24 - List of Prohibited Books (Index)

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    You might just pull it off somehow.
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    What the hell?
[00:19] ---
    September 30...
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    Index, a friend of mine,
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    removed the virus that was inside her mind
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    by having her listen to a specific song.
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    The content of that song
    is within my mind, as well.
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    Once you transcribe its parameters,
    I'm sure she'll be okay.
[00:48] ---
    If you want to treat her with the song,
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    I'm sure you know the
    parameters outlined within her mind--
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    You alive?
[01:09] ---
    Unfortunately.
[01:11] ---
    Then you heard that, right?
[01:14] ---
    The data from the song
    used to purge the virus
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    is still there in Last Order's memory space.
[01:21] ---
    If you can extract it,
    it may be helpful in treating her.
[01:24] ---
    Yeah.
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    And now, there's a tiny sliver
    of a way out of this in sight.
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    You should be able to burrow
    into the Sisters Network,
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    where her memories are backed up.
[01:38] ---
    But even supposing I can find the song,
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    where are you planning to get
    the additional parameters to modify it?
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    Academy City and the other
    techniques that exist outside of it.
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    If I combine the two,
    there's a chance it will lead to a solution.
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    "A Certain Magical Index III"
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    "#24 List of Prohibited Books (Index)"
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    Takitsubo!
[02:10] ---
    Takitsubo! Where are you?!
[02:12] ---
    Hamazura...
[02:16] ---
    Hamazura...
[02:22] ---
    Long time no see, Hamazura!
[02:32] ---
    Mugino... Shizuri?
[02:53] ---
    Ability crystals?
[02:54] ---
    After everything that's happened,
    you're still gonna make Takitsubo--
[03:04] ---
    Takitsubo?
[03:09] ---
    Why should I be concerned
    about that small-timer's business?
[03:26] ---
    Tell me, Hamazura...
[03:31] ---
    if the 4th-ranked Level 5 were to
    start running hopelessly out of control,
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    how much greater do you think
    the damage she does would be?
[03:59] ---
    I can't even get close to her.
[04:02] ---
    Damn it. It's like she's a blast furnace,
    or the sun, or something.
[04:16] ---
    Hamazura, I've already given up this much.
[04:21] ---
    I've paid a considerable price,
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    and now here I am, standing before you.
[04:26] ---
    You can't possibly think that
    you're getting out of this situation
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    without giving up something, too.
[04:40] ---
    Hamazura...
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    Hama...
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    ...zura!!
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    That's right.
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    Earlier, it was all Mugino
    could do just to stay standing.
[05:39] ---
    How... come...? How come...? Damn it...
[05:47] ---
    Where the hell did the ability crystal go...?
[05:51] ---
    I just needed another ten seconds...
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    and it would have all
    been over, nice and tidy...
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    Don't look down on me, damn it!
[06:04] ---
    No matter what it takes,
    I'll kill you myself!
[06:07] ---
    Ever since you shot me at that
    plant--that's when it all went downhill!
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    How did I become such a hideous monster?
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    Mugino...
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    Mugino!!
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    What do you think you're doing...?
[06:55] ---
    I've had enough. Why do we have
    to be out for each other's blood like this?
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    You, Takitsubo, Kinuhata, and even Frenda--
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    we all got along so well, didn't we?
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    It's not just you blowing your top
    and killing Frenda, either.
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    If the higher-ups in Academy City
    really were in control of all that fighting,
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    then weren't we set up to kill each other
    when we got backed into a corner?
[07:23] ---
    If you want to see me miserable,
    you can see that all you want.
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    If that's what will stop us from fighting,
    I'll do whatever it takes!
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    So...
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    ...let's stop this, already.
    Let's stop trying to kill each other.
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    What are you talking about, Hamazura?
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    You chose Takitsubo, didn't you?
[07:57] ---
    You've already shot me twice
    to save her, haven't you?
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    And after all that, now
    you want to let me live?
[08:08] ---
    You're right. I did choose Takitsubo.
    I swore on my life to protect her.
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    Nothing has changed about that.
    I abandoned you to protect Takitsubo.
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    Self-centered bastard, aren't you?
    I killed Frenda.
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    I tried to kill Takitsubo again and again.
    How are you going to save me--
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    I don't think you're going to get off easy.
    That goes for you and me both, though.
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    So you apologize to
    Kinuhata for all you're worth,
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    show Takitsubo you're sorry,
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    and shed tears before Frenda's grave,
    begging for forgiveness, and then...
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    ...and then, we can be ITEM once again.
    I know we can!
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    In the meantime, I'll safeguard your life.
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    I'd risk my life to get us all back in ITEM!
    So get up, Mugino!
[09:07] ---
    Rise up on your own one more time! Mugino!
[09:12] ---
    You, a Level 0, are going
    to keep me, a Level 5, safe?
[09:27] ---
    Are you kidding me?
    Don't disparage me like that.
[09:50] ---
    I guess I was always meant to be expendable.
[09:53] ---
    That "second plan" is falling into place.
