vento, are you...?
**[11:35] ---**
I get it. This is the Imaginary
Number School District,
**[11:38] ---**
Five-Element Agency in full view.
**[11:40] ---**
I'll deal with small potatoes like you later.
**[11:43] ---**
Mess with us, will you?
**[11:45] ---**
You have such a low opinion of
us that you'd go this far?!
**[11:55] ---**
She disappeared.
**[11:59] ---**
What is it that she saw?
**[12:06] ---**
You're kidding... right?
**[12:08] ---**
Deployment of Imaginary Number
School District, Five-Element Agency
**[12:12] ---**
commencing. Authenticating code
for host individual, Last Order.
**[12:16] ---**
Fuse=KAZAKIRI will now emerge.
**[12:20] ---**
All personnel, please be
ready for unexpected shocks.
**[12:37] ---**
It couldn't be...
**[12:39] ---**
An angel?!
**[12:40] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[12:46] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[13:00] ---**
It's too dangerous to stay here.
But then, where is Last Order?
**[13:06] ---**
Damn it!
**[13:11] ---**
Listen, I'm at the bridge,
but Last Order isn't here. Any luck?
**[13:17] ---**
What are you, an idiot?
**[13:19] ---**
Don't believe the lie I told you.
**[13:23] ---**
I should have the kid's
location pinned down soon.
**[13:26] ---**
At the very least, she's nowhere
you can find running around.
**[13:29] ---**
I'll take it from here.
You go on home now.
**[13:34] ---**
You see those
wings of light too, right?
**[13:39] ---**
I have to go stop that angel.
**[13:42] ---**
So it really will be hard
for me to work with you now.
**[13:46] ---**
I don't care.
**[13:49] ---**
I'm sorry.
**[13:51] ---**
Don't get yourself killed.
**[13:52] ---**
Right back at you.
**[14:02] ---**
So he's finally gone
and used it, huh? That bastard.
**[14:06] ---**
Does he really mean
to exterminate the enemy?
**[14:10] ---**
Signal confirmed
from host individual #20001.
**[14:13] ---**
Danger level 5 estimated.
Misaka 10032 rejects.
**[14:18] ---**
Rejection denied.
Accepting signal on channels R, V, and Y.
**[14:22] ---**
Heavy load on thought functions.
**[14:25] ---**
Rejection denied.
**[14:27] ---**
We will do all we can
without opposing the order.
**[14:31] ---**
If, as a result, it leads to us
dispelling this critical situation...
**[14:40] ---**
Thomas Platinaburg...
**[14:43] ---**
One of the twelve members
of the governing board...
**[14:48] ---**
Operation code name "Angel."
In order to quell an unknown threat,
**[14:53] ---**
Last Order will be recovered,
and a virus overwritten to counter it.
**[14:58] ---**
They can't be serious.
**[15:01] ---**
Which means, the kid must still be alive.
**[15:06] ---**
Kihara, you bastard,
where are you hiding?
**[15:13] ---**
What's going on here?
**[15:16] ---**
Hey!
**[15:17] ---**
What are you doing out here?!
**[15:19] ---**
Let me go!
**[15:20] ---**
I have to go! Hyoka is over there!
**[15:23] ---**
Hyoka?
**[15:28] ---**
No, you can't Toma!
**[15:30] ---**
Don't kill Hyoka!
**[15:33] ---**
Index? Misaka?
**[15:38] ---**
This way!
**[15:39] ---**
Huh?!
**[15:41] ---**
Please, Toma! Don't go over there!
**[15:45] ---**
I'm sure the angel
over there has to be Hyoka!
**[15:49] ---**
That's... Kazakiri?
**[15:51] ---**
I don't understand
the theory behind it myself,
**[15:54] ---**
but Toma, you're the
last one who can get involved!
**[15:57] ---**
If you touch Hyoka, she'll vanish!
**[16:00] ---**
I'll figure out what to do
about Hyoka, so you stay out of this!
**[16:04] ---**
I can't.
**[16:07] ---**
I'm going to stop her.
Besides, she's not the only matter at hand.
**[16:11] ---**
But Toma, if you use
your right hand, Hyoka will die!
**[16:15] ---**
I won't let her!
**[16:17] ---**
I'm going in there
to save her, not to kill her.
**[16:21] ---**
Does that look like Kazakiri
normally does? No, of course not!
**[16:25] ---**
So we have to go help her, don't we?!
**[16:28] ---**
Let's go, Index. I'm going to
need your help to save Kazakiri.
**[16:36] ---**
I don't know what this is about,
**[16:39] ---**
but you've gotten yourself caught
up in a huge problem again, huh?
**[16:43] ---**
So, there's an acquaintance
of yours at the center of that thing?
**[16:47] ---**
Not an acquaintance. A friend.
**[16:51] ---**
I just want to confirm one thing--
they're not evil, right?
**[16:55] ---**
Absolutely not. Like Index said,
that's our friend in there.
**[17:02] ---**
Your friend, huh?
**[17:04] ---**
So, that means *they're* the bad guys, right?
**[17:07] ---**
Well, so it goes.
**[17:08] ---**
I'll do what I can.
**[17:11] ---**
You're...
**[17:12] ---**
Sorry, sorry.
**[17:13] ---**
I'm starting without giving
you the chance to stop me!
**[17:20] ---**
W-What the...?
**[17:24] ---**
Misaka!
**[17:25] ---**
The penalty game!
**[17:27] ---**
It's still in effect for the rest of the day.
**[17:30] ---**
You have to go rescue your
friend and come back here. Got it?
**[17:35] ---**
We'll save her, all right!
So don't you go getting killed, either!
**[17:42] ---**
Right now, I am in an extremely foul mood!
**[17:45] ---**
Say, Toma,
**[17:47] ---**
you've been quiet this last
while because of that magician, right?
**[17:51] ---**
That's right. I want to know
how that attack of hers works.
**[17:55] ---**
And if there's a
way to reverse it, that too.
**[17:57] ---**
It's probably Divine Retribution.
**[18:00] ---**
What did you say?
**[18:01] ---**
A certain emotion is the key.
Those who experience this emotion
**[18:05] ---**
bring others down,
regardless of location or range.
**[18:08] ---**
That's why it's Divine Retribution.
**[18:10] ---**
Toma, did this magician
give any indications of that?
**[18:14] ---**
Like she was inducing a specific
emotion more than was necessary?
**[18:18] ---**
Specific emotion?
**[18:20] ---**
Disgust... No, hostility, or animosity.
**[18:24] ---**
You mean, that's the key
to making her magic work?
**[18:28] ---**
Mm-hmm. No matter what stage it's at,
**[18:30] ---**
I don't think they can ever
recover until the magician decides
**[18:33] ---**
that the Divine Retribution
is no longer needed.
**[18:35] ---**
Then, what about the
way Kazakiri's angel works?
**[18:39] ---**
Hey, she'll be all right, won't she?
**[18:40] ---**
I don't know! There is some
magic that appears to be similar,
**[18:44] ---**
but all the parts she's using
are crazy stuff I've never seen before.
**[18:49] ---**
At the very least, I do know
that the angel that's over there
**[18:52] ---**
and the core that is directing
it are in two different places.
**[18:57] ---**
Kazakiri is on the
side of science, after all.
**[19:03] ---**
What is it, Toma?
**[19:05] ---**
Damn, she's not answering.
**[19:08] ---**
Is there anyone besides
Miss Komoe that would understand this?
**[19:14] ---**
Misaka!
**[19:16] ---**
W-What?!
**[19:18] ---**
I want to stop that angel somehow.
You're the only one who can help!
**[19:23] ---**
Hey, Misaka, did you get shot?!
**[19:25] ---**
N-No, I didn't.
**[19:27] ---**
You know, having me think
about something else while fighting--
**[19:30] ---**
you really are ruthless.
**[19:32] ---**
All right, Index, anything
you don't understand, ask her.
**[19:36] ---**
Huh?
**[19:38] ---**
Ha-ha, hey, this is awesome.
What the hell is it?
**[19:42] ---**
Damn, you are off your rocker, Aleister.
**[19:45] ---**
Does the man even know what reason is?
**[19:48] ---**
What kind of scientist is
it that calls themselves a scientist,
**[19:51] ---**
and then disavows science?
**[19:53] ---**
Look, you guys!
**[19:54] ---**
Since when was
the Bible a pop-up book--
**[19:56] ---**
Huh?
**[20:02] ---**
Ki-ha-ra!!
**[20:08] ---**
Go on, shoot straight.
**[20:11] ---**
Otherwise,
you're just wasting everyone's time!
**[20:21] ---**
D-Don't move!
**[20:34] ---**
That was so cool!
I think I'm falling in love, Accelerator!
**[20:40] ---**
Now then,
**[20:41] ---**
it's time to scrap you,
**[20:44] ---**
you son of a bitch!
**[21:02] ---**
Kazakiri...
**[21:03] ---**
Kazakiri!!
**[21:07] ---**
Kazakiri!
**[21:13] ---**
Kaza--
**[21:17] ---**
Damn it!
**[21:20] ---**
Well, well...
**[21:22] ---**
Were the two heinous sinners
about to lick each other's wounds?
**[21:27] ---**
And here I was planning
to save you until afterward,
**[21:31] ---**
but you show up
here just to be killed.
**[21:36] ---**
You don't want
to witness any more misery,
**[21:38] ---**
so you want to be
the first one I crush, is that it?
**[21:41] ---**
I won't let you hurt Kazakiri.
**[21:42] ---**
As a member of the Right Seat of God,
**[21:46] ---**
I cannot turn a blind eye to that monster.
**[21:49] ---**
That thing is a mass of sacrilege,
brought about by science,
**[21:53] ---**
sneering at everyone
who holds up the cross!
**[21:56] ---**
You take that back!
