# 25 - The Last Day (August 31)
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GRVNZK5PY/a-certain-magical-index)
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Ah, damn it, already!
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Prerequisites for the
ESP Card experiment?
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Don't go thinking that Level 0
Kamijo knows something like that.
**[01:08] ---**
Imagine Breaker--the marvelous
power that resides in my right hand.
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Apparently, it is able to cancel
out any other extraordinary power
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with a single touch.
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But a fantastic power like this
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doesn't have any effect on my
summer vacation homework problems.
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What's more, on this day, of all days,
**[01:29] ---**
Misaka Mikoto pressured me
into pretending to be her boyfriend,
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not to mention, I was chased
around by an Aztecan magician,
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as one crazy incident
after another piled up on me.
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The practical upshot of all of this being...
**[01:42] ---**
...that I haven't finished
most of my homework.
**[01:48] ---**
I get it. Magical Powered
Kanamin takes the Parts of Ether
**[01:51] ---**
the lotus staff for the Elementals,
**[01:54] ---**
and reproduces them in plastic, right?
**[01:57] ---**
--How wonderfully Japanese-styled that is!
**[01:58] ---**
--Listen, Miss Index...
--How wonderfully Japanese-styled that is!
**[02:00] ---**
I'm not going to tell you not to watch TV,
**[02:04] ---**
but as for the volume, at least...
**[02:05] ---**
Toma, you never do anything fun with me.
**[02:09] ---**
That's why I'm escaping
into the world of television!
**[02:19] ---**
Ow...
**[02:20] ---**
Ah, man! Why is it that now,
when I have no time,
**[02:23] ---**
you come up with more things
for me to do?! Huh? Hold on...
**[02:26] ---**
Where's that worksheet that
I was only half-way done with?
**[02:28] ---**
Or Classical Japanese problem set?
Or my math reference book?
**[02:32] ---**
Ah, Toma!
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Oh, did you find something?
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It's after 3 o'clock.
**[02:37] ---**
Huh?
**[02:41] ---**
I'd sure like a snack.
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Just my luck.
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Index Librorum Prohibitorum...
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The List of Prohibited Books, huh?
**[03:16] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
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*I gazed at the coin I had flipped*
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*If it's heads I go, tails I stay*
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*Let me know your answer first*
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*"Please, won't you tell me?"*
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*But the angel continued to smile in discernment*
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*Wander on! There's nobody
to lead you by the hand*
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*The answer handed down
from God is one of woe*
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*Yes, that is what your gift from God is*
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*Once you overcome it, you'll start to see, so right now...
(Look for it by oneself, no buts about it)*
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*No buts!*
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Wow, it sure was a lot of trouble,
**[04:34] ---**
locating this worksheet
among the pile of manga it was in.
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Tell me, Toma, am I great, or am I great?
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Don't you have anything
to say to me? Well? Well?
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So, what is it you're
trying to say to me?
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I did a lot of work for you,
so I want a reward deserving of it.
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Meaning that I want to eat something.
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You just finished *my* half
of the pudding, too, didn't you?!
**[04:57] ---**
Oh, maybe that would be good.
**[04:59] ---**
"Hirayama Rami's 5-hour Cooking!"
"How to Make Tofu Hamburger"
**[04:59] ---**
Today we'll cover "How to Make 5-hour Tofu Hamburger."
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I told you, I don't have time
to make something like that!
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It's just after 5:00 pm now,
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leaving about seven
hours before the date changes,
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so even if I'm ready
to work through the night,
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there's less than fifteen more
hours before I have to go to school!
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--And in just that much time...
--Toma...
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It's not good to push yourself so hard.
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Your brain has to work even
harder when you're so on-edge.
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Don't overexert yourself.
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You're the *last* person
I want to hear that from!
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This is it.
**[05:39] ---**
Wind Magic Bowstring!
**[05:53] ---**
Striking Bowstring!
**[06:08] ---**
Not here?
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I just had a nasty feeling...
**[06:13] ---**
Toma! Toma!
**[06:14] ---**
Can I order anything from here?
**[06:17] ---**
What? What do you want?
**[06:19] ---**
Okay, then...
The most expensive thing!
**[06:23] ---**
All right, ¥2000 worth of raw eggs...
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Toma!
