29 - Lotus Wand
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I'd gone to save Orsola,
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who had been captured by the
Roman Orthodox Church, by myself...
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...or so I thought I had, but Stiyl?
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Tatemiya?
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And even Index?!
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Then I guess that means that none of us
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meant to allow this incident to
end with such a lousy outcome, huh?
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"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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Focus on attack!
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"#05 Lotus Wand"
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Forget about defense!
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Do the honorable thing, as we annihilate the enemies of the Lord!
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Th-They wouldn't...
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Just to avoid the Sheol Fear...?
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Damn!
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Damn...
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Is there no end to them?
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This way!
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Toma!
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Hurry!
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For the moment,
it looks like we're all safe.
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Can you walk, Orsola?
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You are the worrying type, aren't you?
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I have not been injured that severely.
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W-What do we do?
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I-I don't think my Sheol Fear
will have any effect on them
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with their ears punctured like that.
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And I can only use Spell Intercept
against one person at a time.
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My men seem to be holding their own,
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but when people start
launching suicide attacks like this,
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nothing scares me more.
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If...
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If I had the Book of the Law here,
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I might be able to find us a way out of this.
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Indeed, just by declaring
that the seal had been broken
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on the Book of the Law's angel techniques,
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we could use it to negotiate.
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However, the Book of the
Law supposedly being stolen
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was a ruse on
their part to ensnare us.
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Thus, even having the text
here in Japan at all would be strange.
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--Oh, it is!
--Oh, it is!
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It's true that not even you
can decipher the Book of the Law.
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Meaning you had to at least
view it, in order to have read it.
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And if so, it would be odd if
the Book of the Law's original text
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were not stored intact somewhere
within your memory, right?
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Mm-hmm. It's in there, left alone,
without me deciphering its code--
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No way! If you do that,
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she will remember the
content of the Book of the Law!
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If that happens, she'll be
stuck with even more magicians
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coming after her than there already are!
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Huh? Are you worried about me?
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Kamijo Toma!
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W-What?!
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You have to become stronger!
If this incident carries over
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and she gets done in,
I'll burn you, body and soul,
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until there aren't even any ashes left!
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Damn...
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So, tell me, what does
the decryption process
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for the Book of the Law involve?
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Oh, right...
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Well then, I will now tell you.
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We will not actually make any
use of the Book of the Law's power.
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We just have to indicate our
willingness to use it at any time.
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It is based upon Temurah,
which is to say, letter substitution,
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but there is an irregular rule
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that is deeply connected
to the number of lines.
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First, the twenty-two Hebrew letters
are placed into two lines.
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taking note of the line number above them...
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Huh?
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It's all right.
I pretty much get all of it now.
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Um, what is it that you have "gotten"?
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This is not the correct way to decipher it.
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It is a dummy solution,
set up as a trap.
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The frightening thing
about the Book of the Law
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is that there are more than
100 methods of decoding it.
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What's more, for every method,
it forms different sentences,
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each of which are also dummies.
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It's not that nobody can
read the Book of the Law--
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it is a grimoire that everyone can read,
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but everyone is induced
into deciphering incorrectly.
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It can't be...
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Depending on how you think of it,
you might have just been saved.
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Say, if we tell them now that we
really don't know how to decode it,
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do you think they'll let us off the hook?
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Probably not, huh?
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Now that they've seen this much
of the darkness, they can't back down.
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There must be a back door somewhere!
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No matter how I look at it,
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I doubt that while taking
on that great a number,
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you could move freely about the premises.
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I've come up with
a bit of strategy, you see.
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Strategy? Ah, I see.
So that's what this is.
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Oh... so after you came
strutting in here like the hero,
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you're now using your friends
as decoys to get this far, are you?
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Orsola Aquinas said something
about you acting based on trust,
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not because of any deception.
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That is absolutely laughable, isn't it?
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Here the reason you're still breathing
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is because you tricked
someone into being your decoy.
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No...
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I do trust them. If possible,
I'd be glad if they would trust me--
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that I can settle my problems myself.
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You think that by
eliminating me, the commander,
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you can stop all the attacks?
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Well, all right. I was just
starting to grow bored myself.
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I think I'll just occupy myself
by shattering your fantasy!
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All things in harmony.
Fifth of the Five Elements,
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symbolizing peace and order...
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...deploy this crosier!
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Icon one, in accordance with the laws
of the Son of God and the cross,
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join that which is at odds
with he who is at odds!
