1 - Academy City

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    Just my luck!\n
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    Hey, you! Hold up, you punk!\n
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    Freeze, you master of escape!\n
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    I, Kamijo Toma,\n
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    was living out what\nI could only believe as being\n
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    an adolescence filled with rotten luck.\n
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    "A Certain Magical Index"\n
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    *From the reason why I live here *
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    *to everything I encounter in this place, *
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    *though we may be worlds apart *
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    *wherever I am, my feelings won't budge *
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    *I'll turn my back to the pain *
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    *that stabs at my heart, and the sneering *
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    *of those lucky people who look on *
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    *My fate invites the inevitable suffering *
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    *My legs, starting to shake, remember...
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    ...with conviction *
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    *Protecting requires more than just dreams *
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    *and unreliable power *
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    *My hand now knows that, so I won't waver *
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    "#01 Academy City"\n
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    "#01 Academy City"\nYes, it was July 19th.\n
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    "#01 Academy City"\nUpon entering a restaurant,\n
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    \n--giddy that summer vacation began the next day,\n
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    --What do you say, sweetheart?\n--giddy that summer vacation began the next day,\n
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    --Wanna go somewhere with us for some fun?\n--giddy that summer vacation began the next day,\n
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    --Wanna go somewhere with us for some fun? --and ordering goya melon and escargot lasagna,
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    --It'll be a blast.\n--and ordering goya melon and escargot lasagna,\n
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    it happened.\n
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    Seeing a delinquent starting trouble with a girl,\n
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    and thinking that maybe I should\nstep in to help, my luck ran out.\n
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    So? Sounds good, right?\n
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    Excuse me...\n
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    You're bothering her, aren't you?\n
[03:02] ---
    --Ah, that's much better.\n
[03:04] ---
    --Yeah, sure is.\n--Ah, that's much better.\n
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    Who's this guy?\n
[03:09] ---
    You want something from us?\n
[03:12] ---
    Ah, geez... What is with this rotten luck?!\n
[03:27] ---
    Damn... They finally gave up, huh?\n
[03:30] ---
    Sheesh...\n
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    What are you doing?\n
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    Playing Mr. Goody-Goody\nby protecting those delinquents?\n
[03:37] ---
    Are you some dashing teacher?\n
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    So the reason they stopped coming after me...\n
[03:43] ---
    Mm-hmm. They were a pain,\nso I let them have it.\n
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    Sure enough...\n
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    Hey, you know what a railgun is?\n
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    Rail... gun...?\n
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    Also known as a\nsuper-electromagnetic gun.\n
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    By making use of\nFleming's kinetic momentum,\n
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    one is able to launch projectiles...\n
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    ...in a manner such as this!\n
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    Even a coin like that\nhas a fair amount of force\n
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    when launched at\nthree times the speed of sound.\n
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    You don't mean, you used\nthat to take care of that crowd?\n
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    Don't take me for an idiot.\n
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    I do at least know how to\ndeal with powerless Level 0s.\n
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    Yes.\n
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    It wasn't her that I was trying to save.\n
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    I was trying to save the\nfellows who were careless enough\n
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    to get too close to her.\n
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    I'm well aware that there are only seven\n
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    of you Level 5 espers here in Academy City.\n
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    You really should stop\ntalking down to other people.\n
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    For Pete's sake, that's something\nsomeone powerful would say.\n
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    Hey, now, I'm a Level 0, here!\n
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    So, if you're a Level 0,\n
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    how come you don't have a scratch on you?\n
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    What can I tell you?\n
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    Call it ill fortune, or running out of luck,\n
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    but this really isn't your lucky day.\n
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    "Kamijo"\n