**[21:59] ---**
Okay, fine. I'll be nice and kill you.
**[22:02] ---**
Together with that fallen angel there!
**[22:05] ---**
Like I'd let you. She's already
going through all this as it is,
**[22:09] ---**
and now, you want her to die
at the hands of someone like you,
**[22:13] ---**
who treats her like she's a monster?
**[22:15] ---**
You can kiss my ass!
**[22:18] ---**
What the hell do you take my friend for?!
**[22:47] ---**
*At a certain world's center,*
**[22:50] ---**
*I whispered that it
was okay to be alone*
**[22:52] ---**
*I bent back the hands on the clock*
**[22:55] ---**
*and kept my eyes closed*
**[23:03] ---**
*You can't turn back time that has passed*
**[23:09] ---**
*but on that day, you showed me*
**[23:12] ---**
*that that's how it should be*
**[23:17] ---**
*The miracle of you being
there as the seasons roll around*
**[23:22] ---**
*makes even the
broken clock start up again*
**[23:28] ---**
*Right now, yeah, I may
be a helpless piece of junk*
**[23:34] ---**
*but it's funny how
I feel like I can change that*
**[23:39] ---**
*All because your voice is still here*
**[23:44] ---**
*for me, even now*
**[23:55] ---**
"Preview"
**[23:55] ---**
The fight on every front intensifies.
**[23:59] ---**
What is the answer
Index derives amidst the chaos
**[24:01] ---**
created by magic and science?
**[24:03] ---**
Next time,
"The Divine Retribution Spell."
**[24:05] ---**
When science and magic
cross paths, the story begins.
# 46 - The Divine Retribution Spell
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GRVNZK5PY/a-certain-magical-index)
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**[00:30] ---**
*I'm always running after you*
**[00:35] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[00:36] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[00:36] ---**
*You are my ideal*
**[00:39] ---**
*You are me*
**[00:42] ---**
*Kore ijou tooku made
tobenai tori ga ita*
**[00:48] ---**
*Kizu mo nai rippa na
hane de aozora wo najitta*
**[00:54] ---**
*Kono basho mo warukunai*
**[00:56] ---**
*Ano sora wa takakunai*
**[00:59] ---**
*Kono basho mo yoku wa nai*
**[01:06] ---**
*Karada de kanjiru sokudo wo osorete'ru*
**[01:11] ---**
*Dare ni demo chansu wa moteru*
**[01:14] ---**
*sono saki e yukenai*
**[01:17] ---**
*Hontou wa tobitatenai*
**[01:20] ---**
*Hontou wa tobitachitai*
**[01:23] ---**
*Ima kanaetai negai
no mukou de kagayaku*
**[01:29] ---**
*kimi ga iru*
**[01:30] ---**
*Hitomi ni utsusu*
**[01:36] ---**
*"Mirai ni tatte itsumo tsuyokute"*
**[01:39] ---**
*sonna kimi ga boku sa*
**[01:42] ---**
*Kimi wa mada mabushii kedo*
**[01:48] ---**
*onaji kimochi de kono te nobashite*
**[01:51] ---**
*itsuka tsukamu genjitsu no boku ga*
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*kimi ni naru yo*
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#22 The Divine Retribution Spell
**[02:04] ---**
I'm down to sixty
seconds of control time.
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As long as I kill this guy,
it will all be over.
**[02:10] ---**
I can't go back
down the path of light now.
**[02:13] ---**
So just think about taking Kihara
down to hell with you now!
**[02:23] ---**
You dirty punk,
**[02:24] ---**
how dare you come
stand before me like this!
**[02:29] ---**
What's the matter, kid?
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I thought you were
here to save the girl.
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Damn you...
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Tell me, do you think you're
super cool to be doing this?
**[02:41] ---**
Facing off all alone
against some giant evil,
**[02:44] ---**
dashing in to rescue
the pitiful, captive little girl?
**[02:49] ---**
Do you think that makes
up for everything else
**[02:51] ---**
you've done in your life?
**[02:54] ---**
You'll wallow in
mud your whole life.
**[02:58] ---**
Damn it all,
**[03:00] ---**
I know that.
**[03:02] ---**
I know I'm stuck in
the mud my whole life.
**[03:04] ---**
That's not what I'm after.
**[03:08] ---**
You and I are the only
ones who have to go to hell.
**[03:12] ---**
Don't go dragging
the kid down along with us!
**[03:16] ---**
You filthy bastard!
**[04:00] ---**
You're starting to become a pain.
**[04:03] ---**
Swinging around
that vile right hand of yours,
**[04:05] ---**
protecting that nauseating
angel like you are.
**[04:07] ---**
How much are you going to crack
me up before you're happy?!
**[04:11] ---**
Oh, come off it!
**[04:13] ---**
What, you think your point of
view is the only one in the world?
**[04:17] ---**
Why won't you accept that there
are others who aren't like you?!
**[04:23] ---**
I hate science!
**[04:26] ---**
I detest science!
**[04:33] ---**
I hate this sort of science!
**[04:39] ---**
I detest the kind of science
that just let my brother die!
**[04:50] ---**
Someone's there?
**[04:53] ---**
Hold on!
**[04:55] ---**
What?
**[05:03] ---**
Kazakiri!
**[05:09] ---**
This is all science is!
And you're one of them!
**[05:13] ---**
You don't find that disgusting?!
**[05:18] ---**
Ha! When your battery dies,
you're just an immobile piece of junk.
**[05:32] ---**
What do you think about how
**[05:35] ---**
you fought back that squad of--
**[05:45] ---**
Why, you...!
**[05:59] ---**
What... the...?
**[06:18] ---**
Kazakiri...
**[06:32] ---**
Y-You hypocrite!
What do you think you're doing?!
**[06:40] ---**
This is too much!
**[06:43] ---**
Day after day, I keep
saying it's "just my luck,"
**[06:46] ---**
but given all this,
I'm plenty fortunate, you know?
**[06:49] ---**
Yeah?
**[06:51] ---**
W-What are...
What are you even talking about?
**[06:55] ---**
Just you wait, Kazakiri. Index is
taking action right now to save you.
**[07:02] ---**
She is, after all, your friend.
She is going to come through.
**[07:09] ---**
Just relax.
**[07:10] ---**
In the meantime, I'll make sure...
**[07:14] ---**
...to keep things in check here!
**[07:26] ---**
Don't you screw with me,
you gimpy bastard!
**[07:36] ---**
Wha--? Damn!
**[07:50] ---**
You filthy little punk!
**[08:01] ---**
Mess with me, will you?!
**[08:06] ---**
Damn it, let go!
**[08:10] ---**
Damn, that's right.
**[08:12] ---**
If he can't use his ability,
**[08:15] ---**
then that means my
"countermeasure" doesn't work anymore.
**[08:18] ---**
Damn. Just killing him isn't enough.
**[08:22] ---**
I have to take the meaning
of his death away from him.
**[08:25] ---**
But how do I do that?
**[08:33] ---**
Look at this!
**[08:35] ---**
It's the original script of the
virus that was input into her brain!
**[08:39] ---**
Without this, there's not
a chance of saving the girl!
**[08:48] ---**
In your face! Kick yourself
over that, you filthy punk!
**[08:54] ---**
I've destroyed everything
that is most important to you!
**[08:59] ---**
There isn't anything
you can make right anymore!
**[09:04] ---**
And now, it's your turn.
**[09:08] ---**
Start questioning whether
or not there's a heaven,
**[09:10] ---**
or whatever other drivel
you want to now!
**[09:16] ---**
Huh?
**[09:18] ---**
There she is!
**[09:21] ---**
It's her!
**[09:26] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[09:50] ---**
I've got her.
**[09:51] ---**
Vento avoided letting me grab
onto her hammer with my right hand.
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Which means that
it can cancel the thing out.
**[10:00] ---**
So then...
**[10:02] ---**
It looks like letting you get too
close doesn't gain me anything.
**[10:06] ---**
As long as I don't have to
worry about anything around me,
**[10:09] ---**
I can go all-out, too.
**[10:11] ---**
Ha! You almost make it sound
like that monster is helping you out!
**[10:15] ---**
Not "sound like,"
she really *is* helping me out!
**[10:19] ---**
Dream on!
**[10:24] ---**
This is the best you can do!
**[10:26] ---**
Don't go selling the
Right Seat of God short!
**[10:39] ---**
Damn!
**[10:49] ---**
Vento!
**[10:53] ---**
What's the idiotic outcry for?
**[10:57] ---**
You've thrown in with
the side of science, right?
**[11:00] ---**
With the appearance of that angel,
**[11:03] ---**
a coercive spell pressure
took effect over this whole region.
**[11:07] ---**
It's causing what might be
called a magic circulatory failure.
**[11:11] ---**
Aleister sure came
up with a repulsive trick!
**[11:14] ---**
You dumbass!
**[11:16] ---**
What possible reason could
you have to fight through all this?!
**[11:18] ---**
Don't feed me that hollow line!
**[11:23] ---**
Yikes... I couldn't dodge that...
**[11:32] ---**
Ha, now you need rescuing, don't you?
**[11:36] ---**
Forgive me, but I'm pressed for time, too.
**[11:38] ---**
I'll see to it that you
get sent to the hospital!
**[11:40] ---**
Shut up! I'll never again
turn myself over to science!
**[11:45] ---**
My younger brother
was killed through science.
**[11:48] ---**
What?
**[11:50] ---**
It was because of a glitch
at an amusement park attraction.
**[11:55] ---**
They said that scientifically,
there was no chance of any trouble.
**[11:59] ---**
It had multiple layers of safety devices,
**[12:01] ---**
and a fully-automated
speed control program.
**[12:04] ---**
They laid out all these
reassuring words for us,
**[12:07] ---**
but the truth is,
they didn't do any good at all!
**[12:10] ---**
You mean...