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    What will you do, Hamazura?
[10:01] ---
    I already told you. Risk my life.
[10:04] ---
    Hmph, that's gutsy.
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    Is she suffering ill effects
    from the remote magical item?
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    Because of the superfluous
    intrusion into her mind,
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    her accuracy and speed are
    coming up short. Which means...!
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    Chapter 32, verse 44--
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    counterattack measures are in place.
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    In my humble opinion,
    there is a good possibility
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    that Fiamma and the Star of B'Tselem
    are magically linked.
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    If I can attack this star indirectly...
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    Dun-dun-dun-dun-dun!
[10:46] ---
    You're the lady from the
    Russian church, right?
[10:49] ---
    You seem to be up a creek,
    so I'm here to explain the payment plan.
[10:58] ---
    There are something like
    emergency escape pods over there.
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    Since it looked to me like Fiamma
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    was going to cut loose
    the Russian church sorcerers
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    as soon as he was done with them,
    I thought I'd show them the way there.
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    Question one, if I may:
    What payment plan do you mean?
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    It won't be money.
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    If you pledge to help Britain out
    the next time they're in a tight spot,
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    I'll call that okay.
[11:22] ---
    My first answer:
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    Get everyone who wishes to leave
    the war's front lines away at once.
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    I have no intention of leaving here
    until I get back at Fiamma--
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    Heh-heh-heh, very well!
[11:38] ---
    So, what do you mean
    by getting back at Fiamma?
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    My second answer:
    I don't really have to respond to you.
[12:05] ---
    The Star of B'Tselem is aloft.
[12:08] ---
    I've completed manipulating
    the celestial bodies via Gabriel.
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    The four elements have all
    returned to their proper positions.
[12:15] ---
    The arrangements have all been made.
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    I think it's about time
    I claimed your right arm.
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    Then Project B'Tselem will be complete.
[12:25] ---
    This is how badly you want
    the Roman Orthodox Church to win?
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    I don't care about the Roman Orthodox Church.
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    My actions have all been essentially...
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    for my own benefit.
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    Can I cancel him out? No!
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    Ho, you've learned how to not just
    zero out an attack, but to fend it off, too.
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    An Academy City optical weapon, huh?
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    I believe I've demonstrated it before.
    My right arm optimizes its output
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    to match the level of trial
    or difficulty I'm undergoing.
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    So optical weapons,
    and anything else they have,
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    are no match for me.
[13:27] ---
    This is crazy.
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    On the other hand, you should be proud.
[13:31] ---
    It appears that my fist
    is at something of a loss...
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    as to how hard to hit you.
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    Warning, chapter 22, verse 1--
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    designation "Eli Eli Lama
    Sabachthani," now activating.
[13:59] ---
    It does have its disadvantages
    as a straightforward spell.
[14:12] ---
    Warning, chapter 29, verse 33 now activating.
[14:25] ---
    He's using Index's knowledge,
    in addition to his Right Seat of God skills.
[14:32] ---
    Warning, chapter 35, verse 18--
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    "Brimstone Rain Shall Burn the Earth,"
    now activating.
[14:47] ---
    That won't do. What a terrible
    deviation from its theoretical value.
[14:52] ---
    I'd feel bad using it on any adversary
    who was dragged out into the open.
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    Adversary, you say?
[15:04] ---
    This world is twisted.
[15:07] ---
    Almost as though the world
    itself has grown old and rickety.
[15:13] ---
    Despite God supposedly
    having arranged all the gears
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    so that everything turns correctly,
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    how did things become this bent out of shape?
    The answer is simple.
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    It's because a number of the gears
    have already reached their limits.
[15:32] ---
    So I'm restoring them to the way they were.
[15:41] ---
    Altering the mechanisms, exchanging the gears,
    and eradicating the contamination as needed.
[15:47] ---
    Re-applying the lubrication of the
    church of the cross again afterward,
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    restoring its former graceful motion.
[15:53] ---
    You're going to use magic to
    alter people's minds as you see fit?
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    It's simpler than that.
    I'm going to teach them a lesson.
[16:06] ---
    Look, I just need to wield
    my perfect arm once,
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    and humanity will know how
    hopelessly outmatched they are.
[16:15] ---
    Then they will know...
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    ...that all they have to do is obey,
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    and they will witness the moment
    when I save all of the world's people.
[16:24] ---
    As soon as the Star of B'Tselem
    lights up the night sky,
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    they will know that a
    new age has already begun!
[16:35] ---
    Save the people of the world, eh?
[16:40] ---
    Have you ever actually gone out
    and had a look at the world?
[16:44] ---
    Have you seen just how
    many of the people are smiling?
[16:49] ---
    Indeed. That is a fascinating view.
[16:52] ---
    But that's something I'll think about
    after the world has been saved.
[17:14] ---
    Got it.
[17:19] ---
    Imagine Breaker may have
    been a type of purification
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    naturally instilled within
    the sacred right arm,
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    but by taking on my power,
    one of its original components,
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    that unnecessary function's
    role comes to an end.
