4 - Perfect Memory Ability

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    I'd heard that Index really had\nmemorized 103,000 grimoire volumes.\n
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    That that's why she's being pursued.\n
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    And yet, she never\nonce asked me to help her.\n
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    I... I...\n
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    "A Certain Magical Index"\n
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    *Koko ni ikiru sono wake mo *
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    *kono basho de deau subete mo *
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    *tatoe chigau sekai demo *
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    *doko ni ite mo kono omoi wa yuruganai *
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    *Mune wo chikuri to sasu itami *
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    *sore wo warau shiawase na monotachi e *
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    *se wo mukeyuku *
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    *Touzen no kurushimi wo unmei ga sasou *
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    *Furuedasu ashi ga oboete'ru *
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    *kakushin ni *
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    *Yume dake ja mamorenai *
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    *tayoranai chikara *
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    *Ima kono te ga shiru kara mayowanai *
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    "#04 Perfect Memory Ability"\n
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    Huh...?\n
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    There's no one... here...\n
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    Runes.\n
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    I've engraved some runes\nto keep people away, that’s all.\n
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    Who are you?\n
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    My name is Kanzaki Kaori.\n
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    I would like to keep from telling\nyou my other name, if possible.\n
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    Your other...?\n
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    My magic name.\n
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    You're like him--\nfrom the sorcery society.\n
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    I'll come right to the point. \n
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    I'd like to take charge of her,\nbefore I give out my magic name.\n
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    And if I say no?\n
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    I'll have no choice.\n
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    I'll take charge of her *after *I give out my name.
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    I'll ask once again.\n
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    I'd like to take charge of her,\nbefore I give out my magic name.\n
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    W-What the hell are you talking about?\n
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    For what reason should I surrender,\n
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    to someone like you?\n
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    I will ask as many times as it takes.\n
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    The slashing speed of the Seven Flashes\n
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    woven by my Shichiten Shichito sword
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    is at the level where it\ncould kill you seven times\n
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    in what you'd call an instant.\n
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    It would not be wrong to call it certain death.\n
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    Damn, I didn't even see one of them. Even so...\n
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    ...with my right hand...\n
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    I've gotten reports from Stiyl. \n
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    For some reason, your right hand\nrenders magic ineffective.\n
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    But it does not work, \n
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    if you cannot touch it\nwith your right hand, am I right?\n
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    What do I do?\nCharge at her as fast as I can?\n
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    Seven Flashes.\n
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    I will ask as many times as it takes.\n
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    I don't know what it is that\nspurs you on so much, but...\n
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    Seven Flashes.\n
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    Damn it!\n
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    It's not vanishing...?\n
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    Ultra-thin wires?\n
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    She's been keeping them from my\neye with the movement of her katana.\n
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    You're... not a sorceress?\n
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    Like I said, I heard about you from Stiyl.\n
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    Then, your long katana...\n
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    My Shichiten Shichito is not just for show.