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    Thanks to the power outage\nfrom last night's lightning,\n
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    a sweltering heat wave\nhad taken hold of my place.\n
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    So hot...\n
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    It also meant that everything in\nmy refrigerator had gone belly-up.\n
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    I tossed my emergency supply of yakisoba noodle cups into the sink,
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    crushing my cash card\nunderfoot as I looked for my wallet,\n
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    and took a call, telling me,\n
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    "Kamijo, you're an idiot, so\nyou've got remedial class."\n
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    Rotten luck.\n
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    All right, it's a nice day. \n
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    I think I'll hang out my futon;\nthat will change my mood.\n
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    As blue as the sky is... \n
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    ...my future is as dark as night.\n
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    Then again, I hope it\ndoesn't suddenly start raining.\n
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    Huh?\n
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    I've already hung it out?\n
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    Wait...\n
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    It's... a girl...? What is she doing here?\n
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    Those clothes-- she's a Sister?\n
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    She's a foreigner, isn't she?\n
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    I'm...\n
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    I'm so... hungry...\n
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    I'm so hungry.\n
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    Excuse me...\n
[07:35] ---
    I'm so hungry.\n
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    She speaks Japanese.\n
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    I told you, I'm hungry.\n
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    Um, by any chance, are you going\nto tell me, under the circumstances,\n
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    that you've fallen by the wayside here?\n
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    It's also known as curb-croaking.\n
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    Say,\n
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    I sure would be glad if you would\nfeed me until my tummy is full.\n
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    I'm going to see that\nshe finds herself better off\n
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    someplace far away from here.\n
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    If you don't mind something like this...\n
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    Thank you! I'll do just that!\n
[08:22] ---
    Delicious. This is really delicious.\n
[08:24] ---
    I-It is?\n
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    It's just a bowl of mock stir-fry\nthat I made from tossing together\n
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    the ingredients in the dead refrigerator.\n
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    I know what you did! You casually\nadded some sour seasonings\n
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    so as to reinvigorate me,\nas exhausted as I am, huh?\n
[08:38] ---
    Ew, it's sour?\n
[08:40] ---
    You don't have to force yourself to eat that.\n
[08:42] ---
    It's just unappetizing bachelor cooking.\n
[08:44] ---
    It's not unappetizing. \n
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    It's food that you valiantly prepared for me.\n
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    There's no way it could taste bad!\n
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    I won't drag you down to hell with me!\n
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    So tell me, why were\nyou out hanging on my veranda?\n
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    I fell. I was actually trying\nto leap from one roof to the next.\n
[09:19] ---
    Huh? This is an 8-story building.\n
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    I didn't have much choice.\nI was being pursued.\n
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    But never mind that,\nI should introduce myself, huh?\n
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    My name is Index.\n
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    Index?\n
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    That sounds for all the\nworld like an alias, you know?\n
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    What index?\nLike a table of contents?\n
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    It's actually from\n"Index Librorum Prohibitorum."\n
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    Oh, my magic name is "Dedicatus 545."\n
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    It means that a lamb\nwho has been consecrated\n
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    keeps the wisdom of the mighty.\n
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    So, Miss Index,\nwhy are you being chased?\n
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    I believe they are after the\n103,000 grimoires that I carry.\n
[09:57] ---
    Huh? Grimoires?\n
[09:59] ---
    Mm-hmm. The Book of Eibon. The Lemegeton. The Book of the Dead.
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    Those are some typical examples.\n
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    Whatever you've got\non you notwithstanding,\n
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    you look pretty empty-handed to me.\n
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    I am carrying them! 103,000 volumes!\n
[10:15] ---
    103,000 volumes? What, do you have\na key to some warehouse somewhere?\n
[10:20] ---
    Mm-mm.\n
[10:21] ---
    You're not going to\ntell me that they're books\n
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    that stupid people aren't able\nto see, or something, are you?\n
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    It's not just stupid people who can't see them.\n
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    There wouldn't be any point if you could see them.
