# 15 - Spark Signal
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GRVNZK5PY/a-certain-magical-index)
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**[00:00] ---**
What sort of merchandise would you like?
A getaway car? A safe house?
**[00:04] ---**
Or perhaps some monetary exchange?
**[00:07] ---**
I won't inquire into your business.
You just tell me what you need.
**[00:11] ---**
Mr. spells-his-name "General Goods"
but-pronounces-it Department,
**[00:15] ---**
is that some of your merchandise?
**[00:16] ---**
Hmm, is that what you're interested in?
**[00:20] ---**
Well I'm sorry to say this, but she's
not an option. She's more a punching bag--
**[00:26] ---**
Hey, now...
**[00:27] ---**
Cash upfront. I got stuck with
a sucky job, and now I'm pissed off.
**[00:32] ---**
Tch, I'm telling you now,
if you kill her, that's 7 million.
**[00:36] ---**
But what made you take
an interest in the kid?
**[00:39] ---**
Oh, I get it now. Apparently,
I must have given you the wrong impression.
**[00:44] ---**
The one I just purchased...
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...is *you*.
**[01:01] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index III"
**[02:21] ---**
"#15 Spark Signal"
**[02:22] ---**
The job's done.
**[02:23] ---**
A job this crappy had me bored to tears.
**[02:27] ---**
Huh? What do I need?
**[02:29] ---**
A team to collect this pile of flesh who
makes me wanna puke, just by inhaling,
**[02:33] ---**
and a change of clothes for a girl.
**[02:37] ---**
What size? Hell if I know.
**[02:39] ---**
Make sure the recovery
team is made up of women.
**[02:43] ---**
If there's even one man among them,
I'll kick his balls in.
**[02:48] ---**
Live how you want now.
**[02:50] ---**
Whether you succeed or fail for
the rest of your life is up to you.
**[02:55] ---**
Who are you?
**[02:57] ---**
A villain.
**[02:59] ---**
A punk-ass villain.
**[03:02] ---**
"So anyway, today's supper
is going to be hamburger stew,"
**[03:06] ---**
says Misaka Misaka, delivering
the results of her scouting report.
**[03:10] ---**
So that Yomikawa jerk finally figured out
**[03:13] ---**
how to work that wonder in the rice cooker.
**[03:18] ---**
"You said we would see
each other this weekend, right?"
**[03:20] ---**
asks Misaka Misaka, getting confirmation.
**[03:23] ---**
Unless my plans change, yeah.
**[03:26] ---**
"Oh! Yomikawa is bringing
the hamburger stew!"
**[03:29] ---**
says Misaka Misaka,
giving a priority-one report!
**[03:32] ---**
Oh, yeah? Your life is just
one pit-stop after another, isn't it?
**[03:40] ---**
"Is something the matter?"
**[03:42] ---**
asks Misaka Misaka, cocking
her head at the sound of the phone.
**[03:46] ---**
It's nothing.
**[03:47] ---**
Just room service checking back.
**[03:50] ---**
"Are you okay?
I don't like you getting into danger,"
**[03:53] ---**
says Misaka Misaka, pleading.
**[03:56] ---**
No need to be so concerned about
a dude you can't even kill with a nuke.
**[04:06] ---**
The times really have
taken a turn for the better.
**[04:11] ---**
You can't call someone
like that a professional maid!
**[04:14] ---**
M-Maika?
**[04:15] ---**
What I'm saying is, I get leering
looks just because I wear this outfit.
**[04:20] ---**
Say what?! What reason does an
unsexy maid have for even existing?!
**[04:26] ---**
Looks like I'm going to have to show you
**[04:28] ---**
what a professional maid
really is, you lousy brother.
**[04:35] ---**
I need to stop in there to get
more leads for my mechanical pencil.
**[04:38] ---**
Hmm? Then I'll come, too.
**[04:40] ---**
Oh! You're going to help with
your beloved brother's homework?!
**[04:44] ---**
Working together, we should
be able to finish by morning!
**[04:46] ---**
Ah, maybe I'll skip going
over to your place tonight.
**[04:51] ---**
Adieu!
**[04:52] ---**
How heartless!
**[05:02] ---**
So, what's our homework for today?
**[05:07] ---**
Someday, I'm getting out of this city.
**[05:10] ---**
I'm going to beat the game
that has no way to win it.
