# 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
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--Ah, that's much better.\n
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--Yeah, sure is.\n--Ah, that's much better.\n
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Who's this guy?\n
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You want something from us?\n
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Ah, geez... What is with this rotten luck?!\n
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Damn... They finally gave up, huh?\n
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Sheesh...\n
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What are you doing?\n
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Playing Mr. Goody-Goody\nby protecting those delinquents?\n
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Are you some dashing teacher?\n
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So the reason they stopped coming after me...\n
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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
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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
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Delicious. This is really delicious.\n
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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
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Ew, it's sour?\n
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You don't have to force yourself to eat that.\n
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It's just unappetizing bachelor cooking.\n
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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
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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
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Huh? Grimoires?\n
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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
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103,000 volumes? What, do you have\na key to some warehouse somewhere?\n
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Mm-mm.\n
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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
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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
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You're not-so-subtly making fun of me, huh?!\n
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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
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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
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Okay, fine! I'll show you!\n
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Here! These clothes!\n
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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
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In that case, seeing is believing!\n
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Try stabbing me in the\nstomach with this kitchen knife!\n
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W-What are you getting at?\n
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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
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You can thrust at me with\nthis knife, and it won't hurt me!\n
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Well, there's no way I'm dumb\nenough to say I'll take a stab at it.\n
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You keep taking me too lightly! \n
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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
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Hmm, so I get it. \n
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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
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it will be blown to smithereens, right?\n
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Mm-hmm, assuming your power is real.\n
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Okay, fine with me!\n
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You asked for it, \n
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and now you're gonna get it!\n
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Huh...?\n
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I don't see anything happening.\n
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What?\n
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N-Nothing...\n
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Geez, you bit me all over.\n
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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
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Well... I suppose I'm\nawfully embarrassed about it, too,\n
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and I'm at a loss for words.\n
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You're making fun of me. Hmph!\n
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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
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What's up with the iron maiden?\n
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In Japanese, it's called a "mat of pins."\n
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Oh, right, my remedial class!\n
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I have to go to school now.\nWhat are you going to do?\n
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If you want to stay here,\nI'll give you a key.\n
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That's okay. I'll leave.\n
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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
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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
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Huh?\n
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Well then, will you accompany\nme into the depths of hell?\n
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Well, bye.\n
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If you have any more trouble,\nyou're welcome to come back here!\n
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Mm-hmm! When I get\nhungry again, I'll be back--\n
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What are these?! Agathions?\n
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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
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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
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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
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Good grief. The other day,\nwe were stuck here until morning.\n
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"Quiz"\n
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"Quiz"\nKamijo, you don't have enough development points,\n
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"Quiz"\nso you'll be doing the "see-through game" in any case.\n
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Komoe is so sweet on you,\nKamijo, there's no helping her.\n
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Aogami, can't you sense any\nspite coming from her?\n
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For you to take a verbal\nlashing from a little girl like that...\n
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Kamijo, you're gonna score major EXP.\n
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You've got a Lolita complex *and* you're a masochist?
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You're beyond redemption.\n
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It's not that I go for lolis, it's that I go for lolis, *too*!
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Now, look...\n
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Okay, you there, if you say one more word,\n
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and you'll get "Columbus' Egg."\n
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Okay then.\n
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Rotten luck.\n
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I wonder how she's doing.\n
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She forgot her hood at my place, and all.\n
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But what was all that about\n103,000 volumes of grimoires?\n
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Where were all of those?\n
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She said they were "right here," but...\n
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I'll bet she comes back\nfor her stuff before long.\n
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Teacher!\n
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Kamijo is preoccupied with the\ngirls tennis club fluttering about.\n
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--You made her cry.\n--You made her cry.\n
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"Hostile stares"\n--You made her cry.\n
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It is now past curfew.\n
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All students,\nplease return home at once.\n
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--It is now well past curfew.\n
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--I ended up staying after this late?\n--It is now well past curfew.\n
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--I ended up staying after this late?\n--All students, please return home at once.\n
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--Lousy luck.\n--All students, please return home at once.\n
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Ah! There he is!\n
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I found you, and this time...!\n
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Hey! You there! You!\n
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Stop walking, will you?!\n
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Ah, it's the bug-zapper middle-schooler.\n
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Don't call me a bug-zapper!\n
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I have a proper name-- Misaka Mikoto!\n
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You've been calling me a\nzapper ever since we first met, huh?\n
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So, Zapper, you get remedial classes, too?\n
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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
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--Nah.\n
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--What was that?!\n--Nah.\n
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Well? Did that flip the switch\nin that cowardly head of yours?\n
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You can't be serious! \n
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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
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It's your own fault for pissing me off!\n
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I-I don't even know what set you off.\n
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I never so much as laid a finger on you!\n
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That's right. You haven't even hit me once.\n
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Which makes this a draw, for the both of us.\n
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Huh?\n
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Okay, fine, you win.\n
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Hey, you! Take this seriously!\n
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Oh, you want me to\ntake this seriously, do you?\n
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A fake sorceress in the morning,\nand a zappy esper in the evening.\n
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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
**[21:08] ---**
You keep quiet! \n
**[21:09] ---**
Hurry up and get out of here!\n
**[21:30] ---**
The cleaning robots? \n
**[21:33] ---**
Geez, what are they cleaning\nup out in front of my place?\n
**[21:45] ---**
What can I say? Just my luck.\n
**[21:48] ---**
Hey, Index, what are you doing out here?\n
**[21:52] ---**
You can't lie down here--\n
**[21:56] ---**
What is this?\n
**[22:01] ---**
Stay with me here, Index!\n
**[22:04] ---**
What happened?! Just who did this to you?!\n
**[22:16] ---**
Oh, it was us sorcerers. \n
**[22:37] ---**
*Hey, do you hear that? *
**[22:40] ---**
*You're wandering through memories *
**[22:43] ---**
*Hey, if you can live your lives *
**[22:46] ---**
*believing in your own hearts, *
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*then even though *
**[22:53] ---**
*you may live in different worlds, *
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*as long as you have something to preserve... *
**[23:05] ---**
*For whose sake is the helping hand that you extend? *
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*The mana of thousands of lives released *
**[23:17] ---**
*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
**[23:59] ---**
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