14 - Weakest vs. Strongest (Strongest vs. Weakest)

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    If the strongest Level 5 in Academy City\n
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    can be easily beaten by the\nweakest Level 0 in Academy City,\n
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    then this absurd experiment will\nprobably be suspended.\n
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    It's easier said than done, but\nit's still worth a try.\n
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    Isn't that right, Misaka?\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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    "#14 Weakest vs. Strongest\n(Strongest vs. Weakest)"\n
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    So there was flour inside that one, huh?\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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    For Pete's sake,\n
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    you just got done\nexperiencing it yourself, didn't you?\n
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    When you take all the oxygen away,\nit's hard on yourself, too.\n
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    Ah, I thought I was gonna die there.\n
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    You should be thrilled. You might\njust be a world first, you know?\n
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    Imagine, you, driving me to the\npoint where I could have died.\n
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    Try as frantically as you like,\nyou can't get one step closer.\n
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    But then, even supposing you\ncould get closer, what would you do?\n
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    I can control the vector of anything that I touch.\n
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    If I touch you, you will end\nup with all of your blood vessels\n
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    and internal organs bursting out of your body.\n
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    Are you sure you understand that correctly?\n
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    But then again, the very\nfact that you're standing there,\n
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    still breathing, before\nAccelerator is a miracle by itself.\n
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    It would be asking for too much\nto hope for anything more, wouldn't it?\n
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    So rest in peace, already!\n
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    Damn it!\n
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    Sheesh...\n
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    Interesting. Damn it. Good... the best!\n
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    You pleasantly, fantastically nailed me there.\n
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    And now, you...!\n
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    The power of my right hand is working!\n
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    D-Damn...!\n
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    Damn it...\n
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    What the hell is going on here?\n
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    Ha, you've never lost, huh?\n
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    You defeat all of your opponents in one shot,\n
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    and bounce back every attack you take.\n
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    There's no way a person\nlike you would know how to fight.\n
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    I wouldn't be boasting, third-string!\n
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    What?!\n
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    The rest of them...\n
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    ...lived as best they could.\n
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    Those people used all of their\nstrength, fighting for dear life,\n
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    giving everything that they had...\n
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    Why should they have to end\nup as fodder for someone like you?!\n
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    They lived as best they could?\n
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    They used all of their strength, for dear life?\n
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    What are you talking about?\n
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    Kill!\n
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    What?! What?! What’s the matter with you?!\n
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    In the end, you're just a lot\nof big talk, and nothing special!\n
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    Here, I'm gonna hit you again with it,\n
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    so go ahead and make a\nheroic run for the runner-up slot!\n
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    Compress... compress... compress that air!\n
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    Compress...? Ha, nice, I just\nthought of something exhilarating!\n
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    Hey, what happened to all\nthat spunk you had a moment ago?!\n
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    You've got to stick\nwith me a bit longer, here,\n
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    or this won't be worth the effort!\n
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    Accelerator!\n
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    Don't move!\n
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    --n't do it...\n
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    Don't do it... Misaka!\n
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    I'm sorry.\n
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    You wanted everyone to come back smiling,\nwithout anything being lost,\n
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    but that's just not possible. \n
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    So, I'm sorry.\n
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    And though this might\nbe selfish of me, even so...\n
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    ...even so, I'm sure that I want you to live.\n
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    Don't do it!\n
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    Plasma...?\n
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    He's controlling the direction of\nthe wind, gathering it into one spot,\n
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    and forming that plasma...\n
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    That's something I can't do\nanything about with my power.\n
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    If I could manipulate the wind...\n
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    But I don't have that kind of power.\n
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    Wind...?\n
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    That plasma is probably being\nmade by condensing the wind around him.\n
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    Accelerator is taking into\naccount the flow of the wind \n
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    to control the plasma. If that's the case...\n
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    Please, wake up!\nThere's something I need you to do!\n
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    Uh-uh, there's something\nthat only you can do!\n
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    I know I'm asking a lot of you,\nbut just this once, wake up!\n
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    Just this one time,\ndo what I ask you to do!\n
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    I'm sure I can't protect everyone.\n
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    No matter how much\nI struggle, there's no way.\n
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    So, I'm begging you...\n
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    I'm begging you. I need you to\nuse your power to preserve his dream!\n
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    "I'm not sure I understand\nwhat you're saying,\n
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    but for some reason,\nyour words have resounded with me,"\n
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    Misaka states in all honesty.\n
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    Wha--?\n
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    Have I miscalculated the wind?\n
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    What? What's happening?\n
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    There shouldn't be any\nglitches in my calculations.\n
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    This irregular movement is not\nfrom natural wind, by any stretch.\n
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    It couldn't be...\n
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    Hold on. I've heard about this.\n
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    If I remember, it had something\nto do with dynamo motors,\n
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    turning on their own when hit\nwith particular electromagnetic waves.\n
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    Why, you little punk...\n
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    I'll kill you!\n
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    You think I'll let you?!\n
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    Ha! Don't push your luck, downgrade.\nYou can't get through to me.\n
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    Visual acuity can only be measured\nto 20/10, right? It's like that.\n
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    Level 5 is the highest rating\nthere is in Academy City,\n
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    so I have no choice but to be\ncontent with that level, that's all.\n
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    Leave them alone.\n
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    You leave them alone!\n
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    Ha! Well, this is intriguing.\n
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    As intriguing as all get-out!\n
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    Clench your teeth, strongest guy!\n
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    The weakest guy...\n
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    ...is about to ring out!\n
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    H-Huh...?\n