**[05:16] ---**
Miss Musujime, today is
the day we're going to work
**[05:19] ---**
until you can make stir-fry vegetables,
**[05:22] ---**
and I'm here waiting for you with
an empty tummy! Stir-fry vegetables!
**[05:30] ---**
Not to be too blunt,
**[05:31] ---**
but something urgent came up,
so I can't do stir-fry today.
**[05:34] ---**
Huh?! Not today, too! Then, what
about all these vegetables I bought?!
**[05:39] ---**
Sounds terrific. Vegetarians
live longer anyway.
**[05:49] ---**
I seem to remember this
RV having a kitchen, right?
**[05:54] ---**
I see you're still favoring
that face, aren't you, Etzali?
**[05:59] ---**
And you're still as cranky as ever, Xóchitl.
**[06:03] ---**
You have the original
grimoire text someplace safe, right?
**[06:07] ---**
Right here.
**[06:10] ---**
What happened?
**[06:12] ---**
I screwed up. Then I had my own
body meddled with to make it right.
**[06:17] ---**
Didn't anyone try to stop you?
What about Tochtli? You were friends, right?
**[06:22] ---**
Friends, huh? When you say friends now,
the first thing you probably think of
**[06:27] ---**
are the faces of people I don't even know.
**[06:32] ---**
Don't tell me I'm wrong.
Your reasons notwithstanding,
**[06:34] ---**
you switched camps from Azteca to
Academy City, and then took me down.
**[06:38] ---**
Isn't that true,
**[06:40] ---**
Big Brother Etzali?
**[06:42] ---**
Damn it, Unabara!
**[06:44] ---**
What was that all about?!
**[06:46] ---**
Etzali, get back! He's probably
after us from the organization!
**[06:49] ---**
No. He may be perverted, but he's on my side.
**[06:52] ---**
Are you telling me you had
a little sister back home,
**[06:54] ---**
and you still went and lost your head
over a Level 5 middle-school girl here?!
**[07:01] ---**
A middle-school girl?
**[07:03] ---**
No, I mean-- What are you talking about?!
**[07:05] ---**
Etzali, is *that* the reason
why you betrayed the organization?!
**[07:09] ---**
Take it easy!
**[07:10] ---**
If anything, our being siblings is
more of a mentoring relationship!
**[07:14] ---**
You mean it's not by blood?
Well, that's fantastic, isn't it?!
**[07:17] ---**
Getting your head turned by a
younger kid is a course every person takes.
**[07:23] ---**
Oh, no. Am I the only one
in GROUP that isn't a lolicon?
**[07:28] ---**
I don't appreciate being treated like a lolicon
by someone who's clearly a shotacon.
**[07:33] ---**
It's true.
**[07:34] ---**
Indeed.
**[07:35] ---**
Wh-Wh-What basis do you have
for c-c-calling me a sh-sh-shotacon?!
**[07:40] ---**
So, what is this job that
requires GROUP to be called in?
**[07:45] ---**
Oh, just your run-of-the-mill request.
**[07:47] ---**
We're supposed to find
an outfit named "Spark Signal,"
**[07:50] ---**
who took hostages and barricaded
themselves up, and kill them all.
**[07:53] ---**
Looks like I'm okay. They said
I was about ready to be discharged.
**[07:57] ---**
Really? You won't ever be
able to use ability crystals again,
**[08:01] ---**
but even so, I'm just
relieved it wasn't too serious.
**[08:04] ---**
Still, I'm surprised you brought
an ultra-flower arrangement for her.
**[08:08] ---**
I was sure it'd be an ultra-bunny suit.
**[08:10] ---**
*That* again?! I'm not especially--
**[08:12] ---**
Ta-da! Here's our star attraction,
ultra-bunny Rikou!
**[08:20] ---**
Hamazura, are you really
that ultra-hot for bunny girls?
**[08:24] ---**
Th-This is from your foot massage, Kinuhata!
**[08:27] ---**
It's okay, Hamazura. We're in a hospital,
so nosebleeds are no trouble.
**[08:32] ---**
Y-You're the only one who cares about me...!
**[08:35] ---**
It's okay, Hamazura. This hospital
also offers care for mental disorders.
**[08:45] ---**
Once Takitsubo gets discharged,
what are you ultra-going to do, Hamazura?
**[08:50] ---**
Hmm, I'm not sure.
**[08:52] ---**
ITEM has ultra-disbanded,
for all intents and purposes.
