# 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
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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
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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
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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
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Mm-hmm. But I don't want you\nto talk about me when I'm like that.\n
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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
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I'm sorry.\n
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It's okay, dummy.\n
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Want to eat something?\n
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Um... is that you, Index?\n
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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
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Why? No appetite?\n
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Yes?\n
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I wonder if that's Komoe.\n
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Huh? What are you doing in front of my door?\n
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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
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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
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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
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I'm really, really begging you!\n
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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 *
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*Nee kokoro wo *
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*shinjite ikite yukereba *
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*Ikiru sekai ga *
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*tatoe chigatta to shite mo *
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*mamoritai mono ga aru nara... *
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*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