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I, Kamijo Toma, together with Index,
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decided to go to a family
restaurant for a change of pace.
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I was busy plugging away
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at what was left of my
summer vacation homework.
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Thank you for waiting--
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There you are.
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And now, to battle.
**[07:01] ---**
My survey report on
the development of abilities...
**[07:04] ---**
Excuse me! I will bring something
to wipe this up with right away!
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--Th-Then again, Toma,
you can still make out the letters,
**[07:08] ---**
--Three pages.
--Th-Then again, Toma, you can still make out the letters,
**[07:10] ---**
--I'd already written three pages.
--so if you copy it down exactly to a new manuscript sheet,
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you can still use it.
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When you consider that you don't
have to think everything up again,
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just think of all the trouble you'll save!
**[07:27] ---**
The starting shot to war is raised!
**[07:29] ---**
Sunder Magic Bowstring!
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Why, you...!
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What the hell are you--
**[07:47] ---**
Over here.
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I did not anticipate this outcome.
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It would please me if we
can limit any wanton loss of life.
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If you will surrender yourself,
I will take no action against you.
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So long as I obtain my objective...
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M-My...
**[08:04] ---**
My homework has turned into confetti...
**[08:07] ---**
Hey! You there! You did this,
so you have to make it right!
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You have to do my homework again!
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None of my concern.
**[08:20] ---**
Okay, Kamijo is feeling
just a little bit violent today.
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Wait, huh?
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I will be brief.
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I am not interested in childish games.
**[08:33] ---**
What do you think you're doing?
What are you going to do to Index?!
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I'm sure you know,
**[08:38] ---**
if you are aware that this
is the List of Prohibited Books
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who has memorized the 103,000 volumes...
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Are you a magician?
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Indeed I am.
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Transparent Magic Bowstring!
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Hold it, you bastard!
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There's something small and soft right here!
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Is that you there, Index?
**[09:02] ---**
W-What...?
**[09:08] ---**
Damn, he got me!
**[09:10] ---**
Excuse me, sir...
**[09:18] ---**
I didn't make her carry a cell phone
with her for times like this, but...
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No reason why she would answer. Damn!
**[09:24] ---**
Just where am I supposed to look for her?
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Hey!
**[09:30] ---**
Hey! Where are you going, Sphinx?!
**[09:32] ---**
Wait up!
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A hotel?
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Don't tell me Index is in there!
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Is that where she is, Sphinx?!
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In there?!
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Index!
**[09:52] ---**
Hey, you! Don't you have any
sense of obligation to your master?!
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Index *is* the one who took you in,
you know, if only temporarily!
**[10:00] ---**
Come on, let's go
look for her, right away!
**[10:29] ---**
I'm surprised.
**[10:31] ---**
In just this short time,
you've already untied two knots.
**[10:35] ---**
Japan may have given rise to its
own unique culture of rope tortures,
**[10:38] ---**
but I will not talk
under such rough measures.
**[10:42] ---**
I told you, torturing
you is not my objective.
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I wish to obtain one of
the grimoires that is inside you.
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Now...
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"A Certain Magical Index II"
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I must first raise a magical field for amplification purposes...
**[11:06] ---**
"A Certain Magical Index II"
**[11:10] ---**
What is that magician
planning to do to Index?
**[11:14] ---**
Damn it! Where am
I supposed to look?!
**[11:18] ---**
Whoa-oa-oa...
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S-Sorry!
**[11:31] ---**
Hey, you! What are you doing here?!
**[11:35] ---**
Geez, it seems like you're
always running around somewhere.
**[11:39] ---**
If everything's all right,
then call me and say it's all right!
**[11:43] ---**
Oh, come to think of it,
you don't know my number, do you?
**[11:48] ---**
H-Huh? Eh?!
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For Pete's sake!
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You're *always* doing this!
Stop messing around with me! Huh?
**[12:04] ---**
How come you look like
you're about to cry, for real?
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I'm in a hurry here, as much as I can be!
**[12:09] ---**
What with the homework,
the kidnapping
**[12:10] ---**
and the commotion
at the family restaurant...!
**[12:11] ---**
So tell me, what do *you* want?!
**[12:14] ---**
Eh? W-What do...
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Oh, well... I was simply upset
that you didn't spend time with me,
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but I don't have anything
that I *want* from you, especially...