**[08:55] ---**
I'm waiting for a new team to be organized,
**[08:58] ---**
but there's ultra-no benefit to pairing
with Takitsubo, since she can't fight,
**[09:01] ---**
and there's no need for you
to work with them either.
**[09:07] ---**
I don't know what I can do right now,
**[09:10] ---**
but I've got to do something to get
Takitsubo back out in the real world.
**[09:15] ---**
In other words, you're trying to say
that you're ultra-devoting all your passion
**[09:20] ---**
into figuring out how to get
Takitsubo to wear a bunny suit.
**[09:23] ---**
Look, is that who you take me for?!
Are you fixated?!
**[09:26] ---**
Ugh, please stop ultra-looking at me
**[09:29] ---**
with that lewd look you
give bunny girls, Hamazura!
**[09:32] ---**
Hey, come on! If I may be so blunt,
you couldn't pull off a bunny suit!
**[09:37] ---**
Then I'm going to be ultra-blunt, myself!
**[09:40] ---**
I've got a far better figure
as a middle-schooler
**[09:42] ---**
than Takitsubo has as a high-schooler!
**[09:45] ---**
No, that's where you're wrong!
**[09:47] ---**
In fact, I know that when Takitsubo
gets undressed, she's a knockout!
**[09:50] ---**
I also know that if you got undressed,
there's nothing too stunning.
**[09:54] ---**
I'll ultra-kill you! Is that what you want?!
**[09:55] ---**
Is that what you want?! I'll ultra-kill you!
**[10:06] ---**
That was an ultra-close
call! I came this close
**[10:10] ---**
to ultra-sharing today's goodies with you.
**[10:13] ---**
That sentence is one of the five
worst things I've ever heard in my life.
**[10:18] ---**
As if you showing your panties
even counts as "goodies"...
**[10:24] ---**
Check it out, Hamazura! Ultra-skirt-flirt!
**[10:26] ---**
Wah! Ah, I-I see... n-nothing...?
**[10:29] ---**
Some more skirt-flirt...!
**[10:31] ---**
--S-Still, I can't see anything!
I want to see, but I can't.
--You don't get to. See? Skirt-flirt!
**[10:38] ---**
Wah! Takitsubo, give me strength!
**[10:55] ---**
No fair!
**[10:56] ---**
Hamazura, I'll ultra-kill you!
**[10:59] ---**
You show no mercy, you fiendish devil!
**[11:03] ---**
By placing this giant particle accelerator
in a state where it could explode,
**[11:08] ---**
we can keep the governing board's
over-the-top behavior in check.
**[11:12] ---**
And this deep underground,
nobody can touch us.
**[11:20] ---**
It's time.
**[11:29] ---**
Show the boy a little mercy.
Give him a blindfold.
**[11:37] ---**
You think this plan of
yours is going to work?
**[11:40] ---**
Huh?
**[11:41] ---**
There's no way you bad guys
are going to get away with this!
**[11:45] ---**
I believe there's a hero out there
who will make sure to catch you guys!
**[11:50] ---**
He'll save us all! I'm sure there's
someone out there who will save us!
**[11:55] ---**
Is that right?
**[11:57] ---**
Even if there were such a hero,
**[11:59] ---**
he'll never make it
100 meters underground in time.
**[12:02] ---**
I believe...
**[12:04] ---**
How did you get here?!
**[12:05] ---**
Look up Move Point sometime, you scumbag.
**[12:16] ---**
H-Hero...?
**[12:18] ---**
Villain. A punk-ass villain.
**[12:38] ---**
Good work. That was quite the exploit.
**[12:43] ---**
There's just one thing that bothers me.
**[12:45] ---**
It's what those damn terrorists
were demanding from the higher-ups.
**[12:49] ---**
You mean they let slip
the substance of their demands?
**[12:54] ---**
"DRAGON."
**[12:57] ---**
"Disclose your information
concerning DRAGON at once."
**[13:00] ---**
That was the terrorists' only demand.
**[13:03] ---**
The higher-ups gave us a snow job,
**[13:06] ---**
and we walked right in and
killed our only lead concerning this.
**[13:10] ---**
How is Sunazara Chimitsu doing,
**[13:14] ---**
Stephanie Gorgeouspalace?
**[13:16] ---**
He's recovering nicely.
He hasn't regained consciousness yet,
**[13:20] ---**
but his life isn't in any danger.
