# 17 - DRAGON
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GRVNZK5PY/a-certain-magical-index)
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With you being a part of
this dark outfit called "GROUP,"
**[00:06] ---**
the usual intelligence networks
could not pin down your location.
**[00:10] ---**
So we used Shiokishi, here at the
core of Academy City, instead. Etzali,
**[00:15] ---**
we're here to kill you.
**[00:18] ---**
It can't be...!
**[00:20] ---**
Yes. The original text of the grimoire.
**[00:38] ---**
Normally, that blast would have
directly struck celestial bodies,
**[00:43] ---**
but apparently, the rabbit bones
that were used to fuel it were poor.
**[00:47] ---**
What did you do?
What have you done to Tochtli?!
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Rabbit bones.
**[00:53] ---**
Do I have to draw you
a picture for you to understand?
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Watching this is entertaining, isn't it?
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I'll bet she doesn't
even have half her bones left.
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Técpatl...
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Técpatl!!
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Nice. This is the way our fight should be.
**[01:14] ---**
Let's expend all of our knowledge
in seizing Aztec control.
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K-K-Kinuhata!!
**[01:51] ---**
I'll kill you now. You don't mind, do you?
**[01:54] ---**
No, I don't. I'm not so petty as to take
offense at other people's drivel, after all.
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"#17 DRAGON"
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I know that Kihara Amata was able
to break through your "Reflection" barrier
**[02:25] ---**
by pulling his punch back just before impact.
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Also,
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Kakine Teitoku used matter
that doesn't exist in our world.
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I see.
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I can't exactly take a page from their
exceptional methods and duplicate them.
**[02:44] ---**
What a third-stringer.
Even with your modest skills,
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all you can do is follow
that black-hearted old man's orders.
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A dude like you says he's the heir of
those who fought in the name of justice?
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Does that bastard Shiokishi
seem like a good guy to you?
**[03:00] ---**
Are you in the right for following him?
Don't make me laugh.
**[03:06] ---**
It's true, the word "good"
is always exploited by those in power.
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However, if you relegate everything to evil,
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is that going to make every
last one of the world's problems better?
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All your kind of evil is doing
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is scavenging the scraps
that drop from good's table.
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You scumbag. The moment you
consider them to be table scraps,
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it shows that your good isn't really genuine.
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Are you saying that a villain like
you knows someone who's good?
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Damn straight. So much that it
pisses me off just thinking back about it.
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I see.
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But you will never see this good person again,
because you're going to die here.
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Your electrode has been modified,
so it can be controlled remotely.
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Once you are isolated
from the Misaka Network,
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your fighting strength drops to zero.
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This is the good I'm talking about.
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What it takes for a man
to keep on struggling to be good,
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while living in a world full of miscreants.
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What...?
**[04:20] ---**
You were ultra-familiar
with fighting against espers,
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and had the ability to
determine our weaknesses.
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On the other hand, you didn't seem
to understand that I am a person,
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who has ultra-fought hard to stay alive.
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Ah, I almost forgot.
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The most dangerous thing for me,
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being virtually unbeatable
in close-quarters fighting,
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is taking an ultra-precise attack
from someplace out of my reach.
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With the way you spam your firepower,
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Sunazara Chimitsu was a
much deadlier shot than you are.
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You had supplementary... liquid nitrogen...?
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The original text is streaming
inside my head. But it doesn't matter.
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Even if this ends up ruining me...
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It's a matter of experience, Etzali.
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If you're going to use this as a weapon,
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taking steps to prevent the backflow
of knowledge is fundamental.
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So then,
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you haven't actually *read*
the original text, have you?
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Huh...?
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How...?
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Did you know that the
original texts of grimoires
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favor those who can spread
their knowledge the most...?
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You transcribed the stone tablet...?
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You've never come face to face
with the original text's knowledge...
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Did you think the original text
would let you get away with that...?
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H-How...?
**[06:32] ---**
This is a jamming device.
**[06:36] ---**
What?
**[06:37] ---**
Simple electronic jamming would
also affect the Misaka Network.
**[06:43] ---**
I analyzed the EM waves from before
and calculated their inverse.
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This is how evil works. There isn't
a lick of difference between you and me.
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And the last thing I am is good.
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Which makes you a prize-winning villain
for using the same methods.
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You kind of overdid it, there.
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You might have ultra-gotten
the gun on your own,
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but how did you get your hands
on a six-winger attack helicopter?
**[07:13] ---**
What are you talking about?
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Huh?
**[07:15] ---**
If I could get my hands
on an attack helicopter,
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then I'd have obviously hit you
from beyond your range, wouldn't I?
**[07:22] ---**
Then, who did, exactly?
Is there someone else ultra-out to get us?
**[07:28] ---**
It couldn't be!
**[07:32] ---**
Hamazura!
**[07:33] ---**
Ultra-get out of here!
They're probably here after you!
**[07:37] ---**
Huh?
**[07:38] ---**
Let's go, Hamazura.
**[07:40] ---**
B-But what about Kinuhata?
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Hurry!
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Damn it!
**[07:55] ---**
Ultra-what do you think you're doing?
