13 - Accelerator (One Way)
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I wanted to help her. Not fight, just help her.\n
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That's all there was to it.\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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"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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"#13 Accelerator (One Way)"\n
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Utilization terrain at absolute\ncoordinates X-228561, Y-568714.\n
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Commencement time at exactly\n8:30 p.m. Japan Standard time.\n
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Test subject No. 10032.\n
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Application: How to cope in\ncombat when reflection is inapplicable.\n
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Who are you?\n
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What are you doing?\n
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"I don't know.\n
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I cannot comprehend it," replies Misaka,\n
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skeptical about the young man's state of mind.\n
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So then, why did that\nyoung man's face come to mind?\n
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RSPK Syndrome,\nor in layman's terms, poltergeisting,\n
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is something that "children who\ncan no longer correctly view reality"\n
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bring about due to emotional\ntrauma or excessive stress.\n
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In the experiments we\nuse to develop one's abilities,\n
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there are various other methods we use\n
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to separate one from ordinary reality.\n
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"Espers" who have been\nseparated from conventional reality\n
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obtain a "reality unto themselves,"\n
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which is different from ours.\n
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As a result, they are able to obtain a "power,"\n
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and by using principles\ndifferent from the rest of us,\n
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they can warp their own micro-world,\n
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destroying things without touching them,\n
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predicting a year into the future\nby just closing their eyes, and so on.\n
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The ability development that\nis carried out in Academy City\n
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is meant to artificially create\nthat "reality unto themselves."\n
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Put simply, we use drugs or suggestions\n
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to help bring about a certain\nsort of change inside the brain.\n
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So, by assimilating a certain curriculum,\n
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anyone can be certain to\nachieve an awakening. Nonetheless...\n
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...there are some people\nwho don't have that awakening.\n
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Like Kamijo Toma.\n
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Well, in fact, it's the types like Kamijo\nthat are more significant.\n
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Oh, you know about Toma's power?\n
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Oh, Kamijo has been a\nnaughty boy ever since he enrolled.\n
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We've been through a lot. An awful lot.\n
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Again?\n
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That jerk.\n
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The fact that Level 0s exist means that\n
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there are still principles\nthat are not fully explained.\n
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Those may in fact be the\nkey that leads us to SYSTEM.\n
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Meaning, "One who arrives at\nthe celestial will without being divine."\n
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We humans do not\nunderstand all of the world's truth.\n
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It would be simpler if someone\nwith a status beyond human appeared,\n
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who naturally would be\nable to fathom God's answers.\n
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God's answers, huh?\n
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My... hand...?\n
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Did I pass out?\n
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Did something happen?\n
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Ah... right.\n
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What are you doing?\n
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Getting worn as ragged as you are,\nand falling onto the filthy ground...\n
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Your heart may have even stopped there.\n
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How? How can you smile like that?\n
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I've got it.\n
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I've got the way that\nwe can stop the experiment.\n
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When you think about it,\nit's simple, you know?\n
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Tree Diagram, of course, \n
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programmed the experiment\nwith the presupposition\n
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that Accelerator is the strongest\nman in Academy City, right?\n
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Yeah, what if, say, Accelerator,\n
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who is proclaimed to\nbe the mightiest around,\n
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is easily defeated in some two-bit dustup?\n
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No one is going to continue an experiment\n
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when the prerequisite conditions fall apart, right?\n
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So then, all we have to do is\nconvince the researchers of this:\n
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Accelerator is actually incredibly weak.\n
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That's not going to be possible.\n
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I only came face-to-face\nwith that Accelerator guy once,\n
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but I can tell.\n
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A fight with him will not be\na contest of winning or losing.\n
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To him, fighting is just dishing out\n
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a one-sided slaughter of his opponent.\n
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Besides, I'm a Level 5, just like he is.\n
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Even if, by some miracle, I win,\n
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the researchers will write it\noff as within the margin of error.\n
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They won't go thinking that\nAccelerator is actually weaker.\n
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In that case,\n
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I could fight him, right?\n
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What if Academy City's mightiest Level 5...\n
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...were to easily be beaten by\nAcademy City's weakest Level 0?\n