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    So, who is it that's after you?\n
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    A sorcery society.\n
[10:35] ---
    Eh? Sorcery?\n
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    Huh? Did I use the wrong Japanese?\nI mean magic. A magic cabal.\n
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    Is this some new religion, or something?\n
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    You're not-so-subtly making fun of me, huh?\n
[10:48] ---
    You're not-so-subtly making fun of me, huh?!\n
[10:51] ---
    Sorry. This is too much.\n
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    I know about many different\nkinds of unusual powers, \n
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    but magic is too much.\n
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    Supernatural abilities aren't anything unusual\n
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    in this Academy City, here.\n
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    Anybody can develop them,\nusing the power of science.\n
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    It's odd that you believe\nin supernatural powers,\n
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    but not sorcery.\n
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    Well, what is sorcery?\nWhy don't you show me?\n
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    I can't use it,\nsince I don't have any magical power.\n
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    If you can't use it,\n
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    you don't know if there really is\nsuch a thing as sorcery, do you?!\n
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    There is!\n
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    There is such thing as sorcery.\n
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    Well, I was born with a\nstrange kind of power, myself.\n
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    A strange power?\n
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    When I touch something with my right hand,\n
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    be it electrical shocks,\nor railguns, or any unusual ability--\n
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    probably even divine\nmiracles, all get canceled out.\n
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    What's with that reaction?! \n
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    It's like you're listening\nto some shady pitchman!\n
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    I mean...\n
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    Someone who I doubt even believes in God\n
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    is telling me he can cancel out divine miracles...\n
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    It's revolting to be made fun\nof by a fake magical girl like you.\n
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    I am not a fake!\n
[12:08] ---
    Then show me something! \n
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    Once you see my right hand negate it,\n
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    you'll have no choice but to believe, huh?\n
[12:14] ---
    Okay, fine! I'll show you!\n
[12:17] ---
    Here! These clothes!\n
[12:19] ---
    These are a first-class protective barrier,\n
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    known as "The Walking Church."\n
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    Meaning what? \n
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    You keep laying these ridiculous\nspecialized terms on me,\n
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    and I don't know what they mean.\n
[12:34] ---
    In that case, seeing is believing!\n
[12:36] ---
    Try stabbing me in the\nstomach with this kitchen knife!\n
[12:38] ---
    W-What are you getting at?\n
[12:40] ---
    This is a church, in the shape of clothing,\n
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    with the minimum required\ncomponents needed to call it a church.\n
[12:46] ---
    You can thrust at me with\nthis knife, and it won't hurt me!\n
[12:51] ---
    Well, there's no way I'm dumb\nenough to say I'll take a stab at it.\n
[12:55] ---
    You keep taking me too lightly! \n
[12:56] ---
    This is an exact copy of the Shroud of Turin,\n
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    so its strength is absolute!\n
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    It wards off any attack, whether\nphysical or magical, absorbing them!\n
[13:07] ---
    Hmm, so I get it. \n
[13:09] ---
    You're saying that if it really\ndoes have supernatural powers, \n
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    then once I touch it with my right hand,\n
[13:13] ---
    it will be blown to smithereens, right?\n
[13:16] ---
    Mm-hmm, assuming your power is real.\n
[13:21] ---
    Okay, fine with me!\n
[13:23] ---
    You asked for it, \n
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    and now you're gonna get it!\n
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    Huh...?\n
[13:39] ---
    I don't see anything happening.\n
[13:50] ---
    What?\n
[13:51] ---
    N-Nothing...\n
[14:09] ---
    Geez, you bit me all over.\n
[14:13] ---
    What are you, a mosquito from a camping trip?\n
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    What happened earlier was my fault, so--\n
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    After something like that happened,\n