**[13:22] ---**
Thanks to you.
**[13:24] ---**
Oh, not at all. I just
feel so guilty about it.
**[13:28] ---**
So, who is the target you want taken out?
**[13:31] ---**
Academy City's number-one, Accelerator.
Can you do it?
**[13:36] ---**
If you tell me to.
**[13:37] ---**
You don't need to give consideration
to anyone else getting hurt
**[13:40] ---**
during the process of shooting your target.
**[13:42] ---**
Indeed, I wouldn't mind
if you took Kinuhata Saiai
**[13:46] ---**
and the other former members of ITEM,
who did this to Sunazara,
**[13:49] ---**
and filled them full of lead, as well.
**[13:51] ---**
Well, well. Then would you
like me to plug the gentleman
**[13:55] ---**
who put a tiny transmitter inside
Sunazara's body while I'm at it?
**[13:59] ---**
Just a moment!
**[14:09] ---**
You can have it back.
**[14:13] ---**
All you had to do was turn
over Sunazara nicely,
**[14:16] ---**
and I would have been happy to be your pawn.
**[14:19] ---**
If you'd just cooperated
with me like an adult...
**[14:22] ---**
...you could have had your
revenge against Sunazara...
**[14:26] ---**
Ah, I guess I forgot to mention.
**[14:29] ---**
The object of my revenge
is all of Academy City.
**[14:49] ---**
Huh? I thought we were about to get
Takitsubo from the hospital. A job?
**[14:54] ---**
They're finally organizing the new team,
so we gotta ultra-get together,
**[14:57] ---**
and ultra-kill all the remaining
members of a terrorist group.
**[15:01] ---**
Huh? What kind of game are they playing?
Takitsubo is waiting for us.
**[15:05] ---**
We're gathering at the
private room in School District 3, then?
**[15:11] ---**
That bothers you, then?
**[15:13] ---**
If you want to be free of misfortune
that arrives without warning,
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you just have to always have your guard up.
**[15:18] ---**
Which is also the reason
why we don't meet in person.
**[15:20] ---**
You're probably hiding away in
a nuclear-fallout-shelter-grade facility.
**[15:24] ---**
To those who have powers
like the one Musujime possesses,
**[15:27] ---**
the thickness of walls mean nothing.
**[15:29] ---**
Mr. Shiokishi, for what reason did you,
a member of the governing board,
**[15:32] ---**
go out of your way to contact us directly?
**[15:35] ---**
I want you to take down
the remainder of Spark Signal,
**[15:38] ---**
those terrorists from earlier.
**[15:41] ---**
Does the name "DRAGON" mean anything to you?
**[15:44] ---**
Sure. I've even seen it in video game titles.
**[15:49] ---**
Hurry up and settle this trivial business,
and get back to your daily lives.
**[15:58] ---**
There are 20 members still left.
**[16:00] ---**
Killing them would be easy,
but are we going to just submissively do
**[16:04] ---**
whatever the damned
governing board orders us to do?
**[16:07] ---**
This could be our chance to get
a glimpse into what DRAGON is.
**[16:11] ---**
So are you saying you want to
take up the cause with the terrorists?
**[16:15] ---**
Make no mistake. If it means innocent
civilians will be caught in the middle,
**[16:19] ---**
the four of us will be
spitting up right here and now.
**[16:24] ---**
Hey, I thought you were joining
a new team to go fight terrorists.
**[16:28] ---**
I was. But five minutes later,
I got fed up and came back.
**[16:33] ---**
They took the survivors of the defunct
ITEM, SCHOOL, BLOCK, and MEMBER
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and created a new team from them.
Then they told everyone to like,
**[16:40] ---**
"get along with the others you were
trying to kill before, you rascals."
**[16:44] ---**
Hey, hold on a second, that's hinky!
**[16:46] ---**
Oh yeah, and the Heart
Measure lady in the dress
**[16:49] ---**
said to ultra-give you her regards.
**[16:51] ---**
That woman?
**[16:53] ---**
But are you sure about this?
Blowing off an order from the higher-ups?
**[16:58] ---**
I'm probably ultra-screwed, huh?
**[17:00] ---**
So Hamazura, could you please give me a hand?
**[17:02] ---**
Huh?
**[17:03] ---**
All I have to do is completely
take out the remaining terrorists alone
**[17:06] ---**
before they drag me back into the new team.
**[17:08] ---**
Huh?!
