16 - The Governing Board
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[00:10] ---
Ah, damn it! Why, of all buildings,
would they go after this one?!
[00:20] ---
I hate to do this, but we're taking off, now!
[00:22] ---
We're going to the building
with those private rooms.
[00:25] ---
Unluckily for you, I used to be a
member of Academy City's air defense.
[00:30] ---
Did you think that a pilot
wouldn't be skilled with weapons?
[00:37] ---
What's wrong? Aren't you going to answer that?
[00:43] ---
Hamazura...
[00:46] ---
Takitsubo, are you all right?!
Where are you right now?!
[00:48] ---
Our meetup place... The private room...
[00:54] ---
I heard what happened. Are you okay?
[00:58] ---
I'm fine...
[01:01] ---
Takitsubo!
[01:02] ---
I'm okay. I'm taking shelter right now.
[01:07] ---
They don't seem to have noticed me yet.
[01:10] ---
Hold on. Then why do you
sound like you're so exhausted?
[01:13] ---
I'm just feeling a little worse now.
It's nothing you need to worry over.
[01:22] ---
Got it. It's all right.
I'll be right over there.
[01:26] ---
I swear I'm coming to save you.
So hang in there a little while longer.
[01:30] ---
No! You've got it wrong.
[01:33] ---
Hamazura, keep away. There are ten terrorists.
[01:36] ---
They're armed with submachine guns and grenades.
[01:40] ---
If you come barging in haphazardly,
you won't be able to deal with them.
[01:44] ---
So keep away!
[01:47] ---
Don't be ridiculous! I'm coming!
[01:49] ---
You better believe I'm coming!
[01:55] ---
Please...
[01:57] ---
You can charge me with anything you want.
[01:59] ---
I wouldn't mind if you
dropped me into the bottom of hell.
[02:02] ---
Just help me so I can rescue her. Please.
[02:07] ---
Why didn't you say so sooner?
[02:14] ---
There's been a hijacking.
[02:16] ---
The culprit has a gun and a
small metal drum filled with liquid.
[02:20] ---
Out of regard for the
lives of the local residents,
[02:22] ---
I'm going to do what he says.
[02:25] ---
Why did you...?
[02:26] ---
It's not as simple as just taking off
because some kid insisted.
[02:30] ---
And I should warn you,
they're not going to let us land.
[02:33] ---
I know.
[02:37] ---
What's that?
[02:38] ---
An imitation tree, of course.
[02:41] ---
Having a real tree up here
would hamper takeoffs and landings.
[02:44] ---
That's good to hear.
[03:00] ---
Ow!
[03:11] ---
I'm coming, partner. Down into
the depths of hell if I have to.
[03:16] ---
"A Certain Magical Index III"
[03:23] ---
"#16 The Governing Board"
[03:23] ---
When are we joining up with Stephanie?
Depending on how she acts...
[03:29] ---
Is that B Team, up on the roof?
[03:38] ---
Th-This is the 28th floor!
[03:41] ---
Makes no difference.
[03:53] ---
Who are you?
[03:56] ---
Doesn't matter, does it?
[04:05] ---
If you really want to keep the city safe,
[04:07] ---
take this much care in doing it.
[04:09] ---
I asked you who you are.
[04:11] ---
Or do you want to die here?
[04:14] ---
I'm Sugitani.
[04:18] ---
I pray we never have to meet again.
[04:21] ---
Make every effort to see that we don't.
[04:29] ---
Tsuchimikado? I cleaned house on Spark Signal.
[04:33] ---
Come on up now and check for
any injured or if there are any traps.
[04:37] ---
Huh?
[04:42] ---
Are you an acute case or something?
[04:45] ---
I hope you're not going
to tell me you're pregnant, too.
[04:49] ---
Hey!
[04:50] ---
What are you doing?!
[04:53] ---
I asked you what you're
doing to Takitsubo, Level 5!
