# 20 - A Reason to Protect
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GRVNZK5PY/a-certain-magical-index)
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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?
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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!
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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.
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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.
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But even if I am, it's not
Fiamma that I should be bowing to.
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Well now, it's time for
the delightful Project B'Tselem.
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"Preview"
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The project kicks off at last.
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The earth shakes, the skies turn
pitch-black, and strange objects rise.
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The light of destruction descends.
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Next time, "The Star of B'Tselem."
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When science and magic cross paths,
the story begins.
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