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    how can you speak to me like it was nothing?\n
[14:29] ---
    Well... I suppose I'm\nawfully embarrassed about it, too,\n
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    and I'm at a loss for words.\n
[14:34] ---
    You're making fun of me. Hmph!\n
[14:40] ---
    That habit...\n
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    If it reacted like that to my right hand,\n
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    then there's no doubt that she\nis involved with supernatural powers.\n
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    All done!\n
[14:55] ---
    What's up with the iron maiden?\n
[14:58] ---
    In Japanese, it's called a "mat of pins."\n
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    Oh, right, my remedial class!\n
[15:06] ---
    I have to go to school now.\nWhat are you going to do?\n
[15:10] ---
    If you want to stay here,\nI'll give you a key.\n
[15:13] ---
    That's okay. I'll leave.\n
[15:16] ---
    If I stay here for too long,\nthat bunch will come here.\n
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    And you don't want your\nplace to blow up, either, right?\n
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    H-Hey!\n
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    Hold on!\n
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    That right hand of yours...\n
[15:36] ---
    I think that it cancels out\ngood luck, the grace of God,\n
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    and everything else that goes along with it.\n
[15:42] ---
    Huh?\n
[15:42] ---
    Just by having that hand come in\ncontact with the air,\n
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    you're going to keep\nencountering bad luck.\n
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    "Bad Luck"\n
[15:50] ---
    Rotten luck...\n
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    If you want to know what's rotten,\n
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    your luck in being born with\nthat kind of power is what's rotten.\n
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    Do you...\n
[15:59] ---
    Do you have anywhere\nto go once you leave here?\n
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    If I stay, the enemy will come here, so...\n
[16:06] ---
    The enemy?\n
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    These clothes work by magic, you see.\n
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    There's a search being\ncarried out based on that.\n
[16:13] ---
    But it's okay. \n
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    As long as I make it to the church,\nthey'll give me sanctuary.\n
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    Just a second. How can\nI send you away, knowing that?\n
[16:22] ---
    Well then, will you accompany\nme into the depths of hell?\n
[16:29] ---
    Well, bye.\n
[16:34] ---
    If you have any more trouble,\nyou're welcome to come back here!\n
[16:36] ---
    Mm-hmm! When I get\nhungry again, I'll be back--\n
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    What are these?! Agathions?\n
[16:46] ---
    Oh, crap, my remedial class!\n
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    Academy City-- a city of schools,\n
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    "An ultraviolet advisory has\nbeen issued for these districts:"\n
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    packed with dozens of colleges,\nelementary, and middle schools.\n
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    It's as big as a third of Tokyo,\nwith a population of 2.3 million.\n
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    About 80% of us are\nstudents, most of us living here.\n
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    It's an unusual city,\nfeaturing those cleaning robots earlier\n
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    and other things roaming about.\n
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    Okay, it's time for remedial class to begin.\n
[17:19] ---
    I've gotten fired up\nand prepared a quiz for you,\n
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    so I'll hand that out right away.\n
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    If your grades come back poor,\n
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    we'll play the "see-through\ngame" as a punishment.\n
[17:31] ---
    Is the "see-through game" \n
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    the one where you wear\na blindfold and play poker?\n
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    With the nasty catch that you\nhave to win ten hands in a row \n
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    before you can leave.\n
[17:39] ---
    Good grief. The other day,\nwe were stuck here until morning.\n
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    "Quiz"\n
[17:45] ---
    "Quiz"\nKamijo, you don't have enough development points,\n
[17:48] ---
    "Quiz"\nso you'll be doing the "see-through game" in any case.\n
[17:51] ---
    Komoe is so sweet on you,\nKamijo, there's no helping her.\n
[17:55] ---
    Aogami, can't you sense any\nspite coming from her?\n
[17:59] ---
    For you to take a verbal\nlashing from a little girl like that...\n
[18:02] ---
    Kamijo, you're gonna score major EXP.\n
[18:04] ---
    You've got a Lolita complex and you're a masochist?
[18:06] ---
    You're beyond redemption.\n
[18:09] ---
    It's not that I go for lolis, it's that I go for lolis, too!
