20 - A Reason to Protect

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    The bleeding has been stopped...?
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    But why? Misaka shouldn't have survived.
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    It couldn't be! He saved Misaka?!
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    What is this?!
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    Why did you save this Misaka?!
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    "A Certain Magical Index III"
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    "#20 A Reason to Protect"
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    Vento...
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    I don't like the way
    Fiamma does things, that's all.
[02:46] ---
    Do you know where Fiamma of the Right went?
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    Yeah.
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    I have a pretty good guess.
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    You seem to want to shelter her
    for your own self-satisfaction.
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    But I can't wait for the
    judgment to come down
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    as to whether it actually works out
    to be her salvation or not.
[03:19] ---
    Whatever you might be hiding,
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    it's not like you stopped dead in
    your tracks where you were, right?
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    You kept moving forward for all you
    were worth despite it all, didn't you?
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    And as a result of that,
    you've saved a number of people's lives,
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    and I'm including stopping
    the coup d'état in Britain, as well.
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    In short, I think your
    life is one to be proud of.
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    All the same... All the same,
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    it isn't up to me to decide if
    the actions I've taken up to now...
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    ...were in Index's best
    interests or not, is it?
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    Keep on running!
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    Run!
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    Sorry to end up dragging
    you into all of this.
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    Now is not the time to be apologizing!
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    Besides, you're providing Takitsubo
    with some underground shelter.
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    That's reason enough!
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    Did it jam up?
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    No.
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    They're enjoying killing people.
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    They're planning to
    kill everyone in the village.
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    We won't let them.
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    Weapons... Don't you have
    anything in the way of weapons?
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    Nothing that would penetrate
    that kind of armor.
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    Your loyalty stickers!
[05:43] ---
    Huh?
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    I remember you saying you were
    saving up the landmines you dug up
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    to turn over to an NGO, right?
[05:54] ---
    Can we really hold the line?
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    This is not a defensive war of attrition.
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    This is a mop-up battle
    to prepare for our attack.
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    The mobile fortress Glastonbury...
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    By defining the area around
    the fortress as British territory by force,
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    we're dramatically extending
    Curtana's usage range.
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    It truly is a large-scale
    magical item for invasions,
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    regardless of the intent
    of the enemy, don't you think?
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    Yes.
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    One more thing, just to make sure.
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    Wah! If this keeps up, those
    French dumbasses will capture me,
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    and they'll all rape me to death!!
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    --Keep Princess Carissa safe!!
    --Keep Princess Carissa safe!!
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    You should have been fighting
    with that kind of enthusiasm from the start.
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    That's right.
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    Put me in touch with Queen Elizard.
    On the double.
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    I want permission to spank Princess Carissa.
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    Hey, stop that!
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    If I know Mother, she can't help herself
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    but focus all of Curtana Second's
    power on you, just to let you do that!
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    I wish you wouldn't insult me so.
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    Hmph, the Holy Maiden of Versailles.
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    Your body has undergone
    conditioning at the visceral level
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    to prevent you from being able
    to live outside of Versailles.
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    Performed by the idiotic French
    heavyweights who are afraid of you.
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    Victory is ours! If you had been
    able to come out here directly,
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    the battle may have gone differently.
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    Actually, I am able to move about.
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    That was France's mightiest move to make.
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    What?!
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    It couldn't be! A fragment
    of Curtana Second?!
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    In the course of fighting with my mother,
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    Curtana Original and
    Curtana Second came to blows.
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    This is a byproduct of that.
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    Actually, I am able to move about.
    That is Britain's greatest move to make.
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    Hey!
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    O-Over there!
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    Wha--?!
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    I can't hold it anymore! It will take
    more than that kid's smile to stop it!
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    I wanna destroy all of it!
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    I wanna mow down everything there is!
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    The kind of people who would
    gladly create such a thing!
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    And the guys who are finding
    happiness by benefiting from it!
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    Every last one of them!
    Every last one of them!
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    Accelerator!
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    Why are you here...?
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    Why...? Why...? Why are you here?!
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    You're the hero who saved all the Sisters!
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    What are you talking about?
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    But what about that kid?
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    She hasn't done anything wrong,
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    but she has to suffer as much as she is!
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    Where are you hiding
    yourselves, little kitties?
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    We don't know which
    route they'll be coming in on,
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    and we don't have time
    to dilly-dally setting these things.
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    There's not much choice but to toss them
    like grenades when they get close.
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    So you're coming my way, huh? Bring it on!
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    Okay...
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    ...come at me any way you like!
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    Did that finish him?
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    Damn it, move!
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    It's chilly out today, huh?
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    Just the right kind of
    weather for a barbecue.