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    After you get through the Seven Flashes,\n
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    The true form, Single Flash, awaits you.\n
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    And moreover, I haven't\nyet told you my magic name.\n
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    Please do not make me say it, boy.\n
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    I don't ever want to have to give it out again.\n
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    How can I...\n
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    ...surrender?\n
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    What was that? I couldn't hear you.\n
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    Shut up.\n
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    I said to shut up, you unfeeling jerk!\n
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    Seven Flashes.\n
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    Had enough yet?\n
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    You don't have any\nreason to protect her so much.\n
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    Why?\n
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    Why don't you kill me?\n
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    You definitely could have killed\nme at any time, if you'd wanted to.\n
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    But you're still a human,\n
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    with the gumption to stand there,\nholding back, right?\n
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    Then you must get it, right? \n
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    A girl comes along,\nand you chase her down,\n
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    Then cut her back with your sword.\n
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    I can't let you get away with that.\n
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    Did you know that because of you\npeople, she has lost her memories?\n
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    How badly did you hound her to\nmake something like that happen?\n
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    I fought like hell,\n
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    but I'm still a loser who\ncan't even defend a single girl.\n
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    A wimp, who can only look on\nwoefully as she is taken away by you.\n
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    But you're not like that, are you?\n
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    With your power, you could\nprotect anyone, or anything!\n
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    You could save anything, or anyone!\n
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    So why is that all you can do?!\n
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    It's not like I...\n
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    It's not like I... am doing this\nbecause I want to.\n
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    The name of the organization\nI am with... is Necessarius.\n
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    You mean, the same English Puritan\nChurch that Index is from?\n
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    She is one of my companions,\nand a dear friend.\n
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    I didn't mean to cut her back like that!\n
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    I didn't know that her\nWalking Church had been torn.\n
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    I only cut her because there shouldn't\nhave been any way for her to get hurt.\n
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    But then...\n
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    H-Hold on. Why did you\ncut your best friend's back?\n
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    If I don't protect her like that,\nthen she can't go on living.\n
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    It’s her perfect memorization ability.\n
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    Perfect memorization ability?\n
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    That is the reason for all of this.\n
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    Perfect memorization ability?\n
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    You mean, that 103,000 volumes thing?\n
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    She said they were all inside her head.\n
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    The capacity of a human brain\nis surprisingly small.\n
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    However, by forgetting\nmemories you don't need,\n
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    your brain adjusts before you know it.\n
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    That's why humans can keep on living.\n
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    However, she is unable to do that.\n
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    From the number of leaves along\na tree-lined street,\n
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    to the swarm of faces of each\nand every person at rush hour,\n
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    to the shape of every\ndrop of water in the rain,\n
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    her head becomes buried\nunder the weight of trivial memories,\n
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    in no time at all.\n
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    Wait, hold on a second.\n
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    If you two are in the same organization,\n
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    why does Index call you people evil sorcerers?\n
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    Or are you trying to say that\nIndex isn't being upfront with me?\n
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    She is not lying to you.\n
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    She does not know that we\nare all in Necessarius together,\n
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    nor the real reason\nwhy she is being pursued.\n
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    She doesn't remember any of it.\n
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    That's why she has to use her best judgment.\n
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    It is valid for her to think\nthat the sorcerers pursuing her\n
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    are from the magic cabal, out to\nget the 103,000 volumes from her.\n
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    But Index has that perfect\nmemorization ability, right?\n
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    Why did she lose her memories\nof everything from before a year ago?\n
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    She did not lose them. To put it\nmore precisely, we erased them.\n
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    You erased them? But how? \n
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    With magic. But why?\n
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    You're one of Index's friends, right?!\n
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    Index, the one you did this to, is one\nof your dear friends, isn't she?!\n
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    So why did you do it?!\n
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    Because I had to do it!\n
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    Because if I don't do it, she will die.\n
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    85% of her brain is used to keep\nthe 103,000 volumes memorized.\n