**[12:12] ---**
The same was true when we
were taken to the hospital afterward.
**[12:16] ---**
They were unable to find
enough blood for two transfusions,
**[12:18] ---**
so the doctors said they
could only save one of our lives.
**[12:22] ---**
My brother said, "Please save my sister."
**[12:27] ---**
And so, only I survived.
**[12:31] ---**
Surprised?
**[12:33] ---**
How can a member of the Right
Seat of God fight over such a reason?
**[12:37] ---**
But you see, I despise science
so much that I will even use
**[12:40] ---**
the Right Seat
of God to bring it down.
**[12:44] ---**
Science not only
deprives us of our way,
**[12:47] ---**
it even takes the Bible, which we
take to be the means of salvation,
**[12:50] ---**
and tries to smear it
with blasphemy such as this.
**[12:53] ---**
This is what the essence of science is!
All it does is hamper us!
**[12:59] ---**
That's why I hate and detest science!
**[13:02] ---**
If science is as cold as that,
then I'll smash it all to pieces,
**[13:07] ---**
and fill the world
with a warmer set of laws!
**[13:11] ---**
That's my duty, for having
squandered my brother's future!
**[13:16] ---**
You've got to be kidding me.
**[13:17] ---**
What?
**[13:19] ---**
The hell science killed your brother.
**[13:21] ---**
Of course those doctors never
wanted your brother to die to begin with.
**[13:26] ---**
Of course they wanted to save both of you!
**[13:29] ---**
That goes for the attraction
where you had the accident, too.
**[13:32] ---**
It's not like they were
running it to hurt people.
**[13:35] ---**
They wanted to bring
smiles to people's faces!
**[13:37] ---**
Shut up!
**[13:39] ---**
Your brother knew exactly the
situation he had been placed in,
**[13:43] ---**
but he still wanted
you to survive, didn't he?
**[13:47] ---**
Do you think someone
like that would say
**[13:50] ---**
that he wanted to
take revenge against science?
**[13:53] ---**
Someone who wanted more
than anyone else for you to be happy?!
**[13:57] ---**
I told you to shut up!
**[14:02] ---**
You think the view of a
little child on the verge of death
**[14:04] ---**
carries any value?!
**[14:06] ---**
If there wasn't enough blood,
they should have given it to my brother!
**[14:10] ---**
If they had to,
they could have used *my* blood, too!
**[14:13] ---**
Yes, it did have value.
**[14:16] ---**
It's precisely because
your brother made his decision
**[14:19] ---**
that you are here, alive, now, right?
**[14:21] ---**
So then it *did* have value!
**[14:24] ---**
You're the one who has
to understand the value it had
**[14:27] ---**
more than anyone, aren't you?
**[14:30] ---**
Don't be ridiculous!
You think that's any comfort?!
**[14:33] ---**
I consumed his whole future!
**[14:35] ---**
Could you shout out the same thing
**[14:37] ---**
to someone else in
the exact same situation?!
**[14:39] ---**
Because I couldn't!
**[14:41] ---**
That's why I refute it!
The life you're living is wrong!
**[14:46] ---**
Your brother did the most amazing
thing in the world back there.
**[14:50] ---**
And you're here disgracing that?!
**[14:52] ---**
Are you going to waste what
he said by going to your grave,
**[14:54] ---**
hating science the whole time?!
**[15:00] ---**
Hmph, that's a laugh.
**[15:03] ---**
I'm the one who chose this path.
**[15:05] ---**
There's no way that you,
who just heard the story right here,
**[15:08] ---**
can twist what happened so easily!
**[15:25] ---**
The crisis that both
Academy City and Kazakiri are in...
**[15:29] ---**
...as well as the hatred for
science that holds Vento captive...
**[15:33] ---**
...are illusions that I'm now
going to smash all at once!
**[15:37] ---**
Compared to what your brother did,
this may not be any big deal,
**[15:41] ---**
but it will save you just a little bit.
Now go back and start over!
**[15:46] ---**
You big dumbass!
**[16:07] ---**
Those men from before.
Do they have something to do with her?
**[16:12] ---**
Huh? Heh...
**[16:17] ---**
Hey!
**[16:19] ---**
Hey, what do you want?
I'm working here.
**[16:26] ---**
Hey, just a minute!
**[16:27] ---**
Don't go trying anything with her!
**[16:31] ---**
This girl is at the
core of everything, all right.
**[16:33] ---**
Based on angel architecture,
but made of formless telesma,
**[16:37] ---**
all tucked away inside
a human-shaped pouch.
**[16:40] ---**
But I don't know how
to move forward from here.
**[16:46] ---**
Short-hair, a question!
**[16:47] ---**
You call me Miss Mikoto!
**[16:49] ---**
So, what's your question?
**[16:53] ---**
What's an electronic network
that utilizes brainwaves?
**[16:57] ---**
Huh? Let's see...
Electricity-generating espers
**[17:01] ---**
can use identical brainwaves
to construct an EM network, I guess.
**[17:05] ---**
Then, what does it mean
that there's an AIM diffusion field
**[17:10] ---**
spread out across Academy City?
**[17:12] ---**
It's the power field naturally
generated by Academy City's espers.
**[17:18] ---**
So she's saying that there's
a special power that fills the city,
**[17:21] ---**
and that it's this girl that administers it.
**[17:24] ---**
By restricting her mind,
they're just twisting that special power
**[17:28] ---**
to create the "angel." In that case...
**[17:31] ---**
All we have to do is
untie the "knot" inside her head.
**[17:35] ---**
But to turn that idea into
a specific measure will take...
**[17:42] ---**
...a song.
**[17:44] ---**
It conveys things
better than simply words.
**[17:45] ---**
You filthy punk! I'll show you!
**[17:47] ---**
Using rhythm and tone,
we can communicate on multiple levels.
**[17:51] ---**
Hold on, you mean you can do
something in such an analog way?
**[17:54] ---**
Yes I can. A prayer will get through.
**[17:58] ---**
Our prayer is going to save them all.
**[18:01] ---**
This girl,
**[18:03] ---**
and Hyoka, and Academy City.
**[18:09] ---**
What's with you, you bastard?!
**[18:11] ---**
Suddenly starting to move on me!
**[18:43] ---**
Ki... hara...
**[18:51] ---**
Kihara!!
**[18:57] ---**
Ha, this should be good.
**[18:59] ---**
Yeah, of course. If you
were to go down as easily as that,
**[19:03] ---**
it wouldn't be any fun.
**[19:05] ---**
I'm glad you're being so
service-minded, Accelerator.
**[19:09] ---**
I've been pissed off at
you this whole time, as well.
**[19:13] ---**
I'm gonna flatten you good
with my fists before killing you!
**[19:22] ---**
That doesn't hurt me, kid!
**[19:26] ---**
All right, I've found my groove.
**[19:28] ---**
Ha-ha! I'm gonna make
this a little more interesting,
**[19:32] ---**
so show me a little more spunk!
**[19:56] ---**
What's happening?
**[19:57] ---**
What are those black
wings growing out of your back?
**[20:04] ---**
You bastard... Where
are you getting this strength?
**[20:08] ---**
You've acquired a new clearance...
**[20:10] ---**
What value did you enter
in for your Personal Reality?
**[20:15] ---**
Hey, don't tell me that power...
is of the angel variety!
**[20:22] ---**
Do you realize...
**[20:24] ---**
...what's behind you, you monster?
**[20:27] ---**
"Kill..."
**[20:27] ---**
Kill...
**[21:04] ---**
*Hitori de ii to tsubuyaita*
**[21:07] ---**
*to aru sekai no chuushin de*
**[21:10] ---**
*Tokei no hari wo orimagete*
**[21:12] ---**
*hitomi tojite'ta*
**[21:20] ---**
*Sugisatta toki wa modosenai kedo*
**[21:26] ---**
*ano hi oshiete kureta yo ne*
**[21:29] ---**
*sore de ii n' da to*
**[21:34] ---**
*Megurimeguru kisetsu ni kimi ga ita kiseki*
**[21:39] ---**
*kowarete'ta tokei sae ugokidasu kara*
**[21:45] ---**
*Ima wa sou muryoku na garakuta da kedo*
**[21:51] ---**
*fushigi da ne kaerareru sonna ki ga suru*
**[21:56] ---**
*Kimi no koe ga ima mo mada*
**[22:01] ---**
*koko ni aru kara*
**[22:19] ---**
What about Kazakiri?!
**[22:22] ---**
Kazakiri!
**[22:26] ---**
If I touch Kazakiri now, it might
obliterate the real Kazakiri, too.
**[22:42] ---**
Who are you?
**[22:43] ---**
Excuse me.
I have business with the girl here.
**[22:47] ---**
I asked you who you are!
**[22:49] ---**
Acqua of the Rear.
**[22:52] ---**
Like Vento, I am one
of the Right Seat of God.
**[22:57] ---**
Hmph, you need not worry.
This is all for today; I'm heading back.
**[23:02] ---**
Let Vento go!
**[23:04] ---**
Hmph, if I were to let Vento go now,
**[23:08] ---**
and she were captured
by the side of science,
**[23:10] ---**
she would undoubtedly be executed.
**[23:14] ---**
You can have that.
**[23:17] ---**
It is already destroyed by
your right hand. It is just junk now.
**[23:22] ---**
Vento can no longer use divine retribution.
**[23:24] ---**
The people she neutralized
should recover soon.
**[23:28] ---**
Rest easy now,
**[23:29] ---**
knowing that you have preserved
the tranquility of Academy City.
**[23:33] ---**
You think I'm just going to accept that?!
**[23:36] ---**
I'm going to let you in on one thing.
**[23:40] ---**
I am a saint. If you
rush in blindly to fight me,
**[23:44] ---**
you will shorten your life.
**[23:46] ---**
Hey, wait!
