20 - Virus Code (Final Signal)

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    Accelerator runs into Misaka No. 20001.\n
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    Nicknamed "Last Order," she has an\nunauthorized program in her head,\n
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    which had been encoded there by\na researcher named Amai Ao.\n
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    If it triggers, then an indiscriminate attack\n
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    by the nearly ten thousand\nSisters will be carried out.\n
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    What will you do, Accelerator?\n
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    Wait, I don't appear in this one, either?!\n
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    "A Certain Magical Index"\n
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    *Some day-to-day is a parallel world *
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    *A masterpiece of thousands of timelines, *
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    *no two of which are the same, *
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    *interwoven into a new time and space *
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    *The tip of a pen scribbling out a script on blank paper freezes *
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    *Strive for originality, since you're going down this road anyway
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    (Believe) Race along (far away)
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    (Feel) Kick off from the ground (kick the ground) *
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    *The sensation of living your life ablaze for something *
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    *is sure to be power enough to rival anyone *
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    *I likely know what happiness is at this moment (when I believed it) *
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    *This feeling marks a new page for me (I can go to the next stage) *
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    *It's only my thing *
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    "#20 Virus Code (Final Signal)"\n
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    I used to have a name like other people, too.\n
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    My family name had two characters,\nand my given name had three.\n
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    It wasn't a particularly unusual name.\n
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    This is bullcrap.\n
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    The virus that I've isolated is set to trigger\n
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    at midnight tonight, September 1st.\n
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    If it does start to activate, it will run rampant,\n
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    spreading through the entire Misaka Network,\n
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    and infecting all the Sisters.\nIf that happens, there's no stopping it.\n
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    Huh? A man in a lab coat?\n
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    Y-Yes. He said he was the girl's relative,\n
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    so we turned her over to him.\n
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    Um, do you have any idea who he is?\n
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    Distastefully so.\n
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    He what?!\n
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    Hey, left to itself, the virus is\ngonna activate on its own, right?\n
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    If so, why would he make a move on the kid?\n
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    I don't know the answer to that, either.\n
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    It's possible that he's already out of here, isn't it?\n
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    There are any number\nof organization that would hide him.\n
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    Word is that someone from the outside\n
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    broke through the security\nnet and slipped into Academy City.\n
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    The Security Code was orange this afternoon;\n
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    right now, it has reached red.\n
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    Passage in and out of\nAcademy City is completely forbidden.\n
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    Amai should still be in the city.\n
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    I'll bet he's crashing at some acquaintance's place.\n
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    I'm curious whether there's anyone\nhe could call an acquaintance\n
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    in the first place.\n
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    You mean the guy is scum, like me.\n
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    With the closure of the laboratory,\n
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    he's incurred quite a bit of debt.\n
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    I'm guessing his friendships\nlast as long as his money holds out.\n
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    Hmm... Well, that means he\nshould still be prowling around town.\n
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    People's actions quickly tend to become simpler\n
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    the more breathing room they lose.\n
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    Hold on just a minute. You're not--\n
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    "Keep Out"\n
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    Damn it! The way things are going...\n
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    Please, just a little longer.\n
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    Hang in there until the virus activates!\n
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    Now then, what to do?\n
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    Take it easy, middle-ager.\nYou're embarrassing yourself.\n
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    You there, Yoshikawa?\nYeah, I've secured the kid.\n
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    Huh?\n
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    Hey, the kid's got what\nlook like electrodes on her face.\n
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    That's probably a Sisters' physical exam kit.\n
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    What's a BC operating ratio?\n
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    That's her brain cell operating\nrate. "BC" stands for "brain cell."\n
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    Brain cell operating rate?\n
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    Hey, can I use this device to get rid of the virus?\n
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    It'd take quite a bit of time\nto bring her back from here.\n
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    No way. We need a specialized\nincubator and a learning apparatus\n
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    to overwrite her mind.\n
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    Huh? Hey, are you...\n
