# 24 - Imaginary Number School District - Five-Element Agency
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I'm okay with being a monster.\n
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It's because I'm a monster that I didn't die,\n
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even after all the pounding\nthat stone creature gave me.\n
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It's because I'm a monster that\nI can stand up to that stone creature.\n
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I will protect those who\nare dear to me with my power.\n
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That's why I'm... glad to be a monster.\n
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Damn! I'm not about to let it end!\n
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Kazaki--\n
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Kazakiri!!\n
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I'm not going to let it end\nin such a senseless outcome!\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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"#24 Imaginary Number School\nDistrict - Five-Element Agency"\n
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If you're looking for Ellis, I sent him on ahead.\n
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I'll bet he's arriving\nat his target right about now.\n
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Or maybe, he's turned into flesh and blood by now.\n
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Why, you...!\n
**[03:19] ---**
That's good. You stay here and face me.\n
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I let that girl go by.\n
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Do you mean Kazakiri?!\n
**[03:27] ---**
You seem to be able to bring down Ellis, and all.\n
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To start a war.\n
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What the hell are you thinking?\n
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Right now, science and magic\nare both evenly balanced, right?\n
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So why are you doing this?!\n
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When espers use magic,\nit destroys their bodies.\n
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I wonder if you've ever heard that.\n
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What?\n
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Didn't you think it was strange,\nhow anyone would know about that?\n
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They attempted it. About twenty years ago,\n
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a movement was born among one of our posts\n
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to have science and magic join hands.\n
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It tried to give rise to a new crafter,\n
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one who combine their abilities with magic.\n
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The result...\n
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Ellis was my friend.\n
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Ellis was an esper who\nhad been brought to Academy City\n
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by one of the factions at the time.\n
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Thanks to the spells that I taught\nhim, Ellis became a bloody mess.\n
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While trying to allow me\nto escape from the knights\n
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who came to bring down the facility,\n
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Ellis was struck by a mace, and died.\n
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We should remain segregated!\n
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Magicians with magicians,\nand scientists with scientists.\n
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If we each don't establish our own domains,\n
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the same thing will happen, again and again!\n
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Damn it, it sounds like we're\nnot talking about the same thing.\n
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If the point is to protect one other,\nwhat good is starting a war?!\n
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No, you don't actually want to, do you?\n
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For you to accomplish your objective,\n
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just causing a situation where war *almost* breaks out is good enough.
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Don't give yourself too much credit, you little punk!\n
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How dare you give me that "poor you" look!\n
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The ground is my ally.\n
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As such, down here in the darkness,\nenclosed under the ground,\n
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is my territory!\n
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It can't be!\n
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Is she planning to bring the whole tunnel down?!\n
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Let it all crumble!\nJust like a man made of mud!\n
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Damn, what do I do?!\n
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Then do you know something, Toma?\n
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When performing a spell,\nif the direction and position of the caster\n
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are off by even a little bit, it doesn't take effect.\n
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Do *you* know what the golden ratio is?
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--That's it!\n
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--Swallow up the fool! Mix him in under the mud!\n--That's it!\n
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The magic circles on the walls\nand ceiling are there to bury me alive.\n
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And I will flesh out your body!\n
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If so, there's no need to\ndraw magic circles on the ground!\n
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If that's true, then this magic circle\n
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is there to protect her!\n
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What?!\n
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It's stopped?\n
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Damn.\n
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Damn it all.\n
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I have to... create a flashpoint... for a war...\n
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Academy City's guard has grown lax.\n
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Even the English Puritan Church\nhas been presumptuous enough \n
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to allow their grimoire index be kept elsewhere.\n
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The situation is the\nsame as it was with Ellis.\n
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Such tragedy came out of that incident.\n
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If this happens on a scale\ninvolving all of Academy City\n
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and the English Puritan Church...\n
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What rubbish.\n
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It's okay to be angry. Even sorrowful.\n
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But even so,\n
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what has Kazakiri done?!\nDid Index do anything to you?!\n
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Once you turn the\nbrunt of this onto someone else,\n
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that's when the real conflict erupts!\n
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You don't get it.\n
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Damn it, I'd like to kill all of\nthe sorcerers and the scientists.\n
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But it's more than just that!\nI also don't really want to make\n
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the sorcerers and the\nespers fight with each other!\n
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My head has been screwed up\nabout this from the start.\n
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I don't just have one conviction here;\n
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They're as numerous as the stars.\n
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Why haven't you figured it out?\n
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That conviction you have inside you\n
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has always been a single one,\nright from the start?\n
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Ultimately, you just wanted\nnot to lose your dear friend, right?\n
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Did it look to you\n
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like I was reluctantly\nforced into being stuck with Index?\n
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Did it look like we would break out in fighting\n
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if we weren't segregated into our own territories?\n
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We could go on being together forever\n
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without doing anything like that!\n
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So don't take my dear friend away from me!\n
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Intimus 115!\n
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What?!\n
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Oh, so that's it.\n
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Saying you having convictions\nthat number as the stars...\n
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Die, you esper!\n
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...means that you're aware...\n
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...that somewhere inside you, you feel...\n
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That you want to be stopped!\n
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This isn't good. He switched\nfrom remote control to self-control!\n
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I can't intercept anymore!\n
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Nothing... can reach... Ellis... anymore...\n
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Ellis...\n
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Kazakiri... Index...!\n
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Toma...\n
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Hyoka?!\n
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Hyoka...\n
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Run.\n
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Hurry and run away.\nIt's still too dangerous here.\n
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The golem is out of control. \n
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He may not be able to\ncontrol his regenerative functions.\n
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Hyoka, let's hurry and get out of here!\n
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You hurry up and go.\n
**[10:26] ---**
"*You* hurry up"? What are you doing, Hyoka?