**[23:55] ---**
"Preview"
**[23:56] ---**
One battle ends.
**[23:57] ---**
But the footfalls of another,
unprecedented battle
**[24:00] ---**
can clearly be heard
closing in--those of a war.
**[24:03] ---**
Next time, "Prewar."
**[24:05] ---**
When science and magic
cross paths, the story begins.
# 47 - Prewar
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GRVNZK5PY/a-certain-magical-index)
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**[00:30] ---**
*I'm always running after you*
**[00:35] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[00:36] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[00:36] ---**
*You are my ideal*
**[00:39] ---**
*You are me*
**[00:42] ---**
*There was a bird that could
not fly any farther than this*
**[00:48] ---**
*It rebuked the blue skies
on fine, flawless wings*
**[00:54] ---**
*This place is not that bad*
**[00:57] ---**
*That sky is not that high*
**[00:59] ---**
*This place is not that good*
**[01:06] ---**
*Afraid of the speed
it would feel in its body*
**[01:12] ---**
*Everybody has a chance,*
**[01:14] ---**
*but they cannot go any farther*
**[01:17] ---**
*The truth is they
cannot take flight*
**[01:20] ---**
*The truth is they
want to take flight*
**[01:23] ---**
*Right now, beyond the wish
I want to make come true*
**[01:29] ---**
*you shine*
**[01:30] ---**
*In my eyes I picture you*
**[01:36] ---**
*"Standing in the future,
always strong,"*
**[01:39] ---**
*and that "you" is me*
**[01:42] ---**
*You are still blindingly bright*
**[01:48] ---**
*but in the same spirit,
I reach out my hand*
**[01:51] ---**
*and the "I" who I am will
someday grab hold to become*
**[01:55] ---**
*the you that I will be*
**[02:00] ---**
"#23 Prewar"
**[02:06] ---**
Kazakiri!
**[02:14] ---**
Kazakiri!
**[02:16] ---**
Kazakiri!
**[02:17] ---**
*We used to take the smiles we always shared for granted*
**[02:22] ---**
Are you coming around?
**[02:25] ---**
Thank goodness. Are you all right?
**[02:25] ---**
*as we walked together in the sunlight shining through the trees*
**[02:28] ---**
This... isn't right...
**[02:34] ---**
How did things end up like this?
**[02:37] ---**
*Just hearing the sound of the word "friends,"*
**[02:37] ---**
This is all because of me, and yet, why am I the only one unhurt?
**[02:42] ---**
If I can't stay with everyone else, then why was I even born?
**[02:45] ---**
*I thought you would be at my side forever*
**[02:49] ---**
Thanks to the power of the espers, I can finally exist as a freak,
**[02:52] ---**
*no matter what happened*
**[02:54] ---**
and now that that girl was nice enough to call me her friend,
**[02:56] ---**
*Because the feelings we always shared*
**[02:58] ---**
I thought I had become at least a little bit more human...
**[03:01] ---**
...but I can't take it anymore!
**[03:04] ---**
Please hit me, and put an end to all of this!
**[03:06] ---**
*are still alive here, I believe in you*
**[03:11] ---**
Why...
**[03:13] ---**
Why are you making that face?
**[03:15] ---**
Because I'm relieved.
**[03:19] ---**
I don't know why I have this power within my right hand.
**[03:19] ---**
*It's my desire to see you again that makes me stronger*
**[03:22] ---**
But if it means obliterating one of my friends,
**[03:27] ---**
I'd rather chop off my right hand right here.
**[03:29] ---**
*through whatever darkness or persistent rains that may come*
**[03:31] ---**
Why...?
**[03:34] ---**
You protected the others, right? You tried to keep everyone safe.
**[03:39] ---**
Is that any different from the person you picture yourself as?
**[03:39] ---**
*If my voice will be carried on*
**[03:43] ---**
Hold your head high, and look ahead.
**[03:44] ---**
*the wind and my prayer will get through*
**[03:46] ---**
After fighting like you did for the sake of complete strangers,
**[03:48] ---**
and managing to pull everyone through,
**[03:50] ---**
*then I'll pray until I am able to get you back*
**[03:52] ---**
there isn't a single reason to hang your head down.
**[03:58] ---**
I'm going to go check around to see if anyone needs any first aid.
**[04:02] ---**
After that, let's head home.
**[04:05] ---**
There's no telling when
you're going to vanish on us.
**[04:08] ---**
Before that happens, we need to
let you and Index meet up.
**[04:13] ---**
And don't go asking why.
**[04:16] ---**
It's because we're friends, of course.
**[04:19] ---**
A-Are you all right?!
**[04:21] ---**
That stuff from your back was
a lot like telesma, but what was it?
**[04:26] ---**
Hey! What ended
up happening over there?!
**[04:29] ---**
It looks like those huge
wings have disappeared, too.
**[04:31] ---**
If you need any help,
I'll head over there.
**[04:34] ---**
I'm going to go call a doctor.
**[04:35] ---**
Hey, hold on!
**[04:42] ---**
Accelerator, I would
like a word. Is that all right?
**[04:46] ---**
Huh?
**[04:47] ---**
Telepathy? And I have a small
amount of computing power back, too.
**[04:52] ---**
That's correct. I made arrangements
for several telepathic espers.
**[04:56] ---**
What do you want?
**[04:58] ---**
I would like to speak to you
about the series of disturbances you made,
**[05:00] ---**
as well as concerning the damage
that Academy City has suffered.
**[05:05] ---**
Are you going to slice me
to pieces for research material?
**[05:09] ---**
That is one path we could take.
**[05:12] ---**
But how would you like
to work together with us?
**[05:16] ---**
Is Academy City trying
to start a war or something?
**[05:19] ---**
I cannot answer that.
**[05:20] ---**
I see. Then there's
only one thing I can say.
**[05:25] ---**
Get bent.
**[05:27] ---**
This is a critical moment
for Academy City.
**[05:30] ---**
We want to try to oppose it,
and we want you to work with us.
**[05:35] ---**
Supposing that Academy City
is completely wiped out,
**[05:38] ---**
is there any other place for us espers?
**[05:41] ---**
And, just as with other skills...
**[05:43] ---**
Tch, just tell me one thing.
**[05:46] ---**
What is that?
**[05:47] ---**
The name of your current ringleader.
**[05:50] ---**
I'm taking the head of the person
who treated the kid like this.
**[05:54] ---**
It doesn't matter to me,
but he will just be a scapegoat.
**[05:58] ---**
You don't say.
**[06:00] ---**
So, what will it be?
**[06:04] ---**
Suit yourself.
**[06:06] ---**
A fine answer.
**[06:08] ---**
I look forward to
working with you, new guy.
**[06:16] ---**
Terra?
**[06:17] ---**
Yes, that's right. Terra of
the Left. Are you finished there?
**[06:21] ---**
Vento has had it.
I just recovered her,
**[06:25] ---**
and had the detached squad in
Academy City's outskirts stand down.
**[06:28] ---**
Good work.
**[06:30] ---**
What's our next move? If you like,
**[06:32] ---**
I've got no problem with
lopping off the target's head.
**[06:37] ---**
Let's not do that.
**[06:38] ---**
I think it's better to wait
until after we hear your full story,
**[06:41] ---**
then reconsider how we're
going to bring down Academy City.
**[06:45] ---**
How we'll bring down Academy City?
**[06:48] ---**
You don't like that idea?
**[06:50] ---**
Cheap tricks aren't my thing.
**[06:52] ---**
Defeating a foe head-on is
obviously the easier way to do it.
**[06:57] ---**
Do you think they
might still have some use?
**[07:00] ---**
Like, say, that fallen angel.
**[07:02] ---**
I do not approve of
plundering the battlefield.
**[07:05] ---**
Leave it to a knight to
say one thing and do another.
**[07:08] ---**
I'm no knight. I'm a
has-been mercenary miscreant.
**[07:13] ---**
Well, whatever, please
bring Vento back here at once.
**[07:17] ---**
Those are the instructions
from Fiamma of the Right.
**[07:22] ---**
Acknowledged.
**[07:24] ---**
Well then, I wonder if
Academy City really is as frail
**[07:27] ---**
as you think it is, Terra of the Left.
**[07:33] ---**
Good morning, Aleister.
There's something I have to say to you.
**[07:38] ---**
What is it?
**[07:40] ---**
I want you to stop treating my
patients as your toys.
**[07:44] ---**
Hmm... And if I don't, what will you do?
**[07:47] ---**
Those are my patients.
And I am their doctor. Do you follow me?
**[07:54] ---**
Having had your life saved by me once...
**[07:57] ---**
Do you regret doing that?
**[07:59] ---**
Is that a serious question?
**[08:02] ---**
I'm not going to stop.
I am already past that point.
**[08:08] ---**
This is goodbye, my kind, kind enemy.
**[08:16] ---**
Lunchtime!
**[08:17] ---**
Let's buy something, quick!
**[08:19] ---**
I'm getting a *yakisoba* sandwich!
**[08:23] ---**
Now see here! No running in the hallways!
**[08:28] ---**
Heh...
**[08:28] ---**
Mm-hmm.
**[08:30] ---**
This is an out-of-the-usual day.
**[08:32] ---**
It looks like you brought
something yummy today, too.
**[08:35] ---**
I'm not sharing anything for free.
If you want some, let's trade.
**[08:39] ---**
Himegami, I'm impressed at
how you can still fix a bento lunch
**[08:42] ---**
day in and day out.
**[08:44] ---**
Oh, your broth is
leaking into your rice zone.
**[08:50] ---**
H-Having the broth seep in
like this makes it surprisingly good.
**[08:56] ---**
Sour grapes?
**[08:59] ---**
No! And if you're going to
pull that face, try some taro root!
**[09:08] ---**
Hmm, I guess it's not bad.
**[09:15] ---**
A-Are you all right, Himegami?!