[04:57] ---
Damn you, sneaking around in the darkness,
doing all kinds of dirty work!
[05:01] ---
If you're planning to take
something else precious from me,
[05:05] ---
then prepare to meet your doom, tough guy!!
[05:11] ---
I like you.
[05:13] ---
You're a good villain.
[05:20] ---
It's over. You stay down,
and I'll leave you alone.
[05:24] ---
But if you try to get up,
I'll blow right through you.
[05:31] ---
This is your life.
Choose what you want to do with it.
[05:35] ---
Isn't it obvious?
[05:37] ---
What about you? You don't have
any reason to back down, do you?
[05:42] ---
I would have no problem later
on if I killed you right here.
[05:46] ---
But then, wouldn't that be against the rules?
[05:51] ---
Takitsubo...
[05:53] ---
What will it be? If you want to keep going,
I'll smash you to a bloody pulp.
[05:58] ---
But, if that kid is going to stand
in the way, we'll go back to square one.
[06:02] ---
That's what a villainous aesthetic is.
[06:05] ---
Huh? It couldn't be...
Have I gotten the wrong idea...?
[06:17] ---
Hamazura...
[06:19] ---
I'm pathetic, huh? I say I'm coming
to save you, then end up like this.
[06:28] ---
Not to mention snarling at the guy
you probably owe your life to.
[06:35] ---
That's not true...
[06:37] ---
Hamazura, you came here all on your own.
That's anything but pathetic.
[06:44] ---
It's... not...?
[06:47] ---
Then why are you crying?
[06:51] ---
Nothing has really changed.
[06:53] ---
I'm still the same Hamazura Shiage
I've always been.
[06:58] ---
I'm fine with being a third-string punk.
So at the very least,
[07:03] ---
I want to be the kind of man
who can preserve her smile.
[07:10] ---
Looks like they're tearing it
up ultra-wild in there.
[07:13] ---
I'm too late to join in, so I'll
ultra-help with letting them escape...
[07:24] ---
Something like a shotgun
should be ultra-no-problem, but...
[07:30] ---
An automatic shotgun?!
[07:32] ---
Yoo-hoo.
[07:34] ---
You're Kinuhata Saiai, right?
[07:37] ---
I was right to use irrelevant former
Spark Signal members as bait.
[07:42] ---
My name is Stephanie Gorgeouspalace.
[07:44] ---
I'm a sniper, here to avenge Sunazara.
[07:49] ---
Shouldn't you be making your peace?
[07:57] ---
Every last person who tries to find out
anything about DRAGON is eliminated.
[08:02] ---
Heh, just the way Shiokishi wants it.
[08:05] ---
What is this "DRAGON" business anyway, I wonder.
[08:09] ---
If I may offer an opinion from the magic side,
[08:11] ---
the word "dragon" evokes
the imagery of religious metaphors.
[08:16] ---
Such as, for example, angels.
[08:19] ---
Angels?
[08:21] ---
On September 30th, the day
angel wings appeared in Academy City,
[08:26] ---
the name of the virus that bastard
Kihara was using was "Angel."
[08:30] ---
Supposing that Angel and
DRAGON are somehow tied together...
[08:36] ---
Last Order and DRAGON are connected!
[08:40] ---
Hey, does that mean there's something else
going on with that experiment?
[08:45] ---
Is this all part of someone's plan?
[08:53] ---
Tch, it's that Shiokishi bastard after all.
[08:56] ---
Which means that we've become a target now.
[09:00] ---
Well, on the plus side,
the enemy has been revealed.
[09:04] ---
First thing to do is find out
what the enemy lineup is...
[09:09] ---
The electricity has been cut?
[09:15] ---
This is bad. I can't collect my thoughts.
[09:34] ---
You...
[09:35] ---
In a pinch, the body will work on its own.
[09:39] ---
Which means that the man who saved
my teacher's life didn't have to die.
