12 - Level 6 (Absolute Ability)

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    Misaka's sister died... or so I thought,\n
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    when one after another,\nmore of her sisters appeared.\n
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    Just how many sisters does she have?\n
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    That aside, "Sisters"? An experiment?\n
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    There's something outrageous\nhappening here in Academy City.\n
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    What's going on here, Zapper?\nDo you know anything about this?\n
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    "A Certain Magical Index"\n
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    *Koko ni ikiru sono wake mo *
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    *kono basho de deau subete mo *
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    *tatoe chigau sekai demo *
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    *doko ni ite mo kono omoi wa yuruganai *
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    *Mune wo chikuri to sasu itami *
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    *sore wo warau shiawase na monotachi e *
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    *se wo mukeyuku *
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    *Touzen no kurushimi wo unmei ga sasou *
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    *Furuedasu ashi ga oboete'ru *
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    *kakushin ni *
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    *Yume dake ja mamorenai *
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    *tayoranai chikara *
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    *Ima kono te ga shiru kara mayowanai *
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    "#12 Level 6 (Absolute Ability)"\n
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    What is ESP, you ask?\n
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    Mm-hmm.\n
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    To put it simply, it's Schrödinger's theory.\n
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    Schrödinger?\n
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    He was a professor of quantum mechanics,\n
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    who left us with the\nstory of Schrödinger's cat.\n
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    It's an interminably cruel story,\nso I'll rearrange it a bit.\n
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    I have a box here.\n
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    What do you think might be in here?\n
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    There's chocolate inside, of course.\n
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    After all, it's a chocolate box.\n
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    Ah, too bad. There are hard candies inside.\n
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    Huh? What gives?\n
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    It's done.\n
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    Okay, Sister, what do\nyou think might be in this box?\n
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    You yourself said there\nwere hard candies in it, right?\n
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    That's right. But there's\na possibility that I'm lying.\n
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    It's 50% chocolate, 50% hard candy.\n
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    We'll never know unless we open it and see.\n
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    There, go ahead.\n
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    Not really chock full of chocolate.\n
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    No pun intended.\n
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    Okay, Sister, what do\nyou think might be in this box?\n
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    I already saw that there was chocolate inside.\n
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    Indeed, regular people\nwould think it's chocolate, 100%,\n
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    after having just seen it.\n
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    But what if there was someone\nwho thought it was hard candy?\n
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    What if they believed in that possibility,\nand got that, instead?\n
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    People who can split off from normal reality\n
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    and obtain a reality just for\nthemselves, are who we call espers.\n
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    Why...?\n
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    Why did it turn out like this?\n
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    Excuse me.\n
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    Are you Misaka Mikoto?\n
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    There are a lot of people\nin the world who are suffering\n
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    because they are unable to\nfreely move their arms and legs.\n
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    What we call commands from the brain\n
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    are sent to the muscles through electrical signals.\n
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    If we had the power to control bioelectricity,\n
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    we might be able to\noffer them the light of salvation.\n
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    By making use of your ability,\nwe might be able to help save them all.\n
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    Hey, did you hear?\n
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    Word is that somewhere in Academy City,\nthey're making military clones.\n
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    That story about them\nusing a Level 5's DNA map, right?\n
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    You don't suppose it's\nthe one in our class, do you?\n
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    Well, phooey on you.\n
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    Help...\n
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    Help us...\n
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    A cat?\n
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    Hey...\n
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    What are you doing?\n
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    It's up to me what\nI do and where I do it, right?\n
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    I am the Level 5 Railgun. \n
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    Any punk who comes around,\nfor the sake of a little night life,\n
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    is no danger to me.\n
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    And you don't have any\nbusiness asking me in the first place.\n
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    Cut it out.\n
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    Cut what out?\nIf you're looking to get Mikoto,\n
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    the girl who kicked the\nvending machine and got some drinks,\n
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    --in trouble for a little night stroll--\n
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    --"As a result of using Tree Diagram calculations...\n--in trouble for a little night stroll--\n
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    128 different types of\nbattlefields will be prepared,\n
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    and by killing Railgun 128 times,\n
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    it is ascertained that\nAccelerator will progress to Level 6.\n
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    Since 128 Railguns cannot be prepared,\n
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    and as a result of recalculations\nfocusing on the mass production\n
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    of the Level 5 "Sisters,"\nplanned for the same period, \n
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    by preparing 20,000 battlefields,\nand killing 20,000 Sisters,\n
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    it is understood that the same\nresults can be obtained."\n
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    In other words, \n
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    your younger sisters were\ncreated in order to be killed \n
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    in an experiment to produce a Level 6, right?\n
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    Aww, why would you go and do such a thing?\n
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    If you're holding that, \n
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    it means that you went into\nmy room without my say-so, right?\n
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    Ordinarily, you'd die for that.\n
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    So, having seen that,\nare you ultimately concerned for me?\n
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    Or did you think it was inexcusable?\n