**[09:18] ---**
Huh? What? You want me to rub your back?
**[09:24] ---**
How's that, Himegami?
**[09:27] ---**
Okay, should I do it harder?
**[09:40] ---**
What are you up to?
**[09:42] ---**
Fukiyose...
**[09:46] ---**
Why do you always eat that
bland-looking bread, anyway?
**[09:50] ---**
Hey! It tastes just fine!
**[09:53] ---**
"Ability-boosting bread, with twelve
nutrients for energizing the brain."
**[10:01] ---**
Want some of my taro root?
**[10:05] ---**
Just so you know, I'm wearing
a front-hooking bra today.
**[10:10] ---**
Seriously?
**[10:12] ---**
Once the city's entrance
controls are tightened,
**[10:15] ---**
they said we might
not get any more field trips.
**[10:16] ---**
I wonder if this affects
the Ichihanaran Festival, too.
**[10:19] ---**
Oh, yeah, the Antiskill teachers
are working on the precautions,
**[10:23] ---**
so they say we may not
have to take any midterms.
**[10:25] ---**
Really?
**[10:26] ---**
A war, huh?
**[10:28] ---**
It's just too much,
you know? I mean, if a war starts,
**[10:33] ---**
the price of meats
and vegetables will go up, right?
**[10:36] ---**
Not to mention conventional oil.
**[10:42] ---**
Hey, Kamijo!
**[10:44] ---**
What are you being so quiet about?
**[10:47] ---**
O-Oh, nothing! I was just thinking,
**[10:49] ---**
best if we have some stew pot
or whatever now, while we still can.
**[10:52] ---**
Just so we won't regret
not having eaten it later on.
**[10:55] ---**
Y-Yeah, maybe...
**[10:58] ---**
Huh? Kami, are you
having a stew pot tonight?
**[11:01] ---**
Yeah! If it's *sukiyaki* you want,
I know this great, cheap place!
**[11:05] ---**
What's this? You guys
going someplace tonight?
**[11:07] ---**
We can't let you go hogging
this tasty restaurant all to yourselves.
**[11:10] ---**
Wait, why are we suddenly going out?
**[11:12] ---**
Warming up for the Ichihanaran Festival?
**[11:15] ---**
Majority rule! Majority rule!
**[11:16] ---**
Huh? When did the class decide
we were all going out for supper? Huh?
**[11:20] ---**
M-Miss Fukiyose?
**[11:22] ---**
Good grief!
**[11:28] ---**
Fukiyose with a deluxe forehead?!
**[11:31] ---**
"Tonight's stew pot"
**[11:31] ---**
Okay, I'll look after this for us, so everyone cast your vote!
**[11:37] ---**
Miss Tsukuyomi, I heard you
had taken in yet another runaway girl.
**[11:42] ---**
I've been kind of lonesome
since Himegami moved into the dorms.
**[11:46] ---**
but now that Musujime
is here, everything is fine.
**[11:50] ---**
The ones who were staying
with me just heartlessly moved out.
**[11:57] ---**
It's decided!
**[11:58] ---**
Tonight, it's decided that
we're all going out for *sukiyaki*!
**[12:02] ---**
I'm going to go bring things under control!
**[12:06] ---**
See here! What is all this commotion?!
**[12:09] ---**
Ah, Miss Komoe! Want to eat with us?
**[12:10] ---**
Nice. Always some nuttiness going on.
**[12:16] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[12:19] ---**
Okay then...
**[12:21] ---**
Let's eat!
**[12:34] ---**
We're getting more
**[12:36] ---**
"If war breaks out, Academy
City is not safe, so return my child"
**[12:40] ---**
requests from a lot of the parents.
**[12:43] ---**
Huh? So things have gotten that far?
**[12:46] ---**
Kamijo! What are you
beating that egg so slowly for?!
**[12:50] ---**
Huh?
**[12:51] ---**
Gah! I can't stand it anymore!
Let me have that!
**[12:54] ---**
Wah! What a control freak!
**[12:56] ---**
Kami...
**[12:58] ---**
From what I saw on the menu,
the prices still haven't changed yet.
**[13:02] ---**
Y-Yeah.
**[13:04] ---**
Here!
**[13:05] ---**
Oh, thank you.
**[13:07] ---**
But then, the price for them
to stock up could be increasing.
**[13:10] ---**
So you're saying,
eat up while we can, right? Yoink!
**[13:15] ---**
Ah! You're just taking all the meat!
**[13:17] ---**
Toma! I need more meat!
**[13:20] ---**
♪ Meat! Meat! Meat! Meat! Meat! ♪
**[13:20] ---**
Huh? I haven't eaten a single bite, and you've already...
**[13:30] ---**
War, huh?
**[13:33] ---**
I've got to do something.
**[13:35] ---**
Kami...
**[13:41] ---**
If you think the war that's about
to break out is all because of you,
**[13:45] ---**
you're way off.
**[13:48] ---**
All this time, you've been
protecting those around you.
**[13:52] ---**
I guess, maybe.
**[13:54] ---**
The war is happening because
those behind the scenes screwed up.
**[14:00] ---**
It's starting.
**[14:02] ---**
Yeah.
**[14:03] ---**
The scale of fighting
will change. From now on,
**[14:07] ---**
passing through each phase the
way we've done up to now will be hard.
**[14:11] ---**
Yeah, right. Or more like,
**[14:14] ---**
the fact that we've made it
through up to now is miraculous.
**[14:19] ---**
Everyone has been carrying me up to now.
**[14:22] ---**
I've left everything dealing
with a world I know nothing about
**[14:24] ---**
up to someone else.
But I can't do that anymore.
**[14:30] ---**
I'm going to have to step inside
a new world I've never seen before.
**[14:37] ---**
Tsuchimikado, I've made a decision.
**[14:41] ---**
Kami...
**[14:43] ---**
Yeah. I'm...
**[14:47] ---**
I'm going to start studying English!
**[14:50] ---**
I've tried up as high
as daily conversation level 3,
**[14:54] ---**
but English is just so hard, you know?
**[14:57] ---**
Why does his next phase have to be English?
**[15:00] ---**
Everyone else has been
using Japanese with me up to now,
**[15:03] ---**
but I can't let them
keep coddling me like this.
**[15:06] ---**
So, what it comes down to is...
**[15:14] ---**
W-What was that for...?
**[15:21] ---**
Drill number 42, begin.
**[15:27] ---**
Drill number 43, begin.
**[15:34] ---**
What do you want, Mr. Dress-up?
**[15:38] ---**
I was trying to cover up my
presence, in my own little way.
**[15:42] ---**
But it looks like
I still have much to learn.
**[15:46] ---**
Unabara Mitsuki, was it?
**[15:49] ---**
Yes, though both the name and face are fakes.
**[15:53] ---**
Have you settled on a weapon?
**[15:54] ---**
None of them feels quite right.
**[15:57] ---**
You can bring in guns from all over the world,
**[15:59] ---**
and I still may not find one.
**[16:01] ---**
What if you made a list of
gear you can use your ability with?
**[16:05] ---**
Stop trying to be such a know-it-all.
**[16:08] ---**
You can't rely on this thing.
**[16:10] ---**
According to GROUP's engineering report,
**[16:12] ---**
they have extended your
ability usage time to thirty minutes.
**[16:17] ---**
GROUP, huh?
**[16:19] ---**
You're dissatisfied with
their tuning on your electrode?
**[16:21] ---**
Ha! Whether it's thirty minutes or three days,
**[16:25] ---**
once some glitch comes up, it's all over.
**[16:27] ---**
If you can't fight because of
a malfunction, you don't survive.
**[16:33] ---**
Is that all you wanted?
**[16:35] ---**
GROUP has received a work
order from the governing board.
**[16:41] ---**
Academy City...
**[16:43] ---**
...is about to line up against
the Roman Orthodox Church.
**[16:46] ---**
As a result, the truth of the matter
**[16:48] ---**
is that the city's internal
defenses are thinning out.
**[16:51] ---**
We are going to mop up one
force who would take advantage of that.
**[16:57] ---**
I heard that I was going to
have to fill in for that bastard Kihara,
**[17:01] ---**
but I never imagined this kind
of two-bit job would come to me.
**[17:05] ---**
While it may fall on you, you *are
*the one who came here on your own.
**[17:11] ---**
Listen here, kid! Let me tell you one thing!
**[17:14] ---**
A human life is frail!
**[17:17] ---**
Frail enough that one touch
of my fingertip could destroy it!
**[17:21] ---**
So be a little more considerate.
**[17:23] ---**
Otherwise, I might break
something you don't want broken.
**[17:27] ---**
I will be more mindful.
**[17:30] ---**
May I continue now?
**[17:33] ---**
Suit yourself.
**[17:34] ---**
Your target will be Skill Out.
**[17:38] ---**
You may be more
familiar with them than I am.
**[17:40] ---**
Yeah. They're an armed gang
made up of a bunch of Level 0s.
**[17:45] ---**
Yes. They currently appear
to be putting together some toys.
**[17:49] ---**
Toys?
**[17:50] ---**
Rockets, made up of hollowed-out
wood packed with explosives.
**[17:54] ---**
Much like the *bo-hiya* fire arrows
tested during the Edo period.
**[17:58] ---**
They've been conducting operations
all over for the past few days.
**[18:03] ---**
Taking abandoned bikes and
placing them along emergency routes,
**[18:08] ---**
and blocking up sewage drains
around VIP facilities with garbage.
**[18:13] ---**
Not the kinds of things that
rise to the level of security problems.
**[18:17] ---**
What, does GROUP now take
contracts to deal with kids' pranks, too?
**[18:23] ---**
However, there have
now been over 20,000 incidents.
**[18:27] ---**
When there is an orange or red alert,
**[18:29] ---**
they will be detected as errors.