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    Yes. I'm in my car now, driving toward you.\n
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    I thought this would save us some time\n
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    over having you come back to the lab.\n
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    Are you done analyzing the virus code?\n
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    I'd say I'm about eighty percent there.\n
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    I'll be finished before midnight arrives.\n
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    Geez, how much trouble is\nthis kid planning to put me through?\n
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    Mi... sa...\n
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    Misa... ka Misa... ka Misa...\nka! Misaka! Misaka! Misaka! \n
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    Misa-Misa-Misa-Misa-Misa-Misa...\n
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    Hey, Yoshikawa, what's going on here?\n
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    Keep quiet a minute.\n
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    That's it, all right.\n
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    What is? What's happening?\n
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    It's the virus code.\nIt's getting ready to execute.\n
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    There are still four more hours until time is up.\n
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    Could that have been dummy information?\n
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    Listen up, Accelerator!\n
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    It's too soon to despair just yet.\nYou've got to take action.\n
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    Action? There's still something I can do?\n
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    Before the virus is\ndistributed over the Misaka Network,\n
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    it's being converted into a "host command,"\n
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    which none of the Sisters will\nbe able to go against.\n
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    That will take about ten minutes to complete.\n
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    You do know that there's only\none thing you can do now, right?\n
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    Dispose of Last Order.\n
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    Save the world by killing her.\n
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    Damn it all!\n
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    I may be the strongest guy around,\n
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    but my ability consists of only\naltering the direction of power.\n
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    And it's only used to kill people,\nat that. All I can think of to do\n
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    is to touch someone's skin, \n
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    and reverse the flow of\ntheir blood and bioelectricity.\n
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    Wait, what was that?\nWhat did I stumble upon there? Think.\n
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    Reverse the bioelectricity...\n
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    The contents of this datastick\n
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    are the kid's-- Last Order's\npre-infection personality data.\n
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    Hey, if I can get control\nof the electrical signals in her brain,\n
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    couldn't we mess around with her personality data?\n
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    What are you talking-- You don't mean,\n
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    you would take the place of\nthe learning apparatus? You can't.\n
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    It's not like I can't do it.\nIf I can master "reflection,"\n
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    it shouldn't be any surprise if\nI can take the next step...\n
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    to "controlling."\n
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    Even assuming that you can\nget control of Last Order's brain,\n
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    it won't be possible for you\nto completely eliminate the virus!\n
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    If you fail, it won't just be the Sisters,\n
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    it will mean many more casualties.\n
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    The only way to avoid\nthat is to give up on Last Order.\n
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    Or are you telling me you can prepare a vaccine?\n
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    Excuse me, are you listening?\n
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    I can do this.\nWho the hell does she think I am?\n
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    If I collate the pre-infection data,\n
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    all I have to do is erase\nall of the excess data, right?\n
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    That's simple enough.\n
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    Here goes.\n
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    Geez, after all that\neveryone has done to this kid,\n
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    I won't let them get away\nwith "Sorry, we couldn't save her."\n
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    Collating the pre-infection data...\n
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    Object code count: 357081.\n
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    So if I erase all of this virus code,\n
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    the kid will go back to the\nstate she was in one week ago.\n
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    Before she ever met me.\n
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    Execute command... Delete!\n
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    Delete! Delete! Delete! Delete!\n
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    Code CIIEB... Resist MA...\n
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    From route A to W, V7E8... \n
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    --Waveform red from\ncode 08 through code 72 via route C...\n
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    --Remaining code count: 173542.\n--Waveform red from code 08 through code 72 via route C...\n
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    --Remaining code count: 173542.\n--2... B... A... I... 9... M...C... O... R... E...\n
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    --D... O... I... 8... 9... 0...R... 4... 5... O... \n
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    --I wonder what I'm erasing along with the virus.\n--D... O... I... 8... 9... 0...R... 4... 5... O... \n
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    --I wonder what I'm erasing along with the virus.\n--5... M... R... E... X... N... I... O...\n
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    --So what if I am? The kid is better off forgetting it all.\n--5... M... R... E... X... N... I... O...\n
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    --So what if I am? The kid is better off forgetting it all.\n--Assignment area D at point A8 blocked...\n