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    I was concerned, of course.\n
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    Well, I'd rather there was\nsomeone who says so, even if it's not true.\n
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    I'm telling the truth.\n
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    What?\n
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    I said I'm telling the truth!\n
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    I apologize for going into\nyour room without your permission.\n
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    You can zap me with all\nthe electricity you want later.\n
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    So, what are you doing?\n
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    I doubt you obtained this\nby legitimate means, either.\n
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    What are these marks over\nwhere these laboratories are?\n
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    Those almost look like... \n
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    ...kill marks, don't they?\n
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    And you'd be right about that.\n
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    But to be perfectly honest,\nI didn't use my railgun on them.\n
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    A laboratory costs hundreds\nof millions to equip, right?\n
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    I can blow the crap out of\nthem over the net with my powers.\n
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    As a result, the laboratory shuts down,\nand the project gets tied up.\n
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    At least, that's what\nwas supposed to happen.\n
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    Supposed to?\n
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    But no matter how much I wreck, \n
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    the experiment is immediately\npicked up by some other laboratory.\n
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    The scholars must be salivating\nto create an unprecedented Level 6.\n
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    As for the others, they call\nthemselves laboratory animals.\n
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    They understand precisely\nwhat that means for them.\n
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    Human cloning is against\ninternational law, right?\n
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    If you expose it,\nthen even the governing board...\n
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    This city is under the watchful\neye of the Tree Diagram satellite.\n
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    That means that they have\nthe governing board's tacit approval.\n
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    This is a problem that I brought about myself.\n
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    So I should be the one to help them out of this.\n
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    It's pretty simple,\nwhen you think about it, huh?\n
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    This experiment is all\nabout making Accelerator stronger.\n
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    If Accelerator, the experiment's mainstay,\n
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    were to disappear,\nit would disintegrate in midair.\n
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    That's not true.\n
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    You can't defeat Accelerator.\n
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    If you could, you would have done it first thing.\n
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    Which means that even though\nyou might want to, you can't, right?\n
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    You're no match for Accelerator,\nright out of the gate.\n
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    Why didn't you ask for help?\n
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    Once you knew you couldn't solve this yourself,\n
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    you could have gone\nto others seeking help, right?\n
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    Why did they prepare 20,000 Sisters?\n
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    Because they couldn't prepare 128 Railguns.\n
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    And why did they need 128 Railguns?\n
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    Because by killing 128 Railguns,\nAccelerator will advance to Level 6.\n
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    What if...\n
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    ...I wasn't even worth that much?\n
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    Kill me 128 times,\nand he still doesn't reach Level 6?\n
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    What if the researchers\nwere able to be convinced of that?\n
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    In fact, Tree Diagram worked\nout that if Accelerator and I fight,\n
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    I would end up dying in 185 moves.\n
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    But what if I were unceremoniously\nbeaten in the first move?\n
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    I'm sure the researchers who\nsaw that would think,\n
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    there's some mistake in\nwhat the machine is doing, all right.\n
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    But even if you manage to fool them once,\n
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    after some recalculations, the experiment\nwould be restarted, wouldn't it?\n
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    Not so. Tree Diagram, you see, \n
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    was actually attacked from the\nground and shot down a few weeks ago.\n
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    The cause is apparently unknown.\n
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    That's why they can't recompute it.\n
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    Regardless of how much data they had,\nunless they could analyze it,\n
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    there'd be no choice but\nto stop the whole experiment.\n
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    I get it. You...\n
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    ...want to die, huh?\n
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    Yeah.\n
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    You seriously believe that by your death,\n
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    the remaining 10,000 Sisters will be saved?\n
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    That's right.\n
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    I'm on my way to go see Accelerator.\n
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    I'm going to barge in, and bring\nthe whole experiment to an end.\n
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    --Stand aside.\n
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    --I'm not moving.\n--Stand aside.\n
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    Do you realize what you're saying?\n
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    Those 10,000 Sisters are\ngoing to be killed unless I die!\n
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    Don't tell me you think\nthat just because they're clones,\n
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    it's okay for them to die, do you?!\n
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    No, I don't think it's okay for them to die.\n
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    It doesn't mean that\nthere's some other way, either.\n
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    Even so, I won't have it.\n
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    I see.\n
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    Then you mean to stop me, right?\n
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    The lives of those\n10,000 Sisters don't matter, right?\n
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    I can't bear to watch them get hurt.\n
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    That's why I'm going to save them myself.\n
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    This is my last warning. Get out of my way!\n
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    I'm still not sure what\nkind of power you've got,\n
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    but I can't afford to be beaten by you today!\n
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    So you'd better clench your\nfist like your life depends on it!\n
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    Otherwise...\n
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    ...you really will die!\n
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    Hey, what are you doing?\n
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    Are you saying you're\ngoing to stop me by force?\n
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    Fine, then.\nIn that case, I won't hold back, either.\n
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    I'm going to shoot through you,\neven if you are passive about it!\n