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    M-M-Misaka?!\n
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    Huh? Why is such a\nhappy event as this taking place?\n
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    I have absolutely no memory\nof triggering any of the right flags.\n
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    "Just for the record,\nyou're the one who reached out,"\n
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    Misaka relates.\n
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    Y-You're kidding!\n
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    The anesthetic is still\nworking from the neck downward,\n
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    but even so, for me to be so frustrated\n
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    that my hand would head for a girl's chest...\n
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    You've gotta be kidding me!\n
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    "Reaching out for Misaka's hand\nwas the extent of what you did,"\n
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    Misaka further notes.\n
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    "Bringing your hand up to this position\n
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    was something Misaka did of her own will,\n
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    so you have not done\nanything wrong," Misaka responds.\n
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    "Misaka was simply\nusing the flow of bioelectricity\n
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    to monitor your brainwaves and\npulse," Misaka replies.\n
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    Huh? So you mean...\n
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    Is my hand now touching you?\n
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    I can't feel anything, thanks to the anesthetic.\n
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    I can't move even a single finger.\nTh-This is just my luck!\n
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    "Is there some abnormality in\nyour speech center?"\n
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    Misaka asks, expressing worry.\n
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    Well, looks like we all\nmanaged to come back safely.\n
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    "About that..." Misaka replies.\n
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    "Misaka cannot return to\nthe same world as you just yet,"\n
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    Misaka candidly states.\n
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    You don't mean, the experiment is still...\n
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    "No, it's not that. \n
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    It seems that the experiment is\nheaded for cancellation \n
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    with the defeat of Accelerator,"\nMisaka reports with care.\n
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    "The issue with Misaka has to do\nwith Misaka's body," Misaka explains.\n
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    Your body?\n
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    "Yes. Misaka's bodies are clones,\n
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    originally created from Sissy's cells,\n
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    and with the administration of additional drugs,\n
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    our bodies have been stimulated\nfor rapid growth," Misaka explains.\n
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    "As such, we cellular clones,\nwhose lives are already short,\n
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    have had our lives cut even shorter.\nDoes that make sense?"\n
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    Misaka asks.\n
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    "Which is why it is necessary\nfor the research facility \n
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    to take us in temporarily,\nand adjust each of us individually.\n
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    Are you listening?" Misaka asks, glowering.\n
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    Adjust you?\n
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    "Yes. By performing a hormone\nbalance for our rapid growth, \n
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    and adjusting the\nmitotic rate of our cellular nuclei,\n
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    they will be able to restore\nour life spans to some degree,"\n
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    Misaka answers.\n
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    Well then...\n
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    H-Hey, hold on!\n
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    By "adjusting," do you mean a cure?\n
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    "It's all right. I will see you\nagain soon," Misaka declares.\n
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    Well, there don't seem to be any major problems.\n
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    But it does appear that you've\ngrown quite fond of this room, huh?\n
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    Well, get some rest for the time being.\n
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    I'll come see you later.\n
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    Yes, Doctor.\n
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    Ah, you're awake?\n
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    Misaka, is that you...?\n
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    Are you--\n
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    Here. Get well soon.\n
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    O-Oh...\n
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    I picked out something expensive\nfrom the department store basement.\n
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    Now, I think those\ncookies taste passably good.\n
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    When it comes to cookies,\naren't homemade the best?\n
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    Just what kind of\npersonality do you expect from me?\n
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    Oh, it's not like that. I'd venture\nthat someone as ham-handed as you\n
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    would fumble in your own way\nto make crummy, misshapen cookies.\n
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    You see what I mean?\n
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    Like I said, what do you expect from me?!\n
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    Stop! Seriously, stop!\n
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    Good grief. \n
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    Oh, yeah. This morning\nlittle sister Misaka came by here.\n
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    You don't say.\n
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    Well, I'm heading home.\n
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    Listen...\n
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    ...if you hadn't offered your DNA map,\n
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    none of the Sisters would ever\nhave been born in the first place.\n
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    That experiment was wrong in a lot of ways,\n
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    but I sure do think\nthat you can at least take pride\n
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    in the fact that they were born.\n
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    Even though, because of me,\nover 10,000 of the Sisters were killed?\n
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    Yes, even so.\n
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    I'm sure that none of them blame you.\n
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    If they hadn't been born, \n
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    they could never have\nbeen happy or sad, after all.\n
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    So it's okay for you to smile. \n
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    The people you wanted to protect...\n
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    ...are not the sort of small-minded\nfolk who would take their own pain\n
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    and thrust it onto others\nto gratify themselves, right?\n
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    Okay...\n
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    Toma, what do you have to say?\n
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    Um...\n
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    Good morning?\n
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    Wait! Wait! I got hurt worse than\nI can just laugh off this time!\n
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    And don't you at least have a\nlittle concern for your landlord?\n
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    I was concerned!\n
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    I was... concerned.\n
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    I'm sorry.\n
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    Toma, you keep taking\nthese problems on alone,\n
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    again and again and again.\n
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    If you don't turn to others for help a little,\n
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    then I might have to finally\nstart lecturing you in earnest.\n
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    But then, it wouldn't do much good\nto keep dwelling on it, so it's okay.\n
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    So Toma, what did you\nend up fighting for, after all?\n
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    For myself.\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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    "Preview"\n
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    "Preview"\nIt’s a touching reunion with my parents on a summer's beach--\n
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    \nor it was supposed to be, \n
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    but then there's an incredible\nmagical disturbance and panic?!\n
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    Th-This is my mother?\n
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    Next time, "Angel Fall."\n
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    When science and magic cross paths,\nthe story begins.\n