**[18:32] ---**
Is that what the fire arrows are for?
**[18:34] ---**
If the server goes down due
to a large number of error reports,
**[18:38] ---**
Skill Out can run wild without
Antiskill coming after them.
**[18:41] ---**
Well, they could always
cancel the alert, right?
**[18:44] ---**
If we weren't currently
in the middle of a war, maybe.
**[18:47] ---**
Nothing but enemies,
both within and without, huh?
**[18:51] ---**
Sounds like quite a few people
have a beef with Academy City.
**[18:56] ---**
It is our job to somehow
deal with such people.
**[19:00] ---**
Your target's name is Komaba Ritoku.
**[19:04] ---**
He is currently the leader
in charge of Skill Out,
**[19:07] ---**
as well as the brains.
**[19:09] ---**
Dispose of him quickly, and we
can nip Skill Out's plans in the bud.
**[19:22] ---**
Why a garbage truck?
**[19:24] ---**
They are all sorts of handy.
**[19:26] ---**
You can even use
it to dispose of the body.
**[19:28] ---**
A garbage truck trolling around
for the bodies of scumbags?
**[19:32] ---**
There's nothing funny about that.
**[19:39] ---**
He will return for recovery in
twenty minutes, as planned. Be careful.
**[19:47] ---**
Ugh, win or lose, I've still
gotta ride around in that thing?
**[19:52] ---**
Alive or dead being
a whole separate matter...
**[19:56] ---**
Little tricks for the security robots,
**[19:58] ---**
as well as to block the
observation satellites, huh?
**[20:03] ---**
There's that old familiar atmosphere.
**[20:09] ---**
Tsuchimikado?
**[20:11] ---**
I figured your first mission
would be starting soon.
**[20:13] ---**
I just wanted to have
a little word in your ear.
**[20:16] ---**
You're warning me, now?
So, what have you got for the new guy?
**[20:22] ---**
Do not trust us.
**[20:24] ---**
Huh?
**[20:26] ---**
We're all a bunch of guys
who would create a huge problem
**[20:30] ---**
just by having word
of our existence get out.
**[20:33] ---**
GROUP, which is made up of
nothing but hand-picked people like us
**[20:36] ---**
has no goals.
**[20:38] ---**
Are you trying to say that I'm
expecting some kind of reward?
**[20:42] ---**
I'm saying that if
you only follow the rules
**[20:44] ---**
established by the governing board,
you'll never outwit them.
**[20:49] ---**
As such, be sure to recognize
what it is you need to do to win.
**[20:54] ---**
You and I both have something
we want to keep safe, after all.
**[20:58] ---**
Is that all you wanted?
**[21:01] ---**
Finish up quick and get back.
**[21:03] ---**
Musujime will be starting
a job there pretty soon, as well.
**[21:07] ---**
Did you say a job?
**[21:13] ---**
I didn't hear anything
about this being a contest.
**[21:16] ---**
It's not a person she's after; it's money.
**[21:19] ---**
So you mean,
she's still good for something?
**[21:23] ---**
She's the same as you.
She's been upgraded.
**[21:26] ---**
Oh, she has? That's great.
**[21:30] ---**
Well then...
**[21:32] ---**
...why don't I get started?
**[21:38] ---**
Cleanup time.
**[21:39] ---**
I'll have this finished in ten minutes.
**[22:02] ---**
That makes nine places.
These guys just aren't tough enough.
**[22:08] ---**
I wish you would go
a little easier on us, esper.
**[22:14] ---**
Komaba Ritoku.
**[22:16] ---**
Oh, my...
**[22:18] ---**
It looks like I've run into the target first.
**[22:47] ---**
*At a certain world's center,*
**[22:50] ---**
*I whispered that it
was okay to be alone*
**[22:52] ---**
*I bent back the hands on the clock*
**[22:55] ---**
*and kept my eyes closed*
**[23:03] ---**
*You can't turn back time that has passed*
**[23:09] ---**
*but on that day, you showed me*
**[23:12] ---**
*that that's how it should be*
**[23:17] ---**
*The miracle of you being
there as the seasons roll around*
**[23:22] ---**
*makes even the
broken clock start up again*
**[23:28] ---**
*Right now, yeah, I may
be a helpless piece of junk*
**[23:34] ---**
*but it's funny how
I feel like I can change that*
**[23:39] ---**
*All because your voice is still here*
**[23:44] ---**
*for me, even now*
**[23:55] ---**
"Preview"
**[23:55] ---**
GROUP and the non-espers clash.
**[23:58] ---**
Misaka Misuzu is caught in
the middle of the chaos.
**[24:01] ---**
And Accelerator and I meet once again.
**[24:04] ---**
Next time, "Skill Out."
**[24:06] ---**
When science and
magic cross paths, the story begins.
# 48 - Skill Out (Armed Gang)
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GRVNZK5PY/a-certain-magical-index)
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**[00:31] ---**
I wish you would go a
little easier on us, esper.
**[00:36] ---**
Komaba Ritoku.
**[00:38] ---**
It looks like I've
run into the target first.
**[00:42] ---**
To think that you
would try to make off with funds
**[00:44] ---**
that we had distributed, all at once.
**[00:47] ---**
I find that to be somewhat childish.
**[00:50] ---**
I'm just making sure to hit
all of my targets for destruction.
**[00:54] ---**
The fact that it's your war
chest is none of my concern.
**[00:57] ---**
Move Point, huh? That's a pesky power.
**[01:01] ---**
Do you think "pesky" is enough to cover it?
**[01:04] ---**
Yeah. Maybe you're right.
It's more despicable than just "pesky."
**[01:09] ---**
I'll end this by driving
this right between your eyes!
**[01:15] ---**
You're too slow!
**[01:22] ---**
I can knuckle down, myself.
**[01:34] ---**
I *am* fighting a monster like you.
**[01:38] ---**
Letting me have this
much of a handicap is fair, right?
**[01:42] ---**
You can't hit me!
**[01:48] ---**
You've got some moves.
**[01:50] ---**
You must have some springy
hard taping under your clothes.
**[01:55] ---**
It's actually special
military sonic elastic taping.
**[01:59] ---**
It took quite some doing to acquire it.
**[02:01] ---**
You don't think you're going
to pay for using that defective stuff
**[02:04] ---**
on your own body like that?
**[02:06] ---**
It's how far I'm prepared to go.
**[02:09] ---**
Let's hurry and finish this.
**[02:14] ---**
I have a mountain of
things ahead of me to do, after all.
**[02:26] ---**
Too weak!
**[02:28] ---**
It will take more than a
thin film like that to stop me!
**[02:42] ---**
That was a letdown.
**[02:48] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[02:53] ---**
*I'm always running after you*
**[02:58] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[02:59] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[02:59] ---**
*You are my ideal*
**[03:02] ---**
*You are me*
**[03:05] ---**
*Kore ijou tooku made
tobenai tori ga ita*
**[03:11] ---**
*Kizu mo nai rippa na
hane de aozora wo najitta*
**[03:16] ---**
*Kono basho mo warukunai*
**[03:19] ---**
*Ano sora wa takakunai*
**[03:22] ---**
*Kono basho mo yoku wa nai*
**[03:29] ---**
*Karada de kanjiru sokudo wo osorete'ru*
**[03:34] ---**
*Dare ni demo chansu wa moteru*
**[03:37] ---**
*sono saki e yukenai*
**[03:40] ---**
*Hontou wa tobitatenai*
**[03:43] ---**
*Hontou wa tobitachitai*
**[03:46] ---**
*Ima kanaetai negai
no mukou de kagayaku*
**[03:52] ---**
*kimi ga iru*
**[03:53] ---**
*Hitomi ni utsusu*
**[03:59] ---**
*"Mirai ni tatte itsumo tsuyokute"*
**[04:02] ---**
*sonna kimi ga boku sa*
**[04:05] ---**
*Kimi wa mada mabushii kedo*
**[04:11] ---**
*onaji kimochi de kono te nobashite*
**[04:14] ---**
*itsuka tsukamu genjitsu no boku ga*
**[04:18] ---**
*kimi ni naru yo*
**[04:23] ---**
#24 Skill Out (Armed Gang)
**[04:25] ---**
Now then...
**[04:27] ---**
...it sounds like she's
met her quota, too. I'll tell you,
**[04:32] ---**
working overtime by yourself is--
**[04:33] ---**
In that case, why don't you take it off?
**[04:37] ---**
Huh?
**[04:38] ---**
Accelerator, huh?
**[04:40] ---**
You're Komaba Ritoku, right?
Let me ask you why you're doing this.
**[04:45] ---**
The reason Skill Out pounds
on espers is... not an interesting tale.
**[04:50] ---**
Ha! So not only are
you throwing the city into chaos,
**[04:53] ---**
you're doing it
indiscriminately, too?
**[04:55] ---**
Not indiscriminately.
We pick our targets, at least.
**[04:59] ---**
You seem pretty sure of yourself.
Are you aware of your situation?
**[05:05] ---**
I killed her.
**[05:08] ---**
You're different
from the stories I've heard.
**[05:11] ---**
Outcasts like you typically
don't hesitate at this point.
**[05:14] ---**
Is that right?
**[05:16] ---**
You know what? Scumbags
that stand in front of me
**[05:19] ---**
typically get turned into mincemeat.
**[05:22] ---**
That electrode of yours is a transmitter
**[05:24] ---**
for some kind of
electrical information, right?
**[05:37] ---**
What's this?
**[05:39] ---**
Chaff Seed.
A sort of EM disruption device.
**[05:49] ---**
You bastard!
**[05:54] ---**
I'll blow a crimson hole through you!
**[06:10] ---**
Checkmate.
**[06:13] ---**
I'll give you a final choice.
**[06:15] ---**
Where do you want
me to shoot you to kill you?
**[06:21] ---**
Is this how you plan on making
innocent people miserable in turn?