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    I won't fight you.\n
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    I won't... fight you.\n
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    What are you, dense? I don't have\nany other route besides this one!\n
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    This is not the daily\nlife that you're familiar with.\n
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    It's the hell you don't see every day,\n
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    where over 10,000 people are easily killed.\n
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    There's no way your wait-and-see views,\n
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    like refusing to fight, apply, you know!\n
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    Even so...\n
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    Even so, I don't want to fight you.\n
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    And I'm telling you to fight...\n
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    And I'm telling you...\n
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    ...to fight!\n
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    Next time, I really will blast through you.\n
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    If you plan on fighting me, clench your fists.\n
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    If you don't plan to fight me,\nthen stop standing in my way!\n
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    But don't go trampling\non my wishes half-heartedly!\n
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    Ah, man...\n
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    W-Why...?\n
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    Why... won't you fight?\n
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    I don't... know...\n
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    I don't know the reason...\nwhy I don't want to fight.\n
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    I don't know if there are\nany other bright ideas, either.\n
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    But... I won't have this.\n
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    I don't want to see you... getting hurt.\n
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    Why should you have to die?\n
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    Why does anyone have to be killed?\n
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    There's no way you can convince me of that!\n
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    Help...\n
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    Help me...\n
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    Shut up.\n
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    I don't have any right to have\nanyone tell me that. Not now.\n
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    Supposing there is some happy world,\n
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    that everyone wants,\nand where everyone is smiling,\n
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    I wouldn't have any place in it!\n
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    You must have realized it, right?\n
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    That nobody can be saved by doing this!\n
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    Even if you were to die,\nand the 10,000 Sisters' lives are spared,\n
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    if they are spared like that,\ndo you think they would be grateful?\n
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    Shut up.\n
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    Shut up and fight me, already. \n
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    I'm not the saint that you take me for!\n
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    I've already killed more than 10,000 people.\n
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    There's no reason to let a criminal like that live.\n
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    Not in this world.\n
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    Just why are you\nsticking up for a criminal like that?\n
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    You're not a criminal.\n
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    I mean, why am I still alive?\n
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    After taking that much current, \n
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    there's no way a normal\nperson would still be alive, right?\n
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    Are you sure you weren't\nunconsciously holding back?\n
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    Holding back?\n
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    I couldn't have been. I was trying to kill you.\n
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    I knew that you were going\nto stay passive, but even so...\n
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    But even so, you couldn't kill me.\n
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    Maybe for you,\nsaving your sisters with your own life\n
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    might have been your supreme dream,\n
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    but ultimately, you were a good enough person\nthat you couldn't even kill the one man\n
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    who would take that dream away, weren't you?\n
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    The only way to save\nthose girls now is for me to die!\n
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    That's good enough, isn't it?!\n
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    If my death means everyone else will be spared,\n
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    then that's a wonderful thing, isn't it?!\n
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    If you think so, too, then step aside!\n
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    I'm not moving.\n
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    Then you'll die.\n
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    If you take this next attack head-on,\n
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    you definitely won't live through it.\n
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    So, unless you want to die, stand aside!\n
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    I'm not moving.\n
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    Stop it.\n
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    Just stop, already.\n
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    Just stop it, already.\n
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    *Nee kikoeru? *
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    *Kioku wo samayotte'ru *
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    *Nee kokoro wo *
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    *shinjite ikite yukereba *
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    *Ikiru sekai ga *
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    *tatoe chigatta to shite mo *
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    *mamoritai mono ga aru nara... *
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    *Sashidashita chikara wa dare no tame ni? *
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    *Tokihanatsu ikusen no mana *
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    *Sono shigusa ga sono manazashi ga *
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    *kokoro wo shimetsukeru *
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    *Tebanasanai *
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    She said she had no choice but to die.\n
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    Not that she wanted to die,\nor that she should die,\n
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    that she had no choice but to die.\n
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    Is there no other option for her?\n
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    Think. A new... A new option...\n
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    The great scholars \n
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    must be salivating to\ncreate an unprecedented Level 6.\n
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    To stop the experiment,\nwe have to make them think\n
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    that the experiment won't return\nanything of value in the first place.\n
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    Huh...?\n
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    "Preview"\n
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    "Preview"\nSeeking for the faintest miracle,\n
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    "Preview"\nMisaka's sister heads to the testing grounds.\n
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    \nMisaka's sister heads to the testing grounds.\n
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    What is the power of the\nmightiest Level 5 in Academy City,\n
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    which awaits her there?\n
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    Next time, "Accelerator."\n
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    When science and magic cross\npaths, the story begins.\n