**[10:29] ---**
I... have to stop that monster.\n
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You can't! You can't think\nthat you can fight that monster!\n
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If you do that, Hyoka,\nthere's no way you'll survive!\n
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It's all right. I'm not human, either.\n
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I'm sorry to have kept it from you up to now.\n
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Hyoka!\n
**[11:13] ---**
To fight a monster, you need another monster.\n
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I can't ever go back there anymore.\n
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That time will never return.\n
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Which is why...\n
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Which is why there's no way I can cast it aside!\n
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Hyoka!\n
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After all, you're my friend!\n
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Kazakiri!!\n
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Toma!\n
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I told you,\n
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I was going to show you\nthat there is still redemption\n
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in this world in which you live!\n
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It's over.\n
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And now, my fond illusion comes to an end.\n
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Whew, what a mess.\n
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What is all this?\n
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Don't tell me this is your doing, too.\n
**[12:38] ---**
I know this happens every time,\n
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but just how much trouble are you caught up in?\n
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What's wrong?\n
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Oh, Sissy, here's where you are-- eh?!\n
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Don't tell me *you* did this, Sissy!
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Eh? N-No, I didn't!\n
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Before too long,\nAntiskill or Judgment will show up here.\n
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Let's get out of here before there's any trouble.\n
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I told you, it's not like that--\n
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I knew what would happen from the beginning.\n
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Anyone would have known, wouldn't they?\n
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What would happen once it\nwas found out that I was a monster?\n
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I didn't want this, either, you know.\n
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But I didn't have any choice, did I?\n
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She's my friend-- the first person\nin my life who called me her friend,\n
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and I wanted to save her.\n
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Why do I have to lose her now?\n
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Why does she have to be afraid of me?\n
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I-I... I... just couldn't bear\nto have my dear friend get hurt!\n
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So all I did was stand up to that thing!\n
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I wanted us to be together always!\n
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I was sure that we would get along! But...\n
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obviously, that's impossible now, isn't it?\n
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Even if she would be\nafraid of me, and dislike me,\n
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there's no way I could have\nstood by and let her die, right?\n
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Does it hurt?\n
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Are you sad?\n
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If that's how you feel, then you are no monster.\n
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It may be a hackneyed, clichéd thing to say,\n
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but you are human. I guarantee it.\n
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And another thing,\n
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your illusion is not over yet.\n
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Huh?\n
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But why? This isn’t normal, is it?\n
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I-I'm not human. \n
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So why is she looking at me,\n
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and making the kind of\nface a friend would make?\n
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Sure, your body may be \n
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put together a little\ndifferently from other people, \n
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and you can do things that\nother people can't, but even so...\n
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Hyoka!\n
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...it doesn't change the fact\nthat you are Index's friend, does it?\n
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Are you happy now?\n
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You are now even closer to\nthe completion of a key to controlling\n
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the Imaginary Number School\nDistrict's Five-Element Agency.\n
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Honestly, you look like a monster to me.\n
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Who would dream that the\nImaginary Number School District\n
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is actually an AIM diffusion field?\nNo one would ever think that.\n
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And to plant a sense of self\ninto it and help it to materialize\n
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is not what I'd consider a sane act.\n
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What are you thinking, Aleister?!\n
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Hold on.\nThe Imaginary Number School District\n
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is an aggregation of a kind of power\n
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that exists in a different phase from humanity.\n
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A life form that is formed as a result of it...\n
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I know what such a being is...\n
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An angel.\n
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If residents of the Imaginary Number School District,\n
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like Kazakiri, are described as angels,\n
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then the city where they reside would then be...\n
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Don't tell me you're trying\nto create an artificial heaven!\n
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I don't know what to say\nabout angels and heaven and such.\n
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Don't give me that. \n
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There isn't anyone who\nknows more about it than you do,\n
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Aleister Crowley, the Sorcerer.\n
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This incident has gradually started\nto send the world off the rails.\n
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You've intentionally lured a member\n
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of the English Puritan Church to\nthe city, then got rid of her.\n
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I don't get whatever it\nis you're thinking. However,\n
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if you're going to keep using\nthe Imagine Breaker, be prepared.\n
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If you go up against him\nwith half-hearted conviction,\n
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that right hand of\nhis will devour your world.\n
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The world that I believed\nin fell apart a very long time ago.\n
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Here, look at me!\n
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This time, I didn't even\nhave to be admitted, did I?\n
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Wow, am I awesome! That's a\nmark of a little bit of progress, huh?\n
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Isn't that right?\n
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Kamijo, you know something,\nyou really, really, really...!\n
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Don't you have any idea of\nthe trouble you cause for others?!\n
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For heaven's sake, for you to\nhave to have Antiskill look after you...\n
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Like I said, watch out for Kazakiri Hyoka.\n
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After all the warning I gave you, too...\n
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You should really have that personality,\nwhich makes you reckless\n
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when you get to know girls,\nthoroughly remedied sometime.\n
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Um, I'm sort of terrified\nby the two people behind me.\n
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Are you sure I can't check myself in?\n
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Perhaps with doctor's orders for\npeace and quiet, with no visitors?\n
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U-Um, your skirt...\n
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Aren't you going to fix it?\n
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Is it that weird?\n
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I-It is weird. It's very weird.\n
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It was strange enough as it was,\nbut now, it's even more strange.\n
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As it *was*?