**[06:27] ---**
Screw that, you dirty bastard!
**[06:37] ---**
How... come...
**[06:40] ---**
How come your Reflection...
**[06:43] ---**
...has returned...?
**[06:45] ---**
What are you, an idiot?
**[06:47] ---**
The way chaff works is by having
metal foil scattered through the air
**[06:51] ---**
creating EM interference.
Which makes it simple.
**[06:55] ---**
You just have to get
the floating foil out of the way.
**[06:58] ---**
Like, say, by venting it.
**[07:03] ---**
Now then...
**[07:06] ---**
...why don't you show me the guts
it takes for a Level 0 to challenge
**[07:11] ---**
a Level 5 to a fight once again?
**[07:14] ---**
You're too slow!
**[07:22] ---**
"Checkmate," all right.
**[07:25] ---**
The fact that you're a
Level 0 doesn't make you evil.
**[07:29] ---**
The whole reason
they're all treated like nuisances
**[07:32] ---**
is because of you guys in
Skill Out gallivanting around.
**[07:36] ---**
Securing rights?
Guaranteeing safety? Ridiculous.
**[07:41] ---**
Haven't you realized
**[07:42] ---**
that these actions are putting
a noose around your necks?
**[07:47] ---**
You want to talk hypothetically?
**[07:50] ---**
The personality issues of a
person aren't taken into consideration
**[07:53] ---**
when it comes to the
merits of being an esper.
**[07:55] ---**
That includes some really
ugly examples of humanity
**[07:58] ---**
who wield tremendous power.
**[08:00] ---**
If a game where such guys
competed to attack Level 0s
**[08:04] ---**
who weren't in an organized
Skill Out group became popular,
**[08:08] ---**
what would you do?
**[08:10] ---**
Hmph, I knew the consequences
would be coming for me in time...
**[08:18] ---**
You bastard...
**[08:21] ---**
Apparently,
**[08:23] ---**
you and I are currently in
the same set of circumstances.
**[08:29] ---**
Here's a gift. Burn this
pathetic sight into your mind.
**[08:47] ---**
Good work.
**[08:49] ---**
We will see to carrying away the
body, and destroying the evidence.
**[08:54] ---**
I will send the garbage truck,
so please hop into it.
**[08:58] ---**
Nah.
**[08:59] ---**
I'll come back on my own.
**[09:01] ---**
It makes no difference to me, but please
avoid seeing anyone you know.
**[09:05] ---**
It's important that we remain--
**[09:08] ---**
I know you're alive, Musujime Awaki.
**[09:12] ---**
I started watching halfway through.
**[09:14] ---**
When did you notice me?
**[09:16] ---**
Ha, it was all too obvious.
A sorry stunt like that?
**[09:21] ---**
Heh, are you sure
you want to talk like that
**[09:24] ---**
to the person who saved your life?
**[09:26] ---**
The person who saved my life, huh?
Just go on telling yourself that.
**[09:29] ---**
Oh, are you headed somewhere?
**[09:32] ---**
Nowhere important.
Just some overtime.
**[09:36] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[09:37] ---**
Unpaid overtime.
**[09:42] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[09:46] ---**
Aww... that overtime
has kept me pretty late, huh?
**[09:52] ---**
I think I'll stop at a
convenience store for some coffee.
**[09:58] ---**
I-I feel awful...
**[10:06] ---**
Hmm? That face...
**[10:08] ---**
Seems like I've seen
it before somewhere.
**[10:16] ---**
What's her story?
**[10:19] ---**
Hi there!
I'm Ms. Misaka Misuzu... ugh...
**[10:26] ---**
H-Hey, you...
**[10:29] ---**
My hobbies are studying number theory,
**[10:31] ---**
my special talent is swimming,
and my bust measurement is 91 cm!
**[10:35] ---**
Oh, whoops. I'm married.
**[10:39] ---**
Come on, don't paw at me,
'cause Papa won't like it.
**[10:43] ---**
Huh? Where is Dangai University's
Database Center again?
**[10:48] ---**
Hey, white-hair, do you know?
**[10:50] ---**
Ah, don't ignore me, white-hair!
**[10:55] ---**
You see... that's where
Ms. Misuzu has to go study now.
**[11:04] ---**
How should I know, idiot?!
Try flagging down a taxi or something!
**[11:07] ---**
I kiss those younger than me,
whether they're boys or girls!
**[11:14] ---**
Would you stop saying
all this meaningless nonsense!
**[11:18] ---**
If I had to say, I think even
croquettes count as a stew pot dish.
**[11:23] ---**
I mean, you take breaded patties
**[11:25] ---**
and stick them in the oil in front of you.
**[11:27] ---**
You may be right about
them tasting best freshly cooked.
**[11:30] ---**
Ah! In that case,
when you cook in front of me, Toma,
**[11:31] ---**
We can't go until I close the door.
**[11:33] ---**
What did you say?
**[11:34] ---**
and I eat all of it, it tastes
better than anything, doesn't it?
**[11:38] ---**
Hey, I know you!
**[11:40] ---**
M-Ms. Misaka?
**[11:41] ---**
Ms. Misuzu doesn't need anything else.
**[11:46] ---**
Uh-oh, I haven't stretched out,
or put on my lotion.
**[11:50] ---**
Damn it, if I stop making an effort,
my skin shows it in no time.
**[11:54] ---**
Ugh, I'm gonna puke...
**[11:56] ---**
U-Um... Huh?
**[11:59] ---**
All right! Scored me a younger boy!
**[12:02] ---**
If you're wandering around at
this hour, what's become of Mikoto?
**[12:09] ---**
H-Help me, Index!
**[12:12] ---**
Come to think of it, who's that girl again?
**[12:15] ---**
Ha! I'm not going to give
my name to someone like you.
**[12:19] ---**
Why, you little...
**[12:22] ---**
Wah! It's Index! I'm Index!
**[12:25] ---**
Tell me, where is Dangai
University's Database Center?
**[12:29] ---**
Huh?
**[12:30] ---**
Word is that the material
I need to write my college report
**[12:33] ---**
is only located in Academy City,
**[12:35] ---**
so I had no choice but
to come all the way here.
**[12:39] ---**
Ah, I see.
**[12:40] ---**
Oh, I've got an idea! Let's swap
phone numbers and email addresses!
**[12:44] ---**
Too soon!
**[12:46] ---**
I'll record your number
under my "friends" category!
**[12:53] ---**
Misaka? Just a coincidence? No,
**[12:57] ---**
could she have something to do with the kid?
**[13:03] ---**
"Contact 3"
**[13:07] ---**
Accelerator? Did you need something?
**[13:10] ---**
Tch, they've tapped in, huh?
**[13:13] ---**
You're a tacky bastard.
Is this GROUP's superior?
**[13:17] ---**
Tell me what your question is.
**[13:19] ---**
It's nothing.
I'll do what I have to do myself.
**[13:23] ---**
What you have to do?
I don't know what to say.
**[13:27] ---**
I do have a matter I wanted
to discuss with you, though.
**[13:29] ---**
Huh?
**[13:30] ---**
This works out perfectly.
It just barely started.
**[13:33] ---**
What?
**[13:36] ---**
That woman, Ms. Misaka Misuzu,
**[13:38] ---**
submitted a request to use the
Dangai University Database Center,
**[13:43] ---**
so that's where the attack was made.
**[13:45] ---**
Attack?
**[13:46] ---**
Yes.
**[13:47] ---**
And who is this Misaka woman?
**[13:49] ---**
Ms. Misaka Misuzu is
the mother of Misaka Mikoto.
**[13:54] ---**
Are you familiar with
the term "retrieval campaign"?
**[13:57] ---**
It's where parents
are taking back their kids,
**[13:59] ---**
and moving them to another
area before the war starts.
**[14:02] ---**
If too many students leave Academy City,
**[14:05] ---**
it will create all sorts of problems.
**[14:07] ---**
Misaka Misuzu is now in something
**[14:10] ---**
of a representative position
among the parents.
**[14:12] ---**
So, it was decided to remove her.
**[14:15] ---**
Will you take part in this, Accelerator?
**[14:18] ---**
What did you say?
**[14:19] ---**
Skill Out has been
requested to carry this out,
**[14:23] ---**
but they lack finesse.
**[14:25] ---**
If I could ask for your assistance...
**[14:27] ---**
I'm afraid not.
**[14:29] ---**
My life belongs to me.
**[14:32] ---**
I've got nothing to
do with your ulterior motives.
**[14:35] ---**
I see. In that case,
please hurry home.
**[14:39] ---**
We will keep your
ability secure until you do.
**[14:43] ---**
Wha--? Did you tamper with my electrode?
**[14:46] ---**
Well then, I must be going.
Good night, Accelerator.
**[14:55] ---**
Misaka Misuzu, was it?
I'm sure my superior will grind his teeth
**[14:59] ---**
if I end up saving her, huh?
**[15:09] ---**
That bastard!
**[15:13] ---**
Tch, now's not the time.
**[15:16] ---**
Well now, time to go save her in the goriest,
**[15:20] ---**
most far-from-saving way that I can.
**[15:27] ---**
Damn it, who was it
that forgot the security key?!
**[15:30] ---**
Whatever, we're out of time!
Let's just find the woman.
**[15:35] ---**
What's going on here?
**[15:37] ---**
I know I dialed Antiskill.
**[15:42] ---**
"Mikoto"
**[15:48] ---**
They're probably Skill Out.
**[15:50] ---**
Skill Out?
**[15:50] ---**
They're like a gang,
made up of armed Level 0s.
**[15:54] ---**
Why would they be after me?
**[15:56] ---**
That I don't know.
**[15:58] ---**
Ms. Misaka,
have you called your daughter?
**[16:01] ---**
Huh?