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What are you doing?\n
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That's impossible.\nYou don't know Accelerator's power.\n
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You're crazy if you think you can fight toe-to-toe\n
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against a guy who would think nothing of it\n
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if the world's armies were to be turned on him.\n
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He's able to control kinetic\nmomentum, thermal quantity,\n
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electrical charge, and any\nother kind of vector, with just a touch!\n
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Not only will any attack be unable to reach him,\n
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they'll all be bounced back at you!\n
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If you take on someone like that,\n
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who's unsporting enough to begin with...\n
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...not to mention how frazzled you are!\n
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There's no way you can beat that\nmonster under the circumstances!\n
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Why?\n
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You were about to head\noff toward Accelerator, right?\n
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Tell me.\n
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Where is he?\n
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The time is 8:25, is it?\n
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Then, you've got no issue with being\n
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my next experimental target, right?\n
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"No. I am Misaka, serial number 10032,"\n
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replies Misaka.\n
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"Before we continue,\nwouldn't it be reasonable for you\n
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to check my password, to verify\nthat I am part of the experiment?"\n
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advises Misaka.\n
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Well, far be it from me to\nsay anything about someone\n
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working side by side with me in\nan experiment to make me stronger,\n
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but I'm impressed that you're\nso calm, under the circumstances.\n
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Are you sure your mind\nisn't dwelling on something else?\n
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"'Something,' is too vague\nan expression for me to grasp,"\n
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responds Misaka. \n
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"Three minutes and twenty seconds\nremain until the experiment starts.\n
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Are you sure you're ready?"\nasks Misaka, seeking confirmation.\n
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I can't understand\nwhy you'd throw your life away.\n
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My life is more important than anything.\n
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Which is precisely why\nthere's no limit to my desire for power.\n
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To that end, it doesn't matter to me\nhow many hundreds, thousands,\n
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or tens of thousands of you die,\nI can still snicker it away.\n
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"Misaka cannot understand some\nof your words and behaviors, as well,"\n
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replies Misaka.\n
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"You are already the\nstrongest Level 5 in Academy City.\n
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If you are in a position\nwhere no one else can reach you,\n
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then there is no need to\ndesire any further power, is there?"\n
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estimates Misaka.\n
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The strongest, huh?\n
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So, how is it that those\naround us are aware of that?\n
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It's because they actually\nfought me, and lost, isn't it?\n
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Or, put the opposite way,\nmy strength, to their thinking,\n
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is nothing more than "let me try\npicking a fight with that guy;\n
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it might be fun," right?\n
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That's not good enough. \n
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That's not at all good enough. \n
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That sort of "strongest" is completely pointless.\n
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What I'm after is what's\npast that. One where even thinking\n
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"let's challenge him" is a ridiculous idea,\n
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and even thinking\n"let me fight him" is beyond the pale.\n
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That's the sort of unrivaled existence I want!\n
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"One minute and thirty seconds\nremain until the experiment starts.\n
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Are you sure you're ready?"\nreconfirms Misaka.\n
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Sheesh, I thought I might\nbe able to kill a little time here,\n
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but this is hopeless.\n
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I just can't hold a conversation with you.\n
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Okay then, are you ready?\nIt's almost time for you to die,\n
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you overproduced, substandard factory reject.\n
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"8:29:45 p.m.\n
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We will now commence trial number 10032.\n
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Will test subject\nAccelerator please take his position,"\n
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instructs Misaka.\n
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The industrial district on the western outskirts.\n
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The train yard there\nis the 10032nd testing site.\n
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The Misaka that you have\nhad contact with up through today\n
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is serial number 10032, \n
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which is to say, this Misaka.\n
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What's the matter?\n
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Oh, yeah. The electromagnetic\nwaves from my body...\n
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It's so ridiculous.\n
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If you want to help them,\nthen let me take care of this.\n
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The important thing is for me, \n
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a Level 0, to defeat\nAccelerator by myself, right?\n
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If you, a Level 5, were to fight\nalongside me, it won't mean anything.\n
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No matter what...\n
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No matter what, I'll bring her back with me.\n
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I get it.\n
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Sure, if I were to go there,\nI couldn't do anything.\n
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But...\n
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Does he really think I can do that?!\n