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A coordinate attack?
Teleportation?
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That staff...!
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I see you finally figured it out.
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When you do harm to this, it in
turn does harm to something else.
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Kind of like this!
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D-Damn!
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Just where are
those attacks coming from?
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Yikes!
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Don't think you can evade
me forever in the same fashion.
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Once I anticipate your move
and set up the space to attack from,
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you charge into it all on your own.
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This is unforgivable.
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The church of the cross's original purpose
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was to help others,
and that is how it spread.
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But to turn that around,
and use force to do something like this...
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You're "using force to do something
like this" to bash away at me.
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Do you take offense at being beaten?
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The bishop's crosier
is an alteration of the mace,
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once used to smash
through an enemy's armor.
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What is wrong with using something
for beating to beat something with?
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Modern western magic
has had a dimension
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of church-of-the-cross trickery
about it from the start.
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The fact that anyone besides us
uses it is what is unusual.
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Ultimately, dogma outside of Roman Orthodoxy
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"A Certain Magical Index II"
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is no dogma at all!
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"A Certain Magical Index II"
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Anyhow, you're in my way!
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No more whining,
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just die in our assembly
line already, if you please!
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That's the attack
I've been waiting for!
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It can't be...
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I'm going back...
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...to that place... once again?
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No!
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I'm not about to go back!
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I'm not about to go back!
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No way!
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I hate to do this to you
while you're trying so hard,
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but it looks like it's all over.
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It's gone quiet outside.
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It sounds like your plan was
to defeat me and make some deal
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while they were holding
their own outside as decoys,
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but all too easily, the fantasy
appears to have come to an end.
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Yeah.
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Exactly right.
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Your fantasy is over,
Agnese Sanctis!
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Huh?
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I used 4300 cards for this.
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We may not be much in
the way of numbers, but still...
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...the Amakusa are not
a bunch to be trifled with.
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I mean, by using the
placement of the rune cards,
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to construct an even greater figure,
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thereby turning the entire church
itself into a giant magic array...
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...they employed everything around
us to form multicomponent magic arrays.
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It's a sneaky trick
I couldn't have come up with.
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I told you, we had a strategy.
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These guys weren't
running around to act as decoys;
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they were just placing
these cards around the premises.
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Hmph! We still have
you beaten in sheer numbers.
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If we all come crushing down
on you at once...
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What are you all waiting for?! Go at once!
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Th-They're wavering...
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Even though if we push
en masse, we can beat them.
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They act as a result
of what they believe.
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This should be good, shouldn't it?
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What do I do?
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What am I supposed to do?
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What method?
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What timing?
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What weapon?
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How do I choose?
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It's over, Agnese.
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You must realize it yourself by now.
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Your illusion of self-confidence
died a long time ago.
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Toma!
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Toma! Wake up! Toma!
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A-Are you awake?
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Kanzaki?
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I had planned on leaving directly, but...
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What's that?
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A note card?
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I-It was nothing, really.
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After all, I have the chance
to speak to you directly.
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There is no need for this note.
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Call it an after-action report--
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I came to keep you
updated on Orsola Aquinas.
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Should I have left
you alone, instead?
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I'm listening! Please!
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Orsola Aquinas,
as well as the Amakusa,
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have arranged to become
affiliated with the English Puritans.
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Avoiding Roman Orthodox
retaliation and assassination
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appears to have
played a large role in this.
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Which means that Orsola being
in danger remains unchanged?
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No. The English Puritan
Church disclosed
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the false decryption
method that Orsola possessed.
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They figure that if her
erroneous interpretation is known,
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any concerns about her regarding
the Book of the Law will disappear.
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Hmm? But you said the
Amakusa were affiliating themselves
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with the English Puritans, too, right?
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Yes. It seems there
was a segment of them
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that had been hoping
for this development.
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And after I gave them a strict
order not to follow after me, too.
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Oh, right. You're a member
of the English Puritans too, huh?
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Of all the...
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So um, I mean...
I apologize, for all of this!
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Huh? For what?
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You know, how um... that is,
for my own personal reasons,
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I put you to all sorts of trouble
over all of this, you could say...
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Yo, Kami!
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I came to see you!
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I brought you some deluxe
convenience store pudding
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topped with melon to snack on!
Huh? What's up, missy?
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Looks like the time has finally
come for you to apologize to Kami.