**[07:57] ---**
Did you know that Aleister is devising
and carrying out some kind of plan?
**[08:03] ---**
Kamijo Toma and Accelerator
are two of the irregular factors
**[08:07] ---**
that fall within the
tolerance levels of that plan.
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That's why they can be situated
at the center of that plan
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and made use of as much
as needed to benefit it.
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On the other hand,
that isn't true of Hamazura Shiage.
**[08:23] ---**
That Level 0 is a factor that
was supposed to have been killed
**[08:26] ---**
during the conflict among our dark subgroups.
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Hamazura Shiage, a Level 0
without any power or role to play,
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is trying to achieve
something all on his own.
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Some new value, which not even
Aleister himself is aware of.
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Depending on what that is,
it can potentially damage Aleister's plan.
**[08:49] ---**
Academy City is marshalling all
of its forces to kill Hamazura Shiage.
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What do you think? Does
he have that much value?
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DRAGON...?
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You must have your suppositions...
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You're not going to try to tell us you
don't know anything about it, are you?
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It would be easier for me if I didn't,
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but unfortunately, I did learn about it...
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It's something that no one
should ever lay eyes on...
**[09:24] ---**
What is DRAGON? Where is DRAGON, exactly?
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What are you talking about?
DRAGON is everywhere...
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Look, DRAGON is there
behind you, right now...
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Huh?
**[09:46] ---**
DRAGON? The name is not wrong.
The title of "Angel" also applies.
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However, if you want to
more precisely express who I am,
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you should choose the following name--
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the one who once gave
the eccentric sorcerer named Crowley
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the necessary knowledge
in the necessary amount,
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"Aiwass."
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Takitsubo!
**[10:36] ---**
Hamazura... run...
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The way we're going, we'll both be caught.
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S-So...
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Hamazura...
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Be quiet.
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Somebody...
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Somebody...
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It's all right, Hamazura.
I'll buy you some time.
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You can't be serious!
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Please, somebody come along. Some hero,
**[11:22] ---**
who shows up out of nowhere to save her life.
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Please!
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Hey, we made it, Takitsubo!
I don't know who stepped in to help,
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but we made it through!
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Hamazura...
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It can't be...
**[12:02] ---**
Don't let these two-bit bastards
come and take your life.
**[12:08] ---**
I've decided that *I'm* the one
who gets to tear you limb from limb.
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You look like you're mystified.
**[12:19] ---**
Is my sudden appearance really
that incomprehensible to you?
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What are you, then?
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And why the hell did you wrap yourself
in the codename "DRAGON"?
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That's where I'm going
to have to begin explaining, is it?
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My identity is not that big a deal.
**[12:37] ---**
I'm just an insignificant
little *hboie*being*ab*.
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Huh?
**[12:42] ---**
Oh, dear. I can't even express
that degree of meaning in this world?
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Are you familiar with
the phrase "Fuse=KAZAKIRI"?
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Huh?
**[12:53] ---**
Hmm... It is a being known
as an artificial angel.
**[12:59] ---**
A mass of AIM dispersion fields.
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It is also something of a production line
used to give me, Aiwass, form.
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Now, appearing for the fun of it is
fine and all, but now what do I do?
**[13:14] ---**
What would you like to do?
Would you like to upset Aleister's aspirations
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based on information you receive from me?
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Are you just jerking my chain?
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I won't be the one upset
if Aleister's plan is derailed.
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Whether it takes 10,000
years, or even 100,000,
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I'll just wait for another opportunity
for me to *asbu*manifest*oagbv*--
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make that "emerge."
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And just so you know,
the plan that Aleister is undertaking
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is already starting to come apart.
**[13:46] ---**
What?
**[13:47] ---**
The fractures are slowly starting to widen.
**[13:51] ---**
If it keeps up, Last Order,
the keystone of his plan,
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is certain to disintegrate sooner or later.
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Bring it on.
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I don't care if you're a mass of AIM
dispersion fields or an angel or whatever,
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but if you maliciously mean to do harm
to that kid, I'll give you no mercy!
**[14:24] ---**
Oh, no, that was my mistake.
**[14:28] ---**
Oh, Aleister, you messed with
the *sn*structural*bozl* virus, didn't you?
**[14:33] ---**
Goodness, I'm sorry.
If you want to *sbgp*kill*napedv* me,
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you'll have to do something
about these *nspidh*glowingwings*gprws*.
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They have a mind of their own.
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*abeohougbao*kill*woweuferya*!
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"Do what thou wilt shall be
the whole of the Law," eh?
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Is that all you have?
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I tried drawing you out by
explicitly mentioning Last Order, but...
**[15:14] ---**
Hmm?
**[15:16] ---**
I remember you saying you appeared
by using AIM diffusion fields, right?
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And to let you control them,
that kid was infected with the virus,
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to create that Fuse=KAZAKIRI business.
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If that's the case...
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That's using your head.
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You've reset it to work
on the whole Misaka Network.
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But do you realize that in doing so,
**[15:49] ---**
you've personally cut
the lifeline keeping you alive?
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Shut up!
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I see. Then go ahead and show me...