[09:43] ---
Who put you up to this?
Is this another trap set by Shiokishi?
[09:48] ---
It's true, you and I
both reek of the same profession.
[09:52] ---
It's just, regardless of how dirty I may be,
[09:56] ---
the fact remains that you saved
someone dearer to me than life itself.
[10:01] ---
I owed you this. Now I'm paying you back.
[10:04] ---
Tch, just keep driving.
[10:09] ---
Where are you planning to go?
[10:11] ---
I have to kill that bastard Shiokishi.
[10:15] ---
When he finds out he didn't finish me,
[10:17] ---
he's going to exploit the
most available weakness I have.
[10:23] ---
She's not the only one I have to protect.
[10:26] ---
I have to protect everything
to fight him. Either that, or...
[10:32] ---
That would be easier.
[10:34] ---
The early bird gets the worm.
For someone as drenched in blood as I am,
[10:37] ---
doing it that way would be so appropriate.
[10:47] ---
Okay, Accelerator,
[10:49] ---
head straight for the
observatory in School District 21.
[10:53] ---
Huh? Is that where Shiokishi's shelter is?
[10:57] ---
No.
[10:58] ---
This fight with Shiokishi
[11:00] ---
is going to require some
political preparation of its own kind.
[11:03] ---
Someone with some juice who's at
the same level as the governing board.
[11:07] ---
Is there anybody like that?
[11:09] ---
Oyafune Monaka. She's hosting a stargazing party
[11:14] ---
for the children who were
being held by those terrorists.
[11:16] ---
She's the most goodhearted person
on the governing board.
[11:20] ---
I don't like doing things this way,
but she owes us one.
[11:27] ---
Please leave.
[11:29] ---
Ms. Oyafune is no longer living a life
that takes her into both light and darkness.
[11:33] ---
Someone like you,
who lives in the world of darkness,
[11:35] ---
should know just how difficult that can be.
[11:39] ---
Yeah, I guess.
[11:41] ---
Sorry to bother you.
[11:44] ---
I do have one question, though.
What happened to Oyafune, anyway?
[11:50] ---
Her daughter.
[11:52] ---
Huh?
[11:53] ---
While she was promoting regulations
controlling the export of weapons,
[11:57] ---
a photo of Ms. Oyafune's daughter
[12:00] ---
and an unfired pistol arrived addressed to her.
[12:03] ---
Nothing ultimately came from it,
[12:05] ---
but I suspect that Shiokishi,
who is quite the war hawk, was behind it.
[12:10] ---
After that, Ms. Oyafune left the front lines.
[12:14] ---
If she gets involved with you,
then once again...
[12:16] ---
I get it.
[12:19] ---
Excuse me...
[12:22] ---
Who is this gentleman?
[12:23] ---
I'm nobody. I was just asking for directions.
[12:28] ---
You must have expected that this
would happen. And yet you still came.
[12:33] ---
What's happened?
[12:35] ---
Suppose I tell you, then what?
[12:37] ---
Whatever trouble I may have
with that son of a bitch Shiokishi,
[12:41] ---
you're better off not knowing about it.
[12:45] ---
I'm sorry.
[12:47] ---
It's my problem.
[12:49] ---
I should have just gone it alone to begin with.
[12:54] ---
After I finish this fight with Shiokishi,
I'll be treated as a terrorist.
[12:58] ---
So what? It's what I've made up my mind to do.
[13:02] ---
Even if I turn the kid
I'm trying to protect against me,
[13:06] ---
I'm going to keep fighting to keep her safe.
[13:09] ---
It doesn't change what I have to do.
[13:12] ---
What are you doing?
[13:14] ---
You're that hero from earlier, right?
What are you doing here?
[13:19] ---
Nothing at all.
[13:20] ---
You're off to go fight again, aren't you?
[13:23] ---
To save other people,
like you did for me back then.
[13:28] ---
Then I'm going with you!