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    As a result, she can\nonly use 15% of the brain\n
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    that an ordinary person can use.\n
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    If she continually remembers\nwithin that 15%, her brain will...\n
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    Oh, man...\n
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    Isn't there any other way,\nother than to erase memories?\n
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    No. \n
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    How long?\n
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    Memory erasure is conducted\nat precise yearly intervals.\n
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    If we don't do it right at that time,\nwe cannot erase her memory.\n
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    There are three days left.\n
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    Three days.\n
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    We have no intention of hurting her.\n
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    On the contrary, without us,\nthere is no way to save her.\n
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    Would you turn her over to us,\nbefore I give out my magic name?\n
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    Besides, once we erase her memory,\nshe will no longer remember you.\n
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    No matter how deep your feelings for her are.\n
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    Helping her doesn't gain you anything at all.\n
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    Screw you!\n
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    It doesn't have anything to do\nwith whether she remembers me or not.\n
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    If you don't get it, then let me tell you one thing.\n
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    I am Index's friend!\n
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    I've made up my mind that as of now,\n
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    and from here on,\nI'm going to keep taking her side!\n
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    It may not be written in the Bible,\nbut it's the absolute truth!\n
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    I thought there was something strange here.\n
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    If she had just forgotten,\nthen you could have explained everything,\n
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    and alleviated her\nmisunderstanding, right?\n
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    Why do you keep\nmaintaining that misunderstanding?\n
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    Why do you keep chasing her\naround, as an enemy?\n
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    How can you just punk out on her like that?\n
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    What do you take her feelings for?!\n
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    Would you shut up,\nyou know-nothing amateur!\n
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    Don't come off like you\nknow what you're talking about!\n
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    How do you think we feel, \n
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    having to steal her\nmemories from her all this time?\n
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    You've taken a hostile attitude toward Stiyl,\n
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    but just how do you think he\nfeels when he looks at you and her?!\n
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    Do you know the kind of resolve\nit took to confront you as an enemy?!\n
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    How can you understand\nwhat Stiyl is going through,\n
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    being dragged through the\nmud for the sake of his dear friend?!\n
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    I’ve really tried...\n
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    I’ve tried!\n
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    Spending the spring, spending the summer,\n
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    spending the fall, spending the winter,\n
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    collecting memories,\nand then making just one promise,\n
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    to keep her from forgetting them all,\n
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    by letting her take a diary or album to heart...\n
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    And even at that, it didn't work.\n
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    Having to start over again\nfrom nothing, creating memories,\n
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    over and over again,\nincluding family, friends, lovers--\n
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    all of them returning back to zero.\n
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    We can't take it anymore.\n
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    It's no longer possible for\nus to look at her smiling face!\n
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    Don't give me that crap.\n
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    That's all just your side of the argument.\n
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    You haven't thought for one\nmoment about Index, have you?\n
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    Don't take that tab of\ncowardice you're running up\n
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    and put it all on Index!\n
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    If she realizes that she's\nafraid of losing one year's memories,\n
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    then as long as we give her\neven better memories the next year--\n
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    As long as she knows that\nenough happiness awaits her\n
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    that she doesn't have to be\nafraid of losing her memories...\n
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    ...there won't be any need\nfor anyone to run away anymore.\n
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    That's all there is to it.\n
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    Do you have no choice but to protect her,\njust because you have the power to?\n
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    That's not it, is it? It's not true!\n
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    You went and obtained power \n
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    because there was\nsomething you wanted to protect.\n
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    For what reason have\nyou made yourself powerful?\n
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    Who was it that you wanted to protect?\n
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    Then what are you doing here?!\nIf you've got that kind of power--\n
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    if you've got this kind of\nuniversal power, then how...\n
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    ...how can you be so... incap-... able...\n
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    Are we done here?\n
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    Please wait up, Sissy.\nYou don't have to be in such a hurry.\n
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    Kuroko, listen to you. You're the\none going on about "Curfew, curfew,"\n
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    and then take me with you all over.\nIt's not my fault if we're late.\n