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What is this? What? What are you doing?\n
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No matter how much time you try to buy...\n
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...there's no way some\nmiracle is gonna happen!\n
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Tonight...\n
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Tonight, there isn't any wind, huh?\n
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That smell...\n
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Ha... So that's it.\n
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You're breaking down\nthe oxygen with electricity,\n
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and turning it into ozone, are you?\n
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You're trying to put me in\nan oxygen-deprived state, huh?\n
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Good! Good! This is great!\n
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You really are giving me\na run for the money, aren't you?\n
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Never a dull moment.\nI guess if 10,000 of you get killed,\n
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you might start getting a little crafty, huh?\n
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There is one shortcoming, though.\n
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Once I catch you, this tactic is gonna fail.\n
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There's no reason to be surprised, is there?\n
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All I did was change the vector\nof the kinetic momentum under my feet.\n
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Hey...\n
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Do you know a way to hit your opponent\n
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without doing any harm to your own hands?\n
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All you have to do is direct \n
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the kinetic momentum vector at\nher the moment you touch her body.\n
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The damage she takes\nincreases by a factor of that, though.\n
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Hey...\n
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What happens to the\nexperiment in a situation like this?\n
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You get away from her.\n
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Get away from the Misaka Sister, right now.\n
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Hey, come on, now.\n
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Don't go bringing the general\npublic into our testing site.\n
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Damn it, this is a sour note.\nDo we have to do the bit\n
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where I silence the outsider\nwho finds out about our secret?\n
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Shut up.\n
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Huh?\n
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Don't just stand there nattering,\nI told you to get away from her,\n
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third-string!\n
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Who do you think you are?\n
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You're calling me, said to be the top dog\n
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among even the seven\nLevel 5 espers, third-string?\n
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Heh, not funny.\n
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You're intriguing.\n
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"What are...\n
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What are you doing?"\n
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asks Misaka.\n
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Oh, you’re her younger sister.\nYou really do look like Mikoto.\n
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Hey there. Thanks for your help\nwith the drinks and fleas yesterday.\n
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You're the one who found him,\n
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so you should at\nleast be the one to name him.\n
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"Misaka is unsure about your state of mind.\n
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What are you trying to do,\nfor the sake of someone\n
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for whom any number\nof reproductions can be made?"\n
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asks Misaka, repeating herself.\n
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"Any number of Misakas\ncan be automatically manufactured\n
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with the push of a single button.\n
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Fabricated bodies,\nstocked with borrowed minds. 9968--"\n
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Shut up.\n
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I couldn't care less about the little things.\n
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I'm standing here in order to rescue you.\n
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There's only one of you in the whole world, right?
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Don't go dying as you please. \n
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You've still got a mountain\nof accounts left to settle.\n
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I'm going to help you out of this now.\n
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You just keep quiet and watch.\n
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What's this? Such heroic\nwords for you to be blabbing out.\n
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Don't tell me you've forgotten\nabout me being here.\n
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You're so slow. \n
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If that's your speed, \n
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you couldn't beat me in a hundred years!\n
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Come on! Come on!\n
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So slow...\n
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Far too slow!\n
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If you want to entertain the\nhunter, you should become a fox!\n
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Don't just stand around there\nlike a slaughterhouse pig, third-string!\n
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Now then...\n
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It's about time...\n
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...to put an end to this.\n
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Huh?!\n
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So there was flour inside that one, huh?\n
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And there's no wind tonight.\n
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That just might make\nthis a dangerous situation.\n
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After all, if there were to be a fire\n
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with all of this powder floating in the air,\n
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the rate of combustion of the\noxygen would be ridiculously fast.\n
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Say, you've at least heard the expression\n
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"dust explosion" before, right?\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"\nThere's only one of you in the world, but what can I do for you?\n
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\nThere's only one of you in the world, but what can I do for you?\n
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Me, someone so weak,\nI can't even get near him?\n
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Next time, "Weakest vs. Strongest."\n
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When science and magic cross paths,\nthe story begins.\n
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