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    --So what if I am? The kid is better off forgetting it all.\n--Bypassing code 56 to route S... \n
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    --Remaining code count: 23891.\n--X... M... N... Q... T... P...\n
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    Ten seconds to go. This is no sweat!\n
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    Do not... interfere...!\n
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    You've gotta be kidding me! \n
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    I'm doing electron\nmicroscope-level precision work here!\n
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    I don't have the operational power\nremaining to divert to reflection.\n
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    If I take my hand off of\nthis kid and go back to "reflect,"\n
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    then even if a nuclear bomb were\nto drop on me, I won't get a scratch.\n
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    For crying out loud, what wishful thinking.\n
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    That by saving someone,\n
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    I might be able to get a second chance myself...\n
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    He's dead?\n
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    He's dead, huh?\n
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    How am I still alive?\n
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    Error... Break code 000001 to 357081...\n
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    Host command has been\ncanceled due to illegal process.\n
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    Delivery terminated.\nSubject No. 20001 restarting.\n
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    Canceled?\n
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    Restarting? You mean...\n
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    ...it failed?\n
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    H-How?! \n
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    S-So that's it. Just before\nthe bullet penetrated your brain,\n
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    you managed to reflect it, huh?\n
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    Isn't that right?!\n
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    What are you planning to do now?\nIt's too late for someone like you.\n
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    Hmph, I know. It's ridiculous to believe\n
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    that someone would save\nhuman scum like me at this point.\n
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    Flat out wishful thinking.\n
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    It even makes me sick. But even so,\n
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    that has nothing to do with this kid.\n
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    Sure, I may have\nslaughtered over ten thousand Sisters,\n
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    but that doesn't make it okay\nfor me to watch the other ten thousand die.\n
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    Yeah, I know, it's just lip service.\n
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    But it isn't. No matter\nwhat kind of scum we are,\n
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    or what reasons we trot out,\n
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    it doesn't make it all right for her to get killed!\n
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    His reflection... isn't working...?\n
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    So you didn't have the strength\nto settle things like a hero after all.\n
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    It's no wonder.\nPeople like us are all like that.\n
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    That's just how it is.\n
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    Y-Yoshikawa... \n
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    Kikyo...\n
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    I'm sorry.\n
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    I never seem to carry\nanything all the way through.\n
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    Not that I'm kind, just soft. \n
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    While I didn't have the nerve to\nshoot you anywhere vital,\n
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    I guess I can't let you get away, either.\n
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    Perhaps allowing your suffering\nto be drawn out needlessly \n
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    may have been a decision so\nsoft as to be cruel, huh?\n
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    I don't know what happened here\n
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    except what I gleaned\nfrom what I heard over the phone,\n
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    but there isn't any sign of trouble\nerupting "outside," at least.\n
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    Oh, you don't have to worry about him.\n
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    I have a friend who's this unusual little doctor.\n
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    He's got a face like a frog,\nso he's somewhat lacking in presence,\n
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    but he's good enough to be\nnicknamed "Heaven Canceller." \n
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    Knowing his skill, he should\npull him through somehow.\n
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    Why?! I can't understand this! \n
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    As someone who always\nweighs risk and chance in the balance,\n
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    this is an impossible decision\nfor a personality like yours to reach!\n
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    The thing is, I didn't actually\nwant to be a researcher like this.\n
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    I wanted to be a schoolteacher.\n
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    Not in a rigid capacity,\nlike an instructor or a lecturer,\n
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    I wanted to be... a nice teacher.\n
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    One who remembered\neach of her students' faces,\n
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    who they could come to,\nno matter what problems they had,\n
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    who could smile broadly,\nwithout expecting anything in return,\n
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    who would be seen crying\nat graduation, and be teased about it--\n
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    that's the kind of nice teacher I wanted to be.\n
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    I'm sure some of that\nmust still be lingering with me.\n
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    I've always wanted to try doing\nsomething, not because I was being soft,\n
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    but because I was being nice.\n
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    I wanted to try acting like a\nteacher who would do anything\n
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    for just one of her students. \n
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    It's over, Amai Ao.\n