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    S-Sissy!\n
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    What's going on?\n
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    Is that...?\n
[17:07] ---
    With an end cut as sharp as\nthat, could this be some prank \n
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    from someone with\na pneumatic control ability?\n
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    Right, a prank.\n
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    This is a job for Judgment!\n
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    Hold on! Kuroko!\n
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    What am I supposed to do\nwith all these bags? Oh, brother...\n
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    Is something the matter, Sissy?\n
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    Nothing at all.\n
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    Toma...\n
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    Where am I? Owww...\n
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    Toma, you mustn't get up yet.\n
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    The sun is up. Which means the\nnight has passed. What time is it?\n
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    Not just one night.\n
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    Three days.\n
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    Three days?\nWhy have I been asleep so long?\n
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    Three days...\n
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    Memory erasure is conducted\nat precise yearly intervals.\n
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    There are three days left.\n
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    Toma, what's wrong? Are you in pain?\n
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    No.\n
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    If Index still remembers me, \n
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    it means that her memory\nhasn't been erased yet.\n
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    Also, Index doesn't seem\nto be acting any differently.\n
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    That's great.\n
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    No it isn't.\n
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    I didn't know anything.\n
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    Toma, Komoe said that you\ncollapsed in the middle of the road.\n
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    Komoe was also the one who\ncarried you, battered and bruised,\n
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    back here to the apartment.\n
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    I didn't realize what had happened.\n
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    I didn't have any inkling that\nyou were fighting another sorcerer.\n
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    I...\n
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    I... couldn't help you, Toma.\n
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    What's the big idea, wrapping\nme up in all of these bandages?\n
[19:28] ---
    That's going a bit too far, isn't it?\n
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    I had to do that, so you'd get better.\n
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    It won't be as fast as magic, though.\n
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    I guess not, huh? It should be fine,\nthough, even without magic.\n
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    Toma!\n
[19:45] ---
    Toma! Even after all this,\nyou still don't believe in magic!\n
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    You're as stubborn as someone with a crush!\n
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    I didn't mean it like that.\n
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    I don't want to see the look on your face\n
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    whenever you're\ntalking magic, if at all possible.\n
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    Oh yeah. I awoke again.\n
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    Awoke?\n
[20:06] ---
    Mm-hmm. But I don't want you\nto talk about me when I'm like that.\n
[20:13] ---
    When I lose consciousness, \n
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    my voice sounds like I'm talking\nin my sleep, you know? Besides,\n
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    it's like I quickly become this\ncold machine, and it scares me.\n
[20:29] ---
    I'm sorry.\n
[20:32] ---
    It's okay, dummy.\n
[20:36] ---
    Want to eat something?\n
[20:40] ---
    Um... is that you, Index?\n
[20:44] ---
    Mm-hmm. I am a Sister,\nso I can at least look after the sick.\n
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    E-Er, no, please just give me\nsome time to think deeply to myself, God.\n
[20:55] ---
    Why? No appetite?\n
[21:17] ---
    Yes?\n
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    I wonder if that's Komoe.\n
[21:20] ---
    Huh? What are you doing in front of my door?\n
[21:24] ---
    Kamijo! I don't know what's going on,\nbut we seem to have visitors.\n
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    You! What are you here for now?!\n
[21:38] ---
    Hmm... in the shape that you're in,\n
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    it doesn't look like you'll\nbe running away too easily.\n
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    That's right. Up to now, Index has\nalways run from them all on her own.\n
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    But now that she's strapped with\nan injured person, it's another story.\n
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    They did this to me to make\nsure they could take charge of Index\n
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    more safely.\n
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    Go away!\n
[22:04] ---
    I'm begging you.\nI'll go anywhere you want.\n
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    I'll do anything you want.\n
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    Index!\n
[22:11] ---
    I'm really, really begging you!\n
[22:15] ---
    I'm begging you!\n
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    Don't hurt Toma anymore!\n
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    *Nee kikoeru? *
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    *Kioku wo samayotte'ru *
[22:43] ---
    *Nee kokoro wo *
[22:46] ---
    *shinjite ikite yukereba *
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    *Ikiru sekai ga *
[22:53] ---
    *tatoe chigatta to shite mo *
[22:58] ---
    *mamoritai mono ga aru nara... *
[23:05] ---
    *Sashidashita chikara wa dare no tame ni? *
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    *Tokihanatsu ikusen no mana *
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    *Sono shigusa ga sono manazashi ga *
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    *kokoro wo shimetsukeru *
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    *Tebanasanai *
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    "Preview"\n
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    "Preview"\nTonight at 12 o'clock,\n
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    "Preview"\nthe ceremony to erase Index's memories will begin.\n
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    \nthe ceremony to erase Index's memories will begin.\n
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    But I'm not giving up.\nI swear, I'll save you somehow!\n
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    Next time, "Limit."\n
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    When science and magic\ncross paths, the story begins.\n