# 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...?
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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?
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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,
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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?
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I know that you're going
someplace that's awfully dangerous.
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If there are people there
who are in trouble, like I was,
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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?
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What am I supposed to do now?
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Who cares?
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It's your life. You decide.
**[14:38] ---**
M-Ms. Oyafune?
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My eyes have been opened at last.
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Let's go march over to Shiokishi's place.
**[14:47] ---**
That's the best course of action.
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Have you reached Kinuhata yet?
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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?!
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Something pretty substantial
is happening, isn't it?!
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Look, Hamazura.
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She could be in the underground mall.
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This is a mess.
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What do we do? Keep going, or turn back?
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Hamazura!
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Kinuhata!
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Ultra-hit the deck!
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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,
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I could pump you full of lead.
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Hamazura! Ultra-get out of here, now!
**[16:12] ---**
Kinuhata!
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The peer authorization system
has been activated?!
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So she's using that here, is she?
**[16:24] ---**
What would you like me to do?
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Her activation has neutralized
the political defense functionality here.
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Moreover...
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GROUP?! Why, that vixen!
**[16:35] ---**
But will she actually resort
to using hardline measures?
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It *does* have to do with DRAGON, after all.
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They're certain to be coming.
So we'll engage them here. This is all-out war.
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Yes, sir.
**[16:56] ---**
That deal up on top is an AIM jammer.
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Control over our abilities
will be pretty restricted.
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Ha, which means he's
covered his bases against us.
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So then, what do we do?
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That's a given.
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We break straight on through.
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Let's go. Tsuchimikado,
you stand guard out here.
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Speaking to Shiokishi
one-on-one will be your job.
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We'll stay ahead of you and
break down the walls as we go,
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but you'll have to stand in
the line of fire at the very end.
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Musujime!
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No response. Something else must have
happened on the other side of the wall.
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Tch, you're useless.
**[17:48] ---**
Might I challenge you to a fight?
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I thought I told you I was
praying we'd never meet again.
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You're the one who's coming to *us*, aren't you?
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I also told you to make
every effort to see that we don't.
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Do you know about DRAGON?
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Huh?
**[18:14] ---**
Poison. Stopping Musujime,
who is able to pass through walls,
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has a higher priority than you do.
**[18:22] ---**
Who are you?
**[18:24] ---**
Koga. I'm a descendent of the Koga.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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?
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The "Academy City" that we both wish to protect
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must mean two different things to us.
**[19:57] ---**
I see.
**[20:03] ---**
Did you not take a moment to think?
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About the possibility that, like you,
**[20:09] ---**
Oyafune Monaka might
take steps to defend her own life?
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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.
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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.
**[23:41] ---**
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