[13:31] ---
I'll fight with you!
[13:32] ---
You gotta be kidding me, you little brat.
Do you know what you're saying?
[13:37] ---
I know that you're going
someplace that's awfully dangerous.
[13:41] ---
If there are people there
who are in trouble, like I was,
[13:44] ---
then I want to fight, too!
[13:47] ---
You don't need to.
[13:49] ---
I'm an almighty Level 5.
[13:52] ---
No way! I don't want to turn
Academy City over to those cowards!
[14:01] ---
--Come on.
--Let's go.
[14:10] ---
It's true, then.
[14:11] ---
Hmm?
[14:12] ---
You're planning to fight him, aren't you?
[14:15] ---
Ms. Oyafune!
[14:16] ---
Who were the "cowards"
that young boy was speaking of?
[14:20] ---
The darkness that lurks in the city,
[14:22] ---
or those who know of the darkness,
but give up the fight?
[14:27] ---
What am I supposed to do now?
[14:29] ---
Who cares?
[14:31] ---
It's your life. You decide.
[14:38] ---
M-Ms. Oyafune?
[14:41] ---
My eyes have been opened at last.
[14:44] ---
Let's go march over to Shiokishi's place.
[14:47] ---
That's the best course of action.
[14:58] ---
Have you reached Kinuhata yet?
[15:01] ---
No. It's not going through.
[15:03] ---
She didn't come after we waited
for her, so we left, instead.
[15:06] ---
I wonder if something happened.
[15:08] ---
Hamazura, what are we going to do now?
[15:11] ---
She's a Level 4 and a lot tougher than us.
[15:15] ---
It will take something
pretty substantial to kill her.
[15:20] ---
Now what is it?!
[15:22] ---
Something pretty substantial
is happening, isn't it?!
[15:25] ---
Look, Hamazura.
[15:28] ---
She could be in the underground mall.
[15:36] ---
This is a mess.
[15:39] ---
What do we do? Keep going, or turn back?
[15:41] ---
Hamazura!
[15:46] ---
Kinuhata!
[15:48] ---
Ultra-hit the deck!
[15:54] ---
I thought that since your ability used nitrogen,
[15:57] ---
I might do something about the air.
[16:00] ---
That in the vacuum momentarily
created by the blast,
[16:03] ---
I could pump you full of lead.
[16:07] ---
Hamazura! Ultra-get out of here, now!
[16:12] ---
Kinuhata!
[16:17] ---
The peer authorization system
has been activated?!
[16:20] ---
So she's using that here, is she?
[16:24] ---
What would you like me to do?
[16:26] ---
Her activation has neutralized
the political defense functionality here.
[16:30] ---
Moreover...
[16:32] ---
GROUP?! Why, that vixen!
[16:35] ---
But will she actually resort
to using hardline measures?
[16:39] ---
It does have to do with DRAGON, after all.
[16:43] ---
They're certain to be coming.
So we'll engage them here. This is all-out war.
[16:49] ---
Yes, sir.
[16:56] ---
That deal up on top is an AIM jammer.
[17:01] ---
Control over our abilities
will be pretty restricted.
[17:04] ---
Ha, which means he's
covered his bases against us.
[17:08] ---
So then, what do we do?
[17:10] ---
That's a given.
[17:12] ---
We break straight on through.
[17:18] ---
Let's go. Tsuchimikado,
you stand guard out here.
[17:23] ---
Speaking to Shiokishi
one-on-one will be your job.
[17:28] ---
We'll stay ahead of you and
break down the walls as we go,
[17:33] ---
but you'll have to stand in
the line of fire at the very end.
[17:40] ---
Musujime!
[17:42] ---
No response. Something else must have
happened on the other side of the wall.
[17:47] ---
Tch, you're useless.
[17:48] ---
Might I challenge you to a fight?
[17:53] ---
I thought I told you I was
praying we'd never meet again.