[18:14] ---
    Now, look...\n
[18:15] ---
    Okay, you there, if you say one more word,\n
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    and you'll get "Columbus' Egg."\n
[18:21] ---
    Okay then.\n
[18:26] ---
    Rotten luck.\n
[18:28] ---
    I wonder how she's doing.\n
[18:31] ---
    She forgot her hood at my place, and all.\n
[18:34] ---
    But what was all that about\n103,000 volumes of grimoires?\n
[18:39] ---
    Where were all of those?\n
[18:42] ---
    She said they were "right here," but...\n
[18:51] ---
    I'll bet she comes back\nfor her stuff before long.\n
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    Teacher!\n
[18:55] ---
    Kamijo is preoccupied with the\ngirls tennis club fluttering about.\n
[19:04] ---
    --You made her cry.\n--You made her cry.\n
[19:07] ---
    "Hostile stares"\n--You made her cry.\n
[19:12] ---
    It is now past curfew.\n
[19:15] ---
    All students,\nplease return home at once.\n
[19:18] ---
    --It is now well past curfew.\n
[19:20] ---
    --I ended up staying after this late?\n--It is now well past curfew.\n
[19:21] ---
    --I ended up staying after this late?\n--All students, please return home at once.\n
[19:23] ---
    --Lousy luck.\n--All students, please return home at once.\n
[19:24] ---
    Ah! There he is!\n
[19:26] ---
    I found you, and this time...!\n
[19:29] ---
    Hey! You there! You!\n
[19:33] ---
    Stop walking, will you?!\n
[19:35] ---
    Ah, it's the bug-zapper middle-schooler.\n
[19:38] ---
    Don't call me a bug-zapper!\n
[19:40] ---
    I have a proper name-- Misaka Mikoto!\n
[19:45] ---
    You've been calling me a\nzapper ever since we first met, huh?\n
[19:49] ---
    So, Zapper, you get remedial classes, too?\n
[19:53] ---
    You be quiet! Today's the day\nI reduce you to a twitching mass,\n
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    like a frog with an electrode in its leg,\n
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    so get your last words\nand affairs in order, you hear me?!\n
[20:01] ---
    --Nah.\n
[20:02] ---
    --What was that?!\n--Nah.\n
[20:11] ---
    Well? Did that flip the switch\nin that cowardly head of yours?\n
[20:14] ---
    You can't be serious! \n
[20:16] ---
    Thanks to all of that lightning\nyou unleashed yesterday, \n
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    all of the electrical appliances,\n
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    not to mention the contents\nof my fridge, have bit the dust!\n
[20:22] ---
    It's your own fault for pissing me off!\n
[20:24] ---
    I-I don't even know what set you off.\n
[20:27] ---
    I never so much as laid a finger on you!\n
[20:30] ---
    That's right. You haven't even hit me once.\n
[20:33] ---
    Which makes this a draw, for the both of us.\n
[20:36] ---
    Huh?\n
[20:37] ---
    Okay, fine, you win.\n
[20:39] ---
    Hey, you! Take this seriously!\n
[20:43] ---
    Oh, you want me to\ntake this seriously, do you?\n
[20:47] ---
    A fake sorceress in the morning,\nand a zappy esper in the evening.\n
[20:52] ---
    Sorceress?\n
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    Message... Message...\n
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    Aggressive EM discharge in\nviolation of the Radio Law detected.\n
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    System malfunction identified.\n
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    You dumbass!\nDon't zap anything around there!\n
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    You keep quiet! \n
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    Hurry up and get out of here!\n
[21:30] ---
    The cleaning robots? \n
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    Geez, what are they cleaning\nup out in front of my place?\n
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    What can I say? Just my luck.\n
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    Hey, Index, what are you doing out here?\n
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    You can't lie down here--\n
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    What is this?\n
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    Stay with me here, Index!\n
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    What happened?! Just who did this to you?!\n
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    Oh, it was us sorcerers. \n
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    *Hey, do you hear that? *
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    *You're wandering through memories *
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    *Hey, if you can live your lives *
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    *believing in your own hearts, *
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    *then even though *
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    *you may live in different worlds, *
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    *as long as you have something to preserve... *
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    *For whose sake is the helping hand that you extend? *
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    *The mana of thousands of lives released *
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    *Their motions and their gazes *
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    *are heart wrenching *
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    *I won't let go *
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    "Preview"\n
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    "Preview"\nStiyl Magnus. That's the name of that sorcerer bastard.\n
[23:58] ---
    \nStiyl Magnus. That's the name of that sorcerer bastard.\n
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    Take charge of Index?\nWho exactly are these guys?\n
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    Next time, "Innocentius."\n
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    When science and\nmagic cross paths, the story begins.\n