# 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