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...thy "Law."
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How is she still alive?!
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Hamazura!
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I see you make as quick an escape as ever,
but are you sure you should?
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What will happen to your beloved Takitsubo?
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Oh, what should I start burning first?
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Maybe I'll torch this
little face until it sizzles.
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What are you playing the tragic heroine for?
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You're not simply a helpless
princess, are you?
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I thought you had the
strength to fight, don't you?
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If you're too scared to take
the ability crystal, you can run.
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But Hamazura will be charred
to death if you do,
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because you left him here to die.
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That's it, that's it! Hurry up and
swallow your ace-in-the-hole ability crystal!
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Hamazura...
**[17:08] ---**
Mugino!!
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What was that, Hamazura?
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Who was it you were trying to protect?
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I can't help it if you
finish her off yourself!
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Huh?
**[17:28] ---**
Mugino Shizuri!
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It looks like killing you once wasn't enough!
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No, not enough. Not enough at all!
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Are you mocking me, Hamazura?!
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What kind of ninja do you think you are,
using a smokescreen?! Come on!
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I did it!
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Hamazura...
**[18:13] ---**
Did you think common mass-produced
weapons would be enough
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to take down the 4th-ranked Meltdowner,
**[18:21] ---**
Hamazura?
**[18:31] ---**
Is this an endurance
testing room for air drag?
**[18:35] ---**
Come on, this is ridiculous.
**[18:38] ---**
Neither I nor Kakine Teitoku
have been allowed to even die.
**[18:42] ---**
It seems that the governing
board chairman wants to use us--
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to use our Level 5 abilities so badly,
he even did this to our bodies.
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Tell me, Hamazura,
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how did I become such a hideous monster?
**[18:57] ---**
Mugino...
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Is that what you want me to say, Hamazura?!
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Why are you shaking like a leaf?
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As long as you're at it, why don't
you let out a rare and amusing scream?!
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I'm going to coat you
in melted iron and let it cool,
**[19:17] ---**
to turn you into a fascinating work of art!
**[19:25] ---**
Huh?
**[19:28] ---**
Warning, experiment commencing.
**[19:31] ---**
Hamazura!
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Is it... over?
**[19:44] ---**
Aleister is such a worrywart.
**[19:47] ---**
It seems that he put up more
robust barriers against me than I thought.
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Damn you...
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I hate to do this,
after you fought so hard already,
**[20:02] ---**
but apparently, I have
the ability to change my form.
**[20:13] ---**
Hamazura... Hamazura!
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Hamazura,
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listen to me. Get ultra-away
from there, right this instant.
**[20:26] ---**
Kinuhata?
**[20:27] ---**
There's a detached force
from Academy City on its way to you.
**[20:30] ---**
Take Takitsubo and ultra-run away, fast!
**[20:33] ---**
R-Run away where?
**[20:39] ---**
Aleister, you wouldn't happen
to admire them, would you?
**[20:45] ---**
Those who follow the feelings
that spring up within them
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without having to be told by anyone to do so,
**[20:50] ---**
and try to keep going straight forward?
**[20:53] ---**
Those who have committed
great mistakes in the past,
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and even while struggling with their sins,
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"I swear I will save the kid's life"
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try to keep moving down the right path?
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Those who, without being chosen by anyone,
**[21:03] ---**
and without having anything
even close to qualifications,
**[21:07] ---**
can become a hero for
the sake of someone they love?
**[21:12] ---**
Each of them are people who,
no matter how often they're beaten down,
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still get back up on their feet.
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They seem to be equipped
with something you don't have.
**[21:25] ---**
As such, it's only natural
for you to want to be like them.
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After all, at the time, all you
could do was slump down and lament.
**[21:35] ---**
Aiwass, I will make use of anything I can.
**[21:40] ---**
Even if that means using you.
**[21:44] ---**
Allow me to say something, as well.
**[21:47] ---**
That there is no guarantee anywhere
**[21:50] ---**
that the absolute advantage
you have will last forever.
**[21:58] ---**
The girl is a difficult matter.
She will most definitely perish at some point.
**[22:05] ---**
If you don't want to mourn later,
**[22:07] ---**
you should proceed down a path
other than the one you're already on.
**[22:12] ---**
Go to Russia. Specifically,
the Elizalina Alliance of Independent Nations.
**[22:19] ---**
Remember the term "Index
Librorum Prohibitorum."
**[22:24] ---**
There will be an
important item pertaining to it.
**[22:34] ---**
Russia...
**[22:43] ---**
Hamazura, what is it?
**[22:45] ---**
It's nothing.
**[22:52] ---**
Don't leave me.
**[22:55] ---**
All right.
**[22:56] ---**
As if I'd leave you.
**[22:59] ---**
Damn it, I'll never leave you, understand?
**[23:20] ---**
Just you wait.
**[23:25] ---**
"Preview"
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Academy City and Russia.
Everything becomes embroiled and it begins.
**[23:29] ---**
What begins?
That much is obvious. World War III.
**[23:33] ---**
Next time, "The Alliance
of Independent Nations."
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When science and magic cross paths,
the story begins.
**[23:40] ---**
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