**[17:11] ---**
I gotta say, you really are the type
who mooches off her friends, huh?
**[17:15] ---**
Did you just ultra-say anything,
bottom-shelf Hamazura?
**[17:22] ---**
Hey! We've got some major
bad news coming up behind us!
**[17:48] ---**
You dumbass! What good is
taking away our avenues of attack?!
**[17:56] ---**
They got away.
**[17:58] ---**
This is what you get from cramming
a busload of villains together,
**[18:01] ---**
and these are the ones who shake loose?
**[18:04] ---**
If you want, I could blast through them
while I'm doing Spark Signal.
**[18:09] ---**
Wait! Just a minute!
**[18:12] ---**
Stop! Don't use that drug!
**[18:14] ---**
But if I don't, she won't last
until she reaches the hospital!
**[18:17] ---**
Our teacher is pregnant.
**[18:21] ---**
You have to save them both!
**[18:23] ---**
I'm begging you! I'm begging you!
**[18:25] ---**
Stand aside.
**[18:34] ---**
Sex, female; weight,
244 grams; heart rate, 60bpm;
**[18:40] ---**
stimulus response ratio, 5.52...
**[18:43] ---**
She needs a stimulant. 2.5 grams of ectrin.
**[18:47] ---**
Apply a topical patch to the carotid artery,
**[18:49] ---**
diffusing it in five times for
ten seconds on, 20 seconds off.
**[18:54] ---**
That will save her.
**[18:58] ---**
Hold on! What will happen
to the baby if they do that?!
**[19:01] ---**
That's the whole reason
I did those calculations.
**[19:10] ---**
Hey, wait up! Hey!
**[19:14] ---**
Thanks. It's all because of you.
**[19:17] ---**
Get lost, already.
**[19:18] ---**
I'll never forget what you did,
for the rest of my life.
**[19:22] ---**
Someday, I'd like to be
able to return the favor. So--
**[19:28] ---**
Get lost.
**[19:43] ---**
It's a six-winger.
**[19:44] ---**
Why is *that* after us?
**[19:46] ---**
Don't tell me you ignored your orders
on the phone and came back!
**[19:50] ---**
Mm, that's an ultra-short-sighted view of it.
**[19:56] ---**
Oh, they're shooting at us!
**[20:03] ---**
The six-wingers' missiles
use infrared sensors.
**[20:07] ---**
That was an ultra-so-called flare.
**[20:09] ---**
Superb!
**[20:14] ---**
Hamazura, steer us ultra-straight;
don't turn the wheel!
**[20:16] ---**
No way! They'll shoot us! We'll die!
**[20:22] ---**
Keep your eyes ultra-straight
ahead and keep driving.
**[20:25] ---**
Yes! But your panties...!
**[20:27] ---**
Kinuhata, there's no way!
**[20:28] ---**
How can you shoot through
a military helicopter's armor?!
**[20:31] ---**
Who said I was shooting through the armor?
**[20:39] ---**
There, I ultra-did it. I figured
clay-based bullets would ultra-shatter,
**[20:43] ---**
and the fragments would enter the intakes.
**[20:45] ---**
Nice, panties!
**[20:48] ---**
Damn it! Kinuhata, use your Offense Armor!
**[20:52] ---**
Whoa, Hamazura!
**[21:00] ---**
I've gotta get Kinuhata back
and go to Takitsubo.
**[21:06] ---**
"Number unknown"
**[21:09] ---**
It's been too long. If I say I'm
Heart Measure, formerly of SCHOOL,
**[21:13] ---**
would you remember who I am?
**[21:16] ---**
How do you know my number?
**[21:18] ---**
More importantly, is Kinuhata Saiai with you?
**[21:21] ---**
So *you're* the ones behind this!
**[21:24] ---**
Hmm. If you hear from
her, tell her something.
**[21:28] ---**
Those terrorists that
she said she'd deal with herself?
**[21:31] ---**
They've seized a private room
in School District 3.
**[21:35] ---**
A private room in School District 3?!
**[23:25] ---**
"Preview"
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Even if I have to become the villain...
**[23:27] ---**
Even if I have to get down on all fours...
**[23:29] ---**
Even if someone has to be sacrificed...
**[23:31] ---**
I will protect her, at least.
**[23:34] ---**
Next time, "The Governing Board."
**[23:36] ---**
When science and magic cross paths,
the story begins.
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