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And doing it all clichéd
and royal at that, like,
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"I will pay you back for all
the trouble I caused you," or,
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"please, ask anything
you want of me," I'll bet,
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with you offering suggestions!
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Man, it's like
"The Grateful Yet Horny Crane."
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I-It is not!
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Then again, missy, you were
gonna strip down eventually, right?
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I-I was not! And what
do you mean, "eventually"?!
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Huh? Then,
you were gonna apologize
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by wearing whatever
he wanted you to?
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Aren't you the service-minded one!
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Just shut up and get out of here!
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Okay, okay.
Third wheel getting out of the way.
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Who are you calling a third wheel?!
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U-Um...
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I-I know I must have this straight, but...
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...you paying me back, or owing me,
or anything as ridiculous as that
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is only something that
Tsuchimikado is joking about, right?
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Well, I ask you, what else
would you have me do?
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I am always placing such an
unbearable weight upon your shoulders.
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And this time,
the matter was ours, to boot.
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We are way past the point
where I can just bow down
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and have you forgive me.
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Hmm... There's really nothing
to worry about, is there?
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We've gotten through our
problems safely for the time being.
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"Our"?
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Huh? Me and the Amakusa. Ah, and the
English Puritans, too, I guess.
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Not to mention Orsola, Index, Stiyl...
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...as well as yourself.
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As of now, that's who "we" are, right?
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As far as the English and the Romans,
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things must be pretty tangled up for you,
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but for an amateur like me,
honestly, I can't tell them apart.
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It's not really as
though I've taken the side
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of the English Puritans,
which Index is a part of.
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For now, I'm just taking
the side of the English Puritans
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Because Index is a part of them.
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It's likely that if Agnese came
asking for my help, I'd go help her.
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She may have been on the
wrong side of things this time,
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but there's no rule anywhere
saying that she has to stay
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on the wrong side, you know.
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The Roman Orthodox Church
intends to settle this up
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as a case of a rogue militant
faction led by Agnese Sanctis.
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The Roman Orthodox Church
itself wishes to explain themselves
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by saying that they never
meant to assassinate Orsola.
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They still have to answer for
not keeping a tight rein on their men,
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if they want bygones to be bygones.
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Looking back,
you seemed to be fully aware
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of the Roman Orthodoxy's true intentions.
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So then, why didn't you tell
me to save Orsola from the start?
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It's so complicated.
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No, not fully.
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Who knew that Orsola's
decryption method was incorrect?
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But for my part,
it worked out either way.
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Let's suppose, Stiyl...
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...that if we had failed to
rescue Orsola in this instance,
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would anything,
in fact, have changed?
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If she had been taken back
to the Roman Orthodox Church,
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her subsequent execution
would be waiting for her regardless.
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Either way, the Book of the Law
would never have been deciphered.
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In that case, Archbishop,
why did you personally request
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that the crucifix got to Orsola?
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Say what you will,
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but you fully meant to save
her from the start, did you not?
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I-I did not! The only
reason I ever butted in
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was in the interest of
the English Puritan Church!
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And that interest would be...?
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Kanzaki Kaori.
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Becausae Kanzaki
possesses tremendous power,
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and a well-developed sense of justice,
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she is someone who
is likely to act on her own.
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She ventured awfully close
to peril in this instance.
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You've received the
reports on what happened
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to those fools in
the knight's order, right?
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Yes.
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Henceforth, we're going to require
some new leg-irons for her.
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Not some negative leg-irons, like,
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"We will do harm unless
you do as you are told,"
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but more like "do as you are told,
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and we will protect the Amakusa
from the Roman Orthodox Church."
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See? There is no finer interest, is there?
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Why, that little vixen...
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I can change even the
destiny that entwines me
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so I have everything in my hand!
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If I lack the power to
not be outdone by anyone
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I can always destroy that illusion
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The laid out system
backup install is okay
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Fields unknown even
to God become opened
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It's a "living form" that not even data
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from 100,000 memories
in a moment's miracle can infer
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In a Magic∞world exciting
time or space there's no limit
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I want the power it
takes to protect somebody
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I can change even
the destiny that entwines me
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so I have everything in my hand!
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"Preview"
[23:55] ---
A stolen travel case lies hidden in the darkness of Academy City.
[23:59] ---
When Shirai Kuroko comes
into contact with a part of it,
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she learns a terrifying truth.
[24:03] ---
Next time, "Remnant."
[24:05] ---
When science and magic
cross paths, the story begins.
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