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    Heh, it's not over yet.
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    I'll fill you full of holes!
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    Damn!
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    You're supposed to be a hero, right?!
    If you can do things nobody else can do,
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    then turn some of it toward that kid there!
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    It's crazy that a villainous bastard like me
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    has stuck up for her all this time!
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    I can't possibly be a hero!
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    Come no matter what, I can only
    choose bloody methods of fixing things!
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    Why should I have to go through this?!
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    If a hero like you would come
    dashing to the rescue instead...
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    If a hero like you would come
    dashing to the rescue instead,
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    a mistake like this would never
    have happened in the first place.
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    And that kid wouldn't
    have had to suffer like this!
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    Why? Why didn't you die from that, hero?!
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    You don't need a hero.
    Does an average Level 0 like me
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    really look like that big a deal to you?
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    Good guy? Bad guy?
    You've got to be kidding me.
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    Is that the position a person
    has to be in to help someone?
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    Someone right in front of you is crying,
    and you wish they weren't.
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    Someone who can't even ask
    for help is there, struggling to hold on.
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    That's enough, isn't it?
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    You can step up, can't you?!
    You don't need any special position or reason!
[15:56] ---
    It's no skin off your nose
    to stand in the way to shield them!
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    I don't know what you want to protect
    or how it is you've gotten hurt,
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    but if you wanted to protect that kid,
    then do it with your head held high!
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    Be proud that right now,
    you're able to try to keep her safe!
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    You have to choose.
    Are you going to keep protecting her yourself,
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    or are you going to leave everything up
    to someone else and run away?
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    Or do you want my help,
    and we can do this together?
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    I...
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    What do you, yourself, want to do?!
    Call it arrogance or whatever,
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    you have to decide for yourself
    what you can take pride in!
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    I wanted to defend her, no matter what.
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    So I rushed headlong down the path
    I could choose--the path of evil--
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    and got very good at being evil...
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    But...
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    The guy who never even considered
    whether he was good or evil
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    turns out to be the strongest one.
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    I can't protect her with just plain evil.
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    To fight to protect others
    from inexcusable savagery
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    and to give your all to stop
    unnecessary tears from being shed
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    is something to be admired.
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    If I, Acqua of the Rear may be so
    presumptuous, could I lend you a hand?
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    What did you say?
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    The Kremlin Report.
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    Russia's first-priority
    national defense manual.
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    If the mainland is invaded by force,
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    and the nuclear launch facilities
    are about to be taken over,
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    what means will they adopt
    to prevent that from happening?
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    They'll disperse a microbial
    wall--an airborne killer virus!
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    There won't be any evacuation order issued
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    for the Russian soldiers
    who work at the facility,
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    or for the civilians living in the area.
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    The manual's priority is only to secure
    the safety of the nuclear launch sites.
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    However much you tout how just your cause is,
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    the fact is that you're using French soil
    as a springboard to intervene in Russia.
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    And France, which has enjoyed much growth
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    under the protection of
    the Roman Orthodox Church,
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    cannot now afford to cast
    aside their orders--
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    Actually, everyone is aware that
    this war isn't courtesy of Roman Orthodoxy,
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    but because of Fiamma, instead.
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    Right now, we can avoid the
    worst case scenario.
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    So, what will it be?
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    Is the France that I took to be my
    archenemy really this good-for-nothing?
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    Sissy!
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    Look!
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    Sissy?
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    What are you planning to do?
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    Do not tell me...!
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    It is a war zone!
    How do you intend to get there?
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    Oh, um, well, you know...
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    I can't wait, Hamazura.
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    "Index Librorum Prohibitorum..."
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    Welcome to the Elizalina
    Alliance of Independent Nations.
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    Maybe it is all connected.
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    Did I have any room to come off
    so high-and-mighty to Accelerator?
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    I'm not shuffling my feet
    looking for any logical reasons.
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    I'm not protecting her because it's right.
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    I just want to help her, that's all.
[21:19] ---
    Ha-ha! First you stress out,
    then you bounce back.
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    You're pretty busy, aren't you?
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    Sure, I'm a real lowlife.
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    A no-account jerk who's been deceiving Index.
[21:34] ---
    But even if I am, it's not
    Fiamma that I should be bowing to.
[21:44] ---
    Well now, it's time for
    the delightful Project B'Tselem.
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    "Preview"
[23:25] ---
    The project kicks off at last.
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    The earth shakes, the skies turn
    pitch-black, and strange objects rise.
[23:31] ---
    The light of destruction descends.
[23:34] ---
    Next time, "The Star of B'Tselem."
[23:36] ---
    When science and magic cross paths,
    the story begins.
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