[17:32] ---
    My right arm will now be complete.
[17:35] ---
    All I need to do now is wield the full power
    that rightfully resides within me,
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    and the salvation of all
    will be accomplished.
[17:42] ---
    People may refer to me as Kamijo,
    the "Person Superior to God,"
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    but none of that matters to me.
[17:48] ---
    As long as I can muster all of my power
    to save the world, I will succeed.
[18:14] ---
    I...
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    ...will save the world.
    You should be honored, fleshwad!
[18:20] ---
    You've safely managed to reap
    some degree of worth in your life!
[18:31] ---
    Wha--?
[18:39] ---
    What the...?
[18:46] ---
    I've assimilated your right arm.
[18:48] ---
    So why do you still have any power?
[18:58] ---
    There's something... something...
[19:01] ---
    ...invisible there...
[19:14] ---
    You...
[19:16] ---
    I don't know who you are supposed to be.
[19:19] ---
    It's none of my concern what you
    were trying to do, either. But...
[19:25] ---
    ...you keep out of this!
    I'll take care of it!
[19:42] ---
    You renounced it?
    You deliberately gave up that much power,
[19:46] ---
    and recovered your Imagine Breaker?
[19:50] ---
    I'm finally starting to
    understand some of this.
[19:52] ---
    Understand what?
[19:55] ---
    Why did you have to make
    the Star of B'Tselem this gigantic?
[19:59] ---
    If you really are some almighty being,
    Fiamma of the Right,
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    you wouldn't have had
    to scrounge up different parts
[20:05] ---
    from churches and cathedrals and
    whatnot around the world, would you?
[20:09] ---
    Why did you cause World War III to happen?
[20:13] ---
    Your power changes to match
    the difficulty level of your opponent.
[20:16] ---
    Meaning that the stronger they are,
    the more power you can force out.
[20:21] ---
    But what reason did you have
    to force that much power out?
[20:28] ---
    Why did you want power so badly
    that you teamed up with other sects?
[20:31] ---
    If you really were that invincible,
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    was there ever any need for you
    to have anyone working for you?
[20:37] ---
    In other words,
[20:38] ---
    you were afraid, weren't you?
[20:41] ---
    Because you don't know if you
    really have enough power in you
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    to save the world.
[20:52] ---
    The world has never come to an end.
[20:54] ---
    At least, I haven't heard of the
    world falling apart in modern times.
[21:01] ---
    And so,
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    you've never been
    privileged with the opportunity
[21:04] ---
    to exhibit enough power to save the world.
[21:06] ---
    Just like it wouldn't appear that
    my Imagine Breaker had any power,
[21:10] ---
    unless I'd been surrounded
    by espers and sorcerers...
[21:14] ---
    Yeah...
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    There's no way someone
    who has never saved the world
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    has any way of knowing whether or not
    they have enough power to save it.
[21:23] ---
    That's why you had to take things this far.
[21:35] ---
    So what if I did?
[21:37] ---
    Do you have any right to condemn me?
[21:40] ---
    Have you ever experienced the kind
    of power it takes to save the world?!
[21:44] ---
    Of course I have. Maybe it was
    something tiny and unimportant.
[21:52] ---
    But I have saved others.
[21:54] ---
    And unimportant or not,
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    I have witnessed the moment when
    a single individual's "world" was saved.
[22:01] ---
    Someone who thinks they're going
    to save the world can't preserve it.
[22:10] ---
    Our world isn't so fragile that it has
    to be saved by any such bastard!
[22:26] ---
    Well, I guess that's that.
[22:29] ---
    Lucky for me, tanks are
    a lot faster than I expected.
[22:34] ---
    "Seeing you singlehandedly
    run roughshod over them,
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    even Misaka can't help but feel inferior,"
[22:40] ---
    says Misaka, somewhat dejectedly.
[22:42] ---
    What are you talking about?
    All of you put together could--
[22:45] ---
    "That is, at the end of the day,
    our collective strength,
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    so this much individuality
    is something Misaka would want.
[22:51] ---
    You could not understand how that feels,"
[22:54] ---
    says Misaka, mumbling under her breath.
[22:56] ---
    So anyway, you have knowledge of
    how to operate weapons installed, right?
[23:01] ---
    If needed, it is possible to access
    extra information from the Misaka Network.
[23:06] ---
    I'm not sure if they were using this
    for aerial combat or transportation or what,
[23:10] ---
    but there's a VTOL fighter over there, right?
[23:14] ---
    If we use that...
[23:20] ---
    ...we could fly up to that fortress
    in the sky, can't we?
[23:25] ---
    "Preview"
[23:25] ---
    People don't just have malice;
    they have benevolence, too.
[23:28] ---
    They fight, pray, and stand up
    for those they wish to protect.
[23:32] ---
    They don't need any other reason.
[23:34] ---
    Next time, "Wings"
[23:36] ---
    When science and magic cross paths,
    the story begins.
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