[17:58] ---
You're the one who's coming to us, aren't you?
[18:01] ---
I also told you to make
every effort to see that we don't.
[18:05] ---
Do you know about DRAGON?
[18:13] ---
Huh?
[18:14] ---
Poison. Stopping Musujime,
who is able to pass through walls,
[18:19] ---
has a higher priority than you do.
[18:22] ---
Who are you?
[18:24] ---
Koga. I'm a descendent of the Koga.
[18:28] ---
We're a band of dastardly sneaks,
[18:31] ---
who have done this sort of thing
from times of old in the name of justice.
[18:36] ---
Oyafune is finished.
Once she has been eliminated,
[18:39] ---
the rest of Academy City's
collective power can be mobilized
[18:42] ---
and drive you out, Accelerator.
[18:45] ---
And, once we have Last Order
secured as our trump card,
[18:49] ---
it's all over.
[18:52] ---
What I'd like to request from you is simple.
[18:56] ---
Henceforth, I want you to permanently
remove the provisions in your plans
[19:00] ---
allowing you to incorporate
and consume the lives of others at will.
[19:06] ---
That's all.
[19:08] ---
It's something everyone else
observes as a matter of course.
[19:13] ---
Oh yes, would you also
tell me more about DRAGON?
[19:16] ---
Is that something you need to know about?
[19:19] ---
The fellows in GROUP requested I ask you.
[19:23] ---
I am doing nothing more than
carrying out matters point by point
[19:28] ---
that are necessary to keep Academy City safe.
[19:31] ---
"DRAGON" is just a word that has
the virtue of sounding dangerous.
[19:36] ---
You may call it barbaric,
[19:38] ---
but that's because you don't know about DRAGON.
[19:41] ---
I am the same, you know.
[19:44] ---
I carry out actions that could
be called barbaric, when needed.
[19:49] ---
Are we at an impasse?
[19:51] ---
The "Academy City" that we both wish to protect
[19:53] ---
must mean two different things to us.
[19:57] ---
I see.
[20:03] ---
Did you not take a moment to think?
[20:06] ---
About the possibility that, like you,
[20:09] ---
Oyafune Monaka might
take steps to defend her own life?
[20:14] ---
Wh-What?!
[20:19] ---
Unabara Mitsuki!
[20:21] ---
Oh, are you sure that's
the name you want to go with?
[20:24] ---
I was sure you were going to call me "Etzali."
[20:29] ---
Then Oyafune is...
[20:31] ---
That coward is actually watching
from a safe distance, is she?
[20:36] ---
A good question. The talisman I use
uses human skin as its material,
[20:42] ---
but Ms. Oyafune didn't hesitate for a moment.
[20:46] ---
Peeling off ten centimeters of
her skin must have been pretty painful,
[20:50] ---
even if it was from her arm.
[20:53] ---
Now, why don't you tell me about DRAGON? Or...
[20:57] ---
...would you like to experience
the kind of pain that Ms. Oyafune,
[21:03] ---
the woman you called a coward, endured?
[21:06] ---
Minobe!
[21:11] ---
I always have two security outfits on hand
[21:14] ---
in case someone close to me betrays me.
[21:17] ---
If it comes to it, they can
always end up killing each other.
[21:25] ---
Why? Why have all of the other
security guards besides you been killed?!
[21:38] ---
It can't be!
[21:40] ---
Did you never consider the possibility
[21:41] ---
that others might have infiltrated
the darker side of Academy City,
[21:45] ---
much as you have done?
[21:48] ---
Técpatl! And Tochtli!
[23:24] ---
"Preview"
[23:25] ---
It appears in the form of Fuse=KAZAKIRI.
[23:28] ---
The aeon passes from Osiris to Horus.
[23:30] ---
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
[23:34] ---
Next time, "DRAGON."
[23:36] ---
When science and magic cross paths,
the story begins.
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