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Not that there *would* be...
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Sorry!
**[12:30] ---**
Hey, hold on! Are you seriously
going to leave me here?!
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Hey, I said!
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Is this a Kagura stage?
**[12:41] ---**
Nothing so elaborate as that.
At the end of the day,
**[12:44] ---**
it's closer to a Bon
festival dance grounds.
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And you prepared this to
have me possessed by something?
**[12:53] ---**
Oh, the real reason
I raised the magical field
**[12:56] ---**
was to try to increase the
force of this thing.
**[13:00] ---**
Your Azusa Yumi bow? A ceremonial
item used in Japanese Shinto?
**[13:04] ---**
Magnificent. So your
magical library also covers
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my cultural background, does it?
**[13:11] ---**
--This thing's normal power is, at most,
--Index? Index!
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--only enough to shock the mind,
or to rectify any imbalances.
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--Hey, you hear me? Where are you?!
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However, with all the
right conditions in place,
**[13:21] ---**
it can read the details
within another's mind.
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Yes, even reveal the 103,000 volumes
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that you are hiding so
desperately within your heart.
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N-No!
**[13:34] ---**
Even you must know what would
happen if anyone other than me
**[13:37] ---**
were to touch the grimoires!
**[13:40] ---**
Of course.
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I am well aware.
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What was that?
**[13:57] ---**
That's the hotel from earlier, isn't it?!
**[14:00] ---**
Damn!
**[14:42] ---**
That's the Baopiaozi--
**[14:44] ---**
the grimoire dealing with immortal youth
**[14:46] ---**
and becoming a sage in Chinese culture.
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It contains alchemy to create an elixir
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that can cure any
manner of disease or curse.
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I thought I could do anything
once I became a magician.
**[15:02] ---**
It is because I didn't
want any more setbacks
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that I took the oath
to become a magician.
**[15:10] ---**
At the very least, it was not for this.
**[15:17] ---**
There was a woman who
was dying from some kind of curse.
**[15:22] ---**
A powerless, nobody of a person,
who could do nothing but smile
**[15:27] ---**
while she watched
death close in around her.
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If I couldn't even
help this nobody of a person,
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then there was no "can do
anything" or "not want any setbacks."
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So for this nobody of a woman,
how could I bring any harm to the dream
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that I had been so
carefully fostering up until now?
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Surely it was not for
that nobody of a woman.
**[16:01] ---**
By no means was it because
of that nobody of a woman!
**[16:05] ---**
You're wrong.
**[16:07] ---**
I can tell. Your Azusa Yumi bow's
power has been amplified too much,
**[16:12] ---**
and your mind is
slipping back within me.
**[16:15] ---**
That's why I know.
**[16:17] ---**
You were simply
in love with that woman.
**[16:21] ---**
That's precisely why you
risked your life to save her.
**[16:25] ---**
You hurt others and had to commit
that sin in order to save her.
**[16:30] ---**
That's why you didn't want
to put the blame on that woman.
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That's why you
must not meet this fate!
**[16:37] ---**
Relying on some
grimy grimoire is not the way!
**[16:46] ---**
Toma!
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Toma! Toma!
**[16:59] ---**
Geez, you really had me worried.
**[17:01] ---**
Toma, I'm hungry!
**[17:03] ---**
I'll feed you until you're full later on.
**[17:05] ---**
Toma!
**[17:06] ---**
Is this wrong?
**[17:08] ---**
Is wanting to protect someone,
even in exchange for my own life,
**[17:14] ---**
something that is wrong?!
**[17:24] ---**
Well of course it's wrong.
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You know, don't you,
**[17:34] ---**
how painful it is to have
someone dear to you die on you?
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To have someone suffer,
and be in pain, right before your eyes,
**[17:42] ---**
but there's nothing you can do.
**[17:46] ---**
You know the grief of being
powerless to do anything, don't you?
**[17:51] ---**
You had to have panicked.
It had to have pained you.
**[17:54] ---**
It had to have grieved you.
It had to have hurt you.
**[17:56] ---**
It had to have scared you.
It had to have shaken you.
**[17:58] ---**
It had to have made you scream.
It had to have made you shed tears.
**[18:01] ---**
Which is why it's wrong!