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    It must be frightening for you to die alone.\n
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    If you're going to take\nsomeone with you, choose me.\n
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    The last thing I'm going to do\nis to let you take a child with you.\n
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    On the one act of kindness\nthis body has performed.\n
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    Heh, sure enough,\n"kindness" doesn't suit you.\n
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    It has turned to strength, instead.\n
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    I survived, then?\n
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    Of course you did.\nWho do you think operated on you?\n
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    But I thought I was shot\nthrough the heart at point-blank range.\n
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    More accurately, the coronary\nartery extending from the heart.\n
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    But either way, you were\nas good as dead on the spot.\n
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    If you want to thank someone, thank that boy.\n
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    It looks like he had the\nability to manipulate your blood flow.\n
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    He passed the blood from one\nopening in your ruptured artery \n
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    to the other, almost like\nthere was some invisible hose,\n
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    without spilling a single drop.\n
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    Even unconscious,\nhe still must have kept using his power\n
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    until you went into the operating room.\n
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    And he's not out of the woods yet, either.\n
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    He seems to have taken a lot of damage,\ncentered around his frontal cortex.\n
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    His verbal function\nand computational abilities\n
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    will both likely be affected.\n
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    Computational abilities? Then, his powers are...\n
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    Oh, it shouldn't be a problem.\n
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    When something is unworkable,\nwork something out-- that's my creedo.\n
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    No matter what, I'll restore his verbal\nfunctions and computational abilities.\n
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    No matter what.\n
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    It looks like you've created quite the monster,\n
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    and I'm going to make use of it.\n
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    With ten thousand brains all linked together,\n
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    I think they can safely spare some of it\n
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    to offset one person's\nspeaking and calculating skills.\n
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    The Misaka Network-- Where is Last Order?\n
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    If you mean that girl, you needn't worry.\n
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    We have a girl very much like her in our charge.\n
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    Now, I need to get going.\nWhat are you going to do?\n
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    What am I going to do?\n
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    It looks like your little incident\nhas been found out by the higher-ups.\n
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    The laboratory has been dissolved,\n
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    and the experiment completely terminated.\n
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    In other words, you've been laid off.\n
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    Oh. Then I can't go on\nliving as a researcher, huh?\n
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    There are other paths you\ncould take. Any number of them.\n
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    Listen, please, help that boy.\n
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    If you don't, I'll never forgive you.\n
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    Who do you think you're talking to?\n
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    That is my battlefield,\n
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    and I will definitely come\nhome from the battlefield, you'll see.\n
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    And I'll bring back with me a patient\nwho has been fighting alone all this time.\n
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    Ha, I'm the one who has killed\nten thousand Sisters.\n
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    And you want such a fiend to save who?
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    What do you know? He can do it if he just tries.\n
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    *In the casual present *
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    *and even the unseen morrow, *
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    *my unwavering feelings, at least *
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    *remain hidden within my heart *
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    *I press through the voices, *
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    *laughing it off as a coincidence, *
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    *to make it all the way across *
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    *I believe in myself *
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    *What comes back to my mind is that *
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    *for the wishes I wanted to come true, I always said
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    "one more time, just one more time," *
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    *and kept on pushing
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    (just a little bit) *
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    *Sure, the feelings that I've lost *
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    *may change form, but still, *
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    *until the day comes when I get them back, *
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    *I am sure I'll keep looking for them
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    (Just a little bit, one more time) *
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    "Preview"\n
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    "Preview"\nIt's the second term opening ceremony,\n
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    and Academy City is rocked\nby sorcerers who have snuck in.\n
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    There's also one other,\nmysterious transfer student.\n
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    Imaginary-numbered school districts?\nWhat are those?\n
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    Next time, "Counter Stop."\n
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    When science and magic cross\npaths, the story begins.\n