**[16:02] ---**
She's one of only seven Level 5s
in Academy City. If she's still--
**[16:06] ---**
Hold on!
**[16:07] ---**
Keep Mikoto out of this!
If I drag her into my problems,
**[16:12] ---**
I'll never be able to face her again.
**[16:15] ---**
All right.
**[16:16] ---**
In that case, I'm coming.
**[16:18] ---**
Eh? I couldn't ask you to do that--
**[16:25] ---**
Hasn't anyone found the woman yet?
**[16:27] ---**
I asked if you've
found the woman yet, damn it!
**[16:32] ---**
Damn, Komaba, you bastard,
dying and getting off easy.
**[16:36] ---**
What are those of us
left behind supposed to do?
**[16:44] ---**
This is Hamazura. Target located.
We'll take care of her. You guys--
**[16:49] ---**
Why, you...!
**[16:51] ---**
Antiskill?
**[16:52] ---**
Hi, you scumbags!
**[16:54] ---**
I've got some day-tripper
presents to heaven for you guys.
**[16:58] ---**
It's such a great place, you may
not feel like coming back, though.
**[17:11] ---**
Five of them. And they all have guns.
**[17:17] ---**
This is bulletproof, right?
**[17:22] ---**
Huh?
**[17:24] ---**
What is she, stupid?!
**[17:28] ---**
Damn... If I can just dash
over to the bag with the gun in it
**[17:31] ---**
before those guys have a chance to regroup...
**[17:44] ---**
Hey!
**[17:44] ---**
You're kidding, right?!
**[17:47] ---**
Crazy dumbass!
**[17:55] ---**
Why, you...!
**[18:01] ---**
You bastard!
**[18:03] ---**
Ms. Misaka, we're getting out of here!
**[18:04] ---**
Ms. Misaka!
**[18:06] ---**
Hurry!
**[18:07] ---**
Damn it!
**[18:12] ---**
Interesting. You've got some nerve,
**[18:15] ---**
still carrying out your job, don't you?
**[18:18] ---**
This way!
**[18:23] ---**
Back door, huh? Whatever,
let's go someplace with a lot of people!
**[18:27] ---**
What is this?
**[18:29] ---**
Why would you pick now to come here?
**[18:31] ---**
Was the job itself a sham,
and we got set up?
**[18:34] ---**
Did you say job?
**[18:36] ---**
That bastard Komaba got killed,
**[18:38] ---**
and the only way to avoid their
back-alley suppression operation
**[18:42] ---**
was to ingratiate ourselves to them.
**[18:44] ---**
Damn it, they were planning
to abandon us from the start!
**[18:47] ---**
I'm just here because she called me.
**[18:53] ---**
You mean, it's like *that*?
**[18:55] ---**
The life of Hamazura Shiage is hereby over,
**[18:58] ---**
but I can't pass it off as being
caught up in some grand conspiracy,
**[19:02] ---**
or fallen victim to some miracle strategist?!
**[19:07] ---**
I can't take it! I won't
rest unless I get beaten to death!
**[19:11] ---**
Keep back!
**[19:17] ---**
Aw, but that means, if you
don't have anything to do with them,
**[19:23] ---**
then the job is still valid.
If I bring the target's body in...
**[19:30] ---**
Go ahead and say that again, you...!
**[19:42] ---**
Screw you. What the hell
do you take a person's life to be?!
**[19:45] ---**
What choice do I have?!
**[19:47] ---**
If we Level 0s don't do
this, we can't survive!
**[19:51] ---**
Don't group me in with you.
**[19:53] ---**
What?
**[19:54] ---**
Don't lump all of us Level 0s
in with bastards like you!
**[19:59] ---**
That's right. You never
once used any ability.
**[20:02] ---**
Academy City is full
of people who are Level 0.
**[20:06] ---**
They go to school normally,
make friends normally,
**[20:11] ---**
and live their lives normally.
**[20:13] ---**
You're the one who's making
Level 0s look most like fools, you know!
**[20:17] ---**
You're the same as me.
**[20:19] ---**
No I'm not. Sure, I might be a Level 0,
**[20:23] ---**
but I have no intention
of turning so negative
**[20:26] ---**
as to take joy in
dragging other people down.
**[20:28] ---**
Negative?
You're calling us negative?
**[20:31] ---**
Compared to those who have power,
but won't give anything to us,
**[20:35] ---**
those of us in Skill Out
are a hundred times better!
**[20:38] ---**
Well, have *you* extended a
hand to anyone asking for help?
**[20:44] ---**
If you had used as much energy
extending a hand to those in need
**[20:47] ---**
as you have fighting against espers,
**[20:50] ---**
you would have been accepted by
the people of Academy City!
**[20:55] ---**
Shut up! Our Level 0
leader, Komaba Ritoku,
**[20:59] ---**
lived that way, and he got killed!
**[21:02] ---**
He stuck out like a sore
thumb trying to protect the weak!
**[21:05] ---**
But he must have
had something that you don't!
**[21:09] ---**
That's why he stayed
and fought until the end, didn't he?
**[21:12] ---**
To protect his friends,
and not call them the weak!
**[21:15] ---**
Get real! You're just a
Level 0. You don't have any power!
**[21:22] ---**
Don't you look down on us!
**[21:24] ---**
The reason you've been looked
down on has nothing to do with power.
**[21:29] ---**
Figure out what to do about
that good-for-nothing illusion yourself,
**[21:33] ---**
you filthy bastard!
**[21:46] ---**
The truth of the matter is,
**[21:48] ---**
I came to take Mikoto back with me.
**[21:52] ---**
But I can rest easy now.
As long as there are boys like you guys
**[21:55] ---**
who are watching out for Mikoto,
then there's no problem at all.
**[21:59] ---**
"You... guys"?
**[22:08] ---**
Did our superior order you
to come here and punish me?
**[22:12] ---**
Don't be silly.
**[22:14] ---**
As far as Misaka Misuzu goes,
she appears to have lost her desire
**[22:18] ---**
to remove her
daughter from Academy City.
**[22:21] ---**
As such, her killing has been canceled.
**[22:22] ---**
Does our superior accept
such wishy-washy conclusions?
**[22:26] ---**
He probably will. Mainly because
dumb Unabara here worked so hard.
**[22:30] ---**
Oh, it just seems that the young
man has kept his promise to me
**[22:36] ---**
to protect the one I care for,
and the world around her.
**[22:41] ---**
I thought that I should
try a little harder, too.
**[22:44] ---**
I just got a little too uptight about it.
**[22:48] ---**
He keeps maintaining that tone,
and avoids any specific answers.
**[22:53] ---**
He probably made use
of some particularly ugly tricks.
**[22:55] ---**
In any case, good work on your
first assignment, overtime and all.
**[23:00] ---**
Damn it all.
**[23:02] ---**
If you only follow the rules,
you'll never outwit them.
**[23:07] ---**
That means you
can't use normal methods.
**[23:10] ---**
Apparently, you're considered
a fairly precious commodity upstairs.
**[23:15] ---**
Let's partner up, Accelerator.
**[23:17] ---**
Sounds interesting.
But if you guys slow me down,
**[23:20] ---**
I'll write you off
without a second thought.
**[23:22] ---**
Ha, you're a feisty kid. Come on.
**[23:26] ---**
It's about time we struck
back at the guys upstairs.
**[23:31] ---**
How fun. Having an objective really is fun.
**[23:43] ---**
What is this?
**[23:45] ---**
After I take the trouble to send a text...
**[23:48] ---**
...why don't I get an answer?
**[23:50] ---**
Work though we might, the mountain
of paperwork never goes away.
**[23:53] ---**
*Hitori de ii to tsubuyaita*
**[23:54] ---**
What else can we do? Everyone
else was knocked out.
**[23:56] ---**
*to aru sekai no chuushin de*
**[23:58] ---**
Please brace yourself for another
three days of this, easy.
**[23:59] ---**
*Tokei no hari wo orimagete*
**[24:02] ---**
*hitomi tojite'ta*
**[24:09] ---**
*Sugisatta toki wa modosenai kedo*
**[24:15] ---**
Oh, yeah?
**[24:15] ---**
*ano hi oshiete kureta yo ne*
**[24:16] ---**
A booth bunny at a
counteroffensive weapons show?
**[24:18] ---**
*sore de ii n' da to*
**[24:19] ---**
Yeah, but they're just doing
powered suits demonstrations.
**[24:23] ---**
*Megurimeguru kisetsu ni kimi ga ita kiseki*
**[24:23] ---**
So what you're saying is, you're
dressing up as a mascot.
**[24:26] ---**
Th-That might be overstating things.
**[24:29] ---**
*kowarete'ta tokei sae ugokidasu kara*
**[24:32] ---**
This pudding tastes amazing,
**[24:33] ---**
considering it's from a convenience store.
**[24:34] ---**
*Ima wa sou muryoku na garakuta da kedo*
**[24:36] ---**
If you eat sweets at night, you'll get fat.
**[24:40] ---**
*fushigi da ne kaerareru sonna ki ga suru*
**[24:43] ---**
"Where did he go?" Misaka Misaka asks.
**[24:46] ---**
*Kimi no koe ga ima mo mada*
**[24:48] ---**
He will be back, very soon.
**[24:50] ---**
*koko ni aru kara*
**[24:51] ---**
"Mm-hmm. Misaka can't wait to see him,"
**[24:54] ---**
says Misaka Misaka, nodding.
**[25:01] ---**
Good night.
**[25:08] ---**
Ah! Toma!
**[25:14] ---**
Geez! How can you go out again
by yourself, and get badly hurt?
**[25:18] ---**
Toma, your behavior
makes as little sense as ever!
**[25:22] ---**
Uh, yeah, well...
**[25:23] ---**
I was actually kind of lucky this time.
**[25:31] ---**
Then again...
**[25:33] ---**
...sure enough, this is just my luck!