**[18:02] ---**
An intense shock like that
**[18:04] ---**
is not something you
can push on someone else!
**[18:19] ---**
Of all the...
**[18:22] ---**
After reading just
one volume, look at me...
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It's no wonder that a tiny vessel
such as myself found it impossible
**[18:29] ---**
to obtain even a single
volume of the original text.
**[18:36] ---**
My life has been nothing but
a series of setbacks.
**[18:39] ---**
Three times now,
I've given up on my life.
**[18:44] ---**
But even so, there was
something I couldn't give up on.
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It was all for the sake of one thing...
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Ow! Ow!
**[19:12] ---**
What makes you think you can
bring a tidy end to the matter like that?
**[19:16] ---**
That's for my summer vacation homework.
**[19:19] ---**
Sheesh, thanks to you,
my homework is beyond hope now!
**[19:23] ---**
Now then, where is this
person who's so dear to you?
**[19:29] ---**
What?
**[19:30] ---**
We can manage something without
using the List of Prohibited Books.
**[19:36] ---**
Huh?
**[19:37] ---**
You saw my right hand, didn't you?
**[19:39] ---**
I'm not a magician,
so I don't know how bad a curse is,
**[19:44] ---**
but by using this, that curse
will vanish in one shot, won't it?
**[19:49] ---**
Th-That's... ridiculous...
**[19:52] ---**
I'm not so sure, myself,
but that's the way my right hand is.
**[19:59] ---**
Now then, why don't you show us the way?
**[20:03] ---**
I promise you,
we'll help this person you love.
**[20:06] ---**
For that to happen,
we'll need your cooperation.
**[20:09] ---**
So whatever it takes,
you're going to help us.
**[20:12] ---**
You want to help her, don't you?
With your own two hands?
**[20:22] ---**
For crying out loud, now I'm
at the mercy of a magical curse,
**[20:25] ---**
something I don't know anything about.
**[20:28] ---**
Let's all go there together,
**[20:31] ---**
and kill that good-for-nothing fantasy!
**[20:34] ---**
*I can change even the
destiny that entwines me*
**[20:41] ---**
*so I have everything in my hand!*
**[20:58] ---**
*If I lack the power to
not be outdone by anyone*
**[21:05] ---**
*I can always destroy that illusion*
**[21:10] ---**
*The laid out system
backup install is okay*
**[21:16] ---**
*Fields unknown even
to God become opened*
**[21:22] ---**
*It's a "living form" that not even data*
**[21:27] ---**
*from 100,000 memories
in a moment's miracle can infer*
**[21:34] ---**
*In a Magic∞world exciting
time or space there's no limit*
**[21:40] ---**
*I want the power it
takes to protect somebody*
**[21:45] ---**
*I can change even
the destiny that entwines me*
**[21:53] ---**
*so I have everything in my hand!*
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"little sister"
**[22:45] ---**
Do you even know...
**[22:48] ---**
...just who it is... that you attacked...?
**[22:56] ---**
For Pete's sake...
**[22:57] ---**
Imagine, England's vaunted knighthood,
**[23:00] ---**
brought down like this.
**[23:03] ---**
Did you come to stop me?
**[23:05] ---**
I was never told to stop you, personally,
**[23:09] ---**
and I have my own task to take care of.
**[23:11] ---**
That would be on whose orders,
**[23:13] ---**
the English Puritan Church,
or Academy City?
**[23:16] ---**
Good question.
**[23:18] ---**
Well, if you use your common sense,
I think you'd know right away.
**[23:21] ---**
That is, if you consider whose spy I am,
you'd know right away.
**[23:30] ---**
I'm leaving now. If you wish to
report to your superiors, feel free.
**[23:35] ---**
Oh, yeah? Ah, I'll just retrieve this bunch.
**[23:38] ---**
I owe you one.
**[23:41] ---**
So anyway, what did you come
all the way here from England for?
**[23:49] ---**
Good question.
**[23:55] ---**
"Preview"
**[23:55] ---**
Index is suddenly taken away.
**[23:57] ---**
A giant conspiracy is being
carried on outside Academy City.
**[24:00] ---**
What is the true purpose of
the group targeting Orsola Aquinas?
**[24:04] ---**
Next time, "The Book of the Law."
**[24:05] ---**
When science and magic cross
paths, the story begins.
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