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Hyoka, are you...?\n
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M-Mm-hmm. My body is\nlike a big mass of psychic energy.\n
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No matter what I do,\n
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it won't change the fact\nthat I'm an unstable being.\n
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Does that, by any chance,\nhave to do with Toma's right hand?\n
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Mm-mm.\n
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If I had received some of his power,\n
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I'd have already vanished without a trace.\n
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Oh, yeah...\n
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About his power-- I don't\nunderstand it too well myself,\n
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but it can't be explained as just esper ability.\n
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Now then...\n
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Hyoka...?\n
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I have to go back now.\n
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Hyoka!\n
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It's okay, don't worry. My body is\nmade up of the powers of many people.\n
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Even if I do disappear for a time,\n
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it's not as though I am dying. \n
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It just means you won't be able to see me.\n
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And even though you might not\nknow it, I will always be by your side.\n
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Hyoka...\n
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We'll play together again, right?\n
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Of course.\n
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"Good luck getting ready for the Daihasei Festival!"\n
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"Good luck getting ready for the Daihasei Festival!"\nWell you see, I'm really busy during the second term.\n
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\nWell you see, I'm really busy during the second term.\n
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*In the casual present *Well you see, I'm really busy during the second term.
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*In the casual present *But I've got nothing to do, and I'm bored!
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*and even the unseen morrow, *But I've got nothing to do, and I'm bored!
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*and even the unseen morrow, *Toma doesn't pay any attention, and won't play with me.
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*and even the unseen morrow, *"Kanamin"
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*my unwavering feelings, at least *"Kanamin"
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*my unwavering feelings, at least *So you see, this is what's known as a magician.
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*remain hidden within my heart *
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*remain hidden within my heart *What do you think? Pretty moe, huh?
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*remain hidden within my heart *Come on, Hime, you, too! Come on! Come on!
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*I press through the voices, *Come on, Hime, you, too! Come on! Come on!
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*I press through the voices, *Is this moe, too?
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*I press through the voices, *Okay,
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*I press through the voices, *let's get homeroom started right away.
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*laughing it off as a coincidence, *let's get homeroom started right away.
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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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*to make it all the way across *Huh? Where's Tsuchimikado?
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*I believe in myself *
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*I believe in myself *Yeah, I'm already on the job.
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\nYeah, I'm already on the job.\n
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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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*"one more time, just one more time," *So I'm going to look after those two?
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*and kept on pushing *So I'm going to look after those two?
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*and kept on pushing *Yes, if you please.
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*(just a little bit) *Yes, if you please.
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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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*until the day comes when I get them back, *Ah, how careless of me!
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*until the day comes when I get them back, *My ribbon has drifted into Sissy's forbidden area!
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*I am sure I'll keep looking for them *My ribbon has drifted into Sissy's forbidden area!
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*(Just a little bit, one more time) *Kuroko!
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*(Just a little bit, one more time) *
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There is a situation which requires\n
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the assistance of the grimoire index.\n
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Have her "manager" come, as well.\n
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Her "manager," huh? As you wish.\n
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I will leave with Kanzaki for Japan at once.\n
**[23:04] ---**
About that. We have been unable to reach Kanzaki.\n
**[23:08] ---**
What do you mean, Archbishop?\n
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Mm, since I have chosen my low-key attire,\n
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you shouldn't address me\nin such an ostentatious manner.\n
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Laura Stuart. That is how you shall address me.\n
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"Go for broke in the Daihasei\nFestival, Academy City!"\n
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U-Um, Index...?\n
**[23:36] ---**
Toma, you forgot that the\nrefrigerator was empty, didn't you?\n
**[23:43] ---**
Toma, you're eating that\ntasty food all by yourself, huh?\n
**[23:46] ---**
Oh, no, this is a leftover from lunch...\n
**[23:49] ---**
Toma, you're the only one who ate lunch, huh?!\n
**[23:54] ---**
I'm hungry! I'm hungry! I'm hungry!\n
**[24:01] ---**
Just my luck!\n